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Students gather at Youth Walkout for Climate Change New proposal

targets students’ rights on campus

By Drew Schwartz Daily Free Press Staff

Hundreds of high school and college students, including activists from Boston University, left their respective schools Monday and assembled at the Massachusetts State House to protest investment in the fossil-fuel industry.

During the Youth Walkout for Climate Change, a delegation of students entered the statehouse and scheduled a meeting with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to discuss a ban on new fossil-fuel infrastructure.

“Climate change is something that is becoming the defining issue of our generation,” said John Griese, a College of Engineering junior who helped organize the protest. “This campaign has been going on for eight months, and they haven’t been able to get a meeting from the governor’s office. Even the threat of all of the students coming and mobilizing at the statehouse like this was enough to get them to capitulate.”

Griese and other student activists from climate advocacy groups Students for a Just and Stable Future and 350MA, a climate advocacy group, coordinated the rally, drawing several speakers to the statehouse and leading protestors in chants championing sustainable energy efforts.

“You don’t have the luxury of only fac-

By Felicia Gans Daily Free Press Staff

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Student protesters gathered outside the Massachusetts State House Monday morning for a climate change walkout where they urged Gov. Deval Patrick to stop investing money in fossil fuels.

ing the parts of the climate crisis that are convenient, or the parts that are politically expedient,” said climate activist Tim DeChristopher, a Harvard University student who spoke to protestors over a megaphone.

“If politicians like Deval Patrick claim to be on our side, claim to be an ally of the youth and claim to be a climate champion, he doesn’t get the luxury either of only

tackling the parts of the climate crisis that are convenient.”

Student activists in SJSF and 350MA are pushing Patrick and other Massachusetts legislators to follow through with the Global Warming Solutions Act passed in 2008 with the goal of reducing greenhouse

Walk Out, see page 2

SG considers proposal to divest BU funds from gun producers

By Adrian Baker Daily Free Press Staff

Two student representatives from the Boston University Board of Trustees advisory committee consulted the BU Student Government Senate at their Monday meeting about diverting BU investments from civilian gun manufacturers.

The Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing will vote on Friday on a proposal to divest and/or prohibit future direct investments in civilian gun manufacturers until the reinstatement of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. “Our role in this committee is to advise on social issues which we think should guide our investment policy, on issues where social, moral and political concerns trump financial issues,” said CSRI student representative Aditya Rudra, a School of Management senior.

CSRI student representative Garrett

Moore, a College of Engineering junior, said this issue had come to the Board of Trustees’ attention due to the increase in school shootings over the past five years.

Whether BU alone divests from civilian gun manufacturers will not have a profound impact on the weapons market, but it would serve a symbolic purpose, as well as potentially create political momentum by influencing other universities, Moore said.

“According to President Brown, this has been discussed and hotly debated amongst administrations of nearby schools, including Harvard and Brown University,” he said.

Moore said BU could not divulge how much money it currently invests in gun manufacturers due to a conflict of interests, but that would be made known in the future by third party analysis.

Though the committee’s decision will not bind the university, it will have consid-

erable influence, Moore said.

“Technically, it is a recommendation,” he said. “At the same time, it is highly valued. Because you have such a diverse representation on this committee… the voice of the committee is well regarded.”

Rudra said that in the absence of a survey of the entire student body, the results of the unofficial Senate vote helped provide insight on student opinion.

“I think students feel willing, at least the majority do, to take a political stance and say there should be a moral component to our investment philosophy,” Rudra said.

Claire Richer, a College of Arts and Science junior, said the university could make a huge statement by divesting from gun manufacturers.

“Anybody and everybody can denounce and feel horrible about the deaths that have happened across the United States, espe-

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The Massachusetts Joint Committee on Higher Education met at the Statehouse Tuesday for a hearing on two higher education bills, one of which focused on the rights of college students.

H.3942, one of the two bills deliberated at the meeting, would require institutions of higher education to inform students of their right to counsel and their right to call their parents in the event of a disciplinary hearing. Several attendees spoke in favor and opposition of the bill, many of whom shared personal experiences supporting their stances.

Theresa Barbo, the third person to testify at the hearing, said she is a “mom behind this legislation.” She told the committee her son was wrongly accused of touching a girl at a party, and while being questioned, he was never granted a phone call home or read his Miranda rights.

“They charged him with a misdemeanor called ‘annoying a person of the opposite sex,’” she said. “A week later, at a suspension hearing at the university, at which no parent or legal counsel were allowed to be present to support him, my son was finally exonerated and reinstated after the victim in question admitted via speaker phone that she had no problem with my son.”

Barbo said the campus administrators had an obligation to protect her son’s rights, and instead, they only focused on the needs of the victim. As a result, her son’s grade point average sank, and he moved home to complete his associate’s degree at a local community college.

“That we endured what we did in a civil society, especially in an enlightened environment of higher education is unconscionable,” she said. “This bill is common sense.’”

In attendance were Massachusetts Reps.

Tom Sannicandro, Denise Provost, Aaron Vega, Jay Livingstone Angelo D’Emilia and Massachusetts Sen. Michael Moore and Eileen Donoghue. Community members in attendance were given the opportunity to testify before the committee by signing in upon entering the room.

Joe Cohn, the legislative and policy director of the Foundation for Individual

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Voting rights hearing clarifies rampant problems with elections, precincts

By Jaime Bennis Daily Free Press Staff

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The National Commission on Voting Rights held a forum Monday at Suffolk University Law School to hear testimony on the challenges and successes New England voters have faced.

In an effort to identify the challenges Bostonians face regarding voting rights and election administration, the National Commission of Voting Rights held a hearing on Monday with a panel of specialists and testimony from residents voicing their experiences in voting at precincts in Massachusetts.

The NCVR, organized by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is conducting hearings like Monday’s, which was held at Suffolk University Law School, in 25 locations across the country in order to recognize what changes need to be made to ensure voting equality.

John Dunne, panelist and former assistant attorney general for civil rights, said one problem is that people who are eligible to vote fail to register because the registration process is not easily available.

“The big problem today is that those who are eligible to register don’t register because of certain barriers, like not making it open

and accessible for people to register,” he said during the hearing. “There’s got to be more of a positive program to reach out to people and encourage people to become a part of the electoral process.”

At the end of the hearings, the NCVR will publish two national reports: one on voting discrimination issues in states across the country, and one on election administration, said Meredith Horton, organizer of the committee. Both of the reports will be available for policy makers, advocates and voters to help educate the public and support legislative reform.

Dunne said the reports are important because they will bring to light the discriminatory practices that take place at polling locations that affect minority groups.

“Our goal is to show that there are very real, serious, deeply imbedded discriminatory practices engaged in, which interfere with the rights of minorities and other protected groups from voting,” he said.

Elainy Mata, a sophomore at Suffolk Uni-

versity who served as a poll worker during the 2012 presidential election and this fall’s mayoral primary, spoke about some of the discriminatory practices she saw at her polling location in Roxbury where she worked as a Spanish interpreter.

“There were not just Spanish speakers coming out to vote, there were Cape Verdean speakers and Chinese speakers and I couldn’t help them,” she said at the hearing. “The lack of translators baffled me. It didn’t make sense that they couldn’t have help.”

Chris Robarge, 32, of Worcester, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said certain abuses stem from the role of poll observer, a person whose part is to help voters navigate through precincts and the voting process.

“We’ve had a lot of issues,” he said. “What we found was we had folks who were increasingly using the role of pole observer to create an intimidating and hostile environment in some of our polling places.”

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ENG senior: Gov. Patrick a ‘climate advocate’ College reps. plead against lawyers in judicial hearings Walk Out: From Page 1

gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.

ENG senior Colby Smith, a member of BU’s SJSF chapter, said she attended the protest not to criticize Patrick, but to show support for the governor.

“He’s been a great climate advocate, he’s done really great legislature, but he’s still not doing quite enough,” she said. “As young people, this is our problem.

As a legislator, as someone who supports what we are trying to do, he should show that.”

SJSF’s campaign includes encouraging Patrick and his fellow legislators to ban coal, tar sands oil and gas fracking in the state, to build clean energy infrastructure and to create a carbon-pricing system that allows Massachusetts residents to live sustainably, SJSF representatives said.

Sophie Sokolov, a senior at Newton North High School who personally requested a meeting with Patrick from his Chief of Staff, has been involved with SJSF for more than half a year.

“Climate change as a global issue is an unprecedented catastrophe,” Sokolov said. “We have a lot of faith that Patrick will be able to see the moral imperative here.”

Caroline Birsner, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, protested as a member of SJSF and DivestBU, a student group dedicated to discouraging BU from investing in the fossil fuel industry.

“As young people, we have the biggest stake in making sure that climate legislation gets passed,” she said. “Since it’s not getting passed at the national level, states really have the power to make it happen.”

Birsner said although Patrick’s climate change platform is promising, a discrepancy exists between his agenda and what he is currently accomplishing.

“The fact that we weren’t here for very long until the governor agreed to set a meeting with us speaks to the fact that he’s very receptive to this message,” she said.

Griese said SJSF hopes to continue to put pressure on Patrick through support from the students who attended Monday’s protest.

“We have a national network of climate activists and they are all going to start converging, turning their gaze to Massachusetts and turning their gaze to Gov. Patrick,” he said. “We’re going to let him know that the youth around the nation are watching him, and that we hope he makes the right choice.”

Voting hearings across US will catalog problems Voting: From Page 1

Robarge recalled one specific incident where the votes of Hispanic voters were removed from a pile of absentee ballots by a poll observer.

“We found in many cases that observers were using this avenue to challenge voters recklessly,” he said. “They would challenge people who were speaking Spanish or nonEnglish languages. We had a situation in Charlton in 2012 where a poll observer went through a stack of absentee ballots and they pulled out all of the ballots of people with

Hispanic last names.”

Jonathan Simon, a representative from the Election Defense Alliance, said it is important to pay serious attention to the way votes are counted because without that, discussing access, qualification and voter identification can be rendered useless.

“We want to have observable vote counting,” he said. “For some that means hand counted paper ballots, for others it’s a robust and well administered audit process, which is what I hope we are on the way to as part of the new legislation here

in Massachusetts, because until now we’ve had nothing no audits, no spot checks, zero.”

All of these accounts and testimonies on issues facing the voting system will be recorded and used to push for reform, said Tyler Crosby, an organizer of the committee.

“These hearings will result in a document that catalogs all of the current issues all over the country, which will then be brought together in a report that will be given to the public and to legislators,” he said.

“Hopefully it will serve as a backbone for legislative reform efforts.”

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Rights in Education, said institutions of higher education often defend their intentions by stating that students should learn to testify for themselves in any disciplinary hearing.

“If you are a parent of a college student and you have a choice of if your child can get the educational value of defending themselves in a process that could end their education permanently or the choice of having a fair proceeding so that they have a legitimate shot at continuing their higher education and getting their degree, I don’t understand how a single parent … would select the first rather than the latter option,” he said.

Melissa Ortendahl, coordinator of alcohol and other drug programs and community standards at Springfield College, said she opposes the inclusion of law enforcement in all student cases because the purpose of the disciplinary hearing is for the school board to offer an unbiased evaluation of the situation.

“A lawyer, hired by a student, is inherently not a neutral party and is serving on the part of one student and one student alone,” she said. “Our boards are trained

to be able to be impartial and to be unbiased to all candidates presented and to make a determination as to whether or not the student is responsible for the violation of our school policy.”

Also in opposition to the bill, Beth Devonshire, the director of student conduct at Bridgewater State University, said many incidents that include suspension or expulsion do not need to involve law enforcement.

“The conduct process of officers is far too formal for educators,” she said. “Most of us are not attorneys, and we work diligently on creating an educational, not a criminal … process.”

Justifying the significance of the bill, Cohn said this legislation would excuse the cases of plagiarism and other similar cheating accusations from the need for legal counsel. A 2011 federal law, he added, allows institutions to provide legal counsel for all disciplinary hearings and cases.

“Part of it says that if you are going to provide an attorney, you must provide the attorney to both the accusing and the accused student,” he said. “That sentence, plainly on its face, contemplates and allows you to provide students with lawyers.”

SG officials debate whether to take stance on gun divestment SG: From Page 1

cially in these past five years, but there’s a difference between saying that and doing something, even if it’s symbolic,” Richer said.

SG Senators had varying views on whether it was the place of the Senate to endorse the proposal.

CAS Sophomore Class President Tyler Fields said though he feels senators could help the committee gauge student opinion, he does not believe SG should not take an official position on the proposal.

“Regardless of the right or the left’s position on this particular issue, I don’t believe that Student Government is the proper platform to be voicing activist views,” Fields said. “There are

groups dedicated to such issues that can go out and make the petitions, find the support.”

SG Department of Recruitment Director Chris Addis said that taking a stance on this issue went beyond politics and meant embodying BU’s values as an institution.

“At a deep level, it’s a question of our mission statement – learning, virtue and piety – and a discussion on virtue. BU should be a champion of those three simple words,” said Addis, a senior in CAS. “It is certainly involved in politics, but we can try our best to look beyond politics when we’re discussing these things.”

The Senate did not vote on the proposal at the Monday evening meeting because, for the first time this year, it did not meet quorum.

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Campus & City City Crime Logs March 25 to April 1

By Mina Corpuz Daily Free Press Staff

The following crime reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton D-14 crime logs from March 25 to April 1.

Suspect arrested after assaulting officer At about 12:45 a.m. Friday morning, a fight broke out in front of Wonder Bar, located at 186 Harvard Ave. A large group of males made up of several separate parties exchanged blows.

When the fight carried onto the street, officers moved to separate the participants. One of the suspects punched the officer above the left eye before fleeing into the bar. Police arrested the suspect in the establishment and brought him to D-14 for booking. The other men stopped fighting and fled the scene when more officers arrived.

Suspect forces through porch Later Friday, at 6:43 p.m., officers received a radio call to 8 Royce Rd. for a breaking and entering. The victims claimed that unknown persons entered the apartment through the rear porch door. According to the victims, three laptops, an iPad, a digital camera and jewelry were missing.

Victim robbed while walking around Police arrived at 1426 Commonwealth Ave. around 11:00 p.m.

Friday night for a reported robbery.

The victim said when he walked near the intersection of Kelton Street and Commonwealth Avenue, a female suspect exited a blue car then took his wallet and iPhone out of his hands. The suspect ran off toward Harvard Avenue and was not found by officers.

Suspect punches victim over cigarette At 2:08 a.m. Sunday, officers received a call to 116 Brighton Ave. for a reported assault. The victim told police officers that an unknown male approached him and his friend asking for a cigarette. When the victim said he did not have one to give, the suspect punched him on the left side of his face. The victim also sustained a cut to the ear. The suspect escaped in a car.

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IDs now necessary for using BU Shuttle Task force takes on low-income housing prices

By Mina Corpuz Daily Free Press Staff

In response to concerns from students and faculty about nonBoston University affiliated people riding the BU Shuttle, Parking and Transportation Services announced that BU IDs will be required to board buses beginning Tuesday.

To keep the buses running on time, signs to remind potential passengers that the BUS is a service only available to the BU community and staff members will check for identification before the bus arrives, said William Hajjar, director of Parking and Transportation Services.

“The cost of providing the BUS service is substantial, and we have a responsibility to make sure that as much of the BU community gets to make use of the BUS service as possible,” he said.

“To date, active enforcement has not taken place. The only way to get a sense of the volume of unaffiliated passengers is to take some action. We will have a better sense of the degree of the problem after these enforcement steps are in place.”

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In an effort to prevent university non-affiliates from riding the Boston University Shuttle, Parking and Transportation Services requires students to periodically display their BU IDs before boarding the bus as of Tuesday.

The BU Shuttle’s ID requirement will begin with random checks by shuttle bus drivers and checkpoints at high volume stops, Hajjar said.

“We have chosen a random check for ID’s approach as it would otherwise be impossible to maintain the current shuttle schedules … which count on timely passenger ingress and egress, especially at high volume stops where all doors are in operation,” he said. “[This screening

is] similar to what the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority does at the high volume above ground stops of the B Branch [of the] Green Line subway.”

BU spokesman Colin Riley said the BU Shuttle’s purpose is to transport students and faculty between the two campuses — Charles River and Boston University Medical Campus — rather than up and down Commonwealth Avenue.

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Email promotes resources for sexual assault victims

By Drew Schwartz Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University Provost Jean Morrison sent a letter to the student body Monday reaffirming the university’s commitment to eliminating sexual misconduct on campus and building a campus-wide culture of respect and responsibility.

“Boston University prohibits all sexual misconduct, including sexual assault, domestic and dating violence, stalking, sexual harassment and discrimination,” Morrison stated in the letter. “In addition, Boston University provides resources and support to assist all members of the BU community in the event of sexual misconduct.”

BU created the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center in May of 2011, following a number of instances of alleged sexual misconduct and hazing at the university and a corresponding push from the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism and other members of the BU community to create the resource.

In her letter to the BU community, Morrison included a link to SARP’s website and encouraged

students to utilize the resource if needed.

“The counselors at SARP can provide rapid and confidential support at no charge to BU students,” Morrison stated in her letter. “They also can help you connect with other campus and area resources, including campus or area police and the University’s internal disciplinary process.”

A BU Men’s Ice Hockey Task Force was formed in March of 2012 after allegations of sexual misconduct were directed at members of the team. The Task Force ultimately concluded that a “culture of sexual entitlement” existed among the team, due in part to their elevated social status on campus.

The task force’s final report found that players became “insulated from the larger BU undergraduate population” because of housing, training and team-participation demands.

BU came under fire for several alleged sexual assaults in 2012, after former Boston University Men’s Hockey player Max Nicastro was charged with two counts of rape, stemming from an incident in February 2012.

The charges against Nicastro were later dropped when Assistant District Attorney Holly Broadbent the DA’s office determined they would not be able to prove Nicastro guilty beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.

In August of 2012, former Men’s Hockey forward Corey Trivino pleaded guilty to two counts of battery and one count of trespassing. These charges came from Trivino’s arrest in December of that year, when the former student was charged with assault with intent to rape, three counts of indecent assault battery and two counts of breaking and entering.

In her letter to the BU community, Morrison also announced the designation of individuals within each school and college to facilitate BU’s compliance with Title IX, the federal law that requires colleges and universities to respond promptly and effectively to complaints of sexual misconduct.

“You should not hesitate to contact the individual within your school or college to report any concerns of sexual misconduct or discrimination,” Morrison stated in the letter.

To address the housing issues facing Boston’s neighborhoods, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the creation of a 23-member housing task force, assigned with the mission of devising a fouryear housing plan to be launched by June.

Walsh announced the formation of the group at a groundbreaking ceremony for a housing development for the elderly Saturday in Mission Hill. The four-year plan will create manageable goals for the Boston housing market by focusing on development costs, senior, lowincome and middle-class housing options.

The task force charged with creating the plan is comprised of individuals with experience in nonprofit and for-profit development, academic institutions, consultation, housing organizations and government.

“We have to bring key community members and experts to the table to find diverse and creative solutions to these challenges,” Walsh said in a release Saturday.

Sheila Dillon, director of the Department of Neighborhood Development, said the DND will be working with the Boston Redevelopment Authority to provide the task force with the research needed to evaluate housing in Boston.

“We have labor unions, so we really look for a cross section of people that bring different perspectives to the issue,” she said. “If we are going to solve a difficult and complicated problem, we need a lot of expertise. We need to use our resources more effectively.”

Once the plan is completed, city agencies will begin implementing the programs and track their results on a quarterly basis, Dillon said.

Joe Kriesberg, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, will be joining the task force as a specialist in housing member organizations. He said the team of leaders will address issues the city of Boston did not previously have the time or resources to address.

Housing, see page 4

Boston child poverty rate rising, report, US census bureau data suggests

By Stephanie Pagones Daily Free Press Staff

With more than a quarter of Boston’s families with children living in poverty, a recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute found that child poverty rates in Massachusetts have increased 6 percent between 2002 and 2012.

The 2014 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps report, released March 26, identifies key issues for communities by providing statistics and data, as well explaining solutions to improve conditions. Anne Roubal, assistant researcher for the report, said the project is designed so counties can see what changes need to be made.

“There’s always room for im-

provement,” she said. “Nationally, 23 percent of children under 18 are living in poverty, but there are counties that have over 60 percent of people, and nationally, it is growing.”

The data, which was provided by the U.S. Census Bureau and gathered during their 2012 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, shows 10 percent of counties nationwide have child poverty rates more than 30 percent.

Nationally, 17 percent of children were living in poverty in 2002.

That number rose to 23 percent by 2012, Roubal said.

“It is one of those measures that we can capture really well by measuring the federal poverty line,” she said. “There is a stigma about living in poverty, so you may not notice it, but there are almost 25 percent of people living

in poverty. Even though we don’t see it, we know it is there by looking at the data.”

In Massachusetts, Hampden County has the highest percentage of children in poverty, with 31 percent or about 32,260 children living in those conditions.

Norfolk County has eight percent, or about 11,861 children living in poverty, giving it the lowest child poverty rates in the state. Overall, 15 percent of Massachusetts’ children live in poverty.

Of Boston’s neighborhoods, North Dorchester and Roxbury have the highest percentages of child poverty, with 39.2 percent and 46 percent respectively, according to a Health of Boston’s Children report released by the Boston Public Health Commission in 2013.

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A new report conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation concludes that the number of Massachusetts children living in poverty is steadily growing.

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“The advantage of having people outside city government to help formulate a plan is because housing is also done by the private sector,” he said. “City officials working inside city offices cooking up a plan might not work as well as one developed with the input of private folks.”

Joining the group as an expert in non-profit development, John Drew, president and CEO of the Action for Boston Community Development, said he agreed to serve on the task force because he saw it as an opportunity to address problems he is concerned with, including family homelessness and housing for the elderly.

“The affordability gap is widening between those who can afford and those who cannot and we have more and more people in the city not being able to afford housing and very little subsidized housing,” he said. “We can tell as the city booms, as rents are sky high and housing prices are driven up, it has been displacing people who work hard but don’t have a lot of money.”

Creating an effective housing plan for the city will require the task force to work cooperatively across groups of people to leverage resources and create housing that is affordable to a wide range of incomes, said Eric Belsky, managing director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

“The mayor wants Boston to be a leader in this area,” he said. “The

charge to the task force is to come up with some audacious plans. It’s a challenge.”

Several residents said they are hopeful the task force will address housing affordability, but other said the new team might be a futile effort.

Dan Molloy, 23, of Allston, said the task force could play a large role in creating safer and less expensive neighborhoods for recent college graduates to find housing.

“Housing prices is a big issue especially for college kids and recent college grads like myself,” he said.

“Hopefully it will make housing more available to more people and places that may not be super safe and help find places that can be updated and renovated.”

Joe Nagan, 38, of Kenmore, said he is skeptical the task force will solve the housing issues that face the city’s homeless.

“Homelessness in Boston is a much wider problem than a task force can solve,” he said. “What is he going to do, give houses to the homeless? Maybe a job task force would be much better. Take the homeless and give them a promise of shelter in return for work. Give them pride, give them something to do.”

However Robin Kikuchi, 39, of Fenway, disagrees. He said even a little help for Boston’s homeless population would make the task force worthwhile.

“I work with some of the homeless, so I know a little more detail about what their plight is,” she said. “Any help that they can get, I support.”

“The first thing is that the Charles River Campus is a walking campus,” he said. “If you’re waiting for a shuttle for more than 10 minutes, you probably can make it to your destination more quickly than if you started walking unless you’re on the extreme ends of campus.”

Several students said while they are concerned by the delays ID checks might cause, they understand why BU officials implemented the policy.

Victoria Wasylak, a freshman in the College of Communication, said restricting shuttle services to the BU community is good for those who pay and rely on its services.

“We’re the ones paying all the money and the shuttle is a part of tuition fees,” she said. “It’s not fair if other people are using it. …

The school doesn’t want people to take advantage of the system.

It makes students feel cheated because those people are not paying $60,000 a year.”

Fritz Howser, a College of Fine Arts sophomore, said the policy might be too extreme an answer for a small problem.

“There had to be a massive influx of random people getting on and taking seats away from students, but I doubt it,” he said. “I hardly see this and don’t think it’s a big deal.”

School of Management junior Chris Yang said the policy addresses safety concerns for fac-

ulty and students.

“I think it has to do with public safety,” he said. “The Provost recently sent an email about sexual misconduct and rape. That and the changes could be things that are working in parallel.”

Alexandra Raman, a junior in COM, said Parking and Transportation Services should address more pressing problems with the BUS instead of dealing with the smaller issue of ridership.

“I wish that they would invest time in figuring out a system to get more buses especially during winter,” she said. “ I signed a petition for it. It’d be a better way to spend time instead of making sure that a few people aren’t on the shuttle.”

Research suggests unemployment, child poverty linked PoVErty: From Page 3

Roubal said the rising child poverty rates go hand-in-hand with unemployment rates and the cost of living. The authors of the report are looking to change the conversations nationwide from talking about child poverty statistics to talking about solutions.

“We are bringing other people to the table,” she said. “One of our main goals is to bring attention to the social and economic factors behind childhood poverty.

We want to be able to give all these kids a fair shot.”

Several residents said child poverty is not a noticeable problem in many of Boston’s neigh-

borhoods, but the rising numbers nationwide are disconcerting.

Kiran Reddy, 37, of Beacon Hill, said poverty does exist, but it is more or less prevalent depending on the neighborhood.

“I would imagine that child poverty is present, but there is variation depending on the area,” he said. “Overall, we need to do a better job of taking care of children holistically, but in order to spur change, we must provide children with a good education.”

Lindsey Connors, 26, of Allston, said Boston has strong techniques and initiatives for handling poverty, but there are other cities where poverty may be a larger issue.

“Poverty definitely exists, but I wouldn’t say it’s as prevalent here as in other cities,” she said. “It’s there, but you don’t really see it as much.”

Sarah Whitlock, 42, of Back Bay, said it is easy to forget about the poverty found in other neighborhoods, cities and counties, and it is an issue that lawmakers and community groups should be looking to improve.

“Living in Back Bay, I don’t really see a lot of it,” she said.

“Every now and then, I’ll see someone outside of a T stop or on a street corner, but it’s a very big issue. I do believe it’s widespread outside of our little bubble.”

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Activists celebrate Women’s Rights Movement ‘A Revolutionary Moment’ conference brings feminists to BU

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eminists of all ages held hands and swayed to the melody of Kristin Lem’s youthful voice as she strummed her acoustic guitar and sang “We Will Never Give Up.” The lyrics to her song, “We will never give up.

We’ll never give in. Don’t you know we’ll never give up? We will never give up. We will never give up,” accompanied by her long, wavy blond hair and colorful outfit, made her hippie feminist days obvious to the crowd, who smiled and sang along with her.

The feeling of accomplishment expressed in Lem’s song set the tone for “A Revolutionary Moment,” a women’s conference hosted by Boston University’s Department for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies over the past weekend.

The conference, which began Thursday and concluded on Saturday, drew activists from the late 1960s and ‘70s and hosted panels and scholars of the second-wave Women’s Movement of the mid-20th Century.

Activist, author and conference panelist Sue Katz said she remembers her beginnings as a student at BU and how she started the university’s first women’s liberation collective in 1969.

“As a woman at BU in 1965, I could be expelled for wearing pants anywhere on campus, or for staying out later than 10 p.m. on week days and midnight on weekends,” Katz said. “Of course men had no such restrictions. Birth control was illegal, being queer was officially considered a psychosis and it was against the law to dress in the clothes of the opposite sex.”

Katz said the collective grew because of the many women who wanted to join. From there, women were matched with others in order to form more collectives. Katz said at least eight collectives with about a dozen women in each were formed in that academic year alone.

“The very concept of equality implies the acceptance of and desire for the status quo,” Katz said. “If people want to marry so that they can get health insurance, wouldn’t they be better off fighting for Medicare for all? If people want to marry because of all the federal material benefits accruing to those who wed, why not fight to stop giving privileges to people who are coupled over those who are single.”

Katz, along with other feminists, agrees that the main difference between feminism today and the feminism of the ‘60s and ‘70s is the organizational structure.

“People are not working and living in intense collectives and communes where daily the group uncovers yet another way in which women — and others — are being screwed,” Katz said. “Except for the too-brief excitement of the Occupy movement, there hasn’t been the intensity of shared revelation or a wide culture of political agitation as there was then. So many committed rebels were fighting racism and unjust wars and sexism and homophobia. It is harder now, without the ether filled with resistance.”

Katz was a panelist on the “Women’s Liberation’s Revolutionary Potential,” one of the many panels at the conference.

Another panel at the conference was “Women’s Activism in Chicago: How the ideas of the women’s movement framed struggles in hospitals, the workplace and schools.” Activist Christine George spoke

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Kristen Lem and other “A Revolutionary Moment” participants celebrate the Women’s Movement’s accomplishments by singing “We Will Never Give Up” at BU.

about labor unions and her experiences in Chicago. George recognized the fact that in some ways feminism has not changed, but instead it is the organization of feminism.

“The issues are all the same but there isn’t a movement right now in the same kind of way: they aren’t the level of organizations and there isn’t sort of the combining of anti-war movement, the civil rights movement, and that whole intensity,” George said.

“There’s a lot of things going on that have to deal with equality and women, but its just being done in different ways.”

Other panels at “A Revolutionary Moment” focused on a specific culture of women, such as the panel of Martha Cotera. Her panel, “Las Mujeres de la Caucus Chicana,” which translates to “Women of the Chicana Caucus,” focused on the role second generation Latinas played in the National Women’s Caucus. Cotera was also a part of a second panel titled “Chicana Activism” which focused on the digital archive project called “Chicana Por Mi Raza.”

“These projects deal with the issues of second wave feminism in the archives and collected materials from second wave oral interviews,” Cotera said. “I was a participant in second wave feminism and my daughter used to come with me to all the conferences, so when she started teaching at the university she realized there were very few archive material she could access. That’s why we started doing a digital archive-collecting project, so they could be on the web, accessible to students nationwide.”

Cotera is the author of Diosa y Hembra and The Chicana Feminist; both books deal with Hispanic feminists showing activism in the United States. Cotera said her heritage has always played a major role in the activism she was involved with and it still influences her today.

“Because I am Hispanic, I have been involved in Mexican American activism since I was in high school, maybe even junior high, and same thing through the University

of Texas in El Paso and after the university,” Cotera said. “I’ve always been an activist because I know that we need to do a lot of work in order to get the community ahead. We need not to repeat the past mistakes, build on our strengths, and do it right this time. We need to be inclusive and respectful to each other.”

Chelsea Del Rio, a history doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan who focuses on lesbian history, spoke on a panel, “Challenges and Alliances Across Boundaries of Race, Sexuality, and Class,” assessing the challenges and goals for lesbian feminism. As a scholar and a feminist activist, Del Rio said she is always trying to find the connection between her research and the real world.

“My hope is that my research is in someway beneficial to the community,” Del Rio said. “Lesbian history is woefully underrepresented in history generally, so part of the project that I’m doing is creating history that allows lesbians in the queer community to see the work that has been done in the past.”

Robin Payne, a historian who studies the Women’s Liberation Movement and teaches history at Fairmont University in West Virginia, traveled to Boston to hear the stories of the feminists that came before her.

“The conference has been fantastic; it’s been really exciting and interesting to hear the women that were involved in the grassroots movements in the late ‘60s and ‘70s and hear some of their first hand experiences,” Payne said. “One of the things that keep being brought up is the ongoing war on women and the various elements of lingering sexism and the fight of reproductive freedom.”

Despite the difference between the eras of Payne’s feminism and the feminism on which “A Revolutionary Moment” focused, the goal of feminism has not wavered from its original message, she said.

“There should be true equality, weather that means eliminated the wage gap or improvements in laws so that women have more control of their lives,” Payne said. “Anything that goes toward true equality.”

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The Daily Free Press endorses TrueBU for Student Government

Student Government has made significant reforms to Boston University in the past year, including instituting Gender Neutral Housing and increasing BU Shuttle service during peak hours on campus. However, both slates — BU’s Push to Start and TrueBU — recognize there is still much to overcome and accomplish in connecting student voices and the administration.

With the best interest of the student body in mind, both slates have created strategic platforms to bridge the gap between the student body and administration. Although both platforms are built with passionate and dedicated members, TrueBU has proven itself to have the most forward-thinking, modern and creative approach to accomplishing its goals.

Alexander Golob, a College of Fine Arts sophomore; Sandra Soto, a School of Education sophomore; and College of Arts and Sciences juniors Cassandra Shavney and Salma Yehia each are already active in affairs both inside and outside of SG. Their prior involvement in various leadership roles around campus has proven their competency as individual members, as well as a team. They recognize they still need to prove their qualifications and dedication to the student body. As a result, they have already conducted extensive planning and research on their agenda.

TrueBU plans on changing the role of the vice president of internal affairs to more than just a “glorified secretary.” Additionally, they will make SG more accessible and visible by updating the list of senators for the student body. They have already begun outlining and researching their grant program that would support community-oriented student projects and start-ups.

TrueBU has also drafted a plan to host bi-monthly forums to foster conversation between students, faculty and administrators.

Although some of their plans may seem lofty, their intents are strategic, and when broken down, feasible.

TrueBU identified that the biggest hurdle SG faces is the lack of student interest. To solve this, they have built their platform on the three ideals of community, empowerment and trust. At the same time, they know none of this can be accomplished without adequate and increased communication with the student body. With constant campaigning in the

George Sherman Union, TrueBU has already proven its commitment to making themselves completely visible and recognizable to the student body.

We are not discounting the credibility of BU’s Push to Start. Both slates hold similar ideals, and members from BU’s Push to Start have already played their part in accomplishing change to benefit our student body, both in and out of SG. One slate member’s direct connection with the BU Panhellenic Council is an attractive characteristic for the large Greek Life population, which could also ensure Push to Start’s victory.

On the surface, electing BU’s Push to Start would be the easy and obvious option for voters. Richa Kaul, the current vice president of SG and presidential candidate, is already a prominent and recognizable figure on campus.

Jaime Ellis, the candidate for VP of internal affairs, helps lead the BU Panhellenic Council as the VP of programming. These two candidates make BU Push to Start an incredibly strong slate. In terms of the slate’s claims of superior experience, Kaul and Ellis may overshadow CAS junior Joe Ferme and CAS freshman Josh Mosby.

Members of BU’s Push to Start have an undeniable dedication and passion for SG. Two of the members have valuable depth of knowledge and connections that would attract voters, and regardless if they win or lose this election, there is no doubt Kaul and Ellis will still remain involved in SG’s affairs.

However, TrueBU has acknowledged that one of SG’s greatest problems is a lack of transparency and credit for what they have accomplished. They have recognized that the current members of SG have pushed significant changes through the administration. The fact that much of the student body is unaware of this success, however, speaks to the flaw in their execution.

Choosing a slate based on connections and tenure would continue to inflate the bubble that both TrueBU and BU’s Push to Start are trying to burst with their platforms. SG needs a slate that is both innovative and unbiased in their approach to working with the administration to pass resolutions. TrueBU is comprised of fresh new faces that would give the student body the creative and modern perspective we need to make the most out of our BU experiences.

You may not believe me if you saw me today, but in my younger years I used to be extremely overweight. High school was a nightmare for my waistline and me. It was a period of my life defined by self-loathing, extremely low self-esteem and battles with fad diets that I prayed would result in the loss of excess pounds.

No Dairy. No Grains. No Sugar. No Alcohol. Those are the tenants of the Paleo diet that have helped me transform my body from fat to fit.

No alcohol? To those who know me, the phrase, “Yeah right,” is silently running through their heads. But seriously. No alcohol.

Not only was I forbidden from alcohol, but adopting Paleo eating habits also meant that I had to end the 25-year love affair that I had with pizza once and for all.

On the last night before I became a modern day cavewoman you better believe that I chowed down — between sobs — an entire large pepperoni pizza, with extra cheese, all to myself.

Believe me, no one was ever more saddened by the thought of eliminating pizza and booze from their diet than I was. At one point in my life, Coco Puffs and beer were a legitimate excuse for breakfast, and still there's not a day that goes by that I don't miss the relationship I had with my Domino's deliveryman. But it was a serious change in diet that I needed to make if I ever wanted to really feel good about myself.

The Paleo diet is a focus on eating natural foods that have been around for thousands of years. In other words, the “Caveman diet,” as it is also sometimes called, focuses on eating the way nature intended it to be.

If it comes in some cute packaging or contains ingredients that sound like they were birthed in a chemistry lab, chances are it's probably not Paleo. Nowadays, the standard American diet, featuring foods saturated with sugar, refined sugar and even more sugar, is simply ruining the health of almost anyone who tries to eat according to the food pyramid.

As it turns out, we're built to eat different foods than what we mostly eat now.

The overwhelming amounts of sugar and unnatural processed foods that saturate our diets just weren't around when our caveman ancestors were running around, throwing spears in saber-toothed cats and speaking in “fe-fi-fo-fum.”

So eliminating processed foods is a

way to rid your body of the tons of preservatives, salt and sugars that are so often added to our favorite foods like breakfast cereal, bread, candy, donuts, pasta and cookies. By moving away from daily processed foods and toward natural foods, it's virtually impossible not to make better eating decisions.

So what am I eating now that I'm a Paleo woman?

Actually, for a diet that cuts my two favorite food groups, dairy and grains, I'm still left with a ton of delicious options. As a Paleo eater, there are more than 100 different types of food at my disposal, and I hardly ever feel deprived.

Almost all meats are Paleo by definition, so if it used to moo, oink or make some other sound — it's fair game.

And yes, that means I can still eat bacon. Thank God, because I needed some guilty pleasure to replace my beer and pizza cravings.

How about shellfish? Shrimp? Fish and other seafoods are definitely on the Paleo diet. The ocean is so beautiful and generous with its delectable oysters and succulent shellfish. Not only are they deliciously Paleo, but also they're chock full of good stuff like Omega-3's as well.

If it swims or has fins, go for it. Heck, even the occassional meal at Red Lobster is OK, as long as you have the willpower to say no to the rolls. Thankfully almost all fruits and vegetable are on the diet as well.

When I’m hungry I make sure to stuff my face with obscene amounts of asparagus, avocado, brussels sprouts, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, apples, oranges and grapes. I inhale almost every kind of fruit and nut, and cook with oils like olive and coconut oil.

The best part? Unlimited cups of black coffee. The key to my heart. Fill 'er up.

In the year-and-a-half that I've been eating like a modern day cavewoman, I've lost more than 30 pounds, cleared my skin of unruly breakouts, increased my energy level and strengthened my immune system.

They're great improvements to my health that I wouldn't trade for a slice of toast or a bag of Skittles. I prefer to count myself out of the two-thirds of adults in America that are labeled as obese. So go ahead and keep that slice of cheesy pizza.

I'll just take a skinnier jean instead.

Kate Hofberg is a graduate student in the College of Communication. She can be reached at kwhofberg@gmail.com

The opinions and ideas expressed by columnists and cartoonists are their own and are not necessarily representative of the opinions of The Daily Free Press.

Terrier Talk Reflections

In light of the the upcoming Student Government elections, The Daily Free Press wanted to know what students are looking for their elected slate to accomplish during their next term.

Here’s what some of them said.

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BRIAN McGRATH

“Just keep things running smoothly, maybe throw in a couple perks here and there, like attract more businesses and restaurants to accept dining points. And more buses!”

— CAS freshman

KARA NILAND

KATHRYN VAZ

TIFFANY NG

“I think they need better advertisement — I never know what is going on. Facebook isn’t enough, there are other ways to reach out and say, ‘come to this event.’”

“I know student government works really hard to make sure that our voice is heard as a student body, and I know that there is not a complete revelation that they can do, but what I expect is little things in order for them to add up to a bigger and better BU.” — CGS sophomore

“They [SG] should include other organizations on campus, bring in other clubs to help out and give back to the community.”

— COM senior

— CAS senior

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McKay: Napier, Huskies have what it takes to win championship McKay: From Page 8

snuck into the Final Four without much fanfare; they’re not exactly Cinderella teams, given Connecticut’s storied history.

However, both teams were overshadowed by lower seeded squads in the Final Four, with Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011 and Kentucky this year. This year’s UConn team will face a Florida team hasn’t lost since early December.

So you could say the Huskies have their backs up against a wall. But honestly, I’ll be shocked if they don’t beat Florida.

There’s something about UConn teams that forces you to never rule them out. In 2011, the Huskies had a vocal, experienced leader in Kemba Walker, who now plays

for the Charlotte Bobcats in the NBA. This year the Huskies have senior Shabazz Napier, a player eerily similar to Walker in skill and style. Napier scored 25 points and snagged six rebounds in the Huskies’ win over Michigan State University.

Napier is “Mr. Do-Everything” for Connecticut, a player capable of hitting a fadeaway 3-pointer, playing inspired defense, snagging a defensive rebound and leading a fast break in quick succession. His versatility, much like Walker’s three seasons ago, is one of the reasons UConn will knock off Florida and whoever wins the KentuckyWisconsin game. But, the biggest reason that UConn has the inside track to the national title is their experience. Napier is a senior, and the Huskies’ best player. Napier

has been here before. He knows how to handle the pressure. That’s where he, and the Huskies, will have an edge over Florida, a team that hasn’t been to the Final Four since 2007. If the Huskies can top Florida, they’ll face either Kentucky (the mowst inexperienced team in the country) or Wisconsin. Wisconsin could be a troublesome matchup for the Huskies. The Badgers haven’t been to a Final Four since 2000, but Bo Ryan’s team runs a slow, plodding offense that could overpower the Huskies.

Forward Frank Kaminsky could present a matchup problem; he dropped 28 points and 11 rebounds on No. 1 seed Arizona in the Elite Eight. He’s a bruiser on the inside, and can step outside to hit the three-pointer.

There’s an excellent chance that I’m

completely wrong, and Florida will bulldoze UConn on its way to the Gators’ first national title since Joakim Noah was running the show back in 2007. But I have a gut feeling that UConn is going to win.

Normally, my gut feelings are about as reliable as public transport, but I’m feeling strong about this one. If, by some act of god, you had UConn in your Final Four, or even winning the national title, pat yourself on the back. You saw past all of the hype surrounding Wichita State and Michigan State, and picked a team that’s smart and has been here before. College basketball is quickly becoming a one-and-done association, but every so often a team shows us the value of experience.

‘Stellar’ Terrier offense leads Patriot League in average, RBI Softball: From Page 8

know they’ll be just as excited to play on Wednesday.”

The Terriers come into the contest riding a doubleheader sweep at Army (12-17, 2-4 Patriot League) on Monday to claim their first-ever Patriot League series victory.

On the day, senior outfielder Jayme Mask went a combined 3-for-6 and had four RBI, while freshman infielder Brittany Younan led the offensive charge with four hits.

In the circle, sophomore pitcher Lauren Hynes shined, earning both wins in the doubleheader. She allowed just three earned runs between the two games, pitching a combined 14 innings.

Weather and field conditions permitting, the Terriers hope to get their first home game of 2014 behind them on Wednesday when they face off against the struggling Huskies.

So far this season, not many things have gone right for UConn. The team sports a measly .233 batting average overall, with six of its regular starters batting under .250, and four hitting below the Mendoza Line of .200. Collectively, Connecticut has driven in just 68 runs on the year.

The one redeeming member of the Husky offense is sophomore Valerie Sadowl who leads the team in nearly every

hitting category. She has compiled a .348 average, .594 slugging percentage, .403 on base percentage, 24 hits and four homeruns in 2014. The Husky bats will hope to rally behind her if they want to have any chance of getting something going against the Terriers.

On the flip side, the Terriers’ offense this season has been nothing short of stellar. Combined, the team has driven in 140 runs behind a .318 average, leading the Patriot League in both categories. BU’s offense, led by senior outfielder Jayme Mask and her monstrous .436 average, will be looking to pounce on opposing pitching on Wednesday, as the Huskies are dead last in team ERA in their American Athletic Conference this year with a bloated 5.16.

As for the strategy, Gleason said the coaching staff has a simple philosophy for Wednesday’s contest.

“We just really play the game,” Gleason said. “There could’ve been a lot of nerves … at Army this weekend in our first Patriot League series, [but] they never really showed that to me and just continued to play the game like we have. … I can just imagine that that’s what we’ll do tomorrow and that’s been our focus all year, and that’s what our coaching staff preaches every day.”

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of confidence. She has confidence in herself and in her team and it shows.”

UNH sophomore Laura McHoul helms the Wildcats with 40 points from 16 goals and a team-high 24 assists, while junior Laura Puccia owns a team-high of 27 goals. The only other two players to reach the double-digits in goals are junior Kayleigh Hinkle with 17 and sophomore Nicole Grote (12).

In goal, BU will look to freshman Caroline Meegan. She has played every game for the Terriers this season and has started in nine of them. The freshman has posted a

4-4 record and owns a 10.55 goals-against average and a .425 save percentage.

On the other end of the field, UNH will look to junior Taylor Hurwitz who has played every minute for the Wildcats this season. For 2014, she holds a 10.18 goalsagainst average and a .454 save percentage.

For Robertshaw though, the key for the Terriers in this game will be to work on stopping the potent Wildcat offense.

“UNH is a strong team offensively,” Robertshaw said. “They have a lot of veteran players who are putting points up on the board. We need to slow that down and our defensive unit has to step up and play a good game against them.”

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sence, Polley and his coaching staff have had to look elsewhere for offensive power. Redshirt freshman attack Sam Tenney and freshman midfielder Cal Dearth continue to make enormous contributions as the team’s new offensive catalysts.

In last Saturday’s matchup against the Navy (4-5, 3-3 Patriot League), Tenney recorded three goals for his second hat trick of the year. His first came against Lafayette College during the team’s first victory in which he tallied four goals. Tenney is now the second Terrier to reach the double-digit mark in goals with 10 and is also second on the team in shooting percentage with a .357 success rate.

“He has a knack for scoring,” Polley said of Tenney. “He has a very good shot, and he’s pretty creative with his different release points.

“We talked to [Tenney] when we decided he was going to be the one who was going to replace Pat and get his significant minutes.

We talked to him about what we needed him

to do as far as handling the ball in Pat’s absence and he’s done a very good job in handling the ball and making good decisions and doing what we knew he could do, and that’s put the ball in the back of the net.”

Dearth’s role, however, differs from Tenney’s. Toward the beginning of the season, the midfielder was relied on more for his defense than his offense. Now, with Patriot League Rookie of the Week under his belt, he has taken on a larger offensive role and assumed more responsibility on the field, scoring some goals of his own as well as moving the ball around to create plays for his teammates.

He has seven assists on the year and has notched six goals, good for a total of 13 points, which puts him third on the team right behind Myers and freshman attack Adam Schaal.

“Cal’s just an overall great player,” Polley said. “When Pat went down, we were really struggling to score so we knew we needed to step it up.

“He’s just doing a great job and [he’s] someone we think we can build our program around.”

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For the second time in as many weeks, midfielder Jill Horka claimed the Patriot League Midfield of the Week.

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Riding a four-game winning streak, the Boston University women’s lacrosse team will take on former America East Conference rival in the University of New Hampshire at Nickerson Field Wednesday afternoon.

After losing five out of their first six games, the Terriers (5-5, 4-0 Patriot League) have come into their own. This season, all but one loss came against a nationally ranked team, including defeats coming at the hands of No. 1 University of North Carolina, No. 2 University of Maryland and No. 10 University of MassachusettsAmherst.

During BU’s winning streak, the team’s defense has been at the forefront, as three of its four victories have been one-goal contests. The Terriers were able

to limit opponents to an average of 6.75 goals per game and 21.1 shots during the successful stretch.

On the other hand, the Wildcats (5-6) have had an inconsistent start to their season. UNH started the season out on a positive note, taking its first game over Hofstra University. After that win the Wildcats had trouble getting into the win column, dropping four of their next five games on the schedule. The Wildcats fell in their latest game to the University of Vermont to fall back under the .500 mark.

The Terriers have held the advantage in head-to head meetings with the UNH, holding a 22-13 all-time record against the Wildcats. Last season, UNH narrowly edged BU by a score of 13-12.

UNH has won two of the last three meetings, but BU defeated the Wildcats 13-8 the last time the

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teams played at Nickerson Field in 2012, one of the eight consecutive losses the Wildcats have on the road in Boston.

“Just because we’ve won most of our games at home against them doesn’t really mean anything,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw. “We’re a different team and so are they. It’s nice to play at home and not travel, so we’re excited for that, but it doesn’t add to our confidence. We like to create our own history.”

The teams for the first time ever will be in different conferences because of BU’s move to the Patriot League. Despite being in different conferences, Robertshaw said the intensity of the two teams would not change.

“It’s a big historical rival regardless of the conference,” Robertshaw said. “We’re still rivals due to things like the proximity, the fact that we cross recruit and the fact that it’s a very dear game to our alumni. It’s still going to be a heated game that we’re looking forward to.

Leading the Terriers on offense this year is senior midfielder Becca Church who tops the team with 16 points off of 14 goals and two assists. Sophomore midfielder Jill Horka and junior attack Lindsay Weiner are close behind with 15 points each. Horka has netted 12 goals and three assists and Weiner has put up four goals and 11 assists. Redshirt sophomore attack Mallory Collins has contributed 14 points off of 12 goals and two assists to round out the solid group.

The Patriot League recognized Horka for the second straight time as Midfielder of the Week. Horka potted the game-winning goal against Lafayette College this past Saturday and has a sevengame point streak.

“She [Horka] is playing great,” Robertshaw said. “She’s fearless, she takes risks whether its on offense or defense, she’s shooting well and she’s playing with a ton

The Boston University Softball team will finally begin the home portion of its season against the University of Connecticut this Wednesday.

Uncooperative weather has wreaked havoc on the Terriers’ (16-12, 2-1 Patriot League) schedule over the last few weeks, canceling the March 26 and 27 matchups against Bryant University and Providence College and postponing three more this past weekend against the U.S. Military Academy BU Coach Kathryn Gleason said she can not wait to kick off the season in Boston after the long wait.

“We’re really excited,” Gleason said. “… After the heavy rain over the weekend our field just wasn’t ready, so it’ll be ready for us [Wednesday]. I know that after traveling for the first six weeks, this team is very excited to play at home.

“I saw 20 people in the office yesterday saying, ‘Why aren’t you playing? Why aren’t you playing?’”

Despite Tuesday’s wonderful 47-degree weather with plenty of sunshine, the game against UConn (7-20) was postponed due to difficult field conditions. A week of cancelations and postponements can stifle the momentum of any team, but Gleason remains optimistic that the team will not be hindered by the changes.

“I think this team the whole year has been about resiliency, and they’ve been really easy-going and flexible all year,” Gleason said. “You know, we’ve had rain delays over Spring Break … we’ve had flight delays and bus [issues]… So as much as they wanted to play [Tuesday], I

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By Joe Calabrese Daily Free Press Staff

Carson-Banister continues to make strides during 1st year

By Judy Cohen Daily Free Press Staff

A key facet of the Boston University men’s lacrosse team’s first season has been the stellar play of freshman goalkeeper Christian Carson-Banister.

Although Carson-Banister is sixth in the Patriot League with a .538 save percentage, the Dallas native has made 105 saves through nine games for the Terriers (1-8, 1-4 Patriot League), which equals about 11.67 per game, a conferenceleading number. He posted 12 saves last time out against the U.S. Naval Academy and has registered six double-digit save outings so far in his freshman campaign.

“He’s doing a great job,” said BU coach Ryan Polley. “He’s seeing the ball very well and he’s saving it, and

In just about every game it has played, BU has proven its capability in competing with its opponents.

The Terriers have stayed close with top teams like No. 16 Colgate University and Lehigh University, falling by just a few goals in both contests.

“I think we’re competing very well,” Polley said. “We’re playing in one of the toughest conferences out there, a very good conference.

We have [three] teams ranked in

the top-20 and a couple under consideration, and every week our guys prepare, and they’re learning how to play at this high level and we play our hearts out for 60 minutes so I’m pleased with that.”

As their record indicates, however, the Terriers have had trouble coming out the other side of their games with the win. Part of the problem is the fact that BU is outscored by a 31-goal margin in the second and third quarters of its games, posting scoring margins of minus-20 in the second quarter and minus-11 in the third quarter, respectively.

Polley said he does not believe the goal differentials are the result of the team letting up, but rather a consequence of a young group that tends to turn the ball over.

“We’re playing some good

teams,” Polley said of the defensive issues. “Certainly the rate at which we turn the ball over is something that hurts us. Our turnovers lead to more opportunities for the offense and the more chances you give them, the more they start to figure out what you’re doing offensively and defensively and create good chances. It’s just a matter of time until they break through and score.

“I just think our guys make mistakes. They make youthful mistakes and these good teams are capitalizing on them.”

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when we do make mistakes defensively, he bails us out a bunch, and he’s playing at a very high level.

He’s been [an] individual that has played all season at a very high, consistent level. He’s been terrific.”

Middle quarter struggles

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New Hampshire set to battle with Terriers Softball eager to

Patrick McKay

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The BU women’s lacrosse team will play former America East Conference foe UNH on Wednesday, P.8.

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Experience matters

Like everyone else in the good old United States of America, my bracket is crap. I have one Final Four team still alive, and it’s the top overall seed in the tournament, the University of Florida Gators.

So, I guess I can say that I was 25 percent correct in picking the last four teams standing. That’s something. I’m not all that surprised that the University of Wisconsin got this far; Bo Ryan is a solid coach and the Badgers have outstanding upperclassmen that lead and push their teammates.

But the remaining two teams have absolutely shocked me. The eighth-seeded University of Kentucky, a team so youthful that they start five freshmen — the first time a team has done this since the University of Michigan’s Fab Five of 1991 — looked inconsistent all year, losing to lowly University of South Carolina and the University of Arkansas in late February and early March. But the Wildcats, behind the steady play of forward Julius Randle and the twins Aaron and Andrew Harrison, upset top-seeded Wichita State University and No. 2 seed Michigan on its way to the Final Four.

The last team in the Final Four is the seventh-seeded University of Connecticut, fresh off of a oneyear postseason ban for violations committed under former coach Jim Calhoun. UConn started off strong before faltering down the stretch with two losses to Southern Methodist University and one to the University of Houston. But, the Huskies have pulled it together in the tournament, beating the second, third and fourth seeds in their region on their way to the Final Four.

It’s this Huskies team that is still flying under the radar, despite the fact that they’re hotter than a nuclear reactor. The Huskies remind me a lot of the 2010-11 UConn team, which beat Butler University in what was undoubtedly the worst game of basketball I’ve ever seen to win the national title. Both UConn teams sort of

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Thursday, April 3 Softball @ Boston College, 4 p.m.

Track @ Stanford Invitational, All Day Track @ Florida Relays, All Day

M. Lacrosse vs. Army, 12 p.m.

Softball vs. Lehigh, 12 p.m., 2 p.m.

W. Lacrosse vs. Lehigh, 3:30 p.m.

Track @ Stanford Invitational, All Day

Offensive adjustments Freshman attack Pat Myers is still out due to injury, and in his ab-

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