NEWS BCH’s Prouty Garden, a peaceful place for patients and families, began demolition Sunday to make room for hospital expansion. p. 3
MUSE For this installment of FreeP vs. Food, we judged Boston cream and classic glazed doughnuts from different shops based on taste, texture and price. p. 7
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SPORTS BU women’s hockey’s transfer success added another chapter with Mary Parker and Nina Rodgers. p. 10
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2016 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLV. VOLUME XCI. ISSUE XIII.
Self-serving printing system to replace Mugar Print Center BY BREANNE KOVATCH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
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Julie Wickstrom, associate director of Financial Assistance at Boston University, sits at her desk in the financial aid office.
BU launches Grant Assurance program, simplifies financial aid BY SAMANTHA J. GROSS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
Boston University Financial Assistance has launched its BU Grant Assurance program, which certifies that any financial aid students receive from the university during their first year will be guaranteed throughout the rest of their undergraduate time at BU. Current upperclassmen will also be folded into the program. The Financial Assistance team has been working on the program for almost two years, but certain aspects were changed after the students’ frustration on financial aid was brought to light and sparked a series of meetings between administrators and the student activism group, #PoorAtAPrivateUniversity. “The group helped inspire this,” said
Julie Wickstrom, director of Financial Assistance at BU. “The biggest impact [of #PoorAtAPrivateUniversity] was that it validated the direction we would go in. All of the references to meeting [with advisers], I don’t know if we would have done that or if we would have thought about that if we hadn’t heard from people.” After the Financial Assistance team — including Wickstrom and her colleagues — conducted research to see if the assurance program would work with their budget, they presented a plan to the BU administration for approval. One point that was addressed in the meetings was the longevity of the program. If there were to be a recession, need from families would change significantly. “In the past when we’ve had recession impacting our students’ ability to contrib CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
At the end of the Fall 2016 semester, the Print Center at Mugar Memorial Library will undergo a series of changes, and the current print center that employs 36 students will be replaced by a new system that does not require any employees to run, according to the university. Information Services and Technology Help Center Executive Director Stacy Gianoulis wrote in an email to The Daily Free Press that the new system will have self-release printers, meaning students will be able to walk up to the printers, swipe their BU ID and release the print right there. Under the current system, students have to release print jobs from their computers and pick up copies at the Print Center, which is sorted and run
by students. “The self-release stations allow us to eliminate the cover sheet that, today, is generated for each print job because print jobs no longer will need to be sorted,” Gianoulis wrote. “This has been a common request by BU’s student population and we’re happy that we now can accommodate this request.” Over the break, BU will add some additional printing locations around campus and alter some existing centers, Gianoulis wrote. The details of these changes have yet to be disclosed. The new system will be more sustainable and user-friendly, according to Gianoulis. “The self-release stations will further reduce wasted print because jobs sent accidentally or to the wrong printer location will CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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A student waits in line at the print station inside Mugar Memorial Library, where the student employee positions will be eliminated at the end of the semester.
Panelists discuss challenges, functions of religion in modern cities BY ELLIE FRENCH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF
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Rainey Dankel, an associate rector at Trinity Church in Boston, speaks about the role of faith in the city during a discussion hosted by the Boston University Initiative on Cities Wednesday afternoon.
Approximately 20 members of the Boston University community gathered early Wednesday afternoon for a panel, “Faith and the City,” to discuss the role of religion in modern cities. The seminar, moderated by Dean of Marsh Chapel Robert Hill, was the last Urban Seminar held by the Initiatives on Cities this semester. Graham Wilson, director of the Initiative on Cities, wrote in an email to The Daily Free Press prior to the discussion that he brought three different and influential religious leaders together to try to capture the religion diversity of Boston. “We wanted a range of faith organizations from different traditions with different resources and different roles,” Wilson wrote.
“Boston is home to a wonderfully diverse community and we wanted to reflect that diversity.” Religion centers often undertake a wide range of social and charitable work for their members and for the broader community, but not many people know about this work, Wilson wrote. “We want to highlight that faith organizations — in addition to their spiritual work — have never limited themselves to that,” Wilson wrote. “They are dynamic leaders for all kinds of populations, especially in cities when their work can be very impactful.” Despite the positive work that religion groups bring to cities, much of the discussion centered on the challenge of trying to maintain a congregation with rising expenses and decreasing community involvement. Panelist Rev. Theodore Hickman-MayCONTINUED ON PAGE 4