The Daily Free Press
Year xlii. Volume lxxxiii. Issue XVI
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Thursday, September 27, 2012 The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University
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The MUSE reviews film “The Master,” page 5.
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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 Pasquale, who has lived in the area for more than 40 years, said Forbes “is misinformed, out of date and out of touch.”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
By Nicole Leonard Daily Free Press Staff
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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.