To reduce the confusion for passengers about where trains will arrive at Park Street sta-tion, westbound D and E trains on the Green Line will berth at designated areas starting Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

D and E line trains have usually looped around at Government Center, but that center was closed for reconstruction on March 22 and will be closed for two years. To account for the closure of the Government Center station, westbound D and E Line trains have looped around at Park Street, making it difficult to know which tracks will serve the Riverside train, said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo.

“We are simplifying the system,” he said. “Our expectation is that the change will help us provide Green Line service in a more efficient and effective manner.”

The change will be in effect for the next two years while Government Center undergoes renovation.

“This type of switch does not occur fre-quently,” Pesaturo said. “The last time that berthing locations were adjusted was decades ago.”

Stephanie Pollack, a professor of practice in public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, said this adaptation will be useful to riders struggling with the changes and is a nec-essary response to the closure of Government Center.

“MBTA knew all along that after Govern-ment Center was closed that they would have to make sure people were getting where they need to go,” she said. “From my understanding, the T instituted this service because passengers who normally wouldn’t be at Park Street [are] having trouble understanding. Anything that helps them is good because [MBTA] doesn’t want people to stop using public transit.”

While the shutdown of Government Center is an inconvenience, it is for the best in order to provide worthwhile service to riders, Pollack said.

“As painful as it is, it’s better to stretch out the project so that when they reopen they’re ready,” she said. “A lot of people who get off at Government Center to go downtown are within

walking distance. There are so many T stations

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Wednesday marks BU’s 1st Giving Day fundraiser

The Boston University Office of Develop-ment and Alumni Relations is sponsoring its first Giving Day fundraiser Wednesday to foster cooperative contributions from students, alum-ni and parents in the BU community.

Giving Day is the first fundraising event of its kind implemented at BU as a part of the Campaign for Boston University, the univer-sity’s comprehensive fundraising and develop-ment program enacted earlier last year.

Hilary Shepard, director of annual giving for BU’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations, said while Giving Day is modeled after similar approaches undertaken by other national universities, it will provide a sense of collective action and enthusiasm unique to BU.

“A few other schools like Columbia [Uni-versity] and [University of] Notre Dame have recently done really successful Giving Days that have gotten their entire communities in-volved and energized,” Shepard said, “and also made a huge impact on fundraising and what these schools are able to provide for their stu-dents. We wanted to do something similar to give BU students, alumni, faculty and staff the chance to participate in a day where they could support what they most love about BU.”

Giving Day is an extension of the ongoing Campaign for BU, in terms of both strategy and goals, Shepard said.

“Along with the Million Hours Project and the $1 billion goal, a key goal of the campaign is to increase the number of alumni and students

who give back no matter what the amount,” she said.

Along with such a focus on inclusivity and expansion of fundraising networks, Giving Day will rely exclusively on online donations and advertise heavily on social media outlets to reach out to a broad contingent of current and former students, according to Shepard.

Giving Day will employ a dollar-for-dollar strategy, in which the first $1,000 of all gifts

will be matched by Trustee Stephen Karp, ac-cording to the event’s official website.

Karp, a 1963 College of Arts and Sciences graduate, pledged to match funds donated by the community during the 24-hour period. Shepard said this strategy is geared toward ex-panding both the funds donated in the event and the awareness of personal impact that each do-

Boston University has received $3 million in state funding from Massachusetts Gov. De-val Patrick in addition to support from technol-ogy companies to develop the Massachusetts Open Cloud, the first cloud computing software of its kind.

“The MOC is conceived as a marketplace where different parties can contribute differ-ent assets that can be combined in creative and innovative ways to offer solutions or services that are hard, and often impossible, to develop in a closed cloud,” said Azer Bestavros, found-ing director of the BU Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.

The MOC is an information-sharing net-work that could boost the economy through technological advancement due to its open ac-cess. BU will lead the initiative in collaboration with peer universities in Boston as well as the

Massachusetts Green High Performance Com-puting Center and Oak Ridge National Labora-tory.

The MOC would be the first open cloud ever developed, which means multiple compet-ing vendors will be able to upload and access the same information, said Bestavros, a College of Arts and Sciences professor of computer sci-ence.

“Because of this diversity, customers would not be locked in,” he said. “They can choose, compare and switch between multiple offerings. The MOC as an open cloud stands in sharp con-trast to the monopoly of closed clouds, where choices are very limited and competition is al-most non-existent.”

Bestavros said the team aims to fully de-velop the MOC within two to three years, at which point it will become economically self-sustaining.

“The $3 million funding from the Com-monwealth will help us bootstrap the develop-

ment of the software infrastructure that will get us to that point of being economically viable,” Bestavros said.

This state funding will also allow the MOC team to leverage contributions to develop the software totaling $16 million from other com-panies, Bestavros said.

“Most of our customers will be those using the cloud for research purposes, as opposed to commercial applications,” he said. “But our hope and plan is for the MOC to cater to any and all types of applications and uses.”

Founding Director of BU’s Center for Cloud Innovation Orran Krieger said when private corporations set up clouds, they tend to target the particular market with which they are most familiar in contrast to the broad approach of the MOC.

“In general, open environments spur a lot of creativity, competition and innovation,” said

More than 500 business executives joined Boston Mayor Martin Walsh Tuesday morn-ing as he emphasized his belief in the spirit of Boston’s professionalism and entrepreneur-ial strength for his first annual Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce address and Govern-ment Affairs Forum.

Walsh detailed his vision of a more inclusive, international and innovative city at the America Ballroom of the Westin Copley Place.

“It’s inclusive, seeding the growth in every neighborhood and connecting our young people to career pathways,” he said. “It’s international, embracing newcomers and recruiting businesses from around the world. Our mission is innova-tive, embracing high-tech life sciences and the creative industries that are on the cutting edge of change.”

While the city is on its way to making this vi-sion a reality, Walsh said there is still much to be done, including the collaboration of businesses, entrepreneurs, venture capital funders and com-munity partners to turn Boston into the “econo-my of the future.”

Walsh proposed changes be made to Bos-ton’s city policy, infrastructure and culture. One change includes the creation of a Chief Digital Officer, who will remake the city’s website, tele-vision station and other digital assets.

“The city itself must be at the forefront of in-novation,” he said. “We need startups to succeed, and we need them to stay and grow in Boston. We will put together a team of business devel-opment and marketing leaders who will do just that.”

With the idea to strengthen Boston Public Schools, Walsh said the city’s children must be given the attention and preparation needed to give them optimal educational opportunities.

“We must prepare our young people to be the leaders of the next generation,” he said. “We are developing a strategic plan to make the Boston Public Schools the premier digital district in the nation by the year 2020. You are sitting here to-day because you know how to adapt, change and grow. That’s the resilience we need to preserve and pass on.”

By keeping the spirit of Boston alive, this can and should be done, he said. This spirit was seen during the 2014 Boston Marathon and in the days

GRAPHIC BY MAYA DEVEREAUX/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFBoston University Development and Alumni Relations is holding an online fundraising drive Wednesday called Giving Day, where alumni, students, parents and friends can give back in an effort to continuously improve the BU community.

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nating community member can feel. “The idea of a 24-hour timeframe

where your support can make twice the difference is really powerful,” Karp said. “I think we as humans all respond to a fun event where you can also do some good, and that is exactly what Giving Day is all about. Every-one has the chance to make double the impact.”

Shepard said the creativity and unique strategy of Giving Day could develop into the single largest day of donations on record at BU.

“The goal is to make Giving Day the single largest day of giving in the history of BU in terms of how many people give back the University,” she said. “The BU community is truly great … and I am very confi dent that

the community will come together and make history on Wednesday.”

Shepard also said fundraising and community outreach and develop-ment events such as Giving Day and the Campaign for BU raise the uni-versity’s prestige and standings both nationally and internationally.

The donation period will begin at 12 a.m. Wednesday morning and end 24 hours later. Shepard said she remains extremely confi dent and optimistic about Giving Day and its prospects for success.

“One reason for such an event is because it factors into our rankings as a university,” she said. “We all know that BU deserves to be ranked in the top tier of schools in the country. In terms of what to expect, the sky is the limit.”

Krieger, a CAS research professor of computer science. “Now we can actually solve problems that nobody could solve before. What happens when the researcher can actually get access to thousands of computers for a few seconds, that’s going to trans-form many areas of science, [and] it’s going to transform many areas of business.”

Krieger said the MOC will allow for developments through the sharing of both software advancements and large sets of data.

“There’s a lot of different soft-ware platforms that are being devel-oped by a very broad community to solve problems and do analytics on massive data sets,” he said. “This will be an environment where they can actually apply those different tools, and we expect a really rich and vibrant community to be taking part.”

The MOC will start by targeting university researchers but eventually grow to include data sets provided by

the state of Massachusetts, as well as run hackathons using the available data, Krieger said.

BU students said they supported the MOC’s goal of increasing the in-formation available to different orga-nizations through an open cloud.

“It would defi nitely have the po-tential to be benefi cial to everyone, especially if universities can share their research,” said CAS junior Bob-by Abdolmohammadi. “I would have thought there would have been some-thing like this already, just because it seems like it would really help.”

Thomas Loui, a College of En-gineering senior, said there could be initial concerns among MOC users about confl icts over intellectual prop-erty.

“People are just going to be hesi-tant at fi rst because they don’t know what to share and what’s too much,” Loui said. “It’s tough if you work for a company with an information dis-closure contract, where you cannot provide any information that you’ve been working on to anyone else.”

and weeks prior, and it is made up of determination, ambition, resiliency, unity and teamwork, Walsh said.

“Ultimately, the spirit of Boston is in all of you, who work to make our industries, our communities and our city better every day,” he said. “Bos-ton was built by leaders, like you, who know how to collaborate and how to innovate. It’s what made us the city we are today.”

Several attendees said they were impressed with Walsh’s plans and are excited to see what else he has to of-

fer the city in terms of innovation and growth.

Manuel Rivera, 40, of Boston, who was representing a startup com-pany called WaterShots, said he had been hoping Walsh would talk more about green technologies and lower-ing carbon dioxide emissions.

“I would have liked for him to talk a little bit more about sustainability, green technologies and lowering the green house gas emissions,” he said. “I want to know more about his point of view and his plans for that. He didn’t cover that topic enough, and nobody

else really asked any questions about it.”

Susan Elliot, 59, of South Natick, is the executive vice president and chief business offi cer of Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston and said her business focuses on low-income and affordable housing.

“Many of the questions that I had were answered here today,” she said. “I was impressed. I thought that he covered the gamut, from jobs, afford-able housing and public safety. He touched on them all in a very articulate and informed way.”

in close proximity like Park and State Street, so it doesn’t really affect peo-ple as bad.”

Pollack also mentioned several other changes the MBTA could make to improve service to customers, but said this simple change will make a big difference in the fl uency of the trains.

“Some train stations have apps that tell you exactly where to stand on the platform so you’re right there,” she said. “I hope this will be help-ful and something people will want to do more. The T is pretty full, not just during rush hour anymore, so anything that helps customers and gets people on and off of the trains is good. When the trains have to wait it slows everything down.”

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In an effort to reduce the num-ber of accidents involving bikers and pedestrians, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is launching a new safety awareness and enforcement program.

The Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Awareness and Enforce-ment Program will provide $461,851 in federal highway safety funding, which will support partnerships with local officials, police departments, MassBike and WalkBoston. These funds will go to getting police officers more in-volved in pedestrian and bicycle issues and an awareness campaign.

According to the Monday press release, this is in response to MassDOT’s Healthy Transporta-tion Policy Directive, which is at-tempting to increase the amount of non-motorist transportation, and the State Highway Safety Plan, which has a goal of reducing the number of fatalities and injuries by 20 percent in the next five years.

“The new MassDOT safety program is incredibly important,” said David Watson, executive di-

rector of MassBike. “It marks the first time Massachusetts has made a significant investment of federal highway safety funding targeted specifically to bicyclist and pedes-trian safety. Bikers and walkers are far more vulnerable than motorists and need additional protection.”

This new program will begin in May in 12 select Massachusetts towns chosen according to the high

number of non-motorist crashes and high proportion of trips made by walking or biking.

The towns involved are Brock-ton, Cambridge, Fall River, Haver-hill, Lynn, New Bedford, Newton, Pittsfield, Quincy, Salem, Somer-ville and Watertown. Feedback during the program will allow MassDOT to identify what infra-

In an effort to expand racial and ethnic variety among educators, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Educa-tion presented an educator diver-sity action plan Tuesday to encour-age greater faculty diversity among all schools in the Commonwealth.

Mitchell Chester, ESE commis-sioner, prepared the initiative for the Board of Elementary and Sec-ondary Education. Produced by the Massachusetts Advocates for Di-versity in Education task force, the plan proposes changes to increase racial and ethnic diversity while decreasing the disproportionate number of students of color sus-pended and expelled from schools.

“The capacity of educators and school administrators to ef-fectively promote academic and social success for all students will rest upon their ability to succeed in meeting the academic and social needs of a diverse student popula-tion,” Chester said in a preliminary letter to the board members.

Of the state’s 857,297 public school students enrolled in the 2011-12 school year, black stu-dents had a 15.1 percent suspen-sion rate, and Hispanic students had a suspension rate of 14.1 per-cent. During the same school year in Boston, 7 percent of the city’s publically enrolled black students received suspensions, while 3.1 percent of Hispanic students faced similar punishment.

The City of Boston created a three-year Teacher Diversity Ac-tion Plan in focus on workplace diversity, workplace inclusion and sustainability and decrease the high number of suspensions among stu-dents of color and increase diver-sity among BPS faculty. According to a January report titled “Work-place Diversity,” the percentage of black teachers in BPS dropped to 21 percent this year, 1 percent less than the 2012-13 school year.

Many public and private edu-cational institutions are taking note of these numbers and creat-ing programs that will encourage racially diverse students to pursue

MassDOT launches biker safety programCampus & City Wednesday, april 30, 2014 3

The Boston University Tangle-wood Institute, a summer youth sat-ellite program run by the College of Fine Arts, has been granted a three-year reprieve after much delibera-tion by BU officials.

BU Provost Jean Morrison said BUTI has been operating at a loss for the last several years. Officials have decided to keep the program based on findings an advisory com-mittee that was appointed in Octo-ber to assess the value of the pro-gram.

“We have to make decisions about our scarce resources,” Morri-son said. “Given that it is a program that does not serve enrolled under-graduates or graduates at BU, it’s only prudent that we ask ourselves why we are under riding the costs of a program that does not directly serve BU students. So we made an assessment of all the factors around BUTI, and we recognized the value

and quality of the program.”BUTI, located in Lenox, is a

summer program that has provided training enrichment to young musi-cians since 1967, said Richard Cor-nell, director ad interim at the BU School of Music.

“There is no comparable pro-gram in the country for this age lev-el, high school, and BUTI is widely known and respected in the clas-sical music world,” Cornell said. “Students at BUTI may be consid-ering professional training at the college or conservatory level, and the summer at BUTI often helps them decide if they should attend a liberal arts program or try to earn a professional degree, or even both.”

One of the most significant things about BUTI is that it gives gifted high school students access to world-class resources, Cornell said.

“BUTI maintains a close asso-ciation with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, many of whom are on

the faculty of the Boston University School of Music,” he said. “Those connections enhance the program by providing students access to

working professionals, teachers, coaches for chamber music, as well as many of the rehearsals and pro-

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BuTi, see page 4

BU’s Tanglewood Institute to continue for at least 3 more years

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MIKE DESOCIO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFMassachusetts Department of Transportation CEO Richard Davey an-nounced Monday the launch of a new bike and pedestrian safety aware-ness program to enhance safe travel and cut down on the number of crashes.

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ENG juniors join local student-run venture company

Two Boston University stu-dents were appointed Monday to the Dorm Room Fund Boston, a student-run venture company which provides support for young entrepreneurs and developers, to help student leaders at BU and other Boston area schools com-mercialize their startups and ap-plications.

“We’re students that invest in other students,” said College of Engineering junior Kanav Dhir, one of the two BU students recent-ly appointed to the Dorm Room Fund. “We’re not the typical VC [venture company] — we don’t treat ourselves that way. We’re very peer-to-peer connection.”

The Dorm Room Fund, com-prised of Dhir, ENG junior Al-exandrea Mellen and eight oth-er college students, provides student entrepreneurs with funding through venture firm First Round Capital.

“My job is to look and find peo-ple at BU and at other schools as

well who have a passion, who have a drive, who really want to pursue some type of realistic startup and help them with that,” Mellen said. “I see a lot of students around cam-pus who have ideas, but they don’t really know how to pursue them any further.”

At the Dorm Room Fund, Mel-len said she and her peers will of-fer students advice and guidance on their projects to bring their apps and ideas to market.

“A lot of times in engineering classes, I talk to people and they’re like, ‘I just want to work at some-one else’s company when I get out of school,’” Mellen said. “Which there’s nothing wrong with, but at the same time it’s really exciting to see the few who want to really take ownership of a business and actually run it themselves and have that drive.”

School of Management senior Esteban Da Cruz, president of BU’s Entrepreneurship Club, said he anticipated collaborating with the Dorm Room Fund next year to build the entrepreneurship com-

munity at BU and offer advice and funding to student-run startups. Cruz also said Dhir and Mellen were well qualified to work at the Dorm Room Fund.

“The most important thing is how motivated they are,” he said. “Both of them are some of the peo-ple I’ve encountered who really know the most how to get things done. They set something in their minds, and they do it.”

Dhir and Mellen have experi-ence working together through BU’s Entrepreneurship Club, and both founded programs promoting collaboration between entrepre-neurs and app developers at BU.

Earlier this year, Dhir hosted the first BU Startup Fair, which drew more than 350 students and 25 startups to the Photonics Cen-ter to workshop their ideas. Mel-len created MakeBU, a weekly Hackathon meeting in which app developers across campus come together to discuss their projects.

“We have both sides of it,” Mel-len said. “I’ve got the kids who are

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By Felicia GansDaily Free Press Staff

ESE creates plan to boost educator diversity in Mass.

diversiTy., see page 4

PHOTO COURTESY OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTEBased on a decision made by Boston University President Robert Brown and university provost Jean Morrison, the BU Tanglewood Institute, the College of Fine Arts summer program for young musicians, will continue to operate for at least three more years.

The following crime reports were taken from the Allston-Brigh-ton D-14 crime logs from April 23 to April 29.

Unknown suspect steals bikeOn Saturday at 7:00 p.m., police

received a report of larceny that had occurred at 56 Ashford St. between Friday and Saturday night. The vic-tim said she secured her bike, but returned the next day and found it missing.

Suspects receive complaints for providing alcohol to minors Officers responded to an incident

of underage drinking at 7 Price Rd. on Saturday at 1:38 a.m. Police ob-served the victim inside the bathtub vomiting and noticeably intoxicat-ed. The witness who had been tend-ing to the victim told officers he had been drinking as well. Officers saw other underage drinkers around. The suspects, the legal residents of the apartment, stated they invited the victim and witness as guests. One suspect said he was asleep and unaware of the party happening. The victim was transported to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for treatment. A court complaint was filed against the suspect for providing alcohol to underage drinkers.

Suspect spits in victim’s face and drives away

On Saturday at 8:20 p.m., po-lice received a report of an assault that had taken place at the inter-section of Commonwealth Avenue and Harry Agganis Way earlier that night. The victim stated that after making a U-turn, the suspect drove up on the passenger side of his car and spit in his face through an open window. The suspect fled the scene by turning onto Babcock Street.

Victim beaten by group of men Officers were called to 34 Har-

vard Ave. on Sunday at 2:02 a.m. for an assault. Emergency respond-ers examined the victim and ob-served injuries to the mouth and nose. He was transported to St. Elizabeth Hospital for further treat-ment. Witnesses, friends of the vic-tim told officers that they became involved in a verbal argument with six unknown males at Tavern in the Square on Brighton Avenue. After leaving the club, the same men fol-lowed the group and attacked the victim, pushing him to the ground and beating him. One suspect took the victim’s jacket, containing his car and apartment keys. One of the witnesses said he will be able to identify one of the suspects.

Suspect arrested for outstanding warrants and

trespassingAt 7:05 p.m. on Monday, of-

ficers arrived at 2 Fidelis Way for a trespassing incident. Police ob-served the suspect talking with a group of people. As they advanced toward him, he noticed the officers’ badges and fled down the alley toward Fidelis Way. The suspect was placed under arrest for an out-standing court warrant and larceny check. Officers later learned that the suspect is on a no-trespass list and is not permitted on the Fidelis Hous-ing Development property.

City Crime logs

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Daily Free Press Staff

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With the support of the Ministry of Education, the Teach and Learn in Korea (TaLK) Program invites young, adventurous, open and service-minded college students and recent graduates to teach English to elementary school students living in the rural areas of South Korea. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the many facets of Korean culture and find time to travel to distinct regions of the Korean peninsula.

■ ELIGIBILITY• Citizens of Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America• Bachelor’s degree candidates who have completed at least two (2) years of undergraduate education, or Associate’s degree

holders who completed their education at an accredited post-secondary institution in one of the aforementioned countries.

■ CONTRACT TERM → 1-year scholarship: August, 2014 ~ July, 2015*Priority consideration is given to applicants who choose the 12-month scholarship term. It is mandatory for degree holders or those who are completing their final semester/quarter at university to choose this option unless providing a document verifying active/current enrollment

■ APPLICATION MATERIALS• Online application (including Personal Essay and Self Medical Assessment)• Lesson Plan, Recommendation Letters (Signed and Sealed), Official School Transcript (Stamped and Sealed), Letter of Pledged

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■ APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 30, 2014

■ CONTACT INFORMATION : Korean Consulate General in Boston

TEACH ENGLISH &

EXPERIENCE KOREA With the support of the Ministry of Education, the Teach and Learn in Korea (TaLK) Program

invites young, adventurous, open and service-minded college students and recent graduates to

teach English to elementary school students living in the rural areas of South Korea. Participants

will have the opportunity to learn about the many facets of Korean culture and find time to travel

to distinct regions of the Korean peninsula.

■ELIGIBILITY Citizens of Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the United

Kingdom, the United States of America Bachelor's degree candidates who have completed at least two (2) years of

undergraduate education, or Associate's degree holders who completed their education at an accredited post-secondary institution in one of the aforementioned countries.

■CONTRACT TERM → 1-year scholarship: August, 2014 ~ July, 2015

*Priority consideration is given to applicants who choose the 12-month scholarship term. It is mandatory for degree holders or those who are completing their final semester/quarter at university to choose this option unless providing a document verifying active/current enrollment in your education institution. ■APPLICATION MATERIALS

Online application (including Personal Essay and Self Medical Assessment) Lesson Plan, Recommendation Letters (Signed and Sealed), Official School Transcript

(Stamped and Sealed), Letter of Pledged (Signed), Apostilled Criminal Record Check, Copy of Passport Photo Page

■BENEFITS Monthly Stipend:1,500,000 Korean Won (approx. USD 1,300 per month) Settlement/Entrance/Exit Allowances, Medical Insurance Coverage, Housing, Vacation

Leave, Cultural Experience Programs, etc. * For more information, visit http://www.talk.go.kr

■APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 30, 2014 ■CONTACT INFORMATION : Korean Consulate General in Boston 300 Washington Street, Suite 251, Newton, MA 02458

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structure improvements can be implement-ed throughout Massachusetts, and will then possibly make those changes in Boston in the future.

“We’re excited to be working with Mass-DOT, the Department of Public Health, MassBike and all of these communities,” said Brendan Kearney, communications manager for WalkBoston. “Pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities represent 15 to 20 percent of all Massachusetts traffic fatalities. We are pleased to see MassDOT taking steps to increase the safety of walkers, runners and bicyclists, which will help [triple] the num-ber of walking, biking and transit trips by 2030.”

Although a lot of progress has been made

so far, with bike lanes and paths, he said there is much more to be done, particularly in educating and enforcing the policies.

MassBike has contributed to a safety pamphlet which will be distributed as a part of an outreach campaign, will also be train-ing police officers on the laws related to mo-torist interactions with bikers and will adapt truck driver training to include bicyclist and pedestrian safety.

“The new safety program is a big step in the right direction, and will launch ini-tiatives that need to grow and continue in the long-term to help the public shift from a motorist-only viewpoint to a multi-modal viewpoint,” Watson said. “Everyone needs to be more aware of the people sharing the road with them.”

just making apps and not sure if they want to do business, and then Dhir’s looking really at the people who have startups and want people to come in and work for them. We have a good balance there.”

Mellen has developed three mobile ap-plications currently available on the Apple App Store, and Dhir has been working with ByteLight, a startup initially launched by BU students, since his freshman year.

Dhir said though he and Mellen would be mentoring and investing in startups through-

out Boston, the duo will be able to focus spe-cifically on strengthening the entrepreneur-ship community at BU through the Dorm Room Fund.

“Both of us having the same circles and more technical aspects helps us try to bounce ideas off each other about which companies are coming out of BU or which students are working on cool projects that we can approach,” he said. “There’s a sense of building and pushing entrepreneurship in this initiative, and Alexandrea and I being there really helps our potential to find inter-esting companies.”

careers in education. One of these schools is Worcester State University, the number-one feeder of educators to public schools in Worcester.

The Latino Education Institute at WSU created a program three years ago that pays students $1,000 a semester to shadow stu-dents and help teachers in local schools. The students involved in the program often break cultural and language barriers between

the parents and administrators, said Mary Jo Marión, the institute’s executive director.

“Urban parents want good schools, and good schools are those that are orderly and will keep students engaged,” she said. “If people believe that connecting families to schools is important, particularly in low in-come areas, you have to have connections in the schools to that community. When you have a staffing structure that doesn’t accom-plish that, there isn’t that engagement.”

grams on the Tanglewood grounds.”Morrison said the next three years could

be a window of opportunity for the CFA ad-ministration to transform BUTI and make it more sustainable from a financial standpoint.

“We can’t continue to run the program at the kind of significant financial deficit that it has been running at,” Morrison said. “The three years is a time frame that gives the lead-ership of the School of Music, and it’s an ef-fort that will be lead by the dean of CFA to give them some time to see whether they can create a structure that allows the program to be financially viable.”

CFA Dean Benjamín Juárez said the three-year timeframe is sufficient time to address many of the operational problems BUTI faces and will be an opportunity to align the mission of BUTI further with the missions of the School of Music, CFA and BU.

“We have already begun implementing the items outlined in my response to the commit-tee’s report and look forward to continuing

to make progress with the School of Music full engagement as we work toward creating a sustainable future for BUTI,” Juárez said. “There are some immediate changes that are taking place now, such as the search for a full time executive director for BUTI.”

Although the program still requires altera-tions to its curriculum, the future of BUTI looks positive, Cornell said.

“The committee’s objective analysis of BUTI’s position and its conclusions and rec-ommendations do provide the outline of a fu-ture course,” he said. “From its report, along with the experience of BUTI’s own leader-ship, we can develop a strategic plan.”

Juárez said they have already begun to im-plement many of the changes outlined in his response to the advisory committee’s report.

“BUTI is an extraordinary program, but like so many arts programs, it has its com-plexities and challenges,” Juárez said. “… The recommendations made by the commit-tee make enormous sense and reflect the com-mittee’s careful evaluation of every facet of the program.”

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The fi rst one to skate in Agganis Arena before a hockey game, he strides in with an exuberant confi -

dence and energy that radiates to the cheer-ing fans in the stands. As the game begins, 6-foot-3 Rhett the Terrier weaves through the crowd, inspiring the loyal audience to showcase their spirit.

“Rhett’s job is to encourage the crowd to be more vocal and to get the fans to be more interactive,” said Mike Marfi one, marketing and promotions coordinator of BU Athletics. “If there’s a fan that is not actively participating in the game, Rhett fi nds a fun way to have the person be more engaged, making sure the crowd is interac-tive helps the team.”

As the face of Boston University, Rhett offi cially became the terrier mascot on Nov. 15, 1922. His name originates from Rhett Butler, one of the protagonists in the novel Gone With the Wind, because nobody loves Scarlet more than Rhett.

Picking a new Rhett is more serious business than one would think. Rhett is a national icon who’s appeared on ESPN, CNN, CBS and NESN. The next batch of Rhetts could represent the school on the national stage.

At the start of a new school year, Mar-fi one and his team try to market the idea of becoming a potential part of the Rhett sys-tem. They post fl iers on dormitory bulletin boards to promote their tryouts as well as use social media to connect with students. Tryouts begin at the end of September of the school year.

“They defi nitely need to be outgoing and athletic. They also have to be energet-ic,” Marfi one said. “Rhett has a bubbly per-sonality so naturally it also helps if people have a lot of school spirit.”

First, potential Rhett candidates sign up for an interview about their basic in-formation. Then, they are required to per-form a short skit with props and music to

gage their creativity. They are also tested on game-day situations that would require them to make hasty decisions and how well they interact with the cheer team. Mean-while, they will be evaluated on how ener-getic and creative they can be.

“We’re looking for people to have the ability to think on their feet. We can try training them as best as we can but differ-ent things are going to come up,” Marfi one said. “They have to be spontaneous.”

Eight students currently wear the muzzle, so to speak. Their hours as Rhett fl uctuate according to schedule but gener-ally amount to at least fi ve hours a week at hockey, basketball, soccer and lacrosse games. Rhetts can also be found at school affairs on and off campus like charities and BU promotions. Rhett attends the National Cheerleading Championships and Mascot Championships as well. In 2002, he placed fourth in the National Mascot Champion-ship.

“Having people who are into the event gets me into character,” said one of the stu-dents who plays Rhett. All Rhetts have to remain anonymous in their terms as mas-cots. “I try to do as much as I can to en-courage the crowd. I do a lot of exagger-ated motions while I am in costume. You just need to put yourself out there.”

To entertain the crowd and encourage them to be supportive of the teams, Rhett takes on an enthusiastic personality. If there is a fan who seems to be lacking in school spirit, Rhett will do something like tap that person on the shoulder and inter-act with the fan by doing silly dance moves or jumping around to motivate the fan to laugh.

“Rhett symbolizes school spirit,” Mar-fi one said. “He supports the university and the sports teams. Rhett has a larger-than-life personality. When people look at Rhett, they automatically think of him as the face of BU.”

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MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFRhett cheers on fans at Frozen Fenway. Often, Rhett is the fi rst person on the ice at hockey games, before he skates to the sidelines to pump up the crowd.

THE SECRET LIFE OF AN AMERICAN DOG

To keep the identity of rhett anony-mous, the student must remain anony-mous.

The Daily Free Press: What was your favorite memory as Rhett?

Rhett: Back in December, there was an event with the BU Athletics com-mittee. We visited public elementary schools in Boston and got to interact with the children while in costume.

DFP: What antics do you use to encourage people to have more school spirit?

Rhett: I tend to jump around and do some silly dance moves. Sometimes, I’ll be goofy while tapping people on the shoulder and surprise them. When I am in costume, I tend to do whatever silly thing I am able to.

DFP: How do you balance aca-demic life and being a mascot?

Rhett: As with any extracurricular activity, I learned to manage my time but it isn’t really hard to balance this job since it’s only about fi ve hours a week.

DFP: What gets you into the Rhett character?

Rhett: It helps when at sporting events or hockey games, everyone is cheering and getting pumped up. The crowd being there helps Rhett to be there.

DFP: Do you have any advice for people who want to be a part of the Rhett team?

Rhett: Do everything big and with energy. The costume itself is bulky so you need to make exaggerated move-ments just to move the costume. If you need Rhett to nod, you literally need to rock your head back and forth. It re-quires practice. Also, be enthusiastic. MICHAEL CUMMO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Rhett The Dog pants in the stands where Rhett The Mascot once danced.

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Religion in China

TATE GIESELMANNThe hour-long commute from classes

to my internship in downtown Shanghai is punctuated by a stroll past the Jing’An Temple. This temple — which literally translates as “The Temple of Peace and Harmony”— is unique in its immense size. Gold roofing, red archways, ornate beasts and twisting pillars form an absolutely re-splendent example of Chinese architecture. The Kings of Wu constructed the temple’s first instance in the third century. Although it’s been rebuilt a number of times, the power of history looms over passersby as much, if not more, than the physical pres-ence of the building.

I’ve spent my entire life in a religious family. My father decided to dedicate his life to the Christian Episcopal faith around the same time I was waddling around sub-urban Knoxville, Tenn., in diapers. Of the 16 years I spent living in my dad’s house, 10 of those were spent with a church with-in a 100-foot radius — I even lived on the grounds of a spooky cemetery for a couple of years.

My intense exposure to religion led me into a sort of a cooling-off period, and I’ve spent my years at BU taking a step back from all faiths in order to try to critically analyze my position. No matter how hard I try, I can’t get specific Christian thoughts out of my head, and I assume many of my values are either consciously or subcon-sciously shaped by my upbringing.

As months turned to years, I grew ac-climated to life without weekly trips down the street to church. In place of this stimu-lation, the remnants of my high school edu-cation began to take root. In an interesting turn of events I spent my four formative years in a school that was not affiliated to a particular religion; rather, our education focused on all religions. Our education began every day at 8 a.m. sharp, with 300 some-odd students gathered together in a big room meditating for five minutes. Our Buddhist chaplain, though not especially popular amongst the students, tried to in-grain in us basic tenets of Buddhism.

My decision to come to China led me to researching Chinese philosophy, most no-tably Daoism and Buddhism. A quick note on Confucianism, which I’ve personally had a hard time grasping — the Chinese government is currently attempting to re-vive Confucian thought in modern society; a professor of mine noted that Confucian-ism serves as a sort of stopgap between the end of Communist thought in China and the beginning of something else.

I became interested in the philosophic implications of Buddhism and Daoism. From what I’ve been able to tell, the syn-thesis of these schools of thought is Zen (Chan in Chinese) Buddhism. Though more popular in Japan today, Zen thought is rooted in the merging of Daoist and Bud-dhist thought in Mainland China.

Regardless of the religion entrenched in China’s history, religious activity is mostly dormant in cities like Shanghai today be-sides the occasional, looming temple. From what I’ve heard from my reliable sources on China (my professors and Chinese friends) many Chinese only have time for religion on the holidays. This phenomenon, similar to many Christians in America, is definitely not what I expected coming to China.

Honestly, I had no idea what to expect coming into China. During the height of Communist rule and the Cultural Revo-lution religion in China was shunned, ig-nored and even banned. Only after China’s Reform and Opening Period in the 1980s was religion allowed back into society as a legal, worthwhile pursuance.

I see Christian churches adorned with spires and crosses as much as I see Bud-dhist temples during my walks around Shanghai. I’m far from an expert on reli-gion in China but from simple observation it seems that the Communist government changed the landscape of China’s religion immensely. I honestly see as many monks in full garb on the streets of Boston as I do in Shanghai.

Talking with a couple of my Chinese classmates, religion is viewed in a similar vein as honoring ancestors, another time-strengthened tradition. Holidays have al-ways been important in Chinese culture, but now that many are distanced from re-ligion they only encounter when they burn incense at a local temple on the high holi-days.

What’s more, the Buddhist temples I’ve traveled to in Shanghai often charge admis-sion — I understand the need to pay fees and upkeep but am a little confused as to how any daily worshippers can make use of temple facilities. Like everything in China, nothing is as it seems on the surface; I’m sure that the longer I stay here the more I will understand, but for now I content my-self with appreciating the magnificence of temples such as Jing’An.

Tate Gieselmann is a College of Arts and Sciences junior studying abroad in China. He can be reached at tateag@bu.edu.

A SemeSTer in SHAnGHAi

The NBA banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life on Tuesday and fined him $2.5 million for racist comments he made on audio recordings that leaked to the media over the weekend. According to multi-ple outlets, Sterling’s glaring racism has caused many problems over the years, but has some-how gotten pushed under the rug until now.

TMZ released 15 minutes of recorded con-versation between Sterling and his girlfriend, in which he reprimands her for bringing black friends to the games and posting pictures with them to her Instagram account. After the re-sponse to the recordings gained so much mo-mentum this weekend, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was forced to make a decision on Sterling’s fate with the league which, not to mention, is more than 80 percent black.

“You’re supposed to be a delicate white or a delicate Latina girl,” Sterling says on the tape. “Yeah it bothers me a lot that you want to promo broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?”

Although Sterling did not know he was be-ing recorded, his First Amendment rights were not violated because they concerned the private organization for which he does business. And, no, the defense that he is 80 years old and grew up in a “different era in America,” as some may argue, does not excuse his racist sentiments ei-ther.

The league will look to force Sterling to sell the team, which requires three-quarters ap-proval from other owners in the NBA. Sterling has owned the Clippers for more than 32 years, which is the longest tenure of any NBA owner. On the Clippers, 12 of the 14 men on the cur-rent roster are black. Based on the severity of his remarks, it leaves one to think that if the man hates black people so much, why has he involved himself with basketball? Wouldn’t a sport that is primarily white, such as hockey, seem better suited for him? As an owner of the team, Sterling does not generally need to in-teract with the players, their game, morale and strategy — that job belongs to head coach Doc Rivers, who also happens to be a black man.

The combination of Sterling’s position of power and outlook on the race of his employees

is uncomfortably reminiscent of the slave-era mentality, in which it was okay to have black people work for you, but by no means associate with them. Or, as Sterling told his girlfriend, “you can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that ... and not to bring them to my games.”

On Sunday, members of the Clippers walked out on the court for their game against the Golden State Warriors with their warm-ups turned inside out. However, consistent with the slave-era analogy, a Monday Gawker article ar-gued that the players’ protest against Sterling’s remarks was cowardly compared to the boy-cotts during the Civil Rights Movement.

“I think humans are cowards. Most of us. I think that regardless of where one’s phenotype places them within the imaginary concept of race, that the majority of us are content to live on our knees rather than die on our feet,” the ar-ticle stated. “If every NBA player who wanted to stand up against racism vowed not to play until the Clippers’ owner resigned, it would be announced that he resigned before you were finished reading this. If he didn’t want to, someone would make him,” the article stated.

According to the article, money and fame is not a valid justification for enduring something that is clearly wrong. But, at the same time, if the players didn’t play the game, it would have become an unfair punishment to themselves. By not playing, the players would be the ones reversing all of their hard work and hurting their chance at advancing in the playoffs, and they would also be the ones letting down their fans. If anything, that just seems like a victory for Sterling and his bigotry.

In any business such as the NBA, it could be argued that personal opinions and senti-ments should be cast aside in the interest of profits and service. But, in reality, it is almost impossible to argue that blatant racism is ever acceptable. So, good move, Mr. Silver, for fi-nally eradicating Sterling and his racist senti-ments from the NBA — this action has been long overdue. And thank you, Mr. Sterling, for pushing the much-needed discussion around race in America.

Terrier Talk Reflections

A new bill, An Act relative to Bullying in Schools, was passed in masschusetts on Thursday to enhance protections for LGBTQ students in schools across mas-sachusetts. The Daily Free Press wanted to know how much students think admin-istrators should be involved in combat-ing bullying within schools, or does the

responsiblity lay on the parents?

Here’s what some of them said. INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOSBY ALEXANDRA WIMLEY

“Whatever happens in a school, the school is responsible for... but the source of the bullying itself is affected by parenting and should be taken care of individu-ally.”

-CAS sophomore

“A lot of times, parents don’t know what’s going on at school, and children are less likely to come home and talk to their parents about it. Insti-tutionally, you can integrate changes such as more group work in the classroom to make more of a change.”

- CAS junior

“The real issue is pushing understanding of people and knowing that people are going to be different from you. If we [schools] teach that first than maybe the problem of bullying wouldn’t be so bad.”

-COM freshman

“Bullying in schools should be taken care of by the parents, but outside of school. ... The parents should try to interact with the kids instead of trying to blame someone for bully-ing.”

-SHA freshman

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Leading the charge for the team over the last week have been senior shortstop Brittany Clendenny and sophomore pitcher Melanie Russell, who recently received the latest Patriot League Player of the Week and Pitcher of the Week awards. Clenden-ny has been on a tear since the beginning of last week, hitting three long balls and driving in nine runs, including five against Lafayette (10-32, 4-14 Patriot League) in a shortened contest, all while batting .476. She currently leads the Patriot League in RBI with 46.

“They’ve meant a tremendous amount to us,” Gleason said. “[Brittany] just gets it done. Just put the ball in play and good things will happen, and she’s been getting those RBI.”

Russell’s work on the mound has been nothing short of impressive as well, claim-ing two wins in as many starts and allow-ing eight hits in 14 innings of work. Her latest showing brought her ERA down to 2.21, third in the Patriot League.

Gleason has also been impressed with Russell’s return as she continues to recu-perate from injury.

“Ever since coming back from her inju-ry, I don’t think [Melanie] is 100 percent,” Gleason said. “But just getting her innings and getting her rhythm has been a good thing. … She’s been huge for us.”

The Minutewomen seem to relish the opportunity to play at home. While sport-

ing an underwhelming 3-9 road record, UMass has remained undefeated in eight games at home this season and have been lead by one of their seniors, Lindsey Web-ster. Webster is leading the team in RBI, home runs and total bases. With Webster serving as an offensive catalyst, and ju-nior Quianna Diaz-Patterson and freshman Jena Cozza each batting over .350 on the year, the imposing Terrier rotation could be in for a tight match.

Following the away game, the Terriers will host their final series of the season this weekend against a Bucknell (20-22, 9-6 Patriot League) team that is right on the Terriers’ heels in the Patriot League standings.

The Bison are just coming off another Patriot League series in which they took two of three from Colgate University, out-scoring the Raiders 25-10. This Bison team also features the Patriot League’s leading hitter, as junior Cydnee Sanders has been putting on a hitting clinic all season long with a .483 average off of 69 hits.

This late in the season, fatigue begins to set in for many players, and Gleason said she has been giving her players extra rest to help stave it off.

“Fatigue definitely comes into play at certain points,” Gleason said. “We’ve been trying to combat it by giving it as much rest as we can. … especially this last week of school going into finals … I think they’ll be ready to go once we start the tourna-ment next week.”

Softball hosts Bucknell in final series

McKay: McGary falls victim to ‘ridiculous’ ruling by NCAAfor committing (or attempting to commit) a serious crime while under the influence of any drug whatsoever. But there’s just no way that the NCAA should have a policy like this. Thankfully, they’ve changed it, as the NCAA decided on April 15 to change the rule to be a half-season suspension for a single positive test. Unfortunately, McGary failed under the old rule, and the NCAA has refused to grandfather him into the new policy.

But even a half-year is too much of a suspension. Division I college athletes are under ridiculous amounts of pressure, pressure that they’re not mentally pre-pared to deal with as teenagers and young adults. So, when they get really stressed out, they might do stupid stuff. I guess no

one in the NCAA has ever done anything rash or stupid when they feel overcome by stress. Smoking marijuana has been medically proven to reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. Now, we have no way to prove that McGary smoked because he was stressed. Maybe he just wanted to get high. I doubt it was his first time smoking. But that’s really beyond the point; of all the draconian policies and rules the NCAA en-forces, this might be the most ridiculous. The official classification of marijuana as a “street drug,” the same designation given to heroin, cocaine and meth, is absolutely ridiculous.

So how can the policy be improved? I think there should be some sort of penalty; again, smoking marijuana recreationally is still against the law in 48 out of 50 states. The NCAA can’t just say, “We don’t care

if you violate the law,” but they also can’t say, “we take punitive measures against occasional marijuana users because we’re trying to protect what’s left of our integ-rity.” That’s exactly what this policy is: a desperate power play and the NCAA’s attempt to maintain a semblance of dig-nity amid the numerous scandals that have rocked college sports over the last decade. They’re grasping at straws, doing anything and everything that they can do to seem like everything is going according to plan.

The NCAA is supposed to prioritize the student-athletes that play the games. It’s not supposed to govern for its own self, to make examples out of those who com-mit minor infractions rather than to pursue larger issues and larger infractions. There’s a reason that marijuana is being decriminal-ized in state after state in America. There’s a

reason that medical marijuana is being pre-scribed by doctors more and more. When I think about this situation I visualize the NCAA as a policeman, fat and tired, sigh-ing from exasperation as he slaps handcuffs onto a harmless stoner while an uncaught serial killer watches and laughs. There are bigger problems out there, NCAA. There’s so much more you could do with your con-siderable resources and influence. Maybe you could start by exposing and punish-ing every program that pays their players instead of worrying about who’s passing a joint around in the basement of a fraternity house. Stop wasting your own time, stop wasting your athletes’ time, and get with the program. Mitch McGary is the poster child of NCAA tyranny, and it’s unfair to him and athletes across the country.

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“I have been coaching for 20 years now, and I don’t know if I have been prouder of a group of guys,” Quinn said after the win. “We just refused to lose tonight. There were a lot of obstacles and a lot of hurdles and we found a way to get it done. … To me, that is what BU hockey has been about for a long, long time.”

Unfortunately for the Terriers, that win became a marker of more than just Quinn’s pride for his team, it was also one of the last highlights of the season. BU was winless in its next eight games, going 1-14-3 from Dec. 1 to Feb. 17.

Part of the Terriers’ struggles came from an offense that still failed to produce and a power play that went from being one of the top-ranked in the nation to being 31st of 59 teams. The team also had to deal with the fact that it was shorthanded. Sophomore defense-man Matt Grzelcyk dislocated his shoulder in a practice in early-January. Then, in mid-January, sophomore forward Sam Kurker, who struggled to stay in the lineup throughout the season because of penalty trouble, left the team. After that, sophomore Danny O’Regan never returned to full form after suffering an undisclosed injury during the World Junior Championships.

“Our D core [was] not as deep,” Quinn said after the season ended. “We lost an of-fensive dynamic to it. When Grzelcyk went out we were seventh in the country in power play. We had a hell of a power play. … You take one guy off and the whole thing gets steamrolled and people may not understand the trickle down effect it had.”

BU would not win again until the final weekend of the regular season and doing so

in the most unlikely of circumstances. With multiple players benched for violating team rules, BU defeated Northeastern University at home 4-1 on the same night that it hon-ored former head coach Jack Parker and its graduating class. The Terriers then defeated the Huskies (19-14-4, 10-8-2 Hockey East) at Matthews Arena for their first and only road win of the year the next night.

The weekend sweep meant the team’s sec-ond trip within three weeks to South Bend, Ind., to play the University of Notre Dame. While BU fought back with a goal in both the second and third periods, it never got the puck luck it needed in the final five minutes to advance to the second round of the Hockey East playoffs, falling 3-2.

Almost one year to the day after he was announced as the next head coach of the men’s hockey team, Quinn’s first season came to an end.

Next year’s Terriers will look consider-ably different. With an incoming freshmen class that includes some top-ranked pros-pects, a sophomore class that picked up an excess of experience in their first year and Quinn’s admission that he will make roster cuts, BU is leaving the transition year of its new era.

“I judge everything based on can you play on a national championship team here at BU, because at the end of the day, that’s what we want to do and that is what the expectations are,” Quinn said. “I learned that we have a core here, we didn’t have enough. I think with the recruiting class we have coming in, we are going to have all the right pieces in the right places in order for guys to maximize their potential.”

Injuries, youth doom men’s hockeyMen’s hoCkey: From Page 8

they could not get anything going in the first few games, with the midfielders car-ried the scoring load for the most part. As the season progressed, attacks like fresh-man Taylor Hardison and senior Elizabeth Morse started to ramp up their production.

At season’s end, the Terriers did not have one player in the top 10 for goals per game, points per games or shots per game in the Patriot League. Their offense was anemic for a large segment of the season and the team only eclipsed the 10-goal mark three times during the regular sea-son.

“Our attacks did not produce at all for us at times,” Robertshaw said. “I always told them that we needed more from them. They just really weren’t producing enough. It really irritated me. Lucky for us, our midfielders tried their hardest to pick up the slack. But that doesn’t mean we should be satisfied. [The attacks] should want more, they should want to score.”

All-Patriot League Second-Teamer and senior midfielder Becca Church, and All-Patriot League First-Teamer sophomore midfielder Jill Horka did their best to ‘pick up the slack’ as both had 25 goals apiece to lead the team. Horka provided one of her best efforts of the year in the conference championship game, delivering a hat trick

for the Terriers. The sophomore was phe-nomenal throughout the 2014 campaign, topping the team in multiple offensive cat-egories.

This imbalance in the offensive attack, along with many other factors, led to a very up-and-down season. The Terriers opened the season with four straight non-conference losses. They then finally won their first game of the year against Ameri-can University, but then fell to John Hop-kins University just days later.

As conference play arrived, the Terriers rattled off five straight wins, beating the then-No.14 U.S. Naval Academy, 9-8, in the process.

Once they arrived to the playoffs, they knocked off Lehigh University and Navy (14-3, 6-2 Patriot League) to reach the Pa-triot League Championship game. There, they were outmanned by the Greyhounds (15-4) and ended the season as runners-up in the Patriot League.

“I am a little disappointed, I’m not go-ing to lie,” Robertshaw said. “But it was just our first year. We have years to learn more about this league and grow. And I feel like we really can. I see a bright future for us.”

The Terriers’ season is not officially over, as the team is set to take on Boston College on Saturday at Nickerson Field.

Inconsistent offensive output hampers women’s lacrosse in 2014 campaign

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matchup between the University of Okla-homa and Wichita State University.

Men’s Tennis Falls in Patriot League Tournament

Competing in its first Patriot League championship tournament on Friday and Saturday, the Boston University men’s ten-nis team competed admirably, but fell to the U.S. Naval Academy in the semifinal match in West Point, N.Y.

The Terriers (9-10) came into the week-end as the No. 2 seed behind the U.S. Mili-tary Academy. As such, they received a bye into the tournament’s second round, where they faced seventh-seeded Loyola Univer-sity–Maryland.

BU dominated from the get-go against the Greyhounds (10-7). In doubles, the duo of freshman Jake De Vries and classmate Jay Leelavanich posted a commanding 8-3 win in the No. 3 slot. Following suit, De Vries and Leelavanich’s teammates, se-niors Chanon Varapongsittikul and Jesse Frieder, defeated the tandem of junior Har-rison Kunkel and senior Connor Lisco by the same margin.

Things did not get better for the Grey-

hounds in singles play, as BU completed the sweep. Freshman Lucas Bombonatti got things started for the Terriers with a 6-3, 6-0 win over sophomore Jordan Kuchta in the No. 5 slot. Leelavanich then downed sophomore Alex Castro 6-3, 6-4. In the No. 4 slot, freshman Mario Sandoval beat soph-omore Greg Olesnycky 6-2, 6-3 to punch the Terriers’ ticket to the semifinals.

A day later, BU matched up against the No. 3 seed Navy (18-10). In the quarter-finals, the Midshipmen took down Buck-nell University 4-0. De Vries and Leela-vanich fell to freshman Krishna Jana and sophomore Alex Gaines in the No. 3 slot, but the duos of Lemire and Sandoval and Varapongsittikul and Frieder won their respective matches to clinch the doubles point for BU.

Early on in singles play, rain forced the players to move indoors to the Lichtenberg Tennis Center to finish out the contest. The Terriers pulled ahead 3-1 thanks to key wins from Leelavanich and Bombonatti in the No. 6 and No. 5 spots, respectively. Navy would come storming back, though, winning the remaining three singles match-es to secure its spot in the championship match against Army (19-5).

M. Tennis falls in conference semifinalTennis: From Page 8

Boston University Athletics marketed the 2013-14 season as a “New Era” for BU Athletics.

Along with other changes throughout the department, the uni-versity hired a new bench boss for its men’s hockey team for the fi rst time in 40 years. As the new-season excitement wore off and the slogan lost its shimmer, though, it became clear that the fi rst year of this era was going to be a transition.

The season started off well enough for the Terriers (10-21-4, 5-12-3 Hockey East) and fi rst-year head coach David Quinn. In its opening weekend, BU defeated the University of Massachusetts and the College of the Holy Cross at Agganis Arena.

After starting its season with a 3-1 stretch at home, the Terriers took to the road. In what became a trend over the course of the year, however, BU dropped both away games — one against the Universi-ty of Michigan and the other against Michigan State University. At the time, the bigger issue was that af-ter a tight game against Michigan (18-13-4), the team derailed against Michigan State (11-18-7). The Ter-riers took a 1-0 lead at the end of the fi rst period, but with fi ve min-utes left in the game, gave up three goals in what was ultimately a 3-1 loss.

Quinn showed frustration with his team after the game, calling its performance “youth hockey” and adding that the team should “be ready to practice on Tuesday.” BU took 13 penalties on the weekend and was outshot 77-46.

“Without our goaltending, God knows where we’d be right now,” Quinn said. “They’re allowing us to grow and fi nd our way, win some hockey games in the process.”

Sophomore goaltenders Sean Maguire and Matt O’Connor kept the Terriers in the majority of their games. Even when BU’s offense struggled during the middle portion of the season, the duo gave their team a chance as the Terriers had 10

two-goal losses and lost four games by a mere goal. Mixed into those small differentials were 11 empty netters.

After a comeback win over Providence College on Nov. 1 in its return to Agganis Arena, BU strug-gled to produce, as it dropped its next three games. The team failed to score more than one goal in any of the losses during that streak.

As they had done earlier in the season, the Terriers bounced back at home, picking up two straight wins and a tie in their next three games. In the middle of that stretch, though, BU lost junior forward Ca-son Hohmann for an indefi nite pe-

riod of time because of a shoulder injury.

Despite the inconsistencies the team had experienced during the fi rst half of the season, the team found a reason to celebrate on the last day of November when it de-feated Cornell University in the fourth edition of Red Hot Hockey at Madison Square Garden. The team also came away with the fi rst-ever Kelley-Harkness Cup. BU won the game 3-2, but was outshot 39-11, adding on to a previously existing theme where the Terriers struggled to get shots on goal.

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MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS FILE PHOTOThe loss of defenseman Matt Grzelcyk in January dealt a huge blow to the Terriers’ power-play unit.

Saturday, May 3Softball vs. Bucknell, 12 p.m., 2 p.m.

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In the second round of the broomball playoffs, Daily Free Domination lost to

BUPT Tuesday night.

Softball vs. Bucknell, 12 p.m.M. Lacrosse vs. Duke, 1 p.m.

With the regular season com-ing to a close, the Boston Univer-sity softball team is gearing up for its last few games as it pre-pares for a Wednesday matchup against the University of Massa-chusetts – Amherst followed by its final regular-season series: a weekend Patriot League matchup against Bucknell University.

A weekend sweep of Patriot League rival Lafayette College and a win on Monday against the University of Massachusetts–Lowell brought the Terriers’ (30-18, 11-4 Patriot League) six-game homestand to a close as they took all six games and extended their win streak to 11 games. With the momentum gained on their home turf, the Terriers hope to bring down a Minutewomen (14-19) team that is undefeated at home this year.

In their last six games, the Terriers were firing on all cylin-ders both offensively and on the mound. During the homestand, they outscored their opponents 28-11, including four games where their opponents plated only one run. Over the course of the win streak, they have been oblit-erating opponents, outscoring teams by a total of 50 runs.

BU coach Kathryn Gleason said she is happy with the way her team has been playing.

“I think we’ve finally put all three facets of the game to-gether,” Gleason said. “It’s been tough during the midweek games, but … our pitching staff has been doing a great job. … It’s been somebody different every day. One day it’s [freshman third base-man] Brittany Younan, the other it’s [senior catcher] Amy [Ekart]. … We just never know who it’s going to be.”

NOT-SO-HAPPY NEW YEAR’S

The BU men’s hockey team posted a 3-12-2 record after Jan. 1 during the 2013-14 season.

Quotable“ “We are going to have all the right pieces in the right places in order for guys to maximize their potential.

-BU coach David Quinn on the upcoming 2014-15 season.

W. lacrosse posts promising season

In its first season as a member of the Patriot League, the Bos-ton University women’s lacrosse team fell just short of its goal, losing to No.10 Loyola Univer-sity-Maryland 18-7 in the Patriot League Championship game.

“I’m proud of my girls,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw. “They competed the whole season. I felt like we were in every game, and they always played with confi-dence. It was our first time in this league. No one likes to settle, es-pecially me, but I’m happy with the results.”

Junior attack Lindsay Weiner led the way for the Terriers (9-10, 5-3 Patriot League) all season, as she had a team-high 36 points. In

recognition of her efforts, Wein-er was named to the All-Patriot League second team and was announced as a member of the Patriot League All-Tournament Team after the season concluded.

“Lindsay was fantastic the whole season,” Robertshaw said. “She always brought her best. Our attack wasn’t the best this year, I know that, we know that. I got on them in the beginning of the season for their lack of scor-ing. But she always made them look better. Every time we were down, I knew I could turn to her to make a game-changing play. She’s a playmaker.”

Consistency in the Terriers’ at-tack was a recurring problem, as

By Emmanuel GomezDaily Free Press Staff

Softball set to close book on regular season

By Joe CalabreseDaily Free Press Staff

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Men’s hockey stumbles in transitional season

Mitch McGary was the break-out star of the Michigan Wol-verines’ run to the 2013 NCAA men’s basketball championship game. As a true freshman play-ing in his fi rst March Madness tournament, McGary scored 21 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the third round as the Wolver-ines topped VCU. In the Sweet 16 matchup against top-seeded Kansas, McGary scored 25 points while bullying his way to the glass for 14 rebounds. He even-tually cooled off in the National Championship game against Lou-isville as the Wolverines fell in a close game, 82-76. All in all, McGary averaged 14.3 points and 10.7 rebounds per game during the tournament.

Prior to this season, McGary was listed as a preseason All-American by ESPN, but was hampered by back issues during the 2013-14 campaign, culminat-ing in back surgery in January. He went from being a consensus lottery pick to a probable second-round pick, a position from which few NBA players have achieved long-term success. It was widely believed that McGary would re-turn to Michigan for his junior year to attempt to improve his draft stock, and to mature as a basketball player and person.

But instead, McGary will en-ter the NBA Draft. Why? Because he tested positive for marijuana during the NCAA Tournament this year. As a result, he faced a one-year suspension, thanks to NCAA policy. So, understand-ably, McGary decided to take his chances at the next level, where he’ll probably earn a very lucra-tive contract.

I’m not saying that McGary should get off scot-free. He did violate the NCAA’s substance-abuse policy and also violated Michigan state law that prohib-its usage of marijuana. But a one-year suspension for smoking weed? Are you kidding me? I can understand a one-year penalty for having a legitimate addiction to a hard drug like cocaine or heroin. I can understand a one-year penalty

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Sunday, May 4

Track @ Patriot League Championships, All Day

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Patrick McKay

The Boston University wom-en’s tennis team will be heading down to Florida to face the No. 15 University of Miami in the fi rst round of the NCAA Tournament.

BU (14-6) earned an automat-ic berth in the tournament after posting a 4-1 win over nine-time defending conference champion U.S. Military Academy in the Pa-triot League Championship game in Lewisburg, Pa., on April 20. This is the 14th NCAA bid for the program and its fi rst since 2011, when the Terriers fell to ninth-seeded University of California-Berkeley in the opening round, 4-0.

After getting swept by the Uni-versity of Virginia in the semifi -

nals of the Atlantic Coast Confer-ence tournament, the Hurricanes (19-5) received a No. 12 seed.

Sophomore Johanna Hyoty has led the Terriers all season. In Patriot League tournament play, she went undefeated in singles play and was awarded MVP of the tournament. In addition, Hyoty was named Patriot League Player of the Month for the month of March.

Miami boasts a powerful dou-bles duo in junior Monique Albu-querque and sophomore Clemen-tina Riobueno. The tandem sits 11th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s doubles rankings.

The winner of the May 9 con-test will take on the victor of the

Women’s tennis to face No.15 MiamiBy Jacklyn Bamberger

Daily Free Press Staff

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