12-6-2018

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REIGNING ONION RING, 6

Delays at the VA’s office have kept some local students from receiving tuition money.

Our editors head to four restaurants to determine the superior onion ring.

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FreeP’s editor-in-chief says farewell to the newspaper that she says helped her grow.

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YEAR XLVI. VOLUME XCIV. ISSUE XIII.

Seniors show confidence in post-grad plans

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An annual student engagement survey published Nov. 29 found that students are confident in their post-graduation plans and think what they’re learning is relevant to their career paths.

The National Sur vey of Student Engagement (NSSE), conducted by researchers at Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Education, found that 93 percent of seniors believe what they are learning in college is relevant to their career paths.

Most students are confident in their post-graduation plans, according to the survey’s findings.

The confidence level changes slightly with the type of major, with arts and sciences majors being slightly less confident in their career plans than those majoring in professional fields.

Boston University was one of the institutions surveyed, said Louis Gaglini, executive director of BU’s Center for Career Development. He said the survey’s findings — that students are confident and feel that their studies relate to their chosen career paths — are also ref lected in the First Destination survey that the CCD conducts every year.

Gaglini said he has seen BU students develop a more positive outlook on their post-graduation plans in recent years — they see a direct correlation between taking advantage of experiential learning opportunities, such as intern-

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wrote. “However once they engage with our office, services, and resources, they’re much more confident in executing their search.”

The CCD provides many resources to help students explore their careers, Gaglini said, such as interviews with potential employers, networking opportunities and guides on building resumes and writing cover letters. These services are available to all BU students, not just seniors, he said.

Esiri Madagwa is a senior in the College of Engineering who plans to work with a youth service

Boston has seen slightly more homicides in 2018 than in 2017, despite an overall decrease in recorded crime and gun violence across the city.

BPD responded to 52 homicides as of Sunday, which is one more than Boston’s homicide rate this time last year, according to statistics released by the BPD. However, 2017’s statistics included two incidents that were ruled homicides last year but had actually been committed in years prior, bringing the number of homicides that occurred in 2017 down to 49. “ T he B o ston Pol ice Department has always said that one homicide is one too many but we are working every day in the communities we serve to make our city as safe as possible,” BPD officer Stephen McNulty said in a statement.

While there has been an increase of homicides in Boston, there has also been an overall 4 percent drop in recorded crime and an approximate 17 percent decrease in shooting incidents, from 197 to 163, so far this year when compared to 2017, according to statistics from the BPD. Julian Lopez-Leyva, an organizer

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Boston University graduates celebrate at their commencement in May 2016. A recent report by the National Survey of Student Engagement found that a majority of college seniors are confident in their post-graduation plans.

ships, and having more success after graduation.

He said more students are utilizing career resources, which also correlates positively with their post-graduation success.

Liberal arts students have the opportunity to explore different fields easily, Gaglini said, while professional programs are often more focused. However, he added that core competencies developed in certain fields can be transferred to other industries.

“I think the bottom line is that your academic work does not dictate what you will do,” Gaglini said. “Of course, there are some

programs that are more focused than others, but in most cases, students have the ability to translate and transfer over to different fields.”

Patrick Nelson, director of career services at BU’s College of Communication, wrote in an email that COM also sees a connection between students using career resources and being more confident in post-graduation plans.

“The students we meet with and work with are often anxious when faced with the prospect of pursuing their first full-time professional opportunity,” Nelson

Transition to BU aims to grow

Students get grants to research abroad

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Five Boston University undergraduate students will pursue research in the United States and abroad with the help of grants from the inaugural William R. Keylor Undergraduate Travel Fund.

The fund is named in honor of Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies professor emeritus William Keylor, who taught international relations and history. Keylor had just retired when the creation of the fund was announced in May, he said.

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Homicide rate in Boston up from last year’s stats

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The recent stagnation in the prices of rental homes indicates a more affordable housing market may be emerging.

Local housing market cools

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The Greater Boston housing market has shown signs of cooling down, based on a slowing of price increases for rentals, making the housing market less competitive than before.

Affordable housing in Boston is still a work in progress — spe-

cifically Mayor Martin Walsh’s plan to increase the number of income-restricted units in Boston from 54,000 to 70,000 by the year 2030 — according to the Income Restricted Housing Report from the Mayor’s Department of Neighborhood Development.

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Tra n sit ion to B oston University (TTBU), an undergraduate peer mentorship program for new transfer students, is wrapping up its first semester on the BU campus and looking to gain official status under the Dean of Students Office.

The program is student-run and was founded this past summer

by Roselynn Reyes, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Reyes tra nsferred from Oregon State University to BU as a sophomore and said she decided to start the program to help ease the process for other transfer students. She first gauged interest over Facebook, and when she saw enough people supported the project, she decided to move forward.

The program pairs up transfer students with returning BU students with whom they share a similar interest, major or background, Reyes said. TTBU has hosted events during the semester for

their transfer mentees and mentors ranging from study groups to a Thanksgiving dinner and will be hosting a holiday party Friday.

Special Assistant to the Dean of Students Darcy Dubois serves as advisor to the program following her 10-year tenure at Wheelock College, which merged with BU in June. She said that after her transition from Wheelock, she wanted to put something in place to help the Wheelock students who were transitioning as well.

The program garnered much interest with little marketing, she said, with 75 mentors and 75 mentees signing up in a short amount of time.

The number of people joining the program made it difficult for Reyes to manage at first, as she had to match participants and plan events with little assistance, she said.

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Veterans struggle to pay college tuition due to VA CAMPUS Crime Logs

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has experienced delays processing checks for the housing allowances and tuitions of some veterans going to universities, including a student at Northeastern University.

Student veterans across the country are struggling to submit tuition and housing payments to their universities on time because of the back up. The Boston Globe reported that the VA announced Nov. 29 that it would reimburse the student veterans for their full payments after receiving backlash when the agency originally said it would not do so.

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a statement that the organization will work to ensure that the veterans who depend on the Forever GI Bill, which provides veterans with such education benefits as priority enrollment and a work study expansion, are able to pay for their education.

“Although VA has encountered issues with implementing the Forever GI Bill on Congress’ timeline,” Wilkie wrote, “we will work with lawmakers to ensure that – once VA is in a position to process education claims in accordance with the new law – each and every beneficiary will receive retroactively the exact benefits to which they are entitled under that law.”

The Vetera ns Benef its Administration announced in a press release on Nov. 28 that it is beginning to reset the way it processes sections 107 and 501 of the Forever GI Bill, which will change how monthly allowances are calculated.

To ensure communication between the multiple parties involved with getting payments to veterans, the VBA said in the press release that it will maintain contact with everyone involved.

The VBA also asked schools to begin their paperwork for the spring semester so that work can be completed on time.

Mark Bryson, a veterans employment representative from

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The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Nov. 29–Dec. 1.

Balloon trips B&E alarm at Global Development Policy Center A breaking and entry alarm went off at 53 Bay State Road at 9:04 p.m.

Nov. 29. The Office of Facilities Management and Planning responded and removed a floating balloon which had triggered the alarm. Balloons caused two more alarms in the building to go off at 12:33 a.m. and 12:42 a.m. Friday.

Fire under Charlesgate West overpass

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Due to recent processing delays at the Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans in colleges have faced difficulties submitting payments on time.

MassHire’s Department of Career Services, said there are other federal programs available that can provide educational and career aid for veterans besides just the VA, such as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. “That’s a federal program which, basically, it gives every career center a block grant in order to help them to facilitate trainings for people that need it,” Bryson said. “Usually, it is no cost to the individuals, and they can get training anywhere from getting certifications, that sort of thing, or even up to getting like an associate’s degree.”

Another option, Bryson said, is for veterans to get vocational rehabilitation to help them return to the workforce.

“If they are a veteran, then they should be eligible to go do vocational rehabilitation,” Bryson said.

“That’s one of the ways that veterans can get funding for training, or they have post 9-11, or they have the GI Bill.

Mirna Rodriguez, 62, of

Jamaica Plain, said she thinks funds should be available for veterans who want to obtain a college degree. She said the VA and universities should unite because education can provide a better life for veterans.

“They should make funds available because it’s very important for veterans,” Rodriguez said.

“They deserve support. I believe they deserve to go to college.”

Lisa Bennett, 43, of Brookline, said she thinks the VA should compensate veterans for keeping the country safe.

“They serve our country, they help us be safe and everything like that,” Bennett said. “They should go all the way for them.”

Laconia Strothers, 33, of Downtown Boston, said she thinks the government has “dropped the ball” with regard to supporting veterans. She said she has worked with homeless veterans in the past and believes no veteran should be homeless or unemployed.

“As far as them going back

to school, it’s very unfortunate,” Strothers said. “They shouldn’t have to come back from service after defending our country for whatever reason our government feels like they throw them out there for at this point. They should be given everything that they need.”

Strothers said she thinks the VA has enough money to support veterans until the federal government figures out the delays in processing checks. She said she doesn’t think the VA supports veterans as much as they should, especially considering her recent experience losing a family member who was in the Marines during World War II. “He went to the VA for help, and they sent him to a hospital, and that was it,” Strothers said.

“He was in there for a week, and they called us and told us he didn’t make it.”

Kylie McDaneld, Ayodele Abinusawa and Joel Lau contributed to the reporting of this story.

Transfer student program ends inaugural semester TTBU, FROM PAGE 1 Reyes said. “Then I also had to find new people to help me, so it felt like everything was piling on, but once we got the E-board set, it stopped being hard.”

Over the summer, Reyes’ Facebook posts caught the eyes of Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences sophomore Angelee Verdieu, who now serves on TTBU’s E-board as the public relations chair. Verdieu said that though she is not a transfer student herself, she was interested because she knows what it feels like to come to a new environment.

“Struggling to find your place in a school as big as BU is something that I feel everyone here can relate to,” Verdieu said. “The goal of the program is to give transfer students a guiding hand in their transition process, because it’s

hard to come in when it seems that everyone around you has everything all figured out.”

This year, the program is sponsored by the Dean of Students Office, but Reyes said that before she leaves, she wants the program to be official through BU. “I want it to be under [the Dean of Students Office] because they have a mission to serve all undergrad students,” Reyes said.

“I also want it to be official, because I want to know that when I’m gone there is funding and there is more than students being involved in this program. I want to see staff members of BU also involved.”

This semester has been a trial for TTBU, Dubois said, and now the team will look to expand and improve by figuring out what has been helpful, what transfer students still need and whether the

program should last for a semester or a full year.

“This program helps them find their group of friends of people who have been through similar experiences, and getting tips from transfer students who have done this before has been really helpful for them,” Dubois said.

“That’s why I kind of think it’s an important piece, even if it’s just for a semester.”

Reyes plans to focus on marketing and getting the program into open houses and orientation, she said.

CAS sophomore Hugo Gastone, who transferred from Syracuse University for his sophomore year, said while he had not heard of or benefited from the program, he thinks it could be helpful for other transfer students.

“There are some people who are going to have more trou-

ble with getting used to Boston University,” Gastone said. “It’s a really different school compared to others, academic-wise and in other regards as well. It could be really useful for a lot of students.”

Sargent sophomore Vivian Tran ser ves as the internal affairs representative of TTBU’s E-board. She said that regardless of whether a transfer student comes in as a sophomore, junior or senior, it feels like they “are thrown in as the fish out of water.”

“We have things for incoming freshmen, like FYSOP and FY101, but I feel like transfers didn’t and don’t have that opportunity, and that’s kind of why TTBU started,” Tran said. “To help them feel welcome into the community and to give them the resources that they need that BU administration isn’t necessarily providing.”

An officer reported an active fire at Storrow Drive under the Charlesgate West overpass at 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Massachusetts State Police and the Boston Fire Department came to the scene.

Party reports debris dropped from Charles River Medical Practice Boston Police reported a party dropping bricks and rocks from the roof of 930 Commonwealth Ave. at 5:49 p.m. Saturday. Boston Police and the Brookline Police Department came to the scene. One victim refused medical treatment.

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Crime Logs

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The following crime reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from Nov. 30–Dec. 2.

Missing man found dead in Allston apartment The superintendent of an apartment building at 1027 Commonwealth Ave. called BPD at 8:07 a.m. Sunday after not hearing from a tenant for three days. The tenant was found dead in his apartment.

Gun threat reported after noise complaint Officers responded to a report of a potentially armed person on Ashford Street around 9:31 p.m.

Friday. The man who called in the report said the suspect, an apartment neighbor, hit his door with a piece of wood and yelled at him to lower his music. The suspect was found with a BB gun in his pocket.

Commercial robbery at Allston gas station

A Speedway gas station and convenience store at 100 Brighton Avenue was robbed shortly before 4:08 a.m. Saturday. The suspect has not been caught, but the cashier said he had seen the suspect on prior occasions. The amount of money that was taken from the cash register remains unknown.

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Inaugural Keylor Undergraduate Fund awards granted

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Flags of countries around the world hang overhead in the check-in area of Terminal E in Boston’s Logan International Airport.

The inaugural William R. Keylor Travel Fund awarded five Boston University students with grants to conduct research in the United States and abroad.

GRANT, FROM PAGE 1 information for their research, according to the Pardee website.

The students awarded these grants plan to travel to cities such as Amman, Jordan, Istanbul, Turkey, Washington, D.C. and Kyoto, Japan, they said.

Pardee junior Anna Ellis is one of the undergraduate students who was awarded a grant to travel and pursue her research. She studies Cyprus’s geopolitical importance in the Eastern Mediterranean, she said, and wants to interview ambassadors in the Cypriot, Greek and Turkish embassies of Washington, D.C. “The final goal of that experience is to gather more information and more perspectives for my project,” Ellis said. “I want to prove that Cyprus has more of a geopolitical strategic importance than we would typically learn and think about in IR.” Ellis is considering using her research as a basis for a senior thesis, she said.

Ellis cited her family’s military history as part of her interest

in the region. Her grandfather, a British Army officer, was stationed in Cyprus in the mid-20th century, when the region was going through a period of civil unrest.

Pardee senior Ziling Cheng received a grant to pursue comparative research on Japan and China and how they conduct national branding within three categories: international exhibitions, promotion of tourist cities and performing arts abroad.

Cheng grew up in Xi’an, China, a city branded for its history as a capital of 13 Chinese dynasties, she said.

“I grew up in this environment feeling like my own town is branded for this kind of international tourism,” Cheng said.

“But then, after going to Kyoto, which is a similar city in Japan, also branded for this long history and cultural realism, et cetera, …

I have this very different perspective on my own hometown.”

Cheng said she intends to spend time in Kyoto where she will temporarily reside in a monas-

tic temple to study and eventually compare with China.

Grant recipient and Pardee senior Raina Kadavil works on an app called Urban Refuge, which maps resources for Syrian

refugees in cities, with Pardee assistant professor Noora Lori.

Kadavil said that she intends to visit Istanbul, Turkey, and Amman, Jordan, in the spring.

“We see that there is especially a lot of infrastructure and aid resources existing in cities like Istanbul that are specifically geared towards Syrian refugees, but we don’t see them actually accessing them,” Kadavil said, “often because they don’t know about them.”

Refugees often migrate toward cities for economic and physical freedom and for safety, Kadavil said, as sexual violence against women is common in refugee camps.

Kadavil worked with the United Nations in high school, which is where she first gained exposure to refugees and organizations devoted to their rights, she said.

Undergraduate researchers often face difficulties receiving funding for travel and research, Keylor said.

“Undergraduates don’t have the kind of financial backing that graduate students do for foreign travel,” Keylor said, “and so this enables undergraduates in the

Pardee school … to use those funds that are available to go to various countries to conduct original research.”

In the long term, students may be able to use this research for honors theses, Keylor said.

Min Ye, Pardee’s director of undergraduate studies, said that the total funds for the grants are limited, and that there was a rough cap on the amount that could be awarded to each recipient. $1,500 was the maximum amount given this year, Ye said, and for some of the more ambitious students’ plans, that amount will not completely cover their expenses.

Ye said the grant allows students to gain real life experience, an important aspect of their education.

“I’m just a true believer in ‘Traveling 10,000 miles is better that reading 10,000 books,’” Ye said. “Our students are typically well read because there’s so many academic and research books available, but going somewhere and acquiring this real experience and interacting with people, [nongovernmental organizations], or otherwise in that place — that’s a very valuable contribution to our education.”

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From left to right: Anna Ellis, Raina Kadavil and Hafzat Akanni are among the group of students who will pursue research next spring thanks to the grant.

Prices for Boston homes, rentals becoming less competitive HOUSING, FROM PAGE 1 considered affordable to low-income households, the report states.

Boston also has the highest percentage of income-restricted housing of any major city in the United States.

Carol Owens, director of marketing at the Boston DND, wrote in an email that even though rent prices are still rising, the percentage by which they are rising is lower than in previous years.

“Average rents are still increasing, but by more moderate and expected percentages,” Owens wrote.

Owens wrote that that the DND uses house-finding services such as Craigslist, PadMapper, Rental Beast and Multiple Listing Service to track rental prices in the city.

The lessening of rent price increases can make it easier for

renters to find new homes, Owens wrote, because there will be more options for housing, and rents will be more approachable.

“A cooling housing market means less competitiveness for units, and hopefully more moderate prices increases,” Owens wrote.

“Renters staying in their homes will hopefully not be faced with large rent increases upon re-upping their leases, and should they look for new housing, will find more options and more reasonable prices.”

Ash Ravichandran, 24, of Dorchester, said his landlord has mentioned to him that she is considering selling the house he is living in, which he said makes him believe that the housing market is more steady.

“You know, this is a market where a homeowner feels comfortable to put their house up for sale,” Ravichandran said. “I guess that’s

a pretty good indicator of housing evening out in the city.”

Joe Kriesberg, president of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, an organization of corporations that construct, own and manage affordable housing in Massachusetts, said the city is already impacted by Walsh’s 2030 plan since new housing developments are being built.

“It is also spurring more affordable housing, those ‘so-called’ inclusionary development housing where the price of market is required to provide some affordable units in their new buildings,” Kriesberg said. “You know, we’re seeing hundreds and hundreds of units come online as a result of that.”

Some citizens want to increase the amount of income-restricted housing that is being built, Kriesberg said. He also pointed out

that there is housing in Boston that is already income-restricted, which is why the increased percentage of income-restricted housing does not seem as large.

“So, when you take a look at the rental market, you break it down, you can begin to get a more nuanced picture of what is happening,” Kriesberg said.

He said students also have an impact on the Boston housing market because there are thousands of them who live in Boston, and the rates that they pay to live in the city are unlikely to change. “… Their demand for housing and their ability to pay for it hasn’t really changed, so that segment of the market kind of is what it is,” Kriesberg said.

Melinda Bennett, 27, of Brighton, said she thinks low-income housing is an important initiative because of the high con-

centration of students and recent graduates in the city.

“Students and people my age just can’t afford that kind of housing,” Bennett said, “and there isn’t a whole lot of, like, affordable housing in Boston.”

The 2018 update to Walsh’s 2030 plan also said students have a strain on the housing market in Boston. It stated that the more than 147,000 students at Bostonarea universities cause higher housing costs and rent prices.

Anika Adeni, 25, of Brighton, said she thinks the 2030 plan is important to the city because there are many residents who cannot afford luxury housing.

“We have a lot of high earners here,” Adeni said, “but we have a lot of people who are still getting into their careers and trying to make ends meet, so affordable housing is really necessary.”

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Crime, gun violence down despite rising murder rates HOMICIDE, FROM PAGE 1 with March for Our Lives Boston, the local chapter of the national organization advocating for gun reform, said this increase in homicides was most likely a result of massive inequality seen across the city.

“Boston needs to confront itself in very sober terms, that we are one of the most unequal cities in the nation, formerly the most unequal,” Lopez-Leyva said.

“Our neighborhoods are not just racially divided but economically divided.”

Lopez-Leyva said his thoughts were supported by a recent investigation by the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, which found that the average non-immigrant African-American household in Boston had a net worth of only $8, while the average white household had a net worth of $247,500.

After working in the Suffolk District Attorney’s Homicide Unit earlier this year, LopezLeyva said he found that the vast majority of Boston’s homicides occurred in three

nei g hborhood s: M at tapa n , Dorchester and Roxbury, which he said he believes is the result of Boston’s extreme segregation.

“And so, a lot of these different populations that exist within these communities and do not seem to connect with each other, do not seem to speak to each other, [need to] look each other in the eyes and say that we share the same space, we need to work effectively, we need to work cohesively to mend and resolve this issue,” he said.

Lopez-Leyva said that while various social outreach nonprofits in Boston have done “tremendous work” in reaching out to these at-risk populations, these organizations need support from lawmakers at every level of government, beginning with Boston Mayor Martin Walsh.

“We had Operation Ceasefire here in Boston in the early 1990s, and it was a tremendous success,” Lopez-Levya said. “… Mr. Walsh and a lot of the lawmakers in Beacon Hill need to reinvest in these programs that do help and

to help people to revitalize and keep people off the streets in a positive and uplifting way.”

As for the state level, LopezLevya said voters and politicians needed to be cautious when deciding what activities and firearms are protected under the Second Amendment.

He also said Gov. Charlie Baker needs to work with other states in New England to coordinate their gun laws because he said the more rural states with looser regulations serve as a “pipeline” for firearms to travel into the city.

“What needs to happen is that we have to linearized gun laws in New England and across the United States,” Lopez-Levya said, “which unfortunately seems to be going in the opposite direction at this point. The same problems … pervade and affect the cities where lawmakers have passed very understanding, practical gun legislation.”

Ken Gagnon, 26, of Allston, said he found the statistics interesting because he knew several people who had fallen victim to

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gun violence and thought that the rising homicide rate could be attributed to Boston’s high cost of living.

“I think any where where there’s going to be a swarm of humans, violence is much more likely, especially when Boston is gentrifying more and more,” Gagnon said. “I can only imagine the length people will go to kind of make it to the next day.”

Downtown Boston resident Nancy Kaddis, 38, said she thought the homicide rate was surprising and said governments needed to reinforce their gun laws.

“I think, in general, a lot of major U.S. cities obviously have

gun violence problems,” Kaddis said. “I think local governments should try to reinstitute more gun control laws because a lot of people with mental health issues and other issues do have access to guns, and I think that’s very scary.”

Kaitlyn Timblin, 22, of Brighton, said she thinks Boston is a safe city.

“I’ve never felt uncomfortable walking the streets at night, or I’ve never felt uncomfortable walking around in my neighborhood or anything like that,” Timblin said.

“I think it’s great that the gun violence has decreased, but at the same time, I don’t think that’s the only way to commit a homicide.”

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that we know matter for student learning and development, and the more students do them, the more they learn, the more quality experience they have.”

The survey is also an opportunity to examine the higher education system as a whole, Kinzie said. The researchers want higher education officials to think more about preparing students for the 21st century workplace and making sure they have a high-quality undergraduate experience.

“I think some of the findings from this year are particularly important given the real attention that we’ve had over the last couple years about students’ career preparation,” Kinzie said. “It’s heartening to see that students feel they’re prepared to go out into the world of work and that college experience has helped them prepare.”

Allison Bussert, a CAS senior who will be taking a gap year before pursuing a graduate degree in clinical psychology, wrote in an email that she is excited for — but not confident in — her post-graduation plans.

“It may be what we’re doing, but it surely isn’t easy diving headfirst into anything let alone the rest of our lives,” she wrote.

“I think that students may act confident because thats what you have to do in order to not freak out about the whole thing.”

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GRAD, FROM PAGE 1 program in Nigeria for a year and then apply to graduate schools for acting. He wrote in an email that he is pretty confident in his post-graduation plans and that he has seen varying levels of confidence in his friends.

“I really think it depends on the major and who you talk to,” Madagwa wrote. “But we’ll all get something eventually.”

College of Arts and Sciences senior Joseph Sisto wrote in an email that he thinks seniors who find their studies irrelevant to their future careers are “probably doing something wrong.” He wrote that he thinks seniors’ confidence levels in post-graduation plans vary by major, but are generally high.

“I’ve seen that more Questrom kids have job offers or job selections at this point than STEM kids,” Sisto wrote, “but by and large we’re fairly confident about what we want to do postgrad.”

The NSSE surveyed students from about 511 different institutions, said Jillian Kinzie, associate director of the NSSE Institute.

First-year students and seniors answer a variety of questions about the quality of their undergraduate experience for the survey.

“We’re trying to help institutions use data to improve the quality of undergraduate education,” Kinzie said. “These are practices

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BUSINESS

UNI dishes out Japanese cuisine, named best Boston restaurant

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Waiters cart around ramen noodle cacio e pepe, foie gras bratwurst, spicy tuna rolls and drinks in tiki cups as customers relax to pumping rhythm and blues at the late night dining services at UNI in Back Bay. The restaurant, a feature of the Eliot Hotel on Commonwealth Avenue, is a contemporary izakaya, a small Japanese restaurant and bar. Executive chef and owner Ken Oringer heads the restaurant with executive chef and partner Tony Messina.

Initially, UNI existed as a sashimi bar in the lounge of Clio, a French-American restaurant Oringer opened in 1997. The sashimi bar gained such popularity that, in 2015, Clio renovated the restaurant entirely as UNI, which opened in 2016.

Kate Barry, who graduated from Boston University’s School of Hospitality in 2010 and is a member of UNI’s management team, said part of the restaurant’s secret is that they get ingredients both locally and from as far as Japan.

The restaurant now serves a selection of sushi and other Japanese dishes, for which it was named best restaurant in Boston in 2018 by Boston Magazine.

“I think our food is some of the most creative food I have ever had,” Barry said. “The menu changes

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UNI’s modern take on Japanese cuisine earned it first place in Boston Magazine’s 2018 “Best Restaurants in Boston” rankings.

every day, whether it is putting on new fish or changing the accompaniments with that fish or dish. [Tony is] really seasonally driven.”

The dinner menu offers dishes a-la-carte or in an Omakase series of predetermined courses, beginning with light and ending with heavier dishes. After 10:30 p.m., UNI also has a late-night menu equipped with typical street foods such as ramen.

“Late night is a great way for guests to try food that is delicious at an approachable price point,” Barry said. “Whether someone is a student or works in the industry coming after their shift, the menu and vibe is casual and fun.”

Servers dressed in black T-shirts move about the restaurant to take

orders and deliver food for the customers. Barry said the employees at the restaurant try not to take themselves too seriously, and they want to create a somewhat laid-back environment.

“We are still very excited and passionate about the food and beverage we serve,” Barry said. “[Tony] has such a good way of creating dishes that feel sophisticated but really casual at the same time. [He uses] both simple and luxurious ingredients together in a very creative way.”

Vilvaraja Mahendraraja, who started serving and bartending at UNI a few months ago, said he has been very satisfied at the restaurant so far.

“[UNI] is the most professional restaurant that I have ever worked at,” Mahendraraja said. “I have worked in four or five places in Boston, and [UNI] is definitely something special. Everyone cares, everyone is super knowledgeable, [and] I have learned so much about food and sake.”

Mahendraraja said the restaurant was nominated for the James Beard award in the last year.

According to him, the award is like the Academy Awards of food, and JBF’s website characterizes it as “the highest honor for food and beverage professionals in America.”

Anne Alexander, of Chicago, Illinois, ate at UNI while in Boston on a work trip. She said she inten-

tionally sought out the restaurant as a sushi fan, stopping at several sushi bars during her visit, in which UNI was her fourth within a week.

“It is far and wide — one of the most extensive on-the-menu Nigiri experiences [out there],” Alexander said. “For [somewhere] that has been voted best restaurant in Boston, it is actually an extremely good value for what you get. They are not overcharging you, and you are not overpaying. It is great quality and great value. It is the best restaurant.”

Barry said she believes the secret of UNI’s success lies in the restaurant’s ability to stay in touch with what their clientele wants. She said she feels a key part to their success is the restaurant’s commitment to constantly change and evolve for the sake of improvement.

“But part of it is recognizing what the favorites are,” Barry said.

“I think we listen to guest feedback really well. We are always asking our guests whether they are enjoying [new dishes]. We are very, I think, in tune with what guests want.”

As the restaurant changes and adapts, Barry said one thing remains the same: they commit themselves to appreciating their guests.

“No guest is taken for granted,” Barry said. “Whether it is someone who has been here 100 times or someone’s first time, we really try to make them feel special. We try to be that restaurant that can be both.”

COMMUNITY Bhopal disaster vigil urges BU president to sever DowDuPont ties

BY ELEANOR HO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Dozens of water bottles filled with murky brown liquid littered the surface of table tops in the George Sherman Union. The bottles symbolize the polluted water of Bhopal, India, the site of what is widely considered to be the worst industrial disaster in history.

The signs that accompany them call for Boston University President Robert Brown to be held accountable for the people of Bhopal.

A dozen protesters gathered outside of the John and Kathryn Silber Administrative Center Sunday evening to speak out against Brown’s involvement with DowDuPont Inc., the company responsible for the Bhopal disaster.

On Dec. 3, 1984, a leak of methyl isocyanate gas at a Union Carbide Corporation facility caused hundreds of thousands of injuries and thousands of deaths.

Union Carbide is now owned

by DowDuPont Inc., a company that Brown serves as a member of the board of directors for. Activists said that the company should take responsibility for the chemical leaks into the water and soil that are still affecting the citizens of Bhopal, causing birth defects and developmental disabilities.

Braving December winds, protesters and speakers called on Brown and DowDuPont to be held accountable

and properly clean the results of the disaster, over 30 years later.

According to an organizer, the group held water bottles filled with polluted water from the Merrimack Valley, a region in northern Massachusetts and New Hampshire that suffered from gas leaks in September, to symbolize the chemically contaminated water many residents of Bhopal are still drinking today.

Somnath Mukherji, of Boston, a development coordinator for the Association for India’s Development, attended the vigil and and said he felt DowDuPont’s treatment of Bhopal was a form of “environmental racism.”

The activist also said that some companies had to pay more to aid otters in an Alaskan oil spill than DowDuPont paid out to victims of the Bhopal disaster.

“The most compensation a person got was $500,’” Mukherji said. “It was said [by a Union Carbide employee], ‘That’s plenty good for an Indian.’”

Mukherji described to the group of protesters what he saw when he visited Bhopal — second and third generations since the disaster suffering from serious health issues, people drinking from poisoned water pumps and the social ostracization of the Bhopali because of the contamination.

“The walls around the factory are broken, so animals go in any time, children go in any time,” Mukherji said. “I saw children playing cricket inside the factory premises. It’s so

highly contaminated. But because these are poor people, no one really cares about their lives.”

Mukherji said he would like to see a clean-up of the chemicals, which would allow for the people of Bhopal to finally begin healing physically, socially and economically.

Srikant Sarangi, another activist, said he volunteered at the Sambhavna Clinic, a healthcare facility that provides free medical care to victims of the Bhopal industrial disaster. He said that he believed Bhopal is part of a larger problem, using the bottles of polluted water from the Merrimack Valley as an example.

“This is not a singular incident,” Sarangi said. “This water is from one of the most developed states in the U.S. We are not able to provide basic human rights for people without power and people without money.

What links [Bhopal to the U.S.] is the fact that, if you’re poor, your life does not matter.”

Sarangi said the only way forward is to combine forces to attain justice.

He also said education is an important component of this change.

“Let’s introduce responsible profit-making in curriculum in management schools,” Sarangi said. “These are tangible things we can do. Boston University, being one of the biggest universities and sources of education in this country, it would be amazing if we could lead the change through here.”

Katie Irwin said she organized

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Protestors gathered Sunday at One Silber Way to protest Boston University President Robert Brown’s ties to DowDuPont Inc., the company responsible for the 1984 crisis in Bhopal, India.

the protest and was moved to plan the vigil for the 34th anniversary of the disaster after learning about the Bhopal industrial disaster in an environmental studies class. When she moved to Lowell and heard that Brown was on the DowDuPont board of directors, she said she decided to take action.

“It was appalling that thousands of people had died overnight and continue to die from it, yet not a lot of people know about it in the U.S.,” Irwin said. “Multi-national companies tend to hide a lot of the violence they cause, so I just think its disturbing that something could happen to that magnitude, and there could be no repercussions for the corporation that causes it.”

Monica Briggs, 51, was similarly

disturbed by the disregard for the people of Bhopal.

“It’s intense and frightening because nothing really has been done about it,” Briggs said.

Briggs, an environmental activist from Jamaica Plain, said she also struggled to grasp the magnitude of the disaster.

“I had initially read that it was 10,000 [deaths],” Briggs said. “I can only envision it on the size of Jamaica Plain. It’s like a third of the people there [dying] in one night.”

The protesters ended with a moment of silence for the victims of the industrial disaster.

“Bhopal is an example of what happens when a bottom line becomes the only thing that matters,” Sarangi said.

6 FEATURES

ARTS

FREEP VS. F

BY JEN RACOOSIN, SHAUN ROBINSON, DIANA LEANE and ALEX DEL TUFO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston Burger Company Boston Burger Company on Boylston Street had a festive atmosphere, complete with string lights, holiday-themed menu items and friendly wait staff. The burger joint’s onion rings were a popular choice around the office.

The onion was cooked perfectly — not raw, but not overly fried. They had a hint of sweetness to them, both from the batter and the onions themselves. Some of us thought they could use a bit of salt, but nowhere near as much as other

D: ONION RINGS

establishments’ onion rings did.

The rings had a tendency to fall apart, and the onion would come out of the breading too easily, but they stayed intact enough to enjoy them. The breading was a nice thickness, but the taste of the onion was at least as powerful as that of the breading.

Combined with the lack of grease, this gave the illusion that we were eating something healthy. However, some thought there was too much onion, making the insides of the rings mushy.

For a price of $8, the portion size they gave us was admirable at around 12 to 15 rings. As a plus, the onion rings are vegan and soy-free, so they were fine for our office full of tricky dietary restrictions.

Grade: A-

Wahlburgers At Wahlburgers, you get way more onion than you do ring for the price of $3.50.

In fact, these weren’t really rings at all — they were more like shaved strips piled high in a basket. A light batter coated the “rings,” making for an overall reasonably crispy and seriously munchable offering.

The shavings were salty and notably greasy toward the bottom of the basket.

Other seasonings did come to play, like pepper and parsley, which spared these rings from blandness.

The star of the show here is the red onion, though, which made these shavings distinctly sweet and Funyun-esque. Be warned: if you don’t like red onion, you will

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Onion rings from Wahlburgers in Fenway.

UBurger

Veggie Galaxy

Often relegated to side dish status, onion rings are overlooked for the crunchy, yet juicy twist they bring to an otherwise mediocre bulbous plant. However, the greasy onion rings UBurger serves should remain on the side.

Before taking the first bite of the onion rings, some preparation is necessary. The bites come in a layer of grease, leaving shirts susceptible to drops falling from the rings.

The rings at the bottom of the container drip with grease. Though if you eat over the container and make frequent use of napkins, you can enjoy the snack stain-free.

The fried aspect of the onion was unimpressive, as it began to flake off the moment

Grade: C

The first stop on our journey to find the best onion rings in the Boston area brought the E-board across the river to Veggie Galaxy in Cambridge. Assumed by the name, the restaurant is entirely vegetarian and majority vegan — making these rings a solid option for veggie friends.

Veggie Galaxy had our large group seated within half an hour. We were greeted with a friendly server, free drink samples and speedy service. The onion rings made it to the table quickly and were piled high, impressive for the $4.95 price.

However, for many of us, the enjoyment ended there. Although the E-board

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Onion rings from UBurger in Kenmore Square.

Grade: B+

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Onion rings from Boston Burger Company on Boylston Street.

coating of grease, the rings lacked any taste of seasoning.

Yet, UBurger keeps the rings thin and lightly fried. The onion is cooked enough to lessen the plant’s potentially overwhelming flavor, but the satisfying crunch characteristic of the food remains. If not for the soppiness, the onion rings would be a pleasant munch.

One order of the rings costs about $4 and provides the customer with an impressive portion to share. With bright lights and wooden booths, UBurger encourages a casual, yet lively environment, further promoted by some festive winter lights. Onion rings are only available at the Kenmore and Andover locations of UBurger.

not enjoy them. But anyone fond enough of an onion to put it on a burger should have no trouble putting down a handful, or a basketful.

Wahlburgers itself has a fun and casual atmosphere, with the chain’s signature green-on-dark-wood aesthetic just about everywhere you turn. And the large menu has about as many options as there are photos of namesake Mark on the walls — more than enough to satisfy everyone.

Overall, these rings are a refreshing take on the traditional onion ring. They’re not perfect, but they’re certainly not bad, and Wahlburgers deserves credit for giving the onions a lead role.

had mixed opinions, the general consensus found that these rings were simply tasteless.

The dough itself had little f lavor and the rings were severely lacking salt. Onion rings are an unhealthy dish meant to satisfy salt cravings, and these did not do the trick.

Some of us found that adding salt fixed the problem, although many of us remained disappointed. Looking back on it, condiments may have been the solution here.

Beyond the lack of f lavor, the rings were unevenly fried — some perfectly browned and others undercooked.

At best these rings required a significant sprinkling of salt, at worst — inedible.

Grade: C-

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Onion rings from Veggie Galaxy in Cambridge.

FEATURES 7

SCIENCE

Students’ study abroad lifestyle increases likelihood of diseases

BY AVERY GOUND DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As students plan for their international adventures over break and for study abroad in the spring, they have more to concern themselves with than a budget and packing list.

Despite the excitement of international travel, students’ lifestyle changes when abroad leave them susceptible to picking up illnesses.

With less than a week left of classes, students participating in study abroad programs in spring 2019 have received assignments. Though the university offers planning guides for the semester for a range of topics including health and safety, a study published in the Journal of Travel Medicine Sept. 15 revealed many U.S. students studying abroad contract diseases.

Boston University professors Davidson Hamer and Elizabeth Barnett contributed to the study that revealed that the number of U.S. students studying abroad has tripled over the last two decades. In addition, the number of students traveling to “resource-limited countries” has increased as a whole.

The study examined 432 students who studied abroad and came home with various illnesses, some of which were preventable.

BU’s study abroad website suggests students assess their mental and physical health before leaving for the semester, check with practitioners that they have necessary vaccines and look into their insurance policies.

Hamer, a Boston University professor of global health and medicine, emphasized the importance that students ensure they have proper

vaccinations before travelling. Three students in the study contracted vaccine-preventable diseases, including typhoid and hepatitis A. Hamer warned that the two vaccines for typhoid fever aren’t perfect, so people could still contract the disease. Yet vaccinated individuals have much lower odds of contraction, he said, as the vaccine provides around 70 percent protection.

Other vaccines are considered very effective, Hamer explained.

“For hepatitis A, we have a very effective vaccine that’s 95 to 100 percent protective, so if you have the vaccine, you’re almost completely unlikely to get hepatitis A,” Hamer said.

However, the most common diseases students contracted were gastrointestinal infections, also known as “traveler’s diarrhea,” and dermatologic skin problems, according to Hamer.

Upper-respiratory infections are also common among student travelers, according to Barnett, a professor of pediatrics at Boston University.

“Diarrhea and upper-respiratory are both very common among students and hard to prevent,” Barnett said. “Students are at a time in their life where they like doing adventurous things, and these may include taking culinary adventures, which may cause diarrheal disease.”

According to Barnett, students are especially at risk for diseases or injuries while abroad because of their exploratory and active lifestyle habits and relatively low budgets.

“It could include anything from high-risk sports to hiking in remote areas to travelling on rickety vehicles,” Barnett said. “I think it’s things

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A recent report detailed the tendency for U.S. college students to contract diseases while studying abroad.

like this that generally put students at a greater risk than a family that’s maybe travelling and staying at a resort.”

According to Hamer, about 7 percent of the students studied also had diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, such as malaria or dengue fever.

Malaria is preventable by simply taking an effective malaria medicine, Hamer said. Dengue fever, however, is not preventable, and there are no known treatments. Hame said the best way for students to avoid it is to avoid mosquito bites and protect themselves from mosquitos.

Two of the students in the study also contracted HIV while abroad.

“The risk is much higher in a lot of other countries for common sexually transmitted infections,” Hamer said. “But also with unprotected sex, there’s a risk of HIV infection.”

Barnett said the likelihood of contracting a disease is higher in less affluent countries, specifically in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Asia, Africa and Central and South America.

If hygiene is poor, clean water access is limited, and adherence to food safety is not strict, Barnett said, then contracting and transmitting diseases is easier and therefore more common.

“The best thing to see is either a student health specialist that knows about international travel or a travel medicine specialist to go through an itinerary-specific evaluation of risk factors,” Hamer said. “Then, based on that, learn about measures that can help reduce your risk … such as special vaccinations or medicines that might be appropriate.”

Ashley Nuñez, a senior in the

College of Arts and Sciences, studied abroad in London, United Kingdom, and Geneva, Switzerland, last summer and said she was aware of potential health risks she faced by traveling abroad.

“I considered the possibility of contracting sicknesses heavily because I have a family history of illnesses, but it’s something I deal with already, so I just figured I deal with it while abroad,” Nuñez said. “I took Vitamin D supplements every single day and drank a shot of apple cider vinegar to try to help my immune system.”

Barnett also discouraged the consumption of any alcohol or drugs that can make students more vulnerable to violence or uninformed decisions in locations that they may be unfamiliar with.

“Have a wonderful adventure, but a safe one,” Barnett said.

Boston science colloquium honors acclaimed female mathematician

BY AMELIA MURRAY-COOPER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A century after mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether created theorems in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, scholars from across the country gathered in Boston to discuss her legacy. In the 59th annual Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, Noether’s lasting impacts on math and science were honored.

Boston University’s Center for Philosophy and History of Science and the Department of Physics co-sponsored the colloquium. The lecture titled “100 Years of Emmy Noether’s Theorems” was held Friday in the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering and was free to the public.

According to CPHS, the colloquium consists of several programs that highlight different concepts or historical figures and encourages interdisciplinary approaches to the sciences and humanities. The first talk was held Oct. 19, and the final lecture will take place April 25, 2019.

Katherine Brading, a professor of philosophy at Duke University, and Colin McLarty, chair of philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, spoke at the lecture.

They were joined by Marian Gilton, a doctoral student at

University of California Irvine, and Daniel Harlow, an assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

According to Brading, who presented a lecture titled “How it all Began: The Puzzle that Led to Noether’s Theorems,” Noether’s findings have applications in quantum theory and relativity and connect symmetries with laws in theoretical physics.

In the 1910s, Noether worked with mathematicians David Hilbert and Felix Klein, who were interested in Albert Einstein’s newly developing theory of general relativity, according to Brading.

Brading explained that Hilbert and Klein had approached Noether for help with puzzles they had, and she formulated her theorems by working on these tasks.

“She did what she did best, from what I understand of her as a mathematician, which is that she looked at everything that was going on in the puzzle and situated it in a very mathematical framework, which enabled it to have these wider applications,” Brading said.

Because she was a Jewish woman in Germany following World War II, Noether could only give lectures under Hilbert’s name. Like many women throughout history, Brading said, Noether did not receive the rec-

ognition she deserved during her life.

“It’s good that we celebrate these things, especially when the person didn’t get remembered the way she should have been at the time,” Brading said.

According to Brading, many aspects of society are affected by science and technology, so it is important to understand the events that lead to these advancements. For this reason, she said studying the philosophy and history behind math and science is essential.

“Science doesn’t fall down out of the sky fully formed,” she said. “It’s a human activity, and just like music and art and other things, it’s a part of our cultural inheritance.”

In McLarty’s lecture, titled “The Conservation Theorems as Integral to Noether’s ‘True Mathematical Path,’” he agreed that Noether deserves proper recognition for her contributions.

“People sometimes call her the greatest woman mathematician,” McLarty said. “You didn’t really have to say woman there. She’s one of the great 20th century mathematicians.”

According to McLarty, Noether classified exactly how many conservation laws any mathematical description of a physical system could have. She also helped make abstract algebra the basis of several branches of math, such as geometry and num-

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Marian Gilton speaks at an event commemorating the centennial of Emmy Noether’s theorems at CILSE Friday afternoon.

ber theory, McLarty explained.

“What made her great was not the particular problems she solved, but that she saw a bunch of methods that she believed people should all be using because they give really easy approaches to lots of things,” McLarty said.

Though Noether made profound discoveries, McLarty said she never earned a salary for her work.

However, McLarty said he believes she should be remembered for more than her career.

“When we remember Emmy Noether as a woman who was treated badly, sometimes we forget her life,” McLarty said. “She was a radical socialist. She was a pacifist. She was passionate about a lot. I want people

to understand her as this giant intellect, not only as a mathematician, because she wasn’t only that.”

Simrita Dhulekar, a freshman in the College of Engineering, said she thinks women should be continually encouraged to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math today.

“Although women make up half of the world’s population, they are underrepresented in the science and engineering fields,” Dhulekar said.

“Due to the large gender gap in the STEM field, women feel as if they don’t belong. However, the STEM field is about being innovative, creative, passionate and intelligent.

“The interesting and cool ideas women have must be represented.”

8 OPINION

EDITORIAL Residential development in Allston spells gentrification Allston doesn’t have the best reputation among Boston University students or locals.

Many students prefer to limit their time in Allston to late nights, “crawling” through frat houses and losing winter coats and student IDs in the neighborhood’s streets — like Cinderella lost her slipper at the ball.

We don’t want to see Allston in the light of day, and that says something about the neighborhood. Many off-campus students call Allston home, but when we associate the area directly to the west of our school with grit and rats, would a facelift be a bad thing?

Property developers are using Allston’s reputation as ammunition for making major changes to the neighborhood that’s long been known as a “student ghetto.” If the Boston Planning and Development Agency approves development plans, 334 residential units and over 22,000 square feet of office space will be built across six buildings on and around Cambridge Street.

Apartments and condominium units could also be added in a three-building complex in another area of Cambridge Street, and a residential development project down the street would add 1,050 more housing units.

Development might make these neighborhoods look nicer. It might make them safer for students who don’t like being threatened at gunpoint or mugged while walking home at night. If you read campus crime logs in The Daily Free Press, you’ve probably read about more than a few of these instances.

But it’s important to remember that BU students aren’t the only people living in Allston. Allston was a neighborhood before

BU made its home nearby — and before we students infiltrated the community, doing our part to drive rents up and increase the cost of living for people who have lived in the area for generations.

It’s true that nearly 90 percent of Allston’s residents are renters, according to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (now known as The Boston Planning and Development Agency), but not all of those

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desirable option for Bostonians and students looking for off-campus housing.

State Rep. Kevin Honan said Allston has been “discovered,” according to Boston. com — a word we know is synonymous with the onset of gentrification.

But how many of these new units will be affordable? How many will go toward Allston residents who need affordable housing or BU students looking for cheap

accessible cities — we have the fourth highest rents in the country, according to a study by Zumper. Only a few neighborhoods — one of which is Allston — make living here an option for people without six-figure salaries. The availability of housing units in these neighborhoods are essentially the reason why Boston isn’t entirely a city for the upper class.

Boston renters pay an average of $2,340 per month for a one-bedroom apartment, according to Zumper’s study. It costs an average of $1,850 per month to rent in Allston, which is definitely on the cheaper end compared to Back Bay’s $2,760 or the South Boston Waterfront’s $3,100.

There’s a stereotype in Allston that college students are duped by landlords who rent us out bad apartments, and we don’t know any better. But really, a lot of us have no option but to live close to the school, and we need something affordable.

If students are pushed out of the area by raising rents, that’s only going to contribute to a greater student strain on housing in other areas. The student population will simply migrate to another area.

It’s hard to imagine what things will be like in a few years if the landscape is options, and how many will go toward entirely reconstructed. Allston being, well, Airbnb and short-term rental owners who Allston, is such a big part of the culture of are largely responsible for the city’s housour community. ing crisis?

These developments won’t add to the The City currently requires that 13 perculture of the neighborhood. Half of these cent of new large residential developments units will likely be bought out by shortin the Allston-Brighton area are affordable, term renters who will jack up prices beyond according to a petition by the Brighton what any local can afford, and the other Allston Community Coalition. This isn’t half will sit empty, but in the end, these enough, considering the impact new develprojects are useless to build upon the neighopment could have. borhood’s personality.

Boston is one of the least financially

ow many of these units will go toward Allston residents who need affordable housing or BU students looking for cheap options, and how many will go toward Airbnb and shortterm rental owners who are largely responsible for the city’s housing crisis? are students. Families live there too, and if they’re renting, it’s because it’s what their budget allows. The people who don’t have means to own houses should be able to stay in the area, and developing more for the sake of boosting ownership over renting will block those people out.

As it stands, rents are still relatively low in Allston compared to many of Boston’s other neighborhoods. These new projects, in improving Allston’s overall facade, are expected to make the neighborhood a more

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OPINION 9

COLUMNS Final Word:

A letter from the editor

BY BREANNE KOVATCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

About two years ago, a friend of mine had profiled me for her College of Communication CO 201 class. When she got around to the question, “What do you want to do in the future?” I had answered that I wanted to be the editor-in-chief of The Daily Free Press.

When I came to college, I had

basically no journalism experience.

The first thing I joined when I arrived at Boston University was FreeP. It’s where I learned how to write journalistically, where I learned to interview, where I learned to break out of my quiet shell.

It’s also where I found my for-

Miss Leading:

“When they go low, we go high”

BY NAMU SAMPATH COLUMNIST

I remember the evening Barack Obama got elected president. I came back from a family outing to Jerome’s Steak and Seafood and sat in my living room as we all heard the news that our

country had elected the first AfricanAmerican president in its history.

It never gets tiring for me to talk about the best American president (in my opinion) and his amazing family. President Obama helped to positively shape the lives of millions of Americans, but today is not about him. On Nov. 13, 2018, former first lady Michelle Obama released her memoir “Becoming” and spoke about a reflection of her world, life and experiences.

Since I was younger, there has always been special women I look up to. First and foremost, my mom, followed by incredible women like Malala Yousafzai (partially because

ever friends. After over two years at to be inside. Although it turned out FreeP, I wouldn’t trade any of the to be only an airsoft gun, and the relationships I have made for the man was not in Barnes and Noble, world. They say that once you find we were there. your people, you just know, and trust And, when the Boston Red Sox me, I know. won the World Series for the fourth Beyond the amazing people time in this millenium, we were FreeP has, we’re extremely passion- there, watching the city cheer and ate about journalism — we are a celebrate — and break some lights newspaper, after all. This summer, — for their beloved team. We were when The Boston Globe asked jour- there when the city came together, nalists to stand together for a free as confetti flew around them, when press, we stood right next to major the champions rolled down Boylston newspapers, local papers and even Street in duck boats. other student papers. We even made And still, we loved it. it as far as making it into The New When I think about how long York Times itself. the nights may be here, how many Coming into this semester after hours, how much missed sleep making it into the Times, we had comes with being a part of FreeP, I to suddenly move into a new office wouldn’t want to be surrounded by in less than a month when students anyone else. Shaun, Vig, Diana, Lily, weren’t back on campus. We started Isabel, Jen, Alex, Hannah and Jaya — our first couple of weeks as a news- you are the reason I love what I do paper with two desks and four chairs. here, and the reason why I’m going Still, we loved every moment of to miss this place and everything it. that comes along with it.

Before classes even started, a I wouldn’t want to jam out to fire destroyed a dorm room on “Baby Shark” or “Rasputin” with a Commonwealth Avenue. Without different group of people. I wouldn’t complaint, our editors went, not want to stay up and only run on 20 even thinking about how staying up minutes of sleep with anyone else. late to report on it could affect their And, most importantly, I wouldn’t first classes. want to make a paper with anyone About halfway through the else. semester, there were reports of a Mike — we both entered this man with a gun running near cam- semester knowing very, very little pus. We went out there, reporting about each other. Now, we’re headright in front of the Barnes and ing out with you as one of my closNoble where the man was rumored est friends. Thank you for keeping

me sane during moments when I wanted to go kick a wall (and maybe have) and thank you for being you.

This semester would have been endlessly harder without you and your humor by my side. Thank you.

Thinking about our little nook under Insomnia Cookies, I wouldn’t want it any other way. We’re in the middle of campus, right in the heart of everything. In a way, FreeP is the same way — right in the middle of campus life. It’s hard and pushes you to your limits, but it’s so vitally important to our school and holding those in power accountable.

Still, with all of these difficulties, we love it.

I love it.

And, as I think about leaving FreeP editorially, the one organization I’ve stuck with since freshman year, I see how far I’ve grown since telling my friend I wanted to be editor-in-chief one day. I see how far I’ve grown journalistically.

I hope to have inspired someone, one of the FreeP staff, to think the same way, to dream the same way.

Because if they’re anything like me, they’ll love it. And they’ll see that all of the hard work, long nights and too many Insomnia Cookies is worth it.

To everyone who is still discovering what they want to do, join the FreeP. You won’t regret it. And if you already have, welcome to our family.

I’ll be rooting for you.

we share a birthday and partially because she’s bad--s) and Michelle Obama.

During her career, Michelle Obama has become an advocate for women and girls across the United States and the globe, enforced the importance of health and fitness and has been graceful in every walk of life, whether it was endlessly supporting her husband or raising her two children in the limelight.

“Becoming” is incredible because it shows that Michelle Obama is still able to occupy a space for herself beyond just her career and politics to empower people everywhere.

According to Krissah Thompson of The Washington Post, this memoir is unlike most others because Obama is willing to open up (much more than any previous first lady) and because

Upon reading numerous reviews and takeaways about the book, Michelle Obama has not only gone through the scrutiny of the public as a Black woman, but she has also been supportive of her husband through some of America’s most harrowing moments, like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

As Michelle has said a number of times in the last decade, “When they go low, we go high.”

I’m still young, and according to Obama, I’m still in my “Becoming Me” phase. Because of this, it is with excitement that I look into the future — mostly ready, slightly nervous, to start my life. When I get my hands on a copy of this book, I feel like I will be liberated to step out of my comfort zone to reach my goals. And to me, that’s inspiring.

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she is the first of anyone in this country to be able to tell her story as the first African-American woman to live in the White House with her husband.

To be growing up in a time when one of the most influential women happens to be a woman of color is honestly beyond me, and it makes me hopeful for the future. Even though we currently have a president who doesn’t, apparently, care about the lives of literally anyone except himself, his family and people who look like him, I think it’s great that there are still clouds with a silver lining.

The novel is split into three sections: “Becoming Me,” “Becoming Us” and “Becoming More.” Each of the three sections includes stories from Obama’s life, even going into details about how and where she grew up.

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A New Jersey school district fired a teacher for telling students that Santa Claus wasn’t real. We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what would members of the BU community ask for from Santa?

Mascot Rhett: Temperature control

BU Shuttle: Blood of the innocent

Hillel: Birthright sign-ups

Living Rhett: A normal breathing pattern

Women’s Hockey: Some gosh darn respect

Vig: To get out of the hole

BU Dining: Your feedback on today’s meal!

President Brown: New wheelie backpack rims

FreeP: Eggs

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After missing last season, Sammy Davis serves as leader

BY NICK TELESMANIC

Davis said. “It was hard last year not being around the team, not Before the beginning of really showing them me as a the 2018–19 season for Boston person.”

University women’s hockey, redLast season, the team was shirt junior forward Sammy Davis led by alumna forward Rebecca was selected by her teammates to Leslie, who became the first BU be one of the team’s three cap- women’s hockey player to record tains, along with senior defender 20 goals and 30 assists in her Reagan Rust and junior forward career-high senior year.

Natasza Tarnowski.

Before that, alumni forward However, Davis’ journey to Natalie Flynn and defender becoming a captain of the wom- Alexis Miller, née Crossley, split en’s hockey team was atypical, as the duties, the latter of whom was she did not serve her role as cap- named the 2017 Boston University tain until one year after she was Woman of the Year. selected.

Miller currently plays for the According to BU head coach Worcester Blades of the Canadian Brian Durocher, while Davis Women’s Hockey League. was elected as a captain in 2017, Davis said she used her time as a season-ending injury requiring assistant captain during the 2017– a double-hip surgery kept the 18 season to learn what it means to Pembroke native off the ice and be a leader. delegated her the role of assistant “I learned a lot from listening captain. last year,” Davis said. “I took feed“Her teammates thought she back from teammates and took it was a good leader as far as her into this year and tried to better work ethic,” Durocher said. “… myself.”

She’s worked hard at being a perThe 2017 graduating class saw son that communicates well and the departure of New England certainly leads by example.”

Division I All-Stars forward Mary The last season that Davis Parker — whose 45 points led the played hockey was the 2016–17 conference — and goaltender campaign. The team went 19-12- Victoria Hanson, along with 1006, 12-8-4 Hockey East that sea- point earner Maddie Elia. son and made it to the Hockey Parker currently plays for East semifinals, where it lost to the National Women’s Hockey Northeastern University.

League’s Boston Pride, while Elia Then in her sophomore year, plays for the Buffalo Beauts.

Davis contributed to the team’s The 2017–18 squad finished Hockey East semifinal run by tal- 14-17-6, 8-11-5 Hockey East, aided lying a total of 16 assists, includ- by then-senior forward Victoria ing a three-assist game streak in Bach, a Patty Kazmaier finalist, between Jan. 31, 2017 and Feb. 10, passing the century mark in goals 2017. herself. The Terriers made its 11th She also produced the most consecutive Hockey East playoff goals of any remaining scorer with appearance but were taken down seven. by the University of Maine within Davis said that being named three games. captain was an honor, but the disDavis has been a top scorer for tance in not playing with her team the team this season: she is curwas difficult. rently second on the team in goals, “Being named as captain, [I only one goal behind sophomore was] very grateful and very lucky,” forward Jesse Compher.

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Redshirt junior forward Sammy Davis in a game against Boston College Saturday. Davis returned to play this winter after missing the 2017–18 season due to an injury.

The combination of Compher and Davis has been a deadly scoring duo for opposing teams.

Together, Compher and Davis account for 47.2 percent of the team’s goals “Jesse’s been great, I love playing with her,” Davis said. “I’m very grateful, and I think we work really well together.”

Davis has also been recognized for her strong performance

by Hockey East. Following last weekend’s sweep of now-No. 9 Boston College, Davis received

Player of the Week honors.

She recorded a total of five assists during the series, including an assist on Compher’s game-winning goal Friday, allowing BU to beat BC (12-6) 3-2.

In her freshman year, Davis played all 39 games and was the runner-up for the Hockey East Rookie of the Year. She had a resume of 17 goals and nine assists.

Davis now is taking on the role of being a captain of a surging team that is riding a three-game winning streak and has risen

above .500.

Durocher, who served as a co-captain of the Terrier men’s program on its 1978 national championship team, said that Davis remained a familiar face while she was out, but her return has greatly aided the team.

“She was always around, always trying to be a help to the team,” Durocher said of Davis’ time as assistant captain. “Now, I think its paying dividends that she’s [healthy], and she’s doing what she does best.”

Living in Fantasy: Bounce backs due just in time for the playoffs

BY TYLER ORINGER COLUMNIST

It seemed as if Week 13, the final week of the fantasy regular season, produced a lot of duds. In the most important of moments, stars like Julio Jones, Alvin Kamara, Matt Ryan and Mark Ingram II (star is generous for him, but you get the point) really dug their owners massive holes. Not one of the four above players scored ten fantasy points, and Ingram stunk up the place with a harrowing 2.8 points.

What is notable about the four above players is that two pairs of players play for the same team. So, yes, it makes sense that when Ryan struggles Jones does, but here is why Week 14 will tell a way different story for those of you skilled (and lucky) enough to make it into your league’s quarterfinals.

Matt Ryan above can apply to Jones, but it must The Green Bay Packers are bad. be noted that Week 13 was by far Jones’ With Aaron Rodgers at the helm and worst week of the season and one of the two incredibly talented offensive skill poorest of his incredible career. Jaire players in Davante Adams and Aaron Alexander is good, great in fact, but Jones, the Packers are already pretty with the Atlanta Falcons reeling just as much out of a playoff spot. So, logically much as their Week 14 opponents, head it would make a lot of sense that the coach Dan Quinn will almost certainly Packers have struggled defensively. force the ball to Jones, whether it be However, they have only allowed an on deep passes down field or dink-andaverage of 224 passing yards per game dunk passes. to opposing quarterbacks, but if you Top-five WR1 production for Jones investigate these numbers, we see that awaits. skilled quarterbacks like Kirk Cousins, Jared Goff and Russell Wilson all had Alvin Kamara AND Mark Ingram solid days facing the Packers.

The best one-two punch — potenThough Jaire Alexander, the poten- tially the best of all time in football — tial Defensive Rookie of the Year, will was terrible last week. Kamara notched likely shadow Julio Jones, Ryan is an just 36 rushing yards on 11 carries while elite-level talent and has consistently Ingram finished with 28 total yards. proven his ability to bounce back from Now, if you’re like me, you have both poor showings. Green Bay just fired of these RBs. head coach Mike McCarthy, and while Going up against a truly horrendous that is a good thing for Packer fans, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense in Week first week with a new head coach in the 14, these backs — especially Kamara — middle of the season is always a prom- should return to normal form. ising nugget for any NFL quarterback.

I expect a fairly even touch split Look for Ryan to bounce back – about 20 to 17 in favor of Kamara. to mid to high-end QB1 numbers in Ingram will likely get more carries Week 14. due to the blowout that will occur, but Kamara should tear up an insanely weak Julio Jones secondary, running routes out of the slot A lot of what was said about Ryan and wheeling out from the backfield.

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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan in a game in October 2014. Ryan recorded nine fantasy points in Week 13, the final week of the regular fantasy season.

The Saints saw themselves lose a tough one against the Dallas Cowboys last week, putting up only 10 measly points — incredibly, considering how high-powered they have been this season.

The pair of backs combined for

just 10 carries last weekend, and with the chance to face a bottom-10 rush defense, fantasy owners will be beaming following the start of Ingram and Kamara, who will both have at least one touchdown in the contest.

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RIT series to conclude first half of women’s hockey season The Tigers will enter the series coming off of two wins against Lindenwood University.

In the first match on Nov. 30, five RIT players recorded goals in a 5-2 victory. The following afternoon featured a combined four special teams goals from both squads.

Sophomore defender Ellie Larson scored two goals, with the second game-winner coming while the Tigers were a player down, while freshman for ward Hunter Barnett was named College Hockey America Rookie of the Week for her two goals.

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Senior defender Reagan Rust in Saturday’s game against Boston College. Rust transferred to Boston University after spending two years at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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The Boston University women’s hockey team will face the Rochester Institute of Technolog y in t wo games this weekend at the Gene Polisseni Center in Rochester, New York, before going on a three-week break from play.

Last weekend, the Terriers (6-44, 5-4-4 Hockey East) completed its first sweep of then-No. 4 Boston College in two home-and-home

matches. The series ended with a collective 7-4 goal differential.

While RIT (5-8-4) currently has a win percentage of .412, BU head coach Brian Durocher said the team could not get too comfortable following its wins against BC (12-6, 9-4 Hockey East).

“We talk about respecting your opponent,” Durocher said. “That’s absolutely, positively what we have to do is go into RIT and give them the same respect we’d give a BC or Northeastern.”

Before the series a ga inst Lindenwood (3-11-2), RIT went 2-2-1 while on a five-game road trip during November.

The Tigers opened the series with a 5-1 win over Dartmouth College where, after Dartmouth (3 - 9 - 1 ) o p e n e d s c o r i n g , R I T recorded five unanswered goals.

W h i le faci ng Pen nsylva n ia State University, the Tigers fell to a shutout and a 2-1 loss to the Nittany Lions (7-9-2).

J u n i o r g o a l t e n d e r Te r r a Lanteigne was given the second consecutive title of CHA Goaltender of the Month for her performance in November. She stopped 312 shots — including 42 against the Big Green and 48 against Penn State — in eight starts for a .948 save percentage.

“They’re going to be a competitive team,” Durocher said. “They beat us once last year, so hopefully I’ll have that to remind them of

[in practice] come Wednesday or Thursday.”

The two teams met for the first time last season. While BU earned a 5-1 victory in the first match, two second-period goals sent the second game to overtime where Tiger forward Mallory Rushton closed the extra period in RIT’s favor.

Senior defender and tri-captain Reagan Rust transferred to the Terriers’ team from RIT before the 2017–18 season.

While playing for the Tigers, Rust was named to the CHA All-Rookie Team in 2016 after recording 18 points which put her third in scoring on the tea m. The Southaven, Mississippi, native maintained her standing the following year with 14 points.

Rust continued her offensive flair while on the ice with RIT by opening scoring against her former team Nov. 3, 2017.

W hile a goa l from Tiger defender Brinna Dochniak kept a shutout from then-freshman goaltender Corinne Schroeder, another four goals — all from graduated seniors — secured BU the win.

Since the first series was hosted at Walter Brown Arena, this weekend will be the Terriers’ first experience in RIT’s home arena.

“It’s a road trip, and we’re not used to the traveling,” Durocher said. “We’re playing well, but we can’t have a let-down, and I’ll be working on that as early as I can and as best as I can.”

On Friday, BU broke a six-year stretch without a win in Chestnut

Hill with a 3-2 victory, driven by three power-play goals.

Fr e s h m a n f o r w a r d E m m a Wuthrich scored her first collegiate goal in the first of two third-period goals for the Terriers, propping up sophomore forward Jesse Compher’s eventual game-winner.

The Battle of Commonwealth Avenue came to Walter Brown the following afternoon.

For the opening 20 minutes, neither team found the back of the net — the first scoreless period in over 400 minutes of play between the two teams.

Eagle defender and Olympian Megan Keller, who leads Hockey East defenders with goals, waited less than t wo minutes into the second period to knock the puck past Schroeder.

However, BU continued its power play production with two back-to-back goals from junior defender Abby Cook.

In the final minute of the game, Compher scored an empty-net goal assisted by Rust and redshirt junior for ward and tri-captain Sammy Davis.

Both Compher and Davis earned three points in the win.

Durocher said he saw readiness in his team after the BC wins, but that the team could not ease up against RIT. “ The k ids a re ready to play,” Durocher said, “but we really, really need to turn up the intensity volume to make sure you’re ready for a team that’s played pretty well this year.””

Women’s basketball offense stifled in Dartmouth showdown

BY CHRIS LARABEE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University women’s basketball team traveled to Hanover, New Hampshire, Wednesday for a matinee showdown with Ivy League opponent Dartmouth College that ended with the Terriers (4-3) leaving empty handed as they fell 64-44.

The BU offense was shut down by the Big Green (3-4) defense in front of a raucous School Day crowd at Leede Arena.

The Terriers were also missing their leading scorer. Junior forward Nia Irving, who has an average of 13.7 points per game, did not play due to a wrist injury and will miss the next three games, according to BU head coach Marisa Moseley.

Moseley said the team will have to persevere without the star junior.

“Offensively, we’ve got to get some more people to step up,” Moseley said, “and look at how we can get shots for the players that we have available until we get Nia back.”

Both teams exchanged buckets to open the game, but Dartmouth was able to jump out to an early lead halfway through the first quarter 11-5 due to a 6-0 run.

The Big Green continued to take shots from all around the court as they led the Terriers 20-15 at the end of the first period. Dartmouth took 20 shots in the quarter, making eight of them, compared to BU’s 6-for-11 mark.

The Terriers brief ly tied the game at 20-20 early in the second

quarter following a lay up from senior forward Naiyah Thompson, but Dartmouth crashed the glass, out-rebounding BU 23-to-13 in the first half, including a stunning 10 offensive rebounds.

Dartmouth ended the quarter with an eight-point lead at the half, 34-26. Both squads were ice cold from beyond the arc in the first half, as both teams shot below 30 percent from three.

Big Green senior Isa lys Quinones’s first half saw 13 points and four offensive rebounds.

For the Terriers, senior guard Lauren Spearman and freshman forward Riley Childs led the Terriers with six points at the break.

Dartmouth came out firing in the second half, building the lead up to 12 after finding its touch and making two out of three shots from the three-point range. On the opposing side, BU failed to convert on any of its three-point attempts through the middle two quarters and fell to a 42-30 deficit.

BU shot at 31.5 percent from the f loor and made only four threepoint shots in the game, compared to Dartmouth’s 40.0 percent shooting and seven threes.

The Terriers battled back to end the third quarter and cut the deficit back down to eight at 47-39 as Childs led the Terriers and put up eight points in the third frame.

Moseley said that Childs’ performance in her first collegiate start was impressive.

“I was really proud of her effort,” Moseley said, “and as a freshman

to come in on the road in a tough game where we were struggling to score … really gave us a boost.”

Dartmouth opened the fourth quarter with a f lurry of baskets and continued a 8-0 run from the end of the third quarter to open its then-largest lead of the game at 16 by two minutes into the final stanza.

The Big Green kept the pedal to the metal and continued to pound the ball inside the paint, jumping out to a 20-point lead final score of 64-44 as Dartmouth held BU offense to 44 points despite the Terriers averaging 63.2 points a game entering Wednesday.

The win snapped a four-game losing skid — all on a West Coast road trip — for the Big Green as Quinones led in scoring with 15 poi nts a nd se ven rebou nd s wh i le Ch i lds had a ga me-h ig h 17 points for BU, also collecting three rebounds.

Fr e s h m a n f or w a r d C h i a r a Tibbitt put up seven points in her first collegiate start as well.

The Terriers have a week off to prepare for a three-game Bay State road trip starting with the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday.

UMass (5-4) will have a chance to brea k a t wo-ga me losing strea k at home Fr iday a ga i nst the University of the Incarnate Word, which became a Division I program with full rights last season.

Moseley sa id that the tea m will emphasize defense in order to prepare for facing UMass.

“I really think we’ve got to get

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Senior guard Lauren Spearman in a game against Brown University on Nov. 12. Spearman played for 40 minutes Wednesday during a 64-44 loss to Dartmouth College, recording eight points.

more mentally tough … no matter if the ball is going in the basket or not, we know we can get stops on the defensive end,” Moseley

said. “They’re pretty quick off the bounce, so we’re going to have to try to clean up both our man and zone defenses in order to mix it up.”

“I took feedback from teammates and took it into this year and tried to better myself.” ­ Women’s hockey tri-captain Sammy Davis — on her season away from the ice. p.10

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“I really think we’ve got to get more mentally tough.” ­— Women’s basketball head coach Marisa Moseley on the team’s loss to Dartmouth. p.11

20 Questions with women’s basketball guard Payton Hauck

BY LILY BETTS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University women’s basketball team maintained its perfect home record Sunday with a 72-61 victory over the University of Delaware, during which senior guard Payton Hauck earned her first career double-double with 11 notes and 10 rebounds.

The York, Pennsylvania, native is currently third on the team in scoring with 70 points, averaging 10.0 points per game while shooting at 40.0 percent from the field. The Daily Free Press caught up with Hauck to talk about her team’s goals for the season, Ariana Grande and the best Mexican food in Boston.

1. What initially attracted you to BU? The location and academics is what initially attracted me to BU. I love being in the city and being a student-athlete. A prestigious university was important to me.

2. How has it been to play under head coach Marisa Moseley?

Playing under coach Moseley has been an amazing opportunity. We have learned so much and grown as a team through team practices and events while being under her, and most importantly, we have had fun during the entire process.

3. Do you h ave a ny specif ic goals this season?

A big, but very realistic goal for our team this year is to win the Patriot League tournament. Our entire team has agreed this is our main goal that we are committed to and will work towards this year.

4. How did you f irst get into basketball?

I started playing basketba ll when I was five years old at the local YMCA because my parents practically forced me to get into some type of sport. It quickly became

something I loved and had fun [with], so I have my parents to thank for that.

with [the] aux cord, it would be [junior guard] Vanessa Edgehill, 100 percent.

5. W ho has been the biggest inf luence in your basketball career?

Although he is not a superstar basketball player, my dad has always been a big influence in my basketball career. In high school after every game, he would give me notes with ways to improve my game, and still today he always influences me to become a better player.

11. Who is the funniest player on the team?

Without ever trying to be, the funniest player on our team is easily [sophomore forward] Mackenzie Miers.

6. A ny persona l prega me superstitions?

A big pregame superstition I have is that I always have to eat some type of candy before a game.

Usually, my go-tos are gummy bears or the cherry Twizzlers.

7. W hat does the BU locker room look like before a game?

Before a game, our locker room at first consists of all of us hanging out, whether it’s just talking or watching a certain show we all enjoy. Then it quickly turns to everyone focusing in on the game and getting ready in her own way.

8. Do you have any other favorite sports, and if so, what are they?

The other sport I played, alongside basketball, for most of my life was soccer. It definitely is one of my favorite sports, but really I enjoy watching or playing almost any sport due to the competitive aspect.

9. What song are you listening to on repeat?

Currently the song I’m listening to on repeat along with every other person in this world is “thank u, next” by Ariana Grande.

10. What teammate would you trust with the aux cord during a long road trip?

If I had to trust one teammate

12. What’s your favorite sports team?

For the NFL, my favorite team would be the [Pittsburgh] Steelers, and for the NBA, my favorite team would be the [Boston] Celtics.

13. How do you balance being a student athlete and majoring in computer engineering?

For everybody, I think the balance of being a student athlete at Boston University can be difficult until you rea lize time management really is your best friend. For engineering, the majority of my assignments are personal projects, so just starting early has helped me get through my classes.

14. W hat do you wa nt to do after graduation?

Following graduation in May, I recently accepted a position at John Hancock to become a software developer full time. I also would love to spend some of the time before starting my job to travel around the world a little.

15. Default coffee/Starbucks order?

I have a lways hated coffee, which may change once I enter full adulthood, but until then, my default Starbucks order is simply green tea — iced or hot, depending on the season.

16. Where’s the best place to study on campus?

My favorite place to study on campus is the third-floor of Mugar Library.

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Senior guard Payton Hauck in a Nov. 28 game against the University of New Hampshire.

Hauck earned her first career double-double Sunday against the University of Delaware.

17. What’s your favorite place to eat around Boston?

I love Mexican food, and some of my favorite places to eat in Boston are Border Café and El Centro.

18. Which season is your favorite and why?

Fall is by far my favorite season.

The weather can be great, and there are always events going on during this time of the year, whether it’s one of the many sports teams playing or just something fun happening

in the city.

19. The ocean or the mountains?

I prefer the ocean to the mountains always. I grew up with my grandparents having a beach place, and it definitely is one of my favorite places to go to have fun or just relax.

20. Sweet or savory?

I definitely prefer savor y to sweet. I always prefer spicy or salty foods over something sweet like a rich dessert.

BOTTOM LINE FRIDAY, DEC. 7 Women’s hockey will face the Rochester Institute of Technology in an away game at 2p.m.

Men’s hockey will face the University of Massachusettes Lowell in Agganis

SATURDAY, DEC. 8 Women’s hockey will conclude its’ series against RIT at noon.

Men’s Hockey will travel to Lowell for a match at 7 p.m.

TUESDAY, DEC. 11

BU Alumn Charlie McAvoy and Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson will face the Arizona Cyotes with the Boston Bruins at 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12

THURSDAY, DEC. 13

Women’s basketball will travel to Amherst to play University of Massachusettes at 7 p.m.

Darthmouth College will host

at 7:30 p.m.

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men’s basketball at 7 p.m.