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Tsarnaev found guilty on all 30 counts, awaits sentencing BY SAMANTHA GROSS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
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1. BU clinches berth to Frozen Four with a 3-2 win over the University of Minnesota Duluth in the Northeast Regional final on March 28. 2. The Terriers celebrate after winning the program’s 30th Beanpot Tournament Championship on Feb. 23. 3. Junior forward Danny O’Regan holds the Hockey East Tournament trophy after BU defeated the University of Massachusetts Lowell 5-3 in the final on March 21.
No. 2 Terriers take 22nd trip to Frozen Four BY ANDREW BATTIFARANO AND CONOR RYAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Before the 2014-15 season even started, the No. 2 Boston University men’s hockey gathered for informal practices in the late summer months, and finally skated as team when the calendar hit September. A year removed from a 10-win season, those not on Commonwealth Avenue did not have high expectations at that point in time for the team. But head coach David Quinn and the rest of his staff said they saw things differently. The Terriers (25-7-5, 14-5-3 Hockey East) were bringing back a solid corps of veterans and gaining a top-notch freshman class that was as good as any in the country. All together, even from the start, the coaches thought this team could make a deep run in the postseason. To those outside of the BU bubble, it might’ve been a crazy thought. “In September, as school started and the guys started skating together,” Quinn said, “as a staff, we kind of sat down and thought to ourselves, ‘This could be a special year.’”
Seven months later, and Quinn is looking like a prophet. The second-ranked Terriers are just two wins away from their sixth national title. They’ll first face No. 3 University of North Dakota in the semifinal game of the Frozen Four on Thursday night. Without balance, Quinn said, this team would not have had as much success as it has had in the 2014-15 season. “Well, obviously our team is very excited about being here,” Quinn said. “A lot of hard work, starting with talent, teamwork, commitment, great goaltending, great D core and a great group of forwards. We know how hard it is to get here. Our guys aren’t taking this for granted. It’s amazing what happens during the course of a season.” Freshman center Jack Eichel, whose NCAA-leading 67 points have him at the top of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award list, reiterated a lot of what his coach said. These Terriers are a tight-knit bunch, and that’s proven beneficial down the stretch this season. “I’ve been around a lot of teams that come together, and I can’t really mention
one that I’ve been truly closer with in terms of just going through everything on a dayto-day basis, good or bad,” Eichel said. “I was fortunate to play at the [United States] NTDP for two years, and we got really close as a group, but I never thought after that that I would get closer to a group.” After a regular season where the Terriers claimed the Beanpot and Hockey East title, the Terriers rolled through the Hockey East Tournament en route to a top seed in the NCAA Northeast Regional. It wasn’t easy in Manchester, New Hampshire, but the Terriers eked out backto-back 3-2 wins over No. 17 Yale University and No. 7 University of Minnesota Duluth. BU scored a combined four goals in the third period or overtime in those two contests, including senior assistant captain Evan Rodrigues’ regional-clinching goal over Duluth (21-16-3). Now, with 68 goals in the third period this season — 45.3 percent of the team’s total goals — it’s past the point to say BU prefers to score late in games. But with even stiffer competition looming, the Terriers will most likely not be able to rely CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
On Wednesday, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, was found guilty of 30 federal counts related to the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the days after. The bombings and violent confrontations that followed left four dead and injured hundreds of others. Tsarnaev sat between defense attorneys Judy Clarke and Bill Fick, emotionlessly following along the verdict slip as Paul Lyness, a courtroom clerk, read from the long list. In day 19 of trial, the jury convicted Tsarnaev on all 30 counts for which he was tried, 17 of which carry the death penalty. The deaths and injuries resulting from the crimes are among the factors allowing for the death penalty. Among the charges were conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, the use of pressure cookers, pipe bombs and a Ruger pistol in a crime of violence, aiding and abetting, conspiracy to bomb a place of public use and conspiracy to maliciously destroy property. The courtroom was silent during the reading of counts and verdicts per the request of U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole. “There’s to be no reaction. There’s no physical signs,” he said. After Lyness finished, O’Toole reminded the jury that they are still active and requested they continue to refrain from social media, news coverage and discussion with anyone. “It is important that you avoid discussion with other jurors,” O’Toole said. Present in court were William and Denise Richard, the parents of Martin Richard, an 8-year-old who was killed when a pressure cooker bomb was detonated from a backpack placed outside Forum restaurant near the finish line of the Marathon. Also in attendance was Boston Police Commissioner William Evans. Next week, the court will continue to a second phase of the trial, the “penalty phase,” where they will decide the fate of Tsarnaev, who sat stoic throughout the day’s proceedings. To read more coverage on the Tsarnaev trial, visit dfpr.es/tsarnaevtrial
Candidates from True BU slate sweep SG Executive Board positions BY SEKAR KRISNAULI DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
All four candidates from True BU, one of three slates that ran in the 2015 Boston University Student Government elections, won positions on SG’s Executive Board for the 2015-16 academic year, the Student Elections Commission announced Wednesday. True BU slate members earned more than 1,000 votes each and won an average of 49.65 percent of the total vote over candidates from the TeamBU and BUtiful Dreamers slates running for the same positions.
Executive President-elect Andrew Cho said he is extremely grateful and thankful for the opportunity the slate now has to serve the student body. “I’m really thankful for this campaign process because we’ve been able to make so many connections,” said Cho, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. “This speaks that we really want to embody and carry on True BU values, and it’s not about one of us individually, but the people and community that we represent.” About 40 campaign staff members from all three slates and supporters came to the
announcement dinner held in the George Sherman Union Backcourt on Wednesday. Marwa Sayed, the vice president of internal affairs-elect, said she felt “speechless and discombobulated” about the vote and that she wants to live up to students’ hopes for her slate. “It’s really great to connect with students. I got so many good ideas,” said Sayed, a sophomore in CAS. “I really feel now we can realize our expectations.” Nicole Simons, a candidate for executive president under the BUtiful Dreamers slate, said she wishes True BU the best.
“Neither of the losing slates are surprised,” said Simons, a junior in CAS. “We’re very happy for them, and it was a very fun election.” Other members from the TeamBU and BUtiful Dreamers slates left promptly following the conclusion of the announcement dinner and were not available for comment. The fossil fuel referendum question, asking students whether or not they would be in favor of the BU Board of Trustees divesting from fossil fuel companies, passed with CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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Report praises marathon response, details friendly fire BY CHRIS FERGUS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
A joint report examining the public safety, public health and medical response by local and state federal authorities to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings was released to the general public Friday, according to a press release from the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. The report, titled “After Action Report for the Response to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings,” offers a detailed timeline of events related to the bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260 on April 15, 2013. It also identifies the best response practices to emergency response, as well as areas needing improvement. While the report was made available to the public Friday, it was shared with “key stakeholders” before the 2014 Boston Marathon, and “most of the recommended corrective actions have been or continue to be addressed,” the release stated. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh praised the report in a Friday statement. “I am proud that this report highlights the tremendous efforts of so many city workers following the violence that struck our City two years ago, including the re-opening of Boylston Street in the aftermath of the bombing, and the incredible response of our hospitals and medical personnel,” Walsh said in the statement. The Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management, an agency responsible for developing plans to prevent, protect, respond and recover from disasters and emergencies, played a part in coordinating the response to the bombings, said Matthew Benedetti, a public information officer for the OEM. “During emergencies, OEM operates the City’s Emergency Operation Center where city agencies coordinate response and share information critical to managing the incident,” Benedetti said. Benedetti emphasized the importance of building relationships between agencies and departments, which helped the city officials manage the response. “Strong relationships created and maintained by key leaders were paramount to ensuring commanders, agency heads and political leaders came together quickly to form Unified Command and facilitate collaborative decision-making after the bombings in Boston and
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The After Action Report for the Response to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings was released Friday and details the safety, health and medical response to the April 15, 2013 bombing.
during the manhunt in Watertown,” he said. The response by the Watertown Police Department officers, who “took heavy fire” in the days following the bombings, was highlighted as one of the best practices in the After Action Report. “All four officers demonstrated incredible bravery and discipline under pressure, maintaining communications with their dispatch center and critically wounding the suspects,” the report stated. “Their effective tactical response ensured the residents of the neighborhood were not hurt.” Despite the praise for the department, the report also detailed an incident of friendly fire after the car hijacking and shootout on the evening of April 18, 2013 and early morning of April 19, 2013. “Shortly after the firefight, an unmarked Massachusetts State Police black pickup truck was erroneously reported as stolen. The truck was spotted driving on Adams Street, a few blocks from the firefight, with two occupants. An officer witnessing the vehicle fired upon it,” the release stated. “Upon further inspection, it was determined that the occupants of the vehicle were a BPD officer and MSP trooper in plain clothes. They were unhurt.” Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student who was found guilty on Wednesday of 30 federal counts associated with the bombings, escaped after the firefight, the report stated. Officials determined that suspension of transit services and request of shelter-in-place was in the best interest of public safety during the morning of April 19. At 6:42 p.m. on April 19, a Watertown resident notified Watertown Police Department that there was a body in his boat. Three Watertown policemen and three Boston policemen responded immediately, the report
stated. At 6:54 p.m., an officer opened fire, without proper authorization, in response to “perceived movement in the boat,” the report stated. This led to “contagious fire” by surrounding officers until supervisors ordered a ceasefire. Tsarnaev surrendered at 8:41 p.m., and the officials declared his capture at 9:32 p.m., the report stated. Several residents said the release of the report to the general public was vital not only for transparency, but also to help some of the victims move on. Melissa Puleo, 25, of Back Bay, said she was impressed by the city’s evaluation of the events following the Boston Marathon bombings. “It’s good that the city has taken the time to think about the events surrounding the marathon and identify what was done well and what needs to be done better,” she said. “It’s good that the city gave us a detailed timeline of all the events surrounding the 2013 Marathon.” David Bernstein, 27, of the North End, said the city handled the crisis well, but it was also important for them to evaluate the events of the week following the bombings. “The way the city handled the situation minimized casualties even if some things seemed excessive, like the lockdown,” he said. “It’s important that they look at their decisions from that day, evaluate and identify ways to improve on the response.” Lia Brouillard, 21, of Brighton, said the report could provide closure regarding the marathon for some. “Maybe this can give some people closure in regards to the events of that day,” she said. “There were a lot of gaps, and it sounds like this report gives a good account of what happened around the times of the explosion, shootouts and manhunt.”
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approximately 75 percent of the vote in support of divestment. Claire Richer, president of Students For a Just and Stable Future, said she is excited to know that most BU students support fossil fuel divestment. “I hope that it has a positive impact on the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing and that they [the committee] take into account students’ feelings on this,” said Richer, a senior in CAS. “Just publiciz-
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ing it, spreading the message, making sure people know what divestment is.” Vice President of Finance-elect Kimberly Barzola said the slate’s campaign process embodied the meaning of True BU. “The whole process of canvassing, going out and talking one-on-one with people, was the most influential and important part of our whole campaign,” said Barzola, a sophomore in CAS. “It was really great that we were able to do that through the campaign process, and we can actually take action on it
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Kimberly Barzola (CAS ’17), Andrew Cho (CAS ’16) and Melesilika Finau (CAS ’17) celebrate in the George Sherman Union Wednesday after hearing that they won the election for Student Government executive board.
now that we’re E-Board.” Barzola said one of the initiatives she will focus on is putting a student representative on the Board of Trustees, a proposal on which she has already started working. Cho said the slate will seek feedback from students before the 2014-15 school year ends and will look to be on campus as much as possible over the summer. “We definitely want to hold a meeting with all interested students [and] all the leaders on campus before the semester’s out to really ask them to prioritize the agenda for us so that we can tackle the issues that really matter most,” he said. Melesilika Finau, the executive vice president-elect, said she aims to create a more welcoming atmosphere within SG. “I just hope to create the environment that really fosters connection and community in SG to make sure everyone feels welcome and that they can talk to us about whatever’s needed,” said Finau, a sophomore in CAS. SEC Chairman Spencer Hilton said the election season was very stressful but successful. “All the candidates were very respectful. We [didn’t] have to police them,” said Hilton, a junior in the Questrom School of Business. “As for the referendum, it was very interest-
Jacket stolen from FitRec Locker Officers received a report of a theft theft that occurred between approximately 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday. The student said their Canada Goose Jacket, valued at $700, was taken from the second floor locker room of the Fitness and Recreation Center located at 915 Commonwealth Ave. Public disturbance on Park Drive On Sunday at approximately 12:44 a.m., officers responded to 504 Park Drive in South Campus for complaints of loud music. This was the third time police have responded to the location in the last several weeks. Officers informed the subject of a possible court summons. The case will be turned over to BU’s Judicial Affairs office. Fraudulent checks used at Barnes & Noble Employees at Barnes & Noble at 660 Beacon St. reported Sunday that a female party who has a prior record of larceny at the store used several checks to purchase items. When told that the checks needed approval from the manager, the woman fled. Police took custody of the checks and will issue a warrant against the female for attempting to pass a fraudulent check.
Student harassed by peer A 21-year-old female student reported at approximately 7 p.m. Sunday that a 23-year-old male student was harassing her despite requests for him to stop. The suspect has continued to contact the victim in a harassing manner. Police will file a harassment order against the male student. Indecent public exposure A 19-year-old female student reported at approximately 9:40 p.m. on Sunday that an unknown male party exposed himself to her. The victim said the man followed her down Babcock Street in Brookline. Officers searched the area but did not find the suspect. The situation is currently being investigated. ing to see how the students voted because we haven’t had a referendum in over 30 years.” While all three slates received violations points — TeamBU received 200 points, True BU received 350 points and BUtiful Dreamers received 300 points — Hilton said the violations did not “change any result of the election.” Sam Worley, a senior in CAS, attended the announcement dinner and said he is happy with the “fair” results of the SG election. “In the future, I’d love to see more slates and more involvement,” he said. “Students need to understand that they can have an impact like being part of SG or even running. Those are what’s important.”
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Students compete in lottery system for Frozen Four tickets BY HANNAH LIBBY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
As the Boston University men’s hockey team prepares to play in its first NCAA semifinals in six years, students from across the university are fighting to secure themselves a seat throughout BU’s Frozen Four run. To alleviate the stress for some student fans, officials from the Dean of Students Office and the BU Department of Athletics established a lottery system to distribute tickets. The ticket lottery, which was held in the Agganis Arena lobby on April 2, is based on a loyalty system that awards fans with high home and regional game attendance, according to a March 31 email from the Agganis ticket office. “The Dean of Students office and Athletics Department looked at loyalty,”
said BU spokesman Colin Riley . “Tickets were made available to students who had Sports Pass upgrades and attended 75 percent of games, and the other half went to the remaining student population. Of that group, fewer than 10 percent entered the lottery.” The hockey team advanced to the Frozen Four semifinals for the first time since 2009 after defeating the University Minnesota Duluth, 3-2, on March 28. BU Athletics and the Dean of Students office subsidized tickets, which were originally priced at $102.50 per game, bringing down the price to $75 per game, the email stated. Lottery ticket winners are guaranteed a seat at the Thursday semifinal game and the final at TD Garden if BU advances. Representatives from the Dean of Students office declined to comment. Riley said the lottery system is fair
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Boston University Athletics held a lottery for discounted tickets for BU students to attend the Frozen Four games, beginning Thursday.
because of the high demand for tickets and national scope of the championships. “There are 12,000 students with Sports Passes, enough to fill up [TD] Garden,” he said. “This is not the Beanpot. Fans come from all around the country for this. In some places, depending on who the teams are, the tickets are put back into the system, but this is Boston, and there’s huge demand for these tickets. They are already completely gone.” The NCAA allocates 600 seats for each team playing in the Frozen Four. There is a greater demand for tickets this year compared to when BU won the National Championship in Washington D.C. in 2009, he said. “Even if BU wasn’t in [the Frozen Four], it would be a really tough ticket to be had,” he said. “It was a little different in 2009 because the demand wasn’t as much since there were more tickets to be had. In [TD Garden], you’ll see fans wearing every one of the game jerseys … There are fans who just hope to see their team in it one year … They are really just hockey fans.” Several members of the Dog Pound, BU’s student fan section, said they supported the university’s action to hold the ticket lottery. “Obviously, we’re super excited that BU has made the Frozen Four for the first time since 2009, and of course, we want as many students to attend as possible, although it’s sad that we couldn’t get millions of tickets,” said Shannon Keane, a junior in the School of Education. “To me, BU handled it better than I thought they would.” Anna Takahashi, another member of the Dog Pound, agreed that the situation was not ideal to begin with. “In a perfect world, we’d get hundreds of tickets and everyone would be able to go,” said Takahashi, a senior in the Col-
lege of Arts and Sciences “I think BU did a really good job of making the best of a bad situation.” Takahashi said this year’s lottery is fairer than the one held in 2009, which was open to the general student population, instead of only Sports Pass holders. “[The 2009 lottery] was unfortunate because a lot of people who didn’t have a vested interest in the team got tickets in order to resell them and make a profit,” she said. However, while some students understand the purpose of the lottery system, others said they are upset about the ticket shortage and believe the lottery system is unfair. Sam Depalma, a freshman in the College of Engineering, said he purchased the more expensive upgraded Sports Pass to gain admission to all games, including games like the Frozen Four semifinals. “It seemed a little unfair since I spent the extra money to buy [the upgraded pass], so I felt like I could get an extra ticket,” he said. “It seemed like they only guaranteed the top 10 percent [the most “loyal” fans] tickets, so you had to miss only like two games all year.” Jack Faso, a club hockey player at BU, said a better alternative for the lottery would be for the university to put tickets on sale at discounted prices available to all students, not just ones with the sports pass. “As a club hockey player, I would have liked to have been able to purchase tickets at a reduced price so I could have watched the game,” said Faso, a sophomore in the Questrom School of Business. “I feel like being at the game is a cool atmosphere, and all students should have the opportunity to have that experience and not have to pay an arm and a leg to go.”
West Roxbury pipeline opposed for public safety, environment BY PAIGE SMITH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced a request for a rehearing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision to allow the installation of a Lateral Gas Pipeline in West Roxbury, according to an April 2 press release. The proposed high pressure gas line, owned by Spectra Energy Partners as a part of their Algonquin Gas Transmission, is proposed to be constructed directly across the street from West Roxbury Crushed Stone, which is an active quarry that regularly uses dynamite, the release stated. “I have listened to the concerns of the community, and we have asked Algonquin Gas and Spectra Energy several times to find a new route for this pipeline,” Walsh said in the release. “The project as proposed poses real public safety risks for West Roxbury residents, and we must work together with the community and with our city, state and federal partners to find a solution that is in the best interests of West Roxbury residents.” Walsh was joined by U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, Massachusetts Sen. Michael Rush, Massachusetts Rep. Ed Coppinger, Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley and the Boston City Councilors-at-Large in requesting the rehearing on behalf of the people of West Roxbury, the release stated. Boston City Councilor-At-Large Michael Flaherty said he strongly opposes
the project, on behalf of his West Roxbury constituents, citing significant and consistent outcry for the past several months. “I can say that due to overwhelming public safety concerns expressed by West Roxbury residents, that Algonquin Gas needs to find an alternative route for their pipeline and their metering station,” Flaherty said. “Having a pipeline and metering station directly across from an active quarry that has regular blasting and will have regular blasting for the foreseeable future, is a recipe for disaster.” Flaherty said the community has been outspoken regarding their concerns for the project, partially because of the lack of transparency associated with the project. “At some point, FERC had a hearing and determined that this was an appropriate route, and then once the people who I represent, which is when the good people of West Roxbury, got wind [of the pipeline’s construction], that was when, from my perspective, the community process started,” Flaherty said. “There was no community process prior to that. It was a decision made by FERC.” A 2014 explosion in several New York apartment buildings, which involved a broken pipeline, only solidified Flaherty’s stance regarding the construction. “There was a pipeline, and there was a break in the pipeline, and there was activity, and the next thing you know, there was a massive explosion,” he said. “FERC should be looking in non-resi-
dential areas to locate these pipelines, and whoever suggested or thought that an appropriate or safe location would be to place a pipeline and metering station across from an active quarry that undergoes regular blasting was short-sighted to say the least.” Flaherty stressed that he would stand beside his constituents, advising them to the best of his ability regarding the issue. “I plan to stand with the people of West Roxbury, and whatever efforts they deem necessarily appropriate to stop the pipeline,” he said. “It’s their neighborhood, it’s their community, so I’ll be continuing to take advice from my constituents and what steps they would like to
pursue and identify ways that I and other elected officials can help the situation.” The lawmakers had not received a response to the request as of Monday afternoon, Flaherty said. Matthias Ruth, interim director of the Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, said this controversial issue is one that should not be examined just in the context of West Roxbury, but across the nation. “We all like to have a cheap, reliable supply of energy, and any community, be it Roxbury or any of the communities through which the pipeline runs,” Ruth said. “What the Roxbury case and othCONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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Electric vehicle rebate program receives more funding BY ANUSH SWAMINATHAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker agreed to provide an additional $2 million to the Massachusetts Offers Rebates for Electric Vehicle Program on April 2, according to a Friday press release from the Massachusetts Sierra Club. MOR-EV, funded by the Executive Office of Energ y and Environmental Affairs’ Department of Energ y Resources (EEA), provides $2,500 rebates for Massachusetts drivers who purchase or lease full battery electric vehicles and $1,500 for those who purchase or lease plug-in hybrids, the release stated. “Electric vehicles have offthe-charts customer satisfaction ratings because they are fun to drive, and people love zooming right past the gas station,” Gina Coplon-Newfield, the Sierra Club director of Electric Vehicles Initiative, said in the release. “We applaud this example of the Baker Administration’s investment in cleaner cars, healthier air and a safer planet.” In 2014, approximately $1.5 million in rebates were issued to Massachusetts drivers through the program, according to MOR-EV’s website.
Emily Norton, director of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Sierra Club, said the additional funds into MOR-EV ser ve to provide important and much-needed incentives to allow people to try new technologies. “We were actually instrumental in the establishment of that rebate program because when we looked around at other states which have higher levels of electric vehicle adoption, we found that they often have an additional financial incentive to make it easier for people to be able to afford one,” Norton said. Norton said the high cost and relatively small number of electric vehicles on the road can be attributed to hesitation to try a different type of car. “Electric vehicles are a new technolog y, and they are different, so you have to get people over the hump to even consider a car that is plugged in instead of taken to the gas station, or plugged in in addition to being taken to the gas station,” she said. “They are relatively more expensive as they are a new technolog y, but as more people purchase them, the price is expected to come down.” Norton also said the state rebate on electric cars is not the only incentive offered to pur-
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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced Friday that the state will add an additional $2 million to the Massachusetts Electric Vehicle Incentive Program.
chasers of electric cars, but that such incentives are in addition to existing federal programs. “There is already an existing $7,500 federal credit, so the $2,500 here in Massachusetts
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ers really highlight is as society, we are at this point where we really need to think, do we continue to push the old technologies with methods of delivery and extraction that we know already are not sustainable environmentally, but also clearly, as Roxbury points out, not sustainable socially, because the local communities are adversely affected.” Ruth also said he supports a rehearing regarding the pipeline because of larger issues at play that are outside of the community. “If we can take stock of
who wins and who loses — and it’s pretty obvious in this case, the environment loses, the local community is losing, and sort of the only ones who win are a small set of the business community — this is a good time to ask those tough questions and look to put in place an alternative strategy,” he said. “At the bare minimum, that call for a revisiting of the decision needs to bring with it a very clear, transparent communication of why [it was decided from the beginning].” Several residents and students said the rehearing would provide a useful forum for re-
thinking the pipeline, which could potentially reduce the impacts on West Roxbury’s environment and community. Tiffany Smith, a junior in Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said the costs and benefits of installing the pipeline should be weighed before a decision is made. “[They should] think about the danger to the surrounding community or cost-benefit analysis,” she said. “That’s how I think of everything.” David Watson, 27, of Brighton, said rethinking the decision would be beneficial and
getting a second opinion might prove helpful to making the right choice. “Whatever is best for the environment would be the best thing to do,” he said. “This sounds like if they’re trying to do some digging where they’re digging, it’s probably not the best plan so taking a second look at things is always a good idea. It’s never a bad idea to reconfigure and figure out what the right thing to do is.” Isaak Jones, 24, of Brighton, said the government is doing the right thing for residents by requesting a rehearing, and everyone should have a voice in
the decision. “Public safety needs to come first, and what it really comes down to is the residents, and they need to weigh the economic benefits of public safety and having a pipeline across the street from a quarry that is actively blasting, and with above ground access, as I understand,” he said. “Having a re-polling or rehearing, this is a government that is representing us. Everyone should get their voices out and everything should be on the table before proceeding with something potentially dangerous.”
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gasoline.” The Massachusetts Electric Vehicle Initiative, part of the EEA, aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote economic growth and protect public health and air quality by reducing other transportation-related air pollution, according to its website. In May 2014, eight state governors collaborated to release a collaborative MultiState Action Plan to be imple-
mented in cities on the east and west coasts. The plans develop infrastructure, coordinate policies, codes and standards and set a goal for a consumer market projected toward 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles in use by 2025, according to the Massachusetts EEA website. California, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont partnered with Massachusetts to promote the cause. In combination, these vehicles make up approximately a quarter of the United
States’ new car sales. Massachusetts set a goal of 300,000 zero emissions vehicles or 15 percent of the projected registered vehicles in the state in 2025, according to the Massachusetts EEA. Several residents said they realized the positive impacts of an electric car incentive program on the environment, but were cautious about the source of funding for the program. David Miller, 31, of Fenway, said he doubts both the source of the funding and the potential
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outcome. “I’m not sure where the budget is going to come from, [or] what’s actually going to support the green initiative,” he said. Carina Traub, 21, of Fenway, questioned whether there are more appropriate programs to be investing in currently. “[Funding the electric car incentive program] is okay because I like the environment, but also if you think more critically, you have to think where the money is coming from and
what else it might have been able to be used for,” she said. Syed Ahsen, 21, of Brighton, said she agrees with the parameters of the program and predicts MOR-EV will ser ve to fulfill the primary purpose of environmental preser vation. “So if they want to motivate those electric car owners, then this is a good way to switch people from using fuel cars to electric cars,” he said, “which is better for the environment.”
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MUSE THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
Campus DJs spin stigma on Macbook musicianship BY STEVE FRIEDMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
The stigma surrounding electronic musicians such as Skrillex is nothing new. They get on stage, the stereotype goes, then press play, dance around and their job is done — there’s nothing else to it. As electronic music continues to rise in popularity, however, many artists are actively putting this stigma to shame — artists such as Nosaj Thing, for instance. An electronic producer who has worked with artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper, Nosaj Thing (whose real name is Jason Chung) did a brief walkthrough on how he crafts live sets in a presentation at the Boylston Street Apple Store on Tuesday before his show that evening at Brighton Music Hall. He demonstrated how he makes each performance unique and partly improvised, as he mirrored his laptop screen onto a large display. “I’m just stemming out all the songs into eight parts, and then I can arrange the tracks live,” Chung told the crowd. “So I can have the bass from one song, drums from another song. It was kind of rough the first two shows, but now I’m more
comfortable with it.” His demo comes at a period in music when electronic artists are rising in prominence and gaining more respect as serious musicians. Still, DJs face criticism toward their worth as performers, considering that they often play and sample other people’s music, not their own. “There aren’t that many physical skills to develop. There’s the stereotype — ‘oh, you just press buttons.’ Essentially, that’s what it is,” said David Szczepankiewicz, a sophomore in the Questrom School of Business and one-half of DJ duo Godoii & Davvid. “I feel like the entire thing is having a wide musical range that you know, and know pretty well.” Szczepankiewicz admitted that with the latest technology in the field, DJ techniques like beatmatching are not very difficult. However, he said that DJ skills come more from being able to interact with the feel of the audience and create a set that flows from song to song on the spot. “Being a DJ is knowing which songs to play next — this stack of songs, this musical journey, onehour big mix where you can take the people from one place to another,” said Jose Godoy, a Questrom soph-
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Nosaj Thing demonstrates his work at the Apple Store on Boylston Street Tuesday.
omore and the other half of the DJ group. “It’s knowing how to phrase the songs, how to move from one genre or one groove to the other.” While Szczepankiewicz never played any instruments before DJing, Godoy has an extensive musical background. “I played piano since I was four. I was in a lot of bands. I was the lead guitar for a Pantera tribute band at some point,” he said. “I also played jazz and the blues. I played in weddings. I played in musicals.
I played the accordion and the alto sax. I won tickets to Cancun for singing once, for a contest.” Godoy said the transition from playing instruments to DJing was a reaction to the progression of what music was becoming popular. “I was all over the place, and electronic music was just the thing,” he said. “And now I’m here.” Andrew Hallock, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences and a producer and DJ under the moniker Wandrew, also got his start in more traditional forms of music. “I play a bunch of instruments: flute, piccolo, bass, guitar, drums, trombone, ukulele. I sing. But I mostly stick to electronic music now,” he said. Hallock said his musical background has translated over to the skills he uses in composing electronic music. “As you learn to play an instrument, you understand it. You can physically play it, but you also know its uses,” he said. “So, say, in a big orchestra, what use does the oboe have? You know where it fits into
the big scheme of things.” That classical tie has more strength than one might expect. Spencer Chapman, a freshman trombone player in the College of Fine Arts, said he respects electronic music as an art form despite the differences between it and more traditional styles of music. “Different genres have different ways that they achieve the end goal,” he said. “They might have to focus on different individual aspects of their art, but in the end, successful people have similar traits in terms of what they do.” Chapman listens to mostly classical and jazz styles of music, but he tries to be open-minded about other styles, he said. “I’m of the personal opinion that there are really only two kinds of music: there are love songs and there’s dance music,” he said. “One of the original purposes of music was to dance to. So if people dance to it … it’s just as much of a genre, and it’s honestly making a heck of a lot more money than my profession is.”
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INBUSINESS THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
Media manager Oskolkova on company narratives, including own eg y into the big picture, how do you see the role of partnering with clients functioning in the future of your f ield?
BY BECCA DEGREGORIO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
In the eyes of Anya Oskolkova, the business world’s cold façade is more than a stereotype: it’s an act. A Boston University alum, she runs media relations and is a managing partner at the Boston-by-wayof-New-York-based PR firm Zazil Media Group. Oskolkova spoke to The Daily Free Press about the group’s aim to tell its clients’ stories as it works to rewrite its own.
AO: You have to understand your client. You have to understand their nature. You have to understand their product. You can’t just pitch something to the media without understanding what you’re talking about. In order to have that understanding, you have to be more or less integrated into their product roadmap. I hope we’ll see even more of that in the future.
The Daily Free Press: How did you get here? Anya Oskolkova: My stor y’s a bit unique because I am not from here. I was born and raised in Russia, and I went to school there. I went to Moscow and got my bachelor’s degree in international relations and diplomacy. I was working for the ministr y of foreign affairs for a little bit of time, and I just realized that it was not a 100 percent fit for me. I liked the communications aspects of it, like people watching and working on putting your message and strateg y to work. That’s how I decided to get my master’s degree in the communication field. I also wanted to get a study abroad experience, so I applied to a bunch of schools and got accepted into BU, the graduate PR program. I came here in 2009, and I just really loved Boston. I just decided to change my life and stay here. I entered into the BU in L.A. [Los Angeles] program and worked for two PR agencies there, and then I worked in telecommunications based here in Boston in consumer PR. After all that experience, I found Zazil. After working there, I worked my way up to managing partner and realized that I really love tech PR and working for a smaller agency. It’s a completely different environment. FreeP: How does your IR and diplomacy background play into your work today? AO: It’s actually helped me a lot because we, at Zazil, have a lot of international clients. That’s kind of our specialty. That’s how the agency was started. We wanted to help companies from overseas, such as manufacturers from France and Germany, to market their products here in the states. I’ve used my ability to speak Spanish, Russian and also just understanding how different cultures work. It’s definitely ver y helpful to not have to learn from surprise. Having
FreeP: As for your team, what’s Zazil Media Group doing currently? Any updates? AO: We’re actually in the process of rebranding our own brand. A lot of things are happening with us client-wise, and we’re definitely on the path to growing. We just want to make sure our brand actually represents who we are right now.
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Anya Oskolkova is a managing partner and director of media relations at Zazil Media Group.
that background is ver y useful.
FreeP: Can you tell me more about Zazil Media Group? W hat’s the mission of the agency? AO: The agency was founded in 2001, and, like I said, the whole purpose was that we wanted to help clients overseas who had a lot of awesome products, but didn’t know how to market them in the U.S. From there, we grew into servicing clients in tech PR and tr ying to break into a different market. We’re really good at product PR and product launches. We understand what it takes to tell a stor y about a product. We help our clients tell their stor y in a language that would be clear to their future customers. I feel like companies sometimes are so involved in their own manufacturing process that when they talk about their product, it’s sometimes unclear. We help them translate that to the right audience. We tr y to integrate ourselves into their whole marketing strateg y, and, by doing that, we are helping them and they are helping us to understand what their needs are. It’s not like you do it and we’re done. It’s more like, ‘Let’s go into this partnership so we can help you in the long term.’ We’re a small agency. There are about 10 to 12 of us, so it’s ver y important that the
people we work with are all on the same page. Even though we’re based in Boston and New York, we meet ever y day. It’s ver y important to have that and make sure that we’re making decisions as a team whenever possible. Then there’s our personal best. That’s probably our biggest value. If we are fully engaged in our relationship with a potential client and we understand them, then we’re going to do our personal best on that project.
proach in place with how we deal with the media, how often we talk to them and how often we remind them of us. That’s the media relations part of it, and there are other aspects of product launching, obviously communications and getting a client’s message out there, promotions, awards. We do all of those things.
FreeP: Bringing this strat-
FreeP: Lastly, do you have any advice for prospective women in your f ield? AO: Especially in technolog y, it’s such a male-dominated environment that things can be intimidating at times. We’re learning more and more that gender in this field doesn’t really matter when you provide an excellent ser vice that you’re being hired for. Just be bold. Be brave. Do your own thing, and don’t feel limited. It’s all about what you can bring to the table.
FreeP: You said Zazil helps clients tell stories for their products. W hat specif ic ser vices do you provide in order to make that happen? AO: Part of our mission is getting your product in front of the right people. [It’s about] your company, your name and telling the right stor y. So our clients work with us and refine their message to the right audience. Some examples are, for PR strateg y and tactics, we would develop campaigns that help products reach the market. So, that would include a big media relations outreach. We would take our time, do our homework to come up with the right media target. We don’t just blast people. We really spend a lot of time on that element because we don’t want any backlash from talking to the wrong people. Then there’s a constant follow-up. We have this almost sector-like ap-
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SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
To CFA seniors, fostering community of artists seems mobile cause BY SONIA RAO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
There are over 100 institutions of higher education in the Boston area. However, this high concentration does not guarantee a bond between students of different colleges. Sophia Michael and Courtney Teixeira, both seniors at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, feel as though there is a lack of community between these schools. This especially poses a problem in the art world, they said, as it thrives on the collaboration between artists. As part of an effort to bridge this gap, Michael and Teixeira created Here & There, an experimental art space that will travel around Boston for a week, starting Sunday. To facilitate that traveling, the artwork, which comes from a variety of artists from schools such as BU and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, will be showcased in a truck with extended walls. While visitors will not be able to physically enter the space, the gallery will be visible from the outside and will adapt to its various locations around Boston. “The full purpose of Here & There is to provide a common ground to different art students,” Michael said. “We’ve centered on working to connect different art schools in Boston, because there isn’t a full sense of community that exists between the schools right now.” Teixeira had the same concern about the college art community and emphasized the importance of giving these artists a place to share their work with one another and the general public. “The goal of this project is to connect emerging artists in Boston and give them an alternate space to showcase their artwork, because there aren’t many out there,” she said. “We wanted to expand the idea of a traditional gallery space.” The idea of a moving gallery is quite unusual, but, according to CFA senior Liz Morlock, it fits into the growing movement of artists taking back control of the art market. “There’s been a large push against structures that are already in the art world, like galleries,” said Morlock, whose mixed media
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Courtney Teixeira (CFA ‘15) and Sophia Michael (CFA ‘15) build the supports for an experimental art space they are building in the back of a moving truck, which will kick off in Boston Sunday.
painting will be featured in Here & There. “There are a lot more artist-run spaces, and [these artists] are trying to take back control of the art market. Right now, it’s not really in the artists’ hands at all. It goes through everybody else, and you’re just hoping that someone’s looking out for your best interests. It’s nice taking control of your own future, and being able to make these things for yourself.” Morlock also expressed her gratitude for the artistic and career opportunities provided by Here & There. “Especially when you’re a senior in an arts program, it’s really daunting to think about galleries and shows and what you’re going to do next,” she said. “The art world is very difficult. You have to tap into it. It’s a lot of networking and working to build a community. The fact that they’re [Michael and Teixeira] taking the initiative to build the
community themselves is amazing.” In addition to student artists, Here & There has also garnered support from the university. The BU Arts Initiative is throwing a launch party for the opening of the gallery, and has also helped Michael and Teixeira advertise the event to the public. “It’s of interest to us,” said Ty Furman, the managing director of the BU Arts Initiative. “This is going to go out around the city, so it helps BU because our name is out there. These are Boston University students who are doing this project and connecting with communities. For us, it’s about helping students do something … It’s just a fun idea, the whole truck thing.” Both Michael and Teixeira hope that spreading the word about BU’s efforts will attract students from other schools as well, contributing to that aim of growing the bond between students of various art schools.
“Different students will get to know each other, at least the students in the exhibition,” Michael said. “Even just creating that little network would be good … Hopefully it’ll create some lasting relationships. That’s the goal.” And these lasting relationships might lead to a bright and prolonged future for Here & There. The project has already caught the eye of other schools in the area, Teixeira said. “There’s interest in passing the project along from school to school each year,” Teixeira said. “Maybe next year, SMFA will take over the project and maybe the following year, MassArt [Massachusetts College of Art and Design]. It’s not a BU-centered idea of wanting to branch out. It’s everyone wanting to get involved in their own way.” The Here & There gallery will open on Sunday on Cummington Mall.
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CATALYST THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
Forum links science, public attitudes on drug use BY OLIVIA DENG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
In March 2014, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared opiate abuse a public health emergency. Though progress has been made on the federal level in terms of addressing opiate abuse, the road to curbing the epidemic remains a long and winded one. On Wednesday, the Boston University School of Public Health hosted the Public Health Forum to address substance use disorders and the role healthcare professionals play in treating substance use disorders. The forum, held at the BU School of Medicine, featured Michael Botticelli, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. During the forum, Botticelli addressed the issues that impeded better treatment for substance use disorders, including the lack of early intervention for substance use. “I grew up in a family, an extended family riddled by addiction. And I think what we do for people who are at risk for other diseases, we pay closer attention to them as they are developing,� Botticelli told attendees at the forum. “I don’t recall a physician, or a school nurse telling me that ‘Michael, you are at risk because of genetic disposition. You can’t drink like everyone else can because you’re going to have a different reaction.’� Botticelli said the issue is not the lack of knowledge that substance use is a disease of early onset. The scientific community knows that age of first use predicts future problems, and individuals who start drinking at age 15 are more likely to develop substance use disorders, Botticelli said. However, in contrast with other conditions such as hypertension, early onset substance use oftentimes goes untreated. “We don’t say to people who have hypertension, ‘You have to have a heart attack before you really, really need [treatment],� Botticelli said. “We really want to reframe our thinking.� Substance use disorders may partially be attributed to overprescribing medication, Botticelli said. Strong prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin have contributed to the surge in the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts. “This crisis is created by our healthcare system,� Botticelli said. “We saw this right here in Massachusetts where in 2010, drug overdose deaths surpassed vehicle accidents.� This forum is a part of National Public Health Week, which takes place during the first full week of April, said Brendan Hoey, manager of student services at SPH. Sponsored by the American Public Health Association, NPHW aims to promote the field of public health and highlight national public health issues. “Here at SPH, we always organize several events throughout the week to kind of take part in the initiative and help to highlight public health,� Hoey said. Hoey said that Sandro Galea, dean of SPH, organized Wednesday’s forum to bring attention to substance abuse.
“I think substance abuse is a problem that affects our community here in Boston and especially around the Boston Medical Center, where we’re located,� Hoey said. “It affects our state. There has been an increasing number of overdoses within Massachusetts over the past few years, and it’s important to think about also on a national level.� Among those trying to help addicts recover is Jack Kelly, founder and CEO of iRecover, a newly launched mobile application designed to foster a supportive community for recovering addicts. Kelly, who previously worked at Massachusetts General Hospital, said being able to communicate problems with likeminded individuals is one of the keys to successful recovery. “Research and data have demonstrated that the concept of one addict [or] one alcoholic helping another is very prevalent. This is a very tribalistic society that really feeds off one another,� Kelly said. “The ability to relate to somebody who’s struggling with the same exact problem you are has such a powerful effect.� Kelly said he acknowledges the importance of the government in helping find a solution to substance abuse in Boston. He testified before Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s opioid abuse task force on April 2. “One of the elements I talked about is stigma and how we reduce stigma. A big part of it is demonstrating to the world that people who have had addiction problems and are now in recovery, we need to highlight those people,� Kelly said. “Highlight and hire. That’s the message I said to the committee. If we have solutions and want to implement them and pay people to implement them, we should consider people who are in recovery and train them to implement these solutions because that sends the message to the rest of the world that people can recover, and we demonstrate that we also trust them.� During the forum, Botticelli also addressed the stigma associated with substance use and said that it hinders progress. “Clearly, there’s a lot of stigma,� Botticelli said. “We have a long way to go to change public perception. Think of our work on tobacco and how we changed public norms around it. One of the strategies we used is increasing the price. If we raise the price of cigarettes by 25 cents, we can see the decline in underage use because kids are price sensitive.� In terms of heavier substance use, the implications of continuing to use language that is shameful in nature can be dire, Botticelli said. “We are not drunks and junkies and addicts,� Botticelli said. “Part of what we need to do is reframe the language in this field.� The road to recovery involves more than researchers and scientists, Botticelli said. It is equally important for health professionals to recognize and harness the power of the people, especially those who are in recovery. “Science and data are not enough to drive public policy,� he said. “People drive public policy.�
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Michael Botticelli, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, speaks Wednesday at the Boston University School of Public Health.
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Body shaming always unacceptable, whether size 00 or size 18 The “price of thin” usually refers to the effort put into counting calories, hitting the gym or taking more drastic measures to reach a certain weight. But in France, the fashion capital of the world, the government has quite literally assigned a price to excessive thinness. The French legislature passed a bill Friday that bans those with a Body Mass Index under 18 from modeling in any capacity in the country. BMI is calculated using only a person’s height and weight, and a BMI of 18 is considered to be the borderline between “under weight” and “healthy weight.” This new law makes France the fourth country to pass such a measure, along with Italy, Spain and Israel. Fashion agencies discovered using models below this BMI — an indication of medical malnutrition — will be charged an $85,000 fine and could face jail time. Along with the model ban, France also passed a bill to outlaw pro-anorexia websites, commonly known as “thinspiration” blogs. These combined legislations represent France’s dedication to eradicating the tradition of eating disorders that has notoriously plagued the fashion industry for years. “This is an important message to young women, young women who see these models as an aesthetic ideal,”
Health Minister Marisol Touraine told France 24. “It’s important for fashion models to say that they need to eat well and take care of their health.” Most people can agree that eating disorders of any kind should not be an industry norm. In a world with as many as 24 million men and women suffering from eating disorders, having models who are clearly ill strutting up and down a runway is not OK. Furthermore, putting intense pressure on girls as young as 16 years old to reach a certain level of thinness just to get a job is commonplace in an industry that relies on human mannequins to sell clothes. “I would go to some jobs and they’d tell me to move the way I was holding my arm because it looked too fit and muscular,” model Aline Fernandes told Cosmopolitan Magazine on March 20. “There was a lot of pressure on me to be thin when I was doing fashion … Having the law in France would be wonderful. The whole world is going in that direction. It’s beautiful to see that the new standard of beauty is one of health. We’re all human. We’re not hangers.” But BMI is not an accurate measure of a person’s physical health, let alone an indicator of disordered eating. The number is merely a calculation based on a person’s height and weight. It does not
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the stigmatization of overweight people is better known, applying that discrimination to underweight people is just as dangerous and demeaning. Body-shaming anyone, whether overweight, underweight or in the middle, is never appropriate. Just as there is no perfect weight for anybody, there is no perfect BMI either. If France is really concerned about eating disorders in the modeling industry, maybe they should stop setting numerical standards and start caring about the health of individual models. Instead of forcing them to cram hamburgers in their mouths to reach a BMI of 18, enforcing a system where modeling agencies provide routine health and wellness checks for their employees could alleviate the real mental and physical complications that accompany disordered eating. Just as there is no perfect weight for anybody, there is no perfect BMI either. While France deserves credit for attempting to reduce eating disorders, setting an arbitrary number as a standard for employment not only perpetuates the objectification of models, but also attempts to classify health into a neat, yet totally arbitrary little box. Healthy should be the new skinny, but one simple number cannot determine what healthy is.
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measure muscle mass. It does not measure body fat percentage. And it certainly does not measure the symptoms indicating an eating disorder. It’s a number, and one number cannot supply a full picture of health. “When you look at the criteria behind anorexia, you can’t look only at the body mass index when other criteria are also involved: psychological, a history of hair loss, dental problems,” Isabelle Saint-Felix, the head of France’s National Union of Modeling Agencies, told Agence France-Presse. “It’s important that the models are healthy, but it’s a little simplistic to think there won’t be any more anorexics if we get rid of very thin models.” Bodies come in all shapes and sizes. What may be a healthy, natural BMI for one person could easily be unhealthy for another. A person could follow every “law” of nutrition and still be overweight. Or underweight. Either way, BMI can’t show the picture of their eating habits, exercise regimen, genetics or medical conditions. It just shows a calculation of weight in relation to height. And that number isn’t remotely sufficient to determine whether or not a model has an eating disorder. France’s new law also sends a message that thin bodies are incorrect. While
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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
Yik Yak Has No Place in Our Pockets A convention won’t fix the budget
BY CHRIS REMILLARD COLUMNIST
We all have it in our pockets. We check it in the elevator, the line at Starbucks, during boring conversations with those half-friends from orientation, and admittedly, in class. Yik Yak is another one of those go-to apps, to fill the silence, the boredom, the moments before you fall back asleep after getting up to pee at 4 a.m. It’s a kind of fast food social media. But just like McDonald’s, Yik Yak is turning out to be really, really unhealthy. For the non-yakkers, Yik Yak is a social media app founded in 2013 by Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington. Like Instagram, Yik Yak functions almost exclusively on a mobile app that is free to download. Its concept is simple: an anonymous message board showing recent posts from users within a five-mile radius. Anyone can post anything, and users have the opportunity to “upvote” or “downvote” posts — called “yaks” — as they see fit. Users may also reply to yaks in a comment section, and those comments also accumulate upvotes and downvotes. So, what’s the problem? The anonymity offered by Yik Yak removes the type of accountability that is attached to other forms of social media. On Facebook or Twitter, for example, the things you post are directly tied to your name, image and identity. On Yik Yak, all of that disappears, and many users abuse the fact that there are essentially no repercussions for posting hurtful or offensive content. Yik Yak also provides users with an outlet to anonymously disseminate personal information and cyberbully others without the fear of lasting evidence. Yik Yak has taken steps to reducing cyberbullying on its platform as well as creating a safe environment for users. Yaks with five or more downvotes, for example, are removed from the feed automatically. And Yik Yak’s rules specifically state that users “do not bully or specifically target other yakkers” and outline a “zero-tolerance policy on posting people’s private information.” Users also have the option to report yaks they may deem offensive or inappropriate.
But the system isn’t perfect. It would be unreasonable for us to expect it to be. All social media content is only as clean as its worst users. Cyberbullying happens on Twitter, Facebook and many other social media platforms, too. However, the nature of Yik Yak’s anonymous content reduces the penalty of bullying significantly. The worst thing that can happen to a cyberbully on Yik Yak is that the user is banned from Yik Yak. The worst things that can happen to victims of cyberbullying attacks are much more serious. Further, it would be easier to accept the flaws in Yik Yak’s concept if the app showed some sort of utility. Social media is the newest and arguably most complex and advanced way of human communication ever invented. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media serve purposes in our lives: to stay connected, share information and create an identity. Yik Yak does none of that. Anonymity prevents users from engaging in lasting and meaningful ways, and a lack of accountability causes the flow of information to be inaccurate, biased and impractical. And the closest thing to an identity that Yik Yak offers is one’s “yakarma,” a number that documents the amount a user is engaging in the app. Yik Yak is a sad excuse for a social media platform because it curtails all of the empowerment and communication for which social media was built in exchange for a cheap thrill. I mean, when it really comes down to it, what is Yik Yak doing for us? Aside from cyberbullying, the content of Yik Yak often deals with heated conversations about race, gender equality and sexual orientation. Speaking about these topics in an environment where none of the speakers are accountable for what they say has damaging consequences. Users have the ability to share false information, make offensive remarks and anonymously pose as members of a minority as a ploy for gaining credibility. Countless Yik Yak conversations about social issues include at least one comment like, “Well I’m gay, and that doesn’t offend me.” This type of environment is no place for meaningful discussions and debates that could serve to educate people outside of a toxic context. In all of our interactions in life, it is important to remain accountable for the things we say. Freedom of expression and freedom from accountability are two very different things, and we are only guaranteed the first one for a good reason. Yik Yak gives us both, and sure, it can be fun to yak an embarrassing secret or to tell a stupid joke, but at what cost? We need to hold our social media to much higher standards.
BY SARA RYAN COLUMNIST
Imagine a convention center filled with … three-cornered hats. And powdered wigs. Imagine British soldiers in vibrant red coats and little paperboys handing out copies of the Federalist Papers. Featured guests would include Nicolas Cage (“National Treasure,” anybody?) and Daniel Day-Lewis. There’d be a costume contest to see who was the best Founding Father. If that’s not a constitutional convention, then I don’t know what is. Legislators in 27 states have passed resolutions calling for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, The Washington Post reported. The ambiguously named amendment (note heavy sarcasm) would require that all federal budgets must not contribute to the massive national debt. As I’m writing this, the National Debt Clock website has the U.S. debt at a little under $18.177 trillion. In 2015, conservatives plan to target nine states with Republican-dominated legislatures to push through similar calls for a balanced budget amendment. If seven states pass the resolution, we will have the first constitutional convention since the Constitution was written. I promise, there could not be anything worse. The largest problem is the precedent it will set. This will be the first convention of its kind, and I am terrified of its implications. Once we invest thousands of hours and millions of dollars into planning and organizing this convention, everything will be in the hands of completely anonymous state legislators. I don’t know if you’ve noticed how crazy this political climate is, but I really don’t think we want these people to be making any big, Constitution-altering decisions right now. Furthermore, there are no guidelines for this sort of thing. It seems that the 1787 Constitutional Convention really sought to make its directions as vague as possible, using less than 150 words to describe the whole amendment process. One possibility is that once at the convention, lawmakers could bring up and make decisions on incredibly controversial topics such as gay marriage, abortion, school prayer, etc. The National Conference of State Legislatures puts the total number of state legislators nationwide at about 7,300. Interestingly
enough, New Hampshire, a state with like five people, accounts for 424 of those lawmakers. California has 120. Now, not only do we have to worry about relatively unvetted people proposing new legislation, but we also have to consider how unfairly some states will (or will not) be represented. Additionally, there are some pretty big problems with the proposed amendment. In an ideal world, putting together a balanced budget every year would be a piece of cake. And yet I’m looking at a National Debt Clock that just passed $18.178 trillion. It’s easy to joke that politicians don’t know how to use a calculator or balance a checkbook, but more realistically, we should acknowledge what a difficult task they face. To put a hard, no-exceptions restriction on their power is a poor decision. Sometimes, it is necessary to spend more than we generate in revenue. In years of economic downturn, economic stimulus packages are a viable option to stop the bleeding. In times of war, the government needs to invest in its military to ensure that all soldiers are reasonably safe and prepared for duty. We should not be so foolish as to assume that we know what future Americans will need. One of the reasons our Constitution has survived the last 226 years is because the framers made it intentionally vague. The document is 4,400 words in length and establishes a malleable framework. By creating constitutional amendments with hard and fast rules, we limit the flexibility of our Constitution, and therefore our lawmakers’ ability to best serve the American people. Understatement of the century: $18 trillion is a lot of money. The system we’re working under now is clearly flawed, but just because our federal lawmakers are failing us today does not mean we should limit tomorrow’s leaders. There are other, less drastic approaches to this problem. We could elect leaders who value a balanced, but responsible, budget. We could look to those who want to work with the other side, instead of drumming up support for costly constitutional conventions. Instead of going over federal politicians’ heads, let’s hear from them. Why is it so hard to balance the budget? Do they have suggestions on how to address the issue? We want a truly candid conversation with those at the heart of the problem, instead of a (nearly) permanent fix to a problem we don’t entirely understand. The federal budget is a vastly complex issue, and I don’t believe that a constitutional convention is the way to address our qualms with it. Just look at the way we sensationalize national elections. I don’t see how this would be different. They might not be in costume, but state legislators would certainly be putting on a show.
Interrobang Two men from Canada traveled 2,000 miles with their sons for the sole purpose of reaching the original Kentucky Fried Chicken in Corbin, Kentucky. We here at the ol’ Free Press were wondering what BU people would make a lengthy trip for?
Questrom: The land of milk and money.
CFA: A place where they can smoke cigarettes indoors.
BU Athletics: A distant location to hide Jack Eichel from the NHL.
SHA: It doesn’t matter, because there are Hiltons everywhere.
ENG: A girlfriend.
President Brown: He doesn’t drive.
COM: A latte at the original Starbucks.
FreeP: We don’t have to because UBurger is right next door.
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20 Q’s: Goaltender Matt O’Connor and forward Ahti Oksanen BY SARAH KIRKPATRICK AND CONOR RYAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
There have been many factors in the No. 2 Boston University men’s hockey team’s success this season, whether it be its veteran leadership, impressive freshmen class or strong coaching staff. One group in particular, however, that has paid dividends for the Terriers is its seven-member junior class, who led the team with 146 points on the season. Key to that group is goaltender Matt O’Connor and forward Ahti Oksanen, who are in fact roommates. After splitting time with goaltender Sean Maguire over his first two years, O’Connor has come into his own during his third campaign with the Terriers, leading the country in winning percentage at .839 with a record of 24-3-4. A Hockey East Second-Team All-Star, O’Connor has served as the backbone of BU’s defense, posting a goalsagainst average of 2.10 with a .928 save percentage in 33 games this season. The Canadian netminder has been on fire as of late, registering a 14-0-1 record over his last 15 games. While O’Connor has mostly served as a consistent presence between pipes for BU over the last two years, Oksanen has had a bit more of an interesting journey to where he is on BU’s depth chart. Oksanen skated as a defenseman during his first two seasons with the Terriers until BU head coach David Quinn decided the Kirkkonummi, Finland native would make the jump up to the forward corps. The results quickly followed for both Oksanen and the Terriers. After notching a combined 11 goals over his first two years at BU, Oksanen has erupted for 24 tallies so far this season — tied with freshman center Jack Eichel for the most on the team. The 6-foot-3-inch winger has especially excelled on the man advantage, tying for third in the nation in power-play goals with nine on the year. With a Frozen Four showdown against the No. 3 University of North Dakota set for Thursday night, The Daily Free Press spoke with both O’Connor and Oksanen about T. Anthony’s, American Idol and, of course, hockey. 1. What has been your favorite memory of the season so far? AO: Probably winning the Beanpot. MO: My highlight would be [winning the] Hockey East [championship]. 2. Favorite rink that you played in this year that was not Agganis?
OA: The [TD] Garden. It’s pretty fun to play where the Bruins play.
(Left) Junior forward Ahti Oksanen is ranked fifth in the nation in goals scored, with 24 on the season. (Right) Junior goaltender Matt O’Connor has posted a .928 save percentage in 33 games played so far this year.
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6. Who is the funniest teammate?
MO: I’d say Ahti. He’s the unsung hero. He’s usually pretty quiet, but when he opens his mouth, he gets the locker room going sometimes. AO: I would go with [freshman goaltender] Connor [LaCouvee]. He’s just so energetic, no matter what time it is. 7. If you were stuck on a deserted island, which one of your teammates would you bring? MO: If I was gonna die, I would probably bring [graduate student goaltender Anthony] Moccia. He’d probably do some good Bible studies. If I wanted to live, I’d probably bring Ahti because he can fish pretty well. AO: That’s a tough one, but I’d probably say OC [O’Connor], because he understands what I’m talking about most of the time.
MO: Maine [Alfond Arena]. I love playing Maine. The rink is so loud every time.
8. Who’s your favorite NHL player?
3. Which Hockey East team besides BU has the best uniform?
MO: At the moment? I really like watching [Minnesota Wild goaltender] Devan Dubnyk and the way he’s really transformed his career, just in the last couple of years. Being a big goalie as well, kind of a similar style, I really look up to him.”
AO: I’d go with Merrimack. The combination of blue and yellow. MO: UNH [University of New Hampshire]. I think it’s pretty badass, just navy and silver.
AO: [Florida Panthers forward Jaromír] Jágr. No doubt. Jágr, by far.
9. What song gets you the most pumped up?
MO: I would say just reading the play. Having the extra ice time has helped me really read the play a bit better and rotating a bit better and more square for shots.
AO: I’d have to go with Mötley Crüe, “Kickstart My Heart,” or Metallica, “Enter Sandman.”
5. Which of your teammates has the worst style? AO: I’d say [freshman forward J.J.] Piccinich or [freshman defenseman Brandon] Fortunato. MO: I’d probably agree.
AO: Eric Cartman. MO: Jack Bauer. I like to save the day. 12. Besides being a professional hockey player, what would be your dream job?
MO: An organic vegetable farmer and helping people be healthy and eat healthy. AO: A fly-fishing guide. Somewhere warm. I’d say Christmas Island. A fly-fishing guide in Christmas Island. 13. What’s your go-to T. Anthony’s order?
MO: Lately, for on the bus, it’s just been a side of chicken Caesar salad. Gotta cut back on the carbs. No, I think it’s just the healthiest option. And a pita wrap. AO: Like, when I’m with the team or … ?
4. What part of your game has improved the most this season?
AO: Just playing as a forward. I had no idea how to play as a forward in the first couple games. Now I kinda know what to do.
11. Which TV character is your alter ego?
MO: Celtic music. I know it’s very suiting, but just being in Boston, going to the Beanpot, having some good old Celtic bagpipes going, it just gets me goin 10. If you could have any animal in the world as a pet, what would it be? MO: Probably just a monkey. I just think they’re hilarious and fun to play with. AO: I’d go with Golden Retriever. We used to have one, and I want one again.
FreeP: Any time. AO: Cheese pizza with French fries and Coke. 14. If you could travel to any place in the world, what would it be?
MO: I’ve kinda been interested in coral reef/South Pacific area and just getting a snorkel and just playing in the water. I really like to play in the water. AO: Christmas Island. I’m obsessed with that place. I want to go fishing there. 15. What’s the worst movie that you’ve ever seen and why? MO: What was that one that we saw? “Scary Movie 5” or something? I forget. I think I’ve seen a lot, usually with Ahti. No, I’m just kidding. He doesn’t like my taste in music sometimes, so … I’ve seen pretty good movies. That Lego Movie? AO: That was sick. MO: I didn’t like that one. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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O’Connor: “I’m just really focusing on what I can do.” 20 QUESTIONS, FROM PAGE 12
16. Which celebrity would you most want to take a selfie with?
18. If you were trying out for American Idol, what song would you perform?
MO: I think I have a celebrity crush on Liv Tyler. She’s kind of married and pregnant right now, but maybe in her earlier years … Elsewhere, maybe Liam Hemsworth, and see if we really are doppelgangers, because I’ve been told that there’s potential there.
MO: “Bohemian Rhapsody.” I like to do the baritone part in that. AO: I wanted to go with that, but now I have to pick something else. That’s a tough one. I would go with some rock song, probably. You took my answer.
AO: I think I’d go with John Malkovich. I think he’s so cool. 19. Going into this season, did you ever think that you would be in this position, getting ready for the Frozen Four?
17. What’s your biggest fear?
MO: Being framed for something. I think I’ve seen a little too many of those movies. The CIA having some type of conspiracy against me and just having no say, no power and getting imprisoned or something. Oksanen: Heights. Humans are supposed to be on the ground.
MO: I definitely think it felt realistic as the season progressed, so I would say we just tried to focus on one game at a time and having a good first half, and once we got that down, it kinda definitely was in the picture. But the one-game series, it’s hard to be really confident. Anything can really happen in those games. As the season has progressed, we’ve definitely developed a strong belief that we’d be there.
AO: Of course, people are going to say that we’re lying when we say, “Yeah,” but yeah. I didn’t have any doubts that we could win the whole thing.
20. What does BU have to do to win a national championship? AO: It’s two games. If it was a best-of-seven series, we would win the national championship easily, but it’s two games, so we … really have to play a perfect game this weekend. MO: I think I have to play well … I’m just really focusing on what I can do, and I can keep it down to zero or one. I think we’ll hopefully get some offense from guys like Ahti, [senior assistant captain Evan] Rodrigues, [freshman forward] Jack [Eichel] … So I think if I play well, we’ll have a really good shot
Eichel looking to cap stellar freshman season with Hobey Baker Award BY CONOR RYAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
There is little that freshman center Jack Eichel has yet to accomplish in his first season with the No. 2 Boston University men’s hockey team. During his brief tenure with the Terriers so far, the talented forward has already secured Hockey East Player of the Year, Hockey East Rookie of the Year and Hockey East Tournament MVP — a testament to the 18-year-old’s skill out on the ice. However, Eichel might have to make room in his trophy case for an even bigger individual accolade in the near future. On April 2, the North Chelmsford product was named as one of the three Hobey Hat Trick finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given to the na-
tion’s top college hockey player. Arriving on Commonwealth Avenue as one of the most hyped U.S.-born hockey prospects in decades, Eichel has certainly lived up to the billing, leading the nation in points (67), assists (43), power-play points (22) and plus-minus (plus-49). While Eichel has been forced to play under a heavy spotlight throughout his freshman campaign with the Terriers, BU head coach David Quinn acknowledged that his star forward has continued to answer the call and produce out on the ice — despite having to deal with such heavy expectations levied against him. “He’s handled it incredibly well,” Quinn said in a conference call on March 31. “He’s been a marked man, as he should be. When you have the reputation that Jack has and you have the pedigree that he has,
most opposing teams are going to focus on players like him. “He’s incredibly tough,” Quinn added. “You see his stats and his skills and all those things — don’t get me wrong, they’re elite — but he’s a tough son of a bitch, and he’s competitive, and he’s withstood an awful lot. He’s handled it about as well as anybody could.” If Eichel hoists the Hobey Baker Award, he would be the third Terrier in program history to secure the prestigious award, joining forward Chris Drury (1998) and defenseman Matt Gilroy (2009). Joining Eichel in the Hobey Hat Trick selection are University of North Dakota junior goaltender Zane McIntyre and Harvard University junior forward Jimmy Vesey. Eichel, Vesey and McIntyre were sep-
arated from what was an initial list of 10 Hobey Baker candidates by both a 27-member selection committee and a round of online fan voting. According to the award’s website, candidates up for the Hobey Baker Award must exhibit, “outstanding skills in all phases of the game, strength of character on and off the ice” and “sportsmanship and scholastic achievements.” Eichel is the first BU player to be named as a Hobey Hat Trick finalist since both Gilroy and forward Colin Wilson got the nod in 2009. Eichel would stand as just the second freshman in NCAA history to win the award, joining University of Maine’s Paul Kariya (1993). The Hobey Baker Award winner will be announced at 5 p.m. on Friday at Matthews Arena in Boston.
No. 2 BU to play North Dakota in opening round of Frozen Four FROZEN FOUR, FROM PAGE 1
on just a strong final 20 minutes. In Thursday’s semifinal game, the Terriers are going to get tested by another prestigious hockey in-
stitution in North Dakota (29-93), which is in pursuit of its eighth national championship. Head coach Dave Hakstol rolls out a squad that is balanced in multiple facets of the game, pos-
sessing the nation’s eighth-ranked offense (3.29 goals per game) and its seventh-ranked defense (2.17 goals allowed per game). UND might not possess a go-to scorer in the same vein as Eichel, but what it lacks in individual production, it certainly makes up for in depth. Fourteen active skaters on North Dakota’s roster have registered at least 13 points on the year, with nine notching 20 or more points, giving UND the ability to roll out three to four potent lines on a whim. Leading the way for North Dakota on offense is junior Drake Caggiula, who leads the team in points (36) and goals (18). UND has also received a boost from brothers Jordan and Nick Schmaltz, who rank third (27) and fourth (26) on the team, respectively, in scoring. BU, and more importantly, junior goaltender Matt O’Connor have seen this offense before. Though it was over a year ago, the Terriers faced North Dakota at Agganis Arena for a two-game series in November 2013. BU took three out of four possible points that weekend, including a game in which O’Connor made a career-high 55 saves.
O’Connor, at times, has been questioned for handling rebounds over his BU career. He said that’s something he’s looking to be in command of Thursday night against a formidable UND offense. “I think just working on rebound control is something every goalie can work on, and I’m hoping to eat up a lot of pucks tomorrow night and put everything in the corner, especially with a lot of good shooters on North Dakota,” O’Connor said. “They’ll be putting a lot of rubber on net, maybe from bad angles, so I’ve got to be alert, get to my spots quick and hopefully make things easier for my D.” While UND possesses a deep corps of skaters, its gameplan begins and ends with their goaltender, junior Zane McIntyre. McIntyre, a Hobey Baker Memorial Award Hat Trick finalist alongside Eichel, has been dominant between the pipes this season, compiling a .931 save percentage, 2.00 goals-against average and a 29-9-3 record in 41 games. On special teams, the Terriers will have to be mindful of North Dakota’s opportunistic penalty-kill unit. UND ranks
24th in the country with a 84.8 percent success rate on the penalty kill while also leading all Div. I programs with 11 shorthanded goals on the year. On paper, this matchup looks as even as it can get. One small advantage could make a big difference in determining the outcome. One many have pointed to is BU’s luxury of playing in Boston and in TD Garden, where it has already won four games this season. It might provide a calming effect early, but once the puck is dropped, Quinn said it doesn’t really matter where the game is being played. “I really think once the game starts, you get so enthralled with what you’re doing,” Quinn said. “Obviously, we probably will be able to respond to the crowd and the support they’re going to give us, but we know we’re playing a great team, and if we’re jumping to any conclusions that we’re at some huge advantage because of the fact that we’ve played in this venue four other times and we’re going to have a huge advantage with the crowd, we’re sadly mistaken. “I know we’re smarter than that.”
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The Fab Four No. 2 Boston University men’s hockey coach David Quinn had no choice but to play the cards that he was dealt. BY SARAH KIRKPATRICK AND CONOR RYAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Looking to bounce back from a miserable 10-21-4 showing in 2013-14, Quinn and the Terriers (27-5-5, 14-5-3 Hockey East) entered the 2014-15 season with a bevy of talented newcomers and a strong veteran crew, but the makeup of BU’s defensive corps looked flimsy at best on first glance. Junior captain Matt Grzelcyk and
The Enforcer Usually skating alongside Grzelcyk on the Terriers’ first D-pair, freshman John MacLeod’s simple, stalwart style of play serves as the proverbial yin to Grzelcyk’s speedy, dynamic yang. While Grzelcyk often brings the puck up to the slot on a whim, the defensive-minded MacLeod is more
The Jack-Of-All-Trades
sophomore defenseman Doyle Somerby were set to man the blue line once again, but the Terriers were forced to shore up the remaining four vacancies on defense with a group of talented, albeit inexperienced, freshmen. Like it or not, the Terriers’ season would live or die based on whether this motley crew would be able to shoulder the responsibility of being counted on as the last line of defense. So far, so good. Freshman defensemen John Ma-
cLeod, Brandon Hickey, Brandon Fortunato and Brien Diffley have risen to the occasion during the 2014-15 season, helping BU boast the 12th-ranked defense in the nation, allowing 2.26 goals per game. Now they find themselves in a position to capture the program’s sixth national championship after earning a berth in the Frozen Four. This quick turnaround hasn’t been much of a shock for Grzelcyk. “When you have four freshman D, you can be a little skeptical to start the season,
but no, I haven’t been surprised,” Grzelcyk said. “We were just hoping that they were going to be really mature, and they have definitely been that and all more. They’ve been a huge key to our success.” And the ceiling isn’t closing in any time soon. “Hopefully they get better every year,” Quinn said. “That’s our job, our responsibility. All of them have elite qualities about them. You’re talking about four guys that, to me, could be elite defensemen at our level.”
than willing to sit back on the play, camp out on the blue line and dole a heavy check out on open ice. For the Dracut native, it’s not about making the highlight-reel play. Rather, it’s about preventing the opposing player from orchestrating his. “That’s the way I’ve always been,” MacLeod said. “I’ve never really been one to jump up in the offense that much, but more of just playing down low in the corners, being as physical as I can and just moving the puck up to the forwards, making the easy pass.” MacLeod’s stingy, stay-at-home mentality has served as a key component in the success that he has achieved so far in his career. After two seasons with the United States National Team Development Program, MacLeod was drafted in the second round (57th overall) of the 2014 NHL Draft
by the Tampa Bay Lightning — the highest that a BU defenseman has been drafted since Adam Clendening was snatched up by the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round (36th overall) of the 2011 NHL Draft. Squaring up against skaters that were three to five years older than him proved challenging at first, but MacLeod — possessing a 6-foot-1, 203-pound frame — is certainly no slouch either. Many opposing skaters have been forced to bear the brunt of MacLeod’s pulverizing checks, with the freshman pacing the team in penalty minutes (54) on the year. It might be easy to characterize MacLeod as just a bruiser on the blue line, but Quinn noted that the freshman brings much more to the team than just a physical presence. “He moves the puck well. He shoots it as hard as anyone we have,” Quinn said. “He’s got deception to his game, and he’s a
well-rounded player, but I think when a guy is as physical as John is, people don’t look deeper into the player, and he’s got a good skill set.” MacLeod is currently second amongst Terrier defensemen in plus-minus (+19), third in blocked shots (49) and tied for fourth in scoring (nine points) — a testament to his all-around skillset. Expectations have been high for the hard-nosed defenseman since he first set foot on Commonwealth Avenue, but any added pressure that comes with his draft position or BU’s pursuit of a national title has done little to sway MacLeod from his pragmatic, tenacious roots. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” seems to be the mantra for MacLeod. So far, it appears to be paying dividends. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” seems to be the mantra for MacLeod. So far, it appears to be paying dividends.
According to Brandon Hickey’s defensive partner, Fortunato, and freshman center Jack Eichel, Hickey possesses the best one-timer on the team. That’s saying an awful lot, considering Hickey is a defenseman on a team that ranks second in the nation in offense. Hickey’s five goals are the second-most among defensemen on the team, and he’s second for defensemen behind Grzelcyk in shots on goal, with 111 on the season. Hickey said he likes to get shots off from the point, and has been working on his offensive production all season, jumpstarted by Fortunato’s passing ability.
But Hickey, a third-round draft pick of the Calgary Flames, doesn’t think his offense is the best part of his game. Certainly, his shot has grown more powerful and more accurate over his past two years in the Alberta Junior Hockey League and at BU — his juniors coach helped him refine that. At the end of the day, his best abilities, he feels, lie in his roots as a defenseman. “I think my defending is my biggest contribution,” Hickey said. “I like playing d-zones. Not very many people do. I take pride in my d-zone play.” That’s a believable statement. Hickey
leads the team in blocked shots, with 87 on the year — a significant margin over Sombery’s 50 blocked shots. His talents don’t stop there. Grzelcyk said he views Hickey as one of the best skaters on the whole team, as a physical player and as a complete, all-around athlete. “We knew coming in that he was going to be really good,” Grzelcyk said. “He’s definitely lived up to the hype.” Quinn, a former elite defenseman himself, perhaps put it best. “He pretty much can do a little bit of everything,” Quinn said.
When you’re not alone in your challenges, Quinn believes, that makes things that much easier. “Maybe having four of them took a little pressure off each other,” Quinn said. “There was a comfort level for all of them, saying, ‘Alright, there’s three more of us.’ “I think there’s a little bit of comfort in knowing that you’ve got three other guys in the same situation that you’ve been.” The quartet has already played mightily through a number of high-pressure situations — a Beanpot championship, a regular-season championship, a Hockey East Tournament title and a berth in the Frozen Four.
Now, with the Terriers set to face off against the University of North Dakota on Thursday with a spot in the national title game on the line, the four youngsters will be on their biggest stage yet. But don’t count on added nerves under the bright lights of TD Garden. “I don’t think there’s any more pressure on the defense going forward,” MacLeod said. “I think we just need to do what we’ve been doing all year.”
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From left to right: Freshman defensemen Brandon Hickey, Brandon Fortunato, Brien Diffley and John MacLeod have helped bolster a BU back end that ranks 12th in the nation in goals allowed per game (2.26).
The Conductor Brandon Fortunato — unbeknownst to him until recently, he said — has yet to record any penalties on the year. In fact, he’s the only full-time player to finish the regular season with a clean record since legendary BU coach Jack Parker did so twice in 1966 and 1968. That’s certainly
The Dark Horse When describing freshman defenseman Brien Diff ley’s skills, Grzelcyk didn’t shy away from praise. “Diff ley is probably one of [our] best skaters,” Grzelcyk said. “Just his edge
not terrible company. Quinn has joked on more than one occasion that it’s pretty easy not to get any penalties when you’re sporting a 5-foot-10, 150-pound frame. Indeed, Fortunato isn’t the most intimidating presence on the ice, and he admits so himself. He’s the youngest defenseman on the team — five days younger than MacLeod — and the smallest by about 25 pounds. But for Fortunato, it’s not about being the strongest guy out there. It’s his other skills — his stick-handling, his speed, his puck movement — that make him a significant contributor, particularly on offense. Fortunato ranks second among BU defensemen in points, with one goal and 17 assists to his name, including three postseason points so far. “Fortunato is small, crafty, poised, generates an awful lot of offense with his breakout passes and ability to lose the
first forechecker,” Quinn said. Fortunato himself put it simply. “I just try to use my brain,” he said. The Terriers’ captain sees a lot of himself in Fortunato, too. “Brandon Fortunato is someone that I try to take under my wing a little bit, because he has some similarities that I used to have coming in,” Grzelcyk said. “He has really good vision with the puck. He has really good hockey IQ. He’s really aware of what’s going on.” The Terriers are 11-1-2 when Fortunato records an assist. Fortunato isn’t one to go too aggressively toward the net — he has just 29 shots on goal all season, one of the lowest totals on the team. But he’s always willing to chip it off to his power-shooting defensive partner. Fortunato and Hickey have grown close as the season has progressed. They each understand how the other plays the
game and how the other thinks about the game. “We think about the game the same kind of way. I always know where he’s gonna be, he always knows where I’m gonna be,” Hickey said. “We know each other’s tendencies because we’re really good friends on and off the ice, so that helps too.” They have several superstitions and keep each other loose before games to prevent themselves from getting too nervous. They also like to joke around — Fortunato likes to say he’s a model for Calvin Klein. (Three of his teammates have said he’s one of the worst dressed people on the team.) And those superstitions? Well, they’re keeping quiet on those. “They’re secrets,” Fortunato said with a laugh. “We don’t wanna let those out.”
work, and he looks so f luid out there, it looks like he’s not even trying sometimes.” Pretty good praise for a skater that was viewed as a fringe Division I prospect just a few years ago. The 19-year-old blueliner has been yet another efficient cog in the Terriers’ defensive corps, compiling nine points and a plus-eight rating while suiting up in 38 of 39 games this season with the scarlet and white. While the Burlington product’s transition up to the collegiate ranks has been mostly seamless, Diff ley’s journey to get to where he is today strays off the path taken by MacLeod, Hickey and Fortunato. Unlike his other three blueliner classmates, who entered college fresh off stints at impressive programs such as
the USNTDP and AJHL, Diff ley instead showcased his skills on the local circuit, helping Burlington High School capture the MIAA Division I State Championship in 2012, before switching to Buckingham Browne & Nichols in Cambridge. Despite an impressive tenure with the Knights, Diff ley still appeared to f ly under the radar of many recruiters, but eventually caught the eye of associate head coach Steve Greeley. Enamored with Diff ley’s proficiency in both maneuvering past forecheckers and kick-starting transition plays, the Terriers eventually secured a commitment from Diff ley in January 2014. It could be easy for Diff ley to use his apparent also-ran brand as a source of motivation, but harping on the past is not something that the defenseman devotes much time to.
“I don’t really think about it like that,” Diff ley said. “I definitely wanted to prove to some people that I was a good player and whatnot, but I’ve just got to focus on the game and focus on getting better every day and your play will show out on the ice.” Despite playing for most of his life as an outlier from the traditional college hockey track, Diff ley has proven so far this season that he certainly belongs alongside his Terrier teammates. “He skates so well, has good puck skills and we’re not surprised that he’s had the success at our level,” Quinn said. “He just keeps getting better and better … He’s meant an awful lot to our team. “There’s been plenty of nights where he’s probably been one of our top defensemen, if not our best defenseman.”
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No. 2 men’s hockey team has history in Frozen Four
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The 2009 Boston University men’s hockey team celebrates after winning the national championship in Washington, D.C. on April 11, 2009.
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named tournament Most Valuable Player for his efforts in net. 1972 — Back-to-Back Champions
It’s been six years since the team made it this far in the NCAA Tournament, which might seem like an eternity, but the No. 2 Boston University men’s hockey team is just two wins away from a national title. Two one-goal wins at the Northeast Regional have propelled BU back to the Frozen Four for the 22nd time in program history. With so many appearances on the national stage, there sure have been some memorable moments for the Terriers (27-7-5, 145-3 Hockey East). From the run in the 1970s to the epic comeback in 2009, there has been no shortage of excitement — win or lose. Here’s a look back at some of the more memorable appearances:
Much like the 2015’s Frozen Four, the 1972 edition was played on Causeway Street. The Terriers not only made it back, but also had the chance to defend their title against Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference rival Cornell University. BU made head coach Jack Kelley’s final year behind the bench one to remember. Just before the semifinals started, Brady was injured, forcing netminder Tim Regan into the lineup. Although he had just nine games under his belt for the season, Regan stepped up when it mattered most. He combined to allow just one goal in the final two games, finishing with a shutout over Cornell.
1971 — The First National Title
1976 — The Gophers Get Revenge
The Terriers had played for a championship twice before, but finished as the runner-up both times. Led by captain Steve Stirling’s 70 points and John Danby’s 64, BU found itself back in the title game at the end of the 197071 season, this time against the University of Minnesota. The Terriers jumped out to an early lead and never looked back. Stirling capped off his season with two more goals, and BU had its long-sought national championship with a 4-2 win. Goaltender Dan Brady was
How did a team that was led by future Olympians Mike Eruzione and Jack O’Callahan not win a national championship in ’76? Well, their future Team USA coach Herb Brooks might’ve had a little something to do with it in the 1975-76 season. Unlike the 1971 Frozen Four, the Gophers defeated BU, 4-2, in the national semifinal game. A sloppy game from the start, the teams were involved in a large brawl just a little over a minute into the game. BU’s leading scorer Terry Meagher was given a
game misconduct, and it was all downhill for the Terriers. The Gophers would win the game and eventually the national title. 1977 — Jack Parker Gets His First Four tries and four failures. That was BU head coach Jack Parker’s experience in the NCAA Tournament. The fifth time in the 1996-97 season was a rousing success. A team loaded with offensive talent, BU had five players with at least 50 points. Mark Fidler, BU’s eighth-leading scorer on the all-time list, finished the year with 30 goals and 35 assists. O’Callahan anchored the defense and chipped in a not-too-shabby 55 points. The Terriers began the year with an incredible 21-0 start and also had claimed the Beanpot title. After rolling over Wisconsin in the semifinal game, BU defeated rival Boston College, 5-3, for the championship. Fidler, O’Callahan and Dave Silk were all named to the All-Tournament Team. 1991 — A Stunning Loss The 1980s were nothing short of rough for BU, but the next decade saw a great resurgence for the program. The Terriers made a run into the Frozen Four in 1990, but fell short of the title game. In the 1990-91 season, though, a trio of Shawn McEachern, Tony Amonte and David Sacco powered BU to
the championship game against Northern Michigan University. But despite the strength of that team, it was not meant to be. In the third overtime of a wild, back-and-forth affair, Northern Michigan prevailed 8-7 over BU. 1995 — Back on Top A team composed of eight future NHL players rolled over the competition and finished the 1994-95 season with a 31-6-3 record. Defenseman Chris O’Sullivan had an outstanding year at the blue line with 56 points, just one better than Mike Grier’s total. BU’s regular-season excellence carried over into the NCAA Tournament, where the Terriers averaged over six goals in three games. The Terriers capped off the season with a 6-2 thrashing of Hockey East foe University of Maine for the title. 1997 — Missed It By That Much BU’s run of success continued throughout the late ’90s, although the 1996-97 season ended just short of a title. Chris Drury, a freshman on the ’95 team, emerged as a major offensive force in ’97, scoring 38 goals and 62 points. Defeating the University of Denver in overtime of the East Regional, the Terriers moved on to the Frozen Four. No easy task in the semifinal, BU matched up against the University of Michi-
gan and former NHL goaltender Marty Turco. The Terriers edged the Wolverines 3-2 to advance to the national championship, only to fall to the University of North Dakota. 2009 — The Comeback Arguably one of the best college hockey teams ever assembled, the 2008-09 BU team was loaded with talent throughout the lineup. From Matt Gilroy’s Hobey Baker Memorial Award-winning season at the blue line, to Colin Wilson’s 55-point sophomore year, the Terriers were primed for a national title. But even with such a strong bunch, it took a bit of magic to win the program’s fifth title. BU first had to get through the University of Vermont in the semifinals, which it did in a roller coaster game. Chris Higgins and Wilson scored 1:13 apart late in the third period to seal a 5-4 win. But as good as a comeback as that was, it pales in comparison to the one in championship game against Miami University. Down two goals with under a minute left, the Terriers scored twice with goaltender Kieran Millan on the bench. Zach Cohen got the Terriers within striking distance, and Nick Bonino tied it up with 17 seconds to go off a great pass from Gilroy. Colby Cohen finished it off 11:47 into overtime when his deflected shot hopped over the netminder Cody Reichard.
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