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Students point out flaws in BU resources for sexual assault Proposed election term SHS phone number Wednesday at 11:36 p.m. legedly forced his way into a female student’s and selected “emergency operator” from an room and groped her against her will. changes could improve automated menu. She asked the operator for Francis’ note was shared on at least 156 This is the first part of a series examining resources available for rape or sexual assault Facebook profiles with more than 67 likes and how Boston University handles cases of sexual victim, to which the operator said “What? We 40 comments by early Friday afternoon..

Union, members say assault, in response to the two separate arrests

By Emily Overholt Daily Free Press Staff

of men’s hockey players for sexual assault in the last two months.

Students raised concerns about how Boston University has handled sexual assault incidents after a second men’s hockey player in two months was arrested for sexual assault on Sunday, Feb. 19.

Dozens of students expressed concerns over Facebook after College of Communication alumna Allison Francis, known as “Allison McCorgi” on Facebook, posted a note about the poor service she received when calling the Student Health Services hotline for sexual assault victims.

In the note, Francis stated she called the

don’t have anything like that here.”

The operator eventually connected her to medical health, which then directed her back to behavioral health.

“It is a useless loop of automated menus that provide no real resources or response to sexual assault,” the note stated. “Boston University has neither an emergency support system for victims of sexual assault nor staff members trained in responding to rape crisis situations.”

Francis said in the note her motivations stemmed from BU’s responses to the Sunday arrest of then-men’s hockey player Max Nicastro, who faces two counts of rape.

The first arrest involved former men’s hockey player Corey Trivino on Dec. 11. Trivino al-

School of Management senior Becca Farmer commented on the note, calling it “disgusting.”

BU President Robert Brown sent a letter to the students, faculty and staff Thursday, announcing an investigation into the culture of the men’s hockey program in response to recent allegations.

“After hearing Boston University’s attempts to distance itself and its hockey team from the two separate incidences of rape and sexual assault that have come up in the past two months, I wanted to see what resources were available for victims and survivors,” the letter stated.

doing so violates criminal law.

The attorney who represented the Juliano family in the civil case, Richard Campbell, said in defending Juliano he argued the host of the party had broken the law by providing underage drinkers with a so-called “safe” place to drink.

“The criminal law as of 2000 made it illegal for any person . . . to allow the use of his or her

With Student Union set to vote on altering its election schedule on Monday, members said starting a new term in January could improve cooperative efforts, but could cause challenges for rising seniors and students outside of Union.

Union vice president Alex Staikos, a School of Management sophomore, said the proposal, which suggested the Union term begin in January instead of May, is meant to provide continuity among executive board administrators and give power back to senators.

“It is impractical to have a new executive board have to work with administrators in the summer who they have never been introduced to,” he said in an email interview. “Filling a cabinet can be difficult when it needs to be done in the summer months, since very few people are on campus.”

Only the executive board, directors and the chief of staff would have a different election cycle, Staikos said. Senators are elected based on an election cycle determined by their constituency.

“There are a lot of secondary effects, which include a stronger willingness of administration to work with the Student Union, year-to-year continuity on major issues, stronger presence in the summer months and more input from senators at the beginning of the year,” Staikos said.

The new timeline would allow for a preparation period before intercession, which could potentially extend into a training period during the break, Union Chief of Staff Sophia Woyda, a CAS junior, said. The previous executive board would still be at BU to aid in further mentorship and provide insight during the first four months of the calendar-year term.

The proposed election cycle will remedy the lack of continuity that exists in Union, said Student Union Director of City Affairs Prutha Patel, via email.

“By switching to an election term that runs from January-January versus the current MayMay cycle, the Student Union will be able to better serve the student body with effective leadership,” Patel, a SMG junior, said.

The change, however, would prevent seniors for running for positions in the executive board, as the term would end after they graduate. Union Senator Patrick O’Sullivan said the

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Hosts of parties serving alcohol to minors not liable on all accounts

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

Hosts of underage drinking parties who do not supply alcohol to minors are not liable for injuries their guests may sustain, according to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling.

The owners of the property are also not liable in civil lawsuits, according to the decision.

The decision follows a 2007 case in which the family of Rachel Juliano, 16 years old at the time, sued the host of an underage drinking party when Juliano suffered brain damage after leaving the party.

She and her boyfriend Christopher Dunbar, who had been driving drunk, got in a car accident after leaving the party.

But Juliano and Dunbar, who was 19 at the time, brought their own alcohol to the party.

The host, also 19, “neither consumed [her father’s alcoholic] beverages nor offered them to her guests,” the case records said.

Based on precedents set by similar cases, the court decided unanimously that hosts cannot be held liable for injuries since the hosts do not necessarily have control over people’s consumption of alcohol. “[I]n the absence of a right to exercise effective control [over the supply of alcohol], the defendant [is] not subject to a duty,” the court’s official decision stated.

Robert Powers, the attorney for Jessica and Peter Simpson, the defendants in the 2007 case, said the decision was driven by fact.

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Under a ruling by the State’s Supreme Judicial Court, minors who host underage drinking parties are no longer liable for injuries of their partygoers.

“Massachusetts courts have consistently ruled that social host liability may only be imposed where the host either serves the alcohol or effectively controls the supply of alcohol,” he said in an email to The Daily Free Press, “this was not a case for a dramatic expansion of social host liability.”

Under the decision, the host of a party can still face punishment if he or she provides alcohol to minors or a place to consume alcohol, as

Public hearing for BU biolab set for April, Risk Assessment released

By Emily Overholt Daily Free Press Staff

The National Institutes of Health announced it will hold a public meeting on April 19 to discuss the National Emerging Infectious Diseases laboratories at Boston University’s Medical Center.

The NIH released a Draft Supplementary Risk Assessment of more than 1,700 pages, according to the website. The NIH also released a 23-page Reader’s Guide to help the public digest the heavy scientific information contained in the full document.

“We are pleased that this stage of the Draft Supplementary Risk Assessment is completed,” said Ellen Berlin, a BU spokeswoman, in an email interview. “The National Institutes of Health and the Blue Ribbon Panel have worked diligently to develop a thorough and comprehensive analysis.”

The NIH placed copies of the assessment and the reader’s guide in the Boston Public Library, the South End Library and

the Dudley Library. Officials are soliciting comments from the public, encouraging people to mail and email questions and concerns until May 1.

According to the Reader’s Guide, the Risk Assessment poses questions such as: What could go wrong and how likely is that to happen? What are the risks to workers and to the public? Would the risks be different if the lab were located at a suburban or rural site?

The Assessment focuses on 13 pathogens that are expected to be studied at the biolab, which have caused public concern and are a representative sample of those handled in BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs, according to the Reader’s Guide. These pathogens studied include anthrax, the 1918 influenza, SARS, the plague, Ebola and two different forms of encephalitis.

The Risk Assessment catalogues the various outcomes of the biolab’s practices.

It studied a variety of different situations, including those that “posed the maximum

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realistically expected threat” to both workers and the general public. The conclusion was that the lab poses little danger.

“While there is no such thing as ‘no risk,’” the Reader’s Guide reported, “the results of this analysis show that the risk of infections or deaths resulting from accidents or malevolent acts at the NEIDL are generally very low to only remotely possible.”

The Reader’s Guide stated the risk to the general public is “extremely low” and beyond “reasonably foreseeable” with the exception of secondary infection from the 1918 influenza and SARS. Infections from a release of 1918 H1N1 influenza or SARS could occur after 500 to 5,000 years of operation, well beyond the facility lifetime of 50 years, the Reader’s Guide reported.

“It is also reassuring that the National Research Council reviewed the methodology and deemed it to be sound and credible,” Berlin said.

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exclusion of seniors in the election cycle could be a downside.

“Students may get confused, as there would need to be a special election for an interim board to serve for the first semester before the permanent board is elected for the full calendar year,” O’Sullivan said via email, “but other than that, [there aren’t] not much changes.”

Other student governments, such as the Harvard Undergraduate Council and the School of Education Student Government function on calendar year cycles, Staikos said.

The SEDSG’s election schedule allows the executive board to plan fall events and outreach efforts geared toward the freshman class over the summer, said SEDSG president Lindsay Moran, an SED junior, in an email interview.

“One of the big pros of having it on the calendar cycle is that the transition can be made more effectively and the new president would have the past president still on campus to ask any questions,” Feehan, a CAS senior, said.

However, Feehan said the proposed Union election change could cause the “outside world” to be confused as to who the president is.

Woyda said the Union executive board could use the summer to review the progress, successes and challenges of the first semester to empower the new senators and Cabinet members elected and appointed in September.

“In working with both the Executive Board, Cabinet and Senate this year,” Woyda said. “I feel that there are several benefits of having elections occur in mid- to late November of the first semester.”

Court decision doesn’t affect adults who let minors drink in homes Underage: From Page 1

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premise for illegal underage drinking parties,” he said in an email. “Our principal argument to the Supreme Judicial Court was that the duty of care that already existed on the criminal side of things should be imparted to residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the civil side.”

Campbell said this decision does not affect criminal law at all.

“Under the criminal laws, if [people] engaged in the same conduct that Jessica Simpson engaged in, [the district attorney] would prosecute,” he said.

Powers said the decision does not offer any sort of safe harbor for underage drinking.

“In no way should the Julia-

no case be viewed as absolving Massachusetts residents who host underage BYOB drinking events,” he said. “Hosting an underage drinking party is criminal conduct, and the penalties provided under G.L. c. 138 are severe.”

As the case stands, it does not hold liable adults who knowingly allow minors to drink in their homes.

The justices differ on how to reconcile this, arguing that any decisions related to adult hosts should be decided on a case-specific basis.

Boston University student Lacin Koro, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, agreed with the decision. “[The parents] might not have been at the house . . . so they should not be sued in any way or form [in this scenario],” he said.

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J.P. Licks will be dishing out vegan-friendly scoops of hemp, coconut and pineapple ice cream during the spring to ice cream lovers with special diets.

People with lactose and gluten allergies will be able to enjoy J.P. Licks’ new line of non-dairy, gluten-free ice cream with coconut-based flavors, according to a press release.

“We believe these flavors will be well received,” said Beth Otis, a spokeswoman for J.P. Licks, in an email. “There has been quite a demand.”

The non-dairy, gluten-free, vegan and Kosher-certified ice cream will be sweetened with brown rice and agave syrups, according to the release. The first three non-dairy flavors will be Coconut Almond Lace, Chocolate Coconut and Pineapple Coconut.

They will be available for purchase on March 1, Otis said.

“We are constantly developing and producing new flavors based on evolving tastes, food trends and dietary needs of our customers,” said J.P. Licks founder and owner, Vince Petryk, in the press release.

Chase Thomas, a J.P. Licks customer, said he has no reason to eat non-dairy ice cream, but he might try the flavors out anyway.

“Those coconut flavors actually sound pretty good, so I might give them a go just for the heck of it,” he said.

Customers can sample the non-dairy coconut flavors on March 6 from at any J.P. Licks

In light of the past few weeks, I’m forced to wonder: Where is the line between outgoing and creepy?

When at school, I am always inclined to form new friendships – to broaden my circle and knowledge of the world. Yet, it often seems difficult to reach out and form a connection with a perfect stranger.

Just the other day, my roommate and I were at lunch in Warren Towers. Two guys sat down behind us and began a conversation that I couldn’t help but overKRISSEN hear. (And KAWACHI I’d like to clarify – I was not eavesdropping. We were quiet and they were really loud.)

They began discussing Woody Allen films – “Annie Hall” and “Midnight in Paris,” which happened to be two of my favorites.

Those words were enough to pique my interest, in addition to their indepth discussion of Allen as a director, and their criticisms of both films. At that point, I wanted to join the conversation and contribute my opinions, but then, one of the guys mentioned one of my favorite artists, Mark Rothko.

This was a major shock to me – outside the world of Art History, I had never met someone who knew of that particular painter, let alone spoke of his work in such a positive light. By then, I was dying to say something, to speak to this guy who could have possibly been the love of my life (except I’m completely joking about that), or at least a good friend.

Should I have said something?

It’s not often that I meet people, especially males, genuinely interested in art (my fellow Art History majors will agree – the major is an estrogen tank).

My roommate urged me to interrupt, to say something like, “Excuse me, I couldn’t help but overhear . . .”

To me, that was another way of saying, “Sorry, I’m a total creep and was eavesdropping on you.”

Of course, I immediately regretted my silence. They soon left, as did we, and I haven’t seen the guy since.

I’ve had the idea for a while now to randomly make new friends in the dining hall. You know, at breakfast and lunch, a lot of people eat alone because schedules are difficult and time is often pressured. Whenever I see someone eating alone, I often want to muster the courage to go over and ask to join them – make their 30 minute food session a bit more interesting and a little less lonesome.

But alas, social dogma seems to shake its head at such actions.

Nevertheless, I hope that one day – someday soon – I’ll actually do that, reach out to someone and find a new friend. Maybe you all could do the same. Who knows, that one person may become an invaluable friend or change your life. Don’t be embarrassed and nervous like I was – take a risk in life, you’ve got nothing to lose.

Krissen Kawachi is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at k.kawachi@gmail.com

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Study Abroad gets attention from students outside of BU

By Nicole Leonard Daily Free Press Staff

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J.P. Licks, at 352 Newbury St., is introducing a new line of hemp-based nondairy ice cream.

location and purchase any size of non-dairy ice cream at half price, according to the press release.

Otis also said J.P. Licks will introduce hemp and soy nondairy based flavors in April and May. “Is that even legal?” said J.P. Licks customer Angela Fischer. “I’ll probably try it just for the sake of trying it, but I can’t imagine that hemp will taste very good.”

While hemp and marijuana are both part of the cannabis plant, industrial hemp has levels of tetrahydrocannabinol that are not high enough to cause a high, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Additionally, foods and beverages made from cannabis are illegal if they contain THC, according to a Drug Enforcement

Administration press release.

Living Harvest, a company based in Portland, Ore., also makes hemp ice cream and other hemp-based products.

Like J.P. Licks, Living Harvest cites customers’ dietary restrictions as a main reason to turn to hemp.

“With food allergies on the rise, natural, unprocessed, raw and organic foods are widely becoming the new norm,” according to Living Harvest’s website.

“As an agricultural crop, hemp is a plant-based superfood.”

Their website also states that hemp is safe to consume.

“Hemp is nothing to be afraid of. It’s not marijuana and has no drug value,” according to the website. “The only ‘high’ you’ll get is from the oh-so-delicious, rich and creamy taste.”

Alison Devries, a senior at Valparaiso University in Indiana, said she was looking for a program that would combine her two majors of French and International Service.

That led her to Boston University’s Paris Internship Program.

“Having the opportunity to have that work experience in a foreign country is just invaluable,” Devries said in a phone interview. “Especially in the country I’m working on speaking the language.”

While a number of colleges and universities have seen missteps in their study abroad programs, students and officials said BU maintains strong programs that attract students both at and outside of BU. Accreditors are warning universities and colleges about the integrity of their abroad programs, according to a Wednesday article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The warning follows a series of missteps reported about a number of colleges, including SUNY Empire State College and its oversight at a college in Albania through which students could graduate with Empire State degrees, as reported

by The Chronicle on Feb. 19.

Accreditors warn universities and colleges not only about set-

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Upcoming app to help drug addicts curb cravings with sensor, text messages

By Megan Allison Daily Free Press Staff

University of Massachusetts Medical School scientists developed a smartphone app that may be able to ward off drug cravings in substance abusers.

The app, called iHeal, would use both physical and mental data about users’ stress levels to steer individuals away from relapse, according to a report about the app in the Journal of Medical Toxicology.

Individuals who use the application wear a sensor band around their wrists that continuously measures indicators of arousal or stress such as heart rate, temperature, body motion and the skin’s electrical activity.

The band wirelessly transmits the information to the users’ smartphone.

“The ultimate goal is to identify, in real time, drug cravings and deliver personalized, multimedia drugprevention interventions precisely at the moment of greatest need,” according to the Journal of Medical Toxicology.

Still in testing stages, the app was developed by a team of UMass scientists headed by Edward Boyer, a professor of emergency medicine and the director of toxicology at the university.

“When the mathematics get good enough it should be able to predict when people will develop some kind of drug cravings,” he said. “It might

Commonwealth granted $11.6 million for health insurace program

By Joseph Dalia Daily Free Press Contributor

Massachusetts received $11.6 million from the Department of Health and Human Services to revamp its health insurance program, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services fact sheet.

The grant is part of an effort to make states more compliant with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The grant comes as part of $229 million the Department of Health and Human Services distributed among ten states to assist in the creation of Affordable Insurance Exchanges, ac-

cording to the fact sheet.

Under the Affordable Care Act, all states will be required to have federally compliant exchanges in place by 2014.

Massachusetts will only need to add two new coverage options to its existing insurance program to be compliant under ACA, said Dick Powers, the director of communications for the Massachusetts Health Connector, an organization that helps Massachusetts residents find health insurance.

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help with more immediate delivery and immediate effect.”

The application’s ability to incorporate biosensors to an overall reading of a person’s stress levels and to apply that information in a mobile, personal way differentiates it from other substance abuse–related apps, according to the Journal of Medical Toxicology.

“It’s intended to use mobile biosensors,” Boyer said. “That data is transmitted wirelessly to a mobile phone. After analyzing [the patient’s] stress it fires off a series of questions to them.”

Representatives from Hope House, a Boston clinic for alcoholics and substance abusers, said iHeal

could be helpful for at-risk substance abusers.

“We definitely know that stress is connected to relapse. One of the key factors [to recovery] is learning to manage daily stress. An application that is designed to help someone manage their stress would be helpful,” said Hope House Director of Clinical Services Stacy Conroy.

“However, this is one tool in the toolbox.”

The app, she said, will not be able to work alone to help a substance abuser recover. Rather, it could work in tandem with other, more traditional methods of recovery therapy.

App, see page 4

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BU alum: BU ‘must aggressively address the pervasive trend of sexual violence’ Sex: From Page 1

For the 2011-12 academic year there have been six reported incidents of assault and battery at BU, said BU Police Department Captain Robert Molloy. Of those six, five have been rape, with Trivino’s arrest counting as the sixth assault.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said there are generally fewer than 10 forcible sex offences per year, as confirmed by the Clery report published on the BU Police Department Website.

“We report every one that’s reported to us,” Riley said via phone.

The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism called attention to Francis’ Facebook note, as well as the letter to students, in a press release Thursday.

“We encourage the university to take a critical look at how a culture of sexual assault and violence is systemic,” said CGSA Co-Director Ariana Katz, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, in the press release.

The CGSA board members were unavailable for comment by press time.

The press release suggested BU implement several policies to ensure the needs of survivors, including appointing a full-time staff member to work with the CGSA and SHS to address the needs of rape and sexual assault victims, mandatory trainings facilitated by the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center coaches, student-athletes, faculty and student leaders and permanent expulsion for those convicted of rape or sexual assault.

SHS Director David McBride told The Daily Free Press in an email

interview he felt disconcerted about Francis’s discovery.

“I’m troubled that that is the response that Ms. McCorgi received from our answering services,” he said. “[S]he didn’t get the opportunity to speak directly to our Crisis Counselor on call.”

McBride later apologized in a status posted on the Bu StudentHealth Facebook profile, stating he clarified protocol with SHS’s after-hours operators.

Mitchell Garabedian, principal attorney of the Law Offices of Mitchell Garabedian in Boston, represents victims of sexual abuse, including college students. The attorney said students tend to seek help from resources outside of universities.

“It’s not uncommon for victims to be frightened, to be concerned about reporting the abuse to the very entity that allows that was supposed to be supervising their safety since they were abused on the premises where there was negligent supervision,” he said.

Garabedian did not comment on BU’s students and resources specifically.

The DFP conducted its own inquiry Thursday at 2:37 a.m. A reporter, who did not identify herself as such, called the emergency line and requested an Intervention Crisis counselor. The operator did not transfer the reporter and instead asked her to elaborate on the problem. The reporter terminated the call shortly after.

Another unidentified reporter called Thursday at 9 a.m. making the same request. At that time, the opera-

‘Uncommon’ app could help drug addicts, still in developmental stages App: From Page 3

Representatives from the Boston Alcohol and Substance Abuse Programs, an alcoholism- and drugtreatment clinic, said the app’s innovative technology could be useful to substance abusers already being treated.

“Going to self-help meetings [is] probably more supportive, [but] as an adjunct to self-help and medically based treatment I can’t see [the app] doing any harm,” said Matt Hoffman, a clinical director at Boston ASAP. Part of the app’s usefulness may lie in its ability to bridging the gap between clinical treatments, therapies and regular, day-to-day life, according to the Journal of Medical Toxicology.

“Behavioral modification interventions often fail in natural environments because patients have difficulty enacting them outside of the controlled setting of a clinic or office,” according to the report in the Journal.

The Journal stated the approach

was “uncommon in behavioral sciences.”

But Boyer said the app is still in developmental stages.

“It’s going to be a fairly long process,” he said. “Right now we’re just amassing training data sets.”

In an initial study, scientists gave the most advanced form of the app to a focus group of seven veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who each have substance abuse disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Scientists worked with the veterans to continue to develop the app’s functionality.

The veterans appreciated the immediacy of the text messages they received, but worried that such a system could potentially eliminate personal contact with therapists or foster “inadvertent misunderstandings,” according to the study.

Boyer and his team, he said, will continue to work on the app.

“If I could detect when people had stress and when people had drug cravings,” he said, “I could find which one came first.”

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tor on the line said SHS always has two Intervention Crisis counselors on call.

A final call was made to the emergency line by a reporter Friday at 1:40 a.m., during which the reporter asked to speak with the counselor.

The operator acknowledged the presence of a counselor on call and agreed to do so.

While Francis’s note focused on SHS, she said in an email interview that the issue has more to do with rape culture at BU than it does with SHS’s shortcomings.

Francis told The DFP that officials have shifted the blame to drinking problems, disorderly conduct and coincidence rather than to rape culture. She noted the absence of the words “rape” and “sexual” in President Robert Brown’s letter to students, which was released Thursday.

“What does it say that one of the only departments on campus actively working to provide support for sexual assault victims still falls short?” she said in the email interview. “To make progress, the BU administration must aggressively address the pervasive trend of sexual violence on campus.”

Riley, though, said BU does handle similar situations with care.

“We take [sexual assault] very seriously,” Riley said. “The most important thing is to let them know they’re safe and in control and that there are professionals in handling crisis counseling and whatever additional services they need on call.”

Gina Curreri, Dana Finley and Steph Solis contributed to the reporting of this article.

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ting up proper academic standards abroad, but also looking more closely at faculty evaluations.

“Here at BU Study Abroad, the curriculum is aligned with the BU curriculum,” said Amalia PérezJuez, acting director of Academic Affairs at BU Study Abroad. “This means that the departments have already approved classes taken abroad.”

Pérez-Juez said BU Study Abroad takes steps to ensure the university does not make the same mistakes as other universities or colleges that receive backlash from poor standards abroad.

“What happens with our courses is that we don’t send you guys to study something with a professor we don’t know,” she said. “It’s a professor that sometimes has an affiliation here.”

Chris Russell, Study Abroad associate director of marketing and recruiting, said in a phone interview BU is unique in the way that it holds a “tight value on these programs” students choose to take in foreign countries.

BU enrolled 635 non-BU students from more than 29 colleges and universities in BU abroad programs during the 2010-2011 academic year, according to the BU Study Abroad factsheet.

College of Communication senior Jillian Martin, who roomed with a Boston College student during her London Internship Program, said in a phone interview internships were a definite sell-

ing point for students looking into study abroad programs at other universities.

“A lot of it has to do with either they wanted a location their school didn’t offer or their school didn’t offer internships, just classes,” she said.

Chas Rubino, now a BU Study Abroad official, said when he was an undergraduate student at Lasell College in Newton he looked for a specific location he wanted to go to as well as internship availability.

“I chose BU mainly because of the internship program they offered,” Rubino said. “Also within in the different programs, BU kind of caught my attention because I wanted to go to Ireland. I’m from the South Shore, so everyone is Irish [there].”

When looking to apply for colleges in high school, College of Engineering junior Adam Osman said he looked closely at the study abroad programs.

“Study abroad was definitely a big thing for me and I had known that BU had a good study abroad program because my cousin graduated there four years ago,” he said.

“So that was definitely a big factor for me.”

Despite the fact that accreditors are alerting universities and colleges about the integrity of their study abroad programs, Pérez-Juez said BU’s has strong academic standards at home and abroad.

“BU abroad is academically challenging,” she said. “You cannot find another program with the same academic standards as BU.”

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Boston-based start-up companies are popping up all over town, offering simple solutions for nightlife and file-sharing.

f you’re a 21+ college student in Boston, you know what a typical weekend night downtown looks like. Each bar and club has a long, tedious line. From Avalon to JJ Foley’s to Ned Devine’s, there are lengthy lines full of people trying to get in. If you’re one of the lucky ones, you’ll get into the bar before 12:30 a.m. and maybe enjoy a $10 watered down vodka tonic. It almost makes you want to go back to campus and hit up T’s. However, the small start up company Line Genie — based out of Cambridge — is determined to change that.

Trevor Schwartz — a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology — and his partner John Monestime, a recent Boston University graduate, saw the problem with the lines first hand.

“John was going to a going away party straight from work and knew he wouldn’t make it on time and that he’d have to wait on the super long line and miss part of the party,” Schwartz said.

“We both realized the problem that kept popping up and thought that we could solve it.”

The two formulated plans in 2010 and Line Genie formerly went live in July of 2011.

“It was very hard at first. Originally we would go to the bars we had agreements with and give our cards to the people on line,” Schwartz said. “Spreading by word of mouth is really how we’ve grown.”

The concept is simple: Line Genie has agreements with Ned Devine’s by TD Garden and The Harp on Causeway St. Patrons go on Line Genie’s website, pick which day and bar they want to go to and purchase a gift card to the specific bar. When the patrons go to the bar on the night they’ve reserved, they skip the line and cover charge and use the gift card inside on drinks and food.

KEEPING CUSTOMERS HAPPY “We’ve gotten great feedback so far. The bars love it and the

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customers love it,” Schwartz said. “The bars want to see people are going to be committed and willing to buy drinks so they’ll give us the gift cards and let the preferred customers skip the lines and fees.”

The concept has gone over well with BU students.

“It’s a great idea,” said Gugandeep Kaur, a senior in College of Arts and Sciences. “The lines are so bad sometimes it makes you not want to even go out. I’m surprised no one thought of this idea sooner. I love that you can just go online and make a reservation. It’s so simple.”

Both partners took multiple business classes together and knew that making the company online would increase “scaleability” and get the word out quicker. The Line Genie has it’s own website and Facebook page, as well as an active Twitter handle.

“I actually found out about Line Genie through Twitter,” said CAS senior Lauren Thompson. “One of my friends tweeted to them to say thank you and I looked at it and then checked out their website.”

Thompson isn’t alone in her online discovery of the service.

“Because of our online presence, people in New York and other cities tweet at us asking if we have deals with bars there,” Schwartz said.

Line Genie is currently in talks with about ten other bars in Boston at the moment.

“We’re looking to expand and hoping to reach new deals very soon,” Schwartz said.

Monestime said those new deals are key in Line Genie’s popularity.

“If Line Genie could make deals with more bars in Boston, I know a lot more people would use them,” he said. “Ned’s and The Harp are really popular, but so are the Regal Beagle, Alibi, and Hill Tavern. Some of those places are notorious for crazy lines.”

Schwartz said that he and his partner have been able to fund

the whole operation on their own so far.

“If we reach 7-10 bars in Boston and are looking to expand to other cities, then we’ll be ready to talk to investors,” Schwartz said. “We just love where the company’s at right now and we’re letting it grow and take over.”

MORE PLAYERS IN THE GAME The startup scene is active in Boston. LoadnVote.com is a new company created by Maxx Yellin, Matt Waxman, and Jon Doman.

“LoadnVote is a concoction of YouTube, with a pinch of Facebook, and a hint of American Idol,” said LoadnVote’s Campus Relations Manager and School of Management senior Brett Kohan.

On LoadnVote, users can submit their own videos or find videos to submit for contests on the website. Other users vote for the best choice and the winner receives certain prizes. Some recent contests include: Original Unique Talent, Cutest Pet, and Most Awkward Reason to Break Up. “We just partnered with imgur.com and College Expert Travelers in our Write the Caption contest, where the winner will receive two all inclusive spring break packages to Electro Beach,” Kohan said.

Since its launch, LoadnVote, which is backed by Canrock Ventures, a venture capitalist firm in Jericho, N.Y., has had more than a thousand signups and 65,000 page views.

“Talent or no talent, so long has users have creativity and some free time, prizes are guaranteed,” Kohan said.

LoadnVote offers a new way for unknown artists of all types to get recognized. The sign up process is brief, and users may connect by signing in with Facebook.

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A Vegetarian Sanctuary on Wheels MUSE foodies review Clover, the hottest new food truck on campus Mike Tom & Marisa Benjamin MUSE Staff

Amongst the hustle and bustle of Commonwealth Avenue lies a vegetarian sanctuary. Eighties rock erupts from this 22foot long food truck while a line of shivering students forms in anticipation for hot tea and warm, organic food. The music is drowned out by the voices of Clover Food Truck’s two enthusiastic young servers, Julie and Cait. Clover’s casual yet

the dining halls’ extraordinarily creative portions of “veggie serves to remind you that it’s still winter. This creamy, tangy burgers” and “vegan tacos.” Even the French fries are made and fresh sandwich is a great seasonal addition to the sandwich lineup. from freshly cut, Prince Edward Island potatoes.

In keeping with Clover’s casual and down-to-earth feel, “If people were to eat our food everyday, everyone’s health would benefit,” said Julie as she leans out the side of they offer a twist on a well-known classic: mac ‘n’ cheese.

Clover’s cheesy grits are a personal favorite that includes the the truck to serve a young patron.

The most popular item on the Clover menu is the Chickpea fritter for the low price of $5.

This signature sandwich has an eclectic mix of complementing flavors. To begin, homemade hummus is lightly spread on the whole wheat pita. The sandwich is then stuffed with diced tomatoes, cucumbers and a hint of lemon juice. The gluten-free chickpea fritter is then placed into the pita following the pickled carrots and red cabbage. All of this is topped with their signature Tahini sauce.

The commitment to detail in this sandwich’s presentation is only rivaled by one thing: its taste. The Tahini, hummus, and chickpea give the sandwich an ethnic zing. However, the spices of these three are complemented by the freshness of the tomatoes and cucumbers. The subtle hint of lemon juice pulls it all together to make a satisfying but delicious sandwich.

Marisa Benjamin/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Clover not only specializes in organic food, Marisa Benjamin/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Food Editor Mike Tom sample Clover’s savory sandwiches but organic beverages as well. Although iced teaClover is stationed between the BU Bridge and College of Fine Arts personable atmosphere is most exemplified when a customer might not be the first drink to grab in February, the asks, “Can I have French fries?” to which Julie replies, “Hell Hibiscus Iced Tea is an appropriate option for any season. deep flavor of sharp cheddar and plenty of freshly cracked yeah you can!”

The Hibiscus, a tropical flower, is not overbearingly sweet. pepper corn without the heaviness that typically accompanies With Boston University Dining Services’ vegan and veg- Rather, its slight tartness is harmonized by a dash of brown mac ‘n’ cheese. etarian options not enough for everyone, BU students have sugar. With its soothing quality, the Hibiscus Iced Tea is great With the prospects of decent vegetarian and vegan options a few alternatives on campus. Fear not, for the Clover Food for any indoor or outdoor dining experience. in dining halls looking bleaker than ever, Clover is a great Truck is a “new type of fast food.” Clover, founded in 2008 Clover prides itself in providing its customers with fresh place to go to pick up a quick breakfast or lunch. The friendly

by Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Ayr Muir, food made with top-quality seasonal ingredients. One sea- employees are more than happy to explain the ingredients offers local, organic food at affordable prices. Clover not only sonal favorite is the pimento cheese sandwich. Made with a in any of the dishes or drinks and are always up for a little satisfies hunger but encourages healthy eating habits as well. creamy mayonnaise and cheddar dressing, the sandwich is conversation while you wait for your food. The servers will Most ingredients originate from local farms, or they are cre- filled to the brim with seasoned cucumbers and pickled cel- always tell patrons the wait times for dishes and it’s never ated at Clover’s proper restaurant, located in Cambridge. A ery. The fresh cucumber taste grants a light summery touch more than eight minutes—perfect for a quick meal on your seasonal menu provides customers with options that topple while a tiny bit of heat in the mayonnaise and cheddar spread way to class.

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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University 42nd year F Volume 82 F Issue 76

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Acknowledging assault The words “sexual assault” on Boston University’s campus have managed to singularly turn the community’s perceptions, reactions and awareness upside down. When news broke that a second hockey player, Max Nicastro, was arrested for alleged sexual assault, BU’s community and its administration began to panic. The men’s hockey team’s reputation was dragged through the mud; the news transcended local news sources and became a national scandal.

So BU found itself in need of a decisive course of action. After this despicable act, questions were asked about BU Athletics and the administration in general. President Robert Brown addressed these concerns in a letter that circulated via email through the university. Here was an opportunity for the university to rectify the perception of sexual assault on campus. Here was an opportunity for Brown to project transparency and honesty with regard to this travesty that affects all of BU’s population, not just the hockey team. Instead, the letter detailed a “task force” which would study the “culture and climate” of the team and its campus-wide influence. The issue, which affect hundreds of students, was belittled, the solution seemingly a sociology experiment of observation. Obviously, we can’t discount the fact that Brown sent an email at all. It’s a step in the right direction to admit there is a problem, but at this stage good intentions are simply not enough. No one knows what the end product of this so-called task force will provide, let alone whether this plan will yield any tangible results.

Furthermore, the light has been shone completely on the perpetrators of sexual assault, leaving the victims further alienated from help or support. Due to the sensitivity of the cases, these victims must remain anonymous. However, nowhere in the letter outlined or acknowledged what could be done to support other victims who have to grapple with such a situation. As the email circulated, Brown was traveling and unable to comment or answer any questions. Given this news story is one of the largest controversies BU has faced in a long time, this false transparency is a slap in the face to many.

As if a hockey team scandal wasn’t enough, evidence surfaced that the Student Health Services help line is atrocious at dealing with phone calls from individuals who demanded to speak to a crisis counselor. According to an article published by The Daily Free Press on Friday, Allison Francis, a College of Communication alumna, was placed on hold and re-directed to different departments

despite her stating that she required emergency assistance. The note prompted a reaction from SHS, claiming that it would take this incident as a learning experience to better their service. No individual’s physical or mental cry for help can afford to be taken as a “learning experience.” BU’s inadequacies to prevent and protect its students were disgraceful. Sexual assault is not the equivalent to having a minor cold and should not be prioritized by the help line as such.

One would imagine that the student reaction would be impassioned and infuriated. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Furthermore, the administration’s deficiencies coupled with some student passivity are incredibly disappointing.

BU’s adoration for its hockey team is a foundation of the university’s culture that cannot be uprooted over one mistake, regardless of its severity. The administration’s preoccupation with salvaging the team’s reputation externally will only lead to the disintegration of its reputation within the community. Perhaps the sheer size of the student body means that scandals do not carry as much significance, but that is no excuse for ignorance.

The answer is not to treat students like children, but to encourage constructive dialogue that doesn’t tip toe around the real issue. Our student body was united when Osama bin Laden was killed, yet when statistics from the United Nations indicate one in three women would be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes, our campus is silent. Clearly, the issue stems from inadequate awareness as to what sexual assault is, and furthermore where victims can go to seek Assuredly, there are a small percentage of active students who will be eager to pursue this issue. These events will have immense repercussions for the future of BU culture and consequently the tackling of sexual assault on campus.

Despite the horrific circumstances, this situation ensures BU students, faculty and administrative officials have an opportunity to give victims of sexual assault the support they deserve. However, the grim reality remains that this story could be another instance where sexual assault is discussed and gradually forgotten as life returns to some semblance of normalcy. It would be a shameful misfortune if all that came of this public scandal were a few inappropriate memes, rape jokes and an anecdote for friends in schools elsewhere. If the school doesn’t rectify this issue with concrete action, the hockey team’s reputation won’t be the only one in tatters.

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Lost in Boston

ast Monday, I got lost.

My friend from home (home meaning Chicago) was visiting me and our other friend over President’s weekend. On Monday we decided to eat lunch at Faneuil Hall and bum around the city for the rest of the afternoon until the one friend’s 8 p.m. flight home.

Somewhere along the way, we got lost.

Instead of heading east after Faneuil Hall, we turned west. Big mistake.

But before I get too far ahead of myself, allow me to let you in on a little secret – the reason it’s a secret is because anyone who knows me would probably say otherwise.

Here goes: I consider myself to have a pretty good sense of direction. I never carry a map, nor do I have a phone with Internet access. Whenever I don’t know where I am in the city, I simply find a T and take it to a place that I am familiar with.

Sometime after Faneuil Hall, my friends and I wound up in the financial district – the only reason I know it was the financial district was because the skyscrapers were coated with glass, the pavement was spotless and every building was adorned with a giant clock. But where in the financial district we were, I don’t know.

Not wanting to admit to either of my friends that we were “lost,” I decided I would lead them around until I found a T stop or recognizable landmark.

Then, we stumbled across it – the garden. The arched trellis walkway coated in a sepia hue, with vines running up and down its sides . . . there was definitely something Disney-esque going on here. Eventually we stumbled upon South Station.

South Station. Where do I begin? Back home we have Ogilvie and Union train stations. Union Station plays host to weddings.

Ogilvie Station plays host to . . . well, let’s just say that South Station is the Union Station of Boston train stations. Sunlight domes, striking pillars . . . South Station was spectacular.

After dropping our one friend off at the station, my Chicago-bound friend and I proceeded eastbound toward what I thought was the Atlantic Ocean. After a few minutes walk we came across a sign that read “Tufts Medi-

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cal Center,” meaning we had walked west, not east. At this time I resolved to tell my friend that I had no idea where the heck we were.

1) I don’t have Internet access on my phone. My friend might have. However, I was still so embarrassed that I didn’t ask.

Had we had some access to a map, I could have searched where Tufts Medical Center was in relation to the nearest T stop.

2) My friend had all of her luggage with her . . . Not one of her bags was on wheels.

Enough said.

3) Whipping winds. Add the luggage thing and this became a real problem. Poor friend.

Now, since there was no T stop in sight, I did the next best thing: I looked up at the skyline to see if there were any buildings that I recognized. That’s when I saw the John Hancock building.

Using Boston’s Hancock building as our North Star was incredibly ironic considering we are both from Chicago and have used Chicago’s own John Hancock building as a point reference before.

So here we were, just when I thought I we were in the clear. Heading in the direction of the Hancock building to pick up the T at Copley. Little did I know, objects in the skyline are farther than they appear.

What I thought was going to be another 10-minute walk turned into 30. During our half an hour walk to Copley I realized that I enjoyed being lost.

Normal Meaghan would really be concerned by something like this, especially since she’s toting around her friend from home. But new Meaghan was quite at ease.

During the time that we were “lost,” we stumbled across two gorgeous pieces of architecture that I had never known existed, and very well could never have known existed. So I was okay with being lost. I suppose that if being lost enables me to stumble across something magnificent, I’m all for it. If I had directions to the secret garden or South Station, I doubt those places would have taken on the same magnificence they did when we happened upon them.

Though I feel incredibly bad for making my friend drag her life around the city of Boston that afternoon (I offered to help her and she shot me down!), feeling like a stranger in my city is something that I enjoy . . . if only for a day.

Meaghan Kilroy is a sophomore in the College of Communication and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at kilroymeg@hotmail.com

Letter to the Editor: Two Weeks

Each winter, Boston University Students for Israel hosts Israel Peace Week, a full week dedicated to advocating for peace in the Middle East, teaching students about Israel and celebrating Israeli culture. BU’s Students for Justice in Palestine hosts Israel Apartheid Week the week after Israel Peace Week. To the outside observer, these two weeks present some confusion. Both groups seem to have positive messages: BUSI claims it is advocating for peace and SJP claims it is advocating for liberation and justice. So, why are they two opposing groups? Like most pro-Israel groups, BUSI advocates for peace and a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict through direct negotiations between Israel and the Arab nations, which have historically sought to destroy Israel. Such negotiations have led to peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978 and Israel and Jordan in 1994. Israel Peace Week is celebrated by educating students about Israel’s peace and humanitarian efforts and advocating for a two-state solution where both Israelis and Palestinians would have sovereignty.

On the other hand, SJP and Israel Apartheid Week are focused on defaming this single nation, presenting it in the worst

light possible. They will shout “free Palestine” without acknowledging Israel’s lack of peaceful partners in the Middle East, the Palestinian Authority’s consistent rejection of Israel’s offer for direct negotiations, the goal of major Palestinian political parties such as Hamas to destroy Israel, and the rifts between different Palestinian governments.

They will only talk about Israel in the context of violence, failing to acknowledge the historic peace agreements Israel has reached with other nations and peace and humanitarian efforts today. They will also not acknowledge the Arab apartheid problem ubiquitous in countries such as Egypt, Syria and Lebanon and endorsed by the Arab League: The isolation of Palestinian refugees, who are placed in camps generation after generation and refused education, healthcare, work and citizenship so that the Arab nations may use the refugee problem as a weapon against Israel (Arab League Resolution 1457).

In summary, these groups both appear to have good goals, but what they actually stand for tells a very different story.

-Holly Bicerano CAS 2015

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BU scores three short-handed tallies in third, breaks conference record W. hockey: From page 8

transferred to BU after playing two seasons with the Wildcats.

“I really didn’t want to get eliminated by my former school,” Wakefield said. “It was only one of us going through, so I’m glad it was me instead of them, for sure.”

Just 24 seconds after the Terriers killed off the penalty that Wakefield scored her goal on, Cardella went into the box for hooking. During the ensuing penalty kill, BU scored two short-

handed goals.

Sophomore forward Marie-Philip Poulin made it 7-1 with her short-handed goal when she worked with sophomore forward Louise Warren. Poulin passed to Warren, who then took a shot. Poulin then picked up the rebound for the goal.

Carly Warren earned her second point of the game 30 seconds later when she scored her first goal of the season on a soft shot from the right circle that Minton’s glove missed.

While Durocher was proud of his team’s play, he said at this point of the game he wished

the Terriers would stop finding the back of the net.

“Honestly, myself, I’m hoping no more pucks go in because I am very respectful of this game, and respectful of UNH and of [UNH coach] Brian McCloskey,” Durocher said. “When you score short-handed goals, it’s hard to completely turn the faucet off, you keep playing and you keep playing hard, but I didn’t want that to happen.

“But you know short-handed goals, hey that’s a nice compliment to the kids who worked hard, created opportunities and finished

off some plays.”

Louise Warren finished off the scoring for BU with a goal 18:12 into the final frame. The goal, her seventh of the season, came off a rebound from a shot by freshman forward Kayla Tutino.

“I think we’ve felt all along that we had the ability to be one of the upper seeds,” Durocher said. “Now we have a chance to go out and play two more good hockey games, and keep pushing forward in our quest to win a Hockey East championship and maybe get back to the NCAA tournament.”

Privitera slap shot gives BU win Parker: Nicastro’s arrest not poor reflection of BU recruiting strategy Vermont: From page 8

Vermont (6-25-1, 3-21-1 Hockey East) with a sweep after a 5-0 win on Friday.

After winning handily on Friday, the Terriers were caught back on their heels a few times in the first period by a more aggressive Vermont team than they’d seen the night before. Catamount winger Connor Brickley struck first, picking off an attempted BU breakout pass from the corner and firing a quick shot on senior goalie Kieran Millan that found the five-hole.

“Maybe it’s human nature – maybe you think it’s going to be easy because the night before you won, but it’s almost always the same,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “The team that gets whacked comes back and plays harder the next night, and the team that wins thinks, ‘We don’t have to play quite as hard.’”

BU had a few up-ice rushes broken up

by Vermont defenders in the next several minutes before red shirt freshman forward Yasin Cissé was called for a hit from behind.

Seconds after Cissé’s two-minute penalty expired, Vermont forward Sebastian Stalberg took a backdoor pass from his linemate Nick Bruneteau and snapped it past Millan for the Catamounts’ second goal on eight shots.

Although Millan didn’t allow any more goals after a shaky first period, he was outplayed for most of the game by Vermont senior goalie Rob Madore. Madore made 34 saves to Millan’s 22, and, as the Terriers began to control the pace of the game, he was the primary reason the Catamounts hung onto the lead until the final two minutes of regulation.

“He’s been the backbone of our team,” said Vermont coach Kevin Sneddon of Madore’s play over the last four years. “He’s had a tough year . . . but when you look back to a young freshman coming in and taking a team all the way to a Frozen Four, then to get us back to the NCAA Tournament, he was a huge part of that and we can’t forget that.”

After picking up two assists on Friday, sophomore forward Sahir Gill found his way back into the goals column with a dramatic play halfway through the second. Junior defenseman Sean Escobedo, jumping into the rush with the forwards, centered a pass to Gill that he knocked past Madore while diving on his stomach.

“I thought it was his best game in a

while, not just because he got a goal but because he was playing so hard,” Parker said of Gill. “He was bouncing people, he was creating offense by getting pucks away from Vermont defensemen and then getting away from them himself.”

BU appeared to tie it 2-2 a few minutes after Gill’s goal when sophomore forward Matt Nieto rang a shot off the left post and one of the Terriers pushed the rebound across the line. Upon review, the puck was ruled to have been kicked in and the goal was disallowed.

The Terriers picked up their pace in the last few minutes of the second but couldn’t add to Gill’s tally.

In the third, they forced Madore to make a number of quality stops in the last home game of his collegiate career. Of the 17 saves he made in the frame, a number came on shots through multiple screens, and another was a point-blank one-timer that looked like a sure goal from sophomore defenseman Adam Clendening.

With 1:41 left in the third and a faceoff in BU’s offensive zone, Parker pulled Millan. Sophomore defenseman Garrett Noonan and junior forward Alex Chiasson each got a shot off on Madore as four Terrier forwards clustered around the net, and when a loose puck bounced to Megan in the slot, there was nothing Madore could do to stop the shot. Megan’s 17th goal of the year tied the game 2-2 and sent it to a five-minute overtime.

“Chiasson made a great play from behind the net,” Megan said. “He found me on the corner of the net and I kind of misfired the shot. It ended up going behind the net. It went over to Nieto at one point. It went off his shin pad or something. I was just kind of standing there.”

Privitera sent a slap shot from the point past Madore with 1:58 remaining in overtime to win it for BU. That capped off a two-point weekend for the freshman, who returned on Friday from a broken wrist he suffered Jan. 28.

With two games left in the season, Parker was planning for BU’s matchup with Northeastern University next weekend, but he said he was also hoping to see Vermont, who is eliminated from playoff contention, win at least one more time.

“I know that was a tough pill for them to swallow,” he said of the Catamounts, “but maybe you’ll get them to go down and beat [Boston College] a game for us.”

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said he thought the team had been making progress, but he was willing to consider other ways to get through to his team in the wake of Nicastro’s alleged actions.

“I thought we took more action to try to give them more information,” Parker said.

“Obviously what we are going to look at is, ‘What else can we do?’ We think we are doing as much if not more than a lot of other schools, but we have to look at, ‘What else can we do to give these kids, to make these kids better able to handle their situation here as a BU hockey player and as a student?’”

Many of the details leading to Nicastro’s arrest have not been made public due to the sensitive nature of a rape case, but Parker said he believed most of the team was at a bar with Nicastro on Saturday prior to the alleged incident. The team is allowed to go out drinking one night per week, and the designated night is almost always Saturday night.

Nicastro is of legal drinking age. Parker said he is not aware of any underage players being at the bar with Nicastro and the rest of the team that night.

Nicastro was arrested early Sunday morning, and Parker was informed of the arrest around 8 a.m., the coach said. Parker suspended Nicastro from the team indefinitely while the matter was investigated. Once Nicastro was arraigned on Tuesday morning, he was suspended from the university itself and was therefore kicked off the hockey team, since a player who is not enrolled in school is not eligible to be on the team.

Nicastro’s alleged sexual assault follows a campaign on the part of all four Beanpot schools to wear white ribbons on their helmets during the Beanpot in order to raise awareness to stop violence against women.

As part of the campaign, the team took a pledge to commit itself to preventing domestic violence and sexual assault.

Parker said he does not think Nicastro’s arrest one week after wearing the ribbon on his helmet will affect the campaign itself.

“I don’t think it has any effect on it whatsoever,” Parker said. “We participate in that because we believe in that.”

Parker also said Nicastro’s arrest is not a poor reflection of BU hockey’s recruiting strategy, as he said he does not believe these two arrests are a result of recruiting bad character players.

“I think one of the things we really try to do is make sure we recruit good charac-

ter,” Parker said. “We do it in a lot of different ways as far as finding out about parents, finding out about school reports, finding out about a whole bunch of different things. I don’t think this is a matter of we recruited bad-character kids who came here and acted up. I think it’s a matter of kids who got here and didn’t know how to handle stuff that was going on here for them.”

As far as the way the remainder of the team has been handling yet another arrest leading to sexual assault charges, Parker said his team is definitely struggling.

“I feel like the team is very down,” Parker said. “I feel like the team is down because of what it makes them look like, how they look.

“Hopefully they can separate one thing from another, and the most important thing is being a good citizen and being a good teammate and being a good student-athlete around here.”

Parker addressed the possible response from fans, students and alumni who are now ashamed of or unwilling to support the team, saying he understood their sentiments completely.

“I would say that there is an awful lot of people that are very, very down on BU hockey right now, and from the information they have they probably have a right to be,” Parker said.

This weekend, the team will not have to face its fans and will leave behind the news cameras that have been parked outside of Agganis Arena. The team will travel to the University of Vermont for a two-game series against the Catamounts.

Parker said despite the signs and taunts the team may hear from opposing fans in Vermont, a trip away from campus should help the team recover from a difficult week.

“One of the things we want to make sure is, ‘Hey guys, go about your business like you’re supposed to. Go to class. I know this is difficult. I know people are probably staring at you in the dorms and in the cafeterias but you’ve got to be a student-athlete around here and take the next right step,’” Parker said. “And the next right step for us is to get on the bus and go to Vermont.

“I’m sure that there are some guys that might be relieved that they don’t have to see some people around campus because maybe they feel uncomfortable. Maybe they will feel uncomfortable when they walk on the ice in Vermont. Who knows?”

Privitera’s improved play aids men’s hockey team’s power-play efficiency Privitera: From page 8

point of the weekend, following an assist on junior defenseman Sean Escobedo’s power-play goal during Friday night’s 5-0 win. Both the assist as well as the game-winning goal came off a hard, low shot from the point in which Privitera used screens to make it difficult for the goalie to track the puck.

What made the goal even more impressive was the fact that Privitera still appeared to be injured in the second game. At one point during the third period, Privitera was doubled over holding his injured wrist while he was waiting for the faceoff.

“He is [playing through pain],” Megan said.

“But, I mean, a lot of guys are at this point in the season. I think he’s doing alright though. As

you can see, he didn’t seem like he was hurting too bad out there on the ice.”

One area where Privitera has been successful is the power play, as he has done very well manning the point with the man-advantage.

Since the beginning of 2012, he has totaled five points in eight games played, including two goals. While the Terriers only scored one power-play goal in 11 chances over the weekend, Privitera assisted on the conversion.

“I thought he delivered the puck to the net, I thought he played well on the power play when he was out there,” said BU coach Jack Parker.

Since the beginning of 2012 Privitera started getting more ice time on the power play, and it has paid off for the Terriers. The BU power play is working at 31.3 percent efficiency with Privitera in the lineup since the New Year, while it

was working at a 21.3 percent efficiency with Privitera in the lineup before the New Year.

While Privitera emerged as the hero on the night with his goal, that didn’t mean he had a perfect game. On Vermont’s second goal, junior Sebastian Stalberg got away from Privitera’s coverage, and slammed in an easy goal with a wide-open net.

“He got caught in the back-door goal that gave them their power-play goal, so I think he’s glad he came back and got the goal for us,” Parker said.

However, the one mistake he made in the game will not be enough to take Privitera out of the lineup next weekend. Earlier in the season, the Old Tappan, N.J., native struggled to keep his spot among the starting six defensemen, as he struggled to adapt to the new pace and physi-

cality of the college game.

With Nicastro gone from the team, Parker doesn’t have much choice but to play his freshman defenseman. Even if Nicastro was still on the team though, Privitera would likely still find a place in the lineup because he has adapted to the level of play, and improved his own performance as of late.

Privitera’s good play came at a time when the Terriers needed it most, with BU looking for the top seed in Hockey East. With only two games remaining and the defensive depth limited, Privitera’s role and health will be even more crucial.

“He’s really coming on strong for us,” Megan said. “We need him to do more of the same down the stretch.”

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Parker Terriers defeat Vermont in overtime Late BU goal Privitera returns reacts to sends game into to pristine form Nicastro overtime arrest

By Kevin Dillon Daily Free Press Staff

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For the second time in less than three months, Boston University’s reputation was tarnished by the actions of a player on the men’s hockey team. Early Sunday morning, defenseman Max Nicastro was arrested and charged with two counts of rape stemming from an alleged on-campus incident.

The accusations against Nicastro come after forward Corey Trivino was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a BU resident assistant on Dec. 11.

Both Trivino and Nicastro have been kicked off the hockey team and are not enrolled at BU while their cases continue through the court process.

The similar charges against two members of the same team has created many questions about the environment surrounding the hockey team and whether the team could have done more to prevent either incident from occurring. On Thursday, BU President Robert Brown announced he was forming a task force to study the culture and climate of the hockey team in response to Trivino and Nicastro’s alleged actions.

BU coach Jack Parker, who was unavailable to speak to The Daily Free Press until Thursday, addressed some of the questions surrounding his team in an interview early Thursday afternoon.

Parker said he thinks there are many differences between the accusations against Trivino and Nicastro, but acknowledged both shared similar roots.

“It points to a problem of control or drinking, and one of the things we talk about all the time at the beginning of the year is we lay down ground rules that we talk about in actions and consequences,” Parker said. “Specific consequences regarding specific actions having to do with drugs, alcohol, and the way you treat people around here and sexual behavior.

We will talk some more about that, obviously.

“When we don’t get what we want as far as we don’t have people staying up to the standard we like, we deal with it.”

That the Nicastro incident occurred so soon after the Trivino incident raises the question as to whether the coaches did enough after Trivino’s arrest to help the team learn a lesson from it. Parker

Parker, see page 7

Monday, Feb. 27

No Games Scheduled Ben and Jerry’s were forced to apologize for their “Taste the Linsanity” ice cream which featured fortune cookies...

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- The No. 5/6 Boston University men’s hockey team was less than two minutes away from a loss to the University of Vermont that could have hurt its chance at home ice in the Hockey East playoffs, its seeding for the 3 NCAA tournaBU VERMONT 2 ment and its overall morale heading into the last weekend of the regular season.

Instead, junior forward Wade Megan scored a 6-on-5 goal to send the game to overtime and freshman defenseman Alexx Privitera scored the game-winner in his first weekend back from injury in BU’s 3-2 win.

The win clinched home ice for BU (20-11-1, 16-8-1 Hockey East) in the Hockey East tournament and sent the team home from

Vermont, see page 4

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Freshman defenseman Alexx Privitera scored the game-winning goal in overtime against the University of Vermont on Saturday. It was Privitera’s first game back from injury.

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A week ago, Boston University men’s hockey freshman defenseman Alexx Privitera was not sure if he would be playing in the weekend series against the University of Vermont thanks to a wrist injury. But after a chaotic week on BU’s campus in which former defenseman Max Nicastro was booted off the team, the Terriers had little choice but to place Privitera back in the lineup.

Playing through his wrist injury, Privitera proved he was more than someone to fill Nicastro’s spot upon his return to the lineup, as he scored the game-winning goal in overtime to give BU the 3-2 win in Vermont Saturday night.

“He’s playing great. We need him to play great. He needs to be that kind of player for us,” said junior forward Wade Megan. “He played physical, played great defensively. Made some good plays and he got rewarded there with the overtime goal.”

The goal was Privitera’s second

Privitera, see page 7

BU dominates Wildcats in Hockey East quarterfinal

By Meredith Perri Daily Free Press Staff

Thanks to offensive surges in the first and third periods, the No. 9 Boston University women’s hockey team dominated the University of New Hampshire Sunday afternoon during the Hockey East quarterfinals at Walter Brown 9 Arena with BU a 9-1 win.

1 UNH During the course of the game, BU (21-13-1, 14-7 Hockey East) set a program record for most postseason goals and most short-handed goals in the Hockey East Tournament.

Senior captain Jenn Wakefield also scored a hat trick in the process of scoring her 200th point. She is the second Hockey East player to accrue that many points and is only the second person to score a hat trick during tournament play.

“Obviously, the stars lined up a little bit for us,” said BU coach Brian Durocher.

After keeping the puck in their offensive zone for most of the first nine minutes of play, the Terriers opened up the game with four goals, three of which came in a 1:51 spurt of offense, in the middle of the first frame.

Senior forward Jill Cardella started off the offensive barrage with her 10th goal of the season. Cardella picked up a pass from Wakefield that Cardella proceeded to put through the five-hole of UNH (10-22-3, 4-152 Hockey East) starting freshman goaltender Jenn Gilligan.

A mere 55 seconds later, junior forward Taylor Holze took a shot that freshman defenseman Shannon Stoneburgh redirected past Gilligan for her second goal of the season.

Another 56 seconds later, Wakefield tallied her team-leading 24th goal, her second point of the game,

when the Pickering, Ontario native skated up the ice with the puck, went around two defenders and backhanded it past Gilligan.

Wakefield came back about four minutes later on the power play to torment Gilligan once again. Wakefield put her third point of the game past Gilligan on a shot from the left circle.

While BU had four goals on 10 shots in the first frame, the Terriers only lit the lamp once in the second frame despite putting 15 shots on UNH’s senior goaltender Lindsey Minton, who relieved Gilligan after the first period.

Junior forward Isabel Menard scored the lone BU goal in the second frame when 1:23 into the period she took a pass from senior defenseman Carly Warren and directed it into the net.

New Hampshire responded with its first – and only – goal of the game

after the Terriers took their first penalty, a body checking call on red shirt freshman Caroline Campbell.

Sophomore Arielle O’Neill had the power-play tally for the Wildcats, and closed out the scoring for both teams in the period.

Neither team scored for the first half of the third period until the Terriers once again showed off their offensive prowess.

After several attempts to get her fourth point of the game and 200th of her career, Wakefield accomplished both in the form of a short-handed goal 11:58 into the frame.

“It was kind of a blur,” Wakefield said of scoring her 200th point.

“Then when I saw [senior defenseman Kasey Boucher] go get the puck I realized it was the 200th.”

The point, which gave Wakefield her second career hat trick, came against Wakefield’s former team. She

W. hockey, see page 7

Softball kicks off season with winning record The Boston University softball team emerged from its first weekend of the season with a 3-2 record at the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Clearwater, Fla. Despite losses to Illinois State University and No. 17/18 University of Louisiana-Lafayette, the Terriers finished the weekend strong with a 8-1 victory over University of Illinois on Sunday afternoon.

The Terriers opened the tournament on Friday with an offensive

battle against Illinois State (7-8) as the Red Birds slugged out a 12-8 victory. The Red Birds took a 1-0 lead in the first and added two more runs in the third before the Terriers scored in the bottom half of the third.

After two Illinois State errors, the Terriers added two more runs to the scoreboard before a six-run rally in the fourth put Illinois on top for good.

“Our first game we were just kind of getting our feet under us but for the rest of the way on we did a really

good job,” said BU coach Shawn Rychcik.

Despite the loss, the Terriers’ offense was strong for most of the game as sophomore right fielder Jayme Mask went 3-for-4 and classmate and transfer student Chelsea O’Connor hit a two-run home run.

Sophomore third baseman Megan Volpano also had two RBIs for the Terriers as the sophomore class led the team.

“Two and three [spots] in my lineup’s a little different than most,”

Rychcik said. “My two-hitter [O’Connor] is expected to drive in runs . . . So our two-hitter is really a regular three-hitter.”

In the second game of the day, sophomore pitcher Holli Floetker pitched a 3-0 shutout over Winthrop University, giving the Terriers their first victory of the season. Floetker allowed only three hits.

Leadoff hitter Mask continued to

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Thursday, Mar. 1

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By Sam Simmons Daily Free Press Staff

The Bottom Line

No Games Scheduled ...They should have changed the name of the flavor to “Taste the Racism” instead.

W. Lacrosse vs. Yale, 4 p.m.

No Games Scheduled The Daytona 500 was rescheduled to Monday due to rain. If you listen closely you can still hear the south crying.

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M. Hockey vs. Northeastern, 7 p.m.

W. Basketball vs. TBA, 12 p.m.

Softball @ Memphis, 3 p.m.

Softball @ East Tennessee St. 10 a.m.