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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLV. VOLUME XC. ISSUE III.

Two fraternities suspended, under investigation

BY GRACE LI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University withdrew its recognition of the university’s chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha Dec. 9, 2015 for violation of the university’s “student organization policies,” according to PIKE International Fraternity spokesperson Brent Phillips.

The university is also currently investigating the Lambda Chi Alpha’s BU chapter following the BU Interfraternity Council’s suspension, Assistant Dean of Students John Battaglino said.

Administration is working with PIKE’s national chapter to bring PIKE at BU back as a healthy organization, Battaglino said, and will apply the same procedure to LCA if the ongoing investigation indicates a need to suspend the fraternity.

Battaglino was unable to comment on the cause of the fraternities’ current status, and it is unknown when the university will conclude its investigation on LCA. “I would never comment about the details,” Battaglino said. “I don’t have the exact dates [of the investigation] in front of me.”

IFC Vice President of Programming Patrick Ayer declined to comment on PIKE’s suspension and the university’s investigation regarding LCA. According to Phillips, PIKE is also under suspension from the International Fraternity.

“During this administrative suspension, Lambda Nu Chapter must cease operations other than normal business meetings to discuss their current situation,” Phillips wrote in an email. “Chapter executive officers are developing a comprehensive action plan … to address operational deficiencies and restore the Chapter’s standing with the university and the Fraternity.”

BU PIKE President Giancarlo Roselli said the fraternity is complying with the terms of loss or recognition and is working on a plan to present to the university and the International Fraternity.

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Friday morning, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers began the appeal process to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to overturn his conviction and death sentence.

Tsarnaev defense team appeals to first circuit

BY OLIVIA QUINTANA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev officially appealed Friday morning to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, according to Susan Goldberg, the circuit executive for the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Tsarnaev was sentenced to death after he was found guilty on 30 counts for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three and injured more than 260, The Daily Free Press reported on May 16, 2015.

Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern Uni-

versity law professor, explained in an email the process that cases follow as they move forward after an initial trial.

“There are typically three phases of litigation after trial: the motion stage, where the defendant makes claims back in the trial court — [U.S. District] Judge [George] O’Toole just resolved them and issued the restitution order; the direct appeal in the intermediate appellate court, in this instance, the First Circuit; and then the post-conviction or collateral petition phase,” Medwed wrote in the email.

After Tsarnaev’s lawyers requested a new trial, O’Toole denied the motion and ordered Tsarnaev to pay more than $101 million in restitution to the victims of the

bombing, The Daily Free Press reported on Jan. 20, 2016.

Medwed noted that this request for a new trial is a necessary step for Tsarnaev’s lawyers in order for them to file for an appeal.

“The current appeal is called a direct appeal because it directly attacks what happened at trial,” Medwed wrote in an email.

“A defendant cannot bring in new evidence, or even generally raise new issues, that were not presented below. It truly constitutes a review of the trial and post-trial motion record by a higher court.”

David Rossman, a professor in Boston CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

Sen. Warren releases report criticizing criminal justice system

BY KENNEDY DAVIS AND CAROLINE HITESMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a thirteen-page report Friday, entitled “Rigged Justice: How Weak Enforcement Lets Corporate Offenders Off Easy,” which argues against weak law enforcement for corporate crime.

The report details 20 cases in 2015 where federal agencies failed to properly punish corporate offenders.

Relaxed law enforcement, especially toward white-collar crime, enforces the idea to corporate offenders that they are not obligated to answer to the law, Warren said in a Friday press release.

“When government regulators and prosecutors fail to pursue big corporations or their executives who violate the law, or when the gov-

ernment lets them off with a slap on the wrist, corporate criminals have free rein to operate outside the law,” Warren said in the release.

Warren also said in the release that enforcing laws is just as significant as enacting laws.

“Putting a law on the books is only the first step,” Warren said in the release. “The second, and equally important, step is enforcing that law. A law that is not enforced — or weakly enforced — may as well not even be a law at all.”

Tamar Frankel, a professor in Boston University’s School of Law who teaches corporate governance, said it is difficult to hold corporate offenders accountable because of the large size of their companies.

“When you have very large corporations, it’s impossible for the top or the bottom or anybody to really control specific activities,” Frankel said.

Frankel said as a result, corporate cases are

handled differently from other cases.

“The attitude inside a corporation is different from the attitude of the law, and that is where the problem lies,” Frankel said. “We have assumed that the law within the corporation is the law within the country, and that isn’t so.”

Frankel said in order to put corporate offenders on the same playing field as others, the United States must make proper sentencing the norm.

“And what we should do there, and [what] is being done, is look at some bad apples, look at some slippery slopes, look at where things are going to happen if they continue that way,” Frankel said.

Shea Cronin, a criminal justice professor in BU’s Metropolitan College, said the U.S. government needs to heighten standards in order to decrease the number of unpunished corporate offenses.

“The threat of regulatory oversight from

the federal government is probably not sufficient to deter wrongdoing,” Cronin said.

“Everybody accepts that the primary goal here is to promote compliance with particular rules, and I’m not sure the negotiated punishments we have seen or the settlements that we have seen are changing the calculus that corporations engage in.”

Cornelius Hurley, director of the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, explained that in particular, banks are able to take advantage of the justice system in a way that is harmful to tax-paying citizens.

“Through the intercession of their regulators, we have made large banks not merely too big to fail, but immune from the consequences of their criminal acts,” Hurley said. “Such immunity only serves to encourage riskier activities by the largest financial institutions, leaving CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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Massachusetts Senate passes greenhouse gas emissions bill

BY MAISIE GUZI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Massachusetts Senate passed a bill Jan. 28 that will help Massachusetts reach its greenhouse gas emissions goals as set by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008.

The bill sets a target of between 35 and 45 percent below the 1990 emissions level by 2030, and another target of between 55 and 65 percent below the 1990 emissions level by 2050.

According to the bill, each yearly goal provides a milestone to pave the way for the next goal.

“The 2030 statewide greenhouse gas emissions limits shall maximize the ability of the commonwealth to meet the 2050 statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit … provided, however, that the 2040 statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit shall maximize the ability of the commonwealth to meet the 2050 statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit,” the bill stated.

The Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act was signed in August 2008 and provided an outline for “reducing heat-trapping emissions to levels that scientists believe give us a decent chance of avoiding the worst effects of global warming,” according to the Energy and Environmental Affairs website.

Dan Douglass, a professor at Northeastern University, said greenhouse gases act as an “insulating blanket” for the earth and contain radiation that should be escaping back into space, yet are trapped by gases in the environment.

“The energy of the incoming sun passes through the atmosphere and reaches the ground surface where [the gases are] mostly absorbed, and then those gases are not transparent to the type of infrared thermal radiation that the ground surface creates,” Douglass said. “So the energy can come in, but the radiation that is attempting to leave the atmosphere … is absorbed by those gases in the atmosphere and the heat

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The Massachusetts Senate approved a new bill Thursday that set new goals regarding statewide greenhouse gas emissions

is trapped.”

Douglass said the controversy of whether or not climate change exists prevents positive environmental change from happening.

“I think it’s a combination of lots of different factors, from people not wanting to look at the data objectively [because] we all have predisposed notions of the way the word works,” Douglass said. “I think there’s a sizable chunk of people, not just in this country but across the globe, that say, ‘Oh, that can’t possibly be happening,’ and I think that’s a psychological phenomenon that is really difficult to overcome.

Since the implementation of the Global Warming Solutions Act, emissions from businesses, residents and vehicles have declined 15 percent from 1990 statistics due to state policies that have provided more energy efficient options, according to Energy and Environmental Affairs website. The

Global Warming Solution Act’s goals are to reduce emissions 25 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.

Douglass said that any attempt to reduce emissions and stop global climate change by individuals not just in Massachusetts, but also across the world, would prove beneficial. “[Reducing greenhouse gasses] is analogous to eating healthy,” Douglass said. “If you do it a little bit, you’ll get a little bit of health benefit, and if you do it a lot, you’ll get a lot of health benefit … there’s no single thing you can do to fix the problem, and so the solution is probably going to be coming from doing a little bit here and a little bit there.”

Several residents agreed that a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts would be beneficial toward preserving the environment.

Jared Kitchen, 34, of Brighton, said it is

important to do anything we can to protect the earth.

“I think that we need to do all we can to help,” he said. “We’re all stewards of the earth and we need to do all we can to protect it.”

Matt Postorino, 20, of Allston, said everyone’s main focus should be finding new, renewable energy sources to combat climate change.

“I definitely think climate change is an important issue,” he said. “We need to focus on finding renewable energy sources and move away from nonrenewable energy.”

Natalie Coley, 46, of Mattapan, was pleased that local government is trying to enact legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

“Climate change is a big issue right now,” she said. “I’m glad the senate wants to pass a bill and actually do something concrete about it, and not just talk about it.”

Sigma Alpha Mu was suspended by BU Mar. 4, 2013 Anthony Barksdale II, freshman in the College of Engineering, died Mar. 2, 2013 after being transported to St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center from an off-campus party hosted

by Sigma Alpha Mu. Sigma Alpha Mu national suspended the BU chapter on the same day.

Zeta Beta Tau was suspended

by BU Feb. 27, 2014

Kappa Sigma and Delta Tau Delta were reinstated by BU September 2015

Delta Tau Delta was suspended by BU Jan. 23, 2015

ZBT regained official organizational status fall 2014

Kappa Sigma was suspended by BU Feb. 6, 2015

Pi Kappa Alpha was suspended

by BU Dec. 9, 2015

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A timeline shows the suspension status of fraternities at BU between March 2013 and December 2015.

Recent fraternities’ misconducts highlight campuswide issues, concerns SUSPENDED FRATERNITIES FROM PAGE 1

“The chapter appreciates the university’s willingness to review our proposed action plan and hopes to gain restoration of university recognition,” Roselli, a senior in the Questrom School of Business, wrote in an email.

While PIKE is currently suspended

by BU, LCA’s standing is more ambiguous.

Tad Lichtenauer, the spokesperson of LCA national, is unable to provide details on the founding chapter’s action until BU completes its investigation.

“Once the [BU] investigation is completed, based on the results and what the university may do, [we will determine] what

we do to ensure that the chapter is meeting our standards of operation as well as the university requirements,” Lichtenauer said.

Carlos Gomez, LCA BU Chapter president and a senior in the College of Engineering, declined to comment.

Campus-wide conversations regarding BU’s fraternities’ misconduct have led several BU students to start openly discussing problems such as excessive partying and sexual assault.

Zoe Hawryluk, a freshman in the College of Communication, said she doesn’t attend fraternity parties because she has heard enough about them to make a judgment. Hawryluk then contrasted fraternities with the rush process of sororities at

BU. Even so, she said she is glad to see the university paying more attention to fraternities.

“Monitoring and coming together as a community, understanding [a sense of] respect for yourself and other people is important,” she said.

James Graham, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he is a member of Zeta Beta Tau and is now following the process of rushing new recruits.

“We have to really be careful about who we are letting into these fraternities,” Graham said. “That’s why we have this whole rush process. [Rushing is intended to] make sure we’re not letting in any kids who will take advantage of girls or who

have the wrong idea of what being in a fraternity is all about.”

Rachel Woolf, a junior in CAS, said problems within Greek life directly correlate to pop culture. She said movies such as “The Hangover” are examples for what influences a lot of what’s happening amid college students nowadays.

“People want to escape or have fun, and they only think they can have fun if they’re incredibly out of it,” Woolf said.

“The school has to settle a rule that maybe there can only be fraternities if they’re going to set up prevention [against sexual assault], or they’re going to talk to people who are rushing about it.”

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Recent graduates’ unemployment rate decline sets “positive attitude”

BY PAIGE SMITH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The unemployment rate for recent U.S. college graduates between 22 and 27 years old has fallen from 5.3 percent in September 2014 to 4.9 percent in September 2015, according to a Friday report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In a one-year period from September 2014 to September 2015, college graduate unemployment rates dropped from 3.4 percent to 2.8 percent, young workers’ rates declined rom 11.6 percent to 10 percent and the general unemployment rate for all workers decreased from 6.3 percent to 5.3 percent.

The report defines college graduates as those aged 22 to 65 with a bachelor’s degree or higher, young workers as those between the age of 22 and 27 without a bachelor’s degree and all workers as people aged 16 to 65.

Kevin Lang, an economics professor in Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences, said a positive attitude is key to eliminating unemployment for recent college graduates entering the labor force and those already looking for employment.

“The ‘really good’ jobs that [recent college graduates] are interested in are getting lots of applicants,” Lang said. “They’re not able to review everyone carefully, and if you happen to come to the attention of somebody and go to the interview having done your homework, you have a shot at it. If you go to the interview with the idea that you won’t get the job, then you won’t.”

He also warned against “scatter shots,” or sending many applications without a specific aim. Students should be knowledgeable of their potential employer and provide a cover letter indicative of what the company require, he said.

“You do want to send out lots of ap-

plications because your hit rate is going to be low, but you want to do it with efficient care to raise that hit rate.”

Lang also said he deemed the unemployment statistics cautiously optimistic and that “it takes a while” to find jobs when students initially enter the job market.

“That’s a little bit of an underestimate in the sense that there are always people that are not looking for jobs because they didn’t get them, but basically all college graduates get jobs,” he said.

Overall, college graduates have an unemployment rate of 5 percent and underemployment rate of 45.1 percent with a median wage of $38,000 in their early career and a median wage of $62,000 in their mid career, according to the report’s figures representing a 2013-14 average.

Certain degrees have direct links to certain jobs and are more specifically suited at first glance for job recruiters, Lang said.

“If your degree is in accounting, that means that you have a very marketable skill from the day you graduate,” he said. “But if your degree is in classics, it’s less obvious what job you’re suited for, and there’s more of a process of finding the job for which you have the appropriate skills.”

The report also charts underemployment statistics, which the report defines as a graduate working in a job that does not typically require a college degree. From September 2014 to September 2015, the underemployment rate for recent college graduates also dropped, from 45.3 percent to 44.1 percent.

The underemployment rate for general college graduates also dropped slightly, from 34.6 percent to 34.4 percent. The report further showed that underemployment trends are less drastic of a decrease than the unemployment rates, primarily remaining stagnant or without major change.

Several students said the report’s result

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A Friday report released by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicates a decrease in unemployment of recent college grads between September 2014 and September 2015.

demonstrate a larger opening for recent college graduates to pursue a successful life following graduation.

Erin Lim, a freshman in CAS, said she thought the findings of the report indicate more opportunities for college graduates to be employed.

“People will have a positive outlook once they start looking for jobs, because a lower percentage [of unemployment] means a higher percentage for them getting jobs, so maybe it will make them feel more confident,” she said.

Hannah Wolf, a sophomore in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, was more skeptical of the information, having previously taken an economics class.

“There are still a lot of people unemployed but not technically unemployed, so it sounds nice but sometimes things sound nice and aren’t necessarily true,” Wolf said.

Saiansha Panangipalli, a freshman in the College of Communication said she feels positive about the information as an international student entering the job market soon.

“That is really good news for me, because a part of why I chose to come to the United States to pursue my higher education is to get a good job from a good college,” she said. “Knowing those percentages is positive for my resume and opens up doors for opportunities worldwide.”

Santander-BU’s program provides students grants, uplifts community

BY LEXI PEERY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The first Santander-Boston University Urban Impact Program grant recipients gathered Wednesday and presented their projects’ initiatives with the BU community and Santander Bank representatives at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground.

The 11 recipient teams, each team comprised of BU students, have received a total of $11,000 to improve the Boston area through civic projects. Approximately 25 members of Santander Bank and the BU community listened to each team’s planned initiative, such as educating middle school teachers about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer, creating a software that allows the government efficient record-keeping and empowering women of color through social media.

Santander representative James Dever said the bank collaborates with colleges and universities and focus on what students and staffs think are important issues to address.

“With our philanthropic dollars, we sponsor programs that universities find are important and give money back to the student base,” Dever said during the meeting.

“I’m a life-time resident of Boston. This is a great city, but it needs initiatives, and [these grant recipients] are the perfect venue to help the city solve these problems.”

Several BU staffs informed students of the program and helped them with the application process, HTC Director Zachary Hobbs said. The micro-grant program will assist students in making a difference in the Boston community, Hobbs added before the gathering.

“Essentially, any group of BU students can support work beyond the BU campus and beyond the BU community,” Hobbs said.

“BU students [are] doing projects with community organizations throughout Boston to address challenges and opportunities that our neighbors beyond campus are facing.”

During the meeting, Dean of Students

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Recipients of microgrants from the Santander Universities program meet in the Howard Thurman Center Wednesday evening to share their progress on grant-funded projects.

Kenneth Elmore said BU students’ work is making a meaningful difference in the Boston community.

“For us to be innovative and move with time – as we need to look at the problems – hopefully, we are finding long term solutions,” Elmore said. “We are working with and in a community, not for, not because of, and not in spite of anyone.”

Grant recipients said the application process was fairly simple and they are now working on various projects in the Boston area.

Alison Drew, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the School of Social Work, was giv-

en the grant to continue the research of her doctoral dissertation. Drew said her project includes surveying youth mentors before and after a volunteer opportunity to find out what makes them continue volunteering.

“I had been looking for funding opportunities for my dissertation study, and [my advisor] suggested this might be a good fit,” Drew said. “I’m doing a study about youth mentoring and what helps keep volunteer mentors engaged with the program and the children [with whom] they are working.”

Jessica Hill, a second-year graduate student in the School of Medicine, said her group works to create an elementary school

program that aims to assist children in understanding how to adapt and solve problems in different situations.

“A fixed mindset is where you believe intelligence is fixed, [and no matter] how hard you try, you won’t get any better,” Hill said. “A growth mindset is if I put effort, and change my strategy, then I will improve. We are trying to help kids foster a growth mindset. If [children] encounter a difficult time in school or in life, [then they can ask] ‘what can I do differently to find my way around it?’”

Several attendees said they are intrigued in what the various groups had been working on for their projects.

Shiney James, the director of orientation at BU, said the grants, which will fund the students throughout the semester, are helpful for students to become involved in various ways. “[The program] is a great experience for young entrepreneurs and students as they go out into the real world,” James said. “Finding the money and implementing [their] idea is tough. This is a great building block in figuring out how to [receive funding] now, as they go out into the real world later.”

Rebekah Leopold, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she often visits HTC to find forums and gatherings, such as this one, that uplifts the community.

“Whenever there is a meeting or an event [at the HTC], I try to get involved because they are usually pretty interesting,” Leopold said.

Lauren LeBlanc, a junior in the College of Communication, said she came to the meeting to support friends and found it interesting to hear about the work the different groups plan to do.

“My friends are doing the LGBTQ middle school training for educators,” LeBlanc said. “I’m looking forward to see all the work they will accomplish. I’m not a Boston resident, but the city would definitely benefit student working really hard to not only educate other college students, but also the next generation.”

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Warren criticizes weak law enforcement C A M P U S CRIME LOGS

BY MAISIE GUZI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Jan. 25 to Jan. 31.

Trespassing and threats at 775 Commonwealth Ave. Officers responded to an altercation Sunday in the George Sherman Union Food Court at 6:29 p.m. A 31-year-old female victim reported that she was heating her food in a microwave when a male party behind her threatened her. Officers identified the subject as someone who had been previously arrested and charged for trespassing at BU. The suspect had been summoned for trespassing.

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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren released “Rigged Justice: 2016: How Weak Enforcement Lets Corporate Offenders Off Easy” Wednesday, which argues that law enforcement is soft on corporate crimes.

SEN. WARREN REPORT FROM PAGE 1

taxpayers to suffer the consequences of their acts.”

Several Boston residents said corporate criminals should be held accountable for their actions.

Ian Jones, 24, of Fenway, said wellknown companies are held to higher stand-

ards.

“I work for a small business,” Jones said. “There’s definitely a stigma around corporate environments. I think major chains like Starbucks are held to more standards.

Corporations with more money and fewer employees get away with more. I’m glad [Warren is] doing this though. It needs to

change.”

Sean Hua, 21, of Kenmore, said more people need to be appointed to work with corporate offense cases.

“There needs to be more people to step up,” Hua said. “It’s a difficult task, but it is necessary, or else we’re going to let [these corporations] keep abusing their power.”

Tsarnaev lawyers push court for new verdict TSARNAEV APPEAL FROM PAGE 1

University’s School of Law, said one of the principal reasons behind Tsarnaev’s appeal is the request of the defense team for a new venue for the trial.

“The main ground that I understand they’re going to present has to do with the trial court’s decision not to transfer this case out of Boston and move it to some other jurisdiction,” Rossman said.

When Tsarnaev originally made a request for a new venue for his trial to O’Toole, the judge explained in his Jan. 15, 2016 court order that the defendant claimed media attention in Massachusetts to have made an unbiased jury impossible.

“The defendant now again renews his venue argument, contending generally that local media coverage, local events, and information or postings on social networks during the course of the trial should raise a presumption of prejudice and requires a conclusion that the District of Massachusetts was an improper venue for his trial,” O’Toole wrote in his order.

However, O’Toole noted that any venue would likely have similar media attention.

“There is no reason to think that if

the trial had been moved to another district, the local media in that district would not also have given it attentive coverage,” O’Toole wrote in the order. “What was first a national story would have become a local story in that venue.”

Rossman agreed that the case had such nationwide attention that any venue would have had similar media coverage.

“This case was one that drew the attention of the entire nation,” Rossman said. “I don’t know that they would be able to say that if they had moved the trial elsewhere, that jury would have been somewhat less personally involved in that case.”

While the request for a change of venue remains compelling, Medwed also noted that the most complex part of the appeal process is still to come.

“The post-conviction phase is far more complicated, but that typically occurs after the completion — exhaustion in legalese — of the direct appeal,” Medwed wrote in an email.

Several residents said they expected Tsarnaev’s lawyers to file a request for an appeal.

Alex Antonescu, 32, of Back Bay, said to his understanding, the defense team has

been prepping for an appeal for some time now.

“I think everyone kind of knew he would file for an appeal,” she said. “That doesn’t mean he’ll get one, and he shouldn’t get a new decision, but I think everyone expected his lawyers to do this. They have just been preparing for it up until now.”

Kristi Zheku, 27, of the South End, said even though it was an expected move from Tsarnaev’s lawyers, she doesn’t expect a new decision.

“I think it’s ridiculous that his lawyers think he actually has a chance of getting a not-guilty verdict,” she said. “It’s what his lawyers have to do, but it seems like there is no way it would actually go in his favor.”

Terry Johnston, 42, of the North End, agreed that even though she doesn’t expect a different verdict, she understands why Tsarnaev’s lawyers filed for an appeal.

“The appeal will anger anyone who is from Boston, but I guess it’s expected,” she said. “It’s the next move anyone in that situation would make. I don’t think it’ll change anything though. I don’t see how he would ever be found not guilty.”

Kennedy Davis and Carolyn Hoffman contributed to the reporting of this article.

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Assault and battery at 700 Commonwealth Ave. Officers responded to a report of a female student who was indecently assaulted by a male student Sunday at 6 p.m. The victim has a stayaway order issued from the Residence Life office, and they reported that the male suspect touched her inappropriately several times.

Trespass warning at 213 Bay State Rd. Officers responded to a group that caused disturbance at a meeting for the Combined Jewish Philanthropies at The Florence and Chafetz Hillel House at 7:03 p.m. Jan. 28. Several members of the Students for Justice for Palestine entered a closed meeting and the meeting organizers requested that they be removed.

Officers removed the group.

Criminal harassment at 19 Deerfield St. A female employee reported a 37-year-old non-affiliated male had been calling the office to complain about his denial from a BU program Jan. 28 at 1:48 p.m. The caller stated that he was the victim of discrimination and has filed a claim with the BU Equal Opportunity Office.

Assault at 700 Commonwealth Ave A female student reported assault by a male student Jan. 27 at 9:38 p.m. The victim stated she was coming out of her room when the male suspect approached her in the hallway and pushed her. The victim reported the male party asked for a romantic relationship, she declined and he had since been sending harassing and threatening text messages.

Medical assist at 685 Commonwealth Ave Officers responded to a 32-year-old female student who had been struck by a bicyclist Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. The bicyclist, a 43-year-old non-affiliated male, was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for further treatment. The victim declined further medical treatment.

Criminal harassment at 728 Commonwealth Ave Officers responded to an unwanted male party banging on the door of a female student Sunday at approximately 10:35 p.m.

The victim stated the male party was her former boyfriend. The male party, identified as a 23-year-old non-affiliate, was removed and issued a trespass warning from all BU property.

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INBUSINESS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016

CliqBit startup users to share humerous snippets CliqBit, a humor-based social media app created by two Wellesley College students, launched Tuesday. The app redesigns social media by creating a platform that encourages users to share more personable content while engaging with friends, family members and other CliqBit users.

“We knew that a couple lines of text sent out to our friends would make them laugh … We analyzed every [social media] network and realized there’s not a perfect platform for our funny moments,” Joslin explained.

That’s where CliqBit comes in. While CliqBit is a social media platform, “CliqBit revolutionizes the way content is shared,” said Jessica Lee, CliqBit social media intern and Wellesley sophomore.

CliqBit differentiates itself from other popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat because it combines each platform’s unique aspects and provides users with the ease and accessibility to post in whatever way they feel best expresses that humorous moment.

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CliqBit, a new social media app created by two Wellesley College sophomores, provides a “platform for sharing the brief, and funny moments that make up our lives,” according their website.

BY YASMIN YOUNIS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

For CliqBit co-founders, Olivia Joslin and Hannah Wei, the idea emerged from an embarrassing, but also humorous, accident.

“Hannah and I were on our icy campus in the middle of last winter and she slipped and fell down in front of the only cute guy on our women’s college campus … I was trying to open my Snapchat to get a photo, but the app crashed and the moment was lost,” Joslin said.

One of CliqBit’s most prominent features is that it “bridges the gap that you have to be permanent or you have to be temporary,” Wei said. The user has the ability to make their posts permanent posts or “disappearing posts.”

In addition to the disappearing posts, CliqBit transforms the “like” system from being a competition to being hidden from everyone except for the user. Only users have the accessibility to see the amount of likes on each of their posts so, “[you’re] only comparing with yourself,” said Wei. Although CliqBit plans to change social media, what’s more impressive is the team itself. Both Joslin and Wei are sophomores at Wellesley College, and the majority of the group also includes college students from all over the Greater Boston area. As most students struggle to balance schoolwork, a social life and a part-time job, Joslin and Wei took the challenge above and beyond and added their own CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

Our vision for the company is that CliqBit

will reshape social media. It will tell people to become more comfortable posting their more candid moments.

CATALYST THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Attitude towards aging found to directly affect health

BY NATASHA MASCARENHAS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

At a certain point, birthdays become less of a celebration and more of a quiet affair, filled with nostalgia for the good old days.

Energy dissipates, senses dull and memory fades. For many, getting old is not an enjoyable process.

Apparently, one can avoid the drawbacks of old age. All that must be done is a change in mindset. A study by The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing suggests that individuals who hold more positive attitudes toward growing older have better cognitive, mental and physical ability.

“The way we think about, talk about and write about [aging] may have … a detrimental, measurable effect on mental, physical and cognitive health,” said lead researcher Deirdre Robertson in a press release.The study tracks a variety of health changes over a span of time, and includes data that potentially represents a national population of community-living adults, according to the study’s website. With a sample group of at least 8,000 Irish adults aged 50 or over, the data determined a strong correlation between attitude and physical aging. For example, results demonstrated that older adults who entertain negative outlooks towards aging have a slower walking paces and inferior cognitive aspects in comparison to adults who look at aging more positively.

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A study conducted by The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing at Trinity College Dublin found that a positive attitude in old age may lead to better mental and physical health.

TILDA’s next step, as explained in the press release by the principal investigator Rose Anne Kenny, will be the development of universal preventative techniques to change people’s attitudes towards aging. The end goal, Kenny said, is to find ways to uphold the quality of life as individuals gets older. “[This study] shows an updated and optimistic direction in thinking,” said Joseph McGuire, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. “There is no reason that people

would ignore the fact that the truth about aging might be better than they thought.”

This objective of establishing a better mindset towards aging resonates with the future time perspective scale, a concept psychologists discovered years ago.

“Basically, it all depends on how [far] into the future you are looking” said Catherine Caldwell-Harris, professor of psychology at BU, “If you don’t think about the future, you don’t protect your body in the immediate.”

Caldwell-Harris believes that conclu-

sions from the study should provide hope for adults who currently have negative feelings about aging. If individuals feel that the end of physical health is not necessarily near, then they will be more aware in the present and slow the aging process.

“This explains why there is a correlation between a negative attitude toward aging and a decline in health,” she said. “It is because people assume their body is going to disrepair as they get older.”

A 25-year-old clinical psychology doctoral student at BU, Emily Pariseau, wrote in an email that while the news of TILDA’s conclusions will be hard to spread, transforming people’s perspectives on aging is still a possibility.

“I believe this daunting task [of disseminating and implementing this information] has been made more feasible in recent years due to technology,” she wrote. “Tech-based interventions allow large groups of people access to interventions and resources they may not have been able to access otherwise due to concerns of stigma, economic or cultural difficulties… [and] may be a plausible next step when thinking about societal-wide interventions to target attitudes about growing older.”

In all, the future effect of the TILDA study is looking optimistic, and has the potential to improve our perspective on aging while extending our physical youth.

“People got used to the idea of reveling in their youth,” said Caldwell-Harris. “But what if that same feeling can extend to be across a longer time period?”

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Erica Frisk highlights Guatemalan women through photos

BY NAVRAJ NARULA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Though photography is sometimes viewed as a commercial medium, the task — or rather, art — of taking a picture can be used as a tool for storytelling. One such artist, Boston-based photographer Erica Frisk, does exactly that through her images of female weavers from Santiago Zamora, a rural town outside of Antigua, Guatemala.

Her exhibition, entitled “To My Mother Who Used To Tell Me Stories,” will hold its opening reception at the Multicultural Arts Center Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. and run through April 1.

“In 2011, while I was attending Massachusetts College of Art and Design … fully entrenched in my art history coursework, I traveled to Guatemala with Professor Margaret Turner,” Frisk said.

“While in Guatemala, we visited ancient historical sites, attended cultural institutions and created a mural in Santiago Zamora.”

To Frisk, this experience was “extremely rewarding,” so much so that while she was there, she began her own photography project during which she photographed women who owned and operated

weaving cooperatives in Santiago Zamora.

The collection of these photographs will be on display at Frisk’s opening exhibit.

“I chose to focus on the women of [the weaving] cooperative because they represented a female leadership role in their community,” she said. “These women were challenging gender roles in their quest for an independent income to send their children to school. Education is very expensive for families in Guatemala, which is why many children do not continue attending after primary school.”

Frisk also mentioned that without an education, many women take on roles in the community that contribute to their family income. However, income from the cooperative is separate and provides educational opportunities for children, despite the fact that their mothers did not receive the same financial opportunity.

“The women of the [weaving cooperative] were extremely welcoming and kind … I [photographed] their families on their terms,” she said. “It was their first time they had more formal portraits of the matriarchal generations. I was fascinated by PHOTO COURTESY ERICA FRISK … their personal histories, how the generations have evolved and how they have kept Erica Frisk specializes in wedding and event photography, but her most recent work CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

has an international flare.

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Fluff piece: Virgin Islands rescue dog finds Boston home

BY SAMANTHA J. GROSS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

PHOTO COURTESY LAST HOPE K9 RESCUE

Thanks to a Facebook listing, Moose, a stray dog who spent four-and-a-half years in a no-kill animal rescue shelter in the Caribbean, recently found a new home in the Boston area.

As warm and fuzzy as homecoming stories tend to be, this one is sure to tug on the heartstrings just a little bit harder. Moose is a Virgin Islands rescue dog who, after nearly five years of shelter life, has finally found his forever home in Boston.

Ryan Moore, the shelter manager at the St. John Animal Care Center, where Moose spent nearly 1,628 days, said Moose is a result of the stray dog abandonment issue that plagues the Caribbean.

The ACC is a no-kill shelter that has found families for around 400 dogs over the past five years, Moore said. The shelter runs off of donations and attracts lots of volunteers, who walk the dogs and help with the adoption process. One of those volunteers made a Facebook page called “Help Moose Find a Family - 4 1/2 years at a Shelter is too long.”

“We’re on a tiny island, so [Facebook is] a good outlet for us to get our story out,” Moore said. “It sort of took on a life of its own. We started this one page to help Moose find a home, and it kind of went viral, I guess.”

It was this Facebook page that connected the ACC with Last Hope K9 Rescue, a Boston-based, volunteer-run organization which works to, according to its website, systematically “place each of [its] dogs within a stable, loving environment.”

“One of our 500-plus volunteers reached out to me and told me about the story from the Facebook page,” said Alex Monahan, executive director of Last Hope.

“I looked into it and reached out to Moose’s team in St. John to express that if there’s any way we can help, we’d love to. That was in August. From then on, we stayed in touch and formed a relationship there.”

From that point on, Last Hope posted

Moose’s information on its own Facebook page and solicited applicants to consider adopting Moose. It posted pictures of Moose practicing with the trainer, writing to Santa that he wanted “a family for Christmas” and posing in a “selfie” on the car ride to the training facility.

“We relied on the constant communication we had with the St. John team to understand what his characteristics were, to make sure we would find the right family,” Monahan said. “Our trainer up here in Boston was speaking to the St. John team to learn what [Moose’s] needs are so we could find the right fit.”

The rescue found the perfect fit in the Burke family, who posted a video of their three young daughters screaming with joy when they found out about Moose’s placement decision.

The page was then constantly updated with pictures of Moose wearing Patriots gear, enjoying his last days in the sun and, eventually, exploring that new white stuff that blanketed Boston last week.

“Moose is a great example of types of dogs that a lot of people pass up on because they think since he’s been in a shelter for five years, there must be something wrong with him,” Monahan said. “But he’s really such a sweet dog. When I met him for the first time, I was blown away and just amazed that he had been in a shelter for as long as he had.”

Moore said that after his training sessions and three months of foster care, Moose came out fully house-trained, wasn’t chewing on anything and was sleeping in the bed with the foster family. It was after Moose’s stretch with the trial family that the ACC staff knew he was ready to be placed in the United States.

“We weren’t too worried about it,” Moore said. “He becomes attached really quick. He’s essentially a 70-pound lap dog.”

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Women’s leadership exhibited through Frisk’s work MUSE, FROM PAGE 6

their traditions alive. It was challenging to communicate with the women as they only spoke Spanish and Kaqchikel, a Mayan dialect, but I was lucky enough to be assisted by a translator.”

In regard to the act of weaving itself, Frisk shares that women have hand-spun and hand-woven their own families’ “traje,” or clothing, using the “age-old backstrap loom.”

“According to the Ancient Mayan Quiche tradition, Ixchel, the female moon goddess, has been weaving in this method since the beginning of time,” Frisk said. “You’ll see in these images, the women and children proudly wearing their own handmade ‘huipiles,’ the woven shirts, as well as more contemporary clothing.”

Frisk also shared that ‘huipiles’ are designed with specific colors and patterns as a proud representation of a woman’s home and her family. “[They] weave to cultivate a bond with their daughters, as well as to keep the ancient Mayan tradition of tapestry alive,” Frisk said.

Frisk is now both an artist and an educator. She teaches photography and visual art at Andover Public Schools in Mas-

PHOTO COURTESY ERICA FRISK

Erica Frisk’s trip to Guatemala served as inspiration for her exhibit “To My Mother Who Used to Tell Me Stories,” on display at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge now through Apr. 1.

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hese women were challenging gender roles in their quest for an independent income to send their children to school.

sachusetts and has previously taught visual art classes at a wide range of institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Sociedad Latina and the Maud Morgan Art Center.

“I showed interest in visual art at a very young age, particularly through drawing and painting,” Frisk said. “My parents were very supportive, and I started training in the arts through local art organizations. It wasn’t until high school that I was introduced to photography to by own high school art teacher.”

Frisk went on to attend MassArt because of its program’s strength and its urban Boston location, allowing for easy access to a variety of cultural experiences. “I didn’t immediately want to study photography, but after taking a few electives in both photography and film, I decided to dedicate my studies to it,” Frisk said. “Now as a photographer, I am much more dedicated to photojournalistic photography, where I am using my photographs as a narrative.”

To Frisk, all art is associated with some political message — especially art through photojournalism. “What you’re choosing to focus your camera on ultimately gives a level of importance,” Frisk said. “It then puts forth a slice of a moment for the viewer to observe and consider.”

Students find taking part in startup, balancing schoolwork rewarding CLIQBIT, FROM PAGE 5

company to the mix. Joslin said creating, establishing and managing a startup while being a student is incredibly challenging, but both Joslin and Wei find it extremely rewarding.

“Being a student is really valuable when starting up a company because we realized that peo-

ple are more willing to help you as a student,” Wei said.

As students understand their skills and passions, they may also realize they don’t have to be involved in tech or have a programming background in order to be involved with a startup.

“There are so many ways to be involved in tech, and it’s not just sitting down and coding,”

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Joslin said. “There’s also product management and the marketing side of tech. You can bring something to the table to a tech startup.”

Even though humor is the basis of CliqBit, both Joslin and Wei are passionate about diverging away from what social media has become. With prominent social media stars like Essena

O’Neill explaining the harm of social media and users becoming obsessed with the number of likes and followers they have, the fun aspect of social media is working against the competitive aspect.

Both Joslin and Wei want CliqBit to help users go back to enjoying social media and share for the sake of making someone

smile or laugh, not for promotions and popularity.

“Our vision for the company is that CliqBit will reshape social media,” Wei said. “It will tell people to become more comfortable posting their more candid moments.”

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Increased exonerations show need for prison reform Sometimes the guilty aren’t always so guilty. A record of 149 exonerations occurred in 2015, according to a recent report from The National Registry of Exonerations. Of those exonerations, two-thirds were minorities and half were African-American.

Since 2011, the number of exonerations in the United States has more than doubled, the report said. 2015 was also the year with the most false confessions, accounts of government officials’ misconduct and guilty pleas. With the rise of programs such as “Making a Murderer” and “Serial,” the public may become more interested in investigating the fairness and accuracy of trials.

Samuel Gross, the Registry’s editor, told The New York Times, “If that same effort were put in across the country, we’d find many more of these cases.”

Two men accused of starting a house fire, William Vasquez and Amaury Villalobos, spent more than 30 years before being exonerated in 2015. Raymond Mora, another man accused, died while incarcerated.

When you compare it to the entire U.S. population, 149 may not seem like a large number of people. But that’s 149 people who have gone through emotional anguish no one else could even begin to

understand.

Those who have served prison time can never get their lives back. They’re emotionally scarred and are at a disadvantage when it comes to getting jobs and establishing relationships.

In these scenarios, the only people hurt are those who have been in prison.

Just re-integrating a formerly incarcerated person into society is an enormous endeavor. All these people get are a “whoops” and “sorry” from the judicial system, and they’re sent on their not-somerry ways. Nobody pays retribution for taking a person’s life away.

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Juries put so much emphasis on witnesses’ accounts when it’s unfeasible to expect one person to remember exactly everything that happened at a specific moment of their life. Courts are so backed up that people are often held for months waiting on a hearing. And with courts rushing through their caseloads, they may be unable to spend as much time on each case as they should. This, in turn, can lead to faulty convictions.

The justice system didn’t issue justice to those exonerated people. It’s as simple as that. No amount of apologies can make up for condemning a life.

Not enough resources are being put toward fighting this problem. The U.S. prison and justice systems desperately need reform. But they’re both such long-standing, complicated issues that nobody knows how to go about fixing them. The United States doesn’t have any spare money lying around, of course, but the least it could do is to investigate previous cases on the grounds of fairness.

If the government looked for faulty convictions, it would definitely find more than it would like to admit. The dirt is there — all there’s left to do is dig the innocent people out.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Our celebrity hate culture is sexist

BY WILL TENTINDO COLUMNIST

Donald Trump probably hates Megyn Kelly. If not, then he wants everyone to think he does. After FOX News denied his request to remove Megyn Kelly as a debate moderator, Trump boycotted the Jan. 28 Republican debate. As a result, Kelly moderated the debate, Trump held a protest and Trump’s supporters hurled sexist insults at Kelly online. What exactly did Kelly do to cause this outpouring of hatred?

From time to time, pop culture deems a celebrity worthy of our hatred. Kelly is under fire from Trump’s supporters after asking about his disparaging comments about women at the Aug. 6 Republican debate. Megyn Kelly is a recent — albeit, more political — example in a long tradition of Americans immediately hating a public figure with fervor.

Anne Hathaway, Taylor Swift and Gwyneth Paltrow have all also received public hatred for completely different reasons. What sets these celebrities apart from others who receive collective hate is the unpredictability of the hatred’s emergence.

Anne Hathaway won a 2013 Academy Award for her role as Fantine in “Les Misérables,” a movie in which she chopped off her hair and received critical praise. The general consensus was that Anne Hathaway deserved her Oscar. Two years prior, she stumbled her way through hosting the same award show alongside a barely-present James Franco, a job she was likely given due to public appeal.

Around the same time as her Oscar win, a public hatred for Anne Hathaway grew so large that it deserved a short hand: “Hathahate.” A large portion of this hatred came from a mysterious location. Though most people could not place the one moment that made Anne Hathaway a hated celebrity, people still hated her.

This phenomenon of hate is not rare, either. Countless celebrities, most of whom are female, garner hate from outside sources for seemingly no reason. This sets them apart from a separate category of hated celebrities — those like Australian rapper Iggy Azalea.

Azalea, known for her song “Fancy,” attracted negative attention for various reasons, including her repeated cultural appropriation.

Azalea had one of the largest hits of 2014, but

has yet to recover her public image.

Not all famous people stay hated, however. The prime example is Taylor Swift, who was an online target prior to the release of her most recent album, “1989.” While Swift’s album was being promoted, she ran an aggressive reinvention campaign to improve her public image.

This effort contributed to her meteoric rise to becoming one of the largest musicians in the industry. However, Swift’s approval has recently started to turn into disillusionment, and Swift now stays more and more out of headlines.

When you start to examine the waves of hatred forced onto celebrities, there is an obvious pattern. Examples of hated celebrities are overwhelmingly female. Furthermore, male celebrities who receive an extreme amount of hate usually do so as a result of a large offense committed in or exposed to the public, such as a crime or public hate speech.

In fact, famous men who were disliked and publicly shamed include those who remained in the public sphere despite allegations of serious crimes. Actor Mel Gibson presented an award at the 2016 Golden Globes, and Chris Brown still has a successful music career. Both of these celebrities publicly apologized for their actions.

One exception is Justin Bieber, who was a male target of hatred from a young age due to his popularity and feminine singing voice.

Bieber later grew to become an international hooligan, but as a child, did he really deserve the hate?

After the 2016 Golden Globes, actress Jennifer Lawrence received negative attention for calling out a reporter for being on his phone.

Lawrence was serious when calling out the reporter and most likely did not intend for the public’s disapproval to be directed at her. Now, the actress is at a risky point in her career.

Women in the public eye for a long period of time are in a precarious position, to say the least. Talented and successful women attract a specific form of sexist hate on the Internet.

This hate does not impact most careers, but the messages received are disturbing to read even for those unaffiliated with their targets.

Public hatred is something that arises from both simple and dramatic circumstances.

It has the potential to touch any public figure for any amount of time and cause positive and negative results. Celebrities have made careers out of being hated — stand-up comics, specifically — and careers have been ruined because of the public’s hatred.

It is true that famous men and women are both subjected to cruelty and hatred, but the level of hatred certain women in the public eye are subjected to is only comparable to famous men who have committed crimes. While online hate is nothing new, it is something that is reaching new unfortunate heights most evident when famous women are attacked.

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BY CHRIS REMILLARD COLUMNIST

It has not been a good year for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Days after announcing he was running for president — way back on June 15, 2015 — NBC published a poll showing Bush as the frontrunner, five points ahead of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a then-crowded 16-person GOP race.

Seven months later, Walker is long gone, and so is Bush’s lead. He pulled a measly under-3 percent support in the presidential race’s first big contest, Monday’s Iowa caucus. Even more embarrassing, The Washington Post reported that Bush spent a staggering $5,200 per vote in Iowa. By comparison, the Republican leaders Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio spent $700, $300 and $600, respectively.

There is an endless number of reasons why Jeb has fallen so hard since June. I tend to chalk it up to an insidious combination of his disastrous interview with FOX News anchor Megyn Kelly — you know, the one where he said he would’ve authorized the Iraq War in a do-over — along with mediocre debate performances overshadowed by petty onstage feuds with Trump.

Look, Cruz is gross, but he was smart in holding off on engaging Trump until just before the caucuses. Bush, on the other hand, has taken Trump head-on since the beginning of fall 2015, and has found himself the butt of some seriously immature and debilitating jokes.

Bush’s fall shouldn’t be taken lightly by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign for a couple different reasons. First, falling is what Clinton and Bush have in common. While Bush made the blunder of telling Kelly he’d have invaded Iraq in May 2015, Clinton, as a New York senator,voted in favor of authorizing military force in Iraq in 2002. Sanders didn’t. Neither did Lincoln Chafee, who criticized Clinton on the debate stage

back in October 2015, by claiming that “there was no real evidence of weapons of mass destruction,” which was the rationale for invasion 14 years ago.

Second, both Bush and Clinton have personal ties to highly controversial past presidents. However, George W. Bush’s controversies surrounded committing war crimes, destroying the middle class, invading privacy, facilitating the crippling global economic crisis of 2008, etc., while Bill Clinton’s controversy was, well, a blow job.

Still, these connections point to one of the most important challenges facing the Clinton campaign moving forward: the trend in this presidential cycle of rejecting “the establishment politics.”

If you watched the post-caucus speeches, you heard Cruz and Sanders use this term a lot. It’s become a cornerstone of both of their campaigns, which makes sense considering they come from positions in their parties that are much farther right or left than your normal, runof-the-mill candidates. Both emphasized their average campaign donations in their speeches, Cruz at $67 and Sanders at $23, throwing some serious shade to the super PACs that have propelled the Bush, Clinton and Rubio campaigns so far.

Now, to be clear, Cruz does have super PACs — Sanders is the only major candidate that doesn’t — but they’ve actually been criticized for how ineffective they are at advocating for Cruz. The reason super PACs are considered part of the establishment is because of their ability to circumvent traditional restrictions on campaign donations, thereby letting corporations donate as much as they want to a super PAC advocating a particular candidate. You can imagine how this can, and has, become corrupted.

Now, all this talk of campaign financing can become problematic. It becomes a game of choosing the candidate with the lowest donation average. Sanders fans just love to inundate the political conversation with campaign finance talk when there are much more important issues to discuss, such as the need for stronger foreign policy positions by Sanders, and again, how Hillary authorized use of military force in Iraq 14 years ago.

However, the issue of establishment politics, evidenced by Bush’s failures since June 2015, poses a real threat to the Clinton campaign. I mean, just think: how is a 74-year-old man in his 25th year in Congress able to so effectively paint himself as the new face of progressivism in America?

Interrobang Republican candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich said if elected president, he would reunite Pink Floyd for a concert.

We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know, what crazy thing would BU people implement if elected president?

Questrom: Institute a dress code of dark clothing and unfiltered cigarettes

COM: Wage war on CILSE to seize the COM lawn

CFA: Institute a dress code of dark clothing and unfiltered cigarettes

CGS: Abolish Capstone projects forever

President Brown: Extend his term indefinitely

C Tower: Secede from the rest of Warren Towers

Allston rats: Demand proper housing

FreeP: Add extra hours to the day

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No matter his role for men’s hockey, LaCouvee trusts process

BY SARAH KIRKPATRICK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The blade in starting goaltender Sean Maguire’s skate had popped out, and in what seemed like a split second, Connor LaCouvee was ready to go. His mask was on, and he stretched, quickly warmed up and took the ice for the next six minutes while Maguire had his skate fixed.

After starting 12 of his team’s first 17 games in 2015, LaCouvee hadn’t gotten any game time in a month and a half for the No. 9 Boston University men’s hockey team when he took the net just 1:17 into BU’s matchup with Merrimack College on Jan. 29. But hockey can throw some pretty unexpected things at you, and all you can do is be ready.

“As I’ve told Connor many, many times, the past is the past, and you can’t change it,” his father, Francis, said. “But you can learn from the past, and you can develop and be better from those experiences. So my texts on a daily basis to my son, especially around game time, are always just of, be ready, be prepared.”

Because BU scored the game-winning goal while he was on the ice, LaCouvee got credited with the win for that game too, despite only recording one save in his appearance. In hockey, and in any sport or life in general, some weird things can happen. Things can change abruptly.

And LaCouvee is putting his trust in the process, and just going with it.

—— Max Prawdzik, a freshman and one of the team’s backup goaltenders, is certainly familiar with the “weird goalie” persona common in hockey folklore. The goaltending position automatically comes with increased focus and pressure, and it feeds independent people and thinkers.

“As a goalie, you need to learn how to be mentally strong and laugh about where you’re at sometimes,” Prawdzik said. “When you’re in a game and you have a group of 100 people trying to yell at you and make you feel bad about yourself, that’s kind of funny, that’s 100 people try-

PHOTO BY JUSTIN HAWK/DFP FILE PHOTO

LaCouvee started the majority of games in the season's first half, a major leap from his freshman season.

ing to make me upset.”

According to Prawdzik, the team has come to the conclusion that all of its goaltenders are a different type of weird. Prawdzik is personally described as “weird weird.” LaCouvee is “funny weird.”

But ask LaCouvee to describe his personality, and the task becomes a bit more complicated.

“Describe my personality?” He repeated the prompt. Then paused.

“Okay,” he said. “Well, I think I can be a charismatic individual, with a hint of humor.”

He added with increased emphasis, “Hint of humor. That being said, also recognize times when I need to be serious.”

Then, with a grin: “Love to have a good time.”

To the average BU fan, “funny weird” is probably a fair assessment — LaCouvee can come off as goofy and spirited. After stopping a penalty shot against the University of Michigan Nov. 20, he had a “heat-of-themoment” instinct to come out of net, kneel down and pump his fist. Thus LaCouvee’s infamous “goalie celly” was born. He reenacted the celebration after stopping Cornell University’s final attempt in a shootout to give BU the trophy at Red Hot Hockey on Nov. 28.

And that’s not to mention the tuxedo he wore after Red Hot Hock-

ey, or his tweets about making Boston more rollerblade-friendly or his contrived “indie-folk” and “motorcycle gangs” HBO show “Mumford And His Sons Of Anarchy.”

LaCouvee is undoubtedly extroverted and full of personality. But is it safe to call him a stereotypical, “weird” goalie?

“Yeah, you know what? I think I’m a weirdo,” LaCouvee said. “I think even if I wasn’t a goalie, I’d still be a bit of a weirdo. I mean, maybe you definitely get away with it more being a goalie. You can kind of do little weird stuff, and everyone’s just like, it’s a goalie, get over it … I mean, it’s, there’s only two or three of you on the team, right? You’re kind of the minority there.”

But as LaCouvee said, he knows when it’s time to be serious. His parents describe him as introspective, intelligent and loyal. He’s goal-oriented, and he’s determined not to let any roadblocks get in his way. The back of his helmet is decorated with his motto: “Trust the process.”

Moreover, LaCouvee is consistently positive. His roommate, sophomore defenseman Brien Diffley, said he frequently might want to nap, but LaCouvee usually has a different idea. He’ll suggest going on a bike ride, going for a walk or anything else to get outside.

“I’ve kind of been getting on

that guy’s back, because, you know, there’s only 24 hours in a day,” LaCouvee said. “You’ve got to make the most of them. When you’re up, the sun’s shining, I mean, geez, go out, enjoy the day! When I’m up, just make the most of everything, right?

Not even in hockey, but in life in general … Just make the most of what you can do. Try and get the most out of it.”

—— The beginning of LaCouvee’s junior career in 2012-13 was highlighted by a stint with the Cowichan Valley Capitals of the British Columbia Hockey League — the worst team in the league, he noted, but he earned a lot of playing time. After that team underwent an offseason remodel, the team traded LaCouvee to the Nanaimo Clippers, where he split playing time with another goalie for approximately six weeks before the team traded him in order to fill an age quota. The rules required a certain number of 17- and 18-year-olds, and LaCouvee was too old.

He then got traded to the Grande Prairie Storm of the Alberta Junior Hockey League and hit a crossroads in his hockey career.

“I didn’t go up there for two weeks,” LaCouvee said. “I just stayed at home and said I was done.”

His parents discouraged him from letting the drastic change de-

termine his hockey future, and LaCouvee realized, “I’d be doing myself a disservice if I didn’t try and see it through.”

So he eventually went, but he didn’t play any games for Grande Prairie. He was on the road again, headed back to British Columbia to play for the Merritt Centennials. He played four games for them, starting in the place of an injured goaltender.

But upon the goaltender’s return, LaCouvee got shifted again to the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.

“Nothing you really do is going to be a get-rich-quick scheme or get-to-the-major-league-sport-quick scheme,” he said. “It’s all a process and at the end of the day, you’ve got to trust the process and trust the journey you’re on, even though sometimes it might be a bit bumpy or a bit rocky. It’s the only thing that’s going to get you to your final destination.”

For the Bulldogs, LaCouvee found some stability, finishing out the 2013-14 season and guiding the team in a long playoff run. Then BU came calling, offering him a spot for the following season.

During his freshman season in 2014-15, LaCouvee had eight appearances in BU’s 41 games. And after appearing to take control of the starting role in 2015-16, he’s taken a backseat to Maguire, who has started the team’s past nine games. Nothing has changed in his approach, LaCouvee said. He’s still being a positive teammate, practicing hard and ready to take the net at a moment’s notice.

It’s all part of the process.

“He’s not too high, not too low, he’s still laughing, he’s still making jokes, he’s still working hard,” Prawdzik said. “Still being a good guy, still being a good friend.

I admire that he’s been even-keeled throughout the whole thing. I don’t expect that to change.”

At BU, LaCouvee has made close friends, gained some sense of stability in not fearing he’ll be traded.

He’s having a good time. His mother, Lesley, asked him, “What’s different about BU, compared to all his previous years in hockey?

His response?

“I’m having fun.”

Alexis Crossley proving attacking talent for women’s hockey

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Alexis Crossley, a junior defenseman on the Boston University women’s hockey team, has seen her time on Commonwealth Avenue marked by patience and resilience.

After transferring from the University of New Hampshire, sitting out a season and struggling to make her mark in the offensive zone, Crossley is at last showing why her shot and vision are so valuable for BU (17-10-2, 14-4-2 Hockey East).

She has recorded seven points in the Terriers’ eight games in 2016, including two recent performances that stand out above the rest. She tallied two points in Saturday’s victory over Merrimack College and Tuesday’s Beanpot Tournament loss to Northeastern University.

A part of the Hockey East All-Rookie Team while at UNH (10-17-1, 7-11 Hockey East), head coach Brian Durocher feels that his star defenseman is peaking at the right time, especially with playoffs soon around the corner.

“I think when you sit out a year, even when you practice all through a year, the game rhythm, the game activity, the game confidence sometimes takes a little while to come back,” Durocher said. “In the last month she’s been finding the net and getting a little bit of that luck you need — a screen, a tip, a deflection, whatever it is.”

Compete level remains high Durocher often touches upon his team’s compete level after games, largely because it serves as an intangible measure of how intense BU’s approach CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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Junior Alexis Crossley has cemented herself on BU's top defensive pairing alongside Savannah Newton

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The men's lacrosse team has its sights on earning a bid in the Patriot League Tournament, all while employing a patient approach.

Men’s lacrosse ready to make waves in Patriot League

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Year one was full of learning moments, year two demonstrated maturation and, with its third season of NCAA play set to commence this weekend, the Boston University men’s lacrosse team has its sights set on far greener pastures.

With nearly its entire roster returning and a growing reputation amongst lacrosse’s inner circles, the Terriers want to affirm that their gradual improvements are no mistake.

Picked to finish sixth out of nine Patriot League teams, head coach Ryan Polley said he hopes his team keeps a narrow “one play at a time, one game at a time” approach.

Junior attack and captain Ryan Johnston takes that to heart, and, with a young label no more, said he feels the Terriers are primed to make a statement on Nickerson Field and afar.

“You come into the big culture shock of Division I lacrosse and the first thing you want to do is compete for a National Championship,” he said. “This year, through our leadership and coaches, everyone is buying into our goals and what it actually takes to

compete. That’s the biggest difference that I think will show through as long as we stick to our process as a team.”

Slated against the likes of No. 3 Duke University and No. 11 Loyola University Maryland, junior faceoff specialist Sam Talkow said BU felt honored in years past to play against such traditional powerhouses. This year, however, BU isn’t letting intimidation or reputation creep in.

“Now it’s not really us looking up to those guys,” junior goalkeeper Christian Carson-Banister said. “We feel like when we go out there, we can beat any team that we play.

That mindset is essential to have any form of success, and this year throughout the team, we finally have that.”

Junior midfielder and captain Patrick Donnelly noted that BU has players who “have been there and have a lot of experience in big games”, and that will be invaluable throughout the season’s inevitable ups and downs.

It bodes well that Talkow and junior midfielder Cal Dearth, both of whom were named to the preseason All-Patriot League Team, are primed for strong seasons, but the buck does

not stop there. The attack trio of sophomores Jack Wilson and Ryan Hilburn and junior Adam Schaal will also bring back their combined 115 points from a year ago.

But what Polley said excites him the most is the group of youngsters who will soon don a scarlet and white jersey for the first time.

After searching for diamonds in the rough in 2013 and 2014, Polley and his staff feel they’ve amassed a group that is ready to contribute right away and bring a strong work ethic every day. With four US Lacrosse All-Americans in its freshman class, BU now has elite talent that eluded it in years past.

“It really shows that whatever class you’re in, it’s the guys who put the time in who are going to get the playing time,” Talkow said. “We’re at the point where the younger guys look up to the older guys, and there’s a big enough age difference there and it’s good to see the freshman are buying in just as much as we did our first year.”

After narrowly missing out on the Patriot League Tournament last year, the Terriers don’t want that sort of bitter taste to return.

They said they feel each quarter will be a dogfight and many games will come down to the

wire. Through a measured and confident approach, they know where they want to end up.

“You set goals and we’d obviously love to find ourselves in the mix in the Patriot League at the end of the year,” Donnelly said. “You’d love to look past that and look at those second level goals, but for us, the main thing is the Patriot League and taking it as seriously as we can. From there, it’s taking it one day at a time and seeing where we can find ourselves.”

Right in the thick of a strong Patriot League, the Terriers shied away from predicting exactly where they’ll sit come the end of April. But with two years of experience under the team’s belt, Johnston hopes BU “can hopefully take the next step.”

Polley reiterated Johnston’s aspirations, assuring that results will come if BU doesn’t look too far down the road.

“We were so good last year at staying in the moment, staying focused, playing one game at a time, and for a young team, I give a lot of credit to the guys,” Polley said. “We’re very proud of the progress we made, but in order to not take a step back, we need to keep that same mentality of staying focused and playing one game at a time.”

Junior defenseman balancing offense and defense WOMEN'S HOCKEY, FROM PAGE 10

is. A lull or extended lapse can prove catastrophic, but even in recent defeats, Durocher feels his team has fought until the final buzzer.

This manifested itself in the aforementioned loss to Northeastern (24-4-1, 18-2 Hockey East), as a third period comeback nearly pushed the 3-2 loss into overtime. After two goals from senior Kendall Coyne and a strike from defenseman Lauren Kelly, BU saw itself facing an ominous 3-1 hole on home ice.

Rather than wilting, BU peppered the net of goaltender Brittany Bugalski and found a way through when Crossley struck

twine with 1:56 left in the game. The result ultimately didn’t fall in BU’s favor, but Durocher was encouraged by his team’s mentality, an element that has lacked at times against some of the nation’s best teams.

“To be there and compete all three periods was super important,” Durocher said. “It wasn’t one of those games where we just put on a late flurry and didn’t play well for 40 or 50 minutes. We played pretty darn well, minus some segments of that second period. Even then, we were competing defensively and that’s what’s going to win you championships.”

Off ice efforts stacking up

While the focus remains on securing another Hockey East Championship, BU has participated in several charitable efforts throughout its season.

Most recently, BU hosted a “Do It For Daron” game that was aimed at raising mental health awareness, and it’s only a small snippet into how involved the Terriers are off the ice. They have supported Denna Laing, the NWHL player who suffered life-threatening injuries in January’s Winter Classic, hosted Breast Cancer Awareness events and often host youth hockey teams, Durocher said.

Durocher noted that sometimes, due

to the hectic nature of student athletes’ lives, he has to turn down some opportunities. But he added that they’re often just as important and part of how inclusive a Division I athletic experience is.

“It’s way bigger than our team,” Durocher said. “It’s the athletic department and something that flies under the radar all the time, the amount of community service these people do from individual teams. It’s just great that the athletic department and kids do it. There are certainly times I wish they got more notoriety for it, because they shine a great light on Boston University.”

Pro Bowl, NHL All-Star Game losing muster for fans SOUZA, FROM PAGE 12

While laughably high scores, such as 2015’s 32-28 battle, do not always characterize the game, the Pro Bowl has been equally bad due to the effort of coaches and players.

This year, for example, wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. played free safety while Richard Sherman tried, in jest, to wrestle Clay Matthews. As no one can blame the players for wanting to have a fun, relaxed game and not put themselves at risk of injury in a meaningless game, the NFL needs to realize that their current system is not working. The Pro Bowl is such a joke that this year’s game saw a record amount of declines by the league’s best players.

Eighty-six players were originally invited to the contest in Honolulu, but, due to the massive rejections by the NFL’s best play-

ers, 133 received an invitation. That means players who had spectacularly average seasons were suiting up for a game advertised as one between the league’s best.

Arguably the best All-Star Game is that of the MLB, which occurs in July every year. However, the increased ratings for the MLB All-Star Game may come as a result of it being the only major professional sports event occurring during that week.

The Mid-Summer Classic is the only All-Star Game that has significant postseason meaning for the sport. The winning league is rewarded with home-field advantage in the World Series, though a three-year winning streak by the American League has rendered that point mute.

The MLB All-Star Game is also the only

one of the four that has ever ended in a tie.

In 2002, an 11-inning affair ended 7-7 after then Commissioner Bud Selig called the game. The fans booed and peppered the field with beers.

What all major professional sports need to focus on is how to make their current product better. If they choose to go down the route of an All-Star Weekend, then the main event should be skills competitions. The most profitable and mostwatched contests during those stretches are often contests such as the MLB’s Home Run Derby, the NBA’s Dunk Contest and the NHL’s Shootout Challenge. These three competitions — the NFL does not have a single skills contest — provide fans with a chance to see players show off their skill, strength and creativity.

The future of low-stakes competition is not an event or idea that has not been thought of yet — it is instead staring us in the face. If professional sports listened to the trending reaction of their fans, they would abandon the premise of All-Star Games altogether. The NFL, the league that ushers in the most profits out of any sport, needs to move away from the relaxed style of the Pro Bowl and migrate towards small contests that give viewers a new perspective.

In today’s world, sports are often one of our biggest areas of focus. When our teams take a small break to provide us with the opportunity to see the best duke it out, we as fans deserve more than to turn off the TV bored by the lack of actual competition.

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Quotable "We feel like when we go out there we can beat any team that we play. That mindset is essential to have any form of success."

- BU men's lacrosse goalkeeper Christian Carson-Banister p. 11

Thursday, February 4, 2016

The Goalie Guild Connor LaCouvee, a self-proclaimed "weirdo," has faith in hockey's long process. p. 10

Men’s basketball wins third-straight game

Going For Two All-Star Games Anything But

BY NICK FRAZIER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BY DAVID SOUZA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

This past Sunday, sports fans across the world were treated to two spectacles that didn't help American sports become more appealing to the rest of the world: the NHL All-Star Game and the Pro Bowl. All-Star Games as a whole have become a largely futile attempt by the upper echelon of professional sports marketing to drum up both interest and revenue in their respective sports.

While they claim the games are supposed rewards for loyal fans, the games are often torturous to sit through.

While the NHL’s version of the mid-season classic was actually both entertaining and competitive this season, it was the first to be so in my 20 years of sports memories, and it was largely due to the John Scott saga. The NHL All-Star Game has recently featured absurd contests like last year’s 17-12 barnburner or 2012’s 12-9 affair.

While hockey has largely been criticized, and unfairly so, for a lack of high-scoring games, score totals reaching the 20s and 30s is comical, if not an insult, to the game.

The last time there was any semblance of a normal-scoring, close game during the NHL All-Star break was in 2004, a year before the lockout led to a focus on increased scoring

by Commissioner Gary Bettman.

Ridiculously high-scoring games have not only been an issue for professional hockey’s “ASG,” but also every major professional sport’s All-Star Game. The NBA’s All-Star Game has not seen a team finish below 100 points — a pretty standard mark for a professional basketball game — since 1973. To give that context, Wilt Chamberlain and John Havlicek headlined the rosters for the Western and Eastern Conferences in that game and combined for 16 points. Comparatively, Russell Westbrook scored 41 in the 2015 All-Star Game.

While some do enjoy the NBA’s AllStar Game, as it resembles the game’s roots as a form of street ball, those who tune in to see the league’s best players square off are treated to the equivalent of a Harlem Globetrotters game.

The Pro Bowl has been the laughing stock of all professional sports games.

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The Boston University men’s basketball team fought off a comeback bid from the United States Naval Academy en route to an 83-72 win Wednesday night in Annapolis, Maryland.

The game is the Terriers’ (13-11, 6-5 Patriot League) third-straight win and their sixth victory in the last eight games. BU now has a winning conference-only record and is .500 in away games.

The Terriers had one of their better games of the season, shooting 58.1 percent from the field and 60 percent from the 3-point line, while limiting the Midshipmen (16-8, 7-4 Patriot League) to 12.5 percent from deep. It was their third-highest scoring game of the year, and they never relinquished the lead to Navy.

Senior guard John Papale led BU in scoring with 18 points, with freshman guard Kyle Foreman contributing 17 points and junior guard Eric Fanning chipping in 15 points. On top of that, junior center Blaise Mbargorba finished with a career-high of seven rebounds and a career-high of five blocks. Their collective contributions offset Navy’s combined 42 points from sophomore Jace Hogan and senior Tilman Dunbar.

“We talked about [how] in the first five minutes, we wanted to come out strong, and we did that,” BU head coach Joe Jones said.

“Our guys played with confidence and were aggressive throughout the game. I’m really pleased with how we played. We got sloppy at certain moments in the game, we kind of hurt us with some of our decision making.

But all in all, I was really pleased with how we played.”

The game started well enough for the Terriers, with BU taking an early 7-0 lead after a Fanning 3-pointer. Navy remained persistent, however, keeping close behind the Terriers throughout the first half.

The Midshipmen were couldn’t keep up with the BU’s blistering shooting pace, as the Terriers finished the opening half shooting 68.2 percent from the field and 5-of-9 from deep. Most notably, Foreman, along with three assists, scored 12 points and hit all three of his 3-point attempts.

Thanks to his impressive scoring, plus 10 early points from Fanning, the Terriers went into halftime with a 45-35 lead.

Jones said it was his team’s confidence level that led to an effective out for the Terriers.

“We played with a lot of confidence early in the game,” Jones said. “We got a big game from Foreman, and I thought that really helped us, him playing so well offensively. We moved the ball and [were] able to get good shots and [were] able to knock them down. I just thought we played with a lot of confidence right away.”

In the second period, the game’s physicality went up a notch, as a combined 29 fouls were called on both teams. Six of

those fouls came in the first three minutes of the half. The aggressive nature of the game gave sophomore forward Nick Havener four fouls with 14:55 left in the contest.

He would eventually foul out with just over three minutes left, as he was never able to get in a game rhythm. This foul trouble forced Jones to make tough decisions near the end of the game.

“I thought we had to play [senior forward Nate Dieudonne] too long,” Jones said. “We should have used another big a little bit earlier. I thought that was apparent. I should have started subbing earlier

than I did.”

However, as the team was dealing with foul trouble, Papale took over on offense, scoring 16 points in the half and hitting two 3-pointers. He also put the final dagger in the game, hitting 8-of-8 free throws in the last 33 seconds of the game to ensure victory.

“He was aggressive throughout the game,” Jones said. “He had a couple of nice drives kind of playing off of the shot fake.

He did a nice job. He’s ice cold from the free throw line, and tonight, he did a good job of that.”

PHOTO BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/DFP FILE PHOTO

Freshman Kyle Foreman played a major attacking and defensive role in Wednesday night's win over Navy.

BOTTOM LI NE THURSDAY, FEB. 4

FRIDAY, FEB. 5

SATURDAY, FEB. 6

SUNDAY, FEB. 7

MONDAY, FEB. 8

Men's Lacrosse vs. Providence, 1 p.m.

Women's Basketball vs. Navy, 7 p.m.

Women's Basketball vs. Lafayette, Men's Hockey @ UMass, 7 p.m.

2 p.m.

Men's Basketball @ Lafayette, 2 p.m.

Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh invited rap group Migos to the school's Signing Day. A mixtape is expected to drop soon.

Men's Hockey vs. Boston College, 7:30 p.m. @ TD Garden