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September 24, 2015

NU granted $20 million for defense research

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Over the next three years, engineering professors at Northeastern University will work with $20.4 million in grant money from the US Army to develop new defense technologies.

By Nicole Esan & Elise Harmon News Staff

The US Army Research Laboratory is collaborating with North-

eastern University’s George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security in an agreement to provide $20.4 million in funding over the next three years toward defense research.

David Luzzi, the executive director of Northeastern’s Security Research Initiative and an engineering professor, helped establish the agreement to engineer materials for the Army.

“At Northeastern, there’s a large number of folks, partly because of our history with co-ops, who have this comfort with use-inspired research,” Luzzi said. “That allows Northeastern to take an approach

that differentiates us from other universities.”

Use-inspired research addresses specific problems and is meant to have a specific application.

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Field hockey falls twice in Boston

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Freshman engineering major Ted Lutkus, left, talks about how cranberries are harvested with a local business owner. The Boston Local Food Festival put sustainable food practices on display last weekend.

Local products showcased

By Meaghan Dowd & Liam Hofmeister News Staff

Children ran around the festival grounds with broccoli tattooed on their arms as the locavores of New

England conversed about their sustainable farms.

On Sunday at the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the sixth annual Boston Local Food Festival (BLFF) united the local growers of New England to share in a day of environmental

sustainability and healthy cuisine.

Presented by the Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN), the BLFF offers a venue for farmers, businesses and citizens to meet and discuss the need Sustainable, Page 9

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Losses against cross-town rivals Boston College and Harvard University brought Northeastern Field Hockey’s record down to 2-6.

By James Duffy News Correspondent

The Northeastern University (NU) field hockey team (2-6) struggled this weekend against two local rivals, dropping games against Harvard University and Boston

College (BC) on Friday and Sunday, respectively.

The Huskies found themselves in a defensive battle with Harvard as Crimson junior back Elizabeth Jacobson notched the game’s only goal late in the first half. That was Garner, Page 13

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Shooting incident closes Huntington

By Elise Harmon News Editor

A well-trafficked section of Huntington Avenue was roped off by police tape on Tuesday after a man was shot in front of Boston House of Pizza at roughly 4:30 p.m.

The victim of the shooting, whose name has not been released, was transported to Brigham and Women’s Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, according to a statement from Boston Police Department (BPD) Officer Rachel McGuire.

“I was like four feet in front of him,” Felicia Bernardo, a sophomore political science major, said.

“I heard a few really loud shots and I ducked behind a car and I ran a little bit into [Symphony Cleaners and Tailors].”

Northeastern University sent an NU Alert at 4:48 p.m. notifying students of the incident and warning them to stay away from the area due to police activity.

BPD officers blocked off a section of Huntington Avenue from Temptations Cafe to Huntington Wine and Spirits, forcing pedestrians to turn back and cross to the YMCA side of the street.

“We were working normally – we had music going,” Manuel Hernandez, an Amelia’s Taqueria employee, said. “We only noticed [something had happened] when we saw people running outside and police.”

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Officers took photographs of the scene, made measurements and interviewed witnesses.

Karnee Berejiklian, a sophomore health sciences major, lives nearby.

“So I was just looking out my window and I heard a really loud sound and it sounded like a gunshot,” she said. “Then I heard two more and I just wanted to know what it was.”

According to the BPD statement, witnesses described two suspects fleeing the scene on down Huntington Avenue in the direction of Symphony Hall.

“One was a black male wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a second was a black male wearing [a] white, beige or gray hoodie and jeans,” McGuire said.

Officers took down the yellow and red crime scene tape at 6:20 p.m., allowing pedestrians to access the sidewalk and stranded motorists to access their cars.

In a statement sent out at 6:25 p.m., Northeastern informed the university community that neither the victim nor the suspects seemed to have any connection to the university.

According to the BPD statement, the shots were fired in the area of 307 Huntington Ave., the site of Coolidge House, which has been a halfway house since 1973.

“Investigators do not believe this was a random incident and are looking into the possibility that it was gang related,” McGuire said.

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The Okeanos Explorers’s first biological sample, a Chrysogorgia soft coral.

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Northeastern University’s Ocean Genome Legacy project created a kit to preserve coral DNA.

Kit facilitates DNA research

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The Boston Police Department investigated a shooting in front of Boston House of Pizza (BHOP) on Tuesday.

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A crowd gathered on Huntington Avenue after a portion of sidewalk was closed to pedestrian traffic.

By Mack Hogan News Correspondent A kit developed by researchers from the Northeastern University Marine Science Center’s Ocean Genome Legacy (OGL) project is currently in use onboard the United States’ only federally-funded ocean exploration vessel to preserve coral DNA. Under the leadership of Research Professor Daniel L. Distel, scientists at Northeastern’s marine research facility in Nahant recently developed a lab kit for quick and easy preservation of coral DNA collected at sea.

Created in response to a request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the kit has been in use onboard the Okeanos Explorer since late July.

“This was the first time that the ship was able to collect biological samples,” Charlotte Seid, a staff scientist with OGL, said. “Normally, their expertise is in sonar and mapping.”

The ship contains a satellite dome, radar scanners and live telepresence equipment to broadcast video of the ocean floor, three engineers, 18 crew members and two scientists.

“The problem was, they only had two scientists on board,” Distel, executive director of OGL, said. “They needed a way to collect and preserve these samples easily.”

After NOAA publically sought a solution to the problem, Northeastern’s researchers contacted them.

Ocean Genome Legacy is a nonprofit research institution and genome bank with a mission is to preserve the DNA of marine animals.

The OGL acts as a resource for

researchers who want to study the data.

“A lot of people are interested in the evolutionary relationship between the [different types] of coral, as well as identification at a species level,” Seid said. “Especially with deep-sea coral.”

The lab kit takes existing techniques and combines them into a more portable and simple design.

By offering clear instructions,simple steps and equipment, the kit reduces the amount of time scientists have to spend preparing samples and collecting DNA. The Okeanos’ Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), a machine with claw-like arms that patrols the ocean floor, collects the coral samples and brings them to the ship where scientists are able to quickly process the organisms.

Before the kit was developed, the scientists on the ship were unable to easily extract DNA from such specimens. “[You had to] put it in 50-milliliter falcon tubes, shake them by hand for 30-plus minutes to get tissue to come off and put them into a solution before DNA extradition,” David Stein, an OGL research technician, said. “With the kit, the process is expedited.”

Now, scientists using the kit put a small chunk of coral into a tube.

The machine shakes back and forth rapidly, displacing tissue in three minutes or less.

“With clear instructions and a straightforward method, it can really be used by anyone,” Mackenzie Gerringer, one of the two scientists aboard the Okeanos, said in an email

to The News. “Great for future cruises that may not have a coral expert aboard.”

The OGL also included shipping labels so scientists can ship the samples to staff at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center when the ship docks.

“These [samples] all need to be labeled, photographed, subsampled and preserved,” Gerringer said.

“Time at sea is always limited, so we really appreciate the efficiency of the DNA preservation kit.”

Still, the effects of rapid development are not fully tested.

“I like the kit but frankly would rather wait to make a final comment until after the cruise to make sure the DNA samples came out okay,” Christopher Kelley, an NOAA scientist said. “In a number of the samples, the solutions after agitation looked pretty funky, but it’s quite possible that’s how they are supposed to look.”

Scientists at OGL worked throughout the month of July to create the kit.

“The expedition took place over four legs,” said Seid. “Two, three and four involved biological sampling, so we needed to get it on board by July 30. It was very difficult and very labor intensive.”

The Okeanos is currently on the fourth leg of its expedition, which will conclude on Sept. 30. After that, samples will be shipped back to the OGL, where they will be analyzed and made available to other researchers.

“There’s no new technology,” Distel said. “It’s just a simple response to an important need.”

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Military, From Page 1 The agreement with the Army became official on Sept. 1. It funds two main subjects of research within the College of Engineering: creating specialized body armor and developing cold-spray technology.

“One of the problems soldiers face in the fog of war is having soldiers killing other soldiers who are not the enemy,” Vincent Harris, an electrical and computer engineering professor who is leading the body armor project, said. The proposed body armor would deflect bullets from US soldiers to mitigate the damage of both friendly and enemy fire.

This issue trails back to WWII, when soldiers would mark the back of their helmets with a patch or brightly colored symbol to signal which side they were on. However, the marks would give away their identity, putting them at a greater risk of being captured or killed. “[We’re] try[ing] to design body armor that will absorb the impact of a bullet, but that will be invisible in the infrared,” Harris, whose expertise is in optimizing and processing magnetoceramics, said.

Army researchers are looking to integrate a type of laser feedback system into the body armor. According to Harris, it does two things: absorbs bullets and supports laser identification.

The second development project is led by Sinan Muftu and Andrew Gouldstone, both professors of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern. The pair will work on cold-spray technology, which could be used to repair and improve military equipment.

“Our goal in this research is to

understand the fundamental mechanisms that cause metal particles to adhere to one another,” Muftu said. “The roadmap starts from understanding how a single particle sticks to a surface all the way to a conglomerate, which are millions of particles.”

Senior engineering major Nick Dowmon, one of the students working with the professors on this project, defines his research as trying to understand what is happening at the molecular scale.

“What’s different about this is that we don’t totally understand why this cohesion happens,” Dowmon said.

“We’re trying to figure out, at speeds ranging from 400 to 800 meters per second, what about these particles are mating to both whatever surface you’re shooting at and within the particles themselves.”

Northeastern’s researchers would be one of several research institutions working on developing cold spray technology.

“Ultimately, we think cold spray is going to be one of the technologies that revolutionizes commercial capabilities,” Luzzi said.

Much of the research will be conducted at the Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security in Burlington. The Institute was built to meet Department of Defense regulations so Northeastern researchers can work on projects related to national security, and it currently employs two Northeastern co-ops.

“While we have other efforts ongoing, winning this contract is, right off the bat, a certain stamp of credibility,” Luzzi said. “Executing it will be an even more important stamp of credibility, and doing that will ensure that we will be able [receive] even more contracts.”

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Alec Stransky, a third-year economics and environmental studies major, started the NU Day Same Bottle campaign to discourage students from using plastic beverage containers.

NU Day reduces plastic waste

By Stephanie Eisemann News Staff At Northeastern, one student has decided to combat unnecessary piles of plastic bottles with a new effort: the NU Day Same Bottle campaign.

Alec Stransky is a third-year economics and environmental studies major and the force behind NU Day Same Bottle, a primarily online campaign.

“The mission is to unify and encourage Northeastern University and the Greater Boston community to refuse single-use plastic bottles, rethink the use of disposable plastics and reflect upon the possible impacts of our daily habits,” Stransky said in an email to The News.

Stransky recommends that students instead use reusable, personal bottles and take advantage of Northeastern’s refill stations.

The campaign is specifically targeted at Northeastern’s student organizations. Stransky challenges them to eliminate plastic water bottles from any events or activities they are involved in.

“It only takes one small ripple to create waves of change,” Stransky said. “I want to see the natural environment and wildlife still intact in the future and be able to live in a world that isn’t coming to an end just because we were too lazy to change our ways.”

Students can join the pledge to eliminate their use of single-use bottles through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. All social media handles are “nudaysamebottle.” Student organizations can only join through Facebook.

Maria Schwartz, a sophomore political science major, liked the campaign’s Facebook page.

“I plan to sign it because I think that it’s our responsibility to help stem or reverse the damage that we’ve done and that it can come in really simple, small forms like using reusable water bottles,” she said in an email to The News.

Stransky says his campaign is different than past sustainability campaigns at Northeastern.

“The administration does not support the initiative because plastic bottles make them money and they say they prefer to provide alternatives rather than ban plastic bottles,” he said. “Honestly, making a difficult decision is sometimes the move to make for the greater good – but they obviously have alternative motives. They have no involvement… this is completely student-run.”

So far, seven organizations have signed the pledge: Northeastern University Peer Health Exchange, Northeastern University College Republicans, Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Pre-student Osteopathic Medical Association, Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the Student Government Association (SGA) and the Husky Environmental Action Team (HEAT).

“The College Republicans decided to get involved with NU Day Same Bottle after organizer Alec Stransky reached out to us directly,” Karli Balco, president of Northeastern College Republicans and a senior finance and political science major, said in an interview over Facebook.

“We felt the ask was a small sacrifice for the huge difference it would make both on campus and in the greater global community.”

The SGA and HEAT are also working as outreach groups for the campaign. HEAT Executive Director Alissa Zimmer, a third-year environmental studies and political science major, said that while the group is serving as a sort of “institutional home” for NU Day Same Bottle, Stransky is the leader and catalyst of the campaign.

“HEAT wholeheartedly believes that not only is a clean environment a human right, but so is access to clean, potable water,” said Zimmer in an email to The News. “Bottled water threatens both of those ideals.

Student organizations are not the

only supporters of the cause. One World One Ocean, 5 Gyres, Surfrider Foundation, Plastic Free Seas, Bureo and Indosole are all organizations behind the endeavor. Stransky was inspired by Bureo, a company run in part by an NU alumnus, when he thought of and began the campaign after the spring co-op cycle in July.

“Bureo…extracts discarded fishing nets out of the ocean and makes products out of them such as skateboards and sunglasses,” he said. “They were a huge inspiration because the issue of fishing nets damaging marine ecosystems is a global issue, but they’re focusing on a small geographic area. Similar to how this campaign is, in order to make large change you need to start small and focused first.”

Stransky listed three goals for his work. His first goal, he explained, is to bring attention to modern consumer society and the reality that it is not sustainable. The second goal is to put the power not in Northeastern’s environmental policies but in citizen action and the third was to challenge students – often focused on the professional world – to look more closely at their habits and actions.

That includes more than just purchasing a few Poland Spring cases.

“The pledge is just supposed to provide initial exposure,” Stransky said. “It’s a stepping stone to something greater.”

While the campaign will wrap up late this month or in early October, Stansky envisions it as an ongoing effort with an annual resurgence.

“This whole idea is driven because of a lack of education about our environmental impacts,” Stransky said. “We’re more worried about the economy, convenience and human security rather than our natural resources on which we depend for survival. This should be something we learn when we’re young along with the ABCs.”

Photos courtesy Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern will be engineering materials for the Army after being granted a $20.4 million three-year contract at the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security.

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ENTRY OF THE WEEK

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Northeastern University Public Safety Division Monday, Sept. 14 @ 9:03 p.m.

A Resident Assistant (RA) reported that residents of Stetson East slammed the door in her face after she asked them to be quiet and stop throwing trash out of the windows into the North Lot. The residents continued being disorderly, causing multiple complaints in the building. NUPD responded and a student agreed not to toss water balloons out the window.

The student’s information was collected.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Monday, Sept. 14 @ 4:59 p.m.

A Northeastern University (NU) student reported applying for a job through the student portal.

She was selected for a job sending and receiving packages for significant pay. The employer asked for her class schedule and would not answer basic questions, making the student uncomfortable and suspicious. The Student Employment Office advised her to contact NUPD and a report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Monday, Sept. 14 @ 10:11 p.m.

The assistant manager of Qdoba reported that a female, accompanied by a female and a male, threatened to knock out her teeth after she informed the subject she could not take soda without paying. NUPD checked the area and stopped three individuals matching the given description outside of Ruggles Station. The assistant manager identified the subject, who was unaffiliated with Northeastern, and she was arrested at 10:28 p.m.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Tuesday, Sept. 15 @ 11:48 a.m.

The manager of the Wollastons in Marino Center reported detaining a shoplifter who was cooperative. NUPD responded and collected the information of the NU student. He was banned from both the Wollastons in Marino Center and in West Village B.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Tuesday, Sept. 15 @ 12:19 p.m.

A hockey coach reported that an NU student informed her she had $120 stolen from her unsecured dorm room in West Village A. NUPD responded to Matthews Arena to speak with the student and filed a report.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Thursday, Sept. 17 @ 1:30 p.m.

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Do It in the Dark kicks off Monday

By Elise Harmon News Editor

After a three-year break, Northeastern University’s Husky Environmental Action Team (HEAT) is bringing back an old tradition – Do It in the Dark, a competition among freshman dorms to reduce electricity usage from Sept. 28 to Oct. 23.

HEAT last held Do It in the Dark in the fall of 2012. In addition to the competition aspect, the event will include programs held by a variety of other organizations.

“The event lines up with a lot of core values that we have here at the university,” said Austin Williams, a junior environmental studies and political science major.

These core values, he said, include sustainability and safe sex practices.

Freshman dorms will compete to see who can reduce their energy usage the most during the month over which the event takes place.

“Do It in the Dark is first and foremost a competition between all the freshman dorms,” Alissa Zimmer, a third-year environmental studies and political science major and HEAT’s executive director, said.

“Facilities helps measure their reductions in energy usage throughout the month. We’ll be having events on everything from ecofeminism to citizen science to hiking.”

A kickoff event will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 28 in the Snell Library Quad. Organizations partnering with HEAT will be in attendance and students can pick up glow-in-the-dark condoms, reusable bottles, bags and a calendar of events.

Northeastern’s Facilities Division will be comparing energy usage in the freshman dorms to September usages at similar times and in similar weather, according to Joe Ranahan, Northeastern’s energy manager.

In the past, his team developed an algorithm to calculate the reduction of energy usage in each building.

Reductions will be proportional,

since different buildings use different amounts of energy.

“With new buildings [such as East Village], we’ll be plugging those into our algorithm as well,” Ranahan said.

Ranahan currently has a stockpile of devices called Emberplug AV, which can be plugged into a wall outlet. The device saves power that is wasted when a device is left on standby mode.

“If anyone wants a leg up on the competition, they can come get these from me,” Ranahan said.

Residents who are interested can email him.

Other organizations and people involved include Northeastern’s Feminist Student Organization; NU Sexual Health Advocacy, Resources and Education (SHARE); Health Disparities Collaborative; Sara Wylie, professor at the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute; Progressive Student Alliance; Social Justice Resource Center; Slow Food NU; Economics Society; Northeastern University Huskiers and Outing Club; Resident Student Association; Student Government Association; and the Office of Sustainability.

“We’re putting on events with each of these organizations,” Zimmer said. “SHARE is doing a couple of their own to kind of promote the ‘do it’ part of Do It in the Dark.”

HEAT hopes to distribute a tip sheet detailing how students can save energy, such as keeping lights on only when necessary and unplugging something when it´s not in use to avoid wasting electricity.

“The shift from an organization that focuses on advocacy towards one that reincorporates on-campus programming is one that this eboard has taken very seriously,” Williams said. “We want to make sure that Do It in the Dark remains here as a tradition to instill values of environmental consciousness in our student body.”

An employee in the Wollastons in Marino Center notified NUPD that he was detaining a shoplifter who was being cooperative. NUPD responded and found there were two subjects who had attempted to steal Gatorade, but had returned the products before leaving the area prior to officers’ arrival. A report was filed.

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Thursday, Sept. 17 @ 1:51 p.m.

NUPD reported two females fighting in front of West Village G. Officers halted the fight between the McKinley High School students (one of whom was with her mother). The Boston Police Department (BPD) was notified and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) was alerted for one of the parties, who had scrapes and cuts on her shoulder and back. EMS evaluated the student and transported her home. A report was filed.

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Junior economics major Lauren Cosenza speaks at a HEAT meeting.

Friday, Sept. 18 @ 2:22 a.m.

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NUPD reported multiple people were on top of a roof near Chicken Lou’s. Seven students were taken into custody and all parties will be summonsed to court for trespassing.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Friday, Sept. 18 @ 12:24 p.m.

An NU student reported someone had used her personal information to file 2014 taxes. A report was filed.

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Saturday, Sept. 19 @ 2:02 a.m.

A student locked inside a bathroom stall in the first floor men’s room of Stetson West was reported. The student was vomiting and may have been passed out. NUPD responded and requested EMS for the 17-year-old, who was conscious and alert but had fallen asleep on the toilet for an hour. EMS arrived and called the student’s mother, who declined transport.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Saturday, Sept. 19 @ 2:10 a.m.

NUPD reported five students trespassing behind the construction site on Columbus Lot near the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority tracks. The students will be summoned to court.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Sunday, Sept. 20 @ 7:18 p.m.

An NU student reported his bicycle was stolen from the racks outside of International Village.

An officer responded to the report and 20 minutes later stopped a male fitting the description of someone the victim had seen with bolt cutters. The juvenile subject was given a trespassing warning and held at NUPD headquarters until he was released to his mother at 9:03 p.m. A report was filed.

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Column: Fixing scientific writing I am an aspiring science journalist. I want to spend my time communicating science to the public in a coGwen Schanker hesive and interesting way, and I’m intrigued by the challenges that role poses. Science writing has an interesting place in journalism because of its unique ethical considerations, which often lead to what is referred to as “bad” or misleading science writing.

Bad science journalism arises when a reporter covers a new study that shows a potential correlation between two factors, and then publishes a simplified piece that instead implies causation between those factors. An additional news source or website, like BuzzFeed, picks up the story with a catchy headline, and the whole situation is blown out of proportion.

A current example is the debate over the nonexistent link between vaccines and autism. Though the confusion is mainly due to flawed research from the late 1990s, misleading media coverage played a key role. The belief that vaccines cause autism persists today to the extent that it was discussed in last Wednesday’s Republican GOP debate.

Part of what leads to this problem is an inherent conflict between journalistic ethics and traditional scientific discourse. Generally speaking, a journalist’s goal is to present both sides of a story objectively, but sometimes this can result in overrepresenting the less credible position. Again, the vaccine debate serves as a good example.

Even though one side of the story

is overwhelmingly supported in the scientific community, attempts at balance in media coverage contribute to public conception of a twosided argument.

This demonstrates one of the challenges faced by all journalists, especially those who cover controversial topics. A science writer’s role is to disseminate information from experts to the public. The way that information is communicated influences how it is digested and discussed. When the information is misleading, overtly biased or otherwise incorrect, the ramifications can be dire.

Simplified headlines like “Why Oreos are as Addictive as Cocaine to Your Brain” (Forbes) and the stories that follow are often seen as products of reporters’ laziness, but that view doesn’t take all factors into account. Another challenge science journalists face is how to attract readers to complex information that is not interesting to the average person.

A good science writer can break down the details of their topic but can also add an element of human interest. In many cases, science reporters do not have a degree in science, which means they are good at the latter but not always prepared for the former. An article that regurgitates an existing study without human connections will turn away non-scientists, and a story that presents a finding without scientific context is misleading.

Where, then, is the balance between catering to readers’ interests and making an exaggerated claim?

Science journalists are still figuring this out. With increased awareness of what bad science writing comprises and an investigation into how best to prevent it – supported by aspiring writers like myself – hopefully we can strike the right balance and maintain respectability in science journalism, all the while keeping the public engaged with current scientific topics.

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Women often shut down Men have a tendency to dominate conversations, often silencing and ignoring female perspectives and opinions. This is an issue that spans all of our society, from interpersonal relationships to the exalted halls of our democracy.

There’s a harmful stereotype that claims women talk more than men to the point of talking “too much.”

Criticizing someone about how they speak is a great way to silence them. This stereotype, unsurprisingly, is rooted more in sexist myth than statistics. Many studies have shown that within any type of large, mixed-gender group, men speak more.

In the workplace, women are often silenced and not rewarded for speaking up the same way their male colleagues are. A Yale University psychologist, Victoria L. Brescoll, conducted a study released in 2011 in which she questioned both male and female professionals about the competence of their chief executives. Male executives who were noted for speaking more than other workers received a 10 percent higher rating of competence compared to their co workers – women who

did the same were rated 14 percent lower. A 2012 study by researchers from b Brigham Young and Princeton Universities found that men, on average, take up 75 percent of speaking time in professional meetings.

Countless other studies have shown that similar circumstances can be found in education, from elementary school to college. Women in our society are more likely to be interrupted and to have their opinions dismissed. Despite this, the stereotype of women talking “too much” remains. Women aren’t talking more than men, but it seems men would prefer women not to talk at all.

The US government is also guilty of ignoring female voices. Some in Congress, mostly Republicans, have tried to pass legislation on several issues that specifically affect women. From regulation of birth control and restrictions on abortion, to the current attempt to defund Planned Parenthood the Republican Party has often been accused of attempting to regulate women’s bodies. This is more than an issue of party, however. The vast major-

ity of those voting for these bills are men; women make up only 10.7 percent of the Republican Party in Congress. Even outside of these issues, our government can hardly be said to properly represent women.

Between all parties, women only make up 20 percent of our current Congress.

The issues mentioned above almost exclusively affect females, yet for some reason, men seem to think they have the right to legislate them.

The fact that men, who have no personal experience with these problems, consider themselves qualified to decide what is best for women is outrageous and a clear example of men disregarding female opinions.

Men in our society need to not interrupt women, not dominate mixed-gender conversations, and take female opinions seriously. Men also need to recognize that, on issues that specifically affect women, a woman’s perspective will always be more valid than a man’s. Women, believe it or not, don’t need male opinions on issues of their own bodies and they certainly don’t need males to legislate these issues on their behalf.

Letter: Duty of NU to help improve student nutrition

Entering college is one of the most liberating events in a student’s life – finally being out from under the watchful eye of a parent who makes sure that all homework is done and school is attended every day. With all this new freedom, students will find themselves realizing that there were many parts of their life that they had not previously needed to worry about.

One issue that can be forgotten about is what to eat. Students on a meal plan don’t have to worry about cooking their food, but making decisions on what to eat at the dining hall can be difficult when there are so many options. Students could end up eating pizza, hamburgers and pasta every night. Once out of the freshman meal-plan life, food choices don’t get much better for upperclassmen cooking for themselves. The name of the game is to pick the foods that are the easiest and fastest to prepare. This means pre-cooked meals and a lot of snacks. All of these food choices can lead to detrimental effects if students are not consuming all the daily required nutrients.

In fact, a frightening number of students aren’t taking in what they need. According to a USA Today study released in 2002, 66 percent of freshmen don’t consume the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables a day; 50 percent of all students don’t get enough fiber (25 grams a day); 60 percent eat too much artery-clogging saturated fat and 30 percent of women don’t get

enough calcium.

Despite the alarming number of students who seem to only be eating junk food, there is also a large prevalence of eating disorders. Students believe that just cutting back on the number of calories consumed will result in favorable weight loss, but the truth is that without necessary nutrients, people end up not feeling their best due to lack of energy coming from malnutrition.

The eating habits displayed in college can have a wide array of negative effects one of which is the risk of developing an eating disorder. According to a study by Virginia Tech, roughly 18 percent of a subject pool taken from college students was at risk for an eating disorder. From the student’s eating, psychological and social habits, it was found that they led a lifestyle that had a higher chance of obtaining an eating disorder. Eating disorders can be battled for the remainder of an individual’s life. With permanent effects, it is better never to get started down this path.

The solution to this problem is not simple. Students need to be taught how to design a diet to get all the needed nutrients but also not consume too much of what can be harmful. Even after students get this information, the next hurdle is to form an environment where it is easy to make the right eating decisions.

An example is providing pointof-purchase information where students get their food. The dining hall

should provide nutrient information for each dish, allowing the students to see what requirements they are filling as they chose their meal. It isn’t so much about limiting fats and calories as much as it is making sure to get all the parts of the diet that are needed to function.

The lack of ability to perform will be seen in the ability to achieve academically and maintain energy to sustain a healthy social life. A study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association investigated how marking items as healthier or more nutritious impacted the rate at which they were purchased. The study resulted in a 3.6 percent and 1.6 percent increase in sales of tagged items. This suggests that guiding information in place it can help make a difference in the food-decision-making process.

The effects of malnutrition are substantial and long-lasting. Without reform, there will continue to be a stream of students leaving college with the eating habits that can turn into chronic diseases and increase the number of overweight individuals. While most students understand the idea of eating healthy, it is necessary to build a support system that will help students perpetuate improved diets. A university-wide reform at Northeastern in the dining halls could be the first step in the direction of promoting healthier lifestyles.

- Patrick Sheedy is a sophomore health sciences major.

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Officials suspend 13 nurses accused of fraud

By Cassidy DeStefano News Correspondent

The Massachusetts nursing regulation process is under fire after state officials revoked the fraudulently obtained licenses of 13 nurses working in various hospitals and nursing homes across the state.

Those people received Massachusetts licenses after submitting paperwork from other states falsely claiming they were professionally certified. Allegations include forged signatures, authorizations from officials who retired years ago, fake addresses and false claims of national certification, according to a Boston Globe report.

In Massachusetts, a license from another state is accepted as proof of proper training and certification.

Qualifications vary from state to state, David Schildmeier, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Nurses Association, said. As a result, it can be hard to verify the authenticity of transfers, especially from states with lax requirements.

“These transfers come from all over,” Schildmeier said. “Mississippi, Montana, Alabama, wherever. It doesn’t guarantee that the nurse has received the same type of training.”

The hospitals and care centers that hired one or more of the 13 frauds include Newton Wellesley Hospital, Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation, EPOCH Senior Living in Chestnut Hill, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Benjamin Healthcare Center, the nonprofit Rehabilitation and Nursing Center at Everett, Golden LivingCenter – Wedgemere in Taunton, Vero Health & Rehab of Mattapan and Emerson Village in Watertown, according to the Globe report.

The revelations erode the trust that the public has placed in nurses, according to registered nurse Me-

lissa Coates, who graduated from Northeastern University in May. “I’m really surprised that this even happened,” Coates said. “If you can’t trust your nurse, how do you know that all of your other care providers are being truthful?”

Coates, who studied nursing and psychology, is currently employed in the Hematology & Oncology Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

A 2014 survey measuring public trustworthiness in various occupations, conducted by polling giant Gallup, ranked nursing on top for the 13th straight year, outranking other public service jobs including doctors, pharmacists and police officers.

“Year after year, when [Gallup] does national surveys about the most trustworthy profession, nursing always comes in at No. 1,” Northeastern senior Ashley Karsenty, a nursing major and president of the school’s Student Nursing Association, said.

That faith in nurses is built upon the rarity of fraud in the profession, according to Schildmeier.

“Since starting here in 1993, this is the first major disruption I’ve seen,” he said.

Although Karsenty, like Schildmeier, had not heard of any nursing fraud incidents before, she said that fraud in medicine is unfortunately not as rare as some believe.

Coates, who passed her National Council Licensure Examination this July, said that nursing is one of the professions in which trust is of utmost importance.

“If this happened in my workplace, I would just be so disappointed and shocked. We have the safety of our patients in our hands,” Coates said. “It’s a lose-lose situation for both the patient and the provider.”

To uncover the full extent of li-

censing misconduct – and restore faith in the process – the Division of Professional Licensure (DPL) launched an investigation into vendor Professional Credential Services to weed out fraud in professions ranging from psychologists to sanitation workers, DPL representative Pete Fullerton said.

“Thus far, we haven’t found any [other] cases of fraud in the boards we oversee,” Fullerton said. The DPL monitors 28 registration boards, encompassing more than 370,000 licensed workers in various fields.

Still, there are several factors that make such fraud possible in nursing and other accredited professions, and those factors will not disappear overnight, according to Schildmeier.

“The prevalence of online universities and the movement of nurses across the country is contributing to [fraud],” Schildmeier said.

Often, when local nurses go on strike, he added, administrative staff fly in other nurses to quickly fill the void, skipping over tedious but necessary background checks.

Several nursing professors at Northeastern declined to comment on what can be done to prevent fraud.

Schildmeier and Fullerton both said they did not want to speculate about new regulations or processes to address the problem going forward.

They were adamant, however, that cases like this one shouldn’t be allowed to happen in the first place.

“The nurses of Massachusetts work very hard to attain their licenses,” Schildmeier said. “The integrity of the nursing profession is vitally important. and the most important medical professional that comes into contact with your loved one is not your doctor, not your hospital administrator. It’s your nurse.”

Photo courtesy Louis DaRos/School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

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The fraudelent nurses were employed by hospitals and care facilities across Massachusetts.

NU professor challenges “broken windows” theory

By Alejandro Serrano News Correspondent

Professor Daniel T. O’Brien published a study refuting “broken windows” theory, which claims ill-maintained neighborhoods are more likely to experience major crimes than well-kept ones are.

Photo courtesy jasleen_kaur, Creative Commons

Thirteen people are accused of forging signatures, using fake addresses and lying about test results in order to gain nursing licenses.

Daniel T. O’Brien, an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, says that broken beer bottles on the street and spray paint on the side of buildings are no longer enough to determine if an area is dangerous.

His newest report, “Public and Private Spheres of Neighborhood Disorder: Assessing Pathways to Violence Using Large-scale Digital Records,” refutes the popular “broken windows” theory first introduced in 1982 that suggests these superficial traits can predict an area’s future crime rate.

O’Brien and co-author Ralph J. Sampson, a Harvard University professor, found that personal disputes, not physical blights, are the surest predictor of future crime in a neighborhood.

“The main variable suggesting an increase in disorder and crime in a neighborhood is social conflict in private spaces,” O’Brien, also an assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, said.

The study’s results, O’Brien said, indicate that interpersonal conflict can spread quickly from private locations into the public space, a theory the authors termed the “social escalation” model of violence.

“Private conflict manifests itself repeatedly, in different contexts or at new levels, reinforcing itself over time,” the study said.

While the report did not fully examine how or why domestic conflict predicts future crimes, the authors speculated that private violence is contagious by nature. Grudges and anger persist after domestic incidents and trigger public confrontations. In turn, these incite more violence, draw

in previously uninvolved participants and contribute to physical and social disarray, according to the report.

George L. Kelling, who first coined broken windows theory with criminologist James Q. Wilson, defended his work and questioned O’Brien’s.

“Broken window is a part of community policing,” Kelling said. “If you want to do community policing well, you will respond to the citizen demands for restoration of order and maintenance of order.”

Since Kelling and Wilson debuted their theory 30 years ago, it has been implemented to various degrees in US cities, perhaps most prominently by New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner William Bratton beginning in 1994.

Before assuming control of the NYPD, Bratton led the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority police and, briefly, the Boston Police Department (BPD).

Even though its principles have been adopted in several forms by Boston and other cities, broken windows theory raises troubling questions, Eliza Mendoza, a freshman criminal justice major, said.

“I can’t really see broken-window policing as effective,” Mendoza said.

“The theory has some basis in reality, but it all depends on the people.

For example: drug dealing. If there is a demand for it, it will persist. It may be more noticeable in a neighborhood that fits the theory, but that’s not to say it doesn’t happen elsewhere.”

In the study, O’Brien and his colleagues analyzed a database of more than 1.2 million calls to the Boston 911 emergency line and the 311 social service line, which handles tasks like graffiti removal and street light repairs.

They divided the calls into groups

representing six types of events: public social disorder; public violence not involving guns; gun violence; private conflict, including domestic violence and disputes; public, physical disorder; and private property disrepair.

After analyzing statistical correlations between the six categories, the researchers found that private conflict was the strongest predictor of all kinds of crime and unrest in the model.

The key indicators of crime according to the broken windows model, meanwhile, demonstrated little to no correlation with future violence or disorder, suggesting the mechanism of crime in cities is not yet completely understood.

According to Peter Manning, Northeastern professor of criminal justice and criminology, the task of perfectly explaining criminological trends is secondary to the well-being of communities.

“If broken windows was used as a regulatory framework and was actually practiced and rewarded, as it was for a while in Chicago, it can improve life,” Manning said.

The level to which broken windows philosophy currently guides Boston police is unclear.

BPD officials did not respond to requests for comment on the department’s policing philosophy.

“I think [the research] supports a shift that we are already seeing in many cities towards community policing and collaboration with other social services,” O’Brien said. “It suggests that, as much as responding to violent crime itself, police departments, social workers and others should work with families and communities that are experiencing high levels of conflict to defuse these situations before they escalate into more serious issues.”

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Company aims to simplify home search process

By Cassidy DeStefano News Correspondent

Before Nike John founded fledgling real estate startup Vibe Residential, the Northeastern University alumna honed her business skills at a lemonade stand, stationing younger friends and neighborhood children nearby as marketing tools.

“Everything I do, I’m like, ‘Oh, how can I make this into a business?’”

John said. “Everything is strategy.”

Now, John – who graduated in May – runs Vibe, an apartment and home search firm that serves customers through two distinct approaches: traditional realtor services and an online platform that helps college students find roommates, with a focus on pairing students from neighboring schools.

“Having the opportunity to live with someone who goes to school within a two-mile radius of you makes a lot of sense,” John said.

Vibe’s current market is 18-to35-year-olds living in and around Boston, John said. People in that demographic move often and are attracted to the company’s simplified process of matching roommates, renters and buyers, she said.

“Our real estate services cater especially to millennials,” John said. “Our goal is to help you find a place that is livable and convenient for your personal schedule.”

Eve Anderson, a senior psychology major who lives off campus, said she was intrigued

by Vibe’s focus on convenience.

“I imagine if I was hunting by myself I would have done something like this,” Anderson said. “Searching all over Boston can be overwhelming.”

John said that since opening earlier this fall, the busi-

Photo courtesy Allie Schilling/Vibe Residential

Vibe Residential, founded by NU alum Nike John, aims to simplify the housing search process for Millenials.

ness has served about 30 clients.

John first conceived Vibe while at Northeastern after transferring to the school as a third-year from George Washington University. To develop the skills necessary to run a company, she worked as a financial reporter for her first co-op and took several business classes to supplement her psychology major, she said.

John attributes much of her initial success in launching Vibe to guid-

ance from the university’s studentrun venture accelerator, IDEA. “The great thing about IDEA is that they help you to narrow business ideas to one area rather than trying to take over the world at once,” John said.

That focus is by design, according to Greg Dalle-Molle, associate director of venture incubation for IDEA and a business professor in the D’AmoreMcKim School of Business.

can relax while children play with toys in a dedicated space nearby.

The foods that attracted the most attention from visitors included a lobster roll from Red’s Best, a cheese plate from Jasper Hill Farms, freshly-fried donuts from Appleton Farms and pumpkin ice cream from Crescent Ridge.

Despite space constraints and bustling customers, vendors feel a sense of harmony and unity, said Jon Lee, a production manager working at the Appleton Farms counter.

“We don’t sell too many of the same products, but when we do, I think most of the vendors work together, and everyone is really friendly.”

The market appeals to both the health-conscious and those who want a fun place to explore, added Lee. Boston Public Market is open Wednesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

is steak ums – two thin pieces of seared Wagyu beef. For the more adventurous eater, Hojoko offers dishes like torched uni (sea urchin roe) or fried calf brain Hojoko also offers a wide range of options for vegetarian customers, Maribeth Macaisa, a patron and co-founder of the food truck Boston Pro-Juice, said.

“I’m a vegetarian allergic to seafood,” Macaisa said. “Coming to a Japanese restaurant isn’t necessarily the thing that will give me the most options, but it was wonderful and they were really accommodating without any problem.”

Hojoko is open from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily.

Restaurants draw praise

By Mayeesha Galiba & Kimberly Romero News Staff

Boston’s restaurant scene has seen dozens of additions over the last six months. From food trucks to taquerias and seafood bistros to local cafes, the city and its suburbs offer a diverse and growing range of cuisines suitable for quick lunches and date nights alike.

With scores of eateries vying for attention – and diners – city residents don’t need to look far to find a place worth visiting. To stand out, several local eateries have put new twists on old formulas. A reimagined farmers’ market, rockand-roll tapas and an expansive pizzeria highlight the city’s most interesting new places to eat this fall.

Boston Public Market 100 Hanover St., Boston At the Boston Public Market, the expression “farm to fork” is taken seriously. The market, which opened at the end of July, is home to more than 35 vendors that offer a diverse range of foods from across New England. Patrons can shop for fresh produce and sample prepared foods made from locally-sourced ingredients.

“I’m an advocate of clean eating, and they have a lot of fresh produce and a lot of products to look through,” Katt McNutt, 29-yearold visitor to the market, said. “I’m pretty excited about [visiting].”

McNutt, a flight attendant, said she was passing through Boston and had never been to the market before.

The market is located indoors, and vendors are arranged in long rows of counters and produce crates.

A walk up and down the aisles reveals fresh seafood, ice cream, apples, flavored honey and more. In the market’s seating area, patrons

Hojoko 1271 Boylston St., Boston Blaring rock music and Asian cuisine may not be a common combination, but new tapas bar Hojoko aims to change that, according to General Manager Mike Tobins.

“We are a rock-and-roll-themed izakaya, which is a Japanese tavern,” Tobins said. “We are doing very unique and cutting-edge Japanese pub fare, but all at a reasonable price. It’s fun; it’s a really upbeat environment.”

Hojoko, located in the Verb Hotel near Fenway Park, opened a little over a month ago. Tobins’ vision of a rock-and-roll aesthetic includes murals covering outside walls and a dark, loud interior filled with people talking and laughing over the music.

The restaurant’s tapas menu encourages sharing and spans a variety of dishes from different Asian cultures. One highlight

Babbo Pizzeria e Enoteca 11 Fan Pier Blvd., Boston Babbo Pizzeria e Enoteca, Mario Batali’s Seaport District restaurant, stands out nearly as much for its windows as it does for its pizza. The Italian establishment sports large windows facing the waterfront, bathing customers in daytime light and nighttime views of the harbor.

As for the food, Babbo’s extensive menu offers a variety of pasta dishes, salads, meat, soup, gnocchi and thin-crust pizza, among other options.

While the pizza has some inconsistencies – a few slices were noticeably less cooked than others – its ingredients and flavors made up for it.

“This is probably one of the top five pizzas I have had in my life,” Kim Davis, a customer who lives in Cambridge, said. “The goat cheese is insanely good. I have been dreaming about it ever since I had it.”

Babbo is affordable, especially given the quality of its ingredients, Davis added.

Babbo Pizzeria is open 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11:30 a.m. to midnight on weekends.

“Ideas are worthless; execution is everything,” Dalle-Molle said.

Initially, John modeled Vibe’s business plan after Next Step Realty in Manhattan, which emphasizes a “fun, luxury, seamless, one-day apartment hunt” according to the company website.

With coaching from IDEA mentors, she designed Vibe’s user experience from the ground up with Next Step Realty in mind, she said.

First, a customer calls an agent

for a personal consultation that addresses housing options and preferences such as utilities, pet policies, financial constraints and proximity to a school or office. Then, the client chooses three to six listings from a list compiled by the agent and all the locations in a single day.

“The market moves quickly here, especially during peak season in March through June. It’s important to know that things go off in like a week or two,” John said of the emphasis on efficiency.

The chaos of Boston’s housing market can make finding a place to rent – or even a capable realtor – a challenge, according to Gabrielle Hunt, a junior chemical engineering major.

“I live off campus now and it was a struggle to find a place,” Hunt said.

“I think something like this would have taken a bit of the stress out of finding a reliable real estate agent.”

Despite students’ interest in the service, Vibe has faced difficulty in generating publicity and finding new users.

“A lot of people ask us, ‘How do you do it without a storefront?’” John said. “We operate based on referrals.”

John plans to create a branding program in the future targeting college graduate students, who are typically not guaranteed on-campus housing.

Eventually, John hopes that Vibe will serve clients internationally.

Despite her future focus, John is cognizant of the impact her past has had in defining her business career.

“At the time, school seems like a lot of work, but once you get something you’re really invested in and you go do research, you realize that you can because you’ve practiced so much,” she said.

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A chef at Babbo Pizzeria e Enoteca removes pizzas from a brick oven.

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Visitors sit at tables in the Boston Public Market’s central area.

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dEAr norThEAsTErn univErsiTy AdminisTrATion:

iT’s TimE To lEAd by ExAmPlE On Martin Luther King Day, Northeastern University President Joseph Aoun eloquently articulated our University’s values:

“As we go about our work, let us use our talents for the betterment of society, and the benefit of humankind. A university should not be a mere microcosm of society. We should aspire to more. A university should be a model — a model of what society can be. Let us lead by example.” (northeastern.edu/president/messages-writings/2015/011515.html)

Unfortunately, Northeastern’s priorities and choices are not always consistent with its publicly stated values. This has been especially true when it comes to the continued use of adjunct faculty as low-wage and disposable professors.

For almost a year, we have tried to negotiate with the University administration — offering the opportunity to “lead by example” and become “a model of what society can be.” We offered a clear path forward to evolve on a situation that demands change.

We demand that Northeastern administration follow through with its aspirations for us to “bend the arc of the universe toward justice” together. We value the relationships we have built with our students and colleagues, and we value being part of this vibrant university community — we only ask that the administration reciprocate the value we have added to this university.

Sincerely,

The Northeastern Adjunct Faculty Union AS OF AUGUST 31, THIS LETTER HAS BEEN SIGNED BY MORE THAN 100 ADJUNCTS ➞

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP: ➞ Read the full open letter with our clear path forward. ➞ Stand with Northeastern adjunct professors.

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for local food in urban communities. The festival is annually one of the largest national food hubs with this year’s attendance numbers totaling almost 50,000 people, according to an SBN press release.

“There is a cultural shift happening with the change in public imagination,” Tom Kelly, University of New Hampshire Sustainable Institute director and SBN research affiliate, said. “In regards to the [innovation, we’re] looking forward to 50 percent of food being produced by New England.”

Festival attendees got a taste of several restaurants putting forward a locally grown platform and offering health-conscious cuisines.

The line for Mela, a modern Indian cuisine booth, was ever-growing as people ordered chicken tikka masala and mango lassi. Other crowded booths included the R&S Jamaican Restaurant, Recreo Coffee & Roasterie and Cupcake City.

“We never knew about this restaurant called ‘Koy’ which seemed pretty cool,” Shannon Pires, a Northeastern University freshman music industry major. “We learned about a lot of cool restaurants and can’t wait to try them out.”

The festival’s foot-in-the-door approach brings restaurants that use local goods new business, allowing them to sustain their models of self-reliant food practice.

More than 50 food vendors were in attendance, some selling meals for $6 or less. Over 100 booths were selling locally-produced foods to be brought home and prepared.

In addition to food vendors, the festival showcased multiple cooking demonstrations by the professional chefs of Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, a seafood cooking throwdown and Bollywood and swing dancing. Each

part of the greenway had a theme that catered to a unique event.

The seafood throwdown was the main focus of the fish stock area.

Two chefs competed to prepare the best dish from a mystery fish and ingredients sold at the festival. After the heated cook-off, there was a fillet demo that showed how to prepare healthy fish, falling in line with the theme of self-reliability in food.

Sustainable farms such as Backyard Farms, Cape Cod Select.

Chestnut Farms and Westminster Meats were in attendance. Exhibitors included Boston Food Forest, Harvest Coop and Eat More Kale.

This festival was a day focused on trying and learning new things.

“I saw a lot of locally grown food and companies that I didn’t really know well,” Aubrey Kenderdine, a sophomore biology and political science major, said.

“There was this one table that was different flavors of honey. I didn’t even know that was a thing.”

Nearly all waste from the festival was offset. 91 percent of physical waste was recycled or composted, and the festival was 100 percent powered by renewable energy. according to a press release

by SBN. The SBN organized the gathering with a goal to promote “Healthy Local Food for All.” This directly ties to the goal of “50 by 60,” a New England food movement which aims to have 50 percent of all food consumed be locally grown by 2060.

“A lot of the tables [at the festival] focused on sustainability,” Kenderdine said. “It was a really good conversation around sustainability and green farming and supporting local business all around.”

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Photos by Scotty Schenck

Top: Larissa de la Cruz, 35, from Cambridge parted the hair of Jose Garza, 3, as he ate ice cream at the festival.

Bottom: Northeastern University junior business major Elsa Mayer, left, held an “Eat Kale” sticker and posed for a photo while middler international affairs major Preeya Guyser, right, took her photo.

Public Art Initiative brings new mural to EV

By Megan O’Brien Deputy Inside Editor

After two weeks of painting, contemporary artist John Park has nearly completed a mural in the East Village lobby. expected to be finished on Sept. 25.

The work is the newest addition to the Public Art Initiative, a campaign President Joseph E. Aoun started two years ago. A team of faculty, led by Associate Director of Marketing Clare Horn, reviews and selects projects for his approval. “[Aoun’s] been asking for more art and examples of creative expression,” Horn said. “We’re a very urban campus and a public campus, so it was just a natural fit.”

Park has adorned the residence hall lobby with the scene of a couple holding hands over the orange dusk as they hover over a city in the distance.

“It’s really cool. I like the vibrant colors,” Katherine Lynch, a second-year international business major, said.

The piece is titled “Reality Check II.” “This is actually part of a theme I’ve been working on for a while,” Park said. “You could interpret it as falling or flying. I’m going to let the viewer come to their own conclusion.”

He completed a similar mural in El Segundo, Calif. this summer as part of another public arts initiative. The artwork depicts a man and woman suspended in the sky as birds surround them.

“When you walk into the building, it’s eye-opening and captures your glance,” Dorian Yavari, a senior international affairs major, said of the mural in East Village. “It makes you think of compassion.”

Park’s pop-surrealist style is a far cry from the classical education he earned in drawing, painting, sculpture and anatomy at the Rhode Island School of Design. He began experimenting with public art about three years ago.

“With museums and galleries, there are barriers to entry,” he said.

“I think people become artists because they want to share their work.

There is an attractive notion that it is open for enjoyment, for people to judge it, even for people to damage or deface it.”

Horn described the process of selecting Park as very organic.

“He’s a talented up-and-coming artist in [Los Angeles],” Horn said.

“We’re looking for emerging artists. We want to be supporting that.”

Park joins Jef Aérosol, Daniel Anguilu and Miles “El Mac” MacGregor in the burgeoning list of artists Northeastern has welcomed to campus.

Horn said no specific theme encompasses the new installations, but the committee asks that some element of Northeastern is brought to each project.

“We want it to feel like the artists’ works, not a billboard for Northeastern,” she said. “With John, we knew the style was whimsical. We kind of threw the phrase at him, ‘explore the world, navigating the unknown.’”

Photo by Brian Bae

John Park worked on his mural, “Reality Check II,” in the Northeastern University East Village lobby. Park’s work is a part of Northeastern’s Public Art Initative which is bringing public art to campus.

Though Park’s mural is found in a residence hall, much of the Public Art Initiatives’ works can be found on the street. A woman with a bolt of lightning in her left hand and a paintbrush in her right looks over Northeastern’s Centennial Common in El Mac’s “Ars et Scientia.”

On Huntington Avenue, an image shows a man sporting a Northeast-

ern shirt hanging from a beam in one of Jef Aérosol’s untitled works.

“We’ve been highly focused on street art and that’s been very exciting,” Horn said. “We’re hopefully going to do more three-dimensional work.”

Future projects for the Public Art Initiative include three more murals, a possible sculpture proj-

ect and a continuation of Art Lift, which showcases faculty and student work on elevators around campus. Northeastern will install prints of Ekua Holmes’, one of the mural artists, next week.

“I like the creativity,” Lynch said of Northeastern’s artistic efforts. “It makes [campus] feel like a welcoming place.”

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Walking tour reveals darker side of Boston

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Copp’s Hill Burying Ground acts as the final resting place for some of the most deranged criminals in Boston history, as detailed on the Boston by Foot Dark Side of Boston walking tour.

By Anmolpreet Kandola News Correspondent

Before Boston became the social and intellectual hub it is today, the city played host to infamous tales of crime, disease and murder.

The Dark Side of Boston tour, led by the nonprofit Boston by Foot, explored a hidden side of the North End that isn’t typically advertised on a TripAdvisor website.

Starting from 200 Hanover St., the walking tour winds through Boston’s oldest neighborhood, rich with stories of horror. A tour guide at the helm tells stories dating from the early 1600s to as recent as 1950.

“We pride ourselves on in-depth stories with historical integrity,” Samantha Nelson, executive director of Boston by Foot, said. “We don’t have gimmicks and we don’t

sensationalize. Boston by Foot is all about having enriching experiences, based in facts.”

The scene is first set with a story of the 1840s influx of Irish immigrants into what is known as the underside of Boston, and their life in cramped tenements. From the sport of “ratting,” having terriers kill rats and betting on the duration of the fight, to gambling and prostitution venues, it was a place where being alone meant one could end up dead and stripped of all belongings before the night was over.

The tour stopped at the homes of Cotton Mather, the minister who was shunned for inoculating people during the 1770s smallpox infection, and Charles Ponzi, inventor of the Ponzi scheme. The walk matched infamous tales with the actual locations where they oc-

Improv musical sets BUMP apart

By Liam Hofmeister Inside Editor

A scene at the Boston Unscripted Musical Project (BUMP) may start as an innocently choreographed and harmonized musical number.

Quickly, the singing can degenerates into a raging mob of actors, repeatedly screaming at the audience “You suck.”

At the Boston Button Factory on the first and third Fridays of every month, the BUMP team improvises a unique musical. BUMP actors let their imaginations take over as a one-hour-long comedy show grows from a single audience suggestion.

“All the lines, all the music, all made up,” Pablo Rojas, founder and executive producer of BUMP, said as he introduced the raucous improv musical.

Misch Whitaker, actor and director, said the transient nature of the musicals makes them important to audience members.

“We all share and experience a unique moment in the room,” Whitaker said. “We’re like tightrope walkers. The actors don’t know where the show is going, but we know we’ll never have that moment again.”

According to Rojas, though BUMP is a musical project, the show puts the story before the singing quality.

“You don’t have to be a great singer for this,” he said. “You just have to know how to use your voice. [We’re] really looking for strong storytelling skills.”

At the 8 p.m. performance last Friday, a man in the front row screamed “don’t even try” as a suggestion for the night’s theme, which the actors were ready to roll with.

The first scene depicted an unnamed female marketer’s conflicting love for advertising and fear of giving presentations. The next vignette focused on a new worker at the urban advertising firm named Max, a man raised in an ambiguous “field” who is ignorant to everything about society.

“I didn’t even know buildings existed, or that they could be this big,” Max said of his new environment.

The scenes began as pretty separate, but in improv, it is the actors’ responsibility to make these independent paths cross. According to Mac Gostow, the actor playing Max, the recognition that a story is coming together makes a special experience for both actors and audiences.

“It’s a mutual ‘aha’ moment. The audience sees us discovering something and it’s exciting for them to be there for that moment,” he said.

The two protagonists come together on a train when the female character pays for Max’s train ticket. Max didn’t understand the concept of trains, or paying, or even that he could get off the train, so she decided to help him out. After a conversation about advertising, the pair become friends and eventually fall in love.

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curred decades or centuries ago.

Copp’s Hill Burying Ground stood out on the tour as an ominous site. One story about the cemetery detailed graverobbers unearthing bodies from their coffins and selling them as cadavers to medical schools like Harvard University.

Another story detailed how Boston Brahmin John Webster murdered a man by chopping his body into small pieces and then trying to burn the flesh. After being discovered and publicly hanged, Webster was buried in Copp’s Hill.

Other sites included the scenes of the infamous 1919 Great Molasses Flood, the 1950 Brink’s Robbery and the vandalization of the Royal Gov. Thomas Hutchinson’s home.

As the tour got farther away from Haymarket Square and into the smaller cobbled streets of the

city, walkers found themselves immersed in the historic homes of Boston. Some of the buildings date back to the 16th Century.

“The rush of immigrants in the 1840s was one of many times the wealthy separated themselves from the poor, and the influx of many different types of people often resulted in chaos. Even the police were afraid to come here,” Bob Perkins, a tour guide, said.

The tour also spoke to how the poor, uneducated and minorities were treated.

Early immigrants were forced to live in tenement-style housing and black families were displaced from their homes during times of segregation. As if this wasn’t horrific enough, the lower classes often lashed out by murdering innocent people.

Short walks in-between the long list of crimes forced one to consider all of the history that has made Boston into the melting pot it is today.

The tour itself was the culmination of a genuine love for the city and a desire to show its rich, though sometimes graphic, history.

“All of us tour guides at Boston

by Foot are volunteers. We seek to create an intimate experience for tourists by showing them what Boston has to offer,” Perkins said.

All of the tour guides gather to put together facts, and then each guide takes their own individual storytelling approach to bring the facts to life.

“It’s unlike the regular tours about the history of Boston,” Perkins said. “We’re thinking of making a scandal tour and branching outwards from this concept.”

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Night of jazz at the Gardner

By Mack Hogan News Correspondent

Lined up in front of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (ISGM), a crowd of sharply-dressed young Bostonians stands. The millennial crowd isn’t waiting for a big name band or a DJ – it’s the third Thursday of the month, and they’ve come to the Gardner for wine, jazz and art.

Started in 2007, Third Thursdays take place on the third Thursday of every month at the ISGM. Live music, local art and an activity to keep patrons occupied, like the scavenger hunt on Sept. 17, bring new vibrancy and new audiences to the museum.

The ISGM courtyard, which houses the cash wine bar, featured jazz musicians and oil painters displaying their art.

“It’s nice to be around people who appreciate art, who appreciate my work. It’s a great way to get my work out there,” Percy Fortini-Wright, a freelance painter hired for the occasion, said as he splashed paint on a massive canvas on the ISGM lawn.

Visitors traversed cultures as they walked through the gardens outside of the museum. One garden was themed in an Italian style, whereas another emphasized Japanese design.

The Gardner museum houses over 2,500 objects across its threefloor expanse. One can find original paintings, sculptures, furniture and more preserved from past civilizations including ancient Rome, medieval Europe and Renaissance Italy.

A curator for the museum dis-

cussed the history of Roxbury in the Gardner’s gardens, and directly outside the 21st Century reading room, a glass tunnel connects the administrative building to the 102-year-old museum.

“You really need to experience the transition, this entrance into the magical kingdom that Mrs. Gardner created.” Milda Richardson, lecturer for Northeastern University’s College of Art, Media and Design and museum teacher at the Gardner, said about the glass structure.

Originally created to educate Boston’s college students on other cultures, the museum is largely unchanged from the original vision of its founder, Isabella Stewart Gardner.

According to Richardson, Gardner wanted to give the less fortunate a way to learn about things they could never experience, “Julie Crites... started this program as a way to engage young professionals who have limited time but a great interest in the arts,” Jessie Smith, director of public programs at the Gardner, said.

The museum used the evening to educate students on unique experiences, just as Gardner did.

Inside the reading room, Stacy Sutherland, a Roxbury youth worker, told her story. Born into an interracial family, she bore witness to the desegregation of Boston and the pains that came with it.

She told of public ridicule, oppressive violence and never-ending fear.

“My parents were outcasts, hated by both halves of the segregated community. We lived in fear of more beatings, more hate, more division,” Sutherland said.

Though far different than the experiences Garner sought to convey, this story continued the mission of exposing people to a new world view.

“This is what happens at the Gardner,” said Richardson. “People interact in a very personal, almost spiritual way.”

Top: Two women sit and talk in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum gardens. They sipped on champagne and listened to jazz as a part of Third Thursday, a monthly evening of music and art.

Bottom: A statue of a goddess centers the Gardner courtyard.

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“America’s Got Talent” pups ready to perform Thursday, Sept. 24 “Olate Dogs,” the season-seven winners of “America’s Got Talent,” are performing at The Wilbur Theatre this week. After headlining The Palazzo in Las Vegas, starring in NBA halftime shows and making a few television appearances, this tail-wagging group will bring its hybrid show of comedy, acrobatics and dog tricks to Boston. Father-son duo Richard and Nicholas Olate will lead their pack of dogs, most of which they rescued, through jump ropes, on scooters and down slides. 246 Tremont St.; 7 p.m.; $27-75.

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Calendar compiled by Megan O’Brien, Deputy Inside Editor Friday, Sept. 25

Twice a year, Citi Performing Arts Center puts on ArtWeek Boston, a ten-day event featuring an array of art-themed activities and performances. Since its inception in 2013, the ArtWeek movement has spread to more than 45 neighborhoods and towns in Massachusetts. This year’s fall Boston ArtWeek will begin Friday and run until Sunday, Oct. 4. A lighting of the Prudential Tower kicks off the festivities on Friday night. It will include exhibit tours, aikido demonstrations, concerts, plays, welding workshops, master dance classes and more. A full schedule can be found at www.artweekboston.org/ events. Locations, times and prices vary.

Monday, Sept. 28

Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) will unveil two new contemporary art exhibitions at their Bakalar & Paine Galleries. Both exhibitions feature artists from around the world, with a common theme of India. “Seeing the Elephant” presents work that explores topics facing present-day India and “Looking In/Looking Out: Contemporary Indian Photography from the Gaur Collection” highlights pieces from one of the largest modern Indian art archives in the country. The exhibits will be on view until Dec. 5. An opening reception will take place Monday.

621 Huntington Ave.; 6 - 8 p.m.; free.

Saturday, Sept. 26

On Saturday night, Chinatown will host its second annual Lantern Festival at the Chinatown Gate of the Rose Kennedy Greenway. As part of Mayor Walsh’s “Main Street Initiative,” the Lantern Festival will bring both vitality to the Chinatown market and fun for Bostonians. The festival is one of the first intensive urban use plans to enrich local economies in the nation. Prior to sending a paper lantern up into the night sky, those who join the festivities can check out local culinary arts and crafts vendors, listen to live Chinese folk music, sample mooncakes, watch a Lion Dance, try some Tai Chi and see a martial arts demonstration. 185 Kneeland St.; noon - 8 p.m.; free.

Tuesday, Sept. 29

The national tour of “Cinderella” makes its premiere at the Boston Opera House this Tuesday. Reminisce on the 1957 classic tale of masked balls, giant pumpkins and glass slippers with a polished design from director Mark Brokaw. The 2013 musical features the classic compositions of Rodgers and Hammerstein, including the classics “Ten Minutes Ago” and “In My Own Little Corner,” and an updated book

by Douglas Carter Beane, to create a production that garnered nine Tony Award nominations and one win during its Broadway run. “Cinderella” will be at the Opera House until Oct. 11. 539 Washington St.; 7:30 p.m.; $40-125.

Sunday Sept. 27

Through October, three blocks of Harrison Avenue in the South End will be home to food trucks, locally grown produce and handmade crafts on Sundays. Those who find themselves at the South End Open Market @ SoWa can munch on anything from ice cream sandwiches to grilled cheese with a selection of 15 to 20 food trucks.

The farmers market poses a perfect opportunity to try some apple cider, or shop at the Arts Market for fall clothing, ceramics, jewelry, houseware and more. visitors can also meet the farmer, craftsman or chef behind the fun and all of the craft goods that they enjoy.

460 Harrison Ave.; 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.; free.

Wednesday, Sept. 30

As part of Boston Fashion Week, 30 reenactors will show off fashion from the Revolutionary War on Wednesday. Founding Fashions: Clothing from the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783, is an opportunity to see the 240-yearold styles come to life outside of the usual display case. Soldiers’ uniforms, farmers’ outfits, ball gowns and more will be included to showcase a broad spectrum of lifestyles from the late 18th Century. Commentary by experts on the period will provide information on the materials, construction, origin and functionality of garments during the show. 193 Salem St. ; 6 - 7 p.m.; $25.

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Max to the city, longing for his affections, and after a scene of poor ballet, kidnap Max’s new girlfriend instead and turn her into their ballerina slave.

Much to everyone’s surprise, Max’s girlfriend is a natural. One ballerina named Olga said “she’s so good she doesn’t even try,” bringing the title of the show full circle and leading to an almost choreographed and harmonized finish.

The plot may be a bit confusing, though, based on audience reaction, captivating. The crowd of 30 stood on its feet to applaud at the end of the show.

According to actor Mac Gostow, the long form of this one-hour musical catches an audience in a way that slapstick improv cannot.

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The true origin of Bae revealed

Bae. You’ve used it, either ironically or literally – and for your sake, I hope the former – to refer to your significant other, roommates or friends.

You’ve Instagrammed a photo of yourself and a Chipotle burrito with the caption: “me and bae.” It fills your Twitter feed and your Facebook timeline. This three-letter term has invaded every aspect of our social lives, yet we know so little about it.

By now, it’s inevitable that you know the meaning of the word bae, but, just in case you’ve been living under a rock, it is generally used in reference to a significant other of any gender for whom one cares deeply, or your Chipotle burrito.

It first began to pick up speed in 2012 and 2013 with the meme “bae caught me slippin,” which, as you may remember, was associated with people taking selfies of themselves sleeping. The gimmick in these photos was that they were obvious selfies, and in most of these memes, the subject’s hand and phone were caught taking the photo. Bae, in this instance, is referring to their significant other who hypothetically caught them sleeping.

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Use of the term became mainstream when Pharrell Williams released the song, “Come Get It Bae” with Miley Cyrus in May of 2014. Despite the rise in popularity, I didn’t hear this word until a few months after when a friend of mine said, “Thanks bae” over group text and I lost my composure. I was filled with satisfaction as I burst his bubble and called him out for shortening the term Alana Dore baby, demanding, “Isn’t babe short enough?”

Word Nerd It was in this conversation that I was first chastised for my improper understanding of the term and was informed that bae was really an acronym for “before anyone else.” I had my suspicions, but it was not until recently that my doubts were confirmed. This erroneous origin story first appeared in 2011, three years before the term hit its peak but nearly six years following the first use of the word in mainstream media.

According to Rap Genius, the earliest use of the word bae in rap lyrics dates back to 2005. We were listening to “Pon de Replay” and “Hollaback Girl,” but someone, somewhere was starting the bae trend. Just look at how well the term fits in the lyric, “when the pimp’s in the crib bae / drop it like it’s hot.”

While popular media has just recently adopted the trend, the truth is bae has been around for decades, grounded in Southern African-American communities where it formed naturally as a result of letter-dropping, turning “baby” to “bae.” Although a hotly debated topic, this word-shortening is a common and natural occurrence. This final consonant deletion is an explanation for the word that makes the most sense both linguistically and historically.

Trends come and go – do you remember spelling fat with a ph? – but overuse and the effects of groupthink (thanks for that, UrbanDictionary) have created a lesion in society, a rift between those who are repulsed by the use of the word and those who have embraced it. Whatever your stance, let’s agree to give credit where credit is due and embrace its roots.

Me? I believe “baewatch” season must come to an end, but Justin Bieber has ruined “baby” for me as well.

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Dolls wearing the style of the Revolution to preview Boston Fashion Week

“There’s a whole narrative and narrative arc,” Gostow said. “It’s full-length. We’re not just throwing jokes away. It’s tying a story together, so when [the audience] laughs, it comes from a deeper place.”

Established in 2012, BUMP served as the root for other shows that Rojas’ production company, Catalyst Company, supports.

“Dirty Disney,” an improvised and raunchy take on Disney stories, and “KERPLUNK!,” an interactive children’s choose-your-ownadventure show, both grew out of BUMP. “We are definitely some of the first people to say we’re making this our thing in a professional way,” Rojas said. “There’s no other group like us [in Boston]. The consistent quality of the show lets us stand apart.”

The Boston Unscripted Musical Project ensemble improvised their musical, “You’re Doing It Wrong,” at the 2015 Boston Comedy Arts Festival.

Photos courtesy Caitlin Cunningham/BUMP

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Huskies fall short in Chestnut Hill garner, From Page 1 goal late in the first half. That was all junior goalkeeper Becky Garner would allow, as the NU goalie set a season-high with 12 saves in the game, a mark she would reset against BC. Sophomore midfielder Kristin Abreu and senior back Kate Carlson led the offensive attack for NU, each recording two shots on goal, but the team could not figure out a way to beat Issy Davies, Harvard’s senior goalie.

In Chestnut Hill on Sunday, the unranked Huskies had their hands full, facing off against the No. 11 Eagles of Boston College.

Becky Garner put forth another strong performance for NU, stopping 14 of the 20 shots that came her way, resetting her season high mark for saves and coming one shy of her career record. “[Garner] has held her own back there and has been under a lot of pressure,” Head Coach Cheryl Murtagh said.

Garner now has a .747 save percentage on the season, good for second in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). She leads the CAA with 65 saves on the year.

The offense for the Huskies

was better on Sunday, as freshman forward June Curry-Lindahl fired two shots on goal, managing to find the back of the net once.

Curry-Lindahl’s tally was her third of the season, which leads the team, and the first goal for NU since its 2-1 win over Dartmouth College on Sept. 11.

The team finished with 13 shots on the day, with freshmen forwards Abbey MacClellan and Kellie Stigas each putting two on goal. However, the Huskies fell to the Eagles 6-1.

“It’s hard to win games when you aren’t scoring goals,” Murtagh said, summing up the offensive issues. “We need to play better if we want to achieve our goal, which is winning the CAA championship.”

Murtagh also stressed the importance of playing a full 70-minute game moving forward and of finding a way to maintain offensive pressure without defensive breakdowns as a result.

The team will play two games this weekend, at home against Monmouth University on Friday and away against the University of Maine on Sunday, before beginning conference play on Oct. 2 against Drexel University at home.

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ponents in the 3-1 loss, although they were outshot by Dartmouth.

Junior midfielder Carina Deandreis scored the Huskies’ lone goal in the 42nd minute, her first of the season. She was assisted by junior defender Mackenzie Dowd, who tallied 90 minutes of play in the contest.

NU entered the second half with a 1-0 advantage, but that became a 1-1 tie when Dartmouth scored off a corner kick in the 67th minute. Dartmouth went on to add another goal shortly after, in the 72nd minute, then capped off a 3-0 run with the game’s

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Junior goalkeeper Becky Garner, 1, tallied 14 saves in a 6-1 loss to No. 11 Boston College on Sunday.

Women’s soccer bounces back against UNH The Northeastern University (NU) women’s soccer team played its last set of non-conference games last weekend, netting a win and a loss against two other New England teams.

The Huskies ended their 11-game home win streak with a loss to Dartmouth College on Friday night in a rematch of last year’s overtime game against the Big Green. The Huskies out-cornered their op-

Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics

Midfielder Breeana Koemans, 10, scored the game-winner on Sunday.

final score in the 82nd minute.

“I don’t want to say we got too comfortable, but I think that because we were up 1-0 and that we were controlling the game so well at first, we weren’t going at them as hard as we should’ve [in the second half],” redshirt junior midfielder Breeana Koemans said.

Dartmouth managed to both outshoot and out-corner the Huskies in the second half, with totals of 6-2 and 3-0, respectively, while Northeastern committed 10 fouls in the period.

The Huskies had more success on Sunday when they traveled to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), winning 1-0.

“We were just coming off of a loss at our home field and we had a winning streak, so we were bouncing back from that,” Koemans said. “UNH is a difficult team – they kept battling throughout the entire game. A strength was our back line was more confident after playing against Dartmouth.”

The Huskies managed to out-shoot UNH 29-8 in the double overtime contest, while also out-cornering yet another team. NU has out-cornered every opponent this year. The team also posted 11 shots in each of the two regulation periods, while adding six more in the first overtime period. The final shot came in the 101st minute, by the leg of Koemans, who netted her second goal of the season.

The two weekend games mark the final non-conference contests the Huskies will play in the regular season. This weekend will be the squad’s first two Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) away matches against Elon University and the College of William & Mary.

“I don’t think it’s different motivation-wise because out of conference we want the win because it’ll help us with post-season play,” Koemans said of the team’s mentality headed into conference play.

“But we’re back-to-back conference champs, and I think we have the same mindset – each game we take day by day. We look at each opponent differently and we just break down how to beat them.”

The Huskies will take on CAA opponents at home for the first time in a few weeks, facing off against the College of Charleston and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington on Oct. 2 and 4, respectively.

“We’re going to have to defend as a team extremely well, which we got better at throughout the season,” Koemans said. “Our offense is going to have to work really well together and be aggressive.”

Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics

Carina Deandreis, 22, scored her first goal of the season on Friday.

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Men’s soccer loses at home to Providence, UNH

By Ethan Schroeder News Staff

Northeastern University’s (NU) men’s soccer team finished up its non-conference schedule this week and remains winless after two home losses.

The action this week started on Saturday when the Providence College (PC) Friars came into town to take on the Huskies (0-4-2). NU and PC (4-2-1) have played each other once a season for the past 10 years. Going into the game, Providence held the upper hand in the series with a 5-2-2 record. The visitors continued their recent success with a 2-1 victory.

856 fans were in attendance for the game, which was billed as “Los Huskies Night.” Though the game started with minimal offensive production, the Friars, who made it to last year’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament semifinals, broke the deadlock in the 38th minute. A back-heel goal from PC junior forward Mac Steeves had the stands buzzing.

Providence junior midfielder Dominik Machado, who had an assist on Steeves’ goal, followed up and scored in the 79th minute with a long-range shot from 25 yards out. The Huskies eventually got themselves on the scoreboard, but it was too little, too late. A close range knock-in from sophomore forward Khesanio Hall with 10 seconds left in the match did little more than help the Huskies save face.

With the majority of offensive output coming from counterattacking, Northeastern’s offense produced only five shots on Saturday, courtesy of Hall and sophomore Harry Swartz. PC redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Ben Seguljic only needed two saves to preserve the victory.

Tuesday night, NU had one last chance to salvage both its non-con-

ference record and three-game home stand against the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Wildcats. The Huskies continued their self-destructive combination of dismal attack and subpar defense en route to a 1-0 loss.

If not for sophomore goalie Jonathan Thuresson’s performance in goal, the game wouldn’t have been so close. Thuresson’s season-high six saves raised his per-game average to 4.5 saves, the highest in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA).

UNH produced 19 shots in total.

Northeastern, by comparison, struggled against a New Hampshire team that earned its fourth consecutive shutout. For the second straight match, the Huskies only had one shot on goal in each half. The home team mustered six corner kicks, but found itself unable to capitalize on any chances.

UNH junior midfielder Riley Ellis scored the game’s only goal in the 48th minute. A shot from senior forward Ben Ramin bounced off of Thuresson, and Ellis calmly slotted in the rebound to tally what proved to be the difference maker.

This is the first time that NU has gone winless against non-conference opponents since the university joined the CAA in 2005. In 2009, the team posted a 1-5 non-conference record but went on to finish the season 108-1. Now, the team moves onto conference play on Saturday. Northeastern’s postseason hopes are still alive, as berths in the CAA tournament are based on conference records.

This weekend, the Huskies travel south to kick off CAA play against the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Seahawks, the No. 22 team in the nation according to the NCAA.

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NU volleyball team falters

By Tim Foley News Staff

After three rough games at the New England Challenge tournament held in Chestnut Hill and Cambridge, the Northeastern University (NU) women’s volleyball team is in need of a confidence booster as it begins the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) season. “[The New England Challenge] is a tournament we’ve controlled most years,” Head Coach Ken Nichols said. “The teams in New England without doubt are getting better, and we are struggling.”

The Huskies followed last week’s win against the New Jersey Institute of Technology with three straight losses in the final non-league tournament of the season. Northeastern (3-12) dropped nine of 10 sets over the three-game stretch.

On Wednesday, the team fell to Hofstra University in a tight 5-set match. The game went down to the final straw, and the Huskies lost in the fifth set by two points.

Sophomore middle Carmen Costa tallied a career-high 11 kills.

A consistent problem with the team at the New England Challenge was hitting errors. On Friday against Boston College (BC), the Huskies had four players with negative hitting percentages. For the first time this season, the team hitting percentage dipped into negative digits (-.019).

Nichols said the cause of the unforced errors was a combination of the talent of BC and the psychological struggle of the Huskies.

The women held their own early but gave up five consecutive points to BC midway through the first set.

They lost 20-25. The following set was no better – the Huskies managed only 15 points in the frame and could not build any momentum.

In the third set, the Huskies were ousted 25-12 and were swept in the match. The BC backline was strong – three players posted

double-digit digs – and Northeastern’s hitters seemed rattled.

“I think BC might be as good as they’ve ever been,” Nichols said.

The women got a night of rest and took on Harvard University on Saturday in Cambridge. The Huskies continued to struggle but put up more of a fight than in their previous game.

After dropping the first set 25-22, the Huskies finally found a spark.

NU came back from a 10-5 deficit and strung together five points in a row to eventually tie the score at 14.

The Husky front line was strong in the set, with outside hitters Brigitte Burcescu and Cherylain Dizon and Costa all contributing multiple kills in the comeback.

Junior outside hitter Hannah Fry subbed into the game and had a crucial kill to tie the score at 23. The Huskies won the next two points and took the set, but Fry landed awkwardly on the play and suffered a lower-body injury.

“She absolutely ripped the ball,” Nichols said. “It was one of the most athletic things I’ve ever seen Hannah do, but it was so athletic that she landed the wrong way.”

Fry was unable to return, and the team had trouble maintaining the momentum in the third.

Harvard scored 10 points in a row to take a 17-5 lead, and Northeastern dropped the set 25-15.

In the fourth, consecutive kills from senior Dizon helped to cut Harvard’s lead but, after a timeout, Harvard was able to finish the frame 2521 and complete a four-set victory.

In the next match against the University of Connecticut (UConn), Northeastern was unable to win a set but Nichols said he saw some improvements from the previous two games.

“We finally got our hitting percentage figured out,” Nichols said. “From stem to stern it seems nearly everybody had a really good match attacking, but then we let the other team outpace us.”

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Athletes deserve some privacy too

Nothing unites and captivates a group of people more than a shared passion for athletics. Tailgates, double headers, Sunday night football parties, face painting, school spirit and, of course, endless trash talk and discussions can enchant any sports fan. What is often at the center of the excitement and drama is the superstar athlete’s personal life. This is enough to give paparazzi a job and provide endless stories for journalists all over the world.

And why wouldn’t it be? Tales such as these captivate an audience because of an undeniable fact: people love to gossip.

Fans relish being ahead of their friends and up-to-date on the news, always seeking the “Have you heard…” moments. We naturally hope for them to say that they haven’t so we have the opportunity to hold the mic and shine underneath a spotlight, even if it is just a moment. While it feels good to be ahead of the mainstream news, this obsession with the latest dirt has its consequences.

No one likes it when people talk behind their back, but there seems to be some sort of obsession with spreading rumors when it comes to athletes. We, without much thought, will destroy an athlete’s right to the presumption of innocence by constantly discussing and drawing opinions on media stories and rumors. News spreads like wildfire and, before you know it, an entire story is created off of little information. We’ve all heard the stories: the running back gets into a brawl at a bar, the point guard is charged with date rape after a night of binge drinking or the goalie Kyle Taylor crashes his sports car at 2 a.m. While investigators will do what is necessary to get the right story eventually, the process takes time, and the initial reports and rumors will live on.

The reality is that being the big man on campus can ironically place the athlete under the tiniest of microscopes, making any drama involved in his or her life newsworthy. This is not to say however that bad behavior, criminal conduct or just plain stupidity should be excused or forgotten, but it is so easy to forget due process and the presumption of innocence should apply to star athletes as well.

I am certainly not willing to excuse truly bad behavior. Athletes should understand that they are a part of something bigger than themselves – they get perks and also have additional responsibilities. They represent their family, their team, school and often the the community around them. In some cases, like it or not, athletes have the ability to be role models for kids. Recognizing that others view them as the epitome of focus and hard work would likely be a good step towards staying on the straight and narrow.

As fans and consumers, however, we have but one task: enjoy their athletic performances on the field, but recognize these people are only human.

I am in no position to shake my head or wag my finger at other sports enthusiasts nor to tell them how to converse. My only hope is to make us aware of what we are doing and understand that a mere conversation can mean a lot more than just small talk. Behind the commercials, shoe deals, highlights and fame are real people So, when you inevitably begin to chat about the next scandal, think twice about the things that you really do know.

I will try to do the same, because when it comes to gossiping, I am, just like many fans, undeniably guilty.

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Freshman libero Sherrie Wang, 1, serves the ball. The team had three aces against both Harvard and UConn.

“Jamie, as a young setter, needed stepped up this year and is not Northeastern kept it mostly even in the first and second, but could those leadership qualities,” Nichols afraid to be vocal about both only manage 16 points in the third said. “She’s taken a lot of those ex- shortcomings of her play and set as UConn completed the sweep. periences and she gives a very bal- her teammates,” Nichols said.

Nichols knows that with the league anced series of directions out there.”

The Huskies will play two Nichols also said that junior li- home games this weekend. They season starting, the team will need strong leadership on the court. Set- bero Ashlee Asada has taken on a face Elon University on Friday ter Jamie Bredahl is in her third year leadership role from the back line. at 7 p.m. and the College of Wil“Ashlee, as well, has really liam & Mary on Sunday at 1 p.m. on the team and has stood out so far.

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