Damage from Hurricane Sandy left more than debris in its wake, as a debate fallout between Democratic Senate candi-date Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Sen. Scott Brown jeopardizes the fourth and final po-litical match for the public.

After both Brown and his Democratic opponent agreed not to participate in the final televised debate, Brown pulled out of the debate because of other scheduling is-sues.

Colin Reed, Brown’s communications director, said in an email statement that it is unfortunate that nature intervened in a way both campaigns agreed made the de-bate inappropriate.

“With only days remaining in the cam-paign, and with a long-planned bus tour kicking off Thursday through Election Day that will take Scott Brown to every corner

of the Commonwealth, our calendar sim-ply cannot accommodate a rescheduling of this fourth debate and the planning and preparation that would go into it,” Reed said.

The action prompted a negative reaction from the Warren campaign, which agreed to reschedule the debate for Thursday.

“We’ve been working with the consor-tium of media organizations throughout this process on scheduling the debate,” said Warren campaign spokeswoman Julie Edwards in an email.

Mindy Myers, Warren’s campaign man-ager, said in an email statement that Brown does not want to have to talk about his re-cord.

“Unfortunately but not surprisingly, Scott Brown is again ducking questions about his record voting on the side of big oil and billionaires and against equal pay for equal work, against a pro-choice Su-

preme Court Justice and against insurance coverage for birth control,” Myers said.

Both candidates visited Scituate and other areas affected by the hurricane on Tuesday.

Reed said in a statement released Mon-day that Brown had chosen to drop out of the final debate to focus on the recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy.

“The Scott Brown campaign today an-nounced that out of concern for the hard-ship faced by people in the path of Hurri-cane Sandy that he will not be participating in tomorrow’s fourth and final debate,” Reed said in a statement.

The campaign said it would be “inap-propriate” to continue with the debate, which was scheduled to take place Tues-day night at WGBH studios in front of a live audience.

“The focus for all of us before, during

While some students said the frequency of alert messages makes it appear as if there has been more crime on Boston Universi-ty’s campus, police said the overall crime rate is lower in the fall 2012 semester.

BUPD Crime Analysis Unit Officer Peter Shin said overall crime on campus through Oct. 21 has decreased 29 percent from the 2011–12 academic year.

“We try and distribute our officers to locations that are showing higher numbers of incidents,” he said. “In places where there’s a lot of incidences, like the [George Sherman Union], we try and have more presence there and deter more of that crime there.”

Shin said while he cannot quantify an increase in alerts from last year, BUPD is always attempting to make students more informed, which contributes to less crime.

“Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen an increase in people calling the de-partment for things,” he said. “We’re try-ing to make ourselves more available to the public. We want to shake that perception that people are bothering us because they think they see something but they may be embarrassed to report it to us.”

BUPD sends out alerts to students de-pending on the severity of the crime, Shin said.

“Depending on the incident, and wheth-er we think the incident is an ongoing threat to the community, an alert is going to go out,” he said.

In September and October, BU students received alerts in a string of three armed robberies and one attempted armed robbery on and around BU’s Charles River Campus.

Shin said BUPD crime reports reveal 10 robberies occurred between Jan. 1, 2011, and Oct. 21, 2011.

“The difference is these three robber-ies [in September and October] occurred in the course of 14 days, and the other 10 [in 2011] occurred somewhere around 10 months,” he said. “The timing and location of robberies can also be a big factor. If you hit two or three robberies and they’re all in the same area, it starts to affect how people

Boston geared up to reconstruct public transportation and reverse power outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a storm that left residents and businesses in the Hub mostly unharmed.

Kerry O’Brien, deputy director at the Boston Department of Neighborhood De-velopment, said city crews assessed dam-age in the Boston area on Tuesday, but speculative damage costs would still take some time to calculate.

“The initial steps are to make sure peo-ple can get to work and ensure that busi-nesses are up and running,” O’Brien said. “We also want to get homes repaired before winter sets in.”

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s hot-line received 5,591 total calls from Sunday to Tuesday regarding the storm, according to a press release from the mayor’s office.

Out of those calls, the city received 610 reports of tree emergencies and 262 reports of downed wires.

No significant flooding was reported in Boston, a fate different from other Massa-chusetts communities.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority suffered rubble-covered tracks after trees and limbs fell from the storm, said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo in an email.

“Crews worked all night to clear debris

from the tracks, allowing train service to operate this morning on all but one section of the Green Line,” Pesaturo said. “A large tree fell on the Green Line’s D branch in Newton and caused significant damage to overhead wires and the infrastructure sup-porting the wires.”

Pesaturo said bus service would contin-ue to replace trolley service between New-

ton Highlands and Riverside Stations while crews make repairs, including the installa-tion of a 45-foot steel beam.

Boston University spokesman Colin Riley said a light post on Harry Agganis Way in West Campus tilted from a 90- to 80-degree angle from the storm. Other than that, he said, BU luckily did not suffer any

After 13 years as College of General Studies dean at Boston University, Dean Linda Wells announced that she will step down to pursue different interests.

“It has been my timeline,” Wells said. “Something clicks in your head, and you know when you need a new direction in your life. I’ll be 65 when I step down. I’m not at the end of things, but I want to do something slightly dif-ferent.”

After spending 33 years at BU in a number of roles ranging from faculty member to dean, Wells said, she is looking forward to a year on sabbatical, after which she plans to return to BU in a reduced capacity.

“She’s done a spectacular job in leading CGS, which is a unique college at BU,” said University Provost Jean Morrison. “It’s a two-year program that has had really extraordinary success, much of which is attributed to Linda’s leadership.”

During her sabbatical, Wells said she plans to continue her research on work and how it shapes individual’s identity.

“I like to talk about how students, how indi-viduals, form their world view and how people take on their attitudes about what work is,” she said.

When she returns, Wells said she hopes to work with student-career development and alumni relations.

“I’m hoping to have some way to explore this through the new career center in truly a part-time capacity,” she said.

As dean, Wells said she has focused her ef-forts on improving the physical space of the CGS building, enhancing the quality of the fac-ulty and promoting the interdisciplinary liberal arts aspect of the college to potential students. She has attempted to improve flexibility and encourage more students to study abroad.

“She’s provided vision and strategic plan-ning for the college and the university at a very critical time in the university’s history, involv-ing faculty development, curriculum develop-ment and student development,” said Stacy Godnick, senior assistant dean of CGS who has worked with Wells for more than 20 years.

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major damage from Hurricane Sandy.

“We were really very fortu-nate,” he said. “It really wasn’t a huge rain event, it was a real wind event. It didn’t hit nearly as hard as it did in [New] Jersey.”

College of Communication sophomore Sierra Brown said the storm did not live up to the hype.

“I wasn’t really expecting any-thing big,” she said. “I was here last year at Irene and they made that a big deal and all it was a little wind and a lot rain.”

Brown did not lose power in her dorm room in Myles Standish Hall.

The state’s Department of Pub-lic Utilities has been in close con-tact with private utility provid-ers since the storm to ensure that power is returned to residents in a timely fashion, said Krista Selmi, a spokeswoman for the Massa-chusetts Executive Office of En-ergy and Environmental Affairs, in an email.

“The utilities were told in advance of this storm that the Commonwealth and its people

are watching their response very closely,” Selmi said. “They will be measured by their response time and work on the ground.”

Although Selma said power outage numbers across Massa-chusetts hit a peak of 387,279, on Monday, NSTAR reported only about 2 percent of its Boston cus-tomers without power that day.

By Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., NSTAR reported only 1,198 cus-tomers without power — 0.41 percent of its Boston clientele.

Massachusetts outage numbers also shrunk to 234,687 as of Tues-day afternoon, Selmi said.

Davor Birus, who lives in the South End, said he did not lose power in his apartment.

“I only noticed some broken trees, but other than that I didn’t notice any damage around my apartment,” he said.

But Birus said he heard a lot of his work colleagues lost power in their homes.

“From what I heard on the news I was expecting something much worse, but I’m happy it was more mild than expected,” he said.

Menino announced on Tuesday

that the city would help business owners, homeowners and elderly Boston residents facilitate needed renovations after the storm.

“It’s so important that resi-dents and business owners take care of water or wind damage before the winter comes, and the City is equipped to help in getting that work done effectively,” Me-nino said in a press release.

Laura Baker, key-holder at Newbury Comics on Newbury Street, said the store suffered no power loss, leaky roofs or flood-ing.

“We closed at one o’clock on Monday to get employees home safely,” she said. “Everything went smoothly shutting the store. Almost the entirety of Newbury closed then.”

The Boston Marriot Long Wharf did not lose power or re-ceive any damages at all from the hurricane, an employee con-firmed.

Kaileigh Mulligan, an employ-ee at FoMu in Allston, said the store did not lose power.

“We weren’t open all day yes-terday to make sure that employ-ees stayed safe,” she said.

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think.”Shin said crime has decreased

in areas other than robberies.Between Sept. 1, 2011, and

Oct. 21, 2011, BUPD crime re-ports reveal there were three in-cidences of aggravated assault in 2011 and none in 2012. There were six incidences of simple as-sault in 2011 compared to four in 2012, and five incidences of car break-ins in 2011, compared to two in 2012.

Shin said larceny and burglary have the highest number of inci-

dents at BU.The crime report for the aca-

demic year shows there were 95 larceny incidents in 2011 com-pared to 56 in 2012, he said. There were eight burglary inci-dents from Sept. 1, 2011, to Oct. 21, 2011, compared to one from Sept. 1, 2012, to Oct. 21, 2012.

Shin said BUPD has been do-ing crime analysis for the past six years and crime rates will likely stay decreased.

“Over the years, we’ve real-ized when and where the ebb and flow of crime is,” he said. “Tradi-

tionally, we get the downturn hits right after the end of October, go-ing into November.”

Some students said the fre-quency of recent alerts have made them feel unsafe and perceive more crime, despite the overall decrease in crime.

“I feel less safe on campus be-cause I don’t know what BUPD is doing to stop the crimes,” said Erin Mullen, a School of Manage-ment junior. “The suspects of the robberies just turned themselves in.”

Nicolas Charlet, a College of

Engineering junior, said the alerts are not necessarily helpful.

“I don’t find the alerts very helpful, because there isn’t much you can do about them,” he said.

Natalie Nader, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, she the alerts make her more aware but would prefer them to be con-centrated.

“I’d appreciate it if BUPD sent me crime alerts through one me-dium,” she said.

Nader said she feels safer on campus after the robberies stopped.

“I felt less safe on campus while the robberies were happen-ing, but now that it’s over, I’m not as worried,” she added.

College of Communication sophomore Winnie Branton said she appreciates the alerts.

“It makes me feel aware of what’s going on on campus. BUPD tells us to avoid a certain part of campus, and I find this helpful,” she said. “There is prob-ably less crime, but it just seems like there is more because so much crime has happened in such a small amount of time.”

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and after the storm needs to be on emergency response and disaster relief, not campaigns and poli-tics,” Reed said.

The Warren campaign echoed this sentiment in a statement re-leased Tuesday, in which Myers said their “focus over the next 48 hours must be on public safety and holding the utilities account-able for restoring power as soon as possible.”

The Warren campaign stated the debate should still go on and that they were working with the debate organizers to reschedule, possibly for Thursday.

Hurricane Sandy has caused “significant” damage in the state and left more than 235,000 resi-dents without power, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency’s website.

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, as well as Senate candidates in Pennsylvania, Vir-ginia and Maine, also cancelled campaign activities.

Some Boston University stu-

dents said the public deserves a final debate, as they offer voters a chance to see where the candi-dates really stand on issues, with-out editing or a press barrier.

“It’s important because you get to see them without any pre-pared statements,” said Nicole Briguet, a sophomore in the Col-lege of Communication.

Samantha Marquez, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the importance of debates varies with different people.

“It’s important for undecid-eds, but if you know your politi-cal party and you agree with the stances of the party’s candidate, then it’s not as important,” she said.

Ally Slaney a sophomore in the College of General Studies who has already voted in Mas-sachusetts, said she did not really know the candidates very well.

“I knew about Scott Brown from when he ran last time,” Slaney said. “But all I knew about Elizabeth Warren was from a friend who went to her rally on campus.”

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The Massachusetts Gaming Commission continues running on a schedule that will potentially imple-ment licensure plans for state casinos by the end of the year, as commission members remain optimistic about plans for employee training.

In its 33rd public meeting on Tuesday, the commission evaluated further research and development plans concerning the approval of the maximum three casino licenses and one slots license in the state.

Since Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick signed the expanded gaming law in 2011, the committee has met to pool together its resources in order to out-line a proposal regarding the loca-tions of the three casinos.

“We want to put together a thoughtful framework for us to make an educated decision,” said Commis-sioner Enrique Zuniga, one of the five-members of the commission es-tablished by the law.

The commission aims to begin implementing plans for licensure by the end of the year, said Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby.

“We’ll continue to use the No-

vember timeframe to consult with the appropriate committees and teams we’ve put together and aim to put these plans into action by the end of December,” Crosby said.

The initial proposals by each competing site will be evaluated and the ones chosen by the commit-tee will become applicants, at which time a background investigation to determine each company’s financial stability to follow through on a proj-ect will be launched, Crosby said. He said bids from eight to 10 companies have already been submitted to the commission, and the first license is set to be granted by early 2014.

The commission is optimistic about the success that its planning has seen, particularly in the area of training for casino employment, said Commissioner Bruce Stebbins. The construction of three casinos would allow between 10,000 and 12,000 new jobs to be created in the state, including gaming, hospitality and bartending positions.

The employee training program, available through community col-leges, will transform people who are marginally suitable for employment

into people who are ready to be hired, Crosby said.

Commissioner Gayle Cameron said casino employees are often em-ployed for longer and move up the employee ladder.

“Employees starting at very low levels will be able to move up into higher positions with these programs, and they won’t be stuck in one level job their entire time there,” she said.

While the commission moves for-ward with its plans for development, however, there are many residents of the Commonwealth who oppose the idea of new casinos.

Julie Steinmar, a member of Unit-ed to Stop Slots in Massachusetts from Western Massachusetts, told The Daily Free Press that the addi-tion of gambling facilities in the state would do more harm than good.

“The economic and employment benefits of predatory gambling have been extremely inflated by state gov-ernments across the country,” Stein-mar said. “In a nutshell, states are exploiting the addiction of a person in order to take the profits for them-selves.”

As thousands of trick-or-treaters don ghost costumes on Wednesday, Boston Paranormal Investigators founder Thomas Elliott said specters do not actually celebrate Halloween.

“They inhabit an alternate uni-verse that’s everywhere,” he said. “You don’t have to go to a dark creepy place to find a ghost. They’re around us all the time.”

Boston-based paranormal groups said while they receive more media attention in the fall, they operate year-round to investigate strange and mys-terious occurrences.

Elliott said that since March 2006, his group has worked to promote ex-tensive research in all aspects of the paranormal, including hauntings, UFOs and parapsychology.

“We essentially try to come up with enough evidence to prove that we [humans] go on after death,” he

said.Despite stigmas that might sur-

round paranormal groups, Elliott said BPI is taken very seriously.

There are several groups similar to BPI in the New England area, and this is the first year conferences have brought all the groups together, he said.

“There clearly are believers out there who are keeping our businesses running,” he said.

Elliott said BPI refrains from us-ing mediums, psychics, spiritualists and Ouija boards, as typically seen on TV and in films, opting for a more scientific approach.

“Most simply we use digital cam-eras because they show us translucent and transparent objects, as well as dif-ferent shapes and sizes,” Elliott said. “After collecting the data, we then have to analyze what it represents. Some say that the flash represents dust, while others say that it’s spirit

energy.”The group also uses digital audio

recorders, although spirits do not have vocal chords, he said.

“They can, however, manipulate electronics inside the recorder,” he said. “We ask them questions, and they respond by transcribing a mes-sage.”

Elliott said the majority of the required technology is common and cheap.

“It’s an activity anyone can af-ford,” he said.

Elliott said one of Boston’s haunt-ed areas includes Georges Island in the Boston Harbor, where Fort War-ren was built during the Civil War on Georges Island as a prison for Con-federate soldiers and disloyal citizens.

After hearing of her husband’s imprisonment, a woman fled to the fort dressed as a man, carrying an old pistol.

While attempting to shoot a guard,

the pistol went off and killed her hus-band. She was tried for murder and hung. Before she died, she asked to be dressed as a woman and wore black drapes to mimic a dress.

Today, the woman is said to haunt Georges Island.

“Rangers refuse to go out to cer-tain places at night because they hear her moans and crying,” Elliott said. “What they hear is the spirit’s ma-nipulation of sound waves in the at-mosphere that are modulated like an

BU extends ED app. deadline after hurricanecampus & city Wednesday, OctOber 31, 2012 3

Boston University officials an-nounced Monday that they will ex-tend the early decision application deadline as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

The deadline was extended from Nov. 1 to Nov. 5 to provide students affected by the storm additional time to apply, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

“We understand that some people are without power — some people are out of their homes, some people have real serious difficulties and pri-orities right now that they need to ad-dress and we want to give them some flexibility,” he said.

The deadlines for January fresh-man and January transfer applica-tions are also extended to Nov. 5, according to the BU Admissions website.

“When things like that [the storm] happen, we’re sensitive and flexible with our deadlines,” Riley said.

Riley said the decision to extend the deadline in conjunction with a Sunday statement from the National Association for College Admission Counseling advocating a deadline extension.

“These extreme weather condi-

tions could result in power outages for many homes and schools for an extended period of time, possibly impacting students’ and counselors’ ability to submit application materi-als by Nov. 1,” the NACAC state-ment read.

Riley said colleges often must take extreme conditions into account.

“Generally, whenever there’s an area of the country that’s affected, schools recognize that, particularly schools with large numbers of people

who apply for early action or early decision,” he said.

Riley said BU usually receives fewer than 1,000 early decision ap-plications per year and the majority has already been submitted.

He said the decision date should not be affected by the deadline ex-tension, and applicants should still receive a decision by Dec. 15.

Some high school students said they were happy they have extra time

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Women graduating from college will still earn less than the men grad-uating alongside them with the same degrees, a new study suggests.

The study, “Graduating to a Pay Gap,” came out Friday and found that even when men and women at-tend similar universities and graduate with the same major, women on av-erage earn 82 percent less than men who accept the same type of job.

“What we wanted to do with this study is look behind the pay gap, what’s driving these differences,” said Catherine Hill, one of the au-thors of the study from the American Association of University Women. “It’s really a great opportunity to look at how educational choices end up affecting earnings.”

The study suggested that the ma-jors women choose, what type of jobs they take and differences in the hours that men and women work account for some of the pay gap. However, the study also showed 6.6 percent of the pay gap is unaccounted for.

Hill said there is not a way to prove why exactly there is still a pay gap.

“We don’t know why these dif-ferences exist,” she said. “We look at survey data that is taken by the fed-eral government and it’s not going to be able to tell us how and why.”

The Boston University commu-nity said discrimination could be the cause of this unaccounted pay gap.

“If the area is a male-dominated job area or sector, it looked to me [from the study] like that’s where the pay gap was,” said School of Law professor Michael Harper. “[This] suggests that the decision makers are more likely to be men in the male-dominated fields and they are more likely to discriminate against women than are other women.”

Hill said a number of people are not aware of their own stereotypes and biases.

“A lot of people think stereotypes are a thing of the past and women can do whatever we want,” Hill said. “Some of the other research that we’ve done and other people have done suggests that stereotypes still affect us and how we think about ourselves and our choices and they affect how we behave toward oth-ers.”

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An officer responded to an as-sault and battery on Penniman Road and Hano Street in Allston at about 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, where he witnessed a man with a visible head injury. Several people were attending to him and one member of the group said an am-bulance was on the way. Another member of the group told the offi-cer that an ambulance was needed and not the police, and held the victim’s hand. The officer took out his flashlight and noticed the victim had a large swollen bump on the left side of his face and an abrasion on his right temple, at which point the woman swung at the officer’s hand telling him to get the light out of the victim’s face.

The group began to yell at the officer, who ordered everyone to back away. Boston EMS trans-ported the victim to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. The officer found that no one saw the assault, although one witness said he had seen the victim walking with difficulty downstairs. The group thought that the man likely fell down the stairs of the house and stumbled outside.

Grand seas heistOn Saturday, police received a

report that a 2004 yacht boat trailer was taken from a driveway on Col-borne Road between 11 p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m. the next morn-ing. The trailer contained a Honda Aquafresh Jet Ski, amounting to a $1,000 loss.

Precious jewelsPolice received a report on

Thursday about a breaking and entering incident on Egremont Road that occurred between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. The owner of the house said he observed the front door pried open and several of his and his roommate’s items missing, including an Apple MacBook Pro and several items of jewelry. The estimated value of the stolen items was set at $2,200.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM ELLIOTT/BOSTON PARANORMAL INVESTVESTIGATORSThe Boston Paranormal Investigators use digital cameras to analyze translu-cent objects to research paranormal activity, such as the spiritual vortex that appeared in this photograph taken at The Victorian in Gardner.

PHOTO BY ABIGAIL LIN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFBoston University pushed back its early decision deadline from Nov. 1 to Nov. 5 so applicants caught in the hurricane could have more time to complete the application.

The following reports were tak-en from the Allston-Brighton D-14 crime logs from Oct. 25 to Oct. 30.

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Wells envisioned the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learn-ing, which enhances interdisciplinary collaboration for faculty and students and substantiates the relevance of the liberal arts education, Godnick said.

“We have a new space that is be-ing renovated,” she said. “That’s go-ing to be my last decorating job.”

Godnick said Wells put CGS on the map nationwide as one of the premier interdisciplinary liberal arts programs.

“That’s one of her main legacies — she’s traveled the world promot-ing the interdisciplinary core curricu-lum that other schools and colleges are trying to emulate,” Godnick said.

Wells said working with young people and having the opportunity to teach has been an honor.

“I think my legacy will be my

own students,” Wells said. “I was a faculty member here for a long time. That’s what really motivates me — that is what is fulfilling to me as a teacher.”

Morrison said Wells has provided outstanding leadership in all aspects of the college.

“She’s done an excellent job put-ting the academic programs in place and ensuring that the college offers rigorous and effective education,” she said. “She’s been an excellent colleague to the other deans and those in the senior administration. She’s been an incredible advocate for BU outside the university with the families who have children who have been in CGS, but also with the alumni.”

Godnick said she is happy Wells is moving on to the next stage in her life but is sad the college will no lon-ger have her leadership.

“She is absolutely, by far, the best boss I’ve had in my 30 years in high-er education,” she said. “She really is one of a kind. She brings out the best in people, she motivates people, she provides an incredibly egalitarian work environment and is really one of a kind.”

Wells will be the dean of CGS until May 2013, Morrison said. The university will begin looking for her successor.

Wells said she is delighted to have served as the role of dean, but is not conflicted about leaving.

“I am honored to have been able to spend my career in higher educa-tion,” Wells said. “It is endlessly in-teresting. I love it at BU — I didn’t know I would spend my whole career here, but I did.”

Chris Lisinski contributed to the reporting of this story.

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She said men were not the only ones with these stereotypes. Women were often more critical and hard on themselves in potentially male fields.

“They were very quick to say, ‘This isn’t for me, I’m not doing well, I’m not very good at this,’ as opposed to what men would say, ‘I need to work harder, this is really challenging.’ They had more persis-tence,” Hill said.

BU students said they were not surprised by the outcome of the study, though they thought a college education would make a difference.

“It doesn’t really surprise me be-cause I’ve heard that statistic before,” said Bethany Moore, a College of Engineering sophomore. “I don’t feel like it affects me. When I graduate, I don’t think I’ll be paid less than a guy of my equivalent.”

Pantelis Gkaliamoutsas, an ENG sophomore, said the government should be able to step in to balance male and female salaries.

“It’s something that has been going on for awhile, and it’s some-thing that has to be fixed, because of course, it’s an unfair advantage,” he

said. ENG senior Veronica Faller said

she would ask about pay differences between genders before taking a job.

“And, if I’m actually in the po-sition to say I’m not going to work here because that isn’t fair, then I’d do that,” she said.

As a woman, College of Commu-nication freshman Megan Smith said the study was disappointing.

“It does surprise me a little bit because you’d think that by now women and men would have more equal pay, especially since we fought so long for equality,” she said.

Ashwini Kerkar, a Sargent Col-lege of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior, said making more people aware of the situation would help decrease the pay gap. She said the pay inequity could be hard and advised students to be tough.

“If they get married to a man, find a man that’s willing to share financial responsibilities,” he said. “Be tough. You can never have equality at the workplace unless you have equality in your family. We’ve come a long way, maybe, but we haven’t come all the way.”

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Gender pay gap unfair, students say

to complete their early decision ap-plications to BU.

“I think it was a nice relief,” said Maddy Finaly, a senior at The Hill School in Pottstown, Penn., apply-ing early decision to BU. “For me personally, because I am one of the lucky few who still has Internet and power, it’s not necessary, but it is a huge relief to know that if I did lose power or I did lose Internet, I did

have that extra time to finish up the final touches.”

Finaly said students have been unable to contact her school counsel-ors and resources since the hurricane.

“The entire Hill School is with-out power,” she said. “While many people off campus have Internet, the school’s email system is down, so therefore we can’t contact our coun-selors, our college counselors or any-one.”

instrument.”Elliott said he enjoys his work.“For me it’s part recreation, part

work and part hobby,” he said. “You can’t lose. You’ll always have a good time.”

Scott Trainito, co-founder of Para Boston Investigators, said his group takes a scientific approach to dealing with paranormal activity.

“You have to believe that ghosts exist, although there is no scientific proof to support the claim,” he said.

Trainito said the group tries to ex-amine claims by breaking everything down individually to have a sense of what could potentially be going on.

He said 99.9 percent of claims are

explainable.“People often have inclinations

that something isn’t right or that someone is watching them,” he said. “By understanding electromagnetic fields and ion count, we can debunk a number of claims. In such scenarios, we typically find that there is a large amount of ions in the environment.”

Trainto said his organization is very credible and professional.

“We were recently featured in Forbes,” he said. “Our team is made up of people who have degrees as doctors, nurses and photography, giving us a diverse background to debunk as many claims as possible.”

Although the claims might not change, September and October are

extremely busy months for the group, he said.

“Halloween is fresh in people’s minds, so they are much more in-clined to get spooked during the sea-son,” he said.

Boston University sociology pro-fessor and department chair Nancy Ammerman said paranormal suspi-cions are fairly common.

“All of us believe in things that aren’t exactly proven,” she said. “It’s a constant in human history. How-ever, mass communication makes it a little more visible. Different forms of knowledge in the laboratory can determine what a person chooses to believe, but there isn’t much in rela-tion to this topic.”

S P O T L I G H T

Spooky spots in greater Boston By Alyssa Di Rubbo

Features Staff

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Exploring new realms

MICHELLE JAY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFThe First Spiritualist Temple in Back Bay is known for its haunted past.

Walking between Student Village II and West Campus, students might be spooked by the subtle smirk of the jack-o-lantern in the path-way. Although this creepy carving is quite

harmless, Boston and its surrounding areas have their own history of spooks and scares.

Spooky SalemFor those students eager to experience the horrors of Hal-

loween, no spot perhaps is more apt than Salem. An histori-cal place, infamous for its tragic witch trials, the town hosts a range of Halloween activities year after year.

Cory Morano, a junior in the College of Arts and Sci-ences, visited the town on Saturday and said its atmosphere helped get her into the Halloween spirit.

“It was the most crowded place I’ve ever been to,” she said. “Everyone was in costume on the commuter train ride there, and when we got off we saw that there was a street fair that day too, so it attracted a ton of people.”

While exploring Salem, Cory said she was surprised to see that it was as much of a normal town as it is an historical center.

“It’s really cool because it’s a very modern small town, but then there are bits and pieces of the old stuff, like the cemeteries and churches and courthouses,” she said. “So it’s really cool that that stuff is integrated amongst places like Ben and Jerry’s and Dunkin’ Donuts.”

Morano said Salem offers lively, spooky activities in the autumn. Tourists can wander through a witch village, explore haunted houses, enjoy a candle-lit boat or go on a trolley tour. There is also a carnival, crafts and food carts in the street.

Morano said her favorite attraction, however, was the Sa-lem Wax Museum.

“I thought [the Wax Museum] was better than the Sa-lem Witch Museum would have been because it was quicker to walk through and gave you information you wanted to

know,” she said. “It told us about the history before, during and after the witch trials — it was like a story.”

She also said to check out the The Burying Point, a cem-etery, after visiting the museum.

“The cemetery was where some of people that were talked about in wax museum were buried, so that was really cool,” she said.

But Salem is not just all about its history of witch-hunt-ing. Morano said that there was also a “free museum of the history of Salem in general, all about it’s trade and role in civil war.”

Morano said that Boston University students should defi-nitely take a trip to Salem, whether this Halloween or next, and offered tips for students planning a trip there.

“It would definitely be cool to go in a costume and stay all day and just embrace the Halloween spirit,” she said. “The people in costume looked like they were having the best time — that’s the point of it. If you’re going to go, really get into it.”

BOO! In Back BayFor students who are convinced of the presence of the

spirits this Halloween, there are local destinations where they can explore the other realm as well.

“The First Spiritualist Temple on the corner of Newbury and Exeter Streets in Back Bay is a good spooky building right here in our own backyard,” said CAS Professor Wil-liam Moore.

Moore, who specializes in American religious groups and how architecture expresses religion, said the temple has a spooky history.

“Built in the 1880s, the temple was intended as a place where people could go to talk to ghosts,” he said. “Though it was a thriving religion at the time, I feel like it’s something most people don’t know about now. But for years this was a place where ghosts manifested themselves in séances.”

The temple, built in a Richardsonian Romanesque style, was meant to serve as a “center of psychic phenomena,” ac-cording to Keith Morgans’s book Buildings of Massachu-setts: Metropolitan Boston.

Haunted HarvardCambridge Historical Tours offer a “Haunted Harvard”

Ghost Tour which walks people through the haunted spots in Cambridge.

“It blended fun ghost stories with an interesting walking tour experience,” said CAS senior, Chelsea Bray.

The destinations include Winthrop Square, Harvard Yard, the Widener Library and the Harvard Bell Tower, where the tour guide tell tales about travelers to Boston, Titanic victims, Harvard students and researchers who encounter spooky oc-currences and untimely deaths.

People on the tour learn that beneath Pete’s Coffee Shop, 15 bodies had been buried as a result of “witchcraft.”

“A great Halloween activity!” Bray said.

Student’s Scary StoriesJust as all over Boston, spooky stories circulate right on

BU’s campus as well. Many BU students said they are aware of Eugene O’Neill,

the Shelton Hall’s resident ghost.“My iHome used to turn on and off in Shelton,” said Erin

Jansen, a sophomore in CAS. “It definitely does not happen in my new apartment.”

Other hauntings have scared away residents into different dorms, said students.

“I lived in Shelton for a month freshman year,” said Becky Joiner, a junior in CAS. “I lived on the fifth floor and whenever I would take the stairs I noticed the fourth floor is significantly darker and creepier than the rest of the build-ing. Supposedly that’s the floor where Eugene O’Neil died ... creepy!”

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Doctored photographs of Hurricane Sandy circulated on social media websites Monday. One of the most widely circulated images was of a dark, Halloween-esque, storm cloud encroaching on the Statue of Liberty. Another image showed massive waves crashing into the Statue of Libertyy — a photograph that was actually a still from the film “The Day After Tomorrow.”

While it would be unethical for a news or-ganization to publish these photographs with-out some sort of disclaimer, the public is not held to those same ethical standards.

Many Facebook and Twitter users posted fake Hurricane Sandy photographs without any sort of indication that the photographs were fake. As a consequence, some users came away thinking those images were real.

Most users, though, realized the images were photoshopped. They criticized posters for sharing images that were false, arguing that not everyone on Facebook and Twitter is photoshop savvy and might be misled by

those images. While those images might have misled

some, it was reassuring to see people step up to the plate and identify those images as false. It was almost like users were playing a fact-checking game similar to the ones that went on during the vice presidential and presiden-tial debates.

Monday’s situation serves as another re-minder of just how unique social media is. Social media is an evolving process. Web-sites such as Facebook and Twitter spread in-formation quickly, but at the same time allow users to verify whether not that information is correct.

However, why people would want to doc-tor images of Monday’s hurricane is still unclear. The storm was destructive enough. There are plenty of scenes of flooded high-ways and damaged buildings. It was probably not necessary for people to amplify a storm that had already caused so much despair.

Photoshopping Hurricane Sandy

Every region has its own slang. In New England, one slang term is “wicked.” In California, slang is

part of the daily vocabulary. A number of people would argue that most of the slang words used around the country originally came from California. Although I’m not an expert when it comes to slang, I know that my daily vocabulary sets me apart from those who live on the East Coast.

There’s a distinct difference between Southern California slang and Northern California slang, but in my school we had a mix of both, even though we were in Southern California. I had many friends who had moved from the Bay Area, and they brought their slang with them. So when I moved to Boston, I brought Cali-fornia slang. There were plenty of kids from California living on my floor as well, which made it homier. When I talked to California kids here, it felt like I had nev-er left home. The people here spoke my language.

But after the first few weeks, I realized that I was surrounded by even more kids from the East Coast. One day, after one of the California kids exclaimed, “It’s hella cold outside,” he received many strange looks.

During one of the first weekends here, after I asked if there were any “kick-backs” going on, I was met with confu-sion. Likewise, when a California kid used “dope,” “rad,” “gnarly” or “sus” to describe a situation, he or she was misun-derstood. It took a while for me to realize that the language I spoke was not spoken nationally.

It’s been discomforting knowing that I need to watch my language in Boston. I can speak in one way with my best friends, using the language I’ve been used to for years, but here, I need to explain the meaning behind the slang that I use. I

have gotten used to people frequently ask-ing if what I had just said was a “Califor-nia thing,” like I’s something foreign and different than what people say here.

This has made me feel like an outsider, like I don’t belong on the opposite side of the country. It has also made me long for home, a place where my friends use the same slang as I do, and I don’t feel like I have to force myself to fit in. Just like people from New England don’t feel comfortable dropping “hella” or “finna” in their daily vocabulary, I don’t feel comfortable saying “wicked” or using any other East Coast slang. Everything has been very confusing, and many people have been too stubborn to learn some of the slang that I and other Californians use. This has made it extremely difficult to get through to people and build on new rela-tionships.

You can take a girl out of California, but you cannot take California out of the girl. I will always be a California girl at heart, and my experience so far in college has taught me to seek out people who will understand that I come from another state and might use phrases that are different than the ones they use.

But if I’m open to learning the different ways people act on the East Coast, then they should be equally as open to learn-ing about life on the West Coast. More-over, if I can’t bring California to Boston, I can at least incorporate the slang that I have learned. Making new friends is hella awesome, but it’s also pretty sweet when you can learn about a group of people who are entirely different than you in their at-titudes and their way of speaking.

Rachel Chistyakov is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences and a fall 2012 columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at rachelch@bu.edu.

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Robots can write books and have been for several years, according to an article in BBC Tuesday.

Unbeknownst to most people, a profes-sor at Insead Business School, Philip Park-er has “created software that has generated over 200,000 books, on as varied topics as 60 milligram containers of fromage frais to a Romanian crossword guide,” according to the BBC article.

Using a “write by numbers approach,” the books write themselves in less than an hour, according to the BBC article.

In the last decade people have joked that robots will eventually replace humans. With many blue-collar jobs being overrun by machines nowadays, this concern is be-coming more and more real.

While book-writing robots are con-cerning (writing was always considered a creative task that could not be replicated by machines), it is unrealistic to think that robots will ever generate the next award-winning novel.

Some aspects of writing are formulaic.

For instance, books usually contain a con-flict, a protagonist and one or several an-tagonists. However, there is a certain cre-ative process that goes on in the minds of authors that does not seem like something robots can recreate.

For instance, some of our most beloved authors have created languages of their own. In Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling uses make-believe terms that a robot that relies on formulas and patterns would probably never generate on its own.

Additionally, books that are produced in under an hour probably lack the detail that most human-generated novels contain.

That being said, it’s important that au-thors do not shut themselves off to this new technology but continue to grow with it. Perhaps it will assist them in speeding up their writing process or even inspire con-tent for their next award-winning novel.

Looking forward, it will be interesting to see whether more robot-driven books are produced or whether this technology falls by the wayside.

Robot authors

Terrier Talk

BROOKGEBUYEHU“[Hurricane San-

dy] made me realize, damn, nature is scary.”

—CAS freshman

ReflectionsThe Daily Free Press asked

students for their Hurricane Sandy tales.

Here’s what some of them said.

INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS BY MAYA DEVEREAUX

POOJA SAHANIGEORGE

SIHARULIDZEANDY SHEN

“The only real ef-fect is that the pour-ing rain made it hard to smoke out-side.” —ENG junior

“My great grand-mother had died, and my family and I wanted to fly to Georgia but couldn’t since airports were closed.”—CAS senior

“I’m an RA at Warren, and it is really badly affected. Half of the rooms have leaks.” —SMG junior

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MARASCO: BU hockey fans have no reason to fear mystery of UNDdark — it’s the unknown.

Many Yankee fans have told me that they’re “afraid” to go to Fenway Park because of what Red Sox fans might say or do them.

Red Sox fans have expressed the same sentiments about the Bronx.

It’s not that big of a deal. New York or Boston, they’re just peo-ple. You’ll be fine.

Things that are foreign or exot-ic, beyond someone’s scope, tend to scare them.

Eighty percent of Americans live within 50 miles of where they were born.

I left my hometown in New Jersey and went to school in Florida for a year and a half after graduating high school.

The vast majority of my peers remained relatively close to home — staying in New Jersey or the surrounding states. A lot of them were surprised, even wary, of my decision to stray a little farther from the nest.

These are real things that people used to say to me before I left: “What about the alligators?” ”What if you get skin cancer?”

Alligators don’t eat people. Seriously, they don’t. Dogs?

Yes. People? No. Just stay away from croco-

diles.And they make sunblock in

Florida too.The anxiety people had about

these things was comical to me.The next year, I left Florida to

go to Prague. There was more anxiety among

peers.Some people were concerned

— associating the Czech Repub-lic with the USSR.

Silly, since the Soviet Union had dissolved 20 years earlier.

“What language do they speak? How will you talk to people?” How will you do this, how will you do that? — blah, blah, blah.

Everyone gave their reasons why they wouldn’t go there.

The idea of living in the Czech Republic was just so beyond the scope of a number of people, but the truth is there was nothing to be worried about.

It was the time of my life. There’s no other place I would have rather gone.

Different doesn’t mean scary.Are these western foes — Min-

nesota, North Dakota, Denver,

Minnesota, Duluth — really scar-ier than the Hockey East teams we see every week?

Do Hockey East fans have any real reason fear the WCHA?

People love to look at “all-time” data when comparing con-ferences, but for this discussion I don’t care about what happened in the Jurassic period — we’ll stick to the last five years.

So, since the 2007–08 season, Hockey East teams are 35–38–5 against the WCHA.

Hey, look. That’s not so bad. That’s just about even.

And the postseason?Yes, BU got knocked out by

Minnesota last season, but the Gophers were booted by Hockey East teams two times prior to that in the last five seasons.

North Dakota was also

knocked out of the championships twice by Hockey East foes during that period.

The last five NCAA Champi-ons?

Three winners from Hock-ey East. One winner from the WCHA.

So, what is so scary about teams from the west?

Nothing. Sure, they’re good teams,

but you only fear them because they’re less familiar to you.

In fact, they’re probably just as scared of you as you are of them.

North Dakota is a good team, but BU plays quality teams every week. Don’t be so scared of the Sioux.

Don’t fear the unfamiliar or the unknown.

That’s no way to live.

maraSCO: From page 8

justments and put people together with different people,” Durocher said. “Sometimes it takes time to get a bit of chemistry.”

Durocher said senior forwards Jenelle Kohanchuk, Isabel Men-ard and co-captain Jill Cardella have exhibited exceptional skill this season.

Cardella and Menard have thrived in their roles as playmak-ers on their lines, each totaling eight assist on the season. Men-ard has scored three times while Cardella has scored twice on the season.

“We’ve got the good fortune of having three fantastic centers who are all seniors. They’re not only great players, but highly experi-enced players,” Durocher said. “They sort of steer the ship here.”

But Durocher said the seniors are not BU’s only power play-ers. The Terriers have experience throughout the roster.

“[Defensemen] Shannon Doyle and Caroline Campbell, who are juniors, have been around college hockey for a couple of years. Shannon being the trans-fer and Caroline being a redshirt, who then played forward, but now is back to her natural position,” Durocher said. “Last year some-times we had a little more individ-uals sticking out, but I think this year we’re playing hard as a team and that shows up on the ice and it shows up on who’s making it to the score sheet.”

The younger members of the Eagles should be taken seriously, too, Durocher said.

“Alex Carpenter and Emily Field, who are both sophomores, had really top shelf years last year — they’re US National Under-18 players,” Durocher said. “On the backline, you’ve got Blake Bold-en, who’s one of those kids who’s

always teetering on the edge of the Olympic team.”

The Eagles have scored 15 goals during their season, but Durocher said their strength is in their defense.

“Their defense likes to get up in the play and rush the puck,” Durocher said. “Every time they get a hold of it, we have to make sure we’re keeping them out of the middle of the rink, pushing them out to the outside and slow-ing down their offensive progres-sion.”

As a fast team, BC has his-torically faired well on the quick Walter Brown ice.

“I expect to see pace. This rink here plays out a lot quicker than over at Boston College. For what-ever reason, the ice isn’t quite as crisp over there, and it’s a warmer building, since it’s bigger,” Duro-cher said. “We’re going to see a hungry Boston College team. We got the win the first time around. They’re a talented team, a well coached team and obviously a proud team, so I know they’re go-ing to be bringing their A-game.”

The game stretches far beyond a hometown rivalry and Beanpot bragging rights. Durocher said it could also affect the Hockey East and national standings.

“It’s another one of those piv-otal games when you look at A, Hockey East, B, national rankings and C, what’s going to happen at the end of the year and all the big rankings,” Durocher said. “It’s one of those games that has a lot of different meanings to it, and if you win this game, then you ba-sically win the season series and would have the advantage of a tiebreaker against BC in Hockey East.

“It certainly puts us in good shape, and it would be a great way to finish the month of October.”

WOmen’S hOCkeY: From page 8

“Mike was strong, showed good speed, battled down low,” said Ba-vis, Moran’s uncle, after Friday’s game.

The decision to bench Kurker was for reasons similar to sitting Maguire. Parker said Kurker looked nervous and uptight against UNH on Oct. 20, but that he should be a good player for the team in the lon-ger term.

“He has just got to take a deep breath and relax,” Parker said. “He was not his regular self.”

Bavis said there is a “good pos-sibility” Parker slots Kurker, a St. John’s Prep product and second-round draft pick of the St. Louis Blues in this year’s NHL draft, back into the lineup sometime against North Dakota.

Terriers move up in pollsBU moved up one spot in both

major national polls following its home-and-home sweep of the Min-utemen.

The Terriers are now ranked 12th according to the USCHO, as well as USA Today and USA Hockey Mag-azine polls, which are released every Monday. It is a small improvement from the 13th spot the team held the week prior.

There are a number of other Hockey East teams ranked amongst the top 15.

Boston College, defending na-tional champions, maintained its spot atop both polls, while the Uni-versity of Massachusetts Lowell grabbed the fourteenth spot.

UNH is ranked No. 9/10, while Northeastern University took the No. 15 spot, but just missed the top 15 in USA Today’s arrangement.

men’S hOCkeY: From page 8

No. 3 Terriers set for rematch with No. 8 Boston College

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Senior co-captain Jill Cardella has provided experience and leadership for the Terriers this season.

Men’s hockey moves up 1 spot in polls

defeated Binghamton, 183–116, Sat-urday afternoon.

Senior Melinda Matyas was the top diver in both the one-meter and three-meter diving events. She claimed first place in both events with scores of 233.10 in the one-meter and 258.86 in the three-meter.

Senior Megan Happ (10:29.56) claimed first place in the 1,000-me-ter freestyle, followed by senior Ka-tie Radin (10:37.85) and then fresh-man Anna Veselovsky (10:55.11).

Junior Kendra Cheng achieved a victory in the 100-meter backstroke (58.58) and freshman Mika Spencer came in first place in the 200-meter butterfly (2:07.44). Spencer was fol-lowed by freshman Celia Simpson (2:08.06) and then sophomore Avery Visser (2:11.07).

Cheng got her second first-place finish of the meet in the 100-meter freestyle (52.69). Savage then earned the win in the 200-meter backstroke (2:07.22) while Sophomore Kath-erine Kenney was victorious in the 100-meter butterfly (58.36).

The Terriers also claimed the top three spots in the 200-meter freestyle with a win by freshman Stephanie Nasson (1:55.89) and second and third place finishes by junior Meghan Grimes (1:58.40) and sophomore Alexsa Savage (1:58.42), respectively.

Freshmen Spencer (5:02.75), Nasson (5:05.08) and Olivia Hughes (5:16.41) took the top three spots in the 500-meter freestyle.

BU finished with wins in 11 of the 16 events.

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When the No. 12 Boston Univer-sity men’s hockey team visits No. 5 North Dakota for a pair of games this weekend, it will feature the re-turn of a significant piece of the team’s puzzle — head coach Jack Parker.

Parker missed both games against the University of Massa-chusetts during the weekend due to a bad back, but Senior Assistant Director of Athletic Communica-tions Brian Kelley said Tuesday that Parker has made great progress and is expected to make the trip to Grand Forks, N.D.

The 40-year Terrier bench boss was on crutches most of the week and watched Friday’s game from the coaches’ suite. He did not go with the team to Amherst — about a two-hour bus ride — for Saturday’s game.

By all accounts, though, the team did not miss a beat. Associate head coach Mike Bavis, assistant coach Buddy Powers and Director of Hockey Operations Pertti Hasanen ran the Terrier bench in Parker’s ab-sence.

“They’ve got the same systems going and they made the same calls and obviously we got a win [both nights],” said senior defenseman Sean Escobedo. “So I don’t think too much changed.”

GoaliesThe biggest question about BU

entering the season was its goalten-ding situation, and four games into the 2012–13 campaign one candi-date appears to be in the lead for the starting job.

Freshman Matt O’Connor started both of BU’s games against the Uni-versity of Massachusetts during the weekend, allowing a pair of goals in each.

After four games in net — three

starts and half a game in relief of freshman Sean Maguire — he leads the league in save percentage (.945) and is second in goals-against aver-age (1.75) behind only Providence freshman Jon Gillies (1.72).

Maguire has gotten into one game, allowing four goals in 32 minutes against the University of New Hampshire.

However, the position battle may be far from over. BU coach Jack Parker said before the season he would rotate the two in the early go-ing, and, in spite of O’Connor’s suc-

cessful weekend, there are not plans to abandon that.

“[Maguire] was really ner-vous like a lot of guys in their first freshman game,” Bavis said of the goalie’s Oct. 20 performance. “[The coaches decided to] let him just kind of take a couple games off, decom-press, get his game back in order, do some extra work with [goalie] coach [Mike] Geragosian.

“So, without speaking for coach Parker, I would expect Sean Ma-guire would be in the net sometime next weekend.”

Moran debuts, Kurker benchedThe other significant personnel

change from the weekend involved a pair of freshman forwards, Sam Kurker and Mike Moran.

Kurker played the first two games of the season, but was a healthy scratch in favor of Moran against UMass.

Moran served as the fourth-line left wing, registering one shot on goal and took one penalty in the two games.

Armed with its second consec-utive Team of the Week title, the No. 3 Boston University women’s hockey team faces No. 8 Boston College at Walter Brown Arena on Wednesday.

“I know they’ll be ready to play,” said BU coach Brian Du-rocher. “For whatever reason, they’ve had luck over here and we’ve had luck over at their place. They’re coming to a build-ing where they’ve had success, and we’re going to have to bring our A-game.”

When the two teams met on the ice on Oct. 5, (7–1–0, 3–0 Hockey East) defeated BC (2–3–0, 1–2–0) 4–2.

“They’re a talented team who’s already played some competition — a couple games with Minneso-ta-Duluth,” Durocher said. “We

had one exhibition game against McGill [before we played BC last], which might have given us a slight advantage. They’ve got a little bit of a younger team than us and having those games will help them.”

BC’s team includes six true freshmen while BU’s roster in-cludes seven.

However, freshman forward Sarah Lefort became the first Ter-rier to record two goals in her col-legiate debut, in the team’s sea-son-opening victory over Boston College on Oct. 5.

Freshman forward Jordan Ju-ron also scored her first collegiate goal against BC in the team’s opening victory.

“[BC is] going through a little bit of growing pains. I’ve looked at their lines in the different games — they’ve made some ad-

So, the Terriers had a Hal-loweekend sweep of the Univer-sity of Massachusetts, providing a pair of exciting wins and good signs from young players.

Still, though, you were mea-sured in your joy because of the opponent — a Hockey East bot-tom-feeder in recent years.

Now, you’re gearing up for a road double-feature with North Dakota, and you’re very uneasy about it.

BU hockey fans that I’ve spo-ken with this week, both casual and avid, have expressed a simi-lar message — something to the affect of, “Gee, I don’t know if we can beat North Dakota. I mean, North Dakota…”

Sure, they’re No. 5 in the na-tion — yay for them. It’s Octo-ber — I could care less about the polls.

Before the NCAA tournament clash with Minnesota last year I heard the same thing — “We’ll never beat Minnesota. It’s Min-nesota.”

When BU beat Denver last year, you would’ve thought they had beaten the ’77 Canadians. People seemed a little too sur-prised.

BC is No. 1 but I never hear anyone say, “Gee, I don’t think we have a shot against them.”

BU beat them twice on the road last year. Fans were over-joyed, but they weren’t shocked.

Why do these bouts against the western powers frighten BU fans so much?

It’s because you don’t know these teams as well, and people fear what they don’t know.

Remember when Mom would tuck you in when you were four?

You weren’t scared of what was under your bed when the lights were on.

But, as soon as she flipped them off, you’d wet yourself (per-haps literally) with fear.

Once you could no longer see your surroundings, your imagina-tion ran wild.

Anything could be lurking around in there and you wouldn’t know!

That’s why we’re afraid of the

Notebook: Parker to return to bench at UND

Sportsthe daily Free Press

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The Bottom Line

By Tim HealeyDaily Free Press Staff

maraSCO, see page 7

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Freshman goaltender Matt O’Connor appears to have taken the early lead in the starting goalie competition thanks to his .945 save percentage through four games this season.

tHe empty net

No. 3 W. hockey to host rival Eagles onWednesday

By Kira ColeDaily Free Press Staff

By Gregory DavisDaily Free Press Staff

SWimminG, see page 7

The Boston University men’s swimming and diving team defeated Binghamton University, 168–132, Saturday afternoon at the Patricia A. Saunders Aquatic Center.

Sophomores Connor Stuewe, Mario Caballero, Andy Vazquez and Cole Puchi started the meet off with a victory in the 200-meter medley re-lay with a time of 1:34.41.

In the 1,000-meter freestyle, sophomore Alec Pokornowski placed first with a time of 9:48.82 while freshman Tanner Cridland placed second with a time of 9:54.96.

Stuewe then picked up another victory in the 100-meter backstroke (50.99) while junior Jeff Thomas garnered a first-place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke (59.82).

BU took the top three spots in the 200-meter butterfly, as Caballero earned the win (1:54.54), followed

by Cridland (1:58.92) and then Vasquez (1:59.46).

Mun Hon Lee earned a win in both the 200-meter freestyle (1:43.47) and the 200-meter back-stroke (1:54.37).

Caballero came up with two more first place finishes in the 200-meter breaststroke (2:06.08) and the 200-meter individual med-ley (1:56.71). BU also took second and third place in the 200 IM, with Thomas coming in second (1:59.81), followed by Puchi (2:00.08).

Junior Jared Scheck led BU’s diving team in the one-meter and three-meter diving events, coming in second place with a score of 242.47 in the one-meter and third place with a score of 228.45 in the three-meter.

Women’s SwimmingLike the men’s team did, the BU

women’s swimming and diving team rOUnDUp, see page 7

The great unknown

Frank marascO

Quotable“ “They sort of steer the ship here.

BU women’s hockey coach Brian Durocher on his senior forwards.

How ‘bout tHat, Matt?

Boston University men’s hockey freshman goaltender Matt O’Connor has stood out early this season with a league-leading .945 save percentage. P. 8.

men’S hOCkeY, see page 7

Men’s swimming, diving take down Bearcats for road win

Sunday, Nov. 4Saturday, Nov. 3Thursday, Nov. 1 Friday, Nov. 2Wednesday, Oct. 31

W. Hockey vs. Boston College, 7 p.m.No Games Scheduled

Alcoholics everywhere are praising Angel Pagan for the free tacos.

M. Hockey @ North Dakota, 8:30 p.m.W. Tennis @ Big Green Invitational,

All Day

W. Hockey @ Boston College, 2 p.m.M. Hockey @ North Dakota, 8 p.m.

Swimming @ Fordham, 1 p.m.W. Tennis @ Big Green Invitational,

All Day