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BU alumna underlines power of youth vote in summit Student Gov. moves foward in housing, 24-hour study space

By Joel Senick Daily Free Press Contributing Writer

CHARLOTTE—Boston University alumna and actress Alfre Woodard spoke during a student summit Tuesday at Charlotte’s Johnson C. Smith University to stress the importance of voting this November.

The conference coincided with the first day of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, which a number of students are covering as part of the Washington, D.C., Journalism Program.

“You can write yourself out of history if you don’t show up,” Woodard, who is a 1974 graduate of the College of Fine Arts and four-time Emmy award winner, said after the summit. “If you don’t vote, the process goes on with or without you.”

Woodard co-hosted “U-Future,” the interactive summit, alongside actors Hill Harper and Nicole Ari Parker. The conference was sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and featured a number of its members who fielded questions from students in attendance and oth-

ers tuning in online.

“Change has always been brought about by young people,” said U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, of Montana, to a rousing, standing ovation from the crowd of about 500. “You can change America — you are America.”

The two-hour summit produced a wide variety of questions from the student audience, ranging from loan debt to the responsibilities of the next elected congress.

“What congress can do is unify ourselves after being elected by you,” said U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, of Illinois, to the crowd of 15 local colleges and universities.

“They are young, but they are young adults,” Woodard said about the students who participated in the summit Tuesday.

“They are affected by policy, just as much, if not more than [older adults].”

In the final minutes of the summit, Woodard and her co-hosts read out loud a letter from First Lady Michelle Obama and

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Worcester Mayor Konnie Lukes.

The publicity surrounding Brown’s Democratic support stems from “the danger zone” he is in as he tries to break 50 percent in the polls, said Warren’s spokeswoman Julie Edwards in an email before the latest PPP poll.

In a state with only 11 percent of voters registered as Republican, Brown will need more than his party to win, Edwards said.

“In Massachusetts, any Republican candidate must get significant Democratic and Independent support to win,” Edwards said. “In 2012, it is likely Scott Brown will need anywhere from 350,000 to 400,000 Obama voters to support him.”

Marré said Brown is “always going to be the underdog” in Massachusetts.

Brown only votes with Republicans 54 percent of the time in Washington and does a deal of work “across-the-aisle,” according to a Brown campaign press release.

But Brown’s history of giving tax breaks to the wealthy and voting against job creation in Massachusetts, combined with his campaign’s strategy to portray Brown as an independent, may not secure success,

Boston University’s Student Government is eager to begin a productive semester on campus after working to promote agendas from last year, members said. “[This summer] we’ve been working hard on tackling issues like 24-hour study space, which we’ve made a huge landmark in,” said SG President Dexter McCoy. “We’ll be offering our first 24-hour study space in the closed dining hall in Shelton [Hall].”

The 24-hour study space opened Tuesday, McCoy said.

He said SG is working this semester on developing other similar spaces at various locations in East Campus and West Campus.

“Student Government has been doing a lot of work to prep for the year,” McCoy, a College of Communication junior, said.

McCoy said one of the first and simplest issues addressed was a name change from “Student Union” to “Student Government,” which will be officially voted on at the first meeting on Sept. 17.

In the interim, members have been referring to themselves by the new name, he said.

SG offered a moving service for BU summer staff, who moved from South Campus to their dormitories before the beginning of the semester, McCoy said.

“That was very successful and we were able to help a lot of students and they really appreciated that,” he said.

School of Management junior Caitlin Seele, advocacy committee chair, said she has seen progress over the summer with gender-neutral housing.

“It’s been going really well over the summer and a lot of headway has been made with it,” Seele. who was also last year’s SMG senator, said. “A lot of students at BU really show a lot of interest in it, and showed that they were going to respect it.”

Last spring, SG successfully created and officially proposal based on student surveys and submitted it to BU administration.

Administrators are working with a committee to discuss and research different gender-neutral housing options, Seele said.

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Boston University alumna Alfre Woodard speaks to an audience at the U-Future college summit in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday evening.

Sen. Scott Brown pushes indep. appeal, garners Dem. support

By Allie DeAngelis Daily Free Press Staff

As Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Sen. Scott Brown struggle in the polls, the Brown campaign stressed Brown’s Democratic side to keep the incumbent Republican afloat in a primarily blue state.

Fighting for a state that, before Brown, last elected a Republican senator in 1972, the Brown campaign is pushing his bipartisan voting record and independent voice.

MassINC Polling Group’s polling data released in July showed Warren with 40 percent of the vote, a two-point lead that lies within the poll’s 4.4-percent margin of error.

But a Public Policy Polling poll conducted in August showed Brown with a 5-percent lead, with 49 percent of participants saying he is “an independent voice for Massachusetts.”

Another Kimball Political Consulting poll of 592 people conducted in August showed Brown with 49 percent of the potential vote, a 6 percent lead over Warren.

Just before Brown’s climb up in the polls, the Brown campaign stressed Brown’s democratic and independent voter

appeal.

Brown’s campaign launched a new series of three TV ads in August entitled “Democrats for Brown,” each focusing on one of Brown’s Democratic endorsers.

The ads feature Democratic politicians who support Brown, including one featuring Former Bristol County District Attorney Paul Walsh.

Massachusetts Rep. Paul Casey, of Winchester, is the latest Democrat to join Brown’s endorsement list.

“We are very excited,” said Alleigh Marré, Brown’s press secretary in a phone interview. “It helps portray that Scott’s message is resonating across the aisle.”

Brown’s message, listening skills and accessibility are what made the mayor of Leominster, Dean Mazzarella, choose to endorse Scott Brown.

“I’ve been waiting for somebody like Scott Brown to come around for a long time, so it made it pretty easy to endorse him,” Mazzarella, an independent voter, said in a phone interview. “In my view, he has not taken party sides.”

Brown has garnered more than seven Democratic endorsements, including former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn and former

Uber car service survives state ban, still angers taxi companies with ‘unfair competition’

By Nicole Leonard Daily Free Press Staff

Although the Massachusetts government has allowed the luxury car service Uber to operate in the state until further notice, Boston taxi businesses said they face “unfair competition” from a service that does not undergo the same regulations as their cabs.

Steve Sullivan, general manager of Metro Cab Association Inc., said Uber skews the competition between transportation companies.

Because there are no standards or regulations currently in place nationally for the type of technology Uber uses, it creates “unfair competition” between other transportation companies, he said.

“They have no regulations on what they can charge like city taxicabs do,” he said.

“They can buy a used car and put it on road, but a cab needs to be new. The expenses to go through all this are high. To do the same

business, without the same expenses, is an unfair balance.”

The state government banned Uber’s technology in early August “for using a measuring device not conforming to standards,” according to court documents.

But the Massachusetts Division of Standards later allowed Uber to continue business on a provisional basis while the two parties worked to fit Uber’s technology to national standards, according to a Massachusetts Division of Standards statement.

“We want a dialogue with the government and regulators to help them understand the technology better,” said Michael Pao, Uber’s general manager for Boston.

“We want to continue to deliver reliable, consistent transportation to thousands of Bostonians while that is going on.”

The driving service launched in San Francisco in 2010 around a smartphone

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Boston cab companies say car service Uber poses unfair competition because Uber does not have the same regulations and standards as Boston cabs do.

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Woodard’s interests in pol. Campus leaders to convene with Student Gov. originate from early age Union: From Page 1

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a message from President Barack Obama’s Twitter account. Both encouraged students to get involved with the political process this fall.

“Hill [Harper], Ari [Parker] and I expect great things from you,” Woodard said to the audience, moments before the summit ended. “We named this ‘U-Future’ because we can imagine you in it, successful and triumphant.”

When she was the same age as those in attendance Tuesday, Woodard said, politics made up an extensive part of her life. Years before she stepped foot on Commonwealth Avenue, Woodard’s father encouraged her to form an opinion on the national issues of the 1960s.

“We had to watch the news every night,” said the actress, who has had recent roles in HBO’s “True Blood” and TNT’s “Memphis Beat.” “I started going to rallies when I was 14, I used to help make the coffee and the posters.”

During her time at BU, Woodard was an active member of the anti-war movement. She once participated in a protest by lying down on the Commonwealth Avenue rail tracks, halting a trolley. She said her time in Boston helped her grow as both an actress and political activist.

“You can’t commit yourself to a discipline like [story-telling] and not care about the [audience],” Woodard said. “So I think politics and art are inseparable.”

“All signs are very bright for coming to campus very soon,” she said.

McCoy said in this upcoming semester, there will be structural changes to SG. “One of the biggest things that we have done is forming a central nucleus of leadership here on campus, so I now have what’s called a president’s council where heads of various student and administrative departments sit on,” he said. “We meet regularly to correspond with each other.”

McCoy said a goal of SG this

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Massachusetts Democratic Party spokesman Matt House said in an email.

“Come November, voters won’t forget that he chose to stand with national Republicans instead of middle-class families,” House said.

That Republican stance includes subsidies for big oil, Edwards said.

But Marré said Brown is a “friend of motorists, not energy providers” and is working to keep gas prices low.

It is Warren, she said, who is destroying jobs and plans to raise taxes $3.4 trillion in the next 10 years.

The Warren campaign released a statement in August that said “phony attacks can’t hide [Brown’s] record for billionaires

and Big Oil.” Edwards said Brown has also received endorsements from conservative figures such as Mitt Romney, and said Brown’s reelection would give the Republicans the ability to enact their “extreme agenda” with “disastrous” results for Massachusetts families.

“Elizabeth has been out visiting cities and towns across the Commonwealth, meeting with voters and talking about her efforts to create a level playing field for working families,” Edwards said. “That’s what she’s going to keep doing each day from now until the election.”

This marks Brown’s first full campaign since he was chosen in a special election in 2010 to fill Democratic U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat prior to his death.

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next month or so really strengthen the stature of Student Government on campus as a representative body,” he said.

McCoy said there will be some turnover in the SG body this semester based on senatorial elections held by residence halls and schools.

Cherice Hunt, director of communication for SG and COM junior, said another specific goal for the semester was to get incoming students more involved.

“The best way to get involved we be to try and influence the university,” she said.

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semester is to bring together various student leaders from across campus under one voice for common issues.

“Our [general] focus will be of course on the entire student body,” he said, “but we’ll be focusing on tapping into and accessing our student leaders population [as well].”

McCoy said SG officials will be doing a student ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Center for Student Services to kick off the Commonwealth Avenue Fair Sept. 7.

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By Jasper Craven Daily Free Press Staff

The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department from District A-7 and D-14 from Aug. 29 through Sept. 4.

At some point between Saturday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at 9:30 a.m., a thief vandalized a 2010 black Jeep Liberty parked on 5 Amboy St. in Allston. The thief took the owner’s driver’s license, an amplifier, a Coach wristlet and a subwoofer. The thief also damaged some electronics and a door.

Case dismissed On Tuesday at about 11 a.m., members of the Explosive Ordinance Unit responded to a radio call for a suspicious silver metal case left on the steps of 52 Academy Hill Road, the address for the Brighton District Court. After arriving at the scene, tech officers performed their duties to find what was in the case.

Officers found it was empty and not a threat.

Watch & ward On Saturday at about 11 a.m., a couple left their apartment on Brighton Avenue in Allston and came back at about midnight to notice their apartment had been broken into through the front door. The stolen items were a pair of pearl earrings, a Swiss army watch, a Timex watch and an Apple computer. The police told the victim to file a supplement to the original report at the station.

They also told the victim about the Trace Direct program, which provides a database of stolen goods that may help in recovering the item, according to its website.

Special delivery At about 12 p.m. on Friday, a U.S. Postal Inspector found a suspicious package sent to East Boston.

After a canine test for narcotics was positive, the drug unit, postal inspector and state police delivered the package. The postal inspector approached the suspect and confirmed he was living in the apartment addressed on the package. When the suspect signed for the package, police arrested the suspect after about 1,300 oxycodone pills were found.

Carl Desert, of East Boston, was arrested for trafficking drugs.

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Website aims to expedite room swap process Taco Bell, BU

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By Kaylee Hill Daily Free Press Staff

Three Boston University students have created a website to expedite the room swap process on campus, although some students said they have yet to see desired results.

On BURoomSwap.com, students can set up an account with their names and BU email addresses to find another student who wishes to switch rooms, said College of Communication senior Maurice Rahmey, one of the website’s creators.

“Our website allows students to browse all listings, search for your best match — which are matches that put students with the students who have what they want,” he said. “There is the option to ‘propose swap.’ It also shows the rooms the students are interested in and the students who are interested in my room.”

Rahmey created the website with Matt Auerbach and Guy Aridor, both College of Arts and Sciences juniors.

He said students input information, including their gender, current living situation and up to five room choices, and the search engine will attempt to find a match that fits.

“All the contact is done

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Boston University students attempt to find suitable room-swap matches quickly and efficiently on new website “BU Room Swap.”

through the site — students facilitate communication through one click,” Rahmey said.

Some students said the website is a good idea, but that finding a swap is still difficult.

“It’s a really good idea and I’m surprised no one has thought of it before,” said Connor Cahill, a sophomore in the College of General Studies. “It is a much better option than trying to deal with BU housing. However, there are only around 15 listings for what I’m looking for, so it really hasn’t

Passengers on the Red, Orange and Blue Lines will know when their next train arrives if countdown signs in South Station, Park Street and Downtown Crossing are successful.

The Green Line and Silver Line, however, are not expected to be recipients of the potential installments.

The signs count down to the estimated time of arrival for the next two trains on each route, said Joshua Robin, director of innovation and special projects for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

“We’re using live real-time train location to generate those predictions,” Robin said, “so we track each train that’s moving in our operation control system.”

He said South Station first received the signs August as part of a pilot program that, if successful, will

worked for me so far. Hopefully it will in the next few weeks, though.”

Chloe Director, a sophomore in COM, said she is also surprised that BU had not already created a similar website.

“I am so shocked at how techsavvy BU is in other ways,” she said. “However, it is students [who] have created this easy system.”

Director said she thinks the

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Gov. Deval Patrick, Kennedy III honor Mass. legacy at Democratic National Convention’s opening night

By Samantha Tatro Daily Free Press Staff

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told Democrats they needed to “grow a backbone” and stand up for President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night.

Patrick urged Americans to stand with the American dream and reelect Obama, according to a livestream provided through the convention’s website.

“This is the election of a lifetime because more than any one candidate or policy, what is at stake is the American dream ... and the dream is central to who we are and what we stand for as a nation,” Patrick said.

Patrick hinted at Massachusetts’ Romney years and said the state was one of the things Romney did not fix.

When Romney left office,

education was cut, business confidence fell and there was a structural budget deficit, he said.

“He’s a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was a lot more interested in having the job than doing the job,” Patrick said.

With the help of the Obama administration, Massachusetts is rebuilding their roads, bridges and community, he said.

“We still have much more to do, but we are on a better track because we place our faith ... in our values and in our common sense,” Patrick said.

He said the people need to band together instead of turning on each other.

Obama’s list of accomplishments is long and impressive but hardly told, Patrick said.

“If we want to win elections in November and keep our coun-

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spread to the Red, Orange and Blue Lines.

“Depending on the pilot, that will determine how and when we expand [to] the other lines,” he said.

The MBTA installed the signs in Park Street on Saturday, with a goal to set up the third pilot station in Downtown Crossing within a few weeks, Robin said.

Every few minutes, announcements tell riders when the next trains will arrive.

He said the software modifications for the signs cost $790,000, 80 percent of which was federally funded with the other 20 percent stemming from MBTA funds.

“Our customers really view it as a game change, I think,” he said.

But commuters on the Green Line are excluded.

“At this point in time, we do not track the Green Line precisely

enough to generate accurate predictions,” Robin said. “So we just don’t track the Green in as fine a way as we do the other lines, but it is a system we’re designing for the future.”

He said that system is “definitely a handful of years away.”

“Really the signaling system is what tracks the other lines, and we just don’t have a similar system for the green line,” he said.

Students at Boston University, in the heart of the Green Line’s B train, said the signs might not be necessary.

Third-year Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Mark Zastrow said other cities he has visited worldwide have similar signs.

Zastrow said Seoul has a fantastic subway system.

“Every stop has those signs that tell you where the next train is,” he

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try moving forward my message is this: it’s time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe,” he said.

He said he would not stand by and watch Obama be bullied out of office and neither should anyone else.

“Quit waiting for polls or super packs to tell you who the next senator or president will be,” Patrick said. “We’re Americans. We shape our own future. Let’s all start by standing up for President Barack Obama.”

Earlier in the night, Fourth Congressional District candidate Joseph Kennedy III spoke to honor the memory of Edward Kennedy, his uncle.

Kennedy III said that although this is the first convention without his uncle, his uncle was “here

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Taco Bell is rumored to be coming back to Boston University’s campus next year, but some students are concerned about the health problems that the fast food may cause.

Dining Services tweeted on Aug. 28 “So now we can talk about it. #TacoBell coming to campus next yr [sic]!”

Dining Services officials declined to comment on the subject.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said there was no agreement with Taco Bell as of yet, but BU is always looking for new dining options.

College of Communication junior Ariel Ferrante said she had heard Taco Bell was coming to campus and was looking forward to it. However, she said she worries about the impact it might have on herself and other students.

“I was excited to hear about a Taco Bell coming to campus since I eat it all the time at home,” she said. “But then I thought, wow, this could be a really bad idea, that something I love and that is so unhealthy for you, is going to be close to me at school.”

Ferrante is not the only student who expressed health concerns about a fast-food restaurant coming to campus.

College of Arts and Sciences junior Rachel Atcheson said she is not surprised to hear that a Taco Bell might be introduced to campus, but that she is concerned about the healthiness of the food.

“Is there really not a smaller, more local, healthier business we could have invited?” she said.

“Another big, unhealthy corporation coming to campus doesn’t surprise me, but it is a little bit unsettling.”

Atcheson, a member of the BU Vegetarian Club, said while she “couldn’t endorse an institution that supports animal cruelty,” she feels better that students who cannot make their own meals at home would be able to have vegan options at Taco Bell on campus.

“Taco Bell is highly veganfriendly, offering numerous op-

Taco Bell, see page 4

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College of Fine Arts freshman Alexander Golob receives ice cream at CFA’s Ice Cream Social “I Scream for CFA!” Tuesday in the Commonwealth gallery.

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BU room swap website in New taxi regulations make cab rides safer, need of students for future cheaper than Uber car service experience maintenance, creator says Uber: From Page 1

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site will make it far simpler to swamp rooms.

“Last year, I was very avid about swapping rooms, and I was able to do it, but it was a long and confusing three-way swap that I facilitated myself,” she said. “The site looks good.”

About 350 people have registered for the site, and there are two to three acceptances leading to swaps per day, Rahmey said.

“Ideally, we want the school to use our website instead of the current process for swapping dorm rooms which involves going to the housing office, filling out a card with students’ information and then browsing through a binder of other students searching for a new living arrangement,” Rahmey said. ”I won’t be here next year and the other creators will be working on other things.

We want someone to maintain it.”

The website was created with the help of BU’s Digital Media club.

Rahmey said group swapping, or students swapping rooms with their roommates as a group, will begin this weekend.

“So far, we have only allowed individual swapping,” he said.

“Students will make a listing with their roommate who will get an email confirming the room swap.

Then students may swap with other groups.”

Rahmey said Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore has been very supportive of the website and introduced it to the BU Housing Office.

Brianna Vieira, a COM sophomore, said the website is userfriendly and easier than going through the traditional BU channels.

“The process was cool, easy and convenient to use,” she said.

“I didn’t know how to go about switching, so this is an easy way to get in touch with other students. I proposed a swap with a girl across campus and am hoping for the best.”

Majority of Charles River campus in favor of Taco Bell, students say Gaming: From Page 3

tions free of animal products,” she said. “It is comforting that Taco Bell incorporates veganism into their menu, and for that I am the tiniest bit uplifted.”

CAS sophomore Daniele Gargamelli said she did not care if a Taco Bell was put on campus or not, but other students would support the addition to dining options.

“I’ve had it a few times, but it’s not really going to affect my life that much,” she said. “I think a lot of students would want it.

Whether it’s the best idea, I don’t know, but I think a lot of people

will be happy.”

Gargamelli said a Taco Bell might not affect weight or health much on campus because of the exercise students get from going class to class.

“We walk a lot here, so you’d have to eat an awful lot for it to make an impact,” she said.

Ferrante said overall, she and a lot of her friends would be happy if BU put in a Taco Bell for students because of the quick, onthe-go service, despite the food chain not being what she called “the healthiest place to eat.”

“I know I will personally have to resist going there all the time,” Ferrante said.

app that uses GPS technology and its own electronic measuring device for the fares and charges, Pao said.

Users of the driving service download the app, register a credit card on file and hit a button on their phones to contact the closest driver to their location for pick up, he said.

“We like to think of ourselves as more of a luxury,” Pao said.

“We have black cars with limo drivers versus normal taxi drivers.

We’re looking to create a five-star service and give it to everybody.”

Other Boston taxi cab companies, however, said they are unhappy about Uber’s continued business in the city and prefer the regulations for safety purposes, Sullivan said.

“In the cab industry, the city does criminal background checks for drivers before he or she gets a license. [The drivers] get record checked every year they drive,” he said. “At Uber, there is no city background check on those driving.”

Sullivan said even though taxicab companies must abide by more rules, the regulations in place make traveling in a taxi safer.

“There are more demands on us with regulations, but it’s a safer transportation with those regulations and it’s cheaper,” he said.

“I’ve been in cab service over 40 years, and you can save so much money by using a cab service.”

Tiffany Mitchell, manager and co-owner of Top Cab and City Cab, said the competition other

driving services such as Uber bring to Boston does not pose a problem for her company and the business she gets.

“I eat competition for breakfast,” she said. “I go after all of them. If you have a strong, solid association, competition means nothing to you.”

While Uber’s fare prices are around 50 percent higher than normal taxicab companies, the driving service aims to show a way of transportation that is different from others in the city, Pao said.

“We provide a more reliable, convenient experience. Certainly there are other choices, but we want to give the alternative,” he said. “It’s another option out there.”

Kennedy III celebrates Ted Kennedy’s legacy during DNC speech, Deval defends Obama Lobby: From Page 3

with us this evening.”

“For my uncle Teddy, politics was always about people,” Kennedy III said. “He came from a big family and knew that people were more than line items.”

Kennedy III then asked everyone to pause to remember his

uncle.

The tribute video played at the convention featured photos of Edward Kennedy’s time in the Senate, as well as clips from his debates with Mitt Romney while running for the Senate seat.

The video also featured Kennedy campaigning with Obama while he was running for the pres-

idency, a theme woven in both Kennedy III and Patrick’s presentations.

Patrick urged everyone to stand up for their president.

“Let’s go tell everyone that we meet that when the American dream is on the line,” Patrick said. “Barack Obama is the man we want.”

Some students say real-time T updates not necessary MBTA: From Page 3

said. “Those definitely make a difference when you are worried about being late — just psychology.”

But, he said, it is a hard call to determine if these signs are worth the investment.

“You have to think long term when you are looking at a large part of the Boston infrastructure,” Zastiow said. “You always have to invest

in these long-term things to keep it up to date.”

Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior Tynaya Frasier said the trains run frequently already, so she does not mind waiting.

“Fares have already gone up this summer,” she said. “If they are going to go up anymore they should just do away with it. There are apps that can estimate the schedule of trains.”

Sixth-year GRS student Mike Wheeler said he would like to know when the T comes, and he does not have a smartphone so he cannot look it up.

He said the signs are a good thing, but he is not sure if it is good right now.

“I’m not sure its necessary above ground,” he said, “but underground would be nice, in the perfect world where they have all the money.”

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s students get settled into their daily lives at Boston University, sometimes they might forget that there are in fact places to hang out besides the George Sherman Union, the BU beach and the third floor of Mugar Memorial Library. So here are a few things you must do during your time at BU. DO: LEARN HOW TO READ THE T MAP nown for its nine stops throughout BU’s campus, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority can be a student’s best friend or worst enemy — depending on timing. Returning students recommended figuring out the T before stepping onto the bustling platform.

“Public transportation is very important — when you go to school with 30,000 other students having a car is very rare,” said College of Communication sophomore Jason Celaru in an email interview. “It is hard to find park-

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DO: VISIT OTHER COLLEGES s easy as it is to stay in the BU “bubble,” students often take advantage of the plethora of colleges in

Boston.

“The best part about Boston has to be the colleges,” McDonald said. “It’s surprising how many colleges there are in the immediate area.”

“You go to the Commons and there’s Suffolk and Emerson ... down toward Commonwealth Avenue, there is

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Agganis Arena, located in West Campus, is known for hosting Boston University hockey games.

DO: ATTEND CITY AND COLLEGE SPORTING EVENTS enway Park is down the street from campus — no need to worry about parking!

“I’ve grown up right outside of Boston all my life. My entire family grew up in Charlestown,” McDonald said.

“I’m most familiar with the Kenmore area. I’ve been to more Red Sox games than I can count, I have met players and I have been on the field. On days with games, you’ll barely be able to get on the T.” As for BU’s hockey team, the Agganis Arena is on the same street as campus. Students can walk, take the bus or ride the T to games.

“I definitely recommend going to hockey games, especially the first one. If you got a sports pass, it’s such a great value and one of the best showcases of school spirit,” Effune said. “Even if you’ve never seen a hockey game, you’ll pick up the cheers and dislike for BC faster than you think.”

Ask any student — BU’s hockey team is a favorite.

“BU is very big on school spirit. We have a strong hockey team that students come to watch all year long. Some students even come in full body paint,” Celaru said. “It’s something that you can bond over with other Terrier fans. I haven’t been to a single game where I wasn’t at one point or another on the edge of my seat.”

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Learning the different paths of the Green Line can save time.

ing spots and even if you can, it is not very cost effective because Boston has a very efficient transportation system.

“The T runs right through Boston, and you can easily get to Logan airport, South Station or any corner of the city by using this cheap and easy transportation.”

Kenmore Square is a heavily populated T stop because the A, B, C and D Lines run through it. Students who live in or near Kenmore Square can take any line from the city into this station.

“Getting on the B Line in Kenmore Square is probably the best thing to do,” said School of Education junior Lauren Effune in an email interview. “The trains come so much more often and it’s in the middle of one of the most popular areas on campus.”

The MBTA offers some solutions to making transit quick and painless.

“Get a CharlieCard — A CharlieCard makes boarding MBTA buses or trains as simple as tap and go,” said Joshua Robin, the MBTA’s director of innovation and special projects.

Returning students also warn to be wary of the shaky trains.

“For the Green Line, be sure to hold onto something,” said COM sophomore Mike McDonald in an email interview. “I’ve seen more than a few people think they’re too cool to hold onto anything and hit the ground. It may have happened to me once or twice.”

DO: CHECK OUT NATURE SPOTS any students recommend going in new directions to evade the tall downtown Boston buildings and see more of the city’s natural beauty.

“College in Boston is definitely an experience like no other. Unlike New York City, Boston moves a little slower without losing that city-life feel,” Celaru said. “Take Boston in your own hands and capture its beauty. Go to a Sox’s game, go to a movie in the Commons, or just go on the T, jump off at a random stop and explore. Some of the best memories I’ve had in Boston were spontaneous and random.”

“I recommend getting yourself off campus,” Effune said. “Boston is such a vibrant city with so much to offer.

You can go for a walk on Newbury St., take in the sights for free at the MFA, or go for a walk in the Boston Commons or on the Esplanade.”

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This famous statue of John Harvard resides in Harvard Yard.

Boston College and then of course Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and many more. Not only are there tons of choices where to go to school in Boston, but it really makes Boston a fun, college city.”

Many colleges grant students from other universities access to their libraries.

“My favorite part of Boston is that it is such a college city,” Celaru said. “It is inhabited mainly by college-aged people, so making new friends, even at different colleges is always very easy. Just be careful. If you visit BC and they figure out that you’re a Terrier, you will be judged until the second you leave, but there’s nothing wrong with a little healthy college rivalry.”

Despite the college rivalry, a number of students in Boston will agree on rooting for the Red Sox and the Bruins.

“As for college hopping, the 40-plus schools in the area are part of the reason I chose to attend BU,” said College of Arts and Science freshman Jake Saitman in an email interview. “It’s such a diverse college city, and I can’t wait to meet people from other schools as well as mine. I have quite a few friends from home coming up to school in Boston as well, and I plan on seeing them a few times.”

Other colleges that are slightly beyond of Boston but can be easily visited are Harvard University, Tufts University and Brandeis University.

And the Don’ts ...

Don’t: Rely on the T as a ride home on late nights.

Don’t: Forget the difference between inbound and outbound.

Don’t: Assume the BU Shuttle (BUS) will be on schedule. Just don’t.

Don’t: Eat too much of that oystah chowdah in Quincy Mahcut!

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Opinion

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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University 42nd year F Volume 84 F Issue 3

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Rights violation?

A federal court judge recently ruled that a Massachusetts inmate’s sex-reassignment operation must be paid for by the state, according to The Boston Globe.

In 1993 Robert Kosilek was found guilty of murdering her wife and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

That same year Kosilek changed her name to Michelle, while living in an all-male prison.

Doctors in Kosilek’s prison identified sex-reassignment surgery as the only treatment for her gender identity disorder.

The legal battle began in 2000 when Kosliek filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Correction after it refused to pay for her surgery. Kosliek argued that the department inaction violated her Eighth Amendment rights, the right against

cruel and unusual punishment.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark Wolf sided with Kosliek, ruling that her Eighth Amendment rights were indeed violated and that the state must pay up.

While anyone who wants a sex-reassignment operation should be able to go out and get one, it isn’t necessary that the state provides him or her with the funds to do so.

Moreover, Kosilek’s imprisoned because she committed a crime. Prison isn’t supposed to be the happiest time of your life. It is too bad that Kosilek didn’t requested her operation after she was imprisoned.

Looking forward, we wonder how the DOC will respond to Wolf’s decision, and if any other inmates will make similar requests.

Music ownership

Major news organizations have rumored that actor Bruce Willis is suing Apple because of a policy that prohibits him from bequeathing his iTunes music collection to his four daughters. Nevertheless, the actor’s request raises important questions about music ownership. iTunes users do not “buy music. Rather, they ‘pay for the license to listen to songs via [their] iPhone, iPod or other Apple device,’” according to an article in CNN. Now Willis, who reportedly has a “vast” amount of music could always pass along his music-filled iPod, laptop or phone to his children. But what if the women want to transfer those songs to other gadgets? If

it were the 11th, 12th device, 13th device, Apple would say, “no.”

It is doubtful that everyone has read Apple’s terms and conditions in full, which makes this news so jarring. It is funny to think that our dollar is buying a lease and not the song.

Isn’t the turn of phrase, “I bought this song on iTunes?”

Willis’s story reinforces the idea that music ownership is a grey area. Even if the actor does not sue Apple, enough people are going to ask questions, which will prompt some ambitious lawyer to step on the scene and argue in favor of iTunes users.

To the Editor: When the Pan Am building rose like a massive tombstone behind New York’s Grand Central Terminal in 1963, it was almost universally reviled. It was the largest commercial office building in the world, and it had been built, according to its detractors, seemingly without consideration of architectural merit, social policy or human needs.

The most pointed remarks came from Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic of The New York Times, who called the building “gigantically second-rate.”

I couldn’t help but recall Huxtable’s trenchant words, and the general derision of the Pan Am building, when I visited Marciano Commons — the Frankensteinian food factory that replaced Myles, Shelton and Towers dining halls. Here, as in Pan Am, is a physical manifestation of the maxim that bigger is not always better. In fact, bigness can be blinding — especially (as I quickly noticed) when clad in a dizzying array of colors, materials and textures. One particularly obnoxious seating area sports fluorescent green tile, carpet and paint, with matching upholstery and lighting — ­ I felt as if I were trapped in a slice of key lime pie. The quality of the food notwithstanding, I returned from dinner that night with a bad case of architectural indigestion. Granted, it’s hard to do worse than the erstwhile subterranean Towers dining hall, but what a shame it is to have traded the rich wood paneling of Myles and the neoclassical ornamentation of Shelton for garish yet soulless walls hung here and there with meretricious corporate “art.”

The aesthetic shortcomings, bad as they are, pale in comparison to the functional and experiential deficiencies. Not surprisingly, an especially pernicious consequence of funneling all of East Campus into one cafeteria is lines: lines at the card-swipe, lines for sandwiches, lines at the grill, lines for dessert, lines for drinks, lines at the dish return. Even during off-peak hours, one can expect to wait in a seemingly interminable succession of lines just to get a sandwich and soda.

To make matters worse, the amoeboid layout of the various serving stations lacks any clear pattern of circulation. There is such a labyrinthine sequence of spaces that one half expects to find a minotaur lurking around the next corner, and the ubiquitous

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Terrier Talk

Here’s what some of them said.

INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS BY SARAH ANOLIK

ELANA SCHWARTZ

“It’s so unhealthy. I rarely eat it. It gives students easier access to unhealthy food on campus, which isn’t good.”

- CGS sophomore

Sincerely, Brian M. Sirman Lecturer/Senior Teaching Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate bsirman@bu.edu

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lines, stretching every which way, block aisles and conflate with queues at neighboring stations so that one can’t be sure whether at the end of a long wait he’ll find a bacon cheeseburger or a tofu salad.

Size matters, and there’s something to be said for modesty of scale. In Shelton, it was possible to set my bag and coat on a table and to keep an eye on it from the salad bar, a few feet away. It was also possible to view all available menu options with a 180-degree turn of the head. At Marciano Commons, though, seeing what looks good involves a complete circuit of the first floor, a hike up the stairs (over the river and through the woods ... ) and then another trek around the second floor. Gone are the days of a quick power lunch. Gone, too, is the sense of community that is inherent in a small dining room, where the same familiar faces greet you at every meal.

Then there are the little things: the cumbersome and propagandistic name (officially “The Fresh Food Company at Marciano Commons”); the nearly horizontal silverware baskets from which half a dozen utensils tumble to the floor whenever someone tries to grab a fork; the noise that results from herding a thousand people at once into a cavernous space, obliterating any quiet corners in which to read a book.

And, though it’s not an issue yet, I expect by about mid-February, east-campus residents will long for the good old days when they could stumble downstairs in pajamas and slippers instead of trudging through a foot of snow for a bowl of cereal.

Even the Pan Am building, early on, garnered a smattering of admirers for being new and huge, and I have no doubt the same will be true of Marciano Commons.

By 1987, though, Pan Am ranked at the top of New York Magazine’s list of “buildings New Yorkers love to hate,” and there is every reason to expect BU’s new cafeteria will suffer a similar fate.

Novelty is fleeting, and when the virginal luster of the building fades, as it inevitably will, the only remaining distinctions will be inordinate size and brute expediency.

JESSICA LIPMAN

“I’m not a huge Taco Bell fan, but I’ll go a couple of times and I’m sure other people will too.”

- CAS sophomore

MONICA FAILLACE “I think it’s a fun, cheap place well-suited for a college campus.”

- COM junior

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MARASCO: Four-team football playoff system to spark more controversy Marasco: From page 8

than you. It’s simple. It’s beautiful.

College football doesn’t give us enough of this fundamental principle, and at the most critical possible time — the postseason.

Therefore, we are often left with a mess of controversy and doubt heading into the championship game — “How can Auburn run the table in the SEC and not get a chance at the title?”

You don’t get that ugly controversy from the NFL postseason because everything is settled mono e mono. Teams get to the Super Bowl by directly vanquishing the other top dogs.

A four-team playoff is a step in the right direction, but it’s a baby step.

It will be nice to include two more teams in the championship picture, but the fourteam system will bring with it a brand new set of arguments, controversy and hair-loss

— you still have to whittle the elites down to just four teams.

It’s harder than you may think.

What if we’d had this four-team playoff as recently 2010? Auburn went 13–0 in the SEC. That’s a no-brainer. They’re in. Oregon, 12–0 — they’re in.

Ok, then what? You can only pick two more teams. You’ve got TCU at 12–0 (but the weakest strength of schedule), Stanford at 11–1, 11–1 Wisconsin, 11–1 Ohio State, and 11–1 Michigan State.

There’s also 11–2 Oklahoma, 10–2 Arkansas and LSU (with the toughest schedules). Missouri and Oklahoma State went 10–2. Virginia Tech was 11–2. Boise State went 11–1. Nevada was 12–1.

So, who do you take? TCU is undefeated, but if you put them in the playoff, you’re left with one slot to fill, 11–1 Stanford from the Pac-12 and three 11–1 teams from the Big-10.

Oh, by the way, is it even clear that

TCU is more deserving than the 10–win SEC teams or an 11–2 Big-12 team? But you can’t leave out an undefeated team, can you? And do you put Stanford in or a Big-10 team? And how would you pick one team out of three 11–1 teams from the same conference?

Boom. Your head exploded.

In 2009 there were five, yes five, undefeated teams — Alabama, Texas, Cincinnati, TCU and Boise State. Florida was 12–1 (in the SEC).

The BCS occasionally left a lonely team cursing the night sky with a bottle of bourbon in one hand. The four-team playoff will leave a gaggle of bitter one and twoloss teams picketing in the streets every year. Heck, some years we’ll see undefeated teams not even make the cut.

When only two teams were being chosen, fewer schools had an argument. Looking back at 2010 again, we had Auburn and Oregon as the clear choices to battle for

the title. TCU was the only team who had any real right to complain, and even they would admit their schedule had been much less impressive than the other candidates.

If you expand it to four teams (as we just tried), all of a sudden you’ve got a line of guys outside the nightclub yelling at the bouncer, “Hey! How come he gets to go in?

If he gets to go in, I should too!” and they kind of have a point.

And who’s deciding this? Who’s the bouncer?

A selection committee - that won’t lead to more controversy?

There are already fistfights going on over where the championship game is going to be played. No, the controversy is not going anywhere.

A four-team playoff is progress, so be optimistic.

Just don’t be satisfied.

(Data courtesy of collegefootballpoll.com.)

Hewitt, Cuffia provide spark, goals Injury to Madzongwe thrusts for w. soccer offense from bench Spivey into more critical role Notebook: From page 8

lowed seven goals and made 29 saves on the year, making her save percentage 80.6 percent.

Bench Boost Five different Terriers have scored two goals so far this year, and only one of these players — junior midfielder Emma Clark — has started in each game. Scorers such as Brea Hewitt and Ana Cuffia have shown the ability to provide offense off the bench, as well as to get the job done with the starting rotation.

Feldman said that her current roster has forced her to undergo much deliberation as to who she puts on the pitch in several situations.

“I’ve spent a little bit of my time just continuing to see what people are capable of and how their strengths can help us,” Feldman said. “The other thing is we have more versatile players. Overall we are a little bit more athletic, we’re a little bit more mobile.”

Strong Schedule BU’s more significant loss this year

came to rival Boston College at the end of last month. BC is currently ranked No. 6 in the NSCAA Coaches poll.

This weekend, the Terriers travel to California where they will participate in the Stanford Nike Invitational. Queued up for BU is reigning NCAA champion No. 5 Stanford University, as well as Santa Clara University, which dropped out of the top 25 yesterday.

Feldman said the difficulty of the team’s schedule not only gives the players great experience, but also gives a boost to recruitment efforts.

“We really try to stretch ourselves and challenge ourselves and play the best,” Feldman said. “That certainly attracts great student-athletes, because great studentathletes want to be challenged and want to play against the best.”

BU was ranked No. 23 at the start of the season and has since dropped from the polls. However, no other America East team has been ranked as highly so far this year.

The difficult matchups that the Terriers endure prior to America East play should act as sufficient preparation for the conference.

Men’s soccer drops to 1–3 following tough loss to No. 1 North Carolina Men’s soccer: From page 8

Thomson’s head to put the Tarheels on the scoreboard.

The Tarheels extended their lead in the 68th minute of play on a penalty kick after BU freshman defender Jeroen Blugh received a yellow card for tackling from behind.

Down by two, the Terriers continued to put pressure on the Tarheels.

The task eventually paid off in the 84th minute of play when senior midfielder Michael Bustamante passed the ball to last season’s America East Rookie of the Year sophomore forward Dominique Badji, who headed the ball into the net for his first goal of the season.

It was the first time a team had scored on the Tarheels this season.

Despite several efforts, the Terriers could not put another shot on goal during the game and ultimately fell by a final score of 2–1.

The offense still has not found a go-to scorer this year, something that Roberts does not see happening with this team. Instead, he said the team will have a lot of balanced scoring throughout its forwards

and midfielders.

“We’ve just got to keep plugging away and keep creating chances, and we think goals will come,” Roberts said. “It doesn’t matter who scores, and I don’t think we are going to have a goal-scorer that is going to get a lot of goals for us this year, but you know if we can be solid defensively and create good chances … we’ve just got to keep doing that.”

The Terriers schedule is not getting any easier, as it is scheduled to continue its road trip against Providence College and No. 4 University of Connecticut over the upcoming weekend.

However, the challenge of the earlyseason non-conference schedule is something Roberts thinks can only have helped the team.

“The only thing [the tough schedule] can do, especially in the situation we are in this year, is help us,” Roberts said. “The strength of schedule will be real good. We would have liked to get a tie out of one of the three games against St. John’s, Wake and North Carolina. We have put ourselves in position in the last two games to pull that off, we just didn’t do it.”

Madzongwe: From page 8

and with former America East Defender of the Year Colin Henry having graduated in the spring, Roberts is forced to rely upon a group of relatively inexperienced defenders led by Spivey.

“Spivey has developed so much in the last year from the first time he played to what he is now so he is going to have to take a bigger role tactically where he relied on Kelvin to do all that and make all the decisions,” Roberts said. “So Sanford will have to come into that, and that will be his responsibility over the next couple games, to be able to do that.”

Spivey started all 18 games last fall while Holler started nine of the 11 games

he played in.

The only other BU defender available who has collegiate experience is senior defender Max White, who started six of the 13 games he appeared in last year. White played five minutes in each of the losses in North Carolina.

BU will look to bounce back from the absence of Madzongwe, but in a season in which the team needs to earn an at-large bid to make it to the NCAA tournament the loss of Madzongwe may severely hurt the Terriers’ chances at the postseason.

“It is going to take away from our whole team because he does so much,” Roberts said. “He is good on the ball, he is a good passer. So we have to make up for him.”

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Frank Marasco

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Junior defender Kelvin Madzongwe

No Games Scheduled The Patriots recently worked out Kellen Winslow and released Eric Kettani.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Fresh off its first win of the season over Boston College, the Boston University men’s soccer team dropped two games this weekend, falling to 1–3 on the season and continuing a trend of mediocre offense against ranked opponents.

The Terriers, who came into the weekend having only scored one goal in two games, first faced off against No. 15 Wake Forest University on Friday.

The Demon Deacons (3–0) started the scoring after junior Luca Gimenez sent a pass over to classmate Chris Duvall. Duvall then slipped the shot by BU sophomore goaltender Nick Thomson for the early lead.

BU evened up the score 19 minutes later when freshman defender Mac McGuire and junior midfielder Derek McCaffrey assisted red shirt freshman defender Parker Powell in scoring what

would become the Terriers’ lone tally of the game.

It was the first goal of Powell’s collegiate career.

After holding Wake Forest for the rest of the half, Thomson and the Terriers were unable to stop freshman Michael Gamble, who scored the game-winning goal, and eventually an insurance tally to give the Demon Deacons the 3–1 win.

Gamble’s first goal was on a misplay by Thomson. Senior Andy Lubahn passed the ball over to Gamble who took advantage of the wide open net in the 57th minute of play, netting his first goal.

“It was just disappointing that we gave up a really bad goal probably 15 minutes into the second half which against any team you can’t do, but especially not Wake Forest,” Roberts said.

With about 10 minutes left in the game, Gamble extended the lead on another open-net goal.

This time senior Luciano Delbo-

no passed a through ball to sophomore Sean Okoli, pulling Thomson out of the net, before Okoli sent the ball over to Gamble.

The Terriers also suffered another loss against Wake Forest, as junior defender Kelvin Madzongwe injured his knee in the 13th minute on Friday. Roberts said last year’s America East Defensive Player of the Year will likely miss “a significant amount of time.”

“I would have to say Kelvin getting hurt was the most disappointing part of [the weekend],” Roberts said.

In a tighter battle on Sunday, the Terriers took on No. 1 University of North Carolina (4–0–1).

Like the Demon Deacons, the Tarheels took the initial lead when sophomore Verneri Valimaa sent a long pass to junior Andy Craven in the 20th minute of play.

Craven then chipped the ball over

Men’s soccer, see page 7

Men’s soccer star Madzongwe injures knee in loss

By Kevin Dillon Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University men’s soccer team entered its three-day trip in North Carolina with hopes of stealing at least a point from two of the top teams in the country.

Not only did the Terriers fail to take any points from their games against Wake Forest University and No. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, they also suffered a critical blow to the team’s defense early in Friday’s loss.

Junior defender Kelvin Madzongwe left the game with a knee injury on Friday, severely crippling BU’s line of defense which had been anchored by him.

BU coach Neil Roberts said Madzongwe will miss a significant amount of time.

“We will probably know a little bit more by the end of the

week,” Roberts said. “It will be a significant amount of time I’m afraid … it wasn’t a violent tackle or anything like that, it was sort of innocent.”

Now, without last year’s America East Defensive Player of the Year, the team’s formation has been forced to shift from the strategy that helped lead it to a 1–0 victory over then-No.11 Boston College.

In the victory over BC, BU used a formation that featured only three defenders as well as three forwards to help generate offense.

With a back line that only featured Madzongwe, sophomore defender Sanford Spivey and freshman defender Jeroen Blugh, BU locked down the Eagles offense and upset its rival.

However, Madzongwe only lasted 13 minutes in the game against Wake Forest before going down with the injury, leaving

the Terriers’ back line thin and forcing the team to move out of its original formation into a more defensive one.

Despite this change, the team still allowed a “really bad goal” in the 57th minute and lost the game 3–1. “[Madzongwe] has turned into such a leader for us on the field,” Roberts said. “He is vocal, he is a very quiet kid off the field but on the field he is very vocal, he helps the young guys, he has just done a great job at doing that … the defense kind of worked around him. So we had to adjust a little bit there.”

Redshirt freshmen defenders Mac McGuire and Parker Powell saw more playing time as a result of the injury. While Powell scored the team’s lone goal in the loss to Wake Forest and McGuire recorded an assist, it was clear that Roberts was using multiple defenders to fill the gap left by

Madzongwe’s injury.

When the matchup against North Carolina began, the team began in the four-defender formation it finished the last game with, this time starting Powell and sophomore defender James Holler instead of Madzongwe and junior forward Ali Sozeri.

This is not the first time the defender from Magwegwe, Zimbabwe, has gotten hurt while playing with BU. Madzongwe missed some time early last year as well, sitting out of the season’s first two games before playing only half of the third to regain his form. The Terriers went 1–1 in their games without Madzongwe, defeating the College of the Holy Cross 2–0 before dropping a game to then-No. 17 Monmouth University 1–0.

With the team’s most experienced defender out of the lineup,

Madzongwe, see page 7

Hollenbaugh emerging as key freshman for women’s soccer team high level this past summer with older players — college-level players,” said BU coach Nancy Feldman. “We kind of had an idea that she had at least been in an environment like ours — had a taste of it.”

Midfielder Clare Pleuler and Forward Jenna Fisher have each played solid minutes off the bench in their first year as Terriers.

Pleuler has notched one goal so far this year, whereas Fisher has netted a pair on five shots.

Fisher’s shot percentage of .400 presently leads the team. Both Pleuler and Fisher scored in the Terriers’ 2–2 draw with Harvard

University.

“I’m very pleased with the contribution they’ve been making, and also their overall training mentality and their maturity,” Feldman said of her freshman players.

Thursday, Sept. 6

Friday, Sept. 7

Saturday, Sept. 8

No Games Scheduled They lost a Navy man, but might pick up a soldier.

M. Soccer @ Providence, 3 p.m.

Field Hockey @ Boston College, 7 p.m.

W. Soccer @ Stanford, 10 p.m.

By Tyler Lay Daily Free Press Staff

Although the bulk of the Boston University women’s soccer starters are upperclassmen, a few freshmen have made their way onto the stat sheet in a significant way at this early point in the season.

McKenzie Hollenbaugh, a back from Glastonbury, Conn., is the lone freshman starter for the Terriers. Hollenbaugh has started in each of BU’s six games this season.

“McKenzie we knew would be a competitive player for the reason that she had been playing at a

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Men’s soccer falls short twice in North Carolina

Cautious Optimism

With the college football season currently kicking off, the big story — seemingly overshadowing early season games themselves — is the implementation of a four-team playoff system, set to start in 2014.

For years, you’ve heard the clamoring for a playoff system, and rightfully so. There is an imminent need for a perfected postseason in the ever-growing conglomerate that is collegiate football.

So, we were the squeaky wheel, and we’ve gotten our grease. Cause for celebration.

Right?

Let’s not dance in the streets just yet.

The new, four-team playoff model is an improvement from the current system — I am not arguing that — but be careful about thinking that college football’s postseason issues have been solved.

What is the biggest problem with the BCS? Elite teams, occasionally even undefeated ones, are at risk of getting left out of the national championship picture without a chance to settle it on a football field.

In 2004, USC, Oklahoma University and Auburn all sat with perfect 12–0 records on the eve of bowl season. Since the BCS’s job is to select two teams, and only two teams, Auburn was left out in the cold. Going undefeated in the SEC and not even getting a shot at the national title is very hard to stomach.

TCU was undefeated in backto-back years, 2009 and 2010, and was ignored from title contention.

Cincinnati went undefeated in 2009 and got no love. Boise State and Hawaii have suffered the same frustrating fate.

So, the BCS picked two darn good teams, but left us with one or two teams every now and then that we pity — we wonder what could’ve been if they’d gotten their shot. We’re left with cravings for these head-to-head matchups that never come to be.

Head-to-head combat is indisputable evidence in the sporting realm. If I beat you, I’m better

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Finally getting the Green light Junior goalkeeper Andrea Green has been a surprise key to the BU lineup so far this season.

Green had only seen time in two games in both her freshman and sophomore campaigns with the Terriers. With originally projected starter junior Kelly King sidelined with a season-ending injury,

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Green has been given the nod in each of the first six games BU has played.

“Her first year was a big learning curve in her goalkeeping training,” Feldman said. “Last year was a bigger learning year for her physical training … she came back as a junior and she certainly had put herself in a position to play.”

The Terriers hold a record of 3–2–1 at the moment. Hidden within that record is a trifecta of shutouts that Green has earned.

The Nashua, N.H., native has al-

Notebook, see page 7

Sunday, Sept. 9

Field Hockey vs. Syracuse, 11 a.m.

W. Soccer @ Santa Clara, 4 p.m.

M. Soccer @ Connecticut, 7 p.m.

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