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Despite negative changes, Allston still ‘hippest place’ Students thankful for $10M award from SMG alum By Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Contributor
When Richard McLaughlin moved to Allston almost 25 years ago, he said, it was a bit ratty — but he liked it that way. “I like Allston,” he said. “There has always been a lot of young people and pretty cool parties.” On the brink of Boston, Allston residents can buy thrift items at Urban Renewals, jam out to live music at Harper’s Ferry and shop for Brazilian groceries all within a short stretch of Brighton Avenue. Forbes magazine ranked Allston-Brighton the 18th “hippest hipster” neighborhood in America, according to a list released on Sept. 20. A number of residents said there has been change from the Allston of 20 years ago, from the increase in frozen yogurt stores to a rising number of clubs. Despite these changes, residents said, Allston has maintained its edge. Longtime Allston resident Joan Pasquale, the executive director of The Parents and Community Build Group, Incorporated, said Allston Village has always had a unique air to it. “It has always had a welcoming spirit,” Pasquale said. “My only disappointment is that I would like to see it get a paint job, but I would not want to change its personality.” Pasquale, who has lived in the area for more than 40 years, said Forbes “is misinformed, out of date and out of touch.” “Allston has always been the hippest
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Allston residents say despite changes over the years, the hip area is still an interesting place to live.
place,” she said. “It has been a bohemian, Greenwich Village kind of location.” Her organization’s main goal is to keep Allston Village a comfortable, quirky melting pot of people from around the world, Pasquale said. “It is a very welcoming community — it has always been culturally diverse and age diverse, from college students to senior citizens,” she said. “People can get a cup of coffee in their pajamas and nobody would
think twice about it.” Forbes determined the hipness of neighborhoods based on their walkability, number of neighborhood coffee shops, assortment of local food trucks and restaurants and percentage of residents who work in artistic occupations, the list stated. While not all residents agree with Forbes’ title, other Allston community
Allston, see page 2
School of Medicine awarded grant for work-life enhancement By Emily Overholt Daily Free Press Staff
Boston University School of Medicine received a $250,000 grant from the American Council of Education and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Tuesday for its work in career flexibility for academic physicians. The grant will facilitate more mentoring programs within BUSM, according to a press release. These policies and programs will cultivate a professional and personal balance for faculty. The mentoring would avoid career “burnout” while helping faculty seek advancement. “We are committed to the quality of academic life at Boston University School of Medicine and to faculty development,” said Karen Antman, BUSM provost, in the release. “This grant will support pilot pro-
grams that can be more broadly adopted, if found effective.” Beyond the mentoring program, grant funds will create a midcareer faculty development program to encourage career advancement and online database of mentors to encourage communication between peers and mentors, according to the release. “By attracting and retaining the best of the best, these winning medical schools are able to put themselves on a path toward excellence,” said Kathleen Christensen, program director of the Sloan Foundation in the release. “They do this through targeted efforts to address the unique work/life challenges faced by faculty. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is proud to partner with ACE to honor these winners and is deeply appreciative of ACE’s leadership on these issues.”
The University of Massachusetts Medical School, the Indiana University School of Medicine, the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the State University of New York Upstate Medical University also received the grant. The grant was presented Tuesday by ACE’s Board of Directors in Washington. “Medical schools face unique challenges in not just finding, but keeping, highly specialized faculty,” said ACE Senior Advisor and Project Director Claire Van Ummersen in the release. “The awardees have addressed this issue head-on. They should serve as examples not just for other medical schools, but for any institution facing a crisis in retaining a highly trained workforce.”
One year after Boston University Trustee Rajen Kilachand donated $25 million to endow the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Honors College, its students said they are appreciative of Kilachand’s second donation of $10 million. “I think we’re really fortunate,” said KHC and College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Anisha Kalyani. “It speaks volumes about the honors college and how important of a program it is.” Kilachand’s new donation will be used to renovate and rename Shelton Hall to Kilachand Hall, according to an email sent Monday to KHC students and faculty. Renovations would include a common room, KHC administrative offices, event space and official living space for KHC and other BU students. “I hope the renovated facilities will be completed before I graduate,” said Benjamin Coleman, a KHC and CAS freshman. “The honors college will have an actual home now.” College of Engineering junior Alexander Valentine, who will be among the first class to graduate from KHC, said by putting Kilachand’s name on Shelton Hall, people might recognize him and the donations he has given to the school more. “It’ll be good to get his name on a building so people know more about him,” Valentine said. “He’ll become part of the university. He’s making his mark.” Valentine said he learned Kilachand, a School of Management alumnus, was very in touch with humanity when he met him last year after the first donation. “He grew up in India, and when he came to BU, he didn’t have any idea what any of the customs were,” Valentine said. “He’s really human for someone who is so powerful and has so much influence over people.” Kalyani said Kilachand was involved on more of a “ground level” after she and other KHC students met and talked with him last year. “Other people sometimes donate, just have the big ceremony and then leave,
Kilichand, see page 2
Boston Garden street performers entertain onlookers despite perceived nuisance By Sanah Faroke Daily Free Press Contributor
A line of musicians runs the street from Boston Common to the Public Garden, featuring everything from a Hurdy Gurdy to a one-man band. The performances have led to the occasional noise complaint, many onlookers said they see the musicians as a part of the park experience. “We [my wife and I] came [to Boston] to visit our sons, and we didn’t leave,” said Donald Heller, the “Hurdy Gurdy Man.” “That was almost three years ago. I always play wherever I go.” Heller is a street performer in the Boston Garden who said he plays almost every day, accompanied by his dog Mackie. He plays a Hurdy Gurdy, a stringed musical instrument in the shape of a violin, made by Stan Montagnon. Heller said it is not hard to play and is played almost everywhere throughout Europe.
“This is a French one in the style of 17th century that was built for me 31 years ago,” he said of the one he plays. As Heller began to play his Hurdy Gurdy, he attracted a crowd. “He’s great,” said Adam Smith, a graduate student from Vermont College of Fine Arts who said he sees Heller often on his days off. While the music is nice and may lift the spirit of some passers-by, other pedestrians said they find street performers in the park to be a bother. Boston Park Ranger Marrero said people complain once in a while if the musicians are too loud. “They’re not supposed to have an amplifier,” he said. And while noise can be an issue for pedestrians, the street performers have their own issues. “Sometimes they start fights with one another because they want the po-
Performers, see page 4
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Street performers, including “Hurdy Gurdy” Donald Heller, entertain people in public places such as the Boston Public Garden.
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Kilichand donation to help KHC as ‘small community,’ junior says Kilichand: From Page 1
but he stayed and talked to us,” she said. “It shows that he really cared about the students he was helping.” CAS junior Nicole Snyder said it would be nice if the renovations in Shelton Hall included a place that seated all the students in KHC, which she said is fo-
cused on interdisciplinary educations. “KHC is really intent on giving us aspects on different disciplines with the idea that if you have a broader education, you can think outside the box in your own field,” she said. Snyder said Kilachand’s $25 million donation last year solidified the program and ensured its
stability. She said KHC is made up of a “small community within a larger institution,” that was established as the University Honors College in 2010. “We’re all pretty close, and even the people I don’t know I would definitely still feel connected to them because we’ve been through the same stuff and know the same people,” she said.
Snyder said Kilachand’s donation gives her more motivation to give back to BU and KHC in the future if she has the ability to do so. “Just any sort of donation can be seen as an investment,” she said. “So he [Kilachand] is investing in this broader education — he’s investing in new thinkers and new creators.”
Kalyani said Kilachand’s second donation will add to the first in efforts to improve BU’s infrastructure and to benefit KHC’s programs and students. “I think we’re privileged to have the opportunity to give back on a big scale like that,” she said. “His donations will help the honors college for years.”
Student: Allston nicer than perceived Allston: From Page 1
members still said Allston is an artistic, diverse community. Refuge Cafe barista Gabrielle Ryall , a three-year Allston resident, said she enjoys the atmosphere of working in Allston. “Our coffee shop is very engrained with the community,” she said. “We have art by local artists on the walls and we have regulars.” She said students are a large portion of her customer base. “Our clientele tends to be students either hung over on the weekend or grabbing a bite to eat between classes,” Ryall said. Jameson Stewart, a 25-yearold Allston resident of three years, said nothing specific drew him to the area, but the atmosphere kept him there. He said he has noticed a change in the short time he has lived there. “Now there are more students, and I think it has gotten nicer and more upscale,” Stewart said. “But there are so many frozen yogurt places.” McLaughlin said he has noticed a change in the area’s atmosphere. “There are more clubs and less dive bars,” McLaughlin said. “Hell, one even has a ‘no sneakers’ sign.” Many new places are generic, he said, and the area used to be quirkier than it is now. “I mean, look, there is a McDonald’s on the corner and there used to be a pretty cool restaurant there,” McLaughlin said.
Despite this, he said Allston is still hip. While the number of college students in Allston and Allston Village is very high, the area is still diverse, Pasquale said. “You can travel the world in Allston,” she said. “You walk down the street and you see one store from Korea, one from Burma and another from Vietnam.” Laura Alfisher, a Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior, said she grew up in Newton and periodically visited her grandparents in Allston. She said living in Allston Village never crossed her mind while growing up. “This is my third year living in Allston,” she said. “It is definitely cheaper than living on campus. I knew people here so it was an easy choice moving to Allston.” She said Allston — an area she has known all her life — is a far nicer area than most people believe. “I think that everyone is friendly here,” Alfisher said. “There are a lot of different people walking around, and a lot of punks among them. They get a bad reputation, but they tend to be really nice people. Everyone knows each other in this community.” Allston Village has always been an eclectic magnet for artists and musicians alike, Pasquale said. “When you’re here you feel comfortable,” Pasquale said. “You feel welcomed and like you have been here before. You don’t feel that in other places.”
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Students find IDs, costs deterrent to clubbing BHCHP takes med. services to How I met streets of Boston my roommate
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The moment I joined BU’s Class of 2016 F a c e b o o k group, I saw roommate surveys posted by future students for all to see and judge. RHEA OOMMEN Though I’m kind of the jobless person who likes to fill out surveys, I knew that I was not planning on finding a roommate in this manner. Roommate hunting on social networking websites is not a bad idea for some people. It is obviously much easier to spend the next nine months with someone you share the same interests with. Or is it? I filled in the fact-file anyway. It did not take that much time. I thought I knew myself pretty well, and I knew what I was looking for. Interests: Piano, writing, theater, singing … A day later, I got a friend request and message from this girl. She said she thought my answers matched hers pretty well. I stalked her profile a little and saw that most of her photos were of her in plays and musical productions. Her cover photo was of her on a stage, balancing on one foot in a flowery red dress with her mouth and eyes wide open. I didn’t recognize what scene she was playing, but it was definitely not one I have ever allowed myself to create before. “Looks like somebody needs to rethink their answers!” My heart told my brain. Am I interested in theater and singing? I am, in the sense that I love to watch the famous stuff like Broadway or any Disney classic. And I have been in two plays. However, I was not aware that there are real theater-crazed fans out there that care for the most bizarre productions. I’m sure they are interesting people, but if 100 percent theater-freak is what they’re looking for, then they shouldn’t look to me. I guess I could become one of them if I tried, but like many people my interests are so varied. I go through an identity crisis every morning. My moods change according to the weather and the songs on my iPod shuffle. Of course, there are things I’m sure I like — my favorite TV shows and my sleeping habits. Anyway, I decided to go for a random roommate, and I ended up with a pretty good deal. We may not be best friends, but we respect one another. So to all those out there who are not BFFs with their roommates, there is a bright side! But if you do happen to have any online roommate success stories, let’s hear them. Rhea Oommen is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at rheao@bu.edu.
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While clubbing is a weekend option for Boston-area college students, only a number of BU students choose to partake. By Eugenia Rozenzaft Daily Free Press Contributor
Boston University student Elise Yancey, a College of Communication sophomore, said she finds going to clubs difficult. “Boston has such strict rules about fakes [identification] and I just I feel that I have a good enough social life,” she said. “I just don’t think it’s worth the hassle and getting in trouble.” Yancey, among other BU students, does not include clubs in their weekend plans. “The boys are sketchy at clubs,” said Ally Westervelt, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore who has only been to a club once. “I think all types of girls will go to a club but there’s only one type of guy who will go to a club. A really sketchy guy who wants to get with any girl and as many girls as he can.” Roxy Ardebilchi, a CAS senior, said she used to go clubbing in Boston but no longer does. “I went clubbing here because I didn’t know it sucked in the beginning, and now that I know it sucks, I don’t go,” she said. “The crowd is not good and it’s just creepy, sweaty guys. I don’t like clubbing ‘cause there’s not a lot of talking; it’s a loud, humping
situation.” Christian French, a COM sophomore, said he does not personally care for clubbing. “I never go clubbing,” he said. “I don’t have a fake ID.” While other students avoid the social scene of clubs, Carlin Stiehl, a CAS sophomore, said he enjoys going to clubs. “Your friends go clubbing and it’s fun to go with a group of people,” he said. “You don’t really go clubbing here with just two people, with close friends. A lot of people go clubbing.” Stiehl said he likes the social atmosphere of clubbing. “[Clubbers are] very scene, like, socialite type of people,” he said. “The ones who go clubbing all the time are the ones in the photos of all the stuff.” Some students said they do not go to clubs because they are not 21 and cannot drink at clubs. “I can’t really drink so I don’t see the point of going,” said Richard Seibler, a CAS junior. “I’ve already had, like, six fakes taken away back home, so I don’t even want to try here.” Yancey said she thinks other activities appeal better to people under 21. “Sometimes, I’ll just stay on
campus and one of my friends will throw something at their apartment,” she said. “Being that Allston and Cambridge have so many college students, it’s not hard to find something that’s oriented to the below 21 crowd.” Other notable deterrents to clubbing include the cost. “It’s kind of expensive,” Yancey said. “I know friends who will spend $80 just for one night. So that’s also a factor as well.” Stiehl, who also goes clubbing in other cities, said Boston is particularly expensive. “It’s expensive here — the cover charges are outrageous in Boston,” he said. “They know that college kids are coming, so they rip you off. It’s like, a $30 cover charge at Bijou, [so] it’s pointless to go if you’re not with your friends there.” However, French said he sees how some people can enjoy clubbing. “I think what is productive is subjective,” he said. “If you think of being productive as going to a club and meeting lots of people and making lots of friends and making lots of connections, then go to a club and be productive, if that’s your thing.”
While the homeless face hunger, cold and a number of others problems, members of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program are traveling throughout the city to make sure these locals have access to adequate healthcare. The program is a part of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and has offered services to the homeless men, women and children of the Greater Boston area for more than 25 years. “I think our goal is always to provide the highest medical care,” said Romy Lee, a Boston University alumna who is the BHCHP case manager and street team outreach coordinator. “There is no disparity between what a ‘normal’ individual and a homeless individual would receive for care.” The BHCHP street team journeys throughout Boston and offers care to “rough sleepers,” homeless people who do not tolerate shelters or regular clinics, according to the BHCHP website. The street team specializes in treating homeless individuals all over the Commonwealth, Lee said. The team serves more than 11,000 patients a year in almost every part of Boston, including Braintree, Quincy, Malden and Everett, she said. BU Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior Erin Gathers, an intern for the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, said providing medical services to the homeless is very important to her. “I think one of the reasons why it is so important is that a lot of times the reason why people have ended up homeless is because they’ve gotten in trouble,” Gathers said. “You or I could get in trouble, but the structure that we have to fall back on, for one reason or another, falls out from beneath them.” Gathers, who worked with BHCHP during the summer, said the street team is active in seeking
Homeless, see page 4
Student demand too low for weekend BU Shuttle service, officials say By Victoria Pierce Daily Free Press Contributor
Though some Boston University students said weekend service for the BU Shuttle would be useful, transportation officials said demand during the day on weekends is to low to warrant the extra service. “It is far more difficult to justify the financial and environmental costs associated with extending the hours of the BUS’s operation into low demand periods,” said Dwight Atherton, director of Parking and Transportation Services at BU, in an email interview. Though demand on the weekend is low, BUS service begins at 7:30 p.m. to offer safe nighttime transportation options, he said. During daylight hours on weekends, students could walk or use other methods of public transpor-
tation since “the Charles River Campus is very walkable campus,” he said. Only 890 students hold current on-campus parking permits, Atherton said. Many students who live on the outskirts of campus rely on the BUS as their primary mode of transportation other than walking. “If you live on the furthest point of East Campus, and want to do things in West Campus, you can’t,” said School of Management sophomore Ayako Watanabe. A number of students, especially those in their first year at BU, said they did not know about this break in the schedule. “I assumed the BUS ran on Sunday [before 7:30 p.m.], so I was waiting at the StuVi bus stop,
BU Bus, see page 4
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Students express frustration over the Boston University Shuttle’s weekend schedule.
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Performers add to outdoor BUS highly unreliable, some students say experience, park-goers say BU Bus: From Page 3
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sition,” Marrero said. This is when park rangers try to diffuse the tension, Marrero said, although rangers are not allowed to kick performers out. “It’s not illegal to have street performers [in The Boston Garden],” Marrero said. Not all street performers perform in the Boston Garden for a living. Some, such as “the Hurdy Gurdy Man,” perform actual gigs. “If you just play street music, that means you never got to a level where you can present to a lot of people,” said Anicet Heller, Donald Heller’s wife. She said “you have to have real gigs” to make a living from performing. Many people in the park said they appreciate the sounds street performers bring to the park experience.
“I think it [the music] is part of the park experience. It transports you because you don’t hear the traffic,” said Carol Newton, a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. “It’s the full experience. The nature, being outside and the art,” said Hailey Rutt, a freshman at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Heller said he makes up his own songs and often improvises from the names and physical characteristics of audience members. “If you’re playing music in a public place, you want to make music for other people to listen,” Newton said. Sarah Hagens, a freshman at Bay State College, said weddings are more of a nuisance than the performers. “I think you should always follow your dream,” she said. “If it’s performing, then so be it.”
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and it never came,” said College of General Studies freshman Dani Segelbaum. “I was waiting about 12 minutes and was late for where I was going.” Atherton said the primary purpose of the BUS is to provide transportation between the Charles River Campus and Medical Campus. “It is intended to facilitate access by Boston University community members to our intercampus resources when the majority of offices are open and classes are scheduled,” he said. However, students said they still need the shuttle on weekends during the day. “I want BU transportation during the day on the weekends
because events still happen on weekends, and you need to make it across campus,” Segelbaum said. Jacqlene Boening, a freshman in the College of Communication, said she interns at WTBU on the weekends but lives in West Campus. “Getting to COM from West Campus in a rush isn’t ideal, especially in bad weather,” she said. Late night and weekend, including daytime, services were added to the BUS schedule in 2008, but daytime weekend services were soon suspended because there was not enough use, Atherton said. The BUS service has been in place since 2005 and has continued to add more stops, more vehicles and additional hours, he said.
Since 2010, the BUS has had a smartphone app that allows users to track its location. However, some students said that the BUS is still highly unreliable. “I’ve wait for hours at the Huntington Avenue stop only for it not to come,” said Theresa Prentice, a senior in the College of Fine Arts. Atherton said the shuttle service operates with six buses and eight stops Monday through Friday during peak hours, with 10-minute headways. Three buses operate during off-peak hours and provide 20-minute headways. Kristin Calabria, also a senior in CFA, said the stops the BUS makes are not ideal. “I never take it because it never goes where I need to go,” she said.
Pine Street Inn outreach offers homeless basic goods Homeless: From Page 3
people to help. “They go out and find people to make sure that they are getting the care they need,” she said. The street team asks patients where they sleep on the streets and when they would like to receive care, she said. They track all of the information in BHCHP’s computer system, Gathers said. Gathers said members of the street team forge close personal connections with their patients. “If [patients] didn’t feel personally connected to the people who are going out with the street team, then they could just move somewhere else,” she said. “We
wouldn’t be able to find them.” The BHCHP works with the Barbara McInnis House and with local homeless shelters such as the Pine Street Inn. Pine Street Inn spokesperson Barbara Trevisan said the BHCHP runs the medical clinic at their shelter. “As you can imagine, many of our guests are faced with a lot of different health challenges, so it’s great to have them right on site here,” Trevisan said. She said that as Pine Street’s goal is to get homeless people back on their feet and into housing, having medical services is great for many guests’ stability. “Pine Street has an outreach van that goes with things like
food, blankets and clothing, and we do take medical staff with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless out with us several nights a week,” Trevisan said. “We have people on the streets 365 days a year.” Heather Patrick, the appointed patient benefits coordinator at BHCHP, also interned with BHCHP during the summer. Patrick said she was struck by how some homeless patients opted to list their BHCHP case managers as their emergency contact on their medical forms. “It just shows the importance of relationships that can be built,” Patrick said. “That’s why I think it’s important to serve homeless people.”
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A 70mm masterpiece A film review of The Master Bryan Sih
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PHOTO COURTESY Weinstein Company Joaquin Phoenix returns from retirement as the leading role in The Master.
This is the film I’ve been waiting for. Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most humane directors to grace the silver screen, and the emotional power of his film is unrivaled. He tackles human conflicts that most wouldn’t touch. He succeeds in portraying potentially melodramatic material due to the authentic performances he fosters in the actors. They often reach the pinnacle of their expressive power. The Master contains the same poignant, arresting performances you would expect from the mature director and carries forth the elegant shooting style of There Will Be Blood (2007) with fresh, arresting images of naval life and ‘50s bourgeois society. One senses a more calculated, sure-sighted
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Anderson behind this 70mm masterpiece. The film revolves around Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), who has come home from World War II and is re-adjusting to civilian life. He stumbles upon an intriguing religious leader, Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Soon, Freddie is Dodd’s indifferent apostle — he joins the ranks of the Cause (the religious movement that Dodd preaches around America) by making Dodd potent drinks that contain paint thinner. The rest of the movie has Freddie converted to the Cause and subsequently questioning its legitimacy. Hoffman is delightfully explosive. Phoenix is monstrous one moment and evokes piteous tears in another. Dodd’s wife (Amy Adams) is unsettling and fanatical to her husband’s ideology. In a bizarre bathroom scene, she asserts authority over her husband, rendering him helpless, both sexually and verbally. Her character is a troubling piece to the puzzle that is The Master. The reception at Coolidge Corner on Sunday, from what I witnessed, wasn’t ecstatic, nor was it outright contemptuous. Some felt the film left something to be desired. Others sensed the deft control of true masters at work — namely, Anderson, Hoffman, Phoenix and the film’s composer, Jonny Greenwood. When artists of diverse crafts, each with their own distinctive voice, collaborate on a project, the results are irresistibly delightful. A movie audience deserves performances, music and images such as these. Always able to keep us enthralled in that regard, Anderson now asks us to explore our deepest human condition. He does this through Freddie, who some critics have seen as a misplaced protagonist, believing Dodd to be the proper focus. They fail to realize that Freddie is a man who begins the mov-
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Muse Staff Boston Fashion Week, a week-long celebration and showcase of local and foreign designers, kicks off today with a fashion truck showcase at City Hall Plaza and an opening night gala at the Mandarin Oriental. Although parties and photo shoots will be rampant during the week, this season, Boston Fashion Week will host an eclectic group of designers for the annual designer showcase. Emily Muller Of all the designers chosen to present their artwork this season, Emily Muller’s pieces are light and airy, designed in subtle and earthy draped fabrics. Muller’s Spring 2012 fashions included the drawstring skirt, tent dress and chiffon dress. She seamlessly blends comfort and femininity and shows that it does not take squeezing oneself into a curve-hugging bodycon dress to make a woman feel confident and sexy. Muller hails from the South End, and the local designer juxtaposes leather with silk, creates a story and simulates time travel through her textures alone.
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The experience of Brit-rockers Dry the River’s first Boston show following the release of Shallow Beds, the bands’ first full-length album, was one rooted firmly in the viscera Saturday. In the opening, Brooklyn-based Port St. Willow established an impermeable melancholy air built from gentle licks of guitar, billowing waves of low synth and the warm drone of backing vocals. Frontman Nick Principe’s vocals rose above it all, high and ethereal. Drums — sometimes subtle, sometimes robust — moved the songs forward with the cool
Tatiana Cueva When looking at Tatiana’s collection, the first thing that comes to mind is the boutique LF. She combines my absolute favorite trend, the ombre effect, with all things sheer, even sheer pants. An innovative designer, she uses vintage belt buckles as skirt closures, adding edge to such an elementary part of design. Tatiana designs for fearless women unafraid of polka-dotted parachute pants and plastic blouses. Involved in every part of the design, pattern making and styling, Tatiana’s cultured personality peeks through but leaves a hint of mystery trailing. Like the ombre effect she so valiantly uses in her designs, Tatiana blends a sultry and mysterious look with structured and feminine silhouettes. Mark Cordell Mark Cordell brings just the kind of edge that a city like Boston needs. Sure, he’s a fan of the color black and there’s nothing more this city needs than a pop of color, but his is a smoky, moody black with a mysterious, studded aura. As a fan of harem pants and fully decorated male models, Cordell combines rock and gothic elements with a stinging sense of rebellion. His collection, Tru Fiction, represents an attitude I would love to see in this city — pure individualism.
ie as the un-mastered man, an animal. He is the Dionysian, the too-much-ness of life. He sees sex in every Rorschach test, he imagines women without clothes as they dance before him, and he drinks anything that will get him drunk. Most of all, he loves unconditionally and without pretense. Anderson reminds us that he is human and enslaved by these impulses. The rest of the film is devoted to exploring what controls can be imposed on a man with such a voracity for life — can Freddie be tamed and civilized? And what better way to adequately reset the civilized man than a grueling war? This film is not about a post-WWII nation reeling to recover and the maimed generation it produced. Instead, The Master strips away our humanity and arrives at its essence by asking the question, “Who is the final master over our being?” Through Dodd, the film exposes the ways in which we try to control our reality and our selves. This is best summed up by Dodd’s early line, “I am a scientist, a connoisseur ... a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but, above all else, a hopelessly inquisitive man.” Dodd is the pinnacle of Rationalizing Man, the Apollonian man. Indeed, he has tried to free himself from his reality through his theories, religions and questions — all to find meaning. But who is the ultimate master, even over Dodd? Anderson’s ultimate proclamation of a final master is not one he shouts — his film is after the sublime. And if one views it while ignoring the surrounding hype and pretenses, he or she will discern just how thoroughly the film explores our susceptibility to be overcome by whomever and whatever provides us with love and understanding. No one, not even Freddie, can remain a sailor, free at sea, viewing the ship’s wake from the safety of the stern.
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motion of an electric train, an aural Acela. The pieces were long and loping, loosely structured and rough around the edges, but rendered honestly in a tender inelegance. With their plaintive sound, Port St. Willow weighed our soul with a sigh and added a few more lugubrious pounds. Anyone rocked sleep-side by the first set was wrenched from their reverie the very moment Indiana four-piece Houndmouth took to their instruments. Feel-good folk rock packed in short and sweet songs exploded out at the audience with all joy and fervor humanly conceivable. Simple and repetitive songwriting was enhanced and amplified by the inspired instrumentation the band builds around it. They were all equal participants in the joyful noise they created. The Nord keyboard blasted organ for their third number, “Penitentiary,” a song that roared through a country-gospel-esque chorus and searing guitar solo. It was a demonstration, repeated often throughout the set, of the perfect balance of influences that make them folk rock that rocks. Houndmouth deserves every ounce of renown that I am certain they’ll come to attain, and if every show they play is just as energizing and — above all — fun as this, they will be attaining it very soon. After casting the Hall into darkness for an inexplicable four minutes, lights rose and Dry the River took the stage. The venue was abuzz with excitement, reflected in the wide eyes of Peter Liddle, the band’s barefooted frontman. He reached for the mic, setlist scrawled in sharpie along his left arm. “You look incredible,” he told us, and off they went. Their sound began bundled up, tightly wound in a sphere of potential energy that slowly unfolded in their layered harmonies and bassist Scott Miller’s broad gyrations. Their voices together had the sound of old, smooth glass — a clear and round quality like a human harmonica. Equally as emotive, they replaced the energetic whimsy of Houndmouth with impassioned sincerity, though based on the visual alone, one could assume that this was a heavy metal show. A fiddle will go unnoticed in the presence of head-banging. They touched on softer sides, subsiding into songs such as “Bible Belt” and an even quieter number they performed while standing in the middle of the crowd, our attempts to harmonize swelling warmly below their own polyphony. Their final song was the mellow “Lion’s Den,” which, as per the status quo, did not stay that way. It exploded into a rapturous euphony of song and light worthy of the second coming of Jesus, who didn’t show.
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Mixed messages Boston University students received a flurry of text and email messages from BU Alert Service Tuesday night, containing information about an armed robbery in Brookline at 5 p.m. While a campus alert system is a worthy idea, BU’s system needs serious revamping. Students and staff should all be receiving the same messages at the same time. On Tuesday, that was not the case. Some students reported receiving delayed text alerts. Hearing from a friend that he or she received an alert and discovering that you did not is incredibly disconcerting, as a delayed message could put one in harm’s way. What’s more, one student reported receiving Tuesday’s three-piece message where the first part of the message was about the graduate student who was shot in April. The second and third parts of the message discussed the robbery incident in Brookline.
It is that sort of confusion or glitch that could incite panic. The BU community should not be receiving old alerts. Several students also reported receiving the Brookline text alert several times throughout the night. Not only does this scenario confuse BU Alert recipients, but it can incite panic as well. Has the situation changed? Should we be concerned? After receiving the same alert three or four, times, some recipients are going to start disregarding them. What the BU Alert needs to do is live by the motto, “Do it right, and do it well the first time.” Glitches happen. The service is trying to reach a lot of people at the same time. However, the system could and should be improved. Emergencies happen, and the BU community deserves an alert system that is exceptionally reliable. The current system does not cut it.
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I N T E R RO B A N G This week, Boston University’s Dining Services announced its plan to make a BU food truck. So, we here at the ‘ol Free Press wondered what kind of truck each school would create. • • • • • • • •
COM students would create a froyo truck. SMG students would propose an iPhones and Adderall truck. CGS students would push for a Happy Meal truck. CFA students would sell cigarettes out of their truck. ENG students would propose a protractors and calculators truck. BU Athletics would make a protein shakes truck. Dean Elmore would have a truck that blasts “Gangnam Style.” The FreeP would sell alcohol out of their truck.
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ove is a tricky emotion, especially in college. There are just so many aspects of being a college student on which to focus. Our interests range from athletics, to arts, to academics and span all the places in between. I become so passionate about so many things there is often a lack of space in which to melt into Justin Bieber-esque baby love. While it is important to focus on the here and now, maybe knowing when to get lost in a relationship is an admirable skill to have. We all have a friend who is adorably smitten with her boo thang. I myself am thrilled at how happy he makes her, though I roll my eyes at the frequent calls, the use of endearments, etc, etc. Still it is hard to look at these two people and not wonder how it is that anyone can be so irrevocably in love. College is a place of constant change. Year to year we grow, change majors, die our hair, start drinking espresso — whatever. We become different people. Knowing this, how can they possibly throw themselves head first into love? Even when they do, surely one of them must burn the sugar eventually, and then what? Is this type of love even on the market for the majority of college students? Our lives here are semi-permanent at best, so are we even looking for this kind of love? Should we be? I think ultimately we (and I’m broadly generalizing females here) are looking for the kind of love that comes with doe eyes and goodnight texts, though maybe we are selective with whom we can receive them from without abject annoyance. However, our current reality may be that this kind of love isn’t sustainable in a college environment, and maybe that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I have friends whose lives are categorized by relationships in a manner not dissimilar to the use of index fossils. It is easy to graph our lives into BSO (Before Significant Other) and ASO (After Significant Other). We all know by now that you cannot name those papers you wrote freshman year with the same clarity you can recall the people you spent it with. Maybe that’s the answer there, maybe all life is stratified into relationships, sexual or otherwise.
Due to the ephemeral nature of the dating game, sexual relationships have become a natural indicator of who you are and who you have been. Though there are those who fall into goopy love in college, it might be that finding it here shouldn’t be the point. Perhaps we should stop judging our past relationships in terms of pass or fail, love or lust, but rather based on the marks left on each other. So yes, our lives are transient. We are in a period of growth. We are constantly learning. So my answer is, the point of a relationship in college is not to be looking for wedding bells or even a Socratic other half. The point, like everything here, is growth. A good college relationship should be about a partnership in which you are able to learn something, and it shouldn’t even matter what. Maybe you are learning about broomball, or maybe it is about what you don’t want in love. Maybe it’s about a different perspective on life or it could be about sex. Boyfriends, girlfriends, the way the system is set up, the majority of us do not stay in each other’s lives post breakup. These are people we hold closely to us until one day we don’t, and that’s painful, that’s the risk. When it comes to an end, when it seems like there is nowhere to go and you are both about to start different lives, as long as you have left each other somewhere better than where you started, that relationship is significant, and it always will be. We can’t carry each other into every metamorphosis of self, but the journey is often more interesting than the destination anyway. If we accept that it is not about finding forever, but jumping at the significant things that pass us by, then maybe we will all be happier for it. As Raymond Dufayel, the Glass Man in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film “Amelie” says, “You don’t have bones of glass. You can take life’s knocks. If you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. So, go get him, for Pete’s sake!” Arielle Egan is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Fall 2012 columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at aegan@bu.edu.
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up, and that definitely open up a lot of possibilities for us position-wise for a lot of different players,” Starr said. “Having her back is huge for us and I think [she] is really going to help us start to convert on more offensive opportunities.” Apart from outside events, BU has also improved due to practice. With a continued focus on attacking and mental endurance, the team is going into Friday’s game offensively stronger both on and off the ball. “The biggest thing for us is that we play with good intelligence for 70 minutes,” Starr said. “[When we have lost] it’s not so much been because of what [other teams] have taken from us. It’s just been because of our decision making on the ball late in the game … and that is something we have definitely worked on.”
While Albany is coming off of a win and BU is coming off a loss, a major factor for Friday is opposing trends at Albany’s home field. The Terriers have won five of their six away games, whereas the Great Danes have only won one of their four home games. In addition, all three losses have been consecutive with the solitary win being against Hofstra University at the end of August. “I’m looking forward to Friday. We’ve done very well on [Albany’s] field,” Starr said. Although the Great Danes are in the midst of a losing season, they still threaten their opponents with a flood of offense. While BU has a higher conversion rate, the Great Danes are one of the only teams on the team’s schedule that have outshot the Terriers. With 153 shots — compared to Boston University’s 123 — the Great Danes may not score on every attempt,
but the threat to their opponents lies in that sheer volume. In scoring as well as on defense, there are two particularly dangerous players for Albany. Junior midfielder Corrine McConville leads the team in scoring with six goals in nine games and senior goalkeeper Kristi Troch maintains a 69-percent save rate. The Terriers have only one clear cut advantage — their defense is statistically better. Namely, senior goalkeeper Jess Maroney, reigning America East Defensive Player of the Week, boasts both the highest save percentage and the lowest goals-against average in the conference. When pressure builds, the woman in the net has consistently made the difference in close game. “The Albany–BU game has always been very, very competitive,” Starr said. “I’m expecting nothing else this Friday.”
of Terriers’ balanced offense Men’s soccer: From page 8
scoreless in only three of the 10 games. Aside from Simms, junior forward Anthony Santaga and sophomore defender Damion Lowe are also scoring threats. BU sophomore goalkeeper Nick Thomson and Hartford goalkeeper Viltsu Tuumi have similar statistics so far this season. Thomson has registered 33 saves so far this year while Tuumi has made 34 saves. Thomson and Tuumi have allowed 13 goals each this year. The Terriers’ offense has been relatively balanced this season, with seven different players scoring goals for the team. Only two BU players have scored multiple goals this season and both of them have been surprising contributors. Redshirt freshmen forwards
Parker Powell and Mac McGuire lead the team with three and two goals respectively and have combined to score four goals in the last two games. McGuire was sent off in the second half of the Terriers’ last game against Hofstra with a red card. The 2012 season will be the last season that BU plays America East conference games before moving to the Patriot League, but Roberts said he does not believe it will affect the game in a significant way. “We are looking at it as another game and game where we can get better. Obviously these are teams we have played a lot of before and the guys know them,” Roberts said. “Sure it’s different, but again it’s a game where we just want to play better than we did last week.”
Terriers start fall at Beanpot tournament BU to take on Maine Thursday Women’s lacrosse: From page 8
hind Stony Brook University’s Claire Petersen. “[Etrasco has been] playing really well,” Robertshaw said. “She’s just had a phenomenal fall. We’re going to see her game continue to grow, and I think she’s doing a really nice job of finding the net and being a really good goal scorer. Obviously a lot of eyes are going to be on her. All of our opponents know about her.” Robertshaw also said she anticipates a large contribution from sophomore attack Mallory Collins, the 2012 America East Rookie of the Year. In 2011, she led all America East rookies with 53 points on 45 goals, averaging 2.81 goals per game. “She just came back in really good shape,” Robertshaw said.
“She’s playing really well. I see her very confident, comfortable with the ball and able to make big plays.” The team is also playing with seven freshmen, and Robertshaw said she is impressed with their maturity, confidence and calm nature. “I’m excited about a lot of the freshmen. We have [midfielder] Ally Adams who’s coming to us from Maryland, she’s showing some nice play. Sofia Robins is a defender for us, she’s already fitting into our defensive schemes really well. She’s really confident, really comfortable, coming up with big-time ground balls,” Robertshaw said.“We’re trying to get [the freshmen] comfortable with our schemes, attack-wise and with our defensive set. “We really use this as that sort of building tool to get the freshmen and
sophomores more playing time and get them more comfortable on the field.” Robertshaw acknowledged that Sunday’s tournament will be challenging, but looks forward to seeing how her team handles the task. “I don’t think we’re going to get any easy games,” Robertshaw said. “I think when you’re facing the national runner-up and a good BC team that has most of their leading scorers coming back, it’s going to be a tough day. “It is something where we’re looking at the team, we’re seeing who is processing the information we’re teaching them. If the freshmen can come in and be goal scorers and not hide, which is something freshmen tend to do in the fall, I think we’re setting ourselves up well.”
Women’s hockey set for exhibition game with McGill Women’s hockey: From page 8
tion game once — their first season against the Bluewater Hawks. In four of its seven exhibition games, BU has held its opponents to just one goal. This is the first time BU will play McGill University. “Of all the exhibition games we’ve had, this will probably be the most competitive one because McGill is perennially the Canadian champion, or right there if they aren’t,” Durocher said. “So It’ll be nice to go up against a good team. “They usually have very good goaltending, so that’s a team that’s going to be a really solid team from top to bottom and one that we know will be well coached.” During the past few seasons, the exhibition game served as an
opportunity for Durocher to watch all three of his goaltenders in action, with each playing a period between the pipes. This year, however, the Terriers are down to just two netminders, and one is questionable for Sunday’s game. “We are at the point where we only have two goaltenders this year because Braly Hiller had one surgery already and has another one later on in the year,” Durocher said about who would be in goal on Sunday. “[We’re] playing it a little bit by ear because [senior Alissa Fromkin] is still finishing the final stages of her recovery from her surgery as well. “It’ll be a little bit of a read and react, but hopefully we’ll get [Fromkin and junior Kerrin Sperry] in there and each will get a
little bit of time.” While it is just one game, the exhibition against McGill is the only thing separating BU from its first official game of the season — a contest with Boston College. The Eagles edged out the Terriers in the Hockey East preseason coaches’ poll that came out on Sept. 20, as they received five first-place votes to BU’s three. “It takes more than one game or one week to know what you have to work on,” Durocher said. “That’s something that certainly goes on through the better part of the first half of the year, and then it’s kind of tweaking from there. But it’ll be nice to get people out there and break them into some of our systems and certainly get them ready for a big start with Boston College.”
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Sophomore midfielder Taylor Krebs scored a goal in the Terriers’ win over NC State. Women’s soccer: From page 8
your best game every conference game. Maine’s been a big rival.” Ssophomore forward Jordan Pellerin and junior midfielder Nikki Misener currently lead the Black Bears attack. Pellerin and Misener each lead the team with two goals and five points total. It will be crucial for the BU defense to keep these two off the ball and away from penetration. Perhaps the most potent part of the Black Bears game is the woman in front of the net, freshman goalkeeper Lauren Swant. Swant has started all nine games for Maine, and has posted an impressive 1.19 goals-against average along with three shutouts. Swant has already been named America East Rookie of the Week
twice. “We have to get the ball down on the ground on her,” Feldman said when asked about the keys to exploiting the two-time America East Rookie of the Week. “She’s a big kid. She’s powerful. She’s good in the air. I think the key is penetrating in the box, and than getting her down on the ground by shooting and shooting low.” The Terriers will need another big win to if they want to keep their chances alive for an at-large birth in the NCAA Tournament. They look to knock off a hot Maine team that has its eyes on revenge for last season’s America East Championship loss. First kick is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight.
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Terriers look to stay hot against Maine By Isaac Teich Daily Free Press Contributor
The BU women’s soccer team looks to continue its strong play and make it 26 consecutive conference wins against the University of Maine on Thursday at Nickerson Field. After struggling to put the ball in the back of the net, the Terriers have scored six goals in their last two games. Thanks in part to the play of sophomore midfielder Ana Cuffia, sophomore forward Taylor Krebs and junior Forward Madison Clemons, it seems as though the Terriers have turned their scoring woes around. BU coach Nancy Feldman stressed the growth of Cuffia and Krebs and their better understanding of the game as sophomores. “Both Taylor and Ana love to penetrate, and they’ve had to learn how to be more patient in penetration,” Feldman said. “I think both Ana and Taylor have done a good job as sophomores of understanding how to use width in the attack.” Their understanding of the game has shown, as both Cuffia and Krebs have made a huge impact on the outcomes of the last two games. Cuffia has scored a goal in each of the last two games and Krebs has had four shots the last two games and one on goal. Clemens has also played well these last two games, scoring a goal against North Carolina State University and recording two shots against the University at Albany. All three players will be a crucial part of the team’s success as they continue conference play. “We have to have a lot of possession. I think if we do that, and make them defend our shape,” Feldman said. “We get the ball out of the air, are able to move them. I think the game will flow our way.” Having not lost a game since Sept. 7, the Black Bears are likely to come into this game with a lot of confidence. The Black Bears are led by hcoach Scott Atherley, who is the schools all time-winningest coach. Now in his 13th season, Atherley and the Black Bears have battled closely with the Terriers on many occasions. Most notably, the Terriers defeated the Black Bears in the America East Championship last season, claiming a record fifth consecutive championship for BU. Feldman said the team is “pretty geared and fired up to win the regular season championship. In order to do that, you have to bring
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Men’s soccer faces Hawks in conference opener By Michael Bagarella Daily Free Press Contributor
The Boston University men’s soccer team will open America East conference play at home against University of Hartford on Saturday at 7 p.m. Prior to the loss against Hofstra, BU (2–5–2) played its first two home games of the season at Nickerson Field, splitting the home stand 1–1. On Saturday the Terriers will play their third home game of the season. “[Hartford is] a good team,” said BU coach Neil Roberts. “They got a freshman scoring a lot of goals. They are giving up goals, but they are also scoring a lot of goals. They are looking more experienced than last year.” Roberts noted how Hartford (6–4) found a rhythm at the end of the 2011 season in a stretch wherein the Hawks won seven of their last nine games. Included in that stretch was a 1–0 win at Nickerson Field on Nov. 9 in the America East semi-finals. The Hawks went on to lose the championship to Stony Brook University. In its last game, Hartford lost a heartbreaker to in-state rival Sacred Heart University. The Hawks went down 1–0 late when Sacred
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Sophomore goalkeeper Nick Thomson has registered 33 saves so far this season.
Heart broke the scoreless tie in the 83rd minute on a free kick. The score stayed 1–0 for the last seven minutes and Sacred Heart ended Hartford’s four-game winning streak. The loss marked only its second loss in a month. In addition,
it was the first time this year that Hartford had failed to score a goal. Coincidentally, the last time the Hawks were shut out was on Oct. 1, 2011, against the Terriers. Hartford defender Javoni Simms has a team-leading seven goals on the season. Additionally,
Simms is second to only Binghamton University’s Jake Keegan in the scoring category for the America East. The Jamaica native has played almost every minute of every game and has been held
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BU set for first America East game of season against Albany By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Contributor
In the first of five conference games, No. 12 Boston University field hockey team looks to get one win closer to a postseason bid with its match against No. 23 University at Albany on Friday. BU (6–3) is seeking its sixth win on the road while Albany (4–5) is looking to break out of a
losing season. Despite the difference in records, the upcoming game promises to be a fight due to nearly opposite skill sets. The Terriers have scored 10 of their 16 goals in the first half while the Great Danes have scored 11 of their 18 in the second half. “Albany is an outstanding team,” said BU coach Sally Starr. “They have some good
individuals, but they have [a] very good goalkeeper.” The main problem the Terriers have faced has consistently been failure to convert on their opportunities, but they have an advantage this time in that aspect. Out of all their shots they have scored 13 percent of them. Albany on the other hand has converted 11 percent of its shots.
Also in the Terriers’ favor is the return of the previously injured Sofi Laurito. The freshman forward, who had been recovering since the match against Providence College at the end of August, came back Sunday for a part in the match against No. 7 University of Virginia. “We have Sofi back in the line-
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W. hockey team prepares for season Women’s lacrosse to kick off with contest vs. McGill on Sunday fall season play with Beanpot By Meredith Perri Daily Free Press Staff
After a season that ended in heartbreak for the Terriers, the No. 6 Boston University women’s hockey team will get back on the ice Sunday afternoon when it plays an exhibition game against McGill University at Walter Brown Arena. While this game does not count toward the Terriers standings, BU coach Brian Durocher said it will give new players the opportunity to experience playing college-level hockey at BU. “I think it’ll be a way to definitely take a look at the new people that are here,” Durocher said. “It’ll be great to see [them] put the uniform on, get a feel for what we try to do as a team and certainly get themselves on the ice for the first time.” The Terriers feature a roster with eight new skaters this season. Seven of these skaters make up the
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freshman class. Junior defenseman and transfer Shannon Doyle takes up the eighth spot after playing two years at Colgate University. Although Durocher said he is looking forward to seeing the newcomers play in a game together for the first time, he will not see freshman forward Sarah Lefort. Along with senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk and junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin, Lefort will miss the exhibition game as she participates in one of Hockey Canada’s camps. Senior forward Taylor Holze will also miss the game as she continues to recover from surgery she had during the offseason. According to Durocher, the Terriers will face more of a challenge during this year’s exhibition game. As they enter into their eighth year as a program, the Terriers have only lost in an exhibi-
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The Boston University women’s lacrosse team will play its first game of the fall at the Beanpot Tournament in Cambridge on Sunday. The local tournament kicks off a fall exhibition schedule of three tournaments and an alumni game. The tournament has grown in recent years, and many talented teams from the area, including Colgate University, Harvard University, 2012 national champion Syracuse University and rival Boston College, will be competing. The Terriers will face Colgate, Syracuse and Boston College as they look to carry over their success from last season. BU finished the 2011–12 season with an overall record of 11– 6, with a regular season conference record of 6–0. However, its season abruptly came to an end as they were stunned by the University at Albany in the America East semifinals.
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In spite of last season’s disappointing elimination, BU coach Liz Robertshaw says she has confidence in this year’s team. “It’s early, but I think we’re seeing a lot of players coming back with a lot of confidence, so in that way I think we’ve improved,” Robertshaw said. “A lot of our sophomores and juniors are coming back and really feeling comfortable in the game. I think any time that happens you’re going to look better. If that can continue to progress, I think that’ll be good.” Senior attack Danielle Etrasco will likely lead the Terriers again this season as she aims to match her stellar 2011–12 performance, which earned her Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Associaton AllAmerican and IWLCA Northeast All-Region First Team honors. Her 80 points on 58 goals and 22 assists were second best in America East be-
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No Games Scheduled Despite his recent retirement, Brian “White Mamba” Scalabrine was still ranked above Eddy Curry in the NBA Player Rankings.