October 19, 2017

The Huntington News Vol. XI No. 3

The independent student newspaper of the Northeastern community

Oct. 19, 2017

Clinton Global Initiative ends on day of service

Former President Bill Clinton leads a panel during the opening session of the Clinton Global Initiative University event held in Matthews Arena.

By Alejandro Serrano News Staff Hundreds of students from around the world, including dozens of Northeastern students, volunteered in locations around Boston Sunday to wrap up the three-day Clinton

Global Initiative University’s 10th annual meeting.

“It’s all about unifying the space,” said Alyssa L. Trometter, the senior service partnerships manager for Clinton Global Institute University (CGI U). “Really spend(ing) time

connecting with the community.”

At the Inner City Sanctuary for the Arts in Roxbury, Chelsea Clinton joined an assembly line of volunteers clad in blue shirts to write inspirational messages — such as “Your flaws are perfect” — on paper

and packed them in bags with vegetables, fruits and pamphlets with health information. The packages will be distributed to veterans on Veterans Day, Trometter said.

“Through sharing our trials, triumphs and everything, CGI U

Photo by Brian Bae becomes a family for a weekend and beyond,” said Hetal Kharecha, who was helping pack the bags.

Kharecha said she joined the institution as a Harvard University student in 2008 with a CGI U ACTION, on Page 2

Cambridge hosts TEDx talk HUBweek merges music and race

By Olivia Oriaku News Correspondent The Cypher, one of more than 150 HUBweek events, brought together musical artists from different backgrounds and diverse talents to celebrate contemporary music and its roots across the African diaspora.

The event took place Friday at The Hub in City Hall Square. The Boston Art & Music Soul Fest (BAMS Fest), a non-profit organization that strives to revitalize the spirit of communities of color across Greater Boston, partnered with HUBweek to host the event.

Photo courtesy Bearwalk Cinema Dance troupe Phunk Phenomenon closes the TEDxCambridge event with a hip-hop performance.

By Hannah Bernstein & Riley Robinson to bringing music opportunities to idea in a different way, and she youth in underprivileged communi- challenged the audience to find the News Staff Thousands attended TEDxCam- ties. The event was emceed by its rule-breaking aspects of each one. bridge Thursday, filing past an executive producer, Tamsen Webster.

The TEDx organizers bent some exhibition of new Tesla cars and Webster said although her team “rules” themselves, Webster said, as spherical cargo-carrying robots avoids assigning themes to each the Cambridge event was actually named Gita. event, as they prepared with the held on the opposite side of the Inside, six speakers promoted speakers, she realized a theme Charles River in the Boston Opera five new ideas, ranging from break- emerged anyway — breaking the House. throughs in Alzheimer’s research rules. Each speaker addressed that IDEAS, on Page 5

Karl-Lydie Jean-Baptiste, the media relations coordinator for BAMS fest, discussed the organization’s goals in partnering with HUBweek and hosting the event.

“The main focus of BAMS fest is to break down racial and social barriers to arts and culture in Boston,” Jean-Baptiste said. “This partnership does just that. It brings groups of people together from diverse backgrounds in one room to share a cultural experience that is not typically celebrated outside of the Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan PERFORMANCE, on Page 9

Photo by Patrick Leung Artist and poet Oompa shares her thoughts on the importance of hip-hop music after her performance at The Cypher.

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October 19, 2017

CGI U participants volunteer around Boston

ACTION, from front commitment project to vaccinate children in rural parts of India. After successfully vaccinating thousands of children, she said she changed her commitment and started a new one focused on human trafficking after she met a victim in 2013.

She said she is now a commitment mentor for the initiative and helps a score of students around the world advocate for trafficking victims.

“They are creating amazing, amazing projects,” she said.

“Amazing organizations. Amazing initiatives to create educational awareness and to directly help the trafficking population.”

In another room of the Roxbury

building, more than a dozen volunteers sat on the floor, sifting through books and sorting them into boxes.

In a lot across the street, a group of volunteers painted little wooden libraries, which looked like like enlarged birdhouses, in vibrant blue, yellow and green.

Students also helped hang up murals that were spray painted on materials like a tarp and cloth, on the outside of the building.

“I just can’t believe this. I’m blown away,” said Ryan Ubuntu Olson, of Washington, D.C., about one of the murals that a viewer could scan on an mobile phone application to watch a story about the history of humanity.

Olson said he has been with CGI U since 2010 and has volunteered as an LGBTI mentor for six years.

“Northeastern students are great,” he said. “This is a tangible impact that we are having, a physical building, but think about the intangible impact we are all having around the world.”

Sule Sahin, vice president of Northeastern’s chapter of buildOn, an international nonprofit that builds schools in developing countries, said she and her buildOn peers are committed to fostering civic engagement and community pride at a Dorchester high school.

Sahin said the weekend was a moving experience.

“I really liked it,” said the thirdyear bioengineering major. “I’ve met a lot of inspirational people.”

Elsewhere in the city, students installed a mural at Orchard Gardens and painted in the South End, according to posts on Northeastern’s Snapchat.

The day of service kicked off Sunday morning with opening remarks from former U.S. President Bill Clinton, his daughter Chelsea, Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun at Madison Park High School.

Bill Clinton commended participants, encouraged them to continue serving and told them not to focus on the differences between people.

“Look at you. This is the world we need — where we are celebrating your diversity,” he said. “Not a single person here has been asked to give up anything. Not your racial identity. Not your religious identity.”

For Olson, the seven-year CGI U veteran, the annual meeting allows him to meet people, learn about their passions and try to help fulfill them.

“This is like a spiritual retreat for me,” he said. “Just in being in the field of development, I am able to look at these commitments and be like, ‘Oh my god, you would fit here.

You would fit here.’ Just trying to be that guy, because I needed that once in my life so I am trying to give that back.”

Researchers create innovative surgical glue

By Charlie Wolfson News Staff A research team at Northeastern has played a leading role in the development of MeTro, a new surgical glue that could significantly improve how surgeons approach organ and tissue repair.

Nasim Annabi, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at NU, leads the lab that has been working on the new material, collaborating with researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Sydney. The material is intended to be used in place of sutures to seal incisions on organs including the heart and lungs, Annabi said.

“It could definitely reduce surgery time and eliminate complications for the patients after surgery,” said Annabi, who is also a lecturer at Harvard. “If they use sutures, there is a risk of infection and sometimes a second surgery is needed to remove the sutures.”

A paper detailing the MeTro project, published Oct. 4 in Science Translational Medicine, said using sutures or other foreign materials to close seal incisions is not optimal, despite being a long-standing practice out of necessity. Using sutures, which pierce surrounding tissue, can further damage the wound area and increase the risk of infection, according to the paper.

This led Annabi and her team to create MeTro.

“Annabi et al. capitalized on the elastic properties of the human protein tropoelastin to engineer a photocrosslinkable hydrogel sealant material,” the paper read. “We engineered a biocompatible and highly elastic sealant with tunable adhesion properties.”

Shortly after Annabi created the material, members of the medical field were intrigued by its potential to be used in surgeries.

“I synthesized MeTro for the first time in 2013 and published a paper on it,” she said. “I presented the technology at Beth Israel Hospital by invitation, and a group of surgeons asked me why we don’t use this as a surgical material.”

For lung surgeries, Annabi said, there were no technologies used for sealing lung incisions aside from sutures or combinations of sutures and glue, which still resulted in air and fluid leakage.

“From there, we started this project to improve the material so we can use it as a suture material, meaning they would no longer need to use sutures in lung surgery,” she said.

Ehsan Shirzaei Sani, a third-year chemical engineering Ph.D. student at Northeastern, said he is excited for the chance to work in Annabi’s lab on the MeTro project.

“I like working on this project because the material is going to be used,” Sani said. “It has the potential to be useful in real medical application. I partly joined the project for

that.”

Sani said he feels the lab has great potential and has grown significantly since he began working there.

He joined in 2016 as its first Ph.D. student, and today there are seven Ph.D. students as well as numerous visiting scholars and undergraduate students.

Creating a material with such great potential for medical advancement has not come without obstacles.

Early on, Annabi struggled to get funding for the project — though they recently received a $2 million grant to continue work. One of the first technical problems they faced was making the material biodegradable so it wouldn’t require removal from a patient’s body, Sani said.

Another issue came in the animal testing phase, which began with testing on rats.

“Rats weren’t a suitable model because human lungs experience higher pressure than rats, so that couldn’t convince us that it would work for humans in the future,” Annabi said. “We needed to use large animals, which cost more money and are harder to keep and care for.”

They eventually found success using the material on pig lungs.

Their work on animals is not finished, Annabi said, as they need to assess how the material works on the animals after longer periods of six months and one year.

Eventually, Annabi sees the

Photo courtesy Creative Commons Northeastern researchers develop a new surgical glue that can be used in lieu of stiches. material being implemented for in tubes or anything like that, the a wide range of surgical uses, in more at risk they are for infections. addition to the lung use currently It makes sense to reduce the number being studied. of patients who need additional sur“There are many places in the geries post-op.” body that are not easy to access for Sani said though this material suturing,” she said. “Imagine if we is currently intended for use on can inject this glue on these areas internal surgeries, including to the and cross-link it. The surgeon can lungs, heart and arteries, they are easily inject the glue on the wound researching similar materials that and shine a light on it for as little as could be used for other applications, one minute to achieve closure.” like external wound healing and Talya Mayman, a second-year corneal repair. nursing major, thinks the advanceThe team’s surgeon collaborators ment is a rational and useful step at Beth Israel are happy to support toward safer surgery. human trials when the time comes, “It makes sense,” Mayman said. Annabi said.

“The more times you open up a “Hopefully that day will come in patient, to remove sutures or put the next few years,” she said.

Deniz Kocaoglu is remembered as fearless

By Rachel Morford News Staff

Photo courtesy of Deniz Kocaoglu, Facebook Deniz Kocaoglu — known best for her charisma, sincerity, humor and talent — died Oct. 6 after suffering complications related to acute myeloid leukemia. She was 21 years old.

Originally set to graduate in 2020 with a major in economics and a minor in communication studies, Kocaoglu went on medical leave after receiving her diagnosis last spring. At the time of her death, Kocaoglu was in a hospital in Istanbul surrounded by her family.

“She was one of the most pleasant people you could ever meet. She was super stylish and funny — greeting everyone with the brightest smile,”

said Paola Agramonte, a third-year music industry major and one of Kocaoglu’s friends. “Whichever path she chose to follow in life, she was going to make it her own and fun.”

Kocaoglu was born Aug. 17, 1996, in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her secondary education at Istanbul’s prestigious Saint Benoit High School. By the time she graduated in 2015, Kocaoglu could speak Spanish, French, English and Turkish, said the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities Uta Poiger in an email to Northeastern’s undergraduate student body.

Kocaoglu was a high-achieving student and made the Dean’s List in the past, Poiger said.

In a series of death announcements published on the websites Vefatlar and Hurriyet, Kocaoglu’s family in Turkey thanked their family for sharing their pain and her doctors for their optimism and dedication.

According to the announcements, Kocaoglu’s funeral was held on Oct. 7 following afternoon prayers at Levent Mosque.

Kocaoglu’s first semester of college was spent in London through the NUin program. She met many friends there, including Saunaz Moradi, a third-year finance major minoring in Middle Eastern studies.

Moradi and Kocaoglu grew closer after moving to campus to the point

where Moradi felt comfortable inviting Kocaoglu on a family skiing vacation.

“Deniz became the sixth member of my family, just as I am the fifth member of hers,” Moradi said. “I’m always hesitant of bringing friends on my family trips, but I didn’t think twice about bringing Deniz.”

While skiing, Moradi said Kocaoglu suffered a bad fall — bruising her face. Despite this, Kocaoglu was untroubled.

“I’ve said this numerous times but she’s truly the most fearless person I know,” Moradi said. “[She] easily adapts to new surroundings. She never got fazed and was so calm about everything.”

Ipek Kirali befriended Kocaoglu in spring 2016 after Kocaoglu moved to Northeastern’s Boston campus. Kirali — now a third-year psychology major at Georgetown University — similarly identified Kocaoglu as someone who was adaptable and relaxed. When Kirali’s car broke down last winter, Kocaoglu stayed by her side.

“We had to stop and wait for the service. I felt so bad that she had to wait with me, [but] she did not complain about the situation at all.

In fact, she supported and calmed me down when I was really anxious,” Kirali said. “At that point, I realized what a great friend I’d made.”

This laid-back nature drew others

to Kocaoglu, Kirali said. It also made Kocaoglu an excellent travel companion when on vacation with Kirali.

“To be honest, she was my favorite person in the group because she was able to fully enjoy the moment without complaining,” Kirali said.

Agramonte, who also met Kocaoglu through NUin London, said she connected most with Kocaoglu through their shared sense of humor. Kocaoglu and Agramonte would often hide each other’s phones and could always make each other laugh.

“She and I both loved somewhat roasting people, especially our friends,” Agramonte said. “So in our friend group, whenever Deniz and I made harsh — yet funny — comments, we were called ‘savage.’

And it was kind of an ongoing gag with both of us.”

Agramonte and Moradi both said Kocaoglu had a passion for music and a talent for singing.

“Deniz used to say that if she could drop everything and know she’d be [financially] secure, she would be a singer,” Moradi said. “And she definitely could, she had the voice for it.”

Once during a karaoke night, Kocaoglu shocked the crowd with her rendition of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” Agramonte said.

Because Kocaoglu usually preferred

opera and Turkish music, Agramonte said she didn’t expect to find Kocaoglu dancing to the funk song “Brick House” by the Commodores.

Agramonte said she asked Kocaoglu if she really did like the song. “[Deniz] very seriously looks at me and says ‘This is my favorite song ever.’ I lost it, I couldn’t stop laughing,” Agramonte said. “And she was dancing to it so mechanically, that it was just so pure Deniz.

Like right when you thought you knew her, she surprised you with something like this.”

In addition to her talent and sense of humor, Kocaoglu was known by friends for her individuality and integrity. Moradi said it was Kocaoglu’s independence and fearlessness which made her such a unique person.

“She was so real. She didn’t care what kind of clothing you wore or who you hung out with – she would just see you,” Moradi said.

Kocaoglu is survived by her mother and father, Gülgün and Mehmet Kocaoglu, and younger sister, Yasemin Kocaoglu. In lieu of flowers, Kocaoglu’s family requested donations be made to LÖSEV — a Turkey-based foundation for children with leukemia.

Grief counseling is available for Northeastern students through WeCare and University of Health and Counseling Services.

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NUPD CRIME LOG Compiled by Jill Sojourner, News Staff

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Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Wednesday, Oct. 11 @ 7:17 p.m.

A domestic dispute occurred on campus. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Thursday, Oct. 12 @ 10:12 a.m.

The manager at the 716 Columbus Mailroom reported a possible gift card theft. The Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD) responded and reported the card was delivered and had several charges applied to it, but the recipient did not receive it. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Friday, Oct. 13 @ 12:44 a.m.

A Northeastern University student reported that while walking in front of the Museum of Fine Arts, he was approached by a man who asked him for a cigarette. He further reported that after he declined, the man struck him in the back of the head. NUPD responded and reported checking the area for the man with negative results. A short time later, the man, who was unaffiliated with NU, was found. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Friday, Oct. 13 @ 1:27 a.m.

NUPD received calls reporting a motor vehicle accident on Columbus Avenue in front of Carter Park. NUPD responded and reported one motor vehicle struck several parked motor vehicles. The Boston Police Department (BPD) and Boston Fire Department arrived. NUPD stopped a man who fled the scene in front of Renaissance Park Garage. The man, who was unaffiliated with NU, was found to have a criminal history by BPD. NUPD reported that the man was identified as the driver who struck the motor vehicles. BPD assumed jurisdiction.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Friday, Oct. 13 @ 11:54 p.m.

An NU student reported his bicycle was stolen from the bicycle rack outside of the Marino Recreation Center. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Friday, Oct. 13 @ 4:22 p.m.

An NU faculty member reported encountering a group of high school students skateboarding around the Krentzman Quad and said one of the students accused the faculty member of assaulting him. NUPD responded and reported checking the area with negative results. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Friday, Oct. 13 @ 11:04 p.m.

An individual reported his friend, an NU student, was intoxicated and was not alert. NUPD responded and requested Boston Emergency Medical Services, who transported the student to the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Saturday, Oct. 14 @ 3:38 a.m.

The proctor at Davenport A reported an NU student entered the building and was intoxicated and very rude. NUPD responded and reported speaking to the student, who admitted to underage drinking earlier in the evening. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Saturday, Oct. 14 @ 7:10 p.m.

An NU student reported her unattended backpack was stolen from Hastings Hall. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Saturday, Oct. 14 @ 10:04 p.m.

An NU student reported her bicycle was stolen from the bicycle racks outside of West Village A. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Sunday, Oct. 15 @ 2:21 a.m.

NUPD reported recovering a stolen vehicle in front of Symphony Market. BPD assumed jurisdiction and took the driver, who was unaffiliated with NU, into custody. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Sunday, Oct. 15 @ 9:36 a.m.

An individual reported his bicycle was stolen from the bicycle rack outside of International Village.

A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division

Sunday, Oct. 15 @ 11:52 a.m.

Facilities staff reported four damaged exit signs at Davenport A. A report was filed.

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Gique founder shares life story

By Glenn Billman Deputy Campus Editor More than three dozen students gathered in West Village F Monday to learn about education nonprofit Gique founder Danielle Olson’s path to computer science and participate in a discussion on the power of artificial intelligence and computer science to promote social change.

Olson, a second-year electrical engineering and computer science doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said she first became interested in science at MIT after seeing the movie “Iron Man.” Although she was taking multivariable calculus, Olson said she had not considered going into math or science until her high school counselor recommended it.

Before she could commit to becoming a scientist, however, Olson said she had to change the two narratives that had blocked her from the field. The first barrier, she realized, was that she did not see media representation of engineers who looked like her. Second, she had to reject the idea that being a scientist meant she would have to give up her artistic inclinations.

“I realized that engineers are not one size fits all, that we need all sorts of engineers and scientists to tackle the world’s problems,” Olson said. “The single story of a mentor I received in high school allowed me to deconstruct this notion of what was a prerequisite to be a scientist.”

Olson originally pursued a degree in mechanical engineering, but after failing an introductory course her first year she almost transfered schools. Instead, she made a list of her strengths and interests and tried to find overlap. The following year, she turned to computer science and found it was much more hands-on and suited to her learning style.

“Finding role models, figuring out what gets you out of bed in the morning, what gets you excited to work on something until 1 a.m., for me that made me realize, ‘Wow, computer science, you can break things for cheap, you don’t have to wait until senior year to do hands-on projects,’” Olson said.

While she was an undergraduate at MIT, Olson worked to change the narrative that had led her to believe math and science were not creative fields by founding Gique, a nonprofit aimed at educating youth in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.

“I went to a school where we had English class, history class, math and science class, and these were all taught in discrete settings,” Olson said. “But when you walk out into the real world, you realize that everything lumps together. I really believed that to be a scientist or engineer, I had to sacrifice this aspect of myself.”

To achieve this, Gique hosts programs such as Science Can DANCE!, where students learn about science and technology through creative dance. They also have coding seminars, after school programs and upload interviews of students and professionals who combine science and art to their website.

After graduating from MIT in 2014, Olson went to work for Microsoft. In the beginning of her career, she said she did not realize it was important for her voice to be heard.

“There were times where it took someone with more power than me encouraging me to speak up, helping me when I was getting interrupted,” Olson said. “But also just the encouragement of mentors that told me they did notice when I did speak up, that my contributions were valuable.”

Gabrielle Rabadam, a fourthyear chemical engineering major at Northeastern and intern at Gique

Photo by Alex Melagrano Danielle Olsen spoke at NU about her nonprofit, Gique, which integrates art and STEM. said she also struggled with being interrupted and overlooked in the workplace and at school.

“You just kind of share eyes with the other women in the room when a guy interrupts you. You ask for help after a meeting from the only other person who saw you were trying to say something,” Rabadam said. “Making those connections to people who understand where you’re coming from helps build solidarity and has helped remind me even though things are hard in a board room, in a meeting room, I’m not going at it completely alone.”

Although it can be hard to talk about bad experiences like Rabadam’s, Olson said it is important for people to hear both sides in order to make progress.

“It’s really dangerous for people to not be exposed to stories that are both negative and positive when we’re preparing our next generation for going into tech,” Olson said. She highlighted the recent sexual harassment allegations about Uber, which led to multiple firings and policy changes when they became public.

Olson quit Microsoft and returned to MIT for graduate school after two years, when she realized she wanted to help people but didn’t have the platform to at Microsoft. Olson’s thesis research includes a virtual reality project designed to help 10to 14-year-old African American children and their parents cope with racial trauma and stress together.

Olson also spoke about the misconception that computer programs and other technologies are unbiased.

Cultural and personal biases, such as reading from left to right, are not innate to technology and must be taught. As a result, it is important to have many different perspectives in the room.

“People, in a sense, can produce biased data, and then biased data can produce biased systems, and these biased systems, I believe, can be oppressive systems,” Olson said.

Rose Ajegwu, a second-year industrial engineering major, said she attended Olson’s speech and sees a lack of diversity at Northeastern on the faculty and student level.

“I think it’s really important as well, not only that she’s a black woman but she’s also trying to ignite social change, and I feel like that’s something that’s not really talked about within the engineering field, at least not consciously, because it’s very white, male dominated,” Ajegwu said. “I think it’s almost patronizing the way they go about things.”

Ajegwu believes Northeastern should recruit more students and professors of color across all departments and incorporate topics from the humanities into STEM classes.

“Trying to incorporate social contexts and cultural competency into those classes, and not just trying to say, ‘Oh, take this class to fill a requirement,’ [but] trying to actually incorporate it into the curriculum,” Ajegwu said.

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OPINION

October 19, 2017

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Editorial: Make study Column: We must spaces more accesible confront changes The beginning of college signals the end of the obligatory phase of education. Up until that point, decisions we make regarding the future are arguably of little consequence. We may choose subjects and extracurricular activities that make our days a shade different from those of our classmates; however, disregarding any drastic actions, our power is largely confined to the cosmetic customization of circumstances we’ve been allocated.

In high school, we operate in a context of familiar places populated by familiar people, who carry with them a rich set of associations and connotations. Our Aoife Manley role in this ecosystem has long been carved out; the corners and sharp edges rounded and worn down as we’ve wriggled and contorted and finally settled in our nook. At this stage, attempting to shape this space with our limited choices is like digging the hard earth surrounding us with a plastic spoon.

When we enter college, however, we’re released from these confines and told to dig where we please. The eradication of the bounds with which we’ve become familiar, and perhaps even dependent upon, comes as a shock to many. And some are petrified of the prospect of choosing a single spot of the surface of the earth to excavate. We fear we will pick a spot that appears to be soft earth only to strike an immense, hidden rock bed.

Often we feel a compulsion to start digging before having thoroughly surveyed the landscape because of the expansive, bewildering vastness of it or the fact that we can’t guess at what lurks beneath the surface. The fear of being rendered static drives this compulsion to commence. Sometimes we go prospecting, but testing certain areas only allows us to sample a small percentage of possibilities.

Personally, I’ve made many choices with the explicit purpose of giving myself a broader range of choices in the future. However, there comes a point when this strategy is self-defeating. Choice-chasing can often lead us to focus on measures of progression while ignoring the direction we’re going.

Too often, I’ve found myself chasing something that, on reflection, I don’t actually want; as one would reflexively chase a thief that had taken an old, broken possession that’s been long unused and neglected, dusting and aging on your shelf.

Should you want something simply because you can have it or because others believe that it’s worthy of pursuit? This logic seems flawed, yet so often we do pursue what others hold in high regard. Wishing to be a doctor simply because it’s viewed as a noble profession or learning Chinese because it’s seen as challenging language will likely lead to little reward. These reasons may act as a motivating factor in the beginning but are sustainable incentives in the long term. Yet, again and again, we let this hole-riddled logic lead us down lengthy paths.

It seems we’ve been imprinted with a vision of how things should be; of what we are supposed to wish to secure for ourselves in the future. We feel we have an ownership claim to a certain path and thus a duty to follow it.

Overwhelmed by the uncertainty, we find ourselves treading this pre-paved path, foot following surely placed foot, with that same comforting relief of uttering a familiar prayer.

Yet we’re all ingrained with a desire to take off in another direction, and lay our own paving stones as we go. But to do so, you must muster the courage or ignorance to decide: Are you willing to gamble what you expect to secure for yourself for an unknown prize?

Deciding to study on campus should be as simple as walking into Snell Library, finding a seat and opening your books. Instead, every time you try to study on campus you’re playing a game of chance.

You’re likely to spend a good portion of your time in the library taking laps and looking for somewhere to sit.

You might eye people who look like they’re just about to pack up, but with so many other people making the rounds, snagging a seat becomes a race. If you’re trying to work on a group project, the probability of finding a table that will fit all your group members is slim to none. What’s worse, when midterms and finals roll around, seats in Snell are virtually nonexistent.

It’s not as though there isn’t enough study space at Northeastern.

There are hundreds of classrooms on campus and for students who are determined to find a place to study, these rooms have become makeshift study spaces. But they aren’t guaranteed.

There’s often no way of knowing if any given classroom will have a class in it when you arrive. If you do find an empty classroom, you may find yourself being kicked out sooner than you expected when a class does start. This option is unreliable for late night studying as well.

Many academic buildings close in the late evening, which reduces crucial studying time for students with full schedules during the day.

There needs to be a system in place that makes it more convenient for students to get into empty classrooms when they want to study.

Northeastern already keeps track of the classrooms that are in use throughout the day. Professors can use a database to see if classrooms are available for use. If this database was made available to students, finding a place on campus to study would be much easier.

Many rooms in academic buildings sit empty after regular school hours, even though there are students all over campus who would be happy to use them. If the university has safety concerns about not knowing who will be occupying the rooms, they should create a system for signing up for rooms similar to how study rooms and workstations are reserved in Snell. This will create a system of accountability and easy accessibility for students.

The university has already addressed the lack of study space for graduate students. Rebecca’s Cafe has been open after hours as a study space since the start of the semester, but this is not an available option for undergraduate students. It’s important that graduate students have this space because they have very few buildings on campus designated for them. Many work as teacher’s assistants and need to have space to grade papers in addition to doing their own work.

Undergraduates need more places to work as well. As the numbers of the incoming classes increase, there is more pressure on Snell Library to accommodate the university’s growing population. The News is looking to the university to provide its students with the study spaces they need to thrive in an academic setting.

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Op-ed: Call for clean energy Dear Editor, In good weather on my days off, I take a stroll with my little spotted beagle and bask in the benefits of my favorite star the sun. I watch the wind ripple through the tall grass and I marvel at the power of the sun and the wind; wondering why we’re so reliant on dirty sources of energy.

We, as a nation, need to face the facts that relying on fossil fuels is not forever, and that transitioning to renewable energy such as solar is a stable source of eternal energy.

We could meet our electricity needs 100 times with solar power alone, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Cities like Greensburg, Kansas; Georgetown, Texas; Aspen, Colorado and Burlington, Vermont are already running on 100 percent renewable energy. Companies like Google, General Motors and CocaCola have plans to go 100 percent renewable. We should follow their lead. As a student at UMass Lowell, I think we should start with Massa-

chusetts colleges and universities.

As institutions that train engineers, economists and the civil leaders of the future, colleges and universities are well-positioned to lead the effort.

Let’s get started.

Emma Hargraves is the Sustainability Student Liaison at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is an English journalism and professional witing major, graphic design and environment and society minors

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Speakers break rules, share innovations

Photo courtesy Bearwalk Cinema Michael and Amy Port, founders of Heroic Public Speaking Worldwide, talk about using acting techniques for real-life situations such as job interviews at TEDxCambridge Thursday.

By Hannah Bernstein & Riley Robinson News Staff IDEAS, from front When Michael and Amy Port began their joint talk, they ignored the audience and pretended to have a conversation between themselves.

Using a bench as a prop, the couple discussed the techniques of acting and how they can be applied to real life. Michael, a graduate of The Yale School of Drama, and Amy, who attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, insisted what they learned at school could help anyone.

The Ports founded Heroic Public Speaking Worldwide to teach people with fears of public speaking how to use acting techniques to improve their lives — not a typical approach to life-coaching.

“Actors use techniques on the stage to create a believable reality,” Michael Port said in the speech.

“Non-actors can use the same techniques to create the reality they choose.”

Amy Port explained that many

people find acting inauthentic — actors, on a stage, pretending to be someone else. But she said regular life is also a stage for performance, just like William Shakespeare once said: all the world’s a stage.

“Performance is not fake behavior,” Amy Port said. “Good performance is genuine behavior in a manufactured environment.”

Four speakers hailed from the Boston area, while the Ports came from New York. Gita, the robot brainchild of Piaggio Fast Forward CEO Jeffrey Schnapp, is also being developed in Boston. The wheeled contraption follows its owner around, carrying belongings such as groceries or laundry.

Rosie Kotelova, a designer on the Gita project who was testing it with attendees, said she loves how Gita is different than most mainstream robots. She said developers hope it will persuade people to walk, instead of drive, to do their errands and other daily tasks.

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and making people lazy, but we’re doing the opposite — making people more active.”

Another speaker, Mike Boston, also focused on creating something completely new. A Dorchester native, Boston grew up amid gang activity in a neighborhood often ignored by the rest of the city. After becoming involved with music and rapping, he created Mobile Stu, a recording studio that operates out of a pick-up truck, more than a decade ago.

“We need to create more unbridled creative opportunities,” Boston said in his presentation. “If drug dealing continues to be the prime industry on the streets, not much will change. It’s on us to let go of the stereotypes and the filters that prevent us from seeing these people as people.”

Boston was featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in April, when DeGeneres provided him with a new car to help him continue recording.

He said his main focus is showing underprivileged kids that there are people who will listen to them.

“In cities where I’m from, why do people feel like they don’t have a

voice?” Boston said. “The current platforms are flawed.”

Young people were also instrumental in operating the event, and many volunteers came from universities in Boston. Erika Yi, a third-year behavior and health major at Boston University, worked as an usher in the lobby after finding the application on Facebook.

“The people here have accomplished so much,” Yi said. “Not just the speakers, but the people who attend. I like hearing about their lives after college.”

The other three speakers discussed their academic pursuits and new research. Tsedal Neeley, a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, spoke about her research into how language impacts culture. The research was largely based on the Japanese company Rakuten that established an English-language mandate in 2010. Glenn Cohen, a bioethics expert, explained the difference between “human” and “person,” exploring the concept of personhood versus biological identity. Lastly, Dheeraj Roy, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, presented his discovery that Alzheimer’s may not cause the brain to lose memories, but instead forget how to find them.

There were several college students in attendance from the Boston area. Deepali Sastry, a first-year at Brandeis University, attended this year after organizing TEDx events at her high school in Palo Alto, California.

“It was great to see it in a more professional setting,” she said. “TED always does a really good job of bringing in people of different backgrounds.”

The event closed with a performance from Phunk Phenomenon, a dance troupe which strives to bring education and entertainment to inner city children and teens. The group, made up of several different age groups, focuses primarily on hip-hop.

First-year Brandeis student Pallavi Goel said she especially enjoyed Neeley’s talk on the relationships between culture and language.

“It was a really great analysis of how to make society more global,” Goel said. “The dance at the end was really just a cherry on top.”

Students talk birth control

By Irvin Zhang & Hannah Bernstein News Staff

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey sued President Donald J. Trump’s administration Oct. 6 after Trump signed an executive order rolling back a health care provision which mandated that employers provide birth control in their employees’ insurance packages.

“The Trump administration’s actions today are a direct attack on women’s health and the right to access affordable and reliable contraception,” Healey said in an Oct. 6 press release. “My office has been vigilant when it comes to fighting for health care coverage and ensuring equality in the workplace, and I sued the Trump administration today to stop this rule.”

Healey’s complaint estimated thousands of Massachusetts residents would be affected. In the press release, she said she predicts many women will turn to MassHealth, the Medicaid plan, which would cost the state more money.

Northeastern students weighed in on the issue, bringing up freedom of religion, past legal precedent and personal privacy.

David Rosenberg, a third-year chemical engineering and biology double major, said the very definition of freedom of religion means

no beliefs should be superior to others.

“I’m with Maura Healey on this one,” Rosenberg said. “Freedom of religion is supposed to be a freedom that you can’t impose on someone else.”

But Thomas Catenacci, a thirdyear communication studies major, sees that same First Amendment clause a different way. He said Healey won’t succeed because of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case which established free speech rights for corporations.

“I think businesses are and should be protected by freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the rest of the First Amendment,” Catenacci said.

“This is getting at the heart of the Citizens United case and that’s why Maura Healey doesn’t have a case for her lawsuit.”

According to the press release, Healey intends to sue on constitutional grounds, including denying women due process and equal protection under the law.

In a testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Financial Services, Healey said 55 million women in the United States and 1.4 million women in Massachusetts alone gained access to birth control without paying out-of-pocket under Obamacare.

Catenacci said while he may support birth control as an indi-

vidual, he opposes the government mandate because he believes in personal freedom.

“I, myself, might believe in contraceptives, but in principle I disagree with the government forcing others who don’t believe in that,” Catenacci said.

Samantha Pannone, a secondyear international affairs major, said she is concerned about privacy.

She said employers should not be entitled to oversight or information on how their employees use their insurance.

“You can be on birth control and not be having sex — regardless, that’s your private life,” Pannone said. “It’s really none of [an employer’s] business who [their] participants are.”

Erin Merkel, a second-year communication studies major, said she believes the issue is an easy one: Women deserve the right to health care.

“I understand that companies don’t want to pay for something they don’t support, but I think it’s wrong to deny women their right to birth control,” Merkel said.

Ultimately, Merkel said employers can make their own choices about their personal insurance, but shouldn’t impose that on others.

“If business owners don’t want to take the pill, then that’s their choice,” Merkel said. “You can’t force other people into that situation.”

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HUBweek brings interactive art to Boston

Photo by Patrick Leung HUBweek 2017, which was centered at City Hall Plaza, featured interactive art installations such as Place/Setting and The Enchanted Forest.

By Eirin Combs News Correspondent HUBweek kicked off its third year of celebrating innovation in the Greater Boston area from Oct. 10 to 15. With hundreds of speakers and events, there were many ways for the community to get involved in a collaborative experience.

Some of the events included the Future Forum, where leaders in varying industries showcased their future plans, Demo Day, a networking and workshop event for startups and Immersion, a live arts experience.

A variety of industries and topics were represented at these events, including biotech and biodesign, political influence on innovation, technological advancements and climate and the economy.

HUBweek also hosted a panel with CNN political commentator Van Jones and WBUR’s Tom Ashbrook; a discussion with Anne Finucane, the vice chairman of Bank of America and Social Finance CEO and Co-Founder Tracy Palandjian. These discussions took place in Boston’s City Hall Plaza.

The heart of the festival was located in the Plaza, where Immer-

sion transformed the plaza with geodesic domes, interactive art installations, panels and more.

One event that brought a group of people in similar industries together was called Place/Setting, organized

by French 2D, an architecture firm in Boston. The event was a part of a series of meals at HUBweek intended to spark public dialogue.

One of the co-founders of French 2D, Jenny French, said the guests at four of these public meals addressed issues of income inequality in Boston, and each provided a unique take on the topic.

“We have invited 10 to 12 guests

to each meal to have conversations about their specific fields of work,” French said. “They are all people from different grassroots or institutional backgrounds who might be working on the same topic but from completely different perspectives or with different motivations.”

They created this space with the goal of opening up important conversations not only to the people in these fields, but for the public to observe the conversations as well.

Because these conversations, which would usually happen behind closed doors, were now taking place at an outdoor table, anyone could listen.

Another interactive art installation was the Enchanted Forest, which took place on the Government Center promenade. It was primarily a nighttime event and focused on hands-on activities for all ages.

“It was to show how trees connect us with aspects of healthy living in the city,” said Fish McGill, one of the Enchanted Forest’s collaborators.

Saul Baizman and Andrew Ringler created the installation along with McGill. The three innovators worked on environmental art projects in the past and proposed the Enchanted Forest installation because they saw the focus of HUBweek was related to environmentalism, which aligned with their mission.

“The Enchanted Forest was kind of a respite from the intensity of being downtown, and a moment of pause from all the amazing stimulation of HUBweek,” McGill said.

Philip Gedarovich, a motion graphics designer, created another interactive art experience for the public to participate in at Immersion.

“This is an interactive piece of artwork here called “Try Me,” which takes the human form and turns into kind of a triangulated origami figure,” Gedarovich said.

HUBweek was a very diverse experience which featured many other events that were spread out throughout the Greater Boston area.

Because it was a week-long event, attendees of HUBweek were able to spend time everywhere.

The accessibility and interactive nature of the festival resonated with one of the attendees, Catherine Maldonado, a member of the Boston community who came to the event after a friend encouraged it.

“It’s really cool that there’s so many different presenters, and it’s a great way to engage people,” Maldonado said.

Terminally ill alumnus donates to local arts

By Riley Robinson News Correspondent For four decades, Don Fulton released his creative side by taking adult ballet classes while working as an electrical design engineer.

He began at the Joy of Movement Center in Cambridge, where he would go after work because it was next to his lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later, he attended adult classes at Boston Ballet School in Back Bay, and even morning class in a Gothic Revival church in Harvard Square.

“Morning ballet classes in the sanctuary with the sun streaming in through the stained glass windows were just magical,” Fulton said in an Oct. 5 email to The News.

Then in 2014, nine years after retiring from his lab, he was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer. This is when Fulton, a 1966 Northeastern University graduate school alumnus, became serious about donating his money to the arts. He will donate $1 million each to Boston Ballet and Greater Boston Stage Company, his local theatre, upon his death. Twenty-nine other Boston organizations, including Northeastern, will receive smaller donations totaling approximately $4 million.

“I love theater,” Fulton said. “I have been going to [New York City] a couple times a year for many, many years, and since I retired 12 years ago, I have had the time to see a lot of local theaters.”

Fulton’s wealth came from his innovations in motor engineering.

He got his start doing a co-op at an MIT lab, now called Draper Laboratory. He continued working at the lab for the next 15 years, where he discovered errors in the widely accepted motor programming of the time.

In 1980 he developed the “Induction Motor Controller with Rapid

Torque Response,” and in 1982 was granted U.S. patent 4,348,627 — one of 14 he holds today.

Fulton’s invention would have even greater effects decades later: His motor controller is a key component in the engines for Tesla Motors cars.

Fulton will donate some of his estate to his undergraduate alma mater, MIT, and Northeastern but he calls the amount “a token.”

“I think giving the bulk of my money to local arts organizations is preferable to giving it to huge organizations,” Fulton said. Most of the theater companies on Fulton’s list have annual budgets of between $2 and $2.2 million.

“MIT has something like a $14 billion endowment,” he said. “Any gift I would make to them is just a rounding error.”

Fulton became an increasingly devoted patron of the arts after his retirement in 2005.

“He was even coming to our education shows for kids,” said Weylin Symes, the producing artistic director for the Greater Boston Stage Company. “We found out he was running a blog, so we reached out and thanked him.”

At the time, Fulton was giving small donations to the company, then called Stoneham Theater, but his gifts increased into the thousands as he developed relationships with the artistic staff.

“I have seen enough shows over the last decade to know all the local theaters do good work,” he said. “I like to reward good work.”

Fulton said many of the 31 organizations he will donate to are small theater companies from Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.

In Boston, some of these include SpeakEasy Stage Company, Huntington Theatre Company and Central Square Theater, which produces plays about science.

However, Greater Boston Stage

Photo courtesy The Greater Boston Stage Company Donald Fulton will donate a total of $1 million to The Greater Boston Stage Company after his death.

Pictured above are Amy Morin (far left), the managing director, Jeffrey Worth, a member of the Board of Trustees, Donald Fulton and Weylin Symes, the producing artistic director.

Company’s gift is special because Fulton agreed to advance them $100,000 while he is still alive. It will be used to start the Don Fulton New Play Project, providing the company with the resources to scout and debut a new play each year.

Symes said Fulton needed some convincing to open the estate gift up for current use.

“He’s a very private man,” Symes said. “He originally wanted to do this very quietly.”

But Symes was enthusiastic about honoring Fulton during his lifetime — the project kicked off this month, opening Callie Kimball’s “Alligator Road” Oct. 12.

Boston Ballet will receive Fulton’s other major gift. He has been attending their performances for more than 40 years.

The company has not yet determined how it will use the $1 million, but it could go toward either the performing company or Boston Ballet School.

“One of the most generous things Don has done is make this gift unrestricted,” said Max Hodges, the executive director of Boston Ballet.

“It represents extraordinary belief in this organization.”

Both Greater Boston Stage Company and Boston Ballet heavily rely on donations to keep their doors open. Gifts are 30 percent of the budget at Greater Boston Stage, and 40 to 50 percent at Boston Ballet.

“It means nothing less than the survival and success of the ballet itself,” Hodges said.

Fulton said because of his impactful time in ballet classes, he

knew the Boston Ballet would use his donation well.

“I took ballet classes for 40 years — I know ballet,” Fulton said. “The Boston Ballet is a far larger art organization than the theaters and one of the top ballet companies in the world. They deserve a large gift.”

Greater Boston Stage is similarly grateful for the opportunities they now have. Symes said because they are a smaller company, the budget is not always flexible — but now, with Fulton’s large donation, that will change.

“Doing new plays is hard,” Symes said. “It’s not the most financially beneficial thing you can do, looking at a budget. We like to take risks like that. I keep telling him he is singlehandedly changing the Boston theatre scene.”

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MFA brings Murakami exhibit to the masses

Photo by Jakob Bradford The Musuem of Fine Arts opened their doors after hours to the public, giving them an exclusive look at Takashi Murakami’s newest exhibit, “Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics.”

By Gianna Barberia Lifestyle Editor “Night at the Museum” became a reality on Friday when the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) opened its doors for a nighttime party and exhibit preview. The event, called “MFA Late Nites,” is the museum’s new seasonal series that aims to connect “visitors to art, culture and community,” as stated on the MFA’s website.

The MFA’s brightly lit exterior matched the lively interior. The walls shone in rainbow colors inside the Shapiro Family Courtyard, which featured a dance floor, DJ and Japanese street food vendors.

The event also gave guests a sneak peek of the museum’s latest

exhibit, “Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics.”

“It’s our big fall exhibition, [and] we wanted to make a statement that the public is the first to see the show,” said the MFA’s Chief Brand Officer and Deputy Director Katie Getchell. “Art is for everyone.”

The theme of inclusion carried throughout the event, with activities such as “Manga Nite Out with Anime Boston” and “OompOutLoud Presents: A Rap Slam” showcasing Boston’s diversity. The latter event featured a set from Northeastern alumnus Cliff Notez, who received a master’s degree in digital media from the university in 2016. Notez is the founder of the media company HipStory

and was the Vox Pop Poetry Slam Champion in 2016.

“I’m from Boston originally, and I’ve always looked at [the MFA] from afar,” Notez said. “Museums are historically white spaces, but now I’m here performing … this is dope.”

The new exhibit, however, was the focus of the night. Murakami, the artist behind Kanye West’s “Graduation” album art is often referred to as the Japanese Andy Warhol. Featuring a mix of traditional, centuries-old artwork and Murakami’s playful and colorful designs, such as his signature monster and alter-ego “Mr. DOB,” the exhibit displayed how Japanese art has transformed over the years.

“I’m always trying to find new audiences for Japanese art,” said Anne Nishimura Morse, the William and Helen Pounds senior curator of Japanese art.

Many of the older artworks showcased in the exhibit were influential to Murakami. “Shaka, the Historical Buddha,” from the late 10th-early to 11th century Japan, inspired Murakami’s sprightly statue “Oval Buddha Silver,” which has two enlarged heads.

However, Murakami said his greatest influence is Professor Nobuo Tsuji, a Japanese art historian who wrote the book “Kiso no Keifu (The Lineage of Eccentricity),” which Murakami said was his Bible.

“He is my master, my mentor,” Murakami said in Japanese through a translator. “I couldn’t have done this without Professor Tsuji kicking my [expletive].”

Although Murakami is trained in traditional art forms, he said he elected to “break out” and create something more unique.

He also said that his art is not as well-liked in Japan as it is in the United States, so he is honored by the praise he has received.

“I feel very humbled,” Murakami said. “When I’m put next to these masterpieces, I feel shrunken and humbled.”

“Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics” is on display at the MFA from Oct. 18 to April 1 at the Ann and Graham Gund Gallery.

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Tipling Rock talks production and future plans

By Mohit Puvvala News Correspondent “There’s a saying that if you want it done well and right, you have to do it yourself,” said Ben Andre, lead singer and songwriter of the emerging indie band. “That’s the definition of Tipling Rock.”

Members Andre, Dillon Salkovitz and Tommy Schubert performed together when they were in high school. When Salkovitz and Andre

met Matt Lewin at Northeastern University, the group officially formed Tipling Rock. Currently, Salkovitz, Andre and Lewin are in their fifth years at Northeastern studying music industry, while Schubert studies mechanical engineering at the University of Rhode Island.

The band invigorated the crowd at an Oct. 10 concert at AfterHours, where they opened for the indie group Flor.

“I was floored, pun intended, by the concert,” said Alyssa Marquette, a first-year health science major who attended the event.

At the concert, they encouraged the crowd to jump to the beat and follow the music. Every song built upon the last, and more people huddled closer to the stage and cheered on the band as the night progressed.

Salkovitz said the core of Tipling Rock’s mission is to “create music

Photo courtesy Tipling Rock The upcoming indie group Tipling Rock performed at AfterHours Oct. 10 and annouced their upcoming EP.

that is accessible but also wellinformed.”

The band spends most nights performing past midnight.

“Half of us are currently on co-op, which makes things a little more difficult from a time management perspective,” Salkovitz said.

While they work during weekdays, they still find time to squeeze in rehearsing, mixing, producing, creating merchandise and playing gigs.

Tipling Rock has been able to apply their skills of marketing, supply chain management and accounting to their band, which Salkovitz referred to as their “startup.”

“Unfortunately, in today’s world, it’s not simply enough to be wellpracticed on your instrument,” Salkovitz said. “If you want to be a successful musician, you need to learn how to position yourself in the industry and prepare yourself for everything that goes into the behindthe-scenes, as well as onstage.”

Andre said after coming up with an idea for a song, he will immediately rush to record the bare bones. He said he eventually adds more layers as the song formulates. After Andre gets the melodies down, he takes the idea to his fellow band members, who turn it into a full-fledged song.

Andre and Salkovitz explained that the recording and production aspects are incredibly important.

Band members said listeners subconsciously recognize production value, so they work tirelessly with post-production software to reach professional industry heights. The band’s most popular hit, “Low Tide Love,” which currently has almost 50,000 plays on YouTube, took them a year to produce.

“When it comes to the production,

sometimes we’ll sit on a song for a really long time just working on getting better,” Andre said Tipling Rock works with Cubase, which is often considered one of the most professional and complicated music editing softwares in the industry. The band also has vintage microphones and various types of old, nostalgic equipment.

“We’re always looking at new machines,” Andre said. “I just bought some vintage monitors from the 70s. We’re literally gear collectors.”

However, these creative endeavours sometimes involve roadblocks.

The band works extensively to create the best experience. For many of their songs, they re-recorded instruments for hours until they had the perfect take. Moreover, some of the songs took years to finalize the lyrics.

“For ‘Starring,’ it took two years just to get the chorus,” explained Andre. “But we waited because we loved that song so much. We were on the verge of giving up since ‘Starring’ was a solid song, but we wanted it to be something more that would make people go ‘woah.’”

The Northeastern members of Tipling Rock are set to graduate this spring. After graduation, they intend to put more time into the band and create unique singles. They are preparing to release a new EP titled “On the Roof,” which they recorded on their rooftop. The EP is comprised five live acoustic versions of their singles. Each song on the album will be accompanied by a video of the live performance.

“This is our lives,” Salkovitz said.

“We would be putting this much work into this band even if we didn’t have the attention. This is something that’s a part of who we are.”

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EVENT CALENDAR Calendar compiled by Elissa Taublib, news staff

EVENT OF THE WEEK FILMS WITH ESTEEMED FACULTY Thursday, Oct. 19

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The political thriller “Z” (1969), an Academy Award-winning film directed

by Costa-Gavras and filmed in France and Algeria, will be screened Thursday at the Museum of Fine Arts. The screening is part of the event “Costa-Gavras: Encounters with History,” a series of four films curated by Boston College professors that show the directors’ perspectives on human behavior during political crises. After the movie, there will be a discussion with Dr. Dia Philippides, research professor at Boston College; Dr. Vassiliki Rapti, affliliated faculty at the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College; and John Michalczyk, director of film studies at Boston College and author of “Costa-Gravas: The Political Fiction Film.” 6:30 p.m – 9:30 p.m; Museum of Fine Arts; $11

Friday, Oct. 20

Saturday, Oct. 21

Sunday, Oct. 22

You may know him best as Jerry Gergich, the famous character from the popular NBC television comedy “Parks and Recreation.” However, actor and comedian Jim O’Heir has also received a Daytime Emmy Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series for his role in the soap opera “The Bold and Beautiful.”

He has also played roles in other mainstream television shows such as “Veep,” “The Mentalist” and “Friends.” Sponsored by the Resident Activity Fee, “RSA Presents: Jim O’Heir” is your chance to see this comical and renowned actor live on the Blackman stage at Northeastern University. 7 p.m.

- 8 p.m.; Blackman Auditorium, Northeastern University; $5

Vegetarian and natural food providers, national speakers, chefs, free food sampling and exhibitions.

All this and much more will be featured at the 22nd Annual Boston Veg Food Fest, organized by the nonprofit organization Boston Vegetarian Society. This food festival is your chance to try a taste of the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle and sample different types of healthy and nutritious food. Some of the speakers present at the event will include vegan cooking instructor Ellen Jaffe Jones and the author of “Vegan Pressure Cooking,” JL Fields. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center, 1350 Tremont St.; free

For those of you looking for a fun and harmonious weekend, you don’t want to miss this event.

More than 40 of the best a cappella groups in New England, including Northeastern’s very own Pitch, Please!, Treble on Huntington, and the Unisons, will gather at the 21st Annual A Capella Competition. The contestants, which represent colleges and independent singing groups, will be singing for a panel of judges, and the top three winners will be awarded cash prizes. The event will be hosted by the comedians from Dick Doherty’s Comedy Den, Chris Pennie and Steve Halligan. 11 a.m.

– 4 p.m.; Faneuil Hall Marketplace; free

Monday, Oct. 23

Tuesday, Oct. 24

Wednesday, Oct. 25

How do we develop audiences of color in art events while treating everyone with equal respect? This is one of the main issues being addressed at “Leading from the Audience: A Conversation with Susan Peevy and Candelaria SilvaCollins.” Peevy and Silva-Collins are experts on audience cultivation and seek to encourage AfricanAmericans to attend theatre and art events in Boston. The event will be moderated by David Dower, co-artistic director of ArtsEmerson, with special commentary from Victoria George, who is the founder of the Network of Arts Administrators of Color. 6:30 p.m.

– 9:30 p.m.; ArtsEmerson, 559 Washington St; free

Some people often say “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” However, the cover of the book and its interior design are incredibly important when it comes to book publishing.

“Fall Forum: Book Design” is an unmissable event if you are interested in book design, graphic design and publishing. The forum is organized by Bookbuilders of Boston, a nonprofit organization which aims to gather people involved in book publishing and manufacturing. Among some of the professional designers present will be Louis Roe, designer of the Beacon Press, and Cate Barr, senior art director at Cengage Learning.

6 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co., 125 High St.; free

Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, “Diwali: The Festival of Lights” will have live music, dance performances, interactive artist demonstrations and an open mic hosted by Subcontinental Drift Boston, a national movement which aims to strengthen the South Asian community in U.S. cities through the arts. Observed by Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains and Hindus, Diwali is an ancient festival of lights that celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance. During this event, you can also tour the art galleries, which explore highlights of South Asian art, and interact with the artist and educator Sunanda Sahay. 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.; Museum of Fine Arts; free

Photo by Lauren Scornavacca Northeastern’s Student Government Alliance put together an event Tuesday supporting and promoting the arts.

SGA assembles first Block pARTy

By Drew Baldwin News Correspondent Northeastern’s first annual Block pARTy, hosted by the Student Government Alliance (SGA), was a celebration that exhibited student artwork, clubs and shows.

Throughout the day on Tuesday, there were performances in the Curry Indoor Quad led by NU Stage Musical Theater Company and NU & Improv’d. Additionally, various dance groups hosted workshops ranging from Latin dance to Indian fusion in Curry Ballroom and the McLeod Suites.

The student government also showcased nine clubs throughout the Curry Indoor Quad. Most clubs were on-campus publications displaying their previous issues. These included Artistry, EconPress, Global Journal for International Affairs, Spectrum and The Avenue. Apart from these, students learned how to make origami with DIY Club and paint with Mural Club.

SGA Vice President of Student Affairs Nathan Hostert was the initiator behind Block pARTy. The event was in the works for about two years, but was not carried out until Hostert was named vice president.

“Our goal was to give student groups a chance to showcase their work,” he said. “Northeastern has a wide variety of clubs that most people don’t know about, and they aren’t given the opportunity to be heard.”

As WRBB blasted songs like “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours” by Stevie Wonder, a constant stream of students browsed the events. Students flipped through the featured magazines, which gave them the chance to see what work

their peers do that they may not have seen otherwise.

“Being part of a campus club is a good way for artists to get their work out for themselves and for co-op,” Artistry Magazine’s Editor Xandie Kuenning said. “We can inspire other Northeastern students that aren’t photographers by trait so that they can still do what they love to do.”

Students often utilize publications such as Artistry and Spectrum to build their portfolios and resumes.

The staff of these publications are generally composed of students majoring in graphic design and journalism. However, there are also staff members like Sophie Cao, a fourthyear pharmacy major and president of the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Crafts Club.

“I DIY because it’s stress relieving and takes away from the pressure of school,” Cao said.

Art serves as a creative outlet for students of all interests, regardless of their major or ability. Although Kuenning is studying journalism and Cao is studying pharmacy, they both said they share a love for creative expression and Block pARTy was a way for them to come together to show off what they love to do.

Despite time and space constraints, the event gave students a chance to be heard and display their work for others to see. The first annual Block pARTy was a success in Hostert’s eyes. It fulfilled his goal of showcasing student work and strengthened students’ voices, he said.

“Block pARty isn’t a solution, but it is the first step in making sure these students are heard,” Hostert said.

The Cypher celebrates diversity through music

Photo by Patrick Leung The event used hip-hop and poetry to speak out against racial tensions.

PERFORMANCE, from front area.”

The Cypher included DJs, steel drummers, beat boxers, a saxophone player, lyricists and poets showcasing their talent. Jean-Baptiste said the event largely focused on bringing the tradition of hip-hop to a larger audience.

“The event exposes and celebrates a piece of hip-hop and African diaspora culture that a lot of people do not typically experience,” JeanBaptiste said.

Oompa, a hip-hop artist and poet who performed at The Cypher, said it was important that the event included the Greater Boston hip-hop community.

“It gets at the very nature of hip-hop, as it’s very much about

community and being in a nonjudgemental space,” Oompa said.

Edward D. Ruff Bryant, the host of the evening, talked about how the event allowed for artists and people to celebrate in a non-judgemental space. He said this was crucial, especially today when there is often tension and miscommunication between different communities.

“The Cypher is a space for people of color to voice their beliefs,” Bryant said. “The event is important for people of color, for us to celebrate our roots and also teach non people of color the African experience within America.”

Allegra Mangione, a fifth-year human services and international affairs major at Northeastern University, attended the event and also

picked up on some of Bryant’s points about the event being a learning experience for many.

“There is definitely an educational component to the event,” Mangione said.

Richard O’Bryant, the director of the African American Institute, said that music is an incredibly meaningful way for people of color to highlight their cultures and experiences. He also said it is necessary for people who are not of color to develop an understanding and appreciation for the minority communities.

“It is so important for events like this one to happen, as it really helps break down some of the boundaries between people of different cultures,” O’Bryant said.

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Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics First-year Athena Ardilla, center, and members of the Northeastern volleyball team celebrate an earlier win.

Volleyball keeps winning streak alive against Hofstra

By Tim Foley News Staff After a week off from matches, Northeastern University volleyball returned well-prepared for Hofstra University, winning in four sets and maintaining an unblemished record in conference.

Sunday’s match at Hofstra was highlighted by a crucial performance from third-year libero Gabrielle Eyl. The Boulder, Colorado, native recorded her 1,500th career dig. The monumental dig was the first of the day for Eyl, who finished the match with 19 and holds the fourth all-time record in Northeastern history in the category. “[Eyl] is comparable to any libero in the country,” head coach Ken Nichols said. “She could have had her pick of pick of places to play.

There’s a tremendous amount of respect there from her peers, and she’s the consonant competitor.”

The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) season has reached its halfway point, and the Huskies (15-6, 8-0 CAA) are riding an 11-game winning streak.

“This year, what’s so different is the kind of energy,” Eyl said. “The energy this year is more focused.

Everyone understands that we have something to prove.”

Eyl was part of a defensive effort that included four Northeastern players with digs in the double digits, propelling the Huskies to a seven-point margin victory in the

first set.

In the second set, Northeastern quickly jumped out to a 5-0 lead.

The first two kills came from firstyear outside hitter Athena Ardila, who had 13 in the match.

Parity among the Husky attackers was quite apparent on Sunday.

Ardila followed second-year Amy Underdown (17) and fourth-year Brigitte Burcescu (14) on the stat sheet for kills. She landed six in the first to drive the Huskies up 25-18.

Despite losing the first frame, the Pride (13-9, 5-3 CAA) won five of the last six points in the set, and this carried into the second, as they ran off eight in a row to take a 13-5 lead.

“Hofstra earned it,” Nichols said, “We got stuck in rotations. Preconference, this happened a couple times and I tried to over-coach. This time around we tried to hold true for a while, and that didn’t necessarily work out that well either.”

The Huskies struggled with attack errors and could only muster 12 points in the second. The Pride had three service aces in the set, totaling seven for the match.

“We’re entitled to a bad set now and then,” the coach added. “One of the things that Hofstra does well is serve and go high risk. When they get on a roll from the service line, they can rattle off five or six.”

The third set was the closest battle of the day, and the Northeastern women were able to use it to tip the balance in their favor. Burcescu

tallied seven kills, and first-year middle blocker Gabrielle Tschannen came up with two of her match-high five blocks, one of which gave the Huskies a 26-24 advantage to take a 2-1 lead in the match.

Nichols called Hofstra’s service game a “live by the sword, die by the sword” approach, and this showed as the Huskies capitalized on four Hofstra service errors in the fourth set. First-year setter Samantha Shupe contributed seven assists in the frame. She led the team with 21 in the match, notching a doubledouble.

The Northeastern women built a 13-5 lead and didn’t look back, solidifying the set 25-18 to win the match. Looking toward the remainder of conference play, the road is traditionally tougher as the Huskies meet their previous opponents the second time around.

“What’s on the forefront of everyone’s mind is that at this time last year we were 7-1, and then we fell apart after that,” Eyl said. “So everyone’s trying to be cautiously happy, and we’re still working really hard.”

The Huskies will travel to face University of North Carolina-Wilmington Thursday.

Eyl said she and her teammates are trying to approach the game as if their record was 0-0.

“We’ve always had that mentality,” the libero added. “But especially before this weekend, it’s more prevalent than ever.”

Huskies shut out at home

Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics First-year goalkeeper Julia Gluyas had a career-high nine saves Sunday.

By Jenna Ciccotelli Deputy Sports Editor First-year goalkeeper Julia Gluyas may have had a record-setting day Sunday as the Northeastern University field hockey team took on the Princeton Tigers at home, but in a perfect world, Gluyas’ career-best nine saves would never have reached her pads in the first place.

Yet as Northeastern was outshot 23-5 in their first shutout loss of the season against Princeton, with the first goal of three against the Huskies coming in the first three minutes of play, head coach Cheryl Murtagh remained confident.

“They can play great defense, this team,” she said. “Laura MacLachlan stepped up and played extremely well today. I was happy for our goalkeeper. After that first shot, I think she hung in there pretty well against some tough shots, so I’m very happy for her.”

The Huskies took to Dedham Field lacking star forwards third-year June Curry-Lindahl and fourth-year Kristin Abreu, who missed their first game of the season. Curry-Lindahl sustained an ankle injury during a game against Boston College Friday and Abreu was tending to a sore quad.

Last Friday, the Huskies held their

own against the nationally-ranked Eagles, who hold the last spot in the country’s top 10 rankings, answering their opponent’s firsthalf goal early in the second before giving up BC’s go-ahead point with five minutes remaining in the game.

First-year back Aniek van de Graaf scored the Huskies’ lone goal on a penalty corner pass from graduate back Ffion Thompson.

Both teams had 11 shots on the day, but Northeastern managed to outshoot their opponent on goal 7-4.

Gluyas had two saves. “[Gluyas] is very athletic,” Murtagh said. “She’s very smart, and I think she’s learned to be a little more patient. She’s very aggressive and wants to make the plays, but what she’s learning is at this level you can’t be jumping. You have to see the balls, make the plays, and I think she’s learning that.”

The team will return to conference play Friday against James Madison University, seeking an end to their three game losing streak to secure their eighth win of the season.

“It is part of the plan, that we play tough teams so we are ready for conference play, which is next weekend,” Murtagh said. “It teaches us a lot. It teaches what we’re good at, what we need to be better at if we want to get to the level we want to be at.”

One American League manager had three winning seasons in his last five and won a World Series and three division titles during that time. One National League manager had three winning seasons in his last five and has won no playoff series, has no division titles to speak of and is 3-5 in the playoffs during that period.

The former was fired this week. The latter was signed to a contract extension last month.

These two managers are John Farrell and Clint Hurdle, two veterans of the field. Farrell, who was canned by the Boston Red Sox, compiled a resume that would make most big league managers envious. Hurdle, who was Charlie Wolfson given a vote of confidence from his Pirates front office, has re-energized the club in Pittsburgh but hasn’t been able to accomplish anything tangible other than qualifying for the playoffs as a Wild Card.

Baseball’s problem isn’t that these two decisions were made. Baseball’s problem is that they actually made sense, independently.

MLB’s lack of a salary cap has resulted in a wide range of payrolls throughout MLB. This, in turn, has created an environment in which there is a vast spectrum of expectations among MLB’s 30 teams. This isn’t about what they say to the press during spring training — they all claim to be eyeing a division title in March. The behind-closed-doors, real, calculated expectations vary drastically from team to team.

As I wrote in a column in April, some teams are at a distinct advantage thanks to their increased ability to spend money. More money, of course, reels in better players. Better players accrue more wins over a 162 game stretch. You get the picture. I wrote about how the opening day matchup between the Pirates and the Red Sox illustrated MLB’s need for a salary cap.

Fast-forward six months, and those two clubs have served up an even more stark example of baseball’s need for change.

For the Red Sox, a team based in one of MLB’s most lucrative media markets, Farrell’s single postseason win in the last four years wasn’t enough, given the resources available to him. Boston’s payroll was the third highest in baseball from 2015 to 2017, and it was the fifth highest in 2014. With that amount of fuel in the tank, the Red Sox brass may have reasoned, a manager should be able to extract more than one playoff win in four years.

Clint Hurdle, on the other hand, manages a Pittsburgh club that resides in one of MLB’s smallest media markets. For the Pirates, it’s not a question of whether their pending free agents will depart for bigger paychecks, but how many.

Being toward the back of the league in payroll puts Hurdle in a very tough position to win. From 2014 to 2017, the Pirates’ payroll ranked 28th, 23rd, 25th and 25th respectively. That means when the Pirates approached free agents or attempted to re-sign their own pending free agents, between 22 and 27 teams had more resources available than them to do so.

The fact that Hurdle’s teams managed to even make the playoffs is a fairly remarkable feat. What was seen for Farrell as a bare-minimum check-box was hailed as a triumph and an accomplishment worth celebrating for Hurdle.

MLB needs a salary cap so small-market clubs can stop setting far lower goals than their richer counterparts. As things are now, the Pirates and the Twins of the world gleefully celebrate the clinching of a Wild Card berth with a champagne party in the locker room while the Yankees and Red Sox of the world yawn, knowing they should rightfully expect to go deep into the playoffs every year.

National pundits often blast small-market teams for making a big fuss over accomplishments like merely qualifying for the playoffs. They’ll spew out tweets telling them to save it for when they’ve “actually won something.”

They’ll ask, rhetorically, if a storied team like the Yankees or the Cardinals would be seen doing that. This type of thinking completely ignores the fact that with a variance in resources available to teams comes a variance in expected results and therefore a variance in the threshold for satisfaction and celebration. If a small-market club overcomes the long-odds of being poor and makes the playoffs, they should go crazy.

What we have now is a system of the haves and the have-nots, with the haves knowing they should expect to win the World Series or come close every year, and the have-nots trying to get excited about being mentioned in the same sentence as the phrase “World Series.”

The national sports media (often represented by the folks left at ESPN after their purge of thoughtful reporters) either don’t see this or choose not to talk about it. As the league currently works, the story of an MLB season needs to be put into financial context to be properly told. When playoff series are reported on, the teams’ payrolls should be included front and center, so people know how to interpret the results. Maybe teams should start printing the payroll figures on tickets.

“HOME GAME #34: LOS ANGELES ($265M) VS. MILWAUKEE ($83M),” the tickets could say. Maybe then people would understand that baseball needs to adapt. Until it does, baseball will keep being a story of the little brother making a spirited attempt at a championship and the big brother coolly striding in and using their great advantage in size to brush them aside.

The League Championship round is in full swing, and the four teams remaining are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston: the four largest media markets in the United States.

Photo courtesy Keith Allison, Creative Commons Former Red Sox manager John Farrell reacts to a call in a 2013 game.

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Primeau driven by NHL family legacy

By Calli Remillard News Staff As the son of former Philadelphia Flyers captain Keith Primeau and nephew of 15-year NHL player Wayne Primeau, it was no surprise when Cayden Primeau expressed his love for the game at a young age.

With two NHL centers in the family and two older brothers, Chayse and Corey also playing forward, it was atypical when the youngest Primeau opted to tend the net rather than shoot on it.

“My dad never really wanted me to be a goalie,” Primeau said. “It took some persistence trying to get into the net to begin with, but then once I went in net I fell in love with it.”

Primeau took advantage of having older brothers and proved his skill at a young age by routinely playing with older kids. While most of his net-minding training came from goalie coaches over the years, Primeau still learned the basics from his dad and uncle. “[They taught me] the little things, like how to carry myself off the ice and what made them so successful,” Primeau said.

Growing up in Voorhees, New Jersey, the youngest Primeau had many successful seasons on the ice preceding his first game with Northeastern.

He played for the Philadelphia Revolution, a Tier III Junior A team in the Eastern Hockey League, and followed that season with a year in the United States Hockey League, or USHL, playing for the Lincoln Stars. Primeau came out the other side of his first USHL season with

14 victories, the third most among first-year USHL goaltenders, 3.16 goals against average and a save percentage of .895.

Primeau was a member of the 2016 U.S. Junior Select Team, who won the gold medal in the World Junior A Challenge.

In the tournament, Primeau notched three wins with Team USA and was named to the 2016 World Junior A Challenge All-Star team.

Primeau’s stats for the tournament topped that of his USHL season, averaging less than a goal a game, and finishing with a .966 save percentage.

In just one year, the 18-year-old went from being a USHL draft prospect to an NHL draft prospect.

“I want to play in the NHL one day, so it definitely motivates me,” Primeau said.

Having committed to Northeastern a few years ago, Primeau has been itching to get on the ice with the Huskies for a while now.

Primeau believes his season with the USHL sufficiently prepared him to play at the collegiate level and pace, but actually being on the ice with the teams of Hockey East is “definitely stepped up.”

His first game appearance with the Huskies was during an exhibition match against the Prince Edward Island University Panthers. The game resulted in a 9-1 flattening of the Panthers, during which Primeau saw a full period of play and stopped the 10 shots he saw.

Standing at 6 feet 4 inches, Primeau is capable of covering nearly the entire net with this lateral lower body movements. Quick legs

Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics First-year goalkeeper Cayden Primeau readies for a hard shot in his first collegiate start against Sacred Heart. are his strong suit, something he halfway through the first frame, goaltenders third-year Ryan Ruck displayed in the game against Prince utilized his size and strong legwork and fourth-year Jake Theut has also Edward Island and his first full game to shut down the attempt. His strong proved beneficial for the squad’s performance. play allowed the Huskies to keep newest member.

That performance came during the Sacred Heart at bay throughout the “I try to watch [Ruck] and Theut second regular season game Oct. 7 game. and try to learn how they handle at Matthews Arena against Sacred “He played with some poise themselves on and off the ice, what Heart University. and composure for a freshman, they do, to try and improve and get Primeau saw three full periods of especially in his first game,” better” Primeau said. “They treat me playing time, shutting down each of Madigan said. like a Northeastern goalie.” the 18 goal attempts by the visitors, Madigan echoed this sentiment Primeau is currently a draft earning his first shutout of his following the team’s 3-3 tie against prospect for the NHL’s Montreal college career.

Rochester Institute of Technology Canadiens, pick #199 in the 2017 “I was happy to finally start Saturday.

NHL entry draft. But before he playing,” Primeau said. “There’s a Primeau attributes his first game heads off to the pros, Primeau plans lot of anticipation going into the year preparedness to time spent training on spending several more seasons on so I was happy to get started.” with team members and preparing Huntington Avenue.

Following Primeau’s first game for the season together.

“This season, I try to make sure I net-minding for the Huskies, head “Being able to get shot on by give the team the best opportunity coach Jim Madigan appeared [Dylan] Sikura, [Adam] Gaudette to win if I’m the guy in the net, pleased with the youngest goalie’s and [Nolan] Stevens every day, guys and when I’m not the guy in the performance. like that with hard shots just know net, I just try to help motivate and “I thought he made some real good how to place it,” Primeau said. be whoever’s in the net’s biggest lower body saves with his legs,” “Their skills and talent definitely has cheerleader,” Primeau said. “I love Madigan said. helped me in the past month or so.”

Northeastern and I was really excited Primeau, faced with a breakaway Working alongside fellow and finally being here is amazing.”

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Rookie Abrams stars in first collegiate start

Photo by Brian Bae First-year forward Adama Kaba dribbles past a Boston University defender during the team’s 3-3 tie at home.

By Noah Greany News Staff Following a week that included two lopsided defeats to No. 17 Southern Methodist University and Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) rivals the College of William & Mary, Northeastern University men’s soccer hoped to rebound with two important matches against Elon University and cross-city rivals Boston University.

The Huskies traveled south Saturday to take on the Phoenix of Elon University in a late-season CAA matchup. The Huskies reverted to their standard four-defender formation for the match after a change of system against Southern Methodist University earlier in the week.

Though the last thing the Huskies wanted after last week’s debacle was to fall behind early, the Phoenix came out flying.

In the 12th minute of play, a corner kick made its way into the Huskies’ penalty box where it eventually fell to the feet of forward Tuki Tayali, who made no mistake placing his shot past the reach of fourth-year Husky goalkeeper Jonathan Thurreson.

Just seven minutes later, the Phoenix struck again. John Walden found himself behind the Husky backline, one-on-one with Thuresson. Walden’s patience paid off, as he finished his chance at the last possible moment, putting his side up two just 20 minutes into the affair.

After Walden’s goal, the floodgates officially opened and Elon tacked on two more goals in five minutes to stretch their lead to 4-0 inside of 25 minutes.

Neither side scored for the remainder of the match, with Northeastern creating a few half-chances, but nothing that seriously threatened the Phoenix.

Head coach Chris Gbandi wasn’t thrilled with his team’s effort away from home and talked about the mentality around the team that seems to allow the opposition to pour in goals rapidly after breaking through for the first time.

“It just seems like every time they get that first or second goal, the ‘here we go again’ mentality kind of crept in,” Gbandi said. “Then they go and

score more goals.”

Despite poor performances in the last three games, beating a crosstown rival can prove to be a pivotal point in the season. Boston University came to Northeastern’s turf Tuesday night at Parsons Field, where the Huskies looked to leave their poor play in North Carolina and secure a result in Brookline.

First-year goalkeeper Noah Abrams started in between the pipes for the Huskies, his first ever collegiate appearance in a starting lineup.

Both teams came out with high energy early, a result of the intense atmosphere surrounding the rivalry game.

It appeared to be “Groundhog Day” for the Huskies, however, as the Terriers struck first. Matt McDonnell navigated around the four Northeastern defenders en route to the endline, where he was able to sneak a shot past Abrams into the left hand corner.

The match appeared to stall after McDonnell’s strike, and neither side created much in terms of goal scoring opportunities.

The Huskies’ resilience during the match finally paid off in the 75th minute when first-year forward Dan Munch’s first collegiate goal brought Northeastern level with the Terriers.

Fourth-year midfielder Lewis Aird whipped in a cross from the left touchline, finding third-year forward Khori Bennett.

Munch continued a run up from midfield, where Bennett was able to find him with a delicate pass.

Munch did the rest, striking a right-footed shot past the Terrier goalkeeper to level the match at one apiece.

The score remained steady well into extra time, where Abrams was tested in the biggest moment of his short career.

In the 109th minute, Terrier forward Maxwell Aunger was

through one-on-one with the young keeper from London, England.

Abrams was not fazed, however, as he denied Aunger to secure the draw for the Huskies.

Gbandi praised the play of his firstyear goalkeeper, and he hopes to see Abrams improve and secure the starting spot next season.

“Noah was a big recruit coming in from the 2017 class,” Gbandi said.

“I thought he did well, and he saved us in some situations. His communication and organization for a young goalkeeper is great, he does a great job with that. We would like for him to be our guy for the future, he’ll have some competition but we’re pretty happy he was able to play well last night.”

Gbandi noticed the atmosphere surrounding his team before and during the match.

Though it is just another regular season non-conference game, the head coach said playing Boston University always manages to raise the intensity a few notches.

“It’s never really just another game,” Gbandi said. “A lot of these players know each other, and it becomes a battle and adds an intensity pieces that coaches value. It’s an important game, and one that you want to play well in against guys you see a lot.”

Though not a win, a draw is certainly welcome for the Huskies after the rough stretch they endured.

The team has struggled in their search for victory, currently in the midst of a 0-7-2 stretch. Northeastern has not won since the Sept.

16 matchup against the College of Charleston that saw the Huskies come away 1-0.

They will look to build on Tuesday’s performance Saturday night at Parsons Field against CAA opponents James Madison University in a crucial late season conference matchup.

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