10-4-2018

HOUSING HURDLES, 3

BAGEL RUN, 6

IDENTICAL, NOT EQUAL, 9

TERRIER PRIDE, 12

Trans and nonbinary students discuss the issues they have to face with BU Housing.

Student-run business Toasty Boys hand-delivers bagels to students.

The editorial board weighs in on Trump’s diplomatic visa policy for same-sex couples.

With its Athlete Ally chapter, BU Athletics hosted its first Pride Week Sept. 22-29.

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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks at a town hall last summer. Speaking at another town hall in Holyoke Saturday, she said she will be taking a “hard look” at running for president in 2020 after the November midterm elections.

Warren considers post-midterms presidential run

BY NATALIE PATRICK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced at a Holyoke town hall meeting Saturday that, once the midterm elections are over, she will consider running for president in 2020.

Warren, who is currently running for re-election to the U.S. Senate, has been outspoken about her criticisms of President Donald Trump and his policies, denouncing his treatment of immigrants and other marginal-

ized communities.

“It’s time for women to go to Washington and fix our broken government, and that includes a woman at the top,” Warren said at the town hall. “So here’s what I promise: After November 6, I will take a hard look at running for president.”

In her speech at the town hall, Warren advocated for women and working class families, emphasizing the need for a change in America.

“I came here tonight to make

you a promise,” Warren said. “I’m just getting started.”

David Glick, professor of political science at Boston University, said he anticipates the midterms will affect candidates and nominees for 2020 by showing the Democratic party where voters stand on party-specific issues. This could affect Warren’s choices, he said, as it will show the political party which candidate will satisfy the hopes of the majority of Democratic voters.

“If the more progressive wing

of the Democratic party does exceptionally well in the midterms,” Glick said, “that probably would suggest that candidates on the more sort of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren-wing of the party might emerge as front runners, if that’s where the energy in the party is going forward.”

Glick also said most of the current Democratic leaders are fairly stable in their own elections, so election losses are not necessarily a concern.

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Although the retail sale of recreational marijuana was set to be legalized July 1 in Massachusetts, Suffolk County, where Boston is located, has yet to issue a local permit to any recreational marijuana operator.

For companies seeking state licenses from the Cannabis Control Commission, they must first receive approval from the county they reside in, which is referred to as a host community agreement, said Massachusetts Grower Advocacy Council President Peter Bernard.

However, Bernard said these agreements can be an issue for operators to receive, as he said they are the largest barrier marijuana companies face.

“The most crucial part and what seems to be the hardest thing to do is to get the host community agreements from town,” Bernard said. ”Because, without that, the rest of it is basically paperwork.

The agreement is the hard part.”

New Eng la nd Pol itica l Director of the Marijuana Policy Project Matt Simon said it is critical for operators to have the agreement ready when they attempt to receive a state license. However, he said that when the City is not distributing the host community agreements quickly, this can pose as an obstacle for operators.

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One month into BU Hub, students say it could use some work

BY CONOR KELLEY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The BU Hub, Boston University’s newest revamp of general education, is now one month into its implementation and facing mixed reactions from students.

Input from a student board and responses from students on their experiences with the Hub seem to indicate that it is well-received by the class of 2022, BU Director of Advising Laura Johnson wrote in an email.

“While no formal assessment has been done yet, anecdotally we’ve had very positive responses from first-year students who seem enthusiastic about the opportunities afforded to them by the new program,” Johnson wrote, “Students seem particularly interested in the exploration the program allows, and in the possibility of meeting general

education requirements through courses taken across campus.”

The class of 2022 is the first group to experience the allnew curricular framework that requires students to fulfill six “capacities,” or general education sections, during their undergraduate years.

Tulasi Murthy, a freshman in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said she views the Hub as being better than typical general education requirements.

“It makes sense to me, so I’m not very anxious about it, because I feel like it’s like integrating classes you’re already taking, but they’re going to give you credit for something else as well,” Murthy said, “which I guess is better than GE’s.”

The program is designed to be a general education experience that interweaves with every year

of undergraduate coursework, Hub Program Manager Eric Jarvis said, allowing for students to take classes outside of their major or college in order to develop knowledge and skills in fields outside of their area of interest.

While some students praised the new general education program, others were not as impressed.

Rene Ismail, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he thinks it is an interesting way to develop well-rounded students, but that, as with any new program, it is going to have issues.

“My one concern is people abandoning what they want to do to fulfill certain requirements,” Ismail said. “Let’s say they really feel passionate for one subject, but that subject doesn’t offer the BU Hub requirements that they might need to do, or they might get sidetracked.”

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The BU Hub has opened to mixed reactions from new students at the university.

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CGS sees increase in student voting interest

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As part of an initiative to encourage students to vote in the upcoming midterms, Boston University’s College of General Studies Social Sciences division held a voter registration drive in the CGS lobby Monday and Tuesday.

Volunteers helped students fill out voter registration applications both online and on paper and helped out-of-state students register for absentee ballots.

CGS has hosted a voter registration every two years, before every national election, for the past several years, said CGS master lecturer Susan Lee, who helped organize the drive. However, there has been a marked increase in interest in voting among BU students this year, Lee said, and students have been more politically aware and strategic about their voting.

Lee said that the current political climate could be contributing to this new interest in voting among young people.

“I think the polarized political atmosphere that we have has a lot of downsides to it, but one upside might be that younger people are much more interested these days because they see the implications of not voting,” Lee said. “We’re hoping to demonstrate to them that, feel whatever you want, believe whatever you want, but you’re not going to make any changes if you don’t vote.”

CGS sophomore Raad Qazi said he thought the registration drive would go a long way toward encouraging students to vote “It’s definitely helping cure voter apathy,” Qazi said. “I probably would not have registered if this was not here. I would have completely forgotten about it.”

CGS freshman Maddie MacMaster said the drive had a major impact on her likelihood to vote in the upcoming midterm elections.

“I have already registered to

CAS freshman Boshi Wang said he thinks the broad requirements are valuable, especially because he would not be inclined to study some of the Hub categories on his own.

“I hate linguistics and history, but because of the Hub, I think I have to take some courses about history,” Wang said, “But I also think it’s a good thing, because I can really learn something from those courses, because I will never read a history book apart from class.”

Annie Millman, a freshman in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, also said she feels that the Hub pushes students to explore areas of study they otherwise

Crime Logs

BY CONOR KELLEY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Sept. 27–Oct. 1.

Suspicious man on BU Bridge A caller reported at 5:44 a.m.

Thursday that a possibly homeless man was pacing back and forth and yelling threateningly at passersby at 808 Commonwealth Ave. The man was described as wearing a black sweatshirt and black pants.

BUPD were unable to locate the described man.

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A student hands in his voter registration form to professor Chris Fahy at a voter registration drive Tuesday hosted by the College of General Studies and the World Affairs Forum.

vote previously before I came here, but I just got an absentee ballot so that I wouldn’t have to go home,” MacMaster said. “Honestly, it’s so bad, but I think if this wasn’t here, I wouldn’t have gotten an absentee ballot and wouldn’t have been able to vote.”

The process of registering for an absentee ballot was easy, she said.

“It was pretty much, you just sign each line and dot your i’s and cross your t’s,” MacMaster said.

Youth registration has historically been low, according to the Tufts University Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) — approximately 50 percent of eligible adults between the ages of 18–29 voted in the 2016 general election, even though they make up 21 percent of the voting-eligible population in the United States.

The inclusion of absentee ballots is important for students who live in states besides Massachusetts, CGS lecturer Charles Henebry said.

“Just being registered doesn’t do you any good if you live in Florida or somewhere,” he said.

The voting registration drive is not the only initiative that has been held at CGS to encourage civic engagement in students, CGS Dean Natalie McKnight said.

Lee organized a handout of free Constitution copies, purchased from the American Civil Liberties Union, about two years ago, McKnight said.

McKnight said that an organization called Open Space meets at CGS to discuss current events happening in the world and create a space for people to talk and vent about the issues surrounding them. McKnight said Open Space has been a “good forum” for some “powerful, emotional meetings” since the 2016 presidential election.

Meeting a diverse group of people including “conservatives from the central United States and … immigrants who came here as young children from a variety of countries” has influenced Ashley Cruz’s voting,

the CGS sophomore said.

“I’ve learned a lot from many different people, and I’ve learned different perspectives,” Cruz said.

“Even though I believe I hold the same basic ideals, I’ve learned more about what other people want.”

CGS freshman Oliver Pour, who volunteered at the registration drive, said he thinks other colleges within BU should hold registration drives as well.

McKnight said she considers voting an ethical responsibility as a citizen, a belief she addresses in her classes. By hosting events such as the registration drive, she said she hopes to encourage students to be civically engaged and aware.

“We’re all really interested in getting students engaged in a democratic process, really underscoring how important it is to be voters,” McKnight said. “No matter what party they’re supporting or whether they’re independents, we just want to get them out there voting, engaged, taking up their civic responsibilities.”

Students feel new program limits schedule flexibility HUB, FROM PAGE 1

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wouldn’t, but that the types of units to be fulfilled by some classes could be re-evaluated. Millman, who is studying international relations, said many of the courses required for her major do not qualify for Hub units.

“I feel like I’m seeking out historical and cultural exploration stuff for the Hub, and I’m stressing about getting that covered, when in reality, I think IR does a lot to cover those,” Millman said, “so I think that because the program is still pretty new, they still need to do a better job of adding classes that qualify for Hub units.”

The flexibility of Hub courses in fulfilling unit requirements is a draw for many students, like CAS

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freshman Kelley McCutcheon.

McCutcheon said that her “Reading Shakespeare” class fulfills three Hub units that wouldn’t necessarily fulfill general education requirements at another school, an aspect she enjoys.

However, McCutcheon said that the uneven translation of Advanced Placement credits from high school to Hub units and the pressure to correctly fill in the credit gaps are aspects that concern her.

“I feel like I really have to, when I’m choosing my electives … be careful about picking ones that have Hub credits that are not going to be covered by my major or requirement classes so I can get them done in time,” McCutcheon said, “because

my APs aren’t fulfilling Hub credits that are the ones that I need.”

As most of the logistics that went into implementing the general education program occurred between May 2016 and last August, Jarvis said the main challenge has been raising awareness for the Hub around campus, particularly what it is and how it works.

“I think right now we’re really just trying to collect as much feedback as we can from students, from faculty, from staff, to begin the process of assessing how things are going,” Jarvis said, “But really, what we’re trying to focus on is to just help everybody know what the Hub is … and why it’s important.”

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Woman has allergic reaction to laced edible in Sleeper Hall A caller reported at 1:01 a.m.

Monday that he was with a female affiliate at 275 Babcock St. who was suffering an allergic reaction. The affiliate had previously lost consciousness and was not responding to verbal commands.

The affiliate was determined to have ingested a laced edible and was transported to BMC.

Cyclist sustains knee injury in West Campus An officer reported at 7:01 a.m.

Monday that he was with a biker who suffered a knee injury after falling off his bike at Amory Street and Commonwealth Avenue. The officer requested a medical evaluation, and an ambulance arrived to the scene at 7:10 a.m.

CITY

Crime Logs

BY DAVID LI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Oct. 2.

Warranted arrest in Brighton An officer arrested a suspect in Brighton Tuesday after an warrant was issued. The suspect was accused of breaking and entering at night, stealing and possessing burglary tools.

Commonwealth drug possession Officers identified a suspect on Commonwealth Avenue and Warren Street with prescription pills inside a white cap. The two pills recovered were believed to be Clonazepam. The suspect stated he had obtained the pills from a friend but failed to provide law enforcement with a prescription.

Counterfeit cab fare A Boston cab driver reported that a suspicious passenger paid their rider’s fare with a $100 bill.

When the driver went to use the bill, they realized that the passenger had paid with a counterfeit bill.

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Transgender students face difficulties with housing at BU

BY LILLIAN ILSLEY-GREENE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The start of the semester floor meeting is a familiar ritual to Boston University’s undergraduate student population. An opportunity to meet housemates and resident assistants, the hour usually carries little consequence. However, this was not the case for BU student Jake S. this fall.

Labor Day 2018, a day before the fall semester was set to begin, Jake S., who asked that his last name be omitted for safety reasons, said he walked into his South Campus dorm meeting to find he was the only man.

Jake is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and a transgender man. While moving in, he said, he noticed all of his immediate roommates were women, but he did not realize he was in a primarily female dorm until his first floor meeting.

“I looked around and I was like, ‘I am the only man here,’” Jake said.

“And that kind of sucked. I have no problem with living around women, it doesn’t cause me dysphoria, but for some trans people it does. And the fact that this oversight happened was like, just an incredible insult.”

Jake had first planned to live

with BU Housing, feel comfortable living in an majority-male dorm, he said.

“BU’s policies could do with a lot of updating,” Jake said. “There’s ways that this could have been avoided in the first place, and there are ways that other things could be updated to make trans people feel safe and comfortable.”

Officially, BU has only one single-gender housing space, BU spokesperson Colin Riley said, which is the women-only Harriet E. Richards Cooperative House on Bay State Road. Riley said majority-male and majority-female residences are not designed to be single-gender and merely result that way.

BU Housing, Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore and the BU Title IX Coordinator all referred the Daily Free Press to Riley or declined requests for more information when asked for comment.

As the policy stands, gender-neutral housing is only available to upperclassmen, meaning freshmen are not eligible to be included. A limited number of beds are available, Jake said.

Large dorms with shared community bathrooms including Rich

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Sophomore Jake S. found himself in an all-female dorm when he moved in last month.

with a friend in a gender-neutral triple at 575 Commonwealth Ave., known to students as HoJo, he said.

When this fell through over the summer, Jake emailed BU Housing explaining his situation and saying he would be comfortable living in gender-neutral housing or a single. Within an hour, BU Housing had assigned him a single in South Campus, he said.

Jake has been impressed with BU’s administrative response to his placement in a primarily female dorm, he said. Within a day of notifying Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore, he had a meeting with the dean to discuss possible next steps in rectifying the situation.

“I cannot emphasize enough how willing to accomodate Dean Elmore was,” Jake said.

BU was aware of Jake’s status as a transgender man when placing him in his housing, Jake said. He is going through the official steps to change the name on his Terrier Card to the name he uses. He has started hormone treatment. But he does not, as he specified in his communication

Hall, Sleeper Hall, Warren Towers, the Towers, along with any specialty housing, are not eligible to become gender-neutral spaces, according to BU Housing policy.

These policies make even finding a place to live on campus difficult for transgender students like themself, CAS senior Sterling Gingerich said.

“Gender-neutral housing is really difficult to get, and it’s still pretty bad,” Gingerich said. “… They give you like seven days to fill the spot if someone leaves, and if you don’t fill it, then they’ll dissolve the space and make it single-gender, which is not ideal because I don’t want to be forced to live with random men since I’m not a man.”

Riley said he disagreed that gender-neutral housing policies were difficult to understand. “[The policy] really isn’t [complex], it’s just that there’s an obligation on the agreement that the people who live there, if they change rooms, that they fill the unit,” Riley said.

When coming out as transgender at BU, Gingerich was in a living situation with a man, they said.

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Senior Evan Leto worked with the Boston University Registrar to compile a list of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.

When their roommate noticed them beginning to use makeup, he became aggressive, Gingerich said.

“He would growl at me when I tried to talk to him,” Gingerich said.

Gingerich said they ultimately turned to Disability Services for help after finding their RA unresponsive.

Disability Services moved them into another majority-male dorm.

BU has been unresponsive to certain issues, Gingerich said. They do not feel supported by the administration, they said.

“I wasn’t out to myself when I decided to come to BU,” Gingerich said. “I think if I was, I wouldn’t have decided to come here.”

Still, other students say BU is working hard to make life better for its transgender and gender non-conforming students.

CAS senior Evan Leto, a transgender man, said he has had mostly positive experiences with professors and students at BU. When Leto encountered a professor his freshman year who declined to use gender-neutral pronouns, he said he simply switched classes.

Leto himself has worked with the administration in an attempt to improve policies affecting transgender students. In the summer of 2017, Leto said, he worked with the Office of the University Registrar to develop an avenue through which students could change their Terrier Card names.

Transcripts and diplomas, along with information in the student information system, still reflects a student’s legal name as listed on official documents like birth certificates and licenses, according to the Registrar’s Office website.

Leto said he also worked with the registrar to compile a list of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus as part of the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism’s proposal to increase the number of these types of restrooms.

These recent actions, he said, indicate the administration is getting better at accommodating transgender students.

“The fact that I was able to work with someone in the registrar for a few months says something, that

there’s at least one person who’s trying,” he said.

His peers’ concerns over housing did not come as a surprise to Leto — he and his roommate now live off campus, due in part to the fact that they were refused housing in designated male on-campus apartments, even though they are both transgender men, Leto said.

“We talked to housing about that, and they just said no,” Leto said.

Liana G., a nonbinary sophomore in the theater program at the College of Fine Arts, said they had never considered gender-neutral housing an option, as they have difficulty understanding it.

“I don’t know how gender-neutral housing even really works,” Liana, who asked that their last name be omitted for safety reasons, said. “ … I’ve tried reading about it. I don’t really get where I can be with that.

Do I have to be in a certain hall? I don’t know, I didn’t really get it, and I’m not dealing with it right now.”

Liana’s biggest struggle at BU is getting their professors to use proper pronouns, they said. Liana uses both she/her and they/them pronouns.

This is difficult for many professors to comprehend, they said.

Liana said they work with professors to understand their personal pronouns and find a way to make the theater program less entrenched in the gender binary, because they said it uses unnecessarily gendered language.

“It’s just really about being open with teachers about what language needs to be there and what doesn’t need to be there,” Liana said. “And it’s a little intimidating because they are older, and they come from a place of being open, but this is all new to them.”

Liana feels safe at BU, they said.

However, they recognize this may be because they present as female-passing. Another nonbinary friend of Liana’s, who was assigned male at birth but dresses femininely, is treated differently, Liana said.

“They’re definitely looked at differently than I would ever be, just because that’s the way that our society works,” Liana said.

Liana was struck by the apparent

lack of transgender and nonbinary students at BU, they said. The battle over gender-neutral bathrooms seems unnecessary, they said, when the school could easily build more.

Liana said BU could also benefit from more space for transgender and nonbinary students.

“We have a CGSA, right, but sometimes I feel like it’s not enough,” Liana said. “Sometimes I feel like, ‘Is that the only place I can go? Really?’”

Jake came to BU from the Midwest, where he said he faced more judgment for his gender. This has given him perspective as to what life at BU could be like. He said his placement in a women’s dorm feels like it was simply an oversight, instead of an intentional attack. It is something he can deal with, but he said he worries about other transgender students, especially new transfers from Wheelock College.

Before the BU-Wheelock merger, Wheelock College was reported to house a large percentage of students identifying as LGBTQ. Wheelock, in comparison to other area schools, held progressive policies that made it easier for students to receive name and gender marker changes, Jake said.

“For these kids to be in a school like BU, against their will essentially, and not have access to all these things that they had access to for at least a year, it scares me a lot,” Jake said.

A common experience among transgender individuals is to accept dysphoria until experiencing life without it, Jake said.

“You don’t realize how much dysphoria you’re carrying around until it’s relieved,” Jake said. “I didn’t realize how much happier I would be as a man until I started using he/him pronouns. I didn’t let myself even think about it.

“And so the more access you have to things that are going the way they should be, when they get taken away, the more it hurts. And then the flip side of that is now we have hundreds of new students who are going to be demanding better changes.”

Jake confirmed he was offered placement in another dorm on campus Tuesday. He has elected to stay in his South Campus dorm, as he has already moved in.

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Cannabis companies struggle to set up shop in Suffolk County WEED, FROM PAGE 1

things is that they have a host community agreement in place before they come before the state Cannabis Control Commission,” Simon said. “So, this has been just a major log jam in the entire process.”

Another major barrier recreational marijuana operators face, Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition press secretary Maggie Kinsella said, is town and municipal issues, including City zoning.

“Finding an actual location has become very difficult, especially for smaller businesses that are competing with all these larger companies that all have priority,” Kinsella said. “Most of these companies are in medical, and they’ve had an application in for a while now, so they’re all competing with big money.”

Kinsella also spoke about buffer zones — policies that the City or a municipality create that prevent neighborhoods from having more than one marijuana distributor within a certain distance, which, she said, often leads to discrimination.

“You’ve given an existing facility that area, and if you’re a town that doesn’t have anything in it yet, and you create those types of buffer zones, and you limit them to industrial zones,” Kinsella said, “then you’re really creating

a monopoly on one or two businesses’ shot at getting in right now with a limited number of licenses.”

Simon also said he is concerned that zoning might work against some operators, especially since social equity programs have been implemented to give communities that have been disproportionately affected by the war on drugs a leg up in opening said businesses.

“The city can use zoning to shut people out or to limit businesses to only a certain number and have that certain number … use host community agreements to pay large sums to the town that the equity applicant wouldn’t be able to afford,” Simon said. “That may undermine the goals of the initiative.”

Back Bay resident Chris Sanders, 37, said he thinks marijuana sales could be beneficial to the city’s economy.

“There’s a big market here, and I think it’s one we need to be capitalizing on,” Sanders said. “I don’t think there’s going to be like this big rush of people into the city for it because it’s already legal in so many places, so [I] think we really just need to capitalize on the market that’s already in place here.”

Kinsella also said she has concerns over how the City will choose which companies to grant marijuana licenses and which companies will be able to open in cer-

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Permits have not yet been issued to recreational marijuana retailers in Boston.

tain zoning areas.

“I know some of them are trying to prioritize economic empowerment applicants in their process,” Kinsella said. “… it’s up to the town about what they should be, basically as long as they’re not prioritizing bigger businesses from out of state over smaller, local businesses.”

East Boston resident Jose

Garcia said he thinks approval of marijuana retailers will depend on the age range of people living in the neighborhood.

“You get the older residents who will be more against it because of what they’ve been subjected to,” the 30-year-old said. “The younger generations are more openminded, and they’ll be more for it.”

Sara Lee, 44, of Back Bay, said

she would welcome a marijuana dispensary in her neighborhood.

“Pretty much all business is good business,” Lee said. “So what if there’s a handful more people buying and smoking weed? They’re already smoking it, so why not bring the profits in for our city?”

Hannah Schoenbaum contributed to the reporting of this story.

Midterm results may determine Warren’s campaign decisions ELECTION, FROM PAGE 1 “I don’t think it’s going to be one of those scenarios where half the potential candidates get down a notch by losing an election or something like that,” he said.

Allston resident Meghan Huber, 25, said she thought Warren was waiting to examine the state of the Senate before deciding whether to launch another campaign.

“I can’t see why else she would want to wait, other than maybe seeing what’s out there and seeing how bad it is,” Huber said, “and if it ends up being bad, she would maybe try and jump in.”

Bruce Schulman, a BU professor of history who teaches a course on media and politics in modern America, said he believes Warren has already made up her mind about running for president. Schulman said it is not a question of if she will run, but rather a question of when she will announce her candidacy.

“I don’t think it has anything to do with the outcome of the midterms,” Schulman said. “I think she was signaling that she is going to run.”

Instead, Schulman said he thinks Warren is waiting to announce her presidential cam-

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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren attends a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in October 2016. Warren hinted at a potential presidential run of her own in 2020.

paign out of respect for her constituents who have been campaigning for her re-election to the Senate and the other Congressional candidates.

“It makes it seem like she’s not taking the re-election campaign

for senator seriously,” he said. “I don’t think that there’s anything … that would change her mind.”

Just as Schulman believes Warren has made up her mind about running for president, Tom Pickin, 30, of Brighton, said he

thought the American public would not change its opinions about Warren because of anything that might happen in the midterms.

“I think her national opinion is pretty set,” Pickin said, “and

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I think the midterm elections aren’t really payed attention to that much.”

The midterms might not even impact Warren heavily, Shulman said. He mentioned that the midterms before the elections of former President Barack Obama and Trump did not indicate that either candidate would secure the presidency.

Even if the midterms go well for Warren, he said, that does not prevent another candidate from getting elected.

“Almost anybody who pretended to be an expert would have said you were crazy, and if you had said in 2014 after the midterms that Donald Trump was going to be the next president, the same is true,” Schulman said. “So, it is possible that there are candidates that no one is anticipating.”

Schulma n a lso sa id if Warren runs and did secure the Democratic nomination for president, he did not think she would be able to defeat Trump.

“I think she could conceivably be the Democratic nominee,” he said, “but I don’t think she could beat Donald Trump.”

Hannah Schoenbaum and Zoe Allen contributed to the reporting of this story.

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Boston Women’s Film Festival highlights female resilience in film

BY ELEANOR HO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When Judy Shefshick-Karll and her friend Janis Fox Steigman attended a screening of the film “What They Had” Sunday afternoon at the Museum of Fine Arts, Shefshick-Karll was not expecting to be confronted by pieces of her own life story.

“We have a friend that’s dying now. It’s hard for us to get away. It was a diversion today, but it’s life,” Shefshick-Karll, 71, of Braintree, said. “We see life exactly how it’s presented in this production.”

Much like the family portrayed in the film, Shefshick-Karll’s father suffered from degenerative diseases of the brain. She said she struggled with sharing the responsibility of caring for her father with her brother, who lived in California, mirroring the plot of the film.

“It was truly real life,” ShefshickKarll said. “[The film shows] how women deal with life. I feel like I wrote it myself.”

The “What They Had” screening was part of the inaugural Boston Women’s Film Festival, hosted at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Brattle Theatre. According to Jo Ann Graziano, the festival’s executive director, the festival showcased a collection of 18 international dramas, comedies and documentaries directed by and featuring women.

“The time was right [to talk about] women in cinema,” Graziano said.

To do that, Graziano said members of the festival’s jury traveled to

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Kim Chambers in “Kim Swims” (2017).

other festivals, such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, searching for films that fit into their vision.

“The ones that spoke to us the most about women’s vision were the ones that had this overarching theme of resilience,” Graziano said.

“On Her Shoulders” in particular inspired the festival’s topic, according to Graziano. The award-winning documentary tells the story of Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman forced into sexual slavery.

Graziano explained that the plot portrays the struggles Murad faces after becoming the youngest member of the United Nations and shows “how tough it is for someone

to suddenly become famous when all you wanted to be was a hair stylist in your little village.”

“She’s become the spokesperson for all refugees,” Graziano said. “We kept saying, ‘Huh, resilience.’ In the face of adversity, women seem to persevere. They rise above.”

The festival also shone light on the story of Kim Chambers, featured in the documentary “Kim Swims.”

The full-length film, director Kate Webber’s first, tells the story of Chambers’ attempt to become the first woman to complete the 30-mile swim from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge through shark-infested waters.

“I think it’s a portrayal of a strong, brave woman by another

strong, brave woman,” Webber told The Daily Free Press.

Webber said she believes in the importance of resilience in Chambers’ story, her film and her own life. The director said she chose to write “Always keep moving forward” in the last line of credits to celebrate another strong female figure, her mother.

“It was near when she was passing away, and I wanted to understand how she’d gotten through difficult times in life,” Webber said. “She said, ‘Always keep moving forward,’ and that is very much what I’ve continued to do since her passing and in the making of this film. I think it’s a great motto for anyone, and Kim exemplifies it so well.”

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Now, Webber said she looks forward to inspiring audiences through her film and the Resilience Social Impact campaign, a national screening campaign bringing Webber’s film to communities across the country.

“The impact that I hope to have is to inspire people through what Kim has done, or even through what I have done as a first-time filmmaker,” Webber said.

Webber said she is particularly excited for two girls who will be in attendance — her nieces.

“It’s pretty awesome to have these two little ladies come and see what their aunt made, watching this other brave person,” Webber said.

After the festival ends, Graziano said she hopes the women who attended will be inspired to pursue careers in the film industry and change its landscape. While many women have seen success in television with award-winning shows like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” she said that progress in film has been slow-going.

Yet Graziano cited Cathy Yan, director of “Dead Pigs,” as a success story after she recently was selected to do “Birds of Prey” with DC Comics.

In the future, Graziano said she hopes that the film festival will attract even more viewers and directors and will have new elements, such as programming for high school students and film competitions for students.

“We have to give women the shot men have had all along,” Graziano said. “We want to promote young women on the rise.”

Children of TPS immigrants channel struggles into performance

BY MAE TONGE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Children of El Salvadoran immigrants spanning from 5–18-yearolds took to the stage in the George Sherman Union Auditorium to perform stories they created in “The Last Dream.” Yet the trials and tribulations they acted out onstage mirrored struggles they may soon face.

“This is not a show,” said Donya Pooli Yeganeh, co-writer and co-director of “The Last Dream.” “It is reality.”

The production, performed Friday night, was the latest show by the Boston Experimental Theatre Company. The parents of the children in the performance live in the United States under Temporary Protected Status and may be forced to leave the country in the near future.

The show included moments of celebration at princess birthday parties and nightmare visions of monsters, disease and darkness. The play concluded with 9-year-old Sofia Landaverde, alone on stage, asking the audience, “Will you help me?”

“The Last Dream” follows BETC’s theatrical approach inspired by dramatist Antonin Artaud’s concept, the Theatre of Cruelty. The style reflects a type of performance that aims to create an emotional connection rather than solely entertainment and to remove barriers between the audience and performers.

“We tried to show these two images together,” Yeganeh said.

“We asked [the children] about their daily life. We saw how happy they were. Then we asked them about the future, about TPS, and all that happiness turned to depression.”

TPS is granted by the Department of Homeland Security to foreign nationals who have fled their own countries during humanitarian or natural crises. The program was launched in 1990, and now over 300,000 foreign nationals live in the United States due to the program.

The program allows holders to live, work and buy homes in the United States, and children born to TPS parents in the United States are considered American citizens. According to the Center for American Progress, the average TPS beneficiary has been living in the U.S. for 19 years.

In late 2017, and later on in early 2018, the Trump administration announced that it was terminating TPS designations for nationals from Sudan, Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Nepal and Honduras. TPS designations from Sudan expire Nov. 2, and designations from Honduras expire in January of 2020.

Jared Wright, an associate producer at BETC and co-writer and co-director of the show, said BETC associates were inspired to produce

a show about TPS after first hosting a theatrical workshop with the children of Comité TPS Massachusetts, a Massachusetts chapter of the National TPS Alliance.

The National TPS Alliance was formed in June 2017 in Washington, D.C., by TPS recipients. With committees and organizations across the country, the alliance’s Massachusetts committee has become well-known, with over 1,000 members in its Facebook group.

According to National TPS Alliance’s website, the organization aims to “combin[e] advocacy efforts at a national level to save Temporary Protected Status for all beneficiaries in the short term and to devise legislation that creates a path to permanent residency in the long term.”

Wright said BETC quickly realized that they had a larger duty as Bostonians to do something more to help their fellow community members.

“One of the things that struck me was how united the community was and how dire the situation was,” Wright said. “There was a lawyer who showed up, and she was basically saying to them, ‘Be prepared to find out what to do with your children when you are gone.’”

Jose Pineda, of Saugus, and a member of Comité TPS, said he has struggled to put into words how he’s

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A Salvadoran dance created and performed by children of Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

felt about the termination of the TPS designations.

“It really breaks my heart,” Pineda said. “I came to this country when I was only 18 years old.

I’ve lived half my life here. I don’t know nothing about El Salvador anymore.”

According to Wright, “The Last Dream” is more than a show.

It is a call to responsibility.

“What is it we need to do to be

that community for others so that we can have the world we need to have, not even the world that we dream of or want, but the world that demands humanity?” he said.

The program for the show included the contact information of U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and a website where donations could be made to Comité TPS to fund their journey as they spread awareness and rally for their cause.

6 FEATURES

BUSINESS Terriers InBiz: Toasty Boys delivers bagels to nocturnal students

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From front to back: Adam Hunter, Bruno Auriemo and Ilana Basman prepare bagel orders in a room at Boston University’s Student Village 2.

BY NATHAN LEDERMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students in navy blue shirts can be seen scootering around campus late into Thursday nights as they deliver bagels to hungry peers.

Toasty Boys, a new business launched last semester, takes orders on their Instagram page and delivers to students on Boston University’s West Campus.

Sophomores Chinda Eleonu and Ilana Basman co-founded the online bagel delivery service. Students who order through the Instagram account, @toastyboysbagels, can choose from an assortment of bagels, including past flavors of plain, everything, chocolate chip and cinnamon glaze.

Since their launch in early 2018, Toasty Boys has been steadily growing in scope and provides an alternative for hungry students in West Campus every Thursday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Eleonu said initially Toasty

Boys only delivered to Claflin, Rich and Sleeper Halls but has since expanded to all of West Campus.

“We saw this space where these students obviously wanted something, and it wasn’t provided, so we’re happy to be able to provide that for them,” Basman said.

As a freshman, Eleonu said he realized that he wasn’t eating as much as he should and would often skip meals.

He reasoned that buying a toaster online would solve his problem, but decided to ask a friend what she thought. She encouraged Eleonu to buy the toaster so he could sell food out of it and suggested the name, “Toaster Boy.” Eleonu said he later took this throwaway idea and ran with it. He began pitching his concept for a student-run bagel delivery service to close friends and acquaintances.

Basman, who wasn’t close with Eleonu at the time, said she was initially skeptical.

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Chinda Eleonu sets out to make deliveries on his scooter.

“At first, even I was like, ‘No way this is gonna work,’” Basman said. “You’re this dreamer who has this idea, but no way it’s going to happen.”

According to both founders, there was “a lot of talk” at the beginning of the process, and a major hurdle was finding people who would take the idea seriously. As preparations for the launch began to intensify, Eleonu said those who were less serious about their involvement made room for others with an ambition to see his idea become a reality.

After a laborious fall semester was spent on research surveys and creating the perfect logo, Eleonu said Toasty Boys was ready to launch in the spring.

Currently, the business is run by a rotating crew of delivery boys, assembly workers and Toasty Boys affiliates, such as a company photographer and graphic designer, according to Eleonu. He reported all operations are overseen by him

Aidan Monger makes a delivery.

and Basman, who serve as CEO and COO, respectively.

Regarding their inventory, Eleonu said the company goes to great lengths to get the highest-quality bagels. Currently, they order almost exclusively from Bagel World in Reading, but Eleonu said some of their more coveted bagels, such as the cinnamon glaze bagel, come from Kupel’s Bakery and require more effort.

“When they have it, I get there early in the morning — first one there when the shop opens at six in the morning. I get my dozen, two dozen, and then I’m out,” Eleonu said.

According to Eleonu, Toasty Boys’ $5 bagels are now available across all West Campus and have been gaining momentum within the first few weeks of this semester.

Reece Bordick, a freshman in the Questrom School of Business, has ordered bagels from Toasty Boys for the last two weeks.

“I can’t say enough good things about Toasty Boys,” Bordick said about ordering the service.

He said he was especially impressed by the “personableness” of the people behind Toasty Boys and those delivering the bagels.

“There is nothing more comforting to know that they’re always there for you,” Bordick said.

Eleonu and Basman said they have been hard at work over the summer planning for this school year and are very excited to keep growing Toasty Boys.

“The big picture is that we want everyone in BU to be able to have access to Toasty Boys,” Eleonu said.

Plans for Toasty Boys operations in other residence halls, such as Warren Towers and Myles Standish Hall, are in the works and should be expected to come out at some point this year.

In a message to students outside of West Campus, Basman said, “Tell them not to worry, we’re coming.”

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FEATURES 7

SCIENCE

Graduate student conference explores union of religion, technology

BY VICTORIA BOND DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

People from as far as California and as near as Cambridge flocked to Boston University’s Photonics Center Saturday to explore the relationship between religion and technology. BU’s Graduate Program in Religion Student Association hosted the “Conference on Religion and Technology.”

The conference aimed to form a holistic view of the intersection of the two fields, according to Jordan Conley, one of the event’s organizers and a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences studying religion. The central piece of the event was a keynote address by Kathryn Lofton, Ph.D., a professor of religious studies at Yale University.

She focuses on the impact of religion on social media and vice versa, but said she does not have any social media herself because she finds the nature of it overwhelming.

“I’m an addictive person,” said Lofton during her address. “I already write enough thank you notes, and I can’t bear the idea of following up on online comments. My compulsive tendencies, distractible energies and anxiety to please make the publicity of a social media persona wholly impossible.”

But Lofton quickly shifted away from her ideas on social media in order to spend time discussing the events of Thursday and Friday, regarding the Senate hearing on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

“I had prepared a talk that I am

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Amanda J. G. Napior, doctoral candidate of religion and society at Boston University, speaks at the “BU Graduate Student Conference on Religion and Technology” Saturday.

going to briefly summarize at the beginning of my remarks, but I’ve decided not to give it,” Lofton said in an interview. “I’ve decided to do something else in light of what happened on Thursday.”

Lofton recognized the unexpected shift in her talk from religion and social media to sexual assault and eventually turned her address back toward the study of religion, particularly in graduate programs.

She went on to explain that technological advancements that aid communication have stripped

academia from its assuredness and changed the focus from listening to speaking.

“Scholars have tried to think positively about social media, and the study of religion is really a discipline that is often forged in people studying things they have ambivalent relationships to,” Lofton said in an interview. “Religion and technology is a nearly booming field of inquiry in religious studies.”

At the conclusion of her talk, she reminded the listeners that the entanglement of technology and aca-

demia provides platforms for a wider conversation and can elevate voices other than scholars within a given field, which leads to more diverse opinions.

The audience was then given the chance to ask Lofton any questions they may have had after the address. Joseph Fisher, a Ph.D. candidate studying religion at Columbia University, said the event was a great opportunity for him to discover other opinions on the subject matter.

“I try to come at religious studies from a religion and technology

perspective,” Fisher said. “I was so excited to see such a great conference on it, and I’m constantly trying to revise my own perspectives, so this is a great opportunity for engagement.”

Fisher asked the first question in the Q&A about how scholars’ presence on social media affects how they and their work are perceived in the field.

In response, Lofton said that a social media presence blurs the line between people’s professional and personal lives, especially in the field of religion. Other questions regarded sexual assault allegations in the academic world and the role of patriarchy in religious studies.

Conley said that they host a conference every year, and technology seemed to be a good fit for this year’s event because that seemed to be a common theme in current conversations in the world of religious studies.

“We were really interested in how people would interpret the ‘and Technology’ part of the conference because I think everyone heard or read that in a completely different way, and that’s what we were hoping for,” Conley said.

The range of topics included how YouTube comments, cyborgs and SoulCycle have played a role in the discussion of religion and the role of religion on Mars.

“Even if you’re not a scholar of religion, religion still plays a very important role in our culture and society,” Conley said in an interview.

“People would be surprised by the breadth of the papers and all of the topics that are covered under the name of ‘religious studies.’”

Beacon Hill Friends House talk urges climate change preparedness

BY AVERY GOUND DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As the sunlight filtered through the paned windows of the Beacon Hill Friends House, a small group of listeners gathered in the old-fashioned church pews to hear the presentation on climate change preparedness and preparation.

The Beacon Hill Friends House identifies itself as “a center for Quaker education and witness, the home of Beacon Hill Friends Meeting, and a residential intentional community inspired by Quaker principles” and often hosts events and conferences for the community around them.

The “Community Response to Climate Change: Prevention and Preparedness” event focused on the community’s response to climate change and how individuals can prepare for its effects and play their part in prevention.

First to speak at the podium was Larry French, disaster program manager for the American Red Cross of Massachusetts. French shed light on the basics of disaster preparedness and the increasing need to take measures to curb the effects of climate change.

“Get a kit, make a plan and be informed,” French said in an interview. “You can’t pretend like it’s never going to happen to you. You need to know that we all have the chance of being affected in some

negative way by disaster.”

French then emphasized the importance of creating a kit with essentials and knowing what to do in case of an emergency, as well as knowing the environmental conditions and risks of their area.

“People think I’m often very paranoid,” French said in his presentation. “But I’m prepared for anything that might happen. I hope I never need it, but I’m not going to wait until the last minute to think, ‘What am I going to do?’”

The second half of the event featured Muriel Finegold, a Beacon Hill resident and an active volunteer in Mothers Out Front, an organization dedicated to climate change prevention.

“We are a movement of mothers speaking up on behalf of our children’s future,” Finegold said during her speech. “There is a lot we can do to prevent the effects of climate change, and each of us has a part to play.”

Finegold spoke to the group about the ongoing battle for climate change prevention and what they can do to help. She specifically cited the need to counteract the effects of the abundance of gas leaks occurring around the Boston area.

“The leaks are not due to climate change,” Finegold said in an interview, “but they have an impact on our climate.”

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Larry French, disaster program manager for the Massachusetts region, speaks at the Beacon Hill Friends House Sunday on climate change prevention and preparedness.

Boston has had 3,300 identified gas leaks, and according to Finegold, the amount of leaked gas would be enough to heat 200,000 homes a year. She said the issue and its environmental effects are not widely known and, therefore, less public efforts are dedicated to address the problem.

“Gas is leaking from the extraction site to our doors,” Finegold said as she continued her presentation.

She urged the audience to take action and spoke of her organization’s movements to try to bring about change for the Boston area.

“We show up, shirt up and

speak out,” Finegold said.

She gave a few examples of public movements Mothers Out Front had organized, including one where the group had rallied in front of Boston’s statehouse to help bring about change in their movement toward renewable energy.

According to Finegold, sometimes an action as simple as calling one’s representative ahead of an important decision can make a world of difference for the community.

“The House of Representatives wants to look the other way,” said John Regan, 55, of Methuen, an attendee of the conference. “They

want to claim it’s all balderdash. If we don’t bring pressure on them to change, it never will.”

Regan said prior to the talk he had already packed a “go-bag” for his car that contains supplies needed in an emergency, but said he gained more insight after reading lists of emergency supplies and pamphlets with ways to be more environmentally conscious.

Finegold emphasized the importance that everyone takes part in helping the environment.

“Attention must be paid,” Finegold said in an interview. “This planet is our home — let’s take care of it.”

8 OPINION

EDITORIAL Marriage requirement for LGBTQ diplomats isn’t about equality Watching the Trump administration roll states, some of which punish gay relationships far exceeds the three months these employees out policy after policy subtly targeting the with the death penalty. will have until the hourglass runs out and their LGBTQ community, some queer Americans The U.S. government can’t pretend it spouse is kicked out of the country. Though have been waiting for the administration to doesn’t know this. Beyond taking away these it’s possible to scrape together a hasty wedding find a way to target gay marriage without being couples’ right to have the wedding that they or simply get a marriage license and hold the able to reverse the Supreme Court’s nationwide want and deserve, it’s putting lives at risk. ceremony at a courthouse, nobody should be legalization.

Sometimes there’s a reason why there are dif- forced to sacrifice a real wedding under threat Claiming that the move is intended to ferent rules for two different demographics of deportation. apply “equal treatment” to all couples, the State — in this case, it’s because the lives of foreign Not everyone has the financial resources to Department has begun denying visas to same- diplomats in same-sex relationships will be at pull a wedding together at the drop of a hat. It sex partners of United Nations employees and foreign diplomats. Those already in the United States must get married by the new year or be forced to leave the country.

The United States currently grants diplomatic visas only to married spouses of diplomats for opposite-sex couples, a policy the administration is using to justify its new marriage requirement for same-sex couples.

They’ve portrayed the decision as an effort to create an ironic kind of equality between gay and straight couples — because straight people have to get married, so, so should gay people.

Fundamentally, it doesn’t make sense that anyone should have to get married in order to receive a diplomatic visa. But regardless, this is a way for the Trump administration to take away what they see as an unfair advantage gay couples currently have — to crack down against homosexuality in a way they can claim isn’t COURTESY OF BASIL D. SOUFI/ FLICKR explicitly discriminatory.

The United Nations General Assembly Hall.

At least 10 U.N. employees would need to get married by this January, according to risk if they’re forced to get married, and the can take years for couples to amass the kind of Foreign Policy. same cannot be said for straight couples. savings required to host the kind of wedding The wellbeing of at least 10 people is at risk.

Even disregarding the safety risks spouses they desire. If you’ve ever watched ABC’s “Say If they get legally married in the United States, will face if they do get married, there are many Yes to the Dress,” you know how expensive a they may not be able to return to their home other factors that would make executing a piece of white fabric can be. countries without risk of persecution. Gay wedding by the end of the year difficult. The A wedding is supposed to be one of the most marriage is illegal in 88 percent of UN member amount of time it can take to plan a wedding special events in a person’s life. Forcing gay cou-

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ples to get married against their terms and rush or miss out on a process they should be entitled to under the guise of “making things equal” is an injustice.

There are two kinds of equality: equality of opportunity and equality of result. You can look at equality as giving everyone the same thing, or you can look at it as targeting different policies at different groups to ensure that they reach a level playing field. The latter is what should truly be considered equality.

Holding gay and straight couples to the same requirements or expectations doesn’t account for the disadvantages gay people face.

They’re starting off at an imbalanced place, without the same amount of choice to reveal their sexual orientation to their families or officials of their home countries.

In the U.N., straight diplomats do have to get married to be eligible for diplomatic visas, but they aren’t made to feel threatened as though their presence is unwelcomed in the United States. Getting married does not prevent them from returning to their home country or seeing their families again.

This new policy is a solution to a problem that didn’t exist. It’s entirely ideological, grounded in neither fact nor logic, but the idea that gay people have something that straight people don’t and that that is inherently wrong.

U.N. officials are people who play a role in international politics and facilitate international conversations. Threatening the presence of gay diplomats tells the world that all men — with an asterisk — are created equal.

It sends the message that the administration will make whatever roundabout attempts possible to keep gay people out of the political conversation.

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OPINION 9

COLUMNS THAT’S RIGHT, SIR:

BURKE’S BULLY PULPIT:

I stay up for 25 hours of the day Where does the NFL go now?

BY KATHERINE WRIGHT COLUMNIST

Sometimes, your evening consists of watching a movie, making a cup of tea and going to bed by 9:30 p.m., relaxed as ever.

And sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes, you wake up with the lights on, your laptop upside down, f lung across the other side of your bed and your textbook crimped and half-open.

It’s not pretty, but there’s something honorable about it. As much as we claim to crave these fleeting moments of relaxation, we rarely indulge in them. Or, at least, we feel guilty when we do. As if it’s absurd to ever think about spending your night taking a long shower or doing yoga or even — dare I say it — getting eight hours of sleep.

To do so seems to come with the cost of sacrificing something else. I can’t sleep because I have to study, I can’t get dinner because I have to finish this essay, and I can’t breathe because I’m choking on this chemistry lab.

It makes a lot of sense. School is hard, work is hard and life is hard. Sometimes you have to sacrifice some sleep in order to finish that assignment or study those last few terms. That cup of tea will have to wait.

And maybe that would be the end of it. But these sleepless nights and incidents of excess have become exhaustingly common, to the point that they’re expected — a natural part of life. We even brag about our own suffering, as if to show that we’re working the hardest.

What was once a means of letting off steam, telling people, “I got four hours of sleep last night,” has become a competition. Someone will respond, “Well, I got three hours. I always get three hours.”

As if, somehow, this makes them the winner: brave, powerful and dedicated.

It has gotten to the point that, if you’re

not losing sleep, you’re not working hard enough. If you’re not in the library until 2 a.m., you have it easy. If you’re not holding two jobs, the president of three clubs and spending hours and hours and hours on homework, you’re probably just lazy. Dark circles under the eyes have become a mark of accomplishment.

But let’s back up. We all have late nights, weeks where we’re overwhelmed, times where we just need to blow off steam and complain to our friends and family members about how hard it’s been. It’s healthy to do that and absolutely encouraged.

Venting is not the issue.

The issue is the culture of competitive misery. The culture that compels us to constantly compare ourselves to each other, as if we must outdo one another by getting the least amount of sleep and depriving ourselves of basic necessities in favor of “hard work” and “winning.” We push ourselves to unhealthy limits just to prove something to our peers. That is an important distinction.

There is a difference between bonding with peers over shared struggles and submitting to a culture of excessiveness.

We tend to view others’ accomplishments through a kaleidoscope of intimidation, demeaning the value of our own successes. And that’s the reason why we’re always trying to prove how hard we’re working, how much of ourselves we’re sacrificing: to somehow assert that we’re working to the max.

My dad used to tell me about the time some kid he knew ordered 80 chicken nuggets at McDonald’s. He ate 79 of them, but couldn’t finish the last one. Just one nugget left, and he couldn’t do it. It used to drive me crazy thinking about that. What more is one chicken nugget after you’ve already had 79?

I think we tend to do a similar thing with our homework, our jobs and our lives.

We do so much and work so hard, but still beat ourselves up that we can’t do everything. We stretch ourselves so thin that we’re up until 3:00 a.m., unable to eat just one chicken nugget. And then we “brag” about it, expecting to be honored.

The bottom line: work hard, but don’t work so hard that you’re diminishing yourself. Vent, but don’t make it a competition.

Push yourself, but don’t let others intimidate you so much.

I know it’s probably easier said than done, but it’s something to think about.

So let yourself relax. There’s something honorable about that, too.

INTERROBANG

BY PATRICK BURKE COLUMNIST

The National Football League has been a source of joy for many people in America since its inception. Getting ahold of me on Sundays can be a problem, because I am usually fixed on my TV, checking my fantasy team and rooting for the New England Patriots. There have been many fundamental changes introduced to the game in recent years, met with criticism, but understanding. The question is: how does this work for the NFL in the long-term?

I have recently started to think back and reminisce about the NFL when I was younger.

I would sit at my computer for hours watching YouTube videos of the hardest hits of the week.

I loved to see a defender de-cleat an unsuspecting wide receiver or quarterback. Now, I can barely stand to watch these types of plays happen. Maybe I’ve grown soft as I’ve gotten older, but I think it points more to the fact that fans are actually starting to care about the players’ long-term health. This doesn’t bode well for a league based on hitting the man in front of you as hard as you can for 60 minutes.

There are now countless examples of NFL and college football players that have killed themselves. Junior Seau shot himself in the chest at his home in 2012. Jovan Belcher shot himself in the head after taking the life of his girlfriend in 2012. Former Oklahoma State quarterback Tyler Hilinski killed himself earlier this year. Once a mystery, we now know that chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known widely as CTE, is likely to be the root cause of these incidents. CTE can cause symptoms such as clinical depression and lead to things like ALS. How much longer can we be complicit with paying money to see people throw their lives away for the prospect of a “better life” thanks to the game they once loved?

I walked away from football in my senior year of high school because I knew I was not good enough to get to the NFL and did not want to risk further punishment on my own

brain. The new research that was coming out helped me to comfortably make my decision, but I had other options. For the players who have only one option, to make it or break it, the choice is not that simple. One can try as hard as they can to get to the highest level of a sport destined to break you, but is it worth it? I think fans and players alike are starting to realize that it is not.

NFL ratings have dipped sharply since 2015, according to a Sports Illustrated article.

If I were a betting man, which I am, I would say that this is probably a culmination of the anthem protests, new rules and a newfound genuine care for a player’s safety. I don’t think the anthem protests will hurt the NFL in the long run, but the rules that have been created to address the recent problem of CTE have fans at an impasse.

Watching Clay Matthews of the Green Bay Packers be called for roughing the passer in consecutive weeks had my mind in a pretzel. I thought the way Matthews hit the quarterback was in line with the new NFL rules, but I was proven wrong. One of the penalties essentially cost the Packers the game.

There are two clear options: we could sit idly while the NFL tries to figure out what a roughing the passer call is, because it is in the best interest of everyone involved, or we could demand these rules get revoked in order to get back to smash-mouth football. I think there is only one way to fix the current ratings problem.

As tough as it is to say, the old rules are best for the average viewer of the NFL. No one can expect these guys — who have been trained their whole lives to kill the man in front of them — to suddenly be able to softly place another player on the ground. That’s just not what football is or was ever meant to be. Playing football is a dangerous decision, and kids young enough to play in Pop Warner leagues should be made aware of the potential harm that football may cause in the long run.

At this point, most NFL players know what the dangers are. They are getting paid millions of dollars to potentially expose themselves to a dangerous disease. It may be the only way out of a bad situation when you’re younger, but you don’t have to stay in the sport forever. This is why I say that to fix the recent ratings decline, these new rules should be thrown out. Football is a risk-reward occupation. You can make millions of dollars in your life, but your life may not be as long as you want it to be.

The players have a choice, and whatever decision they make is their own. If the risk outweighs the reward for you, walk away. If not, let’s get back to real football.

Benefit Cosmetics just set a world record for number of people filling in their eyebrows simultaneously — we here at the ol’ Free Press want to know, what would members of the BU community break records in?

BU Academy: Most money wasted on high school

Questrom: Most LinkedIn connections

Warren Towers: Best prison design

Data Sciences Building: Ugliest building ever conceptualized

ENG: Most consecutive hours awake

Beekeeping Club: Least amount of bees in a bee-related club

West Campus: Highest cone tower

BU Athletics: Best football team

FreeP: Most free cookies from an upstairs neighbor

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Turnpike Trophy goes to men’s soccer over Holy Cross, 1-0

BY CHRIS LARABEE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University men’s soccer team continued conference play in Worcester against Patriot League rival the College of the Holy Cross, snapping a two-game losing streak and taking home the Turnpike Trophy with a 1-0 win.

The Terriers’ (3-6-2, 2-1 Patriot League) defeat of the Crusaders (2-44, 1-1-1 Patriot League) gave them their first road game win this season.

BU head coach Neil Roberts said he was proud of his team for continuing to work hard and battle after a few tough losses in the past few games.

“They’ve been on the tough side of a couple,” Roberts said. “Tonight we were short-handed, and guys came through. It was pretty impressive to watch them try and keep their focus and do what we need them to do, it was a really good team effort.”

Both teams traded scoring opportunities in the opening minutes.

The Crusaders threatened in the 6th minute with a corner kick that was held off by the Terrier defense, while in the 7th minute, BU was able to fire a cross into the penalty box but were unable to convert.

Sophomore defender Elias Lampis, who was named to the Patriot League All-Conference Third Team last season, was able to contribute to the team’s defense for the first time this season after missing the first part of the season due to injury.

The Terriers drew first blood

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Sophomore defender Max Aunger in a match against Northeastern University in October 2017. Aunger put up his first assist of the season in a 1-0 win over the College of the Holy Cross Wednesday evening.

as freshman forward John Siracuse scored in the 14th minute when he was fed the ball in the penalty area by sophomore defender Maxwell Aunger.

Roberts expressed happiness for Siracuse as he scored first career collegiate goal on his first shot.

“It was nice, it helped us and it was a good goal,” Roberts said. “He fought for it, kept it alive and got it on target. I was happy for him.”

Assists also gave Aunger his first

career point and brought junior midfielder Satchel Cortet into a threeway tie for mosts assists on the team with three.

BU almost scored again in the 24th minute, but junior midfielder Mana Chavali shanked the ball wide right on a wide-open net while Holy Cross goalkeeper Henry Stutz was caught outside the penalty box.

The Crusaders would attempt to take advantage of the offensive miscue in the 29th minute with a

free kick just outside of the Terrier penalty box.

However, the shot by Holy Cross midfielder Max Krause would curl and take one hop into senior goalkeeper Mike Bernardi’s hands.

In the final five minutes of the first half, the Terriers would have two corner opportunities, but neither gave the BU offense a legitimate chance at a goal, and the score would remain 1-0 into halftime.

The second half started with the

Crusaders sending a few crosses into the BU penalty box, but the Terrier defense was able to eliminate the threat each time.

The pressure from Holy Cross continued in the 63rd minute with a corner that was cleared from the box, but the Crusaders recovered possession and were able to force the ball back in front of the net where Holy Cross senior Owen Azrak fired off, but his shot was high and smashed off the crossbar.

In the 78th minute, Holy Cross pushed the ball back into the penalty box where Crusader forward Tyler Bell fired a shot toward the net when Bernardi had dove to the ground, but senior defender David Riccio was able to clear the shot and preserve the goal.

The Crusaders had 13 shots in the second half and six shots on-goal in the game, compared to BU’s eight total shots, but the Terrier defense was able to hold on.

Bernardi finished the game with five saves and Riccio had a defensive save to keep the Crusaders scoreless.

Roberts said the defense executed their game plan and forced Holy Cross to play a different style that the BU team matched up better with.

“We made it predictable so then it was just a matter of winning their battles,” Roberts said. “The way we wanted to play was have them just launch balls in … when teams do that, it’s a bit predictable, so it gives the defender a little bit of advantage. It was a good group effort.”

Terrier field hockey looks to bounce back against Ivy League foe

BY EMILY PHILLIPS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University field hockey team comes back home Sunday to face off against Harvard University at New Balance Field.

The No. 24 Terriers (7-4, 3-0 Patriot League) come into this game following a weekend split against Lafayette College and Princeton University.

BU defeated the Leopards (3-8, 1-1 Patriot League) 7-4 but fell to the No. 4 Tigers (8-3) 3-1.

The Terriers let in a number of soft goals last weekend, and BU head coach Sally Starr said she is looking for some improvement.

“I think the biggest thing for us, just have better defensive organization more quickly,” Starr said. “I think if we’d done those things well against Princeton, we could have been successful.”

The No. 10 Crimson (9-1) come into this game having won six in a row.

During that win streak, Harvard has given up just two goals, one each in two of its past three games after shutting out three opponents and before shutting out another.

Sunday, the team went 2-0 against Bryant University with goals being scored by senior fullback Olivia Allin and freshman forward Rachel Greenwood.

The Crimson dominated the game from start to finish: they outshot the Bulldogs (2-9) 31-0 on the game, forcing the Bryant goalkeeper to make 13 saves, and had 10 penalty corners compared to zero for the Bulldogs.

Allin opened the scoring when she placed the team on the scoreboard

with her third goal this season with the defense kept her team in the match. assists from senior midfielder Emily “I do have to applaud our defense Duarte and junior midfielder Casey in the second half against the very Allen — who leads Harvard with eight good Princeton team, where they assists, already topping the seven she weren’t able to get any corners, and registered last season. we really limited them,” Starr said.

Greenwood scored her first goal “We’re anticipating a very similar type for the Crimson in the 40th minute, of game against Harvard.” giving Harvard some insurance.

Senior goalkeeper Kathleen Harvard comes to BU in its best Keegan has started every game this 10-game start in program history, season, finishing six of them, and has with the only loss the Crimson have earned the title of Patriot League taken this year being against the No. Goalkeeper of the Week earlier in 1 undefeated University of Maryland the season. by a final score of 3-1.

This game also comes off the heels Crimson goalkeepers have been of a decisive win against Lafayette splitting the starting position, with that kept BU in the top spot in the freshman Ellie Shahbo going first in Patriot League. net in five games so far in the season, On Saturday, BU overtook an early including the team’s sole loss and four Lafayette lead with six consecutive of its last six wins. goals to bring the score to 6-1 in the Senior goalkeeper Libby Manela 51st minute. has started four games, including Starr said she saw a lot of talent two shutouts. in her freshman class.

The team’s third goalkeeper, junior The game saw the first goals from Callie Rennyson, has seen the least freshmen midfielders Haley Lowell amount of playing time, having started and Molly Rottinghaus. only one game, against the College In addition, freshmen midfielder of the Holy Cross, and playing less Rebecca Janes and forward Casey than 26 minutes combined in two Thompson have played 11 games this other matches. season, each of them having recorded BU last matched up against at least one goal for the Terriers, much Harvard in the 2016 season, losing to the pleasure of Starr.

1-0. In 2015, the Terriers defeated the All four of BU’s losses this season Crimson 3-2. came against ranked teams, and Starr Last Saturday, BU recorded six said she welcomes the challenges of shots with two on goal, and the only a difficult, non-conference schedule.

Terrier goal came from sophomore “I’m happy we have a game like forward Ailsa Connolly. The Terriers Harvard coming up on next Sunday,” did have a 3-2 advantage in penalty Starr said, “because it’s exactly what corners. we need to test ourselves to see if we Starr, while disappointed with the have improved in those areas that we lack of offense, was pleased with how really need to get better at defensively.”

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Freshman Rebecca Janes in a match against Colgate University Sept. 22. Janes and the Terriers will look to pick up a win Sunday against Harvard University after dropping last Sunday’s match to Princeton University.

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Navy next Patriot League match for women’s soccer

BY RUSSELL GORELICK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University women’s soccer team will face off against the United States Naval Academy Friday on Nickerson Field in a Patriot League showdown.

The Midshipmen (7-3-3, 4-0 Patriot League) will make their way to Boston after a 2-0 win against Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

BU head coach Nancy Feldman said she had her team focusing on its own play before going up against the current Patriot League leader.

“We [win] by continuing to play the best we can and play our style and neutralizing what [Navy] wants to do,” Feldman said. “In our preparation, we try to figure out how to attack and defend them best. But it mostly has to do with us being consistent and playing our game to the best of our ability.”

The Terriers (4-7-2, 3-0-1 Patriot League) have conceded more goals than they have scored so far this season, letting in 17 goals while scoring 14 through their 13 games, while Navy has shown more aptitude in front of goal so far with 18 goals scored and 14 goals against in 13 matches.

Midshipman defender Baseley McClaskey, Navy’s top scorer, has six goals and four assists for 16 points this season.

McClaskey and sophomore forward Anna Heilferty are in second and third place, respectively, in the race to be the top goal-scorer of the Patriot League.

Terrier offense will have to go up against Navy’s defense, which has

averaged the third-fewest goals per game among Patriot League teams, conceding just 1.047 per game.

Midshipman goalkeeper Sydney Fortson has started in 12 games, maintaining a goals-against average of 1.01.

In the game against Lehigh (3-8, 0-4 Patriot League), Fortson put up nine saves in her sixth shutout of the season.

The Terriers also enter this match after winning their last, where they beat Lafayette University 2-0 in a Patriot League contest.

BU forced the Leopards’ (4-7, 1-3 Patriot League) goalkeeper Maggie Pohl to make a season high-tying nine saves, while Terrier sophomore goalie Amanda Fay did not face any shots on goal.

Feldman attributed the team’s win to offensive pressure keeping the ball in the opposing team’s third of the field.

“We kept the ball,” Feldman explained. “We tried to keep the pressure by having the ball in their half of the field. That’s the best defense, right? When we lose the ball, winning the ball back early or getting back into our defense faster than the counter is important.”

Heilferty has stood out for the Terriers this season, leading the team in goals with five and assists with four.

She was awarded her first Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week title Monday after picking up five points during the team’s recent matches against Lafayette and the College of the Holy Cross.

Freshman midfielder Taylor Kofton has also produced offensively,

scoring her first two goals against Lafayette, assisted by Heilferty and senior defender Pietra Sweeney.

Feldma n stated Kofton has stepped into a bigger role in the team in the absence of senior midfielder Julianna Chen, who has been out due to injury since Sept. 9.

“Sometimes the worst things that can happen to a team, like losing a player,” Feldman said, “but the silver lining is that Kofton can become more of a competent player earlier in her career. Now when [Chen] comes back, we have two players that are capable rather than just one.”

In the clash bet ween the Midshipmen and the Terriers last year, Navy stole the game with a headed goal off of a corner kick in the 85th minute.

Navy ended up finishing with the best record i n the Patr iot League, drawing in one conference match and losing none, while the Terriers finished in third place in 2017.

Coming into this match, Navy has the best record in the league and sits right above BU and Colgate, that both have three wins and a tie in conference play.

Both teams will put their undefeated conference records on the line in a game that could affect Patriot League rankings.

“Well, it’s too early to start thinking about winning the conference, but ever y game is three points,” Feldman said. “This game is the next game up. This is the next opportunity to grab three more points, which are valuable to get into the tournament. No one is guaranteed a spot.”

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Senior defender Pietra Sweeney in a Sept. 22 match against Lehigh University. Sweeney and the Terriers are on a three-game winning streak ahead of Friday’s match against the U.S. Naval Academy.

Living in Fantasy: Temper expectations from these RBs

BY TYLER ORINGER COLUMNIST

Jordan Howard If you’re a Jordan Howard owner like me, few things were more frustrating than watching Tarik Cohen boom for 23.4 points while Howard totaled just 11 carries for 25 yards.

Perhaps the most frustrating part of this was that Cohen simply looked like a better player.

The supposed “backup” notched 13 carries for 53 yards while catching

seven of eight targets for a whop- Mark Ingram ping 121 yards and a touchdownNow, this is obviously hard Cohen is more agile than Howard, to gauge considering the former but it is clear that even despite this Heisman winner hasn’t played a game, Howard is better between game yet this season, but it is clear the trenches. Unfortunately, for who is the better running back in the once-thought-of-workhorse, the New Orleans Saints’ duo.

Mitch Trubisky’s talent actually Last year, Mark Ingram and hampered Howard.

Alvin Kamara were perhaps the As we saw in Week 4, playing best r u n n i n g back ta ndem i n in the air supremely benefited the NFL history. However, Kamara Chicago Bears, which is something has proven himself to be perhaps that must be kept in mind going the best running back in the NFL. forward. For the former Indiana Yes, Todd Gurley exists, but guess University Hoosier, Howard’s floor what? Kamara is simply that good. still seems to be in the low-end RB2 The only reason the Saints have range considering the high-powered to limit Kamara is to save him for offense and likely touches at the the playoffs. Kamara has proven to goal line. be a great goal line back, incredible Regardless, Howard isn’t even pass catcher and shifty and agile close to as good as I would have between and around the tackles. expected and warrants low-end Sure, Ingram is good at all these RB2 consideration moving forward things too, but not as good as the due to the arrival of Tarik Cohen former University of Tennessee and Matt Nagy’s desire to run the Volunteer. offense through Trubisky, rather Ing ra m is rea l ly best to be than on the ground. viewed as a middle tier RB2/strong

FLEX play heading into Week 5 against the Washington Redskins.

Luckily for Ingram owners, he does have his bye the following week where he could re-establish a rapport in a full week of practice with no game, but I’m still holding out on Ingram matching what he did last year due to the MVP numbers Kamara has put up thus far.

It is quite odd to temper expectations from a t wo-time 1,000 yard rusher who looked as good as almost anyone in the leag ue, but that mostly shows Kamara’s outlandish dominance.

Royce Freeman This may come as the biggest surprise. Royce Freeman isn’t on this list because he isn’t effective, but rather because he — like the other two players mentioned — has severe competition standing in his way.

W h i le Freema n ha s scored a touchdow n i n h is l a st t h ree

weeks and is averaging five yards per carry, Phillip Lindsay is a far better overa l l ta lent (thus fa r).

Freema n has one catch in four weeks, whereas Lindsay (and for some reason Devontae Booker) are the passing backs in a pretty good offense.

A lso worth noting, Lindsay scored a goal line touchdown and had more carries than Freeman.

The way the Denver Broncos play benefits the receiving back, and moving forward, I am a bit skeptical about Freeman’s production in the later parts of the season.

It is tough to look down on someone who has exceeded expectations, but this is a crowded situation. As the year continues, I would not have a problem look ing at Freeman as a low-end RB2 in standard leagues, but in half PPR and especially PPR he warrants FLEX consideration only. Unfortunately, the Broncos have excelled in this format and will continue to do so.

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“He fought for it, kept it alive and got it on target.” ­— Men’s soccer coach Neil Roberts on freshman forward John Siracuse’s first goal. p.10

Sports Thursday, October 4, 2018

“We tried to keep the pressure by having the ball in their half of the field. That’s the best defense, right?” ­— Women’s soccer coach Nancy Feldman on the team’s recent success. p.11

Terrier pride took to the field in week-long event with BU Athletics

BY LILY BETTS

Kemps first arrived in the Greater “We all know each other, we all love Boston area to run for Boston College each other, and that’s how amazing The Boston University athletic in his freshman year before transferring things happen.” department hosted its first Pride Week to BU before his sophomore season Park and Kemps were two of 18 in support of the LBGTQA+ commu- for reasons he described to Outsports student athletes who participated in nity Sept. 22–29, with features ranging that were “heavily athletic related.” the campaign, along with field hockey from rainbow-themed handouts at One of Athlete Ally’s tools, the senior goalkeeper Kathleen Keegan. three athletic events to an online Athletic Equality Index, was designed Field hockey’s Sept. 22 win against campaign promoting inclusion and to help determine the inclusiveness of Colgate University was the opening acceptance.

NCAA programs. event of Pride Week, where free, PrideIn the 2017 spring semester, BU BC received one of the worst themed pins and stickers were available.

Athletics hosted a talk by Hudson AEI scores among Power 5 conferPlayers also sported rainbow paint Taylor, a former Division I wrestler ence schools, second only to Baylor on their faces and legs. and the founder of Athlete Ally.

University.

During the match, Keegan earned Athlete Ally promotes athlete activBaylor — a large Baptist university her first collegiate shutout in her first ism, education and policy to ensure based out of Waco, Texas, — condemns game after being named Patriot League athletic environments are inclusive “homosexual behavior” as “contrary to Goalkeeper of the Week for having a to all genders and sexual orientations. biblical teaching,” and discourages its nine-save series the weekend before.

Kelly Park, a junior forward on students from participating in LGBT Keegan, who identifies as gay, the BU women’s soccer team, was advocacy groups. founded Questrom Spectrum, a stua founding member of the Terriers’ A Catholic and Jesuit college itself, dent organization meant to unify chapter of Athlete Ally and said she BC hosts on-campus LGBT programs LGBT individuals and allies within was motivated to ensure all student and resources and lists sexual orienta- the business world. athletes felt welcome on campus. tion in its nondiscrimination policy, but The team’s captains, senior full“My favorite part about being at has failed to extend a code of conduct backs Ally Hammel and Allie Doggett, BU is how tight-knit the athletics to its fans, align with the NCAA’s pol- also participated in the campaign, and community is,” Park said. “When I icy for transgender inclusion or further Keegan said in her clip that she felt heard the speaker and realized there create an LGBT-positive relationship supported in her time at BU. were people who didn’t feel the way I with its campus.

“Everybody from the staff and my felt about how incluse and welcoming Kemps spoke to team functioning coaches and my teammates are all it is, I wanted to be someone who was at a higher level when its members can super accepting of who I am,” Keegan a part of changing that.” be open and honest with each other. said. “I think everybody who knows The student-led group was founded “Since coming out and now being me knows that I’m very open about by then-senior rower Logan Carter, an out LGBT athlete here at BU, I’ve being gay, it’s something I’m really before men’s track and field senior found not only acceptance, but also proud of, and I try to portray it in a Johnny Kemps took the helm as a team that performs best together,” really positive way.” president.

Kemps said in a BU Athletics video.

BU Athletics posted a series of DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Sophomore Shannon Ma sports rainbow eyeblack at a match against Colgate University Sept. 22 as part of Boston University Athletics’ “Pride Week.”

videos, images and tweets from its organization throughout the week.

When the Terrier men’s and women’s soccer teams took to Nickerson Field the following weekend, the videos were shown on the Jumbotron during intermission.

The event followed closely after the United Soccer Coaches’ second annual Play with Pride event, which supplied the rainbow laces freshman midfielder Taylor Kofton had in her boots during

her first two goals as a Terrier.

BU women’s soccer head coach Nancy Feldman spoke positively of her team’s involvement with the event and the message it is intended to send.

“I think [inclusion] is something BU has really focused on and that we as a team have in our mentalities,” Feldman said, “You don’t necessarily have to be best friends with everyone, but you have to respect them and work together.”

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