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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLV. VOLUME XC. ISSUE XII.

Student plaintiffs urge campus change

BY GRACE LI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The two women who sued a Boston University horn professor for sexual harassment said Wednesday that they hope the lawsuit will change the university’s administrative culture that “tolerates and even condones sexual harassment and assault.”

Erin Shyr, a junior in the College of Fine Arts, and former CFA student Maria Currie filed a lawsuit Tuesday against their former professor, Eric Ruske, for allegedly sexually harassing them. They sued the university itself for purportedly failing to comply with Title IX regulations and mishandling their cases, The Daily Free Press reported Tuesday.

“Our lawsuit offers BU an opportunity to lead by example by treating sexual harassment and assault as a serious problem rather than as a public relations inconvenience,” Currie, now a senior at the New England Conservatory, wrote in an email.

The lawsuit can show the public how difficult it is for students to file complaints against professors in institutions “broken, self-serving system that has drastically deviated from its originally purpose,” Currie wrote.

Ruske is a world-renowned horn player and educator who has been teaching at BU since 1990, according to his faculty page on the CFA website.

“Quite a few people like Ruske,” Shyr said in a press conference Tuesday. “We thought we did at first, because he seems like someone who is very invested in our education … and then we found this insidious part of him that not everyone knows until now.”

Currie and Shyr said in the press conference they were subjected to inappropriate comments, hugs and kisses on the cheek and incidents of online verbal harassment from Ruske. Several times, Ruske asked them for pictures of themselves over email and text message, according to the lawsuit.

Currie said that in a private meeting, she wanted to receive feedback on her playing, and Ruske made inappropriate comments.

“He talks loudly [and makes] lots of eye contact,” Currie said in the press conference. “He sits closely, and during this meeting he wanted to describe how … my playing wasn’t as exciting as it should be. He told me, ‘Your playing is like I’m

Apple objects to court order to unlock iPhone

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BU spokesperson Colin Riley said in an email, “our general counsel will need to have time to review the complaint before we determine if we will comment.”

BU Dean of Student Kenneth Elmore declined to comment.

Ruske, BU Title IX Coordinator Kim Randall, Assistant Director of Equal Opportunity Eleanor Druckman, and CFA Deputy Title IX Coordinator at the time Patricia Mitro — all of whom were mentioned in the complaint — did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Free Press.

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a support group for clergy sexual abuse victims, released a statement Wednesday regarding the complaint. The group mentioned that Ruske was scheduled to perform with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra Sunday for its season finale, and called for his suspension from the show.

Erin Helms, Wyoming Symphony Orchestra’s program and event manager, said Wednesday that they replaced Ruske in the show.

“The Wyoming Symphony takes the allegation very seriously, and Mr. Ruske will not be joining us on stage this Sunday,” Helms said.

SNAP Director David Clohessy said the organization decided to address the complaint because they intend to help any

Court documents unsealed Friday revealed a federal court order to Apple Inc. to assist the FBI in unlocking the phone of alleged gang member Desmond Crawford. In a letter from Apple’s lawyer Marc Zwillinger, the company refused to comply with the actions ordered by the U.S. District Court.

An affidavit of FBI Special Agent Matthew Knight described phone calls between Crawford and other members of a gang called the Columbia Point Dawgs. The calls were intercepted by the FBI. “During our investigation of the CPD, we intercepted calls between CPD members/associates in which they discussed the use of violence to further the gang’s goals,” the affidavit stated.

The FBI intercepted “several calls” that revealed that Crawford was involved in several drug deals as well as the shooting of one unidentified “John Doe,” according to the affidavit. For these reasons, Knight applied for a court order to be granted access to the full digital content of Crawford’s iPhone, which was approved Feb 1.

The American Civil Liberties Union urged the U.S. Department of Justice to unseal all court documents relating to the case, which resulted in the documents’ release Friday. The ACLU disapproved of the court order to unlock the phone, according to Technology for Liberty Program Director Kade Crockford.

“Our involvement was simply to unseal the docket in that case so that the public could see what was going on in terms of what we expected, which was the government’s application for an artifact order to force Apple to help them get inside an iPhone connected to that case,” Crockford said. “When the document was unsealed, that’s exactly was we found.”

The court order was based on the All Writs Act, which allows courts to order corporations to disclose information. Because the All Writs Act was applied in the 1977 case United States v. New York Telephone Co., the court order aimed to apply it to Crawford’s case as well.

“We disagree with that interpretation,” Crockford said. “The New York Telephone case does not apply to an iPhone encryption, and that’s for one basic reason, which is that Apple does not actually possess any of the information that the government is seeking in

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Erin Shyr, a junior in the College of Fine Arts, and Maria Currie, a student at the New England Conservatory, are suing College of Fine Arts professor Eric Ruske and Boston University after filing sexual assault complaints with the school.

having sex with you, but you’re not doing anything. You’re just laying there.’ I didn’t know how to react to that. It was kind of like an out-of-body experience.”

Shyr said she felt anxiety after the alleged harassment, and feared seeing Ruske at any time.

“I thought about quitting [music] a while ago,” Shyr said. “It’s tough to walk into the School of Music. You do not know where he is, but you can hear someone playing the horn or hear his laugh down the hallway. If it’s getting louder, he’s getting closer.”

Both students said they went to BU’s Title IX coordinators for help, but they didn’t receive the attention they deserved, they claim.

“Ruske has fault because he violated his powers as a professor repeatedly without any sense of remorse or understanding of the gravity of the situation,” Shyr said. “[But] BU is at fault for creating an environment and culture that is invasive and abusive towards students.”

Currie said that upon her visit to the Title IX office, the administration seemed more concerned with Ruske, not her. “[Their response] has always been quite lukewarm,” Currie said during the press conference. “It would’ve been really nice if BU listened to me. It would’ve been really great if BU decided the safety of their students was a priority. But I don’t feel like they did either of those things.”

BU women’s club hockey gains official recognition after three-year-long effort

BY ORIANA DURAND DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When Emily LaFond transferred to Boston University from Villanova University in 2013, she began looking for a club ice hockey team for women, hoping to eventually join. To her surprise, no such team existed — the previous club team rose to the varsity level in 2005.

Unwilling to give up, LaFond recruited girls through social media and an ice hock-

ey PDP class at the Fitness and Recreation Center beginning in 2013. She established a new team the same year and worked to earn university recognition ever since.

“I’ve been playing this sport for too long,” said LaFond, now a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. “So I just went out and started a team.”

After three seasons of competition as an independent team, LaFond’s dream has came true — women’s club ice hockey will officially be affiliated with BU beginning this fall.

The process of affiliation requires a significant investment of time and resources. The Club Sports department worked hard for years with LaFond’s team to establish a successful program that benefits students and the university, according to Scott Nalette, the BU intramural and club sports manager.

“The affiliation process for a group attempting to become a club sport involves a multi-year planning process,” Nalette wrote in an email. “[The process] includes securing all necessary resources needed for our

department to properly oversee and manage that group.”

Nalette said that the new club team will provide an additional outlet for female athletes to represent the university, while playing the sport they love.

“While competitive success is nice, we’re most interested in enhancing the experience of our students and providing opportunities for the types of personal growth and leadership development that can come from being part of a Club Sports CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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Apple refuses to unlock iPhone of Desmond Crawford APPLE FROM PAGE 1

these cases.”

Crockford explained that while the New York Telephone Co. owned the information released to the government, as it was billing information, Apple does not own the information on Crawford’s phone or any other.

“If you have an iPhone and you put your pictures on it, those pictures do not belong to Apple and are not in Apple’s possession — they’re yours,” Crockford said. “It’s totally inappropriate to force a technology company to write new software code by signing that code with its cryptographic key to a telephone that is not in its possession to obtain information that the company does not possess.”

Crockford said the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered access to more than 60 phones, few of which were involved in terrorism cases.

The most famous case has been one involving the Dec. 2 shooting in San

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Court records released Friday stated that Apple refused to assist the FBI in breaking into the iPhone of an alleged Boston drug gang member.

Bernardino.

“Apple didn’t want to do what the government was asking it to do because it knew that if the government got precedent through a court to be able to force Apple to do this in the San Bernardino case, it would be able to get precedent to force Ap-

ple to do this in every criminal case,” Crockford said.

Access to the encrypted information on iPhones, Crockford explained, would be “fundamentally dangerous,” as that information could be accessed by others attempting to hack the encryption.

“What that will really do is mean that there’s no such thing as secure encryption, that there’s no such thing as secure technology,” Crockford said. “It’s not just the FBI, not just the local police pursuing unlawful court orders, but also foreign governments, industrial spies, criminal hackers will have a much easier time stealing people’s information when it’s stored or transmitted digitally.”

The letter from Zwillinger was written in response to the order from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, and highlighted several instances wherein Apple objected the court orders.

“Apple responds that following its objection or other response to each request there as not been any final disposition thereof to Apple’s knowledge, and Apple has not agreed to perform any services on the devices to which those requests are directed,” Zwillinger wrote in the letter.

Several Boston residents shared

mixed opinions regarding Apple’s decision. Many said they disapproved of Apple’s objection.

Mike Hachey, 28, of Dorchester, said he does not value rights to privacy, and Apple should comply to all court orders.

“If FBI has a warrant, Apple should comply,” he said. “There’s no absolute right to privacy, there never has been, and there shouldn’t be.”

Michael Gill, 62, of Brighton, agreed that Apple should comply with the order if there is probable cause.

“I have nothing to hide if somebody wants to listen to my cellphone conversations,” he said. “You can’t just do it because you feel like it. You need to have some probable cause.”

Kedijah Cook, 35, of Roxbury, supported Apple in its objection.

“Apple shouldn’t have to unlock the phone,” she said. “It’s wrong to do that to someone’s private property.”

Dave Sebastian contributed to the reporting of this article.

City Council committee hosts public hearing on homelessness

BY KENNEDY DAVIS AND ALYSSA MEYERS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston City Council Committee on Homelessness, Mental Health and Recovery met Tuesday in a public hearing to discuss the affect of homelessness on youth and families, according to public documents.

The committee ordered the hearing, hosted at St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children in Dorchester, in response to the rising number of homeless students enrolled in Boston Public Schools, according to a Friday hearing order.

“The City of Boston, through a variety of estimates, has approximately 2,000 – 4,000 homeless students current enrolled in Boston Public Schools,” the order stated.

“Approximately 400 homeless students in the Boston Public Schools are currently sheltered outside of the City of Boston and 280 homeless students attending schools in other districts are sheltered in the City of Boston.”

The order stated that homeless students and their families face a variety of challenges, creating the necessity for a public hearing to discuss solutions.

“Homeless families lack stability and security, causing children in these families to have unique academic challenges, higher rates of absenteeism, and experience alienation and loss of connection with their peers,” the order stated. “The City of Boston has a responsibility to support the stability and well-being of all children and families as they struggle with homelessness.”

For these reasons, the Committee on Homelessness, Mental Health and Recovery ordered Friday “that the appropriate committee of the Boston City Council hold a hearing to examine the impacts of homelessness on children, young adults, and families in the City of Boston and the resources currently in place to support these families.”

Matthew Hoffman, CEO of Boston Alcohol and Substance Abuse Programs, discussed various causal factors surrounding homelessness, such as substance abuse, mental illness and inability to receive consistent care.

“Certainly addiction to drugs can play a huge part in becoming homeless. I’d say that’s more com-

mon than the other way around,” Hoffman said. “On the other side of it, a lot of homeless people are drug addicts and alcoholics. So it’s a twoway street.”

Hoffman said substance abuse contributes to difficulty finding shelter, whether permanent or temporary.

“It’s difficult to get even temporary housing – let alone permanent housing – when you’re in an unstable situation, and drug addiction and mental illness play a big part in having an unstable situation,” Hoffman said. “People are reluctant to give you a place to live.”

Hoffman said mental illness and other health concerns create additional obstacles, as the homeless are often unable to regularly take the medicine they need.

“It contributes to noncompliance with your medication because it’s difficult to get it and maintain consistency in taking it,” Hoffman said. “It’s one of those complex interplays between life factors, the nature of mental illness, brain chemistry, noncompliance and the fact that medication, for example, becomes less effective if you’re taking other

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The Boston City Council Committee on Homelessness, Mental Health and Recovery held a public hearing Tuesday to discuss the impact of homelessness on children and families.

drugs.”

Hoffman said government officials can address homelessness by providing services to increase stability in the lives of the homeless.

Several Boston residents shared comments regarding the effects of homelessness on families, mental health and other areas of life.

Kelvin Etheridge, 50, of Rox-

bury, said homelessness can substantially impact the family dynamic and should be addressed by government officials.

“It’s probably very difficult and very upsetting to have a homeless person in your family,” he said. “I think there’s a lot of ways that [the government] can help people access mental health services and provide

things like housing for people. I think Boston and the United States government could really do a lot more in that area.”

Colin Schofield, 23 of Kenmore, agreed that city government should do more to address homelessness in Boston.

“There’s probably a pretty high association between mental health problems and homelessness,” he said.

“I wouldn’t say that all the responsibility lands with the city government, but I do think the local and state government should do something more to help out.”

Sarah Dickinson, 55, of Jamaica Plain said mental illness in Boston is a likely factor to the city’s rising homeless population.

“Generally Boston doesn’t provide very good mental health services,” she said. “It’s also hard to keep a job, so I’m not surprised a lot of people are homeless. I think it is the responsibility of the Boston city government to deal with this issue, but honestly I don’t know how much they can do. I feel like it involves having more treatment centers and hospitals.”

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BU crowdfunding platform helps raise cash for communities

BY LEXI PEERY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University community is encouraged to use a crowdfunding platform if they need to raise money for research or activities, panelists said in a workshop Wednesday afternoon.

Campaign for BU hosted the “Crowdfunding at BU” panel at the Questrom School of Business. Approximately 65 BU community members joined five panelists to learn more about crowdfunding tips and benefits.

Lauren Wake, a client solutions consultant for ScaleFunder, a digital fundraising platform, moderated the panel. Wake outlined the best ways to make a crowdfunding project attractive, and said the key to crowdfunding is community engagement.

“People will not just come to your campaign,” Wake said. “You will need to do outreach. People don’t just shop for philanthropy on the web … You want to be driving people to you through emailing and engagement.”

BU Crowdfunding, the university’s fundraising platform, has been successful at BU since its official launch in May 2014, Wake said. Seven crowdfunding projects were launched in the past two years, five of which were either completely funded or exceeded their original goal. Each project raised an average of $10,000, Wake said during the panel.

Crowdfunding can be particular effective because the younger generation prefers to know where their donation goes, Caitlin Cushman, a BU Crowdfunding administrator, said during the panel.

“I’m very comfortable giving online … and when someone I respect and feel good about [comes] my way, I’m inspired to give,”

Cushman said. “It’s great then to go a step further and see where my impact is going.”

Christopher Gill, another panelist and a professor in BU’s Center for Global Health and Development, said he used crowdfunding to fund his research, which analyzes how to recognize people by their ears.

His research idea, “Project SEARCH: Scanning Ears for Child Health” seemed crazy, he said, but crowdfunding helped make it a reality.

“Crowdfunding was exactly the right thing to do when you have a crazy idea,” Gill said. “The nice thing about it is instead of writing grants … you have a meter going up every day telling you if what you do is working or not.”

Elizabeth Ragan, a project leader who works with Gill, said she looks for people who share her project’s mission, increasing the amount of donations.

“I’m not very savvy with social media, so we relied heavily on email-style interaction,” said Ragan, also a research fellow in the School of Public Health. “[We were] figuring out who were going to be our champions, who are the people who are going to take your message and distribute it to their networks.”

The BU Dance Team used crowdfunding for the past two years to pay for their trips to a national dance competition, said Amber Thiel and Megan Dacek, co-captains of the team. The most efficient way of spreading the word about their crowdfunding was email and social media, they said.

“We send out emails and try to make those as enticing as possible, so people don’t think [our emails] are spam emails from BU about donating,” Dacek, a senior in the College of Engineering, said.

Sara Mejias Gonzalez, a senior in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies who attended the panel, said that in one of

PHOTO BY ADRIANA DIAZ/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF The Crowdfunding at BU information session held in the Questrom School of Business on Wednesday discussed the efforts of BU’s newly launched crowdfunding platform.

her classes, they are trying to build an app to help find aid for Syrian refugees. The group is looking for funding to create the app.

“It’s a really great way to start funding,” Mejias Gonzalez said. “There are a lot of different avenues like grants or institutional funding, but [we can] use the money to have a ground base to create a beta-version and then seek funding from other institutions or companies.”

Kari Wu, a first-year graduate student in Questrom, said crowdfunding can be effective because it does not require too much effort from either the donors or the users.

“I look forward to having a one-stop shop to put all the videos, tags and other

marketing materials in the same platform,” Wu, who also attended the talk, said. “That will create a safe template for future students to look at.”

Andrew Parlato, a BU student giving coordinator, said he has met students who want to give to specific causes or groups, and crowdfunding allows for that to happen.

“Through crowdfunding, we can actually create a page and have a specific project that you are funding, and that amplifies [giving] even more,” Parlato said. “This could not only support your club, but support your club with a specific goal in mind. That feature just takes [crowdfunding] above and beyond.”

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Formal university recognition will allow the players to enjoy perks they did not have in previous seasons, including access to athletic training, van transportation for games, more time on the ice and greater impact on campus, said Jim Pascarelli, the head coach for the women’s club ice hockey team.

“We have a good team coming back next year, and hopefully some new recruits coming in with the new exposure of being recognized by the school,” Pascarelli said.

“Hopefully [becoming recognized] will help bring in some new players.”

Katherine Bienkowski, a junior in CAS and the president of the team, said the process to becoming affiliated with BU was definitely worth it.

“In women’s club hockey, whether you are sanctioned or not dictates which leagues you can join,” Bienkowski said. “Therefore, with our affiliation, we will have several more opportunities to play new teams and join new leagues.”

Beyond allowing current students to

perform in a more competitive and organized environment, the team’s affiliation also provides incoming students the opportunity to be part of a unique group on campus, develop great skills and create invaluable connections, Bienkowski said.

“We have big shoes to fill with the graduating class leaving,” she said. “But we have a few new girls coming in and an excellent core of girls returning.”

The team now has a lot to look forward to — two secured hours of practice per week will greatly enhance the team’s skills, and university funds will facilitate access to better equipment and apparel, LaFond said.

Although LaFond will graduate and won’t be skating at Walter Brown Arena next year, she said she certainly will look back on her club hockey experience as one of her fondest college memories.

“I would love to have played as an official club sport but I really enjoyed the process,” LaFond said. “It’s nice to say that you pioneered something and started a program and I can look back on that as a really positive part of my college experience.”

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Founded in 2013, the BU women’s club hockey team has been officially recognized by the university for the 2016-17 season.

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one who was affected by abuse.

“We try to help every victim we can,” Clohessy said.

“We’re particularly interested in cases of abuse and harassment in institutional settings … whether it’s a coach, university, summer camp, the dynamics and the devastation is remarkably similar.”

Rachel Bailey, Wyoming Symphony Orchestra’s executive director, wrote in an email that they are not taking a position regarding the truthfulness of the women’s allegations. The performance was cancelled, she said, because the accusation caused “significant negative attention” on them and Ruske.

“We also feel that Eric Ruske needs to have this time to address these allegations and the fallout therefrom without having to focus on a weekend of performances so soon after the allegations became public,” Bai-

ley wrote.

Some BU students said the university is responsible for raising awareness of sexual assault on campus, while others said the university should not take the blame.

Kathryn Connolly, a sophomore in the School of Education, said she was surprised to hear about the case, and was disappointed the case had not received wider attention in the university.

“I’m not sure if this is something that has ever happened before, and I hope it’s not,” Connolly said. “The fact that students are unsafe is really scary.”

Dustin Gubernick, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the university needs to publish more information on the issue.

“Students in college are supposed to have a good relationship with their professors,” Gubernick said. “Since this is

CRIME LOGS

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The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from April 4 to April 10.

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BU College of Fine Arts professor Eric Ruske.

such an ambiguous problem, [revealing] more information and stressing this issue could be a possible solution.”

Paulina Makkos, a freshman in the College of General Studies, said BU shouldn’t be blamed for the incident. “[The party-at-fault] is the professor, especially since he’s

the mature person in the situation,” Makkos said. “But [sexual harassment] is a two-way street, so it’s the professor’s fault and the students’ fault at the same time. But BU shouldn’t be blamed and consequences should be there for the actions.”

Alex Li contributed to the reporting of this article.

Gov. Baker signs legislation to improve solar power

BY PAIGE SMITH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In collaboration with elected officials from around the commonwealth, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito passed comprehensive solar legislation into law Monday, according to a Monday press release.

The bill, a joint effort between Baker’s administration and the Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, aims to move toward a cleaner environment in a cost-effective way.

“The bill, An Act Relative to Solar Energy, passed both legislative chambers with overwhelming support and achieves the Baker-Polito Administration’s goal of reducing costs to ratepayers while strengthening the state’s clean energy economy and progressing towards the greenhouse gas reduction requirements set forth under the Global Warming Solutions Act,” the release stated.

Baker said in the press release that the legislation will allow the development of a reliable, affordable solar industry in the commonwealth.

“This legislation builds upon the continued success of the Commonwealth’s solar industry and ensures a viable, sustainable and affordable solar market at a lower cost to ratepayers,” Baker said in the release. “Solar development will be an integral component of our state’s clean energy future and we look forward to collaborating with the legislature on an omnibus energy bill that includes cost-effective, hydropower generation.”

The legislation calls for several changes, including raising the net metering caps from 5 percent of public utilities’ “peak load” to 8 percent and the net metering caps of private utilities’ from 4 percent to 7 percent, according to the press release.

“Additionally, the bill allows the Department of Energy Resources (DOER) and the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) to gradually transition

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Officers responded April 7 at around 1 a.m. to reports of a male student making suicidal statements on the balcony at The Towers. The victim was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for further treatment.

Attempted suicide at 575 Commonwealth Ave. Officers responded to 575 Commonwealth Ave. on April 7 at about 2:07 a.m. to reports of a female student who had made several statements about wanting to die. The victim was transported to Beth Israel.

Medical assist needed at 175 Freeman St. Officers responded to the Dexter Park apartment complex on April 7 at approximately 2:26 p.m. to reports of a female student having thoughts about hurting herself. The victim was transported to the Beth Israel for further treatment.

Student threatened at Warren Towers

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A male student living in Warren Towers at 700 Commonwealth Ave. reported on April 7 at 11 p.m. that he received a threatening message on his voicemail. The caller had threatened to kill the victim. The victim suspected the threat was related to his position in a pro-Israel group.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday signed into law a bill that he believes will strengthen sustainable energy efforts in the commonwealth.

the solar industry to a more self-sustaining model,” the release stated. “This approach includes robust stakeholder outreach, and will establish the next generation solar incentive program at a reduced price.”

Massachusetts Senator Benjamin Downing (D – Pittsfield), who contributed writing the legislation, said with over 200 solar-based companies and over 15,000 employees, solar energy is a major component of the Massachusetts economy.

“It’s a step in the right direction in the sense that if we didn’t raise the caps, we would have seen more projects that were stalled, that would sort of wither on the vine and then just die,” Downing said. “We would have seen more companies that had avoided layoffs, then laying people off and then shrinking.”

Downing explained another provision to alter the net metering caps for credit for solar projects, or the extent to which solar projects can sell their energy back to the grid.

“There is a provision that allows for the establishment for a minimum bill,” Downing said.

“So under current incentives, you can have a world in which

you sell so much energy back to the grid that your bill becomes zero.”

The legislation adjusts the rates for private versus public projects, and though the levels were raised, there is still more to be done, Downing added.

“I think you can make a strong case on the data that solar and other distributed renewables deserve full retail rate reimbursement,” he said. “The 6o percent retail rate that we landed on was pretty clearly a negotiated position.”

To lower nonparticipant ratepayers’ net metering, the legislation sets 60 percent of the full retail rate as the credit value for solar projects excluding those residential, small commercial, municipal and government-owned, according to the press release.

“To facilitate continued solar growth within communities around the Commonwealth, the bill preserves retail rate credits for municipal and government-owned projects and continues to exempt residential and small commercial projects from the net metering cap and any net metering credit reductions,” the release stated.

Several Boston residents expressed mixed views regarding the legislation and the importance of utilizing solar energy.

Derrick Smith, 63, of Dorchester, said the legislation will benefit residents with convenience and affordability.

“If it’s affordable, everybody would like to pay a low bill,” he said. “If the power is there 24 hours, as it goes now, it makes no difference. I think solar, you get it for nothing. You get it through the sun, so it’s free – you need not have generators.

If it’s a good project, it’s okay.”

Melissa Silk, 57, of Roxbury, said she supports the legislation because of its positive environmental impact.

“It seems, in general, like a good idea,” she said. “There’s no reason not to. [The legislation will create] less dependence on fossil fuels.”

Clara Gorin, 59, of Allston, said the use of solar energy is unsuitable for Massachusetts due to its dark winters.

“I don’t like it because when it’s winter time, it will be darker,” she said. “It’s so dark, especially in the evening.”

Dave Sebastian contributed to the reporting of this article.

Alcohol transport requested at 33 Harry Agganis Way Officers responded to reports of an intoxicated male student in the lobby of Student Village II on Friday at around 1 a.m.

The victim was transported to the Boston Medical Center for further treatment.

Student transported for alcohol intoxication in West Campus Officers responded to reports of an intoxicated female student on the 13th floor of Sleeper Hall Friday at around 11 p.m. The victim was transported to the BMC for treatment.

Marijuana confiscated at 277 Babcock St. Officers met with staff from the Residence Life office at Rich Hall on Sunday at 10:10 p.m. after the staff detected the odor of marijuana coming from a room.

The officers confiscated a pipe and a small amount of burnt marijuana.

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MFA curator’s new exhibit blends history, contemporary

BY JESSIE LEVINSON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Museum of Fine Arts will open a new exhibit featuring Los Angeles-based artist Sean Townley Saturday, set to run through July 31.

Called “7 Diadems/Red Ankhhafs,” the exhibition was inspired by molds that were used to conserve two ancient sculptures in the museum’s conservatory.

Townley was one of 10 artists accepted to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts’ annual Traveling Fellows program in 2014. The program provides funding for individual, graduate-level projects. Of the fellows, Townley alone was chosen to have a solo exhibition at the MFA. This will be the first time Townley’s work will have its own exhibit in a museum.

“We’ve never invited a traveling scholar to the solo museum to engage with the historic areas of the museum’s collection,” said Liz Munsell, the assistant curator of contemporary art and MFA programs, who organized Townley’s exhibit.

Munsell has curated many performance arts exhibits before, but this will be her first sculpture exhi-

bition.

She said it seemed fitting to have Townley engage with the museum’s historical collections because he is “really interested in the technologies and the languages that are specific to sculpture.” “[This is] relevant to the museum context because sometimes, for conservation purposes, we make molds or casts of sculptures in our collection,” she said.

Townley consistently uses many different types of technology in his work, like 3D scanning and printing.

However, for this exhibit, Townley used the simpler technique of making casts from molds of the two ancient sculptures, Munsell said.

This kind of technology is similar to the process of using a photographic negative to create a positive image, Munsell said.

“You create a structure directly around [what] you’re trying to cast and then you … split that structure in half,” Munsell said. “Then you can pour in whatever material you’re working with.”

Townley used aluminum to recreate the two sculptures. His “7 Diadems” are recreations of the Roman goddess Juno’s head seven times, and

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Liz Munsell, assistant curator of contemporary art at the MFA, is the curator for Los Angeles-based artist Sean Townley’s most recent exhibition.

his “Red Ankhhafs” are reproductions of the bust of Egyptian Prince Ankhhaf three times.

The bust of Prince Ankhhaf is a particularly important sculpture be-

cause it is “one of the most valuable objects [and] most prized objects in the MFA’s collection because it’s a … very old sculptural portrait,” Munsell said.

Munsell said that Townley chose those two pieces after talking with the museum’s ancient Egyptian art curator and learning about CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

INBUSINESS THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016

Tech professionals encourage businesswomen in STEM

BY MICHAELA JOHNSTON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When a conversation about women in the tech industry begins, it usually focuses on the lack of female engineers, coders and developers. That all changed Tuesday morning in Cambridge.

A breakfast and networking event called “Women in Tech: Ca-

reers Beyond {Coding}” worked to expand people’s views on the traditional “woman in tech” role.

The Capital Network, a Boston nonprofit that provides financial education and programming for entrepreneurs, teamed up with She Geeks Out to coordinate the panelist discussion and networking event. She Geeks Out is an organization that hosts monthly events for women in STEM

throughout Boston and Cambridge.

Capital Network’s Executive Director Meredith Sandiford spoke about the various topics panelists would discuss, in an interview before the discussion.

“We want to get into what the struggles are, what it’s like to be in the tech field and get into the real dirt of what reality is versus what the high-level conversations

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Janet Slifka of Amazon Echo discusses the reasons for her unusually woman-heavy team, during a panel for a networking event called “Women in Tech: Careers Beyond {Coding}” in Cambridge on Tuesday.

The panel, which talked about jobs in the engineering world, included several leading women in the industry.

might be on it,” Sandiford said.

Kara Miller, who launched and manages Women Entrepreneurs Boston, was the keynote speaker. The panel featured four women in the tech and engineering industry, including Janet Slifka, a research manager at Amazon, and Jia Xu, a Boston University postgrad biomedical engineering student and the genomic science lead at IBM Watson Health.

Panelists would touch on family life, mentorship, networking and resources for women looking to become involved in the tech industry, Sandiford said.

“Find somebody that can help you make connections and just be a support network and [teach you] how to utilize those networks,” she said.

The event, though, wasn’t in-

tended only for women.

“It’s also good for people that are not necessarily females, but males who are thinking about diversifying their team,” Sandiford said. “If you’re a startup or entrepreneur and you look around and realize you have about five people on your team, you want to change that. It’s about a lot more than just hiring the first woman that walks in the door.”

In a joint interview before the talk, She Geeks Out Co-Founders Felicia Jadczak and Rachel Murray said the panelists would talk about the numerous ways women can become involved with tech careers.

“I think as the industry changes and evolves, there’s more opportunity to be in the space in a CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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New study finds mortality gap between rich, poor

BY REBECCA ZENG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

For those who live in poverty, opportunities for food, shelter and employment are often scarce. According to a study published Sunday, the poor may have yet another obstacle stacked against them: living shorter lives.

The study, called “The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States,” was co-authored by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers as well as experts from Stanford University, Harvard University, the consulting firm McKinsey and Company and the Office of Tax Analysis of the United States Department of the Treasury. It detailed the huge mortality gap between the rich and poor.

“At the age of 40 years, the gap in life expectancy between individuals in the top and bottom 1% of the income distribution in the United States is 15 years for men and 10 years for women,” the study stated.

It also found that geographical location could have a large effect on a person’s lifespan. Poorer people in New York City averaged a lifespan of 81.8 years while those of Gary, Indiana averaged 77.4 years, according to MIT. “We’ve know this for a really long time, that there’s this gap between rich and poor and health incomes,” said Sophie Godley, a professor in Boston University’s School of Public Health. “As far back as [the late 1900s], a professor named Michael Marmot did the Whitehall study, which looked

at social grade and health outcome.”

The study, Godley said, found that “every step you took upwards in your economic situation improved your health outcome.”

While the relationship between mortality rates and income has already been studied, Sarah Abraham, co-author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, said this study described the correlation more thoroughly.

“We had exact incomes at the individual level ... which gave us the ability to more specifically define the association between longevity and income in the higher percentiles of the income distribution,” she said. “Also, we had the exact locations for individuals through tax records, and the receipt of their information returns.”

The research spanned three years, and several teams of people worked with the tax administration data.

“It involved people getting to know the data from other projects, which fed back into this project,” Abraham said.

Jacob Bor, a professor in SPH, called the study a “precise picture of the association between income and life expectancy in the U.S., and how it has evolved since the turn of the millennium.” Bor said the data was “striking” and significant.

“The bottom income quartile of American men has life expectancy lower than [that of Pakistan],” Bor wrote in an email.

“Never before has such a complete data set been assembled and the relationship estimated so precisely.”

Bor said that though there are exceptions, the correlation between health in-

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A new study released Monday by researchers at MIT found a widening gap between the lifespans of poor and wealthy people.

equity and income gaps is seen across the world.

“What you see around the world is increasingly that wealth buys people [life opportunities]; there is much more variation internationally in the poor than in the rich,” he wrote. “If you’re rich, just about anywhere you can eat well and you can have access to reasonable medical care and live in places where you can avoid toxic exposures.”

The variation in the lifespans of the poor is an indicator of the different extents to which countries invest in their health infrastructure, Bor said.

“Countries that invest in health infrastructure to benefit the poor, [such as] services, public health, education ... the

poor in these countries do much better,” Bor wrote. “The well-being and health of the poor ends up being quite a barometer [of] the ability of society to provide decent public services.”

Abraham said she hopes that the study will underscore the importance of improving the public sector in the United States.

“I think it should increase the salience of [health inequality and income gaps],” she said. “It is widely known and already discussed that there’s an association between income and longevity, but the magnitude has never been pinned down as exactly as we have been able to do it. By disseminating this information widely … it will help inform and encourage in terms of how we think about these issues.”

Curator details technology, inspiration INTERVIEW FROM PAGE 5 backstories of the works.

“The mold of Prince Ankhhaf was made in 1939 because there was a point in World War II in which there was a threat of German invasion of Boston,” Munsell said. “The museum decided to create … fakes of Prince Ankhhaf because it was one of the most valuable objects in the collection. It placed one of those copies on view as a decoy.”

Townley started the recreation process in December. He worked in the museum’s conservation lab, which Munsell called “his studio … where these sculptures began to take shape.”

This type of exhibit is unique to the MFA because it combines two different departments — contemporary art and ancient art — into one exhibit.

“This exhibition is a really exciting opportunity to engage a contemporary artist with the museum’s ancient art collection,” Munsell said.

“The MFA is a really special place in which artists can engage directly with art history, and we really want to be a resource for artists’ research processes and for their contemporary works that they’re making.”

Munsell said the museum wants to break down any preexisting notions that ancient art is no longer relevant to the public.

“We’re excited to show how work from across time is really very relevant to contemporary art practices and contemporary issues in general,” she said.

Munsell said she is “excited for the public to have a window into the museum’s process through this exhibition.”

“There is maybe a kind of generalized perception that the objects that we have on view are these … pristine, perfect objects that arrived to us through this portal from the past, and that’s not actually true,” Munsell said. “These objects have histories that have traversed continents and centuries.”

By featuring Townley’s recreation of ancient pieces, Munsell said, she hopes the public will become more aware of the important processes the museum goes through to ensure it preserves all art for future generations. “[This] work is incredibly valuable,” she said. “It’s also incredibly complex, and this exhibition is an opportunity to share those museum processes with our publics.”

Experts urge gender equality in STEM TECH EVENT FROM PAGE 5 broader and more inclusive way than we would have considered that to be the case 10, 15, 20 years ago,” Murray said.

Murray added that the event, which attracted around 75 attendees, served as an inviting, “low-pressure environment” for people to learn and talk about shared issues and network.

Jadczak, who also works as a program manager for VMware, emphasized the variety of non-traditional roles women can fill in the tech industry, by reflecting on her own experiences.

“I’m constantly working as a liaison between engineers and the rest of the company,” Jadczak said. “That necessitates

having this really broad knowledge of the engineering side, finance side, marketing side. Having exposure to a lot of those things doesn’t make me any less of a woman in tech than someone who is [web] developing and doesn’t necessarily wear a ton of hats.”

It took a while for her to “own that identity” of being considered a woman in tech, Jadczak said, and she hoped the discussion would inspire attendees to listen and learn.

“If someone comes to the event and someone gets to sit in a room with a bunch of really smart, intelligent women, and if that makes them see things in a different light,” Jadczak said, “I think that will be really great.”

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“Junk” gives fun, unique ‘80s vibes, falls short of potential

BY MORGAN O’HANLON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

It may be 2016, but listening to “Junk,” the new album released by M83 on Friday, feels like a throwback to prom after-parties circa 1983, complete with torn taffeta and neon eyeliner. Laser guns, reverberating echoes and epic dance-hall instrumentals are just some of the album’s otherworldly features.

With a pleasant mix of slow down-beats, distorted vocals and peppy, hair-tossable keyboard riffs, M83 cashes in all of your favorite ‘80s music clichés.

Unfortunately, M83 gets caught under the weight of the clichés by trying too hard to imitate. A lot of the album’s potential was lost.

“Junk” definitely isn’t a “junk” album, given its high-quality production and pretty, crystal-clear melodies. Nevertheless, it remains an appropriate title, considering it sounds a bit like flipping through old photo albums in your grandmother’s attic.

In terms of the music’s ability to paint a picture in listeners’ heads, “Junk” does a fantastic job. It feels more like watching a movie than it does listening to your average album, and is full of catchy hooks and mutating features that capture the listener’s attention and hold it throughout all 15 tracks.

Despite the colorful imagery, though, “Junk” as a whole doesn’t leave behind a taste of anything particularly memorable.

The first two songs of the album serve as an overture to the rest. They seem to establish

the general picture of what’s going on. Using this tactic, it’s clear by the end of “Go!,” the album’s second track, that M83 is trying to send the message: If you thought we were kidding about the ‘80s stuff, joke’s on you!

Each track that follows seems to describe some different sort of an almost-forgotten teenage love story. It feels like that dream you had last weekend that sits on the edge of your memory and isn’t tangibly real.

They seem to progressively bring us further and further into that dream — with the last three soft songs reluctantly waking the listener up. There’s a note of nostalgia, but despite its “mainstream-yet-out-of-place” qualities and general dreamlike strangeness, the album fails to generate a resonant image for itself.

With that in mind, notes from some of the album’s shining moments do remain on the tip of the listener’s tongue. The songs “Go!,” “Solitude” and “Atlantique Sud” are some of the highlights of “Junk.”

With the level of dreaminess found in “Junk,” an artist walks a fine line between sounding like some sort of elucidating, drug-induced vision and sounding like a confused mess. Anthony Gonzalez, the leader of M83, manages to balance this quite nicely, resulting in an album that teeters toward the edge of a breakthrough but just barely misses it.

The emotional ballads of the album manage to bring it toward another fine line — the balance between sounding like a lullaby and like something played from a boom box at a

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cheap Chinese food restaurant. Too many of the songs come dangerously close to the latter.

Given the exaggeration of the varied elements on “Junk,” at moments it can almost sound like a parody. In fact, the term ‘kitsch’ comes to mind during the blast off-style countdown in the track “Go!” It’s almost enough to bring a wincing smile to the face of anyone who’s ever listened to Men Without Hat’s “The Safety Dance.”

Keeping this in mind, one wonders if Gonzalez is trying to make an artistic statement about his own obsession with ‘80s music, or if “Junk” is simply an expression of some-

thing he’s been longing to do his entire career.

Gonzalez certainly wins points for the variety of sounds explored, the album’s degree of novelty and his courage as an artist to do whatever he wants with his music without regard for current trends.

Overall, “Junk” is an extraordinarily pleasant album, but it still cannot compare to M83’s 2011 hit “Midnight City,” with its epic description of “waiting in a car.”

It may not be something for every day, but whenever someone throws an ‘80s themed roller-rink party, hats will most assuredly go off to Anthony Gonzalez.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016

t h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t u d e n t n e w s pa p e r a t b o s t o n u n i v e r s i t y

45th year | Volume 90 | Issue XII The Free Press (ISSN 1094-7337) is published Thursdays during the academic year except during vacation and exam periods by Back Bay Publishing Co.,Inc., a nonprofit corporation operated by Boston University students. No content can be reproduced without the permission of Back Bay Publishing Co., Inc. Copyright © 2015 Back Bay Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved.

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Sexual assault claims should be viewed as wake-up call Two women, Erin Shyr and Maria Currie, filed a complaint on Tuesday against Boston University professor Eric Ruske, claiming sexual harassment and a university’s inability to handle the situation.

The complaint issued in Suffolk Superior Court told a story of Ruske’s alleged inappropriate behavior toward both plaintiffs, including unwanted physical contact towards Shyr and sexually charged email and text messages sent to both women.

Ruske referred to himself as a “creepy old guy” when corresponding with Currie and referred to Shyr as “adorable” on multiple occasions, according to the complaint.

“Ruske intended his actions towards Erin, Maria, and other young, female students,” the complaint stated.

After reporting her alleged experience to BU’s administration, Shyr received a written acknowledgement from Assistant Director of Equal Opportunity Eleanor Druckman, stating that her “investigation indicated that Mr. Ruske’s conduct was inconsistent with BU’s policies.” She made no further promises beyond sending that report on to College of Fine Arts Dean Benjamin Juarez.

The two women filed two separate reports against Ruske with BU’s administration, unbeknownst to one another, according to the complaint.

Their complaints were then consolidated in May 2o15, which Shyr found “inappropriate because they were different instances of harassment.”

She brought up the issue of the combined reports to Lynne Allen, who was CFA Dean ad interim at

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the time, according to the complaint.

Shyr claims Allen told her that she did not want to “rehash the past.”

The first takeaway from this incident is the acknowledgment of the sluggish tendency of paperwork and bureaucracy that comes with sexual assault complaints, particularly those filtering their way through the university system. Sexual assault is intrinsically an issue that deserves the utmost respect, which calls for a thorough investigation. Though quick responses are often desired, the truth is the most important variable.

In sexual assault cases specifically, the paperwork requires exact details, which are traumatic for the victim to relive but necessary to determine the exact occurrences. Though distressing, the detail of these reports is required to insure justice.

It is tempting to quickly jump to conclusions when presented with a large amount of seemingly corroborated facts, particularly concerning BU students. After all, we are BU students. But it is important to understand that these are precarious proceedings and there is really no clear-cut way of interpreting this incident until all facts are unveiled.

Despite the innocent-until-proven-guilty stance, BU remains in the wrong through its initial responses to the alleged assaults, the handling of the information once it was in their possession and the accessibilities of mental health specialists on campus.

After the incidents were first reported to the administration, CFA’s Deputy Title IX Coordinator Patricia Mitro excused Ruske’s behavior

o dismiss what could be a legitimate claim of sexual assault as ignorance on behalf of the offender is disturbing.

One can only hope that BU did not respond to these sexual assault claims by defending the professor before first hearing out the student.

because of his “vibrant and effusive” personality, saying that he may have “been unaware that he violated BU’s Title IX policies,” the complaint stated.

To dismiss what could be a legitimate claim of sexual assault as ignorance on behalf of the offender is disturbing. One can only hope that BU did not respond to these sexual assault claims by defending the professor before first hearing out the student.

The handling of the information once it was made available to BU officials was nothing short of unprofessional. Beyond reportedly brushing the incident off as ignorance on

behalf of the professor, the fact remains that both Shyr and Currie’s reports were merged into one joint report last May. These were two separate claims filed in two separate calendar years.

Yet, the administration felt the right to merge the incidents into one. If brought to court, the incidents would be examined separately, and grouping them together seems like this issue is an afterthought. This is extremely disrespectful to the parties involved.

This incident should be viewed as a wake-up call for the officials responsible for the mental health of BU students. The Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center should

be more wide reaching, and mental health professionals are viewed overall as inaccessible on campus.

Bogged down by appointments, it sometimes takes months from a first phone call to even sit on the couch of a mental health professional on campus. The options are limited and the offerings are discriminatory.

Boston University has the opportunity to set an example by properly handling what could turn into a defining issue of our generation. The responsibility is the university’s and it’s on them to get this right. This case is an opportunity to make the handling of sexual assault on campus a priority.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016

Affordable housing necessary

BY KOBE YANK-JACOBS COLUMNIST

The City of Cambridge’s story since the late 1970s revolves largely around the influx of biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms — particularly in the Kendall Square area — whose presence has increased the population and caused high-skilled labor to displace middle- and low-income workers.

These pressures increased housing prices drastically, thereby creating a loop that further locked out working families and stripped the city of its socioeconomic diversity.

As Barbara Taggart, a resident of Cambridge since 1977, told The Harvard Crimson in February, “It was a working class neighborhood back then, and it was diverse. That, we’ve lost over the years.”

The American Communities Survey corroborates this assessment. Since 1989, Cambridge’s median income rose 37.2 percent, after adjustments for inflation. The real median household income for the United States as a whole remained relatively unchanged during the same period, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Early on, the city managed to maintain affordable housing options by imposing rent control, which it adopted in 1970. In 1994, however, a state ballot initiative simply called Question 9 banned rent control in the commonwealth. This measure handicapped the Cambridge’s ability to retain affordable housing for middle- and low-income residents. Two decades later, a problem that the city barely had under control has been severely exacerbated.

According to the Cambridge Inclusionary Housing Study published Monday, increases in rents and sales prices have outstripped the area’s median income ever since 1997, shortly after the end of rent control. This sharply reduces housing affordability and socioeconomic diversity. In respect to the latter, the study noted that between 2000 and 2011, the proportion of households making between 50 and 100 percent of the area’s median income dropped from 27 percent to 18 percent, while the proportion of the population making over 120 percent of the area’s median income rose from 35 to 47 percent.

In response to this study, City Manager Richard Rossi proposed Monday an increase in the proportion of new development that is required to be kept affordable under the Cambridge Inclusionary Housing Program. Passed by the Cambridge City Council in 1998 to replace rent control, the pro-

gram requires new buildings larger than a specified size to make 15 percent of new units affordable for middle- and low-income residents. Effectively, only about 11.5 percent of all units have received this designation. Rossi’s proposal would aim to put this number between 17 and 20 percent.

The City Council should adopt this proposal and consider an even higher target. The Inclusionary Housing Program is qualitatively one of the best in the nation.

Unlike other cities, Cambridge’s program requires affordable-housing units to be built on-site with market price units, and does not allow them to be smaller or qualitatively inferior. This means that middle- and low-income residents are integrated with the community and offered the same housing options in terms of location and quality as high-income residents. This leads to socioeconomically, and often racially segregated, communities.

With a higher target, Cambridge can expand this exceptional program to keep up the pace with the rise in prices.

The Cambridge City Council should also consider another boost to its linkage fee, which is essentially a tax per square foot levied on developers to fund the Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust.

Last year, the City Council raised the fee from $4.58 to $12, though some city councilors advocated for a fee as high as $24, according to the Cambridge Chronicle. These councilors, namely Dennis Carlone and Nadeem Mazen, argued that the effects of levying this fee on new construction would be negligible on developers.

If Carlone and Mazen were correct, the result would be increased revenue dedicated to affordable housing, with no reduction in development.

If they were wrong and the fee does inhibit development, it would not necessarily be bad for Cambridge. The effects of new development ripple through the community by increasing the prices of adjacent housing. An increased linkage fee can slow this down while creating revenue for the Affordable Housing Trust.

Finally, Cambridge must put more pressure on its two major universities — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University — to house more of their graduate students.

Presently, MIT and Harvard house only 38 and 45 percent, respectively, according to the Harvard Chronicle.

Graduate students often squeeze middleand low-income residents out of affordable housing because they can divide rents by four people, whereas a family must pay rent out of just one or two incomes. Since the universities certainly have the money, the city should encourage them to house more students in order to increase the housing stock for middle- and low-income residents.

Implementing these three initiatives could once again make Cambridge a vibrant and diverse city.

Women's ridesharing implausible

BY ELISE RENNER COLUMNIST

A former Uber driver and his wife are launching a car service in Boston exclusively for females.

As an alternative to services like Uber and Lyft, Chariot for Women “was born to ensure safety, comfort and pleasure as well as giving back to female-focused charities and foundations through our transportation services,” according to the startup’s website. It would only hire female drivers and only pick up female riders. Riders under 13 years of age, however, would be picked up regardless of gender.

Michael and Kelly Pelletz are going into this business together in the hopes of saving women from the potentially unsafe situations that can occur with other ride-sharing services.

Michael first got the idea while working a late night for Uber. A male passenger who was “incoherent” and “barely conscious” made him wonder how a female driver would have felt in his shoes. He would pick up vulnerable, intoxicated, college-aged women in the wee hours of night, and cringe at the thought of his two

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erhaps positive change can come from this awareness, or at least put pressure on Uber to step up and amend its ways.

daughters stumbling into a strange man’s car in the same manner, he recounted on the Chariot for Women’s website.

The website Who’s Driving You?, an initiative of the Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association, has tracked the pitfalls of Uber and Lyft from as far back as 2013. The site states that “Uber’s process for onboarding drivers is dangerously negligent … [and] doesn’t even bother to meet with drivers in person before allowing them to ferry passengers.” It details incidents that fall under the categories of deaths, assaults, sexual assaults, kidnappings, felons, imposters and DUIs — the extent of which are extremely alarming.

However, the solution to this safety issue is not to launch a limited, discriminatory alternative. Rather, they should make what is already in existence the best it can be, considering it is currently being used by more than 8 million people worldwide.

The question of Uber’s legitimacy has been an issue since the app went live.

Both the selling point and the drawback of the app is the laid-back, spontaneous ease for ride users and providers. Because drivers use their own cars, they are able to fly under the radar and dodge rules that apply to professional drivers, leaving Uber less accountable. If your driver, who is not registered under any federal or state body, were to acquire a misdemeanor, the driver would still be able to get behind the wheel. Recently, Uber had to fork over at least $10 million for its insufficient background checks, and that’s not even including the case in which one of its drivers allegedly killed six people.

Although Chariot for Women has noble intentions, chances are it won’t even be able to make it off the ground. Massachusetts has strict laws against gender discrimination in the work force that would most likely make it impossible for the company to refuse service or employment on the grounds of gender. Dahlia Rudavsky, a partner in the Boston firm of Messing, Rudavsky and Weliky, which specializes in labor law, told The Boston Globe that although “there’s nothing wrong with advertising particularly to a female customer base … if a company goes further and refuses to pick up a man, I think they’d potentially run into legal trouble.”

The Pelletz’s have made significant ground in bringing to light the issues that ride-sharing services have, until now, evaded. Perhaps positive change can come from this awareness, or at least put pressure on Uber to step up and amend its ways. It would be a shame to channel this potential for change into a separate service that will inevitably fail and put this momentum at a screeching halt.

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We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — where would BU people go after graduation if homeless?

CFA: A hot box

West Campus: Allston frat houses

SMG: In daddy's corner office

Warren Towers: Warren Towers

SHA: The stairs behind Motel 6

BU Athletes: Back to their high school glory days

BU hockey team: Inside last year’s Beanpot

FreeP: The CAS stairwell with all other FreePs

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Softball storms past Brown University, ends six-game losing skid

BY JOE CALABRESE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

No matter which pitcher Brown University put in the circle Wednesday afternoon against the Boston University softball team, the Terriers consistently found ways to score, taking down the Bears 7-3 and ending their sixgame losing skid.

While neither team got things off the ground in the first two frames, senior first baseman Lauren Hynes’ leadoff walk in the third set the proceedings forward for BU (12-18, 0-3 Patriot League). Two batters after Hynes, junior left fielder Moriah Connolly, sophomore center fielder Jilee Schanda and junior designated player Gabi Martinez produced three singles in a row, with the latter two driving in the first runs of the game.

With several RBIs suffered, Brown (16-12) pulled starter Leah Nakashima before the game was three innings old. Her replacement, junior Gina Chieffallo, fared no better against BU’s hot bats. In the next inning, it was Connolly and Martinez again coming up big, with the former driving in sophomore right fielder Emma Wong.

Martinez has been impressive at the plate as of late, and BU head coach Ashley Waters said the junior has worked on her mental game in order to reach new heights.

“There are ups and downs and the mental part is huge, so she’s really worked on that component of her game, which I think has transferred over,” Waters said. “But she has a lot of confidence at the plate right now, so we feel confident about the way she’s swinging the bat and hope it continues.”

Against Brown’s new pitcher, freshman catcher Alex Heinen looked as though she was going to join the RBI party in the fourth.

Her hit through the left side was ruled an error, though it still plated two runs.

Waters was pleased with how the entire lineup performed, making particular note of the team’s low strikeout total. BU was struck out just six times against Brown’s pitchers and four of those strikeouts came from junior shortstop Brittany Younan. While Younan had a rough day at the plate, Waters praised the rest of the lineup’s ability to “pick her up.”

“We drilled the ball, we hit it hard, we made things happen, which is exactly what we have to do,” Waters said. “We had six strikeouts, which is great. If we

can limit that, we have to make plays and that’s when we score our runs.”

While the Terriers’ bats created a mighty cushion for senior pitcher Melanie Russell, she hardly needed it through the first few innings. The Bears bat .312 as a team with seven starters averaging over .300, yet they popped out 21 times. After surrendering a hit to Brown’s leadoff batter in the first, Russell kept the Bears hitless until the sixth inning.

But in that inning, Brown began to whittle away at the Terriers’ lead. After a leadoff single from junior Lauren Hanna, freshman Ashli Lotz drove in Brown’s first run of the game. Lotz came around to score later in the frame thanks to a triple from third baseman Christina Andrews.

Russell, however, bounced back and averted further damage.

Sophomore third baseman Kaitlin Sahlinger hit one over the left field wall in the top of the seventh for her first home run on the season.

Following the Terriers’ narrow 5-4 loss to Marist College last week, Waters expressed concern about the pitching staff’s ability to close out games. Regarding the victory over Brown, she said the offense helped Russell regroup af-

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Lauren Hynes didn’t pitch vs. Brown, but did cross home plate twice.

ter the sixth to shut the door.

“We kept putting continued pressure on the offense,” Waters said. “[Melanie] did a great job today. Even in that inning where

they were able to score a few runs, I think she did a good job of executing her pitches. So overall I think it was a good start and a good finish.”

Motor City’s NHL franchise enjoys playoff success through future All-Stars BENEDYKCIUK, FROM PAGE 12 Dominik Hasek Hasek was a machine in 2002 as he propelled the Red Wings to the Presidents’ Trophy and the Stanley Cup. Some may disagree, but he is the greatest goaltender of all time. He misses the cut for the top 5 because he only played with Detroit for a few seasons and was benched in the 2008 playoffs. He seemed rattled and scared then, two emotions he had never previously experienced in his career.

5) Brendan Shanahan Despite the fact that he started and finished his career with the New Jersey Devils, Shanahan still sees himself as a Red Wing. In the early ‘90s, the Red Wings were

good, but still missed that little something extra to put them over the edge. Shanahan’s power was precisely what the Wings lacked. He won three Stanley Cups with Detroit, including one in 1997, which snapped both a 42-year-long Cup drought and ignited a dynasty.

4) Chris Osgood Chris Osgood has the second most wins by any Red Wing ever.

While he is a polarizing figureamong fans, he must be respected.

He constantly battled injuries. He competed for the starting job with Hasek and Manny Legace. He led the Wings on a nine-game win streak in the 2008 postseason, en route to winning the Stanley Cup over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Funny enough, he wasn’t even supposed to be the starter that series. Head

coach Mike Babcock put him in after Hasek struggled mightily at the start of the playoffs. Osgood’s competitive nature and his composure in high-pressure situations perfectly match Detroit’s mantra over the past 25 years.

3) Sergei Fedorov Fedorov was often described as “three great players in one.” He had a laser of a shot and unbelievably soft hands. His passes were crisp and his vision was all encompassing. Steve Yzerman said that Fedorov was the best skater he had ever seen. Plus, he was so good defensively that coach Scotty Bowman was able to play him on defense whenever he needed to. In 1994, Fedorov was awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league’s MVP, the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the top defensive forward

and the Lester B. Pearson Award, as “the league’s most outstanding player,” as voted on by the players.

2) Steve Yzerman Steve Yzerman is the most important Red Wing of the past 25 years. During his tenure, he wasnot an ambassador nor a representative — he simply was the team. The seventh leading scorer in league history would be No. 1 on this list if he had been born 10 years later. However, he joined the Red Wings in 1983, way before the streak started, and was a key factor in what’s now the longest active post-season streak among the four major sports.

1) Nicklas Lidstrom Nick Lidstrom is one of the top three defensemen in NHL history.

The Swede won four Stanley Cups with Detroit — as many as Wayne Gretzky had with the Edmonton Oilers. Lidstrom participated in 10 All-Star games during his tenure. He won the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the league’s best defenseman an astounding seven times. Only Boston Bruins legend Bobby Orr has more, with eight.

In 2002, Lidstrom won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the postseason — an award that is seldom given to defensemen. Since he played from 1991 to 2012, he is my choice for the most important Red Wing over their current postseason streak. It takes a truly remarkable player to never miss the playoffs over the course of 20 years, and that is precisely the type of player Lidstrom was.

Robertshaw confident in women’s lacrosse’s form after win over UNH LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 way into the scorer’s book.

“I thought it was awesome,” Robertshaw said. “The fact that so many people got in the mix … it just showed that we moved the ball well, and that people are willing to step up and score.”

Perhaps most crucial among those impact players was Mathews.

The Reston, Virginia native upped her point tally to 13 for the season and noted that she and her teammates had been working on getting more players involved.

“I think we’ve been doing a good job lately of working to get our teammates open and feed off each other,” Mathews said. “It just looks really good when we can get our teammates open and work with each other.”

While BU gave up the first two goals of the game, its ability to counter offensively made up for its defense. Junior goalkeeper Caroline

Meegan had six saves on 16 shots, thwarted five of UNH’s eight free position shots and came up with several reflex saves in front of her stout defense.

“For us all season, especially this game, the most important thing on our defense is to have good 1-on-1’s,” Meegan said. “Another component we put in today is having good 1-vs1’s with good help up top, being able

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to … deter the UNH attackers from coming in the eight.”

The turning point of the game came midway through the first half.

With the Wildcats up 4-3 with 9:47 remaining in the stanza, Mathews tallied her second goal off an assist from junior attack Taylor Hardison.

BU then responded with four more goals to go into the locker room with an 8-4 lead.

e’ve been doing a good job lately of working to get our teammates open and feed off each other.

Although UNH found the back of cage to open the second half, that was the closest it got to trimming the Terriers’ lead.

BU closed on a 6-2 run and with the victory, improved to 24-14 alltime against its former America East rivals.

“For us, this is a confidence-builder,” Meegan said. “It’s a non-conference game and they’re a very tough team. We always battle with them, and for us it’s a confidence-builder going into [the United States Naval Academy]. We had a lot of things working today, so we’re using that to bring it down to Navy hoping for a win.”

The win also bumped the Terriers to above .500 for the first time all season and gave them back-to-back triumphs for the first time since midMarch, when they defeated Bucknell University and Vanderbilt University.

With a mere three games remaining until the Patriot League Tournament, now is the right time to be trending upward. Robertshaw said she is confident ahead of this weekend’s road bout against Navy (8-5, 3-2 Patriot League).

“It’s still going to be challenging,” Robertshaw said. “Navy is a great team and we’re going to have to get through them. We also have [the College of the Holy Cross] coming up and [the United States Military Academy], but this team is playing better and better.

“I challenged them to be focused in this game against a non-conference opponent that would be easy to overlook, and they didn’t [overlook them],” Robertshaw added. “They came out and finished a strong game against UNH. I think that shows we’re able to rise to the challenges I set.”

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Adams, Mathews lead women’s lacrosse past stale UNH defense

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The last time the Boston University women’s lacrosse team played, it had to overcome a big halftime deficit against Lafayette College to claim victory.

When playing host to the University of New Hampshire Wednesday on Nickerson Field, the Terriers (7-6, 4-2 Patriot League) found themselves down 2-0 early in the first half.

After giving up that second goal however, BU wounded up outscoring the Wildcats (7-6) 8-2, and cruised to a 14-7 victory in its last non-conference game of the season.

Going into the game, the Wildcats were 6-0 when holding their competitors to less than 10 goals per game (GPG), but were 0-6 when opponents surpassed that number.

BU had to have many different players step up and contribute, and it showed, with 14 goals from seven different goal-scorers on what was a cloudless, yet breezy, Wednesday afternoon.

Freshman Kelly Matthews and senior Ally Adams each recorded hat tricks, while the trio of McKenzie Larivee, Jill Horka and Sarah Anderson each did the double.

Terriers coach Liz Robertshaw had nothing but praise for the multiple BU players that made their way into the scorer’s book.

“I thought it was awesome”

Robertshaw said. “The fact that so many people got in the mix. . . it just showed that we moved the ball well and that people are willing to step up and score. That’s good.”

Among those impact players for BU was Matthews.The Reston, Virginia, native upped her goal-tally to 13 this season, and noted that she and her teammates had been working lately on getting more players involved in a scheme that came to fruition versus the Wildcats.

“I think we’ve been doing a good job lately of working to get our teammates open and feed off each other” Matthews added. “It just looks really good when we can get our teammates open and work with each other.”

While it did give up the first two goals of the game—the first in a matter of 70 seconds from UNH senior Laura McHoul—BU’s ability to counter offensively helped settle its defense.

Junior Caroline Meegan had six saves on 16 shots, but some of those quick reflex saves made a huge difference in keeping the Wildcats away from seriously threatening to comeback.

UNH had just half as many shots as the Terriers for the game (32 to 16), and went through a 14-minute goalless drought that saw BU respond with five unanswered goals, and ultimately, a lead that it never relinquished.

“For us, all season, especially this game, the most important thing on our defense is to have good 1-vs-1”

Meegan added. “Another component we put in today is having good 1-vs-1 with good help up top, being able to side and show, and deter the UNH attackers from coming in the eight.”

The turning point of the game came midway through the first half.

With the Wildcats up 4-3 in the 17th minute, Matthews tallied her second goal off an assist from teammate Taylor Hardison.

BU then responded with four more goals to go into intermission with the 8-5 lead.

Although UNH found the back of cage first to open the second half off a free-position goal from sophomore Carly Wooters, that was the closest it got to trimming the Terriers lead.

BU closed on a 7-2 run, and with the victory, improved to 24-14 all-time against its former America East rivals.

“For us, this is a confidence-builder” Meegan added. “It’s a non-conference game, and they’re a very tough team. We always battle with them, and for us it’s a confidence-builder going into Navy. They’re a huge competition for us every year, and I think this gets us even more excited. We had a lot of things working today, so we’re using that to bring it down to Navy hoping for a win.

The win also bumped the Terriers to above .500 for the first time all season, and gave them back-to-back triumphs for the first time since midMarch when it defeated Bucknell University and Vanderbilt University.

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Senior midfielder Ally Adams now has 33 points on the year through 23 goals and 10 assists.

With a mere three games remaining until the Patriot League Tournament, now is the right time for a team to be trending upward, and Robertshaw believes her team is going into its weekend road bout against the United States Naval Academy.

“It’s still going to be challenging” Robertshaw continued. “Navy is a great team and we’re gonna have to

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get through them. We also have Holy Cross coming up and Army, but this team is playing better and better.”

“I challenged them to be focused in this game against a non-conference opponent that would be easy to overlook, and they didn’t. They came out and finished a strong game against UNH. I think that shows we’re able to rise to the challenges I set.”

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Smooth Operator Melanie Russell struck out two batters in softball’s 7-3 win over Brown. p.10

Through humility, Cameron Williams creating legacy

The Blue Line Red Wings home to legendary players

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BY MIKE BENEDYKCIUK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Detroit Red Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk has announced his plan to leave the NHL after this season. According to the Detroit Free Press, Datsyuk has been yearning to go home to Russia since he played there during the 2012 NHL lockout.

The “Magic Man” is currently 37 and has played each of his 14 seasons in the league with Detroit. He has one more chance at the Stanley Cup before his career is over, as the Red Wings are in the playoffs again this year for the 25th consecutive season.

During that span, they have won six President’s Trophies (the most in the NHL) as the league’s best regular season team and won four Stanley Cups in six appearances. Needless to say, the Motor City has hosted some premier talent over the last two-plus decades.

While Datsyuk and his captain Henrik Zetterberg have been household names for over a decade, they’re just two of more than a dozen truly elite players who have worn the winged wheel during their historic postseason run.

In fact, after looking at the numbers, Datsyuk and Zetterberg aren’t even in the top five Red Wings players from the past 25 years.

Honorable mentions: Henrik Zetterberg The current captain of the Wings is an elite player by every meaning of the word. It’s hard to believe that last year’s King Clancy award winner was selected 210th overall in the 1999 Entry Draft. He has joined the ranks of Nicklas Lidstrom and Steve Yzerman as the captain of one the most successful franchises in sports.

Pavel Datsyuk Over the course of his career, the Russian has won four consecutive Lady Byng Memorial Trophies, three consecutive Frank J. Selke Trophies and two Stanley Cups. He has entertained fans since the start of the new millennium with his dazzling dekes, slick shootout moves and poise under pressure. The league will not be the same without him.

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It’s April 6 and Cameron Williams strolls up to the bleachers of the Boston University Track and Tennis Center.

Adorned in all-black sweats with headphones draped around his neck and a contagious smile in hand, the 20-year-old bears an unassuming stature as he overlooks the straightaways and curves where he feels most at home.

From afar, the junior sprinter on BU’s track and field team seems like any other student who calls Commonwealth Avenue home. He has two siblings, is from San Antonio and grew up playing football and basketball. What one doesn’t see, however, is the elite athlete Williams has blossomed into as a Terrier.

Specializing in the 200-meter dash, he was honored as a Second-Team All-American, named the Patriot League Male Track Athlete of the Year and ran the fifth-fastest time in the country in the 200-meter dash. As BU track and field director Robyne Johnson put it, Williams is fitting the mold of Terrier greats such as Rich Peters and Tahari James. But Johnson doesn’t buy the hype.

“I guess I just got lucky that I did well enough to participate at this level,” Williams said. “I don’t know, maybe I’m doing pretty well, but there’s so much more that anyone who tries hard enough can get to.

I don’t really need to go gloating about it and speaking of my successes everywhere, because I’m not successful yet.”

That last part in many ways speaks volumes to Williams’ personality. Johnson noted that Williams has always wanted to put his name in the record books through hard work, even if he flies under the radar nationally and on campus. Meanwhile, assistant coach Greg Lambert, who works with the runner closely, said Williams doesn’t recognize how good he is.

Both said they could rave about the junior’s natural talents, but it’s his personality that sticks out the most. He’s bashful, intellectual, pauses before answering each question and, as Lambert said, takes every critique to heart.

“He’s a little bit more open with us because we’ve known him for three years, well four if you include recruitment year, but he is a quiet guy,” Johnson said. “He’s very introspective and he takes what he does seriously, and works really hard.”

That measured approach has translated to success in outdoor meets, too. At the start of April, he placed third in the Texas Relays with a time of 21.39 seconds, and recently placed third at Auburn University’s Tiger Track Classic in 21.08 seconds. So, what keeps someone who’s already achieved so much motivated to keep improving?

According to Lambert, it’s rare moments of disappointment, one of which

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Williams has earned Patriot League and Second-Team All-American honors this year.

came at February’s David Hemery Valentine Invitational. Williams lost by nearly half a second on his own track to Brendon Rodney of LIU Brooklyn. To put it lightly, that result didn’t sit well.

“Cam came back as a man on a mission and him losing to Brendon Rodney was probably the best thing that ever happened to him,” Lambert said. “You kind of wish that happens right before nationals again so he can get that fire lit up.”

Looking down the road, Williams has distinguished himself with aplomb, with one more season of his collegiate career remaining. He wants to keep improving, and hopes to one day experience high-profile meets such as the Olympics and IAAF World Championships.

Lambert said Williams still needs to clean up his technique, but once that’s done, he can be among the world’s best

sprinters. Johnson was a little less lofty in her projections, but noted Williams has plenty in store down the road.

“His potential is unlimited,” Johnson said. “He has the talent, you’ve got to keep putting in the work and we don’t really talk about what might be … He’s just got to put his head down and keep grinding.”

Williams plans on doing exactly that, but emphasized that he hasn’t achieved his most ambitious goals yet. In the meantime, he’s enjoying every step of the journey, and rests easy that everything else will take care of itself.

“I came into this not really expecting much,” Williams said. “I just was lucky enough that the stars happened to align one day and I was able to go to nationals and compete and represent my school. It was fun. Track and field for me is just a fun experience all the way around.”

UNH no match for women’s lacrosse, Larivee stars

BY EDWARD MORAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The last time the Boston University women’s lacrosse team played, it had to overcome a big halftime deficit against Lafayette College to claim victory.

When playing host to the University of

New Hampshire Wednesday on Nickerson Field, the Terriers (7-6, 4-2 Patriot League) found themselves down early, but eventually cruised to a 14-7 victory in their last non-conference game of the season.

Going into the game, the Wildcats (6-7) were 6-0 when holding their competitors to less than 10 goals per game, but winless when opponents surpassed that number. Accordingly,

BU needed a plethora of players to contribute.

That’s exactly what happened.

Freshman midfielder Kelly Mathews and senior midfielder Ally Adams each recorded hat tricks, while sophomore attack Mickenzie Larivee, classmate Sarah Anderson and senior midfielder Jill Horka recorded two goals each.

BU head coach Liz Robertshaw had nothing but praise for all the players that made their CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

BOTTOM LI NE THURSDAY, APRIL 14

FRIDAY, APRIL 15 Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon, who is currently

Softball @ Boston College, 4 p.m.

suspended from the NFL for several failed drug tests, could

SATURDAY, APRIL 16

MONDAY, APRIL 18

Softball vs. Bucknell, 12 p.m.

NFL, Gordon reportedly living with

Softball vs. Bucknell, 12 p.m.

Men’s Lacrosse @ Loyola Maryland, 12 p.m.

apply for reinstatement in the league as early as October.

SUNDAY, APRIL 17

Women’s Lacrosse @ Navy, 1 p.m.

With a chance to get back into the Johnny Manziel isn’t his best idea.