September 21, 2017

The Huntington News Vol. XI No. 1

The independent student newspaper of the Northeastern community

September 21, 2017

Dining hall workers announce vote to strike

Photo by Alex Melagrano Northeastern grill cook Jose Taibot leads a rally of students, workers and UNITE HERE Local 26 union members in the Snell Library Quad Wednesday night.

By Corey Dockser News Correspondent After months of campaigning for better benefits and pay, UNITE HERE Local 26, the union representing Northeastern’s dining hall workers, announced Wednesday night they will hold a vote Oct. 4 to determine whether the union will strike.

Students, faculty, union representatives and dining hall workers gathered in room 333 of the Curry Student Center for a campaign announcement from Huskies Organizing With Labor (HOWL), a coalition of student groups advocating for dining hall workers, and the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) regarding their campaign

to improve the lives of dining hall workers.

“It’s unconscionable that such a prestigious organization would have workers playing the critical role that our members play here who have to rely on welfare as they’re working a full time job just to get by,” said Brian Lang, president of Local 26.

“Our members have put forward

very modest demands: simply $35,000 a year for a full time worker and affordable health care.”

Dining service workers are not employees of the university; they are employed by Chartwells, a catering company for schools, and subcontracted to Northeastern. Contract negotiations with Chartwells began April 20.

“You may see us smiling when you guys are getting the morning coffee or your lunch, but what you don’t know is that many of us are struggling to survive,” said Angela Bello, a Northeastern dining hall worker of nine years and mother of a Northeastern law student. Despite calls to action from students and Local 26 UNION, on Page 2

Fund honors NHL legend MixFest ‘17 draws diverse crowd

By Ryan Wallis News Correspondent After entering the festival grounds, it was easy to see that the annual MixFest concert did not attract its usual college-aged crowd. Parents and children alike to could relate to the cross-generational lineup.

Thousands made their way to the Department of Conservation and Recreation Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade this past cloudy Saturday to experience MixFest, Boston’s biggest outdoor music festival. Performers this year included singer Andy Grammer, rock

group Blondie and Grammy-award winning pop star Kelly Clarkson.

Charlotte, a sixth grader from Stoughton, Massachusetts, came to the festival with her best friend Olivia and both were most excited for Kelly Clarkson.

“I just really like music, and I just wanted to come out and dance with my best friend,” Charlotte said.

Nikita Manjrekar, a second-year behavioral neuroscience major at Northeastern, came to see Grammer.

Her favorite song of his is “Masterpiece” from Grammer’s 2014 album, CONCERT, on Page 8

Photo by Brian Bae Head coach of the men’s ice hockey team, Jim Madigan, watches his team play at TD Garden.

By Jenna Ciccotelli Deputy Sports Editor Northeastern University Athletic Director Peter Roby announced Aug. 30 the creation of the university’s first endowed head coaching position in honor of Fernie Flaman, who coached at Northeastern for 19 seasons and was the longest-serving

coach in university history.

Jim Madigan, who played under Flaman from 1981 to 1985, has commanded the men’s ice hockey team since 2011, is the inaugural recipient of the Fernie Flaman Endowed Men’s Hockey Coach Fund.

“It’s an easy thing to talk about,” Roby said. “Honoring Coach

Flaman, benefiting the program, being the first endowed position in athletics during the university’s history. This was all a good story to tell.”

Madigan said the funds, which total $2 million, will be used to better the Northeastern student-athlete experience through strength and FLAMAN, on Page 11

Photo by Lauren Scornavacca Andy Grammer, one of three acts at the 2017 MixFest concert, points at the cheering crowd during his performance.

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NU develops new infared sensor Photo by Alex Melagrano Three hundred dining hall workers have agreed to vote for a strike on Oct. 4, according to their union.

Local 26 to vote on strike UNION, from front representatives for Northeastern to be actively involved in contract negotiations, university spokesperson Matthew McDonald said that dining service workers are not employees of the university, and thus the university is not a part of their contract negotiations.

“Dining services workers at the university, while valued members of our community, are not employed

by Northeastern; they are employed by our food service vendor, Chartwells,” McDonald said in an email to The News. “We look forward to the union and the employer reaching an amicable agreement.”

The average salary of a dining hall worker in 2016 was less than $22,000, according to a press release announcing the Oct. 4 vote.

As a result, many full-time workers are forced to make use of government benefits, including subsidized housing, food stamps, child care and government health insurance, Bello said.

“We are proud. We are not scared.

Standing behind me is a lot of faces of 300 workers who have pledged to go on strike,” Bello said, gesturing

to the line of placards behind her featuring the names and faces of workers under the title “Support the Strike.”

Thomas Gross, a grill cook who has worked at Northeastern for four years, spoke about the struggle of raising his daughter in a dangerous neighborhood.

“I hope one day my daughter can go to Northeastern or any college she chooses, but right now I live in a neighborhood that’s too dangerous for her to even play outside,” Gross said. “I can’t afford to leave even though I work full time. [...]

We believe that anyone who works full time here, at any university in Boston, should be able to live a healthy and sustainable life.”

Following the workers’ testimonials, Lang called upon HOWL student leaders. Joe Taché, a fifthyear entrepreneurship major, said HOWL has gained the support of 39 student groups and its petition of students who support dining hall workers has garnered 1,100 signatures.

“We can win, we will win, and it’ll happen faster the more unified we are,” Taché said.

Third-year history major Kerrina Williams announced HOWL’s latest coalition member.

“I’m really excited to announce that the history department has decided to sign on as a member of the coalition and fully support it,” she said. “We all need to have our voices heard, not just the students, and not just the workers, but it’s so important that our professors are behind this too and are showing that they care about every member of this community.”

A rally at Krentzman Quad was originally scheduled to begin at 5:45 p.m.; however, it was moved to the first floor of Curry due to rain.

Union and student leaders gradually led the large crowd down to the first floor, running through a series of chants in English and Spanish while workers and student activists held “Support the Strike” placards.

“When workers rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up fight back,” they chanted.

This continued for about 10 minutes, after which the group moved to the Snell Library Quad for a final demonstration of chanting, sign holding and cheering.

By Yuuki Nishida News correspondent A team of researchers from Northeastern University published a paper Sept. 11 announcing they had created a new infrared energy sensor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The new smart infrared sensor is capable of turning itself on when information is presented and turning itself off when it is not needed. The sensor is built to detect infrared light waves, invisible to human eyes but produced by all heat sources.

“What is really interesting about the Northeastern IR [infrared] sensor technology is that, unlike conventional sensors, it consumes zero standby power when the IR wavelengths to be detected are not present,” said Troy Olsson, program manager of DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office.

According to the paper published by the team in “Nature Nanotechnology,” while dormant, the sensors consume zero power, but are alert and awake in the presence of infrared light. Since these sensors only consume power when a signal is detected, the technology significantly decreases energy demands and increases the lifetime of batterypowered sensors, making it the first of its kind.

The study was funded by DARPA, an agency funded by the Department of Defense and responsible for the development of technologies for the military, as a part of its Near Zero Power RF and Sensor Operation (N-ZERO) plan, a program which aims to develop a sensor that can remain dormant, with near-zero power consumption, until awakened.

The team, led by graduating North-

eastern Ph.D. student Zhenyun Qian and electrical and Northeastern computer engineering professor Matteo Rinaldi, developed these sensors as a part of DARPA’s N-ZERO program. They can be used to detect approaching humans or fuel-burning cars and identifying wildfires before they become uncontrollable.

“State-of-the-art sensors are not smart enough to identify targets of interest,” Qian said. “So, they consume power continuously to monitor the environment even when there are no relevant data to be detected.”

To solve this problem, the team came up with a sensor to extract infrared signals from other sources to activate. This led to the design of the zero-power sensor and was later funded by DARPA. The study was launched in 2015 and was completed in 2017.

The sensors could be used to detect approaching sources of infrared light such as human bodies and fuel-burning cars. They could also be used as a disaster alarm system by monitoring the appearance of hot spots, such as fires and explosions, or could be deployed into warzones to scan the environment without consuming power on stand-by.

“Our findings can ultimately enhance quality of life,” Rinaldi said. He hopes that the creation of DARPA’s new sensor will make everyday life safer, simpler and more efficient.

The team, along with DARPA, are actively looking into the possibility of commercializing their new technology for electrical companies and organizations to be used as disaster alarms or motion sensors.

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NUPD CRIME LOG Compiled by Jill Sojourner, news staff

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Northeastern University Public Safety Division Monday, Sept. 4 @ 12:08 p.m.

A Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD) officer reported observing a man wearing a plaid shirt walking down Coventry Street toward Tremont Street carrying a yellow bicycle on his shoulders. At 12:10 p.m., an Allied Security officer reported being approached by two Northeastern University (NU) students who stated that they observed two men who were suspiciously checking the bicycle racks at the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex (ISEC). NUPD responded and reported checking the area with negative results. A report was filed.

File photo by Alex Melagrano A new graduate-students-only after hours study space in Rebecca’s Cafe — featuring Oomf laptop chargers — is one of several new amenities.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Monday, Sept. 4 @ 2:35 p.m.

An NUPD officer reported stopping a man who was unaffiliated with NU and fit the description of the individual observed near ISEC at 12:08 p.m. He was found to have a positive criminal history.

The officer further reported that the man was in possession of a bicycle belonging to an NU student, and was thus placed under arrest for larceny of a bicycle. A report was filed.

Perks added for grad students

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Wednesday, Sept. 6 @ 2:25 p.m.

NUPD was informed of a man masturbating in a vehicle parked near 210 Hemenway St. NUPD responded and reported checking the area for the man with negative results. A report was filed.

By Rachel Morford News staff The Northeastern Graduate Student Government (GSG) is celebrating the successful inauguration of a new graduate-students-only study space open after hours in Rebecca’s Cafe from 5 to 11 p.m. The addition is one of many university initiatives announced in response to graduate student requests — which also included improved access to affordable childcare, renovation to the RedEye shuttle service and increased funding allotted for graduate professional development.

“Over the last two years there’s been a significant shift in the responsiveness of the university when it comes to graduate student issues,” said Ranjini Ghosh, GSG vice president of student affairs and a Ph.D. candidate in law and public policy.

“This year we got positive responses and all of the four things that we asked for, and it’s been amazing.”

According to the GSG constitution, GSG officials are responsible for coordinating the Budget Priorities Survey. Released at the end of fall semester each year, this survey gives graduate students the opportunity to voice concerns and suggestions to the university. GSG synthesizes the data and presents the most pressing points to the university budget committee. The process is lengthy and bureaucratic, Ghosh said, and does not always yield favorable results.

“Graduate students don’t really get to know what is happening until an announcement gets made. It’s a long and arduous process,” Ghosh said.

“Just for the Rebecca’s study space there were so many little things you had to think about.”

The call for more graduate-student-only study spaces stemmed in part from graduate students working as adjunct professors and feeling uncomfortable studying alongside their undergraduate students, Ghosh said. The other aspect of the request concerns a general lack of available space, said adjunct professor and third-year psychology Ph.D. candidate Peter Ward. “[Adjunct professors], believe it or not, don’t always have their own designated work space,” Ward said “In that sense, I think that having extra workspace is always helpful. In a given week, I use two or three different workspaces on campus. I do not have an office — my office hours are just the hours I have available.”

According to a 2012 article from The News, this is not the first time Rebecca’s Cafe has been transformed into an after-hours study space. However, in the past the space was rarely used because of a lack of accommodating outlets. This problem has been addressed through Northeastern’s extended use of the sharing service coordinator Oomf.

Students may recognize Oomf as the company behind the temporary chargers available across campus.

Oomf itself is not a manufacturer of batteries, but rather a software development company focused on bringing services and goods into the emerging sharing economy.

The company’s most recent partnership is with the creators of the

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Thursday, Sept. 7 @ 8:21 p.m.

An NUPD officer reported being approached by two NU students who reported that a man followed them and put his hands on one of them in the Curry Student Center (CSC). The students further reported that the man also followed them the previous day. The officer reported checking the area with negative results. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Friday, Sept. 8 @ 12:18 a.m.

A resident assistant (RA) at Stetson West Hall reported that he was approached by an NU student who said his roommate passed out on the floor of their room after drinking earlier that evening.

NUPD responded and reported that the student was conscious but not alert, and fell off his bed.

NUPD officers further reported that it was unknown whether he hit his head. Boston Emergency Medical Services (EMS) was notified. EMS transported the student to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for further evaluation. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Friday, Sept. 8 @ 1:03 a.m.

An individual, who was unaffiliated with NU, reported that his vehicle was stolen while parked in front of International Village Sept. 7. NUPD responded and reported that the Boston Police Department (BPD) was notified at the time the vehicle was stolen. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Friday, Sept. 8 @ 6:13 p.m.

NUPD officers conducted alcohol suppression efforts throughout the NU campus and the surrounding area. Multiple NU students and individuals unaffiliated with NU were stopped for procuring alcohol for minors. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Friday, Sept. 8 @ 9:30 p.m.

An NUPD officer reported confiscating a fake ID from an NU student. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Saturday, Sept. 9 @ 1:17 a.m.

An RA at Kerr Hall reported that there was an NU student in a common room in the building who was incoherent. NUPD responded and reported that the student, who was under 21, was conscious and alert and admitted to drinking earlier in the evening. NUPD officers further reported escorting the student to his room and leaving him in the care of his roommates. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Saturday, Sept. 9 @ 1:22 a.m.

An RA reported that he approached a room in Willis Hall for loud music, where he observed that the smoke detectors were covered and that there was a strong odor of marijuana when the occupants opened the door. NUPD responded and reported speaking to three NU students who lived in the room. NUPD further reported confiscating less than one ounce of marijuana. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Saturday, Sept. 9 @ 1:40 a.m.

An RA reported there was an NU student vomiting in the second floor bathroom of Smith Hall.

NUPD responded and reported that the student was conscious and alert and was escorted back to her room by her friend. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Saturday, Sept. 9 @ 1:42 a.m.

NUPD officers reported observing several NU students smoking marijuana behind the pump house in the Back Bay Fens. An NUPD officer reported confiscating drug paraphernalia from one of the students. A report was filed.

Northeastern University Public Safety Division Sunday, Sept. 10 @ 2:55 a.m.

The proctor at West Village B reported that she was speaking with an NU student who said her friend was in her room, very sick and possibly intoxicated. NUPD responded and reported that the student was unsteady on her feet but responsive. NUPD requested EMS. EMS transported the student to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for further evaluation. The residence director was notified. A report was filed.

portable outlet, Omnicharge. Under Oomf’s direction, Northeastern now sports two Omnicharge stations in Rebecca’s, each station holding nine detachable batteries with three-prong outlet compatibility. When it came to Rebecca’s, installing Omnicharge stations was the most cost-effective way to increase space viability.

“That’s a big problem [in Boston universities], there’s just a lack of accessible outlets,” said James Riel, co-founder and chief revenue officer of Oomf. “One of the reasons Northeastern wanted to put the the new Omnicharge models into Rebecca’s is because it would be more expensive to retrofit standard outlets. This is a comprehensive solution.”

Oomf is not the only digital service Northeastern has invested in on behalf of the graduate student population. According to a September email to all students from NU Vice President of Student Affairs Madeleine Estabrook, the Northeastern University Police Department is creating the RedEye shuttle app through a partnership with TransLoc Rider. This app will streamline the boarding process, and allow users to save shuttle seats ahead of time. Additionally, the university has expanded the RedEye service parameters to within two miles of campus, Estabrook said in the same school-wide email.

In response to GSG’s request for more funding and professional development, Northeastern has committed $100,000 to cover costs of Ph.D. students seeking to attend national conferences related to their degrees and research. In the past, GSG managed the funding of conference expenses primarily through the graduate student activity fee.

A few years ago, the majority of GSG’s budget went to funding the professional excursions of individual students, Ghosh said.

Ghosh worked for eight months in a task force comprising other graduate students and university representatives to design an encompassing Ph.D. network. On its webpage, the Northeastern Ph.D. website describes itself as “an organization designed to build community among Ph.D. students, and to provide them with support and resources university-wide that will enhance the educational experience and career preparation.”

One of the most important changes the university enacted this year involved life outside the graduate programs. Before the 2017 budget announcement, graduate students had few options when it came to consistent and affordable childcare.

For students supporting a family, last minute upsets were a source of extra stress. When the university announced its partnership with the caregiving network care.com, Ghosh — who served as GSG president for three years before beginning her current term as vice president of student affairs, and who has a young daughter — was brought to tears.

“It was an amazing announcement for me at a personal level,” Ghosh said. “I’ve sort of taken this on for the last few years and it was extremely validating.”

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Column: Find the power in proximity

In the days after President Donald J. Trump announced that his administration would be repealing The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Boston residents planned a rally to demand protections for immigrants who came to the United States as children. With chants of “No hate.

No fear. Immigrants are welcome here,” and “The people united will never be defeated,” these marchers showed their active support of DACA recipients — something the Boston government has yet to fully embrace.

Boston has taken on the title of a sanctuary city and in doing so has told the nation that it is ready and willing to protect all of its residents, whether they are documented or not. The fact that Boston is on the short list of cities who embrace the label of sanctuary city is admirable. However, supporting and protecting immigrants in the city cannot happen with a single action and will not occur in isolation. The status of undocumented immigrants throughout the country is precarious and for many the future seems bleak.

The best way for Boston to uphold its status as a defender of all would be to revisit legislation regarding the rights of undocumented immigrants and give undocumented residents peace of mind through legal protections.

Lawmakers across the country have publicly stated that their cities, towns and states are sanctuaries to

documented and undocumented immigrants. However, some have taken that promise further by discussing plans and creating bills to protect their immigrant communities. California governor Jerry Brown and lawmakers from the state recently passed SB 54. The bill is commonly referred to as the “California Values Act.” Despite being scaled back from its original form, it is currently the most extensive immigrant protection bill in the country and limits communication between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. It also prevents officers from questioning and holding people because of immigration violations and requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop new standards to protect people being held on immigration violations. It also encourages rehabilitation and educational programs as supplements to the sentences of immigrant inmates.

Boston has not been completely idle in offering protections to its immigrant community. The 2014 Trust Act states that police cannot detain people based on immigration status. Mayor Martin J. Walsh created the Office for Immigrant Advancement to “facilitate full and equal participation in all aspects of life by immigrants in Boston.” These were important steps and continue to help immigrants in Boston, however these laws should be adapting and changing to offer the proper protec-

tions for the threats at hand. Threats against immigrants in this country are greater now than they were when the 2014 Trust Act was first passed and there must be updates to reflect that.

Boston needs to send a clear message that it rejects the Trump administration’s decision to end the DACA program by working with immigration advocacy groups to create a comprehensive plan to support DACA recipients.

As a city with such a high concentration of colleges and universities, the DACA repeal hits especially hard because there are DACA recipients who currently study at some of Boston’s universities. Funding to guarantee financial aid to these students would be a great show of support for those students.

Beyond that, Boston should limit communication between its local police and federal immigration officers when an immigrant isn’t being held for certain criminal offenses, as California did. Boston can go one step further by examining offenses that would warrant communication with federal officers and removing some of the nonviolent charges that often walk the line between felonies and misdemeanors.

Walsh has made it a point to state that DACA recipients “belong to our communities.” It is time this community backed those words with concrete action to keep the DACA recipients and immigrants in our community safe and secure.

Summer classes, summer vacation, summer job, summer co-op…

Summer is a busy time for all here at Northeastern. I took the liberty of making my summer be about liberty by attending the Young Americans for Liberty National Convention.

The event is an invite-only, four-day long conference for liberty leaders across the country to receive extensive training on how to advocate for liberty and hear from prominent figures in the movement, like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Judge Andrew Napolitano and even WWE’s Glenn “Kane” Jacobs. I also had the opportunity to network with other student leaders and sponsor organizations.

When I attended the event last year, I was just beginning to establish Northeastern’s YAL chapter, or YAL@NEU. This year, now that the chapter has gained official recognition on campus and blossomed into a student organization with a lot of growth potential, I was able to get even more out of the conference. Within the last few years of attending Young Americans for Liberty conferences, I have truly grown as a leader and activist.

This year’s convention was all about how to “Make Liberty Win, “which I believe encompasses the aim of Young Americans for Liberty

even more so than last year’s slogan when it comes to buying insurance. of “Be the Next,” which carries What really stood out to me from his the idea that anyone in the room speech was his advice to us about would be the next great leader in how we can help promote liberty. He the movement, i.e. the next Ron said we must arm ourselves intellecPaul, the Republican representative tually and win the battle of ideas, for Texas who served from 1979 to which reminded all of us about why we were there.

2013.

Now more than ever, there is a pro“Make Liberty Win” goes a step further. It stands more for the ideas pensity toward the ideas of liberty, we are advocating for, the change and it is so important that everyone we want to see in our nation and hears it. As college students, we are the concept of winning on principle. on the battleground of ideas, where There were a wide array of political socialism is glorified. It is our role philosophies represented at the con- as young liberty-minded individuals vention, but it was certain that we all to punch back and say that maybe advocate for less government and we know how to live our lives better than the government. more individual freedom.

Young Americans for Liberty at In light of the recent vote on the Republican health care bill, Sen. Northeastern University will resume Rand Paul (R-Ky.) began his speech weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 8 addressing his role in killing the bill p.m. in Ell Hall, room 408, beginthat in his words, “Simply doesn’t ning Sept. 19. I hope, next year, repeal Obamacare.” Though he is a to have a stronger representation Republican senator, having princi- of Northeastern University at the ples that transcend party allegiances national convention, by inspiring was something that many of the more members to make similar convention’s attendees respected. personal gains and learn more about With extreme partisan politics in why liberty is so important to us, not the United States, it is unfortunately just as Americans, but as citizens of uncommon to hear a voice pointing the world.

Hope to see you soon, out the possibility that both sides of the aisle could be wrong.

When it comes to the issue of Aubrey Kenderdine health care, Paul strongly supports President of Young Americans for down drive to solution a market Liberty at Northeastern University health costs and to empower indiCOS ‘18 associate to freedom the with viduals

Op-Ed: You should join YAL

Connie E The millennials are a socially conscious and politically active generation.

We get infuriated by the state of the country, we are champions of social justice, we go on streets to protest and some of us even aspire to devote our career to make the world a better place. Yet, how much do we actually understand the problems that we’re trying to solve, or the people that we’re trying to help? Ever since I was a kid, I’ve wanted to “make a difference” in the world — but what difference exactly? It wasn’t clear to me until I came to college. My passions are in international development and public policy.

It wasn’t until this summer that I realized the power of proximity.

Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, a social justice champion and is often described as the living Martin Luther King Jr. He created the Equal Justice Initiative that is dedicated to ending mass incarceration in the United States and challenging racial and economic injustice. When he delivered a speech to Northeastern freshmen at the beginning of this semester, he mentioned four key points on how to “change the world,” the first and most important being getting proximate to the problem that you’re trying to solve. It struck a chord with me because, while there is a plethora of Westerners going to poor communities and trying to help, few of them truly understand what the communities need.

This summer, I had the privilege of going on a Dialogue of Civilizations to Cape Town, South Africa to study social entrepreneurship. It was an opportunity to be confronted with my own privileges, biases and ignorance. Before the Dialogue, the only preconceived notion I had was that South Africa would be somewhere in between Sub-Saharan Africa and the West in terms of economic development and culture. Little did I expect the sheer level of inequality and legacies of the apartheid era. I took the opportunity to be fully immersed in the culture, the people and their daily lives. My most memorable moment was when I was playing the violin for a classroom packed with children, their eyes all lit up and some of them even moved with the music.

I spent a week volunteering at that kindergarten without speaking a single word of Xhosa, their local language, yet I was still able to establish such a connection with the children through music, body language, smiles and sometimes awkward sketches. As an English-speaking, Chinese volunteer hailing from the United States, there were moments of cultural shock and discomfort. But it was also those interactions that made me feel like a part of the community. I gained a deeper understanding of the people that I aspire to help through NGO work or policy.

As I left South Africa and return to the comfortable life of being a college student, I thought a lot about how to process my new perspective on privilege and poverty, as well as let those moments of discomfort be a constant reminder of the inequality that still exists not only on the other side of the world, but also in my own communities. Stevenson’s speech brought incredible clarity and direction to my clustered thoughts and feelings from South Africa. Stevenson himself had a humble upbringing in Montgomery, Alabama. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he turned down wellpaying jobs on the East Coast and chose to return to the South where racial injustice and mass incarceration are more prevalent. In other words, he chose to get proximate to the incarcerated people that he is trying to help.

Whatever you are passionate about doing, there is a purpose behind the work and a community the work will benefit. This is an invitation for you to question your assumptions about what you already knew, and to actually immerse yourself within the people and community. There is power in proximity.

News illustration by Oriana Timsit

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Drug dealers may face manslaughter charge

By Janette Ebbers News Staff In an unassuming Huntington Avenue apartment over Boston House of Pizza, the Coolidge House provides room, board and support for a variety of former inmates, including those who were incarcerated for various drug-related crimes.

Massachusetts has similar programs aimed at rehabilitation, but new ones are becoming scarce in the face of government emphasis on tougher enforcement of federal drug laws.

Aiming to address Massachusetts’ ongoing opioid crisis, Gov. Charlie Baker proposed a legislative package Aug. 30 that includes manslaughter charges for drug dealers whose clients overdose. If the bill passes, those found guilty would face a mandatory minimum of five years in prison.

Simon Singer, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University, said Baker’s proposal marked a divergence from previous bills concerning the opioid crisis.

“There are two models that nations or states have followed different periods of times,” Singer said.

“There’s the law enforcement model and the therapeutic model, and Baker seems to be going with the law enforcement model now.”

According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the death toll from opioid-related issues is twice as high in Massachusetts as the national average, prompting local lawmakers to address the crisis.

This legislative package is the latest in a line of bills Baker has proposed since he took office. Four bills in 2016 were also aimed at addressing the opioid crisis, but were mostly directed at limiting the amount of drugs in circulation.

The mandatory minimum clause is one of four objectives in the proposal, which also includes

protections for police witnesses, harsher penalties for the solicitation of homicide and increased allowance for the state to classify new drugs.

In a letter to state legislators Aug. 30, Baker’s office justified the establishment of mandatory minimums for opioid dealers whose customers fatally overdose by comparing it to drunk drivers who commit vehicular manslaughter under the influence.

“When illegal drug distribution causes a death, laws that were designed to punish the act are inadequate to recognize the seriousness of the resulting harm,” Baker said in his letter. “This legislation would provide for a penalty of up to life in prison and, like the offense of manslaughter while driving drunk, would also require a mandatory minimum sentence of at least five years.”

Like Baker, federal leaders are increasingly turning to the law enforcement approach to address the national opioid crisis; Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions has abolished many Obama-era limitations on mandatory minimums, and has empowered federal prosecutors to seek the harshest penalty available for any given crime.

Baker ’s p r o p o s e d Opioids in Mass. expansion of m a n d a t o r y In 2014, fatal m i n i m u m s overdose rates fits into this were double the trend of national average increased hostility toward Overdose deaths drug crimes, quadrupled s o m e w h a t from 2000-2015 fittingly, as Baker was In 2015, opioid a p p o i n t e d addiction was to Presi- more common dent Donald than alcohol at J. Trump’s many treatment opioid com- centers mission.

Singer said Source: mass.gov

Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons Massachusetts bill seeks to charge drug dealers whose clients die of overdose with manslaughter.

Baker’s latest response to the opioid crisis may be motivated by politics rather than practicality.

“It’s a response to public frustration about what’s perceived to be a major crisis, it’s a need to do something,” Singer said. “It’s very political in that sense. There’s no facts to support that it would reduce drug use.”

Northeastern’s new Student Alliance for Prison Reform (SAPR) chapter takes the opposing side of the punishment or rehabilitation debate. Gesele Henderson, fourthyear health sciences major and co-captain of SAPR, said rehabilitation has proven more successful, especially in regards to drug crimes.

“The way the United States, in my opinion, looks at prison, is more of a way to punish citizens rather than a rehabilitation and a way to

re-integrate them into society,” Henderson said. “That’s what we work toward as a club, a way to push rehabilitation over punishment. If you rehabilitate, then we can regain them as members of our community, and that’s more powerful than just sending them away.”

Critics of the bill also point to Section 11 of Baker’s proposal, which blames overdose fatalities on the dealer, even if the user contributed to his or her own death by “purposeful, knowing, reckless or negligent injection.”

Danielle Dottor, second-year criminal justice major with a concentration in human services, said this particular section assigning all liability to the dealer is ridiculous.

“I’m not a fan,” Dottor said of section 11. “You’re punishing someone else for somebody else’s

decision [...] It would be like if a doctor prescribes opioids to a patient not knowing that they’re addicted — maybe they prescribe too much, maybe they don’t — if the patient takes them and overdoses intentionally with the intent of overdosing, that doctor is now responsible.”

Although the legislative package includes provisions besides the mandatory minimum expansion, Singer said bills like this are not the answer to Massachusetts’ opioid crisis.

“We’ve had harsher penalties at the state and federal level, we’ve expanded our prison population, a lot of the incarcerated are there for drug dealing minor and major — but mainly minor — and we still have a crisis, and it’s getting worse,” Singer said. “The law enforcement approach, to me, doesn’t seem like it’s the answer.”

Freedom Rally-goers celebrate marijuana

Photo by Alex Melagrano Crowds gather for the first Freedom Rally since marijuana legalization.

By Guy Ovadia News Correspondent This year marks the first Boston Freedom Rally since Massachusetts voters chose to legalize marijuana in 2016, and it continued to be the largest gathering of pro-marijuana supporters on the East Coast and second largest in the world.

State policy makers are still discussing tax rates and dispensary regulations with the goal of finalizing policies and putting the new law into effect by July 2018. Despite this delay, Bostonians flocked to Boston Common Sept. 15-17 to take part in the event, officially called Boston Freedom Rally, which has been dubbed “Hempfest.”

“It’s a good way to come together as people because I smoke weed,

and I think that there aren’t that many people that smoke weed,” said Julia Rosengarden, a first-year beauty school student. “Everyone is here and everyone is having a good time.”

Boston Freedom Rally is organized by the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition, a promarijuana advocacy group which is part of the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Two stages hosted music from rap and R&B to rock and reggae in addition to pro-marijuana advocates, industry specialists and medical experts who spoke to shine a positive light on marijuana use.

Dr. Uma Dhanabalan, a cannabis therapeutics specialist at Uplifting Health and Wellness, an alterna-

tive health care organization, shared her experience with marijuana and why she believes it should be used as a first-resort medicine instead of a last resort. She said marijuana is safer than harmful opioids, which have created an addiction epidemic in the United States. Dhanabalan has not prescribed an opioid in over eight years, and said she sees better results and lower rates of addiction in her patients than in those who receive opioid treatment.

Vendors made up the majority of Hempfest — among them were a wide selection of food, clothing, tapestries, toys, handcrafted decorations and drug paraphernalia.

Attendees of all ages came out over the three-day weekend to show support for the event.

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Curley House finally to open to the public

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy plans to open offices in the Curley Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons

By Patrick Burgard News Correspondent After sitting dormant for nearly 30 years, the historic James Michael Curley House in Jamaica Plain is on the verge of opening to the public.

The Curley House, located at 350 Jamaicaway, was built in 1915 by former Boston Mayor and Massachusetts Gov. James Michael Curley. The house is situated just across the street from Jamaica Pond, the largest standing body of water in the Emerald Necklace park system.

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy, which is responsible for maintaining the Emerald Necklace, has plans to open new offices on the second floor, which will also be used for conservancy programming, Conservancy

President Karen Mauney-Brodek said.

“The idea is that the house will be open at certain hours and certain times, but we haven’t figured out what those times would be yet,” Mauney-Brodek said. “I’m still working with the city to finalize the agreement, and we are still in the process of figuring out what kinds of programming we will offer, so it’s still a work in progress.”

The plan reached a milestone Aug. 28 when the city’s Zoning Board of Appeal approved the conservancy’s request to change the second and third floors of the house from residential to office space.

The 21-room, neo-Georgian mansion is registered as a historical landmark in Boston, so any changes

made to the house would need to be approved by the city, though Mauney-Brodek said the conservancy has no plans to make any notable changes.

Mauney-Brodek said the decision to open new offices inside the Curley House serves as a solution to limited space at the conservancy’s visitors’ center on the Fenway while also increasing public accessibility to the house.

“By moving some of my staff from the visitors’ center to the Curley House, I’ll be able to make my visitors’ center a better place for visitors,” Mauney-Brodek said.

Since the City of Boston’s George Robert White Fund purchased the house in 1988, it has seldom been used for anything outside of a few

community meetings, MauneyBrodek said. In recent years, however, Jamaica Plain residents and leaders have urged the city to make the historic home more accessible to the public.

“I’ve been pushing the city to do something with that building for the last six or seven years,” said Richard Dennis, Mayor Curley’s stepson.

“They finally made a move, and I couldn’t be happier. There are so many things that connect this thing together. It’s just a perfect, perfect, perfect use of the house.”

Mauney-Brodek said the plans have not yet been completely finalized, and members of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s board of directors still have details to work out with city officials, but plans are already in place with neighborhood nonprofits to create programming for visitors to the Curley House.

“We’ll be working with the Jamaica Plain Historical Society and the Friends of the Curley House,” she said. “I think there are going to be opportunities for interpretation and learning more about the house, and learning more about the history of the house and its occupants, as well as the role of the neighborhood in the development of the city of Boston.”

Richard Bailey, a professor of geology at Northeastern University, said the Emerald Necklace is more than a picturesque place to walk — the park system also preserves the geological heritage of a heavily-urbanized region, while the educational work of the conservancy helps to ensure the survival of open spaces for generations to come.

“I think there is a need for greater

understanding amongst the general public of some of these natural resources and open spaces,” Bailey said. “If you go to the Arboretum, which is part of that complex, you can learn about plants and landscapes, and that ties into climate change.”

Gabriel Morris, a second-year politics, philosophy and economics major who volunteered with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy last year, said he is excited the conservancy will have a new location from which to educate the public about the benefits of conservation.

“It’s a great idea and it will definitely help the Emerald Necklace to work toward its goal of urban conservation,” Morris said.

Bailey said he praises the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for its continued dedication to maintaining Boston’s few remaining open spaces.

“Last year we had [one of the] driest years on record in large parts of New England,” said Bailey, who specializes in ancient climate change patterns. “Having open space helps recharge groundwater, which helps the habitat for animals, plants, birds and so forth. I’m in favor of all efforts to make the public more knowledge about the value of the natural resources we have.”

Dennis, now 92 years old, said he has fond memories of growing up in the house, including rowing his stepfather around Jamaica Pond while he fished.

“It’s an incredible series of circumstances which connect the Emerald Necklace with the house and the house with the Emerald Necklace,” Dennis said.“It’s incredible, and it’s just right that it’s happening.”

UMass professor lectures on climate change Eirin Combs, News Correspondent Ellen Marie Douglas, a hydrology professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, gave a lecture Sept.

14 at the New England Aquarium to discuss observations of climate change and how communities should be adapting to these changes.

To open her lecture, called “Climate Change and Extreme Events,” Douglas addressed the relationship between climate change and natural disasters.

“Isn’t it all just natural climate variability?” said one of her opening powerpoint slides.

Douglas’ talk aimed to prove the answer is no. She said the primary reason for these shifts in the climate is due to excess carbon dioxide emissions. She demonstrated how small changes in temperature trends are related to extreme weather events using normal distribution graphs.

“Distribution shifts in favor of more hot weather due to a shift in average value of temperatures,” Douglas said. “Small changes in an average value can result in larger changes in extremes.”

Weather extremes and natural disasters have devastated many communities, especially recently with Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. Harvey affected the regions of the Caribbean, Latin America and the southern United States between Aug. 17 and Sept. 3. Irma affected Florida and islands in the Caribbean.

Douglas said as depressing as climate research can be, the public should remain hopeful because the acknowledgement of climate change and humankind’s part in it is causing many people to take action.

“Previous disasters have forced government agencies to coordinate disaster responses [...] and building codes have greatly improved in Florida after Hurricane Andrew in 1992,” Douglas said.

Douglas referenced various organi-

Photo by Dylan Shen Professor Ellen Marie Douglan of UMass Boston lectures about extreme weather events and climate change at the New England Aquarium. zations and initiatives within Boston that are doing their part in order to plan and adapt to our changing climate. The Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 is one initiative put in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 25 percent below the emissions seen in 1990. As of now, the initiative is seeing a reduction of 21 percent and is now working toward reducing greenhouse gases by at least 80 percent by 2050.

The School of Environment at UMass Boston met with residents of

low-income communities in the area that were more vulnerable to natural disasters. They created a dialogue in which they discussed feasible options for protection and accommodation in case of future weather extremes and natural disasters.

Northeastern’s Global Resilience Institute (GRI) works toward helping communities recover and adapt from recent natural disasters. It has a Post-Disaster Assessment and Advisory Team in place that partners with emergency responders and plans to deploy a team to Houston

in the coming months to provide aid, according to Phil Anderson, associate director of research and innovation at GRI. “They look at the recovery phase with an eye of adaptability to move forward,” Anderson said of his team and their efforts.

Douglas discussed this idea of adapting and moving forward throughout her lecture.

She stressed that the more communities can adapt to changes in our climate, the better they will be able to handle and recover from future

weather extremes and natural disasters.

This is the ultimate goal of the New England Aquarium in hosting these public lectures regarding climate change: to create a dialogue about relevant issues and instill a desire to take action.

“The relevance of this is becoming real to people everyday,” LaCasse said. “Planning is relevant in terms of the economic health of Boston beyond our own interest we should be having in the environmental health of the planet.”

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Zach King speaks about his ‘magical’ videos

By Gianna Barberia Lifestyle Editor At age 4, he saw “Jurassic Park,” and was inspired to make movies.

At age 7, his parents gave him his first video camera, and he began directing short films with his three younger sisters. At age 14, he got his first laptop and taught himself how to edit videos. And now, at age 27, he has over 100 million views on YouTube and an ever-growing fan base.

Zach King, known by his audience as the “Final Cut King,” is best known for his “magic trick” vines and short videos in which he uses editing to make the impossible possible. He jumps into moving cars, gets sucked into vacuums and, most notably, makes kittens fight with lightsabers. On Sept.19 in Blackman Auditorium, King spoke to a crowd of more than 60 students to discuss his platform, aspirations and the seemingly magical world he created.

“I always thought he [King] was super cool,” said Marissa Mellenthin, a fourth-year communication studies major and lectures chair of the Council for University Programs.

“I thought he would be a good fit for campus.”

Before the lecture even began, King was onstage organizing and rehearsing a Vine he was planning on making later during the talk. It wasn’t surprising given King’s hardworking demeanor, which has been a constant his entire life.

“I think I mowed 150 lawns, and I took some odd jobs at the mall working as a popcorn maker to save up for a $300 camera,” King said. “I submitted [my videos] to contests to help fund my first year of film school.”

What was surprising was learning that film school was delayed for King when he was denied right after high school. He decided to take that year off and make videos on his own, which lead to the creation of his YouTube channel.

The channel, which he used to post Final Cut Pro tutorials, quickly garnered 30,000 subscribers. With

his audience growing and requesting more content, he posted a video that would change his life forever: “Jedi Kittens.”

The video, which used special effects to make two kittens fight with lightsabers, became a viral sensation overnight and inspired two sequels: “Jedi Kittens Strike Back” and “Jedi Kittens with Force.” Realizing that YouTube was a successful platform, he continued to post new content every Friday with his signature special effects. At that point, he was finally a film student at Biola University in Los Angeles studying cinema and media arts.

“The main five people in my team I met at Biola,” King said. “It’s who you mingle with and the relationships that matter.”

When Vine was released in 2012, King knew it was the perfect platform for his short, awe-inspiring videos. Within four months, he gained 1 million followers. After the discontinuation of the Vine app, King moved his focus to Instagram, which piqued his interest when the video feature was released in 2013.

He currently releases weekly content to over 20 million followers.

When creating this content, King makes sure the premise fits in what he calls his “universe.” Every video shows real life with a magical twist.

“I’ve seen Zach King’s videos online a lot and always wondered how he filmed them,” said Samantha Rose, a second-year communication studies and business administration double major who attended King’s lecture. “It was really interesting seeing some behind the scenes videos showing how he and his team pulled their ‘magic’ off.”

King’s main focus throughout his career has been to make his videos engaging for all viewers. He keeps them clean, since he wants viewers of all ages to be able to experience them, and he bases them off of real ideas, wishes, inventions and fears. Recently, he decided to talk less during his videos to prevent language barriers.

“The United States is the smallest

Photo by Lauren Scornavacca The “Final Cut King” speaks to an audience at Blackman Auditorium about his career and aspirations. part of my audience,” King said. “It makes up only about 20 percent. My audience is mostly from the Middle East, Asia and South America.”

To cater to this audience, he tends to post his videos at 7:30 a.m.

Eastern Standard Time, which is when people from the other side of the globe are mainly on their phones.

King’s latest endeavor is not filmmaking or social media-related, but rather a children’s book. Titled “Zach King: My Magical Life,” the graphic novel draws inspiration from books such as “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and follows an 11-year-old named Zach with magical abilities.

However, it wouldn’t be a King

project without a magical twist.

After downloading the free app that goes along with his debut book and using it to scan the pages, special animations pop out.

“We were trying to work on this two years ago, but not a lot of software was available to do so,” King said. “But in the last year, more tools have been released that made this possible.”

The book will be released in the United States on Wednesday.

Additionally, Steven Spielberg’s production company Amblin already optioned the feature film rights to the book, meaning people may soon be able to see the magic on the big

screen. Creating a feature film has been one of King’s biggest goals his entire life.

“I always loved making movies when I was a kid and loved seeing the screen coming alive,” King said. “I find playing with people’s emotions really fascinating, so that’s the goal.”

His advice to young filmmakers trying to make it in the industry: nurture and grow your fanbase.

“You have to go deeper with your audience,” King said “Our mission isn’t to change the world — that’s a pretty hefty goal — but to change our community and the people around us.”

NU students find fashion for fall

By Yasmine Myftija News Correspondent With summer ending and the return of the hustle of classes, keeping up with the ever-evolving world of fashion is difficult for any college student. However, one doesn’t need to be a fashion student to elevate a simple look.

“I think that a big trend is athleisure,” said John Levanos, a third-year business marketing major and global fashion studies minor.

“I think that mixing comfortable clothes into clothes that look good is really big right now. I haven’t seen so many Adidas sweatpants in one place than I have at Northeastern.”

Levanos, Northeastern Fashion and Retail Society’s marketing associate, stands firmly behind his love for joggers, which recently turned heads in Gucci’s latest line of clothing available online. They are an essential piece for anyone’s fall collection and are both versatile and available in a range of fabrics that allows anyone to dress them up or down. For those looking to score a pair, Pacsun, Urban Outfitters, Nike and Adidas are the places to look.

Aneri Shah, a third-year business marketing major and global fashion studies minor added that both overalls and flare jeans made a comeback this year, while fishnets and mesh will likely fade out in the coming months. Shah, Northeastern Fashion and Retail Society’s president, said her go-to fall colors include terracotta, burnt orange, deep purples, wine red and olive green. She also stressed the impor-

tance of coats, mentioning her affinity for trench coats.

For accessories, both Shah and Levanos agreed that simple and understated is the way to go. They suggested thin, metallic and clear frames as opposed to thick-framed black glasses. Mixed metals, chains, rings and neckwear are taking the place of chunky, attention-grabbing pieces.

“Clothing is becoming more intricate, so the accessories that go along with it are becoming more simplistic, but more of a complement than a statement piece itself,” Levanos said.

Michaela Mudrick, a second-year communication studies major, said that a big trend this fall and winter will be bags of all sizes. The practicality of bags is hard to miss, especially when holding just the essentials on a night out or carrying textbooks to class. Mudrick added that chunky, cable-knit sweaters are the one piece that encapsulate her fall style. The flexible pieces, which can be layered or worn alone, will be a necessity in the next few months on Northeastern’s chilly campus.

They can be found nearly anywhere, from Primark to Madewell.

Perhaps the most important trend yet appeared only last week at New York Fashion Week. Runway models were clad in power red, a bright and vivid color that has since been proclaimed as this fall’s color by Elle Magazine and can easily be worked into any wardrobe.

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Multi-generational artists perform at Hatch CONCERT, from front “Magazines or Novels”.

“He’s my absolute favorite,” Manjrekar said. “[The concert was] as amazing as I expected it and more.”

While most people sat on blankets or lawn chairs in the grassy field, a few people kayaked to the venue and enjoyed the performances from the Charles River. Between songs, Clarkson noticed them and said, “Oh hey, what’s up kayakers?”

Grammer took the stage first at 2:10 p.m. and began his set with his hit song “Keep Your Head Up.” The singer also performed hits “Fine by Me,” “Kiss You Slow,” “Good To Be Alive” and crowd-favorite “Honey,

I’m Good.” Additionally, he sang two new songs: “Spaceship,” a tribute to his daughter Louisiana, and “Give Love,” a tribute to his mother. During his performance of “Fresh Eyes,” the clouds began to part and the first streaks of sunlight emerged.

Grammer left the stage and went into the crowd during “Kiss You Slow,” singing the entire song as he walked through the audience and hugged fans.

“Andy hopped the fence into the crowd, and I just stood there with my mouth open in shock as he ran two feet in front of me,” said Hailey Konisky, a second-year biochem-

istry major. “I still can’t believe he actually did that.”

By the time Blondie took the stage at 3:15, the clouds were starting to dissipate and the sun was shining.

Debbie Harvey, Blondie’s lead singer, greeted the crowd with a, “Hello Boston! How are you?” and received a thunderous applause. The band began their set with hit song “One Way or Another” followed by their new song, “Too Much.”

When Clarkson took the stage at 4:30 to perform “We Belong Together,” the sun was in full force and there was not a cloud in the sky.

Throughout the afternoon, she sang hits “Catch My Breath,” “Hazel

Eyes,” “Breakaway” and concluded with fan-favorite “Since You’ve Been Gone.” She also performed two new songs from her upcoming album: “Love So Soft” and “Movie.”

“She’s a vision,” said Mackenzie O’Donnell, 24, of Boston. “It’s just crazy to see somebody that’s so famous so close by.”

Clarkson connected with the audience throughout her set and kept everybody laughing with her witty remarks.

“I know you know this song, even if you don’t like it. I know you’ve heard it, even if it’s annoying,” said Clarkson before performing “Stronger.”

All three singers continually showed praise toward Boston.

Grammer further mentioned his long relationship with the city, saying that Boston always comes to support him.

Clarkson described the festival best when she said, “It’s a family event, y’all.” Between the middle school students coming with their best friends, parents coming with their children and the plethora college students, the festival offered fun and entertainment for everyone.

“It’s quite awesome that they do this” Manjrekar said. “It kind of gives you something to look forward to.”

Photo by Patrick Leung Kelly Clarkson, Andy Grammer and Blondie perform their biggest hits at the Department of Conservation and Recreation Hatch Memorial Shell Saturday.

A cappella groups prioritize team harmony

By Casey Rochette

News Correspondent The steps were packed tight, students overflowed onto the floor.

Eventually there was standing room only. The second, third and fourth floor balconies looked like boxes in a theater. All eyes were fixated on the performers.

The fall a cappella showcase featured all six a cappella groups at Northeastern. Students began to gather in the Curry Student Center around 6:30 p.m., and the event was over by 9. The showcase gave freshmen and returning students a look into what a cappella is and how much talent Northeastern has.

One by one, cell phones raised into the air to capture a piece of the Nor’easters’ winning set from the 2017 International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA).

Saying that the audience was captivated was an understatement as their final chorus drew a round of cheers and applause.

One of the most well-known groups on campus, the Nor’easters is a co-ed group comprised of 17 members. They rehearse three times a week for two hours and, during competition season, up to five times a week for three hours.

They are easily identified by their all-black clothing. Anthony Rodriguez, a fourth-year, psychology major and president of the Nor’easters said the clothing reflects the songs they sing, powerful and dramatic.

The Nor’easters have a strong presence on campus and within the a cappella community. Although they are dedicated, intense and competitive they still seek to have fun while performing together.

“I think there is a stigma that our group is really intense and we only rehearse all the time but we also schedule in fun like going on a group retreat, going apple picking or alumni events,” said Sofia Berg, a fourth-year political science and communications major and business manager of the Nor’easters. “We do so much more than just work ourselves to the bone, and I think that’s a very common misconception.”

Being at a school in which most students graduate in five years, the ages of the members can be within a large range. The veteran Nor’easters often serve as role models to new members, offering them a first-hand look at what they can achieve as a Nor’easter.

“We are a family first,” Rodriguez said. “We work very hard to foster a good social environment.”

Another well-known group on

Photo by Lauren Scornavacca The Nor’easters perform at the fall a cappella showcase in Curry Student Center.

campus and the first all-female a cappella group at Northeastern, Treble on Huntington, was founded in the fall of 2007 and is comprised of 10 women.

The group has a rigorous rehearsal schedule, practicing twice a week for two and a half hours. The women in this group are serious, but they still make time to have fun.

“The nice thing about being a small group is that we can goof around and still get things done,” said Ally Schulz, a third-year biochemistry major and the group’s music director.

Treble on Huntington looks for the total package. A large part of being in the group is wanting to spend five hours a week the same people. The new members need to blend both musically and socially.

Their executive board has tried to create friendships between the members which, they said, improved the quality of their sound exponentially. Focusing less on winning and more on each other has proved to be their best strategy.

“People misunderstand that piece,” said Natalie Jones, a third-year math and biology major and president of the group. “Interacting with us is equally as important as the singing.”

While Treble on Huntington focuses on relationships within their group, the Unisons, Northeastern’s only all male a cappella group, is focused on developing relationships within the a cappella community.

“In the past one or two years we, as a community, have been pushing for more group interaction,” said president of the Unisons and fourth-year accounting major Cooper Kwiatkowski. “We’ve been trying to have more activities with each other over the weekend. We’re also implementing more activities to get people introduced to the group.”

The Unisons stay connected through a Facebook page for a cappella groups all over the world.

They recently met a group from

Bristol, England, the Bristol Suspensions, and are working on networking with them.

The Unisons aren’t afraid to be out there in terms of their music selection and choreography. They recently released a music video for their performance of “Confident”

by Demi Lovato at the Best of the Northeast Region, an a cappella showcase. They try to choose songs by artists who they think are up and coming such as Ella Eyre.

“We had a lot more people try out than we were expecting,” Kwiatkowski said. “Being an all-male group is a very niche category of guys who accept wanting to sing and are publicly okay with it.”

The Unisons are releasing a new music video later this fall.

The newest, all female a cappella group to Northeastern, Pitch, Please!, is an 11-member, semicompetitive group. They pride themselves on always lifting women up and celebrating their distinct identities.

“We love music as a way for females to bond and become strong and confident,” said Isabelle Hahn, a second-year journalism major and president of the group. “I became a much more confident performer and singer being in the group. I learned so much. It’s just amazing to be surrounded by so many talented, strong and unique women during every rehearsal and performance.”

The group recently won an award at the Boston Sings A Cappella festival for best spoken word, a different way to get the story across that sometimes can’t be communicated through music. The set’s theme wasw shattering the glass ceiling.

The a cappella groups at Northeastern allow prospective members to find the group that best fits their individual wants and needs. Whether you are a professional singer, shower singer or strictly an audience member, a cappella at Northeastern has an arrangement for you.

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EVENT CALENDAR Calendar compiled by Mohit Puvvala, news correspondent

EVENT OF THE WEEK DAY AT THE MUSEUM Saturday, Sept. 23 Hosted by Smithsonian magazine in partnership with Microsoft, Museum Day Live is an annual celebration of the greatness of museums. Simply signing up provides you with two free admission tickets to any participating museum in the country. Lucky for us, Boston is home to a multitude of participating museums. There’s the Museum of Fine Arts just steps from campus, the Gibson House Museum for architecture enthusiasts, the Museum of African American History, the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of Natural History and more. Grab a buddy and explore the world through its history and art. All day; participating museums; Free Photo courtesy Creative Commons

Thursday, Sept. 21

Friday, Sept. 22

Sunday, Sept. 24

Take your friends on a tasteful adventure filled with celebrity chefs, cultural activities and some of Boston’s best award-winning restaurants at Taste of the Fenway.

In addition to the blast of flavors, the event features live music, art, beer, wine and cider tastings and games. The 25 restaurants featured at the event this year cross over a variety of culinary boundaries and include popular eateries such as El Pelon Taqueria, Sweet Cheeks Q, Basho Japanese Brasserie, Pavement Coffeehouse, Hojoko, Loretta’s Last Call, Blackjack Pasta Bar, sweetgreen, Blaze Pizza,

by CHLOE. and Wahlburgers.

5-7 p.m.; Van Ness Street (from Kilmarnock Street to Richard B Ross Way); $50

If you appreciate true laugh-outloud comedy, NU & Improv’d, Northeastern’s premiere improv comedy group, has got you covered.

Bring your friends to AfterHours, sit back and laugh until you cry.

The members of the group focus on the on-the-fly aspects of stand-up comedy and theatre by creating environments, characters and dialogues based on the audience’s input and reactions. No aspects of the show are scripted, which makes it all the more fun for everyone involved — especially the crowd. The team has collected new members who will be showing off their comedy skills, so be sure to be present for their first-ever performance on the Northeastern team. 8-9 p.m.; AfterHours; free

Looking to add some flavor to your day? Taste of Downtown Crossing is definitely the event for you. For just $30 at the door, or $25 in advance, taste food samples from over 20 different popular restaurants on the Avenue de Lafayette, located a short walk between the Chinatown and Downtown Crossing T stations.

Participating restaurants include Fajitas & ‘Ritas, Back Deck, Legal Crossing, Papagayo, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Avenue One, Serafina and Salvatore’s. Moreover, there will be live music, cooking demos and entertainment throughout the festival. The mouthwatering collection of tasty treats will ease your Sunday anxieties and cap off another awesome week. 12-3 p.m.; Avenue de Lafayette; $25-$30

Monday, Sept. 25

Tuesday, Sept. 26

Wednesday, Sept. 27

India is a country with an incredibly long and rich history filled with arts and culture. Discover India at Massachusetts Institute of Technology will feature 40 artists from 15 different countries who will come together in Cambridge to share their appreciation and admiration for Indian culture. Five unique styles of dance as well as theatre performances, martial arts demonstrations and live music will be presented throughout the evening.

The show will be performed twice that evening, so you have two chances to catch this one-of-a-kind event. What’s more, Cambridge is only a short ride away on the T. 5-7 p.m., 8-10 p.m.; Little Kresge Auditorium; free

Calling all content creators. Next Tuesday in the Curry Student Center, Franchesca Ramsey will speak to Northeastern students about her endeavours and struggles producing original content in a talk titled “Seeing Color: Exploring Whiteness in a Racialized World.” Ramsey is an actress, writer, activist and video blogger based out of New York City. She has experience working with Anderson Cooper as well as for television programs on Comedy Central, MTV, MSNBC and ABC. Ramsey also has over 200,000 loyal YouTube subscribers that tune in for her original comedy sketches, racial commentaries, advice videos and song parodies. 6-8 p.m.; Curry Student Center; free

Enjoy some of the best live jazz music that the city has to offer as it serenades your heart and soul for Jazz Night at the House of Blues.

Come along, bring some friends and enjoy a drink at the bar at this lively musical journey with The Seba Molnar Quartet, a Bostonbased music group. The group’s sounds have been influenced by both seasoned jazz professionals and talented newbies, such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Snarky Puppy and Robert Glasper. The relaxing tones of the saxophone, drums, keyboard and bass will ease your worries and put you in a good mindset for the rest of the workweek. 7-10 p.m.; 15 Lansdowne St.; free

File photo by Lauren Scornavacca An aerial photo of the LSCC, which hosted a Gala its 20th anniversary Friday in the Curry Student Center Ballroom.

LSCC celebrates 20 years at Gala

By Nathalie Cruz and Laura Rodriguez News Correspondents The first noticeable atmospheric aspect when walking into the Curry Student Center Ballroom was how comfortable everyone was around each other — hugging, kissing and laughing.

The second was the conversation that kept switching between English and Spanish without pause.

The Latino/a Student Cultural Center (LSCC) Anniversary Gala was an evening packed with inspiring and heartwarming speeches, nostalgic videos and slideshows and dazzling performances by Latinx dance groups Kaliente and Caramelo.

Each speaker had a different role in the center, but they all shared the same passion: having a community for Latin American students in which they can feel like they have a second family that supports them.

“We not only get to, we want to,” Director Rosa Rodriguez Williams said of helping the Latinx community at Northeastern.

The center started off as a small Puerto Rican center and expanded to become the space to get the “same ‘amor’ that was felt sleeping at each other’s houses, meeting as a group, and communicating universal struggles as Latinx students on campus,” Founder Dehlia M. Emanuel said at the event.

The center grew to be not only a hub for meetings and clubs, but a home to the prestigious Delhia M. Emanuel Award, previously known as the Civic Engagement Award and renamed as an honor and humbling gesture toward Emanuel.

Some of the biggest accomplishments that were showcased in the video included Los Huskies Leadership program, a series of leadership workshops for undergraduate

students; the Sixth Annual New England Latinx Student Leadership Conference in 2007, which aimed to cultivate future Latinx leaders; and Hora del Cafe, where Northeastern students speak Spanish over coffee in the LSCC Thursdays.

In attendance were students who have been members of Latinx organizations for years, freshmen who want to be a part of this vibrant group, people who spoke fluent Spanish, people who spoke little Spanish and students who simply enjoy the culture.

The center welcomed them all the same.

A phrase that is constantly used by students and staff alike who facilitate the operations of the center — particularly by Williams and Assistant Director Sara J. Rivera — is that the center is “a second home, a home away from home.”

This was exemplified by the familiarity and warmth of not only the student members of the center, but by the faculty, staff and alumni, who all spoke about the LSCC and everything it has provided for them. “[It’s] an empowering place where you go to grow as a person and positively embrace your Latinx identity, something that’s difficult to do in predominantly white university,” said Beca Muñoz, a second-year politics, philosophy and economics major. “The center offers you a safe and loving place to do so.”

Along with the opportunities that the LSCC has offered to Latinx students over the years, students said the importance of a center like this on campus cannot be understated.

Those with backgrounds from all over Latin America talked about the fantastic experiences and the wonderful friends they made thanks to the center.

“We are more than a community,” Emanuel said. “We are a family.”

Silver Masque shows suspenseful Fortnight

By Morgan Lloyd News Correspondent It was only five days before Silver Masque’s first Fortnight performance of the year, an event that fourth-year theatre major Liam Hofmeister had only been preparing for a little over a week. However, he was not worried.

“It’s really rewarding just to be like, ‘Okay, here’s our rehearsals, we’ll figure it out, and hopefully we’ll be ready for it,’” Hofmeister said. “It almost feels like we’re taking a risk, but everything’s been coming together really well.”

Silver Masque is the oldest student organization on campus, having been

sharing shows with audiences at Northeastern for more than 80 years.

The club is dedicated to putting on performances at events called Fortnights every other Thursday night.

Hofmeister is directing a play at the first of these events, scheduled to be performed on Sept. 21 in the Ryder Theatre Lab. “A Fortnight is where a bunch of students across all majors and interests come together and basically perform a cabaret,” said Claire Moorer, a third-year theatre major and the president of Silver Masque.

“So, they can perform anything they want, from song to dance to monologue.”

Fourth-year theatre major Sam

Mulcahy said that the sense of excitement and intensity that surrounds Silver Masque is what makes the club distinct.

“NU Stage and NU Shakespeare and Acting Out all have those similar opportunities to design and direct, but Silver Masque is a really great space for people who are trying to get little, intense bursts of theatre experience,” Mulcahy said.

This year, though, marked the start of a brand-new program for the organization. For the first time ever, student playwrights are partnering up with professional Boston-area playwrights to bring their combined visions to the stage. Moorer started this cutting edge initiative by

reaching out to playwrights both in the theatre department and outside the university.

“At the end of it [the Fortnight], we have a student original 10-minute play that is student-directed, designed, all that,” Moorer said.

The students were ultimately responsible for getting the show finished and ready for Thursday night. For Hofmeister, that meant working with his team of actors and designers to bring student playwright Georgeanne Oliver’s vision, titled “Erica Speaks,” to light. “[The play is] a riff on a murdermystery podcast. It’s basically this guy who’s obsessively trying to solve this young woman’s murder

however many years ago,” Hofmeister said. “It’s an interesting look at who has the right to tell who’s story, and what are the motivations behind the stories.”

Megan Warshofsky, a second-year theatre and business administration double major, spoke about the intense nature preparing for the new show and her eagerness to bring this original story to the stage.

“I personally liked it when I first read it, so I’m excited to see it up on its feet,” Warshofsky said. “I’m excited for everyone else to watch it and react to it because they haven’t read it before, so I guess just seeing how people feel about the first one is going to be exciting.”

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Huskies grab first home win Column: NHL lets Olympics slip

By Jenna Ciccotelli Deputy Sports Editor Northeastern University’s head field hockey coach Cheryl Murtagh believes redshirt senior captain Jamie Bartucca is underrated.

“She kind of goes under the radar,” Murtagh said. “I don’t think people really know about Jamie [Bartucca].”

But if the Connecticut native’s performance this weekend was any indication, it would be in the best interests of Husky fans and foes alike to start paying attention.

“Jamie [Bartucca] just works hard,” Murtagh said. “I love her work ethic. Obviously she has some good skills in front of the goal, she did that last year.”

Bartucca burst onto the scene in 2016, leading the team with 10 goals, connecting on nearly half of her 23 shots on goal. This season, Bartucca played the hero against Quinnipiac University Sept. 1, scoring both goals in the 2-1 defeat including the game-winner with 53 seconds remaining on the clock. She scored twice against Bryant University in August. But after a quiet stretch, Bartucca came out fullforce in last weekend’s Ivy League matchups, scoring a pair of goals in both games to claim her position as the team’s goal-scoring leader with eight so far in the premature season.

“I think just team energy and coming off a tough loss, I wanted to step out there this weekend and just give it all I’ve got,” Bartucca said.

“I think as a team we all stepped it up this week so just having them to support me and be there behind the goals is very helpful.”

The Huskies fought through monsoon-like wind and rain to no avail Friday night, falling to Harvard 7-3.

The Crimson scored four times in the opening ten minutes of the game, adding a fifth point at the end of the first half and two more in the second round of play.

“The first 10 minutes got away

from us, I think,” said head coach Cheryl Murtagh. “You can’t do that, I hope it’s a mistake we don’t make, where you don’t start off strong.

We let them come at us and it’s just something we don’t want to do again.”

Freshman Camille O’Conor had assists on two goals by Bartucca.

The forward pair put the Huskies on the board in the 19th minute as Bartucca sent a pass from O’Conor flying high over Harvard senior goalkeeper Olivia Startup, who had two saves on the day.

The pair reappeared in the 52nd minute when O’Conor passed from the top of the circle to an eager Bartucca, who sent the ball in from the left side of the net to cut the Huskies deficit to four.

On a penalty corner just three minutes later, junior forward Laura MacLachlan sent a hard drive into the back of the net off a pass from sophomore midfielder Meg Barrett for Northeastern’s final scoring play of the day.

Harvard notched one more in the final 10 minutes of play to secure the 7-3 defeat. Freshman Julia Gluyas, who replaced freshman Julia Ennis in net after Harvard’s early four-goal marathon, was credited with five saves on the day.

“It’s more of a mental thing trying to get ourselves back on track,” Murtagh said. “We need to do better on defense.”

After a brief one-day reset, the Huskies took the field in Dedham again Sunday afternoon, hungry for redemption and their first win at home against the Brown University Bears. The teams had not met since 2008, when Northeastern bested Brown 7-1. The Huskies outshot the visitor 25-5 Sunday, pushing ahead 4-1 over the Bears.

“We said it right before the game,” said Bartucca, who also starred in Sunday’s meeting. “We’re like, ‘This is our field, we’re coming off with a win today so let’s defend our field.’”

This locker-room energy carried out onto the field as the Huskies scored first for the first time since Sept. 8. Bartucca assisted junior forward June Curry-Lindahl and allowed the Belgium native to send the ball into the net in the fourth minute of play.

Redshirt junior Kellie Stigas came alive once again in the effort, scoring on a penalty corner in the 28th minute for her first goal since the win over Providence Sept. 8. The goal, her fourth of the season, was a career-high for Stigas.

The Huskies managed to shut out Brown in the first half, adding a third point in the 45th minute as Bartucca pushed the ball over the goal line on a pass from Barrett.

In their second penalty corner of the game, Brown got on the board on a successful set-up for junior midfielder Rachel Lanouette.

Bartucca scored an insurance goal for Northeastern when she sent in a pass from MacLachlan in the 53rd minute.

Gluyas tallied her first career start in the win and remained in net for the full 70 minutes, breaking a season-long routine that saw her replace Ennis midway through the game. Murtagh said Ennis missed several practices ahead of the game due to illness.

Northeastern will enjoy one more weekend of non-conference play, traveling north Friday to face the University of Maine and returning home to play the University of Vermont Sunday. During halftime on Sunday, the team will honor members of the 1988 Final Four squad in their second annual Celebration of Legends.

“We don’t have an easy schedule,” Murtagh said. “I’ve always known as a coach that we’re going to take our lumps, because we don’t make it easy on the team because we don’t think that prepares you for any kind of postseason play when you make it or if you make it, so that’s okay.”

Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics Redshirt senior Jamie Bartucca celebrates after scoring during the Huskies’ 2-1 win over Quinnipiac Sept. 1.

“It sucks that we will not be there to play!!” Alex Ovechkin wrote.

A lot of things have been written and spoken by NHL players, coaches and fans in the wake of the league’s decision, and subsequent insistence on barring its players from competing in the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Perhaps the one that sums up the shared sentiment in its simplest and rawest terms is this quote from Ovechkin.

The 32-year-old Washington Capitals winger issued a statement through his club Thursday, conceding defeat on the issue and ripping into the NHL’s decision. Ovechkin was among the last Charlie Wolfson players to hold onto a hope of defying the league’s PyeongChang decision, but that was put to rest last week when the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), in cooperation with the NHL, forbade any nation from allowing NHL players to play on their team.

The league rationalizes this decision the same way it justifies all of its wildly unpopular moves, such as the 1994 lockout, the gross overexposure of the outdoor game concept and the 2005 lockout. Oh, and the 2012 lockout.

The NHL consistently makes decisions that draw the ire and ridicule of even their most passionate followers, and it’s almost always about money. Commissioner Gary Bettman’s regime has proven many times over that they’re not above making hideous PR moves to get some extra cash down the road.

To be fair, pausing the NHL season for the Olympics does cost the league money. There have long been disputes between the league and the International Olympic Committee over travel and insurance costs for players.

There’s a risk of injury, too. It couldn’t have felt nice for the New York Islanders to lose their captain, John Tavares, for the remainder of the season after he got injured at the Sochi Games in 2014. Nor did Henrik Zetterberg’s injury at the same games help Detroit in the stretch run to the playoffs.

Whatever the NHL loses financially in the short-term, though, is more than offset by the unique opportunity afforded by the Olympics to spread the sport’s popularity, both in the United States and abroad.

Despite consistently growing in popularity since Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby entered the league in 2005, the NHL is still nowhere near the top of the U.S. sports scene. The NFL, NBA and MLB are all comfortably ahead in popularity by most measures, and there’s a case to be made that NCAA basketball and football are, too. It doesn’t look like this is going to change any time soon, but appealing to Americans’ patriotism is a fantastic way to start.

The league is flooded with exciting young stars like Auston Matthews, Connor McDavid and Patrick Laine, but there’s a disconnect with the fans the NHL is trying (and failing) to attract. The typical American potentialnew-hockey-fan just isn’t going to be drawn in by a matchup of McDavid’s Edmonton Oilers and Matthews’ Toronto Maple Leafs.

They may, however, be far more inclined to give hockey a try if it’s Matthews’ Team USA against McDavid’s Team Canada. Matchups like USACanada, USA-Russia and Sweden-Finland are what make Olympic hockey special, and an invaluable marketing tool for the NHL. What does the NHL have at its disposal to advertise the games? Only two of the most iconic, memorable moments in Olympic history. That’s Olympic history, not Olympic hockey history.

Crosby’s “golden goal” in 2010 lifted Canada over the US in overtime of the gold medal game. It was the culmination of Crosby’s rise to the top of the hockey world, and it was the bitter end of an inspiring Olympic run for Team USA, backstopped by tournament MVP Ryan Miller. The game drew an average viewership of 27.6 million people in the United States.

The average viewership for the decisive sixth game of the 2017 Stanley Cup Final? 7.086 million. Just 4.762 million for the series overall.

The 1980 “Miracle” Team USA drew a staggering 32.8 million viewers in the United States for its gold-medal game against Finland. And that was back when the NHL had just 21 teams. A country that was largely apathetic toward hockey collectively turned on its television sets for Olympic hockey.

The Olympics are simply too big of a growth opportunity for the NHL to sit out — Especially given that these games are being held in South Korea, and the NHL has frequently stated its desire to gain popularity in Asia.

Tangentially, this is yet another example of the NHL lacking any regard for its players. The league doesn’t listen to the players on issues like the All-Star Game, it shows little care for player safety and now it has ignored the opinion of virtually every player on the Olympics.

“We should not have to be in a position to make this choice,” Ovechkin wrote last Thursday.

No, you shouldn’t, Alex.

Women’s soccer splits weekend matches

By Brian Fields News Staff In their first home game since Aug. 29, Northeastern University (NU) women’s soccer overwhelmed Dartmouth College on a rainy Friday night in front of a drenched Husky faithful. Leading the charge in the 3-1 victory were sophomore midfielder Kerri Zerfoss and senior forwards Kayla Cappuzzo and Carly Wilhelm, each finding the back of the net in the Red and Black’s first victory over the Big Green in program history.

The Huskies, who scored first in eight of their first 10 games, struck in the 13th minute. Cappuzzo took a perfectly placed pass from freshman midfielder Mikenna McManus into the box and tapped the ball just beyond the reach of Dartmouth

goalkeeper Mariel Gordon into the bottom left corner of the net.

Dartmouth was quick to strike back, however, as an 18th minute free kick equalizer — its only shot on goal of the first half — snuck past junior goalkeeper Nathalie Nidetch.

Coming out of the locker room with a 1-1 tie at the half, Nidetch and the Huskies took their game into second gear. In another brilliant overall outing, Nidetch saved all six shots on goal in the second half, giving the high-powered offense the defensive assurance it needed to focus on scoring.

Off of a beautiful corner kick cross from senior forward/midfielder Taylor Caparo, Zerfoss headed the eventual game-winner into the top left corner of the net in the 62nd minute. She also played a role in the

final score of the night, gaining the assist on Wilhelm’s header for an insurance goal in the 84th minute.

Zerfoss emphasized the elevated collective mentality of the team as a catalyst for such high levels of play.

“We’re really clicking as a team and trying to work out some kinks that hurt us earlier in the season,” she said. “We realize that this is the last go-around for our seniors, and we want to make this season as memorable for them as we can.”

Other strong individual performances came from freshman forward Chelsea Domond, who came up with three shots on goal, and senior Hannah Lopiccolo, who also assisted on Wilhelm’s late goal.

The final home game prior to conference play, Friday’s match was played with the intention of

“returning to [the team’s] roots and really fine-tuning the fundamentals,” head coach Ashley Phillips said.

“We’re just trying to build on our basics and our game plan, and that’s why we schedule these tough outof-conference games,” Phillips said.

“I’m hoping this will start to build confidence going forward so that when we start league play, we’ll be ready to go.”

Zerfoss echoed the sentiments of her coach, noting that the team prioritized a back-to-basics approach for the entirety of the game.

“We’re really just trying to bring the same energy and level of play to every game,” the sophomore said.

“I know sometimes we come out and our play isn’t as consistently high as we hope, but we have to remember not to let it get to us and

keep our foot on the gas for the full 90 [minutes].”

Unfortunately, the Huskies were unable to keep the momentum rolling, as they struggled to find open looks in a 1-0 loss to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Wildcats. Despite outpacing the Wildcats with five more shots on target, the Huskies could not squeak past UNH keeper Mia Neas. They eventually lost on a pinball cross into the box that found senior forward Brooke Murphy, who tapped in the game-winner in the 81st minute.

The Huskies, ending non-conference play with a 6-4 record, look to remain among the top teams in a tough mid-major conference with Colonial Athletic Conference play commencing against Drexel on Thursday.

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Madigan named first recipient of endowment FLAMAN, from front conditioning, nutrition and student welfare programs in addition to increased recruiting and equipment funding.

Roby explained the funds will be released to the hockey program annually using a formulaic approach.

He said the standard withdrawal from endowment funds is four percent annually, which would give the hockey program an extra $80,000 each year for the next 25 years.

“We felt like endowing coaches positions was really strategic and could be really beneficial because it has long term benefit,” Roby said.

“It’s not like you’re just getting a donation that you get it in and turn around and spend it on things that you need but then that’s it. Anytime you’re thinking about an endowment fund, you’re thinking about the future as well as the present.”

In 1970, Flaman was named head coach of the Huskies. At the helm of the Red and Black, he amassed a 256-301-24 record and led the team to four Beanpot championships and a Hockey East championship.

“He spent 19 years of his life at Northeastern building a program,” Madigan said of Flaman. “It wasn’t easy those first 10 years, we didn’t have those resources and facilities and amenities. Those last nine years, 10 years we had them, and success followed.”

Flaman’s legendary career began in 1943 when he was signed by the Boston Bruins. According to the Boston Globe and the NHL, he was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1951 and went on to win a Stanley Cup with the team in his first year.

He was traded back to Boston after three seasons and remained with the Bruins for seven more seasons,

spending three of those years as captain.

During his time in the NHL, Flaman played in five All-Star Games. In 1990, he was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame with 34 goals and 174 assists in 910 games.

His 1,370 penalty minutes earned him the third spot in NHL record books for penalty minutes at the time of his retirement in 1964.

“He was a man that I respected, we respected,” Madigan said of Flaman.

“He was a leader, but was as a coach a little bit intimidating because of his stature, not just his size but by being a National Hockey League player for a long time.”

Madigan’s relationship with Flaman transcended across lines of player-coach to colleague to friend.

After graduating in 1985, he was hired by Flaman to serve as the assistant coach of the Huskies, a position he held until 1989.

“Fernie treated us like men,” Madigan said. “Sometimes we were acting like little boys, but he treated us like men and he wanted us to be responsible, accountable for our actions and our words.”

Now, Madigan instills lessons he learned from Flaman into his players years later.

“I try to do the same thing,” he said. “We’ve got young men here from age 18 to 24 and our job is to prepare them not just for hockey after their four years, but life after four years. It was important for Fernie that we grew and developed as people so we could be productive husbands, fathers [and] workers in the work force. I know that I want to be able to teach our players and provide our players with the same values that Fernie provided us.”

Northeastern Athletics received a $1 million contribution from

alumnus Bill Shea in 2014 that kickstarted the endowment fund, after which Roby and Madigan worked tirelessly to spread word of Flaman’s impact on the program and how an endowment would help ensure his legacy was not forgotten.

“People that provided the resources for this endowment fund knew Fernie and knew how much he meant to the program,” Madigan said. “I’m thankful for those donors who provided the valuable resource to allow us to have Fernie’s name associated with the endowment.”

In addition to financial gain, Madigan and Roby agreed the creation of an endowed head coaching position elevates the Northeastern hockey program in the eyes of fans around the region and the country. In addition to being the first position of its kind at the university, it is only the second endowed head coaching position in the Hockey East conference. Boston College endowed their head hockey coach position in 2012.

“It makes a really strong statement,” Roby said. “I think it puts us in a different space. It’s the kind of thing that schools that have great reputations will have. Many of the Ivy Leagues have similar types of positions — it’s the stuff of Stanford and Princeton or Harvard and Yale and Dartmouth, and I think everybody would agree that’s pretty good company to keep.”

Madigan said he was honored to receive the university’s first endowment, especially due to the meaning carried in the fund’s name.

“It means an awful lot,” Madigan said. “Words can’t describe how fortunate I feel to have my name affiliated with his name and to know that his name will live in perpetuity with the hockey program.”

Photo by Brian Bae Head coach Jim Madigan played and coached with Fernie Flaman.

Dave Flint receives extension through 2020-21

By Caroline Ingram News Staff Just as he has been for the past eight seasons, Dave Flint will be behind the bench of one of the nation’s top women’s hockey programs for years to come. The Northeastern University women’s hockey head coach recently agreed to a contract extension with the team through the 2020-21 season.

“Coach Flint’s body of work over the last eight years has resulted in a return to national prominence for our women’s ice hockey team,” Athletic Director Peter Roby said. “He and his staff have recruited world-class student-athletes who have taken our program to new heights both on and off the ice, and I am thrilled to know that he will remain our head coach moving forward.”

Before Flint joined the program in 2008, there was a six-year period when the Huskies failed to post a winning season and did not qualify for conference playoffs. Since then,

however, Flint has led the team to top-tier status of collegiate women’s hockey. Entering the program, Flint recognized the obstacles that lay ahead, but embraced the challenge.

“My thought was that I was not going to instantly turn things around overnight,” Flint said. “It was going to be a process.”

A rebuilding process of sorts ensued. Flint brought with him his five years of experience at Saint Anselm College, which showed its impact soon into his Northeastern tenure. During Flint’s second year with the team, the Huskies posted a 22-win season, coming in fourth place in Hockey East.

The 2012 Hockey East Co-Coach of the Year admits that he was not sure what to expect when he took the head coaching position. The experience has been a learning process for everyone involved — from the coaching staff down to the players.

“I’ve learned to be a better communicator,” Flint said. “I also think

accountability is important. If I show my team and my staff that I’m willing to put in the time and effort, then I can expect the same from them. Our kids always work hard, and my staff always works hard.”

The dedication of the coaching staff has been instrumental in recent success. Flint credits his staff for bringing in elite players who are smart and diligent hockey players.

“I was taught early on, it’s not always about the x’s and o’s; it’s about the players you have,” he said.

“What we tried to do was to recruit the best student athletes that we could. I remember day one with my assistant coaches, when I told them — and still to this day my assistants hear it from me — ‘We recruit character first.’”

Flint admires the passion of his players in all aspects of their lives.

“I really feel like we’ve done a good job recruiting kids who have exemplary character,” Flint said.

“Our kids are always successful in

Photo courtesy Jim Pierce, Northeastern Athletics Women’s head hockey coach Dave Flint, whose contract was extended on Sept. 11. Flint has led the Huskies to a 156-103-28 overall record since taking over in 2008.

the classroom, they are committed on and off the ice, and on top of that, they are very good hockey players.”

Those recruited players include past Olympians — most notably Kendall Coyne, who as a senior won the Patty Kazmaier Award in 2016, awarded annually to the best female hockey player in the country.

Reflecting back on his time here at Northeastern so far, Flint mentioned some of the things that stood out to him most in terms of the team’s accomplishments around the league.

“I felt like we’ve made great strides,” he said. “In 2012 and 2013 we won back-to-back Beanpots, something I’m really proud of. The program hadn’t won one [Beanpot title] since 1998.”

Additionally, the 2012 team won the program’s first ever Hockey East regular season championship under Flint’s guidance. They appeared in the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history during the 2015-16 season. In that same season, they recorded the most wins (28) in a season in program history.

Looking ahead to this season and beyond, there is still hard work to be put in and daunting tasks that await.

“With our league, it’s a tough game every night,” Flint said. “Fifteen years ago in women’s hockey, you had a group of teams you were competitive with, and then you had a group of teams where you could just show up and you’d win. Nowadays there’s a lot more parity in women’s hockey. Anybody can beat anybody on any given night.”

Flint and his team are focusing on consistency for the upcoming season, which has been something they struggled with in past seasons.

“We’ve had years where we’ve been really good, but then we’ll have lapses during the year, and we’ll miss the NCAA tournament by one game — and you look back and you’re like, ‘If we didn’t lose that one game to that team we should have beat, we would have quali-

fied,’” Flint said. “It’s just getting the team to find that consistency.”

There will be bumps in the road, but Flint is confident in this year’s team in particular. Players like fourth-year forward McKenna Brand, who led the team in goals last season, and fourth-year forward Denisa Krisova, last year’s assist leader, are making their return to Matthews Arena for a final season.

“I think this is probably the deepest team we’ve had since I’ve been here,” Flint said. “You know, we’ve had great players, but our talent would drop off. This year we’ve got a lot of talent all the way through the line-up, so there’s going to be some tough decisions.”

However, those tough decisions come with a silver lining.

“But that’s always good; when you create that competitive environment, it makes everybody work that much harder to keep their spot in the line-up, or to earn their spot in the line-up,” Flint quickly added.

“That’s, again, a credit to my assistant coaches for the quality of the student athletes we are bringing in.”

The season kicks off this Saturday with an exhibition game against Concordia University. The team is eager to accomplish even more this season, and they believe in their potential to do so.

“There’s still so much more that I want to achieve,” Flint said. “We still haven’t won a conference championship, we haven’t been to the Frozen Four.”

For all the successes and accomplishments of the past, there’s still plenty of work to be done and many more banners to be raised. Flint and his squad are ready to put in the work to make those goals a reality.

Ultimately, the Huskies strive to be much more than just a consistent powerhouse team.

“Our goal is to be a top-10 [in the nation] team, and to be a household name in women’s hockey,” Flint said.

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big thief w/ Palehound, Twain

W/ MARVEL YEARS

FRI. OCTOBER 20

SUN. OCTOBER 22

FRI. NOVEMBER 3

WED. SEPTEMBER 27

ANGUS & JULIA STONE SUN. NOVEMBER 5

FRI. NOVEMBER 10

MON. NOVEMBER 13

1222 Comm. Ave., Allston, MA greatscottboston.com

SUN. NOVEMBER 26

MON. SEPTEMBER 18

W/ CUT WORMS

THU. SEPTEMBER 28

THU. SEPTEMBER 21

W/ SINGLE MOTHERS, GOUGE AWAY torrestorrestorres.com

SAT. SEPTEMBER 30

FRI. NOVEMBER 17

MON. OCTOBER 2

MON. OCTOBER 9

W/ SAINT WKND, ASHE MON. DECEMBER 11

FRI. OCTOBER 27

SUN. OCTOBER 1

Japanese Breakfast w/ Mannequin Pussy, the spirit of the beehive.

W/ XENIA RUBINOS

TERA MELOS THU. DECEMBER 7

TUE. SEPTEMBER 19

MOSES SUMNEY

cut/copy SUN. NOVEMBER 19

W/ YEHME2, LOUIS FUTON, W/ SLOW DANCER , SLUMBERJACK SIDNEY GISH

SUN. SEPTEMBER 17

SYD WED. OCTOBER 11

W/ STEF CHURA, SOCCER MOMMY

TUE. OCTOBER 10

WED. OCTOBER 11

w/ HOOPS

W/ SPEEDY ORTIZ, AND THE KIDS

TUE. OCTOBER 31

SAT. NOVEMBER 4

WED. NOVEMBER 15

≠ 9/16 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN ≠ 9/17 BLANCK MASS ≠ 9/19 TEI SHI ≠ 9/25 MIGHTY OAKS ≠ 9/26 COAST MODERN ≠ 9/28 TENDER ≠ 9/30 TOPS ≠ 10/1 WHITEHORSE ≠ 10/2 CONNER YOUNGBLOOD ≠ 10/4 BANDITOS ≠ 10/8 PELICAN ≠ 10/10 SUN SEEKER ≠ 10/11 FRANKIE ROSE ≠ 10/12 MAX FROST ≠ 10/13 THE WEEKS ≠ 10/14 PHANTOMS ≠ 10/15 ANDREW BELLE ≠ 10/16 THE COURTNEYS ≠ 10/17 PICKWICK ≠ 10/18 GRIZFOLK ≠ 10/19 JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD ≠ 10/24 THIS IS THE KIT ≠ 10/27 SHIGETO ≠ 11/4 J.VIEWS ≠ 11/15 ALEX LAHEY

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