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NINE-ALARM FIRE INJURES 7, DISPLACES MORE THAN 50 RESIDENTS BY ADRIAN BAKER & KYLE PLANTZ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston Fire Department responded to a nine-alarm blaze that started on the back deck of an apartment on Harvard Terrace Wednesday evening, which injured five firefighters and left 54 residents displaced from their homes. Thick smoke billowed down Brighton Avenue, completely covering the street in a thick, black smog. The smell of the fire permeated through the area causing several people to cough and cover their faces. After approximately 160 firefighters battled the large flames for about two hours, BFD was able to knock out the fire and begin their investigation into what caused the fire, said Steve MacDonald, BFD spokesman. “Right now he allowed no one into the building, so tomorrow [Thursday], we will assess the building,” he said. “We certainly don’t want anyone to get hurt at this stage, so

“Right now, we allowed no one into the building, ...we will assess the building. We certainly don’t want anyone to get hurt...” they’ll take it slow and it’ll be a slow process.” Five firefighters were treated by Boston Emergency Medical Services. Three were being treated at the scene and two were transported, one for a shoulder injury and the other for smoke inhalation, to a local hospital, according to the BFD Twitter. Two bystanders were also treated by EMS for minor injuries and transported to a hospital, MacDonald said.

“For the 54 displaced, we had the American Red Cross, the Mayor’s Office and the Fire Department’s assistance along with EMS,” MacDonald said. “We have some of the displaced up at Jackson High School in Union Square. “Others have found family and friends to stay with at least for the night.” MacDonald said some residents could be displaced for a week and others, whose apartment was directly affected by the flames, could be displaced for at least a month. Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said buses were sent to the scene to provide air conditioning for the displaced residents before they figured out their next step. MacDonald said it does not look any students were affected by the fire. “There doesn’t appear to be any students that we know of living in any of the three sections of the building,” he said. “For the most part, it was adults.” Firefighters responded to 12-16 Harvard Terrace, near the intersection of Brighton Avenue and Harvard Avenue, at about 5:47 p.m., after reports of a heavy fire. Flames originated on a rear deck, spread rapidly up the back to the upper floors and burst through the roof. The fire itself was contained to 12 Harvard Terrace, which has six apartments, said Fire Commissioner Joseph E. Finn at a briefing. 8 and 16 Harvard Terrace suffered smoke and water damage. Finn gave an initial estimate of $2,000,000 in damages. BFD will continue the investigation into the cause of the fire on Thursday and MacDonald said he will keep a couple of fire trucks on the scene throughout Wednesday night to make sure there are no flareups. As of 6:30 p.m., officials had ordered all firefighters out of the structure out of concern of the building collapsing. Safety zones were established and the fire commissioner had taken command of the incident, MacDonald said.

The BFD requested a 2-block radius remain clear and Boston University advised students to stay away from the area, according to an emergency alert from BU. Boston Police had closed Brighton Avenue from Harvard Street to Cambridge Street to prevent motor vehicles from interfering the firefighters, said David Estrada, BPD spokesman. This is the first nine-alarm fire since the nine-alarm inferno that ripped through the Back Bay condominium at 298 Beacon St. on March 26, claiming the lives of Boston Fire Lieutenant Edward Walsh and firefighter Michael Kennedy. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh appeared at the scene for about an hour after the fire was knocked out, MacDonald said. “He showed up the thank the firefighters for their support and talk to the people affected,” he said. Chloe Vilain, 32, of Allston, said she was on Brighton Avenue when the fire broke out. “I heard some sort of explosion,” she said. “That’s what it sounded like. It sounded like a loud popping noise, and then there was this plume of black smoke. Then people just started congregating on the other side of the street watching it. It just keeps getting worse and more crowded out here.” Scott Matalon, 44, of Allston, said he was in contact with the owner of the building throughout the fire. “The more they fight it, the more smoke they’re making,” Matalon said. “The fire department responded really rapidly, so kudos to them. They really did a great job.” Kat Hess, 27, who lives at 9 Gardner St., said she was unable to re-enter her building due to its proximity to the fire. “I was doing laundry and I smelled smoke, and I thought maybe it was a lint fire, so I turned it off and that wasn’t it,” she said. “So I went outside and then I saw all the smoke billowing down the street. My first thought was, at least it’s not our building.”

“It sounded like a loud popping noise, and then there was this plume of black smoke.”

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Pro-life, choice advocates clash over Supreme Court buffer law decision BY MINA CORPUZ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University students passing by Planned Parenthood’s Commonwealth Avenue location in Allston will no longer see a buffer zone restricting protesters from gathering at the entryway to the facility. The building at 1055 Comm. Ave. is just one of several reproductive health care sites serving as a battleground in a free speech conflict between pro-life and pro-choice advocates in Massachusetts. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously voted down a 2007 Massachusetts law that created 35-foot buffer zones surrounding entranceways of reproductive health care facilities, preventing pro-life advocates from approaching the front door of the site as patients enter and exit the building. The law was struck down on the grounds that it unconstitutionally violated protesters’ First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly. “The protesters have a First Amendment right, and we value everyone’s right to free speech. They have a right to speak, no question about it. What’s so concerning is that they are forcing themselves onto people who may not wish to engage with them,” said Marty Walz, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. “I don’t think it’s fair. It’s often harassing and intimidating to patients and unsettling to our staff, but the Supreme Court decided that this in an appropriate way for women to be treated.” In response to the Supreme Court’s rul-

ing, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed the “Act to Promote Public Safety and Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care Facilities” in July, allowing police officers to disperse any group of two or more people blocking the entryway to a reproductive health care facility. If protesters refuse to stand 25 feet away from the premise or are found impeding access to an entryway in the following eight hours, they are liable to be arrested and fined. Anne Fox, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, said while the organization agrees with the Supreme Court’s decision to support free speech, she is wary of how the Commonwealth’s Safe Access law will be enforced. “What we particularly had objection to with the 35-foot buffer zone was two things: one that it targeted only right to lifers, and [two] that it targeted only abortion facilities,” she said. “My hope is that the law is appealed here or somewhere else and overturned because it sets a very bad precedent: pro-lifers are the perceived villains. What happens when someone else, like a union or workers at a hospital, becomes the villain?” In addition to the tools the Safe Access law provides, Walz said Planned Parenthood has taken steps to ensure their patient’s safety as they come to their facilities. “Any day the protesters are present we have escorts,” she said. “We’re in regular communication with the police department if there’s any inappropriate behavior. Some of the protesters have behaved, and some have

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been more aggressive. We’re doing everything we’re allowed to do under the court’s decision.” Katie Hayden, policy and operations manager at the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for

erature. Some might have been subjected to some of the behavior our patients have because the protesters don’t know who’s a patient or a student who happens to be walking by.” Fox said pro-life advocates who gather outside of reproductive facilities do not engage in the type of behavior they have been accused of, behavior the Safe Access law has been created to prevent. “We have not seen one video or picture of pro-lifers doing anything out of order,” Fox said. “We know perfectly well if there were anything, it would be all over the Internet and TV. The pro-lifers aren’t doing anything, yet all of this is predicated that they are these horrible people.” Several BU students and Boston area residents said while Womthey value free speech, a sense of safeen, said ty and dignity for women seeking reproducthe June PHOTO BY FALON MORAN / DAILY FREE tive health services is more of a priority. PRESS STAFF Supreme Sarah Moody, a College of CommuCourt nication freshman, said the possibility of ruling created a need for new provisions conbeing subjected to the same experience patained in the Safe Access law. tients entering and exiting Planned Parent“The legislation is consistent with our mishood may face makes her uneasy. sion in that it takes steps to ensure that women “It’s difficult for someone like me who are able to access health care free from intimivalues free speech, but I agree that people dation or harm,” she said in an e-mail. “We bewalking in and out shouldn’t have to put up lieve that putting protections in place to ensure with that,” she said. “It [the Safe Access law] the safety of patients and reproductive healthsounds like a compromise because it is importcare providers at clinics was imperative.” ant that there are rules and protesters don’t Due to BU’s proximity to Planned Paroverstep boundaries.” enthood’s Comm. Ave. location, Walz said BU Sargent College of Health and Rehabilstudents might encounter pro-life advocates itation Sciences junior Sofia Yohannes said protesting outside of the facility. though pro-life advocates deserve the right to “Some of the people the protesters protest, a location separate from reproductive are harassing are BU students,” Walz said. health care centers would be a more appropri“Some will have personal experience with what ate venue to voice their opinions. it’s like on the sidewalk on Commonwealth Av“I have lived near it [the Planned Parentenue outside of our health center because they hood center] and have been in the area,” she said. will have walked by, and protesters are yelling “The buffer zone is a good idea just because proat them, talking, or getting them to accept littesters don’t know the specific reason a person is coming in. When The BiggesT & NeWesT Back To school going in, shouting can influence the person. It is okay to of 100’s es protest, but outside oic h C w Ne Planned Parenthood is a bit extreme.” Amy Ketchum, 38, of Kenmore, said a lack of understanding may contribute to the conflict between those for Where: and against allowing Agganis Arena women the right to Main Lobby When: have an abortion. Mon. Sept. 8 thru Thurs. “It’s fine to Sept. 11 stand there with Time: 10 A.M. - 7 P.M. signs, even though Sponsor: you don’t agree Barnes and Noble at with what they say. Boston University There is a lot of misunderstanding on both sides,” she said. “There are prochoice people and also pro-life people who are strident. Both are judgmental Most Posters Only $5, $6, $7, $8 and $9 of each other.”

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Changes to MBTA services benefit riders, at a cost BY STEPHANIE PAGONES DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As students at Boston-area colleges and universities begin commuting throughout the city for another academic year, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has increased fare prices, extended service hours and created live-tracking applications for their train and bus services. As of July 1, fares have increased by 5 percent. Subway costs have increased from $2.00 to $2.10 with a CharlieCard and from $2.50 to $2.65 with a CharlieTicket. The MBTA’s bus service now costs $1.60 with a CharlieCard, an increase from $1.50, and $2.10 with a CharlieTicket, increased from $2.00. The cost of Boston University students’ MBTA semester pass has also increased by $18, from $249 to $267, according to BU’s Parking & Transportation Services website. “The MBTA needed to close a gap in its Fiscal Year 2015 budget, which took effect July 1,” said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo in an email. “The revenue from the modest fare adjustment has helped the MBTA balance its budget.” Theresa Kniaz, a sophomore in the School of Management, said the fare increase could cause a decrease in ridership and an increase in car use. “More people need to be off the highways and out of their cars, and with the price increase, that won’t happen,” she said. “If they choose to raise the prices, then we should actually be seeing the improvements in the quality of the trains and buses and in the quality of our rides. It’s definitely affected how often I take the T.” Anthony Marotta, 57, of Back Bay, said although he understands why the MBTA has increased fare prices, he is now forced to allot

more money from his already tight budget in order to ride the T. “It’s very inconvenient because I’m on a disabled income,” he said. “It’s very expensive. I probably spend over $50 a month on public transportation, which is money that I could use towards food. I understand that prices have gone up for everything. It’s become a way of life. Things are just totally different. If prices went up again, I would have to limit my use of public transportation significantly.” Revenue from late-night service The MBTA has also been able to raise funds through the addition of late-night service, which Pesaturo said is in the midst of a yearlong pilot program. “Since the pilot program began in late March, more than 450,000 riders have used the late night service between 12:30 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays,” he said. “Ridership varies from weekend to weekend, but it generally stays in the range between 15,000 and 18,000 per weekend.” At the conclusion of the pilot-program, Pesaturo said the MBTA will make a decision on whether to continue late-night service based on the revenue they generate or to implement different budget-related strategies.

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Tim Shyshpar, a senior in SMG, said the extended service is the better, safer option for late-night commuters, but it could also be a disturbance for some who live near the tracks or bus stops. “For some it might potentially be a disturbance, but it’s better than walking at night, especially if that person is coming back from Allston,” he said. “The T might not be the safest option, but it’s safer, more the less.” MBTA incorporates live-tracking technology The MBTA has been working with technology developers to create more than 20 live-tracking smartphone and computer applications, allowing users to locate MBTA trains and buses nearest to them. Ming Chow, a computer science professor at Tufts University’s School of Engineering, was able to create the app MATransit using MBTA data and docu-

mentation. “The MBTA has the real-time train schedules publicly available,” Chow said in an email. “So each time a person clicks on a station on my app, the app makes a connection to my server to retrieve closest stations and lines, then the server gets the schedule for each station. The information is then transferred back to the user’s phone.” Nicole Landa, 28, said while live-tracking apps are useful, they are not a primary concern for those riding the T. “The applications are helpful, but also possibly discouraging to see how long it will take for the T to get here,” she said. “Especially because sometimes it takes longer for the T or the bus to arrive than we may like. With the expansion of the city, there are still so many places that are not accessible, like the waterfront.”

Off-campus housing proves dangerous, deadly for Boston students BY ADRIAN BAKER, JAIME BENNIS, STEPHANIE PAGONES DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When Nick Dragonetti moved into his Allston apartment at the beginning of September, he saw first-hand the issues that several Boston University students encounter when they live off campus. “There are a lot of things that we were blindsided by when we came here the first day,” he said. “For the first month, it’ll be tough just trying to get everything fixed.” Dragonetti, a senior in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said though his residence seems up to code, it does have significant issues. “There are some holes in the walls, things need to be repainted, some doors need to be fixed,” he said. “They’ve said they would come and fix it either this week or next week. And hopefully they do.” Following a 2014 Boston Globe Spotlight Team series on problems with crowded, unsafe and sometimes illegal off-campus apartments in Boston, titled “Shadow Campus,” the city vowed to crack down on unruly landlords and violations of student housing policy. On Aug. 20, the Boston City Council voted to require colleges and universities in the city, including BU, to share lists of the addresses of all students living off campus in an effort to enforce occupancy restrictions. The city’s University Accountability Ordinance required universities to provide only the number of students living both on and off campus in each ZIP code. The amendment strengthens the ordinance by calling for the addresses and unit numbers of all student apartments, with a distinction between undergraduate and graduate students, before each semester. Students’

names, however, will not be included. BU spokesman Colin Riley said this will be the second year the university provides such a list, though he cautioned that addresses with more than four residents may actually be in compliance with the occupancy restriction. “Many of those apartment buildings are multi-family homes, so providing those addresses does not indicate that there is any violation of the city ordinance,” he said. Riley also said it is important not to conflate violations of the ordinance with an overcrowding problem. “I don’t know if it’s overcrowding,” he said. “If you have five bedrooms and five people live in there, it doesn’t sound like it’s overcrowding.” Riley said apartment landlords are responsible for providing safe and secure housing, though he noted BU can and does play a role. “The university cares very much for its students whether they live on campus or off campus,” he said. “We want to ensure that they know their rights and responsibilities as tenants and that information is provided to them and made available by the university through an off-campus fair.” BU’s next off-campus housing fair will be held February 2015, with more details to come in December or early January, according to BU’s off-campus website. The address requirement for colleges and universities comes at a time when off-campus housing safety is being addressed in Boston’s courts as well. On Aug. 19, one day before the City Council’s vote, the family of BU student Binland Lee, who died in an Allston apartment fire in 2013, filed a lawsuit against the property’s landlord and real estate agency for allegedly renting an apartment that did not comply

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Thoughts on the BU adjunct faculty union movement

A student’s classroom experience can only be as good as the professor creating it. But in the case of Boston University’s adjunct professors, some say there are boundaries hindering their ability to create the ideal teaching environment they desire. At BU, approximately 41 percent of professors are members of the part-time faculty. They are paid on a per-class basis, which ranges anywhere from $3,750 to $9,563 for each course, and they receive no medical benefits, in comparison to the $157,000 average yearly salary and full medical benefits of tenured and other full-time professors. The adjuncts are required to reapply to teach at BU each semester, and their jobs depend entirely on class enrollment. If the quota for enrolled students is not met before the start of the class, the class is canceled, and an adjunct could fi nd him or her unemployed in the blink of an eye. They are not given offices, classroom tools or a significant say in the curriculums they teach. These unsatisfactory working conditions have led adjunct professors at universities across the country to unionize, and movement for an adjunct professor union is now growing at BU On Tuesday, fi ve BU adjunct professors visited The Daily Free Press office as representatives of the union movement. These professors and the other BU professors supporting an adjunct union are led by Adjunct Action, a branch of the Service Employees International Union that works to organize unions for adjunct faculties one city at a time. Within the Boston-area, they are currently working with BU, Tufts University, Northeastern University and Lesley University. The visiting members of the adjunct faculty organizing committee recounted their personal struggles as adjunct professors, citing insufficient living funds, lack of office space and the insecurity that stems from having to continually reapply for their teaching positions. “I have been teaching pay-per-course at BU and collecting

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unemployment, and I have also been eligible for food stamps,” said Maureen Sullivan, an adjunct lecturer at Metropolitan College. “I absolutely could not make it on what I am doing here at BU.” Aside from their concerns about being able to adequately support their own lives, an overriding theme of their reasoning to start an adjunct union was to benefit the classroom experiences of their students. “We need this union to put the check on the university to say ‘invest in the classroom experience,’” said Dan Hunter, a lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences. “You can have a great library, resources, law books, athletic teams, but the core of the classroom experience lies in the professors…We are here because we see a way of improving BU so that the teaching is better, so that the benefits accrue to students, tenure faculty and us as well.” BU has published a webpage titled “Part-Time Faculty Working Group” that addresses the issues expressed by members of the adjunct faculty and that explores the effects a union may have on the BU faculty and campus as a whole. Although ostensibly neutral, BU doesn’t exactly seem to be encouraging a union. “It is hard to know the precise impact that any potential unionization of our part-time faculty would have on the broader BU community,” the webpage states. “…While unions certainly have their place for a number of reasons, organized labor’s focus has been

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rooted, historically, in areas other than the merit-based systems found at institutions of higher learning.” The potential demands of an adjunct union could add costs for BU, and if costs for the university were to increase, the additional funds would have to come from somewhere. If you think about the fact that about half of BU’s operating budget comes from tuition, there is a considerable possibility that the additional costs to meet any demands would result in some kind of tuition hike. It’s hard for us as students to take a defi nitive stance on whether an adjunct faculty union at BU would ultimately be beneficial. When we are in the classroom being inspired by whatever particular adjunct professor is teaching that class, it’s difficult to fi nd a reason why they should not receive equal treatment as tenured and full-time professors. However, we are also students struggling to pay for college, and the threat of any tuition increase has a souring effect on the potentiality of a supportive student body. In a perfect world, the funding necessary to better compensate and provide for adjunct faculty would be easily attainable, but this is not a perfect world. There’s no question that there are glaring issues in an education system where almost half of a school’s faculty feels underpaid, mistreated and unappreciated, but this issue is not unique to BU. Universities across the United States have fallen into the habit of taking advantage of their part-time faculty for the sole reason that universities need professors and adjuncts are cheap. The calls for adjunct unions at BU and other universities should speak to the larger need for a reformed education system that stops taking advantage of students and teachers alike. Until that happens, there are no winners.

An Open Letter to Robert Brown, President of Boston University, and the Presidents of all Area Colleges and Universities

The death of Michael Brown is only one of the latest in a long line of killings of unarmed black men by vigilantes and police offi cers. In many cases, police offi cers and private citizens who have shot and killed black men have been investigated, but rarely has justice been served by their conviction when convicted prison sentences seldom refl ect the gravity of their crimes. Black males continue to be at risk of racial profi ling and police and vigilante harassment and murder. At the same time, there continues to be an epidemic of crime against black men. Because the overwhelming majority of homicides of blacks are committed by other blacks, the nation has conveniently labeled this appalling epidemic a “black problem” that must be solved by a putative “black community” that is conveniently conjured into existence. This reaction is a manifestation of continuing racism in America. When white males commit mass shootings, no one labels this form of violence the manifestation of a white male problem to be solved by white males coming together and taking responsibility for their actions. When an emotionally ill young man killed school children in Newtown, Connecticut, no one thought to call the crime a Newtown problem to be solved by that community taking ownership of its deficiencies. The labeling of black on black crime as a black problem is one more manifestation of the continuing segregation of black people in

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America and the persistent refusal of this country to regard black Americans as “one of us.” The rise in Black crime since the late 1960s was created by growing and continuing high levels of unemployment and underemployment of black men, changes in family and community dynamics and the personal and cultural trauma of racism and sexism. These problems are America’s problems. Their solutions go far beyond the capacity of “the black community” to solve them. Black people have always addressed the issues of crime against blacks, but a national initiative is needed to solve the problem. This situation is intolerable in a nation that proclaims its commitment to justice and human rights as it pours billions of dollars into bringing “democracy” to other countries. As the focal point of enormous global national and local resources, intellectual, material and emotional, the university has a vital role to play in addressing the national problem of violence directed against black males either by law enforcement officers, vigilantes or other blacks. The University can take the lead in initiating national action to address the crisis of black male victimization. I call upon the presidents of all area colleges and universities to take the following steps: 1. To declare a university day of mourning and study devoted to meditation on the tragedy of young black life terminated by violence and to study of the crisis of black male vic-

timization. 2. To send a collective call to our Congressional delegation to vigorously pursue Congressional hearings on the crisis of black male victimization. 3. To launch research and policy initiatives on the Crisis of black male victimization including its psychological, emotional, political and economic dimensions. 4. To launch recruitment programs aimed at bringing lower income and at risk black males to your colleges and universities, with full fi nancial support, even when their academic performance does not meet normal admission criteria. The admission of such degree candidates would have to be supported by effective academic support programs focused on ensuring their successful academic performance. Such academic support programs exist and are successful at numerous universities around the nation. 5. Finally, collaborate in launching and running a campaign to educate the local, national and global communities about the crisis of violence against black males and to counteract the continuing racism against blacks at home and abroad and racist perceptions of black people.

Velapatino became distracted from his escape when he encountered the adorable kittens living in the home he was hiding in, giving the homeowners time to call the police to arrest him. We here at the ol’ Free Press would like to know what would distract people at BU from a chase. COM: Adding a selfie of the chase to their Snapchat story

CGS: Something shiny SHA: Complementary mini-muffi ns Freshmen: Using campus maps to fi gure out where they are Dean Elmore: Making a Spotify playlist to serve as his soundtrack for the chase CFA: A sale on cigarettes The FreeP: Bertucci’s rolls and fi res in Allston

Sincerely, Ronald. K. Richardson, PhD Associate Professor of History

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A solemn start to the academic Lactose intolerant year for former BU wrestlers BY KATIE TAMOLA COLUMNIST

BY TRISHA THADANI COLUMNIST

On his fi rst day as a senior at Boston University, former BU wrestler Peter Ishiguro said there are certain places on campus he feels he needs to avoid this year because of the memories they provoke. After the BU Wrestling team competed in its final match last spring, Ishiguro said some facilities, that were once commonplace in his daily schedule as a wrestler, are now just too emotional to return to. “It’s like breaking up with a girlfriend,” Ishiguro, a College of Engineering senior, said. “There are just too many places that remind you of what you once had.” When I fi rst met with the wrestlers at the entrance of Case Gymnasium, Ishiguro and his teammates shuddered at my suggestion of possibly going down to their old practice room in the basement for this interview. “We can’t go back there,” Ishiguro said, as his fellow teammates somberly nodded in unison. Other places on campus that the wrestlers said they now try to avoid include their locker room, which used to serve as their home base during the season, and the Eilberg Lounge, where former BU Athletic Director Mike Lynch abruptly told them last year that the university was botching their program. On April 1, 2013, in what some wrestlers thought was just a bad April Fools Day joke, the team was told that the university was going to disband their decades-old Division 1 team – hours after the news had already been circulating online. In a statement issued by the university shortly after the decision, officials claimed it would cost the university “an immense infusion of resources, including major facility enhancements and additional staffi ng, would be required” to bring the team to a championship-caliber level. Almost immediately after the controversial decision went public, a campaign to save BU Wrestling spread rampantly, not only around BU, but across the nation as well. Yet, even with the immense support from fans, alumni, and fellow wrestlers, BU Wrestling competed in their fi nal home match against Sacred Heart University in February. In a normal year, the official wrestling season would start

mid October. The month leading up to that, Ishiguro said, is usually spent in morning lifts, captain’s practices and routine team meetings. Now, as the 2014-2015 school year begins, the former team must grapple with the reality of no longer having wrestling practices to structure their day – a routine many of the wrestlers became used to since starting the sport as a young kid. “Today I was sitting with Pete after I was done with class at noon, and I just didn’t know what to do with myself,” said former wrestler Matt Belikov, a School of Management junior, who started wrestling 14 years ago. Ishiguro said it’s been hard to fi nd motivation to exercise outside of the scheduled practices and lifts he became used to in his last three seasons as a BU wrestler. “After the season ended, everything just went to shit,” Ishiguro said, looking around at his fellow teammates. “I don’t know about you guys, but I put on like 35 pounds.” Vince DeBlasio, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he and his teammates are constantly looking for a mat to wrestle on, since they can no longer use the mats that were once on their own campus. “We all keep trying to wrestle, anywhere we can,” DeBlasio said. “It’s almost like a habit to keep going back to it.” More than a year after the decision was unexpectedly made to cut the program, the former wrestlers said the pain of the loss hasn’t gotten any easier. One of the worst parts of this situation, they said, is they feel it’s still unclear as to why exactly BU decided to cut the program, despite a flurry of requests for a more direct answer. “Wrestling isn’t an expensive sport,” Belikov said. “Our practice room was a corner room, and our locker room was a hand-me-down… all you really need to wrestle is a mat.” “Our facilities weren’t great, but everyone was still happy to be there,” added Belikov’s teammate, Colin Saunders, a junior in SMG. As our interview came to a close, and we were still sitting on the stairs of Case Gym, a floor above where the former BU wrestlers used to spend countless hours a week conditioning and perfecting their techniques, I asked if any of them had gone back down to the room since their mats were ripped off the ground in June. My question was met with a brief moment of silence until Saunders broke it with a somber admission – “I have,” he said. “How was it?” “Depressing.” Trisha Thadani is a junior in the College of Communication. She can be reached at trishat@bu.edu. Follow her on Twitter @TrishaThadani.

A letter from the editor: Welcome to The Free Press! If you’re reading this, congratulations, you’ve made it to the inside pages of The Free Press, and I thank you for getting this far! As I’m sure you know (or at least I hope you do), The Daily Free Press has undergone several changes over the past few months. We announced our decision on May 5 to become a digital-first news publication with a weekly print edition. Our website, DailyFreePress.com (which I encourage you all to check out after reading this), has been completely redesigned and we hope our readers, including staff, faculty, administrators, students, parents, alumni and anyone else who is interested in the Boston University community, view the revamped site as a gathering place for us all to connect. Our weekly print edition, known as The Free Press, will contain all of the best work from our editors and staff. I hope you will pick up a copy each week and peruse the paper to see what big issues are being discussed and to learn a little bit more about your campus community. If not for that, I promise to try and keep the crossword puzzle in the paper each week. One of my goals during my term as editor-in-chief is to return to our campus roots, delivering the news that matters to the BU community. We want to cover the stories that you fi nd interesting and on topics that you want to hear about. In order to do that, we all need to communicate with one another. If there’s something happening on campus that you think we should cover, let us know. We are always looking for new stories to report on and we can’t do it without you, our readers. You can fi nd all the contact information for our editors on our website at

www.dailyfreepress.com. Do you have something to say about the work we create? Reach out to us! We want to hear your thoughts on how to improve our website and how to improve our reporting. You can send “Letters to the Editor” by emailing letters@dailyfreepress.com or you can email me directly at editor@dailyfreepress.com. This is a twoway street and I hope to meet you all halfway to deliver the best content we can on the issues that matter to our audience. You can also submit calendar events for our new Community Calendar on our website. Is there an interesting forum and discussion that you want people to attend? Or maybe your student band is playing in Allston. We want our website to be a place for our readers to look to for information. So send us your listings and we will publish your event on our site for free! You can learn more about our calendar by going to our website and clicking “Calendar.” Now I hope this word wasn’t too dull for you. Like I said before, we appreciate your continued support as we make our transition this semester. We always want to hear from our readers and I hope you will take me up on that offer. If you see me around campus, stop and say hi. We are students first and foremost so we do have lives outside of this office (although sometimes it seems that we don’t…as I sit here and write this at 3:40 a.m. before deadline). On behalf of all the editors and staff at The Daily Free Press, thanks again for picking up our paper and we will strive to continue delivering relevant, timely news to you all. Kyle Plantz, Fall 2014 Editor-in-Chief

I would like to welcome you to the world of lactose. Before we embark on this adventure, I should probably explain a few things. My name is Katie, and I’m a graduate student here at Boston University. My cousin, who recently graduated from BU, offered to help me get a job at her previous place of employment. She worked at a frozen yogurt shop. I needed to pay rent. I would have taken a job shaving chinchillas in Allston. Anyway, she mentioned the most beautiful word (tips), and I was all like “Yeah, I love sweet things. I’ve also never been to this magical Harvard place, tell me more!” Then I got the job, gained 20 pounds, and an 18-year-old Harvard freshman sassed me, but alas those are stories for another day. BU is large and in charge, so students hold about a million other part-time jobs ranging from clerical work to taking care of people in clinics to restocking shelves of $60 cream sweaters. Keep on keepin’ on, y’all. The students – actually, anyone in general -who work in food service: my allegiance and respect lie with you. Whenever I tell a friend about a frustrating interaction that occurred at my food-service job, his or her initial reaction is confusion. Why would you ever blatantly sass or disrespect someone assembling something that is going into your mouth? GOOD QUESTION. Maybe they just assume I’m not psychotic and won’t drop their malted-vanilla yogurt face down into our flytrap. I won’t...because that’s gross. But sassy girl, you don’t know me! I could be vengeful. I could be crazy. I could be BEYONCE-ON-THE-RUN-TOUR FROM THE LAW. I’m not asking for a kidney, I’m defi nitely not asking for a tip (trust me, I get it—school is expensive), but dear God...could it kill you to not look like you’re disgusted to be breathing the same air as the lowly creature that is me? So, this young woman ordered her three-ounce yogurt and asked for about eight different toppings when I committed the most egregious and most offensive act there is of all—I accidentally gave her rainbow sprinkles instead of chocolate. She then turned to her friend and called me a bitch. First of all, I clearly did you a favor. Rainbow sprinkles are far superior; did you not graduate kindergarten? Were you that kid that cried and shoved his or herself into a cubby because the cupcakes were not what you preferred? You make me want to move to Antarctica and live under a glacier. Secondly, I’m not a bitch. There is a long line, you’re about 18 and go to a local college; I’m four or fi ve years older than you, AND I WANT TO KILL YOU. This young woman stood about a foot taller than me, wearing a basketball jersey. On a normal day, she could end me. However, I had the rage of 1,000 wet cats pumping through my body. I wanted to hit her over the head with the mop and then give her colorful yogurt to someone else. This happened about a year ago, and I’m glad to see that I’m defi nitely over it! This kind of interaction in food service is about one in every four or five customers. Some people just saunter on into the shop and with their actions (and sometimes words), emit the following: “I want my yogurt, and I want it now. I also find it important to note that I believe you have the IQ of a brick. Tell me I’m pretty.” Other people, well they are undeniably pleasant and wonderful. Regulars (and non-regulars alike) can be funny, kind and generous. These are the people who make me feel lucky to have a job and who dissuade me from wanting to hide for the rest of eternity in one of the shop’s stock boxes. Working in food service defi nitely has its perks as well. I get to sample the product and I get to gawk over super fi ne investment bankers and EMTs whenever they’re fulfi lling their yogurt fi x. My priorities are clearly in order. I love what I study, and I love BU. I feel immensely lucky to be here. My part-time job is just that; it’s only a part of my life. Certain customers may treat me poorly because I am serving them food and cleaning up after them, and these instances and frustrations make me think. No one is better than a maintenance worker, a McDonalds employee or the receptionist at a doctor’s office. I wish people would really believe that. Apparently, this is not always a widely accepted or practiced concept. Maybe one day. Until then, you can sass me while I swirl you an aesthetically pleasing yogurt (until 11 p.m.). I recommend the rainbow sprinkles.

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BOSTON CALLING Lorde, Childish Gambino, and other acts you can't miss this weekend.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 Lorde performs at Lollapalooza 2014.

PHOTO BY LILIANE CALLEGARI VIA FLICKR/CREATIVE COMMONS.

Steady growth: Boston Calling cofounder Brian Appel talks early beginnings and future ambitions BY ALEX SIBER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston has lived in the shadow of New York City’s music scene for years, but the work of one Empire State native is changing all that. Brian Appel, who co-founded the immensely popular Boston Calling festival alongside Mike Snow in Spring 2014, has met fast growth and praise with grace. With its fourth event in two years hitting the city this coming weekend, Boston Calling is upon us — a semi-annual community staple unlikely to fade away anytime soon. Hip-hop heroes (Nas, Childish Gambino), bubbling pop stars (Lorde) and indie alt-folk groups (Volcano Choir) come together for a special three days this year. The eclectic billing reflects the understanding Appel and his team have of genres’ falling walls in 2014, and it resonates with hoards of young listeners and consumers. “I think you’re going to see an enormous BU presence. We’re looking at having more than 1,000 BU students there just on Saturday alone,” Appel said in a phone interview with The Daily Free Press. Appel has fond memories of long road trips to attend mesmerizing festivals with friends. “When I was a kid growing up, we would go see Phish. They would do their own festivals,” he said. “That was really amazing when you’re 16 or 17 years old. You just got your driver’s license, and you’re going 1,000 miles to a place uninhabited by anyone else except likeminded fans. Those early days formed a great love for creative, outdoor music events.” The show-goer traveled north in a move to Boston about 12 years ago. The subsequent decade took him from the offices of the Boston Phoenix and WFRX Radio to calling shots and heading what might be the most exciting music event to bless Boston exclusively since the inception of the Pops’ Symphony Hall more than a century ago. His media work and emergency responder experience lent a base knowledge of permits, cooperating with City Hall and public safety, but nothing could compare to running a festival. “Anything [Mike and I] had done prior to Boston Calling was nowhere near the size and scope of what this event became,” he said. Interestingly, the initial festival idea actually came to Appel and Snow while still working for radio. “I was working as a paramedic in Cambridge for a couple years before finding my way over to the Phoenix and FRX — I did marketing there for seven years,” he recalled. “Out of my time there with my partner Mike Snow, we created the idea for a music festival for the radio station. When the station ultimately stopped broadcasting, we decided to take on the project ourselves.” What could have become Boston’s take on Hot 97’s Summer Jam concert near New York City instead brewed an independent movement. Appel said without a hint of humor that no show promoter ever calls his or her trade “smooth sailing,” but he and Snow weathered the rough waters of the festival’s first year thanks to the guiding

help of Aaron Dessner, member of rock band The National and a crucial cosign with an ear for curating to boot. Dessner signed on to join Boston Calling’s management team, fulfilling an artists-and-repertoire role that leaves him largely responsible for handpicking artists to perform. “There are lots of festivals out there in the world you’ve never heard of before because they never get off the ground,” Appel said. “It’s such a tough time to book bands in the fi rst year. When The National became a partner of ours and agreed to play the inaugural event, that made our lives on the booking side a whole lot easier. Agents would see The National was going to be there, which gave it some credibility.” Appel and his counterparts worked to gain their host city’s respect, too, boosting Boston Calling’s credibility among officials by complying with any and all safety requirements, which he stresses as the key to operating in Boston. “The city is not difficult…to work with,” he said. “They’re fair, but you have to have a plan that is safe bar-none, and once you have that, everything can come together.” The intensive preparations for the festival and its following success led to several meetings with former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and current Mayor Martin Walsh, the latter of whom Appel said has been “very supportive, to the point where he has taken the support that Menino gave [them] and took it a step forward.” Chief among the restrictions loosened by Walsh is the newly admitted sale of beer in certain zones. The change yielded no incidences during Boston Calling’s spring showcase in May, a feat that registers as one of Appel’s proudest moments as an event organizer. Appel recounted a story from the May 2014 showcase regarding the most common criticism of Boston Calling he faced: Jack Johnson, the headliner, brought free water for fans during his set. When he left, the water coolers went with him, leaving the Saturday and Sunday crowds without any refreshing amenity. Upon hearing consumers’ concerns, Appel made sure to eliminate the problem for all future festivals by supplying “free water for everybody for all three days.” The issue itself is admittedly minor compared to those hurled at Coachella, Lollapalooza and other major festivals, but Appel gets it: Small gestures go a long way. For all the holograms and reunion acts making

PHOTO BY GABBOT VIA FLICKR/CREATIVE COMMONS.

headlines at internationally recognized festivals in recent years, Appel and Snow’s event fi nds its calling through simplicity. Inand-out passes allow attendants to leave the concert grounds as they please and contribute to the local economy as they explore. Non-confl icting schedules prevent acts from competing against each other for an audience.

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College students face important choice between big business, startups

CORPORATIONS More Structured More specialized Higher Compensation More Stable Distant Senior Management

BY OLIVIA DENG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Internships, once deemed optional, are now seemingly a necessity. This year alone, internship hiring in the Northeast is expected to increase by 10 percent, and national co-op hiring is expected to increase by 4.4 percent, according to the 2014 Internship and Co-op Survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The question no longer concerns whether or not to take an internship, but rather, what type of internship to take. Changes in the Boston economy have resulted in changes in the types of internships available to students. Though large corporations such as Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers continue to attract student applicants, many students are considering an alternative: startup internships. Robby Bitting, marketing director at startup accelerator MassChallenge, said the burgeoning Boston startup scene and the large student population in Boston supplement each other. “I think entrepreneurs rely on the students in Boston because they’re so smart, they’re really skilled and they’re looking for experiences,” he said. “And entrepreneurs desperately need smart, talented, people, but also people who are hungry. And students are some of the people most eager for those experiences, so it’s a really nice relationship there. “The nature of startups is that they are constantly evolving and having that constantly evolving student population. They turn over every four years. You get new batch of freshman in every year, [and] people are coming in from all over the place. That sort of movement really complements how entrepreneurs build their businesses as well.” Kanav Dhir, a College of Engineering senior, said he founded the Boston University Startup Fair after noticing the strong demand for startup internships at BU. “Me and a good friend of mine were at the College of Engineering Career Fair and noticed that Formlabs and a couple of other startups happened to be there, and we noticed the lines for those startups were almost out the door,” he said. “It took us a month, and we put together companies, and 350 students showed up, and a lot of students also received offers.” Dhir began working with startups at BU during his freshman year when ByteLight, an LED-based indoor positioning technology company founded by BU alumni, caught his attention. As a ByteLight intern, Dhir found himself performing a wide variety of tasks. He played a part in fundraising, creating marketing materials, dealing with patent-related issues and sitting in on meetings about funding or product development. “We all sat together, so it really exposed me to all the different areas involved in starting a company,” he said. “Not just

START-UPS More Autonomy Less Specialized Lower Compensation More Risk Work with Senior Management

the engineering part of it, which is initially what I was interested in, and what I applied for…it’s just I was part of a team, and they treated me like I was part of a team, so all the conversations were as they would have with any other member. It was such a great experience because everything that was happening, I was absorbing it.” Sua Morales, a 2014 College of Communication graduate, worked with four startups, both in intern and full-time capacities. “Lack of structure is one thing I realized I always kind of liked because it makes building something much easier; you don’t have to ask for permission,” she said. “At every single startup, if I had an idea, I could implement it.” The structure of larger companies makes it more difficult to work closely with the management team or be involved in decision-making processes, Dhir said. At Dow Jones, where Morales served as a research analyst intern in 2013, an established infrastructure was already in place, and there was little room for malleability. “Rigid is a good word to describe it. It was very stuffy,” she said. “People came in at nine or 10, and they wrapped at five or six.” Barron Roth, ENG junior, noted the inflexibility at his coop with Advanced Micro Devices, a technology company. “That part about working in such a large corporation is you are stuck in a cubicle, you have deadlines, you have an incredible amount of data you have to analyze, and you’re sort of a drone,” he said. “There’s a rigid structure to your job as an engineer. There’s little room for creativity, unfortunately. But you’re a scientist. You’re trying to do the best engineering work you could possibly do, and at the end of the day, you know what you have to do to get it done.” However, there are merits to the structured approach corporations take. Because of the consistency, there is less ambiguity and less inherent risk. Mariya Chulichkova, COM senior, said she preferred the clarity a larger company provides in contrast to her experiences with the less structured environment at Neurala, a Cambridge-based robotics software startup. “My other company was a BU office, so everything is very established,” she said. “They know exactly what they need to do. You need to go through several people. The previous TV station I’ve worked for was also very structured.” Nikita Bhatia, ENG freshman, said as an intern at the emerging Myos Corporation, she noticed an increase in company credibility and efficiency following their July listing on Nasdaq. “There was a lot more going on in Myos after the company went public,” she said. With structure also comes higher compensation. In the great unpaid versus paid internship debate, corporate internships would emerge victorious. But despite the lucrative appeal that

lies in corporate internships, some students are willing to forgo that for the experience startup internships provide. Leah Robson, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, said the culture at Splashcore, a MassChallenge and Techstars startup, drew her to the company. “It’s a small, young company and they put high priority on making it a good place,” she said. “They have incorporated a lot of things to the culture. Every Tuesday, the whole team gets together, and we spend a couple hours problem-solving as a whole team and drinking beer. And after work today, the whole team is going to go bowling. They incorporate some things like that to keep the team collaboration consistent.” However, it is not all play at startups. Entrepreneurs are notorious for working lengthy hours and because of that manic drive to excel, startups cultivate a meritocratic system. While working with the Luxe St. app, Roth said he was driven to execute well. “They gave me an incredible amount of responsibility…I just wanted to do the best work I could possibly do,” he said. “But at the end of the day, you do what you can to add to the company, and I did a lot, from building the website to doing social media marketing to the actual implementation of the application. At a startup, you are definitely a jack-ofall-trades. Everyone’s a jack-of-all-trades. You add value more than just your title.” With the lure of startup internships becoming harder to resist for many students and recent graduates, startup accelerators and incubators such as MassChallenge and Techstars are taking initiatives to increase marketing to students and recent graduates. MassChallenge has just launched a “job board,” filled with job offers for interns and full-time employees alike in a variety of different career paths. Bitting said there are already 60 jobs posted on the board. Similarly, Techstars has a job board that enables job seekers to access a 3,000-member network of founders, alumni and mentors, said Sonya Caprio, vice president of marketing at Techstars. For students seeking to optimally prepare themselves for their post-college careers, Bitting recommends exploring both corporate and startup internships. “A question I get a lot from students is, ‘If I’m looking to get an internship, which one should I do first?’ I think there [are] benefits to doing either first,” he said. “I personally started with the corporate background first, and that helped me think about structure before I joined the startup environment, which has helped me a lot. “The value of starting at a startup first is that sort of self-starting mentality that often will be a huge advantage and the ability to supplement the structure provided by a corporation with that sort of self-motivated hunger. It’s where the magic can happen.”

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SCIENCE TUESDAY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Brave Bunch: BU Psychologists Help Children Find Their Voices BY REBECCA DEGREGORIO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As Robin Williams said in the 1989 fi lm “Dead Poets Society,” “You must strive to fi nd your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to fi nd it at all.” Recently, 11 children between the ages of 4 and 9 showed up to the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University in the pursuit of following this sage advice in regard to selective mutism. Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder that causes people of all ages to fall mute in specific settings. It currently affects less than 1 percent of persons seen in the mental health setting. From August 18 to 22, BU CARD offered an annual intensive treatment camp for children in this small sector. The camp is called Brave Bunch, and it combines clinical strategies with fun experiences to assist selectively mute children in their battle with their silent disorder. “We start by having them come in and do a pretty comprehensive intake assessment, which involves several components,” said Dr. Rachel Merson, an associate clinical director for the Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program at BU CARD. In fact, referred children and their parents were given a diagnostic interview, self-reporting surveys, an observational assessment and a series of appointments with clinicians all before they arrived at camp. “We really want to be comprehensive in understanding each child’s unique presentation because one of the things about selective mutism is that, for some kids, it’s very easy to speak to adults but not to other children,” Merson said. “For other kids, it’s the exact opposite. For many, it’s both. One disorder can manifest in a number of ways.” But once the fi rst day of camp arrived, the game completely changed into a team effort. Despite the discomfort that selective mutism creates within group settings, Dr. David Langer, a research assistant professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at BU and a clinical director at BU CARD, said that it is more than just a beneficial aspect of the program – it’s necessary. “For children, one of the main goals is having them not just speaking to strange adults, but speaking to peers,” Langer said. As a group, the children followed a schedule each day of treatment. Every morning started with “centers time,” which looked like free play, but functioned as a time when clinicians

engaged with the children using child-directive interaction, Merson said. The thematically appropriate acronym “PRIDE” served as a guideline for this method: Praise, Reflect, Imitate and Do so with Enthusiasm. By following these steps, the clinicians built a foundation of trust upon which the children could make progress. In this way, the treatment area mimicked a classroom. “The most important thing for children in schools is establishing trust and having a positive emotional relationship between a child and a teacher,” said Dr. Kathleen Corriveau, an assistant professor of human development at the School of Education. After 30 minutes of progress, the group would transition into a morning meeting, where group interaction was introduced. “Morning meeting is designed to sort of emulate the type of ‘circle time’ that a child might experience in a preschool or elementary school classroom,” Merson said. At these meetings, the Brave Bunch was led in conversations on everything from weather to food. In return for their responses, positive reinforcement was paid in the form of praise and, occasionally, prizes. Appropriately, this positive reinforcement contrasts itself with the negative reinforcement that allows selective mutism to persist. “Taking away something unpleasant also keeps the behavior going. So by taking away the pressure of giving a response, selective mutism is kind of reinforced,” Langer said. This commonly occurs when a teacher moves on to another child who will answer more promptly. In order to avoid a scenario such as this, Merson and her team vowed to remain persistent in these “circle time” meetings. However, unlike an actual school, the Brave Bunch was fortunate enough to attend field trips every afternoon. Each outing brought fun experiences for the kids along with structured tests of their progress. From Barnes & Noble to Bertucci’s to the Boston Common, the group was kicked out of its comfort zone in a number

of challenging ways. But every trip seemed simple in comparison to the Kenmore Square scavenger hunt. Getting straws from Dunkin’ Donuts, pens from Barnes & Noble and napkins from Qdoba were all tasks that led up to an anticipated fi nish line: McDonald’s. The abundance of constant activity provided by the camp led to some avail, Langer said. “Their parents kept telling us how much they were looking forward to coming back the next day, how they were talking with the parents about all the stuff they were doing,” he said. “And we see that alone as a really good indication of keeping the kids motivated and keeping them talking.” And this year’s success only further supported CARD’s reputation. “There are many people who come from around the country and even around the world who take part in these intensive programs for whatever problem they may have,” said Dr. David H. Barlow, a professor of psychology at BU and the founder of CARD. This year’s Brave Bunch represented several regions of the United States, just like BU’s student population. And although the two groups may differ in shyness, the BU community provides similar tools for helping students fi nd their voices.

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Madzongwe look- Men’s hockey adds four additional ing to move on freshmen to comfrom injury-filled plete 2014-15 roster past BY ANDREW BATTIFARANO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

One win. That was all the Boston University men’s soccer team needed on the fi nal day of the 2013 season against Bucknell University to reach its fi rst-ever Patriot League Tournament. The Terriers (2-0) outshot the Bison 23-14 that afternoon and were even up a player for most of the match when Bucknell took a red card in the 67th minute. But things were not meant to be. The Terriers fell in heartbreaking fashion in overtime, 1-0, on a disappointing Senior Day. Senior defender Kelvin Madzongwe said the game left a bitter taste in his mouth, which is fueling the fi re for the 2014 campaign. “It was a very disappointing end to the season,” Madzongwe said after BU’s 1-0 win over Iona College on Sunday. “We’ve gotten back and sat down and spoke about [the game]. What happened last year has been good for us… It gave us time to think about it and prepare for [this season].” Madzongwe arrived to Commonwealth Avenue after he played for the Zimbabwe U-20 National Team in his home country. As a freshman in 2010, he earned the America East Conference Rookie of the Year accolade for his stalwart efforts on defense. Nationally, Madzongwe was named a Second-Team Freshman All-American— quite the honor for a fi rst-year player. His sophomore year was just as good, and he earned the America East Defender of the Year award after he helped the Terriers post six shutouts on the year. Over the last two seasons, however, it has not been as bright for the promising young defender.Even before the Terriers really got into the full swing of the 2012 campaign, the team was dealt a big blow. Madzongwe, who had been the anchor to one of the nation’s best defensive corps, suffered a season-ending knee injury. The injury not only cost the Terriers its top defender, but also pushed some younger, inexperienced players into prominent roles. As a result—instead of fi ghting for an NCAA berth—the Terriers fi nished the season 6-8-4. Madzongwe came back in 2013 trying to put all of the knee questions behind. But early

in the year, the same joint once again began to flare up, causing him to miss about a month of game action because of the injury. He started just eight games all of last season. The senior defender admits the last two seasons have been difficult for him to get things back to normal. “The past year and half has been really tough on me,” Madzongwe said. “I was trying to get my head together with the injuries. But now I’m starting to get back little by little. My knee still hurts a little bit, but I’m just moving forward with it. I’ve been trying hard and the physical trainers have really helped a lot with that too.” Physically, Madzongwe is almost back to the way he was before he suffered the injury. When he’s on the field, he tries to block out all of the issues his knees have given him the past, attempting to just focus on the game at hand. “For now I try not to think about it,” Madzongwe said of his knee. “So I try just moving around and not think about the knee, and just play my game. I think it helps my mind just relax. That’s been a big factor, like I just forget about the knee, that I had an ACL injury. I just try and concentrate on the game and help the team out the best way that I can.” So far, Madzongwe has been true to his word. The Terriers have not allowed a single goal through the fi rst two games of this season. Coupled with junior defender Jeroen Blugh, BU once again has a formidable backfield that makes it tough for any opponent not only to score, but also to even hold significant possession. To put it into perspective, BU’s offense has 47 total shots this season, while their opponents have combined to amass just 17. Two early non-conference wins against Fordham University and Iona (0-1-1) have given the Terriers some early momentum as they move into the middle part of their schedule, which includes tough draws against the United States Naval Academy and rival Boston College. Madzongwe said the fi rst two wins are huge for the team even though they did not come from within the Patriot League. “The confidence is there within the guys,” Madzongwe said. “We’ve been fi ghting harder and we’re realizing we can be a good team moving forward…The way we’ve started right now is really good. It’s a confidence booster.”

BY ANDREW BATTIFARANO, CONOR RYAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

With a little over a month until the start of the 2014-15 regular season, the Boston University men’s hockey team has finally put the finishing touches on its roster with the inclusion of four more freshmen on the team. The four new Terriers – two forwards, one defenseman and one goaltender – will help push the final roster to 26 total players. BU will add another puck-moving defenseman with the arrival of Brandon Fortunato. Playing last season with the United States National Team Development Program U-18 team, Fortunato led all blueliners in points with 39 (three goals, 36 assists) on the year. The Terriers will also receive a boost on offense with the addition of forward A.J. Greer, an imposing 6-foot-3 presence out on the ice. Greer put up impressive numbers over the last two seasons at Kimball Union Academy compiling 92 points (39 goals, 53 assists) in 61 games. During the 2012-13 season at KUA, Greer skated alongside current BU sophomores forward Nick Roberto and defenseman Doyle Somerby. Greer, who does not turn 18 until Dec. 14, is the youngest player on the Terrier roster. Another netminder will join the ranks of the Terriers this season, as goaltender Connor LaCouvee was also added to the team. Playing last season with the Alberni Valley Bulldogs of the British Columbia Hockey League, LaCouvee earned team MVP honors after posting a 2.82 goals-against average and a .920 save percentage.

LaCouvee, hailing from Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, stepped up his game in the BCHL playoffs, putting forward a .929 save percentage in seven games. Rounding out the list of new players is forward Nikolas Olsson, who last played for the Sioux City Musketeers of the United States Hockey League over the last two years. In 75 games with Sioux City, the Escondido, California, product recorded 23 points off of 13 goals and 10 assists. The arrival of four new freshmen was not the only news roster-wise for the Terriers Wednesday, as a team source confirmed that defenseman Dalton MacAfee is no longer a member of the team. No reason was given for his departure. A standout at St. Sebastian’s School in Needham, MacAfee played in 31 games last season for the Terriers, recording three assists while leading all defensemen in plus-minus at -3. MacAfee is not the first Terrier to depart the team this offseason, as freshman forward Brendan Collier and redshirt sophomore defenseman J.D. Carrabino were cut from the roster in May. Earlier this year, BU head coach David Quinn acknowledged that a large incoming class would likely force the team to make some roster cuts in order to free up space. Fortunato, Greer, LaCouvee and Olsson will round out a 10-member Class of 2018 that also includes forwards in Eichel, Chase Phelps and J.J. Piccinich, as well as defensemen in MacLeod, Brandon Hickey and Brien Diffley. The first wave of BU’s incoming freshmen signed their National Letters of Intent back in May.

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Terrier Throwback Thursday

O’Connell looks to guide men’s hockey to winning ways

BY Conor Ryan DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

After more than a decade away, Albie O’Connell has finally returned to Commonwealth Avenue. The former Boston University men’s hockey team captain joined the Terriers in April as an assistant coach for the 2014-15 season, completing a full-circle move for O’Connell, who is once again affiliated with the same program that he played for almost 20 years ago. “It’s great. I’m excited,” O’Connell said. “I’m excited for the year to start. I think we’ll have a pretty good team. I think how good guys can get throughout the year and how they improve and is going to dictate the outcome of how we end up.” O’Connell joined the Terriers during the 1995-96 season as a heralded recruit. Over a year before his arrival at BU, the Watertown native was selected by the New York Islanders in the fifth round of the 1994 NHL Draft. Playing a key role on a BU squad filled with NHL talent such as Chris Drury, Shawn Bates and Tom Poti, O’Connell and the Terriers established one of the greatest stretches in program history in the late 1990s, posting a 97-41-14 record from 1995-99. While there were many positive takeaways to choose from for O’Connell, his fondest memory of playing for the Terriers was the team’s success in the annual Beanpot tournament. O’Connell and other members of the Class of 1999 are one of only four classes in program history to win four Beanpot titles. Even though O’Connell was never able to capture an NCAA title, he made two Frozen Four appearances with BU in both 1996 and 1997 – including a loss to the University of North Dakota in the 1997 championship game, 4-2. Captaining the team during his final campaign in 1998-99, O’Connell led his squad in scoring with 39 points (nine goals, 30 assists) in 36 games. By the end of his career with the Terriers, O’Connell acknowledged that learning under The Bottom Line

longtime BU head coach Jack Parker helped him grow as a hockey player in multiple areas – mostly due to the completive tone that Parker established from the get-go with his teams. “He was a great coach,” O’Connell said of Parker. “We had good teams, so it was very competitive. It was setting a high standard and then coming to work and practice every day trying to get better on and oﬀ the ice. We held a high standard and he made the practices more competitive. It was very intense. He was ready to go for practice, which led to players being ready to go and be ready to compete everyday.” While O’Connell may have turned in his scarlet and white sweater in 1999, he did not hang up his skates following his departure from Walter Brown Arena. O’Connell later played professional hockey for four teams in both East Coast Hockey League and the British National League from 1999-02, compiling 132 points (54 goals, 78 assists) in 127 pro tilts. Once he put a close to his playing career, O’Connell immediately made the transition from the ice to behind the bench, serving as an assistant coach at Berkshire Prep School in Sheﬃeld during the 2002-03 season before making the move up to the collegiate level the following year at Colby College. After stints at both Niagara University and College of the Holy Cross, O’Connell entered into the Hockey East coaching ranks in 2007-08 as an assistant coach at Merrimack College before serving the same role over the last six seasons with both Northeastern University (200811) and Harvard University (2011-14). Throughout his coaching career, O’Connell has garnered praise for his recruiting skills. During his time at Northeastern, the Huskies received commitments from both standout Providence goaltender Jon Gilles and 2014 Hobey Baker Award recipient and former Boston College forward Johnny Gaudreau. Both players later de-committed from the program. For O’Connell, the key to his success in terms of identifying talent is to trust his in-

O’ Connell captured four Beanpot titles during his tenure with the Terriers from 1995-99. File Photo by Derek Gee

stincts and to collaborate with the rest of his staff. “Just going out there and working hard,” O’Connell said. “Using your resources, using what you see and not listening to anyoneand trusting what you’re looking at and what your staff ’s is looking at and what you’re trying to do as a group – that’s the biggest thing. “Working with [associate head coach] Steve [Greeley] and [head coach] David Quinn so far, it’s been really positive. They’ve both been very sharp when it comes to what they’re looking at and they’re very organized and hard-working, so hopefully I’m a good addition to that.” While he has excelled at building up multiple teams, O’Connell is certainly no slouch when it comes to instructing his players on the ice. During his first season with the Crimson in 2011-12, O’Connell helped establish the country’s most potent power-play unit, which posted a 27.3 percent success rate. While the duty of serving as both a recruiter and a mentor has its own set of challenges, O’Connell holds both jobs in equally high es-

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Saturday, Sept. 6

W. Soccer @ Providence, 7 p.m.

Field Hockey @ Stanford, 7 p.m.

Cross Country @ Nassaney Invitational, All Day

teem. They’re both fun jobs,” O’Connell said. “Basically, it’s two different jobs. One, you’re trying to help build the team, the other one, you’re trying to help coach the guys that you were trying to recruit, so they’re both equally tough jobs, but at the same time, both fun and rewarding.” The journey back to his alma mater has been long and winding road for O’Connell, but the 38-year-old coach doesn’t have much time to reflect. With an influx of freshmen already training at Agganis Arena and the season opener almost a month away, O’Connell is diverting all of his energy toward helping a talented group of players achieve the same level of success that he attained almost two decades ago. “Hopefully, we’re a lot better at the end of the year than at the start, because we’ve got nine or ten freshmen,” O’Connell said. “Practice is going to be important, player development is going to be important. ... Hopefully at the end of it, we’ll make good trides as a group.” Sunday, Sep. 7 W. Soccer vs. San Fransico, 12 p.m. Field Hockey vs. Paciffic, 3 p.m. M. Soccer vs. Brown, 7 p.m.

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Sports Top Boston University Athletes To Watch In 2014-15 BY CONOR RYAN, SARAH KIRKPATRICK & ANDREW BATTIFARANO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Marie-Philip Poulin – Women’s hockey senior forward One of the world’s best hockey players will return from a season hiatus for Olympic duty to once again take the ice at Walter Brown Arena. Poulin earned her second gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, giving Team Canada the overtime victory with game-tying and game-winning goals. Her BU career has been nearly as stellar — Poulin owns the single-season record for assists (36), is tied for second with linemate Sarah Lefort in points in a season (55) and second in career assists (73), just two behind former Terrier Melissa Andersen for the lead. BU women’s hockey won the Hockey East and made the NCAA Tournament without Poulin last season— with several top players returning, Poulin is one of the ﬁnal pieces in the puzzle for absolute dominance in collegiate women’s hockey. (Photo by: Steve McLaughlin) Jack Eichel – Men’s hockey freshman forward - The numbers and accolades speak for themselves when it comes to incoming freshman Jack Eichel – one of BU’s most heralded recruits in the program’s long history. Last season with the United States National Under-18 Team, Eichel recorded 87 points (38 goals, 49 assists) in 53 games – the fourth-highest total in team history. Possessing a devastating mix of speed, playmaking ability and an accurate shot, Eichel is currently slated to be one of the top two picks in the 2015 NHL Draft. While stardom looks to be on the horizon for Eichel, the 17-year-old’s focus this year will be to provide a big boost on oﬀense for a BU squad looking to rebound from a disappointing 10-21-4 showing last season. (Photo by: Tom Sorensen)

Melanie Russel - Softball junior pitcher - Russell headed a strong Terriers’ pitching staff that guided the team into the Women’s College World Series. In her first year after transferring from the University of California-Davis, Russell pitched to the tune of a 13-5 record and a team-best 2.11 ERA, which earned her All-Patriot League First Team honors. She permanently etched her name into the BU history books when she threw the program’s eighth-ever perfect game against Bucknell University on May 3. The Terriers should expect more of the same in 2015 from the staff ’s ace. (Photo by: BU Athletics)

Erica Kosienski – Women’s soccer sophomore forward – Kosienski was the definition of a super-sub last season for the Terriers, leading the team in goals (eight) despite not starting in any of the team’s 23 matches. Kosienski consistently rose to the occasion in clutch situations out on the pitch, notching a team-high seven game-winning scores. Kosienski – the reigning Patriot League Rookie of the Year – will once again be the catalyst on offense this season for a Terrier squad that was favored to repeat as Patriot League conference champions in a National Soccer Coaches Association of America preseason poll. (Photo by: Sarah Fisher-DFP Staff) Jill Horka - Women’s lacrosse junior midfielder – The Boston University women’s lacrosse team made a big impression in its first foray in the Patriot League, advancing all the way to the conference title game in 2014. Horka was a key factor in BU’s promising campaign last season, leading the team in goals (29), draw controls (46) and caused turnovers (24). For her efforts, the Westborough native was named to both the All-Patriot League First Team and the Pa- triot League All-Conference team. efforts, the Westborough native was named to both the All-Patriot League First Team and the Patriot League All-Conference team. (Photo by: Maya Devereaux-DFP Staff)

Cedric Hankerson - Men’s basketball sophomore guard - While he only averaged 14.6 minutes per game last season, sophomore guard Cedric Hankerson looks to be a potential breakout player for the Terriers in 2014-15. The Miami native – who opted to join the Terriers over scholarship offers from Virginia Tech and Oklahoma State University – was named to the Patriot League All-Rookie Team after ranking fifth on the team was 6.0 points per game while shooting 38.8 percent from beyond the arc. Now due for a big boost in minutes, Hankerson should be an exciting presence in the Terrier backcourt in 2014-15. (File Photo by: Michelle Jay-DFP Staff)