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MEMORIALS Students reflect on Nelson Mandela’s legacy, page 3.

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Fewer Bostonians drive to commute, report suggests Boston-area students

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Boston residents are biking more and driving less, according to a new MASSPIRG study released Wednesday.

By Kaitlin Junod Daily Free Press Staff

From 2007 to 2011, 99 percent of urbanized areas in the United States, including Boston, showed commuters are transitioning from personal cars to alternative modes of transportation, according to a report released Wednesday by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group.

In Boston, there was a 2.7 percent decrease in vehicle miles driven, according to the report, titled Transportation in Transition: A Look at

Changing Travel Patterns in America’s Biggest Cities. With the percentage of workers commuting by private vehicle falling three percent from 2000 to the 2007-2011 period, Boston saw the 11th largest reduction out of the 100 largest urbanized areas in the country.

“What appears to be happening, is along with that desire to move into an urban area, is also the desire to be without a car,” said Michael Verseckes, spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

The proportion of commuters traveling by bicycle in Boston grew 0.4 percent between

2000 and 2010.

Much of the shift has been caused by increased investments at the city and state levels in public transit, bicycle lanes and walking paths, Verseckes said.

Kirstie Pecci, staff attorney for MASSPIRG, said Boston public transit was not bad, but there is still much room for improvement to be an effective alternative to cars.

“The increased transportation funding passed by the [Massachusetts] Legislature in 2013 is a strong step forward, but it’s still widely viewed as a first step,” she said in a Wednesday release.

The report comes a month after two similar reports ranked Boston one of the nation’s least drivable cities, while simultaneously being one its most walkable.

Price Armstrong, program director for the Massachusetts Bicycling Coalition, said Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has been a catalyst for popularizing biking through the creation of Boston Bikes, a city agency that plans and advocates for greater accessibility to bicycles and bike lanes. However, there are still many decisions to be made to keep progress going, he said.

“Mayor Menino has been not only a statewide leader, but indeed a national leader in promoting bicycling,” he said. “[He realizes] our current transportation system is not sustainable.

More bicycling is part of the solution to this unsustainability.”

Driving, see page 2

Gov. Patrick’s 2014 Fiscal Plan focuses on innovation, higher ed.

By Felicia Gans Daily Free Press Staff

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick released his administration’s seventh investment plan Wednesday, the Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14) Capital Investment Plan, with investments in innovation, infrastructure and a focus on education in the Commonwealth.

Alex Zaroulis, director of communications for the Executive Office of Administration and Finance, said investments that are concentrated in those areas will spur economic growth across Massachusetts.

“We are working to create opportunity for people all across the Commonwealth, to expand opportunity to every region, and to invest in this generation,” she said.

The highlights of the plan include significant investment in education, specifically in science, math, engineering and technology, economic development, energy and the environment and cultural facilities, according to a

Wednesday press release from Patrick’s office.

“The governor has committed to fund more than $2 billion in higher education infrastructure projects over the next decade,” she said.

“The spending for FY14 is four times more than in FY07 [Fiscal Year 2007], when the governor took office.”

Robert Connolly, vice president of strategic communication at the University of Massachusetts, said UMass sent a proposal to Patrick on Wednesday asking for a $40 million increase in funding for the 2014 fiscal year.

“He’s [Patrick] very committed to making sure that people of all walks of life, and in all stages in their lives, have access to high quality education,” Connolly said. “There are many big costs, but we educate 72,000 students across the Commonwealth every year, and people agree that we are certainly the key to the state’s social and economic future.”

Patrick’s fiscal plan is also aimed to strengthen the Massachusetts economy

through a focus on public infrastructure, new innovation and job creation, according to the release.

“There’s a danger that the U.S. could lose its technological advantage,” said Barton Lipman, chair of the economics department at Boston University. “That’s the thing that’s kept the U.S. relatively strong in the world, is that it’s a leader in technology. If we don’t invest in research, that’s not going to be true in the future, and that would be very bad for the country.”

Lipman said he hopes a stronger focus on research and education will keep the United States economically and technologically advanced.

“In 100 years, if the U.S. turns into a second-rate economy because we lost the technological advantages, that would really be tragic,” he said.

Patrick has also outlined a plan for invest-

Budget, see page 4

protest investment in fossil fuel industry

By Drew Schwartz Daily Free Press Staff

Students from Boston University and eight other Boston-area schools rallied in Cambridge to protest investment in the fossil fuel industry on Sunday.

More than 150 student activists helped to hang two banners on the John Weeks Bridge urging universities to divest their endowments from the industry and marched through Harvard Square, chanting messages of disinvestment from market sectors that contribute to the climate crisis.

“Your opponent in this campaign is the richest and most powerful industry in the world,” said climate activist Tim DeChristopher, a Harvard student who spoke to protesters over a megaphone at the rally. “…We are going to take down that power.”

Members of Students for a Just and Stable Future’s DivestBU campaign, a student organization that encourages sustainable investment of endowments, attended the protest.

“This [protest] is a way, since we’re connected to this huge institution, to make a difference and to make a bigger change than just voting for a politician who agrees with our issue,” said Colby Smith, a member of DivestBU. “This is a way for us to tell a huge industry, [whose] language is money, we don’t like what you’re doing so we’re going to not invest in what you’re doing.”

Smith, a College of Engineering senior, said protests are effective ways for students to actively resist the fossil fuel industry.

Student activists from Harvard University, Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology also attended the protest.

Smith said though it is often difficult to engage BU’s community in divestment, the protest could help raise awareness of the cause.

“It [the protest] is a very good visual tool to show BU that this is an important issue,” she said. “…This is a way to show them that this is happening, that we have a lot of power, that it’s an actual movement worth getting behind and putting your own energy towards.”

Canyon Woodward, a junior at Harvard who helped organize the protest, said protesting helps the message gain attention.

“When you have people physically come out and share their voices, show their support, people really do take notice,” Woodward said.

“Very powerful alumni in a lot of our schools,

Divest, see page 2

Massachusetts population to age more slowly,overtake youth by 2030, study suggests

By Emily Hartwell Daily Free Press Staff

An aging population is expected to stunt long-term growth in Massachusetts, according to a study released Wednesday by University of Massachusetts’ Donahue Institute’s Population Estimates Program, which found that the average age of the population is expected to increase by the year 2030.

The study was requested

by Mass. Secretary of State William Galvin to aid communities in future planning.

The results show the population aged 65 and over will go from 14 percent of the Commonwealth’s total population in 2010 to 21 percent by 2030.

In turn, the population aged

19 and under is expected to go from 25 percent of the state population to just 22 percent by 2030, according to the study.

“This is for the state and local officials to have information that will assist them in their planning to have any study of the projected populations in five-year intervals of two decades,” said Brian McNiff, spokesman for Galvin’s office.

Some areas of the Commonwealth, including the Greater Boston, Central, and Metro West regions are predicted to grow at rates above the state average, according to the study.

“These should be viewed as a forecast of the future if all

else remains the same, and we know in real life that doesn’t happen,” said Susan Strate, population estimates program manager at the UMass Donahue Institute. Since its release, Strate said the study has caused speculation over the economic and political impacts of an increasing older population.

“By 2030, Massachusetts’ over-65 population will represent one in five people in the state, which is a very large proportion and so you have fewer people in the workforce, more people retired, needing services and needing support,” she said.

Marta Murray-Close, professor of economics at University of Massachusetts Am-

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According to a recent University of Massachusetts study, Massachusetts’s population growth will slow and the population will age dramatically by 2030.

Aging, see page 4

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CAS junior: Request to divest gaining momentum among BU students Divest: From Page 1

they take notice, the general public takes notice and support snowballs and the pressure really escalates for the administrations.”

DeChristopher said though university investments are not critical financial contributions to the fossil

fuel industry, divesting could help raise awareness of climate crisis.

“It justifies their [the fossil fuel industry’s] involvement in our political system when institutions of conscience continue to do business with them,” he said. “The reason it’s important for universities and churches and institutions of conscience like

that to divest is to send a message that this industry is a fundamentally destructive part of our economy and our society.”

DivestBU member Claire Richer, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said the effort to encourage universities to divest their endowments from the fossil fuel industry is a relatively

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“Divestment is a thing, it’s building up and it’s getting bigger,” she said. “It’s awesome to be a part of a movement.”

Richer said it was significant that the protest was being held closely following Nelson Mandela’s passing.

In 1979, BU’s Board of Trustees voted to divest from corporations with ties to the apartheid regime in South Africa.

“This is actually really good timing, with this banner drop, to remind people again what divest[ment] is,” she said. “Our parents generation knows what it is, but ours doesn’t.”

Residents call for better public transit, continued movement away from cars Driving: From Page 1

While there may be future difficulties, Verseckes said bicycling has effectively been able to become a viable alternative to cars in a short period of time.

“The sheer number of arrows on city streets and the number of bike lanes speaks to leaps and bounds over what it was just a few short years ago,” he said. “It’s a vast improvement over what is was years ago when there was nothing. In fact, cycling was discouraged altogether as a mode of transportation or for any

purpose other than recreational use.”

Some residents said they had their issues with city transportation initiatives, but Boston was going in the right direction.

Erin Tucker, 25, a teacher from Brighton, said getting around without cars is easy, but public transportation still has its issues.

“It [the subway] could be a lot more reliable,” she said. “When you have an above ground transit system, delays are expected and it depends what’s going on. I’d be less irritated if I knew why I’d been waiting for half an hour instead of five minutes.”

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Campus & City Column Close Encounters ‘Tis the season

Being approached on street corners tends to bring out the worst in people.

I tried to keep this in mind at the beginning of the school year when I found myself trying — and mostly failing — to collect signatures for a bill protecting transgendered people in the workplace with my First-Year Student Outreach Project group. For JESSICA the most part the DEPIES day consisted of stopping someone with some sort of catch phrase, “HEY! Do you care about human rights?” or, “People are still being discriminated against at work!”

When someone would pause for a moment, we would, in the most polite way possible, shove a list of signatures in their face while simultaneously explaining what being transgendered meant and why they deserved the same protections as everyone else.

Why am I relating this story now … three months after it took place?

Because, ‘tis the season to bother people wherever they go about: (a) starving children, (b) underrepresented and poverty-stricken minorities, and (c) the true meaning of Christmas.

It gets obnoxious, doesn’t it? We generally don’t want to be asked to go out of our way to do nice things — we want to think of those nice things ourselves and carry them out independently. I don’t think it’s that we’re all (entirely) selfish or malevolent. We just prefer doing good deeds on our own time, and not while we’re in the checkout line at the grocery store or anxiously waiting for the pedestrian light to turn green. And even more anxiously, of course, because there is a group of people inching closer and closer with a pen and paper or a donation box in hand.

Which brings me back to my story. I knew, waving my petition around, that very few people wanted anything to do with the cause I was promoting. This wasn’t because they were bad people or because they thought the cause was unworthy (okay, except for a few people here and there), but because they simply did not want a disruption in their day.

I understand why this happens, to some extent. It is impossible for most of us to donate to and check the legitimacy of every cause we hear about — and even if we could, why should we? All I’m suggesting is that we not be entirely closed off to every unexpected encounter, in the theme of last week’s suggestion about befriending other airplane passengers.

I truly realized how nice that would be during my time at FYSOP and I try to remind myself of it when I catch myself trying to inch past the Oxfam volunteers that congregate on Commonwealth Avenue. And now, with the holidays fully upon us, I think it’s even more important to learn about the causes we’re too busy avoiding.

Who knows? You might just find yourself learning about an issue you actually care about — or, in my case, supporting transgender rights.

Shout out to the seven people who did sign my petition.

Jessica Depies is a freshman in the College of Communication studying journalism. She can be reached at jdepies@bu.edu.

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Students gather to reflect on Nelson Mandela’s continued legacy

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University students met with Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore Friday to reflect on the importance of South African leader Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday.

“Honoring Nelson Mandela and what he’s about and what he did for his country is important,” said Mensimah Bentsi-Enchill president of BU African Students Organization.

About 20 students gathered in the George Sherman Union’s East Balcony Friday afternoon for Coffee and Conversation, where Elmore moderated the group discussion. Students conversed about Mandela’s importance as a historical figure and what he ultimately stood for as a world leader.

Bentsi-Enchill said Mandela is important to remember for his strength and spirit of forgiveness, which was visible in his quest to reunite South Africa after the end of Apartheid.

“That was really what his spirit was about — forgiveness, peace, but at the same time not being afraid, having courage to stand up for something. That’s something that everybody wants to try and emulate,” Bentsi-Enchill, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation senior, said.

Elmore said he decided to hold a Coffee and Conversation session following Mandela’s death after a student tweeted at him with the idea.

“Coffee and Conversation is

about trying to give people a chance to talk to each other,” he said. “A lot of times, when these sorts of circumstances happen, people just want to get together and talk. It’s that ability to connect with each other and find out how you, yourself, put meaning to a particular [event], in this case the death of Nelson Mandela.”

Mandela stands out as a historical figure because he saw his goal of equality realized and remained alive to see South Africa reunited after the Apartheid, Elmore said.

“He might be unique in that he is an individual who lived through a lot of what he set out in trying to do,” he said. “He remained steadfast in trying to make sure that South Africa would be and would remain a free place. We were able to see in his philosophy in many different ways.”

College of Arts and Sciences senior Joshua Cole said he enjoyed the exchange of ideas at this session of Coffee and Conversation.

“It was very engaging,” he said.

“I learned a lot. I love listening to people talk and give their own views on a story or a single idea. Everyone has something unique to provide for the discussion, and I really enjoyed that.”

Like Bentsi-Enchill said, discussion participants recognized Mandela as an image of forgiveness, Cole said.

“After the discussion we had today, we came to the general consensus that he’s an important figure for the image that he gave us, which was forgiving, and not necessarily for be-

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Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore hosted a coffee and conversation to discuss Nelson Mandela’s influence Friday afternoon at the George Sherman Union east balcony.

ing a peaceful man or a god-like figure,” he said. “It’s the humanity that he represented, and the forgiveness that we should practice in our lives.”

Julian Haller, a School of Education senior, said he enjoyed conversing with other students about the ideas Mandela represented in his actions to free South Africa from Apartheid. “His importance was huge, but something that I hadn’t even contemplated that came up today was whether we see him as a peacemaker or a racial revolutionary,” Haller said.

“Figuring out how important he is [to

society today] is going to be a question of what way we want to view him moving forward.”

Christian Cho, assistant director of the Howard Thurman Center, said he hopes that students elsewhere are having similar conversations.

“I’m not sure if people are having these kinds of conversations on their own,” he said. “While it’s nice, my hope is that people feel comfortable and compelled to have this level of depth to their conversations no matter what they are about or how structured they might be.”

Average student loan debt varies by college, region within the U.S., study suggests

By Trisha Thadani and Taryn Ottaunick Daily Free Press Staff

A report by The Project on Student Debt released Wednesday found student debt varies by college and state, and many of the high-debt private colleges, such as Boston University, are concentrated in the Northeast coast.

The Project on Student Debt conducted an annual survey of more than 1,000 public and private colleges, according to the report. Seventy-one percent of students who earned bachelor’s degrees in the U.S. last year graduated with an average of $29,400 in student loans.

According to the report, the amount of debt students graduate with varies by college and state. Students in the East and Midwest borrow much more in loans than those in the West and South.

“State averages for debt at graduation ranged widely in 2012, from

$18,000 to $33,650, and graduating seniors’ likelihood of having debt ranged from 41 percent to 78 percent,” the report stated. “In five states, average debt was more than $30,000.

High-debt states remain concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest, with low-debt states mainly in the West and South.”

More than 4,000 students received a bachelor’s degree from BU last year, 59 percent of whom graduated with student loan debt, according to the report. With tuition of $56,842, BU seniors with student loans graduated with an average of $36,150 in debt.

Sixty-eight percent of college seniors in the U.S. graduated with an average debt of $23,450, according to the report. Student loan debt has been on the rise in recent years, and many factors have influenced the increasing student debt levels over time.

According to the report, many 2012 graduates faced increasing col-

lege costs in a tough economy during their college years. These students faced state budget cuts and sharp tuition increases, which increased their need to borrow.

“On the other hand, available grant aid (federal, state, institutional, and private combined) increased while the Class of 2012 was in college, including a substantial increase to the federal Pell Grant, the largest need-based grant program, in 200910,” the report stated. “Borrowing levels almost certainly would have been higher were it not for increased grant aid during this period.”

Brian Gallagher, a COM senior, said his debt from BU is substantially higher than his sister’s, who attends University of Delaware. He said since BU students are generally wealthier than students at other schools, they are less likely to graduate with debt.

“There’s probably a smaller percentage of students here that are going to be in a lot of debt than not, just

because there’s so many kids that can pay it off right away versus some more middle class private school in Pennsylvania where everyone is kind of on the same social scale,” Gallagher said. “Here, … half the school is extremely loaded and the other half is in debt.”

Nina Misra, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said based on the reputation of schools in the Northeast, people will do anything they can to attend them, even if they cannot adequately afford it.

“Everybody wants to go to these schools because they’re all such amazing schools,” Misra said. “So people who get in will do anything to get that on their resume that they went to this amazing school. It’s not necessarily worth it, because you could go to another school where you wouldn’t have as much debt and still get a good job, as long as you work hard.”

Hainan Airlines to offer nonstop Boston to Beijing flight starting in 2014

By Mina Corpuz Daily Free Press Staff

For the first time, there will be nonstop flights from Boston to China starting in 2014 due to high demand for international travel between the two cities, Mass.

Gov. Deval Patrick announced on Wednesday.

Hainan Airlines will offer the service four days a week starting June 20, 2014. The route will save five to six hours both ways, in contrast to original routes that include stops and layovers, putting the total flight time at a little over 13 hours.

“This is a great opportunity for Boston and New England,” said Joel Chusid, executive director for the United States for Hainan Airlines. “We’re going to be the conduit to increase trade and increase passenger traffic, [which] is not only students, but tourists and busi-

ness travels both way.”

Chusid said the airline looked to provide the flights as early as five years ago, but in addition to delays related to the several forms of approval needed to conduct the flights, the necessary aircraft, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, was not physically available until recently.

Several Massachusetts officials said they were excited for the opportunity to further boost tourism in Massachusetts, which, for Boston, is already a primary source of revenue.

Richard A. Davey, secretary and chief executive of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and chairman of the board for Massport, said the flights would provide an added degree of convenience for the many international travelers going through Boston or Beijing.

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Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick announced Wednesday that nonstop flights from Boston to China will be available in 2014.

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Patrick’s FY 2014 Resident: If aging grows as projected, plan triples arts, Hub may no longer be ‘young town’ many factors could alter the projecculture funding herst, said the study indicates major tions.“These are forecasts that are Aging: From Page 1

BuDget: From Page 1

ments in cultural facilities in Massachusetts. He has committed $15 million dollars for the development of arts and culture in 2014, three times as much as his commitment in 2012, according to the release.

“Arts and culture are such an important part of the Commonwealth, of the experience of anyone visiting or traveling the Commonwealth,” Zaroulis said. “It’s important for us to focus on funding cultural facilities to ensure that all corners of the Commonwealth have the facilities to have arts and dance and cultural centers for people to be able to visit.”

Several residents said they are excited to see the variety of changes Patrick’s fiscal plan will bring to Massachusetts, but they are most looking forward to the improvements in public education.

Julie Barrett, 38, of Brighton, assistant director of Information Technology at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, said after working at the public college for 12 years, she has seen firsthand the difference that public funding can make in a quality education.

“It doesn’t just change that one person’s life,” she said. “It changes what their family can accomplish.

I don’t think there’s a more important place to put your funds. It’s one of the key components of a strong economy to be able to educate your people.”

effects on the dependency ratio.

“As far as demographers are concerned, the most important thing to think about is not so much average age, but the dependency ratio, which is the ratio of prime-age working adults to dependents which include children and the elderly,” she said.

McNiff said this study will be crucial for predicting possible impacts on political representation in the next few years as it is the last census before major congressional electins.

Although there are some concerns over the potential loss of representatives in national legislature, Strate said the study provides a forecast that is subject to natural change in political and economic policy, and

based on the assumptions that the trends that we’ve seen over the past ten years will continue into the future, and that in itself is a pretty large assumption,” she said.

Several residents said the aging population would have a negative effect on the city.

Maryanne Garrit, 57, of Allston, said this could change the way others view Boston.

“If [the] average age is much higher, Boston might not be considered a necessarily ‘young’ town,” she said. “It could also cause problems with the economy, and having more people who need lots of health care. It could end up weighing on the state heavily.”

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2013 in arts and culture: MUSE reflects

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Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig serenedes fans at the second-ever Boston Calling Music Festival. In honor of the festival’s city, he performed the title album’s “Ladies of Cambridge.”

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Brooke Jackson-Glidden MUSE Staff the iconic fusion cuisine comfort food. Pork world kept a special place for gyoza, jiaozi belly has been dominating the pan-Asian and mandu in the meal. For the blizzards market for the last few years, but the braised that kept us chilly last winter, that “straight beef dumpling is making a comeback — and from the crock pot” flavor warmed us from with good reason. Beef and dumplings have the inside out. In the late hours of those Frigraced midwestern dinner tables for genera- day nights, when you want something greasy tions, and various Asian families around the and fun to eat, salty-sweet dumplings hit the

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Best film of 2013: Payne’s enthralling ‘Nebraska’

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The premise is simple: Aging Woody Grant (the captivating Bruce Dern) jour-

Hannah Landers MUSE Staff neys from Montana to Nebraska with his tions in these characters.

Some of this is played for laughs. When son David (Will Forte) to collect the million dollars he thinks he’s won after receiv- David asks Woody — in an attempt to gain ing a letter in the mail. In their travels, the insight into his own failing romantic life two stop along the way to meet up with old — if Woody had loved his wife when they married, Woody replies, “It never came friends and family.

Ironically enough, through a story cen- up.”

For the most part, however, the interactered on a hoax, Payne uncovers real emo-

tions on screen are deeply moving, despite leaving so much unsaid. That it still makes such an impact is testament to both the brilliance of screenwriter Bob Nelson and to the cast, which is “all-star” in its own way.

“Best Film of 2013” is a weighty title to bear, but Nebraska, with all its bittersweet emotion, certainly deserves it.

Best television show: heartbreaking, addictive ‘Game of Thrones’ Joe Incollingo MUSE Staff

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013 was the year of the endings. Breaking Bad is over. The Newsroom might as well be at an end. The Walking Dead needs a conclusion. The best TV endings tie together loose ends and maybe even leave a few behind. They bum us out, but leave us satisfied. When a show keeps ending — and yet keeps us going — like Game of Thrones

does, then it’s bound to be something special.

Granted, the breathtaking locations and fantasy effects are an escapist’s dreams come true. They are the hair and nails of Westeros, but its story is the meat and bone. Game of Thrones is constantly ending its infinite subplots, but saying that they “bum us out”

is an understatement. While having a huge ensemble cast means having expendable characters, the series has a nasty reputation of crowning decoy protagonists only to cut their heads off. It’s Murphy’s Law written in blood, and this past season was no better.

Season Three’s penultimate episode, “The Rains of Castamere,” closed one central con-

flict by opening throats that didn’t deserve to go so soon, suddenly and stunningly, and still stomach-sickening months later. But, if there’s any solace to take away, it is in knowing that — to use a line from the show — “fire cannot kill” the series. A new story will rise from the ashes. New faces will win our hearts and maybe our delusional prayers.

Best ‘local color’ event: pioneer festival Boston Calling

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ig music festivals usually occur in huge outdoor areas. Firefly is in a forest in Delaware. Coachella is at an outdoor polo club. But, unbeknownst to many, one of the Northeast’s premier music festivals rests comfortably around Boston’s City Hall. The coolest festival in Boston this year, the now bi-annual Bos-

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ton Calling Music Festival, has proved once again that Boston has the premier music scene in the country. The festival’s second incarnation brought together indie heroes Vampire Weekend, rap icon Kendrick Lamar and EDM powerhouses Major Lazer and Wolfgang Gartner. The festival, notable for its ultra-clean environment and

delicious food (such as Tasty Burger) appealed to all fans of each genre, by booking lesser-known rock groups like Local Natives and Deer Tick, and some of the most influential new DJ’s, including Flume and Flosstradamus. The crowd was friendly, the vibes were good and being able to take the T home was both a relief and an excuse to

let loose. A paragon for any music festival, let alone one within a city, Boston Calling has become a tremendous new Boston tradition. With the announcement that next year’s festival will include a third night, Boston Calling has grown from a cool attraction into a Boston phenomenon — all in a single year.

Best album: Daft Punk’s revival Random Access Memories

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orry to be so spectacularly bland and predictable, but Random Access Memories was likely the best album released in 2013. Self-aware without being self-deprecating, RAM takes everything we already loved about Daft Punk and supercharges it, then flanks it with a roster of guest appearances that would make even

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the greenest music nerd’s mouth water.

The album flows naturally from one track to the next. The song transitions using perfect segues without sounding too similar or deliberate.

Like all Daft Punk albums, RAM is about humanism in a robotic world, a theme that has never been as palpable or

as sad as it is on tracks like “Touch” and “Instant Crush.” The robots’ obsessive attention to detail oozes from every note, the LP split into two acts between “Touch” and “Get Lucky,” and split again between “Motherboard,” “Fragments of Time,” “Within” and “Instant Crush,” and so on, in continuously smaller increments down to

the very bars and phrases. The synthesizers may have been traded for studio musicians, but the duo’s potency remains in repeating a phrase until a single note out of place induces thrills of excitement. More important than all of this, however, is that for the first time in decades, Daft Punk got the whole world to dance to disco.

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Just give us the grade we earned Whether it be grade inflation or deflation, the grading system at colleges across the country is often lamented by college students. In the past, Boston University has been reported to have the toughest grade deflation in the New England area. However, Harvard University is the latest institution to receive media attention for its inflationary grading.

The Harvard Crimson reported Tuesday that the median grade awarded to students at Harvard is an A-. If that is not impressive enough, the most common grade at the school is an A. Either every Harvard student is so driven that most of the undergraduate population has something close to a 4.0 grade point average, or there is some severe grade inflation going on.

When news breaks about the real quality of the education at a school as prestigious as Harvard, people go into frenzy. If a Harvard education is so respected, then how can students so easily glide through with high GPAs? Aren’t they there for the challenge? People see the Harvard institution as the type of learning environment most schools attempt to emulate, so when a near perfect education is actually flawed, it’s more embarrassing for the school.

Despite the media attention surrounding Harvard now, this story will probably blow over. People still work hard at Harvard to ace their classes, and the university’s prestige outweighs bad publicity, such as public scrutiny of their grading system.

People also stop talking about scandals.

Remember when 125 students were investigated for cheating on a final exam? The New York Times reported Sept. 16 dozens of students returned after their one-year

suspension.

The “Harvard University” emblazoned on a diploma outweighs whether or not the student earned or was given an A. If students are receiving A’s so unanimously, then the grading system needs to be revamped. It is safe to assume that most students worked their tails off the get into Harvard, so they know how to do well in school, but A-students need to stand out from their peers and be something special.

A student should have a 4.0 GPA if they are truly the cream of the crop at their institution.

Unfortunately, it would appear that is how grade deflation came to be. Bell curves insufficiently judge students. Students that worked hard enough to achieve a high grade should not have their grade deflated because 20 other students were better. What each letter grade entails should be made explicitly clear to students.

Students need to be able to earn the grade they deserve. If every student is receiving better than a 3.5 GPA, then the institution is obviously not challenging them enough. If only a few are able to actually achieve one of the 10 A’s in a class, then the university unnecessarily deflates.

Universities would rather alter a student’s grades for the sake of a curve, instead of making anything over a 90 average some form of an A, anything in the 80 average range a B, and so on.

The hardest part of school should not be the admission process; it should be getting on the Dean’s List. Grade inflation and deflation are frustrating because it either fuels privilege for already apt students, or it robs others of the grade they deserve.

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The Urban Park Ranger

The happiest garbage pit on Earth Jennifer Ruth Flowers and Fantasmic: Two words that describe my whirlwind vacation to Walt Disney World this past summer. Imagine a cheesy family posing in front of Cinderella’s Castle with matching hats, neon shirts and bags illuminating Main Street, USA as their flashy smiles and identical outfits lured the attention of fellow tourists. This is perfect snapshot of my family vacation to Walt Disney World.

Walt Disney World has the most impressive flower arrangements and most strategic shrubbery placements I’ve ever seen. Everywhere you turn there are vibrant waves of blissful horticultural arrangements hugging every corner. I often found myself engulfed by meticulously trimmed Mickey Mouse masterpieces. It was like being in a city full of shrubbery or a furnished palace of pansies. I started to have the illusion that I was, in fact, a hedge as well, but that delusion was short-lived.

In a place that seems so carefully planned out, Disney goes out of its way to overcompensate for the massive amounts of fireworks and habitat disturbance that goes on in order to ensure that everyone is satisfied during their stay at the “happiest place on Earth.”

Walt Disney World was always puzzling to me. As a child, my eyes always darted right to the characters that I desperately wanted to get autographs from. As an adult, I found myself noticing the diminutive details that go unnoticed. I’m not saying that all of the Disney magic has disappeared from my adult mindset, but I guess it just shifted towards discovering the magic that goes on behind the magic. There are so many mysteries behind Walt Disney’s land acquisitions as well as the maintenance of the parks, so how has a completely abandoned park adjacent to Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground slipped under the radar?

Imagine a desiccated waterpark quenched of all its delight — broken and battered slides leading to nowhere, abandoned inner tubes and waterfalls of tears. One of Disney’s favorite family water parks has turned into a dumpster of memories.

If you don’t think that’s unsettling, see it for yourself. But if you do, you’d probably get arrested by the Walt Disney World police for trespassing. It would all be worth it to get a glimpse of the creepiest thing on Earth, right?

Meet River Country.

Opened in 1976, it was the perfect getaway for children to fully immerse themselves in Disney’s wilderness-themed waterpark. From its rustic music to its ingenious usage of the natural environment with a sophisticated filtration system, it attracted visitors from around the world.

Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon opened in 1995 and 1989 respectively, preceding the mysterious shut down of River Country in 2001. Although it was rumored that the shut down was related to a deadly bacteria, nothing was confirmed or publicly discussed.

People were so caught up in the creation of the two immaculate water parks, the seamless transition from mysterious shut down successfully commenced. People were hypnotized by the Disney allure and they never bothered to investigate what happened to that waterpark that they saw themselves in pictures as a child.

So what’s wrong with abandoning something if it doesn’t work out?

No one likes quitters. So, if Disney could afford to build two gigantic waterparks, then they could’ve afforded to properly dispose of River Country’s remains. There is no plausible excuse for this, just pure laziness and carelessness for the environment.

Native animals are injured and disrupted by the presence of these slides with sharp edges and other potentially harmful remnants.

Disney has made it very clear that their wilderness-themed, watering hole style waterpark was just a ploy to give visitors the impression they are in a park in which the corporation actually cares about the ecosystems that they disturb.

Who’s to say that Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot and Hollywood Studios won’t end up like this?

If River Country was so haphazardly abandoned and left to rot in a formerly thriving wetland ecosystem, then there is nothing stopping Disney from abandoning Cinderella’s Castle and simply turning over a new leaf.

If something doesn’t work out and we just simply vacate it in all its glory, what do we have to show? The flattened and disturbed wetlands are left barren as more wetlands are sought after for infrastructure.

What are future generations going to think of us when they stumble over our leftovers?

The happiest place on Earth possesses the potential energy to work symbiotically with the environment and do what’s right.

Disney employees work hard to ensure the pristine nature of the parks and even take an extra step to fine all that litter. “The Disneyworld Effect” is a term that describes how people are less likely to litter in an area that is clean.

So practice what you preach, Disney.

Someone should fine you for littering.

Jennifer Ruth is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying environmental analysis and policy. She can be reached at jenruth@bu.edu.

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BU hangs on for win over Bulldogs Women’s Hockey: From Page 8

for a goal.

At the 2:00 minute mark, BU padded its lead when Sutherland stuffed in a rebound through the five-hole of Black for a threegoal lead.

“We had a nice little play there, and didn’t really work out,” Sutherland said. “But it ended up coming out back to the net in front of me and I saw her five-hole and I just went for it.”

While it seemed like a sizable lead to hold off for the final 18 minutes of the third period, Duluth scratched and clawed back into the game. Despite another tally from Lefort, the Bulldogs used three goals in the frame to make the game 6-5 with 6:05 remaining in the frame.

After a goal from Duluth forward Zoe Hickel on the power play, Sperry and the Terrier defense clamped down, and were able to hang on to a 6-5 win, despite being outshot 40-26.

“I thought it was a real hard fought game,” said BU head coach Brian Durocher. “Probably a little bit, territorially, you’ve got to give the advantage to Duluth. We sort of compounded problems with the penalties we took. We’ve got to continue to learn a lesson that we can’t just keep fighting a battle uphill all of the time.”

Saturday night, the Terriers started out like they did in the first contest, and got on the board for an early advantage.

Taking a pass from Sutherland, Lefort one-timed a wrist shot past goalie Victoria Carlstrom at the 12:35 mark for the lead.

Duluth kept up its aggressive play from the night before, outshooting the Terriers, 11-

7, in the opening frame. Despite the chances, freshman goalie Victoria Hanson was up for the challenge and stopped every Bulldog opportunity.

“She did great,” Lachapelle said about Hanson’s performance. “She’s got a goalie in [Sperry] that’s she’s learned from … I think [Hanson] did a great job staying composed and staying with every puck.”

It would not take long for the Terriers to extend the lead in the second, as Warren put a rebound in the net 22 seconds into the period.

While the score would remain 2-0 in favor of the Terriers for most of the period, Warren pushed the score to 3-0 at 17:49, despite being on the penalty kill.

Warren took a loose puck in the defensive zone and skated down the ice on a breakaway chance, putting a shot past Carlstrom’s blocker.

Coming out in the third, the Terriers pushed their lead to 4-0, courtesy of Lefort’s second goal, and fourth point of the night, a little over seven minutes into the third.

The Bulldogs did not go out without a fight however, and with goals from forward Meghan Huertas and defenseman Tea Villila, UMD cut the deficit to 4-2 with 10:38 left in the frame.

Although the Terriers took 10 penalties in the contest, including two in the third, BU held on for a 4-2 win, completing the sweep of the Bulldogs.

“As the game went on, we started to get our composure more,” Lachapelle said. “We started off well, got a little loose and then got it back towards the end. We always talk to the girls about managing the game and managing the shifts and I think as team we continually do better with that every game.”

Youthful lineup gives Terriers low shot count vs. experienced Warriors Shots: From Page 8

University of North Dakota on Nov. 23.

Through the first half of the game Saturday night, was down 27-4 in shots on goal.

That meant BU was on pace to get eight shots through the entire game against Merrimack (4-9-2, 1-5-2 Hockey East).

Part of the reason Quinn’s team has struggled to put the puck on goal is because it does not possess the puck much in the offensive zone. BU’s lineup is a lot smaller than that of Merrimack or Cornell University in general, so things have not come easy in terms of winning battles for the puck.

So how can Quinn improve on his team’s low shot totals?

“Steroids,” Quinn said with a laugh. “We just, we’re a young, small team right now. We just have to find a way to win battles. You see it — it’s not because we’re not trying.

“We were playing nine freshmen. Half of your lineup is freshmen. Look at the birthdates. We have guys seven years younger than some of the guys out there.”

Of the top six forwards BU had in its lineup Saturday, none of them weigh more than 190 pounds and the only one who is at least six feet tall is freshman forward Robbie Baillargeon. Sure, BU has some size in its depth forwards like freshmen Kevin Duane (6-foot5, 210 pounds) and Dillon Lawrence (6-foot3, 187 pounds), but the point-producers in BU’s lineup have struggled to win puck possession against bigger teams due to their size disadvantage.

Five out of six Merrimack defensemen

stood at 6-feet tall or taller, and five of them were at least 190 pounds. Even on the offensive side, four out of the Warriors’ top six forwards were at least six feet tall.

“Sometimes you just have to make the most of how you can play and how you can have success, and we’re still trying to find a way to do it,” Quinn said. “We’re not a big, strong team, and that’s a big, strong, older team, and we’re going to have problems with those teams.”

Through the first 16 games of the season, BU boasts the third-worst shots on goal margin in the country at minus-163. The only teams worse than BU in shot differential are American International College (minus-195) and the University of Alabama-Huntsville (minus-296), which are two teams that combine for four wins through 29 games. The closest Hockey East team to BU’s low shot differential is the University of Massachusetts, which is at a minus-50 margin.

The Terriers only have one more game before entering the winter break, and it is against a team from the Atlantic Hockey Association in Bentley University. If the Terriers do not begin to get more shots on goal though, its offense will continue to struggle — even against a team that allows 29.9 shots per game.

“The shot total thing, I think it’s kind of getting pretty old,” said senior captain Garrett Noonan. “We’re trying to get shots to the net; we’re trying to do good things. It’s going to take time and we’re in all these games, if we can get some more shots, we’ll win some.”

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Sophomore Sarah Lefort had four goals in two weekend games against Duluth.

Sutherland leads team with 11 assists First Line: From Page 8

twine on seven occasions and assisted on four other goals. It is also the first time in Lefort’s career that she posted at least three points in three straight games. “[Lefort] is a goal scorer, but she’s got a real fire about her,” said BU assistant coach Katie Lachapelle. “You can see yesterday, one shift in particular where she just took over and it just keeps building from there.

She’s got a lot of heart, she’s a hockey player.

She loves hockey and you can see it on the bench. She’s talkative and she’s just got a lot of passion. She doesn’t like to lose, so that helps too.”

Sutherland, who leads the team with 11 assists, said playing with Warren and Lefort helped improve her own game on the offensive end.

“It was pretty hard at the beginning, but I’m playing with two amazing players,” Sutherland said. “They’re unreal, as you can see on the ice. They just make me better so

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hopefully I can stick with them.”

Despite the line only playing together for three games, Lefort said she believes that chemistry is the key to success for a line.

“Chemistry is pretty much everything hockey is about,” Lefort said. “The more chemistry you have, the easier it is on the ice to play and flow the puck and pass and shoot towards the net. These line changes have definitely given us a new jump, as you can see in our past couple of games, so we’re just going to build off of that.”

Since the changes in the lineup, Warren has compiled nine points in three games, including two goals in the series finale against Duluth (7-8-3). Warren also said that the cohesion on the line has helped her offensive numbers as well as those of her linemates.

“We just click,” Warren said. “Some lines just have chemistry and I think that’s been us. We’ve had a few lucky breaks and we’re feeding off each other, making some plays and it’s just been working.”

everyone cleanly before deflecting off LeBlanc’s stick to beat O’Connor stick-side.

The Terriers picked up the pace in the third, but to no avail outside of 10 shots, more than they had in the first two periods combined.

Sophomore defenseman Matt Grzelcyk finished with a game-high eight shots.

“He was our best defenseman tonight,” said senior captain Garrett Noonan, himself a defenseman. “He took the game over and he played awesome.”

BU’s penalty kill was effective the four times it was called into action, including thrice in the third period.

That was not particularly surprising for Quinn, who was very high on the kill units after a strong week of practice.

“It was almost like when we got the penalty kill, it was almost like we relaxed a little bit and we started skating,” Quinn said. “I almost didn’t put another guy out there after [the penalized player] came out. I said, ‘Let’s just go with four for now and see how this works.”

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Men’s hockey ties vs. Merrimack in last game of semester BU manages just 24 shots on goal in tie

By Tim Healey Daily Free Press Staff

This weekend, Boston University men’s hockey coach David Quinn said, was of the utmost importance.

The four Hockey East points were crucial. Building on recent successes was imperative. And, with a home date with Bentley University next week being the last game of the semester, heading into a three-week layoff on a high note would have been significant.

“It’s huge.

It’s huge,” Quinn said Thursday. “There are 20 league games, and here comes games six and seven.”

But by the end of seven, the Boston University men’s hockey team came away with just one of those points — and very little momentum. The Terriers tied Merrimack College, 1-1, at Agganis Arena Saturday night, hardly salvaging a weekend home-and-home that featured them dropping Friday’s contest, 3-2.

Sophomore goaltender Matt O’Connor — starting in place of classmate Sean Maguire, who missed the game with back issues — made 38 saves, and BU (7-7-2, 2-4-1 Hockey East) was buzzing in Merrimack’s zone for much of the five-minute overtime. None of its six shots found the back of the net.

The Warriors (4-9-2, 1-5-2 Hockey East) finished with a 3924 shot advantage in a continuation of a season-long trend. BU allows an average of 37 shots on goal per game while garnering fewer than 27.

“I don’t know if I’ve seen us that flat and that emotionless as we were in the first 35, 36 minutes,” Quinn said. “We finally started spending some time in the offensive zone, we started skating,

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him to be effective. We are going to need him to be a point producer if we are going to have success.”

Shots were heavily in favor of the Warriors throughout the first two frames — at one point the scoreboard read 27-4 — and the visitors finally capitalized 5:53 into the second when freshman Chris LeBlanc tipped a soft wrister on goal from the top of the circle. The shot snuck through

When Boston University men’s hockey team coach David Quinn walked into his team’s dressing room after the second period Saturday night, the Terriers were down 27-8 in shots to Merrimack College and had barely controlled the puck through the majority of the contest.

He sensed his team was feeling down on itself after two consecutive games in which its offense did not even muster 20 shots.

So instead of yelling at his players for their poor performance, he lightened the mood by making a joke.

“I just said, ‘Hey, we poured it on that period. We got five,’” Quinn said. “It’s the pink elephant in the room … What are you going to do, not talk about it? Sometimes things are so bad, you have to make light of it.”

The joke seemed to do the trick — at least a little bit — as the Terriers (7-7-2, 2-4-1 Hockey East) doubled their shot total from the first two periods over the next frame and five-minute overtime period, finishing the contest in a 1-1 tie at Agganis Arena Saturday night. Still, the low shot total through the first two periods is representative of a recent trend for BU, which cannot seem to get the puck on goal.

Up until the third period of Saturday night’s game, BU had not totaled 10 shots in a single frame since the third period of its tie against the

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Junior winger Evan Rodrigues scored BU’s only goal against Merrimack on Saturday. The two teams battled to a 1-1 tie.

playing with a little bit of passion, little bit of enthusiasm. It’s hard in the middle of a hockey game to become enthusiastic and play with passion. I thought we did that.”

Merrimack mostly controlled in the first period, but fortunately for the Terriers, that trend didn’t start until a couple of minutes in.

BU took advantage of those opening moments when junior winger Evan Rodrigues scored a goal — his first since the season opener on Oct. 11 — at the

1:47 mark. He took a pass from freshman center Robbie Baillargeon, skated into the slot and rang one off the pipe for the 1-0 lead.

Freshman winger Brendan Collier was awarded the secondary assist on the play, his first point in the scarlet and white.

“I’m really happy with where he is at,” Quinn said of Rodrigues.

“It was good to see him get rewarded for all of the hard work he has put in over the last month.

And again, we are going to need

Women’s hockey team remains perfect at home 1st line ‘clicks’ for Terriers

By Andrew Battifarano Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University women’s hockey team has enjoyed consistent success at Walter Brown Arena in 2013.

Heading into the weekend series against the University of the Minnesota-Duluth, the Terriers (14-3-1, 8-0-0 Hockey East) had not lost a game on their home ice in 14 tries during the 2013 calendar year. After the two-game series with the Bulldogs was over, BU had come away with a weekend sweep over UMD, and finished 2013 with a spotless 16-0-0 home mark.

“We actually didn’t know [about the undefeated home record] until the other day when we found out about our Hockey East record,” said BU assistant coach Katie Lachapelle. “It’s a great place to play, obviously with the band, it’s always awesome to have them. … The environment is great and our girls take a lot of pride in this building and don’t want to lose.”

In the first game of the weekend set, the Terriers looked to jump on

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the Bulldogs early. A little over four minutes into the opening frame, BU took a 1-0 lead.

Taking a pass from freshman forward Samantha Sutherland, sophomore forward Sarah Lefort wristed a shot that bounced off of a Duluth defender, and into the back of the net.

The lead was short-lived, however, as just over two minutes later, Duluth knotted up the score at one apiece. Moments after BU killed off a tripping penalty from senior captain Louise Warren, defenseman Jordan Krause put a shot by senior goaltender Kerrin Sperry.

With the game tied 1-1 in the closing minutes of the first frame, Duluth converted on a 5-on-3 power-play opportunity to take a 2-1 advantage. After freshman forward Maddie Elia and junior defenseman Shannon Stoneburgh were each called for two-minute minors, forward Jenna McParland put one into the net at the 16:45 mark of the period.

While down a goal heading into the first intermission, Sutherland said the team made some adjust-

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“Coach told us to stay strong, keep our confidence up and stop putting the puck in the middle,” Sutherland said. “We had to use the boards more and we did and it worked for us.”

After BU earned a power-play chance, sophomore forward Rebecca Russo took advantage, knotting the game up. Stoneburgh took the initial shot from the point which was stopped by goalie Kayla Black, but Russo jammed home a rebound through a pileup of players from both squads.

At 10:07 in the second period, BU would regain the lead, courtesy of its captain. Lefort dished a pass in the zone to Warren, who then fired off a shot that got behind Black for a 3-2 Terrier lead.

Taking the momentum gained in the second, BU came right back in the final period and got on the board just 55 seconds in. Russo, from behind the back of the net, dished a pass to the middle of the slot to Elia, who one-timed the puck into the net

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By Joon Lee Daily Free Press Staff

Just three games after making a shakeup on the first line of the Boston University women’s hockey team, BU coach Brian Durocher has seen major results. The trio, consisting of senior center Louise Warren, sophomore left wing Sarah Lefort and freshman right wing Samantha Sutherland, tallied a combined 24 points in three games this past week against Northeastern University and the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

“We decided to put those kids together because they’re very talented group,” Durocher said.

“They’ve got a freshman who’s played well with them. The other two lines are certainly able to place at a high level in this conference but we feel like that maybe we had to stack the deck a little bit more, putting Louise and Sarah together than maybe we were in the past.”

A knee injury to junior center Kayla Tutino, who is likely out for the rest of the season, necessitated a restructuring of the first line. Durocher moved up Warren, the captain

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of the Terriers (14-3-1, 8-0-0 Hockey East), up from the second line, where she was playing left wing, to the first line, where she now mans the center position.

“Obviously with Kayla and Sarah together, you had a real dynamite group and Louise was a catalyst on the second group,” Durocher said. “Right now, we’ve got to change our focus a little.”

The new line debuted during the Tuesday 5-2 victory at Northeastern and immediately sparked production. Lefort tallied a hat trick and an assist, Warren scored two and assisted on two and Sutherland had one assist.

“The line changes gave us a new jump, a new look,” Lefort said.

“Louise Warren and Sam Sutherland help a lot. We just find each other easier on the ice and it’s just flowing well.”

Lefort in particular has seen in a major increase in her offensive output. In the three games since the line change, the Ormstown, Quebec, native has hit the back of the

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