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NEWS Ballot Question 1 would allow smaller casinos in southern Mass. to operate slot machines. p. 3

INBIZ Forbes has brought their largest Under 30 Summit ever to Boston in the midst of our chilly Northeastern autumn, to be held Sunday through Wednesday. p. 5

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SPORTS Looking to avenge last season’s loss in the NCAA Tournament, men’s hockey heads to the Rocky Mountains this weekend for games at Denver. p. 12

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BU professors build safe space in election year

BY MADDIE DOMENICHELLA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As the 2016 presidential election is stepping into countdown mode, many Boston University students may soon cast out their first vote ever. Yet one can’t help but wonder — will what professors say in class impact their students’ political ideology?

Anna Brett, a sophomore in the College of General Studies, doesn’t think

so. She said while BU professors tend to be more liberal, they do not impose their personal belief on the students, nor would students be easily persuaded.

“In my writing for communications class, all political views are addressed,” she said. “Personally, what a professor says does not influence my political opinions.”

The ratio of BU social sciences professors registered as Democrats to those registered as Republicans is 40 to 1, according to a study published in the September is-

sue of Econ Journal Watch.

The study examined the voter registration and official party affiliation of 7,243 professors from 40 leading universities across the nation. It specifically focused on professors in economics, history, journalism, communications, law and psychology departments.

Out of those surveyed by the study, BU had one of the largest Democrat-to-ReCONTINUED ON PAGE 4

Group calls on Aramark to stop chicken abuse

BY ELLIE FRENCH DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Aramark, the second largest foodservice provider in the United States and the provider of poultry to campuses across the country, including Boston University, made its way into the national spotlight recently, as an online petition against Aramark has garnered more than 70,000 signatures over the past two weeks.

The petition is part of a campaign led

by The Humane League, a nonprofit organization that works to better the treatment of farm animals. The campaign is working to combat alleged abusive treatment of chickens at Aramark, said Taylor Ford, the corporate campaigns manager at The Humane League.

Ford said the League reached out to Aramark six months ago, and, after receiving no response, decided to take their campaign public.

The petition calls for Aramark to adopt a meaningful animal welfare policy that spares chickens from the abuses they currently endure in the company’s supply chain.

Aramark’s animal welfare policy states the company is looking into these issues, but Ford said that the policy has no actionable items, nor does the company have any timeline to implement the policy.

“While no company is perfect, we do see that other foodservice providers seem to

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An online petition led by The Humane League urges Aramark, Boston University’s poultry provider, to adopt better policies for the treatment of chicken

take sustainability and animal welfare initiatives a little more seriously,” Ford said.

“When a foodservice provider is willing to work productively with nonprofits like the Humane League, that’s really impactful.”

The campaign has three major demands: enriching chickens’ environment with natural light and reduced stocking density, moving to slower growing species of birds to eliminate injuries caused by excessive growth and transitioning from live-shack-

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ling slaughter to more humane methods, according to the campaign’s change.org page.

BU is among the institutions that The Humane League has asked to implore Aramark to change their policies. The group is currently in the process of reaching out to student groups on campus to achieve that objective, Ford said.

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The Massachusetts Appeals Court last week dismissed the Harvard Climate Justice Coalition’s lawsuit against the Harvard Corporation’s investment in fossil fuels, according to Divest Harvard officials. It was a decision not unfamiliar to divestment advocates in Greater Boston.

Many student-run divestment organizations have been calling for their universities to stop investing in fossil fuel companies over the last few years.

Both Boston University and Northeastern University student groups have held rallies and protests since the beginning of the school year to encourage their respective schools to divest from fossil fuels.

Nathan Phillips, a professor in the Earth and Environment department at BU and a faculty affiliate for Divest BU, said the movement came about because college students are aware of what is happening to the environment and they believe change needs to happen quickly.

“The leadership and the push has really come from students,” Phillips said. “The older generation is more hand-wringing and unable to appreciate how fast we need to move. In terms of the theory of change, young people have seen, with the revolution in social networks and technological and communication systems, how fast things can move.”

The Harvard Climate Justice Coalition drove the legal push for Divest Harvard, a student-run organization at Harvard advocating for the divestment from fossil fuels, according to Naima Drecker-Waxman, the co-coordinator of Divest Harvard. “[Harvard Climate Justice Alliance] began a lawsuit against Harvard on the basis that Harvard was not fulfilling its requirement to its mission as a charity because it was putting the charity at risk with … immoral investments,” Drecker-Waxman said.

Drecker-Waxman explained the lawsuit was not allowed to go forward because the court ruled the relationship the students had with Harvard as a nonprofit organization was not enough to qualify them to sue the university over its charitable standing.

Harvard University was unavailable to comment on the lawsuit.

BU settled on a course of action leaning toward divestment in late September, The Daily Free Press reported on Sept. 20.

In an email sent to the members of the BU community, President Robert Brown wrote that the university will “commit, on a best efforts basis, to avoid investing in coal and tar sands extractors.”

However, the Divest BU student movement believes the fight for divestment isn’t over yet. The email sent by President Brown was vague, Divest BU President Matt Thacker said, as it promised the university will try to not invest in fossil fuel companies in the future without actually using the word “divest.”

“To us, [the wording] doesn’t even sound like [the Board of Trustees] intend[s] to fully divest from even those smaller segments of the fossil fuel industry,” Thacker said.

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MBTA to privatize cash collection operations

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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Fiscal and Management Control Board voted on Friday to approve a two-year $7.7 million contract with Brink’s Incorporated, which will handle the MBTA’s cash collection operations, according to Massachusetts Department of Transportation spokesperson Jason Johnson.

Brink’s will be responsible for MBTA’s cash machineries as well as processing, depositing and collecting the machines’ cash and coins, Johnson wrote in an email.

The privatization will not result in job losses, Johnson wrote, as workers at the MBTA’s money room in Charlestown will be offered other positions, such as bus operators, within the MBTA. The MBTA is considering privatizing the bus system, The Daily Free Press reported on Sept. 11.

“As part of the transition of its cash operations to Brink’s, the MBTA is offering all employees who worked in the Charlestown money room the opportunity to return to previous positions within the Authority,” Johnson wrote.

The contract is expected to save the MBTA at least $8 million a year, avoiding the previously planned $1 million upgrade of the Charlestown money room, Johnson wrote.

“In recent years, the state auditor has found the money room was unable to account for $100 million in public dollars,” Johnson wrote.

Johnson wrote that they FCMB’s approval was the first occasion in 16 months when it used the three-year waiver of public sector services’ privatization regulations granted by the Massachusetts Legislature.

“Brink’s will be paid $3,618,845 for the first year and $3,648,793 for year two,” he wrote. “At its discretion, the MBTA can exercise options for three additional oneyear contracts.”

James O’Brien, president of the Boston Carmen’s Union Local 589, said the MBTA has not been transparent in the privatization process, as the money room’s audit involved Shellie Crandall, a former

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The MBTA announced Friday its decision to outsource its cash collecting system.

executive vice president at Brink’s.

“We’ve requested the audits every quarter, we’ve requested the backup financial information, we dispute the number of employees in there,” O’Brien said. “It’s a conflict of interest to me a lot.”

O’Brien said privatizations of various operations within the MBTA causes job insecurity for workers and inconvenience, such as repairing privately operated Green Line trolleys.

“They’re making profit off of taxpayers of Massachusetts,” O’Brien said. “And they’re going to go back … and say that we can’t live out to our contracts.”

FCMB Chair Joseph Aiello said in an Friday press release the privatization’s approval is critical to improving MBTA operations.

“Today’s vote was an important step in the FMCB’s mission to improve efficiency and accountability for our customers and taxpayers,” Aiello said in the release.

Daniel Aldrich, a political science professor at Northeastern University, wrote in an email that policymakers need to consider the maintaining of service levels and reducing of expenditures when privatizing an operation.

“While any sort of privatization may sound like a major break from regular procedure, the commuter rail services used by many Bostonians are already run by

private firms rather than directly by the MBTA itself,” Aldrich wrote. “As a whole, public organizations across the U.S. have moved away from public-private partnerships because many of them were cheaper but resulted in lower quality services.”

Several Boston residents expressed mixed views over the privatization and called for more efficiency in the MBTA’s operations.

Esther Destin, 29, of Roxbury, said privatization can be beneficial if it boosts the MBTA’s financial accountability. “[The MBTA is] terrible, never accurate, never informing,” she said. “At least we can know where the budgeting is going.

[Privatization] can be a good thing. It’ll put some order.”

Maria Rigaud, 59 of Fenway, said cash collection should remain internally handled.

“Sometimes they’re late, especially in cold weather; in the summertime, the AC is too strong,” she said. “They should stay public.”

Ashley Weaver, 22, of Allston, said the result of privatization is dependent on the management’s performance.

“I lived in New York awhile, so I was used to that subway system; they all have their quirks,” she said. “Generally speaking, I personally don’t think privatization is a good thing, but it really depends.”

Students disappointed in divestment response

Officers responded for a possibly intoxicated male party sleeping in an office on the first floor on Friday at 12:25 a.m. at 2 Cummington Mall. He said he had several drinks and missed his train home. Officers allowed the man to stay in the office.

Students trapped in elevator at 1047 Commonwealth Ave. Two female students got stuck in the elevator on the second floor of 1047 Commonwealth Ave. The students called officials on Friday at 1:57 a.m., and Boston Fire Department freed the trapped students.

Tree falls at 98 Mountfort St. A fallen tree’s branches damaged several cars on Mountfort Street on Friday. No injuries were reported.

Medical assist at 775 Commonwealth Ave. A female student was intoxicated in the Metcalf Ballroom on Saturday at 10:12 p.m. The subject was transported to the Boston University Medical Campus.

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The students of DivestNU, the divestment movement at Northeastern, have been protesting against fossil fuel investment since 2013, Alissa Zimmer, a member of DivestNU, said in an email.

DivestNU held a sit-in at Northeastern’s Visitor Center in April to raise awareness about divestment, Zimmer said. The Free Press reported on Oct. 4 that the protesters began an occupation of the school’s main quad.

Northeastern said in an official statement, released in July, that the university has been dedicated to sustainability on their campus.

“In recent years, those efforts [for sustainability] have been supported by the work of students, faculty, and staff on the university’s Social Impact Council and Fossil Fuel Divestment Working Group,” the university statement said.

In the press release, the university announced it plans to direct $25 million toward sustainability efforts including clean energy, renewables, green building and sustainable water and agriculture, according to the university statement.

The statement claims the university supports the actions of the students involved in DivestNU. “We encourage a spirited exchange of ideas on our campus, and we commend

Students under possession of alcohol near New Balance Field Officers found two students and one male not affiliated with the university under the age of 21 in the possession of alcohol in front of 285 Babcock St. on Sunday at 12:18 a.m.

The parties will be summonsed to court.

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Signs made by members of Divest BU line the stairs up to the BU Castle during a rally in September.

these students for their continued passion to address the challenge of global climate change,” the university stated.

Zimmer said in an email that students have been camping out ever since Oct. 4 to encourage divestment, and the administration has not taken notice of their protest.

“We do not plan on backing down until Northeastern recognizes that its communi-

ty is more important than the fossil fuel interests they currently prioritize,” Zimmer said. “We have been camping out for nine days, and still the administration has made no effort to meet with us and address our grievances … Northeastern is choosing to ignore what is right in front of them, dismissing the voices of the community.”

Threats of self-harming reported on campus Officer responded for a male student making threats to harm himself on Sunday at 7:52 p.m. He was transported to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. BUPD did not disclose the location of the incident.

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Ballot Questions 101: Expanding casino gaming in Mass.

BY CARINA IMBORNONE DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Massachusetts Ballot Question 1, titled An Act Relative to Expanded Gaming, if passed, would allow the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to issue an additional category 2 license to qualified applicants, according to the initiative petition filed with Attorney General Maura Healey’s office.

A category 2 license would allow for gaming establishments to operate with no table games and fewer than 1,250 slot machines.

The proposed legislation specifies that this license may only be issued to gaming establishments that meet the following requirements: the establishment must be at least 4 acres in size, within 1,500 feet of a horse-racing track, in a spot where a horse-racing meeting may physically be held and not separated from the track by a highway or railroad, according to the initiative petition.

The legislation targets a specific location, the racetrack in

Suffolk Downs, for an additional gaming parlor, according to Ballotpedia.

The Committee for Sustainable and Responsible Economic Development, a state legislative committee comprised of groups opposed to expanded gaming, fought against the proposed legislation partly because of how specific it is, according to Chair Celeste Ribeiro Myers.

“We fought it vehemently because we determined it was not acceptable for a statewide vote when it’s laser-focused on one area by its very exclusive language,” Myers said.

The Yes on 1 Campaign, comprised of several Massachusetts residents and business people, according to their official website, supports the legislation because it would bring over $80 million of new revenue to the state per year.

Additionally, the legislation could create thousands of jobs, both directly and indirectly, for Massachusetts residents, according to the Yes on 1 website.

However, Myers explained

that her committee opposed the legislation because it was not proposed by locally based interests. “[The proponent committee] come[s] to us by way of Thailand, Maine, Virginia and Guinea,” Myers said. “They’re not folks that have roots locally, that have invested locally, that are building an industry locally.”

The nature of the proponent committee is an issue because it reflects directly on the legislative process in the state, according to Myers.

Myers said such a specific bill in favor of a developer might set a precedent for legislative patterns favoring those billionaires who can afford to fight for their own business goals through legislation.

“Today it’s a slot parlor off Exit 1A in a trailer park in Revere, and tomorrow it’s some legislation impacting development in Springfield or Brockton or The Cape or Martha’s Vineyard or anywhere else,” Myers said. “This isn’t one of the sexiest questions on the ballot this time around, but it’s higher impact than people think.”

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BU Dining Service’s provider implored to promote animal welfare CHICKEN, FROM PAGE 1

Questrom School of Business, said she is troubled by The Humane League’s claims, but it won’t stop her from eating chicken.

“I’d appreciate the change of how they treat the chickens, but I wouldn’t change my habits,” Maldonado said.

Kimberly Graham, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the university should support organizations or companies that promotes animal welfare.

“I’m a vegetarian, so I think that speaks for itself,” she said. “[BU dining halls] have all those posters of cows, free range chicken and free range eggs. They try to make it sound very organic and make from an ethical place, but if [Humane League] actually proved that it’s not, a lot of people would

be very upset.”

University spokesperson Colin Riley said the petition does not reflect the facts at BU Dining Services “regarding [the university’s] record of sustainability and animal welfare.”

Each year, Dining Services conducts a student survey and compiles a sustainability report that outlines their progress and goals for the future, Riley said.

Animal welfare and sustainable farming are some of the prominent goals in the 2016 Sustainability Report, Riley said.

“We are very proud of our work and publicly report on our efforts,” Riley said. “We will continue to work directly with the BU community and strategic partners, such as Aramark, as we work to achieve our goal of purchasing 25 percent of our food from sustain-

able sources by 2020.”

Although Aramark has provided a variety of dining and catering services to the university since 1976, BU Dining Services began to source humane-certified broiler chickens from Murray’s Chicken in 2013, Colin said.

While Murray’s does not meet all of the animal-welfare goals that The Humane League would like to see, namely switching to a slower-growing breed of bird, it is a better alternative than Aramark, Ford said.

However, if a student wanted to avoid eating chicken treated with cruelty, they would need to avoid eating chicken from BU Dining Services, Ford said.

Aramark, on the other hand, has rejected the allegations made against them by The Humane League’s petition -- Karen Cutler,

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the vice president of sale strategy at Aramark, wrote in an email that The Humane League is supporting this campaign because Aramark is cooperating with other nongovernmental organizations.

“The sole reason for the campaign is that we are working with respected groups like the Humane Society of the United States and Compassion in World Farming, and not [The Humane League],” Cutler wrote. “We tried to work with them in 2015, and they launched a similar attack campaign.”

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ens is currently a challenge for the entire poultry and food industry, not just Aramark,” Cutler wrote.

“We are committed to being part of the solution.”

Chris Liptrot, The Humane League’s corporate relations manager, said all information in the petition is factual, and their sole motivation is to see companies appropriately address pressing animal welfare issues in a timely manner.

“Aramark continues to release blatant lies about The Humane League and our intentions,” Liptrot said. “We intend to continue our campaign until Aramark addresses the indefensible, cruel treatment of chickens in their supply chain.”

Andreas Towers, a freshman in CAS, said that as a “fan of chicken,” although she supports animal welfare, she is afraid that it will raise the price of chicken. “[The petition] probably will not alter the way I eat at the dining hall,” Towers said. “I would definitely appreciate [improving chickens’ welfare] as long as it doesn’t result in an increase of the price of meal swipes at the dining halls. The cost of chicken would go up if they had to implement better conduct.”

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A look at BU’s efforts to keep up with the mobile age

BY SOPHIE WILL DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

In today’s technological era, Boston University has to adapt to keep the interests and attention of its students. One way the university has attempted to do so is through various smartphone applications. With numerous helpful services and platforms, BU’s mobile apps are becoming more integrated into daily student life.

Ron Yeany, the assistant director for applications at BU Information Services and Technology, said the university has created four applications for Apple products, including BU Mobile, BU Today News and Events, Finding Information Framework and Revenator.

“BU Mobile is the most used app and BU Today News and Events is the second most used,” Yeany said. “The live bus tracking feature is the most used feature of all the apps.”

While Revenator, an app that can help user to estimate a restaurant’s value, is currently not on the Apple App Store, Yeany said there are a few BU applications that were not officially created by IS&T, such as Clutter Image Rating App, BU Bike Accident Toolkit and BU International MBA Alumni.

“There are three apps under the BU developer’s account that we did not develop,” Yeany said.

“These were developed by either a department or by a contract developer who was working directly

with the department. We just distribute the apps through Apple Store.”

There are also many unofficial apps on both the Apple and Android stores, Yeany said, but they are not affiliated with any department within the university.

These include applications like the BU Food app, which is often mistaken to be an official application.

Some of the unofficial apps are the product of Global App Initiative, a BU student organization that promotes change through developing apps for nonprofits.

Global App Initiative Vice President of Operations Lubov McKone said they help groups and clubs at BU create their own apps to distribute.

“We partner with nonprofits to develop applications for them because they usually don’t have the resources to do that,” the College of Arts and Sciences junior said. “We also teach students how to make an app, [and] educate people in both application developments and in nonprofit services.”

Global App Initiative has developed an app with WTBU, BU’s student radio station, Global App Initiative Assistant Vice President of Operations Fiona Whittington said.

The sophomore in the College of Communication said the app had “won the Hackathon and is being released this week on the App Store.”

Whittington said she is discontent with the absence of BU

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In order to adapt to the mobile era, Boston University has developed several official iPhone apps.

applications for Android and other non-Apple smartphones.

Yeany said the decision to release the applications solely on Apple’s platform came from the popularity of the iPhone, but the university might develop Android version as Android platform evolves.

“When we first started developing the BU apps, iPhone users were significantly higher than Android,” Yeany said. “We are looking in developing for both iOS and Android for the next application that we plan to develop, and then

depending on that development project goes, we may revisit the idea of adding android versions to previously developed apps.”

Several students said they appreciate the university’s effort to develop mobile apps, but the efforts aren’t always good enough.

Margot Menestrot, a junior in the Questrom School of Business, said she doesn’t utilize the BU apps because they are outdated.

“Especially the shuttle, [the time] is not accurate,” Menestrot said. “I usually only use the BU

App for the bus.”

Aurelia Paul, a CAS junior, said the university could add more applications to its current list.

“They really should make an app for the StudentLink,” Paul said. “The StudentLink is so old and it needs to be fixed.”

Shelley Herman, a junior in CAS, said BU is failing when it comes to changing to the digital age because “there are so many different platforms and it should all be in one, [but they] are not trying hard enough, and they need to get with the times.”

More BU professors registered as Democrats, report finds PROFESSORS, FROM PAGE 1

publican ratios, falling second to Brown University (60:1). Among BU’s 244 professors that researchers looked into, 119 are registered as Democrats, three as Republicans and the rest are nonaffiliated or not registered.

While BU professors are allowed to talk about their political perspectives, the university discourages them from advocating their opinions to their students, School of Education Dean Hardin Coleman said.

“If it goes to recruiting people to our perspective, we think that crosses the line of power and privilege,” Coleman said. “We encourage our faculty to find the balance between excitement about what they believe, and how

that can be learning and advocacy for their particular point of view.”

The classroom, however, can benefit from having a professor who creates an atmosphere for intellectual discussion, Coleman said. “[Faculty should] engage intellectual environment where people can engage strongly in understanding ideas and acquire information to make really good decisions,” he said.

Coleman said there are many opportunities for students to voice their concerns if professors are speaking too forcefully about their political opinions. For example, they can complete evaluation forms at the end of every semester.

“Students across the univer-

sity have the opportunity to express their opinion, and we read them all,” Coleman said. “So if a student labels a faculty member as being inappropriate, we read that, and we take it very seriously.”

For professors, finding a balance seems to be the key when it comes to constructing a comfortable environment with academic freedom, freedom of speech and respectful comments.

“Of course classroom speech is expected to be respectful of all groups, including those who may hold contrary opinions,” College of Communication Dean Thomas Fiedler wrote in an email. “Classroom speech that isn’t respectful … can certainly lead to disciplinary actions.”

Fiedler wrote that COM fac-

ulty does not have to alert students before they say something provocative that may offend students.

“COM faculty are not required — nor are they asked — to give ‘trigger warnings’ in their classes or to provide safe spaces protected from provocative speech,” Fiedler wrote.

While students generally agree that professors should have the freedom to express their political opinion, some of them said it’s uncomfortable to learn who their professors are voting for in this election cycle.

Gabi Sears, a sophomore in SED, said she wouldn’t mind if a professor spoke about their political views in class, but professors should not label what is right and what is wrong in this election.

“Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion,” she said. “[But] just because a professor is in a position or at a higher level, [it] doesn’t mean that maybe their opinion should be more important or that I should be intimidated by their opinion.”

Paul Laskoski, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said his professors generally use current events in politics as an ice-breaker, and he would only be bothered if professors tried to change his opinion.

“If they were trying to convince me to go against my own opinion or my own convictions, then that would make me uncomfortable,” he said. “But I would say BU is a pretty open environment and very nurturing to different ideas.”

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INTERVIEW: Forbes Under 30 Summit hosted in Boston for first time

BY KAITLYN LOCKE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston, where approximately 37 percent of population is made up of college students, can now boast its status as the newest home of the 2016 Forbes Under 30 Summit. The summit is an annual networking event hosted

by Forbes Conferences that has been held in Philadelphia for the past two years and always feature famous celebrities and entrepreneurs in their panels and events.

In an effort to find a permanent home for the event, Forbes has brought their largest Under 30 summit ever to Boston in the midst of our chilly Northeastern autumn.

“When you look at Boston, in terms of the technology, the innovation, the startups, the university scene — all of this makes it an amazing location for our audience, who are under 30 game-changers, world-changers,” said Taylor Culliver, the programming coordinator at Forbes. “And we want them to really experience all that Boston has to offer.”

Culliver, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015, said it’s his job to work with all the Forbes teams help “bring the vision to life” for the summit.

“I’ve had aspirations of being on the 30 Under 30 list myself,” Culliver said. “And being able to come to the summit and experience being around those people and connecting with those people has been a pretty amazing

experience.” He later said, “We’re really, really excited about bringing this to Boston, making sure the students are getting involved.”

This year’s celebrity speaker and panelist lineup features names such as Jessica Alba, Michael Phelps, Chrissy Teigen, Ashton Kutcher, Bobby Flay, Sir Richard Branson, as well as some of the minds behind theSkimm, WeWork, Breyer Capital, Fine Brothers Entertainment and many more.

For a portion of Monday’s and Tuesday’s events during the summit, panelists will be divided into four simultaneous “content stages:” Tech, Impact, Capital and Create. Each stage is held at a different location in Boston and features about a half-dozen events per day.

Events range from “The Entrepreneurial Revolution: A VR Experience” at the Create stage on Monday morning, which also features Okieriete Onaodowan from “Hamilton: An American Musical,” to the panel “Politics in the 21st Century” at the Impact stage on Tuesday morning, in which both “legislators and non-politicians [will] discuss the challenges and opportunities” of a polarized political climate. The “$1 Million Change the World Competition” will feature four nonprofits and four for-profit companies competing for a $500,000 award from Ashton Kutcher and other investors.

From discussing issues of gender inequality to the future of drone use, the “content stages” feature an enormous spectrum of topics.

When registering for tickets, guests choose

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Taylor Culliver, programming coordinator at Forbes, helped plan the Forbes Under 30 Summit, which is taking place this month in Boston for the first time.

one of the four stages they want access to.

A ticket to a content stage also guarantees guests access to a food festival, a Fenway bar crawl, a music festival happening Sunday as well as the “Under 30 Village Hubs,” which are broken into the Opportunities, Ideas and Experiences categories. Wednesday’s “Service Day,” for which Forbes promises to “leave Boston better than we found it,” is separate.

Sunday’s music festival, for which Forbes annually partners with Global Citizen, a “social action platform” that promotes global change, will feature co-headliners Jason Derulo and Halsey, as well as openers Gallant and Delta Rae. They hosted an Instagram contest in September to give away six tickets to the concert as well as VIP passes to meet Derulo

and Halsey backstage, Culliver said.

“I usually get super pumped up about the music festival,” Culliver said. “One, because it’s the biggest time where everyone comes together … We’re also giving out tickets to local Boston communities to come and join us, and so I think it’s a cool way for us to kind of welcome ourselves to the city and then for us to kind of gel out with the city. I’m a huge fan of Halsey, so that’s gonna be a pretty amazing concert.”

There are also surprise acts promised on the summit’s website.

“Surprises galore,” Culliver said. “I can’t tell you what they are — that would kill the suspense!”

The three Under 30 Village Hubs, located at the City Hall Plaza, will host a more diverse range of events — “to a start-up village, to performances, to food, to a beer garden,” their website reads. The Opportunities Hub is similar to a recruitment fair, Culliver said.

The summit strikes a balance in opportunity — participants can network and receive tips on how to further their careers in the short term, as well be exposed to those who have achieved great success in their fields. Dreams and goals will be nourished to their full potential.

“This summit is all about changing the world,” Culliver said. “I know it sounds kind of cheesy, but it really is about bringing people together who are making a huge impact on people’s lives and in the world.”

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INTERVIEW: VICE executive talks premiering news show

BY KALINA NEWMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Broadcast journalism has evolved significantly from the evenings of FM radio programming and morning cable news shows.

Now with news headlines delivered immediately — and most syndicated into 140-character tweets — VICE News is hoping to lead this ever-changing frontier with a different kind of news programming.

The show premiered on HBO Monday night at 7:30 p.m. It’s a nightly news show, a first for the VICE network, which is known for its print magazine and online news website.

The half-hour-long show, “VICE News Tonight,” will run daily Monday through Friday.

There will be no anchors and no censorship, as shown in the show’s promotion, along with limited structure that aims to provide flexible and modern content. This gives viewers a mix of field reporting and visual presentations.

Josh Tyrangiel, a VICE news executive, said the show will feel different from morning news programs.

“When you see a person behind a desk, with a blazer and graphics appearing over their shoulder, it doesn’t feel like it’s in the now,” Tyrangiel said. “We aim to provide a more authentic form of journalism that will feel immediate.”

In an age where news is immediately accessible through tools such as social media or digital newspaper subscriptions, Tyrangiel said the differences between VNT and nightly

shows such as “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” will be most evident in its transparency.

VICE captures this immediacy in its field reporting from locations around the globe. In the promotional press segments of VNT, for instance, VICE news reporter Aris Roussinos shows the audience firsthand a political dispatch about ISIS in Mosul, Iraq.

“Everybody in journalism wants to have impact,” Tyrangiel said. “So when it comes to a good news story, there’s going to be hard work.” He later said, “That’s what I think HBO and VICE is so good at, is reaching these kinds of audiences with this kind of impact.”

The show will go beyond reiterating headlines from morning newspapers, he said, and instead will introduce new topics that major news sources have not already covered.

“You don’t want to be competing with thousands of people for a small slice of the pie — you want to weigh in on what people really care about,” Tyrangiel said. “This is where we can have this impact on the world.”

After being asked if VNT will be a millennial-specific news show, Tyrangiel said it originally was not intended for any particular age group.

“Yes, we’ve ended up targeting a certain demographic, but that was never our end goal,” he said. “We just so happen to have a lot of younger people working in the office.”

VNT’s biggest risk, as criticized by The New York Times and The Daily Beast, is the fact that it is a nightly news show, which is a

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VICE News producer Claire Ward shoots for VICE News Tonight in Nunavut, Canada.

traditional news concept in itself.

Tyrangiel is aware of the juxtaposition, but said he does not think that it will be an issue.

“I would love it if billions of people started cooking dinner earlier so that they could sit down to watch our show,” he said. “Is it going to happen? I don’t know, it could. But I’m not banking on it.”

Anyone with the HBO GO app on their phone will be able to stream the show at any time.

“We will put out one story a day earlier than 7:30 p.m., as sort of a promotion, and then after seven days if someone is not subscribed to HBO, they can watch that day’s episode on VICE’s website,” he said.

VICE has already has proven successful in paving the way for breakthroughs in investigative journalism, such as their extensive coverage on the Islamic state and the conflict in Ukraine. Now, with Tyrangiel at the head of VNT, VICE and HBO hope to soon be the leaders of daily news media.

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CATALYST THURSDAY,OCTOBER 13, 2016

MIT “Reality, Virtually” hackathon explores new possibilities

BY LAUREN FRIAS DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Virtual reality and augmented reality technology not only aid in people’s day-to-day routines, but they also infiltrate human vision, immersing mankind into a new technological reality that seemed impossible until very recently.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab hosted the “Reality, Virtually” hackathon Friday through Monday, with the goal of allowing participants to exhibit their own talent in VR and AR programming.

The last day of the hackathon, Monday, was an expo open to the public in which participants displayed their VR or AR applications.

The hackers were not allowed to bring any of their own pre-made code bases to the hackathon, so all codes and applications were created over the course of the weekend, according to Danielle Goldschneider, the marketing lead for the hackathon.

Jacob Loewenstein, the founder

and co-president of VR at MIT, the VR/AR community at MIT, helped organize the hackathon. He said virtual reality allows the viewer to “escape” into a simulated experience that is different from the real world, while augmented reality means adding aspects to the real world as people experience it.

“We’re on the precipice of AR having relevance, not just in the lives of people in industry, not just in the lives of hardcore gamers, but in everyone’s life,” Loewentein said. “In the same way that mobile phones started off as something only stockbrokers had to trade stocks on the weekends, AR starts off with a small market, and now it’s really climbing into the mass market.”

Goldschneider said more people are getting involved with VR and AR technology, whether that means coding the technology itself or simply admiring it. The hackathon was able to attract people from a wide range of ages, genders and races, disproving the myth that this technology only appeals to a younger audience.

“We think that if we can get

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A participant at the “Reality, Virtually” hackathon held at MIT experiences virtual reality through a pair of goggles.

people from all walks of life,” Goldschneider said, “we’ll be able to create applications in a much more in teresting way than if we were getting people who came from one particu-

lar perspective in their life.”

One of the participants in the hackathon, Emily Van Belleghem, was the lead developer of the VReam Team. The team created a program

that aids individuals with composing their own music. Using VR technolgy, VReam Team makes composition a more visual practice, allowing it to be a more accessible task.

“We’re hoping that this program will help composers and people who had not ever done music alike to understand it in a whole new way,” said the MIT School of Engineering senior. “We’re hoping that it gives them a new respect for how music and color are just math: music is just wavelengths, and color is just wavelengths. They can map together and create something beautiful.”

To meet the educational needs of students, AR and VR technology has branched into other areas besides entertainment and music composition. Christina Gill, 28, of Cambridge, highlighted the Genome program designed at the hackathon for its purpose of lending a visual aid in teaching human physiology and anatomy.

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IMPACT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2016

Touring concert encourages crowds to fight against the TPP

BY BRYNNLI CORTES DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Music has long been a powerful tool for activists to reach out and connect with the people willing to listen. Through songs and performances, artists have mobilized listeners to their causes, creating and spreading change.

Rock Against the TPP, a touring concert designed to spread awareness about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and energize people to protest against it, used this musical legacy to its full potential on Friday at Spontaneous Celebrations in Jamaica Plain. Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future and one of the lead organizers of the concert, explained the significance of the TPP. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a massive, massive thing to fight,” Greer said. “It’s backed by essentially every multinational corporation in the world. These companies have billions of lobbying dollars to spend to try to push this agreement through Congress.”

The TPP’s goal is to globalize American trade, promote new jobs and boost the American economy, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative website, but economists and activists decry the bill for doing the exact opposite. Protesters say it will,

among other things, make outsourcing easier, lower the environmental standards for global companies to follow and severely impact people’s right to freely use the internet, according to the Rock Against the TPP website.

Despite the size and importance of the TPP, however, it has remained largely unknown by the public.

Catherine Houston, mobilization coordinator of the Women of Steel, an activist branch of the United Steelworkers and the volunteer leader for Rock Against the TPP, explained some of the difficulties for many activists.

“It is an equal opportunity problem event that will touch every person’s lives,” Houston said. “The challenge has been that even though it seems like this is something that most people would really know about, the alarming part is how many people still don’t know.”

The high-energy rock of Massachusetts band Tigerman WOAH began the show. Band members spoke briefly between sets, engaging with the audience and reminding them that they had gathered for a reason. After the band’s last song, guest speakers took to the stage and started to list their grievances with the trade bill, some using spoken word poetry and others opting for speeches and chants.

While their styles of delivery varied, their message was the same: the TPP cannot be al

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Ernesto “Eroc” Arroya-Montana and Jonathan Gramling perform at the Rock Against the TPP event in Jamaica Plain Friday.

lowed to pass through Congress and become law.

After the first group of speakers finished, the concert turned back to the music, this time the blend of pop and soul of the New York artist Bell’s Roar. After her segment, the next round of guest speakers began. Again, each adopted a different style and energy to their words, but

the energy and passion of high school seniors drew just as much applause as the measured and powerful words of Houston, who had rep resented USW in the first group.

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“beat them up, not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it’s unbearable.”

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on how to deal with Palestinians Israel abuses Palestinian human rights and maintains an institutionalized system of segregation with over 50 laws that discriminate against Palestinians.

During 50 years of military occupation Israel has demolished 48,000 Palestinian homes and stolen over 586,000 acres of Palestinian land.

When Israeli leaders speak, you can hear all this in their own words.

See more actual quotes from Israeli leaders at Pal-ad.org/quotes

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THE DAILY FREE PRESS ENDORSES Request your absentee ballot and vote for Hillary Clinton The past months of the presidential election have been nothing short of tumultuous.

As college students, we watched the debates, voted in our primaries and cried as the field winnowed and Bernie bid us goodbye. Our hopes, it seemed, were dashed.

Further insanity ensued as Donald Trump established himself as a buffoon time and time again, from his statements on immigrants to his respect of women.

But this piece isn’t about Trump. This piece is about Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose candidacy The Daily Free Press is enthusiastically supporting. This election is perhaps one of the most contentious and consequential in our history, and voting has never been more important.

Clinton has over 30 years of service, punctuated by her extensive experience with foreign policy through her tenure as first lady and secretary of state. Her policies are clearly outlined, with substantive facts on her stances to back them up. Her demeanor and ability to perform under pressure is nothing less than presidential.

A public gaze is something Clinton is incredibly familiar with and prepared for. She has prepared for her time in leadership roles through her impressive education at Wellesley College and then Yale Law School, where she met her future husband and president-to-be.

After school, she then turned to activism, where she worked on behalf of unprivileged children for the Children’s Defense Fund. Her calculated career choices, always benefitting others, make her more than qualified to be our

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country’s commander in chief.

Public education, the backbone of America, is dependent on government funding at its very core. When asked about ways to curb the national debt, Trump was quoted with saying, “We are going to cut the Department of Education.” Hillary Clinton, conversely, said, “I’ll work to ensure every child — from every zip code — has access to a world-class education.”

Students ourselves, education is a cause that directly impacts us. If our future president of the United States does not take the next generation’s learning seriously, how will the country look four years from now? A strong education system is vital to the health of a nation and a dedication to the next generation is arguably the most important quality in a presidential candidate.

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Clinton’s stance on immigration further solidifies her as the best to run our nation.

While Trump talks about walls and extreme vetting, Clinton is focused on establishing an Office of Immigrant Affairs to account for our nation’s incredibly diverse DNA. Clinton said on May 5, “If we claim we are for family, then we have to pull together and resolve the outstanding issues around our broken immigration system.”

LGBT rights are always called into question around an election, and Clinton’s perspective is clear and promising. In 2011, Trump said, “I live in New York. I know many, many gay people.” A difference of perspective is immediately seen. Trump’s views always seem to reflect inward, directly relating to him and only him. Clinton, however, shifts her gaze

outwards, pensively considering the perspectives of others different from herself.

Perhaps the most polarizing point of Clinton’s campaign in comparison to her counterparts is her opinion of gender equality. Trump’s vulgar and demeaning comments regarding women are countered by Clinton’s powerful speech in Beijing, over 20 years ago.

On one of the most prominent political stages, Clinton proudly stated that, “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.” Never has a statement rang more true, in a time when #NotOkay is still trending and her counterpart is boasting of his chauvinistic conquests. Women should feel obligated to vote for her because she simply understands the inequality endured on a daily basis.

At this point on the campaign trail, we have moved beyond the idea of “a lesser of two evils.” There is only one logical choice for the president of the United States and that choice is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

That being said, a president cannot be elected without voter turnout. College students and young people as a generation have enormous power in deciding the outcome of an election. If you are of age, you have a civic obligation to vote. Deadlines for requesting absentee ballots are quickly approaching and requesting one is nothing short of imperative.

It’s not that difficult to vote absentee if you simply set aside a small amount of time. History is going to be made with this election, in one way or another, and you, as an American voter, have the privilege to participate.

Don’t waste it.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2016

Rape culture is #NotOkay

BY KAYLA KAVANAGH COLUMNIST

In response to the recent release of a video clip from 2005 in which Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump discussed women in a vulgar and derogatory manner, writer Kelly Oxford catalyzed a social media movement when she asked her Twitter followers to share their first sexual assault stories with the tag #NotOkay.

The result: an outpouring of hundreds of thousands of tweets. #NotOkay became the No. 1 Twitter trend within hours, reaching 27 million tweets by Monday morning.

Considering the content of the tweets and the cause of the trend, the fact that the movement went viral almost instantly is devastating.

The list goes on, containing tons of stories as equally horrifying as the ones above.

What becomes abundantly clear to anyone who scrolls through the tag is that women from all over the world have experienced some form of harassment or assault in their lives, with the first incidents typically occurring at an obscenely early age. A diverse female body made up of countless different ethnicities, religions, sexualities and ages are united by one piece of common ground: rape culture.

Rape culture is defined as an environment whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing or trivializing sexual assault and abuse. In this environment, rape and sexual violence is prevalent in the media, victim-blaming is common and harassment (or worse) is excusable. Rape culture creates an environment in which Brock Turner, who served only three months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster at a party, is referred to in the news as a “former Stanford swimmer” rather than a rapist. Rape culture creates an environment in which a presidential candidate can dismiss vulgar conversations about proudly committing sexual assault as mere locker room talk

and still be considered fit to run a country.

Rape culture is pervasive, rape culture is dangerous and rape culture is perpetuated daily.

Many leaders in the feminist community now advocate for the spread of “call-out culture,” which encourages individuals to call out rape culture, whether it is in the form of a derogatory joke online or sexual catcalling on the streets. By publicly holding individuals responsible for their predatory actions, systemic rape culture could, ideally, subside. #NotOkay demonstrates call-out culture in action: women are utilizing the internet as a forum to convey the message that abuse, assault and harassment are unacceptable.

Another interesting facet of the #NotOkay movement is that it clearly indicates how the internet can be a powerful mechanism of fourth-wave feminism. Fourth-wave feminism is the internet-based sector of the current feminist movement, a digital revolution of sorts. Using the web as a platform for social discussion enables people from around the world to connect their thoughts and ideas, creating an unprecedented atmosphere of intersectionality in the women’s rights movement. As previously mentioned, #NotOkay featured tweets from women across the globe, accentuating the fact that rape culture is present worldwide and, thus, united feminism is needed everywhere.

Rape culture is pervasive, rape culture is dangerous and rape culture is perpetuated daily.

The 2016 election might prove pivotal to the trajectory of rape culture. Every citizen carries the responsibility to combat harmful stereotypes, images, jokes and media content that contribute to the normalization of sexual violence. This year, however, that responsibility needs to be carried to the voting polls. Remember, rape culture is not okay.

Let’s make debates about substance, not bluster

BY MAX BERMAN COLUMNIST

It seems that the side effects of two presidential debates are dozens of lies, moderators who struggle to get candidates to answer their questions and viewers who frequently forget the asked questions. If one looks at Donald Trump’s response to Anderson Cooper regarding Trump’s hotmic misogynistic comments, it’s clear why the debates seem so ineffectual.

“This was locker room talk. I am not proud of it. I apologized to my family and the American people. I am not proud of it.

This is locker room talk. When you have ISIS chopping off heads and drowning people in steel cages and wars and horrible, horrible sights all over and you have so many bad things happening, this is like medieval times. The carnage all over the world and they look and see, can you imagine the people that are frankly doing so well against us with ISIS and they look at our country and see what’s going on. I am embarrassed by it and I hate it, but it’s locker room talk and one of those things.”

I have no idea what locker room Trump is referring to in this statement.

I’ve never been in a locker room where anyone has bragged about sexually assaulting women. It’s also quite sad that Trump’s defense rested on the fact that ISIS, a terrorist organization responsible for the deaths of thousands, is worse. However, neither point was brought by Anderson Cooper because he must be “nonpartisan.”

The moderators of the debates try to remain fair and balanced, but they shouldn’t. At least not in a nonpartisan sense. The moderators should be committed to a balanced truth, not a balanced debate. Trump statistically lies more than Clinton, and the moderators need to make that clear.

Furthermore, both candidates and past candidates have a tendency of turning a question about topic A into mentioning an unrelated topic B. As Peter Dreier, an E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics of Occidental College, wrote, “Skilled politicians have perfected the art of avoiding answering direct questions.

Each candidate has his or her must-say talking points regardless of the question.

If a journalist asks, ‘When is your birthday?’ a Republican candidate will answer ‘I will reduce taxes on the job creators,’ while a Democratic candidate might respond, ‘I intend to end racial profiling by police.’”

Politicians aren’t to be blamed for this; it’s simple game theory. If one candidate stretches the truth and goes off topic in order to make a charismatic point, while the other sticks plainly to the dry, substantive questions, the former candidate will clearly make a better impression on the viewers. This causes both candidates to “pivot” from the questions being asked.

However, it would be much better for the American people if the candidates were to have a substantive debate over the issues.

The moderators should interrupt candidates if they go off topic, call them out on lying and cut off their microphones if they interrupt the other candidate. I know it’s an insane idea that the moderators should actually moderate the debate, but it’s one worth trying. Media outlets need to be arbiters of truth; otherwise, candidates will get away with lies, and lies about lies.

While Clinton wasn’t completely truthful during her debate performances, it was no contest who won the lying contest. In a New York Times article “Trump’s Second Debate, in Brief,” David Leonhardt eloquently presents Trump’s disregard for the truth with an ironic twist.

“He lied about her immigration plan.

He lied about her email deletion. He lied about Obamacare, more than once. He lied about the rape of a 12-year-old girl. He lied about his history of groping women without their consent,” Leonhardt said. “Finally, he broke with basic democratic norms and called on his political opponent to be jailed — because, in large part, of what he described as her dishonesty.”

Reforming the debates is bigger than this election. It has to do with reforming the system that seems uninterested in the truth.

Interrobang Harold Martin III’s August arrest was disclosed last week, following allegations that he may have leaked a set of the National Security Agency’s premier spying software.

We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know — what would BU people not want leaked about them?

BU Democrats: Emails

President Brown: Next year’s tuition increase

BU Republicans: Taxes

West Campus: Their fake ID order forms

Sargent: McDonald’s receipts

CILSE: Nothing, it’s all glass

CFA: Audition songs

FreeP: Our office playlists

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Women’s hockey’s Sutherland on superheroes, superstitions, scary movies

BY SHELBY REARDON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University women’s hockey team is off to a strong start, having averaged four goals a game in the early going. A large part of this success is thanks to the efforts of senior forward Samantha Sutherland, who leads the BU (2-1) offense with seven goals.

The Fernie, British Columbia native is just one goal away from her tying her career high, and in just three games has scored her first collegiate hat trick and been named Hockey East Player of the Week. We sat down with the goal-scoring threat to talk hockey, Boston and more.

1. What’s the best thing about playing for BU? “I feel like there’s a lot I could talk about for this one, but what first crossed my mind was just the feeling you get when you put on your BU jersey. It’s pride and confidence, but it also reminds me of how fortunate I am to be here and how hard i’ve worked to be able to put on that jersey.”

2. What’s your pregame playlist?

“My pregame playlist ranges quite broadly between Passenger and Kanye West, but there’s a song that Katy Perry came out with over the Olympics called ‘Rise’ and every time I listen to that song it gets me so pumped up to play.”

3. Favorite hockey player?

“Definitely [Chicago Blackhawks center] Jonathan Toews.”

4. Do you have any pregame rituals?

“I’m not very superstitious, but when we are playing at home I like to step onto the ice just in my warm-up gear and sneakers just after off-ice warm-ups and it’s just me and a sheet of perfect ice that hasn’t been touched yet.”

5. Favorite place to eat in Boston?

“I am obsessed with this place called Carlo’s further down on Commonwealth Avenue.”

6. If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would it be?

“Probably Nepal. That’s kind of random but I’m an avid mountain climber when I’m home.”

7. What’s your coffee order?

“I’m not a coffee drinker. I always get green tea … But if I’m going to treat myself I’ll go to Starbucks and get a green tea latte which is pretty incredible.”

8. Favorite Halloween movie?

“I’m not much of a Halloween person but the first scary movie that I ever saw was called

‘The Strangers’ and I had nightmares for a week about it — but it’s so good.”

9. Best thing to do in the winter besides play hockey?

“Probably skiing. I live in a resort town at home so whenever I have a chance I’m up on the hill.”

10. What team are you most looking forward to facing this year? “[Harvard University], definitely. We lost to them last year and I have some friends on the team, so I’m looking forward to some well-needed redemption.”

11. Favorite superhero?

“It’s not one that people would really know.

His name is Hawkman. I used to always read Hawkman comic books when I was younger.”

12. Funniest person on the team?

“There’s so many people on my team who are pretty funny. I would say [senior forward] Maddie Elia. She’s been pretty hilarious this year. She just comes up with the most random things that crack me up.”

13. If you couldn’t play hockey what sport would you play?

“Tennis. I’ll always love tennis. My family got really into it. When I’m home in the summer I play every night with my mom.”

14. Best class you’ve taken at BU? “I took this one class junior year called remote sensing. It got me interested in what my major is. Basically this class had a bunch of labs and they were all about using NASA satellite data to determine if forests are healthy.”

15. Where do you spend your downtime on campus?

“I really like hanging out at Blue State [Coffee], but when you’re walking through Brookline there’s this tiny park called Mason Square. It’s incredible. I like going there and sitting down with a good book.”

16. If someone is visiting Boston for a day where would you tell them to go?

“I would say probably Charles Street — it’s right downtown. It has this great coffee place called Tatte and it has a bunch of those winding brick streets.”

17. Best advice you’ve ever gotten from a coach or teammate?

“It’s a tossup. When I was in high school I had a coach who told me that one of the most important things about the game was to be a healthy selfish — to know when to keep the puck and when not to keep the puck. The best thing I’ve gotten from a teammate would be,

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Senior forward Samantha Sutherland leads BU with seven goals through three games.

No other player has more than two.

I’ve played with [graduated forward] Sarah Lefort for almost two years here, and I would get really frustrated when something out of my control would happen or I would make a mistake. She would sit me down and tell me to forget about everything and just have fun.”

18. What is it going to take to win Hockey East this year?

“We have an incredible team on paper and I have no doubts about our skill and our chemistry, but I think winning Hockey East comes down to who wants it more. I personally believe that we do want it more.”

19. What does it mean to have been

recognized by Hockey East as Player of the Week?

“Definitely a lot. After freshman year I wasn’t sure that I would ever be recognized again.

I definitely took a different role on the team with the amount of skill that we acquired. I was fine with that. Everyone needs to play a role. It was a nice surprise to be recognized again by Hockey East, especially as a senior.”

20. If you could trade places with a celebrity, who would you pick?

“I would choose P!nk because she’s a badass.

She is crazy. I remember watching her once on TV and she hangs from the ceiling and does all these acrobatic things.”

Going For Two: Cowboys face tough quarterback decision

BY DAVID SOUZA COLUMNIST

Quarterback controversies are one of the most debated and divisive topics in all of sports. From a battle between two franchise quarterbacks in Drew Bledsoe and Tom Brady to a competition between busts Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick, quarterback controversies have given football fans everywhere fodder for their next great debate for decades.

With this new NFL season, a new quarterback controversy has sprung up — this time in the NFC East with the Dallas Cowboys.

After Tony Romo went down in the preseason with a back injury, rookie quarterback

Dak Prescott was thrust into action just a year removed from his college days at Mississippi State. Since beginning his time as a starter for America’s Team, the Bulldogs’ former gunslinger has gone 107 for 155 with 1,239 yards and four touchdowns. Even more impressive, the rookie has produced these offensive numbers with no interceptions to his name.

His best effort came three weeks ago against the lowly Chicago Bears. In that contest, Prescott completed 19 passes for 248 yards — including a 17-yard score to Dez Bryant in the fourth quarter. Under Prescott’s

leadership, the Cowboys have gone to 4-1 and currently sit atop the NFC East.

However, Tony Romo has been the heart and soul of the Cowboys since he took over under center in 2006. During his 10 years in the league, Romo has compiled 34,154 total passing yards while throwing 247 touchdowns.

And while Romo is currently in his mid-30s, the former Eastern Illinois product is just two years removed from his best season in the NFL. CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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Men’s soccer’s freshman duo leads offensive charge

BY JOEY WOODWARD DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Despite a five-game winless streak, the Boston University men’s soccer team has a pair of freshmen who have stepped up recently. Forward Matt McDonnell and midfielder Jerry Ozor have combined for nine points thus far, and are impressing BU head coach Neil Roberts and his staff.

Despite only starting one of the Terriers’ (3-5-2, 0-2-2 Patriot League) 10 games, McDonnell’s six points is good for third-best on the team. Ozor, on the other hand, has started only three games, but is second on the team with 3 assists.

Although they are both newcomers, Roberts likes the way they have settled down and found their niche.

“They’re both playing well, they’re getting comfortable and they’re contributing quite a bit.”

Roberts said.

One of the more important aspects of the emergence of these two freshmen is that it is forcing opposing teams to take focus away from junior midfielder Anthony Viteri and senior forward Felix De Bona, the team’s top two point producers.

In the Terriers’ most recent game, a 3-3 draw against the University of Loyola Maryland on Sat-

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Freshman forward Matt McDonnell has three goals thus far for the Terriers.

urday, De Bona scored the Terriers’ last two goals. He had more room to work when either McDonnell or Ozor was on the field.

Look for the freshman pairing to continue to make strides in their

development for BU as the season progresses.

Defensive struggle hurting Terriers

Despite ranking last among qualified goalkeepers in the Patriot League with 1.642 goals against per contest, senior goalkeeper Matt Gilbert’s 4.9 saves per game tops the league.

What does this mean for the reigning Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Year? It means that Gilbert has been extremely busy in net thus far this season.

A fifth-year senior, Gilbert looks sharper than ever, making both the routine and difficult saves, but Roberts feels that he needs more from his defense as a collective.

“Gilbert’s being left alone out there, it’s a shame,” Roberts said.

“I think it’s just collectively we’re making some mistakes and it’s costing us … defensively we just have to be better.”

Since the Terriers possess offensive-minded midfielders, their aggressive attack can often lead to offensive opportunities for opponents, something Roberts has noticed.

“A lot of their two-on-ones are when we are pushing forward, and then they get a break,” Roberts said.

The Terriers’ defense will be looking to get back into form against a Lafayette College team that scores a meager .917 goals per game, second-worst in the league

behind the United States Naval Academy (.727 goals per game).

Is BU a streaky team?

In its opening five matches, BU was above .500 with a 3-2 record. Five games later, and the Terriers have yet to win another game.

One is left to wonder whether the Terriers are prone to streaky play, or the recent stretch is simply a testament to the quality of opponents they’re up against. Roberts said he believes it’s more the latter.

“I think we’re just in a patch right now,” Roberts said. “We lost a little bit of confidence, hopefully the comeback the other day will help with that.”

The comeback Roberts is referring to is the recent tie at Loyola (5-5-1, 3-0-1 Patriot League), where De Bona’s second goal in the 80th minute helped BU draw even with the Greyhounds, who own the best conference record.

Although BU has underperformed by entering the heart of league play winless, it still has five conference games left to earn itself a better seed in the Patriot League Tournament. Roberts and the squad will look to regain the confidence they had earlier in the season on Saturday afternoon at Nickerson Field.

Men’s hockey looks to avenge NCAA Tournament loss in Denver CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 time. Since they’re down 0-2, we can tell they’re going to bring it even harder.”

Possibly matching that intensity

could be two Terriers who were previously sidelined by injury in sophomore forward Ryan Cloonan and junior forward Chase Phelps. Quinn said both are “available” this weekend, but shied away from revealing whether or

not they’ll see ice time.

Whoever plays, the Terriers are chomping at the bit to prove themselves yet again. They moved up two spots this week in the national rankings, and this Denver trip pre-

sents the chance to show the hype is justified.

“We’re really excited,” Hickey said. “It’s nice to get these cool road trips out of the way early, get the team gelled. On that five-hour bus

ride to Colgate, everyone’s joking around in the back of the bus, so it’s pretty cool to see the camaraderie.

We’re all pretty excited to get going here.”

With Romo out, replacement Prescott turning heads in Dallas CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 With a strong offensive line protecting him, Romo captained the Cowboys to a 12-4 record, an NFC East title, and one controversial call away from the NFC Championship Game. In that historic season for

Romo, he threw for 34 touchdowns — the second most in his career — and had league-best numbers in both passer (113.2) and quarterback (83.62) rating.

But, the truth of the matter is, Romo has atrocious durability.

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just four times — the last time in 2012. Fracturing his clavicle last season and going down in the 2016 preseason, Romo hasn’t played meaningful football in more than a year.

Dallas now faces the choice of staying loyal to a QB who is dangerous when healthy, or going with a young stud who has proven his

worth with wins over the playoff-caliber Cincinnati Bengals and last year’s division winner, the Washington Redskins.

The Cowboys are a team that features a top-10 wide receiver in Dez Bryant, and a rookie running back in Ezekiel Elliott that looks to be cementing his place among a long

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Bryant — who can only be rivaled by the likes of Antonio Brown, Julio Jones and maybe Odell Beckham Jr. — has spent the entirety of his career forging a touchdown-plentiful relationship with Romo.

By throwing a new QB into the mix with Bryant, you could risk wasting away some of Bryant’s time as a premier receiver by forcing him to adjust to Prescott. The Oklahoma State alum has just one score in four weeks with Prescott, and is only two years removed from hauling in a league-high 16 TDs. However, the emergence of Elliott strengthens Prescott’s case.

With defenses zeroing in on Elliott, more receivers will open up as a result of a stacked box and a secondary focused on stifling Bryant. Prescott, who ran for 41 touchdowns during his Bulldogs career, gives Dallas a more versatile offense.

Already two-dimensional with elite receiving and rushing, a mobile quarterback provides a triple-option threat that can make Dallas’ offense one of the most lethal in the NFL. Jerry Jones has already come out publicly and stated that Romo should be the starter; however, with Jason Garrett making the personnel calls, the Cowboys should provide the rest of the league with plenty of fodder for future QB debates.

P.S. Go with the promising rookie … it worked for the Patriots.

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Men’s hockey heads to Denver for two-game road trip

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

With a season-opening win in their pocket and a shortened week of classes wrapped up, the Rocky Mountains beckon.

For the first time since 2012, the No. 2 Boston University men’s hockey team will take on No. 10 University of Denver in the regular season away from home, with games set for Friday and Saturday evenings. The programs carry with them a combined 12 NCAA titles — seven from Denver and five from BU — altogether offering head coach David Quinn an ideal evaluation.

“We’re going to play at a different pace, we’re going to have to play with a little different edge, we’re going to have to play with more awareness, so there’s going to be new challenges over the weekend that we haven’t seen before,” Quinn said. “ … They’re excited for the opportunity to play a great team, and we’re going to know an awful lot more about our team come Saturday night than we do today.”

Those chords were echoed by junior defenseman Brandon Hickey, who stressed that BU (1-0) will have to face tough opponents like Denver (0-2) throughout the year if the team hopes to achieve its lofty goals in 2016-17.

“It’ll show us what we have to accomplish to win the games we want to down the stretch,” Hickey said. “We’re going to have to play against a lot of top-10 teams if we want to accomplish what we want to accomplish

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Junior defenseman Brandon Hickey looks forward to another shot at Denver this weekend.

this year. It gets the freshmen into games that mean something and they’re not going to be in a Colgate [University] kind of game.”

As Hickey alluded to, the Terriers kicked off their campaign with relative ease this past weekend, knocking off Colgate, 6-1, in Hamilton, New York. Notable storylines included freshman goaltender Jake Oettinger’s 29 saves,

freshman forward Patrick Harper’s two-goal evening and the fact all four lines lit the lamp.

Despite those performances, Quinn cautioned that his Terriers still have much to work on, especially against the team that “kicked our ass” in the opening round of last year’s NCAA Tournament. The final scoreline was 7-2 in favor of the Pioneers, a result Hickey said still

leaves a bitter taste and will offer extra motivation this weekend in Magness Arena.

Past results aside, BU still views itself as a work in progress.

“I’d like to get more scoring chances,” Quinn said. “I think we need to reward ourselves for offensive zone time. I don’t think we’re getting to the net enough, enough pucks to the net. I thought our net-front play in general wasn’t what it needed to be defensively, but that being said, there’s a lot to like about where our game is at this early in the season.”

Conversely, Jim Montgomery, Denver’s head coach, is surely hoping the tide soon turns for his squad. Their season kicked off with back-to-back losses in the Ice Breaker Tournament to No. 19 Ohio State University and No. 6 Boston College, respectively. Making matters even worse, their star forward, Dylan Gambrell, will miss the next four to six weeks with an upper body injury.

Even with the goaltending duo of Tanner Jaillet and Evan Cowley, Hickey stressed that Denver will be a desperate hockey team. Freshman forward Kieffer Bellows, who said the higher altitude could also factor in, urged Denver’s struggles shouldn’t change BU’s approach.

“We know they’re 0-2, but we have to go into that game thinking they’re 2-0,” Bellows said. “They’re going to bring it to us just like every other team. We have a target on our back this year and we have to bring it all the CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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