After years of decreasing funding for edu-cation due to the Great Recession, Gov. Deval Patrick plans to increase support to higher edu-cation by $283 million, according to his budget proposal released Wednesday.

“We have proposed a balanced, responsible budget that makes investments in education, in-novation and infrastructure that will grow jobs and opportunity in the near-term, and strength-en our Commonwealth in the long-term,” Pat-rick said in a letter Wednesday.

Patrick proposed a $34.8 billion budget for the new fiscal year that would increase state spending by 6.9 percent over the current fiscal year and increase the income tax from 5.25 per-cent to 6.25 percent.

Last week Patrick proposed investing $550 million in education that would reach $1 billion over four years. He wants to make higher edu-cation more affordable for students and expand access to educational opportunities, according to a press release Friday.

From 2011, higher education spending de-creased by more than $7 million. From 2012 to the current fiscal year, higher education spend-ing increased by about $975,000, according to Patrick’s statewide budget summary.

Some officials at higher education institu-tions said state funding to their schools de-creased dramatically over the years.

“The level of state support that UMass has received from the state has declined by nearly 21 percent since 2001 and it is actually lower than other segments of other state schools,” said Ann Scales, communications director for the University of Massachusetts President’s Office.

Scales said the trend in state funding has been declining and students and their families are left to pick up the bill.

“The state provided 61 percent of what it costs general education programs and students and families funded 39 percent of it,” she said. “Now that number is upside down and students pay more than the state gives.”

UMass had been trimming its budget even before the recession and its officials support Patrick’s proposal, Scales said.

“We are grateful to Governor Patrick for this increase in funding, and this is a step in right direction,” she said. “We need to see what hap-pens in the legislature and hopefully this is the year that we can see some budget reform.”

Mass. Sen. Stephen Brewer said before Patrick’s plan is passed, the House and Senate must draft their own budgets and compromise on what should be spent for the next fiscal year.

The New Balance Field at Boston Univer-sity, set to open in the fall of 2013, will expand the reputation and quality of BU athletics to be among the best in the country, officials said.

“When we finish this, it’s going to be an important asset to not only the campus and ath-letic facilities, but to this whole area,” said Paul Rinaldi, assistant vice president of Facilities Management and Planning at BU. “It will be much more of an improvement over the build-ing that was there for those who live in Bab-cock Tower.”

BU Operations demolished a building Thursday as the latest step in the construction of the field, Rinaldi said.

The building, which stood at 278 Babcock St., was a warehouse for several BU depart-ments, as well as an asset to the ROTC and the BU band, both of which used the building for practice.

The New Balance Field’s construction like-ly will be completed by the fall 2013 semester,

he said.“The field should be ready for our athletes

as they return in late August,” Rinaldi said. “We’re expecting that the home schedule of our women’s [field] hockey team is going to be played on the field in September.”

Mike Lynch, assistant vice president and di-rector of BU Athletics, said the field will be as important as Agganis Arena to the university’s athletics program.

“This field could end up being as significant to our program and to the way the campus looks as the building of Agganis Arena,” Lynch said. “Not only are … teams going to benefit from its construction, but also we’re going to have a new space for all of the thousands of recre-ational and club athletes.”

Rinaldi said, although Nickerson Field and a specialized softball field exist at BU, another field is necessary for logistical and scheduling purposes.

“Building this field doubles the number of

Smoldering cables caused hundreds of people to be evacuated from the Massachu-setts Bay Transportation Authority’s Green Line at the Arlington Station, and halted services from Kenmore Station to Govern-ment Center Station Wednesday morning.

“Smoke [was] observed about 100 feet west of Arlington Station’s inbound plat-form,” said Joe Pesaturo, MBTA spokes-man, in an email.

The Boston Fire department ordered the power to be shut off at 8:15 a.m, said Steve MacDonald, BFD spokesman. Response teams were sent out early on Wednesday to respond to the reports of smoke.

“We were called down to Arlington around 8 a.m,” MacDonald said. “They had an electric junction box adjacent to the track where they had the cable smoldering. The only way to put it out is to shut the

power off and extinguish it.”MacDonald said the track had to be

cleared of T-riders in order for the power to be shut off. MBTA personnel escorted more than 100 riders through the tunnels.

“They shut the power off and used a dry powder to extinguish the smoldering cable,” he said. “The T’s electricians had to isolate the cable that was causing the problem.”

Pesaturo said the cable will be replaced shortly.

“Once identified, the cable was discon-nected from two points in the tunnel to isolate it,” he said. “All other cables were tested to ensure safety of remaining cables. The old cable will be replaced in the next few nights.”

The extreme temperature damaged the MBTA power system, causing the smoke, Pesaturo said.

“Extreme cold can cause high loads on the aging MBTA power system,” he said.

“In this case, the bitter cold weakened an old cable which began to smolder and cre-ate smoke.”

The whole system had to be shut down to deal with the smoke, forcing officials to close major parts of the Green Line, Pesa-turo said.

“Green Line service between Kenmore and Government Center [was] temporarily suspended,” he said. “Shuttle buses were dispatched.”

The MBTA, on its website, announced a shuttle-bus plan to deal with the incident

“It is a major inconvenience for the morning commute,” MacDonald said. “But that’s the only way to put out smoldering wires.”

Pesaturo said the T resumed normal ser-vice at 10:53 a.m.

The incident caused issues for many morning commuters.

T riders could experience increased hours of services if lawmakers choose to adapt Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick’s proposed trans-portation reform plan.

The transportation plan allocates about $1 billion to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, allowing, among other things, the T to extend its service hours until 2 a.m. on weekends, increasing ridership.

The plan is in response to the “Your Vi-sion, Our Future” public meetings with riders that have been occurring throughout the city.

Currently, the T makes more than 1.4 mil-lion trips on more than 3,000 buses, com-muter rail, subway, ferries, and paratransit vehicles everyday, according to a Massachu-setts Bay Transportation Department press release.

Sara Lavoie, a spokeswoman for the MBTA, said if funds are freed up, longer T hours could become a reality.

“The MBTA is investigating providing service beyond 1:00 am on a limited basis,” she said. “If additional operating funds are identified, major bus routes and the most heavily travelled portions of the subway and light rail systems will be considered as part of a pilot program.”

The increased service would require sub-stantial additional funding, and the MBTA currently requires about $300 million per year to pay existing debt and operating costs, according to the governor’s plan.

Still, Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray said trans-portation is vital for a strong community.

“Transportation is the enabling network of our economy, creating and supporting jobs in all regions of the Commonwealth,” Mur-ray said in statement. “The MassDOT Board has outlined how far we’ve come and how far we have to go to ensure a safe, reliable and regionally equitable transportation net-

work. Now we all need is to work together to make this vision a reality.”

Kelly Smith, MBTA deputy press secre-tary, said additional cost would depend upon the expansion of the extra service hours.

“The cost of service will be determined once operating schedules and frequencies are identified,” she said. “Costs associated with

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“Making higher education more affordable is a noble cause,” Brewer said. “Scholarship aid is a noble en-deavor. It has to be paid for though, and we have to make sure that what-ever resources we have is supported by the majority.”

He said the House should make its proposal in April, the Senate in May. Collaboration on the budget would then take place in June, in time for the new fiscal year on July 1.

Patrick’s proposal is ambitious, Brewer said.

“It is a strong list that he suggest-ed,” he said. “We have to be mindful of who pays the bill for it and we will evaluate that when it comes time.”

However, some people said they believe that Patrick’s budget is con-

straining on the Commonwealth.“This year’s budget is not one

to be taken lightly and the Legisla-ture will be forced to grapple with the many fiscal constraints facing Massachusetts,” said Mass. House Minority Leader Bradley Jones in a Wednesday press release. “However, what should not be lost in budgetary line items or sound bites are the real concerns and desires of the taxpay-ers.”

Others said they support Patrick’s budget and believe the increase in funding for higher education will help public schools.

“I like that they are doing invest-ments for the future,” said Randall El-lis, professor of economics at Boston University. “They are investments and hopefully we get better services in the future. It won’t help BU, but it

will help the state schools.”Ellis said Patrick’s proposal might

pass.“Massachusetts is lucky that we

still have House and Senate in con-trol by Democrats, so that they will agree on things easier,” he said. “I think that it might pass due to his [Patrick’s] leadership. Since he is not running for office again, it will be easier for him to support an un-popular part of the proposal like the increase in income tax.”

However, Ellis said despite the re-cession, the economy of Massachu-setts can tolerate an increase in more spending.

“We are not entirely out of the recession and we can’t stop barring from planning for the future,” he said. “Massachusetts’s economy is strong enough to handle it.”

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the multi-use athletic fields at the uni-versity,” he said.

Lynch said the field will help BU become considered among the col-leges with the best athletic services in the U.S., which will then strengthen BU’s stature overall.

“For us, from a recruiting per-spective, it’s going to put us right up there with some of the best facilities anywhere in the country,” Lynch said.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said New Balance provided an essential monetary contribution necessary for BU to build the field.

“We have lots of alumni and friends of athletics that have contrib-uted as well,” Riley said. “But New Balance provided the funding so we could proceed with the project.”

A New Balance spokesperson could not be reached by press time.

New Balance President and Chief Executive Officer Rob DeMartini said the company shares BU’s pas-sion for sport, student athletics and athletic innovation in a February press release.

“As a Boston-based company with a long-standing commitment to promoting health and fitness and giv-ing back to the local community, we

are excited to help provide this valu-able athletic resource for the Boston University community,” DeMartini said in the release.

New Balance Field will allow the BU field hockey team to have a home field that is within campus boundar-ies, Lynch said.

“Our field hockey team, which has been a nationally ranked program for a number of years, is finally going to be back on campus after 13 years of traveling like vagabonds between [Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy] and Harvard [University] and Boston College,” he said. “They’ll finally have a home.”

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Danielle Chaplick, 30, a pro-gram manager in Coolidge cor-ner was frustrated with how the MBTA handled the situation.

“I knew at St. Mary’s Street that Kenmore would be the last stop,” she said. “I was annoyed that they didn’t tell me sooner or else I would have taken a cab instead of battling people on the street. I was late. It was so hard to get a cab because obviously ev-eryone was trying to get one. Peo-ple weren’t directing and I think

the MBTA could have handled the situation a lot better.”

Cornell Dan, 38, a resident of Brookline, was also delayed by the shut down.

“It was just one of those days,” he said. “I was 25 minutes late to where I needed to be and it was a big inconvenience for me.”

Other commuters tried to make the best of the situation.

Evan Gallup, 22, a Brighton resident, didn’t bother with trying to catch a cab.

“I had to walk from Blandford

to Kenmore,” he said. “It was just mainly cold and not that much of an inconvenience for me. I got to where I was going on time.”

Pesaturo said this incident em-phasized the need to update the MBTA system.

“This incident demonstrates the importance of re-investing in the MBTA’s aging infrastructure,” he said. “A plan needs to be ap-proved to allow the MBTA to properly maintain the oldest sub-way in America.”

Taxes could fund T proposalMBTA: From Page 1

additional service hours include ve-hicle fuel, power, personnel, clean-ing, station and parking area light-ing and increased customer service and Transit Police hours to ensure passenger safety.”

Smith said T maintenance work would not be affected by the pos-sible new service hours.

The funds for the proposed ser-vice expansion come from Patrick’s transportation reform plan. The revenue would have to be generated from an increase in rider fares and overall tax increases.

Patrick said this plan takes the necessary steps to improve the struggling transportation system.

“The plan released today is a stark, clear-eyed, non-partisan pre-sentation of the facts,” he said in a statement. “If we are serious about improving our transportation sys-tem for a generation, then we have to be willing to make the necessary investments.”

The plan also calls for $2.4 bil-lion over the next 10 years to re-place old train cars and $850 mil-lion to replace buses, among other things.

The Green Line has been eyed for expansion, as has South Station, according to the plan.

Some Boston University stu-dents said they would enjoy later service hours for the T, and said it would enhance safety in the city.

“Young people are always out late, and not having the T is dan-gerous and an inconvenience,” said Lucia Olmos, a sophomore in the College of General Studies “And it is really cold, so having the T would be nice.”

College of Engineering fresh-man Ian Chang also said expanded hours would create a safe alterna-tive to walking.

“It would be great if you are having a late night out and need a safe way to get back,” he said. “Es-pecially after all of the robberies, you don’t want to walk.”

Several Boston University students and faculty said they are having difficulty adjusting to Blackboard Learn — the new on-line educational resource that con-nect students and educators — as the transition interferes with shar-ing documents for classes.

Kento Okamoto, a School of Management junior, said his pro-fessors have struggled to connect with their students on the new software.

“In both of my economics classes, I have had some trouble getting [documents] online,” he said. “Some people couldn’t see the syllabus or even download homework assignments, so there must be a technical difficulty go-ing on.”

Okamoto said if the technical difficulties become a consistent problem, Informational Services and Technology should return to the old Blackboard 8.0 and make the system change while the aca-demic year is out to organize the new system and remove bugs.

Blackboard 8.0 will be phased out by fall 2013 so IT began trans-ferring classes to Blackboard Learn, said Executive Director of Educational Technology, Training and Outreach for Information Ser-vices and Technology at BU, Do-menic Screnci.

“Blackboard 8.0 was going away [by fall 2013] and so we had to deal with that,” Screnci said. “[Blackboard] 9.1, was more of a web 2.0 environment that had many of the features the older system didn’t have that represents

more of what a contemporary web experience will be.”

Karen Warkentin, a biology professor, said she had no prob-lem with Blackboard 8.0, but the new system seems to be working fine.

“Every time there is any change there is a learning curve and people don’t like it at first,” she said. “There are some things that seem like it could be easier than the old site, but I find it easier moving things around and orga-nizing myself on the new site, so I will get used to it soon.”

Warkentin said it is too soon to see a major flaw or difference in the new interface, but she has been able to adjust well.

“The old Blackboard had what

Donations dictate price at Panera Cares near Gov’t CenterCampus & CiTy Thursday, January 24, 2013

The Panera Bread foundation opened a nonprofit Panera Cares café in Boston Wednesday, which does not charge prices for meals and instead accepts donations.

Ron Shaich, founder of Panera Bread and president of the Panera Bread Foundation said he was excited to start opening Panera Cares cafes in the restaurant’s home city.

“Today, there are more than 1,600 Panera bakery-cafes in 44 states and Canada, but our roots are right here in Boston,” he said in a statement. “It is a combina-tion of our ties to the city, the generosity of Bostonians and the community needs that make the city ideal for our newest Panera Cares café.”

This is the fifth café opened by the Panera Bread Foundation after four successful cafés in St. Louis, Detroit, Portland, Ore. and Chi-cago, according to a press release.

The café is located at 3 Center Plaza, near the Government Cen-ter T stop.

The Panera Cares café’s aim is to address the issue of food inse-curity and make a direct impact on communities, according to the statement.

“This community café is a gift to the community that was funded by Panera. All of the build-out costs — nearly $1 million — were

covered by the company,” Shaich said. “Now that the site is open, it is up to the community to sustain it.”

There are no set prices on any food item in the café. Instead, there are donation bins with sug-gested donation amounts for cus-tomers to follow. The donations will help cover the direct cost of the café.

“This is a pay-it-forward mod-el,” Shaich said in the statement. “And it will only work if the com-munity supports it and one an-other.”

This new addition to the Bos-ton community has already been warmly received by other non-profits across the city.

Catherine D’Amato, President and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank, said this new café will serve as another great resource for Boston residents suffering from food insecurity.

“This is a step in the right di-rection to help end hunger and raise awareness of this ongoing epidemic that affects one-in-nine residents of eastern Massachu-setts and one-in-six Americans,” she said in the release.

Vendors across the city do-nated to the new café, filling the 4,500 square foot space with fur-niture and start-up supplies.

Shaich said in the press release that assisting the community is the priority of the café.

“We are part of this communi-ty and we have a vested interest in addressing the very real problem of food insecurity that many of our neighbors deal with.”

A number of Boston Universi-ty students said the cafes sounded like a good idea.

“It sounds like it would work,” said Erica Wivagg, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman. “It feels as if people would overpay for their food because of other people paying less or from guilt. I think it’s definitely a good idea — good for society.”

Wivagg said as a struggling college student, she would pay about 65 percent of the actual price for goods at the café.

Fatima Adigun, a sophomore in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said it would be tempting not to pay full price for goods.

“I would like to pay what I normally would, but I know I def-initely won’t, and neither would many of my friends,” she said.

Alyssa Tarasiewicz, a CAS freshman, said she thinks she would pay full price for the Pane-ra food.

“I’d probably just pay for the whole thing,” she said. “I’m re-ally not a thief.”

Clinton Nguyen and Jasper Craven contributed to the report-ing of this story.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Pa-netta is set to lift the military’s ban on women in combat, a decision which Boston University students said should prove advantageous for women, the military and the wom-en’s rights movement.

This decision effectively over-turns a 1994 Pentagon rule prohibit-ing women from obtaining combat-ive roles in U.S. armed forces, senior defense officials said Wednesday.

Emelia Thompson, a College of Arts and Sciences senior and mem-ber of BU’s ROTC, said the decision to allow women to serve combative roles is necessary for the success of the military.

“Because of where we are right now in the military, where we’re operating in this country, you need women to deal with women on the battlefield,” Thompson said. “If a

woman walks up to some vehicle checkpoint and there are only men there and they want to search her it’s really kind of a big cultural faux-pas and it’s really offensive.”

The change will open up hun-dreds of thousands of combative, front-line positions for women seek-ing employment in the military.

Defense officials said Panetta’s decision marks the beginning of a process to allow all branches of the military to grant women access to these roles.

Thompson said lifting the ban will greatly affect ROTC students who have not yet received their as-signments and do not yet know their career path.

“For a couple of my female friends who are years below me in school … it’s a really big deal be-cause it means they could be put with combat units that are still de-ploying,” Thompson said. “There’s a lot of stuff going on in Africa

right now that is probably going to devolve into needing U.S. ground troops.”

Allowing women to serve on the front lines and in other combative positions would open up career op-portunities and many different jobs that never were available to women before, Thompson said.

Michael Hamel, who is also an ROTC member, said he was glad to see that women will be given the op-portunity to change roles within the military.

“It’ll be great for our military go-ing forward, similar to the repeal of ‘[the] don’t ask, don’t tell [policy]’ where we’re now coming in and ac-cepting everyone into the military,” Hamel, a CAS junior, said.

Hamel said the decision to lift the ban will be advantageous for the im-age and future of the U.S. military.

“It just helps prove how progres-sive being in the military can be and how it’s constantly moving forward

with its opinions,” he said.Hamel said his lieutenant at BU

brought up the change in their naval lab and seemed enthused at the pros-pect of women shifting roles within the military.

“In terms of women’s rights it’s definitely great, and for our military it helps create a positive image that we can progress and move forward,” Hamel said.

A number of non-ROTC students said they support the government’s decision.

“Let’s not really care who it is that wants to serve their country,” said CAS junior Avery Gray. “If they [women] want to serve their country and they’re able to do so, then that’s all you really need as far as I’m concerned.”

Courtney Teixeira, a College of Fine Arts sophomore, said women have long been treated unfairly.

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After U.S. President Barack Obama said the nation must ad-dress climate change in his in-augural address Monday, several environmentally active Boston University students have said they are pleased the issue is being made a priority.

Andrew Cho, Student Gov-ernment assistant director of Environmental Affairs, said it is beneficial for the U.S. to create national policies in favor of sus-tainability, although it is difficult to do so.

“If Obama follows through with his plans, that’d be phe-nomenal, but only if he actually pursues that initiative,” Cho, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, said.

In his second inaugural speech, Obama said the U.S. must make progress toward sustainability de-spite the difficulties posed by this goal.

“We cannot cede to other na-tions the technology that will power new jobs and new indus-tries, we must claim its promise,” Obama said in his speech. “That’s how we will maintain our eco-nomic vitality and our national treasure — our forests and water-ways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks.”

Obama said failing to address the threat of climate change will betray future generations.

“Some may still deny the over-whelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastat-ing impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more pow-erful storms,” Obama said.

SG Director of Environmen-tal Affairs, Rebekah Heath, said in an email she is ecstatic about Obama’s promise to address glob-al warming.

“Rising temperatures on Earth are at a rate faster than ever be-fore,” Heath, a CAS freshman, said. “It’s a touchy subject, in-volving major oil companies, in-vestors, political figures and even everyday people.”

Heath said the government and citizens must reach mutual terms to make progress.

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Environmental groups support Obama’s pledge

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you needed, but it was more difficult to use and not as good as the new one,” said Ashley Gallicchio, a College of Commu-nication freshman. “The new one is faster when you’re downloading documents. It’s exactly what you would expect from a uni-versity website.”

Gallicchio said she has not used Black-board Learn extensively, but from what she has experienced and what her professors are saying, people grow more comfortable with greater usage.

“From what I have heard some people

have had difficulty getting their assigned readings,” said Madeleine Work, a Col-lege of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “Not all the things they need are posted so they can’t access certain things.”

Work said problems likely are not caused by the website or IT.

“I do like it more than the old Black-board, but I don’t think it is worth the ef-fort of switching over,” she said. “Some of my professors have said it’s more difficult to use and they have technical difficulties.”

Screnci said he has worked extensively developing the new website.

He said IT receives significant amounts of feedback, especially for new services, and he has not come across a specific, re-curring problem with the new interface.

“The general feedback is that it has been pretty reliable and consistent,” Screnci said. “We have had no particular bad feedback.”

Because the upgraded Blackboard 9.1 is different, many people are not comfort-able with the new interface and they do not know how to navigate it yet, Screnci said.

He said two outside events that affected power to servers caused the only major problems IT has faced.

“The explosion that happened on Com-monwealth Avenue created issues for us,” Screnci said. “Wednesday we had a brief outage that created a little bit of a problem for us, but they have been addressed and things have been stabilized.”

Screnci said with any change comes a learning curve.

“It’s a new environment with a whole new look and feel,” Screnci said. “Our goal in this process was to create a baseline where faculty would make the transition easily, but any change often-times brings anxiety.”

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Dir. of Env. Affairs: Gov’t and public must collaborate to influence change

“Change can only happen when the government and people agree to cooperate and coordinate a way to cut back,” Heath said. “Honestly, I cannot wait for that day to come.”

President of Bay State Road Resident Housing Administration, Marc Salerno, said implementing sustainability in brown-stones is difficult because of the geograph-ic distribution.

“Brownstone RHA goes from the Hillel House to past Shelton Hall — it’s hard to manage that,” Salerno, a CAS sophomore, said. “It isn’t like Warren [Towers] or one of the other dorms where they can have and stress policies on sustainability.”

Sarah Arch, a College of Communica-tion sophomore, said she doubts Obama will succeed in implementing sustainabil-ity changes and instead, a smaller figure or community likely will be more efficient.

“The smaller, the better,” Arch said. “Presidents can’t go around making sure everyone does what they’re told.”

COM freshman Dale Mason said feder-ally mandated sustainability will be more effective than a “do your part” theme be-

cause people think more about the present than about the future.

“Now that the president addressed it, maybe now we’re really going to do some-thing about it,” Mason said.

Officials for environmental groups on the Charles River Campus said they intend to increase participation and awareness during the spring 2013 semester.

Cho said SG Environmental Affairs members aim to collaborate with other sus-tainability-oriented groups.

“Environmental Affairs will be working with Sustainability@BU to get the Fitness & Recreation Center to turn off lights when closed,” Cho said.

Cho said he plans to form groups for Earth Week and to have advertisements for sustainability plans placed in the George Sherman Union.

Salerno said he would like to see more cooperation between environmental groups at BU, as this will help increase student awareness.

“To get better united, I think it’d be good if the university adopts a policy on sustainability,” he said. “Maybe we could organize a central meeting spot, but really, the big thing here is awareness.”

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“Women have been considered a minority for so long even though we aren’t,” she said. “We’re literally half as much as anyone else so we should have the same options, even if they could be detrimental to us.”

Teixeira said the decision is a step toward the gender equality women have been fighting for since the suffrage movement.

However, she said she does not predict the decision to inspire a significant increase in women’s rights.

“I think it’s going to continue at a slow rate and we’re going to have to push on if we want anything to happen,” she said. “It’s a step-by-step basis.”

CAS sophomore Hanna Eichen said the de-

cision is important to women fighting to over-come adversity, but should be accompanied by increased precaution for the women entering combat.

“I’m sure there should be special training for women because, physically, we are weaker and there’s a lot more danger with a woman being on the battlefield than a man,” Eichen said.

Thompson said that while she supports the decision, it has changed her opinion regarding deployment as an ROTC student.

“For me it does make the thought of de-ploying a little more strenuous,” Thompson said. “At the same time, I signed up for ROTC knowing I was going to be working for the military for at least four years and knowing that that was a possibility.”

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Delivering on its promise as “the great-est manhunt in history,” director Kathryn

Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty avoids being the type of sloppy action flick made by blockbuster sentimentalists like Spielberg, Cameron or Bay. While most directors would turn the hunt for bin Laden into a cheap “Hoorah!” for citizens still reeling from an unconscionable horror, Bigelow fuels Zero Dark Thirty with her trade-mark tension and realism, leaving little room for celebration.

The film opens with calls of 9/11 victims trapped in the tower with no accompanying im-age, sending the viewer back to a day perhaps too painful to witness. Bigelow doesn’t sensa-tionalize the infamous day with the cheapness of an image, and instead humanizes it with a cacophony of desperate voices. This explosive opening prepares the rest of the film for a series of aftershocks: torture, misinformation, dead ends, suicide bombings and an indolent bureau-cracy — unwelcomed fallout for a nation hell-bent on justice and revenge.

The manifestation of this national bloodlust is Maya (Jessica Chastain), a CIA agent who spends most of the film convincing a male-dominant bureaucracy to act on the accumulat-ed evidence of Bin Laden’s whereabouts. The film falters after the midpoint, as Maya attempts to rally her government to attack Osama bin Laden’s stronghold. Writer Mark Boal includes

a montage of Maya defiantly scribbling a count of the number of days that have gone by with-out attack on her superior’s glass pane. This is Boal’s desperate attempt to breathe some life into the mundane intelligence office sequence, but he doesn’t explore the bureaucratic process enough to make it worthwhile.

After this slow section, the audience is shaken awake with the film’s payoff: the raid on Osama’s stronghold. Bigelow exhibits her mastery of the war film in this dark, grungy attack laden with night-vision shots and sweat-inducing silence. The audience becomes com-plicit in Maya’s mission. The camera acts as her omniscient eye over the event — she is a wom-an with commanding vision and we live vicari-ously through her victorious moment, which takes on a greater meaning for all Americans.

While we follow Maya through the story, we get little insight to her background and, per-haps even more disturbingly, her motivation. But the opening of the film is her motivation — it’s the panic, doom, dread and suffering of those trapped in the twin towers that needs to be avenged. As critic Scott Foundas aptly points out, “She’s a fanatic hunting a fanatic.”

Indeed, Maya has her own Jihad or “reli-gious crusade,” which leads one to ask: “on our quest to kill bin Laden, have we become just as fanatical and violent as our enemy?” This impersonal, nationalistic goal leaves our very

human protagonist drained and purposeless once achieved. She parallels a suicide bomber, except she lives through her Jihad and finds nothing on the other side.

Zero Dark Thirty is a rare, significant film because it stirs up the socio-political war gaunt-let while maintaining the focus on its human characters. Many critics have taken issue with the former aspect, especially in regard to the film’s portrayal of torture. Critics have prob-lematized these scenes with an unimaginative, vehement outcry, with Rethink Review’s critic Jonathan Kim as their lead crusader. Many crit-ics claim torture doesn’t work as a means for extracting useful information and that it didn’t contribute to the hunt for bin Laden — there-fore its function in the plot, not its portrayal, is the point of contention.

After all, if we believe for an instant that the critic knows more about torture than we do, then the critic escapes with her contempt and ignorance unquestioned. I offer a new perspec-tive: the torture sequence could arguably be a poetic summation of American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The body of the terrorist takes on the meaning of a larger Middle East-ern population — one America has invaded, bombed, accused and ravaged in its unflinching search for Osama.

Regardless, Kim brings up a considerable point: why does Bigelow claim this film is

“based on firsthand accounts of actual events,” if parts of the film digress into fact-twisting and historical digressions?

Kim and many other critics fail to under-stand that the story subsumes events and acts committed by the military into a general nar-rative revolving around one character, thus in-herently fictionalizing it. If the film didn’t do this, these same critics would be bemoaning an incoherent, scattered narrative unable to string together a causal chain leading to bin Laden’s killing. Furthermore, Bigelow has no obligation to tell her story as it exactly unfolded, even with the opening claim being based on firsthand ac-counts. Such a film would be inherently dull. Intelligence worked for eight years — enough

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Imagine taking the T home at 2 a.m. This is part of Governor Deval Patrick’s recently proposed transportation reform plan, which would allocate nearly $1 billion to the Mas-sachusetts Department of Transportation to allow for these extended service hours. His proposal also calls for $2.4 billion over the next 10 years to replace old train cars, as well as $850 million to replace buses, among other things. The plan is in response to the “Your Vision, Our Future” public meetings that have been occurring through-out the city. It would greatly improve the city of Boston.

The problem with the proposal is the money: increased operation hours for the T would require substantial additional fund-ing. The MBTA already requires about $300 million a year to pay for existing debt and operating costs. Most likely, these im-provements will come at the expense of taxpayer dollars.

Why so expensive? Additional service hours require funds for vehicle fuel, power, personnel, cleaning, station and parking area lighting, as well as increased customer service and Transit Police hours to ensure passenger safety, according to Kelly Smith, the Deputy Press secretary of the MBTA

But the plan is well worth it. The up-grade to longer operating hours is long overdue. Boston is a world-class city, home

to a thriving bar scene and a large demo-graphic of nocturnal students. A late-night mass transportation service is needed in or-der to keep pace with the growing allure of city nightlife for tourists and locals alike. (Buses currently run until about 2 a.m., but bus routes don’t cover all regions.) Even if hours were extended solely on weekends, T ridership would undoubtedly increase.

Late-night subways services are good for a number of reasons. For one, they create jobs. Secondly, they increase customer traf-fic at Boston bars, lounges and clubs. This enhances Boston’s status as both a tourist destination as well as a thriving urban me-tropolis, allowing it to compete with cities like New York and London for attracting young people who stay out late (and spend their money late). Our next question in this development is, why not a 24-hour mass transport system?

Finally, a late-night T would increase resident safety. College students who find themselves vulnerable and alone in dark re-gions of party-ridden areas of the city like Allston are more vulnerable to be victims of crime. As Boston University students continue to fear armed robbery in the after hours, the opportunity to take the T home in the company of other late-night commuters might help prevent muggings, assaults and other late night mishaps.

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Danes built a sizeable lead over the Terriers.

With 36 seconds remaining in the game, sophomore guard Ma-lik Thomas hit a layup, pulling the Terriers within two points of their opponents. After a BU foul and a Watson Jr. turnover, Black hit two free throws to put Albany up, 63–57, with 15 seconds left. The game seemed to be lost for the Terriers, but then the implau-sible happened.

Junior guard D.J. Irving hit a 3-pointer for BU and then, after a Black turnover with just six sec-onds left in the game, he hit yet

another trey with five seconds left, tying the game at 63 and sending the teams into a five-min-ute overtime period.

“It was an unbelievable se-quence for us,” Jones said. “He made the first three, we called a timeout, and then he hit another three at the buzzer.”

Albany struck first in over-time, with a layup from guard Pe-ter Hooley. But after a pair of free throws from junior co-captain Dom Morris and a 3-pointer by freshman guard John Papale, BU took the lead, 68–65. The team did not relinquish its lead for the rest of the period and defeated the Great Danes, 85–80.

Watson Jr. led the Terriers with 21 points and seven assists, while Irving added 20 points, including the two huge threes at the end of the second half. Papale provided a quiet 18 points.

Jones said, although it’s a win the team will relish, BU also needs to look ahead to its next game.

“We hope a win like this can give us some momentum,” he said. “We are going to enjoy this one on the way home tonight and then get back to work tomorrow. We have a big game against a very underrated team in [University of Maryland-Baltimore County] and we need to be ready to go.”

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Johnson said she has no doubt that Ray — and other athletes — will step up with more talented competitors in the lanes next to them.

“Our athletes usually step it up as the competition gets a little dif-ferent,” she said.

Athletes who will be compet-ing for the first time this season include senior sprinter Tewado Latty, the reigning 400m America East indoor champion, and fel-

low senior sprinter Shelby Wal-ton, who won the 200m dash at the 2011-12 indoor America East Championships.

The highlight of Saturday’s competition will likely be the men’s one-mile run, in which the field will contain several sub-4:00 milers. U.S. Olympian Galen Rupp, one of the biggest names in distance running, will compete in the event. Rupp is the American record-holder in the 10,000m and silver medalist at the 2012 London Olympics. His personal best in the

mile is 3:57.10. An All-American and national

runner-up in the mile run last sea-son, BU junior Rich Peters will also attempt to break the 4:00 mark Saturday, as he has many times in his career. Peters’ personal best in the event is 3:57.83.

Fellow junior Stuart Ross, who placed third in the 1,000m in the 2012-13 opening meet, will com-pete as well.

The gun for the mile race is ex-pected to go off at about 3:50 p.m.

“I think you’ll see some good

times from all of them,” Johnson said of the milers. “They’re all ready to run fast, so the energy is going to be high. When you set things up like this it brings a lot of anticipation, and I think we’ll have a good crowd. The mood in the building will be great. Every year we’ve had a fast mile, so we’re looking forward to that.”

Johnson said the crowd will act as an energizing force for the ath-letes.

“[There are] a lot of people in here, and good energy. They’ve

been running all year, training, but it’s a whole different situation when you have a full crowd.”

Johnson said with most of the team competing this weekend, it will finally be a chance to see ev-eryone’s progress.

“It’s one thing to run against all your teammates, but to get out, and have other uniforms and run against them, it makes it look more special,” Johnson said. “They’ll get a chance to see exactly where they are, and hopefully step up to the plate and have a good meet.”

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Chantell Alford, the Terriers fi-nally found an offensive rhythm, pulling within striking distance of Albany’s lead. Both Sims and Alford had key steals that gave the Terriers ample chances to make the comeback.

BU improved its field goal shooting in the second half, shoot-ing 32.1 percent from the field. Junior guard Danielle Callahan provided the spark in the second half, hitting a pair of clutch treys. The improved shooting, coupled with BU’s strong defense — which held Albany scoreless for nearly five minutes — allowed BU to pull within three points at 47–44, with 2:46 remaining in regulation.

“I thought the second half was a true BU team out there,” Green-berg said. “We never gave up, and chipped away at it. We got some stops and rebounded and pushed it a little bit.”

Although it seemed as if BU

had the momentum and a great chance of pulling out a victory, things slipped away in the blink of an eye. With 1:56 to go, guard Ebone Henry got a steal on Kris-ten Sims and put in a wide-open layup, giving Albany a five-point lead.

After that possession, BU failed to score and was forced to foul, which put guard Lindsey Lowrie on the line four times. She went 7-for-8 from the char-ity stripe, effectively sealing the victory.

In the end, the Terriers fell to Albany, 57–50, despite their val-iant effort in the second half.

“I thought the difference in the game was the first half,” Greenberg said. “We were out of whack a bit offensively.”

The Terriers will look to bounce back as they take on the University of Maryland-Balti-more County this Saturday at 2 p.m. in Baltimore.

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of the spectrum, as it hasn’t lost a contest in its last 11 and has won its last four. With 18 goals scored during the recent four-game stretch — a 5–4 victory over No. 10 North-eastern University on Jan. 16 — for an av-erage of 4.5 goals per game, the Terriers are playing as well as ever.

“It all starts with consistency,” Duro-cher said. We’re on a pretty consistent run throughout the year. We seemed to be ready to play in the last number of games.”

BU ranks second in Hockey East in both scoring and defense on the season with 3.71 goals scored per game and 2.48 goals allowed per game. Only Boston College is ahead of the Teriers in both categories. Leading the charge for BU is junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin, who leads the team and ranks fourth in Hockey East with 33 points. Her 22 assists is also a team best and puts her at second in the conference, behind only BC (17–4–2, 10–2–1 Hockey East) forward Alex Carpenter.

Durocher said he praises Poulin’s de-meanor off the ice, as well.

“As a teammate [Poulin is] very genu-ine,” Durocher said. “She’s well-liked and appreciated by everybody on this team, and that’s just a product of her being a humble kid and a concerned kid. It makes her a real good person off the ice, and a real good teammate.”

Poulin’s linemate, freshman forward Sarah Lefort, has been a major beneficiary of her high assists total. Lefort leads the team and is tied for fifth in Hockey East with 13 goals.

The Terriers’ second line of sophomore Kayla Tutino, junior Louise Warren and se-nior Isabel Menard has contributed to the team’s recent impressive offensive efforts, as well. The line is responsible for eight goals out of the 18 scored since the end of the team’s winter break. That amounts to an average of two goals per game from that trio alone.

Durocher said Warren’s improved per-formance is a major factor in the line’s re-cent success.

“The thing that’s changed for the better, [and] the most, is Louise Warren has really

stepped up her play,” Durocher said. “Of recent finish, she’s been getting her goals and assists, finishing her opportunities.”

On the other end of the ice, BU hasn’t started the same netminder two games in a row since junior goaltender Kerrin Sperry played in back-to-back matchups against the University of Minnesota Duluth on Dec. 8 and Dec. 9. Senior Alissa Fromkin was given the start over Sperry in two of the four most recent games.

The decision to start Fromkin recently may seem surprising, as Sperry ranks sec-ond in Hockey East in goals-against aver-age (2.39), third in save percentage (.911) and second in winning percentage (.794).

Durocher said he is preparing for any obstacles that may stand in between his team and an NCAA Championship.

“You want to make sure that people are ready to play,” Durocher said. “I don’t want to get into an injury situation in Feb-ruary or with the Beanpot, Hockey East and postseason. You’d be kicking yourself in the tail if you didn’t have both goalies playing some during the year.”

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The improvement was largely due to better shot decisions, limited turn-overs and advantageous offense re-sulting from Albany turnovers.

The Terriers were not perfect shooting the ball, but had a higher field goal percentage (32.1 percent)

than they did in the first half. BU also only had 5 turnovers in the second half, a far cry from the 14 committed in the first.

“I thought in the second half, we were a true BU team out there,” Greenberg said. “We never gave up, we chipped away … we got some

stops and rebounds, and were push-ing a little bit to make things hap-pen.”

Despite their improved second-half play, the Terriers shot only 28.6 percent (14-of-49) from the field in the game, a season low in field goal percentage.

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In a rollercoaster overtime thriller, the Boston University men’s basketball team defeated the conference-leading University at Albany, 85–80.

“It was a quality win,” said BU (10–10, 4–3 America East) coach Joe Jones. “A big win on the road. We have a lot of respect for that team and their style of play, but it was a great win for us — one of the best since we’ve been here.”

The University at Albany (16–5, 5–2 America East) entered as the highest-scor-ing team in the America East Conference. The Great Danes were also riding a four-game winning streak.

BU stayed with Albany for the first 10 minutes of the first half, preventing the Albany offense from getting started. Nine minutes into the frame, freshman guard Maurice Watson Jr. began draining shots for the Terriers.

The Terriers went on a 16–2 run in the middle of the first to build a nine-point lead over the Great Danes. Watson Jr. had a strong half, shooting 5-for-8 from the field while making all three shots he took from beyond the arc.

Coming into the game, Jones stressed the importance of defense against the prolific Albany offense. In the first half, the BU defense held Albany guards Mike Black and Jacob Iati to five and six points, respectively. The BU defense also forced 11 Albany turnovers in the opening frame.

“We defended really well,” Jones said. “In the first half we defended really well, holding them to only 29 percent shooting while turning it over a bunch. In the second half they really went after us, went inside on us and we struggled to guard that, but I was happy with our overall defensive ef-fort.”

Albany stayed in the game with help

from the perfect shooting of guard Jayson Guerrier, who went 4-for-4 from the field and matched Watson Jr.’s 3-for-3 from 3-point range.

At the end of the first half, the Terriers led the Great Danes by a score of 29–23.

Albany quickly retook the lead only 2:30 into the second half, going ahead 32–30. Thanks in part to 12 points from Albany forward Sam Rowley in the first 10 minutes of the second half, The Great

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JACKIE ROBERTSON/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFJunior guard D.J. Irving sank two consecu-tive 3-pointers in 15 seconds to send BU to overtime in a stunning victory.

Monday, Jan. 28No Events Scheduled

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Thursday, Jan. 24 Saturday, Jan. 26Friday, Jan. 25 Sunday, Jan. 27M. Hockey @ Providence, 7 p.m.

W. Hockey @ Vermont, 2 p.m.Track Terrier Invitational @ TTC, 2 p.m.

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M. Basketball vs. UMBC, 1 p.m.W. Basketball @ UMBC, 2 p.m.

W. Hockey vs. UNH, 3 p.m.

On Friday and Saturday, the Track and Tennis Center will host some big names as the Boston University track and field team hosts the annual Terrier Invitational.

More than 2,000 athletes will participate in the meet, with the women’s competition starting at 2 p.m. Friday, and the men’s be-ginning 9 a.m. Saturday.

“We’re going to have 2,300 athletes here, so we’ll have quite the event going,” said Robyne Johnson, director of track and field at BU. “We’ll have a lot of competition.”

Last Thursday, the Terriers had a suc-cessful showing at their first meet of the season, led in particular by their hurdlers and distance runners.

One of those competitors, graduate student Katie Matthews, won the 3,000m run in a time of 9:14.71, coming just two seconds shy of the school record. She was named America East Track Performer of the Week for setting the national standard in the event.

Johnson expects Matthews to have a strong meet again despite the increased competition.

“Katie’s … a very good competitor and she thrives on competition,” Johnson said. “So I think there will be some good com-petition this week, and she’ll be able to stay motivated. She always wants to get better … she’ll do her best.”

Another top performer from last week, graduate student Zachary Ray, will partici-pate in the 60m hurdles and the long jump after winning both events at last week’s meet.

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Quotable“ “She’s well-liked and appreciated by every-body on this team.

-BU coach Brian Durocher on his team’s respect for co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin.

It was a familiar scene Wednesday night at Case Gym. For the second consec-utive year, the Boston University women’s basketball team faced the University at Albany in search of its 14th straight vic-tory. And for the second consecutive year, the Terriers (16–4, 6–1 America East) fell to Albany (16–3, 7–0 America East), this time by a score of 57–50.

The first half was a struggle for the Ter-riers, as they failed to muster any sort of offense. Albany came out with a full-court press, which forced BU into taking poor shots and making sloppy passes.

In the early stages of the game it was clear that the pressure was getting to the Terrier offense. Within the first five min-utes of the game, the team turned the ball over three times, which seemed to preview the rest of the half. BU ended up commit-ting 14 turnovers.

Turnovers were not the only cause for concern. BU also had difficulty putting the ball in the basket. The team only hit five field goals in the first half, putting it at 23.8 percent shooting from the field. BU also shot just 3-for-11 from behind the arc, which has been one of the team’s strengths all year.

BU’s leading scorer, senior guard Ch-antell Alford, scored seven points, but went just 2-for-9 from the field.

“That’s [Albany’s] game plan. To be physical, press a little bit, trying to make things happen in the full court,” said BU Coach Kelly Greenberg. “We had 14 turn-overs, which is extremely uncharacteristic of us.”

In addition to its defense, the Albany offense also came out red-hot, shooting 50 percent from the field. Albany scored 33 points in the first half, 26 of which came from inside the paint. This domination was in large part due to New Zealand native, 6-foot-8 center Megan Craig. The sopho-more only played eight minutes of the first half, but scored eight points.

“We tried to push her off the block as much as possible,” Greenberg said. “When she catches and shoots, there’s not much we can do.”

With Craig and the rest of the Albany squad dominating the paint — grabbing 22 rebounds to BU’s 10 — they built a com-manding 33–17 lead over BU after one half of play.

However, the Terriers refused to let the game end so decisively. The team clawed its way back, and looked to make an im-probable comeback.

Although in the early minutes of the sec-ond half Albany held a 21-point lead, the Terriers began to chip away at the lead and looked to pull ahead. Led by the defensive efforts of senior guards Kristen Sims and

Terriers fall short of 14th straight victory

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Women’s hockeypreparing for matchagainst Catamounts

Looking to extend its 11-game undefeat-ed streak and four-game winning streak, the No. 5 Boston University women’s hockey team will travel to Burlington, Vt., to take on the University of Vermont Friday at 2 p.m.

The Catamounts (6–13–3, 4–4–3 Hock-ey East) are struggling, as they come into this game without a win in their last four matchups. They scored seven goals over the four-game stretch, but their greater weakness lies on the defensive end, as they allowed 11 goals for an average of 2.75 goals allowed per game.

The Catamounts rank sixth in Hockey East with a 2.23 goals per game average on the season, and fifth with 3.18 goals al-lowed per game.

Their top point-getter is forward Klara Myren, who has 18 points on five goals and a team-leading 13 assists. Classmate Brit-tany Zuback is not far behind, as she has 17 points on a team-leading 10 goals and seven assists. Only two other players on the team have more than 10 points on the season.

However, BU coach Brian Durocher said his team is aware of Vermont’s poten-tial.

“We’re all pretty respectful of Vermont and everybody in this league, and anybody on any given day can come back and beat you,” Durocher said. “They got a win over [University of New Hampshire] earlier in the year, so we know what they’re capable of.”

BU enters the game on the opposite end

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It was a tale of two halves for the offense of the Boston University women’s basketball team Wednesday night.

The first half yielded uncharacteristic turn-overs, poor decision-making and a 16-point deficit at halftime. The second half, however, showcased the Terriers’ (16–4, 6–1 America East) explosive and tenacious style of play that most have become accustomed to seeing from the team.

Unfortunately for the Terriers, despite a val-iant comeback in the final minutes of the game, the deficit caused in part by poor offensive exe-cution in the first half proved to be too much to overcome. BU fell to the University at Albany 57–50 at Case Gym.

“I thought the difference in the game was just that in the first half we were out of whack a little bit offensively,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg. “We got good looks, we just weren’t knocking down shots.”

The Terriers were held to just 17 points in the first half — their lowest first-half total of the season — going 5-of-21 (23.8 percent) from the field. Their shots from beyond the arc — a staple of the Terriers’ offense so far this season — were also neutralized in the first half, as the team only hit 3-of-11 3-point attempts (27.3 percent).

While BU’s stellar defense was able to keep the contest close in the opening minutes of the game, a scoring drought that lasted almost sev-

en minutes gave Albany (15–3, 6–0 America East) its chance to build a lead. By the time the Terriers finally made a field goal on a 3-pointer by senior guard Chantell Alford, Albany was up 22–14.

“We did great things defensively, but scor-ing 17 points — being stuck on 10 points for a while — obviously we were struggling,” Greenberg said.

One of the primary factors in the Terriers’ first-half offensive struggles was turnovers. Due to Albany’s aggressive press defense, as well as uncharacteristic mental errors, BU ended the first half with 14 turnovers. Albany made sure that the Terriers would pay for their mistakes, as it scored 10 first-half points off turnovers.

“As I told my team at halftime, we had 14 turnovers, which is extremely uncharacteris-tic,” Greenberg said. “A lot of them were un-forced. We were trying to do some things that we really did not need to do at the time. Maybe it was [Albany’s] defense … but we did it to ourselves as well.”

In the second half, despite being down by 23 points at its lowest point, BU was able to come within three of the lead with 4:30 remain-ing in the game. While the Terriers ultimately were unable to pull off the incredible come-back, the team’s play was greatly improved from the first half.

The Terriers scored 33 points in the final frame, 16 more than they did in the first half.

BU’s first-half deficit proves insurmountable

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By Conor RyanDaily Free Press Staff