Several protesters stood outside the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse Thursday as proceedings continued in a case challenging the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University, commonly referred to as the BU biolab.

Inside the courthouse, a team of pros-ecuting attorneys argued that the Nation-al Institutes of Health risk assessment of the lab, which was released Jan. 2, did not properly consider alternatives or the biolab’s environmental consequences. The case, Allen v. NIH, is in its beginning stag-es.

“We got involved with this back in 2003 because we were concerned with the fact that this lab was being put in an area that was very congested, many poor people of color, we felt that they were being exploit-ed,” said Cornelia Sullivan, one of the pro-testers and Fenway-area resident. “They chose to put it in an area where people

were poor.”Eight protesters stood outside the court-

house in opposition to the NIH ruling, which found the biolab to pose minimal risk to the surrounding community.

The lab will conduct research on Level 3 and Level 4 pathogens and diseases if approved, including SARS, Ebola, 1918 H1N1 influenza, anthrax and pneumonic plague.

Sullivan said there is evidence that the biolab’s anticipated research may be used to create bio-weapons.

“What really struck us was the caliber of the scientists who came out against this — two Nobel laureates spoke against it,” she said. “What one of them said was that this lab could be used to create instruments of death … We studied this for a couple of years and we felt we could no longer stand aside and just study — we had to make a statement.”

Seth Jaffe, the attorney representing BU

Daniel Traub was running on the Espla-nade near Boston University on Marathon Monday when he made a turn to go toward Copley Square. He was almost there when suddenly, a woman stopped him and told him to turn around.

“She just said two bombs had gone off and that everything was a mess and that the place was torn apart,” he said. “She offered her phone to me if I needed to call anyone.”

Traub, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences sophomore, was one of many BU students near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon on Mon-day when two explosions went off, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100.

Among those affected, one BU student was critically injured, according to an email to students from BU President Rob-ert Brown. The student could not be identi-fied at press time.

“Boston University police have stayed on duty to protect our campus and support Boston and state police,” Brown said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families who have experienced a dreadful loss and those whose loved ones are terribly in-jured.”

Nathan Barbagallo, a College of Gener-al Studies freshman, said he and his friends were at 100 Bay State Road when they de-cided to try to head to the finish line to see the close of the race.

“We were going to go to the tents and see what happened,” he said. “We were all going to get jackets to go and then right when we were in Myles [Standish Hall], our friend texted us … We turned on the news and it was all over the place.”

Barbagallo said he was discomforted to learn that the explosion injured a BU stu-dent.

“I know a lot of the people who go to this event are BU students, and I figured the odds were high, but it’s still just too close for comfort — just right around the

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3 dead, many injured by blast, spectators shocked

Two explosions occurred Monday afternoon near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, re-sulting in three deaths and dozens of injuries.

One of the casualties was an eight-year-old boy, and Boston University President Robert Brown confirmed that a BU student was criti-cally injured during one of the blasts, in a letter to the community. No other information of the injured has been released.

Mass. General Hospital officials confirmed they had taken in 22 patients affected by the blasts. Six of the patients were in critical con-dition and five were in crucial condition, said Kory Zhao, a spokesman for Mass. General. Brigham and Women’s Hospital has taken in 26 patients, two of whom are in critical condition, according to hospital officials.

U.S. President Barack Obama pledged the full resources of the federal government for post-explosion assistance to both Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick when he spoke to them Monday afternoon.

“We don’t yet have all the answers, but we do

know that multiple people have been wounded, some gravely, at the Boston Marathon,” Obama said in a press conference Monday afternoon.

There was also an explosion at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, but this was later confirmed by BPD Commissioner Ed Davis as being caused by an incendiary device that caused no injuries. Davis said he believed the JFK fire was unrelated to the marathon explo-sions.

When asked at a press conference Monday whether the explosions were part of a terrorist undertaking, Davis said police authorities did not know conclusively who organized the ex-plosions.

“We’re not being definitive on this right now, but you can reach your own conclusions based on what happened,” he said.

In a statement from the Boston Athletic As-sociation — which organized the marathon — a tone of sadness was placed on an event that was supposed to hail physical and mental achieve-ment.

“Today is a sad day for the city of Boston, for the running community, and for all those who were here to enjoy the 117th running of

the Boston Marathon,” according to a release on Monday evening. “What was intended to be a day of joy and celebration quickly became a day in which running a marathon was of little importance.”

Some city-goers witnessed the explosion, and said the blast pushed onlookers into a panic.

“By the end of the marathon there was an explosion by the church near Copley,” said Mat-thew Gold, 19, a student at Berklee College of Music. “There was the first explosion. Every-one stopped and everyone was silent. There was thick white smoke and I stopped my friend and then immediately, five to 10 seconds later, there was a second explosion, closer to us, towards Massachusetts Avenue.”

After the first two explosions, Gold said the scene turned into chaos.

“It was pandemonium and everyone was running and trying to get in the building,” he said. “I got caught between the revovling door. It was just crazy and it’s a whole different point of view from witnessing it.”

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said he was with his friend near the Prudential Center and saw the church explode.

“People stopped for a minute wondering if that really blew up, and then another thing con-tinuously blew up, so people thought it was go-ing to be a chain effect,” he said. “So everyone started running it was a lot of chaos and a lot

of people started stampeding on each other. We went to a hotel and from there, people were still stampeding and falling over each other. People were crying and looking for their children. They made everyone run forward away from it, but people weren’t listening because they were try-ing to fi nd their loved ones.”

Lauren Gill, 24, a resident of Toronto and

runner of the Boston Marathon, said she was stopped before she could fi nish the race.

“I just came up to it and it was the last mile, everything was just stopped,” she said. “They had no explanation, they just made everyone stop running. They told us to walk to Beacon Street because that is where everyone would regroup.”

Gill said she had another friend running the marathon.

“We love the city,” she said, “It’s just really scary.”

A spokeswoman at the American Red Cross said they have sent more than 100 mobile Red Cross units to assist an already large presence of workers in the Boston area.

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corner like that,” he said.While cellphone service was largely un-

reliable Monday, Barbagallo said his phone rang off the hook as soon as it started work-ing.

“Right when it [service] came up my phone exploded and literally my entire family was pouring in all these texts and calls, and even people that I hadn’t talked to in a really long time [contacted me],” he said. “Friends I hadn’t talked to since sophomore year of high school had texted me asking what happened and if everybody was okay.”

Barbagallo said he planned on using Skype to talk to a close friend Monday eve-ning to discuss what happened at the fi nish line.

“It was such a tragic event but it really brought a lot of people together,” he said. “When something like this happens, you forget about the little differences.”

Asia Alsgaard, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, was also on her way to Copley Square when she heard news of the explosions.

“I was seeing police cars going down and people looking kind of odd, which

made me stop and turn around to fi gure out what was going on,” she said. “Afterward, it was mainly just trying to fi gure out where everyone was.”

She said one of her friends had to walk back to campus from Logan International Airport because there were no taxis avail-able.

Alsgaard said she is worried about be-ing in Boston in the wake of such an alarm-ing incident. However, she said she is sure Boston will be safer for future marathons due to what happened Monday.

“It makes me feel nervous,” she said. “I was talking to people, and now all of the Boston Marathons are probably going to be super safe because everyone is going to be so worried about this happening again.”

Traub said while he was scared to be near where the bombs went off, he feels safe at BU.

“Obviously it was a terrible thing but there are much worse places to be in the world,” he said. “It’s not like you should just blow it off, but if you let everything get to you like that then you’re never ever going to be able to really live somewhere, because there’s always the possibility that something can happen.”

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Following what College of Communication freshman Lind-sey Cohen called a one-sided discussion about ‘right to return’ hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine on April 6 and April 7, a group of Boston University Jew-ish students organized a panel of scholars to have a dialogue on the same issue Sunday evening.

“It’s not really in response to [the April 6 conference] but it comes after the Right of Return conference which was hosted by the Students for Justice in Pales-tine,” Cohen said. “They brought lectures and they brought speak-ers but those speakers presented a very one-sided view of the situa-tion ... We’re trying to bring a lot of the issues that they didn’t dis-cuss to light.”

Cohen, a member of BU Stu-dents for Israel, helped organize “What ‘Right’ to Return?” panel, which about 70 community mem-bers attended. It was moderated

by Scholars for Peace in the Mid-dle East President Richard Cra-vatts, featured historians Benny Morris, Ben Dror Yemini and Asaf Romirowsky, and was held at the BU School of Law.

Cravatts said during the panel that the heart of Palestinians’ ar-gument relies upon a false por-trayal of Palestine.

“The concept of a ‘right of a return,’ if it is embraced without thinking about it, suggests to the listener that a person has a right to return to a place and a state that was theirs where they lived,” he said. “It gives the Palestinians a justification for waging war against the Jewish state.”

He said those who believe in a ‘right to return’ believe there were white Europeans who ex-pelled an indigenous people from that land after the Holocaust, and took a country that did not belong to them.

“This myth about there hav-ing been a sovereign nation called Palestine where people called Pal-

estinians lived and are now not allowed to return to, is very vital to the effort to destroy the cred-ibility and in fact the existence of the Jewish state,” he said. “‘Right of return’ is the core silver bullet by which the enemies of Israel at-tempt to destroy Israel.”

He said this “myth” is used to argue that Israel does not have the moral right to exist because it was a nation stolen from another people.

Kareem Chehayeb, a College of Arts and Sciences senior and member of SJP, said members of his group believe the Israelis drove the Palestinians out of Isra-el and that Palestinians have been refugees in Middle Eastern coun-tries since.

“We believe that it is crucial for these Palestinians to come back to their homes,” he said. “Many Pal-estinians are in camps in Lebanon, in Syria, in Jordan and elsewhere, and there have been multiple gen-erations of refugees since 1948.”

He said refugees, who cannot

obtain citizenship in these other Middle Eastern countries, lack the ability to enjoy normal rights.

“They should have the right to come back to their homes and come back and be citizens,” Che-hayeb said. “Many refugees are stateless, so when they are in these other countries they don’t enjoy the benefits of people who have citizenship, whether it is health-care or jobs.”

Cohen said regardless of what people take away from the panel and its speakers, she hopes it will help promote knowledge and awareness.

“What I hope is that people who come to this event will be provided with enough informa-tion that they can create informed opinions based on the acquisition of all of the knowledge possible and not just on one side,” she said. “So really, I want them to create opinions, but knowledge-able opinions. I want an informed public.”

Two Boston city programs have been recognized this year by International Data Group’s Com-puterworld Honors Program Lau-reate for their use of information technology to promote societal changes.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said the awards were a great ac-complishment and well deserved by the two Boston programs.

“We are thrilled with the rec-ognition that both the Boston Public Computing Centers and Citizens Connect have received,” he said in a press release Wednes-day. “Both programs use tech-nology to improve the lives of Boston residents. From reaching out to close the digital divide and train underserved populations, to engaging citizens with a mobile app.”

Chief Information Officer for the Department of Innovation and Technology Bill Oates said pro-grams can win a Computerworld award after being placed into several different categories, all of which benefit society in some way.

“We’ve been on a path over

the last few years where we’re re-ally trying to change the way we deliver services, trying to help do things like bridge the digital di-vide with some of our programs,” he said. “Boston, over the last couple of years under the Mayor’s leadership has really developed a reputation for leading in applying technology in innovative ways in local government.”

The first economic develop-ment award was given to the Bos-ton Public Computing Centers, which set up 53 new public com-puting centers across the city. The program includes a digital liter-ary skills course for Boston resi-dents that has currently graduated 10,000 residents, Oates said.

“These are centers that are in libraries, housing developments and community centers, are essen-tially upgrading the technology, upgrading the Internet access to allow people to go in and use the technology if they don’t have the capability at home,” Oates said. “The other part of our program was our ‘Technology Goes Home’ program. [This] is our attempt to really reach out and bridge the divide and get folks to be able to leverage the digital age.”

The mobile app ‘Citizens Con-nect’ — also developed by the city of Boston — won an inno-vation award as well, Oates said. The app promotes direct commu-nication with City Hall by allow-ing citizens to snap a photo of an issue or concern on their phones and submit it electronically with GPS location so the city can ad-dress it.

“We rolled it out a number of years ago and we keep adding new capabilities to it, and for us, this is our way of creating a new channel of engagement with our constituents using the power of smartphones and mobile technol-ogy,” he said.

Computerworld could not be reached for direct comment.

IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program selected 268 Laureates to be honored during the Annual Laureate Medal Ceremony and Gala Awards Evening June 3 in Washington, D.C.

John Amato, vice president & publisher of Computerworld said in a press release last month that his company is routinely pleased to honor those cities on the cut-ting edge of modern technology.

“Technology continues to play

a pivotal role in transforming how business and society functions,” he said. “For the past 25 years, the Computerworld Honors Program has had the privilege of celebrat-ing innovative IT achievements. These projects demonstrate how IT can advance organizations’ ability to compete, innovate, communicate and prosper.”

Oates said the next step in Boston’s technology development is to expand their ‘Citizens Con-nect’ app. Upgrades to the app will include enhanced communi-cation between constituents and city workers.

“So let’s say you wanted to send us a request to fix a street light or a pothole in your neigh-borhood, what we’re going to be doing with our new release of Cit-izens Connect, is you will be able to put that request in,” he said. “The folks that fill that pothole for you will be able to take a pic-ture of it and send it back to you; you’ll actually know who fixed your pothole for you. Through the course of the next couple of months we’re going to give our constituents the chance to give a high-five to the city workers that performed their service request.”

This is the first in a series of sto-ries examining the slates running for Student Government executive board for the 2013-14 academic year.

College of Arts and Sciences ju-nior Luke Rebecchi , who is running for Student Government president with the Can’t B Without U slate, said his group will help SG become a central hub for students and student groups.

“We have to take what we have on campus — 500 student groups, all that passion, all those things that they’re doing — and find a way to better utilize what we have,” Rebec-chi said.

Can’t B Without U began cam-paigning Friday for the 2013-14 SG executive board alongside Becoming United and The BU Ignition.

“The core of the platform for this slate is that we really can’t be with-out the students,” said Vice President of Finance candidate Noor Turaif, a CAS freshman. “The Student Gov-ernment cannot function as a separate entity and say that it is governing the population at BU.”

Along with Turaif and Rebecchi, the slate also includes CAS junior Chris Addis, seeking the position of executive vice president, and School of Education sophomore Emily Tal-ley, seeking the position of vice presi-dent of internal affairs.

The slate will focus on reaching out to student groups on campus. One of the members’ planned projects is to make faculty evaluations public, Talley said.

“We want to make faculty evalu-ations public to better help students prepare for their classes and match up their learning styles with their profes-sors,” Talley said. “Also, to reinforce and show appreciation for the faculty that we have that are fabulous profes-sors and extraordinary at their jobs.”

Turaif said it is important for the slate to establish transparency as far as how BU officials are spending uni-versity money.

“We need to find out and make public where our money goes, what it’s going toward and if the admin-istration or any other entity at BU needs to make cuts,” she said.

Rebecchi said the slate supports instating gender-neutral housing at BU, although they are looking for new ways to work toward achieving it.

Rebecchi said controversies about the administration over the elimina-tion of the wrestling team, the Allo-cations Board’s distribution of fund-ing for philanthropic events and the halt of gender-neutral housing are alarming because students were not consulted before the decisions were made.

“That lack of communication is not okay on a very basic level, but we also have to realize that we can’t get bogged down in the cycle of fight-ing with administrators,” he said. “There’s a lot that we can do that we don’t need [Assistant Dean of Stu-dents] John Battaglino’s signature for.”

Students should place greater em-phasis on finding a middle ground with the administration rather than simply voicing opposition, Addis said.

“We just have to make sure our voice is being heard with regards to that change,” he said.

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and the NEIDL, said the lab’s de-sign and construction ensured it poses little risk to the surround-ing community.

“The greatest risk is to the peo-ple who work there,” Jaffe said.

Jaffe also said the project’s Blue Ribbon Panel, the team in charge of approving the risk as-sessment, was fully qualifi ed.

“BRP really is arguably the greatest collection of experts that have been put together on this,” he said. “On the modeling, they didn’t have a single bit of criti-cism.”

Chief Judge Patti Saris, who oversaw the hearing, questioned Jaffe and the rest of the defense team regarding their inspection of different types of pathogens’ ability to spread in the case of an escape or accident, particularly when coupled with the use of public transportation.

She questioned the NIH risk assessment estimation that on an average spring day, a Boston citi-zen comes in “close contact,” or close proximity to another human for at least ten minutes, with only 44 people, as opposed to someone in a suburban area, who comes into close contact with 38.

Jaffe, in response, said com-muting played a role in the es-timation, but that even with the use of public transportation, the

fi gures in urban, suburban and ru-ral settings were similar, meaning the placement of the biolab in an urban setting may not increase the risk of the spread of disease.

“They all had different num-bers for contacts while commut-ing, in Boston versus the other sites,” he said. “They’re still pret-ty darn close.”

Becky Pierce, another pro-tester who lives in Dorchester near the lab, said the lab’s fund-ing originally came from the U.S. Department of Defense after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and subse-quent anthrax attacks.

“They decided to set up a few labs to study these emerging dis-eases that could be used for bio-terrorism,” Pierce said. “Whether or not the original motive was to create weapons under the guise of creating defense against weapons, the same research has to be done to make a vaccine or to make a weapon.”

She said the lab should have been built somewhere other than Boston.

“This sort of facility should not be in a heavily populated area,” Pierce said. “It should be in a sparsely populated area so if a [pathogen] escape does hap-pen, or there is an accident, they [lab offi cials] can track the people and make sure they’re not getting sick.”

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BU students, alumnus compete in Boston MarathonScattered and confused:Aftermath of marathon tragedy causes disarray throughout city

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Bieber’s Biggest Fan

COLIN SMITH

Belieber is not a real word. It’s a made up term for describing fans of Canadian … artist … and serial cultural arsonist Justin Bieber.

But despite being made up the term was everywhere on Sunday, displacing such irrel-evant issues as the gun control debate and the war in Afghanistan, all due to Justin’s recent visit to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. As we all know, Anne Frank was a young Jew-ish teenager hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland whose vivid journal descriptions have capti-vated multiple generations.

Add one more to the list, I guess. Bieber wrote in the museum’s guest book

after he visited that he was “truly inspired” by his visit, going on to add that Anne was “a great girl” and, of course, “hopefully would have been a Belieber”.

Let’s forget for a moment that Justin Bieber is a talentless empty shell of an almost-person whose repetitive manufactured pop melodies will be turned on very soon by his prepubes-cent and unevolving fan base and then forgot-ten by history. Except for me. I will always hate him and all his failed pathetic attempts to ingratiate himself to hip-hop artists and mo-guls who don’t like him (and hopefully have a really mean email chain going about him.) Let’s forget for a second that probably even his farts are auto-tuned.

Who the hell can be that self-absorbed five seconds after visiting the Anne Frank house?

Honestly it seems like the primary moti-vation for people doing anything these days, including basic survival functions such as go-ing to the grocery store and driving a car, is to let people know about it and receive praise. I’m slowly coming to accept this reality and the notion that I deserve some type of societal reward in the form of a like or a re-tweet every time I do literally anything. However, I really thought Holocaust memorials would be the last bastion. I really thought the Anne Frank house would be the last thing people could manage to squeeze through a personal lens. I was wrong.

The fact that Bieber would have the inde-cency, the pretension, to take an experience that has touched so many on such a deep, per-sonal level and filter it through his own super-ficial and commercial perspective is shocking. I guess it’s to be expected that someone who has been given anything they want for a long time for no discernable reason might be a little jaded and corrupted, but this is bad even for Bieber.

The action pales in comparison to the con-

tent. The message is not just self-centered. It is monumentally, astronomically self-centered. It’s like the Mona Lisa of self-centeredness. I was angry at it, and then I was just amazed and vaguely jealous from an English major per-spective that so much nuanced self-righteous-ness and self-appreciation could be packed into so few words. It’s actually kind of a gram-matical feat in an odd way.

Anyway, putting aside for a moment that Anne Frank would never be a Justin Bieber fan because her journal indicates she was a literate, free-thinking person, isn’t it just a little irrelevant what her musical tastes actu-ally were? It’s been a few years since I’ve read Anne Frank’s diary, but I seem to remember it being about something like hope and per-severance and faith in humanity, and with no particular mention at all of any obsession with androgynous feathery-haired Canadian ego-maniacs. Perhaps it’s in an abridged version. But I somehow doubt it.

Justin Bieber’s gross self-obsession is rep-resentative of a growing and alarming trend — a tendency of young people to restructure any given experience they are in until they are the main character of that experience. If Anne Frank’s diary shows anythingthing, doesn’t it show the nobility of accepting yourself as only part of a global and eternal experience separate from a superficial reality? I thought so.

Anne Frank’s diary may be a document of fading relevance, sadly. It’s entirely devoid of hashtags, emoticons or pop culture references. It’s fairly conservative in its use of exclama-tion points. It doesn’t even have any pictures. All these things make it a document written in a language increasingly difficult for young people to understand, regardless of which one it’s translated into. That’s the way it is with ev-erything now. If you have a point to make, or a profound truth, if you want something to never ever be forgotten, you had better encase it in one hundred and forty characters or less.

But Justin Bieber has done one thing that’s remarkable. He’s taken an experience that ad-vocates for total, complete acceptance of all human beings, regardless of race, religion or social standing, and made me hate one totally based on something as silly as musical ability.

And that’s unbeliebable.

Colin Smith is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. He can be reached at co-lin1@bu.edu.

Flying used to be classy. Ask anyone over 50. They’ll tell you about how their mothers slicked down their hair, tucked their shirts in and shined their shoes before boarding Pan Am. Everyone aboard the plane dressed up like they were going to services or grandma’s birthday.

Nowadays you are lucky to sit next to someone who isn’t wearing some form of sweats, flannel or rain-stained moccasins. When toddlers are the only people on planes content with the amount of legroom, it is un-derstandable why people would dress to be as comfortable as possible. U.S. Airways even has a policy asking passengers in first-class to sport business casual attire — not sneakers, jeans or t-shirts.

Two black men, brothers returning home after a funeral, were dressed in sneakers, jeans and t-shirts were asked to change their cloth-ing just before their tried to board their flight. The men bought discount first-class tickets through a family friend and employee of U.S. Airways. They returned to the gate and no-ticed a white man in first class wearing cuffed jeans and a hoodie and a Filipino man wearing a similar outfit. The men are now taking U.S. Airways to federal court for discrimination.

Is this a real policy? If attire really was

an issue for first-class flyers, then these men should have been notified of it when they booked their tickets. If it was an actual priority for U.S. Airways, first-class passengers would all be privy to the dress code. The baggage checks employees would have even caught this when the two men showed their board-ing passes. Because two people were able to board the airplane wearing equally informal clothing, and especially because neither of the was black, the brothers’ discrimination case becomes legitimate. It’s really starting to look as if these men were profiled foremost by their race.

Clothes should not have any bearing on strengths as a person. Not everyone can afford to dress business casual daily, especially when two-thirds of the passengers aboard a plane are dressed in more sweats than a college campus during finals. Sure, there are instances when dressing up is the appropriate option, but even then, your appearance doesn’t land you the job or that valuable connection — it is all about your experience and how well you carry your-self. These men did buy their tickets through a U.S. Airways employee, but they do not repre-sent the company when they board the plane. Airlines are not judged by their clientele, they are judged by the way they treat passengers.

An airline’s racial dress code

We get it. Rap music is full of explicit lyrics. If you listen to any modern rap song on the radio, chances are the song has been heavily censored. Nowadays, much of rap is consistently misogynistic, glorifies crim-inal activity or encourages drug use. What has happened to the poetry in the real-life stories?

A prime example of what is wrong with rap is Miami-based Rick Ross. Reebok re-cently booted him from an advertising cam-paign for lyrics he wrote in “U.O.E.N.O.” The lyrics are too explicit to republish, but essentially he rapped about slipping a drug into a woman’s drink, taking her home and, well, you can infer the rest.

Lyrics like these are abominable. Rap-pers are constantly scrutinized for their ex-plicit lyrics, so it is expected that they push back by writing more incendiary lyrics. Then we hear songs about sexual assault or Lil’ Wayne’s decision to mock the death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy who was murdered during the Civil Rights Movement for allegedly flirting with a Caucasian woman. That line, which is purely provocative for the sake of defiance, like Ross’, holds no artistic value nor does it set any sort of example for their

listeners. Rap used to be about finding the roses between the cracks in the sidewalk. Rap is now about how ostentatiously they spend their money and how many women they objectify. It needs to stop.

Rick Ross is exactly what is wrong with modern rap music. Rap was extremely en-grained with social issues and criminal ac-tivity because people like Tupac and Biggy rapped about their experiences growing up in neighborhoods where crime, sexual assault and general deviance happened daily. Now rap does not have that same ef-fect because the most popular artists such as Drake and Rick Ross attempt to be as thug as possible, meanwhile they grew up middle-class or were never in a gang.

A lack of education and culture is be-coming apparent in today’s music. While the art and poetry that was rap begins to fade behind declarations, “my swag,” art-ists like Ludacris invent stories of their lives in the hood, simply mimicking the giants of the 1990s. What actual hardships are these people actually talking about anymore? They do not have any stories as dramatic as their predecessors so they feel the need to invent personas to live up to a badass image they can never truly embody.

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leading this team, and we finally gave her some offensive support,” Gleason said.

Despite her pitching success, Tuthill has often not gotten run support from her teammates, who have struggled all season to put runners across the plate.

However, her effort Satur-day against UMBC was backed by strong at-bats from her team-mates, making her dominant pitching performance shine even brighter.

Starting games has not been Tuthill’s only contribution to the Terriers this season, as her will-ingness and desire to pitch when-ever possible has led to Gleason using her to relieve Schuppert and Hynes when they struggle to close out games. She picked up two saves this weekend, coming in to finish off the two close contests for Hynes.

“The great thing about Whit-ney is that you can start her or close her,” Gleason said. “Whit-

ney does whatever you ask her to do and she’ll take on any role, and she’s happy to do either.”

After struggling on the mound all season, Hynes finally seemed to be coming into a groove over the weekend, picking up wins in the last two games of the series against UMBC.

Although Tuthill came on in the sixth and seventh innings in both games, Hynes was able to hold on to the lead when her teammates provided very little run support.

“Lauren didn’t pitch her best game [Saturday], she only gave up four hits,” Gleason said. “But they’re a powerful lineup … but you’ve got to fight through it.”

Hynes allowed one run on four hits in her first win of the week-end, a 2-1 victory Saturday after-noon.

She managed to shut out UMBC Sunday afternoon, allow-ing no runs and three hits in 5.2 innings pitched in a 3-1 victory. This success was enthusiastically

welcomed by both Gleason and Hynes after a season of difficul-ties on the mound.

“Lauren just keeps getting bet-ter and better, you know, and is learning the game,” Gleason said.

Despite her struggles in the circle, Hynes has proved a valu-able offensive contributor for the Terriers, playing first base and hitting second in games she is not pitching.

Hynes is the only one of BU’s pitchers who bats, and her ability to produce offensively and defen-sively is a sign of how valuable the freshman may be in years to come.

“Personally, being a pitcher as a hitter helps me, and being a hitter as a pitcher helps me, too,” Hynes said.

Dominant pitching was the main reason the Terriers earned a three-game sweep this weekend, something they will have to main-tain if they wish to find success over the rest of the season.

Tuthill’s flexibility starting, closing proving to be valued asset to improving Terriers pitching staff

pitching: From Page 8

SARAH FISHER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFSenior attack Danielle Etrasco’s illustrious Terrier career nears its end.

Morris: ESPN should spend more time analyzing games, not predictingNew England Patriots and the Se-attle Seahawks — were there in New Orleans.

Sports are the ultimate defini-tion of unpredictability. Even the most complicated sabermetric sta-tistics cannot predict what a guy is going to do with two outs in the

ninth with runners on second and third in a tie ballgame.

It’s insulting to my intelligence for anyone to tell me who is go-ing to win. The absolute worst is the pre-tournament shows that tell you how the March Madness bracket is going to play out. Those guys on ESPN have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

No one does. A lot of them can now say, “I told you so, I picked Louisville from the beginning.” Well congratu-freaking-lations, you picked the number-one overall seed. Thank you for your unparal-leled expert insight.

ESPN does it all wrong. Lead-ing up to the Super Bowl, it spends two weeks trying to predict what’s

going to happen in the game. And then, they spend only two days go-ing over what actually did happen. On the Wednesday after the Super Bowl, it’s hard to find anything about the game on Sports Center.

That’s absolutely backward from the way it should be. Instead of trying to tell me what’s going to happen, why don’t you show me

what did happen? That’s what I’m actually interested in.

I want to hear what the differ-ence was in a game from someone who actually played in the game. That’s the kind of insight ESPN can provide that the average fan wouldn’t pick up on. That’s how ESPN can actually make use of its numerous ‘experts.’

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But Baumgartner made her pres-ence known with an impressive ju-nior year, during which she posted career highs in ground balls (17), draw controls (13) and forced turn-overs (12). She started all 15 games she appeared in during the season.

Mogavero, from Massapequa, N.Y., has been a vital contributor on offense for the Terriers, record-ing 83 points in 68 games. Named a tri-captain this season, Mogavero is currently second on the team in goals with 19.

Her impact was felt immediately upon joining the BU squad, as Mo-gavero played all 20 games for the Terriers in her freshman campaign and started in 10 of those contests. She put up 18 goals and one assist on the season.

Mogavero had one of the best games of her career against Bing-hamton (2-9, 1-3 America East), scoring six goals to help lead the Ter-rier offense.

“Kristen is just a spark for us,” Robertshaw said. “[She has] battled injuries and it’s been hard for her to get through a lot of these games, and she keeps fighting because it matters

so much to her. It’s been amazing.”Etrasco, also from Massapequa,

N.Y., has been one of the greatest players in Terrier lacrosse history, re-cording 216 points in just 63 games.

A member of the U.S. Women’s Lacrosse National Team, Etrasco has garnered numerous accolades dur-ing her time at BU, such as America East All-Rookie Team, America East All-Conference Team, America East Co-Player of the Year and IWLCA All-American honors.

After an 18-goal freshman cam-paign, Estrasco’s success-laden col-legiate career took off, as she scored 57 goals and contributed 41 draw controls in her sophomore year ,and put up a career-high 58 goals and 22 assists for 80 points as a junior.

“Danielle has always been that ‘next great player at BU,’ and she’s living up to that expectation,” Rob-ertshaw said.

For Robertshaw, even though the senior class was not the largest group, its impact certainly was immeasur-able.

“This group is a small group, but they are a strong group,” Robertshaw said. “They have so much personality for just the four of them.”

Senior class leaving behind legaciessEnior day: From Page 8

BU added three more in the fourth on an RBI single by fresh-man first baseman Lauren Hynes and a two-run homer by Ekart.

In the fifth inning, Mask scored on a wild pitch and the Terriers came away with a mercy-rule vic-tory in game one.

Hynes got the start in the circle for BU in the second contest and pitched admirably. She went six in-nings, allowed only four hits and struck out one en route to the vic-tory.

Despite the great effort from

Hynes, the first inning did not go well for her and the Terriers. She struggled to settle in right away and gave up two early hits to UMBC, one of them being an RBI single by third baseman Courtney Reinfeld.

In the second inning, the Ter-riers tied the score on an RBI groundout from junior first base-man Chelsea Kehr.

The score remained the same until the fifth inning, as Hynes and UMBC pitcher Heather Brown battled it out in the circle.

With the score remaining 1-1 in the sixth, the Terriers finally

broke through with their first lead of the game, as Mask brought in sophomore pinch runner Kendra Meadows, giving the Terriers a 2-1 advantage.

The final inning of the game saw the Terriers turn to their ace, Tuthill, to close it out, which she did, earning her first save of the year and the Terriers’ second vic-tory of the series.

“We just wanted to bring in Whitney to close the door,” Glea-son said.

The final game of the series saw a pitching rematch of the sec-ond game, as Hynes faced Brown

again. The game played out very much the same, as the contest was another low-scoring affair.

After both teams were score-less through two, BU finally got on the scoreboard first when Mask singled in Meadows, giving the Terriers a 1-0 lead.

Hynes did not relinquish this lead, as she went 5.2 innings and struck out five.

Although she was in control for most of the dogfight, the Retriev-ers got runners on first and second with two outs in the sixth, threat-ening the BU lead. However, Glea-son went to Tuthill again. Tuthill

forced a groundout, ending the UMBC threat.

In the bottom of the inning, the Terriers added some insurance, scoring two runs on hits from Ek-art and Roesch.

Despite a homer in the seventh, Tuthill held strong and helped the Terriers earn their third win in a row.

“We had a great practice on Thursday,” Gleason said. “We re-ally picked up the intensity and I think it really carried over into this weekend. Hopefully we can carry that over into the next few weeks.”

Hynes pitches Terriers to wins in 2 consecutive low-scoring affairs vs. UMBCsoftBall: From Page 8

game in order to secure the vic-tory.

Binghamton struck first, with a goal off of a free-position shot from senior Kristen Stone 28 sec-onds in.

Just 10 seconds later, senior at-tack Danielle Etrasco was award-ed a free-position shot, which she put in the back of the net to push the BU lead back to five goals.

After another Binghamton score, the Terriers went on yet another three-goal run to open up

a seven-goal lead just over four minutes into the half.

For the remainder of the game, each team continued to battle to-ward the net, but the BU attack proved to be too much for Bing-hamton, as it finished the game with an Etrasco goal with two minutes left to play.

Ultimately, the Terriers were able to get a key conference victo-ry to polish their resume in order to make a run at postseason play.

With six goals each, Etrasco and Mogavero were both to leave their mark on Nickerson Field in a

big way on Senior Day “We’ve said that every single

game is so important to us for the rest of the season, and start-ing off the way we played today and scoring the amount of goals we scored and having people be a threat was really big,” Robert-shaw said.

“Not just for the people who typically score goals, but for ev-eryone’s confidence and knowing that they can do it when they’re asked.”

BU attack too much for Bearcat squadlacrossE: From Page 8

As Sunday afternoon came to a close, the Boston University soft-ball team came away with a three-game sweep over the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Not only was it the fi rst time the Ter-riers (14-20-1, 5-4 America East) recorded a sweep this season, but it was also their fi rst series victory .

“It feels really good,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason. “It’s not easy to sweep. It’s not easy to play the same team three times in a row. It’s a big confi dence booster going into these next two weeks.”

To start off the series against UMBC (8-32, 1-11 America East), the Terriers sent out senior pitcher Whitney Tuthill to the circle. Al-though Tuthill gave up a single in the fi rst to UMBC freshman Tay-lor Hall, she excelled from then on out, giving up no hits for the rest of the game. Tuthill looked as sharp as ever in her fi ve innings of work, striking out fi ve hitters and walk-ing none.

Although Tuthill was strong in her effort, the real story in the fi rst game of the series was the offense.

With two outs in the fi rst, junior third baseman Megan Volpano and junior catcher Amy Ekart worked out back-to-back walks. Senior second baseman Emily Roesch brought in Volpano with an infi eld

hit and junior shortstop Brittany Clendenny plated home two more with a double, giving the Terriers an early 3-0 advantage.

“In the fi rst inning we scored all three runs with two outs,” Gleason said. “That’s the heart and soul of this team. That’s what we want to do. We wanted to get more walks. It was great to score early and build upon that.”

The Terriers added another run in the second after junior center

fi elder Jayme Mask walked, stole second and scored on an Ekart single.

Stealing bases became a theme for the day, as Mask stole a team-record four bases, and the Terriers stole seven as a unit, also a record-setting feat.

“I didn’t know the school re-cord was seven until after the game,” Gleason said. “That was pretty neat to fi nd out.”

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After struggling all season, the Boston University softball team’s pitching staff put out its best ef-fort to date and allowed only two runs in a three-game sweep of the University of Maryland-Balti-more County.

All season long, the most re-liable part of BU’s pitching staff has been senior Whitney Tuthill. Until this past weekend, she was on the mound for every single one of the Terriers’ (14-20-1, 5-4 America East) non-tournament play wins, as classmate Erin Schuppert and freshman Lauren Hynes have struggled. But in the series against UMBC (8-32. 1-11 America East), Hynes was fi nally able to make her mark, picking up two of BU’s wins.

“For Lauren to get the win these past two days, it’s a big con-fi dence booster for her,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason.

Tuthill’s stellar one-hit per-formance in the fi rst game of the series, an 8-0 mercy-rule victory, was more of the same, as the se-nior continues to shut down her opponents. With a 10-11 record and a team-leading 2.45 ERA, Tuthill has been the anchor of the Terriers’ pitching staff.

“Whitney’s been the leader,

QUEEN TUT

BU senior pitcher Whitney Tuthill’s willingness to start games and pitch in relief has helped the Terriers put together victories. P.7.

Quotable“ “This group is a small group, but they are a strong group.

-BU coach Liz Robertshaw on lacrosse’s senior class

Lacrosse puts up 21 goals in win

The Boston University wom-en’s lacrosse team erupted for its second 20-goal game of the season in a 21-12 win against Binghamton University Saturday afternoon on an emotional Senior Day at Nickerson Field.

“I’m excited to have such a nice win on Senior Day,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw. “It’s an emotional day and it’s a day that can go either way.”

Following a 20-17 win against the University of Vermont April 6, the Terriers (5-6, 2-2 America East) came out fi ring against the Bearcats (2-9, 1-3 America East), winning the opening draw and scoring on a shot from freshman midfi elder Sofi a Robins 30 sec-onds into the game to take the early lead. Junior midfi elder Syd-ney Godett made a great pass and got the assist on Robins’ fi fth goal of the year.

Four minutes later, Bingham-ton evened the score at one for the fi rst and only tie of the game.

Senior midfi elder Kristen Mo-gavero, who is no stranger to the scoreboard, put BU ahead by a goal two minutes later for her fi rst score of the game on her

way to a six-goal performance. This sparked a three-goal run by the Terriers to open up a 4-1 lead with 17 minutes left to play in the fi rst half.

Despite the fi nal score, Bing-hamton hung tough in the open-ing frame. Each time the Terriers made a run, the Bearcats came back with a run of their own to keep the game close.

Following the three-goal run from BU, the Bearcats netted two straight to come within one half-way through the fi rst half.

After trading scores, the Terri-ers fi nished the half with a three-goal run to head into the locker room up 12-7.

The Terrier attack was ag-gressive to the net in the opening frame, outshooting the Bearcats 33-10. They were also solid on draw controls, winning by a mar-gin of 14-6.

The Terriers were also solid defensively, only allowing 10 shots while also forcing 10 Bing-hamton turnovers. Junior goal-keeper Christina Sheridan had three saves in the half.

Coming out in the second half, the Terriers were looking to con-trol the ball and the pace of the

By Matt Fils-AimeDaily Free Press Staff

BU pitching staff shows strong play during weekend

By Sam SimmonsDaily Free Press Staff

pitching, see page 7

Softball sweeps UMBC for fi rst series victory of year

I would like to offer my sincer-est congratulations to the men’s college basketball national cham-pions. No, I’m not talking about Louisville — that’s old news. I mean the 2014 national champi-ons: The Kentucky Wildcats. Oh, you haven’t heard? Kentucky is going to win it all next year. It’s not what you’d call offi cial, but the four-letter network (ESPN) predicts them as the best team go-ing into next year, so it’s guaran-teed to happen.

It’s just like last year’s col-lege football season. USC stormed to an undefeated regular season, and then rolled over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the national championship game. Matt Barkley drove off into the California sunset as both the Heisman trophy winner and undoubted number-one pick in the upcoming NFL Draft.

Oh wait, you’re telling me that didn’t happen? You’re telling me that USC went a dreadful 7-6 and 0-4 against the top 25? Matt Bar-kley now might not even go in the fi rst round of the draft? That can’t be right. ESPN said the Trojans were the best team in the nation before the season. How could this have happened?

Maybe it’s more like the 2011 Major League Baseball season. The Boston Red Sox and Phila-delphia Phillies seemed destined to meet up in the World Series, and indeed that’s what happened. Both teams stormed through their respective divisions, and no other teams could even put up a fi ght in the playoffs. Ah, yes, I remember that incredible seven-game World Series like it was yesterday.

Wait, that also didn’t happen? You’re telling me the Red Sox completely collapsed in Septem-ber and didn’t even make the play-offs? You’re telling me the Phillies lost in the Divisional Round to the St. Louis Cardinals? I don’t under-stand: ESPN said the Sox and the Phillies were by far the best teams in the league going into the season.

Point is, it is preposterous for anyone to try to predict a season in any sport. Leave the predic-tions for the statistics people, like Nate Silver (and, well, me). And even he couldn’t predict the Super Bowl. Neither of his picks — the

Unpredictable

Morris, see page 7

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Saturday, April 20W. Lacrosse @ Stony Brook, 1 p.m.Softball @ Fairfi eld, 1 p.m./3 p.m.Track @ MIT Invitational, All Day

sEnior day, see page 7

Lacrosse honors seniors before win

A 21-12 thrashing of Binghamton University was not the only thing the Boston University women’s lacrosse team took away from Saturday after-noon’s game, as the team also cel-ebrated Senior Day.

The Terriers (5-6, 2-2 America East) honored the four seniors who have helped lead the team to a 34-30 overall record and a 16-5 conference record during their four years of don-ning the scarlet and white.

The four seniors were also inte-gral to the team’s postseason success in the last few years, as they helped lead the Terriers to an appearance in the 2010 NCAA Tournament and captured the 2012 America East reg-ular-season championship title.

Before Saturday’s contest, at-tack Danielle Etrasco, midfi elder Kristen Mogavero, defender Monica Baumgartner and goalkeeper Kim Elsworth were honored in front of more than 400 fans at Nickerson Field.

With all four players manning different positions, each have made their impact in different ways on this BU team.

Elsworth, from Ballston Lake, N.Y., has appeared in 17 games for the Terriers, recording 37 saves.

While she primarily served as a backup during her tenure at BU, BU coach Liz Robertshaw said the im-pact she had on her teammates off the fi eld is what made her such a valu-able part of this team.

“With Kim Elsworth, you have a goalie that could easily throw in the towel and not be someone who talks a lot because she’s not the start-ing goaltender, but instead she’s the opposite,” Robertshaw said. “She is very vocal, gets everyone ready and she will do anything asked of her.”

Baumgartner, from Silver Spring, Md., has been a consistent presence on defense for the Terriers, appearing in 50 games. Named to the America East All-Tournament Team during her junior season in 2012, Baumgart-ner’s fi nal season at BU was tragi-cally cut short when the defender tore her ACL during a matchup with the University of Maryland-Baltimore County March 23.

“For Monica Baumgartner … she was trying to play through a torn la-brum and then tore the ACL,” Rob-ertshaw said. “Seeing tears in her eyes because all she wanted to do was play today was heartbreaking. But she has been so great for us de-fensively and I think she’s led us.”

By Conor RyanDaily Free Press Staff

softBall, see page 7

Terriers excel on both sides of ballagainst Retrievers

lacrossE, see page 7