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NEWS BU alumna Louise Baigelman recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30 list for storysharing platform. p. 3

CATALYST Inaugural AR in Action conference features current and past technological developments. p. 5

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SPORTS After a long road to the men’s hockey team, freshman Gabriel Chabot has embraced BU on the ice and in the classroom. p. 10

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Tito Jackson to run for mayor of Boston

BY SHANNON LARSON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

climate, the neighborhood has been noticeably well kept since the coalition began its work.

“They’re really doing a great job at keeping it clean every day,” Laden said. “It’s not like they come through and then it piles up until it’s a mess again. They’re doing it consistently.”

In addition to maintaining and beautifying the neighborhood, Laden said that workers from Project Place have been acting as role models for the homeless and underprivileged in the area, as many of them had to overcome

Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson announced his candidacy for the mayor of Boston on Jan. 12, challenging Boston Mayor Martin Walsh for the office.

In an interview with The Daily Free Press, Jackson, who currently represents District 7, said his campaign theme “We Are Boston” promotes his goal of inclusivity and his desire for all citizens to have equal opportunities to succeed.

“I’m running for mayor because although Boston is a great city, we are leaving people behind,” Jackson said.

Jackson cited an income gap and a discrepancy in life expectancy between neighborhoods as examples of imbalances currently facing the city.

“Fifty percent of the people in the city of Boston make $35,000 a year or less,” Jackson said. “In the city of Boston, we also have, in my district alone, from one end in the Back Bay to the other end in Roxbury, there’s a 33-year difference in life expectancy.”

Jackson emphasized that the city’s attention has shifted away from issues like public education and affordable housing, and that funds are not being prioritized appropriately.

“We have lost our way, and we are concentrating on big events like the Olympics and INDYCAR instead of the issues that working families are dealing with,” Jackson said.

“Rents are sky-high, folks are still struggling to get permanent housing and to afford to live in the city of Boston. We are not investing in the Boston Public Schools in the way we should.”

His campaign will primarily focus on issues concerning job creation, small businesses, public education, the city’s youth, protection from violence and gentrification, Jackson said.

“We will definitely be able to deal with the issue of job creation, and having equity and opportunity in job creation, and also the ability for businesses and small-businesses to

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Boston University’s Medical Campus makes progress in the efforts to clean up the area in partnership with Mayor Martin Walsh’s office and Project Place.

Coalition continues Medical Campus cleanup

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One month after Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the city’s initiative to revitalize Lower Roxbury and South Boston neighborhoods, the city’s effort, in partnership with Boston University’s Medical Campus and Project Place, is currently in full swing.

BU joined Walsh and Project Place, a nonprofit organization, in December to improve the area around the Melnea Cass Boulevard

and Massachusetts Avenue intersection. The goal is to create a safer neighborhood around the university’s Medical Campus and work towards a solution to homelessness in the city, The Daily Free Press reported on Dec. 12.

The employees from Project Place are active and present in the community, caring for the neighborhood and addressing homelessness and drug abuse issues in the area, said Marcie Laden, the director of development for Project Place.

Laden said although landscaping and planting are less evident in the current winter

Amsterdam Falafelshop closes after two years in Kenmore Square

BY ALANA LEVENE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Amsterdam Falafelshop announced last week that it has permanently closed up shop near BU after two years in Kenmore Square.

Matt D’Alessio, former owner of Amsterdam Falafelshop at 642 Beacon St., said the closure is due to a dry business environment amidst nearby real estate redevelopment and the shop’s inability to integrate itself into Boston University’s dining plans.

“The primary reason [for the closure] is that the entire [Kenmore] area is sort of influxed with real estate redevelopment,” D’Alessio said. “A lot of new, exciting things are coming in.”

The redevelopment is set to continue in

Kenmore Square on the BU side of the bridge, according to D’Alessio.

“Once things started opening on the other side of the bridge, we saw a precipitous drop in our sales, which was obviously problematic,” D’Alessio continued.

D’Alessio speculated perhaps the timing to open Amsterdam Falafelshop in Kenmore Square was off. Regardless, when the dynamics of the foot traffic changed along with the development, sales appeared ill-fated.

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Amsterdam Falafelshop closed its location in Kenmore Square this month.

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A look at Class of 2021 early decision students

BY BREANNE KOVATCH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University admissions office has seen an increase in this year’s Early Decision applicants. The university has received 4,181 Early Decision applicants, providing a 22 percent increase from last year, according to a university official.

“This is a strong sign that Boston University is both a first and top choice for thousands of students,” Executive Director of Admissions Kelly Walter wrote in an email.

The university has sent letters of acceptance to 916 students in December, resulting in a 42 percent acceptance rate for those who applied for the first of two Early Decision rounds.

Another 2,039 prospective students applied for the second round of Early Decision, and they will receive their decisions from BU by mid-February.

By the end of the second round, the university plans to enroll 1,190 students in total, making up about 35 percent of the class of 2021, according to Walter.

“By applying Early Decision, students are sending a very clear message to BU Admissions that, if admitted, they will accept our offer and enroll at BU,” Walter wrote Here is a look at the first members of BU’s Class of 2021: Lauren Cooper, of Ocean, New Jersey “I look forward to focusing my education on my interests in global public health. I also look forward to [becoming an Emergency Medical Technician] on campus. I knew BU was the school for me after my dad, who graduated from BU in ‘84, took me to visit the campus. I saw a student walking to class with his backpack on and textbook in hand, and I could see myself in his shoes. I attended a three-week high school program on campus over the summer and that just sealed the deal for me.”

Chris Lu, of Taipei, Taiwan “As a sibling of a Terrier, I have always considered BU as a university I would like to study in. After touring around the school last October, I was confident that BU is the perfect school for me! I really look forward to making new friends, participating in intramural volleyball teams, as well as different student associations and clubs! I am also very excited to continue my research journey as a psychology student through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.”

Nicole Somerstein, of Stamford, Connecticut “BU has everything I was looking for. I really became interested after attending an info session during my sophomore year, and when I visited campus a year later it all just fell into place. I knew I wanted a school in an urban setting, and Boston is one of the best cities to go to college in so that was a really attractive feature. Plus, they have a great business school and highly-ranked academics altogether so it was a perfect fit for me. There are so many things I’m excited about! Just being able to study in Boston is definitely something I’m really looking forward to, and I can’t wait to meet all the people at BU. It’s a pretty scary time in transition from high school to college, but BU has so many great aspects that I know it’ll be really fun.”

Sarika Nadar, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania “I found out about BU when I was just researching different websites. One afternoon I spent it just looking at the BU website and I fell in love with the school. One of the things I loved about BU is that it has so many opportunities. A program that really interested me (and I ended up writing my essay on it) was the BU Philhellenes program. I really wanted to study abroad in Greece after my vacation there this summer. After visiting the campus in September, I knew I had found my school.

I’m excited to meet the diverse community,

and see some of the people I’ve met so far. I’m really excited to move out of my small bubble, and move to the big city.”

Tara Tamone, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida “I visited BU last year during the fall and fell in love with how beautiful it was. Also, coming from a large high school, it brought comfort when I [saw] the large crowds of students walking to class down Commonwealth. I know it sounds corny, but the dining hall is what I’m looking forward to a lot. It was delicious … totally not what I had in mind when I think of college food. I can’t wait to participate in maybe intramural volleyball and see what clubs [BU] has to offer.”

Vyshnavi Kosuri, of Ellicott City, Maryland “I loved the intense academic rigor [at BU] and the research studies being conducted at BU, specifically research done by Dr. Andrew Budson on music having a positive effect on Alzheimer’s patients, mixed with the lively city environment on campus!

I am looking forward to joining an acapella group, joining the Society for Neuroscience, making memories and lifelong friends and receiving a top-rated education [with many] opportunities from a world-ranked academic institution!”

Jonah Nguyen, of Boston, Massachusetts “I knew BU was the school for me when I stepped [into] the George Sherman Union. The pride shown through their students and its enormous and diverse community swayed me. The endless amounts of opportunities to explore your future career is indescribable. If I have to be completely honest, [I’m looking forward to] Lobster Night, but also the amazing food and making lifelong friends. Finally, I guess I have to say the education and going abroad!”

Clemons to run for Jackson’s city council seat JACKSON, FROM PAGE 1 be supported,” Jackson said. “We will definitely deal with the issue of public education and the need to support public education.”

Jackson said it is critical for the local government to ensure that people are safe and not experiencing violence at the rate that many neighborhoods currently are.

“We had 296 shootings last year in the city of Boston, with [approximately] 50 murders,” Jackson said. “That’s 50 families this past New Year who had somebody missing in their family.”

Jackson stressed the importance of student activism and local elections.

“The things that most directly affect you are decided by city government,” Jackson said. “I think it’s also very critical that we engage the over 150,000 students that are in the city of Boston. We want student voices at the table.”

In response to Jackson’s decision to run for mayor, several candidates have emerged to fill his District 7 City Council seat, including former Boston police officer Charles Clemons.

Clemons said he supports Jackson and values public safety as well as education, vowing to put these two areas into focus if elected as a city councilor.

“I will fight gentrification, I will increase the funding for our education and public schools,” Clemons said. “When it comes to community policing, making sure we have the officers get out of their vehicles and interact with the community to build that trust.”

Several Boston residents expressed vary-

CAMPUS CRIME LOGS

BY MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ MERCADO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Jan. 13-15.

Wallet stolen from Questrom A female student reported on Friday at 12:26 p.m. that her wallet had been stolen from her backpack, which was left unattended in Room 324 at 595 Commonwealth Ave. Medical assist at 24 Cummington Mall Officers responded to a report made on Saturday at 11:55 a.m. of a female student who had spilled Methylene blue, a hazardous chemical, on her foot. The student was treated at the scene.

Pants stolen from FitRec A male student reported on Sunday at 5:42 p.m. that his pair of pants was stolen from a storage cubby in 915 Commonwealth Ave.

CITY CRIME LOGS

BY TILL KAESLIN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following crime reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from Jan 17-18.

Vandalism reported at Mass Apparel in Allston Officers responded to a radio call after an attempted breaking and entering at 383 Cambridge St. at 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday. Before the officers arrived on the scene, the witness, an employee at Mass Apparel, claimed the suspect fled after seeing him in the store.

Drunk clients removed from Paradise Rock Club in Allston Officers responded to a radio call requesting help with unruly patrons at 967 Commonwealth Ave. at 9:36 p.m. on Tuesday. Prior to the officer’s arrival, the Paradise staff attempted to remove two patrons, both of whom were highly intoxicated, yelling racial slurs and swinging punches at the staff. Once outside, Boston University Police Department assisted the staff in restraining the patrons until BPD officers arrived.

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Tito Jackson speaks at a city council meeting last October. The city councilor, who represents District 7, is now running for mayor of Boston.

ing opinions on the mayor race.

Nick Spanos, 24, of Jamaica Plain, said he supports Jackson’s bid for mayor.

“Tito Jackson has served minority and underrepresented communities since his college career, and it would be clear that he would do the same for such communities in the city of Boston,” Spanos said.

Victor Carrara, 51, of Roxbury, said despite Jackson’s strong suits, unseating Walsh would be a challenging fight.

“Both candidates are hardworking, decent public servants, but I think it will be extremely difficult to outwork Mayor Walsh,” Carrara said. “City Hall is running effec-

tively and I believe the mayor is living up to his goals and expectations outlined in the last election.”

David Admasu, 55, of East Boston, said Walsh is not focusing his efforts on the right areas, and he hopes to see another individual take Walsh’s place. “[Walsh] let the corporation run free,” Admasu said. “If you go to the Seaport area, it is very unorganized and everyone is building something without a schedule. I don’t think Walsh is really serving Boston appropriately. I would like to see someone else as mayor.”

Abigail Freeman contributed to the reporting of this article.

Violent threats reported from Ashford Street Officers responded to 40 Ashford St. at 12:45 a.m. on Wednesday for threats of violence. Upon arrival, officers spoke to the victim, who claimed his neighbor threatened to beat him up or kill him while he was using the common bathroom. He also claimed this was not an isolated incident. The officers then spoke with the accused neighbor, who denied having made any threats, saying he was just angry because his neighbor made so much noise in the common bathroom late at night.

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BU alumna recognized for 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 List

BY JORDAN KIMMEL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Louise Baigelman, a Boston University alumna, recently made the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 List. Baigelman is the co-founder of Story Shares, a nonprofit organization that provides middle and high school students with library and literacy support.

“I’m really honored, and I think the most exciting part about it is that it shows others in the education field the value and potential in what we’re doing with Story Shares,” Baigelman said. “Having that recognition for Story Shares is both exciting for the validation of the work we’re doing, and also for the promise or potential of it getting out there.”

Story Shares serves to provide struggling readers with pertinent and appropriate reads, according to its website. The site allows writers, educators and students to distribute relevant books with a variety of ages and reading levels.

Baigelman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University before she started to pursue a master’s degree in education at BU. During her time in Boston, Baigelman juggled between assistant teaching during the day and taking classes at night.

“I got the chance to really interact with students, deal with the challenges of teaching, learn how to really be an effective teacher, support struggling learners and deal with that kind of experience during the day,” Baigelman said.

“At night, I was able to take classes at BU where we really dove into both the theory behind our learning and teaching, and also more concrete ways of supporting students.”

To Baigelman, it was this combination that made the difference.

“Having those two pieces together was key for me in really developing my blend on education, the pieces that really mattered to me and my approach to supporting students — all of which, ultimately, is key to what we’re doing now with Story Shares,” she said.

BU spokesperson Colin Riley wrote in an email that the university admires Baigelman’s recent success.

“We’re understandably proud to see BU alumna Louise Baigelman’s recognition for her initiative, creativity and effort to expand access to age-appropriate literature,” Riley wrote.

From 2009 to 2011, Baigelman worked for Teach For America, an organization that promises to develop young, budding teachers in order to strengthen the quality of education for future generations.

“My time at Teach For America was super impactful,” Baigelman said. “This teaching experience was really fundamental to identifying the problem that we’re addressing now with Story Shares. Teach For America is all about giving every child the opportunity to have a great education.”

Baigelman worked with low-income fifth grade students who spoke English as a second language and were considered academically behind other students.

“This issue of not being able to find them [the] right kind of content, and being able to offer them the right choice of books that would actually excite them about reading is kind of fundamental to why we started Story Shares,” she said.

Josh Biber, the executive director of Teach For America, said Baigelman was “humble, understated, reflective, thoughtful and collaborative.”

“It’s hard to overstate how highly I think of her,” Biber said. “In terms of just who she [was] when she was a core member and since then, I think what I love most about her is she creates and embodies a very different model of leadership than I think the archetypes that society most attributes.”

Biber said Baigelman demonstrated a “powerful mode of leadership,” the kind that was able to see a problem and find a solution to solve the problem.

“She put a lot of entrepreneurial energy, love and hard work into taking this off,” Biber said.

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Louise Baigelman, a Boston University alumna and the co-founder of digital reading platform Story Shares, makes this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

“It’s something that could have a really scalable impact for students and schools across our state, if not our country. We’re really proud of her.”

Several students at the university said they were proud to hear that a former BU student went on to find such great success.

Amy Arellano, a freshman in the College of General Studies, said she was delighted to hear that a BU alumna made such a prestigious list.

“It makes me incredibly proud to be at a school that has such incredible alumni that are creating an impact in the world,” Arellano said.

“I enjoy reading, and I think it’s important that everyone has access to it. For me, it’s an opportunity to experience the great writing of great authors and it’s a way to destress and focus on the story in front of me.”

Katherine Chandler, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, shared similar thoughts.

“It’s awesome to know that BU has the tools and the opportunities that allow students to achieve so much,” Chandler said.

Drew Welsh, a sophomore in CAS, said Story Shares is a necessary program.

“I have a cousin who is teaching in inner city St. Louis, and she always complains about not having enough literature in the classrooms, and that the children are not being exposed to enough literature,” Welsh said. “Having something like this, that the alumna has done, is really awesome and I really appreciate it. It’s a very noble and a very needed thing to be done.

Welsh added his own personal admiration of Baigelman’s success.

“It’s really cool to see a BU alumna recognized by this thing because you identify with them, and it’s an inspiration for you to work hard and become something like that, maybe in a different field,” he said.

Falafelshop owner contributes business failure to BU policy FALAFELSHOP, FROM PAGE 1 opened another franchise at Kenmore Square in March 2015.

Aside from the two Boston locations that D’Alessio has owned, Amsterdam Falafelshop also operates stores in Washington, D.C. and Dallas, Texas.

D’Alessio recalled his experiences with BU student customers as positive, citing the shop’s 4.5 star rating on Yelp.

“It seemed like there were a lot of groups of grad students who would come through before or after class,” D’Alessio said. “They would sort of continue the conversations from their classwork in our restaurant.”

The restaurant’s proximity to students, who were thought to make up a bulk of the shop’s customers, did not help business as much as D’Alessio anticipated.

Amsterdam Falafelshop has long partnered with local colleges’ meal plans, according to D’Alessio.

He said despite efforts to do the same with BU, the falafel shop was denied any sort of inclusion.

BU spokesperson Colin Riley wrote in an email that aside from the partnership with Domino’s, which has been in place for more than 20 years, BU Dining Service does not include any off-campus eateries it doesn’t own into students’ meal plans.

D’Alessio said he thinks this is unfortunate, especially when the shop is close to Myles Standish Hall and Myles Annex, where a lot of students are required to be on a meal plan.

“We were essentially competing with BU Dining Services,” he said.

As a result, D’Alessio said that despite the shop’s location near BU’s campus, it catered to MIT far more than it did to BU. “I think in two years, we maybe got like three or four BU orders,” he said.

BU students said they have mixed opinions regarding the closure of Amsterdam Falafelshop.

Alexander Tompkins, a freshman in the College of General Studies, said he feels disappointed now that he no longer has a go-to place to get his falafel. “[Good falafel] is really hard to get around here,” Tompkins said. “Now that it’s closed, I’m really bummed out I can’t get my fix of falafel.”

Ariel Lavi, a senior in the Questrom School of Business, said he was not as big of a fan of the shop, and he has only dined at Amsterdam Falafelshop reluctantly with his friends. Levi stays in South Campus for falafel and Israeli cuisine.

“My friends wanted to go [to Amsterdam Falafelshop], and there was no talking them out of it,” Levi said.

Skylar Karzhevsky, a freshman in the College of Engineering, said that as a vegan, she will miss the ample vegan options Amsterdam Falafel offers at affordable prices, and she would go to the Davis Square location in the future.

“Their toppings and fries are really delicious, and it’s a good comfort meal for me,” Karzhevsky said. “I’ve just been to the one in Kenmore, but I’d be willing to travel [to Davis Square].”

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Boston Women’s Workforce Council works to close wage gap

BY BLAU RAMOS AND SABRINA SCHNUR DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston Women’s Workforce Council, created by Mayor Martin Walsh in order to close the gender wage gap in the city, will continue its work by hosting a membership briefing on Jan. 27, according to MaryRose Mazzola, executive director of the Council.

The briefing, which is the first of four quarterly briefings hosted by the Council, will focus on how companies can set internal goals to tackle the wage gap, according to Mazzola.

The Council found that employers want to learn more about setting internal goals, transparent pay practices, acquiring female talent and creating flexible work environments, Mazzola said.

The Boston Women’s Workforce Council hopes to address these goals in its membership briefings so member companies can better address the issue of gender equality in the workplace, Mazzola said. “[We are] having a real dialogue between companies of what they can do and answering the questions they have that are very specific to their organization,” Mazzola said.

Mazzola said it is important for businesses to support women’s advancement in the workplace.

“Being fair in our hiring and our pay practices is the right thing to do, but it’s also the smart thing to do,” Mazzola said. “Equality and demonstrating that you can both attract, retain and promote women in your workforce is a

competitive advantage.”

Companies that signed the Council’s agreement, titled “100% Talent: The Boston Women’s Compact”, will be invited to share what they are doing to address the wage gap at each of the council’s quarterly briefings, Mazzola said.

So far, 179 Boston companies have signed the compact, committing to report wages anonymously and fairly promote women’s place in the workforce, according to a press release issued by Mayor Walsh’s office on Jan. 5.

The lead sponsors of this compact include MassMutual Financial Group, State Street Cor poration a nd P utna m Investments, according to the release.

Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, a professor of rhetoric at Boston University, said some of the barriers preventing women from equal pay are less obvious than others.

“Many women have a primary responsibility for childcare and family-life management, so providing workplace f lexibility in order for women to meet both family and work responsibilities would address one of the largest invisible barriers that sustains the wage gap,” Hallstein said.

Hallstein said it is vital to examine the factors that play a role in widening the wage gap for some women more than others.

“It is so important for us to systematically continue to challenge the wage gap for all women, most especially for women of color and women in already low-paying jobs who experience more significant wage gaps,” Hallstein said.

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The Boston Women’s Workforce Council aims to address the wage gap and to close it.

Carrie Preston, the director of BU’s Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies program, said she believes the Council’s compact is a step in the right direction, but much more has to be done to close the wage gap. “[The] Massachusetts legislature passed one of the strongest equal pay laws in the country, but that does not go into effect for almost two years, and the problem will not be solved by laws alone,” Preston said. “We need cultural transformation.”

Preston said she has witnessed gender-based discrimination in the workplace “right here at BU.” “The gender gap in salaries at BU has been getting smaller

after concerted efforts by the entire administration, but female faculty at BU, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, make less than men,” Preston said.

“In 2012 … women professors [in BU’s College of Arts and Sciences] made less than their male counterparts at every rank.”

Several Boston residents said they are glad to learn about the work that the Council is doing to eliminate wage gap.

Ana Babinec, 21, of Allston, said that in addition to monitoring wages, the Boston Women’s Workforce Council should also encourage people to choose careers based on their interests, not gender stereotypes.

“They should encourage people to do what they want to do, not just what their gender usually does,” Babinec said.

Merita Brooks, 48, of Brighton, said she was surprised to learn about the wage gap in Boston.

“I thought men and women got paid equally for the same job,” Brooks said. “If you work the same job you should get the same pay.”

William Reney, 21, of Allston, said the wage gap should be eliminated as soon as possible.

“It seems like there shouldn’t be any wage gap just because of gender at all,” Reney said. “It shouldn’t exist in the first place so to eliminate it just makes sense.”

City, nonprofit move to help homeless community in Boston CLEANUP, FROM PAGE 1 similar obstacles in the past.

“They communicate with them, they talk to them, they’re not just coming by and sweeping through, there is a real interaction that makes that role modeling possible,” Laden said. “It is a genuine interaction.”

Laden said she hopes the workers’ presence will inspire the homeless people in the neighborhood to reach out for help, especially in finding jobs.

“We believe that people can change their lives, particularly homeless folks, through work,” Laden said. “It gives you a chance to not only build your own confidence and believe in yourself so

that you can move forward, but it gives you the ability and economic resources to move forward.”

As for the future of the initiative, Project Place plans to continue working in the neighborhood as long as they are encouraged to do so, Laden said.

“I think that the partnership is going really well. The city and BU seem to be pleased with our work and committed to continuing to keep their neighborhood going and to keep that community improving,” Laden said. “As long as that commitment is there, which I don’t foresee changing, particularly on the city’s part, I think this will be one of our ongoing projects.”

Jim Greene, a homeless advi-

sor from the Boston Department of Neighborhood Development, said the idea for the collaboration was developed over the summer, when Walsh brought several different departments together to talk about city improvements.

“We began to meet with neighborhood partners from Newmarket Square, the South End and Roxbury to talk about what we could do quickly to have an initial impact and the longer term work we need to do to help the vulnerable people who were in the neighborhood,” he said. “I think everybody agreed that we needed to invest a new level of energy and effort to improving things in the Melnea Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue area.”

Several Boston residents said they support the project, particularly because of the opportunities it may offer homeless people in the city.

Meagan Hemeon, 27, of Jamaica Plain, said homelessness has become a major issue throughout the city.

She emphasized the importance of helping those without a home.

“Especially since all the shelters closed over on Long Island, I think it’s really important to be doing something for these people because they were so actively displaced,” Hemeon said. “There really now isn’t enough money in the city to be able to give the same level of shelter and transitionary housing that they deserve.”

Dishon Laing, 29, of Dorchester,

said he believes the initiative’s effort to help find stable jobs for homeless people may be the answer to their problems.

“I think anytime you could take people who don’t have means of making money and provide them a service such as getting them a paid work so that they don’t have to rely on other people, it’s a great service,” Laing said. “Then they can start to provide for themselves.”

Edward Byrne, 67, of Fenway, said he hopes to see homeless people get a moral boost from their work.

“I think what happens a lot of the time to homeless people is that they lose fate,” Byrne said.

“I think this will give them some confidence and dignity.”

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REVIEW: the xx introduces new sounds with third album

BY KALINA NEWMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

British indie-pop trio the xx is known for adopting the mindset “less is more.”

Self-proclaimed music minimalists, the xx exploded onto the music scene in 2009 with their self-titled album “xx.” Even their album art is strictly no-nonsense, with all of their records featuring a plain cover with a large X in the middle. After almost five years with no new music, the band is back with the release of their third album, “I See You.” While fans might be surprised at first by some of the album’s new musical directions, “I See You” remains a true the xx album.

The band is made up of bassist-vocalist Oliver Sim, guitarist-vocalist Romy Madley Croft and producer-drummer Jamie Smith, aka Jamie xx. The sounds on both their first album and second album, “Coexist,” are atmospheric. Its music is made up of seductive, bass-heavy synth chords while the two vocalists croon softly about love and loss. The xx is a band that stands out for being a perfect middle ground — not quite upbeat enough for a dance party but relaxed enough to play on a long road trip. The band’s albums are not usual selections for pumping up a party but they always have the appropriate tracks to wind down a crowd.

During the band’s five year absence between “Coexist” and “I See You,” Jamie xx released his own solo album, “In Colour.”

Incredibly dissimilar from his former music with the xx, “In Colour” was an EDM and sampler music side project. It flew to the top of Pitchfork’s Best New Music review and was an album that earned Smith a Grammy nomination. For Jamie xx, the band became an afterthought in the excitement following his album.

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The xx releases their latest album “I See You” this week, more than four years after the release of their last record.

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AR in Action features developments in technological field

BY JOSEE MATELA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Last July, the smartphone gaming app, Pokémon GO, took the world by storm.

With a Guinness World Record release of 130 million downloads in the first month, its explosive popularity drew from the utilization of a new technological standard: augmented reality. For many innovators developing augmented reality, or AR, catching fantastical creatures barely scratched the surface on the possibilities of this growing field.

On Jan. 17 and 18, the inaugural AR in Action summit explored what’s new and what’s next in the world of AR technology, presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. According to the conference’s website, one of the main goals was to “provide unprecedented

opportunities for learning and networking with the greatest minds in AR and adjacent fields of technology.”

While the world saw the first rudimentary AR prototypes in the late 1960s, the field is still in development today. In essence, AR serves as a medium to enhance the user’s world view with a new layer of virtual objects. Whether through channels such as headsets or projections, the designated device will form a “mixed reality” for the user to engage with.

Technology journalist Robert Scoble said he follows the path of innovation in AR technology by traveling and visiting to different AR conferences around the world.

“Even the pioneers are having to learn,” Scoble said. “These types of events get everybody on the same page, especially when the industry is young like this. These CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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Augmented reality is entering new fields of technology with the help of a couple startups.

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MIT startup nuTonomy’s plans for a self-driving fleet could change the transportation industry, including food delivery services and car insurance.

Boston businesses address impacts of self-driving vehicles

BY ANNE WALKER WELLS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As f leets of robo-taxis prepare their debut, Massachusetts Institute of Technology startup nuTonomy is handling the hub of ethics, safety and potential impact of this massive change to transportation.

Karl Iagnemma, the CEO and co-founder of nuTonomy, noted that his company’s ultimate vision is “to deploy a safe, efficient, fully autonomous mobility-on-demand transportation service in urban centers around the world,” in an email sent to The Daily Free Press. “[Automated vehicles] will fundamentally change the driving industry as well as public transportation by offering lower costs to operate, increased safety and enhanced efficiency,” Iagnemma wrote.

The development of autonomous on demand vehicles has the potential to shift the Boston landscape, lessening the need for parking spaces and structures, he continued.

This same land can be repurposed for parks or other purposes, potentially reducing pollution and preserving the environment.

NuTonomy’s vision of a self-driving f leet could change many other portions of the transportation market, including

food delivery services and car insurance.

However, the fleet of autonomous vehicles on the horizon is not yet close enough to inspire changes in these fields.

“We expect to see a shift from personally owned vehicle to the use of AVs in a mobility service model,” Iagnemma added in a phone interview.

Food delivery startups such as Grubhub internalize the cost of fuel and payments to delivery employees. A shift to self-driving cars could change the delivery industry, potentially lowering these costs and allowing fleets to deliver food and other packages more efficiently, especially with the remote routing that nuTonomy is developing.

Grubhub Public Relations Associate Lindsey Ruthen said the autonomous vehicle market is not a main focus for the company. This may change as the technology undergoes testing and becomes available in Boston, she added.

The perception of consumers will play a large role in the success of the autonomous vehicle industry. With that in mind, nuTonomy’s testing will lead to potential improved safety, if the vision of autonomous fleets is realized.

“Ride-sharing reduces the number of vehicles traveling on streets resulting in decreased congestion and improved traffic safety … it

may be possible to achieve this through the adoption of shared fleets of autonomous vehicles,” Tracey Ganiatsos, public information manager for the Boston Transportation Department, wrote in an email.

Reducing traffic would improve productivity of commuters and the morale of Bostonians city-wide.

While positive impacts are proposed, the adoption of autonomous vehicles also raises interesting ethical questions.

MIT’s Moral Machine analyzes information on how people perceive the decisions made by autonomous vehicle intelligence software. The Moral Machine is an online simulation of driverless vehicle programming that examines the moral decisions made by driverless cars in cases of unavoidable accident.

Sohan Dsouza, a research student in the Scalable Cooperation Group at the MIT Media Lab who is familiar with the Moral Machine, said that the perception of driverless cars depends on where the individual sits in the car.

In the case of a potential accident, Dsouza said, the Moral Machine found “while people prefer that driverless cars prioritize minimizing loss of life, they prefer using driverless cars that prioritize passengers’ lives.”

The xx blends fresh takes with iconic style MUSE, FROM PAGE 5 were going in a new direction with the debut of their new single “On Hold” in November. It’s obvious the band took a long five years to recharge before this album because “On Hold” is their most explosive track to date. The song starts off slow in signature the xx style, with Croft and Sim taking turns to sing gently about various relationship problems. Thirty seconds into the song, however, the track takes off into a chorus of fast-paced electronica beats that continue throughout the rest of the track.

From the get-go, the xx’s first track on the

album, titled “Dangerous,” calls listeners to get up and dance. Funky synth beats evolve into a fun trumpet riff, a style that is new to the band. As the song progresses, Croft and Sim still please the more traditionalist listener with their signature, velvety vocals.

“Say Something Loving” and “I Dare You” also stand out as a unique turn for the band. These two songs, along with “Hold On,” make up three songs on the album that carry an altogether new instrumental direction. “Say Something Loving” starts with a quick, preachy opening line taken from the Alessi Brother’s 1976 track “Do You Feel It.” Throughout the song, Croft and Sim sound

different, but in a good way. Their voices are more clear and immediate while Smith fills the song with subtle EDM drum rifts.

This is not to say that “I See You” is not truly a the xx album. Other than those three tracks, most of the album’s other songs end up following the band’s tried-and-true musical blueprint that allowed them to become so successful in the first place. If anything, the record is a sign that the xx members are finally comfortable in their own skin. They know how to please fans who have been listening since 2009 but are also adventurous enough to go in a new direction.

The xx will be on their “I See You” global

Customers must believe that these vehicles are safe in order to trust a driverless car to transport them.

“The City of Boston has worked with nuTonomy and MassDOT for many months to ensure that autonomous vehicle testing in done in a safe and responsible manner in Boston,” wrote BTD Commissioner Gina Fiandaca in an email.

Boston was a natural choice given its closeness to MIT, Iagnemma said.

However, Boston presents its own difficulties, as Boston drivers are notorious for their aggressive driving and the weather is constantly changing.

Boston’s complexity “might also make it a good training ground for refinement of the technology,” Dsouza said. “In any case, it is a step towards safer and more efficient road transport for all.”

Some young consumers are excited by the idea, and ride-sharing doesn’t seem to be a barrier.

“I only use uberPOOL,” said Sean Smith, a senior in Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences.

He predicted that “with a ride available at the push of a button for less than the price of public transportation or owning your own car, people will stop driving and taking the T.”

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IMPACT THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2017

Robert Maloney brings new vision to Haffenreffer Brewery

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Robert Maloney’s designs were used to restore the Haffenreffer Brewery’s historic smokestack in Jamaica Plain. It had missed letters for three decades.

BY SABRINA HUANG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Local artist Robert Maloney prevails as the mastermind behind the historic Haffenreffer Brewery smokestack revival with his recent public art installation. The design has restored the smokestack, which has read “FENREFFER BREWERS” for the past 30 years, to proudly display its full original name, Haffenreffer.

But the brewery has stood far longer than 30 years.

Rudolf Haffenreffer originally established the Haffenreffer Brewery in 1871.

Although the brewery survived the period of prohibition, production began to decline by the 1950s as competition from larger companies increased. This led to the brewery’s official closure in 1965.

Thirty years ago, the top of the smokestack had partially crumbled due to a fire,

and since then, the smokestack has been missing its first three letters, HAF, until faced with Maloney’s creative expertise.

Although Maloney does not have formal training in architecture, he has created numerous bodies of work that have a grid-like structure and has experience with installation work and printmaking. His idea for the Haffenreffer Restoration Project began as a prompt in graduate school, when his professor asked him to create projects that were outside his comfort zone, to execute some mockups of ideas that did not necessarily have to be built by hand.

Maloney said he recalled that a suggestion he received was that the project did not have to be in scale of something that could be built in a studio, but rather something that could be a large gesture displayed in public.

“I was working on these architecturally inspired structures — my practice being expanded into the real work as opposed to

coming across as either a print or a model,” Maloney said.

Having grown up right around the corner from the Haffenreffer Brewery smokestack, Maloney brainstormed different ways that he could create an installation through the smokestack.

“I see it pretty much everyday and from living in the area,” he said. “I’ve always known that it has been missing the top three letters of the signage, so I just started doing some mockups and some brainstorms on how I might be able to find a solution to restore the signage.”

Once he thought of the idea, he continued to pursue it.

“The following semester, I had an artist writing class, and one of the ideas was to create a public art project, brainstorm on it, create a proposal, research some funding and take an idea to the next level,” Maloney said.

Maloney continued working with the smokestack project and presented it to his

class. Some of his classmates were already familiar with the project’s idea because they had taken the same course the previous semester.

“It just kept getting clearer and clearer as I was writing and creating this proposal that this was something that could actually be followed through with,” he said.

His next step was to persuade the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation, the organization running and revitalizing the brewery, to support his project proposal.

“It was not easy to get ahold of them and to get a meeting, but once I was able to show them what I had in mind, their eyes immediately lit up,” he said. “It was a simple structure, and once they saw how it could be implemented, they were pretty responsive and really excited about the idea.”

He credits Lisa King of the JPNDC for helping the project become a reality, Maloney said. King contributed more behind the scenes, obtaining all the permits and hiring an architect to transform Maloney’s drawings and mockups into actual architectural language.

He approached the JPNDC after researching potential funders as part of his class assignment. After identifying the George B. Henderson Foundation as the most fitting potential funder for the project, learning that they provide funding for historic projects around Boston, he said he was eager to submit it.

However, the plan did not proceed as smoothly and quickly as Maloney had imagined.

“The learning aspect for me was how long the process would take,” Maloney said.

“Months and months would go by and little did I know that this is how long things take for a project of this scale.”

After the project was proposed to the Henderson Foundation, it was met with a positive response and funding was successfully secured.

Following the completion of the Haffenreffer Restoration Project, Maloney can now walk outside or even look out from his bedroom window to see the top of the structure that was missing letters merely two weeks ago.

“The signage hasn’t said ‘Haffenreffer’ for 30 years and before that, it was probably a smokestack that said ‘Haffenreffer’ for generations in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood,” Maloney said. “So to restore that and to be able to restore the historical landmark is pretty exciting.”

AR in Action provides chances for creativity in workforce CATALYST, FROM PAGE 5 techniques, the technology that’s coming, is so new and so different that you have to get together with people who are building media for it.”

In order for attendees to get on the same page, presentations at the summit not only serve to educate the audience on what breakthroughs have emerged, but also what is in store for the future.

Sarah Downey, principal at Venture Capital and Private Equity, said AR can be used for personal usage, exploring the possibility of an AR interface to “scan micro expressions and see how people are interacting with you.”

By recognizing certain types of nonverbal communication, the program could detect cues for levels of states such as truthfulness and engagement, she said.

In terms of business, Downey mentioned the technolog y by AR firm Paracosm, which takes a “3D capture of stations like a construction site, then compares the construction site and what’s actually happening there with the 3D models in the plans.”

Many students are also beginning to exhibit fascination with the AR field.

Amber Case, a research fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the MIT Media Lab, said she believes AR will serve as a vital aid

in the workforce upon further development.

“You just get this heightened reality that allows you to do your job better or allows you to fix something in crisis,” said Case.

However, this new advent of technology continues to face challenges in its maturation. Sean McBeth, lead VR engineer at tech startup NotionTheory, described the precarious nature of a developing field.

“It’s kind of the Wild West in terms of what works and doesn’t work in VR and AR, so there aren’t a lot of right or wrong answers yet,” McBeth wrote in an email.

“People should know they have free reign to experiment and that such experimentation is getting easier and easier every day.”

Scoble also shed light on some chal-

lenges to overcome before AR reaches a level of ubiquity. He said he believes there is a necessity to shrink the physical size of the AR devices and their costs.

“The biggest challenge is getting people to see just how massively cool this technology is; you can’t see it unless you put glasses on,” he said.

Despite challenges, the AR community continues to discover and pave the way to a new world of possibilities.

“This whole thing is ultimately about enabling awesome people to do even more amazing things,” McBeth said. “I want to see what people are working on, what excites them, what they’re dreaming about. How can you not be excited for such a thing?”

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Media rethinks how to cover President-elect Donald Trump The press’ proximity to the president has been crucial to the reporting of White House events since its authorization by Richard Nixon. In the confines of the West Wing, press agents are able to have direct access to White House officials and observe the executive branch from the inside. Without being physically adjacent to the executive office, it will be a lot more challenging for the media to have the contact they require to report on governmental actions.

According to an article from The New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump’s team has written a proposal to remove reporters from their offices in the West Wing, ceasing the ease of access. Trump’s press secretary defended this position, claiming that a separate office outside of the White House will be arranged to enable more reporters to have an avenue to those within the presidential sphere.

The U.S. Press Corps released an open letter on Tuesday to President-elect Trump to address this potential relocation. The Press Corps argued that this proposal is simply another move by the president-elect to squander the media’s efforts to report on his actions. This letter signals the next step by journalists in the Trump era to examine the fundamentals of journalism itself.

Though the industry of journalism is, by nature, extremely competitive, this statement proves that news outlets will band together to face Trump’s distrust and disdain for reporters in general. In order to actually get

responses to the questions Trump has continuously deferred from answering, the press has vowed to constantly and persistently ask for information that is deemed to be crucial for the republic, so that the president’s office cannot dodge to an easier question. If the media is uniting to accomplish this, it can

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ment. Trump wants to allow more reporters to have access because he thinks the “mainstream media” has falsely portrayed him. But more reporters does not mean more information. The White House press secretary’s job is to release information that sheds good light on the presidency and the administration, which makes it more necessary for the press to bring balanced and fair reporting.

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key to media’s watchdog role and should not be terminated.

News outlets have been under a lot of scrutiny since the election. While the media’s methods to cover Trump arguably gave him the victory, following the inauguration, it will be a time to reflect on how the media should report the Trump administration. If the public loses their faith in reporters, they will turn to Trump directly for information.

This is not the result that we, as journalists, want to see.

A huge responsibility also falls onto the public — the readers, viewers and audiences.

Whether there is press in or out of the White House, the public needs to understand that what they are hearing is not always true. They need to be responsible for forming their own opinions on the information that is being disseminated through different platforms and who is spreading it.

The Press Corps’ letter essentially outlines the basics of journalism and the definition of freedom of the press. Trump taking office has made journalists rethink their rights as disseminators of information. As history has progressed, the exact interpretation of journalism has evolved and, in a way, blurred. Certain news outlets have become biased or niched, making many rethink how they practice journalism. In the end, no matter whether Trump’s administration kicks the press out of the West Wing, the press will, as they have always been, continue doing their best at covering the presidency.

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A fresh start to New Year in a new country, leave the past behind

BY MEREDITH WILSHERE COLUMNIST

New Year’s celebrations have come and gone. The confetti have been picked off from the bottom of my boots, and I no longer yearn to hear the sound of noisemakers. Of course, with all the excitement and wonder that the new year brings, one cannot ignore the prospect of mustering up a resolution. I have generally stuck to vague ones such as “be a better person” or “eat healthier,” which boils down to “eat less T. Anthony’s pizza.” This year, as I head into a semester halfway across the world, I have decided that my resolutions are going to be different. This time, I would have to be specific about what I would want to change.

Resolutions come from realizations. As I leave for a semester abroad, I think upon the events that have marked last semester. I think about the way I chose to maintain my romantic relationships — as one ended, I tended to replace it with a different one. This left me with little time to grieve or reflect on the presence (or absence) of my emotions. I was under the impression that if I never stopped moving, both forward and on, I would never have to feel. I have resolved that this semester must be different. I must break the cycle of replacing people as if they were battered notebooks and I have to dedicate time to finding out what it is like to spend time alone.

I can’t pretend that New Year’s resolutions are easy, nor should they be confined to the time limit we give ourselves, leaving our pasts behind on Dec. 31 and moving fresh into

Jan. 1. I am unsure if I believe that things can change within the minute that changed 2016 into 2017, but I am sure that resolutions should be a constant decision. This is not to say that it is imperative that everyone creates and follows resolutions because of the new year. This is to say that we should be able to change whenever we decide we are ready for it. Forcing a revelation can lead to disappointment or indifference.

We are all work-in-progress, myself included, and I believe that we should be able to create a resolution whenever we need to. We must be the ones constantly deciding that there is something about ourselves we can and will change.

We should resolve to leave things in the past. We should resolve to stop going back to the ruins of our ended relationships, searching for the rock thrown that made the whole building fall. We should resolve to let things go, to leave the past where it belongs and to move forward with the strength and optimism we know resides within us. It is imperative that we offer kindness to ourselves as a parting gift from the year that has just past.

True change, however, does not happen overnight. As much as we would like to believe that, real work needs to be done. As we move forward, we must grant ourselves kindness and patience. Committing our resolutions to the seconds of a countdown clock is nearly impossible.

We cannot expect to change our learned behavior within the minutes that change the years. I believe that if we are true in our dedication to our resolutions, they are going to take time.

I tend to stay away from clichés, but I feel like my abroad experiences are going to change me — there is no way they won’t. I already feel the change. I am saying yes to more opportunities and experiences that would have scared me before. I am trying to be more open with my communication. I am truly trying to be a better person. I know that as I live each day in a country thousands of miles away from my mistakes and mishaps, I will choose to resolve residing emotions, learn to fall in love with the city around me and forgive myself for the things I cannot control.

Paris, c’est la vie: observations and goals for my semester abroad

BY JON HAUSER COLUMNIST

Paris is a city well known by Americans and by citizens of every country spanning from Argentina to Timor-Leste. Everyone knows about the City of Lights and its iconic sites: the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre; but for 54 Boston University students who landed in France on Jan. 8 (except for four of us who landed a day late due to canceled flights, thank you Boston weather), Paris is home for the next four months.

My name is Jon Hauser, and for the next four months I will be chronicling my adventures here in Paris and beyond as I complete the Paris Internship Program. Over the next four months, I hope to enlighten the BU community with how life in Paris operates, clarify the nuances of French culture and, of course, talk about what it is like to work in a foreign country. This past semester I was in Grenoble, France, so I have already adapted to the French way of life, but differences do exist between the two cities and I am excited to explore how the different regions of France interact. I miss Grenoble, but I know that many adventures await me here in Paris.

After a rough start with a late arrival and Wi-Fi issues (because as a millennial, I need Netf lix and contact with my boyfriend and friends back home), I have gotten myself settled in. Here are a few observations I’ve made so far as well as a

few goals for myself: Grenoble was a smaller city of about 150,000 citizens, and I felt very much at home in that quaint city. But now I am in Paris, a city of more than 2 million people.

It is a much busier, bustling city with a faster pace of life and many more crowded subways. While this difference struck me at first, I am prepared to adjust my concepts of personal space in order to become a true Parisian. In adapting to this personal space, my goal is to not get pickpocketed, a very common occurrence in a tourist-filled city like Paris.

Even after spending four months abroad and adjusting to being homesick, going home for three weeks slightly reverted my mindset. I was able to see my family, my dogs, my friends and my boyfriend. In my mind, I have done a hard reset and again, having four months to go until I see them.

Luckily my boyfriend will be visiting me halfway through the program over spring break, so instead of four months apart ,we only have to do two. But still, I know that my BU-homesickness and even a little bit of Grenoble-homesickness will pull on my heartstrings.

Exactly as I wrote while in Grenoble, French food is to die for. While the food palate is slightly different in Paris compared to Grenoble, French food is still amazing.

The fresh baguettes that cost less than a euro are indescribably delicious. I am going to have to buy myself a gym membership to counteract all of the eating I will be doing this semester. We will see how that goes, considering how much I want to travel.

Overall, the beginning of this study abroad adventure has been a success despite the small bumps I have encountered. Will there be other obstacles? Yes, undoubtedly so. But I know that by the end of this experience I will have likely fulfilled the cliché storyline that every study abroad semester entails: learning not only about the host country, but also about yourself.

Interrobang The San Francisco Chronicle reported that a resident returned an overdue library book after his family borrowed it for 100 years.

We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what would BU people borrow from the library for an entire century?

Seniors: “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!”

SHA: “Eloise at The Plaza”

COM: “Math For Dummies”

Questrom: “Trump: The Art of the Deal”

Freshmen: “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”

Danielsen: “The Outsiders”

Allston: “A Series of Unfortunate Events”

FreeP: “The Associated Press Stylebook”

10 SPORTS Quotable “We stunk it up. We had no rhythm offensively.” BU men’s basketball coach Joe Jones on his team’s performance. p. 11

Sports Thursday, January 19, 2017

Double OT Thiller After coming from behind multiple times, the women’s basketball team lost in double overtime to Colgate. p. 11

Gabriel Chabot embracing his time with men’s hockey

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In some ways, Gabriel Chabot sounds like a little kid on Christmas morning when asked about playing on the Boston University men’s hockey team.

Back in his junior hockey days — the USPHL’s Portland Jr. Pirates and Rochester Jr. Americans — he’d look into the stands and see 10, maybe 15 people. So when he walked out of the tunnel for the Terriers’ first tilt of 2016-17 — a preseason contest with the University of Prince Edward Island — he was awestruck.

“I had the chills for about the first 10 games here,” Chabot said, looking up into the Agganis Arena stands. “It was nothing I’ve ever felt before, like a kid before a big playoff game where you get the chills. For that PEI game, I got the shivers and was like, ‘Wow, this place is insane.’ Every day here is awesome.”

Chabot said with a laugh that the “wow factor” has since died down, and that’s likely because he’s a constant presence in head coach David Quinn’s lineup. The freshman from Quebec City, Québec often lines up as the fourth line center, and has played in 19 of BU’s 21 games so far this season.

Along the way, he’s handed out three assists and potted two goals, including his first career goal at the University of Connecticut and an insurance tally in the Frozen Fenway matchup with the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Perhaps the most striking part of Chabot, though, is how much he cherishes being a student-athlete at BU. He plans to transfer into the Questrom School of Business next year to pursue a degree in entrepreneurship or finance.

That sort of drive and devotion surfaced in a story Quinn shared this past summer. A handful of BU play-

ers were heading down to Cape Cod for the weekend, but Chabot stayed back, wanting to study for an exam he had that Monday. When asked about that decision, the 21-year-old shrugs it off.

“School’s important to me,” said Chabot. “I’ve seen a lot of my friends stop playing hockey and they didn’t really have anywhere to go. I’m fortunate enough to be here at a very good school and have an opportunity in hockey or a career after it. That means a lot to me.”

For Quinn, that story speaks volumes to the type of person Chabot is.

“He’s just a guy that’s always doing the right thing,” Quinn said. “It’s maturity. It’s nice to have people like that in the program.”

Even though Chabot’s character draws rave reviews, the “athlete” factor has long been in his blood.

His father, Frédéric, played nearly 20 seasons professionally as a goaltender, including stints in the NHL, AHL and now-defunct IHL. From that lifestyle, Chabot traveled the world — including Frédéric’s fiveyear stint in European leagues — to watch his dad play.

As deeply rooted as Chabot’s hockey past is, it’s hard not to wonder what the future has in store. He’s part of a 10-member freshman class that features six players — forwards Clayton Keller, Kieffer Bellows and Patrick Harper, defenseman Chad Krys and Dante Fabbro and goaltender Jake Oettinger — who could realistically play in the NHL one day.

However, Chabot said he isn’t sure if professional hockey will come about after he graduates. In fact, he still remembers coming into the program this past summer, glancing at BU’s roster and saying, “Wow, this is absurd the amount of draft picks we have.”

His expectations, in other words, are a bit different from those of

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Freshman forward Gabriel Chabot has found a home at BU after a winding path in junior hockey. The 21-year-old Canadian has flourished on Coach David Quinn’s fourth line this season.

his classmates. From that, Chabot stressed he wants his role to expand every year, may that be on the ice or as a leader. While just one opinion, Chabot’s teammate Tommy Kelley, a senior forward, said he could envision either unfolding.

“Those are definitely things that I see in his future,” Kelley said. “In this program there’s a lot of opportunities, especially since

coach Quinn always rewards the guys who are working hard, doing the right thing. Gabe’s definitely one of those guys, so it’ll be exciting to see him progress.”

That last part from Kelley is something Chabot harped on too, as he said he’s merely taking it one day at a time. But if all goes to plan, the BU hockey faithful ought to grow accustomed to seeing No.

10 working his tail off for years to come.

“That’s the thing — I want to be here for the long run,” Chabot said. “Some guys have the opportunity to leave after a year or two, but they don’t get to be a part of this school, the fans, the program. This is amazing. I want to be here as long as I can. This is absurd the way we get treated, they’re so good to us.”

Men’s basketball drops out of first place in Patriot League

BY MICHAEL JOSCELYN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Following its first loss in Patriot League play, the Boston University men’s basketball team failed to capitalize on early momentum and dropped its second consecutive game to Colgate University.

After starting the first half on fire, the walls collapsed around the Terriers (10-9, 5-2 Patriot League). With the score holding at 15-2 in favor of BU, the follow-

ing 10 minutes would swing the opposite way, as the Raiders (5-15, 3-4 Patriot League) went on to outscore BU 24-to-7, resulting in a halftime score of 26-22 in favor of the Raiders.

“We have a hard time of playing consistently,” said BU head coach Joe Jones. “We just tend to relax, and they were missing some shots, and I kept looking at the score and saying we need to be up more than this. We had a chance to put the game away right away,

but we were just bad offensively tonight.”

The Raiders capitalized on Terrier mistakes to take the lead into the locker room. Meanwhile, BU’s sloppy play was compounded by the lack of shots made. Leading scorer senior guard Eric Fanning was 1-for-7 in the first half, however, afterwards, without his production, the Terriers sank to a halftime deficit.

“In the first half, defensively, we were stellar,” Jones said. “They

shot 32 percent from the field and 28 percent from three. Our defense was really good.”

Fanning finished with a teamhigh 21 points to go along with a team-leading 12 rebounds. Even though Fanning delivered, it took him 18 shots to do so, as he made just five. Senior forward Justin Alston and junior forward Nick Havener were much more efficient for BU, as they combined to go 12-for-15.

“Justin was great when he got

in, and he was able to finish, that helped us,” Jones said. “But without Justin’s 8-for-9, if you look at the numbers, no one else really made much. Eric scored a lot but he was 5-for-18 from the field.”

After falling behind by 10 with 13:15 remaining, the Terriers roared back with a Fanning 3-pointer, which he followed up with a steal, leading to a score by junior guard Eric Johnson to make

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Women’s Basketball falls at Colgate in double overtime

BY LIAM O’BRIEN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Over the past two games, the Boston University women’s basketball team has shown tremendous heart in overcoming double-digit deficits in the fourth quarter.

In the midst of a thrilling fourth quarter run in the Terriers’ (6-12, 4-3 Patriot League) 61-58 victory over the Loyola Greyhounds on Saturday afternoon, the Terriers learned how one single quarter can define the outcome of a game.

This trend carried into Wednesday night’s contest against Colgate University, as the Terriers rebounded from a 12-point deficit at the outset of the fourth quarter. However, BU’s luck ran out in the second overtime frame, as the Raiders (6-12, 3-4 Patriot League) outscored the Terriers 10-1, garnering a hard-fought 96-87 victory. “[We are bringing] full court pressure, a refreshed mindset, and a sense of urgency in our play [in the fourth quarter],” said BU head coach Katy Steding. “I didn’t think we played

with a sense of urgency until we needed it, and we can’t depend on that all of the time.

We still have to get stops.”

Colgate was spurred in double overtime by two 3-pointers from senior Katie Curtis, who emerged for a scintillating 29-point performance, which included an incredible 8-of-9 shooting from deep. She, along with sophomore forward Summer King, dug the Terriers into an insurmountable eight-point hole to begin the second overtime.

“We didn’t stop them from finishing,” said Steding. “We let them have 96 points, about 30 more points than anyone has scored on us all season. That’s a lot of points, even for two overtimes.”

Placing an emphasis on attacking the rim, the Terriers received double-digit efforts from five different performers and scored 44 points in the paint. Junior center Sophie Beaudry and senior guard Sarah Hope, who hit six triples, led the team with 20 points. Sophomore forward Naiyah Thompson impressed with 17 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field to accompany five rebounds and five assists.

“The key was getting the ball [inside],” said

Steding. “We made that part of our game plan and attacked it at the beginning of the game.

We kind of got away from it, so we made a concerted effort to go back inside in the second half.”

Senior guard Courtney Latham had a double-double with 11 points and 10 boards, while freshman forward Nia Irving posted a double-double of her own with 13 points and 12 rebounds.

The Terriers appeared to be finished with 9:26 remaining in regulation as they trailed 61-47. Despite the gap, BU displayed tremendous perseverance for the second straight contest. A Hope 3-pointer with just under seven minutes to go provided the kindling for a 11-3 run, which brought the Terriers to within one.

Then, she drained two consecutive 3-pointers, including one with just 24 seconds left, to force overtime.

Unfortunately for Steding, her squad could not continue the come-from-behind magic in the second overtime.

“We traded baskets with them for [most of] overtime, and in the second overtime we just ran out of gas.”

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Senior guard Sarah Hope hit six threes to push the game to double overtime.

Men’s basketball offensive woes continue at Case Gym

BY RYAN STOLZ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

For the second consecutive game, the Boston University’s men’s basketball team struggled offensively, leading to a 67-58 loss to Colgate University at Case Gym. Against Loyola University Maryland on Monday, BU (10-9, 5-2 Patriot League) saw its shooting percentage dip below 40 percent while shooting a mere six percent from beyond the three-point line. Along with its shooting percentage woes, the Terriers turned the ball over 15 times, contributing to a 77-69 loss at the hands of the Greyhounds (9-9, 3-4 Patriot League).

BU head coach Joe Jones noted how the decision making was not up to par for his squad.

“A lot of poor decisions shooting the ball and the types of shots we were taking,” Jones said. “We had no flow and we began pressing, trying to get over the hump.”

These difficulties surfaced once again Wednesday, as BU saw its shooting percentage dip against Colgate (5-15, 3-4 Patriot League). The Terriers shot 35.1 percent from

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Junior forward Nick Havener has been one of the few efficient players for the Terriers in their past two games.

the field, while increasing their three point percentage to 25 percent.

Jones was blunt about the team’s struggles throughout the game.

Terriers come up short, drop their second straight game BU FALTERS, FROM PAGE 10 the game 41-39 in favor of Colgate. BU’s problems with consistency continued though, and Colgate would go on an 8-0 run to put the lead back up to 10.

BU did manage to work itself in a prime position to steal a win when an Alston jumper with 1:25 remaining cut the Raider lead to two.

After a missed 3-pointer, Colgate managed to corral the ensuing offensive rebound.

Following a timeout, sophomore guard Kyle Foreman stole the ball and pushed a BU counterattack.

The result was an open 3-point attempt for junior guard Will Goff with 35 seconds left.

The shot went in and out, and the Terriers were never in another position to win the game.

Finishing 20-for-57 from the field, the Terriers’ struggles on offense did them in.

“When we struggled to score I think it affected us mentally,” Jones said. “That’s the thing that’s most disappointing. You could see

it in the faces, you can’t let that happen, you’re going to have some nights when you’re not making some shots and you find ways to win.”

“We stunk it up,” Jones said. “We had no rhythm offensively.”

While Jones was not pleased with how his team played, he did laud the job Colgate did. The Raiders forced 11 turnovers while scoring 15 points off turnovers.

“They did a good job defensively,” Jones said, “They forced us to take some shots that we need to be able to make, even though they were contested. We didn’t adjust well to that.”

While the Terriers were once the last remaining unbeaten team within the Patriot League, their recent struggles have seen them fall to second in the Patriot League standings.

“The first thing we need to do is understand that it’s a long season,” Jones said.

“You’re not going to play great every night.”

Despite their overall offensive shortcomings, the Terriers have seen a few bright spots from individual players.

Junior forward Nick Havener has provided BU with offensive efficiency while coming off the bench. The Saratoga, Florida native logged 20 minutes against Loyola and shot 58 percent from the field.

Against Colgate, Havener provided the

same production, shooting 4-6 from the field while also grabbing six rebounds.

After the game, Jones noted how Havener was one of only two players who were able to shoot the ball at a high percentage.

Senior guard Eric Fanning has also been playing at his typical high-level.

Against Loyola, the Trenton, New Jersey native logged a team high 35 minutes while scoring 27 points as well as recording 13 rebounds and two assists. Fanning saw his biggest contribution come from the freethrow line where he recorded 13 of his 27 points.

Going forward, Jones said his formula for a victory included being more aggressive on the offensive boards and challenging his team to record at least 12 offensive rebounds.

The team failed to do so on Wednesday and only recorded seven.

Jones also noted how the Terriers lack of efficiency on offense impacted them on the defensive end of the floor as well.

“Once we struggled to score it began to affect us mentally,” coach Jones added after the game. “That’s the most disappointing thing that when we struggle offensively it affects us defensively.”

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Senior guard Eric Fanning paced the Terriers with a double-double, but it wasn’t enough to pull out the win.

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