While a new study found group settings are highly conducive to learning, group function-ality and organization are dependent on the instructor’s extensive planning, said Boston University’s Educational Media and Technol-ogy director David Whittier.

The study, published in the Nature Scien-tific Reports journal Wednesday, analyzed the interactions between 290 students in a col-laborative learning environment and found a student was more likely to score higher in the course if he or she had more online interac-tions with others.

“There are a lot of things that go into set-ting up effective group work, and so if teach-ers and professors are able to do that, then yes, collaborative work groups can be very produc-tive,” Whittier said. “But that’s not always the case — just by setting up a group and putting them online does not mean they’re going to be effective.”

Researchers examined approximately

800,000 student interactions in total, finding a 72-percent correlation between social interac-tion and the exchange of information, accord-ing to the study.

Whittier said professors and teachers must organize learning groups to include students of high ability, middle ability and low ability, thereby providing equal opportunities to learn-ers at all levels.

He also said content must be tailored to group settings.

“To ensure that those groups have some motivation to work together is to arrange the content so that each one has his or her own area of content, so a high-ability learner can-not dominate a group,” he said.

While cooperative learning has existed since the 1930s, online learning plays a sig-nificant role in modern group collaboration, Whittier said.

“Now it’s just finding expression on the web, on the Internet, through our phones and tablets and everything, and it’s a trend that has

With the announcement that Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk will donate his brain to the medical research program at Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, BU has demonstrated its credentials as a leader in brain damage research, officials said.

“BU has a reputation of being the im-portant center doing this work, and also a reputable center that has earned the trust of many of the players out there,” said Robert Stern, co-founder of CTSE.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a form of brain damage caused by repetitive brain trauma, which can be caused by contact sports, such as football and hockey, BU researchers found in a De-cember study.

Researchers are working to determine CTE’s connection with depression and sui-

cide in athletes, such as that of former Na-tional Football League player Junior Seau.

“The more important issue is that the whole awareness of brain trauma in foot-ball has becomes so prominent,” Stern said. “Both active and former players are now really accepting that this is an important problem and they are willing to do what it takes to help move this science forward.”

BU has not confirmed whether research-ers received Seau’s brain for research, but BU officials said they welcome family members of deceased athletes to donate brains for study.

Stern said many active and former NFL athletes have agreed to donate their brains post-mortem, and to participate in longitu-dinal and clinical studies.

Seau’s apparent suicide in May sparked interest in the media about CTE and its effects on football players, in addition to the suicides of other athletes who were

found to have the disease in post-mortem research.

“We were the first research center to fo-cus our research on the long-term effects of brain trauma in athletes,” Stern said. “Neu-ropathological changes of CTE in former players has been so well done and so strik-ing that it helped to increase public aware-ness of the disease and center.”

Colin Mooney, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior and long-time contact-sport athlete, said in an email researchers must get a sense of how to detect CTE early on to stand a chance of halting the progression of the disease or potentially preventing it.

“It is encouraging to know that an in-stitution like BU is conducting [this type of] research,” Mooney said “I do not think much was known or being done about CTE 20 years ago, but the reality of it is ground-

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino an-nounced plans and policy proposals to pre-pare the city for future hurricanes and other natural disasters in a press release Tuesday

“In the wake of Sandy’s devastation on the East Coast, Menino is raising the profile of the City of Boston’s ongoing efforts and tak-ing further actions to better prepare the city for future storms and other natural hazards associated with climate change,” the release from Menino’s office stated.

Menino plans to have the Boston Redevel-opment Authority survey the preparedness of buildings and other structures, such as Mas-sachusetts Bay Transportation Authority sta-tions, that are likely to face climate-change problems within six months, according to the release.

BRA spokeswoman Melina Schule said steps have already been taken toward survey-ing buildings in Boston to ensure they are prepared for climate changes.

“We already have a survey that we give out to developers who are working on large projects and institutional master plans in the city,” she said. “I think we have the frame-work in place and more detailed steps are something we will unfold over the next few months.”

Menino’s proposal came as a result of the Boston Harbor Association’s report on the vulnerabilities of Boston’s coastline, accord-ing to the release.

Emily Dahl, communications director of the BHA, said the report brings the effects of climate change and rising sea levels down to a local level, specifically for Boston.

“This report brings it to a neighborhood level,” she said. “It’s the first report that looks at the neighborhoods that would be affected [by effects of climate change] and gives sug-gestions on how property owners can be pre-pared to deal with the issue of rising seas.”

For coastal communities like Boston, the acceleration of warming temperatures has led to an increase in sea levels and coastal flood-ing due to melting glaciers and thermal ex-pansion of the ocean, according to the BHA report released Tuesday.

Boston already has a Climate Action Plan in place from 2011 that establishes a frame-

Amidst national debate and dialogue on the role of guns in society, particularly in schools and on college campuses, several Boston University officials said guns do not belong on campus and are a barrier to educa-tion.

“I don’t think it is appropriate to mix the academic environment on campus and arm the students,” said BU Police Department Chief Thomas Robbins. “I strongly oppose that view. It’s a good sound byte when people say if we could just give students and faculty and staff guns, we’d be better off. There’s a huge fallacy in that and there’s a huge flaw in that.”

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made public comments claim-ing guns have no place in schools or colleges except for those possessed by law enforce-ment officials, such as BUPD officers.

Georgia lawmakers proposed a bill in January that would repeal the state’s ban on carrying weapons on campus.

The proposed legislation and national dialogue come in the wake of December’s Newtown, Conn. tragedy, where a man shot and killed 20 Sandy Hook Elementary School students, six staff members and himself.

One week after the shooting, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said at a press conference armed security should be placed in schools to offer added protection.

More than 300 college presidents signed an open letter in December advocating the banning of guns on college campuses and in schools.

Robbins, who served as the head of Mas-sachusetts State Police from 2004 to 2006 before coming to BU, said students at BU would not be permitted to carry guns on cam-pus unless changes were made to Massachu-setts’s legislation, which bans the possession of weapons on college campuses across the state.

“There’s a statutory prohibition for guns on campus, unless you’re a police officer,” he said. “That goes throughout the Common-wealth.”

On the streets of Boston, Robbins said in-dividuals are permitted to carry firearms with

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BUPD Chief: Mass. gun laws ‘restrictive’ Guns: From Page 1

a license under circumstances spe-cific to the legislation.

Robbins said Massachusetts is comparatively more strict on gun ownership and regulation than many other states.

“We’re considered a restrictive state, which I totally agree with,” he said. “You have to go through a pro-cess to obtain a license … You cer-tainly want to allow people, hunters and other folks, to have their weap-ons, but I think that you have to have certain parameters articulating the statute and you have to follow those and become licensed.”

Robbins said from his three decades as a police officer, he be-lieves citizens owning guns can de-stabilize situations where safety is a concern.

“You have a person in a class-room, he’s sitting there with a weap-on, there’s a weapon in the class-room,” he said. “Whatever happens in that classroom, if there’s a physi-cal struggle and someone disagrees with someone and it doesn’t raise

to the level of deadly force, you’ve injected a weapon into it. There’s now a weapon in that situation so anything can go wrong.”

Christine Rossell, a political sci-ence professor, said on-campus gun advocates fail to acknowledge dif-ficulties of safely defending oneself without adding collateral damage.

“We all think of ourselves as rational,” she said. “We don’t un-derstand what could happen when emotion is high and there’s all this commotion going on because none of us have been in that situation. We sit behind a desk and make these decisions.”

Rossell said individual citizens often do not have the experience of trained public safety experts.

“When things get going where you think something’s happening, it’s very difficult for someone who hasn’t had decades of training to know exactly who they’re supposed to be shooting,” she said. “That’s problem number one. There would be unnecessary deaths if there were guns on campus.”

Robbins said armed students would also provide a distraction and disrupt the educational atmo-sphere in classrooms.

“You’re going to get calls for weapons in class saying, ‘Hey, someone in here has a gun,’” he said. “Even if that someone can carry it [legally], I would think if I was a student, I would be a little unnerved if I looked to my left and saw someone sitting there with a gun.”

Rossell said she anticipates few changes being made in the gun debate, and that it is very unlikely for legalization of guns to come to BU’s campus.

“We’re already, in the North-east, the northern U.S., western U.S., we’re already opposed to hav-ing guns anywhere, except by law-abiding officials or people who go to gun ranges or hunters,” she said. “The only people who might be in-fluenced by any statement by any-one, either for or against, would be the gun belt, which is the southern states and Texas.”

New floodplain maps in progressDisasters: From Page 1

work for climate change prepared-ness, but the city needs to act on its proposals to prepare Boston’s wa-terfront and neighborhoods for the expected rise in sea level, the BHA report stated.

“At this point, we are acknowl-edging that some [climate] change is underway and we need to keep working,” Dahl said. “Everyone needs to be working to curb the impact of climate change and we do not want to be caught off guard when it happens.”

Menino also plans to have the Boston Conservation Commission draft a wetlands ordinance devel-oping new floodplain maps that in-corporate changes in sea level and storm intensity and frequency.

The Inspectional Services De-partment and Boston Public Health Commission have been tasked with developing guidelines for enforce-ment of flood-proofing standards for buildings in designated flood hazard areas.

The Office of Emergency Man-

agement is also planning to lead a review of emergency operation procedure for storms and flooding, according to the press release.

Boston did not receive the brunt of Hurricane Sandy, which hit the northeastern U.S. in October, said Chief of Staff of the Environmental and Energy Services Cabinet Jacob Glickel.

“Boston experienced minor coastal flooding, downed trees and power lines,” Glickel said. “The impacts were very minor and did not test Boston’s buildings stock and infrastructure.”

Glickel said the damage could have been worse from the storm, and this understanding has led to Menino’s most recent proposal.

“Had the storm hit during high tide, we may have seen issues simi-lar to what happened in New York, which is why the mayor is taking action to prepare Boston and its buildings with various planning and policy tools,” he said. “This will be a close partnership with the private sector to make sure Boston is better prepared for the next storm.”

SMG soph.: Group work looks good to future employersGroups: From Page 1

just recently dramatically escalated because of technology,” he said.

Whittier said many teachers and professors are determining how to use technology to their advantage in preparing students for post-colle-giate lives.

“It [educational technology] is not a simple thing,” he said. “It’s not a black-and-white thing but certainly the kind of collaboration that’s possible is very much part of our world so it’s certainly going to be part of education.”

A number of students said they enjoy working with other students as an alternative method of learning.

Group work, which allows stu-dents to collaborate and bounce ideas off of each other, makes mate-rial more interesting, said School of Management sophomore Samantha Moravec.

“It really enhances learning of the material and it’s also more inter-esting than individualized learning,” she said. “I’ve also had a lot of em-

ployers when I’m interviewing for internships harp on the fact that we do a lot of team-focused things here, and they seem to like that.”

Moravec said group work helps her learn material better than if she were to tackle the information on her own.

“It [group learning] also just helps me retain the material a little bit better because I’ve been doing it in a practical setting, as opposed to just reading textbooks and regurgi-tating facts,” she said. “You get to practice the things you’re learning about.”

Albert Tawil, an SMG junior, said group work in college is ben-eficial because it is modeled after real-world situations and helps teach students how to communicate effec-tively, whereas individual learning might not.

“It’s very practical and it teaches you how to deal with people,” he said. “Individual learning is prob-ably the main way that people learn, but it does lack, sometimes, the prac-

tical component of actually working on a problem with other people.”

Tawil said modern online learn-ing is used primarily to supplement in-person collaboration, but may be a preview of what education will soon become.

“Online group learning — as the only way of learning — defeats the purpose of group learning, which is being in person and communicat-ing,” Tawil said. “But then again ... [online communication] is the way of the future, so maybe it’s prepar-ing people.”

Jessica He, a College of General Studies sophomore, said she prefers working by herself unless she is confident in the other members of her group.

“I mainly prefer to work by my-self just because I know what I’m doing and I don’t have to rely on other people,” she said. “But as long as I have a good group, like when I’m doing Capstone, I’m confident that other people will pull their part.”

CTSE first to study long-term affects of brain trauma, repeat concussions

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ing.”Eve Rosenfeld, a CAS sopho-

more, said she has a history of concussions and she did not know about the disease.

“I knew that having a lot of concussions caused problems, but I didn’t know the specifics about the disease [such as] all of the symptoms like depression,” Rosenfeld said. “It’s good to be informed about issues that can af-fect so many people.”

Alyssa Thomason, a College of Arts and Sciences and SAR sophomore, said researchers may help develop preventative mea-sures after fully understanding the condition’s impacts.

“It’s definitely very valuable to research topics like this that are relevant to people’s safety,” Thomason said. “More fully un-derstanding the impacts of this condition may help develop pre-ventative measures to reduce in-juries and protect young athletes and others from the symptoms.”

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Ethnic differences contribute to varied opinion on schools man-dating male students to receive the Human Papilloma Virus vac-cine, a new Boston University School of Medicine study found.

Rebecca Perkins, BUSM pro-fessor of obstetrics and gynecol-ogy, interviewed 120 parents and legal guardians of boys between the ages of 11 and 17 between De-cember 2011 and December 2012 and found a majority of the par-ents believe the benefits of vac-cination outweigh the drawbacks, according to a Wednesday BUSM release.

Despite the ethnic differences, low-income and minority parents and guardians were supportive of the vaccine, the study found.

Traditionally, low-income and minority males have been found to have higher rates of oral HPV infection and HPV-related can-cers, according to the release.

The release stated researchers found the reason most cited for parental hesitation was lack of in-formation regarding the vaccina-tion and its purpose, specifically for boys.

“This study indicates that most parents would accept HPV vacci-nation for their sons just as read-ily as for daughters,” Perkins said in the release. “Future research should explore the effects of the 2012 recommendations for rou-tine vaccination for males on pa-rental attitudes and uptake of HPV vaccination among both sexes.”

Researchers, who examined race as a possible variable in the responses, found ethnicity did not factor into parents’ views toward vaccinating boys, but did affect parents’ views toward whether schools should mandate vaccina-tion, according to the release.

White study participants were less likely to support school-entry mandates than minority study par-ticipants, according to the release. Seventy-three percent of African-American participants and 86 percent of Latino participants supported school mandates, while only 44 percent of Caucasian par-

Marty Walz to assume CEO position for Planned Parenthood

Campus & City Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Marty Walz is a busy woman. She is a Mass. State Rep., she has worked in the Boston public schools and she even teaches po-litical science at Northeastern Uni-versity. Walz advises the Kingsley Montessori School and volunteers for a homeless shelter for women. This is all on top of her job as a lawyer, specializing in harassment in the workplace.

But life for Marty Walz is about to get even busier. In mid-February, Walz will leave the statehouse to become president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.

“The reason I decided to leave the legislature is Planned Parent-hood’s work,” Walz said. “I love the work that I have [in the legis-lature], but Planned Parenthood’s

mission is so important to me per-sonally, that I wanted to seize the opportunity in this leadership role.”

Walz, a Boston Democrat, has had a career in Massachusettes politics distinguished by careful thought, diligent work and selfless-ness.

“Marty is a person who doesn’t have a large ego,” said her col-league, State Rep. John Scibak. “[Work] was not about Marty, it was about doing something and do-ing it right.”

Walz has made her mark with bills addressing bullying, education reform and reproductive rights.

“She was the driving force be-hind the [Anti-Bullying] Bill [of 2010],” Scibak said. “The thing that was impressive to me about Marty was that she was very delib-erate and diligent in terms of doing her homework, rather than rushing

in.”Regarding reproductive rights,

Walz sponsored the Buffer Zone Bill, which protects patients and staff outside of reproductive health facilities with a 35-foot zone wherein protesters are prohibited from standing.

“It may be my most important legislative accomplishment,” Walz said of the Buffer bill.

She has also championed family planning, teen pregnancy preven-tion programs and comprehensive health education.

Walz’s passionate plat-form on women’s health and leadership skills in the state house caught the attention of PPLM executives, who named Walz president in late January. “Marty’s commitment to Planned Parenthood and its mission was

By Sanah FarokeDaily Free Press Staff

COURTESY OF PLANNED PARENTHOODMartha Walz will be the new CEO of Planned Parenthood Massa-chusetts starting in March.

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The follwoing reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton D-14 crime logs from Jan. 30 to Feb. 6.

At about 3:31 p.m. Saturday, a woman’s pocketbook was taken from her arm as she was walking down Washington Street at Com-monwealth Avenue. She said she passed a group of people near 91 Washington St. when one of the men grabbed her pocketbook and fled to a nearby park. The suspect was de-scribed as a young, thin, black male between the ages of 17 and 25 wear-ing a red baseball cap. The suspect could not be found after the incident. Inside the pocketbook were the vic-tim’s medication, personal papers and a credit card.

That excuse seems legitAt about 4:14 p.m. Thursday,

police were searching for a young man who broke into and stole from Sullivan Funeral Home on Henshaw Street. Officers observed him walk-ing at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Saunders Street and stopped him. When they asked him whether he had any stolen goods, he said that he had nothing but a few credit cards. The police seized the items, which included a woman’s identification card for Mount St. Jo-seph Academy. After stopping the man, the police walked to Mount St. Joseph High School, where the headmaster identified the woman as a teacher at the school. The police spoke to the woman, who stated that her wallet was missing and cor-rectly identified all the items the po-lice showed. Another teacher at the school stated that she had witnessed the same man in the building a few hours prior, who told her that he was “waiting for someone” when she asked him why he was in the build-ing. The suspect was f charged with two counts of breaking and entering and larceny.

Hit (you in the face) and runAt about 3:09 p.m. a victim re-

ported she was talking to her mother on the phone at 500 Cambridge Street when an unknown black man struck the right side of her jaw and took her phone. The suspect then ran through Ringer Park toward the West End House, on Allston Street, which he is known to visit frequently. After the police failed to locate the cell-phone or suspect, two officers trans-ported the victim and a witness to the house. There they did not find the suspect, but received more informa-tion related to the robbery.

Man vs. wild: urban editionThe police observed a man try-

ing to steal a red bicycle that was chained to a pole, located on Chest-nut Hill Avenue at about 3:23 a.m. Thursday. When they approached the suspect, he was attempting to push the front wheel of the bicycle off the pole even though the wheels were bent and unusable. The officers had stopped and questioned the sus-pect an hour earlier, at which point he stated he “wanted to stay in the el-ements of the night and learn how to survive.” He was later placed under arrest for attempted larceny and ma-licious destruction of property.

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After successfully completing a pilot program teaching Spanish to some Boston City Hall employ-ees, the mayor’s office is consid-ering expanding the program.

In light of the success of the program, Emilee Ellison, spokes-woman for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, said the city is consider-ing expanding the program deeper into its work force.

“We would definitely like to expand the program,” Ellison said. “We are just looking for the next best time to do this, and considering the next group of em-ployees.”

Ellison said the two-day Span-ish pilot program was completed Jan. 17 and that participants re-ceived comprehensive feedback late last week.

“It was a huge success,” she said. “All of the employees were able to relate back about their positive experiences.”

Menino supported the pro-gram, saying in a statement that having more Spanish-speaking officials could help reduce the language barrier.

About 15 percent of Boston residents speak Spanish, accord-ing to the statement.

“City Hall should be acces-sible to every Boston resident, regardless of the language they speak,” he said in a statement Jan. 17. “This is one more step toward continuing to improve the customer service experience at City Hall, and expanding our out-reach to the growing population of Spanish-speaking Bostonians.”

Thirteen Boston employees from the Registry Division, Elec-

tion Department, Emergency Shelter Commission, Department of Neighborhood Development and the Mayor’s 24-Hour Hot-line were the first participants in the pilot program, according to a press release.

A number of visitors to City Hall said the pilot program was a good idea.

Tim Bullock, 64, of Leverett said the program highlights the true purpose of public service.

“Speaking another language is all about learning to connect with other people,” he said. “City Hall is a public service and that is what public service is all about. If enough people speak the language then city hall has the responsibil-ity to accommodate them. After all, they are still taxpayers.”

Ben Floyd, 19, a student at

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As the City of Boston enters what is typically considered one of the coldest months of the year, city officials prepare to combat the chilly period with road main-tenance and snow removal.

In order to fight the dangerous conditions brought on by snow and ice, the city is forced to spend millions of dollars annually on

winter maintenance and clean up. Emilee Ellison, spokeswoman

for Boston Mayor Thomas Me-nino, said this season has thus far been significantly less difficult to respond to, economically, than the winter of 2011-12.

“Last winter, Public Works spent $5.54 million on snow re-moval activities,” she said. “This year, we have spent $2.2 million.”

The Public Works Department,

tasked with ensuring the safety and cleanliness of the city’s road-ways, streets and bridges, takes the lead on winter clean up.

Elmo Baldassari, deputy com-missioner of Boston Public Works, spoke in a video from the City of Boston’s website about the snow maintenance process.

“The truck operators come in at 3:30 a.m.,” he said in the video

Boston faces lower maintenance costs this winter

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MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFThe setting sun highlights the road salt kicked up into the air by cars in Kenmore Square. However, the city of Boston’s winter maintenance cost has gone down this year.

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National Weather Service: 2013 winter ‘mild’ compared to othersreleased in November. “They get their truck assignment and route assignment and head out into the street. We can have anywhere from 40 to 45 trucks throughout the city during the day. If we need to, we call in 80 to 100 trucks overnight to help with the morn-ing commute.”

Baldassari said the mainte-nance levels vary depending on the shifting weather conditions.

“We pre-treat as much as we can to keep the roadways open and safe,” he said. “But in some

storms we just have to stop salting because the snow could be com-ing down two-to-three inches an hour.”

Each storm determines the number of truckers that are re-quired, Baldassari said.

“The duration of the storm and the number of people affected determines how many pieces of equipment we have out on the road,” he said.

The number of overtime work-ers is a large factor in the winter maintenance task. The City of Boston declared its first snow

emergency in late December, re-quiring Boston Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Services to call in extra staffing, according to a press release from Menino’s of-fice.

This winter has been reported as “mild,” according to the Na-tional Weather Service, which, for some, begs the question of the im-pact of climate change.

Pamela Templer, a professor of biology at Boston University, said the unstable winter conditions is damaging to multiple ecosystems across the U.S.

“What we are finding is that, in winters with smaller snowpack, the snow melts earlier, which ex-poses the soil too early,” she said. “This leads to colder soil, which can damage the roots of trees and decrease the population of insects living in the soil.”

Templer said this problem is not likely to go away on its own and is likely to negatively affect winter industries.

“Scientists and the public need to work together to understand how winter climate is changing and to figure out ways to help

those industries adapt so that they don’t go out of business,” she said.

Sean Terry, 26, a housing ad-vocate for the New England Cen-ter for Homeless veterans, said he sees a noticeable climate shift each winter.

“There’s a lot less snow than I remember,” he said. “It was like 60 degrees last week — in Janu-ary — clearly there is something wrong. We should pay attention to what scientists are saying and not think that it isn’t an issue just because there are days where it is still really cold.”

Walz: Buffer Zone Bill her ‘most important’ legislation

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immediately evident when we be-gan engaging her in the search pro-cess,” said Roberta Herman, chief operating officer of Harvard Pil-grim Health Care and PPLM board member in a press release last Wednesday. “Her roles as a legis-lator, lawyer and human resources executive have prepared her well to take on the role of PPLM’s chief executive officer.”

Scibak said Walz’s transition to Planned Parenthood will be seam-less.

“She will certainly do Planned Parenthood really well,” he said. “It’s not going to be any different from the legislature because she’ll

speak her mind, she’ll let people know what she believes in and why. And she’ll certainly spend a lot of time advocating and educating.”

Walz said she is ready for her new position, as well as the hours of work and advocacy it entails. She realizes her time for hobbies — including reading and follow-ing baseball — will grow slimmer. But, her new position will feed her passion, and that’s all she could ask for, she said.

“I’m ready to take on new chal-lenges and continue my career growth,” she said. “It’s really the vision of Planned Parenthood that is so exciting to me, that I would be willing to give up my seat in the legislature to take it on.”

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Nun: ‘Public service exists to help people’Lesley University, said the pro-gram made City Hall more ac-commodating of language diver-sity.

“I think having Spanish as a second language is a good idea,” he said. “Some people are just more comfortable speaking Span-ish, and within City Hall it is im-portant to be able to communicate with everyone who comes in.”

Sister Clare Carter, a nun and

Boston resident, expressed ap-proval of the program.

“The whole structure of pub-lic service exists to help people, and if we come from a place of consciousness and heart we will appreciate other languages and culture,” she said.

Anil Patel, 41, an IT profes-sional from Texas, said he ap-proved of the program, but was skeptical of the choice to teach solely Spanish.

“It’s a good idea,” he said.

“Obviously the language choice will always have to depend on the population here in the city though — it may change.”

Special Officer Paul Manning of the Municipal Police Service said the program reflected the cul-tural diversity of the city.

“This is such a multi-cultural city,” he said. Anything the city can do to help the people and to make it feel more welcoming than it already is — I think it is a great idea.”

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CDC: 7,000 cases of HPV-associated cancer cases reported in males yearly

ticipants were in support.HPV is the leading cause of

cervical cancer in women in the U.S., with about 12,000 new cases per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. About 7,000 new cases of HPV-associated can-cers in males are also diagnosed annually.

Several BU students said they were surprised by the results of the study.

Nandani Deendyal, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she was given the HPV vac-cine when she was 13 years old, and her mother, who is natively Indian, was skeptical when her doctor suggested the vaccination.

“I think it’s a culture thing,” Deendyal said. “My parents are Indian. All these vaccinations they didn’t have as kids that their kids can get in America, they may not understand as well.”

James Marin, a College of Fine Arts senior, said he finds the results of the study surprising because other vaccinations such as polio and chicken pox are so widely accepted.

“If I were supposed to take the shot before coming to school, I would have to know how press-ing it is to have the vaccination,” Marin said. “I want to know more information about it and how im-portant it is to get the vaccine.”

CAS sophomore Evan Ramos said a mandate would be benefi-cial for people because the vac-cine helps prevent certain cancers.

He said a mandate might also upset a peoples’ sense of freedom of choice.

“If they’re going to obligate students to take the vaccine then they should educate students on the benefits and downsides,” Ra-mos said. “It would rub people the wrong way but I don’t think it would deter people from coming to school.”

Around the world today, 884 million people don’t have access to clean water, 1.29 billion live on less than

$1.25 a day, 925 million are malnourished and approximately 22,000 children die each day from poverty, according to the Nourish International website.

Nourish International guides empow-ered students and communities as they col-lectively work to diminish rates of extreme poverty. It’s a chapter-based organization, working with groups in 14 states on 28 campuses, including Boston University.

The BU chapter of NourishCollege of Arts and Sciences junior,

Pooja Shah, leads BU’s Nourish chapter as president.

She said she first had the urge to start a nonprofit organzation a year ago when learning about a disease called congenital hypothyroidism, which is brought on by a lack of iodine in one’s diet. It causes a se-vere form of mental retardation

“I thought to myself ‘this is absurd be-cause it’s so easily treatable with just io-dized salt,” Shah said. “We don’t have that type of issue here, but so many other coun-tries lack resources, and they do [have this issue]. So, I figured that something has to be done about this.”

Shah said she initially wanted to start her own nonprofit, but soon found Nourish and decided to bring a chapter to BU.

“I fell in love with Nourish right away,” she said. “They do so many different things — they work on so many different issue areas — and I thought that if I could bring this to BU, a lot of other people could get really, really passionate about it. Their ap-proach to making a difference, to commu-nity care, to these issue areas is so unique, so I really thought that it would have a spe-cial place at BU.”

The group was first formally recognized as an official BU organization in the fall

2012 semester, and an executive board was chosen during the summer.

“[The group] is completely student run, so we students do all the ventures and fundraising ourselves,” said Shama Patel, CAS sophomore and Nourish co-vice pres-ident. “There isn’t a teacher guiding us. I knew this would be a mission for us and I proved to myself that I can do something good for others.”

The beginnings of NourishExecutive Director of Nourish Inter-

national Kelly Phoenix said Nourish al-lows students to create social businesses, or ventures, invest the profits and use the money towards sustainable projects in de-veloping nations.

Chapters are able to travel to a poverty-stricken region of their choice, where they meet with an NGO to design a project and a budget.

Students’ projects involve any of the systematic issues of extreme poverty, such as lack of access to clean drinking water, education, healthcare, agriculture and food insecurity.

Nourish was founded in 2003 by Sind-hura Citineni, a student at the University of North Carolina. She came across a website that had a map of the world with blinking lights, each of which depicted a child who had just died of hunger. She was deeply upset by what she saw and wanted to do something in response.

“It was the idea that one student could do something right away to start these busi-nesses and build a tool of social innovation, of social businesses, make profits and re-sponsibly invest them in something that would change lives,” Phoenix said.

Student experiencePatel said she had gained a lot from be-

ing a part of Nourish and advises others to join in order to get the same sort of satis-faction.

“The [students] gain a lot of benefits from leadership skills,” she said. “They just become better people and by helping someone out, it feels really good.”

The club has advanced in its first semes-ter and continues to evolve with input from members.

“I know it’s going to grow,” said School of Management junior and Nourish trea-surer, Joshua Varghese. “There’s too much going for it to not grow. We’re making moves quick, and we’re trying to get a lot of funding and a lot of performances going so that we can make some money to help this project.”

Fundraising for project tripsOne fundraising performance took place

Friday at the BU Photonics Center. Named the “Culture Jam: Benefit Show,” the fund-raiser presented a variety of cultural foods, performances and trivia, allowing students to leave with experiences and knowledge they hadn’t previously come across.

The Harvard Middle Eastern Dance Company, BU’s Filipino Student Associa-tion and BU’s Indian a capella fusion group Suno were featured, bringing several cul-tures together under one roof.

All of the proceeds go toward Nourish’s six-week summer project in the Domini-can Republic, where members will work toward creating a more advanced, better-functioning education system.

BU students and other attendees were impressed, not just by the show, but by the group as well.

“I used to be a part of Suno, so I’m here to support them,” said Nisha Dhawlikar, a CAS senior. “I know a lot of people who are performing, and Nourish seems like a really good cause. Forming educational groups abroad is always a really good way to help out other countries.”

“I’m really interested in cultural things,” said Susan Tsui, a CAS freshman. “I did Model United Nations when I was in high school, so I was interested. I saw a balloon advertisement in the George Sher-man Union, and I thought that attending the event would be pretty cool. I would defi-nitely consider joining Nourish, especially because I’m looking for new clubs to join.”

BU’s Nourish will be hosting another spring cultural activity in April, similar to the one that took place Friday, but on a grander scale. It will involve the works of many BU a cappella and dance groups, representing various cultures and back-grounds. Nourish hopes to make these con-certs annual as it grows and expands as an organization.

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Last week, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg held that companies should be able to ask wom-en about their plans for starting a family, according to The Telegraph.

She meant to articulate that women are held back in the workplace by stereo-types that most firms aren’t willing to talk about — her aim, therefore, was to call for a more open and accepting dialogue about gender, one that includes discussing with female employees or potential employees whether they plan to have children, report-ed The Telegraph. As of yet, employers are not allowed to pose this question.

Her remarks have been met with contro-versy. However, Huffington Post business columnist Gene Marks responded to the is-sue positively:

“I am not embarrassed to say that when I interview a young woman my first thought is ‘what happens when/if she gets pregnant?’ This is a legitimate business question. Right or wrong, the fact is that men delegate mothering to women. And most women (thank God) want that job too — it’s natural. So, am I wrong to ask if that smart young lady who I’m about to in-vest in plans to start a family anytime soon and whether she will actually come back to work in six weeks after she gives birth? Or ever? I need to make plans otherwise. Allow me to ask that question,” he wrote on Monday.

Marks raises a legitimate point, but the question is still entirely unfair. Asking women about their plans to have children is both a breach in privacy and a form of

gender discrimination. For one, plans for pregnancy are a woman’s business. She should not have to share them with her em-ployer. Moreover, pregnancies can be ac-cidental — should it only be females who suffer the consequences of this fact? Being asked about plans for a family thus effec-tively urges women to ease back in their career ambitions and instead consider the burdens of child rearing. It discourages them from fighting to achieve both a career and raise a family. It stigmatizes the natu-ral wish to have a baby. It segregates wom-en in the workplace for wanting to do so, because it is possible to have it all. CEO of Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer underwent unprec-edented scrutiny when she was appointed to the position last year and announced soon after that she was also pregnant.

Having children, of course, can prevent a woman from progressing in her field. And it is true that pregnancy can affect a woman’s job performance — more or less so depending on the job. (Jobs that demand physical labor, for example, could poten-tially be dangerous and ultimately involve companies in legal battles they would un-derstandably rather enjoy.) But more often than not, pregnancy should not be an issue when hiring.

If pregnancy is a serious consideration, employers should refrain from employ-ing females. And if they do so, they will have reverted to the worst sort of gender discrimination. The question is particu-larly unfair because men are never asked this question — not even if they plan to become fathers.

Sandberg says women should let employers know if pregnancy is on horizon

Terrier Talk Reflections

The Daily Free Press asked students how they felt about the fact that BU lost

in the Beanpot.

Here’s what some of them said.

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“I saw some people talk about the game on Twitter, but I don’t really care about it.”

- COM junior

“It was a disappoint-ing loss, but it was still a good game.”

- SAR freshman

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“My friends follow hockey more than I do, personally it doesn’t affect me that much. Obviously it’s sad that they lost, because they lost last year too.”

- SAR sophomore

“It is really sad because it is been something like 24 or 25 years since we haven’t advanced.”

- CAS Masters Student, 2014

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Fat at the FitRecSANDOR MARK

The great thing about going to a big school like Boston University is that we have great recreational facilities. Nicker-son Field, the Case Center, the Track and Tennis Center, the fourth floor bathrooms of SMG — I’m a fan of all of them. But the most astounding and amazing place on campus has to be FitRec: Two huge swimming pools, two floors of weights, machines and treadmills, an indoor track, basketball courts, squash courts, exercise rooms, a rock wall and those courts where international kids play indoor soccer — not to mention the Sargent classrooms and the glorious smoothie bar.

So there’s no excuse for being fat at BU. We should all be supermodels win-ning the Miss Universe pageant.

But in the eyes of the overly self-aware fat man, FitRec is a nightmare. It’s the sixth grade pool party, the clown under the bed, Dante’s fifth circle of Hell. If you’re fat, basically any gym — not just FitRec — is the worst place on earth. But not for the reasons one would normally think.

A lot of people assume that if a guy is fat, it’s because he doesn’t like to exercise. This just isn’t true. Nobody likes to exer-cise, at least no one I like. If you genu-inely like to jog, lift or are just really into health, chances are I don’t care for you as a person.

If you’re like the rest of us, however — you know, “normal” — then you know what I’m talking about. Working out is a pain in the ass but (alas) it’s the only way to stay healthy. And it feels great once you finally finish a workout — a runner’s high and a lack of oxygen really gets me in the mood to listen to Pink Floyd.

Fat guys don’t hate the gym because they hate working out. In all honesty, we like the feeling of accomplishment we get when we’ve finished running on the tread-mill for all of five minutes. It really takes the guilt out of the steak burrito from Chi-potle — more room for sour cream.

But you have to understand how a fat guy sees himself in the context of a place like FitRec. We’re intruders. We feel as if we’re not supposed to be there. Why? Because everyone looks great working out and we look like crap. What’s more, we think everyone is gawking at us while we look like crap. “Who let the bridge troll in here?”

The real problem is not being at the gym, but being seen at the gym. We don’t use the elliptical machines because they’re easier or because that’s where all the pretty girls are. We use them because it’s easier to blend in and not be noticed. The

same is true for the first floor weights sec-tion — where fewer people means fewer judgmental eyes. Our fear of being seen comes from a skewed and self-conscious sense of what we look like compared to the rest of you skinny people. It’s just a fact that skinny people look good exercis-ing and fat people do not. We look out of place and consequently we actually feel incredibly uncomfortable. Parts of our body that are meant to remain covered are revealed. Nothing about it is appealing. In our minds, we look like a block of con-gealed chicken soup that’s been sitting in the fridge for four days.

Put that image next to the girl wearing hot pants and has been running on the el-liptical for 45 minutes — are you starting to see why the FitRec is actually Hell?

Now, in reality no one is paying at-tention. They’re all focused on their own workout. But there lingers a nagging doubt that maybe the girl behind you is staring at your fat calves and it’s making her want to puke. Suddenly you feel guilty for of-fending people just by being around and, all you want to do is go buy some unsalted pita chips.

Our self-consciousness about how we look is completely exposed at the gym and it’s only getting worse as gym culture continues to evolve. The latest trend is to get dressed up when you go to the gym — ladies, you know who you are. Designer workout clothes, makeup and perfect looking hair — why do you have to make the rest of us more self-conscious than usual? It just upsets me. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to look good and wanting to have other people see you that way. But don’t dress up at the expense of others’ self-esteem.

It just makes the gym that much more hostile a place for those who want to get healthy. And if you think about it, it’s re-ally unfortunate that the gym is so scary for fat guys because it’s the one place we really need to be.

So please, beautiful skinny people, for our sakes, put on the grey sweatshirt you bought at Walmart and look like a shlub — just for an hour. Then you can go back to being beautiful in the real world. Oth-erwise my kind will feel too intimidated to come to the gym and we’ll have to do P90x in our living rooms. And I am not that agile.

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

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a deflection in front of the net and sent the puck past Sperry to put Northeastern ahead 2–0.

Senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk had an opportunity with 1:22 remaining in the first period to cut the deficit in half, but she shot the puck straight at Desjardins, leav-ing BU scoreless at the end of the first pe-riod.

“It was hard,” said BU coach Brian Du-rocher on being in a 2–0 hole at the end of the first period. “I don’t keep track of exactly how many times we’ve fallen be-hind, but I don’t think we’ve fallen behind by two goals very often, if any.

“It was trying on the kids, but I did ev-erything I could to remind them that 40 minutes is a long time to come back.”

Northeastern continued its scoring mo-mentum into the second period. At the 5:18 mark of the period, the puck bounced around behind the net, and Coyne wrapped around and put the puck past the left side of a confused Sperry, pushing the score to 3–0.

After Coyne’s goal, BU had a flurry of opportunities to score, but a combination of nice saves by Desjardins, secure defense by Northeastern and a few unlucky bounc-es left BU scoreless headed into the locker room at the end of the second period.

“The way that we played in the second period, and the opportunities we had in the second period, if one had gone in, all of a sudden a second and third might have found their way in,” Durocher said. “But it didn’t happen, and that’s hockey.

“It’s a great game. Sometimes those goaltenders can do a lot, but she wasn’t the only person. Every person on the North-eastern defense was fighting like crazy and keeping our kids away. We really didn’t get our stick on too many of those rebounds. So credit to them.”

BU’s scoring woes continued as Pou-lin had an opportunity to bring BU within two goals with about 17 minutes left in the game, but her shot hit the post and bounced

the wrong way.As the minutes ticked away, Durocher

decided to mix up some of his lines in an attempt to give BU more chances.

“In the third, we just made really one major switch, put [freshman forward] Sarah Lefort with the two freshmen, put [senior co-captain] Jill [Cardella] up there with [Poulin] and [Kohanchuk],” Duro-cher said. “They’ve got some nice karma, they’re all upperclassmen, they’ve been around for a long time. You try to do some-thing … just to try to change the complex-ion of the game, try to change whatever was going on.”

Durocher’s changes allowed BU to re-gain some life. At the 7:02 mark of the final frame, Sarah Lefort dropped the puck off to sophomore defensemen Caroline Camp-bell, who took a shot from long range. The puck found freshman forward Jordan Ju-ron, who was standing right in front of an open net. Juron sent the disc into the net for a goal — her fourth of the season — to put the Terriers on the board, 3–1.

With about six minutes remaining in the game and BU still trailing by two goals, Durocher brought Sperry off the ice and brought in an extra forward. For a moment, it appeared as if Coyne scored her third goal of the game on an empty net, but the play was ruled dead.

Sperry came back on the ice for a few minutes after the Coyne scare, but was pulled again with about two minutes left in the game. Coyne was again able to break free, this time sending the puck into the net to notch her hat trick and put Northeastern ahead, 4–1, which would ultimately be the final score.

“We’ve had our nights like that,” Duro-cher said. “Their team played a great game, but I was proud of our team and how they played and never gave up. A heck of a sec-ond period, but nothing to show for it. The third, we get one to bring some life into the game, and pulled the goalie twice, and almost tried to get within one goal, but it wasn’t going to happen tonight.”

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The same is true with Boston’s college sports teams.

Boston College fans hate Boston Uni-versity fans, BU fans hate Harvard fans, Harvard fans hate Northeastern fans and Northeastern fans hate BC fans. It’s a never ending cycle that is interchangeable in ev-ery way.

There’s no logical reasoning for why this hatred exists between Boston’s cross-

town rivals, but what we do know is that tickets to rivalry games make for one hot commodity.

Especially Beanpot tickets.Because of the tension built up around

the four-way rivalry — BC, BU, Harvard and Northeastern — the Beanpot has be-come one of Boston’s staple traditions for the past 60 years and counting. Fans are simply addicted to the emotions that the Beanpot season stirs up. They can’t help but play their part in joining the scuffle for

Boston hockey’s bragging rights.Based on the passion and exhilaration

exerted by fans around Beanpot time, Bos-ton has spawned a total of six other “Bean-pots” in an attempt to further expand its fan base and create an even closer community. Boston’s “Beanpots” now include women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s rowing, cycling and baseball. In hopes to inspire even more excitement and to encourage more people to get involved in the baseball Beanpot, the final game is

played in the heart and soul of Boston — Fenway Park.

The men’s ice hockey Beanpot has be-come such a vital part of Boston’s history and contributes greatly to one of the things that makes Boston the perfect college town. By actively bringing together a variety of colleges from the greater Boston area, the Beanpot creates fresh, friendly competition and gives the people of Boston yet another reason to come together.

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At home this season, the Terriers have played well, winning eight of ten games, while the Seawolves have been less than stellar on the road at 4–6.

For a team like BU that likes to shoot the three, and shoots it at a good percent-age, the Seawolves’ seventh-ranked de-fense against the 3-point shot will no doubt be tested.

Stony Brook has allowed its opposition to shoot 33 percent from deep this season. BU, on the other hand, trails Albany by only .07 percentage points with a 35.9 per-cent 3-point field goal percentage.

With only seven games left in the sea-son and its chances for an at-large bid still up in the air, BU will be looking for a win to pick up steam going down the season’s final stretch.

Terriers hope success at home will continue in contest vs Stony Brook

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BU outscored its opponents 51–27 and ad-ditionally scored three shorthanded goals.

During the semifinal, BU did not score shorthanded, nor was it able to score on any of its six power-play opportunities.

Durocher said the team was not over-confident going into the semifinal game, nor was it particularly nervous.

“It’s tough sometimes when you’ve beaten somebody three times in a row, and they’re a really good hockey team,” Duro-cher said.

But having met the Terriers three times prior in the season, Northeastern coach Dave Flint said he wasn’t surprised that BU wasn’t able to pull through, because it is rare for a team to win four games in a season series.

Durocher said the team was in a differ-ent position than usual, fighting NU’s two-goal lead early in the first period.

“I hope we can score the next time we’re down two goals,” Durocher said. “If we have that many chances, I think we will get one.”

BU won the last four conference clashes with Northeastern, and this loss ended yet

another small, less significant streak for the team.

“Obviously this game could have some significance in some people’s minds with the playoffs, but I always throw the past games out the window, for the most part,” Durocher said. “The reality is, it’s going to start 0–0 next time we see them.”

BU junior co-captain Marie-Philip Pou-lin — who went into the game tied for 13th best in the nation in points per game — was fighting a fever the past two days, accord-ing to Durocher, which he said slowed the team’s pace a bit, as she had to work to re-gain her strength throughout the game.

“The biggest thing [tonight] were the two [earliest] quirky goals,” Durocher said. “When you run against a really good team who’s been in the top 10 all year, you have to play well and you have to hope it isn’t the night their goaltender plays fantastic.”

BU’s next win will be the 150th in Du-rocher’s career and in program history.

Despite the loss and the end of sever-al streaks, Durocher said he is looking to maintain a positive outlook.

“I’m a power-positive person, and I’m going to continue to tell them that I think we played well,” Durocher said.

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In a quest for the program’s 150th win and its first Beanpot ti-tle as a varsity program, the Bos-ton University women’s hockey team fell to Northeastern Univer-sity in the semifinal game by a score of 4–1.

BU’s (18–4–3, 13–2–1 Hock-ey East) loss snapped a 14-game unbeaten streak, and it was also its first loss to Northeastern (15–

10–2, 8–7–1 Hockey East) this season.

The Terriers had a chance to go ahead 1–0 early in the first period, as a sloppy handle from Huskies goalkeeper Chloe Desjardins and a miscommunication on defense gave BU junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin a good chance to tap in a goal, but her shot went just wide.

Shortly after killing a hooking penalty committed by forward

Brittany Esposito, NU forward Kendall Coyne broke free from BU defenders and tapped the puck around junior goalkeeper Kerrin Sperry to put the Huskies ahead 1–0 5:46 into the first period.

Less than two minutes later, with BU on the penalty kill due to a tripping call on junior defense-man Shannon Doyle, NU forward Casey Pickett took advantage of

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Pull any sports fan aside and ask him or her what his or her favorite sports team’s tradition is and you’ll encompass a variety of answers.

“Players taking shaving cream to the face!”

“Ignoring a rookie’s first ca-reer homerun.”

“Cubs fans throwing opposing teams’ homerun balls back!”

“Hockey players refusing to shave their beards during the playoffs.”

“Detroit fans tossing octopus on the ice.”

“The notorious post-win Gato-rade bath!”

Even though it’s virtually im-possible to come to an agreement on which classic sports tradition is the best, we can all agree that each of them add that little some-thing extra to sporting events.

My Dad and I surely think so.I can’t even explain the seem-

ingly pathetic enjoyment my Dad and I get out of the “little things” that come up during Red Sox games. Whether it be Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy’s daily bickering, Pedroia screaming “laser show” after hitting a homer, or simply witnessing animated players like Kevin Millar “Cowboy Up,” we can never get enough.

Why do we get such a kick out of these things?

These miniscule traditions and comical habits keep fans thor-oughly engaged and create illu-sions that make us feel closer to our favorite players and organiza-tions. By “bonding” over the triv-ial things, we feel like we belong to something more — in this case, Red Sox Nation.

Traditions are a healthy way to bring people together and since the typical “Bostonian” is sports driven and addicted to confron-tation, nothing brings the city of Boston closer together than a good ol’ fashion rivalry.

Any Celtics or Sox fan would second that.

What they couldn’t tell you is why they enjoy rivalries so much or why teams like the Lakers and Yankees make their blood boil.

I guess it’s just a part of human nature to love cutthroat competi-tion.

Better luck next year

The BU women’s hockey team lost in the Beanpot semifinals Tuesday night, ensuring BU will not earn a Beanpot championship in 2013. P.8.

Quotable“ “I was proud of our team and how they played and never gave up.

-BU coach Brian Durocher on women’s hockey’s loss in the beanpot semifinals.

Looking to continue its domi-nance in the America East Con-ference this season, the Boston University women’s basketball team will host Stony Brook Uni-versity Wednesday night at Case Gymnasium.

Coming off of a last-minute victory against University of Hartford Saturday afternoon, where senior guard Chantell Al-ford converted on a 3-point play to give the Terriers a victory, BU (18–4, 8–1 America East) will be looking to stay in contention with the University at Albany at the top of the America East standings.

At Stony Brook (12–10, 4–5 America East) over a month ago, these two teams met for the first time this season. The Terriers were able to come away with an 11-point victory, 72–61. Alford led all scorers with 23 points on

an 8-of-12 shooting night, drain-ing three treys and adding five as-sists and five rebounds to her stat line.

The only other Terrier in dou-ble figures was senior guard Kris-ten Sims, who came just one point shy of her career high in scoring with 18 points on 5-of-9 shooting. Four of her field goals came from beyond the arc.

In their last matchup, the Ter-riers’ defense was solid in the first half, as it held Stony Brook to 24 points and 40 percent shooting. But in the second half, the Sea-wolves came out with energy and fight, outscoring the Terriers in the second half, 37–34, shooting 57.7 percent from the floor.

The Seawolves had two play-ers tied with a team-high 12 points, as senior forward Jessica Previlon was 6-for-10 from the field and added nine rebounds, while sophomore guard Sabre

Proctor chipped in 12 off the bench on 5-of-12 shooting. Also in double digits was junior guard Teasha Harris, who put in 10 points on 3-of-6 shooting off the bench.

This time around, the Terri-ers will be looking to repeat their success against Stony Brook. At 4–5 in America East, the Sea-wolves are sitting in the middle of the pack at fifth place and looking to gain ground moving towards the conference postseasontourna-ment.

The Terriers, since they have been excluded from the confer-ence tournament, will be looking to gain key victories in order to secure an at-large bid for a na-tional tournament.

In order to secure this victory, the Terriers will need to continue being tough on defense. BU is al-lowing only 51.3 points per game this season, which is second in

the conference to Albany (18–3, 9–0 America East). Stony Brook is fifth in the conference in the scoring category, putting up an average of 54.4 points per game.

“Two keys to the game are, one, to prevent them from get-ting transition baskets,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg. “And two, they really rebound, they get a lot of offensive boards, they re-ally crash hard, and we have to limit their second chance oppor-tunities.”

In their last matchup, the Ter-riers outrebounded Stony Brook, 36–32, and won the differential on the offensive glass, 13–11. BU also was able to come out on top 6–2 in the second-chance points category. If the Terriers are look-ing to win this game, they will need to mirror their success on the boards.

Women’s basketball looks to continue conference dominance at Case

W. BasKetBall, see page 7

Boston Bonding

Beanpot, see page 7

By Matthew Fils-AimeDaily Free Press Staff

Rare poor game for BU’s offense against Huskies

The Boston University wom-en’s hockey team’s 4–1 loss against Northeasten in the Bean-pot semifinals Tuesday night marked the team’s first loss in 14 games and the Terriers’ (18–4–3, 13–2–1 Hockey East) first loss against the Huskies (15–10–2, 8–7–1 Hockey East) all season.

BU’s winning streak was the second longest such streak in the nation — second to the Universi-ty of Minnesota’s 28-game streak — and it also tied the longest un-beaten streak in program history, which was set during the 2010-11 season.

“Fourteen games is a long time to not lose, so maybe we were up against the odds to keep that go-ing,” said BU coach Brian Duro-cher. “It was a recipe for a win for them.”

The last time the team lost was Nov. 9 against the University of New Hampshire, where BU lost by a score of 4–2.

The Beanpot loss also brought an end to the Terriers’ seven-game win streak, which dated back to their 4–2 victory over the University of Connecticut on Jan. 8. BU won all six of its games in the month of January, averaging 4.3 goals per game.

The play of the Terriers during the loss Tuesday night was un-characteristic of their play during the unbeaten streak. During the streak, the Terriers averaged 3.9 goals per game and allowed only an average of 2.1 goals per game.

By Kira ColeDaily Free Press Staff

KinG, see page 7

The Inner Edge

Haley King

Terriers fall to Northeastern in Beanpot semis

WoMen’s hocKey, see page 7

Women’s hockey snaps winning streak