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Lu Lingzi scholarship reaches $1 mil. fundraising goal Lawyers for friends of

By Trisha Thadani Daily Free Press Staff

The Lu Lingzi Memorial Scholarship Fund, named after the BU graduate student who was killed in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings, recently reached its $1 million goal this month, officials confirmed Tuesday.

BU trustee Kenneth Feld established the scholarship fund just days after the attack on the Boston Marathon that claimed Lingzi’s life, said BU spokesman Colin Riley. The scholarship fund reached its goal through donations from BU alumni across the world and through support from Lingzi’s friends and family.

“Certainly, we are appreciative of the trustees establishing it and taking the initiative to establish it [the scholarship fund] in her honor with respect to the family,” Riley said. “I think people responded incredibly to the scholarship.”

Riley said the scholarship fund received worldwide support from over a thousand donors from two-dozen different countries.

He said the extended support from the BU community and friends and family of Lingzi was unanticipated.

“There is a lot of appreciation and gratitude, and it certainly shows the commitment of Boston University trustees to students, friends, faculty, staff and alumni who are willing to contribute in her name,” Riley said.

According to the Lu Lingzi Scholarship Fund website, Lingzi, a graduate student studying statistics, was a beloved member of the BU community. BU Trustees

established this scholarship fund based on the wishes of the Lingzi family after their daughter died.

“An optimist with a powerful work ethic, she had just passed the first part of the master’s comprehensive exam in statistics — an accomplishment that gave her great satisfaction,” a statement on the website read. “Along with her friends and family, we grieve at her passing.”

All members of the extended BU family are invited to contribute to the Lu Lingzi Scholarship fund, according to the website.

Contributions of any amount are both accepted and appreciated.

The Lu Lingzi Scholarship fund will endow two scholarships for BU graduate students with one beginning in the fall 2014 semester, said Director of Advancement Communications Jeff Cruikshank.

The dean of each graduate school or college may nominate one student each year to receive this scholarship, Cruikshank said.

Selection will be based on the nominated student’s academic achievement and potential for success.

“Each [scholarship] will provide an annual stipend and full tuition for up to two years,” Cruikshank said in an email. “International students enrolled in a full-time master’s degree program will be eligible, with preference given to those from China.”

Feld, chairman of The Campaign for Boston University and initiator of the Lu Lingzi Scholarship Fund, was among one of the fund’s most notable donors, Cruikshank said.

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Marathon suspect seek access to court docs.

By Kyle Plantz Daily Free Press Staff

Douglas Kriner, professor of political science at BU, said debates rarely have a significant impact in the outcome of elections.

“The influence of the debate probably depends on how many people are watching and how much information viewers have about the two candidates entering the debate,” he said. “All in all, my guess is that the debate will have little impact on the ultimate outcome.”

Both candidates said choosing a new school superintendent and police commissioner would be the two most enduring decisions the new mayor would make, and leadership in Boston needs to reflect the wishes of the residents.

A lawyer for Azamat Tazhayakov, one of the college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who allegedly disposed of evidence during the aftermath of the bombings, argued in the U.S. District Court in Boston on Tuesday that a protective order against making court documents public should be lifted because prosecutors did not make a compelling case for the continued confidentiality of the materials.

Nicholas Wooldridge, Tazhayakov’s attorney, said the protective order has given federal prosecutors the power to say what they want to the public about the case.

“The government is the only one who has been able to comment on some of the discoveries in this case,” he said in the courtroom.

“They are the ones who have been able to create a public record by filing a complaint, cherry-picking certain parts of discoveries and putting that in their criminal complaint as well as their indictment. The defendants have basically been muzzled.”

Tazhayakov, 19, pleaded not guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges on Sept. 13. None of the friends appeared in the courtroom on Tuesday.

Prosecutor John Capin said lifting the protective order would be inappropriate.

“The basis of the order is to protect the litigants, most especially, the defendants, from adverse pre-trial publicity,” he said.

“That’s why the order is in place.”

U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler said she would take the defense’s argument into advisement.

Lawyers for Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos, both friends of Tsarnaev, said they are working with the prosecution on an agreement that would loosen restrictions of the order so the defense and family members of the suspect could have more access to the materials.

The men became friends with Tsarnaev while they all attended the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

Prosecutors said Kadyrbayev, 19, texted Tsarnaev on April 18, three days after the bombings, telling him that he looked like

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The Lu Lingzi scholarship fund, which was established after Lu Lingzi was killed in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings, recently reached its $1 million goal.

Wang, vice president and associate provost from global programs, the Lingzi family is grateful for the support the scholarship fund has received. Wang was the intermediary for the Lingzi family when they came to BU for their late daughter’s memorial service in April.

“The family [Lingzi] is proud and appreciative of the scholarship,” Cruikshank said. “For BU, the scholarship symbolizes a strong community coming together in the wake of a terrible tragedy.”

Candidates discuss city official appointments in final mayoral debate

By Alice Bazerghi Daily Free Press Staff

In the final debate of the mayoral race before the election on Tuesday, City Councilor John Connolly and Mass. Rep. Martin Walsh talked about some of the most important decisions they would make as mayor, including selecting a new superintendent for Boston Public Schools and a new police commissioner for the Boston Police Department.

R.D. Sahl, journalism professor at Boston University, moderated the debate hosted by the Boston Media Consortium, and opened up the proceedings by asking

the candidates about their campaigns this election because both Connolly and Walsh agreed to run a positive campaign.

“Tens of thousands of negative flyers were mailed out that came from an outside group, but Walsh opened up this kind of thing when he said he would take outside money,” Connolly said. “Marty couldn’t stop [unions] from sending out negative flyers. They’ve spent $2 million on his campaign, so it raises legitimate questions on whether or not he can display the independence needed as mayor.”

As mayor, Walsh said he would work with unions, but not be influenced by them.

“When I found out there was a negative flyer on John, I asked the group to stop,” he said. “This race shouldn’t be about negative campaigning.”

Michael Nichols uses research, legal experience to move ahead in District 8 City Council race

By Felicia Gans Daily Free Press Staff

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City Councilor candidate Michael Nichols (left) speaks to Boston University students Oct. 15 at the Boston University Student Government office in the GSU basement.

This is the third part in a series of profiles about the candidates facing off in the Nov. 5 election.

In addition to the mayoral election, the District 8 race for City Council is also in full swing. Attorney Michael Nichols is running against lawyer Josh Zakim to fill former mayoral candidate Michael Ross’s seat, with his campaign focusing on using his policy research to their advantage.

Nichols worked as a chief of staff for the State House, and currently serves as the research director for the City Council.

Nichols said this experience in legal and policy research has prepared him for the responsibilities to be a city councilor.

“I’m actually the only one left in the election that has any city government experience or state government experience or civic association experience,” he said.

“I think that something that District 8 has long shown is a desire to have people who

know the intricacies of public policy and work to make people’s lives better for it.”

Nichols said he plans to begin with a focus on public education, late night public transportation and affordable housing.

“Not just low income affordable housing, not just middle income,” he said. “No matter what amount of money you’re making, or if you’re not making any money at all, you should have access to affordable housing in Boston.”

Suzanne Schlossberg, Nichols’ campaign manager, said that if elected, Nichols plans to cater to multiple parts of the district at once so there is constant progress and development.

Because of the mayoral election, voter turnout was low in the District 8 primary on Sept. 29, but Schlossberg said this election is important because changes in city government will impact residents’ lives.

“City services are often overlooked, so

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one of the suspects that Federal Bureau of Investigation officials were hunting.

Tazhayakov received a text later that night from Tsarnaev that told the three friends to take whatever they wanted from his dorm room.

Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, both Kazakhstani nationals, are accused of destroying and concealing some of Tsarnaev’s belongings.

They allegedly tossed the backpack of items into a dumpster behind their apartment in New Bedford, and watched as a garbage truck took the items away to a landfill.

The items included Tsarnaev’s laptop and his backpack with fireworks inside it. They are both charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Phillipos faces a maximum of eight years in prison for each count of making false statements to federal agents.

Tsarnaev, 20, is accused of the April 15 bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

Law enforcement officials released surveillance photos of Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, on April 18, which led to a police chase into Watertown that night.

The brothers allegedly killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department officer Sean Collier as they tried to escape.

Tamerlan was killed after a shootout with law enforcement officials and Dzhokhar was captured on April 19 after hiding in a drydocked boat all day. He pleaded not guilty to all charges against him on July 10.

The friends are scheduled to return to court on Jan. 15.

“We need [a superintendent] that is a good listener, a collaboration builder and an administrator that can attract good talent,” Walsh said.

Connolly said he would appoint an independent thinker that is not influenced by bureaucracy.

“The person needs to understand cultural competency and where our children come from,” he said. “When we appoint superintendents, it’s an assistant who’s usually appointed who is good at working around dysfunction, but we need someone who is going to remove the dysfunction.”

In regard to the new police commissioner, the candidates said racism within the BPD must be eliminated and leadership must reflect that goal.

“We need someone who will recognize that it’s not just about law enforcement [but also] tackling mental health issues,” Connolly said. “There’s racism in all of Boston, and we can see that in the Boston Police Department when there is not a single captain of color. This needs to be addressed, and we need to shift this culture so that we make sure we look like the entire city of Boston.”

Walsh said many former mayoral candidates of color, including City Councilor Felix Arroyo, former BPS committee member John Barros and former City Housing Chief Charlotte Golar Richie en-

dorsed him, showing that and he is committed to diverse leadership.

“We need to make sure our police department reflects our communities,” he said. “The community needs to be a partner to solve the problems. We have to deal with the racism in the city because we talk about one Boston, but we don’t see one. We need to make sure we get into every neighborhood and make sure there’s a standard quality in each neighborhood.”

Walsh said he is the best candidate for mayor because of his career as a state representative.

“Because of my record and my accomplishments, I’m the most qualified for this race,” he said.

“This race is about me and what I can do for the city of Boston I’ve created.”

Connolly said he should be elected because he is the education candidate.

“Representative Walsh is qualified to be mayor and he has a great record of service, but I think mine is better and addresses the need for Boston right now,” he said. “I’ve been a leader in education, students in Boston Public Schools eat healthier because of me, and I helped block cuts that would be made to students with autism. This is the issue that connects to everything else.”

The election to replace Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will take place on Tuesday.

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electing a city councilor is truly important in terms of making sure you have a voice for yourself in city government,” she said. “For [Nichols], a lot of the changes are improving upon and making sure that we’re not leaving behind certain things, improving our city services ... and constantly reassessing and reevaluating so that we’re never getting stagnant.”

Nichols said his goal is to make the district, which includes Boston University as well as the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Kenmore Square, Mission Hill and West End neighborhoods, better for the people who live there.

“District 8 is the premiere area of Boston,” Nichols said. “So I really want to make sure that, particularly District 8, but the city as a whole, continues to get better, that the quality of life improves, that people want to raise families here, they want to study for college here [and] they want to live here, work here, visit.”

Adam Barrett, business analyst for Boston Scientific, is one of many people who have endorsed Nichols.

“Mike [has] so much knowledge of how the city government

works and he wants to make sure government works for everyone,” he said. “He is up before the sun and working late into the night to reach voters and address their concerns.”

Christopher Freiss, the Democratic committee secretary for Boston Ward 10, said Nichols’ experience with the government will make him the best candidate for the position.

“Politics should be about whose ideas are the best, not who you know best,” he said. “If I had to use one word to describe Mike or his priorities, it would be substantive and that’s how you get things done right.”

Nichols said he hopes through his policy initiatives, he can improve the quality of life for all members of the district, including students who may not be registered to vote in Massachusetts.

“To say that you’re just a student or your campus is a bubble, which most people have said, we need to sort of break out of that,” he said. “These students should care because this is their city too.

Their time in college will change them most likely and they’ll want to have a good city to share it with.”

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Campus & City City Crime Logs

Oct.24 toOct.29

By Felicia Gans Daily Free Press Staff

The following reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton D-14 crime logs from Oct. 24 to Oct. 29.

Assault in a parking lot At about 3:05 a.m. on Thursday, officers responded to a call in the parking lot at 145 Harvard Ave. The victim stated that he witnessed a male being assaulted by two male suspects. Yelling at the suspects to stop, the victim was confronted by the suspects, who threatened to pull out knives.

The victim was then punched in the head and fell to the ground.

The victim’s friend attempted to stop the suspects, but was also punched. Officers searched the area, but could not find the suspects.

House party gets out of control On Saturday at about 1:17 a.m., officers were called about a noise disturbance at 10 Saunders St. Officers parked two houses away and observed the residence, where they saw people drinking alcohol on the porch and inside the house. The officers identified two residents of the house and told both of them that their guests needed to leave. Both of the residents were argumentative and refused to stop the party. One of the residents stated that he should be able to have a party because it was Friday night. The officers requested additional units and upon their arrival, all the guests left.

The two residents will be summoned to the Brighton District Court for disturbing the peace and keeping a disorderly house.

Breaking and entering suspect gets away Officers responded to a breaking and entering at 7 Wilton St. at about 1:11 a.m. on Sunday. The female victim reported that the suspect entered the house through an open kitchen window. She stated that she heard the suspect getting a knife from the kitchen.

The suspect used this knife to pry open the victim’s bedroom door.

When the suspect saw the victim and her six-year-old son in the bedroom, he fled through the front door. The victim stated that she did not know the suspect.Officers searched the area, but did not find the suspect.

Unknown man pours lighter fluid on back porch At about 7:48 a.m. on Sunday, officers responded to a report of a person pouring gasoline on the porch of 15 Chester St. The victim stated that she walked into her kitchen and saw the male suspect pouring an unknown liquid from a blue can onto a mattress on the back porch. The suspect told the victim that it was a “message for the people upstairs.” He fled the scene and ran toward Berklee College of Music. When officers arrived, they could smell the lighter fluid and investigated the porch and surrounding areas.

Officers interviewed the resident on the third floor. The suspect was not found.

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Residents talk about Hotel Comm. expansion Colleges such as BU now ranked by value, price

By Emily Hartwell Daily Free Press Staff

Two weeks after announcing expansion plans, Hotel Commonwealth representatives, city officials and the Boston Redevelopment Authority met with members of the community Tuesday to talk about possible concerns regarding the proposals.

The plan, if approved, would add a seven-story building facing Fenway Park and Newbury Street immediately behind the hotel’s Kenmore Square location. It would have 94 guest rooms, more event space and 216 additional parking spots in the rear of the building.

“The demands indicate that the hotel would be able to support the additional rooms and meeting space,” said Hotel Commonwealth General Manager Adam Sperling.

“The parking really is designed to support both of those [additions].”

Community members in attendance said they had mixed opinions of the project.

Pam Beale, president of the Kenmore Association, said the construction could only help an area of Boston already on the rise.

“It’s an under-utilized lot on a deadly, deserted, derelict kind of street [Kenmore Street], so to enliven [it] … is a great addition to

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Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Circle of 6, Hollaback!, Know Your IX, Students Active For Ending Rape and Avon Foundation for Women, among others.

“Our work around college campuses is about changing policy at the leadership level, but moving towards prevention so that we can envision college campuses that are based on the fact and not fear,” Davis said.

Ileana Tauscher, CGSA public relations coordinator and School of Management senior, said sexual violence is a national issue on college campuses.

“The significance is this [sexual violence] has been a growing conversation in the past few years,” Tauscher said. “It’s definitely becoming more and more significant, as people become more aware of violence, especially sexual violence on campus. It’s always good to have a forum to discuss issues about that … It’s a good way to connect Boston-based organizations and Boston schools.”

Tauscher said she hopes this

While college rankings may be on the rise and holding more and more clout in the college decision process, Boston University students said they did not base their college choice solely on college and university rankings.

As noted in a Sunday New York Times article, rankings that order college by value or return of investment are becoming increasingly popular.

“It’s something that should be considered, but not something that should make your final decision,” said School of Management sophomore Steph Strager. “You should pick a school based on the qualities it has that you like, rather than where it stands on a list.”

Strager said chose BU after considering the value a degree from BU would hold after graduation in the eyes of employers.

“You have to look at college like an investment,” she said. “It’s what you’re getting out of it. BU is a very expensive school. For the amount you’re paying, you should come out of it with a degree that’s really worth something.”

In October 2012, BU graduates were ranked 17th most employable college graduates in the world in a survey published in The New York Times.

Less than a year later in September 2013, BU jumped ten spots in the U.S. News and World Report’s National University Rankings 2013-14, from 51st place to 41st place. In October, BU also saw an improvement within the Times Higher Education 2013-14 World University Rankings, moving from 54th place to 50th place.

Rankings have also focused on the supposed value of colleges.

For example, Washington Monthly’s September/October issue included the 2013 Best Bang for the Buck Rankings of colleges and universities, which orders schools based on the economic value of graduates’ degrees, in addition to its traditional rankings of colleges and universities.

“Focusing on value makes sense for the vast majority of people who are looking to get a decent education for a decent price,” said Washington Monthly Web Editor Ryan Cooper in an interview.

Of the 1,572 institutions ranked

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Hotel Commonwealth has plans to expand by building a separate sixstory addition with parking facilities and rooms that connect to the main property.

Kenmore Square,” she said. “It’s always been a sort of dark, dreary street where cars get broken into all the time, so if we can have some positive activity [there, it can] … complement the ballpark and complement all the other things that are happening around the area.”

Matthew Brooks, representative of the Fenway Civic Association, said the hotel’s addition would benefit the Kenmore and Fenway area in the short-term future, but it could easily lead to overcrowding.

“It’s just a long-term concern

that while this proposal might work now, in the future, it might become a handicap for doing something which could have then been much better for the neighborhood as a whole,” he said.

The building would have six floors above ground level, with one level partially below. The bottom four floors would be reserved for parking, while the top three would be utilized for guest rooms, according to plans presented at the meeting. The new structure would be

Hotel Comm., see page 4

CGSA members to attend rape culture conference

By Kaitlin Junod Daily Free Press Staff

In order to raise awareness about sexual assault, members from Boston University’s Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism will be attending Harvard’s Speak Up to Take Rape Culture Down Conference on Nov. 2, officials said.

The summit was organized by Futures Without Violence, a policy and advocacy organization based in San Francisco with a satellite office in Boston. Lonna Davis, director of the Children and Youth program at FWV, said the purpose of this summit is to give students a chance to talk about how to end rape culture in college settings.

“We have three goals [for the conference],” Davis said. “One is to elevate student voices, two is to educate current student leaders and administrators and the third to unite students across the borders of their institutions. We have over 25 colleges and universities attending [the summit], so that’s really good in terms of raising the volume of student voices as a col-

lective in Massachusetts.”

This summit will include 16 different workshops, speeches and panels. Additionally, Diane Rosenfeld, a lecturer at Harvard Law School’s Gender Violence Program, will discuss The Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, a piece of legislature expected to go in effect in March 2014.

“We also have an award announcement,” Davis said, “… In 2014, we’re going to be selecting four student groups to receive mini-grants to enhance their activism, and we’re calling them the Break the Silence Awards. We’re naming them after a woman … who was murdered by her ex-husband several years ago and was an alum of Simmons College.”

FWV is a three-decade-old organization that focuses on educating the public, as well as changing social norms of violence against women and children. Davis said FWV officials host a national training program for judges.

Davis said FWV has partnered with several organizations for this conference. Partners include the

No. of med. students will soon outweigh available residency spots

By Rachel Riley and Taryn Ottaunick Daily Free Press Staff

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In recent years, the class sizes in the Boston University School of Medicine have increased significantly, putting some students at risk of being edged out of residency training programs.

Because enrollment in medical schools such as Boston University School of Medicine is increasing, medical school graduates may soon have difficulty finding a spot in residency training programs, according to a Thursday press release by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Applicants and enrollments in medical schools reached an all-time high in 2013, the release stated.

However, if Congress does not raise the spending cap on federal funding for residency training, graduates will face a shortage of openings in residency training.

“There definitely is a rising number of applicants to medical schools,” said BUSM professor James Feldman. “There also has been increas-

ing numbers of medical school positions that are available [to incoming students]. However, there has not been an increase or rise in number of graduate medical education positions that have been created. That is the concern.”

The number of medical school applicants at the national level increased by 6.1 percent to a grand total of 48,014, and the number of first-time applicants increased by 5.8 percent to a grand total of 35,727, the release stated. For the first time ever, the number of first-year medical school students exceeded 20,000 at 20,055.

BUSM Associate Dean and Director of Admissions Robert Witzburg said the number of medical school graduates will exceed the capacity of residency programs if

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connected to the existing hotel using an overhead pedestrian walkway.

The proposal comes less than a year after current hotel management bought Hotel Commonwealth from Boston University in December.

If the approval process with the BRA goes quickly, Sperling said construction could start by the summer of 2014 and the addition would be up and running from 15 to 18 months later.

Sperling said construction would not be a serious problem for Kenmore Square.

“Based on where the land is [and] where there will be the parking lot, I don’t think there will be any major disruption,” he said. “People have to determine for themselves … but based on where it is, it should be

very minimal disruption.”

Several residents said the hotel addition could have many benefits for the Kenmore Square area.

“For the community, this could bring in a lot of business,” said Williams Davis, 65, resident of Boston.

“It could bring money and jobs, but overall it will only benefit a few people who already are wealthy enough to afford staying there. In my eyes then, it just doesn’t add enough to the part of the community that needs help.”

Alex Yamamoto, 21, resident of Boston, said he agreed there would be some downfalls because of the construction, but not enough reasons to not expand.

“It seems like a very good idea for the area,” he said. “It could be a pretty big inconvenience while it’s being built, but that isn’t [a concern

for] everybody. More people would benefit from more rooms, and the following money [as a result of the expansion] for the area than [those who] would be inconvenienced by it.”

Tommy Giammanco, 31, resident of Allston, said apart from traffic congestion during construction, the hotel addition was good news for Kenmore Square and the surrounding parts of Boston.

“It’s going to be loud and congested for a while, but I don’t see any other negative impact of this,” he said. “It’s a very well-run business that seems to care about the people in the city. Besides, Fenway is right next door. The noise difference isn’t anything someone couldn’t expect.

Overall then, it might be a pain for a minute, but it’s good. It’s the city moving forward.”

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in Washington Monthly’s traditional rankings, only 349 met the qualifications to be included in the “Best Bang for the Buck” rankings list. While Boston University was ranked at 120th place in the traditional Washington Monthly National University Rankings, BU did not appear on the Best Bang for Buck Rankings list.

“There’s rankings in U.S. News that are based on prestige and high status,” he said. “That’s great for the upper crust of society, but most people still go to regular public universities and community colleges.”

In order for a school to qualify for the “Best Bang for the Buck list,” at least 20 percent of its students must be receiving Pell Grants. The college’s graduation rate must exceed 50 percent and the graduation rate must also exceed the statistically predicted

graduation rate for the school given the number of admitted low-income students. In addition, graduates must earn enough to be able to repay their student loans.

BU School of Education Associate Dean of Research Scott Solberg said organizations have mostly ranked BU high on lists based on return on investment.

“The initial reviews on return on investment for Boston University compared to other public universities as well as other private [universities] is that we’re pretty strong,” he said.

“Students who graduate from Boston University are getting jobs that are paying back their loans and providing them with a good return throughout their lifetime.”

College of Arts and Sciences senior Amar Alam said putting too much stock in college rankings reinforces a superficial mindset about

schools that might not always be accurate.

“Socially, we are trained to put emphasis on ratings,” she said. “It’s that competiveness that society encompasses in general. You always feel that if you don’t go to a top-ranking college, you won’t get a good job, because that’s what people look at.”

CAS senior Drew Berry said while considering the value of a degree from a specific college is important to take into account, a college degree in itself holds significant value.

“Tuition is becoming so expensive,” he said. “It’s so hard for people to afford college these days, so it’s ‘oh, I want to get my money’s worth if I’m going to pay $60,000 a year to go to school.’”

Taryn Ottaunick contributed to the reporting of this article.

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the congressional spending cap is not raised.

“It is projected that the total number of M.D. and D.O. graduates from U.S. schools may exceed the total number of available positions at some point in the near future if the congressionally mandated cap on graduate medical education slots for both internship and residency positions is not increased,” he said in an email.

Completing residency training is essential to becoming a practicing doctor in the U.S., Feldman said.

“One has to complete a residency in order to be licensed to practice medicine in the United States,” he said. “It’s necessary that someone learns how to be a physician and practice a specialty, and also it’s a requirement for a license.”

In 2006, the AAMC requested that medical schools try to increase enrollment by 30 percent in order to avoid future shortages of medical professionals, the release said.

“BUSM increased its class size several years ago, from 155 to 170, in response to the AAMC urging medical schools to expand enrollment,” Witzburg said. “BUSM has no plans for further expansion at this time.”

The inability of medical residency programs to support increasing numbers of graduate students would be unfortunate, Feldman said.

“In some of the models of other countries in the world, there are people who graduated from medical school and wound up driving

cabs,” he said. “…The concern is that there is no rational model that will match the rising enrollment in medical schools with the opportunity to train.”

BUSM Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine Morsal Tahouni said multiple factors account for the recent rise in medical school applicants.

“Part of it is related to an increased effort to recruit physicians because it’s estimated that over the next 10 to 20 years, there’s going to be a physician shortage across the country,” he said.

The recent economic recession has also been a contributing factor to the increase in applicants and enrollments, Tahouni said.

“For young people coming out of school, there was a lot of difficulty obtaining jobs in traditional sectors such as business, management [and] technology,” he said. “Medicine was seen as a more recession-proof profession. So more people started to apply for [positions in] the medical fields.”

Tahouni said the ultimate effects of increases in medical school graduates are unforeseeable at this point in time.

“This drive to increase the number of medical school admissions is still fairly recent,” he said. “We haven’t seen the full effect of that on the residency end … Some programs have increased their residency slots, and some programs have decreased.

So how it’s all going to come out in the end, I’m not really sure.”

CGSA rep.: Vital to keep dialogue on sexual assault conference: From Page 1

conference will empower attendees to know they can make a difference on their campuses.

“I know sometimes it [the issue of sexual violence] seems like something that’s too big of a problem to be solved,” she said. “… It’s important that we continue this conversation, that we’re more

vocal about it and that people are aware that they have the resources and they have the support, in terms of making campuses safer.”

CGSA member Melanie Kirsh said she hopes this conference will offer more strategies on how to advocate for safer spaces and active bystanders. Additionally, she said she hopes this conference will highlight how much rape culture

affects a college community.

“If we start advocating for safer spaces and safer communities, we can work to make sure rape culture is not acceptable,” Kirsh, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said. “Especially because it’s perpetuated through environments where people don’t say ‘hey, that’s not a cool joke’ or who are victimblaming and slut-shaming.” ®

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Starting-Up Early

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ike many Boston University seniors, Connor McEwen spends much of his time involved in activities he cares about, such as playing intramural sports, eating, going to class and participating in Greek life and other clubs and activities on campus.

And, like many other BU seniors, he also gets a little uncomfortable with the question of what he is doing after college.

“Yeah, that’s the thing everyone is talking about right now because we’re seniors,” said McEwen, who is in the College of Engineering. “To be honest, I don’t know.”

Despite the typical uncertainty about the future, McEwen at least knows what he is interested in: entrepreneurship. At 21 years old, he was chosen to be on the Boston Investment Team ofw the Dorm Room Fund, a student-run venture that invests in student startups.

With the help of 10 other students from colleges in the Boston area, McEwen looks for interesting companies starting up on campuses for the Dorm Room Fund to support.

According to a Sept. 26 Forbes article, 29 percent of entrepreneurs are between the ages of 20 and 34. Tech-savvy ‘Millennials’ — a term given to the generation currently moving out of college and into the workforce — are creating startups to meet niche needs that are being overlooked by larger corporations. With fresh ideas and more technical knowledge than older generations, young people have the opportunity to bring their ideas to life sooner rather than later, even if that means pursuing a venture before graduation.

Unlike many seniors, McEwen has had some real world experience. Breaking into the startup world, McEwen and his roommate, Nam Chu Hoai, spent their junior year making their own solution to a problem they saw in the online marketplace — a startup named Credport.

The Build Up

McEwen and Chu Hoai met their freshmen year as randomly assigned roommates in a brownstone on Bay State Road. McEwen, originally from Ohio, and Chu Hoai, an international student from Berlin, began to recognize that they shared common interests. Spending a lot of their time finding “cool things online” and researching what different companies were doing, the pair gradually honed their interests in technology and entrepreneurship.

“It’s always fascinated me how people do such great things,” said

Chu Hoai, a College of Arts and Sciences computer science major.

“And we wanted to do these great things we read about.”

For example, McEwen said, every company that now employs thousands and thousands of people was started by a single entrepreneur.

“It’s about bringing new things into the world like new technologies such as iPhones,” he said.

“All these cool things exist just because some guy was like, ‘Hey, we should make this.’”

After Chu Hoai’s internship at a startup and his experience with applying for the Thiel Fellowship, a program where an investor gives money to 20 people under the age of 20 in order to pursue their innovative ideas, the two began understanding how startups work.

As sophomores, they began recognizing a common problem in the newly created businesses where people could use the Internet to find everything from babysitters to televisions to rooms for rent.

“We thought these people had a big problem,” McEwen said. “You don’t trust strangers.”

During winter break of their sophomore year, the idea of Credport was born. Credport was created to address the problem of trusting strangers in an online marketplace. It allowed users to know exactly who they would meet and to view the person’s ratings from previous transactions, McEwen said.

Getting Started Chu Hoai started the project during the 2012 spring semester as a directed study. By the summer, they received $18,000 and office space from the Summer@ Highland program to support their project.

“But at the end of the summer, we just decided that we didn’t want to quit and go back to college, so we decided to take a year off and go to Germany,” Chu Hoai, who was raised in Berlin, said.

Excited by the freedom of the project, Chu Hoai and McEwen said they saw this as an initiative worth the investment of their time.

“At least for me, the reason I love entrepreneurship is mostly because you get to choose what you’re working on, who is working on it, and which way you’re working on it,” Chu Hoai said.

“You choose to do it the way you want to do it, and that’s a great feeling.”

Starting a company requires both time and motivation, McEwen said.

“When you’re starting a company, you’re thinking about what

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CAS senior Connor McEwen now works on the team of the Dorm Room Fund in Boston to support other students who are interested in entrepreneurship before graduation.

needs to get done in such a limited time,” he said. “And then you have to go to class and learn things that are completely unrelated to anything that you need, which makes it harder to be as motivated because all you’re thinking about is your company, your company and your company.”

Chu Hoai echoed McEwen’s feelings of being consumed by the project, which left little time for school in his schedule.

“It’s like a sports club, except it’s your baby so you really want to do it perfectly,” Chu Hoai said.

“When you’re really into a project, everything else just doesn’t matter.”

By March, McEwen and Chu Hoai decided that Credport was not working out, so they returned to Boston to finish their degrees.

“I think the experience was so valuable, much more so than anything else I could have been doing during that year,” McEwen said.

While they decided to take a year off to pursue this, they said they didn’t choose that path lightly.

“A lot of people want to drop out because it’s a cool and hip thing to do, and for those people I don’t think it’s a smart thing,” McEwen said. “The reason we left was because we were thinking ‘someone needs to do this. The world needs to have this thing, and we have the capability to do it.’”

They knew if they waited a year, the marketplace would be

different. Taking time off was more of an afterthought than the initial goal, Chu Hoai said.

“We thought, ‘We want to work on this, how do we do it?’ instead of ‘What are we doing after we drop out?’” he said.

An Eye to the Future

Though they returned to school for the year, they know they want to get involved in something similar in the future.

“We know we want to do something like this again,” Chu Hoai said. “But we don’t want to push ourselves to get into a project because for us to work as entrepreneurs, we have to be completely committed, and if we do it, we’d better do it for real.”

Now roommates of four years, they plan to work together on something in the future since they have been able to work so well as a team.

Despite the technical knowledge they have gained, the team said some of the most important things they learned over the past couple years was to have the motivation to take some risks and try something new.

“Everyone assumes, ‘Oh, I don’t know things, I should probably go to class and learn it,’ but probably the best thing is to just do it, and if you really don’t know something then just ask people,” Chu Hoai said.

If people are interested in entrepreneurship, they should make

something themselves, instead of doing it for classes, even if its just a one page website, McEwen said.

“Boston is an awesome place to become an entrepreneur,” he said. “There are so many people who are helpful and willing to reach out and give you advice. But the most important thing is having the willpower to just start working on something.”

Steve Jobs was just an 18-yearold kid going to college at one point in his life, McEwen pointed out.

“Everything in the world was made and designed by someone not that much smarter than you, so it’s cool to have this opportunity to make an impact,” he said.

Senior Year Back at BU, McEwen and Chu Hoai are still interested in entrepreneurship and meeting with people involved in startups.

“It’s very much a space that I love and want to be in all of the time,” McEwen said.

Both are involved in the BU EClub, or Entrepreneurship Club, and McEwen writes a weekly newsletter called BU Startups with entrepreneurial events and news about cool ideas around campus.

“We’re pretty much average college students, just much of our time is consumed by start-ups,” Chu Hoai said. “But you’ll find us on a Friday night exactly where you’d find any other senior.”

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On rape culture and guilt

TRIGGER WARNING: The following editorial includes discussion and details of rape and sexual assault.

For one man, Baltimore has proven to be the city that continues to find him not guilty. Nelson Bernard Clifford has been acquitted a fourth time on rape allegations, according The Baltimore Sun on Sunday.

Prosecutors in the Baltimore City Circuit Court believe they have had such a difficult time indicting Clifford because of a decision made in a 1977 court case, McKnight v. State.

As a result of the case, Maryland prosecutors cannot lump together multiple charges into one trial or use pieces of evidence from a previous trial in the next, and defendants can face several trials to work through multiple allegations. That means that even if someone has committed a similar crime four times, they are a suspect in four separate trials with four separate juries.

The biggest problem with the Clifford case is he was charged with committing multiple rapes the same way. He entered the survivors’ homes late at night, left bodily fluid on their sheets and claimed he was given consent. Clifford’s lawyers figured out how to beat the first case, and this formula seems to have worked in later cases.

The juries have all been faced with the same evidence, but because prosecutors cannot mention the other assaults and risk a mistrial, juries remain oblivious to the multiple allegations. Prosecutors cannot say anything about how four separate women have crumbled on the witness stand because they had to face their assailant.

The Baltimore Sun also reports Clifford was extremely charismatic on the stand.

He even made jurors laugh. He appeared more credible than the plaintiffs because he was so much more confident. Why build a strong defense when the defendant is such a good public speaker and advocate for his character?

This is the problem with these cases.

Clifford doesn’t “seem” like he could be a rapist. He is too witty, smart and gives off an air of having his life — and subconsciously his actions — in order and in control. He is someone who can convince a jury that he is simply living the escapades of a young single man. People seem to have a preconceived image of who is likely to commit sexual assault, such as a crazed individual with a long beard waiting in the shadows of dark alleyways, or someone who is a deranged psychopath and a social outcast.

One of the pervasive problems with rape culture is the perception of who is a rapist. If they don’t look or act like a monster, or if they’re not noticeably nervous on the stand, a jury could assume that the alleged attacker must be innocent even if the perpetrator were actually guilty. The gaping hole, especially in the Maryland legal system, is fueled by this mindset and refusal to admit there is a fundamental problem — and it starts with the public’s preconceptions of who rapists are and what kind of people are assaulted. If we recognize that sexual assault does not come only from monsters unable to empathize, and that many cases involve those who appear to fit into society, we will take a large step toward justice.

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My freshman year of college, I was invited to tag along to a giant dumpster fire of a fraternity party with some people on my floor. I had been to parties at this particular house before. It was a typical Tampa frat lair. There was no basement, so it got real crowded and sticky. Shots from rogue. $9 bottles of liquor. Shouting at complete strangers as they attempted to flip cups. Pissing in the backyard. A lot of generally shameful behavior. Decent probability of police intervention. But I always had a good time and left with a good story or two.

I was hanging out with a close friend of mine who wasn’t sure if he really wanted to go. I felt unsure as well. I couldn’t be a lousy friend and just run off without him, but I’ve never really been one to stay in on a Friday night. I didn’t want to force him into something he wouldn’t enjoy, but I also felt like I might be helping him gain some life experience that he would treasure later on.

Eventually, we decided to empower a quarter with the decision. Heads we go.

Tails we don’t. Sort of like turning ours brains off. The decision was just too hard for us, I guess, so we fancied the coin to be the best available arbitrator.

However, as soon as the coin flipped out of my hand and floated into the air, I knew I wanted heads. I wanted to go be a young, drunken fool. I wanted an experience I couldn’t get from staying in. And I knew it would be a great adventure for my comrade.

I was lucky. It landed on heads. We ended up having an amazing time. I wonder what I would’ve done that night if the quarter had landed on tails. Probably Mario Tennis and gas station chicken.

We only get so many Friday nights, and I almost cost myself a great deal of fun and some very fond memories because I wasn’t brave enough to make the decision on my own.

I’ve never liked, or furthermore understood, the phrase “go with your gut.” To me it always seemed like a fancy, wannabe-spirit-guide way of saying “Make a decision without thinking.” I mean my gut doesn’t have any neurons, does it? My gut knows when I’ve skipped breakfast, and it knows to retract when pretty girls

are around. That’s about it. Why should I trust my lower stomach with an important decision? And what is so great about not thinking?

But so many seem to romanticize this idea of making crucial choices with one’s gut. Is it because there’s some mystical value in turning off your brain to make a hard decision, or is it just because it’s hard, and we don’t want to have to think about it anymore? I think the evidence points overwhelmingly to the latter. And other times we most likely already know what we want to do, but just don’t have the courage to choose it with our own power of reason.

I find myself at a stage in life with a lot of tough choices. I’ve been a student of some form for almost my entire life, and that’s all but over. There’s much to be decided, much to be considered. Who am I? Where will I go? What will I do? Cup of Noodles or microwave hot dog?

These are big questions. These are hard choices. Entrusting my lower intestine with this all seems like a cop out. It’s too hard for my brain, so I’m just passing the buck to my gut. “C’mon gut work your magic.” But with all due respect to my belly, it should never be left with any such decision. Well, perhaps aside from the noodles/hot dog dilemma.

Should I remain in Los Angeles? That’s a big question. “What does your gut say?” so many people have asked regarding this issue. What is it that I want to dedicate my time and effort to? That’s another big question. “Go with your gut,” is the most prevalent advice.

I say that’s garbage. I’m not going make my stomach flab do all the work. I’m going to put on my big boy pants, and I’m going to think about it — even though it’s hard.

I’m going to look myself in the mirror and ask “What do I want to do? What makes me happy?” And I’m not going to let myself pass the buck to a quarter, dice, magic eight-ball, notebook-paper-fortune-teller or anything else of the sort. It’s my job to figure these things out. I’m lucky enough to have a functioning brain. I might as well have the “guts” to use it.

Frank Marasco is a first-year graduate student in Los Angeles. He can be reached at fcm820@bu.edu.

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Terrier Talk Reflections

Crime is not running rampant on campus, but reports of theft have been increasing in the past few weeks. The FreeP wanted to hear what students know about the thefts and what they are doing to protect themselves.

Here’s what some of them said.

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KATHERINE SADOVNIKOV

“I used to leave out my iPad in the dining hall, but now I try to at least put it in my bag or have someone watch my things or take my stuff with me.

-ENG sophomore

LINCOLN KUPKE

“I’m a little bit more cautious about leaving my computer or my bag around — ­ even my bike. I make sure to lock it up now. It’s definitely made me think about it more.”

-SMG junior

AMANDA ARNOFF

GEORGE GELINAS

“It’s just something my parents have taught me, ‘Don’t leave your things out.’” You don’t know everyone around you and we are at a great school with great people, but sometimes these things happen.”

-CAS freshman

“I’m more careful now because before I was like, ‘nobody is going to steal my stuff, it’s just books,’ but people’s stuff is still getting stolen.

-CGS freshman

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Morris: Manziel should avoid NFL, stay in college as long as possible Morris: From Page 8

to accomplish things that no one ever has in the history of college football.

Over the summer, Manziel tweeted, “I can’t wait to leave College Station.” Why? I just don’t get it. He’s the king of the world at Texas A&M University. He is literally living the dream. He’s probably already getting paid. Why would he want to leave?

Manziel is like the guy from your high school who just doesn’t get it. He’s peaked.

His life will never be better than it is right now. He’s probably going to get drafted by some failing NFL franchise, be put in

way too early, fall flat on his face and disappear into the obscurity of college stars that couldn’t make it in the pros. I just can’t see him succeeding to any great extent in the NFL. My advice to him is simple: Stay in college until the NCAA is dragging you kicking and screaming off the field because your eligibility is over.

Manziel has been seen hanging out in the company of Drake and LeBron James.

He recently said that he wants to party with Charlie Sheen, Rob Gronkowski and Tiger Woods. If that’s the kind of life he wants, it’s only going to last as long as he stays in college. He’s only a superstar while he’s

winning Heisman Trophies. Remember when Matt Leinart used to be seen out partying in Los Angeles back when he was relevant? Yeah, you don’t see that anymore. It would just be embarrassing.

If Johnny Football wants to live that lifestyle, then he has no chance of making it in the NFL. The wildest thing Peyton Manning ever does is order Papa John’s in his Buick Verano. The wildest thing Tom Brady ever does is go to a Halloween party with his supermodel wife dressed as the Cowardly Lion and Dorothy. (I mean, seriously, how awesome and sexy was that?) If Manziel wants to succeed in the NFL, he’s

got to stop living the party lifestyle.

But if that’s not an option, then don’t ever leave school. He’s in just his second year, and could keep getting even better. He could easily end up with multiple Heisman trophies. If his team can get over the Alabama hump (something he’s already shown he’s capable of), he will win an SEC and National Championship. When all is said and done, he could end up being not only the greatest college quarterback ever, but the greatest athlete in the history of college sports. He was made to play in the college game, and he should milk every last second he can get out of it.

BU to face defense-minded Colgate Men’s Soccer: From Page 8

the Terriers, however, as senior midfielder Vicente Colmenares will be unable to play.

Losing Colmenares could be significant for BU, as he has seen significant playing time in all four of his years with the Terriers.

Colgate has not been a powerhouse on the offensive side of the ball, but has been able to win low-scoring games. The Raiders have been heating up as of late, as they have scored four of their 11 goals for the season in their last three games.

The Raiders are at the bottom of the league with 25 goals allowed and currently rank sixth in the conference in saves (64).

“They’re always a hard team to play at home, they do not allow many goals,” Rob-

erts said. “They’re very good defensively and on set players.”

The Terriers will almost certainly be looking to get the ball to their main playmaker, senior midfielder Anthony Ciccone.

He leads the team with five assists, which is also third in the league.

Ciccone will be trying to feed scoring chances to either Badji or McBride who lead the team in goals with four and three respectively.

According to Roberts, the Terriers will look to stay focused in Wednesday’s contest, and he believes they have what it takes to finish the season strong.

“We just have to play clean defensively, win our battles, take our chances and it will work out,” Roberts said.

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The return of sophomore defender Jeroen Blugh will boost BU as it makes a last attempt to qualify for the conference postseason tournament.

Durocher: BU must ‘learn’ from victory Women’s Hockey: From Page 8

Durocher said. “Some of them were lazy. In the first period, you get a couple of penalties that are hard-nosed plays that the ref sees as an interference against us when it could have been interference against them, but we had a couple there in the third period where you’ve got to avoid it.”

The Terriers struck again at 13:22 in the second when junior center Kayla Tutino smashed a one-timer past the glove of Desjardins following a textbook pass from Warren on a delayed penalty one-man advantage.

Desjardins saved a solid opportunity on net by freshman forward Maddie Elia to close out the second period for the Terriers.

The Terriers penalty kill played off a highsticking penalty from Elia that came in the second minute of the third period. During this time, the Huskies nearly tied up the game on a shot from Wallace that clanked off the pipe.

Following Lefort’s third penalty of the game, the Terriers gave up the game-tying

goal to Husky left wing Katie MacSorley in front of the net with just under six minutes left in regulation. The score from MacSorley was set up by a pass from behind the net from Scamurra that brought Sperry out of position.

As a senior captain, Warren rallied the team following the game-tying goal.

“It’s about staying optimistic,” Warren said.

“It’s keeping everyone’s mood up high. It’s not letting anyone get down on themselves. Don’t let anyone think about any mistakes. It’s just keeping a positive attitude out there. Keeping everyone excited.”

Following an aggressive Husky attack at the beginning of the overtime period, Warren scurried through the middle of the ice past two Husky defensemen and got off a quick wrist shot that went past the glove of Desjardins to secure the victory for the Terriers. “[This win] is really important if we learn from it,” Durocher said. “If we think we played well, if we think that we outworked them, if we think we played smart, if we think did an intelligent job, it will come back and bite us.”

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pass it to a charging Sarah Lefort. Tutino passed the puck just past a Northeastern defenseman, which Lefort was able to grab and put by the blocker of Northeastern goaltender Chloe Desjardins. It was the Terriers’ fifth first-period goal of the season.

Heading into the second period, the game was tied at one apiece, but just minutes in, it looked as if the Terriers would take advantage. Despite having an extended 5-on-3 chance, the Terriers could not put one by Desjardins. Although they had missed chances, it was Tutino who put the Terriers back on top with her first goal of the season.

After a delayed penalty on the Huskies, the Terriers took the puck up the left wing boards. Senior captain Louise Warren took it into the Northeastern zone and found Tutino racing up the middle of the ice. Warren fired the puck towards Tutino, who one-timed the puck past the glove of a helpless Desjardins, giving the Terriers a one-goal lead 13 minutes into the second period. After having 24 shots this season without a goal, Tutino finally registered her first of the season.

“I think I was at the right place at the right time,” Tutino said about her goal. “I was calling for the puck and [Warren] saw

me, and I just went to the net. It was just a good opportunity.”

Tutino’s goal looked to be the one that would hold up for the Terriers, but late in the third period, the Huskies answered, tying the game up with just over six minutes left in the third period. Instead of Tutino securing the game-winner, the contest headed into overtime.

Although the Terriers headed to an extra frame for the third time this season, it was Tutino who helped the team come away with a win late in overtime. While the Huskies looked to get the puck out of their own defensive end of the ice, Tutino was crucial in keeping the puck inside the offensive zone. Her help on the offensive forecheck allowed Warren to score the winning tally for the Terriers.

With her effort against Northeastern, BU coach Brian Durocher said he was pleased with Tutino’s effort and numbers against the Huskies.

“It was arguably her best game of the year tonight,” Durocher said. “She got on the score sheet and picked up a big goal, which I was hoping might hang in there to be the winner but it didn’t happen. She got a lot of ice time, maybe too much ice time. Give her credit, she’s got a heart as big as anyone on this team and fights and competes. She has the heart of a lion and got it done tonight.”

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She’s got a heart as big as anyone on this team and fights and competes. She has the heart of a lion and got it done tonight.

-BU coach Brian Durocher on Kayla Tutino’s effort against Northeastern

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Driving The Lane

On Manziel

John Morris

Remember when all the “experts” were predicting that Johnny Manziel would struggle in his sophomore year? There was no way he would be able to live up to the success he had in his freshman year. After winning the Heisman, he wouldn’t have the motivation to continue to get better. Most importantly, the myriad of off-thefield distractions would surely lead to poor performances on the football field.

Well, you can throw all that out the window. Johnny Football is back and just as good as ever.

He currently has the fourthbest Adjusted Total Quarterback Rating in the nation (89.7 out of a possible 100). Most people have him third in this year’s Heisman race, behind Florida State University’s “Famous” Jameis Winston and the University of Oregon’s Marcus “Super” Mariota. But Johnny Football isn’t just having a good year. He’s staking his claim as arguably the best college quarterback of the past 10 years.

Over the past nine years (as far back as ESPN has tracked the QBR statistic), only 7 players have finished a year with a QBR over 90. This includes Manziel’s stellar freshman year, which had a QBR of 90.5. No one has ever done this twice. Andrew Luck owns the record for the best season (94.5 QBR in 2010), but his second best season had a QBR of only 83.6.

Tim Tebow, probably regarded by many as the best college quarterback in the past 10 years, has never reached the 90-QBR mark. His best year led to just an 86 QBR in 2007. Robert Griffin III’s amazing 2011 season led to a QBR of just 83.2. Pat White came the closest to reaching this mark twice, with seasons of 90.9 QBR and 88.3 QBR. Manziel is currently only .3 away from reaching this mark for the second straight year and from becoming the first to do so. This would give him a better two-year stretch that anyone over the past 10 years.

This is all-time great quarterback play we are seeing. This is better than Luck and Tebow. And this is exactly why Johnny Football should not even be thinking about the NFL. He has the chance

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Senior captain Louise Warren scored the game-winning goal to give the women’s hockey team a 3-2 OT win, P.8.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Tutino, Warren propel BU to OT win Tutino comes

through in 1st conference game

By Joon Lee Daily Free Press Staff

Although the Boston University women’s hockey team squeaked out a 3-2 overtime victory over Northeastern University at Matthews Arena Tuesday night, BU coach Brian Durocher was not in the brightest mood following the victory for the Terriers.

“I don’t think it was, technically, a very well-played game by us,” Durocher said. “I don’t think it was a very disciplined game played by us and I don’t think it was a very smart game played by us.

“It should have been a game where we could have won three, four, five to one, but we didn’t want to do that. We basically wanted to hand it to them. Thanks to a nice individual play by [senior captain] Louise [Warren], we came out with a win.”

The Terriers (4-1-1, 1-0-0 Hockey East) started the battle against the Huskies (4-5-0, 1-2-0 Hockey East) on fire, sparked by a goal from sophomore forward Sarah Lefort just 1:13 into the contest. Following a turnover in the middle of the ice, Lefort scooted past a couple of Husky defensemen before beating Northeastern goalie Chloe Desjardins blocker side with a quick wrist shot.

Shortly following her goal, Lefort was called for interference, leaving the Terriers shorthanded for two minutes. Despite the man disadvantage, the Terriers cleared the puck well and prevented any solid offensive opportunities for the Huskies, allowing only two shots on net. The penalty kill was soon tested again following a two-minute minor penalty for hooking on freshman defenseman Sarah Steele.

Throughout the penalty kill, the Terriers were able to keep the puck out of center ice, which prevented turnovers and many clear shots on senior goalkeeper Kerrin Sperry.

The lone mistake of the first period for the Terriers came at 13:06, when Northeastern right wing Chelsiea Goll got the puck past Sperry in

By Andrew Battifarano Daily Free Press Staff

wing Hayley Scamurra was called for a body-checking penalty and defenseman Maggie DiMasi was called for a tripping penalty, giving BU a two-man advantage. Senior defenseman Kaleigh Fratkin created the only legitimate offensive threat for the Terriers on net during the five-on-three opportunity when she hit one shot off the right post. The Terriers struggled during the rest of the scoring chance, failing to create many opportunities on net.

Following a two-minute roughing penalty on Fratkin, the Terriers’ penalty kill looked less sharp. BU continually allowed turnovers in the middle of the ice and allowed the Huskies to aggressively attack Sperry, who made a series of highlightreel saves.

“We got too many [penalties],”

While the Boston University women’s hockey team played a game in which it took seven penalties, the Terriers ended up coming out on top with a 3-2 overtime win against crosstown rival Northeastern University. Although it was a sloppy, penaltyfilled game, junior forward Kayla Tutino put forward a near flawless effort, posting a plus-3 and registering two points in the Terrier victory.

“I just thought that I kept it simple,” Tutino said on her effort. “I put the puck where it was supposed to be and didn’t make things too complicated. I think that’s what helped.”

In a team filled with many strong players during the 2012-13 campaign — the Terriers (4-1-1, 1-0 Hockey East) played in the National Championship — Tutino’s play may have been overshadowed by her teammates. As a sophomore last season, she posted 28 points for the Terriers, scoring 15 goals and assisting on 13, good for sixth on the team in points. It was her second straight year in which she registered at least 20 points.

Coming into the game against the Huskies (4-5, 1-2 Hockey East), Tutino had just two assists in the first five games played and had not registered a goal. With a solid effort at Matthews Arena, things changed for the Lorraine, Quebec, native.

Just over a minute into the opening period of the contest, Tutino registered her first point of the contest. After taking a pass from freshman forward Samantha Sutherland, Tutino looked to

WoMen’s hockey, see page 7

tutino, see page 7

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Junior forward Kayla Tutino was on the ice for all three Terrier goals as BU beat Northeastern in the Terriers’ first conference game of the season.

the top corner of the net, glove-hand side. Goll was set up by two quick passes from Husky defenseman Heather Mottau and forward Kelly Wallace.

Lefort’s second penalty of the game came at the 14:50 mark in the first period, when she was called for a two-minute minor interference penalty. The Terriers killed off the penalty without any major threats, the only shot coming from Mottau.

“Unfortunately, we had to kill a lot of penalties,” Warren said. “That is something that we’re good at. It’s something that we work on a lot and it showed a lot of character in all the girls. We played lots of different girls on penalty kills, so it was good to see that we could still pull out the win with so many penalties.”

The Terriers received a golden opportunity just two minutes into the second period when Husky right

Men’s soccer looks to make final push for postseason tournament

By Michael Joscelyn Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University men’s soccer team is seeking its third win in four games when it visits Colgate University Wednesday night at Van Doren Field.

The Terriers (5-8-1, 2-4 Patriot League) are looking to close their season in a strong fashion and earn a berth in the Patriot League playoffs.

Currently, BU is eighth in the Patriot League standings with six total points. Only the top six teams gain entry into the playoffs.

Although the Terriers have the odds stacked against them, they sit only one point behind Colgate (3-11-2, 2-3-1 Patriot League), which is in a three-way tie for fifth place.

A win on Wednesday would

put the Terriers in the middle of the pack and enable them to control their own destiny with games against American University and Bucknell University remaining on their schedule.

BU last played this past Saturday in a 2-0 win over Loyola University-Maryland. Junior forward Dominique Badji and sophomore forward Lucas McBride both scored in the game while redshirt freshman goalkeeper Matt Gilbert kept a clean sheet.

The Terriers were aided in that game by the return of junior defender Kelvin Madzongwe and sophomore defender Jeroen Blugh.

“It’s great to have them back,” said BU coach Neil Roberts.

“They’re not just talented players, but they’re experienced players and they give us a physical

presence. They’re both physically gifted athletes as well as soccer players.”

Athleticism is not the only place where these two athletes aid the BU defense. Madzongwe, the 2011 America East Defender of the Year, adds the ability to bring the ball up the field and lead the offense on a counterattack.

“It helps us possess better and defend better, so it really makes our whole team better,” Roberts said. “We’re glad to have them back even if it’s just for a short time. It’s better now than not at all.”

The impact the two players had on the game was evident, as Loyola (5-7-2, 0-5-1 Patriot League) was only able to manage six shots for the entire game.

Roberts said he is optimistic that BU can continue its strong

offensive play.

“Hopefully we get some attacks going, we can still get better on that,” Roberts said. “It’s our frontrunners and midfielders.

We’ve had them intact for a game, this being our second game, and we have to prove we can win on the road.”

Gilbert has proven time and time again to be a reliable presence in net, as he has recorded five shutouts in 12 games. The Madison, N.J., native has posted a 0.99 goals-against average and a .815 save percentage.

The road has been a constant struggle for BU this year, as it has yet to win a game away from Nickerson Field with an away record of 0-5-1.

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M. Soccer @ American, 1 p.m.

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Men’s soccer, see page 7

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