February 7, 2019

The Huntington News February 7, 2019

The independent student newspaper of the Northeastern community

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SGA widely cuts club funding but maintains near-$57,000 budget, including stipends for officials

Photo by Samantha Barry Student Government Association President Dylan Balcom addresses the Senate in a meeting Feb. 4. SGA cut club budgets in November in order to prevent a potential deficit.

Organizations across campus are left to re-plan and fundraise after short notice of budget cuts

By Charlie Wolfson | Editor-in-Chief

Student club budgets were cut across the board this November after the Student Government Association discovered that an increase in funding requests threatened to max out the pool of money created by the Student Activity Fee, or SAF. Many clubs are now struggling to operate and have been forced to cancel plans and cut programs for

Entry into campus life proves difficult for N.U.in students

By Deanna Schwartz News Correspondent They lived abroad for nearly four months and learned how to function as adults in a different country without their friends and family.

However, to many N.U.in students, the transition from high school to living abroad was nothing compared to the one they are dealing with now — integrating to Northeastern’s Boston campus.

Since 2007, more than 6,500 students have participated in the N.U.in program. The first week of January saw 1,170 N.U.in students arrive on campus, eager to start their first semester at Northeastern, said Sylvia De Witt, a senior data analyst at Northeastern.These students began their college careers in Canada, England, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Greece, Ireland and Australia.

Based on N.U.in program advertising and student Instagram accounts, the life of an N.U.in student is a glamorous one. They spend

their weekends traveling to new and exciting places like Paris and Santorini. They eat delicious food like gelato and wienerschnitzel and immerse themselves in the art of Picasso and van Gogh. They gain new perspectives and are eager to take on new challenges.

However, there is a side that people don’t see, students say. While that picture-perfect experience is true for many, there are others that left the N.U.in program feeling insecure about their friendships and fearing the transition to campus life.

“Not being sure of the security of friendships that you have, especially as you’re transitioning to a bigger campus where you don’t know anyone, is pretty scary,” said Emerson Toomey, a first-year political science major who participated in the London Foundation for International Education program.

Making new friends has proven to be a challenge for N.U.in students.

While some students are so connected with their friends they made in N.U.in that they are not looking to

make new friends, others came into the semester knowing almost no one.

Max Lyakovetsky, a first-year business administration and design combined major who participated in the N.U.in Czech Republic program, said he does want to make new friends, but it’s not an immediate need for him.

the spring semester.

At the same time, SGA’s own budget was approved for all $56,991 it requested, including $2,250 stipends for nine SGA officials.

“We’ve just had this hard fluctuation between the number of clubs and how active they are,” said SGA President Dylan Balcom. “In recent years, the number of clubs on cam-

pus has just been skyrocketing ... As we have more groups, and as groups become more active, we have less in the SAF pot to distribute.”

NUTV, for example, had to change plans for its popular film festival Campus Movie Fest. Though NUTV’s annual budget wasn’t decreased, the club was denied the SGA, on Page 5

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Photo by Alex Melagrano NU Goalie Cayden Primeau fends off a BU attack as defender Ryan Shea trails the play.

BEANPOT

Photo by Elisa Figueras Max Lyakovetsky studies on Centennial Common on a warm February day.

“There’s a sense of comfort with the people you already know,” Lyakovetsky said.

Andre Dallaire, a fifth-year industrial engineering major who spent SOCIALIZE, on Page 2

Northeastern men’s hockey won its Beanpot semifinal Monday by eliminating Boston University from the tournament for the second year in a row. Freshman forward Tyler Madden scored the winning goal 51 seconds into overtime to seal the 2-1 final score.

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HUSKY HUNT

After participants in the 2018 Husky Hunt voiced concerns about culturally insensitive challenges, the Resident Student Association promised to make changes for future events. They plan to require more oversight and to complete a training with NU’s Social Justice Resource Center.

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Students reflect on post-N.U.in life SOCIALIZE, from front

Photo courtesy Sam Marchesi Sam Marchesi, far right, stands on a bridge along the Tiber River in Rome during N.U.in fall 2017.

Photo by Elisa Figueras First-year N.U.in Czech Republic student Max Lyakovetsky sits on NU campus spring semester.

Photo courtesy Lauren Barbulescu Lauren Barbulescu visits the Featherdale Wildlife Park in Doonside, Australia, in fall 2018. The sanctuary specializes in Australian wildlife, birds and marsupials.

Students concerned about campus safety

By Alyssa Lukpat News Correspondent Students are concerned about safety on campus after two Northeastern students were robbed at gunpoint one block from campus last December. With options like safety escorts and apps, Northeastern students have different resources to stay protected. But are these options necessary or effective?

Fatema Janahi, a second-year computer engineering major, said they’re necessary. She said she feels unsafe walking through Ruggles at night and finds these resources useful.

“I’ve never used [the] Red Eye [shuttle] or anything, but I’ve used Northeastern escorts,” she said.

“They’re helpful late at night, when it’s especially unsafe.”

When students arrive for orientation, the Northeastern University Police Department, or NUPD, briefs them on campus safety resources. These include the SafeZone app, Blue Light phones, the Red Eye shuttle and safety escorts, said NUPD Staff Sgt. John J. Farrell.

“We use orientation as a means to say, ‘Call us,’ because we are a police department,” Farrell said.

“There are a tremendous amount of resources here to be safe, to stay safe and to utilize in order to reduce risk of victimization in any way, shape or form.”

While Farrell believes

Northeastern is safe, he acknowledged that campuses in Boston have unique safety issues.

“The one thing that colleges and universities have around here is that they’re open campuses,” he said. “It’s very easy for someone to blend into open campuses and take advantage of liberties it provides.”

This is why Farrell wants Northeastern community members to download the SafeZone app. The free app allows users to notify NUPD in the event of an emergency.

“It’s quick and easy to get in touch with us,” he said. “If you have an emergency, you bring up the app and press a button, and you’re telling us by pressing that button that you have a very important situation and you need help and you need it fast.”

Janahi downloaded SafeZone, but she isn’t sure how effective it is.

“It’s not as helpful because you’re just pressing a button and you feel like, ‘What are you [going to] do?’” she said. “You’ll be dead by the time [NUPD] gets there.”

Students can also use the safety app Umergency, which provides a medical consent form, local emergency numbers and national hotlines. It also lets users notify their parents in an emergency, said

AJ Schenbaum, Umergency’s vice president of strategy..

“Schools spend a lot of money on campus safety,” Schenbaum said. “There’s not one thing that will solve all of these issues out there, but hopefully we’re providing something that will create a little peace of mind and a little less anxiety out there.”

Schenbaum said students in the past were less concerned about safety. Now, he said, young people are more likely to utilize safety resources.

“Reality is changing. Students are concerned about their health and welfare, and they want to be prepared,” Schenbaum said.

Farrell said he hopes Blue Light phones will help the Northeastern community feel safe. Students can locate these phone boxes, which are actually red, and other campus services by visiting bit.ly/nupdmap.

Farrell said NUPD wants to place more of these phones on campus and equip them with voice technology and cameras.

“Some might argue it’s an older technology, so why do we have it?”

Farrell said. “We firmly believe in Blue Light technology. If you lose your phone or it’s stolen and [Blue Lights] are your only means of communication to us, we want you to have it.”

The Red Eye bus is a nighttime off-campus safety escort provided by NUPD.

Photo by Hailey Ardizzone

his N.U.in semester in Greece in 2014, said he “should’ve tried harder to make new friends and put [himself] out there more.”

Lauren Barbulescu, a first-year English and communication studies combined major who spent her N.U.in semester in Sydney, Australia, was caught off guard.

“You think you can conquer the world after N.U.in and you don’t expect making friends to be such a hardship,” she said.

Sam Marchesi, a second-year graphic design major who lived in Italy in 2017 with N.U.in, said she wished there had been more transitional support when she arrived on campus.

“I wanted to expand, but we didn’t have the support or resources to do that,” Marchesi said. “We were stuck.”

Toomey also struggled with the integration process.

“You have to go above and beyond to meet new people, and it shouldn’t be that difficult,” she said.

Another issue arises with housing an influx of students as large as the most recent N.U.in class.

N.U.in, Housing and Residential Life and the Center for Student Involvement did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story, but the N.U.in website says “Northeastern’s Department of Housing and Residential Life does their best to place students in current housing options according to their preferences.”

In reality, many N.U.in students have been placed in housing that does not align with the traditional first-year experience.

For example, some N.U.in students were placed in housing at 1110 Commonwealth Ave. — an apartment building 2.5 miles away from campus. Northeastern offers shuttles to and from the Commonwealth apartments between

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new social connections.

“Having a roommate is nice because you can go to meals and activities together and make friends with their friends,” Barbulescu said.

Lyakovetsky was placed in an apartment in West Village F with five upperclassmen — all of whom are on co-op. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every weekday, Lyakovetsky is alone in the apartment. He said he is envious of the tight-knit communities of firstyear dorms such as Speare Hall.

Ask anyone how to meet new people in college, and they will give you the same answer: Join clubs.

Lyakovetsky said he was looking forward to the winter involvement fair on Jan. 8 but was unable to unable to attend due to overcrowding problems. He attended the second winter involvement fair on Jan. 27 but said that he felt it was too late to join some of the clubs because “group dynamics were already established.”

Barbulescu said she has gone to club meetings but has mostly spent time with people she knew from her time in Sydney.

“It’s hard to be vulnerable and go into something all alone,” she said.

Toomey said she has found clubs to be a helpful way to meet people, noting that she participated in the Social Impact-athon a few weeks ago and has joined the Political Science and International Affairs Student Association and the NU Political Review.

Marchesi said she found her best friends on campus through clubs, but she recognized that this does not happen for everyone.

“We weren’t really encouraged to go out and try things,” she said.

Toomey said that in order for the university to better assist future first-years in the transition from living abroad to living on campus, they should improve communication during the N.U.in semester, during the transition and during Welcome

You think you can conquer the world after N.U.in and you don’t expect making friends to be such a hardship.

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– Lauren Barbulescu, N.U.in 2018

7:30 a.m. and 6:45 p.m every day of the week. Outside these hours, students have to find their own way to get to and from campus. They are provided with a free semester-long MBTA pass, but that commute is close to an hour during rush hour.

“Because I had to keep within certain hours of travel, it really affected my ability to participate in things,” said Toomey, who was originally placed in an apartment at Commonwealth. “I honestly wanted to transfer out of the school when I was living in 1110 Commonwealth.

I feel like Northeastern doesn’t care about the students they put there.”

Toomey said she was able to move into International Village, or IV. Barbulescu was placed in a single room in IV despite marking a single as her last preference on her housing form. Barbulescu said she would have preferred a roommate for her first semester on campus to have someone to go places with and make

Week. Barbulescu agreed that the university should get more involved.

“I really hope Northeastern can create more events to get N.U.in students more integrated with other freshmen,” she said.

Marchesi said she wishes the university was more transparent about the struggles N.U.in students often go through.

“They need to emphasize more that you might have trouble and have support for you,” Marchesi said.

Lyakovetsky said there’s “an invisible distance” between N.U.in students and freshmen who arrived on campus in the fall.

He said more activities are needed to bridge the gap. Dallaire agreed that the experience for N.U.in students and traditional admission students is very different, and that it needs to be addressed.

“It’s difficult,” said Dallaire. “The Boston campus dynamic is totally different from the N.U.in dynamic.”

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Photo courtesy Minority Association of Pre-Health Students Members of MAPS pose with panelists from the 2018 Regional Medical Education Conference.

Club gives new approach to pre-health student groups

By Hayley Slusser News Correspondent The Minority Association of Pre-Health Students, or MAPS, is an on-campus organization designed to change the way pre-health students view the medical field.

Co-president and fourth-year behavioral neuroscience student Sabie Marcellus said the goal of MAPS is “trying to raise [a] culturally aware and a diverse field … whether it’s through becoming a doctor, becoming a nurse [or] a pharmacist.” The club places an emphasis on not asking “how can I treat this problem?” but instead, “how can I treat this person with this problem?”

The club aims to provide real-world experience to prepare the next generation of medical professionals to cater to all members of society regardless of race or socioeconomic status.

Northeastern’s MAPS chapter is one of many around New England, allowing students to network and build connections with other students and doctors. One of the chapter’s biggest partners is the medical school at Boston University which collaborates with Northeastern to put together panels and events for their members.

Some events, like the suturing workshop each semester, provide practical training for medical students. This workshop brings

Northeastern and BU medical students together to practice stitching a wound on a banana.

Other events connect Northeastern students to other schools or hospitals, enabling students like second-year behavioral neuroscience major Umin Jalloh to explore different career opportunities in medicine.

“I’m involved with it primarily because they have really good networking with medical students and sometimes residents at the nearby hospitals and medical schools, like BU, [Mass. General Hospital], Tufts and so on,” Jalloh said.

Students in MAPS, like second-year health science student Anita Onuoha, often build professional relationships with the guest speakers and panelists. At the minority physician panel last semester, Onuoha met Vonzella Bryant, an emergency physician from Boston Medical Center, who became her mentor.

“Over the break, we talked it through and right now I was able to shadow her, and it’s just because of the panel,” Onuoha said.

Aside from career-focused events, MAPS chapters work together for community service events, such as the Health Professional Recruitment and Exposure Program. This program is a weekly health lesson for high school students taught by Northeastern and BU students, allowing MAPS members to connect

with young people all over Boston.

MAPS also tries to create a sense of community on campus with its small size compared to Northeastern’s other pre-health organizations.

MAPS often hosts mixers, mental health workshops and other activities for Northeastern’s pre-medical students to form connections with one another. The club’s executive board encourages members to ask questions and communicate, creating a one-on-one experience that many members say isn’t available in larger clubs.

“I feel like there’s a lot of people that are pre-med or doctors who are very individualized and only think about themselves, and I think being able to be in a group where you have people who are in the same boat as you, going through the same experiences as you is really nice,” said first-year health science student Ruth Olowoyeye.

All pre-health students are encouraged to participate in MAPS, as the club is committed to helping all students to become socially aware medical professionals. Still, the club primarily attracts underrepresented students like Olowoyeye.

“I [chose] something that combined my love for health,” she said, “but also allowed me to see other people that looked like me have the same goals as I do.”

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FEBRUARY Photo courtesy Minority Association of Pre-Health Students MAPS members practice their skills on bananas during the 2019 Spring suturing workshop.

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3:40 p.m.

An NU student reported his backpack was stolen from Knowles Center. Officers spoke to a student who reported seeing an individual in the area around the time it was stolen. A report was filed.

1:16 p.m.

An NU staff member reported a suspicious man placing a water bottle at the front door of Cullinane Hall and claiming to be a student working in the conference room.

Officers responded and identified the man as unaffiliated with NU before escorting him off campus. A report was filed.

8:39 a.m.

An NU staff member reported a man yelling at her not to look at him while walking down Forsyth Street.

Another NU staff member reported a man matching the description following a student from Snell Library to Ell Hall and entering an elevator while shouting derogatory comments. Officers responded and identified the man as an NU alum before banning him from campus. A report was filed.

10:27 p.m.

Officers reported confiscating a class D substance from an NU student at 10 Coventry St. A report was filed.

6:34 a.m.

A Vanguard employee reported a suspicious man casing bicycles in the Columbus Parking Garage. A responding officer reported observing the man setting fire to something and confirmed that a cable lock appeared to be burnt. Officers checked the area with no sign of the individual. A report was filed.

1:28 p.m.

A Marino Recreation Center staff member reported a verbal altercation between an NU student and an NU alum. Responding officers reported that the alum yelled at the student after the student accidentally walked into his space. Officers banned the alum from campus. A report was filed.

5:18 p.m.

An NU student reported her package was stolen from 1110 Commonwealth Ave. A report was filed.

11:00 a.m.

A proctor reported a man possibly engaging in drug activity in the basement of International Village. Officers responded and reported escorting the man off campus. A report was filed.

1:31 p.m.

An NU staff member reported being approached by a former NU student asking about admissions into a program and following him into Hurtig Hall. He reported speaking to another staff member who knew that the student was banned from NU property. Officers responded and reported checking the area with no sign of the former student. A report was filed.

2:44 p.m.

An NU student reported his jacket was stolen from the Stetson East common room. A report was filed.

2:05 p.m.

A person not affiliated with NU reported cash was stolen from her purse in Cahners Hall. A report was filed.

2:15 a.m.

A proctor reported a group of intoxicated NU students entering the apartment building at 650 Columbus Ave. while one of the students attempted to break the front door. Officers responded and reported speaking to a resident of the room and finding multiple open containers of alcohol. A report was filed.

3:08 p.m.

An NUPD detective reported confiscating a fake ID from an NU student. A report was filed.

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Photo by Hailey Ardizzone ContiNUe students are mostly housed at the Midtown Hotel located on Huntington Avenue. This contributes to the isolation that these students feel from the regular student body.

Program for legacy students creates confusion, isolation

By Corey Dockser Multimedia Manager When Matthew Han, a first-year who plans to be a business administration major, listed his older brother as a graduate of Northeastern University on the Common Application, he had no idea it would result in his placement in a mysterious program upon admission to the school.

“I just applied to Northeastern and I got accepted through the ContiNUe program,” Han said. “When they sent me my acceptance letter, it said you’ve been accepted to the ContiNUe program, and no one understood what that meant.”

ContiNUe is a program that began this academic year for legacy students, people who have an immediate family member who has graduated from Northeastern. A total of 44 students are currently enrolled in the program, said Vice President of Communications at NU Renata Nyul in an email to The News on Feb. 5.

Most of them are housed at the Midtown Hotel, and a few commute.

ContiNUe students take classes through the College of Professional

Studies, and can matriculate to an academic college after a year if they meet certain requirements.

They’re given a limited choice in the classes they can take, in some cases preventing them from working toward their intended major. As they aren’t enrolled in the respective schools for their prospective majors, they don’t yet count as being enrolled in that major. James Sibley, a firstyear who plans on being a biology major, already had credits for all of the available CPS courses he needed to take for his major from AP classes in high school.

“Last semester I only took electives because the few APs I had coming in lined up with the core classes they offered,” Sibley said. “I only feel prepared because of high school. I did AP [biology] in high school but other than that, there’s no preparation for my major.”

Every student in the program is also required to take a monthly entrepreneurship seminar. The class, which is three hours long, features guest speakers and is meant to link together different majors with

entrepreneurship as a theme that “cuts across disciplines,” Nyul said in the email.

Students in the program described the class as unproductive. Hussein Mehdi, a first-year who is undecided on which major he wants to pursue, said that while he appreciated a few of the guest speakers, he found the

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the academic year, they’ve largely been separated from campus life, said TJ Scanlon, a first-year who plans to be an architecture major.

“We didn’t have an orientation with everyone else. We were here, they just didn’t tell us about any of the activities,” Scanlon said. “It seems like such a simple thing to do, just

would direct me to emails that they sent out the first couple of days, the first weeks.”

Despite their lack of choice in the matter, the confusing nature of the program and the frustrations of living far away from campus, many ContiNUe students were still glad to be accepted to the university.

I feel like the program isn’t fully finished and they shouldn’t have had it because no one understands what it is. It’s like they’re flying an airplane while building it.

class overall to be pointless.

“There’s no curriculum, it’s just us sitting and they talk to us about what it means to be an entrepreneur, but there are no actual submissions,” Mehdi said. “I just don’t learn anything from it. I don’t get anything out of it.”

While students in the ContiNUe program will matriculate as regular second-year students at the end of

Photo by Corey Dockser Matthew Han sits in his hotel room at the Midtown Hotel, where ContiNUe students are housed.

– Matthew Han, first-year student send us an email with the times of things so we could go and participate. It shouldn’t have been a big deal to just tell us that there were things happening.”

Sibley said the only reason he knew about Fall Fest was that he walked into it by accident. If he wasn’t a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, he said, he wouldn’t have any contact with students on campus.

Sibley said that part of the reason the ContiNUe students were housed together was to facilitate friendship in the small group. This hasn’t panned out, he said.

“We have a [friend] group of five or six here at the hotel, and outside of that I’d say I barely talk to anyone else,” Sibley said. “I’m acquainted with them, I know their names, but that’s about it.”

None of the students in the ContiNUe program applied to be a part of it. Rather, their participation was a condition of their enrollment to the university – they had to choose between joining ContiNUe or looking at other universities.

A general lack of information about the program complicated the students’ decisions.. Han said he repeatedly emailed the advisor for the program for more information.

“I emailed her trying to find out what the program was about because I didn’t understand it, no one understood it, and she wouldn’t really answer my question,” Han said. “She

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“I’m very thankful for this program because I wanted to go to this school,” Mehdi said. “If it weren’t for this program I wouldn’t be at Northeastern.”

Luca Curatola, a first-year who is undecided on which major he wants to pursue, said he wasn’t too bothered by the program, despite its flaws.

“I don’t look at it really differently from any other freshman year,” Hieratola said. “We’re not as integrated into the school as other freshman but it’s the same education and we’re transitioned into the school normally anyways, so I think it’s worth it.”

The university plans to continue the program next year, Nyul said in the email, though it hasn’t yet decided where students will be housed.

The Midtown Hotel is currently being acquired by real estate company National Development, which hasn’t yet decided what it will do with the property or when it may cease operations as a hotel.

If the program returns next year, current students say it will need a clearer purpose and better messaging, and ideally wouldn’t involve separating students from the rest of the university.

“I feel like the program isn’t fully finished and they shouldn’t have had it because no one understands what it is,” Han said. “It’s like they’re flying an airplane while building it.”

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RSA responds to 2018 Husky Hunt concerns

By Rachel Morford News Correspondent Video challenges written for Northeastern’s annual Husky Hunt, sponsored by the Resident Student Association, asked participants to film their team recreating culture-specific scenarios — including performing the ancient Chinese art of Peking opera. Several participating students considered these challenges inappropriate and culturally insensitive, and demanded change from RSA. “Do they want us to do this in a mocking way? Are we supposed to be making fun of this? Or are we supposed to truly research the style of the singing and the style of the makeup and actually reenact it that way?” said Alice Ding, a fifth-year marketing and computer science major and one of the team captains of the 2018 Husky Hunt, which took place in November.

The competition is an annual 24hour city-wide scavenger hunt and is considered a university tradition, according to Northeastern’s website.

Each fall, 50 qualifying teams of 12 NU students race to complete a series of challenges which take participants throughout Greater Boston.

“The theme of this year’s Husky Hunt was time travel,” said CJ Lalime, a fifth-year marketing and management major and RSA president.

“We had different time periods we focused on for an hour throughout the hunt.”

Ding’s team, consisting predominantly of Asian-American students, was made uncomfortable by video challenge 18. According to the sheet given to Husky Hunt participants, this challenge read: “Create a 30 [second] video of two of your group member[s] performing peking opera.” Peking is a proper noun synonymous with the Chinese capital Beijing — and should be capitalized.

This challenge was created for the “Ancient China” aspect of the theme.

“When I saw [the challenge] during the actual hunt, right then

Photo by Riley Robinson The theme for the 2018 Husky Hunt, which took place in November, was “Out of Time.” and there I was like, ‘Oh, no, we’re not doing this,’” said Jenny Cheung, a fifth-year majoring in computer engineering, and a member of Ding’s Husky Hunt team. “So we talked about it the next day, and said, ‘Yeah, we’re going to send an email out.’”

On Nov. 19, the morning after the event, she emailed Lalime directly, in addition to the RSA Husky Hunt email address and RSA’s advisor, Christina Alch. Of the challenges in question, Ding highlighted three specifically — recreating the music video to the song “Boney M.” by Rasputin, recreating the original Thanksgiving and performing Peking opera. All of these challenges put students in a position to imitate other cultures, Ding said.

“The make-up, the singing style and clothing all represent different aspects of Chinese culture and the idea of using them as a way of getting ahead in an American-based scavenger hunt felt wrong,” Ding said in her Nov. 19 email to RSA. “The

thought of other students mimicking and trying to recreate this aspect of Chinese culture made many of us uncomfortable.”

The RSA’s response came nine days later, on Nov. 28. Concerned that RSA would not respond, Ding contacted other Northeastern officials in the interim, including Bob Jose, associate dean for Cultural, Residential and Spiritual life, and Delia Cheung Hom, who was director of the Asian American Center at the time.

“While our hope was that teams would do the research in order to respectfully complete these challenges, we now realize the impact that the challenges had,” Lalime said in his Nov. 28 reply to Ding, speaking on behalf of RSA. “We would like apologize for making you and your team members feel uncomfortable during the hunt.”

Lalime ended the email by stating that teams would not be penalized for not completing the highlighted video challenges. Ding said she and

her team members did not consider RSA’s response proportionate to the mistake made.

“Their response was basically a brush-off, saying ‘Oh, I’m sorry. And also, by the way, since you brought this up, we won’t count those videos, as points if you didn’t complete them,’” Cheung said. “And that doesn’t necessarily solve the problem, because that means if no one had brought it up, you would still continue to do the same thing.”

Lalime said in the future, RSA intends to require more oversight for the challenges the Husky Hunt committee creates. Currently, no university approval is required for each specific challenge. In order to address the insensitivity which led to the creation of the challenges in the first place, Lalime said RSA is scheduled to complete a training with NU’s Social Justice Resource Center this semester. Additionally, Lalime said RSA hopes to expand the efforts of its Diversity and Inclusion

Task Force, which is committed to expanding representation within the organization.

“We didn’t realize the impact the challenges would have, the intent with which we created them was vastly different from the impact that they had,” Lalime said.

However, Ding was not made aware of RSA’s intended actions. In a follow-up email sent to Lalime on Nov. 28, Ding again outlined her concerns about RSA, and her fear that nothing had changed.

“For us to have felt so weird to have these specific prompts, they just need to do better,” Ding said. “You shouldn’t be using your platform to perpetuate the foreign aspects of culture.”

Ding never received a response to her Nov. 28 follow-up email to RSA. Ding and Cheung said this lack of response left them pessimistic about the likelihood of the hunt being more inclusive in the future. However, Lalime said the lack of response was not due to apathy, but a desire to have actionable examples of how RSA intended to address Ding’s concerns.

“It wasn’t my intention to not respond,” Lalime said. “The initial email was delayed because of timing and wanting to make sure we addressed all of her concerns, because they are incredibly valid. I did not want to send the next email until I could say ‘We do hear all of your concerns. Here is my list of things we are doing to prevent this from happening in the future.’”

In the two months since Ding’s initial email, Lalime said RSA has been weighing the consequences of their actions on the students they intend on representing, and how scenarios like this could be avoided in the future.

“We didn’t necessarily see it coming, but once it was pointed out to us, we all felt the severity of our actions,” Lalime said. “There’s nothing worse than directly contradicting what we hope to do for residents on this campus and students in general.”

Activity fee stretched thin, officials say SGA, from front $15,000 they normally receive for the event, which they’ve hosted on campus for 10 years. Advika Grover, an NUTV marketing director, said they should still be able to host the event with minor changes thanks to a compromise with the Movie Fest national association.

“This year [SGA] told us they could not give us any money at all for the event,” NUTV Vice President Brigitte Gong said. “Campus Movie Fest is special because it’s open to everyone at Northeastern. It’s the nation’s largest student film festival, and [losing] it would be a huge blow to the creative community.”

Every NU undergraduate student pays a $136 activity fee. This creates a pool of more than $2 million, according to the SGA Finance Board website. The board, whose voting members are all students, is tasked with distributing these funds to NU’s many student organizations.

Recently, this was complicated by an increased volume of requests.

There are more than 500 clubs listed on the Center for Student Involvement website, and around 175 groups requested money this year, SGA Comptroller Max Willner-Giwerc said, though he said the breakdown of where the funds go is confidential.

Willner-Giwerc guides the Finance Board through deciding how to distribute funds generated by the SAF. Clubs make presentations to the Finance Board, making their case for why they should get a chunk of the activity fee. But neither he nor the board has access to a detailed breakdown — he said the university requires that to be confidential due to “privacy concerns.”

The activity fee increases only with inflation, not with the rise in funding requests. Willner-Giwerc and Balcom said the rise in funding requests created a budgetary conflict, and the student activity fund could not keep up with what those clubs hoped to achieve. Willner-Giwerc called this “growing pains.”

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The board discovered if they didn’t Student science magazine NU Sci “The issue I had was, one, the cut club budgets significantly, there was hit hard by the cuts. Sage Wesen- notice,” said Griffiths, a fourth-year would be a deficit. But Willner-Giwberg, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, cell and molecular biology major. erc and his team realizedThe this in Nosaid SGA cut their normal funding “We had been preparing for it for budget vember shortly before students were by 40 percent. long time and we found out [one decreased by for a2018-19 due to present their budget requests.

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At least two groups presented Nov. enough money to print two magThis instant change of plans left 14 after receiving an email the day azines per semester, subscribe to a the club leaders unsure of how to before saying there would be budget stock photo service and self-promote. proceed into their presentations.

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This semester, they could only afford “We kept waiting for them to say decreased byeven then, they had something. for 2018-19 “We calculated a worst-case printing — and I was surprised they scenario of having to cut 40 percent to decrease their print circulation let us speak for as long as we did,” from every club’s budget,” said Willfrom 1,000 copies to between 500 said Wesenberg, a fifth-year biology ner-Giwerc, a second-year politics, and 750. major. “At the end, Max [Willner-Giphilosophy and economics major.

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Club leaders confused by decisions that FINANCES, from Page 5 comment on this particular scenario but said that the board does not “make decisions going into a meeting,” rather they do research beforehand to prepare.

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Cowan said the cuts mean they’ll The budget Tastemakers requests money for order 500 copies of their next magdecreased by one concert and one print magazine azine instead of the typical 1,000. per semester. But in the latest round, After that, they may be forced to go SGA cut the magazine’s concert fund down to 300.

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“We’re talking about ways to decrease next year’s budget,” Boggiano said. “We’ve preemptively raised our dues from $15 to $20 because the for 2018-19 security costs will definitely exceed our budget increase so we already know we will have problems.”

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Julia Thompson, the president of the NU Student Nurses Association, or NUSNA, planned to request funding for the club for the first time. After November’s news, she no

Photo by Lauren Scornavacca Tastemakers e-board members Grant Foskett, Hannah Crotty and Jason Levy pose with their music magazine. Instead of submitting for an annual budget, Tastemakers makes four separate requests per year.

The decrease could alter the club’s productions, Boggiano said.

“We’ve started to talk about decreasing show budgets,” he said. “And that’s really unfortunate because we like to give our designers and our tech people the ability and resources to be creative and make some really great things.”

Parker Brown, the president of WRBB, said the radio station is cutting back on marketing, technical equipment and catered events for its 200-plus members.

NUTV actually received a budget increase this year, said Vice President Gong, though the Finance Board did not share the reason with them per their non-disclosure policy. Gong said she would have rather maintained the same budget if it meant having money for Movie Fest.

“Campus MovieFest is special because it’s open to everyone at Northeastern,” Gong said. “I think if we had been told beforehand … we could’ve found a way around it.”

Solutions fall short

Cowan, Griffiths and Wesenberg said the Finance Board offered them guidance on how to raise additional funds. But they were skeptical that the suggestions were practical.

Willner-Giwerc said suggestions included Husky Starter, a channel that groups can use to ask for alumni donations, grants from academic colleges and “outside endorsements,” though those are only available to competition groups.

“Fundraising is difficult for a club like ours,” Griffiths said. “It’s obviously fun to be a member of NU Sci, and it’s rewarding to be printed, but it’s also a lot of work. And then to come back and say, ‘Can you pay for it too? Can you donate so we can run?’ is kind of a big thing to ask of our members.”

Wesenberg said the fundraising ideas were often more geared toward groups trying to fund one big event near the end of the year, not an ongoing publication. Cowan said the methods weren’t scalable enough.

“Selling Krispy Kremes at Curry Crossroads or selling coffee, it gives you a little money but not anything substantial,” Cowan said, adding that she found it hard to fundraise during her time as president of a marketing club on campus.

Willner-Giwerc was optimistic that groups could make ends meet.

He said some groups cut their own budgets or operated effectively within the reduced bounds, though he wouldn’t provide specific examples.

“They were creative and came up with new ideas,” Willner-Giwerc said. “The austerity of the budget will always be met by the creativity of our groups.” However, he did admit that “the system is a little bent right now,” and a new one is in the works.

An opaque process Cowan, the Tastemakers president, also said she was not provided with specific reasons why the finance board came to its decision.

“When I found out what they granted us, they essentially just said it was the blanket cut and there weren’t reasons specific to our organization,” Cowan said. “I haven’t received any specific reasons.”

Neither the Student Activities Business Office nor the Center for Student Involvement responded to requests for comment on who has access to the full distribution of the activity fee.

Willner-Giwerc said the reality is that nobody on the finance board can see a detailed breakdown of how student activity funds are allocated, not even the comptroller himself.

It’s unclear what oversight applies to the board, and what effect it can have. SGA President Balcom had little-to-no details on the Finance Board’s activities or particulars.

“I don’t know the numbers,” Balcom said. “The goal is to never be in the red. I don’t know the specifics of the SAF allocations.”

To numerous questions about the SAF and the factors that go into SGA’s financial decisions, he referred The News to Willner-Giwerc.

Willner-Giwerc said that there are non-voting faculty representatives from the Center of Student Involvement and the Student

Activities Business Office who sit on the Finance Board. Finance Board decisions are handed up to university administrators who do not have veto power.

Though he said all details of board decisions are confidential, Willner-Giwerc pointed to the association’s SAF manual, which contains the guidelines the board uses to reach its conclusions. The section outlining its criteria for budget requests is a long, unranked list of factors that gives the board wide discretion.

An excerpt from the SAF Manual on the Finance Board’s website: 11.2. The Board will consider the following factors to determine an event’s benefit and priority to the undergraduate student body: 11.2.1. Student appeal, 11.2.2. Excessiveness of request or within request pool, 11.2.3. Experiential value (e.g. educational, cultural, awareness), 11.2.4. Cost per student, 11.2.5. Correlation to the University or student organization mission statement, 11.2.6. Strength of promotional plan, 11.2.7. Anticipated attendance, 11.2.8. Co-sponsorship, 11.2.9. Exclusivity, 11.2.10. Presentation to the Board, 11.2.11. Completeness of Budget Request, 11.2.12. Submission of Budget Request in accordance with deadlines, 11.2.13. Group experience in event planning, 11.2.14. Spending report history, 11.2.15. Percent increase from previous event request of a similar nature.

SGA’s operational budget Despite the fiscal concerns, SGA itself received 100 percent of the funding it requested for this year.

The association’s operating budget is proposed by the president and executive vice president and presented to the finance board like any other club’s budget.

Yearly budgets like SGA’s were requested in June, which might explain why the decrease was only 2 percent from last year. But WRBB, which also operates on a yearly budget, was dealt a cut between 13 and 14 percent after requesting their 201819 budget in June, their President Parker Brown said.

After November’s financial revelations, Balcom said he is planning a 5 percent cut for next year’s SGA budget.

This year’s near-$57,000 budget included the following line items, among others: • $5,400 for “food,” which Balcom said included refreshments for SGA internal events and events SGA hosted for the student body and at orientations.

• $5,750 for travel and lodging to an “Annual Fall Senate Retreat.”

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Only two of the nine stipend recipients are directly elected by the student body. Willner-Giwerc was elected by the Senate, along with six others.

Balcom said the officials’ many hours of work justifies the stipends.

However, many club leaders The News spoke with reported spending similar amounts of time on their positions. No club leader The News spoke with reported requesting or receiving money for stipends.

To Balcom’s knowledge, no SGA operational budget request has been rejected by the Finance Board in his time in the association.

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“Turns out we only decreased by recurring cuts 2018-19 An unclear future based on the drastic tone of this fall’s needed to make about 20 percent Willner-Giwerc indicated that the proceedings. From her perspective, cuts for a few [requests] and we’re next budget request cycle could have she said it didn’t “seem like it would lighter cuts, or even none at all for resolve in one semester.” some groups. Club leaders are still “We’re graduating. We don’t want concerned about the future, though. to leave this as an issue fordecreased future The budget by “I’ll have to coach the future groups,” Griffiths said. president through it,” said Cowan, Boggiano said he thinks it could the Tastemakers president. “I think it get “harder and harder” going would probably be overly ambitious forward. to request more funding. At the very Brown said “I would not be surleast I would probably request the prised if they cut our budget again.” amount we have been granted in But in an interview with The

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“I’m still trying to think through how to approach that going forward, because that’s not something that I think is fair to ask of someone, even if I’m okay doing it,” Cowan said.

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NU administrator moonlights in comedy

By Paige Stern News Correspondent

John Tobin is not a typical Northeastern administrator. In addition to his role as Northeastern’s vice president of city and community affairs, Tobin runs several Boston comedy clubs in his spare time.

A 1995 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston and a former Boston city councilor, Tobin has a degree in political science and a passion for the comedic arts that is deeply rooted in his upbringing.

“Growing up in Mattapan, where every other person was an elected official, I primarily knew I wanted to run for office in Boston,” said Tobin, 49. However, Tobin also knew he wanted to include the other love of his life in his future: comedy.

attended the Connecticut School of Broadcasting for a semester, and worked nights at Kiss 108 FM from 1990 to 1992, “opening the door” for guests on the Matty Show. One of the guests he encountered was Boston comedy legend Dick Doherty.

Doherty was going on Matty Siegel’s show to promote the new comedy clubs he was opening throughout Boston.

Tobin’s interaction with Doherty literally put Tobin’s foot through the door of Boston’s comedy scene.

Two weeks later Tobin found himself working the doors of Doherty’s clubs on a daily basis.

“Laughs took a complete hold on me”

He first encountered comedy through Steve Martin’s 1978 album “A Wild and Crazy Guy.” His parents would throw parties in the basement where guests would listen and laugh to comedians’ jokes on vinyl.

“I wasn’t allowed to hear them, but I’d sneak down, and as I listened, strangers’ laughs took a complete hold on me,” he said.

He and his father relished comedy game shows, sitcoms and the works of other performers, such as Richard Pryor and George Carlin.

“The one thing I appreciate about comedians is that they question the absurd, they question the status quo and they challenge you,” he said.

In 1986, Tobin attended his first comic performance at Nick’s Comedy Stop — a venue he went on to operate.

“Me and my friends, we staggered to our car because our stomachs hurt so much from laughing,” Tobin said.

Though he never imagined himself as an on-stage personality, he knew he wanted to be involved in the scene.

Another one of Tobin’s passions — radio — granted him entrance into Boston’s comedy scene. He

Photo by Paige Stern John Tobin grins at his venue Laugh Boston. Apart from owning comedy clubs, Tobin served on the city council and is Northeastern’s VP of city and community affairs.

Politics and comedy

After graduating in 1995, Tobin worked as the research director of the joint committee on local affairs for the state legislature, and then served as an aide to state Rep. Kevin Honan of Allston Bright. He continued to spend most nights working at Doherty’s comedy clubs, and eventually pursued the position of Boston city councilor, representing West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain.

Between two unsuccessful council runs in 1995 and 1999, Tobin cofounded the Boston Comedy Festival and was running three comedy clubs in the Boston area.

Using experiences from his time in the high-end comedy scene to his

advantage, he won in 2001 on his third run for office.

“Jamaica Plain wanted somebody who represented their ideas and values,” he said. Since this region is known for its devotion to the arts, he said his hook with the community was his experience in comedy.

“I’ve become friends with people of all nationalities, and sexual orientations, who don’t look like me, or talk like me, and it’s made my life so much better,” he said.

He compares running for office to performing. Both involve conveying a message in the midst of a listener’s chaotic day, as well as making a positive, lasting impression in a limited amount of time.

Tobin planned to stand for the artistic community of the city when budgeting threatened to put the arts’ financial resources at risk. He asked to be chairman of the arts and humanities committee, a position no official had specifically requested for nearly a century.

“These people make our lives better by making people laugh, by making people cry, and just providing an outlet for people’s emotions,” he said. “Seeing a painting for the first time, and what that does to somebody, it could change their life.”

During his time in office, Tobin named an official poet laureate of the city of Boston, and helped ensure the development of artists’ housing.

Parents began to approach him at public events, telling him about their children who expressed themselves through art. Facing disagreement in the council, he continued to use comedy to his advantage. He recalled “using humor to diffuse a tense situation,” and said humor is “one of the great equalizers.”

David Isberg, 51, once served as Tobin’s chief of staff on city council, and is continuing their work relationship serving as Northeastern’s assistant vice president of city and community affairs.

“I love working for him, but the

Photo by Paige Stern Catalyst Comedy, a local comedy group, performs at Laugh Boston. things that he loves to do, I don’t like to,” Isberg said.

He said Tobin’s work in comedy has made Tobin more of a storyteller and public speaker, while Isberg prefers to remain behind the scenes.

“I think we’ve had a good work relationship, and that most people enjoy working for John,” he said.

In 2009, a year before completing his fourth term on city council, Tobin opened his first comedy venue.

Tommy’s Comedy Lounge sat up the street from Nick’s Comedy Stop, which also became one of his venues within the following months.

In the midst of a promising career as a comedy club manager, Tobin and his business partner Frank Ahearn faced a setback when Ahearn had a stroke and a three-month coma.

Though his partner came out of the coma and began rehabilitation, Ahearn experienced a second stroke and died a few weeks later.

Following his partner’s passing, Tobin let go of Tommy’s and continued to run Nick’s while simultaneously gearing up to run for mayor of Boston. However, when election time came around, Tobin chose to go a different direction, selecting a job offer that would allow him to spend more time with his family. He accepted a position at Northeastern in 2010.

Landing at NU

Going into his ninth year as Northeastern’s first vice president of city and community affairs, Tobin is now the proud owner of comedy production company John Tobin Presents, which oversees the management of six comedy clubs in Massachusetts.

One of his regularly featured comics, Christine Hurley, has been working with Tobin for 8 years.

Hurley said that after all this time, Tobin still “puts together a perfect show.”

Despite having performed at TD Garden twice, Hurley’s favorite booker is still Tobin.

“He’s become a big name, he’s killing it,” said Hurley, 54.

During a personal business crisis, Hurley said Tobin called her every day, even while he was vacationing in Milan. “Everything he does is just completely right,” she said More than 30 years after his comedy journey began, Tobin is working to draw younger audiences.

“I think it’s particularly important to get young people in the club to see live comedy,” he said. “It’s hard getting eyeballs off of screens, and to get people out to see live entertainment. There’s no retakes, it just happens, you don’t wait for reviews to come out, it’s right there.”

Rise in MBTA fares worries city activists

By Isaac Stephens News Correspondent The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s plan to increase fares starting July by an average of 6.3 percent is only an inconvenience to many Boston-area students, but some experts say it has larger social justice implications.

If the plan, which officials announced last week, is approved before its July 1 start date, most bus and rail riders will see a hike between 10 and 25 cents per ride, with roughly proportional increases for commuter rail riders and monthly pass users.

While ridership will drop a small amount according to the MBTA’s projections, the vast majority of riders — many of them students — will take the hit and continue to ride as normal.

Ian Henchy, a law student at Northeastern and a twice-daily T rider, conveys this attitude: He’s not happy, but he’s not exactly outraged either. His view seems to be a common one among NU students.

“It’s an extra couple bucks a week.

Ten bucks a month, maybe a little more,” Henchy said. “It’s not gonna

kill me.”

And even if it would make things difficult for him financially, Henchy said he realistically has no other choice.

“I’ve got to take it anyway,” he said. “They kind of got me: I’ve got to take it to and from work. I don’t have much of an option, and I’m sure there are a ton of people who are in the same boat.”

According to an equity report funded by the MBTA, Henchy is right. Economic data indicates that most people will continue to use the transportation system even as the price increases, suggesting that the MBTA is a necessity for many.

Madhavi Venkatesan, an economics professor at Northeastern, said this means the fare increase is an issue from a social justice standpoint — a view shared by city councilor Michelle Wu, who wrote an op-ed in The Boston Globe calling for MBTA fares to be eliminated.

“Public transportation is designed to provide a service that is meant to assist people who may not be able to afford transportation of their own,” Venkatesan said, pointing out the MBTA’s high rates of low-income

ridership. “The people who are using it are those that need it. Is it fair for them to continuously have fare increases when their jobs might not be increasing in income at the same rate?”

While the MBTA system may leave some low-income riders behind, Ted Landsmark, a former MBTA board member and the director of Northeastern’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, said the fare increase can be seen as a win for people concerned about the environment, as use of public transportation could actually increase as a longterm result.

“Fare increases generally precipitate a short term decline in ridership,” he said, pointing to the MBTA’s projection of 1.3 percent ridership decrease and 4.5 revenue increase. “If the increase is then used to improve service, ridership then returns to previous levels and increases, so that in the longer term, of two to five years, the fare increase generates additional revenue.”

Some would see this as a relief — Wu also expressed concerns about the fare hike’s effect on the environment — but Venkatesan said

this only makes the social justice problems worse.

“The increase is a regressive tax on lower income people, because it actually makes the cost of transportation higher for them,” Venkatesan said.

She expects that the long-term increases Landsmark predicts will be caused by a shift in the MBTA’s target user, from low-income to higher-income, as the quality of service increases. “If you’re looking at the future, and saying that you’ll have

more people riding it, that increase in ridership is coming from a different demographic than the people that are being impacted.”

What may seem like a pocket-sized inconvenience for some is a city-sized issue for others.

“A high-quality public transportation system would probably attract people of all demographic ranges, because you’re trying to be environmentally friendly as a community,” Venkatesan said.

Photo courtesy Creative Commons If the fare hike is approved before its July 1 start date, most bus and rail riders will see a hike between 10 and 25 cents per ride, with roughly proportional increases for commuter rail riders and monthly pass users.

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February 7, 2019

Country fans raise a glass to Eric Church

By Riley Robinson News Staff Who knew so many people owned cowboy boots in the Boston area?

It almost seemed there was a required uniform to attend Eric Church’s Double Down Tour Friday and Saturday at TD Garden. The boots peeked out from actual bootcut jeans or stomped proudly outside a pair of leggings. Men wore plaid flannel shirts and trucker ball caps. A Tom Brady jersey was also acceptable.

It made sense to dress comfortably, because this was a marathon of a concert. Church’s tour takes a novel approach, playing a two-night series in 19 cities, with different set lists across both nights. On Saturday, he sang for more than three hours, with one intermission and no opener.

It was certainly a country show, but with a rock ’n’ roll vibe and a flair for showmanship. Strobes crossed from the arena ends, so crisp and close it seemed you could pluck one and it would vibrate in sympathy with the guitar slung on Church’s shoulder. He’s mastered the tongueout head bop and the I-don’t-care swagger, which he employed on a square catwalk that encircled a general admission section for superfans, nestled in with the band.

This group is called the Church Choir. It was a place for drinking and dancing and yelling “Beat L.A.!” into the darkness at the top of your lungs.

Actually, everyone was standing and dancing, even at the top row of the top balcony. Swaying couples dotted the audience — were they worried about static sparks in all that flannel?

It wouldn’t matter, because any fires could have been drenched out with alcohol. (That’s how that works, right?) Hands gripping cups of beer rose up in synchrony at “Drink in My Hand,” a platinum hit from the summer of 2011. Church opened

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Thursday, Feb. 7

Through Sunday, the Institute of Contemporary Art will showcase highlights from the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. This 91-minute program features seven selections including fiction, documentary and animation. Experience this taste of one of the world’s leading independent film festivals. 7 p.m.8:30 p.m.; Institute of Contemporary Art; $5 for students.

Friday, Feb. 8 Photo by Dylan Shen Country singer-songwriter Eric Church brings his tour to Boston. the night with an ode to the local bartender, with the song “Drowning Man” off his sixth studio album, Desperate Man, released in October.

Church himself is more of a whiskey guy, Jack Daniel’s specifically. He has a whole song dedicated to it, during which he jumped off the stage and poured an entire bottle worth of shots for nearby fans.

When he returned to the stage, a small boy reached up from the front row, offering Church a nip from an outstretched hand.

Interactions like this were a motif of the night: Church’s fans liked to give him stuff. People intermittently passed up American flag-print scarves for Church to drape behind his neck like a priest’s stole. They passed up records for him to sign during “Record Year.”

The cowboy boots got their own moment of glory during the throwback track “These Boots” from Church’s first album. Throughout the stadium, audience members took a boot off one foot to wave in the air — or throw onstage. Church did his best to toss them back to their sock-footed owners.

From the barrage of boots and records and homemade signs bearing his name, it was clear Church is beloved by his fans, even as far north as Boston.

Jean Sullivan of Marshfield, Massachusetts, is one of these dedicated fans. She usually brings her daughter to country concerts in the area, but attended her third Church show Saturday with a friend, both decked out in red and blue Patriots apparel.

“Eric Church’s style is a man’s man type of singer. He’s got his dog, he’s got his beer. He talks about the country, talks about hunting, talks about standing up for what he believes in,” Sullivan said. “Don’t get me wrong, women love him, but he’s definitely a man’s man singer.”

Church may be a “man’s man” who appreciates a good drink, but he was still momentarily apprehensive at a young boy offering him liquor mid-show.

“I don’t know if I’m comfortable with this,” Church said with a chuckle. “What are you, seven? Eight?

Oh, ten, you’re ten.” Church took the bottle, threw it back and yelled, “Welcome to Boston!”

This weekend-long interfaith retreat sponsored by the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service and LEAD360 aims to promote spiritual growth, leadership skills and global citizenship. Students will be introduced to spiritual practices from various religious traditions through workshops and group sessions. Transportation will be provided between the Northeastern campus and the hotel. Feb. 8 at 5 p.m.-Feb. 10 at 4 p.m.; Warren Conference Center and Inn; Free.

Saturday, Feb. 9

Dreading Valentine’s Day, or just want to have a laugh? Northeastern comedy publication Times New Roman will collaborate with improv troupe No Jokes in hosting this comedy show in light of the upcoming holiday. 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.; AfterHours; Free.

Sunday, Feb. 10

Join more than 25 local farm fiber vendors from across New England for the second annual Boston Farm & Fiber Festival. This one-day event in downtown Boston will offer free programming throughout the day, including weaving and spinning demos, book talks and signings, live animals and more. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Boston Public Market; Free.

Monday, Feb. 11

Switch up your Valentine’s Day this year with a candlelit tour of the crypt beneath King’s Chapel in downtown Boston, uncovering the history of love, loss and laying the dead to rest.

The tour will explore the 21 tombs beneath the chapel and the stories of the historic people and couples laid to rest within them. 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.; King’s Chapel; $10.

Tuesday, Feb. 12

Bring one to three books in good condition to Trident Booksellers and Cafe on Tuesday, and return home with new additions to your bookshelf. The event will operate like a white elephant gift exchange, and everyone will leave with the same number of books they brought.

The admission fee may be used as food and drink voucher throughout the evening. 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m.; Trident Booksellers and Cafe; $5.

Wednesday, Feb. 13

Photo by Dylan Shen Church performed for more than three hours to a thundering TD Garden Saturday night.

“Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press” is Northeastern Gallery 360’s current exhibit, on view Jan. 17 through March 11. The exhibit presents 14 artists whose works reflect a collective African American experience expressed in uniquely individual ways. Join Gallery 360 for the exhibit’s opening reception Wednesday. 4 p.m.-7 p.m.; Northeastern Gallery 360; Free.

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Column: Black History Month celebrates American greatness Black excellence reflects a history America forgets

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Melissa Wells ithout fail, two thoughts come to mind every year when February swings by: one, the frustration expressed by James Baldwin not so long ago that American history has been taught without “cognizance of my presence.” Two, the negligence of many Americans to understand the necessity and importance of the established tradition of Black History Month, going as far as branding it “racist.”

I won’t bother explaining why Black History Month isn’t racist. At this juncture in American history, one must be entirely unconscious of the state of our union to dismiss the white supremacy and racial ignorance that continues to prevail in America. If I could, I would banish the term “post-racial” from our vocabulary. Electing a black president once did not save white people from privilege, even if it did make the world a little better. What surprises me about racial ignorance today is that American exceptionalism dominates even our teachings of history and Americans consciously choose to ignore true aspects of this history.

After white Americans enslaved an entire race for 400 years, stripping them of the basic privileges guaranteed to any other human being under our Constitution and incarcerating

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two thirds of that population under the guise of law and order, we have the right not to “forget about the past.” We get 28 days each year to celebrate the excellence that prevailed within this brutal history, to honor those history forgot or erased and celebrate one another as we continue to struggle for racial equality.

That in and of itself comes with responsibility — a responsibility to make American history inclusive of our stories in whatever way we must, even if it means reminding our society throughout February that our lives matter 365 days of the year. I am reminded of a quote by Vernon Jordan, in a speech he gave at Howard University in 2002. In the context of Black History Month, it salutes the black ancestors we thank for the opportunities they bravely fought for, even as they weren’t able to see those struggles come to fruition.

“You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders.

It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.”

It’s a solemn fact that many parallels exist in black history that resonate too closely with how black life is treated today. It was Emmett Till then and it’s Trayvon Martin now. From the police brutality that resulted in men and women dying for equality of livelihood then, to the men and women dying now for the audacity of equality in coffee shops, dorm buildings and traffic stops. For a country that is desperate for black culture, but still devalues black life, it should come as no surprise that

black Americans refuse to applaud fixtures of the brutal history against us — like the Pledge of Allegiance or the National Anthem, both of which feature phrases that remain unfulfilled. In the past, we’ve sacrificed everything to believe in equality, and we’ll continue to do so.

But, in the midst of that pain, I find joy to see the comparisons of success, from each stride we make today across all industries to the struggles to survive and thrive that allowed us to have the chance to even do so. First it was Josephine Baker, the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, and now it’s 14-year-old Marsai Martin,

the youngest executive producer in Hollywood. It was Coretta Scott King who black women of the 1960s looked to, and it’s Michelle Obama, the most educated First Lady to grace our history books, that they look to today.

Our history is dark, but we have always paved a path for the success of future generations. So, this month, The News will dedicate a column each week to this celebration — a small gesture to a community ingrained in the foundation of this country and essential to that American greatness we all applaud today.

For the culture, indeed.

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Board of Directors the spirit of recent efforts toward inclusion of non-tenure track voices through representation in the Faculty Senate and the “One Faculty” model.

Yet, we remain concerned that we are “One Faculty” in name only.

Without the power to bargain as equals, that spirit is lost. There are many issues that we are interested in as non-tenure track faculty: transparency in evaluations and promotions, fair compensation and more secure contracts, as well as Northeastern’s role in the Boston community. Only with a union can we enshrine these protections and improvements in a legal contract which cannot be altered without our consent.

That is why, in November, we filed for our union election with strong support from faculty across campus.

The administration responded through its lawyers by claiming we are “managers” and denying our right to hold the election — a shocking stance that breaks from legal precedent and ignores the existence of full-time non-tenure track faculty unions at Tufts, Boston University, Lesley and other universities across the country.

The administration continues to deny our right to vote. Despite letters and calls from tenured faculty, students and community members urging a fair election — including a letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren — President Joseph E. Aoun refuses to drop the claim that we are managers and allow us to vote. In fact, he has not responded at all.

Northeastern must not become an

outlier on the issue of faculty rights.

Instead, it should join colleges and universities, locally and nationwide, in respecting faculty’s right to self determination. We call on Aoun to embody the spirit of “One Faculty” — the spirit of valuing faculty voice — and allow full-time non-tenure track faculty to vote.

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SPORTS

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Photo by Dylan Shen Senior forward Tori Sullivan celebrates scoring a goal.

Photo by Dylan Shen Freshman forward Alina Mueller sizes up the goalie.

Photo by Albert Tamura Goalie Aerin Franklin saves the puck from hitting the goal.

Women’s hockey loses heartbreaker

By Mike Puzzanghera Sports Editor

Photo by Samantha Barry Kassidy Anderson and Chloe Aurard crash toward the goal.

Photo by Samantha Barry Senior forward Kasidy Anderson falls after a player pushes her.

Photo by Albert Tamura Codie Cross moves the puck up the rink.

The shootout is a mysterious presence in the women’s Beanpot.

No one seems to know why it’s there, but it is, and it sent Northeastern home Monday night. The Huskies fell after four shootout rounds to Boston University, with regulation and overtime ending 3-3.

Northeastern was looking to break a five-year drought in the Beanpot.

Their opening opponent was No. 8 BU, as luck would have it.

Northeastern struck first via sophomore defender Skylar Fontaine at 11:28 of the opening period. The play came through Mia Brown, who ripped a shot at Corrine Schroeder, but was denied by the BU keeper.

Fontaine was the first to react to the loose puck, slapping it home and giving NU the first goal of the tournament.

The goal marked Fontaine’s sixth straight game with a point, and her second straight with a goal. She scored the winner against UConn in overtime Friday (and supplied the assist on the tying goal in the third period), she had two assists against Vermont Jan. 26 and the tying goal against the same Vermont team the night before.

Netminder Aerin Frankel did her part in the first period, stopping all 14 BU shots on net.

But at the start of the second, BU hit back. Mackenna Parker hit a redirect on a shot from Breanna Scarpaci on the left wing. Parker’s tip made its way past Frankel, and the Terriers found themselves tied off of their first shot of the period.

The Huskies got a great opportunity when they went on a 5-on-3 for a short time. First, Natasza Tarnowski went to the box for crosschecking, and a little over a minute later Parker went off.

Northeastern would not let the opportunity go by, as they composed a beautiful play that was finished off in front by Veronika Pettey after BU killed one of the two penalties. Alina

Mueller took the puck through the defense and fed it across to Pettey, who was waiting in the slot. Her onetime shot was a bullet, and it flew past Schroeder at the right post to put the Huskies up 2-1.

Pettey’s goal was her 13th of the year, and her fourth in the last three games. She scored a hat trick against Vermont on Jan. 26. She is also tied for the most power-play goals in the NCAA with six on the season.

Just like their rivals, BU scored its second of the night on the power play. After a point shot from Abby Cook went off Frankel, forward Sammy Davis tapped the puck into the net for an easy leveller.

The second ended 2-2. BU only had 5 shots in the frame, but scored.

17 seconds into the third period, Northeastern took the lead back through Mueller. Kasidy Anderson fed the freshman forward with a cross, and Mueller shot it past Schroeder to take the lead back.

Once again, BU swung back and leveled the score. Jesse Compher was sprung on a deflected pass and found herself in alone on Frankel. She lifted her shot up over the keeper and it found the net. The two sides were level once more, and that’s how the period ended.

The overtime frame featured huge goal-scoring chances for NU’s Codie Cross, Pettey, and Mueller. Nothing came of them, and the game went to a shootout.

“Hats off to how hard Northeastern played,” said BU head coach Brian Durocher. “They certainly had chances those last two, three minutes when Corinne stayed strong and held the fort back there.”

Northeastern certainly looked more likely to score during the period, but time expired, and the game moved to a shootout.

“I felt if we had played the whole game like we did the last 10 minutes and overtime it might have been a different outcome,” NU head coach Dave Flint said. “We were a little inconsistent with our play, we didn’t

take very good care of the puck at certain times during the game, and credit to BU. They played hard all over the ice and they capitalized on their chances.”

The shootout only exists in the Women’s Beanpot, as the men play repeated overtime periods until there is a goal.

Tori Sullivan took the first chance in the shootout, and she was denied

by Schroeder, who came out quickly to stop the chance.

Davis took BU’s first, and raced in on Frankel, only for the NU keeper to come up big and save.

Mueller struck first for NU, putting a multitude of moves on Schroeder and tucking home at the right post.

Frankel saved again, this time on Jesse Compher.

Aurard had a chance to win it, but was denied by Schroeder down to her right.

Nara Elia took the next for BU, and tied things up. She beat Frankel and kept the Terriers alive.

Pettey was next, and Schroeder was equal to it to her left.

Reagan Rust finished off NU with a laser into the top right corner past Frankel. She shot early, and Frankel couldn’t react.

“We’ve really worked hard this whole year just for one of these moments, and it’s really paying off,” Rust said.

The Terriers went into a frenzy on their side of the ice, and the celebration spilled all across the rink. For Northeastern, the postgame reaction was one of sadness, and each player made their way to Frankel to commend her for her work in the shootout. The NU keeper made 25 saves Tuesday night.

“We didn’t give her a lot of help on the first two goals,” Flint said of Frankel. “But she came up with some big saves, and I thought she played well.”

The drought will continue for No. 3 Northeastern Huskies, at least for another year.

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Photo by Alex Melgrano BU junior goalie Jake Oettinger skates off the ice while sophomore goalie Cayden Primeau and the Huskies celebrate freshman forward Tyler Madden’s winning goal over the Terriers.

Primeau vs. Oettinger: Goalie battle

By Mike Puzzanghera & Sofie Kato News Staff As chants of “Oettinger! Oettinger!

Oettinger, you suck!” rang down from the DogHouse Monday evening, one had to ask: does he?

NU fans already know just how good their sophomore goalie Cayden Primeau has been since joining the team last season. Affectionately dubbed “Uncle Primeau” by the Northeastern fan base, the keeper has pulled out miraculous saves seemingly every game since he debuted against Sacred Heart in the second game of the 2017-18 season (and shut them out).

But BU’s Jake Oettinger seemed to do the same Monday night.

After giving up four goals to NU in the Beanpot final last season, the netminder played like a man possessed. Despite giving up an early goal to NU’s Patrick Schule, Oettinger looked to be at his best.

As the game developed, and chance after chance went by for both teams, the only players that looked solid were Primeau and Oettinger.

Yes, both conceded one in the first, but only someone who wasn’t at the game would think any less of them for it.

It ended as an age-old battle of quality vs. quantity. While Oettinger

had much more work to do in net, Primeau was vital for NU, stopping multiple one-on-ones.

“They were both really good, they were tracking pucks really well, there were screens in front of both of them; they were able to find pucks,” NU head coach Jim Madigan said. “That’s the sign of a great goaltender and they just both played with confidence and you could see with Oettinger and certainly with Cayden.”

Starting in the first, the two traded saves. Primeau exited with 10 while Oettinger racked up 13.

BU attacked on the power play after the first goal from Schule after a Pecararo penalty for hooking. There was a scrum in front of the net, and Primeau combined with all four Husky skaters to keep the puck.

Oettinger responded by saving quality shots from Patrick Schule and Jordan Harris in quick succession.

Tyler Madden beat a few defenders on his way to the goal, but Oettinger came out to stop him.

As the game moved to the second period, both teams lacked the attacking quality that they needed in front of the net.

At the start of the second, Jake Oettinger made two phenomenal saves. The first came against Brandon Hawkins, as the senior forward

Photo by Alex Melgrano BU’s Max Willman sizes up NU sophomore goalie Cayden Primeau.

redirected a cross at point-blank range towards the net. Oettinger slid across to make the save and keep the game level.

Liam Pecararo had the next NU chance. He lined up a shot, but Oettinger pulled off a fantastic glove save to deny the forward.

Primeau pulled out two phenomenal saves on breakaways

by BU leading scorer Joel Farabee in the second period. The freshman forward broke through NU’s defensive line twice, but both times Primeau denied him. The second save saw Farabee try to get around Primeau, but he went down low to his left to clear the threat.

“He had them from quite a ways out so I just tried to get out as far as possible and the ice wasn’t too great so I didn’t think he was gonna try and do too much as far as a deke,” Primeau said. “So I just tried to get as big as possible and you know just ended up on top.”

At the end of the second, Oettinger totaled 23 saves while Primeau had 18. As both teams made their way to the locker room, the question loomed: Which keeper would break first?

Northeastern came out of the locker room on fire. They peppered the BU goal with shots, but none

could breach Oettinger. He made a save to deny Schule right as the period began before making a smart double save against Jeremy Davies.

For the rest of the period, the keepers had plenty of work to do.

Primeau stopped a strong effort from BU a little over midway through the period. He also made some tough saves when BU went to the power play at the end of the third, denying the first shot with ease before swatting away an attempt with the handle of his stick in the last action of regulation. He had eight saves in the period and 26 in total.

Oettinger was instrumental in helping BU kill off two NU power plays in the second half of the third.

He stopped everything that came at him, and totaled 24 saves in the period. This gave him a ridiculous 47 for the game.

“Jake was great, he was solid,” BU head coach Albie O’Connell said.

“He really didn’t make a mistake all night. He was calm after the first shot, it looked like he was a little jumpy and then after the first goal he was pretty damn perfect and he played a terrific game, probably one of the best games he’s played wearing the BU jersey.”

The dam broke soon after the overtime period started. Davies

slid a pass through to Madden at the attacking blue line, who found himself through on goal with only Oettinger to beat. Fittingly, the keeper got a piece of the final shot, but it was not enough, as it trickled in and sent the Huskies into rapture.

“We tip our cap to Primeau, you know he’s a great goalie, and those were two huge saves,” O’Connell said.

“They made a play on a breakaway and we didn’t.”

Primeau ended with a welldeserved win, and Oettinger finished as the tough-luck loser. He stopped 47 shots, but unfortunately for him, NU sent 49 on frame.

“I thought both goalies were outstanding,” Madigan said. “There was offense, there was a lot of defense obviously, you know in a 2-1 overtime game. We had more shots then they did but they had some good quality saves and you know they had some breakaway saves and you know our guys just stuck to it the whole game and brought in our game plan.”

In the end, quality beat quantity, Primeau beat Oettinger, and Northeastern beat BU for the second year running. Primeau will almost certainly face BC goalie Joe Woll next Monday for the coveted Beanpot trophy.

Photo by Dylan Shen The DogHouse made their energy known by cheering on the Huskies.

Photo by Riley Robinson Tyler Madden celebrates his goal.