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THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLV. VOLUME XC. ISSUE XI.

Full-time, salaried instructors, lecturers vote to unionize

BY MEAGAN SCHWARZ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University full-time and salaried instructors and lecturers voted to unionize with the Service Employees International Union Local 509 following a final ballot count Wednesday. The win merged the faculty members with their adjunct colleagues to improve the working environment and quality of higher education through negotiations with the university.

Approximately 20 BU instructors, lecturers and staff members of the SEIU Local 509 gathered at the National Labor Relations Board’s Boston office for the ballot count that resulted a win by a 4-to-1 margin. Out of approximately 250 eligible voters, 171 cast their votes via mail-in ballots that resulted in 135 votes for unionization and 36 against, said SEIU Local 509 senior spokesperson Jason Stephany.

“It is an overwhelming victory,” Stephany said.

BU full-time and non-tenure-track instructors and lecturers filed the petition to unionize to the NLRB March 4.

The NLRB then mailed out the ballots to faculty members March 22, The Daily Free Press reported March 23.

Wednesday’s result integrated ap-

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happens in public, in the broad daylight, that is probably less triggering for people because someone would have to stop and ask what it’s about to find out that it’s about sexual assault awareness.”

A series of events in this year’s SAAW began Monday and will last until Friday. The week includes a T-shirt decorating activity, a number of talks and an open mic event, among others. Many university departments, student groups and faculty members collaborated to highlight the “prevalence, impact, and prevention of sexual violence” at BU, the event page stated.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced Monday that he supports raising the minimum wage in Massachusetts from $10 to $15 per hour, according to Bonnie McGilpin, spokesperson for Walsh.

“Mayor Walsh supports raising the minimum wage to $15 in Boston and across Massachusetts,” McGilpin wrote in an email.

“The Mayor understands the complexities and that’s why he is convening a committee in Boston composed of business, labor and community leaders that will investigate the benefits and challenges.”

The current minimum wage rests at $10 per hour, which is part of a hike implemented in 2014 by former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. That legislation will further increase wages to $11 per hour in January 2017.

Walsh’s position sparked debate among several public policy figures in the commonwealth.

In a Monday press conference, Massachusetts Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop) and Massachusetts Senate President Stanley Rosenberg (D-Amherst) were joined by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to discuss raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Rosenberg noted that the wage increase is currently under discussion as the Massachusetts Senate considers the various options in front of them.

“No decisions have been made, but it is under very active discussion,” Rosenberg said during the press conference. “We have one more year of the existing minimum wage. It will kick in next January, so stay tuned.”

When asked whether he supported the wage hike, Rosenberg did not address the question directly but explained the need for a wage increase in Boston and other cities in the commonwealth.

“I support a living wage,” Rosenberg said during the press conference. “Income inequality is rampant in this country and Massachusetts is one of the significantly unequal between the top earners and the lowest, and Boston is one of the leading cities of the country with such a large economy. People at the lowest end are really struggling.”

DeLeo, on the other hand, emphasized the need to let the current minimum wage legislation expire before exploring further changes.

“We’ve got to wait until January, the last installment of the minimum wage,” DeLeo said during the press conference. “Then we can have a discussion. It’s premature now for us to talk about changes that we would extend presently.”

Chris Geehern, executive vice president of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, told The Daily Free Press that there are several reasons why the wage increase would ultimately stifle the Massachusetts economy.

“Going from $10 to $15 reduces the

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Boston University instructors and lecturers convene in the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Federal Building atrium after a final ballot count resulted in their unionization.

proximately 275 lecturers and instructors with 800 adjunct faculty members in SEIU Local 509’s Faculty Forward, a project that unionizes non-tenure-stream faculties in higher education institutions.

Stephany said the next step for the union is to start a formal survey and determine full-time salaried instructors’ priorities for the first post-union con-

tract. Following the survey, the union will host a series of face-to-face meetings and information sessions to open the f loor for instructors to express their needs, Stephany added.

“You’ll hear lots of people talking about the need to invest in the classroom, to prioritize classroom education and re CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

“I Will Walk With You” visualizes support for survivors

BY GRACE LI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A collaboration between a Boston University student artist and the BU Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center as part of the Sexual Assault Awareness Week took place along Commonwealth Avenue Wednesday afternoon.

A pathway of spray-painted footprints was installed as part of the “I Will Walk with You” project, for which students were invited to participate and spray-paint a bright blue footprint along the sidewalk. Students were also given out flyers from SARP that described the ways in which students can combat issues of sexual violence on campus.

The pathway started at the SARP Office at 930 Commonwealth Ave. and moved down Commonwealth Avenue toward BU Central. Members of the BU community who commit “to supporting survivors and learning about how we can each be a part of the solution to sexual violence [were] invited to participate,” according to the Facebook event.

Keara Russell, a student artist and freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, initiated the project. Russell said she came up with the initiative last semester after taking the College of Fine Arts Professor Hugh O’Donnell’s “Art for the City” class.

During that class, O’Donnell had assigned students to come up with public art projects that would engage the BU community, and Russell said she found out she could channel her passion for survivors of sexual violence through her art project.

Mayor Martin Walsh backs raising minimum wage to $15

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A student spray-paints a footstep stencil on Commonwealth Avenue as part of the “I Will Walk With You” event hosted by the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center in honor of BU’s Sexual Assault Awareness Week.

“I essentially wanted to visually demonstrate how much support there is in the community,” she said. “By having each supporter spray-paint one footprint in a pathway, we can kind of visually demonstrate, metaphorically, how we ‘will all walk with you’ in the journey to seeking better help.”

Maureen Mahoney, the director of SARP, explained that Russell proposed her idea to SARP and that it seemed to fit right into SAAW because the event is designed to promote awareness. “[The project] is something that is visible to people who may not want to come to events,” Mahoney said. “It’s something that

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Law alum establishes advocacy fund, better support service trips

BY LAVANYA PRABHAKAR DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University School of Law graduate Thomas Smith created an endowment to further fund the School of Law’s Spring Break Pro Bono Service Trips, according to a Monday release.

Inspired by the spirit of the program, Smith and his wife Sharon established the Thomas Royall Smith and Sharon L. Smith Crisis Advocacy Fund in order to allow School of Law students “help communities in crises,” the release stated.

“We were moved by the idea of creating a crisis advocacy fund,” Smith, a 1970 alum, stated in the release. “In this way, we can support BU Law students helping to respond to crisis situations, the most recent being the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.”

The support and vision of the Smiths’ fund will provide future School of Law students the opportunity to respond to nationwide crises situations, such as providing a “much-needed legal assistance,” the release stated.

Zachary Dubin, the senior leadership gifts officer at the School of Law, said the recently established crisis advocacy fund looks toward the future of law students.

“It’s more of a forward-looking thing,” he said. “In a few years, [it will] provide support for certain types of trips that fall under the Pro Bono Program.”

Due to the nature of the endowment system, the gift will not immediately fund trips, Dubin explained. However, it does create a hopeful future.

“It gives the school a better understanding

of what our budget can be for certain programs,” he said. “It’s not going to have an impact on our current students just yet.”

According to Dubin, many other School of Law alums have been inspired to give back to the law school.

“Right now, the law school is in the middle of a $100 million campaign that runs through 2019,” he said.

In a follow-up email, Dubin wrote that, “as of the beginning of this month, we have raised $63,660,012 of the $100 [million] campaign goal.”

Furthermore, as of June 2015, there were “964 first-time donors to the Law Fund,” Dubin added.

The School of Law’s Pro Bono Program was inspired by and established during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and it allows students to work with several nonprofit organizations all over the country on a spring break service trip. The goal of the trip is to help residents of low-income communities, said Carolyn Goodman, the School of Law’s director of public service and pro bono.

Students can be placed in their home communities or in the Boston area to best meet the needs of different communities around the country, Goodman said.

“We will also place students nationally and in Boston, in areas where they have accommodations already,” she said. “But we organize the placements for them so they can contribute to the communities in which they live or in the Boston community.”

Goodman said the Pro Bono Program’s service trips are competitive, with around 50 spots every year.

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BU Law Class of 1970 alumnus Thomas Smith and his wife Sharon set up the Thomas Royall Smith and Sharon L. Smith Crisis Advocacy Fund to support BU Law students provide legal aid to communities after a crisis.

“It’s a competitive application process where students will submit an application form, an essay and other information, and a committee reviews the application and chooses the students,” Goodman said. “Last year, we had a total of 52 students.”

The trips are funded by both the law school and by the students, Goodman said.

Several School of Law students spoke positively about their experiences and perceptions of the Pro Bono Program’s spring break service.

Jordan Shockett, a second-year School of Law student, went on a Pro Bono trip back in 2015, during which he helped Hurricane Katrina victims with legal work regarding their houses.

“It was great,” he said. “I was able to work with these people and hopefully get them to have their houses rebuilt.”

Ruben Sanchez, a second-year School of Law student, commented that the Smiths’ endowment would positively impact enrollment in the program.

“I think you’ll see an increase in enrollment because right now it costs $500 per student, which is still subsidized and cheap, but law students don’t have money,” he said. “So to go less than [$]500, I think you’ll see an increase in enrollment.”

Camille Ramos-Klee, a third-year School of Law student, said she would definitely go on a trip if she wasn’t graduating this year.

“It seems like a great opportunity for me,” she said. “I’m from Minnesota, so I have to come from far away. But if there are trips within Minneapolis or in the St. Paul area, I would definitely participate.”

GE donates to local community Faculty unionizes by 4-to-1 margin FACULTY, FROM PAGE 1

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General Electric announced that the company will donate $50 million to the Boston community following mixed reactions to plans to move its global headquarters to the city.

BY PAIGE SMITH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

General Electric pledged Monday to invest $50 million in the City of Boston by donating to public schools, STEM workforce populations, community health centers and by making other charitable donations, according to a Monday press release.

In January, GE announced that the company would be relocating its corporate headquarters to Boston, according to a Jan. 13 press release.

The primary recipient of the donation will be Boston’s public schools, which will receive $25 million in funds going toward career labs, computer science courses and high school design experience.

“I look forward to partnering with the GE Foundation to further support our students and strengthen our schools,” said superintendent of Boston Public Schools Tommy Chang in a Tuesday press release.

“I am grateful that this investment aligns with our belief that our students are Boston’s future leaders, workers, and innovators.”

GE also pledged to create “Brilliant Career Labs” with the funds, which will “allow students a unique hands-on experience with advanced manufacturing technology and software to assist them with career planning and internships,” according to the release.

“In a city with a rich history of civic and corporate involvement in the public school system, our nation’s first, we are delighted to welcome the time, talent and generosity of GE and its foundation,” Boston School Committee chairperson Michael O’Neill said in a release.

Twenty-two community health centers around the city will receive $15 million of the funds, which will help expand capacity and training for specialty care, according to the Monday release.

Community health centers serve underserved patients across the country. The first opened in Boston in 1965, and then the centers popped up across the country, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers spokesperson Kerin O’Toole said. O’Toole said the League is “very excited and extremely grateful” for CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

search and fulfilling the missions of the community,” Stephany said. “All of that will be determined in the coming weeks, and then once they determine their contract priorities, they will begin to meet with the BU administration to negotiate.”

BU adjunct professors are still in the process of negotiating a fair and equal contract with the administration approximately one year after unionization, The Daily Free Press reported Feb. 26.

News of unionization thrilled fulltime salaried instructors who attended the ballot count, such as Bill Marx, a senior lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program.

“The past two weeks were a lot of work, contacting people [and] solidifying support,” Marx said. “[Unionization] will essentially raise the level of quality for faculty, for the students and for the entire BU community by giving us a voice and a way to be able to shape the policy and working conditions.”

Katherine Lakin-Schultz, a lecturer in the French Romance Studies program, said she was excited to share the victory with her colleagues.

“I’m thrilled to have been able to witness this overwhelming victory,” Lakin-Schultz said. “It’s been a really interesting and long process, but I just want to thank the union organizers for all of their hard work since last year.”

BU Provost Jean Morrison had previously sent two emails to full-time salaried instructors and lecturers, asking them to vote against unionization, The Daily Free Press reported March 23. In one of the emails, Morrison stated “[she] will pursue changes … that include the removal of Senior and Master Lecturers from

eligibility to participate in our strategic faculty governance body, the University Council.”

Morrison was not available for immediate comment following the ballot count.

Stephany said the provost’s decision to keep unionized faculty members out of a university governance body is unheard of.

“There is no precedent for that happening on any campus,” Stephany said.

“Faculty who have unionized, without exception, have improved and increased their voice in the decision-making process … inherently by unionizing they have a collective voice.”

Several BU students said they hope unionization will bring positive outcomes to the university.

Lauren Cosio, a freshman in CAS, said it goes without saying that faculty members should join the union because it is crucial for them to get fair contacts.

“I can’t believe that professors weren’t already unionized,” Cosio said. “If it can help them bargain and get better contracts, it’s a good idea.”

Jhonatan Perea, a freshman in the College of Engineering, said workers in all industries should unionize, and a unionized faculty community will especially benefit students.

“Unions are essential ways for workers to make sure their needs are being met, no matter the setting,” Perea said.

“At a large university, it will benefit the professors a lot and probably the students as well.”

Ashley Feng, a freshman in CAS, said she hopes faculty members can work smoothly in bargaining a better contact.

“Professors give us an education, so they deserve to be fairly compensated for it,” Feng said. “I hope unionizing allows their needs to be met and an agreement with the administration to be made.”

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SG E-board election sees increase in voting turnout, “passion”

BY DAVE SEBASTIAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University Student Government Executive Board elections, held from March 28 until Sunday, saw a slight increase of voting turnout in comparison to the 2015 election, members of the Student Elections Commission said.

During this year’s election, 2,717 out of 16,496 BU undergraduate students voted, which is slightly more than last year’s 2,633 votes that The Daily Free Press reported Apr. 16, 2015.

SEC Chair Grace Cusick said despite the difficulty in promoting voting turnout, this year’s election saw a fair process.

“A lot of slates are very passionate, as they should be,” said Cusick, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. “[The SEC was] dealing with a lot of different emotions, and our whole staff handled that really well. They were really unbiased and really strong.”

Cusick said she hopes the BU administration can promote SG elections through official channels in the future, in hopes of increasing the voting turnout and student awareness of SG. “We definitely would like to have our deans, President [Robert] Brown and a lot of the higher-ups

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The 2016 BU Student Government Executive Board election saw a slight increase in voter turnout in comparison to last year.

[in the administration] promote the election through social media,” Cusick said. “That would be a big platform for us.”

Jake Brewer, the Clean Slate candidate for president, won this year’s elections after garnering 1,067 votes, according to data presented Monday at the Announcement Dinner. The other three E-board positions went to Clean Slate’s SaraAnn Kurkul as the executive vice president-elect, Clean Slate’s Jane Dimnwaobi as the

VP of internal affairs-elect, and BU Recharged’s Justin Flynn as the VP of finance-elect, as was confirmed at the Announcement Dinner.

Brewer and BU Recharged’s Louis Vitti were initially in a tie for the president position. However, Vitti decided early Tuesday morning to withdraw from the planned runoff election that would have started Tuesday at noon, The Daily Free Press reported Tuesday.

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Brewer, junior in CAS, said his plan for SG includes reforming the bureaucratic structure, adding cultural groups’ representation in Senate and advocating for BU adjunct professors’ rights.

“I’m going to Senate next week with a proposal [to form a] lower house, which is comprised of every undergraduate student of BU,” Brewer said. “[Whenever] there is a vote

on something in SG, it will first go through a town hall-type system, where the student body votes on an issue — either for or against.”

A matter would only be voted by the upper house, which would comprise of the current Senate, if the lower house’s votes fail to represent at least 10 percent of the student body, Brewer explained.

Brewer also said BU adjunct professors deserve a conversation with the BU administration to negotiate matters such as wages and contracts, and SG will represent the student body’s will on this matter.

“We’re talking with [adjunct professors] right now,” Brewer said.

“We have been talking to them throughout the campaign.”

Several candidates who ran for SG but did not receive E-board seats said they gained an invaluable learning experience from the election process.

NewBU’s presidential candidate, Nadia Asif, said she appreciated the experience, and she will continue to advocate for the causes she promised during the campaign.

“I got to know … great student leaders, great minds, people who I would want to work with in the future regardless of whether they are in SG or not,” said Asif, a sophomore at the College of Engineering. “There’s a lot that an individual student can CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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Walsh supports wage increase GE donates $50 million to local area GE, FROM PAGE 2

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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh expressed his support Monday to raise the Massachusetts minimum wage from $10 to $15 per hour.

WALSH, FROM PAGE 1

job growth slows down,” Geehern said. “The other issue is called wage compression. Workers who make $15 per hour now look at new people coming into the company with no experience and they’re now getting paid $15 per hour, so it bumps up wages throughout the system, not just at the minimum wage level.”

Moreover, Geehern explained the impact an increase would have on the City of Boston as opposed to the rest of Massachusetts.

“It’s one thing to talk about a $15 minimum wage in Boston, which is one of the most expensive places in the country to live and work, but when you try to overlay that wage structure in places like Springfield and New Bedford, where the cost of living and wage are generally a lot lower, it doesn’t translate really well,” Geehern said. “So it’s very difficult to come up with a statewide policy that’s really effective in terms of wages.”

Several Boston residents shared opinions regarding another minimum wage hike in the city.

Juan Williams, 20, of Roxbury, expressed concern about the wage hike, particularly due to the high

cost of living in Boston.

“The real problem is how expensive it is to live in Boston,” he said. “I absolutely support workers and their progress towards better conditions, but I think raising the minimum wage would be a shortterm solution.”

Edwin Concepcion, 42, of Dorchester, said the wage hike is important to employees struggling to support their families and hopes to see the increase go beyond $15.

“I think it is a great idea, especially for those who are trying to support their family while being single,” he said. “I still think it is not enough, especially when everything else is going up, but it’s a start and hopefully in the future it’ll go up more. We all know the more money you make, the more expensive things will get.”

Yuliya Askerka, 29, of Brighton, said a minimum wage hike would be beneficial to Boston residents.

“A lot of people, even people who are educated, don’t have that many possibilities for jobs because of things like discrimination,” she said. “People should definitely be able to make a living with minimum wage.”

Candidates say election invaluable SG, FROM PAGE 3

plish on their own. I don’t think you need to be affiliated with SG to get a lot of stuff done.”

Clean Slate’s candidate for VP of finance, Hanaan Yazdi, said she is proud of the members of her slate who won seats on the E-board, but she wishes future elections would have more debates. “[Clean Slate] did a lot of outreach, which really affected the voter turnout,” said Yazdi, a sophomore in CAS. “[The election process] was mostly good. I do wish there was more opportunity for the slates to sit down and discuss specifics about their policy.”

BU Recharged’s candidate for VP of internal affairs, Anai Sanchez Riveron, said she enjoyed the whole campaign and election process, and she plans to continue her involvement in student organizations.

“I love campaigning, I love the process, I love my team,” said Sanchez Riveron, a junior in the College of Communication. “Even though it was kind of stressful, I won’t regret it. I

learned so much.”

Several students said they did not vote during the SG election because they had doubts of what SG is actually able to achieve.

Lily Pham, a freshman in the School of Education, said she has not been following SG events, and she is unsure if SG can make a difference in the university.

“I heard about the elections going on, but I don’t really know anything about the elections,” Pham said.

“Honestly, I don’t know if I have any specific hopes for SG, because I haven’t heard anything from SG this year.

I don’t know if Student Government makes a big difference.”

Aidan Rose, a junior in ENG, said there are a few issues he is concerned about with the university, but he did not vote during the election because he was not sure if SG has the capability to address these issues.

“I got an email about [the elections], but that’s about it,” Rose said.

“I know SG and the election exist. For many things I have issues with within BU, there [are] not many that they can take care [of].”

the partnership with GE. “GE has had a longstanding relationship with community health centers across the country because of our innovative and successful approaches for improving the health of communities,” O’Toole said. “They’re working with health centers in different states, so when they came to Boston, it just seemed logical to reach out to us and find a way to work together.”

O’Toole said she believes the relationship will have a lasting impact on the communities of Boston and the commonwealth as a whole.

“We’re both innovators, and GE thinks that by working together, we can make a real impact on the well-being of communities,” O’Toole said.

Beyond the donations, an economic study showed that the

headquarter relocation will also add 4,000 temporary and permanent jobs across the Boston region. The relocation will also create opportunities for 800 GE employees to expand a volunteer network, which will potentially donate an additional $1 million in charitable contributions annually, according to the release.

Boston residents seemed positive about the donation, though some had reservations.

Jason Blakeburn, 25, of Fenway, said he’s not sure whether the donations are for the benefit of the local area or for the benefit of GE. “I think it’s great when corporations want to give back to the cities which support them,” he said. “I’m not sure who comes out ahead.”

Patrick Puentes, 25, of Kenmore, also held some reservations.

“I think it’s all good for the city, unless they’re saving more money on the tax break than they’re donating,” he said. “I don’t know the answer to that, but I hope to see down the line.”

Katlyn Couleur, 28, of Beacon Hill, said she has a positive outlook despite rumored threats to raise rent prices.

“I had heard a rumor that when General Electric comes to Boston, it’s actually going to increase rent prices, which is scary when you’re a Boston resident and you’re a student,” she said. “But being in the health care sector, I think that General Electric coming to Boston is awesome. I think the amount of jobs that it will bring, I think what it does for the city is great.

The fact that they’re actually donating money to Boston is just the cherry on the cake for me.”

SAAW held in sexual assault awareness month SARP, FROM PAGE 1

across the country.

“I don’t think that BU is different from any other college or university in this country,” Mahoney said. “There’s a huge amount of research and data that shows that sexual assault is a problem everywhere and that preventing sexual assault is necessary.”

Sarah Voorhees, a health and prevention educator in SARP who was present during the visual demonstration, explained that SARP works with students on a variety of issues, including sexual violence, interpersonal violence and survivors within the community.

“Students have the opportunity to be involved in so many ways,” she said. “One of the ways we like to talk about prevention is through bystander intervention … the idea of noticing different sit-

uations and intervening to affect outcomes in really positive ways.”

Many students walked past the project and saw the footprints but didn’t stop to paint their own.

Maggi Mazri, a freshman in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, was one of the passersby. Mazri said she questioned why the footprints were on Commonwealth Avenue, but that she didn’t ask why.

“Events like that make people more aware [of the sexual violence issue],” she said. “Here at BU, we really only talked about it at orientation and then it just got dropped off, so maybe more meetings … would help solve the problem and make students more aware.”

Those who participated and spray-painted their footprints said the project was a creative way to increase awareness of on-campus sexual assault.

Izzie Donohoe, a freshman

in the College of General Studies, said she participated in the program to raise awareness.

“I’ve heard a lot of people come up and say, ‘Oh, we saw you on social media,’ which is good,” she said. “Just talking about [sexual assault] and spreading the word will help spark interest and lead to change.”

Kathleen McLaughlin, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said that as Russell’s roommate, she came out to support her friend.

“Before I came to BU, I didn’t know much about sexual assault awareness prevention or anything, so once Keara got involved with this project through her art class, I thought it was really cool,” she said. “I think it’s not a fun conversation to have and it’s not an easy one, but when you have a visual interpretation like this … it’ll bring [issues of sexual violence] up in your mind.”

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SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

BU Jalwa dances to nationals, proves practice pays off

BY TRISHA THADANI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

During the endless hours that the Boston University Jalwa team spends in practice a semester, there is always something else that its members “should” be doing — lab reports, problem sets, job applications, sleeping.

But instead, they spend much of their time in practice, recovering from practice or talking about practice.

After a successful season of placing in three competitions around the country, the Indian fusion dance team will compete in a national competition in Ohio this weekend.

This is the first time the team has made it to the national competition in four years. So even though it’s a big deal for everyone on the team, this is a really big deal for the seniors.

“It feels so much sweeter because this hasn’t happened to us since we joined,” said Ramya Ramadurai, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. “It honestly affirms the last four years for us because we put in so much time and energy in this over other things.”

The eight-minute routine the team will perform this weekend chronicles the story of three Indian students whose parents are forcing them to become engineers. But two of them want to be something else — a Bollywood star, a soccer player or just anything with more pizzazz.

“Stop! I can’t handle this anymore,” a female voiceover says during the routine. “It’s not that hard, I just don’t like engineering … To be honest, I want to be in Bollywood.”

“Wow, you two are so talented at what you want to do,” a male voiceover responds. “You

have to tell your parents about your true passions. I'm here because I love engineering — that's what makes me happy. You should have that passion pushing you to do what you love.”

"I mean, I guess I can try talking to them," the girl says.

The girl then runs off stage and comes back. Her parents said no. But then she comes to her own conclusion: “You guys are right. I need to do what makes me happy. I need to follow my passion.”

And then they dance.

For many of the Indian Americans on the team, this is the story of them. Despite how much they love their majors or not, they also choose to prioritize dancing.

BU Jalwa has committed itself to celebrating Indian culture through dance as well as providing students an outlet to escape from the stress and monotony of their daily routines for the past 11 years.

The 21 members spend about seven hours in practice on a non-performance week. But for this team, which has preformed several times this semester, such an “off” week is hard to come by. What becomes even harder is counting up the amount of hours they spend practicing the same routine.

The national championship this weekend is the end of a series of three competitions, and they will go up against 11 other schools for the trophy. The team hasn’t gone this far in the past few years, and CAS sophomore Kavya Raghunathan said what has set them apart this year is the story and struggle they tell through their routine — abiding by your parents’ wishes versus staying true to your own.

“My parents thought that the dance team was taking up too much of my time, which was

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A member of BU Jalwa, a co-ed dance team that practices hip-hop, Bollywood, Bhangra, contemporary and charisma dance, practices for the national competition in Ohio this weekend in the Sargent Activities Center Gym Tuesday evening.

valid — it was,” Raghunathan said. “They said I should focus on my school work, and they were right. I should be doing that. But dancing was always my thing. It’s always been a part of me.”

As Raghunathan said, everyone on the team feels they have an obligation to themselves to pursue their passions and be who they want to be, even if it is just for the hours they are dancing.

“We wanted a theme that would connect to the audience the most,” she said. “I honestly think every first-generation kid or anyone who’s been on a dance team can identify with the fact

that your parents often push you to do something else. This is our story, and that’s what makes it so easy to perform and so easy to do.”

While watching the Jalwa team practice, you see the dancers take on a range of personalities as the Indian music fuses with Billboard Top 100 hits. Jackson 5 makes them cheeky, Rihanna makes them aggressive, Beyoncé makes them sexy.

Then, when the music ends, their real lives may resume — lab reports, problem sets, job applications and all.

And then, maybe, they’ll sleep.

CATALYST THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

Coffee linked to lower risk of colorectal cancer, researchers find

BY DAVE SEBASTIAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Whether it’s consumed to invigorate the body or to provide warmth on a chilly afternoon, coffee has been an essential staple in one’s daily routine. Its consumption is also linked to health benefits such as the decreased risk of getting colorectal cancer, according to a paper published Friday by a University of Southern California research team.

The study, “Coffee Consumption and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer,” was based on the fact that coffee consumption has a vital influence over the functions of the bowel. Stemming from that connection, the team studied risk and protective factors such as diet and linked them to colorectal cancer, said senior author and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center director Stephen Gruber.

“Coffee tastes great,” he said. “It is safe and likely to be associated with health benefits. Increasing amounts of coffee consumption is associated with decreased risk. The more you drink, the lower the risk.”

The study associated moderate coffee consumption with a 26 percent reduction in the chance of developing colorectal cancer.

Furthermore, when participants drank more than two and a half servings of coffee a day, the research showed a 50 percent decrease of colorectal cancer risk.

The observational study used a sample size of 9,242 and assessed the subjects’ diet and personal and family medical history through interviews and questionnaires, juxta-

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A study released Friday by researchers at the University of Southern California’s Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center found that the more coffee people drink, the lower they risk developing colorectal cancer.

posing samples with and without colorectal cancer. Conducted since 1998, Gruber said the study took place in Israel because of its “well-characterized population,” which is essential for a holistic approach. The study observed the ethnic subgroups of Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews and Arabs for their distinctive genes.

“One of the elements of that was looking at beverages that people drink,” Gruber said.

“We asked everyone in the study about their beverage consumption since the assumption of the study. Then we compared the dietary patterns of people with cancer to the dietary

patterns of people without cancer.”

Nevertheless, Gruber said the most potent way to diminish colorectal cancer’s risk is getting a colonoscopy.

“Colonoscopy is unequivocally the best tool of reducing the burden of colon cancer in the population,” he said. “I would not prescribe coffee, but I would say that drinking coffee is associated with some good news.”

Roger Giese, a chemistry and biomedical science professor at Northeastern University, approved of the study’s results. He said they are consistent with other studies conducted in the field.

“[The study] opens up an opportunity to why the coffee maybe having this effect [is] associated with this result and potentially bring[s] down the swarm of cancer,” he said.

“And it has this benefit that’s quite nice, as the authors pointed out. People who drink coffee should feel good about it now, given this kind of data.”

However, Giese said the study does not necessarily encourage people who have not been drinking coffee to start consuming it.

“Caffeine is the whole other issue in terms of health — it’s a separate issue,” he said. “But if someone is a coffee drinker, then for them to just enjoy it and maybe even drink some more seems to be a good idea.”

For future research, Giese suggested additional epidemiology studies conducted in other populations in order to be cognizant of other possible factors.

“I think [additional epidemiology studies] will also encourage animal studies, where one considers coffee as a complex substance and just to point out there are many ingredients that might play role in one way or another,” he said.

Standing by George Sherman Union’s Starbucks, Amie Larum, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, enjoyed the Starbucks pastry she just bought. Despite not being an avid coffee drinker, Larum recognized its health benefits.

“I don’t know much about [the study], but obviously it’s a good thing,” she said.

“Coffee has benefits too. [But] I don’t want to rely on it on the energy that it gives. People definitely rely on it for energy.”

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FEATURES

INBUSINESS THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

IDEATE reveals current trends, obstacles of food industry

BY CORINA PINTADO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A snowstorm was brewing Monday, but the cold didn’t stop a multitude of Boston restaurant industry insiders from gathering for Branchfood’s innovation event, IDEATE. Partnering with Community Work Services, Branchfood brought together entrepreneurs, chefs and investors to discuss the current state of the industry and its biggest obstacles.

Sam Hiersteiner, a writer for Complex’s food blog, First We Feast, moderated the first discussion, which focused on the current state of the industry in Boston. Writing since 2010, Hiersteiner has recently delved into the distinct factors associated with the gradual growth of the city’s restaurant scene.

“The sheer brain power in this city when it comes to integrating technology and food means that Boston is going to have a huge impact on which direction the world takes on these upcoming trends,” Hiersteiner told The Daily Free Press. “We’re at the beginning of something really great if we can figure out what kind of scene we want to become.”

According to the National Restaurant Association, there were 15,251 food and drink establishments in Massachusetts in 2014, and sales are projected to reach $16.5 billion in 2016.

So what kind of restaurant scene does Boston want to become, and how can it go about doing so?

The question weaved its way into every discussion and was a reminder of the gradual shift

PHOTO COURTESY SONYA HIGHFIELD

Irene Li represents Asian-American fusion restaurant Mei Mei at the IDEATE event, presented by Branchfood Monday evening at Community Work Services in the West End.

from traditional models to the unconventionality that the industry has slowly embraced.

Irene Li, co-owner of Mei Mei, has exemplified this shift throughout her own business.

Along with her two older siblings, she started the Mei Mei brand with a food truck in 2012 and then opened the restaurant about a year and a half later. As a speaker, Li said she wanted to “provide Mei Mei as an example that all restaurants are different” and tell her story to “show the diversity of people [who] are in the industry now.”

And for many, diversity proves to be a key ingredient in expanding Boston’s restaurant scene. Joshua Hubbard, executive director and

co-founder of The Restaurant Entrepreneurship Institute, has been working on developing his own ideas to further the business. With the help of the Boston University School of Hospitality Administration’s Professor Christopher Muller, Hubbard is currently looking to create an incubator model to house 10 to 15 restaurants under one roof for two-year rotation cycles.

“In the traditional sense, people think of restaurants as the hardware of bricks and mortar, tables and chairs and silverware,” Hubbard said.

“But it’s really about the software which includes creativity, the execution, the training, the day-today consistency. Those are the parts that make a restaurant succeed. Our goal is to create a setting

that has the hardware so that we can take young, budding entrepreneurs and allow them to run with their software.”

Dan Dain, a member of the Restaurant Investment Group, broke down the traditional investment model as an ad hoc operation.

“It means that these chefs with great ideas have to go out to the market and meet as many people as they can and say, ‘Hey, will you write me a check for $100,000?’” Dain said. “We at RIG believe that there was a different way of raising and investing money, where there’s more oversight and more help with the business plans.”

Hiersteiner said he believes it’s time to embrace a changing industry that allows more inclusiveness, more accessibility and less inequality in all of its aspects, from staffing to sustainable sourcing.

If there’s anything IDEATE highlights, it’s the number of tools and sources that can be available to budding chefs and entrepreneurs in the Boston area.

Evanna Lyons moved from Cork, Ireland less than a week ago and just finished studying at Ballymaloe Cookery School. She attended IDEATE to learn about current trends in Boston’s restaurant scene and the business aspect of the industry, with hopes of one day owning a food business.

“It’s interesting to see that people put such an emphasis on community here as well, because community is such a big thing back in Ireland,” Lyons said. “In a city like Boston, hearing that getting involved in the local community is important was refreshing. And maybe one day I can contribute too.”

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MUSE THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

Back Bay Harry's will serve up "Bad Blood" at Kanye vs. Taylor brunch

BY SAMANTHA BASTRESS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Celebrity-themed brunches are back at Back Bay Harry’s.

The popular Berkeley Street restaurant will host the ultimate brunch battle, pitting Kanye West and Taylor Swift against each other.

The seven-year-old rivalry is as contro-

versial as ever with this brunch showdown arriving in the wake of West’s new album, “The Life of Pablo,” which references Swift in the song “Famous.” The lyrics have been considered derogative and even inflammatory, as West claims to have been the source of Swift’s success.

The feud began in 2009 when West took the stage and microphone from Swift after she won Best Female Video at the MTV Vid-

eo Music Awards and told Swift, “I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.”

The highly anticipated commemorative brunch quickly sold out on the first day reservations were made available, with 105 people currently on a waiting list. It has sold out faster than any other themed meal at Back Bay Harry’s, trumping even this past New Year’s Eve Jay Z and Beyoncé-themed dinner.

“I would say that the ‘Mean Girls’ brunch would be in second place,” said Back Bay Harry’s hostess Lisa McNeil. “That sold out the first day as well.”

In addition to the “Mean Girls” brunch that was held last July, Back Bay Harry’s has hosted many celebrity-themed meals as part of its brunch series since it’s opening, 76130but it has never hosted one of this magnitude.

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LGBT publications' straight white covers need diversity It seems straight white men have taken over the LGBT realm too. In the past five years, they made up 40 percent of LGBT magazine covers (Out, The Advocate and Attitude), while white LGBT people made up 35 percent, LGBT people of color made up 9 percent and transgender or nonbinary people made up 2 percent, according to a study conducted by Fusion.

The hashtag #GayMediaSoWhite gained traction online this week after queer songwriter Jesse Saint John tweeted, “‘Gay media’ needs to reevaluate their content when the major corporations’ ad campaigns they’re covering are more progressive than them.”

Following this, Mykki Blanco, a queer rapper, tweeted, “I wonder everyday if ‘Gay Media’ in 2016 are at all embarrassed when you go to their websites/ content and it’s only shirtless white guys,” she tweeted. “I think I will probably be dead before White Gay Media ever becomes inclusive, I think none of us living now will ever see it LMAO.” Blanco spoke to Fusion Monday in response to the issue.

“This unchecked level of privilege and white supremacy literally destroys people,” Blanco said. “I’ve seen people of color suffer from self-esteem issues because they’re not the right color or they’re not the right size …

This [is] really hurtful, toxic s--.”

It’s easy to get caught up in congratulating allies for being decent human beings, but

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the fact is, these LGBT publications should be showcasing LGBT people. And a diverse set of LGBT people, at that.

In the wake of marriage equality, the LGBT movement has become predominantly white and predominantly male. White gay men are more palpable to middle America than transgender women color, 41 percent of whom have attempted suicide, according to Mother Jones.

Putting a heterosexual man on the cover of an LGBT publication is like putting Ozzy Osbourne on the cover of Better Homes and Gardens. They may have interesting opinions on the subject, but they just don’t belong.

And hashtags do bring progress, but as Blanco said, their impact will only be felt as long as they are trending. And since the criticism is targeted toward a very specific community, #GayMediaSoWhite’s impact won’t nearly be as big as #OscarsSoWhite.

There’s no doubt allies are valuable. But less time should be spent congratulating allies and more should be spent showcasing diversity within the LGBT community. Allies can have their place in an LGBT magazine, but it’s definitely not on the cover.

When people who aren’t part of a marginalized group try to lead movements, they often end up talking over the people who need to be heard the most.

And that’s exactly what’s happening with LGBT media.

When almost half of LGBT magazine covers feature straight

oung queer people of color don’t need to see another set of white abs on a magazine cover. They need to see someone they can relate to.

white men, something needs to change. Straight white men have even permeated LGBT spaces.

These LGBT publications are read by the queer community and largely go unnoticed by mainstream America. These publications are not for straight men, so straight men should not be on the magazine covers.

Queer people of color don’t need to see another set of white abs on a magazine cover. They need to see someone they can relate to.

There’s also an unspoken problem of racism and sexism within the gay community. Grin-

dr and Tinder bios sometimes specify “no blacks,” “no Asians,” “no Latinos” and “no femmes,” or effeminate gay men. Queer people need to know that they’re not anomalies, and that the world recognizes them as valuable human beings.

If LGBT publications won’t embrace queer people of color, then no other medium will. A community that’s been discriminated against for so long should know better than to exclude an entire group of people. Ignoring minorities may not be intentional, but that’s all the more reason

to bring attention to them. They need to dismantle this institutionalized racism one cover at a time.

A hashtag isn’t going to solve the world, but it’s a good start. The intersection of race and sexuality is a conversation rarely brought up in mainstream media, so any visibility is appreciated. Queer people of color need to be reminded that they’re great in this world that repeatedly tells them they’re not. LGBT publications shouldn’t feature allies when they could instead feature the true heroes.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

Air France headscarf rule positive eSports can compete with athletics

BY SARAH BURSTEIN COLUMNIST

This past week, Air France faced backlash from its female crewmembers after requesting that they wear more modest clothing during flights to Iran and put on a “loose-fitting jacket and headscarf” before getting off the plane at the Tehran airport, The Guardian reported.

The airline has not offered flights to Iran in eight years, but it decided in January to resume flights on April 17. The airline claims these regulations are not new, and that similar regulations have always been in place for the airline’s flights that pass through Saudi Arabia.

When I first read about this issue, my first reaction was immediately to side with the women who objected to Air France for telling them what to wear on the job. However, after reading more into it, I realized that it was much more complex than I had initially thought.

France has a deep history when it comes to religious attire, specifically attire usually worn by Muslim women. In 2004, the country banned headscarves from schools.

In 2009, a French-Muslim woman wore a “burkini” to a public pool, causing outrage in the French Parliament. A burkini is a swim outfit that covers a woman’s body and includes a veil. One of the French representatives said the burkini was “clearly a militant provocation.” In 2010, the country banned women from wearing the full-face veil, or the niqab, in public, a decision that the French court upheld in 2014.

And in February, the human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe released a report that noted more “homophobic, xenophobic, and anti-Muslim” events in France and stated that the country was dealing with a “loss of tolerance.”

These sentiments were clearly echoed in the response to the new Air France regulations, especially when the head of one worker’s union referred to the headscarf as an “ostentatious religious sign.”

On one hand, I do see both sides. If,

for some reason, a flight attendant for Air France feels so strongly about not being told what to wear, then she should not be forced to work on that flight. In fact, this is exactly what Air France decided to do when the company quickly announced it would allow flight attendants to avoid routes that flew to Iran if they did not want to comply with the clothing regulations.

However, on the other hand, I have a hard time believing that most of this resistance to wearing a headdress stems from harmless reasons like inconvenience. I also do not buy the idea that refusing to wear a headdress is some kind of mini feminist revolution, and that it symbolizes women standing up for themselves when told what to wear.

I find it very ironic how much of the argument against wearing this attire stems from the crewmembers who feel like their independence is being suppressed. They apparently do not want to be told how to look or how to dress, and some actually see the headscarf as an “insult to their dignity.” The same union leader who called the headscarf “ostentatious” stated, “We have to let the [female crewmembers] choose what they want to wear.”

But if this scandal was supposed to represent some kind of liberation for the women who work on Air France, then why would the union leaders refer to the headscarf, an article of clothing that some women do choose to wear, as “ostentatious?”

This request from Air France was not about forcing crewmembers to conform to a religion they did not believe in. It was about showing respect to a culture’s customs, a practice that the crewmembers and union leaders disregarded as soon as they insulted the headscarf.

To me, it seems like a no-brainer. If you willingly choose a career that will take you around the world, you need to be prepared to show every culture, country and religion the same amount of respect. The protesters do not have any right to determine what values a traditional headscarf stands for, and their presumptuous protests were not admirable.

They were ignorant.

Although this story may be settled from a legal perspective, its implications are important. The heroes of this story are not the crewmembers who stomped their feet when asked to show respect to a different culture’s tradition. The heroes are the Muslim women all over the world who choose to stay true to themselves and wear whatever they want in the face of blatant discrimination and disrespect.

BY ELLIS MARTIN COLUMNIST

It’s about time that sports evolve. I’m talking about the ever-growing world of eSports. Competitive video gaming has been around for a long time, but with popularity rising with the advancement of technology, eSports might find themselves mainstream pretty soon. Thank goodness, I say.

Of course, there will always be people who don’t have the plasticity to admit gaming is a sport, but if you’re wondering why it is, I’d be happy to key you in.

Let’s start with the very definition of the word “sport.” Upon looking up the noun version of the word in most dictionaries, you’ll find a sport is some sort of a contest or game.

Furthermore, it often requires physical skills, has a specific set of rules and hosts competition between multiple parties.

“Now hold up a second,” some people say.

“What’s physically demanding about sitting at a keyboard?” It’s a valid point, and frankly, it’s the only thing keeping eSports out of the picture when it comes to sports.

Sure, it’s not necessary for these professional — oh yeah, they make money — gamers to be in peak physical condition, but the skills required to make it the big leagues are virtually superhuman. I’m going to nerd out for a second and give a couple of examples that represent truly extraordinary skills, things practically no one else could do, and we’ll understand better the vast amount of talent involved in eSports.

In Starcraft II, pros have been recorded at making 600 actions per minute. In simpler terms, they press 10 keys in every second. Google an “actions per minute” test and see what you can do just by spamming. Then realize that the pros’ finger whirring corresponds to specific actions in the game that can make the difference between a win or a loss. If you’re not feeling up to testing your finger speed right now, let me break it down another way. For argument’s sake, the average word length is something like five or six letters. That translates to a typing speed of 100 to 120 words per minute. I would have finished this column in six minutes if I could manage to maintain a

Starcraft level of speed and accuracy.

If this doesn’t indicate the speed and precision — words we find often associated with traditional sports — there’s another aspect of a player’s skills that are super human. Professional gamers have reaction speeds rivaling other traditional sports. In fact, gamers are better and faster at making decisions based on visual observations, according to a study at Duke University. I’m not suggesting we put them head to head, but science indicates if there were a drop of a hockey puck or a jump ball, while maybe not matching the athleticism, a professional gamer would most likely react before a professional athlete. In gaming terms, “GG.” According to the NCAA, anywhere from 1 to 9 percent of college athletes will make it to the pros across a variety of traditional sports.

In North America, there are no more than 200 upper-echelon League of Legend players. If you consider that, there are about four million players on League at any given time, according to Riot Games, League of Legends’ developer. So kids, if you’re thinking about making it big in professional gaming, good luck — the chances are slimmer than becoming a professional athlete.

All right. I clearly believe eSports deserve a little more attention and an honest representation in modern culture. Of course I love video games, but I’m not the only one.

Just this past weekend, the first-ever North American major took place for a game called Counter-Strike. I was watching through my client of the game and noticed a whopping 700,000 other viewers — one of which also attended Boston University. Beyond that, about 400,000 viewers were watching online streams of the tournament. That’s more than one million viewers for a video game. Tell me there’s not potential.

More people watch big tournaments for video games than traditional sports. For example, League of Legends has a world championship, and in 2014, it recorded more viewers than the 2014 World Series.

There’s no way around it. eSports are going to be a big part of the entertainment industry for some time to come. They already have great production value and good commentators and casters, and the players are simply world class. With the introduction of virtual reality gaming, the possibilities may even incorporate some sort of physical involvement for those still stuck on the physicality of a sport. But then again, think about golf.

I encourage you to watch some videos on YouTube, or maybe try your hands at gaming. BU even has some awesome competitive teams. Show your Terrier pride and support all sorts of gaming.

Interrobang George Mason University recently changed the name of the Antonin Scalia School of Law due to its unfortunate acronym, NPR reported.

We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what do BU acronyms actually stand for?

COM: Creators of Outlandish Media

SHA: Students Hating Airbnb

CFA: Chasing Flailing Aspirations

EPIC: Engineering People Inventing Careers

GSU: Getting Starbucks Urgently

FITREC: Flaunting It To Really Eager Chicks

SHS: Sick? Hot Shower.

DFP: Doesn’t Flippin’ Pay

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SPORTS

Ryan Hilburn returns to men's lacrosse with strong perfromance Despite the Boston University men’s lacrosse team suffering a tough 8-7 loss Saturday at the hands of Lehigh University, there were bright spots.

One of those was the performance of sophomore attack Ryan Hilburn, who notched a point in the Terriers’ (8-3, 3-2 Patriot League) final three goals of the contest. The West Chester, Pennsylvania native assisted on freshman midfielder Michael Laviano’s goal and knotted two, one of which was a man-up chance.

Hilburn, who tallied 25 goals and 15 assists last season, has missed four games due to injury.

Yet, Saturday’s game suggested that he may be coming back and carving out a more advanced role for himself. BU head coach Ryan Polley was pleased with Hilburn’s performance and is excited about the return of a viable scoring option.

“Each week, he’s progressing back a little bit, so we’re just trying to find a good fit for him,” Polley said. “Certainly our attack was playing well while he was injured, and Ryan came in and gave us a nice boost for sure. It's on us to figure out roles for all four of them — certainly we’re trying to figure that out.

Ryan did a great job, it was great to have him back and we’re looking forward to having one more option on offense.”

Terriers hope to avoid late-season struggles Only three conference games stand in the way of BU participating in its first-ever Patriot League Tournament. However, the Terriers must be careful in avoiding the type of late-season slump it endured last year.

The 2015 Terriers started the season at 6-2 before losing their last six contests, narrowly missing out on a berth in the playoffs. However, Polley and his coaching staff don’t believe they have to adjust anything because of history.

“I think it's important to remember we played really strong teams,” Polley said regarding last year. “I know we faltered a little bit last year, but we did play Duke [University] and Loyola [University Maryland], and Harvard [University] was at the back end of our schedule.

“Same thing this year,” Polley added. “We’re playing some great teams, and if we want to take that next step as a program, we need to figure out how to play well and put ourselves in the position to win the game and be a little bit different than what we were Saturday and figure out how to win it.”

Second midfield line fighting for playing time An interesting takeaway from the Lehigh (6-4, 4-2 Patriot League) game was the midfield

line of freshman Tristan Ruh, junior Sam Tenney and sophomore Hayden Ruiz hardly factoring.

Ruiz was the only one who saw the field against the Mountain Hawks, while junior Chad Bell, sophomore Greg Farris and Laviano formed a midfield line and totaled three goals. Polley said his team is simply riding the hot hand, and for the most part, it has paid off.

“We make a lot of our decisions by how people do in practice and how well they’re practicing,” Polley said. “Bell and Laviano were just practicing really well, so we felt obligated to give them the chance. They played great at Harvard [University], and then we had Lafayette [College], where everybody got to play. The third line passed the second line. We just stayed with them and they did a great job.”

Scoring trifecta expected to bounce back against Army With every game now a crucial one for the Terriers, Polley will look for his go-to players to bounce back in a big way in their next game against the United States Military Academy. The Black Knights (7-3, 4-1 Patriot League) are led by attack Cole Johnson, a 2015 second team All-Patriot League member who has notched 50 points in 10 games.

If BU wishes to keep up with Johnson and the Black Knights,

Softball struggles against Marist SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 victory in the first leg.

While Marist’s power seemed to overwhelm BU in game one, the Terriers couldn’t drive home runs when they needed to, as they left nine runners on base.

However, an entirely different team showed up for the second game.

Senior pitcher Melanie Russell got the call and got off to a great start.

She didn’t allow a hit until the bottom of the third inning and got plenty of help from her offense.

In the top of the second, freshman second baseman Alexa Ponce — one of two Terriers with an RBI in game one — drove in two runs off of Marist pitcher Kallen Leeseberg.

BU finished the inning with three runs, and Ponce finished the day with three RBIs. Junior catcher Gabi Martinez hit one out of the park in the third inning, her third dinger of the season, and extended BU’s lead.

“She did a great job,” Waters said of Ponce. “She got a lot of opportunities early on and some of the situations didn’t work out. But fortunately for her, she jumped in and had a two-game start at second base and she swung the bat really well, so I was happy with the way that she came out.”

Russell looked great in the circle, striking out seven Red Foxes and allowing just seven hits. She held Marist to just one run through six innings, but things fell apart in the seventh. After hitting one batter and walking the next, Russell surrendered a three-run home run that tied the game at four. Two batters later,

Marist outfielder Gabrielle Kelliher came up big in a pinch-hit spot, driving in the winning run and sending the Terriers home disappointed.

While Waters was extremely disappointed with the way the Terriers performed in the first game, saying that it “should have been a whole different scenario,” she was impressed with the way her team regrouped.

“That’s the trick with softball,” Waters said. “There’s a really short period for reflection. Usually [we play] doubleheaders, so you have to move on pretty quickly. They did a good job of starting out fresh and coming out swinging.”

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It appears as if Hilburn's early-season injury is behind him for good.

freshman attack James Burr, sophomore attack Jack Wilson and junior midfielder Cal Death will need to play their typically efficient games. The trio combined for a goal and two assists in the loss to Lehigh, a far cry from their usual numbers.

“We’re only going to be as good as those guys [are] as we get

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Mickenzie Larivee showcasing scoring talent for women's lacrosse

BY ALYSSA FORSTER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

After scoring two goals in Saturday’s 8-7 loss to Lehigh University, sophomore attack Mickenzie Larivee of the Boston University women’s lacrosse team has cemented herself as the team’s top scoring option so far.

Larivee, who scored 11 goals and picked up four ground balls during her freshman season, has doubled both of those numbers already this season. Along with increased scoring, Larivee has doubled her caused turnovers with six this season compared to three during her freshman year.

BU (5-6, 3-2 Patriot League) head coach Liz Robertshaw said she’s pleased with Larivee’s growth in 2016.

“I think she’s having a pretty good year,” Robertshaw said. “There have been games where she has really stood out for us by having multiple goals in those games.

She’s only a sophomore, so I think she has a very bright future ahead of her.”

Belval and Donahoe growing into increased roles A key aspect of the Terriers this year is underclassmen stepping up when need be. Two players in particular, freshman midfielder Kaitlin Belval and sophomore attack Avery Donahoe, have done just that.

Belval has six goals and an assist in her inaugural campaign, causing Robertshaw to praise her adjustment to college lacrosse.

“I couldn’t be happier with the way she’s been playing,” Robertshaw said. “As an incoming freshman, I think she has learned to be fearless in her play. She’s got great speed, she’s been aggressive on the play and I think we can expect to see more great things from her in the future.”

Meanwhile, Donahoe has steadily improved from the 2015 season, as she has six goals and six assists.

“I think [Avery’s] transitioning better,” Robertshaw said. “She’s having a little more fun out there, making less mistakes and becoming a risk-taking crease player.”

Meegan providing sure presence between the pipes If there has been one consistent factor for the Terriers all season long, it’s been junior goalkeeper Caroline Meegan protecting the cage. Robertshaw called her goalkeeper a “stabilizing” force, especially when the team has awry defensive moments or is hemmed in its own zone.

Meegan, who has played nearly 465 minutes this season, has a .503 save percentage. With her play, Robertshaw said Meegan not only guides the defensive unit, but she instills confidence in the entire team.

“I think she has been making great saves all season long,” said Robertshaw.

“She’s become a leader, not just for the defensive players but for the entire team. She’s been consistent all season, which allows the team to play with more confidence.”

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The Terriers have five games remaining before the conference tournament rolls around.

Terriers keeping positive through ups and downs The Terriers’ season has followed a seesaw trajectory, as shown by this past weekend’s defeat at the hands of Lehigh (9-2, 3-1 Patriot League) and the 14-13 victory over Vanderbilt University on March 22.

With those ups and downs, Robertshaw said the biggest factor is making sure that the players stay positive after a loss and enjoys themselves after a win.

“Obviously I want the team to be proud of themselves after a win, because they’ve earned it,” Robertshaw said. “Some of these wins haven’t been easy, and some of our losses have been tough to take.”

Robertshaw credited her coaching staff

for helping the team get back on its feet when coming off of a difficult loss.

“I know the wins-loss column doesn’t always show it, but we’ve been battling and trying to do the right thing every single game,” she said. “The team has been listening to the coaching staff, and it’s great to see.”

Although the team has had its trying times, Robertshaw said that she couldn’t be prouder of how far it’s come.

“It’s amazing to see players step up, work hard and play as well as they can,” Robertshaw said. “There’s no other team in the league that I would want to be coaching right now. They all support one another. And as a coach, at the end of the day, I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

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as part of its broadcasting contract, David Berri of Vice Sports widely underestimates the WNBA’s revenue to be around $35 million.

According to Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal, average WNBA attendance is down to 7,318 spectators per game — the league’s all-time low. Also, total viewership on ESPN and ESPN2 dropped by 14 percent. The sports network also only broadcasted 10 games on ESPN2 as compared to 19 in 2014.

For simplicity’s sake, let’s say the league made $50 million despite rock bottom attendance rates and declining viewership statistics. That would mean that the WNBA made less than 1 percent of the NBA’s revenue, which is more than enough evidence to explain why the average NBA salary is more than 50 times higher than the average WNBA salary.

Also, many try to justify male athletes making more than female athletes by saying that men’s sports are “more exciting” or “dominant” in comparison. While it is true that a WNBA game features significantly less dunks than an NBA game, there is a prominent, growing market for women’s sports. If this particular argument is not obsolete already (which many deem it to be), it will be soon. This statement is proven by viewership numbers from the World Cup. The 2014 World Cup, which saw Germany defeat Argentina in an extra-time thriller, drew about 17.3 million viewers in English. The 2015 Women’s World Cup, which featured a dominant performance

from the Americans over the Japanese, drew 25.4 million viewers in English and had more viewers overall.

There are still a number of reasonable counterarguments that can be made defending the current salary configurations.

The strongest argument might be the fact that men have more options to play elsewhere and can earn more money at those destinations. Along those same lines, men will likely require extra incentive to play for their national team, since they have so other options.

For example, iconic men’s goalkeeper Tim Howard made $2.6 million in 2014 for Everton — much more than he’d ever make while playing for the United States. Unfortunately for the members of the women’s team, there are far fewer professional women’s leagues out there and certainly no $2 million contracts being shopped around.

But this simple fact remains: The women’s national team generates more money than the men’s team. If a woman working in the sales department of a retailer generated significantly more revenue than a man in that department and got paid significantly less money to do it, a lawsuit would land on that manager’s desk.

In conclusion, male athletes typically receive higher pay than female athletes because the teams they play for and the leagues they play in generally earn a lot more money. Obviously enough, that same standard should apply when women’s teams create more money than men’s, as the USWNT has clearly done. The women filing the suit should win handily, for any other outcome would be outrageous.

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After missing time through injury, Ryan Hilburn is back and thriving for the men's lacrosse team. p.10

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Justin Domingos quietly shaping men's lacrosse

U.S. Soccer lawsuit reflects equal pay issue

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A handful of U.S. women’s national soccer team members, including superstars Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan, recently filed a wage discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the United States Soccer Federation, coining the slogan “Equal Play. Equal Pay.” According to the 2015 USSF financial report cited in the lawsuit, the women’s national team amassed about $20 million more in revenue than its male counterparts.

Despite the women’s unparalleled success and the men’s unbearable mediocrity, members of the women’s team on average make a fraction of the men’s salary.

Goalkeeper Hope Solo said the men’s players “get paid more to just show up than we get paid to win major championships.”

Solo is not wrong — the U.S. women’s team has won a record three Women’s World Cups and four Olympic Gold medals. The men’s team, on the other hand, finished in third place back in 1930 when the tournament wasn’t as competitive and has since only advanced to the quarterfinal round.

The most common argument explaining why male athletes earn more than female athletes is that men’s sports generate more money than women’s sports. The big four leagues of the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL have global markets and passionate fan bases. This fact is mostly true — but not in the case the USWNT has presented.

Consider the NBA and WNBA. The average salary for an NBA player is nearly $5 million a year. The average WNBA salary is estimated to be around $75,000. In fact, WNBA teams must comply with a maximum salary cap of just over $900,000 — about 20 percent of the average player salary in the NBA. When comparing the revenues these two leagues generate, though, these disparate numbers make sense. The NBA made a record-breaking $5.18 billion last year, up from $4.79 billion in 2013-14. By estimating a league average ticket price of $15 and incorporating $12 million given to the league CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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Domingos came to BU for the 2014 season after previously coaching in Division III.

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Flashback to the 1990s. Men’s lacrosse programs at the Division I level are being cut.

The sport is struggling to grow, and talent is concentrated at traditional powerhouses. At least, that’s how Falmouth, Massachusetts native Justin Domingos saw it.

Jump ahead to present day, and Domingos is riding the springtime sport’s resurgence as an assistant coach at Boston University, a program in the midst of its third year. There have been ups and downs aplenty, as the Terriers went 8-20 in their first two years and are on the verge of qualifying for their first-ever Patriot League Tournament.

While BU head coach Ryan Polley is often the face of that tremendous growth, Domingos has arguably been just as important because of his own playing career and gigs at Division III schools Gettysburg College and Colby College. Those experiences led to him marshaling BU’s defense in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, and he switched to running the offense for the 2016 campaign.

Domingos’ duties extend into breaking down film and aiding recruitment efforts, and praise from his colleagues isn’t hard to find.

“I really couldn’t have asked for anything more from an assistant coach,” Polley said.

“He’s dedicated, he’s loyal, he cares a lot about

the players, he’s very knowledgable and he’s just been terrific … I don’t think we’d be where we’re at right now if we didn’t have Coach Domingos giving some great contributions to the program.”

Domingos hailed the chance to build a program from scratch, but he admitted that there were times during the first couple years when challenges took their toll. The coaching staff had to get on the same page, it was easy to use immaturity as a crutch and the team’s decision making on and off the field could be sporadic.

Yet through persistence and an unwavering desire to make BU into a national contender, players slowly instilled trust in Domingos.

“He'll be the first to get on you for making a mistake, but he's also the first to commend you for a good play,” said junior midfielder Sam Tenney. “He's all business on the field and pushes us to be the same way. When you're starting a new program, you need that type of tough love or you're not going to get anywhere.

He's the general and we're the troops, and I don't think any one of us would want to go to battle week in and week out for anyone else.”

Given the plaudits far and wide, Domingos’ approach to life largely explains why he’s been so successful as a coach. As the Gettysburg alumnus described, it’s easy to get up each day and do what’s best for yourself.

What’s hard, however, is putting others’ needs

before your own.

In the lacrosse world, it may mean knowing whether to shoot or pass, or in the finance world many of his players are pursuing, it may mean imparting humility. Either way, Domingos knows his role extends far beyond the lines of Nickerson Field.

“In terms of life and when you leave here and when you walk around campus, put people before you,” Domingos said. “To be a good leader is to be a servant, and that’s something [head coach Hank] Janczyk at Gettysburg said to us all the time. I don’t know if I got it when I was [younger], and now I understand it. Being a servant as a leader means that I’ve put other people before me, I make decisions based about that and I’m always looking to help.”

That sort of rhetoric isn’t fluff, as Tenney said the team has really bought into that sort of mindset and Domingos’ coaching tenants of toughness and grit translate outside the lacrosse field. That dynamic has even surfaced in his relationship with Polley, as he said Domingos was indispensable during the early days of BU lacrosse.

“I really leaned on him a lot in that first year, and it was really tough when we weren’t winning many games,” Polley said. “We went through many different situations and different scenarios and how were we going to get the team better, were we being too hard on them, were we doing this, were we doing that. Just all the different situations of building a program from a culture standpoint.”

That culture often surfaces in BU’s mantra of taking things one play at a time, and Domingos has been an integral part of that. For the assistant coach, that surfaces in the team’s newly found aura of confidence, genuine disdain for losing and firm belief that it’s heading in the right direction.

Even though BU’s journey hasn’t been what the coaching staff expected it to be, Domingos said it’s important to have perspective on how far everyone has come since the fall of 2013. The early days were full of growing pains, but now Domingos stands arm in arm with those trying to leave the Terriers in a better place.

“Our goal is to win the Patriot League and be an NCAA team, and I think after that, this program’s goal should be to win a national title,” Domingos said. “There’s no reason it can’t. We’re competitive in national titles in many other sports here, and with the academic profile that we fit, the facilities we have and the programs we have, there’s no reason you can’t win a national championship here.”

Softball drops doubleheader away against Marist

BY JOE CALABRESE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Following a game in which the Boston University softball team was overpowered, the Terriers ultimately fell short of topping Marist College.

The Red Foxes (23-7) relied on the long ball in their doubleheader sweep, winning the first game by a score of 9-3 and stealing a 5-4 victory in the last inning of the reverse fixture.

Heading into the doubleheader, BU (1118, 0-3 Patriot League) knew it had its hands full, as Marist had won eight straight, was hitting above .300 and put forth a nearly 2.9

ERA. In the very first inning of game one, though, Red Fox pitcher Megan Beiermeister had trouble keeping a handle on the ball, as she walked the lead off batter and junior shortstop Brittany Younan. She was quickly brought around to score thanks to two wild pitches.

Workhorse senior pitcher Lauren Hynes got the expected nod in the circle, and while she got through the first without any damage, things went immediately south after.

Hynes struggled mightily in the second inning, ending her day by surrendering backto-back home runs in the second inning. It

was her shortest start of the season.

BU head coach Ashley Waters accredited Marist’s long at-bats against the team’s ace to the toughness of the opponent.

“They had some kids who fouled off some good pitches,” Waters said. “It went one way or the other … I don’t think Lauren [Hynes] looked her best, but at the same time, that’s a good-hitting team.”

Junior pitcher Makinna Akers took over from there, but the damage was already done.

The Terriers tacked on two more runs in the fourth, but three more runs in the sixth inning from the Red Foxes wrapped up Marist’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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