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BU Housing increases residential, dining rates BU’s FY 2013

expenses total $1.623 billion

By Monique Avila Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University Housing announced an increase in its residential and dining rates for the 2014-15 school year in an email to residents Monday.

On average, the cost of on-campus residences will increase by $561, and the cost of dining plans will increase by $140, according to BU’s housing website.

BU spokesman Colin Riley attributed the cost increases to the university’s maintenance needs, including additional labor, food and transportation costs.

“The increase is not related to providing new things, it’s just simply the cost of providing the service,” he said. “Higher education is a very labor-intensive business.”

A budget committee annually evaluates and anticipates what the demand for housing will be for the upcoming school year before finalizing BU’s residential rates, Riley said. The budget committee takes major renovations for residences and dining services into account when deciding future rates, including additions such as Marciano Commons at 100 Bay State Road.

The housing deposit deadline was extended twice this year, from Feb. 28 to March 3, and then to March 7. The original deadline was set prior to the release of the upcoming rates. Students were given a week to ask for a refund on their housing deposits if they decided not to utilize on-campus housing once rates were finalized.

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Because of an increase in residence and dining plan rates for the 2014-15 academic year, which were released Monday, Boston University is giving students the opportunity until Friday to cancel their Residence License Agreement without losing their $600 housing deposit.

This grace period is standard procedure, Riley said. Since the rates have been released, BU housing has seen a 2 percent withdrawal rate, which Riley said was typical.

The demand for on-campus housing is still very strong, he said.

“Housing has been very stable at 75 percent [of students] living on campus since the first

[Student Village] opened,” Riley said.

Several BU students said residential and dining rates were a factor in their decision to live in on-campus housing or to find a residence outside of BU. “I’m currently undecided about living on or

Housing, see page 2

1st medical cannabis commercial to be aired in April

By Sarah Regine Capungan Daily Free Press Staff

Following the launch of two medical cannabis branches in Boston, the Medical Cannabis Network, the leading provider of marketing and business solutions for the cannabis industry, will be launching the first cannabis-related commercial in New England for MarijuanaDoctors. com, a company that specializes in medical cannabis treatment.

Scheduled for an April release, the commercial aims to raise awareness about medical cannabis in Massachusetts and encourage users to purchase the substance through secure, certified branches, rather than outside sources, said Jason Draizen, CEO of MarijuanaDoctors.com.

“We’re not an advocation agency and we don’t endorse recreational marijuana of any type,” he said. “It’s simply a service to help physicians and patients. We’re hoping that the ad will get in front of physicians in the state of Massachusetts, as well as the patients that quali-

fy or are in need to medical marijuana.”

The advertisement will feature a man selling sushi out of the palm of his hand with the tagline, “You wouldn’t buy your sushi with this guy, so why would you buy your marijuana from him?”

MCN booked airtime for the advertisement through Comcast Spotlight under the conditions that it contained a disclaimer and did not air during primetime. The ad will air between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. on stations that are not oriented toward families or children.

Draizen said MarijuanaDoctors.com is interested in creating a similar advertising campaign for potlocator.com, another site they own. Like MarijuanaDoctors.com, the purpose of potlocator.com is strictly for medical purposes.

Bill Downing, treasurer of the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition, said advertisements for medical cannabis are necessary because some residents are still unaware that the substance has been legalized for medical use in

the Commonwealth.

“A lot of residents who might still be under the impression that medical marijuana remains illegal would probably be given the clear signal that medical marijuana is now actually available, legally available,” he said. “These are doctors who are selling services to write medical marijuana recommendations, and they want to be sure that the public is aware of their offering so advertising is entirely appropriate.”

Heidi Heilman, president of the Massachusetts Prevention Alliance, said more research on medical cannabis is needed before MCN airs advertisements about the substance on television.

“This is medicine based on public opinion and not on science or research, and that’s the real danger of this [advertisement],” she said. “It touts this practice of recommending and using marijuana for any ailment as sound treatment

Cannabis, see page 2

Boston University’s Annual Report, released Monday, showed that BU’s expenditures for Fiscal Year 2013 reached $1.623 billion and contributed to causes important to the school’s community and growth.

Over the course of FY 2013, BU was able to put large sums of money toward research, financial aid and construction and renovation, said BU’s Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Martin Howard.

“The Annual Report ... provides a spot-on summary of the major drivers and highlights of the FY 2013 results,” Howard said. “The university was able to continue increasing the amounts available for financial aid and enhance our support of externally sponsored research.”

The total amount of research awards distributed was $339.3 million, which funded projects such as exploring the triggers of cancer in black women, designing a bionic pancreas and developing new methods of working with autistic children.

Senior Vice President of Operations Gary Nicksa said all of the university’s financial expenditures are evaluated carefully and designed to maximize the quality of the BU experience.

“The university’s strategic plan guides all major project investment decisions,” he said.

“The strategic plan emphasizes the quality of BU education, research, student services and student life. Projects highlighted in the 2013 annual report are directly connected to our strategic priorities.”

As a nonprofit university, BU must operate all aspects of the school within the limits of a yearly budget, which was approximately $2 billion for FY 2013, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

“We’re nonprofit,” Riley said. “Our goal is to operate within the budget that we establish year-to-year. It’s a very serious and deliberative approach by the senior administration. On the endowment side, there is definitely a goal to invest prudently and wisely so that we don’t put endowment funds at risk.”

A total of $70 million was allocated toward construction projects on the BU campus, which were designed to expand upon and renovate many of BU’s facilities.

Expenses, see page 2

Ukrainian crisis could have negative impact on Massachusetts, experts say

By Olivia Deng Daily Free Press Staff

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, a former U.S. Senator for Massachusetts, travelled to Kiev, Ukraine Tuesday to meet with the new Ukrainian government, a decision that could have many economic and political repercussions for Massachusetts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took a stance in the conflict, seizing military control of Crimea to protect the Russian population of the Ukrainian town, posing tremendous threats to the independence of Ukraine, said Vitalii Moroz, a member of political advocacy group Ukrainian Boston.

“If one country is allowed to attack another under the cause of protecting the rights of Russian-speaking residents, it may ruin the stability in the world and new conflicts to take place around the world,” he said. “If to talk in terms of Boston, the crisis brings the feeling of instability to the Ukrainian community.”

Moroz said the group has organized protest rallies to demand Ukrainian indepen-

dence, and they launched a fundraising campaign to help the families of those killed and injured. Their goal is to raise $5,000.

“Rallies in support of Ukraine unite not just Ukrainians living in Boston but many other ethnic groups, including Belorussians, Lithuanians, Americans, Jews even Russians,” he said. “Those who want to see Ukraine free and independent join us.”

Ukrainian Boston has organized six rallies in front of the Massachusetts State House, and their most recent rally Wednesday aimed to send a message to U.S. President Barack Obama, who spent the day in Boston.

“Obama’s administration sent a strong message to Russia as a reaction to Russia’s aggression to Ukraine but we want to make sure that the U.S. will continue to pressure Russia with economic sanctions and diplomatic tools,” he said.

The potential for economic sanctions against Russia, currently under consideration,

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While on his visit to Ukraine Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks at photos of those killed at Maidan.

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“Projects described in the annual report include the expansion and restoration of our Law School buildings, which house our nationally acclaimed LAW faculty and programs, space for the Boston University Autism Center of Excellence and a National Institutes of Health funded program,” Nicksa said.

The funds were also distributed toward developing new ways to advance BU’s educational offerings, as seen with the Engineering Product Innovation Center and the new technological fixtures installed in BU’s School of Management, Nicksa said. “[EPIC] supports an innovative curriculum that focuses on product development from design to manufacturing and delivery,” he said.

“Technology enabled classrooms like those done in SMG last summer

one or more of our strategic priorities: teaching, research, student life, and student service,” he said. “I want to also point out that sustainability is major focus of every project, from energy efficient design and to sustainable materials selection and sourcing.”

The report also cited the financial aid dispersed in 2013 totaled $296 million, which bodes well for the school’s latest campaign to increase student financial assistance, Riley said.

“We’re in the middle of a campaign,” he said. “Part of that is going to be going toward endowment to increase student financial assistance. It goes into the endowment, is invested and from that return on investment, those funds will be made available through the university to provide more institutional financial assistance to the students.”

to accommodate new teaching methods and increased enrollment in the management school.”

While these latest buildings premiered on the BU campus in 2013, Nicksa said large-scale construction project require years of careful planning.

“Projects are the culmination of many years of planning that involve discussions on financing, design, contractual work, and work with the BU Community Task Force, and are not just pulled together in the course of a year,” Nicksa said. “Construction alone can span multiple years, as is the case with the work ongoing at the Law School.”

Nicksa said all of BU’s expenditures are aimed to benefit the common good of the university while also taking into account the school’s values, such as sustainability.

“Each project relates directly to

Report: Massachusetts-Russia trade growing ukrainE: From Page 1

can affect trade and hurt Massachusetts companies. According to a 2012 report from the Coalition for U.S.–Russia Trade, Massachusetts’ exports to Russia grew faster than its exports to the rest of the world.

Andre Mayer, senior advisor at Associated Industries of Massachusetts, said neither Ukraine nor Russia are major export markets for Massachusetts companies, but the conflict could cause problems if it starts to affect Western Europe.

“Probably most immediate importance to us economically in Massachusetts is the potential

Robert Loftis, a former ambassador to Lesotho and international relations professor at Boston University, said economic sanctions would hurt any company in the United States that is doing business with Russia.

“Anybody who is exporting to Russia is probably going to see those exports go down,” he said. “Anyone who is importing is going to have difficulty getting those products into this country. I don’t know what companies in the Boston area have investments there, but they would be the ones most hit. Definitely going to be a number of Ukrainian Americans unhappy in this country.”

impact on Western Europe,” he said. “Our exports to the European Union are 50 times what they are to Russia and Ukraine combined. We have to be concerned of what happens in Western Europe as a result of this situation.”

The stock market is also seeing the effects of consumer uncertainty due to the potential negative economic impacts of the conflict, Mayer said.

“Obviously, when things go badly, it goes down,” Mayer said.

“When people think it’s looking better, it goes up. We have a financial sector that does a lot of investment management. On the whole, it’s not a good thing for us.”

Cannabis: From Page 1

when very little of the medical industry is behind this because of the lack of research.”

Several residents said the advertisement could be an important resource, but it could also have a bad impression on children.

Todd Kent, 31, of Brighton, said the late hours of the advertisement’s showing will not keep kids from seeing it and misunderstanding its purpose.

“It’s not okay to advertise,” he

said. “I don’t condone glorifying it to children. It’s on TV, kids will see it.”

Sharona Sinay, 23, of Brighton, said she supported the advertisement and both medical and recreational use of marijuana.

“I don’t see any reason why [recreational marijuana] hasn’t been legalized yet, just because it’s been legalized in other states,” she said.

“It hasn’t been proven to kill anyone.

People kind of do it anyways. As long as it’s legal, I think its okay to advertise it.”

Riley: Dorm price increases ‘reality’ Housing: From Page 1

off campus and the rates are definitely something I’m taking into consideration,” said Marissa Brown, a College of General Studies sophomore. “I’ve submitted my deposit, but I still need to decide whether or not to refund it.”

Annalisa Ritchie, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said though she appreciated the addition of the facilities at 100 Bay State Road, she would rather see her money go toward fixing issues at the university concerning elevators and heating.

“They threw too much money at [Bay State] for what it is,” Ritchie said. “As far as functionality goes, they didn’t need to do everything that

they did.”

Edward Murphy, a senior in COM, has lived in Student Village II for two years. He said though he has enjoyed living at StuVi II, he felt the cost of the residence, at about $15,000 annually, is steep.

“We’ve always had complaints, like with the heat,” he said. “There are a lot of things we’ve asked maintenance about, but we don’t see our money going there.”

Riley said the increase in residence and dining rates are largely inevitable.

“Yes, costs do go up, but we work hard to keep those increases at a minimum,” he said. “It’s just a reality.”

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Campus & City Column Girl, 21

Fairest of them all

I’m so pale that my freckles are the color of a normal person’s skin.

Although my pigment decreases even more during the winter, at least cold weather is an excuse for wearing more clothing, thereby bypassing the need to rub dye all over my legs.

Marilyn Monroe once said that she loved being pale because it SYDNEY L. felt like being SHEA blonde all over, but I disagree. Light skin has the disadvantage of highlighting every scar, blemish or bruise on the body, and butterfly rashes from Rosacea are not exactly flattering either. Every time I’m even mildly uncomfortable or embarrassed, it is immediately apparent as a red flush overtakes my entire face and neck.

As a child, people called me names such as “Whitey” or “Snow White,” which is definitely better than being called fat or ugly, so I really didn’t mind.

But at the same time, I don’t fully understand why my friends have always criticized me for having light skin.

I once tried being outside all day during the summer without any sunscreen, hoping that I could achieve the beautiful tanned skin all my friends had. Instead of waking up the next day bronze, I not only had a bright red sunburn, but also huge, painful blisters all over my shoulders. It was absolutely horrific and I got yelled at for neglecting to put on SPF 60.

That burn did not completely fade for months, making me selfconscious whenever I took off my clothes. Every time someone hugged me, pat me on the back or put an arm around my shoulder I would feel an intense, scalding pain. And don’t even mention showers: taking a shower with sunburn is one of the topmost unpleasant things I’ve experienced.

By the time we had our first prom, my best friend refused to let me go unless I did something about my unsightly whiteness.

I explained that garden-variety sunbeams aren’t very effective, so she decided we’d use dye instead – basically the substance known to turn people orange.

I, however, did not turn orange, but instead finally attained the color I had been striving for my entire life. My skin was a brownish-honey color, and the tone was even over my entire body.

But whatever stuff I chose to slather onto my skin was expensive and I didn’t feel comfortable with all of those chemicals seeping into my pores, so I’ve reserved this dye for special occasions only.

I decided, then, that it’s best to just accept my imperfect skin tone, even though this means avoiding colors that will wash me out entirely… as well as the sun.

The Queen’s opening lines in “Snow White” almost strike me as satirical relative to my own life, but in the “fairest of them all” contest, I would definitely defeat her and Snow White. I seriously pale in comparison to them both.

Sydney L. Shea is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached atslshea@bu.edu.

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Study: Overdrinking boosts mortality rates Women earn less

representation in medical research

By Danielle Adams Daily Free Press Contributor

Older individuals who participate in binge drinking have an increased risk of mortality as compared to those who drink moderately, according to a study released Monday by researchers from Boston University and the University of Texas at Austin.

Timothy Naimi, an associate professor at BU’s School of Medicine and School of Public Health who coauthored the study, said binge drinking, which he defined as consuming five or more drinks on one occasion for men, and four or more for women, affects individuals of all ages.

“It is very widespread among youth, college students, and even adults,” Naimi said. “About 15 percent of all adults, or about 27 percent of adults who drink alcohol, report binge drinking in the past 30 days.”

Naimi and his team gathered data from a larger project studying patterns of alcohol consumption and drinking problems in adults between the ages of 55 and 65. Out of 1,884 respondents, the researchers utilized data from a population of 446 moderate drinkers, according to a Monday press release.

By Sebastian Alamo Daily Free Press Staff

“Multiple transportation options are vital to the quality of life in my district … my constituents are constantly looking for alternative ways to get to Boston and elsewhere,” she said. “BusPlus and other public investments in these areas are worthwhile and should be applauded.”

Some Boston residents said they remain skeptical of BusPlus, unconvinced that the cost to the federal government is worth the benefits.

“That’s a lot of taxpayers’ money for a few more bus routes,” said Patrick Callahan, 42, of South Boston. “[It] doesn’t sound like it’s creating that many more jobs, either.”

Ashley Craig, 38, of Roxbury, said she doubts the worth of BusPlus and how much it is costing.

“It just sounds like the government is giving these bus companies a huge, free benefit for service they should want to provide their customers anyway,” she said.

Some locals, however, are happy to see any changes to the current system, regardless of the source.

Because women tend to participate in medical research less frequently than men, there is speculation that this lack of testing can be damaging to the health of women in general, according to a report from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

After evaluating the research completed on four major diseases, the study, published Monday, concluded that women were only a small percentage of test subjects, hindering the effectiveness of medical results and leading to a lack of knowledge about how certain drugs affect women.

The publication of the report marks the anniversary of the 1993 National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act, which seeks to increase the presence of women and minorities as subjects of clinical research.

“That was one of the key moments in expanding research on women’s health,” said Susan Wood, co-author of the report.

“We are marking 20 years of progress, but are also identifying the work that remains to be done.”

While the report concludes that women and minorities are currently inadequately considered when doing medical research, it does not include the reasons behind why they tend to be unaccounted for.

“Twenty years ago, it was said that it was simpler to study a homogeneous population and therefore young white men were easiest to do [studies on],” Wood said.

“Part of it is that the researchers are not thinking, part of it is that the policies are not being enforced, and part of it is, again, the perception of it being simpler, and we just do it the simple way.”

Ellen Weinberg, research assistant professor at the Boston University Medical School, said the underrepresentation of women is mostly about simplicity.

“When women and minorities are neglected in medical research, it is due to the desire to control for variables rather than a deliberate

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A study conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Boston University suggests that older adults who binge drink will have an increased risk of dying within 20 years, compared to drinkers who do not binge.

Researchers tracked these respondents, 72 who binge drank and 372 who drank moderately, over the course of 20 years and found that 61 percent of binge drinkers died in the 20-year period while 37 percent of moderate drinkers did not, the release stated.

Naimi coauthored the study with Charles Holahan, a professor of psychology at UT Austin who specializes in health psychology.

“Binge drinking is increasingly being recognized as a significant public health concern,” Holahan said in

Binge Drinking, see page 4

Bus routes to extend to, from Boston suburbs

By Brogan Calkins Daily Free Press Staff

Private bus companies will now serve select suburbs around Boston with public transportation to-andfrom Boston.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced the BusPlus program Tuesday as a partnership between the state department and the private sector. The program involves the federal funding of 31 new buses that will be given to private bus companies. In exchange, these for-profit businesses will have to improve regional service and be responsible for all bus maintenance and operating costs.

“The one-time federally-funded competitive grant program for $18.4 million includes replacement of 31 regional buses with new, state-of-theart vehicles,” said MassDOT spokeswoman Amanda Richard. “BusPlus increases the intercity and commuter transportation options available across the Commonwealth and all of New England.”

The buses will be provided to pri-

vate carriers that already operate on the Intercity Bus Capital Assistance Program including companies such as Peter Pan Bus Lines, Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Company, DATTCO, the Coach Company, Greyhound and Yankee Line.

The mandatory service improvements mentioned will vary from business to business. Yankee Line, for example, will be adding one additional round trip from Concord to Boston Monday through Friday, starting March 17.

“There is already an extensive, privately operated bus network across the region and it made sense to work together with these private bus operators to deliver additional services,” Richard said. “We [MassDOT] found from a recent regional bus study that one of the largest complaints was a lack of intercity and commuter bus options, [and] this program is meant to help to address some of those complaints.”

Massachusetts Rep. Cory Atkins, whose district includes Concord, said he supports the government grant.

BU groups co-host suicide forum after deaths of Newton teens

By Kerrie-Ann Beke Daily Free Press Staff

Students tackled topics of suicide and mental health at an open forum Wednesday co-hosted by Boston University student groups Active Minds and Out of the Darkness.

The forum was held in response to the February death of Roee Grutman, one of three Newton high school students, including Katie Stack and Karen Douglas, who committed suicide within a four-month period. The forum was held to start a conversation about and the ways that suicide can be prevented, said Rosie Bauder of Out of the Darkness.

“Many parents are attributing their deaths to insurmountable expectations of excellence that schools have of their students,” Bauder, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said. “To the best of their parents knowledge, both Katie and Karen were struggling with mental illness, while Roee showed no signs of distress or suicidality.”

Students are susceptible to the various stresses of school as young

adults, causing a strain to their continually developing psyches, which do not fully mature until the age of 25, Bauder said.

“Suicidality does not discriminate,” she said. “Anyone can be vulnerable to any number of environmental or biological factors that when added with stress or trauma can be overwhelming and lead to thoughts of suicide.”

Speaker Francine Montemurro, Boston University’s first Ombud, or problem-solving resource in the BU community, said in her presentation that people exhibiting suicidal behavior often do not seek help.

“I see people everyday, faculty, staff, students who are typically in some kind of pickle, some kind of crisis,” Montemurro said. “They don’t often know where to turn to and often the stakes are high. On occasion I saw some people who concerned me about suicide, but the people at Behavioral Medicine were right there for me.”

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Boston University mental health awareness groups Out of Darkness and Active Minds hosted a forum Wednesday night for students to discuss the recent suicides in Newton and the stigma of suicide.

on Mental Illness in Newton Sidney Gelb, who spoke at the forum, said 25 percent of people in the prison system suffer from mental illness and without the proper training prison guards often don’t understand mental illnesses.

“I was appalled because [the guards] were blaming the individual for being mentally ill,” Gelb said.

“The whole thrust of it was that what-

ever [the inmates] were doing they were trying to fake it ... self-injury was called trying to gain attention.”

About 10 students attended the forum.

Malek Slama, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore who cohosted the forum, said he hopes the attendees gained the courage to talk

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Prof.: Lack of SAR senior: Binge drinking Club secretary: Dialogue about women in stats shown in BU hospitalizations depression, suicide ‘important’ for ‘simplicity’ Binge Drinking: From Page 3

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omission,” he said. “Controlling for all the confounding variables may require larger sample sizes, which increases the need for greater person-power, statistical power and financing.”

One of the main goals of the report is to promote transparency in order for patients to make informed decisions, Wood said.

“We want to really make it apparent when there is not adequate data, so some of our recommendations are focused around labeling products, labeling studies that do not include women or do not analyze by sex,” she said. “We should put that both on our research studies in our journals and also on our medical products ... if there is no adequate data to know whether the product works on women.”

Gerald Denis, associate professor of pharmacology and medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, said the report is significant because different genders and races are likely to have different outcomes in studies. However, diversifying the subjects of clinical research might prove harder than it seems.

“There are often very significant differences within groups that you might think would be fairly homogenous,” he said. “You might think that saying, ‘We are going to restrict this study to AfricanAmerican women,’ will narrow the intra-group variance, but actually that may not even be the case.”

Greater variance in the subjects studied also requires greater resources, which might be a deterrent for more inclusive research.

Denis said he hopes people realize how important their tax dollars are for sponsoring this more in-depth research and encouraged the public to take “fiscal responsibility” for it.

Several residents said research should be gathered through a diverse pool of participants so it is applicable to everyone.

Amy Cherie, 45, of Brighton, said the absence of women in medical research has been a problem for years, and it needs to be resolved.

“For years, medical research was only done on men, so a lot of things for women have fallen through the cracks,” she said. “Not only physically but also mentally, they did not do psychological testing on women. Everything was done on men. They do not know women’s body.”

Alan Schultz, 24, of Allston, said the inclusion of women in studies is not always necessary to make the research valuable.

“It depends on the procedure and it depends on the type of study they are trying to run,” she said.

“Sometimes they know if these differences [matter], and other times, they know there is not a difference, so they do not need to account for it.”

Katie Bresnahan, 23, of Brighton, said the use of women in medical studies would give her a piece of mind when using the information for personal purposes.

“I would think that it would be detrimental,” she said. “It seems that it is important information to know when you are testing. If it works on people similar to me, then it would probably work.”

the release.

Binge drinking often has negative consequences on individuals’ health and well-being, Naimi said.

“Binge drinking is dangerous and many bad things have happened to drinkers or to others — car accidents, fights, injuries, domestic violence, sexual assaults — on the basis of binge drinking even if it is atypical of how they drink,” Naimi said in the press release.

Binge drinking also largely contributes to the mortality rate in the United States, Naimi said.

“All told, excessive alcohol use causes about 80,000 deaths annually in the US, and many of these deaths are among youth and young and working-age adults,” he said in the release.

Several BU students said they felt binge drinking was an important issue for students.

“It’s a problem more so as people get older and can’t control it,” said Sofia DiStefano, a junior in BU’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

SAR senior Sawyer Deitz said BU students often suffer the consequenc-

es of binge drinking.

“Binge drinking is extremely dangerous, as evident just in BU with the amount of hospitalizations and even deaths that have occurred because people are irresponsible when drinking,” he said. “People’s inhibitions are lowered, and they’re not worried about anything except the here and now.”

CGS sophomore Mackenzie Copp said certain populations of BU students, such as athletes, typically do not engage in binge drinking.

“Alcohol consumption negatively affects athletic performance,” said Copp, who is on the BU men’s crew team. “When training full time you can’t afford the side effects that drinking has. Dehydration makes training the next day ineffective.”

Dietz said though binge drinking was a serious problem, it is often difficult to force students to avoid the practice.

“Binge drinking is a problem because it’s something that, no matter how hard authorities try to stop it, people will continue to do it,” he said.

“It’s ingrained in American culture that more is always better, and this applies to drinking alcohol as well.”

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about suicide and mental illness and became aware of the active suicideprevention community.

“Although there were three suicides in Newton, it doesn’t meant that suicides only happen in Newton,” Slama said. “It means that its happening and we all need to be aware of this issue and this need, this immediate need to raise our voices about it.”

Active Minds Secretary Jade Cooper, a sophomore in CAS, said it is vital that the BU community is mindful of the depression resources available to students and staff.

“It’s really important to talk about

it,” Cooper said. “Even though I’m part of Active Minds and know all the resources, I just forget sometimes just how available they are. They’re always there.”

Justyn Huang, a School of Management junior, said as someone who has suffered depression, the forum hit close to home.

“I’m a strong advocate for this because it relates to me so personally,” Huang said. “... I feel like we’re barely scratching the surface of a much larger question. We’re trying to make an impact but we’re making large generalizations because ourselves are not strong enough to get to a deeper truth about what is happening here.”

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“I used to live in Concord, I took Yankee Line buses all the time,” said Mary Vegas, 51, of Boston. “Any improvements the state can make to the bussing systems are great. As a commuter, I can tell you the system is downright inconvenient at times.”

Brent Horvath, 29, of East Boston, said the improvements to the bus network will be quite welcome.

“If the government feels they need to step in to improve anything, especially transportation, for its citizens, power to them,” he said. “I’m glad our elected officials are keeping us in mind.”

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Class is in session: ScHoolboy Q masters his sound Brandon Kesselly

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fter the critical and commercial success of Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 effort good kid, m.A.A.d city, all eyes within the industry have fallen on Top Dawg Entertainment’s other artists, particularly Lamar’s well-known West Coast collective Black Hippy. To the uninitiated, the group features four members: Lamar, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and ScHoolboy Q. Each of these artists has a distinctive voice, style and catch phrase (such as Ab-Soul’s “Solo!” or ScHoolboy Q’s “YAWK! YAWK!”) expressed throughout their respective bodies of work. ScHoolboy Q has been the next in line to release an album.

After 2011’s Setbacks and 2012’s Habits & Contradictions, his constant hype and the steady release of singles for his 2014 effort kept fans on the edges of their seats up until Feb. 25, when Oxymoron finally dropped.

If you are looking for a concept album, you should stick with good kid. Oxymoron is your standard song-focused rap record as opposed to an album that interweaves a story throughout the tracks. The project is loud, gritty and raw – there is virtually nothing soft about it in any way.

Bass-heavy beats, violent content,

and in-your-face metaphors and similes make Q’s major label debut a tough entry into the genre’s current status quo, where artists like Drake, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj still reign supreme.

The introductory track “Gangsta” starts with his daughter informing the listener that “[her] daddy [is] a gangsta.” The beat drops into a midtempo bass drum beat. There are some strings and then Q announces his presence with “Gangsta, gangsta, gangsta,” repeatedly to drive the point home. After detailing his some of his questionable behaviors — past and present — we are welcomed with the Pharrell Williamsproduced “Los Awesome”, a wonky, synth-heavy banger. Jay Rock assists on the hook as the two detail a 2014 “gangsta party” of sorts.

“Collard Greens,” one of the earlier singles, is all smooth bass line as Kendrick Lamar sings the hook. In “Greens,” Q succumbs to materialism, drugs and alcohol while Lamar lets listeners know that “This [is] your favorite song” before delivering a tongue-twisting couplet in Spanish. The rest of the album is full of twists and turns sonically, with some great features from 2 Chainz, Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon, Odd Fu-

ture’s Tyler, the Creator and Kurupt.

Sonically the album flourishes, with a different production style on nearly every track. While some sounds may have similar influences, no two songs sound the same. Some are gritty and slow (“Gangsta,” “Break the Bank”); some are weird or borderline spooky (“What They Want,” “The Purge”); some are wild and loud (“Los Awesome,” “Man of the Year”); and others have a more mellow, laid back vibe (“Collard Greens,” “Hoover Street,” “Studio”). The track that stands out the most is the Raekwon-assisted “Blind Threats.” With a classic, boom-bap production style, Q is not only trading bars with one of the Wu-Tang Clan’s best rappers; Raekown is also bringing some PHOTO COURTESY OF FLICKR USER AARONISNOTCOOL much-needed introspection to the ScHoolboy Q, a member of the West Coast collective Black Hippy, released a project.

Lyrically, the album lacks fo- major label debut that shows versatility and confidence. cus and overall content. Most of track, he discusses the impact that importantly — as a solo artist. He the songs fall into the trap of sex, his drug dealing and using days had has finally discovered the sounds money, drugs and guns. Thankfully, on his life both before and after his and style of rapping that works for Q’s charisma and enthusiasm keep daughter’s birth. him and he’s incredibly confident on Oxymoron’s recycled themes from ScHoolboy Q has delivered a the mic. This — above things like being a weakness, and he even sheds solid major label debut that ex- content and production — is what is new light on them such as in “Pre- presses his differences from Kend- most important to hip-hop in 2014. scription/Oxymoron.” In this double rick Lamar as a lyricist and — more

Lone Star Taco Bar serves up authenticity at Chipotle prices Kate Hofberg

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Beef Barbacoa tacos with smoked brisket, pickled red onion, cotija and avocado crema from Lone Star Taco Bar on Cambridge Street.

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t’s not easy to find decent Mexican food in Boston, but if you’re determined to find it you’ll need to look farther than Anna’s Taqueria.

I’m sorry, Anna’s. I don’t care how many people rave about you on Yelp: When you slap a whole square slice of cheddar cheese on my burrito, it’s hard for me to believe that you have any understanding of what authentic Mexican cuisine actually looks or tastes like. As far as I’m concerned, you’re just a locally owned version of the fast food

chain Chipotle, and I am beyond unimpressed.

Fortunately, the real-deal taco experience does exist in Boston at a place that doesn’t mix avocados with mayonnaise and call it guacamole. Lone Star Taco Bar in Allston, located at 479 Cambridge St., has been doing Mexican food right since 2012.

With nothing but a modest silver star out front marking the building, Lone Star can be hard to find if you aren’t paying attention. But make sure you do, because this place is

too good to miss. Like the stark exterior of the building, the inside of the small, dimly lit restaurant is modestly decorated — perhaps because the food has too much personality to be distracted by décor.

Save for a large stuffed bison head and a large tarnished mirror, nothing hangs on the dark gray walls.

One wall of the narrow restaurant is lined with stainless steel tables and at the other, a full bar.

On a Wednesday night, all 35 seats in the house are filled. The small crowd of people that is willing to wait 30 minutes, lined up outside in 20-degree weather, for a table or a spot at the bar to open up is enough to convince me that I’ve chosen the right spot for dinner.

The bartenders and servers are friendly and attentive, despite the chaos of the crowds and the punk rock blasting through the overhead speakers. After finally snagging a seat at the crowded bar, I am immediately handed a drink menu with a polite smile and a helpful drink recommendation. Since I had never been there before, the bartender suggested that I order a Michelada, one of the restaurant’s most popular drinks. He explained the drink as beer mixed with spicy bloody mary mix over ice, served in a glass with a salted rim and a lime wedge garnish. He had me at “spicy beer.” At only six bucks a pop, the combination of spicy tomato, bubbly beer, sour lime and crunchy salt

is refreshing, piquant, unexpected and unbeatable. Had it not been a school night, I would have, without a doubt, ordered more than one.

It’s almost impossible to justify a Mexican meal without chips and salsa and so, after receiving my drink, I couldn’t resist placing an order. How can one mess up chips and salsa, you wonder? Too often have I been to a Mexican restaurant that served me a stale basket of chips that tasted like they came straight from a Tostitos bag and jarred salsa that coated my mouth with flavors of processed tomatoes and artificiality.

But not at Lone Star. Just minutes after placing an order, an enormous plate of hot, crispy, lightly salted tortilla chips straight from the fryer and a heaping bowl of smoky, house made, fire-roasted tomato salsa were delivered to our small corner of the bar. The plate — which had enough chips and salsa to satisfy a family of four — cost only $3, and I devoured the whole thing myself, save for the seven or eight chips I allowed my roommate to eat.

But we had come for the famed tacos, and no stomach full of chips and beer was going to stop me from enjoying them.

Each taco is served a la carte. At only $4 each, customers have the option to mix and match in order to create the ideal individualized and affordable taco plate. Although the

beer battered fresh white fish taco with pickled cabbage slaw and chili mango aioli was my seafood friend roommate’s favorite, I preferred the house made chorizo taco. The combination of spicy ground pork sausage atop a soft homemade corn tortilla topped with mild and creamy “queso fresco” and crunchy, tangy pickled radish causes an explosion of bold and fiery fiesta flavor into every corner of your mouth like authentic Mexican should.

For those that prefer a more mild bite that won’t donkey kick the taste buds with heat and spice, the tender carnitas pork taco, ladled with sweet salsa verde, fresh cilantro and mild queso fresco on a fresh corn tortilla is one that is jam-packed full of flavor – even without the spice.

Lone Star’s tacos are simply finger-licking good. Even after the last bites of our tacos, my roommate and I pulled out our forks to scrape up all the little pieces of meat and fillings that had fallen out of our tortillas between huge sloppy bites.

Not even the slices of raw radish were left on the plate, as we topped them with hot sauce and lime before devouring them, too.

When places as delicious, authentic and affordable as Lone Star Taco Bar exist, it’s hard to believe that people are still eating at places like Anna’s Taqueria to satisfy their Mexican food cravings. Why settle for mediocre when, for the same price, you could have the best?

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SAT gets a makeover

President of College Board David Coleman announced Wednesday that he will revamp the SATs to make them less elitist and more representative of undergraduate skills.

Or, at least, as non-elitist and representative as a standardized test like this can be.

These reforms will change the fundamental way the SAT is structured, and will focus more on a high school student’s critical thinking rather than memorization skills. Available in print and computer format in 2016, this new version will have three sections — evidence-based reading and writing, a math section and an optional essay. It will return to a 1600-point scale, eliminating the obligatory essays that have daunted high school juniors and seniors for years.

Coleman has also revamped the math section to focus on a wider range of topics, such as linear equations, functions and proportional thinking. Additionally, the stacks of flash cards filled with rare and archaic words such as “remuneration” and “labyrinthe” can now be replaced with more common, yet important words in our English language such as “synthesis” and “empirical.”

Among many other far-reaching changes, the greatest reform Coleman is looking to make is closing the socioeconomic gap that College Board tests tend to create among college aspirants.

“What this country needs is not more tests, but more opportunities,” said Coleman at a College Board event in Austin, Texas, Wednesday.

“The real news today is not just the redesigned SAT, but the College Board’s renewed commitment to delivering opportunity.”

In an attempt to close this inequality gap and offer SAT tutoring to a wider range of students, College Board has paired up with Khan Academy, a nonprofit that offers free world-class online tutoring to anyone, anywhere. So now, each student who wants to take the SAT will have access to sophisticated, interactive and free online tutoring.

“For too long, there’s been a well-known imbalance between students who could afford test-prep courses and those who couldn’t,” said Sal Khan, founder and executive director of Khan Academy, at the Wednesday College Board conference. “We’re thrilled to collaborate closely with the College Board to level the playing field by making truly world-class test-prep

materials freely available to all students.”

Although Coleman has made a valiant attempt at bridging the achievement gap in higher education, kids from wealthier families will always have a financial leg up on those from modest means. Through these changes, the achievement gap isn’t going to shrink, but rather it is going to shift upwards. Paring with Khan Academy is an honorable first step at dealing with this problem, but it is still hard to compete with the benefits expensive one-on-one tutoring can offer a kid.

Regardless of this unfortunate trend in our society, Coleman is revamping the SAT for the better. By focusing more on proportional math equations and testing kids on everyday vocabulary words, this test is now more focused on how our brains work, rather than just what we can memorize from flash cards and cheat sheets.

Similar to the ACT, the SAT will no longer deduct points for incorrect answers. Although this provision will change the strategy students use to take the test, it will by no means reduce the stress factor. There are some things about the SAT that just cannot be changed for the better.

As long as they are around, these tests will always drive kids into a frenzy of stress, crush self confidence and keep qualified kids from schools they deserve to be in.

But, at the same time, just as tutors, parents and guidance counselors have and always will preach to discouraged students, colleges need to standardize their applicants some how.

Even Coleman admits that a student’s high school transcript is a much better way to judge them academically. Yet, an A at an inner-city school and an A at an elite school could mean two different things.

Sometimes kids who deserve to be in those top-ranked schools are stuck with an inner-city education, and other times, kids in the elite private schools are only there because their parents have the money — sometimes it really is just about the luck of the draw. And as annoying as it is to define a person’s potential for success in college based on a number, there is a valid reason behind this method.

By finally revamping the fundamentals of this test, College Board is well on their way to making the SAT at least somewhat bearable for college aspirants.

Life in the left lane

Don’t you think we’re Russian into this?

SARA Ryan For the record, I do not enjoy foreign policy. I think my lack of interest stems from my Only Child Syndrome. I never liked sharing my toys or playing with others — one preschool classmate might have lost a chunk of hair because she took my Barbie. The scissors slipped, I swear!

Foreign policy is basically the same thing except they’re fighting about oil fields and human rights. As a result of my only child-ness, I am more than a little ignorant about foreign affairs in this nation, but I’m sure I’m not the only one. This crisis in Ukraine has demonstrated two main points: Americans don’t know what’s going on and the American government shouldn’t get involved.

Just a small side note: I did thorough research on this topic before writing this column. It’s not like I’m just making this stuff up. I may be creative, but I could never come up with names like Yanukovych and Tymoshenko.

Back to the main point of this week’s column: the American attitude toward foreign policy. As citizens we have a very limited view of how foreign policy works. It’s a little bit our fault and a little bit our culture’s fault. Foreign policy is nasty, complicated and messy. Take all the domestic policy for the United States, multiply it by about 195 (give or take a Taiwan), and add in teenage girl’s manipulation and passive aggression. Welcome to foreign policy.

Since most people don’t have the time to understand health care in this country, I can understand why our interactions with other nations could be a bit overwhelming.

While our citizens might not know exactly what is going on, at least our politicians and military officials have some idea (I hope). However, that doesn’t mean we should be jumping head first into the situation. America has this habit of getting itself stuck in less than pleasant engagements abroad (cough Iraq cough).

Our track record doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence.

The fighting and protests in Ukraine and Russia’s involvement are important developments on the global stage. However, they aren’t the only ones. Has anybody even noticed the protests in Venezuela? I know Putin’s bear-wrestling skills make for sexy news coverage, but Venezuela is about 3,200 miles closer to the United States than Kiev, Ukraine. Kiev is literally on the other side of the world (I Googled this, so we know it’s legit). It’s about 4,600 miles to Kiev from New York City and 4,600 miles from Alaska’s west coast. I’m thinking of buying a house there. I could probably see

Russia from my front porch. Cue Sarah Palin joke.

Even if Russia is an important global player, Venezuela is in the American sphere of influence. Politically speaking, the U.S. has a lot more control over what happens in the Americas than Eastern Europe. It’s just the politics of geography. Additionally, what happens in Venezuela affects America more directly than what’s going on in Kiev.

Also, Hugo Chavez is not a very nice man.

Shouldn’t we be fostering protests against him? Not to mention that according to the Maps of the World website, Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves. So yeah, that really sounds like a country that should be totally fine if we just completely ignore what’s happening.

This isn’t supposed to be #ThrowbackThursday Soviet Union edition or America vs. Russia either. We live in a global community where U.S. President Barack Obama’s decisions affect everyone else.

Heck, even what kind of car I buy after graduation will have some impact on the global economy. Even 30 years ago as the Cold War was drawing to a close, we were much less interdependent. In the age of Internet and constant international communication, our decisions can change the lives for billions of people.

This is why we shouldn’t get involved in Kiev, at least not yet or by ourselves. In the same way that mothers tell you to “never go anywhere alone,” we need to use the buddy system when it comes to foreign policy. I am not an expert in foreign politics, but the United Nations seems like a pretty good place to start. Addressing the situation diplomatically (and publicly) allows both officials and private citizens to gain valuable information and form solid opinions.

Look, we don’t need to dive head first into the swimming pool of involvement. We shouldn’t unilaterally decide who is worth intervening for and who isn’t. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t stick our toe in the water to test the temperature. There is a fine line between information and influence, and we shouldn’t cross it quite yet. If we do, Ukraine might not be the best place to start. Instead, there’s a country south of the border that could certainly use some guidance.

If we can change how we look at foreign policy, we might be able to uncover some valuable solutions.

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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Chipps: N-word not just issue in sports, but also ‘cultural problem’ Chipps: From Page 8

ence suspended Oklahoma State point guard Marcus Smart for three games because he pushed a fan in the stands. It was later reported that Smart’s actions were a result of that fan yelling the profanity towards Smart.

Smart’s punishment, whether you agree with it or not, brings up a larger issue about the n-word in college sports.

We have a problem, but not just a sports problem. We have a cultural problem.

Where do we draw the line?

Is it right to penalize players who say the

n-word on the court or on the field? Is it fair to criticize African American players who choose to say the word because they believe it has a different connotation than how it was once used?

Remember, it was less than 50 years ago that Texas Western University (now University of Texas-El Paso) made history by starting five black players in the National Championship Game against the University of Kentucky.

Texas Western coach Don Haskins realized that making a statement about racial equality was more important than winning basketball games. He didn’t see race as a barrier between

good and bad players. He saw talent, and the rest of the world eventually saw that too.

Haskins’ team forever changed college sports, and now more than 60 percent of Division I basketball players are African American.

I have always wondered what those five black men would say about the state of the nword today.

My hope is that those great men would all believe that the n-word has no place in college sports, and that we should continue to strive towards racial equality without the use of that shameful word.

As a white American, I may not have the

authority or the complete understanding of the word. But regardless, there is no denying that evil is rooted behind the n-word. Every time someone uses the word on the field or in the locker room, it rebuilds the barrier that athletes like Jackie Robinson, Arthur Ashe and Bill Willis aspired to destroy long ago.

It doesn’t belong in college sports, and it doesn’t belong in our lives either.

The last time that I checked, college sports are supposed to bring us together. The last thing we should be doing is attempting to destroy our unity with a word that only tears us apart.

Elia earns Hockey East All-Rookie honors Women’s Hockey: From Page 8

Esposito, who is arguably their top forward, was out for the first 12 games. So if you take those three things, the up and down goalie, a team that hasn’t found their stride and their best forward out, there was definitely some holes to fill and we caught them.”

Despite not playing in those 12 games, Esposito still tallied strong numbers. In 23 games played she scored 14 goals, good for third on the team, and also recorded 10 assists.

With Esposito back in the lineup and scoring during the third matchup, Northeastern was able to come away with a 4-2 win.

Durocher said he saw the formidable foe he expected from the Huskies going into the season during the third game and expects to see more of the same when the two teams face off in Hyannis this Saturday.

“It’s going to be a good hockey game,” Durocher said “They’ve got five defensemen and nine forwards. They’ve had some injuries and people lost for the season, but I think they’ve got their top players in place and we’re going to have to deal with a real solid team that I think is every bit our equal and if you look at the Hockey East standings, they finished tied with us.”

Senior goalie Kerrin Sperry, who won the MVP of the Hockey East Tournament last year, played a strong game against Providence in BU’s quarterfinal victory, stopping 37 shots.

This season, the goaltender has been solid again, posting a .924 save percentage and a 2.24 goals-against average.

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Senior goalie Kerrin Sperry is looking to claim her second Hockey East Tournament MVP.

Watson leads all scorers with 21 points Backcourt: From Page 8

“We feel like we’re the best team in this league and we know that having a No. 1 seed is important, especially in this tournament when you’re the top seed, you play every game at home,” Irving said. “We definitely wanted to make a statement.”

Against the Leopards, the duo validated their accolades with stellar play. Watson started things early, slashing through the Lafayette defense to score eight points in the opening five minutes. Not to be outdone, Irving stole the ball from center Nathaniel Musters and drove the length of the court for a layup to give BU a 10-5 lead.

When the Terriers started to pull away from the Leopards midway through the first, Watson and Irving made sure that BU stayed focused.

After freshman guard Cedric Hankerson drained a 3-pointer to give the Terriers a 22-13 advantage, Watson played lockdown defense, forcing his man to dribble out of bounds.

Though Lafayette cut the Terrier lead to 10 with just over six minutes remaining in the half, Irving re-energized the team by knocking down a 3-pointer.

Watson’s confidence in his teammates was on full display when he dished the ball to senior guard Travis Robinson who lined up for a 3-point shot. Before the ball even left Robinson’s hands, Watson held up three fingers in celebration. Sure enough, the ball went in.

“That’s how I feel every time one of my teammates shoots,” Watson said about the moment. “I have the utmost confidence that every time I give these guys the ball, and they put it up, it’s going in.”

At the break, Watson led all players with 15 points to go along with four assists and two rebounds. Irving added nine points of his own.

To start the second half, Irving played a perfect pass to senior forward Dom Morris, who laid the ball in for the first points of the frame.

Two minutes later, Morris received a beautiful feed, this time from Watson, to extend the Terrier lead to 46-29 with 17:20 remaining.

On the next BU possession, Watson hit a contested mid-range jumper and at the other end of the court, he grabbed a rebound off of a missed 3-point attempt from guard Bryce Scott and sank a layup to complete the fourpoint swing.

In addition to providing points, Watson and Irving also catalyzed the play of their teammates. One of the most electrifying moments of the game came at the 7:03 mark when Watson threw the ball up for sophomore forward Justin Alston to slam into the basket.

Watson ended the night close to a tripledouble, garnering 21 points, seven rebounds and eight assists. Irving had 17 points, two rebounds and three assists.

“He’s gonna get it,” Irving said about Watson’s search for the illusive triple-double. “Especially now, come playoff time. That’s when big time players have big time games.”

Conversely, Watson praised Irving’s effort in the game.

“D.J.’s our veteran,” Waston said. “He’s our captain and our go-to guy. For me to be able to sit down and for him to shine the way he did, it just gets the rest of the team going.

When you see one person coming out and playing hard, the rest of the team thrives off of that.”

more than important during a playoff run.

“If you have a good goaltender, your kids really focus on their job and not worried about what happens if they make a mistake or what’s going to happen behind them,” Durocher said.

“It’s probably no coincidence that the four teams that are left playing probably have three of the four, if not the best four goalies in the league.”’

With the absence of forward Marie-Phillip Poulin and departure of Jenelle Kohanchuck, the Terriers are on the younger side of the age spectrum and thus some players lack the experience of high-pressure situations.

One of the Terriers’ underclassmen, freshman forward Maddie Elia, was awarded for her first-year play. After putting up 11 goals and 13 assists, Elia was named to the Hockey East AllRookie Team.

Elia’s classmate, forward Samantha Sutherland, played significant time on the first line, and was fourth on the team with 18 assists to go along with her five goals. “[The playoffs are] a great scenario for the kids who have played there before and had success there but unfortunately, we’ve got a bunch of kids who are new to this situation because there are some who may have been there but played a smaller role and now they’re playing a significant role,” Durocher said. “People like Sam Sutherland and Maddie Elia haven’t been there before so I don’t think we’re going in there with a loaded gun of experience like we might have last year. The tournament will show us what they can do when they get on that stage.”

Terriers to host Army in semifinal round Men’s Basketball: From Page 8

timeout with 16:14 left to try slow the down the Terrier offense, the momentum of the game continued to go against Lafayette. Less than 30 seconds later, Watson connected with Dieudonné for an alley-oop to take a 52-31 point lead, appearing to be an early dagger.

For the rest of the half, Jones and his club had to find the balance between saving energy for Saturday’s possible semifinal matchup and

keeping the foot on the gas pedal to close out the Leopards.

The Terriers did not falter, though, holding onto their big lead to defeat Lafayette 91-54 and win their first-ever Patriot League Tournament contest. With the win, the Terriers will host the U.S. Military Academy in the semifinal round of the tournament Saturday at 3 p.m.

“The last time we played Lafayette we were able to sustain our effort,” Jones said. “To be able to do it again shows that we’ve taken another step in the right direction.”

BU goalkeeping improves during 2nd half Women’s Lacrosse: From Page 8

With both teams struggling for offense throughout the game, the Terriers hurt their own cause by giving up three free-position shots in the first half. The Big Green converted on all three of these opportunities, which stretched their lead out to 4-2.

“Those shots were tough,” Robertshaw said. “I don’t think we were seeing the ball well in the first half, which led to those three [free position shots]. We just didn’t have the defenders there to make the stops we needed, which definitely cost us.”

These two goals opened the floodgates as the Big Green went on to score four more times en route to an eight-goal half. The final goal with 20 seconds remaining in the frame swelled the Dartmouth lead to 8-4 going into the break.

To start the second half, BU allowed nine shots, just two fewer than Dartmouth’s first half total, however, freshman goalkeeper Caroline Meegan stopped seven of them. The Terriers also held the Big Green to just a 25 percent conversion rate on free-position chances in the second half.

“Caroline [Meegan] played an outstanding

second half,” Robertshaw said. “She made key stops to keep us in the game, which we emphasized during halftime.”

Both teams traded goals to open up scoring in the half, but the Terriers sustained their offensive intensity, scoring two more in less than a minute to cut the deficit to two with 18 minutes to play.

Junior attack Kelsey Marafioti scored the first off an assist from freshman attack Taylor Hardison. The second goal in this scoring stretch came unassisted from sophomore midfielder Jill Horka.

Despite having plenty of time to cut into the 9-7 Dartmouth advantage, BU could not overcome the Big Green defense. The Terriers did not help themselves by committing eight turnovers in the second half.

With the first conference game of the season on the bill for Saturday against American University, the Terriers will certainly be hungrier than ever for their first victory.

“We’re excited to start conference play,” Robertshaw said. “In order to succeed we have to fix our shortcomings and get back to the basics. We know that we’re going to have to really focus to get that first win.”

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I felt like I had to come out and be one of the leaders of the team.

- Sophomore guard Maurice Watson Jr., on his performance Wednesday night.

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Fish and Chipps BU defeats Lafayette, advances to semifinal Irving, Watson The n-word does not belong

Isaac Chipps

One hundred and fifty years ago, there was only one way to interpret the meaning of the n-word.

It was hateful. Spiteful. Awful.

Disgusting.

But as time has moved forward its meaning, usage and cultural significance have changed like no other word in the English language.

Today it seems the word means many things to many different people.

To some, it is nothing but a hateful term that degrades the African American people and reminds them of the suffering of previous generations. And to others, the word is cool, chill and something of an endearment.

Michael Wilbon, co-host of ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption,” is one of the most prominent and wellregarded sports journalists of his generation. For aspiring sports journalists, he is a God in our small fraternity. When people ask me whom I most want to emulate in terms of success and professionalism, his name is the first one that comes to my mind. I respect his opinion, admire his work ethic and hope to have half the success he has enjoyed throughout his journalism career.

But when I learned that Wilbon disagrees with the NFL’s proposed rule change to penalize players who say the n-word on the football field, I was shocked.

“So you’re gonna have a league with no black owners and a white commissioner — middle-aged and advanced-aged white men — say to black players, mostly — because that’s what we’re talking about — ‘you can’t use the n-word on the field of play, or we’re gonna penalize you,’” Wilbon said on a recent episode of PTI. “I’ve got a massive problem with that.”

Wilbon’s argument may seem valid to some, but what’s wrong with trying to eradicate a word fueled with hate?

In college sports, one doesn’t have to travel far to know that the nword is loud and clear for the world to hear.

Whether it’s blacks, whites, Hispanics, Indians or Asians, the word sits on the tongues of college athletes and students everywhere.

Last month, the Big 12 Confer-

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Upon the release of the Patriot League preseason poll on Nov. 1, the Boston University men’s basketball team and Lafayette College were projected to be playing in the final game of the Patriot League Tournament. Instead, a rough season for the Leopards led them to face No. 1-seeded Terriers in the quarterfinal round Wednesday night at Agganis Arena.

Led by 21 points, eight assists and seven rebounds from sophomore guard Maurice Watson Jr., BU (23-9, 15-3 Patriot League) defeated Lafayette (11-20, 6-12 Patriot League) by a 91-54 margin to advance to the semifinal round of the conference playoffs. The 37-point margin of victory was the largest in a Patriot League quarterfinal since 2005, and BU’s 66.1 field-goal percentage set a new tournament record.

To start the game, Lafayette controlled the tip-off and jumped out to an early 2-0 lead off of a layup from center Nathaniel Musters. BU quickly responded with a 3-pointer from sophomore forward Nathan Dieudonné to grab the lead.

It seemed the Leopards were going to pick up where they left off in the first round against Loyola University-Maryland, where Lafayette shot a red-hot 63.6 percent from the field. That would not be the case, however, and after the score was tied at five, the Terriers went on a 12-3 run behind successful offensive play

by Watson to build a lead they would never relinquish.

“I just wanted to be super aggressive,” Watson said. “I felt like I had to come out and be one of the leaders of the team.”

The Terriers continued their dominance throughout the half off of the impressive shooting of their backcourt. At the half, BU held a 42-27 lead. Thirty-one of those points came from the combined efforts of Watson, senior guard D.J. Irving and fresh-

W. Basketball @ Army, 7:30 p.m.

By Jacklyn Bamberger Daily Free Press Staff

jumpstart their offense with some quick 3-pointers out of the gate.

Tight defense by the Terriers forced two consecutive missed 3-point attempts, though, and the Terriers went for easy baskets on the other end to pad their lead.

“In Loyola we were feeling it, but today Boston played a really good defensive game, said Lafayette captain Seth Hinrichs. “[BU] really got on our shooters and forced shots.”

Although the Leopards called a

Throughout the 2013-14 campaign, the Boston University men’s basketball team has relied upon the play of its backcourt. Wednesday’s Patriot League quarterfinal matchup against Lafayette College was no exception, as sophomore guard Maurice Watson Jr., and senior guard D.J. Irving led the team to a 91-54 victory.

Watson came into the contest riding a successful regular season, leading BU (23-9, 15-3 Patriot League) in points per game (13.7), steals (2.2) and assists (6.6).

While Irving has had a quieter season than Watson statistically, the tri-captain has been a leader for the Terriers, inspiring underclassmen with his work ethic.

Earlier this week, Watson and Irving were rewarded for their efforts when the Patriot League announced yearly awards. Watson was the lone Terrier selected to the All-Patriot League First Team, while Irving was a representative on the All-Second Team.

BU coach Joe Jones said there are advantages to having the backcourt.

“That’s been the luxury of having [Watson and Irving],” Jones said.

“There aren’t too many teams in the country that have two guards that can do what they can do. It’s why we’re a unique team and it’s why we’re a dangerous team. If Mo gets in foul trouble, D.J. steps in and does a great job. Those guys can also play together. “ Irving said the team came into the matchup with the Leopards (11-20, 6-12 Patriot League) looking to send a message to the Patriot League.

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Senior guard D.J. Irving scored 17 points in BU’s win over Lafayette College in the quarterfinal round Wednesday night.

man guard Cedric Hankerson.

Watson led the trio with 15 points, shooting 6-for-10 from the field and 2-of-3 from beyond the arc. Irving and Hankerson combined to shoot 7-for-10 from the field and 2-of-3 from deep. As a whole, BU shot 68 percent from the field on 25 shots and went 7-for-9 from the 3-point arc in the first half.

“You want to be playing your best basketball in March, and they’re locked in,” said BU coach Joe Jones.

The Leopards started the second half down by 15 points and tried to

W. hockey set to battle Northeastern Terriers drop 4th contest of season

By Joon Lee Daily Free Press Staff

Northeastern University remains as the final hurdle stand in front of the Boston University Terriers women’s hockey team’s third consecutive trip to the Hockey East championship game.

Following a nail-biting 3-2 victory over Providence College in the quarterfinals, the Terriers (22-121, 14-7-0 Hockey East) are ready for their fourth matchup against the Huskies (19-13-2, 13-6-2 Hockey East) this season. During the regular season, the Terriers took two of three games from the Huskies during the regular season.

BU coach Brian Durocher said fixing mental mistakes is the key to defeating the Huskies for the third time this season.

“We have to be disciplined defensively and I’d love to see us generate a little bit more pace on the ice,”

The Bottom Line

Thursday, March 6

lead Terriers in playoff win

By Christopher Dela Rosa Daily Free Press Staff

Friday, March 7

Softball @ Under Armour Showcase, 9:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m.

Track @ IC4A/ECAC Championships, All Day

Durocher said. “I talk about it being with your legs partly, but some of it is with your head, the ability to anticipate properly, the ability to read the situation and know when it’s time to go on the offensive and I don’t think we’ve done a great job in that area.

“If we do a good job in those areas, it’ll be a great foundation and a great place to start.”

While the Terriers have knocked off the Huskies twice this season, Durocher said he does not believe that Northeastern was playing at the level of play that they are right now.

The absence of forward Brittany Esposito was a huge missing piece for the Huskies during the first part of the season.

“They were a little bit out of sync,” Durocher said. “They had lost some players and feeling a little bit uncertain ... To cap it off, Brittany

WomEn’s HoCkEy, see page 7

Saturday, March 8

M. Hockey @ Notre Dame, 7 p.m.

M. Lax vs. Colgate, 1 p.m.

M. Basketball vs. Army, 3 p.m.

W. Hockey vs. Northeastern, 4:30 p.m.

By Justin Pallenik Daily Free Press Staff

Seeking its first win of the season, the Boston University women’s lacrosse team came up short again Wednesday afternoon, falling 9-7 to Dartmouth College on the road in Hanover, N.H. The Terriers (0-4) entered their road matchup after having faced three consecutive nationally ranked opponents, including the current No. 1 and No. 3 teams in the University of North Carolina and University of Maryland. In their last game against No. 10 University of MassachusettsAmherst, the Terriers fell by a score of 11-8 in a hard-fought defensive struggle.

“We’re seeing some nice improvements,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw. “Our playmakers have begun to play the way we expect them to. The main issue for us is that we often get tripped up by simple

Sunday, March 9 Softball @ Under Armour Showcase, 9 a.m.

Track @ IC4A/ECAC Championships, All Day

mistakes. When we overcome those, we’re a completely different team.”

Coming into the contest, the Big Green (3-1) had lost their most recent game against Yale University after winning the first two matchups of their campaign by a combined margin of 11 goals.

The Big Green started off the game against BU quickly with two goals in the first five minutes of the game, including one from leading scorer junior Sarah Byrne. The West Hartford, Conn., native would go on to score two more goals in the game, pushing her season total up to 16.

The Terriers would respond with two goals of their own, tying the game up at the 22:54 mark in the first half on an unassisted shot from junior attack Lindsay Weiner. Weiner was one of five Terriers to score in the game.

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Monday, March 10 W. Basketball vs. TBA, time TBA