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BUPD, BPD Bomb Squad investigate phoned-in threat Concert to honor marathon bombing victim Lu Lingzi
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In a university-wide emergency text message alert, Boston University Police Department maintained that the area around 233 Bay State Rd. was clear after administrators received a suspicious phone call involving a bomb threat. By Adrian Baker Daily Free Press Staff
The Boston University Police Department and Boston Police Bomb Squad determined there was no threat after responding to a phone call placed Thursday morning claiming there was a bomb somewhere on BU’s campus.
An unidentified individual called a BU building located at 881 Commonwealth Ave. between 10:30 and 11 a.m. and said there was a bomb in an admissions building, said BUPD Deputy Director of Public Safety Scott Paré. The situation was cleared by 11:50 a.m., but a BU Security Alert was not issued to students until all areas were deemed safe.
Paré said it is standard protocol for BUPD to investigate suspicious situations and determine if a threat exists before notifying students. “You want to check out the scene before you send out any kind of alert,” he said. “If there was a suspicious package or something of suspicious nature that enabled it to be a threat, then we would obviously notify students right away to let them know to stay away from that building. But nothing was found. There was never a direct threat to any student.” Responders evacuated and searched 881 Comm. Ave., 233 Bay State Rd. and 121 to 125 Bay State R., all of which are either current or former admissions offices, said BUPD Captain Robert Molloy. The BU security alert was sent out because of concerns about the increased police presence at the locations being searched, Paré said. “We wanted to put the students and community at ease,” he said. “If there was any threat or we thought anybody’s safety was in any type of jeopardy, we would have put that information out immediately.” Spokesman for BU Colin Riley said BUPD’s response is common procedure. “[In these situations], police get on the scene quickly and are able to determine that there is nothing suspicious in short order,” Riley said. “Rather than getting everyone worked up, the most important thing is to get to the scene
the other 38 districts, their request was denied. “We would have gotten it back to the original 10 blank votes if we had continued,” he said. “Why allow it in 2 districts and not in the other ones? It’s obvious they saw where this was headed, and they stopped, and I hope the judge will side with us on that.” Kirsten Hughes, chairman of MassGOP, sent an email to the state’s committee members on Tuesday to tell them that she has spoken to several attorneys about the issues regarding the convention and has begun to create a legal defense fund for the protection of the party and its interests. “While my office focuses on resolving this issue in a manner consistent with the law and the rules of the Party, we must also not take our eyes off the important work of electing Republicans at every level of state and federal government,” she said. “Many of you have labored far
The Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus will perform at a concert Monday in Symphony Hall to commemorate the Boston Marathon bombing victims and first responders. The concert is dedicated to BU student Lu Lingzi, who was killed in the April 15 marathon blasts last year. “The spring concert is typically held in early April,” said College of Fine Arts Director of Communications Laurel Homer. “This year, with it being scheduled just two weeks before the 2014 Marathon, the concert takes on a special meaning. Homer said CFA Dean Benjamin Juarez and professor Richard Cornell, director ad interim of BU’s School of Music, organized the concert to appreciate efforts to heal the city through art. “The dean and professor Cornell recognized the opportunity to bring the BU community together to honor the many ties the University has to the tragedy that occurred in Boston last April, applaud the remarkable efforts to heal the city and celebrate the spirit of determination that unites Boston,” Homer said. Professor of music Ann Howard Jones will conduct the concert, which features tenor vocalist Christopher Hutchinson, a student at the Opera Institute of BU. “They will be performing Hector Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5, a piece known for its complex, large-scale, and often grandiose instrumentations and its ties to Boston’s Symphony Hall, recorded notably in Boston’s Symphony Hall in 1959,” Homer said. School of Music Assistant Director of Production & Performance Casey Soward said Lingzi exemplified the right kind of member of the BU community. “Lu was the embodiment of a modernday Boston University student,” Soward said. “She was an excellent student, friend to many, and while working hard toward her chosen career path, maintained a genuine love and passion for the arts, which in her case was piano performance.” Soward said though Lingzi did not major within CFA, she still took part in many of the
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Gubernatorial candidate Fisher files lawsuit against MassGOP By Felicia Gans Daily Free Press Staff
After barely missing the 15 percent mark to make it to the September primary election, Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Fisher filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Republican Party for a series of alleged mistakes made when tallying the delegate votes. Fisher, who received 14.765 percent of the votes at the state convention on March 22, sought legal representation against MassGOP on March 23, after hearing from a variety of people who contacted the campaign and shared their stories about what transpired on the convention floor. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday, Fisher told The Daily Free Press. “It didn’t appear that there were any options left open to us other than legal and we thought we’d sleep on it and see what transpired,” he said. “We hate to do this, but that’s the only recourse that the MassGOP had left open to us.” Four days after the convention, Fisher’s
campaign sent out an email with the link to a video, referred to as “the smoking gun.” The video was a record of the convention’s roll call, where all delegate votes were read aloud. According to the spreadsheet, which Fisher sent as an attachment to the email, Republican frontrunner Charlie Baker received 2,095 votes, Fisher received 376 votes and ten votes were blank. Without counting blank votes in the final percentages, Fisher received 15.22 percent of the votes. If blank votes are counted, he received 15.16 percent. However, when MassGOP announced the final votes on the evening of the convention, Fisher had received 374 votes, and there were a total of 64 blank votes, keeping him short of the 15 percent vote he needed. Fisher said MassGOP allowed him to challenge the votes in two of the 40 districts on the day of the convention, disallowing all blank votes from those districts. When the Fisher campaign asked to disallow the blank votes in
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Photo exhibition celebrates life, work of late BU student Diego Fernandez Montes By Sebastian Alamo Daily Free Press Staff
To honor the life of Boston University student Diego Fernandez Montes, who passed away over Spring Break, over one hundred people attended the “I Am Not An Ostrich” photo exhibition held at BU’s 808 Gallery on Friday. The exhibition, which was organized by BU’s Mexican Students Association Mexas at BU, featured 25 photos taken by Fernandez, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman who passed away in March, said Lorraine Ziegler, Fernandez’s friend who organized the gallery. “Diego started to become really passionate about taking pictures,” Ziegler, a CAS sophomore, said. “The day before spring break, he went out into the city for two-and-a-half hours and just took pictures of everything. He came over to my dorm later that night and shows me like 250 pictures he took just from that night ... I remembered that I had the pictures so I told his friends and his roommate and the Mexas, and they all came up with the idea of displaying his work.”
Photos at the exhibition included photos taken from the memory card as well as pictures from Fernandez’s blog. The pictures were chosen regardless of theme and with the goal of showing Fernandez’s perspective of the world, Ziegler said. “We were going to pick a city theme but we decided against it just because there are some beautiful pictures about nature,” she said. “Diego loved the city and living in the city, but he also loved nature, so we decided to show both. I think they both represent him and what he believed in. These pictures are the way he sees the world. It is his perspective.” Ziegler said she and the other organizers wanted to give people the opportunity to understand what kind of person Fernandez was and showcase his perspective of the world. “I wanted to do it personally to show his talent, especially to those who did not know him or did not have the fortune to really know Diego,” she said. “I just wanted to show the world what an amazing and talented student
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Boston University featured the photographs of Diego Fernandez Montes at the 808 Gallery on Friday evening. Fernandez, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, died over Spring Break in his home country of Mexico.
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quickly and make an initial determination.” Paré said BUPD immediately contacted security services in Boston and gathered as much intelligence as possible when investigating the threat. The University of Connecticut and University High School in Orlando also received bomb threats from the same number. “We shared the information with the Boston Regional Intelligence Center as well as the Fusion Center. This is protocol, to let them know what was going on,” he said. “… Homeland Security actually advised me [all the calls] came from the same number. So we know we had three calls.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation is following a lead it received regarding the phoned-in bomb threats,
although BUPD detectives will continue to investigate locally, Paré said. Students expressed various opinions on whether they would have liked to be notified before the situation was determined safe. Ngoc-Tram Nguyen, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said she was disappointed she received the notification after the situation was cleared. “I’d rather know ahead of time even if it turns out to be nothing, just because if it was something to be concerned about, and I didn’t know and I headed over there, people could have gotten hurt,” Nguyen said. Jamie Lin, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior, said she trusted the BUPD to decide the necessity of issuing a security alert. “Instead of sending out a premature alert and scaring everybody, I
think the reason they decided to send it after is because they didn’t want to create that kind of panic,” Lin said. “If they alerted everyone of every single threat that they ever get, I think that would overwhelm everyone and cause unnecessary panic.” Elizabeth Jago, a SAR junior, also said only some situations warrant a preliminary security alert, but she believes this was one of those situations. “Not every tiny thing is a concern, but something like a bomb threat, especially after what happened last year [at the Boston Marathon], I think everyone should be aware, just so you’re conscious of where you’re going and who you’re with, just to take extra safety precautions,” Jago said. “Not necessarily that it’s going to turn out to be something, just that it’s better to be safe than sorry.”
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and person he was.” Paola Peynetti, president of Mexas at BU, said the best way to honor Fernandez’s life is through his love of photography. “We just thought that we needed a way to organize an event that would honor Diego’s passions and talent,” Peynetti, a CAS and School of Public Health junior, said. “What’s a better way than to show his photography? He was really into photography before going back to Mexico, and I think he would have wanted to do this when he was here.” Clara Gross, a sophomore at Northeastern University and Fernandez’s friend, said his positive attitude was what she would remem-
ber the most about him. “The most important part to remember about Diego is that no matter how bad things got, he would always have a smile on his face,” Gross said. “I like to think that part of him rubbed off a little bit into everyone.” Teddy Kahn, a CAS freshman and Fernandez’s suitemate, said the exhibition is ideal for celebrating the life of his friend. “After a certain period of mourning, everything should be a celebration of his life,” he said. “There are very few things that Diego loved more than photography, and I think he would have loved to see this many people appreciating and admiring his photography.”
Fisher to keep campaigning despite lawsuit Resident: Higher min. wage could develop skills of workers in Mass. Fisher: From Page 1
longer than I on behalf of Republican candidates through many election cycles, and you know as well as I do that we must not allow distractions to steer us off course.” In a statement about Fisher’s decision to file the lawsuit, Baker said he understands the disappointment and frustration that results from coming up short in an election.
“I respect Mark’s decision to pursue this course of action, and am confident the Party will work to ensure the process was fair and transparent,” he said. “Should a primary be determined to be the fair resolution, I will welcome it and work hard to win the nomination and then carry my message of making Massachusetts great into the general election.” Fisher said MassGOP’s legal team contacted his legal team and asked if
they would settle for anything short of being on the ballot, but Fisher refused. Until a decision is reached on the lawsuit in court, Fisher plans to continue campaigning. “We’re assuming we have the 15 percent,” he said. “The video shows that. The whole reason I started the campaign was to get into the primary, then win that, and get into the general. That’s the only thing that I’m interested in.”
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arts programs offered at the college. “Lu was one of many students who, while not a major at CFA, participated in our arts programs as a non-major by continuing her piano lessons,” Soward said. “I feel that CFA’s ability to offer BU students the opportunity to pursue their artistic passions regardless of their major is one of the greatest assets that CFA provides to the university as a whole” The concert will also feature an exhibition of CFA sophomore Taylor Mortell’s Still Running project. Still Running is a Boston community art project showcasing art of var-
ious media that Mortell originally curated in response to the marathon bombings, “The Still Running project has helped people to find hope, healing and a sense of community, all of which are essential for people who have experienced terrible tragedy and loss,” Soward said. Original works exhibited at Still Running will be gifted to first responders, local hospitals and police stations after they are featured at a series of art shows throughout Boston. “I curated the exhibition because I felt that the theme of the Boston Healing Arts Reception at Symphony Hall was in conjunction
with the mission of Still Running,” Mortell said. “… I hope the message this exhibition carries is reflective of the strength, resilience and compassion of the greater Boston community.” By using the arts to foster healing within the city of Boston, Mortell said she has discovered a new way to communicate ideas and emotions. “Healing and catharsis are incredibly important because these processes allow for intellectual growth and closure,” she said. “Through my own experience, healing through the arts has provided me with a new voice and method of communication.”
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final bill can be sent to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s desk. Todd Idson, a professor of economics at Boston University, said although the traditional model of employment taught in basic economics would predict that a higher minimum wage would cause significant job loss for exactly the lowskilled workers it is designed to help, new research has challenged this theoretical assumption. “Many economists who would have said that minimum wage is a bad idea have softened their stance over the years and have said that a wage increase that isn’t massive perhaps won’t produce meaningful job loss,” he said. “Frankly we can’t be sure what will happen, but most of the research points to this kind of $2.50 increase as the cause of some job loss but that it’s not going to be huge job loss.” Idson also said increasing the minimum wage is not a cure-all solution and that other policies should be used in conjunction. “The goal of the minimum wage is to help out poor workers, but there [are] quite a number of minimum wage workers who are not poor such as teenagers who live in middle class families,” he said. “One problem with the minimum wage is that we are using our resources as a society to help people
who we want to help but also to help a lot of people we don’t want to help.” A number of residents had strong opinions on the minimum wage. Some said it is too low for the current levels of inflation, but others said indirect consequences must be considered. “It obviously hasn’t kept up with inflation so it’s probably a little low,” said Melissa Brown, 28, of Brighton, who has worked many minimum wage jobs. “I don’t think [increasing the minimum wage to] 10.50 is a giant leap, so I don’t think it will upset any balance.” Ben Chase, 23, of Brighton, said the higher minimum wage may price some workers out of the market and may encourage them to continue their education. “Forcing teenagers or lowerskilled workers out and forcing them to develop their skills more, will ultimately make more quality workers in the long-run,” he said. Chase spent time advocating for a higher minimum wage while in college in western Massachusetts and is in favor of the bill. “It’s what really needs to happen right now to raise the quality of life in our state,” he said, “because Massachusetts has always been very much the poster child for the rest of the United States.”
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You’re not my type
Whenever I type, Cambria is my font of choice. It’s not the sturdy appearance of the letters that makes me swoon, but the fact that my eyes can actually read it without me hunching over at my desk with my face two inches away from the screen. A slight exaggeration, but you get the point. As I’m sitting here typing, I’m not ashamed to admit that I keep changing the font between Cambria JENNIFER RUTH and Times New Roman to see if my opinion has changed. And the tribe has spoken — Cambria is still the best. Well, according to a 14-year-old, both fonts are inferior. In fact, Garamond is the font that should reign supreme. That’s a shocker. I was expecting him to say Windings. Suvir Mirchandani won his school’s science fair with a revolutionary idea. He tried to find ways to save ink, paper and cold hard cash after noticing how much paper and ink his middle school used. Mirchandani calculated that the state government could save a combined total of $370 million by switching their default font to Garamond. This font squeezes the letters like a can of sardines, producing a paper with too many words clustered together for the human mind to comfortably process. It’s a good thing that letters don’t have claustrophobia. Can you read this? Well, of course you can read it. But if you’re like me, you probably have horrendous eyesight and your eyes cringe at the sight of it. A textbook written entirely in that font would be my worst nightmare. Back when I was 14, I still thought that making a tornado in two soda bottles taped together was cool. Perhaps, we have the looming age of technology to blame for that — or to thank. Mirchandani is the perfect example of an extremely intelligent individual taking on an interdisciplinary approach, combining his knowledge of computer science and sustainability. And, for that, his effort should be applauded. His findings concluded that it’s not about making things double sided to save paper — it’s all about the ink. “Ink is two times more expensive than French perfume by volume,” Mirchandani sprightly said in an interview with CNN. It’s funny how that sentence in the interview with him stuck out to me the most. I suppose it’s because it makes you realize how much ink actually costs. So, lay off the Chanel No. 5 and dab yourself with a little ink before your romantic date. People are all about having expensive taste. The great thing about Mirchandani’s approach is that he didn’t make it all about saving paper. But instead, he also made it about saving money. While I’m a strong supporter of all things sustainable, I realize that people aren’t convinced by “you should print less because it saves the planet.” But with his approach, it makes you stop and think that we can have the capacity to make the Earth a little better with a simple click of a button. But maybe the solution isn’t as simple as clicking Garamond.
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House approves minimum wage increase Panel to ease By Andrew Keuler Daily Free Press Staff
In response to concerns about the Commonwealth’s long-term economic competitiveness, the Massachusetts State House approved a bill Wednesday that would raise the minimum hourly wage from its current level of $8.00 to $10.50 over the course of three years. The bill passed on a largely partisan vote of 125-24 , with Democrats primarily supporting the bill and Republicans mostly opposing it. The minimum wage for tipped workers would increase from the federal minimum of $2.63 to $3.75 per hour and the minimum wage for farm workers would see a drastic jump from $1.60 to $8.00 an hour. This would reform the state unemployment insurance system by closing loopholes and lowering the tax burden on employer contributions. “[This] will not only put real money into the pockets of working families, but will create more jobs and grow the economy,” said Massachusetts Rep. Tom Conroy, chair of the Joint Committee on
networking for LGBT students By Alicia Winton Daily Free Press Staff
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that proposes an increase in the state’s hourly minimum wage from $8.00 to $10.50 over the next two years.
Labor & Workforce Development, in a Thursday release. “No one who works full time should be living in poverty, and today’s vote will help bring an end to this situation. It’s also a significant step toward addressing the rising income inequality in our state.” The passage of this bill comes
shortly after a bill passed in the Massachusetts Senate that includes raising the hourly minimum wage to $11.00, increasing the tipped wage to $5.50 and tying future increases to inflation, unlike the House bill. These differences will need to be hammered out before a
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Human services jobs in Massachusetts increase By Brogan Calkins Daily Free Press Staff
With 145,000 people working in human services in Massachusetts, employment in the field has increased nearly 50 percent between 2003 and 2011, a recent report from the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute revealed. The Providers’ Council, a statewide association of heath and human service agencies, commissioned The Beyond Social Value report, released Wednesday. The report highlights a growing need for government financial assistance with the growing human service sector, which creates jobs for substance abuse problems, child welfare, the elderly and other healthcare issues, said Providers’ Council President and CEO Michael Weekes. “We are fortunate to have a welldeveloped sector that provides needs for the most vulnerable of the population,” he said. “The human service field continues to be a viable field in providing tremendous social value to the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.” The human services sector in Massachusetts has experienced job growth of 47.9 percent from 2003 to 2011. Twelve percent of the workers in these fields are paid salaries that place them below the poverty level, compared to
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the 8 percent of workers that get paid at this level in all fields in Massachusetts, Weekes said. “[The workers] say things to us like, ‘I love my job, I love the people in the workforce, I love making a difference in our society, but I can’t afford to work in this job … they just can’t afford to do that and raise a family,” he said. “If we can’t get the living wages to where we want them to be, we’re going to continue to see this growing need, and we won’t have the workers needed to address that.” Dr. Michael Goodman, a Boston University alumnus who coauthored the report, said most people understand the social contributions that human services make to Massachusetts, but the economic contribution made by the sector is not understood. “A lot of this work is supported by government financing and those resources have been in relatively short supply in recent years,” he said. “Part of the challenge that these providers face is how do you staff up and support these employees, and meet the needs of those who are in need of assistance and service in a very austere financial environment?” Goodman said he is concerned that the growing industry and financial pressure will take a toll on the employees, making it difficult for them to continue working in the human
services sector. “Even though many of these employees are very personally dedicated, it becomes hard to justify continuing to work at a discount when it’s possible to continue to have the same value in a different location for a significantly higher wage,” he said. Several residents said the report highlights an important issue in the human service sector, and raising government funding would be a valuable improvement to the salaries of human service workers. Kyle Ferraro, 26, of Roxbury, said the employees who work in the human services deserve a salary that recognizes their tireless effort and hard work. “I have a lot of respect for the [human service] workers doing these jobs,” he said. “I have a brother in the field, and he tells me stories about what he does. I’ll just say these people deserve higher wages more than anybody.” Susan Morrissey, 45, of Back Bay, said funding the human services sector to raise the salaries of workers should be a priority for the government. “The way it sounds, human services have needed the aid for a while,” she said. “I haven’t heard much about it until now. Something has to be done. If the government needs to give more money, they should do it.”
The Boston University Alumni Association, LGBTQ Alumni Network and BUBQ, BU’s united coalition of LGBTQ individuals and allies, will hold the first panel of its kind Thursday to address the trials and challenges of queer individuals navigating the professional landscape. “It’s important to work for an organization that is accepting of all creeds,” said BU Alumni Association Associate Director of Alumni Relations Kirsten Lundeen. “There is no question to me that a place like Boston University is very supportive and inclusive of its community, but I also recognize not all industries or companies follow suit.” The event, titled Out in the Workplace: Navigating Professional Landscapes for LGBTQ+ Individuals and Allies, features BU School of Law alumnus Daniel Levin, College of Arts and Sciences alumna Sarah Merriman and CAS alum Shane Morgan as panelists. The panel will be moderated by Patricia Antonelli, Associate Director of Counseling at BU’s Center for Career Development. The plan to hold the panel stemmed from a conversation she had with a BU alumna who was struggling to find a job after graduating, Lundeen said. “We were talking about her work history and professional identity as an LGBTQ+ individual, and it got us talking about whether gender and sexuality should or do play a role in the professional landscape, both in hiring and day-to-day office environments,” Lundeen said. Lundeen said she hopes attendees will gain practical advice as to how identifying as an LGBTQ individual works in the job market. Levin, an LLP associate at Ropes and Gray, said he hopes those who attend the event will be able to learn from the experiences of the panel members and gain insight into the different fields in which each panelist is employed. “Alumni involvement and engagement was very important to me when I was at BU Law and was tremendously helpful to me in finding my professional footing,” Levin said. “As an alumnus I’m glad to pay that favor forward by sharing
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Baseball fans see improvements to Fenway Park menus this year By Adrian Baker Daily Free Press Staff
Baseball fans that attended the Boston Red Sox’s opening day Friday had a host of new healthy foods available to them as one of several improvements made to Fenway Park for the 2014 baseball season, but many attendants said they prefer “classic” ballpark snacks. The Red Sox announced its menus would be expanded to offer items such as a vegetarian sandwich and healthy KIND snack bars, according to a Wednesday release. KIND Healthy Snacks, based in New York, is the new official healthy snack partner of the Boston Red Sox, said KIND Communications Manager Ashley Herendeen. “It’s not always easy to eat Jennifer Ruth is a College of healthy at the ballpark,” she said. Arts and Sciences junior. She can be “There are some delicious options but they’re not always the healthireached at jenruth@bu.edu.
est. We felt that Red Sox nation would appreciate another healthy option at the park.” KIND Healthy Snacks pursued a partnership with the Boston Red Sox in part because of the growing demand for health-conscious food options. “Overall you see in the marketplace a desire for healthy snack options,” Herendeen said. “The healthy snack category is very quickly growing and no matter the venue, what we’ve seen is folks like to have options.” KIND kicked off its partnership with the Red Sox last week when it went into Copley Square with Wally the Red Sox Green Monster to hand out complimentary flowers and KIND bars. Still, a new Tasty Burger stand has been set up within the lower level of the newly refurbished Third
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The Boston Red Sox announced Wednesday it would be expanding park menus by offering healthier options and more items suitable for vegetarians.
Base Deck, which now includes a wall of eight 46-inch high definition television screens for fans to view the game, despite the push of
healthy options. Tasty Burger started working with the Red Sox last season, said
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Panelists to expand Changes made inside, outside Fenway Allard, cofounder of Wheels Up, an aviation discussion of LGBT company based in Boston. Several residents said they support the Brian Reyelt, co-owner of Tasty Burger Coridea of having healthier food options availworkplace experience porations. “We had a stand on Yawkey Way, which able at Fenway, though their opinions varied Fenway: From Page 3
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my experiences with current students.” While at BU, Levin was an active member of BU OutLaw, the School of Law’s student group for LGBTQ individuals. Levin has continued to act as a liaison between BU OutLaw and the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association, where he serves as a member of the board of directors. “I have been very fortunate to work in a place where diversity is both celebrated and sought after,” Levin said. “Being a part of a diverse workplace makes being open very easy. That said, being gay in the workplace is something that I’m still aware of even though it hasn’t been an issue and it will always come with the territory of having traits that are different from others.” Levin advised LGBTQ students to be open and honest with employers about their identities. “If you feel like being open and honest about who you are on your resume or in an interview will sabotage your chances at a particular place, then consider whether you really want to work there,” he said. It’s important to provide a safe space at BU to discuss professional opportunities for LGBTQ individuals, Lundeen said. “Our nation is going through a major perception shift right now in how accepting and inclusive we are with LGBTQ+ relationships,” Lundeen said. “The dialogue has been dominated by gay marriage, but the shift in perception absolutely transcends into the professional landscape, so it’s important we have the conversations there too.” The event, free for BU students and $10 for alumni, will be held in the Photonics Center at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
was a good trial period,” he said. “We heavily enjoyed working with the group and we felt honored to be the official burger of the Boston Red Sox. Now we have a stand inside the ballpark and we’re very excited for opening day.” The stand in Fenway Park will offer exclusive flavors known as “Fan Favorite Burgers.” Changes have been made surrounding the ballpark as well, including an enhanced NESN Zone on Yawkey Way and the rebranded Wheels Up Clubhouse on Brookline Avenue. The NESN Zone will host NESN’s pregame show, an NESN-themed specialty grill and a new and improved ‘Budweiser Bash’ bar that will have many flat-screen televisions for viewing the game. The Clubhouse has an aviation theme with an exterior that resembles a runway, said Bill
as to whether they personally would sample the new menu items. Annette Casco, 51, of Back Bay, said she thinks nutrition is becoming important to more people, but having something unhealthy once in a while, like at a ballgame, is fine. “Eighty percent of the time you have to be good [about the food you eat] and then 20 percent of the time you can be bad, so at the game that’s okay,” she said. “At the same time … it’s great for them to offer that choice.” Kevin Withe, 53, of Dorchester, said he believes foods can be healthy while remaining tasty. “I’ve had veggie burgers that were fantastic, and I’ve actually turned meat-eaters on to veggie burgers and they didn’t know the difference,” he said. “I think you’ve got a good percentage of people who will try it [the new Fenway food] … Hopefully it will catch on.”
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in Building a company? There’s a club for that BU Venture Accelerator helps student businesses get their start Madeline McGill
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ant an application that hooks you up with popular thrift finds in your area Tinderstyle? What about a platform for the exchange of favors between students using virtual currency? Or maybe you’re trying to find a cultural bridge for Chinese students looking to study abroad using easily downloadable content? What do these three ambitious concepts all have in common? They’re all the foundational ideas for startup companies here on Boston University’s campus. All of which are being fostered through Boston University’s Venture Accelerator. Startups are not always as glamorous as portrayed in Mark Zuckerberg’s rise to fame in The Social Network. Some are ideas born in dorm rooms, cradled delicately for years and pitched into the Boston ecosystem dozens of times for scraps from Venture Capitalists. “I feel that everyone who has a startup in college, you know they say it to themselves — in the back of their head they’re thinking that they’re the next Zuckerberg,” said Sebastian Scholl, a School of Hospitality Administration senior and creator of the mobile application Bazaar, which helps people buy and sell items locally. “It’s just kind of like this weird funny hopeful thinking.” Boston is a city known for its startup ecosystem, rubbing shoulders with tech hubs like Silicon Valley and New York. With millions of dollars in educational resources and a highly educated population, students at schools such as Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have long had their foot in the door. With the creation of BU Venture Accelerator, which is working with its second semester of ventures, a group of entrepreneurial-minded students are hoping to give the student body access to resources that might have otherwise been out of reach. “If everything is already done, why should we reinvent the wheel?” said Eduardo Coronado, a College of Engineering junior and director of technology services for BUVA. “Why should we try to overlap with a lot of things that are already done? We want to help them leverage the resources, there are already a lot of resources out there.” Any of this semester’s ventures can tell you that developing a successful startup, with or without Boston’s resources, is no easy task. After the initial inspiration, prototyping and launching a product are steps that cause many young companies to stumble. Zak Eisenberg, CEO and co-founder of the cultural immersion program Allmaia, said one of the challenges in the beginning of the process was simply not knowing where to turn. “I think that the difficulty was not knowing what the hell I was doing, right? Not knowing anything about it,” Eisenberg, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said. “I spoke to as many friends of my family as I could, I read as many things online as I could, but I personally didn’t know
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about the ecosystem in Boston and I wasn’t aware that there were so many resources out there that could help people like me.” Gabriel de Selding, the president of BUVA, said he recognizes that finding your footing in the Boston ecosystem is easier said than done. “The most important thing we do is introduce them [new students] to the Boston ecosystem,” Selding, a School of Management junior, said. “Where to go, what events to go to every weekend and who to know, how to network. The basic stuff that takes a while to get used to when you’re a student, we try to accelerate that, make it a little better and faster.” Besides balancing schoolwork with their entrepreneurial goals, another challenge that some startups face on campus is simply finding people — technical talent in particular — to commit to the undertaking. “Finding programmers is like finding unicorns,” Scholl said, “because one, you’re looking for a programmer, but then two you’re looking for one that you can work with.” Joshua Javaheri, CEO of the favor exchange platform Karma, said finding developers can be difficult, but not impossible. “Since the campus is spread out, it’s hard to find people that you want to connect with,” Javaheri, an SMG freshman, said. “But if you’re putting yourself out there and getting involved, you’ll meet the right people and talk, and it gets out there.” Laurens Spethmann, director of human resources and recruitment for BUVA, said pulling a team together at the college level is one of the more difficult aspects of building a startup, but it is also critically important. “Students are lazy. And students don’t like to commit,” Spethmann, a CAS and SMG junior, said of the challenges of finding the right people to work with. “And that’s been one of the challenges that we’ve seen over time. Is finding technical people,
for example.” Just as entrepreneurs have to be careful about selecting whom they want to build their idea with, BUVA is similarly cautious when choosing which ventures to work with for the semester’s cycle. “We see what the commitment of the entrepreneur is with this idea,” Coronado said of BUVA’s assessment process. “It’s a key thing. So a lot of times it’s more about the entrepreneur than the idea because the ideas might change.” While obstacles exist for early-stage startups in any environment, Boston wouldn’t have gained its reputation for being an amazing startup ecosystem if the pros failed to outweigh the cons. In Boston’s case, there are resources that make the goings a little easier for students then they might be in another startup hub such as San Francisco. “The challenges of being a startup in any setting is being a startup,” Scholl said. “I actually think you have a better chance, it’s a benefit to be in an education setting.” Erik Molander, a strategy and innovation professor in SMG, believes that BU students continually make lemonade from the lemon’s of the Boston ecosystem. This he attributes to three factors: provided food and shelter, lighter financial pressure and fantastic resources. “It is very rare that you will be in a position as an entrepreneur where you have such easy access to a market,” Molander said. “And that’s going to be your fellow students. So we strongly urge students to start a business while they’re in school.” Ian Mashiter, also a strategy and innovation professor in SMG, said Boston’s resources are powerful tools in the hands of motivated students. “The Boston ecosystem is fantastic,” Mashiter said. “It’s very healthy at the moment, it’s thriving. There are all sorts of resources. Just to give you an example, obviously we know about the Venture Capitalists in town, we have angel investors, but
some of the things to pick out are things like the MassChallenge competition … There are incubators and accelerators you can go to whatever your idea is.” The MassChallenge accelerator is only one example of the programs throughout the Boston area aimed at mentoring new companies. The world’s largest accelerator, it accepts 128 early-stage startups per program. With awards that total over $1.5 million in cash grants and $10 million of in-kind deals, it poses as an appealing option for students. When combining the advantages of educational and profession resources, Molander argues that Boston creates a uniquely advantaged environment for student entrepreneurs. “For students starting a business, other than in select areas in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, they’ll never have access to the kind of resources that they do in Boston,” Molander said. “Our ecosystem is just so deep and so knowledgeable that it’s tough to replicate.” Many student entrepreneurs are advantaged, not only by the utility of their idea, but also by their very status as current students. “You’re also uniquely advantaged because you don’t really have any risks,” Spethmann said. “Obviously you need to keep on track with your academic work, but you don’t have a mortgage, you don’t have kids, you don’t have any really high expenses that you need to pay. Obviously, your college tuition. But I think overall we’re young and that gives us an advantage.” On having his own start-up at the college level, Eisenberg finds that taking risks can be easier because while the fear of failing still exists, many of the repercussions of failing are lifted. “When you’re in college you have student loans and yes, you’re in debt,” he said. “But once you’re out in the real world if you don’t have a job you can’t take out a loan. Banks aren’t going to do that for you.” While BU has long exercised entrepreneurial strength though summer programs and the Entrepreneurship Club, BUVA is rising to meet a need that is unmet by the student body. “We had heard that there had been previous attempts,” Coronado said of the need for a student accelerator. “They had failed, similar programs. I guess it would be because people tend not to understand how much work it is and how much time it would take to get it going.” With its five-step cycle that includes categories such as assessment, ideation and prototyping, BU students are proving why Mark Zuckerberg stated that if he were starting a company now, he would have kept it in Boston. “New York has amazing things going on and stuff like that,” Scholl said. “But Boston is more of the incubator. You have all the colleges, and the prominent ones here. You have the professors. You have everyone that wants to learn and teach.”
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BUPD’s delay was reasonable
The Boston University Police Department received a bomb threat in the admissions building from an unidentified individual on Thursday. This call came in between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., and BUPD officials cleared the scene by 11:50 a.m. To ensure the safety of the students and residents in the area, in the span of an hour, BUPD combed through several buildings, including 881 Commonwealth Ave., 233 Bay State Rd. and 121-125 Bay State Rd., following this phone threat. The University of Connecticut received a similar threat Thursday as well. After the threat was called in at about 9 a.m. to the admissions building on the school’s main campus, officials investigated the scene and found no explosives. The threats at BU and UConn were both received around the same time from the same number. Although the threats were not considered “credible,” both of the schools handled the situation very differently. After receiving the threat, while UConn’s main campus was told to “shelter in place,” we at BU carried on our normal days, most of us unaware of the possible danger on our campus. BUPD only notified the student body about the investigation after receiving concerns about the increased police presence in the area. It is concerning that an investigation of such magnitude was happening on our campus without us even knowing about it. Additionally, it is unsettling for those who were in the threatened area to know that they were blindly in the presence of something that could have been very dangerous. Many of us students feel as though there should have been some sort of warning from BUPD as the threat occurred. After all, BUPD used to alert us about every suspicious package around campus, and now the inconsistency and transparency is questionable. If we aren’t told about a possible bomb on our campus, what else don’t we know about? However, although the lack of transparency on Thursday can be seen as a dis-
trustful action by BUPD, in hindsight, they handled this situation in the most reasonable way possible. BUPD deserves credit for clearing the area without inducing any worry or hysteria. BUPD was not trying to hide something from us, but rather they were trying to protect us from unnecessary fear and a disruption. BUPD Deputy Director of Public Safety Scott Paré told The Daily Free Press that it is standard protocol for BUPD to determine if a credible threat exists before notifying the student body. According to Paré, initially determining that a threat is nothing too serious is a key factor in keeping an already-nervous city as calm as possible. It is not like this vigilance has stemmed from an unreasonable place. We are nearing the first anniversary of the bombings and most Bostonians are thinking about it. Considering the nature of the threat, people are understandably bothered, but also, a warning for a false alarm could have worried more people than necessary. We are naturally going to be on edge considering the trauma and fear the Boston Marathon bombings caused. Regardless, there is a great difference between reactionary and practical actions that the should take. If there is physical evidence, then yes, people should be warned to avoid the area. Last year BUPD took reasonable reactionary measures after the Boston Marathon bombings when authorities shut parts of Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street as a bomb squad took a look at a suspicious pressure cooker that was in the area. BUPD neglecting to tell us about the suspicious phone call this Thursday, on the other hand, was a practical measure. When you worry more than 30,000 students in Boston, you not only worry an entire campus, but the entire city as well. If there is something that poses a tangible and credible threat to the student body, then we have a right to immediately know about it from BUPD. A phone call, however, is not much to cause a ruckus about. There is no point in instilling fear and vigilance when there is not much to be fearful or vigilant about.
Third time’s a charm
Sofiya Mahdi In the Central African Republic, the site of a former village can sometimes be determined by an influx of mango tree clusters, with unpicked fruits on the ground. Tim Whewell described these groups of trees, the fruit ripening and falling to the ground, inhabiting a land of forgotten people with an intoxicating scent in a Saturday BBC article. The national language, Sango, has a word kpetene, which translates to “stay out of trouble.” This word often describes the temporary settlements inhabited by families eager to escape friction between neighbours. The conflict in the Central African Republic is between Muslim herders, known as the Peul people, and the Christian majority. However, the rift is not driven solely by religious differences. Politicians who have failed in office stirred up hatred, and young men of the ‘anti-balaka’ militia now say the Peul are “their cows now.” Since these herders are being persecuted, worries of a shortage of meat now plague the area. The situation continues to worsen, but as with many internal struggles around the world, many often don’t hear about them. The story of the fallen mangoes and human strife serves as another reminder that human massacres are still a reality to people, despite efforts by the United Nations and humanitarian organizations to prevent such widespread killings. Thoughts of these conflicts are particularly pertinent Monday, as the world remembers the Rwandan genocide that took place 20 years ago. Nevertheless, as with the Central African Republic, even horrific human events like genocide become politicised. According to TIME, French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has canceled a trip to Kigali where a remembrance ceremony takes place Monday. The controversy escalated after current Rwandan President Paul Kagame denounced France and Belgium for playing a role in the “political preparation for the genocide.” France was a previous ally of Juvénal Habyarimana’s government, and apparently helped train Hutu militants. France has conceded it acted wrongly, but its forces also protected civilians during the genocide. Even two decades on, the political scars of such devastation endure. Nevertheless, in the face of such a harrowing past, years of watching countries struggle has yielded marginal progress. As information spreads, diasporas permeate distant cultures, and the voices of voters are becoming louder. Afghanistan held democratic elections for the first time on Saturday, and despite the positive connotations of a high voter turnout and lawmaker’s enthusiasm for
the day that Afghanistan’s citizens can vote freely, the threat of the Taliban still persists. According to a CNN report, 20 people have been killed due to violence around the election. Yet, despite the danger, a poll indicates that 75 percent of Afghans said they wanted to participate in these elections. While Monday marks a day of remembrance, it also marks a day of unprecedented democratic process. When we think of the word democracy, the predominant country that comes to mind is the United States. But, we often forget, that in terms of sheer numbers, India is the largest democracy in the world. As of Monday, according to a CNN infographic, there will be 15,000 candidates from 500 political parties, all campaigning for the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha (lower house) of Parliament. The total bill for campaigning is set to be $5 billion. That amount is only surpassed by the most expensive U.S. election in 2012, which had a total of $7 billion in campaign spending. And, with 814 million people eligible to participate in voting, the numbers only continue to astonish. That figure is more than the entire population of Europe. Out of this figure, 100 million will be voting for the first time, equivalent to a third of the American population. Twentythree million of these new voters will be between the ages of 18 and 19 years old. That’s the size of Australia’s total population. The most remote polling station will have one sole voter in a remote area of Gujarat. The scale of this operation is immense. Instead of one day to vote, there will be nine days of voting, at 930,000 polling stations, which house 1.7 million electronic voting machines, all guarded by 11 million security personnel. Monday is a day when we mourn humanity’s failings and celebrate its democratic victories simultaneously. While the results of both the Afghan and Indian elections are yet to be determined, we simply cannot afford to forget those who’s only option is to run from the mango trees of the Central African Republic. We cannot afford to taint the lessons we continue to learn from Rwanda, and how genocide is not a relic of the past but a reality of the present. So I take comfort in that lone voter who will venture to a polling station far from the bustling cities and villages of India. Because I want to believe that I live in a world where one day many more countries can say that every single vote counts. Sofiya Mahdi is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a former managing editor at The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at sofiya218@gmail.com.
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Glesener, Mountain Hawks prove to be too much for Terriers Men’s Lacrosse: From Page 8
freshman goalkeeper Christian Carson-Banister. About a minute later, Glesener scored again on an unassisted attempt. The frame ended with Army up 4-1, but BU held advantages in shots and freshman midfielder Sam Talkow split the game’s first six faceoff attempts. In the second quarter, the Terriers attempted to get back into the game when at the 12:08 point, Dearth found freshman attack Sam Tenney who cut inside and placed a shot past goalkeeper Sam Somers. The Black Knights would again extend their lead to 6-2 after a couple of unassisted goals from the sticks of midfielder Shea Mullins and attack Tim Coll with just over nine
minutes left in the half. On a man-up chance, Dearth again brought BU back into the game, delivering a ball to freshman attack Justin Diamond, who scored his first collegiate goal. Redshirt freshman midfielder Patrick Donnelly got the Terriers closer when he fought through outreaching defenders to make the score 6-4 with 2:36 remaining in the half. Trailing by two goals at the break, BU had won more faceoffs, taken more shots and committed fewer turnovers and penalties than Army through two quarters of action. In the third frame, neither team could break through until the 4:26 mark, when Glesener made a pass to midfielder Alex Newsome who scored his ninth goal of the season. However, the third quarter ended in con-
cern for the Black Knights as Somers had to be helped off the field after a play at the end of the frame. He did not return for the remainder of the game. Somers, who is first in the nation in goals-against average with 5.44 per game, was using crutches after the game. Army would take an 8-4 lead less than 30 seconds into the fourth quarter when Glesener found freshman Cole Johnson at close range. With less than seven minutes remaining in the contest, the Terriers would go on a run that nearly tied the score. Schaal delivered a pass to freshman attack Clay Phillips inside, where he scored at the 6:28 mark. A minute-and-a-half later, Schaal made it 8-6 after he scored his second goal of the game when he picked up a loose ball and launched a shot past replacement goalkeeper
Bobby Sincero. The comeback reached its most intense moment with 56 seconds remaining. Sophomore midfielder Sammy Davis made a quick move to the right of his marker and took a few steps before unleashing a forceful shot into the side of the net to cut the Army lead to just one. Talkow won the subsequent faceoff, but the Army defense swarmed the Terrier attack and gained possession to secure the close victory. After the game, Polley acknowledged the persistent effort of his team, but said he was ultimately disappointed. “We’re a learning team and it’s important to remember that,” Polley said. “But it’d be nice if we started to put ourselves in position to win a couple games.”
Dearth leads strong man-up unit Man Advantage: From Page 8
team boasts a .441 success rate, good for second in the conference behind Loyola University-Maryland. “We’ve got a bunch of unselfish guys,” Polley said about the team’s success on the man advantage. “We put a lot of time into man-up, it’s an important part. We struggle to score a little bit offensively so we try to capitalize when we get the man advantage.” BU averages just 6.56 goals per game, which puts them at last in the conference. The Terriers can attribute a lot of their production to their success with the man advantage. Man-up opportunities have accounted for 15 of the Terriers’ 66 goals, which accounts for 22.7 percent of their scoring total. Through 10 games, the Terriers average about 1.5 goals per game as a result of the man-advantage. Polley noted that a lot of this success with the extra man has come from moving freshman midfielder Cal Dearth to the
man-up unit due to his good stick, decisionmaking and height. Saturday, the 6-foot-3 midfielder registered assists on both goals that BU scored on the man-up chance. He has 12 points in his last five games with four of those points coming from man-up situations. “Cal, being a taller player, can see over the defense,” Polley said. “[He’s] one of the guys that’s got some of the best vision on the team, and he makes a lot of good decisions, so he usually puts a pass right where it needs to be. Putting him up top has opened up some things for us.” According to Dearth, part of what makes him such a large part of the man advantage is that he’s familiar with what the team is using now, but he was quick to shift the focus to his fellow Terriers. “I got put on man-up recently so I got two or three on man-up so that was lucky,” Dearth said. “I ran the same thing in high school that we’re running now so I’m used to it, but my teammates are making great finishes and getting open.”
BU drops 1st Patriot League contest Women’s Lacrosse: From Page 8
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Freshman Adam Schaal had two goals and one assist during BU’s 8-7 loss to Lehigh.
‘Even-keel’ personality aids Hynes Hynes: From Page 8
Lauren has given us a chance, and that’s all we’re asking of her.” On the season so far, Hynes, a native of San Diego, has posted a 4.01 ERA while striking out 3.09 hitters per contest. Despite a low strikeout total, the key to Hynes’ success has been her ability to induce ground balls. Her 10.93 ground outs per game total leads the Terriers’ pitching staff by a large margin. Despite the extra burden of pitching a complete game every time out, Hynes has not changed her mentality. “Just take my deep breaths and one pitch at a time,” Hynes said of her philosophy. “It’s the same thing when the bases are loaded or if there are no runners on so I just gotta make the pitch and good things will happen.” Senior catcher Amy Ekart, who caught all three of Hynes’s starts against the Mountain Hawks, said that that the root of Hynes’s consistency on the mound has been the southpaw’s even-keel mentality. “Not getting too high or too low,” Ekart said of Hynes’ personality. “It’s never the end of the world if they score a run and you’re never on top of the world when you strike all three out, so it’s finding a medium of being consistent, being a micromanager and keeping her body healthy.”
Hynes deflected any of her personal success from the weekend, instead directing credit to her teammates. “They know that they have to support me with some runs,” Hynes said. “The defense has to be solid because giving up extra outs is tough when I have to pitch so much but they are all supportive of me, hitting and fielding-wise.” Hynes helped herself at the plate throughout the weekend, hitting .375 with two RBI and two runs scored. ‘It felt great,” Hynes said. “Anyone in the lineup can score. We get on base and we were putting pressure on their defense so it just happened to be me at that time.” Ekart said she believes that Hynes’s performance over the last week has been tremendous and crucial to the team’s success with both Russell and Akers out. “She knows the predicament that we are in,” Ekart said. “She knows that if she can get those ground balls and fly balls, we’ll get those outs... She did a tremendous job, as she has been the whole last week.” Gleason said she is extremely proud of the performance Hynes brought this week. “She’s the fuel that’s leading us right now,” Gleason said. “She’s rising to the occasion and I’m really proud of her. We don’t know when those other two are coming back and she’s got to do it.”
easy chances that should have been prevented.” Though the Mountain Hawks scored first to start the second half, the Terriers retained their composure. BU scored four goals in rapid succession in response to the deficit. Sophomore midfielder Jill Horka scored to cut the deficit to one at the 14:11 mark, and senior midfielder Becca Church evened up the game 18 seconds later. “In the second half we played extremely well,” Robertshaw said. “We saw some mistakes we made earlier in the game and we tried really hard to correct them, which paid off for us when we came back.” Senior midfielder Sydney Godett and sophomore attack Mallory Collins capped off BU’s six-goal run, giving it a 10-8 lead with 9:46 remaining in the game. However, the Terriers could not hold the lead, giving up two more goals, sending the game into overtime.
In the first six-minute overtime period, the Mountain Hawks played ball control for most of the frame, eventually scoring on a shot from freshman Allison LaBeau. Once again the Terriers were pushed to the edge of defeat, only to score in a timely fashion off the stick of Weiner for her second goal on the day. With the game knotted up at 11 at the end of one overtime, the teams entered a sudden-death overtime period. After winning the initial draw control, BU turned the ball over two times and failed on a crucial clearance attempt, setting up a close chance for LaBeau, who converted for the 22nd time this season. Though a heartbreaking way to lose, Robertshaw said she hopes this mid-season conference test could be the perfect wakeup call for the Terriers as they prepare for the final quarter of their season. “This was a hard lesson for us, and it wasn’t an easy one to swallow,” Robertshaw said. “But, I think a game like this one will help us down the road.”
Offense shines in final game of series Softball: From Page 8
more Jessica Calvini, but it was not enough, as the Terriers took the second game 6-4. After pitching 14 strong innings on Saturday, Hynes, had another great outing Sunday. After giving up Calvini’s second home run of the weekend in the second inning as well as one more run in the third, Hynes settled down and kept the score close enough for the Terrier offense to steal the show. In the fifth inning, the floodgates opened. Singles from freshman third baseman Brittany Younan and junior second baseman Emily Felbaum started the frame. Clendenny started the RBI parade with a run-scoring single to right. Junior outfielder Jayme Mask followed up with a two-run double that BU the lead. Batting around, the Terriers plated eight in the home half of the inning off of Lehigh
pitchers Christine Campbell and Ashley Quigley. Another seventh-inning home run from Lehigh, a two-run shot from Waggy, failed to make a dent in the scoreboard. The Terriers won the game by a score of 8-4, winning their first home conference series of the season. Mask could not say enough about the team’s effort over the weekend and throughout the season. “This is the best chemistry on a team I’ve ever played on,” Mask said. “We all believe in each other that if I get up the next person behind me is gonna step up and pick me up. “One of our goals at the beginning of the season was to win every series, so after we came up short in the first game, we knew we had to come out strong in the next two games.”
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Terriers lose Softball takes 2 of 3 in weekend series Hynes throws 3 double-OT complete games home contest against Lehigh By Justin Pallenik Daily Free Press Staff
The Boston University women’s lacrosse team fell at home for the first time this season, 1210, in a two-overtime battle with Lehigh University. The Terriers (6-6, 4-1 Patriot League) came into Saturday’s game riding a five-game winning streak, which included a 19-9 drubbing of the University of New Hampshire. BU was looking to preserve its undefeated record in the conference at Nickerson Field against the Mountain Hawks (6-6, 3-2 Patriot League). Lehigh, on the other hand, had an up-and-down season to that point, and had not won two consecutive games. Before facing off against the Terriers, Lehigh lost at Yale University 8-7 in a nail-biter. After putting up 19 goals in its previous game, BU continued the offensive momentum versus Lehigh, taking an early 3-1 lead. Coming off of a five-goal performance, senior attack Elizabeth Morse scored two goals within the first four minutes of play, increasing her season total to 15. “She’s a player who is determined to win every time she takes the field,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw. “She’s still a student of the game, even in her senior year and she’s willing to put the team on her shoulders. All season long she’s been a fantastic leader for us.” With another early lead in hand, the Terriers grew complacent and the Mountain Hawks made them pay. Following Morse’s second goal, Lehigh scored six unanswered, including two from leading scorer, junior Carli Sukonik. Following Sukonik’s second goal, which put the Mountain Hawks up 5-3 with 12:04 remaining in the first half, Robertshaw pulled freshman goalkeeper Caroline Meegan and subbed in senior Christina Sheridan. “I saw Caroline was struggling and thought a change might swing the momentum for us,” Robertshaw said. “Christina had a great week of practice this week, too, which also helped make this decision. “She really brings the dynamic of experience as well as commanding presence, which is difficult for a freshman to create sometimes.” Sheridan stopped the bleeding as much as she could, but Lehigh still carried a 7-4 lead into halftime, after a late goal from junior midfielder Lindsay Weiner saved BU from a four-goal deficit. “I was disappointed in our first half,” Robertshaw said. “We didn’t execute our game plan defensively, and we allowed some
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Senior catcher Amy Ekart drove in two runs in BU’s first win of the weekend over Lehigh. By Joe Calabrese Daily Free Press Staff
The Boston University softball team captured its second consecutive Patriot League series, beating a streaking Lehigh University team in two out of three weekend contests. Over the last month, the Moun-
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By Joon Lee Daily Free Press Staff
The Boston University softball team started the season with three pitchers: sophomore Lauren Hynes, sophomore Melanie Russell and freshman Makinna Akers. Through the trials and tribulations of the season, the Terriers pitching staff began to take on aches and pains. Eventually, Hynes stood alone in the circle this weekend as the team took on Lehigh University in a three-game series. With both Russell and Akers both out indefinitely due to injury, the Terriers (19-14, 4-2 Patriot League) are left with one pitcher on their entire roster. The injuries have left Hynes with the task of throwing every inning for the Terriers until at least one of the two pitchers recovers from their respective injuries. The weekend brought the Mountain Hawks (17-12, 7-2 Patriot League) to Boston. Favored in the pre-season poll to win the Patriot League, the Mountain Hawks came into town having not dropped a contest in nearly a month, with their last loss coming March 6. Hynes was given the task of pitching in all three games against the Mountain Hawks with nobody ready to come in behind her. With the odds stacked against her, Hynes pitched all three games, throwing a combined 359 pitches across three games during the weekend series and led the Terriers to two wins in the series victory. “[Hynes] is a workhorse and she knows that she needs to step up and do what she’s been doing,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason. “She knows what’s working for her and I think
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BU comeback attempt falls short Man-advantage offense clicking By Alex Rozier Daily Free Press Staff
Playing in its regular season Patriot League home finale, the Boston University men’s lacrosse team fell to the No. 18/20 United States Military Academy, 8-7, this past Saturday at Nickerson Field. The Black Knights (7-3, 5-1 Patriot League) led by multiple goals for most of the game, but the Terriers (1-9, 1-5 Patriot League) made a final push in the fourth quarter to add drama to the contest. “I’m proud of the way we came back, we didn’t let the game get away,” said BU coach Ryan Polley. “To our guys’ credit, they continued to play hard and execute and chip away. But there’s too many lapses in the middle of the game where we stop executing.” Army got off to a fast start, scoring twice within first three minutes. First, sophomore Jimbo Moore got
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tain Hawks (17-12, 7-2 Patriot League) have been firing on all cylinders, coming into the weekend riding a 12-game win streak. Lehigh hoped to continue its dominance against the Terriers (19-14, 4-2 Patriot League). With injuries plaguing the already small BU pitching staff,
sophomore pitcher Lauren Hynes was put in the spotlight as she was tasked with pitching all 21 innings of the weekend. Saturday’s first game shaped up to be a pitchers’ duel when Hynes squared off against Lehigh pitcher Emily Bausher. After amassing only three hits in as many innings, Lehigh was able to get to Hynes in the top of the fourth for three runs off the bats of junior Cassie Waggy and sophomore MacKenzie Velasquez. On the other side of the ball, a BU offense that had been dominating all season long stagnated. Bausher effectively mixed her pitch speeds to keep the Terrier batters off balance. Bausher struck out seven and only allowed one hit off the bat of senior shortstop Brittany Clendenny on her way to a complete-game shutout. Lehigh’s 3-0 victory was Bausher’s fourth win of the season. “I think we were a little timid and we were swinging a lot at the rise ball,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason on the team’s performance. “We were just guessing. We were just timid. In the second game, we said, ‘we gotta be different.’” The second contest was where the BU offense got it going. After allowing two runs in the top of the frame, Hynes helped her own cause in the bottom of the first with an RBI double, bringing in senior first baseman Chelsea Kehr. Hynes was able keep the game under control after that, shutting the Mountain Hawks for five innings and opening the door for the Terrier bats. BU capitalized on an error in the fifth and drove in three runs, with the two-RBI double from senior catcher Amy Ekart giving the Terriers the lead. Lehigh threatened in the seventh with a two-out, two-run home run coming from sopho-
Tuesday, April 1 M. Lacrosse @ Harvard, 7 p.m.
the ball and fired a shot into the upper corner at the 13:46 mark. Then, after winning the ensuing faceoff, the Black Knights found junior John Glesener at the top of the attack, where he placed the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal. BU managed to get one back at the 5:38 point of the first quarter, when, on a man-up opportunity, freshman midfielder Cal Dearth found freshman attack Adam Schaal, who bounced a shot into the the net for his eighth goal of the season. Army wasted little time after getting the possession back, scoring twice more before the quarter’s end. With 3:23 remaining in the first frame, attack Will Mazzone made a run behind the Terriers’ goal and dumped the ball to sophomore Connor Cook, who made a low shot past
men’s Lacrosse, see page 7
Wednesday, April 2 Softball @ Dartmouth, 3 p.m. W. Lacrosse @ Colgate, 4 p.m
By Judy Cohen Daily Free Press Staff
The Boston University men’s lacrosse team has had a tough go of it in its first season as a varsity program, competing with all opponents it comes up against, but losing in all but one game. A large reason that the team has been able to stay close in games is its strong man-up offense. This past week, as BU (1-9, 1-5 Patriot League) took on No. 18/20 U.S. Military Academy at Nickerson Field, the Terriers were almost able to complete a thrilling comeback, but fell to the Black Knights (7-3, 5-1 Patriot League) by a score of 8-7. “All the Patriot League games were really similar where we play well enough to stay competitive, but not well enough to win,” said BU coach Ryan Polley. “We [have to] figure out why can we not get
Thursday, April 3 Softball @ Boston College, 4 p.m.
on the right side of the score board. “We’re a new program, so we want to keep that in perspective, but at the same time we put ourselves in these positions,” Polley continued. “It would be nice if we could make a couple plays in the second half or in the second quarter so that the team doesn’t stretch the lead and put ourselves in a position to win a game and not come up a little short.” Despite the loss, the Terriers put seven goals past the Black Knights, who boast one of the most stringent defenses in the country, allowing just 5.67 goals per game. Two of BU’s goals came on the man-up advantage after the Black Knights committed a penalty. Throughout the season, the Terriers have been incredibly successful on the man-advantage. The
man advanTage, see page 7
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