10-18-2018

WEEK OF CRIME, 2

GET OUT THE VOTE, 4

City discusses need to lower crime rates after recent streak of violence.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2018

Students are registering to vote thanks to BU’s partnership with online tool TurboVote.

HUBWEEK HAVOC, 7

ONE MORE WIN, 10

City Hall Plaza lit up as HUBweek 2018 was underway with large domes and art.

Field hockey needs three more points to secure top seeding.

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

YEAR XLVI. VOLUME XCIV. ISSUE VII

COM BYOD policy faces mixed reactions

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The Boston University College of Communication’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy went into effect this fall, forcing many students to use their own laptops for assignments.

BY AUDREY MARTIN, LEXI MATTHEWS AND CONOR KELLEY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

On the first day of her Motion Picture Editing class, film and television student Caroline Barry was going to start her classwork of importing, rendering and editing footage. Instead, Barry and her classmates spent upward of three hours downloading software onto their laptops.

“We had to input all the same footage and programs so we’d all be on the same track,” the junior said.

“Instead of taking a half an hour like our teacher expected, it took longer

than the class itself.”

Barry and her peers are among the first wave of students to experience the pros and cons of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy now in effect at Boston University’s College of Communication.

Last spring, COM announced that fall 2018 would see the removal of all but one of its computer labs in the COM building and the complete shift to the BYOD policy for students. The department claimed that the expenses required to maintain the 11 computer labs in COM had become unjustifiable, since more and more students were already bringing their own devices.

Additionally, the Adobe licenses connected with computer labs are no longer necessary, as a deal BU made with Adobe last year now allows students to download the Adobe Creative Cloud suite onto their personal devices for free.

Now, only one computer lab in Room 338 remains open, with 13 iMacs available for use inside.

Some students have had trouble downloading the Creative Cloud and other software, specifically Avid Media Composer, COM Director of Technology Brad Fernandes said.

The initial version of Avid COM posted was not compatible with certain iMacs, he said, but students

have primarily faced issues such as full hard drives and bad media management.

“So far, we’ve had surprises that we didn’t anticipate, and we anticipated things that were not really problems,” Fernandes said.

Over the summer, Fernandes said, COM purchased 35 new loaner Macbook Pro laptops using its technology budget for students to check out for classes. COM lends an average of 5.5 laptops per day, he said.

“If anything, right now we’re showing that maybe we bought too many,” Fernandes said.

The new laptops, having been recently purchased by COM, were in good condition at the start of the semester and showed no signs of damage or overuse.

Students can check one out, along with a charging cable and mouse, for three to four hours inside the COM building. Students must present their BU ID to the COM technology office and disclose what class they require it for in order to check one out.

Overall, aside from the overbuying of loaner laptops and some “hiccups” with students installing the new software, Fernandes said he thinks the new policies are going well.

“I think we overthought some things over the summer and some of the areas we didn’t know,” he said, “but that’s going to be the case with everything [with] 3,000 students here at COM.” Along with students, COM professors who either taught classes in the computer labs or currently rely CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

Kenmore Square scene to change further

BY ALEX LASALVIA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University students have already felt the loss of Bertucci’s and Bruegger’s Bagels, and now, even more familiar Kenmore Square businesses will be disappearing.

The Kenmore Square branch of City Convenience shut down Monday, and Barnes and Noble will be relocating as changes and redevelopment come to Kenmore Square in the upcoming months.

Kenmore Square is being redeveloped by Related Beal, the Boston branch of the real estate firm Related Companies. According to Patrick Sweeney, managing director of the Boston-based company, the Kenmore Square area has a good transportation infrastructure and the company sees potential in the underused buildings in the square.

“We love Kenmore,” Sweeney wrote in an email. “This project will further enhance the activity and prominence of Kenmore Square as one of Boston’s centers of urban life …”

Construction will begin in early 2019 and is set to be completed by early 2021, Sweeney wrote.

The project was designed by architect Roger Ferris, Sweeney wrote. It will involve a variety of changes, including modifications of some buildings, rebuilding of CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

Debate over Question 1 continues leading up to midterm elections

BY JOEL LAU DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Ballot Question 1 will impact every nurse, hospital and patient in Massachusetts. But, while this initiative is being championed by the Massachusetts Nurses Association — the state’s largest nurses’ union — nearly every hospital across the state opposes it.

The question, which will be decided on by voters in the upcoming midterm election, proposes that the state set limits on the maximum number of patients that can be assigned to each nurse at a given time.

These guidelines will be set based on patient need and carry a fine of up to $25,000 dollars every day a hospital violates the rules.

Taylor Maher, a spokesperson for the Committee to Ensure Safe Patient Care, explained that the union believes maximizing nurse-patient interaction is the only way to guarantee nurses can devote enough time and focus to adequately serve each of their patients.

“Without safe patient limits,

medical errors occur, readmission rates skyrocket and the standard of care is not up to par,” Maher said.

“Patients deserve quality care when in the hospital, no matter where in Massachusetts they live.”

However, the Coalition to Protect Patient Safety, which is comprised of seven Massachusetts nurses associations and nearly every hospital within the state, opposes the proposition.

Coalition spokesperson Maddie Clair said the proposal will increase health care costs, lengthen emergency room wait times and ultimately “end up limiting access to care for more residents of Massachusetts.”

Boston Medical Center projected that the proposition will cost BMC nearly $28 million and will force the hospital to limit the number of patients it can treat.

“For example, if this ballot question passes,” BMC wrote in an email to The Daily Free Press, “... our Emergency Department, which is the largest provider of trauma services in New England, would have

to reduce capacity by more than 100 patients a day.”

What worries Clair the most, she said, is that the proposal will impose restrictions that she said will severely hinder nurses’ abilities to provide the best possible medical care to their patients. “[The ratios] do not allow for nurses to collaborate with one another and use their skills and judgment to make the right call for patients,” Clair said. “So, at the end of the day, it’s the patients that will suffer.”

It is these ratios that convinced Laura Mylott, a registered nurse and clinical professor at the School of Nursing in Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, to oppose Question 1. She said she is primarily concerned that this “one size fits all” solution cannot sufficiently account for the many elements that dictate nursing assignments.

“RN variables, such as educational level, experience, expertise, certifications for certain kinds of skill sets as well as organizational

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Brookline resident Susan Park reads about patient-to-nurse limits in the Massachusetts 2018 Ballot Questions booklet.

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Residents question city safety after week of violence

BY JULIA CHINIGO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Violent crime has increased in Boston in the past week, according to police reports, and public safety advocates and residents have expressed mounting concern.

There have been three homicides and six nonfatal shootings in Boston since Oct. 11, according to the most recent data from the Boston Police Department. The majority of recent shootings have occured in Dorchester, while Roxbury and Mattapan have also seen several instances of gun violence.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh responded to this streak of violence at the reopening of the Boston Centers for Youth and Families Vine Street Community Center in Roxbury Saturday, calling for renewed efforts to reduce violent crime in the city.

Still, as recently as Monday, a 24-year-old woman was fatally shot in the area of Charles Street and Ditson Street in Dorchester at about 9:36 p.m., police said in a statement.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

A man in his 30s was also shot in the area of Columbia Road and Geneva Avenue in Dorchester around 9:31 p.m. Friday, police said.

He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

A 19-year-old man was fatally shot in Dorchester around 12 Vinson St. at about 2:08 a.m. Thursday, police said. He was identified as Marlon Richardson of Dorchester.

All three incidents remain under investigation.

Despite the recent influx in violent crimes, crime has decreased slightly overall in most of Boston’s districts from Jan. 2017 to Oct. 2018, according to a crime report published by the Boston Police Department.

Boston is also home to many organizations advocating for public safety, including Mothers for

factors such as the geography of the unit [all matter],” Mylott said.

“So, when you just use ratios as your method of determining staff, you are not taking into account all the other factors that do play into … getting the right nurse for the right patient.”

Mylott said she thinks, if the proposal were to become law, it would “definitely negatively affect” the quality of medical care in Massachusetts as a whole.

However, a recent WBUR poll of 500 registered nurses indicated that Massachusetts nurses were nearly equally split over the topic.

Some supporters of the proposition, like Linda Condon, a registered nurse at Morton Hospital,

Crime Logs

BY CONOR KELLEY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Oct. 12–15.

Suspicious person found bathing in George Sherman Union sink BUPD received a report of a suspicious person, described as a darkskinned male, bathing in a men’s bathroom sink in the basement of 775 Commonwealth Ave. at 10:28 a.m. Sunday. The case was closed.

Cyclist struck near Amory Street and Commonwealth Avenue

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A string of shootings in the Boston area last week has raised concerns, though reports from the Boston Police Department show crime has decreased slightly between Jan. 2017 and Oct. 2018.

Justice and Equality, an organization founded in 2010 for mothers who lose children due to violence within their communities.

Monalisa Smith, president and CEO of MJE, said the city should place more of an emphasis on mental health as a means of preventing gun violence, especially in schools and churches.

“There’s a lot being done to reduce crime in Boston,” Smith said.

“But, I think one of the things that can be done is that we can put more mental health services where people who are being impacted and affected by violence are.”

Smith commended the state for its efforts thus far, but also said there is more work to be done in preventing gun violence.

“We have to recognize that Massachusetts is a leader in this area, so we have to figure out a way to stop

these guns from getting in the hands of people who have issues and can take a life so simply,” she said.

Several Boston residents said they were unsurprised by this pattern of consecutive violence.

Eike Wintzer, 54, of Jamaica Plain, said that while these violent incidents are upsetting, they are not new to Boston.

“You know, it’s unfortunate that there’s just been a few shootings so close together right now,” Wintzer said. “Over the years, it’s been pretty good in Boston.”

Steven Richardson, 38, of Dorchester, also said gun violence in Boston is a normal occurrence.

“It’s been like that for years, to be honest,” Richardson said. “That’s all you see out here.”

Brighton resident Holly Brennan, 24, said she recognizes Boston as a hotspot for gun violence, but admit-

ted it can still be scary and surprising when the violence happens all at once.

“I just moved from a neighborhood that had a double shooting right down the road from me, and that spooked me,” Brennan said. “Gun violence is a problem in America, so it’s not totally surprising that there’s one in Boston, too.

“But, I think everyone’s a little surprised about it.”

Brennan, who has lived in Boston for three years, said she thinks the issue of gun violence reaches far beyond the city itself.

“It’s good that the community is coming together to address it, but it’s definitely a nationwide problem that I think needs government-type interference, not just community,” Brennan said.

Ayodele Abinusawa contributed to the reporting of this article.

Nurses debate safety in question about patient limits BALLOT, FROM PAGE 1

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said the opposing faction does not accurately represent the opinions of local nurses.

“The nurses in ‘No on 1’ are nursing administration and nursing managers,” Condon said.

“They are not bedside nurses, so the ‘No on 1’ coalition is made up of the hospital associations and the hospital executives.”

Additionally, Condon said that local hospitals have begun a massive “intimidation campaign” to pressure its nurses and staff into voting against Question 1.

In response to these allegations, BMC wrote that the “No on 1” group had robust and diverse support from medical institutions and nursing associations across the state.

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“To characterize the opposition as hospital CEOs and administrators is blatantly untrue,” BMC wrote. “Thousands of nurses across the state are No on 1. Every single hospital, community health center, professional nursing organization, physician organization, and healthcare organization giving direct care to patients in Massachusetts … are all NO on 1.”

A recent poll conducted by the Boston Globe and the University of Massachusetts Lowell found that, as of Oct. 10, a slim majority of likely voters opposed the bill, with 51 percent opposing the initiative and 43 percent supporting the patient limits.

East Boston resident Lorraine Richards, 63, said she supports the

ballot question because she experienced the value of nurse-patient interaction after “f latlining” at Massachusetts General Hospital.

“They only assigned two [nurses],” Richards said. “Katie had me, then Christine came in and had me at night. The same nurses.

You get to know your nurses, you feel safe with your nurses, and you know that you’re getting the best quality.”

Brighton resident Nick Haggstrom, 26, said he mainly supports the ballot question because it was backed by the nurses’ union.

“I’m a union guy, so I’ll always vote on the side of the union,” Haggstrom said. “Anything the nurses’ [union] supports, I’ll support.”

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A caller reported at 7:57 p.m.

Sunday that a cyclist was struck somewhere between West Campus and the intersection of Amory Street and Commonwealth Avenue.

The cyclist was unsure if they needed medical attention, but was transported to Boston Medical Center for treatment.

Male arrested for falling asleep in College of Arts and Sciences classroom An Office of Facilities Management and Planning employee reported at 2:41 a.m. Monday that a male was asleep inside a classroom at 685 Commonwealth Ave. The male was taken into custody.

CITY

Crime Logs

BY DAVID LI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from Oct. 12-14.

Police officer assaulted by intoxicated suspects Two suspects were arrested Friday for assault and battery of a police officer and for causing disturbances on Brighton Avenue. Both appeared to be intoxicated, the police report stated, and one of the suspects was transported to hospital.

Brighton 7-Eleven robbed A suspect entered the 7-Eleven store at 2002 Beacon St. at 11:46 p.m. Sunday and demanded money from a cashier. The suspect motioned toward the cashier giving the impression that they were concealing a firearm under their jacket.

After taking an unknown amount of money, the suspect fled.

Restaurant encounters drug overdose victim A victim was found to have overdosed on drugs in a restaurant at 4:35 p.m Monday. The victim began nodding off when initially entering the restaurant and eventually fell off their seat onto the ground. The victim was then transported to the hospital.

NEWS 3

New policy improves work mobility, decreases class efficiency

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Room 338, pictured above, is the only remaining computer lab in Boston University’s College of Communication.

BYOD, FROM PAGE 1 on software that used to be available in the labs have developed their own opinions on the transition.

Peter Smith, a senior lecturer of photojournalism, said he began advocating for a shift from computer labs to a BYOD policy five years ago to keep up with industry standards.

“Journalists work on laptops,” Smith said. “It’s like a photojournalist trying to do a job without a camera. You can’t be a journalist now without a laptop.”

Stephen Hume, a sophomore studying film and television, said that even before the policy, most students had their own devices and that the removal of the desktops could allow for an improved use of COM’s finances.

“By limiting the amount of

money that was previously put into computer labs and stuff like that,” Hume said, “COM has the freedom to allocate more funds to other programs and other facilities like the studios in the communications building.”

Hume said that the adjustment to working with smaller screens is also something that students comfortable with regular desktop use are acclimating to.

“I know for some people, editing on a laptop and doing things like that on a smaller screen is not the most ideal situation, but I personally can’t complain,” Hume said.

Several professors of lab classes said the removal of the iMac desktops in the classrooms has led to technological inconveniences, which, along with

software issues on students’ laptops, have wasted class time on troubleshooting.

Susan Walker, a professor of journalism who teaches Reporting With Audio and Video, said the transition forced her and many other professors to recalibrate their approach to classes, particularly with film and video editing.

“It’s frankly turned about an hour of a three-hour class into a Genius Bar experience where I have to stop down in my teaching and help someone whose computer either isn’t updated or doesn’t have the right kind of computer,” Walker said. “I’m really supposed to be teaching visual literacy, not technical support.”

Students outside of COM have found challenges in the change as

well. Natalie Bennett, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences who works for BUTV10, said she has experienced new obstacles in her extracurricular this year.

“We have to figure out which rooms are open that do have a computer in order to do video editing and which rooms don’t,” Bennett said. “… People have to consider their options more, before you just always [knew] there were computers available for use.”

Some faculty like Joseph Lippincott, a lecturer in photojournalism, do not see the benefit of this change for students.

“If this were a school that cost $5,000 a year, it would be fair,” Lippincott said. “But I don’t think it’s fair for what students are paying.”

Despite the rocky start many classes had in acclimating to the use of laptops, Walker said she supports students’ ability to complete their assignments anytime and any where, instead of having to wait for COM’s accessible hours.

The transition has also been well-assisted by COM’s technology department, Walker said.

“The guys on the third f loor should really be thanked because they’re doing yeoman’s work of one-on-one support,” Walker said.

Anne Donohue, a journalism professor, said she wished the removal of the labs had been more gradual rather than all at once and that at least one more computer lab had remained.

Now that there are no allocated lab classrooms, Donohue said, the university matrix has sent former COM lab classes either outside of the COM building or into other rooms, both of which may not be ideal for certain classes.

Donohue’s radio class was originally scheduled to be in a College of General Studies classroom, but the lack of proper audio playback in the classroom prompted her to request to be moved back to COM. Donohue said there are pockets of closet-sized rooms scattered throughout COM that have

desktops in them, unknown to many students.

“If you know where the bodies are buried, then you’re ahead of the curve,” Donohue said, “because there are few remaining computers.”

Throughout the COM building, a majority of classrooms feature long tables with outlets fixed into the tables themselves or traditional individual desk setups with outlets dispersed across the walls of the room.

Most classrooms featuring the long table setup have a one-to-one or higher outlet-to-desk ratio, while classrooms with individual desks were found to have much fewer outlets on average.

Outlets are a key part to making the transition a success, Smith said. If a room has inadequate outlet access, he said it then falls on the professors to take it up with COM. “That’s up to the faculty,” Smith said. “Are they all hitting it a hundred percent? It sounds like maybe a couple aren’t … I would say most of them probably are.”

In addition to 338, Rooms 321, 321A and B27 all contain at least one iMac in some part of the room.

As for the old lab computers, Fernandes wrote in an email that the newer, “thin style” iMacs from the labs are being reassigned to COM faculty and staff, the Communication Research Center and the COM student lounge.

Roughly 40 iMacs purchased before 2011 are past their life cycle and will be recycled by BU’s contracted electronic recycling vendor, Fernandes wrote.

Fernandes said that the university pays the recycling company to “make sure that everything is recycled responsibly.”

The process will take place during an upcoming break in classes, Fernandes said, so students are not disrupted by large carts in the hallways, and so the process can be done all at once instead of over time.

There is no set date for the recycling process yet.

Mike Reddy contributed to the reporting of this article.

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City Convenience closes, Barnes and Noble to relocate to West KENMORE, FROM PAGE 1 different ones and the construction of a new 140,000-square-foot, eightstory building.

Some Kenmore Square tenants’ businesses have relocated, Sweeney wrote, and Related Beal is helping other tenants find temporary or permanent placement.

Related Beal confirmed that they plan to preserve Boston’s iconic Citgo sign above 660 Beacon St., which will be renovated and attached to the new Beacon Building.

“We were pleased that Related Beal and Citgo reached a resolution where the sign will remain in place for decades to come,” Sweeney wrote.

The Kenmore branch of BU’s City Convenience has already closed that branch of their store in preparation for construction. Scott Rosario, marketing director for BU Dining Services, said it will not be reopening or relocating after construction.

As BU already has City Convenience locations in Warren Towers, the George Sherman Union and Sleeper Hall, Rosario said there is little need to open another one.

“When you look across campus at the number of convenience stores that we operate that are available to students and accept convenience points, there are still a lot of options on campus,” Rosario said. “We’re not going to open one just for the

sake of opening one.”

College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Benjamin Wuesthoff said that while he was not personally affected by the closure of the Kenmore Square City Convenience because he lives in Warren, he has friends who were disappointed by it.

“It’s very convenient if you live in Myles Standish or HoJo to get snacks or things like that when you’re having fun or it’s the weekend or something,” Wuesthoff said, referring to the former Kenmore Square location.

The BU-affiliated Barnes and Noble at 660 Beacon St. will also be affected by the construction. The bookstore will close its Kenmore Square location so Related Beal can proceed with the redevelopment, BU spokesperson Colin Riley wrote in an email.

Barnes and Noble will open at 910 Commonwealth Ave. around March 15 of next year, Riley wrote.

Until then, the location in Kenmore Square will remain operational.

Zoe Dewitt, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said the new location of Barnes and Noble, as well as the removal of the Kenmore Square City Convenience, will be inconvenient for her, as she lives in South Campus.

“It’s closer to go to the bookstore [in Kenmore] than it is to go to West

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Stores on Beacon Street near Kenmore Square have closed down in succession as real estate developer Related Beal gears up to redevelop the area.

Campus,” Dewitt said. “CityCo is convenient [in Kenmore Square] too.”

Wuesthoff said he is unsure about the logistics behind Barnes and Noble’s move to the new location.

“In between semesters, when people are buying all their textbooks and stuff, [Barnes and Noble] definitely becomes a real big hub of activity,” Wuesthoff said. “We’ll

have to see how the new location works out for next semester when people have to get their books and things. If it’s a big mess, then people obviously will be inconvenienced and annoyed.”

CAS senior Isabella Medrano said she thinks the relocation of Barnes and Noble will affect the relationship between Boston University and Kenmore Square.

“I think that Barnes and Noble in Kenmore is really what makes Kenmore still feel like part of our campus, because I think that’s the area of campus that we start really blending with the city a lot more,” Medrano said. “Hopefully they’ll move back to Kenmore, but I know the property is really expensive.”

Jennifer Suryadjaja contributed reporting

BU partners with TurboVote to encourage voter registration

BY KYLIE TOMASIAK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University is working to promote voter registration and turnout for the Nov. 6 midterm election, partially through a partnership with voter registration tool TurboVote.

Massachusetts’ voter registration deadline was Wednesday, and many other states’ deadlines have either passed or are approaching in the last weeks of October.

TurboVote is an official tool made by Democracy Works, a nonpartisan nonprofit that aims to improve the voting experience, according to the organization’s website. TurboVote itself provides a straightforward way of checking registration status and vote-by-mail rules, according to the Democracy Works website.

TurboVote had been wanting to work with BU again after an earlier collaboration, Katherine Cornetta, assistant to the dean of students

said. After seeing the results of a Tufts University study on voter engagement across university campuses, BU decided to partner up with TurboVote again.

According to the study, BU’s 2016 voter registration rate was 78.2 percent, compared to a national average of 70.6 percent.

“Although our numbers are great compared to our competitor schools, Dean [Kenneth] Elmore really wanted to see how much more we could do,” Cornetta said.

Cornetta said that TurboVote’s platform is “10 times better than it was almost 10 years ago.”

“They had made a lot of growth, and that really impressed us,” Cornetta said, “and we were excited to work with them.”

Democracy Works Director of Communications Brandon Naylor said that different dates and deadlines for various states can be hard to follow, so TurboVote not only gives students a way to check regis-

tration status and apply for mail-in ballots, but also provides a notification system to increase voter engagement.

“We send you a notice that says, ‘Hey, you’ve got an election coming up, this is your polling place,’” Naylor said, “which is helpful for a lot of people.”

TurboVote Senior Partnerships Associate Sara Clark said each BU student who registers with TurboVote will receive a reminder the day before the election with their polling location address and hours, identification requirements and ballot information from Google Civic Information’s application programming interface.

“It not only gives them that reminder, but it empowers them to go to the polling location the next day with that message right at the top of their text or their email and feel like they have all the information they need to cast their ballot,” Clark said.

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More than 500 Boston University students have registered to vote using TurboVote, an online tool BU has incorporated into its ongoing efforts to increase voter turnout among its students.

Anthony Buonopane, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he thinks online tools like TurboVote and Voter.org can be extremely helpful for students navigating the complicated voting process.

“I know that, w ith Massachusetts anyways, with the Secretary of State’s website, it’s very complex and very confusing for a lot of people,” Buonopane said.

Naylor said that this year, TurboVote wants people to vote in a more deliberate way.

“We want people to make a plan to vote,” Naylor said. “We want you to get together with five of your friends, determine where your polling place is, make sure that you all have a ride there and that you all asked for time off work, that you all know when you’re going to go vote.”

According to data provided to The Daily Free Press by the Dean of Students office, 541 students have used TurboVote. Only 38 students registered with TurboVote at first, Cornetta said, but those numbers “started to grow exponentially” as more students learned about it.

“I’m really excited about what the future of this platform and BU could be, and I’m eager to see how, even past the midterm elections, we can grow it,” Cornetta said.

The pa rtnership w ith TurboVote isn’t the only way that BU is trying to get students to register. Many student groups, such as BU College Democrats, hold their own events to increase registration among their peers.

BU College Democrats has been holding voter registration drives in the George Sherman Union almost weekly, said Benjamin Levy, the group’s secretary. They’ve had “plenty of people” sign up in recent

weeks, he said.

The BU College Democrats do not use TurboVote, Levy said, as they prefer to take voter registration into their own care.

“We have our own method of getting people to register,” Levy said, “which we find to be more successful since it’s more of the student’s perspective, and they have more of a relationship with that.”

Kiara Perez, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said many of her peers discuss voting, especially the merits of voting in Massachusetts versus voting in their home states.

“Everyone’s always frantic about ‘Should I register here?

Should I register at home? Is it worth it to do an absentee ballot?,’” Perez said.

Some students think an online voting system would be beneficial, such as College of Fine Arts senior Ryan Huemmer, who is from North Carolina.

“I have to go buy stamps and stuff, and I’m motivated enough to do that,” Huemmer said.

“Especially coming from a swing state, I know it’s important. But for people who are in New England, it’s kind of like, ‘Well, whatever, we’ll slide by, it doesn’t matter if I vote.’”

Huemmer said he feels that the perspective on voting differs within the whole BU ecosystem, but staying active in voting is important. His assistant director in the School of Theatre continually reminds students to vote at class meetings, Huemmer said.

“It’s definitely a constant reminder to be active with not only the work we create, but using the voices when we’re actually given, politically, the opportunity to do so,” Huemmer said.

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SCIENCE

‘The New Fire’ film confronts nuclear power myths to boost clean energy

BY AMELIA MURRAY-COOPER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students and Boston University community members gathered to view a screening of “The New Fire,” an independent film directed

by David Schumacher, and learned about tools to use in the future that could avoid global catastrophe.

The Institute for Sustainable Energy partnered with the Environmental Film Festival to co-host the Tuesday screening. The film shows the struggles of young entrepreneurs and engineers as they develop new technology and try to convince the public that nuclear energy is a safe option.

A panel discussion was held after the documentary about next-generation nuclear reactors and the potential to lead an energy revolution against climate change.

Held in the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, the event was free and open to the public.

Introductions to the screening were provided by Peter Fox-Penner, director of ISE and a professor in the Questrom School of Business.

French Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment Michael Ford moderated the panel. Speakers included Schumacher, Lisbeth Gronlund, co-director of the Global Security Program for the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Michael Short, assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering

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From left to right: Lisbeth Gronlund, Michael Short and David Schumacher speak after a screening of Schumacher’s documentary film “The New Fire.”

at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

According to Fox-Penner, the discussion aligned with the ISE’s mission to establish a sustainable energy future “through cutting edge research, engagement with industry and policy makers and educating students.”

“We are working on many different dimensions of the sustainable energy challenge,” Fox-Penner said. “They touch on all the major disciplines we have at BU, from law to public health to engineering to business to international affairs.”

T he Un ited Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a Special

Report 15 Oct. 8 and warned that by 2040, the world is likely to experience crisis if temperatures continue to rise at current rates.

“We need to cut our greenhouse gas emissions dramatically over the next 10 to 20 years to avoid very dangerous impacts from climate change,” Fox-Penner said.

While greenhouse gases are released through manufacturing nuclear plants and fuel, there are no direct emissions from the production of nuclear energy, according to “The New Fire.” According to the film, nuclear energy is considered to be “base load,” meaning it can be produced at any time.

Engineers featured in the film

are reimagining conventional nuclear technology to increase safety and efficiency. According to the documentary, most nuclear plants in America operate on light water reactors, which use high-pressure liquid water as a coolant and moderator.

If the cores overheat in these reactors, nuclear meltdowns are possible, as seen at Three Mile Island in 1979 and Fukushima in 2011.

In the event of an accident, these reactors would cool down automatically without human intervention, as explained in the film.

The film also explained that next-generation reactors may also

address the issue of nuclear waste storage by recycling existing stockpiles of waste as fuel. In the panel following the film, Short said this technology is already being used in France.

However, this technology is not permitted in the United States, largely due to fears of proliferation, as explained by Short.

“There’s a whole generation of people who grew up doing duck and cover drills and had fears of nuclear winters and went through the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Short said in an interview. “You can’t blame them for having this really deep fear of nuclear, but it’s unfounded.”

The safety of nuclear energy can be numerically quantified compared to other power sources by looking at the number of deaths each source has caused and the number of terawatt hours the source has produced, Short explained.

According to a 2007 study published in The Lancet, nuclear energy was responsible for 442 times fewer deaths relative to brown coal per unit of energy.

“This is really eye-opening and wonderful to hear. My whole perception of this was turned upside down,” said Taryn Polanco, who graduated from BU’s College of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and attended the screening. “I’m definitely supportive of nuclear for keeping our energy levels up to supply everyone and for keeping emissions down.”

Northeastern University conference explores rise of AI in media

BY WILLIAM SCHULMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Award-winning journalists, students, professors and other experts congregated at Northeastern University’s Raytheon Amphitheater Friday to explore a dark side to artificial intelligence: deep fakes. The conference, titled “AI, Media and the Threat to Democracy,” addressed the rise of AI in the media and its role in democracy.

Northeastern University professors Matt Carroll, David Lazer, Woodrow Hartzog and Meg Heckman organized the conference with Aleszu Bajak, journalist and Northeastern University faculty member.

Carroll said he was motivated to help plan the conference because he saw the potential AI had to revolutionize journalism.

“A lot of people within our department are interested in this [artificial intelligence],” Carroll said.

“It’s clearly becoming something of interest to the broader journalism world.”

The keynote speaker was Danielle Citron, Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law. Citron addressed the rise of “deep fakes,” sophisticated fake audio and video that can be easily produced by people with access to the technology.

Citron warned the audience that the democratization of this technology could have devastating effects on the political process. She discussed

the possibility of a fabricated video that incriminates or embarrasses a political candidate surfacing the night before an election.

“The central harm to democracy is the way it sews distrust in the world around us as well as in institutions, journalists and the media being the central [institutions] when we think about democracy,” she said in an interview.

Citron fears that if individuals cannot discern what is real and what is fake, powerful figures will be able to take advantage of this ambiguity and then claim that any damaging depiction of themselves is fake. She called this the “liars dividend.”

“It’s to claim everything’s a lie even though you know very well it’s true,” Citron said. “[Deep fakes] make it much easier to say, ‘Oh, [that] was a faked video of me, that wasn’t me.’”

Citron said she is also concerned about an erosion of privacy. Market pressures could coerce people to reveal private information to prove that a damaging video of them is fake, she said.

To combat deep fakes, Citron explained that people need to look at the bottlenecks, the platforms that have the power to control the spread of deep fakes and target Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The section provides immunity from liability for “interactive computer service” who publish information from third party users.

Citron has several points of advice for regular individuals.

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From left to right: Jonathan Stray, Cesca Antonelli and Lisa Gibbs listen to professor Meg Heckman’s remarks Friday at Northeastern University.

“Have some skepticism,” Citron said. “If something seems too sensational to be believed, we should think twice. … If you suspect that what you’re seeing is a forgery, a deep fake, then report it to the platform … engage in counter speak, and challenge it.”

Following Citron’s keynote, there was a panel discussion about the effect of artificial intelligence on journalism.

The panel outlined some of the potential advancements that artificial intelligence brings to journalism, such as faster news responses to emergencies, social listening — using public conversations to understand how people feel about issues — and the ability to search large data sets for patterns.

John Wihbey, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who introduced Citron to the podium, said he felt the role of journalists will gain importance in the coming decades.

“As more open data is made available on the web … the most important data in this world will be hard to get,” Wihbey said in an interview.

“That could mean accountability data that an investigative journalist helped unearth, but it could also be other forms of unique data and data sets. Journalists are perfectly positioned to be the locksmiths in this ecosystem.”

After the journalism panel, the third panel emphasized the increasing role of algorithms in people’s daily lives. They discussed the ways

that social media sites manipulate search results through the use of algorithms, sometimes to serve the public good.

The final panel focused on the difficult task of regulating artificial intelligence in the media. The panelists discussed potential legal and policy solutions, as well the potential costs to freedom and privacy that would come with regulation.

“The bottom line is there is some kind of consent of the governed implicit in power,” Wihbey said. “If, increasingly, decisions that implicate power are performed by what they call ‘black box technology’ — neural networks, deep learning networks that are making very important and complex decisions instantaneously — that could be troubling over time.”

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BUSINESS HUBweek lights up City Hall Plaza with domes, silent discos

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One of many shipping containers transformed in City Hall Plaza during HUBWeek 2018.

BY ZOE HAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Large domes rose out of City Hall Center last week as people thronged for the silent discos, keynote speeches and art exhibitions of HUBweek.

The annual creative festival based in Boston explored future possibilities and causes of collaboration with more than 300 artists, entrepreneurs, scientists and organizations across the globe.

The conference, which was created in 2014, was hosted by The Boston Globe, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital. The theme of the festival was “We the Future,” featuring interactive experiences like speaker panels, art and tech exhibitions, startup showcases, drone demonstrations and pitch competitions.

Focusing on the startup experience and resources, nine Demo Day sessions were held Saturday and included founder talks, a gathering of more than 100 startups and a pitch competition.

Food For All, a startup venue giving deals on unsold restaurants meals, was the final winner. In the pitching presentation, David Rodríguez, CEO and one of the co-founders of the startup, said the initiative was created to aid in the astounding number of food wastes in

the United States and was partially inspired by his own experience as an international student living on a limited meal budget.

Food For All offers meals for as little as $3.

Pilleve, Ompractice, Aisling Organic Cosmetics, Lumme, Inc. and Waku were all runners-up to the final prize. From designing pill bottles preventing prescription medicine overdose to making a wellness tea from the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, the six finalists’ companies focused on creating products or offering services to build a more friendly social and eco environment.

Panel talks like “Build in Boston. Stay in Boston.” were held in the Demo Day sessions, emphasizing the significance of the talent pool and academic resources Boston has to offer to entrepreneurs.

Impact-oriented artists like Sarah Slifer Swift said her and her dance company Meek Productions performed several pieces concerning the environmental issues, such as “Species, Wall and Glacier.”

In the Glacier piece, she said she and two other dancers hugged and fell slowly to the ground. Their colleague, dressed in a glittering white robe resembling a glacier, walked around asking bystanders what actions could be taken.

They performed the piece several times with minor variations, representing different stages of the melting.

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Attendees were asked to write where in the Greater Boston area they would like to live, as part of the “Build in Boston. Stay in Boston.” exhibit.

“We want something that digs in a little severity of the situation,” Swift said, “so something that’s a little disturbing in the end.”

According to Swift, they started only showing the melting, not giving people instructions.

They then let everyone brainstorm the things they know that could help so they could intervene with the melting physically.

Aaron Ye, a first-year BU graduate student studying journalism, actively participated with his friends, trying to recreate the glacier dancers.

“It’s stressful,” Ye said.

However hard they tried to reconstruct the dancers or use the duct tape to bind them together, the dancers fall onto the ground eventually, Ye said.

Ye and his friends also participated in HUBweek’s silent discos, which happened Tuesday and each night from Thursday to Saturday. Three DJs were invited to each disco and took charge of one channel on the headsets.

People who came to the disco danced to music playing in headphones rather than speakers.

“I’m interested to see how it catches on,” Danny Mckenzie, 40, from Boston, said. “I don’t see it as mainstream, but a novelty. People are enjoying the new experience of the absurdity of bonding together with their headphones on.”

Each headphone could turn into three

different colors, and each shade represented the channels the DJs used. Ye said he and his friends danced to different channels at points and enjoyed themselves.

He explained he felt more college parties should be designed like silent discos.

“I would say it’s more a spiritual connection than a physical one,” Ye said.

“We the Future: A Public Art Exhibition” was installed for the span of HUBweek and featured shipping containers as a piece that reflected the housing crisis and other major issues in the city.

The exhibition also included a participatory multimedia installation called “We the Publics.” The installation explored topics such as the role of power and the public’s role in establishing an environment.

“We the Publics” was originally created by Dan Borelli, director of exhibitions in Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and Emmanuel Pratt, executive director of Sweet Water Foundation.

In the spirit of the exhibition centered around “publics” and groups of people, Borelli emphasized the importance of cooperation and the overarching message of the piece.

“I think [attendees] walk away with a greater sense of responsibility to the whole, to each other,” Borelli said. “[It’s] public possibility.”

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A young girl tries on a prosthetic hand at the “Bespoke Bodies: The Design and Craft of Prosthetics” exhibit.

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ARTS Boston Playwrights’ Theatre new play addresses pain of suicide

BY KAMI RIECK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students and community members gathered at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre to experience the heartache and turmoil five girls face while living in a residential care facility in Texas Saturday night.

Boston University’s New Play Initiative’s production, “The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood,” and the post-show discussion encouraged the audience to continue the conversation on heavy and relevant issues.

Written by Kira Rockwell and directed by Leila Ghaemi, the play kicked off the 2018–19 season for Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Oct. 11 and will run through Sunday.

The 80-minute character-driven drama focuses on the complex issues five teenage girls face as they enter womanhood. Set in a Texas residential care facility, the girls are forced to collectively cope with their anguish after the suicide of their housemate, Amber.

“One of the main themes of this play is dealing with PTSD and trauma as a woman and how that is treated as an initiation into womanhood because it’s so normalized,” Ghaemi said.

“The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood” begins with Izzy mourning the death of Amber by reading poems and spraying Amber’s leftover perfume. Amber’s suicide impacts all five girls during the entirety of the play as everyday objects serve as reminders of her life and death.

Each girl is confronted with her individual troubles, and they learn to grow up in a less-than-supportive environment. Mercy is plagued by past parental abuse and feels conflicted when her father shows signs of changing for the better.

Charlie continues to struggle with her mother’s death and has difficulty finding a sense of

family in her life. Amber wrestles with the loss of her cat and the fact that her biological mother didn’t want to meet her. Izzy starts to become more acquainted with her body during puberty, and Audi is still learning to grapple with experiences from the past.

“This happens everywhere, and it’s not specific to these girls in Texas,” Ghaemi said.

“By acknowledging the normalization of it, we are also acknowledging that it should not be normal.”

With a cast comprised of diverse women who fit the ages of their characters, Rockwell said she hopes to capture authentic female stories that are portrayed equitably and taken seriously. She said her goal was to break stereotypical femininity by excluding the tropes of young women represented in today’s media.

Erica Huang, a senior in the College of Fine Arts, said she liked how this play offered something for every woman.

“No matter where you’re coming from, there’s something you can connect to,” Huang said. “There’s a lot of strength that comes from the bonds that form between women, and we can support each other.”

Rockwell said her previous position as a recreation coordinator at a similar residential care facility influenced her decision to write the play.

She explained she aims to shatter the misconception that these facilities only house problematic children who come from neglectful families and to create a message that calls audience members to further understand this complex issue.

“There are youth that live in group homes like this, and the systems that are set in place to care for them are not good,” Rockwell said.

“They’re human beings who are not set up well, and I don’t feel that the government is taking care of families and youth properly.”

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Stephanie Castillo (left) and Danielle Palmer (right) star in “The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood” at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

A post-show conversation was held in the theater to allow audience members to ask questions of the playwright, director, cast members and technical crew.

Rockwell and Ghaemi elaborated on their collaboration process and how the real progress on this production began once actors were cast and able to truly embody the characters. Cast members shared their experiences of working on a production that connected and empowered them toward something relevant in today’s political climate.

“I feel so lucky to have been able to be in this room with all these incredible women,” Stephanie Castillo, a junior in the College of Fine Arts who played one of the five girls in the home, said in an interview. “I’ve never worked

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on a play before where it’s majority women in the room, especially women of color, which I think is so important.”

At the end of the day, Rockwell and Ghaemi said that they hope this production ignites a stronger demand for equitable treatment toward women as the issues presented in the play are universal. Audience members left the theater with a few tears and more questions than answers.

Linda Matlack, 61, is an attorney from Miami, Florida, and was part of the near-capacity audience. She said she plans to invite more people to have conversations about suicide, violence and abuse against women.

“The more that we’re going to speak about this, the more we’re going to work and help our society out because it needs it.”

Panel tackles opioid epidemic in interdisciplinary forum at Metcalf

BY GIGI WARGIN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In a crowded room of people, nearly half the audience raised their hands simultaneously.

Some timid and others bold, those with raised hands united in the fact that they had personal connections to the opioid crisis.

The audience gathered into the Metcalf Trustee Center ballroom for a discussion Friday night on the opioid crisis and the different approaches to take.

Susan Mizruchi, English professor and director of the Center for the Humanities at Boston University, said she decided with her colleagues to focus the department’s forum on “Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis” in June 2017. After months of preparation, the forum ran from Friday to Saturday.

“Literary works and humanities fields are in a position to address some of the most difficult and terrible plights of society,” Mizruchi said.

“What we are trying to do is bring together people who are all involved in different ways in addressing the crisis and to get them to speak to each other and ideally come up with some new ideas for solutions.”

The open roundtable discussion was introduced by Boston University President Robert Brown and followed by a discussion of panelists moderated by Martha Bebinger, health care reporter for WBUR. The panel was comprised of different perspectives — panelist Samuel Kelton Roberts, a professor of history and sociomedical sciences at Columbia University, shed light on social consequences, and Sandro Galea, dean of the School of Public Health at BU, contributed with statistical data.

Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University, discussed false advertising, and Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, provided insight over the topic as a whole.

As each panelist shared his or her standpoint, the conversation slowly shifted from one of a medical and social crisis to one of a pain crisis.

“In some ways, the opioid crisis is a result of the difficulty of understanding another person’s pain,” Scarry said prior to the panel in an interview. “That difficulty means pain remedies will either be under-prescribed or overprescribed.

Prescription drug … advertisements that I studied were … compelling physicians’ attention in a way that may have led them to overprescribe.”

Scarry shared example images of advertisements she studied that included bright visuals and alluring phrases and helped establish a sense of sympathy for opioid users. The conversation continued to discuss the definition of an addict.

“There is a lot of stigma attached to addiction,” Mizruchi said. “Many people just feel a lot of shame and guilt about it. The term ‘addict’ itself is a cruel term and a cruel way to characterize someone and similar to the term ‘slave.’”

The panelists also mentioned the danger of relapse after attempts to eliminate drug use.

They delineated the emphasis society places upon abstinence and its key to permanent sobriety.

“Medical advertisements are spellbinding, seductive and coercive,” Scarry said. “In some way, [they describe] the nature of physical pain because physical pain is coercive and totalizing.”

After the panel discussed options for ade-

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Nora Volkow speaks at “Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis” Friday with moderator Martha Bebinger and co-panelists Sandro Galea, Samuel Kelton Roberts and Elaine Scarry.

quate treatment and prevention, the audience was invited to ask questions. Some questions, such as those of Kimber Chewning, doctorate student in history of photography at BU, centered on the humanities side to the crisis.

“It is really critical [that] the different communities have different skills,” Chewning said.

“As a humanities person, I definitely think I am uneducated on certain health benefits.

From a humanities side, we have certain skills and ways of accessing less data-driven material like shame or empathy that could really help.”

The panelists concluded by listing ways the public could make an impact on the opioid epidemic. Many placed emphasis on sym-

pathy, education and understanding within the community.

Mizruchi closed with a brief speech summarizing her purpose and goals in organizing the forum. A reception followed in which audience members cultivated their own discourse and reflected on the lasting messages heard from the panel.

“Issues of contemporary consequence are always a concern for a great university,” Galea said in an interview. “Humanities [teach] us through human experience and history. There’s much to learn from what people have written, what people have said and what people have experienced in the past.”

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EDITORIAL SeedMA Baby will only be successful if it reaches lower class Lucky newborns in the state of Massachusetts will be beneficiaries to a $50 jumpstart intended to put them on track to start saving for college before they learn their ABCs. State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg announced SeedMA Baby Tuesday, the state’s first savings account program for children born or adopted in or after 2020.

The program will guide parents through opening a 529 account, which will provide tax advantages for future education, and contribute the first $50 to the account.

Mayor Martin Walsh created a similar program in Boston in 2014. Walsh said that statistics show these programs help moderate- and middle-income students see college as an attainable goal, with children having an account being three times more likely to go to college and four times more likely to graduate, according to The Boston Globe.

That data, however, may be based on children who started with $500 in their accounts. In the grand scheme of the price of a college education, $500 and $50 aren’t hugely different amounts of money. But for a starting amount, $50 may not be enough to motivate parents to continue with the program.

Regardless, it’s better to have $50 than to not have $50. And the important part isn’t the money. The important part is the program that teaches parents — especially parents who didn’t go to college themselves and don’t know where to start — as long as these programs are equitable and distributed fairly across areas of the state.

It’s not surprising that the results for

these programs show most clearly in the middle class. Perhaps the fundamental drawback of the program is that it will only help the children of parents who take the initiative to enroll them. If the state is waiting for parents to come to it — and isn’t reaching into communities where kids have no family support, where kids are truly challenged to find their own means to reach higher education — SeedMA Baby won’t work.

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tion more accessible. At the very least, the administration shows an understanding of the ever-increasing burden that college imposes on families and the importance of educating parents on how to pay for college before it becomes too late.

There’s an idea that people only need an initial push to get started on the path to success, and after that, they can take matters into their own hands. And for someone who has all the tools to succeed

American applicants right now, the necessity of diversifying higher education — and the question of how to do so — is at the forefront of public attention. Making sure minorities have a fair shot at affording higher education is the first place to start.

Black, Latinx and low-income college students are disproportionately burdened by student debt. Less than two-thirds of white students at public schools take out loans, compared to four out of five black students.

An educational program that has no bearing on the success of lower-income students cannot be called progress. Those whose parents make more money will always be advantaged on some level, but State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg cannot say this is truly “empowering the next generation” if the program fails to empower the lower class.

Private donations are funding the program. This money is coming from people who, from the kindness of their hearts, want to give kids a jumpstart. Is it a big enough start? No. Is it going to already at their disposal and simply lacks cover everything? No. But it comes at no the motivation, that might be true. expense to people who don’t want to conBut this isn’t the case for students and tribute to it. their families struggling to afford college.

T he h ig h l ig ht of th is prog ra m In the case of minorities and low-income shouldn’t be the money. It should be students who are consistently pushed the fact that it’s a mode to make people down by factors that the rest of us can’t more educated.

Making sure this proimagine, creating an account with a few gram caters equally to different neighdollars in it and labeling it a “college fund” borhoods and constituencies, crossing isn’t enough. If the state is going to help lang uage and income barriers to reach people open a savings account, it needs to low-income parents, is what will ultifollow up and show them how to continue mately make it successf ul.

Other wise, on with it.

With Harvard admissions on trial for it’s a publicity stunt that just looks good alleged discrimination against Asian- on paper.

aking sure this program caters equally to different neighborhoods and constituencies, crossing language and income barriers to reach low-income parents, is what will ultimately make it successful.

Walsh said the program will “show young kids that college is possible” and that the community “believes” in them.

Kids with parents who care to educate themselves on savings accounts and invest their time into this program most likely already know that their parents believe in them. These words are empty unless the program is pervasive in reaching into the crevices of the state, beyond Boston and its rich suburbs, and reaching people who wouldn’t necessarily choose to participate.

It’s a good thing, nevertheless, that the state is attempting to make higher educa-

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OPINION 9

COLUMNS NO SUGAR, NO CREAM:

FEMITWIST:

R&B peaked in the 2000s

BY NASHID FULCHER COLUMNIST

I don’t typically slander new genres of music. That’s due to several factors.

I don’t think it’s valuable to compare new music to old music that was already dubbed “classic.” I think there’s different criteria to make acceptable, enjoyable new music than there was in the past. Life isn’t such that we have to listen to people laugh following their weak rap bars tainted by the overuse of end rhyme and pretend that it’s artistic like they had to in the ‘80s.

I also think nostalgia often makes it so we think the music of the past was way better than it actually was. My heart didn’t f lip when I first heard “Dilemma,” but now, Kelly Rowland really stirs me. There was a time when I didn’t care to debate if Usher’s Confessions Part I or Confessions II was better, but now I try to insert it in conversations as often as possible. There are countless ways to excuse the differences in new music, but the bottom line is that music changes as time passes.

Despite my being able to tolerate the changes in pop, alternative and rap music, I can’t seem to excuse one genre: rhythm and blues. I can listen to rap lacking substantial lyrics and see the decreasing number of “hip-hop” artists as a much-needed transformation, but there is no way to feel good about what’s passing for R&B. It’s hard to grasp the idea that there’s no place for Destiny’s Child-caliber groups of women to stand, wearing unnecessarily billow y clothing and singing about how men don’t deserve them. It’s even more difficult to grasp the idea that there will no longer be extensive storylines, ridiculous choreography and thinly veiled street harassment in music videos, as male artists beg and plead for their women to return to them.

R&B hit its peak in the “street harass-

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ment as a valid form of pursuing women” video phase of the genre. Rap videos have lacked clear storylines since the beginning of time, and the disorganization seems to have leaked into other genres dominated

by Black people. The next decade turned music videos into showcases of money, women and cars. The problem is not that being materialistic and slightly misogynistic isn’t entertaining. The problem is that there is a clear superiority in the culture of 2000s R&B music videos.

Can anyone name something better than watching Ray J dance in the rain in front of his estranged ex-girlfriend’s house? Chris Brown and friends dancing down the street together, while he sings along to music coming from no discernable music source, behind the girl he wishes to court? Omarion disappearing as the girl he’s following’s friends show up to ask if she’s OK, then reappearing as they drive off to continue bothering her? Videos made in the 2000s were remixed versions of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” video. Is there anything current that can begin to compete with those vaguely problematic video concepts?

The new singers of our time have the tendency to use less-enjoyable themes in their music. It’s tiring to hear about breakups and how men and women don’t treat each other well. I don’t often hear people really use their vocals anymore. I love Jacquees as much as the next person, but hearing him sprinkle “eeee-eeEEE” over songs leaves a lot to be desired. I love “Boo’d Up” as much as the next person, but Ella Mai giving me an entire album of spoken word and half-baked “men are trash” tunes was not it. And I couldn’t explain the dislike I have for Jorja Smith without turning it into a dissertation. Sometimes people listen to music with their eyes.

The only solution is to stop producing R&B music altogether. Society needs to recognize when it’s at the end of the rope and let it go. Let the genre die. Rap artists realized Biggie and Nas cornered ‘90s rap, and we were given more inventive things.

We’ve worked our way into Atlanta’s music scene, with singing rappers, undoubtedly birthed by Lil Wayne. I see no such future of R&B. We’re being subjected to the scraps of substantial music. It’s largely devoid of vocalization and creativity. The anomalies of the genre aren’t even given their proper accolades. It’s time we finally cut our losses and lay the microphone to rest.

INTERROBANG

BY MICHAL SHVIMER COLUMNIST

In the polarizing period of the Kavanaugh confirmation and the trials that preceded it, the nation found itself torn between two answers for the same question: who is the real victim of the #MeToo Movement? Some argue that men are victimized because they live in fear of false allegations. Others argue that women are victimized because they live in fear of sexual assault.

For me, this answer was simple since the movement’s rise in November 2017. The real victim is anyone with a face and a name whose bodily autonomy was taken away from them without their consent. The real victim is anyone whose voice felt undermined, disregarded and negated. The real victim is anyone who has been sexually assaulted, regardless of their gender. The #MeToo Movement has been predominantly a space for women to come forward about their experiences with sexual assault, of which men had typically been their attackers.

The #MeToo Movement created a forum to hold men, particularly those in considerable power, accountable for their actions by exposing them to the public. Not only has the movement portrayed the ways that power has protected men from previous allegations, but it has also provided insight into how normalized sexual assault has become for people everywhere, not just those in power. The movement has uncovered the permeation of sexual assault into every dimension of society. A natural consequence of this instantaneous and widespread coverage of sexual assault is dissent to its legitimacy.

One particularly upsetting remark came from our president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. In a recent interview with DailyMailTV, Trump spoke about the recent allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. Trump, a father of five, told the tabloid “I’ve got boys, and I’ve got girls. And when I see what’s going on right now, it’s scary …”

In response, the interviewer asked Trump if he is more scared for his sons or his daughters.

“I mean, right now, I’d say my sons,” Trump responded.

Trump has a different answer to who the real victim of the #MeToo Movement is than I do.

He is scared that his sons may grow up to be falsely accused of sexual assault, and that fear is more paralyzing than the fear that his daughters may grow up to be sexually assaulted.

Trump’s comments made me feel, as his father would say, sad.

A common narrative used to elicit sympathy from men for sexual assault victims is asking them to imagine the women they know in their lives as victims of sexual assault. It’s problematic enough that this narrative exists, putting women’s value solely in their familial (particularly maternal) relations and not in their holistic value to society. But it is deeply problematic that Trump Jr. has done this very thing and still chose to have sympathy for men over women.

He imagined his daughters being the victims of sexual assault. He imagined his sons being accused of sexual assault. He chose the latter as the more frightening alternative.

Realistically, however, his daughters are far more likely to be sexually assaulted than his sons falsely accused of sexual assault for a number of reasons.

Men of power have been accused of sexual assault during the #MeToo movement and have been able to keep their careers and fortunes intact. Few of those accused have been tangibly held accountable, but innumerable accusers have been devastatingly impacted by the sexual assault and the process of revealing it.

In the polarizing period of the Kavanaugh confirmation and the trials that preceded it, the nation found itself torn between two answers for the same question: who is the real victim of the #MeToo Movement?

The answer to this question seems less lost in perspective than it is in definition. A victim is someone who is hurt or injured by a crime. A perpetrator is someone who does the hurting.

Casting allegations on someone you believe sexually assaulted you is not a crime. Sexually assaulting someone is a crime. Conclusively, accountability is not victimization — it is a consequence of perpetrating the real circumstantial victim.

But I have even better news to lessen Trump’s concern for his sons. If he doesn’t want them to be accused of sexual assault, perhaps he could teach them the intricacies of consent or point them in the direction of someone who can.

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Women’s hockey looks to ride first win into weekend series

BY NICHOLAS TELESMANIC DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University women’s hockey will look to keep winning going into this weekend when it faces University of Connecticut Friday and the University of Maine Saturday.

The Terriers (1-1-2, 1-1-2 Hockey East) picked up their first win of the season against the University of New Hampshire in a 3-2 win Saturday afternoon, thanks in part to redshirt junior forward and tri-captain Sammy Davis scoring two goals in the first period.

BU head coach Brian Durocher said he knows that Davis will strive this season. “[Davis] has that confidence,” Durocher said. “She has a goal against Northeastern and a couple [against the Wildcats], and that’s really important because [Davis] is an elite player on this team — she’s one of the best in the league in what she does.”

UConn (4-1, 2-1 Hockey East) is coming of a 7-2 shutout of the College of the Holy Cross, where six different Huskies found the back of the net.

UConn for ward Morgan Wabick scored two of her three team-leading goals during the match.

The team is lead offensively by Husky forward Briana Colangelo who has 7 points, most of which came from assists.

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Junior forward and tri-captain Natasza Tarnowski in an Oct. 5 game against Northeastern University.

Last season, UConn went 0-1-2 against the Terriers, including a 6-2 loss.

The matchup between the

Terrier defense and this surging Husky offense will be key, especially for junior forward Natasza Tarnowski, who Durocher said he

hopes can be solid on both ends of the ice.

Durocher also said he believes that UConn isn’t a team that likes to give up goals often.

Last year, the Huskies only gave up an average of 1.9 goals per game against opponents.

“UConn has been one of the stingiest teams to play against,” he said. “Traditionally, they do not give up goals, so we’re gonna have to really play spot-on and make contributions from all three lines and be strong on the defensive side of the puck.”

So far this season, Maine (4-0, 0-0 Patriot League) has also been stingy with giving up goals.

Black bear goaltenders Carly Jackson and Jillian Flynn are a dynamic duo that have only given up one goal all season.

Maine is coming off two back-to-back 8-0 shutouts of Sacred Heart University and are currently averaging 5.3 goals per game.

The team’s two top scorers, junior Tereza Vanišová and freshman Liga Miljone, both have seven points.

Durocher is putting a large emphasis on defense for this weekend’s games against both UConn and Maine.

“Give credit to those teams for putting pucks in the net,” Durocher said. “We need to do what we’ve been doing, which is [staying] on the defensive side of

the puck … and make it hard for them to get to the net.”

Ever since the beginning of the season, Durocher has been looking for a step-up mentality in order for his team.

Although Davis may fill one of these holes, Durocher said he also has his eyes on other players as well and can see the potential on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ice.

One player who Durocher believes can step up is Jesse Compher.

She was named to the Hockey East All-Rookie team last year and also recorded 9 goals and 17 assists.

“Compher has done a really nice job this year,” Durocher said. “She and Sammy have played together, and they are doing well.”

Another player of interest to Durocher is Tarnowski, who serves as one of the team’s three captains alongside Davis and senior defenseman Reagan Rust.

Tarnowski’s two years on the ice have given her collegiate experience on the ice, during which she only missed two games her freshman year and played every game her sophomore year.

“We are counting on Natasza Tarnowski to be a leader,” Durocher said. “Whether she is an offensive player or a defensive player, she should be able to be really solid in both ends of the ice.”

Patriot League-leading field hockey look to continue dominance

BY ETHAN FULLER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Senior midfielder and co-captain Allie Doggett in a Sept. 22 match against Colgate University.

After a close double-overtime win against Bucknell University, the No. 18 Boston University field hockey team will aim for a 5-0 conference record when it squares off against Lehigh University Saturday.

The double overtime triumph against Bucknell (7-6, 2-2 Patriot League) was another display of BU’s clutch performance in overtime.

The squad is now 3-0 in overtime games, where they knocked off the Bison, Northwestern University and American University.

BU head coach S a l l y Sta r r emphasized the confidence she has in her team during close contests. “[With] the formation that we’re playing,” Starr said. “We have a lot of weapons in overtime and how we can attack it.”

The Terriers (8-5, 4-0 Patriot L e a g u e) w i l l t hen f a ce No. 5 University of Connecticut at home the following day. The Huskies (12-3) eliminated BU in the NCAA tournament last season.

The Mountain Hawks (2-13, 1-4 Patriot League) come into the contest having lost 10 of their last 11 and hope to find some momentum during a tough season.

The Terriers meanwhile, will look for their 15th straight regular-season conference win, dating back to 2016.

Two BU players were recognized with individual Patriot Leag ue awards this week.

Senior midfielder Allie Doggett

earned Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week honors for her game-winning goal in the second period of overtime versus Bucknell.

Freshman midfielder Rebecca Ja nes a lso won Patriot Leag ue Rookie of the Week after scoring a goal of her own in the 18th minute of the same contest.

It was the second goal of the freshman’s collegiate career.

For the Terriers, sophomore forwards Petra Hall and Ailsa Connolly each scored six goals this year, tied for the team lead. Both have also notched two assists and rank in the top 10 of the Patriot League in total points, each with 14.

Mea nw h i le, t he Mou nt a i n Hawks have struggled to generate goals all season.

They rank second to last in the conference in scoring, with just 18 goals in 15 games. They also are near the bottom in shots generated per game, creating 10.33 chances on average.

The greatest difference between the two sides is in the defensive numbers.

Lehigh has the highest scoring average allowed of Patriot League teams, giving up over 4.132 goals per game. In contrast, BU is allowing just 2.034 goals per contest.

However, the Mountain Hawks do boast an exceptional goalkeeper in junior Paige Innarella — she has racked up 87 saves this season, ranking second in the conference. She also sports a save percentage of .713.

Starr noted that BU has to keep on attacking well in order to pressure

the goalkeeper.

“Just continue the things we’ve been working on day-to-day, gameto-game,” Starr said. “Attacking as a unit, trying not to be too individualistic in the circle, really looking to utilize each other. Maybe making the extra pass to try and get around [Innarella].”

For the Terriers, the upcoming game could have major playoff implications.

BU needs to win just one more Patriot League match to secure both the top seed and home field advantage for the conference playoffs.

They have two chances to clinch: against Lehigh, and Oct. 26 versus the College of the Holy Cross.

The Terriers’ defense needs to be at the top of their game the next day against UConn. The Huskies are second in the nation in scoring, averaging 4.27 goals per game.

UConn has lost three of its last five games, but all three losses were against teams ranked in the top five at the time the games were played.

In addition to the 3-1 loss in the NCAA tournament, the Huskies and BU met during the regular season and it was all UConn — the Huskies rattled off seven unanswered goals to roll to an 8-1 win en route to a perfect 23-0 record and a national title.

Starr said she feels the team’s past success adds to the team’s winning mentality.

“I think that definitely helps us to go in with a lot of confidence,” Starr said, “… knowing that we’ve been successful in three overtimes so far.”

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Men’s soccer hoping to secure all three points against Navy

BY SHUBHANKAR ARUN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University men’s soccer team will be hoping to bag its third conference victory in its game against the United States Naval Academy Saturday.

The Terriers (3-8-3, 2-2-1 Patriot League) have struggled with consistency in their performances this season, with sporadic upturns and downfalls in performance.

BU head coach Neil Roberts said he is hoping the Terriers can recover from the injury bug to help turn around the season.

“Right now, we’ve got a lot of players in different positions, and they need to settle in,” Roberts said. “Hopefully we’ll have a few guys back by the Navy game.”

Currently, BU only has one win in its previous five games, having scored three goals but conceded seven during that stretch.

The game against Navy (1-101, 0-5-0 Patriot League) gives the Terriers a chance for a conference win against a team that is currently winless in the Patriot League and is currently at the bottom of the league standings.

The Midshipmen’s only win of the season came Sept. 5 in a 4-0 shutout against Howard University.

They have been shut out themselves five times this season, but freshman forward Jacob Williams scored the team’s lone goal in its most recent match, a 1-4 loss to the United States Military Academy.

Nav y’s big gest problem this season has been its weak defense,

which has led to them conceding 14 goals in its 5 conference outings so far this season.

With a 0.641 save percentage, the Midshipmen have the worst save percentage in the league.

While the team has four goalkeepers, sophomore goalkeeper Ian Bramblett has earned the majority of starts and has a save percentage slightly above the team average with .660.

The Midshipmen’s shots per game for and against, however, remain a much closer 12.5 to 14.

Williams leads Navy in points and goals.

This year’s record is on pace with the Midshipmen’s performance last season, where they went 2-13-2.

When the two teams last met, it was on Nickerson Field, where sophomore midfielder Toti Knutsson scored an early goal in what ended in a 1-0 victor y, earning senior goalkeeper Mike Bernardi his fifth shutout of the season.

The win added to a 4-1-0 Terrier record against Navy.

Roberts insisted that record don’t matter on the playing field, and with his team’s back against the wall with injuries, he said he wants his team to treat the game as a must win.

“I think if you look at the freshmen and sophomores, they are playing very well,” Roberts said.

“I think that they are playing a little more than they’d like, but we are at that part of the season where we can’t really see them as freshmen anymore.”

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Freshman forward John Siracuse in an Oct. 6 match against Lafayette College.

Freshmen defender Nate Cole, for ward John Siracuse and midfielder Kari Petursson all came under special praise from their coach for their performances in the last few games.

Petursson has three assists this season, tied at the top with midfielders senior T.J. Butzke, junior Satchel Cortet and Knutsson.

One feature of the Terrier performances this season has been the late goals they have conceded.

They are winless in overtime and conceded t wo goa ls in the last 10 minutes against Loyola University Maryland.

Roberts attributed this to the fatigue in the team and not a lack of concentration as the games wound down.

“We think that even with the amount of injuries, we played well and we showed it in parts against Loyola,” Roberts said. “So now it’s all about getting some confidence and getting the points.”

Roberts said he believes his tea m has prepa red enoug h for the upcoming run of four straight league games to end the season.

Being on the backfoot early on can cause teams to relentlessly attack, wh ich Rober ts sa id he believes may have tired his team out.

“In the Loyola game, we pushed forward for a goal and hence got stretched and some costly mistakes,” Roberts said. “We don’t possess the ball the way we like to, and that forces us to defend more than we need to. It’s a matter more of fatigue than concentration.”

7th Inning Stretch: Bring on the smack talk, Instagram, “Dirty Water” I, for one, am a fan of the braggadocio. It makes baseball fun and adds flare to a sport that is mightily struggling to capture and maintain an audience. If a game is going to last four hours, then why not include some excitement?

Already this postseason, the Boston Red Sox have been the recipients of t wo such in-your face displays of confidence from opponents. After the New York Yankees beat Boston in Game 2 of the American League Division Series at Fenway Park, Yankees star Aaron Judge blasted Sinatra’s “New York, New York” on a boomBY JACOB GURVIS COLUMNIST box outside the Sox clubhouse as As far as smack talk in baseball the teams left the stadium. Judge goes, the line is fairly blurry. When received some flack for his cocky then-Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose scheme, but I took no issue with Bautista launched the greatest bat it. Sure, it was obnoxious. But all f lip of all time in the 2015 post- Judge did was spice up the rivalry season, his passion was celebrated and provide the Sox with the perfect around the game. When he did comeback jab when they played it again last year, he caused the the song in their Yankee Stadium benches to clear. visitors’ clubhouse after winning

So how much is too much? the series.

When does showing up an opponent This week, prior to Tuesday’s turn from passionate confidence American League Championship to excessive arrogance?

Series Game 3, Houston Astros

third baseman Alex Bregman posted talk when he sees it. If anything, ball should be encouraging this a video on Instagram of Astros like the Judge episode, Bregman’s type of personality, not suppressing h itters cr ush ing back-to-back- video could provide some extra it. When Bautista threw his bat a to-back homers off Sox Game 3 motivation for Eovaldi and the Sox dozen feet into the air to celebrate starter Nathan Eovaldi in a June to stick it to the Astros. a big home run, he was giving a 20 start when Eovaldi was with the “I thought [the post] was good gift to Major League Baseball: he Tampa Bay Rays. It was a playful fun,” said Sox utility man Brock was playing with his heart on his exhibition of confidence prior to Holt in an inter view w ith The sleeve. In a game that too often the big matchup. But Bregman Boston Globe. “We saw [the Judge resembles an elitist club of wealthy received backlash, and he deleted video in the Yankees series] and businessmen, such emotional disthe video. we knew that if we did what we plays as bat flips, boomboxes and A g a i n , I see no i ss ue w it h wanted to do and won the series, Instagram videos infuse bursts of Bregman’s ploy. As NBC Boston’s we were gonna blast the tune so creativity, passion and competition Evan Drellich put it in his column he could hear it again. It’s just that is sorely missing. on the topic, “Sports are theater. having fun back and forth. I don’t So bring on the smack ta lk.

Don’t limit the drama without think [Judge] meant anything by Give us more Instagram videos of good cause.” I agree with Drellich. it. Same thing with us. We won Astros players crushing Sox starters Bregma n is a n exciting, young the series, felt pretty good, and and vice versa. Show me an Astros player who just meant to poke fun wanted to give a little shot back. stadium sound system blasting at Eovaldi by pointing out a past We’ll have to think of something “Dirty Water” after a victory. Until encounter that Eovaldi was likely where, if this series goes the way these demonstrations of confidence painfully aware of heading into we want it, we’ll give Bregman a turn into disrespectful, personal or the game. It wasn’t disrespectful, little shot back.” insulting digs at other players or just some good ol’ fun.

Brock hit the nail right on the teams, I’m all for it. Baseball could Sox skipper Alex Cora, who is head. In both scenarios, respected use some more swagger. very close with Bregman from his young players presented a lightPlus, these are grown men being time as the Astros bench coach, hearted showing of swagger and paid tens and hundreds of millions pretended to be unaware of both simultaneously supplied the Sox of dollars to play a game. If they situations. But as a former player with ammunition for revenge. In can’t handle some spirited trash himself, I’m sure Cora can’t help a game full of young, fun-to-watch talk, then they’re in the wrong but appreciate some clever smack stars like Judge and Bregman, base- line of work.

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Army 1-1 tie ends women’s soccer six-game winning streak

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Freshman midfielder Taylor Kofton scored Boston University’s lone goal in a 1-1 tie against the United States Military Academy Wednesday evening.

BY LILY BETTS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University women’s soccer team held onto a six-game winning streak after a weekend 1-0 win against Loyola University Maryland, then was held to 1-1 after a tie against the United States Military Academy Wednesday.

S i nce o p en i n g con f er ence play with a tie against American

University, the Terriers (7-7-3, 5-0-2 Patriot League) had not allowed a goal against by a Patriot League opponent until the game against Army (6-4-6, 2-3-2 Patriot League).

BU head coach Nancy Feldman attr ibuted the tie to a lack of responsibility from the team.

“We had control over it, so the frustration is that we let our foot off the gas,” Feldman said. “… We

lost control of the match, even her belt.

Amanda Fay and Morgan Messner though we had the ball more and Feldma n sa id the tea m was — alternated starts, making one possessed it more in their half.” solid defensively but needed to save against Army and one save The Terriers outshot the Black focus on finishing a team. against Loyola, respectively.

Knights 27-2 throughout the course “A lot was happening before The win against the of the game and held them without [the Army goal], but we should Greyhounds put the Terriers in a corner kick. withstand two shots or two counter second place within the Patriot S e n i o r d e f e n d e r C h e l s e a attacks,” Feldman said “I thought League, clinching a spot in the Churchill challenged Army early, coming out of halftime we lost postseason. recording BU’s first two shots of our edge, and you’ve got to put W h i le Feld ma n saw the tie the game and forcing Black Knight the team away.” against Army as the result of a goa l keeper Sydney Cassa lia to Before the 1-1 tie, BU had shut lack of focus, she said she believes ma ke her f irst of nine saves in out five Patriot League opponents the team is playing the way they the 17th minute.

— most recently going 1-0 against need to to finish out the team’s On the first of nine corners for Loyola (5-9-1, 1-5-1 Patriot League). final two conference matches of the Terriers, sophomore forward The Terriers had aga in out- the regular season.

Anna Heilferty took to position. shot their opponents, tripling the “I thought we played well, we Heilferty sent the ball into a Greyhounds attempts 12-4. just have to demonstrate more cluster of players in front of the Loyola goalkeeper Sumer Rahe respect in the game and f inish Army net, where freshman mid- made seven saves throughout the the game and not let up,” Feldman fielder Taylor Kofton gained con- match. The lone goal came off a sa id. “As fa r as how we played trol and knocked the ball in with def lection of the Greyhound’s the game and moved the ball and Cassalia on the ground behind her. own defender in the 87th minute. created attack and showed poise, All of Kofton’s four goals have Two goalkeepers — sophomore I thought we’re on the right track.” come against Patriot League rivals, making her the second in-conference goal scorer.

BU ended the first half with nine shots, but Feldman said halftime was when the team started to lose its focus.

“We relaxed just a hair against a team that has great athletes and are very well organized,” Feldman said. “… Score another goal or two and you can make a mistake, but we were on razor edge and we were acting like we weren’t.”

On the Black Knights’ second shot of the game, Army midfielder Morgan Walsh put up the tying tally after the Terrier defense failed to clear the ball from the 18-yard box of a rebound.

The Terriers increased its scoring attempts through the second half up to 13 but were unable to keep the game from going into overtime.

Heilferty put up eight shots through the game — adding to her league-leading total of 31 — including a heart-stopper off the the crossbar in the 108th minute.

In two overtime periods, the Black Knights were unable to get MAISIE MANSFIELD-GREENWALD/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF off a shot, but Cassalia held strong Senior defender Chelsea Churchill recorded four shots, including two shots on through the final minutes of the goal, Wednesday. game, ending with nine saves under

BOTTOM LINE FRIDAY, OCT. 20

SATURDAY, OCT. 20

SATURDAY, OCT. 20

SUNDAY, OCT. 21

Women’s hockey faces off against

Women’s soccer hosts Bucknell University during its Senior Day. Start time at 2 p.m.

Women’s hockey continues its series against the University of Maine at home at 4 p.m.

The New England Patriots play the Chicago Bears for Week 7, game starts at 1 p.m.

Lehigh University will face off against BU field hockey on New Balance Field at noon.

Men’s soccer returns to Patriot League play at the United States Naval Academy, 8 p.m.

Game seven between the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros starts at 7:39 p.m.

the University of Connecticut at Walter Brown Arena, 7 p.m.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24

Men’s soccer will play the United States Military Academy on Nickerson field at 7 p.m.