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BU School of Medicine promotes 6 to full professorship Walsh revamps City Hall methods of communication

By Ben Gagne-Maynard Daily Free Press Staff

Six Boston University School of Medicine faculty members have been promoted to full professorship in recognition of their classroom leadership and laboratory research.

BUSM Dean and Medical Campus Provost Karen Antman attributed the promotion of all six faculty members to their exceptional reputations and prolific careers, citing the path to promotion as a difficult one that requires a strong national and international reputation in one’s field.

“We certainly celebrate the accomplishments of our new full professors and particularly recognize the gender, ethnic and intellectual diversity of these senior leaders,” Antman said. “Half are women, half are PhDs and half are MDs.” Faculty members Denise Sloan, Rhoda Au, Marilyn Augustyn, Michael Charness, Hiran Fernando and Olga Gursky received promotions from associate and research professorship to full professorship in BUSM. Their specialities include psychiatry, neurology, biophysics, pediatrics and surgery.

Research fields of those promoted included childhood nutrition, Alzheimer’s disease, innovative surgical approaches and biophysics, Antman said.

Sloan, who was promoted from associate professorship of psychiatry to full professorship, said her promotion affirmed the impor-

By Andrew Keuler Daily Free Press Staff

“Once we had the article published, we had something we could use for the grant proposal that was successful,” Kidd said. “Prior to that, we had limited data we put into our proposals, but this is the first grant to support this project.”

Though the VGHA seeks to improve hearing for the hearing impaired, individuals who do not suffer from hearing loss may find utility in the product, said Sensimetrics principal research scientist Joseph Desloge.

“This kind of system can be used for anyone who wants directional listening,” Desloge said. “Like if I, a normal hearing person, were at a party — and sometimes it’s just so loud that it’s hard to hear people — wearing this would help me focus in on a particular person I want to listen to. So one does not have to be hearing

Keeping his promise to make government more transparent to the public, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh has instituted new communication technology at City Hall.

Walsh has been looking to alter municipal government to align with modern culture since he has been in office. One of the recent changes Walsh announced is the addition of video conferencing to City Hall, which should facilitate effective communication and governance in this increasingly inter-connected world.

“The videoconferencing was part of an overall upgrade to telephone technology in the Mayor’s Office at City Hall,” said Kate Norton, the mayor’s press secretary. “Previously, the phones did not have voice mail, so the primary change was to address that issue.”

The previous decision to not install voicemail in City Hall under former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, now the co-director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, was motivated more by philosophical reasons than anything else.

“The former mayor’s thought process was when you call City Hall you should always get a live person,” said City Councilor Timothy McCarthy.

McCarthy respectfully disagreed with Menino’s philosophy in that regard, citing the efficiency of voicemail.

“I still believe when you call city hall you should speak to somebody live and not be instantly changed to a voicemail, but when you want to leave somebody a message, it’s easier for the staff member or whoever’s manning the phone at those times,” he said. “You can get an in-depth and precise message and possibly do research to answers those questions before you call that person back.”

This increased emphasis on the use of technology in city government marks a departure from Menino’s philosophy. This emphasis is becoming a hallmark of Walsh’s administration. This is something Walsh is keen on establishing given the legacy of his predecessor, Boston’s longest-serving mayor.

“The Mayor has made increased transpar-

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Boston University School of Medicine recently promoted six faculty members to the rank of full professor. Their areas of expertise range from post-traumatic stress disorder to pediatric development.

tance of her professional achievements.

“It is a recognition that the work I have conducted throughout my career has had a significant impact,” said Sloan, Associate Director of the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. “It also allows me greater ability to help mentor junior colleagues in the field.”

Gursky, promoted after serving as an associate professor of biophysics and physiology, said

the promotion heralded a shift in her career that could offer excitement as well as new professional opportunities.

“For me personally, the new grant and the promotion mean that I can step back, think about the new future directions of our work, as well as do other things that I normally would not do,” said Gursky, who recently received a federal grant

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SAR researcher receives grant to design new hearing aid

By Olivia Deng Daily Free Press Staff

A Boston University professor was awarded a $2.75 million grant to conduct research on an advanced hearing aid.

The grant, which was issued by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, was given to Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences professor of speech, language and hearing sciences Gerald Kidd, according to a Tuesday press release.

“Awards from the National Institutes of Health agencies such as the are extremely competitive,” said Melanie Matthies, senior associate dean of SAR. “Many excellent proposals do not get funded, therefore Sargent is especially proud of Professor Kidd and our other NIH funded faculty.”

The Visually Guided Hearing Aid, which

will be developed by both Kidd and communication research and development corporation Sensimetrics, will feature both a microphone array and an eye tracker to address voids left by existing hearing aids, Kidd said.

“It [the VGHA] has two main components,” he said. “... What we have done is combine the two [microphone and eye tracker] so that we put a portable eye tracker on the person wearing the aid, and we steer the beam that’s created by the microphone array according to where their eyes are trained.”

Before he was awarded the NIDCD grant, Kidd said he relied on internal funds from BU and a grant for hearing loss, through which he was able to purchase a portable eye tracker and gather preliminary data that was published by The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Academic credits lost when students transfer from community college, study suggests

By Drew Schwartz Daily Free Press Staff

More than 10 percent of students who transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions such as Boston University lose a majority of their credits during the switch, according to a study released Wednesday.

“The percentage of credits you get transferred has a not insubstantial effect on one’s probability of completing a bachelors degree,” said City University of New York Research Analyst David Monaghan, who co-authored the study.

The study, conducted by Monaghan and CUNY Professor Paul Attewell, found students who retained most or all of their credits upon transferring to a four-year university were 2.5 times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than those who transferred fewer than half of their credits.

“A lot of these are lower income students, students who struggle with a lot to get through school in the first place, students who have to work full time while going to school, maybe students who are raising children while going to school, and so squeezing out each set of three credits is really an accomplishment,”

Monaghan said.

Monaghan said the transfer process often frustrated students who transferred from community colleges to four-year institutions.

“If you’re being put back essentially a semester or two semesters in terms of the number of credits you think you have when you transfer, that can be very disheartening,” he said.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said the university aims to accept as many credits as possible from students who transfer from community colleges.

“We’re not going to separate a community college student from any other student who’s applying as a transfer student,” he said.

Riley said fewer than 20 students who attend BU have transferred from community colleges.

Monaghan said many students who transfer from community colleges have credits that carry over to a four-year institution, though they may not fulfill identical credit requirements.

“Where this is a course that someone is trying to transfer that we do not have an exact equivalent [for], we may give elective credit for it,” Riley said.

Riley said students who intended on trans-

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Researchers at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York released an article Tuesday that suggests 10 percent of community college students lose nearly all of their course credits once they transfer to a four-year school.

ferring to BU from a community college should consult the university before transferring.

“It’s a very simple thing to call up one of the four-year colleges you’re interested in and say, ‘Could you give me an idea of the transferability of these three or four courses that I’ve taken or that I’m considering to register for,’” he said.

Several students said transferring from a

community college to a four-year institution like BU would be a difficult process.

“The biggest challenge is the stigma that goes along with a community college,” said Samuel Blank, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Management.

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ency a priority in his approach for the Administration,” Norton said in an email. “To that end, he has used technology as a tool to directly engage with constituents through Twitter chats, Facebook Q&A sessions and an upcoming Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ planned for later this month.”

In addition, the mayor’s office maintains a 24-hour hotline for citizens to report any potential problems

that need to be addressed by city government and offers a mobile app for iOS and Android.

McCarthy, whose 5th District includes Roslindale and Hyde Park, supports Walsh’s consistent use of social media. He sees it as an effective way to get people more involved and interested in municipal government, especially the issues that affect them personally.

Massachusetts Rep. Brian Ashe,

who served in the State House with Walsh, said the increased use of social media is great in terms of including younger generations in government.

“There are so many different forms of media, especially that the younger people use,” he said. “Marty and his team have done a fantastic job at really making sure they hit every segment of the population, including all the younger people.”

Hearing aid to combine audio, visual tech Hearing Aid: From Page 1

impaired to benefit from this system at all.”

Desloge said Kidd approached him for the project a couple years ago and worked with him to write the NIDCD grant proposal.

“He put together a big proposal that outlines the work we are going to do,” Desloge said. “The proposal

was coming up with the research plan, writing it up and throwing it all together ... I helped clarify and write the engineering part of building the system and some of the electroacoustic measurements.”

At the end of the five-year grant, Kidd said he hopes to scientifically validate VGHA and see it be used by the hearing-impaired community.

“What we would hope is that the ideas and insights that we gain from this would be that a hearing aid company ... would want to partner with us or take our ideas and develop it [VGHA] into a really useful product,” Kidd said. “I would love to see these being worn around in the environment and people getting benefits from them in five years.”

New group of professors teach around Boston area BUSM: From Page 1

to further research cardiovascular disease.

Charness, chief of staff at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and a newly promoted professor of neurology, said he thoroughly enjoyed teaching medical students.

“I have the privilege of holding faculty positions and participating at a leadership level at two great medical schools ­—­­BUSM and Harvard Medical School,” he said. “I was promoted to professor of neurology at HMS previously. My promotion

to professor at BUSM enhances my ability to represent both medical schools equally.”

Augustyn, promoted to full professorship of pediatrics as well as to the position of division chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics, said her new position would allow her to further her work and continue to educate her students.

“I am excited about the promotion,” she said. “I hope it will give me the recognition to continue my national work on early literacy as well as promoting the use of family navigation in supporting families

of children with autism and special health care needs.”

Au, recently promoted from associate to full professorship in neurology and a Graduate School of Medicine alumna, said her accomplishment could provide her with more professional opportunities. Au also said her promotion could her serve as a catalyst for further innovation.

“It does provide more confidence in going forward with new ideas,” she said. “Particularly those that sometimes stretch beyond what others can imagine.”

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“People look at you differently. They say, ‘Well you must not be very intelligent. Why did you go to community college as opposed to BU if you could get into BU?’” Caroline Wittschen, a sophomore in CAS who worked in the admissions office transfer department, said students who transfer from commu-

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nity colleges often struggle with financial issues.

“I read so many emails and I see firsthand how much passion they have, how much they want to come to BU and then they can’t afford it,” she said. “It’s almost heartbreaking.

That is a really difficult thing to overcome transferring to BU, especially because we just had another increase with our tuition and housing.”

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Fantasia For about a year, I’ve woken up each morning in the middle of a very lucid dream. This happens so much so that I frequently think I’ve actually done whatever happened in the dream when, in reality, I was sleeping the entire time.

These dreams are never frightening or threatening. They usually just involve SYDNEY L. everyday occurSHEA rences, such as sitting in class or walking around outside. But it’s irritating when I think I’ve sent an important email or written a time-sensitive paper because when I wake up I’m truly convinced that these things have already taken place. Isn’t this just considered being delusional?

Sometimes when talking to friends or professors I refer to conversations that have never actually taken place, which is considerably awkward. But again, I don’t see too much of an issue if these dreams aren’t exactly bad.

Actually, interesting things can happen while I’m dreaming — something that never used to happen when I was younger. I can read a text perfectly as if an actual book is right in front of me, a phenomenon that tends to happen if I’m studying for an exam in a foreign language.

And if I wake up with a really creative idea, I’ve learned that it’s important to write it down as soon as possible, or else I forget within a few minutes.

For example, this morning I woke up at 6:30 a.m. really wanting to paint something. This was extremely random, as I haven’t painted anything since I was eight years old — a neighborhood scene from the Albanian countryside. It was for a school project where students picked whatever countries they wanted to learn about and then brought in art and food based on that place. I can still remember totally failing at making Albanian wedding cookies.

Anyhow, this morning I woke up abnormally early and could not fall back asleep for the last precious hour I had before heading to work in the freezing cold.

And for the entire day, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of painting something, even though I really think this is an unproductive pastime unless you are a professional painter.

It’s strange how a thought or sensation you wake up with can affect you for the rest of the day.

If I wake up upset or sad about something, I’m bound to be in that mood the entire day.

Or sometimes, conversely, I dream that I forgot to wear any clothes at all while I am en route to class even though we don’t go to school on a nudist colony, and I wake up thankful once I’ve realized that I’m still at home and have the opportunity to not be naked in public.

It doesn’t seem like the adage “follow your dreams” really works for me. If it did, I’d probably be a naked painter who sends a lot of emails.

Sydney L. Shea is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at slshea@bu.edu.

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Bill proposed to expand liquor licensure State healthcare website drops contractor CGI

By Felicia Gans and Sarah Capungan Daily Free Press Staff

As Boston Mayor Martin Walsh works to keep Boston restaurants and bars open later, City Councilor Ayanna Pressley is proposing a bill to reform the process of distributing liquor licenses and bring more restaurants to underserved neighborhoods in the city.

If passed, the legislation, labeled Bill H.3913, would eliminate Boston’s current liquor license quota, which allows the Boston Licensing Board to grant up to 942 alcoholic beverage licenses, and give the City of Boston the power to appoint the members of the Licensing Board, a responsibility Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick currently holds.

At a Tuesday hearing, where committee members were given the chance to discuss the bill, Mass. Rep. Jay Livingstone, State Sen. Linda Forry and various local business owners spoke in support of Pressley’s legislation.

Massachusetts Rep. John Scibak, a member of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Pro-

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Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley spoke before the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Tuesday afternoon about a bill that would make the liquor license application process less tedious and more cost effective.

fessional Licensure, said legislators raised concerns at the hearing, but the committee has not yet made a decision.

“There are some legitimate issues that were raised at the hearing yesterday [Tuesday] in terms of the distribution of liquor li-

censes for restaurants and bars across the city of Boston,” he said. “There are some neighborhoods that have virtually none and there’s some that have a great number.”

Although Scibak said he has

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Millions alloted to heat homes of poor families

By Jaime Bennis Daily Free Press Staff

Because this winter was especially severe, public officials have allocated $20 million to assist lowincome families who cannot afford their heating bills.

The supplemental spending bill was signed into law on Monday. This money is essential for the 200,000 Massachusetts households that rely on the government to heat their homes each year.

“Heating assistance is vital to ensure that many Massachusetts residents don’t have to choose between eating and fueling their homes, especially during this particularly cold winter,” said Massachusetts Sen. Stephen Brewer.

The senator said government aid is crucial to those families who cannot afford to pay expensive heating bills each month.

“I recently received a heating bill for $803, and was shocked at how high the number was,” he said. “For those who cannot pay a similar amount for heating, this aid is a lifeline.”

Rick Ellis, director of communication at Action for Boston Community Development, said this winter has been particularly harsh, long and unrelenting.

“Anytime you save people’s lives it is a worthwhile investment,” Ellis said. “A lot of the people we serve are either elderly or single moms with children. You are dealing with health. It is not a matter of comfort.”

The additional 20 million doll will provide approximately 100 dollars in additional aid to each family that is eligible.

Ellis said ABCD has been lobbying for heating aid for most of the winter and they will not stop until social issues like the heating crisis are resolved.

“We have a congress that believes that less is more right now,” he said. “All social programs across the country have been under attack. These are issues that we fight every day and every year and we will continue to fight them until they are solved.”

Deborah Drew, National Grid

spokeswoman, said that National Grid is concerned about how the rising cost of heating prices has been affecting their customers.

Drew said the company is doing their best to keep their customers informed about the options available to them through National Grid.

“We have been very concerned about how rising energy prices during this very cold winter have affected our customers and we know that energy prices are a key component for the household budget,” she said. “[We give them] ways to manage their energy use and cause.”

Drew said the $20 million would be helpful to their customers and practical from a utility standpoint.

“In terms of the assistance for families this certainly will help our customers get trough the winter billing periods,” she said. “I think from a utility perspective any additional assistance that customers can have will help.”

As Massachusetts leaders scramble to enroll all residents with healthcare coverage by the March 31 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act deadline, the Commonwealth has chosen to drop CGI Group Inc., contractor of the faulty Massachusetts Health Connector website.

Sarah Iselin, who began her job as special assistant to the governor for the healthcare project’s delivery six weeks ago, announced the decision to part ways from CGI at a board of directors meeting Monday.

The contracting company has been working with the Commonwealth on the healthcare website since July 2012, said Jason Lefferts, director of communications at Massachusetts Health Connector.

“Quite simply, based on past performance and current needs, we must move from CGI,” he said. “In order to not jeopardize the future of the project and leave us further behind, we hope to be able to negotiate a thoughtful transition with CGI.” CGI will continue to work with Massachusetts Health Connector until a negotiation is reached between the two companies, but Lefferts said he is confident the transition will be a smooth and amicable process.

“We’re at the very beginning of negotiating that transition,” he said.

“They are still here and involved at this point. CGI does have a good reputation of insurance with handoffs. Preliminary conversations indicate at this point that they are ready to do that in this case as well.”

Linda Odorisio, vice president of global communications for CGI, said their company has worked hard to deliver an efficient health insurance program to Massachusetts residents.

“We will work with the Commonwealth to ensure a smooth transition to the next phase of exchange deployment, allowing for the best use of system capabilities already in place,” she said in an email.

In February, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick brought in Optum, a Minnesota-based information tech-

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Finances top priority for college applicants, study suggests

By Taryn Ottaunick Daily Free Press Staff

While a recent study indicates that financial aid is the major concern for college applicants, Boston University students cited other sources of pressure alongside their monetary concerns during the college application process.

Alexandros Lotsos, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said finding the time to complete his college supplements was the primary source of his application tension.

“The college-specific essays that changed from college to college were pretty tough and took a lot of time,” Lotsos said. “I applied to 17 or 18 schools, so getting all those essays done during senior year was so hard. I’m Greek, and with the school system in Greece, you have a lot of work senior year, so there was not that much time to write supplements.”

The “College Hopes and Wor-

ries Survey,” which is conducted annually by the Princeton Review, sought to gauge the primary concerns and expectations of 2014 college applicants. Eighty-nine percent of polled college applicants said financial aid was “Very Necessary” for them to afford a higher education, according to the study.

Olivia Paris-Kornilowicz, a senior in CAS, said she focused the majority of her stress on selecting a meaningful topic for her essay.

“Having to make yourself appealing in an essay to someone who doesn’t even know you is a lot of pressure,” Paris-Kornilowicz said. “It’s the only way for colleges to know you personally, so I felt strongly about making a good impression. I chose what was most important to me and influenced me when I was 17, but it took a while.”

Mark Halstrom, a College of Engineering sophomore, said locating a satisfactory school to spend his college years was the

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The Princeton Review released a survey Tuesday that reports on the college hopes and worries of 14,150 students and parents.

most stressful aspect of his college application process.

“Deciding where to apply is really the hardest,” Halstrom said.

“It’s the most important decision you make up until that point, but you have to do it or else you’re not going to go to college ... I did not want to go to a crazy competitive

school, but it had to be competitive.”

Despite other sources of stress, college affordability is a major source of anxiety for most college applicants.

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not taken a position on the bill, he is concerned that the removal of the quota will not effectively focus on the underrepresented areas that need licenses and that Boston could potentially reach a point where there are too many bars or restaurants in a specific neighborhood.

“That’s the sort of thing that should be best determined by the city itself,” he said. “I have not had the opportunity to talk to my co-chair and determine when exactly we’re going to take action on this particular bill. It’s still a little bit early since the hearing was just yesterday, but clearly it’s something that has generated a lot of interest.”

Stephen Clark, the director of governmental affairs for the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, said restaurants are an important part of Boston’s neighborhood economies.

“We applaud the efforts of the bill,” he said. “We know that restaurants play a vital role in economic development. We don’t have to go further than the South End or the Seaport to see that well-run establishments can have a revitalization of the neighborhoods ... They need more restaurants so that they can bloom and grow and revitalize their downtowns.”

nology corporation, to help CGI with the healthcare website glitches.

Lefferts said the two groups have spent the past six weeks working with Iselin on the long and shortterm goals of the website. After consideration, the Massachusetts Health Connector board of directors determined it was time to part ways

with CGI. Lefferts said the change in leadership will not effect the efficiency of the website as the Affordable Care Act deadline approaches. Between the website application process and the paper applications, over 100,000 Commonwealth residents have applied for subsidized care for the first time.

“We are encouraged by the num-

ber of people who have applied,” he said. “Clearly, we’ve found that there’s a lot of interest in the choice benefits and expanded subsidies offered by the Affordable Care Act.” Massachusetts Health Connector has not announced any plans to hire a new contractor for the project, but their goal is to have the system operating correctly by Nov. 15, the start of the fall enrollment period. In

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fter his tenure as Jesse Pinkman on the Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul has Hollywood at his feet. Not only did Paul showcase his dramatic flexibility, but he also remained faithful to a complex project despite its initial commercial failure. In Hollywood terms, Paul is a film dream: a talented actor with the charisma to turn any piece into a hit.

Therefore, Hollywood and Paul fans alike puffed incredulity upon the announcement of Paul’s latest project: Need for Speed, a car-racing movie based on a video game. Really?

In a recent interview with The Daily Free Press, Paul admits that he was floored by the stark transition as well.

“I was driving away in that last scene [of Breaking Bad] and I just drove straight into this next film … in a $2.5 million Koenigsegg, which was like, ‘What is happening right now?’”

Despite being a fan of the Need for Speed video game, Paul was initially hesitant before eventually deciding that the film would be “fun,” which is really all it is. Need for Speed follows Tobey Marshall (Paul), a former racing superstar who now satisfies his need for speed with drag races in upstate New York. After a conflict with former racing rival Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper), Tobey is wrongfully convicted of

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Aaron Paul races from the acclaimed Breaking Bad into action flick Need For Speed, but it’s only a pit stop for the self-professed indie lover.

murder when a drag race results in the death of his friend, Pete. Once out of prison, Tobey rips across the country in a Shelby Mustang to compete in the De Leon, the premiere road race that will allow Tobey to avenge Pete’s death and settle his score with Dino.

At its best, the Need for Speed plot is predictable. At times, it’s absurd. The stunts, however, are revolutionary in an industry blinded by CGI, which ultimately saves the film.

In Detroit, the Mustang vaults off of a highway median to launch over a bridge. In Utah, it drives off of a desert mesa, only to be airlifted to safety

by a Black Hawk helicopter. And the best part: The stunts are real.

“That’s what excited me, that we were going to actually do all these stunts and not use any CG, kind of like films back then that had no choice because there was no CG,” Paul said.

Paul performed many of the stunts himself after extensive driving training, which included one that required him to slide a Koenigsegg into a stop six inches from a camera.

“The first take I did … I slid, and I stopped about 15 feet away from [director Scott Waugh] … and he’s like, ‘If you hit me, I’ll just roll over the

car.’ I think that was the most terrifying, [but] it was actually a lot of fun,” Paul joked.

Despite the visceral reality of the stunts, Paul admits that he was much more nervous about harming the cars themselves.

“I didn’t want to scratch them …

First of all, no one should spend that much money on a car. I just didn’t want to destroy it. But I just had so much fun flying them around.”

Even with these exaltations of his Need for Speed “fun,” the intelligent Paul anticipates criticism from those disappointed in his latest career choice.

“Did any scenes pop out at you that looked kind of bad?” Paul asked.

Such candor reveals that even Paul sees the depreciation in artistic quality that fans will lament since Breaking Bad. In a public screening the evening before our interview, Paul even confessed that this choice might have had something to do with the high cost of living in Los Angeles.

“I always try to do just something different, just mix it up,” Paul said.

“If I read a script and it affects me emotionally, I tend to like that … But with this, I wanted to do something a little lighter.”

Paul gushed about his desire to return to independent film, as if the intimation of his preferred work wasn’t clear. Most recently, Paul led Hellion, a standout at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and also starred in the indie Smashed, a selection at the 2012 Festival. Independent film is the type of moviemaking “where [his] heart is,” Paul explained, making it clear that films like Need for Speed are only profit swells to propel his pursuit for more complex art.

“I think independent films are where the true storytelling is being told,” Paul said. “I do these big films because they’re fun, but it allows me to go and do an independent film where no one’s getting paid and everyone’s just doing it for the pure passion of it. It’s what I love.”

Oui really love Kinesha Goldson’s Cameo Macaron

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inesha Goldson is, quite literally, in the pink of things. As the founder of Cameo Macaron, Goldson is making her mark in the food truck industry with her 1,300-person social media following and brand new glamorous pink truck.

Clearly she is hard to miss, and once you try one of her macarons, you’ll be glad you didn’t.

At Northeastern University, Goldson switched from a criminal justice major to a communication major and attended her first courses in Paris as part of a study abroad program. In Paris, she lived by herself in a tiny studio apartment in the seventh arrondissement (or administrative district) within walking distance from the famous macaron shop Ladurée on the Champs-Élysées.

She quickly welcomed the treat as part of her Saturday routine.

Back from Paris, Goldson graduated and became a retail buyer for Talbots. But her hunt for a local version of the perfect macaron never stopped until Goldson finally decided to take matters into her own hands and established Cameo Macaron in the summer of 2013.

In order to get there, Goldson first had to quit her job as a buyer

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and learn the ins and outs of the food business. Leaving a paying job was a big risk, Goldson said.

“I just felt like a robot working in that sort of a way,” she said of her previous job. “Now, I feel more like myself.”

Goldson looked to get smart fast about the food truck business.

She gained on-the-job-training on Boston’s Renula’s Greek Kitchen food truck. Here she learned the art of customer service and basic food truck business 101.

“I am just putting myself out there. I want people to see what I do and say, ‘That girl is on top of her stuff,’” Goldson said.

With a little hands-on experience under her belt, there were still plenty of details to sort out.

There was the purchase of the food truck, sourcing ingredients, securing licensing and marketing the concept. Then came the moment of truth. The price tag to make it all happen: $60,000.

“I wanted to cry,” she said.

Yet she wasn’t about to let that number get in her way.

“Both of my parents came here from Jamaica with very little,” she said. “I am a scholarship student and college grad. So I decided, if they were able to accomplish so much with so little, I should be

Muse Staff able to accomplish what I want with the opportunities I’ve had.”

And that she did with the support of her family, friends and work partners along with her very own business and communication skills. Plus, Goldson was able to turn that daunting $60,000 cost projection into a much more financially manageable one.

“When I decided I was going to quit my job, my boyfriend reminded me that everything I’ve ever wanted to do, I’ve done. And once I bought this truck, there was really no going back,” she said.

Good thing, because Cameo Macaron seems to be a blossoming success. Goldson’s calendar is booked with weddings, baptisms and some well-placed popup events.

She’s even had time to give back: This past December, Goldson held an event at the French Cultural Center where she donated her macarons to the annual Children’s Christmas party.

The future for Cameo Macaron looks extremely bright. Goldson, a consummate planner, already has big plans for Cameo Macaron’s next steps.

“Ideally, I want to start a little café with sandwiches, macarons, tea, coffee and free Wi-Fi,” she

PHOTO COURTESY OF KINESHA GOLDSON

Unable to find a suitable macaron in Boston after studying abroad in Paris as an undergrad, Kinesha Goldson founded Cameo Macaron, a food truck that sells the delicate French confections.

said. “I want to give my customers the same vibe I had in France: a place to come and relax with French music and great food.”

Before that happens though, Goldson hopes to expand to another food truck and get her name out even more — maybe even start a delivery service.

One thing that Goldson knows for sure, however, is that she will

not be leaving Boston, which is a relief because it’s clear that, after one sample of her delicious macarons, we need her to stay close by. And, with spring on the way, it will only be a few weeks until Goldson and her beautiful pink Cameo Macaron truck will be back roaming the streets of Boston.

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Free college, with a catch

The Michigan legislature has introduced a new program that would provide students with free tuition, but, of course, there’s a catch.

In return for free tuition, after a student graduates and begins earning above the poverty line, they have to give up a percentage of their income for a specified number of years. That is assuming, however, that the students part of this program actually get a job after they graduate.

The money taken from graduates’ incomes would recycle back into a special fund that would then pay for other college students’ college bills. This legislation is currently being considered by several other states, and the University of Michigan has decided to implement this as a pilot program, in which they will have $2 million to fund 200 students’ educations.

For five times the amount of years that they attended college, students who attended a community college would have to pay 2 percent of their income, and those who attended four-year universities would have to pay back 4 percent of their income. So, under this program, a student who received free tuition for four years at a school such as University of Michigan would have to pay back 4 percent of their income for the next 20 years.

In theory, this is a tremendous effort by the Michigan legislature to alleviate students of the pressure of financing their education. Spreading these payments over 20 or 25 years would

help those students who can’t afford to pay the price of college in one lump sum. Additionally, linking the payment rate to earnings would protect borrowers when they face hard economic times as having to pay back large student loans can really hinder a student’s potential for success after they graduate.

However, students who leave college making a high salary in the labor market could be burdened by having to pay back many times the cost of his or her education, receiving no compensation for the extra amount they have paid.

Since this program is tied to incomes, those who expect to earn a lot in the future may decide not to participate. However, those are the people that this program would want to participate, as they are the ones who will ensure keeping it afloat. In the same regard, those entering this program with lower paying job prospects run the risk of spiraling this program into the ground.

And what if the economy goes down the drain again and the unemployment rate soars?

Well, they haven’t figured that part out yet.

Large universities such as University of Michigan and Boston University are run like businesses, and to keep getting better and remain on the top of the totem pole, they need to capitalize on high tuition rates — an unfortunate fact that will not support the logistics of this program.

Social media for the anti-social

Finally, a new social media app has been created to eliminate the possibility of a dreaded and awkward encounter with our archenemies during the day. Because apparently, enduring small talk and civil conversations with those we don’t exactly match eye-to-eye has become too much for some people to handle.

Creator of Cloak and former creative director Chris Baker deems this new app, “The social network for the anti-social.”

Cloak would pull location data from social networking apps where people have checkedin. So far, this app is only connected to Foursquare and Instagram, so it will only be useful if people follow their nemesis on those networks.

“I think we’ve seen the crest of the big social network … I think anti-social stuff is on the rise. You’ll be seeing more and more of these types of projects,” Baker said in an email to the Washington Post.

Baker told the Washington Post that he is working on connecting Cloak to more social media services in the future. But even if this app

links up with big sites such as Facebook and Twitter, its efficiency would depend on people documenting every trivial trip they take to Starbucks or the dining hall.

Logistics aside, this app is yet another technological innovation that would disconnect people from each other in social settings. Although we can disconnect ourselves with the swipe of an iPhone, we are still obsessed with connecting with our friends, families and even strangers through social media.

But just as texting and FaceTime have done, Cloak would give us another medium to replace personal interactions, even the unwanted ones.

Our society does not need another way to become more anti-social — we already have the ability to ignore those around us by getting lost in our smartphones.

Although many people live with social anxiety, one of the most important social skills one can have is knowing how to be civil while interacting with those we find unpleasant, awkward or just undesirable.

A Florida woman was accused of torching a car after her boyfriend refused to buy her a McFlurry. We here at the ol’ Free Press were wondering what irrational things people at BU would do if someone denied them a luscious McFlurry.

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SHA: Spit in their food.

COM: They would publish a defamatory article about him or her.

CFA: They would express their woes in a heartfelt monologue.

SMG: They would steal their identity and buy a bad stock.

SED: They would teach their children 1950s gender roles.

President Brown: He would raise tuition (but it would still be one of the lowest rates of increase among BU’s peers, of course).

Life in the left lane

Two ferns, one president SARA Ryan While all of you were enjoying crazy Spring Break vacation in the Bahamas, I was freezing in Chicago. Fun fact: it’s actually colder in the Midwest than New England. While I was bundled up in my Hello Kitty Snuggie (Thanks, Dad!), I watched the latest episode of Between Two Ferns, a video web series produced by the site Funny or Die with host Zach Galifianakis. In this episode, President Obama made an appearance to stump for Healthcare.gov. While I appreciate Obama’s valiant effort, his appearance fell flat and shouldn’t have ever happened.

I understand why Obama decided to appear. It seems like a pretty good call from a public relations standpoint. President appears on an Internet web series to pitch affordable healthcare to the young whippersnappers who watch that weird Zach Galifianakis guy. It’ll make him seem hip with the kids, and he’ll get to speak directly to those who can’t look up from their smart phones.

Full disclosure: I don’t think Between Two Ferns is all that funny in the first place, but the episode with Obama was even less funny than the rest of them. There is something off-putting about the Commander-inChief appearing on the show. The guy with the missile launch codes is trying to make jokes about Bradley Cooper and pardoning turkeys. Emphasis on the word “trying.”

Don’t get me wrong. I completely appreciate what the president is trying to do. A Gallup poll released March 10 reported that 23 percent of young people are uninsured.

That’s a large percentage of the upcoming generation. The faster they can get coverage, the healthier they will be. Medicine has never been better, but nothing is a better cure than preventative measures.

According to a Washington Post article published March 10, the administration wanted adults ages 18 to 34 to make up 40 percent of the exchange. Current numbers have their share of the exchange at 25 percent. Obama wants that number up before the March 31 deadline for open enrollment.

A quick break from our scheduled program: If you know someone who doesn’t have health insurance, get them to sign up for Heatlhcare.gov! There’s no commitment. You put in some information, maybe qualify for a potential tax credit. Then you see if there is a plan that fits your needs.

That’s it! Now that doesn’t seem too scary, does it? I know you don’t want to be the socially awkward kid who says to all his friends, “Hey, guys, have you signed up for Obamacare yet?” But hey! You’d be the socially awkward kid that gets his friends

affordable prescriptions and necessary preventative care. Sounds pretty cool, right? * Now back to our regular programming: The responses to Obama’s interview have been fairly positive, which honestly confuses me. Am I the only one who didn’t think it was funny? There’s something distinctly uncomfortable about the President of the United States telling bad jokes for a web series.

Doesn’t the guy have anything better to do?

This whole appearance was beneath Obama, and we can all admit it was a little ridiculous. Obama is not here to entertain us. He’s here to lead. I don’t want to see videos of our president acting like a mid-range comedian. I want pictures of him in the Oval Office, in The Situation Room and on Air Force One. We should want a president who is doing his job, not putting off important matters to appear on a less-than-funny web series.

I don’t have a problem with the president informing the population about important deadlines critical to their health. My issue lies with how his message was sent. There are a million and one channels on TV these days — I would know, I’m pretty sure I watched all of them over break. There are also other web shows that would be a little bit more appropriate for a president to appear on.

According to the Funny or Die website, the video had 18 million views as of Monday, so we should call the idea a success.

There is nothing like subliminally informing millions of Americans about the government sponsored health care plans. However, while more information is distributed, there is also the hit to the president’s credibility to consider. I wish there were statistics on how many young people signed up for health care because of his appearance. It would make my job as a columnist a lot easier as I wouldn’t have to convince you that the appearance was a mistake.

Alas, it is too late to change the minds of Obama’s closest advisors. However, that doesn’t mean his message was invalid. Just because it was a poor PR decision doesn’t make him wrong. Just swallow your medicine and sign up for the exchange. *Obamacare plug not paid for by the Obama administration. The administration is not responsible for any bullying or friendloss that may result from the described scenario.

Sara Ryan is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences studying political science and math. She can be reached at sryan15@ bu.edu.

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McKay: NCAA Tournament will continue to be unpredicatable McKay: From Page 8

However, the Wildcats could face sophomore Marcus Smart and Oklahoma State University in the round of 32. Smart is, indisputably, one of the best players in college basketball.

He’s also a bit of a head case; he was suspended for three games this season for shoving a fan in a game against Texas Tech University. But if he and Markel Brown, Oklahoma State’s explosive guard can get going, I think they could take down Arizona. In fact, I hope they do. I love watching Smart and Brown play together, and I want to see them go far in the tournament.

The No. 1 seeds are not the only high-ranked teams that could fall early, as other strong

teams have the chance to lose an early game.

The University of Kansas has perhaps the most talented NBA prospect of the last five years in freshman Andrew Wiggins. But the reason the Jayhawks considered a true threat to win the title was the presence of another fantastic freshman, Joel Embiid. The center was averaging over 11 points and eight rebounds per game before being sidelined with a stress fracture in his back. It’s unlikely that he’ll return before the first weekend of the tournament, which is when Kansas could run into seventh-seeded University of New Mexico, which won 15 out of its last 18 games on its way to winning the Mountain West Conference title. Lobos coach Craig

Neal is known for getting the most out of his teams, and this squad isn’t an exception. The Lobos could disrupt Wiggins, make him shoot from outside instead of allowing him to drive the lane, and shut down the Jayhawks.

Syracuse was under a lot of scrutiny this year, as the Orange jumped off to a 25-0 start — best in school history. But the Orange have failed to close the year out strong, losing five out of their last seven games, including a firstround defeat to North Carolina State University in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament.

The Orange shouldn’t have any problems in the first game when they play Western Michigan University. However, a second-round matchup

looms with Ohio State University, which is always a tough team to play in March. Ohio State advanced all the way to the Big Ten Championship Game, falling to the University of Michigan 72-69. But the Buckeyes, led by senior Aaron Craft, could shut down the Orange’s high-octane offensive attack.

Of the hypotheticals I wrote about here, maybe all of them will happen. Maybe none will. But, most likely, some of them will happen. March Madness is exactly that: madness.

Top seeds lose, Cinderella teams win and the nation’s sports attention is focused on college basketball for a few wonderful weeks. Bring it on.

Johnston steps up for injured Myers Men’s Lacrosse: From Page 8

League’s top scorers, as he is tied for second in assists per game with a 1.71 average. The sophomore is also sixth in points per game with 3.29.

During his freshman campaign, he recorded 27 goals and 15 assists for 42 total points in his 14 games as a starter. Doyle scored in each of his 14 games last season and earned Patriot League Rookie of the Year honors for his efforts.

This season, he has scored at least once in all but one contest, registering six multi-goal games for the Bison, including a four-goal game against the U.S. Naval Academy on Feb. 22 and a three-goal outing versus Brown (3-3).

Doyle is not the only player making noise in the Bison lineup, though. Fellow starters junior David Dickson, senior Todd Heritage and sophomore Thomas Flibotte have a combined 47 points among them on 35 goals and 12 assists. Heritage himself has nine goals in his last two games.

“Thinking about it on paper, this is probably the most explosive offense we’ve seen so far,” Polley said. “We’ll have to really step up defensively and play a good game to hold these guys down.”

With freshman attack Pat Myers out due to injury, defense will not be the sole focus of the weekend for BU. Myers tops the Terrier score sheet with points with 15 on seven goals and eight assists. He held the lead in goals until classmate and fellow attack Ryan Johnston

overtook him with his eighth and ninth tallies over the past two weeks. The win on Saturday against Lafayette (1-5, 1-3 Patriot League), however, put some of BU’s offensive concerns to bed as other players, like Johnston, stepped up to impressive degrees.

The biggest thing though, according to Polley, was moving Patriot League Rookie of the Week, freshman midfielder Cal Dearth, up to the first line last weekend, where he recorded two goals and four assists.

“He primarily had been doing everything for us but not playing offense,” Polley said of Dearth. “He plays a ton of [defense/midfield] for us and … We pretty much took away the [defense/midfield] role from him and moved him to our first line, and he helped tremendously.”

Polley said there are elements from the win that he wants his team to bring into the tilt this weekend, namely transition goals, which are what helped the Terriers in their first victory.

“We’ve been struggling scoring in transition, we’ve created a few opportunities that we either haven’t recognized, haven’t scored on or turned the ball over,” Polley said. “We maybe scored four or five transition goals [against Lafayette], which really makes all the difference in the world for scoring.

“We’ve been averaging six-and-a-half goals. To be able to get to 12, because it’s hard to score 6-on-6, those five transition goals went a long way to being able to score over 10 goals, and we’re looking to capitalize if we can create those opportunities again.”

Church, Horka control tempo for Terriers Women’s Lacrosse: From Page 8

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Freshman attack Ryan Johnston leads the Terriers with nine goals this season.

Rice dominates final minutes of contest Rice: From Page 8

ner, reducing the Illinois deficit to four.

Rice demonstrated an aggressive style for most of the second half, driving to the rim when he touched the ball. At the 9:24 mark, he quickly dribbled the ball around the perimeter and drove into the paint for a reverse layup.

With 6:30 left, Rice caught a pass and nailed a corner 3-pointer. On the very next possession, off of a Terrier miss, Rice drove, and without hesitation, gently guided the ball in off the glass, cutting BU’s lead to two.

For much of the second half, the two teams traded baskets, with the Fighting Illini slowly getting the best of the Terriers. The final sequences within the last two minutes, however, finally gave Illinois the lead through the energetic play of Rice.

With 2:11 to go and BU holding onto a fourpoint lead, senior forward Dom Morris attempted to hand the ball of to Watson, but instead the senior lost control and Rice saw an opening to pounce on the error. The guard snatched the ball up, drove down to the other end of the floor and converted his layup attempt while being fouled as Watson tried to wrap his arms around Rice.

The junior then stepped up to the line in front of a frantic section of BU students and knocked down a free throw.

“We were just trying to be tough on the ball,” Rice said, “and we got a steal and made a play.”

Thirty seconds later, Rice found himself again unnerved at the free-throw line, where his two shots gave the Fighting Illini a 62-61 lead.

Then, with 49 seconds left, made a move to the basket and into the body of senior forward Travis Robinson and fought his way into the paint where he again converted a close-range shot.

“I thought Ray was a monster,” said Illinois coach John Groce. “He had sent me a text a few days ago basically saying he was ready to go, and he was. Part of it was Ray was playing for [the seniors]. He stepped up and made big plays.”

Rice again led his team in scoring, but the guard credited much of the effort to his fellow Illini.

“My teammates were doing a great job of finding me and putting me in a great position to score,” Rice said. “I was just playing for [the seniors], we don’t want it to be their last game.

We just keep fighting.”

by one.

To start the second, the Terriers won the draw again. BU came out firing, taking four shots before the Crusaders could even attempt a shot of their own.

On its fifth shot of the half, BU finally put one to the back of the net with a goal from sophomore midfielder Jill Horka. It was her fifth goal on the year, and it gave the Terriers a 4-2 lead with 25:50 remaining.

The Terriers extended their lead to three goals just five minutes later with a free-position goal off the stick of Church and Holy Cross then called with a timeout.

Church responded after the timeout by completing the first hat trick of her career, giving BU a four-goal lead with 17:45 to go in the second.

BU coach Liz Robertshaw said she was happy with Church’s performance, but said she would have liked to have seen other players step up on the offensive end. “[Church] did a good job of going to cage,” Robertshaw said. “I guess, from an attacking standpoint, she’s a ‘middy’. So for us, I think that’s asking a lot of our middies. I

think we were led by both Becca Church and Jill Horka, in terms of scoring, and they’re both middies, so our attackers need to step up.”

Moments later, BU scored again, as Marafioti notched her second goal of the game off an assist from junior attack Lindsey Weiner, her ninth of the season. The goal extended the BU lead to 7-2.

The game was far from over though, and Holy Cross came roaring back with four straight goals, highlighted by two tallies from Ryan, cutting BU’s lead to 7-6 with just over eight minutes left in the contest.

However, BU remained calm under pressure, answering just moments later with Horka’s second goal of the game to make it 8-6, securing the win.

Even though the Crusaders made it close at the end, Robertshaw said she was thrilled with how her defense performed to wrap up the victory.

“I think defensively, we had some huge defensive saves, some good plays,” said Robertshaw. “[Meegan] made some point-blank saves which was great. Just defensively, they locked down and followed the game plan, which was what gave us the win.”

Irving scores 17 in final game of season Men’s Basketball: From Page 8

try. Egwu grabbed the rebound and was fouled

by Watson. He made both of his shots from the charity stripe, capping off an 11-1 Fighting Illini run, effectively ending the Terriers’ season.

Rice ended the game with 28 points, 20 of them coming in the second half of play.

As a team, Illinois shot 58 percent in the

second half.

Irving led the Terriers with 17 points, but it was the Illini who made the key buckets at the end of the game.

“Illinois is a good team, they’re well coached,” Jones said. “They made big plays down the stretch and we didn’t. That’s the difference in the game… We just didn’t make plays down the stretch.”

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We just didn’t make plays down the stretch

-BU coach Joe Jones on falling to illinois in the NiT opening round

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Foul Shots

Sports

In the modern history of the NCAA men’s basketball Tournament (since 1979), the Final Four has been made up of the top four seeds in the tournament exactly one time, in 2008. Every single year other than 2008, a lower seed has crashed the party.

So, it’s fair to assume that this season will be no different. The No. 1 seeds this year are the University of Florida, University of Arizona, Wichita State University and the University of Virginia. The first two teams are traditional basketball powers, while the latter two aren’t.

At varying points this year, all four teams have been considered to be contenders for the national title. As the top overall seed, Florida is the prohibitive favorite to win it all.

No top seed has ever lost a second-round contest to a 16th-seeded team, so we can probably rule out that happening. But top seeds have lost third-round games that are played against the winner of the No. 8-9 seed game. The University of Northern Iowa topped Kansas in 2010. Butler University beat the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. Just last season, Wichita State topped Gonzaga University on its way to the Final Four.

This year, I could see Florida losing to Pittsburgh in the third round.

Florida has won a number of very close games, and Pitt has lost some close ones. Remember when Syracuse University freshman Tyler Ennis hitting a 40-foot prayer at the buzzer to beat Pitt? I do. It was awesome. But Pitt had Syracuse, at the time unbeaten, on the ropes until a miraculous last-second heave. Pitt matches up very well with Florida, and the Gators may be overconfident.

After all, they haven’t lost a game since Dec. 2.

Another top-seeded team that I believe could go down early is Arizona. They were the top-ranked team in the country for nearly two months but had several late-season losses, including a loss in the Pac-12 Conference Championship game to the University of California-Los Angeles. Arizona’s best players are freshman Aaron Gordon and junior Nick Johnson, who both average over 12 points per game in a strong offense.

MCKay, see page 7

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Illinois ends BU’s season with 2nd-half surge Rice propels

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Senior guard D.J. Irving scored 17 points in a losing effort against the University of Illinois Wednesday night.

By Jacklyn Bamberger Daily Free Press Staff

Upon losing both the Patriot League Tournament title and its shot at the NCAA Tournament, the Boston University men’s basketball team found itself looking for a second chance heading into the National Invitation Tournament.

Earlier this week, the NIT selection committee awarded the seventh-seeded Terriers (24-11) homecourt advantage against the No. 2 seed University of Illinois in the tournament’s opening round thanks to renovations to the Fighting Illini’s (20-14) State Farm Center.

To start the game, the Terriers played like a team reborn. After grabbing hold of the lead with 14:33 to go in the first half on a 3-pointer from sophomore guard John Papale, BU looked like it was going to run away with the contest. At one point, BU led 30-13 thanks to the perimeter shooting of Papale and senior guard D.J. Irving.

Unfortunately, it was not enough, and BU could not stop the Fighting Illini’s late second-half surge and fell 66-62.

In the first frame, the Terriers rectified their shooting woes from the last contest, shooting 40.7 percent from the field and went into the break holding a 33-24 lead. Irving

led the Terriers with eight points while Papale, senior forward Dom Morris and freshman guard Cedric Hankerson each had six points.

“It speaks volumes for our team to be able to rebound from last week after being so disappointed to be able to come out the way we did,” said BU coach Joe Jones.

For the Fighting Illini, guard Rayvonte Rice led the way with eight points.

A large part of BU’s offense in the first half was generated off of Fighting Illini turnovers as the Terriers turned Illinois’ eight first-half turnovers into 14 points.

“One of our goals every game is to rebound and run,” Watson said.

“In the first half, those guys missed a couple of shots and we were able to rebound and get out in transition.” “[The Terriers] were smarter in the first half than we were, the bulk of it,” said Illinois coach John Groce. “I thought they were a lot quicker than us ... We were too casual.”

On the Fighting Illini’s first possession of the second half, Rice scored and was fouled. He converted the ensuing foul shot to cut the Terrier lead to just six points. On the subsequent possession, BU committed a shot-clock violation and then center Nnanna Egwu then sank a

jumper to bring the score to 33-29.

Watson answered back, hitting a 3-pointer while falling down to regain the seven-point lead. Rice downed a 3-point shot of his own on the next possession, but Irving responded almost immediately from downtown.

After a Papale jumper at the 12:04 mark brought the BU lead to 48-37, every time the Fighting Illini hit a big shot, the Terriers would rise to the occasion.

A Rice layup with 5:44 left in the game brought Illinois to within two points of the lead. Irving and Morris sank shots on consecutive possessions to extend the Terrier advantage back to six with and it appeared advancing to the second round seemed imminent.

However, Rice took the game into his own hands and with 3:54 left, he corralled a rebound and dished it out to guard Tracy Abrams, who drained his 3-pointer. Two possessions later, Rice stripped the ball from Morris and drove it the length of the court and converted the layup and ensuing free-throw attempt to make it a one-point game.

Papale missed a jumper on the other end, giving Illinois a chance to take the lead for the first time since the 15:04 mark of the first. Rice drove to the basket and was fouled by sophomore forward Nathan Dieudonné. He hit his two shots from the line to give the Illini a 6261 advantage with 1:27 left.

The Terriers failed to respond when Watson inadvertently threw the ball out of bounds, giving Rice the opportunity to extend the lead.

Down three points with 46 seconds remaining, BU attempted to get Irving an open look. The senior could not find space, but he was fouled and converted one of his shots to bring the score to 64-62 with 33 seconds remaining.

BU did have a chance to tie the game up with 10 ticks on the clock, but Morris could not make his layup

Men’s BasKetBall, see page 7

Fighting Illini offense in NIT

By Alex Rozier Daily Free Press Staff

Despite the Boston University men’s basketball team’s ability to lead the University of Illinois for most of the game, Illini guard Rayvonte Rice guided his team to a 66-62 win in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament.

Rice, who transferred from Drake University after his first two collegiate seasons, responded to his team’s 17-point deficit with an extraordinarily efficient second-half performance.

He led his team in scoring on the season and finished ninth in the Big Ten Conference with 15.5 points per game and averaged six boards per game.

The 6-foot-4 guard led the Fighting Illini (20-14) with a game-high 28 points and eight rebounds. Overall he finished 11-for-14 from the floor and 2-for-5 from 3-point territory and did not miss a chance in the final 10 minutes.

Rice’s performance very much mirrored the play of the Fighting Illini, which got off to a cold start. Similarly, Rice only made one field goal in the opening nine minutes.

The Champaign, Ill., native stayed persistent, though, as he finished with eight points and six rebounds at the end of the first half, helping Illinois cut the lead for the Terriers (24-11, 15-3 Patriot League) down to nine.

Rice carried his improved play into the second half. On the Fighting Illini’s first possession of the second, Rice got the ball on the post, where he worked against sophomore guard John Papale to convert a layup while being fouled. Rice hit the free throw, which brought BU’s lead down to six After sophomore guard Maurice Watson Jr. made a 3-pointer at the 17:42 mark, Rice came back down to other end of the floor and answered with a three of his own from the cor-

riCe, see page 7

BU seeks 2nd PL win of year W. lacrosse fends off Holy Cross

By Judy Cohen Daily Free Press Staff

Hot off its first win of the season against Lafayette College, the Boston University men’s lacrosse team will travel down to Lewisburg, Pa., to take on Bucknell University at Christy-Mathewson Memorial Stadium Saturday afternoon.

The Terriers (1-6, 1-2 Patriot League) look to even out their conference record and continue their stint of playing well and on par with their competitors when they face the Bison (4-4, 2-2 Patriot League) this weekend. “[Bucknell is] a very high quality team, and certainly it’s going to be a challenge,” said BU coach Ryan Polley. “They’re extremely talented offensively, and they’re historically great defensively, so it’ll be a really tough game for us, but we’re look-

ing forward to the challenge and building off the momentum of our first win.”

Despite losing three consecutive games, including one to No. 6 University of North Carolina by a score of 20-4 on March 11, Bucknell seems to have been able to steer itself back on track, notching 18 goals in its game against the College of the Holy Cross for its third win of the season last weekend. Wednesday, the team strung together its second win in a row with a 13-8 home victory over Brown University.

An enormous part of this squad’s offense, attack Sean Doyle, a regular starter for Bucknell, is the Bison’s scoring leader, tallying 26 points through nine on 14 goals and 12 assists. Doyle’s efforts have earned him a spot among the Patriot

Men’s laCrosse, see page 7

The Bottom Line

Thursday, March 20

THE END

The BU men’s basketball team ended its season when it fell to the University of Illinois Wednesday night, P.8.

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Friday, March 21

Wrestling @ NCAA Championships, All Day Track @ Hurricane Invitational, All Day

Saturday, March 22

Softball @ Yale Invitational, 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

Men’s Lacrosse @ Bucknell, 1 p.m.

W. Lacrosse @ Navy, 3 p.m.

By Emmanuel Gomez Daily Free Press Staff

In its first home game of the season, the Boston University women’s lacrosse team took on College of the Holy Cross at Nickerson Field on Wednesday evening.

The Terriers (2-5, 2-0 Patriot League) remained perfect in Patriot League play as they defeated the Crusaders (4-6, 2-1 Patriot League) by a score of 8-6.

BU won the draw to start the game and immediately capitalized when senior midfielder Becca Church scored less than two minutes in to give the Terriers a 1-0 lead.

However, Holy Cross would respond just minutes later. Attack Kaitlin Concilio put one past freshman goalkeeper Caroline Meegan to tie the game at one at the 24:23

Sunday, March 23 Softball @ Yale Invitational, 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m.

mark in the first half.

Play became somewhat stagnant, as the two teams exchanged fouls and possession multiple times. The Crusaders took their first lead of the game, when midfielder Laura Ryan scored her 14th goal of the season with 16:38 left in the half.

After the goal, BU’s play and intensity picked up, as the team began to force turnovers and take better shots. The Terriers then tied the game back up just five minutes later off a goal from junior attacker Kelsey Marafioti.

At the 5:49 mark, BU regained the lead when sophomore midfielder Ally Adams scored her second goal of the year to give the Terriers a 3-2 advantage. Neither team could find the net for the remainder of the half and BU went into the break up

WoMen’s laCrosse, see page 7

Monday, March 24

No events scheduled Kobe Bryant recently said that Barack Obama could make the Lakers, but in reterospect so could anyone with a pair of sneakers.