Students voiced concerns Tuesday night over a policy to be instituted in the fall requir-ing student groups to return all funds provided by the Boston University Allocations Board for philanthropic events.

“The change is basically asking for the money that was allocated from the Allocations Board toward philanthropic events to be re-turned before any proceeds from an event are donated to a charity,” said AB Chairwoman Anjali Taneja.

She said the AB looks to fund events that add to the student experience and that are a valuable use of undergraduate fees.

“The money allocated toward a charitable event to cover expenses will have to be re-turned to AB so that the returned money can be reallocated toward other events,” Taneja, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior, said.

About 100 students from various student groups gathered in the Photonics Center to at-

tend the town hall meeting. Assistant Dean of Students John Battaglino spoke to students about the AB’s new policy regarding philan-thropic events for the fall 2013 semester.

“I’m not trying to discourage you from be-ing philanthropic, but I’m trying to say that the money that goes into those endeavors, if it’s everybody’s money, we can’t give that to charities,” he told students during the meeting. “What we can do is give proceeds.”

Battaglino said the current policy allows student groups to make donations that indi-rectly include funds from the undergraduate student fee. The new policy will provide more money for student groups to host more philan-thropic events.

“We don’t have enough money for every-thing that we want to do on campus,” he said.

Battaglino said student groups requested $2 million during the 2011-12 academic year, but only $600,000 was awarded.

Although they have discussed the change

Under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, more than one million military service members re-leased from duty in the Middle East and their families are expected to pursue a postsecond-ary education at institutions such as Boston University, according to a recent report.

The Association of Private Sector Col-leges and Universities Blue Ribbon Task-force released a report Wednesday with rec-ommendations to protect prospective veteran students from recruiters and managers found to have engaged in predatory recruitment practices.

“One of the biggest things for veterans re-turning for school … is you have that break from being in a learning environment, and you lose the skills of study habits such as writing papers,” said Major Josh Goodrich, a recruiting operations officer of BU’s ROTC program. “… Veterans will be in a different

place in their lives. They may have a spouse or children.”

The report recommended that prospective military and veteran students receive relevant information to avoid “aggressive and mis-leading” recruitment practices, such as inac-curate information on transferring credits.

“Explain the ramifications of student loan debt, in terms of monthly repayment obliga-tions when feasible,” read the report. “Al-ways encourage responsible borrowing if a student needs or chooses to borrow to pay for education costs or other personal expenses which may be covered by federal loan funds.”

Between Aug. 1, 2009 and Jan. 23, 2013, more than one million veterans attended in-stitutions of higher education in the U.S., according to a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs study referred to in the Wednesday report. The number of veterans, spouses and dependents using Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits grew 84 percent from the first to the second

year of the benefit.“Demographics aside, the veteran student

brings a unique life experience and perspec-tive shaped by their military service to their campus and classroom environments, and provides invaluable enrichment opportuni-ties to their civilian student peers,” the report stated.

Goodrich said offering a blended program of on-campus and online courses to veterans will help them transition back to the U.S. and that the opportunity to take courses online opens the accessibility of college.

“No question about it, having a college degree will provide them in any path they try to pursue,” Goodrich said. “Some people are glad to have served in the military, but some might want to set their roots in a community and work in the civilian sector.”

BU spokesman Colin Riley said BU has 25 veteran students enrolled and is not ac-

Among the many industries bracing for im-pacts of federal Sequestration cuts, Boston Lo-gan International Airport could see significant impediments to efficiently managing passenger security and to facilitating ground and air traf-fic, officials said.

Richard Walsh, assistant director of strate-gic communications and marketing at Logan, said the focus of airport officials is to meet the needs of the travelers, regardless of budget con-straints.

“We have plans in place for all possible situ-ations,” he said. “It does not matter if the delays are caused by a snowstorm or a sequestration, we have to be there in order to meet the travel-ers’ needs.”

Jim Peterson, facility representative for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said the cuts to Logan must be prevented at all costs.

“The President and Congress must not al-low this to happen,” he said. “Budget cuts known as sequestration will be detrimental to the National Airspace System, as well as to the nation’s fragile economy.”

Peterson said furlough days would be put in place in an effort to keep Logan’s 26 fully certi-fied controllers, four traffic management coor-dinators and seven trainees employed.

“There could be a furlough, which means controllers who work in the operation could be forced to take 11 unpaid days off between April and September which is the end of the fiscal

year,” he said. “Any non-operational personnel could be furloughed up to 22 days.”

These furloughs could lead to slower traffic flow, as fewer controllers are available to assist in daily operations, Peterson said.

“This in turn will result in ground delays for many aircraft,” he said. “If there is any signifi-cant weather along those routes which typically can delay departures on a good day, passengers can expect substantial delays.”

Peterson said the controllers at Logan will be heavily impacted.

“The controllers have to anticipate a loss of pay ... but also may have to deal with a complex operation with less bodies to do it,” he said. “They are handling the safest air traffic in the world, all the while having the distraction of the possible furlough in the back of their minds.”

The cuts could have lasting implications on air traffic that may not be recovered, Peterson said.

“There are many operations that occur

Mass. Attorney Gen. Martha Coakley an-nounced Feb. 27 a lawsuit victory against a Boston landlord charged with unlawful prac-tices against tenants and failure to comply with state lead-paint laws.

Keith Miller, the defendant, received pen-alties including a $75,000 fine, $25,000 in at-torney fees, forced de-leading of vacant units and a host of qualifications over five years of probation due to four guilty charges related to landlord negligence and lead-based paint in the residences, according to a Wednesday press re-lease from Coakley’s office.

Coakley said in a statement that the case would have an important impact on landlords upholding public safety.

“This settlement demonstrates that there are serious consequences for landlords who would sacrifice public safety to save a few dollars,” she said in the release.

Miller’s attorney, Mark Stopa, said Coakley won the case because of technicalities.

“What [Coakley’s office] essentially got were some technical violations on not giving enough documentation to new tenants [about their rights related to lead-based paint],” he said.

The case began when Miller filed a com-plaint against Jean Landry, one of his tenants, for illegally staying in a residence after sign-ing an early lease termination. The signing oc-curred soon after she gave birth, Stopa said.

Under Massachusetts law, landlords can-not rent residences with lead-based paint to families with children fewer than six years of age. This was the first time such a violation oc-curred, Stopa said.

In response to his attempts at eviction, Landry filed her own case to stall the process, Stopa said. When the Massachusetts Commis-sion Against Discrimination took too long to make a decision, Miller appealed the case.

Shortly after the appeal, the Civil Rights Division of Coakley’s office took notice. Stopa said Coakley’s office began making outrageous allegations.

“[The plaintiffs] decided that, ‘oh, some of these people you’ve evicted are Hispanic. You must be racist, discriminatory’…all of those charges were dismissed,” Stopa said.

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in policy with administration during the spring 2013 semester, Taneja said the AB did not know the changes in policy were definite for the coming fall semester.

“We were unaware that this poli-cy will be implemented without any scope of compromise or alternative actions until tonight,” she said.

During the meeting, Katie Noel, a member of Alpha Delta Pi, asked Battaglino if the changes were defi-nite. When he confirmed they were, several students left abruptly.

“Up until when I asked him if this decision was already made, he was

trying to play the game like it wasn’t, and that we were actually making a difference,” Noel, a SAR senior, said after the meeting.

Battaglino said he wished stu-dents had known coming into the meeting that the change in policy was definite.

“Folks had this expectation that it’s up for debate,” he said.

Taneja said AB members are skeptical of the new policy because they feel there will be a decrease in student group activity.

“Going through all the organi-zational troubles to putting together an event just to be able to donate a minimal amount towards charity is

not enough of a motivation for many organizations to put together the event,” she said after the meeting.

While Noel said she was satisfied with the open discourse in the meet-ing, she said she wished its purpose had been more clear.

She said she felt unrepresented as a member of a student group partici-pating in philanthropic events.

“This will affect our organization because we won’t be able to donate as much money to charity, which is a huge part of our goal and what we want to do,” Noel said.

Grace Hannawi, president of the Lebanese Club, said she was con-cerned with the logistics of the plan

and how it might affect organizations that do not hold charitable events.

“He [Battaglino] did not properly address a lot of the issues that were raised and it wasn’t a proper discus-sion,” Hannawi, a SAR senior, said. “It was more like one side was rais-ing angry requests or angry ques-tions, and he was not answering their questions.”

Jason Paik, who represented BU’s chapter of The Supply, a national nonprofit organization that advocates education for children overseas, said he believes the new policy will lead to a decrease in philanthropy at BU.

“The money that we raise within our events — it’s in our nature to give

that,” Paik, a School of Management sophomore, said. “This policy really cuts down that type of student experi-ence that we foster.”

After the meeting, the AB posted on the meeting’s Facebook page that it would consider points made by stu-dent leaders.

“We have taken note of everything that was brought up in conversation today and will work to represent those points in future conversations regarding policy change,” the post stated. “… We have gathered your input on this tonight at our meeting and will weigh it heavily while dis-cussing policy changes.”

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overnight such as military, emer-gency medical flights and cargo op-erations,” he said. “These operations will be directly affected and may be forced to cancel their operations on these airports.”

The Transportation Security Ad-ministration, which handles the se-curity checkpoints at Logan, is also facing possible furlough days for employees.

“As sequestration takes effect, travelers can expect to see lines and wait times increase as reductions to overtime and the inability to backfill positions for attrition begin to occur

this month,” the TSA said in a state-ment. “We expect that during busy travel periods, wait time exceeding 30-40 minutes could double at nearly all of the largest airports.”

Due to the reductions mandated by sequestration, TSA officials said they will put in place a hiring freeze.

“[The hiring freeze] will result in up to an additional 1,000 TSO vacan-cies by Memorial Day Weekend and up to 2,600 vacancies by the end of fiscal year,” the TSA said in a state-ment.

Shirley Dyke, an Indiana resident and Logan traveler, said it could be-come difficult to travel if the seques-tration leads to significant delays and

longer lines. “In terms of airports we will

have to be there earlier and it will be a lot more time consuming,” she said. “That being said, I think there are several other groups that will be worse off when it comes to the bud-get cuts than air passengers.”

Chuck Laliberte, a central Massa-chusetts resident and Logan traveler, said he thinks the pending cuts will not impact the number of travelers.

“People will still fly, because people are so in the habit of doing it, and often there is not a good sub-stitution,” he said. “But there will be significantly more irritation among passengers, that is for sure.”

TSA says long waits‘could double’ at large airportsLogan: From Page 1

discrimination, as well as unlawful renting were dismissed, according to court documents.

In a letter to Coakley, Stopa claimed that “the activities of [her] assistants … was and continues to be

tortuous, illegal, has violated [Mill-er’s] constitutional civil rights and more particularly his right to conduct his private business free of improper state interference.”

The settlement comes just over a year after the Citizen Disease Con-

trol Advisory Committee on Lead Poisoning, a subset of the Centers for Disease Control, lowered the official level of what constitutes dangerous levels of lead in paint from 10 micro-grams per deciliter to five.

Paul Hunter, director of the Child-

hood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, a part of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, would not speculate on the effects of the case, but said lead poisoning is an is-sue in the Commonwealth, and that the new CDC danger levels could

have 8,300 children living in illegally toxic housing.

“It’s not fair to speculate on be-half of the lawyers in this case,” he said. “But no, [cases like this] prob-ably do not come as frequently as perhaps they should.”

Attorney claims defendant’s civil rights violated in lawsuit procedingsLandLord: From Page 1

tively recruiting any more.“Most students who know about

BU will apply to BU, but we don’t have a capacity to fill,” he said.

Riley said veterans from Massa-chusetts can pay for public educa-tion, but the tuition for private edu-cation is more expensive than their

benefits can cover.However, many veterans would

not be able to experience campus life, according to the report. The report references the 2010 VA sur-vey showing many veterans are also part-time, transfer or distance learners.

“It is a juggling act between having a family, having to work and

going to school,” Goodrich said.Goodrich said he remains hope-

ful for an increasing growth in vet-eran students.

“A lot of people in the military want to be challenged,” he said. “They are used to earning their cre-dentials and earning their rank and they will find this challenge here at BU.”

Riley: 25 veteran students enrolled at BUMiLitary: From Page 1

Boston Mayor Thomas Me-nino announced Friday more than 200 companies and 4,000 jobs moved to the Innovation District, enriching the city’s economy in the three years since the district was established.

“Dynamic companies want to be part of Boston’s innovation community, and part of our larger community,” Menino said in a press release Friday. “They want to make contributions to the com-munity through their expertise time, and resources. I have never in 20 years been more optimistic about Boston’s future. We are set-ting trends, not following them.”

The Innovation District was launched in January 2010 and is Menino’s plan to transform 1,000 acres of the South Boston water-front into an urban environment to promote innovation, collabo-ration and entrepreneurship, ac-cording to the release.

“The Mayor’s vision for this area was the right one,” said Ni-cole Fichera, district manager of the Innovation District. “It was an area with a lot of development po-

tential, and we expect to see more growth in this area.”

Technology companies con-tributed 30 percent to job growth and Greentech and life sciences brought 16 percent of jobs to the Innovation District, according to the release.

Fichera said about 200 more companies are expected to move in and bring about 2,500 jobs to the district in the future.

“It’s a really tangible symbol

of Boston’s leadership in the in-novation economy,” she said. “Boston and Massachusetts are both leaders. The Innovation Dis-trict is an urban laboratory where we contest ideas.”

Some companies already in-volved with the Innovation Dis-trict said the district has made a positive impact on business.

“I love the Innovation District. It’s been going up around us, and

Boston University School of Medicine researchers have dis-covered a way to relieve those who suffer from diabetic neurop-athies from associated pain, ac-cording to a BUSM press release.

The researchers, in conjunc-tion with the Veteran’s Affairs Boston Healthcare System, per-formed a study to examine the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy on people with type II di-abetes mellitus, according to the Tuesday release. The study will be published in the March edition of the Journal of Pain.

Type II diabetes mellitus, which accounts for between 90 and 95 percent of all diabetes cas-es, is associated with obesity, lack of physical activity, family his-tory and older age, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those afflicted with the disease cannot properly use insulin and, as such, have abnormally high blood lev-els and hyperglycemia.

When untreated, the disease can result in nerve damage and subsequent burning and stinging sensations in hands and feet, ac-cording to the release. It can also cause headaches, dizziness and nausea. The disease affects more than 20 million people in the U.S.

Study participants each attend-ed 11 one-hour cognitive behav-ioral therapy sessions that aimed to teach diabetic patients tech-niques for relaxation and methods of fighting thoughts that might lead to pain, according to the re-lease. Those studied were also taught to participate in activities such as going for walks or eating meals with friends and family to keep active.

The participants were all mili-tary veterans, aged 18 or older, who were diagnosed with type II diabetes mellitus and had experi-enced related pain for more than three months.

Four months later, patients who participated in cognitive be-havioral therapy reported feeling less pain on a day-to-day basis and said pain interfered less with

their daily lives, when compared to patients who had not received the treatment, according to the re-lease.

John Otis, a professor of psy-chiatry at BUSM and a VA BHS clinical psychologist, said the study helps prove medication might not be the only solution for those suffering pain resulting from diabetes.

“This study demonstrates that the millions of people who are experiencing pain and discomfort from type II diabetes mellitus do not need to rely solely on medi-cation for relief,” Otis said in the release.

Otis said the study’s results provide greater evidence to the line of thought that behavioral therapy may be a viable treatment option.

“The results of this study add to a growing body of literature demonstrating that cognitive be-havioral therapy is an effective psychological treatment approach for chronic pain management,” he said in the release.

Academy Award-winning film-maker Davis Guggenheim is chal-lenging college students to join a new campaign and support immi-gration reform allowing an earned pathway to citizenship based on the DREAM Act.

Several Boston University students said they support the DREAM Act’s proposed chang-es to immigration policy, which would allow undocumented im-migrants who came to the U.S. at a young age to earn citizenship by attending college or enrolling in the military.

“I simply don’t understand why anyone would be opposed to the passage,” said Stephanie Pimen-tal, a second-year School of Law student and president of BU’s Im-migrant Law and Policy Society. “These [undocumented] kids often do not even know they don’t hold status until they apply to college or try and get a job.”

Guggenheim, known for docu-mentaries such as “An Inconve-nient Truth” and “Waiting for Su-perman,” hosted a conference call Tuesday to encourage students to sign a petition supporting im-migration reform based on the DREAM Act in a campaign titled The Dream is Now.

Guggenheim said his personal experiences have shaped his opin-ions on the need for immigration reform.

“My father was also a film-maker and I remember him making a documentary about the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island,” he said during the call. “He taught me that immigration is what makes Amer-ica great. Years later I lived in Los Angeles and everyone I met was impacted by this broken legisla-tion.”

The Dream is Now campaign is a partnership between Gug-genheim and the Emerson Collec-tive which aims to provide sup-porters of immigration reform, documented and undocumented, with an online platform to voice their support, Guggenheim said.

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The Massachusetts Bay Trans-portation Authority announced its intention to enhance the ame-nities given to customers on its trains and ferries by upgrading and expanding the availability of wireless Internet across the transit system.

The MBTA announced it is seeking proposals to “provide Wi-Fi service on commuter rail cars, ferries and select commuter rail stations,” according to a press re-lease Friday.

MBTA deputy press secretary Kelly Smith said the plan is to provide wireless service to all of the 410 commuter rail coaches operated by the MBTA, on all the ferries and at select train stations — North Station, South Station and Back Bay Stations on the com-muter rail.

“Currently around 240 trains

have Wi-Fi. With this plan, all trains and ferries will have Wi-Fi,” she said. “We are hoping that [im-plementation] will start in the fall of 2013, and will finish in about six to eight months.”

About 50,000 commuters use the current Wi-Fi system that is in place on the commuter rail on a daily basis. The current con-tractor for wireless service on the commuter rail is AT&T and they can bid again for the service deal, Smith said.

MBTA General Manager Bev-erly Scott said in a press release Friday that increased Wi-Fi ser-vice is the next step in providing better service to commuters.

“The opportunity to have sponsorship of our WIFI service will aid in our goal of bringing a high-quality WIFI experience to our customers throughout the commuter rail system without the MBTA or our riders incurring any

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The following crime reports were taken from the Allston-Brigh-ton District 14 crime logs from Feb. 26 to March 5.

At about 12:52 a.m. Sunday, police observed a man dressed in dark clothes writing on a light control box at the corner of Har-vard Street and Brighton Avenue. He wrote the words “Allston mu-sic dot com local rar” with a red, king-size permanent marker before taking a photo with his cell phone. The officer walked up behind the man and the suspect said, “Did you see me? I know, sorry. I can erase it right now with some paint.” The officer told him it was too late and placed him under arrest for damage to property by graffiti tagging.

Booster seat robberA breaking and entering incident

occurred between 7:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. at 169 Foster St. When the police arrived, the victims stat-ed that an unknown suspect entered their first floor apartment through the rear porch window. The police saw that the window was dam-aged, and one of the victims stated that she always keeps that win-dow locked. The officers found a chair on the back porch that was directly under the window the sus-pect used to enter the house. The suspect stole the victims’ laptops, a white MacBook Pro and a Dell, and exited through the back door. The police stated that the suspect probably left quickly and was most likely alone, as other valuables in the apartment were not taken.

Craigslist caperAt about 2:17 p.m. Saturday, a

man was robbed in an illegitimate Craigslist exchange in front of 25 Chester St. The victim told offi-cers that he contacted the suspect on Craigslist to purchase an iPhone 5 from the suspect for $440. They agreed to meet at 25 Farrington Ave., where the suspect was wait-ing in the driveway upon the vic-tim’s arrival. The victim gave him a ride to Chester Street, where the suspect claimed to live. When the victim pulled out $500, the suspect reportedly snatched the money from his hands and ran out of the car toward Commonwealth Av-enue. He left behind a box, which contained trash instead of an iPhone.

We just wanted to give it back!A robbery occurred at 38 Linden

St. at about 2:40 a.m. Friday. The victim’s roommate invited the two suspects into the apartment. Later, the victim entered his bedroom and found his dresser drawers open and his backpack on the floor. He stated that his laptop, iPad and knife were missing. One of the suspects re-turned to the scene and kicked in the front hallway door, which shat-tered the glass and broke the frame. One suspect was pursued and ap-prehended. The other suspect was soon caught and both were charged with larceny and breaking and en-tering. Both suspects have been known to the police for stealing from college students at large gath-erings.

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cost for it,” she said. “It really is a win-win.”

Smith said increased Wi-Fi would not be a financial burden for the MBTA

“This will not cost the MBTA anything, this will be a service-partnership program,” she said. “Whoever successfully bids for it will get a certain advertising and commercial partnership with the MBTA.”

This type of commercial part-nership is not unique to transit sys-tems. The Metropolitan Transpor-

tation Authority, which runs the Metro-North and LIRR systems, announced in November that its wireless network in Grand Cen-tral and the Park Avenue tunnels would come at no cost to the MTA.

“This deal will provide signifi-cant improvements in customer service, railroad operations and emergency management in GCT, all at no cost to MTA or Metro-North,” said Metro-North Presi-dent Howard Permut in a press re-lease from Nov. 29. “This network will improve radio communication for our operating department em-ployees, the MTA Police and other

first responders.” Commuters expressed mixed

feelings about the increased W-Fi capabilities.

Jenna Goldblatt, 25, from Bos-ton, said Wi-Fi would make her commute easier.

“What the MBTA is doing is beneficial to business people, col-lege students, young profession-als and just regular people, since so many people need Internet ac-cess today,” she said. “I can access things on my smartphone or laptop easier and it provides for some-thing to do when riding the train.”

Jordan Evangelista, a senior at

Boston University in the School of Management, said he takes the MBTA Commuter rail 15 to 20 times a year to his home in Provi-dence, but that added Wi-Fi would not affect him.

“The Wi-Fi improvement doesn’t really help me that much,” Evangelista said. “I’m usually just on my phone, sleeping or talking to my friends on the commuter rail. It doesn’t make a difference really.”

BU Professor Kathleen Martin of the College of General Studies said she used to commute on the train daily for six years.

“Internet access wouldn’t have helped me on commuter rail rides,” she said. “I generally spent my time inbound going over my class preparations, and spent my time outbound either recuperating from my day or going over class preparations.”

Martin said a possible outcome of increased Wi-Fi for commuters is employers encouraging longer work hours.

“The Wi-Fi on the commuter rail could be used by their bosses as an excuse to make them start work earlier and end work later,” she said.

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Guggenheim said he intends to produce a 30-minute documentary based on videos and material sub-mitted by students showing their personal stories and why they be-lieve the DREAM Act is necessary.

The act, proposed by Republi-can Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois would allow qualified un-documented youth to attempt to obtain citizenship after complet-ing two years of either college or military service, according to the official DREAM Act website.

In 2010, the act failed to pass through the Senate, and since its failure, Congress has updated and

revised the proposed legislation.Ruben Canedo, The Dream is

Now college outreach director, said students are crucial to the mis-sion of the campaign.

“We all clearly understand that college students will be the next generation of leadership,” Canedo said. “We also understand the un-believable transformative impact that college students have through their personal networks and social media outlets to help spread this passion and support to improve the immigration system and do justice to their peers.”

Without the passage of the DREAM Act, these students can-not receive financial aid from

schools or secure a stable job, de-spite having grown up in the U.S., Canedo said.

“Undocumented students are hungry to contribute to their com-munities,” Canedo said. “These are Americans from various back-grounds who can instantly allevi-ate the current needs of our health care system, judicial system, edu-cation system and much more.”

The economic impact of grant-ing these students citizenship amounts to an estimated $148 bil-lion, according to the campaign’s website.

“With ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ we saw real change happen,” Gug-genheim said. “A documentary can

do a lot, but it takes people to join in.”

Several BU students said the campaign’s efforts are admirable and the passage of the DREAM Act is important for U.S. citizens and students.

David Torres, a College of Communication junior, said he is hopeful the documentary will have a positive impact on the BU com-munity.

“If anything, the film can help BU students realize the world is more than just the suburbs or the small commonwealth bubble,” he said. “Hopefully this film will take the invisible DREAM Act students and give them a light so they may

share their stories and connect with people to bring about some kind of change.”

Marina Shub, a postgradu-ate School of Law student who said she is familiar with Guggen-heim’s work, said she was glad he is working on the campaign, but is not convinced it will bring about significant change.

“It is a very important issue that is now ripe for discussion and has a clear solution,” Shub said. “With that said, I don’t think the film will impact the issue itself or get government attention. The DREAM Act was introduced 12 yeas ago, and Congress still has yet to agree.”

iMMigration: From Page 3

Outreach dir.: Undocumented students ‘hungry to contribute’

it’s great to see the energy down here,” said Brendan Kearney, ac-count manager from RaceMenu, a website that facilitates organizing and promoting events.

Kearney said being located in the district has allowed his com-pany to flourish.

“Being in the in district itself, we’ve made connections with a number of different companies and partners that we may have never engaged with if we were not all in the same ecosystem,” he said. “It’s definitely allowed us to branch out and make connections and develop new business part-nerships that we wouldn’t have had before.”

Marty Walsh, owner of Green-house Bikes, said the Innovation District has supported his com-pany since its creation.

“[The company is] doing great,” Walsh said. “From day

one we got a large support from the city. We got a loan in 2008 and it’s been really great working with these folks. We wouldn’t be where are without that support.”

Walsh said the expansion of companies in the Innovation Dis-trict is beneficial for Boston.

“[The expansion is] trying to do something in an area of Boston that wasn’t happening before,” he said. “It is focusing on entrepre-neurship and innovation inside a big part of the city, and the fact that the city government wants to do that is a great idea.”

David Patrick, CEO of Apperi-an, which does mobile application management, said in an email the Innovation District will be an ex-citing new place to start high-tech companies and has allowed his company to recruit to many of the surrounding areas in Boston.

“Apperian is doing very well in Boston,” he said. “We have been very successful in establishing

here, raising money, hiring, build-ing sales and marketing. We have been able to execute very quickly in the Boston environment.”

Zach Barber, spokesman for Vertex Pharmaceuticals, said the company is planning to move to the Innovation District in the next few months.

“Our company was founded in Cambridge and we started out with one lab with a handful of sci-entists,” he said. “We now have twelve different locations around Cambridge. The primary drive for the relocation was to get all of our employees into one campus.”

Fichera said the Innovation District will be an important force in the Boston economy.

“We will continue growing jobs and companies in this area. The company is doing world- changing work,” she said. “It will continue pushing Boston’s econo-my forward.”

Apperian CEO says growth simple in Hubinnovation: From Page 3

During the few days before spring break, many students cannot find someone to split the pricey $30 cab fare to Boston

Logan International Airport. However, with the new mobile application Split My Taxi, stu-dents can do just that. This free app, created by three college students, helps students match up with other people to share the taxi fare.

David Danesh, a School of Management sophomore at Boston University, has been the face of the app that was recently launched at Boston University to help students save mon-ey. Danesh helped Adam Eagle, a freshman studying computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and David Zadok, who is pursuing his Masters degree in Business at Brandeis University, create the app.

Beta Testing at BUDue to the university’s grand population,

as well as the students’ generally candid social behavior and openness to new ideas, Split My Taxi is only opened in BU, Danesh said.

“There are 16,000 students … they like try-ing new things,” Danesh said.

Because the app is only being tested in the BU community, BU students will only be matched up with other BU students, rather than riding for 10 to 15 minutes with a student from another school.

Students can enter their BU email address or their Facebook account to sign in. To get a taxi, they input their current location, destina-tion and the optimal time to be picked up. The phone numbers will not be disclosed until the user finds a good match and presses a button, which sends the potential cab buddy the initia-tor’s phone number. Those two can then mes-sage each other and arrange their cab ride.

Saurabh Mahajan, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman and Student Government spokesman said SG is happy to give Split My Taxi its support and endorsement.

“It’s something that we think is a great idea and we think it’s something that students can really benefit from,” Mahajan said. “Essential-ly our role in [Split My Taxi] is associating our name with it. The extent of our involvement is basically saying that we support this idea be-cause it’s a service that benefits students in a great way. It reduces their costs to the airport,

it helps them, it is environmentally friendly, and it just helps them get home in a really safe and convenient way.”

Early BeginningsEagle said he and Zadok initially thought

of a dating app for university students in De-cember. The idea was to create a profile, find a good match, ride with that person in a taxi and then decide after the ride whether they liked that person or not. Eagle said he decided to al-ter the app to be a more useful resource.

“It was a simple conception but [Split My Taxi] was an actual practical use,” Eagle said.

In high school, Eagle designed Monkey Manic, a game in which the objective is for a monkey to collect fruits and continue on to the next level. He launched it in the U.S., but it gained mass popularity in China, reaching over 15 million users.

Eagle said he did not charge for any of his games and will not charge students for down-loading Split My Taxi either.

“The app itself is to help people save money,” Eagle said. “I want to make sure that people can find the app easily and match up with people easily.”

Eagle said the biggest concern is whether students would be willing to share a space with a stranger for about 15 minutes. He wants stu-dents to feel comfortable and safe when con-tacting and traveling with that other person.

Getting the Word OutDanesh’s desk has a stack of paper with

scribbled notes on the time and location of the lectures and clubs at which he has been sched-uled to speak about the app. He is responsible for getting the word out to as many people as possible. Being a one-man marketing team, Danesh said he spends sleepless nights spam-ming the walls of clubs on Facebook and up-dating the Split My Taxi Twitter and Instagram account.

“I basically joined almost every student group on Facebook,” said Danesh. “One student commented, ‘Split My Taxi has suc-cessfully spammed 98 percent of BU student groups.’ So I realize I should calm down a little bit.”

Danesh admitted to skipping some classes

in order to publicize the product before Spring break, but he said it was for a greater good.

“Sometimes you just have to put the GPA to the side,” said Danesh. “When you’re work-ing with a student from MIT and Brandeis who has an amazing app, I cannot say ‘no’ to that.”

He said he is unsure whether the message to use the app was broadcasted effectively or if there was a good response from the students.

However, after realizing BU students are having trouble creating an account due to overcapacity, he smiled, knowing that their customers are using and liking the trio’s cre-ation.

BU reactions to the productSince Split My Taxi is relatively new, some

students said they are still trying to familiarize themselves with this new technological inno-vation and questioning the usage and safety.

Valentina Liu, a CAS sophomore, said she would use the application because it might save her money. However she also said she has concerns regarding her safety, even if she is riding with another BU student.

“What if the other person sounds really nice on the phone, but not in person,” Liu said. “I’m also concerned, as a girl, for my safety when I’m traveling with a stranger.”

As for possible alterations or upgrades in the design, she said she would like if the app would show the “hotspots” in the area. Instead of waiting around in a place where there are few BU students, it could locate areas where there are many students getting picked up by a taxi or requesting for one.

“It’s a great way to save some extra cash because it’s basically carpooling,” said Rania Ezzo, a CAS sophomore.

Ezzo said she used the app once before to take a cab from her dorm in South Campus to Newbury Street. The app matched her with another girl from BU who was leaving from the South Campus area and headed in the same direction. She said the biggest challenge was figuring out how to split the fare.

“We both saved money because we split the cab, but the splitting of the cab is not actu-ally built into the app and you have to work that out beforehand,” she said.

Ezzo said she would use the app again be-

cause taxi fare is often expensive.“I would definitely be up for using it again,

especially riding to and from the airport. I spend a lot of my money doing that,” she said. “It ranges from anywhere between $50 to $70.”

Ezzo said the app is convenient, but could also be a way to meet new people.

“Since [the app is] only for university students, I feel like it’s a lot safer than riding with some random stranger,” Ezzo said. “I feel like the idea is more for convenience, but you never really know where you’ll meet a friend.”

Other students, such as CAS sophomore Samantha Chasse, said they would rather save even more money by taking public transit Chasse said she takes the T and will continue to take the T, even if it is a longer ride. Further-more, she said scheduling with another student may be time-consuming and a hassle.

“Taking the T is still cheaper than a cab,” said Chasse. “Also, my concern is coordinat-ing with the other person. What if the other person didn’t show up?”

Professional opinion for moving forwardSMG professor Kathy Kram, who spe-

cializes in organizational behavior, said she believes students will find this app valuable. However, she did express concerns regarding the safety when being matched with a stranger.

“If [the application] shows the gender, women can decide if they prefer to be matched up with another woman in order to be safe,” Kram said.

The three creators have no intention of charging for the app thus far, but Kram said if they decide to do so in the future, she ad-vised them to conduct further market research, for example, of how often students take a taxi. That decision will have to depend on whether the students find it useful on a regular basis.

The young entrepreneurs are continuing to develop their product. Eagle is coding a func-tion for the application with which students can book a taxi online. The project will expand to Harvard University, MIT, Northeastern University and all major universities in Bos-ton within the next few weeks before students head out on their Spring break, Eagle said.

BU student teams up with MIT and Brandeis University students to develop taxi-sharing app

Deborah Wong

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE JAY / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Students enter their current location, destination and optimal time to be picked up and are matched with students with similar preferences to share a taxi.

Features Staff

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID DANESH App co-creator and SMG sophomore David Danesh and CGS sophomore Hannah Paull wave down a taxi on Commonwealth Ave.

6 Wednesday, March 6, 2013

opinion

Last week, tobacco-control advocates gath-ered in Cambridge for a conference about the increased governance of tobacco. According to The New York Times, the goal on hand is to find a way to reduce smoking rates to well below 10 percent. Currently, fewer than one in five Americans smoke, according to the Times. Still, cigarettes continue to kill 400,000 Ameri-cans a year.

The Times reported that the conversation centered on the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which U.S. Presi-dent Barack Obama signed in 2009. The act approved by Obama already gives the Food and Drug Administration the power to estab-lish tobacco product standards, according to the Times. This means it can call for a reduction in the amount of nicotine put into cigarettes to be-low addictive levels — one way to achieve the conference’s goal — hopefully protecting new smokers from addiction and habitual smokers from excessive nicotine exposure. Another part of the act affirms the authority of the govern-ment to prohibit the sale, distribution and pos-session of — and even access and exposure to

— tobacco products by individuals of any age, according to the Times. Conference attendees called on governments to prohibit people born after the year 2000 from ever buying cigarettes.

These are good goals, steps in the right di-rection toward a healthier, smoke-free America. But more probably, they are unrealistic. Prohib-iting people from buying cigarettes in certain areas just means they will acquire them else-where. And lower nicotine contents mostly just mean that people will smoke more cigarettes to get a desired effect.

Moreover, as dangerous a habit as smoking is, how far can the government go in restricting our right to choose what we put into our bod-ies? Does tobacco join the ranks of marijuana or other illegal harder drugs? And finally, would restricting tobacco access really omit it? Prob-ably not, and certainly not right away.

People will smoke if they want to smoke, no matter the risks involved, and for that group of individuals, there might not be much the gov-ernment can do. On the other hand, all mea-sures are positive in the long-term trek towards American health.

Tightening smoking restrictions

Terrier Talk Reflections

For a lot of students, March Madness means summer internship applications. The FreeP wondered how some students

were coping with the extra stress.

Here’s what some of them said.

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Fat GuyFashion

SANDOR MARK

Monday night I went out for ice cream with my roommate — he’s a fat guy too. As we were walking out the door I noticed a stark difference in how the two of us were dressed. He was wearing what can only be called a typical fat guy “uniform:” Hoodie sweatshirt, sweatpants and scuffed up ten-nis shoes. I was wearing Cole Haan shoes, a cashmere sweater and a tie. He is truly the Jack Lemmon to my Walter Matthau. With our Odd Couple mission in progress, I started thinking about how fat guys nor-mally dress and realized that I’m an odd duck compared to most of them.

If someone were to go through the aver-age fat guy’s closet they would probably find, four or five football jerseys, a couple of pairs of sweatpants, white undershirts, sixteen hoodies, extra-large t-shirts from Foot Locker and a little league jersey that reminds them of that time they played sports. I’m not saying you wouldn’t find clothes like this in another guy’s wardrobe. I’m only saying a typical fat man is more likely to own five Patriot’s jerseys — and not because they’re a bargain down at Mar-shall’s.

When a fat guy buys clothes he’s fol-lowing two simple rules: Layers and dark colors. These two strategies strive to meet one goal: Turn the fat, misshapen body into a walking optical illusion. Those white un-dershirts are key. They’re like cotton Spanx that come in 20-packs. Just tuck them into a pair of pants so that the love handles and the manboobs get flattened, then throw a baggy hoodie over everything. Now our fat-guy-on-the-go has a torso that takes up three quarters of his body, and he appears to have lost 20 pounds. Not bad for some-one who cleans his clothes with Febreeze and whose love handles spill out over his waistband.

The downside to this look is that it’s “shlubby,” which is a fair term because most of us are shlubs. Nothing stands out about the fat guy uniform — there’s noth-ing eye-catching about sweatshirts that are the same color as the snow on old TV sets. And really, that’s the whole point. The fat guy look is designed for those who don’t want to be seen, for people who want to become visual white noise.

Why is this, you ask? Because a fat guy’s worst nightmare is being the center of attention — the possibility of someone noticing the physical repulsiveness of our bodies and saying, “Ah gross look at your belly, guys aren’t supposed to be hour-glass shaped,” is nightmarish. The shlubby look is an effective defense mechanism to avoid this kind of ridicule. And the moment I re-

alized this was the moment I realized I’m the exception to the rule.

When I get dressed I try to make my-self stand out. I want people’s heads to turn when I walk past them, and for them to say, “Well damn, when did J. Crew introduce a big and tall line?” If you went through my wardrobe you’d find a whole lot of style and class. Several different blazers, but-ton down shirts of all patterns and styles, cashmere sweaters, etc. Some days, I just want to look like I’m sailing off the coast of Nantucket. But what really sets me apart from the average fat guy is how much ef-fort I put into my wardrobe, and I only have my sister to thank.

Understand: My sister is the type of girl who could spend $1,000 on clothes in thir-ty minutes. She used to spend hours put-ting together outfits for herself and she’d make me pass judgment on every one. This became kind of a Friday afternoon ritual during my middle school years: My sister getting ready to go out, while I was read-ing in my room, waiting for her to walk in with the next outfit that needed critiquing. What I learned from this was that dressing yourself is a kind of art. It takes practice, thought and careful planning. Just like how a writer makes his mark on the world through his words, or musician through his music, clothes can be a way we tell a sto-ry about ourselves on a day-to-day level. Some people say “the clothes don’t make the man,” but I say that the clothes are the man.

This thought goes back to last week’s column on social media, in which I point out that how you look is an extension of who you are. Your clothes are a state-ment about how you want the world to see you — and most fat guys think the world doesn’t want to see them at all.

But with a good sense of style, it’s pos-sible to make up ground for a less than desirable physique. Yes, it may be a shal-low and materialistic way of doing it, but we have to use any weapon we can find. Unfortunately, most fat guys don’t have an older sister capable or willing to teach them how to dress — and it’s hard to cre-ate a unique style all on your own. What’s more, most fat guys aren’t willing to put in the work, which I find unfortunate because a little effort goes a long way. If you look good, you feel good. I may be fat, but when I walk down the street, I look damn good.

Sandor Mark is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and a weekly colum-nist for the Daily Free Press. He can be reached at smark@bu.edu

FAT BOY IN A SKINNY WORLD

Adult ADHD on the riseAll of us have trouble focusing. Especially

these days, when the demands for productiv-ity are soaring while the outlets to avoid these demands seem to only increase in multitude. We feel like we should be accomplishing more, because it seems it should be easy to do so, as we type our papers quickly, there’s a wealth of information at our fingertips wher-ever and whenever we want it, we carry our email in our pockets, etc.

Monday, The Boston Globe ran a report about the rising levels of adult ADHD. The case study was a 45-year-old woman who, finding herself unable to apply herself to any single task productively, was diagnosed with the disease and began taking medication.

“It’s really time to stop trivializing ADHD as a childhood behavioral problem that’s overtreated,” said Dr. William Barbaresi, di-rector of the Developmental Medicine Center at Children’s Hospital and leader of a recent study on the increased presence of the disease in adults. “It’s a serious health condition that persists” into adulthood, he claims, according to the Globe.

It is true that ADHD exists as a neuro-biological disorder that prevents certain in-dividuals from sitting still, concentrating,

or performing other day-to-day tasks. Many people benefit from ADHD medication, be they children or adults. Also, since ADHD is a relatively recent medical discovery, increased presence of ADHD in adults in part simply in-dicates that these adults were not diagnosed when they were younger.

On the other hand, however, it’s been said that doctors are diagnosing patients with the disease too loosely and frequently. A difficul-ty focusing does not necessarily mean a per-son is neurologically challenged in the face of the demand to be focused and productive. It might just mean that they don’t want to do whatever task is in front of them. People have trouble focusing for the simple reason that we’re not wired to sit still for hours on end without significant inspiration. And signifi-cant inspiration is not always easy to come by, for which reason most of the time, a lot of us would rather be hanging out with our friends. Focus requires discipline, which means pull-ing ourselves away from fun distractions. In-asmuch as ADHD does persist into adulthood, try getting off Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Fab.com, Rue La La, your email and your favorite blog(s) before you go run-ning to your doctor.

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“I plan on finding an internship through my sister’s connections.”

- SMG freshman

“I haven’t had much difficulty so far, but I should be searching more.”

- COM junior

“The process is non-existent at this mo-ment.”

- CAS freshman

“I already secured one. It involved a lot of writing but the process wasn’t bad.”

- ENG sophomore

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fensive weapon is senior attack Danielle Etrasco, who scored 58 goals last year, as well as two goals in the season opener, other players have stepped up to help offset the loss of reigning America East Rookie of the Year Mallory Collins, who will miss the entire season with a torn ACL.

One player in particular who made a big impact was freshman midfielder Ally Ad-ams, who was named America East Rookie of the Week after notching two assists in her debut with the Terriers.

The last time the Terriers and Big Green faced off was during the 2011-12 campaign in Hanover, N.H., when Dartmouth defeat-ed BU 13-6.

Robertshaw said the team struggled against Dartmouth last year because of the

hype surrounding the game.“Last year we let the emotion of the

game, of the rivalry and of the back-and-forth play, take us out of what we were there to do, which was to just play a very good lacrosse team,” Robertshaw said. “We were just too amped up and too excited for the game.”

For Robertshaw, the biggest key to the Terriers avenging their loss is composure.

“This year, we’re going to try and focus on ourselves,” Robertshaw said. “For us, [the key is] staying composed and focused on what we as a coaching staff have put in place for a game plan.

“If we can do that, if we can play a team game for the entire 60 minutes, and do what we want to do … that puts us in a place where we can have a good outcome.”

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Lacrosse looks to remain composed vs. DC

back home in Boston.However, since we go to BU where pro-

fessors do, in fact, assign homework and schedule tests, we were a ways away from getting some shut-eye.

So yes, after three long days in the sun — bodies fatigued — we all had to muster up enough energy and motivation to keep our eyes open and finish our homework on the bus, in the airport and on the plane.

Talk about brutal. Heck, I haven’t even slept in a solid 43

hours and I am just now getting to this col-umn.

No normal human would choose being stressed, time-crunched and tired every hour of the day. It’s a lifestyle only a select type of individual would choose to endure.

It takes commitment, dedication and drive to keep you going. But when you

love what you do and the people around you, traveling is worth every little struggle.

Not only did we get the chance to com-pete away from Boston’s blistering cold climate where we’ve been practicing on lit-erally every surface you can imagine other than dirt and grass, but I found that little things we encountered while traveling are what made the trip memorable.

For one, playing at the University of Arizona was fricken nuts! I didn’t know so many people watched softball, let alone congregated in one stadium for a preseason game. Granted, the fans were all about 50 or older and had to start clearing out by the 5th inning. I couldn’t tell you if their early departure was due to their strict bedtimes or because they couldn’t sit for any longer.

Priceless. After our game against U of A, we ven-

tured over to the local Boston Market for some “authentic,” home-style cooking. The

locals found this as funny as we did because when we started ordering, a few guys in the corner tried sneaking some snap shots of us from across the restaurant.

Not too long after, one U of A student asked to take a picture with our entire team. It was uncomfortable, but made for a good laugh.

Speaking of creepy situations, after our Sunday game against UC Riverside, our as-sistant coach received a tweet to the Boston University Softball Twitter handle reading, “@BostonUSoftball is at TGIF at #Chase-Field & let me tell you, they have some lookers.”

In hysterics, our team immediately split up and did a casual walk-through of the res-taurant scanning tables for our new “fan.”

Everywhere we go, we have a reputa-tion to uphold, further adding to the joys of traveling.

And let me tell you, trying to keep your

cool in the airport at 1 a.m. Boston time, while trying to type an essay when all the coffee shops are closed, all the outlets are taken and your laptop and phone both die is difficult, to say the least.

But that’s part of being a college athlete — learning to deal with your given predic-ament and making the best of it.

When you keep a positive attitude and release your anxiety by appreciating the little things and having a few laughs, you’ll survive stressful travel scenarios and re-main sane enough to finish your work.

And for those BU softball players that returned to Boston with a handful of ap-pearances in our infamous napping collage, just blame traveling for that little added stress you feel when the collage goes so-cial-media bound.

Better luck next week in Clearwater, Fla.

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John’s Prep in scoring last year and being drafted in the second round of the NHL Draft by the St. Louis Blues.

However, BU coach Jack Parker said he envisions Kurker turning into a player com-parable to former Terrier Alex Chiasson — the player indirectly responsible for Kurker coming to BU as an 18-year-old instead of playing elsewhere for another year.

“I see him being a power forward for us, a guy that can play on the first few lines,” Parker said. “A guy that might get a chance to play on the power play. That’s what we recruited him for. But he came here a year early.

“He was supposed to be a 19-year-old freshman, but then we lost Alex Chiasson, so we brought him as an 18-year-old fresh-man.”

Kurker, at 6-foot-3 and 210 pounds, has the potential to be a physical pres-ence among a group of forwards who don’t throw their weight around much. His 32 goals in 24 games last year prove that he can score, albeit against very different com-petition, and Parker said he expects Kurker to become a reliable source of offense, as Chiasson was.

“They’re different players,” Parker said. “Chiasson was a little bit more clever, but [Kurker is] a little bit bigger, a little bit stronger and much more physical ... He’s as good a skater. He might not be as agile, as quick from here to there, but he gets up and down the ice.

“I’m surprised that he is not getting more goals in the second half, because he is playing much better. He looks like he is much more confident. And he is moving the puck better and shooting the puck better.”

Scoreboard watchingThe Terriers are No. 19 in the USCHO.

com national poll, but what matters most at this point in the year are the PairWise rank-ings, where they’re tied for 17th with Union College. In the Hockey East standings, they are fifth with 28 points: Four fewer than the first-place University of Massachusetts-Lowell, three behind the University of New Hampshire, and two behind Boston College and Providence College, tied for third.

If the regular season ended today, BU would be unlikely to make the national tour-nament without winning the Hockey East tournament. Wins in its final two games — against a 9-19-4 Northeastern Univer-sity team — would not give them much of a boost in the PairWise, which ranks teams largely based on their performance against other teams that have a chance at the tour-nament. However, losing would obviously only hurt the Terriers’ chances further.

In the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI), BU ranks 21st. RPI measures a team’s suc-cess based on its winning percentage, the winning percentage of its opponents and the winning percentage of those opponents’ op-ponents.

According to USCHO, the Terriers have also faced the seventh-toughest schedule in the nation, stronger than any other Hock-ey East team (a schedule that includes the University of North Dakota and the Univer-sity of Denver, ranked seventh and tied for eighth in the PairWise respectively). Dur-ing the first semester, BU faced the stron-gest schedule in the nation to that point and went 10-5.

Entering the season’s final weekend, UNH (18-8-6, 13-7-5 Hockey East), BC (19-10-3, 14-9-2 Hockey East) and UMass-Lowell (21-9-2, 15-8-2 Hockey East) are tied for fourth place in the PairWise. Provi-dence (14-11-7, 12-7-6 Hockey East) is tied for 22nd and Merrimack College is tied for 31st.

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Fresh off a hard-fought over-time victory against the Univer-sity of Massachusetts-Amherst last week, the Boston University women’s lacrosse team is set to take on No. 13 Dartmouth Col-lege Wednesday afternoon at Nickerson Field.

While the Terriers (1-0) and the Big Green (3-0) are not in the same conference, BU coach Liz Robertshaw said she still expects a heated and highly competitive game between the two teams.

“It’s a traditional New Eng-land rivalry game between BU and Dartmouth, and I’m sure that there’s going to be some hard hits and some bruises that the girls are going to feel after the game,” Robertshaw said.

Dartmouth beat the University of Oregon, Yale University and University of New Hampshire to start the season with a perfect record. The Big Green have been led by senior attack Hannah Bow-ers, who averages three goals a game this year.

Last year, the Big Green fin-ished the year with a 12-5 record and made it to the first round of the NCAA tournament, where they lost to Syracuse, 15-5.

With a potent offense and a te-nacious defense, Robertshaw said the Big Green will be a big chal-lenge for the Terriers.

“Dartmouth is a fast-paced and hard-hitting team,” Robertshaw said. “We’ve watched a couple games of theirs, and they’re re-ally pushing the attack with ball movement, with really hard dodg-es to cage, and getting some re-ally nice looks.

“From the defensive side of things, they are a highly aggres-sive team. They are going to look to intimidate and rattle us a little

bit. It’s something that we saw them do against UNH and against Yale, and we think they’re going to bring that to us.”

Although the Terriers have only played one game this year, they displayed both physical and

mental toughness against UMass (4-2), defeating the then-No. 14 team in chilling rain and 20-MPH winds.

While the Terriers’ main of-

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The Bottom Line

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JACKIE ROBERTSON/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFSophomore attack Mallory Collins will miss the entire 2013 campaign with a torn ACL, leaving the Terriers searching for other players to step up.

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Softball @ Under Armour Showcase, All Day

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Dennis Rodman was kicked out of a bar, not for praising Kim Jong Un, but

because his dress didn’t match his shoes.

M. Hockey @ Northeastern, 7:30 p.m.Softball @ Under Armour Showcase,

All DayTrack @ NCAA Championships, All Day

M. Hockey v. Northeastern, 7 p.m.W. Hockey v. Providence, 12:30 p.m.Softball @ Under Armour Showcase,

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Being a freshman softball player, I can honesty tell you that I underestimated the strenuous commitment it takes to live the life of a Division I Boston Uni-versity Terrier.

The life of a college athlete isn’t all Nike attire and free tutors as one may think.

It’s more like five-hour train-ing days, 6 a.m. practices, meals on the run and mandatory ice baths.

It’s dedication, mental tough-ness and time management — on the field as well as in the class-room.

Even though being a BU ath-lete is a tough lifestyle, the expe-riences you encounter in-season makes struggling through the downfalls worthwhile.

Coming to BU, I thought dur-ing travel season we’d play some games, eat, shower, have down-time to get homework done and then go to sleep at a reasonable hour to be up for games the fol-lowing morning.

Man, was I wrong. Traveling is the furthest thing

from being simplistic. It takes quite the toll on you, physically.

That’s why you have to go into the airport with a light-hearted mindset and just have fun with everything, enjoy the opportunity and try to ignore the negative as-pects.

And believe me, there are negatives to traveling to a place like Arizona the week before mid-terms.

Imagine this is your Sunday before midterm week:

Wake up at 6:20 a.m. to hit in the cage at 8, take the field against University of California, River-side in the dry-heat of Arizona at 9, bus around the state while trying to study for IR, eat lunch, finish a six-page paper on the red-eye and arrive in Boston just in time to grab a bite to eat in the dining hall before going straight to a 9 a.m. class the next day.

After about step three on Sun-day’s agenda (playing UC Riv-erside), we all felt fatigued from spending so much time in the blis-tering sun. All we could focus our minds on was the beckoning call of our not-so-comfortable beds

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The Boston University men’s hockey team recruited goaltender Shane Starrett, who will join the team for its 2014-15 campaign. P.8.

Quotable“ “I’m sure that there’s going to be some hard hits and some bruises.

- BU coach Liz Robertshaw on lacrosse’s upcomming matchup against Dartmouth

The Boston University softball team got off to a rather bumpy but informative start to its 2012-13 campaign. After trips to Orlando, Fla., and Tucson, Ariz., the Terri-ers (3-7, 0-0) have wins against Georgia Southern University, Portland State University and the University of California-River-side.

Despite the team’s sub-.500, BU coach Kathryn Gleason said that she remains optimistic and used the games as a learning op-portunity.

“What we have learned is the way we approach the game,” Gleason said. “Arizona was a tough environment to play in. I thought we handled that very well ... We can play anybody. If we want to achieve our goal as a team we just need to keep doing that.”

Gleason is justifiably optimis-tic about the way her team has performed early, as it is still early

in the season and BU has played against rather tough opponents to this point.

This past weekend, BU took on softball powerhouse No. 17 University of Arizona at its home stadium in front of the many Wildcat softball fans. During the tournament that they hosted, the Wildcats (15-5) demolished the competition, defeating every team they faced. BU competed against Arizona Friday and Saturday, los-ing 6-3 in the first game and then falling once again to the Wildcats 4-1 a day later.

Playing Until the Final OutTo open up the season, the Ter-

riers faced Georgia Southern (9-10), which took a 1-0 lead in the seventh inning off of a home run by senior Tabby Douberley. How-ever, BU did not give up easily. An upperclassman responded in kind when senior second base-man Emily Roesch brought home sophomore right fielder Emily Felbaum on a single.

The following week, the team traveled to Tucson to participate in the Wildcat Invitational. After dropping three of four at the tour-nament, BU was set to take on UC Riverside (7-12). With the score tied at four in the seventh inning, sophomore left fielder Mandy Fernandez hit a three-run bomb to give her team a 7-4 lead. BU held on to win 7-6 before jumping on a red-eye flight back to Boston.

“What it means to us is that we’re a resilient team and that we never get down no matter what happens in the game,” Gleason said. “We play the game to the fin-ish. We talk about not playing the opponent, but playing the game.”

Fantastic FreshmenTwo freshmen have already

seen playing time for the Terri-ers this season — pitcher Lauren Hynes of San Diego and outfielder Haley King from Cumming, Ga.

Hynes has seen the field sev-eral times in this young season. With 19 innings logged in six ap-

pearances, she holds a 0-2 record with an ERA of 5.53, giving up 15 earned runs, 19 walks and strik-ing out 14. At the plate, Hynes is hitting .200, with five hits and a walk.

Meanwhile, King has been making smaller, but impactful contributions to the team, record-ing a .300 batting average in sev-en games with three hits and two walks.

“I’m very proud of them,” Gleason said. “You can have two different freshmen: One that goes out and is like a deer in head-lights, or one that goes out and plays. They just play the game and go out there.

“I had no hesitation starting Lauren on Friday night. There are no freshmen on our team anymore. They have been on the team since the fall, and everyone is pretty much on the same level. They have stepped up when we really needed them to and con-tinue to do so.”

Softball learning from losing efforts against top-notch squads

On The Road

Lacrosse, see page 7

By Christopher Dela RosaDaily Free Press Staff

Men’s hockey recruits goalie for 2014-15

It was not the biggest piece of news related to Boston University men’s hockey goalies this week, but the No. 19 Terriers (16-15-2, 13-10-2 Hockey East) have land-ed goaltender Shane Starrett of Selects Academy as a recruit for the 2014-15 season. Starrett an-nounced his commitment Monday on his Twitter account, saying, “One of the happiest days of [my] life. Officially going to be a Ter-rier.”

Starrett posted a 24-12-4 re-cord with a 1.90 goals-against average and .915 save percent-age while with the Selects Acad-emy U18s. The Bellingham native and former Catholic Memorial netminder was named the No. 35 goaltender on the NHL Central Scouting’s Midterm Rankings of North American skaters for the 2013 NHL draft.

The 6-foot-5, 180-pound goal-ie was born in July 1994, making him only three months young-er than freshman forward Sam Kurker. According to East Coast Militia’s Facebook page, Starrett is committed to come to BU for the 2014-15 season.

Junior backup goalie Anthony Moccia will graduate next spring, leaving an open roster spot for Starrett in 2014.

Parker sees improvement, potential in Kurker

In his first 28 collegiate games, Kurker has two goals and two as-sists. As a rookie who will not turn 19 until April, he has faced a learning curve after leading St.

By Annie MaroonDaily Free Press Staff

King, see page 7

The Inner Edge

Haley King

Lacrosse prepares for rival Dartmouth

Men’s hocKey, see page 7

W. Lacrosse v. Dartmouth, 3 p.m.