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The 2016 presidential eleciton influenced students’ decisions to study law.

BU On Broadway’s latest production brings laughs and scares alike.

As Facebook’s data breach came to light, so did a reminder about our privacy.

Junior attack James Burr followed in his brother and father’s footsteps.

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

YEAR XLVI. VOLUME XCIV. ISSUE IX

CGSA proposal to be reviewed by University Council University welcomes class of 2022

BY ARMAND MANOUKIAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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CAS senior Megan Birgy, sophomore Faith Puleikis and junior Rachel Bennetts talk at the BU Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism on Wednesday evening.

BY MIKE REDDY

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University’s Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism is waiting for confirmation that their proposal for a more gender-inclusive BU was moved to the University Council’s Committee on Student Life and Policies.

The proposal lays out several appeals, including expanding gender-neutral housing, establishing all-gender restrooms in all buildings on campus and bringing together a permanent standing committee to give the LGBT community a platform.

“It’s troubling because we had to back up our appeals in academic work,” said Brian Stanley, CGSA’s internal liaison. “We had to sort of legitimize our complaints and our lived experiences in scholastic work.”

Before getting to this stage, Stanley said he and other mem-

bers of the CGSA had two meetings with Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion Crystal Williams.

“I was eager to understand something more about the LGBTQI+ student experience,” Williams wrote in an email. “So, while the issues undergirding the proposal are cause for apprehension, I was delighted to see the seriousness with which the students had engaged the issues, the amount of research and outreach they’d done, and the thoroughness with which they composed the document.”

Williams said any thoughtful and collective engagement that members of the BU community make in order to make the university more inclusive is a “big contribution.” She added that while she anticipated there was a great deal of work ahead, she was very hopeful that the proposal — or some

version of it — would be instated.

In addition to meeting with Williams, the CGSA had an hour-long phone call with Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore last Friday, Stanley said. During the phone call with Elmore, the CGSA was given a tentative timeline of roughly a year and a half for the proposal’s appeals to come to fruition.

Stanley said certain aspects of the timeline were “troubling,” specifically with regard to whether or not any immediate actions would be taken in the meantime.

“There are certain things, to us, which seem like easy fixes,” Stanley said.

Among those easy fixes, Stanley said, is mapping the gender-neutral or single-stalled bathrooms currently available on campus.

Stanley mentioned a Daily Free Press article about gender-neutral

bathrooms from last year in which Elmore said, “In the GSU, we are going to try to find a way to make [gender-neutral bathrooms] work, immediately,” but Stanley said he has seen little to no progress made more than a year later.

Stanley said it was necessary that some sort of immediate action is taken. So long as the appeals outlined in the proposal are not met, he said, students, faculty, staff and visitors of the university may suffer.

“This proposal is rooted in violence that people are experiencing and real health concerns,” Stanley said. “My concern is we’re going to spend a year and a half on a policy and talking about a policy and what a policy looks like, and we’re not actually going to be helping people in the meantime.”

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Boston University notified students who applied regular decision of their acceptance to the class of 2022 on Saturday. The number of applications received this year was the most in BU’s history, with 64,473 applicants vying for 3,300 spots in the freshman class.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said the efforts of the admissions office were vital in encouraging the record-breaking number of students to apply.

“The professional staff of the admissions office [is] doing an extraordinary job in identifying schools and places that will yield outstanding applicants from across the spectrum,” Riley said.

The university has recently improved its financial aid offers for accepted students, Riley said, which may have encouraged more students to apply.

“Last year, we had a new program to make sure we awarded increased percentages to meet the neediest applicants who were accepted to the university,” Riley said. “It had a direct effect on our ability to see a big increase in underrepresented minorities in particular.”

BU’s average yearly tuition increase remains below the average for four-year independent schools nationwide, said Riley.

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Relief for new home buyers Weed shops can’t cluster, BPDA says

BY CAMILLE MOJICA

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

First-time home buyers may face some financial relief thanks to a new program from MassHousing.

The program will benefit these buyers by financing a down payment of 3 percent of the price they purchased the house for, or $12,000, whichever is less.

Borrowers will later have to pay back the cost of the down payment with a low-cost secondary mortgage requiring no cash up front.

The quasi-public agency established the program to alleviate the difficulty first-time home buyers have recently faced in finding affordable housing, said Paul McMorrow, director of communications and policy at MassHousing.

“Increasingly over the past few years, first-time home buyers [are] really struggling to gain a foothold in the housing market,” McMorrow said. “We’re in a situation where we have decades

of slow housing growth and low inventory, which drives up prices, and in that kind of environment, just in terms of affordability, folks are having a hard time.”

New buyers are also often recent college graduates who have significant student debt that is difficult to manage on top of paying for a home, McMorrow said.

Several Boston residents expressed support for the program, stating that it could help those who are in a financial crunch.

Robert Mann, 63, of Fenway, recalled how simple it had been for him to buy a house over 30 years ago.

“It was so much easier to buy a house when I was younger,” Mann said. “You could be in your late 20s [or] early 30s and buy a house with relative ease.”

Mann said young people deserve the resources to purchase a home.

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BY DANI RIVERA

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston Planning and Development Agency voted that retail marijuana stores should have buffer zones to ensure marijuana dispensaries do not cluster neighborhoods on March 15.

The establishments should be placed at least half a mile, or 2,640 feet, from another mari-

A medical marijuana dispensary.

juana establishment. For pre-existing public and private K-12 schools, the cannabis locations are required to be at least 500 feet away, unless the town in which these properties are located adopts a law that modifies this requirement, according to the proposal.

Several pro-marijuana organizations oppose the BPDA’s

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zoning proposal, including the Massachusetts Recreationa l Consumer Council, Cannabis Society and the Marijuana Policy Project.

Kamani Jefferson, the president of the MRCC, said although these zoning laws are important to preserve public health and safety, he doesn’t believe they need to be as restrictive as they are.

“There is still stigma and fear going into this proposal that is making it seem like it is a super dangerous thing — it’s a plant, it has been here for thousands and thousands of years and many people consume it, many people use it in the city of Boston,” Jefferson said.

He said he believes the process should be open to the public so the community can have more of a say and allow advocates and researchers who have experience with cannabis can provide their opinions. Jefferson suggested having a marijuana committee outside of BPDA to allow citizens to get more involved.

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Election affected students’ decisions to study law

BY MUGDHA GURRAM DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A recent study by education company Kaplan Test Prep has found that more students were encouraged to apply to law schools as a result of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Boston University’s School of Law has seen a spike in the number of applicants in recent years and a greater demonstrated interest in the field of immigration law since the election.

In a survey of 573 pre-law students from across the country, 32 percent reported that the 2016 election results inf luenced their decisions to become lawyers.

These results shed light on why there has been such a large increase in law school applicants recently, said Jeff Thomas, executive director of pre-law programs at Kaplan Test Prep. While the study did not specifically investigate which areas of law students were most interested in, many noted an interest in immigration policy.

Law school applications have not shown such a dramatic increase anytime in the past eight to 10 years, Thomas said.

However, most law schools do not intend to admit more students to reflect this increase.

“The fact that we’re seeing this large bump in the number of applicants means that students are going to need to do even more work to make sure their application is fully competitive when they go to apply,” Thomas said.

The competition will make it even more important for students to focus on academics during their undergraduate years, Thomas said.

“If you’re looking to go to law school, make sure you’re going for the right reason — that you go because you want to be a lawyer,” Thomas said, “but then do everything in your power to put together a super compelling application, inclusive of a high undergraduate GPA and a terrific LSAT score.”

Thomas said this new pool of politically-driven applicants won’t necessarily cause law

Crime Logs

BY SOPHIA BROWN

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from March 13-15.

Students cause cleanup hazard on Cummington Mall during blizzard BUPD officers asked BU affiliates to stop playing in the roadway and interfering with snow cleanup on Cummington Mall at 6:26 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13.

BU affiliate falls three stories at 15 Farrington Ave. BUPD received a request at 7:20 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13 to assist Boston Police with a BU affiliate who had fallen three stories at 15 Farrington Ave. in Allston.

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The lobby in BU’s School of Law.

schools to redesign their courses either, since many law schools have already begun the process of focusing their curriculum on practical experience rather than just theory.

“Law schools have made a lot of changes to their course loads — the experiential opportunities that students have available to them in law schools — to make them more practice-ready upon graduation,” Thomas said.

Ryan Strassman, a second-year law student, said he doesn’t think the school needs to make any changes to accommodate a more politically-driven applicant pool.

“I think if you were coming to law school as a ref lection of the 2016 election, it’s because you’d want to change something about how the election went on or limit the impact of what happened,” Strassman said. “Theoretically, the law school is already teaching you how to operate within government or how to operate within the political sphere.”

Second-year law student Yi Su said she sees how the election could affect other students’ decisions to apply to law school, but it did not have any bearing on hers.

“I didn’t really pay attention to the election because I’m a foreign student,” Su said, “so that doesn’t make any change for me.”

L AW Dea n M au reen O’Rourke said BU had already been witnessing an upward trend in law school applications even before the 2016 election, but that it has seen increased interest in specific concentrations since.

“Certainly, we have seen an uptick in applicants who are interested in studying immigration law,” O’Rourke said, “and that may be related to the well-publicized court battles around the executive orders issued shortly after the inauguration.”

O’Rourke also noted an increased interest in constitutional law and other areas of law pertaining to the system of checks and balances.

Thomas said that although students noted an interest in immigration policy, these interests tend to change in law school.

“Once they get to law school, they’re exposed to so many more areas of law than they even initially considered,” Thomas said, “so really this might be the thrust that gets them to law school in

the first place, but interests might change while they’re there.”

First-year law student Elaine Ort yl said she had already decided to apply to law school before the election, but she was further inspired to continue her study of law after the election of Donald Trump, a sentiment she feels many other law students share.

“I think that it definitely is going to be reflected nationwide, especially just seeing social media and just the public uproar over a lot of different policies,” Ortyl said. “I definitely feel that a lot of people feel the need to take a bigger interest in law and government and that will continue.”

While the law school does not plan to increase class sizes, O’Rourke said they have increased the number of training sessions regarding immigration law and political identity to ref lect student interests.

“We have an extraordinarily broad and deep curriculum,” O’Rourke said, “so what we see is more of a rearrangement of enrollment as student interest shifts than a need to add a large number of classes.”

Proposal takes next step CGSA, FROM PAGE 1 want to judge the council members without first hearing what they have to say. He said he is “exceptionally hopeful” that the proposal would come forward and that the CGSA is ready to coordinate a means to make sure it does.

Several BU students said they support the proposal and the appeals listed within it.

Lynn Ward, a freshman in the College of Communication, said BU is likely more conscious about gender inclusivity than most schools, but said she hopes the University Council will be open-minded and consider the effects the proposal would have on students.

Ward said she thinks the appeals are reasonable, adding that she has friends who are struggling to reserve gender-neutral housing. She said that in order for

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the appeals to be executed effectively, though, they need to be well planned.

“I don’t think that they should rush it because I think that’s just going to cause more problems in the long run,” Ward said. “At the same time, I think it needs to be done sooner rather than later, especially with the class of 2022 coming in.”

Alekha Kolli, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she cannot remember ever seeing a gender-neutral bathroom on campus and that they would be a nice touch to the university.

She added that she hopes the university will listen to the proposal and begin working on the appeals as soon as possible.

“I feel like BU is a very accepting community,” Kolli said. “And I hope that our administrators will also feel the same way about

Suspicious vehicle outside 100 Mountfort St. BUPD was called at 8:17 a.m. on Thursday, March 15 about a vehicle parked outside 100 Mountfort St. with a shattered sunroof and multiple parking tickets.

CITY

Crime Logs

BY ELEANOR HO

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from March 13-18.

Intoxicated individual found at PURR Cat Cafe A volunteer at a cat cafe in Brighton found an intoxicated person in the rear of the cafe on March 13. The individual was surrounded by empty bottles of wine and the animal medication amprolium.

They stated that they drank “probably a gallon of wine” and “never stopped” drinking. The individual was crying uncontrollably and screaming vulgarities at the officers and the volunteer worker. The person was taken to the hospital for an examination.

Trespasser found with cocaine and marijuana Officers investigating a call found a car parked illegally on private property at 72 Ashford St. Sunday evening. The occupant of the vehicle, upon seeing the police, ducked below the steering wheel in what officers believed to be an attempt to conceal an unknown item. Upon searching the vehicle, officers found multiple bags of what they believe to be both marijuana and cocaine.

Car vandalism reported PHOTO BY JOHN KAVOURIS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Flags on the wall of the BU Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism.

everything.”

Kaitlin Flores, a CAS junior, said she thinks there is room for more gender inclusivity at BU. She said that while the appeals proposed do not pertain to her personally, she wants the proposal to be successful and for changes to

start immediately.

“I think everybody should be able to come to campus and feel comfortable and feel like they have spaces that include them,” Flores said. “I would definitely hope that [the CGSA] would be successful.”

A vehicle parked along Melton Road was vandalized sometime between 11 p.m. Sunday night and 7 a.m. Monday morning. The owner of the car went to the station and reported damage in the form of long scratch marks to both the sides, trunk and hood of the vehicle.

NEWS 3

Maura Healey soon to get a new attorney thanks to nonprofit

The Public Rights Project, a new civil rights nonprofit, will pay an attorney to work in Maura Healey’s office to help legal officials.

BY JORDAN KIMMEL

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Public Rights Project, a nonprofit civil rights organization, is providing Attorney General Maura Healey’s office with another fulltime attorney to fill a gap caused by rollbacks on certain regulations.

The Public Rights Project is an organization dedicated to providing state and local prosecutors with the resources necessary to proactively enforce their residents’ legal rights.

The legal associate will work on issues including public health, consumer fraud, environmental justice, wage theft and prejudiced practices against immigrants, women, communities of color and low-income residents, according to a press release

from the organization.

The Public Rights Project will also house a legal fellow in the Oakland City Attorney’s Office, according to the press release. The attorneys have yet to be chosen for these positions.

Joanna Pearl, the legal director for The Public Rights Project, told The Daily Free Press that Healey has been instrumental in backing Massachusetts residents and becoming a great advocate for them.

“If you look at her Twitter feed, she’s regularly taking actions like this that are the type of things we want to incentivize and support,” Pearl said.

“We’re looking to provide startup capital to help these offices increase their capacity and ensure that

Massachusetts is well-positioned to really make excellent use of another attorney to do this type of work.”

Pearl said the selected attorney’s broad priorities would include providing needed resources to law enforcement.

“Some of the reason why states and cities aren’t able to do as much of this work as they might like to is because they have limited resources – pretty much every law enforcement office across the country has limited resources compared to the number of things that they could do,” Pearl said. “These attorneys will be working in those offices to do that type of enforcement work.”

The fellow will be assigned to the Public Protection and Advocacy

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Bureau at the Attorney General’s Office and will work on various issues including opposing wage theft against low-income and immigrant workers. This also includes combating fraud and abuse in the area of student loans, according to a statement from the state.

Chloe Gotsis, the deputy press secretary for Healey, said in a statement that Boston needs an attorney now more than ever as the city is facing previously unprecedented legal complications in the future.

“At a time when Massachusetts and our residents face unprecedented legal challenges to our rights and our interests, we are excited to begin this new partnership with the Public Rights Project,” Gotsis said.

“State attorneys general have led the country in defending the rule of law and we welcome this opportunity to enhance our work.”

Sarah Knight, the program officer at the Open Society Foundations, a supporting partner of The Public Rights Project, wrote in an email that adding a new attorney is fundamental.

“As the Department of Justice has largely abandoned its role defending the rights of all Americans, Maura Healey and her talented staff have stepped in to fill the gap,” Knight wrote. “We are excited to help provide Massachusetts with another talented lawyer for Healey’s team, and we are thrilled that a PRP fellow will have the opportunity to learn from some of the most creative lawyers in the country.”

Jill Habig, the founder and president of The Public Rights Project, said in the press release that the federal government failed to ensure equal protection under the law, forcing certain states to take action. The organization targeted Massachusetts as a state to position its legal fellow as its leadership has taken a principal role in helping residents face serious and complicated civil rights issues, she said.

Swati Mylavarapu, founding partner for Incite, another supporting partner of The Public Rights Project, wrote in an email that their association supports their affiliates assertion to help the city protect against rollbacks.

“Incite is dedicated to investing in organizations that have innovative, smart solutions to today’s most pressing problems, which is why we are thrilled to support Public Rights Project and its mission to address the need for rights enforcement and protection at the state and local level,” Mylavarapu wrote.

The applications for both the Oakland City and Massachusetts attorney slots will open on May 15.

BU accepts new freshmen 2022, FROM PAGE 1 of ensuring that students can get the best possible education, while understanding affordability is a key issue,” Riley said.

Kelly Walter, the executive director of BU Admissions, wrote in an email that this was “an extraordinarily competitive year for admission to Boston Universit y.” The acceptance rate for the class of 2022 was 22 percent, a noticeable decrease from last year’s 25 percent.

Competition was especia l ly tough in both the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering.

Students in the class of 2022 were, on average, in the top 7 percent of their classes, and earned a 3.8 GPA, a 1468 on their SATs and a 32 on their ACTs, Walter wrote.

Dana Sung, one of the recently accepted students, wrote in a Facebook message that she was interested in BU’s communication and law programs, but didn’t think she would be selected, given the highly competitive admissions process.

“I didn’t really expect to get in but when I did I was ecstatic,”

Sung wrote. “I was on my spring break trip with my friends, and I was glad that I got to share that moment with my closest friends and family.”

The admitted students come from all 50 states, several U.S. territories and 107 countries around the world, including previously underrepresented countries such as Romania, Croatia, Malta, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and Kenya.

Walter wrote that students apply to BU for a variety of reasons, but a few in particular stand out, including the “diversity of BU’s student body, [the] wide range of high quality majors [and the] location in Boston.”

The membership of the Official Boston University Class of 2022 Facebook page is growing, with rising freshmen eager to meet their new classmates.

Several accepted students said they applied to BU for the same reasons Walter cited.

Rising freshman Natyana Fonseca wrote in a Facebook message that she applied because BU offered her the chance to explore many of her interests rather than

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restricting her to a single topic of study.

“I found that BU’s dual degree program between CAS and CFA was perfect for my plans of being an artist, but also making my work an interdisciplinary study due to my passion of constantly learning new things,” Fonseca wrote.

Caroline Bowden, a rising freshman in the College of Fine Arts, cited BU’s impressive international presence as her reason for applying.

“There’s a lot of international students, there’s a lot of really good study abroad programs,” Bowden wrote in a Facebook mes-

sage. “… That really interested me and really made me want to apply.”

Beth Moore, a rising freshman in the College of Fine Arts, wrote in a Facebook message that she appreciated BU’s accepting culture during her college tour.

“The whole vibe of the school and the city was awesome and so accepting of all kinds of students,” Moore said. “I’m very involved in activism, and I know BU and Boston as a whole are great places for that, especially LGBTQ activism.”

Cat Esbenshade, a rising freshman in the College of General Studies, wrote in a Facebook message that she was

excited for all the prospects BU offers both academically and as extracurriculars.

“BU offers a ton academically and outside of school,” Ebenshade wrote. “… I’m not dead set on what I want to study but I got into the Boston-London Program and think it’s a fantastic way to dip my toes in the water!”

Sam Lurie, a rising freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote in a Facebook message that she was “over the moon” when she found out she was accepted into the class of 2022.

“I have been smiling every day since,” Lurie wrote, “and I’m so ecstatic to be a Terrier!”

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New zoning laws prevent clustering of cannabis establishments WEED, FROM PAGE 1 “Boston voted, I think, 62 percent ‘yes’ on this, so there’s some stakeholders involved in the city of Boston,” Jefferson said. “There are some community members who would like to be involved because the city of Boston will be very affected by this decision. Those people who will be affected need to be at the table when these decisions are being made.”

Jefferson said he thinks prohibition is not working and the only way to battle the stigma and fear people attach to marijuana is through education.

Michael Latulippe, the co-founder and president of the Cannabis Society, a country and social club dedicated to marijuana, said he thinks these buffer zones could be detrimental to the city.

“If we only have businesses that are owned by these well-funded medical people because the city’s buffer zones prevent any other buffer zones from working in the city, then I will suggest that the City of Boston has failed [its] citizens,” Latulippe said.

As the president of the Cannabis Society and the development director for Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, Latulippe wrote in an email that

he has been dealing with the opposing views and has heard the fears people have about weed for a long time, which he feels triggered this buffer zone.

“The organization I work for, Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, filed an open meeting complaint on the development of this buffer zone and I absolutely do not support it,” Latulippe wrote. “It will prevent economic empowerment priority applicants from being able to apply in the city because the entire city is already dominated by five medical marijuana dispensaries.”

Latulippe wrote that he believes the free market should dictate where cannabis establishments should be located with demand of supply.

Jefferson also said there could be a variety of stores different from the common storefront shop.

“The traditional marijuana package store model like we have seen in Colorado is only one of many types of cannabis retail businesses possible,” Jefferson said. “Appointment-only retailers, social consumption retailers in 2019 and many more small business models we have never seen emerge are now possible in Massachusetts.”

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The BPDA is restricting where retail pot shops can go because they’re worried about clusters of shops around the city.

This type of buffer zone pretends that there is only one type of cannabis retailer possible, Jefferson said, and ignores the numerous possibilities for new business models and how innovative the marijuana community is.

Just like Jefferson and Latulippe, Jim Borghesani, the Massachusetts spokesperson for

the Marijuana Policy Project, said he finds the buffer zones to be unnecessary and thinks that the market should determine where these dispensaries are located.

“We don’t support this proposal, there are not buffer zones around liquor stores, there are not buffer zones around pharmaceutical selling stores such as CVS or

Walgreens, so it is a double standard that they would place buffer zones around cannabis selling establishments,” Borghesani said.

If anything, Borghesani said that cannabis should be zoned similarly to how alcohol is currently zoned in Massachusetts because they are both intoxicating substances.

First-time home buyers in Mass. don’t have to put cash down, yet

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A row of houses in Allston.

BUYERS, FROM PAGE 1 to pay when they feel it’s time to settle down and buy a house,” Mann said. “Nowadays, kids in their late 20s are scrambling to get the funds to do so.”

Kevin Kielt, 34, of South Boston, said he would appreciate financial support to fund a down

payment because he has struggled with finding an affordable home.

“Speaking for myself, it’s been hard for my girlfriend and I to get the money to make a down payment on a house because we both have student loans to pay off still,” Kielt said. “We’re both in fairly good positions … It’s just that we

have a lot of other things to worry about and care about in terms of money.”

Some experts are wary about the potential implications of this program. William Wheaton, a professor at the Center for Real Estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in

an email that he is worried that first-time home buyers who aren’t financially prepared to take on a mortgage will receive assistance under this program.

Wheaton wrote that many economists believe relaxing down payments by not forcing people to pay up front led to the 2008 housing boom and subsequent crash when buyers couldn’t pay back loans given to them by banks.

During this time, house ownership rose and fell five percentage points, a large deviation from its usual stability, he wrote.

With barely any “skin in the game,” Wheaton wrote that he is concerned these new buyers can “gamble” on their homeownership with this program because there is nothing to lose if payments don’t need to be made upfront.

Some Boston residents share Wheaton’s worry.

Daniel John Colt, 47, of East Boston, said he fears the effects of implementing the program.

“This plan sounds great on the surface, but I’d be cautious,” Colt said. “I think we need to be more cautious about payments for things just because of what happened in 2008. If I’m concerned over the fact that it sounds like something that could lead to another housing market crash,

then someone else is bound to feel the same way. It’s human nature to be wary of things that have hurt us once.”

Kathleen Engel, a law professor at Suffolk University, wrote in an email that MassHousing’s plan to provide support for down payments will be particularly helpful for people often shut out of the market, especially given rising interest rates.

In addition, Engel wrote that because the secondary down payment mortgage has a fixed rate, first-time home buyers won’t face any shocks from rising interest rates. However, she wrote that homeowners may face increased interest rates for their primary mortgage.

“There could be very serious risks to borrowers if their first mortgage loans have adjustable rates,” Engel wrote. “When rates are adjustable, borrowers[’] payments rise as interest rates rise.

For people who do not have financial safety nets, an increase in their mortgage payment can make their loans unaffordable.”

In order to be qualified for the program, this must be the first time buyers are attempting to purchase a house and their income cannot exceed 100 percent of their area’s median income.

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SCIENCE

MGH breast cancer study highlights disparity in health care

BY MARISSA WU

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As the topic of disparity in health care accessibility has become prevalent nationally, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital hope to turn the conversation toward what they believe is the more pressing issue: disparity in health care research.

Most recently, this matter was brought to light through MGH’s study on the relationship between race and ethnicity and breast cancer diagnosis.

Dr. David Chang, a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and corresponding author on the report, said that research bias has existed throughout history and has serious health consequences for minority groups.

“Science is not something that should be biased,” Chang said. “I think there is a sort of unspoken assumption that there’s bias in the health care system. The problem is less about the delivery process … [and more about] the science behind the health care delivery.”

The breast cancer study, Chang and co-author Dr. Sahael Stapleton both said, is a good example of bias not with administered care, but with research. Analyzing data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program’s database, their team focused on the stage of diagnosis in women aged 40 to 75 years between 1973 and 2010.

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Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

The team found a striking difference in the data on white and nonwhite women.

“We found 2 distinct distribution patterns of age at diagnosis for female breast cancers: white patients peak in the 60s, whereas nonwhite patients peak in their 40s,” they wrote. “A higher proportion of nonwhite patients present with more advanced breast cancers at the time of diagnosis.”

The findings underlined what Chang described as a larger issue of medical research being done on populations that aren’t diverse.

In Chang and Stapleton’s find-

ings, minority women are at a disadvantage because screening guidelines were created based on data from majority white patients. A minority could receive perfect care, Change said, but because guidelines were not created with racial differences in mind, the patient would already be at a disadvantage.

“It’s not just about breast cancer,” Chang said. “It’s about the fact that there is not enough diversity in how we construct knowledge in general and in science in particular.”

Talks are currently underway with Harvard’s administration to offer a new course entitled

“Culturally Sensitive Science: Preventing medicine’s contribution to social bias and disparity.”

Stapleton said the goal is to help students approach research in a comprehensive, fair manner.

“The idea [is] that you should think about research from a culturally sensitive standpoint, or a gender sensitive standpoint, or an ethnically-sensitive standpoint,” he said. “Encouraging students to not just implement the findings but also to go out there and be the people who define [them].”

Kadesh Daniels, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences

on the pre-med track said the repercussions of f lawed science outweigh those of flawed care.

“Given that I am in elementary level, it is constantly stressed that randomization is a critical component of research,” Daniels said.

“Therefore, to now be notified that research that is published is done with some form of selective barriers is borderline unfathomable to me.”

Chang said more students should enter the research field and consider not just an M.D., but a research degree as well, whether it be a master’s in public health or a Ph.D. While clinical medicine is diversifying, he said, the M.D./ Ph.D. side isn’t as much.

“When you don’t have diversity, people just blame the other group for the problem,” Chang said.

“There’s not enough people doing this kind of research and we just assume that what works in one population works [with] everybody.”

Stapleton, who is pursuing an MBA at Harvard Business School, said other degrees could mesh with the medical field and bolster the movement toward diversification and reduce bias.

“You have to lead the desire for change … and get people motivated behind a common goal,” he said. “And hopefully get people to come together to try to do things differently or at least explore the potential of thinking about things differently.”

Sargent doctoral candidate brings mental health aid to hometown

BY AMELIA GRIFFITHS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In the United States, mental health resources are often lacking or inaccessible.

For a large portion of her life, Chitra Khare, a graduate student in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, has dedicated herself to addressing this issue outside of America, namely by employing individuals with severe mental illness in her hometown of Pune, India.

“Employment is an answer to many issues that illness creates,” Khare said. “I was able to see that when these people would get appropriate help, that would benefit them.”

Khare is a Ph.D. candidate in Sargent studying rehabilitation sciences. She said college has driven her to seek the truth about mental illness.

“There is no apparent deformity [in mental illness patients] that one can see, but there are struggles at every point,” Khare said.

While pursuing her undergraduate degree at Sir Parashurambhau College in Pune, Khare became interested in mental health. She described mental health as a “low priority area” for India, as most mental health centers are located in larger urban areas.

She grew frustrated with the limited practical experience that came with the Indian college system, and turned toward her community to seek volunteer work.

Khare spent time with various nonprofit organizations throughout her years of higher education, and later transferred her interests to working with people with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression.

One of her first jobs as a graduate student involved placing individuals with mental illnesses in the housekeeping department of a mall.

Khare said she was moved as she witnessed this small group slowly maintain steady incomes and become independent.

“I want to help people get jobs or help them retain their jobs because the illness makes it very challenging,” Khare said. “[Employment is] one thing that creates a lot of positivity, not only in these people, but also in the people around them.”

Her desire to improve treatment of mental illness is what brought her to BU. “If I want to do this on a large scale, I need to know how to develop and how to translate it into a model,” Khare said.

She was first drawn to BU by the world-renown faculty whose books she read during her graduate studies. One Sargent faculty member in particular, Susan McGurk, has served as her mentor for a number of years, she said.

In an email to The Daily Free Press, McGurk remarked on Chitra’s ability to “adapt and evaluate pragmatic interventions that have the

BU’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

potential to improve work” in India and beyond. “[McGurk and Dr. Kim Mueser] are very much interested in what I want to do, and what will help me grow or help fulfil my dream,” Khare said of her mentors.

At BU’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Khare translated the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a screening instrument which identifies cognitive impairment, into Pune’s primary language, Marathi, with the help of her mentors in 2016.

Her recent efforts have involved the development of the nonprofit

TRIMTI Trust. Khare co-founded the organization in India to focus on the promotion and restoration of mental health.

The trust primarily works to employ individuals with severe mental illness, but it also offers individual counseling, psychometric testing and rehabilitation in the Pune area.

“These are ways to create awareness in society so that people start talking about mental health openly and not consider that it’s a taboo,” Khare said.

Khare is currently working on a three-site study involving under-

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standing the employment status and preferences of over 700 people in India. She credits her resources to the Dudley Allen Sargent Research Fund, which has allowed her access to extensive data.

The BU Rehabilitation Sciences Ph.D. was the only program Khare applied to. She knew, she said, that it would be the perfect match for her mission.

“The reason why I have come here is to learn to liven up this employment intervention,” she said.

“I think I’m taking these steps which will help me achieve that goal.”

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ARTS

REVIEW: Laughs, scares abound in ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

BY WHITNEY SWOBODA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU On Broadway’s newest production, “Little Shop of Horrors,” is a cartoon-like rendering of realworld emotions on stage, allowing the audience to experience love, lust, death and downright fun with the caricature-esque characters.

Based on the book by Howard Ashman, “Little Shop of Horrors” follows shy flower shop assistant Seymour (Zachary Schiffman) as he pines after his co-worker, the lovely and indecisive Audrey (Rachel Smith). Seymour is a scatter-brained botanical genius, striving to please his boss and father figure, Mr. Mushnik (Mac Wylie). Mushnik is too distracted by the financial failings of his flower shop to notice his employee’s efforts to impress him.

Meanwhile, the shopgirl Audrey struggles to assert herself in her abusive relationship with Orin (Michael Busani). Orin’s sadistic personality bleeds into his work as a dentist.

After a total eclipse, Seymour comes across a new species of plant that draws a lot of public notice. He names it Audrey II in a bashful display of love for the real Audrey. The botanical phenomenon draws a lot of attention to the flower shop and to Seymour. News stations want interviews, and spectators want a look at the plant. As Seymour’s popularity grows, so does Mr. Mushnik’s appreciation of him. He adopts him and encourages his developing bravery.

But when the plant acquires a taste for blood, will Seymour be able to take control? Or will Audrey II

bring devastation to the little flower shop?

The production is a directorial debut for BU On Broadway’s Jordana Kulak and Kate Jamison, both of whom are seniors in the College of Communication who have acted for the group in the past.

“Little Shop of Horrors” has been a long time coming for them. They originally wanted to pitch it to BU On Broadway last April, but Jamison was abroad, so the pair had to wait until last semester to pitch it for this spring. Over the summer, they gathered their dream team: Jessie Rosso as music director, Ruby Yang as technical director and Julia Dayan as stage manager.

Kulak said she was immediately drawn to the idea when Jamison suggested it. It struck her as a “very cartoony and comical show,” but one with “truth behind characters that are larger than life.”

And that’s just what “Little Shop of Horrors” is — larger than life, from the ensemble to the sets to the Audrey II puppet. According to Sophia Ricciardi, a sophomore in COM, building the plant alone took six weeks and a team of crew members to complete. The necessary mechanics and sheer size of Audrey II were daunting for the team when they began constructing “her” back in January. Despite its complexity, the plant was built entirely by students. Ricciardi called it “the most difficult” set piece she’s ever built.

The rest of the set appears to have been done just as meticulously.

The paint appears aged, the wood

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Zach Schiffman as Seymour.

appears tarnished and the furniture appears rundown. The set for the little shop is perfectly planned to incorporate all of the song and dance numbers without sacrificing style.

When the lights go down, “Little Shop of Horrors” comes to life with a cast that never ceases to outdo itself. Schiffman, a COM senior, and Smith, a COM junior, perform wonderfully as independents, but the on-stage chemistry between the two brings a spark to their duets.

Smith commands her exceptionally weird character in a way reminiscent of Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams. Busani, a freshman in the School of Education, plays a perfect villain, one you’ll love to hate. He has mastered the maniacal laugh that many professional actors strive to pull off, and he even does it while singing.

But the real stars of the show have yet to be mentioned. Hali Letlow, Shaina Horstmann and Mary Robbins bring enough pep and pitch to carry the entire production. They play Ronnette, Chiffon and Crystal, a trio of ragtag street teens who narrate the story with their musical commentary. Their performances are over-the-top in the most fun and enjoyable way.

“Little Shop of Horrors” will run at the Student Theater at Agganis Arena Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Mac Wylie as Mr. Mushnik.

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Rachel Smith as Audrey.

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Zach Schiffman as Seymour and Michael Busani as Orin.

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BUSINESS

Startup Institute partners with Hack.Diversity to foster inclusivity

BY MARTHA MERROW DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Eight percent of tech industry employees are Hispanic and almost 7 percent are black, according to the census bureau’s American Community Survey. Hack.Diversity and the Startup Institute want to change this.

The Startup Institute held an event in Cambridge Thursday night to introduce its new partnership with Hack.Diversity, with the goal of connecting minority students with up-and-coming tech companies in the Boston innovation economy.

The event was open doors, so anyone from the public could come and connect with students and alumni of the Startup Institute, hiring partners and local companies looking to recruit a more diverse workforce. Attendees could attend panels with industry professionals, workgroups and breakout sessions to encourage the discussion of inclusivity in the workplace.

Hack.Diversit y recr uits minority students graduating from two and four year colleges and places them in tech internships.

The Startup Institute has a similar purpose but offers programs to professionals seeking to improve their skills in development, marketing, sales and design.

Peggy Yu, chief operating officer at the Startup Institute, said the focus this year is on inclusion.

Working with Hack.Diversity is one

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People mingle at a Startup Institute and Hack.Diversity sponsored event in Cambridge on Thursday evening.

of their first steps in building a more diverse workforce.

Yu said the company’s diversity initiative doesn’t stop at race. The institute wants to help people from different backgrounds in religion, socioeconomics, age and perspective, Yu said. They aim to figure out what it really means to live and breathe diversity inclusion.

Various companies attended the event in hopes of having more meaningful conversations with a more diverse set of potential employees.

Virginia White, people operations

lead at Formlabs, a manufacturer of 3D printers, said her company is trying to have a greater outreach presence.

“I think it’s easy to spend all of your time just flicking through resumes. But this year we’re trying to be a lot more proactive,” she said.

Open Doors and other creative networking events encourage vital human interaction, Yu said. Her hope is for people come to more networking events to have meaningful discussions.

“Especially in these kinds of

charged environments, these events are so important, and they really bring people together,” she said.

Mohamad Ali is the CEO of Carbonite, a cloud backup service.

He said his company attended the event because of its emphasis on inclusion as well as its interactive programs.

“Boston is a diverse city,” Ali said. “Companies should be representative of what you see in the environment. But tech has not historically been a very diverse place.”

Ali said Carbonite is in its sec-

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ond year of collaboration with Hack.

Diversity. In setting up minority students in internships throughout the city, Ali said, Hack.Diversity works to turn those internships into permanent positions.

However, beyond diversity, most companies seem to look for a few universal values, such as a willingness to adapt and learn quickly. Ali said a candidate should be flexible, job-wise.

“You should be able to wear whatever hat is given to you,” Ali said.

Startup companies in particular are constantly evolving, Ali said, so candidates need to adjust and perform accordingly in a flexible environment.

Yu said that for students interested in entrepreneurship, the journey is more important than the destination. It’s not enough to message someone on LinkedIn to express interest in a company.

“You have to have that exchange of ideas in person. And then link up after,” she said.

Above all, Yu said, students interested in Boston’s entrepreneurial tech scene should strive to make innovative thinking a part of their everyday lives.

“Entrepreneurship is everywhere. It’s a way of thinking, and it’s a discipline that you can cultivate in different areas of your life,” she said.

“Get started as soon as you can, and see what your appetite for risk is.”

School of Theology hosts gun control discussion, encourages debate

BY TAYLOR KOCHER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

At the Boston University School of Theology’s “Moral Courage and Guns” panel, moderator Andrew Kimble began by taking a brief survey.

He asked first if anyone had ever been threatened by with a gun or lost a family member or a friend to gun violence, then asked who had any positive experiences with a firearm, like hunting, and finally asked who believed that gun regulation needs to change. Nearly the entire room raised their hands when asked the last question.

The panel was hosted by STH and co-sponsored by the Religion and Conflict Transformation program, Community Life and the Association of Black Seminarians. A crowd of about 40 students and faculty came to listen to the discussion.

Emily Ling, a graduate divinity student in STH and program administrator for the Religion and Conflict Transformation program, helped organize the discussion. Ling said the panel was organized to provide a diverse range of perspectives on the issue.

“This topic particularly feels very overwhelming to really know where to start, and … for a lot of different reasons, our country really isn’t able to address it,” Ling said. “That’s why it’s ‘Moral Courage and Guns.’ It’s what really needs to be happening from a courageous standpoint of try-

ing to see this conversation in a different [light].”

Throughout the evening, panelists shared various ways they believed gun culture could change.

“This conversation takes place in the context of a pervasiveness of the technology in terms of guns but also pervasive gun culture,” said Cornell Brooks, a visiting law professor.

Judith Oleson, co-director of the STH Religion and Conflict Transformation program, said she believes the wording of the debate around gun control needs to change.

“It’s so important that we frame this issue and use the language of violence reduction instead of gun control for many reasons,” Oleson said.

“The word ‘control’ sets off a whole level of resistance and opposition and belief that you’re trying to take the guns away.”

Abrigal Forrester, director of community action at Madison Park Development Corporation, spoke more about who the discussion should be targeting and focusing on.

“We live in a society that honors an issue agenda based on the who,” he said. “When we start talking about policy and legislation, we have to talk about also who are we trying to save?

Are we really trying to save everyone from gun violence?”

Forrester also addressed recent chatter about arming teachers in schools, saying how he does not believe this is an effective solution.

“If we arm teachers with guns,

A panelist speaks during the “Moral Courage and Guns” event at BU on March 14.

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what stops someone from saying, ‘I’ll wait until school ends to shoot people as they leave the school’,” Forrester said. “We’re still not dealing with the issue. We’re dealing with the byproduct of the real, true problem.”

Weighing in, Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said that society cannot wait for government to cause change. It has to come from the people.

“We have got to just do this ourselves and not wait for government to do this,” Elmore said. “We have got to take leadership in our own communities to say, ‘Stop, enough’.”

One of Elmore’s last comments

topic, make gun violence a research topic,” he said. “Then take your ideas, your analysis and move it into the realm of organization and advocacy and reform.”

Emelia Attridge, a graduate divinity student in STH, said she walked away with a new sense of hope after hearing the different viewpoints of the panelists.

“That’s something that you sometimes feel like gets lost in a national conversation,” Attridge said. “The panelists I felt did a really good job of addressing the different compounding multiplicities of the issue.”

elicited laughs throughout the room.

“I like to think of myself as a cosmopolitan person, as a civil person, as a person who can look at data and facts,” Elmore said. “I just don’t see how in 2018 we think that we can let people own weapons.”

Following the panel, Brooks said he hopes people walked away from the discussion more hopeful about the future of gun control and the conversation around firearms policy in America. Brooks said students seeking opportunities to advocate for gun restrictions should research more into social justice and gun violence.

“Make social justice a research

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EDITORIAL

Attacking our online privacy is a threat to democracy In an age where social media’s presence in our lives is unavoidable and the desire to stay connected at all times grows each day, it’s hard to remain skeptical of something that is so addicting. Every once in a while though, situations arise that make us doubt our privacy on the internet.

Cambridge Analytica, a London-based data-mining company and partner for the Trump campaign, was recently accused of violating users’ privacy. Because thousands of Facebook users took a personality quiz developed by the firm’s research, the firm was given access to their profiles along with those of their Facebook friends. The data they gathered was used for targeting purposes to influence the 2016 presidential election.

After this came out, CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for allowing such a breach of privacy to happen. In a Facebook post Wednesday, Zuckerberg wrote on behalf of his team: “We have a basic responsibility to protect people’s data, and if we can’t do that, then we don’t deserve to have the opportunity to serve people.”

In addition, the former Harvard University student promised to fix the situation by mandating that any app that wishes to partner with Facebook must go through an extensive auditing process. He also plans on restricting what sort of data can be gathered from users.

This incident clearly raises many concerns with internet privacy. Time and time again, we revisit the topic of privacy in this digital day and age. Even if we’re more frequent users of the internet, we’re still not totally tech literate. “Algorithms” seem to be the blanket response for anything construed as manip-

ulative on social media, though the average person is unaware of what’s being monitored while they’re scrolling through their Instagram or Twitter feed.

We are told to be mindful of our “digital footprint” and to be wary of entering or submitting personal information online. No one really thinks twice about authorizing

allowed for this to happen, but the company has been trying to fix this issue for a while now.

Company policies that were passed in 2014 made it harder for external apps to use people’s profiles and information. In fact, it was only in the short interval of time between these measures being passed and them being enforced that allowed Analytica to gain this information.

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data, especially when it’s for something on a BuzzFeed style survey, full of GIFs and other interactive features. But should we be more skeptical of taking such seemingly harmless surveys online when we’re seeking relief and humor from our everyday lives?

It would be easy to place blame Zuckerberg and the inadequate Facebook policies that

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We also have to acknowledge that none of this would have come out in the first place had Cambridge Analytica not been seeking personal information for political purposes.

Therefore, senators’ demands for him to testify in front of Congress does not seem productive at this point in time. We need to institute real change to prevent things like

this from happening again.

The company’s involvement in the Trump campaign sounds similar to Russia’s meddling in swaying U.S. elections results, which is currently undergoing investigation. We now know that Russian trolls used social media to have the voting polls look favorably for Trump. For so long, we only thought that a communist superpower and an extremely foreign threat like Russia could be capable of threatening our democracy. But this time, it looks as though our Western allies also want to be involved with American elections. Our social media accounts could be deeply infiltrated by foreign organizations all the time, and we just don’t know it.

We also can’t forget that we too easily play into the games these institutions are placing before us and helping them with their suspicious, albeit strategic intents. Maybe it’s time for us to rethink the ways we consume and interact with the internet. Things like BuzzFeed quizzes have evolved as the internet has grown to be a place largely about entertainment, to the point where it no longer feels harmless to authorize our personal information.

Internet culture demands change, and with the current generation of internet users growing up on social media feeds and timelines, the consequences could be even greater.

They’ve allowed more of themselves and their lives to be broadcasted on the internet and to their social media followers. Generation Z has become so entrenched on the internet to the point where they can easily be manipulated, which could ultimately be even more dangerous for democracy and presidential elections in the future.

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OPINION 9

WHAT GRINDS MY GEARS:

COLUMNS

WAKE ME UP BOSTON:

Queer at BU: harder than it seems The elusive 18,000 undergrads

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BY RILEY VILLIERS COLUMNIST

oston University loves to emphasize how inclusive and diverse it is. And in most areas, that’s the case. The student population is fairly diverse. Neither I nor anyone else I know has ever felt excluded or uncomfortable in a class.

BU Housing, on the other hand, sometimes clashes with the university’s mission. I don’t know a single queer person who hasn’t experienced the struggle that comes with finding a roommate freshman year. There’s a thin veil of homophobia that blankets some students at BU. To be openly queer with a roommate comes with incredibly challenging consequences. That’s not to say that everyone is homophobic toward their queer roommate or even that every homophobic instance is dramatic.

In fact, most times they aren’t.

Homophobia in rooming situations is often subtle, but it’s just as hurtful and jarring. It’s this subtlety that allows BU to boast about its inclusiveness, while hiding homophobia.

One of my friends here (let’s call her Sam) has a girlfriend who goes to Harvard (let’s call her Brandy). They always hang out in Sam’s room because Brandy isn’t out to her roommate yet. But Sam’s roommate is a nightmare.

Her homophobic atrocities include forcing Sam to pay her so Brandy can come over and harassing Sam for not coming out to her family over spring break.

While this is a more extreme example, it still illustrates the problem that affects the housing at Boston University. If a queer individual doesn’t come out to their roommate, they have to hide their identity which is painful and tiresome. If they decide to

come out, then they have the likely potential of being judged or in extreme cases — harassed.

At BU, it’s okay to be gay, but it’s not okay to live with someone who is.

Students think because their roommate is gay means that they are going to be ogled all the time. I have a friend whose roommate started changing in the bathroom after he came out to him. I have another friend whose roommate started wearing a bra to bed for the same reason.

I don’t know why people don’t understand that just because your roommates is queer doesn’t mean that they are going to be attracted to you. In fact, they most likely won’t be.

What I think gets lost is that it’s their roommate’s home too, and they should respect that. Why would they want to do anything that would jeopardize the comfort and safety of their home? Queer people just want to live their lives.

They are not concerned about the fact that you change in the room or walk around in just a bra and underwear. They’re most likely cramming for a test, eating a meal or watching Netf lix. They are the least worried about what their roommate is doing.

Queer people often don’t let their identity define their problems, but for some reason everyone else sees the queerness as the problem.

Someone else’s sexuality shouldn’t concern others because it doesn’t affect them in any way. It’s frankly none of their business. When students start implementing new rules because their roommate felt brave enough to come out to them, it creates an unwelcome environment for the queer student, which is just as damaging as any other form of homophobia.

While it’s impossible to ask for all homophobia to disappear, it’s not unreasonable to ask for better housing arrangements for queer students. While BU does offer gender neutral housing, I think it can be taken a step further.

First, freshmen should be allowed to partake in the program. Additionally, not all queer students want to live with someone from the opposite sex. There needs to be an option for students of all grades in the LGBTQ+ community to find each other and live together.

With the way the system works now, there needs to be more housing options for queer students because no one should feel unsafe or uncomfortable in their home.

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BY SARAH FINKEL COLUMNIST

s I make my usual trip to Warren Starbucks from my central campus housing, followed by either crossing the street to CAS or COM and ending on Bay State Road to complete a day of classes, this thought always crosses my mind: How on earth does BU have a population of 18,000 undergraduate students?

That’s 18,000 students all going about their individual days, and I only know a few.

When I say “know,” I mean really know know.

I don’t mean that I know who their friends are, where they’re from, what their major is or what they do on weekends. I mean that I know what brings them the most happiness, their unique quirks and their innermost worries.

On an average day, I find myself seeing the same familiar faces — faces traveling along similar paths as I am on a typical weekday, but I do not know these faces beyond their physical attributes. These faces might also stop at Starbucks and pick up their morning latte macchiato, stop for a bit and chat with a friend in line, and then set off to to their next destination along this stretch of Commonwealth Avenue. It boggles my mind how so many people attend the same school at the same stage in their lives with many of the same struggles that come with being an adult. They all are trying to navigate their way in this confusing, wonderful world.

Yet somehow, it is simultaneously very difficult for us to form a deeper connection, to get beyond the hardened shell in which we have hidden ourselves, to break through the physical barrier that divides our similarities and accentuates our separation from one another.

BU is a big school, but I think many can attest to the fact that there are times it can seem smaller than ever. Within the BU community itself, there lies a parallel universe of

multiple smaller communities, branched off according to individual colleges, majors, clubs, teams, Greek organizations and various other circumstances that unify groups of people.

This is a situation that is not unique to BU, but to colleges everywhere.

We tend to converge with people whose interests outwardly align with ours, not for any other underlying, complex reason other that it being easy and convenient. There is nothing wrong with meeting people and forming college relationships this way — in fact, finding common points of interest and utilizing them as a social opportunity is a great way to start.

Beyond the comfortable circle we establish for ourselves exists a world of people we otherwise would not know — people we pass and see every day on our college campus whom we normally wouldn’t think to reach out. I am guilty of this every day, as I continue my daily routine without thinking twice about the thousands of students doing the same thing around me, besides the ones I am already friends with or are within my social environment.

Many of these students might not be so comfortably nestled in a social circle that is easily defined, but simply just are. Some might even fit into a smaller, tight-knit community and still not genuinely know the majority of their peers. As a whole, it is undoubtedly impossible to be aware of all 18,000 students attending school with us, but we can start somewhere, which leads me to my next train of thought: the concept of diversity.

BU is known for its diversity, but why is it sometimes so hard for our student body to mingle and join forces within its diverse groups? Because it defies the expected and requires us to stop the routine flow of our days to notice the unnoticed. We walk the same sidewalks and attend the same classes and study in the same library as so many other BU students who each have their own unique stories and experiences to share with whoever will listen.

My personal goal by the end of my college career is to meet and get to know as many people as I can — whenever I can — within the larger community of our school, even if it means starting a random conversation with a person next to me in line for coffee. Easier said than done, but who knows? Maybe I would never have encountered that person if it weren’t for that exact moment. Maybe I won’t even like that person. What I do know is that I tried and am one step closer to making the most of my college experience by venturing out into the unknown.

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INTERROBANG

Cynthia Nixon, best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes on “Sex and the City” announced her candidacy for New York governor Tuesday. We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what fictional TV character would BU students nominate for political office?

BU Libraries: Arthur

SHA: Mr. Moseby

Questrom: Christian Grey

CGS: Michael Scott

SED: Ms. Frizzle

Marciano Commons: Alfredo Linguini

ENG: Sheldon Cooper

SARGENT: Doogie Howser

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Eastbound and Down: Westbrook can’t lead the Thunder Anthony remains the ball-stopper far more concerned about winning and defensive liability he was in games than statistics. And for a New York with the Knicks. team that has comparable talent In a g a me a few weeks a go to some of the league’s best teams, a g a i nst Houston, we watched being 14 games out of first place the Rockets isolate Harden on is embarrassing.

Anthony on countless possessions, Sure, the Thunder are coming taking advantage of his age and off a six-game winning streak (brolack of defensive ability. As long ken by the Boston Celtics Tuesday as he’s on the f loor, I anticipate night), but only one of those wins that teams will continue to go at was against a legitimate f ina ls him on the perimeter. contender in the Toronto Raptors.

But what about the players I could argue that being 14 games

BY AARON HALFORD COLUMNIST Oklahoma City parted with this out of first place after a six-game As the Western Conference off-season? After an average season win streak is even further evidence playoff race heats up, one of the with the Thunder, Victor Oladipo of the team’s struggles this year. many striking stor ylines down is putting up career highs in most Westbrook’s undeniable passion t he stretch is Ok l a hom a Cit y statistical categories and has pro- and emotion has always also come Thunder’s relative lack of success pel led the Indiana Pacers into with poor shot selection and tunnel despite its new additions, as the the No. 4 seed i n the Easter n vision. While some nights we see Thunder are currently slated 14 Conference. Sophomore big man Westbrook take over games in the games behind the Houston Rockets Domantas Sabonis has also nearly fourth quarter, other nights we doubled his scoring output in only watch him miss shot after shot, for the No. 1 seed.

After what many viewed as a four more minutes per game, and refusing to integrate his teammates successful off-season for Oklahoma has seen an uptick in field goal in the f low of the offense.

Despite shooting an abysmal City — the team acquired All-Star percentage and rebounds.

In a trade that most consid- 28.9 percent from behind the threePaul George and veteran forward Carmelo Anthony — NBA fans ered to be in Ok la homa Cit y ’s point arc, Westbrook is attempting across the world were excited about favor, there is no doubt that the 4.1 three pointers per game. We’ve all seen Westbrook hit some big the team’s potential. With the Pacers won.

So why haven’t the Thunder threes, but this team cannot win reigning MVP, Russell Westbrook, and now two other talented players had more success th is season? if he continues to shoot shots he’s to compliment him, many believed Is it head coach Billy Donovan? not statistically good at making.

M o r e i m p o r t a n t l y, P a u l the Thunder had the ta lent to G enera l m a n a ger Sa m Presti ?

George’s free a genc y looms at compete with Houston and the Russell Westbrook?

While I believe it is a combina- t he end of t he sea son. Just a s Golden State Warriors atop the tion of the three, I think the great- much as Westbrook should want conference.

But this season, that hasn’t est burden falls on Westbrook’s to win a title, keeping George in shoulders. I’ve always been skepti- Oklahoma City should be as much been the case.

T hos e w ho d oubte d C h r i s cal about his ability to make other of a priority. If he departs and the Paul’s ability to mesh well with players better, but this season has Thunder is unable to sign another Ja mes Ha rden a re eating their turned me into more of a believer superstar, the team’s future looks word s a s Ok l a hom a Cit y con- than a skeptic. much bleaker.

Paul George is having a good tinues to look lost on the f loor If the Thunder are able to figevery couple nights. Westbrook statistical season, sure. But what ure out some of their chemistry and George don’t seem to have about wins? I can guarantee that issues come playoff time, they are found any chemistry together, and if asked, Westbrook would say he’s a threat to any team in the NBA.

If not, they are at risk of losing in the first or second round to a lower-seeded Western Conference team.

Despite success against teams like the Warriors and Raptors, the Thunder have a 9-12 record against the current playoff contenders in the Western Conference, which I feel captures the essence of this team well. Oklahoma City has the talent and personnel to contend with the best, yet is not consistent

enough to play at a high level on a nightly basis.

Until the team finds chemistry and consistency, it will struggle in a competitive Western Conference.

This year’s playoffs may have the slimmest margin for error in recent history, and the Thunder have a lot of work to do to be considered a finals contender.

But with Westbrook leading the charge, I don’t see them making it past the second round.

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Russell Westbrook and Oklahoma City are fourth in the NBA Western Conference.

Women’s lacrosse looking for first Patriot League win at Lafayette

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Sophomore midfielder Lexi Lewis has five points this season.

BY LILY BETTS

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University women’s lacrosse team will look to pick up its first Patriot League victory Saturday afternoon when it takes on Lafayette College, following a loss in its first conference matchup against Lehigh University last Saturday.

After splitting a series of away games 2-2, the Terriers (2-4, 0-1 Patriot League) returned to Nickerson Field for the first time since their season opener to face off against Lehigh (6-3, 1-0 Patriot League).

The home field didn’t provide an advantage, as BU dropped the conference opener 15-8.

The Mountain Hawks pulled ahead quickly, putting 11 goals on the board by halftime.

The Terriers managed only one goal in the first half — the first of freshman defender Nicole Foringer’s collegiate career.

“We were on separate pages as a team,” BU head coach Liz Robertshaw said. “We just needed to focus on playing for each other and our game plan that we’d worked on. I think we settled in a lot better in the second half.”

After refocusing, the Terriers pulled ahead offensively in the second, more than doubling their shot production from eight to 20.

Of BU’s eight goals, six came from underclassmen: Foringer, freshman attack Makenzie Irvine and sophomore attack Kailey Conry.

Conry extended her active point streak to 21 games, and she has found the back of the net in all six games this season — the only Terrier to do so.

“We had some people getting on the field and taking some great looks for us,” Robertshaw said. “We had freshmen like Makenzie Irvine go out and score a couple goals like she had in practice, and that was great highlight.”

Despite the improved second half, the game would prove to be the first conference opener the Terriers have lost since joining the Patriot League in 2014.

“It wasn’t the first half we wanted,” Robertshaw said, “But I think the

team showed a lot of character coming back in the second half and playing a better game.”

Lafayette (3-5, 0-1 Patriot League) will also be on the hunt for its first Patriot League victory of the 2018 season after its 16-14 loss to the College of the Holy Cross last Saturday. It was the team’s second straight loss after a three-game winning streak on its home turf.

Leading the Leopards’ offense is junior attack Jane Kirby, who scored six goals on 14 shots against Holy Cross (3-6, 1-0 Patriot League) and currently leads the team in points with 35.

Additionally, Kirby put up five goals when the Leopards faced off against BU last season.

Junior midfielder Hannah Davey dominated the faceoff X against the Crusaders, winning nine of the team’s 16 draw controls.

Davey, who is third in points on the Leopards’ roster with 17, also collected a goal, an assist, three ground balls and a caused turnover on the day.

W hen considering how the Terriers will look to combat Lafayette, Robertshaw looked inward.

“We know we need to focus on the best parts of our game and making them better, and then working on the parts of our game that are a little lacking,” Robertshaw said. “I think we’ve identified them, we’re very conscious of that, so we want to bring our best game forward.”

Three goalkeepers saw action for the Leopards that afternoon against Holy Cross.

Freshman goalkeeper Quinn Lacy started in net, as she has for six games this season, but was pulled after making two saves and allowing eight goals in the first half.

Lacy maintains a 12.17 goals against average and a .385 goal save percentage.

Senior goalkeeper and co-captain Anna Raymond replaced Lacy, and in 29:40 of play made three saves and allowed five goals.

Sophomore goalkeeper Taylor Danson spent less than 10 minutes in net, giving her time to make two saves and allow three goals.

In the 2017 season, the Terriers established dominance against Lafayette. The two teams’ regular season meeting ended in a 20-16 win for BU, its highest scoring game since 2013.

The two teams met again during the 2017 Patriot League semifinals at Nickerson Field, where the Terriers held the Leopards to a decisive 14-7 victory.

Lafayette hasn’t been held to single digits since.

“I just think every year is a new year,” Robertshaw said. “Yes, looking back, historically we’ve played well against Lafayette and we’ve had some good outcomes. We want to take that confidence moving forward, but this is a new Lafayette team and a new BU team.”

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20 questions with men’s lacrosse junior attack James Burr

BY NICOLE HAVENS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Despite falling to Harvard University 19-18 in overtime on Tuesday, the Boston University men’s lacrosse team’s offense found its groove and was backed by a five-goal performance from junior attack James Burr.

The Hamilton native currently has 31 points and a team-leading 24 goals this season. The Daily Free Press caught up with Burr to talk about which celebrity he’d be for a day, his goals for the season and more.

1. Who or what got you into lacrosse?

My dad. He played in college at Harvard so he gave my brother and I sticks when we were like five.

2. What is the BU locker room like before a game?

It’s pretty rowdy. We have some particular songs we like to listen to so we kind of have a routine we go through every game day.

3. Let’s say you’re stuck on a deserted island, which teammate would you bring?

That’s a really tough question.

I might bring [sophomore attack] Conor Muldoon because he would just keep me laughing the whole time.

4. If you could have any job, no matter what your current skill level is now, what would it be?

A professional DJ. 5. Which game are you most looking for ward to that’s still on the schedule?

Just the upcoming one [at] Lafayette because it’s just another big Patriot League game. We’ve just got to win every single Patriot League game from here on out if we want to have a shot at the playoffs.

So every game is the biggest one.

6. Your older brother Elliot played at BU. Did that

inf luence your decision to play here?

Yeah, definitely. It was a huge part. I knew that we would have one year to play together. My freshman year was his senior year so just being able to play on the same field was awesome for me. It was just a great experience.

7. Going off of that, what’s the biggest thing you learned from him?

Work ethic. He was getting recruited when I was in like middle school so just seeing how hard he was working and what he did to get to the [Division I] level really showed me how to get there and how to work hard for it.

8. Who would you say is your biggest supporter for lacrosse?

Just my family as a whole.

They literally come to all my games, and just having them on the sideline and to talk to afterwards is huge for me because they always come to my games — [in] middle school, high school and now.

9. What is your favorite childhood memor y of lacrosse?

When I was in third grade, I got bumped up to play on my brother’s team when he was in like sixth or seventh grade so I got to play up with him. Then I would say equally with that is the first game of my freshman year. I got to play with him on the same field and he threw me a pass so it was pretty cool to be on the same field.

10. Do you have any pregame rituals or superstitions?

I tape my stick before every game. Just a brand new tape job.

That’s pretty much it.

11. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

I would want to live somewhere warm, probably like California.

12. If you could be anyone for a day, who would you be?

Tom Brady.

13. You’ve come up big in last-minute and overtime games, how do you stay calm and focused in those moments?

I just think of it as any other moment, you know. You just have to keep yourself calm. Our coaches do a good job of keeping us calm and letting us know that it’s just like a regular game except it ends when you score.

14. Other than lacrosse, what other sports do you play?

I loved playing football my whole life, but obviously can’t play in college. That was probably one of my favorite sports for my entire life. Then I love to ski, I love to golf, I love basketball. That’s pretty much it.

15. W hat’s your go-to pump up song on game days?

Waka Flocka [Flame] “For My Dawgs.”

16. Do you have any specific goals for yourself or the team this season?

I want to win a Patriot League championship … That’s just always been our goal and it always will be.

17. Do you feel like this will be the year to do it?

I think we have a good shot.

We’re definitely talented enough.

It’s just a matter of playing well each and every week, and winning those Patriot League matchups.

18. What do you think is the biggest misconception about lacrosse players?

There’s definitely been some instances where lacrosse players get bad reps, but I would say that maybe that we don’t work hard enough. But just to go out in any Division I sport and any college sport in general, you’ve got to work hard every single day so

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Junior attack James Burr played with his older brother Elliot for one year at BU.

we’re just like any other sport.

19. You have a team-high 24 goals this season, what has gone into that off the field and during the off season?

All last summer, I worked out every day really hard and shot a lot. I guess being able to play with our offense a little more this fall.

I missed last fall so just getting a full fall and I haven’t missed a day all season so that’s really just help-

ing me keep my rhythm up.

20. What is your favorite part about playing under BU head coach Ryan Polley?

I love coach’s passion. He knows a lot about the game and he definitely loves the game. Just being able to play for a guy that is that excited on game day really gets the energy going.

Some responses have been shortened or edited for clarity.

BU and Cornell will face off in a Red Hot Hockey rematch BU VS. CORNELL, FROM 12

he still allows almost one more goal per game (2.42) than Galajda and has a .916 goal save percentage.

However, that does not mean Oettinger can’t shut down an offense, as his five shutouts include one against No. 7 Providence College this past weekend.

This is the most clear cut category. While Oettinger has shown glimpses of being the best goaltender in the country, right now Galajda plays like a top-five netminder in the nation.

EDGE: Cornell On paper, it is the No. 4 team taking on the No. 13 team.

However, the teams are more evenly matched than what the rankings might imply. Out of all the opening round seeds, BU more than likely has the best chance for an upset. Hockey is a very difficult game to predict as anything can happen, but we have made a prediction.

FreeP’s prediction? 2-1 BU in overtime.

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“We want to take that confidence moving forward, but this is a new Lafayette team and a new BU team.” ­— Women’s lacrosse coach Liz Robertshaw on her team’s upcoming matchup. p.10

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“I want to win a Patriot League championship … That’s just always been our goal and it always will be.”

­— Men’s lacrosse junior attack James Burr in this week’s 20 Questions. p.11

Thursday, March 22 , 2018

Men’s hockey breakdown: BU versus Cornell — who has the edge?

BY MATTHEW MARTIN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The ultimate goal for any NCAA Division I hockey team is simple — be the national champion.

After almost six months of college hockey, the field of 60 teams has been narrowed down to 16 that have hopes of making it to the 2018 Frozen Four in St. Paul, Minnesota.

In this year’s Northeast Regional, Boston has two teams playing in Worcester: the No. 13 Boston University men’s hockey team and No. 8 Northeastern University. However, for the Terriers (21-13-4, 12-8-4 Hockey East) to get one step closer to the Frozen Four, they will compete in a rematch of November’s Red Hot Hockey matchup against No. 4 Cornell University.

After winning the Hockey East championship last Saturday, BU is set to take on Cornell (255-2) for the third time in the national tournament. With that being said, The Daily Free Press has broken down each team and determined which team has the advantage.

Forwards

Prior to the Hockey East semifinal victory over then-No. 14 Boston College, BU head coach David Quinn said in a teleconference that he feels like he has two first lines. As of late, Quinn’s first line of forwards has consisted of freshman Brady Tkachuk, junior forward and assistant captain Jordan Greenway and graduate transfer Drew Melanson.

His second line features freshmen Logan Cockerill and Shane Bowers, and junior forward and assistant captain Bobo Carpenter.

His top six features three players who have already been drafted (Greenway, Cockerill and Bowers), a top-five North American skater for the upcoming 2018 NHL Entry Draft (Tkachuk), an Olympian (Greenway), the Hockey East tournament hero (Melanson) and his leading-goal scorer (Carpenter).

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Sophomore defenseman Dante Fabbro holding the Hockey East trophy. BU will now take on Cornell in the NCAA Northeast Regionals this Saturday.

With that level of talent, BU has arguably the best top two lines in the NCAA tournament this year. The Terriers’ forwards have put up 226 points this season, which is 24 more than the Big Red. BU’s total also does not include freshman defenseman David Farrance, who put up five points while playing as a forward.

Cornell is led by junior forward Anthony Angello’s 26 points.

Only one other player on the team, senior forward Trevor Yates, has at least 25 points.

However, the Big Red have 10 forwards with double-digit points, in contrast to the Terriers who have eight.

Although Cornell has a slight edge in scoring depth than BU with its forwards, it’s hard to pick against a top six that could have five players in the NHL one day.

EDGE: BU

Defensemen rating of two.

Each game, Quinn is put in Fabbro’s 78 blocked shots is an interesting position as he must good for a four-way tie for No. 11 decide which six of his seven in the nation. drafted defensemen he will play.

In terms of getting offense He has shown a willingness to play from their d-men, the Terriers’ all seven by either going seven d on blue line has generated 96 points the blue line or by playing Farrance this season compared to the Big as his third-line left wing, a move Red’s 67 from its defensemen. that went on for over a month.

Fabbro and Krys each found the Farrance has played the two back of the net in November’s last games as a defenseman where matchup between these two he rejoined the a talented d-core. schools.

The group features one firstHowever, Cornell features round draft pick (sophomore three of the top four leaders Dante Fabbro), two second-round among defensemen in plus-minus picks (senior John MacLeod — juniors Brendan Smith, Matt and sophomore Chad Krys) and Nuttle and Alec McCrea, who four third round picks (captain have a plus-minus rating of 22, 22 Brandon Hickey and freshmen and 21, respectively.

Cam Crotty, Kasper Kotkansalo The Big Red have five defenseand Farrance). men with rating of 10-plus or Although not drafted, senior higher, compared to the two Brien Diff ley has appeared in 17 (Kotkansalo and Crotty) from the games and boasts a plus-minus Terriers.

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In probably the toughest category between the two squads, it is essentially a toss up as to which team has the advantage.

EDGE: Even

Goaltenders

This is probably the most intriguing matchup up between these two teams.

In one net will be Hobey Baker Memorial Award candidate and Mike Richter Award (most outstanding collegiate goaltender) semifinalist Cornell freshman goaltender Matthew Galajda. In the other will be the Dallas Stars No. 26 draft pick BU sophomore goaltender Jake Oettinger.

Galajada’s leads the country in goals against average (1.49 goals) and shutouts (nine), and sits third in save percentage (.940).

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