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CSSH to merge ethnic, culture studies

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University administrators will publicly unveil a plan to merge American Studies (AAS) departments on Wednesday, April 6, acBuscaglia.

Stapleton “ThisByisNaomi a faculty initiative that has been in place since last semester, and it’s part of a much longer conversation that has been Buscaglia said. He added that faculty support for the joint department is unanimous.

Buscaglia said that the resulting program, currently unnamed,

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Huskies claim Hockey East crown

By Gordon Weigers News sTaff

den, the song took on new life.

A year of countless question marks

majors and minors within the two departments under the general umbrella of global studies. Professors will propose two new majors – a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in global, Page 2

To most, the words of “All Hail Northeastern” are a mystery, and the tune itself holds little meaning. But as the pep band played while the Hockey East banner was hoisted into the rafters at TD Gar-

point for the Northeastern University (NU) men’s hockey team. Nearly three decades removed from their last title, the Huskies have climbed the Hockey East ranks to be declared -

TD Garden on Friday, putting them

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Bee,” directed by Scott Edmiston.

With a book by Rachel Sheinkin and music and lyrics by miered at the Barrington Stage

sical. The musical comedy is centered around a spelling bee

and lights like other Broadway shows,” Edmiston, chair of the theatre department, said. “If we look at Broadway musicals as mainstream, ‘Spelling Bee’ is like an indie musical – it’s quirky, offbeat and has a sensibility that’s uniquely its own.”

The one-act musical incorpo-

College (BC) Eagles in the Hockey

after beating BC, Northeastern outlasted the fourth-seeded University River Hawks 3-2 to capture the

Hockey East Championship, earning an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The NCAA released the lege hockey’s Big Dance – a tourtime ever – all four Beanpot schools.

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“Spelling Bee” breaks comedic fourth wall

The theatre department at Northeastern University (NU) is breaking the barriers between cast and audience in its new production of the acclaimed musical “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling

before opening on Broadway in 2005, where it earned the Tony -

“One of the things I love about ‘Spelling Bee’ is that it’s all about the characters as opposed to scenery and costumes

rates heavy use of audience interaction and involvement into its plot, with audience members invited to the stage to try their luck at the competition.

“There is a certain improvisational foundation to the piece,” Edmiston said. “What I came to discover TheaTre, Page 7

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Ebola app launches

By Olivia Arnold news corresPondent

An Android application created by a Northeastern University (NU) doctoral student revolutionizes how blood samples are labeled at health clinics and could help prevent the spread of deadly diseases in developing countries.

Murphy Wonsick, a computer engineering graduate student, developed the app after learning the devastating effects that unreliable labeling of patient samples had during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. The outbreak, which plagued West Africa, killed more than 11,000 people.

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Anxiety is the most prominent mental health issue on college campuses, followed by depression, Business Insider reports.

Health centers understaffed

By Stephanie Cohn news corresPondent

The unrelenting rain drenched Rayyan Mikati, soaking through her backpack and jacket as she waited alone for the bus. Already one subway ride and a bus ride into her journey, she would soon arrive at the roof over her head – not from the therapy.

“She was just not the therapist for me,” she said. “I came out not feeling any better than I had before, and it just didn’t seem worth it.”

Mikati, a student at Northeastern University who studies biology, ecology and graphic and information design, came to Boston her freshman year with the hopes of recovering from her bulimia nervosa.

But the Minnesota native’s rigorous course load drained her, causing her recovery to fall to the wayside. It didn’t help that every day, stepping into the dining hall, Mikati faced an all-you-can-eat buffet, tempting her to give into her compulsion to binge and purge and leaving her to dread every meal.

“It takes a lot of units of energy to resist binging and purging. When I was spending all my energy on classes, I just had nothing left to take care of myself with,” she said.

She knew she needed professionled Mikati to question why she even bothered. She remembers how nerto Northeastern University Health and Counseling Services (UHCS); how her hands shook as she dialed the number; and how she stared at the green “call” button, wanting to ger to move. button, she found out that Northeastern could only offer her one therapy condition that it was temporary and long-term solution. This long-term Boston-area therapists. Two were not accepting new patients, one had tion, leaving her only option a thera-

pist in Brighton, Mass.

Now a junior, Mikati is back at UHCS and sees a therapist she loves. But there’s only room in the therapist’s schedule for her to come in once a month for an hour. Over the entire fall 2015 semester, she has only had three appointments.

She asked Northeastern for another referral list, but she was never sent one.

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In Boston, a city known for its medical innovation and educational institutions, universities proudly display an appearance of caring, using phrases like “you are not alone” and “break the stigma” on pamphlets, posters and websites. However, with an increasing number of college students seeking mental health support, the counseling centers are inundated, leaving students to question just how steadfast the university’s support really is.

In 2015, 35.3 percent of college students said they felt so depressed within the last 12 months that it was increase since the American College Health Association’s 2010 report. In addition, a 2014 National Survey of College Counseling Centers reported that 95 percent of college counseling directors said they noticed an increase of students with severe psychological problems.

Without any standardized expectation and with limited resources, Boston-area colleges are scrambling to provide for students.

“It’s purely an issue of funding,” said Paul Polychronis, the director of accreditation of the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS), an organization that cercounseling centers. “I think universities really do value counseling is that it’s always a competition in spent.”

Without a shared set of standards, the centers have different goals and

approaches to helping students.

“In the college mental health area, it’s very, very diverse, and some schools are very well-resourced and some schools really struggle, so you have this lack of consistency,” said Alan Siegal, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) chief of Mental Health Services for the past 10 years.

Based on IACS standards, colleges should have a ratio ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 students – including graduates and undergraduates – per each full-time equivalent counselor. This number ensures that colleges can better handle students in crisis while also providing supwhether the centers make the ratio or not, they are still criticized by students for their long wait times and limited availability.

At Boston University (BU), which has a ratio of more than 2,000 students per counselor, senior Victoria Pae thinks that getting an appointment at the counseling center is a matter of luck. She, among other students at BU, tried calling the center and never got a call back.

Meanwhile, more than 40 percent of students at MIT – 514 students with scheduling appointments at the counseling center, according to the 2015 MIT Healthy Minds Survey.

As Rayyan Mikati experienced at Northeastern – about 2,000 students per counselor – many of the university counseling centers provide only temporary therapy and insurance-based referrals. This means students are often left to hunt for one of the limited number of available therapists in the greater Boston area.

However, Polychronis, of IACS, said students must remember the limitations of college health centers.

“The institutions of higher ed aren’t really meant to function as a health maintenance organization,” Polychronis said. “We’re not providing some sort of care that one would ordinarily need health insurance for.”

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especially important,” Wonsick said. was someone who was infected, they can be potentially spreading that to a lot of people.”

Wonsick’s app prompts clinicians to enter all vital patient information onto their Android tablet or phone.

A digital chip encodes the data from the app and physically attaches to sample from the patient.

This method would replace the current process in Liberia, where doctors write patient information by hand on pieces of paper and tape the paper onto the patient’s vial. That paper is often lost during transportation of a patient’s vial to testing facilities or destroyed during the bleach-involved cleaning process, Wonsick said.

“Once your blood sample is separated from that half-page information sheet, then you have no idea of tracking who that sample belongs to,” said Taskin Padir, an NU associate professor of computer and electrical engineering and the faculty advisor for the research. “We write that and that way it is inseparable.”

Wonsick and Padir estimated around 20 percent of samples in Liberian testing facilities were unusable due to labeling issues.

“We do believe we can get that 20 percent loss rate down to 5 percent or even less,” Padir said.

Problems often arise in developing countries because collection fa-

samples are taken, and testing facilities, where the patient samples are tested for diseases, are typically far apart and take hours or even days to travel between. Using Wonsick’s app, the digital tag of a vial that arrives at a testing facility would be scanned by an Android tablet, and then would display the patient’s information on the screen and entered into a Google spreadsheet, Wonsick said.

“That way, once testing is done,

whether the sample was positive for whatever disease they were testing for and then that can be sent to the appropriate databases,” Wonsick said.

The spreadsheet would then be accessible from the original collection facility, so the doctors there could inform the patient of their test results and immediately begin treatment if necessary. both from the lab, as well as from the clinic who took the blood,” Padir said. “That way, data sharing becomes easier, data security becomes possible.”

The research for the app began in summer 2015, when the team received a grant for $200,000 from the National Science Foundation. The grant, however, also had to cover multiple other research projects on Ebola focused on developing new technologies, Padir said.

“Murphy wrote all the code for this app,” Padir said. “This app was basically developed by Murphy on her own time, and we just supported the incidental, the material costs.”

As for the costs for the developing countries, each digital tag costs less than a dollar and the Android tablet costs less than $100, Padir said.

“We really paid attention to keep this low-cost,” Padir said. “We think that this is affordable, and there are governments to bring in those technology solutions.”

The application is now complete and ready for testing trials in Liberia, Wonsick said.

“Ebola is such a horrible disease tentially stop that, or at least aid in the stopping of that.”

Photo courtesy Murphy Wonsick

Wonsick, above, sees cellphones as a universal technology across countries.

Joint department to offer new tracks of study global, From Page 1 Global Studies and Cultures and a BA in Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Studies – and three minors – Culture, Power and Colonialism (Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean), Violence, Racism and Human Rights as well as Development Studies and Human Security.

Still, rumors surrounding the changes have some students worried that the character of AAS will fade once the transformation is implemented.

Senior sociology major Elijah Muhammad fears for the future of the department, already whittled down by a lack of faculty and resources.

“The department has seemingly been losing supplies and numbers

throughout the years,” Muhammad, a double minor in AAS and religious studies, said. “I know from working in the department that the think the reason for it shrinking is a general lack of support and also a lack of visibility.”

Senior political science major and international affairs minor Ashley Clerge, who has worked closely with Buscaglia through this process, agreed that AAS needs to be revitalized.

“Due to the lack of spark in AAS hopefully with this new plan, we can revive interest and we can hire new people that are well-versed.”

Clerge received approval about a month ago to invite students to the

April 6 discussion between administrative panelists and students in Renaissance Park.

She spread the word by reaching out to campus hubs for minority groups, including the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute and the Latino/a Student Cultural Center. once they had their plans cemented and a course of action to take,” she the details once the student input is taken into account.”

Buscaglia said he plans to address student concerns and dispel rumors surrounding the shift within the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at the meeting.

“The news here is not that any program or department is going to

disappear,” he said. “It’s that we’re creating a new department that nobody else has done. It’s going to be fully invested in international allocation.”

Muhammad, who sought out colleges based on the presence of an African American studies program, stressed that the assets of the old program must carry over into the new department. versity that is priding itself on its ways to make students of color feel should be an intellectual component at the forefront that students who are interested in this can learn and have that sort of discipline,” he said.

Dr. Richard Wamai, an NU assistant professor of AAS, said that

the tracks in each department will remain unchanged; the initiative is intended more to forge a connection between AAS and LLC, combining what he calls “restorative justice” with “cultural engagement.”

“If students are attracted to NU for its African American Studies major, that is going to remain exactly as it is,” Wamai said. “We are continuously thinking of ways to expand and innovate our curricula.”

Still, Clerge said she feels that even if logistics regarding majors and minors stay the same, the overall goal of the department will be brand new.

“I guess it’s seen more as a merging of departments maintaining their character,” she said. “But inherently things will change with this crosscollaboration.”

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Northeastern University Public Safety Division Tuesday, March 22 @ 12:58 a.m.

Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD) stopped a Jeep Grand Cherokee registered to Massachusetts and operated by a man unaffiliated with Northeastern University (NU). The driver had run a red light at Massachusetts Avenue and St. Botolph Street, nearly striking several pedestrians. His license and registration were active, but the subject was found to have a warrant out of Quincy District Court for operating with a suspended license and possession of a Class A substance. NUPD placed the man under arrest at 1:06 a.m. and notified Todisco Towing to tow the vehicle. NUPD transported the subject to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit Police headquarters for booking and filed a report.

Tuesday, March 15 @ 12:06 a.m.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division A member of the NU cleaning staff reported someone inside a room in Ell Hall. NUPD responded and spoke to the subject, who was unaffiliated with NU but in possession of a student’s Husky Card. The subject was banned from the area and escorted off the property to Huntington Avenue.

Tuesday, March 15 @ 7:46 p.m.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division An NU student reported a man tearing down posters and yelling in International Village (IV). NUPD located the man in the lobby and identified him as a guest. NUPD could not get any more information, as the subject became combative with the officers. NUPD requested Emergency Medical Services (EMS), which responded and transported the man to Boston Medical Center. NUPD followed EMS to the hospital and determined the subject was under the influence of LSD. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Tuesday, March 15 @ 11:08 p.m.

An NU student reported that an unknown man followed her from Tremont Street to her residence on Cunard Street as she was walking home from work. The student passed her residence and walked directly to NUPD, where the suspect stopped following her. NUPD then escorted the student to her residence. A report was filed.

Thursday, March 17 @ 10:44 a.m.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division The director of the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program reported a computer was stolen from a room in the Stearns Center. NUPD responded and found a subject fitting the given description in front of Centennial Common. The subject, unaffiliated with NU, was checked for warrants with negative results. The victim confirmed the identity of the subject by matching the computer’s serial number. The subject was placed under arrest at 11:30 a.m. and will be charged with larceny over $250, trespassing and receiving stolen property.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Thursday, March 17 @ 8:45 p.m.

An NU student reported her credit card was stolen from her Willis Hall mailbox. A report was filed.

Friday, March 18 @ 9:51 a.m.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division The head of technical facilities for art and design reported that before an NU student went on medical leave, he signed out camera equipment from Ryder Hall and is refusing to return it. A report was filed.

Friday, March 18 @ 12:59 p.m.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division An individual unaffiliated with NU called NUPD from Michigan to report receiving several purchase orders from someone claiming to be a representative from Northeastern. A report was filed.

Library presents talk on redlining

By Cassidy DeStefano news editor

Guest speaker and community activist Mossik Hacobian condemned the practice of redlining as “federalsession of a three-part “Neighborhood Matters” event hosted each semester by Snell Library.

“This series has spotlighted neighborhoods as far-reaching as East Boston and Chinatown and as close as Roxbury and right down the street from Northeastern,” library communications specialist Jennie Robbiano said, adding that the program aims to feature community organizations working toward social justice.

Redlining, or the denial of services to residents of particular areas based on ethnic makeup, is a practice that former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, a Democrat, outtured a compilation of clips drawn from the Boston TV News archives from Dukakis’ term to the 1990s, which cut to the heart of issues like poor police performance in minority communities and mortgage gaps dividing white and black neighborhoods.

Hacobian expanded on these conscreening, pointing to the Commonwealth’s legal obligation to provide for all its residents.

“Massachusetts is the only state in the country that has a constitutional right to shelter provision,” Hacobian said. Article XLVII of the state’s constitution names this obligation as a public function.

A veteran of social justice affairs at Columbia University, Hacobian initially came to Boston on a service mission. He played a part in launching the East Boston Community News, which employed reporters like Michael Rezendes, now a Pulitzer Prize winner on the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team.

“I’ve been very fortunate to have the opportunity to align my values and principles with causes that allow me to do what I always set out to do,” Hacobian said.

Although he focuses much of his attention on regional initiatives Ground Boston, Hacobian also urged the Northeastern University note of the racial discrepancies that exist on the outskirts of university property.

“When International Village (IV)

every day and see this enclosed safe space for students, yet the housing development across the street provided a contrast that was just jarring,” he said.

Roxbury, the neighborhood that shares Tremont Street with IV, was one of the focal points of the presentation along with Dorchester, areas known to house predominantly black communities, Robbiano said.

Community members from both NU and the Greater Boston Area weighed in on how to better track progress and boost awareness for housing discrimination after Hacobian’s address. Marty Blatt, department chair of NU’s graduate program for public history, said that one way to accomplish this is to immerse students in urban development initiatives.

“As the speaker was saying, there is a terrible disparity between wealth and poverty in Boston even as the city is supposedly thriving,” he said.

“The way to address this is for more people to directly learn what is in fact going on in neighborhoods.”

Blatt said his department is involved in a national collaboration called the Humanities Action Lab, currently based at The New School in Manhattan. The institution is hosting a national exhibit called “States of Incarceration,” which he said focuses on “the new Jim Crow” and the rise in the prison population of black and Latino men. The exhibit, set to arrive in Boston in 2018, is one outlet suited for directly affecting social justice; it is the type of precedent that Blatt hopes will inspire students to implement change on a more local level.

“I’d like to see our students do work related to the content in these series, which is largely focused on far-reaching urban issues,” he said. minority residents are centered in 14 main communities, Hacobian said there is room for improvement.

“Boston is wonderful,” he said. that bounty so that everyone can remain here.

The next “Neighborhood Matters” event – “La Defensa de La Tierra and Villa Victoria” which focuses on Boston’s South End – will take place on April 6 followed by “A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts” nel project on April 19.

Friday, March 18 @ 3:31 p.m.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division A part-time engineer for WRBB Radio Station reported that when he went to the penthouse at Willis Hall where the radio equipment, along with BPD equipment, is stored, he noticed the door had been pried open. Some radio equipment had been moved. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Saturday, March 19 @ 4:05 p.m.

A proctor in White Hall reported a resident was intoxicated and requested that NUPD check on her. NUPD responded and requested EMS to evaluate the 18-year-old, who was breathing but not conscious. EMS responded at 4:43 p.m. and transported her to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The Residence Director (RD) on call was notified.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Saturday, March 19 @ 6:03 p.m.

NUPD stopped a man, unaffiliated with NU, urinating in public on Benton Street near Columbus Avenue. The man was acting loud and disorderly toward NUPD. The subject was checked for warrants with negative results but was found to have lengthy previous records from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. NUPD will be summonsing the man to court for lewd and lascivious behavior. He was sent on his way without further incident.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Monday. March 21 @ 9:30 a.m.

An NU student called NUPD to report his unattended backpack was stolen from a closet on the fourth floor of Dodge Hall. A report was filed.

Monday, March 21 @ 12:52 p.m.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division An NU student reported her laptop and wallet were stolen from a coat closet in a Dodge Hall room. A report was filed.

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While at Columbia University, Hacobian protested the construction of a gymnasium in Morningside Heights with a separate entrance for Harlem residents.

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Column: Ocean’s future relies on us I’ve been working on Cape Cod for more than two months now, and I still don’t get tired of staring at the water. Almost every day, I take a walk to a stretch of beach located near the building I work in at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The water looks a little different every day, but it’s consistently gorgeous and pristine. The pure blue and sound of the waves lapping always makes me feel calmer during a hectic day.

Of course, looks can be deceiving. The ocean’s got its share of problems, dioxide, which is slowing productivity and reducing biodiversity. Human-caused climate change has impacted all areas of our planet, perhaps our oceans most of all. However, the ocean is pretty resilient, acting as a sink for carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. Storing excess carbon underwater reduces climate change effects. The there are still a number of coral reefs and aquatic communities that remain untouched by humans.

Scientists and conservationists work to miniattempt to preserve the biodiversity and services they may provide. Developing marine protected areas is one step toward keeping our planet healthy, but the oceans are still pening so fast, this is a sensitive moment – a tipping point for many aquatic organisms and for us. As WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold put it when I interviewed him last week, “The decisions we make in the next 10 years Gwen Schanker

Thorrold and his fellow lab members tag sharks and devil rays in order to investigate their behavior and explore how to maintain sustainable populations. Unfortunately, scientists alone can only effect so much change. make a difference,” Thorrold said.

Tipping things in the right direction requires engagement from other What gets young people excited about the ocean? For me, all it takes is living near the water, and it seems I’m not alone. A 2015 study titled “American Millennials: Cultivating the Next Generation of Ocean Conservationists” showed that when it comes to protecting the ocean, young people have trouble caring for something they can’t see, and that millenof people who, with greater engagement, have the potential to make a change: “Global Greens,” who support global action but don’t yet have the ocean on their radar; “Coastal Concerned,” nature lovers who live near the water; and “Waiting in the Wings,” members of a younger cohort who are focused on education and awareness.

It’s key to cultivate passion for the ocean as early as possible. In February, the WHOI web group ran a #SpeakForTheOcean video contest that invited teenage students to articulate the voice of the ocean in a 30-second a stop-motion representation of life in the ocean with construction paper.

The winner will receive a free tour of WHOI’s newest research vessel, Neil Armstrong. An experience like that, not to mention the critical thinking that goes into making the video, can make all the difference in cultivating an engaged generation that is not only knowledgeable about what’s at stake for our oceans, but is prepared to effect change – as researchers, as conservationists, as policy makers – and soon.

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Wage laws undemocratic Last August, the Birmingham, Ala. local government took a siglow-wage workers in the city by raising minimum wage to more of $7.25. The move constituted a strong victory for labor rights and community activists, who had spent months rallying support and talking to lawmakers in an effort in the South to raise its minimum wage. By August, the decision had garnered a broad base of support that included workers, activists, residents. In essence, the city’s decision was the result of democracy functioning as it should at the community level.

But soon after, members of the Republican-controlled state legislature began suggesting city ofinformed enough to pass minimum wage ordinances. Last month, the state Senate and House voted – largely along party lines – to approve a so-called preemption law that prohibits municipalities from making their own minimum-wage decisions.

Alarmingly, Alabama is hardly alone. On March 21, Idaho’s state legislature became the 19th in the country to wrest control of wage laws from democratically elected city governments. State governments in these and other states have passed similar legislation to supersede local autonomy on issues ranging from nutrition and labeling to paid sick time and maternity leave.

These power grabs have several things in common. They often occur after cities pass progressive

policies, seemingly in direct response. Preemption is much more common in Republican-controlled states than in ones with Democratic majorities. The language in several of the minimum wage bills is almost identical. Additionally, virtually all preemptions are based off model bills circulated by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The group is a conservacollective calls itself a “nonpartisan of state legislators” concerned with defending free markets. Critics likundeserving of 501(c)(3), that hides its machinations from the public and the group’s most frequent action seems to be convincing state proposals parroting ALEC “model bills” without disclosing the connection.

Meanwhile, preemption has roots in historic corporate attempts to thwart progress on a variety of issues: Since the 1970s, big tobacco corporations, gun lobbyists have all used the move as a means to avoid or delay laws meant to protect the public from harm at the hands of their industries. ALEC staffers have claimed opponents of preemption misunderstand the balance of power between state and local governments, portraying the tion over the legitimate authority of states. However, the timing of ALEC-backed laws – in response to popular, grassroots-driven local changes that have the audacand workers over industry greed

– reveals the group’s cynical, antidemocratic intentions. When local progress, corporate leaders run to power, intentionally subverting the will and rights of thousands of people. Astoundingly, conservative ited government” and “individual rights” as among their guiding principles, have embraced ALEC’s suppression tactics with open arms.

In Massachusetts, the specter of preemption has thus far stayed away, mostly. Boston and Massachusetts residents, voters, orgait that way. In the past 12 months, cities and towns have raised their minimum wages, tightened tobacco laws, outlawed plastic bags and passed other ordinances that harness their right to self-govern without interference. But while the Massachusetts chair position on ALEC’s board has been vacant since 2014, that doesn’t mean the group isn’t paying attention to our city: Earlier this spring, the orapplauding the sweetheart, $150 billion-dollar General Electric to move to Boston. Proponents of the blatant act of corporate pandering cited the 800 jobs GE would bring to the city, claiming the more than $180,000 shelled out per job would pay for itself in taxes on a company known as one of the nation’s most virulent tax dodgers. Evidentially, ALEC believes in corporate welfare and legislative obstruction over the rights and needs of regular people. Their tactics and ideals have no place in Massachusetts, nor in the US.

Letter: 2016 pivotal for GOP To the young and moderate Rerepresent you in this election might seem hopeless. The only moderate candidate left is John Kasich, who has virtually no chance of securing the 1,237 delegates necessary to win the nomination. The other choices we are left with are Donald Trump to the right on social issues than most college-aged Republicans, and Trump comes off as a semiracist buffoon during his rallies. In a different election year, I might be compelled to look across the aisle at other options, but this year, the Democrats have only supplied two.

Personally, I don’t see myself voting for the establishment-backed, under-FBI-investigation Hillary Clinton, or Bernie Sanders, the socialist who sees climate change as a bigger threat to our country than the Islamic State group.

Republicans are splitting into different, unhappy and helpless groups: The “Never Trump” group that is trying desperately to stop his inevitable nomination and the “Anything but Hillary” crowd, which is unsuccessfully trying to deny the inevitability of her 2016 victory. Things aren’t completely set in stone – it is still possible that

tion in November, but I wouldn’t bet on it. If you’re part of the #NeverTrump team, the most logical candidate running to support is the world, as some may believe; he is a highly intelligent and princithe nomination outright if Kasich ible momentum. More likely (but Kasich win enough delegates in the coming weeks to deny Trump the 1,237 he desperately seeks, forcing or even Kasich could snag enough unbound delegates to steal the does not resonate strongly with moderates, libertarians or independents, so would we really be moving in the right direction? Current RealClearPolitics.com polls have both Clinton and Sanders defeating Perhaps a Trump nomination would be good for young Republicans. It would surely cause chaos within the establishment and might even force a third-party candidate to run. It could be the death of the current GOP, and that could be exactly what we need. There is a

blatant disconnect between Republican politicians and their young voters. According to data from Pew Research Center, 61 percent of Republicans under the age of 25 support gay marriage, yet not a single one of the 17 Republican candidates running this year supported marriage equality. Changes need to be made by the people in Washington representing Republicans. The party needs to restructure its message to reach young moderates, and independents.

If the Republican Party crumbles this election, it is not the end of conservative thinking in the US. Just look at Republican gains in Congress and in state legislatures during President Barack Obama’s eight years: More than 900 state legislature seats, 12 governorships, 69 House seats and 13 Senate seats.

Anti-liberalism is more than just alive today in America; it is thriving. Young Republicans might have to grind through an ugly election in 2016, but the future is not hopeless.

The Republican Party will have connect with the younger generation again, and 2016 looks like the year we will hit the reset button.

– David Harbeck is a freshman journalism major.

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Parade brings fun, trouble

By Audrey Cooney news staff Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade brought good weather, boisterous crowds and a quiet controversy surrounding one of Boston’s signature events.

The day was sunny but had a faint chill in the air – a group of young Irish dancers did jumping jacks to stay warm in their sequined dresses and poodle socks behind parade walker Jeff Pontiff.

“It’s always a good time,” said Pontiff, who marched with his group, the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick.

“We always worry a little bit about Thousands of spectators – most decked out in green – lined the streets, even taking to rooftops in some places for a better view. Parents hoisted children onto their shoulders, college students moved down the sidewalk in throngs and vendors hawked green T-shirts with various slogans.

by Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Gov. Charlie Baker, who were accompanied by a squadron of bagpipers. Veterans groups, marching bands, military reenactors and horse-drawn carriages all drew enthusiastic cheers from the

crowds. Hometown heroes The Dropkick Murphys elicited some extra enthusiasm, as the band cruised past the crowds blasting its song “State of Massachusetts.”

The event drew spectators from Limerick, Ireland attended with her husband and two sons. The two boys, Sean and Paul, held green pinwheels and stood on a fence to get a better look at the rows of bagpipers and military vehicles parading past. band had been to the United States before, but they wanted to spend St. Patrick’s day in Boston at least once. The couple took advantage of their sons’ aptly timed spring break to make a trip across the Atlantic.

“It’s bigger here,” she said, referring not just to the parade but also to the holiday in general. “At home, we have a very small parade, and sometimes there’s a band parade, usually the Sunday after St. Patrick’s Day.” The parade, organized annually by the Allied War Veterans Council of South Boston, has been a part of Boston’s history for more than a century. Several controversies in recent years have roiled organizers and community members. supporting LGBT veterans, par-

group to be allowed to do so. The exclusion of pride groups had attracted the ire of Boston residents, including Walsh, who declined to year as mayor because of the ban.

This year, a proposed change to the parade route ignited a controversy that ended up before a US District Court, with a judge ruling that forcing parade organizers to shorten the route would impede on their First Amendment rights.

The proposal caused outrage among organizers of the parade.

Chester Darling, a lawyer for the Allied War Veteran’s Council, told the Boston Globe earlier this month that Walsh’s attempt to shorten the route was an “abuse of discretion by a heavy-handed mayor.”

Despite the recent controversies, the event remained a festive affair.

Haydee Hernandez and Paul Gruszka drove up from New Jersey for the weekend to visit their friend Lindsay Zaccardi, who lives on Cape Cod, and to celebrate the holiday.

“We’re loving it so far,” said Hernandez, adding that they had been to New York City’s parade many times but had never been to Boston before.

Zaccardi said the New York parade was bigger, but she and her friends agreed they would come back to Boston for future parades.

“It’s a great city, friendly people,” she said.

Photo by Camaryn McKenzie

Despite some controversy surrounding the route, paradegoers enjoyed celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.

Photo by Scotty Schenck

A new bill passed by the Massachusetts State House further regulates ride-sharing companies – but not as much as taxis.

New bill angers taxis, ride-sharers

By Mack Hogan & Rowan Walrath news staff After the Massachusetts State House passed new legislation regulating ride-sharing companies on Wednesday, March 9, ride-sharing companies and taxi groups are disThe bill, which will soon be debated in the State Senate, creates a new oversight body and regulatory framework for ride-sharing companies like Lyft, Uber and Fasten, according to Boston Magazine. If signed into law, the bill would require drivers for ride-sharing companies to undergo two background checks, force companies to carry at least $1 million in insurance liability on every vehicle in use and mandate ride-sharing companies be The measure also contains language banning surge pricing that coincides with a public emergency.

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does not require ride-sharing drivgerprinting that taxi drivers do. Fingerprinting may still make it into er, as Sen. President Stanley Rosenberg has voiced his support for the provision, according to WGBH. Gabriel Melendez, a driver for ride-sharing companies Fasten and Uber, believes too much of the burden of regulation lies on taxis.

“I don’t think it’s about Uber or Fasten being under-regulated. I think the taxis are over-regulated,” Melendez said. “I do think it’s unfair that taxis are required to be hybrids, but I don’t think the way to solve that is kicking Uber out of the Boston Convention Center.”

Melendez is alluding to wording in the bill that would impose companies from picking up fares at Logan International Airport and tion Center. Ride-sharing vehicles are currently required to have livery plates to pick up fares at the airport because of a law prohibiting private vehicles from charging.

“Who needs a ride most? People in a new city that just got in,” Melendez said. “Banning ride sharing from airports just doesn’t make sense.”

Daniel Hetzel, a freshman mechanical engineering major at Northeastern University (NU), thinks the way taxis operate is part of the problem. He prefers services like Uber for their convenience.

“If you’re trying to support the taxi business, banning Uber from the airport and the conven-

tion center makes sense,” Hetzel said. “But I think the bigger issue is that the taxi industry needs to change. If it was as easy and cheap to take a taxi, I’d be taking a taxi.”

Nick Fong, a freshman mechanical engineering major, also prefers ride-sharing services.

“The main reason I think I like Uber is because if there is any confusion around pickups you can immediately contact the driver and clear things up,” Fong said.

“I feel way less pressure to tip an Uber driver or a Lyft driver. You don’t have to confront it and make it awkward. [...] Taxis also don’t offer any option like UberPool or Lyft Line, which makes it way cheaper if you aren’t in a rush.”

UberPool and Lyft Line are services Uber and Lyft offer, respectively, that enable riders to share their cars with strangers. The fares are generally several dollars cheaper than UberX or Lyft, the companies’ standard services.

Some NU students, like Laura Hobbs, a freshman industrial engineering major, would like to see ride-sharing drivers undergo greater scrutiny during the hiring process.

“If you’re getting into a car with someone, there needs to be some sort of security,” she said. “Uber, right now, has no real interview process. It’s all through paperwork. [...]

This is either a way to force these companies out of Massachusetts or to force them to become taxis.”

In a March 8 press release, Uber expressed concerns that the bill would obstruct the ridesharing industry’s progress.

“Uber has proven that technology can grow our cities with improved transportation options that tive, forward-thinking state,” the press release stated. “With many concerns still on the table, we look forward to discussing these challenges laid out below with legislators and their staff. The legislature has an opportunity to set the standard nationally for [Transportation Network Company] (TNC) bills. We look forward to working with them to inform a bill that can set the national standard.”

Fong believes ride-sharing companies need to be allowed room to grow – whether taxi groups protest or not.

“The important question is whether the price difference between taxis and Uber comes down to the cost of the regulation,” Fong said. “I don’t think it matters whether or not the regulations are fair to taxis. People always come up with new ideas that may be seen as unfair to others. The world moves on.”

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Medical examiner works on unfinished cases

By Caroline Boschetto news staff

of speed in completing autopsy vents the deceased’s families from reaching closure on several levels.

“When you talk about closure, you’re talking about bereavement,” Fowler said. “You’re talking about the psychological closure and understanding. You’re talking about potentially getting medical screening for family members who may have inherited a congenital disease.”

Additionally, the absence of a completed autopsy report can prevent a family from receiving life insurance payouts, which can be especially devastating if the deceased was a primary breadwinner, Fowler said.

Fowler said that a timely completion of autopsy reports is also nec-

chisel away at its backlog of cadavers that need to be autopsied in 2006 due to a shortage of medical examiners and an increase in cases, according to the most recial and emotional impacts on the loved ones of the deceased and has hindered public health efforts, but a new plan created last fall to increase processing rates has yielded positive results.

“Additional medical examiners are needed to handle the volume

important information about health trends such as drug overdose rates.

“If you have to wait six months before you get your toxicology back or longer […] by that stage, it’s old information and doesn’t help you to do any rapid interventions,” Fowler said.

He said government control over medical examiner of-

recruiting forensic pathologists from other states has been problematic,” Dr. Henry M. Nields, chief medical examiner of Massachusetts, said in the annual report. cause and manner of death in unexpected, violent or suspicious deaths.” All other death cases are typically handled by hospitals.

Turn Around Time (TAT) Progress Report, issued on Feb. 19, states that

the cases requiring autopsies have incomplete reports. Furthermore, cases from 2011 are still pending of the cases requiring autopsies have incomplete autopsy reports.

According to data from this report, which was sent to The News

by Felix Browne, the media rela-

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get ‘x’ number of dollars per year, and you have to make do.” nine full-time medical examiners, two part-time staff medical examiners and two contract management review team recom-

was a steady increase in annual

The lack of medical examiners is largely due to the fact that forensic pathologists working for

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hospital pathologists, Fowler said.

According to ForensicScienceCareers.net, government forensic

2011. Increases in caseloads have get that’s by-the-case,” Dr. David Fowler, president of the National Association of Medical

vate sector hospital pathologists earn salaries starting at $200,000.

Additionally, training to become a forensic pathologist re-

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tion, while training for hospital pathologists requires only 12 years.

“If you’re in debt, why would you go and do forensic pathology which requires more training than the general pathology?” Fowler said.

He also expressed his concern about the aging workforce of medical examiners in the country.

“A lot of us are starting to get closer and closer to retirement,” he said.

“The rates at which we lose forensic pathologists right now is about equal to what we’re training, but at some stage it’s going to exceed it.”

According to its annual report, speed of autopsy report completion and to cut down on the backload of cases. The plan involved hiring 12 additional staff members to assist medical examiners.

Since the implementation of the were completed within 90 days. In

were completed within 90 days.

In order to receive full accredipercent of its cases within 90 days, cent Accreditation and Inspection Checklist. Fowler said that accreditation serves as assurance to staff members, citizens, the government and jury members that they “can reasonably expect an accurate, good outcome from every investigation.”

Nields said in this year’s annual report that in order to increase the speed of examinations, the increased the number of cadavers that receive external examinations and decreased the number that receive autopsies, which take more ogists performed autopsies on 80 -

ability to hire new pathologists and improve autopsy rates.

“The government has to provide adequate resources, and then you enough, now you need to use said. “You’ve got to have enough and funding increases were apparwas released to a family, Nields stated in the 2016 annual report.

According to the most recent federal report by the Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences, there are thologists in the US. The committee stated that there is a national need for about 1,000 pathologists.

“There are many forensic pathologists around the country who do superb work because they love doing it,” Fowler said. “They need more resources and […] really are under the gun trying to do the best they possibly can in the cir-

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By Oliver Price news staff

Thunderous applause erupted from an audience that rose as Northeastern University’s (NU) a cappella group the Nor’easters The Nor’easters hosted the fourth annual Best of the Northeast Regions (BONR) at NU on

University; the co-ed Boston University (BU) BosTones; the UniSons, an all-male group from NU; S#arp Attitude, an all-female group from University of Massachusetts Amherst; and the national Championship of Colle-

Arun Venugopal, Nor’easters singer and freshman mechanical The Nor’easters collaborated

dance performance to the song fully leapt onto the stage in suits

is different from other a capstrive to bring the best of the best to the stage,” Carly Manfrini, Nor’easters business manager and sophomore music industry Excited chatter turned into

Photo by Alex Melagrano

The Nor’easters hosted the fourth BONR and performed with four university a cappella groups at NU.

a quintessential element of college,” Mary Potts, freshman environmental studies and political

mony that evolved into an upbeat

Entering the stage to deafening cheer, the UniSons sung

made performing that much more

later announced that their debut

The Nor’easters closed the -

Pitch Slapped mixed styles by in-

and beyond to branch out into Northeastern’s performing arts performance,

Manfrini

said

“Sorry,” leaving the audience on “We pull out all the stops for

one of my favorite moments as a

Musical brings back memories of adolescence tHeatre, from Page 1 is that ‘Spelling Bee’ started out as -

a freshman computer engineering major playing Chip Tolentino,

This improvisational founda-

The production features an envolving intricate harmonies and vocals, leading to a close and

best laughs, but also poses a chal-

everyone off,” Sebastian Alberdi, a junior English major playing Leaf

ement of onstage audience memrefers to as having an “impressive level of professionalism” – has learned to rely on its shared chemistry and improvisational tech“There’s a lot of opportunity for things to be made topical or rel-

tremely cooperative since the be-

senior theatre and communication studies combined major playing -

semble piece, it’s hard not having on March 22 and is playing at NU’s Studio Theatre until April 3, aims to give audiences a comedic “Not only is it hysterical, but aren’t just cartoonish stereotypes,” relatable characters that you can

Photos courtesy Grant Terzakis

Top: NU Theatre cast produced the acclaimed comedy musical “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” giving audiences a look back at their adolescence. Bottom left: Lukas Kruegle, a freshman computer engineering major, played Chip Tolentino, a Boy Scout. Bottom right: Sebastian Alberdi, a junior English major, played Leaf Coneybear.

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arts & entertainment Huskies battle in stand-up comedy at NU “As a host, everyone is at your

staff writer

Six Northeastern University students stepped on the afterHOURS stage and told their funniest stories This stand-up comedy event, put on by the Council for University Programs (CUP), invited any student brave enough to perform for

political science major Sebastian

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Laugh Boston and Northeastern’s vice president for city and community affairs; Dana Jay Bein, a cast f the Comedy jored in history, is a veteran of the Boston comedy circuit and has opened for several prominent comedians at Northeastern-sponsored that ranged from his unfortunate being left in Chicago, unchaperHuessy describes his job as being slightly different from that of a

to bring some high energy to the nior computer engineering major proach to his routine and told a story

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storytellers; you don’t expect too The next contestant, senior mara similar approach of telling a story but managed to add more punchlines – his success evident in a

shift in tone became the theme of his act and received a lot of attention from the audience, though not ers are going to get a lot of reaction, but it doesn’t mean they’re better With his phone in hand and a

Photo courtesy Council for University Programs

AfterHOURS hosted a stand-up comedy competition, gifting audience members a night full of laughter.

to do more school activities as a se-

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ation on originality, stage presence Every judge agreed that for a

By contrast, sophomore electrical engineering major, Spencer Hurley

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stories about his times in Springperience in stand up comedy, said he -

but did not have the same timing to

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Still, Bein applauds Hurley and the other contestants for participat-

Both the audience and the judges had a chance to vote, but Thoms

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stems from an American electronic quartet, Anamanaguchi, and video

Joey’s self-taught programming here, having played on Conan,”

singing about her insecurities and overall private topics, from dirty

industrial engineering major John

“Big-time comedians don’t just -

Indie rock joins chiptune sounds at afterHOURS

By Will Angell-James news corresPondent

philanthropic

badges,

audience

The excitement lingering in the air On Saturday, March 19, Northeastern University-based (NU) chiptune band T-T)b joined NashT-T)b’s frontman and NU senior journalism student Joey Dussault

to have heard in video games,” sic used in vintage computers and gan as sound to accompany video mer Dussault, T-T)b’s days of pure chiptune are long-gone, as the forconsisting of 60 percent chiptune

“They have a lot of stuff going on, audio-engineering major, said T-T)b’s name originates from an T-T)b’s

electronic

melodies

“They had a lot of energy,” Alex When

the

chiptune-inspired

With every head bang and evBognanno revealed her musical -

at Governor’s Ball in June, Bully’s singer-guitarist Alicia Bognanno Bognanno captured the audience’s attention by screaming into the microphone about themes

Before joining T-T)b in mining merchandise, Bognanno said she had a great time and expressed aspirations for future small-scale

Photo by Alex Melagrano

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Students ready for Chance the Rapper

Entry of the Week

Private life of Jefferson revealed in new exhibition

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Friday, March 25 the Rapper?”

lections of the Massachusetts Historical Society,” the Massa-

Chancelor Bennett hails from Chicago’s South Side neighborhood of

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Photo courtesy Steven Green, Creative Commons

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Calendar by Sahan Weerakoon, Deputy A&E Editor

During his 10 days of suspen-

Sunday, March 27

Thursday, March 24

Saturday, March 26

cussed contributions is the transformation of the pornography

Gardeners from all over BosUniversity for Boston’s 41st an-

utes,” the rapper delivers a forceful retort to his school’s repudiation and establishes lore for the rest of

and your chance to participate ebration of Japanese animations,

professor at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Fran-

lyrically and musically – Chance’s raspy, high-pitched voice and signature screeches add to a beat sampled

released before Chance’s mixtape

rochemistry of cyberporn use, sex differences, the dangers of porn berporn addicts are encouraged

also experience exhibitions from

ditional segments of Japanese Daisa Enterprises and visiting assistant professor of social entre-

subconscious fantasies underlying

Monday, March 28

Tuesday, March 29

The Big Apple Circus is coming

For many Bostonians, “The Real-

-

place at the Citi Shubert Theatre,

time to the roaring ’20s by staying true to the lavish style of the era and bringing together stunning acts

Tim Sniffen, the play is described

ever before, so be prepared to cheer

group of characters including Raa conniving debutante; Desiree, a

garnered Chance’s recognition among the alternative hip-hop commuGambino (that one guy from “Community”) during his 2012 concert

ous video game, manga and

Wednesday, March 30

-

the talented seven-piece Big Apple

vention has also expanded to

Jose Castillo Campus Cowboy

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Japanese Noh drama to an Engcombines dance, chants, music and costumes to put on a very fo-

ter for study in Asia, the College of Arts and Sciences department -

release from the artist, but they have plenty of other materials to lis-

God) later that year and performed on both Saturday Night Live and

Students attending Springfest should expect a performance full of

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Kendall Coyne earns Patty Kazmaier award

By James Duffy dePuty sPorts editor

tance speech. “It was a fun ride,

The Huskies captain enliv-

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times. She rewrote the books at NU and in Hockey East, break-

Northeastern University (NU) to honored with the Patty Kazmaially to the top player in women’s “I would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my -

name written in the envelope.

and a season.

The cherry on top was the

best player to take the ice for the Huskies, and her senior season cemented her place in NU history.

The MLB needs to embrace bat flips

e the memorial award, the trophy is awarded annually to a player who showcased extraordinary skill, sportsmanship, competitiveness and personal character.

“It’s a tremendous honor to win an award named after such ceremony. “It’s an individual award but it wouldn’t be posstaff I had this year at Northeastern.”

The award itself was named after the late Patty Kazmaier,

player to ever win the award,

man at Princeton University,

ture that’ll be around for a while

black. work ethic and leadership as well as her skill. rubs off on the rest of the team,” He’s been quick to point out the benchmark for what is expected.

“Kendall’s been a leader since the day she stepped on the ice; she always leads by exam“She’s made a mark on Northeastern women’s hockey that will last a lifetime.”

Bryce Harper drops bombs. It’s what he does. He hit 42 home runs ESPN’s Tim Keown, Harper came out and launched a full attack on “It’s a tired sport because you can’t express yourself,” Harper said.

The quote circulated around the sports world, and reactions started Reporters on his front porch presumably recorded his comon his lawn.

Harper, “I’m sorry, but just shut up.”

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Street Journal, and the number

Alex Frandsen

Professional baseball’s strict and ridiculous adherence to its “un-

the ribs. do is limit player expression to the point where it lessens the level of Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics

rience. Simply put, it’s cool.

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makes it better.

So when an 8-year-old watches someone like Toronto Blue Jay Ed-

to be themselves, which in turn allows the fans to better connect with make it notably more attractive.

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exclamation point to an already exceptional moment. it needs to embrace the sermon of Bryce Harper. Unwritten rules are - Alex Frandsen can be reached at Sports@HuntNewsNU.com.

Senior forward Kendall Coyne, 77, potted 50 goals this season en route to winning the Patty Kazmaier Award.

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NU picks up two wins in first home games

By Joe Barbito news corresPondent

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the Northeastern University (NU) baseball team found its way back the University of Buffalo Bulls.

Much like he has done all sea-

to chip in in all different ways. couple of hit and runs, we stole

opened up home play for the Huskies with nine masterful in-

need to do to be successful.”

Senior second baseman Keith Kelly started a new on base

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nell went one-for-three but stole three bases, two of them on back two doubles on Saturday, he hit

Saturday

proved

to

be

a ally a very competent defensive team, the Huskies looked

“If you look at our numbers, we’ve defended well this year, and Saturday was a little blip,” head

me,” Hanley said of his success over the weekend. “I just stuck to the process and believed in

was also in mid-season form.

Hanley had an unassisted double play to end the top of the fourth, -

pull hitter,” Hanley said. “He told Senior pitcher James Mulry was -

really have to do much, just

held NU to just three runs over

line drive to Kelly ended in

Misaszek had one of his worst

and

the

side

was

retired.

to Sunday to decide the victor.

scheduled for Tuesday but was later postponed for un-

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has yet to be rescheduled.

This weekend NU will travel

and he struck out six batters in his start. The real story of this

erans Memorial Park. Last season, the Huskies swept the Dukes

Photos courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics

triple.

Interim soccer coach to take over full time Phillips chalked up the late season downfall to “wear and tear” and said that she has no concerns

By James Duffy dePuty sPorts editor

Northeastern

University

(NU)

Phillips was named the fourth head coach in team history.

“I’m just very thankful for the opportunity,” said Philassistant coach to Tracey Leon an interim basis last season after Leone stepped down.

Phillips steps into the job with a wealth of experience, a knowlthat has seen massive success lips on the staff, the Huskies have risen to the status of national contender and made the

where she started all four years

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with this team,” Phillips said.

“I think I know the direction -

man and sophomore years, but lost last season,” Phillips said.

them to see what they can do.” for the Huskies are defender Mackenzie Dowd and mid-

Phillips feels that the Huskies should be competitors.

“I’d like to see us back in a place Under Phillips’ leadership, the Huskies will look to

The Huskies dropped their last Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics

Ashley Phillips, who has served on the coaching staff for six seasons, will take over as head women’s soccer coach.

University in the postseason.

son,” Phillips said. “I’d like

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Hockey wins first conference title since 1988

Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics

Nolan Stevens and senior defen-

ncaa, From Page 1

Northeastern will face the thirdoverall seed University of North

Tournament team after Saturday’s victory, an honor they shared with

vs. UND will take on the winner

junior defenseman Dylan Zink and

Huskies head coach Jim Madi-

Stevens, who was also named -

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a coach. it feels to now be a two-time Hockey East champion. “It’s your

Senior captain and forward Kevin Roy, sophomore forward

wins. Roy, who put up an assist

the captain of a team that had lost Hockey East title to NU. “It’s always been close, and we always seemed to come up short,” Roy said. “The players that have been here were tired of that, and that’s helped us move forward.

Roy stressed the importance of than as an individual.

UML’s defenses. Saucerman didn’t show up on the scoresheet last

pretty special,” he said. “I think it’s -

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would come back for his senior year or jump ship for the NHL.

and one assist last weekend earned

the seniors make it pretty easy by

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in his own zone and in the offen-

well-oiled machine.

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won since ‘88, it speaks a lot for the team.”

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Sophomore Dylan Sikura and senior Mike McMurtry play with chemistry between those three

happier.”

Production came from up and Led by Stevens’ four points, Northeastern found the back of the net ko are both up for the Mike Richter

and they both fell to Northeastern this weekend.

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fed McMurtry in the slot. McMurtry sent a quick one-touch pass

minutes on Saturday, Sikura snuck a pass to McMurtry in the mid-

Reese and John and Nolan Steover the weekend en route to win-

period on Saturday that would end Much like most of his team-

team in the country. The Huskies

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rookie took off and showed the na-

the country.

Madigan thanks DogHouse -

Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics

day when we take on North Dakota.

-Jim Madigan, head coach of Northeastern men’s ice hockey

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