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SPORTS With its conference schedule looming, the softball team will host Sacred Heart and look to keep its impressive vein of form going. p. 12

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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLV. VOLUME XC. ISSUE IX.

Adjuncts hold peaceful rally for awareness, better treatment Uber Boston

introduces new late-night flat fare

BY ALEX LI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University adjunct professors rallied Wednesday in front of the Tsai Performance Center to raise awareness of their current working conditions before other members of the faculty headed inside Tsai for the Spring Faculty Assembly.

At one point during the peaceful rally, Kush Ganatra, a member of the BU Student Curriculum Committee, stood up on the steps by the performance center’s entrance inside the College of Arts and Sciences. He called attention from passersby, gave his support to the adjunct professors and called upon President Robert Brown to respect and treat the adjuncts properly.

“President Brown has been called ‘the engineer who built BU’ by BU Today, but they failed to mention just who BU was built for,” said Ganatra, a junior in CAS. “The administration refuses to think of its workers as anything other than statistics.”

Ganatra said the university achieves success using the same methods as Walmart — doing anything to make more money and maximizing the bottom line.

Approximately 30 adjunct professors and student supporters organized the protest. They passed out flyers to prospective students and families who passed through the building on their campus tours and to faculty members making their way into the performance center. Many of the tour participants and faculty members stopped and listened to what the protesters had to say.

The organizers’ table was decorated with 260 scarlet and white balloons to symbolize the number of courses an adjunct professor would have to teach yearly to earn the equivalent of Brown’s $1.3 million salary.

“We thought [the rally was] one way to get attention from full-time faculty to discuss about our negotiations,” said Tinker Ready, an adjunct journalism professor in the College of Communication and one of the organizers. “It is just a good opportunity to communicate them this way and communicate with others in the commu-

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BU adjunct professors held a rally outside of the Tsai Performance Center. Their table was decorated with 260 balloons to symbolize the number of courses they would have to teach in a year to equate to President Brown’s $1.3 million salary.

nity — people who are walking by, walking in, [and we] have a presence.”

This latest development comes at a time when BU adjunct professors are still in the process of reaching a fair contract with the university administration one year after they voted to unionize, The Daily Free Press reported Feb. 26.

Ready said she and other adjunct professors want the university to recognize their hard work by offering better salaries, longer contracts and more opportunities for personal improvement. Ready argued that adjunct professors earn a quarter to one-third of what tenure-track professors receive. “[The university] never sent me to the to the Online News Association meeting,” Ready said. “As a journalist, I have to spend every break for catching up. I spent a lot of time learning how to do all the software with cameras. Of course, I learned them at my own will. It is just that the struggle we have to go through in order to give the best to the students [is too much].”

Several people at the rally said they support adjunct professors’ efforts to advocate their rights, and the university

should devote most of its money to students and faculty.

Susan Vik, a lecturer in the BU Center for English Language and Orientation Programs, said she participated in the protest because adjunct professors have different working conditions, compensation and opportunities than full-time faculty.

“There's unequal contingency,” Vik said. “Our contracts go semester to semester, so we never know if we will get work.

All BU students essentially have adjuncts as professors at some point, and they pay the same amount for a class taught by an adjunct as a full-time professor. So obviously, BU values us the same.”

Kelsie Merrick, the chair of SCC, said she supported the protests because adjunct professors cannot fully devote themselves to their students if they have constant concerns about their job security.

“We are here to prove to the faculty and to President Brown that it is not just adjuncts who want these benefits,” said Merrick, a sophomore in CAS. “Many adjunct professors do not have their own of-

Uber Boston introduced a new late-night, flat-rate fare of $5 for uberPOOL rides near Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority stations, according to a Friday press release.

UberPOOL riders who request an Uber within one block of a T stop on the Red, Orange, Green or Blue lines to travel to another T stop from 12:30 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights will be eligible for the $5 rides, according to the release.

According the release, the flat fares were announced in response to the MBTA’s decision to cancel Late-Night Service.

“In an effort to continue connecting Bostonians to the places they love, we’re offering $5 uberPOOL rides along T subway lines during late night hours for four weekends,” the release stated.

The flat-fare service will run on Fridays and Saturdays from March 20 to April 9, according to the release.

Barbara Jacobson, programs director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, said the private market has reacted positively to the cancelation of the Late-Night T service.

“Uber’s response is a really interesting way that the private market is reacting to the demand that the public sector isn’t able to maintain with getting rid of the Late-Night MBTA Service,” Jacobson said. “I think that this creates an opportunity for other private markets and service providers to expand upon this model.”

Jacobson also said private markets have recognized what is important for residents, and she hopes to see more responses like this.

“It’s interesting that the private market has reacted so quickly to this demand,” Jacobson said. “It showcases that these are important destinations for people, and we’re definitely going to see more of this.”

Charlie Ticotsky, policy director at Transportation for Massachusetts, said Uber is using a smart marketing strategy, but it may not be

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MEET THE CLASS OF 2020 29%

Admissions only admitted 29 percent of 57,416 applicants to the university this year. Last year, the admittance rate was 33 percent.

Admissions received 57,416 applications, all competing for 3,500 seats in the class.

Admissions looks at:

Recommendations from teachers and counselors that know students well as they can speak to a student’s strength Student activities and interests Students who are engaged in their school and home communities

Overall level of achievements, grades The extent to which a student has pushed him or herself academically This year BU admitted students from all 50 states.

24 percent of the enrolled students in the Class of 2020 is international students.

Of the students that applied for financial aid, the university met the need of 89 percent of them.

153 countries are represented in our applicant pool, while having admitted students from 117 countries.

Admissions admitted 16 percent of the international students who applied for admission.

SOURCE: KELLY WALTER, ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS

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Faculty Assembly focuses on unionization, admissions, task force

BY MEAGAN SCHWARZ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University President Robert Brown, University Provost Jean Morrison and Faculty Council Chair Stephen Brady addressed current initiatives and the state of undergraduate education Wednesday at the Spring 2016 Faculty Assembly.

The assembly focused on three reports. A report from Brown addressed faculty unionization and undergraduate recruitment, another report from Morrison talked about the recently proposed first university-wide general education program and the last report from Brady highlighted the development of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force.

Members from the BU Medical Campus could also participate by attending a videoconference from the Dean’s Conference Room on 72 East Concord St. Brady and Gene Jarrett, co-chairs of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, presented the task force’s official recommendations that they will submit to Brown and Morrison in May and to the Board of Trustees this coming fall.

The four recommendations are to appoint an associate provost for faculty diversity and inclusion, to create strategic plans to meet this goal "at multiple levels" through a task force focused on implementation, to communicate widely on campus and nationally about the university's efforts on diversity and to create "pipeline" programs for underrepresented doctoral students who may become faculty members.

"We are making progress, and there have been a number of initiatives in the provost's office that are paying dividends that are not widely known," Brady said. "Particularly among new recruitment, there is progress being made."

Brady said an overwhelming majority of students reported that on top of more diversity in the hiring of faculty, they desired education for

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Boston University faculty members gathered Wednesday at the Tsai Performance Center for the Spring 2016 Faculty Assembly and listened to reports from BU President Robert Brown, University Provost Jean Morrison and Faculty Council Chair Stephen Brady.

current faculty on sensitivity.

Brown spoke on the unionization of fulltime lecturers. He emphasized that the decision to unionize is ultimately their choice and encouraged faculty to discuss the "important" decision with their lecturer colleagues during the voting period.

“Each lecturer has to ask themselves why they want to join a union, what will we gain and what could potentially be lost,” Brown said in his speech. “I hope all of our faculty colleagues will discuss the pros and cons of this important decision with their lecturer colleagues.”

Morrison introduced the proposed general education program dubbed “BU Hub.” Morrison focused on the process and content of the proposal made by the Task Force on Undergraduate General Education.

"The proposal reflects a great deal of consultation ... [and] articulates the unique aspects and value of a BU undergraduate degree," Morrison said in her speech. "The document that

this group has developed ... has the potential to become a national model for general education going forward.”

Beth Loizeaux, associate provost for undergraduate affairs, and Bruce Schulman, a history professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, represented the task force in the assembly.

Loizeaux said the task force met with faculty from all 17 schools and colleges, then held meetings from December of last year through February to compile information from the consultations into their report.

Schulman said during the assembly that the task force found "widespread support for the idea, especially from students" and explained that the Cross-College Challenge, a "signature" part of the BU Hub program, "originated from the students that faculty, parents, alumni and stakeholders endorsed."

Feedbacks on the program included a number of investigations regarding the program’s implementation, Schulman explained.

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The program's timeline includes a threeyear piloting and phase-in process, Schulman explained. The project would be independent of current collaborative projects in other colleges, such as the keystone project in the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Honors College.

Faculty members who attended the assembly were pleased with the multitude of topics covered, especially the task forces’ presentations.

Stephanie Watts, a professor in the Questrom School of Business, said she was interested in the presentations on the general education proposal, the recommendations delivered by the Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion and support for international students.

"We've been recommending [an associate provost for diversity] for many years,” she said.

“In order to be co-measured with our peer institutions, we need an office of diversity. BU does seem to be doing very well on its increasingly competitive admissions. We're down to under a 30 percent acceptance rate, down from 70 percent 10 years ago."

John Hart, a professor in the School of Theology, was impressed with the presentation made by the task force and had suggestions of his own.

"I was particularly interested in the new information on diversity here,” he said. “It seems like progress is being made. Job descriptions, if you are an underrepresented minority, are not always worded in a way so that they [are] geared toward you and your experience. When the school is looking to hire diverse professors, they need to start with the positions."

Brady, a professor in the BU School of Medicine, said the assembly was important to unite faculty for discussion.

"We had a lot of issues to address today ...

The faculty assembly is the body whereby we communicate with the faculty as a whole so that they can be involved in the government of the university," he said.

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$100 million loans to replace Massachusetts lead service lines

BY LUIS CASTRO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority announced the approval Monday of $100 million in interest-free loans to fully replace lead service lines within private residences that could contaminate drinking water, according to a Monday press release.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said in the release that the program will allow cleaner, safer drinking water for Massachusetts.

“I am proud that Massachusetts is taking proactive measures to ensure that residents have continued access to clean drinking water,” Baker said in the release. “The loans being provided by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority will allow communities to take the steps necessary to modernize their drinking water infrastructure, and keep Massachusetts' families safe and healthy.”

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said in the release that although most Boston residents have clean drinking water, particular residents could be at risk due to the age of their homes.

“This program will help ensure that all residents of MWRA communities will continue to have safe drinking water, regardless of their ZIP code or the age of their home,” Walsh said in the release.

Fred Laskey, executive director of the MWRA, said the agency will be the one to distribute the funds.

“The situation in Flint, Michigan has brought national attention — including that of the [United States] Environmental Protection Agency — to the subject, and we thought it was time to accelerate our ongoing efforts,” Laskey said. “This marks a major upgrade to our efforts to eliminate lead services in the greater Boston area.”

Laskey said that tests run by the MWRA say Boston’s water supplies are clean, but lead contamination can occur in old homes that were not required to adhere to laws against lead at the time of construction. Laskey said the MWRA estimates that of these homes, “28,000 are in the Greater Boston Area, somewhere over 3,000 are in the City of Boston.”

“The water that comes out of the reservoirs in Central Mass. has no lead in it,” Las-

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The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority announced Monday that $100 million in loans will be allocated to replace lead service lines in private homes.

key said. “The only place that it picks up lead from is the connection in the street to the home, and some other things like faucets.”

Laskey said replacing the lead pipes would cost between $3,000 and $5,000 for each home.

“We’ve been waging a battle against lead for 15 years or more,” Laskey said. “Back then, as a system, we failed. Right now, we are below what’s called ‘the action level,’ [which is] 15 parts per billion.”

Laskey said lead pipes can contaminate water that remains dormant for an extended period of time. Laskey added that city officials urge residents to run the water and flush the toilet to remove stagnant water.

Austin Blackmon, chief of Environment, Energy and Open Space for the City of Boston, said the program was improved to promote safety for those serviced by the MWRA. “The motivation is just to make sure we’re doing everything that we possibly can

to protect the residents in the MWRA communities,” Blackmon said. “We’ve seen other communities struggle with this. We hope that other water systems throughout the country follow our lead.”

Blackmon said officials have always monitored the water for lead and will continue to do so.

“To be very clear, the water is always monitored for lead at random throughout our communities, and we always pay very close attention to those readings,” Blackmon said.

“I’m not aware of any reports of exposures to lead.”

Several Boston residents said they were in favor of the program.

Tucker Dammin, 33, of Brighton, said he hopes the program will involve identifying homes in need of improved piping.

“I hope some of it’s for surveying and figuring if there are areas that need it more than others so that the money goes directly

to those areas,” he said. “I hope it isn’t up to just the agency of the individual home owners to advocate for themselves. I hope they put at least some middle bureaucracy to connect with people who need it most.”

Jacob Small, 28, of Brighton, said the program will benefit public health as well as the economy.

“The program sounds like a really good idea because it will help public health as well as aid the local economy by creating construction jobs,” he said.

Tony Narcisi, 24, of Allston, questioned the urgency of removing lead from water mains but believes it could have an impact on the local economy.

“I mean, nobody wants lead in water, but I don’t know how big of a deal it is,” he said.

“It’s excellent. My dad’s a contractor, and I’m sure people like him will appreciate the work.”

Uber Boston's flat rate aims to replace MBTA's Late-Night Service UBER FROM PAGE 1 enough to help residents who depended on the Late-Night Service.

“It’s a smart marketing strategy by Uber to try to fill some of the void that will be left by the cancellation of Late-Night Service,” Ticotsky said. “There are definitely some opportunities in ride-sharing and microtransit to fill in some of the gaps that public transportation doesn’t serve, but we are not convinced that that it will fully fill the void of the cancelation of service.”

Ticotsky said T4MA is excited to see how groups adapt to provide alternatives to Late-

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strategy by Uber to try to fill some of the void that will be left by the cancellation of LateNight Service."

Night Service to residents.

“It doesn’t sound like the T will be financially subsidizing private Late-Night Service, but we are interested in learning more about what some of the innovative ideas are out there,” Ticotsky.

Several Boston residents voiced their support for Uber’s new flat fares.

Christina Carter, 27, of Brighton, said she’s glad there’s an alternative to the Late-Night Service.

“The Late-Night Service was a really important way to get around because other forms of transportation are really expensive,” she said.

“I’m just glad that Uber is trying to provide an affordable option for people to get home.”

Kerry Jones, 44, of Allston, said he doesn’t agree with the MBTA’s decision to cut service but supports Uber’s new service.

“I don’t like that the MBTA is raising the fares when they’re going to stop the Late-Night Service while the college kids around here don’t start going home until like 2 or 3 in the morning, when the bars close,” he said. “I’m all for the Uber service. And as far as I’m concerned, the T is raising their prices and then giving us no service for it.”

Dawit Yosief, 24, of Brighton, also said he disagrees with the MBTA’s decision to cut Late-Night Service.

“It’s fascinating that the MBTA was willing to cut something that was working so well for so many people,” he said. “A lot of people will tell you that one of the major problems with this city is that can’t do anything after 12 because the T shuts down.”

Yosief added that he believes the new Uber service will be helpful for residents.

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In response the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority cutting Late-Night Service, the ride sharing app Uber will offer a fixed $5 price for riders between 12:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights to compensate for the inconvenience.

“It’s amazing that Uber is doing $5 rides.

It’s going to improve a lot for residents,” he said.

“I’ll definitely be taking one of those rides.”

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CAMPUS CRIME LOGS

BY DAVID FRANCO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from March 14 to March 21.

Distraught student at 32 Harry Agganis Way A male student reported March 17 at 6:55 a.m. in a distraught state over a breakup with his girlfriend that his roommates had thrown him out of apartment that night, which led him to go to the BUPD station. His apartment was in Brookline, and the Brookline Police Department was notified to do a well-being check. Brookline PD reported that a past sexual assault may have occurred, and they would be investigating.

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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority began its "pay your fare, it's only fair" initiative on all above-ground Green Line stations this weekend.

MBTA introduces "pay your fare, it's only fair" program

BY MEAGAN SCHWARZ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority introduced a recorded message this weekend on the Green Line to remind passengers to pay the prescribed fare, according to MBTA spokesperson Jason Johnson.

With the message “pay your fare, it’s only fare,” the audio reminds riders to pay at the front of the train cars as opposed to sneaking on to the back of the cars.

Johnson said the new initiative is "a friendly reminder to customers who board trolleys through middle and rear doors, asking them to proceed to the fare box next to the train operator."

Johnson said fare collection on the Green Line has been a challenge in both collecting fares and moving service along efficiently.

“When people don’t pay, the T loses money, or if they get caught, it can cause a delay because drivers have to wait for every boarding passenger to pay,” Johnson said.

“Fare collection has al-ways been a challenge on the Green Line because of the desire to collect fare, but at the same time, move service along at a steady pace.”

Johnson said one effort to diminish the problem is to assign officials to high-volume stations dur-ing peak travel periods.

Johnson brought up how in 2012, on the D Line, the MBTA began "fare blitzes,” or days when MBTA personnel would ask passengers at above-ground stations to prove they have enough fare to ride the T, according to an April 2012 release.

“Green Line personnel partners with

Transit Police for fare evasion stings," Johnson said. "Over the last three years, we have conducted more than 60 fare blitzes."

Johnson said a similar problem with fare collection was found on the commuter rail system, and in response, more personnel were assigned to the trains to ensure every rider had paid in full.

A "Front Door Only" policy was also instituted to promote fare collection in 2012, according to the release, so that during weekends, holidays and off-peak hours, passengers can only board through the front door, where fares are collected.

Johnson said the MBTA is constantly working to enforce fares.

“Systems are being improved on many of the MBTA transport systems,” Johnson said. “We found people on the commuter rail were avoiding paying by avoiding conductors, so the commuter rail was assigned more conductors to both improve the onboard experience and to ensure that everyone who boards the train pays their fare.”

Stacy Thompson, deputy director of LivableStreets, wrote in an email that the MBTA needs to make payment easier for riders.

“We, of course, believe that it’s important for people to pay their fares,” Thompson wrote. “Per-haps a better question to ask is, ‘Why aren’t people paying their fares in the first place?’ All-door payment options or off-board payment would make it easier and more efficient for people to pay their fares and help reduce the frustration people feel when they are all lined up at the front of the train trying to board and pay all at once.”

Boston residents were annoyed with the new message, which is repeated at

every stop along the Green Line.

Kimberly Wang, 47, of Back Bay, said the recording will likely not change much.

"The message seems generally ineffective. I think people tend to tune out announcements most of the time," she said.

"I know that the T is losing money, but it will be hard to completely eliminate freeloading altogether on above-ground stations."

Justin Bright, 25, of Chinatown, said sneaking onto trains has become more difficult, but a mes-sage will not stop everyone.

"I'll admit to having taken a free ride in the past, but it's harder than ever now," he said. "The front doors usually open first anyway when I'm riding, but I always make sure to tap my card even when they don’t.

This message won’t stop people that really want to get on. It might make them feel guilty, at most.”

Barbara Soohoo, 36, of Chinatown, welcomed the reminder and said she hopes it will encourage more riders to pay their share.

"As someone who pays their fare every time, I hope people start to obey the law," she said. "It's disrespectful to the drivers, and it can slow down the ride and inconvenience everyone when they have to ask you to pay."

Jeri Weaver, 27, of the North End, said he has little sympathy for the debt-ridden train line.

"The reminder is definitely annoying and repetitive, and I doubt it will decrease the amount of peo-ple that don’t pay,” he said. "After Late-Night Service ending, then the raise in fare, it's hard to feel bad for the T when people get free rides."

Participants see adjuncts deserve more respect ADJUNCT FROM PAGE 1 fices. They share it with other professors, which makes it hard for students and professors to have the personal relationships they need to have.”

Chris Snook, president of United Auto Workers Local 2324, said it is not fair for faculty to receive a 2 percent salary

increase in the past seven years while BU becomes one of the most expensive university in the United States. “[Adjunct professors are] a group of some of the lowest-tier people on campus,” Snook said. “Graduate students [who are] teaching classes make more than them.

The ultimate goal is a fair contract. Ad-

juncts feel their value will change if they're better recognized by the university. They will be friendlier and more enthusiastic in their jobs if they're given the respect."

Joseph Martorana and Meagan Schwarz contributed to the reporting of this article.

Student assaults roommate at 91 Bay State Road A male student reported March 16 at 10:45 p.m. that he was assaulted when he arrived to his room in Kilachand Hall. When he got home, he turned on a lamp and his roommate threw a lamp at his elbow. The suspect was arrested the next day.

Intoxicated student in the lobby of 33 Harry Agganis Way BUPD officers responded to an intoxicated student that was found sleeping in the lobby of StuVi 2 March 16 at 3:39 a.m. He was transported to the BU Medical Campus for further treatment.

Car sunroof damaged at 10 Buick St. A male employee reported March 17 at 6:33 p.m. that his sunroof had been broken. Nothing was stolen from the car.

Students stopped outside 1065 Commonwealth Ave. BUPD officers stopped three male parties Friday at 8:21 p.m. after they had left Star Market carrying a case of beer. One of the male students had legally purchased the alcohol and gave it to students who were under 21. Both parties will be summonsed for Minor in Possession and Procuring Alcohol to a minor.

Backpack with marijuana found at 275 Babcock St. A BU employee turned over a backpack that contained marijuana from Sleeper Hall Friday at 8:30 p.m.

Marijuana found at 277 Babcock St. The Rich Hall Office of Residence Life staff reported March 17 at 9:07 p.m. that they found a small amount of marijuana while investigating a noise complaint. The resident was not in the room, and the marijuana was confiscated.

Assault at 610 Commonwealth Ave. A non-affiliate male reported Friday at 2:21 a.m. that a male party assaulted him. He said that he and his friends were walking past the party, and they started verbally harassing them. One of the male parties struck the victim in the face. Officers were unable to locate the suspect.

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Redstone Film Festival showcases Hollywood's future

BY PRESTON PARK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The 36th Redstone Film Festival showcased this year’s best films from Boston University’s Department of Film and Television on Friday. Sponsored each spring by Sumner Redstone, chairman of VIACOM, the festival celebrates the best that BU’s graduate and undergraduate program has to offer.

Great screenwriters, directors, producers and filmmakers of all kinds have been through Boston University’s College of Communication. The likes of Richard Gladstein, co-executive producer for “Pulp Fiction” and producer of “The Hateful Eight,” and Scott Rosenberg, screenwriter of “Kangaroo Jack” and “Gone in Sixty Seconds,” were honored during their time at BU with Redstone awards.

This year’s six film finalists were promising, showcasing BU students’ promise and their potential to one day be in the ranks with Gladstein and Rosenberg.

“You Are Here” Directed by Wes Palmer, a senior in COM Taking the first place for Best Film and awarded both Best Screenplay and Best Editing, this heartfelt story tracks a young man’s promise to his late mother to see the Grand Canyon. An underhanded mall cop

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Joseph Dwyer’s “Listeners," Emily Sheehan’s “Adaptation” and Wes Palmer’s “You Are Here” took home the top awards at the 36th annual 2016 Redstone Film Festival.

on the protagonist’s tail (the young man is a vagrant living in a display RV inside a mall) adds tension to the narrative with satisfying idiosyncrasies and rhythm. The film is sin-

cere in its nostalgia for childhood but may taper toward the maudlin for some.

“Listeners” Directed by Sara Robin, a graduate student in COM The second-place winner for Best Film and the winner for Best Sound Design, “Listeners” is an impressive sci-fi caper beaming in on an Orwellian dystopia. A mix of Wachowski film grammar and narrative elements from the “Divergent” series, three renegades subvert a surveillance system predicated on mind-reading technology. An ethical dilemma pins the film’s main protagonist into using the very mind-reading technology on her desperado partner. High marks go to the filmmaking for its resourcefulness and skill, making a student production feel like a professional grade product.

“Adaptation” Directed by Emily Sheehan, a graduate student in COM

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Earning third place for Best Film, this documentary is an artful dedication to the gossamer of China’s ancient textile tradition. Linens whisper on drying racks, and light, floral dyes lend themselves to analogize the fading of a meticulous, delicate and ancient way of life in China’s Jiangxi province. The treatment of the story is deft, and the visuals are beautiful.

“Postal” Directed by Anneliese Scheck, a 2015 COM graduate A likeable postman saunters along a mail route littered with the quirky neighbors of Anytown, U.S.A. — in this case, Walpole — in “Postal.” Quickly, the film

turns into a buddy comedy in which the mail-delivering protagonist starts to kindle a relationship with the mysterious, beautiful neighbor who had lost her mind. He draws friendly cartoons and delivers them through the mailbox in the center of her front door, out of which she sticks her arm, the only visual of her until the end. All smiles for this light, friendly story about how “Ozian” love can sometimes be.

“Jump” Directed by Dan Behar, a senior in COM A story about a single father, a daughter, a teacher wedged between them and a jump roping competition, “Jump” skillfully uses cinéma vérité to draw all the sharpness and slapstick from its actors. A daughter’s deadpan may be the perfect comedic foil to a single father’s gusto. Under the film’s smart, blackly humorous quips lies a big heart.

“More” Directed by Tara Kavanaugh, a senior in COM Exploring the murky sexual ethics between two roommates, “More” has a lot to say and leaves the audience with an artful, challenging and open end. A young woman navigates through an unclear sexual landscape, dazed between brushes with her roommate and a rendezvous with a young man whom she need only text to summon.

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"The Power of Disbelief" sparks gender representation conversation

BY ELISE TAKAHAMA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Hailey Magee, a 22-year-old rising singer-songwriter, is a fighter. Her passion for sharing stories through her music has always driven her to take chances and put herself out there, but she recently realized there was an obstacle in her path.

Though the Boston music scene is a unique place to explore the musical world, it has become blatantly obvious to Magee that it isn’t as diverse as it should be, especially when it comes to female representation.

Despite the enormous amount of talent in many female musicians, men usually dominate shows in Boston. In 2015, less than 20 percent of all Cambridge music performers were women, Magee said.

“Women are tokenized,” she said. “It’s because there are so much fewer of us that folks think about us as women first and musicians second. They respond to us as women, so they hit on us and they touch us.”

Though disrespect usually comes in subtler forms, Magee refuses to let it slide.

She organized the Emerging Boston Area Singer-Songwriters’ “The Power of Disbelief,” a concert held Friday designed to shed light on the issue of gender representation. EBASS is “a community of over 500 singer-songwriters that bridges the gap between emerging and established artists in Boston by offering opportunities to connect, promote, and perform,” according to its website. Magee founded EBASS in 2014.

Friday was EBASS’s first concert directed at the issue of female inequality in the music scene, and its primary mission was to give aspiring musicians a place to grow and perform.

PHOTO BY BRIAN SONG/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Heather Woods and her husband perform an impromptu set at the Power of Disbelief concert at the Lilypad.

Reaching the room’s full capacity, more than 90 concertgoers squeezed into Lilypad, a cozy performance venue in Cambridge.

Two Boston-based singer-songwriters, Mary Henriquez and Heather Woods, also performed, stunning the audience with a full spectrum of emotion from heart-wrenching stories of the past to calls for strong female empowerment.

The concert solidified that Magee is not alone in her stand for better representation of female musicians. Henriquez said in an interview that after she released a six-song EP last year, it took six months for someone to book her show since she was “consistently ignored by bookers.”

“In the music business, you often experience a lot of reduction and coldness and sometimes there’s a real lack of humanity, which is very upsetting because music is all about learning to have

empathy and learning to love and process your feelings,” Henriquez said. “It’s sad to think that within that field, there can be so much coldness.”

Although she admits it can be discouraging, Henriquez said she is ultimately excited about how the Boston music scene will evolve.

At the concert, Magee showed audience members an open letter to all the bookers in the Boston area, thanking them for their hard work and encouraging them to ensure they would feature a balanced group of performers in their shows. She asked everyone to sign the letter to show support for the cause, and by the end of the night, she’d accumulated more than 80 signatures.

EBASS members are also thinking of making April a “Musician Wellness” month to continue to create an emphasis on the importance of the movement.

“I want to build momentum,” Magee said.

“We don’t want it to end in that room.”

The reaction to the music and the message of the concert implies that it won’t. By partnering with other groups to produce similar shows, Magee is hopeful that they will just gain energy.

Mass NOW and Queer Women in Music, two organizations that promote justice for anyone who identifies as a woman, have supported the cause alongside EBASS and showed up at the concert to provide more information about their own missions and ways to get inv Their messages are beginning to resonate.

After Magee had explained that she wanted to back out of a show where she was the only female performer, the booker responded on a fully apologetic and sincere note. They’re now working together to build a show that is completely gender equal. Once the issue is brought to the attention of Boston bookers, Magee said she believes they’ll be just as receptive.

“They care about what their community members think about their shows,” she said.

The movement isn’t only about reaching out to bookers, but also to people in the community who may not be aware of the misrepresentation in the music world. Many don’t actually realize how unbalanced it can be, Magee said, but EBASS is ready to change that.

“I think I’ve learned that as a white man, it’s always easy for me to fit in and so I always have to be patient and try to understand the story and what it’s like to be a woman or identify as a woman,” said Eric Connelly, 28, an attendee from Cambridge and a consultant at Workbar. “It’s being patient and open to seeing things differently than I thought before and also being curious and being ready to change my perspective.”

INBUSINESS THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016

Boston startup rocking socks of customers, students, homeless

BY MICHAELA JOHNSTON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When University of Massachusetts Amherst graduates Parker Burr, Taylor Offer and Elijah Grundel began creating and selling multi-patterned socks from their dorm rooms, they got on their feet and embarked on an idea that would skyrocket their success.

Their success as sock entrepreneurs, that is.

Burr got the idea to sell socks after starting his first business, a startup that sold sports uniforms. When his customers requested socks, he began looking into the market.

“I was a sophomore [in 2012] when I started messing around with [the idea] at UMass, and socks were exploding at that time,” Burr said. “It was just really good timing. We got super, super popular and, I mean, you see it now. Everybody talks about their sock game. I was just at the beginning of it, so the timing was definitely key.”

Last August, the team moved their company, FEAT Socks, to Boston. They have six industry sales representatives that pitch the socks to retailers around the country.

The FEAT team — which also includes Bianca Corey, Philip Nash and Andy Upton — enjoys the freedom and excitement that comes with running a startup.

“I like doing my own thing,” Burr said.

“People ask me, ‘What are you doing tomorrow at work?’ and I have no idea until I get to work in the morning. It changes every single day. Sometimes I’m visiting customers, and some days I’m packing boxes.”

Corey, FEAT’s event manager, said that the

team is very close-knit because its members all just graduated, and she said she feels as though “a new exciting thing happens to us each week.

Plus, it’s all 20 year olds.”

Nash, the sales and project manager, emphasized the exciting work environment at FEAT. Last summer, he said he printed about 25,000 pairs of socks by hand. Currently, he is collaborating with artists to develop new merchandise.

“When you get excited about what you do, it doesn’t really feel like work,” Nash said.

With names like “Bam Bams” and “Freaky Tikis,” the FEAT Socks merchandise is aimed to inspire people to experiment with their own sense of style. In the company’s latest concept, called “The Weekenders,” FEAT pairs with local celebrities to design sock lines.

“The Weekenders are people that live every day like it’s the weekend, that don’t just go up the corporate ladder to make a paycheck,” Burr said. “They’re just having fun, smiling and enjoying life.

Past FEAT collaborations include vocalist Matisyahu and singer/songwriter Zander. The latest “Weekender” is U.S. Olympic medalist and gymnast Aly Raisman. The team is currently seeking a national clothing chain to sell Raisman’s five-sock line this spring.

FEAT Socks is using its growing popularity for good. Along with presenting to local high school kids about entrepreneurship, the startup has donated more than 2,000 pairs of socks, with a focus on homeless shelters around the Boston area. They have paired up with Pine Street Inn, Somerville Homeless Coalition, Project SOUP

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More than 2,000 pairs of socks were donated to Boston-area homeless shelters thanks to the startup FEAT Socks, founded by University of Massachusetts Amherst graduates.

and Floating Doctors.

“Socks are the most requested thing in homeless shelters, and no one donates them because no one wants to give their used socks,” Burr said.

Corey found local organizations to connect with through a friend who works at Back on My Feet, a nationwide nonprofit that helps homeless people get back on their feet through running.

“We thought it was perfect to team up with them, give them socks and go running with them,” Corey said.

To current college students thinking about opening their own businesses, Burr advised, “Just go for it.”

“When you’re young in college, you can always go back to class,” he said. “Class is still go-

ing to be there. It’s the best time in the world to go after something. If you fail, it doesn’t matter.”

Corey said the best advice is to stay open to new opportunities.

“Don’t go through college thinking you have to do something,” she said. “Try and try again. I was a pre-vet major when I graduated, and now I’m doing business and I love it. Don’t get stuck in a certain path that you think you have to do.”

Burr said he hopes from FEAT’s startup experience, people takeaway that anyone has the chance to start a business.

“It doesn’t matter how old you are,” Burr said. “Believe in yourself and believe in the product.”

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CATALYST THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016

LUNGevity Foundation women tackle cancer, serve as role models

BY SAMANTHA BASTRESS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Thanks to the researchers of the LUNGevity Foundation, we can all breathe a little bit easier now.

The LUNGevity Foundation conducts valuable research focused on the prevention and early detection of lung cancer. Lung cancer is currently the most lethal of cancers, causing 27 percent of all cancer-related deaths in 2015, according to the foundation’s website.

Since joining with the nonprofit Protect Your Lungs, LUNGevity has become the nation’s fastest-growing charity related to lung cancer.

“With the hard work of these leaders and the many other women propelling the field of lung cancer forward, future lung cancer survivors will be able to live longer, better lives,” Andrea Ferris, president and chairman of the LUNGevity Foundation, wrote in an email.

In honor of Women’s History Month, female scientists of LUNGevity have been spotlighted here: Kim Rieger-Christ Kim Rieger-Christ is a part of a team that won the 2014 Early Detection Award from the LUNGevity Foundation. The team’s research aimed to produce a new method of determining if nodules in the lungs were cancerous or benign. The process included taking a nasal swab of the patient and analyzing the cells.

“Despite advances in surgery, radiation and systemic therapies, lung cancer remains a highly lethal disease due to an inability to detect it at an early and potentially treatable stage,” Rieger-Christ wrote in an email. “Although low-dose computerized tomography screening for lung cancer improves survival in high-risk patients … nearly one-quarter of these screening exams have findings such as small pulmonary nodules that are concerning for possible lung cancer.”

While most nodules are benign, false-positive readings from the LDCT screenings lead to further tests, creating a financial and emotional burden for patients. As a result, Rieger-Christ and her team came up with a less invasive and cost-effective method that they developed after observing the impact of smoking on the microRNA expression changes in the nasal and bronchial epithelium.

“We have also developed a bronchoscopy-based gene-expression signature of lung cancer that can serve as an accurate diagnostic biomarker,” she wrote. “Building upon these observations and preliminary data demonstrating that the lung cancer-associated airway field of injury extends to the nasal epithelium we are aiming to develop a minimally-invasive nasal biomarker that can accurately classify LDCT-detected pulmonary nodules as early lung cancers or benign lesions.”

In the future, the nasal swab test will allow scientists to better categorize patients and determine whether or not further testing or screening is necessary.

Ultimately, Rieger-Christ said her goal is to help patients receive most accurate information and the most appropriate treatment regarding their cancer.

Katrina Steiling Another recipient of the 2014 Early Detection Award and a member of Boston Medical Center’s Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine, Katrina Steiling has been working to detect and catch lung cancer in its earliest forms. In doing so, she collaborates with Rieger-Christ on finding

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In honor of Women’s History Month, the lung cancer-focused nonprofit LUNGevity is honoring Rieger-Christ, Beane and Steiling for their outstanding work in lunch cancer research.

a more efficient diagnosis for lung cancer and is one of the leaders of the lung cancer screening program at BMC. “I think [lung cancer is] an important clinical area — there’s a lot of high-risk people,” Steiling said. “I also recognize the limitations in our current medical and clinical knowledge and what we can do to help people, which is why I also do research.”

Lung cancer is extremely prevalent and deadly, Steiling said. In addition to being the leading cause of cancer-related death, there are more cases of lung cancer than breast, colon and prostate cancer combined. “[Lung cancer] a difficult cancer to check,” she said. “It lies deep inside the lung, and people often don’t have symptoms until it’s too late. What this project really aims to do is to try to apply some of the lessons we’ve learned from the screenings for other cancers and the early detection tests for other cancers and bring that into helping people with lung cancer.”

Graduating as an M.D. and earning a master’s degree in bioinformatics at Boston University’s College of Engineering, Steiling is a professor of medicine and bioinformatics at the BU School of Medicine. She said she sees herself and both a doctor and scientist.

“In learning about medicine and beginning to practice medicine early in my career, I also realized that [with] a lot of the medical tests that we do and the treatments that we have, there’s a lot of room for improvement,” she said. “That’s why I went back to the laboratory — to try to figure out better ways to address fundamental problems we have when treating patients.”

Jennifer Beane A 2012 recipient of the LUNGevity Career Development Awards for Translational Research and a professor at BUSM, Jennifer Beane focuses on the early detection of lung cancer by looking at samples of cells from a patient’s respiratory tract.

“Traditionally, the lab has focused on looking at normal airway epithelial cells, cells that line your respiratory tract, and trying to understand how these cells respond to different exposures,” Beane said. “Primarily exposure to cigarette smokes, although now there are others that are going to focus on electronic cigarettes.”

Her research aims to test whether or not a patient needs treatment when LDCT scans produce false-positive results.

“You can use it, then, to help someone decide at a decision point about, ‘What do we do?

Is this thing that we see on the CT scan lung

cancer or not?’” she said. “You can use that test to then decide if that person has lung cancer.”

The procedure includes conducting a bronchoscopy and collecting cells with a small brush.

“From using these cells and measuring the expression of genes, you can basically distinguish smokers from non-smokers, you can tell about former smokers, you can tell if a person does or does not have lung cancer,” Beane stated.

In order to prevent more cases of lung

cancer, Beane said she is looking to research even earlier preventative measures.

“Even today, the five-year survival rate upon diagnosis of lung cancer is pretty grim,” she said. “What we need in lung cancer is better therapeutics [and] ways to either prevent the disease from ever happening or to catch it early. If you catch it early, then you have a chance to resect it and a better chance of surviving longer than if you catch it late and just have the treatments that are available to you that can’t actually take it out.”

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After Brussels, true leaders rise above politicians There’s a certain awful feeling that’ll only get more familiar: waking up with a hazy head, eyes tired and straining to focus on the news alert tucked among Facebook notifications on your phone. On Tuesday morning, it read that three explosions in Brussels killed more than 30 people and injured more than 200. For the moment, that’s all it said.

Details materialized with the ensuing hours. At around 8 a.m. (3 a.m. EDT), two attackers struck the departure gates at the city’s Zaventem airport. An hour later, a third explosion hit a downtown metro station. Within hours, the United States was waking up to the sort of social media mourning not seen since the Islamic State group, who would take credit for the Brussels attack, brought similar evil on Paris last fall. In our fear and confusion, we turned to our nation’s leaders for their guidance and support.

Really, we should have known better.

As American politicians took to the Twittersphere, their responses spanned the spectrum from stern to smug to vaguely totalitarian. Both U.S. presidential frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, called for bolstered homeland security, with Trump adding on Fox News, “I’ve been talking about this for a long time.” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, also campaigning for president, took a more sure-handed approach,

calling for law enforcement to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.”

For the most part, though, what we heard from our government was about what we expect when acts of terrorism feel this close to us. Politicians from both parties proclaimed solidarity with our Belgian allies and called for renewed commitment to stop those who would bring harm to the West.

“The wave of terror that has been unleashed in Europe and elsewhere around the world are attacks against our very way of life and against the democratic values upon which our political systems have been built,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich, also a Republican presidential candidate, said in a statement on the attacks, as if any reasonable person could disagree with him.

Regardless of how delicately they’re handled, though, the responses given by our leaders in the wake of international tragedy are given to seeming insufficient.

It’s worth pointing out that part of that comes from our country’s habit of selective grief — 35 people were killed in a similar attack in Ankara, Turkey, earlier this month, with no such outpouring of support for our Turkish allies to be found.

But there’s a more troubling reason, and not just troubling because Trump was the one to touch on it. In talking to CBS

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the urge to use that strength to seal ourselves shut. By reaching out in solidarity with our ailing allies, we assure ourselves that, should we ever find ourselves facing the unthinkable, we might find their hands reaching back out to us. Security is one thing, but cordoning ourselves from the rest of the world won’t help us if, as in San Bernadino and in Boston, the next attack comes from within.

But for fear of disunity, we shouldn’t let the threat of a homegrown attack fracture our nation. Cruz’s despicable calls “to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized” — as if Muslim Americans are patiently waiting in their ghettoized neighborhoods, tearing pages from their calendars until their inevitable radicalizations — misdirects the sort of aggression he demands of us. We can decry “radical Islamic terrorism” too, until our own jowls fall off, so long as we’re not equating it with the millions of Muslims living here in peace, and so long as we don’t let the thought of Them cloud the power of Us. As with everything, there will be a time for politics in discussing the attacks in Brussels. But until then, we should be able to count on those who lead us to do exactly that. That means taking control from the obvious thing terrorism would see control us: terror.

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News Tuesday morning, Trump said that despite the horror of what befell the people of Brussels, “That’s peanuts compared to what’s going to happen.”

That’s an extreme sentiment, true, but if Trump’s good at anything, it’s keying into the very real fears Americans feel. After all, Brussels is the de facto seat of the European Union. With the arrest of Paris attacks perpetrator Salah Abdeslam on Friday came the revelation that, of the Europeans who left to join the Islamic State group, hundreds have returned home. With Paris and now Brussels fresh in our memory, it’s too easy to see our newsfeeds filled with the faces of friends studying abroad in London, Paris or Madrid and think, “What if?”

It’s the responsibility of those in whom we vest power — or of those asking for that power — to protect us from those fears, and the strongest chance to do so comes with the first remarks in the aftermath of tragedy.

For fear of inaction, we must be realistic. As these atrocities — God forbid — become routine, blanket statements of thoughts and prayers will become hollow.

Albeit tactfully, our politicians must consider the scope of these attacks, with strong reassurance that doesn’t pull punches. For better or worse, that doesn’t seem to be a problem.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016

It could be more Greek, to me

BY WILL TENTINDO COLUMNIST

Boston University is a long, slim campus with small gathering places that are increasingly being taken over by buildings (R.I.P. COM Lawn), and our community is made up, for the most part, of those with no interest in sports and Greek life. True, a minority of students are involved in Greek life and turnout at our major sports games is minimal, especially compared to schools where Greek life or athletics dominate the school and its community.

Personally, one of the things that brought me to BU was the lack of Greek culture or a dominance of athletics. However, as a student at BU, I believe that the administration does very little to foster a sense of community that takes the place of those things. At BU, it’s on the students to find a community among their peers, and being a Terrier often comes secondary to other identities.

Regardless of your personal opinion of Greek life, it is hard to find evidence that the university encourages its existence. The only tangible evidence of Greek life on campus is a rock behind Marsh Chapel. Walking on Bay State Road, however, you might get the impression that fraternities are more present at Boston University, but those fraternities belong to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not us.

In fact, BU sold those Greek houses to MIT in the 1960s, and now fraternities and sororities not only have no on-campus housing, but are also told not to have their own houses off campus. While no house in Allston has Greek letters on display, students can name and locate places that serve as the fraternity houses.

It is no secret that Greek life has a bad reputation at BU, let alone on other college campuses. Recently, many fraternities and a sorority have been investigated, and a few have been punished

after allegations of underage drinking or hazing. By no means is this indicative of all Greek life communities, but by kicking fraternities and sororities off campus, does Boston University actually attempt to fix any of the issues related to Greek life? Greek housing on campus, like those on Bay State Road, would integrate the Greek community into the main part of our campus, fostering a greater sense of community and discouraging any questionable activity.

But there are also ways to foster community that have nothing to do with Greek life. Athletics, for example, bring students together through the shared love of competition. Compared to other schools, though, Boston University is not a sporty school. It would be a hard argument to say that a school that cuts funding for its teams and evicts its basketball teams from playing conference games in their arena has a large athletic community.

After the administration cut the swim team’s scholarship funding, many questioned the future of the team, and for good reason. Boston University has a history of cutting teams in this way — wrestling was defunded and destroyed in a similar process. Worse, BU is one of the largest universities in the country, and it has no football team.

Now, sports are not necessary in maintaining school spirit, but when a school does not have an active sport culture, something should replace that system to encourage school spirit. With the possible exception of the College of Arts and Sciences, being a member of one of BU’s colleges and schools is more indicative of your college experience than being a Terrier as a whole. Terriers see themselves as members of their own colleges, which are distinct from the university at large and are for most purposes separate. Obviously, members of each college interact with each other, but the colleges at Boston University are clearly sectioned off.

As a large university, the role of the colleges and schools in creating communities in the first place is crucial for the administration. When Boston University works through its policies against that university-wide community, there needs to be a different way for the student body to identify as Terriers together. That falls on the administration.

But will you be Ankara?

BY LUCY GAMADES COLUMNIST

A terrorist attack shook Brussels early Tuesday, leaving at least 31 people dead and injuring hundreds more. The Islamic State group quickly took responsibility for the violence, adding yet another major metropolitan center to the targets they’ve hit. Bombings at the city’s international airport and a subway station adjacent to the European Union headquarters came on the heels of the Friday arrest of a suspect in last year’s Paris terrorist attacks who had been living in Brussels — “Europe’s most wanted fugitive,” according to CNN. As was the case with the Paris attacks, the world shared its grief on social media.

The hashtag “#JeSuisBruxelles” trended on Twitter for most of the day. Artists drew emotional cartoons in the black, yellow and red of the Belgian flag. The Eiffel Tower was lit up with those colors, as was Berlin’s Brandenburg gate. Such mourning was fitting for such a devastating event, but a question arises here just like it did after the November attacks in Paris: Why don’t other parts of the world get the same treatment?

Just a few days before bombs went off in Brussels, they went off in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. A car bomb killed 32 people and injured more than 100. This was not even the first attack in Ankara in the past few months. In February, there was another bombing that killed 30 people, and in October, a bombing at a peace rally killed 103 people.

After the most recent bombing, a court-ordered ban was imposed on accessing social media, according to Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News, in a purported effort to stop people from sharing graphic photos of the events. That might be a possible explanation for why there was no outpouring of support online, except for the fact that there was none after the first two bombings, either. There’s also the fact that the

bombing was not a headline in most major news outlets.

According to the Independent, Google News searches for the Brussels attack generate nearly 17.5 million more results than searches for Ankara. Facebook user James Taylor, an English-speaking resident of Ankara, commented on the disparity in a lengthy post.

“You were Charlie, you were Paris,” he wrote. “Will you be Ankara?”

Similarly, in November, shortly before the attack on Paris, suicide bombings in Beirut killed 43 people, but the rest of the world remained quiet. Cities like Ankara and Beirut are major metropolitan centers in peaceful nations. Just because they are closer to the Middle East than European countries does not mean that they are war zones. The attack on Beirut was the city’s deadliest suicide bombing since 1990.

It is not fair to extend a hand only to those countries that are most like us here in the United States. Our determination to stand in solidarity with the victims of these heinous attacks should not be limited to — well, to put it bluntly — white people.

Attacks on Brussels and Paris may get the most attention because they feel the most familiar. College students studying abroad or people who have taken a European vacation frequently share their shock. But Ankara’s people, who go to work and kiss their families just like they do in Brussels, should get the same empathy, even if their home is not a popular tourist destination.

Granted, Western news media will prioritize what happens closer to home and that makes sense, but as Justin Peters of Slate pointed out after the Beirut attacks, there is a difference between unequal coverage and total lack of empathy.

In November, The New York Times ran a story entitled “Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten.” Perhaps the most poignant part of that story was a woman describing explaining to a child why “another pretty city like yours” got attention while yours did not. That story ran on page six.

We will most likely hear about the Brussels attacks for weeks to come, as every detail is released. There will be hashtags and profile picture filters. There will be stories from the survivors and touching profiles of the victims. That humanization will probably not be extended to those in Ankara, as that story has already faded from the news. If this is the first you’re hearing about it, then it’s too late.

Interrobang In sort of local news, two Framingham men who assaulted a University of Massachusetts Amherst student last month after a failed drug deal had been trying to pass off “shredded vegetables” as marijuana, according to a Tuesday statement from the Northwestern District Attorney’s office.

We here at the ol’ Free Press were wondering — what are BU people passing off as something else?

BU Athletics: Charlie McAvoy as the next Jack Eichel

GSU: Panda Express as authentic Chinese cuisine

Admissions: The seal superstition as an excuse for not graduating in four years

President Brown: The tuition increase as “our lowest percentage increase in 20 years”

COM: Elementary stats as a decent math education

Questrom: Finance as an honest career path

CGS: The CGS curriculum as a decent education in general

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Ahead of NCAA Tournament, Chase Phelps returns home

BY SARAH KIRKPATRICK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When the Boston University men’s hockey team travels to St. Paul, Minnesota as the ninth overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, it will be the first trip to the state for the Terriers since postseason competition in 2012. But for one player, at least, things will be more familiar.

Sophomore forward Chase Phelps grew up in nearby Edina, about 25 minutes away from the Xcel Energy Center, where the Terriers will take on the University of Denver for the first round of the tournament on Saturday night.

“I played there when I was younger, and I’ve watched hundreds of [Minnesota] Wild games there,” Phelps said, “and I’m excited to get out on that ice sheet and take care of business this weekend.”

Phelps attended and played hockey at the prestigious Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in Faribault, Minnesota before arriving at BU in the 2014-15 season.

“I’m excited to go play in front of a bunch of friends and family,” he said. “It’ll be good to get back and

play in my home state, and I’m excited for the opportunity … I’m excited to play in front of them because they don’t get the chance to come out to Boston too often, so it’ll be nice to see them.”

Of the 20 American players on BU’s roster, just three reside outside of the East Coast — and Phelps is the only one from Minnesota. In fact, Phelps is the first Minnesota native to suit up for the Terriers since former captain Chris Connolly graduated in 2012.

Phelps said he’s prepared to show his teammates around the Twin Cities and help them grow acquainted with the area.

“Oh, it’ll be fun to show them where I grew up, my old stomping grounds,” Phelps said. “… If we get the time, we’ll go around St. Paul, around the city and stuff, and just kind of show them where I grew up.”

This season, Phelps has spent the majority of his playing time on the fourth line, tallying three goals and two assists in 36 games this season. His best game of the year came in a conference matchup against the

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While most of the hockey team calls Canada or the Northeast home, Chase Phelps hails from Minnesota.

University of Massachusetts Amherst in which he had a goal and an assist. It was the first two-point game of his regular season career.

BU head coach David Quinn said that Phelps will be a crucial

part of the team’s playoff hopes in front of his hometown crowd.

“I’m sure it’ll be fun for him,” Quinn said. “Chase has really had a good second half for us, that [fourth] line has been good, that line’s spent

time in the offensive zone, they’ve chipped in offen-sively. We’re going to need that again throughout the weekend. But it’s always nice to go home.”

Hynes, Akers expected to lead softball vs. Sacred Heart SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 said. “So I think Makinna will get that second start going into the

game and then have Mel come in and close it out.”

Another Terrier looking to perform well before the Patriot

League schedule is freshman second baseman Emily Morrow. The prospect out of Lakewood, California totaled three hits in last week-

end’s double-header.

“It was a bit of an adjustment period for her, but she has owned it," Waters said of Morrow’s move from shortstop. “Offensively, she does what she needs to, and I think she will have a great role in conference play.”

Sacred Heart comes into this double-header looking to bounce back from a three-game skid in which it fell to Siena College once and La Salle University twice.

While outfielder McKenna Wiegard has shown upside as of late, outfielder Lauren Delgadillo leads her team with 18 hits. Junior Kelyn Fillmore is another offensive threat, as she’s batting .281 and consistently gets on base. Even though Sacred Heart averages under three runs scored a game, Delgadillo and Fillmore show signs of a strong hitting core.

The Pioneers’ young roster also boasts the freshman duo of Emily Orosco and Kristin Mc-

Cann. Although junior Jamie Carlson is the go-to starter for this team, Orosco has shown up as the future star of the staff, as she owns a 1.51 ERA and just over nine strikeouts a game through seven games.

On paper, Sacred Heart seems to be a young team trying to find its identity and its footing in the Northeast Conference. However, Waters has urged her team to respect its opponent and stick to the mantra of “anyone’s game on anyone’s day.”

“That’s the part we are trying to teach to our kids,” Waters said.

“You have to be consistent innings one through seven. Sacred Heart has had a great program in the past, and even though they don’t have the offense they necessarily want, that doesn’t mean they can’t have a lights-out day against us. But our kids are ready for conference play, and I hope they utilize these next two games to get ready for the heart of their season.”

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Former Terrier Dominique Badji thriving in MLS, Colorado

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Over the course of 2011 to 2014, Patriot League teams knew well that the Boston University men's soccer team had a special talent.

A native of Dekar, Senegal, Dominique Badji was an ever-present threat up throughout his BU career, earning multiple conference and regional awards along the way. Fast forward to present day, and Badji has turned a fourth-round selection in the 2015 Major League Soccer SuperDraft into a starting role on the Colorado Rapids.

While Badji now dons Colorado’s burgundy and white and plays as a winger, his approach mimics that which bore 22 goals under the guidance of BU head coach Neil Roberts.

“Getting picked toward the end of the draft was just motivation to go out there and prove people wrong,” Badji said. “Coming into training camp, I was motivated to do everything that I could. The first year was rough with ups and downs. [I] played a couple games. I wasn’t really satisfied with the first year I had. I’m just looking to build onto it this year, and so far so good.”

As Badji mentioned, his first year was riddled with ups and downs as he struggled to make Dick's Sporting Goods Park a permanent home. He started nine games and scored two goals in his rookie campaign, falling victim to Colorado’s last-place finish in the Western Conference.

However, come this year, Badji is firmly entrenched in head coach Pab-

lo Mastroeni’s starting lineup, as he’s started all three of the team’s games.

The former Terrier attributes his success to confidence and a desire to erase the bitter taste of the 2015 season, but Roberts feels the about-face is the result of the right situation.

“Colorado was a very good team for him to fall to because he had the opportunity to shine right away,” the 31-year head coach said. “They never thought Dom was going to make the team, never mind even contribute right from the beginning. Dom, like through his whole life, took advantage of the opportunity and shined. The credit goes to him.”

Badji also said the guidance of Mastroeni and the rest of the coaching staff has been invaluable, as they “believe in me as a player and see a lot in me.” Those learning moments supplement Badji’s growth, but nothing can replicate the on-field auspices of Colorado’s revamped roster.

The Rapids employ U.S. national team stalwarts in goalkeeper Tim Howard and midfielder Jermaine Jones, and striker Kevin Doyle and winger Shkëlzen Gashi respectively boast Irish and Albanian national team experience. For a 23 year old who just over a year ago was studying business at BU, it’s an astronomical leap that he never quite envisioned.

“Never would I think I’d have this many people to look up to, gain experience from, get advice from,” Badji said. “This preseason was awesome with Kevin Doyle teaching me a lot, Gashi has been here a couple months and I’ve learned so much from

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Dominique Badji has had quite the journey, going from Senegal to the BU men's soccer team to the Colorado Rapids.

him since I’m more of a winger now.

It’s nice to have these big-time players on our team, but it’s nice that they’re willing to help younger, inexperienced players.”

Roberts echoed Badji’s sentiments about the likes of Howard and Jones, but he added that the “humble, quiet” kid’s success falls on his own shoulders too. Badji and Roberts seriously discussed the prospects of professional soccer in the buildup to his junior season, and the need for consistency was established.

“Our guys that make it, it’s that

you can play within a team and make the team better,” Roberts said. “Can you make your teammates better?

So many kids think that when scouts come and watch you, that they want this brilliant player, but they want someone who can do the basic things at a good pace at a good level. That’s what Dom can do. He can pass, he can defend, he can do all that.”

While it remains to be seen what the future holds for Badji, he’s enjoying life in Colorado and seems primed for future success. He’s also left a positive mark on the club from day one, earn-

ing respect through dedication and his work ethic.

“He is very well liked and gives everything he has whenever he is at practice or at games,” said John Rosch, managing editor of Burgundy Wave.

“And to think that he came from Senegal to BU to the Rapids is everything that is right in sport — a guy that was always counted out but earned a contract despite the odds saying he wouldn't. It's a great story, and I can't wait to see how it progresses.”

Badji’s may now play under the bright lights of MLS stadiums, but he

Quinnipiac, North Dakota projected favorites at Frozen Four BENEDYKCIUK FROM PAGE 12 Demko. Harvard scores on 27.9 percent of its power plays, while BC kills Minnesota-Duluth, while a worthy 88 percent of penalties it endures. opponent, doesn’t have the offensive It’ll be a fierce battle, but Harvard firepower necessary to crack Provi- doesn’t have the defensive depth to dence’s outstanding defense. knock off the Eagles.

Sparks will then fly in a battle of On paper, Boston College has bitter Massachusetts rivals. Harvard the most talent in the tournament.

University forward Jimmy Vesey will Though it has experienced its fair lead the Crimson against Boston share of collapses this season, they’re College and its goaltender, Thatcher a tournament team through and

through and will take the Northeast Region over the Friars.

West Regional St. Cloud State University is rolling right now. It just won its conference tournament and is 8-2-0 in its last 10 games. Meanwhile, Ferris State University stumbles into this game just 5-5 in its last 10 contests.

With that disparity in mind, St. Cloud will come out on top.

A red-hot Denver University side will then take on a hungry Boston University team. Denver has depth in net and on the blue line as well as a big-game player in Danton Heinen. Still, the Terriers could claw their way back in the Frozen Four, depending on which team comes to the tournament. It could be the team that knocked off Quinnipiac 4-1 at Quinnipiac, or it could be the one that lost 4-2 at home against a lowly side from the University of Vermont.

That type of inconsistency does not usually bode well in the postseason, and as such, Denver will emerge victorious.

In their matchup with Denver, St. Cloud State’s history will come back to haunt them. Denver has heated up at the right time, and will be fresh off a victory over a better opponent. The Pioneers will defeat the Huskies and head to the Frozen Four for the first time since 2005 — a year the team captured its second consecutive national championship.

Midwest Regional What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Right now, Northeastern University is the unstoppable force, as the Huskies finished the regular season on 13-game winning streak en route to winning their first Hockey East Championship since 1988. The University of North Dakota is the

immovable object, as they’re consistently in the tournament hunt.

North Dakota possesses one of the best lines in college hockey, featuring Drake Caggiula, Brock Boeser and Nick Schmaltz. This will be a great game, but North Dakota has too much speed, strength, star power and depth to bet against.

While North Dakota has “one of the best lines” in college hockey, the University of Michigan has the single best line. The Wolverines “CCM” line — featuring Kyle Connor, JT Compher and Tyler Motte — has dominated the NCAA all year long. Connor, a freshman, should win the Hobey Baker Award, joining the likes of Paul Kariya and Jack Eichel.

Both of his linemates are also Hobey Baker finalists. Michigan will defeat Notre Dame University, but not without a fight, especially from sophomore goalie Cal Petersen.

The matchup of North Dakota and Michigan, simply put, is a coin flip. Michigan has an absurd 31.8 percent success rate on the power play and scores 4.9 goals per game.

I’m a firm believer that defense wins championships, though, and North Dakota only allows 1.9 goals per game. Therefore, North Dakota will advance from an extremely entertaining game.

To conclude, the Frozen Four will be comprised of Quinnipiac, Boston College, Denver and North Dakota. Each of these teams can win it all, which makes this tournament that much more exciting.

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Softball hosts Sacred Heart ahead of conference slate

The NCAA's other bracket

BY JAMES MATTONE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BY MIKE BENEDYKCIUK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

We’re now just about a full week into the 2016 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, which has been full of big-time upsets. For all those with busted brackets, frustrated again by the so aptly titled “madness,” the NCAA Hockey Tournament bracket was revealed this past weekend.

While there are only 16 teams instead of 68, these college hockey stars compete just as much as their hardwood counterparts. For every tomahawk dunk and buzzer-beating 3-pointer, there seems to be a bone-crushing hit or flashy glove save.

This year’s hockey tournament, much like the basketball tourney, is as up in the air as ever before. And if March Madness is any indication of what lies ahead for the Frozen Four, we are in for a treat. Now, let’s break down the regions.

East Regional The tournament’s No. 1 seed, Quinnipiac University, gets a tough draw in its first game against the Rochester Institute of Technology. Recall that in last year’s tournament, RIT knocked off the top overall seed Minnesota State University, Mankato. While it’s always hard to bet against the tournament’s highest seeded team, RIT will put up a fight. However, the Bobcats have only lost three games all year, and they won’t lose their fourth against RIT. The University of Massachusetts Lowell then takes on Yale University in what, on paper, favors the River Hawks. The big story here will be Yale goaltender Alex Lyon’s NCAA-best .938 save percentage and 1.59 goals against average.

If UMass can beat Lyon early, they may win handily, but that seems very unlikely. Lyon is having a historic year and can steal this game by himself. If he can get some offensive help from John Hayden — who leads the Bulldogs in goals — Yale may pull of the upset.

That winner will go on to face a dominant Quinnipiac team. Frankly, neither team is good enough to beat the Bobcats, and they’ll punch their ticket to the Frozen Four.

Northeast Regional Providence College will begin its title defense against the University of Minnesota Duluth. Junior netminder Nick Ellis has been nothing short of spectacular for Providence all year.

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After splitting a weekend series in rainy Maryland, the Boston University softball team has two more non-conference fixtures against Sacred Heart University before diving into Patriot League play.

The Terriers (10-12) will face off against the Pioneers (6-14) in a doubleheader Thursday afternoon at home, and BU head coach Ashley Waters said her team is ready for what’s ahead.

“Getting in two games before beginning conference play with Army is huge,” Waters said. “So this series is more for us to get better with our gameplay.”

BU comes into the series having played well as of late, winning six of its last seven games and averaging nearly seven runs a game in that span. Most recently, the Terriers routed Binghamton University by a score of 11-1, where they poured in three runs in three separate innings thanks to junior shortstop

Britney Younan’s five RBIs. In that contest, senior ace Lauren Hynes kept the Bearcats (9-9) to one run through seven innings and has arguably become the focal point of the Terrier rotation. Waters has been impressed by Hynes’ play and is looking forward to her performance in Thursday’s double-header.

“It’s not flashy, but she pretty much does her job,” Waters said. “She’s executing the ball, she’s keeping it low and she is keeping us in games. For her, she could not have had a better preseason. I hope her preseason form carries into conference play, and I’m sure it will.”

Hynes will take to the mound for one of those games, and Waters is confident in junior pitcher Makinna Akers to start the second game.

“We are in a position where Makinna and [senior pitcher] Melanie Russell have melded for a lot more chances, and Makinna has come in like a relief hold,” Waters CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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It's likely that both Lauren Hynes and Makinna Akers will start a game.

Despite injuries, men's basketball enjoys strong season

BY NICK FRAZIER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University men’s basketball team wrapped up its 2015-16 season Monday with an 83-72 loss to the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the CollegeInsiders.com Tournament.

Despite the sour ending, there were many positives to take away from the Terriers’ (19-15, 11-7 Patriot League) season. BU head coach Joe Jones led his squad to a third-place finish, largely in part to a seven-game win streak in the second half of its schedule.

Several Terriers also picked up conference awards at the end of the season. Junior guard Eric Fanning claimed All-Conference First Team honors after leading BU in scoring with 15.2 points per game. Not to be outdone, freshman point guard Kyle Foreman averaged 3.9 assists per game en route to earning a spot on the All-Rookie Team. Finally, senior forward Nathan Dieudonne was named to the Patriot League All-Defensive Team.

Even Jones received recognition, as he was named Patriot League Coach of the Year by NBCSports.com.

“I was very pleased with a large part of our season,” Jones said. “Obviously there were some disappointments at the end, but usually that's going to happen unless you win the whole thing.

If you had to take a hard look at it and told me that we'd lose [senior forward] Justin Alston and [junior guard] Cedric Hankerson for nearly the whole season and we'd still come in third place, I'd be pretty happy with that.”

One of the most impressive parts of the season is how Jones and the team survived several injuries to important players. Hankerson, arguably the team’s best player from 2014-15, played only one game all year. Alston started seven games for BU before missing the rest of the

season. Besides them, Dieudonne, Foreman and sophomore guards Eric Johnson and Will Goff missed a combined 49 contests with injuries throughout the year.

The significant amount of injuries, however, ended up creating a platform for other players to shine. Most notably, sophomore forward Nick Havener averaged 21 minutes in 34 games this season, a year after playing only 16 games.

The Sarasota, Florida native scored 6.7 ppg and grabbed 6.1 rebounds per game, the latter of which was good for second on the team.

Likewise, both sophomore guard Cheddi Mosely and junior center Blaise Mbargorba played an increased role and did well in the process. Mosely averaged 13.3 ppg this year and hit 70 3-pointers, while Mbargorba finished fourth on the team in rebounds and second in blocks.

“The thing that I take from the overall experience was that we have a lot of good players,” said Jones, who used 14 different starting lineups in the regular season due to injuries. “We had some guys really step up when they needed to, and there were guys going into the year that may or may not have been set to play a big role, but they stepped up and got it done. I think it was a very good year for what we went through. I feel very good about the future of our program.”

The Terriers started their conference schedule slowly, totaling a 3-5 record after eight games. However, BU would soon find its identity, and they went on a tear of seven straight wins.

The winning streak included a 75-73 win versus Lehigh University, where senior guard John Papale hit a buzzer-beater that earned the top spot on SportsCenter’s top-10 list.

BU rode that momentum into the Patriot League Tournament, yet it was unable to get past a tough American University team, falling 69-64 in the quarterfinal round. The Terriers earned an invite to the CIT, and the team would perform like their old selves in the first round, defeating

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Eric Fanning will return next season as one of BU's primary scoring threats.

Fordham University 69-66 in a physical game.

Although BU failed to get past the second round of the tournament and will lose Papale and Dieudonne to graduation, Jones was still impressed by the environment his players have cultivated.

“The thing I'm most pleased about is the culture of our program is very good,” Jones said.

“Guys have a very good understanding of what we're trying to do and what we're trying to get done. That's the big thing. If the culture is good, then when adversity strikes, you're still about to have success. That's what we showed.”

BOTTOM LI NE THURSDAY, MARCH 24

FRIDAY, MARCH 25

New York Yankees slugger Alex Softball vs, Sacred Heart, 3 p.m.

Rodriguez told ESPN Wednesday that he would retire following the 2017 season.

SATURDAY, MARCH 26

SUNDAY, MARCH 27

MONDAY, MARCH 28

Men's Lacrosse @ Lafayette, 1 p.m.

Women's Lacrosse vs. Loyola Mary-

It is rumored that Rodriguez wants to

land, 1 p.m.

leave the game before he gets caught

Men's Ice Hockey @ Denver, 6:30 p.m.

Softball @ Army, 1 p.m.

using steroids again.