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NEWS The Boston Police Department expanded their cadet training program, allowing more candidates to participate. p.4

MUSE FreeP vs. Food featured boba this week, ranking each spot based on milk tea flavor, boba texture and ambiance. p.6

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SPORTS Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 Miracle on the Ice team, talks about his life-changing goal against the USSR. p.12

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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2017 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLVI. VOLUME XCII. ISSUE XI.

‘15 alumna sues BU for lack of disability accommodations

BY ELLIE FRENCH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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The Boston University Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center collaborates with the BU Arts Initiative to create an exhibition to showcase how student artists respond to sexual assault, allyship and prevention. The exhibit will remain open at BU Arts Initiative’s office from April 3 through April 12.

SARP uses art to raise awareness about cause

BY AMANDA KAUFMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In celebration of Sexual Assault Awareness Week at Boston University and National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center collaborated with the BU Arts Initiative to create an exhibition of students’ artistic responses to sexual assault, allyship and prevention.

The gallery, located at the BU Arts Initiative office on the second floor of the George Sherman Union, will remain open until April 10, said Sarah Collins, assistant director of the BU Arts Initiative.

Collins said that although the BU Arts Initiative had never worked with SARP before, the creation of the gallery was a

large collaborative effort between the two offices. She said this particular exhibit connects both of their causes while providing an opportunity for students to get involved.

“Our working with SARP and their mission is a really good connection that they hadn’t had before in terms of an artistic approach to things,” Collins said. “It was a good opportunity for them to offer an alternative way for students who are dealing with things to engage.”

The gallery also allows students to understand sexual assault in a different way, she said.

“Everyone has their own way to process things, so this gives people an opportunity to see things in a different light so that they don’t necessarily have to talk about them, but to view other people’s experience and see how other people went through things

or be able to see people’s art work … maybe it is helpful to someone,” Collins said.

Sarah Voorhees, a health and prevention educator for SARP, wrote in an email to The Daily Free Press that some students approached SARP before, wishing to brainstorm ways for student art to be included in Sexual Assault Awareness Week.

“SARP is happy to be working with BU Arts Initiative to create another platform for students to express themselves and another way for the BU community to engage with BU Sexual Assault Awareness Week,” Voorhees wrote.

In addition to the new gallery, Voorhees wrote that the week integrates student art through The Clothesline Project, a project which allows women to express their CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

Residents support Safe Communities Act

BY AMANDA KAUFMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

On a gloomy Wednesday afternoon, approximately 150 people gathered at the Boston Common to participate in an “emergency rally” to support immigrants, urging Massachusetts elected officials to support the Safe Communities Act. The rally, planned by the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, was intended to take place at the Massachusetts State House to celebrate the 21st Annual Immigrants Day, said Joel Rivera, a field organizer for the MIRA Coalition.

“We want to take the temperatures of legislators and we want them to be flooded by people who are supporting this bill,” Rivera told The Daily Free Press after the rally.

Rivera said the protest was moved to Boston Common to accommodate the large CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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State Rep. Mike Connolly speaks at the Boston Common Wednesday afternoon and encourages Massachusetts legislators to pass the Safe Communities Act.

A former Boston University student has filed a lawsuit against the university after allegedly being attacked by a fellow student in the Breadwinners at the Questrom School of Business, claiming BU failed to provide a safe space and did not accommodate her disabilities caused by the incident.

Alicia Schaefer, who graduated from Questrom in 2015, filed the suit in October, 2016. The linked case involves eight claims, all of which stemmed from the attack that took place in 2013, when Yongjie Fu, her classmate, allegedly “body-checked” her after a dispute in the restaurant.

The docket report filed with the Suffolk County Superior Court Civil Clerk’s Office states that Schaefer and Fu were enrolled in two of the same courses that semester.

Schaefer was uneasy around Fu because of his “loud” and “aggressive” behavior, where he would consistently follow and bother her, according to the docket.

At the restaurant, Fu got in line behind Schaefer, where he screamed at her and ripped a sandwich out of her hands before he began physically attacking her, the docket states.

“Fu completely lost it, and seemingly out of nowhere body-checked Ms. Schaefer. And what happened was first she went head first into a wall, and then onto the floor,” said Sara Burns, one of Schaefer’s lawyers. “Fu is not a small person … and as a result [Schaefer] had many injuries: both head injuries as well as injuries to some of her limbs, and so she was on crutches for the remainder of the semester.”

Criminal charges were filed against Fu in addition to Schaefer’s current civil charges against him. Her four allegations filed against Fu are for intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, assault and battery.

The other four claims Schaefer filed in the case are against BU. The first and primary allegation is for BU’s violation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which guarantees certain rights to people with disabilities.

The other three claims accuse BU for allegedly creating an abusive educational environment for Schaefer, cluding carelessly employing Fu as a teaching assistant and failing to protect Schaefer from harassment and battery, according to the docket.

The university declined to comment on the lawsuit. Fu’s lawyers did not respond to numerous requests for comment by press time.

Burns said that in recovering from the attack, Schaefer needed certain accommodations from BU that were not provided to her.

“Because of her injuries, she really needed extended time in taking different exams and needed time away from the university to get medical care,” Burns said. “The nature of her head injury in particular severely limited the amount of time she was say, supposed to think in a day. Head injuries are very unique in that … for the brain to heal itself, it might require CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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BU opposes Trump’s newly revised travel ban C A M P U S CRIME LOGS

BY JACQUELINE CONTRERAS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University joined an amicus curiae brief filed Friday challenging President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, which blocks immigrants from six predominantly Muslim countries.

The 40-page long brief outlines the reasons why international students, faculty and scholars are of irreplaceable value to universities and how they aid the United States economy. It also reviews ways the executive order stymies universities’ progress and puts them at a disadvantage.

The brief presents information and arguments that may be considered by the court, and it has the intention of influencing the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s decision on the order.

BU joined the brief along with about 30 other colleges from across the nation, seven of which are in Massachusetts, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northeastern University.

BU spokesperson Colin Riley wrote in an email that by joining the brief, the university hopes to make the courts understand how the travel ban will adversely impact students and scholars at the nation’s top colleges and universities.

BU has nearly 100 undergraduate and graduate svtudents and more than a dozen scholars from the six countries that are under the 90-day moratorium on entry, Riley wrote.

“The travel ban separates them from their family members living abroad and may make them hesitant to leave the United States for conferences, meetings or personal trips home in case they are unable to re-enter the country,” Riley wrote.

He wrote that he hopes the university’s legal action will prevent the executive order from barring bright students from the countries impacted.

“It is the university’s hope that students and scholars from the six countries who wish to study, teach, or engage in research in the United States are permitted to do so, so that US institutions of higher education, including BU, can continue to attract the best and brightest from all over the world,” Riley added.

Emily Burlij, the associate director for the university’s Office of Federal Relations, said the executive order goes against everything BU stands for. “[Joining the brief] is our way of standing up for our researchers and our students and being able to showcase what our values are and

BY SOPHIA BROWN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from March 31-April 2.

Theft and credit card fraud reported at the Fitness and Recreation Center A caller reported at 4:43 p.m. on Friday that their wallet had been stolen from 915 Commonwealth Ave. and their credit card was being used fraudulently.

Suicide note found inside Tsai Performance Center bathroom A woman reported at 11:18 a.m. on Friday that she found an unsigned suicide note written in Spanish on the wall of a bathroom at 685 Commonwealth Ave.

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hopefully help fight for them so we can either overturn these or help carry it to a higher court where it might play out later on,” she said.

One argument that the brief underlines is the importance of diversity and how this provides campuses with a free exchange of ideas.

Moreover, it allows all students on campus to become more receptive to different global issues and have a better sense of a global and pluralistic society.

The brief states the different experiences and perspectives these international students bring with them help university communities embrace and learn how to work together across ethnic and religious differences.

In terms of economic incentives, the brief states international students inject hundreds of billions of dollars into the U.S. economy and support a myriad of American jobs.

Immigrants can continue to serve the United States once they “become leading innovators, entrepreneurs, artists, and thought-leaders.”

Not only this, but many aid in the advancement of their respective fields and make important discoveries and contributions, according to the brief.

Several students said they hope BU’s participation in this legislative action will sway the government to reconsider the implications of its legislation.

Grace Lennon, a freshman in the College of Fine Arts, said she appreciates how BU is taking initiative on such an important matter.

“It’s better than doing nothing,” she said. “We’re such a big school and such a face of Boston, and I think it’s a really good way to honor our city and our country.”

Tien Ho, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she wants Trump to consider the consequences more before passing any legislation that may hurt important institutions.

“Trump argues that it’ll stop terrorists, but I feel like it prevents a lot of people from opportunities to come to America, especially students who are interested in coming here,” she said.

Gabriel Lubbock, a freshman in CAS, said although he views international students as vital to university communities, he is uncertain as to whether the brief will have much of an impact on the court’s decision.

“We need international students to keep this school running,” Lubbock said. “[However, the courts] are trying to determine whether the travel ban is legal or not, not whether it is beneficial or not.”

Alana Levene contributed to the reporting of this article.

Former student files lawsuit against university LAWSUIT, FROM PAGE 1 a lot of extra rest, and one of the main claims that we have against BU relates to that. They really weren’t accommodating her disabilities in that sense.”

Schaefer’s claim states that she requested accommodations that would neither fundamentally alter her academic program nor create unnecessary financial or administrative burdens to BU, but these requests were not met.

Burns said that Schaefer was forced to choose between her academic success and personal health in a way that no student should be forced to do.

“From the student’s perspective, you want to do the best you can academically, you want to take care of yourself, and she was in this very difficult position where if she was doing her best academically, she couldn’t take care of herself,” Burns said.

“And BU really didn’t do all that it could to make sure that she wasn’t placed in that position, it just wasn’t accommodating her.”

Break-in reported at 730 Commonwealth Ave. BUPD responded to a report at 10:25 a.m. on Sunday regarding an ongoing break-in on the third floor of BU’s computer science department.

Drug paraphernalia found at 595 Commonwealth Ave. At 9:50 p.m. on Saturday, a narcotics investigation found drug paraphernalia at the Questrom School of Business.

CITY

CRIME LOGS

BY CYNTHIA FERNANDEZ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following crime reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from April 3- 4.

Assault and battery reported at Farrington Avenue Officers responded to an assault and battery in progress at Farrington Avenue Monday evening around 6 p.m. The victim of the assault said he was threatened and attacked by the suspect, who he identified as a white male, because he was dating the suspect’s ex-girlfriend. The victim was treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and was not suffering from any life-threatening conditions.

Attempted larceny reported at Washington Street A caller reported an attempted larceny at 94 Washington St. on Monday at 8 p.m. When the officer spoke to the victim, the victim said he had received a suspicious call from Oklahoma. The caller told the victim that the victim’s computer had been hacked, requested access to the computer and asked for the victim’s online banking information in order to deposit $1,000 into the victim’s account.

The caller knew the name and email of the victim.

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A Boston University alumna is suing the university for allegedly failing to accommodate her disability, which was caused when a fellow student attacked her at the Breadwinners.

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Red Cross, local nonprofits honor National Volunteer Month

BY SHANNON LARSON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Various local and national nonprofit organizations are celebrating National Volunteer Month, which highlights the contributions of volunteers and inspires others to become involved in their services.

The American Red Cross, for instance, is encouraging every eligible blood donor to roll up their sleeve and help lend an arm to benefit patients in need, said Aly Barraza, the communications manager for the Massachusetts chapter of the Red Cross.

Barraza said while the Red Cross raises awareness on the importance of donating blood year-round, the organization views National Volunteer Month as an added motivation for people to help out.

“There’s always the encouragement there throughout the year because every two seconds someone needs blood, so the need is constant, no matter what month it is,” Barraza said.

The primary mission of the Red Cross’ blood donation branch is to help hospital patients in need, and there are many different uses for donated blood, Barraza said.

For patients in the United States, volunteer donors are the only source of blood, and are therefore vital to the Red Cross.

“You’re helping accident victims, victims of trauma situations, burn victims [and] cancer patients can benefit from not only blood transfusions but platelets, which are a product of blood,” Barraza said.

Barraza said the Red Cross has volunteers who have made lifetime commitments to donating blood, and applauded them for their dedication to helping those in need.

“It’s incredible to see and that’s the type of folks we want to highlight during National Volunteer month, to show that with every pint, they’re helping to save more than one life,” Barraza said.

Jessica Garretson, the associate director of volunteer services at Rosie’s Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women in Boston, said they honor National Volunteer Month because volunteers play an inf luential part in aiding the shelter’s mission, which includes providing women with an environment that enables them to seek opportunity and find security.

“We were founded by a small group of volunteers back in 1974, and they’ve really been integral to Rosie’s Place,” Garretson said. “We’re really a multiservice center, providing a wide range of services for

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Several organizations, including Rosie’s Place, Boston Cares and the American Red Cross, encourage volunteer participation in honor of National Volunteer Month, which will last through the month of April.

women who are struggling and in need in our community.”

Over the course of a year, volunteers collectively donate more than 60,000 hours of their time, the equivalent of about 29 full-time staff people, Garretson said.

The volunteers extend their services in a multitude of ways, from leading art workshops to teaching language classes.

“We have volunteers who help out on a one-time basis, so that would be they come in and help serve a meal,” Garretson said.

“Other individuals might make a longer term commitment, maybe they go through training and learn how to teach English.”

From assisting the organization in meeting immediate needs to instilling a lasting change in the lives of women who seek shelter at Rosie’s Place, Garretson said without volunteers, none of their work would be possible. “[Volunteers] help create that warm, welcoming space and the women really appreciate that people are donating their time to help make a difference in their lives,” Garretson said. “We really couldn’t

do things the way that we do them, and definitely not the Rosie’s Place way.”

Patrice Keegan, the executive director of Boston Cares, a nonprofit that builds relationships with other nonprofits and schools to meet their designated goals, said in the organization’s first 25 years of operation, volunteers made over 10 million meals for people suffering from food insecurity.

Keegan said Boston Cares celebrates National Volunteer Week, which takes place from April 23 to 29. In honor of this week, Boston Cares hosts several awareness events, including a corporate volunteer project and their annual Global Youth Service Day, a national day of volunteer service for young people in particular.

Several Boston residents said volunteering holds intrinsic value, from standing in solidarity with minority communities to lending a helping hand to those in need.

Hilary Read, 27, of Allston, said giving back to the community is a part of human nature and is especially important given the modern political climate.

“It’s humanity,” Read said. “You have to

help each other out, it’s the only way we’ll survive. I give blood and donate to the Red Cross. I have one friend that ... was involved with the Peace Corps a couple of years ago. I would encourage other people to volunteer.”

Chris Meier, 35, of Kenmore, said while he is returning home to Europe in a month after being in the United States for a year, he would have taken the opportunity to volunteer if he could have, and said he believes National Volunteer Month is important because it raises awareness.

“I’m originally from Europe and I think that in the United States, it’s very nice that fundraising and helping others is a big thing,” Meier said. “We as a community need to help those poorer people or those who have less than we.”

Leah Rice, 29, of Allston, said her experience with volunteering traces back to her high school years, and has evolved into a valuable component of her current job.

“Realizing that people need your time and seeing that you’re committed to their cause makes [volunteering] all the better,” Rice said.

Locals, city councilors speak about importance of acceptance RALLY, FROM PAGE 1 number of people who would not fit into the Great Hall on the second f loor of the Massachusetts State House.

“Our endgame is to get as many people on board as possible, to get the speaker on board and to get the governor on board to pass this bill,” Rivera said.

Franklin Peralta, a campaign organizer of English for New Bostonians, an organization that works to ensure adult immigrants in Massachusetts have an opportunity to learn English, served as the leader of the rally.

“We have to give a voice to everybody so that when they feel threatened by the immigration officials or by the police officers … they know they are protected in the state of Massachusetts,” Peralta said to the crowd.

Between speakers, Peralta led the crowd in a series of chants, such as “No hate! No fear! Immigrants are welcome here!” and “Sí se puede!”

Claudia Kreiman, a rabbi at Temple

Beth Zion in Brookline, shared her experience of becoming an American citizen alongside 300 fellow immigrants at Faneuil Hall last year.

“We waved our American flags and felt grateful to have found a safe and secure home in the United States,” Kreiman said. “However … my immigration process and path to citizenship was relatively easy and straightforward, and so I feel particularly responsible to help other immigrants who often experience much more significant challenges.”

Nadeem Mazen, the first MuslimAmerican city councilor in Cambridge, addressed the discrepancy between the political ideology of Massachusetts residents and the policies the state legislature has enacted.

“We are in a state that is heavily, heavily blue,” Mazen said. “The State House has not yet heard that message and the Safe Communities Act is not expected to be a sure thing.”

Mazen urged the state legislature to pass the Safe Communities Act because of its

popularity among Massachusetts residents.

“Elected officials must accept that this is something that would be a no-brainer if our elected representatives represented our electorate,” Mazen said.

Jan Devereux, a Cambridge city councilor, said after the rally that she has seen firsthand how protecting immigrants can improve communities as a whole.

“Cambridge has been a sanctuary [city] since the early ‘80s, so we know its value,” Devereux said. “We know that it actually increases public safety [and] increases trust in our communities, and we want everyone else to follow those principles, too.”

Several Massachusetts residents said they attended the rally to show their support for immigrants’ rights.

Phaedra Mangan, 28, of Waltham, said she does not agree with the policies enacted by the current presidential administration.

“Immigrants have made all the difference in the United States,” Mangan said.

“My husband is an immigrant, and I know

that he has contributed a lot to this economy. It’s ridiculous that there’s still this hateful rhetoric that we see in the news every day.”

Ian Trefethen, 35, of Jamaica Plain, said every citizen deserves to feel safe and protected.

“In order to have safe communities, we need to protect everyone in the community and that includes folks who are documented and undocumented,” Trefethen said.

Barbara McCauley, 69, of Arlington, said she gained exposure to immigrants’ struggles by listening to their stories while volunteering at free medical clinics in Framingham and Sudbury.

“I had contact with a lot of immigrants who were terrified and I also heard a lot of trauma stories about experiences they had trying to cross the border into Texas,” McCauley said. “I also heard some stories from people who have been pulled by [Immigration and Customs Enforcement].

They were horrifying, particularly women with newborn babies and that kind of thing.”

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BPD, city extend cadet training program to create talent pipeline

BY TILL KAESLIN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh and Boston Police Commissioner William Evans announced the addition of a new class of 20 cadets to the Boston Police Cadet Program as part of the Fiscal Year 2018 budget proposal, according to a press release from Walsh’s office.

The cadet program, reinstated last year, is a paid, full-time, two-year apprenticeship that helps recruit and train new generations of police officers, said Boston Police Department Lt. Detective Mike McCarthy.

Last year, at the time of the program’s reinstatement, 42 citizens were chosen for the cadet program, according to the release.

With around half of these cadets expected to matriculate into the police force, McCarthy said this next round of cadets is expected to fill any leftover positions.

“It’s a way for us to keep a pool of candidates ready to go,” McCarthy said. “As each group matures, they’ll matriculate at that two-year mark.”

Beginning in the fall, McCarthy said the BPD will begin processing applications for this new class, at which point 20 eligible applicants that pass the standard entrance exam and background check will begin their term as cadets.

McCarthy said the program lets the BPD assess candidates while simultaneously allowing candidates get a feel for police work. “[The program] allows for city residents to come in and see if a career in law enforcement is for them,” McCarthy said. “It’s also an opportunity for us to evaluate the candidates over those two years as to whether or not we think they’re going to be a qualified police officer.”

Due to the requirement of a 5-year residency in Boston, McCarthy said he believes the program will act as

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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announces to expand the Boston Police Cadet Program on Friday.

a “talent pipeline” of future officers that could improve diversity in the lower ranks of the police force.

“It’s a way for us to recruit and hire kids from the neighborhood who represent the diversity of the city,” McCarthy said. “At the completion of their two years of service, they get a hiring preference through civil service, similar to that of a veterans’ preference, so that we can move to put them on the police department in a permanent capacity.”

McCarthy also said he believes there is a correlation between the instatement of the cadet program and the recent citywide decrease in violent crime, which has been down by 6 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to the release. “[Through the program] we really get people who are committed and have had a chance to really evaluate whether or not they want

to go,” McCarthy said. “That translates into a better police officer, which in the end can contribute to decreasing crime.”

One of the crimes mentioned in the release is rape and attempted rape, which has decreased by 19 percent over the last year in Boston, according to the release.

Contrary to the trend reported in the release, Katia SantiagoTaylor, a manager of system advocacy at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, said BARCC has recorded a recent increase in sexual assault survivors accessing their services in the Greater Boston area.

Santiago-Taylor said she believes the discrepancies between these findings could be attributed to the fact that not all rape victims report their assaults.

“I think the data is interesting,” Santiago-Taylor said. “I don’t necessarily think that the crime itself

[rape and attempted rape] might be down, it’s just the reporting might be down.”

Santiago-Taylor said BARCC has had good experiences with the BPD, with officers actively involved in helping them support survivors of sexual assault.

“It’s a very positive relationship,” Santiago-Taylor said.

“They bring survivors to us when survivors are seeking our services, and if a survivor that we’re working with would like to report a sexual assault, we can collaborate with the BPD to provide accompaniments.”

However, Santiago-Taylor said there is still work to be done to improve collaboration between BARCC and the BPD. “Like every system there’s always room for growth,” SantiagoTaylor said, “We’re definitely collaborating with them to create

greater materials for police officers [to deal with sexual assault].”

Several Boston residents shared their support for the BPD’s efforts to more accurately reflect the voices of the community through the cadet program.

Linda Thiem, 29, of Dorchester, said the BPD’s presence in her neighborhood makes her feel safe.

“I see them at the train stations, and when I’m walking home late at night I see them driving around,” Thiem said. “I think it’s to give this idea that we’re safe … to create this sense of security.”

Nevon Porter, 19, of Dorchester, said diversifying the BPD would improve their interactions with residents and vice versa.

“If you have different police from different backgrounds, with citizens from different backgrounds, they’ll connect more with each other,” Porter said.

BU Arts Initiative collaborates with SARP, promotes awareness SARP, FROM PAGE 1 emotions regarding sexual and domestic violence by decorating a T-shirt and hanging it on a clothesline. This is the first year the project has been integrated into the gallery, Voorhees wrote.

Voorhees wrote that the week is important because it draws attention to the issue of sexual assault and how to prevent it.

“It’s important that our community set aside time to recognize the prevalence of sexual violence and how each of us can, and must

be, a part of prevention,” she added.

Several BU students said they support the initiative to raise awareness for sexual assault.

Samantha Faden, a sophomore in the College of General Studies, said she believes art galleries are important outlets for topics that may be difficult to talk about.

“I think an art gallery is very useful for these kinds of topics,” Faden said. “I went to the [FirstYear Student Outreach Project] gallery where they did a bunch of things, including a gallery for sexual assault and awareness, so I

think it’s really important because it opens people’s eyes who are not aware of these issues.”

Inna Mankev ych, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she has personally engaged in artistic outlets to express her feelings.

“I think sometimes art is the easiest way to process emotions, just because emotions aren’t a tangible thing and art is the closest thing we have,” Mankevych said.

“Sometimes I paint my emotions just because it’s so much easier than putting it into words. I feel

like artistic expression can put into words what words can’t.”

Mankev ych also said she thinks it’s important that BU addresses the issues of sexual assault on college campuses.

“I think it’s important that BU hosts a sexual assault awareness week because a lot of people are aware it’s just not something they think about consciously in their minds, so I think it’s important to discuss it and support people who have dealt with sexual assault and be a part of the conversation,” Mankevych said.

Andrew Gildenberg, a senior in the College of Engineering, said while he is supportive of raising awareness for sexual assault, he did not know about the gallery exhibition and encouraged BU to do more to inform students about these events.

“I think it’s important because it’s something we should raise awareness about and try to prevent as much as possible on campus,” Gildenberg said. “I didn’t know about the exhibit so maybe BU could email a f lyer out to all the students to raise awareness.”

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THURSDAY, APRIL 6

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

SUNDAY, APRIL 9

MONDAY, APRIL 10

Legally Blonde

Take Back the Night

Unity Awards

Israel Fest

Education Panel

Tsai Performance Center

BU Beach

Photonics Colloquium

BU Beach

CAS Room 323B

8 p.m.

5 - 6 p.m.

6:30 - 9 p.m.

2 - 5 p.m.

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Hosted by BU on Broadway

Hosted by FemCo

Hosted by Umoja BU

Hosted by BU Students for Israel

Hosted by BUIAA

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IMPACT THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2017

Experts address social problems through psychoanalytic lens

BY KATIE CAMERO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Since the late 19th century, psychoanalysis has been a tool that leads victims of trauma to a refreshed state of self-discovery, and now psychoanalysts are focusing on societal factors that oppose the development needed to find effective solutions to social problems.

Nowadays, it can be easier to seek simple solutions to complex problems. However, a psychoanalytic lens allows society to view social justice problems, such as oppression, marginalization and misuse of power, for what they are, instead of as individual issues.

Marilyn Charles, co-chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society and a psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, lectured on trauma, identity and social justice on Saturday at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis in Brookline.

“In this age of diagnostic criteria that leads to specific treatment, it is easy to think in terms of discrete problems rather than human dilemmas,” Charles said. “I think we’re all trying to find ways to believe that we can be relevant and instrumental in instituting change, and trying to find ways to join together to do that.”

Prejudice, intolerance and stigma are often hidden beneath society’s everyday consciousness, preventing others from understanding the context of struggling individuals’ problems, she said.

Projected identification is when the good or bad is located only in the other, and cannot be recognized by oneself, Charles said.

At the group level, these false projections

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Marilyn Charles, co-chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, speaks about trauma, identity and social justice on Saturday at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.

create social structures that are unstable and oppressive for both sides.

“The price of marginalization is high for both the group and the individual,” Charles said. “This abduction of shame not only undermines development, but also makes it hard to seek relief.”

Jane Snyder, president of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, explained

how society is still subgrouped because there is no encouragement to come together.

“We’re coalescing with people who are like-minded, which is good, but it’s not bridging the divide yet,” Snyder said. “It’s going to have to build over time.”

Misreading emotionality is another problem Charles mentioned, saying it “amplifies distress” and “confuses the effects of margin-

alization with mental illness.”

Charles worked with a young woman, Virginia, whose identity development was hindered by her parents’ inability to recognize the source of her distress.

“Virginia’s madness was a tragic presumption,” Charles said, calling Virginia’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

CATALYST THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2017

2017 Food Tank Summit addresses nutrition-related concerns

BY GURSIMAR SAWHNEY DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

One in 10 people in Eastern Massachusetts are estimated to be food insecure, according to The Greater Boston Food Bank website.

This weekend, Food Tank, a nonprofit organization that works to alleviate hunger, obesity and poverty in environmentally friendly ways, hosted a summit in hopes of inspiring change in local communities. Food Tank intended to open the public’s eyes to the imbalances in the current food system — while some people eat too much, others are not getting enough.

The summit was a two-day event. The first day consisted of panels and discussions amongst a variety of food industries, and the second consisted of a tour of Food + Future, a company whose mission is to educate and make nutritional foods easily accessible to as many people as possible.

Danielle Nierenberg, co-founder and president of Food Tank, decided to host one of four summits in Boston because she said she believes students and professors can inspire change in their institutions.

“Boston is really at the epicenter of science, innovation, education and entrepreneurship in many different ways,” she said in her opening

remarks. “Science is being attacked on a lot of different levels right now and academics are on the front line of that battle. And for millions of farmers and eaters around the globe, climate change is not a myth or an alternative fact, it is a reality they face everyday. We need to invest more in professors, teachers and students so that they can make those discoveries.”

The panel, held at Tufts University, showcased industry leaders across a variety of disciplines, including nonprofit workers, entrepreneurs, supermarket chain executives, senators, college professors, restaurateur owners and people who have struggled with food security in their own lives.

Nierenberg said she wanted to ensure that people who have actually lived without access to nutritional foods are also able to share their experiences.

The topics ranged from food access and affordability, agriculture innovations, misinformation about food, and industry actions.

“An important issue we wanted to address is that we are becoming more dense about nutrition because we’re overloaded with information about different foods and food sources,” Nierenberg said. “So we brought in experts in the field, dieticians and nutritionists to really hammer out what the best choices are for consumers.”

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Food Tank hosts a summit Saturday and Sunday at Tufts University to discuss sustainable ways of solving world hunger, obesity and other food-related issues.

Another discussion brought together farmers and business leaders on the idea of farming in a more sustainable manner and understanding that past practices have focused on quantity of food and calories over quality of food and nutrient density.

Alexis Siriani, 43, of Philadelphia, said she

appreciated the collaborative efforts of otherwise disparate industries.

“It was great to conspire with other people from different disciplines,” Siriani said.

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FreeP vs. Food: Boba

BY CANDICE LIM, ELISE TAKAHAMA, KALINA NEWMAN AND WEIHUA LI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

This week, FreeP vs. Food tackled the boba industry. Here’s our guide to four popular boba spots in Brookline, Allston and along Commonwealth Avenue, rating each place based on tea flavor, boba texture and the store’s ambiance. These are our opinions, but we hope you try each on your own, either with a significant other, roommates or your seven closest codependent friends (like we did).

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TBaar: Date Spot

Lollicup: After School Hangout

Kung Fu Tea: Weekend Venture

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Basho Express is easily the most convenient boba spot for Boston University students, as it’s located at the base of Warren Towers, but convenience is one of its only positive qualities.

We ordered a black milk tea and a green milk tea, the first with jelly and the second with boba. From past boba experiences, we’ve come to know and love black milk tea as a drink with a strong, slightly acidic f lavor. Basho’s black milk tea was almost the complete opposite: sweet, sugary and artificial. It was like we were drinking a dessert, not tea.

The green milk tea, on the other hand, is generally a lighter f lavor at most tea shops. But Basho instead served something stronger and much more bitter than it should have.

The boba itself was a saving grace. They tasted fresh, and had just the right amount of give to add the familiar chewy texture to a boba drink. But it wasn’t enough to redeem the entire thing.

So, if you’re looking for a drink to grab between classes when the Starbucks line is too long, give it a try. But if that’s not the case, we suggest you only rely on Basho for its specialty: sushi.

TBaar is a small tea shop in Brookline located across from the St. Mary’s T stop, filled with succulents, board games and Polaroid photos. But aside from the cozy ambiance, we still weren’t quite satisfied with this boba experience.

Between the black milk tea and the green milk tea, we enjoyed the former the best. The black milk tea blended its milk and flavor well, creating a subtle yet authentic taste. The green milk tea, however, came across quite differently — fragrant, slightly artificial and heavily jasmine-flavored. The boba had a fairly satisfying texture, though perhaps too soft and sticky for some.

One appeal of TBaar is the extensive drink menu, which offered a huge assortment of flavors including matcha, taro, coffee, coconut and more. In addition to boba toppings, they also give you the option to add pudding, aloe, red bean or jelly, which may all sound strange, but it’s yours if you want it.

All in all, the natural lighting and bright walls tied the whole shop together in an appealing way, and even if the sweetness in the drinks wasn’t always consistent, TBaar is a comfortable place to relax, do homework or play Jenga. But be aware that the quality of each order may differ.

If you’re craving both boba and a meal, Lollicup is the best option. The store is part of Super 88, a larger grocery store located right off of campus in Allston. This food court setup is inviting to big groups that don’t want to be rushed, with the plus of getting to choose from Asian cuisine options, including pho, ramen and bibimbap.

The boba drinks, however, were pretty standard.

We ordered a Thai iced tea and a black milk tea, one with boba and the other with mini boba (a special feature at Lollicup).

Both drinks were completely satisfactory — not too bitter, not too sweet. There weren’t any automatic red flags, but there also wasn’t anything extraordinary. It was exactly what you’d expect from milk tea, though some complained that there wasn’t any hint of tea.

So here’s where you can decide for yourself — if you prefer milk tea that tastes more milky, Lollicup is a solid, safe choice.

But if you prefer milk tea that has distinctive notes of tea, TBaar might be better the better option.

The number one appeal of Lollicup is that it will always taste the same, no matter how many times you order it. This is a drink that is classic, straightforward and consistent.

Kung Fu Tea’s closest location to BU’s campus is on Harvard Avenue in Allston.

It’s a bit of a trek from East Campus, but here’s why it was worth it.

Kung Fu Tea offers a range of traditional tea options, such as classic milk, green and taro teas. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can also order specialty drinks, including grapefruit green tea or Oreo milk tea. We went with the classics — jasmine green milk tea and a standard black milk tea — and were impressed. These drinks maintained a strong balance between tea and milk, offering both f lavors but not going too overboard on either. The boba itself tasted sweeter compared to the other spots we tried — the tapioca seemed to be infused with a rich honey f lavor. Kung Fu Tea cooked it perfectly and provided the texture we had been looking for: chewy but firm.

Some things to keep in mind for Kung Fu Tea: it gets crowded at night, especially weekend nights, and while the café is spacious when empty, it could easily feel claustrophobic during peak hours. So we suggest finding a day when you’re willing to go for a bit of a walk, visit mid-day and take a sip of sweet, chewy goodness.

Marilyn Charles discusses importance of learning processes PSYCHOANALYTIC, FROM PAGE 5 engagements with her parents a “painful confrontation” between two stories at odds with one another.

It was difficult for her parents to realize that Virginia might have been injured under their care, but with the help of a therapist, Virginia was able to resist the diagnosis of schizophrenia, make sense of her symptoms and “oppose the medicalized truth with the truth of her experience,” Charles said.

Studies prove that there is a link between identity development and parent-child relationships, Charles said. Early interactions with caregivers help children make sense of

self and experience, and disruptions to this development can become traumatic.

The process of learning is more important than the actual content, so “we must accept the child’s language and limits without forcing meaning into words beyond the child’s capacity,” Charles said.

“Instead of ignoring or moving on from a problem, parents must come to terms with difficult experiences so that they can be a resource for children during their crucial identity development,” Charles said.

Aboriginal cultures are also at risk in a world where complicated histories of oppression have disrupted the passing along of cultural traditions, Charles said.

Charles worked as a consultant to educators in New South Wales, Australia, working with aboriginal preschool children who were sent to residential schools, cut off from family, language and culture. These children were often victims of trauma, chaos and neglect.

“For people with roots in more than one culture, it is crucial to integrate disparate aspects of identity because traditions help people see themselves in a larger cultural narrative,” Charles said.

There is also a problem with the individuals who hold power and stand in the place of people’s own moral authority, Charles said. She noted that after President Donald Trump’s election, she saw groups of people

unite and support one another because they felt marginalized.

However, Julina Rundberg, 32, of Beacon Hill, said there is a generational disconnect which makes communication and the ability to find solutions to social problems difficult.

Rundberg, a psychodynamic clinician and principal of Back Bay Analytic Group, LLC, said bilingualism is essential to speaking one’s own language and someone else’s as well, and that is erased in today’s models of education.

“We’ve gone back to having this ancient guy running the show,” Rundberg said. “It’s like the baby boomers won’t get up and get out of the way and let the younger generations grow.”

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Controversial ad placements bring politics into digital age

BY GAELEN MORSE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The digital age has created an environment that connects customers to products with incredible ease, but with it can come the complications of an automated advertising world. Recently, for businesses with diverse consumer bases, issues with controversial online ad placement have become all too common.

Earlier this year, hundreds of companies including Nordstrom, Uber and BMW have publicly pulled ads from the controversial alt-right site Breitbart News, but the effort to pull back ads aren’t always successful. Because companies are constantly under the microscope of a watchful and often unforgiving public eye, a number of Boston University professors recently expressed that in the digital world of advertising, simple right and wrong decisions aren’t always so simple.

SumOf Us is one of several organizations that are urging people to put pressure on companies to remove their advertising from sites such as Breitbart News. Citing zero tolerance policies regarding discrimination, SumOfUs draws connections to the rhetoric used on Breitbart News in order to encourage corporations such as Amazon to change their position on the matter.

But even if organizations and the

public are able to pursue corporations to terminate advertisements on particular sites, it isn’t always easy or successful to accomplish.

According to John Verret, CEO of Verret and Associates and a former professor of advertising at BU’s College of Communication, all arrows point to technology and the complexity of a profit-fueled market.

“It’s called programmatic buying,” he said. “It’s just entering into a bidding war online … these programs are pretty automatic.”

Alongside tracking customer’s habits through computer IP addresses via cookies, programmatic buying is a system of logarithms designed to sell large quantities of ads to hundreds or even thousands of websites, he said. Ad agencies use these approaches in tandem to connect advertisers to customers.

Susan Fournier, the senior associate dean for faculty and marketing professor in BU’s Questrom School of Business, explained that blacklists aren’t necessarily a great idea for companies with diverse consumers.

“What’s the ramification of even making that list, and then trying act on it and make very it public?” she said. “Any time you’re going to do that you are going to polarize people. And people are gonna be in and people are gonna be out.”

Most companies have made an effort to publicize their immediate actions to stop running ads on sites

that their employee and customer base finds offensive. Companies such as Johnson and Johnson and AT&T pulled their advertising from YouTube properties, concerned their ads would run beside offensive content, according to a New York Times article.

Regardless of the amount of customers that agree with decisions such as the one made by Nordstrom, or the concern with questionable content on certain sites, not everyone might be troubled by the ad placement.

“You’ve just turned your businesses into a political environment,” Fournier said.

As shown by recent news, many companies have gone out of their way to take political stances. Starbucks, for instance, has been a proponent of making political statements that align with its company’s values.

However, for companies entering the political realm by blacklisting partisan-oriented sites, they may be opening themselves up to even more backlash, Verret said.

“It’s a big public relations problem for them,” Verret said. “The problem with it is, if they go out and draw more attention to what is happening, it exposes what is happening to a much bigger [customer] base.”

Some companies, such as JPMorgan Chase have turned back the clock on advertising. Creating a pre-approved list of sites to advertise on, instead of relying on program-

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Susan Fournier, a marketing professor in the Questrom School of Business, discusses the recent issue of controversial advertisement placement.

ming, in order to avoid being placed on controversial sites and those who disseminate unverified news.

But many companies do not have the financial ability that JPMorgan does to play with their own advertising fate. Stopping the use of logarithm-based advertising isn’t always a viable option.

“They can get those ad placements at a much lower costs [using programmatic buying] than if they went directly to these major media platforms,” said Michelle Amazeen, a professor in BU’s department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations.

But removing the subjective human element in advertising means mistakes are going to be

hard to avoid. Programs use data and data can’t always get it right, she explained.

“There’s only so much that computers can do,” Amazeen said.

With the problem rooted in technology and advertising budgets, and with no quick fix in existence, it is likely that these issues are going to plague online advertising for some time.

The problem may be complicated but the baseline objective seems much more simple — advertise wisely.

“It’s not only reaching the right people, at the right place at the right time,” Amazeen said, “but it’s also that you’re reaching them in the right environment.”

Food + Future on health FOOD, FROM PAGE 5 and just have very discipline-specific mentalities and by collaborating with multiple disciplines, ideas germinated and spread at a faster rate than bureaucracy or politics could ever hope for.”

The conference attracted attendees of all ages and backgrounds who were interested in learning about spreading access of nutritional foods in a sustainable manner. As the matter of fact, many shared Siriani’s motivation for attending.

“Aside from professional development, I like to learn as much as I can about what it is I’m choosing to spend my money on for my well-being as well as for my family’s well-being,” Siriani said. “And it is important that people are healthy and able to be active members of society instead of worrying about their illnesses.”

Food + Future also has an education startup, Poly, which strives to spark conversations in public schools across the United States about the future of agriculture and sustainability. One of their most interesting startup projects is called “Illuminate.”

This is a venture attempting to demystify food by enabling consumers to fingerprint individual food products.

Hilary Cunningham, the design research lead for Food + Future, explained the complex processes that allow this technology to decode

food products for consumers.

“It combines three technologies: spectroscopy, analytical chemistry and deep machine learning to build a data set that helps us understand the true chemical makeup of our food, map that to a device that a consumer can use to scan that food, and then tell them if they’re getting what they paid for,” Cunningham said.

Food + Future will continue to expand its innovative projects grounded by a mission that resonates with that of Food Tank’s, Cunningham said.

“We didn’t start this project thinking we had the answers,” Cunningham said. “We realized there were a lot of different players working in different areas and silos and our hypothesis is if we can bring all these people together, we can tackle the big picture issues that we can’t tackle alone such as food security, and not just accessing food, but accessing food that enables you to thrive.”

Siriani shared her optimism for the future.

“Often, when I’m working by myself, I feel isolated and encounter roadblocks that makes change seem three generations away,” Siriani said. “But when I see what other people have started, and what we can accomplish as a unit, I realize that, oh my gosh, there is a hope and change is possible.”

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The Daily Free Press endorses Your BU for SG E-Board Two slates, Your BU and B-trU, entered the playing field to lead Boston University’s Student Government for the upcoming 2017-18 school year. Both slates promote the concepts of transparency and inclusivity within Student Government, while prioritizing the goal to have more students become involved with the process of making changes on campus.

As similar as some of these platforms may seem on the surface, there is a distinct and decision-making difference between these two slates — experience.

Your BU has a combined eight years of experience, according to their slate members during the debate on Tuesday night.

They understand the failures and successes of Student Government down to every rule, which makes them the more qualified slate.

We trust Your BU, with their in-depth knowledge of administration proceedings on the university as well as the city level, to form a SG Executive Board that carries out the promises they made during the campaign.

While members of Your BU are informed on the current legislation and actions within SG, they have also done the research on how to carry out their goals.

Your BU has taken their campaign to the next level by already reaching out to student organizations, BU administrators and councilors at City Hall to create a bridge between our university and the city. While what a slate does during the campaign does not necessarily ref lect on their effectiveness once in office, the steps Your BU has

taken are impressive. It shows that they’re passionate and dedicated to seeing their policies to completion.

While Your BU is informed, knows their exact goals and how or if they could reach them, their entire campaign seemed well-rehearsed. Their personalities, frankly, have at times come off as distant, which prompts the question of whether they will be able to inspire SG and the remainder of the student body as leaders of SG should. However, there’s nothing wrong with being prepared and staying to the script. The entire slate is nevertheless eloquent, clear and knowledgeable of what they want. We appreciate the time they’ve spent brainstorming, researching and rehearsing carefully crafted talking points. And in the end, a decision should not be made solely on whether the slate is capable of inspiring the student body. Your BU, with more knowledge and experience, is more skilled and prepared, and we believe they will be more likely to create change on behalf of the student body.

One hesitation of endorsing this slate is that members of Your BU are perhaps too involved with the current SG E-Board.

Your BU’s Presidential candidate SaraAnn Kurkul currently serves as the executive vice president, while two other members currently serve in the cabinet: Eva Jungreis as the director of communications and Bernie Lai as the director of finance, and Piergiacomo Cacciamani who currently serves as a senator for the College of Engineering. When endorsing a slate with

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able to make unanimous decisions should they be elected? Their current situation wouldn’t prompt the answer “yes.” B-trU seems confused about BU’s policies and the capacities of SG in general. Their policy suggestions are enthusiastic, but some are not viable for the one-year term that each SG E-Board holds. While Wi-Fi and additional buses are important to BU students, B-trU has no clear plans or steps to achieve these goals. The slate promises to appeal to the administration, to lobby for our needs as students, but lacks the research and resources expected from those running for the SG election.

In the areas where B-trU fails to assure us of their capabilities, Your BU excels.

They have articulated their policies and strategies clearly. Their SG pasts prove to be invaluable resources — these slate members know what works and what doesn’t.

They will not have to spend time conquering the learning curve but rather can jump into becoming the bridge between the student body and the university administration, or so we hope.

While we wouldn’t argue that either slate is the ideal, perfect combination of people to lead Student Government, Your BU is superior in experience and preparation. We at The Daily Free Press firmly believe Student Government is an institution that can bring students together to create changes that benefits communities in the university, and we wish Your BU will fulfill their promises once elected: bringing transparency and inclusivity to SG.

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While this inquiry won’t be answered unless Your BU is elected, when we asked Your BU these questions, their answer is that everything has a learning curve, including how to run Student Government.

Your BU said their members and advisors have looked through the records of past SG E-Boards, so they know what the limitations and redundancies of SG are. Their experiences within the current administration, which they characterized as effective in the most part, have become their key strength, especially with SG’s recent success at the TEDxBU Conference.

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Specter of weed monopoly On Trump’s ties with Russia

BY ANNA STROINSKI COLUMNIST

Last Sunday, funnyman John Oliver spoke, in great detail, about the gray area of marijuana legality in the United States.

It was a fantastic bit and I urge you to check it out.

Like Mr. Oliver, I too want to talk to you about marijuana. I, however, want to focus on an entirely different facet of this incredibly complex and controversial issue — the class and race aspect of growing, distributing and consuming marijuana.

In any popular industry, the specter of “monopoly” looms large, and the weed industry is, by no means, immune to such monopoly. So when we talk about legalizing and regulating marijuana, we really have to talk about bureaucracy and business at the very same time. Andwe need to talk about potential trusts and industry conglomerates.

We must commit, always, to protecting consumers and small businesses from horizontal integration, labor maltreatment and malignant entrepreneurship.

In 2016, Ohio had the pot conversation, but strategically steamrolled over the business part of the issue. The state of Ohio wrote the question, known as Issue 3, so that wealthy investors, and only wealthy investors, could pocket the cash made from the marijuana industry.

Essentially, the referendum called for a cannabis monopoly and handed over the rights to weed cultivation and distribution in Ohio to top percenters, effectively freezing out small businesses and individual pot growers.

Luckily for us, the referendum failed.

But the question still looms large: how do we implement marijuana legalization and how do we make sure that revenue doesn’t accumulate at the top?

Here’s why answering this question, and answering it comprehensively and carefully, is important. There were approximately 210,000 people arrested for marijuana possession in Colorado between 1986 and 2010. Yes, many of them were arrested after medical marijuana was made legal in the state in 2000.

Additionally, black men and women are four times more likely to be arrested because the war on drugs, which, beginning with Richard Nixon in the 1970s and intensifying under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, disproportionately targeted these communities. And here’s a crazy statistic for you: as of 2011, there were more black men behind bars today than there were enslaved during the height of the Civil War. Most of these men are in jail for minor drug possession and distribution charges.

On the other end of the spectrum, rich white dudes get off pretty easily on drug charges. First and foremost, they don’t get arrested for it, and here are some stats: way more white men aged 18-25 have used marijuana than black dudes.

Arrest rates, though, do not ref lect these statistics. You know what else is pretty messed up? White arrests have stayed about the same since 2001 while black arrests have increased exponentially from 2001 to 2010. Second, even if white Americans are arrested, they have an easier time posting bail and getting off without jail time. It’s black Americans who serve the long and harsh sentences.

So, yeah, there is something incredibly messed up about handing this thing to rich, white males. It’s definitely not fair, and it destroys business opportunities for regularly disenfranchised groups. It might be hard, according to Oliver, to manage a successful marijuana business once you’re up and running. But getting in the game is much harder. The face of recreational weed is almost always a young, white and relatively well-off man.

Marginalized communities, the ones most affected by the war on drugs, ought to reap the benefit of marijuana legalization.

We ought to make it easier for recently released inmates to engage in a business they have already been involved in, and we ought to safeguard against handing the blossoming marijuana industry off to a few people at the tippy-top of the class pyramid. Saying this is great but doing it is another story.

Luckily, there are real, grassroot initiatives to level the playing field. There’s the Minority Cannabis Business Association, a fantastic organization that lobbies state houses for better and more inclusive legislation on marijuana.

Moreover, a number of progressive politicians within state governments across the country are promising to make marijuana and all of its facets entirely intersectional and even legal. In the United States, there’s always a way to do right by people, and together, we can make it right if we try hard enough.

BY MAX BERMAN COLUMNIST

Did Russia affect our election? Did the Trump campaign or Donald Trump himself collude with Russia? Did that golden shower thing really happen? The answers are, in order: it’s complicated, it’s complicated and it’s very doubtful. Probably. But I’ll simplify these questions while comprehensively explaining the Trump-Russia connection by answering the first two questions.

Did Russia affect the 2016 U.S. presidential election? Yes, but no, but maybe. I know — simple. Let’s go back to the glory days of the Democratic National Committee last year. WikiLeaks leaked confidential emails among several key members of the DNC. These emails included secret DNC media communication, DNC members harshly trashing Bernie Sanders and less scandalous material. WikiLeaks also released emails from Clinton’s best bud, John Podesta. DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign for seemingly helping the Democrat in the Democratic Primary. Shocking, right?

So how is Russia involved? Well, after the leaks, the DNC hired a security firm, Crowdstrike, that revealed that two attacks originated from hackers codenamed Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear. According to Crowdstrike, Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear are responsible for similar attacks orchestrated

by Russian military intelligence. WikiLeaks is also believed to have a connection with Russia. A Vox article titled “The WikiLeaksRussia connection started way before the 2016 election” explains this well.

During that chaos, according to intelligence officials, Russia used “trolls” and “bots” to influence American voters on the internet.

Russia also used propaganda news networks to shape the news cycle and the minds of people against those fact-checking, educated and principled mainstream media journalists. Don’t believe me? I literally Googled “WikiLeaks John Podesta” and RT came up as the eighth source.

So why is the answer so complicated as to whether the election was changed? Because measuring if people’s minds were changed by Russian propaganda is impossible. There are

so many factors: Clinton’s terrible political persona, Trump’s anti-trade message, Scott Baio’s ringing endorsement, James Comey’s letter and my personal favorite underdog — the media’s obsession with Clinton’s honesty poll numbers.

Did the Trump campaign or Trump himself collude with Russia? We don’t know, but the FBI and the Senate Intelligence Committee are investigating it. To repeat a cliché I’ve heard a billion times in the past month, there’s a ton of smoke but no fire. If you want to learn every detail about every connection, read the following Washington Post article titled “Here’s what we know so far about Team Trump’s ties to Russian interests.” If you don’t, let me explain.

There have been many on Trump’s team (let’s call them Trumpsters) who have met and/or talked with Russian officials. There are some Trumpsters who have business and/or political ties to Russia. Trump has ties to Russia.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose meeting with the Russian ambassador, which he did twice, after claiming in his confirmation hearing that he had no meetings with Russians in his capacity as a surrogate. Jared Kushner met with the Russian ambassador and a Russian banker without informing the press beforehand. Moreover, according to the Washington Post, the United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting between Blackwater founder Erik Prince (who is the brother to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos) and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin in January to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and Donald Trump, according to American, European and Arab officials.

Now about Trump’s Russian ties. First of all, Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million. He paid $40 million for the house a few years prior to the sale. To expand his real estate developments over the years, Donald Trump, his company and partners repeatedly turned to wealthy Russians and oligarchs from former Soviet republics — several allegedly connected to organized crime, according to a USA TODAY review of court cases, government and legal documents and an interview with a former federal prosecutor.”

I really have no idea whether all this scandalous material leads somewhere. But I know the leaks are for the good of the country. I know the reporting will try to discover the truth. And I have faith in the FBI and the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is time to trust our institutions, it is time to stand up for democracy and it is time to figure out if our president likes to get urinated on.

Interrobang The Boston Globe just released a list of the 50 weirdest items riders have left in a Uber. Some highlights include lobsters and sweet potato care packages.

We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what would BU people leave behind in a Uber?

COM: Lens cap

President Brown: His mustache

ENG: Nintendo DS

BU Dining: Seasoning

Senior: Diploma

BU Hillel: Matzah

BU Athletics: Football team

FreeP: Bathroom key

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20 Questions with softball power hitter Gabi Martinez

BY GREG LEVINSKY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As the Boston University softball team hopes to take advantage of decent weather this weekend, senior catcher/outfielder Gabi Martinez is tied for the team lead in RBI with 17 and is second on the Terriers (8-20, 0-3 Patriot League) in both batting average and home runs.

The Weston, Florida native took the time to answer some questions for The Daily Free Press’ 20 Question series.

You’re listed on the roster as a catcher but have been playing in the outfield as well, how have you adjusted?

I firmly stand by the philosophy that you need to step up and contribute to the team in any way, shape or form.

It’s definitely hard because I love catching and catching is my passion, but at the same time, I’m going to do what I need to do. The outfield is great. Jilee and Emma have been really accommodating, they’re very vocal and they help me and that’s kind of humbling. I feel myself, as a senior, I am a voice and a leader but in

the outfield I’m like, “Oh wait, I don’t really know what I’m doing,” so I rely more on them and their leadership and it’s kind of nice to find a balance between that.

Coach said you have not practiced on your field since the fall.

How much tougher does that make game preparation?

We have the great chance at working at the [Track and Tennis Center], which is our indoor facility, which is really good for offense. It’s hard to replicate the same hops defensively from that sort of surface to being outside so we’ve kind of struggled in that aspect. It’s not ideal, but it’s not something we’re not used to.

Going into college, what softball skill do you feel was most ready for this level?

I would say my catching and my defensive ability.

What aspect of your game have you improved on the most over your career?

My approaches to my at-bats mentally have changed so much from freshman year to now and I think in turn that has helped my offense a lot.

You’ve won the Patriot League title twice in your career, how do you use that to teach your younger teammates?

You always want to play with that goal in mind, to make it to the conference [championship] and to be on TV. That’s all exciting, but it’s more that we have a standard for ourselves. We know we can compete in the Patriot League, and we have the ability and freshmen just need to get on board with that. We have a goal in mind, and we want to take them there with us.

bit in high school. Coaches wanted to recruit me to play basketball and stuff like that because I was somewhat athletic, but I definitely specialized in softball. Oh, I also did cheerleading, fun fact. I did it in high school.

Do you have a favorite MLB player or team?

Miami Marlins, I always want them to win. I feel like I have to cheer for the Boston Red Sox because they are just a great team in general. Two of my favorite players are Giancarlo Stanton and Javier Baez.

What is the best road atmosphere that you have played in?

Obviously, the most exciting is when we go to regionals … my freshman year I want to say that was more exciting than this last one. We almost beat [Louisiana State University] and it was my first time in a setting like that. I hit a homerun, that was amazing. That moment is always going to stay in my head.

What sports did you play growing up?

So I was 8 years old when I started to play softball and I began catching when I was nine. I was kind of just put into it. I loved flag football. We were county champs in middle school, it was a lot of fun. I did shot put for a

Who is your closest friend on the softball team?

I’m really close with Makinna Akers, she’s my roommate. I catch her a lot, we are together a lot, we’re in the same college. I work a lot with Alex Heinen, too, and she’s just a joy to be around. She’s a ball of happiness.

When your team goes to Florida or California, how valuable are those trips?

I think it’s great and it’s also humbling because flaws are exploited and you see how your teammates pick you up and respond in different situations.

Who would you say your biggest Patriot League rivalry is against?

Lehigh [University] right now, especially this last weekend that we came off of with them. They’re a really good team and they have a reputation in the Patriot League of always taking it. We have taken it from them and I don’t think that they like that, and we’re coming for them again. We’re definitely going to face them again at some point and we plan on hitting them harder than we did this last time.

What would you say has been the most notable moment of your career?

I want to say it was actually this year when I hit two back-to-back home runs in Florida. My family was there, it was my coach’s birthday, my grandparents’ 50th anniversary, my grandmother’s birthday. It was just a big day.

What is your favorite non-softball thing to do with your teammates?

We play hacky sack before games and I find that very entertaining.

We have a group Snapchat and some of the stuff that’s in there is ridiculously funny. Spikeball is good. We don’t get a chance to do spikeball as much, but when we do, it’s very, very competitive.

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Senior Gabi Martinez is tied for the team lead in RBI and is second in batting average and home runs. Her play will be crucial if the Terriers are to repeat as Patriot League champions.

What’s the toughest class you’ve taken at BU? That’s a tough one. I would say it’s between general chemistry and physics. I want to say general chemistry

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because I was a freshman when I took that class and I had to revamp my entire studying method.

What BU sports teams do you like to keep up with?

I really respect women’s lacrosse.

We work out a lot with them in the weight room and I feel like they have a similar energy like we do. They’re always cheering and loud and energetic, and I respect them a lot.

Track, track’s been doing well, especially the senior class. Toria [Levy], Justin [Flynn], David [Oluwadara] — they’ve all been doing amazing, they’ve all stepped up. They’re the epitome of athleticism, so I really respect them.

Where do you see yourself 10 years down the line?

I am applying to medical school. I’m taking a gap year so during that time, I’ll be applying and I’m looking for jobs that within this next year will help me get clinical experience and promote more learning so that when I do go for a med school interview, or get accepted — knock on wood — hopefully, I will be able to demonstrate to people this is something I’m committed to and I’ve shown that by continuing my education in this field.

Do you have any interest in coaching?

I do! I actually have been considering looking into the teams that I came from. I’ve noticed there’s a shortage of female coaches in younger travel ball teams so I do want to pay it forward and coach and work with little girls to inspire them.

What’s your walk-up song, and why?

My song right now is called “Mayor Que Yo” by Daddy Yankee and Yandel and Wisin. I’m obviously Hispanic, my mother’s Colombian and my father is Panamanian, so I always like to pick a song of Latin origin because I do like it to be known that I am of a different ethnicity.

What’s your favorite meal when you go home?

I love this thing called arroz con coco, its rice and coconut. It’s a Colombian thing and my grandmother makes it for me. It’s absolutely delicious and reminds me of home. It’s like a sweet form of rice, it’s like coconut rice.

If you could live anywhere for the rest of your life, where would it be and why?

This is tough because I really haven’t explored that many places. But, I love being home. I love Miami and I love everything that it embodies.

The weather, the culture, but you know, our trips to San Diego have really opened up my mind to the West Coast. It’s got to be somewhere warm, with beaches and diversity. Boston has been a great pit stop.

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7th Inning Stretch: A glimpse into the mind of Bill James

BY JACOB GURVIS COLUMNIST

In my beloved game of baseball, few individuals have impacted the sport as immensely as writer and statistician Bill James. On Tuesday, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Mr. James. I am still starstruck.

James spoke at the Boston

University Law Auditorium as part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Silas Peirce Lecture series. His lecture, “The Arts and Sciences of Baseball,” centered around his experience in the game and his reflections on a lifetime of research and study.

James touched on many topics, ranging from drunk baseball fans in bars to his intellectual creation, sabermetrics. His lecture offered fascinating insights into the brain of one of sport’s greatest thinkers, and provided numerous valuable lessons for young sports fans, writers and students (such as yours truly).

To me, James’ most compelling message came on the topic of approaching the study of any field.

He argued that regardless of the topic, one should always “start with the question itself, not a position on the issue.” For example, instead

of debating why a particular player should win Most Valuable Player over another, we ought to focus on what “valuable” means in the first place. Pretty meta, if you ask me.

This unique form of thinking and questioning, James believes, helped set him apart in the baseball world.

“I made baseball aware of the things that they did not know,” he said.

Everywhere you look in Major League Baseball today, James’ impacts can be felt. You probably could not find an MLB team in 2017 without an entire department devoted to sabermetrics. James created numerous new statistics that have revolutionized the way teams and scouts analyze talent, both on and off the field. The Boston Red Sox arguably would not have broken the Curse of the Bambino in 2004 without the contributions James

made as a senior advisor of baseball operations. He’s a big deal.

What’s the method to James’ madness? It’s simple: he just really loves the game.

“I’m addicted to baseball,” he said. “When I’m not studying baseball, I’m probably doing something else to do with baseball.”

In crafting sabermetrics, James hoped to “back off from what we know” and “move the discussion forward” in baseball. “I believe there’s value in baseball questions not by looking at the players, but by looking at the facts,” James said.

For a man whose impact on America’s Favorite Pastime cannot be disputed, James displayed a refreshing humility, even self-deprecation, that most prominent figures often lack.

Throughout his lecture, and

his response to audience questions, James appeared friendly, affable and even funny. Before the event began, he greeted guests and thanked them for attending. When one young man asked about the possibility of a metric to evaluate managers, James quipped, “Some managers are really good at working with people. And some are Bobby Valentine.” That one got a good laugh.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed having the opportunity to learn from one of the most influential minds in baseball history. James’ reflections on a lifetime of innovative thinking gave me a greater appreciation of the arts and sciences of the game of baseball.

And when I went to introduce myself afterward, he even told me that he would have voted for Mookie Betts over Mike Trout for MVP last season.

How could you not love this guy?

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The next day, he was ready to board a plane to New York City to go on Good Morning America where his professional career would take off.

While Eruzione was no longer an amateur player for the Toledo Goaldiggers and had stopped his summer job as a bridge painter, he remained unsure of what was to come.

“You went from an ultimate low to the ultimate low,” he said. “Then now you get back high again because you’re doing things you never did before: flying first class, going to Hawaii, going to Florida. I went to California, I had never been to California in my life, so all of these things were happening [and] the energy level got right back up there again.”

He and six other teammates were the only members to not go to the NHL, and he stands by this choice.

“Peace of mind was always important to me,” Eruzione said. “If I was 20 or 19, I would’ve kept playing.

I was 25. I probably would’ve been an average player and played about four years, which is about the career for an average player. There wasn’t a ton of money. It’s not like there was big offers and I just thought it was time to move on and do something else.”

Eruzione went on to do more public speaking as well as broadcasting for the NHL and Olympic games before he ended up back at his alma mater, where he got a job to provide for his three children.

After meeting with John Silber, the president of BU at the time, a position was created for Eruzione, which he has held for almost 20 years.

“Every day’s kind of a different day, and coming in here now that the hockey season’s over, I won’t be going to practices or anything, but I enjoy meeting with the student-athletes,” he said.

Above it all, he cites family as the most important thing in his life since the time they supported him in his college hockey days at BU.

Eruzione means “eruption” in Italian, and Eruzione has always felt a special connection with his large Italian family. He remembers bringing the Canadian players to his home for dinner so he could take their two home game tickets and give them to his family members.

“Without family I don’t know how you live,” he said, looking at one of the many photos of smiling family members on his office desk.

“I’m glad I wasn’t an only child because it was great having my four sisters and a brother and cousins all around. It made me a stronger person. It made me a competitive person because we had to compete against each other, but I would say that’s the one thing that I care the most about.”

While many will remember Eruzione for the U.S. team’s miracle-working in 1980, he hopes

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Joe Stucky embraces his role as main faceoff specialist

BY NICOLE HAVENS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

At the beginning of every Boston University men’s lacrosse game, all eyes are on junior midfielder Joe Stucky at the center faceoff X. Though he is on the field for mere moments of the 60-minute game, he faces a difficult feat time after time.

What makes the challenge all the more intimidating is the fact that

he has stepped into the role previously filled by senior midfielder and faceoff specialist Sam Talkow, who has missed this season due to injury.

While Stucky has taken the opening faceoff in all 11 games this year, things have not always been this way. Talkow, who has yet to take the field this season, was the reigning faceoff specialist for the Terriers over the past three seasons and ended last sea-

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son third in the nation with a 0.695 success percentage.

The absence of any player in a key role on the team can be a cause for concern, yet the Potomac, Maryland native did not show panic before play began.

“I didn’t think of it too much like that,” Stucky said. “I was just excited, ready to play and be able to get out there [as well as] compete and help my team in the best way I could. So, I wasn’t too worried about replacing Sam or stepping in and filling his shoes.”

This calmness Stucky exudes comes as no surprise, as pressure is something faceoff specialists confront frequently on the field. It is actually what Stucky finds thrilling about the position.

“The mental game is very important,” Stucky said. “… You got to not worry about what happened in the past and just focus on the next play, the next faceoff and be able to control your emotions and control what you can control. I think that’s a big part about whether you’re going to have a successful or not successful day at the X.” This mentality has not only been cultivated, but also solidified over the past two and a half years during his career.

Prior to this year, Stucky predominantly sat on the sidelines as Talkow and former midfielder and faceoff specialist Elliott Burr took to centerfield.

While hard work and training prepared Stucky to take on the role when needed, his call came a year earlier than expected. However, the training from Talkow and Burr ensured that Stucky would be well

equipped for the transition.

“I think that’s a big theme with our team, next guy up,” Stucky said.

“We have so much depth on this team so I thought that I was ready to go if they needed me.”

BU head coach Ryan Polley noted that the distinct styles Talkow and Burr possess significantly helped Stucky evolve into his role.

“Both were two different styles where Sam was a finesse guy who uses his hands, his quickness to get the ball out and Elliot was a little bit of a grinder who’s really strong,” Polley said. “Joe having to go against both of those guys had to really learn how to go against two completely different styles.”

Only three games into this year’s campaign, against the University of Hartford, Stucky demonstrated the ease of transition into his new role as he went over 50 percent (12-for-21) against Dylan Protesto, the nation’s 10th leading faceoff specialist.

In matchups against the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Bucknell University and Lafayette College, Stucky has cemented his role as a reliable faceoff option.

“I think he’s been getting better every single game,” Polley said. He’s a little bit different from Sam. He’s certainly very scrappy and good on ground balls. He’s definitely a battler, so I think he relies a little bit more on his wings, but for someone who didn’t have any experience going into the year, I think he’s done a really good job.”

The contest showcased his best performance yet, as he went 18-for25 at the X and collected six ground balls in the 13-8 victory.

In his last three games, he has won 45-of-67 draws, rendering himself successful 67.2 percent of the time. He has also been strong on the ground ball battle and collected 26 over the same three games, which is almost half the amount he has picked up all season.

Polley highlighted Stucky’s ability to foster scoring chances in transition, but also his contribution to the team away from the battle at the X. “He’s not the biggest guy on our team, but he works really hard in the weight room,” Polley said. “He’s really strong for his size. He’s really fit and I think the guys look up to him for that and they want to see him do well. Everyone’s cheering for him and want him to be successful.”

With five games left in the regular season and four in the Patriot League, Stucky’s role will remain as crucial as ever.

He looks at the rest of the season with anticipation though, as his role is key in winning possession for the second-highest scoring offense in the Patriot League.

“We’ve got a lot of great games coming up, so I’m looking forward to the challenge of the Patriot League that we have so far,” Stucky said. “I think that we have a good shot at being able to put ourselves in the best position to make the Patriot League tournament this year.”

As for Polley, he hopes to see Stucky continue to develop into a reliable player.

“We want him to get better as the season goes,” Polley said. “We want him to be consistent. It’s such an important position and it has such an impact on the game, being able to win faceoffs and control possession.”

Mike Eruzione leaves legacy that extends beyond ice

BY NICOLE HAVENS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

With 10 minutes left in the game, the score was knotted at 3-3.

But it was more than just a game.

This was United States playing the Soviets in the midst of the Cold War during the 1980 Winter Olympics.

For 8,500 spectators in the Olympic Fieldhouse and 20 young men playing hockey for coach Herb Brooks, each moment was breathtaking.

Mike Eruzione had just entered the ice. After a feed from one of his teammates, the 25-year-old captain of the American team fired the puck past the Soviets’ back up goaltender Vladimir Myshkin. He gave his team a lead it would not relinquish.

Looking back at the goal,

Eruzione reflects with the unmistakable attitude of someone who’s been a team player all his life.

“For me, you know, I was able to do something to help our team,” he said. “Throughout the game, everybody did things; Mark Johnson made big goals, Jimmy Craig made good saves, everybody made plays. So, I was fortunate to have the chance to do something and it went in.”

What Eruzione and his team did was dubbed a miracle. A miracle on ice, more specifically. The iconic words, “Do you believe in miracles?

Yes!” said by Al Michaels, forever changed the course of Eruzione’s life. But what happens after accomplishing such a feat?

His initial reaction, just like everyone else watching, was disbelief.

“We beat the Russians. We beat the Russians,” he thought after the final 4-3 score showed before he returned to the excited and chaos-filled locker room.

The following day, coach Brooks flipped out. Unbeknownst to many, if the United States had lost the next game against Finland, it would’ve placed fourth and not earned a medal that year. “[Brooks] needed to bring us back down to Earth,” Eruzione said. “He needed to get all that energy out of us cause we had another game to play Sunday … We didn’t go to the Olympics to win one game, we went to hopefully win it all.”

Brooks had them skate one of the hardest practices of the year,

albeit the most remembered was after their game against Norway.

In one of the most popular scenes in the 2004 Disney movie “Miracle,” a breathless Eruzione yells, “I play for the United States of America,” which made Brooks decide to finally end their torturous post-game skate.

Eruzione revealed the scene was only for movie finesse to show his eventual leadership of the team. In reality, the drill ended when a player smashed his stick against the boards.

“And Herb said, ‘If I hear another goddamn stick smash against the boards, you’ll skate ‘til you die,’” Eruzione recalled. “We continued to skate and then he brought us in and we had to play Norway the next day again and he said, ‘If you play this way again tomorrow, you’ll skate again.’

And we won 8-0 the next day. That should’ve been in the movie.”

While the movie shows the U.S. team eventually earning their gold medals and Eruzione currently working at Boston University as the director of special outreach, it does not show Eruzione himself.

Following the Sunday win, Eruzione returned to the three-family home he grew up in. After accomplishing a miracle, he didn’t feel like any type of god, but missed the teammates he had been with for the past year.

“We were really close-knit,” he said. “Herb was demanding and hard to play for, but that’s how coaches coached. My coach here at the time

SUNDAY, APRIL 9

MONDAY, APRIL 10

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BOTTOM LI NE THURSDAY, APRIL 6

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

Softball @ Providence, canceled.

Men’s and women’s track and field @ Auburn Invitationals, all day.

Men’s tennis @ Lehigh, 4 p.m.

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

Men’s lacrosse @ Army, 12 p.m.

Women’s lacrosse vs. Lafayette, 1 p.m.

Softball vs. Holy Cross, 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Marshawn Lynch is rumored to be Softball vs. Holy Cross, 12 p.m.

eyeing a return with the Oakland

Women’s soccer alumni game, 12 p.m.

Raiders. When asked about his intentions, Lynch replied, “You know why I’m here.”