10-25-2018

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UP IN ARMS, 4

STICK IT TO THE BUN, 6

PERFECT PATRIOTS, 10

BUPD officers and fraternity members held a dodgeball tournament for Police Week.

A Boston Police officer shot by a firearm is going to court against the website involved.

FreeP writers head to local bakeries to determine which bun reigns supreme.

A win against Holy Cross would give the field hockey team a 7-0 PL record.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018

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CAS updates second language policy for ASL

BY DAMIAN WALSH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences has enacted a new policy updating the conditions for American Sign Language to fulfill CAS’s second language requirement.

The previous policy required students to pass an extensive proficiency test in addition to passing four semesters of ASL to fulfill the requirement. Under the new policy, ASL students do not have to take the extra proficiency test, which is not required by other language departments.

Andrew Bottoms, a Deaf Studies professor at BU, said through an interpreter that the new policy is important for recognition of ASL as a language.

“If it can meet the foreign language requirement, but somehow it’s seen as different, and the requirements are not consistent with those of other foreign languages, then it’s seen as sub-par,” Bottoms said. “That’s concerning to me if we are not considering American Sign Language to be a full-fledged language as any other foreign language.”

ASL course policies at universities across the country are inconsistent, Bottoms said, with some allowing ASL to fulfill language requirements and others only offering it as an elective.

Yale University recently instituted ASL as part of its permanent curriculum, and Syracuse University’s Student Association

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Uber, Lyft trample city’s taxi services, public transit

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Deaf Studies Club President Christine Cincotta, a CAS senior, said CAS advisors dissuaded her from taking ASL when she first started at BU, citing the difficulty of the proficiency test.

“I knew that I wanted to take ASL coming into BU,” Cincotta said. “I knew that it was offered here, but I even got pushback at orientation from CAS advisors, telling me that it might not be the easiest option.”

The new language requirement is similar to CAS’s former policy, Bizup wrote. The most obvious change is in the wording,

Boston taxi companies have seen their business continue to plummet over the past few years, largely due to the rise of ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft.

Bostonians have lauded the apps for helping them move around the city for less money and in a shorter amount of time.

Grace Mariappan, 55, of Medford, said these reasons are also why she prefers taking Ubers over taxis.

“The taxis are not good at all.

So that’s why they developed the Uber. That’s why the Uber is [taking] over the place,” Mariappan said, “Taxi is not reasonable. They don’t come on time. They won’t go straight the way we ask them to go … sometimes, I take [a] taxi, and it’s $40, $50, and I cannot afford [that].”

More than the cost, Jim O’Connell, a Boston University professor of city planning and urban development, said he believes Uber and Lyft have thrived in cities due to the innovative way they connect the same services taxis provide to one’s phone.

Uber and Lyft, O’Connell said, allow one to get all the information about their trip length, price

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A student in professor Andrew Bottoms’ American Sign Language 5 class practices signing. Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences will count ASL as any other second language for its second language requirement.

has started a petition to recognize ASL as an official language across all of the university’s colleges, rather than just its School of Education.

Bottoms said that people often assume ASL is simply broken English or gestural communication, and they put it in a different category than other languages because it lacks a written form.

BU’s recognition of the language is a significant step in the right direction, he said.

“The fact that our program recognized A merica n Sign Language as a full-f ledged language is something that is very

meaningful, and pushes us forward in terms of social justice and how the world sees us,” Bottoms said.

The new policy treats ASL the same as all other language offerings, Joseph Bizup, CAS’s associate dean for undergraduate academic programs and policies, wrote in an email.

“ASL is not merely a signed version of English but a true language in its own right: it has its own lexicon, morphology, syntax, even its own dialects,” Bizup wrote. “It just makes sense to acknowledge this reality in the Second Language requirement.”

‘Last Mile’ fund to support Boston students in final year at public college

BY JENNIFER SURYADJAJA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the launch of the GRAD Last Mile Fund Friday, a scholarship program designed to help Boston students complete their higher education and obtain college degrees.

The City has partnered with the Frieze Family Foundation to fund the pilot year of the program.

The funds will be distributed to five public schools with high attendance by Boston students: Bunker Hill Community College, Roxbury Community College, MassBay Community College, the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology.

Walsh said in an official press release that the fund will allow for more students in the Boston area to experience the satisfaction of earning college degrees.

“Financial hardship should not prevent any student from completing the ‘last mile’ on their journey toward earning a college

degree,” Walsh said in the release, “and I am proud that through this new fund, we will be able to help more students cross the finish line and earn their degree.”

Mar vin Loiseau, dean of recruitment at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, wrote in an email that the college plans to use the funding they receive to assist students in their last term of schooling and eliminate barriers to graduating from their program.

“We love any opportunity to work with the City on programs like this that serve our inner-city Boston youth,” Loiseau wrote. “It is always helpful to have funding for programs that serve underrepresented youths.”

The fund will distribute $120,000 in total to the five schools for the pilot year of the program and will provide up to $2,500 in financial support to individual students, according to the program website. The fund is also currently accepting donations for the pilot year and beyond.

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Students at Boston community colleges, like Bunker Hill Community College, will benefit from the GRAD Last Mile Fund, launched by Mayor Martin Walsh.

Faith Ryan, 24, of Fenway, said she thinks the fund is a beneficial idea and that any money for students is helpful.

“It’s probably not enough money to do much,” Ryan said, “but I guess it’s a little step to the right direction.”

Eligible students for the program must have lived in Boston for two years at the time of the award. They must also demonstrate financial need and be on track to graduate in the next semester, according the City of Boston website.

Curtis Cormier, director of financial aid at MassBay, said the GRAD Last Mile Fund is a different form of financial aid than the federal, state and institutional scholarship that the school already provides. Instead, he said, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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Innovate@BU appoints Student Leadership Council

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The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Oct. 20–22.

Odor of natural gas at 483 Commonwealth Ave. A caller at 6:36 p.m. Saturday reported the odor of natural gas at 483 Commonwealth Ave. The Office of Facilities Management and Planning reported no gas issue when they arrived on scene and attributed the odor to a possible heating issue.

Domestic disturbance at Myles Standish Hall BUPD and the Boston Police Department responded to a report of a male and female, both unaffiliated with the university, having a verbal altercation outside of 610 Beacon St. at 12:20 a.m. Monday.

The case was referred to BPD.

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Innovate@BU’s Student Leadership Council, pictured above, will help oversee the new program’s growth and development.

what we do, and how can we get better,” Spekman said. “And then the spring is when we can take some of that and actually apply it to events.”

Spekman said she hopes the Student Leadership Council will help improve Innovate@BU’s signature programs and provide programming ideas for its primary events in the spring, the innovation-focused IDEA Conference and Innovation Week, a collection of 30 events held by different university partners.

For the fall semester, Gullett said student leaders will focus on increasing community engagement with the BUild Lab. “I think since the BUild Lab is so new, one of our goals is just getting the word out there and getting more traffic inside the BUild Lab itself,” Gullett said.

C A S fresh ma n Susha ne Sharma said she was excited to hear about the BUild Lab and the opportunities it provides to all BU students.

“Once I get the chance I will definitely look into it and explore it,” she said. “And [..] it should be available to all students, and all students should take advantage of this opportunity to learn

more about the innovation that’s occurring here at BU.” Student leaders cover many different fields of study, Ferreyra said, and will aim to bring students from those fields to the BUild Lab. “We’re trying to get more students from more majors and from different background to join parts of the BUild Lab to foster a more culturally diverse and more majorly diverse environment for innovation,” Ferreyra said.

“That’s something that the BUild Lab prioritizes. That’s why they brought us in.”

Alejandro Ruiz, a senior in the Questrom School of Business, said he thinks such a combination of diversity and innovation can help students produce great ideas.

“I truly believe innovation is a very, very strong tendency and trend that we need to address,” Ruiz said, “and by having people with different backgrounds, with different mentalities, with different skills, great ideas can come from breaks like this.”

Each student leader has chosen a specific initiative about which to hold an event in the spring semester, Ferreyra said.

Ferreyra, a senior in the College of Engineering, said he has chosen to focus on bringing more engineers to the BUild Lab. Many engineering students don’t have the opportunity to apply the things they learn in class in their first few years at BU, Ferreyra said, while many BUild Lab teams don’t have enough engineers.

“My role is to bridge this gap between the teams that don’t have the engineering talent and the College of Engineering, which has this excess of it and students just don’t know what to do,” Ferreyra said.

Other student leaders are focusing on topics including public health and helping the prison population, Ferreyra said.

Gullet said the Student Leadership Council’s ultimate goal is to empower students to share and start work on their ideas at the BUild Lab. “I think our primary goal for Innovate@BU and the student leadership council itself is to promote a more innovative ecosystem on campus, and to empower students to become involved in Innovate@BU so that they can get their individual ideas out there,” Gullet said.

Community college students receive extra tuition aid GRAD, FROM PAGE 1 the target audience of the fund is what makes it stand out.

“The scholarship is definitely unique in the sense that we don’t have any particular funds that are geared for the very last term of students enrolled in their program,” Cormier said.

Top priority for this funding will be provided to students who have not yet registered for their last college semester or paid their tuition by a set cutoff date, have exhausted other sources of available aid, are undocumented immi-

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In novate@BU a n nounced Friday the 12 members of its Student Leadership Council, created to guide and foster the initiative’s ongoing development.

The three main goals of the Student Leadership Council are to provide constructive feedback, reach new audiences and create new programming, said Rachel Spekman, Innovate@ BU’s program director of business ventures.

T he idea beh i nd t he Student Leadership Council was to amplify students’ voices, Spekman said, as Innovate@BU is a student-focused initiative.

“This is one of our attempts to put students first and have their ideas be fully f leshed out in a way that feels like they are promoting Innovate@BU and their ideas are being heard and moving forward,” she said.

Spekman said the application process for the first student leadership council sought individuals highly involved in BU’s community.

Part of the application process was a group interview at the beginning of October, said Sydney Gullett, a student leader and junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, where candidates discussed why they wanted to be on the council and what innovation means to them.

Gullett said she wanted to join the council to “empower more students of color and marginalized groups to become involved in innovation.”

Pablo Ferreyra, another member of the Student Leadership Council, said he applied because of the high regard he holds for Innovate@BU, which helped him launch his own business venture, Verto.

The student leadership council’s primary goal this fall is to grow the initiative, Spekman said. Each student leader will be trained in the Innovate@BU pitch at their next meeting in November, she said, which they will then present to two clubs, classes or associations.

Another requirement for student leaders in the fall semester is to attend two Innovate@BU events and provide feedback, Spekman said.

“The fall is sort of who are we,

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grants, DACA recipients, parents and/or veterans, according to the release.

“DACA students sometimes can be hesitant,” Cormier said.

“We don’t go out and particularly ask them that question, but if we know of any students that are DACA students, we do reach out.”

Stephanie Wild, 45, said she thinks the program sounds helpful to low-income students.

“I think it’s probably a harder time for students to get financial aid or help when they need it,” the South End resident said. “I think

it’s so competitive right now. I have young children, so I’m kind of scared for when they’re older.

So, I think as a pilot program, that sounds really nice.”

Schools have been promoting the GRAD Last Mile Fund through their own means on campus. UMass Boston Director of Financial Aid Katherine Lynch wrote in an email that the university is marketing the fund through its advising collaborative, which is a group of advising and student service staff on campus.

“These staff members are frequently meeting with students and are able to make them aware of the fund if appropriate situations arise,” Lynch wrote.

Machito Guaring, 49, of the North End, said there is likely more that needs to be done to reduce or totally eliminate the rising cost of higher education.

“One of the better initiatives is if [the country] could just do free education,” Cachito said.

“Although, I know that’s next to impossible, but I think it would be a very good idea to explore.”

Party reported going through Scoozi garbage BUPD responded to a report of a suspicious person at 580 Commonwealth Ave. possibly going through garbage bins at 5:34 p.m. Monday. The responding officers searched the area but could not find the party.

CITY

Crime Logs

BY CLARISSA GARZA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following crime reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from Oct. 19–21.

Online pet purchase scam A party sent $450 over MoneyGram Friday night to purchase a puppy online to be picked up at Boston Logan Airport. The puppy had not arrived at the airport Saturday at the agreed time of 11:45 a.m. When the suspect was contacted, they requested additional funds to deliver the puppy. When the would-be buyer asked for a refund, they were told the $450 was already spent.

Undercover District 14 drug bust The District 14 Drug Control Unit conducted a probable cause buy Sunday with the assistance of a confidential informant. Drugs were purchased, logged and secured in the unit’s drug safe within 24 hours.

Juvenile fist fight in Brighton Two juveniles were involved in a fist fight at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Fidelis Way at 4:09 p.m. Friday. The suspect reportedly told the victim, “You didn’t grow up here. You’re not from here. You don’t belong,” before pushing the victim and inciting a fist fight.

The initiator then grabbed a knife and reportedly said, “I’ll see you later tonight,” upon hearing police sirens.

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BUPD, frats face off in dodgeball tournament for Police Week

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Officers from the Boston University Police Department and students involved in Greek Life took part in a dodgeball game Wednesday evening as part of the department’s annual Police Week.

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The Boston University Police Department and BU fraternity members battled Wednesday in the first BUPD Dodge-A-Cop dodgeball tournament coordinated by PRLab. The hourlong free tournament on the fourth court of the Fitness and Recreation Center kicked off with a 10-minute presentation on Halloween safety and concluded with pizza.

Of the eight teams, each consisting of six students and one BUPD officer, Pi Kappa Alpha earned the grand prize: BU athletic

crew socks.

Cameron Felton, a senior in the College of Communication and account executive of PRLab, said he initially proposed DodgeA-Cop because of a similar event at his high school. He said his relations with the Interfraternity Council as a member of Pi Kappa Alpha allowed him to directly orchestrate the tournament with numerous fraternities.

“A lot of the people are excited more about the idea of doing it, so we had a pretty good turnout,” Felton said.

Dodge-A-Cop closed out BUPD’s Police Week, a week

of events that usually addresses awareness, safety and other concerns, BUPD Lt. Patricia Murphy said. Police Week usually takes place in November, but she said it was moved up this year to inform students before the Halloween season.

During this time, students often over-indulge in alcohol or drugs or engage in other vulnerable and risky behaviors, BUPD Chief Kelly Nee said.

Police Week is a form of outreach BUPD undertakes annually, Nee said.

“We want to engage with the members of our community

during good times,” Nee said, “and then you develop trusting relationships or at least a familiarity. So once in a while, something bad happens and you have to call the police, at least you’ve already interacted with us in a way.”

The safety presentation covered social host laws along with the legal and academic consequences of underage drinking and overserving. While reminding students about BUPD’s number located on the back of their student IDs, Nee stressed that they should not hesitate to call in times of trouble.

BUPD officers volunteered to do community outreach during Police Week, Nee said — from Monday to Wednesday in the George Sherman Union, they offered free coffee, donuts, candy, bubble tea and raffle tickets.

The goal of Police Week was not only to increase interaction with BUPD officers in general, but also to connect BUPD with particular groups of students, said COM senior Amy Rivera, an account executive for PRLab. “We wanted to reach out to international students, which was why we bought boba tea for one of the days,” Rivera said, “and specifically [Dodge-a-Cop] for Greek life, because we wanted to hit different niches for the BU community.”

Police Week achieved 300 to 400 interactions between students and police officers, while Dodge-A-Cop achieved 100, Rivera said.

Face-to-face connection is a great way to convey that BUPD is a positive, constant presence

on campus, Murphy said, and that officers are there for the students.

“We’re open 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Murphy said.

“So at any point, they can come to any of our officers and seek any type of help that they need.”

PRLab works with BUPD to make officers more approachable, program faculty co-director Justin Joseph said, and to emphasize BUPD is there for the students, not against them.

“That way, they’re seen not just as a police force, but certainly as a resource, as an asset to the BU community,” Joseph said.

PRLab Account Super visor Nane Vardanyan said PRLab orga n ized the tou r na ment because they thought it would allow students to have “lively conversation” and a closer connection with BUPD. “BUPD wants to become more human to students, more friendly, so that everyone who lives on campus and is part of the BU community will feel free to refer to policemen if they need any help or they need to know about something related to safety,” Vardanyan said. “So in this way, we thought that playing is the best way to engage with each other.”

Sean Kargman, a senior in the Questrom School of Business, advanced with his fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau, to the semi-finals with BUPD Sgt. Brett Rand.

“I think they should definitely do this again,” Kargman said.

“PKT is going to be recognized next year, so we’ll probably have a bigger presence here, and we’re going to take the chip next year.”

CAS ASL students no longer required to take exit proficiency exam LANGUAGE, FROM PAGE 1 he wrote, as the requirement now asks students to become proficient in a “second language” rather than a “foreign language.”

“The change is consistent with the university’s global orientation,” Bizup wrote. “In renaming the requirement, the College is recognizing and indeed emphasizing that we live in a multilingual world.”

Though the change first took effect for the fall 2018 semester, the new policy applies to continuing students as well as new students, Bizup wrote.

More than 200 students are enrolled in ASL courses at BU through the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, according to Bizup.

Bottoms said the university’s ASL matriculation has increased by approximately 400 percent.

ASL course enrollment may increase with the removal of the proficiency test, Bizup wrote.

Deaf Studies Club Vice President Rotceh Vazquez-

Guzman, a Wheelock senior, said she believes some students might not be aware that ASL is an option for them to study.

“People do find out about it,” Vazquez-Guzman said, “but it is often through people already knowing that they want to learn this language, and then finding out about it on their own rather than the department or BU itself telling them to take it.”

Both Cincotta and VazquezGoodman said they think the shift in CAS policy is a step in the right direction.

Wheelock junior Melinda Chiang, an ASL student, wrote in an email that she is happy that BU will now treat ASL as an official language.

“Those of us in ASL classes know it is just as much a language as any other and we have [been] positively impacted by it,” Chiang wrote. “This will open doors to future/current students who have interest in ASL, but strayed away from it because of the exit exam.”

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Boston Police officer takes on online gun market in court

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Armslist, an online gun marketplace, is the subject of a new lawsuit brought forward by Boston Police officer Kurt Stokinger.

BY SOPHIE FALKENHEIM DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

An officer of the Boston Police Department is bringing a lawsuit against Armslist, an online firearms marketplace, after he suffered a near-fatal gunshot wound at the hands of a convicted felon who illegally acquired the weapon through a user of the website.

Officer Kurt Stokinger had served nine years on the Boston Police Department when he was shot in the leg with a .40 caliber Glock 27 semi-automatic handgun during an investigation in Dorchester, according to the court documents. The suspect was able to fire five shots before the gun jammed and Stokinger’s fellow officers immediately applied a tourniquet, saving his life, according

to the court documents.

The assailant was 27-year-old Grant Headley, a felon on probation after serving five years for drug possession and unlawful possession of a firearm, the court documents stated.

Federal law prohibits the possession of firearms by convicted felons and requires that firearm dealers apply for a federal firearms license.

Yet, according to the court documents, Headley acquired the firearm from Sara Johnson, who is accused of selling weapons she purchased from Armslist to felons, drug dealers and gang members.

Armslist provides a platform for private sellers, according to the court documents, who are not required by federal law to conduct background checks.

Vikiana Petit-Homme, executive director of March For Our Lives Boston, said she thinks the dangers associated with online arms marketplaces will require a federal solution.

“We in Boston and in Massachusetts already have such strong gun laws,” she said, “yet, you’re still able to purchase something online. I don’t think there’s anything Boston can do alone.

I think it’s going to have to be a federal crackdown on online gun sales [that makes] sure, when you’re shopping online for guns, there’s a screening process.”

March For Our Lives Boston is a local branch of a nationwide movement to secure gun control laws. A major obstacle to reform in the area of online firearm marketplaces,

Petit-Homme said, is American cultural perceptions of firearms that equate guns with other commonly bought and sold goods.

“I think it’s very mixed up in American culture, and guns are viewed as kind of toys and just regular, everyday things,” she said. “At the end of the day, it’s not just some toy.

It’s something that can take lives.”

The legal complaint filed, on Stokinger’s behalf by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, argued that Armslist and other online arms marketplaces facilitate illegal arms sales and thus make possible the illegal acts that harmed Stokinger.

The lawsuit contends that Armslist should assume responsibility for enabling and facilitating the trafficking of large quantities of firearms in the Greater Boston area, Armslist should assume responsibility.

Dana Laurendeau, 52, said he is uncomfortable with the prospect of online arms markets.

“When you’re talking about illegal guns, they’ve been doing it for a long time,” the Watertown resident said. “The black market, that’s never going anywhere. That’s always going to be there. But the internet thing, that’s just scary.”

Laurendeau said his discomfort is in part due to the lack of paper trails in online gun marketplaces.

“I don’t think it should be that easy as to just go online,” he said.

“They’re crossing borders. There’s no checks and balances.”

Courtney Pollard, 22, of Brighton, said she was unaware that Armslist existed and did not think it was right.

“I knew you could buy guns online, but I didn’t know that web-

site,” Pollard said. “I don’t think it is right. I just don’t think it’s safe for you to have that easy access” While Pollard addressed the need for further regulation, she also questioned how plausible it was to have background checks for online sales.

“Is the background check realistic?” Pollard inquired. “The local would be a good place to start.

Federally, obviously, [is] going to take more time, but it’s something that needs to be addressed.”

Carlos Rios, 24, of Brookline, went even further and said he thinks buying a gun should never be easy.

“I’m someone who very much hates the idea of guns entering any neighborhood [or] any system,” Rios said. “I wholeheartedly believe there need to be more background checks.

Purchasing a gun, no matter who you are, should not be easy at all.”

Rios said he thinks private gun trades need to be regulated more, just as private businesses are when their companies have a large impact on society.

“It gets a little complicated when it’s private business, because private businesses have the freedom to kind of make the rules as they go,” he said. “Some people say that companies and the people who work for those companies should have all the freedom in the world to run their own business the way they want to.”

He said that, when your business has a large effect on society or has the potential to endanger people, that becomes a bigger deal.

“Even if your pistol has no effect on society whatsoever,” Rios said, “the idea that someone could buy one online and not ever have to present a background check is a little concerning.”

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and availability at their fingertips.

“When you get in a taxi cab, you don’t know what it’s going to cost,” O’Connell said. “When you’re trying to hail a taxi cab, you don’t know when it’s going to come. I think that that has been a real inconvenience for a lot of people.”

Alix Anfang, communications manager for Uber, referred to the service as “one piece of the transportation pie” in Boston.

“Uber helps fill gaps in communities that lack convenient access to the T or where taxis are [hard] to find, helping people affordably and reliably move around the city,” Anfang wrote in an email.

Randy Martin, 54, said he has seen the prominence of Uber, not just in transportation, but in many other aspects of daily life.

“There’s McDonalds down by where I live that Uber has taken over,” Martin said. “They close the restaurant down and just use it for Uber deliveries at night. They just open up the lobby of the restaurant for Uber drivers who are doing UberEats.”

Along with the taxi industry, public transportation has also taken a hit from the advent of ride-sharing. Louisa Gag, public policy and operations manager of LivableStreets Alliance, wrote in

an email that ride-share services have a great deal to do with cost.

“Especially with ‘pooling,’” Gag wrote, “the cost of an Uber/ Lyft ride might be comparable to a T fare.”

O’Connell and Gag agreed that Uber tends to beat public transportation with its door-todoor, on-demand service. Public transportation, O’Connell said, must follow a set track that does not reach every place citizens want to go to.

“There are places that are not that well served [by buses and trains],” O’Connell said, “and they’re really ideal, in that regard, for Uber to come in and take you to any place you want to go at any time of day, fairly expeditiously.”

While residents might benefit from catching Ubers, a report from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council found that the city has been suffering from this switch. According to the report, the average ride-hailing trip represents 35 cents of lost revenue for the MBTA. Efforts to combat these issues have been put in place by the Massachusetts government. Gov. Charlie Baker signed a law in 2016 issuing a charge of 5 cents per ride to be given to a taxi innovation fund. Similarly, Gag explained that Mayor Martin Walsh’s Go Boston

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The advent of ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft has made it difficult for traditional taxi drivers to attract riders.

2030 program aims to address traffic and safety issues, which arise from the influx of ride-sharing in the area.

“Creating designated pick upzones and training drivers on how and where to safely pull over will prevent drivers from blocking bus and bike lanes, double-parking, and suddenly stopping or pulling over,” Gag wrote, “all of which both create huge safety hazards and gum up traffic flow.”

MAPC has estimated that 15 percent of ride-hailing trips are taken during rush hour by people

who would have otherwise used public transit. This has implications of traffic congestion, air pollution and dangerous emissions, according to Gag. Tracey Ganiatsos, spokeswoma n for the Boston Transportation Department, said she thinks ride-sharing, taxis and public transit systems need to be improved to create a more cohesive experience for Boston travelers.

“We will continue to work on the many policies and projects outlined in Go Boston 2030 that will improve transportation access

citywide,” Ganiatsos wrote in an email, “with emphasis on enhancing and expanding our network of streets that welcome pedestrians, cyclists and public transit riders.”

O’Connell said he hopes Boston can eventually find an apt solution to integrating the technology into the city more seamlessly.

“They say this is going to be the way of the future, and everyone is going to be taking Uber and Lyft, and it’s going to make it easier to get around,” O’Connell said. “But if it creates more traffic jams and other problems, that’s not a plus.”

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SCIENCE

SPH, School of Social Work unite to talk gun violence prevention

BY AMELIA MURRAY-COOPER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sandro Galea stood in School of Medicine’s Hiebert Lounge and told an audience that as students, they can utilize science to create a healthier world. The forum centered around violence and reframed gun violence as a public health problem rather than a criminal justice issue.

Months after the nationwide “March for Our Lives” protest and movement to enforce tighter gun control, Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Social Work joined together to host the forum titled “Violence Prevention: Guns, Public Health, and Health Care” Tuesday.

The forum was part of SPH’s series of Dean’s Signature Programs, an annual collection of more than 30 events that encourage conversations among students, scholars, health practitioners and policymakers.

The talk addressed gun-related violence prevention. “[Gun violence] causes a lot of death and disability,” Galea, dean of SPH and professor of epidemiology, said in an interview. “We should think of it as a problem that affects our health and one that we want to find healthy solutions to.”

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, dean of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science’s College of Medicine and former commissioner of public health for Massachusetts, led the forum.

After obtaining a doctorate from Harvard Medical School, she said she

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Deborah B. Prothrow-Stith, dean of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science’s College of Medicine, speaks at a public health forum on violence prevention hosted by Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Social Work Tuesday.

realized that her education did not address violence.

“I almost immediately started feeling very inadequate as a provider because I had no prevention agenda,” she said. “It bothered me that we were stitching people up and sending them out.”

For over 30 years, Prothrow-Stith has worked to define violence as a preventable public health issue rather than solely a criminal justice matter.

During the forum, she explained that there are three main stages of violence prevention: education, behavior modification and punishment.

According to her, primary prevention falls under the responsibility of public health, criminal justice controls the tertiary phase, and the two work together to guide the secondary stage.

Risk factors of violence include gender, poverty, access to guns, alcohol and drug use and previous exposure to violence, according to Prothrow-Stith, and most homicides involve two people who know each other.

Race plays a major role in gun violence, as most firearm-related deaths among white males are suicidal, whereas black males tend to use guns for homicide, according to CNN. Prothrow-Stith explained that people of color are also disproportionately affected by police brutality.

According to a 2010 study published in the American Journal of Medicine, Americans are 10 times more likely to be killed by guns than people in other developed countries, and the United States has the most firearms per capita in the world.

“Other countries don’t have the homicide rates that we have,” Prothrow-Stith said in an interview.

“That says to me that this is not some genetic, inevitable part of the human condition, but that this is cultural, social, political and institutional, so there are things that we can do.”

When discussing prevention techniques, she compared violence to more commonly recognized health issues.

“It’s driven by behavior, but so is heart disease and smoking. It’s complicated by poverty, but so is tuberculosis and obesity,” she said. “It’s got a lot of structural factors, but so do all the other diseases that we face and prevent in public health.”

According to her, violence prevention can be implemented in schools through classroom educa-

tion and training authority figures how to effectively respond to bullying. Programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters also provide guidance for youths from under-resourced families, particularly in urban areas.

In homes, guns can be stored and locked separately from bullets.

Media campaigns can help shift social norms, and public policy changes can limit the accessibility of firearms, according to Prothrow-Stith.

“These methods aren’t rocket science,” she said. “It’s just the application of very standard public health prevention strategies to a new issue.”

One preventative public policy effort was seen in 1994 when then-President Bill Clinton signed the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, which prohibited the manufacture of large-capacity magazines and semi-automatic firearms for civilian use.

However, this bill was designed to expire after 10 years, and in 2004, Congress did not renew the legislation, according to Prothrow-Stith.

Many of today’s youths have shown increased support for stricter gun control, she said, as demonstrated in the “March for Our Lives” earlier this year.

Ivy Fan, a freshman studying marketing in the Questrom School of Business, expressed a need for tighter gun control because “words and prayers will not breathe life back into the dead.

“They can’t come back, so prevent them from leaving in the first place.”

Northeastern hosts first undergraduate global health conference

BY ROSHNI KOTWANI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Northeastern University welcomed undergraduate students and Bostonians to campus for an inaugural global health conference Friday and Saturday. Any interested parties were welcome to register for free and partake in the discussions around accessible healthcare.

Dr. James Cusack, a Massachusetts General Hospital surgical oncologist, gave a keynote presentation at Northeastern University Global Health Initiative Saturday.

Cusack touched on the tendency for many Americans to overlook those who cannot afford healthcare and associate inaccessible healthcare with developing countries.

Cusack explained that the reality is unaffordable health care exists in first world countries, as well.

He said he initially developed a passion for public health and medicine during his years of schooling at Dartmouth College, Emory University Medical School and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“I hope students walk away [from my speech] with an informed sense of what the challenges are and a better sense of how they can contribute individually,” Cusack said in an interview.

NUGHI was started by Kritika Singh, a junior studying bioengineering at Northeastern, who expressed similar hopes. Singh said she collaborated with her fellow students and

staff to create a conference aimed around uniting individuals passionate about the field of public health from all around Boston.

Northeastern junior Abby Melagrano attended this conference after she said she was inspired by her “Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora” course. As an international relations major, Melagrano shared that this course was very different from her norm, but interesting nonetheless.

Cusack was accompanied by the second guest speaker of the conference, Dr. Peter Hotez, Yale graduate and a professor in Baylor College of Medicine.

“We read some of Dr. Hotez’s work last week, so this conference will be very relevant to what we are learning in class, as well,” Melagrano said.

Cusack’s address primarily focused on methods of understanding the challenges humans face in global health and novel surgical advancements, and Hotez discussed major topological diseases and the various strengths needed for successful change in global health.

“One of the things I’ll make clear is that any undergraduate major or minor has potential applications to global health,” Hotez said. “A lot of people think you have to be a biology major to be on the pre-med track.

You don’t have to be.”

Over the years, Hotez said he has developed vaccine packages that

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Dr. Peter Hotez delivers the first keynote of the Northeastern University Global Health Initiative conference Friday.

have provided over 1 billion U.S. citizens with a bundle of vaccines. He noted the range of experts this process required.

“One of the biggest problems with vaccines is not having a good business, economic model or legal framework,” Hotez said.

Cusack said those interested in working as global health advocates have a broad range of career opportunities, including in law, medicine, business and political science. These fields are tied together by a dedication to helping others, according to Cusack.

“It’s very exciting that this next generation has taken such a keen interest in people they don’t even know but that they understand are in need,” Cusack said. “Creativity

and innovation inspire us to get more involved. Collectively, we can really make a difference.”

NUGHI Coordinator and Northeastern University senior Hugh Shirley said that one of the chief purposes of this conference is to highlight the spectrum of talents required to truly make a difference in the field of global health.

“We want students to learn how they can best interact with global health,” Shirley said. “We really want to highlight the true interdisciplinarity of global health so our workshops were designed to be more interactive.”

Hotez said he appreciated the interdisciplinarity and was optimistic for the future generation’s role.

“I’ve seen commitment to public

service amongst young people at an all-time high,” Hotez said. “It’s just a matter of now providing applicable career paths to pursue those kinds of dreams.”

The NUGHI board and speakers alike expressed confidence that such events will continue to ignite change within the global health sphere.

“We want to create a lasting impact in global health care,” Hugh said. “This is something we would like to continue in the future.”

When asked about the future of public and global health, Cusack stressed the importance of education.

“Education is critical to our health, and most of us don’t take advantage of it,” Cusack said. “We need to start paying more attention.”

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FREEP VS. F

BY KAMI RIECK, MICHELLE BRANDABUR, AVERY GROUND and AUSTIN PACK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sticky sticky bun at Flour Bakery Flour Bakery and Cafe is home to Boston’s famous sticky buns, which were featured on Food Network’s “Throwdown with Bobby Flay.” We can definitely attest to its hype and deliciousness. After devouring the bun in minutes, the ooey-gooey goodness completely made up for a below-par contender we had tried at Tatte Bakery and Cafe.

The brioche dough of the bun creates a fluffy texture that is so soft it can be pulled apart with your hands. Filled with cinnamon sugar and smothered in a brown sugar-honey goo, the flavors of caramel and honey lingered on our taste buds after each delicious bite.

The sticky sticky bun at Flour Bakery.

Cinnamon roll at Cafe Madeleine Located in the South End near the Prudential Center, Cafe Madeleine is a quiet corner bakery and cafe perfect for anyone who enjoys French pastries. With indoor seating lining windowsill tables, the bakery is a great spot to enjoy a cup of coffee and a pastry while watching the cars and people pass by on Columbus Avenue.

The popular neighborhood establishment opened in 2014 under the direction of James Beard award-winning pastry chef Frederic Robert. They’ve been serving delicious cinnamon rolls ever since, described on the menu as “Buttery dough rolled with a generous swirl of cinnamon and dark brown sugar.”

When we arrived, the warm and welcom-

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The glazed pecans scattered on top give the bun a crunchy finish and an elegant look for the perfect Instagram snapshot. The bun is also topped with a generous amount of caramel, so we knew we were in for a mouthwatering treat!

Each bun sells for $4, but the generous size is sufficient to share with a friend. It’s a popular item on Flour’s menu and sells out fast. (We called ahead to the bakery to reserve the last bun).

Flour’s Back Bay location is not very spacious, and we struggled to find quick seating, so this is the perfect pastry to snag on the go.

While the buns are freshly baked every day, the only thing we wished was for the sticky bun to be served warm.

Ultimately, we came in with high expectations for this sticky bun, and we left with a craving for more.

Collective Grade: A

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ing atmosphere intrigued us, as did the wonderful sweet smells coming from the kitchen.

We quickly ordered the cinnamon roll, and for $3.50, we began enjoying the buttery goodness of cinnamon and pecans rolled into a perfectly flaky croissant dough.

After finishing each bite, we immediately wanted more of the flaky dough that seemed to dissolve on the tongue. The key success of the cinnamon roll was its hard and flakey exterior contrasted with the soft and chewy interior.

The pastry was best enjoyed with a fork to pull apart the crunchy outside.

Overall, we felt the cinnamon roll was delicious, but not as tasty as the sticky bun from Flour, and much better than the flaky unsatisfying mess of a morning bun at Tatte.

Collective Grade: B+

The morning bun at Clear Flour Bread Nestled in Brookline near Packard’s Corner, Clear Flour Bread’s small, rustic interior simply beckons in patrons from the weather outside. Inside the shop are shelves lined with French and Italian-style breads and pastries, waiting to be eaten.

The morning bun, despite its unassuming exterior, is clearly a Clear Flour favorite.

The bun was so popular, in fact, that it took our writers three separate attempts to beat the crowd and secure the treat before it sold out.

Clear Flour’s sticky buns are made out of buttery, flakey croissant dough, which gives them a slightly crisp exterior, but a soft, meltin-your mouth center. The dough is layered with cinnamon, sugar and walnuts (if desired).

The morning bun at Clear Flour Bread.

Morning bun at Tatte Bakery Tatte, a cafe and bakery chain with 11 locations across Boston, Cambridge and Brookline, serves as a great place for both a morning coffee or a gourmet lunch.

As evidenced by the extensive menu in view from the Fenway location’s front door, it seems as though the cafe is visited more for its sandwiches and breakfast dishes than its pastries.

It took us three tries to find a Tatte location with morning buns available, which built up a lot of anticipation. However, upon trying the actual bun, we found it was quite a disappointment.

The bun itself looked nice, as it was covered in sugar, but it was far from how a normal sticky bun should appear. It was more of

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The cinnamon roll at Cafe Madeleine.

The bun was overall quite a treat and no doubt an excellent start to anyone’s morning.

However, while we found the bun’s texture to be nothing short of perfection, the cinnamon sugar sticky bun flavor one would expect was a tad too subtle to secure Clear Flour a winning spot in the sticky bun challenge.

We found the Clear Flour morning bun to be slightly more akin to a cinnamon-flavored croissant than the gooey, caramel-covered sticky bun we ate at Flour. But for anyone looking for the perfect croissant or simply a subtly flavored sticky bun, this is the place for you!

The morning bun was also around $3.50, falling right into step with the other locations’ price ranges.

Collective Grade: B

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a dry cracker-type pastry that resembled the taste of a French palmier.

The inside of the pastry was almost hollow, so there was not much bun to eat. Upon finishing the pastry, we were left clueless as to why it was sold out in multiple locations.

The morning bun from Tatte would be something to eat if you were having a cup of coffee and realized that you wanted a small bite to eat.

Then again, there are lots of other delicious pastries on offer at Tatte — everything from chocolate hazelnut brioches to halva sesame tea cakes to pistachio cherry tarts. It is not worth going out of your way to find these specific morning buns.

Collective Grade: C+

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The morning bun at Tatte Bakery.

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BUSINESS Terriers InBiz: alum heads startup merging music with blockchain

BY ZOE HAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Open Younk’s website and see a bright homepage directing users if they are artists or “HitHunters.”

Younk, a startup, is a blockchain platform that enables anyone to upload music as an artist, and the public can become “producers” by choosing what music they deem worthy of funds.

Behind the website’s facade, BU alum Mariia Yelizarova works as the head and vice president of strategic communications. She said she used experience she gained while at BU to help launch this company.

“People are uploading every five minutes,” Yelizarova said.

People are free to upload their own music or support the ones they like. Currently, Yelizarova said the platform has gathered 150 independent artists to share their original demo piece, and if the community likes their music, they have the chance to receive funds to produce it.

Yelizarova, who graduated in 2015 from BU, said Younk is the first international music blockchain startup based both in the United States and Ukraine and the third startup she has worked for.

“The reason I like to work for startups is that you get to wear a lot of different hats, a lot of different positions,” Yelizarova said. “I love my current job. It’s exciting.”

Within the month of October, Yelizarova said she has been balancing travel and meetings with people interested in Younk with time spent “heads down working.” In the last week, Yelizarova said she went to a fair in Cambridge to look for new fresh talents, and while there, she met with artists and initiated the negotiation process.

Yelizarova said she first began looking into the startup experience in one of the communication courses she took at BU that involved brainstorming communication plans for startups.

Instead of creating an imaginary one like her classmates did, Yelizarova said she helped Worthy Jerky, a food company that was founded by her high school classmate, during her class.

Yelizarova later applied to a medicine startup because she read an article about the mission of the company. Having worked for three different startups, Yelizarova said it was important she resonated with the company’s goal.

When her friend asked her to join Younk, she said she was intrigued by Younk’s idea of giving the community of users the choice of producing music.

“It’s really powerful,” she said.

Yelizarova explained she felt the need to change the way artists are discovered by labels in the music

industry, which has been commonplace “for many, many years.”

“It’s very outdated,” Yelizarova said. “It’s a really subjective way. We are trying to take the subjectivity out of it. You have a say in what you listen to and on your radio.”

Boston has a lot of young professionals and students who are “open to new changes,” making an ideal location to work out of, Yelizarova said. LIYA, an artist from Younk, uploaded an original song and, within one day, it climbed from 143rd place to fifth, according to Yelizarova.

Yelizarova said she enjoys moments where she feels she made a special connection with the artists.

She specifically mentioned a time the Younk team went to Berklee College of Music to promote their platform, and when they played the first music video the platform ever made, some students cried.

“It was so meaningful to them that we are providing this kind of alternative to artists,” Yelizarova said.

She said that experience was also meaningful because “you see the product of your work impacts people every day.”

Younk stepped into the Boston scene when it sponsored the annual Boston CollegeFest this year.

Yelizarova met Jack Beck, a sophomore in School of Hospitality Administration and College of Arts and Sciences, at the fest, where she

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Boston University alumna Mariia Yelizarova is the head and vice president of strategic communications for Younk.

said she discovered he worked at BU’s radio station WTBU. After hearing the company’s mission, Beck was intrigued by the idea and volunteered to help as an intern to the program, Yelizarova said. He became a link for Younk and WTBU. On his WTBU show “Danny Devishow” that centers around actor and filmmaker Danny Devito, Beck and the other hosts would play some music from Younk, according to Alex Lynch, a sophomore in CAS and intern on “Danny Devishow.”

Lynch said the hosts used Younk’s website for the show, often going on several times during a show to see if there was anything new.

“It’s a pretty practical web-

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site,” he said.

Beck said he believes Younk can be a great resource for students, especially those in smaller bands who may be overlooked by labels.

“It’s something you really need right now because how hard it is for a lot of smaller bands to make it successfully,” Beck said.

Yelizarova said she frequently listens to Younk’s website for the wide range of genres, and knowing the artists’ stories makes the music special for her. For the time being, Yelizarova said she is content working as head of Younk.

“I might slow down some time later in my life, but right now I love it,” Yelizarova said.

Columbia professor explores children’s gender identity in new book

BY ELEANOR HO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Columbia University professor Tey Meadow recalled meeting Rafe, one of the research subjects in her new book “Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century,” as a young girl demonstrating a dance move from a Britney Spears video.

The book explores the changing attitudes of parents toward transgender children and the cultural shifts that come along with them, according to Meadow.

“It was evident that what was on display was far more than a performance of sexuality,” Meadow said.

“Some core part of the being that was Rafe was deeply and essentially feminine.”

Meadow discussed her research that followed dozens of families of transgender children as a part of the Boston University Department of Sociology’s seminar series Monday.

Deborah Carr, professor and chair of BU’s Department of Sociology, said she helped to organize the event.

“The number of young people who are identifying as gender nonconforming has been increasing,” Carr said. “It raises all sorts of questions about how parents should interact with their children, how schools should respond, policy should respond.”

Carr said she believes research is crucial to help meet needs of transgender children and their families.

“She is doing such cutting edge research on a topic of tremendous

and increasing importance,” she said.

The department chair said that while reading Meadow’s book, she was fascinated by parents’ reactions to the choices they faced and their difficulty understanding gender-fluidity.

Casey Ramos, a sophomore in College of Communication studying film and television, recalled having past experiences with transgender and genderfluid friends. “[My friend] identified as genderfluid, and her mom was like, ‘Absolutely not — you are my daughter. You are not they, you are she,’” Ramos said. “Pronouns and name changes are really jarring for parents because [they’ve] called [their children] this all [their] life.”

Meadow said she believes that despite increased acceptance of gender-fluidity, gender is becoming more particular. The specification is infiltrating social and academic institutions and the legal system.

“What’s happening is that the language we use when we’re talking about gender is becoming more complex,” Meadow said in an interview.

“The options that people have for describing themselves, for embodying different forms of gender identities, are proliferating and becoming more precise, not less.”

According to Meadow, one of the book’s main points is that gender non-conforming behavior that once lead to efforts by parents to snuff it out now cause parents to realize that their children possess a different identity than the sex they were

assigned at birth.

“Now, gender non-conformity is not merely seen as a failure of gender, it can also be seen as a different form of gender,” Meadow said.

The author said she believed this pattern is a part of a recent increase in trans acceptance. She spoke about how schools, hospitals, gender clinics and other social institutions are becoming increasingly attuned to questions of gender, and how resources for parents, clinicians and children have grown.

“Gender is no longer just an identity, but an industry,” Meadow said.

Despite this growth, however, Meadow explained her research found that parents who were accepting of their trans children’s identity still faced difficulty.

While working with medical professionals to navigate puberty and transitioning, many parents in Meadow’s study faced various challenges, all amplified by the pressure of time. One family she worked with described feeling pressure to make decisions about their child’s gender before puberty.

“On the one hand, [parents] feared the unknown long-term consequences of hormones, and on the other, they had copious evidence suggesting previous generations of trans adults suffered mightily when their bodies and identities didn’t match,” Meadow said.

Parents found some relief from the pressure that many felt in efforts to standardize medical care for

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Columbia University professor Tey Meadow speaks about her new book “Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century” Monday as part of Boston University Department of Sociology’s seminar series.

transgender children, Meadow said.

Global efforts have lead to increasing amounts of data on children’s identifications, social experiences, family relationships and peer interactions.

“The prevalence of research on the topic … is just exploding,” Meadow said.

Despite seeing changes in parents’ attitudes and in the medical field, Meadow said she still sees weaknesses in other parts of the social climate.

“We’ve been trained by psychologists to move very quickly from thinking that a child might be transgender to wondering if it’s possible for them to not be,” Meadow said.

Meadow recalled speaking with another researcher and asking him if gender adaptation could ever be positive.

“When I said that to him, my

eyes welled up with tears, and I realized that this thing happens with psychologists where we believe they can tell us things about ourselves, and we believe that they know somehow,” Meadow said.

The author said that despite the the threat of the current political climate and Trump’s recent move towards defining gender through biology at birth, it does not negate the progress already made.

“What does it mean that someone like Donald Trump, with his politics, is actually interacting with this subject in such a disgusting way? It means something’s been accomplished. The contestation is a part of the progress,” Meadow said. “The arc of history may bend towards justice, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a smooth bend. It’s more like a rollercoaster.”

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EDITORIAL

College students: put anxiety to use going into midterms Voting isn’t as easy as it’s often made out to be. A volunteer registering voters on a college campus might make coloring in a few bubbles on a ballot sound simpler than it really is when students receive their ballot in the mail and open it up to pages and pages of propositions, with no idea where to start.

The deadline for midterm elections is looming for students who may have forgotten, since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, what it means to swing the direction of the nation for better or for worse. And it’s looming for the Democratic party, which needs students to take on a responsibility they’ve shirked in the past.

A team of psychology researchers has found evidence of significant clinical distress among college students following President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2016, with one in four students showing “clinically-significant event related distress” linked to future diagnoses of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

“Trump Anxiety Disorder,” as therapists have coined it, is a phrase that invites laughter from Republicans who will take any excuse to criticize the sensitivity of liberals. This study seems to add to the thought that liberal millennials are “snowflakes,” but political anxiety is a lived experience that shakes the well-being of minorities. Trauma can come from existing in a stressful environment over time, and people who lack citizenship and other protections from the federal government wake up every day and feel insecure about their belonging.

It’s not surprising that there’s a collective anxiety among college students now, going into midterm elections. Students have a lot at stake when it comes to the future of the presidency.

Just this week, the Trump administration gender as a strict binary under Title IX, this proposed a maximum period of stay for inter- election season has become especially personal. national students. Under the proposal, stu- There’s no anxiety like wondering whether dents will no longer maintain their visas for as your government — and university — may no long as they stay in school, requiring students longer recognize your existence. There’s no to receive extensions or be forced to leave the anxiety like wondering whether you’ll soon be country. forced to use a bathroom or live in a dormitory Boston University is home to almost 7,500 that contradicts your gender identity. international students. Threatening the visa But with these threats, we can’t spend our

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status of these students — who contribute to time complaining. We can’t become cynical.

BU’s culture and deserve to attend this school If we’re anxious about our futures, we need to as much as anyone else — is one of many steps put that stress to use. the administration has taken to send the mesIn the 2016 elections, voter turnout on sage to foreign-born citizens that they aren’t college campuses was 48.3 percent, according welcome in the United States. to Inside Higher Ed. The study reported that And for transgender students wondering “get-out-the-vote” efforts on college campuses if their existence will be respected in gov- were successful after voting increased over 3 ernment-funded school programs after the percent from 2012.

Trump administration has moved to define A voter turnout rate of less than 50 percent

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is hardly something to be proud of. If college students are a demographic impacted by the law that people in power put into effect, why do so few of us care about who’s in power? If a rise in political anxiety is making it difficult for college students to sleep at night, why aren’t we doing anything about it?

If the nation sees another 3 percent increase this year, that’s not enough. In a few weeks, the future of Trump’s presidency is up in the air. It’s easy to feel like the future of politics is out of control for voters, especially in midterm elections. But if Democrats can regain control of the House this November, the future of Trump’s presidency will be permanently altered.

Democratic gains in the midterms depend on student voters. Young voter turnout, though, usually drops for midterm elections. No college student who doesn’t vote has the right to feel anxious in the aftermath of the election.

Becoming defeatists over something that can still be changed is the worst move young voters could make. Trump’s election may be the biggest political shock some voters have felt, but going into this election, there’s a push to get young Democratic hopefuls into Congress — a straw of hope that we could start inching in the direction of change.

It’s hard to say there’s ever been such a concerted effort to get young people to vote. Snapchat just registered over 400,000 users for voting. Consciousness is heightened in a way that it hasn’t been before, which is a good thing not just for the Democratic party, but for the country.

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Cast LGBT actors first

‘Halloween’ slashes records

BY AUSMA PALMER COLUMNIST

Australian actress Cate Blanchett made headlines this week when, in a discussion at the Rome Film Festival, she expressed her belief that straight actors should be able to portray gay characters without controversy.

The two-time Oscar-winning actress (who was also nominated for her portrayal of the lesbian title character in “Carol”) said, “And I will fight to the death for the right to suspend disbelief and play roles beyond my experience … particularly in America, I think, we expect and only expect people to make a profound connection to a character when it’s close to their experience.”

The problem with Blanchett’s statement is not so much what she said about the kind of experience an actor must have to play a particular role. Of course actors can and should play characters whose experiences are completely foreign to them — after all, the entire point of acting is to “suspend disbelief,” as Blanchett said. Where would we be if she had been forbidden from portraying Katharine Hepburn in “The Aviator” or Queen Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth” because she didn’t know what it was actually like to live and breathe as the classic film actress or the 16th century monarch?

There is no doubt in my mind that Blanchett can play any role in the entire world, but that’s simply not the biggest issue at hand here. And although a valid argument could be made about how much more deeply a gay actor could relate to a gay character’s experience than a straight actor could, that is not the main problem with Blanchett’s statements, either.

What Blanchett failed to consider about the issue is that when straight actors are given roles as LGBT characters, it robs actual LGBT actors of opportunities. Because opportunities

equal money, it could also end up robbing them of their livelihood in the long run. People fail to realize just what struggles American LGBT people face when it comes to employment — they can still be fired based on their sexual orientation in 28 states and are more likely to live in poverty than Americans who are heterosexual. Considering the struggles so many in the LGBT community face on a daily basis, the very least Hollywood should do is cast LGBT people in LGBT roles.

Besides the threat casting a straight actor in a gay role presents to a gay actor’s livelihood, there is also the issue of LGBT representation.

What message is sent to young people in the LGBT community when they repeatedly see

BY NAMU SAMPATH COLUMNIST straight actors playing gay characters? Is it that no matter how high a gay actor may rise in SPOILER ALERT: This column may feaHollywood, they will still lose out on playing ture spoilers. a character of their own sexual orientation or This past weekend, I watching the sequel gender identity to a straight actor? to the 1978 original horror movie “Halloween,” Without fail, this issue of representation the story of a serial killer named Michael comes up every year when awards season rolls Myers who stabs his sister to death and kills around and some straight actor is inevitably the friends of a woman named Laurie Strode. nominated for their portrayal of an LGBT The sequel that I watched was a response to the character. According to Advocate, a LGBT original movie, and featured Jamie Lee Curtis, news source, this has happened at least 52 times reclaiming her role as Laurie, her daughter at the Oscars. This occurred most recently in Karen, and her granddaughter, Allyson.

2018 with Timothée Chalamet’s leading actor This year is the year of the woman, and nomination for “Call Me By Your Name” and honestly, I believe that Hollywood has taken Richard Jenkins’ best supporting actor nomi- this very seriously. “Halloween” was extremely nation for for “The Shape of Water.” successful this weekend, making nearly $90 Some may think it is ridiculous for a per- million in ticket sales, but it was because it son’s sexual orientation to be a requirement for passed a milestone in the horror movie genre what is ultimately just a job, or that it would be — being the biggest horror movie opening with discrimination to prevent straight actors from a female lead. The women casted ended up playing LGBT characters. Some may even ask being the lone survivors of the film, making an how we are sure these so-called straight actors important statement that women are in fact, are indeed straight? independent and aren’t the “damsel in distress,” I would disagree with all of these arguments, in real life or in movies. as there are plenty of “out” actors in Hollywood “Halloween” is the third horror movie who are ready and waiting to play gay roles. If I have seen in my lifetime, and I think what casting directors are concerned about casting really stuck with me was the fact that it had an actor whose sexual orientation they are not one, but three female leads. Not to toot unsure of, they could always err on the side of my own (gender’s) horn, but women are out caution and cast an actor who is “out.” here kicking some real ass because of all of the Back in 2016, actor Sir Ian McKellen (him- accomplishments they have made this year. self a gay man) said that no openly gay actor “Halloween” is the highest-grossing movie ever had ever won an Oscar for Best Actor. It is 2018, to open with a female lead over 55 years old. It’s and this remains the case. Hollywood should really refreshing to see Hollywood making be ashamed. Just as directors, producers and roles allow women to reach as much success as casting directors must start listening to recent their male counterparts. calls for greater representation of women and While all of these components are really people of color in films, they too must start lis- important, I think the storyline was also really tening to calls for greater LGBT representation. interesting because it was about family, and

sticking together, as women, to survive. Curtis, in an interview with Refinery 29, said that her reprised performance was inspired by #MeToo and the Time’s Up movement. The hashtag that has gone viral with regards to this movie is #WomenGetThingsDone, which really demonstrates how politically-aware this movie was intended to be.

Following the election of accused sexual perpetrator Brett Kavanaugh into the U.S. Supreme Court, it’s important for other parts of the American society to show their support for the women in this country — since our government clearly doesn’t. Having three badass lead female roles in one movie is exponentially beneficial to the rest of the women in this country, and honestly, worldwide.

This may be slightly controversial, but my favorite part of the film was the fact that, with one exception, every male character in the movie was killed off (not including the serial killer himself). What I mean is, while horror movies have been re-enforcing the “final girl” trope, it’s an exciting time to see the literal meaning of final girl(s).

Curtis has been adamant that “Halloween” has always been feminist, saying that it was written before the first article that came out about Harvey Weinstein and that it has always been dedicated to empowering the women, not only in Hollywood, but overall.

With more and more movies, music and art coming out about empowering women to be relentless and to stand up for themselves, it’s important talk about what’s going on in our country and to push people to understand the validity of certain social issues.

With the midterm elections coming up right around the corner, I feel like the times are scarier in real life than they were when Laurie Strode feared for her life because of a serial killer. We are in a very strange position right now.

While politics doesn’t really have monopoly over popular culture, it plays a big role in creating the content that we see on screen or listen to.

Because of this, I believe that there is no excuse for young people to be active on the political scene as much as they are in the cultural and social scene. It’s much more exciting to live in a time where there are powerful things to be fighting for, like a woman’s ability to control what decisions she makes with her body or how much she should be getting paid based on the work she does.

CARTOON BY KYLE PATTERSON

INTERROBANG

Drake threw a 2000s themed party for his birthday — we here at the ol’ Free Press want to know, what theme would the BU community pick for their party?

Core Curriculum: Toga party

ENG: “BattleBots” party

Metropolitan College: Bingo night

BU Academy: Slumber party

Ski Racing Team: Snow pants or no pants

CityCo: Going-away party

Questrom: Roaring ‘20s blowout

Rowing Team: Boston Tea Party

FreeP: Siesta

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Weekend series could end in perfect Patriot League season

BY EMILY PHILLIPS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University field hockey continues its three-game homestand Friday against Patriot League rival the College of the Holy Cross before ending its regular season in Newton against Boston College Sunday.

The Terriers (9-6, 5-0 Patriot League) come into this game following a weekend split against Lehigh University and the No. 4 University of Connecticut.

BU head coach Sally Starr noted that the team is looking to continue its conference winning streak this Friday against Holy Cross (3-12, 2-3 Patriot League).

“It’s our last conference game,” Starr said. “It’ll give us the opportunity to finish the season undefeated in the conference.”

The Crusaders will come to New Balance Field on a threegame losing streak, falling most recently to Bucknell University with a final score of 1-3.

Holy Cross took the lead Saturday in the 18th minute when senior forward Suzanne Noone scored off of a cross from senior midfielder Emily Loprete.

The two teams went into the second half of the game tied after sophomore midfielder Sarah Dimock scored for the Bison (8-7, 3-2 Patriot League) — her first goal this season.

Seniors defender Sally Olson and forward M.C. Evans secured the win for the Bison in the second half, also assuring their place in the Patriot League playoffs where they will face Boston University.

T he Ter r iers defeated Bucknell Oct. 13 in a double overtime game with a final score of 3-2 thanks to a goal from senior midfielder Allie Doggett in the 81st minute, earning her Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week honors.

Starr said having her full team

ready to play adds to security going into this weekend.

“We’re healthy,” Starr said. “I think we’re very much a team that plays for each other and with each other.”

Crusaders goalkeeper Marcia Laplante has played every minute between the pipes for Holy Cross this season and currently stands at a .761 save percentage.

BU’s lead goalkeeper, senior Kathleen Keegan, has played the majority of minutes since the team faced Miami University earlier in the season and holds a .586 save percentage.

The last time the Terriers faced Holy Cross, they outshot the opposing team 26-2 leading into a 4-0 shutout in the Patriot League semifinal match, including goals from current BU midfielders senior Maika Akroyd and junior Kiley Gallagher.

While certain players have had success in the past, Starr said she will be looking across the roster for players to step up in the upcoming games.

“That’s what I really like about this team,” Starr said. “I think we’re really a complete team. We don’t rely on just a few players.

Collectively, we have really strong core players, and we also have players that can come in off the bench.”

The Terriers’ final regular-season opponent, BC (9-7), will have a chance of breaking its twogame losing streak against No. 6 Harvard University before hosting BU on home turf.

Historically, the Eagles have a 22-12-1 record against Harvard (13-1).

In both of its recent losses against No. 3 Duke University and Liberty University, BC fell 1-2. Before that, the Eagles had defeated the University of Massachusetts 6-1.

BC midfielder Lucy Lytle, who is the team’s third-best point producer, has scored a goal in the last

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Senior fullback Maika Akroyd in an Oct. 20 game against Lehigh University. Akroyd and the Terriers will play Holy Cross and Boston College in the final two games of the regular season.

four games straight.

The match against BU will be the Eagles’ first home game at the Boston College Field Hockey Complex since Oct. 14, where they have gone 5-1 this season.

It will be the first time the Terriers will face BC since the 2017 season match where BU was felled 2-3 in an overtime decision, the fourth straight where extra time was necessary to decide the winners between the crosstown rivals.

Friday will be the Terriers’ final home game of the regu-

lar season and also gives them a chance to end their home stint above .500.

“We need to continue to build on [last weekend] and get better and better,” Starr said. “It’ll be a competitive opportunity.”

Most recently, BU fell to UConn when, in the 60th minute, Husky fullback Cecile Pieper scored her 17th goal for the Huskies this season, securing the win.

Saturday, the Terriers clinched top seed in the Patriot League with their 5-1 victory over Lehigh

(2-15, 1-5 Patriot League).

This is the fourth straight regular season title earned by the team in its five-year history in the conference.

Starr said the final regular season home game also allowed them to acknowledge the team’s five-member senior class.

“It’s senior night, so it’ll be an emotional night,” Starr said. “…

The biggest thing is that I felt we had our best weekend of hockey, two back-to-back games where we played really well, and we need to look to continue that.”

Living in Fantasy: Recent trades makes roster planning interesting

BY TYLER ORINGER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

This has been an odd fantasy season so far, and part of it has been due to the plethora of bizarre trades — notably, Carlos Hyde to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Amari Cooper to the Dallas Cowboys.

Now, for Hyde and his owners, this completely damages his value. Because of the plethora of talent for Jacksonville, there is a logjam at the running back position. Leonard Fournette will return Week 10 and render Hyde useless. Both backs are power backs and T.J. Yeldon will be the pass-catching back. The only time the now-former Cleveland Brown would be worth a start is when

Fournette misses a game solely due to his ability to score from inside the five.

Like you, I was completely blindsided by this and have lost my RB2 to become a change-of-pace back in two of my three leagues.

But now Cleveland houses talented running backs who will surely benefit from Hyde’s departure from the team.

Nick Chubb has already exploded a few weeks ago for 105 yards and two touchdowns in one game and looked very dependable on the ground with 18 carries and 80 yards with a touchdown. Duke Johnson will also see an uptick of value, especially in PPR leagues. Chubb, for the time being, has zero catches in his career, Johnson’s specialty. Knowing that Hue Jackson is still head coach of the Browns for whatever reason, Cleveland and Baker Mayfield will be behind and in need of a passing back like Johnson.

Simply put, Hyde is the only person here to be negatively impacted by this trade where Fournette and Yeldon remain neutral. The Browns RBs have gone from somewhat forgettable to starting-caliber players. Fantasy is weird sometimes.

Anyway, moving on to the most controversial transactions was the

Oakland Raiders’ trade of Amari Cooper to the Dallas Cowboys for a first-round pick in next year’s draft.

From a football perspective, I am surprised at Jerry Jones’ lack of ability to recognize that the Cowboys are just not a playoff team — even with Cooper.

But this is a fantasy column and not a rant about the questionable moves NFL executives seem to make on what seems like a monthly basis.

Cooper’s value will, well, go up a bit, because his performance on the Raiders so far this year with questionable coaching and a stagnant unit has been underwhelming to say the least.

The Cowboys are not a high-powered passing offense and never will be thanks to the presence of Dak Prescott, who is dependent on scrambling and dump-off, slant type passes. It must be recognized that his pairing with Dez Bryant never worked and could be an obvious argument against this trade.

As for everyone else on these teams other than Cooper, Prescott will surely garner more attention, but not enough to start in 10 and most 12-team leagues. That offense is run through Ezekiel Elliott, no ifs, ands or buts about it.

For the Raiders, Derek Carr, who

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The Cleveland Browns sent running back Carlos Hyde, pictured above, to the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for a fifth round draft pick.

wasn’t startable anyway, is unusable now, but players like Jordy Nelson and Jared Cook are officially somewhat usable. Martavis Bryant was always on the outside looking in, but with Cooper gone as a deep threat, it would not be unreasonable to expect several Hail Mary balls going his way as the season

progresses. Jon Gruden is a questionable coach and general manager, but in this case he absolutely fleeced Jerry Jones for a first-round pick.

Looking at it from a fantasy perspective, thank goodness Jerry Jones is not co-managing any team with me in any of my leagues.

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USNTDP U18 team finding success vs. college opponents the first goal of the game 52 seconds in In past years, the Terriers nabbed off assists from forwards Trevor Zegras juniors defenseman Chad Krys and and Jack Hughes. goaltender Jake Oettinger along with At the start of the second period, former forwards Clayton Keller and it was U18 forward Matthew Boldy Kieffer Bellows from the 2015–16 iterscoring on a power play off feeds from ation of the national team.

Zegras and defenseman Cam York.

Sophomores defenseman David Then, within a minute of each other Farrance, forward Logan Cockerill in the third period, U18 defenseman and current Ottawa Senator Brady Alex Vlasic scored via Zegras and Tkachuk came from the 2016–17 team.

Hughes and forward Owen Lindmark From last year’s group, BU brought netted one from forward Ryder Rolston in forwards Joel Farabee, Jake Wise to send the tilt to overtime. and Jack DeBoer.

In the end, it took Bowers, a The Terriers are not the only team Canadian, to save the team in overtime. that has been given fits by the UnderDespite the border rivalry, Bowers 18 Team, and while they came away said he looks forward to seeing several with a win, some of their counterparts of the players again — as teammates. have not fared as well.

“I think they’re going to be great “They gave us a good fight, and contributors for us next year right away they’re a hell of a team,” Bowers said. as freshman,” Bowers said. “They all “I think that’s why they’ve been able to play a big role on that team, so I expect beat some higher ranked college teams.” them to do the same next year for us.”

On Oct. 7, the team beat the numZegras and Vlasic are committed ber-one ranked team in the USCHO to play at BU as are defensemen Cade poll, the Fighting Irish, 4-1. Five days Webber, Case McCarthy and Domenick later, it beat the No. 12 Wolverines.

Fensore.

After falling to the Terriers, the MADDIE MALHOTRA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Boldy, forwards Patrick Moynihan Under-18s picked up right where they Boston University sophomore defenseman David Farrance and junior goaltender Jake Oettinger both played for the United and Danny Weight, defenseman Drew left off with consecutive victories over States Under-18 men’s hockey team during the 2016-17 and 2015-16 seasons, respectively.

Helleson and goaltender Spencer Knight Harvard and Dartmouth College. will all be playing down the street at The BC commits dominated the worth of NHL talent, displayed that They’ve got a similar team.”

BY LIAM O’BRIEN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF BU eked out a 5-4 overtime victory, Boston College. win over the Crimson Saturday night the collegiate ranks are in good hands but the team was outplayed at points “It doesn’t happen every year with as both Moynihan and Boldy scored.

Friday night’s tilt between the moving forward. by the upstarts in the blue uniforms. every birth class,” O’Connell said, “but Monday night, the BU guys took Boston University men’s hockey team Of the 23-man roster, all except two The Terriers were outshot 39-35 the 2001 birth class in the United States their turn against Dartmouth College and the U.S. National Under-18 Team are committed to play NCAA hockey and saw a 4-2 lead erased in the latter is as good as it’s been in a long time.” as Zegras scored twice and Vlasic gave the Terriers (0-3, 0-1 Hockey East) with five committed to play at BU. Harvard University has three had an assist. their second exhibition win of the year, “It’s amazing,” O’Connell said. stages of the third period.

“They’re so fast and so skilled,” said commits on the team while forward “It’s great,” O’Connell said. “It’s but it did not come easy.

“It’s very similar to the year [Auston] Watching a group of American Matthews, [Matthew] Tkachuk, sophomore forward Shane Bowers. John Beecher is headed to play with great for USA Hockey. It’s great for high schoolers f ly around the ice [Jordan] Greenway, that 1997-born team. “Even though they are two years younger University of Michigan, who edged the National Development Program. and make life tough for a Terriers [Charlie] McAvoy, [Noah] Hanifin, than us, they can compete and catch by BU in the Northeast Regional in Obviously, USA Hockey is making unit, with what BU head coach Albie [Zach] Werenski, talk about household you off guard if you take them lightly.” March, and Rolston is bound for the strides, so it’s exciting … We’ll be O’Connell described as a full team’s U18 Forward Judd Caulfield scored University of Notre Dame. seeing those names for a long time.” names in the National Hockey League.

Men’s soccer recorded mixed success against Navy, Army

BY DYLAN WOODS AND LILY BETTS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Before Boston University men’s soccer claimed its first win since Oct. 3 in a 1-0 win over the United States Military Academy, the Terriers (4-93, 3-3-1 Patriot League) went down against the United States Naval Academy 1-2 while in Annapolis, Maryland.

The loss against Navy had been the Terriers’ third consecutive loss, while the Midshipmen came into the game with a 1-11-1 record and no wins in the Patriot League.

BU head coach Neil Roberts said injuries have forced him to change the team’s methods.

“We just don’t have the players left to do [possession-based play],” Roberts said. “We have to be a bit more direct and pin teams in. It’s just what we have to do.”

A g a i nst A r my (6-8-1, 3-4-0 Patriot League), shots were limited to 6-7 with the Terriers leading.

The team’s Icelantic duo laid claim to the game early.

Sophomore midf ielder Toti Knutsson recorded the first shot of the game in the fourth minute from outside the box, forcing Black Knight goalkeeper Justin Stoll into action.

Army got enough skin on it for freshman midfielder Kari Petursson to get a corner kick, the first of three Petursson would receive before the seventh minute.

In the 12th minute, Petursson intercepted a throw from Stoll to

one of his defenders, corralling it’s hard to hold the ball and not the ball and shooting it inside the have the poor g uys in the back right post. under pressure so much,” Roberts It would be the final goal of the said. “Adam’s playing up front, he’s match, leaving the rest of the game not a striker … they’re giving us to a defensive match, backed by everything they have and they’re freshmen Nate Cole, Josh Hurwitz working hard.” and sophomore Maxwell Aunger in However, late in the game, the the starting 11.

BU defense could not hold the lead.

“We had two freshmen and a First, it was Midshipman forward sophomore, and they were ver y Bayne Bentley who scored an unascomposed,” Roberts said. “We kind sisted goal in the 71st minute. Then, of knew what Army was going to 14 minutes later, fellow freshman do. By the way we play, we were forward Jacob Williams converted hoping they would go direct, makes off the post to put Navy up 2-1. it a little easier on the backs … the After playing to a stalemate in guys did a good job in the second the first half, the Terriers were half of stopping that.” outshot 10-6 and had just two corner The match against Navy was a kicks to Navy’s three. similarly slowed-down affair.

Senior goa l keeper Mike In the first half, neither team Bernardi made six saves during found the back of the net, managing the two matches. one shot on goal total while the BU now has two games left in Terriers handled all five corners. the regular season, against Bucknell S ophomore defender El i a s University and Colgate University.

Lampis got two corner kicks in Currently, the Terriers are tied in the first six minutes, but neither fifth place within the conference resulted in a shot attempt. along with Bucknell (6-6-3, 3-3-1 To start the second half, senior Patriot League) — six teams make it midfielder Adam Wright scored his to the Patriot League tournament. first collegiate goal after heading Roberts said that the team is a cross from Knutsson in the 51st putting in the effort, but mistakes minute. are still costing the team valuable The defensive-focused mid- points. fielder Wright tallied four assists “It’s been very disappointing, in his first two years with the team obviously, but the effort’s been there but missed missed the entire 2017 all along,” Roberts said. “We had season due to an injury. a breakdown, and that has been Roberts said that producing more the problem is just mistakes offense was a main challenge due and young kids making mistakes. to the injuries.

You would hope that at this point “When you lose all your forwards, in the season, we’d have it.”

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Sophomore midfielder Toti Knutsson recorded three shots in Wednesday’s game against Army West Point. Knutsson also assisted on a goal in a 2-1 loss against Navy Saturday.

“You would hope that at this point in the season, we’d have it.” ­— Men’s soccer head coach Neil Roberts on the team’s recent struggle p.11

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“They gave us a good fight, and they’re a hell of a team.” ­— Sophomore forward Shane Bowers on the USNTDP U-18 hockey team p.11

Notebook: Women’s soccer rebounds, in good form for postseason “I’d hoped for them it’d be a positively memorable day,” Feldman said.

With its final regular-season “A lot of them play a significant role game around the corner, members and have all season … You want of the Boston University’s women’s your elders, your leaders to model soccer team have said they believe how to do it, and you want your pieces are in the right spot to make younger players to be so invested a postseason push. they’re going to do everything they T he Ter r ier s (8 - 7 - 3 , 6 - 0 - 2 can not to let the seniors down.”

Patriot League) will be going to The class includes the team’s Ha m i lton, Ne w York , to face three captains, defenders Libby Colgate University — the current Closson and Pietra Sweeney, and Patriot League leader — without midfielder Dorrie Varley-Barrett. a loss in conference play and every In the match, Sweeney was able win coming off a shutout. to assist on a goal from a third senior defender Royce Light, her Bye, bye, Bucknell first goal against a Patriot League For the first time since 2015, BU opponent. won against Bucknell University “[It was] so exciting,” Light said.

Saturday.

“Bucknell has always been our rival, T h e t w o t e a m s l a s t f a c e d so getting a goal tonight and our off in the 2017 Patriot Leag ue whole team being excited for senior Tournament, where Bucknell (7-9-1, day means the world to absolutely 5-3-0 Patriot League) knocked the everyone.”

Terriers out in the semifinal match with a 1-0 win.

Offense is the best defense “They’re a very good team,” BU Outside of two 1-1 ties against head coach Nancy Feldman said. American University and the United “They’ve had good success this year States Military Academy, BU has and they have some great attacking not allowed a goal-against in its six personalities. We’re just tr ying other conference games. to keep the pressure on with our According to Feldman, keeping attack.” the ball in the offensive third of The victory came in a 2-0 shut- the field has been key in keeping out where the Terriers outshot the Terrier net empty. the Bison 12-5, ultimately forcing “I’ve said it before, [offense] is Bucknell goalkeeper Theresa Adu- the best defense,” Feldman said. “If Attobrah to make six saves. we can play in their half, keep posJu n i o r m i d f i e l d e r C h l o e e session, be aggressive going forward Sagmoe led the attack, stacking and get them on their heels, you up three shots on goal during the limit how much they’re attacking course of the match and notching and touching the ball in your half the game winner in the 41st minute. of the field.”

Sagmoe’s play earned her the BU is second in the Patriot first Patriot League Midfielder of Leag ue with an average of .237 the Week recognition of her career. goals allowed per game.

The win extended the Terriers’ The third best in the league, home conference win streak to the United States Naval Academy, 48, the longest in the NCAA, and has allowed six goals in conference moved them into sole possession of play for an average of .723. the second spot in Patriot League Despite the focus on the attack, rankings. the Terriers have been backed by stellar performances from its goalSenior day keepers as well.

B efore t he Buck nel l g a me, Freshman goalkeeper Morgan BU Athletics held a ceremony to Messner has been in net for four of acknowledge the 10-woman senior BU’s shutouts and has not allowed a class. goal from a conference team, makFeldman said that the win was ing her the only Patriot League the regular season home send-off goa lkeeper with a perfect save she had hoped for. percentage.

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Messner got her first start in net as a Terrier after an injury kept sophomore Amanda Fay out of play for three games early in the season. Fay has made seven starts since then and put up a .703 season save percentage.

Sweeney said the team’s defens i v e st r e n g t h h a s com e f r om experience.

“It’s always been engraved in our heads,” Sweeney said. “Winning our one-on-one battles, tracking our runners and dropping as a unit, so I think that we finally found our groove as a backline.”

Uphill battle BU started the season going 1-1-7 in out-of-conference play.

It took the Terriers six games to pick up their first win, and after that, it would take until their second conference game against Lehigh University Sept. 22 for them to pick up a second victory.

Since then, BU hasn’t lost a match.

Feldman described one hindrance — the loss of senior midfielder Julianna Chen for nearly a month — as a chance for freshman midfielder Taylor Kofton to grow as a player.

Kofton started her first game as Terrier Oct. 13 against West Virginia University and has since collected four goals, putting her in a three-way tie for most in-conference goals.

While Feldman said the losses made believing in the system difficult, recent success has resulted in more confidence among the team.

“They’re building trust and confidence in imprinting their style,” Feldman said. “You don’t expect it to be there on day one. Particularly early in the season when we weren’t seeing much success, it’s hard to really believe in it and have full confidence, but as we started to get some results and start to build confidence in the way you’re playing, then you get full commitment to it.”

Fight to the top Saturday will see BU face off against Colgate (11-2-3, 7-0-1 Patriot League), who are currently two points ahead in the Patriot League

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Senior defender Royce Light in an Oct. 17 game against Army West Point. Light scored the second goal in a 2-0 victory against Bucknell University Saturday.

standings.

With a Raider win, they will claim the regular season title and home advantage for the conference playoffs.

The Colgate team will walk onto Beyer-Small ‘76 Field with a seven-game win streak and fivegame shutout streak.

In their most recent match, Navy (10-5-3, 6-2-0 Patriot League) held off the Raider until the 109th minute when Colgate midfielder Mara Cosentino scored her sixth goal of the season for a 1-0 double overtime victory.

Cosentino a nd Ra ider goa l-

keeper Kelly Chiavaro earned backto-back Patriot Leag ue honors last week.

While Cosentino leads Colgate in scoring with 12 points, Chiavaro is in the top 10 nationally in save percentage, goals against average and shutouts.

Feldman said her attack-first strategy is the same against every team. “[We focus on] earning corner kicks, getting deep throw-ins, earning free kicks that are free serves into the box,” Feldman said. “It’s no different when we’re playing Bucknell, Army or Colgate.”

BOTTOM LINE FRIDAY, OCT. 26 Field hockey will play its final home regular season game against the College of the Holy Cross at 6 p.m.

Men’s hockey will host Providence College in its home opener at

SATURDAY, OCT. 27

SUNDAY, OCT. 28

Women’s soccer will play its final regular season game at Colgate University at noon.

Boston College will host BU field hockey’s final regular season game at 1 p.m.

Men’s soccer will host its senior day at 2 p.m. against Bucknell University.

Women’s hockey will play at Northesatern at 2 p.m.

MONDAY, OCT. 29

TUESDAY, OCT. 30 The Boston Bruins will play the

The New England Patriots will play AFC East rivals the Buffalo Bills at 8:15 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

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Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, North Carolina, at 7 p.m.

A possible World Series Game 6 would take place at 8:09 p.m.