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Plans announced for SMG brand makeover

Walsh tentatively proposes program to buy back guns

Barros appointed as Chief of Economic Development

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Boston company keeps US athletes safe in Sochi

PHOTO COURTESY OF PAT DEENANBoston-based security firm, Global Rescue, has been hired to protect the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Global Rescue, a firm from Boston, is at the Winter Olympic Games over the next few weeks providing medical and security protection for American Olympic skiers and snowboarders.

The company, which has partnered with the United States Ski and Snowboard As-sociation in order to achieve their goal of protecting the athletes, provides evacua-tions for all medical, security or other criti-cal needs to its clients, said Global Rescue spokeswoman Ann Shannon.

“We provide crisis response services and that includes medical and security in the event that they are necessary,” she said. “If someone is injured and needs evacua-tion, we are responsible for the logistics of that.”

Michael Corgan, professor of interna-tional relations at Boston University, said there have been threats in Sochi because the games are an attractive target for any-one wanting to make a political statement using terrorism.

“Anybody who’s got an axe to grind, this is the place to do it,” he said. “Any ter-rorist organization from some of these re-gions [of southern Russia] that want to be independent like Dagestan and Chechnya will want to make an appearance ... there’s a phrase about terrorists: They don’t want a lot of people dead, they want a lot of peo-

ple watching.”Global Rescue served in the same ca-

pacity for the USSA during the 2006 Win-ter Olympics in Turin, Italy and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Although Global Rescue has worked with a variety of corporations and government agencies, including NASA, these Olympics provide a new challenge given recent ter-rorist threats, said Shannon.

Tom Kelly, vice president of communi-

cations for the USSA, said the firm works closely with the United States Olympic Committee and other agencies. Kelly said he is not allowed to publically discuss se-curity issues, reflecting the heightened se-curity concerns of the Sochi Olympics.

Shannon said Global Rescue would most likely have to act in medical emer-gencies, but would also assist the athletes in security situations.

Following Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s announcement for the need to reconstruct the Boston Redevelopment Authority in January, Walsh appointed John Barros as chief of his Economic Development Cabinet.

As Economic Development Chief, Barros will oversee the BRA and will aid Walsh in sup-porting small businesses, promoting job growth and marketing Boston to the global economy. Walsh hopes to unite the Boston community through improved opportunities.

“John shares my belief that we have to do more than better organize our efforts — we have to ensure those efforts lead to more oppor-tunities for all of Boston’s residents and busi-ness owners,” Walsh said in a Monday release. “Boston’s economy is in a good position, but we can do better. With John, our job creators, and our communities all working together,

we will create more economic opportunities throughout our city and take Boston to the next level.”

In Walsh’s inauguration speech on Jan. 6, he announced the creation of the Boston Eco-nomic Development Authority, a new agency that consolidates a variety of economic devel-opment agencies in Boston, including BRA. BEDA will bring together all parts of city gov-ernment that deal with economic development and job creation. Barros will oversee BEDA, creating an efficient way for agencies to work together in Boston’s redevelopment efforts.

Barros, a mayoral candidate in the Nov. 2013 election, endorsed Walsh in the final weeks before the election, forging a strong rela-tionship between the two leaders.

“Excited to join Mayor @marty_walsh as the City’s new chief of economic development working to ensure everyone shares in Boston’s progress!” Barros tweeted Monday.

In 1991, at 17 years old, Barros was elected to the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Board of Directors, becoming the first teenager to serve on the board. He later served as the Vice President of DSNI and of Dudley Neigh-bors, Inc.

At Dartmouth College, Barros studied eco-nomics and African/African-American stud-ies. He interned at Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, where he continued to work full-time after graduation. In 2000, he became the interim Executive Director of DSNI, and after three months, he was appointed to the post per-manently.

Over the past decade, Barros has received numerous awards from the Boston community, including the Action for Boston Community Development Roxbury Community Award in 2000, the Robert Leo Ruffin Award from the

BELEN CUSIA/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFInterbrand, a global brand consultancy company, announced Thursday the launch of the re-energized image for the School of Management.

Boston University’s School of Manage-ment has partnered with brand consultancy firm Interbrand to revamp the college’s im-age.

SMG’s revitalized brand will emphasizes bold, ethical decision-making and taking re-sponsible risks, SMG Marketing and Com-munications Director Midge Wilcke said.

“The goal for the brand was to have key stakeholders in the building participating in conversation that, coupled with research, would help us really understand where we fit in today’s world as a business school,” she said.

SMG’s decision to revamp their brand co-incided with the school’s 100-year anniver-sary, Wilcke said. Interbrand announced the SMG initiative in a Thursday press release.

“Our goal was to create a compelling brand experience that would uniquely engage and inspire each of these different audiences and propel BU SMG on a path to excel in to-day’s — and tomorrow’s increasingly com-

petitive market,” said Interbrand Toronto Managing Director Alfred DuPuy in the re-lease.

Wilcke said ethical business leadership is integral to SMG’s curriculum and the values it attempts to instill in SMG students, Wilcke said.

“If you’re not doing this with the best pos-sible intentions, with ethics, with values, then what’s the point?” she said. “We feel that’s one thing that distinguishes us from certain of our competitors, that the human element is very critical for us.”

Associate Director of Marketing and Communications Adriane Dean, who worked closely with Interbrand, said SMG’s brand was largely rooted in authenticity.

“It was extremely important that we weren’t just defining a story or a brand for SMG that was what we assumed,” she said. “We did an extensive research process.”

SMG faculty and staff partnered with In-terbrand to interview current and prospective

In the wake of January’s eight gun-relat-ed homicides and state legislators’ efforts to strengthen state gun laws, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced he is contemplating enacting a buyback program with the Boston Police Department as part of a comprehensive effort to tackle gun violence in Boston.

The tentative buyback program would al-low private gun owners to sell their guns to the city in return for money. In a stepped-up effort to take illegal firearms off the streets, BPD has seized five handguns over the past week. Two handguns were seized Monday, bringing the total number of seized firearms this year to 58, according to the BPD website.

“The Mayor and the Boston Police De-partment have been discussing a number of strategies to address the violence in our city, including the possibility of a gun buyback program,” Walsh said in a Saturday statement. “The Mayor and Commissioner agree that the City needs to take a comprehensive approach to getting guns off of our streets.”

Walsh’s announcement followed the death of 9-year-old Jan Marcos Peña, a Mattapan boy shot by his 14-year-old brother on Friday.

The 14-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, was arraigned Monday morn-ing on charges of involuntary manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm. Juvenile Court Judge Leslie Harris set $50,000 cash bail for the youth, who is to appear in court again on March 3, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

“Investigators believe the boy was handling the firearm recklessly when it discharged, striking his younger brother,” said the District Attorney’s Office in a Friday release. “The ev-idence at this stage does not suggest that any other person in the juvenile’s home knew he possessed the firearm.”

John Rosenthal, the founder and chairman of Stop Handgun Violence, said a gun buy-back program is worth trying, but not suffi-cient enough to combat handgun violence.

“Unfortunately, it’s questionable whether gun buyback programs get the right guns off the street,” he said. “Anything short of trading a gang-member gun for a sustainable job is not going to do what is needed.”

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“Medical emergencies pre-dominate, [but we would also act] in the security situation,” she said. “There have been threats to Sochi. If there were a need to re-move people from that situation, then we would do that as well.”

Fortunately for athletes from the United States and other coun-tries, as well as spectators, it is unlikely that any attack will be successful.

“The security at the Olympics venue itself is very good,” said Corgan. “In fact, it’s so good that we’ve heard reports of smaller crowds than normal and lesser at-tendance at some of the events.”

However, U.S. authorities are not taking the situation lightly. Global Rescue has been planning for months for the Olympics and

for any possible contingencies that could occur. Ultimately, the goal is to make sure that the com-peting athletes are the only things to watch.

Some residents said it is best to plan for the worst-case scenario, because no matter how safe peo-ple may feel, terrorist attacks are possible.

“They definitely need to make sure that everything is secure and that there are no loopholes,” said Jonathan Page, 25, of Brighton. “Just the fact that there are these terrorist threats on such a global event is unnerving … any threat is credible until it is discredited.”

Arnold Lamb, 52, of Roxbury, drew comparisons to the Boston Marathon bombings and said both authorities and individuals need to be on guard.

“The key to security in this

time we live in is just to be vigi-lant of your surroundings, no matter what country you’re in, whether it’s Russia or the United States,” he said. “Look at the race here, the marathon … Russia has a different ideology, a different way of life, but worldwide, se-curity is that everyone has to be vigilant.”

Aaron Freed, 23, of Roxbury, said the Olympics are probably incredibly safe due to who is host-ing it this year.

“I know there have been ter-rorist attacks preceding [these Olympics], but both the Russians and the Americans would do a pretty good job at keeping the event secure,” he said. “Both are crazy superpowers that don’t take security lightly.”

Rosenthal said Congress is to blame for its failure in stopping the flow of guns into Boston from states that don’t require background checks. The City of Boston can only do so much without the federal government creating legislation to strengthen gun laws in all states.

“Congress allows 33 states, in-cluding New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont, to sell guns without a background check,” he said. “As long as that continues, guns will flow to the streets of Boston, and there will be more and more and more preventable gun violence un-til Congress enacts uniform national gun laws.”

Several residents said the gun buyback program is just the begin-ning of decreasing gun violence in the city.

Joe Pizziferri III, 20, of Boston, said there should be a greater focus on the social problems that lead to

gun violence because gun buyback programs will not be successful without support programs to help people walk away from a violent lifestyle.

“The problem is these days the kids don’t feel they’re engaged in the system,” he said. “[With the gun buyback program], you’ll get a couple old guns, maybe solve some cold cases, but you’re not going to prevent further violence.”

Cheryl Crawford, 55, of Rox-bury, said a gun buyback program would only cover up a larger is-sue and the police department and Walsh administration should be fo-cusing on making guns more diffi-cult to buy.

“Does it serve the purpose?” she said. “How are these guns getting here? [Getting guns off the streets] is not the major problem, so let’s try to find the solution to the major prob-lem … How do we stop this kind of traffic into Massachusetts?”

Archdiocese of Boston in 2004 and the Community Service Award from the Boston Day and Evening Acad-emy in 2008.

Several residents said Barros’ job has a lot of potential and hope he will make visible improvements in Bos-ton’s neighborhoods.

Joe Brown, 27, of Back Bay, said the economic development chief plays an important role in the city because he takes a piece of the work-load from Walsh and helps redevel-opment projects run efficiently.

“It’s important to delegate that side of running a city,” he said. “The mayor is more like a CEO, so he has to delegate down the business chain to the people underneath him, who then in turn, head up or specialize in different areas. It just allows things to be done more efficiently.”

Alice Cheng, 30, of Boston, said she hopes Barros improves redevel-opment in the city and focuses on im-

proving already existing structures, as well as creating new development projects.

“As it goes with any city, we want to make sure that what we have works,” she said. “We want to be proud of where we live. The streets, for example, in front of my building really need repair, so that’s great to hear that hopefully, at some point, these issues will be addressed. I want to be proud of where I live, so this is great to hear.”

Chloe Wornhan, 20, of Boston, said it is encouraging to see two lead-ers, who were previously opponents, work together for one common goal.

“It’s reassuring,” she said. “I actu-ally worked for Mike Ross, who was also a candidate for Boston Mayor, so it’s good that they’re working to-gether. It’s a little bit weird that they would work together because they may have some conflicting views, but it’s great that they can work to-gether for the good of Boston.”

students, alumni, and recruiters to determine stakeholders’ percep-tions of the school and how they felt SMG could improve, Dean said.

Wilcke said research found students, faculty and staff wanted SMG to avoid the cookie-cutter im-age of a typical business school.

“We’re connecting with the real world,” Wilcke said. “Our curricu-lum is becoming more and more experiential. We are not in an ivory tower just looking at the past. We are aspiring to do great things both today and in the future.”

SMG’s revamped brand aligns with the school’s goal of becoming one of the top 10 business schools in the world, Dean said.

“While the brand is important in helping everyone achieve the ultimate goal of becoming an elite business school, it’s not the game-

changer,” Dean said. “It’s going to help tell the story of the school, but the promotion of the brand is not meant to disproportionately pull any of the effort away from better-ing the school.”

SMG students said the school’s curriculum reflected its brand and that students exhibited the qualities central to the brand.

“People are becoming more bold, adaptive, taking risks,” said Veron Wong, an SMG junior con-centrating in finance.

Wong said SMG students are be-coming less focused on working at large corporate firms.

“A lot more people are moving from that to coming here to work at a startup or a tech company, or what [they’re] interested in,” he said. “That’s not how it used to be.”

SMG freshman Garrett Brower, who is concentrating in opera-tional management and finance,

said SMG’s emphasis on socially responsible business decisions was a result of the school’s attempt to remain current.

“The point of SMG is to prepare us for the corporate world,” Brower said. “If the corporate world is put-ting this emphasis on ethics, then SMG is going to follow, along with the other top-tier business schools.”

Evelyn Ling, a SMG senior concentrating in marketing and fi-nance, said she found SMG’s stress on adaptability a central component of her education.

“The culture here makes you feel like you need to be on top of things, and you need to be quicker than everyone else,” she said. “Peo-ple are impressed because you’re learning faster than everyone else, because you’ve already done the research. That’s something they instill in you as a freshman, and it stays with you.”

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Professors from Boston Uni-versity’s School of Public Health are using an online questionnaire to investigate factors that may cause infertility in women.

“We have a lot of experience conducting studies of fertility in Denmark and we wanted to con-duct a similar study here in the United States,” said SPH profes-sor and lead researcher Lauren Wise. “[We are] trying to identify risk factors for delayed concep-tions as well as other pregnancy outcomes like pre-term birth, low birth rate and miscarriage.”

PRESTO, the largest inter-net-based infertility study in the United States, minimizes the in-effi ciencies associated with tra-ditional epidemiological research methods, Wise said.

Wise said the study cuts back on costs associated with mailing questionnaires to and from par-ticipants.

Elizabeth Hatch, a SPH pro-fessor of epidemiology and co-investigator of the project, said she and Wise have worked on the

Danish equivalent of the PRESTO project since 2007.

“We wanted to test this in Denmark because they have a fabulous system of health reg-istries,” Hatch said. “Basically, they collect data on pretty much everything you can imagine. You can enroll someone as we’re do-

ing using the Internet, and you get their personal ID number. We’re able to follow and do all these linkages with say, the outcomes of their babies or the health of their children later on.”

Wise believed employing this strategy in the United States

In a continuing effort to raise the minimum wage in Massachu-setts, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Majority Whip Richard Durbin met with Boston workers and business owners in a round-table conference on Monday.

Raising the minimum wage has been an issue circulating the U.S. government for a while now, yet the Massachusetts minimum wage has not been raised in fi ve years. This conference involved advocating for raising not only the Massachusetts minimum wage, but the federal minimum wage as well.

Warren and Durbin both spon-sored the Minimum Wage Fair-ness Act, which works to raise the federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 to $10.10 over the course of two years.

“Raising the minimum wage is the fi rst step to rebuild and strengthen America’s middle class,” Warren said in a Monday release. “Congress has not given workers a raise since George W. Bush was president, and the fed-eral hourly minimum wage for tipped workers has been frozen in place at $2.13 since George H.W. Bush was in the White House. It’s time to raise the minimum wage because full-time work should not mean full-time poverty.”

Supporters of the movement argue that full-time workers should not still be struggling to pay rent and put food on the table.

“Imagine being a single par-ent working 40 hours a week to care for your two small children. If you’re working for the current minimum wage, you’re living in poverty,” said Durbin in the release. “Raising the minimum wage will lift millions out of pov-erty and strengthen the middle class in America.”

The conference’s purpose was to get local workers and busi-nesses to plead their cases for

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While a new study points out that many college students are un-able to distinguish between for-profi t and nonprofi t universities, students at Boston University are unaware of BU’s not-for-profi t sta-tus.

“For-profi t schools are owned by their investors, who expect to profi t from their investment, said Jay Halfond, an associate professor of administrative sciences at Met-ropolitan College. “This puts pres-sure on these schools to constantly increase enrollments and revenues, no matter what it takes. Not-for-profi t schools … are expected to operate in the public interest, and are exempt from taxes and permit-ted to raise funds from donors.”

The study, which was released by the nonprofi t research group Public Agenda, examined the un-derstanding for-profi t universities had of the implications of that sta-tus, said Public Agenda Director of Research Carolin Hagelskamp.

“The Profi ting Higher Education

study is on undergraduates who are currently enrolled at for-profi t uni-versities, alumni and employers’ views and experiences with the for-profi t higher education sector,” Hagelskamp said. “The words ‘for-profi t college’ are very prominent among higher education leaders and policy-makers.”

The study found that although the students surveyed attended for-profi t schools, they were often unaware of the meaning behind the term “for-profi t,” Hagelskamp said.

“We found that the term itself is so unknown and so not thought about,” she said. “Even undergradu-ates at for-profi t colleges said abso-lutely nothing comes to mind when they hear the term ... This shows that the term itself is not something students really think about.”

Hagelskamp said the lack of awareness among students of the profi t agenda of their schools did not signify a lack of interest.

“We also know from our quali-tative work that once you give stu-dents the chance to think through these concepts of how a school is

governed, funded, what its mission is and how for-profi t and nonprofi t admission might be different, we found in our focus groups that our prospective students are really in-terested in these conversations, and it really changes the way they think about their college choices,” she said.

For-profi t universities have ac-cumulated a negative reputation

due to the underhanded recruitment tactics of certain schools, Halfond said.

“There have been far more scan-dals and concerns with the overly aggressive tactics of for-profi ts,” he said. “Many have recruited new students in misleading ways [such as] promising success, encouraging

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PHOTO COURTESY OF CREATIVE COMMONSBoston University School of Public Health and the Slone Epidemiology Center recently released PRESTO, Pregnancy Study Online, which iden-tifi es some of the leading factors behind infertility in young couples.

GRAPHIC BY MAYA DEVEREAUX/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFPublic Agenda, a nonprofi t that researches public policy issues, released a study Monday that explores trends involving students and alumni from for-profi t colleges.

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CSA begins campaign to jumpstart student engagement

With schools such as Boston University adopting Common Sense Action chapters on cam-puses across the nation, a contest will be held to spread awareness of the new national organization.

The CSA Campus Challenge, which launched Friday, encour-ages individual CSA-affi liated schools to compete through-out the coming months to foster awareness among their student populations in a manner personal-ized to each campus, according to a press release.

“We are an organization that has many chapters, said Abigail Fletes, president of the BU CSA chapter. “It started at Brown Uni-versity, and now all the chapters are looking to spread the word … We are looking to get people in-volved in our movement, we want

people to be made aware.”Twenty-fi ve schools are par-

ticipating in the competition with BU, including the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and Tulane University.

CSA, which currently has chapters in 25 universities throughout the country, aims to promote generational equity by encouraging the current college-age generation, known as millen-nials, to take a stand in national policies, said CSA CEO Sam Gil-man.

“We are an organization found-ed by millenials and millennial run and driven, looking to bring the millennial generation to the policy table,” Gilman, a sopho-more at Brown pursuing a degree in public policy, said. “We want to advance generational fairness and equate and protect the inter-ests of grandpa and dad while also paying close attention to what we

as the younger generation need.”The organization is built on

a variety of principles that ulti-mately seek to forge a path for millennials in the political world they will eventually run through a bipartisan agenda, Gilman said.

“We want millenials to have the skills they need to advance equity across the board,” he said. “Our ultimate goal is to repair politics, and the key with this is that we are bipartisan. It’s most important that we have broad, bi-partisan goals.”

One of the ways BU CSA seeks to promote their group for the competition is by advertising their Agenda for Generational Equity, a petition created by CSA chapters that aims to involve col-lege-age students in national poli-tics, Fletes said.

The petition encompasses a

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The following crime reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton D-14 crime logs from Feb. 5 to Feb. 11.

Victim fl ees after attacking store clerk

On Friday at 2:00 p.m., offi cers arrived at 215 Harvard Ave. for a reported assault and battery. The male suspect entered the store and attempted to attack the woman behind the counter. Unsuccessful in his attack, the suspect fl ed the store on Harvard Avenue toward Commonwealth Avenue, after the victim fought back by kicking and pushing him. The victim said she is familiar with the suspect.

Suspect ransacks house as victim hides inside

At 9:01 a.m. on Sunday, offi -cers received a call for a breaking and entering in progress at 130 Englewood Ave. The victim told offi cers that the suspects rang the doorbell four times before shatter-ing the glass to gain entrance into the apartment. Offi cers found the kitchen window ajar upon arrival. While the suspects were inside the apartment, the victim hid in a locked bedroom. A MacBook Pro, another laptop and a fl at screen television were taken.

Suspect enters through unlocked door

Offi cers received a call for a breaking and entering in prog-ress at 51 Gardner St. at 4:51 a.m. on Sunday. The victim said she woke up after hearing a noise in her apartment. When she went to investigate, she found the female suspect walking around her apart-ment. After seeing the victim, the suspect fl ed through the front door and ran toward Ashford Street.

Store robbed at gunpointOn Sunday, offi cers responded

to a call from 1610 Common-wealth Ave. According to the vic-tim, the suspect, wearing a brown cloth that covered his face, held a fi rearm to the victim’s body. He demanded the victim to open the cash register and fl ed, after steal-ing the contents of the register.

Suspect arrested for tagging Offi cers arrived at 34 Harvard Ave. at 12:22 a.m. on Sunday for a report that people were tagging the side of a building. Witnesses told offi cers they had observed the suspects in the act. The suspects were arrested and brought to the station.

Apartment ransacked, electronic devices taken

On Sunday at 9:25 p.m., of-fi cers received a call for a break-ing and entering at 79 Elmira St. The victim told offi cers he left his apartment for a short time found his apartment torn apart when he returned. His dog was locked in the bathroom. Offi cers found the rear bedroom window removed with the window screen cut, and they assumed the suspect fl ed through the rear door. An Xbox One, Xbox 360, iPad, iPod, Bose speakers, a digital camera, cloth-ing and medication were stolen.

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would allow for aggregated data analysis and increased statistical signifi cance, which lends a study more validity, she said.

“[We want] to combine data to make it a more powerful, infor-mative study,” Wise said.

Participants in the study are asked questions about their medi-cal history and lifestyle choices, such as diet and exercise, Wise said.

Every two months, participants are sent a shorter, follow-up ques-tionnaire that asks for updated information about their lifestyle choices and state of pregnancy. The bimonthly questionnaires are sent until participants become pregnant or until 12 months have elapsed.

“Another motivation was test-ing out this novel methodology, which is to see if we can recruit

and follow participants solely through the Internet,” Wise said. “In Denmark, it works well, and we’ve shown it to be very cost effective. So that was the other question: is it successful and cost effective in the United States or is it something that can only be con-ducted in European countries?”

The study, which was launched in July, currently has over 1,000 participants, Wise said. Wise and her colleagues said they hope to garner 2,500 couples between 21 and 45 years of age to participate in the study.

Wise said she is making an effort to reach minority popula-tions.

“It’s actually much harder in fertility studies to enroll minority participants,” she said. “We try to show a different range of ethnic groups in the ads that we show. We also try to advertise in differ-ent venues.”

As an incentive for male par-ticipation, Wise is offering every one of 250 couples a chance to win an iPad Mini.

“Fertility is a couple-based outcome,” Wise said. “We can look at factors, for example Body Mass Index for women and men in a regression model. We can look at male’s obesity and control for female’s obesity.”

Kristen Hahn, a SPH gradu-ate student and research fellow for the project, said the internet-based study could revolutionize public health research.

“Pretty much everyone now has some sort of internet pres-ence,” Hahn said. “It makes data collection a lot easier than hav-ing to call or send out mail, and it’s cheaper. Hopefully we’ll be able to do just as high of quality research in a more cost-effective way because, obviously, funds are limited.”

“three-point plan” of advancing generational fairness, investing in millennial mobility and repairing politics, Fletes said. The petition is available online for BU stu-dents to sign.

“We want to spread the word about the petition and get people to sign it.” She said “We’ll use all the social media outlets to make people aware of what we are and what we are doing.”

Peter Stephan, a member of BU’s CSA chapter, said they would be developing hyped digi-tal media to establish a larger on-line presence.

“Some of the other parts of the challenge involve producing semi-viral creations to bring in a lot more presence for our chap-ter’s Facebook page and the na-tional Facebook page,” Stephan, a CAS senior, said. “We’re trying to get more people to like these pages to bring up the online pres-

ence of the group.”The BU chapter of CSA is also

publishing a weekly blog docu-menting the power millennials can have in national politics as a message to Congress, Gilman said.

“She [Fletes] is having her group publish a weekly blog about how CSA has helped her group see politics can be impact-ed by millenials,” Gilman said. “They’re telling Congress we need change now through content creation and writing.

Fletes said CSA is also plan-ning to invite U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren to campus after having met with one of her aides in the summer.

“We hope now that we’ve made that connection that we can eventually have Senator Warren come here to speak one night at BU,” Fletes said. “We want her to speak to a student body and lend some insight.”

why raising the minimum wage is so vital in hopes of proving that a low minimum wage is hurting hard workers who are contribut-ing to society.

Lew Finfer, co-chair of Raise Up Massachussetts, a coalition that has a ballot initiative dedicat-ed to raising the state minimum wage to $10.50 by 2016 and tying the minimum wage to the rising cost of living, also attended the meeting.

“With over half a million peo-ple in Massachusetts and 30 mil-lion across America, earning less than $10.50 an hour, we have to stand up together for the dignity and respect owed to low wage workers,” he said in the release. “Our American values say if you work hard, you should not make wages that leave you in poverty and we together are determined to change that.”

Some residents said there would not actually be a qualita-tive difference because compa-nies will take steps to counteract the higher wages.

“Corporate capitalists may hire less, or give workers less hours or raise prices to make up the difference,” said George Wil-liams, 72, of Roxbury. “They’re going to make sure that they end up on the top one way or another. Profi t margins will probably be the same or greater. It’s just an-other excuse to hire less.”

Ahmi Goldberg, 20, of Boston, said he struggles with a job that does not pay enough, even though it pays higher than the minimum wage.

“It’s defi nitely important to raise the minimum wage,” he said. “Even as a student where my tuition covers some food and housing, I fi nd that it’s sometimes hard to get by.”

Sheldon Young, 84, of Ken-more, said workers on minimum wage are merely surviving, and that should not be the case for people working hard.

“Wages are way too low, people can’t live on it,” he said. “People are surviving, but the minimum wage needs to be raised so they can have a greater quality of life.”

debt, pushing prospective students to enroll. In general, nonprofi ts operate more idealistically and ethi-cally.”

BU is a nonprofi t institution of higher education, said BU spokes-man Colin Riley.

“We are nonprofi t,” Riley said. “The vast majority of schools are non-profi t ... It really shouldn’t mat-ter to the student, except if they’re not getting the quality of education they expect to be getting.”

Halfond said nonprofi t univer-sities are ideal for the spectrum of educational enrichment they can provide without the restrictions of

providing a profi t for investors.“The for-profi ts rarely invent

anything new — they simply take a few of the programs the nonprofi ts invented and create a mass market for them,” he said. “The nonprofi ts, like BU, represent the truly creative setting for a broad range of educa-tional programs and disciplines.”

Several students were unable to determine whether BU is for-profi t or not-for-profi t.

Emma Grillet, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she could guess that BU was not-for-profi t, but could not think of a rea-son why she thinks so.

“I think it’s a non-profi t, but I have no idea,” she said, “I guess

for-profi t is just to make more mon-ey to keep for themselves, while non-profi t is put towards buying stuff for the student. I just said BU was non-profi t off the top of my head because I think I’ve heard it before.”

Victoria De La Vega, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilita-tion Sciences freshman, said BU’s pricey tuition leads her to surmise that it is a for-profi t university, even though it is a not-for profi t institu-tion.

“I like to think it’s nonprofi t, be-cause it makes me feel better,” she said. “BU is so expensive though, that it makes me think it might be for-profi t.”

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While many a lazy Saturday in-cludes laying on the couch, stu-

dents and spectators made their lounging a little more active with the fi rst ever Great Boston Couch Race, a celebration of pan-Asian cuisine and a rebranding for the House of Tsang brand sauces and oils.

Saturday the shops at Pru-dential Center in Boylston Plaza were transformed into an obstacle course to host the race. Teams drove custom engineered bike pedal couches to get the fastest time. The obstacles of the race were designed to represent the obstacles of an average hungry person cooking dinner and having a movie night at home on his or her couch.

“We’ve custom-built couch bikes, and so now there are only two of these in the world,” said Ben Boskovich, a House of Tsang spokesman. “They’re hooked up so that you can run through this course that we’ve built.”

Contestants fi rst picked up a DVD, then competed in a “Wok toss” with vegetables, then se-lected a protein. After the ingre-dients were selected, contestants switched couches with their op-ponents and raced back to the fi n-ish line.

Some of the fi rst contestants of the day had a great experience with the Great Boston couch race.

“Even though we lost it was

a fun experience,” said Elisa Gi-rard, contestant of the race. “I’m glad we came out. It was fun learning about stir-fry while rid-ing on a couch.”

Her husband and teammate, Vivian Girard, also said he had a good time.

“We got some free sauce so we are going to try it,” Girard said. “We learned a lot about stir-fry from the race. It was an original way to learn about cooking for sure.”

The Girards’ opponents, John and Lorae Stolpp, were very en-thusiastic about their experience.

“It was fun and crazy!” Lorae said. “Crashing into the poles was our favorite part. It was very ex-citing. I couldn’t control my back end!”

Her husband took joy in a more simple factor: winning.

“It was a kick,” he said. “We love stir fry and we love their stuff. Winning was very fun! The couch ride was very relaxing while my wife was taking her time pedaling through the course.”

While House of Tsang wanted its participants of the Great Bos-ton Couch Race to have a fantas-tic time, their main goal was to enforce the practice of stir-fry.

“The message we are trying to get across is that making stir-fry is easy,” Boskovich said. “You can have a lot of fun just on your couch when you use House of Tsang sauce.”

The brand was emphasizing its

marketing plan of turning Thurs-day into “Stirsday,” a concept that asks customers to transform nor-mal Thursday night dinners into a night with stir-fry using House of Tsang stir-fry sauces.

“We have Taco Tuesday and we have Wing Wednesday, but good old Thursday doesn’t have anything to associate with,” Bos-kovich said. “So we’re going to turn Thursday into Stirsday, the night that you eat stir-fry with House of Tsang sauces.”

Stir-frying is a form of Chi-nese cooking that combines two techniques that prepare food in a wok: chǎo and bào. These two techniques differ in their speed, amount of heat used and amount of tossing done to cook the food in a wok.

“There’s a perception out there that stir-fry isn’t the most ap-proachable and easy dinner op-tion, and that’s not true,” Boskov-ich said. “When you have sauce like House of Tsang it’s like the secret ingredient.”

Jake Nelson, product manager for House of Tsang, said Thurs-days can be the most diffi cult time for meal planning. House of Tsang saw this as an opportunity to use their sauces to make din-nertime easier and more exciting.

“We hope this event really equates our brand with a lot of fun and a lot of stir-fry,” Nelson said. “We’re trying to tie the stir-fry concept to fun and our sauces. That’s really the goal.”

Nelson said he was very pleased with the execution of the race.

“It’s a little chilly, but we re-ally can’t control that,” Nelson said. “I think the set up and turn out look great. Things went very well.”

Participants and attendees were also impressed with the fi nal product of the race.

“The race was really fun to watch,” said Danielle Glenn, who watched the race from the sidelines. “I like how they incor-porated the elements that go into their stir-fry recipes like the pro-tein and vegetables. This was a fun way to get people, including myself, to try cooking stir-fry.”

Boskovich said the House of Tsang sauces will help make “Stirsday” easy to achieve be-cause the sauces allow for a short recipe and a simple “3-2-1” cook-ing formula.

“Our recipes are simple,” Bos-kovich said. “It’s protein, a veg-etable and in less than 30 minutes you can have a great meal. It’s great for people who live a busy lifestyle and don’t have a lot of time to cook elaborate dinners.”

Tyler Ramirez, another couch-watcher, said he is enthusiastic to

use his new House of Tsang sauce. “I love to cook, but stir-fry is

something that’s always been way out of my comfort zone,” Ramirez said. “After attending the Boston Couch Race I’m excited to try stir-fry for sure. I can’t wait until Stirsday.”

The two best teams at the race were awarded items that included an Xbox One console and a six-month subscription to Netfl ix. People who tweeted about Stirs-day and teams who won races throughout the day won prizes that varied from Netfl ix subscrip-tions, a Samsung 32’’ fl at screen LED HDTV, a Samsung WiFi Blu-ray Player, to various House of Tsang product bundles.

In addition to these prizes, the House of Tsang brand also offered attendees a chance to taste four different sauces in a sampling tent, and also see demonstrations of the simple stir-fry recipes that House of Tsang is indorsing to kick-start Stirsday.

“Some people may ask why we are here, and the answer i s that we’re here to show you that these sauces are amazing and something that you always want to have in your fridge.”

Stir-fry and couches combine to make “Stirsday”

STACY SCHOONOVER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Contestants peddle bikes at the Boston Couch Race hosted by House of Tsang to promote pan-Asian cuisine.

PHOTO COURTEST OF HOUSE OF TSANGCouch potatoes raced through a series of obstacles designed to mimic the struggles of dinner at home.

The Great Boston Couch Race promotes pan-Asian cuisine

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Focus on the Games

Arrival

TATE GIESELMANNAfter months of speculation, nervousness,

restless days and sleepless nights, I finally found myself on my flight to Shanghai. Al-though 14 hours of uninterrupted airtime is a lot for anyone to handle, I survived the flight without issue.

My arrival in Shanghai was met with little pomp or circumstance. Shanghai Pudong In-ternational Airport, a more recent addition to the city of Shanghai, appeared almost identi-cal to any U.S. airport I’ve been to. Signs in Chinese and English guided me to customs, then baggage claim, which I experienced without trouble.

Professor Allison Rottmann and Ms. Lisa Yu of the Boston University Shanghai pro-gram met me near baggage claim. I got the feeling we were all excited to see each other, and I was relieved to find someone who spoke English and was concerned for my well-being. We hung around the airport for another hour or so until the rest of the students in the program showed up and headed back to our dormitory.

After arriving at Tonghe International Stu-dent Housing, I was surprised by the relative luxury I was set to enjoy for the next four months. Having lived in an Allston apartment for the past semester, the personal shower, spacious living room and incredible views were a welcomed comfort. I unpacked my be-longings and prepared myself for the upcom-ing days.

Our program orientation leader helped introduce us to the program and the city of Shanghai. We were given pay-as-you-go mo-bile phones that looked like something out of an early season of “The Wire,” though at this point, I was just glad to be able to call home. We arrived amidst the coldest stretch of days Shanghai has seen all year, so our campus tour was marred only by an onslaught of snow-flakes. We took our shelter at a local restau-rant whose name literally translated to “Really Good Seafood.” We sampled a number of lo-cal delicacies, including dumplings, specially cooked shrimp and mushrooms, deciding that the restaurant was aptly named.

Another early highlight was a group ven-ture to Chinese Wal-Mart. Though the interior of this Wal-Mart looked more like Super-88 on Brighton Avenue than any American Wal-Mart I’ve been to, I found that the four-story complex had everything my American heart could desire. Our group stocked up on mat-tress pads, soap, slippers, dragon fruit, laundry detergent and anything else we thought would help increase the comfort of our living situa-tion.

There are some differences between living in America and Shanghai that I realized fairly

early into my time here. The prevalence of the Chinese language is a difference that seemed obvious but still has a somewhat large impact — it has been an amazing experience seeing the characters I studied on note cards only a week before being used on street signs, restau-rant windows and billboards.

Another interesting difference is the archi-tecture of the city. The streets look distinctly Chinese in a way that is hard to describe. Nic-er buildings have marble ledges out front, ap-pealing to my inner skateboarder. The build-ings themselves are often far different from traditional American rectangles. Classical Chinese values often manifest themselves in the design of buildings, whether as a pagoda-like classroom building or a seemingly Taoist skyscraper. The buildings themselves are nev-er heated to the level we are accustomed to in Boston, forcing us to wear our jackets indoors. Professor Rottmann told us that though proper heating technology is available, the Chinese try and minimize their use of electricity by re-fraining from overusing the heat.

Though there are a few obvious differ-ences between Shanghai and American cit-ies such as Boston, at their core, these cities are inherently similar. Though street signs are often written only in Chinese, I can often determine their meaning by the shape of the sign or the context of the situation. The more Chinese I learn and the more I converse with native speakers, the more I realize that Eng-lish phrases often have their Chinese equiv-alents and vice versa. For example, as I left Family Mart (the Chinese equivalent of 7-11) this morning, I was certain the cashier said, ‘Thank you, come again” to me in Chinese. Basic exchanges like this reinforce my belief that our cultures are not as different as they are made out to be.

Another similarity I noticed is the public transportation system. Though I’ve only taken the bus once, the bus ride was eerily similar to my experiences taking the MBTA’s 57-bus home from class in Boston. People crowded in the bus, talking to each other in Chinese, English and a few other dialects.

I remarked to our RA Zhang Liang that taking the bus in China was very similar in the United States. He responded to me, “Well, they all have four wheels, right?”

This weekend we will travel to Beijing, the political and pollution capital of modern China. I can’t wait to experience more of this country!

Tate Gieselmann is a College of Arts and Sciences junior studying abroad in China. He can be reached at tateag@bu.edu.

A SemeSTer in SHAnGHAi

In a full-page ad in The New York Times Tuesday entitled “An Appeal to President Putin and the Russian Government,” 51 sig-natories called on President Vladimir Putin of Russia to lead efforts in helping the mil-lions suffering in Syria. The headline reads, “Give the world a real Olympic opening — open Syria to life-saving aid.” Slow down there, signatories, Russia is still trying to il-luminate that fifth Olympic ring.

As it holds one of the most expensive Olympic Games in history, Russia has been under a global spotlight in the past few weeks. Regardless of its shortcomings ac-cording to the appeal, “The Sochi Winter Olympics will deliver a dazzling spectacle, breath-taking athleticism and shimmering winter beauty.” The appeal then continues to say, although Sochi is currently accom-modating this grand event with thousands of athletes and spectators from all over the world, Putin should be paying attention to “a very different spectacle” that is unfolding in Syria.

As the appeal points out, 2 million chil-dren have been forced out of school in Syria, while 9 million people are in need of hu-manitarian assistance — more than 13 times the number of people that are attending or participating in the Sochi Games.

“If the Olympic Games showcases the best of humanity, Syria showcases the worst. The most expensive Games in history will take place so close to the worst humanitarian crisis of our times,” the appeal states.

Syria is a mess and there is no hiding that fact, but this country became a mess long be-fore the Olympics were held a mere 1,000 miles away.

Notable signatories of this appeal include former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former U.S. National Security Ad-visor Samuel Berger and musician and so-cial activist Peter Gabriel. These signatories, among 48 others, are urging President Putin to lead efforts in solving Syria’s enduring humanitarian problems. These provisions in-clude leading efforts that ensure aid reaches all those in need, abolishing the use of ille-gal war tactics and providing grounds for a peaceful coexistence among differing faiths

and backgrounds. The appeal claims Putin’s efforts could, “unlock the step-change the world wants to see in alleviating the suffer-ing of the Syrian people.”

Although the opening paragraph of the appeal adequately highlights the contrast between the grandeur of the Winter Games and the desolation in Syria, it is a weak ar-gument. Just because Russia is somewhat, kind-of-sort-of close to Syria, does not mean Putin is responsible for righting all of the wrongs within the country. He’s got his own issues to worry about for the next few weeks— like the fact that #sochiproblems is trending on Twitter.

Although a full-page ad in The New York Times is a noble attempt at bringing the plight in Syria back into the minds of the public, it is not fair to pin this burden on Pu-tin. Syria’s suffering is not something Putin should be worrying about during the 16 days of the Winter Games, but rather it is some-thing we should all be worrying about all the time.

If the 2014 Winter Olympics were in New York would the same 51 signatories be call-ing on U.S. President Barack Obama to pay attention to the ongoing drug war in Mex-ico around 2,000 miles away? What about when the 2004 Summer Olympics were held in Greece? Nobody put out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for former Greek President Konstantinos Stephanopou-los to use the Olympics as a stage to aid the War in Darfur, Sudan, 1,800 miles away.

The point of the Olympics is to temporar-ily set aside all of our existing geopolitical differences in the world, and instead use it as a time for us to all be together as a world. These next 11 days should be used for each country to showcase its best talent and to celebrate their raw athletic ability and deter-mination.

Just as the appeal states, during the So-chi Olympics we as a world are witnessing, “extreme feats of human bravery and see in the faces of the world’s best athletes the sheer tenacity and commitment that has gone into training for the games.” This is what the Games have always been about, and what they should continue to be about.

Terrier Talk Reflections

Former University of missouri defensive end michael Sam publicly

came out as gay Sunday night. if chosen in the upcoming nFL draft, Sam could be the first openly gay player in the nFL. The Daily Free

Press wanted to hear if students think the nFL is ready to accept openly gay

players.

Here’s what some of them said. INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOSBY ALEXANDRA WIMLEY

“I think that people are becom-ing more progressive but it still might have some effect on his plac-ing.”

- CAS sophomore

“It’s still a really controver-sial topic... so I feel like a lot of people will be fine with it but I feel like there are also going to be people that are not going to be okay with it and might even switch teams. I personally think it’s great.”

- ENG junior

“I think whether or not it will affect his draft pick...isn’t really the big issue here. I think that it’s going to bring into account a very important discussion thats need to be had today in sports about... the ac-ceptance of people.”

- CAS sophomore

“Football is about com-ing together as a team and working together to accom-plish something and if you can’t see your fellow team-mate as a fellow human be-ing then you’re not a team player.”

- CFA sophomore

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Ontario native. “I don’t think he is a guy you can stop, so we want to try and make things more difficult for him and take away space. We might look to post him up more since he didn’t really post up too much last game.”

Overall, the Raiders rank second in the Patriot League in team field goal percent-age and 3-point field goal percentage.

Colgate’s guards are also careful with the basketball, as the team ranks first in the league in assist-to-turnover ratio. Guards Austin Tilloston and Luke Roh rank second and fifth, respectively, in that individual category in the conference.

While Colgate currently sits near the bottom of the league standings, the Raiders are fresh off a victory over the top-ranked Eagles, and will be looking to knock off yet another top Patriot League team.

The key for the Terriers, as has been all season, will be sustained focus and ex-ecution. Prior to this weekend, this was a major issue for Jones and his team as they struggled to hold large second half leads. The team found itself in high-pressure late game moments that could have been avoid-ed.

“Right now we just have to take it one game, one possession at a time, improve defensively, make less mistakes, have more focus and be consistent, which I think we did a good job of against Lafayette,” Jones said.

This past weekend, BU showed it could close out a game that it led at halftime when the Terriers defeated Lafayette College by 34 points, 88-54. Entering the second half, the Terriers held a sizeable 19-point lead, and rather than taking their foot off the gas, the Terriers built upon their lead in the sec-ond half.

As the game entered the home stretch, where it was evident BU was going to be victorious, Jones turned up the pressure for his team. He switched to a press defense and required more hustle from his players to help further secure the lead and snap the bad second-half rut the Terriers had been in for several games.

The team continued a balanced offen-sive attack in the second frame, and got tre-mendous performances from senior guard D.J. Irving and sophomore forward Justin Alston. Irving finished with 16 points, go-ing 7-for-14 from the field, to go along with five assists.

Alston, who has primarily played off of the bench this season, came through with a career game, rattling off a game-high 17 points, while recording a steal and one block.

The strong effort throughout the contest against Lafayette is something Jones said is important to the team as it moves forward to postseason play.

“Overall, we want to show balance and consistency in what we’re doing,” Jones said. That’s the key thing, it also is what makes us really good.”

Terriers seek ‘balance,’ ‘consistency’

McKay: NFL needs to adapt, ready for Michael Sam, changelikely will be drafted come April, named Michael Sam. Can he carry the flag for gay players in the NFL, and indeed in major professional sports as a whole? Will teams avoid drafting him because of his “bag-gage?” An interesting parallel to Sam, in terms of the media craziness sure to fol-low him throughout his NFL career, is Tim Tebow.

Tebow became a media darling thanks not only to his two national titles and his Heisman Trophy, but also thanks to his oft-proclaimed religion. The circus followed Tebow throughout his time with the Denver Broncos (when he was a semi-competent NFL quarterback) and New York Jets, but he is now out of the NFL.

If the media will obsess over a player for something as innocuous as his religious beliefs, or his hard-partying image (Johnny Manziel’s case), imagine what they’ll be like with Michael Sam, the first active gay man in the four major American pro sports. It’ll be absolutely insane. Let’s say he is drafted by the Patriots in the fourth round. After the first day of training camp in the summer, the media will largely ignore Tom Brady, Vince Wilfork and the team’s other established veterans. They’ll gravitate to Sam. That sort of pressure and attention is rarely lavished on mid-round picks. With a few exceptions, they labor in anonym-ity until they give some sort of reason to be known. Teams may balk at that, and it won’t even be Sam’s fault. They might

want to avoid the added pressure on the team and might not want one player to be the center of attention. And Sam could get left out in the cold, with no team to play for unless he can sign on as an undrafted free agent.

If Sam isn’t drafted, it’s a crying shame. He led the Southeastern Conference (the best conference in college football) in sacks this season, and is a fearsome rusher off the outside edge from his defensive end posi-tion. He was a First-Team All-SEC selec-tion, won the SEC Defensive Player of the Year and was a First-Team All-American. There’s no reason he should not be drafted, unless he tears an ACL or kills someone be-fore April. According to ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr., Sam is a mid-round prospect

and should go anywhere in the third to fifth rounds in the draft.

Regardless of whether Sam is drafted or not, the fact that he’s trying to be a trail-blazer for gay athletes is admirable. The situation is like Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in baseball back in 1947. Fans and organizations alike knew that it would happen eventually, but teams weren’t will-ing to step up and sign Robinson. It’s the same for Sam. We knew a gay athlete was coming in major professional sports. And I think we’re finally ready for him. With gay marriage quickly becoming legal across the country, it’s time for pro sports, football es-pecially, to get out of the 1960’s.

Welcome to the NFL, Michael Sam. We’ve been expecting you.

Mckay: From Page 8

point, they can look at the fact that they did territorially play pretty well and got plenty of shots,” Durocher said. “But it probably gets offset by the fact that it leaves a real

hollow feeling, and part of this game is be-ing able to close the deal.

“I’ll make sure they recognize … how hard they played and how well they played for the most part, but it can be a broken re-cord if we’re not taking care of business.”

BU gets shots, not win in consolation gameWoMen’s hockey: From Page 8

43.5 percent of her 3-pointers.Repoli is third on the team in total

points (186) and points per game (8.1) to fellow juniors Carole Harris and Mariah Jones, who have averaged 12.4 and 9.9 points, respectively.

Harris has 70 points in her last five games and is shooting 40.1 percent in that time. Jones has a less impressive 39 in her last five and seems to be going through a bit of a rough patch, as she is only shooting about 29.2 percent from the field, 10 marks short of her season average.

As a team, the Raiders shoot about 35.9 percent from the field with a 32.2 percent success rate from 3-point territory. The Terriers, in comparison, pot their shots 36.9 percent of the time and make roughly 32 percent of their tries from beyond the arc. Colgate is, on average, outscored by

its opponents by a 10.6 point margin and allows teams to hit a solid 42.8 percent of shots.

Despite their less-than-desirable record and statistics, the Raiders have the upper leg over BU in some conference statistics. Colgate has the Terriers beat in points per game (though BU has scored more total points), 3-point percentage, 3-point de-fense, rebounds, steals and turnover mar-gin.

“Colgate plays very hard, they mix up their defenses quite a bit,” They do good things. We just have to be ready for what-ever they’re doing defensively and really take it to them offensively.

To beat Colgate, BU needs a strong plan of action, and Greenberg said the team needs to be ready to adapt.

“We can’t have one set plan,” Green-berg said. “We’ve got to be ready for any-thing.”

Colgate brings in tenacious trio for women’s basketball to counter

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On the night of the Beanpot Championship, it was the conso-lation game that was packed with tension and excitement.

In a contest that was not de-cided until there were 10 seconds remaining in overtime, the Boston University women’s hockey team fell to No. 4/6 Harvard Univer-sity 3-2 at Conte Forum Tuesday night.

“It was a consolation game where both teams were playing with a pretty good conviction,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “And that doesn’t always hap-pen when you’re a little bit dis-appointed with not getting to the fi nals.”

The Terriers (19-10-1, 12-5-0 Hockey East) came out fi ring, putting up 12 shots on goal in the fi rst period against a very stout Crimson (20-3-3) defense that al-lowed a miniscule 1.28 goals per game heading into the matchup.

Unfortunately for BU, Harvard goaltender Emerance Maschmey-er — who allowed just 1.48 goals per game before tonight — was in top form, stopping all 12 shots.

With 5:09 remaining in the fi rst period, forward Jessica Har-vey started the scoring, getting the puck past senior goaltender Kerrin Sperry and putting Har-vard up 1-0. Her score stood as the only goal of the period.

The second period had a simi-lar pace to the fi rst, with BU win-ning the shot battle 12-8. But this time, the Terriers were able to capitalize early in the frame.

At the 3:30 mark of the period, the NCAA’s leading goal-scorer, sophomore forward Sarah Lefort, netted her 27th goal of the season to put BU on the board and tie up the game.

After impressive goaltending for the remainder of the period, the teams headed back to their respective locker rooms with one goal apiece at the end of two.

In the third period, the tide began to turn, as the Crimson got

the better of the scoring opportu-nities. But a charging penalty on forward Miye D’Oench 8:44 into the period sent BU on a crucial power play.

The Terriers made the most of the opportunity, as freshman for-ward Maddie Elia sent the puck over to Lefort, who ripped a shot on net. Senior captain Louise War-ren, who was stationed in front of the cage, defl ected the shot off her stick and into the net for the pow-er-play goal. The score gave BU the 2-1 lead with 10:04 remaining in regulation.

The one-goal lead was not enough, though. D’Oench, who took the penalty that led to BU’s second goal, was able to redeem herself less than three minutes later, scoring the game-tying goal.

“We were up 2-1 and then un-fortunately we didn’t keep our composure in the last 10 or 11 minutes,” Durocher said. “[We] made some less than good reads, they tied it pretty quick.”

Regulation ended with the winner yet to be decided, as the

teams were knotted up at two de-spite a total of 65 shots on goal in the three periods.

For BU, the shot total contin-ued to mount in overtime, with the team registering six shots in 4:50. The Crimson, on the other hand, registered just two shots on goal in that time frame.

But that was all Harvard need-ed.

With the seconds winding down and the teams seemingly headed toward a draw, D’Oench chased down a puck in BU’s de-fensive zone and started a quick two-pass sequence, sending the disk to defenseman Marissa Ged-man, who passed it over to for-ward Samantha Reber, who took the shot and beat Sperry, giving the Crimson the 3-2 victory with just 10 seconds remaining in overtime.

Durocher said his team can take positives from the nail-biting loss, but ultimately, it is all about getting the win.

“From a confi dence stand-

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By Gregory Davis Daily Free Press Staff

MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFSenior forward Louise Warren scored during BU’s 3-2 loss Tuesday night.

Saturday, Feb. 15M. Hockey vs. UNH, 7 p.m.

W. Hockey vs. Providence, 3 p.m.M. Basketball vs. Loyola Md., 1 p.m.W. Basketball vs. Loyola Md.,1 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 13Wednesday, Feb. 12 Friday, Feb. 14 W. Basketball vs. Colgate, 7 p.m.M. Basketball @ Colgate, 7 p.m.

No Events ScheduledBrandon Weeden apparently ‘wants out’

of Cleveland, which is interesting because no one has ever wanted out of there.

W. Hockey @ Providence, 2 p.m.

With just six games left in the regular season before the Pa-triot League tournament, each game becomes more important for the Boston University men’s basketball team. During this fi -nal stretch, the Terriers will try to secure home-court advantage throughout the tournament, start-ing with Wednesday’s matchup against Colgate University.

Heading into Wednesday, BU (17-8, 10-2 Patriot League) sits tied for fi rst in the conference with American University, which has lost two straight contests, al-lowing the Terriers to move back up the standings. The Terriers will have to go out on the road for two games this week, taking on Col-gate (9-14, 3-9 Patriot League)and Loyola University–Maryland, two teams that defeated the Eagles (14-9, 10-2 Patriot League).

Last month, the Terriers hosted Colgate at Agganis Arena, and riding a 20-point performance from sophomore guard Maurice Watson Jr., the team pulled out a 66-58 victory over the Raiders.

The biggest concern this time around for the Terriers will be how their perimeter defense matches up with the Raiders. While Col-gate has some size in the front-court with 6-foot-11 center Ethan Jacobs, it is forward Murphy Bur-natowski that could cause prob-lems for BU.

The forward is a talented sharp-shooter who was dominant against the Terriers in their last meeting. Shooting 11-for-20 from the fi eld and an impressive 5-of-10 from beyond the arc, Burnatowski was the main source of Colgate’s of-fense, tallying 27 points in 32 minutes of playing time.

“He’s a very good player,” said BU coach Joe Jones about the

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The BU women’s hockey team fell to Harvard in the Beanpot consolation game a day after the men’s team did the same, P.7.

Quotable“ “We’ve got to be ready for anything.-BU coach Kelly Greenberg on getting

her team prepared for Colgate University.

Women’s basketball set to face off with Raiders for 2nd time

Following a successful week-end against Lafayette College, the Boston University women’s basketball team will look to get a winning streak going back home at Case Gymnasium Wednesday evening when it takes on Colgate University.

The Terriers (9-16, 4-8 Patriot League) faced the Raiders (5-18, 1-11 Patriot League) in Hamilton, N.Y., Jan. 15. BU left that game with a sour taste in its mouth, fall-ing to Colgate by an 81-64 mar-gin.

“It was a game at their place that was really quite a blur to us,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg. “We aren’t happy when we go back and look at the tape, and it

was a game [where] we just feel like we didn’t do anything well.”

This time around, however, looks to be different. BU is com-ing into its own offensively and hopes to keep up the same inten-sity that it has been giving in re-cent games.

Much of the offensive produc-tion has come from senior forward Rashidat Agboola and junior for-ward Mollie McKendrick. The two forwards have been the keys to the Terriers’ success as of late, combining for 117 of BU’s 172 total points in its last three games.

In that span, the pair has shot 54.5 percent and 50 percent from the fi eld, respectively. In addition, Agboola has sunk 16 of her last 19 free throws.

Defensively, BU has played

stronger in the past few contests, holding Lafayette (12-11, 6-6 Pa-triot League) to 59 points last time out. Greenberg said she is pleased with her squad on the defensive end and is optimistic that BU will keep up the defensive strength that it has shown these past few games.

“I just really hope we continue from our Navy second half and our Lafayette game,” Greenberg said. “Our defense has been re-ally great mixing up our zone and man. I’m looking forward to con-tinuing that, hopefully.”

On Colgate’s end, the Raiders have not won a game since the Terriers went to visit back in mid-January in a win that snapped a six-game losing streak. The team has played well offensively, but is

on a seven-game losing skid.“In their last four, fi ve games

they’ve been scoring a lot,” Green-berg said. “Their guard, Missy Re-poli, is really on fi re from three,” Greenberg said. “Her most previ-ous game against American [Uni-versity], and the game before that against [the College of the] Holy Cross, she’s shooting [well] from three, so we’ll certainly be talking about her … and making sure we know where she is on the court.”

In those two games, Repoli shot 75 percent from the fl oor and made six of her seven 3-point at-tempts, which is good for 85.7 percent from beyond the arc. On the season, she has made 42.9 per-cent of her fi eld-goal attempts and

By Judy CohenDaily Free Press Staff

BU readies for fi nal 6 Patriot League contests

By Christopher Dela RosaDaily Free Press Staff

Men’s BasketBall, see page 7

Women’s hockey falls to Crimson in OT

There has never been an active gay football player in the NFL. Several players have come out af-ter leaving the league, including Ray McDonald and Wade Davis. In other words, there’s never been a great, or even really good, NFL player who has publicly come out as being gay.

Why is that? The answer is pretty obvious. Football is, at its core, an extraordinarily ma-cho activity. Players smash into each other at top speed, hoping to knock each other down and avoid being knocked down themselves. It’s a dog-eat-dog world.

Many believe that gay men are effeminate, incapable of partaking in vigorous physical activity that their heterosexual counterparts excel in. Some believe that gay men aren’t cut out for the violent sport of football, but there is no scientifi c verifi cation of this ste-reotype. Professional boxer Or-lando Cruz, a man at the absolute peak of his considerable physi-cal abilities, is gay. He punches people (and gets punched) for a living. And he’s quite good at it. If that doesn’t disprove the “gay equals physically weak” theory, I don’t know what does.

But there’s also the thought that a gay man would not be ac-cepted in the hyper-masculine world of the NFL. This idea holds much more water than the stereo-type listed above because I can see how a straight player might feel uncomfortable showering with a gay teammate. Chris Cul-liver, a defensive back playing for the San Francisco 49ers, was par-ticularly vocal about his distaste for homosexual football players, saying that “Can’t be with that sweet stuff … Nah … can’t be in the locker room, man.” This point of view is no doubt shared by many of Culliver’s NFL peers.

But football can’t go on with its head buried in the sand, stub-bornly refusing to acknowledge and accept gay players. Thank-fully, it seems as though football may fi nally have its own Jason Collins: a college player, who

Mckay, see page 7

Sunday, Feb. 16

M. Hockey @ UNH, 7 p.m.W. Lax @ UNC, 4 p.m.

WoMen’s hoops, see page 7

WoMen’s hockey, see page 7

Michael Sam: The Pioneer

Foul Shots

Patrick McKay