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Officials unveil Engineering Product Innovation Center Warren proposes new bill to refinance student loans in Mass.

By Emily Hartwell Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University College of Engineering officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to signify the opening of their newest facility, the Engineering Product Innovation Center.

Situated at 750 Commonwealth Ave., EPIC will allow students more hands-on experience in the engineering field that they previously had limited access to, said ENG Dean Kenneth Lutchen.

“EPIC has a vision nothing short of transforming engineering education nationally,” Lutchen said. “So every engineer, regardless of their area of interest, learns the process of going from design to computer-aided design to prototype to mass producing, something that could be a product to impact society and have economic value.”

The opening of the EPIC building corresponds with the recent adjustments to the ENG curriculum, which has been restructured to take advantage of the new technology and resources that EPIC will provide to students, said BU President Robert Brown.

“The curriculum change [EPIC] supports is really innovative in the whole context of the ENG because it actually puts product design and manufacturing engineering into the curriculum in all the engineering disciplines, which is not traditional,” Brown said.

ENG professor Andre Sharon, director of the Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation, said EPIC is an innovative step

By Bram Peterson Daily Free Press Staff

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Boston University President Robert Brown, College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen and corporate sponsors for the Engineering Product Innovation Center grasp the lever to activate all of the center’s machinery for the first time Thursday afternoon.

toward enhancing the education of engineering students.

“It’s really going to be the centerpiece of educating a new generation of engineering students that are going to be well-versed in the entire process from concept all the way to physical realization, actually building things,” Sharon said. “So not just learning the theory and the equations but actually learning how to produce something and create jobs in

the process.”

The facilities of EPIC include cuttingedge technology such as 3-D printers, project management software, robotics and other online software that will give students the opportunity to put theory into actuality, Sharon said.

Sharon said one of the most exciting new technologies is the 3-D printer that simplifies

Engineering, see page 2

Mass. Attorney Gen. Coakley calls for increase in minimum wage

By Mina Corpuz Daily Free Press Staff

In the midst of her campaign for the November gubernatorial election, Mass.

Attorney General Martha Coakley called for a minimum wage increase Tuesday at the Government Affairs Forum.

The forum was held at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce where Coakley delivered a speech addressing income inequality and its effect on Massachusetts. Coakley spoke about the negative impacts of income inequality in Massachusetts, while encouraging the 100 business leaders in attendance to take action.

“Inequality robs people of hope — for themselves and their children, and deprives too many of the opportunity to build a better life,” she said. “It breaks up our communities as rents and home prices rise, forcing countless families to seek out more affordable housing — or worse — push-

ing them into homelessness. It reminds us just how far off the American dream is, still for far too many here in Massachusetts.”

Massachusetts is one of at least 30 states expected to introduce measures to raise the minimum wage, according to a national review by the Associated Press.

Raise Up Massachusetts, a coalition of community organizations, has been making strides to put questions about higher minimum wage and earned sick time on the Nov. 2014 ballot, said Steve Crawford, spokesperson for the activist group. “[Coakley] deserves credit for taking a stand in front of a potentially hostile crowd,” he said. “[Raising minimum wage] helps struggling families who are really on the edge of economic collapse. If you are a low wage worker making minimum wage, any additional dollar in your pocket you’re going to spend on necessities to generate economic activity.”

Coakley said granting people higher wages and sick days as a means of job security is a matter of equality.

“We also should provide earned sick time to every worker because no one should be at risk of losing wages or their jobs if they stay home sick or to care a family member,” she said. “That is simply unfair.”

Coakley also spoke about the value of education in the global economy. With a wider variety of opportunities for students in public schools and a rejuvenated effort to connect young people to summer jobs, students in Massachusetts will gain the skills and experience they need, she said.

“We need to transform our schools to give all kids an opportunity to succeed in a global economy,” she said. “That starts with offering universal pre-k education, and restructuring the school day and school year,

Min. Wage, see page 2

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren presented new legislation Tuesday to provide relief to student loan borrowers at a roundtable discussion hosted by Massasoit Community College.

Warren’s legislation would allow current and former student borrowers to refinance their loans at the lower rates being offered to new borrowers as a result of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013. When the act passed, interest rates dropped by roughly 3 percent for students who took out unsubsidized federal loans after July 1, 2013.

Boston University spokesman Colin Riley said the reform would be a positive step and encouraging student borrowers and aiding them in paying back their debt.

“People in universities care very much about the issues of student borrowing and student debt,” he said. “We support those initiatives that are going to provide good options to borrowers that will reduce the overall cost of attendance and enable students to attend.

[Students] take advantage of these [options] and invest in their education by attending colleges.”

Natalia Abrams, co-founder of the nonprofit organization Student Debt Crisis, emphasized the need for legislation that would aid borrowers paying high interest rates from former student loans.

“Currently a lot of the legislation is for new borrowers,” she said. “We really have to focus on the 40 million borrowers that hold $1.2 trillion in debt ... There’s not enough currently being done for the existing borrowers, and that’s what is so great about what Warren is proposing right now because it offers relief for the existing borrowers to refinance.”

Failure to address this growing problem will affect the national economy, but progress has been stalled due to the inability of Congress to make reforms that are agreed upon, Abrams said.

“It takes the country a while to make substantial reforms, and it feels like it’s only until we have a massive crisis that we do some sort of band-aid measure,” she said.

Adam Minsky, a Boston lawyer who specializes in student loan law, said there are other factors that need to be considered in the

Student Loans, see page 2

Massachusetts ranks poorly in seat belt laws, high in overall driver safety

By Sarah Capungan Daily Free Press Staff

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In its annual report released Wednesday, Advocates for Highway & Auto Safety gave Massachusetts the second highest overall ranking, along with 29 other states, stating it met a majority of the advocacy group’s requirements for safety laws, which cover texting restrictions, booster seat usage and teen driving.

Although Massachusetts was ranked highly in four of five driver safety categories, the Commonwealth ranked poorly in the seat belt laws category, according to a report released Tuesday by the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.

The report published by AHAS ranked the state in terms of its highway safety enforcement laws. The rankings were based on whether a state enforced 15 drivers’ safety laws chosen by AHAS centered on their effectiveness in reducing fatalities and injuries.

Catherine Chase, senior director of governmental affairs for the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, said the goal of the report is to inspire lawmakers to strengthen the laws in compliance with the organization.

“We issue the report with the hope that we motivate some state leaders to take action so that they could see where they are compared to their neighboring states and throughout the nation and see the small improvements that they can make that have been proven life sav-

ing measures,” she said.

The categories included occupant protection, which are seat belt laws for cars and helmet laws for motorcycles, child passenger safety, teen driving, impaired driving and distracted driving.

Massachusetts, which adopted 10 of the group’s 15 recommended laws, was ranked in the second highest group, but did not rank first due to the state’s lack of a primary seatbelt enforcement law and a first offender interlock law.

Chase said that the implementation of both laws would benefit the state’s economy.

“Motor vehicle crashes cost Massachusetts $6.28 billion in 2011 according to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration,” she said. “Passing a seat belt law could go a long way in terms of protecting people in vehicles and also saving the state money.”

Massachusetts passed a secondary seat belt enforcement law so that a law enforce-

Traffic Safety, see page 2

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EPIC presents ENG students Refinancing increases student loan costs opportunity to use new tech.

Student Loans: From Page 1

Engineering: From Page 1

the process of designing a product and actually creating it.

“One of the hottest technologies in manufacturing these days is called additive manufacturing, or ... 3D printing,” he said. “They [EPIC facilities] have a number of 3-D printers where you can actually produce parts without any special fixture, straight from the CAD [computer-aided design] models.”

ENG Associate Dean Sol Eisenberg said the subtractive manufacturing and injection molding capability in EPIC’s facilities provide ENG students with technology normally off-limits to students.

“Subtractive manufacturing ... and injection molding capability, which is what most plastic parts are made of, those are some of the most important manufacturing technologies that most students don’t get a chance to play with,” Eisenberg said.

Jim Langell, the director of the chemical engineering department, said EPIC will provide ENG students with professional experience earlier in their careers by giving younger students the opportunity to participate in creative engineering.

“We found that when we do their senior projects, for example, a lot of times that’s been the first time they have done any really creative engineering, so this facility is going to make that a lot easier,” Langell said. “It’s also going to be introduced earlier in the curriculum, so they’ll be doing real engineering a lot earlier in their career.”

Langell said EPIC will not only place ENG at the forefront of engineering education, but will also bolster BU’s reputation as a technologically advanced university. “[EPIC] is one of those things that is rather unique to engineering schools,” Langell said. “Most schools don’t have something like this and so it is going to be a plus to help [BU] stand out.”

Shofner: Mass. income inequality beginning political conversations Min. Wage: From Page 1

especially in some of our underperforming districts. We also need to improve all students’ access to curricula and work experiences that help them connect with highquality jobs.”

Travis Shofner, spokesperson for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, said income inequality is a growing problem in Massachusetts and leaders of all political parties should be taking part in the discussion.

“The growing gap in income inequality is a major issue that needs to be addressed by our leaders,” he said. “Our Democratic candidates aren’t afraid to take a position and find themselves on the right side of this issue, calling for an increase in the minimum wage to help working families.”

Several residents said increasing minimum wage in Massachusetts would help offset the high cost of living and reduce income inequality.

Joe Couture, 34, of Boston, said he is not surprised to see Coakley pushing for change because minimum wage is a national issue as well as a state issue.

“I have seen first hand some of the hard discrepancies in wages between the executive and blue collar workers which has become more so in the last 40 years,” he said. [The push for higher minimum wage] is not surprising coming from a democratic candidate. It might contribute to mobilizing her constituency. It’s in line with her core values.”

Melanie Glen, 50, of Boston, said she hopes Coakley makes increasing minimum wage a priority. “[The issue of] minimum wage should stand on it’s own,” she said. “That and unemployment are two totally different things.

It’d be more effective to pursue [minimum wage] first. Minimum wage needs to be raised. I would hope she’s being genuine about it.”

Joe Connors, 38, of Jamaica Plain, said he is wary of Coakley’s intentions behind supporting a minimum wage increase, but he agrees that minimum wage is an important issue that needs to be addressed.

“The cost of living is high in Boston,” he said. “Everything’s going up except wages. You can’t get a one-bedroom apartment under $1,200. People making less than $300 a day aren’t well off.”

wake of the new legislation. Refinancing could cause some borrowers who are already on modified repayment plans to end up paying more in the long run.

“Refinancing would essentially mean that borrowers would get a new loan that would restart the clock on their repayment,” he said.

“If there’s already several years on their repayment, then that might negate some of the positives effects of the lower interest rate if they just wind up having to have a longer repayment plan.”

Riley said borrower protection has to be maintained in any legislation to ensure that all students are protected, whether they choose to refinance or not.

“Any borrower who is considering changing the conditions of their loan needs to be fully aware of what any changes will mean,” he said. “They want to be able to

continue to have the same borrower protections [as the previous loan].

If [the refinancing] continues to offer the same borrower protection, it would be worth it for any student to look into it.”

Several residents said they are in favor of a cut in federal student interest rates and hope the refinancing of loans will aid individuals and boost the economy of Massachusetts.

Justin McCarthy, 29, of Brighton, graduated in May and is beginning to feel the stress of student loan debt.

“I’m just in the beginning stages of starting to pay my loans back and it’s a heavy burden,” he said.

“It’s hard to budget for discretionary expenses on top of everything else that I’m paying like rent and normal living expenses and then the student loans on top of that. If [the interest rates] were reduced, it would help me out a lot.”

Remy Birnbaum, 19, of Boston,

said young people need to have the ability to afford large investments, and with large student loan debts, that may not be possible.

“It would help,” she said. “It [would] take less time for them to pay off their student loans, so in the end, they’ll have more disposable income, and they can return that income into the economy. They can buy cars, start buying houses earlier and it would help the entire economy as a whole.”

Michael Keefe, 28, of Brighton, said students with less debt would help the economy and aid the success of businesses, such as his own.

“We need people with disposable income in order to keep our business afloat,” he said. “People, especially in a city like Boston, have enormous student loans, and a lot of the workforce is going to be graduating over the next few years.

That’s only going to help to stimulate the economy if they have more money.”

AAA working toward implementing seat belt laws Traffic Safety: From Page 1

ment officer can only issue a ticket to someone not wearing a seatbelt if there is an additional offense such as speeding. A primary seat belt enforcement law would allow law enforcement to pull over and issue tickets to drivers and passengers without wearing a seat belt without any additional offense.

Mary Maguire, director of public and legislative affairs at AAA Southern New England, a motor club and travel organization that serves New England, said the organization fully supports a primary seat belt enforcement law.

“The primary seat belt bill is a win-win,” she said. “It’s a win in terms of saving human lives, it’s a win in terms of saving money and time for Massachusetts legislators to step up to the plate and do what 33 other states have done and pass a primary seat belt law.”

AAA Southern New England is also working toward implementing an interlock bill, which mandates that first-time DUI offenders must have an ignition interlock license.

The interlock device works as a Breathalyzer and does not allow a driver to operate their vehicle if it detects alcohol.

“It allows you to resume your normal life and stay sober,” Maguire said. “It’s been proven that the interlock devices are the most effective piece of technology that we have because it separates the drunk driver from the vehicle.”

Some residents said they are supportive of increasing driver safety laws in Massachusetts because it will push people to drive more safely when there are consequences to not following the laws.

Kevin Lustig, 47, of Boston, said he thinks the interlock law may be too harsh for first-time offenders.

“I’m not sure if a first offender

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deserves that, but it’s a good idea conceptually,” he said.

Selene Teixeira, 19, of Dorchester, said although she understands why people are in favor of the law, she is not convinced that it is always appropriate.

“I know some people don’t like wearing seat belts,” she said. “Like my mom … because she knew somebody who was more endangered for wearing their seat belt because they wouldn’t be able to get out of the car in time.”

Patrick Fitzgerald, 26, of Allston, said he is supportive of a primary seat belt enforcement law.

“If a cop is giving you a ticket because he sees you without a seatbelt, I don’t see anything wrong with that,” he said. “The law is to wear a seat belt while you’re inside of a motor vehicle, you should probably have one on. They shouldn’t need a second offense to give you a ticket for the first.”

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CaMpuS & CiTy CoLuMn URBAN PARK RANGER For the love of hockey

It’s a new year, one full of promise and innovative sensations. But one must wonder if some events are a little too far-fetched – even for 2014.

In 2012, the Los Angeles Kings triumphed over the New Jersey Devils and brought glory to their hometown.

In the midst of all of hype, some people in the City of Angels were still unaware that JENNIFER their hometown RUTH National Hockey League team even existed.

On Jan. 25, the National Hockey League took on the unimaginable — an outdoor ice hockey game between the Anaheim Ducks and the Los Angeles Kings in Dodger Stadium. My reaction was quite similar to King’s defenseman Drew Doughty—“isn’t it too hot?”

Having an outdoor hockey game isn’t an implausible idea. The Winter Classic, an annual National Hockey League event, has taken place at baseball stadiums in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Michigan since 2008. Of course, all of these locations are quite frigid in the winter.

Flooded — I mean Frozen — Fenway is another annual event that takes place at Fenway Park in which college teams compete against one another on a rink in the infield. This is at the leniency of the elements, especially on Jan. 11, when the event received more rain than originally bargained for. Fortunately, Los Angeles is known for its stable temperatures.

For the NHL, this was the southern-most outdoor game ever played.

An outdoor ice rink in the midst of palm trees was the perfect way to weasel the California natives into becoming avid ice hockey fans. But the assemblage of this event was more than simply plopping an ice rink into the infield.

A 53-foot, 300-ton capacity refrigeration unit was needed to construct the outdoor hockey rink. But of course, with big dreams to complete a seemingly impossible feat, it’s not easy being green. This refrigeration unit pumped out 3,000 gallons of glycol coolant into aluminum trays.

In order to keep the ice at a glacial temperature 22 degrees Fahrenheit amidst the balmy Los Angeles weather, hoses with glycol coolant that connected the unit to the field chilled the trays persistently. And the fun doesn’t stop there. The ice was gently coated with nearly 350 gallons of white paint before more ice layers were added and it was concealed with an insulated blanket.

An average National Hockey League rink ranges between one to 1.25 inches, but that’s typically for indoor rinks. In order to withstand the unpredictability of Mother Nature, the ice must be two inches thick, which translates to 20,000 gallons of water.

The NHL is overcoming a lot of obstacles to captivate the attention of Californians. Some people might even view this event as crazy. Either way, this game was a sellout and a huge success. While I was shivering in Boston, it was fantastic to watch this attempt to bring the joys of winter to Los Angeles from the comfort of my television. If an outdoor hockey game can occur in 70-degree weather, anything is possible.

Jennifer Ruth is a CAS junior.

She can be reached at jennifervruth@ gmail.com

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Filmmaker explores value of college degree Interventions

may help ease alcohol use, study suggests

By Alyssa Ciofani & Taryn Ottaunick Daily Free Press Staff

As college students shell out thousands of dollars in tuition for colleges such as Boston University in hopes of gaining a degree, a new documentary explores whether the four-year struggle is worth the return on investment.

Filmmaker Andrew Rossi’s groundbreaking documentary “Ivory Tower,” which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, evaluates the necessity of a conventional undergraduate education, with its exorbitant prices and financially hungry leaders, while presenting more economical alternatives for higher learning, according to the Sundance Institute website.

“Based on the reviews, the news articles, and the poster for the movie, I would say that the producer has tapped into a national concern that is of critical importance to all Americans,” said Garland Waller, a film and television professor at BU’s College of Communication. “Whether they are in college, thinking about going to college, sad that they didn’t get to go to college, or Bill Gates, who clearly hasn’t missed the benefits of college.

The documentary is not overreach-

By Taryn Ottaunick Daily Free Press Staff

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In his latest film, The Ivory Tower, documentary filmmaker Andrew Rossi investigates the world of higher education and the true value of a college degree in a time when tuition is more expensive than ever.

ing. Not by a long shot.”

The documentary taps into the reality that although college degrees from prestigious universities are essential to many careers, numerous college graduates are unemployed and in debt from the expenses of their degrees.

COM professor Debbie Danielpour, who also teaches in the film and television department, said the documentary weighs whether a college education is necessary for everyone.

“My personal exploration has

shown me that a four-year research university, particularly one that focuses on a liberal education, isn’t the ticket to success for everyone,” Danielpour said. “... I believe academic freedom and innovation are possible without this expensive burden that often results in faculty who feel unaccountable for the quality of their teaching and service to the university.”

Waller said it is the documentarians responsibility to expose society’s

Sundance, see page 4

55,500 new jobs added to Mass. private sector

By Kelsey Newell Daily Free Press Staff

In the past year, Massachusetts has added 55,500 jobs, with 98 percent of those being in the private sector, according to a study released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Thursday.

In December 2012, the unemployment rate was at 6.7 percent, grew to 7.2 percent in June and then dropped back down to 7 percent in December 2013. However, the amount of jobs grew steadily, reaching a total of 10,300 jobs added in December 2013 alone, according to the Thursday report.

“We’re really excited to see such a spike in job growth in the past year in the Commonwealth,” said Robert Oftring, director of legislative affairs at the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. “We think that investing in such things like innovation, education, transportation and infrastructure is a good way to increase our workforce and encourage businesses in Massachusetts to continue hiring.”

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Oftring said the addition of 55,500 jobs is the largest increase in jobs since 1999. The private sector added jobs in professional, scientific and business services, as well as in trade, transportation, utilities, leisure and hospitality financial activities.

This growth in the job market happened under the leadership of former Secretary of the Labor and Workforce development Joanne Goldstein, who was succeeded by Rachel Kaprielian on Jan. 17.

“I am grateful for this opportunity to continue to serve the public by working towards job creation and economic growth that will benefit Massachusetts residents and businesses,” said Kaprielian in a Jan. 17 release. “I share Governor Patrick’s commitment to the state’s continuing economic recovery by ensuring that the skills of the Commonwealth’s workforce meet the continuously evolving needs of our employers.”

Several residents said they were happy with this increase in jobs because the job market is sig-

nificantly tougher than usual right now and with the economy struggling it is hard to find financial security.

“It is so much harder to find jobs now than when I was young,” said Irma Ortiz, 80, of Allston. “It is really good if they truly did add that many jobs, no matter what field they are in, because the important thing is that people get started in the job market and then work their way up. That’s what I did. Experience will get you really far.”

Bibiche Mayombo, 31, of Boston, said she agrees getting a quick start in the job market is key.

“I got my job right out of college and then worked my way up,” she said. “It is tough right now because education is becoming more common and the workforce is more competitive, but as long as these jobs are in respectable fields, it will help a lot.”

William Ellis, 19, of Boston, said the pressure of making your-

JobS, see page 4

As educational leaders at schools such as Boston University ponder methods of mitigating the everpresent dilemma of underage student drinking, a study released Thursday suggests interventions may be an effective solution.

The study, which was conducted by professors at Brown University, evaluated the various methods of intervening in students’ excessive drinking habits in order to select which were the most effective at controlling student alcohol consumption, said Lori Scott-Sheldon, a psychiatry and human behavior professor at Brown University and author of the study.

“This study looked at any intervention with a group of students who were given an intervention compared to a group who were given a controlled condition to see whether an intervention really worked,” ScottSheldon said. “The research showed that [a personalized intervention] actually does work, which is great news. If we give first-year students an intervention, they can reduce their alcohol use and their alcohol-related problems.”

Students who participated in interventions were provided with different types of feedback, such as informational reports of drinking patterns among Americans.

“Students are given a report of their drinking behavior compared to either women in their same university or women across the United States, for example,” she said. “It’s a nice way to show them how much they’re drinking, how their drinking behavior differs from other people, either at their university or in the United States or other universities within the United States.”

Scott-Sheldon said when students were shown their peers were consuming significantly less alcohol than they were consuming, they became more aware of the extremities of their drinking.

“Especially those students who are already drinking at high levels, it shows them that really, most students aren’t drinking at high levels,” Scott-

aLcoHoL, see page 4

Hillel movie screening event offers firsthand account of Holocaust

By Mina Corpuz Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University’s Florence and Chafetz Hillel House hosted a documentary screening Thursday night to promote Holocaust education within the Jewish community.

“50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus,” filmed by Steve Pressman, tells the story of a Jewish American couple, the Krauses, who rescued 50 children from Nazi-controlled Vienna in 1939.

“One of the things that we had found out is that when the Krauses got back, they didn’t talk much about the mission because it was looked down upon,” said Joyce Davis, daughter of Elizabeth Davis, who was rescued by the Krauses at age 5. “They had a lot of tragedy in their lives… [but] Wthey did this incredible thing.”

Seth Davis, Joyce’s brother, said that he and his sister

did not originally know that his mother and aunt were interviewed for the documentary.

“Once HBO took [the documentary], that’s when it really became real, which was about 4 years ago,” he said. “The answer is: this actually happened and it wasn’t a story my mother conjured out of some place.”

Around 50 members of the BU community attended the screening. After the documentary, Joyce Davis showed the audience a box of artifacts containing her grandmother’s passport, a telegram confirming that her mother and aunt made it safely to America and letters written by her grandparents.

“It’s very painful to read some of these [letters],” she said. “The pleas from my grandfather to my 9-year-old aunt at the time: ‘Please take care of [your sister]. Please take good care of her.’ It’s so sad to think of a 9-year-old who had to be

HiLLeL, see page 4

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Seth and Joyce Davis answer audience questions Thursday night at BU Hillel after a screening of 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus, a film documenting the efforts of an American Jewish couple to rescue children from an occupied Austria. The Davises are descendants of someone rescued by Mr. and Mrs. Kraus.

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Student: Alcohol awareness aimed at women Beyo: Hillel discussion, panel bring together BU community aLcoHoL: From Page 3

Sheldon said. “... Alcohol is ubiquitous at school, so people often think others are drinking more than they actually are. Just being made aware that they’re drinking more than their peers may be enlightening.”

Soum Das, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, said students are usually indifferent to alcohol education initiatives, especially due to the temptation to drink at college parties.

“People would shrug off a personalized education on alcohol,” Das said. “... It hasn’t really affected me, but then again I’m a guy and alcohol awareness is usually directed towards girls.”

Nicholas Maresco, a College of Engineering freshman, said BU’s alcohol education program was informative, but ultimately futile in slowing the drinking habits of his fellow classmates.

“AlcoholEdu was a good attempt to teach you something you didn’t know before, but at the same time, from what I’ve seen freshman year, it hasn’t really stopped drinking amongst underage kids,” Maresco said. “It was as effective as any other high school health class.”

All BU freshman are required to complete AlcoholEdu, an online education program that provides students with information about the risks of alcohol consumption. AlcoholEdu became mandatory for all BU freshmen at the beginning of the Fall 2013 semester.

Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior Elpida Velmahos said the presentations at her freshmen orientation were more effective than the online portion of AlcoholEdu. “I remember during orientation, we had this little sketch,” Velmahos said. “... It was Dean Elmore and

other students, and they weren’t necessarily educating us about alcohol.

People weren’t just sitting there listening to random facts. It was a lot better than taking an online course asking you ‘what is your blood alcohol level? Click A, B, C or D.’” Sarah Cobuzzi, a College of Communication senior, said the more colleges caution against alcohol consumption, the more students will be tempted to participate in underage drinking.

“It’s kind of like a forbidden fruit type of situation,” Cobuzzi said.

“I’ve never been to Europe, but I’ve heard that you can drink younger there. It’s not really a big deal when you become of age and you’re legally allowed to drink, but people just go crazy on their 21st birthday here, even before that because people tell them they can’t.”

Sophia Goldberg contributed to the reporting of this story.

Prof.: Documentaries ‘challenge’ traditional thinking Sundance: From Page 3

fixation on superficial rating systems that permeates higher education today.

“Since the mainstream media has a tendency to be more concerned about ratings and numbers, as a society, we need independent documentary producers to help us explore social justice issues,” she said. “... This is a CNN production, so it’s not a true indie, but somewhere along the production line, many people realized that a documentary on this subject would resonate with the public.”

Documentaries such as “Ivory Tower” are successful when they challenge ordinary ways of thinking through a creative and intriguing conglomeration of research, conversations and expressions of concern, Waller said.

“The goal of documentary producers is to explore, to challenge, to

ask viewers to consider new ways of thinking,” she said. “Good documentary producers are people who dig deep into research, pay close attention to personal and political conversations, and try to think of ways to share concerns about issues in a manner that is visual, moving and thoughtful.”

Olivia Defrances, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she initially decided to attend college without having an idea of what she wanted to gain from her education.

“I’m not sure if it’s worth it,” DeFrances said. “I’m not sure what I want to do after school, but I felt like college was the only option. I didn’t want to work after high school, so I figured I’d just go to college and figure out something eventually, but I haven’t yet.”

Annie Adelsberger, a School of Education sophomore, said while a college degree is valued among em-

ployers, traditional college settings or not the only place to receive a higher education.

“Employers look to your education background as a basis of whether or not they would like to hire you for a job,” Adelsberger said. “... Personally, I don’t think traditional private or public college is the only place to go for higher education. It’s just too bad that it seems as though people believe that it is.”

Brian Boman, a CAS junior, said a college education is valuable in teaching young adults to think critically and seek out alternative sources of knowledge.

“A college degree is a good way to rid yourself of ignorance,” Boman said. “That’s not just something that takes place in college, that you get informed, but college is really a great place to become aware of different outlets for knowledge.”

Resident: Job growth good for upcoming grads.

JobS: From Page 3

self competitive for the job market is extreme and any additional jobs is good news.

“I am just a freshman in college, but you already have to start

thinking about what the market will be like when you graduate,” he said. “55,000 additional jobs in Massachusetts is great because Massachusetts is a big college state which means there will be a

ton of graduates looking for jobs.

At the same time, you don’t want new college graduates taking jobs away from deserving adults. It’s great if there’s space in the job market for everyone.”

HiLLeL: From Page 3

so responsible for her sister, and it really took a toll on her life.”

Rabbi Michael Beyo, director of BU’s Hillel House, said the event is a great teaching tool and opportunity to work with other groups across campus.

“It is very important,” he said.

“It is a collaboration with BU Trustees, Marsh Chapel and other departments. We try to offer the best programs, events for our students and for the entire BU community.”

Hillel House Director of Student Activities Aaron Selya said the event highlights the importance of remembering the Holocaust and educating people about it.

“It’s so easy to forget,” he said.

“Think of how little we know of what went on 50, 100 or even 250 years ago. There’s so much opportunity [to remember] with videos and computer storage. The event shows that we’re committed to ongoing Holocaust education.

It’s a topic that can really engage people year round. It doesn’t have to be confined to just one day.”

Joshua Tolub, Hillel House

Director of Development, said Hillel is open to members of the BU and Jewish community alike, and he hopes documentary screening reflected that attitude.

“These events can bring in a little piece of everyone to better the community,” he said. “I am happy with the turnout. It’s always great to see such an important program get the attention it deserves and to see members of the BU community learning something new.”

Several members of the Hillel House student board said they found the event thought-provoking and informative.

Rebecca Fleischer, president of the student board, said while there are fewer firsthand Holocaust stories as time progresses, it is important for college students to continue learning about the Holocaust.

“It was a fantastic movie, one that showed multiple aspects of world history during such a tumultuous time,” Fleischer, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation junior, said. “Also, not many films cover the reaction of Americans in the late 1930’s, so I found it very interesting to see it from that point of view.”

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Students struggle to find alternatives to Barnes & Noble

As students settle into their new schedules, they also face the bi-annual torture of emptying their wallets for a fresh set of textbooks. With the price of textbooks creeping up to record highs, students are looking for ways to save money this spring.

The price of textbooks has increased more than 69 percent in the past 15 years, according to University of Michigan-Flint economist Mark Perry, and students are feeling the financial strain.

“It’s an extra cost that no one talks about, but it’s a pretty significant cost,” said College of Arts and Sciences senior Tarif Ahmed. “My freshman semester was the only semester I bought my books from Barnes & Noble and I think it was, like, a $700 bill. That’s unreasonable, in my opinion, when you’re already paying so much to go to school.”

In his four years at BU, Ahmed has developed more than one system to keep his money out of the major retailers. If he can find the book for $10 or less on Amazon, he buys it before class, but otherwise he leans on reserved books in Mugar Memorial Library.

“Oftentimes though I’ve resorted to saying, hey I can’t afford the textbook,” Ahmed said. “Say it’s a $50 science book, I will offer someone $10 to borrow it for a day and scan in the readings from the syllabus.”

For students who aren’t as frugal as Ahmed, Amazon offers an easier solution.

Brittany Turner, an Amazon spokeswoman, said overall the site strives to keep the prices as low as possible.

“Our mission at Amazon is to offer customers the lowest possible prices on millions of products, including textbooks,” Turner said in an email. “We’re heads-down focused on this mission, and when we find savings we pass them on to the customer.”

“Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics,” the required textbook for ENG ME 303, according to StudentLink, retails $246.65 new and $185 used at the BU bookstore, with the option to rent for $160.30 and $111, new and used respectively.

The same book retails for $174.22 new and $140 used on Amazon, with an option to rent for $97. That’s a 30 percent increase from Amazon to on campus bookstores.

Despite the price difference, some students keep going to the on campus store, if only because they know the book will be correct.

“It stinks for students because we want to go to BU bookstore so you can get the exact book your professor assigns,” said College of Communication senior Alex Shadrow.

“BU gets me to go there even though it’s a high price because I don’t want to buy the wrong book.”

As a COM student, Shadrow said she isn’t too weighed down by costs, but when she was taking general requirements in the College of General Studies she was regularly spending $200.

“Were paying so much for a class and for this book that were only going to use for three readings, sometimes I feel like they make us get books that aren’t really used,” Shadrow said.

However, not all professors are expecting students to break the bank, William Pellegrini, a CAS sophomore, was given an iPad to use for his chemistry class. As a result, he paid $75 for his course materials,

Econ professor’s take on “the textbook cartel,” rising prices

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only a portion of which was for the e-book.

“I basically got the book for $20,” Pellegrini said. “It would have been $203 at the bookstore.”

In the past Pellegrini has bought from the BU bookstore for convenience, but has been looking for more reasonably priced options.

Trolling Facebook and former classmates is a standard, but new loose-leaf versions of textbooks still retail for significantly less

than a hardcover. Knowing he likes the interactive features of an e-book expands his options and can keep the price low, and an e-reader isn’t always so cheap.

“But now I’ll have to return [the iPad after the chemistry class is over],” he said. “I definitely will have to buy one now, so that will be at least three textbooks of money.” lauren Dezenski contributed to the reporting of this article.

While some economists specialize in bonds or Social Security, Mark Perry, a University of Michigan–Flint professor of economics and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., focuses on something more relatable: the ever-rising price of college textbooks.

“I see the textbook prices in the bookstore when I go through there and I’ve been pretty shocked at how high prices are and how fast they’ve risen,” Perry said.

While that $250 chemistry book from the campus bookstore might seem like the norm to many freshman, Perry says differently.

Between 1978 and 2012, the cost of college textbooks has risen 812 percent, according to information provided by Perry.

Beyond that, between January 1998 and September 2013, the Consumer Price Index of college textbooks has risen almost 150 percent, whereas the CPI of recreational books has only risen 0.6 percent in that same period.

Adjusted for inflation, that means the cost of college textbooks has risen more that 60 percent, and the cost of recreational books has fallen more than 30 percent.

“So they can’t necessarily blame higher paper or printing cost because then recreational books would also go up,” Perry said. “The real cost of publishing books is going down.”

Textbook publishing is currently run by three or four major publishers. Perry calls them “the Textbook Cartel,” and because the producers are so few, prices manage to inch their way up.

“Maybe 15, 20 years ago there may have been eight, nine, 10 publishers competing, now there’s been a lot more consolidation, so I think that’s one factor. … Along with higher college tuition [publishers] maybe think if college tuition is going up, books are a part of that, then the overall cost of education is rising.”

However, Perry finds the rising tuition argument isn’t enough. With books as high as $300, students can be spending almost $10,000 by the time they reach a degree. Instead of getting the most out of their higher education, Perry said students might not be buying the books to avoid the sticker price.

“I think what’s happening is that then the students don’t buy the textbook and that detracts from their educational experience.”

So what’s the solution? Perry said the textbook bubble should work like they teach in Introduction to Microeconomics: If prices are too high, other firms will enter the market seeking such high profits. However, the new flood of products and competition should slowly push the price back down.

And the battle has already begun. Online companies are already popping up to dethrone the hardcover kings with $20 to $40 alternatives to the books sold on campus.

“We’re in this initial stage of all of these new alternative textbook publishers coming online and offering alternatives,” Perry said.

“And so I think as we move forward and look five years from now, it’s going to look much different from today.”

For now, Perry urges professors to be mindful of the price tag on their course materials.

“As professors become sensitive to the extremely high prices then I think that will help facilitate a change,” he said. “If they’re selecting books from the textbook cartel, that’s when students are trapped because they have to get the book the professor assigns.”

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Opinion

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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University 44th year F Volume 86 F Issue 6

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Commendable commentary During Saturday’s Brigham Young University-Gonzaga University game in Spokane, Wash., ESPN threw its viewers a 180 and placed two women, Beth Mowins and Kara Lawson, as the game’s commentators.

Despite the fact Mowins is a laudable playby-play announcer and sports journalist, and Lawson is an established WNBA star and sports analyst, ESPN received a lot of criticism over their choice to hire two female announcers.

Misogynists such as Twitter user @joeybrinkley23 took their anger to the Internet and voiced their remarks against these two more-than-capable female sports broadcasters. @joeybrinkley23 tweeted, “Won’t be watching the BYU game because there’s 2 women announcers and I can’t deal with women announcers lol.”

Well, “lol” to you Mr. Brinkley, because ESPN is making the honorable move toward integrating more women into the press box.

In addition to Mowins and Lawson, ESPN has hired several women commentators across the board, such as Linda Cohn, Doris Burke and Sage Steele.

Though ESPN may lose “valuable” viewers such as @joeybrinkley23 by increasing female presence on its program, they will slowly help break the notion that women are inept when it comes to playing and commenting on sports.

“Slowly” is the key word in this push for acceptance among female commentators, however. Since ESPN has only recently begun moving women from reporting on the sidelines to the press box, viewers grew up listening to male commentators like Joe Buck and Mike Tirico. They are used to hearing a man’s voice, and for some reason, replacing that voice with a women’s has really seemed to throw people out of their comfort zone.

Viewers who get too wrapped up on stereotypes and mute the game based on the gender of the commentators are feeding into the idea that sports should be a strictly masculine endeavor as opposed to a competitive one. If this mindset persists, sports media will remain yet another area where women are

marginalized in society, and women’s sports will thus remain in second place compared to men’s sports.

But with Danielle Adams and Candace Parker throwing alley-oops in the WNBA, this common notion of sports, basketball in particular, being a male-dominated endeavor should be broadened and revised — it is 2014, after all.

Yes, there is a difference in the vocal infliction and tone between male and female commentators, but other than that, is what men and women have to say about a game really all that different?

One could argue women are not capable of commenting on men’s sports, because if they haven’t played it they don’t know what they’re talking about. But what about Marv Albert and Mike Breen, neither of whom has ever played professional basketball but are still prominent NBA broadcasters? Albert is even commonly referred to a “the voice of basketball.”

It seems as though we as a society have to justify why a woman is in the press box in the first place. Kara Lawson? Well, she won a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing while in the WNBA. Beth Mowins? She was captain of the varsity basketball team for two seasons at Lafayette College in the 80s. Their experience seems similar enough to Charles Barkley, retired NBA star and current analyst for TNT’s “Inside the NBA”.

In reality, sports commentators aren’t always saying the most groundbreaking things when they are in the box anyways. A woman could comment on the player’s hustle in the same way that Charles Barkley could.

The point is about the honor in and dedication to the game, and people should not lose sight of that. Regardless of gender or race, all that matters is that the commentators are good at commenting, simple as that.

After the BYU-Gonzaga game @Byrdman4811, also known as DJ Byrdman, tweeted, “Two women announcers in a men’s basketball game? How about no. #mute.”

How about yes, DJ Byrdman? Let’s #unmute the TV and finally give women the fair shot they deserve in the sports industry.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Roe v. Wade anniversary To the editor, Jan. 22 marked exactly 41 years since Roe v. Wade made legal abortion the law of the land. Yet, politicians across the country continue to chip away at access to abortion. This concerted effort by politicians whose goal is to eliminate all access to safe and legal abortion is unacceptable.

My generation simply won’t stand for it. According to Public Religion Research Institute, six in 10 young Americans believe abortion should be available in all or most cases, and 68 percent believe it should be available in their own community.

That’s why I’m a member of Planned Parenthood Generation Action. Generation Action is a diverse movement of young people who are organizing across issues to achieve reproductive freedom. Here at BU, I work with BU Students for Reproductive Justice to educate our community and advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights.

On this 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, BU SRJ reaffirms our commitment to the fight for reproductive freedom. In that fight, we dedicate ourselves to addressing diverse issues like poverty, immigration reform and racial justice that are deeply connected to the fight for reproductive justice.

The only way we can make progress is if we stand together.

Kanisha Hans Boston University Students for Reproductive Justice

Third time’s a charm Sofiya mahdi I will never forget my first column. As the only freshman on the editorial staff in 2011, I set out with a lot to prove to any readers I had, but most of all, I had a lot to prove to myself.

Just as I was finding my voice amongst the cacophony of political commentary, witty anecdotes of more experienced columnists and trying to discover what this column would grow into. I was also finding my feet amongst the thousands of other students on campus. I remember how I sat down to my laptop and nervously typed my perspective on the British royal engagement — which, I am now embarrassed I ever penned 800 words on.

I found my passion for international relations and political science, and despite taking graduate-level courses and wading through thousands of pages of reading per week, that feeling of excitement has stuck. I ventured to Washington, D.C., and catalogued my experiences in this weekly column for the FreeP as an international student deciphering the mess that is governmental process. To my surprise, I fell deeply in love with the city and all it taught me. For the first time in my college career, I felt like I was finding my niche. I donned a blazer every morning and looked forward to whatever the city had in store for me next.

I left the cherry blossoms of Washington to begin my next adventure in Sydney, where I came close to conquering my fear of the open water. I looked out from a sunlit cliffside and breathed in the deep, slightly salty air. The independence that came years ago with college gave me a false sense of arrogance. As I continued to write my columns about news, I thought I had the world figured out. As long as I wrote eloquently, I was automatically privy to the nuances and complications that made up every single news story I chose.

The truth? I had no idea.

This will be my third and final attempt at a column in my undergraduate career.

The Daily Free Press has been an integral part of my time here at Boston University.

In between columns, I happened to ascend to managing editor of this newspaper last semester. Equipped with a solid grasp of the English language and one news story under my belt, I began the most grueling months of my life — class, FreeP, class work, sleep, repeat.

My body and my sanity deteriorated exponentially. But, like every dark tunnel, the other side inevitably comes. The people in that office with me night after night grew to

mean a lot to me, because unlike those on the periphery, they know what it’s like to run on empty.

As hard and hopeless some of those hours were, I toughened up. In times of hardship, we become selfish and reckless, but my second-to-last semester at BU is one that forced me to take a step back and embrace who I was and who I wanted to be.

Since I’ve been away from my weekly space, tucked in the right side column of the Opinion section, I have continued to watch life unfold around me. I watch with sadness as pointless shootings bring misery into the lives of millions. I watch as fledgling governments in countries far from my window overlooking Nickerson Field, hold elections hoping corruption’s toxicity does not pollute the lives of voters. I watch as Stanislas Wawrinka beats tennis giant Rafael Nadal to win the Australian Open.

In 12 previous matches between the two, Wawrinka had never won a set. I watch as a woman in Texas, declared brain-dead and 14 months pregnant, is taken off life support. Today, as part of the Syrian peace process, woman and children are finally permitted to leave the devastated city of Homs.

I have said hello and goodbye to this column twice before, and in the final chapter of my life here at BU, letting go of my weekly 800 words will not just be relinquishing a column of space on paper. It will be the closing of the most significant installment of my life thus far.

I was recently at Dellaria, a nail salon on Commonwealth Avenue. As the manicurist painted my nails, a young girl walked in and struck up conversation. She was a freshman, from Hong Kong, adjusting to life in Boston. She asked if, as a senior, I had any advice for her. I gave the usual response of being open, putting yourself out there and making the most of your four years.

What I should have said is this: Find friends who will give to you what you would give for them, and keep them close.

Hold on to those who will force you to be your best self, whether you want to hear it or not. Push yourself for internships, accolades and academic success, but remember to have days to cherish yourself. Stay grounded. Never take anything for granted.

I do not know what these last few months before the real world hold in store for me, but I look forward, unafraid.

Sofiya Mahdi is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at sofiya218@gmail.com

The opinions and ideas expressed by columnists and cartoonists are their own and are not necessarily representative of the opinions of The Daily Free Press.

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Catamounts have ‘good tempo,’ solid goaltending in 2 victories Women’s Hockey: From Page 8

Both teams battled for the next 13 minutes, as each searched for the illusive third goal. At the 18:30 mark, freshman Sarah Kelly took advantage of a 2-on-1 opportunity and put the puck past a diving Sperry for the lead.

Under a minute later, freshman Victoria Andreakos put the game out of reach with an empty-netter, sealing a 4-2 win for Vermont.

“We put ourselves in good position to get out with a point or maybe try to find a way to win the game in OT,” Durocher said.

“Unfortunately we made a little bit of a bad read and an elementary play w turned into a basically a 2-on-0 and UVM capitalized…

[UVM] went down and finished the job.

The next night the Terriers made a switch

in goal, starting freshman Victoria Hanson in favor of Sperry.

The freshman played admirably in the first, stopping 10 shots. She was not perfect however, as defenseman Megan Dalbec stole a BU pass and then ripped a shot at net, which beat Hanson.

With 48 seconds left in the opening frame, the Terriers tied the game. Fratkin took a shot from the point, which made it by Douville, lighting the lamp for the second time of the weekend and fourth time of the season.

“Overall she had a solid weekend,” Durocher said about Fratkin. “She skated well and she certainly logs a lot of minutes for us and plays as much as anyone in college hockey.”

Even with momentum swinging in the Terriers’ favor heading into the first inter-

mission, things did not go well BU the rest of the way.

At the 5:29 mark in the second, Vermont took a 2-1 lead when Bridget Baker batted in a rebound out of mid-air for the advantage.

About 10 minutes later, freshman Cassidy Campeau notched her first career goal and gave the Catamounts the 3-1 edge.

“We fell behind early, but got a goal to tie,” Durocher said. “But I was really disappointed the way we came out in the second period. We made some mental mistakes, didn’t pick up some people in coverage and all of a sudden [UVM] makes it a 3-1 game.”

The Terriers did not answer in the period despite recording 13 shots. Douville was on top of her game, stopping each shot that came her way.

“She really stood strong,” Durocher said

of Vermont’s goaltender. “She made some very nice saves. I don’t know if we made the perfect shots, but she handled it. That’s why she’s a top goalie … She’s in ‘all-star’ form right night.”

Up two goals in the third, Vermont kept up the pressure and added two more before the game finished.

A little over four minutes into the frame, forward Amanda Pelkey wristed a shot topshelf past Hanson for her 17th goal of the year and with 26 seconds left in the game, McNally added her second goal of the weekend when she deflected the puck past Hanson for the fifth and final goal of the contest.

“Hats off to Vermont’s performance,” Durocher said. “They played with good tempo, good pace and they competed.

We’ve got to get back to some of the basic fundamentals to improve ourselves.”

Terriers’ defense stout from ‘get-go’ Women’s Hoops: From Page 8

a 3-pointer to end the half, though, and BU went into the break leading by a score of 38-26.

The two teams came out of the halftime break appearing refreshed and began to trade buckets. The Bison continued to fight and cut the Terrier lead to just five points, capped off by a trey ball from Dotson.

Although the Bison got close multiple times, senior guard Danielle Callahan seemed to have an answer for every Bucknell run, with both of her 3-pointers coming when Bucknell was within range of tying the score.

The senior finished the game with 10 points and 10 assists, good enough for her second double-double of the season. Ball movement was a point of focus for not only Callahan but for BU as a whole, with the Terriers having 25 assists to the Bison’s nine.

“It’s always an emphasis,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg about the team’s ball movement. “I mean, I am not a coach who wants one person taking all of our shots, I’ve never been a coach who does that, even when we have a superstar. I like to share the ball, whoever is open should be taking it, we like the most open shot, the easier shot.”

The Bison made one last push with 9:13

to go in game, trying to keep the score close.

Dotson made a layup to cut the Terriers’ lead to just 10 points, forcing a BU timeout. Greenberg helped her team become composed, and the Terriers outscored the Bison 22-4 for the rest of the game, cruising to an 86-58 win.

Not only did the Terriers contain Bucknell to just 56 points and nine assists, but also held the Bison to shoot just 30.9 percent from the field, nearly 10 percent less than their season average. Although Bucknell had two scorers in double figures, no other Bison player had more than five points.

Greenberg said the defense played just as much as part of the game as the offense, and was a key in the victory.

“I just think our defense was just great from the get-go,” Greenberg said. “They have two forwards in Dotson and [Claire] DeBoer who really score a lot of points every game, and, you know, our goal was ‘let’s really be a team defense, were not going to double, let’s just really be crowding the lane,’ and we just played with really good intensity. I could feel it, I don’t know if people in the gym could feel it, but our intensity on defense just seemed really on by everyone who got in the game and it really was the difference in the game.”

Senior continues strong final campaign Agboola: From Page 8

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Senior forward Rashidat Agboola tallied her 1,000th career point in Saturday’s win.

Moccia maintains 1.000 save percentage Moccia: From Page 8

experience because his team won. Sure, he finally had a chance to get off the bench and into the game Saturday night, but Moccia had a tough time enjoying his ice time because his team lost. That is just the kind of guy he is.

“He is just such an unbelievable person,” Quinn said. “He is just so genuine. He cares, he is always doing the right thing and he works his ass off. He is everything you want in a human being let alone an athlete.

“If I can have him around from now until I retire I’d do it, because he brings so much to the program in so many ways.”

Playing Moccia was something that people thought might happen during Frozen Fenway, with the team down 5-0 entering the third period. Moccia led the team on the ice, raising fans’ hopes that they might see the 5-foot-8 goalie take the ice at Fenway Park. Despite the excitement, he spent that game on the bench.

Quinn later said he was “pissed” at himself for not playing Moccia.

He did not forget about playing Moccia Saturday night though, much to the joy of the Terrier faithful. When Moccia was swapped in for sophomore goalie Sean Maguire and he skated toward the crease, the fans erupted in cheers.

Seeing him play was the silver lining in an otherwise disappointing game for BU (8-14-2,

3-8-1 Hockey East).

“It meant a lot,” Quinn said. “It was great to hear the crowd react. I know how much it probably meant to him, and I know what it meant to me because he’s a special person and he means an awful lot to this program.”

Several teammates skated over to him and patted him on the head or the pads as he pushed snow out of his crease. Moccia’s classmate Matt Ronan said he was “super pumped” to see him get some playing time. Vermont got two power plays while Moccia was in goal, and the penalty killers held the Catamounts to one shot during both power plays combined.

It was the only shot he faced in the game, and he smothered it in his chest. He maintained his 1.000 save percentage.

“He is a good goalie,” Quinn said. “That sometimes gets lost in the fact that he is such a great kid. I don’t want people to lose sight of that too. I watch the guy play every day and he is a good goalie. I’m not keeping him around for charity.”

At the end of the night, the best part of the experience for Moccia was knowing that his parents, Brenda and Mario, were among those cheering and watching on from the crowd.

“That’s the most important,” Moccia said.

“I know they’re proud of me whether I play or not, and to get a shot for them to see me play is a great gift.”

was good for third on the team behind former guards Chantell Alford and Mo Moran, who had 12.4 and 10.9 per game, respectively.

For her efforts during her second year at BU, she was named to the All-Conference Third Team in the America East Conference.

Last year during her junior campaign, Agboola started every game and was named tricaptain along with Moran and senior guard Danielle Callahan. She secured her spot as the second leading scorer on the team with 350 total points and an average of 11.7 per game, helping the Terriers advance to the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, while earning All-Conference First Team honors.

This season, as a senior, the Methuen native has put it all together, which has culminated in a spectacular statistical season. She has continued to thrive on the court for BU, and leads the team in total points (261), points per game (12.4) and

rebounds (150). She has put up two doubledoubles this season, and has now posted three straight games of double-digit point totals.

With the departure of offensive powerhouses Alford and Moran, Agboola has adjusted accordingly, stepping into a bigger role on the team.

“It’s a big change,” Agboola said. “I played with [Alford and Moran] for three years so it’s definitely different for us and the team, but we’ve been adjusting. We have a lot of good players on the team, and we’re ready to pick it up the second half of the Patriot League.”

For Agboola, playing for the Terriers is something she said she is grateful for because she had not ever pictured herself at BU or anticipated the friendships she would make.

“I never would have thought I’d be here in this position,” Agboola said. “I’m really, really thankful to have met so many of my closest friends and to have the opportunity to play a high level basketball. I’m really appreciative of it, and I just want to finish out the season strong.”

Vermont tallies 3 in final period of play Men’s Hockey: From Page 8

traffic before regaining composure by the crease. He backed in closer to the goal line, deked around Catamount netminder Mike Santaguida (16 saves) and backhanded it into an open net from a sharp angle at 9:03.

Freshman Brady Shaw extended the Catamount lead to 4-1 at 2:21 in the third when he picked the puck up behind the BU net, wrapped around to the front and put it away at the far post for his third career goal.

Freshman wing Kevin Duane mirrored that play when he made it 4-2 with 11:02 left. He forced a turnover, skated around

the net and finished his own rebound off of Santaguida’s pads.

Captain H.T. Lenz put away one of Maguire’s big rebounds with less than seven minutes to play, and winger Colin Markison scored from the left circle minutes later to account for the 6-2 final.

BU killed all five of Vermont’s powerplay chances, but itself failed on the man advantage (0-for-6).

“We have to find a way to play a little bit more simplistic on a Saturday night,” Quinn said. “But when you get tired, you tend to make bad decisions. The first thing to go when you get tired is your brain.

“I think it caught up with us tonight.”

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Quotable

I know they’re proud of me whether I play or not, and to get a shot for them to see me play is a great gift.

- BU senior goaltender Anthony Moccia on his parents seeing him play Saturday.

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By Tim Healey Daily Free Press Staff

So much for momentum.

A day after the Boston University men’s hockey team picked up its first win since November, the Terriers came out flat Saturday afternoon and never really picked it up before falling to No. 17 University of Vermont, 6-2.

There were moments when BU was buzzing, threatening to get back into it after falling behind early, but those moments were fleeting. Too often, an uninspired power play left the Terriers (8-142, 3-8-1 Hockey East) unable to capitalize when the Catamounts (13-9-3, 5-7 Hockey East) were back on their heels.

“It seems to be a little bit of a pattern the last two weekends,” said BU coach David Quinn.

“Play well and play hard on Friday night, not able to match it on Saturday night. I thought Vermont really set the pace early, and I don’t think we were able to match it.”

UVM coach Kevin Sneddon said the difference was his team played hard and physical — and desperate, like BU did the night prior — for 60 minutes, not the 20 or so it did Friday.

Quinn had a different take. He said his guys were tired.

“We play our best players so many minutes on Friday night, there might be a correlation with what’s been happening on Saturday night,” Quinn said. “We play our best players so much, maybe I need to tail it back a little bit. Our depth isn’t one of our strengths right now.”

Quinn pointed to the role of special teams in particular. BU had to kill nine UVM power plays in Friday’s win, and players like senior captain Garrett Noonan (35 minutes) and freshman center Robbie Baillargeon (30 minutes) saw obscene amounts of ice time.

That took its toll when the Terriers took to the Agganis Arena ice again, for an earlier-than-normal 4 p.m. start, no less.

Moccia plays in 1st regularseason contest

“We wanted to compete,” said senior forward Matt Ronan.

“But I think sometimes it just wasn’t there, our legs weren’t there. I know guys were excited for tonight, so I guess I’m just a little concerned with the laziness creeping into the game.”

Sophomore forward Danny O’Regan played well, again, in his second game since moving from center. He scored one of BU’s goals and continued to utilize his speed along the wings.

But sophomore goaltender Sean Maguire proved penetrable for the first time in several games.

He gave up all six goals on 32 shots, and his rebound control was unusually suspect at times.

Quinn pulled Maguire in favor of senior netminder Anthony Moccia after the sixth goal, with 3:46 left on the game clock. It was the first regulation game of Moccia’s career.

Moccia got a loud round of applause from the crowd of 4,948 when he entered, then again when he stopped the only shot he faced.

The first period was drastically different from the very even one that started Friday night’s contest.

Vermont forward Brendan Bradley put UVM up 1-0 at 3:18 in the frame when he skated behind the BU net, then roofed one nearside from the bottom of the right circle.

His linemate, captain Chris McCarthy, made it 2-0 at 17:04 when he found the top-left corner from the left circle.

McCarthy added another late in the second — he beat Maguire one-on-one while BU was on a power play — but that was not until O’Regan got the Terriers on the board.

Midway through the second, O’Regan skated down the right wing and almost lost the puck in

Before the Boston University men’s hockey team fell to No. 17 University of Vermont 6-2 at Agganis Arena Saturday night, there was already some activity in the news conference room. This press conference was not between the collected media and BU coach David Quinn like it usually is, but instead it was between a youth hockey goaltender and his father.

The son sat tall at the microphone, wearing his team’s jersey and fielding questions from his father who pretended to be a media member. It was a chance for the boy to dream he played goalie for the Terriers, and he smiled wide during each answer he gave his father.

Later in the night, the boy sat in the stands and watched senior goaltender Anthony Moccia finally get his chance to live that dream. The Medford native, who spent a year as a practice goalie, walked on to the team and is now in his third and final season as a third-stringer, got between the pipes in front of 4,948 fans for his first regular-season action.

“It’s kind of always been a huge goal of mine to play in a regular season game and I was able to get in there today,” Moccia said. “I can check that off the list of things that I have to do.”

While this was Moccia’s first regular-season appearance, he had a chance to take the ice during the exhibition game Oct. 5 against St. Francis Xavier University. He made seven saves in the contest and was overjoyed afterward, saying he was “so excited” to get in the game.

It was easier for him to enjoy that

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By Kevin Dillon Daily Free Press Staff

Women’s basketball defeats Bison Agboola records 1,000th point

By Emmanuel Gomez Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University women’s basketball hosted Bucknell University Saturday afternoon at Case Gymnasium, coming away with an impressive 86-58 victory over the Bison.

The Terriers’ (8-13, 3-5 Patriot League) offensive outburst was only part of the story though, as senior forward Rashidat Agboola became the 22nd player in BU women’s basketball history to eclipse the 1,000-point mark for her career at BU. The Bison (10-8, 5-3 Patriot League) defense seemed to have no answer for the inspired forward.

The Terriers and Agboola took care of business right from the opening whistle, starting the game on a 15-4 run. Agboola came out firing on all cylinders and ended up scoring a season- and game-high 25 points.

With a layup just under four minutes into the first half, she officially en-

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By Andrew Battifarano Daily Free Press Staff

Heading into the weekend, the No. 10/11 Boston University women’s hockey team looked to right the ship, as it had lost its previous two games and three of the last four. Facing off against a University of Vermont team that the Terriers had not lost to since the 2009-10 campaign, it looked like things would start to move in the right direction. Despite not losing to the Catamounts in over four years, BU fell in two contests to Vermont by scores of 4-2 and 5-1.

“Unfortunately in the context of the weekend we continued to find ways to not get the job done,” said BU coach Brian Durocher.

“Some of the credit certainly goes to UVM and their goaltender.

When you’re in a bit of a negative streak or slump, things happen that compound it.”

In the first contest friday night, neither team had much of an advantage in the first frame. Senior goaltender Kerrin Sperry stopped all six shots that came her way, while her counterpart, netminder Roxanne Douville, saved three Terrier (16-8-1, 9-5-0 Hockey East) chances.

Even with the quiet first period for both squads, the Catamounts (11-12-4, 7-6-1 Hockey East) had no trouble getting on the board in the second, and did so just 1:45 into the frame. Douville made a short pass to defenseman Gina Repaci who in turn fed forward Delia McNally at the other blue line. McNally skated past the BU defense and pushed it across the goal line for the lead.

About 10 minutes later, BU answered back on the strength of senior defenseman Kaleigh fratkin.

Sophomore forward Sarah Lefort carried the puck in and took a shot on Douville, which was stopped, but Fratkin scooped up the rebound and tied things at one.

While neither team scored for the remainder of the period, both teams had ample opportunities to do so, as the Terriers rattled off 14 shots and the Catamounts peppered Sperry with 16 of their own.

With the game all knotted up at one, both teams were gunning for the next goal, and 2:54 into the final frame, the Catamounts found the back of the net. forward Kellie Dineen scored on a one-timer in the slot to give Vermont a 2-1 advantage.

Although Vermont seized the early advantage in the third, the Terriers fought back and tied the game up three minutes later. Senior captain Louise Warren took a pass from Lefort and skated toward the net, backhanding a shot under Douville.

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tered the 1,000-point club. The forward went a perfect 8-for-8 from the field and finished 9-for-11 from the free-throw line. She also added five rebounds, four blocks, three assists and two steals.

Despite a 6-0 run by Bucknell to cut the BU lead to 15-10 with 13:17 remaining in the half, the Terriers held tough, extending their lead back up to double-digits with 8:50 left in the half when senior forward Whitney Turner sunk a pair of free throws.

The Bison would not go away, however, as two free-throw makes from forward Audrey Dotson cut the Terrier lead to just six points at the 7:03 mark in the half.

With 28 seconds remaining in the frame, junior forward Mollie McKendrick hit a jumper to extend the Terriers’ lead to 15 points, their largest of the game at that point. Bison guard Shelby Romine answered with

By Judy Cohen Daily Free Press Staff

For the Boston University women’s basketball team, Saturday’s game against Bucknell University was worth more than just another notch in the win column.

The Terriers (8-13, 3-5 Patriot League) defeated the Bison (10-8, 5-3 Patriot League) in convincing fashion, putting up a season-high 86 points.

Twenty-five of those points came from senior forward Rashidat Agboola who was a perfect 8-for-8 from the field and 9-of-11 from the charity stripe. In doing so, the Massachusetts native became the 22nd player in program history to reach 1,000 points in her career at BU. “We’re glad that’s over with,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg on Agboola’s milestone. “It was kind of out there for a while. She could have gotten it this game or the next or the WoMen’S HoopS, see page 7 next.”

Wednesday, Jan. 29 M. Basketball vs. Army, 7 p.m.

W. Basketball @ Army, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 30

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When asked about her individual achievement, Agboola was quick to turn the attention to her team and the day’s victory.

“Well, it’s nice because we got a win,” Agboola said. “We were playing a really good team tonight, so it was a really good team win, and I’m really excited about it.”

Since she has been a part of the women’s basketball team, Agboola has been one of the top players in the program. As a freshman, she played in 29 games for BU, averaging close to three points per game, leading the team in field-goal percentage at 51.5 percent.

Agboola became a leading contributor to the team’s offense in her sophomore campaign when she started in all but one game, leading the team again in field-goal percentage with a 45.6 percent success rate while posting 10.1 points a game, which

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Friday, Jan. 31 M. Hockey @ UMass-Amherst, 7:30 p.m.

W. Hockey @ UConn, 7 p.m.