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HAPPY PLACE, 5

HEATING UP, 9

PATRIOT CHAMPS, 12

City removes trash and needles under BU bridge.

Instagram worth gallery pop-ups on Boylston St.

Earth month serves as a climate change reminder.

BU golf team wins second PL title in five years

THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2019

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

YEAR XLVII. VOLUME XCVI. ISSUE VIII

Boston University offers religious waivers to exempt students from vaccination requirements

BY DANA SUNG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University Student Health Services gives students the option to opt-out of certain vaccination requirements if it is conf lict with their religious beliefs.

On SHS’s website, it states that a “religious waiver” is given to students who believe that the vaccination requirements do not adhere to their religion. The website does not specify what types of vaccines can be waived.

Tyler Seubert, a patient services coordinator at SHS, said the process for receiving a religious waiver requires a letter and a meeting with SHS. “If you are looking to waive for religious reasons, you would basically write a letter stating the reason why you don’t want to take the vaccination,” Seubert said. “You would submit that and we would enter that into the system and you would make an appointment with one of our providers and we would go over the details of immunizations and then we would waive you after that process.”

While every state in the US requires students to be vaccinated, religious exemptions are allowed in all but three states, according to the Nationa l Conference of State Legislatures.

However, most states, including Massachusetts, do not allow exemptions for personal beliefs.

Although disputed by the scientific community, many people believe that vaccines are unsafe and can cause autism, but that is

Drilling distrupts students on Bay State

BY DANA SUNG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

cause autism nor any other health complications and I think it is important that people understand that. Also, I think the policy regarding religious waiver should be re-examined.”

Some students were unaware that there was a religious waiver option for required vaccines at BU. Daniela Kotsonis, a freshman in CAS studying biology, said she was not informed that this was part of the policy.

“I’d say that [anti-vaxxers] are

During Boston University’s Spring semester, drilling noises have filled Bay State Road, caused by test wells for the new Data Science Center.

BU spokesperson Colin Riley said that the school tries to have open communication with the construction crews that are working on campus.

“One constant in the city of Boston is that work crews can show up and begin doing scheduled work and sometimes unscheduled work.”

Riley said.

Riley said that BU is drilling near Bay State in order to create test wells.

These will test the grounding system to see how many wells they will need to build for the geothermal heating and cooling of the new Data Sciences Center.

Geothermal heat pumps “allows the system to reach fairly high efficiencies on the coldest of winter night,” according to the Green Energy Mechanical Inc. The test wells determine how many geothermal heat pumps are needed for the Data Sciences Center.

BU’s geothermal technology is part of the university’s Climate Action Plan. This project will consist of three different geothermal test wells that will take place in the parking lot of 645 Commonwealth Ave., the alleyway behind 184 Bay

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Students pass Boston University’s Student Health Services. SHS gives students the option to opt-out of certain vaccination requirements due to their religious beliefs.

not what the religious exemption is about.

The specifics of religious opposition to vaccines var y across religions and denominations. According to an article in the Croatian Medical Journal, Catholics who oppose vaccines do so because of vaccines that use “cell lines derived from a voluntarily aborted fetus,” like ones for rubella, hepatitis, and chicken pox.

Some Orthodox Protestant parents refuse to vaccinate their

children because it is “an act of interfering with divine providence.” Some Buddhists say vaccines go against one of the Ten Buddhist Precepts, “not taking life.”

Gracie Abdalla, freshman in the College of Arts in Science studying biology, said she doesn’t think the science is up for debate and the waiver might not be a good policy.

“It has been continuously proven that vaccines are safe,” Abdalla said. “Vaccines do not

City allocates $50,000 Ayanna Pressley leads conversation for immigrant defense on race, women’s rights in Brookline

BY MIA CATHELL & JOEL LAU DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Mayor Martin Walsh’s office announced Saturday that the proposed 2020 fiscal year budget will allocate $50,000 to support the Greater Boston Immigrant Defense Fund, which helps fund education and legal services for Boston’s immigrant communities.

Walsh said in a City press release that the defense fund, established in 2017, is a statement of Boston’s values and that immigrants deserve access to information about their rights.

“I am proud to include City funds in the FY2020 Budget to further the success demonstrated during the early stages of the program,” Walsh said in the press release, “and I thank those who have invested in our City’s wellbeing.”

The Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute launched a two-year pilot program of the defense fund in 2017, which was supposed to end in Dec. 2019, according to the press release.

However, the $50,000 dollars allocated by Walsh would “jumpstart” the defense fund’s third year by paying for counsel for approximately 30 Boston immigration cases, according to the press release.

MLRI immigration attorney Deirdre Giblin said while immigrants have a right to legal representation, the government is not required to provide a court-appointed lawyer. Since many immigrants lack the finances to hire their own counsel, Giblin said, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

BY NATALIE PATRICK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) spoke Tuesday about the importance

of building diverse relationships and women’s representation in government.

The event was hosted by Raul Fernandez, Boston University

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U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley and Raul Fernandez speaking about race and equality on April 23 at the Congregation Kehillath Israel.

Wheelock College of Education and Human Development associate dean for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion.

The event, titled “A Conversation on Race” and was held at Congregation Kehillath Israel.

Pressley, who became the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representative when she was elected to represent Massachusetts 7th District in November, headlined the event and was followed by a community discussion on the issue of race in Brookline.

Fernandez, who is currently running for the Brookline Select Board, said at the event that he has been inspired by Pressley’s work in Congress, as Boston City Councilor at-large and with multiple advocacy groups. “[Pressley] believes that the people closest to the pain should be closCONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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Students lack resources for BU’s multimedia requirement

crime logs

BY SARAH ILES DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University introduced the WR152 course this semester.

This Writing, Research, and Inquiry course brought a multimedia focus to the existing WR150 curriculum, but some BU students and faculty have had issues with access to video and audio equipment needed for the classes.

College of Arts and Sciences writing professor Jason Prentice, who is also the curriculum coordinator for WR152, teaches multimodal composition and said the new multimedia focus is important for BU. “Digital literacy, digital composition, digital learning — all that’s extremely important,” Prentice said.

“That’s where most of the important conversations are happening, whether they’re civic conversations or personal conversations or cultural conversation. They’re happening in the digital spheres.”

Prentice said it’s for this reason that the BU Hub — that was introduced this academic year — has a “digital/multimedia expression” requirement. WR152 was created to fulfil this Hub credit, but Prentice said so far, no actions have been taken by the university to increase access to multimedia equipment beyond purchasing Adobe Creative Suite for all students.

“That’s a huge curricular change at BU, people have been working on that for years,” Prentice said.

“Probably none of it’s going to be perfect … but we also found that virtually every other institution we looked at had something in the way of a digital media lab.”

The College of Communication provides specialty rooms for students to reserve, including editing suites, news studios and a podcast recording suite. There is also equipment available to rent — including microphones, cameras, lighting and tripods. However, only registered COM students are allowed to reserve and rent these resources.

The College of Fine Arts allows renting of cameras, microphones, computers, drawing pads and other equipment, but only for students in the School of Visual Arts within CFA. Prentice said he believes BU needs a digital media lab all students

BY MIA CATHELL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs between April 19–23.

Child’s fingers stuck in elevators at Agganis Arena BU Emergency Medical Services arrived to transport a child to Boston Children’s Hospital whose fingers were trapped in an elevator at Agganis Arena at 6:47 p.m. on Friday.

Indecent exposure on the Esplanade A male allegedly exposed himself to a passerby near the Silber Way footbridge Monday at 1:15 p.m.

Vehicle disabled along Commonwealth Ave A vehicle was parked in the middle of Commonwealth Avenue and obstructed traffic Monday at 5:42 p.m. The owner said the vehicle ran out of gas. The American Automobile Association arrived for assistance.

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A student working at Field Production Services located in BU’s College of Communication.

can access for classes like WR152.

“We needed a digital media lab years ago,” Prentice said, “and by a digital media lab, I mean a space where we have an audio recording facility, like say, a podcasting booth, and a video recording room with green screen. Light kit installed and a camera. We needed equipment loan, tripods, portable camcorders, portable light kits, mikes, accessories, tablets with styluses.”

Prentice said that he thinks “perfect has become the enemy of the good,” and that BU should start small so students have some resources to work with.

“We’re just talking about tens of thousands of dollars we could begin to address the needs of students here at BU,” Prentice said. “It is relatively low hanging fruit for BU to supply the general population with a few podcasting booths, which can be as simple as a quiet closet.”

The one BU department that has equipment accessible to all students is the Geddes Language Center — which has equipment and

audio recording rooms — but these resources can only be rented out by professors for their students, not by students themselves.

While COM and the CFA allows equipment rentals to their students, other colleges do not have any equipment readily available to students.

Sophomore Angela Lian, a visual arts major at in CFA, said she when she wants to check equipment out, all she has to do is sign her name.

“As a CFA student you can just go to the library on the fifth floor and there’s a guy at a desk and you say ‘I need to check out equipment’ and you just sign your name and then give it back to them a certain day or a certain time,” Lian said.

For senior Alex van Tol, checking out equipment for her documentary production class, a film and television crossover course, was much more difficult.

“Our journalism professor wasn’t able to clear us for the journalism package which is like a package that has basically all the equipment you would need,” Van Tol said.

Van Tol said she is frustrated over not being able to use BU’s audio and visual equipment. She said, “All of the resources are right there and I just can’t access them.”

However, Carroll Beauvais, a writing professor whose class involves a multimedia project, wrote in an email that access to the equipment is unnecessary for her course.

“My WR 150 class does culminate in a movie assignment,” Beauvais wrote, “but the students can do the filming they need on their phones.”

Prentice said he realizes getting the funding for a BU digital media lab is harder than it seems, but he is optimistic that it will happen.

“The administration is not monolithic … there’s a lot of us who are advocating for it pretty strenuously,” Prentice said, “and I do think we’re at a point at a tipping point in a good way now or that we will be in the near future.”

Waivers for vacinations VACINES, FROM PAGE 1 really selfish because they are not only putting themselves in danger but they are also putting others in danger as well,” said Kotsonis.

“And I think [the waiver] should be removed because I wasn’t informed about it beforehand. I also think that students’ health should be prioritized over certain beliefs. Giving some students that option is not giving the rest of the student population the safety that they need.”

Amanda O’Connor, a sophomore in the College of General Studies, said she there should not be waivers to be exempt from vaccines.

“I think all kids should be vaccinated or not allowed in schools,” said O’Connor.

“Because they are making other

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kids open to diseases. Also the parents [are] put[ting] their child at risk for these diseases that are preventable.”

Frank Serpe, a sophomore in CAS, said he was concerned about the religious waivers.

“Personally I don’t support that,” Serpe said. “I understand that certain people have religious views and that should be respected — Orthodox, Catholic, Judaism, Islam, whatever it is — but when it comes down to public health safety, I think health takes precedence.”

When reached for comment, BU spokesperson Colin Riley did not comment on the policy other than to emphasize that “documentation and an appointment to review the request with a medical provider is required.”

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Drug possession at GSU

An arrest was made Saturday for possession of a Class A substance at the George Sherman Union at 10:26 p.m.

Bag blocked fire escape at 154 Bay State On Monday at 6:16 p.m., Facilities Management and Planning requested an officer to 154 Bay State Road to secure a bag that blocked the fire escape. No new signs of forced entry were found.

CITY

crime logs

BY EVELYN BERGMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs between April 19-22.

Blackmail and harassment A resident reported on Monday they were being blackmailed by an individual they met through the anonymous social media app “Whispers.”

After the victim an inappropriate

Sudden death At 4:18 a.m. on Sunday, an officer responded to a call reporting a potential sudden death. Upon arrival, the officer found the victim lying in a bed and was declared deceased at 4:29 a.m.

Fight on Bay State Road

A fight was reported to have taken place Friday at 212 Bay State Rd. at 9:49 p.m. No arrests were made.

Possession of Class C drugs on Allston St. Officers pulled over a vehicle they believed to have witnessed conducting a drug deal at Allston Street on Friday. In the vehicle, officers found a half pound of marijuana, 34 Juul cartridges, 21 edibles, 54 tetrahydrocannabinol cartridges, 2 lip balms containing THC, $1310 and a drug ledger detailing money balances, product amounts and addresses.

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Data Sciences Center construction DRILLING, FROM PAGE 1 State Road, and the corner of Granby St. and Bay State Road.

These test wells will show if geothermal wells can be a viable source of energy source for the new building, and presuming that these are functional, 27 additional wells will be drilled.

The Data Sciences Center will be built across from the College of Communication. It was proposed in 2012 by BU President Robert Brown and University Provost Jean Morrison.

The project is critical to the University to give expansion space to the important fields that are driving the use of modern data sciences across the spectrum of our economy

and society,” Brown said last October.

Riley said he is unsure of when the test drilling is going to end on Bay State Road, but said BU and private contractors have open communication.

He said faculty and students will be informed of any major projects that are taking place.According to the Boston Planning and Development Agency, the Data Sciences Center will combine the departments of computer science, mathematics, computational science, and engineering to form an “iconic building at the heart of Boston University’s Charles River Campus.”

Some BU students are concerned about the construction that will take

Trash Under BU Bridge

BY NATALIE PATRICK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A build-up of waste that had accumulated from a homeless encampment under the Boston University Bridge — reportedly included used needles according to Boston 25 News — has been removed.

The piles of debris were originally so high it took city maintenance crews two days to finish cleaning, according to Boston 25 News.

BU Police Chief Kelly Nee said BUPD will now coordinate with the Boston Department of Conservation and Recreation and the City of Cambridge to secure the area.

“I think what will happen now is that whatever is BU property, we will do our best to secure that to prevent this encampment from growing again,” Nee said, “and then DCR will watch their swath of property, and Cambridge will watch theirs.”

Nee said the area became an encampment for some people who were experiencing homelessness and she and the department hope to make the appropriate recovery services available for them.

“It’s all about providing services to the homeless and to the chemically dependent population, and when they have no place else to go and they find something the word gets out a little bit,” Nee said. “So we just want to make sure those folks get the services they need, and we want to make sure that our community gets the services it needs.”

As for the safety of students, Nee said BUPD did not receive any reports of students being endangered by the encampment.

BUPD Lieutenant Daniel Healy said bridges across Boston are attractive locations for homeless encampments because their structures provide shelter from the elements.

“If somebody is outdoors, for example, underneath a bridge structure or some type of a superstructure with there is cover,” Healy said. “The Bowker Bridge, we’ve seen before — that’s down near Kenmore square, and [Massachusetts] Turnpike as well.”

Healy said the design of the BU Bridge in particular allows homeless residents to shelter from the wind.

“I think the BU Bridge gives them some cover because it has sort of a giant wall face so you can kind of break the wind,” Healy said, “and so it provides some break from the weather for them.”

Caitlin McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Boston Public Health Commission, wrote in an email that

Boston provides kiosks for residents to properly dispose of used needles and more will be created in the future.

“Right now, the city has seven kiosks across the city, providing a safe place for all residents to dispose of sharps.” McLaughlin wrote. “As Mayor Walsh just announced, the city plans to install ten more kiosks, bringing the total number of city-owned sharp containers to seventeen.”

McLaughlin wrote any resident who finds a used, discarded needle in a public place such as a sidewalk should immediately call the City of Boston at 311 so they can deploy a cleanup crew.

“The Mobile Sharps Team will find and collect the needles,” Mclaughlin wrote. “The Mobile Sharps Team is made up of four dedicated staff members that pick up discarded syringes. In addition, there are eight outreach workers assigned to Newmarket Square area to connect people to recovery services that also pick up discarded syringes.”

Amanda Kong, a freshman in the College of General Studies, said while she thinks individuals should be responsible for their own trash, BU should do all it can to keep the area clean and free from debris.

“I think it’s everybody’s responsibility to keep your area, your environment, clean,” Kong said. “But I mean, if BU should have more involvement [in cleaning], sure, why not? I don’t see an issue.”

Quinn Chappelle, a freshman in CGS, said that she thinks people are more likely to leave trash in public areas, such as under the BU bridge, when they feel like there will not be a consequence.

“When they feel like they’re unchecked and no one’s watching, people just do what they want,” Chappelle said. “They don’t really consider the repercussions besides like, this is my immediate desire to get rid of this thing.”

Francis Okyere, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he thinks the university and the City should work together to clean up the area around the BU Bridge because both entities are impacted when trash piles up there.

“It is under the bridge, so it should be taken care of by BU,” Okyere said.

“The city also should do something about it because the City of Boston as a whole is affected by this.”

Nyah Jordan contributed to the reporting of this article.

place in the following years from the construction of the Data Sciences Center.

After this test drilling, the construction is set to begin soon and the university is aiming to finish by the spring of 2022.

Antwan Jones, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he does not think the drilling should be going on during the Winter semester.

“They should do it in the summer.”

Jones said. “There are less students here during the summer.”

Elena Gonzalez, a freshman in the College of General Studies, said she believes that the university should have better timing when it comes to construction that might disrupt students.

“When students are trying to study or sleep or anything, I could see how it could be pretty disturbing.” Gonzalez said. “This could be Adm_BostonUniversityAd_11_19_18.pdf 1 1/24/19 1:53 PM definitely pushed off towards the Drilling noises have occured on Bay State Road as a result of summer.”

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FY2020 plan to include funds to support immigrant legal fees FUNDS, FROM PAGE 1

they end up without legal aid.

Giblin said Walsh spearheaded the creation of the defense fund in order to gather private donations that would ultimately help pay for immigrant’s legal fees.

“Nonprofits are traditionally underfunded,” Giblin said, “and immigration communities are typically underserved.”

The defense fund began in the Fall of 2017 with $1 million initially awarded to five legal services providers and six nonprofit community partners in the Greater Boston Area, according to the City’s press release.

Giblin said while the MLRI mainly advises non-profits on defending immigrants in the courts, her organization also carries out impact litigation, which seeks to change larger immigration policies on issues such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and asylum through court decisions. Impact legislation, also known as test cases, refers to a lawsuit brought forward for in order to change spe-

cific policies.

As for the City of Boston, Giblin said Walsh’s administration has been a “great leader” in the area of immigrant rights.

“I think there’s other cities that are also providing or starting to provide more support [for immigrants],” Giblin said, “which I think the $50,000 is a ref lection that cities themselves realize how important it is to support their immigrant community,” Giblin said the City’s expenditures for the coming fiscal year are a “great down payment” for “universal representation,” since immigrants do not have access to pro bono legal services.

“In the criminal system, when someone is detained and is awaiting their hearing or their trial, they have a court-appointed counsel, which is publicly funded,” Giblin said. “That’s not privately funded. There’s no similarity for immigrants who are detained.”

Giblin wrote in an email that local philanthropic, corporate and legal partners have contributed to the fund’s success, including The Barr Foundation, The

Boston Foundation, The Fish Family Foundation, Foley Hoag LLP, The Herman and Frieda L. Miller Foundation, and The Klarman Family Foundation.

Non- pr of it s a s s o c i ate d with the defense fund, Giblin wrote, include the Brazilian Workers Center, Catholic Social Services of Fall River, Centro Presente, Chelsea Collaborative and Essex County Community Organization.

MLAC’s website states that Greater Boston is home to over 800,000 immigrant and refugee residents, including an estimated 180,000 individuals without immigration status who may need deportation defense.

Detained immigrants who have access to legal representation are five-and-a-half times more likely to be granted some form of relief by the court, according to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Dana Borkun, 27, of Brookline, said she appreciates Walsh’s contribution to the defense fund.

“I just think it’s really hard to get a law yer,” Borkun said.

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Walsh’s announced Saturday his proposed 2020 budget allocating for $50,000 to support the Greater Boston Immigrant Defense Fund.

“They’re really expensive. It’s very easy to fall into traps legally.

I just don’t feel like there is adequate [legal] representation.”

Jan Walker, a 67-year-old Cambridge resident, said the media plays a significant role in advancing xenophobia.

“I’m so deluged with the media stuff that f lies around, I’m not sure I could even articulate our official [immigration] policy as it is at this point,” Walker said.

“But I am 100 percent sure that the balance of media coverage

is imbalanced. There are parties stirring anti-immigrant sentiments. And that’s showing up in the media.”

Victor Lun, 21, of Brookline, said immigrants need more support in the face of the President Donald Trump’s administration.

“Because of what Donald Trump’s agendas are,” Lun said, “[The government] is probably doing a disservice to immigrants. They deserve much better treatment”

“A Conversation on Race” panel hosted by Wheelock dean PRESSLEY, FROM PAGE 1

est to the power,” Fernandez said, “and also that a diversity of voices in the political process is essential to making policies to benefit more Americans,” .

Fernandez also said he was impressed by Pressley’s personality and passion.

“I gotta tell you, I’ve been personally inspired by her courage, by her tenacity, and by the heart that she brings to everything that she does,” Fernandez said.

Pressley said at the event she believes having relationships with her constituents and understanding the issues that affect them is an important part of the democratic process and fighting discrimination.

“At the core of all things politic, and at the core of any meaningful work, is relationship,” Pressley said, “and how important is it that we be in a good relationship if you want to do the business of social, racial, economic, gender, green justice in order for us to do good business, good

work.”

Pressley also recounted how she was able to advocate for gender equality in Boston while serving on City Council by pressuring every city department and program to give women the same representation as their male counterparts.

“Our first budget cycle, I asked every agency and department that came before us, ‘What do you do for the girls?’ And their answers were a little bit more than one syllable,” Pressley said.

Pressley said by the next budget cycle, the City’s programs and agencies were better prepared to report on how they were serving Boston’s female population.

“They came with binders, multi-colored, cross tab because someone was going to ask the question,” Pressley said, “and that is the power of representation.”

After Pressley and Fernandez finished their conversation, Fernandez moderated a panel discussion with community groups and activist lead-

ers on the issues of race in Brookline.

Brookline High School senior Vishni Samaraweera spoke during the panel how her organization Students Against Institutional Racism created inclusive curriculum that is currently being implemented at her school.

“We created a handbook that aligns with the eighth grade U.S. history curriculum,” Samaraweera said, “that incorporates marginalized perspectives from people of color, from women, different perspectives throughout history, that are equally needed to be told and are not taught in classrooms.”

Anne Greenwald, a panel speaker and school nurse in the Boston Public School system, said during the discussion that she has always tried to connect her own ethnic liberation with other members of her community.

“From a very early age I always knew that my liberation was connected to everyone else’s liberation,” Greenwald said. “I think it’s something I learned growing up Jewish in my community, and I have sort of

tried to live that life as much as I possibly can.”

Malcolm Doldron, a 41-year-old Brookline resident, attended the discussion and said he was impressed by Pressley’s conversation and thought residents left with a sense of pride for their local leaders.

“I think it was outstanding to listen to Ayanna Pressley express her views and her conviction and power,” Doldron said. “It was just very impactful.”

Doldron said he thought it was a fantastic and necessary conversation.

“I think that everybody can walk away from this conversation with a sense of pride in our representatives locally,” Doldron said, “with the seed that was planted to act to be active,” Sara Ting, a 69-year-old from Jamaica Plain, attended the event and said every person should focus on examining their biases and improving themselves.

“One of the questions we all need to ask ourselves is, ‘What does it mean to be a human being?’” Ting

said. “If we all began our day with making a commitment, ‘I’m going to try and be the best human being today,’ the world can be transformed.”

Ting said people who are not willing to address their own biases are not able to grow to be accepting of people with different cultures.

“And what people don’t realize — you only limit yourself, you limit your own personal growth and your professional growth if you don’t work on your biases,” Ting said. “Because how effective can you be as a leader if you say, ‘I can only head up departments with people that look like me’ or ‘I can only lead projects with people that look like me.’ You can’t.”

Marina Schachnik, a 29-yearold from Brookline, attended the event and said she was impressed by Fernandez’s response to the issues brought up during the discussion.

“There’s a lot of tension and conflict within the community,” Schachnik said, “so hearing some of those questions, and how he was able to feel in those solidified he definitely has my vote.”

CAMPUS CALENDAR Activities on campus this week THURSDAY, FEB. 28

FRIDAY, MARCH 1

SATURDAY, MARCH 2

SUNDAY, MARCH 3

Student Discovery Seminar - Hollywood Blacklist

Liquid Fun’s 24-Hour Comedy Marathon

IDEA 2019 Conference: Embrace Your Impact

Dim Sum at Warren Towers

MONDAY, MARCH 4 LGBTQ+A

771 Commonwealth Ave., 5th floor 6 p.m.

BU Central 8 p.m.

Questrom School of Business 8:30 a.m.

Warren Towers 11 a.m

100 Bay State Road 6 p.m.

Hosted by Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

Hosted by Liquid Fun

Hosted by Innovate@BU

Hosted by BU Dining Services

Hosted by BU Wellness and Prevention Services

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BU researchers suggest hope for improving CTE diagnoses

BY AMELIA MURRAY-COOPER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is an undiagnosable, incurable condition found in individuals, particularly athletes, who have suffered repetitive brain injuries. Currently, the disease can only be diagnosed postmortem, but a new study led

by Boston University researchers could change that.

The study was led by BU School of Medicine professor Robert Stern, who also works as the director of clinical research at BU’s CTE Center.

The CTE Center conducts research on CTE and other longterm consequences of repeated brain trauma, particularly in athletes and military personnel.

The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine this month and was a collaborative effort between Stern’s team and researchers in Boston at the Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, as well as institutions in Arizona.

Charles Adler, a professor of

neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, said in he wanted to work on this project because he is interested in finding biomarkers for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders.

“Using a n ex perimenta l Positron emission tomography scans to detect abnormal tau during life would be a huge advance in the field,” Adler said, “as we could then identify these individuals during life and then hopefully develop treatments to stop or slow the disease.”

CTE has affected many professional players, including the late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. The condition has been linked to repeated hits to the head, which raises questions about the safety of contact sports for professionals and youths alike.

Last April, researchers at the BU CTE Center studied the brains of football players who played tackle football before the age of 12 and found that repeated head injuries in childhood were associated with a lower resiliency to brain diseases later in life.

However, the study also notes

that in some cases, former players had similar levels of tau as people in the control group.

“The magnitude of the increase was relatively small and there was some overlap between some former players and controls,” Adler said. “There also was a correlation between the abnormal tau PET levels and total number of years playing tackle football, although there was no correlation to cognitive test performance or to mood or behavior symptoms.”

PET scans were used in the study to compare the brains of living former NFL players against a control group. The NFL players in this study all exhibited symptoms consistent with CTE, including impaired judgment, mood swings and memory problems.

The study looked at 26 former NFL players between the ages of 40 and 49, compared to a control group of 31 people of similar age who had not experienced head trauma.

Compared to the control group, the former players’ brains showed significantly higher lev-

els of a tangled protein called tau, which is a sign of CTE, in specific regions of the brain associated with CTE. Currently, the disease can only be diagnosed post-mortem by looking at patterns of tau deposits in the brains of deceased victims. Since it cannot yet be diagnosed in living people, it is difficult for researchers to determine how common CTE is.

Stern explained in a press release this experimental test was an important step towards being able to clinically diagnose CTE during a patient’s lifetime.

However, this study does not indicate the test is ready to be used in clinics yet, according to Stern.

Tricia Post, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and president of the BU Women’s Rugby Football Club, said she has had two concussions in her four years playing rugby at BU, but she did not consider them to be serious.

“I am concerned about concussions and brain injury, but it’s always in that ‘oh, it won’t happen to me’ mentality, if that

makes sense,” Post said.

However, while Post said her injuries were not serious, she also explained that all professionals would say “there is no such thing as a minor concussion.”

Post said that during practice, the team always works to make sure players are using the proper tackling technique and know how to fall, where to put their heads and how to initiate contact.

“While there is no way for us to completely eliminate the risk, we do find ways to reduce it,” she said.

Matthew McGunigle, a junior in CAS, plays for the BU Men’s Rugby Football Club and said he is concerned about safety, but that during games, brain injury prevention is not his primary concern.

“The risk of permanent brain injuries is always something that I’m thinking about when I’m not playing,” McGunigle said.

“However, when I am playing I don’t really pay attention to it as much and only focus on playing as well as possible.”

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New Instagram-worthy pop-up helps you find a Happy Place

BY ELIJAH KRAMER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

At 500 Boylston Street, a brown building stands. On the outside, its appearance blends in with the cityscape. Upon entering the building, however, bright colors and textures, coupled with varying sights, smells and tastes bring smiles to visitor’s faces — creating what can only be described as a “Happy Place.”

“Happy Place,” the name of the pop-up gallery currently open in Back Bay, is on an international tour, having previously made stops in Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto before arriving in Boston, where it will remain until June 2.

On their website, the gallery describe themselves as “a special place where anyone who walks in is surrounded by all things HAPPY.” Lynn Jiang, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she first heard of Happy Place when her friends in California posted about it. She said she immediately got her ticket when she found out it was coming to Boston.

While Jiang said the gallery did not live up to her expectations, she said she enjoyed the “cute, eye-catching” set up of the place.

“For people who want some good shots for their Instagram feed, it is a must,” she said. “For people who want to get happy … I don’t really see the need to go.”

Happy Place offers a variety of photo opportunities from start to finish. Employees greet visitors at the door, offering smiles and treats, and everyone who enters “the Candy Room” gets a paper cup filled with M&Ms to munch on as they observe

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People admire the giant yellow heels and other pieces on display at the Happy Place pop up in Boylston.

the room’s lipstick-kissed wallpaper and a giant XO sculpture.

Jared Paul, the founder of Happy Place, said the inspiration for the pop-up came from he and his wife always looking for fun places to take their three kids. He said they enjoyed art museums and sites with “immersive entertainment” and he wanted to bring something like that to the public. “[Happy Place] is definitely designed to entice people to document it and share it,” Paul said, “but there’s also a lot of things you can’t do on Instagram — you can’t smell the cookies, you can’t taste the candy, you can’t touch things.”

Paul said he had his “aha moment” for Happy Place in 2017.

“Instead of creating something that would exist on a concert stage or a theatrical stage,” Paul said. “I wanted to create something that was just as grand — that was a walk-through immersive, where the building itself becomes the entertainment and the show.”

Inside Happy Place, a doorway of golden, plastic streamers leads to a long hallway with several multi-col-

ored nooks, each centered around a different prop. One nook featured white chains hanging from the ceiling, surrounded by bright red walls.

Another was rubber ducky themed, and one featured hundreds of small mirrors taped to the walls.

Pop-up attendees brought in everything from iPhones to DSLR cameras to take pictures in the colorful setups. As much as it is an immersive experience, Paul said it’s also a technological one.

“People document and interact through technology,” Paul said.

“That’s really an experience of anything today, so that’s definitely part of the experience in Happy Place, but not entirely.”

Paul said that unlike at restaurants and other places where people use their phones and social media to “escape” the moment, he said people use their technology to “extenuate the experience.” He said people are present while in Happy Place.

Another hallway in the pop-up takes visitors to a Cookie Room.

Here, employees offer free chocolate chip cookies in front of a massive plastic cookie. Further down

the hall is the Flower Room, where hundreds of fake flowers hang from the ceiling on strings.

A Happy Place employee stands ready to take photos in each room.

One employee commented that they probably take over 200 photos a day.

Geneve Lau, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said the Happy Place was about what she had expected. She said she did lot of research before venturing into Happy Place, and has been to popups like it in the past.

“I liked that there was the food element include,” Lau said. “Eating a cookie in the cookie room was cute. I also liked that there were designated employees at the hot spots, such as the ball-pit or the upside down room. I also liked that

there were a variety of rooms.”

Paul explained that leaving a city in preparation for traveling to the next stop on their tour takes about a month. He said that with each location, they try to add something inspired by the area, and that there were “exciting things” planned for the future.

For each city Happy Place has been, and each place it will go, Paul said he hopes it will put a smile on people’s faces as they walk through.

“I don’t think I can solve [customers’] problems, but I think I can take their mind off them,” Paul said. “Maybe they’ll have little more warmth in their hearts. And maybe, on a very small level, that will make the world a better place.”

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Two girls jump excitedly into a ball pit at the Happy Place pop up exhibit on Boylston street.

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SCIENCE

Two BU astronomers help create first images of black hole

BY SARAH READDEAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Boston University astronomy professor Alan Marscher was one of two chosen

Two Boston University professors became part of a historic feat this month, when, along with over 200 researchers from institutions around the world, they helped create the very first image of a black hole.

BU astronomy professors Alan Marscher and senior research scientist Svetlana Jorstad were chosen to work on the project.

“This is the confirmation that at the center of galaxies, you really do have black holes,” Marscher said.

The group of scientists, known as the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, collected data from eight radio telescopes placed around the world. Through a technique known as very-long-baseline interferometry, the scientists essentially created one larger telescope with a higher resolution.

With this more powerful telescope, the scientists were able to cut through a boundary known as the event horizon — where the team’s name comes from — which is the point beyond which no light can escape from a black hole’s center.

Four day’s worth of images were collected in April 2017 and over the past two years the team has been analyzing the data. The results were officially published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on April 10.

The two BU researchers were invited to join the team by Sheperd Doeleman, the director of EHT, because VLBI is a technique that BU has been using for about 25 years, Marscher said.

“They wanted to tap into our experience and data … BU is very much a part [of this project],” Marscher said. “[This is just] another example of … BU being at the forefront of research.”

The supermassive black hole imaged by EHT is at the center of the elliptical galaxy Messier 87, one of the closest active galaxies at around 53 million light-years away from Earth, Jorstad said.

The black hole itself is 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun and is bigger in size than our solar system, Marscher said.

But why M87? Why not the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy? Even though our black

hole, Sagittarius A*, is closer, it is a lot smaller than M87, so they end up appearing about the same size, Marscher said.

BU assistant professor of astronomy Catherine Espaillat said M87 is at a 20 degree inclination, nearly face-on. She said there is a lot of interstellar medium obstructing the view to Sgr A*, but because M87 is face-on, there is much less dust and gas to look past.

The brightness of Sgr A* changes quickly, Marscher said, and surrounding matter moves during the exposure, meaning they need to calibrate or adjust the image accordingly.

There is already data for Sgr A*, but reduction of the data is still in progress, Jorstad said.

By the end of the summer, Marscher said, the team will know whether they will be able to compensate for the changing data and if it will be possible to make an image of a black hole.

Jorstad said simulations and theories correctly predicted what the image would look like.

The image] confirmed that our knowledge about the black hole is correct,” Jorstad said. “The most important thing is that the general theory of relativity is correct.”

However, both Marscher and Jorstad said they were surprised by some aspects of the image. Jorstad

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did not think the image would be as clear as it was, or that they would be able to see the shadow, she explained.

Marscher said he expected to see deeper into the jet.

Nik Gjonbalaj, a freshman studying physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he watched a livestream of when the image was revealed. “[They] took a picture of a black hole 53 million light-years away,” Gjonbalaj said. “Do you understand how insane that is?”

Gjonbalaj also said in the future, he would like to see a picture of a quasar, a large mass at the center of a galaxy notable for being highly luminous and potentially containing a black hole.Talia Leung, a freshman studying mathematics in CAS, said she thought it was amazing to see how scientists could capture an image of something so far away.

“It shows how BU really invests in

… using these technologies,” she said.

Jorstad said she hopes BU students will be able to participate in future scientific endeavors like the creation of the first image of the black hole.

“The contribution of young scientists,” Jorstad said, “is very significant in this project.”

Kyle Davi, who graduated from COM in 2018, had Lehr as a professor. Davi wrote in a Facebook message that he felt no surprise when he heard about the upcoming movie because Lehr knows what he’s doing.

“He’s never afraid of a challenge, something which undoubtedly this will be,” Davi wrote. “Lehr is an excellent writer, and a fantastic storyteller. If someone in Hollywood had the brains to get one of his novels on the screen, I have no doubt that it’s going to be an excellent film.”

Senior research scientist and Boston University astronomy professor, Svetlana Jorstad, was chosen to work on the project responsible for getting the first image of a black hole.

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Afrofuturism Arts Expo presents local “black futurity” in art

BY KAITLYN RIGGIO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Two Boston University professors became part of a historic feat this month, when, along with over 200 researchers from institutions around the world, they helped create the very first image of a black hole.

BU astronomy professors Alan Marscher and senior research scientist Svetlana Jorstad were chosen to work on the project.

“This is the confirmation that at the center of galaxies, you really do have black holes,” Marscher said.

The group of scientists, known as the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, collected data from eight radio telescopes placed around the world.

Through a technique known as very-long-baseline interferometry, the scientists essentially created one larger telescope with a higher resolution.

With this more powerful telescope, the scientists were able to cut through a boundary known as the event horizon — where the team’s name comes from — which is the point beyond which no light can escape from a black hole’s center.

Four day’s worth of images were collected in April 2017 and over the past two years the team has been analyzing the data. The results were officially published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on April 10.

The t wo BU researchers were invited to join the team by Sheperd Doeleman, the director of EHT, because VLBI is a technique that BU has been using for about 25 years, Marscher said.

“They wanted to tap into our experience and data … BU is very much a part [of this project],” Marscher said. “[This is just] another example of … BU being at the forefront of research.”

The supermassive black hole imaged by EHT is at the center of the elliptical galaxy Messier 87, one of the closest active galaxies at around 53 million light-years away from Earth, Jorstad said.

The black hole itself is 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun and is bigger in size than our solar system, Marscher said.

But why M87? Why not the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy? Even though our black hole, Sagittarius A*, is closer, it is a lot smaller than M87, so they end up appearing about the same size, Marscher said.

BU assistant professor of astronomy Catherine Espaillat said M87 is at a 20 degree inclination, nearly face-on. She said there is a lot of interstellar medium obstructing the view to Sgr A*, but because M87 is face-on, there is much less dust and gas to look past.

The brightness of Sgr A* changes quickly, Marscher said, and surrounding matter moves

during the exposure, meaning they need to calibrate or adjust the image accordingly.

There is already data for Sgr A*, but reduction of the data is still in progress, Jorstad said.

By the end of the summer, Marscher said, the team will know whether they will be able to compensate for the changing data and if it will be possible to make an image of a black hole.

Jorstad said simulations and theories correctly predicted what the image would look like.

The image] confirmed that our knowledge about the black hole is correct,” Jorstad said.

“The most important thing is that the general theory of relativity is correct.”

However, both Marscher and

Jorstad said they were surprised by some aspects of the image.

Jorstad did not think the image would be as clear as it was, or that they would be able to see the shadow, she explained. Marscher said he expected to see deeper into the jet.

Nik Gjonbalaj, a freshman studying physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he watched a livestream of when the image was revealed. “[They] took a picture of a black hole 53 million light-years away,” Gjonbalaj said. “Do you understand how insane that is?”

Gjonbalaj also said in the future, he would like to see a picture of a quasar, a large mass at the center of a galaxy notable for being highly luminous and poten-

tially containing a black hole.

Talia Leung, a freshman studying mathematics in CAS, said she thought it was amazing to see how scientists could capture an image of something so far away.

“It shows how BU really invests in … using these technologies,” she said.

Jorstad said she hopes BU students will be able to participate in future scientific endeavors like the creation of the first image of the black hole.

“The contribution of young scientists,” Jorstad said, “is very significant

Sheree Renee Thomas, a writer and editor, speaks at a Afrofuturism conference on April 18 at Boston University.

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COMMUNITY

Rhett’s owner shares the quirks of BU’s beloved campus terrier

BY JENNIFER SURYADJAJA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Walk past the George Sherman Union often enough and you’re likely to catch a glimpse of a Boston terrier sitting and smiling, showing its pink, wet tongue while being pet by a crowd of Boston University students.

That terrier’s name is Rhett — named after BU’s official school mascot, also a Boston terrier — and belongs to Allston resident Calvin Iwanicki. Iwanicki, who said he often prefers the nickname “Rhett’s Dad,” is a BU alumna himself, graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

Iwanicki said Rhett is an Arkansan Boston terrier who was born on Jan. 26, 2008. Iwanicki discovered 10-week-old Rhett on an online breeder’s website and then flew to Arkansas to pick up Rhett and bring him to Boston.

Although Rhett now lives with Iwanicki and his wife, Iwanicki said the terrier still has four other siblings back in Arkansas. Iwanicki said when Rhett first arrived in Boston, he seemed confused.

“He looks out of the box and he looks at us like, who are you freaks?

Where are my brothers and sisters and where the hell am I?” Iwanicki said.

Rhett’s fame started when a BU photographer took a picture of Rhett for a BU “Scarlet Fever” spirit day advertisement, Iwanicki said.

Since Rhett has been walking around BU since September 2008, Iwanicki said the Boston terrier has started recognizing different spots on campus. He is fond of the GSU and College of Arts and Sciences, but the Warren Towers elevator is his new favorite spot, as he enjoys going up and down while being held

by Iwanicki.

BU Spokesperson Colin Riley said as students on campus pass

by Rhett and Iwanicki as they are walking along campus, they can be reminded of BU’s mascot.

“The characteristics of the breed are characteristics we want in our athletic teams and in our student body,” Riley said. “Loyal, smart, they always have that permanent smile.”

As an alumni of the BU Figure Skating Club, Iwanicki said he

plays music in the BU skating arena on Friday nights where, of course, Rhett tags along, too.

Without the music, Iwanicki said, the arena is so quiet, “It’s like a mausoleum. You could hear Rhett screaming at the stands.”

As Rhett continues to spend more time around West Campus, Iwanicki said he has been exposed to a number of sports teams and clubs practicing on the fields.

According to Iwanicki, Rhett likes the Women’s Soccer and Softball team, but thinks figure skating is the best.

“I bring him to the lobby of the Case Gym and you can hear some music and he’s like, ‘they’re there’ and he drags me through the doors,” Iwanicki said.

Iwanicki said Rhett shares habits that are common in other Boston terriers.

“Boston terriers snore really loud and they can clear the room out with a fart,” Iwanicki said.

“Sometimes [he does it] at the same time. He’s got a talent.”

With a campus surrounded by food, Iwanicki said he has introduced Rhett to some restaurants around BU. Ever since he discovered Rhett’s favorite food is chicken, Iwanicki makes it a point to frequent Raising Cane’s — a popular West Campus eatery specializing in chicken fingers — where he peels the bread off a piece of chicken and feeds it to Rhett.

On occasion, Rhett also enjoys drinking some alcoholic beverages.

In particular, Vermont beer Magic Hat #9. Iwanicki said he often pours a small amount of beer into Rhett’s bowl, lets it go flat, and then allows Rhett to drink it.

“He has elevated taste,” Iwanicki said. “Once he starts licking it, he never stops, he just kinda chugs it.”

Rhett and Iwanicki come to campus whenever they please.

Iwanicki said he uses the weather and Rhett’s energy level to determine when is best to come to and leave campus.

“I can tell, he’s getting tired so [we] go home,” said Iwanicki.

“He likes to hang out here [at BU], where his fan base is.”

Riley said he likes seeing Rhett

The real-life Rhett poses at Boston University.

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on campus with Iwanicki and thinks it helps students who miss their own pets.

“One of the things that can make students homesick is leaving their pets behind,” Riley said. “It’s nice to see other dogs.”

Aside from hanging out on Commonwealth Avenue, Iwanicki said Rhett has made many guest appearances at campus events, such as the club fair Splash and commencement. Iwanicki also said he has seen students crying over not seeing Rhett anymore during past graduation ceremonies.

Nafeesa Connolly, the assistant director of marketing and promotions of the BU Department of Athletics, wrote in an email that although Rhett the dog is not the official school mascot, she still supports the fact that Iwanicki brings him to campus events.

“It’s great when his owner brings him on campus to events and games,” Connolly wrote. “He certainly brings joy to students, the campus, and the community.”

Rhett gets some love and attention from his fans at the Boston University George Sherman Union.

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Rhett sits on a bench at the Boston University Beach.

PHOTO BY GABRIELLA HUTCHINGS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Real-life Boston terrier Rhett poses in front of Marsh Chapel.

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8 OPINION

EDITORIAL

The Civil Rights Act protects gender identity, not sexual orientation, but new legislation should aim to do both The Supreme Court accepted three cases on Monday that will determine whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 guarantees protection from discrimination in the workplace based on gender identity and sexual orientation. The Court should use this as an opportunity to apply protections against sex discrimination to gender identity, but sexual orientation, which is just as essential to support, does not necessarily come within the guarantees of Title VII. Gender identity is absolutely protected under the law. Discrimination based on transgender identity is inherently motivated by the sex of the employee because it involves their sex at birth, as was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. But, sexual orientation — although equally as important to protect — is about the gender someone is attracted to more than about their own and might not fall under the protections given in Title VII. One case the Court plans to review is that of Aimee Stephens, a funeral home employee and transgender woman that was fired for dressing in women’s clothes at work and presenting herself as a woman.

When the funeral home owner was asked why he terminated Stephens, he said, “Well, because he was no longer going to represent himself as a man.”

Representation as a man or woman relies on stereotypes alone. Differences in names, hairstyles, wardrobe — the only changes Stephens made — are purely cultural.

Discrimination on the grounds of failure to conform to gender stereotypes is protected in the same way discrimination based on biological differences is. Firing an

employee based on the preconceived ways men and women should or shouldn’t dress or behave is undoubtedly related to gender.

The authors of the Civil Rights Act likely did not have transgender employees in mind — as the gender reassignment carried a heavy stigma at the time that led to little research or awareness of the topic. As the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals stated in their decision, “discrimination ‘because of sex’ inherently includes discrimination against employees because of a change in their sex.”

Another case that will come before the Court is a skydiving instructor fired for reassuring a customer that complained about being so tightly strapped to him by telling her he was “100 percent gay.”

Sexual orientation, although related, is not the product of an individual’s sex.

A transgender woman attracted to other women is as gay as a cisgender man attracted to other men. Sexual orientation is as valid and as necessary to defend from bigotry as gender identity, but it cannot be interpreted under the same terms because of attraction’s reliance on the other person’s gender.

It is the duty of the Supreme Court to review prior court decisions through a constitutional lens, determining how legislation can be interpreted under the current statutes passed by Congress.

The current conservative majority in the Supreme Court is disheartening when considering LGBTQ rights and the sad reality is t hat their protections may not be upheld in these cases.

Unfortunately, the interpretation of the Civil Rights Act to not include a safeguard

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for sexual orientation may send a message that the nation is still in a place of inequality. But it would be a stretch to include sexual orientation — and may cost the Court its legitimacy as an objective source of judgment.

There may be justices that wish to stretch the understanding of the Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation, but it is ultimately the job of Congress, not the Supreme Court, to create laws where they do not exist.

It is essential to promote the rights of the LGBTQ community to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, especially in uniOF WIKIPEDIA versal experiences such asCOURTESY employment.

But the Supreme Court’s decision in these two cases is not the avenue through which those protections can or should be made.

The right to work without harassment or fear of termination for representing yourself as you are should be universal. No gender identity or sexual orientation makes a person less capable or equal — a concept that unfortunately must be included in legislation in order to uphold its legitimacy.

The cases here showcase the intricacies of these concepts, but also their importance.

The Court may not be able to explicitly protect both gender identity and sexual orientation in this context, but it can and should provide motivation for legislation that promotes the equality of people from all backgrounds and identities.

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OPINION 9

COLUMNS

AMERICAN PROTEST:

THAT’S WRIGHT:

It is time to declare a national It’s time to accept being emergency for climate change? wrong (and be okay with it)

BY MEREDITH VARNER COLUMNIST

Earth Day is typically a fun day to remember how beautiful the planet is and to remind your friends to take shorter showers or carpool to the movie theater.

I have fond memories of planting trees or learning about ecosystems on Earth Day in elementary school.

But shortening your showers or keeping your lights off is not enough anymore — it is time for much more drastic measures.

Our planet is in serious trouble and should be the number one priority for every single government on this Earth. Yet, for some reason, it is not.

Protests organized by the British grassroots organization “Extinction Rebellion” have been happening around the world from April 15 to April 29. In New York City, about 300 people showed up outside City Hall demanding a national emergency for climate change be declared immediately.

There is no problem more important than the fact that we are killing our planet and are only a few years away from the point of no return. In fact, that point could be as soon as 2035, only 16 years away.

In less than two decades we could be facing irreversible damage that will lead to rising seas that could swamp coastal cities and searing heat waves that would cause tens of thousands of deaths, drought,

wildfires and extreme storms.

And yet, President Donald Trump wishes to declare a national emergency for Mexicans entering the country when entire cities are at risk of going underwater.

It is infuriating that not enough people realize the severity of climate change and that we are already feeling its effects. Too many people see it as a problem for later generations to deal with.

This is not something we can sweep under the rug for later. If we do not deal with it right now there will not be a ‘later’.

These protests are necessary — it is time to turn to civil disobedience to get the attention of our legislators.

We must move beyond trying to convince people that climate change is real.

Instead, we need to start targeting the corporations that are pumping out fossil fuels at an unimaginable rate and focus on becoming emission-free as soon as possible.

Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. Banning use of straws and carpooling will do nothing if we do not target these corporations that are causing most of the climate change any ways.

I refuse to be a part of the generation that stood by and watched the world fall apart when the solutions were right in front of us. The argument that investing in renewable energy is too expensive is completely irrelevant. Climate refugees and destroyed cities will be even more expensive.

A national emergency needs to be declared and the world needs to come together to fix what will soon become irreversible. Renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro need to be the norm and plastic usage needs to be brought down to zero.

If we do not make these changes now our oceans will rise, our cities will f lood and our storms will strengthen. We must prevent the ocean from becoming more plastic than wildlife and the casualties of all living things from rising astronomically.

BY KATHERINE WRIGHT COLUMNIST

The summer before fourth grade, my cousins and I created a lemonade stand. We squeezed lemons, baked cookies and even made friendship bracelets. At two dollars per cup, business was booming. Our stand ruled the neighborhood.

That is, until the kids next door opened their own lemonade stand. We had cheap prices and a mascot — my 4-year-old sister wearing a cardboard sign — but they took it one step further: their lemonade was free.

And then those manipulative, 10-year-old geniuses did something unforgivable: they put out a tip jar. When naive adults walked past their stand, they were consumed with nostalgia and appreciation for the free refreshments, and gave tips far grander than our price of $2 per cup.

By comparison, our lemonade stand was a sorry example of capitalistic greed forever seeking the dollar. It was a stark contrast to the next-door stand built on the principles of charity, goodwill and — from my biased, 9-year-old perspective — lies.

In other words, I was right and they were wrong. We created the industry ourselves and fell short to a group of 10-year-olds that stole our idea and shamed us with free lemonade. I could imagine no other perspective than one where I had been wronged. It was easier for me to assume that our business motive had been stolen and attacked instead of accepting the nature of competition and recognizing that I did not have a monopoly on the lemonade industry.

This bias does not begin and end with lemonade, for me or anyone else. As human beings,

we have a tendency to not admit when we’re wrong. Whether it’s a political debate or petty disagreement, it’s easier to blindly believe we are right. But to never accept when we’re wrong assumes that we know more than everyone else, creating a false sense of reality and misinterpretation of our place in society.

Adapting this restrictive, headstrong belief stifles genuine counterarguments and forgets the complexities and variations of any one moment, situation or hypothetical.

Not only do such stubborn perspectives limit our ability to take an unbiased view on a situation, but they reinforce the mindset that we have to be right all the time. In my lemonade stand crisis, I shoved myself into the role of protagonist and my neighbors into that of the antagonist.

Creating a black-and-white situation was my defense mechanism for feeling insecure about my own roadside store rather than accepting that other lemonade-selling techniques were also effective. Through my restricted view, I assumed I was the only one who could be right in this situation.

Rather than placing ourselves in a constant state of competition, we need to accept and embrace the fact that other people also have things to contribute.

Of course, there’s a difference between entering a meaningful, multidimensional conversation with someone and flat-out telling them they’re wrong. When it comes to criticism, the tone and intent of delivery is crucial.

I remember making a mistake during a basketball practice in middle school. Instead of calmly and kindly pointing this out to me so I could improve, a teammate rolled her eyes and impatiently told me what I did wrong. To this day, I don’t remember what the mistake was or how I could have fixed it.

It’s one thing to not take criticism well and be planted in a consuming belief that you’re never wrong. It’s another to be offended by someone’s negative attitude.

Ultimately, it’s okay to be wrong — it’s natural and inevitable. Even if you are right though, it doesn’t mean the other person is completely wrong. How you handle the situation is far more important and could be the difference between a bitter lemonade stand competition and a successful business partnership.

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INTERROBANG

CARTOON BY RACHEL CALLAHAN

Last Thursday, the Mueller Report was released to the public full of redactions. We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what would BU groups want kept secret from the public?

BU Endowment: Fossil fuel investments

Questrom: Lung health

SHS: Student mental health

CGS: SAT Scores

MUGAR: 4th floor activities

SLEEPER HALL: Swimming pool

FreeP: Our bathroom

EAST CAMPUS: West Campus

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Men’s lacrosse to play final game of season against Navy

BY NICK TELESMANIC DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

After a win at Nickerson Field against the College of the Holy Cross on Senior Day, the Boston University men’s lacrosse team will travel to Annapolis, Maryland to play their last game of the regular season against the United States Naval Academy Friday afternoon.

The Senior Day game saw BU take a commanding 12-6 lead in the third quarter, only to see Holy Cross (6-6, 3-4 Patriot League) go on a 4-0 run and bring the Terrier’s lead down to two.

Sophomore attack Chris Gray and senior attack James Burr then capped the 15-11 win with two empty net goals.

BU head coach Ryan Polley said Gray and Burr have been extremely useful for the team’s offensive production.

“They’re just so fun to watch,” Polley said. “They’re just so special, they’re so locked in and they’re tremendous.”

The Terriers (10-4, 5-2 Patriot League) are heading into the final game having already have clinched a playoff berth for the Patriot League championship title for the third straight year.

BU cannot finish any lower than third in the standings and they have a chance to earn a first-round bye or possibly win the regular-season title with a win against Navy and a loss by either Lehigh University (8-6, 5-2 Patriot League) or Loyola University Maryland (10-3, 6-1

Sophomore attack Chris Gray in an April 20 game against the College of the Holy Cross.

Patriot League).

Previous to the Holy Cross win, the Terriers upset No. 2 ranked Loyola Maryland. Polley said it’s a great feat for the Terriers to get big wins in April in order to clinch a playoff spot early.

“It’s huge,” Polley said. “To go 3-0 or maybe 4-0 [at the end of the season] … it’s all credit to the seniors playing these big games, playing with a lot of emotion, playing with a lot of energy and pressure.”

Navy (5-7, 3-4 Patriot League) has a chance to stop BU from getting one of the top two spots.

The Mids have a chance to fulfill their own destiny and clinch

a Patriot League playoffs with a win. Navy can still lose and make the playoffs with some help, but if they lose, and Holy Cross and Bucknell University (5-8, 3-4 Patriot League) win, Navy would narrowly miss the playoffs.

If the Mids want the chance to take down the Terriers and not have their playoff hopes lie in the hands of other teams, they have to get out of their recent funk.

Last week, the Mids were blown out 9-18 by American Athletic Conference opponent Syracuse University (9-3, 2-2 ACC). Two weeks ago, Navy lost an 8-9 overtime barnburner against Army West Point (9-4, 5-3 Patriot

League).

As long as the Terriers keep their defensive game strong, competing against Navy should be light work for the Terriers. The Mids are in the middle of the pack in the Patriot League for most statistics — they are fifth in goals per game, assists per game, and points per game.

Something Nav y tends to struggle with often is penalty killing, as they are last in the Patriot League when it comes to killing off man-up opportunities. They also commit the most penalties per game in the Patriot League.

Nav y ’s weakness in penalty killing would not fare well

PHOTO BYEDWIN HERNANDEZ FOR DFP

with the Terriers, who lead the Patriot League in man-up goals and man-up scoring percentage.

Playing clean lacrosse will be key for the Mids if they want to upset the No. 16 Terriers.

By Friday evening, all Patriot League teams will have finished their regular season schedules, and the Patriot League playoff seeds will be decided. The top two seeds will have a first roundbye and play the winners of the No. 3 vs. No. 6 seed game and the No. 4 vs No. 5 seed game. A BU win and a Lehigh or Loyola loss would allow the Terriers to gain the advantage of this first-round bye.

Coast to Coast: Examining the possibility of a Warriors takedown

BY DYLAN WOODS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Golden State Warriors’ run of excellence has to end at some point, right?

For the past three years at the start of the postseason, I have asked myself the same question: Can this please be the year the run ends? I hope and I pray, but every year it’s the same story — the Warriors have done it again.

It’s 2016, and the Oklahoma City Thunder are up 3-1 in the Western Conference Finals against Golden State. The Warriors are done, it seems, and now we get LeBron James versus Kevin Durant in the NBA Finals once again. Nice. Except the Warriors came back and won again.

Oh , it ’s 2 017, a nd t he S a n Antonio Spurs are up by 30 in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals?

Maybe they can win this. This is payback for adding Durant to the greatest regular season team of all time. But no, Kawhi Leonard hurts his ankle, and LeBron and Durant do meet in the Finals, but for all the wrong reasons. The Warriors win again — yippee.

Then this season, Durant and teammate Draymond Green get into a fight early in the season. Rumors are swirling that Durant already has his bags packed for New York. Surely, this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, the thing that destroys the Warriors from within.

I swear this is the one. Everybody get ready, because this is not a drill.

T hen, the Wa r r iors blow a

31-point lead in the first round of the playoffs against the Los Angeles Clippers, who tied the series at one. Here we go — the end is the near. Except it never is. Golden State won the next two games in LA and are now up 3-1 in the series and in position to advance to the second round.

So really, am I doing this again?

Should I get my hopes up that this is the year of prophecy? Are the Golden Arches going to come crumbling down? I hope so, I really hope so. And if — no, when — it does, it will be for one of these reasons: James Harden or Giannis Antetokounmpo After the Houston Rockets beat the Utah Jazz to go up 3-0 — even with James Harden missing his first 15 shots — I’m going to declare that series over. In the next round, we’ll get a rematch of the 2018 Western Conference Finals: Houston versus Golden State. This year, the Warriors will have home court and not quite all of the marbles will be on the table.

Still, this series again has a chance to determine who will win the title this year. Houston has perhaps the best chance at defeating Golden State. No team is hungrier or better-crafted to beat the Warriors.

Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey literally constructed his team just to conquer them.

A big and bushy reason for that is Harden, the NBA’s leading scorer and arguably its most unstoppable

offensive player. He has a counter for every defense and every defensive assignment. And if the Rockets, or any team, is going to beat the Warriors, then they have to have the best player in the series. Have to.

A candidate who can oppose the Western Conference champion for the title is Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Giannis was the best player in the league this season and can be the best player in a series against any team. If the Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks meet in the Finals, then an alpha performance from Giannis could give Milwaukee their first championship since 1971.

I don’t see anyone else realistically taking the series single-handedly against either the Warriors or Rockets. Maybe Kawhi, probably not Damian Lillard, same with Kyrie Irving. Joel Embiid, maybe, but he doesn’t appear healthy enough to rip through teams in a seven-game series.

However, some teams can definitely be ready to take advantage if the Warriors or Rockets beat themselves.

Chemistry issues While it hasn’t seemed to surface on the court in a long time, Durant’s free agency has to be somewhere in the mind of not only Durant, but also of his teammates, coaches and fans.

If KD is the reason for a loss, or if he has a game like Game 6 of the 2016 Western Conference Finals against his future team, everyone has a justifiable reason to turn on

him. Plenty of justifiable reasons. If the Warriors think he doesn’t care and is just biding his time until the summer, then things could get ugly.

While the New York Knicks appear to be waiting with loving arms on July 1, the Warriors still have a chance at a three-peat here.

At any hint of disintegration, which there hasn’t been since way back in November when Draymond and Durant had a 15-round heavyweight screaming match, there are a couple teams ready to pounce.

The first is the Portland Trail Blazers, just for the fact that they have the best chemistry in the league.

If the two meet in the Western Conference Fina ls and Durant isn’t on speaking terms with his teammates, then a team led by the best culture setter and locker room leader in the NBA today, could take advantage and out-harmonize Golden State.

The Bucks and the Rockets are candidates here, too, being two teams where everyone knows their roles and who their best player is.

The Toronto Raptors should be mentioned, too. Kawhi is whatever the opposite of a drama queen is, at least when it comes to playing basketball on the court.

He is reminding us all of his run in the 2017 playoffs, where he should have had a chance to battle the Warriors before Zaza Pachulia took care of his ankle. Maybe he gets a second chance this year in the NBA Finals with an opportunity to

shred through a team with locker room drama.

The Celtics Please allow me to put my green gog gles, leprechaun socks a nd 17-banner underoos for a second here and state some Celtics-related facts: 1. The Celtics are playing their best basketball of the season right now. In the playoffs. Where the games matter most.

2. Before the season, the Celtics were the favorites to come out of the Eastern Conference.

3. Gordon Hayward is as close to Utah Gordon Hayward as he’s been all season.

4. The Celtics are 4-4 against the Warriors in the last four seasons, better than a lot of teams can say.

Boston still has to get through some combination of Gia n n is, Kawhi and Joel Embiid, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. The opening night starting lineup, which was terrible in the first few weeks, and Celtics coach Brad Stevens scrapped, is coming back with a vengeance.

The Celtics reached the Eastern Conference Finals the last two seasons and aren’t going to be satisfied with anything but, at the very least, an NBA Finals appearance. The Bucks are going to be satisfied with winning just one playoff series, the Raptors never win anything and the Celtics get the 76ers in a stranglehold every time the two teams play.

Please, just don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Softball to play at St. John’s Invitational in New York this weekend

BY CHRIS LARABEE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University Softball head coach Ash ley Waters has been preaching offense to her team for the past few weeks. Last weekend, her requests were delivered against Lafayette College.

The Terriers (28-17, 11-1 Patriot League) exploded for 25 runs in the weekend sweep of the Leopards.

BU will look to keep that offensive energy coming in the penultimate Patriot League series of the season against the United States Military Academy (25-26, 8-7 Patriot League) this weekend at the BU Softball Field.

Waters said the weekend performance was great, but the runs need to be more consistent.

“We need to continue going back to the drawing board,” Walters said after Sunday’s victory. “and try to figure out how to put runs on the board. I’m happy with the way we swung but thought we could have been a little sharper at times.”

T h e Te r r i e r s a r e o n a n eight-ga me w in strea k coming i nto T hu rsday ’s contests w ith Da r tmouth col lege a nd s wept the Patriot League player of the week awards.

Freshman outf ielder A liyah Huerta-Leipner was named the Patriot League player and rookie of the week after batting at a .400 clip with two doubles, three home runs, and seven RBIs over the five game stretch.

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We could launch into how the teams that made it through earned their spots in the second round: dominant play, underperformance, lucky bounces, whatever it is you may believe.

In the spirit of completely busted brackets, let’s take a look at the remaining teams and make some new predictions for the second round of this postseason.

Dallas Stars vs. St. Louis Blues The Blues are frequent flyers in the playoffs, but yet they have still yet to win a cup. They also haven’t made it to the Stanley Cup Finals since 1970.

The Stars, on the other hand, have won the Stanley Cup once, but have made a spotty appearance in the playoffs over the past 10 years, with one first-round exit and one second-round exit to make that a whopping two appearances, not including this season.

Both St. Louis and Dallas defeated tough opponents with 4-2 series wins, but for this matchup I’m going with the Stars. They let up less goals than the Blues and were facing arguably a tougher opponent, so I think they’ll be able to come out on top against St. Louis.

Colorado Avalanche vs. San Jose Sharks Heading into the 2018-2019 season, the San Jose Sharks were projected by many to win the Stanley Cup. As the projected powerhouse of the league, they finished the season in the Pacific Division’s second place spot, right behind the Flames.

An electrifying game seven against Vegas has made the Sharks one of the

Huerta-Leipner has become the first BU athlete since 2011 to be named both the Patriot League player and rookie of the week.

Waters said Huerta-Leipner had good contact all weekend and that she was gaining good Patriot League experience.

“She did a good job of having solid pieces, even her outs — most of them were cut in half and hard,” Waters said. “As you go through conference play, especially as a freshman, you start to figure out what we need to do.”

Freshman pitcher Emily Gant was named the Patriot Leag ue pitcher of the week after a domi na nt 20 str i keouts i n 15 shut out i n n i n g s to g o a lon g w it h t wo v ictor ies over Un i ver sit y of M a ss a chu s et ts L owel l a nd Lafayette College.

In the circle for the Terriers this weekend will most likely be the dynamic duo of sophomore pitcher Ali Dubois and Gant.

DuBois (19-8) has been dominant in the circle this year, as she rocks a 1.29 ER A w ith 16 complete games. DuBois has struck out 162 batters this season in the almost the same number of innings pitched (163) and is holding opposing batters to a .208 batting average.

Gant (8-7) has shown her talent early as a freshman, striking out 128 batters in 109.2 innings. She has shown her ability to mow down opposing batters — as seen her in 11 strikeout, eight-inning victory

PHOTO BY RACHEL SHARPLES/ DFP Aliyah Huerta-Leipner in an April 17 game against the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The freshman outfielder was named the Patriot League player and rookie of the week after a strong five-game stretch.

over UMass Lowell.

Scouting The Black Knights Army is a hair under .500 this year, sitting at 25-26, but do hold a winning record in Patriot League play at 8-7, good for third place in the conference.

The Black Knights won their previous Patriot Leag ue series against second-place Bucknell, ta king t wo out of three games at home.

Army has t wo pitchers with more than 20 appearances in the circle: Macey Newbary and Jolie Duong.

Newbary (9-6) has pitched herself to a 2.21 ER A in 24 appear-

ances and 98 innings of work and secured a victory against Bucknell last weekend.

Duong (11-9) is the workhorse of the Black Knights’ pitching staff. She sports a 3.13 ERA in 25 appearances —19 of those being starts — and has worked 136.1 innings and has struck out 93 batters on the season.

At the plate, the player to watch out for is sophomore Ally Snelling.

Snel ling is batting .294 on the season, good for fourth on the team, but the real danger comes from her ability to rack up doubles as she leads the team with 13 on the season.

After Sunday’s victory, Waters said Army reminded her of the Terriers and they have the same tenacity BU possesses.

“They’re going to give ever ything they have through 21 innings this weekend,” Waters said. “They will be in every single pitch.”

Looking Ahead After this series, the Terriers will travel to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania on May 4 to finish off reg ular season play against second-place Bucknell (25-18, 13-2 Patriot League) in a series that could determine the number one seed in the Patriot League conference tournament.

Greetings from a Busted Bracket most recent additions to the second round. The Avalanche, on the other hand, had a 4-1 series win over Calgary.

The Avalanche’s relatively quick and easy win over the first place team came as a shock to many, but if San Jose’s win on Tuesday proved anything, it’s that they have the skill and drive to make a deep run this playoff season. That, combined with the playoff experience this team has gained from previous seasons, will be enough to take them past Colorado.

Columbus Blue Jackets vs.

Boston Bruins The Columbus-Tampa Bay storyline has taken the hockey world by storm, no pun intended. Their sweep of the Lightning caused major flashbacks to the eighth-seeded LA Kings in 2012 barreling straight through all four of their opponents with one sweep of the Blues, two 4-1 wins against Vancouver and Phoenix and ultimately their 4-2 Stanley Cup victory over New Jersey.

Coming off of a series win like Columbus just had, I’m going to say they’ll top the Bruins, although it will take more than four games to decide.

A lthough the winner of the Carolina vs. Washington game is unknown at the moment, by the time you’re reading this you will know which team took home the game seven win.

Either way, the Islanders will have to prove their 4-0 win against Pittsburgh wasn’t a fluke, and with the amount of rest they’ve had in between their series win and the second round, I’m going to give the second round win to the fresh legs in New York.

PHOTO BY RACHEL SHARPLES/ DFP STAFF Aliyah Huerta-Leipner in an April 17 game against the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The freshman outfielder was named the Patriot League player and rookie of the week after a strong five-game stretch.

Sports

We need to continue going back to the drawing board and try to figure out how to put runs on the board” on the team’s game plan going forward ­—Softball head coach Ashley Waters

BEHIND THE GLASS:

SecondRound Preview

Thursday, April 25, 2019

““It was a lot of fun. It’s what we’ve been striving for all year.”

-BU golf head coach Bruce Chalas on winning the Patriot Leauge title.

Women’s Golf win Patriot League

BY LAURA GURRIERO DAILY FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

What do the San Jose Sharks, Da llas Stars and Colorado Avalanche all have in common?

They’ve all busted my bracket.

I know some of you will be saying the same thing, but this year’s bracket is looking especially rough considering only one of the teams I chose to play in either Conference Finals — the New York Islanders — is still in contention.

I was talking to a friend of mine after the Stanley Cup playoffs had just started in early April and now thinking back to that conversation I can’t help but laugh.

“If you picked the Avalanche to beat Calgary, you’re wrong,” my friend said.

Well, five games and four wins later and here they are, safely past the first place Calgary Flames.

Admittedly, I’m writing this the afternoon before game seven of the Washington Capitals vs. the Carolina Hurricanes. Since I do not have the ability to see into the future, I can’t say anything about how that series ended.

Either way, there have already been more than a fair share of surprising moments.

Two sweeps, three game seven finishes (it’s important to mention the Sharks’ stellar overtime win against the Vegas Golden Knights in game seven) and a bundle of upsets.

And that’s only the first round.

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The Boston University women’s golf team standing behind the Patriot League Trophy. The Terriers won with 39 points over par.

BY MATT MEUSEL DAILY FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

Boston University Women’s Golf secured the Patriot League title on Sunday with a team score of 39 over par. It’s the program’s second-ever conference title and first since 2015.

“It was a lot of fun,” head coach Bruce Chalas said. “It’s what we’ve been striving for all year.”

The Terriers shot a hole total of 903 (304-306-293) over the 54 hole tournament to fend off the second place United States Naval Academy who shot a total of 907.

Freshman Hanako Kawasaki, the 2019 Patriot League Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, led her team with a dominant performance by shooting a 6-over par 222 to win the individual medal.

“The Patriot League Championship was our primary goal,” head coach Bruce Chalas said. “This year’s team was by far the deepest and every player counted.”

K a w a s a k i h el d of f Na v y ’s Christine McDonnell who shot a 7 over 223. Kawasaki’s 222 tied the second best score in Patriot League Championship history.

“Hanako is a very good player,” Chalas said. “It’s no surprise she’s off to this fast start, maybe even a little better than I expected.”

The awards for the Terriers continued when Chalas was named Patriot League Women’s Golf Coach of the Year. Chalas also received the honor in 2014.

Sophomore Katerina Doleckova carded an 11 over 227 (76-77-74) which

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matches her collegiate hole total over 54 holes. She also joined Kawasaki as a First Team All-Patriot League honoree. “[Katerina] played her best golf of the year,” Calas said.

The Terriers also had strong performances out of juniors Zhangcheng Guo and Abby Parsons. Guo’s score of 70 in the final round on Sunday was the lowest score of not just the tournament, but in Patriot League Championship history.

“I met with [Guo] the night before and I said, ‘I need a big day from you,’” Chalas said.

Guo’s final round score was vital to the Terriers win after a huge turn around from shooting 82 on Friday and 78 on Saturday.

Senior Megan Carter played strong in her final Patriot League

Championship, carding a score of 239 (82-81-76) for the tournament.

Carter also made a hole-in-one on the ninth hole on Sunday The season will continue for BU after qualifying for the NCAA Regional Finals. The team found out Wednesday night at 5:30 p.m.that they will be attending the Regional Finals in Washington.

This has been a long season for the team with lots of traveling, playing golf and keeping up with schoolwork, Chalas said.

It’s tricky with finals but we’ve been balancing golf and academics all year,” Chalas said.

Every player has counted, Chalas said, and they will need the same type of consistent play from everyone if they want to make some noise in the NCAA’s..

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Softball will face off against Dartmouth

Softball will face off against Dartmouth University at the BU Softball Field, 4 p.m.

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Softball will play the final game

Columbus Blue Jackets to TD Garden

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