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Sen. Kerry, union members support Warren at rally Student Government promises 1M service hours for fundraiser

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

Democratic leaders mustered labor union support on Monday as hundreds of supporters cheered on Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren at a Dorchester rally, where Sen. John Kerry, Warren and union members criticized Republican assaults on workers.

“I’m proud to be campaigning with you to build power for working people and to make Elizabeth Warren the next senator for this state,” said Richard Trumka, president of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, to the audience.

The rally was held at the Local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 103.

Various labor unions and organizations, such as Teamsters Local 25 and Painters and Allied District Council 35, attended with banners announcing support for Warren.

“I am not in this race to go down to Washington so I can figure out how to help more millionaires, more billionaires and big oil,” Warren said. “That’s not why I’m in this race. I am in this race to help level the playing field. I am in this race to fight for working people.”

Rep. John Tierney and Fourth District congressional candidate Joe Kennedy III, both Democrats, also spoke at the rally.

Democratic senator and 2004 presidential candidate Kerry attended the rally to support the Democratic candidates.

“Vote after vote, [Republicans] engaged in [the] greatest assault on organized labor I’ve

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John Kerry endorses Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren at the AFL-CIO labor rally in Dorchester Monday.

ever seen,” Kerry said. “[This race] will decide the agenda for the country.”

Warren said she plans to focus on rebuilding the middle class.

“I am here today because unions helped build America’s middle class,” she said. “We will rebuild America’s middle class because that stuff we know is the future of America.”

Trumka said Warren is the best choice for laborers and labor unions.

“We all get one vote on election day, just

like the billionaires, and we’re going to cast votes together for Elizabeth Warren,” he said.

“Warren is the champion of working people, and we have the power to send her to Washington.”

Speakers criticized Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown for frequently voting with the Republican party.

“He’s had a few good votes in there, but he’s had a lot of bad votes in there,” Warren said.

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Menino vetoes second redistricting plan, cites same concerns

By Jasper Craven Daily Free Press Staff

For the second time in September, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino vetoed redistricting plans from the Boston City Council, arguing that the second plan is just as unfair to minorities as the first.

Menino said he was concerned about the first plan because it concentrated citizens of color into too few districts, Menino wrote in a letter Monday to the city council.

“This over-concentration was especially true in District 4, and the second map you passed shares the very same problem there and almost the very same figures,” he said.

Menino cited the letter of his last veto, writing that if the districts were drawn in the fashion proposed in the first map, minorities would be denied equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. He said he reiterates the same concerns he had with the previous map, calling for a redistricting plan that would “avoid the over-concentration of protected groups in any district” and “provide reasonable opportunities

for voters of protected groups to achieve proportionality” in city council representation.

Redistricting is required every 10 years after census results are calculated. A new redistricted map must be approved by the end of the first week of November.

The new map, reintroduced and drawn by Councilors Tito Jackson of Roxbury and Matt O’Malley of Jamaica Plain passed 7–6 on Wednesday, the same narrow margin as the vote for the first redistricting map. Besides Jackson and O’Malley, five votes of support came from City Councilors Frank Baker, Ayanna Pressley, John Connolly, Felix Arroyo and Michael Ross.

But Councilor Charles Yancey, of Dorchester, said the map failed to “unite Mattapan,” The Daily Free Press reported on Sept. 19.

If passed, the first redistricting plan passed in August would have faced legal threats from various minority groups, including the Massachusetts civic education initiative Oiste and the Boston chapter of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People.

Jackson voted against the initial redistricting

Professors avoid promoting political beliefs

By Amy Gorel Daily Free Press Staff

A number of professors at Boston University said they have the academic freedom to profess their political beliefs, but need to act responsibly in how they address the topic to students.

“Everyone that teaches at BU is granted an excessive amount of academic freedom,” said College of Communication professor Donald Wright. “What is important with that academic freedom is that we be responsible in managing that ourselves.”

Taylor Boas, political science professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, said there is a delicate balance between expressing political beliefs for a purpose and campaigning for the candidate in the classroom.

“Students take my courses because they’re interested in politics,” he said. “If you try to teach a course that is as apolitical as possible, it can be dry and uninteresting. At the same time, you have to be very, very careful about abusing

the position of power and authority you have as a professor.”

Professor Patricia Cortes, who teaches in the School of Management, said it is acceptable for professors to explain their political beliefs as long as it is not to change their students’ minds.

“It depends what you say and with what purpose you say it,” Cortes said. “If [my students] ask me, I would tell them what I think about something, but I wouldn’t try to convince them of having my same views.”

Wright said there are certain aspects of the current election season that have a place in the classroom. For example, some election issues have a lot of teaching potential in the public relations courses he teaches in COM, he said.

“If I were to bring them up, I would bring them up in a neutral way, not in a way of identifying which person I am supportive of because I think it’s wrong for a faculty member to promote a particular candidate,” Wright said.

Students often think their grades will be im-

Campaining, see page 2

proposal, but voted for the new proposal along with two other minority councilors who voted against the original redistricting proposal.

Menino singled out the shape of District 4 in his letter, which he said had an over-concentration of minorities.

“Under both maps passed, almost 70 percent of the District 4’s voting age population is black and almost 95 percent is non-white,” Menino wrote. “In a city where diversity is found broadly, I had asked that you endeavor to avoid over-concentration of minority voters, and I make that same request again.”

Besides Yancey, councilors who opposed the second map were City Council President Stephen Murphy, Mark Ciommo, Bill Linehan, Robert Consalvo and Salvatore LaMattina.

The Boston City Council’s Committee on Census and Redistricting is holding a public hearing on Friday at 11 a.m. in City Hall to address issues of redistricting.

The redistricting map will be sent back to the city council before it comes to the mayor’s desk again.

Student Government announced Friday it would donate one million hours of community service to Boston University.

The pledge comes as part of a donation to the Campaign for BU, said SG President Dexter McCoy. “What [students] don’t have is money,” McCoy, a College of Communication junior, said. “But what we do have is time, and so we’re looking at what we can do to participate to give back to our university.

Service is at the center of what we’re all about as a student body, so that’s how we came about with this.”

The Campaign for BU is a campus-wide, five-year fundraising project with a goal of $1 billion. It was kicked off Friday night to coincide with Alumni Weekend.

“We officially announced this Friday night at a private event with university trustees, faculty and some of the biggest donors to the university,” McCoy said.

SG will collaborate with various student leaders and the Community Service Center to mobilize students and collect hours.

“They [The CSC] have avenues already set in place to count hours, to facilitate service like this, and so we worked with them starting at the end of last year,” McCoy said. “What we’ve done is we’ve put together a community of students who are involved.”

A member of the CSC could not be reached by press time.

He said BU would consider each hour as a donation of minimum hourly wage of $8 per hour to incorporate the service pledge into the fundraising campaign.

“The Board of Trustees loved the idea and agreed to count our hours that we contribute as students as minimum wage gift towards the university’s campaign,” McCoy said. “So if you calculate that, a million hours at minimum wage would be about $8 million that we will have contributed as a student body.”

McCoy said he is confident that students will perform enough hours of community service to fulfill the donation. However, he said the challenge will be successfully monitoring and recording the hours students perform.

“We have created a platform to do that

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College of Fine Arts juniors Olivia Haller and Selima Smith sell baked goods as a fundraiser for the allfemale production of “Henry V” to CFA sophomore Brianna Fischler in front of CFA Monday afternoon.

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Campus should Local union member calls Elizabeth Warren ‘fantastic’ embrace service, “The president proposed a jobs bill that would have supported 22,000 SG pres. says jobs here in Massachusetts. Scott Warren: From Page 1

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online where students can go in and log their hours as they come about,” McCoy said. “They can log them online and track them that way. We’ve also gotten our hands on a mobile application, pretty much the same way that you check in on FourSquare you can check in your hours.”

McCoy said various student leaders and the CSC will help gather and encourage more students to donate in addition to the students who already donate.

“We have put together a steering committee which is comprised of membership from each of the four classes,” he said.

“That steering committee will be charged with going out to clubs and organizations, different student groups [and] speaking with different students across campus.”

McCoy said the steering committee will eventually include members of graduate schools, and the committee will encourage students who already contribute to track their hours.

“Beyond that we want to encourage them to put in a little more hours and encourage them to do that,” he said. “SG itself is committing itself to getting out and driving this message too of philanthropy in general.”

McCoy said any type of community service is encouraged.

“We just want students to do whatever it is that they’re passionate about and improve someone else’s life through their passion by community service itself,” he said. “There isn’t one particular service.”

The donation was inspired by the student body’s gift to BU President Robert Brown at his inauguration in 2005, McCoy said. “[They] had committed 41,000 hours of community service to the president,” he said. “But something like this in terms of service being given to raise money has never been done here or on any university’s campus anywhere in the world, so we’re really the first to embrace this concept.”

Brown joined with every other Republican to vote ‘no.’”

But Brown was one of the three Republican senators who actually voted for the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, according to FactCheck.org.

Brown has also veered from Republicans in some of his other views, including his support of abortion rights, and recently opposed Romney’s “47 percent” remark.

But Trumka said Brown advertises himself as a moderate Republican and a simple man, but has changed his colors to blend in with the right wing.

“The new Scott Brown votes every time with the 1 percent and Tea Party,” he said.

Warren said she supports unemployment benefits for struggling Americans.

“Scott Brown has voted against the extension of unemployment benefits 16 times,” Warren said. “I will never turn my back on our brothers and sisters, on our neighbors and friends, when they hurt.”

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino attended the rally after publicly endorsing Warren on Friday.

Some people who attended the rally said they supported Warren as the best choice for labor unions.

“She’s fantastic,” said Michael

McGrath, a Teamsters Local 25 member from Woburn. “I’m a union man. I don’t care how good they look — you’ve got to go Democratic. The Republicans will sell you down the road any day of the week.”

Kathy Collins, an IBEW member from Springfield, said reelecting Brown would be damaging to the working class.

“He made promises to be an independent voice in Washington, and he

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Doug Henry, a Teamsters Local 25 member from Hull, said Brown was frequently unsupportive of the working class. “[Warren] stands for all the right things,” he said. “Scott Brown has voted against the working class virtually every chance he’s had. He’s made a few good votes, but I’m sure it was only when he had permission from [Senate Minority Leader]

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Despite these sentiments, a Sept.

17 University of Massachusetts and Boston Herald poll found Brown leading 49 percent to 45 percent.

Fifty percent of viewers said Brown won the first debate last Thursday, while only 40 percent thought Warren won, according to a poll by Kimball Political Consulting, a right-leaning firm.

Class not appropriate time for personal political advocacy, students say Campaigning: From Page 1

pacted if they disagree with what the professor thinks, even though that is not usually the case, Boas said.

“It’s a relationship you have to be careful not to abuse,” he said. “I try to be very careful to provide examples from both sides of the political aisle.”

Students have often formed their own strong beliefs by this point in their lives, Boas said.

“I don’t think I’m lecturing to people who could be manipulated by their professor’s opinions,” he said.

Roberta Clarke, an SMG professor, said it is not a professor’s job to talk about herself. It is a professor’s job to bring up the issues and prepare

the students to make decisions for themselves, she said.

“We are there primarily to educate,” she said. “We raise questions to prepare the students for jobs and teach them to think about situations before making decisions. That makes people into more reasoned, thoughtful individuals in whatever they do.”

A mathematics professor at a Florida community college is being investigated for allegedly urging her students to support President Barack Obama and distributing material about Obama’s campaign to them, according to an article by The Chronicle of Higher Education on Sept. 18.

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litical beliefs, students said they have not experienced problems.

“I’ve never had a professor that did that,” said Briana Toegemann, a sophomore in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

“I don’t think it’s a good thing for professors to be able to announce their political opinions because I feel it would try to bias the students.”

CAS senior Natasha Oramas said her professor has been adamant about remaining bipartisan.

“He makes sure he does not give away his beliefs,” she said. “I’ve tried to guess a few times, but I really can’t tell.”

Class is not an appropriate place for professors to express their politi-

cal beliefs, students said.

“Students have to attend for credit and they don’t want to be forced to sit there and listen to someone’s beliefs,” Toegemann said.

“I feel like a professor might grade harsher subconsciously if they knew a student’s biases,” Oramas said. “But I haven’t seen it be an issue.”

COM junior Jana Levin said if professors addressed political affiliations, it might create an awkward situation in the learning environment.

“It’s not fair for professors to influence their students in that way,” she said. “They’re there to teach students how to make their own decisions.”

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Campus & City Campus Crime Logs Grab and Change

By Kaneta Zillur Daily Free Press Staff

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Sept. 17 to Sept. 23.

Last Monday at about 11:38 a.m., a female student reported a missing audio recorder that she had checked out from the College of Communication Film Production Services. The student said she got onto the B branch of the Green Line after getting the recorder and that someone reached into her bag and taken it. The recorder was estimated to be worth $400.

Shifty eyes A female professor in the School of Management, located at 595 Commonwealth Ave., reported suspicious occurrences in her classroom last Tuesday. The professor was concerned about a male student’s behavior in class.

She said the student was acting inappropriately in front of her. The student was later transferred to another section of the same class.

Close calls A nonaffiliated on a bike was hit by a motor vehicle in front of 957 Comm. Ave. last Tuesday at 4:59 p.m. There were no injuries.

A bus struck another student on a bike in front of 965 Comm. Ave. The back tire of the bicycle was crushed but the student sustained no injuries.

Noise pollution Last Wednesday at the intersection of Silber Way and Comm.

Ave. a nonaffiliated male was seen causing disturbance in the area.

He was yelling and screaming at the people passing him on the sidewalk. BUPD officers escorted the man away from the scene.

Gone with the bus Last Thursday at 512 Beacon St. a male student reported his student ID, credit and debit cards missing from his backpack. The student had exited the BU shuttle and left his backpack on the bus.

He waited for the shuttle to come around and recovered the backpack, but the cards were missing.

Underage drinkers Last Friday at about 9:30 p.m., officers of BUPD’s alcohol patrol discovered two BU students at 90 St. Mary’s St. One student had purchased alcohol and gave it to the other underage party.

Both students were summonsed to Brighton District Court, one for procuring alcohol for a minor and another for minor in possession.

Candid camera At Gardner Street and Chester Street a female student reported indecent assault and battery by a male. On Sunday at about 12:30 a.m. she reported a male came up behind her, lifted her dress, snapped a picture and quickly fled the area. The same incident occurred at Ashford Street and Chester Street, Boston Police Department is investigating both incidents.

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Former congressmen address partisan politics RHA council to unite residences, guide members

By Ryan Brister Daily Free Press Contributor

Two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives, one Democrat and one Republican, explained the problems with partisan politics Monday.

“Partisanship and difficulty in people being able to compromise has compounded the problems with governance,” said David Minge, a former Democratic representative of Minnesota 2nd District. “One thing I’ve learned doing [Congress to Campus] is that I’ve met 10 Republicans with whom I’ve had more in common than different.”

Minge and former congresswoman Sue Kelly, who served a combined 10 terms in the House, told students about the reasons they had for entering a life of public service leadership.

“I ran for Congress having never run for anything before in my life,” Kelly, a Republican who served New York’s 19th District from 1995 to 2006, said at the forum. “There were a lot of weak candidates, and I didn’t want to be represented by one of those people.”

Minge, currently a judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals, said he ran for election “to get issues off his chest.”

In an open forum held at 100 Bay State Road with about 20 students in attendace, the congressmen explained some prob-

By Amy Gorel Daily Free Press Staff

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Former congressmen Sue Kelly and John LaFalce speak to students in the Center of Student Services Monday afternoon.

lems they perceived in the political system.

“I think the money situation is corrupting the political process,” Kelly said in response to a student question about flaws in American politics. “There’s so much money [in politics] now.”

Kelly referred to the Citizens United Supreme Court case, in which the court ruled that the First Amendment prevents the government from limiting the amount of money corporations or unions can spend on political campaigns.

The former representatives said they are concerned about the impact religion is having on the country.

“We have to as a country guard against sectarianism,” Minge said. “That type of polarization is destructive in our society.”

Kelly said her belief that religion should not have any impact on politics polarized her within her own party.

“My first primary campaign, most of [my opponents] had the Republican Party backing them,” she said. “They laughed at me when I was driving around the district trying to raise funds. I got the last laugh.”

Kelly told students that if they plan to vote in the next election, the most important thing to re-

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Brookline ban could eliminate Styrofoam packaging

By Jasper Craven Daily Free Press Staff

Brookline restaurants and coffee shops might have to find a different kind of food and beverage packaging if a proposed ban on Styrofoam containers passes in a Special Town Meeting in November.

Nancy Heller, a Brookline Town Meeting member, proposed the ban after she was given coffee in a paper cup in a Dunkin Donuts in Great Barrington, news outlets reported.

Heller found out that Great Barrington, along with some other cities across the country, have already banned Styrofoam.

“Anecdotally, I have observed that food from the cafeteria at the Museum of Science is no longer placed in polystyrene containers, but in containers which are biodegradable,” wrote Heller in an explanation of the article she

submitted for consideration in the upcoming Nov. 13 meeting. “The MacDonald chain ceased to use polystyrene packaging several years ago, and now wraps all food in paper products.”

Styrofoam, also known as polystyrene, is commonly used to package and hold food and beverages.

“While this warrant article only applies to food and beverage containers in Brookline, it begins to tackle the problem at a local level and furthers the process of educating people about the dangers of polystyrene,” Heller wrote.

Styrofoam is trademarked by the Dow Chemical Company and has faced backlash from environmentalists for its virtual inability to decompose.

The U.S. Department of Health added Styrene, a synthetic chemical found in Styrofoam, to its list

of known or reasonably anticipated carcinogens in 2011.

Some Boston University students said the proposed ban would benefit the environment.

“I can’t really say I remember the last time I even had anything contained in Styrofoam,” said College of Arts and Sciences senior Liz Brannon. “Aside from non-food related packaging materials, there are better alternatives, such as the paper cups.”

Quinn Rodriquez, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said that as long as a ban does not affect the price of goods, she would support it.

“I think it would be a good idea,” Rodriquez said. “I don’t know how it might affect prices of coffee, and that would really be my only concern. It’s a good idea since Styrofoam takes forever to decompose in landfills.”

Styrofoam, see page4

The new Residence Hall Association Overarching Executive Council at Boston University aims to bring the leadership of the hall councils back to the students, officials said.

“We never had student leadership on top — it was just each RHA for themselves,” said Zach Herbert, president of the OEC. “There was no collaboration or communication, it was all led by the administration and Residence Life.”

Herbert, a junior in the College of Engineering, said he created the OEC to improve continuity year to year since there is typically a 100-percent turnover rate in the hall councils.

The OEC consists of four students who have had experience in RHA and can act as a mentor for the newly elected RHA members to offer support and guidance, Herbert said.

This way, the new members can figure out their jobs faster and become active right away.

“In addition to the coaching, mentoring and advising role, we also plan on taking care of larger scale quality of life issues,” he said.

The primary focus of the OEC at the beginning of the semester is getting the hall councils up and running right away, Herbert said.

“I definitely feel that the OEC is a good idea,” said Molly Trillo, president of the West Campus Hall Council. “It’s definitely something that’s going to help keep everyone on the same page in the RHA.” Trillo, a sophomore in the College of General Studies, said when she was a hall council treasurer in the 2011–12 academic year, she found the organization was very disjointed and could use some overall guidance.

“The presidents tried to keep each other updated, but no one really had any idea or understood enough about what was going on in other areas of campus,” she said. The OEC is making it possible for RHA to return to being a student-run organization, Trillo said.

“This will keep RHA in the hands of the student body instead of handing our issues to the faculty advisors when we can’t handle something,” she said. “Now, if there is a problem, I could go to Zach first, and we can handle it as students.”

Members of the OEC have been in the positions the new RHA members are in now, so they know how to

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Chick-fil-A’s donation decision raises questions about affiliations

By Casey Colburn Daily Free Press Contributor

While an advocacy group announced that Chick-fil-A would cease funding for “anti-gay organizations,” statements from the company have sparked confusion in Chicago over the restaurant’s decision, which could alter its reputation in Boston.

Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno confirmed Chick-fil-A would abandon its practice of donating to “antigay organizations,” according to a press release released from Sept. 18 from The Civil Rights Agenda, an Illinois lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization.

“The WinShape Foundation is now taking a much closer look at the organizations it considers helping,

and in that process will remain true to its stated philosophy of not supporting organizations with political agendas,” stated Chick-fil-A’s senior director of real estate in a letter to Moreno, according to the release.

Moreno finalized his negotiations with the restaurant, and company executives clarified they would no longer give money to “anti-gay organizations,” according to the press release.

But the announcement has sparked a storm of confusion in Chicago, as documents show the restaurant might have no intention of ceasing its donation to certain entities.

“Once our statement was picked up this week by Dan Cathy, Chickfil-A started to reverse its course immediately, saying that no concession had been made,” said TCRA execu-

tive director Anthony Martinez, in a phone interview.

On Sunday, Moreno asked Chick-fil-A to publicly acknowledge the agreement or revert to his plan to ban the restaurant from opening, Martinez said. “[This negotiation] was what we were told and that was what Chickfil-A promised,” he said. “Now whether or not that is true or they lied, that needs to be determined, so that’s why Alderman Moreno has asked that Dan Cathy confirm the terms of the agreement in public.”

The confusion has raised questions in major cities about Chick-filA’s affiliations.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s office could not be reached for comment in time for print on what implications this might have on the

mayor’s view of Chick-fil-A. Menino sparked a firestorm in July when he issued a letter to the restaurant urging them not to build a location in Boston.

“You called supporters of gay marriage ‘prideful,’” Menino said in his letter. “Here in Boston, to borrow your own words, we are ‘guilty as charged.’ We are indeed full of pride for our support of same-sex marriage and our work to expand freedom to all people.”

Chick-fil-A cannot confirm that they have ceased donations to such organizations, but has updated an official company document called “Chick-fil-A: Who We Are,” said Chick-fil-A spokesman Jerry Johnston in an email.

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member is to always check if the information you have is correct.

“There is so much misinformation and outright lies out there,” she said.

Congress to Campus is a program created by retired members of Congress designed to send bipartisan pairs of former congressmen to college campuses.

“The goal is to allow students to meet, first-hand, the politicians who represent them,” said Steven Jarvi, associate dean for student academic life in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Kristen Visakay, a senior in CAS, said that she came to get the opportunity to interact with politicians directly.

“I’ve had prior experience with internships in government, and you don’t get much personal contact with the actual politician in that setting,” Visakay said. “This seemed like a more intimate forum to ask questions and get to know the people themselves.”

College of Communication sophomore Mackenzie Tipton said she felt the need to learn more about what is going on in the realm of politics.

“I learned that the idea of congress isn’t as alienating as it seems,” she said.

Helena Carpio Fiasse, a CAS junior from Venezuela, said she needed to learn more about politics in the country.

“I’m not a citizen, so I thought this would be a sort of sneak peek of what Congress is like in the U.S., especially since this is an election year,” she said.

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Eco-friendly packaging could prove expensive, student says Styrofoam: From Page 3 Rodriquez said that Los Angeles, where she is from, banned plastic bags in an effort to help the environment, and that she supported that program as well.

“I don’t really feel like activists are taken all too seriously,” she said. “So, if the government doesn’t step in and force businesses to stop doing what’s cheapest and start doing something to protect the environment, I don’t think it would change.”

CAS junior Julie Rosen said large-scale bans of Styrofoam could raise prices.

“I think I would support it, especially if there are safer alternatives to Styrofoam,” she said. “I guess the only drawback I could see would that if they did use alternatives to Styrofoam, then it might increase the cost of stuff in the long run.”

Rosen said that although Styrofoam is cheaper to produce, the environmental benefits trump a slight bump in the cost of goods.

“I think if it has a positive effect on the environment and gets people to be more aware of the things they are consuming than yeah, I would support it,” she said.

Mayor: Boston same-sex marriage supporters ‘prideful’ Chick-Fil-A: From Page 3

“The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender,” states the document, parts of which are also in a Sep. 20 press release.

The document states Chick-filA’s corporate giving has been mischaracterized for months and the restaurant will continue to give to programs to which they are committed.

“A part of our corporate commitment is to be responsible stewards of

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“He has consistently supported the LGBT community. He has stood up for equality for all.”

Stowell said any business has a right to open up shop wherever they want.

“They do need to know that in a city like a Boston, a business that is openly supporting anti-LGBT equality is not something that the people will see as a good thing,” she said.

The Chick-fil-A controversy also struck Chicago when Alderman Joe Moreno announced he planned to block plans for Chick-fil-A to open a new restaurant in his district.

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all that God has entrusted to us,” the document states. “Because of this commitment, Chick-fil-A’s giving heritage is focused on programs that educate youth, strengthen families and enrich marriages and support communities. We will continue to focus our giving in those areas.”

Menino’s statement to Chick-filA rallied impassioned people behind his stance, while other people said it punished the restaurant for expressing its own rightful views.

“We are so fortunate to have the long-term leadership of Mayor Menino in support of our community,” said Grace Stowell, executive director of Boston Alliance of Gay Les-

connect with the administration and deal with daily issues, said Andrew Cho, president of the Warren Towers Hall Council.

“I think its necessary,” Cho, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said. “I’m just a freshman, but it sounds like before [the OEC], it was all do your own thing. It should be centralized to bring us all together because we’re all trying to do the same thing.”

The Daily Free Press reported in April that Union expressed concerns that the OEC would splint the student voice and cause confusion.

“One cohesive project can be implemented to assist all students,”

said former Union President Howard Male, a Class of 2012 graduate of the School of Hospitality Administration and School of Management in a previous article. “It’s not necessarily just an RHA issue, and we would want to make sure that a communication channel is established so that issues could be identified.”

Tessy Aura, president of Student Village II Hall Council, said it benefits students to have a source to consult.

“I think they’re [OEC] making it known that they’re there as a resource,” Aura, a senior in CAS, said.

“They’re doing a good job making us feel comfortable in our new positions. We are still in charge of our own councils and make our own by-

laws, but they guide us and are there for support.”

After the new RHA gets accustomed to the way the system works, Herbert said his next plan is to look at larger scale quality of life issues.

“We’re there to follow up on a lot of things that weren’t able to be followed up on last year,” Herbert said.

He said he plans to look into putting more trash cans on Bay State Road, creating an online portal for maintenance requests, formulating a better method of recycling in all of the residence halls and making housing floor plans available online for all students.

Chris Lisinski contributed to the reporting of this article.

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Learning While Snoozing New research suggests people can learn while asleep

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he ability to learn during the hours of sleep might seem like only a dream to college students, but a new study suggests that learning during sleep is actually possible.

The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that the human mind can make learning associations even while it is asleep. The researchers used a simple form of classical conditioning to test their hypothesis.

While 55 healthy participants slept in a laboratory wearing masks, they were exposed to pleasant or unpleasant odors such as perfumes, shampoo, rotting fish and carrion.

Different tunes accompanied the smells.

During an ideal night, subjects were exposed to a threesecond presentation 40 times — 20 times to the pleasant and 20 times to the unpleasant odor, said Anat Arzi, a graduate student of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, in an email interview.

Subjects inhaled deeply when they were exposed to a pleasant smell. Their breathing shortened when unpleasant odors accompanied the music.

The study suggested that even when they were awake, the subjects changed their sniffs in accordance with the attractiveness of the odor.

Boston sleep researchers said the results of the study make sense.

“There has been a lot of research on sleep and memory and learning,” said Dr. Sanford Auerbach, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Boston Medical Center. “Sleep is a good utility in optimizing learning so that while we sleep, our bodies develop biochemical changes. If you don’t sleep, you can’t have good memory function, which is associated with increased levels of sleep.”

Sniff Science Arzi’s paper studied the “sniff response” of the subjects.

Pleasant odors drove stronger sniffs and unpleasant odors drove weaker sniffs. Humans’ sniff response remained the same, even during sleep, the researchers found.

“This means that the sleeping brain can perceive the presence of the odor, process its valance and generate an adequate behavioral response,” Arzi said.

This research showed that participants were unaware of the sound-smell relation. Researchers saw the effect regardless of the phase of sleep, but the sniffing responses were more visible in participants during the rapid eye movement stage. The REM sleep cycle takes place typically during the second half of sleep.

While research similar to Arzi’s has been conducted in the past, this study is the first to explore sleep’s interaction with learning.

“Our study is the first to show that hippocampal-dependent learning is possible during natural adult human sleep,” Arzi said. “This still does not imply that you can place your homework under the pillow and know it in the morning.”

The Weizmann researchers are still running clinical trials to explore the future of the study, and they are currently trying to implement a helpful behavioral modification through sleep-learning, Arzi said.

“There will be clear limits on what we can learn in sleep, but I speculate that they will be beyond what we have demonstrated,” Arzi said.

Pillow Learning When Tiaundra Smith, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in neuroscience, heard that learning and knowledge could be consolidated during sleep, she tried to dream about it as she slept.

“I think it’s pretty cool,” Smith said. “Everything makes sense — when you’re sleeping, you’re forming new neuropathways.”

But she said that while the study may have more implications for the future, it should not preclude good sleeping and eating habits.

“Sometimes it worked, but the brain consolidates information while you sleep,” Smith said. “When you’re studying for a test, make sure you get enough sleep so you can

remember the information you learned during the test.”

Natalie Banacos, a CAS senior and an executive board member of the Boston University Mind and Brain Society, said she found the sleep study fascinating.

“Evidence that we can learn to make associations that alter our behavior while sleeping sounds like a good argument for sleep studying,” Banacos said. “The retention of the information learned might even be longer than demonstrated by their experiment, because in real life, this extinction process may not happen, and the learned association might actually last longer.”

Banacos said she is particularly interested in learning about how the brain processes smells and that the study was unique in focusing on olfactory information or information that is associated to smells in the brain.

“Not all information makes its way through the brain in the same way that scents do — smell is a pretty unique sensory process,” Banacos said. “As the authors mention, using smells was an especially effective way to observe learning during sleep, but the results might not directly translate to better ways to study.”

Allison Macika, a junior in CAS, said she was familiar with existing sleep theories that suggest that when humans sleep, their brains consolidate information they have learned during the day into long-term memory.

“The idea that our brains could not only consolidate information while we sleep, but may also learn new associations, is really interesting to think about,” Macika said.

“Like the article said, obviously people shouldn’t take this to mean that you can learn how to solve equations while you snooze, but I’m curious to see what practical applications researchers can pull out of this.”

Lucy Huang, a graduate student in the School of Education, said she was skeptical when she heard about the study.

“I sometimes dream in rhyming patterns or poems but I don’t think you can learn things,” Huang said. “I think if you read something before going to sleep, you might memorize it better.”

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A new study shows that people might be able to learn while they sleep.

How Much Sleep Do You Need?

Newborns (0 to 2 months) — 12 to 18 hours Infants (3 to 11 months) — 14 to 15 hours Toddlers (1 to 3 years) — 12 to 14 hours Preschoolers (3 to 5 years) — 11 to 13 hours School-age Children (5 to 10 years) — 10 to 11 hours Teenagers (10 to 17 years) — 8.5 to 9.25 hours Adults (18+ years) — 7 to 9 hours Source: National Sleep Foundation

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Campaigning in the classroom?

A community college in Florida is investigating a professor for allegedly using class time to campaign for President Barack Obama, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Sept. 18.

Sharon Sweet, an associate professor at Brevard Community College in Cocoa, Fla., has been granted a leave of absence after a parent of one of her students complained to the college about her alleged behavior — telling her students to vote for Obama and distributing pro-Obama literature in class.

The college prohibits professors from “engaging in political activity during class,” according to The Chronicle.

It is understandable that a public institution does not want its faculty spouting their political views in the classroom. College is a time for students to form their own opinions.

Also, many students see themselves working under their professors. A professor who electioneers in his or her classroom could remove students’ motivation to explore issues and candidates on their own. Some students may quickly adopt their professor’s beliefs,

without considering their own.

That being said, it is unrealistic to think that every professor will check his or her opinions at the door.

Everyone is biased to some extent. Encouraging professors to overcome their biases is the best that a public institution can ask for.

Moreover, it is important to note that in addition to recent high school graduates, a number of non-traditional students enroll in community colleges. Someone who took time off from college to raise a family or earn a living qualifies as a non-traditional student.

Students following this non-traditional path have probably had time to form their own opinions, so the politically charged statements of one professor may not influence those students as much.

It will be interesting to see what the investigation turns up. Were the accusations even accurate? If the professor’s campaigning was extensive as the student said it was, then she should be subjected to some sort of penalty.

Proposed ban in Brookline The town of Brookline is considering a ban on Styrofoam and plastic bags, according to an article in The Boston Globe Monday.

Nancy Heller, a Brookline Town Meeting member, proposed the ban after learning about the health and environmental risks Styrofoam posed.

A second proposal to prohibit Brookline retailers from using plastic bags was submitted by Jessica Arconti, a 25-year-old biologist. She, too, cited environmental concerns as the reason for her proposed ban.

Prohibiting retailers from distributing these projects would certainly be a step in the right direction. Styrofoam and plastic bags do pose environmental and health risks, and those risks should be taken seriously.

Moreover, some people will only respond to certain environmental initiatives if “environmentally unsafe” products are made unavailable. However, it does not seem appropriate to wield an outright ban

so quickly.

Retailers should be given more time to prepare for such a ban. Maybe the city of Boston could even provide store owners with their first set of replacement cups.

Additionally, if retailers who did not go “paper bag-less” were subjected to the penalties that Arconti proposed: fines for their first two offenses and then a mandatory court appearance, courts may be unsure how to rule. After all, legislature on the subject is fairly new.

A more realistic proposal would be to charge customers for using Styrofoam cups or plastic bags. Other cities have tried similar initiatives, to some success.

Overall, Brookline is a relatively progressive town so any effort to discourage consumers from using environmentally unsafe products would most likely prove successful. It will be interesting to see whether the town decides to ban those products or enact some other, less strict initiative come November.

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Mighty, Morphing Bureaucracy Rangers DAVID FONTANA

hen I first got to Boston University all those years ago, I knew it would be tough, like, “Oh no!

What’s that? It’s an earthquake, everybody stay calm!” [Insert mass hysteria].

But after all these years, the words of one blue-colored Ranger have started ringing in my head — “Something tells me this is no earthquake.” Well Billy, you couldn’t have been more right.

Sometimes I wish that I could just throw down Rita Repulsa’s wand and shrink the university. I’d then pickup it up and just shake all of the bureaucratic nonsense out of everyone’s heads so that they might actually see the havoc they wreak on students lives. If simply being in a foreign environment isn’t bad enough, impossible classes, making friends, eating, breathing, just staying alive probably covers a normal person’s limits. But for someone out there, these just weren’t hard enough. And voilà, in walks good old bureaucracy. And not just any bureaucracy, but a special BU brand of it (patent pending).

When I’m walking down the street, feeling good, trying to get something positive done, I go and check my email, or walk into an office and suddenly I feel like a Bubble Boy. I get hit in the face with the “BU bureaucracy busy line effect.”

No matter where I go or what I do, without fail, I always seem to be talking to the wrong person. It’s either not their fault, they don’t know the answer, or, in those very special cases, they just don’t seem to work here at all. They may be sitting behind a desk, wearing a BU shirt with a little Rhett bobble head and getting a BU paycheck, but for the amount of assistance they can offer me, they might as well be working at Boston College. Or better yet, let’s just say a poorly handled daycare.

Because the minute I bring a problem to their door, it must suddenly sounds like I’m speaking some foreign version of “Goo goo gaa gaa”. And emails, well, it takes about three or four to even get a response back, and by the time you do, you’ve already forgotten the problem yourself or fallen prey to about a bazillion other ones. Yet who’s daring enough to stop these Bubbles from destroying the earth?

Well, we may not have any super, color-coordinated, ninja-skilled power rangers lying around, but there are certainly some people and places that still act as forces of good on campus. They really

are here to help the students and not just hinder us as we navigate our way through higher education — the Zordons of BU. But these powers of good are few and far between, and after issues with housing, buying books, academia-advising and even simply getting paid, for such a large and prestigious university, it’s far from a well-oiled machine. Sometimes I think if you throw me in a blue dress and give me a little terrier named Toto, that I’d have my very own adventure in Oz. Except for the fact that when we did finally get to the Wizard in the Green Monster city, even after beating the Wicked Academic Classes of the East, that the Scarecrow would still be in class trying to pass MA 001, the Lion would be cowering in some corner of Allston surrounded by broken glass and rats and the Tin Man would be over on the BU bridge covered in rust from all the freezing and thawing, winter after winter, permanently without oil. And what would the Wizard say to little old me, “Go directly to Jail, do not pass go and do not collect your diploma.”

I feel like I finally understand why Frank Ocean wrote his song “Thinkin’ ‘bout you,” because for those of you who are new here — a tornado flew around my university, before you came, excuse the mess it made, it doesn’t usually rain in Boston. And although that last part is clearly a lie, that tornado is most certainly not. It’s the same one that leaves messes of paper on my desk and keeps my clock permanently stuck at 2 a.m. A tornado that came to Boston all the way from Kansas and plopped us right in the thick of this crazy, Technicolor bureaucracy I hope to one day call my alma matter.

It’s my last year here, and frankly I’m tired, and I’m ready to head off leaving some positive change behind. Not just change worked through one of the many organizations offered on campus, but change of the very system. While that’s certainly more easily said than done, and I may not have a Megazord’s assistance, I think it’s time BU heard back from this Scarlet Ranger. So putty patrollers of departments beware — “It’s Morphing Time!”

David Fontana is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Fall 2012 columnist for The Daily Free Press. He can be reached at fontad5@bu.edu.

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the 29th minute, BU ended the half with 16 minutes of getting no shots and allowing four shots and a corner kick.

The start of the second half seemed promising for the Terriers, as Thomas Bekas of the Pride was handed a yellow card in the 46th minute.

However, Bekas proved not to be phased by the call. In the 49th minute, Bekas had the ball at the top of the box and fired away into the top left corner of the net for his first goal of the season and Hofstra’s second of the game.

The game seemed to go quickly from bad to worse for BU as Hofstra got two good scoring chances minutes later, one of which was saved by Nick Thomson and another which was shot just wide.

Following the latter, redshirt freshman Mac McGuire got sent off due to a red card.

But somehow, after the red

card was given, BU finally got its offense going.

The team gathered four quality shots (three on goal) between the 63rd and 75th minute. Hofstra goalkeeper Adam Janowski was stellar in preventing the Terriers from scoring, denying offensive weapon senior forward Michael Bustamante from scoring twice.

“After that [red card] we played well,” Roberts said. We scored a goal and we had three really good chances. We probably should’ve gotten another goal.”

BU’s first and only goal came in the 76th minute when junior midfielder Anthony Ciccone crossed a ball from the left side and sophomore forward Parker Powell headed it into the net near the right post.

The goal made Powell the team-leader with three goals on the season.

Roberts praised Powell’s play this season. “[Powell is] doing extremely

well,” Roberts said. “He is very opportunistic. He’s a big, strong kid and he’s making himself available.”

The momentum certainly swung in favor of the Terriers after Parker’s goal, as they quickly put another scoring opportunity together in the 78th minute.

Ciccone dribbled the ball into the offensive zone and took a shot that was blocked, and then Dominique Badji took a shot seconds later that went wide.

Hofstra held off BU’s attack for the remainder of the game.

The Terriers’ next chance at a game-tying goal did not come until they had a corner kick in the 87th minute. They were unable to make anything happen and the comeback attempt was thwarted. “[This game] showed what we’re capable of doing,” Roberts said.

“When we don’t compete, we can’t beat anybody. When we compete, we can beat anybody.”

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& Mary, but the Terriers have time and again left home crowds disappointed as they boarded a bus home.

What makes them such tough competition on the road has not been any particular motivation specific to a team or a field, it has been indifference.

“We have a home field, but we don’t really have a home field advantage,” Starr said. “[Jordan] field is more of a home away from home because we have to travel to it too, so away games just don’t feel very different for us.”

Starr said that in a way, this benefits the team because it does not have to make as big of a deal about away games.

On the other hand, The Terriers are 1–2 at home, but they have faced much tougher competition

on Jordan Field than they have off of it.

The two losses were the only games on the schedule thus far that have involved opponents ranked higher than BU — No. 2 Syracuse University and No. 7 University of Virginia.

As the Terriers season sits at its exact center point, they look forward to nine more games — five away and four at home — to push them that much closer to the postseason.

They now seek to continue their domination away from home in their first conference game this Friday against the University at Albany. The team will face five America East opponents in its next nine games.

“I’m proud of how the team had played so far,” Starr said.

“We have things to improve on … and we have our strengths, but first we focus on Albany.”

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Sophomore midfielder Dara DeMatteo added to the success, scoring her first collegiate goal to give the Terriers a 2­–1 lead.

Cuffia later scored her second goal in as many games when she connected with a cross sent from Junior Emma Clark.

The Terriers finished the game outshooting Albany 18–1 and dominating Great Danes in every major statistical category.

“Attacking players feel like when they shoot they can score.

They can see goals, picture goals and visualize goals,” Feldman said.“That’s really, really important for confidence.”

Sophomore Cuffia making big plays in big moments Cuffia started off the season slow, scoring only one goal in her first nine games. But since the 1–0 loss to UMass, Cuffia has turned things around and has scored a goal in each of her last two games.

Not only is Cuffia tied for the team lead in goals, but she also leads the team in points, and game-winning goals.

Cuffia has also found the scoresheet with an assist, showing that she does not need to be the one finishing the play to have an impact on the offense.

“She’s diversified her attack.

Last couple of games she’s scored some big goals. The big goals she’s scored are from getting around the edge,” Feldman said.

“That’s where you can see the most growth in her.”

Cuffia’s play will be key to the Terriers’ success down the stretch and into conference play.

While the conference results will not factor into an NCAA tournament appearance, she has hit a stride entering play against the team’s most familiar opponents.

If the Terriers hope to win a sixth consecutive American East

regular season championship and get a possible at-large birth in the NCAA Tournament, Cuffia will have to keep up the strong play.

Green continues to shine Junior goalkeeper Andrea Green has continued her strong play this season, with two more excellent games against NC State and Albany.

Posting a 1.01 goals-against average, along with a .807 save percentage and three shutouts, Green’s play has been a vital part of the Terriers’ success this season.

Green has started every game so far this season, and until she was pulled at halftime against NC State, had played every minute of every game.

Replacing Green at halftime was freshman goalkeeper Alyssa Parisi, who made two saves while allowing one goal in 45 minutes of playing time.

While Parisi did not have a terrible showing in her first in-game action of the season, Green’s position as starting goalkeeper seems safe for the moment.

Her strong play should continue as the Terriers’ offense shows signs of life heading into conference play.

Looking ahead Looking to stay hot, the Terriers run into a good University of Maine team, which has not lost since Sept. 7, and is looking to avenge last year’s 2–1 loss to BU. The Terriers play Maine this Thursday at Nickerson Field.

Game time is scheduled for 7 p.m.

The team’s win over Albany marked the beginning of a ninegame stretch in which the team will only be facing off eight against America East opponents.

The only team that BU is facing that does not play in the America East is Dartmouth College, which is the second-to-last game of the regular season.

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As the season progresses for the Boston University field hockey team, it has become increasingly obvious that passion for the game has been and will continue to be a major factor in its success.

The No. 12 Terriers (6–3) have started five of their 21 players in all nine games, but there is no guarantee for spots on the field.

There are multiple skilled players in every position, so each individual must push herself to make it onto the field.

Even the two goalkeepers, sophomore Valentina Cerda Eimbke and senior Jess Maroney, trade time in the net.

“A really good thing about the team is [our] depth and that it’s so competitive to get playing time,” said BU coach Sally Starr. “It’s about being ready to play regardless of if you’re a starter of you’re coming off the bench.”

The competition, she said, makes them want to improve themselves because the players know what it takes to get playing time as well as what it takes to win the next game.

Conversion catastrophe Each match played by the Terriers consistently reveals the same necessary improvement — conversion.

They have outshot their opponents 123–90, but they only have three more goals.

Because of a solid defense and a dominating possession game they are able to compete, but scoring only 13 percent of the time always looms over their heads.

One or two small mistakes against a team that regularly capitalizes, regardless of how short a time the opponent could actually have the ball, has repeatedly meant catastrophe and the team is well aware of the problem.

“We really need to convert,” Starr said. “When we have as many opportunities [as we have] that just has to convert into goals.

We’re close … it’s just a matter of being a little lower, a little quicker, and a little more poised in the circle.”

The Terriers have been working on all aspects of their offense for the entire season.

The attack buildup from the goalkeeper all the way to the opposite net is well tuned.

All that has remained in focus in practice is that final movement and it will continue to be said Starr, until it is up to par with the rest of the team’s play.

Better on the road At 5–1, BU has one of the best away records in the America East.

The only game they lost was a 1–0 fall to the College of William

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Terriers fail to complete comeback, fall to Pride

By Gregory Davis Daily Free Press Contributor

After a match in which the Boston University men’s soccer team finally got its offensive game going with four goals, the team came back down to Earth and lost 2–1 in a comeback attempt that came up just short against Hofstra University.

E x cluding 2 Hofstra the game 1 against BU The College of the Holy Cross, the Terriers have had trouble scoring all season.

They scored only five goals in their first seven games of the season. The team hoped that its fourgoal performance against Holy Cross would be a turning point for the offensive corps.

However, this game against a Tribe team with a lot of firepower was expected to be a tough one, as indicated by their play throughout this young season. Coming into the game, Hofstra was having success on the offensive side of the ball, scoring an average of 1.83 goals per game.

Tyler Botte’s three goals have led the way for this great attacking corps. However, the Pride defense has not had as much luck.

They came into this game having allowed 10 goals in seven games for a mediocre 1.43 average goals allowed per game.

The Terriers knew this matchup would be a handful for their defense, but were hopeful that

they could maintain possession of the ball enough to create good scoring chances against a weak defense.

The game proved to be a tale of two halves, as BU was too busy in its own defensive zone in the first half, but was able to possess the ball and attempt more shots in the second half.

“We really did not play well the first 60 minutes,” said BU coach Neil Roberts. “It really was quite disappointing that we didn’t compete well enough. We were slow.”

The Pride came out ready to go right away.

They had the first two shots of the game and could have had more if it was not for three offside calls that went against them in the first 15 minutes of the game.

Hofstra controlled the pace of play and had the ball in its possession for just about the entire first half. In the 24th minute, their pressure paid off as midfielder Joseph Holland ripped a shot from 15 yards out that went in the top right corner of the net, just under the crossbar.

Sophomore goalkeeper Nick Thomson did not have a chance at the save, as he dove for the ball to no avail.

Similar play continued after the first goal. Hofstra ended the half with seven shots on goal while the Terriers were only able to put up two.

After junior midfielder Evin Nadaner’s shot that went wide in

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Redshirt freshman forward Parker Powell scored the Terriers’ only goal in their 2–1 loss to Hofstra Friday.

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After going three games without scoring a goal, the Terriers have looked strong offensively, scoring six goals in their last two games, winning 3–1 against North Carolina State University and the University at Albany.

It was a tough stretch for the Terriers to end the non-conference season, but things have dramatically turned around since their 1–0 loss to the University of Massachusetts on Sept. 14.

After a scoreless first half against NC State, junior midfielder Megan McGoldrick ended BU’s scoring drought in the 50th minute when she converted on a penalty kick.

“There’s no question it builds confidence,” said BU coach Nancy Feldman. “It’s a certain something we needed after being shut out a few games.”

Sophomore midfielder Ana Cuffia and junior forward Madison Clemens added to the scoring barrage later in the second half, helping the Terriers to a 3­–1 win.

BU outshot the Wolfpack 16–8

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in the effort, showing that they were not just opportunists, but they were consistently creating offensive pressure.

After ending the non-conference season with a blowout win, the Terriers looked to continue their strong offensive play against the University of Maine.

In a performance similar to their win over NC State, the Terriers capitalized on their scoring chances and utilized their depth and experience.

After falling behind early, senior Brea Hewitt came off the bench in the 29th minute and scored right away to tie the game 1–1.

“That was huge. Brea adds an element that is special. She is very very quick, and she’s also not only just quick, but strong.

Strong on her feet. Strong on the ball. She’s tenacious. She’s got a great mentality,” Feldman said.

“It was a huge for a team to score a goal in the first half after letting up a bad goal in the beginning of the game.”

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All Boston University fall sports teams officially began competition last weekend when the women’s tennis team traveled to Providence, R.I., for the Brown Invitational.

From Friday to Sunday, the Terriers competed with New England competition such as Boston College, Providence College and Brown University.

Binghamton University and Rutgers University also participated in the Invitational.

BU’s most success came from the doubles pair of senior Jessi Linero and junior Leonie-Charlotte Athanasiadis who claimed second place in the doubles category.

The pair went 3–1 during the event, defeating teams from Binghamton, Rutgers and BC. Athanasiadis/Linero defeated the highest ranking pair at the tournament, No. 39 Alex Kelleher/Olga Khmylev of BC, in their final match 8–6.

Other Terriers that finished above .500 at the tournament

were singles players sophomore Sami Lieb and freshman Lauren Davis.

Davis defeated an opponent from Binghamton. as well as one from Rutgers and finished with a record of 2–1.

Junior Kendal Drake struggled in singles play, losing all three of her matchups.

Of the three matches the London, England native played, two of which came against BC opponents, her best outing came against against BC’s Katya Vasilyev, when she lost in straight sets 6–1, 6–3.

Lieb split results to a pair of Brown Bear opponents and was victorious over a third opponent from Rutgers.

Lieb’s and Davis’ two separate pairs in the doubles category also each finished 2–2 over the weekend.

The tennis team next competes at the ITA Regional which begins on Oct. 19.

The Terriers will travel to West Point, N.Y., where they will spend five days competing in the tournament.

Friday, Sept. 28

Saturday, Sept. 29

By Tyler Lay Daily Free Press Staff

Field Hockey @ Albany, 3 p.m.

Softball vs. Boston College, 4 p.m.

Cross Country @ lehigh Invitational, All Day

M. Soccer vs. Hartford, 7 p.m.

M. Tennis @ UConn Invitational, All Day W. Golf @ ECAC Championship, All Day