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Boston officials critical of BPS bus driver strike Wage gap growing between non-grads, grads, study shows By Alice Bazerghi and Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff
Boston public officials responded with criticism to a surprise strike of 600 Boston Public Schools bus drivers Tuesday morning, stating legal action will be taken against the labor union and those drivers who participated in the strike if they do not return to their posts. In the summer months, BPS partnered with Veolia Transportation to operate the city’s buses in order to improve safety and increase modernization. Veolia implemented changes, such as additional certifications to match federal transportation standards, physical checks for drivers and GPS systems to help parents track their child’s buses, which the union representing the bus drivers opposed leading to the Tuesday strike. Nat Anglin, bus coordinator for Neighborhood House Charter School, said the strike affected the school greatly, and he spent the majority of the day calling parents to let them know buses would not run in the afternoon so those affected could make other arrangements. “I just don’t see this playing out well for them [bus drivers], though, because at the end of the day, this affected the kids the most, and that’s my problem with it,” he said. “Obviously, unions have agendas just like anyone else … but I feel like this was just not a good move on their part, putting kids at risk for safety issues. We were luck-
By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff
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A parent leaves the William Blackstone Elementary school with two children as the school day ends. A surprise strike today by Boston Public School bus drivers affected more than 30,000 students, with many left stranded at their usual bus stops.
ily able to reach everybody that rides the bus.” Veolia Transportation filed a federal injunction Tuesday against the United Steelworkers Local 8751 union and those participating in the strike in the U.S. District Court as the strike action violated the contract between the union and Veolia. John McDonough, interim superinten-
dent of BPS, said in a Tuesday statement that the strike is a result of angry drivers who oppose new safety measures. “This action is an unacceptable attempt to shut down our entire school system because the Union is unhappy with efforts to increase safety and improve on-time
Strike, see page 4
Gov’t. shutdown impacts judicial hearings in Boston courts By Alice Bazerghi Daily Free Press Staff
After the government shutdown on Oct. 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is expected to run out of funding by Monday, forcing all court employees to either be furloughed or to work without pay once funds dissolve in Boston. Susan Goldberg, a spokeswoman for the federal Court of Appeals, said the court must stay open regardless of whether employees are paid. “We will be operating no matter what,” she said. “The question is how much … we’ll be able to provide, given the reductions we will have to make. But we will not close. We will be operating as near to 100 percent as we can … The stress falls most clearly on the employees, both those that are here and those that are not.” Goldberg said the main problem lies in employees not receiving the money they
need for living costs. “The fundamental issue, of course, is no one’s going to be receiving a paycheck,” she said. “That’s a huge burden for many court employees who rely on their paychecks to pay for basic expenses, and of course if employees are furloughed, they will have double or triple the amount of problems.” Although the debt ceiling is approaching on Oct. 17, U.S. President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner have yet to compromise on their respective stances regarding the Affordable Care Act in order to end the shutdown and resume federal funding. Several high-profile cases are scheduled to be heard in the U.S. District Court in South Boston, such as the trials of James “Whitey” Bulger and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. If the shutdown persists, both might need to be rescheduled due to the lack of funds, ac-
cording to various news outlets. Jake Sullivan, chief of staff for Federal Relations for the City of Boston, said with the debt ceiling impending, using up reserves this early could create serious problems. “We’re looking at existing grant funds that we have and all city agencies and how long they can continue to provide levels of services,” he said. “Long-term uncertainty really could create harm, and as you dip into reserves and use your contingency plans, it becomes harder to deliver a certain level of service for your residents, so we have to see how it all plays out.” Sullivan said the Obamacare debate does not justify the negative effects of the shutdown. “The federal government needs to really dig in and make some decisions,” he said. “Members of the Massachusetts del-
Shutdown, see page 2
Boston University graduates and other graduates will likely earn significantly more than non-graduates, according to a new study by the College Board. Sandy Baum, one of the study’s authors, said the report, titled “Education Pays 2013,” discuses both non-monetary and monetary benefits of higher education and shows how the earnings gap between people with degrees and people without degrees has fluctuated over time. “The factors we looked at were the earnings of people in different years with different levels of education,” Baum said. “What you find is that over time, the earnings gap has increased dramatically, but does not go up every year. Some years it goes down, then it goes back up.” In 2011, the median income of a graduate with a bachelor’s degree working full time was $56,500, exceeding the median income of a high school graduate by $21,000, according to the study, which was released this week. The College Board relies on information from the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Education, among other sources, Baum said. “We’re trying to present data in a way that people can understand them,” Baum, a George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development professor, said. “We’re not trying to advocate any particular policy — we just want people to understand what the data say about the benefits of higher education.” Education Pays is a report released every three years by College Board. This year, the board released an additional publication, titled “How College Shapes Lives,” which sought to analyze college graduate earnings and how they differ, said supplement author Charlie Kurose. “The main idea in ‘How College Shapes Lives’ is the notion that the benefits of higher education vary across different types of individuals,” Kurose, an independent consultant for College Board, said. “When you look at earnings, for example, people with the same level of educational attainment who are different genders, different races, different ages, working in different occupations — they don’t actually earn the same amount.”
Wage Gap, see page 2
Roxy’s Grilled Cheese food truck aims to obtain liquor license for restaurant ByAnnie Husted Daily Free Press Contributor
Preparing for their brick-and-mortar opening in late November, Roxy’s Gourmet Grilled Cheese, one of Boston’s most popular food trucks, started a petition on Change.org on Friday to obtain a liquor license. James DiSabatino, one of the three cofounders of Roxy’s, said one of the challenges the company is facing is getting a liquor license for the restaurant. They wanted to serve beer and wine at the opening of their brick-and-mortar restaurant at 485 Cambridge St. in Union Square, but were unable to do so without the license. “[Beer and wine] perfectly complements the food we do,” he said. “We have a lot of great relationships with a lot of local breweries, and we want to be able leverage those to open a place that is going to be a shining star in the neighborhood.” Boston Licensing Board Chair Nicole Ferrer said restaurants in Massachusetts must apply for a liquor license due to Massachusetts
Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission regulations. “If the local board finds that there is a public need for the license of the location ... you go back to the ABCC, and if the ABCC approves the license, it comes back to the local board, and [only] at that time you are issued the license,” she said. Chris Reddy, Roxy’s truck manager in Allston, said the license is mostly about supporting local breweries. “It would support the local business, and it would open up our clientele for people who are looking to have a beer with their sandwich,” he said. “Licensing is really tough in the state of Massachusetts and the city of Boston, and especially because we are coming from a food truck ... they want to know the local community is behind it. We haven’t really had an issue with that, a lot of people support it.” DiSabatino said Allston is the perfect location for his more permanent store.
Roxy’s, see page 4
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Roxy’s Gourmet Grilled Cheese food truck chefs Chris Reddy (right) and Derek Dawson (left) prepare food for customers Tuesday afternoon in Copley Square.
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Org. could halt shelters without gov’t. funding ShutdoWn: From Page 1
egation [are] calling [to] end to this shutdown. Let’s vote a clean budget through and stop debating about the Affordable Care Act, which has already been voted on by the Supreme Court. We’d like to see the small faction in the House come to some compromise and move this debate forward.” John Drew, president and CEO of the Action for Boston Community Development, said he is hoping ABCD can stay open until the government decides to reopen. “75 cents for every dollar we get comes from congressional cooperation,” he said. “That means we start to dry up and our programs are not authorized to run and we don’t get any money.” Due to the lapse in funding, Drew said ABCD’s programs are suffering. “We may not be able to help 20,000 households with any assistance, we may have to shut down all of our daycare programs for up to 8,000 children, we may not be able to have any of our offices open to have people get direct access to all kinds of services they need, and we run homeless shelters, so I’m not sure how long they’ll continue,” he said. Goldberg said in such trying times, she has seen many employees coming together to make sure things proceed as normally as possible. “It [the shutdown] is just a very stressful situation,” Goldberg said. “I think [employees] will give it whatever it takes. I have heard employees talking about ways to support each other and I would not be surprised at all to see that kind of thing happen … even the last time [the government shut down] did not end up lasting long enough to affect [the] judiciary, so a lot of this is uncharted territory for us.” Jenna Binsfield and Steven Dufour contributed to the reporting of this article.
SHA junior: College degree necessary to find employment Wage gap: From Page 1
The second report is an important expansion on the first that lays out data about complications and nuances about the benefits of higher education. “There are a lot of really important discussions going on right now at the national level about the importance of higher education — whether there are too many people going to college, whether there are not enough people going to college,” he said. “It’s very difficult to have a meaningful conversation
about that if you don’t really have your facts straight.” BU spokesman Colin Riley said average income tends to increase with further education. “One of the big changes over the past four years is that there has been more of a need or a belief that a bachelor’s degree is a job requirement for more and more jobs than there was in the previous generation,” Riley said. The value of a college degree cannot only be measured by financial success, Riley said. Other factors also come into play, such as job
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Hub crime rate Landmark Center to add more housing, retail U.S. citizenship status unnecessary drops 7 percent In order to expand the resiand retail area of Fenway, since Oct. 2012 dential for BU applicants Samuels & Associates announced By Bram Peterson Daily Free Press Staff
By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff
Major crimes in Boston decreased in almost all categories compared to the same point in 2012, according to data released by the Boston Police Department Tuesday. Different districts in the city had different levels of change, but aggregate totals for major crimes — homicide, aggravated assault and completed or attempted rape, robbery, burglary, larceny and vehicle theft — reported by Monday decreased by 7 percent relative to cumulative 2012 data through the same date. “In Boston, we’ve done a couple things [to bring crime rates down],” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University. “A lot more police are on the street and visible … The other thing that has helped crime go down in Boston is something called smart policing, and what it does is it really looks at certain groups … that cause a lot of violence, and it looks at it [trends] within certain neighborhoods and says, ‘Let’s focus on these folks.’” Each of the city’s five police districts had lower comparative numbers for 2013. The biggest overall drop was 11 percent in District E, which includes West Roxbury, Roslindale, Jamaica Plain and Hyde Park, according to the data. The lowest change was a 2 percent drop in District D, which includes Allston, Brighton, Back Bay, Fenway and the South End. The biggest single-category increase was also in District E, where homicide cases doubled from three to six cases, according to the data. Shootings and firearm-related arrests for the entire city increased as well, according to separate BPD numbers released Tuesday, with the most recent being a fatal shooting in Roxbury on Friday night. Monalisa Smith, president of Mothers for Justice and Equality, a Boston-based anti-violence group, said the police have done well at preventing most crimes, but shootings continue to rise because the police do not have a close enough personal relationship with the neighborhoods they serve. “The police just don’t have the trust in the community,” she said. “People are still not feeling comfortable with coming to them and speaking up about the crime that they’re seeing. We really have to find a way to get community members engaged and give them a feeling they can make a change. Then, there will be a feeling of unity, and only then can we really begin to have a plan to treat violence, which is just a symptom of a lot of other [social] factors.” McDevitt said rates will never drop consistently if individual citizens do not take preventative action. “Fear of crime is unrelated to the actual risk of crime,” he said. “The most fearful group of being a victim of crime is the elderly and they are the least likely to be victimized. At the same time, the least fearful group are males between the ages of 18 and 30, and they are the most likely to be victimized, so the actual victimization pattern is not correlated with fear.” Several residents said even if there are aspects of law enforcement the police could improve, they have
Crime Stats, see page 4
Monday a proposed addition to the Landmark Center. If approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the addition would be built at the corner of Brookline Avenue and Kilmarnock Street, replacing the current low-rise structure with three 10 to 12-story residential towers on top of a two-story retail space, which Wegmans grocery store is planning to occupy. “The area is very proximate to public transport, and is very attractive to developers for sites that were underutilized for a long time,” said Diana Pisciotta, a spokeswoman for Samuels & Associates. “The perception of this part of Fenway has evolved so that it’s not just the back end of Fenway Park, but [a] vibrant part of the area itself.” This project comes in the wake of several other developments that are either seeking BRA approval, or are already under construction in
By Sanica Apte Daily Free Press Contributor
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Samuel & Associates developers filed to build an addition to the Landmark Center Monday. The plan includes a grocery store, retail space and residential areas.
the Fenway district. The addition will create approximately 1,690 temporary construction jobs as well as more than 2,400 office jobs and 600 new retail positions, according to a Monday press release from the firm. “The expansion of Landmark assures the continued residential
vibrancy of the neighborhood, [it] supports its growth as a commercial center and it introduces Wegmans as another amenity that is easily accessible to the entire city via the MBTA,” said Steve Samuels, chairman of Samuels & Associates, in the release.
Landmark, see page 4
BU task force urges increased remittance flexibility By Margaret Waterman Daily Free Press Staff
Boston University’s Center for Finance, Law and Policy and BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future released a report Tuesday to examine remittances sent to aid unstable countries, according to a BU press release. Titled “Remittance Flows to PostConflict States: Perspectives on Human Security and Development,” the report stated the task force members sought to research, analyze and subsequently propose policy recommendations regarding remittances to countries fresh out of conflict. “Migrant remittances play an increasingly central role in postconflict reconstruction and national development of conflict-affected states,” the report stated. “Violent conflicts and prolonged ethnic and religious hostilities lead to population displacement; the livelihoods of those left behind vitally depend on remittance transfers.” Each year, tens of millions of people leave countries in distress and send money back home to relatives, the release stated. While remittances account for a large chunk of financial
spending each year, not much research has been done to examine the efficacy of these donations. The need for remittances, which totaled approximately $430 billion in 2013, often stems from civil unrest, or ethnicity- or religion-based persecution, the release stated. Thus, private remittances are essential to restore stability and maintain security in these countries, but are often roadblocked by strict regulations and economic inflexibility. According to the report, individual countries’ infrastructure should be given more attention when rebuilding. “For peace and development to become sustainable, the existence of functioning and self-sustaining government systems becomes crucial,” the report stated. “… For rebuilding the institutional infrastructure, strong partnerships of the international development community with national and local stakeholders become particularly urgent.” Additionally, the report stated more money should be given to groups that will aid the recovery of a country’s informal economy through micro-loans and savings mechanisms.
“Relatively little research has been focused on the very countries where remittances are the most important,” said Center for Finance, Law and Policy director Cornelius Hurley in the release. “For that reason, we organized a task force to look at these flows to the most vulnerable places on earth, and to make recommendations on how to leverage their potential development impact.” The remittances affect dozens of countries across the world, such as Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iraq, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Yemen, according to the release. Members of the task force estimated the remittances made to countries total far more than the combined totals of U.S. foreign aid and investment. “All together, we believe that up to U.S. $150 billion will be sent in remittances to these countries in 2013, from as many as 70 million relatives living abroad, significantly more than the combined totals of foreign aid and investment,” said Donald Terry, who represents BU as a task force member and who is an international remittance expert, in the release. To read the rest of this story, please visit us online at www.dailyfreepress.com.
Similar to many other universities whose officials have recently spoken out about accepting undocumented students, Boston University welcomes any qualified applicant regardless of their citizenship status, officials said. According to a CNN article from Oct. 1, more and more institutions such as Harvard University, Columbia University and the University of Notre Dame have made it clear that their policy is to accept students regardless of their citizenship status. However, these students may not be able to afford to attend BU directly due to their citizenship status. BU spokesman Colin Riley said it is difficult for admissions officials to identify undocumented students during the admissions process. He said BU officials essentially have no way to know whether a student is an illegal immigrant, even after they are accepted to the university. “We welcome applications from any qualified student,” Riley said. “We wouldn’t know it [if the student is undocumented]. The only way that [a lack of citizenship] would come to our attention is through the financial aid process.” Despite being encouraged to apply, BU international relations professor Susan Eckstein said undocumented students are at a general disadvantage when applying to universities in the U.S., as they cannot qualify for government aid. However, such students can qualify for aid through the school because BU financial aid is not subject to government relations. Eckstein said undocumented students should have a right to a higher education, and the BU community would greatly benefit from gaining any qualified student, regardless of his or her citizenship status. “It is partly for the good of the university, but also for the good of the students,” Eckstein said. “They [BU] feel that kids who come here as a child — and it wasn’t their [immigrants’] own decision — should not be penalized in terms of their access to education.”
Applicants, see page 4
BU professors surprised by low ranking for media prevalence, exposure By Trisha Thadani Daily Free Press Staff
The Faculty Media Impact Project is now ranking social science departments at various universities , Boston University included, based on their prevalence in the media, said Bob Borofsky, director of the project. Researchers searched the Google News archive to see how often select faculty members appeared in different news sources and then ranked them relative to how much federal funding their programs receive, Borofsky said. The rankings, released Tuesday, ranked BU as number 68 out of 94 researched universities. BU’s Political Science, Anthropology and Sociology departments were among BU’s top three most cited departments. “Faculty in social sciences receive billions of dollars, and they should then have some sort of civ-
ic responsibility to explain to others what the value of the research is,” Borofsky said. “If you give billions and billions of dollars to various researchers, they should have to explain to the larger public the value of their work.” Borofsky said his two main intentions for the project were to encourage low-ranked universities to improve their media prevalence, and to let the public know about the real value of the social science work that university faculty and researchers have done. “I noticed many faculty, while they were interested in reaching out to the public, were hesitant to because they didn’t get any encouragement from their schools,” Borofsky said. “I wanted to have something that would highlight the importance of reaching out to the public.” BU economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff is ranked as the most cited social science profes-
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The Faculty Media Impact Project released a set of college ratings Tuesday that ranked colleges on how often their professors were published and mentioned in the media.
sor at BU, and said he is surprised BU is not ranked higher in The Faculty Media Impact Study considering how often he sees the university cited in the news. “We [BU] have very prominent scientists, social scientists, physicians and artists,” Kotlikoff
said. “So, I would have thought we would have been in the top 10 … There are a lot of academic intellectuals here … It is a very big, broad university.” Kotlikoff said he has received
Media, see page 4
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MBTA provides free service to Patrons hopeful Roxy’s will acquire liquor license students, parents during strike roxy’S: From Page 1
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service,” he said. “By failing to work, these drivers are denying children their rides to school and are inconveniencing thousands of families.” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said in a press conference Tuesday that about 33,000 students and their parents were affected as a result of the illegal work stoppage by the bus driver’s union. “This is totally unnecessary,” he said. “We had some rumblings about this … but they never let on when it would happen. When you don’t want to follow the rules, you go to extremes, and the bus drivers have gone to those extremes.” Students were told that if they could not get to their school, they would be excused for their absence. BPS reported that about 82 percent of students were in attendance for school, which is about 10 percent below the average, according to a Tuesday press release from the mayor’s office. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority allowed free service for any students and parents who had a valid student ID to get to school, according to the release. Menino said since bus driver’s intentions remain uncertain, parents should plan alternative transportation for their children on Wednesday. “Our young people should not be hurt because of selfish people who only want to cause disruption
in our City,” he said in a Tuesday release. “Our parents are stronger and our school community is stronger than this union may think, and we will continue to make sure all safety standards are met.” City Councilor John Connolly and Mass. Rep. Martin Walsh, both candidates for mayor, said they disagreed with the strike. “It is shameful for the school bus drivers’ union to use our children as pawns in a political game,” Connolly said in a Tuesday statement. “This is about safety first and foremost, and it is totally unacceptable that our children were put at risk this morning, not to mention the impact on thousands of parents who will miss work. Missing even one day of school is a real problem for our children who face a daunting achievement gap.” Walsh said in a Tuesday statement that the strike is intolerable and should be stopped immediately. “Kids and parents must come first,” he said. “This is wrong. The bus drivers have put our children in harm’s way. This is an illegal action, causing a huge disruption, and I call on the bus drivers to return to work immediately. This is a violation of the contract and cannot be tolerated.” The strike is expected to continue into Wednesday and the union could appear in court later this week for illegally staging a walkout.
“The spot we found in Allston felt like a really good fit for us,” he said. “The neighborhood has really changed a lot over the last few years, [and] we thought that Allston would be a good investment to put a really cool place there.” Although the expansion has been more complicated than he expected, DiSabatino said working with familiar faces is helpful. “It’s a similar to opening a new truck, you’re dealing with a lot of the same people and a lot of the same departments in Boston,” he said. “It’s a relief going into a process that you’re somewhat familiar with.”
Some residents said they were in support of Roxy’s obtaining a liquor license for the restaurant. Erica Butera, 24, resident of Brighton, said the company is taking the right steps in expanding. “If a restaurant wants to have a liquor license, I think that’s fine,” she said. “It’s gonna bring more people in. Some people want to have beer with their grilled cheese. I don’t see any issue with it.” Benjy Ogden, 24, resident of Brookline, said opening a restaurant and obtaining a liquor license at the same time could be too much to take on. “I don’t think [petitioning for]
liquor licenses should be required ... so I’m obviously in support of them being able to get it,” he said. “I think it’s a good idea if they can make it, but I worry about the fixed costs that come with having a restaurant versus the more limited costs that come with running a truck, [so] they open themselves to a lot more regulation.” Richelle Chin, 22, resident of Boston, said the license will add variety for customers. “It gives something for everyone,” she said. “Having a liquor license at a place doesn’t necessarily mean you have to drink there. It’s a nice option for people who do like to enjoy a beer with something.”
Undoc. students not eligible for financial aid applicantS: From Page 3
Riley said the only way an undocumented student could attend BU is if they happened to be able to independently finance their education, without government assistance. He said this is due to the fact that undocumented students are not eligible for financial aid. “Federal loans are available only to U.S. citizens, so undocumented students are not eligible,” he said. “If there is an undocumented student at BU, their undocumented status is not a matter for BU. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is charged with dealing with immigration issues.” William Collins, senior admissions coordinator for BU’s Center for English Language and Orientation Programs said there are many programs at BU, including CELOP,
that assist international students in integrating into the U.S. higher education system once they are accepted. However, Collins said CELOP verifies the citizenship of their students before they are admitted into the program. “I cannot recall a single case of a confirmed undocumented student attending our department,” Collins said. “We verify the status of each student before accepting them to our program, full- or part-time.” Foreign Student Advisor William Marion said in an email that since CELOP is an English as a Second Language program, undocumented students are not accepted and thus cannot use the program’s resources to their advantage. “We do not have any undocumented students that we are aware of,” Marion said. “The majority of our students arrive with F-1 visas
and we have some U.S. citizens who submit copies of their U.S. passports with their CELOP applications.” International relations professor Joseph Wippl said there should be a process by which illegal immigrants and undocumented students can achieve proper documentation. Additionally, Wippl said undocumented applicants should try to achieve citizen status if they want to fully benefit from the U.S. education system. “There has been legislation in the U.S. Congress that hasn’t been passed yet to provide a path for undocumented people,” Wippl said. “There should be a clear process in place for a person to get documented … I don’t see how a person can go to school undocumented. I think it’s really important, as kind of goal to reach at some time, that everyone should be documented.”
Landmark plan to undergo 30-day community review landMark: From Page 3
The plan will now undergo a community review process, lasting at least 30 days, and a final BRA board review to ensure that it meets the needs and requirements of the city and its residents before construction can begin, said a BRA official on background. Pisciotta said the Landmark Center would work toward integrating its ground level with the rest of the street and neighborhood while also providing space for offices and residences. “Samuels & Associates has developed a number of buildings in the Fenway area with two primary goals,” she said. “One, to activate the streetscape with retail [spaces]
and restaurants that are consistent with the community’s needs, and two, to create buildings that expand and extend on to the overall community, with residences and a growing office presence.” Several residents said they were open to the new project and the continued influx of housing being constructed in the Fenway area. “People need places to live, so if it brings more people to Boston, then that’s great,” said Will Murphy, 20, resident of Boston. “Maybe aesthetically, it might not look too nice, but if it gives people a place to live, then it can’t be such a bad thing.” Jim Elies, 18, resident of Boston, said he was not as excited
about the addition to the Landmark. “Boston is already so crowded, and they shouldn’t need to add more stuff,” he said. “I feel like this [area] is more calm. The more crowded it gets, the more and more people it brings…and it will just get uncomfortable.” Dan Murray, 31, a construction worker and Brighton resident, said the project seemed beneficial, but further commuter traffic could become a problem. “I like the fact that [the project] is bringing more businesses into the area,” he said. “What does worry me is if we’re going to [need to] expand public transportation if all these businesses with more workers are coming into the city.”
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been effective in keeping the city safe. “I’ve lived in a lot of different neighborhoods around Boston and haven’t really had any issues with safety, which is good,” said Christina Tripsas, 26, resident of Boston. “They’re [police] doing an okay job. There’s room for improvement …
but again, I’ve never felt like I had to worry about safety.” Shamara Debow, 25, resident of Boston, said the police already do as much as they can. “I’ve lived here my entire life, and after being around here for that long, there’s never been an issue,” she said. “Besides weird moments here and there, this place has always been safe.”
Deepu Thomas, 30, resident of Boston, said there is always room for police improvement, but safety is already nearly a guarantee in Boston. “I have never been a victim of a crime or actually known someone who has,” he said. “The fact that I haven’t really had to pay attention to them [the police] ever says a lot about how they’re doing.”
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a lot of attention on various media sources because he often writes about U.S. fiscal problems and related issues. He said he regards sharing such information as a public service. “We [the faculty] also have responsibility to Boston University to try and get its name out there,” Kotlikoff said. “I take
every opportunity I can to talk to the media, and I never turn down any major media opportunity … I treat that as part of my job.” Sociology professor Nancy Ammerman, who was ranked as the second most cited social science professor, said it is important for researchers and professors to speak to the media to provide context, background and history
on their work for the broader public. “I made a conscious decision a long time ago that this [talking to the media] is part of my role as a teacher,” Ammerman said. “It’s very much like being a teacher in the classroom … I can help the student to define the question better. I can help the student to know where else to go.”
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An engineer for the Curiosity rover talks about the mission on Mars
fter obtaining a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Boston University in 2005, Matthew Heverly found himself working on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers teams. Working as the lead planner and driver of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Heverly spent several years testing the robot in the MarsYard, or testing area, to make sure it could withstand the conditions of space and of the Martian environment. There was a tremendous amount of pressure on making sure the rover worked, he said. “Literally, the entire world is watching us do this,” he said. “It’s a $2.5 billion mission that’s a national asset, and we have the world watching us making sure we have to get it right.” After a number of experiments, Heverly and the team completed the rover, weighing in at approximately 2,000 pounds —the size of a compact SUV with a sevenfoot-long arm that can analyze and take photographs of rocks and other discoveries on the surface of Mars. But few moments were as intense as when Curiosity entered the Martian atmosphere. Heverly was scheduled to work his first shift as the Curiosity driver, but he could not help wondering if the rover would make it. “When we were watching this thing happen, I didn’t know if I would have a job to go to the next day,” he said. “If the rover didn’t land safely, all of our work would be for nothing.” Water on the Red Planet Eight years later, Heverly witnessed the rover discover water in the soil of Earth’s neighbor. The rover was instrumental in collecting the data that led to the discovery of water, and will hopefully start to fill in the unknown facts
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about the history of the red planet, especially the answer to the question everyone wants to know: Was Mars able to sustain life? “It opened up the possibility of what could have existed in Mars, a past environment that was much more inhabitable,” he said. Curiosity, which landed on Mars in August 2012, recently discovered water molecules in the surface level of soil, according to NASA. The journal, Science, published five studies from NASA detailing the rover’s discoveries, revealing that the red planet’s soil contains about two to 10 percent water by weight. NASA’s team identified two types of soil that the rover has come across: a finely grained dust-like type called mafic and a course-grained component known as felsic. The water was found in the mafic soil, though its molecules were bound to other minerals in the soil. All in a day’s work Today, Heverly, now 37-yearsold, continues to work on the Mars Exploration Rovers at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory run by the California Institute of Technology, but he is now the mobility systems engineer. He drives the Curiosity rover, oversees the robot’s mobility, and processes its findings on the surface of the red planet. He is also a lecturer who teaches mechanical engineering and civil engineering at Caltech. Heverly tracks the Curiosity rover’s progress on Mars, which is no simple task. The robot wakes up at 10 a.m., Mars time, to spend its day traveling the red planet’s surface and picking up soil samples. With 17 cameras and a microscope at the end of its arm, Curiosity takes numerous photographs through the day. At 5 p.m., the rover sends its daily report to the driver at JPL and turns in for a restful night.
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Matthew Heverly has worked on Mars Exploration Rovers since 2005. As a lead planner of the Curiosity rover, Heverly recently witnessed the rover discover water in the soil on Mars.
That, more or less, is when Heverly’s workday begins. Heverly and his team spends their 12-hour shifts reviewing Curiosity’s report and plans what the rover will do the next day, preparing a series of commands for it to complete. “We hope we’re going to find a dinosaur bone every day, but you never really know what you’re going to find because you’re truly exploring,” he said. “We were thrilled to find that Mars had a habitable environment at the time, but we weren’t expecting it.” In order to follow Curiosity’s progress, Heverly had to surrender eight-hour workdays and adjust his schedule to that of Mars.
Five facts about Mars and the Curiosity rover: 1) An iPhone has more computing power than the Curiosity rover. 2) Mars is 17.5 minutes away ... in light years. 3) The work on the Curiosity rover cannot be stopped by the government shutdown. 4) There are two Curiosity rovers (one is only a model). 5) Curiosity’s mission could take up to a decade to complete.
The solar day on Mars lasts about 40 minutes longer than one day on Earth. When his team began the mission, Heverly worked many more consecutive shifts starting at 5 p.m. Mars time. Each day, he would have to get up 40 minutes later, sometimes starting his shift as late as 3 a.m “Mars time was this amazing experience where the adrenaline of this amazing thing we were doing — that we’ve worked so hard for so many years to make happen — is actually happening,” he said. “Your body has to be able to adapt to this weird thing that it’s never done before, and at the same time, you’re trying to have a family life and pick up your kids from school.” A father of two, Heverly sometimes had to take his children to school and go back home to nap until 5 p.m. Mars time. Heverly’s work is more than just a job to him, and has also become a huge part of his family’s life. Since the day of the rover launch in Cape Canaveral, Fla., wich Heverly brought his family to witness, Heverly’s family has been interested in his work. His family has kept up with the rover’s journey, from the 354-million mile trip to Mars to its daily treks since it landed in August 2012. Heverly’s older son, Paxton, who is four years old, has grown up following Curiosity’s mission, occasionally going into the laboratory with his father or looking at the photos the rover takes of Mars. “It’s really interesting to see him have this unique relationship with this robot,” he said.
When I grow up… Most people join NASA because they love space. Heverly, however, was more interested in the robots. “It’s such a fun environment to be able to advance robots to do the things that we’re doing,” he said. Heverly took his first robotics class during his undergraduate studies at the California Polytechnic Institute, San Luis Obispo and ended up getting a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering in 1999. He pursued robotics more as time went on, interning at JPL. Heverly said he always found himself asking why something worked and wanted to answer those questions for himself. Heverly joined the aerospace company Alliance Space systems Inc., in Pasadena, Calif. The company was founded by a group of engineers who had worked at JPL, he said. He worked on several projects, including one that built an arm for Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Heverly decided he wanted to pursue robotics projects related to space, so he went on to get his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from BU. He worked at the Boston Children’s Hospital, building robotic applications that assisted in pre-natal heart surgery. That was the best part, he said — taking what he learned in school and applying it to realworld situations where he could help people. “You weren’t just sitting in a classroom, reading the textbook,” he said. “At BU, we were able to just do it.”
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Really? You took away sports from recess?
You remember sitting in fourth period math in the seventh grade? The minute hand crawled across the face of the clock, your feet started to tap the desk in front of you and all you needed was to punt a football into the stratosphere. Once you were allowed to fill your lungs with the air of the sweet outdoors, the opportunity for 25 minutes of fun took over. Remember how wonderful recess was? Well, apparently administrators at the Weber Middle School in Port Washington, N.Y. completely forgot how necessary these fleeting minutes of freedom felt and banned several activities children love. Want to kick a soccer ball or throw a football? Sorry, those have been taken away. Want to throw yourself into a cartwheel? Well, you can, as long as a coach supervises your every move. At least the kids will no longer get hurt at recess. That’s the right mentality. Tag, soccer and baseball lead to too many scrapes and bruises, so let’s outlaw them altogether. That’s the ticket. How can children grow up without knowing how far they can push their bodies? From a developmental point of view, children need to be able to improve their motor skills and coordination. They need to know the limits of how fast they can run, how high they can jump, and just how much it hurts when they get careless. From a social point of view, it is neces-
sary for children to learn how to win, lose and compete. Taking away these sports robs kids of the ability to emulate professional sports players and improve their selfesteem. Many of these banned games teach children how to be on a team and cooperate with people. Aren’t those skills worth more than wrapping a child in metaphorical cotton to prevent a sprained wrist? There are so many vital mental skills associated with sports and these games. Competition is healthy, and the students shouldn’t miss out on the life lessons found on the playground. Some injuries can get serious, and it is understandable that administrators want students to be protected, but the school is overstepping its role as a protector by avoiding every single situation that could hurt a child. This safety net only harms the students by robbing them of the momentary independence found in team sports and of the learning experiences associated with potentially failing. This excessive policing of students completely voids the basic reasons for recess. Let them actually get out of the classroom — which many consider a prison — and rid themselves of pent-up energy. If we begin to shelter our children from pretty basic and common injuries, how else will they grow up to be functional adults that know how to put aside their pride? To sound like a father in a 1950s nuclear family, recess and sports build character. Give it back to these kids.
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“I can get the coffee,” I said, naive to the certain doom that awaited. As soon as the words came out of my mouth, the assistant director’s face revealed an expression I had seen before. It was the look that we see from Gandalf when Frodo volunteers to take the ring to Mordor — admiring his courage, but grieving over what’s sure to be the death of him. Wait …Wait. No — Oh crap. What did I just get myself into? I was a production assistant on a weekend shoot and the crew and talent wanted Starbucks. I thought it’d be an easy way to earn my stripes. Jot down “tall coffee x10” and “grande macchiato x8” and I’m good to go. Oh, how blind I was. Thirty-four unbelievably specific orders later, I was on the phone with the nearest Starbucks. “We’re just not used to taking orders of this size,” the cashier informed me. I could hear the dread in his voice — just a man trying to make an honest living, caught in the wrong place at the worst possible time. But in a strange way we were in this together. We had no other choice. We had to get this right. “This could be the end for us both,” we seemed to collectively think. So, I read that poor man order after order. Double raspberry pumps and extra dirty chai orders spewed from my lips. Despite the unwavering patience of that barista, I lost a little piece of my soul somewhere in that exchange. I mean, how could I live with myself after so recklessly dragging another human being into such misery? Trying my best to remain measured, methodical and composed, I dictated names and orders for what seemed like decades. “She wants a double shot of chocolate espresso on top of the whip cream … No, this one is for Megan L., Megan R. was the last one.” I finally finished reading the list. He offered to go through and read it back to me. Well, we’ve come this far. Should I take him up on that? But alas …“Hey, Frank, how are we doing on that coffee order?” came thundering into the ear-piece of my walky-talky. There was no time to go back and check for safety. All I could do was hope the unnamed Starbucks man had gotten all the orders right, with the correct nametag on each. He held my fate in his pumpkinspice-scented hands.
I scrambled to the car, the actors and producers’ patience melting away with each passing second. “Gah! This traffic!” I shouted to the heavens as my fist unfairly took out my stress on the steering wheel. After squeaking along Olympic Boulevard, I could finally make out that green mermaid in the distance. She’d never looked so beautiful. But wading through traffic is only half the battle in Los Angeles. I still had to circle the block upwards of 70 or 80 times to find parking. Finally inside the store, there was a lunch-hour line to traverse. My agony persisted. At the first light of the fifth day, I reached the counter. There he was. I could tell right away it was him because of the bleak, lifeless expression on his face. He was a broken man, a shell of his past self. “He once had passions and dreams and things he loved,” I thought. “That’s all gone now.” He, too, knew right away it was me. We exchanged a brief look of understanding. Neither one of us could ever be the same after this. “Still working on it,” was all he said, trying his best to feign a smile. In the meantime, another barista rang me up. Over a hundred dollars. I left a $10 dollar tip. It only seemed right. I wanted so badly to grab this cashier, and say, “Not a dollar of it goes to you! It’s all for that brave man … that hero back there who so nobly stared down my 34-coffee order with the courage of 50 men.” But I knew that could never be. The tip would be split like always, and the actions of that saint of a barista would be forgotten by the end of his shift. After five trips to my car and back at Starbucks, and another five and back at the set, the deed was nearly done. All that was left to do was give the litter their teat. “Did this get a single pump, or a double?” the sound mixer asked, holding up her grande latte. HOW THE HELL WOULD YOU EXPECT ME TO KNOW THAT? I collected myself. “Double like you wanted,” I said, having no idea if that were true. Frank Marasco is a first-year graduate student in Los Angeles. He can be reached at fcm820@bu.edu.
Terrier Talk Reflections
Have you heard your friends talking about applying for internships? The FreeP wanted to hear if students have begun to think about their prospective work opportunities for summer 2014. Here’s what some of them said. INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS BY SARAH SIEGEL
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“Well, right now I’m working, so I don’t have time for an internship, and I’m not sure what my major is yet, so I haven’t really looked for any.” -CGS freshman
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“No, I haven’t applied for any internships yet. I guess I don’t know where to get started — I’m so busy with class.” -SAR senior
“I have been Googling accounting jobs and going straight to the big accounting firms websites to apply. SMG also has their own career site, so I’ve been looking at that too.” -SMG senior
FARRAH SINGH
“I went to the careers fair, I actually have two interviews coming up in the next few weeks that I got through networking at the fair. I’ve also been going to the SMG career center.” -SMG senior
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pletely qualified for your job. In fact, you are way overqualified. But according to some arbitrary rule, you have to wait another year before you can sign with a company. All companies want to hire you no matter what you do in the next year, so long as you don’t get hurt. Just last year you watched one of your best friends (Marcus Lattimore) go through the same situation and get severely hurt. Would you want to do anything that could possibly hinder your chances of getting hired? I know I wouldn’t. Clowney has just been put in a no-win situation. Sure, the “right” thing to do would be to go out
onto the field, give it his all and earn the respect of his teammates and coaches. But even then, he’s by far the best player on the field, and opponents are going to doubleor triple-team him on every play. And he’s obviously risking an injury every time he steps on the field. That’s why I am completely fine with him milking an injury to avoid playing. He has every right to be selfish in this situation. All around him, his school is making ridiculous money off of him. In fact, South Carolina ticket prices rose this year simply because he is on the team. And yet, he gets hated on because he is thinking about the future welfare of himself and his family. I’m sorry, but that’s just not right.
There have been guys who have shown a lot more devotion to their college teams by coming back to school even when they didn’t have to (Matt Leinart, Andrew Luck, etc.). And yeah, these guys come off looking a lot better than Clowney. But it was their choice to come back. They didn’t have to, just as Clowney doesn’t have to play if he doesn’t want to. I can’t express how much I hate the NFL and NBA rules that make players wait before they can declare for the draft. If a player is physically ready and wants to make money at the next level, where do the leagues get off saying that they can’t? More importantly, then you’re left with college players who simply don’t want to
be in school. Jadaveon Clowney couldn’t care less about how the Gamecocks do on Saturday. And he doesn’t have to care. But the sport is worse off because of these idiotic rules. But please, stop hating on Clowney. He’s just a confused young man in a terrible situation. He will be an unstoppable force in the NFL. Just ignore this awkward period that is the direct result of the NCAA’s never-ending incompetence. And for those saying he should just be kicked off the team, that’s fine, because he never should have been on the team in the first place. He should be getting paid and blowing up quarterbacks’ blind sides for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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since their Sept. 20 loss to the U.S. Naval Academy. Furthermore, Purce’s breakthrough was BU’s first goal allowed at Nickerson Field this season. The Terriers had not allowed a goal at home in over a year, as the last time that an opposing team found the back of the net at Nickerson Field was on Sept. 23, 2012 during a game between BU and the University at Albany. While Purce’s goal was obviously unexpected, BU did not seem shell-shocked, as BU coach Nancy Feldman said that BU is used to playing in such long, hard-fought matches. “The challenge is trying to find the right combination [of players],” Feldman said. “Who’s on, who’s fatigued. There’s not a science to it, it’s just trying to keep the flow of the game while playing into the hot hand and trying to keep people fresh.” BU’s defenders faced a challenge in guarding Purce that seemingly lasted for the whole game. Sophomore defender McKenzie Hollenbaugh worked especially hard, playing all 110 minutes. Fellow center back and junior defender Kai Miller described the strategy that both she and Hollenbaugh prepared prior to the game as
focusing mostly on limiting Purce’s speed out on the pitch. “We just wanted to play the way we play against anyone who’s really good,” Miller said. “Even though she’s fast, if you don’t let her get going, she won’t beat you.” Feldman expressed pride in the team’s defensive efforts after the game in terms of stopping the dynamic Purce. “[Purce] is just a really tough kid to keep under wraps for the whole game, she’s just so fast,” Feldman said. “I thought we did a good job on her. It was really a team effort. Kai and McKenzie each had a whale of a game. We’ve counted on those two all season long. They’ve been so strong and steady. They’ve got ice in their veins. They’re very, very strong and competitive.” While Feldman recognized the struggles that her team has faced against the Crimson, she seemed to believe that the Terriers were making improvements in a variety of different ways. “There were times when we were forcing it in the midfield and weren’t keeping the tempo,” Feldman said. “[Harvard has] a great midfield. But we didn’t play nearly as well [last year] and we didn’t dominate nearly as much as we did this time.”
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shots throughout the 110 minutes of play. Purce, who is a member of the U-20 U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, proved to be a handful for BU, but Miller and Hollenbaugh stuck to their gameplan and essentially shut her down. “We just wanted to play the way we play against anyone that’s really good,” Miller said when asked about how she dealt with the threat of Purce. “You have to arrive on time, stand them up, not lose your feet.
Even if she’s fast, you don’t let her get going. You can’t let her beat you.” Overall, Feldman was impressed with the level of play exhibited from the Terriers. “I’m disappointed that we didn’t get a W,” Feldman said. “I’m not disappointed in how we played … We’ve made really, really good progress. We’re certainly better now than we were a month ago. I like our chances finishing up the Patriot League and in the postseason.”
Badji leads the pack with 24 shots. Ciccone still has a team-high four assists with Barker not too far behind, having registered two assists of his own. On the defense, redshirt freshman goalkeeper Matt Gilbert has started eight of 10 games and has registered three clean sheets while also allowing multiple goals three times. The Crusaders boast some talent of their own, as freshman Joey DeVivo leads the team in both points and goals as he has accounted for eight points on four goals. Senior captain Monty Sanders has also held his own with
a team-leading and career-best three assists this season along with being tied for second in points with five. Sophomore goalie Kevin Wright comes into the day with 35 saves, fifth-best in the Patriot League. Holy Cross comes into the game off a 3-0 loss to American University, but it has beaten Sacred Heart University, Bryant University and Loyola University-Maryland. The Terriers and Crusaders have shared two mutual opponents this year, as they both lost to Providence College, but the Terriers came away with a 1-0 win Sept. 17 against Colonial Athletic Association preseason favorite Northeastern University, while the Crusaders fell 2-0 to the Huskies (4-4-2).
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Driving The Lane
Leave Him Alone
John Morris
I know I’m in the minority on this one, but I actually like Skip Bayless. First off, he has the enemy-of-my-enemy thing going for him because I absolutely despise Stephen A. Smith. Secondly, he’s always loved Tom Brady, which is the easiest way to get to my heart. But even more importantly, I genuinely agree with the positions he takes and the things he has to say. Don’t worry — I’m not here to profess some undying love for Tim Tebow, although he should definitely have a job for the Jacksonville Jaguars over the anemic Blaine Gabbert. Monday morning, I heard Skip come to the defense of Jadaveon Clowney, who recently made a Rob Gronkowski-like decision to sit out the University of South Carolina’s game against the University of Kentucky over the weekend even though he appeared to be plenty healthy enough to play. After a little bit of thought, I realized that Skip was absolutely right. But it doesn’t seem this way at first. It seems like a simple case of a guy putting himself above the team. And in the world of sports, we’re programmed to always frown upon this type of behavior. In most cases, we are right to do so. I’m furious that Gronk hasn’t touched the playing field for the New England Patriots yet this year. 36-year-old Brady is out in monsoon conditions throwing to no-name scrubs against a very good Cincinnati Bengals defense. But since Gronk is only 95 percent healthy, he’s off doing more ridiculous (yet hilarious) Dunkin’ Donuts commercials. But this is a completely different situation than Clowney’s. Playing football is Gronk’s job. It is what he gets paid to do. He owes it to his teammates and coaches to be out on the field at all costs. Clowney’s teammates and coaches have every right to be upset, but not towards Clowney. They should be upset at the NCAA rules that require Clowney to stay in college for three years when clearly the NFL is the only thing on his mind. And that doesn’t make Clowney a bad person. Put yourself in his shoes. You are com-
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Women’s soccer battles to 1-1 draw Harvard star
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By Jacklyn Bamberger Daily Free Press Contributor
The Boston University women’s soccer team earned a hardfought 1-1 tie against cross-town rivals Harvard University Tuesday night at Nickerson Field. The Crimson are familiar foes for the Terriers, as the two teams have faced off numerous times in recent years with the most recent meeting being last year’s match which ended in a 2-2 draw. The game started out as a physical contest as both the Terriers (8-3-2, 3-1-0 Patriot League) and the Crimson (6-3-2) tried to control the midfield. BU made a concerted effort to play the ball out wide to junior forward Taylor Krebs, who consistently blew by Crimson defenders to play crosses into the penalty box. After several close calls, senior midfielder Megan McGoldrick finally put one of Krebs’ crosses past Harvard keeper Lizsie Durack in the 12th minute to put BU up 1-0. The Terriers seemed to be in command of the match until the 28th minute, when Crimson forward Margaret Purce collected the ball at midfield and beat three Terrier defenders before taking a low bouncing shot. The ball took several deflections until it rolled into senior goalkeeper Andrea Green’s net, evening up the score. The goal was the first one the Terriers have let up at home all season. BU fought back with its aggressive play, recording three shots in the final 10 minutes of the first half. In the 43rd minute, junior midfielder Jamie Turchi almost gave BU the lead again when she hit a first-time shot from right outside the 18-yard box that grazed the top crossbar and flew over the goal. BU coach Nancy Feldman was particularly impressed with the Terriers’ play in the first half of action. “I thought the first half was the best half of soccer we’ve played,”
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when she fouled Purce just outside the 18-yard box. As the game headed into overtime, both the Terriers and the Crimson tried to keep their offense fresh by inserting several substitutions at the forward position. Senior forward Madison Clemens, who recorded four shots on the day, shared time with freshman forward Erica Kosienski as each tried to use her speed to get in behind the Harvard defense. Other than the uncharacteristic misstep in the first half, the Terrier defense, anchored by junior Kai Miller and sophomore McKenzie Hollenbaugh, stood strong, allowing the Crimson only 3
The Boston University women’s soccer team was met with an unusually strong test from an opponent as Harvard University forced Tuesday’s night contest into a double overtime battle. The Terriers (8-3-2, 3-1-0 Patriot League), are, as of late, accustomed to easily outplaying opposing teams, but in this contest, it was an individual player that caused the Terriers so much grief. Much of the Crimson’s (6-3-2) fortitude came from the efforts of freshman Margaret Purce, a player who is much more decorated than most the Terriers are used to seeing. Purce, who scored against BU in the 27th minute, has now netted seven goals on the year. Her goal leveled the score after senior midfielder Megan McGoldrick put the Terriers ahead in the 12th minute. Purce has built an impressive resume before even suiting up for the Crimson, as she was a member of the U.S. team that won the 2012 CONCACAF U17 Women’s Championship in Guatemala last year and qualified for the 2012 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup. The Olney, Md., native also won the Maryland Gatorade Player of the Year in 2012 and was named the All-Met Player of the Year twice during her soccer career. Despite only playing in her first year the collegiate level, Purce leads both her team as well as the entire Ivy League in scoring. The freshman is clearly the offensive leader for Harvard, as the next Crimson player with the most goals is forward Karly Zlatic with three on the year. Purce’s strike in the first half was a demoralizing score, as the Terriers had not allowed a goal
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Junior Kai Miller led a BU defense that allowed just one goal to Harvard in a 1-1 tie Tuesday night.
Feldman said. “We started great, dominated, I thought. Really opened the field up. I thought our attack was really fluid. The tempo was really good.” The second half of play featured more up-tempo play from both sides. The game was primarily played in the midfield as neither team recorded a legitimate shot until senior midfielder Emma Clark sent a ball wide of the goal in the 63rd minute. Crimson senior Elizabeth Weissman provided one of the lone shots on goal for Harvard in the 72nd minute when she fired the ball on target. However, Green made the save, her only one of the day. Clark gave away a dangerous free kick late in the second half
Men’s soccer team looks to end 5-match winless streak By Emmanuel Gomez Daily Free Press Staff
The struggling Boston University men’s soccer team will look to end its five-game winless streak when it faces College of the Holy Cross Wednesday night in its first home Patriot League game under the bright lights of Nickerson Field. The Terriers (3-6-1, 0-2-0 Patriot League) boast an 8-1 all-time record against Holy Cross (3-5-1, 1-1-0 Patriot League). BU has especially dominated the Crusaders over its last three meetings, outscoring them 8-0. When BU and Holy Cross faced off last season, the Terriers once again won with ease as they blew past the Crusaders 4-0. The game featured two goals from sophomore forward Mac McGuire in what was his first career multi-goal performance. Always-consistent senior captain Anthony Ciccone added
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two assists of his own, while junior goalkeeper Nick Thompson only needed one save to record the win and the clean sheet. The Terriers will look to repeat history against the Crusaders as they come into Wednesday’s game free falling in the standings. Despite their five-game winless streak, the Terriers looked inspired in their last contest against the U.S. Military Academy. BU capitalized early with a goal from the foot of sophomore forward Lucas McBride in the second minute and added another score in the 72nd minute off the head of sophomore defender Jeroen Blugh. Blugh’s scored on a beautifully placed free kick into the 18-yard box from junior midfielder Jordan Barker. “We created some good chances and controlled the game,” said BU coach Neil Roberts in an optimistic
tone. “The last few games, we’ve been creating some good chances.” Up 2-0 late in the second half, the Terriers looked poised to come away with a win against the top defense in the Patriot League and a squad ranked eighth in the most recent National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Mid-Atlantic Region poll. With just 18 minutes left, the Terriers were on their way, but Army (7-1-1) would make a spirited comeback. The Black Knights mounted a late rally with goals from freshman Christian Ollen and forward Jordan Lee in the 83rd and 85th minute respectively and, just like that, the game was tied at two apiece. “We have to manage the game a little bit better,” Roberts said. “It is something that we can’t have happen.” The game eventually headed into overtime, and in the 103rd
minute, midfielder Alex Jaroscak delivered a heartbreaker to the Terriers as he found the back of the net for the Black Knights, giving them a 3-2 victory. The Terriers have been a rollercoaster this year, as this five-game winless streak has come right off the heels of a three-game winning streak earlier in the season. Roberts argued they have been competitive all season long, though. “We’ve been playing better than our record shows,” Roberts said. “It was another good performance ... we probably deserved better, but we didn’t do what we needed to do.” They will look to rediscover some of the magic at Nickerson Field, where they are a respectable 3-2. On the offensive side, four Terriers have recorded two goals on the season. Junior forward Dominique
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W. Hockey @ Rensselaer, 7 p.m. M. Hockey vs. Massachusetts, 7:30 p.m.
W. Soccer @ Lafayette, 1 p.m. M. Soccer vs. Lehigh, 1 p.m. W. Hockey @ Union, 3:30 p.m. M. Hockey vs. Holy Cross, 7 p.m.
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Field Hockey @ Connecticut, 2 p.m.