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We interview 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren
Documentary explores the lack of video stores in the world of streaming services.
BU should act soon to redistribute its investments in dirty energy.
Men’s and Women’s Hockey sweep ranked rivals to end the first half of the season.
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SG Senate uses less than half of projected budget ELLIE YEO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Boston University Student Government confirmed a new Executive Vice President, heard a proposal from the Environmental St udent Orga n ization a nd received budget updates from the vice president of finance in a Senate meeting Monday. SG Student Body President Hafzat Akanni, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, announced in her President’s Address that Executive Vice President Neha Iyer has stepped down from her position for personal reasons. The Senate confirmed Nneka Oyigbo, a senior in CAS who currently serves as the SG chief of staff, to replace Iyer as executive vice president next semester. Nora Singh, a freshman senator in CAS, said she thinks Oyigbo’s experience working with the Executive Board will help her fill the role of Executive Vice President. “She definitely fits in with the group really well,” Singh said. “It will definitely be familiar territory for her.” Senate heard a proposal from Chris Park, a sophomore in CAS, on his initiative entitled “Ecosia On BU.” The initiative aims to implement Ecosia, a search engine that plants one tree for every 45 searches, as the default search engine on BU librar y computers. Park is the treasurer of the Environmental Student
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Vice President of Finance Lukas Flores, shown in an Oct. 21 meeting, spoke to the Undergraduate Student Government about the current budget at Monday night’s meeting.
Organization, whose members have led the “Ecosia On BU” initiative. Park said that implementing Ecosia as BU’s default search engine is an easy way to increase environmentalism on campus without noticeably changing student life. Park said that BU’s large undergraduate population could have a significant impact on the environment through the Ecosia search engine. “BU has 17,000 undergraduates, roughly,” Park said. “If everyone did one search on a BU computer per 200 days, Ecosia estimates that on average it could have 80,000 trees planted per
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the Boston Housing Authority $1.8 billion in housing vouchers for Boston’s homeless and disabled residents Saturday.
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Homeless and disabled Bostonians may soon see more opportunities to obtain subsidized housing in the city. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded Boston Housing Authority $1.8 million Saturday to fund 139 housing vouchers for homeless and
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year.” So far, the Ecosia on BU group has secured a seed grant from Sustainability@BU that will allow them to continue expanding their initiatives. The group has also been able to implement a shortcut to the search engine on BU computers, and has planted over 800 trees as a result. Valeria Orellana, a freshman senator in the Questrom School of Business, said she would support transitioning to Ecosia on BU campus computers. “I think that it would be wise of BU to take on the initiative of incorporating Ecosia into their software in the libraries,”
City receives grant for housing
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disabled Boston residents, bringing the BHA’s supply of vouchers up to 13,500. Eligible homeless households referred to BHA will receive the new housing vouchers through Massachusetts’s Leading the Way Home program as well as Boston’s Coordinated Access System, according to a city press release. The funding comes as part of the Mainstream Housing Choice
Voucher Program, which makes use of partnerships between BHA and other local agencies to offer disabled individuals affordable housing and supportive services. Mayor Marty Walsh said in a press release the vouchers will assure all Bostonians they can always find a home in the city. “These vouchers will provide a much needed housing lifeline for some of our city’s most vulnerable families and individuals with disabilities,” Walsh said, “while offering services that can help to foster a better quality of life.” According to HUD, housing choice vouchers are limited to U.S. citizens and persons of eligible immigration status. Further eligibility is determined by public housing agencies based on a household’s total annual gross income and family size. Lydia Agro, director of communications and public affairs at BHA, said the organization owns and operates 13,000 units of public housing and currently administers CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Orellana said. “It would create such a great impact on the environment and also represent BU as a sustainable institution.” Senate a lso heard budget updates from the SG Vice President of Finance Lukas Flores, a junior in QST. Flores said SG has spent less of the annual budget than expected for the end of the semester, ending the fall semester with only 20 percent of the budget spent, when ideally 40 percent would be spent. According to the data presented at the meeting, SG budgeted $50,914.23 for the year, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
A tick species whose bite has been reported to trigger a red meat allergy may be expanding into the northeastern U.S., according to a Dec. 5 report from the New England Journal of Medicine. Lone star ticks, who received their name from the single white dot adult females have on their backs, once populated New England until deforestation and a lack of available hosts drove them south. Due in part to a warming climate and increased local deer populations, these ticks have been popping up in parts of Massachusetts this year, according to the report. Although lone star ticks have recently been discovered in the southernmost parts of Massachusetts, Paul Killinger, program administrator for the Laboratory of Medical Zoology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said they make up a small portion of the total cases logged by the lab’s TickReport program each year. “So far, we’ve only received 224 [lone star tick reports] from the state of Massachusetts,” Killinger said. “And to give you some context, we prbably get six or more thousand [tick reports] per year from Massachusetts.” The red meat allergy is induced by an allergic reaction to CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Town hall discusses fossil fuel divestment BY ELLIE YEO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Divest BU held a town hall in the College of Arts and Sciences Saturday to discuss the importance of divestment from fossil fuels and examine the ways BU students can change the university’s policies on fossil fuel investments. Attendees of “Combatting the Climate Crisis: A Town Hall” heard from local organization leaders, students and BU professors on divestment at BU and climate advocacy in the greater-Boston area. Two representatives from the Boston branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, Gracie Brett and Perri Meldon, spoke on the importance of removing profitability from the energy sector and refocusing the government and energy companies towards sustainable and healthy energy sources. Brett, who is also a member of Divest Ed, an organization that
supports student-led divestment advocacy groups, said divestment is a critical step to building a future of ecological justice. “Divestment is a really cool tactic because it not only is doing something to alleviate the environmental harm of fossil fuels and take down fossil fuel corporations,” Brett said, “but it also is a great way to highlight how this system is fundamentally focused on profit and not ourhealth, not our livelihoods, nor our future, not the planet.” Brett and Meldon also touched upon the financial benefits of divestment, stating that university trustees should be concerned about the current devaluation of fossil fuel stocks. “Fossil fuel investments like coal are in rapid decline,” Brett said. “It makes really poor financial sense to be invested in these things.” Alice Arena, president and executive director of Fore River Residents Against the Compression Station, spoke about her CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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Boston awarded $1.8 million to house homeless and disabled HOUSING, FROM PAGE 1 a total of 13,000 to 14,000 Section 8 housing vouchers to homeless individuals and families. “Most of them are tenantbased vouchers where people get a subsidy,” Agro said, “and they can go rent from a landlord who rents out privately owned apartments.” Agro said BHA works closely with the City of Boston in its efforts to end homelessness and that BHA’s housing subsidies prioritize people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. “These particular vouchers are set aside for households that have at least one adult member who has a disability,” Agro said. “Some of those families could have veteran members as well.” Agro said affordable housing is a major issue because shelter is a necessity integral to all spheres of people’s lives. “Housing is a fundamental need and a framework in which the rest of a family’s ability to thrive is based,” Agro said. “Without hous-
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the Boston Housing Authority $1.8 billion in housing vouchers Saturday, which will be used for Boston’s homeless and disabled residents.
ing, it’s hard for people to get an education, to look for jobs, to be healthy.” Lindsey Decker, 35, of West Roxbury, said although she thinks the homeless crisis is not as severe
in Boston as it is in other cities around the U.S., it is still a big concern to Massachusetts. “I think that Boston does have a pretty big problem with homelessness, in part because of the
lack of affordable housing that we have in the city,” Decker said. “It’s not as bad as somewhere like San Francisco because the winters are quite punishing here.” Decker said she thinks it is
important to dedicate federal funds toward eradicating homelessness among veterans and other Bostonians. “If we can make things better for other people, as one of the richest countries in the world, why don’t we do it?” Decker said. “It leads to a better social environment in general.” Eduardo Molina, 30, of Beacon Hill, said he has personally noticed a spike in the homeless population in Boston since moving back to the city. “I lived in Boston for years and I went back to Mexico for a couple years and I’m here again,” Molina said. “And I think there’s more [people] in that situation.” Charles Qian, 22, of Allston, said Bostonians should be concerned about eradicating homelessness in the city. “I think it’s not a huge problem, but there’s definitely a problem,” Qian said. “There’s something that we can do to help them, especially as a community.”
Divest BU holds town hall on fossil fuel investment policies DIVEST, FROM PAGE 1 fight against the construction of a compression station, a facility that transports natural gas, in her town of Weymouth. A BU alumna herself, Arena said she finds it frustrating to watch BU’s endowments being invested in fossil fuels. She used her experience in fighting the fossil fuel industry in Weymouth to highlight the impact divestment can have on local communities. “Taking the money away from the beast, starving the beast as much as you possible can, this is the way to go,” Arena said. “It makes a huge difference for us in communities like Weymouth, Quincy and Braintree, who have been sickened for decades by all the toxic facilities that are down there.” Richard Reibstein, a lecturer in environmental law and policy in the Earth and Environment Department at BU, said university administration should be worried about the reputational risk of continuing to invest in fossil fuels. “If BU waits too long to do the right thing, it will fall into the class of old-fashioned, not very intelligent, inertial, and eventually elitist enemy,” Reibstein said. “We don’t need our institution that we love or are connected with to fall into that negative category.”
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President and Executive Director of Fore River Residents Against the Compression Station Alice Arena speaks at a town hall meeting on climate change hosted by DivestBU Saturday.
Maya Levine, a junior at Harvard University, spoke about the student-led climate protest at the Harvard-Yale University football game in November. She explained the process of organizing a peaceful and safe protest and noted that the primary purpose was to
increase pressure on the university to divest from fossil fuels. Levine said she is happy to be in an environment where she can support other organizations fighting for divestment by attending events like Divest BU’s town hall.
“It’s nice to be able to support other people in the area who are advocating for divestment,” Levine said. “Yes it’s Divest Harvard, yes it’s Divest BU, but ultimately it’s divest fossil fuels.” Jacob Levitt, a sophomore in the Wheelock School of Educa-
tion and Human Development and a member of the Student Activists Union, of which Divest BU is a member, said he came to the town hall to support student activism. “I was just excited to come out,” Levitt said. “I didn’t know about a lot of this stuff, but it’s an issue that I certainly care about, and I’m excited to learn about it and represent Student Activists Union.” Bolaji Olagbegi, a senior in CAS, said she appreciated hearing from members of the Boston community. “It was really great to see a lot of people from the community come out,” Olagbegi said, “just to help put things in perspective and make the situation more real and more tangible.” Matthew Tate, a sophomore in CAS and member of Divest BU, moderated the town hall and said he viewed the event as a success. He said Divest BU hopes to raise awareness of and support for divestment in the BU community. “What we’re looking forward to is expanding this town hall and these discussions into something that occurs a couple of times a semester,” Tate said. “I feel like it’s very valuable for students to realize that there are ways right now that you can participate in the process to help further our ideals as a university that is non-dependent on fossil fuels.”
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THURSDAY, DEC. 12
FRIDAY, DEC. 13
SATURDAY, DEC. 14
Baroque Orchestra Performance
HTC Grand Closing Party
Initiative on Cities: MetroBridge Showcase
8 p.m. College of Fine Arts Hosted by Boston University Baroque Orchestra
5 p.m. Kilachand Center Hosted by BU MetroBridge
Cross-College Challenge Project Showcase
5 p.m. GSU Hosted by Howard Thurman Center
Boston Bollywood Season 8 Performance
8 p.m. Tsai Performance Center Hosted by Boston Bollywood
9 a.m. Metcalf Trustee Center Hosted by BU Hub
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SG Senate announces new Executive VP, discusses Ecosia SG, FROM PAGE 1 and as of now $9,769.42 has been spent. This leaves $41,144.81 remaining for the spring semester. Flores said a publicly available financial dashboard will be posted soon. “Based on the numbers and the analysis, the senators have not been spending as much money as they could be spending,” Flores said. “This isn’t necessarily to say that they’re not doing work, but rather that their work just doesn’t have as many expenses attached.” Flores urged senators to present more initiatives and propos-
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Vice President of Finance Lukas Flores (QST ‘21) presents budget updates to the Undergraduate Student Government Senate Monday.
als to Senate next semester in order to take full advantage of the budget. “It’s an opportunity for the senators to think big and come into Senate next semester with proposals that will have a significant impact on student life,” Flores said. “I would love to see senators come in with their proposals next semester, get their juices f lowing over the winter and have good ideas about how to spend the money effectively.” Emma Jacobson, a sophomore senator for the School of Hospita lit y Administration, said she sees the excess budget
as an opportunity for senators to make an impact on campus next semester. “I think it’s great that we have a lot of money to spend,” Jacobson said. “There’s a lot of room for great things to happen and initiatives on campus that can bring people together.” Some additional proposals included suggestions for grammatical edits to the SG constitution, Senate By-Law grammatical edits, and a Rules Committee Restructure proposal. These initiatives were followed by an open forum for discussion among attendees.
Bite from new tick in New England may trigger meat allergy TICK, FROM 1 alpha-gal, a sugar molecule found in most mammals except humans. Symptoms include rashes, hives and nausea as well as difficulty breathing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, Killinger said the likelihood of developing an allergy after being bitten is slim. “I think it’s useful to emphasize that the alpha-gal allergy, the red meat allergy, is still in the early stages of being understood,” Killinger said. “It is not something that I think researchers who are more familiar with it than me expect a majority of people to experience. It is not really the norm right now.” Catherine Brown, epidemiologist and public health veterinarian for the state of Massachusetts, wrote in an email that deer
— or black-legged — ticks continue to pose a greater threat than lone star ticks as they are the primary carriers of Lyme disease. Brown wrote that raising public awareness is crucial for combatting the potential risk posed by increased lone star tick populations in the region. “In this situation,” Brown wrote, “the primary response is to include information about this emerging tick species during presentations and conversations with local boards of health, healthcare providers and the public.” As for tick-borne diseases in general, Killinger said that public awareness is increasing, and yearly infection rates of ticks remain stable. “It’s hard to say for sure whether or not the number of ticks is increasing,” Killinger
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The lone star tick, a species of tick whose bite reportedly causes an allergy to red meat, has become more widespread in the northeastern U.S. recently partly due to the effects of climate change.
said. “But we can say that as we test more and more ticks, the actual percentages that are infected is really not changing. So that is very good news.” Brighton resident Evan Kesel,
22, said he heard about the lone star tick on a Radiolab podcast episode about a woman who contracted the meat allergy. “Yeah, it’s kind of f---ed up,” Kesel said. “I don’t think there’s a
lot of people up here that really know about the lone star tick in particular. I think there’s a lot of people who are touched by Lyme disease, though.” Olivia Ryder, 21, of Back Bay, said she has never been bitten by a tick and has not heard about a meat allergy-inducing tick. “I’m creeped out, honestly,” Ryder said. “I believe it should be talked about more, especially with people who don’t live on the East Coast or in places that have high tick [populations].” Megan Sutton, 34, of Brighton, said she has not heard about the red meat allergy phenomenon but has seen many ticks in the state. “We grew up in the suburbs of Massachusetts,” Sutton said. “If I’m going outside, I always wear long pants.”
Elizabeth Warren speaks on college affordability, ranked-choice voting BY MATTHEW SENSABAUGH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
The Daily Free Press interviewed Democratic presidential contender and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, during which the candidate talked about why she thinks she is the best choice for Boston University students and whether she supports implementing ranked-choice voting. Our reporters talked with Warren after the Democratic National Committee’s IWillVote fundraising gala in Boston on Thursday. Specifically, Warren spoke on her plan to make college affordable for all Americans and explained why young voters should choose her as the Democratic nominee next year. In the ranked-choice voting system, voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots, according to Ballotpedia. The idea has gradually gained supporters including presidential candidate Andrew Yang and New York Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez, who campaigned for New York City’s adoption of the voting system this past November. Ranked-choice voting has already been enacted in parts of Massachusetts, including Amherst, Easthampton and Warren’s neighborhood of Cambridge. In the 2018 primaries, Maine became the first state in the U.S. to implement ranked-choice voting. Read the transcript of our interview with Warren below. Excerpts have been edited for clarity.
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Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Democratic National Committee’s IWillVote Gala Thursday.
Tuition at Boston University is $72,000 dollars. Why are you the best presidential candidate to represent college students at Boston University? Because I believe that it’s time for a wealth tax in America. That would be a 2-cent tax on people who have fortunes above $50 million. That’s the top one-tenth of 1 percent. And with that money, we can reinvest in an entire generation. And that means universal childcare and universal pre K and rais-
ing the wages of every child-care worker and preschool teacher in America. It means a historic $800 billion investment in public schools. It means making technical school two-year college and four-year college tuition-free. It means leveling the playing field and putting $50 billion into historically black colleges and universities. And it means canceling student loan debt for 47 million Americans. It’s about how we build a future in this country and whether or not opportunity is going
to be reserved just for those born into privilege, or if it’s going to be opportunity for everyone. Your affordable college plan has lots of similarities with that of Senator Bernie Sanders. Why is yours the best plan? Well, I got it paid for by a 2-cent wealth tax. And it’s about an investment in an entire generation. It starts from little babies and goes all the way through post-high school education and then into college. How important is the youth vote
in the upcoming election? It’s your future. Climate change threatens every living thing on this planet. And it will your earth where the consequences will be felt most harshly. That’s why we need to attack the corruption in Washington. Anyone who comes to you says they have a climate plan, but they’re not talking about how they’re going to reduce the influence of money and connections in Washington. They’re not serious about getting it done. And anyone who isn’t willing to support the repeal of filibusters in Senate is not serious. Because so long as the oil industry and the big polluters are able to keep calling the shots in Washington, we may end up with laws and have great titles, but they won’t get done what we need to get done. Among my generation, many students are interested in rankedchoice voting. You’ve talked about it before, but are you officially in favor of ranked-choice voting? I will say the first time I was like, ‘I don’t know.’ We do ranked-choice voting in Cambridge, where I live, and it actually has been a little confusing at first, but we have a lot of candidates and you don’t always know everyone. Then one piece at a time I’ve come to read more about it, to learn more about it, and I’ve been really impressed with the possibilities. So I have certainly moved that way.
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ARTS Illuminus showcases light installations with socio-political messages BY DAVID SIMON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Annual nighttime arts festival Illuminus was held Thursday and Friday in Downtown Crossing, showcasing many politically-tinged light installations. All of the pieces at the event utilized modern technology, ranging from projectors to video cameras, in some capacity to display the art pieces and bring the viewer into the artwork. Signify, a lighting-design company, worked with artist Alex Furlan for his art piece titled “Interlux” which connected to an app and allowed attendees to interact with the installation by changing its hues. Jim Anderson, the global market segment manager at Signify, said he helped put up some of the pieces at the Illuminus event. “You actually can download the app and change the content,” Anderson said. Jeff Grantz, Illuminus founder and director of Creative Technologies at Design Communications, said he founded the event in 2014 because he felt that many of his friends who were artists did not have a proper platform to showcase their work. “Through a lot of conversations, we started talking about what can we do to activate the city,” Grantz said. “So, the idea
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Illuminus, an annual art festival featuring politically-themed pieces this year, took place over Dec. 5 and 6 in Downtown Crossing.
was to use the city as our canvas and turn it into a gallery, essentially, and also, in doing so, give artists a bigger, better canvas to present their work on.” Catherine Siller’s piece, entitled “#buynow,” commented on social media influencers and the spread of corporate interests within digital platforms by projecting onlookers into the digital display through a video camera. “An Ecology of Worries”
by artist duo Caitlin & Misha, “consists of several animated characters speaking worries that were synthesized using various machine learning algorithms,” according to Illuminus’ website. “I’m worrying that my future is up in the air,” said one of the abstract depictions of fear in the installation. “I am worried at the end of the day that I am killing people instead of trying to help people.”
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Seth Pearson a 26-year-old student at the University of Maryland, attended the festival and said he had mixed feelings about some of the artwork. “So, I’m kind of neutral on [Illuminus.],” Pearson said. Depending on where I look, I see things I like and don’t like. Overall, it’s not a bad thing, not a bad event. Shawn Faherty, creative technologist at Design
Communications, said he decided to join Illuminus after talking with Grantz six years prior. He was working as a reporter at The Boston Globe when he said he decided to make the switch into the creative arts industry. “I think new ideas are usually trail-blazed from things like this,” Faherty said. “Art is a pathway to get us across to people. Sometimes that’s the best way to get the message across.” Faherty also discussed the importance of having an open setting to convey these themes of sociopolitical anxiety. “For people walking by, it’s sort of guerilla art,” he said. “It’s in your face. There’s some artists that just kind of go out and do this type of thing on their own, but at least here we have an environment, in a medium for people to do it in more of a professional, open to the public piece that’s advertised.” Outside of individual impact, Grantz said the event was intended to implement a new platform for artists to house their creativity. “One of the big reasons that this festival is important is that it’s intended to be a showcase of talent and creativity in Boston,” Grantz said, “as it is as the epicenter for art and the center of technology.”
“Shear Madness” turns 40, continues bringing laughs to the stage BY MEGAN GREGOIRE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
In the world of theater, long-running and successful shows like “The Phantom of the Opera” or “Cats” hold a special place in the hearts of theater-lovers worldwide. Now, Boston’s very own “Shear Madness,” a comedic whodunnit that takes place in a hair salon, is celebrating its 40th anniversary at the historic Charles Playhouse where it debuted. “Shear Madness” has been translated in 10 different languages and spawned 42 productions in the U.S. according to Broadway In Boston. Marilyn Abrams, one of the show’s creators alongside Bruce Jordan, said she prides herself on the originality and “magic” behind each night’s show. “The audience finds themselves a part of it without thinking that they’re ever going to be a part of it,” Abrams said. “Being in the play is actually why Bruce and I took it and stayed with it for so long and worked so hard to get it going, because we were in it.” Jordan said he thinks the show has maintained its strength due to its ability to keep itself “eternally fresh and new.” As an interactive, improvisation-based performance, no two shows are
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The Charles Playhouse, where comedy-improv show Shear Madness is being shown to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
ever the same. “The jokes that are today, were not the same jokes that were a month ago,” Jordan said. “[Audiences] see different things each time that they come.” Along with producing and directing the show respectively, Abrams and Jordan also held roles in the
production’s early days. Abrams said that her time as an actress in the show created a unique connection that she had never experienced with previous roles. “I have to say that being in the show, in Boston, in that little theater and working with the original cast, to me personally is so
meaningful,” Abrams said. “And the people who were the founding fathers, who were in the show with us 40 years later, it’s just as real as it was. I feel so much love and affection for my fellow actors in the play.” With the show’s innovative structure comes unique audience
experiences that can’t be found in the traditional theater environment. Abrams’ stand out moment with an audience member over the show’s 40-year run came in the form of a misplaced coat. An audience member accidentally mistook a prop coat hook for a real coat hook and hung his designer Burberry coat upon it. Little did he know, a cast member — who had to wear a Burberry coat for the show — incorporated that same coat hook later in the performance. Jordan also recounted the time a casual, improvised conversation with an audience member took an interesting turn. On one particular night, Jordan’s character was cooking, and the audience member wanted to know if he had the correct ingredients. Jordan, following the show’s comedic nature, purposefully kept messing up the order of the ingredients. “I’m writing it down and each time I write it down, I write it down a little wrong and repeat it back to him,” Jordan said. “And he gets out from behind his chair, just goes up the stairs into my kitchen (the set). Fortunately, the police officers stopped him. But I thought now that’s the magic of theater.”
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Filmmaker brings video store nostalgia to campus in documentary BY ANDREW KLINE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
The image is immediately clear — the musty smell of old items, the aged, multihued and stained blue carpet, shelves teeming with DVDs and VHS packages. But that’s not why film nerds come here. Instead, video stores serve as an anthropological archive of films threatened by extinction. Independent filmmaker James Westby shared his documentary “At the Video Store” at Friday’s “Cinematheque” series hosted by Boston University’s College of Communication. The documentary explores what the vanishing of video stores means to the film community and was filmed on a low budget across several cities, interviewing current and former video store owners. The documentary explored how film, an artform bound to the medium of technology, has suffered from the emergence of stores like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, and then from the proliferation of online streaming services. “At the Video Store” described customers carrying DVDs and VHS tapes home with an appreciation that the film had been produced. Today, this appreciation for the physical film is lost to the “ether” of streaming services that undermines the artistic nature of film, according to the documentary. Small business video stores once
served as community hubs for film nerds, but the documentary suggested the future of film lacks a passionate communal experience. Westby said online film forums are lacking in the cultural richness that was once present in video stores. The decline of these passionate gathering spaces and the effective censorship of film also stunted the dialogue within the film community. “The online forum [when Netflix started a mail order service] was great and it was more positive than anything that I think has come out since,” Westby said. “Film nerds were talking to each other online about recommendations and things.” Employees used to be able to make personalized recommendations, which the documentary said was better than the current system of algorithms that dominates streaming services. Despite the presence of algorithms, Westby said he continues to get advice from human sources. “I definitely laugh at algorithms,” Westby said. “I’m sure that in some way I’m affected by algorithms and they’re probably taking me over in some ways, but I always have the human connection on the side at the same time.” As internet algorithms lack direction among the overwhelming number of films in the world, Lauren Leger, a junior in COM, said increasing one’s film knowledge is more chal-
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Independent filmmaker James Westby presented his documentary, “At the Video Store,” as part of Boston University College of Communication’s “Cinematheque” series Friday.
lenging now, without video stores. “For a while I’ve been feeling like I want to up my film knowledge,” Leger said. “It’s just so overwhelming how many movies there are [online].” During the discussion following the screening, Gerald Peary, Cinematheque’s curator and moderator of the event, asked the audience of primarily film students who had been to a video store during their lifetime. Only one student left their hand down. Despite virtually all in attendance having been to a video store before, one student noted there is only one video store left in Boston called Video Underground, located in Jamaica Plain.
Larger corporate video stores, strategically opened near small businesses, caused these competitors to close, according to the documentary. But these small video stores hosted an expanse of artistic films that did not align with the family-friendly demographics and censorship guidelines used by the larger stores. The documentary explored how the minority of surviving video stores were forced to adopt creative tactics to stay in business. For example, in the threat of closing, many video stores launched Kickstarter campaigns to claim non-profit status. Some businesses conversely installed gyms, ice cream bars and drive-thrus into their stores in an effort to save
their benevolent film communities, according to the film. Peary said as a result, streaming services don’t carry an extensive collection of films crucial to the film community that either did not fit family guidelines, or were only ever produced on VHS. “This film really makes clear that the world of cinema is more than just the latest release and what’s coming up or what you can quickly stream,” Peary said. “If you really love movies, you want to know everything.” While film has suffered, Westby said streaming services have increased the efficiency and accessibility of watching, more specifically binge-watching television shows. “People would come up to me at the store I worked at with Six Feet Under DVDs, like stacks of them,” Westby said. “They’d come back for more and they’d watch three seasons of something over the course of three days.” Peary said he believes “At the Video Store” is an essential film for film students to watch to engage with old films. “I’m a lover of old films and preserving films and feeling this, students should know film history,” Peary said. “If you really love movies, you want to know everything and the movie shows you how fun it is to know everything, connect with other people about film history.”
COMMUNITY Samantha Power discusses the dignity, action at WBUR CitySpace BY LILY KEPNER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
As snow coated Commonwealth Avenue Friday, Samantha Power, the 28th United States Permanent Representative of the United Nations, strode on the WBUR City Space stage in her black snow boots. Power connected with the sold-out crowd that braved the snow to be there, setting the foundation for the candid yet powerful connection Power would establish that evening in “A Conversation with Samantha Power.” The event focused on Power’s new book, “The Education of an Idealist,” an autobiography published in September depicting Power’s journey from growing up as an Irish-American immigrant to becoming a United Nations ambassador. At the event, which was held in conjunction with the New England International Donors, RefugePoint and the Schooner Foundation, Power described her book as “very personal,” adding that it includes everything from romance to baseball to Putin. Power discussed her friendships with colleagues like Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin despite their different diplomatic beliefs, work with refugees and foreign policy and how even small actions can make a profound difference.
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Samantha Power, a former U.S. Permanent Representative of the United Nations, shown at an event at the UN Office in Geneva in 2010, spoke at WBUR City Space Friday about her new book, “The Education of an Idealist.”
Power included in her book a goodbye letter she wrote to her then six-month-old son Declan in case she didn’t return from Iraq in 2009. She said she included it, despite her inability to read it aloud, to help readers understand the stakes of diplomatic service for the nation in a dangerous country to do so. “I included it because I realized as I was going back through my papers and journals and things that this is my story,” Power said at the event. “My goal in the book is to work in universal moments for the reader and broaden these lessons.” Power spoke about the importance of treating all people with
dignity, no matter how drastically different their views may be. She said her obsession with dignity is one of the reasons she strove to meet personally with every ambassador, to ask why they wanted to be a diplomat and listen to their stories to show that the U.S. was willing to learn from them. In her three and a half years as U.S. Ambassador, Power reached out to representatives from all 192 countries in the UN. She said previous U.S. Ambassadors had never approached dozens of these countries. All except North Korea’s ambassador accepted her request to meet.
“I’m not talking about going to 192 countries,” Power said. “I’m talking about having a meeting.” Having felt overwhelmed by her lack of voice in policy matters, Power said she decided to make her own path of action, demanding that important, unspoken issues be addressed. Her work to bring more Iraqi refugees to the U.S., she said, is a successful example of using this strategy. Power elaborated on the idea of taking unique, specific action in response to attendee Paul Rubenstein’s, 24, of Brighton, question about what advice she would give young adults hoping to make a difference. She said turning a big problem into something small is an essential first step. “There’s an awful lot that one could be doing at one time,” Power said. “But as I look back at my career, it was bursts of specialization [that made a difference].” Rubenstein said this is his third time attending an event featuring Power. Describing Power as “a real life superhero,” he said this talk reinvigorated his decision to start pursuing meaningful career opportunities beyond just money. “[I] have recently been going through a personal metamorphosis,” Rubenstein said. “I’m finding that it matters less to me about having enough money and more about doing something I find fulfilling.”
Rubenstein said he was encouraged by how Power’s story shows that people can create real change. “You don’t need to be flying off to become a war correspondent, you don’t need to be in the White House or in the UN to start making a difference,” Rubenstein said. “Like she said, it starts with small things and moves from there.” Nadyeli Quiroz, a graduate student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, said she was inspired by Power’s discussion of small victories that often have a profound impact on people, such as the Obama Administration’s handling of the Ebola Epidemic and Power’s “Freethe20” campaign. “Those stories do matter because those are not the ones that get the attention of the media,” Quiroz said. “It’s really motivating to hear that something can [make] a difference and what she just said in the end, a small thing means a lot to someone.” John Wagner, a fellow at Harvard’s GSD, who attended the event, said he was struck by how Power made her “power personable.” “She’s a human being like everybody else and yet has made enormous, impactful decisions and contributed amazing work that really did change a lot of lives,” Wagner said. “It’s really not a small thing.”
6 OPINION
EDITORIAL
DivestBU begins a necessary conversation about divestment This past Saturday, DivestBU hosted a town hall to discuss the importance of Boston University’s divestment from fossil fuels and possibilities for student activism regarding climate change. It set into motion an urgent dialogue about the current state of BU’s sustainability initiatives. Currently, our sustainability program consists of sustainability@BU and Dining Services Sustainability. In less vague and grandiose terms, this program comprises of statements about the George Sherman Union being the greenest food court in the country, separate trash bins for different types of waste and posters that suggest bathroom goers should use electric hand dryers. BU is only the 25th most sustainable university in the U.S. and that is by no accident. Tacking on these minimally beneficial programs does not make up for the fact that it continues to financially support corporations polluting the environment. BU ought to rectify the destruction it has been implicit in with divestment, or halting its financial investments in . While it is certainly not a foolproof nor comprehensive solution to climate change, it is a move in the right direction. As Gracie Brett of Divest BU told The Daily Free Press, proactive divestment will “highlight how [the energy sector] is fundamentally focused on profit and not our health, not our livelihoods, nor our future, not the planet.” If BU would spend $1.85 billion to build a physical symbol of its data science innovation, it can afford to take part in divestment. In fact, with this amount of financial resources, the only question left unanswered
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Professor Rick Reibstein, a Boston University lecturer in environmental law and policy, speaks at a town hall meeting on climate change hosted by DivestBU Saturday.
is one of willingness. Becoming a leader in environmentalism in the near future isn’t possible. Accomplishing that is incredibly difficult given that BU would have to completely overhaul its current value system. However, the school’s history with environmental harm in conjunction with the divestment’s practical benefits obligates BU to at least participate. First, BU is great at branding itself as demonstrated by the 64,470 high schoolers who applied to its class of 2022. Divestment is a good mechanism to implement a continuing progress on that front. The inten-
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tion — whether exploitation as a branding tool or legitimate sincerity — isn’t important. Divestment would be a win-win scenario in which BU simultaneously augments its reputation among college applicants and staves off energy sector growth. Additionally, higher education is a strategic environment to accelerate the divestment movement. Universities tend to mimic each other and student bodies are young enough to be concerned about divestments’ significance for climate change. If BU begins to make any effort at divesting, it is likely that other universities will soon follow suit. Ultimately, this initiative is easier now
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than later. Because divestment is closely aligned with students’ attitudes toward climate change, implementing it now as opposed to in reaction to student protests would be less costly for BU. If the administration is concerned that there are no equally financially sound alternatives out there to invest in, consider this: fossil fuel investments like coal are performing poorly and the long-term trend is one towards alternative energy sources. We encourage Divest BU to continue hosting these town halls and holding our school accountable to the ideals that it espouses to applicants.
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OPINION 7
COLUMNS American Protest:
Regular testing can prevent the spread of HIV in the U.S.
BY MEREDITH VARNER COLUMNIST
Every Dec. 1, World Aids Day comes around and we all talk about the people in this world living with HIV or AIDS, which are sexually transmitted diseases commonly associated with the gay community. The problem, though, is that we cannot just talk about this issue for one day — it is something we need to talk about year-round in order to properly educate the citizens of the U.S. Unfortunately, there is still a stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS that prevent us from properly educating the public. Many people still believe that it is a disease contracted only by gay men and drug users, when in fact anyone can contract HIV. Many people are also uneducated on how it can be contracted, how to check if you have contracted it and how long people live after they have been diagnosed. HIV is spread through bodily fluids which happen most often during unprotected sex. It can also be passed along by sharing needles but this is less prominent now than it was in the past. Approximately 1.1 million people in the U.S are living with HIV and 15 percent of these people are unaware, according to HIV.gov. In addition, the most at-risk people are gay and bisexual men as well as African American or Latino men. A lot of these statistics stem from a lack of education about preventing sexually transmitted diseases as well as a lack of STD testing. The American education system has
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Internet dependency jeopardizes our authenticity
failed the students of America by delivering less-than-satisfactory sex education, sometimes not even having the subject taught at all. Many of the schools that do choose to talk about sex education do not go in-depth enough for students to truly understand the importance of safe sex, resulting in the transmission of STDs and high teenage pregnancy rates. Some schools simply teach abstinence as the best form of birth control. While it is true that not having sex will certainly prevent pregnancy and STDs, it is pretty much useless. Teenagers are going to have sex. They will just end up having unprotected sex because no one taught them different protection methods. Abstinence-only sex education actually increases the pregnancy and STD transmission rates because it is so ineffective, according to a study at the Univerity of Georgia. The school systems need to make sex-education a mandatory part of the curriculum so that students have the ability to make safer choices. It is the only way this country will see vast changes in the HIV transmission rate. Planned Parenthood offers to test for pretty much every STD under the sun and can even be free with insurance. The tests are quick, easy and painless. Not getting tested and risking dangerous STDs is quite the opposite of that. There are also many other resources for people with HIV or at high risk of contracting it. There are medications such as antiretroviral therapy, which involves taking anti-HIV medication daily and can reduce the amount of HIV in an HIV positive person to the point that they will not pass along the disease at all. There is also a process called pre-exposure prophylaxis, which is medicine can be taken by someone who does not have HIV but is at high risk for contracting the condition. The education about these options is essential because they are medications specifically made for preventing the spread of HIV. Through a better sex education system, regular testing, safe sex and awareness about contracting and preventing HIV, this country can finally start eradicating the disease that has taken too many lives. There is no excuse to not educate our children about how to stay healthy and prevent life-threatening diseases. Sex can no longer be taboo — it is harming our children to ignore the realities of HIV and AIDs.
INTERROBANG
BY HANNAH BOHN COLUMNIST
It isn’t surprising that during the era of constant internet accessibility, the average American spends about six hours and 42 minutes on the Internet each day, according to a report by Hootsuite. The Internet is a helpful tool, providing instant access to a sea of information and communication net work, but the web has made us all into our own personal assistants. We interact with our screens more than some of us would like to admit. One of our most compulsive habits is the way we refer to the Internet to aid our writing — whether it be for schoolwork or to send a simple text. When we write a paper for class, edit a resume or send an email, we work closely with our devices that supply us with advanced shortcuts and tips. We treat the Internet like a support system, relying on it in order to carry out many tasks. The electronic platforms we use for writing, such as Pages or Microsoft Word, constantly modif y the ways we form sentences through word processor systems to produce higher quality of writing. These programs often correct our mistakes and offer many synonyms so quickly that we cannot actually process the adjustments made nor learn from our mistakes.
As a result, these systems decrease our ability to write autonomously and deepen our reliance on the Internet’s ser vices. Do we ever question the extent to which our writing is dependent on advancing technolog y? Using the internet to enhance our personal mental dictionar y and elevate our phrases is common and familiar, but doing so can limit our ability to express our individual voice. This consequence raises the following question, is anything we produce entirely original if we extract so much from the Internet? Through all of the Google searches, suggested synonyms and research journals, we cut corners in order to produce material as fast as possible. In the process, we lose our authenticity as writers. We can counteract this phenomenon by writing more on paper, which forces us to ponder and physically develop our thoughts without assistance. Along with this, we should try turning toward the wisdom of books and actually reading rather than skimming online articles. As such, there is an enormous difference between reading a novel and interpreting its shades of gray versus formulating an opinion about it based on someone else’s thoughts for an online review. Writing with a paper and pen — although less practical in our digital age — allows a writer to generate material based completely on their own thoughts. Then we can pull phrases from our mental dictionaries and select words and phrases that a lign with our individua l writing style. This practice can elevate our writing skills and strengthen our personal knowledge. Our incessant and addictive interaction with the Internet while writing steers our focus away from uniqueness and originality. This is a possibility that every writer should be conscious of to preser ve their individuality. In a buzzing world of mass production and boundless ideas, we should never jeopardize our authenticity.
A fresh slate is right around the corner as the decade ends. We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know: What are BU groups’ New Year’s resolutions?
QST: Quit smoking
Class of 2024: Get in
CGS Freshmen: Unpack
COM: Get a job
FreeP: Decent sleep
Rhett bench: Don’t rust
Theology: Achieve nirvana
Seniors: Degrees
Dining Halls: More bananas
8 SPORTS
Terriers knock off No. 8/12 Northeastern 6-3 in first half finale BY BRADY GARDNER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
The Boston University men’s hockey team overcame Northeastern University 6-3 at Agganis Arena Saturday night to conclude their slate of competitive fixtures in 2019. Junior forward Patrick Harper took confidence from finishing the year with a win. “Through the ups and downs of the first half, ending with a win was really important for us tonight,” Harper said. Harper got the Terriers (6-6-5, 4-3-4 Hockey East) on the board 7:13 into the game, streaking through the heart of the Northeastern (10-5-2, 6-4-1 Hockey East) defense and flipping one past graduate goaltender Craig Pantano. Working with freshman defenseman Case McCarthy to assist the score, freshman forward Trevor Zegras earned his tenth helper as a Terrier. “He’s a special player,” Harper said about Zegras. “It’s easy to play with him.” Northeastern broke through early in the second when junior forward Zach Solow and senior forward John Picking both scored from close range within the first 45 seconds of the period. “We just didn’t have any coverage out front,” BU head coach Albie O’Connell said. “I think they scored a couple easy goals, to be honest with you.” Sophomore forward Jack DeBoer responded for BU 40 seconds later, connecting from the left circle for his first score of the season. Junior forward David Farrance and senior forward Gabriel Chabot had the last touches before DeBoer found the back of the net. The Huskies were not done just yet, regaining the lead a minute and a half later when freshman forward Aidan McDonough converted a sec-
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Freshman defenseman Domenick Fensore celebrates his second-period goal in a winning game against Northeastern University Saturday.
ond-chance effort on the power play. Undeterred, the Terriers leveled again when Zegras picked a Husky pocket and slid a pass to Harper, who buried his second of the game and the fifth goal in 4:17 to start the second. “He’s gotta be one of the best players in the country,” O’Connell said of his assistant captain. “He’s taken his game to another level.” On the other bench, Northeastern head coach Jim Madigan was frustrated with his team’s performance all night. “I thought our manager did a good job,” Madigan said, “and our equipment manager did a good job … but not much after that.” Freshman forward Robert Mastrosimone put the Terriers on top with 6:10 left in the frame off of a rebound created by senior forward Patrick Curry, with a secondary assist
credited to freshman forward Ethan Phillips. The lead was doubled less than two minutes later by freshman defenseman Domenick Fensore, forcing a turnover in the NU end and sniping one topright from the slot. “We were just really sloppy with the puck,” Madigan said. “You can’t play shinny hockey, and that’s what we did.” It was Zegras again who set up the Fensore strike, making for his first three-assist night with BU. “He was electric tonight,” O’Connell said, “He does some interesting things on the ice. I think he put the puck between his legs and shot it three times tonight.” Holding a two-goal lead into the third period, BU fended off four third-period Northeastern power plays, thanks in part to the play of
graduate goaltender Sam Tucker, who made 37 saves in the game. “We’ve been … really starting to find our identity in the defensive zone,” the netminder said. In Harper’s mind, the defensive game plan was a bit simpler. “We just let the brick wall take care of it,” Harper said, in reference to Tucker. Defending the third of the four penalties, sophomore forward Matthew Quercia made it six with an empty-netter, stealing the puck and sending it in from his own blue line with 2:21 to play. Victorious against Northeastern for the first time in 13 months, BU’s six goals were the most scored in a meeting with the Huskies since Feb. 28, 2015. “It was a good team win,” O’Connell
said. “I’m happy for the guys, they put in a great effort.” The win brought BU within a point of Northeastern, who went into the game atop Hockey East but fell to a three-way tie for second with the loss to BU. On 12 points in 11 conference games, the Terriers sit two points shy of the new leaders: the University of Massachusetts Lowell. “They were two huge league points,” O’Connell said. With 17 games in the books, BU will now go three weeks before their next contest. “We don’t play a game for a long time,” O’Connell said, “so we finished on a good note.” BU will be back in action at the end of the month as they host Concordia for an exhibition match at Walter Brown Arena on Dec. 29.
Strong second quarter leads Cal past Women’s Basketball, 73-62 BY CHRIS LARABEE
poured in 14 points of her own to go with nine rebounds and seven assists. The Boston University women’s The Golden Bears were able to basketball team finished its West neutralize Terrier forwards senior Nia Coast road trip on Saturday with a Irving and sophomore Riley Childs, hard-fought loss against the University who were both held to less than seven of California Berkeley. points in the game. The Terriers (3-4) were outscored Moseley said Cal was able to take in three of the four quarters as the away the inside game for BU, which Golden Bears (6-2) used a 24-point forced a change in roles for both Irving second quarter to defeat BU, 73-62. and Childs. BU head coach Marisa Moseley “We knew offensively for those two said a lack of transition defense was that we were going to have them be the main factor in Cal’s huge second more screeners because of the way they quarter. guarded with their big guys,” Moseley “It was our transition defense, we said. “I know those guys needed to go kind of got out of sorts a little bit,” get some offensive boards and that’s Moseley said. “We needed to be able probably where we could have made up to stop the ball and slow it down. They some of those points.” had a size advantage on us, so when BU was able to claw back into the they get the ball up the floor quickly game after halftime with an 18-point and make either layups or throw it third quarter. With three minutes left inside to their big kids, we didn’t have in the frame, the Terriers pulled within our defense set.” four points of Cal at 42-38, after Nelson The Golden Bears used nine made a three-pointer. points off turnovers and scored 14 That would be the closest BU points in the paint to spark their sec- would get, though, as Cal was able to ond quarter run, in which they out- extend its lead to nine points at 49-40 scored BU 24-14 to jump out to a 35-22 with a three-point shot and 35 seconds halftime lead. left in the third. Cal used a balanced offensive Both teams traded blows in a attack with four players scoring in high-scoring fourth quarter with both double-digits to sink the Terriers. For teams combining for 46 points in the the Terriers, freshman guard Sydney frame. Cal’s lead never dropped below Johnson scored a game-high of 19 seven points as it was able to maintain points and junior guard Katie Nelson the lead and beat the Terriers, 73-62. DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Up Next: University of Massachusetts The Terriers return to Boston this week to finish off their non-conference schedule against UMass, Boston College, Dartmouth College and Northeastern University. The Minutewomen (6-3) are coming off a 75-72 victory against Holy Cross. Two players to watch on UMass are freshman center Maeve Donnelly and senior guard Hailey Leidel, both of whom are coming off impressive performances against Holy Cross. Leidel is leading the Minutewomen with 16.6 points per game on the season while shooting .448 percent from the field. In her past three games, she has scored more than 15 points, including a 25-point performance against the University of Vermont. Donnelly, who is not an offensive threat because she is only averaging 6.7 points per game on the season, is a force on defense because of her 6-foot-5-inch frame. She posted a program record 10 blocks against Holy Cross while also pulling down 12 rebounds in her first career double-double. Playing around Donnelly is going to be the biggest challenge for BU on Wednesday. Moseley said the game plan is to avoid attacking her head-on, but to use the Terriers’ speed and offball movement to get by her.
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Junior guard Katie Nelson, shown in a February 2018 game against Lehigh University, scored 14 points in Saturday’s loss to the University of California.
“If you try to shoot over her then that’s where she’ll get you,” Moseley said. “I think we have to face her up and take her off the bounce if we are going to look to
score against her. We’ve also got to put her against ball screens and move her around a little bit defensively, as opposed to letting her sit in the lane and protect the rim.”
“It was our transition defense, we kind of got out of sorts a little bit. We needed to be able to stop the ball and slow it down.”
- Coach Marisa Moseley on what went wrong versus Cal.
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“I think we have to face her up and take her off the bounce if we are going to look to score against her.”
- Coach Moseley on taking on UMass’s 6-foot-5-inch center.
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
Schroeder blanks BC as Women’s Hockey rolls to 6-0 shutout called for cross-checking. Going into the game, the Terriers were ranked third in the nation on the power play Friday night’s game against Boston so far this season with a 29.5 percent College marked the first time in two success rate. weeks that the Boston University The Eagles were able to kill off women’s hockey team suited up for a their penalty, keeping the deficit to game. one. The Terriers (11-4-1, 6-4-1 Hockey BC would also get a chance on the East) entered the contest ranked ninth player advantage as sophomore defenin both national polls, while the Eagles seman Alex Allan was whistled for (11-5-2, 10-4-1) ranked eighth. checking 12:44 into the period, but the The opening period saw many Eagles would be unable to capitalize. firsts for the Terriers. With less than two minutes Just under seven minutes into the remaining in the period, sophomore opening period, sophomore forward forward Mackenna Parker of BU rediEmma Wuthrich of BU opened the rected a shot from senior defenseman scoring with her first goal of the sea- Alexander Calderone to extend the son. Wuthrich picked up the puck in lead to 2-0. The goal was also Parker’s the slot on the rebound from freshman first of the season. defenseman Nadia Mattivi and shot it “I think it is always importjust over BC’s sophomore goaltender ant,” Parker said on making sure to Maddy McArthur to give the Terriers score first against a team such as BC. a 1-0 lead. “Against BC makes my first goal of the Wuthrich has been dealing with season even more special and makes some injuries since the beginning of me want to keep going.” the season, but BU head coach Brian The Terriers would carry their Durocher said he has been impressed momentum into the second period, with how she has been progressing extending their lead to five goals. over the season. With just over five minutes into “I think she played very well up at the second stanza junior forward Vermont,” Durocher said, “and now Kristina Schuler was whistled for she has carried it into this game after interference. While on the penalty kill, playing ten to twelve days without redshirt senior Sammy Davis found playing.” the back of the net for a short-handed Less than two minutes later, BU goal extending BU’s lead to three goals. would be awarded its first power play Davis picked up the puck in the opportunity of the night, as BC soph- slot and skated into the goal crease of omore forward Kelly Browne was McArthur then tucked it in. BY CAROLYN MOONEY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
The Eagles would be whistled for a penalty of their own on their power play, as junior forward Maegan Beres was whistled for tripping. While on the player-advantage, junior forward Jess Compher of BU roofed the puck over the stick-side of McArthur to extend the lead to 4-0 for the Terriers. The goal was Compher’s seventh of the season so far. With about 15 minutes remaining in the second period, sophomore forward Courtney Correia of BU scored on a breakaway. Correia faked shooting over the stick-side of McArthur, but then brought the puck onto her forehand and tucked it glove-side to extend the Terriers lead to five goals. BC had another chance on the power play to find the back of net 16:42 into the period as Compher was sent off for roughing, but the Eagles were unable to capitalize and remained scoreless. During the final 20 minutes of play, the Eagles had a power play chance to get on the board, but were unable to find the back of the net. The Terriers, on the other hand, continued to pound on the goals. Parker scored her second of the game with 4:10 remaining in the final period of play. Junior goaltender Corinne Schroeder of BU finished the night stopping all 21 shots that came her way. It was her second shutout of the season. “She’s always been amazing,” Parker said on how well Scroeder has played
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Sophomore forward Emma Wuthrich, shown in a Nov. 19 game against Harvard University, opened the scoring for Boston University in their win over Boston College Friday.
so far this season. “Today especially if you watched her out there. She’s always so good and we are always cheering her on. She’s always making those huge saves that make or break a game.” The Terriers are set to take on the Eagles Saturday at Conte Forum in the back-end of the home-and-home series this weekend. Puck drop is
scheduled for 1:30 p.m. “We keep going,” Durocher said on maintaining momentum. “[The team knows] that it’s a chance to really assert themselves through the first half of the year and I am betting they will be ready to go, to remember the little things and not tonight’s score.
The 2-3 Zone, an NBA Festivus: airing grievances with the league BY SEAN GOLONKA COLUMNIST
To celebrate the holiday season, I showed some love and appreciation to our neighbors, the Boston Celtics. But for my final column of 2019, I am commemorating a far less appreciated winter holiday: Festivus. Mostly known for its appearance on “Seinfeld,” Festivus is a holiday associated with the “Airing of Grievances.” And with some members of our favorite basketball league making some egregious errors this season, I am ready to air my grievances with the National Basketball Association. The “3” The most blatant error of the NBA season thus far is the Houston Rockets’ decision to trade for point guard Russell Westbrook. Yes, this move happened before the season, but its effects on the 2019-20 Rockets have been painful and they’ll likely hurt this team for a few years beyond this season. This season, the Rockets have a 1.8 net rating with Westbrook on the court and a vastly better 13.3 net
rating with Westbrook off, according turn a team around. He’s got top-fiveto NBA Advanced Stats. Westbrook in-the-league-type potential. is shooting terribly from the field and Even though the 76ers no doubt beyond the arc. have to work around their other star, The Rockets are playing well center Joel Embiid, they are doing almost entirely due to the play of little to help themselves by obstructing point guard and shooting guard James Simmons’ style of play. The Sixers sit at Harden (please appreciate Harden a disappointing fourth in the Eastern for the basketball genius he is). The Conference a quarter through the Rockets deserve to be ridiculed for season and they may need to rethink giving up two first round picks and their path if they can’t shape up by move on from point guard Chris Paul, the end. a 37 percent 3-point shooter that fit While the Rockets and 76ers have perfectly into the pesky mold of the both made their fair share of painful Rockets, to Westbrook, a 22 percent mistakes this season, no organization 3-point shooter on a similar contract. has been mismanaged at quite the Another team with bad deci- same level as the New York Knicks. sion-making and a lack of knowledge The Knicks have not made the about their best interests and style of playoffs since 2013 and after winning play is the Philadelphia 76ers. They just 17 games last season have won have a stud of a player in point guard only four of their 23 games this season. Ben Simmons, and yet, they are doing With head coach Mike Miller absolutely nothing to support his rise taking over for recently-fired David to superstardom. Fizdale, the Knicks are now onto With his speed, vision and ability their seventh head coach of the 2010s. to control the pace of a game, Simmons I couldn’t even begin to list the deserves 3-and-D guys, or players who insane number of ugly moments that specialize in 3-pointers and defense, have plagued the lesser team of New around him who can stretch the court. York over the past five years. The Simmons is the kind of guy that can Knicks’ organization is a complete
and utter mess that likely won’t return to their form of the early 1970s until supervisor James Dolan is no longer in charge. The “2” Although the Charlotte Hornets are not quite as notorious as the Knicks or the Sixers, they are a team well-deserving of criticism for more than a few reasons. This season, however, one mistake stands out far above the rest. After years in NBA purgatory, point guard Kemba Walker left Charlotte for Boston. Following that, the Hornets decided to give point guard Terry Rozier a near $60 million contract. Rozier has played solid basketball this season, but through 25 games, second-year guard Devonte’ Graham has averaged an impressive 19 points and eight assists per game, ranking higher than Rozier in both categories. Graham is an even second in the league with 90 made threes on the season. With Graham playing great, the contract that the Hornets gave to Rozier just seems that much worse. Another somewhat disappointing point guard situation has arisen
BOTTOM LINE WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11
THURSDAY, DEC. 12
BU Women’s Basketball take on University of Massachusetts at 11:00 AM
Boston Celtics take on Philadelphia 76ers at 8:00 PM
SATURDAY, DEC. 14
for the Utah Jazz, where point guard Mike Conley has been playing some especially ugly basketball. Conley is averaging a full point and assist per game below his career averages, while shooting a career low 37 percent from the field, according to Basketball Reference. Conley came to Utah to bring a mediocre Jazz offense out of the gutter, and so far this season, he has done anything but that. If Conley can’t start to string things together, the Jazz may end up finishing out the season in a rather underwhelming fashion.
SUNDAY, DEC. 15
BU Men’s Basketball takes on Dartmouth
New England Patriots take on Cincinnati
College at 1:00 PM
Bengals at 1:00 PM