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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLIV. VOLUME LXXXVII. ISSUE XIII.

CAMPUS NEWS Giving Tuesday: Members of the BU community give back, pg. 3

INBUSINESS Food truck trends: businesses look to park their wheels, pg. 5

Aftermath of Ferguson: Bostonians remember Michael Brown 1. Protesters hold hands in solidarity against police brutality in front of the State House during a protest Nov. 24.

2. Daunasia Yancey, 22, of Boston, leads protestors as they enter the intersection of Newbury Street and Massachusetts Avenue during a march Oct. 26. ​3. Protesters marching down Newbury Street Oct. 26 hold their hands up as a sign of solidarity against police brutality.

4. Ty Allen, 20, of Boston, holds a sign in front of the State House on Nov. 25 during a protest against police brutality.

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1 BY monika nayak DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Umoja, a black student union at Boston University, held a candlelight vigil ser vice Tuesday at Marsh Plaza in remembrance of Michael Brown and other victims of police brutality.

Students and residents attended the vigil, which was one of many protests following the grand jury’s Nov. 24 decision to not indict Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting death of the 18-year-old Brown.

Jailyn Gladney, coordinator for Umoja-subgroup Sisters United and a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said before the vigil that the group was excited by the prospect of a diverse turnout.

“We are trying to get students on campus to get more involved with social justice activism and invigorate the student body,” she said. “We usually see black attendees at events held by black student associations. We are excited for this vigil ser vice because it is an opportunity for students of all ethnicities to show their support in solidarity.”

As vigil attendees entered the plaza, they were asked to sign and leave messages for Brown’s family on a banner that will be sent to Ferguson.

The vigil began with a speech that named other victims of police brutality and was followed by a recount of all the events that have taken place in Ferguson since Brown’s shooting. Brittany Longsdorf, the university chaplain for international students, then led a prayer in which the crowd participated in calland-answer chants.

“If you look at the history of social justice movements, you can see that they are more often than not been led by students,” Gladney said. “The recent events that have taken place worldwide has giv-

en BU students a great opportunity to exercise leadership.”

Gladney said Umoja offers a great platform for students to get involved.

“We hold forums for BU students and professors to discuss race and violence in American society,” she said.

Victoria Mitchell, a sophomore in CAS, attended the event and said the vigil ser ved as an opportunity for students and other people in Boston to send a message.

“This is our chance to send a message,” she said. “The young generation is often deemed as ignorant of the current events taking place around them.

It’s great to see BU students expressing their emotions of anger and frustration towards a situation like this.”

Stephanie Quezada, a sophomore in Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said the events in Ferguson were an injustice, and vigils and protests keep the issues open for discussion.

“It’s really important to send the message through our generation and to the younger generation,” she said.

“These issues come up in our daily lives.

It is something that we think is kind of beyond our era, but it’s still a present problem.”

Sixto Martinez, 25, of Mattapan, found the event on Instagram and said it was his duty to come and support a cause that has inf luenced his family and friends.

“There’s a lot of things that are going on in the world in terms of injustice, and it’s been going on for a while,” he said. “For a land that is considered free, it’s not as free as it proclaims itself to be. Anything like this, I will come out and support.”

Scott Paré, BU Police Department deputy director of public safety, said BUPD attended the vigil for safety and

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3 security reasons, but no one caused any trouble. A few BU police officers were in the area to ensure traffic was not blocked and students could continue to and from class, but they also wanted to secure the students’ freedom of expression, he said.

“It was a peaceful expression of their free speech,” he said. “And when they were done, they just went on their way without incident.”

Several residents said it’s important for people to protest and take a stand about an issue when see something they perceive as unjust.

Nick Baro, 28, of Brighton, said the incident in Ferguson brings up issues that affect people across the country.

4 “It’s sad that racial profiling is still going on today, and something should be done about it,” he said. “Everyone should have equal rights, so it’s an important right that people should have. So they should be invested in it.”

Katie Shetterly, 26, of Brighton, said individuals should take every opportunity they can to stand up for what is right.

“I hope that there are more things in the city that I could participate in,” she said. “It really has people all over the country talking about it and the world.

It seems like people are really supportive of the protests for the most part.

This is going to set the tone for a new social change movement in the country.”

Ernie Boch Jr. visits The Daily Free Press, presents check

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Ernie Boch Jr. visits The Daily Free Press office Tuesday to meet the staff and deliver a check for $50,000, which he donated after the newspaper announced it was in debt in November.

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BU Shuttle to evaluate new services, implement changes

BY J.D. CAPELOUTO AND GABI ARRIAGA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Following the implementation of a series of changes at the beginning of the academic year, the Boston Universit y Shuttle bus ridership and ser vice are r unning smoothly, and off icia ls are looking to the f uture for f urther revisions.

In Aug ust, Parking and Transportation Ser vices held multiple focus group meetings and decided to increase peak late-night weekday hours for the BUS and carr y out day time shuttle service on Saturdays, said William Hajjar, director of BU Parking and Transportation Ser vices, in an email.

“The ser vice seems to be going well. Ridership will be eva luated during the Spring Semester,” Hajjar said. “I’ve received positive feedback from … [students] saying that it is providing them with a much needed ser vice.”

In the f uture, Hajjar said the Parking and Transportation Ser vices looks to invest in an automatic passenger count system on the BUS. “The proper system would provide accurate counts of ever y stop and ever y shuttle to measure ridership, with a goa l to improve ser vice and identif y under utilized ser vice,” Hajjar said.

“We will a lso be working on measures to improve our effectiveness in communicating with the communit y via socia l media.”

Hajjar said he worked in conjunction with BU Student Government President Richa Kaul and Chief of Staff Pablo Das, who had previously proposed severa l BUS initiatives.

SG Senate Chair Tyler Fields said obtaining Saturday BUS hours was one of the projects SG worked with Parking

and Transportation Ser vices on.

“We worked on it a ll summer,” Fields said. “Administration was prett y receptive. In terms of student feedback, we’ve had a rea lly, rea lly positive response. Students have been happy and actua lly gone out of their way to express how happy they are. That’s rea lly the best we can ask for.”

Fields said the process to get the extended ser vice was extensive and required a lot of collaboration.

“We had to touch on ever y municipa lit y that the bus route covers.

You have to go through and make sure that’s okay that you’re r unning a bus route ser vice,” he said. “BU Parking and Transportation were obviously the ones paying for it.”

In the past year, Hajjar said Parking and Transportation Ser vices has added larger buses to increase rider capacit y, removed an under utilized stop a long by the BU Medica l Campus and implemented more frequent evening hours.

Despite changes to ser vice, severa l students said they take issue with the way the BUS is currently r un.

Lex ie Gold, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said because the BUS ser vice is unreliable, she has switched to wa lking and using the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authorit y ser vice.

“Even though I tracked it, sometimes the BUS would come to StuVi [Student Village II] and then it would be out of ser vice, and then I would have f ive minutes to get to class or something, or it would be r unning late,” she said. “It was nice to have something that goes just on our campus. I wouldn’t get lost that way.”

Erin Strickland, a junior in the

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The Boston University Shuttle increased its late-night and weekend hours this fall semester.

School of Education, said there are not enough shuttle buses r unning at given times, and the BUS should go f urther west on BU’s Charles River Campus than StuVi 2.

“I wish that the BUS would go f urther into A llston,” she said. “It’s sad that it stops only at West, because we have so many students out in A llston that I think it would be a rea lly good idea to improve that. I kind of just see it as something ver y silly at this point because it doesn’t do any thing for me anymore.”

Luke Sakakeeny, a junior in the College of Engineering, said he enjoys the free shuttle ser vice, but it is usua lly too crowded to use.

“If [it a llows] people to travel up and down the campus freely, especia lly during the weekend hours, if it’s just for f un … having the free ser vice

is def initely helpf ul,” he said. “I don’t take it nearly as often as I see some of my peers do. It’s a lmost a lways packed to the brim.”

Overa ll, Hajjar said Parking and Transportation Ser vices hopes to continue to communicate the “rea lities” of the BUS system and its primar y purposes.

“The BUS was not meant to replace the primar y methods of moving across the Charles River Campus, such as wa lking or cycling,” he said. “The fact of the matter is that we are reaching a point where adding more buses during peak times to ex isting routes will not positively improve travel time or rider satisfaction, but would simply result in more buses sitting in traff ic or getting bunched up a long the route.”

Martha Coakley keeps active, influential in last moments as AG

BY SAMANTHA GROSS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Four weeks after losing her race for governor to Massachusetts Gov.-elect Charlie Baker, Martha Coakley is maintaining an active role in state government, completing her term as Massachusetts attorney general and working closely with Massachusetts Attorney Gen.-elect Maura Healey.

In recent weeks weeks, Coakley has worked alongside 37 other state attorneys generals to protect against telephone and privacy fraud through a variety of efforts.

On Nov. 24, the group of attorneys

general urged the Federal Trade Commission to update its Telemarketing Sales Rule as a precaution to defend consumers against telemarketing fraud and abuse of privacy.

A report was released Dec. 2 stating that telephone solicitors hired by Massachusetts charities received only about 47 percent of the earnings they collected during their campaigns in 2013.

“We urge the FTC to strengthen its guidelines for telemarketers in order to enhance consumers protections and prevent continued scams and abuses,” Coakley said in a Nov. 24 press release.

Despite being on her way out of office, Coakley has attempted to play an increase

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Massachusetts Attorney Gen. Martha Coakley lost the gubernatorial election Nov. 4 to her Republican opponent Charlie Baker.

role in the national political landscape.

Amidst accusations condemning Bill Cosby of sexual assault, Coakley spoke out, writing a letter to administrators at the University of Massachusetts Amherst about the implications of continuing a relationship with the UMass Amherst alumnus. In her letter, she said continuing to allow Cosby to be affiliated with the university sends the wrong message at a time when sexual assaults on college campuses are of great concern.

UMass announced on Nov. 26 that they would be cutting ties with the comedian.

“Bill Cosby has agreed to resign as an honorary co-chair of UMass Amherst’s capital campaign,” UMass Amherst said in a statement on Nov. 26. “He no longer has any affiliation with the campaign nor does he serve in any other capacity for the university.”

In light of Coakley’s post-election actions, Healey, former chief of the Massachusetts Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau, said Coakley has led by example in her capacity as attorney general.

“Martha has shown this country what a great attorney general can be,” Healey said in an email statement. “She has fearlessly taken on big banks and predatory lenders. She has stood up for women’s reproductive rights and marriage equality.

Martha taught me what it means to be the people’s lawyer.”

Coakley has also been working in several other areas, including entering a $1.5 million settlement with the National

Federation of the Blind and Cardtronics, Inc., the world’s largest owner and operator of retail ATMs, to resolve civil contempt charges.

In addition, Coakley has been involved with the regulation of mandatory arbitration clauses, the improvement of outcomes for asthmatic adults and children and the indictment of a Boston Fire Department district chief for charges of fraud and burglary.

Several residents said Coakley’s post-election actions could be making the public question her motives.

Niharika Bajpai, 28, of Brookline, said she met Coakley at work, and she seemed understanding, active and working only to help others.

“What I can tell from my personal experience is that when she came, she was very attentive to what all of us were saying,” she said. “She also wanted to meet with members from our office for future collaborations.”

Some said Coakley’s busy schedule is part of a greater agenda.

“I feel like she’s trying to make sure she stays relevant in people’s minds. She’s just trying to make sure she doesn’t fall to the background completely,” said Cassandra Guzman, 18, of Roxbury. “Who knows what her future plans are, but she’s probably planning to do something even bigger.”

Mo Algh, 22, of Fenway, said Coakley’s work is part of her inherent work ethic.

“She is just working for a cause,” he said. “Since she’s [almost] out of office, she’s voluntarily just speaking to her cause.”

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Boston officials tackle Obama’s immigration policy locally

BY RACHEL LEGON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives circulate legislation on Capitol Hill in response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s executive order concerning immigration, Boston politicians and residents are considering potentia l implications of the new policies.

In a televised Nov. 20 statement, Obama announced an executive order, stating that new immigration policies must be implemented.

The order a llows illega l immigrants to apply for citizenship without fear of deportation if they have lived in the United States for over f ive years, have children who are American citizens, pass a crimina l background check and are willing to pay ta xes.

The new policies are designed to protect immigrant families while focusing on removing threats to the public’s safet y, according to a fact sheet posted on the whitehouse.gov website.

“Felons, not families.

Crimina ls, not children. Gang members, not a mother who’s working hard to provide for her kids,” Obama said in the speech. “We’ll prioritize, just like law enforcement does ever y day.”

Under Obama’s executive order, the Deferred Action for

Childhood Arriva ls (DACA) Program, a program launched in June 2012 that defers the remova l of individua ls, will expand its coverage to any undocumented immigrants who entered the countr y before the age of 16, including those born prior to June 15, 1981, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Ser vices website.

The entr y date for coverage has a lso been adjusted from June 15, 2007 to Jan. 1, 2010.

During the f irst t wo years of DACA, 60 percent of eligible immigrants came for ward, and 4.9 million undocumented immigrants may now be eligible to apply for citizenship, the website states.

The natura lization process will a lso be facilitated by a llowing payment by credit card for natura lization fees.

Boston Mayor Martin Wa lsh released a statement regarding the Cit y of Boston’s efforts to amend immigration problems.

“We are changing the paradigm through f ull integration and empowering immigrants and ever yone to help make our communities stronger,” Wa lsh said.

Wa lsh said his administration has taken a variet y of steps toward immigration reform, including holding a Citizenship Day for nearly 200 immigrants to apply for citizenship, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arriva ls Day

to help students achieve their education goa ls and launching an Immigrant Integration and Empowerment Initiative.

The Mayor’s Off ice of New Bostonians is working to disseminate Obama’s executive order to the residents of Boston, said Melina Schuler, spokeswoman for the Cit y of Boston, in an email.

“The purpose of the MON B is to strengthen the abilit y of diverse cultura l and ling uistic communities to play an active role in the economic, civic, socia l and cultura l life in the cit y of Boston,” she said.

“MON B acts as a cata lyst for providing opportunit y, access and equa lit y for immigrants and highlights the contributions and the essentia l role that immigrants have played and continue to play in making Boston the world class cit y that it is.”

Franklin Soults, communication director of the Massachusetts Immigration and Ref ugee Advocacy Coa lition, said the executive action is a great victor y for the immigrant communit y because it will a llow more people to come out of the shadows. However, he added, there are still many changes to be made.

The executive action cannot change the status of undocumented immigrants permanently, he said. It can only offer them relief from deportation.

“Congress needs to f ina lly act. Now that both houses of Congress are being controlled by the Republican Part y, perhaps they will decide that it’s time for them to be more than just a part y of opposition and tr y to make some changes,” Soults said.

Lee Staples, a professor of public relations at Boston Universit y, said while the policy change is a relief for immigrants, an x ieties will still

remain because the next president can decide to eliminate the order. The uncertaint y could cause some immigrants to continue to fear deportation, even if they do come out of the shadows under Obama’s protection, he said.

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BU participates in Giving Tuesday campaign, raises approx. $20,000

BY J.D. CAPELOUTO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Following Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, the Boston University community participated in a national campaign called Giving Tuesday for the first time, encouraging students, alumni and other supporters to donate to the colleges, programs and services at BU. Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 in response to the unofficial shopping holidays following Thanksgiving. Although it began as a national campaign, BU administrators wanted to bring Giving Tuesday to BU to give donors an opportunity to help the university, said Dan Allenby, BU associate vice president of annual giving.

In BU’s first year participating in the program, the university raised approximately $20,000 from 150 donors, Allenby said.

“We saw it as an opportunity to remind our donors about all the great causes that exist at Boston University, and we were really just encouraging our donors to support any cause within the university or area of the university that was important to them, the idea that people would give back rather than get,” he said.

Although the money raised is a small amount in comparison to the

$1 million raised in April on the official BU Giving Day, Allenby said, the money will have a significant influence on the BU community.

“The approximately $20,000 that was raised on Giving Tuesday is going to have a huge impact on the faculty and students here at the university,” he said.

When a donation is made, the benefactor has the option to choose what school, department or organization their money goes to, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

“You can see that you can designate a particular group, you can put it to an individual school, to scholarship funds, to athletic teams, to the Community Service Center, to individual scholarships,” Riley said. “It’s the whole range of accounts at the university, and most important, you can donate to the university, and the university will give it to what they see as their greatest need.”

D.A. Whatley, one of the cochairs for the Class Gift Committee, donated to the BU Black Business Student Association on Giving Tuesday.

“Giving Tuesday is pretty big in my opinion, because of course we have Black Friday, Cyber Monday … but I like the fact that Giving Tuesday prides philanthropy and goodwill and putting money back into something you really care about, in your own community,” he said.

Whatley said he is not surprised at all that BU was able to raise a good sum of money on Tuesday.

“Here at Boston University, we obviously have a really strong community of alumni and a strong community in general of people who love to see this institution become what it is today,” he said. “We don’t become the fourth largest research institution overnight.”

Giving Tuesday is one of multiple fundraising efforts through the Campaign for BU, which includes Giving Day in April and the Class Gift Committee.

“Specifically, the reason why the Class Gift Committee has a role in this is because we wanted to go ahead and start fostering this mindset within the class of 2015 about the joys of philanthropy and why they should want to give back and build the BU they want to see as alumni when they come back on campus five, ten, 20, 30 years from now,” Whatley said.

Several students said they feel positively about the impacts of the charity movement.

Samantha Kelley, a freshman in the College of Communication, said the concept of Giving Tuesday is a great contrast to the consumerism behind Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

“Giving Tuesday is a good idea,” she said. “Especially with the

Black Friday Thanksgiving mentality, you want to be thankful for what you have, but you should also give back to people who don’t have as much as you do.”

Caitlin Donohue, a senior in COM, said she would rather utilize Giving Tuesday to benefit other organizations.

“I definitely think it’s a great way to benefit the school,” she said.

“Giving Tuesday reminds us that there are a lot of people less fortunate than us, so I think it would be even better if BU did something or

set something up where you were donating to a charitable cause.”

Basak Oztahtaci, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the campaign offers a unique opportunity to give back to her school.

“It’s important to give back to your school,” she said. “Once I start making my own money, I’ll definitely give back to my schools from the past, including BU if it really needs it. You learn so much and BU really prepares you for life, so I owe them.”

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Donors gave money to Boston University on Tuesday as part of Giving Tuesday, an international movement to raise money for various causes.

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Thanksgiving Homestay Program kicks off first year

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Vanessa Hayashi (left) (CAS ’18) participated in the Boston University Homestay program through Marsh Chapel, which allowed students to stay in homes of local families during Thanksgiving break.

BY GENEVIEVE SCARANO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In an effort to share the Thanksgiving tradition and accommodate those who were unable to return home during the f ive-day break, severa l Boston Universit y student groups across campus organized the f irst campus Thanksgiving Homestay Program for students to stay with a host family for the holiday.

Thanksgiving Homestay, which is a collaboration bet ween Marsh Chapel, the Parents Program, Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground and Elevate of the A lpha Kappa Psi frater nit y, placed four undergraduate students with three different hosts in the Boston area and in New Jersey, said Cambria Davies, head program coordinator of the program.

“One host said she had an amazing time hosting the t wo girls she hosted,” she said. “It was so rewarding and inspiring to hear her stor y and to know that she wants us to move for ward with the program. It is a lso great that we had information sessions and a lot of students came out and ask more about the program. The students want to stay with hosts and learn about Thanksgiving. It’s so gratif ying to see that with the program.”

The hosts, which could include students and their families at home, loca l families, students in apartments, a lum-

ni, administration or facult y, provided accommodations and mea ls for their student g uests, Davies said.

“We had over 70 student applications, but f inding host families proved to be more cha llenging than we had thought. We ended up securing three hosts, a lthough one host accommodated t wo students,” Davies said in an email prior to her inter view. “A lthough it wasn’t exactly what we had hoped for, we’re still rea lly happy with the program because it’s made a big impact on those that have participated. We think it’s a good starting point, and we’re excited to grow the program more in the f uture.”

Davies said the idea to start the program began when she noticed severa l undergraduate parents showing concern about their children not celebrating the holiday at home.

“I started doing some research, and I stumbled upon Thanksgiving homestay programs at other universities,” Davies said. “I set about f inding a department or organization on campus that would help me r un this. I didn’t have any luck at f irst. Eventua lly, I met with the dean of Marsh Chapel, and I found a team to work with there on the Globa l Ministr y staff. Once they came on board, the rest followed like dominos.”

In fa ll 2013, Student Government Senate passed an initiative based on Davies’ idea supported by the Overar -

ching Executive Council of the Residence Ha ll Association and Department of Socia l Affairs, The Daily Free Press reported.

Andrew Cho, SG president of the OEC and a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the Thanksgiving Homestay Program is a good option for students.

“The program is great for internationa l students and anyone not from the Boston area, but it wasn’t utilized to its f ull potentia l,” Cho said. “For one, most students on campus aren’t a llowed to stay if they don’t have an apartment. It can be diff icult and lonely for students to stay in a hotel.”

Severa l students who participated in the homestay program said they had good experiences and would participate in the program again in the f uture.

Vanessa Hayashi, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the program offered a traditiona l experi-

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t the time, I didn’t have anywhere to go. I was planning to go to a hotel, but you can get a typical Thanksgiving meal and spend time with an American family. It was definitely a better choice,” Manike De Wet said.

ence of the American holiday.

“The program is convenient. You can be near your dorm when you want to come back, and it isn’t a hassle involving an airport, and you can enjoy an American Thanksgiving,” she said.

Hayashi stayed with a family outside of Boston for Thanksgiving and experienced snow for the f irst time.

She said she def initely would participate in the program again next year because she loved the experience.

Manike De Wet, a sophomore in CAS, said the homestay program offered a better a lternative to BU’s vacation housing.

“I found the advertisement and application online and on the BU Facebook page,” she said. “At the time, I didn’t have any where to go. I was planning to go to a hotel, but you could get a t y pica l Thanksgiving mea l and spend time with an American family. It def initely was a better choice.”

De Wet said her South Boston hosts offered a great Thanksgiving celebration, and she helped decorate their Christmas tree. She said she will continue participating in the program next year.

Danika Guiley, a co-student coordinator of the program, said more preparation will go into next year’s program, which will hopef ully involve more host families and foreign exchange programs.

“For next year, we will be doing a lot more prep work,” Guiley, a sophomore in the School of Management, said in an email. “I will be spending more time in the beginning contacting other host families outside of the BU communit y. I am hoping to get to speak with some of the lang uage departments at some of the neighboring high schools as well and tr y to get contacts within the foreign exchange programs in the New England area.”

Davies said she will use this year as a basis for planning f urther improvements for the program.

“Now that we have the f irst pilot year of the program under our belt, we think it’ll be easier to secure host families and get them excited to participate,” she said. “We a lso have hosts that volunteered this year, one facult y member in particular, that’s passionate about growing the program in the f uture because she had such a great experience.”

Boston students, residents react to Obama immigration policy IMMIGRATION, FROM PAGE 3

or near the top of their class who are not eligible for in-state tuition because their parents lack documentation,” Staples said. “In many cases, that litera lly is the difference bet ween them going to college or not going to college so then what options do they have?”

A Southern Border and Approaches Campaign Strateg y will be implemented to focus on the Southern maritime and land borders and the West Coast, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Securit y ’s website.

Top priorit y remova l will be focused on crimina ls.

Undocumented immigrants who entered the countr y prior to Jan. 1, 2014 who do not have a crimina l record and have never disobeyed a prior remova l will not be priorities for remova l.

A ll the DHS’s efforts are designed to improve the process in which undocumented immigrants, who have not been convicted of crimes, gain citizenship, the DHS website states.

A lex is Chestnov, a freshman in the College of Communication, said border control is helpf ul in improving the American economy and ensuring that our population remains in check.

“When immigrants come in, they add to the population. When immigrants come into the countr y without a plan to be productive, they damage America’s economy, and f urther enhance overpopulation,” she said. “Having stricter border securit y would help monitor who is coming into the states, why and how it would benef it the countr y.”

Arden Lassa lle, a freshman in the

College of Fine Arts, said a llowing immigrants to gain citizenship would be benef icia l overa ll to the U.S. economy and help immigrants earn equa l rights.

“A llowing people who have been here and who have been contributing to our economy to have a place in our lega l system is a good thing,” he said.

“And if they ’re not documented, they ’re not paying ta xes on certain things. And they a lso don’t get rights that people would get if they were citizens.”

Devin Gaffney, 26, of Porter Square, said the new immigration policies are economica lly logica l.

“That’s economics,” he said. “It fa lls under the Coase theorem, which says that if you remove the dumb reg ulations stopping people from doing the t y pes of transactions they want to do, things just r un more smoothly. A lso,

it’s rea lly messed up that they aren’t a llowing people to move places where they want to live.”

Kaitly n Schlyago, 21, of A llston, said immigration policies could help her coworkers have benef its that have previously not been afforded to them.

“Expanded immigration reform is probably benef icia l with doing odd jobs, because I feel like Americans a lmost think that they have to have a better job,” she said. “Or with their welfare policies, they expect more, and they don’t take the rea lly grimy jobs. I know most of the g uys that work service and kitchen jobs here [at Sunset Cantina] are Mex ican or Brazilian, so I feel like it could help them.”

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014

HAPPINESS LAB The Happiness Lab Founder Vishal Patel loves you and wants you to be happy

BY Ella Torres DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Walking into a coffee shop — spilling textbooks over a table, typing away furiously and having two cups of coffee for extra caffeine — can be anything but stress-free. Despite the soothing music in the background, coffee shops’ number one priority is rarely to create happiness.

Until now.

Vishal Patel, a 2012 College of Arts and Sciences alum, has worked to create a coffee shop, where visitors walk in and instantly think of happiness. “[It’s] a badass happy space,” Patel said.

The Happiness Lab, scheduled to open in December in New Haven, Connecticut, plans to help people experiment with their own happiness through meditation, live music and inspirational talks. Though it won’t be long before people can set foot into the space itself, the process that preceded it started nearly five years ago.

After his freshman year at BU, Patel felt the urge to do something different.

“I was kind of getting bored just with being in the states,” Patel said. “I wanted to go do something crazy, so I decided the following summer that I would take a trip abroad.”

Once he found a volunteer organization to take him, Patel embarked on the first of what would be three trips to Tanzania.

“As a result, when I was deciding what kind of brand I was going to create, what I was going to share with my customers, I decided this reoccurring theme in my life was happiness and this pursuit of happiness in general,” Patel said. “It’s kind of what brought me to Tanzania in the first place.”

Patel spent his first two visits tutoring in Tanzania, and on weekends, he would work with farmers to help them grow their crops — most of it, coffee beans.

“I did work with some coffee farmers and kind of got to know the whole agriculture system,” Patel said. “I spent almost a total of 6, 7 months there, and I decided when I graduated I wanted to keep going back, and I wanted to really help the farmers that I worked with out there.”

But, in learning about that system, he also learned about the questionable methods farmers used.

“It was kind of crazy. A lot of them used pesticides that have been banned in the U.S. for years,” Patel said. “I was kind of moved by that and realized something had to be done about that.”

With that realization came A Happy Life. The company, founded by Patel, sells coffee, grown organically in Africa and South America, to restaurants, coffee shops and grocery stores in the United States, using part of the profits to fund infrastructure and economies in struggling nations.

While the short-term aim is to create a successful business, Patel said he hopes to

eventually create a dialogue between the sellers and the farmers.

“The goal is getting into these villages, start experimenting with different solutions and finding solutions to problems that farmers actually face,” Patel said.

As the company began to grow, though, space became limited and Patel needed a home for his business. After dedicating so much work to pitching and distributing coffee, Patel realized his company “needed a more sustainable way to rev up revenue.”

“We never had a central base to do things out of,” Patel said. “And we really wanted that.”

The Happiness Lab will be that home.

With construction underway, Patel is currently focusing on their Kickstarter campaign. With a goal of $15,000, it has over $11,000 already pledged as of Dec. 2.

“That’s going to help us put on the finishing touches,” Patel said.

Patel isn’t the only one confident in the benefits the coffee shop can have for its customers. Onyeka Obiocha, president of A Happy Life, said The Happiness is first coffee shop of its kind.

“The Happiness Lab’s sole focus is to offer events, initiatives and programs dedicated to building a happier community, whether it’s a nutritionist offering a class on healthy eating or a local band entertaining customers,” she said.

Obiocha said it’s the next “iteration of the traditional coffee shop,” with the

PHOTO COURTESY OF VISHAL PATEL

College of Arts and Sciences alum Vishal Patel was inspired by his experiences volunteering in Tanzania to create The Happiness Lab, a coffee shop he hopes to open after fundraising through his Kickstarter page.

classes and live entertainment creating something bigger than just a space where communities can caffeinate.

“Fostering community has always been a byproduct of coffee shops,” Obiocha said. “However, The Happiness Lab wants to take this amazing byproduct and make it the focus of our shop, strengthening and growing this naturally occurring bond.”

INBUSINESS Food truck trend lets Boston restaurateurs test-drive new ideas

BY Tafi Mukunyadzi DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Whether looking for a full meal or just a snack, businesspeople, college students and tourists alike f lock to bright-

ly-colored vehicles offering nearly ever y kind of food, from Vietnamese to Mexican to classic grilled-cheese sandwiches.

Over the past several years, food trucks have grown from a novelty to an integral part of the culinar y industr y. Despite

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Mei Mei is one of many Boston restaurants with food trucks and conventional restaurant locations.

that evolution, brick-and-mortar restaurants — many of them with deep roots in Boston — aren’t too worried about the future.

John Caparella, owner of Italian restaurant Mother Anna’s, said that despite the rapid transformation of the industr y, his restaurant has managed to adapt.

“It [the business] is doing fine,” he said. “We see a lot of changes, but the restaurant is doing well.”

The actual Mother Anna, Caparella’s grandmother, opened the Italian eater y in 1932 in Boston’s historic North End. Now, four generations of the Caparella family have been involved in the business. Through almost 83 years of ser ving the city’s people, the business has seen the restaurant landscape change. Caparella said the family tries to be competitive by offering food at reasonable prices.

“People like the comfort food,” he said. His hope is that customers will keep frequenting the restaurant for an authentic, homey Italian experience.

And while places like Mother Anna’s provide a more relaxing and slower dining experience, food trucks have

stepped up to provide an alternative for those eating on the go. Boston saw its first food trucks in July 2011.

Rafael Carbonell, deputy director of the Office of Business Development for the City of Boston, said food trucks are not just great for patrons, but also for those willing to dream them up and run them.

“Entrepreneurs looking to get into the business see food trucks as an opportunity,” he said.

However, some food truck owners in Boston, Carbonell said, also want to own a restaurant. Trucks such as Clover Food Lab, Rox y’s Grilled Cheese, Bon Me and Mei Mei have all opened brickand-mortar establishments around Boston. Carbonell said Clover, in particular, is an example of a food truck that saw a successful transition. The Cambridge company began its journey with one truck and seven employees and now has approximately 200 employees in multiple locations.

“Many use food trucks as a proof of concept and marketing opportunity,” Carbonell said. “Food trucks create a great opportunity to build a following.”

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BU professors weigh in on ISS, future space travel

BY Madeleine O’Keefe DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

From classic V-2 rockets to winged shuttles, human transport from Earth to beyond is light years ahead of where it once was. And with the Boston Museum of Science premiering a new planetarium show on reaching for the stars, Bostonians have no excuse not to get roused over rockets.

“The engineering process requires incredible precision, especia lly when building spacecraft,” stated a Nov. 24 Museum of Science press release for the planetarium show, “From Dream to Discover y: Inside NASA Engineering.” “Even tiny particles like a single eyelash can damage the delicate instr uments, threatening the success of an entire mission.”

With this imperative precision comes proper planning both on Earth and in space. Part of that responsibilit y fa lls on three newly arrived astronauts on the Internationa l Space Station.

Terr y Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federa l Space Agency and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency will spend the next six months in orbit clearing the way for the next step: a f leet of U.S.based “space ta x is” due to arrive at the station in 2017.

“More than any thing else, I think it’s a politica l move to keep human space life active as well as an internationa l venture,” said Andrew West, assistant professor of astronomy at Boston Universit y. “We just need to shoot someone up into orbit … We’ve had the technolog y to do that since the 1960s.”

Since the end of NASA’s Space Shuttle program in 2011, Russia’s “Soy uz” capsules have been the only way for astronauts and cosmonauts to travel to and from the ISS. In September, NASA announced that private

f irms Boeing and SpaceX won a bid to design the space ta x is that will enable the United States to once again send astronauts and supplies to the ISS from American soil.

The new crafts will face the same problems scientists have a lways had, though. West said modern-day modeling still accounts for the same space environment factors, starting with gravit y.

“The rea l expense is mass,” West said. “So you want to make them as light as possible.”

Due to the short length of the sixhour f light bet ween Earth and the ISS, West said mass might not dominate the focus of engineers at Boeing and SpaceX. Instead, spacecraft design, including that of the new American space ta x is, must focus on taking into account extreme temperatures outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, said Theodore Fritz, professor of astronomy at BU. “Temperature is a ver y diff icult thing to come to grips with,” Fritz said.

“On the one hand, your spacecraft is seeing a black sky at 50 degrees Kelvin.”

That’s negative 370 degrees Fahr enheit. In other words, it’s ver y, ver y cold.

“On the other hand, if it’s in or bit around the Earth, you’re seeing the Sun, which is pumping 1300 Watts per square meter out,” he added.

Fritz and West said designs for manned spacecraft have not changed much since the Apollo missions f ift y years ago. The space ta x is’ designs might not be drastica lly different because, after a ll, their jobs aren’t.

“A manned vehicle is kind of f ixed,” Fritz said. “A human being is a certain size, and you need to accommodate that size.”

However, as cosmic destinations become more ambitious, craft design

will inevitably have to adjust. West said a manned mission to Mars is likely to be humankind’s next step in space exploration — a costly but technolog ica lly possible feat. NASA is a lready planning a Thursday test launch of its Orion capsule, the same spacecraft it plans to send to Mars by 2035.

“Going to Mars is certainly something that pushes our envelope as a species, and there’s def initely scientif ic gain to be had, especia lly in terms of understanding if Mars is a place that once sustained life,” West said. “So I think there are some cool questions that human exploration and bringing back rocks can answer.”

But there’s a difference bet ween the six hours to orbit and the nine months to Mars. Unlike missions to the moon or the ISS, a manned spacecraft to Mars would require enough room for astronauts to comfortably live, as well as enough room for storing food, water and ox ygen, West said.

Additiona lly, the craft would need shielding to protect it from the Sun’s radiation, which is much stronger on the other side of Earth’s magnetic f ield, West said. His proposa l is to store water in the wa lls of the spacecraft.

“It both dea ls with where you store water and can act like a shield,” West said.

Looking ahead to the f uture of space exploration, Fritz said that maintaining f low of development is of the upmost importance, and shows like the one at the Museum of Science get people thinking of what’s next.

“What’s rea lly necessar y is to maintain a steady progression of programs that view a long -term goa l of exploration,” Fritz said. “Not necessarily that you throw hundreds of billions of dollars at it, right in one fell swoop, but you keep working toward that end.”

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Restaurants and food trucks work together to sate all appetites FOOD TRUCKS, FROM PAGE 5

That transition process makes for an almost symbiotic relationship between trucks and restaurants, giving opportunity to more would-be restaurateurs. Steven Leibowitz, author of the Hub Food Trucks blog and self-described food truck lover, said the swell in Boston’s food truck culture has been noticeable.

“The first year [of Boston food trucks] in 2011, there were fewer than fifteen trucks in Boston. Now, there is 4 to 5 times that, and many new locations,” Leibowitz said in an email. He said the city has been making noticeable efforts to accommodate more vending spots. The Rose F. Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston, for example, allows food trucks to operate within its space during the year’s warmer months.

Leibowitz said food trucks are not necessarily a threat to planted restaurants, but instead an asset.

“Several restaurants understand that a food truck helps expand their

brand,” he said. “Paris Creperie, Redbones [BBQ], Posto and Tenoch Mexican are all examples of restaurants expanding into food trucks. And the numerous trucks who have expanded to a restaurant have stayed on the streets also. Mei Mei, Rox y’s and Pennypacker’s all have great trucks and restaurants.”

In Leibowitz’s eyes, owners who believe that food trucks are cutting into the business of their traditional restaurants are simply not competitive enough.

“If you are threatened by a truck with a small menu and no amenities, you’re probably not a good restaurant,” he said.

Still, he added, the future for food trucks — though bright — is not completely clear.

“I keep wondering when there will be a saturation point,” he said. “One thing I say to truck owners now [is] you need a plan outside of Boston, because there are only so many spots and an ever-expanding number of people hitting the streets, thinking this is their break.

Some are good, some spectacularly fail.”

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Roxy’s Grilled Cheese has both a food truck and a physical location.

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REVIEW: Comfortable “Nutcracker” feels like recurring dream

BY Brooke Jackson-Glidden DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s renowned ballet, “The Nutcracker,” the shifty-yet-kind Herr Drosselmeyer gives the blue-eyed, pure Clara Silberhaus a nutcracker toy for Christmas.

That evening, from the comfort of dreamland, Clara explores a wonderland of winter y curiosities with Drosselmeyer as her guide. From the moment Drosselmeyer enters her family’s extravagant home, Clara’s cushioned life becomes more exciting and more magical.

Mikko Nissinen, choreographer of this year’s rendition of Boston Ballet’s “The Nutcracker,” may have followed the script too closely — the magic of the Nutcracker only comes into sight when Drosselmeyer steps onstage.

Boston Ballet’s 47th year presenting this holiday tradition, an homage to the one time of the year a material object can come alive in a child’s mind, doesn’t var y much from the last 46 years of interpretations. The Sugar Plum Fair y is blonde, thin and elegant, with a toothpaste-ad smile and a f lawless pirouette.

The Silberhaus family is angelic in their empire-waist dresses and high-collared coats. The costumes glitter, the sets transform and sparkling artificial snow falls from the ceilings. Ever ything is as it should be and has been.

The first act of Friday’s opening night performance of “The Nutcracker” threw a bone to the students of Boston Ballet School, as the stage was crowded with children. Audience members smiled the way anyone smiles at a kid cousin’s school play, with an “Aw w, isn’t that sweet?” Uncomfortably sophomoric, the opening dances only burst into amazing Technicolor with the arrival of Drosselmeyer, performed Friday evening by French dancer Yur y Yanowsky, a Boston Ballet veteran of over twenty years.

Yanowksy smiled and leapt with the expressive style of a silent-movie actor, exuding charisma and charm. He arrived at the Silberhaus residence with a handful of presents, including a hopping harlequin and a mechanical ballerina, performed by Ricardo Santos and Ji Young Chae, respectively. Both dancers stayed true to the inspiration, f lopping like rag dolls or ticking like automatons. Chae, in particular, showed remarkable promise with a bold, precise style.

The most enjoyable moments came with the alterations — the dancing grandparents, the Rat King pulling a toothpick sword from an abandoned appetizer, the rat minions fighting over giant plush cupcakes, a stuffed bunny comforting a humiliated gingerbread man. The battle between the rats and the toy soldiers, though pandering to the under-10 crowd, was a refreshing moment of comic relief, a bridge between a tiresome scene of 17th centur y British aristocracy and a mystical fantasy snowscape.

In that snowscape, we meet the regency of snow, and all hail Queen Lia Cirio. Cirio, a Pennsylvania native who

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Boston Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” opened Nov. 8 and will be playing until Dec. 31.

has spent 10 years with Boston Ballet Company, f lutters en pointe, spins into f lurries and melts down the back of her King. Completely transfixed on the two lovebirds, we fail to notice the disappearing Christmas tree and the emergence of a birch forest.

Surprisingly enough, the Nutcracker and Sugar Plum Fair y, the Oberon and Titania of their own season of magical forest, don’t hold the audience quite as well. Both performers are remarkable dancers — Ashley Ellis, the fair y of Friday evening, holds a perfect posture underneath all her chiffon, one porcelain leg reaching for the clouds without a tremble. She’s missing a little darkness, though, something a little less wholesome. Juxtaposed with the mysterious Drosselmeyer, Ellis fades into the blizzard behind her.

The supporting dancers stole Act Two, in particular the Russian and Arabian dancers in the Great Hall of the Nutcracker King. In the Arabian Dance, the surprisingly seductive duet between Kathleen Breen Combes and Lasha Khozashvili threw tradition out the window, pushing the barrier between ballet and modern dance in a mesmerizing way. The chemistr y between Khozashvili and Combes was the Dionysian element I was craving, spoiled by brooding contemporar y ballet swirling with tragedy and elusiveness.

The rest of the second act was droll and listless, with the exception of the Arabian duet and the electrif ying solo

by Jeffrey Cirio — Lia’s brother — in the Russian Dance. He leapt effortlessly, invoking amazed gasps from the audience. It must be in the Cirio genes.

Or, it could just be the magic of the season.

“The Nutcracker” will be running at the Boston Opera House through Dec. 31st.

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Paranoid schizophrenic man granted stay by federal appeals court On Sept. 8, 1992, Texas resident Scott Panetti woke up around dawn, shaved his head and drove to his wife’s parents’ house. In front of his wife and 3-year-old daughter, he shot and killed his in-laws.

During a confrontation with police, he released his wife and daughter unharmed, then changed into a suit, went to the nearest police station and turned himself in.

Panetti has suffered from paranoid schizophrenia for more than three decades, his lawyers told the U.S. Supreme Court. He was scheduled for execution by lethal injection on Wednesday.

Panetti’s lawyers successfully fought off the death penalty charge, which was stayed by a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday. While a stay does not necessarily mean that Panetti will not wind up being executed, it does give federal courts, including the Supreme Court, more time to consider the larger issues surrounding the case – such as the execution of a severely mentally ill man.

The case has gotten national attention from opponents of the death penalty and others, who say that Panetti clearly was not aware of what he was doing when he killed his in-laws. Protestors of the original court decision say that it violates the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.

In 2007, Panetti’s lawyers argued in front of the Supreme Court that he failed to meet the standard of competence set by the precedent-setting case Ford v.

Wainwright in 1986, which established

that “the Eighth Amendment forbids the execution only of those who are unaware of the punishment they are about to suffer and why they are to suffer it.”

However, under Texas law, a person is considered competent to stand trial if they present “sufficient ability to consult with his or her lawyer with a reasonable degree or rational understanding” and “a rational, as well as a factual, understanding of the proceedings against him or her.” Panetti’s lawyers argued that Panetti did not have a rational understanding.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz from Texas said a factual understanding was enough.

Michael Perlin, a lawyer and professor of law at New York Law School, spoke out about the Panetti decision before the stay was granted Wednesday.

“The Panetti case is as shameful a stain on our legal system as I have observed in my 43-plus years as a lawyer,” he told Vice. “There is no question as to the profundity of his mental illness and similarly no question that his execution mocks the notion that due process is truly available to all in the criminal justice system.”

Texas is not new to capital punishment — the state has executed 518 inmates since 1976, by far the most of any state. The next-highest number belongs to Oklahoma, which has performed 111 executions. There are currently 18 states that have abolished capital punishment, including Massachusetts. Capital punishment is controversial in general, but it is especially so in cases such as Panetti’s,

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where the convicted is clearly severely mentally ill. It is estimated that at any given time, 10 to 15 percent of convicts on death row are mentally ill.

In cases of mentally ill death row inmates, it is argued that they didn’t know what they were doing at the time of the crime. And in instances of severe psychosis like Panetti, it’s fairly clear that there is an extreme lack of competence. He understands what he did in murdering his ex-wife’s parents, but it was his intentions that are not understandable to the mentally competent.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott claims that Panetti has been secretly filmed while talking to his parents about his crime and shows “a rational understanding of the relationship between his crime and his punishment.” But there is a difference between lucidity and logic — he may be able to talk to others about the crime, but likely does not understand the immensity of what he’s saying.

The relationship between incarceration and mental illness is a tale as old as time. If people were found to be mentally ill, they were placed in jail instead of in treatment. Of course, however, this was at a time before doctors knew what to do in cases of mental illness. So then why, when we have modern medicine and the ability to at least partially rehabilitate people with even the most severe of psychoses, is giving a mentally incompetent person the death penalty an option?

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Moulin Scrooge

BY CHRIS LISINSKI COLUMNIST

Don’t go see “Moulin Rouge.”

Sorry, perhaps that was a bit negative. If you’re into decades-old themes about deifying the penis, and if you love seeing white people pretend to be races they once colonized, go see “Moulin Rouge.”

I saw the show with my parents while they were visiting Paris for Thanksgiving because, in all fairness, it’s often viewed as a classically Parisian experience. Maybe I set myself up for failure on this one by not understanding the background. I walked into the theater knowing only two facts about “Moulin Rouge”: 1. It contains, as my mother so gracefully put it, “boobies.”

2. Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? Ce soir?

To my grand disappointment, that brilliant song of debauchery did not make an appearance in the real “Moulin Rouge.” I suppose in reality, it only exists on radio stations advertising themselves as the “best hits of today and yesterday” (emphasis on the quotes).

It did, however, have plenty of breasts. In fact, just about every woman in the show was topless, save three or four exceptions.

Now, I have no problem with naked women.

I quite like them, actually. The scores of nudity did not offend my delicate sentiments, nor do I see any character flaws in the dancers themselves.

But only the women were naked.

Within the first minute, all of the female dancers — who had been clothed up to this point — tore off their pants to rapturous cheers from the audience. They made their way back downstage as the men stepped up … and did a little shimmy. Nothing more.

The show continued in what I assume is typical “Moulin Rouge” fashion. Women promenaded around wearing only underwear and an elaborate headdress or glimmering beads that did not actually cover anything, or what I can only assume is an LSD-inspired cross between a “Sesame Street” costume and a turkey. The men wore turtlenecks under blazers or full pirate garb, each piece of which was covered in approximately one art classroom’s worth of glitter.

Certainly, the cultural history of cabaret and the theater itself plays a part in this — “Moulin Rouge” is located in what used to be the notorious red-light district of Pigalle — and

I understand the liberating value of seeing beauty in the human body. But why is it that there was only beauty in the female body? What fun is there in denying an entire sexual identity any steamy parts to admire? Last time I checked, we have nude Greek statues of men and women.

The whole performance reeked of patriarchy and tone-deafness. Several scenes take place in stereotypically “exotic” settings, such as one where men in turbans are “attacked” by (mostly naked) women dressed as “jaguars” or another where (white) women do a “tribal” dance with African-style masks.

Again, I’m sure that much of this relates to the storied foundation of French cabaret, and perhaps this type of performance just isn’t for me, but in the modern age, it feels wildly out of place.

The low point for me came during another “exotic” segment, albeit one that draws from myth and not from colonialism. It began with a woman wearing an intricate headpiece made to look like snakes à la Medusa establishing her dominance. She then casts a prisoner, who is nude, save for a pale piece of underwear — the most nude anyone has been in the entire show — into an aquarium that has risen up from the stage.

Now, my hatred for this segment is multifaceted, but perhaps it stems mostly from one fact: my mother and I are both ophidiophobic.

We cry at the sight of snakes.

And what did the aquarium happen to contain? Snakes. It was filled with hundreds of gallons of water and eight or nine really, really big snakes. Immediately, my mother and I let out harmonious moans and buried our faces into my stepfather’s shoulders.

From a purely technical standpoint, I must admit I am amazed — how did they fit a gigantic aquarium in the stage? How did they get the snakes in there? Where did the snakes go afterwards? Did they realize I could never feel safe again knowing those monstrosities were somewhere in the building?

As I saw it when I peeked through my fingers, our naked heroine splashed around frantically, but eventually evolved into a sort of underwater dance with the snakes. At the end, she grabbed the fat albino one, wrapped it around herself and held its head up out of the water in victory.

Then it hit me: “Oh, I get it! The snakes are dicks!”

Think about it: Medusa (a powerful woman who “coincidentally” loves snakes a.k.a. dicks) throws a pure, naked girl (virgin) into a dangerous setting surrounded by phallic beasts (sex).

The young girl overcomes her fear and comes to love, of course, the whitest snake (penis).

Patriarchal symbolism strikes again.

Smash it! Hasn’t this been done before? Give me more of the roller-skating acrobats or the slapstick buffoons. I like those better.

Maybe I should accept my American identity and sue the “Moulin Rouge” for emotional damages. But at least I got about seven glasses of champagne out of it.

AIDS: Time to Stop the Status Stigma

BY REBECCA REYNOLDS COLUMNIST

Monday was World AIDS Day. Modern medicine in the United States has removed most of the fear factor that comes with Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome. A lot of people aren’t as well informed about it, because it doesn’t directly affect them. However, because people are living longer with HIV and AIDS, there are now more people who can transmit the virus.

The goal is to have an AIDS-free world.

How can you help? Well, you probably aren’t a researcher who can help find the cure. You probably aren’t a doctor who can treat patients. And you probably don’t have tons of money to donate to the cause. But you can help stop the stigma.

What would you do if you found out someone you knew had HIV or AIDS? Would you stare at them funny? Would you be afraid that you might catch it? Would you avoid them? Would you blame them?

Many people who are HIV positive or have AIDS face an awful stigma, along with their complex medical problems. The best way to help fight stigma is to be well informed. Luckily, HIV isn’t a death sentence anymore. And touching, hugging, kissing or sharing a toilet with someone who is HIV positive won’t transmit it to you.

If someone you know is HIV positive, there are plenty of ways to keep both them and yourself safe, even if you are having sex with them. The resources are out there. You should not be afraid of people who have HIV or AIDS. A lot of the stigma stems from AIDS being originally known as Gay-related immune deficiency. Many people associate AIDS with being gay and being poor. This leads to a stigma around it, especially in areas where homosexuality is illegal. People are quick to blame HIV-positive people for their situation.

However, it’s not that easy. Most people who have HIV don’t know they have it. They don’t get tested because of the stigma, and then they transmit it to others unknowingly. Viral load is highest (meaning it’s easiest to transmit it to others) within the first few weeks of being infected, so people should be getting tested often. But if the stigma around

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HIV and AIDS doesn’t change, it will be harder to get people to change their behavior and get tested more often.

Over the past few weeks, campaigns have launched to help fight the stigma. There is a naked shower selfie campaign with the #weareALLclean because of the stigma that if you are HIV positive, you are dirty. These stigmas have to do with the language we use to talk about sexually transmitted infections testing and when we ask people if they are “clean.”

What you really mean to ask is, “Have you been tested?” Even, “Do you know your status?” seems less harmful than, “Are you clean?” Asking someone if they are clean perpetuates the thought process that people with STIs, whether it’s HIV or something else, are somehow less than. Somehow tarnished. Somehow incredibly infectious and something to fear.

It’s important to get tested, but if finding out your status means people will label you with “dirty” or “clean,” people might avoid getting tested. It is hard enough to get people to get tested, particularly in small communities where everyone will know if you get tested or treated.

There’s also the #FeelNoShame campaign. This one is to bring attention to HIV-positive people, particularly children in Lesotho, who are too ashamed to get care. It’s a way for people to show that everyone has secrets and things they feel shameful about, even Prince Harry.

This campaign targets the internalized stigma that many people living with HIV or AIDS have. People are so ashamed of their status that they choose not to get the help and support they need. They might stop participating in activities they once enjoyed and withdraw socially.

Without a support system, this could lead them down an even more treacherous path of anxiety and depression. They may start to do things that will poorly affect their health. And then they might end up taking their own lives before they have fully lived them.

Inner stigma can be just as harmful as outside stigma and can lead to death, just like the infection that caused it. In order to prevent this inner stigma, we need to make safe spaces for people to disclose their status and get help. I know this is more difficult in some places, such as Lesotho. But with time, hopefully, those safe spaces will become most places.

So in honor of World AIDS Day, get educated. Alter your perception about people living with HIV or AIDS. If you have the chance, change other people’s thoughts. We won’t be able to treat or prevent HIV and AIDS if people are too afraid to get tested and treated, so fighting the stigma will help lead us into an AIDS-free generation.

An Iowa man was jailed without bail Tuesday after allegedly assaulting his wife with a McDonald’s McChicken sandwich. We here at the ol’ Free Press were wondering what the toy weapon of choice would be for people at BU:

CGS: Safety scissors.

SMG: Daddy’s bodyguard.

President Brown: Mustache wax.

BU Housing: Confiscated Keurigs.

COM: A Venti iced coffee.

CFA: Their diplomas.

ENG: Their inflatable girlfriend.

FreeP: The old, dusty iMacs in the newsroom.

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MLS has potential to rival Euro soccer hype SHULMAN FROM PAGE 12

This dissatisfaction with MLS explains how the quality of players is much lower than European leagues because of a f lawed developmental system.

However, despite this problem, foreign players continue to express a desire to play in MLS. With new domestic and international talents pouring into the league ever y year, attendance and fan interest have both increased. European fans are most enthusiastic about their teams, garnering fan sections for ultras and massive tifos, which are large-scale demonstrations of fanhood.

MLS clubs have always had ultras and fans, but only recently have tifos come into play. During the New England Revo-

lution playoff run, fans have unleashed tifos before kickoff of their home games, including a “Game of Thrones”-inspired banner.

So will the MLS ever be as popular as the top-f light leagues in Europe?

At the rate the MLS is growing and expanding, the popularity will only increase along with the league. As fan bases across the league grow, the publicity each team and MLS itself will receive will grow too.

And will MLS also be competitive with European leagues?

The only way that can happen is if the developmental system improves. One way to do this is to implement a

relegation system. In ever y European league, the two to four worst teams at the end of the season are relegated to the division below, and the top teams in the second division get promoted. This could help make the league more competitive and allow teams to make their developmental programs more stringent.

Relegation and better training programs won’t necessarily allow the MLS champion to defeat the champion of the Barclays Premier League in England. However, if a match were held between the two, the MLS champion would certainly make it a competitive contest. What may once have been a six-goal rout could become a competitive fixture

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t the rate the MLS is growing and expanding, the popularity will only increase along with the league.

As fan bases across the league grow, the publicity each team and MLS itself will receive will grow too. separated by just a goal in either team’s favor. With time and increased exposure, the

MLS should continue to make the progressions necessar y to become a true powerhouse.

Young roster results in offensive uncertainty for women’s basketball

BY Karly Finison DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Inexperience plagued the Boston University women’s basketball team in its 67-55 loss to the University of New Hampshire Wednesday night.

Senior forward Mollie McKendrick and sophomore forward Meghan Green had a combined 35 points, but it was not enough to put BU (3-4) past a veteran UNH (4-2) team.

McKendrick earned her second consecutive double-double, and though both her and Green’s presences were felt on offense, BU struggled to defend UNH’s interior play, specifically that of 6-foot-4 senior forward Kaylee Kilpatrick.

Kilpatrick had six points, three rebounds and an assist in the game’s opening minutes, and the Terriers had no answer and were outscored in the paint by a 12-point margin.

“They were significantly bigger,” said

BU coach Katy Steding. “We were very passive to start. In all areas, we were just very passive. It’s not our style and how we want to play.”

Experience equally played to UNH’s advantage as the Wildcats’ starting five consisted of four upperclassmen, including three seniors, while BU’s McKendrick remains the lone senior anchoring the Terrier squad.

“We wanted to put Mollie on their best player to keep [Green] out of foul trouble,” Steding said. Green ended the night with three personal fouls.

The only other Terrier with significant experience is junior guard Clodagh Scannell. Scannell appeared in every game last season, but this year, she averages only 4.7 points per game and sees an average of 19.8 minutes per game. Wednesday night, Scannell recorded two points and five rebounds.

Even when BU decided to more heavily collapse its defense to limit Kilpatrick’s touches, UNH found scoring opportuni-

ties elsewhere. Junior Elizabeth Belanger scored a game-high 23 points. Senior Ariel Gaston added 16 points, and Kilpatrick finished with nine points.

“We didn’t expect them to hit shots right out of the gate like that,” Steding said. “They’re a good team, but we weren’t expecting that.”

A 13-3 run at the end of the first half put the Terriers within five points, though UNH quickly extended that lead after five consecutive BU turnovers to open the second half. The Wildcats even led by as many as 16 points toward the end of the game.

“They came out and hit a few shots, and I think we lost some confidence from that,” Steding said. “You get down like that, and it’s clawing back. They’re not a team that’s going to let you claw back.”

With Steding in her first year at the helm of the Terriers, a team built up of seven underclassmen, BU is still in the midst of a transitional phase with a dearth of leadership.

As more players gain experience throughout the season, Steding said she hopes the team will feed off McKendrick’s and have more confidence in tight situations.

On the defense end, Steding acknowledged that her team has tested out a variety of strategies. She said the team’s gameplan of collapsing on defense during the University of New Mexico Thanksgiving Tournament was not as effective Wednesday night.

“In New Mexico, we [were] playing a more shut-down-the-paint type defense, more controlled,” Steding said. “It had a great effect. But these guys [UNH] could really shoot, and even though we said we wanted to shut down the paint again, because they do drive well, they were lighting it up over the top. That was frustrating for us.”

Points leaders in Wednesday’s game against the University of New Hampshire

Meghan Green: 18 points 37 minutes Mollie McKendrick: 10 rebounds 35 minutes

Sarah Hope: 7 assists, 40 minutes, scored the only 3-pointer for BU

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Sophomore forward Meghan Green led the women’s basketball team with 18 points in Wednesday’s loss to the Wildcats.

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Women’s hoops struggles to find footing against UNH

BY DOUGLAS BROWN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Coming off a tight win over Stephen F. Austin State University Saturday at the University of New Mexico Thanksgiving Tournament, the Boston University women’s basketball team could not keep up the momentum Wednesday night against the University of New Hampshire, falling 67-55.

Returning home to Case Gymnasium, the Terriers (3-4) started slow, committing four turnovers in the first five minutes of play, resulting in a 19-8 run from the Wildcats (4-2) that ended with a 3-pointer from guard Elizabeth Belanger.

“We were a little bit out of sorts, and that really affected us,” said BU coach Katy Steding. “Everything stemmed from us not coming out as ready to play as we should have been. I take responsibility for that. I just take responsibility for making sure the team is ready.”

With less than six minutes remaining in the first half, the Terriers finally started to claw back, going on a 9-0 run. Sophomore guard Courtney Latham hit a jumper and brought the score to 30-17. Classmate guard Sarah Hope then sunk a shot from beyond the arc to pull BU within 10.

“Courtney and Sarah overall do a really good job controlling the ball and con-

trolling the tempo,” Steding said.

Freshman guard Corrine Williams’ layup with 3:14 to play in the opening half cut the Wildcats’ lead to six, and senior forward Mollie McKendrick hit a jumper at the end of the frame to gain even more ground on UNH. BU went into the break trailing 33-28.

McKendrick finished the night with a double-double, scoring 17 points and grabbing 10 rebounds. The senior trailed only sophomore forward Meghan Green in points, who had 18 on the night.

The Terriers started fast in the second half as Green quickly went to the freethrow line just over a minute in. She hit both free throws to cut the lead to 33-30.

That was as close as the Terriers would get to UNH. UNH went on to extend the lead to 4939 at the 10:47 mark due in part to Belanger hitting one of her two 3-pointers on the night. The guard was the Wildcats’ leading scorer, finishing with 23 points.

Guard Ariel Gaston was a catalyst for UNH throughout the second half as she ended the night with a double-double on 16 points and 10 rebounds, with 10 of those points coming after halftime. She provided the knockout blow when she hit two free throws to make it 63-51 with 1:40 remaining.

The Terriers found themselves outsized, as they were outscored 34-22 in the paint and were often relegated to the perimeter when attempting to score. There, the Terriers struggled, as they went 1-of-16 from behind the arc.

“Everything stems from a lack of aggression,” Steding said. “We just didn’t hit key shots, and some people started slow, and that really affected everybody.”

The Terriers were forced to try different defensive schemes as they attempted to prevent the Wildcats from scoring in the paint and controlling the tempo.

“We changed some defensive looks,” Steding said. “We did some zone, we did some man and tried to extend our coverage.

We went with some full court pressure to try and spark us, get us more aggressive.

That didn’t seem to have as much of an effect as we wanted it to.”

The Wildcats went on an 8-0 run and secured their largest lead of the game with a score of 67-51 with 1:10 remaining. BU was unable to rally the rest of the way and saw its home record fall to 2-1.

“It’s tough for us because we don’t have great numbers top to bottom,” Steding said.

“Trying to extend pressure and really tear up on defense is not a great strategy for us for the long term, but we do have to play more aggressively.”

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Senior forward Mollie McKendrick recorded her second consecutive double-double Wednesday with 17 points and 10 rebounds.

Success beyond arc aids men’s basketball in victory over Binghamton

BY ALEX ROZIER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University men’s basketball team rode its sharp 3-point shooting Wednesday night to elevate itself over visiting Binghamton University in a 77-65 win at Case Gymnasium.

BU (2-4) sunk a season-high 14 threes, shooting 50 percent from deep against the Bearcats (1-7). The Terriers received long-range contributions from a variety of sources, most notably from sophomore guard Cedric Hankerson. Hankerson went 4-for-7 from behind the 3-point line and finished with a team-high 21 points.

The Miami native leads the team in deep shooting with 20 made threes on the season, hitting them at a rate of 43.5 percent.

“This is the best shooting team I’ve ever coached,” said BU coach Joe Jones.

Hankerson’s backcourt partner and junior guard John Papale also found success from afar, making three 3-pointers and ending the night with 12 points. Papale and freshman guard Cheddi Mosely are second on the team in made threes, each having made 14 on the season. Mosely shot 2-for-5 from long range against the Bearcats.

“We shoot the ball well,” Jones said.

“We were getting them, and we were open, and we got loose, and that’s what we do. We have a lot of guys that can make them.”

Most BU players who checked in at

least attempted a deep shot, even as Jones emptied his bench= toward the end of the game. Seven of the 13 Terriers to play Wednesday recorded an attempt from the 3-point range.

BU relied on its accurate shooting in the second half to survive various comeback attempts from Binghamton.

Two minutes into the second half, as BU worked the ball around the perimeter, Hankerson swung a pass over to junior forward Nathan Dieudonne, who peeled off a screen and sunk in a 3-pointer. It was a rare result this season for Dieudonne, who has only made three long-range shots this season and shoots from distance at a rate of 23.1 percent.

With 12:26 remaining, Papale found sophomore guard Eric Fanning at the top of the key. Fanning looked down on his defender and then rose for a 3-point attempt that touched off the rim and backboard before dropping in. Fanning shot a perfect 2-for-2 from deep on the night, matching his previous season total for made threes.

“He’s a very good player,” Jones said about Fanning. “We’re not the same team if he’s not playing well.”

One name that joined the list of prominent scorers Wednesday was freshman guard Will Goff. Having played just four total minutes and attempted only a single field goal prior to this event, Goff managed extended playing time and shooting opportunities with BU holding a large lead over the Bearcats.

With 9:53 on the clock in the second half, Fanning threw a crosscourt pass to Goff, who fired in a triple to raise BU’s lead to 22. Then, with 7:15 to go, Hankerson squeezed between a double team of defenders and fired a pass to the open Goff in the opposite corner, where the freshman again delivered from long range to put BU up by 17.

While the Bearcats came back, cutting BU’s lead down to 11 at one point, the Terriers’ shooting kept the home team in front. With nearly six minutes remaining, Hankerson hit a triple on another assist from Papale. With 3:47 to go, Mosely caught a pass from Hankerson on the perimeter and, pushed back by a pick in front of him, shot over two players to sink his second three.

The Terriers’ performance from 3-point range against Binghamton was by far its best of the season — BU made eight triples against both Northeastern University and the University of New Hampshire and nine in its games against Norfolk State University, the University of Kentucky and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The Terriers had also not managed to shoot better than 42.9 percent from deep in a single game prior to Wednesday night.

Despite the team’s strong performance from behind the arc Wednesday, Jones said his team cannot be as overly reliant on long-range shooting. Before Wednesday, BU was tied for 36th in the

nation in made threes per game with 8.6, exhibiting their dependency on the three.

“The problem that we have is when we rely solely on [3-point shooting] and that hurts us,” Jones said. “And we try to throw more diversity into our offense by going into the paint, driving into the paint, cutting, so we’re not just throwing the ball around the perimeter and shooting a 3 because that’s what we do at times.”

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Junior guard John Papale tallied 12 points for the Terriers in their 77-65 win versus Binghamton Wednesday night.

BOTTOM LI NE THURSDAY, DEC. 4

FRIDAY, DEC. 5

SATURDAY, DEC. 6

SUNDAY, DEC. 7

MONDAY, DEC. 8

M. Hockey vs Merrimack, 7 p.m.

Nick Young predicted that he would score 46,000 points at the

W. Hockey @ Vermont, 4 p.m.

M. Hockey @ Merrimack, 7 p.m.

end of his career.

M. Basketball vs Saint Peters, 2 p.m.

W. Basketball @ Yale, 2 p.m.

That prediction does not get less crazy the more you look at it.

M. Basketball @ Harvard, 7 p.m.

W. Ice Hockey vs Providence, 7 p.m.

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QUOTABLE “Everything stems from a lack of aggression ... some people started slow, and that really affected everybody,” said BU women’s basketball head coach Katy Steding of her team’s performance against the University of New Hampshire Wednesday night. p. 11

A Fan’s Perspective

Could MLS be as popular as European soccer?

Lack of Luck Another impressive performance by Green not enough to lift Terriers over UNH. p. 11

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014

Boston University men’s basketball snaps losing streak against Binghamton

BY DAN SHULMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

With the 19th Major League Soccer Cup set to kick off Sunday, MLS has turned into one of the top professional soccer leagues in the world. Although the competitive factor may not be as high as European leagues, interest is starting to reach comparable levels.

MLS match ratings increased from last season, averaging 240,000 viewers per game on ESPN and 141,000 on NBC Sports, according to Sports Media Watch. These averages are up 9 percent and 26 percent from last season, respectively.

Attendance at games has also been up.

For example, the New England Revolution, whose highest postseason attendance prior to 2014 was 19,018, drew an audience of 32,698 fans to the second leg of the Eastern Conference Final against the New York Red Bulls on Saturday.

With attendance and viewership on the rise, the question remains whether the MLS could potentially be as popular as European soccer. It certainly is likely, but it might be awhile.

What will it take then?

For starters, the quality of players must increase.

In past seasons, big names such as David Beckham, Thierry Henry and Clint Dempsey have signed contracts with MLS teams. Next season, the league will be expanding, adding two new teams: Orlando City SC and New York City FC. These two teams have already made headway with OCSC signing Brazilian star Kaká and NYCFC landing former Chelsea FC star and England National Team member Frank Lampard, along with former FC Barcelona and Spain National Team mainstay David Villa.

As many notable players flock to MLS, others seek to leave for the greener pastures of Europe. U.S. international DeAndre Yedlin, who made a name for himself at this summer’s FIFA World Cup, has signed a lucrative deal with London club Tottenham Hotspur.

U.S. Men’s National Team Manager Jürgen Klinsmann has expressed his displeasure with MLS and U.S. developmental systems.

He voiced his concern when USMNT player Michael Bradley moved from AS Roma in Italy to MLS club Toronto FC. His fear became apparent in the World Cup where Bradley, who was considered the top American player four years earlier, did not play to the same level as expected.

Klinsmann’s discontent with U.S. Soccer’s development programs can be seen through his addition of foreign-born Americans, such as Jermaine Jones, Fabian Johnson, Mix Diskerud, Aron Jóhannsson and most recently, 19-year-old Julian Green.

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Sophomore guard Cedric Hankerson has scored at least 20 points in his past four games.

tribute 14 points, three rebounds and four assists in 20 minutes of play. Goff and sophomore forward Dylan Haines also played significant supporting roles.

Jones said he was impressed with the bench support the Terriers received.

“They [the bench players] came into the game and really helped us,” Jones said. “They competed, they played hard, they really gave us a spark. I think a big part of the game is when we go to the bench, ‘Can we get productivity?’ We did tonight.”

BU went back and forth with the Bearcats in the beginning of the game, as neither team led by more than five points in the first twelve minutes. Eventually, the Terriers found success from deep, hitting six 3-point shots in seven minutes and extending their lead to 11 by halftime.

In the second half, BU remained locked in on offense, as it was able to build its lead to 22 points with less than ten minutes remaining. However, the Bearcats refused to go away. Binghamton’s freshman center Dusan Perovic hit a remarkable five long-range shots in the second half to keep the game somewhat close. Perovic finished with a school-record 34 points.

“I looked up at the board, and he has 18 points. All of a sudden, he had 34,” Jones said. “He was just drilling shots when the game got a little out of reach.

I was hoping if he missed one or two, we could just extend the lead, but he just kept making them. I thought he actually

BY NICK FRAZIER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University men’s basketball team got back on the winning track in a big way Wednesday night, defeating Binghamton University 77-65 at Case Gym. The victory was the second this year for the Terriers (2-4) and snapped a threegame losing streak, which included a loss to No. 1 University of Kentucky and a 69-59 home defeat at the hands of the University of Massachusetts Lowell on Sunday.

“We got a good team effort from a lot of guys,” said BU coach Joe Jones. “We played really hard with a lot of energy.

After the Kentucky game, it was kind of a rocky week for us. It was good to see our team really compete and play hard tonight. Regardless of the final score, I thought we played very hard throughout the game.”

The Terriers relied on the 3-point shot to oust the Bearcats (1-7), as BU went 14-for-28 from the perimeter, including 7-for-11 in the second half. Leading the offensive attack were sophomore guard Cedric Hankerson and junior guard John Papale. The two hit a combined seven long-range shots. Freshmen guards Will Goff and Cheddi Mosely, along with sophomore guard Eric Fanning also had success from downtown, as each hit two 3-point shots of their own.

Fanning came off the bench to con-

played well.”

In the end, the Terriers were still able to prevail, even coming off a string of poor performances. Jones said he is trying to instill a hard-working “blue-collar” mentality in his players.

“We talk about being tough and playing with effort, and we just didn’t do that for two games,” Jones said. “My thing is, if guys aren’t going to compete, I’m just going to take them out. If they don’t take charges or dive for loose balls, I’m just going to take them out.

“I’m just not going to stand for it, so hopefully that’ll get the message across.

We have to become a blue-collar team.

This team is trying to change the makeup of our program, and it’s going to take time.”

Hankerson, who is the team’s leading scorer this season, is averaging just over 20 points a game. Wednesday night marked his fourth consecutive game in which he scored over 20 points. Jones said he was impressed with Hankerson’s response to the early adversity the Terriers have faced and added that he is confident Hankerson will help lead this young team in the right direction.

“We talked to [Hankerson] before the season started about being the best all-around player in the league,” Jones said. “He’s definitely stepping up. After our loss to UMass Lowell, he had the two best practices that I’ve ever seen anyone have here, in terms of his energy, attitude and leadership. He was off the charts.”

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