9-3-2015

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NEWS City councilor leads Boston in its quest to get liquor licensing back. pg. 2

INBUSINESS Innovative company serves as startup to help other startups. pg. 6

69°/ 86° RAIN

SPORTS Moving On Up: Albie O’Connell and Scott Young earn promotions on men’s ice hockey staff. p. 10

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLIV. VOLUME LXXXIX. ISSUE I.

Students, faculty pleased with completed Law Tower renovation BY SAMANTHA GROSS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker met with Massachusetts’ medical school deans to address opioids Wednesday.

Baker, medical school deans address opioid crisis BY SAMANTHA GROSS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker met with leadership from the Massachusetts Medical Society and deans from the four Greater Boston-area medical schools Wednesday to talk about opportunities to collaborate and address opioid medication misuse. “We had a series of discussions about the practice of managing pain and addiction in the community,” Baker said at a Wednesday press conference. “I view this as something multi-factorial and multi-disciplinary. There is no single silver bullet. I’m grateful that we are going to have some very important leaders in the healthcare education world working with us on this.” Providing doctors with additional training on opioids was part of the set of

65 recommendations released in June by the Governor’s Opioid Addiction Working Group. Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel outlined the focus of the group’s efforts, which covered drug abstinence, instruction and the “core competencies” of future doctors. “As we look at the governor’s opioid working group recommendations, there is a focus on prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery,” Bharel said. “When we look at prevention, we speak about education. When we talk about education, we mean education for patients, consumers, parents, coaches but also healthcare professionals.” Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared opioid abuse a public health emergency in March 2014.

Bharel also touched on the medical school curriculum and the core competencies focusing on appropriate pain management, safe medication prescriptions and screening for early signs of addiction. “Today, we started with our four fine medical schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to talk with them about how we can agree on some core competencies of how we educate our future doctors so that they have this responsibility of providing pain relief and balancing that with safe prescribing and public safety,” Bharel said. Dennis Dimitri, president of the MMS, has worked with opioid prescription for years. The society has put together guidelines for practicing physicians, but not necessarily physicians-in-training. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

Warren dining hall adds cuisine stations, subtracts seating BY ETHAN CAPPELLO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Warren Towers dining hall underwent renovations this summer, reworking the floor plan and expanding the variety of food. New stations include a wok station, a gluten-free pantry and kitchen and an updated deli selection. Kurt Steinberg, the executive chef at Warren dining, said the renovations were tough, but the workers ultimately did a great job. “I was watching the guys building this, and it was amazing to go from not thinking it was going to be ready weeks before we were open — they were working here the day before the day of opening — to being ready,” he said. One of the main renovations is the gluten-free selection. Steinberg described the gluten-free kitchen as “beautiful” and “a restaurant kitchen on its own.” “With the amount of people that are gluten-free, it became one of our priorities to get on board. We would do gluten-free-friendly stations before, but this

is totally gluten-free,” he said. “We have a pantry that those students will have access to … [and] we have a separate crew of people that will work there, so there won’t be any mix-up.” Another major renovation is the new

wok station. This station will essentially focus on cuisine from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore, according to the BU Dining Services website. It will serve full meals, meaning CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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Warren Dining Hall has undergone significant renovations, including a gluten-free station and an authentic asian cuisine station.

Boston University School of Law students attended their first school day in the renovated Law Tower Wednesday after a two-and-a-half year construction project on the building. The tower, Pappas Law Library and BU Law Auditorium were among the 18 different on-campus construction projects that were underway this summer. On the outside, the tower’s renovation adheres to its original design, but the 17-story tower has been upgraded with new mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems as well as new offices, new moot courtrooms and a new space for student services. The tower is also now LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified, meaning its construction was recognized as one of the best building strategies in the country by the U.S. Green Building Council. “We expect it to be quite similar to the experience [students and faculty] have had since the [Sumner M.] Redstone Building opened [in Fall 2014] — much more community and study space, state of the art classrooms, right-sized classrooms for our transactional law program and new practice moot courtrooms,” Maureen O’Rourke, dean of BU Law, told The Daily Free Press in an email. “Most of what they need should be accessible on the first five floors.” BU Law professor David Lyons shared his experience teaching in the “un-renovated tower,” expressing that the renovation was highly beneficial to the students’ and faculties’ mobility within the building. “The renovation was very much needed, along with the new annex for classrooms. Without the annex, there was too much reliance on elevators to get to class, and now there are up-to-date classrooms that are more convenient for students,” Lyons said. With less elevator traffic, refillable water stations on almost every floor and many other environmentally friendly attributes like insulation and concrete panels, the LEED-certified Law Tower is a testament to BU’s eco-friendly priorities, BU Law professor Peggy Maisel said. “I can’t imagine building and renovating without being LEED-certified,” Maisel said. “To think about doing a big project like this, they need to make it as sustainable as possible and to make that statement about how important it is to Boston University.” Maisel, who works in the clinical section of the law school, is not just interested in the greener aspects of the new tower. On the clinical floor where Maisel spends a majority of her time, student lawyers are often meeting with clients who come to BU for legal services. The renovations included interview rooms in her department, making for a much more professional experience, she said. “We are basically a law firm up here, and it’s a great, welcoming space for clients who CONTINUED ON PAGE 4


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