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Food truck lottery fair to some, not to others By Hina Tai Daily Free Press Staff
Running a food truck business requires taking risks, said Ron Sarni, co-owner of Grilled Cheese Nation and president of the Boston Food Trucks Alliance. He called Boston’s newest schedules for the city’s food trucks “very fair,” even though the city used a lottery system this year to parcel out prime time at the most highly coveted food truck spots in Boston. The scheduling process took the form of a “random, draft-style selection” bid last week, according to a City of Boston press release, when 23 food truck vendors vied for breakfast, lunch and dinner shifts at seven spots around the city, including spaces outside of City Hall and the Boston Public Library’s main branch. The city adopted the lottery system in response to feedback from food truck owners who requested the city make allocating times and spaces a more transparent and accessible process, said Boston Director of Food Initiatives Edith Murnane. Sara Ross, owner of Kickass Cupcakes and secretary of the Boston Food Trucks Alliance, said the lottery gives vendors equal opportunities to gain access to the top-tiered location spots. This way, “everyone gets a fair chance at what are considered the prime spots,” she said. “It’s open to the public – everyone sees what’s going on. It’s a random
Josh Crampsey auditioned for MTV’s “MADE” in February thinking he would not be picked. But, after surviving several rounds of casting, he and two other Boston University students could be given “MADE” coaches. “I interviewed first with MTV, and then a couple weeks later, someone from the show ended up calling me, and I got a second interview,” Crampsey, a College of Communication sophomore, said. “Basically, several phone calls later, they decided to do a test shoot with me.” Cameramen followed the “MADE” potentials for two days before spring break to determine whether or not the students would need guidance in reaching their goals. “We’re just looking at these people in
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Students wear hoodies, demonstrate against Trayvon Martin’s death By Alexis Gordon Daily Free Press Staff
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The Bon Me food truck parks outside the College of Communication several afternoons per week, offering students “bold, fresh, fun Vietnamese cuisine.”
drawing.” The result of the lottery, a schedule that bounces vendors from location to location over a week’s course, accords with the nature of food trucks, Sarni said. “If the location isn’t working, move,” he said. “You’re mobile. That’s the beauty of the food truck industry.” Most vendors were pleased with how the city handled the distribution, Ross said. “I would say overall, 95 percent of food truck venders are pretty happy with the
way it’s going,” she said, and added that the Boston Food Truck Program has been “trying very hard to make everyone happy.” “The city has been really proactive in planning the program to make it fair to everyone,” she said. “They’re taking into consideration not only the nature of the food trucks but everyone else as well – the citizens, parking, different departments –
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‘MADE’ hopefuls’ ultimate goals, personal stories tested By Grace Rasmus Daily Free Press Staff
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their daily lives, seeing them do normal things and also seeing the story within the everyday stuff unfold,” Nick Richter, a freelance shooter working for “MADE,” said. Richter said he has to judge whether or not the hopefuls would be able to undergo a transformation. “Does she go to the gym a lot?,” he said of Shane Romano, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore who auditioned to be made into a Tough Mudder participant. “Does she not go to the gym a lot? Does she have a really busy class schedule, and how is that going to affect her being successful at her goal?” Tough Mudder, which involves a 10- to 12-mile obstacle course with 25 militarystyle tasks designed by the British Special Forces, is the “premier adventure challenge series in the world,” according to the web-
site. About 15 to 20 percent of its participants do not finish the challenge. “There are events all over the country and the world, so I would enter into one of them and try to finish it,” Romano said. Romano said she thinks the uniqueness of the Tough Mudder challenge combined with her past are what made her stand out to the producers. She declined to elaborate on her experience, but said it has had a significant role in her personal story. If picked for the show, Crampsey said he will work with a “MADE” coach to be turned into a pole dancer. Crampsey led the cameraman through his daily life in class and with friends for two days before spring break. “That stuff will be assembled into an audition reel, and then from the audition reel,
MADE, see page 4
About 40 Boston University students donned hoodies and stood around the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Marsh Plaza Thursday afternoon in protest of the recent death of Trayvon Martin. The students were among the many Million Hoodie Marches around the country that is in protest of the outcome of the Martin shooting. After their protest, the students, who are a part of the sociology of race and ethnicity course taught by Professor Ruha Benjamin, gathered on the BU Beach behind the plaza and continued with their discussion about Trayvon Martin, which led to analyses of how race is viewed in the media, government and entertainment industry. Benjamin and a number of students posed in their hoodies early last week for a photograph that was added to the “Million Hoodies March for Trayvon Martin” Facebook event page, along with countless others. The photograph was featured in a blog post by the New York Times Wednesday. The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday its launch of an investigation into Martin’s death. Martin was a 17-year-old black teenager who was fatally shot outside of a gated community in Sanford, Fla., by a member of the community watch in late February, according to news reports. The gunman, George Zimmerman, said he killed Martin in self-defense, even though Martin was unarmed. Zimmerman was not arrested. Florida is one of 21 states in the U.S. with the “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows a person to use lethal force rather than retreat during a fight. With the law, Florida residents are allowed to carry concealed weapons with a permit. State law allows for private sales between residents without going through the Federal Firearms License. In an op-ed for FOX News released Wednesday, Florida Rep. Dennis Barkley, who authored the bill that became the “Stand Your Ground” law, said he does not believe the law protects Zimmerman in the
Hoodies, see page 2
‘Hunger Games’ hits theaters, fitness clubs in Bean, includes archery, animals By Allie DeAngelis Daily Free Press Staff
“The Hunger Games” is invading both movie theaters and fitness centers, as one Boston-area gym is offering a free workout fit to train a Tribute. From March 29 through April 26, members and non-members can “Train Like a Tribute” for free at the Davis Square Boston Sports Club to see if they have what it takes to win the Hunger Games. Although the book is popular among teenagers, Davis Square BSC Fitness Services Manager and trainer Fawn Cronin said people of all ages will flock to the workout, which begins at the Davis Square BSC on Thursday. “I think there is something in each character that adults can relate to,” she said. The workout tests participants with the type of high-intensity feats main characters Katniss and Peeta must master, featuring “archery, tree climbing, strength training and speed work,” according to the BSC website. The exercise circuit, the brainchild of
Eric Salvador from the New York Sports Club, includes moves inspired by “The Hunger Games” characters and animals – Capitol Crunches, Peeta Presses, Fox Face Quick Feet, Jabberjay Jacks – in a workout similar to the gym’s Ultimate Fitness Experience class, she said. To keep people on their feet, BSC will throw in “disasters” for sweating gym-goers to dodge and “sponsor gifts” for people who look like they need help or deserve a reward. While the workout does not include a fight to the death as in the book, Cronin said players still get competitive. “You can see everybody kind of sizing each other up as I’m announcing what the exercises are about, what we’re doing for the disasters,” she said. “But there’s always that one person that’s not looking around that wins – the one that’s focused and knows exactly what to do.” Contestants who complete the most repetitions of the exercises get their own Mockingjay pin, in true Katniss style, Cro-
Hunger Games, see page 4
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Boston Sports Club trainer Eric Salvador shows his trainee the Katniss Killer archery move. Davis Square BSC if offering “Train Like a Tribute” classes from March 29 through April 26 in honor of “The Hunger Games.”
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Martin killing type of terrorism on blacks, prof. says Boston ahead of other cities, Hoodies: From Page 1
incident. The possibility of Zimmerman using a racial slur before shooting Martin became a source of debate in the issue after the Sanford Police Department released the 911 tapes, according to news reports. Aubrey Ruben, a sophomore in the College of General Studies, said she was appalled that it has to come to having nationwide protest for justice to be carried out. “It has gone to a point where a movement like the hoodie movement has to be made,” Ruben
said. “We shouldn’t have to do this to get them to reconsider.” Arielle Sharma, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said she could not wrap her head around the circumstances surrounding the shooting. “My ultimate plan is to be a defense lawyer, so normally when things like this come up, I am normally on the side of the guy who committing the crime,” Sharma said “But there was not a single thing that I could come up with that could justify this.” Benjamin said her two sons
came to mind when she first heard about the Martin shooting. He said she considered the shooting as a type of terrorism on the black community because while it may not have hurt or effected many people physically, it has had an impact emotionally and mentally. “Basically that what these laws implicitly say is that we are going to protect guns more than we are going to protect children,” Benjamin said. “We need to take a huge deep look and transform our gun laws in this country, and this law in Florida is just one example.”
food truck owner says Trucks: From Page 1
[and] support[ing] businesses that the food trucks are around.” In fact, Boston ranks as one of the more progressive cities when it comes to food truck policy, Sarni said. “If you look at Miami, not
one food truck is allowed on the streets of Miami, not one. Boston could have done that but they didn’t,” he said. “If you look around to other parts of the country and other models to see what’s going on, I think you will see that Boston is one of the most supportive food truck cities in America.”
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3 Part of a kid’s lunch from home
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20 Like many a residential system
5 WWII Mark II’s 6 First name at Notre Dame
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34 Sequences 36 Teacher of Adele Varens, in an 1847 novel 37 Bothering a lot 38 “Nope, the other thing” 41 Pew extension
44 Vampire played by Cruise 45 Assertion from one who won’t be outdone 48 Shows 49 Part of a deck 52 Golf hazard, often 55 “Enemies, A Love Story” Oscar nominee 57 47-Across, e.g. 58 PC-to-PC system
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Me, Myself and I This past week, my eyes were opened to a whole new experience. I’m a self-proclaimed, semi-social person – I enjoy the company of others, especially when seeing a movie at the theater. Before my experience last week, I had never seen a movie on my own – besides the usual latenight Netflix movie in bed, complete with pajamas and some junk food. But alone at the movie theater? Never. Somehow, throughout my 19 years of life, I managed to avoid that socalled “social KRISSEN abnormality.” Really, it was KAWACHI mostly my own insecurities that held me back. The only reason this precedent was broken, however, was due simply to the movie “Casablanca.” This movie has been my absolute favorite for about four years now, since the first time I laid my eyes on Humphrey Bogart and fell in love with him (no judgment please). Alas, me being my normal self, I bought my ticket days before any of my other friends did. That being said, when they attempted to purchase their own tickets to accompany me as planned, they found that they were sold out. When I discovered this news, I briefly considered not going. But, having already bought a ticket and a conviction to see the movie, I swallowed my pride and went for it. It was a wonderful decision. Seeing that a movie so old could still grasp an audience, causing laughter and applause, warmed my heart. As a movie buff accustomed to seeing most of the classics and renowned films in a smaller setting, witnessing this particular gem with a large group of varying ages was enlightening. Also, the fact that I was not the only person there that had ventured to the movie alone was comforting. I guess there is some sort of odd pride in certain aspects of independence, like being able to go to see a movie alone. The month I spent in Oxford a few summers ago was the first time I had ever really noticed a sense of independence within myself. I quickly grew accustomed to, and even reveled in, my lunches out and walks around the city. That continued, from that point onward, through the rest of my high school life and into my college experience. Actually enjoying time alone at the library, going out shopping or even exploring were little moments of noticeable maturity that I was excited about. It’s good not to feel dependent on the company of friends or family to make small, relatively unimportant decisions. So if you were at one time like myself – scared to be alone – don’t be. Go out and enjoy the day. Get yourself a coffee and walk along the Charles. Go see the latest movie none of your friends have much of an interest in. Walk around the MFA on your own. You have the power to make memories for yourself. Krissen Kawachi is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at k.kawachi@gmail.com.
Monday, March 26, 2012
SMG moves up to 18th place in BusinessWeek rankings By Joseph Dalia Daily Free Press Staff
Boston University’s School of Management ranked among the top 20 undergraduate business schools in the nation, according to a special report by BusinessWeek. The report, published Tuesday, marks the second consecutive year that SMG has risen in BusinessWeek’s annual rankings. SMG garnered 18th place in 2012, rising 13 spots from the 31st place in 2011 and 19 spots from 37th place in 2010. BU spokesman Colin Riley said while national rankings may not be the best barometer of a school’s performance, SMG’s ranking of 18th shows the school has excelled in preparing its graduates for the business world. “We don’t generally endorse rankings,” Riley said in a phone interview. “But when you see a Boston University undergraduate school highly ranked, it reaffirms that the school is preparing students for success in business careers.” The school boasts a 75-percent job-placement rate and a median starting salary of $55,000 a year for those who enter the job market immediately after receiving their bachelor’s degrees, according to the report. Other notable Boston business schools include the Boston College Carroll School of Management, which ranked 9th, and Northeastern University, which ranked 27th.
Despite the national trend of employers asking interviewees for their Facebook passwords, some Boston companies said they do not ask for access to social networking sites to evaluate candidates. Last week, Facebook released a statement on their site regarding the recent trend, acknowledged by U.S. senators, of employers asking for applicants’ Facebook passwords. “This practice undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user’s friends,” Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan said in the statement. “It also potentially
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Bloomberg’s Businessweek’s ranked Boston University’s School of Management the 18th best undergraduate business school.
BusinessWeek generated rankings based on student surveys from 2012, 2011 and 2010 as well as feedback from recruiters and employers. SMG students entering the job market now have the opportunity to begin their careers at elite companies, Riley said. “I know a couple [undergraduate SMG] students that I’ve spoken with have great job offers with really terrific companies,” Riley said, “and I know they’re not the only ones.” Kevin Dallaire, a SMG sophomore, said in light of the program’s impressive ability to prepare students for the changing needs of the business world, the school deserves a higher ranking.
exposes the employer who seeks this access to unanticipated legal liability.” Egan said employers asking for employees’ passwords is not the right thing to do and may cause potential discrimination claims against the employers themselves. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut, is working on legislation that would make this practice illegal. The issue, however, may not be widespread in Boston, as some Boston employers said they do not ask for employees’ Facebook passwords. Lu Ann Reeb, founder and president of Boston Media Group, said social media has become the
Daydreaming good for health, study finds By Alexis Gordon Daily Free Press Staff
Daydreaming while doing simple tasks, such as planning a doctor’s appointment or tomorrow’s outfit on the way to class, may be an indicator of a better working memory, according to a recent study in “Psychological Science.” The study showed that while doing low-load tasks that do not take up a person’s full attention, people who daydream or think about other things while doing the task had a higher working memory capacity – memory that holds temporary information – than those whose minds did not drift off to other things. Jonathan Smallwood from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, one of the study’s researchers, said in a University of Wisconsin-Madison News article that while the brain is in idle, it tends to think about press-
Major charge removed in Trivino case By Emily Overholt Daily Free Press Staff
“I’m surprised it’s actually not higher because SMG is very good with its Career Services and with things that are really going to help you going forward in management,” Dallaire said. SMG provides its students with career resources and direct links to employers as a way to reduce the uncertainty of the job search, Dallaire said. “They have a lot of special networking events all throughout the year,” he said. “You get to meet with recruiters [who] talk about what they do and even potential positions for internships.” These resources are part of a vast array of tools that SMG uses
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Facebook password inquiries unethical, experts say By Alex Diantgikis Daily Free Press Staff
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ing matters. “What this study seems to suggest is that when circumstances for the task aren’t very difficult, people who have additional working memory resources deploy them to think about things other than what they’re doing,” Smallwood said. “Their brains are trying to allocate resources to the most pressing problems.” To conduct the experiment, researches asked volunteers to perform one of two simple tasks. They pressed a button in response to the appearance of a certain letter on a screen or tapped a button in time with their breathing. While doing these tasks, the researchers periodically asked the volunteers if they were fully focused on what they were doing or if their minds were wandering to other things.
Daydreaming, see page 4
first stop after reading a resume. “It’s public information, that’s the bottom line,” Reeb said. “Asking for a password? That’s where I say no.” Reeb compared it to asking someone for his or her age and said that asking for a password is completely inappropriate. “From a recruiting standpoint, employers who ask for access to private profiles are likely to deter a lot of qualified candidates from wanting to work at that organization,” said Ryan Hunt, a career adviser from CareerBuilder, “so it’s still best to learn about each candidate from interviews, resumes and references.”
Facebook, see page 4
Former Boston University men’s hockey forward Corey Trivino is no longer being charged with assault with intent to rape, the most serious of seven charges stemming from a Dec. 11 incident, due to insufficient evidence, officials said. Brighton District Attorney spokesman Jake Wark said there was no evidence suggesting Trivino intended to use force in efforts to rape the victim. “We have an ethical obligation not to pursue a charge that we know we can’t prove,” he said. “It’s certainly not a reflection of the victim’s credibility or anything of that nature.” Trivino, who had been a Metropolitan College senior before his arrest, still faces three counts of indecent assault and battery and two counts of breaking and entering, Wark said. Trivino originally faced three counts of breaking and entering. Those charges came after Trivino allegedly broke into a female student’s room multiple times and sexually assaulted her. The incident, which was the 21-year-old’s fourth alcohol-related incident in his nearly three-and-a-half years at BU, resulted in his permanent dismissal from the team. On Thursday, Trivino appeared in court for a probable cause hearing to determine whether the crimes occurred. Conrad Bletzer, Trivino’s defense attorney, submitted a request for an extension, which was granted by the judge. The hearing was moved to April 27. “In Massachusetts, there’s generally a series of intermediary dates between the time of arraignment and the time of trial, and they number anywhere from three to a dozen or more,” Wark said. “So procedurally, the case would be continued from yesterday’s hearing regardless of what happened.” Trivino did not speak during the hearing, but stood in the courtroom while his attorney represented him. BU men’s hockey coach Jack Parker, who was with the Terriers in St. Paul, Minn., for the NCAA Regionals at the time of the trial, would not comment on the change in the case.
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If BU students chosen, MTV to film on campus in fall MADE: From Page 1_
MTV will decide whether to do an episode or not,” he said. As a dance minor at BU, Crampsey has trained in modern, jazz, ballroom and Bollywood dance, but he has never tried pole dancing. “It’s always been something that I wanted to do,” he said. “It seems really awesome and athletic, and hopefully it will work out.” Similar to Crampsey, CAS sophomore Julie Rosen will be
made into a pole dancer if picked for the show, though she said it was not her first choice. “Originally, I had auditioned to be a roller derby person, like in [the movie] ‘Whip It,’” she said. “But my roommate and I had recently taken a pole dancing fitness class, so that was on [the questionnaire]. The producers were like, ‘How would you feel about that?’” Rosen said she thinks the producers followed up with her because of how awkward she is, she said.
“They were like, ‘Yeah, we can transform her, it shouldn’t be too hard,’” she said. The filming and airing schedules of potential episodes are unknown. “Those details are currently a mystery to me,” Crampsey said. “I imagine it will be in about a week or so when they tell me if they’re going to do an episode or not.” Rosen said, “They told me it takes six to eight weeks to film. I think most likely they’ll begin filming next semester.”
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Davis Square ‘Hunger Games’ workouts find surprising success Hunger Games: From Page 1
nin said, and other prizes such as private training sessions or free one-month memberships. Anna Tassone, a Boston University junior in the School of Education, said the allure of winning prizes and the “thrill of beating other people” could influence her to consider attending the workout. While others said they did not think they could win, students such as Vidhi Patel, a sophomore in BU’s College of Engineering, they might give it a shot based on
the merits of the workout alone. “I’m not a fan [of the series], but I’d be down to try it,” he said. Hannah Faiguenbaum, a junior in SED, said she has read the trilogy and the books present an interesting idea for a workout. But the distance between the BU campus and Davis Square might prohibit her from trying it out, she said. “I would be more tempted to go if it was closer to campus,” she said. Cronin said the workout demonstrations have elicited interest
Students report mixed feelings on SMG’s future rankings Business: From Page 3
to keep students’ business education as up-to-date and relevant as possible, said Anand Brahmbhatt, a SMG junior. “They’re always updating the curriculum to meet different things that are always changing,” Brahmbhatt said. “They’re structuring the curriculum to allow interactions directly with companies around the world that need different perspectives.” Brahmbhatt said BU’s continued rise in rankings seemed appropriate because of the attention to detail the curriculum provides. “I’m not surprised by the dramatic rise,” he said. “The fact that the school is number 18 reflects the good faculty that they have in most of the departments in SMG.” As the school continues to update itself to correspond with developments in the business world, Brahmbhatt predicted SMG should continue to rise in
the rankings. “[SMG Dean Kenneth] Freeman has been trying to make drastic changes to keep up-todate with business,” he said. “The ranking is well-deserved and I think we’re going to continue to go up in the future.” SMG senior Logan Duarte said he did not expect the business school to climb much higher in the rankings. “SMG will probably hover in the high teens for years to come despite the fact it is probably a better school than most above it in the rankings,” he said in an email interview. While Duarte said he respects BU’s faculty, he noted SMG could still use some improvement. “I think that the ranking is probably spot on for now,” Duarte said. “We have good teachers and facilities, but I feel like the reputation is lagging significantly behind our rankings when it comes to recruiters.”
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from a diverse mix of people from all over the Boston area, despite the location of the particular BSC hosting the class. “We didn’t expect it to take off as quickly as it did,” she said. “We kind of thought ‘Wow, Davis Square, it’s not like we’re in Back Bay or Downtown Boston.’” In the meantime, she said, prospective Tributes must sign up early to represent one of the districts in the workout, as class size will be limited to about a dozen spots.
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Pranksters filled the College of Communication lawn fountain with soap Sunday afternoon, causing the foamy suds.
Most Boston companies do not ask for Facebook passwords Facebook: From Page 3
But Hunt said people can learn a lot about another person through social media, which is why employers are browsing prospective employees’ profiles before or after their interview. Hunt referenced a CareerBuilder survey that showed 45 percent of employers used social networking sites to research potential employees and another 11 percent are planning to do so. Information technology and professional and business services were the top industries most likely to screen potential applicants through social networking sites or search engines, according to the survey. Of those who studied potential employees online, 29 percent used Facebook, 26 percent used LinkedIn, 21 percent used MySpace, 11 percent searched blogs and 7 percent followed them on Twitter, according to the survey. The survey showed applicants were not selected for the job due to reasons such as provocative or inappropriate content, alcohol or drug use, posting bad comments about a previous employer and ly-
ing about their qualifications. It reported some of what employers found was actually beneficial for the applicant. Social networking revealed the candidate’s personality to the employers, displaying if they were creative or well rounded. Michael Durand, a spokesman for NStar, a gas and electric utility company, said NStar does not use social media networks to assess potential applicants or monitor existing employees. “Our use of social media is limited to posting information about company or industry-related topics and job openings,” Durand said. Christina Luconi, chief people officer for Rapid7, a company that specializes in security for companies’ websites and networks, said asking for someone’s social media password is completely illegal and something Rapid7 never does. “Everyone’s life is out there now,” Luconi said. “If there’s something fundamentally stupid out there, take it down.” The only type of social media regulation Rapid7 enforces is
publicly tweeting under the Rapid7 name and posts the company makes on its own Facebook page, Luconi said. “Anything on behalf of the company is controlled,” Luconi said. “We expect that people will act like professionals otherwise.” Rapid7 also often uses LinkedIn to find new people, Luconi said. “Social media is probably 75 to 80 percent of our method to find candidates,” Luconi said. Boston University College of Communication freshman Valerie Shahal said she would not give employers her Facebook password and would only show them her profile. “In a way, it makes sense because they want to see,” Shahal said. “But on the other hand we shouldn’t have other people viewing our things. I think it’s invading our privacy because we could be very good at our job and we can do stuff outside.” Shahal said something immoral, such as drug use, should influence whether or not the applicant gets the job because it could influence his or her performance.
Prof.: Daydreaming study’s data ‘significant but not really strong’ Daydreaming: From Page 3
To measure the participants’ working memory capacity, the researchers asked the volunteers to recall letters that they were asked to memorize before the tests and complete a series of easy math problems. “We intentionally use tasks that will never use all of their attention,” Smallwood said, “and then we ask, ‘How do people use their idle resources?’” Researchers found that individuals with higher working memory resources reported more task-unrelated thoughts. When they gave the volunteers a task but filled them with sensory distractors, their mind’s ability to wander completely turned off. “Giving your full attention to your perceptual experience actu-
ally equalized people, as though it cut off mind wandering at the pass,” said Daniel Levinson, one of the study’s researchers, in the article. Dr. Michael Hasselmo, a Boston University psychology professor, said the study seemed valid but not strong because of how difficult it is collect that type of data. “Just looking at their data it seems that they had effects that were significant but not really strong because there was a broad level of data intuitive level,” Hasselmo said. “We hear stories about people like Einstein daydreaming in class, and maybe high IQ is related to this. But this is just anecdotal; no one has really looked into this specific case.” He said external distractions and the physiological effects of drugs could impede a person’s working memory. Hasselmo has spent the last 27
years researching how the memory works. He specializes in episodic memory function and how this relates to Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and depression. In his own research, Hasselmo said working memory uses the medial temporal lobe, the part of the brain near the temples of the head, which is the same place where episodic memory takes place. Hasselmo said there is some evidence that areas of pathology in Alzheimer’s disease are involved in working and task-related memory. “One other thing that is interesting to say [is] that drugs that block acetylcholine receptors can reduce the working memory activity in the medial temporal lobes and that might impair memory,” Hasselmo said, “and that is consistent with the fact that in Alzheimer’s there are lower levels of acetylcholine.”
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Ten Minutes wit h Matt McGinley & Er ic Rober ts of Gym Class Heroes Max Belin MUSE Contributor
Gym Class Heroes performed at the House of Blues on Friday as part of the Boston University Programming Council’s SPF 2012 Event. Max Belin: We just wanted to ask you a couple of questions, pick your brains a little, see what’s going on. So, first question, how do you feel your music has changed from “As Cruel as School Children” to now?
one of the last living legends of rock and roll and actually just put out a record that’s really good. Their single is called “I Know How To Die”…but it’s still a fun song and I just want to crank it to eleven and jam out.
ER: Get your feet wet, man! It was actually in college where me and Matt met. I wasn’t going to college, I was just a townie, but he went for the music industry program to SUNY Oneonta which is one of the top ones in the state of New York. I was running around town since I was sixteen and you know, at that point in time the music scene there was huge and we were playing in separate bands. Then I joined this other band called Kill The Frontman, which was a hardcore punk band. Then one day Matt just said “Yeah man we’re going, our band just got signed.” And I was like, “Oh okay Matt see you never . . . ”
Eric Roberts: Drastically! I don’t know, I think throughout our record, Gym Class Heroes has a pretty signature sound. Even though our records kind of, you know, don’t really go all over the place, they aren’t quite the same either. MB: Well, you definitely fit an interesting genre being raprock and hip-hop, you’re always throwing in something new . . . ER: That term “rap-rock” always has weird connotations . . .
MB: Call me maybe?
Matt McGinley: But I understand what you mean, our sound is rooted in hip hop with these rock elements and soul elements as well as a lot of different things.
ER: It was really funny, I remember he gave me a copy of the CD and it wasn’t even printed.
MB: Speaking of rock, you guys have been on the Warped Tour since 2008. What was your favorite part of that experience? MM: They serve water and it comes in a can . . . it’s such a crazy vehicle for water, you never see it in a can. ER: You also get two free cases of beer everyday. All bands do, and it’s like what I imagine hand-outs at a soup kitchen are like. Everyone is so desperate for the beer. But you know, in all seriousness it’s a pretty rough tour. Just really long drives, it got really hot and sticky all the time. When we started it was definitely really rough; we were teaching ourselves. I see it as being in high school: we started off as freshmen and now we’re, I guess, super seniors. MM: We’re like the creepy dudes that come back to the party. And we look around are like, “Who are all these kids?” And then we try to hook up with all the underage girls [laughs] . . . but as Eric said it’s definitely like boot camp for touring bands. We worked from the ground up with signs just trying to get people to watch us or playing for ten kids at one point in our careers . . . so it’s cool to look back and see the progress we’ve made between then and now. MB: If there was any artist you would work with, or do a collaboration with, who would it be? ER: I don’t know how it would go over on the record, but I think it always changes every time I’m asked. But I think currently, I would just love to work with Lenny Kilmister from Motorhead. I don’t know how he would fit on the record, but he’s
MM: I think just networking, doing what you guys are doing now which is in here, socializing with the world-famous Gym Class Heroes [laughs], you already have your foot in the door! But I think college is a great place to get involved and sort of . . . what’s the word? Get your hands dirty?
MM: This was the Papercut Chronicles . . .
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Gym Class Heroes performed at the House of Blues on Friday.
MB: So, almost going in a different direction, can you guys comment on dubstep and how it’s influencing your genre? MM: We actually just came from an electronic festival in Australia and there was a lot of dubstep. It was like zombies jamming to music . . . but I like a lot of those artists, and it’s brand new to me just like it is to the rest of the world. I wouldn’t necessarily say that I’m influenced by it musically, but maybe I am subconsciously. I think artists like Skrillex, we listen to that a lot on the bus and in the dressing room and stuff.
ER: And he’s like, “Listen man, we just got signed, this can’t get leaked.” And I definitely left it at the bar. I instantly lost it. But the point is, that environment definitely helps out. If I hadn’t put myself out there and played in a bunch of crappy bands, I would have never met Matt. MM: I also think taking a risk too. You have to be willing to take a shot at your dreams, as lame as it sounds. I dropped out of school just to pursue this fleeting opportunity that I believed in. I actually went back to school and graduated from Boston University like last year. I got my degree a year ago, so I’m like alumni! MB: When was the last time you guys were in Boston?
ER: Yeah when he was like seventeen years old . . . but I think ever since the advent of dubstep, there’s been dubstep remixes for everything including metal and stuff, but I don’t see a dubstep remix of the Gym Class Heroes. I mean it can happen . . . I’m sure tomorrow, someone will go check out this track, something will come up on YouTube, which may even be good for us!
ER: I think in the fall, I believe. After he got signed I went off to college, the Culinary Arts School in Schenectady and then our mutual friend Brian Welch called and said, “Hey man, Matt wants to get ahold of you I think you should really call him.” And then Matt was like, “So man . . . what are you doing the rest of your life?” and I go, “Uhhh . . . nothing . . . ” I instantly stopped going to class. But, telling my parents, they thought it was the dumbest thing I could do. I was putting myself through college. I was the first kid in my family to graduate high school and go to college. So they wanted me to stay and they would ask, “Do you really think playing bass is gonna pay the bills?” And I’m like, I don’t care, I’m going.
MB: What recommendations do you have for kids our age (college students) or advice for people getting into the industry?
MB: Well, I’m sure they’re all proud of you! Thank you guys so much for talking to us!
MB: I’m sure you guys hung out with him on Warped tour?
The Deep Blue Sea’s Murky Water David Karikomi MUSE Staff
The opening sequence of The Deep Blue Sea perfectly encapsulates what is both good and frustrating about Terence Davies’s post-World War II drama. A graceful, fluid camera follows the event and aftermath surrounding Hester Collyner’s (Rachel Weisz) attempted suicide. The action, however, is dominated not by the recognition of Hester’s suffering, but by an overwrought and distracting classical score. Though the film is often aesthetically pleasing, it lacks a defining sense of humanity and admiration for the characters involved. The story focuses on Hester’s involvement in a romantic triangle. Her husband, William Collyner (Simon Russell Beale), is in love with Hester, but their marriage lacks passion and excitement, prompting her to start an affair with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a former Royal Air Force pilot. Though this new affair provides the sexual and emotional fulfillment, Freddie is unable or unwilling to lend her a level of stability that her previous relationship offered. Signs of PTSD from Freddie’s stint in the war are implied, but never openly discussed in the film, perhaps a stra-
tegic display of the era’s social naiveté regarding mental illness affecting war veterans. However, Freddie seems more of a caricature, and his moral and emotional shallowness prevented him from inspiring much sympathy for either him or Hester for falling in love with him. To be fair, Davies is set up with a difficult situation. In order to generate sympathy for the characters, particularly Hester, the milieu of spiritual emptiness and resignation dominating the film has to be managed with enough emotional depth to keep the characters interesting. Unfortunately, the film never quite harmonizes these two critical aspects. There is little chemistry between Weisz and either of her two male counterparts, which is made only more uncomfortable by poor casting decisions. Hester’s husband looks to be about 30 years her senior, while Freddie, portrayed as a young man just out of the army, could easily be her contemporary. The film also seemed unorganized and too manipulative. The constant flashbacks to WWII and Hester’s previous life before the suicide attempt were probably intended to instill
her sense of misplacement on the viewer, but these events were delivered without much purpose or necessity, and quickly became a distraction and irritation. As stated, the cinematography was stunning at times. The musky palette of the mise-en-scene heightened the nostalgia that was weaved subliminally through the film without over-sentimentalizing the action. Camera movements were unorthodox but fluid and gravitating, particularly the use of the hovering camera at the beginning of the film. The shot overlooks the intertwined bodies of Hester and Freddie while in bed, and provides one of the few moments of the film that communicated a sense of passion and interest between the characters. What may be a positive of The Deep Blue Sea may actually distract from the purpose of the film. Though the pacing is methodical and precise, these decisions come away as too mechanical, and erase any palpable emotion that the characters hope to have in Davie’s claustrophobic environment. The story has a good premise and hidden complexities, but just did not deliver in a compelling manner.
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Professional privacy Facebook has revolutionized how we share information with others, as well as how much we share with the virtual world. However, employers have instilled fear in its users in how much is visible on their profiles. Incriminating photographs, questionable wall posts and public outbursts on your Facebook wall could determine whether you acquire employment – a terrifying prospect, especially in light of the current job market being so competitive. According to an article published in The Daily Free Press today, employers may demand employees’ Facebook profile passwords to investigate their personal information. Obviously, this poses a blatant invasion of privacy and could lead to a variety of discrimination claims. While it is within a potential employer’s jurisdiction to want to investigate people’s profiles, delving into their personal lives by signing in to the site is extreme. A compromise could be to have a representative at an interview process taking potential employees through a screening process. Nevertheless, Facebook is classified as a “social network” for a reason. Its users have a right to separate their social lives from their professional ones. If a company is unhappy with content on
one of their employee’s pages, it can ask them to ensure there is no public association to their company listed on the page itself. Perhaps this could be the advent of “professional” Facebook profiles that exclude inappropriate content from their page. However, this raises the question of what classifies inappropriate content. The cases vary depending on the career path and company in question. Should an applicant be photographed with alcohol, it may not necessarily be fair to assume that the individual is irresponsible or reckless. Yet these checks will still remain necessary as a general sense of who the person is and what they value. Therefore, partial responsibility lies on users to maintain a base level of professionalism on their profile pages. Being required to give out your Facebook password to anyone is an infringement of personal liberty. Often, people’s passwords to Facebook are the same for other sites they use, including access to their bank account. Ultimately, this information should remain private, for how you choose to portray yourself to your peers is a personal decision that cannot and should not be tampered with by an employer.
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This month, the global community was shocked at the news that an American soldier had mindlessly killed 16 Afghani civilians. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was not known to be overly violent, yet he allegedly went on a rampage and expressed his rage in violence. According to an article published by The New York Times yesterday, Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of murder and 6 additional counts for attempted murder and assault. Furthermore, nine children and four women were among the casualties. Obviously, there would appear to be a mismatch between the death toll of 16 and the 17 counts brought against Bale, but as of now this inconsistency has not been explained. Due to these catastrophic events, the American military has been considerate in taking responsibility for the loss of innocent lives. In order to express their sympathy and aid those who lost loved ones, the U.S. has given $50,000 to families for each of the victims. In addition, those wounded received $11,000 in compensation. The money was received as an “assistance” payment. Of course, officials were quick to distinguish what these payments were intended to be. They were not a way to ensure the incident
was forgotten, but were intended to express American compassion. However, this assistance comes with certain controversy. Handing out monetary compensation to these victims, while admirable, sets an alarming precedent for future administrative decisions. Should another event this tragic occur, would the American government spend thousands of dollars in compensation once more? Furthermore, amidst an economic climate that is so unstable, these decisions could receive negative attention in light of the nation’s enormous debt. Giving financial compensation to families that are still enduring a grieving process could also be portrayed as insensitive. On the other hand, should American officials have done nothing to help these families, there would have been uproar as to why they were being neglected in a time of need. The fact that Bales will stand trial for the murders indicates that this case will not be swept away due to these payments. However, the line between assistance and attempts to place a value on human life is increasingly blurry in this situation. Should the debate over whether one can quantify human life ensue, it could unravel into a whole host of other issues.
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wo weeks ago I ventured to Harpers Ferry, W.Va. with ten other students as part of Boston University’s Alternative Spring Break Program. Haven’t heard of Harpers Ferry before? I’m not surprised. At its peak, Harpers Ferry consists of 300 people. But even though you may never have heard of the place, you’ve surely heard of its principal character, John Brown, yes? If not, well, you should have picked up a history book. Nevertheless, I’ll give you a rundown: Brown was a Civil War firecracker who took up the abolitionist cause. In 1859 he led a raid on Harpers Ferry (then home to a federal arsenal) with the hopes of arming the slaves in a bloody battle against the South. Turns out that that didn’t go so well. A number of Brown’s men were killed and Brown was captured, taken to court and hanged for treason. Today there are number of museums dedicated to the man along with gift shop shelves brimming with John Brown dolls c’mon, what kid doesn’t want to play with a stuffed, stern-faced replica of Brown? But enough with the history lesson; us ASBers were too busy making history of our own. Let me start off by saying that our ASB group was made up entirely of girls. Yes, we go to a school where 60 percent of the student body is female. Yes, we were volunteering on behalf of the CSC. But hey, we were an environmental group. Did more guys really request to spend their break playing with puppies in NOLA than traversing the Appalachian trail? According to the ratio, yes. Well, lucky for Harpers Ferry because it was in for quite a ride. Imagine: 11 girls running around in Dollar Store fairy wings. Harpers Ferry? Please. More like Harpers Fairies. Somehow I’m not so sure that the Harpers Fairies were as amusing to everyone as they thought they were. Don’t get me wrong; the rangers got a kick out of us. We did great work for them, and they loved us for it. They really did. But somehow I wouldn’t say the same for the grumpy ladies who yelled at us for taking “their” parking spots or using their driveways as
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a turn-around. Also, my senses tell me that our lovely housemate, a recent college grad working for the park, wasn’t all that pleased with us girls invading his “home.” Sorry man. The funny thing is though, despite taking on the fairy princess persona, we kicked ass. None of this pixie dust, Disney stuff. When we were asked to repair miles of worm fence or remove a forest of bamboo, we did. I can’t imagine what the motorists thought as they drove by a bunch of girls in orange vests wielding sledgehammers and axes - other than the fact that we looked like reformed convicts. I know that if it were me driving by, I would have thought to myself, “Man, those girls are badass.” At any rate, the other volunteer group got a kick out of us too. All week we were joined by a handful of kids from Canisius College - like Harpers Ferry, I had never heard of the place before. On multiple occasions the Canisius kids asked us whether BU was an all-girls school. Our reply: On first glance, one would assume the answer was yes. Ah, but they meant well. It’s hard to stay mad at kids who stop in the middle of their shift to bring you crayon-shaped popsicles just as your entire crew is being eaten-alive by a thicket of bamboo. Thanks? But like I said, we know the rangers loved us. I would have given anything to see their faces when we radioed in that there was “a loose person on the field.” Our real message was “there’s a loose pony on the field,” but they mistook it as the former. God, how they must have thought that we were a bunch of silly college girls trying to pull one over of them. Thankfully, the situation was resolved, our reputation restored. Freckles (yes, we named the pony) was returned to his or her (?) rightful owner, just in time too, because he/she was about to make a break across the highway. I guess what I’m trying to say is that for a week the Harpers Fairies brought a lot of color to this little town. I had great fun running around, fixing fences, hiking trails and dragging bamboo. On our last day the rangers told us that they were thankful for our work and couldn’t have done it without us. What they really meant to say was that 11 loud, lovely, loving fairy godmothers invaded Harpers Ferry. Now that the week is come and gone, I’m certain that they miss us . . . but not as much as we miss them. Meaghan Kilroy is a sophomore in the College of Communication and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at kilroymeg@hotmail. com.
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Despite challenging season, BU makes it further than any team since 2008-09 Heart: From page 8
way to also make a good name for itself and earn respect on the ice. A trophy does not prove how much it means for a team to make the national tournament and finish second in Hockey East after losing three draft picks in the middle of the season and playing most of the year with seven walk-on players in the regular lineup. Many things went wrong for the Terriers this season, but at the end of the day, they still made it further than any Terrier team since the national championship-winning 2008-09 squad. BU’s 23 wins were the third-most by any BU team in the last nine years. None of those eight other teams faced anything like what BU went through this season. “I would say it was a rewarding season, to see what we went through,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “There was turmoil and there was sadness and kids’ roommates missing, kids they went to class with every day, and, ‘My best
friend’s missing,’ ‘The guy I ate with five days a week at lunch is missing.’ “Those type of things were hard for these guys to swallow. For the most part, they had more fun coming to the rink than any place else because they were allowed to smile there. I think they felt uncomfortable otherwise.” For many, former Terriers Corey Trivino and Max Nicastro were only known as misbehaving young men who were out of control. But for the BU players, Trivino and Nicastro were friendly faces they saw each day, people they woke up to each morning. Charlie Coyle was not just a top-end talent who turned his back on the team in the middle of the year; he was a roommate who spent almost all of his time with the rest of the team. “For the guys who are still around, we really stuck together,” said redshirt junior forward Ross Gaudet. “We grew real close as a team over the year and being through so much really helped that. For the guys who aren’t here this
weekend and who weren’t with us the second half, we were always thinking of them and we always kept them in the back of our minds.” The Terriers had a difficult task in replacing missing players not just on the ice, but also in the locker room. According to Chiasson, that task was one of the most difficult challenges he has ever faced. “Nobody knows how hard it was for us to go through this stuff, and from a player’s perspective, it was probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever faced,” Chiasson said. “Everything that’s been going through, it was definitely hard for us to get in the public. This team is all about hockey and there’s a bunch of guys whose passion is hockey, just like mine. “The only place where I could find myself comfortable was around the guys and at the rink.” The environment at the rink this season will never return. BU will continue with a task force investigating the culture of the team in the af-
termath of Trivino and Nicastro’s arrests, but future Terrier teams will not live in the same shadow of those events that this BU team did. Players will graduate, and others will turn pro. But at the end of it all, the BU players said they were proud of this team and will treasure this season forever. “This year is something I’m equally proud of as something I was part of as a freshman in the national championship year for a bunch of different reasons,” said senior captain Chris Connolly. “The memories from this year are something I’m not going to forget, not unlike what we went through in the championship year. “There’s a lot of resilience, a lot of good character and attitude in that locker room that easily could have folded up and packed it away at Christmas, and this team was able to get [to] the national tournament. There’s just no quit in that team and I enjoyed being a part of the entire season.”
Conolly’s consistency, off ice persona led BU Penalties hurt Terriers in NCAA loss Connolly: From page 8
Parker said. “You don’t like the parents, you’re probably not going to like the kid, and if you met Mr. and Mrs. Connolly, you wouldn’t be surprised Chris and Jack are the kind of kids that they are.” Connolly, who was the first two-time captain since former Terrier Jack O’Callahan, dealt with one of the most tumultuous years for a college hockey program in recent history. However, Connolly kept the team positive, upbeat and focused during the second half of the year. “I can’t remember a captain – the last guy who had to handle what he had to handle on this team was probably Jay Pandolfo right after the Travis Roy incident,” Parker said. When things went wrong this season for the Terriers, Connolly was one of the guys that Parker could rely on to step up and take on new roles. After Corey Trivino and Charlie Coyle’s exits in December, Parker asked Connolly to move to a new position in the middle. Once Connolly moved to center he excelled at his new role, scoring all nine of his goals and recording 18 assists. He was up for the new defensive responsibility too, as he had a plus-11 plus-minus rating since the beginning of 2012. While Connolly’s leadership is his most prominent quality, he has been a great player on the ice for the program too. Over his four years, Connolly has totaled 39 goals and 90 assists, good for 36th all-time on BU’s career points list, and has been one of the best twoway players in Hockey East. This year, Hockey East honored Connolly
as the Gladiator Best Defensive Forward, as well as giving him the Len Ceglarski Award for individual sportsmanship. The two awards represent his ability in the defensive end while staying out of the penalty box. The Duluth, Minn., native was a plus-19 in his senior season and only took five penalties. Things could not have gone much better for Connolly to begin his career at BU. In his freshman season, he was named to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team when he scored 30 points on the road to his team winning the national championship over Miami University. While the team struggled over the next two seasons, Connolly was consistently one of the top performers for BU, totaling 31 points and 28 points in his sophomore and junior years, respectively. As for consistency, it doesn’t get much better than him in terms of consistent scoring, as he totaled 10 goals in each of his first three seasons, and added nine in his senior year. Connolly’s production on the ice is overshadowed by the type of person he is off the ice. With graduation approaching and the hockey season over, the BU hockey program will be losing one of its most well-respected players. That much was evident when, following the loss to Minnesota, junior assistant captain Alex Chiasson got choked up when speaking about Connolly. “Chris Connolly is probably one of my best friends,” said Chiasson. “I won’t get a chance to play with him again, but he’s definitely a great leader and a guy I looked up to every day.”
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rest of the first as each team picked up three penalties. Then, with Gopher forward Nico Sacchetti in the box for goaltender interference, junior forward Wade Megan evened the score for BU (23-15-1) 7:49 into the second. Sophomore defenseman Adam Clendening’s slap shot from the point bounced off the post to where Megan was waiting in the slot to convert his 20th goal of the year. After Megan’s power-play tally, the second period broke open both in terms of penalties and scoring. Minnesota defenseman Jake Parenteau took the Gopher lead right back at 9:21 with a shot from above the hash marks off a feed from the corner. Four minutes later, redshirt junior forward Ross Gaudet put on an individual show as he picked off a Gopher pass in BU’s defensive end, carried it into the offensive zone, stole it back from a Gopher who picked his pocket and slapped in his fifth goal of the year to make it 2-2. The tie didn’t last long. Less than two minutes after Gaudet’s goal, Gopher defenseman Seth Helgeson scored a goal very similar to Parenteau’s a few minutes after Gaudet’s equalizer. Seconds later, junior forward Justin Courtnall put BU in a difficult spot when he left his feet to hit a Minnesota player and received a game misconduct penalty, his third of the year. With redshirt freshman winger Yasin Cissé serving Courtnall’s five-minute major in the box, it only took Minnesota 20 seconds to make the Terriers pay. Right wing Jake Han-
sen tipped a shot from the point past Millan, who appeared to have trouble seeing the shot through traffic in front of the net. “You want to emphasize not to beat yourself,” said senior captain Chris Connolly. “One way is to stay out of the penalty box, and we obviously had an issue with that tonight. Throughout the game our team did a good job of being resilient as we have all year. It was never for a lack of effort – you just think, too many costly penalties had to cost us in certain situations.” With the Terriers still shorthanded on Courtnall’s major, junior assistant captain Alex Chiasson and defenseman Sean Escobedo got tied up in a scrum in front of the Minnesota bench. Both went to the penalty box, as did Minnesota forward Ben Marshall, making it even more difficult for BU to establish any kind of momentum. Clendening gave BU life with a goal early in the third period, a slap shot from the point that got through to the top of the net cleanly. But the Terriers couldn’t add to it before Sacchetti, having broken free of BU’s defense, cut in front of the net and deked around Millan to make it 5-3 in the Gophers’ favor. In the last four minutes of the game, the Gophers tacked on two empty-netters, earning a spot in Sunday’s regional final against their main rival, the University of North Dakota. “This was a team that stuck together and got better in the second half of the season,” Parker said. “When everyone else thought we’d take a big dive, we played pretty well. We ran into a team – the better team won tonight.”
Jones: Terriers did not achieve desired outcome, not end of the world Men’s basketball: From page 8
After that setback, BU won its last two games of the tournament, and went on to win its next two after that, including the program’s first win over Boston College since 1974, to get back to .500. JBU, however, was then plagued by a seven-game losing streak, a product of factors both within and outside the locus of their control. BU played three games without Irving, who was sidelined with a concussion he suffered in a 68-43 loss to Villanova University on Dec. 13. Without its team-leader in assists and top overall playmaker, the Terriers struggled to a 0-3 record in which they averaged just 55.7 points per game. “If you look at it soundly and say to yourself, ‘OK, you’re going to play the schedule that you’re going to play and that you’re going to have three games without D.J. Irving in that stretch,’” Jones said. “I don’t know if I’m really worried about the overall record.” As Jones alluded to, BU was faced with the most overwhelming stretch of a relatively daunting non-conference schedule. In a threegame stretch, all of which were losses, the Terriers had road games at Saint Joseph’s University and Villanova University, as well as a home contest against Harvard University, three teams that had a combined record of 59-38 at
season’s end. Even with the 4-10 record in non-conference play – against a schedule largely arranged and constructed by Chambers – Jones said the heightened competition, more than anything, helped team cohesion. “I thought it brought us together for sure,” Jones said. “I just remember the feeling that we had on the road and playing in the tournament in Rhode Island. We really came together.” Irving returned to the lineup Jan. 5 in Burlington, Vt., when the Terriers opened their America East schedule. He shot 1-for-8 in his 27 minutes and the University of Vermont blew BU out for the Terriers’ seventh straight loss. But the Terriers turned the season around following the loss. A home win over thenwinless Binghamton University on Jan. 8 was the Terriers’ first victory in a month, and everything went uphill from there. Bu followd that up with six straight wins. In the process, BU mounted a major second half comeback at the University of Maine, controlled Stony Brook University – BU’s opponent from last year’s conference championship – beat the University at Albany by 13 points, battled with the University of New Hampshire for a two-point road win, blew University of Hartford out of its own arena and thoroughly crushed the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.
“I felt like we had hit our stride in the middle of the conference season,” Jones said. “We’re probably playing our best ball.” BU, however, eventually stumbled in its second game against Stony Brook. A mid-second half run sparked a shot at victory for BU, but Stony Brook ended the game in control, pushing BU back to the familiar territory of a record below .500 with an important game against Vermont coming up mid-week. The Catamounts came to The Greek on the first day of February, just shy of one month after they blew the Terriers out of Patrick Gymnasium. At halftime, Vermont held a sizable 35-19 lead. In the second, BU managed to score 48 points and possessed the ball for the final shot with 11 seconds remaining. But two missed 3-pointers locked Vermont into second and BU down into third. Through the next three games, the Terriers held their third-place spot with wins at Binghamton and Albany and at home against Maine. In Albany, the Terriers earned one of their most unlikely victories of the year, trailing by as many as 17 points in the first half before scoring 50 in the second, eventually winning by three. But New Hampshire marked the end of BU’s first winning record of the year. BU then lost to Loyola University (Maryland) in Baltimore as part of BracketBusters,
but won its final two games at UMBC and at home against the team that would turn out to be the Terriers’ opponent in the first round of the conference tournament, Hartford. The Hawks and the Terriers met for the third time in the penultimate game of the conference quarterfinals. BU, with freshly minted America East Player of the Year Partin, was in control of the game through halftime. But in the second half Hartford struck back. Fouls, turnovers and a number of lackluster possessions late in the game allowed the sixthseeded Hawks to move on, and third-seeded BU’s season to come to a close. “The bottom line I thought when we really broke it down was we didn’t get timely stops when we needed them late in the game against New Hampshire, late in the game against Stony Brook and late in the game against Hartford,” Jones said. “At Hartford, we didn’t get the timely stops and we didn’t really execute down the stretch or score late in games.” Yet Jones wasn’t necessarily disappointed the team struggled to live up to expectations or failed to repeat as conference champions. Instead, he rationalized. “I don’t look at the schedule or the record as much as I look at, ‘Did we get to where we wanted to be at the end?’” he said. “And the answer is no. That’s the thing that’s more discouraging, not the record. We were 12-4, two games out of first. Is that the end of the world?”
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Men’s hockey defeated by Gophers in NCAA Regional
Terriers’ season ends in loss 7-3 loss to Minnesota By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Staff
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The men’s hockey team’s tumultuous season came to an end on Saturday when it fell to the University of Minnesota during the NCAA Regional Seminfal in St. Paul, Minn.
Terriers prove heart not measured in trophies By Arielle Aronson Daily Free Press Staff
ST. PAUL, Minn. — After the No. 8/10 Boston University men’s hockey team saw its season end in a 7-3 loss to the No. 6 University of Minnesota, junior assistant captain Alex Chiasson did not want to talk about the number of penalties BU took in the game or the turnovers the Terriers made. After all, he said, it did not really matter at that point. BU will not play another game this season, and it will not have a chance to fix its mistakes. Instead, Chiasson opened up about his teammates, about the trials the Terriers went through during the 2011-12 season, about the adversity BU faced all year but refused to ever use as an excuse for poor play. Chiasson spoke about how for this Terrier squad, the season was
more about the soul of the team than the actual results on the ice. “Right now, it doesn’t matter what hockey means,” Chiasson said. “It’s about becoming a team and how guys grew up and how guys became leaders, how many character guys we had in this locker room. That’s what you have to look at.” Chiasson does not have much else to look at from this season. BU will not go back to Boston with any trophies in hand, and no trophies won earlier this season will await the Terriers’ return to Commonwealth Avenue. But a trophy cannot prove how a team that made a name for itself through bad press on the news and in the police logs somehow found a
Heart, see page 7
ST. PAUL, Minn. — On Saturday, the No. 8/10 Boston University men’s hockey team’s season ended with a 7-3 loss to the No. 6 University of Minnesota in the NCAA Regionals. Minnesota outshot the Terriers 42-34 and scored two empty-net goals to ice the game, which saw BU rack up 29 penalty minutes. “Kind of a bizarre game in that there were times when both teams had pretty good territorial advantages and both teams looked okay,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “I thought Minnesota had the best of it as the game progressed. I was really impressed with the Minnesota goaltender. I thought he had a nice night for them.” About six minutes into the first period, senior goalie Kieran Millan lost track of a rebound that wound up behind him, and Gopher forward Kyle Rau poked it into the net nearly six minutes into the first. Minnesota (27-13-1) led 1-0 through the
Men’s hockey, see page 7
Connolly leaves behind personal legacy at BU By Kevin Dillon Daily Free Press Staff
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Boston University men’s hockey senior captain Chris Connolly is not a big guy. He is only 5-foot-9, and he weighs just 170 pounds. But packed inside one of BU’s smallest players is the leadership, character and attitude that made him one of the Terriers’ most important players over his fouryear career. As the final horn sounded at the Xcel Energy Center after BU’s 7-3 loss to No. 6 University of Minnesota in the NCAA Regional Semifinal, it signaled the end of the career of one of the most respected leaders the BU hockey program has ever had. “We thought he was going to be a captain of the team as a senior when we recruited him,”
said BU coach Jack Parker. “He knows how to do the right thing. He knows how to be a good teammate and a good captain, which is sometimes not being a good teammate. He is one of the best captains we have ever had. . . . We’re very, very proud that he wore our uniform.” Connolly’s college career came to an end in the state his hockey career began. He grew up in Minnesota with his brother Jack, who is the current captain of the No. 5 University of Minnesota-Duluth hockey team. BU coach Jack Parker said meeting the Connolly family helped him know Connolly was a good fit with the Terriers. “We have a saying that when we’re recruiting the kids, you talk to the parents, because kids don’t grow up like their neighbors,”
Connolly, see page 7
Men’s basketball experiences plethora of changes during 2011-12 campaign By Craig Meyer and Shep Hayes Daily Free Press Staff
If anything and above all else, the 2011-12 season was one of change for the Boston University men’s basketball program. For a program that did not experience a coaching change for 15 years, the Terriers adjusted to their third head coach in four years as Joe Jones took over the program from Patrick Chambers, who unexpectedly left in June to become the new head coach at Penn State University. Gone was leading scorer and 2011 America East Conference Player of the Year John Holland, the player who single-handedly willed the Terriers to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2002. It was expected to be a challenging season for BU, even though it was not-so-surprisingly selected as the preseason pick to win the America East Conference for the fifth season in a row. The Terriers retained a solid core of the America East championship team, most no-
Monday, Mar. 26
No Games Scheduled Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlin injured his ankle while jumping on a trampoline...
tably seniors Darryl Partin, Patrick Hazel and Matt Griffin, along with sophomores D.J. Irving and Dom Morris. The expectations were high under the new regime, and Jones shared those lofty aspirations in his first season on the Terriers’ bench. “Coming in, the goal is always going to be to get to the NCAA Tournament,” Jones said. “I don’t think that’s ever going to change.” Beginning with a game against crosstown rival Northeastern University, a match-up that drew the largest crowd in Case Gymnasium history, the Terriers dropped the first four games of the season. However, a turning point came as the team participated in the Ticket City Legends Classic in Kingston, R.I. The Terriers dropped their first game of the tournament to Cleveland State University in heart-breaking fashion, squandering a multipossession lead in the final seven seconds of the game to lose 63-62.
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Tuesday, Mar. 27
Men’s basketball, see page 7
No Games Scheduled ... Good thing Tim Tebow is now in New York to heal Chamberline with his faith.
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After starting off the year as the preseason favorite, the BU mens’ basketball team’s season ended in a loss to Hartford in the America East Quarterfinals.
Wednesday, Mar. 28 Softball @ UConn, 4 p.m. Track @ Texas Relays, All Day
Thursday, Mar. 29 Track @ Texas Relays, All Day
Friday, Mar. 30 Men’s Tennis @ St. John’s, 3 p.m. Track @ Texas Relays, All Dayy