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YEAR XLIX. VOLUME XCVII. ISSUE IX.

Ben Shapiro says US not built on slavery

BY ANGELA YANG AND VANESSA KJELDSEN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, left, speaks at the Boston University Track and Tennis Center on Wednesday night, spurring a protest march, right top, that began in Marsh Plaza and continued throughout the event.

Shapiro event sparks protests

BY AMANDA CAPPELLI AND SAMANTHA KIZNER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

About 150 Boston University students — some standing silently, clad in all-black and holding signs with phrases such as “racism kills,” and others shouting chants at attendees — gathered in 27-degree weather outside the Boston University Track and Tennis Center to protest conservative pundit Ben Shapiro’s talk Wednesday night.

Chance Charley, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and head organizer for Students Against Hate Speech, the student coalition that led the protests, said this demonstration represented a

larger student activist movement.

“We want to make this not just about Ben Shapiro, but about rekindling a student movement at BU,” Charley said. “And so we see this is the first step in doing that.”

There was heavy police presence during the protest, with officers wearing protective masks throughout the night. Ashford Street and Alcorn Street were blocked off from cars.

The talk, hosted by the BU chapter of conservative group Young Americans for Freedom, was titled, “America Wasn’t Built On Slavery, It Was Built On Freedom” and took place from 6 to 7:15 p.m.

A statement released by a group of 133 black BU students Tuesday stated their grievances with the title of Shapiro’s talk.

“Rejecting and dismissing the impact of slavery furthers the plight of Black people, and it is on us to combat this racist hegemony that exists,” the group, which called itself Black BU, wrote in the statement.

Shapiro responded to Black BU’s statement to The Daily Wire Tuesday, saying he has never downplayed the significance of slavery.

“It’s supremely typical of campus radicals to dismiss the content

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Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro spoke at Boston University Wednesday evening after weeks of controversy on campus surrounding his impending visit. Individual protestors raised their voices inside the venue at various points throughout the event.

Shapiro, who was invited by BU’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, gave a speech titled “America Wasn’t Built On Slavery, It Was Built On Freedom” before turning the event over to a question-and-answer session.

The Daily Wire editor-in-chief and podcast host opened his speech by addressing recent protest efforts by Students Against Hate Speech and other students, and gave a “quick shoutout” to those who vandalized a poster advertising his event outside Warren Towers.

“Thanks to — really, I’m serious about this — to the protestors who showed up outside, demonstrating again that the lecture that I’m giving is almost pointless,” Shapiro said. “Because if America had been built on slavery, not freedom, you wouldn’t have literally hundreds of protestors outside exercising that First Amendment freedom.”

The free event, which sold out 1,500 seats, took place at the BU Track and Tennis Center. The first 1,000 tickets were distributed free to BU students and faculty, with the remaining 500 sold to the general public.

Shapiro read excerpts of an open letter from student movement Black BU expressing the group’s grievances surrounding BU’s decision to allow Shapiro’s appearance.

The letter specifically took issue with the title of Shapiro’s event.

“To deny slavery, and its economic role in the creation of the US as a nation is to deny the systematic degradation of Black bodies, the generational trauma, natal alienation, and social death that has marked and affected Black communities in the US since 1619,” the letter stated.

Shapiro responded to the sentiments and said that he had not yet given his talk.

“If just the title of the speech makes you feel ‘abandoned, triggered, frustrated, disheartened, devalued, infuriated, overwhelmed, ignored and embarrassed,’ see your doctor after four hours,” Shapiro said, drawing laughter from the audience.

Shapiro’s speech delved into the history of slavery and analyzed the ideals rooted in America’s founding documents.

“Here’s the thing: the story of America is not the story of unending tolerance for slavery,” Shapiro said. “Far from it.”

The extent of freedom today wouldn’t be possible if America was built on slavery, Shapiro said, who said that although history leaves a “lasting impact,” liberties in America have “expanded” with time.

“The story of America is a story of a nation cleansing itself up in vindication,” Shapiro said. “Stop conflating the past with the present or the tremendous unforgivable evil done to your great great-greatgreat-great-great-grandparents with your experiences today in America.

They are not the same.”

Shapiro said the idea that slavery and Jim Crow enhanced the American economy is “obviously untrue.” An economy run by free citizens is more economically efficient than slave labor, Shapiro said.

“If slavery had been an eco-

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Red Line suspends service Experts dispute BU ZIP code rent ranking

BY MIA KHATIB

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The MBTA’s Red Line will suspend service between Broadway and MIT/Kendall stations for four weekends, beginning this Friday, according to the MBTA. The renovations will take place between Nov. 15 and Dec. 15 to facilitate the renovations outlined in the MBTA’s 2019 Capital Acceleration Plan. Service will be suspended four out of the five weekends during this time period, with construction taking a break the weekend after Thanksgiving.

The weekend suspensions will begin at 8:45 p.m. on Fridays, with shuttle buses replacing subway service between Broadway and MIT/Kendall stations, according to the MBTA. Service will resume Monday mornings.

The MBTA is suspending Red Line service throughout the entirety of Downtown Boston in an

effort to hasten station, vehicle, and infrastructure improvements that will transform the T into a “modern, safe, reliable public transport system,” according to the MBTA’s website.

Jarred Johnson, chief operating officer of Transit Matters, a non-profit advocacy group pushing for better access to public transportation in the Greater Boston Area, said he supports the MBTA’s decision to complete the Red Line improvements over the upcoming weekends, rather than further down the line.

“This is work that they’re going to be able to do in four weekends instead of what might otherwise take them half a year, and you know it will see increased train speeds and more reliability out of it,” Johnson said. “This weekend work is a shorter-term pain versus if the project

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BY ANGELA YANG

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Keisha Bannister refuses to sleep on the streets. At 41, the single parent has raised three children by seeking out homeless shelters in between apartments.

In Boston, rent alone took 30 percent of her income.

“First thing I would definitely pay is my rent and my light bill,” Bannister said. “I didn’t really care about phone or cable or something like that because I’m raising my kids. Stuff like that I won’t have the funds to pay for, so something has to be cut.”

A report by Apartment Guide named Boston’s 02215 ZIP code, which encompasses most of Boston University and parts of Fenway, the most expensive area in the country to rent a home. However, experts say this data does not reflect the true average.

The article, released in early

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Peterborough Street in Fenway, which falls in Boston’s 02215 zip code, named the country’s most expensive area to rent in by a report by Apartment Guide.

November, places average monthly rent in 02215 — mainly the Back Bay and Fenway-Kenmore neighborhoods — at $5,034.80 in October for a one-bedroom apartment.

Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development told The Daily Free Press the figure is inaccurate.

Bobby Jafari, the manager of operations at real estate firm Kenmore Properties, said one-bedroom rental units in the area average anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000.

Rent for the most expensive places rises into the $4,000 or $5,000 range.

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Boston Anarchist Bookfair moved from BU campus

BY JOHN KIM AND ALEX LASALVIA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

T he B oston A n a rch ist Bookfair had a last-minute location change Friday from Boston University’s George Sherman Union after disputes with BU administration over the security costs, BU officials said.

T he B oston A n a rch ist Bookfair is an organization that aims to bring local residents and activists together to have workshops, share films and have conversations regarding anarchist ideas. The Anarchist Bookfair has taken place at the GSU since 2014, but this year was moved to The Democracy Center and Makeshift Boston.

The group wrote in a Facebook post they changed the location because BU told them about security costs two days before the event that they hadn’t heard anything about before then.

“Less than 48 hours before the Boston Anarchist Bookfair was scheduled to start, we were informed by the Boston University, we would have to pay for the ‘services’ of six BU police officers for the whole weekend,” the organization wrote.

The facebook post also stated that the organization estimated the possible security cost using six police officers from Boston University Police Department as

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One of the book tables at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair that took place in Cambridge at The Democracy Center Saturday and Makeshift Boston Sunday instead of on Boston University’s campus, as it had been in previous years.

thousands of dollars and wrote they would not be able to meet BU’s financial request.

Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said the security costs weren’t disclosed earlier because BU administration and BUPD were not made aware of the event until two days before.

“Within about a 48 hour period we learned of the Book Fair and we scrambled to ensure that it could happen,” Elmore said.

Elmore said the student who reser ved space for the event through the Student Activities Office a few months ago did so

under her student organization’s name, the Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, but did not disclose that the event would be for the Anarchist Bookfair.

BUPD determined that the bookfair would require security because of threats made against it in the past, Elmore said. Last year, the bookfair was disrupted by masked individuals with suspected Nazi affiliations.

Boston Anarchist Bookfair also wrote on Facebook that BU cancelled the event. Elmore said BU never said they could not hold the event. The organization chose to change locations after

learning of the security costs.

Faith Puleikis, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences who reserved the space for the bookfair, said she booked the event the same way the CGSA had done since 2014. She wasn’t aware they were supposed to follow a different procedure this time until BU officials called her to a meeting two days before the event.

“We were told that since there was a possibility for counter protesters, it was the procedure of the Student Activities Office to have security at the event,” Puleikis said. “It was articulated very clearly that [Boston Anarchist Bookfair] would have to pay the cost and if they did not, the cost would be directly withdrawn from our [CGSA] student account.”

Puleikis said she understands that BU needed to provide security for the event, but she hopes in the future the university considers the fact that some organizations don’t have the funds to pay for security.

“Ben Shapiro is supported by millionaires whereas activist voices often aren’t going to have money behind them, it’s a penniless job,” Puleikis said. “We understand the decision but we hope as BU continues to explore free speech they’ll take these things into consideration.”

Shapiro speaks to 1,500 students, faculty and Boston residents

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Ben Shapiro answers a question from the audience.

SHAPIRO, FROM PAGE 1 nomic winner, the South wouldn’t have been roundly defeated by the industrialized North,” Shapiro said.

Shapiro also said income disparity between races is due mainly to “individual decision-making” rather than racism. He did not elaborate on which decisions send people into poverty.

After the speech, upon announcement of the Q&A, protester Mateo Cox, 24, approached the stage holding a transgender pride flag.

“You stand there and speak about racism saying that you’re on a high pedestal,” Cox said, “but continue to deny our community and existence.”

Shapiro, who in the past has said transgender people have a “mental illness,” responded to Cox. “You’re a human being,” Shapiro said. “I just deny that if you’re a man that says you’re a woman,

you’re a woman.”

Cox, met with boos and expletives from the crowd, was one of multiple disruptors throughout the event.

“Mr. Ben Shapiro, we will not be erased,” Cox said before exiting the venue.

Security in yellow vests lined the indoor venue at the Track and Tennis Center. Diana Soriano, YAF chair and a senior in CAS, said after the event that Shapiro pays for his personal security and that the security provided by BU was in response to potential threats posed by protests.

“People who complain about the security costs are the people who participate in those things,” Soriano said. “They are the reason why the security costs are so high.”

Soriano said YAF expected backlash before and during the event, attributing it to the environment of today’s college campuses.

“People are taught that they have to feel comfortable all the time and they’re indoctrinated with a specific narrative and they literally cannot hear other opinions,” Soriano said.

“And they have to slander people and it’s just really sad that this is where we’ve come to.”

YAF Secretary Joe Spinosa, a junior in Questrom, said YAF did not select the theme for Shapiro’s speech.

“We have nothing to do with that. Ben Shapiro writes his own — we had no idea of the topic until the public found out,” Spinosa said.

“I understand, based strictly on the title, being hurt or offended. I think it’s important to hear what he has to say.”

Spinosa said he thinks it important to bridge the divide between polarized perspectives.

“I don’t expect anyone who listens to Ben speak to become conservative, just as if a liberal speaker

came here, they wouldn’t expect me to become liberal,” Spinosa said. “I think it’s more about seeing each other as people with good intentions — who just view how to solve problems differently — rather than a terrible awful bigot.”

Jack Jahn, 18, of Needham is a high school student who said he feels isolated as a more conservative thinker at a majority-liberal school.

“I feel like at my high school, there’s not a lot of representation of conservative ideas and conservative thought, so I wanted to hear more of a conservative person like him speak,” Jahn said. “Online, there’s a lot more sound bites so it kind of makes him seem like he is more like almost aggressive, but I feel like here he was really calm.”

Seth Anderson, 37, of Fenway said he leans center-left politically, and that he considers himself a “free thinker.”

“I like to be exposed to all kinds of ideas whether I think I agree with them or not, because if you only know your side of an argument, you don’t know the argument,” Anderson said. “I disagree with [Shapiro] on many things.

But I also think he is free to share those ideas and that we, as thinking, rational people, have a right and responsibility to listen to ideas and debate them.”

Daniel Treacy, YAF recruiting chair and a sophomore in the College of Communication, said the organization put in heavy work to successfully request Shapiro as this semester’s speaker.

“I had a lot of fun with the pushback on campus, it was entertaining. We kind of had a front row seat for all the reaction on campus, good and bad,” Tracy said. “But for the most part, I think the reception of it was good. Most people, even if they disagreed with him, were willing to let him speak, and that’s a good sign.”

CAMPUS Crime Logs

BY MARY LULLOFF DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Nov. 7 to 13.

Shoplifter at GSU George Sherman Union staff reported Tuesday at 5 p.m. that an individual shoplifted food and fled.

Staff said the individual had shoplifted several times in the past.

Hit-and-run in South Campus A caller reported Tuesday at 1 a.m. that a grey Toyota hit two parked cars on Buswell Street then drove off, leaving its front bumper behind. The car was traced to a resident in Cambridge.

Argument in South Campus A caller reported that a man and a woman were arguing outside 1a Buswell St. around 1 p.m. Sunday.

Caller stated the man pulled the woman out of their car but she got back in and when officers searched the area they did not see the vehicle.

White nationalist flyers found on campus A caller reported finding several flyers posted outside the School of Law building depicting “white nationalist organization propaganda” at 7 a.m. Saturday.

Officials were called to remove the flyers.

Attempted entry to South Campus dorm An RA at 518 Park Dr. called to report that an individual requested assistance getting into the dorm at 1:45 a.m. Thursday. After an extended conversation the individual admitted he was not a BU student but just wanted a place to stay and declined assistance locating shelter. Once BUPD responded the individual could not be located.

CITY

Crime Logs

BY ANGELA YANG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department website from Nov. 10 to 11.

Police find wanted suspect, recover firearm in Roxbury Officers approached a suspect on a warrant Monday at 10:30 p.m. when he fled and locked himself in a building. The suspect was discovered hiding in the basement with two other individuals and a loaded handgun. All three suspects were arrested.

Officers recover loaded firearm during traffic stop Officers signaled for a driver to pull over Monday around 8 p.m after noticing suspicious behavior.

The car stopped after repeated use of the police siren. Officers discovered a purple handgun with a destroyed serial number and loaded with six rounds of ammunition.

Firearm and drug possession in Roxbury During a traffic stop Sunday at 7 p.m., officers discovered the vehicle’s temporary license plate had been cancelled. Police found bags of what officers to believe to be marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and other drugs, along with a loaded pistol.

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EEE virus threat dwindles with cold weather, officials say

BY SONIA RUBECK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Incoming cold weather will significantly lower the risk of contracting the mosquito-borne Eastern equine encephalitis virus in Massachusetts, state officials and public health experts said.

State epidemiologist Catherine Brown, who works for the state’s Department of Public Health, wrote in an email that the disease should be out of commission for the winter because hard frosts have hit virtually all parts of the state by this point in the year, although isolated cases may still occur.

“Risk for mosquito-borne disease is virtually eliminated by the first local hard frost which kills most remaining adult mosquitoes,” Brown wrote. “A hard, or killing frost, is defined meteorologically as two consecutive hours of temperatures below 28 degrees Fahrenheit or three hours below 32 degrees.”

An outbreak of the potentially fatal EEE virus hit Massachusetts in late summer this year. The state has seen 12 cases of EEE in humans and nine in animals this year — eight horses and one goat. Of those cases, there have been four reported human deaths caused by the virus, according to a press release from the DPH. The DPH and the Mosquito Control Districts assess EEE risk by monitoring mosquito populations and searching for traces of the virus in mosquito samples, Brown wrote.

Other relevant indicators include weather patterns, the mosquito’s local habitat and time of year in relation to mosquito season, Brown

wrote.

Brown said it is difficult for experts to determine changes in risk because as the cool weather approaches starting in early October, mosquitoes become less attracted to traps and thereby harder to track. However, researchers have data showing less than 5 percent of known cases occur after mid-September.

Caitlin McLaughlin, media relations specialist for the Boston Public Health Commission, said individuals can minimize chances of contraction by wearing bug repellent and appropriate clothing.

However, McLaughlin said the City of Boston has always managed to avoid the EEE risk.

“At this time, no human or animal cases of EEE have been detected in Boston,” McLaughlin said.

“Mosquitoes rarely test positive for EEE virus in Boston.”

Infected mosquitoes spread the EEE virus by biting unsuspecting hosts, such as horses or humans.

The first symptoms of the virus are flu-like, with many patients experiencing fever, headache and fatigue within four to 10 days of being bitten.

Encephalitis, a swelling of the brain, is a complication that can also occur shortly after the initial symptoms and is a far more severe symptom of the virus, according to the DPH. Those who contract encephalitis typically experience more intense symptoms such as vomiting, loss of consciousness, disorientation and in some cases coma.

Approximately one-third of patients who contract EEE die, while many who survive are left

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The threat of mosquito-borne diseases, such as Eastern equine encephalitis virus, are significantly less of a threat in Massachusetts due to dropping temperatures.

with mild to severe neurological disorders, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Outbreaks of EEE occur roughly every 10 to 20 years and last between two and three years.

The last outbreak in Massachusetts was between 2010 and 2012, during which there were nine confirmed cases in humans and four deaths.

“Although mosquito season is over for 2019, EEE activity usually occurs in 2-3 year cycles,” Brown wrote. “DPH, local health departments, Mosquito Control Districts, the Massachusetts Dept. of Agricultural Resources and many others are planning for next year.”

The Boston Public Health Commission partners with the

Suffolk County Mosquito Control Project to trap mosquito samples weekly during the late summer and fall to test for the presence of EEE and other mosquito-borne viruses such as the West Nile virus.

While there is no vaccine or treatment for the EEE virus, there are ways to minimize the likelihood of contracting the disease.

The CDC encourages using insect repellent, wearing clothing that minimizes skin exposure and avoiding outdoor events between dusk and dawn, when mosquitoes are most active.

Tim Huang, 24, of Brookline said he is not particularly concerned about the virus as winter draws closer.

“I haven’t really seen any mos-

quitoes in weeks,” Huang said. “So, I’m not super worried or anything.”

Edward Rivera, 19, of the South End said that although he doesn’t like the cold, the recent weather’s effects on mosquito appearances provides a silver lining.

“That might be the only good thing about this cold weather,” Rivera said. “No mosquitoes but 30 degrees.”

Maxim Jordan, 21, of Back Bay said remaining mosquitoes might still carry EEE into urban hubs.

“I usually wear bug spray when it’s warm outside but I’m going to make sure to be more careful until it gets really cold,” Jordan said. “The last thing anyone needs right now is a mosquito death virus.”

Protesters denouce Shapiro Month-long T closure to facilitate repairs

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of a speech they haven’t heard, and to pre-emptively mischaracterize its content,” Shapiro said.

“The darknesses of our past are an essential part of our story, but they are not what makes America unique and special.”

Rowena McDonald, a senior in the Questrom School of Business and organizer of the Black BU movement, said in an interview before the protest that allowing Shapiro to hold this event goes against the university’s ideals.

“At this moment, I’m struggling with understanding how our university, which prides itself on being MLK Jr.’s alma mater, could allow Ben to come here and speak against everything MLK Jr. stood for,” McDonald said.

Many groups attended the protest under the umbrella of Students Against Hate Speech, such as Students for Justice in Palestine, Young Democratic Socialists of America and Hoochie Feminists.

While many student groups and organizations led, attended and organized the protest, there were also students who attended independent from these groups.

Thea O’Hea, a senior in CAS and member of the YDSA, walked out of Shapiro’s talk with other members of the organization. She said she believes there is a difference between free speech and hate speech.

“If you normalize people of color, religious minorities and queer people as being subhuman, that incites violence against

them,” O’Hea said. “[Shapiro’s] hateful rhetoric has an impact and people get hurt.”

Maggie Mulvihill, lawyer and clinical professor of journalism at BU, said in an interview that perceived hate speech does not fall into the category of illegal speech.

“Even the most offensive and hateful and hurtful speech is still legal in the country,” Mulvihill said. “And it really becomes worrisome when you have certain groups on either side of the political spectrum preventing someone from speaking because that leads to a really slippery slope of who’s getting to decide what is proper speech what is speech that people should hear.”

Free speech enhances a democracy’s ability to self-govern, according to Mulvihill and part of obtaining a college education is gaining the skill of listening to differing perspectives.

“Just because [BU is] hosting somebody doesn’t mean they’re endorsing his views,” Mulvihill said. “They could be hosting somebody on the other end of the political spectrum and spending just as much on security for that side.”

Rebecca DeCamp, a senior in CAS, said she attended the protest because of Shapiro’s rhetoric against the LGBTQ community. “[I came] because I’m gay and Ben Shapiro has said really awful things about gay people and trans people,” DeCamp said. “I don’t appreciate my LGBT brothers and sisters being treated that way.”

RED LINE, FROM PAGE 1 gets drawn out.”

Stacy Thompson, executive director of transportation advocacy group Livable Streets Alliance, wrote in an email that the upcoming Red Line improvements are long overdue.

“We’ve allowed our stations, T vehicles and overall infrastructure to fall into disrepair,” Thompson wrote, “we simply can’t delay these very necessary improvements.”

Specifically, repair crews will maintain track quality and improve power quality between stations, clean tunnels of debris, conduct detailed inspections of the Red Line’s infrastructure and improve stations by repairing and maintaining platforms, escalators, elevators, stairs and fare equipment, according to the MBTA’s website.

To account for delays, Thompson wrote in an email riders should allocate more time for transportation during these weekends because the shuttle bus system is not as advanced as the T. “The shuttle system will operate differently than the T,” Thompson wrote, “and will likely move people a little more slowly, but it will still get you where you need to go.”

Johnson said his organization has pushed for the MBTA to improve its other public transportation systems as well as to offset the delays caused by the Red Line construction.

“One of the things that we have kind of pushed for was making sure that the shuttles work well,” Johnson said, “and that there are plenty of options to mitigate that.”

The MBTA is shutting down the Red Line as part of its 2019 Capital

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An Alewife-bound train in Park Station. The red line is suspending service between Broadway and MIT/Kendall stations for renovations over four weekends beginning Friday.

Acceleration Plan, which hopes to accelerate the pace of the improvements outlined in its five-year, $8 billion Capital Investment Plan, according to its website.

To accommodate the hastened deadline, the MBTA is shutting down parts of the Orange, Red and Green Lines for various weekends throughout the latter half of 2019, according to its website.

The MBTA recently finished repairing the section of the Orange Line that services Downtown Boston, during which the MBTA suspended service between Tufts Medical Center and Sullivan Square for six weekends.

As a result, station improvements and track replacements at the Red Line’s Park Street station will be completed four months earlier than originally planned, while construction on the Orange Line’s Downtown Crossing station will be complete 11 months ahead of schedule, according to the MBTA’s website.

Ceasing Red Line service between Kendall/MIT and Broadway stations

is necessary to fit repair vehicles and equipment in the railway tunnels, according to the MBTA’s website.

Eric Newman, 28, of Downtown Boston, said it’s inevitable for the City of Boston to invest in public transportation because the T system has many fundamental problems. “[The MBTA] just addresses very simple things that can be done quickly because it takes so long to redo much of the track, but they have to invest or there’s always going to continue to be problems,” Newman said. “Some form of continuing to spend in repair is necessary.”

Eliza Gagnon, 56, of Chelsea said although she travels by car or scooter in addition to the train, the T is essential to the people of Boston and deserves to be heavily invested in.

“I don’t see how a city can function without good public transportation,” Gagnon said. “Because of gentrification, people are being driven farther and farther out of the city and they don’t have access to good public transportation and it’s a serious health issue, ultimately.”

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Rent ranking for BU’s ZIP code does not reflect actual data ZIP CODE, FROM PAGE 1 The figure which Apartment Guide based its ranking on is “farfetched,” Jafari said.

“I’ve been in the area for about 13 years,” Jafari said. “To be honest with you, they are taking all units in general in the area. You have a lot of buildings like Fenway Triangle Trilogy, 1330 Boylston and whatnot, and those rents are much higher.”

Multiple Boston-area publications reported on Apartment Guide’s rankings, including CBS Boston and NBC Boston.

Fenway-Kenmore is home to many luxury apartments that may skew the overall average within the ZIP code, Jafari said, because tenants who can afford it enjoy the neighborhood’s proximity to downtown attractions. But although these high-price units are “a dime a dozen,” Jafari said many of them stay vacant.

Monthly rent for brownstones usually stay in the $2,000 range, Jafari said, while condos might veer up to $3,000 in rent price. He said the rental market in Boston

has seen an uprise in recent years, but the firm has noticed the trend flatlining.

“They are 3 percent or 2 percent increases per year; they’re no longer going up $400 to $500,” Jafari said.

“If someone decides not to renew, a new tenant would come in.”

Joe Kriesberg, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, said good housing data is difficult to collect for multiple reasons.

“The affordable units are off-market, so they’re one thing,” Kriesberg said. “Then there’s existing rental housing and new rental housing and most of the new rental housing is quite expensive.

So the overall average goes up and how much of that is driven by new housing versus existing is hard to get a handle on.”

Kriesberg said while overall rental prices do continue to swing upward, recent changes have not been very significant. New housing has recently gone up in Fenway,

Kriesberg said, but the units are too expensive for most renters to afford.

“I think the issue is that the housing is completely out of the reach of middle-class people, nevermind low-income people,” Kriesberg said. “And [the question] seems to be if there’s any affordable housing left in those neighborhoods. Much of it is at risk of being lost.”

Despite high housing prices, Kriesberg said Back Bay does not commonly see evictions because the area is historically a wealthy community. Fenway is a different environment, however.

“We’re seeing much more of that in the Fenway [Community Development Corporation],” Kriesberg said. “There’s a lot of organizing to prevent evictions, because there are still some reasonably affordable apartment buildings, although fewer and fewer.”

About a third of Boston apartments are made affordable through government subsidies or rent restrictions, Kriesberg said,

and expanding the city’s revenue is necessary to keep subsidies flowing.

“If we could grow the revenue, we could buy and build more homes and keep those affordable — that’s the most direct and concrete way to do it,” Kriesberg said. “The city’s inclusionary policy is also an effective tool so that as new buildings get built, they’re required to include affordable units. We should keep doing that and probably increase the percentage of units that have to be affordable.”

Boston’s Inclusionary Development Policy, initiated in 2000, mandates rent restriction in a portion of units within new housing developments applying for an exception to the zoning code to maintain affordability for certain income groups, according to the Boston Planning and Development Agency.

The number of income-restricted units required in each building lies around 13 percent.

As part of the city’s housing plan to adjust to a growing

population, 20 percent of 30,000 newly created housing units will be income-restricted, according to an Oct. 1 press release from the Mayor’s Office.

Back Bay resident Taylor Labbe, 21, rents an apartment in the neighborhood. Labbe said that as a student, she works full-time through a co-op program to pay for her housing.

“I think Boston is one of the most expensive places to live just because of the influx of people that are coming in, like academia,” Labbe said. “A lot of people are just tending to move toward cities now as opposed to suburban areas.”

Derrell Walker, 31, who is currently homeless in Boston, said he would not consider living in Boston because rent is too costly.

“In Boston, I can’t rent a home.

I got to go out of town where it is cheaper,” Walker said. “And if I can’t, if I got to get something in Boston, I got to get Section 8, get some public assistance, just to get in somewhere.”

Demonstrators criticize Shapiro’s rhetoric and BU’s decision to allow him as a speaker on campus

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Chance Charley (CAS ‘21), a leading member of BU Students Against Hate Speech, led the protest outside of the BU Track and Tennis Center Wednesday night.

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A Boston University police officer rides past the crowd of protestors lining Ashford Street across from the BU Track and Tennis Center.

PROTEST, FROM 3 James Fidler, a junior in CAS who attended the protest, said in light of these events, he does not feel safe at BU anymore.

“I don’t feel supported as a transgender student, I don’t feel supported as a mentally ill, disabled student,” Fidler said. “I do not feel safe on this campus, I wish I didn’t go here anymore.”

Rozime Lindsey, a freshman in the College of Fine Arts who attended the protest with Black BU, said as a black person and as a BU student, his voice deserves to be heard.

“I represent equality,” Lindsey said. “I represent that America was built on slavery, I represent my ancestors, I represent myself and BU and I do not stand for the ignorance of BU and YAF for bringing Ben Shapiro here.”

Allison Figueroa, a senior in CAS who attended the protest, said she believes BU prioritizes profit over their students.

“I don’t think that BU cares about [LGBTQ safety]. I think they care more about their money than anything else,”

Figueroa said, “which is worse because this is where my money is going.”

Mateo Cox, 24, a 2017 graduate of Quincy College, interrupted Shapiro’s talk to criticize Shapiro’s claim that transgender people have a “mental illness” and said that it was inspiring to see all of the opposition to Shapiro on campus.

“He’s being worshipped in [the event],” Cox said, “so to come out here and see this solidarity is really moving.”

The student groups dispersed about fifteen minutes before the end of the event. Charley said he hopes this protest will get more students involved in activism.

“I think the main message we want to send to the students is that it’s not actually so hard to get involved,” Charley said, “and to actually struggle and make some changes in the university.”

Vanessa Kjeldsen contributed to the reporting of this article.

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A protester’s spit on a Make America Great Again hat after they threw it on the ground in the midst of the protest against Ben Shapiro’s talk.

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SCIENCE BU students could plant 66,000 trees a year without leaving dorms

BY CAMERON MORSBERGER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The A mazon Ra inforest covers more than two million square miles in South America, but deforestation has continually aff licted the region. Boston University students are striving to lower the rate of global deforestation by planting trees from the comfort of their phones and computers.

In an effort to support forestation and improve campus sustainability, members of the BU Environmenta l Student Organization are petitioning to implement the search engine Ecosia, which uses its profits from its searches to plant trees, on computers across campus.

The initiative, BU on Ecosia, received a $500 seed grant through Innovate@BU in October to continue its effort.

Chris Park, ESO’s treasurer and sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he believes that through Ecosia, students can have a tangible impact on the environment.

“Climate change is such an abstract thing,” Park said. “I think we need to do a lot of things, as a society, to be more [environmentally conscious].”

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The Ecosia search engine, which uses its profits from searches to replant trees.

A Boston University initiative is aiming to bring the search engine to campus.

Park and other ESO members started a petition to institute Ecosia on campus on a Google spreadsheet, which has more than 100 signatures since he launched it Nov. 1. Park said if BU makes Ecosia the default browser in campus libraries, the long-term effects would be substantial, given the large undergraduate population at BU. “On average, a tree is planted every 45 searches,” Park said, in reference to Ecosia’s efficiency rate. “If you do 15,000 searches for 200 days and divide by 45 per tree, that’s [around] 66,000 trees

that we’d planted from one year and I think that’s conservative.”

Ecosia has already planted more than 74 million trees through searches alone as of 8 p.m. Wednesday, according to an ongoing counter on its website. The company finances these environmental projects by garnering advertisement revenue and investing those earnings into reforestation missions.

Park said the initiative could greatly aid what he sees as an international crisis.

“I think a long-term impact is getting people aware of environ-

mental issues,” Park said. “I think it would get people to think about it more.”

Molly Retik, ESO’s sustainability representative and a junior in CAS, said the search engine should be a staple on campus.

“I think this is just one simple step that we could be making as an active community,” Retik said.

“Our earth is dying and global warming is a serious matter that we should address.”

Retik said sustainability@ BU and the university in general could greatly benefit from Ecosia.

“I think every academic institution has its failings and I think we’re just constantly working to make it better,” Retik said. “I think, in general, there are so many things we can be doing to help prevent climate change and become a more sustainable school and community as a whole.”

A major obstacle for Ecosia’s implementation on campus has been BU Information Services & Technology, who Park said have privacy concerns with third-party sites.

Michael Harvey, the assistant director of BU IS&T, wrote in an email that his department has known about the BU on Ecosia mission since last month, but is still looking into the software.

“My team is in the early stages of investigating Ecosia as an option in the computer labs that are managed by IS&T,” Harvey wrote, “which include the BU Common @ Mugar Library.”

Delanie Fico, a junior in CAS, signed the petition for Ecosia, but wrote in a Facebook message she had not previously heard of the search engine. She said the search engine could garner substantial attention from students with greater exposure.

“It sounds like a sustainable initiative I could get behind, especially with the ongoing deforestation around the world,” Fico wrote. “The BU community talks about the importance of green spaces on and off campus pretty often, so I think Ecosia would be a popular search engine among students.”

Ahmed Abdullah, a sophomore in CAS, also signed the petition and wrote in a Facebook message that because of the size of BU’s population, using Ecosia would greatly help the planet.

“Ecosia is one of the very few companies in the world that actually wants to make the world a better place,” Abdullah wrote.

“Even if a quarter of the students use Ecosia, it would go a long way in making a difference.”

SCIENCE After three years, BU Baja team accelerates towards competition

BY AKSHATA SKULA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Imagine having to balance the stresses of a regular college student while also building a 325 pound, all-terrain vehicle, loading it onto a box truck and driving it halfway across the country for a national racing competition.

Boston University’s Baja SAE team, comprised of students and faculty who share a passion for cars and engineering, is dedicated to this goal.

The Society of Automotive Engineers sponsors three annual design competitions where more than 100 colleges and universities from around the world can enter self-designed and self-built vehicles.

Sappan Gupta, the president of BU Baja and a junior in the College of Engineering, said the team is preparing for their upcoming competition in Peoria, Illinois on June 3. The team’s primary objective is to create and manufacture an off-road to enter in the June competition.

“You’d be surprised with how many people come up with different ideas and different views of how to fit their car into the rules,” Gupta said.

These rules include building a single-seat, all-terrain sporting vehicle that is also a “prototype for a reliable, maintainable, ergo-

nomic, and economic production vehicle that serves a recreational user market,” according to the SAE website.

The team has been focused on designing the rolling chassis for their car — which includes the vehicle’s frame, suspension and wheels — which Gupta said is an integral component to the overall design of the car.

“Our current car has been in the making for about three years,” Gupta said. “Over that time, we’ve been designing the frame to get a rolling chassis.”

The BU team hasn’t entered a competition since 2017, instead waiting to perfect their design for the upcoming 2020 competition.

The team is currently undergoing what Gupta said is their biggest challenge yet. For the upcoming competition, they’ve decided to make the car’s gearbox from scratch, compared to previous competitions where they’ve used one that is pre-made.

Manufacturing one from scratch, Gupta said, can improve the speed and reduce the weight of the vehicle.

“We’re trying to design [the gearbox] from scratch, which is a big endeavor for a small team like us,” Gupta said. “We’re hoping that this is what’s going to throw us into the higher tier of the teams at the competition.”

Vehicles are judged on which

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Peter Crary, left, a driver for the Boston University Baja team, tests out one of their vehicles near Framingham as team members watch on.

team can utilize engineering skills in order to meet various design goals, which mainly include the functionality of the car as a whole and its individual segments, according to the 2020 version of the Collegiate Design Series Baja SAE Rulebook.

Over the course of the team’s time at BU, they have struggled with decreasing membership, said Domenico DiMare, the club’s graduate advisor and member of the club for four years prior to graduating.

DiMare said the team has existed at BU for around 15 years, but as seniors graduate, the team has to regroup.

“What’s happened, sadly a couple of times, is that it’s had to

restart as seniors leave and then there is no team,” DiMare said.

“Then about a year later, some people hear about it and start it up again.”

The inconsistencies in membership have hindered the team’s performance in the past in comparison with other teams that are able to improve upon their vehicles over the course of many years, DiMare said.

“Lots of other teams have been doing the same thing for 20 years and have built that knowledge base,” DiMare said. “For us, sadly, every five to eight years that knowledge base disappears and we’ve had to start from scratch.”

The team’s smaller size, which includes around 20 members, has

made it difficult for the club to consistently progressing in recent years.

But despite the challenges, the team has made accomplishments including designing a custom suspension in 2018, which DiMare said was one of their greatest achievements.

“This allowed the cars to traverse much bumpier terrain, like bigger boulders and rocks at faster speeds,” DiMare said.

While the majority of the members of the club are engineering majors, the competitions are also judged based on a business component. Andrew Chen, the treasurer of the club and a junior in the College of Engineering, said vehicles not only have to be designed well, but also have to be cost-effective.

“The whole point is that you’re supposed to design the car and then sell it to industry leaders,” Chen said. “Generally, we are allocated a budget by the BU mechanical engineering department.”

Baja is a competitive and intense commitment, but it is also a lot of fun, vice president and sophomore in the College of Engineering, Sean Richichi, said.

“This past weekend we did a test run at our advisor’s house,” Richichi said. “It was a lot of fun getting the group together, getting muddy. It’s hard to describe it until you’ve done it, but it’s just unreal.”

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BUSINESS From Arkansas to Cambridge — rescue dogs find loving homes

BY ALEX LASALVIA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

It was love at first lick for terrier-mix Gia and her future owner Belle Dante.

Dante, 25 of Somerville, first met Gia at the Haunted Hound 5K, a charity run to benefit Last Hope K9 Rescue, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit dog adoption organization where she was volunteering.

“There were so many dogs there but she approached me and kissed me and I was like, ‘Oh, let me come down and pet her,’ but she kind of like got shy,” Dante said. “I love shy dogs, I think it’s so funny and cute when they approach you and then like get skittish.”

Now, at another LHK9 event Sunday at The Garment District, a second-hand clothing store in Cambridge, Dante got to see Gia once again and this time make an official deposit on her.

The Garment District has donated their space to LHK9 for monthly adoption events every November through April — when it gets too cold to hold events outside — since January 2016, Kate Doiron, the senior coordinator for events at LHK9, said.

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Another puppy at the adoption event was five-month-old labrador retriever mix Junie, who came from Arkansas to Boston to be set up with an LHK9 foster volunteer.

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Terrier-mix Gia was one of the nine dogs up for adoption at a Sunday event by Last Hope K9 Rescue, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, hosted at second hand vintage store The Garment District in Cambridge.

LHK9 rescues dogs from high-kill shelters mainly in central Arkansas and transports them to New England, where they are fostered and eventually adopted. The organization, which is entirely staffed by volunteers, has rescued 8,000 dogs since it began in March 2012, according to their website.

Dante had asked Gia’s handler at the 5K if she was up for adoption and was told to keep an eye out on the LHK9 website. When she got home she immediately submitted an application for adoption — she was approved just days before Sunday’s adoption event.

“This is my first adoption event and it was perfect because Gia was posted maybe a couple days ago and then was on the event list,” Dante said. “I think it was literally meant to be.”

Gia was one of nine dogs up for adoption at Sunday’s event, and within an hour and a half, all of them had been adopted or had a deposit put down for them.

“That’s not always typical,” Doiron

said, “so that was a very good turnout.”

Doiron said she thinks the high turnout at this event was partially due to LHK9’s new strategy of bringing more puppies to their smaller adoption events, such as Darla, a four-month-old terrier mix who got a deposit put down for her Sunday.

Once the adoption goes through, Darla will move to her new home in Provincetown.

Susan Rowe, the store manager at The Garment District, wrote in an email the store started hosting adoption events after they were connected with LHK9 by a former employee who volunteered for the adoption organization.

“We’re all animal lovers and advocates at The Garment District,” Rowe wrote. “We are more than happy to do anything we can to help the dogs find homes.”

Rowe wrote that many of the employees, managers and owners of The Garment District have adopted pets themselves.

“Everyone who works on the floor knows they should let a manager know when a dog comes into the store so that we can say hi and pet them,” Rowe wrote.

LHK9 doesn’t discriminate on the basis of age, pre-existing medical conditions, or breed, according to their website. All rescued dogs get a full vet exam, spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and receive monthly flea, tick and heartworm preventatives.

Dogs from LHK9 cost between $450 and $550 to adopt, according to the LHK9 website. These fees cover about 80 percent of the program costs.

One dog at Sunday’s event was Junie, a 5-month-old labrador retriever mix.

Junie was with a foster in Arkansas for two weeks before coming to New England to be fostered with a LHK9 volunteer. She is crate trained but jumps with excitement when she gets to come out and play in the mornings.

Another dog at Sunday’s event was Joel, a shepard mix who had been with

a foster owner for ten days and by the end of the event was able to go home with his new owner. LHK9 believes he is about 3 years old, but it’s hard to tell a dog’s age when it is rescued as an adult.

Doiron said LHK9 typically has four adoption events a month, and although there won’t be one at The Garment District in December, they’ll be there once a month January through April 2020.

LHK9 makes about 30 percent of its adoptions at events like this one, Doiron said.

Rowe wrote that The Garment District is happy to host these events because they believe LHK9 is a great organization.

“We definitely believe animal adoption is an important issue,” Rowe wrote. “The staff at Last Hope K9 rescue is great and all of the foster parents who bring the dogs in are dedicated and passionate about what they do.”

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Mixed shepard Joel, tugging on his bright yellow leash embroidered in text that reads “adopt me,” went home with a new owner by the end of the event.

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ARTS

Arts program in Marsh Chapel helps students create, connect, craft

BY GEENA GRANT DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Many Boston University students walk past Marsh Chapel almost every day, yet are unaware of the many activities available to them below the chapel.

Every Tuesday from 3 to 6 p.m. in the lower level of Marsh Chapel’s Thurman Room, Jessica Chicka, the university chaplain for international students, runs Create Space. This initiative provides a welcoming space for any BU student to come, take a break from their studies and allow their creative juices to flow.

“Create space is a three-hour open drop-in space for students to mindfully create, drink tea, and meet new people from around the university,” Chicka wrote in an email.

Chicka said in an interview that the initiative to create the weekly program started in the fall of 2015, when she assumed her current role, and has attracted a diverse range of participants since its inception.

“We have students that repeatedly come,” Chicka said. “It’s nice to see them get more and more comfortable and make this a place that is theirs.”

Chloe McLaughlin, a ministry assistant for the Global Ministry at Marsh Chapel and a graduate student in BU’s School of Theology, wrote in an email that she helps set up the program on a weekly basis and talks with participants who show up.

“I love that it generally has very little structure,” McLaughin wrote.

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Boston University Chaplain for International Students Jessica Chika knits during a Create Space session at Marsh Chapel on Tuesday.

“As a [graduate] student, I don’t have a ton of unstructured time in my life, so it is nice to come to Create Space every week and just breathe. We often talk about funny things on campus or in our lives. It is light-hearted and a time to relax.”

With stress being a key issue that affects many BU students across campus, Chicka said she wants to provide a specific time and place where people can take time to focus their minds outside the academic realm.

“I find that art is one of the ways

that a lot of students find very helpful when they are trying to take a break from academic work,” Chicka said. “It gives them an opportunity to express themselves.”

Chicka also spoke about wanting to facilitate activities that do not require students to engage with one another all the time.

“I find that creating low bars of entry into that experience is really helpful for students,” Chicka said.

“Encouraging students to express themselves in ways that don’t neces-

sarily require them to have a super strong mastery of English and having very low pressure of needing to interact.”

Meera Krishna Kumar, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, participated in Create Space for the first time on Nov. 5. She wrote in an email that she chose to take part in Create Space because she thought it would be “a chill environment to participate in arts and crafts as well as de-stress during midterms season.”

“From my first experience at least it

was a nice opportunity to really just take a second specifically to chill out during my hectic day,” Kumar wrote, “and I really enjoyed the stress relief from that.”

While Create Space provides students with opportunities to color, sketch, draw, paint, knit, crochet and do origami, Chicka said she also has an affinity for creating activities that benefit the wider community.

This includes an event called Knitted Knockers, where students can come to the Chapel to crochet and knit alternative prosthetic breasts that will be donated to the Boston Medical Center.

“I’d love to be able to do more outreach-related stuff like we do with the Knitted Knockers,” Chicka said.

“I would like to offer opportunities for creating things that can be to the benefit to other people.”

McLaughlin wrote that she would also like to see more of these community-based projects take place in Create Space.

“We would love to partner with projects that students are already passionate about,” McLaughlin wrote.

For the students involved, Chicka wrote, Create Space provides an outlet for connection.

“I also think that art is a great way to connect people to one another,” Chicka wrote. “I see it as a way of creating opportunities to meet people from different backgrounds through a common interest in creative expression.”

COMMUNITY

Reformation trunk show encourages sustainable living

BY NANCY JIANG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When looking at a dress or a pair of jeans, most people judge them primarily based off of appearance. Does it go with my top? Do I like the color?

But L.A.-born clothing company Reformation takes it a step further, insisting that their clothes not only be visually attractive, but socially conscious as well.

Each and every fiber used in Reformation’s clothing is placed on an alphabetical grading scale — “A” being for materials that are “Allstars,” or rapidly renewable, all the way to “E” for materials that they describe as, “Eww, never.”

The company’s ultimate goal is for 75 percent of their products to fall in the “A” and “B” range.

Reformation opened a Boston location on Newbury Street in May of 2018, but in October moved across the street from their original location to 353 Newbury St. to accommodate a new layout for the store.

The store held its first vintage trunk show over the weekend where pre-owned Reformation pieces were showcased under one roof. The show, which also included a pop-up shop from Boston vintage clothing company Citrus & Sage Studio, focused on showcasing alternatives to fast-fashion.

Fast fashion — which includes Newbury Street neighbors Forever

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Customers browse through clothes on display during Reformation’s vintage trunk show this past weekend at its storefront on Newbury Street.

21 and Brandy Melville — is a type of clothing made quickly in response to new trends and easy to throw away quickly after its worn due to its poor quality, according to The Good Trade.

Ember Park, an employee at the Boston Reformation location, said that for most of her life she thought fast-fashion was the best shopping choice.

“I think that with fast fashion, what you get is a lack of quality,” Ember said. “I personally used to shop like

that because it was less expensive but then the quality decreases and you end up not being able to wear it as long as you might want to. With Reformation, things are made in small batches so we really tailor our clothes to our clients.”

Lindsay White, the founder and owner of Citrus & Sage Studio, said the need to move away from fast-fashion is why she started her business, and why she loves Reformation.

“Fashion is in the top five most polluting industries,” White said.

“That’s part of the reason why I really love Reformation because every purchase, it tells you how much CO2 you’ve saved, how much water you’ve saved and that’s also a large reason why I’ve decided to collaborate with them.”

But sustainable clothes often come with a heftier price tag than fast-fashion alternatives. Karen Urdaneta, a student at Lasell College who attended the trunk show, said she’s no exception.

“My mom always said it’s good to

spend money on good clothes and less money on bad clothes,” Urdaneta said. “I can’t help but be a little cheap sometimes because I don’t have money, but I think it’s good because your clothes last longer and are better quality.”

Urdaneta said she believes people are more engaged in sustainable living efforts because of the existing fear with the current environmental state and the growing threat of climate change.

“I think it’s what needs to be done for our planet to be sustained,” Urdaneta said. “Counteracting fast-fashion is amazing and I think it’s necessary.”

The price range for Reformation clothes, which can range from $80 to $300, comes with a clean conscience, Park said.

“We pay all of our factory workers a fair wage,” Park said, “every single factory is held to the exact same standard as our factories in LA, where the majority of our clothes are made.”

But an equally sustainable alternative to sustainably produced new clothing, Park said, is what the trunk show is attempting to showcase — thrifting.

“When you thrift, you get to do stuff like recycle clothes and showcase your fashion sense,” Park said.

“The possibilities are endless, there’s always the chance of finding a unique piece that you didn’t know you even wanted or needed.”

8 OPINION

EDITORIAL

We a re proud to continue fair repor ting at BU The Daily Free Press stands firm in our reporting and we will be steadfast if ever faced with controversy.

Two college publications, The Daily Northwestern and The Harvard Crimson, both made national headlines in recent weeks for their coverage of protests on their campuses.

We were keenly aware of these issues when we approached covering conservative pundit Ben Shapiro’s visit to Boston University on Wednesday and its corresponding protests.

Last month, Harvard student groups criticized The Crimson for reaching out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a protest on campus against their practices. Students were concerned their communication with the organization put undocumented persons on campus in harm’s way.

Last week, The Daily Northwestern’s coverage of an event that hosted former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and reciprocal protests on campus incited outrage by some students in the Northwestern community.

Protesters felt the paper’s use of photos of students demonstrating would result in university punishment for those depicted. There was also concern about reporters reaching out in advance to students potentially protesting using phone numbers obtained through the student directory.

In response, the editors of The

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Campus journalism is meant to shine a light on issues that would otherwise be left in the dark. We believe this includes those inside and outside the event, both supporting and protesting.

Daily Northwestern expressed regret for their coverage in an editorial published on Sunday and apologized to their community for not being “the paper that Northwestern students deserve.”

We believe the editors were wrong to take back their reporting, but the professional journalism community was especially quick to condemn the paper for retracting their completely ethical coverage of the protest.

This is not the time to attack a student newspaper. It is not constructive to tell reporters they will never get a job because of a well-inten-

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We understand the editors at Northwestern felt pressure to respond to criticism of their reporting, but it is unfortunate they felt they had to apologize for following journalistic principles.

The purpose of a college newspaper is to deliver ethical and relevant reporting to the campus. In this instance, The Daily Northwestern’s editors felt the way to serve their community was to express regret for practices some students felt violated privacy. Yet, the apology was not

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only unnecessary, but detrimental to reporters at the paper and journalists across the country.

Conceding to criticism of accepted reporting standards is an injustice in the same way not fully reporting the events would have been.

Reporting on protests is essential to creating a full image of public opinion. A protest that goes unnoticed is pointless. The purpose of a protest is to bring attention to something people feel is unjust. Without coverage by a news outlet, the noise made by activists can go unheard.

People should be educated on

basic journalistic principles and procedure before getting offended by the methods reporters learned from educators and other professionals.

Campus journalism is meant to shine a light on issues that would otherwise be left in the dark. We believe this includes those inside and outside the event, both supporting and protesting.

We have reported on Ben Shapiro’s speech and related protesting the same way we would have had other student publications never come under fire for their reporting of similar events.

It has never been the goal of The Daily Free Press, and likely not of The Harvard Crimson or The Daily Northwestern, to upset one group or another with our reporting. The purpose of a newspaper is not to take a side. It’s to provide information to the public so they can take one.

We continue to work hard to inform the student body of what they need and want to know. While we are aware of student sensitivity to our reporting, we will not waver in our procedure.

The Daily Free Press was founded in 1970 to report on campus protests after the shooting of unarmed students by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University. We formed based on the need to inform the student body and we have worked to report fairly on all campus issues.

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COLUMNS

LET YOUR HAIR DOWN:

Instagram removing “likes” can The in-betweens of Asian American body image change the way we interact

BY HILLARY HAO COLUMNIST

I have talked a lot about the struggles that diasporic Asians face, but it’s time we initiate a discussion around how these binds metaphorically and literally shape a racialized body. There is a constant, unrelieved pressure to possess certain physical traits which have an astonishing amount of worth assigned to them to the point that Asian American women begin to weigh in on them in girlhood.

The importance of a thin female figure is a harmful pattern in many societies, but for those who are “in-between” cultures, there’s an unspoken burden of straddling multiple cultural lines. To resist markers of difference on a racialized body in order to fit in, we must conform to Western beauty standards. Yet we must also balance them against eastern beauty standards to feel accepted by our parents and relatives.

This process is incredibly disempowering. As Kalea Martin, a student at Mount Holyoke, said, “when you’re Asian in America, you find yourself in a lot of situations where you stand out.

And when you’re surrounded by a bunch of people that don’t look like you, you’ll inevitably be heavily inf luenced by the beauty standards they set.” These patterns strip the individual of the ability to negotiate body-image on their own terms.

Though, I would be doing violence to the truth if I said that a white power structure was entirely to blame. Eastern beauty standards are just as demanding and bodies are constricted by traditional patriarchal structures.

Korean pop singers are the perfect case study for this. It is well-known that management companies oblige its singers to diet in preparation for debut or a

new release; the rationale behind these otherwise unjust practices is the universal palatability and value of thinness — and the singers wholeheartedly accept this.

Their highly publicized, “new and improved” bodies become even more cause for concern when you consider that these singers are described as “idols.”

The label’s air of superiority and aspiration elevates these young women and their thinness to the highest level of class and as a result, the value of thinness is artificially inf lated.

One can imagine the repercussions of this for Asian American women. We are already exposed to this body image by virtue of being a part of the community, but our understanding of thinness’ importance is further distorted

by Korean pop’s explosive popularity in the U.S. Since it has been accepted by a multicultural society, the false universalness of the appeal of thinness is further perpetuated.

Additionally, both the East and West reify the stereotype that Asian women are naturally slim. For those of us that don’t fit neatly into that norm and internalize it, we are made to feel like freaks of nature. This alienation makes it difficult for Asian American women to situate ourselves into body-positive mentalities.

It leads to thoughts that, although not explicitly in tandem with eating disorders, create an entirely unhealthy relationship between food consumption and body image. If women feel they need to lose weight, many will begin right away by reducing portions, sometimes to dangerously small amounts.

What begins as a dietary exercise can escalate into an eating disorder and an unsound relationship with food. We keep trying to force our diverse range of bodies into a supposedly natural size 00 which makes failures hit harder than they should. And for those of us that successfully diet and then participate in policing others’ bodies, we are participating in our peers’ oppression.

We are in an era of heightened body positivity and we ought to partake in it. I understand that we live in a world of thin privilege, but we don’t need to explain our bodies. It is our private domain; whatever you decide to look like ought to be your own choice.

INTERROBANG

BY HANNAH BOHN COLUMNIST

The CEO of Instagram announced last Friday that the platform will be testing hiding “like” counts on certain users’ posts in the U.S. for the first time.

This substantial change to the app will have a profound influence on its function for many users, ideally reducing the emphasis on comparing ourselves to others and building our social capital through numbers.

Instagram said that the change would allow users to “focus on the photos and videos they share, not how many likes they get.” Like counts have become a key feature of Instagram’s social appeal, dramatically influencing the motivation behind users’ posts. That being said, the adjustment will most likely be met with a complete shift in the ways we use Instagram in our everyday lives.

Social media is home to a surplus of advantages and has equipped society with innovative tools of communication and expression that we see nowhere else. There is no doubt in the abundant benefits of Instagram, yet certain ideologies may have taken on new forms somewhere throughout the rapid explosion of our online era.

Instagram started as a creative means of social collaboration and networking, but its instantaneous growth birthed a world full of new cultural shifts that can be highly toxic in nature.

The app has widely shaped the ways we translate social interactions and form relationships, enabling us to operate in a multi-faceted system in which likes and comments are exchanged for validation and self-esteem.

Although the switch to hiding likes is only at test level now, the adjustment has the potential to prominently alter the way users interact with the app. As of now, Instagram is making like counts private for random

accounts in the U.S., so that a user can see how many people liked a given photo or video of theirs, but nobody else can.

Without the function of viewing the number of likes other users receive on their posts, the element of passing judgments and assumptions about a person based on their perceived online influence becomes limited and less relevant. As well as this, users may start to orient their posts based on what they actually like and care about versus what they think may get the most likes — or in other terms, the most social approval.

The emphasis falls on the actual content, not the attention it gets.

Recognizing the dramatic social change Instagram has stirred and how it has shaped our concept of the world and ourselves, the CEO of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, explained that the adjustment is aimed at “depressurizing” the platform for today’s youth and producing a more inclusive online space in which unhealthy competition and comparison is not welcome.

Instagram has already experimented with removing likes in seven other countries beginning in July. The platform will ideally lends itself more to inspiring young people rather than feeding them with unrealistic role-models and potentially toxic representations of society.

The transition to placing the focus aside from likes is not well received by everyone.

In particular, many of Instagram’s “influencers” have come forward with stern disapproval of the change. These individuals utilize the app as an economic resource and their tightly managed accounts are dependent on public metrics in order to make profit through marketing brands and products to a wide audience.

Consequently, hiding the amount of likes on posts causes celebrities and influencers to lose leverage over brand deals and promotions and the social hierarchy of the app begins to unfold. In protest, many have threatened to stop using Instagram entirely.

But there are larger issues on the rise concerning public health and safety linked to Instagram’s effect on society that cannot go unaccounted for. Placing concerns about users’ mental health to the front of the conversation about social media, Instagram attempts to preserve the original inspiration of the app and be a safe space for all people. As Mosseri explained, “we will make decisions that hurt the business if they help people’s well-being and health.”

This week, Disney released its new streaming service, Disney+, featuring some beloved classics. We hear at the FreeP want to know — which Disney Channel Original Movie will BU groups watch first?

ROTC: Cadet Kelly

ENG: Geek Charming

BU Swimming: The Thirteenth Year

BU on Broadway: High School Musical

Commuters: Stuck in the Suburbs

Sororities: Princess Protection Program

BU Hockey: Go Figure

BU Band: Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam

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7th Inning Stretch: It’s time to address MLB’s broken system of free agency

BY JACOB GURVIS COLUMNIST

Baseball is a game of jargon.

Pitchers warm up in the “bullpen.”

When a fielder catches the ball in the very tip of his glove, it’s a “snowcone.” Heck, the name of this very column is a baseball idiom.

With the 2019 season officially behind us, we have now entered the offseason, or as it’s been called in baseball since the 19th century, the Hot Stove League.

In his 2006 book, “Baseball and the Mythic Moment: How We Remember the National Game,” professor James Hardy Jr. explores the history of this moniker. Back in the days of smalltown America, he writes men “gathered at the general store/post office, sat around an iron pot-bellied stove, and discussed the passing parade. Baseball, along with weather, politics, the police blotter and the churches, belonged in that company.”

Fast forward a couple hundred years and not much has changed.

Fans (and not just men) still gather to discuss the issues of the day, from baseball to healthcare. Only tod ay, the trad itiona l genera l store has been replaced by Twitter.

Nevertheless, the offseason remains an exciting time for baseball fans, as all 30 teams are offered the chance to start anew.

In recent years, however, that seemingly mythical stove has come dangerously close to sizzling out.

Entering last offseason, Br yce Harper and Manny Machado were two of the most talented free agents baseball had seen in years. Both generational talents, they were expected to dominate the winter and trigger multi-team bidding wars.

Instead, Machado signed with the San Diego Padres on Feb. 19 and Harper signed with the Philadelphia Phillies on Feb. 28, days after pitchers and catchers had reported.

What had promised to be an exciting few months of negotiations and rumors turned into a sport-wide sludge. Two of the top pitchers on the free agent market, Craig Kimbrel and Dallas Keuchel, remained unsigned until June.

It was becoming increasingly clear that the baseball’s free agency system is broken. So how do we fix it? As we enter an offseason with more elite free agents –– including Gerrit Cole and World Series stars Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon – – how ca n the Major League Baseball prevent further damage?

The most common, and to me compelling, is the idea of instituting an offseason trade (and even signing) deadline. The in-season deadline of July 31 creates an incredible buzz within the game, forcing teams to act decisively and boldly.

The argument here is to create a similar deadline in the offseason, with the same goal of generating movement and encouraging teams

to act quickly before time runs out.

T he 2 019 B a s eba l l Wi nter Meetings take place in San Diego from Dec. 8 to 2 . Ma ny blockbuster trades and signings occur during these meetings each year, as a heightened sense of urgency and competition is packed into one hectic week. Hund reds of executives, agents and reporters congregate in one hotel to hash out deals and negotiate contracts, while the whole thing is meticulously covered on television and social

What had promised to be an exciting few months of negotiations and rumors turned into a sport-wide sludge. media. That’s all well and good, but the hot stove often cools off the second the meetings end.

To keep the energ y up, why not establish an offseason trade deadline shortly after the meetings?

A Christmas or New Years cutoff would place even more pressure on teams who otherwise feel no need to rush, while still allowing for

two full months of planning and execution, followed by a month and a half to prepare for the beginning of spring training.

Baseball players typically peak in their mid to late 20s. Because of baseball’s rookie contract rules, which keep a player under team control for his first six years of service, many don’t reach free agency until after their prime has passed.

In fact, according to the article, the average age of free agents signed last offseason was 32.2 years old. Dating back to the 2013-14 offseason, the average signing age has remained around 33 years. For some players, labor negotiations for awhile now. that can be as many as six years With a new Collective Bargaining past their prime.

Agreement needed by 2021, it seems One way to address this trou- to be the perfect time for conversabling trend is the idea of a restricted tions like these to take place in the free agency, simila r to the sys- game. The sooner the brainstorming tem in the National Basketball begins, the better.

Association. Without getting into On many occasions, the MLB the nitty-gritty, it would basically has offered intelligent and realistic mean creating a tiered free agency solutions to its problems. While I structure in which players have have my qualms about some of them varying levels of signing freedom –– I don’t love the idea of a pitch clock based on their service time. or beginning extra innings with a runIt sounds similar to the MLB’s ner on second base –– conversations current arbitration process, but around pace of play have generated u ltimately there needs to be a plenty of ideas. There has been no way to get players to free agency shortage of creativity or innovation. sooner. Imagine if players like Mike When it comes to rejuvenating Trout, Mookie Betts, and Juan the offseason and free agency, there Soto became free agents at 25 or 26 needs to be more discussion. The instead of at 29 or 30. We would’ve league cannot afford to have its stars hit $300 million contracts years ago. wait until February, or June, to sign.

Major League Baseball has been If something isn’t done soon, the hot hurtling toward its impending stove will fully freeze over.

First and Goal: The next four weeks will foreshadow the Patriots’ fate

BY CHRIS LARABEE COLUMNIST

It’s no secret that the New England Patriots played a cupcake schedule through the first eight weeks of the season. The Patriots’ first eight opponents had a combined record of 21-43, and as expected, New England steamrolled these teams. Week nine sent the Patriots to Baltimore to play the Ravens on Sunday Night Football for New England’s first test of the season.

They failed.

The Ravens laid a beatdown on the Patriots, 37-20, in a game that was even less competitive than the score shows. Baltimore showed up in front of an electric home crowd and dismantled the Patriots. It was a full-blown meltdown for New England; the coaching staff was ill-prepared for Lamar Jackson’s pistol-formation offense and the performance on the field was sub-par.

The Patriots now sit at 8-1 with only one meaningful victory under their belt (at Buffalo) and are enter-

ing one of the tougher four-game stretches in the league this season, as they come off the bye week at Philadelphia, home against the Dallas Cowboys, on the road at Houston and home against Kansas City Chiefs.

These next four games will tell us if New England is still the top dog in the NFL or if the Patriots’ dominance was only a symptom of a horrific opening schedule.

The bye has provided a much needed rest for a severely injured offensive unit. The release of wide receiver Josh Gordon was shocking and Bill Belichick always has his reasons for these decisions, but the loss of Gordon left an already thin wide-receiving corps even thinner. The addition of Mohamed Sanu has proven to be helpful so far, but it’s a rookie WR coming off injured reserve that could be the difference-maker.

N’Keal Harry was drafted by the Patriots in April and showed flashes of his ability this offseason and into training camp before being placed on IR after the first

preseason game. Harry brings his but he hasn’t been able to protect physical game to the table, much the pocket as well as Wynn did. A like Gordon or Gronk. The addi- couple other tackles were signed tion of another big-body receiver too, but Newhouse was still able to gives Tom Brady another target retain the starting spot. on third down and in the red zone, Wynn was activated off IR at where the Patriots have struggled the end of October, but he is not eliall season. gible to return until week 12 against He was available for the the Cowboys. The return of Wynn Baltimore game but did not play does two things for New England: ─ probably because of the high- it creates more protection for the tempo offensive game plan ─ but 42-year-old Brady who could turn I’d expect him to get some snaps in to dust on any hit and it can jumpPhiladelphia this weekend against start a running game that looks like an Eagles secondary that couldn’t a shell of the three-headed rushing stop a nosebleed. attack of last season.

The WR corps being thin is Sony Michel seems to have a problem for the Patriots, but regressed from his rookie season New England’s fatal flaw lies in where he exploded for six touchthe offensive line. The loss of cap- downs, including the Super Bowltain and rock-solid center David winning touchdown, over the three games in the postseason. I don’t think Michel has regressed physically, instead I believe he is a victim of the offensive line’s performance and questionable play calling.

Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels is one of the best coordinators in the league, but for every dynamite gameplan he draws up, he comes up with some strange calls.

It could be seen in the game against Baltimore, where the offense could not get anything going in the first or fourth quarters, dooming the Andrews to blood clots in his lungs Patriots when the game mattered is a brutal loss and the departure of most. Perhaps McDaniels is also Trent Brown left Brady’s blindside a victim of the offense being hurt, open. It looked like second-year but he is capable of more than he tackle Isaiah Wynn was up to the always shows. task of protecting New England’s The Patriots usually turn it up quarterback until he suffered a toe to eleven in the second half of the injury against the Miami Dolphins. season and I expect them to bounce Wynn was placed on injured back from an embarrassing loss in reserve and it’s been a nightmare Baltimore. for Brady ever since. Marshall The next four weeks will set Newhouse was signed to fill the gap, up the playoff picture and not just

This is a tough stretch for the Patriots, so predicting their record over this next month is hard, but it is New England.

for New England, but for the NFL. The Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas are in a battle for the National Football Center North, while the Houston Texans and Kansas City are trying to catch New England and Baltimore for the coveted playoff bye.

I would expect the Patriots to defeat the Eagles in the Super Bowl LII rematch and to exploit the Cowboys’ weaknesses giving New England at least two wins in this stretch.

The two American Football Conference matchups are a toss-up, though. Belichick owns Texans coach Bill O’Brien with a perfect 5-0 record against his former assistant coach, but Deshaun Watson has improved significantly from previous seasons and will prove to be a challenge for the Patriots.

The final game of the stretch, at home against Kansas City, does not need an introduction. The AFC championship rematch is the most anticipated matchup in the AFC this year and should be an entertaining bout, as the reigning MVP, Patrick Mahomes, returns to Foxboro to avenge the heart-breaking loss in Kansas City.

This is a tough stretch for the Patriots, so predicting their record over this next month is hard, but it is New England. Betting against Brady and Belichick is never a good option, so I’m predicting a 3-1 record over this stretch, with the loss coming in a shootout versus Kansas City.

Despite a slow start, the NFL is starting to heat up as the days get colder, and looking at history, it’s never a bad option to pick the Patriots in these cold months.

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Hungry for a win, Terriers look ahead to series with No. 2 UMass

BY BRADY GARDNER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

After earning two points in four games over the last two weekends, the Boston University men’s hockey team will look to right the ship against the No. 5 University of Massachusetts Amherst this Friday and Saturday.

Before setting their sights on UMass (6-2, 2-2 Hockey East), the Terriers (2-3-4, 1-2-3 Hockey East) took No. 10 Providence College to the wire twice last weekend, coming back to force a 3-3 tie on Friday night before ending on the wrong side of Saturday’s 6-5 thriller.

“It was a great overall effort by everyone,” said junior defenseman David Farrance, who scored five goals for BU on the series, which included his first collegiate hat trick in game two. “We showed a lot of resiliency.”

Farrance’s eight goals and 14 points have set him apart as the leader in both categories for the Terriers and all other defenseman in D1 hockey. While the results have not come for the Terriers, BU’s offensive production has not been the issue.

Sharing his takeaways from Saturday’s defeat, BU head coach Albie O’Connell said, “we scored five goals in a game, so you like the way you look, at least on the offensive side … I thought we scored some really nice goals and made good hockey plays.”

As encouraging as the eight-goal weekend was, the Terriers know that they left opportunities, and more importantly conference points, on the table. After the series, O’Connell was quick to point out that his young squad still has a lot to learn.

“We’ve got some guys that gotta learn how to make harder plays,” O’Connell said. “We’ve got some young guys in the lineup, but their ears gotta open and they’ve got to start to listen. Our intelligence as a hockey team has to grow. That’s the biggest thing.”

Among BU’s growing pains, the performance of freshman forward Trevor Zegras has not gone unnoticed. The first-year center dazzled against Providence, scoring two goals and tallying four assists en route to earning Hockey East

Rookie of the Week honors. “[Zegras] keeps getting better and better. He had a really good weekend,” O’Connell said. “He and that line [with seniors Patrick Curry and Patrick Harper] are pretty dangerous, so we know we have a first line.”

BU will need contributions up and down the lineup when they face off against last season’s Frozen Four finalists. Among all Hockey East competitors, UMass is currently tied for first in overall goals against (16) and tied for second (32) in overall goals for, sharing that spot with BU. Offensively, UMass is led by the junior forward duo of Mitchell Chaffee and John Leonard, who have scored seven goals each this season. Chaffee leads the Minutemen in points with 12, while freshman defenseman Zac Jones has seven assists, good for the team lead.

On the defensive end, Massachusetts is backstopped by the tandem of junior Matt Murray and sophomore Filip Lindberg. Both keepers have played four games so far and Murray has posted slightly superior numbers with a 1.51 goals against average and a .918 save percentage.

The position of greatest change for UMass has been the defensive corps. Hobey Baker winner Cale Makar departed for the Colorado Avalanche hockey team in Denver following last season’s playoff run, while impressive sophomore defenseman Marc Del Gaizo has missed all but one game this fall.

In the current Hockey East standings, the Terriers rank about UMass on five points compared to four for the Minutemen, who do have two games in hand. The national polls may indicate otherwise, but conference play suggests these games will be extremely competitive.

Last season, UMass went undefeated against BU with a victorious score lines of 7-5 at Agganis Arena and 4-2 at Mullins Center. With matchup history and recent form on their mind, BU’s urgency to get back to winning ways has never been stronger.

“I’m not happy, they’re not happy,”

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Junior defenseman David Farrance scored 5 goals in Boston University’s last series against Providence College this past weekend.

O’Connell said. “We have to clean guys coming back, some reinforcesome stuff up.” ments in time,” O’Connell said. “I This will be BU’s second con- think the depth of our team will secutive weekend against a team grow and I think we’ll continue to ranked in the top ten nationally, get better as guys become a little their third in a row against teams more mature and experienced.” receiving votes. An increase in health The Terriers and Minutemen may aid their effort, O’Connell said. will kick off the series at Agganis “We know that we have some Arena at 7:30 p.m. on Friday night

before travelling west to Amherst’s Mullins Center for an 8 p.m. puck drop on Saturday.

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Coach Brian Durocher flew to Italy to recruit rookie WOMEN’S HOCKEY, FROM 12 we watched, and through some go such lengths when recruiting a player, but Durocher felt it was necessary to make the trip. He sat down with Mattivi and her family for a three hour lunch informing Mattivi about what BU is all about.

“I went over there with the idea that this family needs to meet me and that she will be a long way from home,” Durocher said. “We had been recruiting her via video, through some games

people we talked to, but [she] was somebody who needed to know who might be her head coach.”

When it comes to what stands out the most about how the team has made her feel at home at BU so far, Mattivi was enthusiastic to say that the togetherness of the team has the biggest factor.

“We spend a lot of time together ever y single day,” Mattivi said. “We always do stuff together, we eat together, we spend a lot of time together

like a family.”

Making sure a new teammate feels nothing but comfortable at BU is one of the priorities of Durocher and his veteran players. The Terriers learn about the culture of where their new teammate is coming from to make their new teammate feel more welcome to the organization.

Academics has not been an issue for the star defenseman, but when it comes to the competitiveness of play on the ice, it is a bit different than what Mattivi

is used to. gold at the 2018 IIHF Women’s While the defenseman has yet World Championship, which to record a point so far this sea- allowed her country a promotion son, Mattivi’s impressive resume to Group A in the tournament should not be overlooked. according to GoTerriers.com.

Prior to playing hockey Regardless, Mattivi has setat BU, Mattivi played for the tled in to her new home and the Italian National Team where she transition could have been easier recorded a goal and an assist at if it weren’t for her teammates. the 2019 IIHF Women’s World “ They a re rea l ly openChampionship. She also com- minded,” Mattivi said. “They are peted on a men’s team at the U19 asking questions, they are really Italian National Championship. curious about European culture, Mattivi was named Best the Italian one. They surely help Defenseman after leading Italy to me out.”

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“I think the depth of our team will grow and I think we’ll continue to get better as guys become a little more mature and experienced.”

- Coach O’Connell looking ahead at the season

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“We always do stuff together , we eat together, we spend a lot of time together like a family.”

- Rookie Nadia Mattivi on Terrier team spirit

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019

Women’s basketball rallies to take down New Hampshire 78-64

BY MATT MEUSEL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University women’s basketball team (1-1) took down the New Hampshire Wildcats (1-2) 78-64 on Tuesday at Lundhold Gym in Durham, New Hampshire. It was the Terriers’ first win at the University of New Hampshire since 2013.

In the team’s first road action of the season the Terriers used a strong defensive performance in the second half to secure their first victory of 2019. BU won its first game of last season in their second contest as well and it also came on Nov. 12 against Brown University.

New Hampshire jumped out to a 26-20 after one quarter of play thanks to 12-16 shooting in the opening frame. BU would go on to win every quarter after that.

Sophomore Riley Childs led the way for BU scoring a careerhigh 21 points on 9-12 shooting, including two makes from behind the arc. Senior Nia Irving added 14 points. Irving and Childs went a combined 9-10 from the floor in the first half.

The game was tied at 42 going into halftime after the Wildcats shot 66.7 percent from the field during the first 20 minutes. Many of those points came from redshirt senior Ashley Storey who scored a career-high 24 points in the losing effort.

The Wildcats shot just 34.4 percent in the second half because of cold shooting and BU defense.

UNH was only able to manage 22 points in the second half.

The two teams battled in the beginning stages of the third

quarter with neither side being able to pull ahead until Maren Durant got involved for BU. She scored or assisted on eight straight points to give the Terriers a 56-51 lead.

The momentum for BU didn’t stop there. They closed the third quarter on a 14-0 run to take a 63-53 lead going into the final frame.

It was a slow start to the fourth quarter but BU found its rhythm when Childs scored six straight points to give the Terriers a 71-55 lead with 4:14 to play.

It was just icing on the cake from that point on as the Terriers closed out the game with strong defense to preserve their first victor of 2019.

Freshman Sydney Johnson saw 33 minutes of action for BU, scoring 12 points and grabbing seven rebounds. Sophomore Katie Nelson scored 11 points along with seven rebounds and was the only Terrier to play all 40 minutes.

Eight different Terriers scored at least three points, including freshman Maggie Pina who made her one field goal attempt of the night, a three-pointer.

The Terriers dominated the glass, out rebounding the Wildcats 40-23 and finished with a 14-5 advantage in offensive rebounds.

Nelson was a big contributor for the team in assists as well. She led the way with six.

BU will be back in action Sunday when they take on the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. The Black Bears have won the America East the past two seasons. Tip-off is scheduled

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Junior Katie Nelson, shown in a February 2018 game against Lehigh University, was the only Terrier to play the entire 40 minutes in Boston University’s victory over the University of New Hampshire.

for 1 p.m.

The Terriers will not have a home game until Nov. 26 when

they take on Harvard University.

The team will then embark on a two-game west coast trip when

they play at the University of California, Davis and at the University of California, Berkeley.

Women’s hockey’s Nadia Mattivi transitioning well from Italy to BU

BY CAROLYN MOONEY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Freshman Nadia Mattivi, shown in a game against Yale University on Tuesday, is the only European player on the Boston University women’s ice hockey roster this season.

This season, the Boston University women’s hockey team welcomed Italian defenseman Nadia Mattivi to the team.

International students make up about 28 percent of the student body at BU, according to the Boston University Office of the President from 2018. As for BU’s roster, 48 percent are international students.

While Matti is an international student-athlete, she is the only player to come from Europe The other 11 teammates that are international come from Canada.

“I am not an english-native person, so I was afraid,” Mattivi said on her transition to BU. “I was asking myself if my teammates were going to be patient enough and they are. They always help me out.”

BU head coach Brian Durocher, who is now in his 15th season of coaching the women’s hockey team, said he feels international students struggle most with the language barrier.

“When you come here, even though you might be very strong in the English language, it’s only one of two languages you’ve lived with in most cases,” Durocher said. “Those people have to concentrate much more than a

kid who knows just the English language.”

Despite the slight language barrier for Mattivi, she has been transitioning smoothly into school at BU and has been comfortable on the team. It was when Durocher made a trip out to her hometown that Mattivi knew her decision to play hockey at BU was the right decision.

“I was like ‘Oh my God. He traveled across the ocean!’ That was one of the points that made me come here,” Mattivi said. “I saw that he was really passionate and was really interested in me.”

It is not typical for Durocher

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BOTTOM LINE FRIDAY, NOV. 15

Boston Celtics take on Golden State Warriors at 10:30PM

FRIDAY, NOV. 15

SATURDAY, NOV. 16

Boston Bruins take on Toronto Maple Leafs at 7PM

Terrier Men’s Ice Hockey take on UMass Amherst at 8PM

SUNDAY, NOV. 17

New England Patriots take on the Philadelphia Eagles at 4:25PM

SUNDAY, NOV. 17

Boston Celtics take on the Sacramento Kings at 3:30PM