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Cardboard recycling initiative mitigates movein waste.

Boston pop-up Glossier brings Gen-Z beauty to Seaport.

Parents are paying large sums to put their kids in “public” schools.

Dave Dombrowski was fired as Red Sox President of Baseball Operations Sunday night.

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Free campus menstrual product dispensers

BY NYAH JORDAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University installed free menstrual product dispensers over the summer in six buildings on the Charles River Campus as part of a menstrual products pilot program first proposed to the university more than three years ago.

The pilot was first proposed to the BU student government by Senate alumnus Nehemiah Dureus and College of Arts and Sciences senior Hayley Gambon in fall 2018. The initiative earned preliminary support from Senate and in spring 2019 a semester-long pilot program began to test the program.

After the pilot program ended, Campus Planning and Operations worked with the Dean of Students to implement the program over the summer.

The CAS student government was to place a dispenser in every bathroom across campus. So far, the university has placed dispensers in the Questrom School of Business, College of Communication, CAS, School of Law, the George Sherman Union and College of General Studies.

Jennifer Lloyd, the project manager of the menstrual product pilot, said there are 164 dispensers across campus, and for now, BU’s administration does not plan on expanding it.

Michael Donovan, the vice president for Campus Planning & Operations, said that the pilot program is going well and concerns from trying this initiative in previous years have not been an issue.

“Actually, we’ve done a number of times years ago, and due to vandalism, theft and probably abuse, in so far as overuse, it was difficult for us to maintain

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A look into funds for city council campaigns

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The new feminine hygiene dispenser in the College of Communication. Boston University has installed new dispensers around campus with free feminine products.

a reliable supply of products,” Donovan said.

The dispensers are also in the men’s bathroom in order to be inclusive, Donovan said.

“There are people who identify gender wise as a male that may have a need for the product,” Donovan said. “We’re just being respectful of that and trying to be accommodating.”

Mary Murphy-Phillips, the director of Graduate Student Life, believes the initiative is something that should happen on both the Charles River and Medical Campuses, as well as in dorm buildings.

“I just want to stress that it is very

important for it to happen in both campuses,” Murphy-Phillips said. “Right now, we’re doing it in the School of Public Health because it’s something that’s important to us. But I’d like to see it also in the dorms.”

BU’s School of Public Health led a similar initiative called “The Period Project” that works towards the goal of placing dispensers in bathrooms on campus and beyond.

Caroline Ezekwesili, the president of The Period Project, believes that the initiative should have taken place long ago, as student government senators proposed this idea last fall semester.

“I think it’s definitely long overdue,”

Only London for CGS freshmen

Ezekwesili said.

Ezekwesili said she believes providing dispensers in the bathrooms at BU is an equity and access issue, and she was grateful for the support the SPH immediately put forward after The Period Project was created.

“Whenever I think about it, it doesn’t make sense to me how providing menstrual products is a topic of debate and a topic people don’t agree with for some reason as we provide other hygiene products on campus for free,” Ezekwesili said. “Sure, people have been navigating this for literally years, but it doesn’t mean it’s okay. You’ve been navigating it because you have no other choice.”

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The College of General Studies at Boston University no longer offers students the chance to study on campus for their first fall semester. All incoming CGS first-year students are now in the Boston-London January Program and will arrive on campus for the first time in January 2020.

BU Spokesperson Colin Riley wrote in an email that many CGS students will benefit from this new program.

“It seems attractive to a number of students who also benefit from spending time studying abroad in their freshman year,” Riley wrote.

“And the enrollment is growing.”

From now on, all students accepted into CGS will start with a gap semester. They will all attend BU for the first time in January and study abroad in London over the following summer.

Natalie McKnight, the dean of CGS, wrote in an email that a January admissions program is very popular in other universities and a

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation awarded $5.1 million dollars, split between 18 different cities across the state, to help fund construction projects that will improve the safety and accessibility of city roads for all its users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and public transit riders.

The funds were allocated as part of the Complete Streets Funding Program, which was established to help fund street improvements in cities across the state and has awarded a total of $38 million since February 2016.

The 18 cities chosen during this round of funding will use the money for a variety of street improvement projects, which include creating bicycle lanes, replacing sidewalks and installing speed-monitoring radar.

The cities were awarded anywhere between $100,000 and $400,000 dollars for these projects.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker said in a press release that the state has always been committed to improving the safety and

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gap semester can have its own benefits for students.

“Many universities have January admissions programs,” McKnight wrote. “One reason is that more students study abroad in the spring than in the fall, [is] so universities have the capacity to bring in more students in the spring. But there are other benefits that relate more to the student experience. The gap semester has proven to be really valuable to incoming freshmen.”

Courtney Zenner, a sophomore

in CGS, was a student that came through the fall semester program of CGS and said she would’ve liked to see BU keep the fall semester as an option for CGS freshmen.

“I’m sad to see that they are no longer offering the CGS fall semester,” Zenner said. “I don’t think I would have applied for the CGS program if I had to take the gap semester. I’m sure it is great for a lot of people and study abroad looks fun but I don’t think it would be for me.”

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$5 mil for city streets

BY DANA SUNG

The outside of Boston University’s College of General Studies. Beginning in the 2019 academic year, CGS has removed its fall program and now solely offers the Boston-London January program.

With the preliminary elections for Boston’s 2019 City Council race less than two weeks away, candidates across the city are readying their campaigns and rallying volunteers as they begin their final push to reach voters before polls open for the preliminary elections on Sept. 24.

There are many factors at play in deciding a race’s outcome, but by examining and comparing candidates’ fundraising totals, one can get a fair idea of the level of support candidates have raised throughout their campaigns.

State law requires ever y city council candidate to file monthly campaign finance disclosures, detailing all contributions and expenditures, to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance, which then releases the data to the public through their online database.

While last week’s article looked at the campaign finance records for all 15 candidates for councilor at-large, this week, The Daily Free Press compiled fundraising data from the four district council races taking part in September’s preliminary elections.

accessibility of its city streets, and that the Funding Program will work with a bill recently proposed by Baker that seeks and additional $18 billion in funding to modernize the state’s transportation system.

“We are pleased to have included support for the Complete Streets program in our administration’s recently filed transportation bond bill,” Baker said in the press release, “so that the Commonwealth can continue to invest in improving mobility, access, and safety for all roadway users across the Commonwealth.”

Of the $18 billion dollars requested in the bill, $20 million will be reserved for the Complete Streets Funding Program, according to the bill.

The rest of the bill’s requested money will be used for various transportation initiatives, including creating a program to prevent traffic bottlenecks on local roads, expanding the use of bus lanes, improving pavement and bridge quality and modernizing the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, according to a state press release.

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BARCC opposes DIY sexual assault evidence kits

BY MIA CATHELL

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs between Sept. 6-11.

Food truck forced to move A food truck set up for business on the corner of Comm. Ave. and Hinsdale Mall next to the COM Lawn on Monday around 12:30 p.m. A BUPD officer informed the driver he was not allowed to do business there, and stayed with the truck while the food truck served customers that had already paid, then the truck was removed.

Tagging in GSU stairwell

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The homepage of MeToo Kit, a company that makes at-home sexual assault evidence collection kits. The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center warns against the use of these kits, claiming the evidence would be inadmissible in court.

examiner would search for grass stains on clothing and skin.

“Evidence collected in this way by a third party initiates a formal chain of custody that is required for admissibility in law enforcement investigations and criminal prosecutions,” the press release reads.

The kits are so concerning that Michigan Attorney General Nessel has issued a cease and desist order to the MeToo Kit company for misleading marketing materials, according to the press release.

“Your speculation about such admissibility is a poor justification for sales of a product that appears destined to delay sexual assault victims from seeking prompt medical attention,” the order reads.

CGS freshmen required to take gap semester CGS, FROM PAGE 1 Ember Larregui, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said she believes this could be the first step towards phasing out CGS permanently.

“I think with this removal, this can be the first step of removing CGS entirely,” said Larregui. “CGS seems a watered down version of BU academics and maybe it is a good thing that they are downsizing this program.”

Gap semesters before college can be a useful resource, McKnight wrote.

“Many travel, or do internships, or work full time, or do a combination of these choice while taking a course or two,” said McKnight. “Their experiences seem to energize them and get them even more excited about college than students who start back to school in September, just as they’ve started back to school every September for 13 years.”

McKnight also wrote that a gap semester can provide students a chance to reflect on their goals for college.

“A January start breaks up the routine of that common practice, gets students to be more reflective about their education and what they hope to get out of it, and provides them with an opportunity to explore interests beyond academics,” McKnight wrote.

Crime Logs

BY ALEX LASALVIA

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center is warning against using an at-home self sexual assault evidence collection kit called the “MeToo Kit,” as they claim the evidence would most likely not be admissible in court.

BA RCC joins Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and other advocacy groups in speaking out against using the kits, currently being marketed by a Brooklyn based company as a way to ease the evidence collection process and allow the survivor to focus on recovery, according to a BARCC press release.

The take-home kit consists of a variety of swabs, spit containers, plastic bags in which the survivor would enclose their clothes and other articles of evidence and evidence collection tools, according to the kit’s website. The company is also releasing a smartphone app that will instruct the survivor on how to use the tools included within the kit.

The company behind the kit is also working to establish partnerships with universities, news of which caused BARCC to publish their warning not to use the kits, according to the press release.

BARCC warned that, in Massachusetts, sexual assault evidence collection kits should only be administered by a trained sexual assault nurse examiner and that examinations usually take several hours as the nurse documents evidence through a variety of methods, according to BARCC’s press release on Sep. 5.

For example, if a survivor discloses a bite, the nurse will swab the wound for DNA, looking for skin abrasions, according the press release. And if the assault took place on a field, the medical

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BU’s 2023 admission statistics, with 18 percent acceptance rate this year and 3,100 incoming freshmen, has not been affected by this change of program according to McKnight.

“While the change naturally affects the number of students who start BU in September, our target enrollment has been and continues to be 600 incoming freshmen and the January start has not changed that,” McKnight wrote.

Usman Anwar, a freshman in the CGS Boston-London program, wrote in a direct message that he wasn’t aware of the previous system and wishes that he been able to choose between the Boston-London program or the standard fall semester move-in.

“I would have loved to start on time along with the rest of the university,” Anwar wrote. “Having that option would have made my decision to commit to BU a lot simpler.”

Chirag Lalwani, who is also in the Boston-London program, wrote in a direct message that he thinks the program is great.

“I honestly seeing studying abroad my first year of college,” Lalwani wrote, “especially in London, as an opportunity I don’t want to pass on.”

K at i a S a nt i a g o -Ta y l or, BARCC’s advocacy and legislative affairs manager, said that the kit’s main problems are the possibility that the evidence will be incorrectly collected or contaminated and a lack of medical and support for the survivor. Sexual assault survivors need their physical injuries treated and medication prescribed to reduce the risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, Santiago-Taylor said.

Santiago-Taylor said that the kits are not available for purchase yet, and that several organizations, including BARCC and the Campus Advocacy and Prevention Professionals Association, are working together to stop the product from reaching the market. “[CAPPA] urges colleges and universities to reject the efforts by

the MeToo Kits company to form partnerships with them, because the Kits do not connect survivors with healthcare treatment or with rape crisis centers,” SantiagoTaylor said.

Santiago-Taylor said that half of campus sexual assaults occur between the first day of school and Thanksgiving break, and that efforts should be geared towards prevention work, “not focusing on providing kits just in case something happened,” Santiago-Taylor said.

Examples of prevention work include informing students of the importance of consent, encouraging students to report all inappropriate behavior and conducting sexual assault climate surveys on campus.

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Cardboard recycling mitigates move-in waste

BY NYAH JORDAN AND ALEX LASALVIA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University continued its move-in cardboard recycling initiative, which was created to mitigate improper disposal of all of the boxes students go through while moving in, for its eighth year this fall.

The initiative was started by sustainability@BU in 2012 and works through a collaboration with Campus Planning & Operations, Custodial Services, Residence L i fe, Hou si n g, the Boston University Police Department, the Universit y ’s recycling vendor and the Scarlet Squad. BU has recycled over 170 tons of cardboard as of 2017.

Lisa Tornatore, the sustainability director for sustainability@BU, said the program was started because a lot of waste is created during the move-in process.

“During move-in period and move-out period people get rid of a lot of things and it’s really important for us to mitigate where that waste goes, mitigate how much waste there is, and

divert that to the right place,” Tornatore said. “Specif ica lly during move-in weekend, cardboard is a huge part of our waste stream.”

Quinn Chappelle, a sophomore in the College of General Studies, is a part of Scarlet Squad, a group of upperclassmen who assist students and parents during move-in, and she said she believes that the cardboard initiative was a great way to spread awareness of BU’s recycling practices.

“I think it’s great. A lot of people throw away their cardboard because they don’t realize where recycling is on campus,” Chappelle said. “I think by having this initiative taking place and having it be so open, not only helps the student who wants to use this, but actually allows other people to see how much BU is controlling it until it being sustainable.”

It takes a lot of effort to coordinate with all of the different BU organizations needed to make the recycling initiative happen, Tornatore said.

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Someone tagged the west stairwell of the George Sherman Union on four floors. It was reported on Monday around 8 a.m. and facilities was notified.

Fight between BU residents

BUPD and the Boston Police Department responded to a verbal argument at 914 Beacon St. on Saturday around 1 a.m. The building was not BU property but the argument took place between BU affiliates.

Possible bike theft

Someone was seen cutting the chain to a bike at 509 Park Dr. in South Campus on Friday around 1:30 p.m. He told the BUPD officer that he was a locksmith and was cutting the chain for the owner. Officer contacted owner and was waiting to hear back.

CITY

Crime Logs

BY ANGELA YANG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs on Sept. 9.

Bike larceny at Thayer St. Officers received a report Monday at 7:30 p.m. that someone stole the rear tire of a bicycle that had been parked on Thayer Street in Brookline. Multiple bikes in the area were missing parts as well, the victim stated.

Personal drama prompts harassment

Officers received a report of cyber-harassment Monday at 5:30 p.m. The victim claimed to have received numerous phone calls, texts and emails from an employee’s estranged spouse who suspected that the victim and the employee were having an affair.

Assault and Battery at Washington St. Officers responded to an alarm at 5:45 p.m. Monday at a 7-Eleven on Washington Street. Multiple individuals entered the store and threw a shopping cart when asked to leave, striking a victim’s wrist.

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Final push in election to represent Boston University’s district

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District 8 candidate Kenzie Bok speaks at a July 2019 fundraiser hosted at the Fenway home of Ward 4 Democratic Committee member. Bok leads the Boston City Council election in contributions, in both her race and the entire field of preliminary candidates.

FUNDS, FROM PAGE 1 The contest for District 8, which includes much of Boston University’s campus, is one of the races that will participate in the preliminary elections and is looking to be one of the more competitive races this year.

All fundraising totals were calculated from Nov. 8, 2017, the day after that year’s City Council election, to Sept. 3, 2019, and are rounded down to the nearest dollar.

The Race So Far Unlike Boston’s four city councilor at-large seats, the city’s nine district councilor positions do not represent the entire city. Instead, they are exclusively chosen by the residents of each district to repre-

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sent their neighborhood-specific needs in the city council.

The district councilor elections are not as crowded this year as the race for city councilor at-large, which has 15 councilors competing to win one of four open seats.

In fact, four incumbent district councilors are running for reelection unopposed — District 1’s Lydia Edwards, District 2’s Ed Flynn, District 3’s Frank Baker, and District 6’s Matt O’Malley — as their competitors did not gather enough support to become eligible for candidacy.

Furthermore, District 4’s election only had two qualifying candidates: incumbent Andrea Campbell and chal-

lenger Jeff Durham, so they will skip the preliminary election and instead head directly to the general election on Nov. 5.

That means only Districts 5, 7, 8 and 9 will take part in the preliminary elections, from which the top two candidates will advance to the general election.

The race for Boston University’s District 8 While the election for District 8, which includes the neighborhoods of Back Bay, Fenway-Kenmore, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill and West End, only has five candidates, three of its candidates have raised significant amounts of money as they compete for the top two spots.

In total, candidates in the District 8 race raised $333,899, the most of any district contest participating in the preliminary elections.

Candidate Kenzie Bok is in the lead with her contributions, having received $114,813. Not only did she top her fellow District 8 candidates in terms of fundraising, she also outraised every other district council candidate competing in the preliminary elections, having even surpassed District 7’s incumbent Kim Janey.

Bok said that while she would like to take money out of politics as much as possible, funds are still needed to run a campaign in order to pay for everything from campaign worker salaries to campaign events.

“When you’re running a Boston city council campaign,” Bok said, “and even a district campaign, running to represent 80,000 people, which is like the size of a small city, you have to get the word out.

And fundraising is an important piece of that puzzle alongside everything else.”

Bok said a large number of District 8’s residents live in apartment buildings, making it harder for her campaign to knock on people’s doors. Instead, Bok invests more funds into mail-based outreach.

Following Bok in total contributions are candidates Jennifer Nassour and Helene Vincent, with $105,222 and $83,876 raised, respectively.

But much of Nassour’s total — $39,000 — was loaned to the campaign by the candidate herself, leaving her with $66,220 in actual contributions.

Vincent said she started fundraising over a year ago, and she used her experience managing a sales team to shape her fundraising strategy.

“It’s a lot about just discipline and in-time investment,” Vincent said. “And so I just sat myself down four hours a day,

with a headset and a call list and made myself get through it … and then I was allowed to get up and do more fun things like knocking doors.”

The last two candidates in the race trail behind the other three candidates in total funds raised, with Kirsten Mobilia having raised $23,310 and Motez Haywood receiving $6,678.

Current District 8 Councilor Josh Zakim announced in March that he will not be running for reelection.

Bok received the most money, $66,331, from donors in the City of Boston and from those who listed themselves as not employed or retired, receiving $28,273 and $8,450, respectively.

Besides the fact that the retired and unemployed categories had more people, on average, than each individual occupation, Bok said there were two other reasons why she enjoyed such strong support from these donors.

“The district has a lot of senior citizens who have been really involved in the life of the neighborhoods for a long time,” Bok said. “... Also, in general and municipal elections and certainly sure in this district, the voting population skews older than the overall population.”

The races for Districts 5, 7 and 9 The seven candidates running for District 5’s council seat raised a total $184,779, with Ricardo Arroyo raising the most money by far, having received $85,906.

This nearly doubles the $47,820 raised by Mimi Turchinetz, the District’s next highest fundraiser. They are followed by Maria Esdale Farrel with $28,884 and Jean-Claude Sanon with $9,576.

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MassDOT funds to improve street safety, accessibility

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Santiago-Taylor said she is concerned that encouraging students to use the kits at home may leave them stranded without accesstotheemotionalandphysicalsupport they need.

“The reality about sexual evidence collectionismuchmorethancollectingDNA,” Santiago-Taylor said. “We’re expecting a survivor to become a forensic expert in the middle of trauma.”

Aiden Coleman, 24, of Brookline, said he understood why the evidence collected by the kit might not be admissible in court, as evidence would be vulnerable to contamination.

“It can’t be really regulated if you’re doing it in your house,” Coleman said.

“People can tamper with that unless you have somebody witnessing you doing that.”

Brookline resident Shu Jing, 22, said unless the company behind the kits finds a way to work with the government to figure out a way to allow the evidence in court, colleges and non-profits should refrain from buying them.

“Since it’s not admissible in court, then I think nonprofits should not buy from them since it’s kind of a waste of money,” Jing said.

Hannah Foxman, 25, of Brighton, said the kits should not be forced off the market, but the company behind the kit should placeadisclaimerontheirproductswarning users that the evidence collected may not be usable in court.

“I think people still have a right, probably, to [use the kit] on their own,” Foxman said,“likethat’stheirchoice,butIthinkwith a clear warning on the kit of ‘If you use the kit,itmaynotbeabletobeusedagainstwhoever raped you.”

Stepha nie Pol l ack , Massachusetts transportation secretary and CEO of the MBTA, said in the press release that MassDOT has worked with cities across the state to develop complete streets plans that will “increase safety, accessibility, and connectivity throughout the Commonwealth.”

“Complete Streets design concepts are important because they support people using all modes of transportation and help ensure that travelers safely and efficiently reach the places they need to go,” Pollack said in the release.

As of Thursday, 201 municipalities have had their Complete Streets plans approved, while an additional 161 have approved improvement project prioritization plans.

Patrick Marvin, a spokesperson for MassDOT, said that these complete streets plans allow equal access for all forms of transportation.

“That gives people options, allows healthy transportation and ensures people have access to the opportunities throughout our communities that makes Massachusetts a great place to live,” Marvin said.

Marvin said the funding program places an emphasis on allowing cities to design their own improvement plans themselves, as each city has different transporta tion needs.

“This is a great program that empowers communities, allows them to carry out work in their cit-

ies and towns, because they know them best,” Marvin said. “They know what makes sense.”

As for how the state decides to divide the program funds, Marvin said that municipalities are required to file an application to MassDOT describing how the planned construction will benefit the city’s road users. Then, the city awards money based on a “competitive scoring” The cities that received money during the Complete Streets Funding Program’s most recent round of funding are Abington, Ayer, Buckland, Chelsea, Cohasset, Dedham, Ipswich, Lincoln, Lynnfield, Millburry, Nantucket, Pittsfield, Rockland, Shirley, Somerset, Springfield, Topsfield and West Bridgewater.

While Boston is not receiving money during this round of funding, the city does have its own Complete Streets plan that it is working with the state to implement.

Christina Conway, 32, of Brookline, said she noticed that Boston’s streets needed improvement, despite the fact that she does not drive within the city.

“Even when I take an Uber, there’s a lot of bumpy roads I noticed, all the time,” Conway said, “and there always seems to be detours and issues with the road. “ Brighton resident Nick Fucci, 24, said he drives quite frequently within Boston and has noticed that the city’s roads are particularly dan-

gerous for those on bicycles.

“I think it’s a horrible city to bike in,” Fucci said. “My roommate bikes a lot, and he’s had some tough incidents where he’s had some close calls.”

Diana Martinez, 23, of Jamaica Plain, said the state needed to make sure that it’s city streets were accessible to every one of it’s users, tak-

ing special care to accommodate the needs of those with disabilities.

“Everyone has to work,” Martinez said, “everyone goes to school, everyone needs to get around, and you can’t do that if it’s not accessible for someone who, let’s say, has a disability, whereas an able bodied person can use the sidewalk.”

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Meanwhile, of the three candidates running for District 7, incumbent Kim Janey seems to be the only person to have fundraised for the election, having raised $119,094 since the last election. Her opponents Valerie H. Rust and Roy Owens have reported a total of $100 and $0 in contributions, respectively.

Fi na l ly, the seven ca nd idates in the race for District 9 together received a total of $141,515 in contributions.

Candidate Craig Cashman is in the lead with $58,337, followed

by Daniel Da ly with $26,919, Lee Nave Jr. with $19,015, and Liz Breadon with $17,760.

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Editor’s Note: This article is part two of a story that looked at the fundraising statistics of candidates in the upcoming Boston City Council preliminary elections — part one was published on Sept. 5 and focused on the councilor at-large elections — and is the second entry in a larger series set to explore a variety of angles surrounding the 2019 City Council race.

Boston University recycling initiative helps students discard cardboard during move-in CARDBOARD, FROM PAGE 2 The program works closely with many campus organizations such as Facilities and Campus Planning, Housing and Residence Life, which let sustainability know where students are moving in, Parking and Transportation Services, which reserves spaces for recycling stations, and the recycling vendor, Save That Stuff, which picks up cardboard at least once a day from all of the stations.

“For us to be able to collect between 20 and 30 tons of cardboard every year, it really is a team effort,” Tornatore said.

“It’s really all hands on deck.”

Tornatore said cardboard recycling is mandated by the state of Massachusetts and BU is at risk of getting fined if cardboard is not disposed correctly.

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Students break down cardboard boxes for recycling on Babcock Street during move-in. Recycling posts were seen throughout campus as part of sustainability@BU’s cardboard recycling initiative at the start of September.

“In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” Tornatore said, “recycling cardboard is a mandate, so it’s really important for us to make sure that our cardboard is recycled and it’s kept out of the trash dumpsters.”

Yasmine Sabri, a junior in Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Services and a resident of Bay State Road, was not aware of the initiative and thought there could be a better job of providing places to put the cardboard.

“I guess there could have been more places,” Sabri said.

“We were walking with the cardboard box last night and we couldn’t find any place to put it.”

Sabri said that having places for the cardboard to go is definitely helpful to the environment, but the lack of

accessibility to the fenced in boxes on Bay State Road made it difficult to participate.

Taylor Whitefield, a graduate student and a resident of Bay State Road, supports the idea of BU supporting recycling cardboard during move-in, but she had never heard of the initiative.

“I am glad that BU is becoming more green and doing more work towards sustainability,” Whitefield said. “I think if they were to get the word out, it would be a good turnout and a lot of people would get involved.”

In 2006, BU only had a waste diversion of three percent, according to Campus Planning and Operations.

However, with initiatives like the move-in cardboard recycling, BU has improved its

waste diversion from three to 30 percent.

Tornatore said the numbers for this year’s recycling initiative have not come in yet, but she expects them to be similar to the trend of the past few years.

The amount of cardboard recycled through this initiative has generally increased by small amounts every year. Tornatore said she believes this is not a result of increased awareness but the result of a societal trend towards more consumption as a result of the current economy and convenience of online shopping.

“People have access to buy things really quickly and easily from their mobile devices without really thinking about the consequences of whether or not those items are really necessary

or whether or not those items create waste for someone else,” Tornatore said.

The university is also working to combat this culture of consumption by providing access to reusable containers, Tornatore said.

“The university does have a partnership with the UPS Store and students don’t have to use cardboard boxes with UPS, they can actually use reusable totes,” Tornatore said.

Tornatore wants students to be more aware of how much waste they are generating.

“I think it’s really important for our community to know that consumption happens and it’s unfortunate but I think every year consumption is going up,” Tornatore said. “People are buying more things, they’re bringing more things to campus.”

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ARTS

MFA brings art, stories of women artists to life in all-female exhibition

BY KARLA LEON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In 1928, in Mexico City, a woman sets the visage of two women she’s known all her life to canvas.

Surrounded by foliage, and circled by two butterflies, maids Salvadora and Herminia were cemented in art history. The artist was Frida Kahlo and the painting was Dos Mujeres (Salvadoa y Hermenia), the first painting the famed artist ever sold.

It is just one of many significant pieces of art on display by women in a new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

August marked the 99th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the U.S., and the MFA has been working to pay homage to underrepresented women who changed art in an effort to include more “diversity, inclusion, and gender equity” in their exhibits, according to the museum’s website.

Nonie Gadsden, the Katharine Lane Weems senior curator of American decorative arts and sculpture at the MFA, coordinated a cross-departmental curatorial team for the exhibition. The exhibit titled “Women Take the Floor,” is a complete “takeover” of its Art of The America’s wing that previously had been dominated by male artists, according to the museum’s website.

The collection builds on the work of feminist activism by exhibiting more than 250 works from female artists that the museam finds are often overlooked or underappreciated. The exhibit is expected to open Sep. 13 and close May 3, 2021.

All the works are organized into seven themed galleries that focus on the marginalized experiences of women and span across a cen-

tury. The exhibition features works from innovative and prominent artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Sheila Hicks, Frida Kahlo and Esphyr Slobodkina.

Marielis Perez, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said she has never seen an exhibit like this before.

“I think it’s kind of cool,” Perez said, “and just the fact that they’re trying to represent women artists that lack the same representation as other male artists even now in 2019.”

Martina David-Ault, who has been an MFA tour guide and educator for more than 30 years, said women are often left out of classical art history books, using the late Berthe Morisot, a Parisian impressionist painter from the 19th century, as an example as to why their artistic talents are not recognized.

“Berthe Morisot was known to people who study art history. But she never had a whole show and everybody was surprised,” she said.

“It certainly is in the time that now, suddenly, women and women artists get much more attention. Plus, people are surprised by how good they are.”

Melanie Hall, director and associate professor of museum studies at BU in CAS, said while there have been significantly more exhibitions curated for male artists in the past, museums have begun to become more inclusive.

“Many more women make great and vital works of art and museums are now looking to reflect this,” Hall said.

This is not only being reflected in the U.S., but in Europe as well.

Earlier this year, Tate Britain, a museum in London, opened a new exhibition called “60 Years” which

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Sonya Clark’s 2013 piece, “The Hair Craft Project: Hairstyles on Canvas,” on display starting Sept. 13 as part of the Museum of Fine Arts’ seven-gallery exhibition, “Women Take the Floor.”

celebrates the centennial anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the U.K. by showing 60 works of art from female artists dating from the ‘60s up to the present.

“Women artists are now beginning to feature in museums and thinking and planning in ways that perhaps they haven’t done in the past,” Hall said. “Now museums are

waking up to the fact that there are more women artists and that there are a lot of women who are visiting museums.”

With the MFA’s “Women Take the Floor” and Britain Tate’s “60 Years,” museums are shifting towards a female audience that has always been present, Hall said, and who deserve to have their experi-

ences shared across different mediums of art.

“Museums know that they’ve got a lot of catching up to do where women are concerned,” she said.

“The fact that the MFA is launching a show devoted to women artists is a sign of this and this phenomenon but we have to wait and see if it’s a new trend.”

COMMUNITY

Student uses social media to sell clothes for a good cause

BY HANNAH SHEARER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In an attempt to reorganize her closet during the summer, BU student Daniela Tellechea decided to ditch typical methods of getting rid of excess clothes. Instead of sending them straight for a landfill or thrift store, she found a way for her clothes to make a difference.

This past summer, Tellechea, a junior in the College of Communication from California, started an Instagram account where she posts pictures of her used clothing and charges between $1 and $5 for them. The money she makes from selling the clothes is fully donated to The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, an organization

PHOTO BY GABRIELA HUTCHINGS/ DAILY FREE PRESS

Daniela Tellechea (‘21 COM) donates money made through selling her old clothes on Instagram to The Refugee Immigration Center for Education and Legal Services.

that provides low-cost and free legal assistance to immigrant families.

“People sell their clothes online all the time … and I was like okay, I can sell these clothes, make money, but instead of keeping the money for myself, I’ll just donate it,” Tellechea said. “And I already donate to RAICES as often as I could, and this was just a way to help me do it more consistently.”

Tellechea said she feels very passionately about RAICES’ mission, which strikes very close to home.

“I come from a Mexican immigrant family and without them I would be nothing,” Tellechea wrote in a direct message. “My dad especially is a big inspiration to me because he immigrated from Mexico, became a first generation college student and just got his master’s degree to become a school administrator.”

Tellechea said while she was always retweeting or posting on her story about issues happening at the U.S.Mexico border, she felt that she could do more to help the situation.

Initially, Tellechea said she didn’t expect much to come from the account

— maybe a few small donations at best. However, support starting flowing in from her small neighborhood in California and Tellechea said she ended up making $355. “[Because the account found success in Chico] I wanted to bring it here,” she said, “because I feel like we could do more.”

Tellechea then made a new Instagram account called ropa4raices. boston to help bring her account to the BU community. She also began setting up drop offs around campus for students to donate their own clothes to the page.

Tellechea said her main goal with the page is to get people more involved with charity and help inspire donations from people who might feel like they aren’t doing enough when contributing on their own.

Angoori Rana, a junior at Cornell University, saw Tellechea’s work on Instagram and said she was inspired to bring the same idea to her own school.

“I have a lot of clothes with tags still on them,” Rana said, “and in general I feel like, especially when we were mov-

ing back to school, a lot of my friends were getting rid of clothes and stuff and I think it’s really easy to clean out your closet and and really make a difference that way.”

Grace Mecha, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, was inspired by Tellechea’s work as well and recently bought from the account to support her friend and the organization.

“I want to be a smart consumer or an ethical consumer, so I really like the idea of her giving all the proceeds to the organization and recycling clothes,” Mecha said. “The pieces were really cool and they were going to a really great organization.”

The biggest draw to buying or donating clothes, according to Tellechea, is that people can make a tangible difference “People feel like ‘oh I’m doing good too,’ and that’s something I always try to emphasize on,” Tellechea said. “As soon as I donate, I’ll [direct message] everyone who has contributed to that donation, and I say ‘hey, this wouldn’t be possible without you, emphasizing the fact that as a team we can do this and it is definitely doing something.”

6 FEATURES

BUSINESS Beauty company Glossier has found a temporary home in Boston

BY ZOE ALLEN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Cloud Paint, Boy Brow, Lidstar, Haloscope, Wowder, Generation G — do any of these names ring a bell?

If so, you’re likely a dedicated fan of the cult-beauty brand Glossier, in all it’s millennial-pink glory.

Glossier is known for its coolgirl aesthetic and fresh take on the makeup industry. Founded in 2014

by Emily Weiss, the brand has a mostly online presence with only two permanent locations: their flagship store in New York City and their Melrose Place Los Angeles location, which opened its doors last year.

While interning at Ralph Lauren when she was fifteen, Weiss started a beauty blog titled “Into the Gloss” which looks at beauty through people, style and personality. The blog became a community for others interested in a new kind of makeup industry, one different from the airbrushed norm. Four years after the blog began, Weiss started Glossier selling only four products, with an emphasis on “skin care first, makeup second.”

Boston’s pop up experience is the brand’s third of 2019, following successful stints in Miami and Seattle.

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The Glossier pop-up shop in the Seaport District. The company’s third pop-up this year came to Boston at the start of August and will remain throughout October.

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The interior of the “makeup” room, which showcases Glossier’s lip and eye products as well as skin tints, foundations and highlighters.

On Tuesday, Glossier announced its next pop up location in Austin, Texas via Instagram.

Glossier’s Communications Coordinator, Reed Redman, wrote in an email that each location’s pop up experience draws on themes from its host city.

“This year we have opened Glossier Miami,” Redman wrote, “a vibrant space inspired by the city’s iconic art deco architecture, and Glossier Seattle, a space inspired by the city’s natural landscape that brought together industrial elements with meadow-like hills full of locally sourced flowers.”

Boston’s Glossier space, which has been open since Aug. 7, draws inspiration from the many universities

around the city and Boston’s unique sports culture. Along with shopping for perfectly packaged skincare and makeup products, visitors to the pop up can purchase Glossier Boston composition books, pennant flags, pens, enamel pins and baseball hats.

A portion of the proceeds made at the Boston Glossier pop up, Redman wrote, will go to the Boston Alliance of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Youth to benefit the LGBTQ commnity in Boston.

The pop up, located at The Current, a “fashion-forward” pop up village in Seaport is comprised of nine distinct huts. Each hut, painted Glossier’s staple pink hue, features a different interactive shopping experience. There are three “shop

all” huts where visitors can sample Glossier products, as well as separate makeup, skincare, perfume, eyebrow and lipstick huts.

Hannah Palacios, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Communication, said that as soon as she found out the brand was coming to Boston via Glossier’s Instagram, she went to their career page and applied to work as an “Offline Editor.”

Offline Editors, Palacios said, don custom pink Glossier jumpsuits, assist customers with products and help curate the Glossier Boston pop up experience for customers.

“The thing I get to do all day is to make people’s day,” Palacios said.

“Most people who are coming in [to

the pop up] know the brand and are so excited that there’s finally a pop up, so everyone is so excited all the time. It’s really nice to give someone something that they’ve been looking for.”

Palacios’ roots with Glossier extend far before she was handed her pink jumpsuit; she truly believes in the core values of the beauty company.

“I had super bad acne growing up ... and nothing could make it go away,” Palacios said. “I tried their solution and it got rid of all my acne, my dark spots and all the scars. The whole point of Glossier is to be confident in your own skin before putting anything else on top of it, and that is truly what happened for me.”

Vanessa Xu, a sophomore in the School of Hospitality Administration, said she decided to give the pop up a visit because she was running out of her favorite Glossier products, but also because she wanted to give some new ones a try.

“I was literally digging out the last bits of my highlighter,” Xu said. “The pop up is definitely smaller than I had expected, but for some reason, the layout of the pop up made it so tempting for me to want to try out

every single one of their products, also to purchase them.”

One month into the pop up experience and with one month left, Glossier Boston is still as packed and vibrant as ever. So packed, in fact, that Offline Editors are also tasked with managing the line for the “Generation G” perfume hut.

Individual huts are brimming with excited customers.

Purchases are ordered by checking off the product’s box on a Glossier “menu” and received at a hut reserved solely for purchased products. Customers’ newly obtained makeup and skincare items come packaged in Glossier’s patent pink bubble wrap zip bags, which include a limited edition Glossier Boston sticker and a skincare sample.

CAS sophomore Lexy Pickering said her experience at the pop up was not only defined by the products, but the aesthetic of the huts themselves.

“The marketability of their products is undeniable,” Pickering said.

“Within the first thirty minutes I was gravely outside of my budget and my left hand was camouflaged by swatches. And I thrived on every second of it.”

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In the “all” room, Glossier has on display its full range of skincare, fragrances, and body products in addition to its makeup.

FEATURES 7

SCIENCE

BU student spends the summer swimming with penguins

BY SARAH READDEAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Walk into the New England Aquarium and at the base of the Giant Ocean Tank, there are penguins swimming and lying on the rocks. Lucky visitors who arrive during a feeding time can watch dozens of penguins eagerly awaiting their chance to snatch an anchovy or two, or 10 — sometimes even 18.

Diane Hwangpo, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, spent her summer interacting with penguins as an intern at the aquar-

ium this past summer. She spent long days in a wetsuit cleaning the penguin exhibit, feeding the penguins and giving talks about the penguins to intrigued visitors, as joyous penguins flapped around her, happily gobbling up fish she fed them.

Hwangpo came into her freshman year at Boston University on the biology pre-vet track, knowing she wanted to do something with animals. She recalls looking up “animal jobs in Boston for college students,” last fall, and a job at the New England Aquarium popped up.

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Diane Hwangpo (CAS ‘22) in the Giant Ocean Tank surrounded by penguins at the New England Aquarium, where she spent the past summer interning.

The chance to get to work with the penguins as a job convinced Hwangpo to apply, but she didn’t think she’d actually get the job. Hwangpo remembers thinking, “there’s no way they’re going to hire me,” but she sent in an application any way.

But then she was called in for an interview and then another.

Eventually, she got an unpaid internship position for the summer.

Randi Rotjan, a BU professor of biology, used to be an associate research scientist with the New England Aquarium for eight years. “[Volunteering is] an opportunity to get some experience but it should be a stepping stone,” Rotjan said. “You should definitely use the opportunity to find what you like … Whenever you’re giving your time for free it should be on a path for something.”

Although Hwangpo initially saw her internship as a fun job where she got to work with animals, it ended up having a genuine impact on her, she said. Following the internship, Hwangpo said she decided to start working towards a minor in Marine Science.

“This job has helped me so much figuring out what I want to do with my life,” Hwangpo said.

“I’m super grateful.”

Her day would start at 8 a.m., where the staff would spend an hour preparing and cleaning the fish for the penguins’ 9 a.m. feeding. While some interns feed, others clean and scrub down the rock. From 11 to 12 a.m., they assess how much has been eaten.

At 1 p.m., after lunch for the interns, they pull food for the next day from “the big refrigerator upstairs.” From 2 to 4 p.m., they do more cleaning before showering and packing up.

Hwangpo said the best part of her day was getting to talk to the aquarium visitors. She would usually do the 2:30 p.m. feed and talk, she said.

“It was really rewarding having [visitors] ask me questions about penguins,” Hwangpo said.

After completing the internship, Hwangpo was invited by her supervisor to come back and work with the penguins, but has not had the chance yet because she is currently working as a veterinary assistant at Banfield Animal Hospital in Alewife. Hwangpo said she applied for an internship in the aquarium’s medical center for next summer.

Hwangpo encourages any student to apply to be a volunteer or intern at the aquarium, emphasizing that “you don’t have to be a bio major at all.” There are also internships in marketing, technology and education.

“There’s also so much diversity in age and experience,” Hwangpo wrote. “And you’re constantly learning from the other volunteers.”

Ticket revenue from the New England Aquarium goes towards research and marine animal conservation all around the world as they partner with organizations such as the Marine Conservation Action Fund a nd Gor ton’s Seafood, which focuses on producing sustainable seafood.

Lena Bardakjian, a freshman in the CAS, spent time this summer in the Galapagos Islands, where she saw firsthand where marine animal conservation revenue can come into play.

“They ban all use of plastic and … some people actually carr y their own waste around to become more conscientious about it,” Bardakjian said, “you can see the environment there is so beautiful like theres no pollution or anything and the animals are able to live and be happy.”

Hwangpo said all areas of the aquarium promote conversations about marine animal conser vation, as well as effective which the visitors were also very engaged in.

“What really inspired me,” Hwangpo said, “was the enthusiasm that people had for learning about conservation.”

SCIENCE

MBTA tries electric buses to combat climate change

BY SARAH READDEAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston is home to America’s first subway system, which, according to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, today transports over a million riders a day via its four main subway lines, buses and commuter rail.

Now, the MBTA is looking to be ahead of the curve again.

Transportation is currently Massachusetts’ largest source of greenhouse gas emissions according to the Sierra Club Massachusetts chapter, but by launching a pilot program of five all-electric buses on the Silver Line, that might be on the brink of changing.

Three of the five 60-foot, battery-electric bus prototypes went into service on July 31. Over the next two years, data will be collected to measure the BEB’s performance.

Tyler Finch, a junior in the College of Arts and Science at Boston University and an intern data analyst for sustainability@ BU, said that carbon levels in the atmosphere are higher than they have been since the Industrial Age in the late nineteenth century.

“Urban communities [have] greater strain on environmental

factors,” Finch said. “The fact that [using electric vehicles] is becoming more popular among cities has been impressive to watch.”

However, while cities like New York and Los Angeles have already committed to going 100 percent electric, Boston is taking a slower approach. The MBTA purchased 575 fossil fuel buses in the last four years, which is 50 percent of their fleet, according to the Sierra Club, However, the MBTA is working to update and repair the bus system through the Better Bus Project, which hopes to replace subway fleets, upgrade tracks and change bus routes based on changing demographics.

Bridget De La Torre, a senior studying earth and environmental science in CAS and vice president of Divest BU, said the BU shuttle currently uses biodiesel, which is a replacement for traditional fossil fuel that uses animal fat or vegetable oil, and according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration creates fewer pollutants.

She said that BU’s Climate Action Plan, approved in December 2017, “has influence … in the climate change arena.”

Although the plan encourages “a pilot study of the implications

of shifting to electric buses in the 2022 time frame,” Finch does not expect electric shuttles will be used on campus in the near future.

“Right now the main source of [BU’s] emissions are our utilities usages,” Finch said. “That’s where the wind farm comes in.”

In September 2018, the university signed a 15-year contract to purchase green energy from a South Dakota wind farm. However, Finch believes that transitioning to electric buses should be a part of that plan.

“If BU could implement [electric buses], it could provide us with … a status that other universities or even the city would want to follow,” Finch said.

De La Torre worked at the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources last year as an intern for the Clean Cities Program, where she researched electric vehicles and how they are best used.

In early 2017, the Amherst, Cambridge and Concord school districts received grants to implement electric school buses in a pilot program, whose findings showed that “electric school buses are still an emerging technology that requires more testing … before it is widely deployed in school trans-

PHOTO BY CAROLINE FERNANDEZ/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

An MBTA bus going down Commonwealth Avenue. Through the Better Bus Project, the MBTA is attempting to lower carbon emissions with an all-electric bus fleet, the first few prototypes of which were rolled out at the end of July.

portation services,” according to a 2018 evaluation of the project by the department.

De La Torre credited this to failure of parts at times, which had to be repaired or replaced by the manufacturers, Lion Bus, in Quebec City. She said future research needs to be done with the MBTA buses during the winter because additional battery power is required for heating when temperatures drop.

Anthony Wong, a PhD candidate in earth and environment at BU, who researches air quality, said that electrifying vehicles

would only benefit the net-zero carbon emissions goal if the electricity used to power the vehicles came from a clean source like wind energy.

“Moving to electric vehicles looks like a very green option at first sight, but there are other complications, like how green the plants are,” Wong said. “Rather than say one option is greener we should … do more careful research before we act.”

“I think we’re on the right track,” De La Torre said, “it just needs to start accelerating.”

8 OPINION

EDITORIAL

affordableBU neglects current students’ struggles Boston University recently unveiled a new financial aid program, affordableBU, that will significantly expand the financial aid for students covered by the school. They just forgot one thing — all 18,515 undergraduates already on campus.

The Daily Free Press reported on Tuesday that the new program promises to meet 100 percent of demonstrated need for all new students as well as increase aid with rises in tuition.

In comparison, the school currently only fulfills the full needs of 22.6 percent of undergraduates and that aid remains stagnant throughout all four years unless successfully appealed, forcing students to dish out an extra few thousand dollars each year with no additional help.

The new policy is an insult to current students — it sends a message that the administration prioritizes prestige and new applicants over the needs of its current student body.

Of course, this is a pattern for BU, who has been known to embark on years-long construction projects that its students — who face maintenance and sanitation problems in current facilities — will never see finished.

It is no secret that more prestigious schools are often more wealthy,and therefore can provide significantly more aid to their students than state schools can.

The benefits this program will have for future classes are invaluable, but the exception of three entire classes of students reveal what this is truly about for the university — its reputation.

This is not all bad. Meeting 100 percent of financial need may very well lead to a more socioeconomically diverse student body and

allow more people to attend BU that previously couldn’t afford it. The issue lies in the disregard the administration is exercising in completely ignoring current students’ struggles.

Additionally, there will always be a group that have just missed the cut for programs like these, whether it be student loan forgiveness or financial aid and we don’t suggest that the university somehow compensates past classes for their higher costs.

But we also don’t suggest isolating and neglecting the thousands of students that will be on campus for the next three years or more, still contributing to the community just the same as the Class of 2024 and beyond.

Finances play a significant role in community involvement; if a full-time student is forced to work 20 or more hours each week to cover tuition or loan payments, in addition to eating and sleeping, when does BU suggest they should engage in the robust social scene the university prides itself on?

None of the editors that are in The Daily Free Press office five nights per week have a job, other than one student who relies on the flexibility of her work-study job to finish work on the clock.

Our passion for journalism forced us to choose between money and working tirelessly for an organization we love, and have all been privileged enough to be able to pick the latter.

Beyond campus involvement, BU’s lackluster aid packages have much more serious consequences for some.

Students have been forced to take semesters off, transfer or drop out due to the shocking sticker price on a Boston University education and their subsequent refusal to

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meet financial needs.

Many also choose to graduate early, rushing through the college experience and often overexerting themselves in order to avoid an additional year of tuition.

The university does provide an appeals process to students who feel they need more aid than what the school originally offered them, but the language on their website is alarmingly vague. The term “extenuating circumstances” appears often, and even the FAQ titled “What circumstances will be considered?” claims they will review “any new information.”

BU has already admitted their aid program needed improvement by implementing a completely new process for incoming classes. They just also happened to come to the conclusion

that none of their current students deserve the same sympathy.

If affordableBU is a permanent addition to the institution’s financial aid process, as it seems to be, the cost of offering additional aid to three extra classes as compared to the long-term costs of such large aid packages is negligible.

Boston University administration had the opportunity to not only encourage more application and enrollment through expanding its financial aid program — which it took full advantage of — but to also relieve burdens on the students that have already committed to making extensive sacrifices for their education.

Instead, they have thrown us to the wolves of crippling student debt and closed the door .

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OPINION 9

COLUMNS

People Watching:

Outside, Looking In:

Paradox of free education Global east and China to be next world hegemons

BY CAROLINE FLOAM COLUMNIST

If there’s one thing I remember from high school economics, it’s that unfortunately, nothing is ever truly free. It is an unavoidable truth, but it raises a question: are my government-subsidized services costing me?

As the school year begins, this is what many middle-class families across the U.S. are asking themselves. Parents naturally want what is best for their children and actively pursue a path that allows them greater opportunities in the future, but more and more American families are having to exert themselves financially to secure the best public education for their child — which calls the term “public education” itself into question.

The motivation of these parents lies in the fact that not all public schools were created equally. This reality has its roots in the 1896 US Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools and public spaces could be “separate but equal.”

The ruling was reversed in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education and a path toward integration began, but public schools continue to suffer from inequalities in education as manifested in standardized test scores, graduation rates and college acceptances, among other indicators. Take, for example, two public schools where I’m from, Montgomery County, Maryland. Walt Whitman High School is located in Bethesda. Whitman has an average SAT score of 1289 and a graduation rate of 95 percent; meanwhile, Paint Branch has an average SAT of 1064 and a graduation rate of 90.6 percent.

Looking at the nation as a whole, these discrepancies are negligible; 46.5 percent of the Montgomery County budget goes toward public schools. One can only imagine the educational quality deficiency in public schools with even less funding.

These discrepancies lead more and more parents are seeking to buy property in school districts with “better” schools.

But, this is easier said than done and doing so requires taking out massive mortgages on homes with higher values than what they would be paying in alternative school districts.

To put this into a more concrete perspective, let’s return to Montgomer y County Public Schools. The median home value in Walt Whitman’s district is around $877,300, while that in Paint Branch’s district is $307,100. For parents who want the educational quality that Whitman is known for, it costs them roughly 185.7 percent more.

This leads to savings being allocated toward mortgages and away from emergency or disposable funds. Credit scores may be damaged due to late payments or mortgage restructuring, which in turn can cause difficulty in acquiring credit in the future to take out loans and finance their child’s post-secondary education. So, is quality public education really free?

To take the answer of this question off its current unfortunate path, families are increasingly urging their localities for reform that avoids these problems altogether. Some such suggestions include the redrawing of school district boundaries, a solution that was proposed by McClean County Public Schools in Virginia.

Another more obvious recommendation is the “loosening” of district boundaries and easing the district transfer process.

California legislators are pursuing this suggestion with a bill that would allow about 6.2 million students to transfer between districts with increased ease.

Despite legal efforts across the country, these recommendations are merely reactionary and temporary. As with most politics, real change must begin at the source and to resolve this issue long-term, reforms must be undertaken to equalize the educational quality of all schools.

Localities and states have attempted to do so for decades and bills are being introduced often that address educational quality gaps in school districts and propose a reallocation of resources for educational ends. Until educational gaps can be closed, however, public schooling is not a public good in the sense that it’s not free for everyone. Until children can remain in their school districts with an equal guarantee of success, the term “public schooling” is a paradox.

INTERROBANG

BY NIKHIL KUMAR COLUMNIST

The Western world is currently at a turning point signified by Donald Trump’s controversial administration in the United States, the Brexit crisis between Great Britain and Europe and shattering legitimacies of multi-national bodies like the United Nations working at the mercies of individual governments.

But many of these notions are spun as positive by the states and their media and have only reinforced the West’s sense of exceptionalism and supremacy.

The predominant narrative in the West has tended to describe the fall of Soviet Union and victorious end of the Cold War as the most important development of the late 20th century.

But this train of thought underestimates the other more important evolutions of the rising Asian countries at the time.

In the Western imagination, the Cold War was a triumphalist moment that reinforced their power and hegemony in the world. This may have been the case temporarily, but the Western world has never stopped believing they hold the most power.

The West further humiliated the already disgraced Russia by expanding NATO, but the move also provided a strong political ground for Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and surrounding areas at the time.

Similarly, the Asian financial crisis of the late ‘90s gave powers in the West a sense of financial supremacy over the rest of the world. It seemed they had found the magic formula for economic growth and political stability.

But these supposedly struggling economies managed to become engines of growth and within two decades became the influential states they are today.

Much to the West’s dismay, Asian states have disproved the belief that democracy is a necessary condition for economic success.

Western leaders have failed to inform their

populations of the consequences of these fundamental changes, blindly claiming the West is still the only great power in the world.

Their newspapers and commentators missed the monumental shift of power away from the West. While the West shared its wisdom with the rest of the world, it has been very unwilling to take any wisdom from it.

The West needs to accept the new reality of its diluted power and changed mindsets of non-Western populations.

Its policy of self congratulation and ignorance about anything not involving the hegemony of the West have been catastrophic for the world and for itself.

The global East is facing an attempt at a unified and fiercely independent Korea, but Chinese expansion of naval infrastructure in the Indian Ocean, East Asia and Africa suggests a divergence rather than an alignment. Whether the Chinese would appreciate a fiercely independent country on their doorstep is anyone’s guess.

But this analysis misses the immediate neighboring influence of China that a unified Korea will inevitably face. The more immediate question would be what full Korean independence from the West would entail for the rest of Asia.

In the West, a set of economic policies such as the expansion of free markets and subsequent loosening of government control on markets, known commonly as the ‘Washington Consensus’ has dictated how the West treats developing countries since the ideals became popular in the ‘80s.

The Washington Consensus goes hand in hand with attempts to spread democracy. Such systems are certainly viable, but Western societies miscalculated their execution to the point that democratic failures are now dominating their politics.

Challenges to Western politics will test the longevity of democracy all over the world, especially in the context of global challenges managed and worsened by individual governments.

The way West responds to this dilution of its power will ultimately cast the mold for the next superpower to fit in.

All of this raises the question, what will the new ‘Beijing Consenwsus’ be, if there is one? Is China capable of being a benign hegemon? What role will the rest of Asia play?

If history is any guide, the very idea of a sole superpower means rules become perfunctory.

Yes, the West has lost their total grip on power, but the East cannot afford to revel in others’ downfall, and China may prove to be just as costly to them.

The Ohio State University was declined a request to trademark the word “the.” We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what would BU groups unnecessarily try to trademark?

Hillel: “Come as you are, make it your own”

Freshmen: “Kass”

Real Rhett: *wheezing*

Sororities: “Trust the process”

Improv groups: “Yes, and…”

COM: “Storyteller”

Fraternities: “Who do you know here?”

Mama DeLuca’s: “Bakes in 2 minutes”

FreeP: “Independent since 1970”

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7th Inning Stretch: Dombrowski firing leaves Red Sox in a fix before offseason

BY JACOB GURVIS DAILY FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

Mookie Betts summed it up best: “I love it here, but this is proof that this is a business.” When an organization drastically underperforms, someone needs to answer for it. Heads roll.

For the Boston Red Sox, that had to be President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski.

Less than a year after hoisting the Commissioner’s Trophy in celebration of his team’s fairytale World Championship season, Boston’s top baseball official was fired late Sunday night following a 10-5 loss to the New York Yankees. A trio of assistant general managers, Eddie Romero, Brian O’Halloran and Zack Scott, will assume leadership of baseball operations in the interim.

Dombrowski joined the Sox front office in August 2015, and until recently, was a popular figure in the Boston baseball world. As many before him could attest, that is no small feat.

Dombrowski left quite a mark on the Sox, with his long list of acquisitions including David Price, Craig Kimbrel, Chris Sale and J.D. Martinez.

He made key midseason moves too, bringing Brad Ziegler, Eduardo Nunez, Addison Reed, Steve Pearce and Nathan Eovaldi aboard to bolster playoff runs in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Not to mention, perhaps his biggest addition of all was manager Alex Cora.

Dombrowski also deserves credit for refusing to budge when teams

attempted to pry Andrew Benintendi and Rafael Devers in trade talks for Sale and Kimbrel. He may have largely emptied the Sox farm system, but Dombrowski stood his ground when the future of his then-new organization was on the line.

So why the Sunday Night Massacre at Fenway? The move is as much about the previous 12 months as it is about the next few. First and foremost, the Red Sox have proven to be a colossal disappointment this season.

With just a couple weeks left in the 2019 campaign, the chances of the Red Sox making the playoffs are slim. And even if they somehow finagle a Wild Card spot, they are not positioned to beat the New York Yankees or Houston Astros.

Dombrowski wisely chose to let Kimbrel walk last offseason, but elected not to replace him with a viable closer, and the 2019 Sox bullpen has suffered as a result. The 2018 club had 46 saves and 20 blown saves, compared to 28 and 27, respectively, in 2019. Even when it became clear early in the season that the no-closer approach had failed, Dombrowski refused to budge.

A f t e r t h e Ju l y 3 1 s t Tr a d e Deadline passed without any action, Dombrowski explained his decision, “I think if we were closer to first place I would have been more open-minded to some of the other things. When I say that, the club here needs to play better on a consistent basis. That’s the way I look at it.”

Basically, if the Sox were better, it would have been worth it to make a move. The only issue with that thought process, however, is that it’s largely on Dombrowski in the first place that the team wasn’t better. Boston’s offense remains elite – their .272 team batting average is second in the MLB – while the pitching staff struggles, with a team earned-run average of 4.65, 19th in the majors. Dombrowski’s inaction cost the Red Sox the chance to truly complete this season.

But beyond Dombrowski’s specific gameplan in 2019, there is also a sense in Boston that he no longer remained the best-suited leader for the franchise.

When he arrived in 2015, Dombrowski accomplished exactly what he was hired to do: he signed and traded for big-name players, operated with a win-now mentality, and set the team up for three consecutive division titles and a World Championship.

But that phase has come and gone.

With the offseason around the corner, the Red Sox front office must be painstakingly careful. Betts is set to become a free agent after 2020 and Martinez has the ability to opt out of his contract this winter. With the Sox payroll as astronomically high as it is ($240 million), the team lacks the flexibility to retain all of its talent. Some very difficult, potentially decade-defining decisions must be made and the consensus among the team’s brass was that Dombrowski was not the man to lead the franchise

into this new territory. for a fresh start.

Ultimately, the move was inevitable.

Dave Dombrowski will unquesWith the largest payroll in the game, tionably have his plaque hung in a third-place finish would not cut it. Cooperstown one day. He is a uniquely You can’t outspend 29 organizations intelligent and pragmatic baseball and miss the 10-team postseason. mind, and his tenure in Boston was What was shocking, however, was filled with success. His overall record the timing. Nobody seemed to see with the Red Sox ended at 396-277, a it coming. .588 winning percentage.

The news broke of Dombrowski’s With the Red Sox offseason ouster after midnight on Sunday, just weeks away, the work for the with nearly 20 games remaining in 2020 team has already begun. One the regular season. Cora and many big move was announced Sunday players expressed shock at the move and more are sure to come. There and offered messages of gratitude for are many questions that the team Dombrowski’s four years on the job. will need to answer in the coming But at the end of the day, as Betts months. Now atop the list: who’s said, it’s a business. And it was time in charge?

First and Goal: Looking back on an eventful week in the NFL

BY CHRIS LARABEE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The start of football season is a special time of year for fans because from now until the final whistle of the Super Bowl in February there is NFL football to watch every single week.

The quality of play this week by most teams was sloppy and it could be a result of many teams choosing to rest their starters during the preseason.

The shocker of this week was Lamar Jackson. Last season Jackson willed the Ravens into a wild card playoff game with his running game, but his performance in that game was legendarily bad, he just could not complete a pass.

He came out this week and proved all of us wrong by absolutely torching the Dolphins defense for 324 yards and 5 touchdowns.

Packers 10, Bears 3 The game crept along despite the low score due to an avalanche of pen-

alty flags as each team racked up 10 penalties.

The Packers survived a late push by the Bears with an interception in the endzone by former Bears safety Adrian Amos. The Bears have a Super Bowl defense but scoring three points at home will not win much in this league.

Tennessee Titans 43, Cleveland Browns 13 Hype built up around throughout the offseason with the acquiring of Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry but the hype train derailed on its first stop in Cleveland as the Titans crushed the Browns.

Baltimore Ravens 59, Miami Dolphins 10 “Tank for Tua” is the Dolphins’ motto this season and it showed this week. This team is straight-up terrible. It’ll be interesting to see the Ravens match up against a team that is actually trying to win next week.

Atlanta Falcons 12, Minnesota Vikings 28 What happened to the Falcons and Matt Ryan? The Vikings have a good defense but Ryan just looked straight-up not good. The interception in the end zone he threw in the 3rd quarter was just a horrific throw.

Buffalo Bills 17, New York Jets 16 If you waited for half a year for football to start and you tuned your TV to this game, I’m sorry. This game might have set football back 25 years with how bad the offenses were. The Jets created four turnovers and still blew the game in the final minutes.

Washington Redskins 27, Philadelphia Eagles 32 Shoutout to DeSean Jackson to turning back the clock and catching two touchdowns that were 50-yard bombs in the Eagles’ comeback against the Skins.

Los Angeles Rams 30, Carolina Panthers 27 The Rams’ quest to return to the Super Bowl started off on the right foot with the win over Carolina, but there were definitely parts of the game where it looked like they were going to blow it.

Back-to-back drives ending with a blocked punt and an interception brought the Panthers with momentum trending in their favor. Panthers fans are probably breathing a sigh of relief as Cam Newton returned to form after a terrible shoulder injury last season.

Kansas City Chiefs 40, Jacksonville Jaguars 26 Patrick Mahomes picked up right where he left off last season as he absolutely torched the Jaguars secondary with an absolutely outrageous 313 yards in the first half. The Jaguars lost their newly signed QB when Nick

Foles was crunched between two play- season.

Pittsburgh Steelers 3, New ers and broke his clavicle after throwEngland Patriots 33 ing a beautiful rainbow touchdown The Patriots continued their pass in the first quarter. domination of the Steelers as Tom Indianapolis Colts 24, Los Brady looked great in the debut of his Angeles Chargers 30 (F/OT) 20th season.

Jacoby Brissett proved that he can Houston Texans 28, New Orleans take over the QB spot for Andrew Saints 30 Luck, but the Chargers were one of Deshaun Watson led the Texans the better teams in the league last 75 yards down the field in two plays to year and should be good again as they tie the game with 37 seconds left. The compete with the Chiefs for the AFC extra point was missed, but a bonehead West. roughing the kicker penalty gave them Cincinnati Bengals 20, Seattle another chance to take the lead.

Seahawks 21 Then Dr. Drew Brees came out and Russell Wilson is the most undersurgically sliced the Texans secondary rated QB in the league. The guy with excellent clock management to makes magic despite having had a bad put kicker Will Lutz in position to kick offensive line around him for years. a career-long 58-yard game-winner.

Andy Dalton had a career day, but I Denver Broncos 16, Oakland wouldn’t put any faith in him until he Raiders 24 wins a playoff game.

Both offenses struggled in this New York Giants 17, Dallas one, which is not really a surprise but Cowboys 35 it was good for the Raiders to win Dak Prescott looked like he their final Monday night game in wanted to earn that $40 million Oakland. guaranteed contract and if he per3 Games to Watch in Week 2 forms at this level all season the New Orleans Saints at L.A. Rams Cowboys will most certainly back (Sunday) the Brinks truck up for him.

This game should need no introDetroit Lions 27, Arizona duction: an NFC Championship Cardinals 27 rematch between what should be the Ties are no fun and they are two best teams in the NFC again. becoming more common due to Dallas Cowboys at Washington the shortened OT period. Kyler Redskins (Sunday) Murray did impress me, espeWashington will most certainly cially his composure during the be looking to regain some ground in two-minute drill to tie the game. I the always tough NFC East against a was sure he was going to be a bust Cowboys squad that looked great this but not a bad debut by the short week. rookie.

New England Patriots at Miami San Francisco 49ers 31, Tampa Dolphins (Sunday ) Bay Buccaneers 17 Wacky and terrible things always The Bucs are terrible and the happen to the Pats in Miami, but 49ers’ $137 million man Jimmy keep an eye on this game because it Garoppolo didn’t look too sharp could get out of hand. in his return from a torn ACL last

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Men’s Soccer 3-0 against Merrimack MEN’S SOCCER, FROM 12 header slammed off the bottom of the crossbar.

The f irst ha lf ended w ith a few more offensive opportunities for the Warriors but the Terrier defense was able to keep the score 2-0.

For a brief second in the 55th minute it looked like Merrimack went up 3-0, but the Wa rriors were ruled offside. Moments later, the Wa rriors had a brea kaway opportunity but Stone charged forward and stopped a missile at point-blank range to keep BU in the game.

Stone continued to add to his highlight reel on another save one minute later as he made a full-extension diving save to stop a deep shot that was heading directly for the upper right corner of the net.

Rezende then made a highlight save of his own in the 65th minute when he def lected a blast from about 10 yards out from Terrier freshman midfielder Marc Roura.

The Warriors stepped up for a penalty shot in the 68th minute after a ha ndba l l was ca l led on Lampis and senior captain Mirko Nufi delivered the dagger to the top right corner of the goal over a diving Stone.

A few more scattered offensive chances came and went for BU, i nc l ud i n g a not her p oi nt blank chance in the 89th minute but Rezende stood strong again.

Women’s Soccer home game “We can make a lot of excuses but the bottom line is that if we give up goals that the other team doesn’t necessarily do magical things to create … we’re gonna struggle.”

– Women Soccer coach Nancy Feldman on her team’s leaky defense

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The Boston University men’s soccer team huddles during a match against Harvard University in September 2018.

Rezende’s t wo saves in the last seven minutes sealed the shutout, and take his saves tally to five for the game.

The Terriers will begin a fivegame stretch of road games starting Saturday against the University of Massachusetts Lowell and will return home Oct. 5 against the College of the Holy Cross.

The River Hawks have won the last t wo matchups a ga inst the Terriers w ith identica l 2-0 scorelines. Coach Roberts will be hoping his team sees an upturn in

form by the time their first Patriot League game of the season rolls along on September 21st against Lafayette.

Away form was a n issue for the Terriers last year too, with a dismal record of 1-5-2. Their first and only away win came against Holy Cross in Worcester.

Rober ts sa id t he road t r ip doesn’t change anything for the Terriers.

“Games are games,” Roberts said. “The facilities we’ll be playing at are good.”

WOMEN’S SOCCER, FROM 12 Opposing Domond and the redemption-seeking Northeastern offense are the Terrier goalkeepers junior Amanda Fay and sophomore Morgan Messener.

They have been putting out the most work in front of the net in all of the Patriot League, ranking first and second respectively in saves per game throughout the whole conference. Their respective saves per game of 6.67 and 6.00 average to 6.335.

Last year, junior forward Anna Heilferty and sophomore midfielder Taylor Kofton were in first and second place in goals scored for the Terriers; Heilferty had six goals and Kofton had four goals. Although there have been only two goals on the season so far for BU, this Terrier duo has already been putting the most pressure on

the net so far, with Heilferty having nine shots and Kofton having eight shots.

BU is 12-7-1 all-time against its crosstown rival, but has dropped five of the last six matchups.Furthermore, three of the last four contests have been one-goal games.

Down the stretch, Feldman is going to continue to work with the coaching staff to continue to search for the answers on how to not let opponents take games out of reach.

“Someone’s going to have to put us in the best position in games,” Feldman said. “Whether we play on the road against non-conference teams or at home against non-conference teams or when we start in two weeks against conference teams, we’ve still got some things to figure out.”

Women’s Field Hockey to face Maine and Columbia over the weekend

BY MATT MEUSEL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Coming off a two-win weekend at home, the Boston University field hockey team (3-1) will head back out onto the road to take on the University of Maine (0-3) on Friday and Columbia University (1-1) on Saturday.

“Both play very attacking hockey at a good pace,” said head coach Sally Starr of Maine and Columbia. She also noted her team “actually prefers back to back games, especially when we are on the road.”

The No. 23 Terriers won two important games this past weekend at New Balance Field. On Friday, BU defeated the University of New Hampshire 2-1 and on Sunday they took down Northeastern University 5-4.

BU junior Ailsa Connolly was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week for her six points which included two goals and two assists.

Ter r ier f resh m a n Ca rol i ne Kelly was named Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Week for the first time in her career. She racked up 27 saves in three games, including 12 saves against Ohio State University, which was the most by a BU goalie in 11 years.

The team will be back on the road for the second spurt this year beginning on Friday in a matchup

against No. 24 Maine . The Black Bears have been competitive in their last two contests which were both one-goal losses. They fell to Providence 5-4 in overtime and came up short against Kent State 2-1.

Junior Brooke Sulinski and senior Brianna Ricker have paced Maine thus far with two goals each. The Black Bears have struggled to produce on offense with just five goals in three games, one of which was a 3-0 shutout to Rutgers.

BU will be back on the field on Saturday against Columbia in the second game of the back-to-back.

The Lions opened their season with a 5-3 win against Central Michigan before falling 3-1 to No. 8 Iowa.

Senior Jennifer Trieschman has come out of the gates hot with three goals in two games on just five shots on goal. Lions goalkeeper junior Alexa Conomikes played well and made 14 saves in the 3-1 loss to a top-10 team in the country to Iowa.

Starr sees these two upcoming opponents as ones with “solid players across the board with good depth.”

BU junior Ailsa Connolly has lived up to pre-season expectations so far, with five goals and two assists in four games. Connolly also scored the game’s winning goal with 1:04 remaining against Northeastern on Sunday to cap off the Terriers’ three goal comeback in the second half.

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Junior Ailsa Connolly in an Oct. 26 game against College of the Holy Cross. Connolly was named Patriot League Offensive Player this past week after racking up six points over two games.

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“Games are games, the facilities we’ll be playing at are good”

- Coach Roberts on his team’s upcoming away fixtures

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“They’re frustrated, no doubt about it … they’ve really played hard and they did tonight; they’ve just got to clean up mistakes.”

Thursday, Sept.12, 2019

– Coach Roberts after the men soccer loss to Merrimack

Men’s Soccer draw blanks again in loss to Merrimack College, 3-0

BY CHRIS LARABEE

for his first goal of the season.

As he went down he was holding BU applied the pressure early, his head, fortunately he was able keeping Merrimack in their defen- to leave the field under his own Boston University’s men’s soc- sive third, but the Warriors would power a nd ret urn to the ga me cer team remains scoreless on the slip a through-ball to sophomore later. Sophomore midfielder Kari season despite a season-high 22 for ward Tola Show unmi on the Pet u r sson’s ensu i n g f ree k ick shots against Hockey East rival and counter-attack but Terrier junior slammed off a defender and was new division one soccer program goalkeeper Michael Stone would cleared.

Merrimack College in the t wo keep Merrimack out of the net at The Terriers best offensive programs’ first-ever soccer match. the six minute mark. chance came in the 33rd minute The Terriers (0-4) failed to find The Terriers continued to apply when junior midfielder sent a cross the back of the net for the fourth strong offensive pressure in the into the Warrior’s penalty area, but straight game as the Warriors (2-0) 10th m i nute w ith t wo cor ners Matt McDonnell’s diving header proved they belong in division one earned, but the Warriors would was blocked by Rezende. after converting a pair of goals and clear the first corner and BU senior Not one m i nute l ater, t he a penalty en route to a 3-0 victory. for ward Matt McDonnell put a Warriors scored another goal as BU men’s soccer head coach charge into the ball that sent it junior forward Filippo Begliardi Neil Roberts said the Terriers are sailing far over the net.

Ghidini was left unmarked on a battling through the mounting Heading into the 14th minute, corner and made a dash to score frustrations of being shutout for the BU offense continued to attack a backdoor goal. a stretch of four games in a row. the Merrimack net with their fifth Roberts said BU can’t afford “It’s just a matter of keeping our corner already of the first half, to give away goals. heads up,” Roberts said. “They’re but McDonnell was turned away “We made really silly mistakes, fr ustrated, no doubt about it … by fifth-year graduate goalkeeper we were responsible for at least they ’ve rea l ly played ha rd a nd Lucas Rezende. two of the goals,” Roberts said. they did tonight; they’ve just got Despite the consistent pres- “We probably should have done to clean up mistakes.” sure by the Terriers, the Warriors better on the corner kick. The The opening goal came in the would strike with the decisive goal goals were handed to them, which 20th minute when the Warriors through Pesenti. BU nearly doubled we have been doing.” took the ball down the right wing Merrimack in shot attempts, but Merrimack continued its offenof the Terriers’ defensive third and lacked the clinical touch in front sive outburst on a cross into the lofted a pass to the top of the box of goal was amiss.

Terrier box, but a matter of inches that was finished off with a laser Junior back Elias Lampis was kept the score 2-0 as Showunmi’s beam off the left foot of sopho- fouled hard about 30 yards out more midfielder Stefano Pesenti from the net in the 26th minute. MEN’S SOCCER, ON 11 DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Senior forward Matt McDonnell in a March 24 game against the University of Vermont. In a match against Merrimack College on Tuesday, McDonnell led the offense in attempts to score.

Women Soccer ready for home game against Northeastern

BY NICK TELESMANIC DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

After playing five of their first six games on the road, Boston University women’s soccer is coming home to play Northeastern University Thursday at 7 p.m.

This game against Northeastern will be the first of four straight games that the Terriers (0-5-1) will be playing at home.

One of those opponents will be the first Patriot League game for the Terriers on the season; it will be against American University (3-3).

The last game that BU played Sunday was a 1-3 loss at the hands of the University of Connecticut. After the game, BU head coach Nancy Feldman said the team is giving up too many goals to allow the team to stay in the game.

“We can make a lot of excuses,” Feldman said, “but the bottom line is that if we give up goals that the other team doesn’t necessarily do magical things to create … we’re gonna struggle.”

The Northeastern Huskies (2-3) have had a slow offense to start the season. Aside from

putting up four goals in a 4-1 win against Harvard University (2-1) on Aug. 30, the Huskies had scored one goal in two games and have been shut out twice.

These shutouts have come from their most recent two games, where Northeastern was shut out 0-2 by Florida Gulf Coast University (2-2) Sep. 8, and a 0-1 shutout from the hands of Boston College (6-0) Sep. 5.

One player that has been leading the charge for Northeastern is Husky forward Chelsea Domond. She has scored two of the team’s six goals of the season and has made the most shots for Northeastern this season at 14. Freshman goalkeeper Angeline Friel has started the last three games in net, posting a 1.33 goals against average. Redshirt sophomore Megan Adams, who started the first two games, matches Friel with a .667 save percentage and holds the slight edge with a 1.00 goals against average.

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Junior forward Anna Heilferty in a game against the Naval Academy on Oct. 5. Going into a match against Northeastern University on Thursday, Heilferty has made nine shots over the season thus far.

BOTTOM LINE THURSDAY, SEPT. 12

FRIDAY, SEPT. 13

SATURDAY, SEPT. 14

The Red Sox take on Toronto Blue-

Terriers Women Field Hockey take on Maine in Orono at 3PM

New England Revolution take on Orlando City in the MLS at 7:30PM

jays in Toronto at 7:15PM

SUNDAY, SEPT. 15

MONDAY, SEPT. 16

Patriots take on Miami Dolphins at

Bruins pre-season game against

1PM

New Jersey Devils at 7PM