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Glass blowers, chalk artists entertain at Boston Arts Festival Students concerned

about men’s hockey, BU’s transparency

By Jasper Craven Daily Free Press Staff

More than 130 onlookers cheered the Boston Tap Company on as they took the stage at the Boston Arts Festival Saturday, clicking to the beat.

“These kids are absolutely electric when they perform,” said Chris Cook, director of the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events, of the tap-dancing company based out of Dorchester. “They do a mix of tap and jazz.”

Cooke said between 60 and 100,000 tourists and Boston residents alike flocked to the 10th annual Boston Arts Festival this past weekend, which included 19 performances and more than 55 visual artists.

“What we really try to do is we try to show a reflection of the vibrant cultural sector in our neighborhoods,” Cook said.

Performances from Berklee School of Music students and the Boston Symphony Orchestra entertained crowds in the threeday festival.

The festival, which took place at Christopher Columbus Park, showcased almost exclusively Boston area artists, Cook said.

Artists specializing in jewelry, clothing, ceramics, illustrations, glass, photography and wood showcased their work over the festival’s three-day period.

Dorie Klein, a 17-year-old student of the Diablo Glass School, performed glassblowing techniques the entire weekend and said the festival definitely helped glass sales and awareness of the school.

“I think it’s really important in any city

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Love Experiment performs at the Boston Arts Festival at Christopher Columbus Park Saturday afternoon.

to have people be interested in the arts and culture,” Klein said. “Bringing that to the public, for free, here, is something that’s really awesome.”

Jerrie Lyndon, a chalk artist who received her masters in Arts and Non-Profit Administration from Boston University in 2011, was copying Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” in a five-and-a-half-by-seven-foot space of concrete at the festival.

Lyndon said she looks up every minute or so to talk and explain her work because she loves interacting with festival-goers.

“I’ve been using chalk art as a way of engaging the community and showing artwork for free,” she said.

Lyndon said she has been chalking for seven years and loves showing her work to Bostonians.

“I love the fact that I can work with the community here,” she said. “I use it as opportunity to talk about Van Gogh’s work. I teach a little about art history as well as do art at the same time.”

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With primaries behind them, candidates prep for debates

By Allison DeAngelis Daily Free Press Staff

In light of majority wins in the Massachusetts state primary elections, contenders in the Senate and Fourth Congressional District races gear up for debates this fall as their campaigns stick to the messages that have defined the campaign season thus far.

Despite a higher percentage of votes in the primaries for his Democratic opponent, Joseph Kennedy III, the Sean Bielat campaign said they are optimistic for Election Day. Sarah Rumpf, senior media consultant for the Bielat campaign, said in an email that there was a small voter turnout on Sept. 6 and the Fourth District was almost

50–50 in 2010.

Barney Frank won the election with 53 percent of the vote, with Bielat falling short with 42.5 percent, according to the Massachusetts State Elections Division.

“These are all things that make it a hospitable environment for Sean,” Rumpf said.

Two debates between the Fourth District candidates are confirmed to take place on Oct. 15 and Oct. 27.

In those forums, the Bielat campaign said it will be focusing on the “night and day” difference between the candidates.

Rumpf said she believes Kennedy is supported by his family legacy.

“If it wasn’t for Kennedy’s name, he wouldn’t be a contender in this race,” she said.

Bostonians shed pounds in new campaign

By Hina Tai Daily Free Press Staff

On a Saturday afternoon, Melrose resident Whitney Warren burned calories to DJ Kupah’s music at “Pilates in the Park,” one of many free fitness activities featured in Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s health initiative.

About 150 people attended the class at the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

“It was great. I’m impressed with how many people came,” she said. “I loved it.”

Boston Moves For Health, a campaign aimed at providing easy and accessible physical activities at a budget-friendly cost, began in April with the goal of losing 1 million pounds and moving 10 million miles as a city over the next year, said Nick Martin, director of communications at the Boston Public Health Commission.

Since April, the campaign has created a series of free fitness classes open to the public and has worked with summer camps across the city to promote physical activity and record the campers’ results, Martin said.

Activities featured on the community

calendar on the campaign’s website include walking groups, tai chi classes and Zumba.

Since the campaign’s initiation, more than 10,000 residents have signed up on the Boston Moves for Health website to create profiles and health goals, Martin said.

He said the website allows people to log activities and see the progress they have made through miles moved and pounds lost.

The city keeps tracks of these numbers and posts the totals on the website’s front page. As of Sept. 9, the website boasted 10,484 collective pounds shed and 1,526,339 miles logged.

Martin said for larger organizations such as youth summer camps the city has been working with a central point of contact who collects and provides them with the information.

“We want to really make sure we are capturing it all, but we want to make it as easy and convenient as possible for people,” he said.

The idea for the initiative originated when Menino was at a Thanksgiving community

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In an email sent out on primary night to subscribers, the Bielat campaign directly named the Kennedy family.

“This election represents the choice between two visions for America,” the email read. “One vision — one that has been held by the Kennedy family for more than seven decades — states that the government is smarter than you.”

The Kennedy campaign did not answer requests for comment in time for press.

In a separate phone interview, Rumpf said the remarks were not intended to make it sound as though the Kennedy family believed they were better than others and were not aimed at Joseph Kennedy III.

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Students expressed dissatisfaction with the Boston University Men’s Ice Hockey Task Force’s rulings after The Boston Globe revealed graphic information supporting a “culture of sexual entitlement,” which was left out in the final report released by BU President Robert Brown.

The Globe article stated that after the men’s hockey team won the NCAA men’s hockey championship in 2009, members of the team set up kegs in the locker room for dozens of guests and “took to the ice naked to shoot pucks.”

Another report revealed that a hockey player had shoved his hands down a female student’s pants at a party and continued even as she was punching him.

BU coach Jack Parker initially denied hearing about the party, but later admitted he knew of “a few guys drinking in the locker room,” according to the Globe.

Jonathan Cantarero, a graduate student in the School of Theology, said the task force needed to take a stronger response to the findings in the report.

“Just because you’re good at sports doesn’t mean you can take advantage of people,” Cantarero said. “I think they [BU officials] need a strong response. The university should be a trendsetter. They need to make an example [out of the men’s hockey team].”

Some students said the findings have led them to rethink their support for the hockey team.

College of Communication junior Devin Shepherd said BU needed to be more “explicit” with its reaction to the task force’s findings if it wanted him to stand by the team.

“I’d love to be supportive of the team, but I don’t want the hockey team that represents me and the university as a whole to appear undisciplined,” Shepherd said.

“They get a lot of scholarships and special treatment, so they have certain responsibilities and should live up to higher expectations.”

The president launched the task force in February after two hockey players, Max

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Menino aims to create healthier lifestyles for city Health: From Page 1

gathering. Menino was helping serve dinner when he encountered a boy who was overweight at a very young age, Martin said.

“He realized the kid doesn’t have a chance unless he gets help here because we know that health is so connected with other things in life,” he said.

Barbara Ferrer, the executive director of the BPHC, took the boy under her wing and helped craft a strategy to fight obesity, Martin said. “[Boston is] the third healthiest city in America, but still over 50 percent of our residents are overweight or obese,” he said. “It’s quite a staggering number.”

Martin said the campaign has made a lot of progress over the summer and that he is confident the city will reach its goal.

“It’s been a challenge for people to report back to us,” he said, “but we’ve made a lot of progress over the summer. We are plugging away at the goal, and I have no doubt we will reach them.”

The city has made progress in fewer than five months through partnerships and fitness programs, Menino said in a statement Martin emailed to The Daily Free Press.

“By increasing access to free and low-cost physical activities and healthy living resources, we are helping the whole city come together to get healthier,” he said.

Martin said the Boston Moves campaign would focus more on improving healthy eating and nutrition in the fall.

Residents of Boston and surrounding areas said the initiative and free classes were a great idea.

Warren, who plans to attend kickboxing classes at City Hall Plaza, said the Boston Moves for Health campaign sounds like a great idea.

Boston University alum Caroline W., a Charlestown resident, came out with her baby to spend the sunny afternoon doing Pilates in the park.

“It’s so fun,” she said, “I wish they did it more often.”

More penalties needed for Parker, hockey team, students say Hockey: From Page 1

Nicastro and Corey Trivino, were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a female student.

The task force aimed to investigate the culture and climate of the men’s hockey team, according to an email Brown sent to students last week.

When the task force found a “culture of sexual entitlement” among some of the players on the team, task force members recommended that the hockey players undergo sexual assault prevention training every year and peer-mentoring, among other provisions.

Student-athletes were barred from enrolling in the Metropolitan College as a result.

As for Parker, the task force decided to “normalize the reporting structure” in the Department of Athletics so all coaches report only to the athletic director, eliminating Parker’s position as executive athletic director.

The team declined to comment on the latest details of the report.

A number of students, including College of Arts and Sciences junior Delaney Moghanian, said BU embarrassed itself by shuf-

fling away from the team’s sexual assault issue.

“They’re probably more concerned with keeping the level of their hockey team’s status in the season than taking care of matters,” Moghanian said.

Moghanian said more serious action should have been taken against Parker, who is entering his 40th season as head coach of the team.

“I think that there should be a suspension for the coach,” Moghanian said. “I’m not saying that he should be fired because honestly there are certain things that are out of his control.”

The Globe article reported that Parker acknowledged he knew “a few guys drinking in the locker room” and quoted a player saying Parker “cares too much about hurting the important players’ feelings … He’ll criticize, then apologize.”

BU spokesman Colin Riley said the task force was aware of all of these transgressions when it made its recommendations.

“They had all that information, weighed it, presented its findings and made recommendations to address it and to fulfill the charge

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A Closer Look The following highlights graphic details of a report, involving members of the Boston University men’s hockey team, cited in The Boston Globe’s article on Friday. The details of the report were not included in the final report of the Men’s Ice Hockey Task Force.

• Hockey players reportedly partied naked on the ice of Agganis Arena.

• They reportedly filled showers with kegs after winning the 2009 NCAA championship.

• Players often skipped classes and are said to have bullied a professor.

• They reportedly had sex in penalty boxes of the rink.

• One hockey player reportedly continued to shove hands down a woman’s pants, even as she punched him away.

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Contenders in the nearby Seventh Congressional District race, which encompasses parts of Boston University, include Rep. Michael Capuano of Somerville and Independent candidate Karla Romero.

Capuano, the current representative for Massachusetts’ Eighth District, went unopposed on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the race for the Senate continues between Sen. Scott Brown and Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren.

After both went unopposed in the primary, the Brown campaign began the weekend by linking the newly released jobs report to his opponent.

“Today’s weak jobs report is more bad news for middle-class families struggling to get by in this bad economy,” Brown said in a statement on his website. “And yet Elizabeth Warren’s answer is to borrow another trillion dollars coupled with the largest tax increase since World War II. That’s exactly the wrong approach.”

Warren’s press secretary Julie Edwards said in a phone inter-

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that the task force was given by President Brown,” Riley said. “I think that a fair reading of that will see that that’s what was done and that it was done in a serious and complete and thorough manner.”

William Murphy, a CAS sophomore, said Parker needs more severe punishment.

“They’re his team, and he spends a lot of time with them,” Murphy said. “I’m sure he gets to know them, so I think that he should absolutely be held accountable. … [He has] got to try to impart upon them how to behave when you’re the big men on campus.”

But Murphy said the fan dedication toward the men’s hockey team from some of the students and alumni makes this type of decision difficult for BU officials.

“I guess you could say there are people who aren’t going to agree with whatever happens,” Murphy said. “They’re going to think the hockey team was unfairly punished, and I think if BU went all the way — penalized them even further — it would have more adverse effects upon the student body as a whole.”

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view that the statement is another example of the Brown campaign’s increasingly negative campaign.

“The truth is that Elizabeth supports tax cuts for middleclass families. Scott Brown voted against those tax cuts to get even bigger breaks for the wealthiest 2 percent,” Edwards said. “At the same time, he’s been defending billions in taxpayer subsidies for the biggest oil companies in the world. He’s launching false attacks because he can’t run on his voting record.”

The Brown campaign did not return requests for comment.

After months of deadlock between the two Senate candidates, Brown has been gaining traction and moving ahead in the polls, according to a Public Policy Polling poll that shows Brown leading Warren by 5 points. A Kimball Political Consulting poll shows Brown leading by 6 points.

The Warren campaign would not comment on the data.

Jobs and taxes could remain a topic of discussion between Brown and Warren during the debates, the first of which will be held at the WBZ-TV studios on Sept. 20.

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Students undecided about online piracy, despite repercussions BU takes steps

By Mitch Harkey Daily Free Press Staff

Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University alumnus and lecturer in the School of Management currently fighting a $675,000 fine for alleged online piracy, was not the first or the last person to pirate copyrighted material using the BU server.

A number of BU students said they illegally download music despite the university’s warnings.

A U.S. District Court upheld the constitutionality of a $675,000 fine against Tenenbaum, who was sued for illegally downloading and distributing 31 songs from a filesharing website. The court denied his claim for a mistrial on Aug. 24.

Enzo Martinelli, a College Arts and Sciences senior, said he has been caught by BU on three separate occasions for downloading movies for free.

“These artists make a majority of their money from concerts and stuff anyways, so this [piracy] isn’t affecting them as much,” Martinelli said.

Tenenbaum did not deny that he downloaded the songs, but instead persisted in the case for so long because he did not believe the $675,000 fine was an appropriate punishment.

The fine was excessive, said Justin Gutman, a senior in the CAS. “Maybe I could see if he was

pirating thousands of songs, but only 31 does not deserve that high of a fine,” he said.

On the other hand, a CAS junior Gunita Singh said it would be justified if the recording industry is trying to make an example of him.

“I personally don’t download [illegally]. I used to, but then I became friends with a lot of artists and underground musicians,” she said. “They put a lot of work into what they do and they should be compensated for it.”

College of Engineering sophomore Garrett Moore said he thinks twice before downloading and tries not to download at all.

“If I like an artist, I would like to support their music,” he said.

“There’s more of a chance of being caught on the BU server.”

School of Law professor Wendy Gordon said in a case like this, the judge can make him pay much more than what the actual damage was because of the statutory damage provision.

Shortly after the decision, Tenenbaum tweeted, “You may have heard of the latest developments.

No, I don’t have $675k. We will continue to fight this.”

After the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal, the case was bumped down to the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts for a final ruling by Judge Rya Zobel.

Zobel ruled on Aug. 24 that the fine was not excessive at $22,500

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Although Boston University cracks down on online pirating, many BU students take their chances by illegally downloading music.

per track, which is 15 percent of the statutory maximum.

“If you double-park your car, you expect to get a ticket, but you don’t expect to get a $1 million fine,” Tenenbaum said in a previous interview with The Daily Free Press.

Tenenbaum said in his blog after the ruling he “disagrees rigorously with Judge Zobel’s decision.”

He went on to cite a list of myths about the case and reasons he should not be charged such a high fine, one of them being that the precedent they are basing this on is from 1976, a time before on-

line file sharing was possible.

“You may as well try me for murder for a parking ticket, sentence me to 10 years in prison and then uphold the penalty because the penalty could have been life,” Tenenbaum said in his blog.

In his blog on joelfightsback. com, Tenenbaum said he plans to continue fighting this ruling.

“I, having just defended my thesis, continue my life as before, teaching students in the Boston area about physics and statistics and other things like that,” he said.

Amy Gorel contributed to the reporting of this story.

Rita Krolak remembered as compassionate coworker, loving mother

By Amy Gorel Daily Free Press Staff

Colleagues remembered Rita Krolak, a research coordinator at Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, as a caring nurse who brought a positive and vibrant attitude to the office every day.

“Rita has been a part of our Slone family as long as I can remember, and she has been one of the most valued and admired members of our Pregnancy Health Interview Study,” said Allen Mitchell, director of the center.

“I had the honor of working with Rita on a regular basis and more importantly, learning from her.”

Krolak, 70, died on Aug. 25 in Duane, N.Y., in a car accident that also killed her husband, Patrick D. Krolak, and son, Patrick M. Krolak. She was research coordinator of the Pregnancy Health Interview Study, which looks into

birth defects and complications in pregnancy, since 2001 at Slone.

Krolak leaves two children, Karen Krolak of Somerville and Michael Krolak of Medford and three grandchildren.

“She was the hub of our very large and complex study,” said Dawn Jacobs, the project coordinator who worked closely with Krolak. “Rita was the ‘go-to’ person with the answers to so many questions. She loved her role as a researcher and being a resource to all of us.”

She had the incredible ability to combine her nursing expertise with her sensitivity to humanity, Mitchell said.

She was able to perceive how a mother in the pregnancy study would feel given the tone or wording of a question to improve the research to be both sensitive to the subjects and scientifically accurate, he said.

“As others will reflect, Rita was the ‘go-to’ person on more levels than I can describe, and none of us can imagine Slone and our Study without her wisdom, sensitivity, kindness and consistently positive attitude,” Mitchell said.

Her kindness was also evident in her work community, said Clare Coughlin, a nurse interviewer for the study.

When Coughlin began working with the Pregnancy Health Interview Study, Krolak made her feel comfortable in the new environment, Coughlin said.

“She immediately welcomed me into the study with open arms and taught me everything I needed to know in order to be successful,” she said. “In fact, Rita was everyone’s ‘go-to’ person.”

Krolak was compassionate in all areas of her life, reaching out to friends in their times of need,

Coughlin said.

Jacobs said she remembered the little things about Krolak, such as how well she listened and how she enjoyed traveling and reading.

“She was an early riser who did more work before sunrise than most people do all day,” Jacobs said. “She also enjoyed a nice glass of wine. After a long busy week she would send me her typical Friday afternoon sign off email, ‘Closing up shop for the day ... time for a glass of wine!’”

Krolak’s impact, both in the workplace in the lives of the people she worked with, will not be forgotten, Coughlin said.

“Rita’s compassion, commitment and vast amount of knowledge are irreplaceable,” she said.

“I will always remember her warm smile and wish I could tell her how much I appreciated her

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Members of the Boston University community said the nature of take-home examinations may have had a part in Harvard University’s recent cheating scandal, and they work to avoid plagiarism in BU classes.

Harvard is reviewing the takehome examinations of more than 100 students in an undisclosed class after the exams had very similar answers, said Harvard spokesman Jeff Neal during a phone interview.

“It’s only natural that the students are going to collaborate when you give an assignment like [take-home examinations],” said Jay Corrin, BU chair of social science.

Corrin said in his 35 years of teaching, he cannot remember such a large scandal at BU. “We fully expect that students will fully be exonerated,” Neal said.

College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Student Academic Life Steven Jarvi said cheating cases must always be investigated.

“Even allegations or examples have to be pursued because it’s the integrity of the institution that is at stake and ultimately the quality and integrity of your degree,” he said.

Jarvi said a universal academic conduct code was adopted at BU last year to strengthen proper academic conduct.

Corrin said students often do not know what plagiarism is. Both College of General Studies freshman and sophomore syllabi of the social science courses include a reference to plagiarism, and professors will review plagiarism when assigning papers, Corrin said.

David Glick, associate professor of political science, said he gives students take home examinations on a regular basis.

“There’s not really a point in having an academic conduct code if we can’t do things like takehome exams,” Glick said.

He said take-home exams have many benefits, such as the ability to monitor time taken on the test

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Mayor Menino sends Boston City Council back to drawing board with redistricting plan

By Nicole Leonard Daily Free Press Staff

Boston City Council members said they plan to take a second look at their redistricting plan and develop better options after Boston Mayor Thomas Menino vetoed it on the basis of unequal opportunity on Thursday.

After Menino vetoed the Boston City Council’s redistricting plan on Thursday on the basis of unequal opportunity, city councilors on the Census and Redistricting Committee now have time to “get it right.”

The plan originally passed the city council in August with a narrow 7–6 margin.

“My central objection is my concern that the plan concentrates our many citizens of color into

too few districts,” he said in his letter. “In doing so, [it] may limit their equal opportunity to elect candidates of their own choice.”

City Councilor Michael Ross, of Mission Hill, said he voted against the plan after listening to a coalition of groups that spoke against it.

“I felt it limited communities’ interests,” Ross said. “In the end, it didn’t make sense to pass a plan that we knew was going to invite litigation as a result.”

Several organizations part of the Coalition of Communities of Color, such as the Massachusetts civic education initiative Oiste and the Boston branch of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People, said they planned to sue the city if the plan were approved.

Sean Daughtry, political action chair for the Boston branch of the NAACP, said in an email that the council map proposed by City Councilor Bill Linehan, of South Boston, had “an adverse effect on minority voting strength.”

“If the mayor had signed the ordinance, it would promote the status quo and minority voting strength would be diminished,” Daughtry said. “Councilor Linehan’s proposal makes District 2 the least diverse district in the city.”

Boston University political science professor Doug Kriner said that before the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 political leaders used two strategies to their advantage.

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Mayor Menino vetoed the City Council plan to redestrict the city of Boston Thursday, arguing that it was unfair to minorities.

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Plagiarism difficult to define with modern technology, Fiedler says Cheating: From Page 3

and the convenience of typing.

Some BU officials said course syllabuses are often important tools that help define and prevent plagiarism and cheating.

“The syllabus is in many ways a contract between the faculty member who represents the university and the students,” said College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler. “A properly drafted syllabus should not leave any questions in the student’s mind what the parameters of behavior are.”

However, Fiedler said plagiarism is more difficult to define in modern times due to the ease and speed with which information is transmitted.

“Understanding the ownership of information often is less clear than perhaps what it used to be when most information, for instance, you might get from a book or written text [with a clear author],” he said.

Fiedler said he deals with an average of four plagiarism cases a year in a school of more than 4,000 students, and penalties include a warning, suspension for one or two semesters and dismissal.

Glick said he does not mention plagiarism in his syllabus, but will go over rules in class before a test and will use bold fonts on the examinations to make it clear.

Nairu Guan, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences sophomore, said that when

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she took Writing 100, her professor went over plagiarism with the students.

“She was very strict about it,” Guan said. “I feel like it is a professor’s job to restrict the rule, so students won’t ever think about [plagiarizing].”

Devin Shepherd, a COM junior, said professors often assume students know enough about plagiarism. “[Professors] expect you to kind of understand the level of ethicality,” Shepherd said.

Corrin said plagiarism rules are strictly enforced at BU. “We have come down very hard on people guilty of such infraction,” he said. “It’s emphasized as if it were the cardinal sin of academia.”

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Joe Kennedy III and Sean Bielat took the primaries Thursday night with more than 70 percent of the vote.

Krolak remembered as good friend, listener Obit: From Page 3

friendship and tremendous support over the past 15 years. Rita will be truly missed.”

Jacobs said, while Krolak

would be missed, she was grateful to have known her for 12 years.

“Rita was a thoughtful advisor on caring for elder parents, raising teenagers and how to be a good mother-in-law,” Jacobs said.

“She loved [her husband] Pat, her children and grandchildren dearly and loved to spend time with all of them. She was the Grandma I hope to be like some day.”

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One included “cracking,” or the spreading of minorities “into as many districts as possible to minimize their potential influence on election outcomes,” he said.

The other strategy, he said, was “packing,” which put “as many minorities into a single district as possible,” limiting “that group’s ability to influence races in other districts.”

Although Kriner said “packing” is seen in a different form today, Daughtry said the city council is trying to crack District 4.

He said District 4 would be 95 percent people of color — a “clear example of packing, especially in a city that is 53 percent

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Redistricting chairman Linehan, she said, refused to meet with them about their concerns.

“Hopefully the chairman of the redistricting committee will be more open to hearing what we and other minorities have to say,” Guillen said.

Ross said that while the plan was “well intentioned,” Menino’s veto would give the redistricting committee time to develop a better plan suited for Boston’s citizens.

“We now have the opportunity to get it right,” he said. “In the end, nothing is more important than getting people’s right to vote and [be] represented in equal districts.”

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Daughtry said the Coalition’s mantra has been “Do not crack District 2” and “Do not pack District 4.”

Oiste’s executive director Alejandra St. Guillen said she and other organization leaders met with Menino the day before he made his decision on the plan and felt that their efforts paid off.

“It’s about voting strengths,” she said. “If you’re such a small number, what are the chances that your issues are going to be addressed at the same level as a district on a higher voting block?”

Guillen said she and others were confident Menino would veto the plan, but had a problem with the process of the redistrict-

It would take between 10 and 11 hours to finish her chalk piece, she said.

The festival-planning process took about eight months, Cook said, and included a jury process in which visual artists apply to the festival and go through selection process based on quality of work, type of art and geographic base of operation.

“We do want to represent Boston as much as possible,” he said.

If visual artists are accepted they must pay a nominal fee to show their work, but Cook said that it is much smaller than many other festivals.

“We really just want these folks to make as much money as possible,” he said. “They just like to get in front of people so that

when people are looking toward the holidays they will look back at that card and go ‘yeah, I’m going to get that something special.’ ” Jess Faulk, a Boston resident of seven years, said she has attended the festival before and comes back for the amazing arts and crafts available for purchase.

“I’ve actually come back three years in a row for this specific belt buckle,” Faulk said, pointing to an electric blue belt buckle on her jeans. “There is an artisan that makes really great belt buckles and I come back to her every year.”

The performing art aspect of the festival began with a concert on Friday night by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

Cook said a rain delay of about an hour forced the crowd to take

shelter in a neighboring hotel, but once the show started it was phenomenal.

“It was a great crowd out here,” he said. “They all had fun out in the rain. It was sort of small because we had a major thunder and lightning storm right before, but we still ended up with about 2,000 people. That was great.”

The cost of the festival was about $100,000, which went mostly to programming acts, Cook said.

“It’s beautiful, right on the water,” said Robbie Samuels, a first-time visitor to the festival. “I got some great gifts for family members when I was here, and now we are sitting here enjoying the tap dancers, so it’s a pretty great festival.”

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Going Greek Picking the right Greek yogurt Katie Doyle Food Editor

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s Greek yogurt becomes increasingly popular, the not it should be used in yogurt.” market has diversified, and so has consumer choice.

Zimmerman Reed, a Minneapolis-based law firm, ZimBut as more brands of Greek yogurt break into the mar- merman Reed, is even suing General Mills, the manufacket, some are sacrificing authenticity for profit. turer of Yoplait, according to a June 8 article in the St. Paul Before Greek yogurt started booming in 2007, the mar- Business Journal. ket share was largely divided by three main players: Fage Zimmerman Reed alleged that Yoplait is violating the with a massive lead, Chobani, a close second and Dannon, Food and Drug Administration’s standard of identity for which manufactures both Stonyfield and Dannon Oikos, in yogurt, as milk protein concentrate (MPC) is not approved third place. for use in yogurt.

Now the dynamics are shifting. As more brands clamor General Mills disputed the claim, and the case is still for a foothold in the market, whether by promising superiority in taste, as Dannon did in their claim that their brand “beat Chobani two-to-one in a national taste test,” or inferiority in calories, like in the case of Yoplait’s new 100-calorie Greek yogurt, shopping for Greek yogurt just isn’t so simple anymore.

That’s because when Fage dominated the Greek yogurt section of the grocery store, consumers’ options might have been minimal, but the product was dependable. What distinguishes Fage from some of its competitors is that it is fully strained Greek yogurt, using minimal additives.

Unlike regular yogurt, Greek yogurt is strained to remove the whey. The result is thick, creamy yogurt with higher protein and lower fat and lactose content than its American counterpart. But, the process of producing Greek yogurt requires huge quantities of milk, which drives up Katie Doyle/Daily Free Press Staff costs for companies.

There is much debate over which brand of Greek yogurt is the Dina Clapinski, co-founder of BeFoodSmart, an educa- best. tional website that examines food additives and offers advice on healthy eating, said that some manufacturers strain pending. part of the yogurt because it takes a lot of milk to create The problems surrounding MPC transcend the legal just one container of Greek yogurt. realm. Ethicurean, a website dedicated to ethical eating, “It’s a lot cheaper for them to strain part of it and then states MPC can contain bacteria and somatic cells, which add thickeners to thicken it up instead of having to use so remain after the filtering process. much milk to get the finished product,” she said.

Furthermore, MPC is usually imported from countries Clapinski said that common thickeners like carrageen- with poor food safety standards. Since cows are not always an, locust bean gum and cornstarch “aren’t going to hurt used in the countries where MPC originates, the milk can you, but they’re not going to help you, either.” even come from buffalo and yaks.

However, there is one exception.

Ethicurean states the use of imported MPC might save “Yoplait uses something called milk protein concen- food manufacturers’ money, but it hurts dairy farmers in trate, which is somewhat of a controversial ingredient. It’s the U.S., decreasing the demand for their milk. basically concentrated milk, but it’s often imported, and On the other hand, Greek yogurt manufacturers that emnot very regulated,” Clapinski said. “It’s a new use for this ploy the traditional straining process, which requires three ingredient, so there’s some controversy as to whether or times the amount of milk than regular yogurt, have actu-

ally offered a boost to the lagging dairy industry.

The increase in Greek yogurt consumption has prevented New York dairy farmers from having to lower their prices, according to a July 9 article in Buffalo News.

While Yoplait’s newest Greek yogurt product, Greek 100, does not appear to use milk protein concentrate, there are still other brands on the shelves that do.

Cabot, Quaker Oats’ Müller brand and several grocery store brands, including Safeway’s Lucerne and Hannaford’s Taste of Inspirations, use MPC. Fortunately for consumers, there are a lot of good brands that do not contain additives, Clapinski said.

Chobani, one of the leading companies in the Greek yogurt industry, is one of those brands.

“Chobani is Greek yogurt. It doesn’t refer to a place, it refers to a process,” said Nicki Briggs, vice president of corporate communication at Chobani, in a phone interview.

Briggs said Chobani uses more than 3 million lbs. of milk from New York state dairy farms each day before straining it.

“The yogurt we get at the end of the straining is just milk and cultures,” she said.

Dannon’s Oikos line does not use additives, either, said Senior Director of Public Relations Michael Neuwrith.

“The way we make our Greek yogurt is we begin with milk and cultures, and then once the yogurt is made we strain out the whey, so we don’t use thickeners in making our Greek yogurt.”

But, according to an Oct. 26 article on BeFoodSmart, Fage is still the number-one healthiest Greek yogurt. A poll on BeFoodSmart also ranks it as the tastiest, with 30.68 percent of readers selecting Fage as the best-tasting Greek yogurt on the market.

Petros Kasfikis, a Boston University College of Communication junior and Greek native, said he agrees.

While Kasfikis said in an email that Greek yogurt in America does not compare to the yogurt in Greece, Fage comes the closest.

“I have tasted most brands of Greek yogurt in America,” he said. “Among all these types, the Fage is the only brand that comes directly from Greece, and I believe it reflects the most original flavor.”

Big Sean’s Detroit A mixtape review Brandon Kesselly MUSE Staff

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his year has been a good one for hip-hop fans. With rising “freshmen” such as Kendrick Lamar and Meek Mill and returning veterans such as Pusha T (from Clipse) and 2 Chainz (Tity Boi from Playaz Circle), the genre has certainly been booming this past year.

And no one has benefitted more than Big Sean in this regard.

Coming off a string of releases with his label mates such as the number-one hit “Mercy,” Justin Bieber’s “As Long As You Love Me,” Lil’ Wayne’s “My Homies Still” and Chief Keef ’s “I Don’t Like,” Sean is in top form for his next LP. But why make his fans wait until then?

Amidst all of the hype surrounding his label’s upcoming collaboration album Cruel Summer, the G.O.O.D. Music artist decided to release a mixtape Wednesday to quench the thirsts of hip hop fans.

Detroit the latest release from the Detroit native, shows Sean coming together with a string of other artists and producers such as Wale, Tyga, Mike Posner, Royce da 5’9”, J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar.

The result is an album-quality free release, and one that should not be missed by both casual fans and hip-hop “Stans.”

Detroit boasts strong lyrics and delivery with tracks such as “RWT,” the catchy track about the use of marijuana that surprisingly lacks Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa or Chiddy Bang (Disclaimer: I do NOT endorse the use of illegal drugs, but this track is catchy).

Produced by Southside and KeY Wane, the beat sounds like something Rick Ross and Meek Mill would rap on, yet Sean handles the track well and truly makes it his own.

In “24k of Gold” he teams up with Roc Nation’s J. Cole for a soulful tale of rags to riches that leaves one anticipating much more for both. “Wishing [that] I could wrap my whole life up in 24 karats of gold,” he sings, discussing themes of decadence and his desire to share his newfound wealth with his friends from back home.

The mixtape also has some guest appearances in the form of stories from hip-hop stars Common, Young Jeezy and Snoop Dogg. These three spots serve as interludes throughout the mix-

tape, as the artists discuss their connection to the city of Detroit and what it means to each of them.

Nostalgia is a recurring theme throughout Detroit.

While collaborations such as “Life Should Go On,” “Sellin’ Dreams” and “100” show his versatility and willingness to work with different artists and production styles, Sean truly shines on his solo songs.

Tracks such as “FFOE”, “Higher”, “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” and “How It Feel” show listeners that he deserves the hype he has been getting this past year. If you have not been listening to hip-hop, Detroit is a good place to start.

Standout tracks “RWT” “24k of Gold” (Featuring J. Cole) “Woke Up” (Featuring Say It Ain’t Tone, Early Mac & Mike Posner) “FFOE”

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An Egyptian immigrant wants the U.S. government to reclassify him as a black man, according to an article in TIME magazine Friday.

Mostafa Hefny emigrated from Egypt to the U.S. in 1978 and currently resides in Detroit. Upon his arrival to the states, the government interviewer told him, “You are now white,” said Hefny in an interview with CBS Detroit.

Hefny, however, has always classified himself as black.

My classification as a white man takes away my black pride, my black heritage and my strong black identity,” Hefny told the Detroit News.

Hefny also told CBS reporters that he had been denied university teaching jobs because those positions had been set aside for minorities.

Hefny’s battle formally began in 1997 when he filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to be reclassified. That case was dismissed.

In June, Hefny asked President Barack

Obama for help through a letter. Hefny also wrote letters to the Justice Department and the United Nations.

Most recently, Hefny took his cause to the Internet, establishing an online petition. As of Sunday evening, Hefny’s petition had garnered 306 signatures.

It does not make sense that the government would bar someone from identifying himself or herself a certain way.

Hefny sees himself as black. There is no point in indentifying him any other way. What right does the U.S. government have in dictating what constitutes whiteness or blackness or a person’s identity altogether?

Moreover, denying Hefny a job because he does not meet the race qualifications is ridiculous. Job applicants should be evaluated on their skills rather than their physical traits.

It will be interesting to see how many signatures Hefny’s petition receives and whether his story has inspired some ambitious attorneys to take up his cause.

Romney announcement U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced in a television interview Sunday that he would keep parts of President Barack Obama’s national healthcare law, commonly referred to as “Obamacare,” if elected to the White House.

The aspects of Obamacare that Romney said he would keep in place were that “those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage” and “to assure that the marketplace allows for individuals to have policies that cover their family up to whatever age they might like.”

It is interesting to see a presidential candidate deviate from his or her party platform. Most likely, Romney made this announcement in an attempt to win the swing states.

Around this time, aren’t Republican candidates typically shifting farther and farther to the right? When 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain entered the scene, he was quite liberal.

Over time, his platform became more and more conservative.

Romney, though, is doing the opposite.

It is interesting to see a Republican candidate, who started out as more liberal and shifted to the right, move away from very conservative values and toward more liberal ones.

Then again, until a few weeks ago Romney was still vying for the Republican nomination. Now that he’s going for a national spot, perhaps he has realized just how hard it would be to campaign against a law that is so monumental, especially in light of the Supreme Court’s historical ruling on Obamacare in late June.

Perhaps he is just playing into the mentality of “What can I work with from here?” It will be interesting to see how the public responds to Romney’s political pitch, considering he has already been labeled as a candidate who tends to flip-flop.

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Dykstra: America East schools ‘selfish’ for banning BU from conference tournaments Dykstra: From page 8

the title of champion.

Eighteen Boston University teams won’t be in the playoffs this year. And that’s a robbery of the highest degree. It’s a robbery of dreams.

Jump back a bit and consider this. BU is making the move to the Patriot League next season, meaning this will be the Terriers’ last year in the America East conference.

The America East board of presidents didn’t take too kindly to the seven-time defending Commisioner’s Cup champions leaving them behind and unanimously decided to ban BU from all conference tournaments in its final season.

That means four teams — women’s soccer, swimming and diving, women’s indoor track & field and softball — won’t be able to defend their tourney titles.

But those will just be empty

spots in a trophy case, soon to be replaced by what we hope will be a multitude of their counterparts from the Patriot League.

What can’t be replaced, though, are the experiences.

Start with the seniors. For most of the men and women who compete in collegiate athletics, the conference tournament — should their team qualify — is the last chance for glory, the last opportunity to leave a mark in the school’s, the conference’s, the sport’s history books.

For BU’s Class of 2013, that’s been taken away. The players’ last games will be held in the regular season.

Unless of course, they qualify for the national tournament, which — let’s face facts — isn’t likely unless a BU squad runs the table. Nationally ranked women’s soccer and field hockey hold the best chances and God bless them if they could make something special happen.

Then, there’s the underclassmen. We’re told time and time again that players and teams are more likely to succeed if they have “playoff experience.” Any hope of that has been dashed for one year, anyways.

It seems like this should have all been taken into account when the AE board of presidents voted on the postseason ban. Alas, perhaps not.

This all seems like the eight remaining colleges are trying to teach a lesson for whoever wants to leave what they believe to be what we’ll call a “destination conference” rather than what it is — a conference you try to dominate for a while so you can move up to one with better academics, athletics or both.

Just ask Delaware, Rhode Island and Northeastern among others how they view America East.

By the way, all three left without penalty.

But who are they trying to

teach a lesson? Themselves?

If all eight remaining schools truly do want to look out for the best of the conference, then they wouldn’t consider leaving. Ever.

End of story.

We all know that’s not true though. You can’t tell me that if the NCAA came calling for Stony Brook, the Seawolves would get on their pedestal and announce that they couldn’t accept because they were too devoted to America East.

Wouldn’t happen in a million years.

Instead, what those other schools did was selfish. They found a way to kick the conference’s best athletic school down because they had the chance to do so for their own personal gain.

America East spokesman Sean Tanish even told Sporting News, “The board of presidents believes it must act in the best interests of the remaining eight institutions who are committed to advancing

the league. [Those schools] deserve to be given every opportunity to be crowned America East champions.”

They would have had their chance to be crowned champions legitimately with BU still in the competition.

It would have been fair. It would have been unselfish. It would have been the right thing to do.

When Zach Lee pitches for a chance at a Southern League championship, it’ll be a footnote in what could be a long, storied career.

When the Great Danes, Bearcats, Hawks, Black Bears, Retrievers, Wildcats, Seawolves and Catamounts compete for America East championships in 2012–13, there will be storybook endings for a lot of studentathletes. Too bad America East robbed the Terriers a chance at theirs.

Good riddance.

Cohen: 2009 party details ‘grossly exaggerated’ Terriers suffer first loss of Cohen: From page 8

a walk-on or a third-round NHL pick,” Cohen said. “If you break rules, you break rules.”

In recent years, Parker has either removed or suspended several players from the program. In May of 2010 he kicked off brothers Vinny and Victor Saponari for “cumulative instances” of bad behavior and suspended Corey Trivino for “a related issue.”

In January 2011, Andrew Glass was told to leave the program for breaking a variety of team rules that were never specified.

Kieran Millan, the team’s star goaltender for the last four years, was benched for a game against the University of Vermont in November 2011 for skipping class, and most recently, of course, Parker booted Trivino and Max Nicastro following their arrests in December 2011 and February 2012, respectively.

At the time of Trivino’s arrest, Parker said it was not necessarily so much the arrest as it was the fact that Trivino got into trouble with alcohol, the fourth such incident in Trivino’s time at BU. Cohen backed up the Parkerthe-disciplinarian perspective.

“He’s benched guys for miss-

ing class. I’ve seen him put guys in extra study halls for extra time for getting bad grades. He’s done it with everyone from Kieran Millan to me and [former BU defenseman Kevin] Shattenkirk,” Cohen said. “I missed a game one year as a healthy scratch, and he didn’t care that I was leading the team in goals that year. It doesn’t matter to him. Everybody abides by the same rules.”

Cohen also disputed certain details of the Globe’s report Friday about a post-2009 NCAA championship party at Agganis Arena. He acknowledged that, yes, the team did have a party at the arena, but said parts of the report were “grossly exaggerated.”

The team, the then-girlfriends of those players and other close friends of the athletes attended the party, Cohen said. The team was drinking but “it was no different from any other [college] party.”

According to Cohen, no one had sex in the penalty box, and no one took to the ice naked to shoot pucks, two details from the Globe’s story.

“The things that were described in the Globe couldn’t be farther from what actually happened,” said Cohen, who scored the NCAA championship-winning overtime

goal against Miami University.

“That stuff’s crazy. When I read it, I literally had to go back and make a phone call to a female friend of mine who is a very close friend of mine who was there, and I said, ‘Did I miss this stuff?’

“And she said to me, ‘That stuff did not happen. That’s outrageous.’”

Parker found out about the party and “he addressed it with us, and we kept it inside the locker room,” Cohen said. He also said he did not remember what specific punishment there was, if any.

Still, Cohen said he does not believe Parker has lost control of the team by any means and said repeatedly how much he — and other former BU players — look up to Parker and seek his advice in their post-BU and post-hockey lives.

“He commands the utmost amount of respect from his players as much as any coach I’ve ever played for,” Cohen said. “The fact that his command of what’s going on is in question, it just shows that the people questioning it are lost.

“Anybody who is close enough to the team … understands the way it’s run and sees how hands-on Coach Parker really is and that he’s not just a figurehead.”

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territory in the first half, unsuccessfully though as the score midway through was 0–0.

“I thought we played an excellent first half,” said BU coach Sally Starr. “I think we really pleased with our effort with our decision making. Offensively defensively I thought we were doing a lot of good things on the field.

Shortly after getting under way in the second half, the Terriers began to show signs of fatigue, especially on defense.

“To be able to press effectively, fitness is important – you’ve got to be moving early and going in good lines, cutting off passing lanes. I think with tired legs we weren’t doing that effectively,” Starr said.

It seems as if the Orange knew exactly what Starr was talking about; once they picked up on the lack of fire in the Terriers, the Orange went on attack mode.

For the majority of the second half, the Orange were in Boston territory, trying to take shots.

For a while, the Orange con-

trolled the ball outside of the circle, unable to penetrate the Boston defense, almost as if they were playing keep away.

It was not until the 59th minute that the Orange put a point on a board. Syracuse’s Jordan Page scored the game’s first goal. The goal came after a great kick-save by senior Jess Maroney.

Maroney made up for the loss of a defender on a corner. Unfortunately for Maroney and the Terriers, Page responded quickly and knocked the goal in as the rest of the defense was still making its way downfield.

About a minute later, Syracuse capitalized on Boston’s fatigue by ripping through its defenders and scoring a quick goal with about 10 minutes left in the game.

The two-goal deficit was too much to overcome for the team.

The Terriers finally began to apply pressure on Syracuse’s end of the field but it was simply too little, too late.

Starr said, “[In] the first half I think we did a lot of things well and I think we learned we can play with a team like that.”

Win over No. 17 BC, close loss to No. 2 Syracuse put Terriers in better position for postseason bid Lessons: From page 8

defense protected the goal well, Syracuse’s goals came less than a minute apart in the second half and seemed to deflate BU. While both teams had four shots on goal in the first half, Syracuse pulled away in the second, recording seven to BU’s two.

Even so, the game was anyone’s to take well into the second half, which continues to build the Terriers’ case for an NCAA tournament bid even without the possibility of an automatic America East spot.

After beating No. 17 Boston College, on Friday and losing to the Orange today, the No. 12 Terriers are starting to get a better idea of where they fit into the national scene.

“Going into this game today,

I really felt it would either be a great win for us, or at this point in the season, early September, it would give us an opportunity to see where we really need to continue doing a lot of work,” Starr said. “So fitness is definitely an area where we need to continue to do a lot of work for us to compete against a Final Four team.”

The Terriers’ early-season slate will continue to challenge them, as they face No. 19 University of Massachusetts, No. 6 University of Virginia and No. 7 University of Connecticut before this month is done.

Between Sunday and Friday, when they face unranked College of William and Mary, they’ll have five days to bolster the weak spots Starr saw against Syracuse.

Starr did praise the team’s ef-

fort and its decision-making in the first half and said she was pleased with her defenders’ work in preventing Syracuse from earning penalty corners.

The Orange have had 35 corners in five games, allowing their opponents just 20, and BU held them to five on Sunday — only one in the first half.

In general, it wasn’t effort or skill that failed the Terriers, and Starr said she’s looking at the upsides of their performance as well as looking to improve the problem areas.

“The positive that we take out of this is that we can play with a team like this,” Starr said. “We just need to sustain it for 70 minutes. We were able to do it for 35, maybe 40, 45, but we definitely didn’t do it for 70.”

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A robbery of dreams

By Sam Dykstra Daily Free Press Contributor

Since leaving this newspaper and this school last January, I’ve become an editorial producer for MiLB.com — the official website of Minor League Baseball — meaning I have talked to a lot of baseball prospects over the past few months. From potential AL MVP Mike Trout to 30-something journeymen, chances are if you can think of a Minor Leaguer I or one of my colleagues have spoken to him.

With the season closing down for most teams on Monday, we’ve all been hearing the same story.

Yes, Jim Mora, they’re talking about playoffs.

Matt Buschmann lost a onehitter for Double-A Montgomery, dropping the Biscuits into a firstplace tie for the division lead with Jacksonville. Afterwards, he told me, “I want a ring. We all want a ring.” (Update: Montgomery were just eliminated in the Southern Division Championship Series on Sunday.)

Former Major Leaguer Josh Outman was one strike away from getting a no-hitter for Double-A Tulsa before it was broken up in the ninth. The performance could have vaulted him back into the discussion for a rotation spot with the Rockies. Instead, he said, “All I’m doing is getting in preparation for facing the Springfield Cardinals in Game 1 of the playoffs down here.”

Now, it’s one thing to hear that from two pitchers in their late 20s, both of which may have nothing else to pitch for other than the Minor League postseason. But consider Zach Lee — the 20-yearold right-hander who ranks as the Dodgers’ top prospect and could have been the starting quarterback at LSU had he not chosen baseball over football. The guy knows the big stage.

He said about making his first Minor League playoff start for Double-A Chattanooga, “It’s going to be my biggest game [of my professional career].”

What I’m getting at is the playoffs matter. To everyone.

No boy grew up shooting hoops in the driveway and yelling, “Michael Jordan hits one at the buzzer to beat the Bucks! What a regular-season game!” Same as no girl put one in the back of the net, only to scream, “A great goal

by Mia Hamm has just helped the U.S. defeat Costa Rica in an international friendly!”

We aspire for the playoffs. It’s what puts names in lights, a buzz in the air and a definitive name to

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Cohen comes to defense of Parker, BU men’s hockey

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In light of the whirlwind surrounding the Boston University men’s hockey team in the last week — first the task force report and then a Boston Globe article with what was supposed to be confidential details — former Terrier Colby Cohen has spoken out against the task force and in defense of coach Jack Parker.

Cohen first voiced his displeasure with the task force via Twitter on Wednesday when he called the findings “a joke,” adding “Boston University should be ashamed of the way they have handled this from the start.”

He went into more detail Saturday night in an interview with The Daily Free Press.

“This whole thing has been very, very much exaggerated,” Cohen said via phone.

Cohen played under Parker for three seasons between 2007 and 2010 before signing with the Colorado Avalanche and forgoing his senior year. He said in his time at the school he had good relationships with many students and professors, some of whom he is still in contact with.

He said he never had any incidents similar to the ones womanizing ones described by the Globe, and he spoke to the idea of a brotherhood that often prevents players from getting themselves into bad situations.

“That kind of stuff is taken very seriously amongst guys, amongst players professionally, in college, in juniors,” said Cohen, who is now in the Boston Bruins organization. “Guys police each other for that kind of stuff. A couple guys’ lack of judgment, I don’t think it creates a culture like is being said.”

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Former BU hockey player Colby Cohen defended head coach Jack Parker on Saturday, saying , “There is not a coach in college hockey that has more control over what goes on in his group of players.” sault charges and seemed considerate toward the entire situation.

“I totally understand, and you have to take course of action. That stuff is very serious,” Cohen said.

“I don’t want people to think that as a hockey team, as a group and as a culture of hockey in general that people don’t sympathize with that stuff.”

However, Cohen criticized the idea that Parker, who is entering his 40th year as the Terriers’ bench

boss, does not have control of the team. He said the people calling for Parker to step down “don’t know the first thing about hockey.”

“There is not a coach in college hockey that has more control over what goes on in his group of players,” Cohen said. “Coach Parker isn’t a babysitter. He doesn’t go out with the guys on Saturday night and hold their hands at the bar. So if a player makes a poor decision, then Coach Parker deals with it that

Monday morning.

“He also has the strictest rules for any team in college hockey.”

Cohen went on to cite the team’s drinking policy — the players are allowed to go out one night per week during the season, usually Saturday — as an example. He also referenced the coach’s habit of disciplining players for a variety of reasons. “[Parker] doesn’t care if you’re

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Field hockey tops BC, falls to Syracuse over weekend

By Chris Dela Rosa Daily Free Press Contributor

To start off the weekend, the Boston University 2 field hockey team BU made the short 1 trip up to Newton BC to play against rival No. 17 Boston 0 College.

BU Senior forSyracuse 2 ward Leslie Zules struck first against

the Eagles (4–2), recording her first goal of the season.

The BU (5–1) goalies had another spectacular game against the Eagles, especially sophomore Valentina Cerda Eimbcke, who saved three shots in a row to start the game.

She ultimately allowed a goal on the fourth shot as freshman Jacqueline Kelleher scored on a put-back.

Senior forward Nicole van

Oosterom later broke the tie, ultimately giving the Terriers a 2–1 lead, which they would hold onto for the rest of the game.

After the win on Friday, the Terriers returned to Jordan Field to take on the No. 2 team in the nation, Syracuse University.

With Syracuse entering with a 4–0 record and the Terriers with a 5–0 record, this game became the battle of the unbeatens and could have made history, especially for

the Terriers.

A victory for Boston would have meant a massive boost from the No. 12 spot in the national polls and for the first time in program history, the team could start off with a 6–0 record. However, the Terriers were unable to achieve this milestone as they fell to the Orange 2–0.

Both teams took their turns moving the ball into the other’s

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Ideally, playing a highly ranked team will yield an impressive win, one that can propel a team up the national rankings and give it confidence moving forward.

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Failing that, the idea is at least to learn something in defeat, which is something Boston University field hockey coach Sally Starr said her team accomplished in its 2–0 loss to No. 2 Syracuse on Sunday.

“In the second half, I really feel that our fitness let us down,

quite honestly,” Starr said. “I think that Syracuse outworked us in the second half. You could really see us getting tired and really trying to cycle our strikers on a little bit of a shorter shift, and really beginning to plant our feet on some tackles – that’s a sure sign that your fitness is breaking

down.”

Syracuse’s first goal came on a second chance after a corner, but its second was brought about by a defensive lapse Starr attributed to fatigue.

After 58 minutes of scoreless play, in which the Terrier

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