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CITGO sign distinguishing Hub through ups, downs Recent poll shows tie between presidential candidates for 2012 By Mary Yatrousis Daily Free Press Staff
The 72-year-old CITGO Sign, which rests on the Boston University Barnes & Noble with its 3,600 square feet towering over Kenmore Square, is one of Boston’s most distinct features, BU students said. “It’s really cool that the sign is on our campus,” said College of Arts and Sciences freshman Alyssa Russell. “It’s a very iconic symbol of Boston, and it’s ours.” The landmark’s significance extends beyond the BU campus, however, said CITGO General Manager of Lights, Oils and Marketing Alan Flagg. “Our big sign in Kenmore Square has iconic status with Bostonians and the many visitors to that great city,” Flagg said in an email interview with The Daily Free Press. Boston sports fans hold the sign in particularly high regard, Flagg said. “Red Sox sluggers are enticed by the so called ‘C-IT-GO’ sign as they blast home runs over the left field wall, and runners in the grueling Boston Marathon welcome its sight as the 20th mile mark,” he said, referring to the spot in Newton – just before “Heartbreak Hill” – when the sign becomes visible. Some fans are so dedicated that they get tattoos of the red, white and blue sign and often send pictures of their tattoos to the company, Flagg said. All of those tattoos depict the new CITGO sign though, with the familiar red triangle on a square white field. Originally the sign was circular, had Cities Service written on it, and no triangle. The company did not switch its name from the Cities Service Company until 1965 when it decided to
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said. McGwier said one goal the LGBTQ community is working toward is raising awareness about not using insensitive language. “There’s been a big push not to use the word ‘gay,’” she said. “People don’t realize that it really affects people.” Offensive language often comes in the form of jokes, Weiser said. “If there’s a gay person walking by and they hear you joking about faggots or saying that they’re gay, that’s really harmful,” Weiser said. “[We want to] create a campus awareness to stop using those words lightly.” Activists welcome allies of the LGBTQ community to participate in solidarity and help further the discussion.
Mitt Romney, the expected Republican presidential nominee, has closed the gap with President Barack Obama by pulling into a tie with registered voters, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll released Wednesday. Obama and Romney each garnered support from 46 percent of registered voters polled. These numbers show a 3 percent increase by Romney since March. The poll also reported a 41 percent approval rating of Obama, the lowest of his presidency. Fifty-five percent of registered voters said Obama understood their needs and problems. Asked the same question for Romney, only 31 percent said he understood their issues. When breaking down the numbers between sexes, Obama led among women with 50 percent, while Romney led in support from men with 50 percent. Boston University students with a variety of political opinions differed in their views on why Romney leapt up in the polls. “Romney will now definitely be the nominee,” said Greg DeSocio, a School of Management senior and former president of the BU College Republicans. “You get that bump [in the polls] once you are declared the nominee. “ Although Romney is not the declared nominee, many voters tend to consider him the GOP candidate. Sophie Miller, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore and registered Democrat, said Romney’s rise is due to the frustration of Obama’s failures. “The economy is really a hinge issue,” she said. “Since there haven’t been any drastic improvements, people are starting to lean toward Romney.” Miller said Obama will be hard-pressed to generate the amount of support he received in the 2008 presidential election when he beat U.S. Sen. John McCain. “He needs to find something as fresh as the ‘change’ and ‘hope’ that he ran on for his first term,” she said. “He promised a lot of change and we’ve seen some, but there are still a lot of areas where there have been disappointment within the Obama administration.” DeSocio, a registered Republican, and Miller said they are not planning on voting for
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The CITGO sign is a Boston landmark. Originally built in 1940, this sign overlooks Fenway part in its Kenmore Square home.
rebrand, 55 years after the fuel company started in 1910, according to the CITGO website. The new sign came with the new name, but its continued presence in the Boston skyline was not guaranteed. During the 1980s, the company almost took the sign down, Flagg said. Former Massachusetts Gov. Edward King called for the sign to be turned off in 1979 as the country dealt with the energy crisis that followed the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. As electricians estimated the amount of energy needed to keep the sign glowing nightly, characterizing the power usage as wasteful,
some Boston-area residents called for the company to conserve energy and pull the sign’s plug, according to Boston Globe archives. The neon sign went dark in 1979 and stayed off for about four years. During that time, controversy broke out over whether the sign should be demolished or designated as an historical landmark. Editors at the Globe stuck up for the sign in 1983, contending that despite some Bostonians’ “dismay over attempts to save the sign,” the sign “has been an important reference point, emotionally and geographically, for many Bos
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Activists at BU aim to raise awareness with Day of Silence By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff
Throughout her four years at Boston University, College of Communication senior Marie McGwier said she has seen an influx of queer support groups on campus. “BU has come a really long way,” McGwier said. “It still has a really long way to come. The fact that anyone feels like they need to hide or [that] anyone does face discrimination is terrible, and it’s something that definitely needs to change.” McGwier said she will likely participate in Friday’s National Day of Silence to continue to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students. The Queer Activist Collective, Spectrum, OUTlook and the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism are among groups demonstrating against LGBTQ harassment.
“[The Day of Silence is] a way for people to realize we all need to be actively working to be making schools safer for all students, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender expression and identity,” said COM senior and Q President Michelle Weiser. Activists will be standing silently in Marsh Plaza from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., surrounded by colorful balloons, handing out flyers advocating the message of the Day of Silence, Weiser said. “[We’re] putting ourselves out there as a resource and saying, ‘We’re here, we support you,’” she said. Nationwide, the Day of Silence is intended to raise awareness about the discomfort and bullying LGBTQ students face in school. “Nine out of 10 LGBTQ students feel that they experience harassment in school, especially in middle school and high school,” Weiser
BUMC bans smoking on campus, Union intends to look into different approaches By Amy Gorel Daily Free Press Staff
While Boston University Medical Campus officially went smoke-free Monday, Student Union members said they are brainstorming alternatives to a smoke-free campus on the Charles River Campus. “Dean Elmore came to us earlier saying the medical campus was going smoke-free, and he wanted to come up with alternative solutions,” said Union Vice President Alex Staikos. “He wanted the Charles River Campus to be more courteous, but did not want to take such a radical initiative as going smoke-free.” As part of a Boston Public Health Commission initiative, announced Nov. 17, BUMC and nine other hospitals now prohibit smoking in all campus buildings and outside on campus grounds, said BUMC Provost Karen Antman. “As an academic medical center, we are committed to finding ways to treat and prevent cancer and related diseases,” Antman said in an email. “It makes sense for the medical campus to set an example of wellness and pre-
vention for our faculty, staff, students and the community.” BU spokesman Colin Riley said the Charles River Campus will remain open to smokers. “There is a concentration of medical facilities [at BUMC], and there needs to be treatment,” Riley said. “That isn’t the case at this campus.” Union plans to create posters and use other media across campus as a smoking courtesy campaign, Staikos, a School of Management sophomore, said. Details of the campaign will be available after Monday’s Senate meeting. “We want students to be more aware of where they’re smoking to be courteous of nonsmokers when they’re blowing their smoke,” he said. BUSM student Alyson Kaplan said this initiative will probably affect the employees and patients at the hospital more than the students or faculty. “There’s always lines of people outside the hospital doors smoking,” she said. Students, faculty, staff, patients and visi-
tors will be asked to refrain from smoking, and faculty and staff will help inform smokers the campus is now smoke-free, she said. New employees will be informed upon hiring. “I don’t know if it will be enforced,” Kaplan said. “You’re dealing with a bunch of people who feel entitled to do what they want.” Kaplan said she works in the emergency room once a week where many patients, even those hospitalized for lung-related issues, request to smoke. Students already understand the risks and dangers of smoking, Riley said. “We expect people to be courteous and respectful of those who don’t smoke,” he said. “Ideally at some point in the future, you’ll see a reduction in the number of people who smoke.” Gozde Cavdar, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student, said it should remain a person’s right to smoke outdoors. “There are so many more harmful things [such as] fumes from cars [and] junk food,” Cavdar said. “People became obsessed with
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Smoking has been banned on Boston University’s Medical Campus.
talking about how harmful smoking is.” SMG junior Brian Anderson said it would be “ridiculous” if he were told he could not smoke outside on campus. “I can see it happening at BUMC because of the hospitals, but not here,” he said. However, College of Arts and Sciences senior Allison Fahey said smokers around cam-
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The following crime reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton District D-14 crime logs from April 12 to April 17. On Saturday at about 3 a.m., a fight broke out at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Harvard Avenue in Allston. Officers spoke to a victim who said an 18-year-old male approached him in front of the McDonalds and asked to borrow his cell phone. When the victim gave his phone to the suspect, the suspect ran away. The suspect’s friend later punched the victim in the face. The victim eventually received his phone, but the suspects fled toward Brighton Avenue. America runs on Dunkin’ Last Thursday at 3:42 p.m., officers responded to a call for an assault and battery incident on Brighton Avenue in Allston. The victim said he had bought jewelry at the Urban Renewals store when the suspect became agitated that the victim was able to purchase the jewelry. The victim said the suspect picked him up and slammed him to the ground. The victim said he followed the suspect to the Dunkin’ Donuts farther up Brighton Avenue, but officers did not find the suspect in that area.
Standing in front of the newest food truck in the Bon Me business, Jeremy Waterfall, who works around Boston, said he decided to stop by because a friend recommended it to him. “A friend of mine told me they had the best Vietnamese sandwiches around town,” Waterfall said. Bon Me opened a second food truck Tuesday, allowing the business to add shifts and open at new locations, including Belvidere Street, Milk Street and City Hall Plaza. “It’s very exciting because there’s going to be more storage space and a little bit higher capacity, and also [the new truck] lets us have new shifts in new areas,” said Patrick Lynch, coowner of Bon Me. “We are going to be able to do more weekend events, so it should be a lot of fun.” After the Boston lottery system provided Bon Me with two locations near the Prudential and City Hall Plaza, the husband-and-wife team decided to open a new truck to fill their Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday gap, Lynch said. Belvidere Street was open, he said, but none of the other trucks wanted to be there. “We thought if we could get it three days a week we should really invest in it and try to sell it off as a site,” Lynch said. “If we stay there for a long time, it would be something we would put a lot of effort into.” The new truck will be at the old location at Dewey Square for weekday lunch and Cleveland Circle dinner shifts, as well as open markets, he said. Bon Me’s opening day at its new location had an unexpectedly successful turn out, attracting many new
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International students’ foreign IDs rejected at area restaurant By Megan Allison Daily Free Press Staff
When Vicky Britton and Ryan Hickey, two graduate exchange students in Boston University’s College of Communication, presented their passports to order alcoholic drinks at Regina Pizzeria in Allston, the staff rejected their IDs. “We asked to speak to the manager, and the manager said, ‘We can only take U.S. passports, we have to crack down on this,’” Britton said. Hickey said passports are the only means of identification available to him and Britton as exchange students from Ireland. “Our passports are the only way we can get drinks in Boston,” he said.
Bay State restaurants with liquor licenses can choose their own method of checking identification before selling alcohol, according to the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission. Licensees may adopt a “conservative” policy and can choose to use any of four types of identification that, if valid, could protect them from possible charges, according to the ABCC. These include a state driver’s license, a state liquor identification card, a passport and a military identification card. “If you have any concerns whatsoever you are allowed to refuse service of alcohol, because no one is damaged by not being served alcohol,” said Stuart Thompson,
senior partner of East Coast Associates and former president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. “The only exception would be if you were doing it for discriminatory purposes.” Other local restaurants said they have put this law into effect before. “We have a similar policy,” said Amanda Carbone, manager of Sunset Cantina. “By law for Massachusetts, we only have to accept a U.S. passport or Massachusetts license.” However, she said, this is an issue that does not arise too often. Carbone said Sunset Cantina refuses an ID about once a month. “A lot of people who know that
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International students were recently denied alcohol at the Pizza Regina, located in Allston. There are a number of laws that limit sale of alcohol to persons with international identifications, including passports.
BU graduate students fail programs infrequently, follow national trend By Minh Em T. Nguyen Daily Free Press Staff
Following a national trend, Boston University graduate students do not often flunk out, but some choose to leave the program early, officials said. “There are many places where the student can decide that he or she will not complete the program,” W. Jeffrey Hughes, associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said of the GRS curriculum. “Pursuing a graduate degree is more difficult, and the pressure makes it is just so easy to change your mind half way through.” Graduate students are more likely to withdraw and receive a “W” be-
Bon Me food truck opens second truck with prospects of restaurant By Hina Tai Daily Free Press Staff
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customers, Lynch said. Since the new location was busy, more workers had to be called in to help out with the truck, he said. “[The truck] had a pretty good line,” he said. “Usually when we start a new site it’s pretty slow, so it sounds like it turned out well.” The Belvidere Street location has a different clientele so far, Lynch said. “It’s not quite as dense as Back Bay – certainly not downtown,” he said. “But then there’s also Northeastern, there’s a lot of traffic along the streets.” Many of the customers at the Belvidere Street truck were trying out Bon Me for the first time due to the convenience of the new spot. Solange Garcia, a first-year graduate student at the Boston University Metropolitan College who works at the Huntington Theatre Company, said she heard of Bon Me through word of mouth. “It’s a nice day . . . and we thought we would give this a shot,” she said. Garcia said she had no other location to compare with Belvidere Street since this was her first time, but it is fairly convenient for her. Liz Sullivan, a sophomore at Berklee College of Music, said the truck had a “handy” location. She said she stopped by when she saw the new truck on her way to her apartment. “I haven’t gone food shopping today, and I was on my way home, so I decided to pick it up,” Sullivan said. Lynch said the owners plan on expanding Bon Me and turning it into a restaurant sometime in the future. “We have been looking at restaurants spaces,” he said. “We haven’t finalized anything yet, but we know we are working on a restaurant.”
fore earning an “F,” according to a New York Times article published Friday. About 200 to 250 students enroll each year as doctoral candidates, and about 180 to 200 complete the program, Hughes said. “Graduate education in law and medicine and research is completely different,” Hughes said. Josh Cooper, associate director for Student Affairs at BU Law, said law students often have full scholarships or a number of loans that encourage those students to stick with the program. “I think when students know when they have loans on the line, I think they have a different determi-
nation,” Cooper said. “[Graduate stu- wanting to achieve your goal in life,” dents] tend to work really hard; it’s she said. “It’s the last leg of the race what they want.” from school to your career. EssenViolet Chang, a student in the six- tially, once you graduate, you’re out year Sargent College of Health and there, and you’re a professional. All Rehabilitation Sciences, said she and strings cut loose.” her peers are motivated to do well in College of Communication gradgraduate school because by the end uate student Jordan Petersen said of the program the students are high- although graduate school has been ly goal-oriented. difficult, students choose to continue “At the beginning we graduate their education and are more selfnewbies wanted to find our way, but motivated than undergraduates typiquickly we learn to be extremely seri- cally are. ous about our program,” Chang said. “The relationship you have with Although she is on a full scholar- your professors is much closer [in ship, Chang said the money has not graduate school],” Petersen said. made a difference in her level of ef- “You have their support.” fort. “It’s all about the mental aspect of SEE FULL STORY ONLINE
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Students worried Area restaurants don’t often refuse service to int’l students Thompson said although idenBritton, however, said she has perspective or laws to back it up,” about courtesy tification can be questionable, the never faced this issue in the past. Breslin, an exchange student from they’re going to be here for a while International: From Page 3
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pus need to be considerate of nonsmokers, especially children. “The only thing that really bothers me is throwing butts on the ground,” Fahey said. “I’m a graduating senior, and of my friends, we all have smoked at some point, but none of us want to be smoking after we graduate.”
get other identification,” she said. But for other restaurants, this is not an issue at all. “If [the ID] looks fake, I would [refuse service], but otherwise I would serve them,” said Irene Barone, owner or Carlo’s Cucina Italiana in Allston. “If they don’t have any other ID, how can you refuse them?”
law has become more lenient. “It wasn’t that long ago in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that you could only use a Massachusetts license,” Thompson said. “With the large student population and international travelers they have expanded. But if you have any question about the validity, you are allowed to not accept the identification.”
“This is the first time it happened to me,” she said. “I find it shocking in this day and age that people won’t take an international passport.” COM graduate student Christine Breslin, who was with Hickey and Britton, said the group of friends found it strange because no real explanation was given. “They didn’t seem to give a real
Ireland, said. “‘This is what it is’ was basically their attitude towards us.” Regina Pizzeria declined to comment on the situation. Thompson said the pizzeria did right by playing it safe. “Unless it’s a discriminatory thing, the server has a right to do it,” he said. “The servers are told, ‘If you’re not sure, don’t do it.’”
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On ‘Detention’ An interview with Josh Hutcherson Josh Stadtner MUSE Staff
Josh Hutcherson, most recently of The Hunger Games fame, recently gave me some of his time to talk about his new movie, Detention. Detention is a mash-up genre film that features horror, high school comedy, slasher, kung fu, time-travel and pop culture, all artfully rolled into one by director Joseph Kahn.
keep the characters as real as possible. As an actor, what were the challenges of keeping a real character whiles
Josh Stadtner: How was Detention a new or different acting experience for you? Josh Hutcherson: Well I’ve never read a script nearly as crazy as this. For me, it was about trying to find a way to bring all these different elements together. As an actor, it was important for me to convey the scene in a very solid way even in this high-concept, far-fetched material. I think that was the biggest challenge for me.
JS: When I interviewed Joseph Kahn, he said he wanted to
JH: It was definitely a challenge at times. You have scenes where you’re jumping into a mascot bear to travel back in time, and you try to make that seem real. For me though, I’m a person that has a pretty wild imagination, but you have to do your best to not feel stupid in that situation. Sometimes you think, “Wow, what am I doing? This is ridiculous!” But you have to go for it and not hold back because once you start holding back or second-guessing yourself, that’s when it starts to look ridiculous. JS: I think Detention is definitely oriented more towards our generation, and in a way it mirrors our shortened attention spans. As someone who is becoming a star and therefore a representative of our generation, what do think when people say that we’re not as good as others because we can’t focus?
JS: Detention is clearly an indefinable film in terms of genre, yet the story still holds together. Why do you think that is? JH: I think it’s based on the script. I think Joseph Kahn did an amazing job at colliding about 25 different genres into one film, but he made the characters solid enough so you can track along with them as they go through the experience. I think a lot of it was done with the editing. It’s very fast-paced, but still maintains the story and stays true to the way in which it was shot. Joseph did an incredible job finding that balance with making something extremely ADD and fast-paced but still make sense.
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Catch A Little ‘Luck’ This Spring An Interview with Taylor Schilling Joey Martelli MUSE Staff
With her latest project only weeks away from release, Taylor Schilling was more than thrilled to sit down with the MUSE to talk about the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ The Lucky One. Schilling seemed nothing short of elated to make a major big-screen appearance The works of Nicholas Sparks, author of the works such as The Notebook and The Last Song, are more widely recognized by females and often elicit a label of sappiness from male audiences. Sparks’ novels do make for the perfect chick-flick to drag one’s boyfriend to on a Friday night, but Schilling believes this next chapter in Sparks’ work reveals another side of himself as well as his audience. “It’s really exciting when guys like [The Lucky One] and respond to it. There are parts of this movie that speak to people universally,” Schilling said. Schilling said she praised Sparks’ ability in this story to not only capture emotion, but to truly feel it. “There’s something about Nicholas Sparks that works so well. He just embraces it. When you can fully embrace the experience of it, there’s kind of nothing like it,” Schilling said. Schilling said her character is not a typical love-struck sweetheart, but rather a deeper, more mature person. “There is a lot going on with Beth,” Schilling said. “There’s a lot happening for her in every scene. I never felt like I was just sort of filling time.” Schilling said that the character of Beth reaches out to a much more relevant demographic of women in today’s society, tackling issues that reach far beyond the entertainment level of the film itself. “She is a woman dealing with things that I think women right now are dealing with,” Schilling said. “It’s quite current.” Complimenting the work of Sparks again, Schilling said, “She’s an actual fully fleshed-out woman. You don’t see that for women a lot. [Sparks] gave a beautiful opportunity to tell a female story.” And with such a deep story, it’s difficult not to become invested. “We were all so immersed in the world of the story,” Schilling said, recalling that the emotional themes brought the cast and crew together. Schilling said she became particularly close with Zac Efron, the protagonist of The Lucky One, who offered a pleasant, workable environment for the whole cast. “Zac is just a dear friend. He’s really, very easygoing. He’s just a real pleasure to work with,” she said. Developing friendships on set can be an integral part of producing a finished product that really speaks to audiences, and creating this bond with Efron really added to the whole experience, Schilling said. “I think that as we [Zac and I] became better friends, that just got easier and easier,” said Schilling. “There are worse things in the world than to stare lovingly at Zac Efron.”
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JH: I think it’s a double-edged sword. Our attention span does two things. One, I think we can be a little scatterbrained, but at the same time we can focus on multiple things at once. I think our level of understanding and comprehension is growing as opposed to how it was in the ‘90s and ‘80s and so forth. I think that now more than ever, we’re more kind and compassionate to other people because the world is so small. I think that while there are downsides of it, where you have less human-to-human interaction, at the same time, I think it’s making us more understanding. And smarter. I think that with having Google at your fingertips, you can have the answer to any question you want. And that’s incredible.
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Sorting out smoking Smoking was once a pastime that a large majority engaged in, but now it has been condemned as a huge health risk to smokers and those around them. In many indoor venues across the world, smoking is being banned and therefore some people resort to smoking in the streets. But starting this Monday, the Boston University Medical Campus is officially smoke-free. This regulatory change has prompted discussion over the administration’s stance on smoking on the Charles River Campus. According to an article published in The Daily Free Press on Thursday, Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore approached Student Union about generating alternatives for smokers and the wider student body. Union is set to design and implement a campaign, to be discussed at this coming Monday’s Union meeting, concerning smoking courtesy. Of course, a significant concern that students have on both campuses is a lack of enforcement regarding any changes. But smokers are concerned that there is little to no clarity offered to them looking for designated areas. In this case, they are often resigned to smoking outside of Warren Towers or on the street.
Assuredly, the situation at BUMC is different because the ban concerns an area that contains hospitals. Consistently telling smokers where they cannot smoke is only so effective; again, offering alternatives for both parties will be beneficial for promoting a form of etiquette. Where BU is concerned, the situation is different due to the nature of our campus. With more rural colleges, the administration has complete jurisdiction over the campus area. With BU, however, the streets are actually public property. Seeking an extreme solution will not be productive; there has to be a concrete proposal with areas that would include ashtrays to limit any mess. If there were measures that accommodated smokers in a way that did not interfere with non-smokers’ campus experiences, the administration could preserve the rights reserved by both parties. It remains to be seen what consensus and conclusion, if any, Union and BU as a whole reach in the coming months. All one can hope is that tangible results emerge soon to shed light on exactly where BU stands on an issue that affects the whole community.
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I N T E R RO B A N G This week, students are voting on next semester’s Student Union. So we here at the ‘ol Free Press wondered what BU students would want to see change around campus. •
COM students would want high-speed wi-fi that actually works.
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SMG students would want high-security parking lots for their fancy cars.
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CAS students would want access to the fifth floor.
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CFA students would boycott the smoking bans.
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ENG students would want more campus events to get girlfriends.
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CGS students would want recess.
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Here’s what some of them said.
INTERVIEWS BY LAUREN DEZENSKI. PHOTOS BY AUDREY FAIN.
VY NGUYEN “What about the students who want to eat meat? I feel like that’s unfair to push that on people.” - CAS sophomore
SABA HAMEDY
tried to apparate to Hogwarts again yesterday and failed miserably. Not only does the broom in my flat kitchen not clean well, it doesn’t get me anywhere! I was disappointed to say the least. When the final “Harry Potter” film came out in July, like many Millennials, I felt a part of me die knowing that it really was over. Childhood: gone. The movie might as well have been the horcrux of my childhood. I thought I could let it go – you know, look back on it fondly like an ex-boyfriend or an old stuffed animal that is just there for comfort and maybe revisit it when I need a good cry. I moved on – to “Hunger Games,” naturally, and reality. But there was no escape - studying abroad in London meant returning to the emotional rollercoaster known as true Potter love. “Harry Potter” has been my go-to for as long as I can remember. Whenever I’m upset, I watch clips of the films on YouTube. Whenever I’m bored at home over break, I read a chapter or two or the entire book. It’s always there for me – on the shelf, in DVD and book form. In London, it’s not just limited to my shelf. It is at King’s Cross at the classic Platform 9 3/4 (anti-climactic, by the way). It’s at Oxford – where the dining hall is what inspired the Great Hall. It’s even around when I travel – in Edinburgh, I saw the real Tom Riddle’s
gravestone, not to mention the prep school J.K. based Hogwarts off of. On Wednesday, Harry Potter wasn’t just around me – it consumed me. I avoided apparating this time and instead took a bus to the recently opened Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studio Tour. Alone. While I’m sad I didn’t get to share the fan girl moments with anyone else, I think I needed to fly solo (See what I did there?). I almost didn’t make it – I got lost among the muggles in the streets of London (a Nimbus 2000 or even some flu powder would have been really handy). Finally, two minutes
before bus departure time, I hopped on the knight bus (not really, but I wish).
On the two-and-a-half hour trek there, I tried to entertain myself by thinking about who would actually be cool enough to be a witch or wizard. In the end, I decided only one guy who resembled Professor Flitwick and myself (obviously) would be sent acceptance letters to Hogwarts – everyone else was too much of a muggle. Some kids had potential – they were just too young to get it. Just a disclaimer: The bus ride was at 8 a.m. Early. Don’t scrutinize my judgment – I was tired, bored, alone and already getting emotional. Read the rest of Saba’s Harry Potter adventure on The Daily Free Press website at: www. dailyfreepress.com
Letter to the Editor - Never Forget, Never Again Yesterday, April 18, was Yom Hashoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is a day not merely to remember the victims of the Holocaust, but to look to the future. I am the descendent of two Holocaust survivors who saw their entire families murdered. My grandfather was a survivor of the death camp Treblinka where almost a million people were killed and only 60 survived. He fought every single day to stay alive. While their families were brutally murdered, my grandparents had to focus on survival. As Israel and the Jewish people are threatened by Iran’s growing nuclear threat, we can do something. Iran grows closer to a nuclear bomb daily and has implied they plan to use it on the State of Israel. It does not matter if you have family that went through the Holocaust. It does not matter if you are a Republican or Democrat. It does not matter if you are Jewish. What matters is that you do not stop remembering. You cannot stop remembering, especially when someone calls to “wipe Israel from the face of the earth” and to “eliminate them from the pages of history.” What if they mean what they say?
I encourage you to learn about the issue, learn about the threat that grows daily with Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities. A good place to start learning on Boston University campus is either the in the international relations department with Professor Kinzer or at Boston University Students for Israel, a group on campus whose sole purpose is to further education and support for the existence of the State of Israel. The issue of Iran’s nuclear capabilities is not about settlement building or the 1967 boarders. The issue we must stand up for is the right of people to live. Anyone can sit down and say never again, but we have reached a point where it is time to stand up and shout it. We shout for all those who have died in the Holocaust because they were Jewish, for all those who live in Israel because it is the homeland of the Jewish people and democracy and for all those who recognize every human’s right to live without fear; never again! -Jack Goldberg COM 2013
Terriers Talk
Meatless Mondays
The Daily Free Press asked what students thought about dining halls serving only vegetarian meals one Monday per month
Winning London
EMILIO SEGURA
“It’s also not correct to force an ideology. I actually don’t eat a lot of meat, but if I want to eat a meatball, I should be able to” -CAS sophomore
GABRIELLA LOPEZ
“I don’t think BU students would like that. I hear people complaining a lot d during Make a Difference Monday, so if they didn’t have burgers, that’d be worse” -SAR sophomore
DONDRE GUMBS “At this school, I think it would be good for vegans and vegetarians,and I know there are a lot of people always looking for meatless dishes” -CAS sophomore
Thursday, April 19, 2012
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MARASCO: Universities lose money on athletic programs, should not pay athletes Marasco: From page 8
As of last semester: Of the 332 Division I athletic programs, fewer than a dozen made money for the school. But not football. All the football teams generate huuuuge incomes. Right? No. Quite frankly, it is a myth. Sticking with this past season, of the 120 Division I football teams, only 14 are profitable. Eighty-eight percent of Division I football teams are university-run charities. Now we’re opening up a whole other can of worms. If we want to pay college athletes, only those who go to programs that generate revenue can be paid. And even in that case, not all the players
on those teams would be able to receive a cut before the money dried up. Schools would have to determine which players merit a salary. So then, for example, we could have a scenario where the Alabama football players who are deemed to be important enough to the program are being paid and competing directly against other schools whose athletes are not paid. Additionally, other players on their own team would be playing besides them for free. Nothing about that sounds plausible. You cannot pay Alabama football players, but not those who play for Rutgers – they play in the same division. Furthermore, all collegiate sports fall un-
der the NCAA umbrella. If you pay college football players, you then have to find a way to pay the other athletes – unless you enjoy being sued. Where does it end, and where does the money come from? Does conspiracy, “universities are extorting college athletes” man think that there’s some magical source of income? Didn’t his dad every give him the lecture about the “money tree?” In short: Money does not grow on trees. There is no such money tree. So when the Trinity College squash team starts saying that they should get paid, I’ll have no problem with the university saying, “Shouldn’t the fact that we house you, feed
you, educate you and front money so you can travel around playing squash be enough?” Everyone wants more money. I’d love it. I’d love a lot of things. I’d love to go to Mars – how have we not gone to Mars yet? Seriously. But the point is, college athletes do get paid, and the universities lose money on the overwhelming majority of athletic programs. Someday, when the money tree is discovered – growing beside Sasquatch’s lair, which also contains the Holy Grail – I will be in favor of the Stanford diving team getting a paycheck. Until then, I side with the universities.
Parker confident task force findings will Robertshaw still deciding who will not reveal issues with current Terriers play between pipes against Canisius Task force: From page 8
“It’s not just how they act in a bar, and I’m sure the task force will come up with some suggestions too. But I do believe that the task force’s job and our job are exactly the same, and we’re way ahead of the task force right now, I’ll tell you that. They may tell us, ‘You have to do this,’ and we can look at them and say ‘I know, we’ve already done it.’” Indeed, the team has already made some changes. In the aftermath of Nicastro’s arrest on Feb. 19, the team adopted a new rule prohibiting them from drinking alcohol for the remainder of the season. Parker said he is researching whether a more permanent change in the team’s alcohol policy would be beneficial in changing some of the players’ behavior. Traditionally, the hockey team is only allowed to drink one night a week during the season. That night is typically Saturday night, but the night sometimes changes if the Terriers have a game Sunday or are on a road trip Saturday nights. Parker said allowing his team to drink only one night a week may be too restrictive. “We have very, very strict drinking rules compared to any team on this campus and any team in college sports I bet,” Parker said. “Maybe that in and of itself is a problem. We can look at that. Maybe we shouldn’t have a rule that says you can only go out on Saturday nights, because maybe they go out too hard on Saturday nights because they can’t go out any other nights. . . . We will look at everything we’re doing.” Parker said he has been monitoring the activities of the task force, including the task force’s decision to hold open forums.
According to an email from task force co-chairmen Jonathan Cole and Jean Morrison, the open forums will be public meetings moderated by Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore in which members of the BU community can gather and offer their input on issues relevant to the culture of the hockey team. The first open forum was held on April 11, and the second will be held on April 23. Parker said he understood the idea behind the open forums, but was skeptical of the value of the input the task force would receive from them. “I can understand the rationale to want to let everybody know that we’re sincere about this process and we’re going to look into it,” Parker said. “If they were calling people in and saying, ‘Okay, take a number. Come in to the room where the task force is and tell us some information,’ that’s one thing. “If you’re calling 40 people in a room, this is going to be like talk radio. They will get some information in there, but they’ll get much more worthwhile information from the other things they’ll be doing.” The task force will be reporting its findings over the summer, according to an email from President Brown. Parker said he is confident those findings will not reveal any serious issues with the players remaining on the team. “They’re going to talk to players, they’re going to talk to people that the players know and interact with, such as fellow students, such as professors, such as other dorm students, other [resident assistants],” Parker said. “They want to get a feel for who these kids are, and I am confident that when they get a feel for who these kids are – I like who these kids are.”
Lacrosse: From page 8
title and rights to host the conference tournament with a 15-14 home win over Stony Brook University. As a number of games have gone this season, it featured a second half comeback after the Terriers began the game in a 4-0 deficit less than four minutes in. “The fact that we’re playing at home makes it a big deal for us because we want to have a good feeling going into the America East and hosting the tournament,” Robertshaw said. “Since we’re hosting it, we want to make sure we finish out our year playing well.” Junior goalkeeper Kim Ellsworth replaced sophomore goalkeeper Christina Sheridan following the Seawolves’ strong opening statement and managed to fend off Stony Brook en route to the win. Ellsworth made seven saves in the first half and added two more in the second, allowing 10 goals in the process. Robertshaw said she did not know which keeper she would go with on Saturday, but that both were ready. “Kim had a great game,” Robertshaw said. “I also know Christina’s had a bunch of good games. I think they’re both continuing to have excellent practices and really make it a fight.” The Golden Griffins enter with a 4-5 record against non-conference teams this season. Overall, they’ve outscored their opponents in goals scored by averaging 13 goals per game to opponents 11.69. Opponents, however, have been slightly more efficient with their possessions, with 47.5 percent of their shots converted into goals, compared to 46.9 percent for Canisius.
Another area where teams playing Canisius have excelled is free position shots, making 41-of-90 compared to the Golden Griffins’ 33-of-84. However, Canisius has shown ability to force teams to turn the ball over. The ball has gone from opponents’ sticks to those of the Golden Griffins 222 times versus 187 the other way. Canisius has also caused 142 turnovers compared to 79 caused turnovers by its opponents. “I know that their attackers have a ton of caused turnovers,” Robertshaw said. “That tells me they’re riding really hard and they’re trying to get the ball back.” Leading the Golden Griffins in goals is senior Megan Oosting with 40, followed by junior Lindsey Morgan with 28 and senior Carly Quinn with 22. Quinn also leads the team in assists at 29 and points at 51. Junior Morgan Leonard has picked up 32 ground balls while Oosting has controlled 51 draws. In goal, freshman goalkeeper Kayla Scully has played the most time, 456:29 across 10 games, including seven starts. She has allowed 80 goals and made 61 saves. Junior goalkeeper Gina Molfetta has played another 320:25 in goal for the Golden Griffins, allowing 72 goals and making 28 saves. For Robertshaw, even though this game is a bit of a small milestone in the season, the ultimate goal remains the same. “We want to win every game,” Robertshaw said. “Obviously we haven’t won every game, but that’s one of our goals, to make sure that we can fight and we do our best and we try to win every single one we play.”
Parker: Nothing different from what men’s hockey had planned for next year’s team Incoming Terriers: From page 8
we’ve already been through that ‘We have two rookie goaltenders; I wonder how we’re gonna be?’” Parker said. “Actually we were pretty good. So we have a little track record there.” Incoming freshmen Matthew O’Connor and Sean Maguire will battle for the starting job next season for the Terriers. O’Connor is coming off of a season in which he recorded a 3.04 goals against average and a .902 save percentage in 50 games with the Youngstown Phantoms of the United States Hockey League. Maguire posted a .913 save percentage and a 2.33 goals against average in 31 games with the Powell River Kings of the British Columbia Hockey League last season and is ranked the No. 28 North American goalie in the NHL Draft Central Scouting rankings. “We are really happy with these two guys with the years they are coming off of coming in here,” Parker said. “Will they be Kieran Millan and Rollie right off the bat? In a few months, we will find out.” After the goaltending issue, the next area to focus on is the offense. Of the top nine forwards in the lineup for its 2011-12 season opener against the University of New
Hampshire, only three remain with the team for next season. BU lost its top two centers in the middle of the season in then-senior Corey Trivino and then-sophomore Charlie Coyle, which depleted its depth at the position and took away two of the top forwards in Hockey East. Those losses, the departures of two of the team’s top three point scorers this season in Connolly and Chiasson and the loss of depth in forwards Ross Gaudet and Kevin Gilroy leaves BU’s offense thin. While the team still has talented goal scorers in junior Wade Megan and sophomore Matt Nieto, who led BU in goals with 20 and 16, respectively, it will need some of the younger players like redshirt freshman Yasin Cissé and true freshmen Cason Hohmann and Evan Rodrigues to take on more offensive responsibility. Along with the forwards on the roster, a large group of incoming freshmen forwards will help the retooling of the Terrier offense. At least five freshmen forwards will wear a BU jersey next season, including Matt Lane, who played for the United States National Team Development Program last year and was ranked No. 150 of North American skaters in the NHL Draft Central Scouting rankings.
“We know we have a real good class,” Parker said. “Some of them are going to have to play on the first couple of lines. . . . They’ll have an impact in that they’re going to get that ice time.” The class also includes two forwards who are both listed as 5-foot-7 or smaller: Robert Polesello and Jarrid Privitera. The 5-foot-7 Polesello totaled 31 points for the Indiana Ice of the USHL last season. Meanwhile, the 5-foot-6 Privitera will join his brother, freshman defenseman Alexx Privitera, when he laces up next season. The elder of the two Priviteras will be a part of what should be the strongest aspect of Parker’s squad next season: the defense. Barring any pro signings, BU will be returning three of the top defensemen in Hockey East in junior Sean Escobedo and sophomores Garrett Noonan and Adam Clendening. Noonan and Clendening were among the top offensive defensemen in the league last season, combining to score 20 goals and 60 points for the squad. However, while that pair was in the limelight for its impressive offensive production, Parker noted that Escobedo will be an integral cog to the BU defense next season.
“Even if we have everyone else back, he’s the guy that you have to build off of,” Parker said of Escobedo. Because BU will return five starting defensemen from a year ago, the team only needs to fill one spot on the blue line. Incoming freshman Matt Grzelcyk, who played with Lane on the USNTDP squad, could be an option to fill that hole. Grzelcyk was ranked the No. 177 North American skater in the NHL Draft Central Scouting rankings. Despite experiencing unexpected departures throughout the season, Parker pointed out that the team expected to lose Trivino, Coyle and defenseman Max Nicastro at the end of the season to the pros anyway, and recruited players to replace them for this upcoming season. “Right now nothing’s different from what we had planned for next year,” Parker said. “We had already given their scholarships up. So it’s not like we had to scramble and find new replacements for these guys. “From our point of view, obviously it has to be considered a rebuilding year. . . . Whether [the recruits are] going to be terrific or whether they’re going to be okay is up to them, but we think we’ve got a real good class coming in.”
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The Empty Net
Shaking the money tree
Sports
Dwyane Wade’s suggestion last week that Olympic basketball players wouldn’t mind getting paid for the endeavor set off a firestorm of criticism that resulted in him ultimately “changing his mind” and backing down from his comments. Wade was agreeing with the sentiments of Celtics sharpshooter Ray Allen, who had broached the issue the day before. Wade went on to say that he also thinks college players should be compensated, and the age-old debate has again resurfaced. But I always find myself reacting the same way when the “College athletes should get paid, man. This is Amurrica,” guy gets up on his soapbox – Huh? First of all, college athletes do get paid – a lot. Many get fouryear scholarships that end up being worth an excess of $200,000. Say that out loud. These suffering athletes don’t have it as bad as the “Free college athletes!” guy might make you think. They also get housed and fed for free. Books for free. That isn’t a form of payment? Heck, if you play football in the SEC you probably make 20 bucks every time an alumnus shakes your hand. Those poor, poor, collegiate athletes – they give, they give and they give . . . And why do so many feel that these starving student-athletes merit payment? The overwhelming majority of them cost the school money. And they should earn a salary on top of that? People love to talk about how much revenue college sports generate – how much money the athletes earn for their greedy, fat-cat school administrators. The conspiracy theory guy always comes out in full force when reports surface that SEC football has hit another ridiculous revenue total – into the billions this past season. Does conspiracy theory guy take cost into account though? Hey, revenue is great. I’d love to be able to say that something I did generated a billion dollars of revenue (make all checks payable to Frank Christopher Marasco), but what is “revenue” if the expenditure surpasses it?
Marasco, see page 7
Senior Saturday The BU lacrosse team will honor its seniors on Saturday during its final home game of the regular season. The Terriers will face Canisius at Nickerson, p. 8.
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Parker conducting own investigation into team’s behavior By Arielle Aronson Daily Free Press Staff
Frank Marasco
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Like many hockey teams, the Boston University men’s hockey team has had issues in the past with individual discipline off the ice, but the 2011-12 season featured two extreme cases of misbehaving players. Forward Corey Trivino and defenseman Max Nicastro were both arrested within 10 weeks of each other for separate cases of alleged sexual assault on campus. Trivino had the most serious charge against him, assault with intent to rape, dropped in a March 22 court date. He still faces six other charges – three counts of indecent assault and battery and three counts of breaking and entering – and pled not guilty to all of them. Trivino is scheduled to appear in court again April 27. Nicastro is still facing two charges of rape and also pled not guilty to all charges. His next scheduled court date is May 7. BU coach Jack Parker said that although each case appears to be an isolated incident, the team is operating under the assumption that the two arrests in one season were not a coincidence. “We are not considering what happened this year as just a bad situation and coincidence,” Parker said. “We are considering it as something we should look at and make sure and hope that it’s a coin-
cidence that we had two [arrests]. “We’ll look at everything we have to do to cover the correct pages and make sure that these kids handle their situation as a BU hockey player differently than they’re handling it. Or maybe they should handle it exactly the same, and this is an aberration. I know one thing for sure: This is not a BU hockey problem. This is not our culture, but I do believe drinking and rape charges and sexual assault and bad behavior permeates our society.” In light of the arrests, BU President Robert Brown created a task force to investigate the culture of the team to see if anything needs to be done to prevent this type of behavior in the future. Parker supported the creation of the task force, but he said he is already looking into the way his team behaves to see for himself whether he needs to or will be able to make any changes. “There’s no sense in saying I’m sorry for that behavior if we don’t stop the behavior,” Parker said. “We’ll find out more about what happened in those instances but I want to find out what happened elsewhere regarding my team. Those two instances are completely separate – what else goes on with my team compared to regular students on this campus? Schoolwise?
Task force, see page 7
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BU coach Jack Parker is looking into his team’s behavior after Corey Trivino (top) and Max Nicastro (bottom) were arrested.
Future Terriers ready to fills holes in men’s hockey’s lineup By Kevin Dillon Daily Free Press Staff
The conclusion of the Boston University men’s hockey team’s 2011-12 season ended the college careers of the remaining players from the Terriers’ 2008-09 national championship team. As these players leave the team, BU fans lose the only remaining members of the last successful BU hockey season.
The loss of such talent as goaltender Kieran Millan, who earned Hockey East Tournament MVP that season, as well as a spot on the NCAA Frozen Four All-Tournament Team, or captain Chris Connolly, who scored the opening goal of the national championship game and assisted the game-winner in overtime, has to leave the BU faithful wondering who will replace their production and lead-
ership in upcoming seasons. While the Terriers will lose five players to graduation, lost three players during the season and lost junior assistant captain Alex Chiasson after the season because he signed a pro contract with the Dallas Stars, the future for BU hockey remains bright thanks to a strong returning defensive core and a deep, promising recruiting class. The main area of concern for
the Terriers next season is between the pipes, as the Terriers are graduating Millan and fellow goaltender Grant Rollheiser, who were both NHL draft picks. To replace the duo, BU coach Jack Parker is following a trend of bringing in two freshmen goaltenders to lock down the position just like he did with Millan and Rollheiser. “It’s a little bit easier because
Incoming Terriers, see page 7
BU to celebrate seniors, host last Softball takes on Rams in non-conference doubleheader regular season game on Saturday By Tyler Lay Daily Free Press Staff
With two-thirds of regular season conference play now in tow, the Boston University softball team will partake in a trifecta of doubleheaders against New England opponents over the course of the next week. The University of Rhode Island will act as BU’s first challenger of this stint when the Rams travel to the BU Softball Field on Thursday. BU coach Shawn Rychcik said his approach to the non-conference stretch would be similar to any other. “There’s a reality that if [a game] isn’t in our conference then it doesn’t affect our standings,” Rychcik said. “But, by the same token, it affects our
record, it affects our statistics, it affects our momentum and how we’re feeling about how we’re playing. We’re going to approach it to win two games tomorrow.” Last year, the Terriers (25-13, 8-3 America East) swept the Rams (1822) in the two-game series that took place in Kingston, R.I. URI entered the series with a record of 3-34, and the Terriers had little trouble taking the first game by a score of 9-2. However, the Rams managed to extend the second matchup of the series an extra inning when it pulled off a four-run seventh inning. BU ultimately dug up three more runs in the eighth and escaped from the struggling Rams.
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By Shep Hayes Daily Free Press Staff
In a game of many lasts, the Boston University lacrosse team will host Canisius College on Saturday afternoon at Nickerson Field. The game is both the last nonconference game and the last home game of the Terriers’ regular season. BU will also celebrate six athletes during the match. “It’s a class I look at and [it] embodies what growing up and becoming a BU lacrosse player is all about,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw of the group of five seniors and one redshirt junior nearing the completion of their
Terrier careers. “As they’ve gone through the years, they’ve been tested. I see stronger character [in these] individuals.” It will also mark the Terriers’ final chance to put themselves at .500 against non-conference opponents. BU is currently 4-5 on the season against such teams following an 18-9 home loss to Boston College last week that slid the team back under the halfway mark. Against teams from the America East Conference, however, the Terriers are a perfect 5-0. Last Saturday, BU locked up a share of the America East regular-season
Lacrosse, see page 7
The Bottom Line
Thursday, April 19 Softball vs. Rhode Island, 3 & 5 p.m.
Friday, April 20
Saturday, April 21
Track @ Larry Ellis Invitational, All Day
Track @ Larry Ellis Invitational, All Day M. Tennis @ Army, 1 p.m. W. Rowing @ St. Joseph’s, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, April 22 W. Lacrosse vs. Canisius, 12 p.m. Softball @ Fairfield, 1 & 3 p.m.
Monday, April 23
No Games Scheduled Genetically spliced Steve Novak-J.R. Smith super-shooter scored 50 points on Tuesday as the Knicks beat the Celtics.