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THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLIV. VOLUME LXXXVII. ISSUE I. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 84º / 68º SUNNY (weather.com) DAILYFREEPRESS.COM @DAILYFREEPRESS The Boston Fire Department responded to a nine-alarm blaze that started on the back deck of an apartment on Harvard Terrace Wednesday evening, which injured five firefighters and left 54 residents displaced from their homes. Thick smoke billowed down Brighton Avenue, completely covering the street in a thick, black smog. The smell of the fire permeated through the area causing several people to cough and cover their faces. After approximately 160 firefighters battled the large flames for about two hours, BFD was able to knock out the fire and begin their investigation into what caused the fire, said Steve MacDonald, BFD spokesman. “Right now he allowed no one into the building, so tomorrow [Thursday], we will assess the building,” he said. “We certainly don’t want anyone to get hurt at this stage, so they’ll take it slow and it’ll be a slow process.” Five firefighters were treated by Boston Emergency Medi- cal Services. Three were being treated at the scene and two were transported, one for a shoulder injury and the other for smoke inhalation, to a local hospital, according to the BFD Twitter. Two bystanders were also treated by EMS for minor injuries and transported to a hospital, MacDonald said. “For the 54 displaced, we had the American Red Cross, the Mayor’s Office and the Fire Department’s assistance along with EMS,” MacDonald said. “We have some of the displaced up at Jackson High School in Union Square. “Oth- ers have found family and friends to stay with at least for the night.” MacDonald said some residents could be displaced for a week and others, whose apartment was directly affected by the flames, could be displaced for at least a month. Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said buses were sent to the scene to provide air conditioning for the displaced residents before they figured out their next step. MacDonald said it does not look any students were affected by the fire. “There doesn’t appear to be any students that we know of living in any of the three sections of the building,” he said. “For the most part, it was adults.” Firefighters responded to 12-16 Harvard Terrace, near the intersection of Brighton Avenue and Harvard Avenue, at about 5:47 p.m., after reports of a heavy fire. Flames originated on a rear deck, spread rapidly up the back to the upper floors and burst through the roof. The fire itself was contained to 12 Har- vard Terrace, which has six apartments, said Fire Commissioner Joseph E. Finn at a briefing. 8 and 16 Harvard Terrace suffered smoke and water dam- age. Finn gave an initial estimate of $2,000,000 in damages. BFD will continue the investigation into the cause of the fire on Thursday and MacDonald said he will keep a couple of fire trucks on the scene throughout Wednesday night to make sure there are no flareups. As of 6:30 p.m., officials had ordered all firefighters out of the structure out of concern of the building collapsing. Safe- ty zones were established and the fire commissioner had taken command of the incident, MacDonald said. The BFD requested a 2-block radius remain clear and Boston University advised students to stay away from the area, according to an emergency alert from BU. Boston Police had closed Brighton Avenue from Harvard Street to Cambridge Street to prevent motor vehicles from in- terfering the firefighters, said David Estrada, BPD spokesman. This is the first nine-alarm fire since the nine-alarm inferno that ripped through the Back Bay condominium at 298 Beacon St. on March 26, claiming the lives of Bos- ton Fire Lieutenant Edward Walsh and firefighter Michael Kennedy. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh appeared at the scene for about an hour after the fire was knocked out, MacDonald said. “He showed up the thank the firefighters for their support and talk to the people affected,” he said. Chloe Vilain, 32, of Allston, said she was on Brighton Av- enue when the fire broke out. “I heard some sort of explosion,” she said. “That’s what it sounded like. It sounded like a loud popping noise, and then there was this plume of black smoke. Then people just started congregating on the other side of the street watching it. It just keeps getting worse and more crowded out here.” Scott Matalon, 44, of Allston, said he was in contact with the owner of the building throughout the fire. “The more they fight it, the more smoke they’re making,” Matalon said. “The fire department responded really rapidly, so kudos to them. They really did a great job.” Kat Hess, 27, who lives at 9 Gardner St., said she was un- able to re-enter her building due to its proximity to the fire. “I was doing laundry and I smelled smoke, and I thought maybe it was a lint fire, so I turned it off and that wasn’t it,” she said. “So I went outside and then I saw all the smoke billow- ing down the street. My first thought was, at least it’s not our building.” NINE-ALARM FIRE INJURES 7, DISPLACES MORE THAN 50 RESIDENTS “It sounded like a loud popping noise, and then there was this plume of black smoke.” BY ADRIAN BAKER & KYLE PLANTZ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF PHOTO BY ALEXANDRA WIMLEY / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF “Right now, we allowed no one into the building, ...we will assess the build- ing. We certainly don’t want anyone to get hurt...”

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THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITYYEAR XLIV. VOLUME LXXXVII. ISSUE I.

DATE (CMD SHIFT CLICK TO EDIT ANY BOXES)HIº / LOWºWEATHER

DAILYFREEPRESS.COM@DAILYFREEPRESSTHE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

YEAR XLIV. VOLUME LXXXVII. ISSUE I.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 201484º / 68ºSUNNY(weather.com)

DAILYFREEPRESS.COM@DAILYFREEPRESS

The Boston Fire Department responded to a nine-alarm blaze that started on the back deck of an apartment on Harvard Terrace Wednesday evening, which injured five firefighters and left 54 residents displaced from their homes.

Thick smoke billowed down Brighton Avenue, completely covering the street in a thick, black smog. The smell of the fire permeated through the area causing several people to cough and cover their faces.

After approximately 160 firefighters battled the large flames for about two hours, BFD was able to knock out the fire and begin their investigation into what caused the fire, said Steve MacDonald, BFD spokesman.

“Right now he allowed no one into the building, so tomorrow [Thursday], we will assess the building,” he said. “We certainly don’t want anyone to get hurt at this stage, so

they’ll take it slow and it’ll be a slow process.”Five firefighters were treated by Boston Emergency Medi-

cal Services. Three were being treated at the scene and two were transported, one for a shoulder injury and the other for smoke inhalation, to a local hospital, according to the BFD Twitter. Two bystanders were also treated by EMS for minor injuries and transported to a hospital, MacDonald said.

“For the 54 displaced, we had the American Red Cross, the Mayor’s Office and the Fire Department’s assistance along with EMS,” MacDonald said. “We have some of the displaced up at Jackson High School in Union Square. “Oth-ers have found family and friends to stay with at least for the night.”

MacDonald said some residents could be displaced for a week and others, whose apartment was directly affected by the flames, could be displaced for at least a month.

Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said buses were sent to the scene to provide air conditioning for the displaced residents before they figured out their next step.

MacDonald said it does not look any students were affected by the fire.

“There doesn’t appear to be any students that we know of living in any of the three sections of the building,” he said. “For the most part, it was adults.”

Firefighters responded to 12-16 Harvard Terrace, near the intersection of Brighton Avenue and Harvard Avenue, at about 5:47 p.m., after reports of a heavy fire. Flames originated on a rear deck, spread rapidly up the back to the upper floors and burst through the roof. The fire itself was contained to 12 Har-vard Terrace, which has six apartments, said Fire Commissioner Joseph E. Finn at a briefing.

8 and 16 Harvard Terrace suffered smoke and water dam-age. Finn gave an initial estimate of $2,000,000 in damages.

BFD will continue the investigation into the cause of the fire on Thursday and MacDonald said he will keep a couple of fire trucks on the scene throughout Wednesday night to make sure there are no flareups.

As of 6:30 p.m., officials had ordered all firefighters out of the structure out of concern of the building collapsing. Safe-ty zones were established and the fire commissioner had taken command of the incident, MacDonald said.

The BFD requested a 2-block radius remain clear and Boston University advised students to stay away from the area, according to an emergency alert from BU.

Boston Police had closed Brighton Avenue from Harvard Street to Cambridge Street to prevent motor vehicles from in-terfering the firefighters, said David Estrada, BPD spokesman.

This is the first nine-alarm fire since the nine-alarm inferno that ripped through the Back Bay condominium at 298 Beacon St. on March 26, claiming the lives of Bos-ton Fire Lieutenant Edward Walsh and firefighter Michael

Kennedy.Boston Mayor Martin

Walsh appeared at the scene for about an hour after the fire was knocked out, MacDonald said.

“He showed up the thank the firefighters for their

support and talk to the people affected,” he said.Chloe Vilain, 32, of Allston, said she was on Brighton Av-

enue when the fire broke out.“I heard some sort of explosion,” she said. “That’s what

it sounded like. It sounded like a loud popping noise, and then there was this plume of black smoke. Then people just started congregating on the other side of the street watching it. It just keeps getting worse and more crowded out here.”

Scott Matalon, 44, of Allston, said he was in contact with the owner of the building throughout the fire.

“The more they fight it, the more smoke they’re making,” Matalon said. “The fire department responded really rapidly, so kudos to them. They really did a great job.”

Kat Hess, 27, who lives at 9 Gardner St., said she was un-able to re-enter her building due to its proximity to the fire.

“I was doing laundry and I smelled smoke, and I thought maybe it was a lint fire, so I turned it off and that wasn’t it,” she said. “So I went outside and then I saw all the smoke billow-ing down the street. My first thought was, at least it’s not our building.”

NINE-ALARM FIRE INJURES 7, DISPLACES MORE THAN 50 RESIDENTS

“It sounded like a loud popping noise, and then there was this plume of black smoke.”

BY ADRIAN BAKER & KYLE PLANTZDAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

PHOTO BY ALEXANDRA WIMLEY / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

“Right now, we allowed

no one into the building,

...we will assess the build-

ing. We certainly don’t

want anyone to get hurt...”

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Boston University students passing by Planned Parenthood’s Commonwealth Avenue location in Allston will no longer see a buffer zone restricting protesters from gathering at the entryway to the facility.

The building at 1055 Comm. Ave. is just one of several reproductive health care sites serving as a battleground in a free speech con-flict between pro-life and pro-choice advocates in Massachusetts.

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court unani-mously voted down a 2007 Massachusetts law that created 35-foot buffer zones surrounding entranceways of reproductive health care fa-cilities, preventing pro-life advocates from ap-proaching the front door of the site as patients enter and exit the building. The law was struck down on the grounds that it unconstitutionally violated protesters’ First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly.

“The protesters have a First Amendment right, and we value everyone’s right to free speech. They have a right to speak, no question about it. What’s so concerning is that they are forcing themselves onto people who may not wish to engage with them,” said Marty Walz, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. “I don’t think it’s fair. It’s often harassing and intimidating to patients and unsettling to our staff, but the Su-preme Court decided that this in an appropri-ate way for women to be treated.”

In response to the Supreme Court’s rul-

ing, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed the “Act to Promote Public Safety and Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care Facili-ties” in July, allowing police officers to disperse any group of two or more people blocking the entryway to a reproductive health care facility. If protesters refuse to stand 25 feet away from the premise or are found impeding access to an entryway in the following eight hours, they are liable to be arrested and fined.

Anne Fox, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, said while the organi-zation agrees with the Supreme Court’s decision to support free speech, she is wary of how the Commonwealth’s Safe Access law will be enforced.

“What we particularly had ob-jection to with the 35-foot buffer zone was two things: one that it tar-geted only right to lifers, and [two] that it targeted only abortion facil-ities,” she said. “My hope is that the law is appealed here or somewhere else and overturned because it sets a very bad precedent: pro-lifers are the perceived villains. What happens when someone else, like a union or workers at a hospital, becomes the villain?”

In addition to the tools the Safe Access law provides, Walz said Planned Parenthood has taken steps to ensure their patient’s safety as they come to their facilities.

“Any day the protesters are present we have escorts,” she said. “We’re in regular com-munication with the police department if there’s any inappropriate behavior. Some of the protesters have behaved, and some have

been more aggressive. We’re doing everything we’re allowed to do under the court’s decision.”

Katie Hayden, policy and operations manager at the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organi-zation for

Wom-en, said the June Supreme Court ruling created a need for new provisions con-tained in the Safe Access law.

“The legislation is consistent with our mis-sion in that it takes steps to ensure that women are able to access health care free from intimi-dation or harm,” she said in an e-mail. “We be-lieve that putting protections in place to ensure the safety of patients and reproductive health-care providers at clinics was imperative.”

Due to BU’s proximity to Planned Par-enthood’s Comm. Ave. location, Walz said BU students might encounter pro-life advocates protesting outside of the facility.

“Some of the people the protesters are harassing are BU students,” Walz said. “Some will have personal experience with what it’s like on the sidewalk on Commonwealth Av-enue outside of our health center because they will have walked by, and protesters are yelling at them, talking, or getting them to accept lit-

erature. Some might have been subjected to some of the behavior our patients have because the protesters don’t know who’s a patient or a student who happens to be walking by.”

Fox said pro-life advocates who gather outside of reproductive facilities do not

engage in the type of behavior they have been accused of, behavior

the Safe Access law has been created to prevent.

“We have not seen one video or

picture of pro-lif-ers doing any-thing out of or-der,” Fox said. “We know perfectly well if there were anything, it would be all over the In-ternet and TV.

The pro-lifers aren’t doing any-

thing, yet all of this is predicated that

they are these horrible people.”

Several BU students and Boston area residents said while

they value free speech, a sense of safe-ty and dignity for women seeking reproduc-tive health services is more of a priority.

Sarah Moody, a College of Commu-nication freshman, said the possibility of

being subjected to the same experience pa-tients entering and exiting Planned Parent-hood may face makes her uneasy.

“It’s difficult for someone like me who values free speech, but I agree that people walking in and out shouldn’t have to put up with that,” she said. “It [the Safe Access law] sounds like a compromise because it is import-ant that there are rules and protesters don’t overstep boundaries.”

Sargent College of Health and Rehabil-itation Sciences junior Sofia Yohannes said though pro-life advocates deserve the right to protest, a location separate from reproductive health care centers would be a more appropri-ate venue to voice their opinions.

“I have lived near it [the Planned Parent-hood center] and have been in the area,” she said. “The buffer zone is a good idea just because pro-testers don’t know the specific reason a person

is coming in. When going in, shouting can influence the person. It is okay to protest, but outside Planned Parenthood is a bit extreme.”

Amy Ketchum, 38, of Kenmore, said a lack of understand-ing may contribute to the conflict between those for and against allowing women the right to have an abortion.

“It’s fine to stand there with signs, even though you don’t agree with what they say. There is a lot of misunderstanding on both sides,” she said. “There are pro-choice people and also pro-life people who are strident. Both are judgmental of each other.”

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As students at Boston-area colleges and universities begin commuting throughout the city for another academic year, the Mas-sachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has increased fare prices, extended service hours and created live-tracking applications for their train and bus services.

As of July 1, fares have increased by 5 per-cent. Subway costs have increased from $2.00 to $2.10 with a CharlieCard and from $2.50 to $2.65 with a CharlieTicket.

The MBTA’s bus service now costs $1.60 with a CharlieCard, an increase from $1.50, and $2.10 with a CharlieTicket, increased from $2.00.

The cost of Boston University stu-dents’ MBTA semester pass has also in-creased by $18, from $249 to $267, accord-ing to BU’s Parking & Transportation Services website.

“The MBTA needed to close a gap in its Fiscal Year 2015 budget, which took effect July 1,” said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo in an email. “The revenue from the modest fare adjustment has helped the MBTA balance its budget.”

Theresa Kniaz, a sophomore in the School of Management, said the fare increase could cause a decrease in ridership and an increase in car use.

“More people need to be off the high-ways and out of their cars, and with the price increase, that won’t happen,” she said. “If they choose to raise the prices, then we should actu-ally be seeing the improvements in the quality of the trains and buses and in the quality of our rides. It’s definitely affected how often I take the T.”

Anthony Marotta, 57, of Back Bay, said although he understands why the MBTA has increased fare prices, he is now forced to allot

more money from his already tight budget in order to ride the T.

“It’s very inconvenient because I’m on a disabled income,” he said. “It’s very expen-sive. I probably spend over $50 a month on public transportation, which is money that I could use towards food. I understand that prices have gone up for every-thing. It’s become a way of life. Things are just totally different. If prices went up again, I would have to limit my use of public transportation significantly.”

Revenue from late-night serviceThe MBTA has also been able to raise

funds through the addition of late-night ser-vice, which Pesaturo said is in the midst of a yearlong pilot program.

“Since the pilot program began in late March, more than 450,000 riders have used the late night service between 12:30 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays,” he said. “Rid-ership varies from weekend to weekend, but it generally stays in the range between 15,000 and 18,000 per weekend.”

At the conclusion of the pilot-pro-gram, Pesaturo said the MBTA will make a decision on whether to continue late-night service based on the revenue they generate or to implement different budget-related strategies.

Tim Shyshpar, a senior in SMG, said the extended service is the better, safer option for late-night commuters, but it could also be a disturbance for some who live near the tracks or bus stops.

“For some it might potentially be a disturbance, but it’s better than walking at night, especially if that person is coming back from Allston,” he said. “The T might not be the safest option, but it’s safer, more the less.”

MBTA incorporates live-tracking technology

The MBTA has been working with tech-nology developers to create more than 20 live-tracking smartphone and computer appli-cations, allowing users to locate MBTA trains and buses nearest to them.

Ming Chow, a computer science pro-fessor at Tufts University’s School of Engineering, was able to create the app MATransit using MBTA data and docu-

mentation.“The MBTA has the real-time train

schedules publicly available,” Chow said in an email. “So each time a person clicks on a station on my app, the app makes a connection to my server to retrieve closest stations and lines, then the server gets the schedule for each station. The informa-tion is then transferred back to the user’s phone.”

Nicole Landa, 28, said while live-tracking apps are useful, they are not a primary concern for those riding the T.

“The applications are helpful, but also possibly discouraging to see how long it will take for the T to get here,” she said. “Especially because sometimes it takes longer for the T or the bus to arrive than we may like. With the expansion of the city, there are still so many places that are not accessible, like the water-front.”

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Changes to MBTA services benefit riders, at a costBY STEPHANIE PAGONESDAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

GRAPHIC BY EMILY ZABOSKI / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Off-campus housing proves dangerous, deadly for Boston students

When Nick Dragonetti moved into his Allston apartment at the beginning of Septem-ber, he saw first-hand the issues that several Boston University students encounter when they live off campus.

“There are a lot of things that we were blindsided by when we came here the first day,” he said. “For the first month, it’ll be tough just trying to get everything fixed.”

Dragonetti, a senior in the Sargent Col-lege of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said though his residence seems up to code, it does have significant issues.

“There are some holes in the walls, things need to be repainted, some doors need to be fixed,” he said. “They’ve said they would come and fix it either this week or next week. And hopefully they do.”

Following a 2014 Boston Globe Spotlight Team series on problems with crowded, unsafe and sometimes illegal off-campus apartments in Boston, titled “Shadow Campus,” the city vowed to crack down on unruly landlords and violations of student housing policy.

On Aug. 20, the Boston City Council voted to require colleges and universities in the city, including BU, to share lists of the ad-dresses of all students living off campus in an effort to enforce occupancy restrictions. The city’s University Accountability Ordinance re-quired universities to provide only the number of students living both on and off campus in each ZIP code. The amendment strengthens the ordinance by calling for the addresses and unit numbers of all student apartments, with a distinction between undergraduate and grad-uate students, before each semester. Students’

names, however, will not be included.BU spokesman Colin Riley said this will

be the second year the university provides such a list, though he cautioned that addresses with more than four residents may actually be in compliance with the occupancy restriction.

“Many of those apartment buildings are multi-family homes, so providing those ad-dresses does not indicate that there is any vio-lation of the city ordinance,” he said.

Riley also said it is important not to con-flate violations of the ordinance with an over-crowding problem.

“I don’t know if it’s overcrowding,” he said. “If you have five bedrooms and five peo-ple live in there, it doesn’t sound like it’s over-crowding.”

Riley said apartment landlords are re-sponsible for providing safe and secure hous-ing, though he noted BU can and does play a role.

“The university cares very much for its students whether they live on campus or off campus,” he said. “We want to ensure that they know their rights and responsibilities as ten-ants and that information is provided to them and made available by the university through an off-campus fair.”

BU’s next off-campus housing fair will be held February 2015, with more details to come in December or early January, according to BU’s off-campus website.

The address requirement for colleges and universities comes at a time when off-campus housing safety is being addressed in Boston’s courts as well. On Aug. 19, one day before the City Council’s vote, the family of BU student Binland Lee, who died in an Allston apartment fire in 2013, filed a lawsuit against the proper-ty’s landlord and real estate agency for alleged-ly renting an apartment that did not comply

with safety regulations.Lee’s residence at 87 Linden St. had been

previously altered without permission from the City of Boston, according to the lawsuit. Three bedrooms had been added, making a total of seven, and the apartment had just one means of exit, the lawsuit said. City law requires resi-dences to have at least two exits and only four undergraduate students in one unit.

The lawsuit also alleges that smoke detec-tors in the apart-ment lacked a city permit and were not inter-connected as required by law. By the time of the fire, which originated in a common area on the street level, it reached and activated fire alarms on the third floor where Lee was sleeping. The smoke made escape impossi-ble, the lawsuit alleges.

Elbert Kim, Lee’s boyfriend at the time, called Lee’s apartment one of the nicer off-campus res-idences he has seen.

“ A l l s t o n is pretty much

where everyone goes to find cheap rent,” said Kim, a 2013 College of Arts and Sciences grad-uate. “It’s cheap for a reason – the housing is pretty shabby and, as we know now, extremely unsafe.”

Kim said he hopes the lawsuit can serve a greater purpose for students who might oth-erwise be forced into situations such as Lee’s.

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After leading police on a wild chase through Del Ray Beach, Florida, on Aug. 26, suspected criminal Daniel Pinedo

Velapatino became distracted from his escape when he encoun-tered the adorable kittens living in the home he was hiding in, giving the homeowners time to call the police to arrest him. We here at the ol’ Free Press would like to know what would distract people at BU from a chase.

COM: Adding a selfie of the chase to their Snapchat story

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Thoughts on the BU adjunct faculty union movement

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A student’s classroom experience can only be as good as the professor creating it. But in the case of Boston University’s ad-junct professors, some say there are boundaries hindering their ability to create the ideal teaching environment they desire.

At BU, approximately 41 percent of professors are mem-bers of the part-time faculty. They are paid on a per-class basis, which ranges anywhere from $3,750 to $9,563 for each course, and they receive no medical benefi ts, in comparison to the $157,000 average yearly salary and full medical benefi ts of ten-ured and other full-time professors. The adjuncts are required to reapply to teach at BU each semester, and their jobs depend entirely on class enrollment. If the quota for enrolled students is not met before the start of the class, the class is canceled, and an adjunct could fi nd him or her unemployed in the blink of an eye. They are not given offi ces, classroom tools or a signifi cant say in the curriculums they teach. These unsatisfactory work-ing conditions have led adjunct professors at universities across the country to unionize, and movement for an adjunct professor union is now growing at BU

On Tuesday, fi ve BU adjunct professors visited The Dai-ly Free Press offi ce as representatives of the union movement. These professors and the other BU professors supporting an ad-junct union are led by Adjunct Action, a branch of the Service Employees International Union that works to organize unions for adjunct faculties one city at a time. Within the Boston-area, they are currently working with BU, Tufts University, North-eastern University and Lesley University.

The visiting members of the adjunct faculty organizing committee recounted their personal struggles as adjunct pro-fessors, citing insuffi cient living funds, lack of offi ce space and the insecurity that stems from having to continually reapply for their teaching positions.

“I have been teaching pay-per-course at BU and collecting

unemployment, and I have also been eligible for food stamps,” said Maureen Sullivan, an adjunct lecturer at Metropolitan Col-lege. “I absolutely could not make it on what I am doing here at BU.”

Aside from their concerns about being able to adequately support their own lives, an overriding theme of their reasoning to start an adjunct union was to benefi t the classroom experi-ences of their students.

“We need this union to put the check on the university to say ‘invest in the classroom experience,’” said Dan Hunter, a lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences. “You can have a great library, resources, law books, athletic teams, but the core of the classroom experience lies in the professors…We are here because we see a way of improving BU so that the teaching is better, so that the benefi ts accrue to students, tenure faculty and us as well.”

BU has published a webpage titled “Part-Time Faculty Working Group” that addresses the issues expressed by mem-

bers of the adjunct faculty and that explores the ef-fects a union may have on the BU faculty and cam-pus as a whole. Although ostensibly neutral, BU doesn’t exactly seem to be encouraging a union.

“It is hard to know the precise impact that any potential unioniza-tion of our part-time faculty would have on the broader BU communi-ty,” the webpage states. “…While unions certainly have their place for a number of reasons, organized labor’s focus has been

rooted, historically, in areas other than the merit-based systems found at institutions of higher learning.”

The potential demands of an adjunct union could add costs for BU, and if costs for the university were to increase, the addi-tional funds would have to come from somewhere. If you think about the fact that about half of BU’s operating budget comes from tuition, there is a considerable possibility that the addi-tional costs to meet any demands would result in some kind of tuition hike.

It’s hard for us as students to take a defi nitive stance on whether an adjunct faculty union at BU would ultimately be benefi cial. When we are in the classroom being inspired by whatever particular adjunct professor is teaching that class, it’s diffi cult to fi nd a reason why they should not receive equal treatment as tenured and full-time professors. However, we are also students struggling to pay for college, and the threat of any tuition increase has a souring eff ect on the potentiality of a sup-portive student body.

In a perfect world, the funding necessary to better com-pensate and provide for adjunct faculty would be easily attain-able, but this is not a perfect world. There’s no question that there are glaring issues in an education system where almost half of a school’s faculty feels underpaid, mistreated and unap-preciated, but this issue is not unique to BU.

Universities across the United States have fallen into the habit of taking advantage of their part-time faculty for the

sole reason that universities need professors and adjuncts are cheap. The calls for adjunct unions at BU and other universities should speak to the larger need for a reformed

education system that stops taking advantage of students and teachers alike. Until that happens, there are no winners.

The death of Michael Brown is only one of the latest in a long line of killings of unarmed black men by vigilantes and police offi cers. In many cases, police offi cers and private citizens who have shot and killed black men have been inves-tigated, but rarely has justice been served by their conviction when convicted prison sentences seldom refl ect the gravity of their crimes.

Black males continue to be at risk of racial profi ling and police and vigilante harassment and murder. At the same time, there continues to be an epidemic of crime against black men. Because the overwhelming majority of homicides of blacks are committed by other blacks, the nation has conveniently labeled this appalling epidemic a “black problem” that must be solved by a putative “black community” that is conveniently conjured into existence. This reaction is a manifestation of continuing racism in America.

When white males commit mass shootings, no one labels this form of violence the manifestation of a white male prob-lem to be solved by white males coming together and taking responsibility for their actions. When an emotionally ill young man killed school children in Newtown, Connecticut, no one thought to call the crime a Newtown problem to be solved by that community taking ownership of its defi ciencies. The la-beling of black on black crime as a black problem is one more manifestation of the continuing segregation of black people in

America and the persistent refusal of this country to regard black Americans as “one of us.”

The rise in Black crime since the late 1960s was created by growing and continuing high levels of unemployment and underemployment of black men, changes in family and com-munity dynamics and the personal and cultural trauma of racism and sexism. These problems are America’s problems. Their solutions go far beyond the capacity of “the black com-munity” to solve them. Black people have always addressed the issues of crime against blacks, but a national initiative is needed to solve the problem. This situation is intolerable in a nation that proclaims its commitment to justice and human rights as it pours billions of dollars into bringing “democra-cy” to other countries.

As the focal point of enormous global national and local resources, intellectual, material and emotional, the university has a vital role to play in addressing the national problem of violence directed against black males either by law enforcement offi cers, vigilantes or other blacks. The University can take the lead in initiating national action to address the crisis of black male victimization. I call upon the presidents of all area colleges and universities to take the following steps:

1. To declare a university day of mourning and study devoted to meditation on the tragedy of young black life ter-minated by violence and to study of the crisis of black male vic-

timization.2. To send a collective call to our Congressional delega-

tion to vigorously pursue Congressional hearings on the crisis of black male victimization.

3. To launch research and policy initiatives on the Crisis of black male victimization including its psychological, emo-tional, political and economic dimensions.

4. To launch recruitment programs aimed at bringing lower income and at risk black males to your colleges and uni-versities, with full fi nancial support, even when their academic performance does not meet normal admission criteria. The ad-mission of such degree candidates would have to be supported by eff ective academic support programs focused on ensuring their successful academic performance. Such academic sup-port programs exist and are successful at numerous universities around the nation.

5. Finally, collaborate in launching and running a cam-paign to educate the local, national and global communities about the crisis of violence against black males and to counter-act the continuing racism against blacks at home and abroad and racist perceptions of black people.

Sincerely,Ronald. K. Richardson, PhDAssociate Professor of History

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On his fi rst day as a senior at Boston University, former BU wrestler Peter Ishiguro said there are certain places on campus he feels he needs to avoid this year because of the memories they provoke. After the BU Wrestling team competed in its fi -nal match last spring, Ishiguro said some facilities, that were once commonplace in his daily schedule as a wrestler, are now just too emotional to return to.

“It’s like breaking up with a girlfriend,” Ishiguro, a College of Engineering senior, said. “There are just too many places that remind you of what you once had.”

When I fi rst met with the wrestlers at the entrance of Case Gymnasium, Ishiguro and his teammates shuddered at my sug-gestion of possibly going down to their old practice room in the basement for this interview.

“We can’t go back there,” Ishiguro said, as his fellow team-mates somberly nodded in unison.

Other places on campus that the wrestlers said they now try to avoid include their locker room, which used to serve as their home base during the season, and the Eilberg Lounge, where former BU Athletic Director Mike Lynch abruptly told them last year that the university was botching their program.

On April 1, 2013, in what some wrestlers thought was just a bad April Fools Day joke, the team was told that the university was going to disband their decades-old Division 1 team – hours after the news had already been circulating online. In a state-ment issued by the university shortly after the decision, offi cials claimed it would cost the university “an immense infusion of resources, including major facility enhancements and additional staffi ng, would be required” to bring the team to a champion-ship-caliber level.

Almost immediately after the controversial decision went public, a campaign to save BU Wrestling spread rampantly, not only around BU, but across the nation as well. Yet, even with the immense support from fans, alumni, and fellow wrestlers, BU Wrestling competed in their fi nal home match against Sacred Heart University in February.

In a normal year, the offi cial wrestling season would start

mid October. The month leading up to that, Ishiguro said, is usually spent in morning lifts, captain’s practices and routine team meetings. Now, as the 2014-2015 school year begins, the former team must grapple with the reality of no longer having wrestling practices to structure their day – a routine many of the wrestlers became used to since starting the sport as a young kid.

“Today I was sitting with Pete after I was done with class at noon, and I just didn’t know what to do with myself,” said former wrestler Matt Belikov, a School of Management junior, who started wrestling 14 years ago.

Ishiguro said it’s been hard to fi nd motivation to exercise outside of the scheduled practices and lifts he became used to in his last three seasons as a BU wrestler.

“After the season ended, everything just went to shit,” Ishiguro said, looking around at his fellow teammates. “I don’t know about you guys, but I put on like 35 pounds.”

Vince DeBlasio, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he and his teammates are constantly looking for a mat to wrestle on, since they can no longer use the mats that were once on their own campus.

“We all keep trying to wrestle, anywhere we can,” DeBlasio said. “It’s almost like a habit to keep going back to it.”

More than a year after the decision was unexpectedly made to cut the program, the former wrestlers said the pain of the loss hasn’t gotten any easier. One of the worst parts of this situation, they said, is they feel it’s still unclear as to why exactly BU de-cided to cut the program, despite a fl urry of requests for a more direct answer.

“Wrestling isn’t an expensive sport,” Belikov said. “Our practice room was a corner room, and our locker room was a hand-me-down… all you really need to wrestle is a mat.”

“Our facilities weren’t great, but everyone was still happy to be there,” added Belikov’s teammate, Colin Saunders, a junior in SMG.

As our interview came to a close, and we were still sitting on the stairs of Case Gym, a fl oor above where the former BU wrestlers used to spend countless hours a week condi tioning and perfecting their techniques, I asked if any of them had gone back down to the room since their mats were ripped off the ground in June.

My question was met with a brief moment of silence until Saunders broke it with a somber admission – “I have,” he said.

“How was it?” “Depressing.” Trisha Thadani is a junior in the College of Communication. She

can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @TrishaTha-dani.

I would like to welcome you to the world of lactose.

Before we embark on this adventure, I should prob-ably explain a few things.

My name is Katie, and I’m a graduate student here at Boston University. My cousin, who recently graduated from BU, off ered to help me get a job at her previous place of employ-ment. She worked at a frozen yogurt shop. I needed to pay rent. I would have taken a job shaving chinchillas in Allston.

Anyway, she mentioned th e most beautiful word (tips), and I was all like “Yeah, I love sweet things. I’ve also never been to this magical Harvard place, tell me more!” Then I got the job, gained 20 pounds, and an 18-year-old Harvard freshman sassed me, but alas those are stories for another day.

BU is large and in charge, so students hold about a million other part-time jobs ranging from clerical work to taking care of people in clinics to restocking shelves of $60 cream sweaters. Keep on keepin’ on, y’all.

The students – actually, anyone in general -who work in food service: my allegiance and respect lie with you.

Whenever I tell a friend about a frustrating interaction that oc-curred at my food-service job, his or her initial reaction is confusion.

Why would you ever blatantly sass or disrespect someone assembling something that is going into your mouth?

GOOD QUESTION. Maybe they just assume I’m not psychotic and won’t drop their malted-vanilla yogurt face down into our fl ytrap. I won’t...because that’s gross. But sassy girl, you don’t know me! I could be vengeful. I could be crazy. I could be BEYONCE-ON-THE-RUN-TOUR FROM THE LAW.

I’m not asking for a kidney, I’m defi nitely not asking for a tip (trust me, I get it—school is expensive), but dear God...could it kill you to not look like you’re disgusted to be breathing the same air as the lowly creature that is me?

So, this young woman ordered her three-ounce yogurt and asked for about eight diff erent toppings when I committed the most egregious and most off ensive act there is of all—I acciden-tally gave her rainbow sprinkles instead of chocolate. She then turned to her friend and called me a bitch.

First of all, I clearly did you a favor. Rainbow sprinkles are far superior; did you not graduate kindergarten? Were you that kid that cried and shoved his or herself into a cubby because the cupcakes were not what you preferred? You make me want to move to Antarctica and live under a glacier.

Secondly, I’m not a bitch. There is a long line, you’re about 18 and go to a local college; I’m four or fi ve years older than you, AND I WANT TO KILL YOU.

This young woman stood about a foot taller than me, wear-ing a basketball jersey. On a normal day, she could end me. How-ever, I had the rage of 1,000 wet cats pumping through my body. I wanted to hit her over the head with the mop and then give her colorful yogurt to someone else. This happened about a year ago, and I’m glad to see that I’m defi nitely over it!

This kind of interaction in food service is about one in every four or fi ve customers. Some people just saunter on into the shop and with their actions (and sometimes words), emit the following: “I want my yogurt, and I want it now. I also fi nd it important to note that I believe you have the IQ of a brick. Tell me I’m pretty.”

Other people, well they are undeniably pleasant and won-derful. Regulars (and non-regulars alike) can be funny, kind and generous. These are the people who make me feel lucky to have a job and who dissuade me from wanting to hide for the rest of eternity in one of the shop’s stock boxes.

Working in food service defi nitely has its perks as well. I get to sample the product and I get to gawk over super fi ne in-vestment bankers and EMTs whenever they’re fulfi lling their yogurt fi x. My priorities are clearly in order.

I love what I study, and I love BU. I feel immensely lucky to be here. My part-time job is just that; it’s only a part of my life. Certain customers may treat me poorly because I am serving them food and cleaning up after them, and these instances and frustrations make me think.

No one is better than a maintenance worker, a McDonalds employee or the receptionist at a doctor’s offi ce. I wish people would really believe that.

Apparently, this is not always a widely accepted or prac-ticed concept.

Maybe one day. Until then, you can sass me while I swirl you an aesthetically pleasing yogurt (until 11 p.m.). I recommend the rainbow sprinkles.

A solemn start to the academic year for former BU wrestlers

Lactose intolerant

If you’re reading this, congratulations, you’ve made it to the inside pages of The Free Press, and I thank you for getting this far! As I’m sure you know (or at least I hope you do), The Daily Free Press has undergone several changes over the past few months.

We announced our decision on May 5 to become a digital-fi rst news publication with a weekly print edition. Our website, Daily-FreePress.com (which I encourage you all to check out after read-ing this), has been completely redesigned and we hope our readers, including staff , faculty, administrators, students, parents, alumni and anyone else who is interested in the Boston University com-munity, view the revamped site as a gathering place for us all to connect. Our weekly print edition, known as The Free Press, will contain all of the best work from our editors and staff . I hope you will pick up a copy each week and peruse the paper to see what big issues are being discussed and to learn a little bit more about your campus community. If not for that, I promise to try and keep the crossword puzzle in the paper each week.

One of my goals during my term as editor-in-chief is to return to our campus roots, delivering the news that matters to the BU community. We want to cover the stories that you fi nd interesting and on topics that you want to hear about. In order to do that, we all need to communicate with one another. If there’s something happening on campus that you think we should cover, let us know. We are always looking for new stories to report on and we can’t do it without you, our readers. You can fi nd all the contact information for our editors on our website at

www.dailyfreepress.com. Do you have something to say about the work we create?

Reach out to us! We want to hear your thoughts on how to improve our website and how to improve our reporting. You can send “Let-ters to the Editor” by emailing [email protected] or you can email me directly at [email protected]. This is a two-way street and I hope to meet you all halfway to deliver the best content we can on the issues that matter to our audience.

You can also submit calendar events for our new Community Calendar on our website. Is there an interesting forum and discus-sion that you want people to attend? Or maybe your student band is playing in Allston. We want our website to be a place for our readers to look to for information. So send us your listings and we will publish your event on our site for free! You can learn more about our calendar by going to our website and clicking “Calendar.”

Now I hope this word wasn’t too dull for you. Like I said be-fore, we appreciate your continued support as we make our transi-tion this semester. We always want to hear from our readers and I hope you will take me up on that off er. If you see me around cam-pus, stop and say hi. We are students fi rst and foremost so we do have lives outside of this offi ce (although sometimes it seems that we don’t…as I sit here and write this at 3:40 a.m. before deadline).

On behalf of all the editors and staff at The Daily Free Press, thanks again for picking up our paper and we will strive to continue delivering relevant, timely news to you all.

Kyle Plantz, Fall 2014 Editor-in-Chief

A letter from the editor:Welcome to The Free Press!

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BY KATIE TAMOLACOLUMNIST

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Boston has lived in the shadow of New York City’s mu-sic scene for years, but the work of one Empire State native is changing all that.

Brian Appel, who co-founded the immensely popular Boston Calling festival alongside Mike Snow in Spring 2014, has met fast growth and praise with grace. With its fourth event in two years hitting the city this coming weekend, Boston Calling is upon us — a semi-annual community staple unlikely to fade away anytime soon.

Hip-hop heroes (Nas, Childish Gambino), bubbling pop stars (Lorde) and indie alt-folk groups (Volcano Choir) come together for a special three days this year. The eclectic billing refl ects the understanding Appel and his team have of genres’ falling walls in 2014, and it resonates with hoards of young lis-teners and consumers.

“I think you’re going to see an enormous BU presence. We’re looking at having more than 1,000 BU students there just on Saturday alone,” Appel said in a phone interview with The Daily Free Press.

Appel has fond memories of long road trips to attend mes-merizing festivals with friends.

“When I was a kid growing up, we would go see Phish. They would do their own festivals,” he said. “That was really amazing when you’re 16 or 17 years old. You just got your driver’s license, and you’re going 1,000 miles to a place uninhabited by anyone else except likeminded fans. Those early days formed a great love for creative, outdoor music events.”

The show-goer traveled north in a move to Boston about 12 years ago. The subsequent decade took him from the offi ces of the Boston Phoenix and WFRX Radio to calling shots and heading what might be the most exciting music event to bless Boston exclusively since the inception of the Pops’ Symphony Hall more than a century ago.

His media work and emergency responder experience lent a base knowledge of permits, cooperating with City Hall and public safety, but nothing could compare to running a festival.

“Anything [Mike and I] had done prior to Boston Calling was nowhere near the size and scope of what this event became,” he said.

Interestingly, the initial festival idea actually came to Ap-pel and Snow while still working for radio.

“I was working as a paramedic in Cambridge for a couple years before fi nding my way over to the Phoenix and FRX — I did market-ing there for seven years,” he recalled. “Out of my time there with my partner Mike Snow, we created the idea for a music festival for the radio station. When the station ultimately stopped broadcasting, we decided to take on the project ourselves.”

What could have become Boston’s take on Hot 97’s Sum-mer Jam concert near New York City instead brewed an inde-pendent movement.

Appel said without a hint of humor that no show promoter ever calls his or her trade “smooth sailing,” but he and Snow weath-ered the rough waters of the festival’s fi rst year thanks to the guiding

help of Aaron Dessner, mem-ber of rock band The National and a crucial cosign with an ear for curating to boot. Dessner signed on to join Boston Calling’s management team, fulfi lling an artists-and-repertoire role that leaves him largely responsible for handpicking artists to perform.

“There are lots of fes-tivals out there in the world you’ve never heard of before because they never get off the ground,” Appel said. “It’s such a tough time to book bands in the fi rst year. When The National became a partner of ours and agreed to play the inaugural event, that made our lives on the booking side a whole lot easier. Agents would see The National was going to be there, which gave it some credibility.”

Appel and his counterparts worked to gain their host city’s re-spect, too, boosting Boston Calling’s credibility among offi cials by complying with any and all safety requirements, which he stresses as the key to operating in Boston.

“The city is not diffi cult…to work with,” he said. “They’re fair, but you have to have a plan that is safe bar-none, and once you have that, everything can come together.”

The intensive preparations for the festival and its following success led to several meetings with former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and current Mayor Martin Walsh, the latter of whom Appel said has been “very supportive, to the point where he has taken the support that Menino gave [them] and took it a step for-ward.”

Chief among the restrictions loosened by Walsh is the newly admitted sale of beer in certain zones. The change yielded no incidences during Boston Calling’s spring showcase in May, a feat that registers as one of Appel’s proudest moments as an event organizer.

Appel recounted a story from the May 2014 showcase regarding the most common criticism of Boston Calling he faced: Jack Johnson, the headlin-er, brought free water for fans during his set. When he left, the water coolers went with him, leaving the Saturday and Sunday crowds without any refresh-ing amenity. Upon hearing consumers’ concerns, Appel made sure to eliminate the problem for all future festivals by supplying “free water for every-body for all three days.”

The issue itself is admittedly minor compared to those hurled at Coachella, Lollapalooza and other major festivals, but Appel gets it: Small gestures go a long way.

For all the holograms and reunion acts making

headlines at internationally recognized festivals in recent years, Appel and Snow’s event fi nds its calling through simplicity. In-and-out passes allow attendants to leave the concert grounds as they please and contribute to the local economy as they explore. Non-confl icting schedules prevent acts from competing against each other for an audience.

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BOSTONCALLINGLorde, Childish Gambino, and other acts you can't miss this weekend.

Steady growth: Boston Calling cofounder Brian Appel talks early beginnings and future ambitions

Lorde performs at Lollapalooza 2014.PHOTO BY LILIANE CALLEGARI VIA FLICKR/CREATIVE COMMONS.

PHOTO BY GABBOT VIA FLICKR/CREATIVE COMMONS.

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CORPORATIONS START-UPS

College students face important choice between big business, startups

Internships, once deemed optional, are now seemingly a necessity. This year alone, internship hiring in the Northeast is expected to increase by 10 percent, and national co-op hiring is expected to increase by 4.4 percent, according to the 2014 Intern-ship and Co-op Survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The question no longer concerns whether or not to take an internship, but rathe r, what type of internship to take.

Changes in the Boston economy have resulted in changes in the types of internships available to students. Though large corporations such as Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers con-tinue to attract student applicants, many students are considering an alternative: startup internships.

Robby Bitting, marketing director at startup accelerator MassChallenge, said the burgeoning Boston startup scene and the large student population in Boston supplement each other.

“I think entrepreneurs rely on the students in Boston be-cause they’re so smart, they’re really skilled and they’re looking for experiences,” he said. “And entrepreneurs desperately need smart, talented, people, but also people who are hungry. And stu-dents are some of the people most eager for those experiences, so it’s a really nice relationship there.

“The nature of startups is that they are constantly evolving and having that constantly evolving student population. They turn over every four years. You get new batch of freshman in ev-ery year, [and] people are coming in from all over the place. That sort of movement really complements how entrepreneurs build their businesses as well.”

Kanav Dhir, a College of Engineering senior, said he found-ed the Boston University Startup Fair after noticing the strong demand for startup internships at BU.

“Me and a good friend of mine were at the College of En-gineering Career Fair and noticed that Formlabs and a couple of other startups happened to be there, and we noticed the lines for those startups were almost out the door,” he said. “It took us a month, and we put together companies, and 350 students showed up, and a lot of students also received off ers.”

Dhir began working with startups at BU during his freshman year when ByteLight, an LED-based indoor positioning technol-ogy company founded by BU alumni, caught his attention.

As a ByteLight intern, Dhir found himself performing a wide variety of tasks. He played a part in fundraising, cre-ating marketing materials, dealing with patent-related issues and sitting in on meetings about funding or product devel-opment.

“We all sat together, so it really exposed me to all the dif-ferent areas involved in starting a company,” he said. “Not just

the engineering part of it, which is initially what I was interested in, and what I applied for…it’s just I was part of a team, and they treated me like I was part of a team, so all the conversations were as they would have with any other member. It was such a great experience because everything that was happening, I was absorb-ing it.”

Sua Morales, a 2014 College of Communication graduate, worked with four startups, both in intern and full-time capacities.

“Lack of structure is one thing I realized I always kind of liked because it makes building something much easier; you don’t have to ask for permission,” she said. “At every single startup, if I had an idea, I could implement it.”

The structure of larger companies makes it more diffi cult to work closely with the management team or be involved in deci-sion-making processes, Dhir said.

At Dow Jones, where Morales served as a research analyst intern in 2013, an established infrastructure was already in place, and there was little room for malleability.

“Rigid is a good word to describe it. It was very stuff y,” she said. “People came in at nine or 10, and they wrapped at fi ve or six.”

Barron Roth, ENG junior, noted the infl exibility at his co-op with Advanced Micro Devices, a technology company.

“That part about working in such a large corporation is you are stuck in a cubicle, you have deadlines, you have an incredible amount of data you have to analyze, and you’re sort of a drone,” he said. “There’s a rigid structure to your job as an engineer. There’s little room for creativity, unfortunately. But you’re a sci-entist. You’re trying to do the best engineering work you could possibly do, and at the end of the day, you know what you have to do to get it done.”

However, there are merits to the structured approach cor-porations take. Because of the consistency, there is less ambiguity and less inherent risk.

Mariya Chulichkova, COM senior, said she preferred the clarity a larger company provides in contrast to her experienc-es with the less structured environment at Neurala, a Cam-bridge-based robotics software startup.

“My other company was a BU offi ce, so everything is very established,” she said. “They know exactly what they need to do. You need to go through several people. The previous TV station I’ve worked for was also very structured.”

Nikita Bhatia, ENG freshman, said as an intern at the emerging Myos Corporation, she noticed an increase in company credibility and effi ciency following their July listing on Nasdaq.

“There was a lot more going on in Myos after the company went public,” she said.

With structure also comes higher compensation. In the great unpaid versus paid internship debate, corporate internships would emerge victorious. But despite the lucrative appeal that

lies in corporate internships, some students are willing to forgo that for the experience startup internships provide.

Leah Robson, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, said the culture at Splashcore, a MassChallenge and Techstars startup, drew her to the company.

“It’s a small, young company and they put high priority on making it a good place,” she said. “They have incorporated a lot of things to the culture. Every Tuesday, the whole team gets togeth-er, and we spend a couple hours problem-solving as a whole team and drinking beer. And after work today, the whole team is going to go bowling. They incorporate some things like that to keep the team collaboration consistent.”

However, it is not all play at startups. Entrepreneurs are no-torious for working lengthy hours and because of that manic drive to excel, startups cultivate a meritocratic system.

While working with the Luxe St. app, Roth said he was driv-en to execute well.

“They gave me an incredible amount of responsibility…I just wanted to do the best work I could possibly do,” he said. “But at the end of the day, you do what you can to add to the company, and I did a lot, from building the website to doing social media marketing to the actual implementation of the application. At a startup, you are definitely a jack-of-all-trades. Everyone’s a jack-of-all-trades. You add value more than just your title.”

With the lure of startup internships becoming harder to re-sist for many students and recent graduates, startup accelerators and incubators such as MassChallenge and Techstars are taking initiatives to increase marketing to students and recent graduates.

MassChallenge has just launched a “job board,” fi lled with job off ers for interns and full-time employees alike in a variety of diff erent career paths. Bitting said there are already 60 jobs posted on the board.

Similarly, Techstars has a job board that enables job seekers to access a 3,000-member network of founders, alumni and men-tors, said Sonya Caprio, vice president of marketing at Techstars.

For students seeking to optimally prepare themselves for their post-college careers, Bitting recommends exploring both corporate and startup internships.

“A question I get a lot from students is, ‘If I’m looking to get an internship, which one should I do fi rst?’ I think there [are] benefi ts to doing either fi rst,” he said. “I personally started with the corporate background fi rst, and that helped me think about structure before I joined the startup environment, which has helped me a lot.

“The value of starting at a startup fi rst is that sort of self-starting mentality that often will be a huge advantage and the ability to supplement the structure provided by a corporation with that sort of self-motivated hunger. It’s where the magic can happen.”

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SCIENCE TUESDAY

SPOTLIGHT

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As Robin Williams said in the 1989 fi lm “Dead Poets Soci-ety,” “You must strive to fi nd your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to fi nd it at all.”

Recently, 11 children between the ages of 4 and 9 showed up to the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University in the pursuit of following this sage advice in regard to selective mutism.

Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder that causes people of all ages to fall mute in specifi c settings. It currently aff ects less than 1 percent of persons seen in the mental health setting.

From August 18 to 22, BU CARD off ered an annual inten-sive treatment camp for children in this small sector. The camp is called Brave Bunch, and it combines clinical strategies with fun experiences to assist selectively mute children in their battle with their silent disorder.

“We start by having them come in and do a pretty compre-hensive intake assessment, which involves several components,” said Dr. Rachel Merson, an associate clinical director for the Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program at BU CARD.

In fact, referred children and their parents were given a diagnostic interview, self-reporting surveys, an observational assessment and a series of appointments with clinicians all be-fore they arrived at camp.

“We really want to be comprehensive in understanding each child’s unique presentation because one of the things about selective mutism is that, for some kids, it’s very easy to speak to adults but not to other children,” Merson said. “For other kids, it’s the exact opposite. For many, it’s both. One disorder can manifest in a number of ways.”

But once the fi rst day of camp arrived, the game completely changed into a team eff ort.

Despite the discomfort that selective mutism creates with-in group settings, Dr. David Langer, a research assistant profes-sor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at BU and a clinical director at BU CARD, said that it is more than just a benefi cial aspect of the program – it’s necessary.

“For children, one of the main goals is having them not just speaking to strange adults, but speaking to peers,” Langer said.

As a group, the children followed a schedule each day of treatment. Every morning started with “centers time,” which looked like free play, but functioned as a time when clinicians

engaged with the children us-ing child-directive interaction, Merson said.

The thematically appropri-ate acronym “PRIDE” served as a guideline for this method: Praise, Refl ect, Imitate and Do so with Enthusiasm. By follow-ing these steps, the clinicians built a foundation of trust upon which the children could make progress. In this way, the treat-ment area mimicked a class-room.

“The most important thing for children in schools is estab-lishing trust and having a posi-tive emotional relationship between a child and a teacher,” said Dr. Kathleen Corriveau, an assistant professor of human devel-opment at the School of Education.

After 30 minutes of progress, the group would transition into a morning meeting, where group interaction was intro-duced.

“Morning meeting is designed to sort of emulate the type of ‘circle time’ that a child might experience in a preschool or elementary school classroom,” Merson said.

At these meetings, the Brave Bunch was led in conversa-tions on everything from weather to food. In return for their responses, positive reinforcement was paid in the form of praise and, occasionally, prizes. Appropriately, this positive reinforce-ment contrasts itself with the negative reinforcement that al-lows selective mutism to persist.

“Taking away something unpleasant also keeps the behavior going. So by taking away the pressure of giving a response, selective mutism is kind of reinforced,” Langer said.

This commonly occurs when a teacher moves on to another child who will answer more promptly. In order to avoid a scenar-io such as this, Merson and her team vowed to remain persistent in these “circle time” meetings.

However, unlike an actual school, the Brave Bunch was fortunate enough to attend fi eld trips every afternoon. Each outing brought fun experiences for the kids along with struc-tured tests of their progress.

From Barnes & Noble to Bertucci’s to the Boston Com-mon, the group was kicked out of its comfort zone in a number

of challenging ways. But every trip seemed simple in compar-ison to the Kenmore Square scavenger hunt. Getting straws from Dunkin’ Donuts, pens from Barnes & Noble and napkins from Qdoba were all tasks that led up to an anticipated fi nish line: McDonald’s.

The abundance of constant activity provided by the camp led to some avail, Langer said.

“Their parents kept telling us how much they were looking forward to coming back the next day, how they were talking with the parents about all the stuff they were doing,” he said. “And we see that alone as a really good indication of keeping the kids motivated and keeping them talking.”

And this year’s success only further supported CARD’s reputation.

“There are many people who come from around the coun-try and even around the world who take part in these intensive programs for whatever problem they may have,” said Dr. David H. Barlow, a professor of psychology at BU and the founder of CARD .

This year’s Brave Bunch represented several regions of the United States, just like BU’s student population. And although the two groups may diff er in shyness, the BU community pro-vides similar tools for helping students fi nd their voices.

Wooden desks. A chalkboard. Chairs. Traces of pencil lead. Loose paper scattered around the room. Clean restrooms. This picture of an ideal classroom was left behind in the United States.

Instead, a roof balanced only on a handful of columns. At even the suggestion of rain, the dirt fl oor of the bare pavilion turned into a muddy disaster. In this Honduran “classroom,” walls didn’t even exist — much less anything that could be reg-ularly found in a school.

Remi Gai, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, is out to change this image of Honduran schools through the Boston University chapter of the international organization Students Helping Honduras. This summer was Gai’s second service trip to the poverty-stricken country.

“I came back to Honduras a second time because I really enjoy their culture – how local people are down-to-earth and how life can be simple, enjoyable, without any modern materi-als,” he said.

His second trip was also the one that had the most impact on Gai. This summer, he met an 11-year-old orphan boy who had been living on the streets with his 9-year-old brother, hungry and without shelter.

“I couldn’t believe it because he seemed like any kids of his age, smiling all the time and innocent,” he said. “I could hardly imagine how many survival challenges they had to endure be-fore they came to the SHH village. It made me realize how a community like SHH was important to orphans. It’s a place where they can be themselves, smiling, running around, playing – just being kids.”

Though Gai said his fi rst trip was “random,” taken at the suggestion of a friend, he came back a second time because of the success of his fi rst trip. He will probably return to Honduras for a third time this January for the BU chapter’s New Year trip, he said.

Although infrastructure is one of the problems keeping children out of school, Gai said the country is “ruled by gangs, who have more power than the government.” He said this dis-courages children from getting an education.

“90 percent of the population is affi liated with gangs or

gang activities,” he said. “Children often join gangs at a very young age because they usually don’t have other choices in life. I remember that the week I went to Honduras, there was an arti-cle saying how a 13-year-old kid sliced an 11-year-old kid’s throat because he didn’t pay his 50 cents extortion money.”

But there are further issues plaguing education in Hondu-ras.

Madeleine Jacob, a CAS senior who attended a trip her freshman year, recalled there was only one teacher available to students when she was there. All kids, despite the diff erence in ages, were taught under the same roof.

“It was not an environment conducive to learning,” she said.

On her service trip, Jacob, along with about 30 other col-lege students from all over the United States, helped build a school that would advance children’s education in the village of Villa Soleada. The new infrastructure included sanitary bath-rooms plus four rooms for four diff erent grades. New teachers were also hired.

“SHH has worked out a deal with the Honduran govern-ment saying if we build a school, some governmental agency will supply professors,” Jacob said. “So we’re getting infrastructure, employment and education — which is fantastic for these com-munities.”

Gai said one of the main objectives of SHH is to “end ex-treme poverty and violence in Honduras through education

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One win. That was all the Boston University men’s

soccer team needed on the fi nal day of the 2013 season against Bucknell University to reach its fi rst-ever Patriot League Tournament. The Terriers (2-0) outshot the Bison 23-14 that afternoon and were even up a player for most of the match when Bucknell took a red card in the 67th minute.

But things were not meant to be. The Terriers fell in heartbreaking fashion

in overtime, 1-0, on a disappointing Senior Day. Senior defender Kelvin Madzongwe said the game left a bitter taste in his mouth, which is fueling the fi re for the 2014 campaign.

“It was a very disappointing end to the season,” Madzongwe said after BU’s 1-0 win over Iona College on Sunday. “We’ve gotten back and sat down and spoke about [the game]. What happened last year has been good for us…It gave us time to think about it and prepare for [this season].”

Madzongwe arrived to Commonwealth Avenue after he played for the Zimbabwe U-20 National Team in his home country. As a freshman in 2010, he earned the America East Conference Rookie of the Year accolade for his stalwart eff orts on defense. Nationally, Madzongwe was named a Second-Team Freshman All-American— quite the honor for a fi rst-year player.

His sophomore year was just as good, and he earned the America East Defender of the Year award after he helped the Terriers post six shutouts on the year.

Over the last two seasons, however, it has not been as bright for the promising young defender.Even before the Terriers really got into the full swing of the 2012 campaign, the team was dealt a big blow. Madzongwe, who had been the anchor to one of the nation’s best defensive corps, suff ered a season-ending knee injury.

The injury not only cost the Terriers its top defender, but also pushed some younger, inexperienced players into prominent roles. As a result—instead of fi ghting for an NCAA berth—the Terriers fi nished the season 6-8-4.

Madzongwe came back in 2013 trying to put all of the knee questions behind. But early

in the year, the same joint once again began to fl are up, causing him to miss about a month of game action because of the injury. He started just eight games all of last season.

The senior defender admits the last two seasons have been diffi cult for him to get things back to normal.

“The past year and half has been really tough on me,” Madzongwe said. “I was trying to get my head together with the injuries. But now I’m starting to get back little by little. My knee still hurts a little bit, but I’m just moving forward with it. I’ve been trying hard and the physical trainers have really helped a lot with that too.”

Physically, Madzongwe is almost back to the way he was before he suff ered the injury. When he’s on the fi eld, he tries to block out all of the issues his knees have given him the past, attempting to just focus on the game at hand.

“For now I try not to think about it,” Madzongwe said of his knee. “So I try just moving around and not think about the knee, and just play my game. I think it helps my mind just relax. That’s been a big factor, like I just forget about the knee, that I had an ACL injury. I just try and concentrate on the game and help the team out the best way that I can.”

So far, Madzongwe has been true to his word. The Terriers have not allowed a single goal through the fi rst two games of this season.

Coupled with junior defender Jeroen Blugh, BU once again has a formidable backfi eld that makes it tough for any opponent not only to score, but also to even hold signifi cant possession. To put it into perspective, BU’s off ense has 47 total shots this season, while their opponents have combined to amass just 17.

Two early non-conference wins against Fordham University and Iona (0-1-1) have given the Terriers some early momentum as they move into the middle part of their schedule, which includes tough draws against the United States Naval Academy and rival Boston College. Madzongwe said the fi rst two wins are huge for the team even though they did not come from within the Patriot League.

“The confi dence is there within the guys,” Madzongwe said. “We’ve been fi ghting harder and we’re realizing we can be a good team moving forward…The way we’ve started right now is really good. It’s a confi dence booster.”

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With a little over a month until the start of the 2014-15 regular season, the Boston Universi-ty men’s hockey team has fi nally put the fi nish-ing touches on its roster with the inclusion of four more freshmen on the team.

The four new Terriers – two forwards, one defenseman and one goaltender – will help push the fi nal roster to 26 total players.

BU will add another puck-moving defen-seman with the arrival of Brandon Fortunato. Playing last season with the United States Na-tional Team Development Program U-18 team, Fortunato led all blueliners in points with 39 (three goals, 36 assists) on the year.

The Terriers will also receive a boost on off ense with the addition of forward A.J. Greer, an imposing 6-foot-3 presence out on the ice. Greer put up impressive numbers over the last two seasons at Kimball Union Academy compil-ing 92 points (39 goals, 53 assists) in 61 games.

During the 2012-13 season at KUA, Greer skated alongside current BU sophomores for-ward Nick Roberto and defenseman Doyle Somerby. Greer, who does not turn 18 until Dec. 14, is the youngest player on the Terrier roster.

Another netminder will join the ranks of the Terriers this season, as goaltender Connor LaCouvee was also added to the team. Playing last season with the Alberni Valley Bulldogs of the British Columbia Hockey League, LaCouvee earned team MVP hon-ors after posting a 2.82 goals-against average and a .920 save percentage.

LaCouvee, hailing from Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, stepped up his game in the BCHL playoff s, putting forward a .929 save per-centage in seven games.

Rounding out the list of new players is forward Nikolas Olsson, who last played for the Sioux City Musketeers of the United States Hockey League over the last two years. In 75 games with Sioux City, the Escondido, California, product recorded 23 points off of 13 goals and 10 assists.

The arrival of four new freshmen was not the only news roster-wise for the Terriers Wednesday, as a team source confi rmed that defenseman Dalton Ma-cAfee is no longer a member of the team. No reason was given for his departure.

A standout at St. Sebastian’s School in Needham, MacAfee played in 31 games last season for the Terriers, recording three assists while leading all defensemen in plus-minus at -3.

MacAfee is not the fi rst Terrier to depart the team this off season, as freshman forward Brendan Collier and redshirt sophomore defenseman J.D. Carrabino were cut from the roster in May.

Earlier this year, BU head coach David Quinn acknowledged that a large incoming class would likely force the team to make some roster cuts in order to free up space.

Fortunato, Greer, LaCouvee and Olsson will round out a 10-member Class of 2018 that also includes forwards in Eichel, Chase Phelps and J.J. Piccinich, as well as defensemen in Ma-cLeod, Brandon Hickey and Brien Diffl ey. The fi rst wave of BU’s incoming freshmen signed their National Letters of Intent back in May.

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After more than a decade away, Albie O’Connell has fi nally returned to Common-wealth Avenue.

The former Boston University men’s hock-ey team captain joined the Terriers in April as an assistant coach for the 2014-15 season, com-pleting a full-circle move for O’Connell, who is once again affi liated with the same program that he played for almost 20 years ago.

“It’s great. I’m excited,” O’Connell said. “I’m excited for the year to start. I think we’ll have a pretty good team. I think how good guys can get throughout the year and how they im-prove and is going to dictate the outcome of how we end up.”

O’Connell joined the Terriers during the 1995-96 season as a heralded recruit. Over a year before his arrival at BU, the Watertown native was selected by the New York Islanders in the fi fth round of the 1994 NHL Draft.

Playing a key role on a BU squad fi lled with NHL talent such as Chris Drury, Shawn Bates and Tom Poti, O’Connell and the Terriers estab-lished one of the greatest stretches in program history in the late 1990s, posting a 97-41-14 re-cord from 1995-99.

While there were many positive takeaways to choose from for O’Connell, his fondest mem-ory of playing for the Terriers was the team’s success in the annual Beanpot tournament. O’Connell and other members of the Class of 1999 are one of only four classes in program his-tory to win four Beanpot titles.

Even though O’Connell was never able to capture an NCAA title, he made two Frozen Four appearances with BU in both 1996 and 1997 – in-cluding a loss to the University of North Dakota in the 1997 championship game, 4-2. Captaining the team during his fi nal campaign in 1998-99, O’Con-nell led his squad in scoring with 39 points (nine goals, 30 assists) in 36 games.

By the end of his career with the Terriers, O’Connell acknowledged that learning under

longtime BU head coach Jack Parker helped him grow as a hockey player in multiple areas – mostly due to the completive tone that Parker established from the get-go with his teams.

“He was a great coach,” O’Connell said of Parker. “We had good teams, so it was very com-petitive. It was setting a high standard and then coming to work and practice every day trying to get better on and off the ice. We held a high standard and he made the practices more com-petitive. It was very intense. He was ready to go for practice, which led to players being ready to go and be ready to compete everyday.”

While O’Connell may have turned in his scarlet and white sweater in 1999, he did not hang up his skates following his departure from Walter Brown Arena. O’Connell later played professional hockey for four teams in both East Coast Hockey League and the British National League from 1999-02, compiling 132 points (54 goals, 78 assists) in 127 pro tilts.

Once he put a close to his playing career, O’Connell immediately made the transition from the ice to behind the bench, serving as an assistant coach at Berkshire Prep School in Sheffi eld during the 2002-03 season before mak-ing the move up to the collegiate level the fol-lowing year at Colby College.

After stints at both Niagara University and College of the Holy Cross, O’Connell entered into the Hockey East coaching ranks in 2007-08 as an assistant coach at Merrimack College be-fore serving the same role over the last six sea-sons with both Northeastern University (2008-11) and Harvard University (2011-14).

Throughout his coaching career, O’Con-nell has garnered praise for his recruiting skills. During his time at Northeastern, the Huskies received commitments from

both standout Providence goaltender Jon Gilles and 2014 Hobey Baker Award recipient and former Boston College forward Johnny Gaudreau. Both players later de-committed from the program.

For O’Connell, the key to his success in terms of identifying talent is to trust his in-

stincts and to collaborate with the rest of his staff .

“Just going out there and working hard,” O’Connell said. “Using your resources, using what you see and not listening to anyoneand trusting what you’re looking at and what your staff ’s is looking at and what you’re trying to do as a group – that’s the biggest thing.

“Working with [associate head coach] Steve [Greeley] and [head coach] David Quinn so far, it’s been really positive. They’ve both been very sharp when it comes to what they’re looking at and they’re very organized and hard-working, so hope-fully I’m a good addition to that.”

While he has excelled at building up mul-tiple teams, O’Connell is certainly no slouch when it comes to instructing his players on the ice. During his fi rst season with the Crimson in 2011-12, O’Connell helped establish the coun-try’s most potent power-play unit, which posted a 27.3 percent success rate.

While the duty of serving as both a recruit-er and a mentor has its own set of challenges, O’Connell holds both jobs in equally high es-

teem.They’re both fun jobs,” O’Connell said. “Ba-

sically, it’s two diff erent jobs. One, you’re trying to help build the team, the other one, you’re trying to help coach the guys that you were trying to re-cruit, so they’re both equally tough jobs, but at the same time, both fun and rewarding.”

The journey back to his alma mater has been long and winding road for O’Connell, but the 38-year-old coach doesn’t have much time to refl ect.

With an infl ux of freshmen already train-ing at Agganis Arena and the season opener al-most a month away, O’Connell is diverting all of his energy toward helping a talented group of players achieve the same level of success that he attained almost two decades ago.

“Hopefully, we’re a lot better at the end of the year than at the start, because we’ve

got nine or ten freshmen,” O’Connell said. “Practice is going to be important, player devel-opment is going to be important. ... Hopeful-ly at the end of it, we’ll make good trides as a group.”

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Sports

Jill Horka - Women’s lacrosse junior midfi elder – The Boston University women’s lacrosse team made a big impression in its fi rst foray in the Patriot League, advancing all the way to the conference title game in 2014. Horka was a key factor in BU’s promising campaign last season, leading the team in goals (29), draw controls (46) and caused turnovers (24). For her eff orts, the Westborough native was named to both the All-Patriot League First Team and the Pa- triot League All-Conference team. eff orts, the Westborough native was named to both the All-Patriot League First Team and the Patriot League All-Conference

team. (Photo by: Maya Devereaux-DFP Staff )

Cedric Hankerson - Men’s basketball sophomore guard - While he only averaged 14.6 minutes per game last season, sophomore guard Cedric Hankerson looks to be a potential

breakout player for the Terriers in 2014-15. The Miami native – who opted to join the Terri-ers over scholarship off ers from Virginia Tech and Oklahoma State University – was named to the Patriot League All-Rookie Team after ranking fi fth on the team was 6.0 points per

game while shooting 38.8 percent from beyond the arc. Now due for a big boost in minutes, Hankerson should be an exciting presence in the Terrier backcourt in 2014-15. (File Photo

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3Melanie Russel - Softball junior pitcher - Russell headed a strong Terriers’ pitching staff that guided the team into the Women’s College World Series. In her fi rst year after transferring from the University of California-Da-vis, Russell pitched to the tune of a 13-5 record and a team-best 2.11 ERA, which earned her All-Patriot League First Team honors. She permanently etched her name into the BU history books when she threw the program’s eighth-ever perfect game against Bucknell University on May 3. The Terriers should expect more of the same in

2015 from the staff ’s ace. (Photo by: BU Athletics)

Jack Eichel – Men’s hockey freshman forward - The numbers and accolades speak for themselves when it comes to incoming freshman Jack Eichel – one of BU’s most

heralded recruits in the program’s long history. Last season with the United States Nation- al Under-18 Team, Eichel recorded 87 points (38 goals, 49 assists) in

53 games – the fourth-highest total in team history. Possessing a devastating mix of speed, playmaking ability and an accurate shot, Eichel is currently slated to be one of the top

two picks in the 2015 NHL Draft. While stardom looks to be on the horizon for Eichel, the 17-year-old’s focus this year will be to provide a big boost on off ense for a BU squad looking to rebound from a disappointing 10-21-4 showing last season. (Photo by: Tom Sorensen)

2Marie-Philip Poulin – Women’s hockey senior forward -

One of the world’s best hockey players will return from a season hiatus for Olympic duty to once again take the ice at Walter Brown Arena. Poulin earned her second gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, giving Team Canada the overtime victory with game-tying and

game-winning goals. Her BU career has been nearly as stellar — Poulin owns the single-sea-son record for assists (36), is tied for second with linemate Sarah Lefort in points in a season

(55) and second in career assists (73), just two behind former Terrier Melissa Andersen for the lead. BU women’s hockey won the Hockey East and made the NCAA Tournament

without Poulin last season— with several top players returning, Poulin is one of the fi nal pieces in the puzzle for absolute dominance in collegiate women’s hockey. (Photo

by: Steve McLaughlin)

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Erica Kosienski – Women’s soccer sophomore forward – Kosienski was the defi nition of a super-sub last season for the Terriers, leading the team in goals (eight) despite not starting in any of the team’s 23 matches. Kosienski consistently rose to the occasion in clutch situations out on the pitch, notching a team-high seven game-winning scores. Kosienski – the reigning

Patriot League Rookie of the Year – will once again be the catalyst on off ense this season for a Terrier squad that was favored to repeat as Patriot League conference champions in a

National Soccer Coaches Association of America preseason poll. (Photo by: Sarah Fisher-DFP Staff )

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