The Boston University student group BUILDS, sponsored by the College of Engi-neering department of Electrical and Com-puter Engineering, hosted its first 24-hour Hackathon Friday and Saturday.

The Make BU Hackathon gave students the opportunity and tools to collaborate to design mobile apps, programs and other high-tech projects from scratch, said ECE Academic Programs Manager Austin Alex-ander.

“The students are going to be getting to-gether and using the knowledge that they’re learning in their classes here and work on software programs together,” Alexander said. “It seems like [at] these kinds of events where people get together and they’re to-gether for an extended period of time, they’re actually able to get a lot done.”

Alexander said that networking opportu-nities would be available at the Hackathon, which hosted multiple ECE alumni and rep-resentatives from global technology compa-nies who acted as mentors and judges.

ENG freshman Alexandra Miller-Browne

said her favorite part of the hackathon was the social aspect.

“I got to meet new people around here at BU who do the same things that I do,” she said. “It’s awesome to meet other people who enjoy designing and hacking like I do.”

“Networking is probably a piece of it, but it’s a fun experience and a lot of learning happens, and that’s probably the main goal,” Alexander said. “There is also always po-tential that people get together… [and] start working together on an idea.

Santiago Beltran, an ENG freshman whose team created a word puzzle game, said while the 24-hour time slot seemed daunting, he valued the knowledge he gained while building his project.

“We decided to take on a whole new project and see what we could do in one night,” Beltran said. “… There’s always the stress of trying to figure out why your code doesn’t work or something’s not right, but at the same time, it’s worth it in the end be-cause you have a finished product you can actually use, and you learn a lot at the same

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Mass. Republicans endorse Baker for governor, Fisher contests voting process

Following Saturday’s Republican state convention, where the Massachusetts Re-publican Party endorsed gubernatorial can-didate Charlie Baker, Mark Fisher, a small business owner fighting for the Republican nomination for governor, is seeking legal representation against MassGOP for alleg-edly not following convention rules.

At the convention, which took place at Boston University’s Agganis Arena, Baker received 2,095 of the 2,533 delegate votes. Fisher, who received 374 delegate votes, or 14.765 percent, needed 15 percent of the to-tal votes to force a primary between the two Republican candidates. Final tally results were not released to the public until after all challenges were resolved in the tally room after the adjournment of the convention.

Rob Cunningham, executive director of MassGOP, said all portions of the ballot pro-cess were followed, and any occurrences of human error were resolved in the tally room.

“The ballot process was clearly explained to both campaigns and to the state committee members who were responsible for polling their districts,” he said. “I can understand how it could have been confusing to people attending the convention, but … I feel very confident that the parliamentarian rejected any potential blanks that were erroneously recorded.”

Debbie McCarthy, Fisher’s campaign manager, said they requested a recount of the tallies due to a variety of concerns, but their request was denied. They plan to con-tact the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance for campaign violation and the Elections Division of the Secretary of State for election oversight.

“MassGOP and MassVictory are sup-posed to remain neutral,” she said. “They’re

not supposed to be biased in a campaign. So that’s one of the objections. We believe they have been in collusion with the Baker cam-paign.”

The biggest concern of the Fisher cam-paign is the counting of blank votes in the final tally, in which McCarthy said she re-ceived conflicting answers during various times of the convention weekend. Rob Eno, the publisher of Red Mass Group, recorded

the votes as they were announced to the con-vention body and said Fisher received 15.04 percent of the delegate vote, without count-ing blanks.

“This is unofficial by my count,” he said repeatedly to the circle of reporters and del-egates that surrounded him.

McCarthy also said their campaign has proof from the town clerk that a registered Democrat was appointed to attend the con-vention and vote off the floor. The individual did not vote, but the campaign believes there may have been other independents and Dem-ocrats at the convention whose votes were counted.

The Daily Free Press sat down with Fish-er after the convention adjourned, but prior to the release of the results, and he shared his concerns for the un-enrolled people who voted at the convention

“That’s scandalous,” he said. “This is our state party in Massachusetts.”

Fisher said MassGOP made a variety of verbal rules that were changed throughout the day, including the inclusion of blank votes in the final tally and the policy on rounding percentages up, which would round Fisher’s 14.765 percent to 15. The campaign is looking to contest the changes in vote counting guidelines that were made throughout the weekend.

“There’s so many rules that are unwritten

Thirteen Boston University faculty members have earned full professorships in recognition for their teaching, scholarly work and service.

Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Julie Sandell accredits the promotions of the faculty members to the strength and im-pact of their work on a national and inter-national scale.

“All have been excellent teachers at Boston University, and many have worked closely and productively with students out-side the classroom as advisors and men-tors,” Sandell said. “These faculty are often active in their professional organizations and are helping to shape their disciplines on a national or international level. They

are recognized by distinguished external evaluators as senior scholars and leaders in their disciplines.”

Faculty members Julian Go, Bruce An-derson, John Byers, Glen Hall, Deborah Kelemen, George Kollios, Maurice Lee, Christopher Martin, Jianjun Miao, Michele Rucci, Joshua Semeter, Paul Barbone and Swathi Kiran earned promotions from as-sociate to full professorships. Ten are from the College of Arts and Sciences, two are from the College of Engineering, and one is from Sargent College of Health and Re-habilitation Sciences.

With the support of the department chairs and college deans, faculty members initiate their promotion to full professor. Sandell said the number of promotions

varies per year, with 17 in 2013 and 12 in 2012.

“We look at the person’s scholarly and creative accomplishments, their teaching success, including student evaluations in all of their courses and record of mentor-ing undergraduates and graduate students, their service record within BU and external service to their profession…as well as how our candidate compares to others who are distinguished in the discipline,” she said.

Several of the professors said they felt honored that BU and their colleagues ac-knowledged their contributions.

Barbone, a newly promoted professor of engineering, said being named a full pro-fessor does not alter his job description but gives him the freedom to teach based off of

his own research.“I will continue in my quest to learn

more and more about my field, theoretical acoustics, and sharing that with my col-leagues through my writing, and with my students in the classroom,” he said. “Just this semester, for example, I am teaching for the first time a new course that I cre-ated entitled ‘Inverse Problems in Mechan-ics.’ This course is based on my own re-search.”

Go, promoted from associate professor-ship of sociology, said not having to worry about further promotion gives him the free-dom to think more creatively in his work.

“[Before promotion] you still have to worry about doing the right thing, espe-

FALON MORAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFCharlie Baker (left) and Mark Fisher (right) speak to delegates the Republican State convention on Saturday at Agganis Arena. The party endorsed Baker, but Fisher con-tests the results due to alleged mistakes in voting.

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rules,” he said. “Last night [Friday night], we were talking about ab-staining, people who don’t vote, and we were told blanks count. But then this morning we were told we will not count those. But it’s all verbal. Obviously, he [Charlie] has way more [votes] than I do, so whether he has 85 or 83 [percent], he’s got the nomination. We’re not contesting that.”

McCarthy confi rmed that she had been in contact with Cun-ningham throughout the day of the convention, but the rules were changed after one of the conven-tion’s recesses. She said the Fisher campaign has no physical evidence that un-enrolled candidates voted off the fl oor because neither cam-paign was allowed to see the book where all tallies were recorded.

“The Baker people had state committee people working the fl oor for them, so they had access to the ballots. We did not,” she said. “There was no written pref-erential treatment. It just the way

everything was done. It was under-tone through the convention.”

As of Sunday, Fisher will not be making any further comments to the press, as per legal guidance, McCarthy said.

Cunningham said both parties had the opportunity to state their concerns with the counting of bal-lots, and all MassGOP rules were followed.

“We understand that with cam-paigns that are hard fought and with a lot of personal, fi nancial and time investments, it’s very frustrat-ing to come as close as that cam-paign came,” he said. “However, we’re very pleased that the process was followed and was transparent to the campaigns.”

Tim Buckley, the communica-tions director for Baker’s cam-paign, prior to the release of the offi cial numbers Saturday, said their campaign could not confi rm or deny any of the allegations, but Baker respects Fisher and all his campaign efforts.

“Charlie has great respect for anyone who decides to step into the

ring,” he said. “We’ve said since day one, whether or not there’s a primary, it won’t change our game plan, which is presenting Charlie as the experienced leader who is committed to creating jobs, im-proving schools and making safer, stronger communities.”

Buckley said Sunday their cam-paign would not be making any more comments about the issue at this time.

Barbara McCoy, a state com-mittee member from the Plymouth and Barnstable district, was called in to testify because of a challenge made regarding the residency sta-tus of two delegates. Regarding the alleged mistakes made in tallying the votes, she said everything was recorded properly and any mis-takes made were corrected.

“They went over our tally sheets page-by-page,” she said. “The two attorneys agreed that it was all cor-rect. I don’t believe there was any corruption. There was a whole sys-tem of checks and balances.”

cially in terms of scholarship and teaching, because you’re less likely to take risks in terms of new pedagogies or devoting times to crafting entirely new courses and syllabi,” he said. “Thinking and teaching outside the box, [are] more risky to do, so once you get the promotion ... it’s liberating.”

Lee, who was promoted to full professorship of English and chair of the department, said the title comes with some tangible benefi ts.

“You do get to have more of a voice in how the department and college and some in cases how the university does things,” he said. “Also, it gives you wider recognition in the fi eld. If people

don’t know who you are and see that you’re a full professor, that might give you a little more au-thority otherwise.”

Kiran, who teaches speech language pathology and neurosci-ence, said that beyond conducting research, she enjoys acting as a mentor for students.

“The whole point of doing a job in academia is that you get to do all the research, but you also get to motivate young minds and inspire people to do really inter-esting and important work,” she said. “I’m especially excited to be at the point that I am right now… to actually mold the minds of the next generation to understand what it takes to do rehabilitation and health care work.”

time.”The main goal of Make BU was

to give students the opportunity to have fun through the process of creating technology from scratch, said BUILDS Team Coordinator Connor McEwen.

“It’s a chance for computer sci-ence students to use a lot of the skills they learn in class to build something outside the classroom and work on side projects that they maybe always wanted to do but never had the chance,” Ewen, an ENG senior, said.

The hackathon included idea

pitching, team planning, a series of workshops, mentoring sessions and a judging and awards ceremo-ny, McEwen said.

“Everyone goes and pitches their idea, and then they have about an hour to brainstorm and team up with people,” he said. “There will be mentors there to help people fl esh out their ideas and team up, and then the workshops are not mandatory, but …will go over some basic tools that people use to help people get started.”

Prizes were awarded in areas such as Best Web Product, Best Mobile Product and Most Fun. In

total, groups consisting of two or more students presented 15 proj-ects.

Raja Patel, an ENG junior who worked on an app for members of the Global App Initiative, said he enjoyed the motivated atmosphere and fast pace of the hackathon.

“It was actually pretty fun just because you’re in an environment where people want to sit down, create something and try to fi n-ish it as fast as possible … rather than meeting at random times and just working on something kind of laid back,” Patel said. “It was a lot more effi cient.”

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To many residents’ dismay, Bos-ton is the second most expensive city for people purchasing real es-tate, according to a study conducted by Business Insider.

The study concluded $1 million could purchase 2,092 square feet in Boston. Even New York City is more affordable than Boston. The only city that was ranked more ex-pensive than Boston was San Fran-cisco.

Kevin Lang, professor of eco-nomics at Boston University, said there are three factors that drive up the prices of real estate in cities.

“Boston, New York and San Francisco all have considerable high technology and people with high incomes,” he said. “That in-creases the prices at the high end up the market. These cities all have great amenities and they are all places where their is a limited abil-ity to increase density.”

Lang also said denser cities, such as Manhattan, are more ex-pensive because it is difficult to build new construction whereas in less dense cities, such as Las Vegas, there is much more room to build

more affordable construction. Justin Grammer, a senior sales

and leasing agent at A&S Realty, Inc. in Boston, said Boston is so expensive because the demand for housing is much greater than the supply. The high demand is the re-sult of all of the universities, hospi-tals and industry in Boston.

“The supply is limited and that is what drives the prices up,” he said. “There are more and more people coming to Boston and not enough places for them to live.”

David Xiao, a broker at Merid-

ian Realty Group, said that cities with high real estate prices, particu-larly Boston, attract a large group of people that includes college students because of all of the uni-versities, international people and investors.

“Those cities are also more in-ternational and friendlier to new locators and non-English speakers, which makes them attractive places to live,” he said. “We have so many universities in Boston and a lot of investors as well as consumers. In-

As the Massachusetts Gaming Commission determines which Eastern Massachusetts commu-nity will receive the region’s sole casino resort license, public sup-port for casinos in Massachusetts has dropped 7 percent since Janu-ary.

Community members and ac-tivists have taken part in an ongo-ing battle to put a question on No-vember’s general election ballot to repeal the state law allowing for a total of three casino resort licenses in the Commonwealth. The poll, published by WBUR Wednesday and conducted by MassInc Polling Group, asked the question to 500 likely voters. For-ty-six percent of the participants voted in support of casinos, and 43 percent opposed.

“It’s hard to say exactly why folks’ opinion is changing,” said Richard Parr, research director at MassInc Polling Group. “But it is exciting to note that it’s part of a pattern that we’re starting to see now in the past few polls that we’ve done and that other groups have done. You see this drop-off in support.”

While these numbers reflect public opinion statewide, the out-comes of casino voting in indi-vidual towns could be drastically different, Parr said. Voters in Ev-erett and Revere, the two towns vying for the Eastern Massachu-setts casino resort license, voted in support of a casino in their community. The MGC plans to issue the license in June.

“If another town were to have a vote on whether or not to have a casino, this poll might indicate that it might be a harder sell, but I think that those town-by-town votes sometimes have a differ-ent dynamic than what’s going on statewide,” he said.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh has recently shown interest in gaining host community status, rather than surrounding commu-nity status, to the two Eastern Massachusetts casino resort pro-posals. His request for a hearing was granted by the MGC Thurs-day.

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Earnings growth and employ-ment in the United States have been almost exclusively fueled by individuals with at least a bachelor’s degree, according to a University of Oklahoma study re-leased Friday.

“Everyone knows that they earn more by being a college grad, typically,” said Robert Dauffen-bach, associate dean of Oklaho-ma University’s Price College of Business, who authored the study. “Seldom do we really look at how much more.”

Dauffenbach found that from 2000 to 2013, 93.1 percent of earnings growth came from work-ers with either a bachelor’s degree or further academic experience.

Boston University professor of economics Kevin Lang said that the volume of jobs available to

college graduates parallels a lack of employment opportunities for high school graduates and those who have little to no educational experience.

“Many of the jobs that can be handled by computers now are jobs that were done by middle-skill workers,” he said. “Those are the jobs that have been disap-pearing.”

Lang also said that the earn-ings growth of college graduates from 2000 to 2013 is partly due to many college graduates’ socio-economic status.

“Much of the income growth over that same period has been at the very, very top of the income distribution,” he said. “So the 1 percent, the .1 percent, the .01 percent have captured a lot of the income growth for the country. Not everybody at that very top of the income distribution is college

educated, but a very large fraction of them are.”

BU professor Daniele Paser-man, an expert in labor econom-ics, said increased globalization also contributed to the decreasing

amount of factory jobs available in America.

“A lot of the blue-collar manu-facturing jobs are now disappear-ing because it’s just much cheap-

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ERIN TOUHEY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFBoston was ranked the second-most expensive city in the United States by Business Insider.

A report released Wednesday by the American Council on Edu-cation criticized the Obama ad-ministration’s 2013 proposal for a federal college ratings system, which aims to rate — not rank — colleges and universities such as Boston University on their afford-ability.

The report claims college rankings have harmed higher edu-cation and that the addition of a federal ratings system would un-officially rank colleges and uni-versities without fulfilling the Obama administration’s goal of driving down the cost of attend-ing college.

“The administration’s focus on access and affordability are on target,” the report stated. “How-ever, the tools devised may prove ill-suited for students most in need of information.”

Obama’s proposal involves the evaluation of universities across the nation on factors such as their average cost of tuition, commit-ment to helping students gradu-ate debt-free and the percentage of lower-income students they

enroll. Several students disagreed

about the potential effectiveness of the Obama administration’s ratings system.

“Many rating systems already do something similar and some are even nonprofit,” said Col-lege of Engineering junior Den-nis Marquis. “Making a ranking system at the federal level just en-courages universities with more endowments to bribe the govern-ment.”

Gabrielle Meggett-Barone, a College of General Studies fresh-man, said the Obama administra-tion’s system could prove useful.

“So many lower class families are struggling to pay for school because they want their kid to get a good education,” she said. “But what does that even mean any-more?”

According to the administra-tion, their ratings system would aid prospective college students during their decision-making pro-cess, as well as encourage univer-sities to adjust their admissions policies and drive down enroll-ment costs to improve their rat-ings.

The ACE’s report highlights several alleged flaws with the president’s plan, primarily that a very small percentage of students, especially lower-income students whom the Obama administration said they aim to help, utilize col-lege ranking or ratings systems such as those published by the U.S. News & World Report.

“More salient influences in-clude family involvement and encouragement, peer and other networks and school and higher education institution-based re-sources,” the report stated. “Our data and others’ show that for low-income students, location and affordability are driving fac-tors in college and university choice making.”

Traditionally, the report stated, college rankings are much more important to students in the top financial quartile: a demographic that generally does not need fed-eral support in the college deci-sion-making process.

Most colleges also have a “love-hate relationship” with published rankings, according to the report. Rankings often sway

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GRAPHIC BY SARAH FISHER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFFor the past 13 years, the U.S. workforce has been driven by citizens with at least a bachelor’s degree, according to a study by the Univer-sity of Oklahoma released Friday.

ColumnThe Urban Park Ranger

The United States is a beautiful country, and there is no doubt about that. There is even a song that was inspired by its spacious skies, am-ber waves of grain, purple moun-tain majesties and fruited plain.

In 2000, the California Coastal National Monu-ment was estab-lished by President Bill Clinton to protect the islands, coastal bluffs, ma-rine mammals, birds, reefs and its bountiful eco-system. On March 11, President Barack Obama added the Point Arena-Stornetta unit of the Califor-nia coast to the coastal monument, which is a whopping 1,665 acres.

It goes without saying that Cali-fornia is one of the most environ-mentally conscious states, but that does not mean they have to be the only state protecting the pristine ar-eas that people love and enjoy.

The ecosystem services, cultural services in particular, which the environment offers us, are truly as-tounding. Close proximity to the se-rene milieu increases property value as well as helps us cultivate an in-ner peace. Given today’s increased technology, our natural resources are entities that are available for human attainment and are often extracted unsustainably. Instead of thinking about how these blossom-ing resources around us, we need to start thinking about the future.

And for those of you who don’t care about future generations be-cause you’ll be gone, think about how different your life would’ve been if someone didn’t have the novel idea to create national and state parks. And if that doesn’t make you think twice, then you should probably take a hike — literally and figuratively.

In the book Ishmael, the gorilla (yes, there’s a philosophical, talking gorilla) proclaimed that the world could be divided into givers and takers. This book teaches the lesson that instead of constantly squelching the environment of all its worth, it’s time that we give back to it.

The northern California coastline lends itself to hiking, fishing and observing the native wildlife. Pre-serving the sweeping scenery and beautiful beaches solidifies the tour-ism industry and further increases appreciation for our natural world and the resources that it offers. I ap-plaud President Obama and all who are involved in the grueling process of giving this coastal gem the rec-ognition that it deserves but, at the same time, it shouldn’t be this hard to gain appreciation for the beauty around us.

While I’ll probably never see the California Coastal National Monu-ment in my lifetime, someone’s chil-dren in northern California will, and so will many future generations.

Every state should take part in something like this — choosing its most scenic, pristine location in the state and working to keep it that way. Appreciating our surround-ings is the first step in learning how and why we should conserve them so that future generations can do the same.

So, if you could make a portion of the natural landscape in your state off limits, what would it be?

Jennifer Ruth is a College of Arts and Sciences junior. She can be reached at jenruth@bu.edu.

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Many residents said they have been af-fected by the exceptionally high cost of real estate, and it can be a burden to afford.

“[The cost of hosing] has impacted me in trying to get a second job, in trying to be a part of affordable housing, but even if I make good money I can’t afford to live here,” said Monique Goodman, 46, of Roxbury.

Heather Tifrere, 55, of Dorchester, said she has been living in Boston for decades now and she has never seen prices this high before.

“I’ve been here for almost 40 years and this is the worst,” she said. “I’ve never seen it this bad and it just continues to get more and more expensive. People who have been here for a long time cannot even afford to stay. It’s really sad.”

Michael Burk, 33, of Brighton said he is currently shopping for a home in Boston, but is starting to think that it makes more sense to relocate to the suburbs.

“[Boston is] a major U.S. city,” he said. “There are a lot of resources here, a lot of universities and a lot of nice places to live. I guess that justifi es the prices a little bit, but it’s still outrageous.”

Host community status is typically de-termined between the community and the applicant. Walsh’s request is the fi rst time a community has petitioned the MGC for host status, said Elaine Driscoll, MGC di-rector of communications.

“The adjudicatory hearing is anticipated to take place in approximately two weeks,” she said in an email. “A decision will be reached after the commission feels it has heard and explored thoroughly all of the is-sues presented.”

The additional hearings required to grant host community status may cause a delay in issuing the Eastern Massachusetts casino resort license, but the extent of the delay cannot yet be determined, she said.

“It is too diffi cult to say at this point what type of delay this will cause for the eastern [Massachusetts] license because at this point [it] depends on too many un-known variables,” she said.

Parr said Wednesday’s poll and Walsh’s actions look at two fundamentally differ-ent issues when evaluating casino support in the Commonwealth. The poll seeks to answer whether or not residents want ca-sinos in their state, while Walsh is looking to understand the effects of a casino to its surrounding communities once it is built.

“What the mayor is doing makes sense,” he said. “... He’s looking out for the inter-ests of the city by trying to get the host community status. I don’t know what the public would think about that, but I would imagine that they would think that if we’re

going to have casinos, we should have as much benefi t for the community as pos-sible.”

Several residents said casinos could help the state economically, but there are also some downfalls to the gaming indus-try.

Jackie Czel, 43, of Boston, said casinos could help the job and housing industries in Massachusetts.

“There would be an extra tax base and revenue that doesn’t have to be picked up by the average citizen or small business,” she said. “[From casino revenue], there can be better housing for the people work-ing there and opportunities for small busi-nesses like restaurants, hair salons or dry cleaners.”

Biola Omoto, 22, of Boston, said casi-nos attract violence, and there is no reason to support an establishment that could cre-ate an increase in crime in Massachusetts.

“It’s better if the casinos are not here,” she said. “I’ve never been to one, but what I see in movies is the gang violence they bring. Someone might expect to win big and gets violent when he [or she] doesn’t.”

delia Mcdonough, 60, of Jamaica Plain, said Walsh should follow through with his petition to be a host community because the casinos could bring economic growth to Boston, but they could also bring crowds to the area that Walsh needs to have the power to control.

“The only bad thing is the traffi c and crowds [casinos] bring,” she said. “Casi-nos would add more jobs and people would spend more. It’s a good balance.”

er to import those goods from China,” he said. “Those manufacturing industries in the United States have, already, a competi-tive disadvantage.”

Paserman said though many Americans are concerned with the rising cost of a col-lege education, the investment is still valu-able.

“For the average student that completes the average quality college [education] and pays the average tuition — which is not what you pay at BU, or other elite private colleges — the returns, in terms of lifetime income, of attending college, are extraordi-nary,” he said. “It’s not that they are posi-tive, it’s the best thing that you could do.”

However, a college education does not necessarily guarantee high-paying employ-ment opportunities, Paserman said.

Several BU students said attaining a college education is integral to acquiring a steady salary in today’s job market.

“Employers look for someone with strong writing and research skills, which comes from Boston University, a liberal arts education,” said Madeline Fuller, a sophomore in BU’s College of Arts and

Sciences. “Even a bachelor’s degree isn’t enough. People are having to go on to get master’s [degree] and PhDs to even further their credibility in the workforce.”

Stephanie Singh, a freshman in Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sci-ences, said her parents repeatedly stressed the importance of graduating from a four-year institution.

“A college education has become nec-essary at this point,” she said. “Consid-ering the types of jobs that are available for people who come straight out of high school, or even high school dropouts, there are very few, and most of them don’t really pay that much considering infl ation rates in this nation right now. For jobs like those, it’s not enough to live on.”

Evan Lowell, a College of Engineering sophomore, said a gradual shift in Ameri-ca’s job market is responsible for the dearth of blue-collar jobs in the country.

“America has moved farther away from the manufacturing industry and moved more toward engineering, and education and business have become the prime sourc-es of income in America,” he said. “All those jobs require a bachelor’s degree or higher.”

institutional decisions to improve rank, which may or may not be the best decisions for the school as a whole, it found.

“Most educators will tell you that rank-ings are at their best a starting point in the college and university search process,” the report stated. “At their worst, they are a poorly devised distraction.”

Sebastian Prieto, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, said though college rankings were aided his decision to attend

BU, he found Obama’s ratings system un-necessary.

“There are many publications out there that already do something similar,” he said. “Many also even go into the affordability or cost effectiveness ... A federal list seems redundant.”

Enrique Guerrero, a School of Manage-ment junior, said he disregarded university rankings during his college selection pro-cess.

“I thought it was more important to talk to students on campus,” he said, “and I ended up deciding on BU.”

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Professor: College education still valuable investment despite costs

Alexis-Brianna Felix didn’t know what to do when her bill for the Spring 2014 se-mester at Boston University was due. The College of Arts and Sciences sophomore studying public policy and sociology was working two jobs and couldn’t come up with the extra $5,000 she owed BU. With few op-tions left, Felix turned to the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe.

“I absolutely hated the idea of being a charity case,” Felix said. “When I fi rst found out about the site, I was really hesitant to use it because I come from a very proud, private family. I didn’t want to feel like I was beg-ging for money and I was worried that peo-ple would say I was asking for something I didn’t deserve.”

Within 27 hours of the page going live, Felix had received more than $5,000 from friends, family and strangers. And while her goal was met, donations kept pouring in. Fe-lix raised $9,611 from 221 people in three months.

With online communities growing, many students are turning to crowdfunding plat-forms to help fi nance everything from tu-ition to semesters abroad. Education is now the second-most popular category on Go-FundMe, according to the site, falling below medical campaigns.

Boston University’s total cost will be more than $59,000 in the 2014-15 academic year, a 3.7 percent increase from the current price. BU President Robert Brown said in his email announcing the tuition hike that the university is expected to provide fi nan-cial aid to 51 percent of BU students in the coming academic year, and that building en-dowment to support fi nancial aid is a major objective of the BU Campaign, designed to raise over $1 billion for the university.

But still, some students are turning to alternative funding methods for tuition and other activities. In fact, Felix found her in-spiration from another BU student in her social network who was trying to fund a se-mester abroad.

GoFundMe has raised $175 million from

1.4 million donors to more than 350,000 campaigns, according to the site. GoFund-Me takes a 5 percent deduction from every donation to cover operating expenses such as technology, infrastructure, payroll and benefi ts for employees.

A representative from GoFundMe could not be reached by press time.

“I think GoFundMe is a good option if you have a compelling story, a genuine per-sonality and a strong network,” Felix said. “I would defi nitely say that my experience isn’t typical, and I wouldn’t tell anyone seeking advice about GoFundMe to expect to have the same speed of success that I did. I’m still in shock.”

School of Public Health graduate student Chelsea Desrochers started a GoFundMe campaign for her Alternative Spring Break trip to Guatemala, but did not see much suc-cess. The campaign only raised $190 of its $1,500 goal in time for the trip. Some of that money came from Dersrochers’ own pocket.

“It is not as effective as I thought it was going to be, but I keep on sharing it so hope-fully more and more people will see it,” she said. “I also donate money myself every once in a while because people are more likely to donate when they see others con-tributing.”

Despite the sluggish success, Desrochers said she would consider crowdfunding other expenses in the future, and especially for other philanthropic groups.

“I think it is a great way to reach out to people rather than sending ask letters in snail mail it is faster and reaches out to a larger community,” she said. “It is also an option to donate for those that never have cash on them.”

Felix, though, said she isn’t going to try her luck a second time.

“I wouldn’t want to ask people for more help than I already have,” she said. “I have been so lucky and blessed to have had so many people believe in me that I think I can take it from here.”

Storm Dolan, a CAS freshman, said she

worries often about how to pay her tuition.“It’s just going to go up from here,” she

said.Dolan said she has not been involved

in any crowdfunding projects because she doesn’t have the cash to spare on a cause. However, she said looking into alternatives to loans or help with loan repayment sound-ed like a good idea.

Crowdfunding has far from converted every student, however.

“I probably wouldn’t be comfortable [asking for money on the internet],” said Emily Ubik, a CAS and College of Engi-neering junior. “I mean, it would be great if they donated, but I probably wouldn’t think of that. I’d probably — well, I already have an internship and things to help me, but I’d probably get a job instead … If it works go for it, I guess.”

Much like Felix and Desrochers discov-

ered, Sargent College of Health and Reha-bilitation Sciences senior Chelsea Papa said she doesn’t understand howsome projects end up receiving more attention and revenue than others.

“Some things, for whatever reason, get a lot of attention and others don’t,” Papa said. “For whatever reasons I don’t know why some gain so much popularity and others don’t when they’re both good causes. I don’t know what it is that attracts people to things like that or repels them.”

While Papa said she has never used crowdfunding for any purpose, she would consider it, especially since she “owes BU a lot of money.”

“It kind of is [asking for charity], but at the same time college is so expensive and I would take anything I can get,” she said. “I don’t feel that ashamed. It’s just a website. Some people won’t even know who I am.”

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SOFIYa MahdI

It was the year 1500, according to an article by BBC, one of the assistants to the Venetian ambassador to England observed English families that kept their children at home until they were about nine years old, before sending them off to perform menial labor tasks in other homes. Research showed this trend was the norm in most of Northern Europe, although the age children were sent away was 14 years old. The harsh truth was that households knew these young workers were cheap labour, and families who did not have the means to buy apprenticeships for their children assumed that this ‘rite of pas-sage’ would benefit them later in life.

Thankfully, this social norm has been largely phased out. Instead, we are the gen-eration who is perceived as sometimes over-attached to our familial surroundings. In the current economic climate, more and more graduates are flocking back to their roots like homing pigeons. However, we still live in an environment of competition and, as we strive to distinguish ourselves from the crowd, the rise of unpaid internships began, as well as “bashing” of Generation Y.

Matt Bors, a political cartoonist for Me-dium and editor at The Nib, created informa-tional graphics to describe what is going on with today’s young workforce. Perhaps the pinnacle of the madness was a story run by the Washington Post that stated, “Cracked cell phone screens are a point of pride for young people.” Fascinating, considering one of the many complaints is that millenni-al generation is obsessed with over-sharing on their phones. In this dismal picture, Bors concludes that we “came late to the banquet and were served up crumbs. Which we will Instagram before we eat.”

In 1992, when I was a chubby newborn, just 17 percent of college graduates went down the unpaid internship route. Today, that number is 50 percent. 500,000 people are currently in unpaid internships in Amer-ica. The more intriguing picture comes from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. In 2013, just 37 percent of col-lege graduates were offered jobs after un-paid internships, only slightly higher than the 35 percent hired who did not participate. 63 percent of college graduates, on the other hand, who pursued a paid internship found a job.

As with most sets of statistics, take this one with a grain or two of salt. There are wide varieties of reasons that contribute to someone getting hired, and internships are not the whole story. Such a surge in these stories do not materialise out of thin air. Yes, the scope of an unpaid intern’s responsibil-

ity could be reviewed, programs could be revamped, and corporate culture could be re-examined. But an unfortunate comple-ment to this puzzle is that we perpetuate this ourselves.

Forget the impending stress of figuring out where your life is taking you, if like me, you graduate in “50-ish” days. Reminisce back to the weeks before college applica-tions were due. Students all over the world were packaging four years of hard work and personal growth into 200-word blurbs to be sent to admissions teams. There was the girl who had three college counselors work-ing on her résumé since she was barely in middle school, and the economics genius that hailed from three different countries and started a company already looking for angel investments. Forget prancing around your neighborhood singing about summer, “Grease”-style. If you were not slogging away at a big project, you were ostracized from the race.

So who’s accountable? Those who want to get ahead at all costs? Those who let work experience become a “race to the bottom” phenomenon? That’s too one-dimensional. What I can say is that I, as a millennial, do not sit on my behind all day in sweat-pants waiting for my next grand opportunity to come my way. In fact, I do not believe I have ever owned sweatpants. Over 500 years have passed since the dismal state of child labour was rampant on Europe’s streets. But that clamour to rise above the rest never changed, and it never will.

Applying to college, you had to be able to package your entire being into paragraphs, your dreams into a 30-second elevator pitch. The soul-searching element of finding your-self is dying. But maybe that’s what gives us perspective. Yes, the next step of your life does heavily depend on what you put in that application box, but at the end of the day they are words on the page, not tyrants of your mind or health. Rejection does not mean you should climb into a cave and live out your days on berries. It sounds intuitive, but it’s easy to forget. Be careful of knowing what it means to lean in, and what it means to lean over and lose yourself in the enor-mity of it all. a wise friend said, “If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.” We millennials may have been left with crumbs, but we have the promise of creating a brand new loaf of bread.

Sofiya Mahdi is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a former managing editor at The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at sofiya218@gmail.com.

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Education for all The University System of Maryland is

holding a pilot program in which students would not have to pay for textbooks. By having students use free “open-source text-books” that are put together by their pro-fessors, this program would save an esti-mated 1,000 students more than a combined $130,000.

This is an example of a program that is fully capitalizing off of the digital age. Not only are most textbooks unreasonably ex-pensive and dense, but also they are bulky and inefficient. More often than not, stu-dents don’t even open them until the day before a test — and until then, just use them as glorified paperweights.

These open-source textbooks would be made up of compiled material from various sources whose information is not protected by copyright. These online books would be interactive, with links to source material and other multimedia elements. They will also be created with an open license so anyone with Internet connection can access them.

In a generation where we spend most of our time online, it makes sense that edu-cation is moving in that direction as well. Many professors capitalize off of online articles to offer their students different per-spectives and ways of learning and digest-ing the material. These articles are often more interesting and easier to read than

the thousands of black and white words crammed onto a picture-less page.

However, since these textbooks are go-ing to be “open-sourced,” the information will not be as regulated since it will come from outside, non-copyrighted material. One could argue that this lack of regulation and fact-checking will jeopardize the qual-ity and credibility of the books. However, this open-sourced material will instead in-crease the quality of education and make it more applicable and entertaining to take in.

It does not make sense to have a student buy a new textbook for hundreds of dollars when they are not even going to read most of it — this is also a generalization. Yes, some textbooks are well-written and offer a lot of great information, but in today’s day and age, that same information can be found online, maybe even with a fun, interactive page attached to it.

And since we are becoming a more glo-balized world focused on educating every-one from all walks of life, the information students at prestigious universities receive should also be disseminated to those in more impoverished areas as well.

These open-source textbooks will not only help students save thousands of dollars during the college careers, but it will also help close that pesky achievement gap in our society as well.

Protect your students After his fourth grade son endured

months of physical and verbal bullying from a fellow classmate at Rolling Hills Elementary, Stephen Feudner said as a last resort he filed a restraining order against the troubled nine-year-old.

The restraining order was granted, but since the school refuses to release the full name and address of the fourth grader due to privacy claimss, it cannot be issued. If this order by Feudner is not served in five days, it will become null and void — leav-ing the father to do what he is supposed to and help his son deal with the issue without the law getting involved.

Feudner’s son was quoted by San Fran-cisco at CBS local and said, the bully said “haha, you got punched in the face,” after he punched him in the face.

There is nothing to “haha” about when it comes to a nine-year-old getting punched in the face. At this age, kids should not even have the mental or physical ability to inflict such harm on someone else. But unfortu-nately, when a kid is brought up in that kind of environment, sometimes it resonates on his or her own demeanor.

Yes, parents are responsible for instill-ing the values of compassion and respect on their kids. But this restraining order has nothing to do with the fact that the nine-year-old bully has some misdirected ag-gression and has yet to learn compassion and respect. But rather, it has to with gar-nering some publicity about the fact that the school has not adequately protected Feud-

ner’s son.The superintendent of the Fairfield-Su-

isun School District told KPIX 5 on Friday that “safety is their number-one priority.” Well, if Feudner felt his last option was turning to a restraining order, clearly the school has not executed enough authority and discipline over their kids.

Elementary school kids are the most im-pressionable and also the most vulnerable. This school needs to capitalize off of that and teach their kids that hitting a classmate in the face is simply not the way to go about getting what they want.

But, at the same time, the school can technically only exert power over its kids when they are still on school grounds. Since this elementary school has failed in protect-ing Feudner’s son, he was right to take ac-tion himself — but involving the law was not the way to go about it.

In the end, though, the Feudner said in an interview with CBS San Francisco that he exhausted all other options with the school. He said he spent months speaking with ad-ministrators, but failed to get results. There is counseling, workshops and meetings, and so many other options than filing a restrain-ing order against a nine-year-old. Not only is it too extreme, but also the thought itself just sounds ridiculous. It’s just plain sad that Feudner felt he had run out of options, especially when he should be able to trust the school with his child.

What ever happened to the power of talking it out?

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Green goals in Boston

As a Boston University student, it was commonplace for me to see recycling bins alongside trash bins around campus. To my surprise, this is not the case around the rest of Boston, as only 18 percent of the city’s waste ends up recycled. This is not even close to the standards of many other cities in the rest of the United States. If BU can divert 30 percent of its waste, why can’t Boston? Increasing that number up to 75 percent by 2030 will put Boston’s name out there as a green and clean city. The initia-

tive by the Boston Zero Waste Task Force is an important step toward this goal. Bos-ton Mayor Martin Walsh has the opportu-nity to do the right thing for our city, and he should.

Sincerely, Sinyee Tan

Sinyee Tan is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at stan0083@bu.edu.

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Younan and Cledenny each contributed three RBI and Felbaum hit a two-run home run, her first of the year. Those three pro-vided the runs batted in and power, but it was senior outfielder Jayme Mask who set the tone of the game.

Mask went 3-for-4 in the leadoff spot for the Terriers, adding to her team-leading .421 batting average. The outfielder contin-ued to be a threat on the bases and stole two bases in the win.

After the third consecutive win of the weekend, the Terriers dropped their only game of the Invitational by a 7-5 margin when they faced Bryant for a second time.

“We still need to find that consistency and that starts on the mound,” Gleason said. “The most consistent thing we’ve had is our offense and now our pitching and de-

fense is getting up there, too.”Bryant held a commanding 5-0 lead be-

fore the bottom of the fifth inning. In that fifth inning however, the Terriers feasted on pitcher Elle Madsen for five runs com-ing on three RBI singles.

The tie did not last very long though, and the Bulldogs were able to get two runs in the top of the sixth off of Hynes. The two runs were enough for Byrant and the Bulldogs walked away with the victory.

Overall, Gleason said she was happy with the play of her team during the week-end and looks forward to playing Patriot League opponents for the first time.

“We took a big step forward this week-end,” Gleason said. “But we’re excited for non-conference and we’re very excited for Patriot League play and to be back in our home park.”

Mask ‘sets tone’ with 3 hits, 2 stolen bags at top of order against Bulldogs

ther team could find the back of the net. BU had a man-up opportunity when freshman Tommy O’Connor was called for slashing with 1:33 left in the quarter. Freshman at-tack Justin Diamond lost control of the ball at the top of the crease and the Terrier of-fense could not convert on the chance.

during the final frame of action, the Terrier offense, competing in its second consecutive game without freshman at-tack Pat Myers, attempted to claw its way back into the game, but the Bison defense held strong. BU outshot the Bison 14-7 in the quarter, but none could find their way

past Grinberg, who made five saves in the fourth quarter alone.

After the game, Polley commented on BU’s inability to finish chances on the at-tack.

“We had opportunities to win the game and we were unable to finish our chances offensively,” Polley said. “That’s some-thing that we have to work on is being a little more efficient on the offensive end.”

As the clock wound down, Polley sent in freshman goalkeeper Tyler Zickel to replace his classmate, Christian Carson-Banister. With Zickel moving up to give the Terriers more of an offensive presence, he left the frame of the goal, allowing at-

tack David Dickson to score on the open net with 1:21 remaining in the contest. Dickson’s goal effectively ended the Terri-ers’ comeback hopes and BU would go on to lose the game 7-3.

Despite the loss, the match had sever-al positives for the Terriers. Talkow went a perfect 12-for-12 from on faceoffs and grabbed seven ground balls, the defense went 14-of-17 on clear attempts and Car-son-Banister made nine saves to keep the game close.

“Obviously Sam Talkow was a bright spot for us,” Polley said. “He played very well and our goalie Christian played well again.”

Bucknell came out with an aggressive offense, but Polley said in the loss that the defense did a good job of keeping the score close.

“Bucknell is known for their ‘10-man ride.’ It’s a special ride where the goalie comes out of the cage and they try and turn you over and I thought we handled that very well. ... The defense played great.

“We did have an unfortunate stick pen-alty, which gave them three minutes of a man-up situation in which they got two goals. Outside of the empty-net goal and the two man-up goals, [the defense] really did a tremendous job to hold a very good offense.”

Talkow, Banister provide ‘bright spots’ in loss versus Bucknell

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race at the championships, Nasson broke that mark with a time of 16:17.71. She fin-ished 26th in the race as the No. 39 seed in the competition. During the race, she also posted a split time of 9.51.10, good for a new school mark for the 1,000m freestyle.

Track sets new school record

Building off an indoor season in which it won the Patriot League Championship, the Boston University women’s track and field team had a successful start to its 2014 out-door campaign, setting a new school record in the 4x400m relay at the hurricane Invita-tional in Coral Gables, Fla.

Juniors Hannah Wiley and junior Gem-ma Acheampong, sophomore Jade Paul and freshman Djenne Parris combined for a 3:45.79 finish. The quartet placed third in the race behind two teams from the Univer-

sity of Miami. BU’s previous best in the event was

3:45.94, which was set back in 2009. dur-ing the 2013-14 indoor campaign, the same group of Wiley, Acheampong, Paul and Par-ris broke the school record in the 4x400 re-lay three different times.

Earlier in the meet, the 4x100m relay team of Acheampong, Wiley, senior Janet Mellor and sophomore Christina Wood won its race, completing the run in 46.36 sec-onds.

acheampong and Wood finished second and third, respectively, in the 100m finals. Wood also placed third in the 200m, while Parris came in sixth place in the same event. In the 400m run, Paul and Parris came in fourth and fifth.

For the field events, senior allison Bar-wise led the Terriers, claiming a win in the high jump at 1.84m. She also finished sec-ond in the javelin with a distance of 36.72 meters.

4x400 relay team breaks school record

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MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFSenior Sydney Godett scored her fourth goal of the season in BU’s 9-8 win over Navy.

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Meegan’s 10 saves key during win over Navy

more midfielder Jill horka would cash in a free-position shot at 20:09, pulling BU to within one goal. Seven minutes later, senior midfielder Becca Church’s individual effort led to an unassisted tally and a 3-3 score.

The last five minutes of the first half were saw goals coming from both sides. Navy freshman Aislinn Probst started the back-and-forth play and broke the tie at the 5:50 mark, making it a 4-3 Midshipmen lead. Gallagher recorded her second point of the day with an assist on the goal. BU would tie the game at 4-4 less than a minute later when sophomore midfielder Sophia Robbins answered with an unassisted goal. Not even a minute after the Church marker, Navy senior Aimee Gennaro ended the flurry of goals at 4:17, which gave the Midshipmen a 5-4 advantage.

Navy looked to take its lead into the sec-ond half, but BU redshirt sophomore attack Mallory Collins had other ideas. Collins scored on a free-position shot with just one second remaining on the clock, knotting the game at 5-5 going into halftime.

Although Navy had a 13-8 shot advantage at the end of the first half, the Terriers held the momentum going into the break. Collins’ late goal at the end of the first sparked a four-goal run by the Terriers that continued at the start of the second.

Horka tallied her second point of the game when she assisted on senior midfielder Syd-ney Godett’s goal with 26:03 remaining in the half.

Not even two minutes later, junior attack Lindsay Weiner fed Church for the Terriers’ second goal of the frame. Collins finished off the Terrier run at the 19:03 mark and when

Horka threw her a pass to set up the goal. The goal gave the Terriers an 8-5 lead over the Midshipmen with under 20 minutes left to play in the final half.

Navy freshman Morgan Young would end BU’s offensive run with a goal with 18:26 to go and another freshman, Kaitlan Moynihan, would score for Navy two minutes after the Young goal to cut the BU edge to 8-7.

BU looked for insurance, and got just that when Horka tallied her second goal and fourth point of the contest that gave the Ter-riers a strong 9-7 lead with a little more than 10 minutes left on the clock.

Sophomore Miranda Beal would answer with a goal on a free-position shot at 8:34 making it a 9-8 game, but the goal ended up being too late for the Midshipmen.

despite being outshot 26-15, the Terri-ers held on for the 9-8 win. The offense was timely, but the play of Meegan in net helped the Terriers prevail down the stretch. Rob-erstshaw said the changes her goalkeeper made mid-game helped Meegan in her 10-save effort.

“She did great,” Robertshaw said. “Start-ed off a little shaky, got adjusted and had a fantastic performance. She stood up and made some key saves.”

Robertshaw also commended senior de-fender Christie Hart’s game, along with the play of the entire defense to help close out the win.

“[Hart’s] a strong 1-on-1 player, she al-lowed the defensive unit around her to take risks and play great,” Robertshaw said. “The defense buckled down and made saves.”

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Softball vs. Providence, 4 p.m.

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The Stanford band reportedly attempted to sneak alcohol into the stadium before the

Cardinal’s NCAA tournament game.

No Events Scheduled It was reported that band members tried

to put the booze inside toobas, once again proving Stanford’s intellectual superiority.

W. Lacrosse vs. Yale, 4 p.m.Softball @ Bryant ,4 p.m.

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The Boston University softball team had a successful weekend at the Yale Invitational, going 3-1 in its fi nal tournament of the regular season.

“I think we took a big step forward this weekend,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason. “We took the momentum we had from Spring Break and brought it into the weekend. We were just in at-tack mode and aggressive mode.”

First up for the Terriers (14-11) was Yale University. In a hard-fought matchup, the teams dueled for eight innings before an RBI single from senior catcher Amy Ekart put BU on top 3-2 over the Bulldogs (3-13).

The game ended up being a pitchers’ duel and each starter lasted the entirety of the game. For BU, sophomore pitcher Lau-ren Hynes only allowed three hits and two unearned runs in her eight innings of work.

In the top of the eighth inning, Yale grabbed a 2-1 lead courtesy of an RBI double from outfi elder Tori Balta.

The Terriers rallied, though, and in the bottom half of the in-ning, junior second baseman Em-ily Felbaum singled home senior shortstop Brittany Clendenny to tie up the score. Hynes then helped her own cause with a sin-gle to advance Felbaum to second base. Ekart followed, driving in Felbaum with an RBI single of her own to seal the victory for the Terriers.

Later on Saturday, BU defeated Bryant University, 8-3, with Ek-art leading the charge again. The catcher followed up her game-winning single with a three-RBI game, including a two-run home run in the top of the fourth inning that gave BU a 4-1 lead.

Gleason said the day was a turning point for the senior catch-

er. “It was huge for her,” Gleason

said of Ekart. “She’s our main catcher behind the plate and she gives everything she has all game catching. She just keeps swing-ing and that’s what we want to do when we’re struggling is to just keep swinging the bat. You’re go-ing to get out of it.”

Bryant (10-11) made a come-back attempt in the bottom of the fourth when shortstop Aubrey Maple delivered a two-run homer of her own.

But BU quickly responded, as the Terriers added two homers in their half of the fi fth inning. Freshman third baseman Brittany

Younan provided a solo blast and a junior outfi elder Mandy Ferna-dez crushed a two-run homer.

That offensive outburst put the game out of reach and Bryant did not score another run for the rest of the game. Freshman pitcher Makinna Akers went the distance, striking out fi ve hitters in the win.

Sunday, BU again played Yale and Bryant, but had mixed results.

The Terriers had no problems dispatching Yale, winning 13-2 in the day’s fi rst contest. hynes pitched another complete game and improved her record to 7-6 in 2014.

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By Michael Joscelyn Daily Free Press Staff

SARAH FISHER/DAILY FREE PRESS FILE PHOTOSenior catcher Amy Ekart hit a two-run home run against Bryant Univer-sity Satuday afternoon.

The Boston University men’s lacrosse team started out strong, but could not fi nd the offense it needed in the second half and fell to Patriot League foe Bucknell University Saturday in Lewis-burg, Pa., by a score of 7-3.

BU (1-7, 1-3 Patriot League) came into the contest looking for its second consecutive win after posting a 12-7 victory over La-fayette College in Pennsylvania one week earlier. The Bison (5-4, 3-2 Patriot League) entered the match off of a 13-8 victory over Brown University on Wednesday.

Six Bison seniors, including leading goal scorer attack Todd Heritage, were sidelined for the contest due to a possible involve-ment in a hazing incident.

BU got on the board early when freshman midfi elder Sam Talkow won the opening faceoff. On the Terrier possession, fresh-man attack Craig Zebrowski, put a home a shot to give BU a 1-0 advantage just 62 seconds into the contest. Just less than two min-utes later, the Bison would strike back on a long chance from mid-fi elder Ryan Joseph.

Four minutes later, Bucknell pulled ahead on a goal from at-tack Thomas Flibotte, his 13th of the season. Talkow won the ensu-ing faceoff, quickly drove the ball up the fi eld and fi red a shot past Bison goalkeeper Sam Grinberg to tie things up at 2-2 with 8:49 remaining in the quarter.

The game remained knotted up until sophomore midfi elder Sam-my davis scored his fi fth goal of the year to give BU the edge at the 13:21 mark in the second quarter.

Davis’ goal would be the last that the Terrier offense could convert, as Bucknell would score fi ve unanswered goals to end the game.

During a BU timeout with 5:13 left in the second quarter and Bucknell up 4-3, Talkow was called for an illegal stick. Offi -cials determined that the pocket of Talkow’s stick was too deep and he was given a three-minute, non-releasable penalty. Bucknell took full advantage of the man-up opportunity, notching two goals to end the half up 6-3.

“That was a really big play in the game,” said BU coach Ryan Polley about the penalty. “... It went from a 4-3 to a 6-3 game and it killed a lot of our momentum. We have to address that with our entire team and make sure it never happens again. It’s on me and our staff and the players to make sure that our equipment is legal. “

The third quarter of action was a quiet one for both sides and nei-

END OF AN ERA

The BU wrestling team fi nished its season this past weekend when three wrestlers competed at the NCAA Championships, P.8.

Quotable“ “We took a big step forward this weekend.-BU coach Kathryn Gleason on her

team’s performance at the Yale invitational this past weekend.

This weekend, three members of the Boston University wres-tling team competed in the NCAA Championships at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. After the tournament was over, the Terriers fi nished in 45th place as a team, generating six points for the weekend.

Senior Nestor Taffur high-lighted the trio, falling just one win short of being named an All-american in his fi nal season in the scarlet and white. On the fi rst day of the tournament on Thursday, the senior fought against freshman Austin Matthews of Clarion Uni-versity, pinning him just 1:11 into the match.

In the next match of the day, Taffur was locked in a tight battle with No. 11 seed redshirt junior

Taylor Walsh of Indiana Univer-sity. down 9-6 in the third period, things did not look promising for Taffur. But on the strength of two takedowns, Taffur tied the score at 10 at the end of regulation. Before even getting to overtime, the BU senior pinned Walsh and claimed his second victory of the day.

after winning his fi rst two bouts, Taffur advanced to the quarterfi nal round where he took on third-seeded sophomore Alex Dieringer of Oklahoma State Uni-versity. Dieringer proved to be too much for Taffur, as the sophomore defeated him 18-11.

Taffur did have one last chance to advance, though, and fought redshirt sophomore Anthony Per-rotti in the consolation match of the quarterfi nal round. despite clawing close at 4-2 in the third period, Perrotti ended Taffur’s ca-reer with a 10-2 victory. although

he fell just one win short of the semifi nals and missed out on being an all-american, Taffur fi nished his time at BU with 119 wins, a program-best.

Juniors Tyler Scotton and Mitchell Wightman also competed in Oklahoma. Scotton faced fresh-man Edgar Bright of the Univer-sity of Pittsburgh in the fi rst round. While the junior fought hard and avoided takedown, he fell 3-1 to Bright and was later defeated by redshirt senior Nick Lester in a consolation match.

Wightman faced a similar fate, losing in both his fi rst round bout and consolation matchup. He end-ed his season with a 23-15 record.

Nasson competes in Minne-apolis

Sophomore Stephanie Nasson represented the Boston University

women’s swimming and diving team this weekend in the NCAA Championships in Minneapolis, making her the fi rst BU women’s swimmer to compete in the cham-pionship tournament since 1988.

In her fi rst race, Nasson swam in the 500m freestyle, an event she set the school record in with a 4:47.42 fi nish at the Patriot League Swimming and Diving Champion-ships in February.

Nasson broke her school record with her performance. After the race was all said and done, Nasson fi nished the 500 freestyle prelimi-nary race with a time of 4:46.94.

Saturday, on the fi nal day of the competition, Nasson again set a re-cord, this time in the 1,650m free-style. She had previously set the school and Patriot League record with a time of 16:20.32. In the

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Terriers fall to Bucknell in close road matchup

softball, see page 7

By Andrew Battifarano and Jacklyn Bamberger

Daily Free Press Staff

Men’s lacrosse, see page 7

Softball takes 3 out of 4 at Yale Invitational

Remaining perfect in Patriot League play, the Boston Univer-sity women’s lacrosse handed the No. 14/19 U.S. Naval academy its fi rst loss of the season, snapping the Midshipmen’s 15-game Patriot League win streak, on the road in Annapolis, Md., Saturday after-noon.

The Terriers’ (3-5, 3-0 Patriot League) 9-8 victory over the Mid-shipmen (9-1, 3-1 Patriot League) is their fi rst against a ranked opponent this year and their third win in their last four outings.

After the game, BU coach Liz Robertshaw credited the Terriers’ focus for the big win.

“Before the game I told them I wanted them to be more focused and to play harder,” Robertshaw said. “I wanted to see a strong and sharp team and I did.”

Navy came out strong, starting the scoring just six seconds into the game when sophomore Katie Galla-gher beat BU freshman goalkeeper Caroline Meegan at the 29:54 mark of the fi rst half. Sophomore Lizzy Rullan was credited with the assist.

BU answered quickly off of the stick of junior attack Kelsey Mara-fi oti three minutes later with 26:54 remaining in the half.

The Midshipmen’s leading goal scorer, senior Jill Coughlin, bur-ied her 25th and 26th goals of the year on unassisted tries to make it a 3-1 contest. After the two tallies, the Terriers would manage to keep Navy’s leading scorer off the board for the rest of the contest.

The Terriers would not led the Navy lead last though, as sopho-

W. lacrosse stays unbeaten in Patriot League

WoMen’s lacrosse, see page 7

By Gabbie Chartier Daily Free Press Staff

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It was reported that band members tried to put the booze inside toobas, once again proving Stanford’s intellectual superiority.proving Stanford’s intellectual superiority.

W. Lacrosse vs. Yale, 4 p.m.Softball @ Bryant ,4 p.m.

By Jacklyn BambergerDaily Free Press Staff

W. Lacrosse vs. Yale, 4 p.m.Softball @ Bryant ,4 p.m.