Coinciding with many online holiday sales, state and national officials are pushing for a uniform sales tax applied to online re-tailers to ensure equity with Main Street busi-nesses.

“All I am saying is level the playing field and let the consumer do what they want to do, and it’s a win-win-win situation,” said Mass. Treasurer Steven Grossman, who supports change on the federal level.

U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, Dick Durbin and Lamar Alexander are sponsoring a bill that would equalize consumers’ motivation to engage in retail shopping and online shop-ping.

Grossman said he favors the bill, entitled the Main Street Fairness Act, and that it would overturn a Supreme Court ruling from 1992.

The court case, Quill Corporation v. North

Dakota, stated companies could not be re-quired to collect taxes on sales made in indi-vidual states unless they had a place of busi-ness in that state, he said.

“If they do not have a place in that state, they do not have to collect sales tax in those states,” Grossman said.

Bill Rennie, vice president of the Re-tail Association of Massachusetts, said the growth of Internet sales has increased too much for this law to remain applicable.

“The reason we want to change it now is because online sellers are given a 6.25 per-cent head start over local sellers and busi-nesses,” he said.

Rennie said the policy change is all about fairness.

“If a local retailer has to have a sales tax in Massachusetts, an online company should do the same,” he said. “If you don’t, you put

After spending a month in Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and is being transferred to Spaulding Reha-bilitation Hospital to begin his recovery, of-ficials said.

“His doctors say that he is doing very well and is on track with his recovery plans,” said Emilee Ellison, press assistant to Menino.

Menino was hospitalized on Oct. 26 for a virus. He remained in the hospital for back complications after successfully undergoing treatment for a viral infection and a blood clot in his lung.

He responded well to therapy on his back,

said Dr. Charles Morris at a news conference on Monday.

“We look forward to him doing the im-portant therapy work and then getting back to where he needs to be,” Morris said in the conference televised on New England Cable News. “The mayor is very excited to finally be well on his way.”

During his time in the hospital, doctors discovered Menino had type 2 diabetes, Mor-ris said.

“His blood sugar had been a little bit el-evated, but it [the diabetes] became more of an issue while he was here,” he said.

Morris also said the diabetes is probably one of the factors that contributed to the in-fection in Menino’s lower back.

Morris said he expects Menino will do

physical therapy and occupational therapy in rehabilitation.

“[He will be] working to get strength which ordinarily saps a little bit when in the hospital for so long, and he needs that little extra work to get him where he needs to be,” Morris said.

Menino must focus in rehab to get his strength back and return to the state of physi-cal fitness he had maintained before compli-cations started, Morris said.

Morris said Menino’s medical condition should not create obstacles for him in his po-litical career.

Menino has still been able to continue working for the city, Ellison said.

In the wake of national Black Friday sales, a number of Boston University stu-dents said while they were not very famil-iar with Cyber Monday, they took advan-tage of the discounts offered.

“People didn’t know because it’s [Cy-ber Monday is] not as well advertised as Black Friday,” said Ashli Molina, a Col-lege of Arts and Sciences freshman. “Black Friday is more popular because people like the idea of competing for what they buy.”

Some students said they noticed slower BU Internet during the holiday weekend sales.

“I tried to use Oovoo with my fam-ily and that doesn’t work on BU Wi-Fi, and when I tried to do that, it completely shut down my Internet and shut down my browsers,” Tanya Volkert, a CAS freshman said. “Yesterday the Internet was definitely slower than usual.”

BU Information Services and Technol-ogy said an increase in Internet access the day before and the day of the sales could slow down connection speeds.

“Especially during a holiday shopping season, with Black Friday and Cyber Mon-day there’s an additional, if not extraordi-nary, load on the Internet,” said IT associ-ate vice president Michael Krugman. “Our networks are paths of transport of informa-tion and information is increasingly impor-tant to people and their personal and pro-fessional activities — weak spots in the Internet surface.”

CAS junior Sarah Rockowitz said peo-ple learn about Cyber Monday verbally.

She said she has looked at sales on Cyber Monday for years, but bought something for the first time this year.

“Cyber Monday is becoming broader and there are more discounts being of-fered,” Rockowitz said. “Even if it’s not a big discount almost every [website] had at least free shipping.”

Cyber Monday sales increased by al-most 27 percent from 2011 to 2012, ac-cording to a study conducted by IBM Digi-tal Analytics Benchmark. The total revenue was about $1.5 billion, a 20 percent in-

crease from 2011.“It’s definitely expanding, and it’s easier

because you don’t have to get trampled in a Walmart or wait in line,” Rockowitz said. “You can just sit on your computer and do it.”

CAS sophomore Windham Veevaert said he received unclear emails about Cy-ber Monday sales.

“I basically know nothing because I heard that phrase the first time this week-end,” Veevaert said. “I just got several

Student Government passed a motion at its meeting Monday night to approve a $775 budget for vacation buses that would shuttle students from Boston University to Logan In-ternational Airport.

Nineteen senators voted to pass the vaca-tion buses motion, with eight senators op-posed and two senators abstaining.

“The vast majority of people [students polled] were very supportive,” said Caitlin Seele, a School of Management junior and SG director of advocacy. “Most wanted to pay $8 to $10.”

Ninety-six percent of BU students polled said they would use a bus that left from a con-venient on-campus location to travel to the airport if it cost a reasonable price, according to a November SG survey.

Seele said if more than 64 tickets are sold, SG would be able to raise enough money to pay for more buses.

“If it [the vacation bus service] becomes extremely popular, then we can start working toward making it entirely self-sustaining,” Seele said.

The vacation buses will run four times a year beginning with spring break 2013 and are planned to cost $9 a ticket, according to the proposal.

Some members of SG said the buses should be available to students at no charge.

“It’s great if the senators do want to subsi-dize it or anything like that,” Seele said. “We really do picture it being an on-going, four times a year [service].”

Dexter McCoy, SG president and Col-lege of Communication junior, said SG has enough money to afford the buses without charging students.

“We should just use it [SG funds] and give it [bus tickets] to people for free,” said Mc-Coy.

SG officials said they hope to increase stu-dent participation in the Campaign for Boston University by promoting community service around campus. SG pledged to donate one million hours of community service to BU in September.

The BU Board of Trustees promised to do-nate $8 for each volunteer hour logged by BU students to honor the service as a donation toward the fundraising campaign, said Richa

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PHOTO BY KENSHIN OKUBO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFCollege of Arts and Sciences freshman Tiffany Lo, CAS sophomore Cassandra Shavney and College of Communica-tion freshman Nia Davis raise a proposal about a Boston University vacation bus at the Student Government meeting Monday night.

Kaul, SG executive staff to the SG president.

Kaul, a College of Arts and Sci-ences freshman, said SG plans to use advertising to show students they can log their community ser-vice hours to raise money for the Campaign for BU.

“We are, as a committee, trying to focus on ways to let all the stu-dents know how to log their hours,” Kaul said. “We’re looking at bus advertising and a poster outside Warren.”

Kaul said the Campaign for BU’s progress has slowed down

since its public kickoff Sept. 22.“It [the campaign] kind of fell

off the face of the earth after the Celebration of BU for most peo-ple,” Kaul said.

SG is also looking at hosting a community service event to encour-age students who might not usu-ally do community service to get involved with the campaign, Kaul said.

“We figured that they don’t do it because it’s hard to get around and get off campus and they don’t have that much time,” she said.

Cherice Hunt, a COM junior and SG director of communication, said the Campaign for BU is very im-

portant to SG officials.“This is the first time the univer-

sity has launched such a huge cam-paign like this, so the students have to be a part of it,” she said.

Hunt said it is crucial for SG to promote the campaign because the money raised will be put toward research, admissions funding, aca-demics and financial aid.

“If we’re trying to represent the student body, we should have a say in how this campaign is going to go through,” she said. “[SG should be involved in] the process, the final result, how the funding is going to work, all of these things.”

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emails from different clothing companies about sales on Mon-day, but that’s about it.”

College of General Studies sophomore Christina Gagosian said she learned about Cyber Monday the same morning when she asked her roommate.

“There are always commer-cials for Black Friday and every-thing so it is really well publi-cized,” Gagosian said. “Because it’s online and all the advertising is online, they don’t need to put it on television.”

Rockowitz said she prefers Cyber Monday to physical shop-

ping on Black Friday.“It’s easier and it takes less of

my energy,” Rockowitz said. “It’s easier to go to bed and wake up in the morning and buy it on the computer.”

Molina said she enjoys how much easier it is to shop online instead of warding off crowds on Black Friday.

“It’s better to sit back in your pajamas and just shop from home,” Molina said. “I didn’t go to Black Friday because I didn’t enjoy fighting people over clothes and materialistic things.”

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“He has been fully capable of decision-making and running the city from the hospital,” she said. “He was in constant contact with his staff and fully engaged in all city activity.”

Menino kicked off the holiday season on Nov. 20, announcing a Holidays on Main Streets cam-paign, a city-wide decorating con-

test and free holiday parking hours at city parking meters throughout the city.

No timetable has been discussed for his time at the rehabilitation hospital, Ellison said.

“The mayor is anxious to get back out into the neighborhoods,” Ellison said. “He is disappointed to miss the Thanksgiving holidays because he does so much with the community at this time.”

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After seven years of develop-ment, a teen center under construc-tion in Brookline Village will offer local youth a much-needed space for after-school activities, residents said.

The center plans to provide a safe and friendly facility for teens to en-gage in recreational activities. Its fa-cilities will include a fitness center, a music and recording studio, a dance room, an academic center, counsel-ing offices and other services, ac-cording to the project’s website.

The Brookline Teen Center, which faced significant fundraising hurdles, will open before fall 2013, after seven years of planning.

A number of Brookline residents said they are excited for the center’s eventual completion.

Diane Piktialis, 67, a consultant living in Brookline and a mother of two teenagers, said she is glad the center will provide a safe haven for young people.

“People in Brookline are very spread out and living near the high school, generally, I see a ton of teen-agers just hanging out after school,” she said. “It will be very important for parents to know where their kids are after school.”

Other residents said the teen cen-ter is a logical and thoughtful addi-

tion to the town — Brookline lacks a YMCA and a Boys & Girls Club.

Martha Huntley, a project man-ager for Room for Change LLC, said she is excited by the prospect of having a place for teens to call their home.

“We don’t have a YMCA or JCC or Boys & Girls Club,” she said. “Their recreation departments are fabulous, but there is a gap for teens.”

The lack of a relevant youth-oriented location was a concern for Huntley, she said.

“It provides a space where these kids can call their own,” she said.

Huntley said she was thrilled that the center’s board of directors fo-cused on making sure they planned the building’s facilities with teens in mind. The board enlisted a few teens each summer to help generate

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The Massachusetts Bay Trans-portation Authority Rider Oversight Committee met on Monday to re-view plans regarding renovations to T stations, particularly the one at Government Center.

The MBTA ROC is comprised of riders, advocates and MBTA employees who meet to address is-sues and give recommendations to the MBTA. More than 30 members hold monthly public meetings, dur-ing which various attendees speak, reports are made and recommenda-tions are approved.

The construction managers of the MBTA Design and Construc-tion Team presented their plans for

changes in the Government Center T station, which will bring the sta-tion in compliance with the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act and the Boston Center for Independent Liv-ing Agreement.

“Renovation of the Government Center station, designated as the last key station in the plan, is vital to the MBTA fulfilling its commitment to provide accessibility for all,” ac-cording to the MBTA website.

Renovations include adjust-ments to Blue and Green Line platforms, the addition of elevators from the surface to the Green Line level and the construction of a new main entrance for the station. Plans for new paths to the station are also in effect.

Other proposed additions to the

station include new escalators, new fare collection systems and upgrad-ed back-up electrical supply.

A study by Value Engineering, conducted in 2011, suggested Gov-ernment Center be closed for 24 months while improvements were made to the station, according to the MBTA website.

Officials at the meeting proposed extending hours at the Bowdoin sta-tion to ease problems created while Government Center is under con-struction.

During construction, trains would be able to pass through Gov-ernment Center, although passen-gers would be unable to exit trains in the work zone.

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PHOTO BY KENSHIN OKUBO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority employees discussed future projects and issues with the Rider Oversight Committee at a meeting Monday.

Following the discovery of thou-sands of Boston gas leaks and a gas pipe explosion in Springfield on Nov. 23, a number of Allston resi-dents said they are concerned about the gas leaks found in the city.

There are about 3,356 methane gas leaks throughout Boston’s un-derground pipelines, according to a Nov. 19 study from Boston Uni-versity and Duke University profes-sors.

Nathan Phillips, a professor at Boston University in the depart-ment of earth and environment, and his crew traveled across all 785-road miles in Boston to expose the potential dangers of the maturing infrastructure of the city, according to the study.

He used a spectrometer and mo-bile GPS to measure the levels of methane gas in the air and to map the location of the leak, according to the study.

Courtney Carroll, a BU senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, did a few surveys of gas leaks with Phillips.

“We used an instrument that measures the gas leaks and I was

able to see how the gas levels spiked,” Carroll said.

Jimmy Blackmon, a junior in the College of Communication and resident of Allston, said he heard about the Springfield explosion and said it is not comforting to know there are more than 3,000 gas leaks in Boston.

“The other day someone told me that they smelled gas in the build-ing, which is pretty scary,” Black-mon said.

Carroll said the leaks they sur-veyed were not explosive.

“The leaks that we found weren’t explosive leaks, but you would want to know if you lived in that area,” she said.

Phillips classified a methane leak as a value of gas in the air that is over 2.50 parts per million. He identified 3,356 methane leaks that exceeded that value, with the high-est concentration at 28.6 parts per million, the study said.

Throughout the city, 435 meth-ane leaks exceeded five parts per million and 97 exceeded 10 parts per million, which is considered a hazard to humans and could cause an explosion, the study stated.

Several residents in the Allston area said they are troubled by the

gas leaks in Boston because of the Springfield pipe explosion on Nov. 23, which was a result of an em-ployee allegedly putting a hole in an underground pipe.

Ian Blau, a COM sophomore and resident of Allston, said he heard about the gas leaks from his friends and knows this is an issue for Boston.

“I know that Boston has pretty old infrastructure, so it is a little nerve-wracking,” he said.

Blau said he hopes city officials will fix the problem soon so as to prevent more explosions from hap-pening.

Carroll also said these leaks are not surprising because of the age of the city.

“It is not as surprising hearing about all of these leaks when you find out that Boston has one of the oldest infrastructures in the U.S.,” Carroll said.

In the study, researchers said re-ducing methane leaks would help promote gas safety and save money for the city.

By replacing failing methane pipes, researchers said it would re-duce the amount of greenhouse gas

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One issue students might not think about when applying for study abroad is their living situation once they return to campus. Yet a number of students said they have little input on who their roommate will be the next semester.

Sukhmani Gill, a first-year Bos-ton University School of Medicine student, said when she left campus to study abroad in Madrid during the spring semester of her senior year, the three other residents of her four-person apartment in Student Village I were randomly assigned a roommate.

“They didn’t really like the new roommate, but they didn’t really have a choice,” Gill said. “She just got as-signed in there.”

Gill said she did not have any problems with BU Housing prior to her departure.

“If all processes are followed ap-propriately, there will be no issues securing housing,” said Nishman Kashyap, director of BU Housing, in an email.

Students studying abroad receive an email from Housing mid-semester with instructions on how to reserve on-campus living space, according to the Housing website.

“If a student studying abroad knows of a space he or she specifical-ly wants and it is available, we will do our best to assign the student to that specific space,” Kashyap said.

Kashyap said even students who know there will be space available in their rooms cannot request a person abroad to be their roommate.

“A roommate cannot request a student who is abroad,” he said. “The request must initiate from the student who is abroad.”

Students studying abroad in the fall receive housing assignments on the BU Student Link over winter break, according to the Housing web-site.

Students studying abroad spring semester must select a proxy to par-ticipate in Room Selection for them to reserve a living space on campus for the following semester.

Kelly Vitale, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior, said she was able to move into recently vacated rooms in a friend’s suite upon returning from studying abroad for a semester.

“I know other people who have tried in the past to pull in people that are coming back from abroad,” Vitale said. “They [BU Housing] won’t al-

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Students face housing issues after abroad

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PHOTO BY MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFConstruction on the new Brookline Teen Center at 40 Aspinwall Ave. is under-way as a space for young adults to gather.

A number of Boston University students said they would benefit from using the new bus services provided by Student Government for holiday travel to Logan International Airport and South Station.

With the buses announced for the spring 2013 semester at SG’s meeting Monday night, students said they are excited to have another travel option.

“A lot of people I know live far enough that they fly home,” said Tra-vis Smith, a College of Arts and Sci-ences junior. “It would appeal to a lot of BU students. It would save me a cab fare.”

SG conducted a student survey in November regarding busing op-tions for break. Students were asked whether or not they would be inter-ested in the service and how much they were willing to pay.

About 680 students were sur-veyed, and 96 percent said they would use a reasonably priced BU bus service to Logan Airport. Forty-nine percent said they primarily fly during breaks.

Smith said a BU bus service would make trips to the airport more convenient than splitting a cab fare.

A number of students said trans-porting luggage on the T is incon-venient, especially when taking the Green Line.

“The T is a huge hassle because the Green Line is often inaccessible if you are carrying a big bag,” said College of Fine Arts freshman Car-ley Yanuck. “It would be nice if [the bus] could pick me up in front of my dorm.”

Students weighed the conve-nience of a cab against the affordabil-ity of the T. Hiring a cab could be as expensive as $60, said CAS sopho-more Samuel Green.

“The T gets busy, especially when students from other Boston schools are on it,” Green said. “An alterna-tive form of transportation would be great.”

Student Government officials said the logistics of the bus service are still being worked out.

“We do not have any special fund-ing for this project, so it is entirely run on student interest,” said Caitlin Seele, director of the Student Gov-ernment Advocacy Department, in an email.

The proposed budget for the buses is $775, with $200 devoted to adver-tising and $575 to the cost of bus rent-

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the local retailer who pays all these taxes for Massachusetts behind.”

Grossman said he would like to uphold consumers’ abilities to make purchases however they want, without the influence of in-centives.

“I absolutely respect the desire of consumers to use their hard-earned money in the wisest way they can,” he said. “They should be able to buy whatever they want and wherever they want.”

Grossman said the Enzi-Durbin-

Alexander Bill would allow the state to collect the sales tax revenue from the online companies.

In 2011, Massachusetts would have collected $387 million of sales taxes from online companies, ac-cording to a study released by Cape Ann Economics on Nov. 13.

Grossman said this additional revenue could be invested in the Commonwealth’s infrastructure.

“In my own view, we should take the money we raise and invest it in the transportation and infra-structure of the state,” Grossman said. “It could help the T and ensure

economic success throughout Mas-sachusetts.”

Rennie said his association has been pushing for this bill since be-fore the holiday season.

“We wanted companies to col-lect it [the sales tax] as soon as pos-sible,” Rennie said. “If it’s passed by Jan. 1, that would be ideal, but if not, as soon as possible.”

Randall Ellis, a professor of eco-nomics at Boston University, said online companies should collect sales taxes to help maintain revenue going to the Commonwealth.

“The state relies on sales and in-

come taxes,” he said. “As more and more people buy online, the per-centage of sales tax paid declines, which makes it harder to support state programs such as highways, police and schools.”

Ellis said he also sees draw-backs to the bill.

“The main drawback is that peo-ple don’t like paying taxes,” he said. “There will be more incentives for people to ship items to states that don’t have any sales taxes.”

Albert Ma, a professor of eco-nomics at BU, said tax increases are unpopular among consumers.

“Consumers typically dislike taxes, especially sales tax,” he said. “Those consumers who would ordi-narily buy online may either pay a higher price or choose not to pur-chase at all if the uniform Internet tax legislation goes through.”

Ma said he is unsure as to how the law will be enforced.

“The real question is whether it is practical to collect taxes for transactions that happen on the In-ternet,” Ma said. “I guess I’d wait and see how it all plays out at both the state and federal levels.”

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designs. Michael Lindstrom of Studio

MLA Architects, the architectural firm working in conjunction with the BTC, said he worked with groups of teen interns. During the summers he introduced them to SketchUp, a 3D modeling program, giving them the tools to plan the building.

However, the limitations of the old building created complications for the new design, Lindstrom said.

“The biggest challenge is reno-

vating but keeping the character of the old building,” he said. “The in-tern team liked that it was old and rough, and with renovating you radi-cally change quite a bit of it.”

Gwen Ossenfort, the BTC’s com-munications director, said the cen-ter’s development was gradual.

“Fundraising was a challenge for us, as it always has been,” she said. “We had about a 6-to-8 month delay, but since we acquired the lease in 2010, the building effort has been a full court press.”

All $2.6 million that went into the

building’s construction came from private funders, and there were no significant hurdles otherwise, Ossen-fort said.

Ossenfort also said that working with teen interns was crucial to the building’s cause.

“It’s teen-focused and teen-driv-en,” she said. “After all, what kind of kid would want to go to a center designed by adults?”

Construction is underway at what is currently a vacant office building at 40 Aspinwall Ave.

Mass. could have collected $387M in sales tax from online stores, study suggestsTaxeS: From Page 1

PHOTO BY MAYA DEVEREAUX/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFCollege of Arts and Sciences junior Wilaene Gonzalez and CAS freshman Dean Nguyen sell T-shirts for the student club I Embrace You to CAS fresh-man Tianyi Li, Monday afternoon in front of the Warren Towers dining hall.

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low you to specify the name of the person that’s going to be put in the empty spot in your residence.”

Vitale said she needed to be per-sistent to fill her request, as BU Hous-ing does not often allow on-campus residents to request new roommates for empty room spaces.

She said students do not under-stand why they cannot have their friends move in if they know there is going to be an open spot in their residence.

Vitale said she was pulled into a suite in Shelton Hall upon her return from a fall 2010 semester program in Dresden during her sophomore year. She and another friend return-

ing from studying abroad moved into rooms that became available in their friend’s five-person suite that spring.

“We asked our friend to go to Housing and see if we could just get the spots when they moved out be-cause we knew they were moving out,” Vitale said. “We just took the two empty spots in the suite.”

College of Communication junior Brooke Bastello said she studied in London in the fall 2011 semester, and upon her return to campus, she re-ceived her first choice for on-campus housing in Student Village II.

Bastello said students returning from fall study abroad programs typi-cally receive their first choice.

“Everyone who wanted StuVi got StuVi, or if they wanted someplace

else they got that,” she said. Bastello said she encountered

problems when trying to move into StuVi a few days early for sorority recruitment at the beginning of the spring 2012 semester.

“StuVi was open, but they wouldn’t let us kids who were abroad get our keys and move in,” Bastello said.

Vitale said students should not worry about on-campus living ar-rangements for spring semester when they return from study abroad.

“They [Housing] do take into ac-count what you want,” Vitale said. “If you just have to live with random roommates for once, then that’s just how it is.”

emissions released into the atmo-sphere and slow the rate of global warming.

Recommendations for the city include mapping all the gas leaks, which would help the economy, en-vironment and health of everyone, the study stated.

Carroll said city officials need to become more proactive in dealing with leak reports.

“They should do a better job of responding to leaks because some-times they would just see a report, but if it wasn’t possibly explosive, they just wouldn’t do anything about it,” she said.

Zoe Roos contributed to the re-porting of this article.

als, according to statistics provided at the SG meeting. To break even, they need to sell at least 64 seats without advertising, or 86 seats with advertis-ing.

The buses will be scheduled to run before breaks and at the end of each semester. The first trip will be for the 2013 spring break.

SG officials said they are still dis-cussing the points of departure for the buses.

“We are deciding between having them all leave from Marsh [Plaza] or having them stop at individu-al dorms,” Seele, a School of Man-agement junior, said. “It will obvi-ously take more time to go dorm to dorm so we’re leaning more toward having them all come to Marsh to get the maximum amount of trips to Lo-

gan in possible.”SG will use Academy Bus for the

shuttle service. Students will be able to buy tickets ahead of time in the George Sherman Union, but a date has not been set, Seele said.

Neither the schedule nor the price has been determined, but one bus will run to and from the campus for five hours a day, Seele said.

Seele said plans may expand not only to safely take students to the air-port but to take them home as well.

“In the future, we may open up routes to other locations like Penn Station in New York, Long Island, Philadelphia or New Jersey,” Seele said. “However, we will start out by only going to Logan to see how it goes.”

Margaret Waterman contributed to the reporting of this article.

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Bananas might replace potatoes as a food staple due to the effects of global warming

Delegates from about 200 countries recently gath-ered in Doha, Qatar, kicking off the latest inter-national conference to discuss global warming, its

implications and solutions for it. As the international com-munity turns its attention to global warming, one aspect people may need to consider is the agricultural implica-tions of rising global temperatures.

Researchers from the Consultative Group on Interna-tional Agricultural Research partnership said in October that bananas might replace staple crops, including pota-toes, as global temperatures rise.

Potatoes, which are a central crop in many countries, thrive in cooler climates with stable environments. How-ever, with rising temperatures and a volatile climate, pota-to growth is decreasing. Bananas might become a suitable replacement for these crops, according to a report by the CGIAR.

“This report adds to the debate that temperatures are increasing, that the climate is changing and that humans are behind it,” said Henrik Selin, a Boston University in-ternational relations professor who has conducted research on the environment and sustainability.

Along with bananas, the resilient cassava shrub and cowpea plant might become increasingly important to hu-man diets as the warming climatic trend continues, the study stated.

Why bananas? Rising temperatures will predictably hinder the growth

of more than just potatoes — they will also stunt the growth of major crops such as maize, wheat and rice, according to the report. As these crops continue to decrease, developing countries will have to seek replacement crops with similar nutritional benefits and better adaptability.

Bananas are predicted to be a sufficient replacement for potatoes, according to the report.

Bananas, like potatoes, are a good source of calories, potassium, carbohydrates and protein, according to Spark-People, a nutritional website.

Authors of the report said there are several varieties of bananas that can be cultivated in different locations, in-cluding at higher altitudes. While there are some restric-tive factors to banana growth, they are nutritionally apt replacements for potatoes in some countries.

A dwindling dietOne of the major concerns researchers have is incorpo-

rating important nutrients and minerals into people’s diets as staple crop production decreases. Researchers said they are primarily concerned with integrating protein into diets. As major crops decrease, so will the livestock population, consequently disturbing populations’ protein intake.

The report suggested the cowpea might solve this issue.According to the report, the cowpea plant — also com-

monly known as the “poor man’s meat” or the “southern pea” — could act as an alternative to meat.

The Alternative Field Crops Manual stated that the cowpea plant is a nutritious component in human and live-stock diets, and is composed of 24.8 percent protein. Its adaptability, durability and high concentration of protein makes it an adequate replacement for meat in developing countries.

Global warmingSelin said the report furthers ideas that global warming

is an issue influenced by human activity, and that popula-

tions in the affected areas will find ways to adapt to major dietary adjustments caused by warming temperatures.

He also said these dietary changes will not be detrimen-tal to human health.

“These dietary changes are not necessarily problemat-ic,” Selin said. “It’s more of a question of overall access to food than a question of what particular crop you’re eating. It’s more so having a rounded diet no matter what your staples are.”

Global warming has and will continue to affect the entire world, including the U.S., Selin said. However, he noted that rising temperatures affect various areas of the world differently.

“Changes will be felt differently in different parts of the world,” Selin said. “[Global warming] will have a rela-tively large effect on regions that are already warm and dry. Those countries that are already sensitive will become more sensitive and vulnerable in the future. Wealthier parts of the world will better cope with that.”

Selin said Europe and North American countries, in-cluding the U.S., are areas that will not feel the effects of global warming as strongly as regions in Africa, South America and Asia. This is because more developed coun-tries have better methods of adapting to environmental changes.

The problem: Solutions, preventionsThe best way to avoid the effects of global warming is

to begin taking precautions for the future, Selin said. “Worrying about climate change is thinking 25 or 50-

plus years into the future,” he said. “What will happen 50 to 100 years from now depends on the policy decisions that we make now.”

However, Selin said it is difficult to predict what the global environment will look like that far into the future.

“While we are certain that the climate is changing and humans are behind it, it’s difficult to tell what will hap-pen,” he said. “But we need to start thinking and planning more for climate change.”

The Boston University mindsetSeveral students at BU said the report on crops brings

to light the larger issue of global warming and its impact on differing global communities.

Alyssa Thomason, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the U.S. can stop global warming by reducing its influence.

“It would be most beneficial to try to reduce our im-pact on global warming by practicing more environmen-tally conscious measures at home since we are such a big contributor to global warming,” she said. “That would do more good than trying to help, individually, a lot of sepa-rate countries.”

Andrew Wasserstein, a COM junior, said Hurricane Sandy has renewed people’s discussion of global warming and its effects.

“Hurricane Sandy brought many nightmares to life with the mass destruction,” he said. “The events started the conversation up again in the country and allowed dis-cussion on a bipartisan level to commence.”

Ashley Rossi, a COM junior, said global warming is an issue about which college students are becoming more informed.

“We have learned about the risks and increase in the earth’s temperature and depletion of the ozone layer,” she said. “Most people have come to accept the term, whereas a few years ago it was more of a problem of getting people to believe it was happening. Now the issue is more or less what to do about it.”

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South Carolina native Sean Shevlino was 16 years old when he robbed his local Food Lion with the aid of a toy pellet gun. He is five years into a 10-year sentence at the MacDougal Correctional Institute — a sentence meant for adults but which, under South Carolina law, can also be applied to juvenile delinquents, according to an ar-ticle in The Daily Beast Wednesday.

It seems to be a harsh ruling, given the convict’s age. Increasingly, law enforce-ment specialists and authorities are begin-ning to question the wisdom of sentencing juveniles as adults. It was not until 2005 that the death penalty was abolished for criminals under the age of 18. Recent re-search by the U.S. Department of Justice shows that prosecuting young criminals as adults does not necessarily rehabilitate them or deter future criminal behavior. When young people are tried as adults, they generally have greater rates of recidi-vism than those tried in juvenile court, ac-cording to The Daily Beast. This could be due in part to adult correctional facilities being often too harsh for the under-aged adolescent.

Laurence Steinberg, a researcher at Temple University, discovered that 75 per-cent of adolescent males violate the law at some point, even for minor crimes such as possession of marijuana. The fact of the matter, he said in his most recent study, is

that teenagers of mid-adolescent age (14 to 16) are less adequate at rational decision-making than their adult superiors, accord-ing to The Daily Beast.

But even if law-breaking is prevalent, an armed robbery — even if the gun is fake — is different from stealing a pack of gum or engaging in the more perpetuated offense of marijuana possession. Threaten-ing to use weapons for cash could unfold into habits of more harmful and violent crime. Perhaps the South Carolina verdict was merely a preventative one. Would that justify Shevlino’s sentence? Does his pun-ishment fit his crime?

Should the science of adolescent brain development influence public policy? It is important that we consider the effects of correctional facilities on the undeveloped adolescent mind — it is possible they could do more damage than good, espe-cially if the convict at hand already suffers from mental instability. Shevlino was di-agnosed with Oppositional Defiance Dis-order, according to The Daily Beast. True, he cannot claim undeveloped oblivion — Shevlino knew very well that his actions were wrong and did them anyway. But long sentences such as Shevlino’s will work only if implemented correctly, and it seems as if he was given more punishment than he was due.

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A concerned readerDAVID FONTANA

This week’s column is a letter written from the point of view of renowned physicist Albert Ein-stein, based on the play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and addressed to David Fontana.

Dear Mr. Fontana: I am currently sitting in a bar in Paris (France

that is) called the “Lay Pin Age Isle,” I believe. My French is a bit rusty, but I’m pretty sure it means “Le Tired Frenchman,” in translation. It’s a warm place with a very strange bunch of characters, although one could see how they might be confused with pretty nice folks. I am waiting here to meet a woman, but I can’t help but write to you with some concern.

As a theorist, I can’t help but think that there is as much of a chance of you writing an intel-ligent column accidently, as there is in you writ-ing an intelligent column on purpose. And your chance is slim.

But where are my manners, my name is Al-bert Einstein (yes, poofy hair and all).

Upon first reading your column, I never thought the 21st century would be handed to me so casually, typed out in ink on pieces of paper, tools thousands of years old, waiting for someone to move them in just this way. But as you continued with your “manifestos,” I thought, “There you go, 10 more opinions. I wonder how many opinions the world can hold? A billion? A trillion?”

Where is your raison d’etre? Where is your retention of vision? Where is your E-shaped pie?

When I read your columns now, all I see is sheep. And there are two subjects in writing that no one will buy: One is Jesus, and the other is sheep.

Observe how your sheep are painted small, consumed by the weather and the terrain. For me, it’s the meaning that gives it value, and when I read your columns I feel like I am reach-ing my hand forward hundreds of years, only to grab a glass of bad wine. And at the good wine price! My metaphor may be a little curved, but what I’m trying to say is, “Maybe you’re an idiot savant, and hold the savant.”

I’m not saying you need to start wearing a dunce cap. No, we reserve those for the truly idiotic men — “Schmendi” men as we say in German. But you see, I work the same way. I make the beautiful things with a pencil. I had already published my “Special Theory of Rela-tivity” at the age of only 25 (though I may have looked 86). My God, man, put down the da-guerreotype and pick up a digital camera!

Although I am a scientist, sometimes I feel like I am an opinion columnist. At night, the stars in my head come out, and I write them down. This is the second decade of the 21st century. Yet, you are just writing around like a rudderless firework.

Like your columns, my theories must be

beautiful. You know why the sun doesn’t re-volve around the earth? Because the idea is not beautiful enough. If you’re trying to prove that the sun revolves around the earth, in order to make the theories fit the facts, you have to have the planets moving backwards, and the sun do-ing loop-the-loops. Too ugly. Way ugly. Kind of like your columns.

A few have thought that I just got into this science in order to meet a lot of girls. But I tell you, I am in the business of changing the cen-tury. And you, Mr. Fontana, are in this business, too.

Now, here’s the way I see it. We’re not so much going to change the century, as bend it. There is another man in this bar here named Pee-queso (I believe that is Spanish for “Cheese fermented in urine”). Let’s say Pee-queso here is a genius. The century is just flying along in space and it whizzes by Pee-queso here and picks up speed and flings itself on in a new direction, like a comet veering left at the sun. The century is just zigzagging along, bending and curving, influenced by the powerful grav-ity of people like Pee-queso. But the century itself, because we’re in it, appears to be heading straight.

What I have just said is the fundamental, end-all, final, not subject to truth, absolute opin-ion! Depending on where you’re standing.

Just think of this column as an icebox epiphany. You don’t get it now, but an hour later you’re at home, standing in front of the icebox, and you “Epiphany!” And maybe you laugh, too.

You must think bigger! If you commit your-self to your art, maybe one day people will be crowding in a smoky cabaret to hear the writing styling of David Fontana — appearing nightly with the Kentucky Men — writing columns as pretty as summer dresses — writer’s hands go-ing into writer’s hands.

Did you see that? A shooting star! It may be impossible to distinguish two bodies unified in a field, but you’ll hit the horizon and burn white. Whoosh!

So unlock the cat door, and explore your fourth dimension!

Although we never meet, like the roots of the sequoia, grabbing deep into the earth, the opinions we have said here tonight will lace themselves irrevocably throughout your cen-tury!

A concerned reader,Al

David Fontana is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. He can be reached at fon-tad5@bu.edu.

Juvenile crime and adult punishment

HoboJacket is a project purportedly run by Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who were interested in spreading their animosity for their rival school, Cali-fornia Institute of Technology, according to an article in The Boston Magazine on Monday.

“Winters are cold. You’d like to see ho-bos clad in your rival school’s jackets,” the HoboJacket website states.

The project allows students to pur-chase jackets that boast the logo of their rival schools that will then be donated to the homeless, in order to keep them warm while embarrassing the rival school.

It is meant as a ticklingly offensive and edgy way to incentivize donations to the homeless.

It is “the politically incorrect but right thing to do,” HoboJacket reads.

The site is funny at first and seemingly charitable. But it is also insensitive. Hobo-Jacket might be taking things too far be-cause, while it does provide clothing for the homeless, it also uses them as figures of derision. Note the disparity of turning underprivileged and homeless individuals who find themselves on hard times into objects to further your privileged private school rivalries.

While, admittedly, it would be fun to spoil the reputation of a Boston College degree, twisting the philanthropic cause of helping others in need to your own superfi-cial advantage is warped. The moral of the matter is that it is wrong to make a home-less individual the pawn to snobbish rival-ries and elitism.

It is wrong because you should not use people and wrong because you should not make fun of them. We learned that in pre-school, but if the founders of the project are who they claim to be, it would seem as though these MIT kids spent so much time on mathematics that they forgot.

Rivalries are fun. They make a college experience collegiate by unifying students for their own cause and against another’s. But there are better ways to assert a rivalry — MIT has yet to find a way to make it snow on Caltech’s campus and thereby get even with their California rival’s palm tree prank back in 2005. And there are other ways to be genuinely kind, such as giving a homeless person a coat that is not embla-zoned with your rival school’s mascot.

True, school rivalry motivates a person to donate to charity — this is a good thing. But charitable actions are hardly charitable when attached to selfish motives.

Selfish charity?

The Terriers continued to build their lead in the second half, as the Eagles offense went cold. EMU center India Hairston scored on a layup with 15:04 left in the game, the Eagles’ first points in over eight minutes, cutting BU’s lead to 43–27.

EMU ended the game on an 11–2 run, but the Terriers held on for a 66–55 victory.

Alford and Moran led the Terri-ers in scoring with 16 points each, while Turner, returning to her home state of Michigan, had a team-high eight rebounds.

BU ended the game with a 43.3 field goal percentage, while EMU only managed to make 32.8 percent of its field goals. BU was again out-rebounded, 49–35, but it commit-ted only 10 turnovers compared to EMU’s 16.

The Terriers finished their road trip with a Saturday afternoon game against the Michigan Wolverines at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich. The first 10 minutes of play were a back-and-forth affair, as both teams

exchanged baskets until an 8–0 run by the Wolverines gave Michigan a 31–25 lead going into halftime.

BU battled back to cut the deficit to one with 11 minutes to go thanks to Alford’s sharp shooting.

Two minutes later, Moran drilled a jumper and gave the Terriers their first lead of the second half.

However, a 7–0 run by the Wol-verines gave Michigan a lead that they would not relinquish, as the Wolverines held on for a 67–58 vic-tory.

Sims led the Terriers in scoring with a career-high 19 points, includ-ing five 3-pointers.

The Terriers shot 39 percent from the field while the Wolverines shot 47.9 percent. The Terriers were out-rebounded, 36–31.

The Terriers will finish their four-game road trip with a game against Rhode Island (2–3) on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

BU seeks to break its .500 season against Rhode Island. Both teams are coming off losses, as the Rams are in the midst of a two-game los-ing streak.

BU’s style of offense is much different than URI’s. With less than two successful 3-point shots per game on average — compared to more than nine by the Terriers — the Rams score nearly all of their points inside the arc. Nevertheless, their 37.4 percent field goal conversion rate is less than BU’s 39.5 percent conversion rate.

Alford, who is averaging 19.3 points per game, leads the offense for the Terriers. The Rams are led by freshman Tayra Melendez (11 points per game) and junior forward Emilie Cloutier (10.4 points per game).

While they miss more shots than the Terriers, the Rams have an ad-vantage on boards, averaging 41.2 rebounds per game. They are led by freshman Samantha Tabakman, who averages 9.2 rebounds per game. BU averages 33.2 rebounds per game, with junior forward Rashidat Agboola leading the team with an average of 7.8 rebounds per game.

BU coach Kelly Greenberg was not available for comment in time for publication.

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Terriers prepare to play Rhode Island Tuesday

Tuesday’s Take: BC football better off without Coach Spaziani turning things around.

With the plethora of candi-dates, it’s silly to toss names around less than 48 hours after the Spaz was shown the door.

One thing to think of, though, is that Bates came to BC from the Mid-Atlantic Conference at Mi-ami of Ohio. Does he have any-body in mind that he encountered

during his time there?Bates needs to realize that this

isn’t currently an elite program. He shouldn’t be hiring people for a lifetime appointment as head coach.

Rather, he should shop around and look for somebody who is ready to gain some credit and be-gin a rebuilding process.

BC is a good stepping stone along the way for a coach with

higher aspirations. A rotation of a few guys over a five to seven year span, with careful watch from Bates, could help shake up the program.

What does an intelligent BC player have to say about this?

Junior receiver Bobby Swigert really admired his coach.

“I have a lot of respect for the guy. He was a huge reason why I came here,’’ Swigert said. “I love

the guy ... He knows the game of football. He gave however many years to BC. You have to respect that, and I do.’’

Sounds like it. “However many” ways you try

to say it. You’re at the school because

they gave you a nice scholarship package to play football. They aren’t winning, partially because of Spaziani, and that means NFL

scouts aren’t looking twice at you. Cut the pleasantries. Now that he’s gone, maybe you have a shot.

Patience is a virtue, BC fans.You don’t have a 2–10 sea-

son and then turn it around into a Bowl season the next year.

But you should be hopeful, maybe a younger, new coach could turn it around.

But right now, BC fans, you still suck.

Juron experiences career day with 1 goal, 1 assist in win

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first goal she was just battling and pushing it forward and she was like, ‘Jordan, the puck’s at your feet, the puck’s at your feet,’ and I just shot it into the net.”

BU coach Brian Durocher said he was impressed with his team’s performance on offense, particularly his younger players.

“Jordan getting one, Rebecca getting one … Just taking advantage of opportunity and ice time,” Du-rocher said. “They are a young line who’s got to gain confidence, and maybe a game like tonight will give them a little bit more of that confi-dence.”

Senior goaltender Alissa From-kin turned in a stellar performance for BU, conceding only one goal the entire game and recording 15 saves.

Durocher credited his team’s improved defense with preventing Team Russia from gaining any mo-mentum.

“[We] spent some time in their end, spent some time breaking up some neutral zone rushes when they did get in our zone,” Durocher said.

“We were in position enough times to either block shots or take away time and space, so they didn’t get as good looks as [our opponents] sometimes get,” he added.

Durocher said that the exhibition game was beneficial for the upcom-ing weekend series against Provi-dence College.

“It’s a combination of having some days off to recharge the bat-tery, a practice game, I think that’s the more important thing,” Duro-cher said. “I don’t think the game in any one way necessarily prepared us as much as the fact that we were able to shake the cobwebs off.

“To come back and have a real game instead of four or five practic-es gives us a chance to look at some things or maybe make a couple of final decisions on people.”

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three days off and now to play a real game early in the week on a Monday night … it gives us a little bit of a jump start to get ready for our final four [games before the New Year],” Durocher said. “Last year we were a little bit tired come Thanksgiving and we had to go to one of the toughest places to play against one of the best teams in the country … This will hopefully set us up better for the weekend com-ing up.”

However, the team did not view the game against Russia as an op-portunity to rest. With games com-ing up against Providence College and the University of Minnesota-Duluth, it is crucial for individuals to improve their skills and show that they are worthy of more play-ing time.

“To come back and have a real game instead of four or five prac-tices gives us a chance to look at some things or maybe make a cou-ple of final decisions on people,” Durocher said. “Certainly I think that … it will help them and give a couple of defenseman some more reps tonight, too.”

Players such as sophomore for-ward Sarah Bayersdorfer and fresh-man forwards Rebecca Russo and Jordan Juron, who were line mates in Monday night’s game, were able to get more ice time. They certainly

took advantage of the opportunity.Russo and Juron each earned

one goal and one assist in the game. Russo has no goals in regu-lar season games, so getting a goal — even in an exhibition game — could help get her offensive game going.

Juron only has one goal and one assist in regular season games. She referenced the increase in playing time as the reason for her success in the matchup with Russia.

“I got a little bit more ice time, a little bit more flow, consistency out there with my two line mates and it was fun playing with Russo,” Juron said.

She also said concluding the weeklong break with an exhibition game is an effective way to transi-tion back into playing regular sea-son hockey games.

“To come right back in and jump back into it with a game today was nice and kept everyone going and got everybody ready for the games against Providence this weekend and then … Minnesota-Duluth next weekend,” Juron said.

Durocher expressed satisfaction with the team finally being back from the break and playing the type of hockey that got them a No. 5/7 national ranking.

“We were back to being ag-gressive as a team, aggressive as a group,” Durocher said.

BU gets scoring throughout lineup in exhibition win

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The Boston University women’s basketball team began its first road trip of the season with a victory over Eastern Michigan University and then suffered hard-fought losses to Northeastern University and the University of Michigan.

The Terriers will face the Univer-sity of Rhode Island on Tuesday to cap off the four-game road trip.

BU’s (3–3) road trip began just a few miles away from home with a Tuesday-night matchup against

Northeastern at Solomon Court. The Huskies came out strong in the first half, taking a 12–5 lead at the first media timeout.

Guard Deanna Kerkhof and for-ward Jewel Tunstull led the Huskies on a 19–8 scoring run. Northeastern took a 31–13 lead with seven min-utes remaining in the half.

Despite an 18-point deficit, the Terriers did not back down. Con-secutive 3-pointers by BU senior guards Chantell Alford and Kristen Sims sparked a 9–3 run and the Ter-riers trailed, 42–28, at the end of the half.

The Terriers opened the second half with a 13–2 run that trimmed the deficit to three. Both teams traded buckets throughout the half, but the Terriers were unable to over-come Northeastern’s early run as they fell to the Huskies, 73–62.

Alford was the leading scorer for BU with 20 points and junior guard Danielle Callahan scored a career-high 18 points off the bench.

BU shot 36.5 percent from the field while Northeastern finished with a 45.5 field goal percentage. The Terriers lost the battle on the boards, as they were out-rebounded

by the Huskies, 44–33.After the loss at Northeastern, the

Terriers traveled to Michigan to play against the Eagles and the Wolver-ines.

On Friday night, BU faced the Eastern Michigan Eagles at the Con-vocation Center in Ypsilanti, Mich. The Eagles scored the first basket of the game, but the Terriers led for the remainder of the first half as a bal-anced offensive attack from Alford, senior guard Mo Moran and junior forward Whitney Turner gave the Terriers a 36–23 lead at the half.

Women’s hockey takes down Russia in exhibition

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Sophomore forward Kayla Tutino scored the first goal of the game for the Terriers in a 6–1 exhibition victory over the Russian National Team at Walter Brown Arena on Monday night.

Saturday, Dec. 1W. Basketball vs. St. John’s, 1 p.m.M. Basketball @ St. Peters, 2 p.m.W. Hockey vs. Providence, 3 p.m.

M. Hockey @ Boston College, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 27 Thursday, Nov. 29Wednesday, Nov. 28 Friday, Nov. 30

M. Basketball vs. Coastal Carolina, 7 p.m.W. Basketball @ Rhode Island, 7 p.m.No Games Scheduled

The fire department was relieved to hear that they did not lose an employee when

Fireman Ed quit.

W. Hockey @ Providence, 7 p.m. M. Hockey vs. Boston College, 7:30 p.m.

The Boston University wom-en’s hockey team defeated the Russian National Team in its third exhibition game of the season with a score of 6–1 on Monday night at Walter Brown Arena.

However, the true significance of the victory lay in the opportunity for the team to work on its game in a competitive — yet friendly — atmosphere.

The No. 5/7 Terriers (9–3–1, 4–2–1 Hockey East) won their sec-

ond exhibition game of the season. The first victory came against Mc-Gill University on Sept. 30 with a score of 4–1. They also tied a game at four against the Boston Blades on Oct. 6.

Playing three exhibition games in one season is an anomaly for the Terriers. BU coach Brian Durocher said his team tried to get two other NCAA games on its schedule, but it was fun to host Russia and the Blades instead.

“Niagara University dropped their program last spring, and

we tried to get two other NCAA games, but we were unsuccessful,” Durocher said. “So to add a little bit of pizzazz to the schedule was fun.”

“This team in an international game and obviously the Blades ear-lier in the year,” he added. “They are games that add a little bit of col-or and a little bit of a different look, so it was fun to bring them here.”

Last season, BU’s schedule over the Thanksgiving break was much different, and it heeded poor results. It was defeated by Cornell

University on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26 en route to a four-game losing streak.

This year, however, BU had a bit of a respite. After a win against No. 6/7 Harvard University on Nov. 18, BU did not play another game until its friendly match up with Russia on Monday night.

Durocher said having a break at this point in the season can be ben-eficial to the team.

“This is nice that last night we were able to have a practice after

By Gregory DavisDaily Free Press Staff

BC sucks!But you already knew that.The school confirmed that they

don’t play so good this past week-end when they dismissed head football coach Frank Spaziani.

Spaziani led a dismal couple of seasons as head coach, bottoming out at a 22-29 record with the Ea-gles. Spaziani had been with BC for 16 years, head coach for the last four years. In each of those seasons, the Eagles lost progres-sively more games.

The guys at Chestnut Hill Community College won just six football games over the past two seasons

Newly minted Athletic Direc-tor Brad Bates stated the obvious.

‘’This is a very performance-based business,’’ Bates said at a news conference Sunday. ‘’Ulti-mately, winning and losing make a great deal of difference.’’

He’s so qualified for that posi-tion. Really seems to know what he’s doing.

Sarcasm aside, he actually is.Former BC Athletic Director

Gene DeFilippo was the moron who forced former, winning coach Tom O’Brien out the door.

DeFilippo hired Spaz after a career as an assistant coach. When DeFilippo abruptly retired before the season, Spaz must have seen the writing on the wall.

The BC football program went to 12 straight bowl games from 1999 to 2010. O’Brien coached from 1997 to 2006. See a correla-tion?

O’Brien then went to N.C. State to coach.

I wonder how he’s doing.What?Fired?On the same day?Hilarious.Would Tom O’Brien walk back

through that door? Or would it even be a good idea for BC to let that happen?

I don’t think it’s a good call.Spaziani was 65 years old this

season. O’Brien will be 65 next season.

Go get your AARP cards and hang it up, gentlemen.

BC needs to inject a younger, more in-touch presence in that locker room with a head coach if they want to have any chance of

Mike Neff

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Thanksgiving break gives Terriers chance to regroup

Rams ahead

The BU women’s basketball team is preparing to finish its four-game road trip with a matchup against the University of Rhode Island Tuesday. P. 8.

Quotable“ “To add a little bit of pizzazz to the schedule was fun.

-BU coach Brian Durocher on playing exhibition game against Russia.

Spaz out

Tuesday’s Take

In an exhibition game against the Russian National Team, the No. 5/7 Boston University women’s hockey team came away with a 6–1 vic-tory Monday night at Walter Brown Arena.

Team Russia fired first, with for-ward Iya Gavrilova scoring on an assist from forward Ekaterina Pash-kevich 6:50 into the first period to give Russia a 1–0 lead.

BU (9–3–1, 4–2–1 Hockey East) answered three minutes later with a goal from sophomore forward Kayla Tutino. Senior forward Isabel Men-ard was at the blue line and passed it to junior defenseman Shannon Doyle, who was standing in front of the net. Doyle then passed the puck across the net to Tutino, who sent it past Team Russia goalie Anna Vino-gradova to even the score at one goal apiece.

Less than two minutes later, BU took the lead as senior defenseman Kathryn Miller passed the puck to junior defenseman Kaleigh Fratkin, who took a slap shot that got by Vi-nogradova.

With 13:32 into the first period, freshman forward Rebecca Russo fed the puck to freshman forward Jordan Juron, who was standing at the side of the net. Juron shot the puck, and it ricocheted off the post and into the net for BU’s third goal of the period.

BU went into the locker room for the first intermission with a 3–1 edge in goals and a 12–7 edge in shots on goal.

At the 13:24 mark of the second

period, with BU shorthanded, junior forward Marie-Philip Poulin skated up the right side and attempted to score, but backup goalie Anna Pru-gova made an easy save. Prugova lost sight of the puck shortly there-after, and senior forward Jenelle Ko-hanchuk put it into the open net to give BU a 4–1 lead.

BU extended its lead to five goals

4:41 into the third period. Senior de-fenseman Kathryn Miller took a slap shot from the point that deflected off a body in front of the net, beat Pru-gova’s blocker side and went in off the crossbar.

Russo scored the last goal of the game on a pass from Juron at the 16:14 mark of the final period. The final score was 6–1 in favor of the

Terriers.Juron, who had only scored two

points on one goal and one assist in regular season play, attributed her strong performance to her line mates.

“Rebecca [Russo] and I work well together,” Juron said. “On that

Women’s basketball wins 1 of 3 games on road tripBy Steven Dufour & Conor Ryan

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