11-14-2013

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Mayor Menino to co-chair Initiative on Cities at BU Students, officials excited to see mayor will join university

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Boston University President Robert Brown (left) and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (right) speak at a press conference Wednesday morning at Boston University’s 100 Bay State Road.

By Alice Bazerghi Daily Free Press Staff

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino officially announced Wednesday that he will be co-directing a new Initiative on Cities at Boston University once his tenure as mayor is complete.

Menino announced at a press conference at 100 Bay State Road that he will be co-directing the institute with Graham Wilson, chair of the political science department at BU, in hopes

that Boston will become a place where cities come together to discuss how they are approaching problems.

“Cities are full of energy and promise, but they are also full of challenges — on environmental fronts, on educational roadblocks, on growing inequalities,” Menino said. “I hope very much to sit down with mayors and leaders around the world as I tackle these issues.”

Boston University President Robert Brown said BU has an opportunity to contribute to the

vitality of cities through this initiative because BU is a university rooted in a vital, thriving city.

“The mission of the initiative will be to engage researchers, policymakers and constituents from U.S. cities, and especially from around the world, to help plan the government, manage the law and development of infrastructure and services that will be required for cities to flourish,” he said.

The Initiative on Cities falls within BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and will have a budget of just less than $1 million funded by BU. Menino sturned down offers from Harvard University, Northeastern University, Suffolk University and University of MassachusettsLowell to come to BU. Wilson said the Initiative on Cities would aim to discover what makes cities thrive in order give resources and guidance to struggling cities in the country and around the world.

“It’s a case of looking at the Boston experience … a story of incredible adaptation, where this is a vibrant and successful city right now, but it was not 30 or 40 years ago,” he said. “We need to figure out how we achieved that successful transition and how other cities have achieved that successful transition so that these cities can feel like locomotives, pulling along regional or even national economies.”

Wilson said because Menino had such success is transforming the city of Boston, his talents would be best utilized at BU, where he can

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SG international students forum sees low attendance

By Taryn Ottaunick Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University Student Government invited international students to voice concerns at a forum Monday evening as part of SG’s ongoing effort to improve the experiences of international students at BU, though attendance was low at the meeting.

International student and forum attendee Latifah Azlan said the forum was an ideal place to voice her concerns because she was speaking to her peers, although she was bothered that only two international students attended.

“I wish that more people would have shown up, actually,” she said. “… It gives them [international students] a place to voice out their concerns without feeling intimidated because these people are our friends. They’re our peers.

They’re our age group. It really makes it easier for them to relate to you, because they have the same concerns. It’s just that we’re international, and they’re not.”

Azlan, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, came to the meeting with the primary concern of vacation housing. She said she has struggled with vacation housing since her freshman year because she has to move out of her BU residence during breaks.

“I have friends at schools in the U.S. who are also from Malaysia, and they don’t have to move out at all,” she said. “I never understood why, because I pay for the full year [of housing], but technically, I’m not getting the full year’s [access]. I understand that there are logistics involved, but at the same time, people in the apartments get to stay.”

Outreach efforts to international students, such as SG’s forum, help international students to feel more at home, Azlan said.

“It’s really easy to get lost in the sea of people that come here, so it’s great that we’re taking time to understand people from different communities and different backgrounds [and] trying to make them feel more comfortable so

that they can have the best experience at BU,” she said.

Topics discussed at the forum included academic resources, mental health, vacation housing, career development and immersion into American culture. The two international attendees, along with representatives from SG Social Affairs, worked collaboratively to identify appropriate solutions to issues.

Although SG Social Affairs held a preliminary outreach to evaluate the primary issues of the international community, officials found that not every international student held the same concerns, said SG Director of Social Affairs Rebekah Leopold.

“We learned that not all international students are the same, obviously, and that some of the issues we had found in our preliminary outreach weren’t necessarily issues which we talked about in our meeting today,” Leopold, a CAS sophomore, said.

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By Trisha Thadani and Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

In the wake of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s decision to join Boston University’s faculty, members of the BU community said his decision to join BU over other top universities around the Boston area speaks well to the school’s reputation.

Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said Menino will help students engage in the city not only from a service standpoint, but from a learning standpoint as well.

“I think with a great city, a great university in the city and a great initiative, this [Menino coming to BU] all works out really well,” Elmore said. “We should have the mayor here.

Cities are important for conversation right now, and it’s great we got the initiative. I hope what we can get out from a student life standpoint are opportunities for people to really engage in the city.”

Cailin Nolte, a College of Fine Arts sophomore, said the fact Menino chose to join BU over other major universities in the area shows how relevant the school is within not only Boston, but also the entire country. Based on his 20 years of experience as Boston Mayor, Nolte said she expects he will bring new and innovative ideas to the university.

“He’s led a city and been a leader within a pretty influential and fairly large city for a pretty long time,” Nolte said. “… He was wellloved by everyone. He got some things right, obviously, and he has an interesting perspective to bring to that table.”

During his Wednesday press conference, Menino said his ultimate goal is to get young people enthused about the government. Getting involved in the government it is a great way for college-aged kids to learn and make a difference in people’s lives.

“That’s why I’m in the business: to make a difference in people’s lives,” Menino said, “It’s not about monetary value — it’s about how you want to go to bed at night and say ‘jeez, I did something to help people’ … I’ve spent 20 years in education in Boston, and we’ve made progress … and that’s one of the issues I want to stay involved in.”

Menino said he will have an open door on Bay State Road where students and faculty can come and engage in discussions with him.

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Victims’ families address James ‘Whitey’ Bulger at sentencing hearing

By Kyle Plantz and Margaret Waterman Daily Free Press Staff

Emotions ran high, words were exchanged and families of the victims of James “Whitey” Bulger’s crimes had the chance to speak their mind to the ex-mobster at a sentencing hearing Wednesday at the U.S. District Court in South Boston.

The prosecution began the sentencing by urging Judge Denise Casper to sentence Bulger to life in prison and called him a “little sociopath.”

“The defendant has committed one heinous crime after another,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Kelly. “The carnage that he has caused is grotesque. He helped flood his own neighborhood [South Boston] with drugs. As long as he prospered, no one mattered. Human life meant nothing to him.”

Bulger, 84, was convicted on Aug. 12 on various counts of racketeering, extortion and money laundering. He was also found guilty of 11 of the 19 murders that

he allegedly committed during his time as former mob boss of the Winter Hill Gang during the 1970s and 1980s. He was found after a prolonged manhunt that lasted 16 years in Santa Monica, Calif. in 2011.

Bulger, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, declined to address the court or the families. He did not face about 12 speakers that addressed him and instead stared down, scribbling on his pad of paper.

Sean McGonagle — the son of Paul McGonagle, who was killed in 1974 and whose body was found in a shallow grave in 2000 — said Bulger was “Satan,” and that “the electric chair would be too good for him.”

“You are a domestic terrorist fueled by greed and a sickening ego,” he said, addressing Bulger. “In ’75, you stooped to an all-time low when you called my house and said, ‘Your father is not coming home for Christmas.’ And I asked who it was and

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J.W. Carney (left) and Hank Brennan (right), James “Whitey” Bulger’s defense attorneys, speak on behalf of their client Wednesday afternoon after Bulger’s sentencing trial at John Joseph Moakley Courthouse in South Boston.

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Bulger responded, ‘This is Santa Claus.’”

Steve Davis — the brother of Debra Davis, the girlfriend of Bulger’s close associate Stephen Flemmi, was allegedly strangled

by Bulger in 1984 because she could have told other people that they were informants for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He became choked up and shouted obscenities at Bulger.

“I have fought hard for justice for my sister Debbie,” he said.

“This man has built up so much hate in my heart, I’d like to strangle him myself. I hope Whitey dies the same way my sister did, gasping for breath. You piece of [expletive], look at me!”

Theresa Bond, daughter of Arthur “Bucky” Barrett, who went missing in 1983 after a dispute with Bulger asked, “Mr. Bulger, could you please look at me?” but he never looked up.

“I just want you to know that I don’t hate you,” she said. “I do hate the choices you made. I hate the choices our government has made that allowed you to rule the streets. You will be summonsed to the highest judge. A lethal injection would be too easy of a punishment.

Bond asked Bulger one more question before leaving the stand, which he did not respond to.

“Mr. Bulger, do you have remorse for taking my father’s life?,” she asked. “I think you do.

I forgive you.”

Near the end of proceedings, Bulger had the opportunity to speak on his behalf, but he stood and said “No.” Bulger’s attorney, J.W. Carney Jr., told reporters after the hearing that he did not speak during proceedings in order to stay true to his beliefs about the nature of the trial.

“From his perspective, he did not receive a fair trial because he was not able to put forward everything he could have,” he said.

“He did not want to validate the trial by participating directly or indirectly through us in the sentencing process, and so to have made a statement at the trial or to have turned directly and faced the people who testified today would have been part of validating the trial.”

Carney said Bulger was not untouched by the lengthy, detailed testimony offered by the victims’ family members.

“It was one of the most powerful presentations I’ve ever seen in the courtroom,” he said. “I don’t think James Bulger was immune to that emotion. He was affected by it. I think that was in response to the power of their words. He reacted by a couple of times almost turning to face them when it’s clear he had not intended to.”

The sentence will be handed down by Casper on Thursday at 10 a.m. at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse.

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Natalie Rock, a Sargent College of Rehabilitation Sciences junior, said Menino will be an invaluable asset to the school, as he has a lot of experience and advice to contribute.

“It’s great that he’s deciding to come here,” Rock said. “It’s obviously really great for the school. It’s a good opportunity for the political science majors here to get in touch with him and utilize his experience and wisdom.”

Meagan Bryan, a College of Communication junior, said Menino sees a lot of opportunity for growth at BU, and being involved with the university will help him remain a main figure in the Boston community after he steps down as mayor.

“All he’s done for the city thus far is incredible in itself,” Bryan said.

he’s gone through in the last year that Boston had … He was the face of Boston during a time when we had to make it work, so he will be able to contribute to those [types of] conversations.”

Stephanie Brown, a COM junior, said Menino’s presence at BU will bring a unique perspective to the university, and will benefit students and members of the BU community across the board.

“Whether you like him or you don’t like him, he has so much experience,” Brown said. “Basically any sort of situation you can think of, from a terrorist attack to race riots, he has been here for and overseen it.

Even if you don’t think he made the best choices, he definitely has experience in all ways of being a leader.”

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continue his service to cities all over the world. “[He will be using] his experience in the last 20 years in seeing that transition with Boston, putting that together with other cities who have made that transition with some lessons on environment and education and infrastructure that cities who are struggling can look at,” he said.

Menino will be leaving City Hall on Jan. 6, 2014 to make way for mayor-elect Martin Walsh. He said he would start work at his office on Bay State Road on Feb. 1, 2014.

“I love this city and cities all over America,” he said. “I love how they bring people together, how they gather ideas. I love how when cities have a problem, they solve it. Cities make things work.”

to communicating with students.

“I want to get you young people enthused about government,” he said.

“You haven’t been in [government] a long time. We want you back in.”

Brown said he could not think of anyone better suited to lead the Initiative on Cities than Menino because he has done everything from worrying about potholes to growing technology and creating jobs in order to move Boston forward.

“We can accomplish this mission better and more effectively because we live in a city that functions,” he said. “Menino has spent the last 20 years working tirelessly to improve the city he loves. Now as he steps down from elected public service, he will continue to serve by bringing his wisdom, experience, insight and optimism.”

Int’l student found ‘comfort’ in sharing concerns with peers SG: From Page 1

SG Associate Director of Social Affairs Noor Taraif said the forum was intended to prevent concerns of the international community from being pushed aside and neglected.

“We decided because they [international students] are such an important part of our campus, it’s really important to address these issues and to have a conversation about them,” Taraif, a CAS sophomore, said.

As an international student, Taraif actively contributed to the discussion.

She said she was surprised to learn the experiences of the attendees with certain issues differed greatly from her own, particularly with the BU International Students and Scholars Outreach services, which she found unfavorable.

“My experiences have not been very good with ISSO,” she said. “It’s good to hear that one bad experience

doesn’t mean that nothing else is going right.”

Monica Brova, a CAS freshman, said she found comfort in the fact that others voiced concerns similar to her own.

“It was really great that they [SG] are reaching out to international students, and that they want to hear what our concerns are,” she said.

American and international students can seek common ground on issues that many students deal with when living away from home, Brova said.

“I have a lot of American friends who are having trouble adjusting to Boston from wherever they came [from],” she said. “So am I. So it’s something that we can bond over, in some ways. Even though there might be a language barrier, we’re more similar than we might think.”

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That art history gal

Hey BU! This week I talked to someone with a unique perspective on what it means to be at a university in Boston. Her name is Defne Calgar and she is an international student from Istanbul.

My first question was how she ended up at BU all the way from Turkey. She told me that because the university education system in Turkey is not JEMMA very good, all of DOUGLAS her friends go abroad for college.

“And since it’s weird for a Turkish person to go to the middle of America, to a village you know, you choose a university city,” she said.

“Or New York or Los Angeles, so that’s why I came to Boston.”

Defne is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Art History with a minor in Muslim Cultures. She wants to ultimately combine those two interests to help promote Middle Eastern and Turkish art to the rest of the world.

And she looks cool enough to do it. When I first saw her, I was totally jealous. It’s obvious that she doesn’t try to look cool, she just does. I think that’s a perfect person to be if you’re going into the art world. I’d listen to her opinion on pretty much anything.

I went to Istanbul when I was a senior in high school, so I wanted to know Defne’s perspective of Boston as an international student.

“It’s completely different from Istanbul,” she said. “To be honest with you, I get kind of bored here.”

That’s not to say she doesn’t like it in Boston. She has been here for three years already, but compared to Istanbul’s cosmopolitan identity and size, I can see how Boston might feel like a sleepy little village.

“We go out from time to time, but it’s finished at 2 a.m.,” she said.

“And then you ask, ‘What to do now? I’m awake.’”

Defne’s English is also impeccable, maybe even better than my own. I think sometimes international students get a bad reputation for not being able to understand English, but not Defne. She went to an American education-based high school, so her math and science classes were in English but everything else was in Turkish.

“Also my English is good because my family is quite international,” she said. “My dad is married to a Dutch woman and my mom is married to an American man. We always speak English at home.”

This girl. She’s the perfect combination of at least three different cultures and is well spoken enough to tell me about it. I want to be her when I grow up, or maybe just friends first. Defne said that most of her friends are international, too, I guess they just understand what it’s like to live in a different country more than an American student.

So BU, let me suggest that you go out and meet an international student today. Maybe he or she will give you an insight into yourself, like how much you eat, which Defne said is still the hardest thing about living in America.

Jemma Douglas is a sophomore in the College of Communication studying Journalism. She can be reached at jwdoug@bu.edu.

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Helmet vending machine comes to Hubway Sequester still affecting BU, research schools

By Alice Bazerghi and Felicia Gans Daily Free Press Staff

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced the installation of the first helmet vending machine in the United States Tuesday to allow residents and tourists to rent a helmet before the use of Hubways, the popular bike sharing service.

Nicole Freedman, director of Boston Bikes, said HelmetHub was created when a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology asked her if there were any projects she wanted him to work on.

“We had just launched bikeshare, [and we had] no solution for helmets,” she said. “Students from MIT designed a helmet vending machine. They then followed up when they graduated that year, and turned it into the company HelmetHub.” Boston is the first city in the United States to install this kind of machine, located at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street.

Freeman said she hopes to dramatically increase the use of bike helmets and bike-share, as well as reduce head injuries.

“I am thrilled to introduce another Boston biking first,” Menino said in a Tuesday release. “This is the first bike-share helmet vending machine in the country. Our goal is to make Hubway a great and sage way to get around town, and HelmetHub is a step in the right direction for our growing

By Trisha Thadani Daily Free Press Staff

cycling culture in the City of Boston.”

Greenovate, an umbrella initiative that encompasses bike-share, energy programs and other green programs throughout the city, has worked closely with Boston Bikes to get the community engaged around sustainability, said Greenovate Fellow Enita Hussain.

“We want to engage community and encourage them to take small actions to help reduce the city’s carbon footprint by reducing our own carbon footprint,” she said. “If we encourage people to bike … we’re inherently encouraging people to live a greener life.

By adding the helmet system, by making it safer and more convenient for people to bike, it makes people want to take that extra step and get out of their cars.

Pete Stidman, executive director of Boston’s Cyclists Union, said he supports the helmet machines because biking in Boston should be made safer.

“The more access you can provide to helmets, especially for Hubway users and other casual riders, clearly the better,” he said.

“A helmet is like an insurance policy. You probably aren’t going to need it, but if you do, you really need it. There’s no substitute.”

Freeman said since the project is brand new, there is still a lot to work on.

“We will identify a lot of things we want to work on,” she said. “One thing we know instantly is right now, when you pull a helmet, it comes from the front

Seven months after the sequester took effect, a new study released Monday revealed the impact sustained cuts to research have had on the economy as well as major research universities such as Boston University.

Social science professor Tom Whalen said the sequester, which took effect in March, has had a negative effect on the country’s recovery from the 2008 economic crisis. Research universities such as Boston University are vital for advancing the economy, and such spending cuts will continue to have a drag effect into the forseeable future, he said.

“They [research universities] are the engines for technological innovation and job creation in this country, and a part of that is if you cut the funding for that … it is basically shooting yourself in the foot … in terms of getting us out of the economic morass,” Whalen said.

The study, conducted by the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and The Science Coalition, represents 171 research universities, including BU.

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up in towns all over Massachusetts.

Although East Boston, Palmer and Millbury rejected the casino proposals for their respective communities on Nov. 5, the casinos are pushing forward to see if they could submit alternative plans, causing resistance among some residents in Massachusetts.

Ribeiro said he could not tell how close the group is to reaching their goal, but he is confident he can gain 70,000 signatures by Sunday.

After they submit their petition, the Supreme Judicial Court must approve the ballot question in order for their proposal to move forward.

Michael Kaplan, president of Citizens for Milford’s Future, a pro-casino group in Milford, said the casino is beneficial in towns where residents are looking for jobs and community improvements.

“Those who are doing very well don’t want the casino here,” he said.

“They don’t see the benefit to it.

Those who aren’t doing very well or are looking to improve their position for their family are very much in favor of it, whether it is a tax reduction or a job or more money to the community to create better schools.

These things are benefits from a casino.”

Ribeiro said adding casinos will affect everyone in Massachusetts regardless of whether the casinos are in their town.

“East Boston issued a decisive rejection of the Suffolk Downs casino bid last week, but yet the proposal moves forward, which is in direct contradiction to the law and the regulations of the gaming commission,” he said. “This goes to show that there’s only one way to stop this from spreading, and that is to end casino gambling in the state.”

Sambuddha Ghosh, professor of economics at Boston University, said

COURTESY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON

The first HelmetHub vending machine was installed Tuesday at the Boylston St. and Massachusetts Ave. Hubway Station.

Anti-casino groups make headway to repeal Mass. gambling law

By Kelsey Newell Daily Free Press Staff

The debate over Massachusetts’s gambling law is heating up as anticasino groups, bolstered by successes in defeating casino deals in East Boston and Palmer, work to collect 70,000 signatures by Nov. 20 to repeal the Commonwealth’s gambling law.

“When I started looking into the problems that come along with casinos, I realized that there really was little good,” said John Ribeiro, chairman of Repeal the Casino Deal. “Every community where a casino has been implemented, crime has gone up, property values have gone down, and small business have been negatively impacted.”

On Nov. 22, 2011, Massachusetts passed the Expanded Gaming Act legalizing casino and slots gambling in the Commonwealth. Since then, casino proposals have sprung

the financial benefits of adding casinos to certain towns often outweigh the costs.

“It’s going to bring in revenue,” he said. “Especially for specific regions, this is going to create a lot of needed employment. One of the things we have to consider is that maybe the places where they are deciding to put casinos are places that need more employment, and certainly bringing business in is going to do that.”

Robiero said at the very least, all residents of Massachusetts should be able to vote on this issue because it will affect everyone.

“Signing the petition does not necessarily have to signal whether you’re for or against casino gambling,” he said. “What it does do, is allow the people of Massachusetts to vote on it, which we haven’t had the opportunity to do yet. We need to have a full open and honest dialogue

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Common Sense Action hosts first Campus Congress, votes on issues

By Sanica Apte Daily Free Press Staff

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Students at the Common Sense Action meeting vote for or against a proposal Wednesday evening at Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences building.

Boston University student group Common Sense Action held its first Campus Congress Wednesday night, where students debated a wide range of policy issues which will be brought to the national CSA conference in January.

“Common Sense Action, or CSA, seeks to promote generational equity, which pretty much just means that we feel as though our representatives in Congress aren’t actually representing us,” said President of BU’s chapter of CSA Abby Fletes, a College of Arts and Sciences senior. “This can be seen in recent policies that have been passed, which don’t really follow the interests of our generation.”

At Campus Congress, students and CSA board members debated

seven policies which were put forth by four committees concentrating on various issue areas such as fiscal responsibility, millennial investments and economic mobility.

During the debates, students were able to voice their opinions and amend each of the proposals. After amendments were proposed, attendees voted on policies. Six out of the seven proposals were passed, while one was tabled for further discussion at a later time.

Campus Congress began with a speech from Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, the deputy director of the Tufts University Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.

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Cuts create ‘financial uncertainty,’ BU med. chairman says Some residents SequeSter: From Page 3

Fifty percent of respondents said they faced faculty reductions at their institutions, while 24 percent said they have laid off faculty members. 81 percent said they sustained direct impacts to their research activity, with 19 percent cancelling and 38 percent delaying field or experiment work.

Additionally, 42 percent of respondents said the spending cuts have directly impacted their students. 23 percent said they admitted fewer graduate students, while 30 percent said they faced a reduction in research opportunities for undergraduate students.

Whalen said universities have responded to cuts in research and development by laying off positions on their faculties. Creating jobs is essential to lifting the country out of its economic crisis, and the sequestration has hindered this effort.

“The name of the game here is

job creation, and if sequestration cuts continue on, it’s really going to prevent a full recovery, and that can’t be good news for anyone, Democrat or Republican,” Whalen said.

Jennifer Grodsky, vice president for BU Federal Relations, said some schools and units within BUSM have reported that they are laying off certain positions and hiring fewer people. Additionally, BUSM officials have sustained major cuts and delays to several vital research grants.

“One example … is the Framingham Heart Study which is funded by the National Institutes of Health and [administered] by BU,” Grodksy said. “That’s [the sequester] definitely delayed some of the work that they are doing, which is really amazing work. A lot of the things that we know about heart health and cardiovascular disease actually come from [FHS], so having a spending cut there is really challenging for

our researchers.”

Grodsky said BU’s Federal Relations Office, which facilitates BU’s involvement in key federal decisions affecting research universities, has been working closely with their members of Congress in Washington to control the effects of the sequester on BU. “We’re really fortunate that they been very vocal in that they would like to see funding for research not be impacted by the sequester, so we talk with them and give them examples of the impact at BU,” Grodsky said. “And [BU] President [Robert] Brown has met with several of our legislators in Washington to talk to them, and everyone has been very sympathetic, and I know that they are working to fix this.”

David Coleman, chairman of the Department of Medicine, said his department is the largest on BU’s Medical Campus and has seen a significant drop in research funding in the last year.

“The departments that are affected the most are the ones that are most dependent on research funding, and that’s our department,” Coleman said. “We have over 100 Ph.D.s in our department, and about 250 people who are supported by research grants … and that’s just faculty. Imagine a 10 percent reduction on that funding — that’s a lot of people.”

Coleman said these spending cuts have created a lot of financial uncertainty across BU’s research departments, and have threatened the pipeline of new people who hope to enter the research field.

“People thinking about research careers are wondering what are the opportunities that are going to be open for me when they graduate,” Coleman said. “… One of the most insidious and negative legacies of the sequestration is that it discourages the very people that we need to be encouraging who are trying to pursue research careers.”

Resident: Helmet machines should motivate others to be safer, greener helMet hubS: From Page 3

end, and then you return it on the back side. In future designs, we’ll look at a way so that 100 percent of locations work for bike-share.”

Freeman said more helmet machines would go up in the spring and they would run tests to make sure the ratio of helmet machines to bike-share is correct.

Some residents said they supported the helmet machine because it makes biking safer and

Boston a more environmentally friendly city.

Kathryn Hashey, 32, of the South End, said the helmet machine is a great idea and she has been waiting for helmets to be publicly accessible since she started using Hubway.

“I use Hubway for commuting between Boston and Cambridge regularly,” she said. “It’s dangerous to bike without a helmet in Boston. The roads are really bad

and people are really bad drivers. I use Hubway because of the convenience of it. It’s one thing I really like about it, but I don’t always have a helmet for it.”

Jason Henrichs, 40, of Boston, said he always wears a helmet when he rides a Hubway bike and he hopes this initiative will get other residents to do the same.

“People need to appreciate how frequently accidents do happen,” he said. “I’ve been hit twice

on a bike in the city. It’s too easy to get hit.”

Regina Galea, 36, of Boston, said if you can rent a bike, you should be able to rent a helmet.

“It’s a good idea to have a rental helmet system,” she said. “Otherwise, people are going to ride without helmets and it’s obviously not as safe. It reinforces the use of the bike system and gets cars off the road. With helmets, more people will start using Hubway.”

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and debate on the issue and allow the entire state to vote on it.”

Several residents said bringing in more revenue is more important than other possible consequences, considering the state of the economy.

“I live near a possible casino sight and they’re already offering people in that neighborhood jobs,” said Marc Cohen, 44, of Winthrop. “This neighborhood is one with a lot of minorities, a lot of unemployment, so it’s needed. A casino generates so much, especially since they will be pulling their workers from the local community. In addition, many high school students are in support of the casinos because it provides them with jobs right out of school.”

Robert Flynn, 35, of Beacon Hill, said casinos do not benefit communities in any way.

“When they built Atlantic City, everyone said it was going to be the greatest place on earth, and it’s a dump,” he said. “Everyone says it brings money and jobs, and it does, but it’s not going to solve anything.”

Antonia James, 22, of Allston, said casinos have a negative stigma that is not longer true.

“I’m from a town with a casino and there weren’t huge crime rates,” he said. “There’s this idea that they attract this certain type of people that you don’t really want hanging around a residential town, but that’s not true.

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hildhood friends Toby Leaman and Scott McMicken form the crux of Dr. Dog, a rock band from West Grove, Pa. Others members have come and gone, but the two have remained constants, sharing vocal duties and songwriting credits throughout the band’s evolution from their 2001 debut Psychedelic Swamp to 2013’s B-Room. While the former album is a mishmash of lo-fi sounds to be decoded by aliens, the latter is a soulful jaunt with sophisticated harmonies and a throwback sound created by a tight-knit unit of six.

While the hard-to-find Psychedelic Swamp sounds like an experiment in musical Dadaism, Dr. Dog’s follow up albums have had more direction. The band’s third record, 2005’s Easy Beat, signifies the moment where Dr. Dog successfully melded their lo-fi psychedelic sensibilities with their love for blues and harmonies.

Dr. Dog’s few following albums had a similar hodgepodge of sound effects, blues and Beatlesesque harmonies before 2010’s Shame. The release of Shame marked a change for the band as they smoothed the rough edges and increased their production values.

Each successive Dr. Dog album is more polished than the last, but even with the studio shine Dr. Dog sticks true to their bluesy roots while expanding their sound.

The Daily Free Press spoke to the raspy-voiced Leaman last week in a phone interview in preparation for the band’s show at House of Blues Thursday night. Even through phone lines, Leaman came off as a good-humored guy who would enthusiastically talk about

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Dr. Dog plays Boston’s House of Blues Thursday night. Tickets were still available at time of publication.

music for hours if left to his own devices.

To Leaman, the early days of Dr. Dog felt like him and McMicken recording with whoever was around. These days, Dr. Dog is an established group of six musical veterans.

“It definitely feels like a band — the sort of thing we were always trying to have,” Leaman said.

Leaman said the album’s lyrical subject matter is essentially the same as it has always been: reflection.

“Not everything is about a girl,” Leaman said. “Not everything is about angst or about happiness. It’s

a little more nuanced than that.”

Leaman explained that confusion has been a central theme of Dr. Dog’s music. The figures of Dr. Dog songs are “not trying to figure out the greater questions” but are instead simply aware that those questions exist.

While the themes may have remained the same throughout Dr. Dog’s musical evolution, Leaman said he thinks the writing process has improved.

“Lyrically, we’re way better,” Leaman said.

Similarly, Leaman said he is impressed with the singing on the band’s latest album, saying that the

leads have never sounded better.

One of the band’s marked differences is a shift toward recording songs entirely live in the studio.

That’s not to say the band didn’t record vocals separately or overdub obvious mistakes, but they tried to record as many instruments as they could in the same take. While complex recording sessions were Dr. Dog’s “bread and butter for about 10 years,” Leaman and Dr. Dog have aspired to meld the divide between their studio and live show sounds with their latest recordings.

Dr. Dog recorded their latest album B-Room in their new studio located in the suburbs of Philadel-

phia. What was once a mill is now a recording studio with eight rooms and a place to stay overnight — a step-up from their last place. The B-Room, one of the many rooms in the band’s spacious new studio, was the inspiration for the 2013 album title. Leaman said it’s a “conducive place to either do nothing or get a lot done.”

Leaman also explained that space is “integral for how you feel” especially considering how long it takes Dr. Dog to make records.

“When you’re spending that much time in a space … the space has to be awesome or you’re just going to feel like s**t and your record is going to suffer,” he said.

“You’re going to be miserable.”

However, when talking about Dr. Dog’s latest record, Leaman said, “I don’t know the next time I’ll listen to this record.”

The vocals are better than ever, the lyrics are in tip-top shape and the band is closer to capturing its live essence in studio recordings than ever before. So why won’t Leaman listen to the damn thing?

“It’s a weird thing, too, because you listen to it so much and you love it so much and then you’re done,” he explained. “And then you listen to it some more times and you feel real satisfied and proud. And then it becomes painful to listen to.”

It’s not any indication of his displeasure with the album, but rather something all artists go through.

Leaman suggests that when Dr. Dog puts out five more records, his “minute” problems with the record won’t even occur to him. The further you get away from something you have created, he said, the more you’re able to accept it.

‘Spinning Plates’ serves up complex portrait of American restaurants

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rying to see the big picture is a terrible task to take up on an empty stomach. This is the paradox of Spinning Plates, a documentary whose heart risks coming second to its audience’s appetite.

It’s okay if you’re distracted at first. The film, which is the first feature from serial Food Network producer Joseph Levy, opens to whimsical Liar Liar-era strings and mouthwatering action shots from three different American restaurant kitchens.

At Chicago’s Alinea, the seventh highest rated restaurant in the world, dinner is entertainment, and food both confuses and innovates.

At Breitbach’s in small Balltown, Iowa, the community comes together like it has for the past 160 years. At La Cocina de Gabby, Francisco and Gabby Martinez cook up family recipes for diners along a quiet desert highway in Tucson.

If the three seem completely

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different, it’s because they are — Plates spends most of its 90+ minutes cycling through the three stories, folding in additional details that lend volume to each, but establish no connection between them.

Grant Achatz, executive chef at Alinea, shows off his anti-griddle (a concept he himself developed, it turns out) and distills the essence from tobacco leaves. Achatz walks by a past employer’s restaurant and vengefully vows to outrank him when the Michelin Guide is released. Meanwhile, the folksy Iowans wonder how people can mow through their buffet fried chicken so quickly, and Francisco Martinez worries about keeping his home out of foreclosure and his daughter fed.

The first half prematurely gives the dangerous impression that the restaurant business is one of several ‘ors’— food is art, or it’s community or it’s everything you have to lose.

But before it’s too late, sensitive palates will notice notes starting

to mix. In addition to the Martinez family and their impending foreclosure, both the Breitbachs and Achatz recount amazing hardships resolved through food. Balltown residents reunited after their country restaurant/community center burned down. Achatz tried to keep cooking through a serious — and, in retrospect, depressingly ironic — bout with malignant tongue cancer. The message here though is cloyingly obvious: the restaurants are an inseparable part of the people who love them, and for some food can heal any wound.

Troublingly, however, the film comes too close to sticking with that message — warm, yet very boring, and certainly nothing anyone who’s ever eaten out doesn’t already know. At one point, the film pulls the scope back, tying the three separate stories together at the last second with the perfect anecdote from Achatz. Though much needed, it’s either too surprising or too forced to have much effect, as

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if Levy forgot what he meant to say and then ran out of time.

Even though it’s awkward, Spinning Plates still tells a story worth hearing. Those who sit down to see it already have some thought of a memorable meal sizzling in

their heads, and this works to the movie’s advantage.

The heart is in there, too — it might be too familiar to stand out, but it is worth finding. Just make sure to have dinner plans set beforehand.

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Cut back on the TSA, please

A validation report has identified an area where the U.S. government is possibly hemorrhaging money: the Transportation Security Administration. For the past 10 years, more than $900 million has funded a special security program to identify possible human threats in airports. The report has been unable to identify if the costly program is effective, and the Government Accountability Office is calling to defund it until it is proven useful.

The GAO published a 99-page on Friday recommending the TSA limit funding training and deploying behavior detection officers, or BDOs. In 2011, 3,000 officers were deployed to 176 airports across the United States and observed more than a billion travelers in security checkpoints.

Part of their training is to identify a possible suspect waiting to go through security. By striking up a conversation in line, BDOs can recommend pat downs to law enforcement officers.

Throughout the conversation, the BDO must identify certain behaviors. Suspicious actions and emotions are assigned a point value, and if a traveler surpasses a “threshold” point value, they are recommended for a pat down.

Out of 61,000 suspicious travelers in 49 airports in 2011, 13 percent were relayed to law enforcement. Of those people that were suspected to be threatening, 0.6 percent of them were actually arrested.

The validation study found in 17 different airports that “BDOs deviated from the random selection protocol in ways that did not meet the criteria for systematic random selection.”

The people qualified to detect suspicious body language were not exercising their training properly. Analysts found BDOs were not respecting the guidelines that they are supposed to follow to deem someone a flight risk.

The study found that bias is overriding special BDO training, and for almost $100 million a year, taxpayers should not be paying “professionals” to screen “randomly.” The report calls to defund this program until further research proves whether or not BDOs are necessary and keep airports safer.

Thank goodness someone is finding out where to trim the inflating U.S. deficit.

It makes sense to cut the funding if there is scientific research that proves it is not efficient.

There is no point in keeping training exercises open to hire more BDOs if their training is just costly and ineffective.

There is no point in keeping a program just because there is no other alternative, especially when safety and scanning technologies have gotten significantly better over the past decade.

Look at body scanners. Yes, they are invasive, but they surely identify that knife or loaded weapon in the suspect’s pocket. For the week of Nov. 1, the TSA confiscated 29 guns, some of which were “artfully” concealed according to their blog. Although the TSA gropes you where you rather they won’t, they have been successful in confiscating loaded weapons, knives and even bombs in a man’s shoes.

Airport security has gotten incredibly restrictive considering people used to be able to wait at the gate for their families. Lines through security have gotten longer and more people are getting pat down, but in the end our safety is worth the extra hassle. Our safety isn’t worth unnecessary profiling, though. BDOs are trained and hired to objectively monitor security checkpoints, but if this study finds that these professionals profile more than exercise their training, then the TSA needs to reevaluate the program.

But in a world where the media and government constantly talk about terrorist threats, it’s tricky to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. What if we get rid of it and then something terrible happens? From a political standpoint, airport security is always a hot issue, and any program that claims it will keep Americans safe will not be turned down. In earlier times, airport security was a non-issue and the TSA trusted most travelers, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, several programs and innovations added warranted safety precautions.

But we cannot keep adding security measures if they are proven to be ineffective. There must be a cap on spending somewhere.

Life in the left lane

Not another empty pantsuit SARA Ryan As I was scanning the Internet for column ideas, I happened upon a Washington Post article titled, “Why Elizabeth Warren Should Scare Hillary Clinton.” In the article, Chris Cillizza, the author, argued that Warren has the best chance of beating Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primaries. First of all, it’s pretty clear somebody didn’t read my first column.

I guess we can forgive him. However, 2016 is a long way away and there are plenty of other things to debate. Second, take a look at what those two candidates have in common, besides their love of pants suits.

You guessed it! They’re both conservative governors from New Jersey who don’t take no sass! But seriously. They’re both female Democrats who are raising a lot of cash and have high public approval ratings. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll from Oct. 25 to Oct. 28, Clinton has a national approval rating of about 46 percent. Among Massachusetts voters, Senator Warren has an approval rating of 52 percent, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released Sept.

27. Compared with other politicians, Clinton and Warren have nothing to complain about.

Our country is heading in a more diverse direction as we speak, but not very quickly (the rest of this paragraph could be read as “blah blah statistics” for those so inclined).

A Congressional Research Service report released Oct. 31 noted that 101 (18.7 percent) Congress members are women, up from 93 in the 112th Congress. Forty-five (8.4 percent) African-Americans serve in this Congress, compared to the 44 from the previous one.

While this growth is important, it’s nowhere near proportional. The U.S. Census Bureau states that 50.7 percent of the population is female and 13.6 percent of the population is African-American. While diversity is not just gender and skin tone, it can still account for a lot.

All that is why I’m so excited about Warren and Clinton. It’s pretty monumental that two of the Democratic big wigs are women.

They’re not Sarah Palin women, either. They weren’t chosen for their looks or because they were women. They were not add-ons to yet another old white male presidential ticket. They rose to prominence because of their ideas (and partially her husband, in Clinton’s case).

They are both symbols of real feminism.

I’m not talking about bra-burning, no-legshaving crazies who shout about the injustices they face and don’t do much about it.

Clinton and Warren have proven that they are just as qualified as their male counterparts. I

am sure they have had to deal with sexism, prejudices and plenty of pantsuit jokes along the way, but they stuck to their jobs and ultimately demonstrated the underlying principles of feminism better than most. Women want to be treated equally, and Clinton and Warren are just two steps in the right direction.

Echoing an earlier column, I have no idea what will happen in 2016, or in the almost three years to the next presidential election.

However, I believe that today, in November 2013, all of this shows we are ready for a female president. We are ready to hear another voice coming from the bully pulpit.

Obama was an enormous milestone that we shouldn’t skim over lightly. He still has three years left to govern. I’m not trying to minimize his achievements. However, he is not the end of the road. We cannot look at Obama and say we have achieved a utopia.

He is one man. Right now he is the exception to the old, white, rich guy rule. That mindset needs to change before we can even think about perfection.

No woman has yet to shatter that final glass ceiling in American politics. Heck, for a while, I thought it was going to be me (#SaraRyan2030), but America cannot wait that long for a female president. In a country that thrives on change and evolution, this gender stagnation has gone on long enough.

In reality, Clinton and Warren have little to do with the equation unless one of them happens to be standing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in January 2017. In my (perhaps deluded and idealistic) mind, what truly matters is this discussion. That article I read made very few references to their gender as “breakthrough” or “one for the history books.” People are talking about two qualified women running for president and battling out in the primaries as if it was a totally normal occurrence. Ironically, by me pointing out how awesome it is, I’m unable to be blasé about it, thus kind of disproving my thesis. But only a little bit!

Clinton and Warren are clear demonstrations of how far we have come, but also how much farther we have left to go. When the country finally chooses a woman to be president, it will be another small, but completely necessary and somehow monumental, step toward equality.

Sara Ryan is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences studying political science and math. She can be reached at sryan15@bu.edu.

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For Durocher, the team’s preparation in advance of such a daunting opponent is certainly much different than it would be against a subpar team.

“Obviously, we have to be that much more thorough and everyone has to be a little bit more confident in the sense that they don’t want to make a team look too good out there, because they’re uptight or they’re nervous,”

Durocher said. “You really have to continue to play loose and be prepared, but not be too overexcited.”

The Terriers are coming off of a dominating four-game homestand in which they dispatched the University of Vermont, University of Connecticut and the University of Maine by a 21-4 margin.

After dropping a 3-0 contest to Robert Morris University on Oct. 19, the Terriers have reeled off seven straight victories and are cur-

rently first in the Hockey East standings with a 6-0 record.

Much of the Terriers’ success this season can be attributed to their balanced effort both on offense and defense. BU is currently second in the conference in scoring (3.55 goals per game), while only allowing 18 goals in 11 games.

While he has been encouraged by his team’s stellar play so far this year, Durocher said that his team still has areas in which to improve.

“I think that we prided ourselves on playing good defensively all year,” Durocher said.

“And now what it takes is just being able to answer the bell when you’re playing against another level team, and not be nervous or uptight, make sure you’re making the right adjustments, the right assignments.

“Without a doubt, if there’s one thing, it’s just matching people in your positioning, your intelligence and your foot speed when you play at a different level.”

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the line. [Sophomore guard Katie Poppe] hit a big three, then [sophomore guard Clodagh Scannell] hit a big three.

“Everyone on the court really stepped up, and we went to a full-court press and really created some havoc for them, and we were able to turn the ball over and score off of it, so it was a good run.”

While the Terriers could not mount a comeback, Wednesday’s game saw many different Terriers contribute to the stat sheet.

Junior forward Mollie McKendrick and senior forward Whitney Turner led the

team in points during the game with 14 apiece, setting a career high for McKendrick and tying Turner’s best.

Poppe also had a noteworthy performance, as she had a career-high 11 rebounds on the evening.

“They’re … very tough players for us,” Greenberg said. “If I had to say, our toughest players on the team are [McKendrick], [Turner], and [Poppe]. They’re just physical. They do what they have to do in different moments.”

Latham also had an impressive night, recording 11 points while finishing a perfect 7-for-7 from the line. “[Latham] did a lot of great things

for us. She got to the line quite a bit and knocked down all of her free throws and has great energy on the court and speed … she continues to get better every day,” Greenberg said.

Although the Crimson never relinquished the lead over the full 40 minutes, the Terriers nonetheless showed resiliency at Lavietes Pavillion.

“I was very proud of our players, in that we were down 22 and we came back and cut it to six, and really gave ourselves an opportunity to win the game,” Greenberg said. “We just plugged away, and we just got to figure out how to make sure we come out stronger in the first half.”

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guard D.J. Irving for a lay-up.

BU’s star point guard was composed on offense throughout the night. With one minute remaining in the first half, Watson split through the perimeter of UMass-Lowell’s defense, driving to the rim before converting a layup.

Then, with less than 10 seconds remaining, Watson curled around a screen to drive to the rim. The guard made a hesitation move in the paint as he carved his way toward the basket, where he gently laid the ball into the net.

Overall, Watson played efficiently on the offensive end, shooting 8-of-12 from the floor, including 1-of-2 from behind the 3-point line.

Watson played a great game defensively as well with a leading role in the Terriers’ high-pressure defense. BU displayed

an effective full-court press that persisted until the intermission. Within the first eight minutes of play, UMass Lowell committed seven turnovers.

“One of the things we try is to get things going in transition,” said BU coach Joe Jones. “We’re a pretty fast team. The fact that we could turn them over helped us get some layups in transition.”

The team as a whole was effectively aggressive on defense, forcing 22 turnovers from the River Hawks. Watson, however, was especially bothersome one-on-one against the UMass-Lowell guards.

“I just tried to play within our principles,” Watson said. “I don’t back down, I don’t fear anybody. I just wanted to keep [River Hawk guard Akeem Williams] contained.”

Watson was ultimately dominant in his assignment guarding Williams, UMassLowell’s leading scorer, ending the game

with five steals.

Even as the outcome of the game became certain, the point guard showed maturity by keeping his team active. With four minutes left in the game, and with a 22-point Terrier lead, Watson again set Morris up for an easy layup attempt.

Watson has consistently seen his name appear on the stat sheets so far this season, as he is second on the team in both scoring (17.0 points per game) and rebounding (6.0), while leading the Terriers with 12 assists over the team’s first two games.

After the game, Watson said he was delighted with the team’s performance, especially with regards to the tempo at which they were able to play.

“I love these [fast paced] kind of games,” Watson said. “I hate when there’s a lot of free throws, a lot of stops and timeouts. Being able to run, get dunks, get the fans into it, you always want to play like that.”

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ference by rocketing a shot to the left side of the net in the 42nd minute, while Clemens added in a shot on goal that nearly extended the lead late in the second half.

Green’s shutout and two saves for the night earned her the tournament’s Most Valuable Player award.

Harvard (12-3-2) also has a lot of momentum going into the tournament with a 14-game unbeaten streak, as well as its

11th Ivy League title. The Crimson has been leaning on Purce for most of their offense this season. The forward leads the team with 26 points on 11 goals and four assists, and has been a key component to Harvard’s aggressive offense, along with senior forward Elizabeth Weisman (14 points) and freshman forward Karly Zlatic (10 points).

“She’s really good,” Feldman said about Purce. “[She’s] gonna be tough, and that’s just gonna be a really tough kid [to defend]

cause she’s just so fast. We’re gonna really need to do a good job on her come Sunday.

“They’ve also got an exceptional midfield … They are particularly strong in that area. It was about the same personnel as last year except for the addition of [Purce] and even back then, we didn’t play nearly as well. Harvard midfielders are fast, they’re good. If we don’t do a great job of controlling most of the flow of the game and keeping possession, it’s gonna be tough.”

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we try to do it the best we could.”

Despite taking their foot off the gas pedal in the second half, the Terriers coasted to a 91-65 victory. Putting up arguably the best game of his four-year career, Morris accounted for 27 points and 10 boards in 26 minutes of play. Meanwhile, Watson also had a game to remember, posting 18 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and five steals.

“We just feel like we still have this chip on our shoulder,” Watson said. “Especially from last year, when we couldn’t have a chance to make it to the [NCAA] Tournament. And now we’re the number one preseason, so we know we have this target on our backs. But we know that if we just stay consistent, no one’s really going to be able to stop us.”

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For the No. 25 Boston University women’s soccer team, what looks to be a entertaining postseason will officially kick off Saturday afternoon.

Fresh off winning their first Patriot League Championship, the Terriers (14-3-4, 8-1-0 Patriot League) will return home to Nickerson Field to face local rivals Harvard University in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. This will be the team’s 11th trip to the NCAA Tournament and its first return to postseason play since 2011.

The two teams last faced each other at Nickerson on Oct. 8, where they battled to a 1-1 draw following goals by Harvard freshman Margaret Purce and BU senior midfielder Megan McGoldrick.

BU has been riding a hot streak for the past two months following a loss in September to the U.S. Naval Academy by a score of 1-0. The Terriers lost that game in heartbreaking fashion on an own goal. Since then, the Terriers have outscored their opponents 18-2 and remain unbeaten for the past 12 games — a mark that has helped the Terriers earn the spot as nationally-ranked team.

While coach Nancy Feldman has been successful in getting her team motivated to play in November, winning the matches has been a different story. Despite taking her team to 10 NCAA Tournaments, the Patriot League Coach of the Year has a sub-.500 record in the tournament.

Still, Feldman said that she is not all that worried, as a new team and a new year means a new opportunity to find success in the postseason.

“The culture of this program isn’t to worry about winning as much as it is asking ourselves, ‘Did we work real hard and were we the best we could be?’” Feldman said. “When you do all of that well, there’s no doubt that success will follow. … It sets the foundation for good things to come.”

As usual, the Terriers will once again rely on a solid core of senior players and rookie contributors to complement their aggressive play. While senior goalkeeper Andrea Green and senior forward Madison Clemens will draw attention on the field, all eyes will be on Patriot League Rookie of the Year Erica Kosienski, the team’s leading scorer this season who has recorded five game-winning goals on the year.

All three players played a major role in securing the Patriot League Championship last Sunday. Kosienski made the lone dif-

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defeating the University of Massachusetts-Lowell by a score of 91-65 Wednesday night at Case Gym. The Terriers (2-0) opened on a tear with a 22-4 run to start the game and never looked back. Using the full-court press to generate early turnovers, BU made it look easy with uncontested layups.

“Coming into it, I expected it to be a pretty competitive game,” said BU coach Joe Jones. “I watched [Lowell] on film against [University of Michigan]. I think we were fortunate the press really helped get us going. But they shot a great percentage for the game, they got good shots, they took good ones, but I thought we were able to turn them over and get going.”

The press created early fastbreak opportunities, but it was the Terriers’ half-court game that separated them from Lowell (0-2).

The BU frontcourt led by senior forward Dom Morris dominated the low post early and often, outscoring Lowell 16-2 in the paint over the first six minutes.

“When Coach Jones got here, he wanted to try something new,” Morris said. “He always believed that I was a great player who was very skilled. I knew I was skilled, but I didn’t see what he saw in me. I can’t believe the way I am right now. I never thought I would be like this. The progress is still going. I’ve still got room to get better and do special things for this team.”

As the first half progressed,

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you’re up 30 points? There’s not a lot of teams that can do that, but

The Boston University men’s basketball team had an easy day at the office Wednesday night, flying past the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 91-65, in its home opener at Case Gym. While many Terriers (2-0) contributed in the dominating victory, a large credit of thanks has to be directed to sophomore point guard Maurice Watson Jr. In a game where offense was not hard to come by for the Terriers, Watson spent his 27 minutes on the floor weaving through the defense of the River Hawks (0-2).

Watson filled up the box score in the contest, as the Philadelphia, Pa., native finished with 18 points, seven assists and eight rebounds.

Watson demonstrated his passing abilities early on, dishing out two assists in the first three minutes of play. His second assist was a precise bounce pass off the dribble to senior forward Dom Morris, who converted a layup while being fouled.

The connection between those two players was particularly impressive throughout the game, as Morris finished with 27 points.

Watson capitalized on transition opportunities early. With 16 minutes to go in the first half, a steal by sophomore guard John Papale led to Watson hitting on a jumper on the fast break. Seconds later, Watson stole the ball in the backcourt before finding senior

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WatSon, see page 7

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BU senior forward Dom Morris scored 27 points as the Terriers beat UMass-Lowell.

Women’s basketball falls at Harvard Women’s hockey prepares for road

By Judy Cohen Daily Free Press Staff

Despite an exciting secondhalf surge, the Boston University women’s basketball team was unable to come away with a win Wednesday night in its first road game of the season at Harvard University, as the Terriers were toppled by the Crimson by a score of 76-67.

The Terriers (0-2) fell behind early in the contest, allowing Harvard (2-1) to score 10 points before even getting on the board in the fifth minute of the game when freshman guard Courtney Latham got BU’s night started on a twopoint jump shot.

The remainder of the half went just about as well as the first five minutes. The Terriers were 5-27 on field-goal attempts and scored 11 of their 21 opening half points on free throws.

While BU was struggling on the court, Harvard successfully netted 16 of 33 attempts and was 2-for-4 at the line, leaving the Terriers down 38-21 and in a 17-point hole when the buzzer sounded to end the first.

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who drove home a one-handed tomahawk slam off the behindthe-back dish from senior guard D.J. Irving, just one of his seven assists on the night.

The 64 first-half points scored Thursday set a school record for most points scored in the first half by a Terrier team. In the half, BU shot 64 percent from the field and received a big boost from their bench, thanks in large part to a combined 14 points from freshman guard Cedric Hankerson and senior forward Travis Robinson.

The second half began with sloppy play from the Terriers, who turned the ball over four times in the first six minutes of play. This complacency resulted in easy baskets for Lowell, who cut the lead to 21 points with 14:17 remaining in the game.

However, that would be the closest the Riverhawks would get for the rest of the contest. BU calmed down and returned to the inside game that paced them in the first half. Both the 6-foot-7 Morris and sophomore forward Nathan Dieudonne began to crash the offensive boards, opening up looks outside for Watson, Hankerson and Robinson.

“I thought in the second half we were very sloppy,” Jones said.

“We didn’t defend great, we didn’t run great offense, and I thought that had an effect. We kind of lost our focus and once you lose your focus, you’re out there running around with your head cut off. Could you play as well as you did in the first half, knowing that

Friday, Nov. 15

M. Hockey @ Maine, 7 p.m.

W. Hockey @ St. Cloud, 6 p.m.

Cross Country @ NCAA Northeast Regional, All Day

“We started off just really slow in every category in the first half,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg.

“And, unfortunately, during the same time we started off so slow, Harvard couldn’t miss, and it was not a good combination.”

The Terriers came out stronger in the second half, turning the heat up on defense in addition to finding the necessary means to power the offense as well. BU managed to keep the game within 15 until about nine minutes remaining in the game when the Terriers allowed the Crimson to gain a 22-point lead.

There was a bit of an initial back and forth, but it wasn’t until there were seven minutes remaining in the half that BU really started to battle back in. Finally, with 2:40 left on the clock, the Terriers had finally cut their deficit to single digits, trailing 69-60.

“I think a lot of it came because of our intensity on defense,” Greenberg said. “It probably was a little bit too late, but we scored in a variety of ways. … We got to

W. baSketball, see page 7

Saturday, Nov. 16 W. Basketball vs. Rhode Island, 1 p.m.

W. Soccer vs. Harvard, 3 p.m.

W. Hockey vs. Wisconsin, 7 p.m.

By Conor Ryan Daily Free Press Staff

The No. 8 Boston University women’s hockey team is finally back on the road, traveling to Vail, Colo., this weekend to take on St. Cloud State University Saturday and No. 2 University of Wisconsin Sunday night.

It will be the first time in program history that the Terriers (9-1-1, 6-0 Hockey East) will play a game in Colorado. BU’s weekend series against the Huskies (1-8-3) and Badgers (8-2) is part of a two-day tournament set to take place at the Dobson Ice Arena.

St. Cloud State’s record at first may not impress most, but it has been the unfortunate victim of playing in arguably the top conference in NCAA women’s hockey. Six of the Huskies’ eight losses this year have come against No. 1 University of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and No. 4 University of North Dakota.

Despite their lackluster numbers this year, BU coach Brian Durocher still expects a challenge from the Huskies Friday.

“I think you’re going to find a real quality team there,” Durocher

Sunday, Nov. 17 M. Hockey vs. UConn, 5 p.m.

M. Basketball @UConn, 12 p.m.

said. “Don’t be misled by their record, they’ve battled some of the best teams in the country, top 10 teams: North Dakota, [University of] Minnesota-Duluth, Wisconsin … and Minnesota.

“This is a quality team that plays in a great league and for those who watch SEC football, this is a SECcaliber football team in the women’s hockey world so it will be a battle to say the least.”

Saturday’s tilt against the Badgers will be BU’s biggest test so far this season, as the Terriers have yet to play against a ranked opponent this season. In their last matchup on Oct. 29, 2011, the Badgers defeated the Terriers by a score of 6-1 in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin has gotten a big boost from senior Brittany Ammerman, who is fifth in the NCAA in scoring with 14 points (seven goals, seven assists) in nine games. The Badgers have also had a dominant presence between the pipes this year, as goaltender Alex Rigsby has posted an impressive 1.15 goals-against average with a .953 save percentage.

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Monday, Nov. 18

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