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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLIV. VOLUME XC. ISSUE VII.

BU lacks stance on trigger warnings, gives professors personal discretion

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A bill seeking to make private college police records public is in a committee in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Boston University students currently have to go to the Boston University Police Department and have the records read to them because they do not exist online.

Bill to make private college police records public

BY CAROLYN HOFFMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A bill in the Massachusetts State Legislature seeks to make private college police departments operate similarly to city departments by making records publically available, which could have implications for university and student reputations alike.

Massachusetts Rep. Kevin Honan, who proposed the bill on Jan. 20 with Massachusetts Reps. Patricia Jehlen and Paul Donato, has petitioned for certain law enforcement records to be designated as public records.

“All records, reports or other documentary materials or data made or received for the purpose of law enforcement by a special

state police officer of a college, university or other educational institution shall be public records,” the bill states. “Such public records shall be kept and maintained in the custody of the law enforcement unit of such college, university, or other educational institution.”

The Commonwealth defines public records as “every record” by a government entity or its employees “unless a specific statutory exemption permits or requires it to be withheld in whole or in part.”

The bill currently stands with the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

This public records issue has a history in Boston, as The Harvard Crimson filed a suit against the president and fellows of Harvard

College, Harvard University Police Department, and HUPD Chief Francis Riley in 2003 “seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to compel HUPD to disclose its records,” a memorandum stated.

“Harvard maintains that it is a private institution and, therefore, the records of its campus police are not subject to the [Massachusetts] Public Records Law,” the memorandum stated. “It appears to this court that the public importance of disclosing police records is just as high when the police officers at issue are authorized to perform and often do perform the same functions as the state and local police officers.”

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Officials disagree on impact of sexual assault bill

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New legislation recently brought up at the Massachusetts State House by Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier would provide more guidance and preventive regulations to combat sexual assault on college campuses. Boston University has already conformed to some of the proposed regulations, but would require several changes in order to be fully compliant if the bill passes.

Several proposed policies in the bill that BU would have to implement include an email that would be sent to students once every semester as a reminder of current sexual assault policies, a Threat Response Program and the establishment of a memorandum of understanding between the BU Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center and the Boston University Police Department.

Bouvier said the bill has an “excellent chance” of passing once it has passed the committee. She said a committee hearing of the bill had been done in June and will require a committee voting before it is taken to the floor of the House.

“The leadership in the Senate and the House care completely about these issues and want to take some action to ensure the safety of college students in Massachusetts,” Bouvier

said. “The goal is to make [campuses] a safer place and to change the culture of rape on our campuses. I don’t think that is going to happen all of a sudden, but I think we need to take bold actions to ensure that all of our campuses are safe.”

One of the initiatives included provisions to make campus sexual assault data more readily accessible, similar to how the 1990 federal Clery Act required colleges and universities

who draw from federal financial aid to disclose crime data. Bouvier said, however, that with this legislation, she would like to make the records and data of Massachusetts’ schools more consumer-friendly than the Clery Act did.

“You wouldn’t really have a good sense about how safe your school is or not [based on statistics from the Clery Act]. It would be too hard to tell because the data is sort of isolatCONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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A bill is in the Massachusetts State Legislature that would require more guidelines for sexual assault prevention and response on college campuses.

Despite several universities across the country forgoing the use of trigger warnings on campus, Boston University holds no official stance of ordinance governing the use of trigger warnings in academic settings.

Administrators at both American University and Cornell University have spoken out against trig-ger warnings, with American citing freedom of speech as its defense.

“The Faculty Senate does not endorse offering ‘trigger warnings’ or otherwise labeling controver-sial material in such a way that students construe it as an option to ‘opt out’ of engaging with texts or concepts, or otherwise not participating in intellectual inquiries,” the AU Faculty Senate wrote in a statement. “… the Faculty Senate affirms that shielding students from controversial material will deter them from becoming critical thinkers and responsible citizens.”

However, BU’s view on trigger warnings is far more subjective. BU spokesman Colin Riley said this issue should be addressed in a course syllabus if a faculty member decides to do so on their own.

“BU is comprised of 17 schools and colleges and individual faculty members set the course framework, policies and expectations for their classes,” Riley said in an email.

Though BU’s Faculty Handbook does not explicitly address trigger warnings, it upholds the prin-ciple of freedom of speech while still allowing professors to independently decide a class’s stance on trigger warnings.

“Academic freedom is essential in institutions of higher education if they are to make their proper contribution to the common good,” the handbook reads. “The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition. It is that which justifies academic freedom, not the interest of the individual faculty member or even the interest of a particular university.”

Trigger warnings are not designed to take away from sensitive conversation, but rather to invite it, BU Student Government’s Vice President of Internal Affairs Marwa Sayed said.

“It seems trigger warnings have been misrepresented as a mechanism by which to censor content or to block out a conversation,” she said, “but usually the conversation is about sexual assault, an issue on our campus, so of course we’re going to have a conversation about that, but to make peo-ple who might be affected by that topic aware that the topic may be discussed, so they can prepare themselves mentally, physically, in whatever way they need to.”

Sayed also said that while there is no official policy currently in the works with the SG Executive Board, she would not be surprised if there are conversations about trigger warnings fairly soon.

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Violent crime in Boston on decline since 2014

CRIME LOGS

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Despite recent stabbings in the Boston Common and Roxbury, there has been a 10 percent decrease in Part One major crimes in Boston since last year, reflecting the success of recent prevention efforts, according to the Boston Police Department.

Part One crimes include acts of violence such as homicide, rape, assault, robbery and arson, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s guidelines for uniform crime reporting.

BPD is focusing on reducing the number of guns on the streets and boosting community relations in order to decrease crime, said Officer Rachel McGuire, a spokeswoman for the department. Violent incidents are always a concern to the department, she said.

“We’re always concerned about crime, but crime is down thanks to our addressing issues that do come up and I think that we’ve been doing a pretty decent job lately keeping crime down,” McGuire said.

BPD has taken 591 guns off the street within the year and has been focusing on preventative action, McGuire said.

“We’ve been doing a pretty decent job lately keeping crime down, getting guns off the street and speaking with people in the communities and the neighborhoods to see what they’re concerned about and what we can do more to prevent crime in their neighborhoods,” McGuire said.

Between Friday and Tuesday, there were two shootings reported, according to the BPD website. There were a total of sixteen street robberies, the website stated.

McGuire said the main focus of the department is community policing in certain neighborhoods. The department has increased presence in particular locations across the city, she said.

“Specifically in the [Boston] Common we do have bike patrol, in our major hotspot neighborhoods, which would be Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan. We also have patrol

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The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department from Oct. 8 to 12.

Five males placed under arrest for posession of alcohol

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Despite recent stabbings last week, major crimes in Boston have decreased since 2014.

over there,” McGuire said. “Wherever we see increases in crime, or hotspots as we call them, we’ll deploy units to those areas.”

In light of several acts of neighborhood violence over the summer that included a shooting, the city has focused on community outreach, The Daily Free Press reported Sept.

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McGuire said that although safety is not always a guarantee in a city, it is important for residents to remain cautious of the environment and surroundings.

“Wherever you go isn’t necessarily safe or unsafe, we don’t usually speak about it in those terms, but you always want to be alert and aware of your surroundings because you’re in a city,” McGuire said. “You’re in a place where there is a dense population, where there are people of all shapes and sizes, and you just want to be aware of your surroundings. Keep in mind that you are in the city.”

McGuire said that living in a city increases the potential for crime, but it also creates a stronger police department and presence.

Several residents said they feel confident that BPD will do its best to maintain a low

crime rate in the city.

Christine Robinson, 31, of Dorchester, said police presence could be heavier in her area. “[I feel safe] where I live, but there are some parts that aren’t as great,” she said. “The crime rate isn’t as bad, so I don’t see them as much as in other areas. I would like to see the police present more in my area.”

David Jacques, 38, of Fenway, said although he feels safe in his own neighborhood, it is necessary for the police to reduce crime throughout the city of Boston.

“You hear on the news a lot of unsafe things happening,” he said. “I would definitely like that to be reduced.”

John Egan, 64, of Dorchester, said familiarity with his neighborhood and increased police action help him feel comfortable.

“I grew up in Dorchester, so I feel very safe. I think [the police] do a good job, I think they really concentrate on the high profile areas to keep everyone safe,” he said. “I would like better street lighting. It’s gotten so bad with all of the new environmental light bulbs that it’s really hard to see.”

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lot,” Sayed said. “I’ve been in certain classes that have had trigger warnings before, but that’s class-specific and at the professor’s discretion, not a BU policy.”

Autumn McArthur, a member of the Center for Gender, Sexuality & Activism, agreed that trigger warnings can be beneficial in a university setting when their purpose is properly clarified.

“I think they’re an asset,” they said. “I have seen them fail, and I have seen them not be present at all, and I’ve seen them work really well. I think when they’re properly explained, and people really understand what the purpose is, everyone that I’m around at least sees the value in them and wants them to be

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implemented.”

McArthur is majoring in sociology, which covers a large amount of sensitive subject material with-in the classroom, they said. They argued that the only way students can feel comfortable in a dis-cussion-based class is if they can be themselves.

“As a student, you are bringing your entire identity into the classroom, and I think that academia needs to acknowledge that instead of just making it seem like ‘this only happens in the context we’re talking about,’ when in reality these traumas and these things that trigger people take all kinds of shapes and forms,” McArthur said.

Several BU students said they felt as though trigger warnings in an academic set-

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Following the announcement at American University in early September and at Cornell University on Oct. 8 that trigger warnings will not be allowed in classrooms, many have questioned what will happen at Boston University.

ting can be pro-ductive, but have to be handled properly.

College of Engineering sophomore Hunter Francis said he believes that a cohesive school-wide policy is necessary for trigger warnings.

“I think it would be better if they had an actual across-the-board policy,” he said. “If someone did experience that stuff, it’s not really in their best interest to have to sit through it if it’s going to harm them.”

Ziyan Liao, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said she agrees that the implementation of trigger warnings could be beneficial, based on BU’s diverse student body.

“I think sensitive topics are really subjective, so what professors say could really affect someone, but it may not be sensitive to others,” Liao said. “But since there are so many people from different religions, different countries, studying at BU, I think it might be necessary for the professor to im-plement trigger warnings. But, don’t make it too extreme, because then discussions may become too politically correct.”

Laura Lazo, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said she thinks implementing trigger warnings would have to be a mutual decision between a professor and his or her students.

“I think the professor would play a big part in deciding because they would know the info on that topic, but I also think they should let the students decide whether they want trigger warnings, and whether they want to be in the environment,” Lazo said. “It just makes sense that way.”

On Oct. 8 at 12:29 a.m., BUPD officers caught two underage male students and three underage male non-affiliates drinking and playing loud music in the rear alley at 115 Bay State Rd. All five were placed under arrest for minor in possession. One was also issued a civil citation for less than one ounce of marijuana.

Male student transported to Boston University Medical Campus Officers found an unconscious, intoxicated male student on the sidewalk outside of Myles Standish Hall on Saturday at 2:31 a.m. The student was transported to BUMC. Laptop and wallet stolen from George Sherman Union A female student reported Saturday at 4:40 p.m. that she had left her laptop and wallet at a booth in the GSU and returned to find that both were missing.

Marijuana found at 91 Bay State Rd. On Sunday at 7:58 a.m., an employee at 91 Bay State Rd., Kilachand Hall, found a brown over-the-shoulder bag containing multiple pipes made for smoking marijuana along with a pill bottle containing marijuana in the men’s restroom on the first floor. No suspect was present.

Larceny reported at Fitness and Recreation Center Officers responded Sunday at 8:45 a.m to a larceny reported by a witness who saw a suspect run out of FitRec onto Pleasant Street.

BUPD identified the suspect as a male non-affiliate. The suspect had stolen the victim’s car keys and workout supplements from the locker room in FitRec. The suspect had a warrant out for his arrest and was arrested for larceny and trespassing. He will be summonsed to Brighton District Court.

Barnes and Noble shoplifters arrested Loss prevention officers from Barnes and Noble at 660 Beacon St. followed two suspected shoplifters into the Kenmore Square Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station on Sunday at 4:44 p.m. Officers apprehended one suspect, a male non-affiliate, who will be summonsed to Boston Municipal Court.

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Public records access necessary for students, press, experts say RECORDS, FROM PAGE 1

decade later, Honan and his associates are continuing the fight for the release of private records.

Several Boston area university police departments, including Boston University’s, do not send their daily crime logs by email, but instead require on-site review, according to a Muckrock review of disclosure requirements for campus police published Sept. 15. The author of the review notes that BUPD denied a public records request, citing The Crimson’s case, after the Massachusetts State Police shot a suspect near campus in June.

Robert Rosenthal, a professor of journalism at Suffolk University, said from a press standpoint students have as much of a right to police records as the Boston Globe or other newspapers.

“That should be part of your learning experience and how to cover such things,” Rosenthal said. “Also you’re providing a great public service to the university community.”

Rosenthal argued that criminal logs re-

garding activity such as underage alcohol violations on campus should maintain anonymity of those involved if released, but most other cases should be made public.

“Other than that, if something happens, like there is an accused rape on campus, that should be public knowledge,” Rosenthal said. “That’s important information and that should still be an item that is covered in your newspaper and our newspaper [and others].”

Fred Bayles, a professor of journalism at the BU’s College of Communication, said if public police departments are compelled to honor requests, so should private universities.

“Public police departments have to release records,” Bayles said. “Perhaps that some of the hesitation about releasing these records, you could argue, might have something to do with the fear that it gives the university a bad reputation.”

From BU’s standpoint, Bayles said he has full confidence in the school’s disclosure of criminal logs.

“BU does a really good job with informing its students what’s going on,” Bayles said. “I

doubt there are hidden events or information coming out of these police records that would shock anybody.”

Peter Enrich, a professor of law at Northeastern University, said students wouldn’t benefit from either disclosure or refusal of disclosure of police records.

“My understanding is [university police] already have to provide some summarized data,” Enrich said. “In lots of ways they act like public police forces, and in some ways [records] should be open to reasonable disclosure.

Most of the time students have other things on their mind, but I’m sure there are situations in which that would be useful information.”

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin filed a petition for the 2016 Election ballot to improve public records requests.

Several residents said releasing private colleges’ police records would provide students much needed information.

Amy Thurston, 29, of Mission Hill, said people have a right to know criminal statistics regarding their university.

“Everyone should know public informa-

tion and have all the information about the neighborhood that they are going to live in,” she said. “When I was a student I would have liked to know that information.”

Pamela Marco, 32, of Brighton, brought up how often private institutions keep things private.

“Honestly, I feel like private colleges and universities are always allowed to just cover things up and keep them private,” she said.

“The fact that they’re keeping their police records private just adds to that and it would be good if the public was allowed to see them.”

Vaddhana Suos, 33, of Allston, however, suggested that some institutions might have a reason to protect the anonymity of students.

“I understand why people would want the records public,” she said. “The thing is though, is that sometimes students might want to keep their names out of records if they’re going public. Maybe the universities are just keeping their students interests at heart.”

Olivia Quintana contributed to the reporting of this article.

SARP director: proposed bill possibly harmful to assault survivors SEXUAL ASSAULT BILL, FROM PAGE 1

ed from one school to another,” she said. “What I would like to get to eventually is that [data] should be something that consumers of colleges, they should be able to get information about how their colleges are addressing this issue.”

Having offered testimony about the legislation, President of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts Richard Doherty said the new regulations are unnecessary “at this time” be-

cause of “brand new, very extensive” federal regulations focusing on violence against women as of July 1.

“I don’t think that a new set of state regulations would really help things and it really does run the risk of confusing and or contradicting what may exist at the federal level,” he said. “It is important that there be some sort of uniformity in the training and application [between federal and state laws] of what schools are doing today.”

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Maureen Mahoney, the director of SARP, said she is also not sure the bill would help stem rape culture on campuses.

“As an advocate for victim/survivors of sexual assault I do not think the bill adds anything to victim/survivor rights,” Mahoney said in an email, “and in fact looking at the bill in its entirety it seems as if it may take away some choices from victim/survivors.”

Mahoney said she is not sure what is meant by a Threat Response Program, citing BU’s current Emergency Alert System.

BU spokesman Colin Riley declined to comment on the issue.

Several students said despite the additional policies included in the bill, BU still needs to take additional measures to reassure the legislation’s execution and the community’s safety.

Gabriel King Houis, a sophomore in the College of Fine Arts, said BU and SARP do a good job of working with freshmen on the subject of sexual assault, but more could be done periodically.

“There probably should be more done.

As long as there are still issues with it, there is always more you can do,” he said. “There are definitely problems with things that go down at frat parties.”

Kiara Connell, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said that the initiatives would benefit BU by creating a more open atmosphere for conversations on sexual assault and misconduct.

“By the sound of [the bill], it would make us a lot more open,” she said. “From what I have heard about victims of sexual abuse and things of that nature, it is really a shy topic and no one ever really wants to talk about what they have experienced and that puts people in a pretty dark place, but these would help people feel more comfortable.”

Melanie Kirsh, a senior in CAS, said the proposed legislation is needed, but she would like to see more funding assistance for crisis centers on campus as well.

“The bills and initiatives presented focus too much on law enforcement, which is unlikely to be a supportive reporting authority.

Crisis centers, like SARP at BU, have very little funding to serve all students in need of crisis counseling or guidance,” she said. “There also should be more initiatives to ensure survivors’ safety needs are met, which may involve expelling [assailants], assisting with housing concerns and installing blue lights in more off-campus locations.”

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As Election Day approaches, members of the Boston City Council could get a 14 percent pay raise by leaving a proposal by Boston Mayor Martin Walsh untouched.

Walsh proposed the raise on Sep. 2, which would increase salaries from $87,500 to $99,500 and increase the maximum mayor’s salary from $175,000 to $199,000.

City Councilor Timothy McCarthy, who represents Hyde Park and Roslindale, said the reason the matter has remained untouched is because the pay raise discussion eclipses the Council’s other focuses, such as opioid addiction and police body cameras.

“For the past several months, talk about this raise has dominated the public discourse,” McCarthy said in an email. “It has overshadowed the good and credible work of this body.”

In 2014, Walsh vetoed a $20,000 salary hike up to $107,500, which the council

voted in favor of 9-4, The Daily Free Press reported on Dec. 11, 2014. Most recently, Council President Bill Linehan proposed an ordinance to raise salaries to $105,000.

Historically, the council has been paid 50 percent of the mayor’s salary, so the proposal sustains that proportion, wrote Gabrielle Farrell, a spokeswoman for Walsh, in an email. A Compensation Advisory Board was first convened in 2006 “to address potential gaps in compensation level,” she said.

“Appointed Board members convened in November 2014 and over the following months conducted a wide-ranging compensation and salary analysis relative to the salaries of the City Council and the City of Boston Compensation Advisory Board,” Farrell said.

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SAO denies Amnesty International application years later

BY ALEX LI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University’s Student Activities Office denied the request of BU’s Amnesty International chapter to reinstate itself as an official student group, rejecting its application on Oct. 8 in an email, said current said current BU Amnesty President Sofie Engen.

Amnesty International is a nongovernmental organization that focuses on issues of human rights and social justice. BU has not had an official chapter for the past four years.

Engen, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she was surprised by this.

Wanting to get more involved in humanitarian work, Engen said, she and her executive board members filed an application to SAO in order to bring back BU Amnesty.

“BU prides itself for being a big activist school, yet there is no platform for students to get involved into activism,” she said, “The national regional conference for Amnesty International is actually happening at BU this year, so they are very disappointed that we did not get accepted because we are trying to host an event for the national conference, which is really hard because we cannot book a space at BU without being affiliated with SAO.” Andres Muñoz, an SAO assistant in charge of approving organization applications, stated in the Oct. 8 email that SAO does not think BU Amnesty’s goal is clear enough.

“There were numerous considerations taken but primarily your group did not have a specific programming plan,” Muñoz

said.

Muñoz also stated that BU Amnesty can either work together with existing organizations or reapply in the spring, but “at this time, your organization is not eligible for an appeal.”

Muñoz was unreachable for comment.

Jose Godoy, a member of both the SAO Student Involvement Board and BU Amnesty, said that the process of granting approval to an official student group under BU is “exhausting,” opening room for mistakes.

“For Sofie’s group, they were assigned a time to meet for presentation, but couldn’t make it because she had an exam,” said Godoy, a junior in the Questrom School of Business. “Because she couldn’t make it, therefore she couldn’t apply at any other time, so she was in a way denied without a second chance.”

Although BU Amnesty was disappointed by SAO’s decision, Engen said, they are prepared to still establish a considerable presence on campus and continue producing initiatives by increasing awareness. “[We will be] having fundraisers, different movie screenings, different talks, getting students involved with human right activism, just providing a platform for students to get involved with activism,” Engen said. “BU has such a global presence that we could really make a difference and help students [through] Amnesty International” Although SAO did not recognize BU Amnesty as an official BU-affiliated organization, BU Amnesty has full support from the national AI organization, said Cynthia Gabriel Walsh, field organizer at the Amnesty International Northeast Regional Office.

“Officially recognized chapters are guaranteed the right to vote, which gives them a seat at the decision making table,” Walsh said. “We also provide student groups with training, improve their ability to organize, to fundraise, to also really give people the opportunity to learn about human right issues. We also provide hard-core materials, so that students can go out to the community and to educate the community.”

Walsh added that she was also disappointed about SAO’s decision of denying BU Amnesty’s application.

“On Nov. 7 we will be hosting our 38th regional conference, which is the day of workshops, inspirational speakers and a showcase of direct actions that [have] taken place. And Boston University has been the host of these conferences for at least 25 years. So having a strong, active BU group is very important to us,” she said, “I would have to find out the reasons [of the application’s denial] but you know, this is disappointing.”

AI currently has chapters at many widely recognized universities and high schools in the Greater Boston Area, including Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Tufts University, Wellesley College and the Boston Latin School, said Walsh.

Several students said they do not know about AI and its goals but agreed that there are many issues they can help address.

Ani Keshishian, a junior in CAS, said BU Amnesty has the capability to spark conversations and increase students’ recognition towards current international crises.

“I don’t know exactly what group [BU Amnesty] focuses on,

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The Boston University chapter of Amnesty International, a nonprofit that aims to protect human rights, has been denied official student organization status by BU’s Student Activities Office.

but I know they could work on the huge refugee crisis in Syria,” she said. “You can do either donations, or just raise awareness about this huge issue.”

Pengcheng Xu, a senior in CAS, said he would like organizations such as BU Amnesty to address minority and race issues prevalent in various communities both in Boston and the country.

“There is some racism basically everywhere,” he said. “[BU Amnesty] can also, I guess, talk about how some Chinese labor don’t have free legal support, both legal immigrants and illegal

immigrants.”

Reilly Jamison, a freshman in Questrom, said BU Amnesty can help countries that are experiencing severe economical, social and political turbulence. “[BU Amnesty] should focus on a lot of issues in the Middle East, in the poorer countries over there. Issues like helping the refugees,” he said. “Boston is such a wealthy area, and we have a lot of money in this area that could be used to fund programs that helps people over there.”

Increase is compromise between mayor, council, Tyler says COUNCILORS, FROM PAGE 3

promise to work closer with City Council. The mayor issued recommendations in a “data-driven and comprehensive analysis way,” the FreeP reported on Nov. 19, 2014.

Samuel Tyler, president of the fiscal watchdog group Boston

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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s proposed in September a raise on his salary and 14 percent salary raise for city councilors, which will automatically become law if it is left untouched.

Municipal Research Bureau, said Walsh’s proposed salary increase is greater than that recommended by the appointed board. The Mayor didn’t disagree with the board, but rather increased the salary in hopes of resolving the issue so councilors could get back to work, he said.

“There are those who are upset with the council and those who are convinced they deserve the $99,500,” Tyler said. “The right approach for the council was to accept the City of Boston Compensation Advisory Board’s recommendation, vote on it, and move on.”

Voting on a pay raise is not easy for a legislative body, McCarthy said. It’s not people in the district who have a problem with the pay raises, but the councilors, he said.

“In all the meetings I’ve had in my district, with all the people I’ve met with across the city, most people appreciate what we do and they don’t begrudge us a periodic pay raise,” McCarthy said. “However, the way this issue is being

handled has become offensive to people. It is time to move forward.”

Councilors Sal LaMatinna and Charles Yancey declined to comment.

Several residents said councilors and the mayor should be adequately compensated for their work.

Tonia Campbell, 24, of East Boston, said the solution to making pay raises is not the Compensation Advisory Board, but a popular vote.

“I think everyone should get a vote on it if [the Councilors] are getting more money. We should be aware about it,” Campbell said.

“They got voted in. People should be able to vote if they’re getting raises, because that’s coming out of our money too.”

Jack O’Keefe, 55, of Brighton said he feels differently, and thinks Walsh could use the pay raise.

“I think he deserves [a raise].

He’s done a pretty good job,” O’Keefe said. “Things are running smooth, no controversies.”

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Computer science rises in ranks among female students

BY NAVRAJ NARULA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Computer science, according to Reuters, now stands as the top major for women at Stanford University, with 214 female upperclassmen officially declared to study the subject.

Following closely behind is human biology, with 208 female declared majors.

The topic of women in computer science is one that has been trending recently and is often considered controversial given the stark male-to-female ratio. According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, there was a 64 percent decline in the number of first-year undergraduate women exhibiting an interest in computer science from 2000 to 2012. Therefore, many see the fact that this number is increasing at Stanford as a step in the right direction.

Lavanya Jose, a graduate student of computer science at Stanford, said that as an undergraduate at Princeton University, there was not a “critical mass” of women in her classes. She often felt like the “odd one out” in her smaller computer science classes, but was encouraged by female mentors to continue her success.

“They [my mentors] encouraged me to apply to graduate school, and I hope to be like them someday,” Jose said. “I think it also helps to have family members — sister, mom, female cousins, etc. — [who are] into math and engineering … I think that is part of the reason for my early interest.”

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The top major for women at Stanford University is now computer science.

Ashley Ngu, a senior at Stanford majoring in both computer science and art history, said she wants to use her technical knowledge in a unique way by building technology that encourages learning and creativity.

“I’m interested in creative applications of technology, especially with regards to storytelling, education and interactive installations,” she said. “For that reason, I chose to focus my studies on the intersection of computer science and art.”

Ngu estimated the male-to-female ratio in her classes to be around 7:3, stating that upper level classes “definitely” have fewer women than introductory classes.

“I’m not usually aware of the gender gap in my classes unless gender is brought up as a point of discus-

sion,” she said. “I would say the gender gap is more drastic among the CS faculty. I’ve taken 12 CS classes over three years and I’ve only had one female CS lecturer.”

Margrit Betke, a professor of computer science at Boston University, agreed with Ngu and said encouraging more women to major in the field would involve including more women in the faculty. She also said she was not surprised about the Stanford news.

“CS is an excellent area for women to go into,” Betke said. “Stanford created the right environment.”

Mark Crovella, also a computer science professor at BU, said he also wasn’t surprised by the increasing number of women majoring in computer science.

“Students are coming to understand that computer science is creative and exciting, and that studying CS provides a lot of opportunities for making a difference in the world,” he said. “The old view of computer scientists as being like Dilbert in a sterile cubicle is gone. Students now realize that studying CS gives you one of the main ways to understand how the world works and to shape the world to one’s imagination.”

According to Crovella, the number of women in computer science classes, including both majors and non-majors, has been steadily growing at BU for about six years. In 2004, about 10 percent of computer science majors at BU were women.

Now, almost 30 percent are women.

This growth isn’t evident among

all populations, however. At BU, only four out of the 28 computer science faculty members are women.

Susan Worst, one of the four aforementioned women, doesn’t let that statistic deter her, however. She said she decided to study computer science because she enjoys building useful things.

“I don’t have the skills to be a woodworker or an electrician, but I can still build software that does real work in an efficient, accessible and useful way,” she said. “Computer science is also a great field for people who have a lot of interests, because it has applications in so many areas.”

Worst currently teaches an introductory course called “Introduction to Internet Technologies and Web Programming” and said she has also noticed the increase in the number of women in the field.

“My course … is usually about half men and half women,” she said.

“But this semester, it is 60 percent female.”

However, considering BU’s male-to-female ratio of 4:6, this level of enrollment is what might have been expected. To encourage even more participation in any field, Worst suggested portraying the subject as diverse.

“Making any field, including computer science, more diverse means being able to take advantage of a greater number of perspectives,” Worst said. “All of us have blind spots, but it’s hard to figure out what they are by ourselves. We need other people’s input to educate us. Giving more people a seat at the table can only make our collective work stronger.”

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Douglas Tirola on where National Lampoon went right

BY JOE INCOLLINGO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Say what you want about National Lampoon. At least it was honest with itself.

Spun off from the Harvard Lampoon in 1969 by editors Doug Kenney, Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman, the now-defunct humor magazine became infamous for its unique brand of wholly uninhibited, and therefore devastatingly tasteless, satire. America had never and has never since seen anything like it, and maybe with good reason.

“All of the editors, I think to a certain degree, are unbelievable racists,” Kenney recalls in archival footage from “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead,” a new documentary chronicling the Lampoon’s tumultuous tumble through American culture.

Given some of the magazine’s articles, though, Kenney’s words don’t seem to go far enough. To name a few: “Children’s Letters to the Gestapo,” “Welfare Monopoly,” “Pornocopia” and “I Survived the Attack of the Krazed Kent Kamikaze Kids.”

The average table of contents never

failed to — or better, made a point to — inflame enough isms to make even the most open-minded of casual readers turn pink, but think. Pieces like the gruesome “Vietnamese Baby Book,” which included spaces for “Baby’s first bullet wound” and the like, laid out the era’s dirtiest laundry in full view of the neighborhood.

By today’s standards, it was appalling, but then that didn’t matter. At its mid-70s peak, National Lampoon was a full-fledged empire, boasting a nationally-syndicated radio program, an off-Broadway revue, a handful of Grammy nods and, at the center, a monthly magazine second only to Cosmopolitan in circulation.

Appropriately, the documentary is a brilliant eulogy of the Lampoon, but it begs a convincing autopsy. If National Lampoon’s vile frankness could blow the pustular, oversized nose off the face of the day with such success, why isn’t the model viable today?

“One of the things that was sort of the ingredient that made this National Lampoon cocktail so delicious is that they drew on common experiences that people had,” said Douglas

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Tirola, the documentary’s writer and director. “We were getting our news from three networks … so even if you had different views, you were at least getting the same information.”

Heading into the 1970s, that information went a long way towards greasing the kitchen fire that the

Lampoon became. Nearly a decade of stalemate in Vietnam shamed the nation’s most powerful Democrat into forgoing another presidential term. This opened the door for an equally powerful Republican to glide into office, only to resign as a crook five years later.

By the time the Lampoon came about, nothing was sacred in America anymore.

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HONK! Festival takes community activism by horns

BY MARIEL CARIKER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

One thing is for sure — the 10th anniversary celebration of HONK! Fest was definitely not a typical parade.

HONK!, held over Columbus Day weekend, united activist street bands and performers as they participated and marched in a parade. This year, the event was bigger than ever, honoring a decade of creating awareness for social change through music and celebration.

Ken Field, an organizer on the HONK! Committee as well as a performer in the parade, said this year’s anniversary celebration focused on including past performers.

“What we decided ultimately is that we would try to invite all the bands that had been to our festival over the last nine years,” he said. “…This gave us a chance to spend time with this international community that’s developed around the HONK! Festival that we started a decade ago.”

The result of this decision was an enormous carnival-like extravaganza of a parade that began in Somerville’s Davis Square and ended in Cambridge’s Harvard Square. There were performers of all ages, from infants with their parents to college students to senior citizens.

There were also numerous people on stilts and unicycles, acrobats and people covered in glitter and paint. Every time a new group approached, they provided something new to the parade. The Boston Hoop Troop, for instance,

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Jeff Favorite plays an instrument and sings during the Honk! Festival in Somerville on Sunday.

added a fun element to the performances with their hula-hoop dancing and leaping around.

Each band or group performed on its own terms with no organization or formation.

Nothing about this parade was uniform, except each group had a distinct color scheme that set them apart, including colored instruments. Every person was in a unique costume with funky patterns, each making it their own.

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The parade was an activist event, with many groups supporting or protesting different issues in Massachusetts and beyond.

“As far as what we support, many of the bands support things in their home communities and focus on things that are happening within their community, within their state, within the world, that they think they can help bring attention to,” Field said.

The Massachusetts Teachers Association marched for less emphasis on testing in schools. Tufts University students marched to fight for the school’s janitorial rights. There was a whole band purely dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement. There was also a group of dancers for Dominican Pride dressed as monsters leaping around in showy, impressively detailed costumes with sequins and bells while cracking whips on the street.

“Bands can bring attention to those things by just being a band,” Field said. “If you have a rally and you have a band, people check it out. It brings more people and they check out what’s being said and what’s happening and creates a positive force.”

Above all, one movement that distinctly stood out was the movement supporting the use of the metric system in the United States.

They barbequed on a huge float and held up signs with sayings such as “Don’t kilo progress.”

Some members participating in HONK! Friday protested for unions for workers at the newly opened Primark in downtown Boston.

“It was movement for a set of actions intended to bring attention to the fact that a lot of businesses are motivated by money only,” Field said. “Businesses do things like [not worrying] so much about the environment, [not worrying] so much about the people they employ or the people they serve, and so we wanted to bring attention to some of those human issues.”

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Uniqlo opens in Faneuil Hall

BY MARIAM SYED DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Just in time for lightweight down jacket season, Uniqlo, a popular global Japan-based clothingretailer, opened its permanent downtown Boston location Friday in Faneuil Hall Marketplace, drawing crowds of customers to the 12,000-square-foot store.

The store spans two levels and seamlessly integrates itself into the unique architecture of the building, said Abby Grimm, general manager of the store.

“It’s hard enough to preserve a building that’s just standing there, but when you want to create something that’s completely new on the inside, you have a million other challenges to face,” she said. “We wanted to absolutely preserve the integrity of the building.”

Since the opening of its first store in Japan in 1984, Uniqlo has expanded globally, with more than 1,600 stores spanning 16 countries, according to a press release from the company. The Boston location replaced

the temporary Uniqlo pop-up store, which opened last year. The store, which sells both men’s and women’s clothing, launched its opening weekend with free giveaways and live performances from local DJs and bands.

Keeping with the company mission, the Uniqlo store in Faneuil Hall focuses on both global and local influences, Uniqlo USA CEO Larry Meyer said in the release.

“Uniqlo is founded on the concept that local is global and global is local,” he said.

“By immersing ourselves in the community through our very-localized advertising campaign, our partnership with the Red Sox Foundation, store design details and college campus integration, we hope to connect with the people who make Boston, Boston.”

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Students pay the same tuition, earn the same academic credit and benefit from equally excellent teaching by both adjunct and other faculty. Yet, adjuncts are paid very little compared to other faculty.

We deserve equal pay for equal work.

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Adjuncts work contingently, from semester to semester, with no guarantees of continued employment. We are deeply committed to teaching at Boston University and we ask the administration make a corresponding commitment to us.

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Adjuncts are excluded from academic planning and discussions concerning the future of BU. At the same time, we know BU could not educate students adequately without us. The administration cannot continue with the status quo: a faculty divided between an elite and poorly paid disposable adjuncts. We are all part of the educational mission; we need to all be one faculty.

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It’s time to stop missing the point of activist movements We have a bone to pick with BuzzFeed.

Following the Democratic presidential debate on CNN Tuesday, BuzzFeed staff writer Matt Stopera penned a listicle about candidate Martin O’Malley’s body, calling him a “true gift to this political race” and “a dad of monumental proportions.” This brand of objectification is exactly why meninism is a needed cause in today’s society.

Picking men apart based on body shape, visible abs and handsome features takes away from their potential as active, giving members of society.

Ha! Got you! Did we have you cringing?

Well, while we may not believe that meninism is actually valid, many do. And many so-called “activists” will likely speak out against this BuzzFeed post in defense of male significance, as they have done against others in the past.

But true activist movements are actually tailored toward groups who didn’t have rights to begin with. As a white male in the United States, Martin O’Malley has been given at least some forms of privilege that others have never had access to. By attempting to make activist movements more inclusive by saying “all lives matter” or that you are a “humanist” or “meninist” instead of a feminist, you are, in layman’s terms, acting stupidly.

Black lives matter, for example, is an activist movement to equalize black people with white people. And feminism, on that note, is a movement to equalize women with men. Notice that neither of these movements aim to take freedoms away from oth-

ers, whether those others be white people or men. They aim instead to bring equality to groups that have continuously been marginalized and systematically oppressed. Maybe instead of creating groups to maintain superiority, so-called “activists” should look in the mirror and check out the privilege that they’ve been granted with their whole lives.

White people certainly don’t know what it’s like to be black, and men certainly don’t know what it’s like to be women. But if we were to look at our lives with a more holistic view and listen to what others are saying about their lives, we could be more in tune with others and not be so offended by articles like this one on O’Malley.

A perfect example of one who misses the point of these movements entirely is Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

One of his tweets in response to Tuesday’s Democratic debate reads, “Black lives matter because ALL lives matter. Haven’t we learned from history? #DemDebate” Another reads, “ALL lives mater. It’s time we stop burning cars, shooting cops, & recognize that life is a gift from God. #DemDebate.”

Saying “all lives matter” is like going to an Alzheimer’s walk and saying “all diseases matter.” It simply isn’t the same thing. It’s obvious that all diseases matter. It’s obvious that white people matter. People don’t need to be reminded, though, because their rights as white people aren’t being taken away, whereas others’ rights as citizens of this country were never secure in the first place.

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Both groups are rooted in the threatening feeling that giving another group the same rights as you may take away from your own ability to live freely and happily.

This isn’t a misunderstanding — it’s just that people don’t want to understand.

People don’t want to understand that feminism isn’t the same as female supremacy, for example. And, in all honesty, it may be difficult and uncomfortable for those who are privileged to acknowledge that they are privileged, because it makes them feel like they didn’t work as hard to get where they are. We would rather be victims than admit that we are privileged. But we need to understand that acknowledging our good fortune doesn’t make us bad people.

We also understand that “reverse racism” is a real enough thing, but it arguably isn’t a big enough issue to make a movement out of. Getting heckled because you are white isn’t the same as worrying that you are going to be stopped and frisked, or taken down by police or being harassed on the street for wearing a short skirt when you go out with friends.

Realistically, the idea of activism is to lift these marginalized groups out of the fringes of society and put them on the same level of groups that enjoy privilege. But when you have to explain your way of addressing inequality, the implication is you’re worried about falling away from privilege. It implies that you’re ensuring that, for yourself, there isn’t a loss of status. And if you can identify with this type of activism, then you’re missing the point of the real movements entirely.

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Even still, any small step toward equality certainly doesn’t mean that the fight is over, for any group of people. When the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in June, many people were overjoyed that the fight for gay rights was over. But in reality, the fight has only just begun. Just as giving women the right to vote didn’t make them equal to men. Just as the fact that we have a black president doesn’t mean racism no longer exists.

Many people talk about how they want equality, but they refuse to understand the other side of the argument. Understanding the problems or issues others deal with on a daily basis doesn’t take anything away from your life. On the contrary, learning and understanding others should enrich our lives.

But many don’t realize that, and the reasons one makes these asinine comments are many. Perhaps people say these things because they want to be a part of something.

Maybe they want to feel that identifying as a part of an “activist” group provides something of an individual identity. Or maybe being a part of something makes them less victimized or forgotten. As ridiculous as this “activism” seems, perhaps people find solace in being a part of a group that may or may not be oppressed, and will fight to maintain that.

Perhaps people aren’t satisfied with just being mainstream. Most people who are privileged are far from horrible and discriminatory, and yet some feel the need to follow the idea of meninism, or to belong to white rights groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

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Playing “The Ex Games”

BY MEREDITH WILSHERE COLUMNIST

No breakup is ever easy. I learned this after the end of my freshman year of college when I bid my boo-thang adieu with a very sly, “Okay kid, don’t be a stranger.” He would be graduating and venturing into the real world, and I would be returning to my bagel-filled summer days on the north shore of Long Island. We parted the dearest of friends, hoping to at least keep the contact that lead to our courtship. I quickly learned that this would not be the case.

I texted him, he ignored me. I wrote a poem for him, he untagged himself from my photos and deleted me off Facebook. With each strategic move and maneuver we made — or didn’t make in his case — it became evident to me that breaking up had become less of an action and more of a game. Due to my competitive nature and the belief that I should never lose, which was instilled in me through various sporting endeavors coached by my dad, I was determined to be the victor. I was determined not to lose the ex games.

We have made breaking up into a dangerous game where we tip-toe a line of passive-aggression and silenced hatred. We post pictures on Facebook and Snapchat to prove we’re doing better than our exes. We go out of our way to ignore and avoid our exes. I have changed paths, classes and running routes to avoid awkward conversations with exes in which they proclaim their love for burrito bowls and prove how well they’re doing after one CrossFit session. Much like a game of soccer, also coached by my dad, I have to dodge, avoid, throw a couple of elbows, yell and slide-tackle in an attempt to win the ex games. It does not fare well.

After “dating” (which at the time meant holding hands in the park) a boy in the eighth grade for five days, I decided the best plan of action would be to breakup with him over AOL Instant Messenger. A couple of awkwardly-worded sentences, a dramatic status change and a weird entry in my diary, and everything we could have been ended before my eyes. He made it very clear that we couldn’t just “stay friends” and feelings turned from curious excitement to malicious indifference in a matter of days. Although I would not preach breaking up with your significant other through antiquated chat media, I also wouldn’t advocate for trying to be friends with someone who

quickly burns bridges.

There is no correct way to deal with an ex.

There is no correct formula where you can input time spent together, divide it by the number of fights over what movies to watch and equate the answer to a ratio of how friendly you should be to them versus how many times you should avoid them on a daily basis.

Do you try to remain friends and forge civil discourse every time you run into them in the gym? Do you cut off all ties with them and increase your travel time so you don’t accidentally collide with them on the way to your 9 a.m.? Each case is specific and different and should be handled with care. I am not advocating for instant friendship between exes, because I don’t necessarily believe that is possible. I do believe that after a breakup, both people involved should take time off from each other. Even the most civil of breakups can turn malicious after sending a clingy text that reads “Happy graduation!” which, naturally, is filled with desperation and reeks of “take me back, I miss you.” Personal anecdotes aside, breakups continue to be a gray area that may never be

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e have made breaking up into a dangerous game where we tip-toe a line of passiveaggression and hatred. resolved.

The point is, breakups are hard work.

Someone you once considered a friend, confidant, partner or even, dare I say, soul mate quickly turns to what you can only describe as “the worst” to all your friends back home. You shudder when you see their smiling face on Facebook or when they appear on their best friend’s Snapchat story. The truth is, we tiptoe a line of civility and hatred after almost every breakup — unless you are one of the select few who can say you’ve experienced a “mutual breakup.” There is no one way to “win” the ex games, and I believe we should stop looking at breaking up as a competition and start regarding it as a time to distance ourselves and grow as our own person. If we can manage a friendship, that’s good. If we have to avoid them at every turn, that’s okay, too. As for an ex looking like they’re doing better than you, just remember: smiles in pictures can be easily faked and they probably ate a whole pint of Ben and

Anorexia is born out of habit

BY CASEY MINTZ COLUMNIST

I said a few weeks ago that I would never write about my eating disorder again, but sometimes fate intervenes when you least expect it — like when I made an earnest pledge to stop giving anorexia and all it has taken from me so much attention.

But on Monday, I was scrolling through Twitter, as usual, when something caught my eye: an article by The New York Times with the word “anorexia” in the headline. It was a report on a study that has the possibility to change the tides on how anorexia is treated.

I have written time and time again about the misclassification of anorexia as an extreme diet, but still the myths pursue, even in the medical community. So when a study comes around that offers genuine medical evidence that anorexia is not simply young women whining about not wanting to eat (as it is so often portrayed in the media), I pay close attention.

Basically, the study took 21 healthy women and 21 women with anorexia and monitored their brain functions as they decided what food to eat. Both groups of women showed activity in the brain’s reward center, the ventral striatum. But the anorexic women also showed activity in the part of the brain that controls habitual behaviors, known as the dorsal striatum. The activation of the dorsal striatum in making decisions about food showed that anorexic women were not even actually making decisions — they were acting out of habit.

This shows why the anorexic brain is so difficult to snap out of its haze: once a habit becomes entrenched, it feels almost impossible to break. And the longer one deals with an eating disorder, the more difficult it becomes to intervene.

The study’s findings also prove that the part of the brain that controls habit is more in control of an anorexic’s behavior than that of the rest of the population. What’s more, the brain’s habitual behavior center is also thought to control compulsive, self-destructive behaviors, such as drug addiction.

I’ve long thought of eating disorders as forms of addiction, at least in my own case.

Anorexia certainly feels like one. Every meal is a fight against my own mind — getting a sandwich when a salad is right there. I would imagine that feels a lot like what a recovering alcoholic must feel like when everyone else is

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drinking wine with dinner, or what a recovering cocaine addict must experience if someone casually brings the drug out at a party.

Something that drug addiction, alcoholism and eating disorders all have in common is that they have all been proven to be mental illnesses governed by various centers of the brain, and yet we treat them as if they are choices.

Maybe it’s the physical aspect of all of these disorders that makes us take them less seriously. But it’s also the physical aspect that makes them all, especially eating disorders, so much harder to treat.

Research shows that eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. And the mortality rate reported for anorexia — four percent — does not count the deaths that were perpetuated by anorexia but ultimately caused by other things, such as heart failure, organ failure or suicide. That rate is estimated at about 20 percent. For those of us who are lucky enough to make it out the other end, about one in three will suffer a relapse of their disorder within two years of recovery.

Recovery from an eating disorder is so elusive because recovery from a disease that so firmly implants itself in your lifestyle and your habits is difficult. It can seem impossible at times. I would never consider myself “recovered” from my eating disorder because I don’t believe that full recovery from anorexia even exists. I have a mostly normal relationship with food, evewn if it errs on the side of resentment — but don’t most females’ relationships with food? What even is a normal relationship with food, anyway?

B. Timothy Walsh, senior author of the study and professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, said that the study helps to explain why traditional methods of therapy that work for other mental illnesses, such as talk therapy or antidepressants (both of which I and many others have used to keep my eating disorder in check) do not prove very effective for eating disorders.

“Habits have to be replaced with another behavior,” Walsh told the Times. He also suggested perhaps eating with your left hand instead of your right. While I’m not sure what that has to do with breaking the habit of an eating disorder, it kind of makes sense: an anorexic can never recover from their eating disorder by eating only low-fat, low-calorie foods, as recovering anorexics so often do. We must feign normalcy in our lunch choices until it begins to feel real — fake it until you make it, if you will.

I have been living with my eating disorder — my illness, my habit, my addiction, my whatever you want to call it — since I was seven years old. Some days it feels utterly livable.

Other days I can’t shut my brain — excuse me, my dorsal striatum — up. And it is because of this that I could never truly stop writing about eating disorders, especially when something like this happens. If a few brave researchers can find a way stop someone from becoming yet another eating disorder mortality statistic, it’s worth a few hundred of my words.

A Connecticut woman attempted to sue her 12-year-old nephew this week because of the broken wrist she sustained after hugging him. We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know, what ridiculous blunders would BU people sue each other for?

SMG: Questrom, for an identity crisis

BU Dining Services: Students, for stealing too many hand-held desserts

COM: CILSE, for trespassing

CFA: Themselves, for publicity

President Brown: Students, for applying for financial aid

CGS: The Tooth Fairy, for shorting them

BU Athletics: Raising Cane’s, for instantaneous weight gain

FreeP: Late Night Kitchen, for sending us to voicemail

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No. 9 women’s hockey preps for first test vs. No. 4 Clarkson

BY NICK NEVILLE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The No. 9 Boston University women’s ice hockey team is set for its biggest challenge to this point in the 2015-16 campaign when it welcomes No. 4 Clarkson University for a two-game set this weekend at Walter Brown Arena.

The Terriers (3-1, 2-0 Hockey East) are coming off a whirlwind weekend against Pennsylvania State University in which the team salvaged a split in a pair of games on home ice.

On Friday, BU had a hard time recovering from a 3-0 deficit that it faced before the end of the first period. The Terriers showed some fight, but ended up falling to the Nittany Lions (1-3) by a final score of 5-3.

“I think we learned a tough lesson in that we have to make sure we’re ready to go, but more so that we’re disciplined with what the structure entails,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “We kind of played what I’d call a pond hockey game on Friday night, where we got 40 shots on goal and we can look back and say ‘we had chances’ or ‘we held the puck,’ but we weren’t stopping and starting, we weren’t hard to play against.”

The Terriers responded well Saturday afternoon, though. They beat Penn State, 3-1, behind stellar play from sophomore goaltender Erin O’Neil, who had 27 saves on the afternoon. Sophomore forward Rebecca Leslie, who leads the team lead in points with eight on the young season, had a goal and two assists in the game.

Durocher, now in his 11th year at the helm, noted that despite Friday night’s loss, the team can definitely learn something from last weekend’s set.

“We have to learn that if we’re structurally sound, we’ll be better,” Durocher said. “We came out Saturday a completely different team, yet we still had to fight, scratch and

claw as we have this year, so hopefully they understand that that’s what we have to do.”

Each line has been contributing for the Terriers, but it has been the second line that has done the most damage as of late. Leslie, sophomore forward Victoria Bach and senior forward Rebecca Russo have tallied 19 of the team’s 31 points.

Look for the trio to do more damage this weekend against the Golden Knights (5-0).

In net, O’Neil and junior goaltender Victoria Hanson have split time for the Terriers. Each has started two games in the early going, and both have found relative success.

O’Neil has made 31 saves and recorded a .912 save percentage, while Hanson has stopped more pucks (55) but has a slighter lower save percentage (.902). There is no set starter at this point, but Durocher said he hopes one becomes clear.

“I’m waiting for one of them to really state their case or completely establish themselves,” he said.

“I think Victoria did a little bit of that last year late in the season, and again the body of work over the course of the year was fairly equal and I don’t think she was to be faulted for Friday night, so we’ll go back with [Hanson] on Friday and probably Erin on Saturday.

“I want one of them to just play three games in a row and dominate in practice to make it easy for me to just say, ‘there’s our goalie’ or ‘this is the one that’s going to be the number one,’” Durocher said. “We’ll have the number two that gives her a rest once in a while, but nobody’s quite made that picture clear in my eyes or my staff ’s eyes so we’re still working on it.”

Clarkson, on the other hand, appears to have its goalie situation sorted out, with sophomore Shea Tiley getting the bulk of the minutes. She has made 84 saves thus far en route to a stellar .966 save percentage.

The forwards for the undefeated Golden Knights have impressed

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Sophomore forward Victoria Bach has continued the momentum from her stellar freshman campaign, tallying five points in 2015.

as well, with junior Cayley Mercer leading the way with eight points for an offense that averages 3.6 goals per contest.

“Clarkson plays a very disciplined game in that they’re not a run-and-gun team,” Durocher said.

“They have the ability to score goals, create offense, and a lot of it is off of your mistakes.

“They play sort of a conservative style in that they’ll back off a little bit and won’t spend all their time forechecking,” Durocher added. “They’re across the board a big team and they kind of lean on you with their size.”

For BU, the games this weekend will be critical for Durocher and his

staff to assess the talent of this experienced group, which includes 14 upperclassmen on the roster. Protecting home ice will also be a point of emphasis for Durocher and company.

“We have a very home-slanted schedule in that seven of our ten non-league games including the Beanpot are all in our building, so we want make sure we’re doing a good job,” Durocher said. “We have a lot of kids. Whether they’re playing on the top line or the third line, they’ve played plenty of college hockey, and I lean on that, I count on that, and I think it has helped us in the early part of the season.”

Fournette prone to amateur injury, takes heed from past stars CHIPPS, FROM PAGE 12

watch him — a rarity in today’s sports landscape.

Fournette is that good, which is why he shouldn’t play another down of college football. He’s too good, and if he really knows his history, he knows he should never play college football again.

Yes, I know this will never happen.

The star running back will probably put on another video game-like performance this week that will make you question what is real, but it shouldn’t happen.

The signs are everywhere and Fournette doesn’t have to look far at all to find them.

His conference colleague, University of Georgia sophomore running back Nick Chubb — another “star in the making” type of player — became the latest victim of a brutal knee injury last week that could completely alter the course of his life and destroy his chance of ever reaching the NFL. And then there’s former University

of South Carolina star Marcus Lattimore, who had not one, but two devastating knee injuries that took him from potential first-round draft pick to just another former football player, one of the millions of players whose career was taken by injury.

And let’s not forget Willis McGahee, who almost lost out on his NFL career and millions of dollars after a terrible knee injury in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State University.

Watching Fournette play college football has been a pleasure, but he’s too valuable to be lost. He means too much to be taken down by a system that is unwilling to acknowledge his effort and pay the man for literally putting on an Emmy Award-winning drama every week.

Amid my dissent for the football institutions, I actually agree with the NFL’s three-year policy between high school and the pros, because most football players don’t have the bodies to withstand the grind of the NFL. But Leonard Fournette isn’t most

football players — he’s different. The way LeBron James is different. The way “greatness” is different.

Fournette is more than ready for the NFL, and another down at the college level would only put the fate of his body in harm’s way.

Being a great running back is far different than being a great quarterback. A great quarterback’s resume is his stat sheet and highlight reel. But a great running back’s resume is his body, and more specifically, the bruises and scars that destroy it.

Just ask Earl Campbell, who was so brutally dominant during his days at the University of Texas and throughout his eight-year NFL career that the 60-yearold now struggles to do the most basic everyday activities, like walking.

Just look up Walter Payton, who tragically died of cancer in 1999 and spent most of his post-NFL life struggling with drugs and chronic injuries sustained from a lifetime of crushing hits as an all-time great running back.

Just read about Tony Dorsett, who

after an incredible college and NFL career, is one of many former football players now struggling with CTE. Dorsett is just 61.

History repeats itself, and I fear that if Fournette continues to play for free at LSU, he too will suffer the same fate as his predecessors.

I love watching Fournette play football because it’s an experience comparable to those once in a generation talents, but he deserves to be paid like one.

Another carry in an LSU uniform won’t make him tougher, smarter or better. Another carry in an LSU uniform is just another chance for a defender to destroy his body and end his career before it really lifts off.

And if that happens, which it could at any moment, it would be a terrible shame.

You can’t outsmart history. Let’s just hope Fournette fully understands the magnitude of his predicament before he puts on the LSU uniform once more.

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Men’s soccer comfortable atop Patriot League standings

BY NICK NEVILLE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Despite a crushing 2-0 defeat at the hands of Brown University on Tuesday night, the Boston University men’s soccer team currently holds first place in the Patriot League standings.

BU (8-3-1, 3-0-1 Patriot League) has 10 points in league play, but the United States Naval Academy is right on its heels with an untarnished 3-0 league record and nine points on the year. That being said, BU coach Neil Roberts is not worried about the standings, but more so with the results.

“We just have to stay focused on getting points each game, whether it’s one or three,” he said.

Before the loss to Brown (6-4-1) in Providence, Rhode Island, this week, the Terriers were in the midst of a six-game unbeaten streak, which helped propel them to the top of the conference. During that stretch, BU got the best of three Patriot League foes.

Five of BU’s final six regular season games are against conference opponents, where the team will look to continue its impressive 13-game unbeaten streak in regular-season league play — the best such streak since 1989-93 (28-0-1).

If the Terriers continue their total team effort, Roberts’ squad has a chance to clinch its second consecutive conference regular season title.

“It’s hard because every team is still in it,” Roberts said. “With six teams making the tournament everyone feels like they still have a shot, until some teams get knocked out it will be difficult. But even then as we’ve seen every game is a battle, Loyola [University Maryland] played us tough, American [University], who we knew was a good team, they go and beat [No. 21 University of] Virginia at Virginia [(7-3-2)].”

to go and he knows it, and he works very hard, but he gets better every day. His distribution is very, very good, and he has to work on commanding his defense and getting that organized a little bit, but where he’s at from where he was two years ago is amazing.”

Magnus Benediktsson Impresses, gets results during rookie campaign

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Junior goalkeeper Matt Gilbert has set himself apart of late with three shutouts in his last five matches.

Matt Gilbert continues to rack up the accolades The Terriers must attribute much of their success during the 2015 campaign to junior goalkeeper Matt Gilbert. He is in the middle of his finest collegiate season yet.

He received national recognition Oct. 6 when he was named the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Player of the Week, becoming the first Patriot League men’s soccer player ever to win the award. On Wednesday, he was chosen as the Corvias Pa-

triot League Goalkeeper of the Week for the second straight week.

The Madison, New Jersey, native is having a fine statistical season. He leads the Patriot League in saves (61), and is second in both save percentage (.847) and saves per game (5.08).

With his 6-foot-4 frame, Gilbert has also shut out opponents five times this year.

However, Roberts noted that his goalkeeper means more to his team than just what appears on the box score.

“Matt’s matured every game and every year that he’s been here as a goalkeeper and as a person,” Roberts said. “He still has a ways

Another impactful player for BU this season is freshman midfielder Magnus Benediktsson. The Iceland product is not flashy and has not scored a goal yet this season, but his importance to the Terriers’ attack cannot be understated.

“Magnus is doing very well,” Roberts said. “Obviously he’s not a big guy, but he’s very quick, he’s technical and he’s figuring things out very quickly.”

Benediktsson’s combination of speed and athleticism has been crucial to BU’s success as of late. He has only played in eight of 12 games this season, but has a team-leading four assists. That also puts him second in the conference in that category, which is a major reason why BU has the second most assists in the Patriot League.

Benediktsson was also rewarded for his recent efforts, as he was named the Corvias Patriot League Rookie of the Week on Wednesday. He played a critical role in both of the Terriers’ victories last week, assisting on game-winning goals in the Colgate University and Loyola (1-8-2, 0-3-1 Patriot League) contests.

Look for Benediktsson to continue to take more of a spotlight role in BU’s offensive attack moving forward, especially if he keeps producing like he has been.

“We have to get him shooting a little more,” Roberts said. “But from the amount of games he’s played and the time he’s been here, it’s a real pleasant surprise for us.”

Rebecca Leslie produces sterling weekend, paces No. 9 women’s hockey ing so hard,” Durocher added. “I know that doesn’t always make sense, but there’s a big difference between competing and going to the net, versus stick-handling too tight or holding the stick too tight. You’ve got to play in a relaxed way … and when you get the chance to make a good placement, it doesn’t have to always be 80 miles an hour.”

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

There is plenty of offensive firepower on the No. 9 Boston University women’s ice hockey team, but one player in particular has raised her level.

Sophomore forward Rebecca Leslie, who was named to the Hockey East All-Rookie Team just one year ago, tallied one goal and four assists in this past weekend’s series against Pennsylvania State University.

She has eight points on the year, and is a major reason why senior forward Rebecca Russo and sophomore forward Victoria Bach — her fellow linemates — have prospered.

They have six and five points, respectively, all while the line has a collective plus-12 rating.

“I think all of three of them have played extremely well and in their own way they’re similar players,” said BU (3-1, 2-0 Hockey East) coach Brian Durocher. “They’re not the biggest three kids physically, but they all skate very well, handle the puck very well and think about the game at a real good level.”

Durocher specifically cited Leslie’s skating prowess as one of the major reasons behind her line’s success.

“Rebecca has certainly been a big influence there with going to the net and finding a way to get the puck in,” Durocher said.

“This past weekend was about setting people up, but one of the things she does is she find a way to get through the traffic in a subtle way. I don’t think she has a whole bunch of those fancy moves, but is extremely talented with her hands and quick with her skates.”

Alexis Crossley emerges as defensive leader

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Sophomore forward Rebecca Leslie leads the Terriers with eight points through four games.

First line snake-bitten to start season Due to their track records, the forward line of seniors Sarah Lefort and Kayla Tutino along with junior Maddie Elia instills fear in opposing goaltenders. Yet, the trio has struggled to produce through BU’s first four games of the year.

Lefort scored BU’s first goal in Friday’s 5-3 defeat to Penn State (1-3), but both Tutino and Elia have yet to light the lamp or contribute an assist.

In spite of that, Durocher is not overly worried by the dearth of production from his first line. His confidence is entirely understandable when one considers that the trio combined for 106 points just a season ago.

“They’re going to get there, and have had the goalies make a couple good saves, shot a few pucks a little wide or hit a few posts,” Durocher said. “That’s all snowballed into four games where they’ve probably under-produced for what they want to do.

“But I look at it by opportunities … and what they have to do as a group is stop try-

After losing Shannon Doyle and Shannon Stoneburgh to graduation in 2015, the Terriers suffered a departure of talent and leadership along the blue line.

As early signs indicate, junior defenseman Alexis Crossley has admirably filled the void.

The transfer from the University of New Hampshire is firmly cemented on the first defensemen pairing and consistently slows the opponent’s best winger or center.

On the offensive side of things, Crossley also quarterbacks the first power play unit.

Through each of those facets as well as the many intangibles the Halifax, Nova Scotia, native provides, Crossley has unequivocally eased the loss of Doyle and Stoneburgh.

“She’s a good leader off the ice and a particularly good leader around multiple teammates,” Durocher said. “She’s one of those kids that is well-liked by everybody, so that gives her a good opportunity to be a leader because she’s respected.

“She’s obviously played college hockey for two years and had a third year to train and become a Boston University Terrier,” Durocher added. “There’s a lot of pluses there and she’s done her job.”

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Quotable “We kind of played what I’d call a pond hockey game on Friday night, where we got 40 shots on goal and we can look back and say ‘we had chances’ or ‘we held the puck,’ but we weren’t stopping and starting, we weren’t hard to play against.”

Terriers prepare to battle Knights No. 9 women’s hockey hosts No. 4 Clarkson in marquee non-conference showdown. p. 10

Thursday, October 15, 2015

- BU women’s ice hockey coach Brian Durocher

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Leonard Fournette should give up on college football

VISUAL ARTICLE BY SAMANTHA GROSS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

October 17-18, 2015

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51st Head of the Charles Regatta

BY ISAAC CHIPPS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Leonard Fournette knows his football history.

He pays homage to the running back legends.

He never takes credit for his personal success and always pays tribute to his teammates, who pave the way for his incredible touchdown runs.

He’s humble and gives back to his community.

He runs so beautifully that he makes football, a sport so violent in nature that it literally destroys the human body, look more like a ballet performance than a gridiron battle.

Fournette is a once-in-a-generation talent, the kind of player they will tell tales about and write books on. The kind of player that makes you frame your gameday ticket and proudly hang it above your nightstand.

“I saw that man before he was the man.”

At 6-foot-1, 230 pounds, the Louisiana State University super sophomore is averaging a ridiculous 8.6 yards per carry and last week tied an FBS record by eclipsing the 1,000-yard rushing mark in just five games — a record he now shares with running back legends like Marcus Allen, Barry Sanders and Ricky Williams.

But the numbers don’t do the Heisman Trophy frontrunner justice. Fournette is simply too good to be defined by a stat.

He must be spoken of more poetically, because watching Fournette play football evokes something deeper.

ESPN’s Ivan Maisel perfectly described him.

“Fournette is different the way that Bryce Harper is different,” Maisel wrote, “the way that Jordan Spieth is different, the way that — I’m going to go ahead and make the leap — LeBron is different.”

Fournette is the type of player who, not to be cliché, literally takes your breath away, the way Bo Jackson and Adrian Peterson did in college.

He’s the type of athlete that makes you stop tweeting about him and actual ly CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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Former BU hockey coach indicted on sexual assault charges

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A former assistant coach for the Boston University men’s hockey team has been indicted on sexual assault charges, according to WCVB. Robert Richardson, 61, of Dorchester, was charged with three counts of raping a child. According to Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley, WCVB reported, the counts began in 1991 when the alleged victim was 13 years old.

Richardson, who coached at BU from 1985-89, secured a spot on an elite youth hockey team for the victim, according to WCVB. Meanwhile, Richardson invited the victim to his home, where the alleged abuse took place.

According to prosecutors, the victim informed his family about the alleged abuse while still a teenager, but didn’t press charges until 2014. The former BU and Northeastern University coach will be arraigned Thursday in Suffolk County Superior Court.

This is not the first time Richardson has been at the center of a child abuse case. He was arrested in 2003 on five counts of rape of a child and two counts of indecent assault and batter y on a person age 14 or over, according to USCHO News.

Those alleged incidents occurred between 1998-99, but Richardson was ultimately not deemed guilty. A Suffolk County Superior Court jur y acquitted Richardson of all charges in 2005.

BOTTOM LI NE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19

Field hockey @ UConn, 3 p.m.

No, really. “Back to the Future” could

Women’s hockey vs. Clarkson, 7 p.m.

Men’s soccer @ Lafayette, 1 p.m.

The Cubs might win the World Series.

Men’s hockey vs. U.S. Under-18

Women’s hockey vs. Clarkson, 3 p.m.

Team, 7:30 p.m.

Men’s hockey vs. Wisconsin, 7 p.m.

be right after all.