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After marathon, officials begin piecing together evidence BU student among 3 killed in blasts, another injured

By Jasper Craven Daily Free Press Staff

A day after deadly explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon, city, state and federal officials are focused on piecing together the events of the attack, which they say will assist in finding the individual or party responsible for the blasts.

“This will be a worldwide investigation,” said Richard DesLauriers, the agent in charge of the Boston FBI headquarters. “We will go to the ends of the earth to find the subject or subjects responsible for this despicable crime.”

Two explosions occurred Monday afternoon near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, resulting in three deaths and 176 injuries. One of the casualties was an 8-year-old boy, Martin Richard, and another has been identified as Krystle Campbell, 29. The third person killed was a Boston University graduate student, but BU has not released the victim’s name. Seven Emerson College students were also injured in the blast, according to the Emerson website.

Doctors at Mass. General Hospital said many of the injuries sustained from the explosion were burns, shrapnel wounds and ruptured eardrums. A number of patients were given amputations for their wounds, all of which were performed on the lower body, said Dr. George Velmahos, trauma chief at Mass. General, in a press conference Tuesday.

A full timeline of the attacks has yet to be realized, said BPD Commissioner Ed Davis, but some questions have been answered. Davis said there is no evidence the explosions originated

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

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Military officials guard the intersection of Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue Tuesday afternoon while the investigation into the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon continues.

in trashcans, as some reported Monday. Mass.

Gov. Deval Patrick said only two explosive devices were found yesterday, contradicting early reports.

The FBI announced that fragments of the bomb had been recovered and sent to Quantico, Va. for analysis.

“Among items partially recovered are pieces of black nylon, which could be from a backpack, and what appear to be fragments of

BBs and nails, possibly contained in a pressure cooker device,” DesLauriers said.

Security coverage of the marathon has been criticized since the blasts, but Davis defended the security presence for an open, public event like the Boston Marathon.

“By the virtue of the type of event this is, it requires that we don’t turn these events in a police state,” he said. “We struck what we thought

Marathon, see page 2

Mass. House passes budget with focus on education

By Bram Peterson Daily Free Press Staff

The Massachusetts House of Representatives unveiled a state budget plan April 10 calling for about $1 billion less in total spending than Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick’s plan.

“In fiscal year 2014, the Committee’s top priority is higher education,” said Brian Dempsey, chairman of the Massachusetts House Committee on Ways and Means in a letter April 10. “Simultaneously, the proposal ... acknowledges our commitment to protecting and assisting our most vulnerable residents.”

The committee announced its $33.8 billion budget, an increase in spending by 3.8 percent over the current fiscal year, according to the letter.

Patrick’s plan, released Jan. 23, called for a 6.9-percent increase in spending and increase of the income tax from 5.25 per-

cent to 6.25 percent. The House’s plan does not include an increase in the income tax.

Despite the increase in spending, the state is still growing at a slow post-recession rate, said Michael Widmer, president of the Mass. Taxpayer Foundation.

“The budget reflects the state’s weak fiscal situation. The state is growing because the economy is growing, but [the growth] is weak,” he said. “Revenues for next year are estimated to grow at a little less than four percent, and that compares to maybe six or seven percent in a usual economic recovery. Therefore, we just don’t have the revenues to do much in the way of restoring the cuts that took place during the recession.”

Despite the slow growth, Dempsey said improvements to higher education in the Commonwealth are necessary.

“Our proposal targets over $29 million in revenue, associated with the licensing

of gaming facilities, to our community colleges and prioritizes the implementation of the Speaker’s STEM Academy Initiative,” Dempsey said in the letter. “We also increase funding to our state universities and invest in the UMass system to enable them to meet their goal of a 50/50 split, allowing them to freeze tuition and fees.”

Noah Berger, president of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, said although funding to higher education is important, early education should have been a greater priority within the budget. “[Governor Patrick] proposed a $1.9 billion tax package that would have funded significant new investments in early education and in K-12 education,” Berger said.

“The House chose not to follow that path and not to make those investments in early education and K-12 education. In terms of the state’s capacity to make long-term in-

Budget, see page 4

A Boston University graduate student was among the three people killed in deadly explosions Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, officials said.

The student’s name is being held pending notification of the family, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old Arlington resident, and Martin Richard, an 8-year-old boy from Dorchester, were also killed by the blasts that injured a further 176 people.

Another BU student was critically injured by the explosions, according to an email sent to students Monday night by BU President Robert Brown. That student is being treated at Boston Medical Center and is now in stable condition, according to an email to students from BU President Robert Brown.

“Our hearts and thoughts go out to the family and friends of both victims,” Brown said in his email. “As you may know, there is a vigil scheduled to take place this [Tuesday] afternoon on Marsh Plaza at 5:30 p.m.

Now that we know just how seriously the Boston University community has been affected by yesterday’s [Monday’s] events, this vigil takes on a deeper and more somber significance.”

The Associated Press reported Tuesday evening that an official who was not authorized to give his name at the Chinese Consulate in New York identified the two students as Chinese nationals. The Consulate was not immediately available for comment.

BU officials declined to identify the students out of respect for the families.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and friends,” Riley said. “It is such a tragedy.”

Brown said counseling is available through the Dean of Students Office, Student Health Services, BU chaplains and the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center.

The announcements of the deaths came a day after two explosions ravaged the area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Officials have classified the attacks as an

Student, see page 2

BU community comes together to honor Marathon victims with vigils

By Rachel Riley and Trisha Thadani Daily Free Press Staff

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Students gather at Marsh Plaza Tuesday evening as a part of a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions.

Hundreds of Boston University students and Boston residents gathered in two memorials on the BU campus Tuesday to honor those killed and injured in explosions at the Boston Marathon.

Several hundred students and BU officials held a candlelight vigil at Marsh Plaza Tuesday evening. Behind the heads of hundreds of grievers, a flag flew at half-mast.

“You are all here because you have a desire to honor and show reverence for what has happened,” said Marsh Chapel Dean Robert Hill.

Pointing behind him to the statue of alumnus Martin Luther King, Jr., Hill said the crowd must remember the hope King stood for.

“We are here as those who are remembering with graces and gifts of those present,” Hill said. “We are here to accept what has happened and to move forward, cleanly accepting what we have endured.”

Anh Nguyen, a School of Management freshman, said she was volunteering in the EMS tent with the American Red Cross club at

the time of the attacks.

“I love the marathon and go to it every year, so I thought it was a good opportunity to volunteer,” Nguyen said. “The tent was full of happiness and joy when the winners came in, and no one was prepared for what was about to come.”

Nguyen said her job was to write down the heart rates of the runners who needed assistance, but when the bombs went off, she had to step back.

“I didn’t know what to do, I was just a volunteer,” Nguyen said. “I just felt really useless.”

Dexter McCoy, a College of Communication junior who served as SG president during the fall 2012 semester, told the crowd not to be afraid and to remain vigilant.

“This act of terror was meant to steal our joy … and to take away our happiness and sense of security,” McCoy said. “To them, we must say no, and we must tell them that they cannot have it, because it belongs to us.”

Kisha Wilson, a 2010 College of Arts and Sciences graduate, said she has celebrated the

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Marathon runner: Spectators shared jackets, cellphones with runners Marathon: From Page 1

to be an appropriate balance.”

Davis said two Explosive Ordinance Disposal sweeps on Monday were carried out before the blast and discovered nothing.

“Those two EOD sweeps did not turn up any evidence,” he said. “But becasuse there is unrestricted access to the race course — ­ simply because it is 26.2 miles long — people can come and go and bring items in and out.”

Davis said no individual or party has publicly taken credit for the attack and that no arrests have been made regarding the explosions.

Monday, Davis would not comment on whether the explosions were an act of terrorism, but on Tuesday multiple officials recognized it as such.

“This was a heinous and cowardly act,” U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement Tuesday morning. “And given what we now know about what took place, the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism.”

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino also invoked the word ‘terrorist’ in a press conference on Tuesday.

Over 30 agencies responded to the explosions Monday, and the FBI has taken over the investigation, but

is coordinating closely with Boston and State police as well as the U.S. Department of Justice Joint Task Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

“We are in the process of securing and processing the most complex crime scene we have dealt with in the history of our department,” Davis said in a press conference Tuesday.

Davis said the 15-block crime scene radius has been reduced to 12 blocks, but said it could take up to two days until the entire crime scene has been processed.

Commissioner Davis and other officials called upon the public to submit photos and videos taken near the blast sites, stressing the importance this evidence had in tracking down suspects. The FBI had received more than 2,000 tips related to the marathon bombing by noon Tuesday, DesLauriers said.

“I would encourage you to bring forward anything. You might not think it’s significant, but it might have some value to this investigation,” said Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police.

Alben said Bostonians would see an escalated presence of security officials around the Boston area for the next several days.

“You are going to see an enhanced presence from Boston police, State police, the National Guard and from our law enforcement partners throughout the metropolitan boston area over the next days and probably longer,” Alben said at a press conference Monday. “That’s not for any particular reason other than to provide some comfort to the public.”

In a statement from the Boston Athletic Association — which organized the marathon — a tone of sadness was placed on an event that was supposed to hail physical and mental achievement.

“Today is a sad day for the city of Boston, for the running community, and for all those who were here to enjoy the 117th running of the Boston Marathon,” read the release from Monday evening. “What was intended to be a day of joy and celebration quickly became a day in which running a marathon was of little importance.”

On Tuesday morning, Boston Marathon runners gathered near the blast site to pick up their medals and belongings they left at the race.

Dan Kirsch, 70, said he was stopped a half mile before the end of the marathon on Commonwealth Avenue.

“I was moving along towards the

finish line and then, all of a sudden, everything jammed up,” Kirsch said.

“First I just thought it was a jam like the kinds you get at the water stops, but then it was clear that it wasn’t because everybody was stopped. We didn’t know what was happening.”

After more than an hour, Kirsch said he was reunited with his wife and daughter, who had been watching the race on the balcony of the Boston Public Library and had seen the explosions.

Kirsch said the group of runners around him was helpful in helping him contact his family since he had not run with his cellphone.

“People were extraordinarily kind about sharing cell phones and getting information through,” he said.

“It was starting to get chilly, people were lending runners jackets so they could stay warm.”

Megan Cole, 25, also said she was stopped from finishing the race at mile 21. She said it felt good that the BAA handed out medals to those that didn’t finish the marathon.

“It’s great they are honoring the fact that we were going to make it to the finish and we were stopped because of this reason,” Cole, who lives in Gloucester, said.

Both Cole and Kirsch said they were determined to run in next year’s

Boston Marathon.

“Marathons take a pretty hard toll out of my body,” Cole said. “But I would be tempted to run this one again just to show that they can’t stop us. I saw the World Trade Towers go down. New york is back. Boston will be back. We will be back.”

Hundreds gathered at the Boston Common Tuesday evening to remember those lost and injured in the marathon attacks. There was also a vigil at Boston University Tuesday, and some Boston College students are planning a walk of the last five miles of the marathon in solidarity with runners.

Louis Cohn, 58, said she attended the city vigil to honor those lost in the explosions.

“That we can be here [at the Common] and be safe is just a testament to that there are more good people on the earth than bad,” she said. “We cannot listen to them, and we cannot let fear win.”

Sara Ewing, 35, a medical student at Tufts, said she had friends in the marathon that couldn’t complete it because of the explosions.

“I wanted to come and show that Boston, and the city’s spirit, is not broken by this,” she said.

Kyle Plantz and Steven Dufour contributed reporting to this article.

BU Chaplain calls for open discourse at vigil Obama, Menino refer to Vigils: From Page 1

marathon since she first came to BU and is hopeful that Monday’s tragedy will not change the nature of the annual celebration.

“I don’t think you can ever really shake Boston down,” Wilson said.

“The marathon is just going to mean that much more to us in the coming years.”

As the vigil continued on the plaza, about 80 students gathered in Metcalf Hall to share their thoughts and feelings on the bombings.

The town hall meeting was a joint effort from SG, the Dean of Students Office and Marsh Chapel. “I’m hoping that we can have a conversation tonight,” said University Chaplain for Community Life Larry Whitney who opened the meeting. “I’m hoping to know what you’re thinking and

feeling and worried about.”

BU Police Department Detective Lieutenant Peter DiDomenica offered students condolences on behalf of BUPD. “It has been a pretty difficult year,” DiDomenica said. “We have been through a lot together.”

Sophia Woyda, a College of Arts and Sciences senior who served as SG vice president of internal affairs in the fall 2012 semester, said her mother was at the finish line at the time of the bombing but was not hurt.

“Everyone in Boston, their hearts were breaking for each other,” Woyda said. “This isn’t a time for terror and fear. It’s a time for love and community.”

CAS junior Anastasia Voevodin said she had run the marathon earlier that day.

“I’m honored to be one of those

runners that was able to finish,” she said. “… When I crossed that finish line, it was tears of joy, not tears of pain and tears of hurt.”

Aditi Shastry, a CAS sophomore, said she was volunteering in the medical tents on the day of the marathon.

“All of us Bostonians, whether we are from Boston or outside of Boston, we’re a family,” she said.

“There is hope.”

Whitney recited a prayer to close the vigil on the plaza before the crowd entered a moment of silence and lit candles on behalf of the victims.

“This is a moment for the BU community to bear witness to what we consider most lastingly meaningful,” McLaughlin said. “In times like these, we must remember that good overcomes everything.”

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act of terrorism.

Both U.S. President Barack Obama and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino invoked the word ‘terror’ in Tuesday press conferences.

The blasts were set off by two explosive devices and may have contained BBs, nails and ball bearings as shrapnel in pressure cookers, said Richard DesLauriers, the agent in charge of the Boston FBI headquarters. Among the debris were pieces of black nylon that may indicate the use of a backpack.

On Tuesday afternoon, a suspicious package was reported on

BU’s Charles River Campus near 725 Commonwealth Ave., according to a BU Alert Service message sent to students at about 4:30 p.m.

Officers from the Boston University Police Department and Boston Police Department responded to the scene and found no threat in the area, according to a subsequent BU Alert sent around 5:00 p.m.

“You’re going to hear about these things over the next few weeks, and people report as much as they can, people keep vigilant,” Riley said.

Margaret Waterman contributed to the reporting of this article.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

MOURNING AFTER

Becoming United hopes to revitalize SG with new faces

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

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Northeastern University junior Lindsay Domass (left), junior Danielle Kerr and senior Calebl Grillo leave flowers at the gates at the intersection of Newbury Street and Hereford Street just outside Copley Square Tuesday afternoon.

part of our 100-Day action plan,” said Stacey Monahan, interim commissioner of the DTA in a statement. “We have launched automated data matches, $5 replacement fees for EBT [Electronic Benefit Transfer] cards and bi-weekly monitoring of ATM [Automated Teller Machine] and point-of-sale transactions.”

Chief Wayne Sampson, executive director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, said in the release that the collaboration between the law enforcement and DTA is important for the integrity of the programs.

“Our participation will help

This is the second in a series of stories examining the slates running for Student Government executive board for the 2013-14 academic year.

College of Arts and Sciences junior Edmo Gamelin, who is running for Student Government president with the slate Becoming United, said his slate is centered around creating a new culture regarding SG on campus that fosters a strong student voice.

“Our name is definitely what we want to do,” he said. “… Basically, what we want is to unify the student body through various methods.”

Becoming United began campaigning Friday for the 2013-14 SG executive board elections. They are set to compete against two other slates, Can’t B Without U and The BU Ignition.

The slate also includes CAS freshman Richa Kaul seeking the position of executive vice president, School of Management sophomore Fiona Chen seeking vice president of finance and SMG junior Thatcher Hoyt seeking vice president of internal affairs.

“We are four people being elected to represent 16,000,” Kaul said.

“We see that as such a huge responsibility, and we want to make sure to give everybody his or her due representation.”

The slate’s primary goals include understanding and serving the student body’s needs, representing all student groups adequately and promoting consistent communication to create concrete change, according to the slate’s website.

“It’s just a matter of tapping into all the resources we have as individuals and as an organization,” Gamelin said. “… It’s about outreach.”

Part of the slate’s outreach plan involves sending SG senators to meetings with student groups across campus on a regular basis, Gamelin said. The slate also plans to visit the George Sherman Union Link daily to communicate with student groups stationed there.

“It’s a matter of making sure at

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Boston Marathon runner Melissa Fryback cries at the vigil in the Boston Common Tuesday evening. She finished the race shortly before the explosions went off.

Obama’s proposed federal budget slightly increases fin. aid

By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff

Changes contained in U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed 2014 fiscal year budget released April 10 could have a wide range of effects on students at colleges such as Boston University, particularly due to the way the budget addresses financial aid and student loan interest rates, officials said.

Bart Lipman, an economics professor at BU, said it is important for Congress to put a cap on interest rates to protect students.

“In principle, of course, if there’s no cap, interest rates could go pretty high,” he said. “On the other hand, these should be pret-

ty safe loans … pretty low risk from the banks’ points of view, and therefore the banks shouldn’t need to … make a high interest rate.”

The proposed federal budget would decrease the interest rates of Federal Direct Stafford loans, add funds to work-study awards and increase the maximum Federal Pell Grant award by $140 to a total of $5,785.

U.S. Department of Education spokeswoman Jane Glickman said the changes are designed to serve both students and the nation as a whole.

“Our twin goals for higher education are affordability and quality,” Glickman said in an

email. “Both of these programs are geared to needy students. As the President has said time and again, postsecondary education is a prerequisite to opportunity — both for middle-class security and to ensure our nation’s economic prosperity.”

The proposed budget would prevent subsidized Stafford loan interest rates from doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent in the summer, replacing the jump with a “cost-neutral reform” based on market rates, according to the budget. It would also prevent student borrowers from spending more than 10 percent of their discretionary income on loan payments.

In addition, the proposed budget provides $260 million for a proposed program to reduce college costs, improve innovations and increase college attainment rates as well as more than $10 billion for grants, work-study programs and Perkins loans.

At BU, about half of all undergraduates receive financial aid from the university, and about 15 percent receive work-study positions or Pell grants, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

Both the net cost of attending and median amount of borrowed money per student per year at BU are considered “high,” but the net cost has been steadily decreasing,

Aid, see page 4

With Welfare fraud rising, Mass. partners to prevent additional scams

By Trisha Thadani Daily Free Press Staff

After several reported cases of welfare fraud in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services announced a new partnership Thursday with the Department of Transitional Assistance to prevent additional fraudulent cases from happening.

“We’re giving local law enforcement the data and information they need to ensure that clients and retailers are abiding by the law,” said John Polanowicz, secretary of MHHS, in a press release Thursday. “This partnership is an important step forward for

DTA, and it will help us protect benefits for those who need them as a bridge to stability during tough times.”

Recent fraudulent incidents include a former employee of the New Bedford Housing Authority pleading guilty and being sentenced for stealing $13,800 from the agency by submitting fraudulent expense reimbursements, according to a press release from the Attorney General’s office April 8.

Another case involves a Brockton man pleading guilty to collecting more than $32,000 of unemployment benefits while continuing to work, according to a release from the AG’s office April 5.

Polanowicz said the partnership will build on the DTA’s 100-Day Bridge to Stability plan announced March 28 that will enhance the welfare program integrity and service and restore public trust in DTA programs that faced fraudulent activities.

The plan will include increased data matching and integrity functions through the requirement of photos on Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and monitoring of ATM and point-of-sale withdrawals to identify any purchases made at prohibited establishments, according to the release.

“DTA has implemented aggressive and proactive steps to enhance program integrity as

MBTA contest tasks riders to reinvent map, with no plans of replacing it

By Michael Torruella Daily Free Press Staff

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority launched a contest last week for people to redesign the current system map, yet has no plans to replace the maps in the near future, citing insufficient funding.

The transit agency and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation are both sponsoring the contest to redesign the map in celebration of National Transportation Week running from May 12-18, according the MBTA’s website.

Kelly Smith, spokeswoman for the MBTA, said in a statement that the MBTA created the contest to help generate new design ideas but will not be implemented in the future.

“Replacing all of the maps in the MBTA system would represent a significant expense and not

one that is being contemplated at this time,” she said.

Peter Dunn of Stonebrown Design said the MBTA map needs to be reworked.

“The map right now is pretty cluttered and has had a lot of things added to it over the years,” he said. “It is really difficult to see what is important and what is not important at a glance. There are a number of things that are a little bit sloppy and overlapping.”

Dunn said he believed this was a missed opportunity for the MBTA, saying that this could have been a good way for it to get feedback from designers on things the MBTA could improve upon.

“I think it is worthwhile to get the community involved, even if the map won’t be used. It’s good to get people together to share their ideas in officially sanctioned forum,” Dunn said.

Cameron Booth a noted blogger who resides in Portland, Ore. recently created a new map design.

“Transit map design is a difficult, complex discipline that requires elements of graphic design, cartography, typography and art to be successful,” Booth said he does not find the map to be aesthetically pleasing.

“I personally don’t find it attractive because my overall impression of the map is that it’s very busy and jumbled, with poor informational hierarchy: It can’t decide what the most important elements are,” he said.

Katherine Cornetta, assistant to the Dean of Students at Boston University, said she commutes on the Green Line daily.

“I lived here nine years and that if you are from out of town

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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is holding a contest to redesign the system maps, despite no plans to change any of them.

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Becoming United to focus on change ‘outside of Student Government’ Slate: From Page 3

least one of us everyday is going through these organizations [in the GSU Link] and really understanding what they need,” Gamelin said. “… In order to understand what the students need, you really need to open up the dialogue, and that’s really something that we want to do, too.”

Becoming United officials will hold four town hall meetings their first two months in office if elected, Kaul said. The meetings would focus on topics including safety, tuition, representation in administrative decisions and other student concerns.

“A goal for the town hall meet-

ings is to promote more communication among the student body, make the student body more aware of what’s going on around campus and what issues that we’re facing and to activate the students that can be active,” Chen said.

The slate hopes to better communicate students’ needs with the administration to prevent incidents such as the controversy surrounding gender-neutral housing, Chen said.

“We don’t want that to happen again,” she said, referring to the administration’s decision to halt the initiative at the end of fall 2012.

“And we believe that if we are able to unify the whole student body so

that we can be a stronger, more solidified student voice, things will get done more efficiently.”

Becoming United officials hope to hold regular meetings with administrators to make sure they are up to date on student concerns, Kaul said.

“They need to know what the hype is right now,” she said. “It’s the idea of communicating with them and setting up regular meetings with various members of the administration.”

Gamelin said alcohol-related issues, currently a prevalent topic among both students and administrators at BU, are bred by society.

He said it is important to make sure

students are knowledgeable and prepared to handle them.

“The administration needs to realize that it’s unfortunate that this is the norm, but by putting all these systems in place to try to stop it, people are just going to find other ways to do it,” he said. “That’s what we’ve already experienced thus far.”

The slate will not focus on changing the internal workings of SG, Kaul said.

“We don’t want to spend next year focusing on internal change,” she said. “We really want to spend next year focusing on everything outside of Student Government.”

The slate would speak to student

groups during its first two months in office before creating an official agenda for SG, Kaul said.

“We want students to determine what their Student Government does for them,” she said.

Hoyt said each member of Becoming United is relatively new to SG and can bring in a new perspective.

“I feel like we can really connect with people a lot more,” he said. “… All of us came into Student Government from other student organizations that we’ve always been a part of, and I just think it’s a breath of fresh air and fresh life into how everything is structured right now.”

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provide the DTA with the necessary evidence to take action against those who intentionally violate the law,” he said.

Brian Dempsey, chairman of the Mass. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, said in a letter April 10 that as part of the House’s budget, his committee will establish the Bureau of Program Integrity to handle issues with welfare programs. “[The Bureau of Program Integrity] will provide continuous oversight of public assistance programs while maintaining eligibility verification and ensuring we focus our state resources on those residents most in need of our assistance,” he said.

Sana Fadel, director of public policy at Rosie’s Place, said the requirement of pictures on EBT cards is a waste of money that

could be spent on other aspects of welfare assistance programs.

The perception of fraud within such welfare programs has been blown out of proportion, Fadel said.

“Things get magnified so badly in the media that there is a lot of suspicion that poor people are using the benefits wrong,” she said. “A lot of these accusations are based on misconceptions of racial biases.”

Fadel said the increase of regulations on cash assistance policies make it difficult for families who are already struggling to receive the help they need.

“We spend the majority of the time at Rosie’s Place helping women get the paperwork together to prove they actually need the assistance,” she said. “The more that is required, the more difficult it is for them to receive benefits.”

Changes to budget will ‘probably’ take place during debate process Budget: From Page 1

vestments in its people that would strengthen our economy, that may be a missed opportunity.”

Berger said the committee could have emulated Patrick’s budget more to further improve higher education.

“The House Ways and Means budget does make significant improvements in the funding of higher education, particularly funding directly for our community colleges, state universities and the University of Massachusetts,” Berger said. “The governor had proposed both those kind of increases and also significant increases in scholarship funding ... but they [the Committee] did not also fund the scholarships at higher levels.”

Berger said there would be many opportunities for changes to be made before the budget passes on to the Senate’s Committee on Ways and Means.

“There will be a budget debate process [April 22 to April 26] and usually during that budget debate there are changes made to the budget,” he said. “There probably will be in different places of the budget amendments adopted.”

Despite the lagging recovery growth, Widmer said the budget is appropriate for the economic status of the Commonwealth. “[The budget] reflects the state’s tight fiscal situation, which is likely to be with us for some time to come,” he said, “but I think, under the circumstances, that it’s a reasonable budget.”

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according to the College Scorecard, a federal cost-measuring tool for universities released in February.

Riley said BU’s administration works diligently to keep the cost of attendance lowering while still providing quality services for students.

“The administration has done

al average … for over a decade, and that’s hard to do,” he said.

“They’ve increased efficiency, so there’s been … reduced expenses in a number of areas to help keep tuition as low as possible.”

Lipman said it is important for both universities and students to remember that the proposed budget is far from finalized and may

know right now is how much of any of what we’re talking about is going to be relevant when they [Congress] actually get down to passing legislation,” he said. “The process in Washington [D.C.] is so chaotic right now, it’s hard to know whether any of this will have any bearing on what ultimately gets passed.”

Medford resident: MBTA ‘not very good for outsiders’ MBTA: From Page 3

and having not spent a lot of time with the map being completely confused,” she said. “The map assumes you know a lot of things that people do not know. The map assumes that you have working knowledge of the transit system.”

Tessa Venell, 28, a resident of Medford said she rides the Red Line and Green Line daily to work.

“Inbound and outbound is a problem, it depends on where you are. The map needs to show it [the

system] better,” she said. “The map is not very good for outsiders; I think they need to make it better for tourists. The map assumes you know about Boston, which many tourists do not. It makes Boston appear hostile to outsiders.”

Sheina Godovich, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences said she rides the Green Line into downtown Boston four times a week and has some issues with the current map.

“The map never tells you which station you can cross over

at to switch between inbound and outbound, it has happened to me before at Copley,” Godovich said.

Godovich said this is not something the MBTA should be focusing on and that they have other priorities.

“They should be spending their time and money on making the current trains faster and put the GPS tracking on Green-Line trains, which would be a much more beneficial thing. The T has bigger priorities to do then redesign its map,” she said.

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Local musicians Ruby Rose Fox (left) and Anthoney Conley of Endation (right) played at TT the Bear’s Tuesday night. All proceeds from the concert were donated to Massachussetts General Hospital for Boston Marathon victims.

Following the explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon, local musicians rallied together to organize a benefit concert at TT the Bear’s, featuring music from local acts such as Mean Creek, The Field Effect, Endation, Earthquake Party, Dan Nicklin of Oldjack, Cameron Keiber of the Beatings/Eldridge Rodriguez, Ruby Rose Fox and more. The concert was ‘pay what you can’ for enterance and all proceeds went to the Massachussetts General Hospital to aid those affected by the explosions. MUSE staffers Sydney Moyer and Megan Riesz recount their experiences of the local scene working together for Boston.

For Boston: The music and why it matters

Local music speaks the unspeakable

Sydney Moyer

Megan Riesz

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When I describe this city to people who don’t live here, I tend to say something like, “It’s like New York, but like, a town, you know?

A town that cares.”

As aimless as my vague statements sound, my town proved this statement time and time again over the past 72 hours.

Most notably for me, last night local music staple TT the Bear’s hosted a benefit show featuring more than seven Boston bands. The venue donated the proceeds to Massachusetts General Hospital to aid the victims of Monday’s bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Copley Square.

I’m graduating in May, and I’ve spent three years here covering music for The Daily Free Press. I go to shows every week all over Boston and Cambridge, I read Boston music blogs such as Allston Pudding and Sleepover Shows, I’ve been to basement shows and seen artists whose name I couldn’t even successfully Google but who have a devoted following in this city.

I owe what I am today to this city and its many concert halls and jazz bars and basements and holes in the wall, the best classrooms I ever could have asked for.

Last night, many venues canceled their shows in light of the tragedy. TT’s itself announced it would be closed via Twitter earlier in the day, but bands and bookers came together to put on this show for my beloved city — for our beloved city.

As performer Ruby Rose Fox put it, “The

only thing that makes sense to me right now is to sing.”

I watched astounded yet still unsurprised as TT the Bear’s slowly filled with devoted Bostonians, decked out in Celtics jerseys and wholeheartedly supporting their town. The music seemed to bestow a palpable calm upon the room, casting an ineffably comforting bubble, each riff and wail echoing resilience, echoing community.

“Some of us are doctors and counselors.

Some of us aren’t. I’m in the music community and we all gravitate towards community,” said show organizer and former Boston Phoenix Music Editor Michael Marotta.

It’s that community that I’ve found so welcoming, so incredible over the past few years, and I count myself lucky to have been a part of it. And after all this tragedy, what better antidote than that very music, that very community coming together to support one another?

Growing up in the post-9/11 generation has made me overly cautious, expectant of disaster around every corner and somewhat desensitized to it as it happens. Tonight helped me let go of that, as all gestures of goodwill should in these next few days. Whether someone plays a song for a crowd, or holds the treacherous swinging doors of Boston University’s College of Communication, or gives up a seat to a friend in need on the T, every act matters, and those events, innocuous as they may seem on paper, those events are the ones that matter.

I am the first to say that I am no connoisseur of the Boston music scene.

As a former Allston resident of two years, I rarely frequented local bars such as Great Scott, preferring the overplayed 90s tunes of Common Ground on Friday nights. My taste for local music is and was undeveloped, despite having a plethora of high school friends in the DIY punk scene.

I am out of the loop when it comes to discussions of bands spanning Boston or even New England, although I can air-guitar the hell out of “Dream On.” Despite my obvious lack of knowledge in this area, however, I’ve come to appreciate the intangible communal feeling that derives from a single 15 or 30 minutes at a local show. On Tuesday night, as an evergrowing list of bands appeared onstage at TT the Bear’s, I was flooded with an overwhelming sense of gratitude and pride for Boston’s talent — so much of which is underappreciated. Case in point: Ruby Rose Fox. The second artist to perform, Ruby Rose Fox came off the stage to talk to me after I gushed over her performance. Playing solo to a riveted audience, her stripped, visceral

performance was the most haunting and appropriate set of the night, having made many lyrical references to Boston.

“Thanks to Facebook, the word got out really quickly that there was going to be a show,” she said. “I’ve been feeling so anxious the past 24 hours. Like a mild anxiety attack. I don’t know how to calm myself down unless I sing.”

The year-and-a-half Boston performer, and graduate of Emerson College and Brookline High School, was visibly shaken as she tried to describe how the events of the Boston Marathon have affected her and the local music community. She took a half-day off from work and heard about the bombings via a friend from Minneapolis.

“This is a new community to me, but it’s really special,” Fox said. “Music can say the unspeakable. The unsayable. The unknown.”

It was in the moment when I realized that my lack of integration into this city’s music scene meant nothing. Whether for 15 minutes or 4 hours, every attendee at TT the Bear’s benefit show felt a sense of solidarity and relief, whether minute or outstanding.

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In wake of a tragedy Boston has proved its resilience. In the wake of one of the most tumultuous days for every resident in and around the city, people have come together, selflessly opening their homes to marathoners and their families. With a heavy heart, The Daily Free Press salutes those who completed the marathon, those who helped right after the devastation and everyone who is still helping those affected.

Next year Boston is not going to run away scared. Boston will come together again, possibly in greater number, to cheer those brave enough to run and remember those hurt. The marathon was already a symbol of perseverance, and now it is even more so.

Bostonians have united. Hell, even New York City is a fan of this city now. People in Kabul are posting photos online, spreading love after the tragedy. There is an international outpouring of support, especially because so many people, from so many countries, were injured in the explosion.

As much as the catastrophe scars the city, each kind act, each bit of love and support stitches the wounds, making sure Boston

heals.

And the people who ran to help immediately have dwarfed the malevolence of yesterday. First responders ran into the thick, grey smoke to save as many people as they could. And they did. People survived because of the paramedics, the police officers and civilians on the street, 176 of them. If anything ever happens like this again, and hopefully nothing does, people will still rush each other to safety and risk their lives.

Coming back next year will show an inherently good side of people that has emerged in the past couple of days. But will the Marathon be the same forever?

Will it be a celebration of those strong enough to finish or those strong enough to come and support? Will people ask their families to avoid the finish line? It is hard to fathom, especially because we are still reliving Monday and healing.

But Boston has proved to be strong.

With the world behind us, we will overcome all that has happened. We will find out those responsible and proudly run 26.2 miles to remember April 15, 2013.

Report confirms U.S. torture

When your country is in a state of emergency, all you want is answers. The U.S. government, the Bush administration specifically, strove to find those answers. So the U.S. government resorted to torture.

Top officials — TOP officials — okayed these tactics. Since 9/11, people deemed any sort of threat to national security — a terrorist — were detained in places like the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and tortured for information.

The New York Times has published conclusive evidence that the U.S. government has tortured people for information along with an analysis of a report done on torture practices and their results. The conclusion?

That people were tortured and most of the information obtained from suspects proved unreliable. So essentially the torture was pointless. But who wouldn’t spit out random information if it meant an end to the torture?

In the end, all officials obtained was false information they had no power to verify. The prisoner was the very last suspect that could have known something useful. Is it worth inducing terror and pain on

such suspects if it is found that what these people say is not true?

The most disturbing part of this the rhetoric the U.S. government has used for decades: We are the home of freedom and liberty and we are the best. This country has prided itself on being different from all the others where people are treated poorly daily. This report has made the U.S. appear hypocritical because so many of the government’s values seem nullified.

The damage to the suspect is also life long. The emotional damage is irreparable, and if the suspect was innocent, absolutely horrendous. There are ways of obtaining intelligence. Torture should never be an option, and speaking from a functional standpoint, it’s a waste of time because confessions are infrequently usable. This report will hopefully reinvigorate the torture debate. If and when people start talking about it, it may make bring about those who are accountable. And people need to be held accountable. Now that the report has brought discourse about torture out of the shadows, policy can change and torture by the U.S. can stop.

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What was the cannon?

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TRIGGER WARNING: The following column is a graphic retelling of what my friend and I saw at the finish line at the Boston Marathon.

I went to the marathon with my best friends Alex, Paul, Leah and Sam. We started out on Beacon Street, headed through Kenmore Square and found a comfortable place at the Prudential Center. There we watched thousands of people begin beaming when they saw the end of the race. Their perseverance got them to the most coveted end to the most prestigious marathon in the world. They were almost there.

When Leah, Alex and Paul left to go back to Kenmore and Cambridge, Sam and I stayed, pressed up against the barrier, screaming and photographing the marathoners. He had his camera; he was taking photos for a class. He had a long telephoto lens that obstructed some people’s view of the marathon.

Two women next to us asked us to move over a little, their friend Tina was just about to finish. They told us to look out for a woman wearing a peach tank top, black capris and a blonde ponytail. That was really helpful considering every other woman in the race sported the exact same clothes. But we still kept an eye out for her. We had a specific runner to cheer on!

I shouted praise to everyone running. I saluted and shouted, “U.S.A.” to the Syracuse ROTC, led by a woman with a blonde ponytail. I praised the woman pushing her daughter with cerebral palsy in a stroller. I can’t begin to imagine how much she loves her daughter.

I cheered for the man with a limp, he was so close to finishing. She could do it.

Then I heard a cannon fire followed by a shockwave. I felt it in my chest. It smelled like fireworks. Is this a celebration?

I turned to Sam. I hit his arm saying “look,” and pointing. “Look. There is so much smoke.

That building is engulfed with smoke. Sam, look.”

Then we saw the second explosion. A football field away, people were flattened by a fireball. People all around shuddered and everything fell silent. Smoke filled the street. Then pandemonium reared its ugly head.

We ran to the smoke. Sam had to take photos. We had to see the news. He had to document it. I couldn’t let him go alone. We pushed past people running the opposite direction.

Paramedics and police officers were diving into the cloud. People emerged one-by-one, each carrying their own victim. Paramedics had already begun CPR on a boy with charred clothes and singed, matted hair and a pair of batman sneakers. People were being helped onto stretchers, the victims writhing as they were strapped down. A woman behind me sat against the wall, her leg bleeding, her marathon number barely pinned to her yellow shirt.

A man lay in the street, one of his legs somewhere in the rubble. His marathon number

smoldered. Nobody was around him. I couldn’t help. My knees were clattering, my fists were clenched and my heartbeat so fast it hummed.

Everything smelled like blood.

Sam darted through the chaos. I stood by the curb, still, not sure how to help. My inner journalist screamed at me to cover what I saw.

My phone was dead. I don’t have a pen or paper. Then my Eagle Scout senses reeled. How could I help? What can I do? Don’t be useless!

I wasn’t wearing a belt and couldn’t put a tourniquet on the man bleeding in the road. I had no knife to tear the sleeve off my shirt to do the same. Can I do CPR on someone? Who needs it? Let me help!

Sam grabbed me, shouting to follow him.

I couldn’t hear anything except for his voice.

All I know is that that boy in the middle of the road, the one wearing the batman sneakers, now had a tube in his chest.

Officials began to push us back. We stopped so my friend could change his camera lens. He asked me to attach the lens hood but my hands were shaking too hard to do it. We proceeded to run.

I needed to call my parents. I needed to let them know I survived. I had to tell them about all the people I saw, all the blood that stained my shoes.

When I reached my father, I lost all composure. All I could say was, “Dad, I was just in a terrorist attack. Sam and I saw it. We experienced the carnage.” When I hung up, Sam embraced me. I disintegrated in his arms. He stayed so strong. I just crumbled.

When I got home, I realized my phone charger was on the other side of Beacon Street. I had to go back out to Kenmore. So I walked through a barren Kenmore Square. All I heard were the sirens and helicopters.

I knocked on Leah’s door. She broke down as I walked in, “I’m so glad you’re ok.” It hit me. I was there. I experienced it.

Soon I crawled into her roommate and my close friend’s bed. For what seemed like hours I drank in the silence and the comfort. I have never felt closer to my friend Ilana.

I spent the next few hours texting and calling my family, friends and colleagues. My grandparents cried. My aunts, uncles and cousins cried. I cried.

The only way I could get through the night was thinking about the paramedics ready to risk their lives to save strangers and the police officers gathering limbs. People always say they lose faith in humanity when something like this happens, but there are so many good people out there ready to help.

Boston is resilient. I hope I keep up with that vibe through the coming weeks.

Brian Latimer is a sophomore in the College of Communication, and the Opinion Page Editor at the Daily Free Press. He can be reached at letters@dailyfreepress.com or personally at blatimer@bu.edu.

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King: Even rivals comes together to support each other in misfortune King: From Page 8

When we arrived at the softball field, I walked by some Bryant lacrosse players who briefly glanced at my practice shirt and looked up.

Pure eye contact and a look.

That’s all I got.

No words were exchanged, but the look of total empathy said it all.

After warm ups, we were standing just to the side of first base in our “BUnit” huddle waiting for the announcer to begin.

One by one, players from both teams

were announced alternatively, and jogged over to home plate as we lined up side by side, shooting up the middle of the infield, across the pitcher’s mound to where the dirt and grass met, exchanging high fives the whole way down.

Once everyone was lined up, Bryant’s Athletic Director, Bill Smith, called for a moment of silence for our city, and all of the sudden the BU and Bryant softball teams linked hands.

Just like that, we were united with our opponents.

If that isn’t the definition of class and humanity, I don’t know what is.

When the moment of silence concluded, I opened my eyes and raised my head for the national anthem when the sight in front of me brought me to tears.

The American flag, cast at half-mast, made my stomach churn as I thought back to the moment I heard about the explosion.

One mile.

That’s all it was.

A mile away from where me and the rest of the softball team was watching the race

Monday.

My eyes began to water along with those around me, BU and Bryant softball players alike, as we all stood there, hand in hand, with blue and yellow ribbons hanging from our ponytails.

Nothing that happened in the game following that introduction would be more remarkable than the amount of sportsmanship, empathy and humanity that was exerted on that field before game time.

No win could compare to that.

Thank you, Bryant softball.

Freshmen stepped up late in season Men’s hockey: From Page 8

line centers,” Parker said. “As it turns out, Hohmann made a big jump and O’Regan played great.”

Between the freshmen jumping in and older players, including Hohmann and senior captain Wade Megan, starting off hot, BU went 10-5 in the first semester against the nation’s toughest schedule. It faced Boston College and the University of New Hampshire three times and the University of North Dakota twice, beating each once.

Ahead lay four games with last-place Northeastern University, as well as two each with the struggling University of Vermont and Maine teams. No Hockey East game was easy, but the second semester afforded BU a wealth of opportunities to stay high in the national rankings. That promising slate got off to an ugly start Dec. 29 in Denver. Not only did BU lose 6-0 to a University of Denver team on the skids, it also took 56 penalty minutes, catapulting itself from fourth to first in the league in penalty minutes per game. Junior defenseman Patrick MacGregor and sophomore defenseman Alexx Privitera took game misconducts, and junior defenseman Garrett Noonan narrowly escaped another.

The Terriers went 3-4-1 between the Denver game and Feb. 4, when they met Northeastern (9-21-4, 5-18-4 Hockey East) in the Beanpot semifinals. Northeastern rookie standout Kevin Roy outscored a flat BU team by himself with a hat trick in the 3-2 Northeastern win.

Then, discouraged and reeling, the Terriers lost 7-4 to Harvard University in the Beanpot consolation game. A loss to Harvard in that same game cost BU an at-large bid in the national tournament two years earlier, but that memory was not enough to spur it to victory over the Crimson (10-193).

“I think the team got bogged down with some internal problems that I still don’t know exactly what they were,” Parker said.

“They were in the dressing room. They were chemistry problems more than anything else, and it really took away from their efforts on the ice as a team.

“And then, when we finally addressed it by making them address it, it turned around again. So shame on me for not knowing earlier and making them address it earlier

... I don’t think it was anything drastic, but it was something that had to be talked about out in the open.”

Parker said Megan, along with some other upperclassmen, spoke to the team in mid-February, when a sub-.500 finish seemed possible.

“I think he, along with other guys on the [leadership] council, went down to that dressing room and had a great team meeting,” Parker said. “It wasn’t by accident that it was the first time in a while we looked like a real enthusiastic team when we went to Maine that weekend.”

BU wasn’t perfect in Maine on Feb. 15 and 16, but it took three out of four points, the final one coming when junior forward Matt Nieto scored with four seconds left in overtime for a dramatic 5-4 win. The Terriers then went 4-1 in their last five games, including two wins over the Northeastern team that had been a frustrating thorn in their side.

A significant amount of credit for BU’s late run goes to its so-called second line: Nieto, O’Regan and sophomore Evan Rodrigues, who combined for 51 points in BU’s last 15 games.

Nieto lived up to his reputation as a second-half standout, recording nine of his 18 goals in the last nine games. O’Regan remained a consistent playmaker with a finishing touch of his own. And Parker took to calling Rodrigues the team MVP as the sophomore gained the confidence to play the creative offensive game that comes naturally to him.

“There’s no question in my mind he’s getting better and better as the season progressed, and he’ll be a terrific player in this league next year,” Parker said of Rodrigues. “He’s an All-American type of player in this league.”

As February gave way to March, though, Maguire stood out most. When O’Connor was hospitalized with a collapsed lung, Maguire took over the starting job without a hitch — save for a 5-2 loss to Vermont, in which he still stopped 33 shots.

In BU’s last eight games, Maguire faced 30 or more shots six times. He faced 35 or more four times. The more pucks he saw, the sharper he seemed, and that was nowhere more evident than in the Hockey East semifinals against BC (22-12-4, 15-93 Hockey East).

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Freshman forward Danny O’Regan led the Terriers with 38 points in his rookie campaign.

For 30 minutes, the game was almost laughably unbalanced in the Eagles’ favor.

Yet Maguire let in only two goals on 31 shots in the first two periods, one of which changed direction off a defenseman’s stick right in front of him.

Maybe the Terriers realized a one-sided loss to BC would be an unfortunate ending to Parker’s career, or maybe they just realized they could could chip the puck past BC’s aggressive defensemen to start oddman rushes. Whatever the reason, once Rodrigues scored halfway through the second period, BU took over, scoring four goals in 10 minutes and burying the Eagles, 6-3.

“We’re not going to let [Parker] lose to BC at the Garden in his last game,” O’Regan said after the win, then blushed as Parker laughed and said, “Much appreciated, Danny.”

The next night, BU ran into the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, who eventually made it to the Frozen Four. Maguire preserved a 0-0 tie for 51 minutes, and

the Terriers exerted far more pressure on Lowell (28-11-2, 16-9-2 Hockey East) than they did in any of their earlier meetings.

In the end, though, they could not beat freshman goalie Connor Hellebuyck, and a second-chance goal from Derek Arnold with nine minutes to go ended BU’s season with a 1-0 loss.

Now David Quinn, not Parker, will lead BU into the 2013-14 campaign. He will have the benefit of Noonan, who elected not to leave for the pros, returning for his senior season on the blue line, as well as a group of talented but young freshmen becoming sophomores. For Parker, who still occasionally refers to the team as “we,” the change still has not quite sunk in.

“I’m doing the exact same stuff I ordinarily would be doing at this time of year with the team ... handling dormitories, grades, tutors and all that kind of stuff, workouts,” Parker said. “Other than that?”

He paused. “I’m no longer the BU hockey coach.”

6th-inning rally leads to emotional victory Creating opportunities key to Terrier victory Softball: From Page 8

Roesch’s fielder’s choice the next at bat. A series of singles from the bottom of the BU lineup sparked a small rally, as the team scored three runs to knot the score at four apiece.

After a dominant bottom of the fourth by senior pitcher Whitney Tuthill, BU struck again in the top of the fifth. To start off the inning, Hynes hit a double to leftcenter field and advanced to third on an error, setting junior third baseman Megan Volpano up nicely. Volpano hit a sacrifice fly to center field, scoring Hynes and giving BU a 5-4 lead.

Similar to the first inning, the Bulldogs had a response for BU, as junior Taylor Bell hit a two-RBI double to give Bryant a 6-5 lead.

BU started the sixth inning with a leadoff double. Then a one-out single from sophomore left fielder Emily Felbaum set

Mask up for a crucial at bat. An error at first base allowed Mask to reach base, advancing the runners and tying the game up.

From that point, BU took over as a twoout, two-RBI double by Volpano gave the Terriers the necessary cushion to finish the game.

With their ace Tuthill on the mound, the Terriers won 8-6, extending their win streak to four games and displaying the perseverance the city of Boston needs now more than ever.

“Everyone is getting confident and we’re getting contributions from everyone on the team, which is the best part,” Gleason said.

“We had a great practice last week that propelled us forward. We talked about playing with more intensity and they took it to heart. Considering what happened yesterday, they came out especially with intensity today.”

Lacrosse: From Page 8

has been huge for the Terriers over their winning streak, scoring 13 goals and recording two assists in the two contests. For her efforts, Etrasco was named America East Offensive Player of the Week, the second time she has received the honor this year.

Freshman midfielder Sofia Robins also had a huge game against the Bearcats, scoring three points off of a goal and two assists and was awarded the America East Rookie of the Week for her performance.

For the Terriers to continue their success on offense, Robertshaw said she thinks the team needs to continue taking chances and creating its own opportunities to score.

“They’ve been taking more risks to cage and I think you’re seeing Danielle lead them by going to cage herself,” Robertshaw said. “We’ve seen a lot of nice plays

from a lot of different players on our attacking end and I think that allows us to gain more confidence.”

The last time the Terriers and Wildcats faced off was April 4 of last year, when BU defeated UNH 13-8, thanks to four-goal games from both sophomore attack Mallory Collins and then-senior attack Molly Swain.

This game marks the 34th meeting between the two teams. The Terriers currently lead the all-time series with a 22-12 record against the Wildcats.

For Robertshaw, the biggest key to a win Wednesday lies in the team’s ability to dictate the game.

“We just have to go out there and play our style of lacrosse and be aggressive on attack,” Robertshaw said. “We have to get the shot opportunities that we want, and really look to hold UNH to a lower scoring game.”

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Their resiliency and toughness definitely represented the city today.

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Junior third baseman Megan Volpano hit a game-winning 2-RBI double.

By Christopher Dela Rosa Daily Free Press Staff

With the heartbreaking events of Monday weighing on their minds, members of the Boston University softball team traveled to Smithfield, R.I., on a gloomy Tuesday afternoon to play against Bryant University, and the team came up with an emotional 8-6 victory.

The big win came after it swept the University of Maryland-Baltimore County over the weekend,

W. Lacrosse @ UNH, 4 p.m.

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The BU softball team put together an incredible 6th-inning rally to defeat Bryant University the day after Monday’s heartbreaking events. P. 7.

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outscoring the Retrievers (8-32, 1-11 America East) 13-2 over the course of three games. In that series, the two standout players were junior center fielder Jayme Mask, who stole eight bases during the series, and freshman pitcher Lauren Hynes, who consistently shut down UMBC. Tuesday’s game was not just an ordinary game for the Terriers (15-20-1, 5-4 America East).

After the tragedies that occurred in Copley Square the day before,

the players chose to wear blue and yellow ribbons in their hair, the colors of the Boston Marathon.

“It was important for them to honor the victims and the first responders and heroes that went in, which is why they decided to wear the blue and yellow ribbons,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason. “They definitely played for Boston today. Their resiliency and toughness definitely represented the city today.”

The two teams also stood hand in hand during the national anthem following a moment of silence for those who perished during Monday’s attack.

The Terriers continued what they started over the weekend against UMBC. The dynamic duo of Mask and Hynes at the one and two spots in the lineup struck again, as Hynes drove in Mask on an RBI single to strike first and give BU a 1-0 lead.

Unfortunately, Hynes — who gave herself a bit of room to work with on the mound — could not hold on to the lead for long. In the bottom of the first she gave up a single and a walk, followed by a three-run home run to give Bryant (14-19) a 3-1 lead.

“We went ahead right away and thought we had some momentum on our side,” Gleason said.

“It was a hitter’s zone and we just weren’t hitting. Bryant’s a good hitting team and we knew that going in. We’re going to continue to put [Hynes] out there, and she’s going to get tougher the more she pitches.”

A quiet second inning from the Terriers and then another home run for Bryant gave the Bulldogs a commanding 4-1 lead, forcing Gleason to pull the freshman starter.

BU did not respond on offense until the fourth inning.

To start off the frame, junior catcher Amy Ekart singled on a bunt but was thrown out at third on senior second baseman Emily

Jack Parker’s last season as the Boston University men’s hockey coach will be remembered for that reason alone. It will also be recalled as a hard season to figure: The Terriers, despite their youth, played a strong first half, a nearly perfect month of March wand a six-week stretch between those two that doomed their year.

“If you told me at the beginning of the year we would have gone to the Hockey East championship game, with as young a team as we had, I would have said that’s a pretty good year,” Parker said. “But not the way it unfolded. The bookends were pretty good. The six-week span in January was the ‘blah.’”

BU (21-16-2, 15-10-2 Hockey East) began the season dressing nine freshmen regularly. The team later lost center Wesley Myron to the ECHL, but nearly every other rookie made significant contributions in the end. With the amount of playing time they got, they had no other choice.

Freshman Danny O’Regan proved himself a top-six center and led the team with 38 points.

Freshman defenseman Matt Grzelcyk finished with 23 points, third among all Hockey East defensemen. In net, both freshmen Sean Maguire and Matt O’Connor played well enough to start alternating games all year, until O’Connor suffered a collapsed lung near the end of the season.

“I remember thinking that we had to have either [sophomore center Cason] Hohmann or [Yasin] Cissé make a big jump from the year before, and we had to have either Myron or Danny O’Regan play on the first two

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Men’S hocKey, see page 7

to find success in final season

By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Staff

Lacrosse looks to continue offensive output against UNH squad

By Conor Ryan and Matt Fils-Aime Daily Free Press Staff

Coming off a dominant 21-12 victory against Binghamton University, the Boston University women’s lacrosse team will look to continue its high-scoring ways against the University of New Hampshire Wednesday afternoon in Durham, N.H. The Terriers (5-6, 2-2 America East) appear to have successfully solved their offensive issues from earlier this season, as they have scored at least 20 goals in their last two games.

While BU seems to have turned around its season with a two-game winning streak, UNH (4-9, 1-3 America East) is currently bogged down in a twogame losing streak, as the Wildcats have struggled with scoring

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Softball perseveres in wake of tragedy Parker unable

Unity In Tragedy

Less than an hour after the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon Monday, everyone in the world knew what transpired in Copley Square at 2:50 p.m. on one of Boston’s most beloved holidays — Patriots day.

The city erupted into a state of panic. Streets filling up with alarmed questions, nerves and tears.

I can’t even remember the first time the sirens stopped sounding that day.

It’s terrifying how one of the most memorable days I can remember having since arriving in Boston in the fall, went south in just a few seconds.

The thought that whoever set those bombs off was walking among us for the early hours of the marathon is nauseating.

It’s things like this that make you question peoples’ humanity.

But then again, there are too many great people in the world that come together in times of disaster and despair — people who spark remarkable responses.

Cross-conference opponents are no exception.

The Boston University softball team was scheduled to play at 4 p.m. at Bryant College Tuesday, despite the devastation that occurred in Boston one day before.

The morning of our game, senior outfielder Jayme Mask asked our head coach, Kathryn Gleason, to contact Lisa Wallace, Bryant’s head coach, and coordinate a moment of silence to honor all those affected by the bombing.

They couldn’t have been more on board.

On top of that, junior catcher Amy Ekart threw out the idea of wearing blue and yellow Boston Marathon-inspired ribbons during the game, Bryant softball included.

As we loaded onto our Peter Pan bus, Coach Gleason called us all to the back to check how we were holding up emotionally.

“We don’t have to play today, you know,” Gleason said.

We all sat there in silence and stared at her, blue and yellow ribbons already pinned in our hair.

The only thing we wanted to do was play for our city.

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as of late.

“They’re fighting to get into the conference tournament and we’re one of the teams that they are looking to beat in order to do that,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw.

It has been a tough year for the Wildcats, as they are currently tied for last in the America East standings with Binghamton University and the University of Vermont.

The biggest reason for UNH’s struggles this year lies in the team’s offensive woes. The Wildcats are currently sixth amongst America East teams in both goals per game (10.08) and points per game (15.00). The Wildcats have also had issues with offensive possession, as they are currently last in the conference in draw

controls per game (10.62).

Over its last four games, UNH has only averaged 7.75 goals per game.

While the Wildcats offense has had issues, UNH still has two players to look out for in senior Jenny Simpson and freshman Laura McHoul.

Simpson leads the Wildcats with 39 points, including 35 goals, on the season, while McHoul is second with 38 points. Simpson is currently 10th in the conference in points per game (3.00), while McHoul is ranked third in America East in assists per game (1.92).

While they do not score as often as other America East teams, the Wildcats do fare much better on the defensive side of the game, as UNH is fourth in the conference in goals-against average

(11.06).

Despite UNH’s struggles this season, BU coach Liz Robertshaw expects a tough battle Wednesday.

“We’re going to find a really aggressive team in UNH,” Robertshaw said. “They’ve been gaining confidence over the past few games and they want to come in and get after us both on the attacking end and defensively.”

After averaging just nine goals per game over four contests from March 20 to April 3, the Terrier offense has come alive in its last two matchups against the University of Vermont and Binghamton (2-9, 1-3 America East), scoring 20 goals against the Catamounts (6-9, 1-3 America East) and 21 goals against the Bearcats.

Senior attack Danielle Etrasco

Friday, April 19

Saturday, April 20

Sunday, April 21

Track @ Larry Ellis Invitational, All Day

W. Lacrosse @ Stony Brook, 1 p.m.

Softball @ Fairfield, 1 p.m./3 p.m.

Track @ MIT Invitational, All Day

lacroSSe, see page 7

Softball@ Farfield, 12 p.m.