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Occupy Boston protesters’ aims smaller, more specific Victim of Allston shooting identified, students more wary

By Alex Diantgikis Daily Free Press Staff

Occupy Boston’s next large move will not involve physical occupation, protesters from the group said.

Rather than convening and demonstrating as a large group, the Occupy movement in Boston now tends to consist of smaller, more diversified groups, said Jay Kelly, an Occupy Boston protester who has been involved with the movement since the first General Assembly.

Members tend to work with the groups they feel the most passionate about, he said.

“It really shows what Occupy represents – it’s very horizontal,” he said. “There’s not one person calling the shots. You can go out and do action because you feel good about it and because you’re passionate about it. It isn’t one person saying, ‘Let’s all go here.’”

Some occupiers have been sleeping outside of a Bank of America building in “sleepful protest,” while others have been involved with Camp Charlie and other protests against the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Kelly said.

Occupier Bill Lewis, who works on the Facility Team and has been with the movement since its first week, called Camp Charlie a “short-term occupation.”

Occupiers set up sleeping bags directly in front of the Massachusetts State House, protesting and sleeping there from April 4 to April 14 and disbanding for one night at the behest of the

By Amy Gorel & Steph Solis Daily Free Press Staff

SCOTT DELISLE/FILE PHOTO

Members of Occupy Boston protest in the streets of Beantown last fall. Occupy Boston does not plan on staging any major occupations in the near future.

U.S. Secret Service while it secured the area for the arrival of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, according to The Boston Occupier.

“It’s good because it was all legal. There were no cops around,” Lewis said, referring to the MBTA-related occupation. “It was almost lonely without the cops around.”

Camp Charlie may serve as a model for future short-term occupations, Lewis said.

He said, however, Occupy Boston members

“talk about [reoccupation] all the time. Definitely not back to Dewey, though. There are whispers about all sorts of [possible reoccupation sites].”

Protesters are considering occupying a bank, occupying another building or even renting a building or occupying a different park, he said. “[The site would be an] easily accessible or

Occupy, see page 2

Ideas Festival falls flat with students in light of controversy

By Emily Overholt Daily Free Press Staff

While organizers said the Boston University Ideas Festival provided a venue for different groups on campus to converse about different issues, few of the organizations that planned to sign up attended.

The festival, which ran Friday through Sunday, featured a debate on intellectual independence, a campus-wide “Blog-a-Thon,” a conference about solutions in the Middle East, a creation of a social contract and a sexual assault symposium. However, the sexual assault symposium sparked controversy due to its approach.

Demarius “DJ” Walker, a College of Arts and Sciences junior and main organizer of the event, said the sexual assault symposium did not happen for two reasons. The leader, School of Education Professor Carl Hobert, was unable to attend, and the Center For Gender, Sexuality and Activism actively campaigned against the panel.

“The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism objected to the symposium on the basis that they did not think the approach was appropriate to deal with sexual assault, and I can at least respect that,” Walker said.

In an open letter to the BU community, the CGSA stated the sexual assault symposium was “inappropriate” and “insensitive” because it used “traumatizing tactics.”

The symposium was scheduled to work through a date rape case study in which different people would view the case from different perspectives, Walker said. Some people would read the study from the perspective of the accused and some the accuser, some would read the case as the police and others the bystanders.

The program was expected to be conducted

by Hobert, director the nonprofit organization Axis of Hope. The organization, Walker said, does this kind of workshop routinely.

“The way that the workshop actually

worked was pretty set in stone,” Walker said.

“He has a pretty routine way he goes about conducting the workshop.”

The CGSA, however, deemed the role-play of a case study inappropriate.

“The role-playing exercise is predicated on the assumption that there are multiple ways to interpret a case of sexual assault – or that there might be ambiguity or a ‘gray area’ when it occurs,” the CGSA letter stated. “This disempowers and casts doubt on survivors.”

The creation of a “social contract,” another aim of the Ideas Festival, never materialized.

“What we ended up doing [instead of creating a social contract] was creating a declaration of intellectual independence,” Walker said. “What that means is we wanted to define, over the course of the next year, what we would be attempting to do, and a part of that is creating the social contract.”

Beyond the symposium itself, Walker also

BU Ideas, see page 4

The Boston Police Department identified the victim of the recent Allston shooting as Kanagala Seshadri Rao Saturday afternoon, according to the police blog.

BU spokesman Colin Riley confirmed the identity of the Boston University Graduate School of Management student, who was shot and killed Thursday at 139 Allston St. at around 2:43 a.m.

“We’re truly saddened by his death and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends,” Riley said in an email. “He was extremely well-liked and an exceptional student in a highly competitive master’s degree program in the Graduate School of Management.”

The roommate of the victim declined to comment.

In light of the recent homicide, a number of students said they are more aware of the possibility of violence in Allston.

Amey Owen, a College of Communication and College of Arts and Sciences senior, said she lives down the street from the crime scene, but generally feels safe in Allston.

“This doesn’t really change my perception of Allston,” she said, “but it does make me more aware of my surroundings.”

Natalie Viola, 21, who attends Harvard Extension School, said she felt less safe walking down Allston Street after the shooting.

“I just didn’t even go down [Allston Street] for a couple of days,” Wakelin said. “[I] avoided it at nights, but I only walk [Allston Street] during the day.”

Kristyn Wakelin, a School of Social Work graduate student, said Allston isn’t always ominous, but there are disconcerting places.

“The weekends are fine,” Wakelin said.

“During weekdays sometimes you have to be aware of where you are.”

Chris Davidson, an Allston resident and Northeastern University senior, said at first he found the news startling.

“I’ve lived here for almost three years, and this is the first time that anything’s ever happened like this,” Davidson said.

Davidson said, however, that he does not feel concerned because it appears to be an isolated incident.

“It was kind of shocking at first,” he said, “but I feel like this area’s pretty safe.”

Boston-area residents speak out against BU biolab at NIH community forum

By Eddie Donga Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories will not test lethal, infectious diseases such as Ebola without opposition, community members said at a forum on the biolab Thursday evening.

About 200 Boston residents gathered at Roxbury Community College for the final meeting of the National Institute of Health’s risk assessment of the biolab.

The biolab is currently conducting Level 2 research on tuberculosis and other lower-risk diseases, but since its opening in 2008, Level 4 testing for more fatal diseases has been unapproved.

The NIH invited community members to the meeting for a presentation by infectious disease expert Dr. Adi Gundlapalli on the results of the NIH’s most recent draft of the biolab’s Supplementary Risk Assessment. The forum gave residents the chance to make comments and pose questions to the NIH before it releases its final risk assessment of the biolab.

Throughout the evening, about 55 audience

members commented on the 1,700-page risk assessment draft, which the NIH claimed is 90 percent complete. Among those commenting were politicians, attorneys and residents, as well as four BU students and one BU professor.

“Residents – speak up, speak out. Let them know that this is not fair and that we don’t want this thing in our community,” said Klare Allen, a community organizer with Safety Net. “They have not proved that it is safe for it to be in our community and we will not stand for it to be in our community.”

Following Allen’s invitation, the first community speaker of the evening gave the sole comment in favor of the biolab.

“I feel the facility has the potential to do lifesaving research, and therefore, I am in favor of it,” said community member Kevin Norton.

After Norton’s comments, two attorneys whose firms are in litigation opposing the biolab criticized the risk assessment for not providing any concrete information about the possible risks of the facility.

“The problem here is that the uncertainty of

Biolab, see page 4

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HazMat suits hang in the Boston University biolab in January during The Daily Free Pressʼs tour.

Opponents to the biolab spoke out at a recent public forum.

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Occupiers to ‘demand’ end to all wars, ‘jobs for all’ on May Day Occupy: From Page 1

somehow significant location,” Lewis said. “Nothing is definite.”

The group has discussed constructing tent-trailers – tents attached to bicycles – and occupying areas sporadically and temporarily, he said.

The plan, Lewis said, is to “set up mobile brigades with tents . . . zipping through towns and setting up tents in unsuspecting neighborhoods and then . . . zip[ping] away from the police and escape into the darkness.”

While Occupy Boston discusses future occupation, the Boston University Occupy group has turned to different types of protest, said College of Arts and Science junior Brandon Wood, who created the BU Occupies Boston Facebook page.

“Everyone is still working toward activism, but in a different flavor,” he said. “[Occupy] serves its purpose by connecting a group of people and establishing a group of activists.”

In the future, Occupy Boston intends to organize “A Day Without the 99 Percent,” a general strike on May 1, International Workers’ Day. Occupiers said they aim to protest on May 1, also known as May Day or Labor Day, by skipping work, walking out of school and refraining from shopping, banking or conducting

business throughout the day.

In America, International Workers’ Day is annually marked by demonstrations throughout the world and commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, during which laborers protested for an eight-hour work day, according to the Industrial Workers of the World website.

During the third day of protest, police shot and killed two of the tens of thousands of protesters assembled.

In a public meeting the next day, after someone threw a bomb into the ranks of the police – resulting in the eventual deaths of seven policemen – police opened fire into the crowd, killing at least one civilian and wounding many more, according to labor historian Philip Foner’s “May Day: A Short History of the International Workers’ Holiday.”

In Occupy Boston’s commemoration of the holiday, the group’s strike “would demand immigrant rights, environmental sustainability, a moratorium on foreclosures [and] the end of current wars and jobs for all,” according to The Boston Occupier.

“It’s a positive thing to show the breadth of involvement [in the Occupy community],” Kelly said. “Occupy is so broad because it accepts lots of different issues.”

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Campus & City college with krissen No Post on Sundays I recognized this a while ago – probably within my first couple of months here at BU – but I refused to admit it to myself until now.

I have grown into an awful long-distance friend.

Since I moved across the country for school, my friendships with those back home in California are defined, at least for the months that I am at school, by communication through my iPhone and the Internet. Theor e t i c a l l y, this should be easy. I’m on Facebook and I text KRISSEN much more than I care KAWACHI to acknowledge, let alone admit to anyone, including myself.

Yet I still manage to ignore the kind words of my friends.

Okay . . . ignore is a bad choice of words. I’m sure the friends reading this are now angry with me (I’m sorry!); what I mean to say is that I put it off.

I tell myself, “Krissen . . . focus on the work you should be doing! Facebook will be there later!”

Since the beginning of school, my close friends and I have taken to recording videos for each other and posting them on each other’s Facebook walls. There have been obvious lulls throughout the course of the school year – we have all had our “hell weeks” and midterms and finals about which to worry. After that, however, they have all seemed to make up for lost time, getting right back into the video groove with gusto.

Me? Eh. Let’s not talk about that ...

Sometimes I blame it on the fact that I’m at the library so much. It’s true…I do spend the majority of my free time during the week cozy in a cubicle between Mugar’s numerous stacks of dusty books. I sit there and procrastinate with the best of them, yet still manage to finish my work at the end of the day. (And I really do mean end. . . . It’s a miracle for me to leave before midnight.)

But honestly? I could easily record a video during the day. I just . . . don’t. I don’t really have an excuse or reasonable explanation of why. During the times that I do have the capability of recording even a quick, two-minute greeting . . . I don’t.

What makes me feel infinitely worse is when I check my mail here at Warren Towers. I don’t think I’m able to count the amount of times I’ve been surprised by art postcards and letters from my lovely friends.

I received one about a week or so ago. And my own letter to her in response was the first I had sent all year, I think.

From receiving those postcards and letters from the West Coast, I’ve realized the heartfelt intricacies of snail mail.

There are few things that beat seeing a small envelope with your name and address on it.

Krissen Kawachi is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at k.kawachi@gmail. com.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Back door for D-Line barred for off-peak hours New iPhone

app designed to induce dreams

By Mitch Harkey Daily Free Press Staff

As of last week, T riders at aboveground stations on the Green Line’s D-Branch will only be allowed to board the T at the front door during weekends, holidays and off-peak hours, according to a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority press release.

Peak hours occur between 6:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., and between 3:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., according to the release. During off-peak hours, which constitute about 65 percent of weekday run time, D-Branch T riders will have to board at the front of the train.

The move comes as a part of the MBTA’s recent general attempts to crack down on fare evasion, an illegal act that results in an estimated $5 million annual revenue loss, according to an MBTA report.

T riders caught who get on board without paying, or attempting to ride without paying, can receive criminal citations and may be forced to pay fees of $15 the first time, $100 the second time and $250 the third time, according to Massachusetts’s General Laws.

Since 2011, the transit system has been conducting fare blitzes monthly, posting MBTA officials on platforms and requiring that customers pay for their rides before trains even arrive at the stop, according to the release.

The MBTA will continue conducting fare blitzes in addition to enforcing the new D-Branch boarding policies, which some Boston Univer-

By Alexis Gordon Daily Free Press Staff

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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced it will no longer allow passengers to board the back doors of the Green Line DBranch trains above ground.

sity students said will make riding the T more of an ordeal.

“The T is so overcrowded during some periods that it will be miserable to have to use only the front door,” said School of Management junior Ben Boyd.

Boyd said, however, that from what he has experienced, the T tends to approach fare evasion with a heavy hand.

“One time I actually saw the Transit Police pull up next to the car and detain somebody for not paying their fare,” he said. “The T doesn’t hesitate to enforce its policies.”

Brittany Jacobsen, a College of General Studies sophomore, said she might welcome the new boarding policy for the D-Branch.

“I have seen so many people get

on the back doors without paying their fare,” she said. “It’s really annoying because I pay my fare and they don’t.”

The MBTA will continue to deal with fare evasion despite its recent efforts, said College of Arts and Sciences freshman Sam Worley.

“I don’t think there is any way to completely stop the problem,” Worley said. “If somebody needs to ride the T, but can’t afford it, they are going to find a way on regardless.”

He said the new rules may have come in response to the T’s $161 million operating deficit.

“This new policy is obviously a way to try and narrow the gap,” he said. “Increasing fines and fares doesn’t accomplish this goal without upsetting a few people.”

Men struggle more with post-discharge care, study suggests

By Gina Curreri Daily Free Press Staff

A Boston University School of Medicine study found men are more likely than women to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of original discharge, according to a press release.

Returning to the hospital 30 days after discharge is costly and an indication of poor quality of care, according to the Thursday press release.

The study, which was posted online at BMJ Open on Wednesday, may lead to interventions connecting men to primary care resources.

“Identifying and addressing risk factors associated with early post discharge hospital utilization is useful so that resources can be efficiently tailored to each individual patient’s risk profile,” said senior author Bri-

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an Jack, BUSM professor of family medicine and principal investigator of Boston Medical Center’s project called Re-Engineered Discharge.

RED is devoted to developing tests and strategies to improve the hospital discharge process so patients remain safe and are not likely to be re-hospitalized.

“Some risk factors like gender, however, may seem inherently immutable,” Jack said. “Yet, as we demonstrated in this study, male gender is associated with other parameters that could potentially be effectively targeted.”

Using RED clinical data, researchers assessed the association between gender and post-discharge re-hospitalization at BMC. In the study, 47 out of 100 men and 29 out of 100 women were re-

admitted. Men were less likely to complete a follow-up appointment with a primary care physician after discharge.

This difference can be attributed to males visiting the emergency department more frequently than females and not understanding their follow-up appointments after leaving the hospital. Forty-nine percent of men make it to their follow-up appointments, compared to 57 percent of women.

Medicare recipients paid about $17.4 billion for hospital readmissions in 2004, according to the release.

Being retired, unmarried and depressed were contributing factors to men’s re-hospitalization, as was not being reached for a follow-up call.

Sweet dreams may no longer be wishful thinking with the iPhone app “Sigmund,” which influences users’ dreams by repeating certain words throughout the night.

Sigmund is currently the number-one paid Lifestyle App in the United States and has a four-plus rating, according to iTunes.

Daniel Nadler, the Canadian native and Harvard University graduate who developed the new app, said Harvard students who did not get much sleep inspired him.

“I would wake up to go running at six in the morning and many of them would be walking around the hallways, seemingly in a half-daze, still trying to finish papers,” Nadler said in an email interview.

From there he began do some research about sleep deprivation, where he learned from a NASA study that even a half-hour long nap can increase alertness and concentration by more than a third, while brief naps can improve concentration on memory for longer periods, he said.

From that information, Nadler said he wanted to assimilate all of these studies and put them in one place, so he applied to the Harvard’s Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative for funding to create a researchdirected reading group.

As he was conducting research, Nadler noticed there was significant evidence of information processing in the sleeping brain, which includes assimilation of external sensory information such as scents and hearing during sleep.

“We all know this anecdotally – hearing a nearby conversation while we are dozing off, for example on a train, and having some of the subjects in the conversation enter our dreams,” Nadler said.

Nadler said he also came across a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, in which researchers played recorded, spoken personal names to the sleeping subject during the rapid eye movement stage of their sleep cycle.

The study suggested the spoken

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BU not expected to join nationwide online class consortium, officials say

By Amy Gorel Daily Free Press Staff

with Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to broaden the platform of courses available, according to an article Wednesday in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University and numerous other top institutions offer their own type of free online course, ranging from entire courses to recordings of lectures that are available to anyone, but do not count toward a degree in the way those at BU do.

“Technology is rapidly changing and is making distance education possible,” said School of Education Associate Professor Alan Gaynor.

“The economy of the higher education market place is already changing.”

Online education is like the “Ap4ple [computer] of higher education,” and there is a growing market

Though many of the country’s top universities began to offer free, noncredit online courses as supplemental education, Boston University will not do the same anytime soon, officials said.

Nancy Coleman, director of Distance Education at BU’s Metropolitan College, said BU has a large distance education program though which students earn degrees online.

“We have 25 employees that are dedicated to supporting online learners,” Coleman said. “We help put up online degrees and have the ability to help faculty develop courses.”

About 3,000 degree-seeking and 2,000 certificate-seeking students are enrolled in BU’s distance education program, Coleman said.

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Many of the countryʼs top universities are beginning to offer more online classes. While BU offers an online degree, officials say it is not following the trend of offering online supplemental courses.

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Organizer: We reached goal, ‘but Nurse ‘afraid of arrogant bureaucrats,’ not germs attorney with the Conservation Law tion to the biolab. not in way we were hoping’ Biolab: From Page 1

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faced criticism due to a comment made in a video hosted on Nyoombl about “sex culture at BU.” “There are a lot of females at BU, at least from my perspective, who are not respecting of themselves,” Walker said in the video. “I think when it comes to how much of your body you put out there, that’s a part of a question about how much you respect yourself.”

Walker said the comment was taken out of context.

“It was about talking about sex culture at BU, another part of BU Ideas festival, and the social contract,” Walker said. “So I wanted to talk about how individuals approach sex at BU. So the controversy started from a bunch of different places.”

Howard Male, president of Student Union and a School of Man-

agement and School of Hospitality Administration senior, said the ideas festival was not a “Union-sponsored event.”

“There are a lot of passionate student leaders focused on issues that feel current to our student body right now,” Male said. ”I hope that all of the discourse is done in a way that’s leading toward a community of integrity and respect.”

Walker said the video and the festival as a whole was created to engage the community in conversation.

“We wanted to talk about sex culture at BU, we wanted to talk about leadership culture at BU, we wanted to talk about academic culture at BU,” Walker said. “We wanted to use Nyoombl to have a series of conversations that would spark interest, and I guess we did, but not in the way that we were hoping to do.”

that 1,700-page document is tucked away,” said Laura Maslow-Armand, an attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. “It is disguised as expert opinion when there is lack of knowledge.”

Maslow-Armand said the entire process of building and obtaining approval for the facility was polluted with bad faith, environmental racism and violations of civil rights.

“My message to the agency is this: If this is the best you can do, then this draft risk assessment has made one thing extremely clear. The NEIDL must not operate in this location,” said Jennifer Rushlow, an

Foundation.

Roxbury’s political representatives made comments on the latest risk assessment with their fellow residents.

“I [was] against it then and [am against it] now, a Level 4 biolab built in the heart and soul and the most densely populated part of the city of Boston is endangering not just the communities of color, but the entire city,” said Massachusetts Rep. Gloria Fox, of Roxbury. “They still have not proven that our concerns have or would be resolved, so we have to really continue to struggle.”

Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson, of Roxbury, was also in opposi-

“I stand with my community – in defense of my community – against this project,” Jackson said. “It is very simple: Our community will no longer get dumped on.”

Members of the medical community came out to voice their concerns against the proposed biosafety lab.

Sandy Eaton, a Boston resident and retired registered nurse with 48 years of experience, said she was not in favor of the plans.

“As someone who has been a practitioner at the bedside in all kinds of scary situations starting from the beginning of the HIV epidemic, I am not afraid of germs,” Eaton said. “I am afraid of arrogant bureaucrats.”

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WHEDON & THE AVENGERS An interview with film director Joss Whedon Alex Smallridge MUSE Staff

Joss Whedon, the writer and director of Marvel’s upcoming Avengers movie, recently gave an interview for college papers around America, including The Daily Free Press.

Joss Whedon has a large indie following from his work on shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly. This is one of his first films and the first not based on a universe he created.

that I can reconcile the different styles. My own style is kind of smack dab in the middle of what all those guys do. Therefore, it plays.

Alex Smallridge: What was your process in writing the film?

Did you already have the directorial vision when you were penning the screenplay?

JW: Cleveland had some financial advantages, rebate wise, and that’s always a big thing for Marvel. They also were very, very accommodating in terms of letting us blow up their city. Filming there was actually a joy. Cleveland is a really cool place; it has a lot of great culture; it has a lot of great restaurants, and I’d been in the desert for almost a year so by the time I got to Cleveland it was almost like being in Versailles; so opulent and fun, and it had so many locations that worked beautifully for so many different places without hardly any dressing, we found.

Particularly Stuttgart and New York were the main places it was replicating. We were able to shoot so much practically because of that. It was very gratifying for us and the people were really, really welcoming.

Joss Whedon: Um, yes I did. Half of writing a script is writing visually, is figuring out what you need it to look and feel like. The process therefore was pretty organic, particularly because we had such tight schedules. They needed something to be worked on, set pieces and action sequences, before I’d even written the script. So I was writing visual queues and action descriptions before I had finished structuring the story. So all of that was happening all at the same time so it was very difficult structurally to figure out how to make it work, but in terms of the process [it was] very organic because it had everybody involved AS: Is there something from your childhood experience with the Avengers that especially resonated with you and that you’re bringing to this movie?

JW: Well, the fact that the Avengers are all really, really messed up people I think is a fine reflection of me. With the Avengers itself, the thing that I loved was that it was one of the comic books that was a little bit steeped in science fiction. Marvel was known for its gritty realism. Spider-Man was kind of a template for “oh, they could just be people in New York,” and even though the Avengers made their home in New York they were so often out in space dealing with artificial intelligence and beings from another worlds and gods and monsters. I love that element. That’s really a part of the film.

AS: How did you mentally prepare yourself to carry on the stories of all these established super heroes with this already fervent backing?

JW: I am the fervent backing, so it wasn’t that hard to key in.

I’ve done a lot of work for things that already exist. I’ve worked on the X-Men, I wrote an Alien movie, not necessarily the best one, and working as a script doctor you come in after things have been established. Even on a TV show, even if you’re the one who established them, every time you write a script you’re dealing with an established universe. So it’s not hard for me to fall into the cadence of these people. Actually it’s a lot easier when you’ve seen them being acted in the other movies.

AS: Because Marvel is attempting to create an interlocking film universe, did you feel the need to maintain a directing style and aesthetics similar to the other Marvel studio directors?

JW: There’s no way you could make a movie that looked like a Jon Favreau, Kenneth Branagh, Joe Johnston, Louis Leterrier movie. You have to take from each one of them the thing that is useful and will jive with the rest of them. I do think that the DNA of a Marvel movie begins with Iron Man, and that’s very grounded in the real. I tend to be a tiny bit florid with my camera work and my dialogue, but hopefully in a way that that seems like a realistic version of a comic book universe. It is the way

AS: Why was Cleveland picked as a shooting location and what was it like shooting there?

If you have a phone, you can make a movie. Maybe not a huge movie, maybe phone sized. When I came up you wrote a script and you hoped and hoped or you raised enough money to make a short film. Things are different now and the best way to get your work out there, not just as an offering to someone else to hope they’ll make it, but to show yourself as a filmmaker and to learn as a filmmaker is to just. Make. Movies. There’s no excuse not to now.

AS: Both your father and grandfather were screenwriters. In what way do they influence your work?

JW: Well, they were both enormously funny men. They both worked extremely long hours to do their jobs. They are both cold and distant exactly like me. No, my dad’s a teddy bear. I learned a great deal of story from my dad, sometimes just inadvertently by listening to him or watching him or reading what he did. Very often he’d just throw down a piece of advice, and I find that, almost without exception, the things that he told me are the things that I carry the most.

AS: The Avengers is based on SHIELD director Nick Fury trying to unite heroes with extraordinary powers and egos. With some pretty big names in the film, did you feel a little like Nick Fury at times, trying to bring the actors into a team concept, and how did you handle creative differences in this type of situation?

AS: If you were going to insert yourself into a super hero movie, what powers would you have?

JW: I felt very much like Nick Fury. He is, you know, the director of SHIELD, literally, and that puts him at a remove from everybody. Even if he likes them, he knows he’s putting them in harms way. Hopefully I’m not putting my actors in harms way.

Hopefully I’m not even making them uncomfortable. I’m not nearly as intelligent or manipulative as Nick and I didn’t have as many problems because my actors actually wanted to be together, they enjoy each other. But you do feel that responsibility that you need to get all of these people to give their best. For him it’s in battle and for me it’s when we’re rolling. To really come up with their best stuff and play off each other as well as possible. And I have a great respect for the responsibility to service them with your camera at the same time. I definitely felt some of the pressure, but I can see out of my left eye.

AS: How did you become attached to this project?

AS: Did you have any particular favorite combination of super heroes that you thought were the most interesting to see interact?

JW: You know the tragedy of the movie is that you don’t get scenes of everybody interacting, because everybody is so interesting up against each other. I would say I love the Bruce Banner-Tony Stark relationship. Bruce Banner is the first Tony Stark’s come across really who operates on his level intellectually, who isn’t a villain. And the way Tony nudges him and Tony’s particular attitude about the Hulk is endearing and cool.

But I also love Tony and Steve and how much they can’t stand each other. And I’m very invested in Natasha and Hawkeye, their deep, deep friendship. So . . . you know . . . I . . . Oh I love them all! I hate this question!

AS: What advice would you give to any student with dreams of one day sitting in the director’s chair?

JW: My advice would be: Sit down! Now you’re in the director’s chair. We live in an age where anybody can make a movie.

JW: I would have the power of invisibility, and then I wouldn’t have to show up to as many shooting days.

JW: I’ve known Kevin for a while; I’ve known comics for a lot longer. I think Marvel has a great nose for a director who has a passionate vision, who’s not famous for churning out big budget hits but will bring something a little bit fresh to the concept of the hero movie, and it’s one of those things that I respect the most about them. So it seemed like a good fit. The only other movie I’ve made had a very similar problem: How do you structure a story that some people know very well, others don’t know at all, but you have eight main characters, and they’re all friends already. It seemed like a fit. I think they regret it now, but it’s too late to stop!

AS: College students have a lot of options this summer with movies to see during their summer break. Why should they go see the Avengers?

JW: The Avengers is the type of movie that I grew up wanting to make and thought that they had stopped making. When I grew up, the summer movie was literally created as a concept, and I really wanted to do that. Something like the first Indiana Jones.

Something that was steeped in character, in love of the genre that it was portraying, had intelligence, had real acting, had story that unfolded and wasn’t just the big premise that you already knew going in or isn’t based on Parcheesi or something just because it has the name. More and more, summer movies have become a little cynical. There are very big exceptions to that, but that has been the case when people throw so much money down they’re not interested in the story they’re interested in barraging you with excitement and imagery and Marvel doesn’t operate that way, they care about people, that’s why they hire some of the best actors in the business to play their heroes. This is an old fashioned movie. It’s a little bit bigger than life but it’s very human.

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Celebrating ideas?

In light of recent events that have plagued Boston University’s campus in the Spring 2012 semester, there were calls from students and the wider community for open dialogue.

Sexual assault has been a widely discussed topic these past few months, and there was a need for congregation and conversation.

The BU Ideas Festival took place this past weekend in response. According to the Facebook event that circulated through the BU community, the aim of the weekend was to bring together organizations and individuals around BU over meaningful dialogue and a chance to engage in issues that are most important to us all. In addition, the festival was supposed to generate a new “Social Contract,” which did not materialize.

The first issue that hindered the festival’s progress was a lack of publicity.

The event as a whole was not circulated with the persistence necessary to spread the word. As a result, an opportunity that could have united the BU community in the way it intended was severely lacking in attendees.

Furthermore, the lack of decisive

leadership or direct involvement by a core set of organizations took away from the event.

The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism has taken many measures to ensure the discussion on preventing sexual assault occurs. The fact that they were invited solely as participants and were not invited to collaborate with those organizing the BU Ideas Festival is disappointing.

In order for events like these to be effective, there has to be clear communication as to what the event should achieve, how this will be done and who is most qualified to lead the effort. By stepping away from branding an event as focusing on the views of one organization, a certain sense of direction is lost.

Issues regarding sexual assault and BU’s response to it will remain topical for the foreseeable future. The least we can do as a student body is to organize dialogues that truly encompass the multitude of voices that exist on campus.

Hopefully, when an event of this nature is organized in the future, it will present the tools and expertise necessary to make a difference.

On voting With the election edging ever closer as weeks go by, most are concerned with the candidates and campaigns. Not many are concerned with the act of voting itself. In a country that has prided itself on values of equality and democracy, being able to vote for your favored presidential candidate should be a relatively easy process.

However, recent controversy has brewed over a series of voting laws that have been passed by Republican-led legislatures during the past year. Furthermore, there are 16 states that are considering the elimination of voter registration on the Election Day itself.

According to an article published by Reuters on Sunday, these laws that are designed to fight voter fraud could be detrimental to President Barack Obama’s chances at being re-elected. Laws that make it much more challenging to register for voting will deter many from going through the process, especially low-income families and some minority groups.

A law that has been hotly contested is one in Florida, which requires groups to

submit voting forms 48 hours after they are received, or else they face fines of $5,000 or more.

There are no clear indicators to what extent these new rules will impact the election or its results. The advent of photo identification being required to avoid fraud is a valid measure; while the government wants to make voting as easy as possible, it would be equally wrong to facilitate voting fraud.

Unfortunately, the reality of the situation is that many voters are not inclined to vote in the first place; passing legislation that bars citizens from doing so will only fuel this disinclination and as a result hurt the democratic process.

Of course, these legislative changes primarily impact voters who wish to register via an organization, and therefore individual voter registration may suffer less of the impacts.

An important distinction to make when evaluating whether these developments will hurt the election turnout or not is tracking how many people will resort to registering as individuals or give up on the process entirely.

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MEAGHAN KILROY

eople say our campus is an urban campus - integrated with the downtown area a few blocks east of it.

People also say that because of this integration, students are constantly reminded that life extends outside of campus.

However, I believe in the BU Bubble.

After weeks of massaging reading-induced neck cramps, I had forgotten that there was life outside of BU. Not everyone is a college kid or cares that you’re a college kid with limited sleep and reading-induced neck cramps - life’s bigger than you, you little BU student.

This weekend I really got hit with the “reality stick.” After the T screeched to a halt inside Kenmore Station Friday morning, I climbed aboard and was immediately engulfed by a sea of suits and briefcases.

For the first time in a long time, I, Meaghan Kilroy, was part of the morning rush.

I suddenly felt ignorant (or arrogant, depending on how you look at it); I had forgotten that the morning rush existed and how my time on the T might be extended because of it. I was living inside the BU Bubble.

The rest of that morning’s events spoke to how much the BU Bubble had consumed me.

At Haymarket, I got off the T and proceeded in the direction of the Edward Brooke Courthouse - I should probably tell you now that I was not appearing in court, but was meeting my journalism class for a “show and tell” of sorts.

Now that I’ve cleared my name, allow me to get back to describing how ignorant I’ve become.

So, as I was walking up to the courthouse, a fellow student told me that a friend of hers was once kicked out of court for wearing a dress court officials deemed “too short.” I looked down at my own dress that fell a few inches above my knees. Oops. When did I forget that what’s appropriate for campus might not be appropriate for court? Insert ignorant assumption that campus life is the same as real life here.

Moving on, our reporting assignment for that morning was to obtain a copy of a court document from the clerk’s office - easier said than done. Despite 20 years of living, I had been ignorant of the fact that the “DMV attitude” carried over to another institution - a courthouse’s clerk’s office.

Allow me to reflect: I remember the hour before I obtained my driving permit, not because I was excited to reach a new milestone, but because my dad and his “these are the people that work at the DMV” talk had scared the shit out of me.

My dad had decided the 20-minute car ride to the DMV was the right time to inform me of the sort of environment the DMV upheld - cold and full of over-inflated

egos. I understand his reasoning for holding onto this information until we were in a moving vehicle - it was too late for me make a break for it, and the lack of space prevented me from contorting myself into a hysterical, quivering ball. All I could do was sit there and whimper quietly - which I did.

Disclaimer: Not everyone at the DMV makes simple tasks (like obtaining a driving permit) insufferable - just everyone I’ve ever met.

So as our professor gave us the “these are the people that work in the clerk’s office” rundown, I sat there reprimanding myself for forgetting that places like that existed - Why can’t everyone be like the cheery Myles security guards?

After our professor completed “the talk,” it was time to go to battle.

Upon walking into the clerk’s office, our group got the “stank face” from one of the female employees (the “stank face” is a facial expression one makes after seeing “what the cat dragged in”). I couldn’t decide if it was because we were a bunch of kids or whether her face was actually stuck like that. Anyway, we were off to a bad start.

However, a moment of relief came when an old, grey clerk called, “Next.” A classmate and I immediately ran over to him anything to get away from that lady.

Everything was going swimmingly until he said, “So you guys are working on the case, right?”

Not wanting to dig myself into a hole, I uttered, “No. We’re journalism students on assignment. These documents are public record.”

I saw a flash of the man’s stank face.

Shit.

What happened next, however, was amazing. The man went over and retrieved the documents. He even made two copies one for each of us!

Boy, we were lucky. I could tell from the amount of bitching and moaning on our right and left that our classmates didn’t fare as well - that’s too bad.

So Friday morning was a real wake up call. It reminded me that life exists outside of BU, and that all of the education in the world cannot ensure me that people will treat me nicely or give me what I need.

With final exams and papers approaching, let us not forget that it’s not just the repertoire of facts we know; part of getting through life is being able to talk to people.

The real world is a thing! And it’s coming for you.

Meaghan Kilroy is a sophomore in the College of Communication and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at kilroymeg@hotmail.com.

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Parker: Awful lot of good things happening for college hockey Hockey East: From page 8

blow for a team that ranked in the conference’s bottom three in scoring and relied on Cannata to keep them in close games.

“I expected them to take a little dip after the year before, after what they lost,” Parker said of the Warriors. “Frankly, I don’t know what will happen to them this year because now they lost a lot of good guys this year, plus the guys that they should have taken a dip this year.”

After vaulting from a five-win season in 2010-11 to the second seed in the conference tournament this year, a relatively young University of Massachusetts-Lowell team is fortunate to have key contributors – sophomore goalie Doug Carr and freshman forward and conference Rookie of the Year Scott Wilson, among others – returning.

Northeastern University, which missed out on a playoff spot this year, will return junior forward Vinny Saponari as well as

junior goalie Chris Rawlings, who was previously expected to depart after this season. They’ll join freshman forward Ludwig Karlsson, who led the Huskies in scoring as a rookie, on what Parker said should be an improved team.

Parker noted the difference in the way BU, BC and other nationally-known programs recruit compared to lesser-known schools like Merrimack, which often find success with older players who weren’t recruited out of high school.

“We’ve got three 18-year-old kids coming in next year and guess what, we’re happy to have those three kids. Those three kids are good players,” Parker said. “But . . . it’s one thing for Cason Hohmann, an 18-year-old freshman, to play against a 20-year-old freshman. It’s another thing for him to play against a 24-year-old senior.

“So that gap has changed the other gap, and I think that that will continue until the

NCAA does something about it. I don’t even know if the NCAA should do something about it – I’m not saying it’s unfair, it’s just that some schools don’t recruit that way and some schools have to recruit that way.”

Two of those teams that have to recruit creatively, Ferris State University and Union College, made it to the Frozen Four this year opposite two more “traditional” programs in BC and the University of Minnesota, speaking again to the parity of the game.

“One of the things that makes it difficult for coaches these days is that someone can say, ‘Don’t tell me you can’t win. So-andso is winning at this school,’” Parker said. “‘Ferris State went to the national championship. Union is winning the ECAC. Merrimack was one of the best teams in college hockey two years ago. Lowell was one of the best teams in college hockey this year.

Don’t tell me you can’t win.’ So the ‘haves’ don’t have to necessarily be the only ones that win.”

Although that atmosphere hasn’t necessarily been kind to BU in the last few years, Parker said he thinks it is good for the college game overall to have teams like Lowell challenging for conference titles. With a pool of potential players that’s considerably smaller than the pool for college basketball or football, college hockey could become, for instance, the BC-BU-Minnesota-Wisconsin show, but instead, many smaller and less-well-known schools are getting their shots on the game’s biggest stages.

“College hockey is as good as it’s ever been as far as parity and excitement and everybody thinking they’ll get a chance,” Parker said. “Great young coaches in every league. There’s an awful lot of good things happening for college hockey.”

Tilton, Frey part of goals that give Terriers initial lead over Canisius Seniors: From page 8

home games as a Terrier on Sunday.

Once the ceremony ended, however, the seniors stepped up to the task of taking down Canisius. Once BU took a 3-2 lead, Tilton and Frey each tallied goals to expand a lead the Terriers did not surrender.

“It is always something great when the seniors score on Senior Day,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw. “I think that sometimes they set each other up for it. It also just shows the experience that when we need a goal, they know how to score it.”

Tilton continued to add her name to the score sheet when she fed junior attack Danielle Etrasco to give the Terriers a fourgoal lead.

Frey and Tilton increased their scoring totals in the final minutes of the game, with Frey scoring her second goal of the game with 1:41 remaining and Tilton assisting on a goal from Stookesberry in the final four seconds.

While Etrasco and freshman attack Mallory Collins have been the consistent pieces to BU’s offense, seniors like Frey, Tilton, Swain and Stookesberry have been key parts of the team’s secondary scoring.

Swain, Frey and Stookesberry are fourth, fifth and sixth on the team in goals with 22, 21 and 16 goals, respectively.

While Tilton only has four goals on the season, she is third on the team in points and leads the team with her 35 assists.

“One of the best qualities of our attack this year is that we have a lot of scorers,”

Frey said. “If Danielle and Mallory are on faceguards we know that there are other people who can step up.”

Also among the players honored before the game was Carlin, who will not be returning to the team after this season despite being a junior. Carlin has started all 15 games for the Terriers this season, recording 16 ground balls, 12 draw controls and a team-leading 39 fouls as one of the team’s top defenders. The Summit, N.J., native tallied a ground ball and a caused turnover on Sunday.

The final person honored was Rodgers, who joined the team’s coaching staff after she suffered a career-ending injury in 2011. Rodgers was a midfielder and totaled 58 ground balls and 73 draw controls in her three seasons before joining the coaching staff this season.

While this win was the final regularseason game at Nickerson Field, the Terriers clinched the opportunity to host the America East tournament after a win against Stony Brook University last week.

The tournament gives the seniors at least one more chance at playing on their home turf, something Robertshaw noted may have helped their nerves.

“As soon as we won that game against Stony Brook you could see the seniors getting excited to know that this wasn’t the last time they would be playing here on Nickerson,” Robertshaw said. “They have one, another week to play at least, and we are going to be at home.”

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Junior attack Danielle Etrasco scored four goals during BU’s victory Sunday afternoon.

Sheridan makes 15 saves, allows only six goals during Terriers’ victory Lacrosse: From page 8

duction out there,” Robertshaw said. “We weren’t as sharp and crisp as we could have been, but a win is a win, and that’s something we’ve talked about with this team.

Every game is an opportunity to win, so that’s our focus.”

BU controlled scoring from the outset, with a goal from junior attack Danielle Etrasco just shy of six minutes into the game, opening the scoring for both teams.

Canisius (8-8) responded with a goal from senior Carly Quinn as she came around the left side of the goal from behind the net at 22:46.

Freshman attack Mallory Collins then put the Terriers back on top with a blasted shot through multiple Canisius defenders on the right side with 22:18 remaining in the half. But after BU sophomore goalkeeper Christina Sheridan was whistled for a foul and forced to position herself away from the goal on the resulting free-position shot, six members of the Terrier defense could not protect the net, and Canisius again evened the score.

A goal off a free-position shot from Etrasco and another from senior attack Catie Tilton put the Terriers in control of

the lead for good with slightly over 15 minutes remaining in the first half. Two more from senior attack Hannah Frey and Danielle Etrasco around the 10-minute mark gave BU the six goals it took into the half, though Canisius held onto the ball for most of the final 10 minutes and cut the lead down to 6-4.

In the second half, the BU attack scored 24 seconds in with a goal credited to Etrasco that took a funny bounce into the net. The Terriers made a number of stops against long Golden Griffin possessions, holding Canisius to just two goals in the half while scoring four more after the first quick goal to seal the win.

BU turned the ball over 16 times, compared to eight turnovers for Canisius. The Golden Griffins forced 10 of those, while the Terriers only forced five. Although BU outscored its opponent, the ball spent most of the game in the possession of Canisius sticks on long offensive possessions.

Robertshaw cited both the Terrier defense challenging well and the Golden Griffin attack looking for the perfect shot as reasons for the extended possessions.

During those periods, the Canisus attackers appeared content to pass the ball around and run well away from the goal to main-

tain possession, only moving into a full scoring mode when the opportunity seemed flawless.

“I was really excited by the way that our defense was playing,” Robertshaw said.

“We did a nice job of shutting them down early on, making them try again, try again, try again.”

In last week’s America East-clinching victory over Stony Brook University at Nickerson Field, Robertshaw pulled sophomore goalkeeper Christina Sheridan minutes into the game after she allowed four unanswered goals and replaced her with junior Kim Elsworth, who helped lead the BU turnaround. On Sunday, Robertshaw turned back to Sheridan, who returned to the cage with 15 saves and only allowed six goals.

After this week’s game, Robertshaw was happy with her goaltender decision.

“It was a tough call before going into this game, knowing how well both Kim and Christina were playing in practice, but I went with the goalie that’s gotten us through a lot of these games,” Robertshaw said. “I feel confident with Kim and was ready to go with Kim, but I was really excited by some of those big saves and the confidence that Christina was showing to-

day.”

Three seniors – attacks Frey, Tilton and Annie Stookesberry – scored a combined four goals on Senior Day, but it was Etrasco who led the Terriers with four goals and two assists.

Senior attack Molly Swain, sophomore midfielder Sydney Godett and Sheridan tied for the BU lead with two ground balls, while sophomore attack Elizabeth Morse won four draw controls.

Quinn and midfielder Megan Oosting led Canisius with two goals each, and Quinn had the lone assist for the Golden Griffins on the day. Midfielder Maria Kotas picked up three ground balls and won three draws, leading her team in both categories.

Goalkeeper Kayla Scully played all but 36 seconds in net, allowing 10 of the Terriers’ goals and making 10 saves. She was pulled in favor of an extra player for the other time, and the Terriers scored once on the empty net.

One game remains on BU’s regularseason and conference schedule, which will take place next weekend at Binghamton University. The Terriers will look to go undefeated in conference play before the America East Tournament May 3 and 5 at Nickerson Field.

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Terriers receive Lacrosse wins awards at annual Terriers never fall Friends of Hockey Banquet behind Canisius

Monday, April 23, 2012

last regular-season game at Nickerson

Seniors celebrated, contribute offense in BU’s win

during game

Nine members of the BU men’s hockey team received awards at the 49th annual Friends of Hockey banquet held Saturday.

Winner of Clifford P. Fitzgerald scholarship, presented to an oustanding junior or senior defenseman: Sean Escobedo Winner of Regina Eilberg scholarship, presented to a player with high achivements in academics and athletics: Ryan Ruikka Winner of Ed Carpenter Award: Alex Chiasson Winner of the Bennett McInnis Memorial Award for Spirit: Chris Connolly Co-Winners of the Most Improved Player Award: Wade Megan Pat MacGregor Co-Winners of the Friends Albert Sidd Unsung Hero Award: Matt Nieto Garrett Noonan Winner of the George V Brown Most Valuable Player Award: Kieran Millan

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By Shep Hayes Daily Free Press Staff

A week after clinching the America East regular-season title, the Boston University lacrosse team played its final home game and non-conference game of the regular season on Sunday afternoon, 11 BU ending on a high Canisius 6 note with an 11-6 win over Canisius College.

The win pushes BU (10-5, 5-0 America East) to 5-5 against non-conference opponents and is the Terriers’ ninth in the last 10 games.

Still, BU coach Liz Robertshaw said she did not think it was the team’s cleanest win of the year, even while it added another mark in the win column.

“We would have liked to put a little bit better attacking pro-

Lacrosse, see page 7

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Senior attack Hannah Frey notched two goals during BU’s win over Canisius on Sunday.

It was cold and rainy at Nickerson Field Sunday afternoon, but that did not dampen the spirits of the Boston University lacrosse team or the festive day it had planned. The Terriers celebrated Senior Day with an 11-6 win over Canisius College through the rain, getting key contributions from the team’s graduating players.

“It was a good team win,” said senior attack Hannah Frey. “Everyone came and stepped up for the seniors today and it feels good to get the win.”

Before the game started, attacks Frey, Catie Tilton and Molly Swain, midfielder Annie Stookesberry, defender Brittany Carlin and undergraduate assistant coach Mandy Rogers were all honored on the field. Each of them took part in their last regular-season

Seniors, see page 7

Parker discusses state of Hockey East for next season

By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Staff

It is certainly early to make predictions about next season, but as players graduate and depart for the professional ranks, it is not too early to speculate about how the balance of power in Hockey East might shift come fall. Boston University men’s hockey head coach Jack Parker said he doesn’t foresee any dramatic changes, but that the parity in college hockey across the board makes conjecture

tough.

“It’s difficult to think that the usual suspects aren’t going to be around,” Parker said. “[Boston College] is going to be good, BU’s going to be good, [University of New Hampshire] is going to be good. Maine is probably the only one of the usual suspects that might be losing the most, but they still have plenty coming back and they still have very good freshmen classes.”

BC, the defending Hockey

East and NCAA champion, will lose key players, including forward Chris Kreider and defenseman Brian Dumoulin, to the NHL teams that own their rights, the New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes, respectively.

Parker said he doesn’t see the Eagles’ losses damaging their chances next year, though, especially in light of the breakout year freshman Johnny Gaudreau had.

“BC was going to lose a lot of players,” Parker said. “BC lost

a lot of players last year, but the [Barry] Almeidas and [Paul] Careys stepped up, they got Johnny Gaudreau by accident, and all of a sudden it’s a different world.”

One team with a more questionable fate is Merrimack College, which finished fifth in Hockey East after ranking No. 1 in the nation early on. Losing senior goalie Joe Cannata, who finished the year with a .926 save percentage in 36 starts, will be a tough

Hockey East, see page 7

Megan named men’s hockey captain for 2012-13 season after breakout year

Junior forward Wade Megan was named the men’s hockey captain for the 2012-13 season.

During the 49th annual Friends of Boston University Hockey Banquet on Saturday, BU men’s hockey coach Jack Parker announced that junior forward Wade Megan will serve as the team’s captain during the 2012-13 season.

“We’re extremely pleased with his effort and his growth,” Parker said of Megan in a recent interview with The Daily Free Press, “and we’re excited about having him back next season.”

After scoring a combined 13 goals in his first two seasons with the Terriers, Megan experienced a breakout 2011-12 campaign, during which he led BU with 20 goals.

The Canton, N.Y., native also tallied nine assists during the season.

“He was pretty consistent from day one,” Parker said. “Am

I surprised that he became a goal scorer for us? Not at all. We expected him and recruited him to be a goal scorer. . . . Did I think he was going to get 20 for us? No, I didn’t think he’d make that big of a jump.”

Megan had one of his most noticeable games of the season during the first round of the Beanpot Tournament when he scored two goals to help the Terriers defeat Harvard University, 3-1. His two second-period goals included the game-winner.

Hockey East named Megan a top performer six different times during the course of the season.

Megan also took home the title of the Co-Most Improved Player along with sophomore defenseman Patrick MacGregor.

“He really flowered and grew into [a goal scorer] this year,” Parker said. “From the get-go, he was in better shape, he was more confident and he played that way.”

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