December 6, 2018

The Huntington News Vol. XII No. 6

The independent student newspaper of the Northeastern community

December 6, 2018

BLACK LIVES MATTER CO-FOUNDER SPEAKS TO NORTHEASTERN

By Yunkyo Kim News Correspondent Activists Patrisse Cullors and Richie Reseda came to Blackman Auditorium on Monday to discuss their experiences with modern activism and mobilization.

The talk, hosted by Northeastern Students Against Institutional Discrimination, or SAID, consisted of speeches, conversation with mediator Charles Wallace-Thomas and an audience Q&A. Cullors, who co-founded Black Lives Matter, and Reseda, co-founder of Initiate Justice, both emphasized the intersectionality of feminism, racial justice and prison reform at the forefront of societal progress.

SAID’s organizers

—Wallace-Thomas and fourth-year speech-language pathology and audiology major Maya Wong — explained that the club’s mission is to utilize unconventional political education for student activism at Northeastern and in the Boston area. They saw a need to invite Cullors and Reseda as these activists represent a movement and an inspiration that the organizers hope to foster on campus, they said.

“The impetus for this conversation is that [Reseda] and [Cullors] really represent a lot of what needs to happen, and they’ve done what needs to happen as well,” said Wallace-Thomas, a second-year economics and mathematics major. “And by focusing on prison abolition, and focusing on the fact that black lives matter, and not all lives matter until black lives matter,

they take the approach that this is something that needs to happen from bottom up. This is something that needs to happen from the margins.”

The Black Lives Matter movement, which Cullors co-founded in 2013, now has a network of more than 40 chapters in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Describing the motivation of what she calls this generation’s civil rights movement, Cullors highlighted the lack of governmental attention to black lives and said there needs to be a change in the perception and treatment of African-Americans.

“We’re having a conversation about black life,” Cullors said. “And a challenge to this country, a chal-

lenge to us as individuals who live inside this country, is that we are so obsessed with black death that we are unable to imagine black life.

“So our work, our work for folks inside of this room, not just in this conversation, but as we continue to go out there and organize, is will you build an organization? Will you build a collective? Will you build a movement that is able to imagine black people thriving?”

Initiate Justice, an organization that engages incarcerated people and their families to write and implement California ballot initiatives favoring restorative justice, currently has more than 8,000 members in prisons and 175 organizers in California prisons.

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Photo courtesy Federico Toro Uribe Charles Wallace-Thomas mediates a Q&A session with co-founder of Initiate Justice Richie Resada, and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors Dec. 3.

HUSKIES WIN

Photo by Brian Bae, courtesy Red and Black

Shannon Todd (left) knocked down the winning three as time ran out Sunday, edging the Huskies past Massachusetts, 53-52, at the Cabot Center. Todd, a junior guard averaging 10.6 points per game and 4.9 rebounds, pushed NU to 7-0 on the season, tied for the best start in program history.

That tie lasted until Wednesday, when the Huskies took down Fairfield, 59-50, to claim the best start in team history. Sophomore guard Stella Clark scored a game-high 18 in the win, and Todd added 10. NU won each quarter individually, including a 20-10 doubling in the first to set the tone. Jess Genco, a senior guard, led the team in minutes as usual with 37. They’ll try for 9-0 Saturday at Providence.

Photo by Riley Robinson

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December 6, 2018

Engineering clubs pushed out by renovations

By Corey Dockser News Staff Baja Society of American Engineers Northeastern received an email from the College of Engineering on June 30 stating that they had to vacate their lab space in the basement of Richards Hall. A week later, they set up in the basement of Gainsboro Garage, struggling to continue their work with limited space and a lack of tools previously provided by the university.

“We got an email saying we need to vacate the space that we were occupying — that’s all,” said Max Gieraltowski, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major and president of Baja, a student organization which designs and races off-road cars.

With only a week to move out, Baja gathered the few members on campus during the summer and had them pack everything they could into bins provided by the university.

They had to transport everything else, including their vehicles, on their own to Gainsboro Garage.

“Gainsboro’s like an assembly area where we can do some hands-on stuff, and it’s also a storage space for some defunct clubs,” Gieraltowski said. “It’s a temporary space for us, but it’s not just like shelves with boxes, it’s kind of open and we do stuff in there.”

But the garage space is small and lacks the heavy machinery Baja needs for much of its work. The welders and other tools used to be

located in the machine shop next to their old lab space beneath Richards.

Lack of access has created a variety of problems for the organization.

“Normally we would only have to move the frame of our vehicle to the machine shop, do our welding, and be good to go, but we weren’t able to do that because we had to take it all the way from Gainsboro to the machine shop in Forsyth,” said Ben Lerman, a fifth-year mechanical engineering major and vice president of Baja. “We had to work in between Capstone machine jobs to work in that machine shop.”

Every October, a motorsports competition called Midnight Mayhem is held in Louisville, Kentucky.

Baja had attended many times in the past, but this time they were unable to complete maintenance on their vehicle in time for the competition.

“Ultimately, we can probably say that we didn’t make it to the competition because all of the movement drained our time,” Gieraltowski said.

Baja isn’t the only club suffering from the missing space. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, or SEDS, rented out the space last year. SEDS is “a club that’s dedicated to giving undergrads the opportunities to perform interesting research projects where they can get hands-on experience looking at novel space systems, robotics and interesting technologies,” said Daniel McGann, a third-year computer science and computer engineering

combined major and SEDS’ vice president of innovation.

Unlike Baja, SEDS doesn’t need lab space year-round. It rents space on a semester-by-semester basis for individual projects, said McGann. He and his team have been attempting to find space for two Mars-related projects — a machine that drills for ice and a rover.

“Our system’s going to be a $10,000 robot, it’s about one meter by one meter by two meters tall, and we need to get messy because we’re drilling into dirt and then ice,” said McGann, referring to the Mars Ice Challenge. “Richards was perfect because we could lay down a big tarp, get as messy as we need and clean it all up easily.”

SEDS needs space by January and it hasn’t been able to find any on campus, said President Ben Zinser, a third-year mechanical engineering major. He said he has not received any information about the status of the renovations in the basement of Richards.

The organization is even considering renting space off campus. SEDS doesn’t need to use the machine shops, they only need space.

“If they can’t give us space, we have the funding to [go off campus],” McGann said. “We’ve been given the money to do this competition and we have a timeline and we’re motivated to do it, we’re going to find a place.”

Not all engineering clubs were affected by the renovations in the

Richards basement. Hyperloop Club, which has a lab space in the basement but off to the side of the renovation site, is able to continue operating in its space.

Northeastern American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, or AIAA, borrows lab space from Bridget Smyser, an associate teaching professor at the department of mechanical and industrial engineering.

But Smyser has very little space to give, said Karl Swanson, a third-year computer engineering major and president of AIAA. “If you’re a student organization trying to book lab space, you’re probably not going to have much luck there,” Swanson said. “Northeastern is very, very tight on space even for its own classes and labs, so it’s very

difficult to find space.”

The administration didn’t respond to a request for comment, and none of the clubs contacted for this story had heard any specifics about the renovations from the administration.

While the College of Engineering has been trying to help them find space, the lack of communication from higher levels of the bureaucracy make it difficult to make decisions, McGann said.

“No one’s said ‘this is what’s going to happen to [the Richards lab space] and we’ll be ready at this time, plan your club’s activities accordingly,’” McGann said. “All we’ve heard is ‘it’s not there, no one can use it right now.’ And so that’s challenging because it makes planning very difficult.”

Photo by Catherine Argyrople Becky Johnson of American Institute of Aeronautics Astronautics at Northeastern marks a model rocket.

CAMPUS

December 6, 2018

SAID hosts BLM activists

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NUPD CRIME LOG Compiled by Jill Sojourner, news staff

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NOVEMBER Photo by Yunkyo Kim Activists Richie Resada (middle) and Patrisse Cullors (right) speak with mediator Charles Wallace-Thomas.

JUSTICE, from front Reseda spoke about his experience in the U. S. criminal justice system and his work at the organization.

“We understand that in order to truly change a problem, you need to engage the people who are most affected by that problem. So that’s why we do our organizing in prisons, ” said Reseda, who was once incarcerated himself.

Emmanuel Nicolella, a fifth-year biochemistry major, praised Reseda’s ability to channel his experience into organizing, noting that many advo-

cates for prison reform and abolition have never been incarcerated.

“To hear from a prison abolitionist who has actually gone through the system … was really powerful,” said Nicolella.

Erica Lezama, a fifth-year business administration major, said she observed a positive stride toward progress through the event.

“I think a major takeaway was the aspect of hope, the aspect that solution is possible because it is really easy to get stuck in a mindset that this is the way it is and this how

it’s gonna stay and this is how it’s existed for centuries,” Lezama said.

“It’s really inspiring to hear people making a difference.”

Cullors and Reseda said it’s essential for youths, people of color and allies to mobilize. They promoted legislative action toward transformative justice — a spin on restorative justice that improves communities previously influenced by racist laws.

“I don’t want to sound corny, like ‘write your senator!’,” Reseda said.

“But for real though, write your senator.”

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News illustration by CJ Andrews Seven of the 11 crimes in the NUPD crime log from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1 were thefts. Here’s what was stolen.

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An NU student reported her unattended headphones were stolen from the School of Law Library in the Knowles Center. A report was filed.

4:15 p.m.

An NU student reported she believed her roommates stole $1,300 in cash from her purse. A report was filed.

9:18 p.m.

An NUPD officer reported an NU student stole a pair of earbuds and an earbud case from another NU student. A report was filed.

11:28 p.m.

An NU student reported his unattended headphones were stolen from the Marino Recreation Center. A report was filed.

5:30 p.m.

An NU student reported her wallet was stolen off campus. A report was filed.

12:19 p.m.

An NUPD officer reported a man stole a bicycle from the bicycle racks outside of the Marino Center and was last seen leaving the area toward the Fenway. A report was filed.

12:10 a.m.

NUPD reported speaking to an NU student who was semi-alert and stated he had several drinks of vodka earlier in the evening. NUPD requested Emergency Medical Services, or EMS, who transported the student to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

A report was filed.

12:51 a.m.

An NU student reported an intoxicated NU student who could not walk and was vomiting. NUPD responded and requested Emergency Medical Services (EMS), who transported the student to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. A report was filed.

1:09 a.m.

An NUPD officer reported an intoxicated man, who was unaffiliated with NU, outside of Smith Hall. The officer reported requesting EMS, who cleared the man.

The officer reported he would stand by the man until his father came to pick him up. A report was filed.

4:55 a.m.

An individual reported an NU student was intoxicated and in need of an evaluation. NUPD responded and reported the student signed a medical waiver and admitted to consuming alcohol. A report was filed.

12:34 p.m.

An NU student reported he lost his ATM card and there were several fraudulent charges on it. A report was filed.

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December 6, 2018

Northeastern alumni hold Punter’s sendoff

By Nick Hirano News Staff Punter’s Pub will give its final last call this month, as the Huntington Avenue dive bar is set to close its doors two years after Northeastern purchased the property. Campus-planning documents suggest that the property could be used as part of a student housing expansion.

On Saturday night, Northeastern athletes of years past descended on Punter’s to send off longtime owner Steve Newman, who earned $5.3 million in the sale of the property.

Chuck Lavrentios, who graduated

in 1983, remembered the bar’s strong ties to Northeastern athletics.

“They were very welcoming to the sports teams here,” said Lavrentios, who played offensive line on the school’s now-defunct football team.

“After the games, it was sort of a place to come and hang out — talk about that day’s game, have some camaraderie with your teammates and across sports too.”

Lavrentios, like many others, enjoyed the evening’s nostalgia.

“I haven’t been here for 20 years, but it hasn’t changed at all,” he said.

“It’s fun to see the old faces. A lot of

the old teammates are here.”

For Dave Bartone, a 1985 graduate who played football with Lavrentios, the closing of Punter’s represents the end of an era.

“It’s sad. We grew up here in a lot of respects,” Bartone said. “We worked here, grew up here, we know the owner and all the folks who work here still. So it’s sad to see it go.”

Saturday’s gathering brought back fond memories for Brian Crowley, who coached women’s track from 1989 to 2000 and began frequenting the bar years before.

“Tonight is like a normal weekend

night back in the ‘80s,” Crowley said.

“I just went to the men’s room and when I came back, I met one of my athletes that I coached here. She was sitting on the pool table.”

Crowley smiled and took a sip of beer as he gazed at the rows of faded team photos above the bar.

“Everybody came here,” he said.

“My picture’s up there three times.”

In a Nov. 28 email to The News, Northeastern’s Vice President of Communications Renata Nyul said that “the university is evaluating options for what to do next with the property.”

However, documents filed with the Boston Planning and Development Agency in 2013 propose a renovation to replace the existing Burstein and Rubenstein residence halls with a 20 to 25-story building that could house more than 400 students and provide space for academic and commercial uses.

The Punter’s property, which sits adjacent to the residence halls and includes University House of Pizza next door, could be incorporated as part of the proposed expansion.

University House of Pizza was also included in the purchase but will remain open for at least one more year. The restaurant has been part of the Northeastern community for 24 years, and its owner, Parthena Savvidis, is happy with how the university has treated them during this period and would like to continue the relationship.

Bartone expressed optimism about the university’s purchase.

“It stays in the family,” Bartone said. “This is like a Northeastern institution. That is a good thing. It would’ve been nice if it stayed open as a tavern, but five million bucks is better than a little tavern.”

Nick Swindell contributed to this story.

Photo by Riley Robinson Northeastern alumni held a final sendoff on Saturday night for Punter’s Pub, which is closing this month — two years after Northeastern purchased the property.

News illustration courtesy Boston Planning and Development Agency The Huntington Avenue property, outlined in black, could be part of a proposed renovation of Burstein and Rubenstein residences halls.

NU’s TEDx holds first all-female event

By Brittany Mendez News Staff TEDxNortheasternU hosted their first female-focused conference in the Northeastern Alumni Center on Monday. The event featured fifthyear political science major Alicia Payne and Jaclyn Long, a fourth-year bioengineering major.

“This event definitely started with a lot of passion,” said club director Miranda Nimmer, an international business major. “We were like, this is such an amazing opportunity and we should just go for it.”

Following a video outlining the goals of TEDx, the all-female a capella group Pitch, Please! performed empowering songs for the audience.

The a capella group turned the mic over to the night’s emcee, Celine Au-Yeung, a business administration major with a minor in theatre. AuYeung also serves as the director of marketing for TEDxNortheasternU. She declared the night’s theme –

“Showing up.”

In her talk, Payne told her story of arriving at Northeastern while struggling to feel comfortable with her identity. As a class assignment, she had to join a club and she chose the nonprofit organization Strong Women and Strong Girls, or SWSG, because being female was the only identifier she felt strongly about at the time.

SWSG is a mentoring group that aims to empower young girls by building a connection with college women through various after-school activities. Not only did the group provide a community for Payne, but it also gave her the opportunity to inspire girls to make a difference.

TEDxNortheasternU reached out to Northeastern’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers to invite Long to speak at the event. She said she was initially apprehensive about committing due to end of semester obligations.

“I’m so busy at the end of the

semester, but I thought about it for a couple of days,” Long said in an interview. “But then I was like ‘You know, that’s really cool and I may never have the chance to do something like that again.’”

Long shared stories about her experiences as a female in STEM as a young girl, teenager and young adult in her speech. She highlighted that women are frequently underestimated because people don’t think they have the emotional strength to handle difficulties.

“I don’t talk about myself that much,” Long said. “Usually when I do presentations it’s about data or a project that I did, so this is different.”

Both women had immense support from the audience and Long’s friends even showed up in T-shirts with her face on them.

In addition to the speakers, the event had an intermission that showcased some interactive activities designed by the club coordinators.

Prior to the event, attendees com-

pleted a survey so the coordinators could create individualized cards that highlighted which segments would be most appealing to them. Each customized card also had an image of an animal, corresponding to posters around the room with the various animals on them where students could receive a horoscope.

The event resumed with a livestream of this year’s TEDWomen conference in California. The emcee emphasized that livestream was intended to connect the local voices of Northeastern to the global TED organization.

The coordinators organized the event in about one month.

“We couldn’t have done it without the entire team,” Au-Yeung said. “We are really lucky to have a high-functioning and passionate team this year.”

TEDxNortheasternU will host its flagship event on March 23, 2019.

This larger-scale event will feature about 10 speakers and performers,

and will be held in the Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex.

“I hope people take away from [the event] to be empowered to show up and to go after what they want to do,” Long said.

Photo by Brittany Mendez TEDxNortheasternU hosted a female-focused conference in the Northeastern Alumni Center Monday. The event featured Alicia Payne and Jaclyn Long.

LIFESTYLE

December 6, 2018

Thousands gather for Boston tree lighting

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Calendar compiled by Ali Dusinberre, deputy lifestyle editor

Thursday, Dec. 6

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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will host an open dialogue about history and the stories we share through time. Conversation will surround The Great Bare Mat, a carpet created by Raqs Media Collective in 2013 as a platform for debate. 7 p.m.; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; $10 for students.

Friday, Dec. 7

Photo by Jake Wang Nova Scotia donated the tree for Boston’s annual Christmas celebration on the Common, as it has for 47 years.

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By Ali Dusinberre Deputy Lifestyle Editor Thousands gathered on Boston Common Nov. 29 to watch the lighting of the City of Boston’s official 2018 Christmas tree, along with musical performances and fireworks.

This year marked the 77th annual tree lighting. It was also the 47th year Nova Scotia has donated a tree as thanks for relief Boston provided following the explosion of a munitions ship in Halifax Harbor Dec. 6, 1917.

The lights went on shortly before 8 p.m., illuminating the 46-foot white

When the lights went on and the fireworks went off and everyone was yelling and cheering and all the kids were trying to grab the fake snow, it was a really magical moment.

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spruce and an abundance of trees throughout Boston Common and the Public Garden. Fireworks and snow confetti filled the sky immediately following the lighting, drawing cheers from the crowds.

“When the lights went on and the fireworks went off and everyone was yelling and cheering and all the kids were trying to grab the fake snow, it was a really magical moment,” said Madison Pineda, a first-year cell and molecular biology major at NU. The event featured a variety of musical guests including the Morning

Star Baptist Church Gospel Choir and pop star Andy Grammer, who performed his popular single, “Keep Your Head Up.” Mayor Martin J. Walsh was joined onstage by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Karen Casey, deputy premier of Nova Scotia, who shared words of gratitude surrounding the tree’s history. Santa Claus then took to the stage and crowds joined together in singing Christmas carols.

Daniel Gonzalez, 21, has attended the event in the past and felt drawn to come back this year.

“I really like Christmas, so I dragged her out and gave her a Santa hat,” Gonzalez said of his friend Lauren Hubschmitt, 19. The two donned matching Santa Claus hats.

For new college students in the area, the event served as a way to engage with Boston culture.

“As someone who’s always celebrated Christmas and really loves the holiday season, I thought it would be a great taste of home and also a great way to get to know Boston,” Pineda said.

Samir Sadrane, a freshman at Boston University studying international relations, expressed a similar idea.

“My friends and I are all new to the Boston area, so we thought this would be a good way to get immersed in the city,” Sadrane said. “It was definitely worth it.”

The tree lighting serves as an opportunity for people of Boston and beyond to celebrate together.

“It was a really cool thing to see so many people coming together to celebrate,” Sadrane said. “There was a very happy energy in the air.”

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Saturday, Dec. 8

The NU Madrigal Singers will perform Morten Lauridsen’s “Fire Songs” and Eric Whitacre’s “Flower Songs” at their winter concert. The group aims to foster a community around music and provide Northeastern students the opportunity to engage with unique styles of music. 7 p.m.- 8 p.m.; Curry Student Center; Free.

Sunday, Dec. 9 Unique Markets will pop up in Boston for just one day this weekend. Shop for one-of-a-kind holiday gifts from an assortment of independent designers, artists and emerging brands. Admission includes refreshments, a limitededition tote bag, DIY projects and more. 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.; Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts; $5.

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Monday, Dec. 10

Soul singer-songwriter TEGA will perform to raise money for sickle cell disease. TEGA, who lives with the disease, uses music as a platform to share his experiences and spread awareness about sickle cell. RARE Northeastern, an advocacy organization serving those with rare diseases, is the event host.

7 p.m.- 9 p.m.; Afterhours; Free.

Tuesday, Dec. 11

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Photo by Jake Wang Right: Attendees of the Nov. 29 tree lighting in Boston Common ice skate on the Frog Pond.

BostonSpeaks will host its monthly panel breakfast series. This month’s event will focus on the secrets to becoming an influencer on video. There will be a Q&A with panelists and a chance to network with business professionals and entrepreneurs from Boston. Reserve a spot online. 8 a.m.- 10 a.m.; BostonSpeaks; Free.

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For their first big show of the school year, the Nor’easters will host a release concert for their second album, “Collective - Vol. II.” The concert will feature BU’s In Achord and NU’s The Downbeats. The Nor’easters will also be sending off their senior, Peter St. Lawrence.

Get your tickets online: 8 p.m.; Blackman Auditorium; $15.

Wednesday, Dec. 12 The Museum of Fine Arts will host a panel of Boston-area thinkers, entrepreneurs, activists, city officials and artists to discuss themes in “Nan Goldin,” an installation on view in the contemporary art wing. They will aim to answer the question: “What do we need to heal?” 7 p.m.; MFA; Free with museum admission.

PHOTO: A SEMES

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Photo by Ashley Wong Right: Northeastern dance crew Poreotics performs at the Fenway Center.

ART Photo by Michael Wheeler Right: Mark Whitfield of Aggregate Prime plays the guitar at Jazz Fest

Photo by Casey Martin Above: Frances Quinlan performs at Afterhours on Sept. 18 2018.

Above: Youtube star Dodie Clark performs at the Sinclair.

Photo by Emma Rapp Right: Hood Milk employees ready catering plates for the Hood Milk festival debuting the Winnie the Pooh exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Semester Snapshots

Veronica Robles performs with her all-female mariachi band on Muertos event.

STER IN REVIEW

December 6, 2018

Photo by Catherine Argyrople Redshirt junior guard Jordan Roland, 12, dunks the ball against Eastern Michigan on Dec. 1 2018.

Photo by Riley Robinson Left: Matt Handy (Men’s Soccer 2006 graduate), lifts his child during halftime of the Alumni game vs. Elon University on Sept. 29 2018.

SPORTS Photo by Brian Bae Above: A Red Sox fan climbs a light post in celebration of the 2018 Red Sox World Series Championship.

Photo by Alex Melagrano Left: The Red Sox celebrate their World Series win over the Las Angeles Dodgers with a cross-town parade.

Photo by Leila Habib Left: A woman holds her child at the Indigenous People’s Day march.

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COMMUNITY

Photo by Samatha Barry n the second night of the Dia de los

Photo by Carter Lange A child watches protesters go by at the rally for transgender rights.

Photo by Lauren Scornavacca The Boston Fire Department responds to a fire that broke out at 104-108 Hemenway.

CITY

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December 6, 2018

National Grid lockout enters fifth month

By Chris Triunfo City Editor As unionized gas workers enter the fifth month of a lockout with National Grid, the Massachusetts Legislature has decided to get involved, hoping to prevent 1,250 employees from losing their unemployment benefits in January.

Legislation aimed at delivering benefits to workers locked out by their employers during contract disputes stalled in the House Tuesday, after Republicans raised concerns about it.

On June 25, National Grid workers were officially locked out of work as the company enacted a “comprehensive work contingency plan” after the company and steel unions failed to come to any agreement during contract negotiations.

According to steel unions Local 12003 and Local 12012, which represent the gas workers, contract negotiations faltered over a number of issues, mainly those related to contracted work, pensions for new hires and changes to workers’ health care plans.

Lockouts of this scale are not very common, according to the president of United Steelworkers Local 12012 John Buonopane.

“A lot of people come up to me and ask about the strike. This is not a strike,” Buonopane said. “[National Grid] has chosen to not let its employees work. They refuse to budge, and people have been and will continue to suffer because of it.”

National Grid spokespeople said the company has bargained with Local 12003 and 12012 for years. In 2016, the union successfully negotiated a two-year contract. Company representatives and union members have met several times this year for bargaining sessions, including some brokered by Gov. Charlie Baker, but the parties have not managed to reach an agreement.

The Legislature’s decision to get involved comes just as the gas workers’ unemployment benefits

are set to run out. One of the bills being considered would require the secretary of labor and the Director of the Department of Unemployment Assistance to establish a separate benefit program available to locked out workers. Benefits would continue to be provided at the same rate as traditional unemployment benefits until the lockout is resolved. The cost of the continued benefits would be the employer’s responsibility to pay.

Separately, a House legislative committee held a hearing Tuesday to review a different bill that would require National Grid itself to extend health insurance benefits for the workers during the lockout. On July 1, employees’ health insurance ended, prompting protests against Marcy Reed, who serves as the president of National Grid in Massachusetts and sits on the board of Blue Cross Blue Shield, the employees’ former insurance provider.

“These are families and children being affected,” said Joe Kirylo, president of United Steelworkers Local 12003. “I have men and women who have no way to pay their medical bills, who are scared to go to the hospital. One of our workers has a kid with cancer. He can’t afford that right now.”

The bill that would extend unemployment benefits never made it out of the House, and is currently on hold. A spokesman for House Minority Leader Brad Jones said that some members of the GOP caucus had questions about the bill, including whether it might be setting a precedent. The spokesperson also said Jones “wants to make sure those questions get answered before the House moves forward on the bill.”

National Grid customers have also reported their concerns over the lockout. In October, human error led to an over-pressurized gas line that left nearly 300 homes without utilities. In a statement, Reed said “mistakes do happen,” while locked out workers and customers complained that the error happened due

Photo by Chris Triunfo United Steelworkers Local 12012 president John Buonopane outside the Department of Public Utilities. to the inexperience of National Grid’s contingency workforce, which was hired to work in place of the unionized employees.

Following the Woburn incident, the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) imposed a moratorium on all non-emergency and non-compliance work across the utility’s service territory in the state.

The DPU reported that it had found 29 instances in which National Grid may have violated federal gas pipeline safety regulations since early July, and regulators said further

investigation or other action would be necessary.

The DPU also said the “information and evidence” of the alleged violations came from “concerned citizens,” though the claims overlap with a list of roughly 100 alleged violations that the unions representing locked-out National Grid gas workers submitted to the DPU. Near the end of November, the two unions also presented National Grid with a counterproposal, making it the first official offer from the unions since the start of the lockout.

While union officials declined to give specifics about the counterproposal, National Grid rejected the offer, saying that it’s up to the unions to resolve the lockout.

“They have done nothing today to get the bargaining closer to the finish line by Christmas,” National Grid said in a Nov. 27 statement. “We’ve already reached tentative agreements on many of their issues. It’s time for the unions to agree to two of ours.”

According to National Grid, it hopes to get employees back to work before next year.

Gas workers protest the National Grid lockout with chants and signs calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to act. The lockout has now entered its fifth month.

Photo by Chris Triunfo

CITY

December 6, 2018

Boston stores will soon be required to offer compostable plastic bags, paper bags or reusable bags once the plastic bag ban goes into effect.

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New Boston ban on plastic bags set to begin

By Avery Bleichfeld News Correspondent Boston stores are using up their plastic bags as the city is set to join Cambridge and Brookline in banning single-use plastic bags.

A city ordinance passed in December 2017 will go into effect Dec. 14; It will eliminate the use of all single-use plastic bags and will mandate that stores offer compostable plastic bags, paper bags or reusable bags as alternatives, all for a fee of at least 5 cents.

The ban does not include newspaper bags, dry-cleaner bags or bags used to wrap up meat, fish, produce or frozen food.

While the bag ban means change for Boston store owners and customers, bans already exist in major cities in the United States, including Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and Austin, Texas. Across the world, regulations limiting plastic bags are in place in the European Union, China and India.

According to the Mass Green Network, an organization that connects individuals working on local legislation to limit the use of bags and other plastics, there are 88 approved bag bans in communities across Massachusetts.

“This isn’t a ground-shattering development, I think we’re all just catching up with the Joneses,” said Michael Orr, of Cambridge’s Department of Public Works.

Cambridge, where the ban went into effect in March 2016, implemented their ordinance with minimal disruption in the community.

“After three months or so people

just got used to it and started changing their behavior a little bit and most people are pretty happy and excited... because it does reduce waste, ” Orr said.

Brad Verter, founder of the Mass Green Network, said that’s the way it is with most bag bans.

“These bag laws are tended with so much anxiety that ends up being all for nothing,” Verter said.

The Cambridge ordinance requires a fee for alternatives to single-use bags, just as Boston’s will. Orr said this is the most important part of making the ban work.

“If you just ban plastic bags and everyone uses paper bags instead there’s not really a net positive for the environment as much as if you put a ban on the plastic bags and then make people pay to receive a [paper] bag,” Orr said. “That’s where you get behavior change, and that’s what we really need to do [...] we just need everyone to consume just slightly less, especially when you don’t have to have a bag every time.”

It comes back to the three Rs — reduce, reuse and recycle — which Verter said should be practiced in that order.

“It’s much better to reduce the amount of consumables that are out there,” Verter said. “The second best [thing] is to reuse those things as often as possible, so we don’t have to keep making more, and recycling.”

In Massachusetts, cities, but not towns, may charge fees on the use of plastic bags. That would limit the town of Brookline, which passed the state’s first ban exclusively on sin-

Photo by Samantha Barry The new ban follows in the footsteps of other nearby communities such as Cambridge. gle-use bags (Nantucket had passed reported a significant decrease of 50 a bylaw limiting all vendor-supplied to 80 percent of single-use bags in a packaging to biodegradable materials study that members of the Camin 1990). The Brookline bylaw cannot bridge Recycling Advisory Commitmandate a fee for bags, though stores tee carried out at several large and may still choose to charge it. Clint local businesses.

Richmond, who was a lead petitioner “That’s because of the mandatory on the town’s plastic 2012 legislation, 10-cent charge that Cambridge has as well as the revisions in 2016, said for bags at check out,” Orr said. this “makes a massive difference in Unlike Boston’s ordinance, the bag demand.”

Brookline bylaw does not provide “Despite the efforts around reusexemption for produce bags. Brookable bags and consciousness around line requires produce bags to be that,” Richmond said. “There’s often compostable, while Boston will allow not a significant reduction in volume the continued use of plastic ones. with a straight ban, but when you “There are many produce bags include a kind of hybrid ban, which used, if not more than shopping includes a fee, then total demand for bags, so while they’re a little smaller single-use bags goes down.” and a little lighter there’s quite a few In August 2016, in the wake of of them, so their environmental their hybrid ban and fee, Cambridge impact in, say, a marine environment

can be large,” Richmond said.

The ability to recycle single-use plastic bags is limited, meaning “a tiny fraction of those ever make it to recycling and so the vast majority get thrown out,” Verter said.

That means non-biodegradable plastics, which compose the majority of what consumers use, pose a danger to marine environments where they may be mistaken for food and be consumed by fish and other marine life. They also tend to blow away in the wind and get caught in trees.

The ban also has the potential to have an impact beyond single-use plastic bags, Verter said. When people start thinking about making a change in their life to save money on grocery bags, they also may start considering the impact their other choices have on the environment, along with their wallet.

“If you want to reduce the amount of garbage in the world, you’d ban refrigerators or cars or something, because pound for pound there’s a lot more of those than bags,” Verter said, “but if you want to think about ways of sort of getting into people’s daily lives and helping them to think about the choices they make and how sustainable those choices may or may not be, then bags are a pretty good one.”

That is the point of these bans, Orr said, to start making an environmental impact.

“We all know that climate change is real, and we need to do something, and we need to do something now,” Orr said. “This is something that we can do.”

OPINION

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December 6, 2018

Letter from PILOT Action Group:

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Boston’s wealthy nonprofits should pay their fair share, starting with NU

ear President Joseph E. Aoun,

We, the PILOT Action Group, are a coalition of Boston-area community, education, student, housing, faith and labor organizations. We thank you for your commitment to making Boston a city that provides education and opportunity for all. We thank you for striving to live up to your words: “We have to reaffirm this social compact [to society] in whatever community we find ourselves. ... If we want to be global and national, we have to be local. We need to be more in tune with the needs expressed to us than we have been.”

The relationship between Northeastern and the city of Boston is incredibly rich and important to both the university and the city. In 2009, the city of Boston sought to address its relationship with large tax-exempt hospitals and universities when then-Mayor Thomas M. Menino created a task force to formalize the Payment in Lieu of Tax, or PILOT, program. The newly reformulated PILOT began in fiscal year 2012. The city’s PILOT program collects funds from Boston nonprofit institutions, from hospitals and universities to cultural institutions. The current PILOT program asks large nonprofits to contribute 25 percent of their potential property taxes based on their 2010 tax assessment, and includes a 50 percent community-benefit offset to serve the needs of Boston residents.

We believe our wealthy and world-renowned nonprofits should

pay their fair share to the city. We recognize Northeastern has made various community benefit contributions to the city, yet there is little transparency in reporting to the city. Northeastern seeks to be a good neighbor but there is little direct community engagement with key community organizations. Boston residents should have input to gain appropriate return for the tax exemption afforded to hospitals, universities and major cultural institutions covered by the PILOT program, including Northeastern University.

Northeastern’s property value is $2 billion, $1.4 billion of which is tax-exempt. If Northeastern was not exempt from property taxes, its annual tax would be about $44 million.

In fiscal year 18, Northeastern’s annual PILOT contribution requested by the city was $11 million, half of which can be offset in community benefits, so the city requested $5.5 million in cash payments. Yet Northeastern only paid $1.5 million.

And without reported community benefits, this totaled only 13 percent of the city’s request.

President Aoun, we ask you to be a leader in Boston, and to set an example for all other large universities and nonprofits. We ask three things of you: 1. Pay your full PILOT cash contribution for fiscal year 18 by adding $4 million to the $1.5 million you’ve already paid, and your full ficas year 19 contribution as requested by the City.

2. Institutionalize a reporting

process for community benefits as requested by the City of Boston.

3. Work with community organizations to create a community engagement process for determining community benefit programs.

We believe the university has a critical role to play in the community. We would very much like the opportunity to meet with you and your

community benefit team to further discuss our concerns. Thank you in advance for contributing Northeastern’s fair share to Boston and leading the education sector.

Please inform us of your response

by January 1st, 2019.

Sincerely, The PILOT Action Group

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SPORTS

December 6, 2018

Page 11

NU women’s hockey wins 3-0

By Caroline Ingram News Staff The NU women’s hockey team met Holy Cross Sunday afternoon to finish up a home-and-home series.

Holy Cross, despite having not won a single game on the year, gave the Huskies some trouble on Friday evening, coming away victorious with a score of 5-3. Two days later, NU was anxious to get some revenge and showed it, emerging triumphant with a 3-0 shutout.

The teams battled for the first couple minutes before NU broke open the scoring with a nifty goal by sophomore forward Veronika Pettey. She stole a bobbling puck from a Holy Cross defender deep in the offensive zone and was all alone as she deked Holy Cross netminder Jada Brenon for the score.

After the game, head coach Dave Flint touched on Holy Cross being a tough opponent despite their lopsided record.

“They’re blue collar, meat and potatoes, but they just come at you hard, throw pucks at the net, and crash the net hard,” Flint said. “I feel like we didn’t give them the credit they deserve on Friday night.”

Later in the period, NU went on the man advantage after Holy Cross’ Emma Lange was penalized for tripping freshman forward Chloe Aurard. The Huskies struggled to connect their passes on the power play and couldn’t extend their onegoal lead.

The Huskies outshot the Crusaders 14-7 in the first. Senior defenseman Maddie Hartman said the game was closer than the shot column might indicate.

“Coach said it today, that being a top team every team we face is going to bring their best when they play against us,” Hartman said. “Holy Cross certainly showed us that these last two games, them coming in having not won a game, they had nothing to lose so they obviously really wanted to beat us.

Five penalties were called in the second, but the Huskies were once again unsuccessful on the advantage.

NU nearly let up a goal after a crazy turn of events following one power play. As the puck was dumped into the Huskies’ zone, sophomore goalie Aerin Frankel left her crease to try to handle the puck. She lost her footing on the play, tumbling to the ice as a Holy Cross forward nearly swatted

the puck into the open net.

Hartman also spoke of Frankel’s play and the impact she’s had on the team.

“She always has a smile on her face, even when she toepicked out there today,” Hartman said. “I went over to her afterwards and told her it was okay, gave her a high-five, and she was just all smiles. She has a great attitude out there and always makes it fun, and battles hard every game, so that everyone just wants to win for her.”

Toward the end of the second, the Huskies doubled their lead after a power-play goal by Hartman, who found the back of the net with a low shot from atop the right circle.

Flint said the power play felt off throughout the game.

“A lot of stuff was out of sync today actually, passes weren’t connecting, lack of communication,” he said. “I don’t know what it was this weekend, we’ve been playing so well leading up to this weekend that this weekend was honestly a disappointment in terms of how we played.”

With just about seven minutes to play in the third period, the Huskies pushed their cushion to three after a goal by senior forward Kasidy Anderson.

Sophomore defenseman Skylar Fontaine picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone and brought it down the boards before cycling it back to Anderson who ripped a low shot from the top of the left circle.

“This team is the closest team I’ve been on throughout my four years here and I think that’s a credit to just everyone having a common goal of wanting to win every game so much,” Hartman said. “We’ve really bonded over that strong desire we all have to want to win.

Frankel earned her fifth shutout of the season which leads all NCAA goalies.

The Huskies will now enjoy a break until the new year. They will open up 2019 in Northern Ireland as they face off with Clarkson in the Friendship Tournament.

“I thought we did great in this first half of the season, with the exception of the little hiccup this weekend,” Flint said. “To fare so well against the top teams of Hockey East, knock off some top-ranked opponents and to be 13-2-2, I’m pleased with where we’re at and excited for the second half.”

Photo courtesy Brian Bae, Red and Black Junior forward Andrea Renner sizes up her defender as she gets ready to shoot. With her help, the team walked away from the ice with a 3-0 win.

File photo by Dan McCarthy Wade MacLeod maneuvers around his defender to make a play in 2011. The forward was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, and his fellow Huskies are supporting him in any way that they can.

Athletes grow facial hair in support of teammate

By Sofie Kato Deputy Sports Editor It was 2013 when Wade MacLeod’s life changed forever. While playing for the American Hockey League’s Springfield Falcons, MacLeod had a seizure on the ice, symptomatic of his later diagnosis of brain cancer.

MacLeod, a 2011 Northeastern graduate, has now had four brain surgeries for his stage three glioblastoma tumor. This November the Northeastern hockey community

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forward and support Wade because he was so well-liked,” said NU men’s hockey coach Jim Madigan. “He was the epitome of a student-athlete at Northeastern and he always did the right thing.”

Though Carrabino did not know MacLeod personally, he was still eager to support him because of the closeness of the Northeastern hockey community.

“The Northeastern hockey community is one big family,” Madigan said. “We take care of each other,

Due to his seizures in 2013, MacLeod temporarily lost his speech and went through three months of therapy. Each time a challenge occured or his tumor reemerged, he was always back on the ice within a couple of months.

“He has always been a happy-golucky guy and he was in the gym right before his chemo treatment,” McLaughlin said. “In his mind he is going to play hockey again, which is great to see.”

Before his last seizure in August,

I think it says a lot about a guy who is in the weight room before chemo. It says a lot about a guy’s character and that is who Wade is.

showed support for their alum by raising awareness for his GoFundMe page through “Mustaches for MacLeod.”

One of the traditions of the hockey team is to participate in “Movember,” in which everyone grows a mustache in support of men’s health issues. Sophomore defender Billy Carrabino and a couple of his friends decided to use this platform to support MacLeod.

“Since we have done ‘Movember’ for a couple of years now, I thought we might as well do it for a good cause,” Carrabino said. “We wanted to support a former teammate who is going through some hard times.”

The hockey team had an alumni game on Oct. 20 in which they had a record amount of players come out to play and support. The community ended up raising $1500 in support of MacLeod and his GoFundMe goal has been surpassed by almost $22,000.

“People were willing to come

and always help each other out.”

MacLeod set the school record for games played and he led the team in scoring his second, third and fourth years on the team. He was named team MVP as a senior and was a two time All-Hockey East honoree. “[MacLeod] was the type of guy to always be on the ice,” said Mike McLaughlin, current director of operations and former teammate.

“He was the go-to guy from the start and was a very skilled player.”

Over the past three months, 863 people have donated to MacLeod’s cause.

Carrabino said he connected to MacLeod’s story naturally.

“It was the fact that he has a young family,” Carrabino said. “I lost a friend to brain cancer in the fifth grade and I wanted to give his daughter the best chance to have a father growing up. He gave so much to the hockey community and the least we could do was show support.”

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MacLeod was playing for Löwen Frankfurt, a professional team in Germany. He planned to be on the ice this season, but his condition stopped him and he had to go in for another surgery and more chemotherapy.

“Wade was someone who advanced throughout the hockey community and even played in the minor professional leagues,” Madigan said. “It was so great to see current players jump on board in supporting Wade’s GoFundMe page.

When we come together to support someone struggling health-wise, that’s where we are at our best.”

Currently, MacLeod is spending his time travelling with his family and is the owner of a professional training and development camp called Headway Hockey.

“I think it says a lot about a guy who is in the weight room before chemo,” McLaughlin said. “It says a lot about a guy’s character and that is who Wade is.”

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Page 12

December 6, 2018

Men’s basketball wins two straight

By Seamus McAvoy News Staff The Northeastern men’s basketball team cruised to a 96-78 victory over the Bucknell Bison in their first action since wrapping up play in the Gildan Charleston Classic, aided by five double-digit scorers and a career-high tying 21-point performance from sophomore forward Tomas Murphy.

Junior guard Jordan Roland led the way for the Huskies the next time out at home against Eastern Michigan, totalling 24 points and propelling Northeastern to a 81-67 victory.

The Huskies were dominant from the opening tip at Bucknell, and their overall intensity propelled them to a 23-7 lead early in the first half. Ball movement seemed to be an emphasis with their recent loss to Virginia Tech in mind, a game in which the Huskies failed to generate many good looks inside the 3-point arc. The ball flowed freely on the offensive end this time around and Northeastern reaped the benefits of their unselfish play, as they managed to connect on 70 percent of their attempts while garnering 15 assists on 21 made shots.

“I just think everybody came with energy and ready to play,” junior guard Donnell Gresham Jr. said after the game. “It was good that we were hitting shots, moving the ball, sharing it with each other.”

Gresham had big shoes to fill in Wednesday night’s game as he filled in for senior guard Vasa Pusica.

Pusica is still sidelined by a wrist

injury picked up in Northeastern’s game against Alabama.

In the star guard’s absence, Gresham was pivotal in an efficient offensive performance for the Huskies as he dished out 11 assists with 16 points on 5-9 shooting.

Murphy joined Gresham in the double-double category, leading the team in scoring with 21 and adding 12 rebounds in just 24 minutes.

Redshirt freshman forward Jason Strong also put on a strong display against Bucknell, scoring 16 points despite being limited to 16 minutes of play due to foul trouble. Roland and senior center Anthony Green also finished in double digits by the end of the night, adding 17 and 11 respectively as Northeastern traded baskets with the Bison for most of the second half to take the game 96-78.

A well-rounded effort was necessary for the hampered Huskies.

With Pusica joining junior guard Shawn Occeus and junior guard/ forward Maxime Boursiquot on the injury list, the Huskies are now without three starters from last year’s team. For a squad that returned 90.4 percent of its offense from the previous season and was voted to finish first in the CAA preseason poll, developing chemistry quickly will be imperative to a successful season.

The win over Eastern Michigan, Saturday at Matthews Arena, wasn’t of the wire-to-wire variety.

The Huskies have been averse to slow starts so far this season, but a suffocating zone defense from

Eastern Michigan set the tone for the better part of the first half.

Northeastern aggressively looked to push the ball into the paint, but the Eagles refused to let anyone get by them on the perimeter as smart double teams in the corners greatly complicated the offense.

Eastern Michigan’s offense was equally formidable to start the game, connecting on 13 of its first 14 shots and creating a commanding 30-16 lead with 7:07 remaining in the first half. However, the opportunistic Huskies switched to a 2-3 zone anchored by Green to spark an 11-0 run of their own. The adjustments, along with some easy transition looks thanks to Northeastern’s stout defense, helped the Huskies climb their way back into the game as they cut the deficit to 37-34 heading into halftime.

The momentum continued to swing in favor of the Huskies after halftime as their midcourt press made things difficult for Eastern Michigan on the offensive end. A block from Green led to a Gresham 3-pointer, and Northeastern took their first lead of the game, 41-38.

Roland added a pair of crucial threes during this stretch, and finished the game with a team-high 24 points on 8-13 shooting (5-9 from three). An equally strong performance from Gresham (24 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists) helped the Huskies maintain their second-half dominance, and Murphy’s statsheet-stuffing effort down low (10p, 7a, 6r) was crucial in penetrating Eastern Michigan’s zone defense.

Photos by Catherine Argyrople Photo courtesy Brian Bae, Red and Black Left: Redshirt junior Donnell Gresham Jr. goes up for the shot in the game against East Michigan.

Right: The women’s hockey team embraces after a goal, even though they did end up losing to the Crusaders.

Photo courtesy Brian Bae, Red and Black Redshirt senior forward Brandon Hawkins escapes his defender in an Oct. 20 game against Union College in Matthews Arena.

Men’s hockey extends streak

By Marisa Goolgasian News Staff Northeastern men’s hockey won its fifth straight game Friday night at Matthews Arena, dominating the first game in a conference series against the Merrimack College Warriors, 9-1.

This win against the Warriors, who haven’t defeated Northeastern since 2015, improves the Huskies to 5-1-1 in Hockey East (9-3-1 overall).

Breaking their recent pattern of comeback victories, the Huskies started and ended strong Friday night. NU established a 2-0 lead just four minutes into the game, as junior forward Matt Filipe scored his second goal of the year at 1:27 and senior forward Austin Plevy notched his first ever goal for the Huskies at 3:30.

“We talked all week about having a real good start and our kids really jumped out quickly and took advantage of some opportunities around the net,” head coach Jim Madigan said after the game.

At 6:29, Merrimack forward Patrick Kramer cut Northeastern’s lead to 2-1, scoring what ended up being the Warriors’ only goal of the night off of a redirect following a faceoff win. After that, the Huskies went on an offensive rampage, and took a 5-1 lead into the first intermission.

Sophomore forward Zach Solow put one away on the power play at

9:25 off of a rebound from senior defender Jeremy Davies and followed it up with another tally less than two minutes later, assisted this time by Liam Pecararo. A few minutes later, Brandon Hawkins put goal number five on the board for the Huskies.

NU was just as explosive in the second period. Solow, who was taken into the tunnel after a tough lower-body hit with just under six minutes left in the first, returned to the ice determined to complete his hat trick. He succeeded just five minutes into the period when he buried a breakaway goal despite the Huskies being shorthanded, bringing the score to 6-1.

At 13:20, John Picking proved the Huskies still weren’t done, scoring the team’s second straight shorthanded goal by picking off the puck at the blue line and taking it the distance before tucking it into the net.

Picking, a junior forward, struck again with under two minutes left in the frame, this time on the power play, to end the period at 8-1.

There was only one goal in the third period. Hawkins’ second tally of the game came when he netted a shot from the slot at 5:37, bringing the final score to 9-1.

“I liked our discipline throughout the game,” Madigan said. “You have to maintain discipline in this league.”

Women’s hockey ends unbeaten streak

By Caroline Ingram News Staff The women’s hockey team was unable to extend their 12-game unbeaten streak on Friday night in Worcester, where they fell to the Holy Cross Crusaders 5-3. The Crusaders entered the contest having not won a single game this season, but put the Huskies to the test and walked away with their first mark in the win column.

In the first period, freshman forward Alina Mueller extended her point streak to 15 games and put the Huskies on the board first. Mueller entered the offensive zone on a

2-on-1 with fellow freshman forward Chloe Aurard to her right. Mueller elected to take the shot, ripping a snipe bar-down.

Later in the period, the Huskies went up 2-0 on a skillful goal by sophomore forward Veronika Pettey.

Tori Sullivan took the puck down the boards before sliding it over to Pettey, who dangled around a Holy Cross defender and snuck a backhand shot past Jada Brenon in net for the Crusaders.

Holy Cross was able to cut the deficit in half early in the second after a power-play goal by forward Carlie Magier, who redirected a blast

from the point past senior goalie Brittany Bugalski in net for the Huskies.

Midway through the second, the Crusaders evened the score when Amanda Kewer took advantage of a poor line change by the Huskies, picking up the puck in the neutral zone and going in on Bugalski all alone.

In the final period, the momentum continued to tilt in favor of Holy Cross, as the Crusaders took their first lead of the game just 25 seconds into the third with a goal by forward Rachel Moore. It was a painful night for NU as they outshot Holy Cross.

Minutes later, the Crusaders struck again, this time on the power play. Forward Maeve Reilly sniped a low shot past Bugalski to make it 4-2 with about 13 minutes to go in the game.

The Huskies were able to regroup and answer with a goal about two minutes later. Senior forward Kasidy Anderson cycled the puck low to sophomore defenseman Skylar Fontaine, who took a low shot on Benon.

Aurard was camped out front in the perfect position to jab home the rebound from Fontaine’s shot to make things interesting with 11 minutes remaining in regulation.

The window for a Huskies comeback dwindled as the Crusaders quickly answered the goal by Aurard, with Moore putting another one

by Bugalski, her second goal of the evening, to push their lead to 5-3.

“The biggest thing to take away from this game is that we have to compete for a full 60 minutes,” associate coach Nick Carpenito said.

“Any team in this league can beat anybody on any given night, so if you don’t show up to a game in Hockey East for a full 60 minutes, then it’s not going to work out for you.”

Carpenito’s message to the team after the game was one of tough love.