11-15-2018

LOOK OUT, MEASLES, 2

PUPPET PALS, 7

WHAT CASH, 8

LONG ROAD HOME, 11

Doctors release warning about measles case in Lowell Community Health Center.

Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins performed at BU’s first puppet slam Saturday.

The editorial board considers drawbacks of the MBTA’s automated fare collection.

Men’s basketball started its longest road trip of the season with a 71-61 win over Albany.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2018

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

YEAR XLVI. VOLUME XCIV. ISSUE XI.

Californian BU students face effects of fires Citgo sign

now relies on Walsh after vote

BY DAMIAN WALSH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Fourteen active wildfires are blazing through California, claiming lives, destroying property and affecting BU students who call California home.

The ongoing major fires in both Northern and Southern California are forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. The Northern California Camp Fire, which is believed to be the most destructive fire in the state’s history, burned over 130,000 acres as of press time, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Hundreds of people are still missing in places where the fires have been burning, and the death toll is rising daily.

Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore wrote an email Wednesday to students from California expressing hope for the resiliency of affected communities and his wish that students’ loved ones are all right.

“You may feel, as I do, a bit anxious about the effects of the fires,” Elmore wrote. “I sincerely hope that amidst the stress of this disaster, you are able to continue to move forward – to get your work done and stay balanced in your personal life.”

Elmore also encouraged students affected by the wildfires to stop by the Dean of Students Office if they are in need of further support.

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COURTESY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT

Firefighters from the Los Angeles County Fire Department work to put out the fire that broke out in Southern California Nov. 8.

BU spokesperson Colin Riley said the university typically reaches out to students affected by natural disasters.

“I think it’s very important that students know that the university cares very much about them,” Riley said, “not just because they’re students here, but because we know their families are in harm’s way.”

Riley said he hopes the families, friends and relatives of BU students are safe. The university will communicate with affected

students, he said, and help them with any particular issues with which they need assistance.

The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, which is geared toward facilitating discussion about contemporary local, national and international issues, is one place where affected students may find comfort to deal with the fires’ effects, said HTC office assistant Helena Gill.

Gill, a College of Engineering student, said the Howard Thurman Center is a place for all

and is naturally equipped for having conversations in a comforting environment.

“I guess this would be a good place for people to just come and come together with others,” Gill said, “because there’s a couple of programs here that talk specifically about how to move forward.”

Sydney Clark is a College of General Studies sophomore from Thousand Oaks, California, which is close to the Woolsey Fire and was also the site of a CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

The Boston La ndma rks Commission voted to designate the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square as a landmark Tuesday night, meaning the sign would be protected from being moved or destroyed by developers.

Now that the commision has made its decision, Mayor Martin Walsh will have 15 days to consider the distinction and vote on the manner before it is sent to the City Council.

Local real estate company Related Beal is currently planning to rebuild property in Kenmore Square. Patrick Sweeney, managing director for Related Beal, said in a statement that the company has no intention of taking down the sign and will integrate it into their new developments.

The company plans to use the redevelopment to revitalize Kenmore Square, Sweeney said.

“We remain focused on bringing our vision for the redevelopment to life, welcoming new office tenants and employees, introducing exciting retail options and adding to the legacy of Kenmore Square,” Sweeney said.

Walsh’s press office said the mayor will review the proposed designation.

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Immigration Chick-fil-A eyes Back Bay Pad, tampon funds run out laws cause difficulties for students

BY ALEX LASALVIA

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BY CAMILA BEINER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

U.S. universities are reporting a decline in the number of international students applying for graduate business programs, according to a study from the Graduate Management Admission Council.

Some speculate that this change is a result of the current political climate and changes made by the Trump administration to immigration policy.

According to the October report by the GMAC, of the 400 U.S. programs surveyed, 53 percent reported declines in international applications this year. Overall, international application volumes fell 10.5 percent since 2017.

At the Boston University Questrom School of Business, the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

Chick-fil-A is planning to open a location in Back Bay, which would be the franchise’s first location in Boston.

The chain is pursuing a location at 569 Boylston St. but is still in the early approval process, Amanda Hannah, spokesperson for Chickfil-A, said in statement.

“We are always looking for new opportunities to serve Massachusetts customers and are excited about the prospect of joining the Back Bay neighborhood,” Hannah said.

The fried chicken fast-food franchise first attempted to enter the Boston market in 2012, but antiLGBTQ statements by the company’s president earlier that year caused then-Mayor Thomas Menino to send a letter to Chick-fil-A urging them to back out of those plans.

“I was angry to learn on the heels of your prejudiced statements about your search for a site to locate in Boston,” the letter read. “There is

no place for discrimination along Boston’s Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it.”

The “prejudiced statements” Menino referred to occurred in a 2012 interview with Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy by The Baptist Press.

“We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit,” Cathy said in the interview. “We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives.”

In addition to these comments, the Chick-fil-A Foundation has donated millions of dollars to antiLGBTQ organizations, according to 2015 IRS filings reported on by Think Progress.

The company’s most recent attempt to open a Boston location has renewed the debate over whether people should support the company and whether local government has the right to ban the business.

Michael Bronski, a professor of the practice in media and activism in Studies of Women, Gender and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

BY CHLOE MCKIM JEPSEN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The baskets of free menstrual products provided by the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism (CGSA) since early October in certain George Sherman Union and Mugar Memorial Library bathrooms are now left empty, as the Dean of Students Office (DOS) has

denied CGSA appeals for funding to continue the service.

A notice was left on the baskets in GSU first-floor and basement bathrooms and the first-floor gender neutral bathroom in Mugar Library, explaining that due to a lack of sufficient long-term funding for the service and the refusal of the DOS to provide funds for CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism’s request for support in funding for the distribution of menstrual products was denied by the Dean of Students’ office.

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Vaccinations encouraged after local measles diagnosis

BY JENNIFER SURYADJAJA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Lowell Community Health Center issued a warning notice Saturday after a child was diagnosed with measles.

Clare Gunther, chief development and communications officer at the Lowell Community Health Center, said the patient was isolated upon diagnosis Nov. 8, and the center has taken steps to minimize exposure to other patients and center staff.

“We identified what areas of the building this patient had been to,” Gunther said, “and who might have been exposed as a result.”

With a slew of patients in the center daily, Gunther said it was difficult for the staff to track down who had been exposed to the infected patient.

However, she said the Center is doing its best to provide its patients with quality healthcare services.

“We’re a health center,” Gunther said. “We have 30,000 patients, so, I mean, people have a variety of different illnesses.”

Gunther explained that measles is an airborne virus that lives for two hours. So, she said, if someone entered a room over two hours after someone who was infected with measles, they would not be affected.

The center examined its patient list, she said, to determine who had a measles vaccine on their record and which patients had a positive titer — a blood test that show if a patient is immune to the disease. Patients who were at-risk were encouraged to be vaccinated, and, Gunter said, as far as the center is aware, no one else has been infected.

“You can never say definitively,” Gunther said. “They were immediately isolated upon diagnoses, so we

took steps to minimize exposure.”

Gunther said Massachusetts has a very high rate of immunization.

The state made vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella a mandatory step for children to start at public schools, she explained, and the older generation is less likely to be affected by the measles virus.

“People born in the U.S. before 1957 tend to be immune because there was no vaccine prior to that time, so they were exposed to or had measles,” Gunther said. “There’s a small subset of people who are really at risk, so the main thing is just people need to get vaccinated.”

Brighton resident John Kent, 26, said he was unaware of the new case of measles in Massachusetts and said people who are sick should not expose others to their illnesses.

“When people are sick, they should stay at home,” he said. “Don’t be going to work, going to school and things like that. You know, getting your colleges and classmates sick.”

Wendy Parmet, director of the Northeastern University’s Health Policy and Law program, said that measles infections have gone down considerably since the creation and use of vaccines. Now, she said it is within communities of unvaccinated individuals that outbreaks are occuring.

“Measles deaths had gone way down in this country,” Parmet said, “and now, with pockets of communities not being vaccinated, we’re seeing new outbreaks” With other illnesses like the flu, she said, vaccination remains one of the most effective ways to prevent the illness and mitigate its impact.

Vaccination is important, Parmet said, but basic hygiene is also necessary to prevent the spread

CAMPUS Crime Logs

BY KIRAN GALANI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Nov. 11–13.

Assault at Claflin Hall Residence Life staff at 273 Babcock St. reported at 10:48 p.m. Sunday that a party claimed an individual threatened them and threw a water bottle at them. Broken glass was cleaned up in the seventh floor hallway, and the party was relocated for several days.

Suspicious party at Student Village II

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With cold weather setting in, local pharmacies like CVS are offering flu shots to help patients fight illness outbreaks.

of disease. She said washing hands and staying home when sick are also important for stopping the spread of diseases.

Parmet explained that individual vaccines are not a perfect solution, however, which is why she said she thinks people should get vaccinated for the flu annually to stay protected against changing diseases.

“The problem with the flu vaccine is the flu keeps changing, so you need to get a new vaccine each year,” Parmet said. “A measles vaccine lasts a lot longer, but vaccination is still the key.”

Parmet said flu symptoms can be difficult to detect early on, so people might not realize that they have the illness. She said this is a problem because someone who does not realize they are sick can continue on with their daily life, accidentally

infecting colleagues and family members.

Pornmanie Snidvongs, 22 of Kenmore, said, though she rarely gets vaccinated, she thinks being aware of one’s surroundings and taking preventative actions during flu season are important for staying healthy.

“Being aware of what’s going on and being conscious what you should do,” Snidvongs said, “that kind of stuff [is important].”

Amy Nurnberger, 45, of Fenway, said she agrees that vaccination is an important way to protect against serious diseases.

“If you don’t get an immunization, it’s more likely to happen,” Nurnberger said. “I do, rather, think immunizations are important, and measles is a dreadful disease. It can have really long-term effects on the child.”

A suspicious person was reported to be at 33 Harry Agganis Way at 8:44 a.m. Tuesday. The person was described as a white man with a grey beard wearing navy clothes and a dark cap. The person was also reported to have a canister wrapped to his foot.

Break-in at Yawkey Ambulatory Care Center A man was arrested at 10:54 p.m.

Tuesday at 850 Harrison Ave. for carrying a dangerous weapon unlawfully, breaking and entering and resisting arrest. The party was described as a short, black man wearing black pants, royal blue sneakers and a navy blue rain jacket. The party had been removed from Shapiro Center earlier that day.

CITY

Crime Logs

BY CLARISSA GARZA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Franchise’s homophobic history concerns residents CHICKEN, FROM PAGE 1 Sexuality at Harvard University, said he would not support a business whose owners donated to antiLGBTQ causes, but that it is not the government’s place to step in.

“The government, in this case the City, has the right to deny a license to a club if it’s too crowded or real estate if it doesn’t conform to code,” Bronski said. “In the extreme, it probably has the right to disrupt a rally that is about to erupt into violence. None of these seem to apply to Chick-fil-A.” Bronski said government interference might be more likely if Chick-fil-A was directly discriminating against LGBTQ customers.

“And if LGBT activists want to have a demonstration or a boycott,” Bronski said, “that’s a whole different thing.”

Corey Prachniak-Rincón, director of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth, said the Commission appreciates local and state leaders who stand up to discrimination in any form.

“We have lots of data gathered over a course of decades to show that discrimination affects the mental health of LGBTQ youth,” Prachniak-Rincón said. “It prevents them from seeking services. It can be really traumatizing and damaging for them to feel discrimination.”

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Popular fast-food chain Chick-fil-A plans to open a location in Boston, though the City has pushed back against the company previously.

The Commission is concerned about discriminatory messages coming from positions of power, Prachniak-Rincón said, and the effect those messages have on LGBTQ youth.

“We have messages of hate and intolerance coming from positions of power — that seeps down to all other levels of society and has a really negative effect on our society as a whole and specifically those vulnerable groups,” Prachniak-Rincón said.

Prachniak-Rincón also said he believes Massachusetts residents have proven themselves as people who believe in equality and equity

for LGBTQ youth and who are against discrimination in all forms.

“I certainly think that anyone who comes into our state and tries to spread messages of intolerance does so against the popular opinion of the vast majority of the state,” he said.

Lauren Carney, 26, of Fenway, said she thinks that expanding into Boston is a good way for Chickfil-A to put their controversial past behind them.

“Coming into Boston, I think, is a great step to, I guess, like open up to all,” Carney said. “And to include, you know, equality throughout their customer base as well.”

Allston resident Ethan

Bukowiec, 27, said he thinks preventing Chick-fil-A from coming to Boston because of their homophobic past should be an easy decision for the government to make.

“I think it should be pretty easy for the government to stall that and not let that happen, especially with the progressive movement that’s been continuing to go on in the city,” Bukowiec said. “So, I mean, it’s funny that a Chick-fil-A is gonna be that much of a center of contention.”

Bukowiec said he would not eat at Chick-fil-A if they open a location in Boston.

“There’s plenty of better alternatives in the city,” Bukowiec said.

“Especially small businesses that can make a chicken sandwich 10 times better than something like that.”

Rachael Barzey, 49, of Hyde Park, said that if Chick-fil-A is trying to change and becoming more accepting of the LGBTQ community, then she is fine with them coming to Boston.

“If they actively support everyone, all people, instead of just isolating people, then yeah, I have no problem with it,” Barzey said.

Chick-fil-A did not respond to requests for comment on whether the company has changed its views about the LGBTQ community since the 2012 controversy.

The following crime reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from Nov. 10–13.

Brighton 7-Eleven robbed by customer Officers responded to a vandalism in progress at 12:32 a.m. Saturday at a 7-Eleven store at 2002 Beacon St. in Brighton. The suspect attempted to purchase $33.28 worth of items, but only gave the clerk $4.00.

When the clerk told the suspect the payment was insufficient and blocked the store exit, the suspect reportedly threw the items behind the cash register and fled toward Chestnut Hill Avenue.

Paper towels snatched in Brighton break-in An officer responded to a report of breaking and entering at 8:30 a.m.

Tuesday in Brighton. The victim reportedly stated that the window was open and that a box of paper towels was missing from the building but did not notice any other items missings.

Stolen backpack results in credit card fraud An officer responded to a report of larceny at 7:30 a.m. Monday. The victim previously reported a lost backpack containing a laptop and personal documents. The victim was later informed by credit card companies that unauthorized purchases had been made.

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Students survive on refugee rations through Marsh Chapel

BY CONOR KELLEY and SHAYNA SCOTT DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University students are attempting to survive a week on food supplies similar to those provided to a refugee as part of Marsh Chapel’s Refugee Ration Challenge this week.

The challenge takes place during International Education Week, according to the Marsh Chapel website. International Education Week is an annual initiative by the U.S. Departments of State and Education.

Participating students received rations Sunday, according to the Marsh Chapel website. They must survive on the rations through Saturday, with an opportunity for supplements allowed Wednesday.

Ration boxes consist of nutrient-dense food like beans, fish, oil, flour and lentils, said Zach Crawford, an undergraduate affairs administrative coordinator who is involved with the challenge. He said the rations are meant to provide the minimum micronutrients needed for survival.

“You go into any middle school cafeteria and those lunches tend to lack nutritious food that contains essential micronutrients,” Crawford said. “So in both cases, neither the quality nor the quantity of food is very optimal.”

Fees for the challenge were $10, according to the Marsh Chapel website. This amount covered the cost of rations and included a donation to Refugee Immigration Ministry, an organization that provides resettlement services, spiritual support and English education to refugees.

Leftover food will also be donated, wrote Marsh Chapel Associate Emi Fermin in an email.

Marsh Chapel is also showing two films and holding a panel this week to educate the BU community on refugees, Fermin wrote.

Crawford said opportunities like the Refugee Ration Challenge can help students understand what it is like to be a refugee.

“Simulating that kind of a restricted diet could maybe help engender some empathy and help

people understand what’s going on and how people can be more engaged with these issues,” Crawford said.

Julie Dahlstrom, the director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program at the School of Law, wrote in an email that along with showing students what the refugee lifestyle is like, the challenge could inspire students to find solutions to the problems refugees face.

“By focusing attention on the refugee crisis--in Syria and elsewhere--it draws attention, in a very human way, to the importance of developing innovative, interdisciplinary responses to the day-to-day problems confronted by refugees,” Dahlstrom wrote.

Events like this should serve to inspire students to further educate themselves, Dahlstrom wrote, and to get involved in efforts to combat challenges to human rights.

Zach Howland, a junior in the Questrom School of Business, said he thinks such simulation exercises are a valuable way of empathizing with others’ situations.

“In high school, we raised awareness for teenage homelessness where we slept out in cardboard boxes in the street in Boston, and it makes a huge difference,” Howland said. “It definitely gives you the perspective of what someone else is going through.”

Fermin wrote that even though the Refugee Ration Challenge is a “slight lived experience” for participants, it does not completely approximate what life is like for refugees.

“Regardless of how difficult their own week would be attempting to live off of rations, it will never be as tough as what a refugee would go through,” Fermin wrote.

Nina Taylor-Dunn, a sophomore in the College of General Studies, said since she doesn’t have to think about rationing her food, she feels for people who have to.

“If you have to ration food then you kind of value it more,” TaylorDunn said, “and maybe think about giving more to other people who don’t have as much as you do.”

Chloe Gao, a junior in the

College of Communication and the College of Arts and Sciences, said she thinks this challenge reflects well on BU’s global awareness.

“I feel like it is such a nice thing for them to do,” Gao said. “I feel like people at BU have such a global mindset, and [the Refugee Ration Challenge] reflects their global mindset.”

As important as it is for students to understand the dietary challenges that refugees face, Crawford said that aspects of refugee life cannot be simulated, and the takeaway from this challenge should not necessarily be centered around diet.

“I think you can simulate a restricted diet all you’d like,” Crawford said, “but you can’t really simulate being forcibly separated from your homeland, or you can’t simulate the difficulties integrating into new communities and you can’t really simulate the feeling of not knowing whether your family or your neighbors are still alive.”

Clarissa Garza contributed reporting.

BU responds to CA fires Commission votes for Citgo preservation CALIFORNIA, FROM PAGE 1 mass shooting Nov. 7. She said California is known for its wildfires, which wreak havoc yearly.

“I think it’s always something that’s on our minds constantly about wildfire prevention, just like how we’re very mindful about our water usage in California more than other states are,” Clark said.

Though Clark’s neighborhood is safe, she said, her family was subject to the mandatory evacuation.

Clark said she thinks the fires bring the California community together and makes them appreciate what they have.

“It’s hard to watch where you live be in ashes,” Clark said. “It really changes, I think, our perspective. It brings people closer together.”

Cheyenne Tipton, a College of Arts and Sciences junior from West Hills, California, said the fires have been stressful for her family, as an evacuation order took place close to her house.

“Personally, it’s just really stressed me out because I’m here and I can’t do anything about it,” Tipton said. “And my family is all there, so I’ve had to have people that were evacuated stay at my house.”

Tipton said the ongoing fires were the closest to her home in

recent memory.

“It’s been stressful with that,” Tipton said, “having to have my parents pack me a bag of things that I want from my house in case the fire came.

Sarah Stipanowich, a College of Communication sen ior f rom M a l ibu , California, said dry conditions coupled with Santa Ana winds — downslope gales that exacerbate fires — make Southern California “ripe for fire” during the late fall and early winter. Under the right conditions, she said, something as simple as hot cigarette ash or a campfire can lead to almost unstoppable wildfires.

“It was harrowing to watch from afar,” Stipanowich said in regard to the fires that destroyed much of Malibu and surrounding parts of California.

Stipanowich said she and some friends from Thousand Oaks are grieving at the effects of the fire.

“I think as an institution, BU should really reach out, bring awareness to what’s going on,” Stipanowich said, “… especially with what’s going on in California, it feels like we’re so far removed from the issue, from what’s going on, that it’s almost not humanized. People aren’t thinking of those affected.”

WALSH, FROM PAGE 1 According to the Boston Landmarks Commission’s report on the Citgo sign, the sign was built in 1965 and has become a key element of Boston’s skyline.

This is the second petition to designate the sign as a Boston landmark, with the first movement being in the 1980s.

T he Boston La nd ma rks Commission rejected the landmark proposal in 1983, as they did not want to force the owners of the sign into keep the sign running, the report stated. The sign has become a symbol for the city of Boston as Kenmore is a central location in the city and also due to its association with the Boston Marathon and Fenway Park.

Alex Noonan, 35, of Brighton, said the Citgo sign is a part of Boston’s skyline.

“It’s an inseparable part of this area,” Noonan said.

Northeastern University student Emily Johnson, 19, said she thinks the sign has become the city’s most iconic symbol and that she is glad that the sign

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The Boston Landmarks Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to designate the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square as a Boston Landmark.

could stay a part of the city skyline in the future.

“It’s kind of like the symbol for Boston,” Johnson said. “So I think it’s kind of cool that it’s

never going to be taken away now.”

Samantha Day and Sophie Falkenheim contributed to the reporting of this story.

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Trump policies deter international students from studying in US LAWS, FROM PAGE 1 percentage of international applicants for the full-time master’s in business program dropped 20 percent from the fall 2017 applicant numbers.

Meredith Siegel, assistant dean of graduate admissions for Questrom, wrote in an email that this decrease has an impact on BU, both culturally and academically.

“I absolutely think that the decrease in international students has an impact at BU,” Siegel wrote. “When the number of international students decreases — or the number of countries from which these students enroll is reduced — the opportunity for all students to broaden their perspectives, and thus their problem solving abilities, is also reduced.”

Although Siegel explained that there is no data to prove a direct correlation between Trump’s policies and the decrease in international applicants, she said she has heard from students that executive orders like the travel ban have made students worry about the status of their visas. “… this administration has sharply reduced the number of H1-B (or working) visas available to students with a US degree who want to stay in the US to work,” Siegel wrote. “Without the prospect of staying for a few years after graduation, for some, that makes a US degree less attractive.”

Nicholas Ashford, a profes-

sor of technology and policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he has mentored many master students from different parts of the world and that it has been difficult for those students to obtain visas on time.

“In general, people from certain parts of the world are not even applying because they do not want to go through a disagreeable screening process to come here,” Ashford explained. “The Trump administration has a direct effect on students’ decision not to apply to U.S. graduate programs. It is so difficult for them to begin to get a visa in a timely manner so they are going to other parts of Europe for education.”

Ashford said he thinks the decrease of international applicants is causing the United States to miss out on talented students.

“We do not have the benefits of their talent on our projects and the possibility of them staying on as people who work for this country,” Ashford said. “Also, these people are destined to become leaders of their countries and to be told that they are not welcomed here is the most unfortunate.”

Ashford said that if these changes affect the diversity of schools, it would be a missed opportunity for cross-cultural learning. “[International students provide] an opportunity to become culturally more sophisticated, to

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educate people who go back to their country and have an impression on the United States,” he said.

“I think the country is losing, and the schools are losing.”

Several students at Bostonarea universities said international students already face many challenges but are now also having to deal with Trump’s immigration policies.

Julia Bertsch, a sophomore at Northeastern University, said the decrease of international students is something she believes is ethnocentric.

“I think the decrease of inter-

national students will negatively impact the school,” Bertsch said.

“Although it will provide more opportunities to locals and U.S. citizens, there would be less diversity and less cultural awareness.”

Ignacio Castineiras, a junior at MIT, said he does not know the specific policies that could affect college students but that he has international friends who have experienced difficulties.

“I had two friends that went back home for vacation to see their families, and then legislation was passed that made it nearly impossible for them to come back

to the U.S. to continue school,” Castineiras said. “MIT had to use its networks to bring its students back.”

Meghan Tokala, a sophomore at Northeastern, said she is not surprised by the decline of international students because she thinks Trump has created a divide for anyone who is not white and American.

“This decline means a jaded future of just American ideals, which has proven to not be the best solution to a lot of problems,” Tokala said. “We are moving to a less diverse America, which is a huge step in the wrong direction.”

CGSA can no longer provide menstrual products in GSU bathrooms TAMPONS, FROM PAGE 1 the temporary program, the products are no longer being provided.

“As the Dean of Students (DOS) plans to spend the next year figuring out a way to give out free menstrual products, the CGSA voluntarily provided these as an interim services,” the notice said. “As of October 25th, DOS has denied our appeals to provide supporting funds for the items we’re giving out, so we can no longer provide this service.”

The CGSA’s goal was to provide these products only until the DOS found a way to fund and implement a campuswide version of the service, said CGSA External Coordinator Lindsay Child, a senior in the Wheelock School of Education and Human Development.

This effort in the interim period was initially funded by the club’s revenue fund, said CGSA Health and Education Coordinator Sam Wu. The fund was mostly composed of allocations from the Student Activities Office, Child said, as well as other money fundraised by the club.

While the menstrual products were being provided, Wu said

members of the club would purchase them from local drugstores and were reimbursed by the revenue fund.

Wu said their preliminary goal was not only to provide the service, but to determine the annual cost.

“Our goal was to figure out how much it would cost, but because of a lack of funding, we were unable to continue with it,” Wu said. “Obviously if the university were to take it head on, it would only be a fraction of their budget, but because we were primarily funding it out of our revenue fund, it just wasn’t feasible.”

Although this was a temporary effort to provide menstrual products, Child said students still need them while the university looks into a long-term solution.

“Since there is still an ongoing need for menstrual products, and basically no campus bathrooms have even the paid dispensers right now, there basically aren’t options for people who need pads and tampons right away,” Child said. “In the interim there is still a need.”

The CGSA has called for students who wish to see the project continued to contact the Dean

of Students office or reach out to the CGSA with questions. CGSA Internal Coordinator Brian Stanley confirmed that no students have reached out in response as of press time, although the CGSA has previously received emails when the baskets were emptied, before their funding ran out.

BU spokesperson Colin Riley said the CGSA began the program without sufficient funding to sustain the project.

“It’s not the money, it’s about doing things across campus in a consistent way,” Riley said.

“I’m not addressing the CGSA, they are welcome to spend their money as they choose, depending on if they are in line with the procedures of the Student Activities Office in regards to spending.”

Wu said their estimate of the annual cost for this service would only be a small amount in comparison to the available administration funds.

The CGSA distributed 681 tampons and 230 pads between Oct. 12 and Nov. 1, Wu said, leading to an estimated cost of $2,800 per school year to supply the aforementioned GSU and Mugar Library bathrooms with menstrual products.

“This amount is only a fraction of one student’s annual tuition,” Wu said, “and suggests that BU could easily provide free menstrual products in the GSU bathrooms.”

Aqsa Momin, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she thinks providing these products should be a focus of the administration, especially for college students.

“You shouldn’t have to be punished for being a woman and having your period,” Momin said. “Dealing with that on top of trying to find food for yourself and every other thing that comes with basic living necessities is hard. If they can provide funding for groups on campus to compete and go places and stuff like that, they should definitely be able to provide a basic necessity for women.”

Ibrahim Chand, a freshman in the College of Engineering, said he does not know the potential cost of providing free menstrual products but thinks BU should be able to meet this need.

“I don’t know too much about how much it would cost to provide them,” Chand said.

“Obviously BU has a very large

population, but whether or not money should be allocated, with the rate of our tuition, I don’t see why not. It just seems like a basic product that should be provided.”

Riley said that menstrual products are hard to supply in this manner because they are taken at an unsustainable rate and disappear quickly, an issue the university is currently considering.

“So if a BU student is in need of one and they end up in a restroom and they are not available, yet they were refilled the day before, it doesn’t make sense,” Riley said.

CAS freshman Katherine Barahona said she is curious about where the funding for the long-term project would come from.

“Personally, I think most girls would be biased because it’s something that’s helpful for us,” Barahona said. “But I would like to know if it did go through in the short term, would it affect any other service that they are providing for us. I feel like if [DOS staff ] isn’t willing to give up this small amount of money, then it may be because they are trying to cut down on other services to bring the long-term one.”

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SCIENCE

Boston Medical Center’s talk examines law and opioid epidemic

BY AMELIA MURRAY-COOPER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In the midst of a national opioid epidemic, Boston Medical Center’s compliance department recently invited members of the Boston University community and public to discuss solutions to the crisis from a legal perspective.

The program was held in honor of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week, according to Kim Greene, chief compliance officer at BMC and moderator of the discussion. The talk, titled “The Law v. Opioids: Battling the Epidemic,” took place in the Hiebert Lounge Monday.

Greene explained in an interview that this is “a nationally recognized week for compliance professionals to find interesting ways to communicate what our programs do for our workforces.”

The discussion was intended to explain how new programs are being implemented to address the epidemic at both state and federal law enforcement levels, according to Greene.

The Americans with Disabilities Act, for example, prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals due to a history of addiction unless they can prove the addiction or treatment poses a direct threat to the individual or others that can’t be “eliminated or reduced by reasonable accommodation,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.

“In the past, there has been a terrible stigma around people who

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Daniel Alford, Gregory Dorchak, Kim Greene, Eric Gold and Michael Botticelli took part in a panel titled “The Law v. Opioids: Battling the Epidemic” at the Boston Medical Center Monday.

have a substance use disorder that has governed our response to the epidemic, and not in a good way,” Greene said. “We’re looking now to see that these are people who have a disability, and they deserve protection, treatment and our support.”

The panel featured Michael Botticelli, executive director of the BMC Grayken Center for Addiction, Gregory Dorchak, special assistant U.S. attorney, Eric Gold, chief of the health care division at the Massachusetts attorney general’s office, and Daniel Alford, director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education Program.

According to Botticelli, Grayken offers a wide range of resources for patients and families dealing with substance use disor-

ders (SUDs), including young adult programs, emergency services, a primary care clinic and psychiatric attention.

The opioid epidemic was primarily driven by the vast overprescribing of pain medication in the 2000s, Botticelli explained.

Medical professionals were told that these drugs were not highly addictive and were not properly trained to identify signs of addiction, he said.

At the height of the crisis in 2012, professionals were prescribing enough opioids to give every American their own supply, according to Botticelli. This evolved into increased heroin use, as well as the rise of illicit synthetic opioids such as fentanyl across the nation.

“The opioid epidemic has cre-

ated a level of morbidity and mortality that we have not ever seen in the United States,” Botticelli said in an interview. “It’s not an overstatement when we say this is a defining health crisis of our time.”

In addition to overdoses, the epidemic caused increases in viral hepatitis and local outbreaks of HIV from injection drug use.

There was also a significant rise in the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, according to Botticelli.

“Epidemics don’t happen in a vacuum,” Botticelli said. “There were many historical conditions that contributed to this epidemic.”

Botticelli explained that public policies are often shaped by individual attitudes toward addiction, since some people do not consider

SUDs to be a disease.

A 2014 study conducted at Johns Hopkins University found that 64 percent of people surveyed believed employers should be able to deny employment to people with a drug addiction. In the same study, 25 percent of people surveyed felt the same about people with a mental illness.

“Many people still believe that this is a matter of choice and willpower, so we need to educate people,” Botticelli explained.

According to Botticelli, insurance companies often fail to provide comprehensive treatment for SUDs like they do for other diseases. Federal spending is also focused more on the criminal justice side of addiction rather than public health, Botticelli explained.

“Laws have an appropriate place in our response to the opioid epidemic, but laws can also be used in a really detrimental and punitive way,” Botticelli said. “We need to divert our policies into treatment settings, and we need to do a better job of integrating and mainstreaming addiction into our larger healthcare delivery system.”

Priya Patel, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she believes that substance use disorder patients deserve effective resources.

“It’s important for people struggling with addiction to get the treatment they need,” Patel said.

“Their problems should be taken as seriously as people dealing with any disease.”

Sargent College speaker explores treatment of runners through shoes

BY NATHAN LEDERMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Fitness blogs debate the ideal running shoe across the internet.

Each design boasts a range of support, yet Irene Davis argues the best shoe has minimal support.

Last week, Sargent College’s Physical Therapy and Athletic Training Department welcomed Davis, who holds a doctorate in biomechanics, to serve as the inaugural speaker for their new Grand Rounds series.

Her presentation, “Integrating Science into the Treatment of Runners,” focused primarily on how common running mechanics can result in a variety of injuries and the best ways to prevent them.

In total, 75 people registered to attend and 42 people registered to watch the talk via online stream, according to LaDora Thompson, who chairs Sargent College’s Physical Therapy and Athletic Training Department.

The audience was comprised of undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty in the fields of physical therapy and athletic training.

“A real strength of [Davis] is she really builds bridges across many disciplines,” Thompson said.

Davis is the director for the Spaulding National Running Center and a visiting professor at

Harvard Medical School. She was named a Catherine Worthingham Fellow in 2010.

During the talk, she presented multiple studies backing the notion that injuries, such as tibial stress fractures and patellofemoral pain (pain in the front of the knee or around the kneecap), are caused by high load rates resulting in part from the shoes people wear.

“When you have shoes that support muscles, the demand of the muscles is going to reduce, and the muscles are going to weaken,” Davis said. “It is just simple physics.”

According to Davis’s presentation, the foot tends to land harder on softer surfaces while the opposite is true for hard surfaces. The cushioning present in most shoes results in people landing harder when running, and the added weight at the heel of one’s foot causes one to assume a rear foot strike pattern.

The pattern is associated with higher load rates and higher rates of tibial shock.

As a result of her own research and existing literature on the subject, Davis said she is a proponent of minimal footwear running and barefoot running.

“Our feet are designed to function without any shoes at all, from an evolutionary standpoint,” Davis said.

According to Davis, the lack of cushioning in minimal footwear possesses many benefits for runners. Firstly, it makes it uncomfortable to land on one’s heel and forces them to land on the ball of their foot, which is how humans were naturally adapted to run.

The lack of support also promotes strengthening in the muscles of the foot and supports a forefoot strike pattern as opposed to a rear foot strike pattern. These combined factors are shown to result in much softer landings.

“There is a lot of skepticism about minimal footwear because I think that we have gotten lulled into thinking that we need cushioning and support in our feet,” Davis said.

Timothy Willard, a junior in Sargent College, said he was surprised by the potential benefits to minimal footwear running.

“It’s really impressive how much research she has in this,” Willard said. “She developed a method that people can use to fix their mechanics. … It’s cool to see that there actually is science behind it that’s really reputable.”

Davis was quick to point out that minimal footwear was not a newer trend. Prior to the invention of the cushioned shoe in the late 1960s, Davis said all shoes would be considered minimal footwear by today’s standards.

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Irene Davis speaks at an event on “Integrating Science into the Treatment of Runners” Friday afternoon.

“The idea of minimal shoes is really not new,” Davis said.

“What’s new is all the technology that we have in footwear today, such as cushioning and support.”

Davis explained that ideally an individual should be able to roll the minimal footwear into a pocket.

However, if someone is already accustomed to running in cushioned shoes, they should be careful with transitioning to minimal footwear too quickly, Davis warned.

She said most concerns about minimal shoes arise from people

expecting to be able to run at the same volume as they were in cushioned shoes immediately.

“That would be like you going to the gym, lifting 100 pounds, and you’ve never lifted, getting injured, and someone saying, ‘Don’t go to the gym again,’” Davis said. “It’s not to me the right approach.”

Davis said taking the time to adapt to the footwear is worthwhile.

“I’m definitely going to look at my shoes when I get home,” Willard said.

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ARTS Puppeteer Pipkins pursues puppet passion in performance

BY ELEANOR HO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When renowned artist and puppeteer Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins took the stage at BU Central, all eyes weren’t on him. They were on his latest creation, Crush, a puppet made out of cardboard and cloth with two shining green eyes. With the help of his puppet, Pipkins hosted Boston University’s first puppet slam Saturday evening.

“Sorry for the technical difficulties,” Pipkins, speaking as Crush, joked during the show. “I only learned how to read yesterday.”

In addition to Pipkins’ performance, the puppet slam featured several students and BU community members who attended Pipkins’ workshops during the week leading up to the show. There, they created their own puppets that appeared in a wide range of musical, artistic and comedic performances.

Monica Zielinski, a freshman in College of Fine Arts, worked with Pipkins when he came to visit her sculpture class. “[Pipkins] helped us design [the puppets],” Zielinski said. “He had solutions to every single one of our issues. He’s really creative and lively.”

Zielinski, along with a few other students from the class, created a dragonfly from materials including wood, wire and cloth. They performed with the dragonfly at the puppet slam, making it fly around the stage to Billie Eilish’s song “Ocean Eyes.”

Over 15 students and community members performed at the puppet slam, according to Sarah Collins, assistant director of the BU Arts Initiative, who said Pipkins was brought to the Arts Initiative’s attention by CFA professor Felice Amato. Amato had seen some of Pipkins’ work before and wanted to bring him onto BU’s campus.

“What Tarish does is something we’ve been interested in and were blown away by,” Collins said.

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Puppeteer Brad Shur (left) performs an act called “The Kingdom” as part of his show “Cardboard Explosion.”

“The skill with which he works on the puppetry he does is just amazing to us. We wanted to be able to share that with BU students.”

Pipkins launched a career in puppetry in 2005. He cited meeting Fred Rogers, creator of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and the film “Being John Malkovich” for inspiring him to work on puppetry.

“There’s a magic in bringing someone into that uncanny valley where they suspend belief just for a second to react to one of the puppets I’ve built,” Pipkins said.

The puppet slam concluded Pipkins’ residency at BU with the BU Arts Initiative, BU College of Fine Arts and the Puppet Showplace Theater. In addition to the puppet slam, the week featured various workshops, class visits and a panel discussion on “afrofuturism” — the study, through various lenses, of the intersection between

black culture and technology.

Pipkins’ week in residence also included two sold-out shows followed by post-performance discussions at the Puppet Showplace Theater, which presented Pipkins’ “Just Another Lynching: An American Horror Story.” Pipkins said he likes to have discussions after his shows to provide a space for people to talk openly about racism.

“I would call it a workshop on racism,” Pipkins said, regarding his show.

Pipkins said one reaction in particular stuck out to him — a man brought his young son whose best friend had just been killed by the police to the show.

“He realized police murders of unarmed people are the same exact thing [as lynchings] because there’s not justice served, no consequences for murder,” Pipkins said.

“He started tearing up and crying.”

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Every audience member is assigned a cardboard puppet and made a part of the show.

Though much of his work tackles racism, Pipkins doesn’t do his work to change other people’s beliefs, the artist told The Daily Free Press, because that change must come from within.

“It’s a release for me. It’s like venting,” Pipkins said. “It’s therapeutic for me. I told my audience last night, ‘I do it for me, but thanks for coming.’”

However, Pipkins said he still believes that art can change people’s attitudes.

“The only way to make social change is through art,” Pipkins said. “Legislation and rules and laws don’t work [because] it doesn’t change people’s attitudes. You can’t force an entire society to think a certain way — they have to come to that conclusion themselves. Art can spark that.

“I’m doing [my art] for me, but if someone gets something out of it,

that’s awesome.”

Despite the personal nature of Pipkins’ art, performers and audience members at the slam felt the artist’s passion affect them personally.

“At first I was very opposed to puppets. I was almost angry I had to make [one],” Zielinski said. “But his passion for what he was doing made me realize it wasn’t so bad.

His involvement made me want to take it seriously.”

Sierra White, a junior in CFA, said she was also impressed by Pipkins, who spoke in one of her classes. White said that he changed her view on puppetry and she found him inspiring. “[Puppetry is] such a creative tool for social impact. You can see that through his work,” White said. “He said that he heard a quote, ‘Take what you love and do it for your people,’ and he’s doing it.”

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An audience member plays the part of a wizard in Shur’s show Saturday night at the George Sherman Union.

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BUSINESS

BUild Lab bootcamp attendees reflect on post-graduate purpose

BY KAMI RIECK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Throughout her years as an undergraduate at Boston University, Natalie Chai has grappled with identifying passions and solidifying career plans after graduation. She attended the Innovate@BU workshop Saturday in hopes to gain clarity but left with a greater sense of purpose, she said.

The School of Hospitality Administration senior said this workshop helped her forge a deeper connection with herself as she reflected on the reason behind her work.

“I’ve learned it’s less about what you’re doing, but more about why you’re doing it,” Chai said.

Students and alumni gathered at the BUild Lab IDG Capital Student Innovation Center Saturday to attend the “Purpose Bootcamp: Redefining What Matters After Graduation” workshop.

Co-led by Innovate@BU and Generation Financial Knowledge Development, this all-day workshop taught students to communicate their purpose through classes and careers.

This workshop is beneficial for college students, according to Justin Dent, executive director of GenFKD, because they are still early in the process of establishing the next steps for their lives.

“You can completely shift how somebody thinks about work, how someone thinks about life, how somebody thinks about learning to make

their entire journey different,” Dent said.

Dent said the idea for bringing the workshop to BU arose after meeting Blake Sims, program director of social innovation at Innovate@BU, at an educational event. After conducting a focus group with a sample of BU students and gaining a better insight into their view of purpose, Dent and Sims customized a workshop that would be most beneficial to the BU community.

“No part of education ever really focuses on communicating who we are, which is absurd because it seems like step one,” Dent said. “Purpose Bootcamp is a chance to give our peers the opportunity to communicate who they are.”

The Purpose Bootcamp workshop consisted of hands-on activities, group discussions and a presentation led by Zach Mercurio, bestselling author and researcher and adjunct faculty member at Colorado State University, and Kelsey Crouch, a public speaking and performance coach who has helped Fortune 100 professionals.

Mercurio elaborated on the importance of a purposeful mindset over a results mindset. Instead of focusing on obtaining perfect scores, Mercurio encouraged students to reflect on why classes and college exists — to learn and grow. He said focusing on the “why” behind every task leads to meaningful contribution and long-term fulfillment.

Attendees created individualized purpose statements by identifying

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Zach Mercurio, author and strategist, speaks at a bootcamp aimed at helping students and alumni alike navigate life after graduation.

pleasurable activities, natural skills and the change they hope to bring to the world. Everyone shared their different talents and ideas with other group members.

Chai has crafted a purpose statement in a previous course at BU but said this time it made her dig into more specifics.

“For my leadership class, I said I wanted to be a positive influence,” Chai said. “For this one, I figured I wanted to be a positive influence for younger generations.

This activity made me identify more clearly what my purpose could be.”

The second part of the workshop focused on how to communicate

purpose effectively. Crouch directed an interactive activity that allowed participants to express their purpose in conversations, specifically in a job interview.

Students learned how to integrate their own stories into the purpose statement and tackled the recurrent question among employers: tell me about yourself.

“Communication is a gift to the other person,” Crouch said. “Most people think about that question as being about themselves, but really, it’s about the relationship that’s being built with the interviewer or whoever is asking the question.”

Radhakrishna Sanka, a doctorate student in the College of Engineering,

said he attended Purpose Bootcamp to find common points between his vast array of interests.

“I have a framework now to keep reevaluating what my passions are and how they can all tie in together,” Sanka said.

Sanka said the group conversations gave him a sense of community, and hearing diverse ideas helped him refine his purpose statement.

After engaging in the day’s activities, he concluded that Purpose Bootcamp should be hosted as an annual event in the future.

“This is an active process that needs to be done, and it helps people find motivation to do things beyond campus and their academics,” he said.

COMMUNITY Professor aids homeowners affected by Merrimack Valley gas leaks

BY MARTHA MERROW DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When the Merrimack Valley suffered a massive gas explosion in September, Boston University professor Nathan Phillips didn’t hesitate to step in and help. Nearly two months into leading rehabilitation efforts, Phillips shows no signs of slowing down.

Phillips is the acting director of the Sustainable Neighborhood Lab, as well as a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment. For over seven years, he has been studying the safety and environmental concerns of gas infrastructure and advocating for policy solutions for the greater Boston area.

On Sept. 13, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas caused a series of explosions in the Merrimack Valley towns of Lawrence, Andover and North Andover.

According to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, the explosions ignited fires in 60–80 homes and caused one fatality.

For Phillips, the tragedy was a massive culmination of the physical, scientific and social repercussions of gas failure that he had been studying for years. He said he was instantly mobilized to not only study the problem, but help.

In collaboration with local climate advocacy nonprofits, Phillips has raised over $14,000 through a

GoFundMe page he started. As of Oct. 22, he has helped deliver 598 induction cooktops — which are electrically powered stove tops that cook more efficiently than gas ones and run without the risk of leaks, according to Phillips — to households still without heat or hot water.

When the Merrimack gas explosions happened, Phillips said he and his team arrived early and well prepared to help out. The National Guard arrived six days later and provided inefficient and dangerous hot plates to those in need, he said.

He added that the public sector, including utilities such as Columbia Gas, were not prepared for the crisis.

In addition, Phillips said the Merrimack accident is vastly misrepresented in media, as the crisis has been falsely portrayed as fully resolved after the restoration of electricity.

Many households are beginning to freeze without heating, Phillips explained. These residents are in need of basic supplies like jackets and blankets, but they feel frustrated and forgotten.

Zeyneb Magavi, research director at Home Energy Efficiency Team, a nonprofit that informs and advocates for positive environmental policy, met Phillips in 2015. At the time he was consulting for Mothers Out Front, a Cambridge advocacy group she works with to ensure a livable climate for future generations.

She described Phillips as an innovative, rigorous academic and a “rare egoless mentor.”

Magavi said an enormous amount of work remains in rehabilitating the Merrimack Valley, especially among lower-income communities where housing is often out of code and not yet weatherized for the winter. The crisis has revealed a disturbing inequity within the region, she added.

Columbia Gas has provided hundreds of trailers for those who need temporary housing.

However, many residents in the area are undocumented immigrants who may be fearful of accepting or asking for help, both Magavi and Phillips said.

In the wake of the Merrimack tragedy, Phillips said he wants to get people thinking bigger about their communities’ dependence on gas.

“If this traumatic event is not parlayed into lasting change and improvement, that would be crushing,” Phillips said. “We can’t just go back to normal status quo as if nothing happened — we need to learn from it.”

He hopes that more citizens and leaders will begin to look toward the nearby Merrimack River as a cleaner alternative source for heat and energy.

Masha Vernik, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and resident advisor of BU’s Earth House Living Learning Community, knows Phillips as her faculty advisor, mentor

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Nathan Phillips is a professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University.

and collaborator in making BU a more sustainable community, she said.

Vernik said she first met Phillips through her work with DivestBU, a student group that organized with faculty to demand the university divest from fossil fuel interests.

In the beginning of the Merrimack crisis, Phillips invited Vernik to call residents to set up cooktop deliveries.

Vernik is fluent in Spanish, so she was able to communicate with many who could not speak English, she said.

“Whenever I work with Nathan, I feel really inspired,” Vernik said.

“He has this sense that we can get it done — we just have to work hard and imagine the best possible reality.”

Magavi said that Phillips often takes the train into Merrimack and then rides his bike into the communities to deliver cooktops and other supplies late into the night.

“I couldn’t think of a person who could be more aptly called a hero than Nathan,” Magavi said.

8 OPINION

EDITORIAL Cashless payment comes at the expense of the most in need We’ve all stood in line behind a person searching their wallet for loose change to board a bus or trolley car, counting out quarters and dollar bills, and we’ve cursed the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s payment system that allows for some to hold up the line while others board with the quick tap of a card. But there’s a reason we still have those cash readers at the front — for people who can’t pay through a bank account.

The MBTA exists to ser ve all Bay State passengers and commuters, regardless of income status or ability to pay with credit or debit. But a proposed fare collection system may be exclusionary to those who pay exclusively with cash.

The MBTA has begun holding public meetings to hear out a better way to collect money from passengers, according to WGBH. They’re moving forward on a proposal to install an automated fare collection system within the next two years, which has some residents concerned because cash will no longer be accepted on buses or trolley cars.

Public transit should inherently exist to provide an option for low-income commuters who can’t afford to drive their own car or be driven by someone else. If the T changes entirely to a cashless system, especially on buses, it’ll become not necessarily a resource for the wealthy, but a resource for the financially sound — and that’s dangerous.

Where will the people whose livelihoods depend on this means of transportation turn? What impact will this have on equity in our city if mobility is a privilege reserved for people who already have

other options?

Attempts to upgrade the T system shouldn’t be squashed immediately just because they present a change we’re not used to. Modernizing the fare collection system could allow passengers to board faster and make commutes faster, T officials said to WGBH. This is what many commuters have been asking for.

But if modernizing the system is pushing out the people who rely most on pub-

for Boston, and it will make commutes much more efficient. But that doesn’t mean the MBTA needs to abandon the cash system entirely.

The MBTA could consider putting ticket machines at ever y above-ground train stop, allowing people to use any medium of pay ment. This project wouldn’t be cheap, but revenue generated by trains running on time could help pay for it.

T

he MBTA should do the best it can to alleviate the effects of transitioning to a modern system and keep from placing undue financial barriers on what should be a public service. lic transportation — people who can’t call a Lyft on their phone when they’re late to work — it’s not worth it. We can all wait a few extra minutes for people to insert cash into the machine at the front of the bus in exchange for those people to be able to get to where they need to go.

The MBTA can find a happy medium bet ween giving people the option to use an automated fare system while not excluding people who need to pay in cash.

Yes, for younger people and people who do have credit cards, it’s more convenient to use a tap system. The transition to an automated fare system is inevitable

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Of the passengers who use the Green Line or ride the bus, 7 percent pay with cash, and on some bus lines, up to 20 percent of passengers pay with cash, as reported by The Boston Globe. Some of these people are homeless. Some are immigrants. For whatever reason, they may not have access to a bank account, or for their own safety, don’t want personal information connected to a credit card.

For many of us at Boston University, our parents helped us apply for debit or credit cards when we reached a certain age. They might have even connected our card to their bank account. But for people

in low-income communities who haven’t had that privilege, the application process isn’t always so easy.

Credit card issuers take the income of applicants into account when they decide whether or not to approve applicants. They’re careful to approve people with the means to pay for their transactions. It can harm a person’s credit score by being declined from a credit card company, detering low-income people from even applying.

It will cost $750 million to upgrade the system, money that will likely be paid for by a fare increase — putting another burden on people who don’t have the capacity to take financial responsibility for the MBTA’s upkeep.

These are people who can’t afford to pay more than they already are for transportation.

These public meetings are a chance for people to make the message heard that while timeliness matters, public transit is especially beneficial to the lower class.

With this new system we might shave off several minutes on our ride, but at what cost to a community?

This transition might be inevitable, but right now the MBTA needs to find a way to address the concerns of Boston’s commuters without abandoning those who need the T the most, those whose livelihoods depend on the accessibility of the MBTA. The MBTA should do the best it can to alleviate the effects of transitioning to a modern system and keep from placing undue financial barriers on what should be a public service.

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ACROSS 1. Calamitous 5. Master of ceremonies 10. Does something 14. Astringent 15. Diving birds 16. Wisdom 17. Compensate 19. Be cognizant of 20. Gist 21. Convex molding 22. Pieces of insulation 23. Spruce up 25. European blackbird 27. A large vase 28. Acquired 31. Water park slide 34. Birdlike 35. 24 hours 36. Focusing glass 37. What’s happening 38. Plateau 39. Genus of macaws

DOWN 40. Tine 41. Surged 42. Cocktails 44. Female sib 45. Joined together 46. Tastes in art and manners 50. Declares 52. Pungent 54. Soak 55. Fowl 56. Destroy completely 58. Lascivious look 59. Blaze 60. How old we are 61. Countercurrent 62. Typewrote 63. Toward sunset

1. Mends 2. A part of the small intestine 3. Cuban dance

31. Burrowing marine mollusk 32. Sister and wife of Zeus

4. Large flightless bird

33. Without protective armor 34. In a preventable manner 37. Sea eagle 38. Fog 40. Quarries 41. Diacritical mark 43. Tastelessly showy 44. Fit 46. Illegal activity 47. Habitual practice 48. Anagram of “Store”

5. 1 less than a dozen 6. Fool 7. Anthracite 8. Interring 9. East southeast 10. Acid neutralizer 11. Maintain or assert 12. Gait faster than a walk 13. Stitches 18. French for “Our” 22. Fiber source 24. Tracks 26. French for “State” 28. Roasters 29. Leisure 30. Twosome

49. Excrete 50. Qualified 51. Competed 53. Applaud

56. Frequently, in poetry

57. Uncooked

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OPINION 9

COLUMNS THAT’S RIGHT, SIR:

MAX VS. MEDIA:

The moderate still gasps for air They cut my solo in the play

BY MAX BERMAN COLUMNIST

The pendulum swings again. This time hard and true. Democrats gained roughly 30 seats in the House of Representatives and mitigated losses in one of the toughest Senate maps in a century. The national vote margin between Democrats and Republicans was the largest in decades, surpassing the 2010 red wave that led to Republican control of the House. The blue wave was not what many had predicted: it had a purplish hue, not a deep blue one.

Moderates under the Democratic umbrella swept into traditionally conservative districts.

Our Revolution, which is Bernie Sanders’ political group, didn’t endorse any candidate that flipped a district. They might have been close in two surprising districts (in upstate New York and Iowa) but the liberalism they preached didn’t go far enough in defeating Republican incumbents.

In an age of such stringent divisiveness, I’m glad there are more members of the Democratic Party in office willing to negotiate on some policy positions. Candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley — both young liberals representing coastal cities — are quite unlikely to bridge any divides. When you support impeaching the sitting president without the conclusion of the investigation looking into his actions, you’re feeding your own political base.

However, there certainly should be liberal firebrands like Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley, as well as their conservative counterparts in Congress. But that shouldn’t be every politician.

While moderate Democratic representatives faired well, the same cannot be said for Senate Democrats. Heidi Heitkamp, Claire McCaskill and Joe Donnelly all lost their seats in deep red states — at least Jon Tester and Joe Manchin were able to hang on for another six years.

But enough about moderate Democrats, because the real issue this country faces is the

death of the moderate Republican. To paraphrase the common political saying, a moderate Republican is as common as a real bigfoot sighting. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are arguably the only moderate Republican senators. Collins also represents Maine — a lean D state — making Murkowski the only red state Republican senator willing to buck the leadership.

Moderate Republicans in the house aren’t much more common. Democrats, through the last election, just swept almost everyone who is remotely willing to compromise out of office.

In the current divided government, this concerns me.

Starting in the 1990s and escalating with John Boehner as Speaker of the House and Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader, Republicans have rarely — if at all — reached across the aisle on major legislative issues.

McConnell is perhaps the most destructive politician of the modern era. Sure, President Donald Trump can be described as misogynist, racist, authoritarian, etc. by his critics, but he never pretended to be anything but what he campaigned as.

McConnell, after taking leadership in 2014, has held up dozens of judicial appointments, ambassadorships and a Supreme Court nominee. As the leader of the Senate — traditionally the cooling saucer for the House — McConnell’s role is to bring both sides of the aisle together. Has he done so? Quite the opposite.

So what will 2020 hold? A resurgence of moderates, progressives or conservatives?

Most likely it will be one of the former options.

But perhaps a progressive is the best choice for many red states. Progressives in red states and conservatives in blue states can both be essential.

What the United States needs from local elections to national elections is the ability to be open to new ideas, to negotiation, to deliberation. Maintaining the status quo leads to further division, corruption and stagnation.

But moderates still need room to breathe.

In toss-up districts and states, those willing to cross party lines can enable greater legislative action. Gridlock is the death of good governance. Moderates aren’t the solution everywhere, but they are a primary element.

We shouldn’t argue that liberals need to take over, that conservatives need to reign or that moderates are the only ones who can win elections. We should argue for diversity in political ideology. The next wave can be blue, purple and red and still symbolize progress. One color will simply lead the pendulum to swing back — hard and true.

INTERROBANG

BY KATHERINE WRIGHT COLUMNIST

In eighth grade, I auditioned for the school musical. And I’m still convinced it was the most overwhelming — most distinctly terrifying — moment of my life.

I stood in front of my music teacher, the director of the musical and the high school junior who was assisting them. They had the privilege of sitting down and were staring up at me with intimidating anticipation. I sang “Tomorrow,” from “Annie” — a choice so original that almost two-thirds of the other eighth graders also chose it. I swear the high schooler helping out was visibly cringing. I can’t say I blame her.

I wasn’t embarrassed or upset or anything after. The utter, profound sense of relief that washed over me prevented me from being disappointed. I ended up being cast as Daisy 1 in “Alice in Wonderland,” the smallest possible part they could appoint an eighth grader. Considering I was the only Daisy in the show, the “1” part of this title remains a mystery. I had two punchy lines and a solo they later removed from the script (for obvious reasons).

There’s something to be said about “showing up.” Simply showing up. No, I am not a good singer, and no, I did not get a big part in the musical, but I guess I have to be proud of myself for going through with that audition. Even if it did consist of me sing-screeching in front of an audience.

Most often, we don’t give ourselves credit for participating.

We tend to get so caught up with being the best that doing anything less is considered irrelevant. However, getting consumed with perfection might cause one to develop a misconceived understanding that it’s not worth their time to pursue anything they’re not good at. Someone may feel discouraged in a drawing class because the person next to them has more experience. Or maybe an

athlete assumes that their inability to make a 3-pointer makes them inferior. Perhaps my own lack of confidence in my singing abilities made me imagine that high school junior to be cringing at my rendition of “Tomorrow.”

As a result, one might give up, believe they’re not good enough or crush the enjoyment they once found in the activity. We don’t give ourselves enough credit.

In general, people tend to get easily discouraged. They feel insignificant if they don’t know something and assume that asking for help is an acknowledgment of weakness.

This is a dangerous mindset that stigmatizes questioning and causes people to unfairly compare themselves to others. Asking for help becomes proof of gaps in knowledge, and mistakes are evidence of incompetency.

No wonder people get so easily discouraged.

They are subconsciously trapped in the belief that talent and perfection are the only real forms of accomplishment.

Instead, letting go of the constant pressure to succeed can allow us to see the value in the slow process of learning. Simply showing up is an accomplishment in itself.

And that doesn’t mean we should be whipping out participation trophies for those who attend a club meaning. Rather, it’s something you can be individually proud of. Because by showing up, you’re proving that you care enough to be there — at least on some level. By showing up, you’re giving yourself the opportunity to learn something without putting yourself in a pressure cooker of unrealistic expectations.

Of course, “showing up” needs to come with active effort. This can be something as simple as listening to a presentation or participating in an activity. Simply acknowledging that you have something to learn at an event leads to increased skill and well-rounded success. It is a relief to discover that you don’t have to know everything right away.

Once you accept that you have a lot to learn from those around you, and that no one can achieve perfection immediately, you can start to experience real success. You can start to let go of comparisons to others and improve because you worked hard enough to do so. Because you were present in the situation. Because you showed up.

I showed up to the eighth grade auditions knowing full-well I was a terrible singer.

Even still, I walked in there with semi-memorized “Annie” lyrics and walked out with two, non-essential lines in the play. Maybe that high schooler cringed. Maybe she didn’t. Either way, I showed up. And today, that’s enough for me.

Lil Wayne drew a tattoo for Halsey based on their shared Libra zodiac sign. We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what tattoo would members of the BU community get?

Questrom: “Stay Gold[man Sachs]”

BU Academy: Awaiting parental permission

Statehouse program: #mapoli

CGS: “No ragrets”

Sororities: Infinity sign on the wrist

BU IS&T: “BU Guest (unencrypted)”

School of Theology: Coexist symbol

Yoga PDP: “Namastae in bed”

FreeP: An em dash

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Women’s hockey looks to turn around against Vermont

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After picking up its second win of the season at the University of Connecticut, Boston University women’s hockey is heading back to Walter Brown Arena to play two games against the University of Vermont Friday and Saturday.

BU (2-3-3, 2-3-3 Hockey East) picked up a road win against the Huskies in a dominant 4-1 win Friday evening thanks in part to a duo of goals from both Terrier sophomore Jesse Compher and redshirt senior Sammy Davis.

BU head coach Brian Durocher said he was impressed by how the two forwards performed Friday evening.

“They both shared the puck extremely well,” Durocher said.

“They both made big time plays.

Certainly, they were catalysts to the win there yesterday.”

Vermont (2-6-3, 2-5-1 Hockey East) will enter the series coming off a 0-2 shutout loss against No. 10 Providence College.

The Catamounts have struggled with scoring goals this year, scoring an average of 1.3 goals per game and never accumulating more than three goals in a game, while allowing 2.3 goals per game.

Despite offensive shortcomings, Vermont has still been able to play high-ranked teams in close matches.

The Catamounts played with significant pressure on the net against Providence (8-2) in their 0-2 loss, recording 24 shots against Friar goaltender Madison Myers who later earned the title Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week for her performance that weekend.

In its second and third most recent Hockey East matches, Vermont scored three goals in two games against the University of New Hampshire for a win and a tie.

Rather than looking at how their opponents’ seasons have been, Durocher said he is more focused on the team getting its business done.

“I thought Vermont was going to be off to a better start than they were,” Durocher said. “I know they’re a wellcoached team that works hard … but we have to take care of business in our own building.”

Despite the team’s record, 12 Catamounts are multi-point contributors, with junior forward Eve-Audrey Picard leading the way for the second straight year with six points.

Vermont has largely turned to senior goaltender Melissa Black, who has a .920 save percentage after eight matches.

However, the team’s most recent win came while freshman goaltender Blanka Škodová was in net. During the week of Nov. 5, she held onto five shutout periods and earned the title of Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week.

The Catamounts currently sit one spot ahead of UNH, making it the eighth-seeded team in the Hockey East.

Meanwhile, BU is currently tied for fifth place with its win over UConn (6-5-1, 3-4-1 Hockey East) tying the two teams in the conference.

However, Durocher said focusing too hard on standings could lead the team astray.

“We got to go in there, don’t look at the standings, don’t look and see who’s done what so far this year,” Durocher said. “We have to

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Sophomore goaltender Corinne Schroeder in a game against the University of Connecticut on Oct. 19. Schroeder made 30 saves in Boston University’s second win of the season, Friday’s 4-1 victory against UConn.

get points or wins in as many games as we possibly can.”

During the win against the Huskies, the Terriers went a perfect four-for-four on the penalty kill and managed to grab a lead in the second period rather than trying to come back from a deficit.

BU was able to handle the pressure from UConn, only allowing one goal and shutting the opposing team out in the first and third periods.

Durocher said that maintaining play throughout the entire match was important for the win to pre-

vent the other team from coming up from behind.

“When you’re only up by one goal and you’re on the road, the other team is going to come,” Durocher said. “I think we really carried the majority of the play, and we were solid the rest of the game.”

The Terriers are not outpacing Vermont with their offensive production by much, scoring an average of 1.9 goals per game and allowing opponents to score 2.3 goals per game.

The last two games that BU played before this win were both

1-2 losses against Northeastern University and the University of Maine.

Each game had attempts at third period comebacks with 0-2 deficits that fell short.

After Friday’s win against UConn, Durocher said that this home series could be a great opportunity for the Terriers to carry their momentum and build on confidence gained from a win.

“When [games] like this happen, people pick up confidence,” Durocher said. “The fact that [we] got four goals, it generates excite-

Notebook: Women’s basketball in new era under Moseley

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Senior guard Lauren Spearman in a game against Brown University Monday.

Spearman recorded a career-high 14 points against Northeastern Friday.

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Last season, the Boston University women’s basketball team alternated its first five games for a 3-2 record. It went on to end the season with a six-game losing streak including a 66-61 loss to Lafayette College in the first round of the Patriot League tournament.

With split results in its opening

two games, the Terriers beckoned in a new chapter in program history under head coach Marisa Moseley in her first year as a collegiate head coach.

Nickels and dimes In the season opener, BU fell 81-51 against Northeastern University after being down by nine at halftime.

Three days later against Brown University, Moseley said she spoke to the team about focusing small blocks

of time.

“We can’t get complacent,” Moseley said. “We wanted to try to win every five minutes … if we could try to think about those segments instead of thinking about winning the whole game, I think that really helped them.”

Against Northeastern (2-0), senior guard Lauren Spearman was the only player to break double digits with a career-high 14 points.

In the following match, senior guard Payton Hauck and junior forward Nia Irving both earned 16 points while sophomore guard Katie Nelson and freshman forward Ashley Sieper both put up 10.

On to the next one The team will next face off against Marist College on Friday at 7 p.m. in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Marist (1-0) played a 20-win season through 2017-2018 and played for a 72-48 win over the Patriot League member United States Naval Academy in its season opener.

The Red Foxes have come out on top over the Terriers in their last five meetings and have maintained its starting five players and nearly all of its scoring from last season.

Moseley said BU’s focus on defense and scouting helped the team during its win over Brown.

“I think [Brown was] the start, and we got out and we defended really well,” Moseley said. “They listened to the scouting report, and I thought that was really awesome.”

Meet the staff A native of Springfield, Moseley played at BU for four years before joining Geno Auriemma at the University of Connecticut in 2009.

Last April, she became the first alumna to be named head coach of women’s basketball.

While the Monday game against Brown was her first win, she focused on what it meant for the players.

“For them, building on the hard work they put in and coming off of our performance at Northeastern … and then not getting too high and moving onto the next game,” Moseley said. “I’m really proud of the players.”

Moseley was part of a full-staff turnover and brought in with her assistant coaches Darren Bennett, Kate Barnosky and Elizabeth Belanger.

Before coming to BU, Bennett

served as the head coach of Skidmore College’s women’s basketball, a Division III program, for 14 years after spending six years as an assistant at the DI level.

Barnosky came from across the Charles after spending five seasons at Tufts University, following a career there as a student athlete where she served as a captain for three years.

Also a former student athlete, Belanger spent her time at the University of New Hampshire. The Acton native was an America East All-Conference selection three times.

Fresh kicks Moseley announced her first

incoming class Wednesday consisting of three guards and one forward.

“In our short time here, my staff and I have been able to assemble a talented group of players, and more importantly people, who will make an immediate impact on our program,” Moseley said in a press release.

Two of the players, Annabelle Larnard and Maren Durant, hail from Massachusetts.

Larnard, a guard from Scituate, finished her career at Fontbonne Academy having served as captain for two years and produced over 1,000 points. She spent a postgraduate year at Northfield Mount Hermon before committing to BU.

The lone forward and Winchester native Durant is the current captain of The Rivers School and has been named to the All-Independent School League team twice.

Also the current captain of her high school team, guard Maggie Pina has earned a multitude of league and region recognition and led her league with 17.7 points per game.

Guard Liz Shean will be entering her second season as team captain at Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia, where she was named the Offensive Player of the Year.

“They are all high-energy players,” Moseley said, “who love to compete and have incredible drives to be successful. I am excited for them to join our Terrier family.”

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Women’s soccer 2018 season ends in NCAA match

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After claiming the Patriot League regular season and postseason titles, the Boston University women’s soccer team was eliminated in the NCAA First Round by Louisiana State University.

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The Boston University women’s soccer season ended Sunday after Louisiana State University eliminated BU (11-7-4, 7-0-2 Patriot League) from the NCAA Tournament in a penalty kick decision, becoming the first NCAA match in nine years to require the tie breaker.

The Terriers earned their spot in the tournament after claiming its fourth Patriot League championship after going unbeaten in conference play, including a win against Colgate University in the regular season’s final match that clinched top seed within the Patriot League.

BU head coach Nancy Feldman attributed part of the team’s success in the conference tournament to its

10-member senior class.

“The 10 seniors really demonstrated poise, composure, belief and a will,” Feldman said. “That’s really what soccer sometimes takes.”

Through the first half, the Terriers built strong offensive pressure with sophomore forward Anna Heilferty making three of her seven total shots by the 10th minute.

Senior defender Royce Light and freshman midfielder Taylor Kofton both made header attempts within five minutes of each other, with Light’s following shortly after a shot off the post, but both sailed harmlessly over the crossbar.

It took until the 39th minute for LSU (13-6-4) to force freshman goalkeeper Morgan Messner into action, stopping a shot from outside the 18-yard box.

Messer made all three saves during the first half while Tiger goalkeeper Caroline Brockmeier was forced to stop two of BU’s 11 shots.

The Terriers only increased their attack in the second half and fired off 16 shots.

Brickmeier knocked away five attempts on goal, including a close shot from senior midfielder Dorrie Varley-Barrett that required a diving save from the LSU goalkeeper.

However, neither team was able to solve its opponents within 110 minutes of play, sending the game into penalty kicks.

Sophomore defender McKenna Kennedy got the first ball of the afternoon past Brockmeier with BU’s opening kick.

While Messner stopped the Tigers’ first three kicks, back-to-back conver-

sions in their fourth and fifth attempts sent LSU into the NCAA Second Round where it will go against the fourth-seeded University of Southern California Friday.

During the season, BU alternated its goalkeeper. While Messner was in net for the Terriers’ 3-0 Patriot League semifinal win against the United States Military Academy, sophomore goalkeeper Amanda Fay secured the conference championship with a three-save performance against Lehigh University.

Feldman said being able to rely on both goalkeepers aided the team through the latter half of the season after Fay had returned to play after an injury, and that maintaining the cycle between the two was less disruptive than having them split time within a single game.

“Well, I look brilliant, don’t I?” Feldman said after claiming the Patriot League title. “… Both keepers are the reason we got here. We felt we had two number-one keepers, and this was the best we could come up with.”

Before the loss against the Tigers, BU hadn’t dropped a match since Sept. 13 when they went against West Virginia University. It had been the first stop on a five-game shutout winning streak for WVU (15-4-3).

The Mountaineers also advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament after having defeated Radford University 6-0 and not allowing a goal in the postseason.

While the Terriers had their own shutout streaks — they allowed only two goals during their Patriot League season, making for nine clean slates — the loss to WVU capped a 1-7-1

out-of-conference season.

BU then opened its conference season with a 1-1 tie against American University where senior forward Yari Bradfield, the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year, sent a penalty kick past Fay in the first minute of the game.

From there, the Terriers built up a 14-2 goal differential, going 8-0-1 through the rest of the regular season, earning the Patriot League regular season title.

The Patriot League recognized five players with its postseason rewards — Heilferty, Kofton, Varley-Barrett, and senior defenders Chelsea Churchill and Libby Closson — and named Feldman head coach of the year.

While Feldman previously stated that the team made coaching this season “a gift,” she broke through several benchmarks this season including her 300th win with BU, and her 400th overall, and was rewarded the Women’s Soccer Award of Excellence.

Once in the postseason, a brace from junior forward Shannon Keefe rose the Terriers above Army in the semifinals, while a header from Heilferty earned the team its conference title in what would be the team’s final win of the season.

Keefe’s goals had been her first of the season, a testimate to the bench’s talent, Feldman said, who will need to continue to produce with the senior class graduating.

“I think our depth is a big reason for our success,” Feldman said. “Shannon has emerged this year as a much different player because her confidence is greater, and confidence comes with competency.”

Men’s basketball starts road trip, 71-61 win vs. Albany scoring drought ended the Great Danes made only 27.6 percent of The Boston University men’s bas- shots from the field. ketball team kicked off the longest Going into a media timeout with road trip of the season Wednesday five minutes remaining in the half, night with a 71-61 win against the BU’s three-point attack continued State University of New York at as the Terriers were 8-for-11 from Albany. beyond the arc with McCoy draining The Terriers (3-1) unleashed a three three-pointers. relentless offense against Albany Despite the shooting perfor(0-2) as BU had three double-digit mance from the Terriers, Albany scorers and shot 50.9 percent from was able to keep the score to an the field. The Terriers distributed 11-point deficit at the half with the the ball well through the offense score at 37-26. as the team finished with 18 assists.

Redshirt freshman for ward BU head coach Joe Jones said Adam Lulka led the Great Danes that the team’s chemistry was a in the scoring column at half with huge factor in the offense. six points, while McCoy led the “Obviously we shot the ball really Terriers with 11 at the break. well, and we moved the ball really On McCoy’s performance, Jones well,” Jones said. “Our guys played said that the team found McCoy very unselfishly, they share the ball, open and he made the shots. they’re a true team … I thought we “I thought he played really well, were really connected tonight.” the ball found him,” Jones said. “I Nine of the Terriers’ first 11 thought guys got him shots, they points came from three-point shots got the ball to the open man. He as the Terriers jumped out to a 16-10 was open and he was able to make lead in the first eight minutes of the shots.” game, sparked by an 10-0 run by the BU came out firing at the start Terriers and a five-minute scoring of the second half with an early drought for the Great Danes. bucket in its end, and then a missed The scoring run was led by soph- three-point shot by Albany, folomore guard Javante McCoy’s five lowed by scores on two more Terrier early points. possessions in a row.

It seemed as if there was a lid Even with the score at 51-33 by on the basket for Albany for a long the under 12 timeout, the Terriers period in the half, as even after the allowed 14 turnovers compared

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to Albany’s eight throughout the course of the match.

T he t h ree - poi nt onsl au g ht would continue from the Terriers as freshman guard Jonas Harper drilled a three-pointer, and BU finished the night shooting 45.5 percent from the three-point range.

Albany would continue to battle through the second half, but the Terrier offense was relentless with the two junior forwards Tyler Scanlon and Max Mahoney both finishing with double-digit points.

Going into the under-eight timeout, Albany managed to chip away at BU’s lead and bring it down to 14 points with some momentum going its way.

Mahoney and sophomore center Sukhmail Mathon came up with a momentum shifting sequence with just over three minutes left to play.

Mahoney came up with a huge block on the defensive end, which then turned into an and-one bucket

by Mathon at the other end of the court with the score now at 69-54.

The game closed out with two free throws by Scanlon and a quick bucket from the Great Danes, with the final score ending at 71-61.

McCoy led BU in scoring with 18 points while Albany guard Cameron Healy led the game in scoring with 20 points.

BU continues the long six-game

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Sophomore guard Javante McCoy in a Nov. 6 game against Northeastern University.

McCoy led the team with 18 points in a 71-61 win over SUNY Albany Wednesday.

road trip — the longest trip since 2004 — with a game in Ypsilanti, Michigan, against Eastern Michigan University.

Jones said the team did not really talk about the length of the road trip, but he emphasized that

the team needed to stay focused.

“We just got to take it one game at a time, that’s all we can do,” Jones said. “Make sure we’re rested and we’re doing what we need to do to stay focused in the classroom while we’re on the road.”

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“I think our depth is a big reason for our success.” ­— Women’s soccer head coach Nancy Feldman on the team’s various scorers p. 11

7th Inning Stretch: A roadmap to the Red Sox’s plans this offseason fall short in the arms race this offseason, bringing Pomeranz back on a one-year, final-chance deal The Boston Red Sox won the isn’t the worst idea ever. But it’s World Series at 11:17 p.m. on Oct. 28. far from ideal.

With workhorse Dave Dombrowski 5. Joe Kelly. I have always liked at the helm as president of baseball Kelly. At his best, he can be electric, operations, preparations for the even untouchable. He delivered for 2019 season likely began at 11:18 p.m. the Sox in the World Series (zero OK, maybe Dombrowski cele- runs, 10 strikeouts in six innings) brated just a little. He probably got and provided reliable relief during to work before the team charter left the postseason, a needle in the haythe ground in Los Angeles the next stack for the 2018 Sox. That being day. Baseball is a business, after all. said, Kelly is largely replaceable.

A l l jok ing aside, the Major The Sox could mold a late-innings League Baseball offseason did in guy from their farm system or sign fact begin the second Chris Sale a cheaper option. If he demands struck out Manny Machado to end more than $8 or $9 million a year, the 2018 season. The first contract expect Boston to move on. deadline for teams came just days 4 . Ia n K i n sler. Wit h t he later on Nov. 2, and the annual absence of Dustin Pedroia, Kinsler genera l manager meetings con- was a solid pick-up for the Sox. His cluded Thursday. Fire up the Hot offense was decent, his defense was Stove. It’s officially winter in the a considerable upgrade (he won a baseball world.

Gold Glove), and he allowed utilNo team has won consecutive ity men Brock Holt and Eduardo World Series since the New York Nú ñez to help out el se w here.

Yankees in 1998–2000. Dombrowski Pedroia will supposedly be ready is hard at work to change that. for 2019, but don’t be surprised if With the Championship Parade Dombrowski brings Kinsler back on still just barely in the rear view a cheap, one-year deal just in case. mirror, here’s a breakdown of the 3. Steve Pearce. Pearce was Red Sox offseason. an enormous pickup for the Sox in 2018. The World Series MVP hit Red Sox f ree a gents (i n .279 with seven homers and a .901 increasing order of importance) on-base plus slugging percentage 7. Brandon Phillips. Let’s in 50 games for Boston. And we all start with the obvious. Phillips, 37, know what he did in the postseason: had only one noteworthy at-bat for three homers, eight runs batted in the Sox in 2018, didn’t make the the Fall Classic. Pearce provided playoff roster and has no spot on clutch hitting off the bench, he the depth chart. He’ll likely receive filled in when Mitch Moreland a minor league deal somewhere, and missed time with an injury, and he became an instant fan favorite. probably not in Boston.

At 35, Pearce should be relatively 6. Drew Pomeranz. The most frustrating Red Sox pitcher since cheap and should be a top priority Clay Buchholz. The Sox traded a of the Sox this offseason. high-end prospect for Pomeranz 2. Craig Kimbrel. This is the in 2016, rejected the opportunity toughest one. Despite a bit of a rollto rescind the trade after learning ercoaster season, Kimbrel remains of Pomeranz’s health issues and one of the best relief pitchers of all endured a horrendous 2018 season time. He was an All-Star in 2018, in which Pomeranz finished with striking out 96 in 62.1 innings with a 6.08 earned-run average (ERA). 42 saves and an ERA of 2.74. He was Despite Pomera nz’s shor tcom- able to bounce back in the playoffs ings, he will be 30 next week and after a tipping pitches incident and will likely be cheap. If the Sox wasn’t completely untrustworthy

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by the World Series. But as an elite closer, Kimbrel will receive elite money. He already declined the Sox’s $17.9 million qualifying offer, and at only 30, he will seek a multi-year deal. I expect Kimbrel to sign elsewhere, but if the market seems slow, Dombrowski could swoop in with a two or three-year deal later this winter.

1. Natha n Eova ldi. W hen will Eovaldi’s statute be built at Fenway? Eovaldi pitched well after being acquired by the Sox in July, but his real dominance came in the postseason. In 22.1 innings, Eovaldi posted a 1.61 ERA with 16 strikeouts across two starts and four relief appearances. In Game 3 of the World Series, which lasted 18 innings over seven hours and 20 minutes, Eovaldi threw six courageous innings of relief, bailing out the Sox bullpen and etching his name in the Boston history books.

Eova ldi will be 29 on Opening Day and should be the Sox’s top priority this offseason. After his incredible performance in the 2018 postseason, he has earned himself a multi-year deal and a spot as the third or fourth starter in the Sox rotation for the next few years.

Everything else: other free agents, trades, etc.

The biggest need of the Red Sox this offseason is pitching. Kimbrel and Kelly are likely gone, and the bullpen needs a makeover. In that vein, expect the Sox to take serious looks at elite late-innings g uys such as David Robertson, former Sox pitcher Andrew Miller, Zach Britton and Cody Allen. There are options aplenty.

Don’t count on the Sox partaking in the bidding for this winter’s biggest names: Bryce Harper and Manny Machado. Boston does not have needs in the outfield or on the left side of the infield. Nor do they have $30 million/year available to give out.

If Eovaldi signs somewhere else, or the Sox see 2018 as an unrepeatable anomaly for him, they could

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Boston Red Sox pitcher Craig Kimbrel was an All-Star in 2018, with 42 saves and a 2.74 ERA.

pursue other higher-tier starters on the market: Patrick Corbin, Dallas Keuchel, J.A. Happ or others.

It’s not likely, but Dombrowski is known to make big moves.

Though their last two bullpen trades f lopped (Tyler Thornburg and Carson Smith), Dombrowski could look to fill his bullpen holes v ia trade. There a re countless eighth-inning g uys around the league who fit Dombrowski’s simple model: young, hard-throwing and injury prone.

The other thing weighing on Dombrowski’s mind is the impending future of his young core. Chris Sale, Rick Porcello and Xander Bogaerts are free agents after next season, Mookie Betts and Jackie Bradley Jr. the year after, and J.D. Martinez has an opt-out after 2019.

While it is unlikely that the entirety of this crew will stay in Boston long-term, the Sox need to start planning accordingly and should begin extension negotiations sooner

rather than later. Though still on the horizon, the desire to retain these stars may temper the team’s willingness to spend this offseason.

So there we have it. Seven free agents, big needs in the bullpen and several young cornerstones nearing free agency. The Sox won 108 games in 2018 and 11 more to win the World Series — clearly there aren’t too many glaring issues. But Dombrowski will never settle, and the Sox should look to add a few key pieces this winter to have a shot at breaking the 18-year championship repeat drought.

The annual Winter Meetings, an action-packed week where many big trades and signings occur each year, are Dec. 9–13 in Las Vegas. So get your hot cocoa ready, because the MLB Hot Stove is just heating up. It should be a fun winter.

Especially if your name is Bryce Harper, and you’re about to receive a $400 million contract.

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