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Boston celebrates America Saves Week with financial responsibility events.

The Museum of Science announced a competition to reduce greenhouse gases.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are the real stars of the Oscars.

Men’s basketball hangs on for an 84-82 win over Lafayette College.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019

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YEAR XLVII. VOLUME XCVI. ISSUE V

New bookstore location opens in West Campus Advocates

rally at State House

BY ALEX LASALVIA

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University Barnes and Noble officially opened the doors of its new West Campus location Monday, three days after the bookstore’s Kenmore Square location closed in the wake of a 2016 deal BU made to sell its properties at the eastern edge of campus.

The new store has two larger f loors instead of the five smaller ones in the old Kenmore location.

The first f loor features some BU clothing and merchandise for purchase but largely houses textbooks. The second f loor holds mainly BU merchandise.

Unlike at the Kenmore location, the new Barnes and Noble does not have a Starbucks inside.

The store is sparsely furnished, with scenes from around campus up on the walls. The f loor plan is open besides a staircase in the middle of the store leading to the second f loor.

Stephen Turco, the store’s general manager, said this new location at 910 Commonwealth Ave. is permanent. He said he is very happy with the new layout.

“I think it’s great — it’s fun,” Turco said. “It’s got a little bit of an industrial look to it, a little bit more modern, gives us a better opportunity to present the merchandise that we sell in a different way.”

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Boston University’s new Barnes and Noble bookstore opened Monday after moving from Kenmore Square to 910 Commonwealth Ave. on West Campus.

While the bookstore’s official opening took place Monday, the store was able to open two days ahead of schedule, he said.

“We closed Wednesday at 5, and we opened up at 1 o’clock on Saturday,” Turco said. “The move was much quicker than we had anticipated.”

Turco said the new store will

have the same hours as the old location and will offer mostly the same selection of items — though not every item from the old store was brought west.

“There were some product lines and categories that we didn’t bring with us,” he said. “We brought all the stuff that our customers buy from us.”

BU spokesperson Colin Riley said the university is pleased with the new location because it’s close to many students who live in West, an area that is still frequented by students who live on other parts of campus.

“Many of them come up to the FitRec center, or have classes

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Advocates for poor and disenfranchised people in the Commonwealth held a rally on the steps of the Massachusetts State House Monday. Rallygoers later entered the State House after to present a list of demands including calls for a tax shakeup, voter equality, gun control, prison reform and increased environmental sustainability.

The rally, hosted by the Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign, was part of the organization’s campaign, “A National Call for Moral Revival.” The campaign’s goal is to “challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted morality,” according to their website.

Several activists spoke at the rally about their stories of hardship to the sounds of cheers and tambourines. Strong winds threatened to blow away the protestors’ signs that read messages like, “Forward Together, Not One Step Back,” and, “Voter Suppression is Violence.”

The protestors’ demands, detailed in a fact sheet from the

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BU construction updates Jane Doe Inc. announces new bills

BY MIA CATHELL

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

For Boston Un iversit y st udents, constr uction on Commonwealth Avenue is a common sight.

Orange cones are so prevalent in BU’s West Campus that they’ve become a meme. Further east near Warren Towers, the sound of drilling has practically become a part of daily life. These and other developments have left some students questioning the extensiveness of construction work at BU. Grace Tate, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, lives on Bay State Road adjacent to the work underway for the university’s new data sciences building.

“Last night it woke me up at 3 a.m.,” Tate said Monday.

The noise is a result of drilling for the first of three wells that, according to BU Research, will draw geothermal energy from the ground to heat and cool the planned 17-story academic center.

Across the BU Bridge, the new Howard Thurman Center is under construction at the Peter Fuller Building at 808 Commonwealth Ave. More construction is under-

way in West Campus stretching from the BU Bridge to Alcorn Street in Packard’s Corner, according to Massachusetts Department of Transportation spokesperson Patrick Marvin.

MassDOT is currently overseeing the second of two phases of work on Commonwealth Avenue.

Phase one, which finished in 2008, was awarded to Bostonbased McCourt Construction two years prior for $12.7 million, Marvin wrote. Work spanned from Kenmore Square to the BU Bridge and included improvements to roads, the installation of traffic signals and new street systems such as pavement markings and street lighting.

Marvin wrote that the contract for phase two, worth $17.6 million, was awarded in 2016.

Funding for both phases came from a combination of federal, state and local sources.

Phase two stretches down Commonwealth Avenue from the BU Bridge to Packard’s Corner, Marvin wrote. Work is scheduled for completion in June 2019, with similar traffic and safety improvements to those completed in the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

BY DANA SUNG AND MIA CATHELL

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Sexual violence prevention non-profit coalition Jane Doe Inc. announced a new bill for a $1 million budget from the State for sexual and domestic assault

prevention and education for the 2019-20 state congressional session.

Jane Doe Inc. hosted a briefing at the Massachusetts State House Wednesday to detail the bill and other measures they are pushing for.

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Lysetta Hurge-Putnam, the executive director of Independence House, discusses how her work helped a victim of domestic violence at a hearing on sexual and domestic assault legislation at the Massachusetts State House Wednesday.

Five speakers from different Jane Doe member organizations detailed the coalition’s plan to spend current state funding, request further funding and address gaps in services and prevention through several new bills proposed to the legislature regarding sexual assault and violence prevention programs. The speakers shared several stories of survivors’ resilience and recovery.

Maureen Gallagher, the policy director for Jane Doe Inc., said in a interview before the briefing that attendees could expect to hear about the proposed bills that Jane Doe will support this session.

“In Wednesday’s briefing, we are particularly excited to introduce the new bill that now has a million dollar budget from the state government,” Gallagher said. “It is going to the prevention and education of sexual and domestic assault.”

As for Jane Doe Inc.’s budget priorities, Gallagher said during the briefing the coalition would use state funding for sexual assault and domestic violence prevention programs to serve college students, LGBTQ groups and CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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Fall semester sees increase in alcohol transports

BY MIA PING-CHIEH CHEN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Eighty students were transported to the hospital for alcohol-related medical issues during the Fall 2018 semester, which is 10 more than during the previous fall.

According to an article published by BU Today, 52 of the students transported were freshmen.

Of the transports, 27 were from West Campus, and 10 were from Warren Towers.

Katharine Mooney, the director of Wellness and Prevention at Student Health Services, said SHS has a number of programs that promote overall wellness, including counseling for excessive drug and alcohol use.

“We do prevention work on campus where we educate students on how to drink in safer ways if they do choose to drink, and then we also provide counseling for students who have gone to the hospital because of alcohol intoxication,” Mooney said.

“And in addition to that, we also support students who are in recovery from substance use disorders.”

Mooney mentioned BU’s Good Samaritan policy, which encourages students to reach out for help when they or someone else has an alcohol or drug-related medical emergency.

If they do call emergency services for help, the university says, it will not pursue sanctions against the student.

In situations that do not fall under the good samaritan policy, she said, students found in violation

of BU’s Alcohol Policy are subject to disciplinary action under the Code of Student Responsibilities.

“If a student goes to the hospital for alcohol intoxication, we do reach out to them after that happens to just ask how they’re doing, to make sure that they’re OK,” Mooney said.

“And typically, they also are required to come in, either by Judicial Affairs or Residence Life, as part of the disciplinary process.”

Boston University Police Department Lt. Daniel Healy wrote in an email that BUPD officers are the first to respond when a call is made about an overly intoxicated person.

“Generally a member of the community will call about a person that they observe to be overly intoxicated and are worried about,” Healy wrote. “The BUPD officers will respond and will assess the person. Generally an EMT (emergency medical technicians) is called to the scene and assists in determining whether a person needs to go to the emergency room.”

Healy added that on campus there is an alcohol task force that creates strategies for safer drinking habits on campus.

“BU has an alcohol task force which lists members from different disciplines around the University to discuss issues that intersect directly with alcohol issues,” Healy wrote.

“This group strategizes ways to reduce dangerous drinking through educations efforts as well as offering alternative events for those stu-

a life of liberty.”

Martin said the demands of the organization at the rally were similar to the three evils Martin Luther King Jr. described at New York City’s Riverside Church in 1967 during the Vietnam War, which were racism, poverty and war. “‘The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival’ has five evils, which are… the systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and the distorted moral narrative,” Martin said.

Martin said she thinks the campaign’s demands were heard inside the State House.

“When I read the demands, we all noticed that people [inside the

COURTESY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN

Members of the Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign advocating at the State House for poor and disenfranchised people in the Commonwealth. The group held a rally Monday.

crime logs

BY MIA CATHELL

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Feb. 21–25.

Suspicious person at Metcalf Science Center A caller reported a suspicious male Thursday around 5 p.m. and stated the suspect was walking around the second floor of the Metcalf Science Center. The suspect was then found locked in a basement laboratory in room B73.

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An ambulance parked outside the emergency room entrance at Boston Medical Center. Eighty Boston University students were transported to the hospital during the Fall 2018 semester for alcohol-related medical issues.

dent[s] who choose not to consume alcohol.”

Kendall Schneider, a sophomore in College of Communication, said strict state laws and a lack of education before college may be the reasons for the uptick in transports.

“I think it’s kind of scary, I guess before you come to college there’s not that much education about drinking and stuff like that,” Schneider said. “I think the stigma against drinking, especially in this country, and with the laws being as strict as they are, I think it makes most underage kids really, really likely when they get to college to just go crazy.”

Vansh Pushpraj, a freshman in College of General Studies, said he thinks there needs to be safer enter-

tainment activities available to college students, especially those who are underage.

“I know that on the weekend it’s casual to go crazy and have fun, but you can do that in very safe ways, and if you’re underage, there is not a complete need,” Pushpraj said. “I mean we’re in the city of Boston, there’s so many things to do.”

Leah Boecker, a Wheelock College of Education and Human Development sophomore, said she thinks a combination of factors cause students to abuse alcohol, such as peer pressure, academic stress and the strain of adjusting college life.

“It’s concerning,” Boecker said, “and makes me wonder what needs to happen in order for the number to go down.”

Mass. Poor People’s Campaign rallies for change ADVOCATES, FROM PAGE 1 Mass. Poor People’s Campaign, requested that the state end policies that “exacerbate inequalities” for people of color, require the wealthy to “pay their fair share,” regulate firearms to “demilitarize our communities” and adopt environmentally-friendly practices.

Savina Martin, the co-chair of the Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign, said the demands of the Poor People’s Campaign are for the rights of every person.

“This, it’s not about black or white, it’s not about right or left,” Martin said. “It’s not about Democratic or Republican. This is about the lives of millions of people who have a right to live a secure life,

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State House] were clapping, they were nodding their heads,” Martin said.

Mike Sax a 40-year-old activist from Brookline who attended the rally, wrote in a Facebook message that the rally lifted up the collective voices of all the poor and marginalized people in the Commonwealth.

“Like a spirit of justice [their voices] might burst through those doors to carry a message from the State House steps into the hearts of our elected representatives the message ‘Somebody’s hurting our people and it’s gone on far too long,’” Sax wrote.

Sax wrote the activists wanted to address legislative leaders directly in order to convince the lawmakers to take action in support of Massachusetts’ disadvantaged populations.

“We marched through those doors into our house to deliver demands to the senate president and house speaker,” Sax wrote, “spelling out the truth about those ways in which our people are hurting.”

Roxbur y resident Charlie Keller, an activist for the Poor People’s Campaign who also attended the rally, wrote in a Facebook message that the movement is a response to inequality in our society.

“From my point of view, the Poor People’s Campaign is a welcome infusion of moral witness against a society, and particularly a corporate ruling class, that systematically oppresses, exploits, and abandons its poor and sick,

its elders and young, its black and brown,” the 39-year-old wrote.

Keller wrote that the rally was one small part of a larger movement to harness the principle of civil disobedience and inspire popular action against a system that heavily advantages the country’s wealthy population.

“The PPC’s moral witness and civil disobedience function as important sparks to the national conscience,” Keller wrote, “helping grab public and media attention, and helping to inspire a movement.”

However, he noted, organizations such as the Poor People’s Campaign would have to go beyond rallies and demonstrations and partner with the government to pass concrete legislation instituting systemic change.

“To overcome the power of an entrenched economic and political oligarchy that has for decades rammed more profits for the rich down the throats of a public that consistently favors progressive and social-democratic redistribution programs,” Keller wrote, “… these methods will likely need to be combined with more specific and radical policy demands.”

Rachel Wyon, 67, an activist from Cambridge who also attended the event, wrote in a Facebook message a woman spoke at the rally about personal hardships faced by poor people across Massachusetts.

“In spite of having Section 8 [a housing voucher,] she cannot find [an] apartment since many landlords want higher rents,” Wyon wrote. “The system is broken.”

Locked restroom at LSE building A caller reported the eighth floor women’s bathroom had been locked for a long time on Friday at 7:40 p.m.

Nobody answered when knocking on the door. The door was opened, and no issues were reported.

Stolen device at Mugar Library Library security reported a missing phone Sunday at 8:55 p.m. The phone was eventually located in Everett.

Downed power line Eversource and MBTA Transit Police were called to a scene at 46 Mountfort St. at 7:35 p.m. Monday to handle a downed power line that may have been on MBTA property.

Assault at Raising Cane’s Staff reported an assault on an employee Monday at 10:04 p.m.

The suspects had since left the area.

Nearby units were notified to be on the lookout.

CITY crime logs

BY EVA BERGMAN

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following crime reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from Feb. 22–26.

Credit card fraud at Allston Car Wash An employee of Allston Car Wash, located at 434 Cambridge St., filed a report at 11:50 a.m. on Feb. 22 alleging that an unknown customer had been coming to the carwash for the past few months and purchasing items with what he believed were stolen credit cards.

Sudden death Family members reported the sudden death of a victim, who they last saw alive at 7 a.m. that morning, at 11 a.m. on Feb. 25 at Fidelis Way. The victim was found laying on a bed covered with blankets. The victim was pronounced dead at 11:11 AM.

Fraudulent charges reported A victim reported that an “E Check” in the amount of $82.67 was issued via their account to a name of a person they were not familiar with at 7:44 a.m. on Feb. 26.

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City promotes financial responsibility events for residents

BY NAMU SAMPATH AND JOEL LAU

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston is celebrating America Saves Week with free events promoting financial responsibility from Feb. 25 to March 2. These programs include tax assistance, credit-building workshops and welcome events for Boston Saves, which helps families begin saving money for their children’s futures in college or career training.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the City would host these workshops at locations across Boston in a press release on Feb. 22.

The programs focus on helping families achieve financial security while also providing for the future.

“Saving money is a powerful way Boston’s families can meet their financial goals, whether that’s a downpayment on a house or college tuition for the next generation,” Walsh said in the release. “America Saves Week provides an opportunity for us to highlight the many free financial education initiatives the City of Boston offers to help families save for their futures.”

Constance Martin, deputy director of the Mayor’s Office of Financial Empowerment, wrote in an email that the purpose of these free events was to spread awareness among Boston residents of the financial services offered by the city.

“Promoting these services, ranging from free tax preparation to financial coaching to non-predatory banking to even something like a library card, through a vehicle like America Saves week helps us with publicity so that we can expand our reach to help more residents

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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced on Feb. 22 Boston will celebrate America Saves Week with planned events throughout the city to promote financial responsibility and help families achieve financial security.

improve their personal finance,” Martin wrote.

Martin wrote the City has introduced various financial empowerment services to its residents in the past, such as the Boston Tax Help Coalition. She noted a stronger difference can be made for the future of Boston with an increased presence in the community and more conversation among city officials.

“The Office of Financial Empowerment and other City departments love nothing more than to connect residents with the services they need,” Martin wrote.

“Often people tell us they didn’t know these resources existed so we have to do more and try harder to spread the word.”

Martin wrote the ultimate goal

of America Saves Week is to encourage Boston’s less affluent residents to begin saving money. While setting money aside may be hard for many families, a single emergency may bring financial ruin if there are no funds saved and ready, she wrote.

“We also know that families can be devastated by an unexpected emergency,” Martin wrote. “So we are encouraging residents who are employed to split their paycheck between a checking and put a small amount into a savings account that can build for unexpected needs.”

District 2 City Councilor Ed Flynn said he recognizes the value of the critical financial services the Walsh administration is providing to Boston residents in conjunction with the City Council.

“It’s important for us in government to provide quality city services and assistance to all of our residents,” Flynn said. “The mayor’s office has been consistently doing this, and I’m proud to work closely with them.”

Flynn said Boston Saves is an excellent program that will help ensure families can send children to college and prepare the next generation for a financially secure adulthood.

“Boston Saves is going to provide a grasp for our young people beyond what they’re taught here,” Flynn said. “They’ll learn a lot about financial management and the importance of saving so that they can receive an education. … I think Mayor Walsh is right on the spot in launching that program.”

In order to serve the full breadth of Boston’s residents, Flynn said, it is important to provide these financial services in languages primarily spoken by immigrants — such as in Chinese, Spanish and Vietnamese.

America Saves Week often works with Military Saves Week to encourage organizations to work together within their own communities and transform the lives of Americans by teaching them how to save money, according to the America Saves Week website.

The Office of Financial Empowerment is located across the hall from Boston’s Veterans Services, and Martin wrote that while they often work together on outreach programs that directly benefit Boston’s veteran community, the City is not doing anything for the veterans during the week this year as veteran-focused events have already been planned.

Noah Miree, 21, of Mission Hill, said he thinks the events will be good for city residents.

“I think it’s good to get some involvement for lower to middle class citizens living in Boston,” Miree said.

Moses Small, 20, of Mission Hill, said he thinks the City’s efforts to help residents with financial responsibility will be beneficial for the people it serves.

“I think Boston is a troubled area in a lot of ways, so any initiatives that we can do to help people in need are positive steps forward,” Small said. “There are lots of other cities who are far ahead of what we are doing, and now that we are catching up, the city is going to be greater.”

Barnes and Noble relocates west BOOKSTORE, FROM PAGE 1 this way, or attend events or head off-campus in this direction,” Riley said. “So it’s a good location.”

Riley said he encouraged students to visit the new location.

“I hope they’re pleased with the fact that they’re not going down five f loors with their textbooks,” he said.

Grace Berg, a sophomore in the College of Communication who lives in East Campus, said she was unhappy with the bookstore’s new location in West and that the move would definitely affect how often she visits the

bookstore.

“I like the new store, I think it’s nice — but I live in Danielsen,” Berg said. “The other one was really close to me, and now it’s really far away. I wish if they were moving it, they would have moved it somewhere more in the middle of campus.”

Hailey Lee, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, also said the new location would cause her to visit the bookstore less often.

“I’m living in Towers, so I was like, ‘Oh, that’s unfortunate,’” Lee said. “I used to visit the Starbucks in the bookstore or buy hoodies

and other stuff from there.”

Michael Nejaime, a freshman in the Questrom School of Business, said he thinks the new location is much more convenient for him and a lot of students.

“It’s a convenient place for students, I guess, it’s a good move,” Nejaime said. “I will be there more often, for sure.”

Nejaime added he thinks the move out of Kenmore is causing BU to lose its foothold in the square.

“BU’s all about being in Boston and everything,” Nejaime said. “Kenmore is really a gateway into the middle of the city.”

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Boston University apparel set up inside the new Barnes and Noble bookstore location at 910 Commonwealth Ave.

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Construction projects on Comm. Ave. to continue into June UPDATES, FROM PAGE 1

first phase.

Additional projects in the second phase include sidewalk reconstruction, separated bike lanes, new wheelchair ramps, a water line, drainage systems and landscaping, he wrote.

BU spokesperson Colin Riley said that the university does not generally have issues with the timeliness of its construction projects.

“Campus construction and the projects that Boston University does actually have really good timelines,” Riley said. “They’ve generally been kept to schedule and budget.”

Riley said that past projects on campus such as the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, Student Village II and Agganis Arena over the last 25 to 30 years have likely cost more than $2.5 billion.

The university maintains an “open line of communication” with project management to minimize disruption, he said, especially during peak periods such as commencent or move-in weekend.

“There’s a constant within any dynamic city where there’s construction, and it needs good planning to minimize any disruption, and of course that’s something we care very much about here,” Riley said.

He added that summer construction projects over the past two years have included financial incentives to be completed on time.

“They also had disincentives,” Riley said, “… which would have cost the contractors additional funds if they didn’t meet their very tight three-week or 3.5 week timeline, or 2.5-week to three-week timeline.”

Tyler Alstede, a freshman in the College of Engineering, lives in South Campus and said he is used to these construction projects.

So far, he said, they haven’t really bothered him.

“I’m from Mass., so I know that construction around here takes some time,” Alstede said, “but so far it hasn’t really been hampering me getting around campus or anything.”

Diana Soriano, a CAS junior, said construction is always occur-

ring in West Campus, and she understands that it is necessary despite the disturbance.

“I know they made the bike lane better, which is really good, making the city more accessible,” Soriano said. “I just think that they

should focus on doing it over the summer, or breaks or early in the morning where it’s less bothersome to the students.”

Lanora Kelly, a senior in CAS, said her classes are mostly located on Central Campus where there is

little construction, but when she travels to West Campus, there is always equipment and materials blocking sidewalks.

“When I do go to West near FitRec,” she said, “it’s kind of inconvenient.”

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Construction zones dot Boston University’s West Campus along Commonwealth Avenue. Projects include sidewalk reconstruction, separated bike lanes, new wheelchair ramps, a water line, drainage systems and landscaping.

Sexual assault support group announces $1M funding bill JANE DOE, FROM PAGE 1

other Boston residents, while also providing economic and recovery support for survivors.

Jane Doe Inc.’s website summarizes its 2019 bill proposals, which include “An Act Relative to Sexual Violence on Higher Education Campuses” that focuses on introducing policy to strengthen prevention services on college campuses and the “Safe Communities Act,” which seeks to “restore community

trust in police” by separating law enforcement from immigration.

Sabrina Santiago, co-executive director of The Network/La Red and another speaker at the briefing, wrote in an email before the briefing that the proposed bills and funding would also be crucial in “creating an environment” in which immigrant survivors of sexual assault would be able to turn to the police when threatened.

“Right now there is so much

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From left to right: Amrith Fernandes Prabhu and Paulo Pinto. The two panelists spoke at a hearing on sexual and domestic assault legislation at the Massachusetts State House Wednesday.

fear about the connection between the police and ICE that immigrant survivors who are documented or undocumented are afraid to go to the police,” Santiago wrote. “The safe communities act would create a clear separation between police and ICE.” Gallagher said prevention is a critical component to confronting the issues the organization works to address.

“We need sex education that provides information in consent and healthy relationships — a key part to discuss when we talk about prevention,” Gallagher said. “And LGBT students need to feel represented. Our work on campuses are important when we talk about prevention, we need to provide spaces for them and talk about sexual health.”

As of January, Jane Doe Inc. will receive more than $42 million in funding from the state government in 2019 to fund various sexual and domestic violence support programs, according to the organization’s website. The coalition plans to request around another $1.5 million dollars from the state in 2020.

Ly setta Hu rge -P utna m, a panel speaker representing

Independence House, a Cape Cod domestic and sexual abuse support organization, delved into how these bills impact not only the funding made available to Jane Doe Inc., but also individual survivors of domestic assault.

“I try to think about the survivors that we serve and their complexity and diversity,” Putnam said. “I think it is important that we remember that, but the impact mainly has to do with its profound of physical safety, emotional safety, mental health and well-being. “ Putnam said that she hoped the legislature would come to realize the immense positive impact state funding for sexual and domestic violence prevention programs had on survivors and residents.

“I want to have some survivors’ voices into the room, and I thought it is important to start with that, especially for the legislators in this room, to really see how this funding, small amount of funding, goes a long way,” Putnam said. “And the effects last well beyond the time that we even see survivors.”

Sara Stanley, the executive director at Healing Abuse Working for Change, attended the briefing and said she thought

it emphasized the important work that Jane Doe Inc. is doing as a coalition.

“We are very grateful to Jane Doe as a member agency of a statewide coalition,” Stanley said.

“This was a really important platform because we communicated collectively to our legislators of the importance of not only our budget items, but things that we needed specifically to support the domestic violence programs, sexual assault programs and the violence assault prevention and prevention education program items.”

Massachusetts legislators also attended the event, including Rep. Denise Provost of Somerville.

Provost said she was happy she attended and that she recognized the real impact of sexual assault and domestic violence on Boston residents.

“Sexual assault and domestic violence continue to be stubbornly intractable issues everywhere,” Provost said. “I am glad that the discussion took place, and I have long wondered what is the reason for the persistence of domestic violence and sexual assault and what actually can be effective in reducing both.”

CAMPUS CALENDAR Activities on campus this week

THURSDAY, FEB. 28

FRIDAY, MARCH 1

SATURDAY, MARCH 2

SUNDAY, MARCH 3

Student Discovery Seminar - Hollywood Blacklist

Liquid Fun’s 24-Hour Comedy Marathon

IDEA 2019 Conference: Embrace Your Impact

Dim Sum at Warren Towers

MONDAY, MARCH 4 LGBTQ+A

771 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor 6 p.m.

BU Central 8 p.m.

Questrom School of Business 8:30 a.m.

Warren Towers 11 a.m

100 Bay State Road 6 p.m.

Hosted by Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

Hosted by Liquid Fun

Hosted by Innovate@BU

Hosted by BU Dining Services

Hosted by BU Wellness and Prevention Services

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Conference examines feminist, queer research methods

BY KAITLYN RIGGIO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Graduate students from the Boston area gathered over breakfast Friday, as they kicked off a day-long conference in which they explored queer and feminist research methods. Boston University’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Department hosted the day of discussions and workshops at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering.

The conference was created as an educational opportunity to share feminist and queer research methodology with graduate students who are working toward dissertations, said Catherine Connell, the director of the WGS Program and an organizer for the workshop.

“I conceived this event … drawing on the expertise of our own interdisciplinary faculty as well as three distinguished social scientists of gender and sexuality from other universities in the region,” Connell said.

Connell was joined by Evren Savci from Yale University, Angela Jones from Farmingdale State College and Piper Sledge from Bryn Mawr College on a panel of experts leading the workshop. The four of them also answered attendees’ questions in a roundtable Q&A session.

At the end of conference, graduate students could consult with the panel experts about their research proposals. Connell said this enabled them to immediately incorporate some of the theories and methods they learned from the conference into their papers.

Stuti Das, a first-year doctoral candidate studying sociology at BU, said she attended the workshop with the goal of gaining information that could benefit her own upcoming research. She said she was uncertain of what she specifically wanted her dissertation topic to be, but hoped to find inspiration at the conference.

“When I really get going on my own research, I’ll draw on some of the insights that I gained here today,” Das said.

Das said she wanted to get a sense of what other sociologists and students studying sociology were working on in hopes of learning from them and their research processes.

Nicole Peer, a second-year master’s student and graduate conference chair at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, said she came to the workshop looking to gain new perspectives and methods to incorporate into her master’s thesis.

“I figured it’d be a good idea to see and learn and get feedback from more queer and feminist scholars, as a lot of the work that I’m doing right now is with international relations and political theorists,” Peer said. “So it’s a little bit different with how you approach it.”

Learning about the theories outside of the classroom was interesting, Peer said. The workshop helped her view queer and feminist work in a new way she said she believes will benefit her research in the future.

The conference was also a beneficial networking opportunity, Das said.

Connell said she believes education on queer and feminist research methods is important in the current changing social and academic

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“After many decades of resistance to feminist and queer scholarship in the academic mainstream, there are increasing opportunities for this scholarship to flourish,” Connell said.

“At the same time, the need for such scholarship feels especially urgent in this particular political moment.”

According to Peer, workshops like this are beneficial for higher education as a whole because they welcome newly inclusive academia.

“Even when you have a liberal institution, they have tunnel vision,” Peer said. “I think [events like this] just open up a dialogue to create better, more holistic academic work and a more inclusive and welcoming environment on campus. It starts in the classroom.”

Bria Dunham, a program director of health science in Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and clinical assistant professor for health sciences, said the conference was a step toward spreading feminist and queer perspectives to more students and researchers.

Although she herself did not attend the event, Dunham said, she was grateful her department hosted it and looks forward to similar events in the future.

She said she hoped it would inspire attendees to use queer and feminist research methods in their future projects.

“There have been a lot of obstacles historically for women, for trans and non-binary individuals, for queer individuals, for getting involved in scholarship and research,” Dunham said.

Dunham said she wants to see such perspectives included not only in student research, but also among faculty. Besides workshops like Friday’s, she said an effective way of educating individuals on feminist and queer research methods is to incorporate them into the classroom through the professor.

“There is a lot of excitement and lively debate at the moment about these methodological approaches, queer methods in particular,” Connell said. “And I hope that Boston University and the WGS Program can be at the forefront of these discussions and the innovative research techniques they might stimulate.”

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SCIENCE

Museum of Science announces transportation challenge

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Cities have been at the forefront of mitigating climate change around the world, from Tokyo’s Green Building Program that incentivizes environmentally friendly building design, to a new competition at Boston’s Museum of Science that encourages undergraduate students to get involved in future sustainability efforts.

The museum announced its “Go Carbon Neutral!” challenge on Feb. 19. Participants in the challenge are tasked with strategizing ways to reduce greenhouse gas produced by Boston’s transportation systems. They can do this by addressing energy, fuel, infrastructure, alternative vehicles or modes of transportation, according to the museum’s website.

The challenge is open to all undergraduate students in New England

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Bluebikes are available across the Greater Boston area as a form of sustainable transportation. Boston’s Museum of Science announced their “Go Carbon Neutral!” challenge on Feb. 19 that invites undergraduate students to find ways to reduce emissions from Boston’s transportation systems.

and is in partnership with Greentown Labs and General Motors.

Mayor Martin Walsh pledged to make Boston a carbon-neutral city by 2050 when he announced the Carbon Free Boston initiative in 2017. If this goal is achieved, the city will have a net zero carbon footprint.

Last month, the Boston Green Ribbon Commission released a 2019 Carbon Free Boston: Summary Report in partnership with Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy that offered strategies to reach this goal.

Although Boston has been long considered among the most walkable and bikeable cities in the nation, where one in three commuters adopt public transportation, the city still requires a major overhaul to realize a carbon-neutral transportation system, according to the report.

As shown in the report, vehicles traveling in and out of Boston account for 29 percent of the city’s emissions.

Of the 2016 greenhouse gas emissions that came from transportation around Boston, about 75 percent came from private passenger vehicles.

Annette Sawyer, vice president of the museum’s Education Division and a BU alumna, said transportation needs some of the most innovative and creative solutions.

“It’s an important way of getting the conversation started, getting creative juices flowing and also begin-

ning a conversation with the future leaders who are going to solve these problems,” Sawyer said.

Sawyer said if young people in Boston act innovatively, they have the power to create a city of their dreams.

“My call to my fellow BU students is to come participate in this at the Museum of Science and begin making that future that’s so important for them to participate in and to dream about,” Sawyer said.

Individuals interested in the competition can submit their forms until March 3, and the applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

All semi-finalist teams will be notified by March 8. Applications can be completed online at the museum’s website.

Semi-finalist teams should be comprised of one to four people, and each team will require one student team leader and one adult mentor from their university or college.

There will be a culminating event at the Museum of Science on April 23, where semi-finalists will present their ideas and compete to receive cash prizes and professional opportunities.

Katherine Eshel, the City of Boston’s Carbon Neutrality Program Manager, said reducing greenhouse gas emissions has substantial benefits for Boston residents.

“If we’re shifting away from burning fossil fuels to fuel our vehicles or

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heat and power our homes, then we can cut air pollution on the streets of Boston and in people’s homes and businesses,” Eshel said. “That means we’re improving both our indoor and outdoor air quality, and that has huge benefits for public health.”

BU’s Associate Vice President for University Sustainability, Dennis Carlberg, wrote in an email that he believes the Carbon Free Boston report is the most extensive work done on climate change by any city to date.

“Cities around the world have climate action plans,” he wrote.

“Few have done the careful analysis necessary to understand what it will actually take to achieve their goals.”

Carlberg likewise wrote there will be some obstacles to achieving a carbon-neutral Boston.

“The major challenges are inertia, resistance to change and reluctance to spend money now to save over time,” he wrote. “Our community will need to support our leaders so they can make the difficult and controversial policy choices that will lead to a carbon free future as quickly as possible.”

College students can have significant impacts on sustainability efforts in their city, Carlberg wrote.

“BU students could really be the driving force to help the City meet its goals by using their skills and knowledge to develop sustainable solutions to current barriers,” he wrote.

WBUR to screen award-winning documentary ‘Lobster War’

BY ERIN TSANG

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On a small Atlantic island to the northeast of Maine, the lobster population has flourished in recent years. Fishermen’s catches have been bountiful, but behind the ample catches lies warring fishing boats and an international dispute.

It is here that lies the last land-border dispute between Canada and the United States.

“Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Fishing Grounds” documents the territorial conflict between Canada and America in which both countries lay claim to Machias Seal Island, the region near the Gulf of Maine surrounded by lobster-rich waters, according to

documentary’s trailer.

As the Gulf of Maine’s temperature has increased, large populations of lobsters have migrated to the area.

With the full support of their government, both Canadian and American fisherman flocked to this lobster-rich island to assert sovereignty over the area. A competition between the fisherman soon erupted, leading to an increasingly violent conflict that the New Hampshire Film Festival dubbed, “a lobster fisherman’s war zone.”

WBUR’s new event venue, CitySpace, will host a screening of the award-winning, feature-length documentary, on Wednesday, March 6, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets can

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“Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Fishing Grounds” chronicles tensions between Canadian and American fishermen over territorial disputes near a small Atlantic island to the northeast of Maine.

be purchased online for $15 each.

“Lobster War” highlights the impact of climate change on political and economic issues, said David Abel, the film’s director and a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from The Boston Globe.

“This is a story that reflects how climate change isn’t some distant threat,” Abel said in an interview.

“It is having an impact on lives today.”

Abel said he learned about this issue while covering a story for the Globe. The article, published in 2015, detailed the sabotage, theft and death threats that were born from the conflict.

“The conflict was intriguing to me in part because it reflected how

the warming waters of the Gulf of Maine — which are warming faster than nearly any other body of water on the planet — was exacerbating a centuries-old border dispute,” he said.

Abel collaborated with Andy Laub, an award-winning documentarian with whom he had worked on a 2017 Discovery Channel documentary called “Sacred Cod.” Greg Marinovich, a journalism professor in Boston University’s College of Communication, said he believes that on one hand, documentaries reach a rather limited audience. When covering such an informative topic, he said, it becomes difficult to gather attention.

“The problem is not many people

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“Lobster War: The Fight Over the World’s Richest Fishing Grounds,” directed by Pulitzer Prize winner David Abel, dives into the territorial conflict between Canadian and American lobster fishermen.

watch documentaries,” Marinovich said. “They’re seen as self-righteous or too wordy. People just want to be entertained.”

In an effort to reach a wider audience, Abel said he contacted his colleagues at WBUR to hold a screening.

“When I learned about CitySpace, I thought it would make a great venue to screen the film,” Abel wrote in an email. “I hope to chat with people about the film, and the implications of climate change.”

Marinovich said an advantage of documentaries is that audience members feel more participatory.

“For films covering education propaganda, if you will, I think documentaries are the best medium,” Marinovich said. “You can put in graphs and multiple voices and visuals.”

After the screening, audience members will have an opportunity to engage in conversation with Abel and Barbara Moran, the senior producing editor for WBUR’s environmental vertical. Moran said she hopes this discussion will lead to greater coverage of the environmental and social issues included in the film.

“I honestly knew nothing about this topic before seeing the film, so I expect it will be an eye-opener for many in the audience,” Moran wrote. “I hope they come away understanding that the effects of climate change are real, and local, and happening now – and this story is one example of that.”

FEATURES 7

ARTS

Frida Kahlo exhibit reflects on artist’s Mexican heritage

BY JENNIFER SURYADJAJA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A young, dark haired woman is depicted in front of a black and yellow-leafed background.

A monkey and a black cat perch upon each of her shoulders, and thorny branches hang from her bleeding neck like an intricate necklace.

A single hummingbird hangs from the branches at her chest.

Her expression is solemn despite the pain. The portrait’s viewers look upon Frida Kahlo’s face.

Since Kahlo painted “SelfPortrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” in 1940, the painting has traveled from Austin, Texas, to Quebec City, Quebec, to Rome and elsewhere around the world. Now, Boston residents can see Kahlo’s portrait within the city’s boundaries at the Museum of Fine Arts as it hosts an exhibition titled “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular.”

This is the MFA’s first exhibition on Frida Kahlo.

“Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular” debuted to the public Thursday and will remain open until June 16. The exhibition focuses on Kahlo’s cultural engagements with “arte popular,” or traditional Mexican folk art.

It showcases objects of cultural significance from the artist’s collection, ranging from textiles and ceramics to children’s toys.

According to the exhibit’s website, Kahlo drew on Mexican national culture and the significance of folk art after the Mexican Revolution to create her paintings.

Layla Bermeo, a curator of the Kahlo exhibition and assistant curator of American paintings in the Art of the Americas department, said she thinks the exhibit’s inclusion of basic questions and breakdowns of Kahlo’s inspiration and surroundings is radical.

Bermeo said because Kahlo is

such an iconic figure, she is often “wrapped up in myth.”

According to Bermeo, there are only about a dozen Frida Kahlo paintings in public collections across the United States.

“We are fortunate to be able to offer our visitors the rare experience of really standing in front of one, and being able to look closely at it,” she said.

The MFA worked closely with the San Antonio Museum of Art on the exhibition. Bermeo said the Texan museum has close to 3,000 arte popular objects, many of which are identical to what Kahlo owned.

The MFA’s exhibit is split into five sections, each a ref lection of the ways in which Kahlo was both engaged and inf luenced by Mexican culture and society. The sections are titled “Art of the People,” “Aesthetics of Childhood” and “Invented Traditions,” among others.

Bermeo said she hopes visitors will leave the exhibit with a deeper understanding of the ways that Kahlo created her paintings.

“She is someone who is engaged with other forms of art, … someone who is politically engaged,” Bermeo said. “I hope that [visitors] will also be able to learn something about Kahlo’s professional milestones.”

“Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” hung on a muted mustard yellow wall in the same gallery as “Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia),” a 1928 painting that depicts two Mexican women against a leafy backdrop.

Bermeo said during the press preview tour that these works compliment one another as visitors can observe the details on Kahlo’s face in her self-portrait, down to her carefully shaded neck, and see how the artist’s skills have vastly improved over her career.

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Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts unveiled an exhibition featuring Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, called “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular,” which opened Wednesday.

Ana-María Reyes, an assistant professor of Latin American Art at Boston University, said “Dos Mujeres” is an important piece because of its political message.

Kahlo painted the women as if they were trapped, reflecting the immobility of their social status, Reyes said. “[Kahlo] dignifies but mobilizes [the women] in the landscape — in a way that is claustrophobic and problematic,” Reyes said.

This portrayal is a powerful political statement, Reyes said, as well as a critique of Indigenism,

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Frida Kahlo’s piece “Still Life with Parrot and Fruit” hangs on the wall at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a part of a new exhibition on the life and work of the Mexican artist.

an art movement in the 1920s during which artists rejected the overwhelming inf luence of European art to create pre-Columbian works, according to the website of the British art museum Tate.

The Kahlo exhibition includes work by other female artists also inspired by arte popular, such as Mexican painter María Izquierdo and artist Rosa Rolanda, who was of Mexican descent. Bermeo said the MFA included these artists to demonstrate that Kahlo was part of a bigger artistic movement hap-

pening across Mexico.

Though Kahlo passed away more than 60 years ago, Reyes said that she captured the intricacy and complexity of Latin American art profoundly. In addition, though she lived in a time of political and cultural unrest in her country, Reyes said Kahlo continued bravely with her work. “[Kahlo] is really an important figure to drawing Latin Art into the museum” Reyes said, “and for outlining a trajectory of feminist art much earlier than most people think.”

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Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is hosting its first-ever Frida Kahlo exhibition. The display of the Mexican artist’s work opened Wednesday and will remain open until June 16.

8 OPINION

EDITORIAL

Cohen highlights the buildup of allegations against Trump Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, provided documentation and testimony that may foreshadow legal proceedings against the embattled current president in a public testimony to Congress Wednesday.

I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat,” Cohen said in his prepared testimony.

While this is certainly a bold statement, it is nothing the American people haven’t heard before. Trump’s long history of racism, for example, has been documented in great detail — from pandering to white supremacists to flaming the lie that former President Barack Obama was born outside the United States.

However, some of Cohen’s testimony may prove to be valuable in uncovering two matters: Trump and the Trump Organization’s potential collusion with Russia, and payments to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels.

It is disgraceful that our Congress and our country have been forced to pay attention to Cohen, a lawyer with a degree from the worst law school in America. And let’s not forget the fact that Cohen is going to prison. Last August, he entered into a plea deal with the Southern District of New York’s federal attorney office.

Cohen pled guilty to federal criminal charges on eight counts: five for tax evasion, one for making a false statement to a financial institution, one for being a “willful cause” of an unlawful corporate contribution and one for making an excessive campaign contribution.

What’s more, his testimony relating to Roger Stone, WikiLeaks and Russia may indicate illegal activity. Federal law prevents candidates from obtaining anything of value from foreign entities.

Cohen claimed in his testimony that Stone

told Trump in July 2016 Stone had talked to Julian Assange, the founder WikiLeaks, regarding an email dump that would damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign. This conversation could contribute to charges related to the Trump campaign’s knowingly accepting help from WikiLeaks.

Many will question the veracity of Cohen’s testimony — however, there is little incentive for him to lie now. Cohen didn’t make outrageous claims that would portray a purely negative view of Trump, and there were few brash statements that would indicate Cohen was out for revenge.

When asked about collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Cohen said he did not have any evidence. It would have been easy for him to exaggerate or lie, but he likely didn’t. Still, this does not mean we should take his words at face value.

Cohen did, however, provide Congress with several articles of evidence to corroborate his many claims. A prime example is a check, signed by Trump in August 2017, that is a partial reimbursement for the hush money Cohen paid to Daniels on Trump’s behalf.

Cohen said in August that he violated campaign finance laws “in coordination with and at the direction of an unnamed candidate,” which is almost certainly Trump, to cover up alleged affairs with Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Cohen claimed he was acting in the interest of influencing an election.

Trump allegedly ordered Cohen to threaten the universities the president attended to not release his grades or SAT scores. Keep in mind that Trump once tweeted, “My two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.”

Cohen provided Congress with a letter he

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sent to Fordham University that threatened become desensitized to all of Trump’s many legal action if the school released his grades. scandals — and “scandals” is hardly a suffiFordham even confirmed that someone asso- cient word, considering President Obama was ciated with Trump’s campaign had sent a letter. once criticized for the “scandal” of wearing a Trump’s ego could not be larger or more tan suit. fragile. As president, he has gaslighted the Every major testimony we have heard American public time and time again with before Congress during Trump’s presidency endless lies and incessant attempts to monger feels repetitive and often redundant. It is hard fear and divide the country. to keep track of all the news and events that Yet even with everything spilled during seemingly break every week, if not every day.

Cohen’s testimony, no one is truly aware of The list of ex-Trump associates with negative all the evidence and details behind Trump’s comments about the president, not to menalleged crimes. tion criminal indictments, continues to pile The Southern District of New York and up.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller are clearly Cohen has not redeemed himself in any aware of much more than the general pub- way, shape or form — he is still a convicted lic. They likely have answers to many of the liar with a shady past. However, his testimony outstanding questions we have, in addition to should not be disregarded. Cohen’s character questions we haven’t even thought of. may be questionable, but the documents he What is most worrying is that people have provided cannot tell a lie.

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OPINION 9

WAKE ME UP BOSTON:

COLUMNS

BURKE’S BULLY PULPIT:

Trump has been successful The real Oscar winners are Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in dealing with Kim Jong-un

BY SARAH FINKEL COLUMNIST

In honor of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s surreal performance of “Shallow” from the movie “A Star is Born” at the 91st Academy Awards this past Sunday night, I would like to use this page to acknowledge the blissful and undisputed talent of these two artists.

They possess the power to move an audience just through pure emotion.

It’s no secret that Gaga has been a godsend to electronic dance music and pop, infusing her own alternative, Queen-like style into an otherwise mainstream genre. But the world, myself included, was not expecting to see Gaga — the 21st century Madonna — on the big screen.

Not only did Gaga star alongside Cooper in a film as big as “A Star Is Born,” she utterly dominated it, robbing every last breath I could muster while watching her love story unfold, wrought with so much sadness yet so much brilliance.

That’s not to say Cooper wasn’t a heroic force himself. His portrayal of Jackson Maine, the tortured but incredibly gifted musician, was both masterfully nuanced and beautifully powerful. It was the perfect complement to Gaga’s character, the rising star known as Ally.

Under Cooper’s direction, “A Star Is Born” reached soaring heights of national acclaim and was nominated for eight different categories at the Oscars this year. Much to my

surprise, “Shallow” was the only aspect of “A Star Is Born” to actually win for the category of Best Original Song.

Did “A Star Is Born” deserve to win more? Maybe, but “Green Book” definitely deserved to win Best Picture. It’s a tough call.

All I know is that “Shallow” rightfully took home the prize as possibly the unifying framework of the film, pulling together the bits and pieces of the emotionally turbulent ride that is “A Star Is Born” into the span of a heart-wrenching melody.

In the duo’s performance at the 2019 Oscars, Gaga and Cooper showed me once again just how easily their invincible chemistry can send chills down my spine and bring tears to my eyes, as they longed for each other behind a piano.

It’s hard not to believe a deeply intimate romantic relationship is simmering between them — those hot and heavy glances into each other’s souls certainly don’t insinuate friends, am I right? Yet Cooper’s girlfriend Irina Shayk begs to differ, a source told Us Weekly — Gaga and Cooper’s onstage chemistry is exactly what it is, onstage chemistry.

Say what you want, Irina, but I’m not closing myself off to any relationship theories just yet. If it hasn’t happening now, perhaps time will tell.

Speaking about Gaga recently to TIME Magazine, Cooper said, “She entrusted me with giving herself so she could reveal herself to be the actress that she is, and I entrusted her that I would be able to become the musician that I was terrified to be.”

In my opinion, something about this line speaks wonders to relationships of all kinds.

And yes, some romantic vibes can be sensed in this statement.

The best relationships are the ones that allow two individuals to grow and better themselves in a way that wasn’t possible without the presence of the other — a special type of codependency that only some of us are lucky enough to find in our lives. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga prove it’s out there somewhere, and it’s oh so visually magical.

BY PATRICK BURKE COLUMNIST

Bernie Sanders was correct during his town hall with CNN Monday night: It is a very good thing that President Donald Trump is going to the negotiating table with Kim Jong-un in an effort to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons in the hands of a brutal, irresponsible dictator is a bad idea,” Sanders said, responding to a question from moderator Wolf Blitzer.

If you remember, in a time before Trump, North Korea was a real problem. This problem has been all but flattened under the Trump administration, something that I really think deserves recognition from both sides of the political spectrum. North Korea has not tested a missile since 2017.

I might not be Trump’s biggest fan in the world, but I applaud him for taking a no-nonsense stance up until this point. He has made Kim Jong-un look small and weak while former President Barack Obama let the threat linger to the point of complete uncertainty.

I remember being in high school and retweeting things from news agencies about how North Korea kept building their missile arsenal and running test after test. They threatened South Korea in 2011, saying that the South’s presidential office would soon be a “sea of fire.”

Now there’s a dialogue because Trump negotiated with Kim Jong-un in June 2018.

Although nothing concrete was agreed upon

in writing, it was a step in the right direction.

It was baffling to see Trump shaking hands with the most ruthless dictator in the world, but it’s what needs to happen.

The Trump administration negotiated the release of three American detainees before the 2018 summit happened, so they went into the negotiations with a win already.

This time around, the ideal goal has to be disarming North Korea of its nuclear weapons. This move would surely keep Kim Jong-un in power longer, as economic sanctions against the country would most likely begin to lift as a result.

Whether or not this happens obviously remains to be seen. If it does, it would be an interesting selling point for Trump as the 2020 presidential election grows near.

Democratic challengers will have to figure out a way to spin this topic while giving credit where it’s due.

Sanders did a nice job of this Monday night. We all know that giving Trump respect and praise seldom leads to compliments on Sanders’ end, but there was nothing else to say.

An interesting piece was published in the Japan Times recently, where a reporter suggested that Trump may have mixed up Japan’s leader with South Korea’s.

Trump boasted earlier this month that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had sent a letter nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize, but Japan did not comment on the statement, suggesting that Abe had never nominated Trump for the award.

Last year, however, it was South Korean President Moon Jae-in who said that Trump deserved the Nobel Prize. While I agree Trump should receive it if North Korea disarms, not knowing the difference between these two leaders is disappointing.

While Trump may be a pain in the sides of many Americans, it is important to recognize the possibility denuclearizing North Korea could be a major part of his legacy. It would be an accomplishment worth noting for years to come and give him even more support in 2020.

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INTERROBANG

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Michael Cohen said that President Trump wanted his college grades and SAT scores kept secret. We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what would BU students want to be a secret?

Sargent: Trans fat intake

BU Shuttle: ETAs

Sororities: Finstas

Frats: Tinder rejections

CFA: Esemble roles

President Brown: Suitcase content

CGS: SAT scores

Admissions: Grade deflation

FreeP: *off the record*

10 SPORTS

Women’s basketball tops Lafayette

BY LUKE TAYLOR

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The Boston University women’s basketball team came into Wednesday’s home matchup versus Lafayette College looking for the series sweep.

The Terriers (14-12, 10-6 Patriot League), after defeating the Leopards (7-20, 2-14 Patriot League) back in Januar y, did just that in a thrilling game that went to the last buzzer, 50-49. BU shot just 35 percent from the field Wednesday night, meaning the turnover battle was especially important. They forced 21 turnovers overall while only giving up 14.

BU head coach Ma risa Moseley said the Terriers’ success on defense was a key to the victory.

“Especially in that third quarter, we really turned up our defense, came up with some loose balls and got out in transition,” Moseley said. “I think our aggressiveness really helped.”

The game began with the Leopards quickly getting out to a 7-2 lead, but a layup by senior forward Naiyah Thompson and a 3-pointer from sophomore guard Katie Nelson evened the score.

The first quarter ended with a 14-13 BU lead.

The second quarter saw the Leopards take the lead back quickly after a shot made by forward Natalie Kucowski. The

period was back and forth with five lead changes, ending with the Terriers trailing by four at halftime 12-8.

BU’s deficit came in large part from the discrepancy in the field-goal percentage, with the Terriers shooting 28 percent and the Leopards making exactly half of their shots in the first half.

Freshman for ward Riley Childs opened the second half with a quick bucket off of an offensive rebound. Childs would finish the game with 14 points and 13 rebounds for her second double-double of the season.

Both teams came out strong to begin the third quarter, with the Leopards increasing their lead to four after three minutes of play. The Terriers quickly got into foul trouble, with five fouls in the first four minutes.

A lay up from Thompson brought the Terriers within one at the 6:28 mark, which sparked a 15-5 run by the Terriers to end the period with a 44-35 lead.

Senior guard Payton Hauck led the charge with 10 points in the quarter.

BU stretched the lead to 11 on a jumper from Childs to begin the fourth. However, the Terriers did not score again for the next six-and-a-half minutes, allowing the Leopards to go on a 13-point run.

With the Terriers trailing by two with just under three minutes

to play, a free throw by Childs followed by a 3-pointer from senior guard Lauren Spearman gave the Terriers a 2-point lead of 50-48.

With just one second left and the Leopards with possession, a foul was called on Hauck, and Kucowski was sent to the free throws line. She sunk the first, making it a 1-point game, but missed the next free throw and sent the ball into junior forward Nia Irving’s hands for the game-clinching rebound.

Despite allowing the Leopards to get into the bonus in the last two quarters, the Terriers were able to hold on for the win.

“We actually had a goal that we were going to try to not foul and get into the bonus in any of the quarters,” Moseley said about the Terriers’ foul woes. “Then, I think in the third quarter, we got like three fouls within 20 seconds, and now all the sudden we’re up to four fouls.”

The Terriers turn now to their last road matchup of the regular season at the United States Military Academy Saturday.

“They’re a really physical team, and they’re playing well,” Moseley said of Army. “They’re down to only like six players playing, but we really only play like six guys, too. I keep telling our guys road wins are really tough, so we’re going to have to go in and take the win.”

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Senior forward Naiyah Thompson in a November 2018 game against the University of New Hampshire. Three pointers from Thompson and sophomore guard Katie Nelson gave BU a 14-13 lead at the end of the first quarter en route to a 50-49 victory over Lafayette College Wednesday night.

Women’s lacrosse continues win streak against Fairfield

BY KATIE HARTFORD

multiple shots from the offense. their routes through the 8-meter Fa i rf ield m idf ielder Taylor arc. Goalkeeper Olivia Conquest The Boston University women’s Mitchell brought the score to a continued to make saves for the lacrosse team defeated Fairfield tie game in a free position shot Stags despite multiple shots on net.

University 16-5 Wednesday, picking at the 20:17 mark. The Terriers The Terriers kept strong posup their third win of the season. continued to use their possession session into the final minutes of Riding the coattails of a masclock and patience in the crease to the half. A quick feed from Conry sive 20-2 win at the University of bring the lead up 3-2 with 18 minutes at the bottom of the crease set up Hartford on Feb. 23, the Terriers remaining in the period. Shots back sophomore attack Makenzie Irvine (3-1, 0-0 Patriot League) came out and forth led to turnovers on both to elevate the lead to 6-3 for BU. strong against the Stags (3-2, 0-0 sides of the field.

“Offensively, I think we certainly Metro Atlantic). BU head coach After a ground ball pick up and encouraged and continued encouragLauren Morton said the Terriers’ goal from BU senior midfielder Kelly ing them to play fast,” Morton said. previous experience against Fairfield Matthews, Mitchell responded for “The amount of people that took contributed to Wednesday’s win.

Fairfield to decrease the deficit. shots and scored showed how much “I think having the girls knowing Up 5-3, the Terrier offense main- our team is really starting to gel.” they’ve gone into overtime with tained possession and looked to feed Junior goalkeeper Bianca Smith Fairfield before, we knew they were the ball to multiple players running made a strong save off a free-position shot from Fairfield defense Erin Mammele with three minutes left in the half. Mitchell came back to bring the score to 8-4 in the final minutes of the first period.

With aggressive play on defense and 11 out of 11 clears total, BU kept its lead to the end of the first half and finished the opening frame up by four points.

More successful draw controls allowed the Terriers to extend their lead to 11-4 in the first five minutes of the second half.

“On the draw we did a really great job of waiting and getting multiple possessions,” Morton said, “and I think that’s something that we talked to the girls about, not taking it for granted.”

In multiple efforts on net from the Stags as the half continued, BU’s Smith made the saves needed to maintain the lead. Fourteen MADDIE MALHOTRA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF m i nutes i nto t he second h a l f, Junior attack Kailey Conry in an April 2017 game against Lafayette College. Conry fed the ball to sophomore attack Makenzie Irvine to give BU a 6-3 lead in the first half against Fairfield University Wednesday afternoon.

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going to be a really strong team and put up a really good fight,” Morton said. “… I think that we were really well-prepared.”

At the start of the game, the two sides ran back and forth with strong draw controls on offense.

In the opening minutes, Stag midfielder Jillian Winwood scored the first goal of the game to gain a lead. The Terriers answered quickly with a goal at 23:19 from junior attack Kailey Conry to tie the game.

One minute later, the Terriers took a 2-1 lead off a strong draw control from senior midf ielder Kaitlin Belval. They continued to put pressure on the crease with

11-5 for Fairfield.

BU’s defense became more physical, sliding to double teams and frustrating Fairfield’s offense. With six minutes remaining, a yellow card was called against Stag defender Kennedy Slater, and BU gained a woman-up advantage.

A Ter r ier g oa l cou r tes y of Matthews brought the team’s lead up to 13-5 with five minutes remaining in regulation.

Fr e s h m a n d ef en s e R i le y Kokoruda made a strong play against the Stags to force a turnover with three-and-a-half minutes left, giving the Terriers the opportunity to net their 14th goal of the day.

“I was so impressed with the way she really stepped up,” Morton said about Kokoruda. “I think that ultimately,she was one of the best people on the field today, which was awesome to see.”

After winning two draw controls, BU stayed strong in their possession in the final minute, allowing junior midfielder Mackenzie Howe to increase the lead to 16-5. The game would finish that way 20 seconds later.

The Terriers will next face the University of Southern California at home on Nickerson Field on March 3. Morton said her team is excited and well-prepared as the season gets fully underway.

“I’m confident, and I think we have continued to push [the team] in practice, and I think they push each other,” Morton said. “What we plan to do is focus on how we prepare both offensively and defensively against [USC’s] scoring threats.”

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Men’s basketball slams door on Lafayette in final seconds

BY NICK TELESMANIC DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

With Lafayette University knocking on the door two po ints down to the Boston University men’s basketball team with 27 seconds remaining, the Terriers managed to hold on to an 84-82 lead and claim a win in Easton, Pennsylvania, Wednesday night.

“If we would have made our foul shots, we would have had a nice cushion,” BU head coach Joe Jones said about the end of the game.

At the start of the tilt, BU (1416, 7-10 Patriot League) jumped out to an 11-5 lead just before the 15 minute mark. A media timeout followed shortly after junior forward Max Mahoney made a layup in the paint to net the Terriers’ 11th point.

The Leopards (10-18, 7-10 Patriot Leag ue) went on to worsen their deficit to 14 points.

They found themselves down 15-29 with just under nine minutes remaining in the half.

Lafayette would start repairing the early half damage with a 15-6 run, getting within five with just about four minutes remaining in the first half.

“We had a big run early in the game and in the latter part of the first half,” Jones said.

The half would end with the Terriers up 40-38 over the Leopards. Lafayette led the

Terriers at the end of the first in shooting percentage in the paint, as well as at the free throw line.

Mahoney was the top sco rer after the first half, tallying 15 points along to go with three rebounds. The New Jersey native would continue to stand out through the second half, grabbing 28 points by the end of the night.

This comes in three points shy of his season-record 31 points against Loyola University Maryland on Jan. 16.

The second half would begin with Lafayette grabbing their first lead of the night. With 19:18 on the clock, Leopard guard Justin Jaworski sniped a 3-pointer to put the Leopards ahead 41-40.

BU would quickly jump back ahead 42-41 off a lay up from sophomore for ward Sukhmail Mathon, but Lafayette would then go on a 15-8 run and jump ahead 56-50. With just over 11 minutes remaining, the Leopards were up to a 63-55 lead over BU. The Terriers would creep back into the game, though, as freshman guard Garrett Pascoe nailed

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Junior forward Max Mahoney in a January 2019 game against the College of the Holy Cross. Mahoney scored a nearseason best 28 points en route to a road win against Lafayette College Wednesday night.

a 3-pointer with 5:38 remaining to give BU a 73-69 lead.

The two teams would remain knotted up until the final minute of the game, with the game being tied four times between Pascoe’s 3-pointer and the one-minute mark.

With 11 seconds remaining and the Leopards down by two, Jaworski intentionally fouled BU sophomore guard Javante McCoy to stop the Terriers from letting the clock run to zero.

McCoy missed both of the resulting free throws but would rebound his second missed shot.

He was fouled by Jaworski again two seconds later.

McCoy again missed the two free shots he was granted, and this time Leopard forward Lukas Jarrett would claim the rebound off the second miss.

Jarrett attempted a 3-pointer with three seconds remaining to try to put the Leopards ahead, but the shot would miss, and BU kept the ball for the rest of regulation to walk away with an 84-82 win.

BU will try to ride the coattails of this win back to Boston as they take on the United States Naval Academy (10-18, 7-10 Patriot League) at Case Gym Saturday afternoon.

“Right now we’re just enjoying this one,” Jones said. “We’ll worry about Navy tomorrow.”

Coast to Coast: 2 great scorers you’ve never heard of

BY DYLAN WOODS COLUMNIST

When was the last time you watched the Campbell University men’s ba sketba l l tea m pl ay i n the Atla ntic Sun? W here even is Ca mpbel l ? S out h Ca rol i na ?

Georgia?

Or how about the last time your finger was on the pulse of the South Dakota State University Jackrabbits?

Have you ever thought, “Hey, I’m going to watch some Summit League basketball tonight!”?

Wel l, Ca mpbel l is i n Bu ies Creek, North Carolina, and I’ve w atc he d t he s a me nu m b er of Campbell basketball games as the number of times I have summited Mount Everest. Or any mountain, for that matter.

But that doesn’t mean these two small schools on opposite sides of the country don’t have two of the most prolific scorers the NCAA has ever seen.

Fore ver a nd a l w a y s Pete Maravich w il l hold the NCA A record with an astounding 3,667 points. In his four years at LSU, Pistol Pete averaged 44 points per game at a time when there was no three point line. There is no safer

record in all of sports.

But th is season Ca mpbel l’s Chris Clemons and South Dakota State’s Mike Daum achieved something only 10 players in histor y have accomplished — they scored 3,000 points over the course of a college career.

Just a week apa r t, t he 5 ’9” point guard from Raleigh, North Carolina, and the 6’9” giant from Kimball, Nebraska, became the third and fourth players, respectively, to net 3,000 points in the 21st century.

On Feb. 16, Clemons scored 28 points in a loss to Presbyterian College to get over the hump. A week later, Daum scored 25 in a win over rival University of South Dakota to get it done.

Throughout these two players’ careers, however different their playing styles might be, each has delivered some incredible performances. Obviously to score 3,000 points, you have to put up some big numbers.

Clemons’ career-high season was his sophomore year when he scored 51 points, shooting 18 of 32 from the floor and 8 of 14 from three.

Campbell needed ever y basket to beat U NC A shev i l le i n the Big South conference tournament in 2017. That year Clemons would nearly lead Campbell to an improbable berth into the NCAA Tourna ment, but the Fig hting Camels fell just short in the final game against Winthrop.

But clearly 51 points is no outlier, even if it is the only time Clemons has surpassed the big five-o. He has

scored over 35 points 13 other times in his college career and has scored in single digits just one time, as a freshman in his 15th career game.

In the hills of South Dakota, Mike Daum put up the same career high of 51 points in a w in over Purdue Universit y Fort Wayne just weeks before Clemons. The Dauminator shot 14-29 from the field, 7-18 from three and 16-17 from the free throw line in his only game, surpassing 50 points, as well.

Looking even closer, Daum also has 13 other games where he scored 35 points or more, just like Clemons. I guess great scorers think and act alike.

However, u n l i ke Ca mpbel l a nd Clemons, Daum has led South Dakota State to the NCAA Tournament in each of his first three seasons. The Jackrabbits h ave won t he Su m m it L ea g ue Tournament ever since Daum made a very large footprint on campus.

In 2016, South Dakota State lost a close 79-74 game to the University of Mar yland in the first round.

Daum scored just 16 points off the bench as a freshman for the Rabbits in that game, in which future NBA player Jake Layman scored 27 for the Terps to escape the upset.

In 2017, SDSU got their doors blown off by Gonzaga University, who would go on to lose in the NCAA Tournament championship game. Daum scored 17 points, but South Dakota State scored just 46 in a 20-point blowout.

And finally last season Daum had his best showing yet in a close f i rst rou nd loss to Oh io State

University. He scored 27 points and the Jackrabbits had the score tied at 70 with just a few minutes left. Yet the Buckeyes broke free at the end to win 81-73.

This year, sitting in first place in the Summit League once again, South Dakota State looks primed to make one final tournament run with Daum on the roster. If they can win the Summit for the fourth straight year, then Daum will have a chance to achieve one thing he hasn’t accomplished: win an NCAA tournament game.

Clemons also has a chance to make some more history. He has never experienced the feeling of March Madness, and Campbell hasn’t made the Big Dance since before he was born. Sitting in second place in the Big South conference, Clemons has his best chance

yet for some postseason play.

Still, no matter what happens in the next few weeks, these two fantastic players will always have the best story to tell at a dinner party.

“Oh, you backpacked across Europe? I heard it’s beautiful over there. When I was in college I scored over 3 ,000 points.” Or, “Congrats on the promotion at Marshalls. I’m sure you worked really hard for it. This one time I scored 3,000 points in college. It was awesome.”

Daum or Clemons might only have a few games remaining in their great college careers. They might not be seen by millions like Zion Williamson. They might not captivate the attention of the college basketball world this March. But one thing is for sure: they know how to get buckets. And a lot of them.

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The Campbell University’s men’s basketball team playing on the court.

Campbell’s Chris Clemons is one of 10 players in NCAA Division I basketball history to score 3,000 points.

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“I was so impressed with the way she really stepped up.” ­ Women’s lacrosse head coach Lauren — Morton on Freshman defense Riley Kokoruda’s strong play Wednesday

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Men’s hockey heading to Providence College Thursday

BY LIAM O’BRIEN

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Playing on a Thursday for just the second time this season, the Boston University men’s hockey team will head down to Rhode Island to take on No. 8 Providence College.

The Terriers (13-15-3, 11-8-2 Hockey East) are back to winning ways. After securing two victories against the University of Vermont last weekend, BU has won three consecutive contests heading into Thursday’s game — their final matchup against a ranked opponent.

“It was a good sweep,” BU head coach Albie O’Connell said of the Vermont fixtures. “It’s huge. We battled hard.”

BU has experience this season heading down to Providence’s (20-9-5, 13-7-2 Hockey East) Schneider Arena and emerging victorious. They handled the Friars 4-3 to top out a fivegame stretch without a loss last month.

After shutting out the University of Connecticut on Feb. 16 with a perfect night from junior goaltender Jake Oettinger and goals from sophomore forward Ty Amonte and freshman linemate Joel Farabee, BU rolled over the Catamounts (12-18-2, 5-15-2 Hockey East) to leap into a tie for fifth place in the Hockey East standings.

The UVM students brought the ruckus both nights, with more than 3,500 supporters piling into Gutterson Fieldhouse for each game.

The first night, Oettinger was impeccable again, stopping 12 shots in the third period to preserve a scoreless tie and send the tilt into overtime.

“Our defense played hard,” O’Connell said of the weekend games at Vermont. “We gave up one goal on the weekend, so it was positive.

[Oettinger] was dynamite. He didn’t make a mistake all weekend, so that is a great sign for BU hockey.”

Junior defenseman Chad Krys finished off the Catamounts with an unassisted game-winner 4:44 into the extra frame, and Oettinger finished the game with 29 saves.

The following night, Vermont got on the board first with a power play goal just after the seven minute mark in the first period.

BU garnered the equalizer at the end of the second stanza as junior forward Patrick Harper netted his fourth goal of the season off assists

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Junior forward Patrick Harper in a Feb. 16 game against the University of Connecticut. Harper scored the equalizing goal in the Terriers’ 2-1 win over the University of Vermont on Feb. 23.

from classmate Patrick Curry and sophomore defenseman Cam Crotty.

Oettinger was able to keep the Catamounts at bay throughout the third period, clearing the way for Farabee’s game-winner with 57 seconds remaining off helpers from sophomore forward Logan Cockerill and sophomore defenseman Kasper Kotkansalo.

“It was a really good showing,” O’Connell said. “Just to get a sweep on the road, it’s not easy. We made two really nice plays that ended up winning us the game.”

The Terriers were able to find success last weekend against a Catamount team that was ranked below them in the Hockey East standings. Providence, however, sits at second in the conference, four points ahead of the Terriers with one game in hand.

An interesting freshman matchup will take place Thursday between two future Philadelphia Flyers teammates from each side.

PC defenseman Jay O’Brien will be out on the ice facing off against BU’s Farabee, both of whom were picked up by the Flyers in the 2018 NHL Draft.

The Friars have won three consecutive games against ranked opponents. No. 14 UMass Lowell was no match for the Friars two weekends ago, as PC swept the home-andhome series by a combined score of 7-1.

Last Saturday, the Friars hosted the first-place Hockey East team, UMass Amherst. After falling behind the nation’s second-ranked team in the first period, Providence outscored the Minutemen 3-1 over the final two periods to garner a big win.

Providence forward Scott Conway scored the go-ahead goal for the Friars in the third period of that game, and he has produced plenty of tallies this year. The England native has 13 goals, good for a shared second-place spot on the team.

The leading scorer for the Friars this season is forward Kasper Björkqvist, who hails from the same Finnish hometown as BU’s Kotkansalo. Björkqvist registered two goals in Providence’s 6-1 win over UMass Lowell on Feb. 15.

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Brady Gardner contributed to the reporting of this article.

Junior forward Patrick Curry in a Feb. 11 game against Harvard University. Curry got the helper in junior forward Patrick Harper’s tying goal in the Terriers’ 2-1 win over the University of Vermont on Feb. 23.

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