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Volume 81, Issue 2 | NOVEMBER 2015 “Read locally, think globally.” Students support Mizzou protesters INSIDE NEWS On Friday, November 13, Acade- my shuttle service to Boston was reinstated after its removal last year due to behavioral issues.” — PG 3 EDITORIAL Yale and Mizzou: “Clearly, the is- sue is far from one-sided.” — PG 4 OP/ED Experiences of a Babson MBA: “Regardless of age or experience, change is hard.” — PG 5 FEATURE Talking Babson over Turkey: A step-by-step guide to explaining our school over Thanksgiving dinner. — PG 7 A & E Photos from Falsettoland and “AMAN gets Hitched” — PG 9 SPORTS Athlete of the Month: “Peter Sorenson has been showing great promise only a few months into his collegiate diving career.” PG 11 ANTHONY KRICHEVSKIY COPY EDITOR The world is changing, but this isn’t anything new. Dating back to the 1950’s, citizens started rais- ing concerns over the effects of soil destruction, deforestation, in- dustrial waste, and emissions. This issue, which is described by some as the largest crisis humans have ever encountered, was put on the back burner during the 2008 fi- “A matter of degree:” B.S. technicalities cause confusion On November 12, members of the Babson community took a photo displaying their black clothing, worn as a sign of support to student protesters at the University of Missouri. Photo courtesy of SHATIEK GATLIN ALLY DALTON STAFF WRITER The difference between a Bachelor of Science from Babson College, School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Busi- ness Administration may seem inconsequential. But Babson students earn the former, while other undergraduates in business programs within the Boston area, such as Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern Uni- versity, receive the former. The distinction has created a fair bit of confusion. The two degrees are nearly identical. A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate degree typically reserved for studies in engineering, computer science, business, and several other fields. Business, the study of interest, requires founda- tional and fundamental studies of business-related concepts and lib- eral arts disciplines. Similarly, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administra- tion, or BBA, follows this same philosophy. A BBA is made up of liberal arts components alongside core course work in the fundamental elements of business, and also usually in- cludes concentrations. The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree closely mirrors the curriculum at Babson, which requires comple- tion of core business fundamen- tals and offers 27 different con- centrations. Undergraduates can elect to complete requirements for zero, one, or two concentra- tions. However, inquirers will find not a BBA, but a “B.S. from Bab- son College, School of Business “on Babson’s website and, more importantly, on résumés. Babson’s Center for Career Development instructs students to use the cor- rect degree when job searching. It may seem odd for Bab- son to opt for this degree. How- ever, some of Babson’s partner schools, like the London School of Economics, also graduate students with a general Bachelor of Science. Also, Babson is known globally not for its focus on business adminis- tration, but for its entrepreneurial mindset and spirit. While the differences be- tween degrees may seem minute, it is important to be informed about the education and degree students earn so that resumes for jobs and internships can accurately reflect the work done at Babson. Massachusetts debates new environmental bill nancial crisis. Today, the issues of global warming and environmental destruction are returning to the forefront as a major topic in local, national and international politics. Massachusetts has already established itself as a leader in the war against global warming, but a bill, “S.1747: An Act Combating Cimate Change,” put forth by State Senator Michael J. Barrett, could be the first of its kind in the USA. The bill would establish what is commonly referred to as a carbon tax, although what is truly a fee be- cause the money does not enter the general revenue and is directly re- turned to taxpayers. The fee would be levied upon the wholesale price of fossil fuels, thereby increasing the price of heating and transpor- tation for Massachusetts residents. In September, thousands of people gathered in New York City for Climate Week. With a renewed focus on climate change, politicians are introducing legislation like Massachusetts’ S.1747. Photo courtesy of WIKIMEDIA.ORG BRADLEY DARLING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Students, faculty, and mem- bers of administration gathered in Reynolds Campus Center on Thurs- day, November 12 in a show of support to student protesters at Yale University and the University of Missouri, also known as “Mizzou.” Led by the Black Student Union, the meeting echoed a national conversa- tion about campus racism, student safety, and free speech. Over the past weeks, students at Yale and Mizzou have demonstrat- ed against racial discrimination on their campuses. At Yale, protests were triggered after Associate Master Erika Christakis sent an email pushing back against Halloween costume guide- lines. These guidelines, distributed by a branch of Yale’s administration, outlined what kinds of costumes may be perceived as offensive. At Mizzou, protesters forced their president to resign after accu- sations that he had failed to address marginalized students. Students at the university have been subject to threats on social media and over the phone, as well as physical displays of racism on campus. At Babson, students wore all black and posed in a photo to lend solidarity. “I think that it’s im- portant when you’re in a place of privilege to just try to be an ally in whatever way possible, and I think that being here is a hugely miniscule thing I can do to be an ally,” Kai Haskins (’18) said. The gathering was a major part of Babson’s reaction to the in- cidents, which also included a prayer service in Glavin Chapel a wide- spread response on social media. An email from the Student Government Association urged students “to dis- cuss the events transpiring at these two universities and to consider the role students play.” Such a showing is rare for Babson, a school typically resistant to social movements. “This is the first time since coming to Babson that I’ve seen a physical display of solidar- ity in a public place about something that’s happening not on our campus,” Brenna Leary (’18) said. Yet participants in the gath- ering stressed that, although they are occurring elsewhere, the protests are relevant locally. “These issues are very alive and real in our community as well. It hasn’t had the same bubbling-up effect as what’s happened at Missou and Yale, but this is very much a re- ality for a lot of students of color,” Victoria Bills (’16) said. Continued on page two...

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Volume 81, Issue 2 | November 2015

“Read locally, think globally.”

Students support Mizzou protestersINSIDENews“On Friday, November 13, Acade-my shuttle service to Boston was reinstated after its removal last year due to behavioral issues.” — PG 3

editorialYale and Mizzou: “Clearly, the is-sue is far from one-sided.” — PG 4

op/edExperiences of a Babson MBA: “Regardless of age or experience, change is hard.” — PG 5

FeatureTalking Babson over Turkey: A step-by-step guide to explaining our school over Thanksgiving dinner. — PG 7

a & ePhotos from Falsettoland and “AMAN gets Hitched” — PG 9

sportsAthlete of the Month: “Peter Sorenson has been showing great promise only a few months into his collegiate diving career.” — PG 11

ANTHONY KRICHEVSKIYCOPY EDITOR

The world is changing, but this isn’t anything new. Dating back to the 1950’s, citizens started rais-ing concerns over the effects of soil destruction, deforestation, in-dustrial waste, and emissions. This issue, which is described by some as the largest crisis humans have ever encountered, was put on the back burner during the 2008 fi-

“A matter of degree:” B.S. technicalities

cause confusion

On November 12, members of the Babson community took a photo displaying their black clothing, worn as a sign of support to student protesters at the University of Missouri.

Photo courtesy of SHATIEK GATLIN

ALLY DALTONSTAFF WRITER

The difference between a Bachelor of Science from Babson College, School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Busi-ness Administration may seem inconsequential. But Babson students earn the former, while other undergraduates in business programs within the Boston area, such as Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern Uni-versity, receive the former. The distinction has created a fair bit of confusion.

The two degrees are nearly identical. A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate degree typically reserved for studies in engineering, computer science, business, and several other fields. Business, the study of interest, requires founda-tional and fundamental studies of business-related concepts and lib-eral arts disciplines.

Similarly, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administra-tion, or BBA, follows this same philosophy. A BBA is made up of liberal arts components alongside core course work in the fundamental elements of business, and also usually in-cludes concentrations.

The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree closely mirrors the curriculum at Babson, which requires comple-tion of core business fundamen-tals and offers 27 different con-centrations. Undergraduates can elect to complete requirements for zero, one, or two concentra-tions.

However, inquirers will find not a BBA, but a “B.S. from Bab-son College, School of Business “on Babson’s website and, more importantly, on résumés. Babson’s Center for Career Development instructs students to use the cor-rect degree when job searching.

It may seem odd for Bab-son to opt for this degree. How-ever, some of Babson’s partner schools, like the London School of Economics, also graduate students with a general Bachelor of Science. Also, Babson is known globally not for its focus on business adminis-tration, but for its entrepreneurial mindset and spirit.

While the differences be-tween degrees may seem minute, it is important to be informed about the education and degree students earn so that resumes for jobs and internships can accurately reflect the work done at Babson.

Massachusetts debates new environmental bill

nancial crisis. Today, the issues of global warming and environmental destruction are returning to the forefront as a major topic in local, national and international politics.

Massachusetts has already established itself as a leader in the war against global warming, but a bill, “S.1747: An Act Combating Cimate Change,” put forth by State Senator Michael J. Barrett, could be the first of its kind in the USA.

The bill would establish what is commonly referred to as a carbon tax, although what is truly a fee be-cause the money does not enter the general revenue and is directly re-turned to taxpayers. The fee would be levied upon the wholesale price of fossil fuels, thereby increasing the price of heating and transpor-tation for Massachusetts residents.

In September, thousands of people gathered in New York City for Climate Week. With a renewed focus on climate change, politicians are introducing legislation like Massachusetts’ S.1747.

Photo courtesy of WIKIMEDIA.ORG

BRADLEY DARLINGEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Students, faculty, and mem-bers of administration gathered in Reynolds Campus Center on Thurs-day, November 12 in a show of support to student protesters at Yale University and the University of Missouri, also known as “Mizzou.” Led by the Black Student Union, the meeting echoed a national conversa-tion about campus racism, student safety, and free speech.

Over the past weeks, students at Yale and Mizzou have demonstrat-ed against racial discrimination on their campuses. At Yale, protests were triggered after Associate Master Erika Christakis sent an email pushing back against Halloween costume guide-lines. These guidelines, distributed by a branch of Yale’s administration, outlined what kinds of costumes may be perceived as offensive.

At Mizzou, protesters forced their president to resign after accu-sations that he had failed to address marginalized students. Students at the university have been subject to threats on social media and over the phone, as well as physical displays of racism on campus.

At Babson, students wore all black and posed in a photo to lend solidarity. “I think that it’s im-portant when you’re in a place of privilege to just try to be an ally in

whatever way possible, and I think that being here is a hugely miniscule thing I can do to be an ally,” Kai Haskins (’18) said.

The gathering was a major part of Babson’s reaction to the in-cidents, which also included a prayer service in Glavin Chapel a wide-spread response on social media. An email from the Student Government Association urged students “to dis-

cuss the events transpiring at these two universities and to consider the role students play.”

Such a showing is rare for Babson, a school typically resistant to social movements. “This is the first time since coming to Babson that I’ve seen a physical display of solidar-ity in a public place about something that’s happening not on our campus,” Brenna Leary (’18) said.

Yet participants in the gath-ering stressed that, although they are occurring elsewhere, the protests are relevant locally.

“These issues are very alive and real in our community as well. It hasn’t had the same bubbling-up effect as what’s happened at Missou and Yale, but this is very much a re-ality for a lot of students of color,” Victoria Bills (’16) said.

Continued on page two...

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BRADLEY DARLINGEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Another business fraternity aims to join the Babson communi-ty. A group of students, primarily freshmen and sophomores, are in the process of establishing a Bab-son branch of international pro-fessional fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi, also known as AKPsi.

The group first required ap-proval from the Heritage Center, the organization’s headquarters, and from Babson itself. It is cur-rently recognized as a “colony;” that is, a fledgling chapter that must prove it has the membership and capability to be formally in-stalled. Once this occurs, likely in the spring, the chapter may pitch

UPCOMING EVENTS

Babson club life has always been vibrant and bustling with activities. Here are some

upcoming events:

Being Here, Going Beyond: Paint-ings by Percy Fortini-Wright. “Artist talk and reception by a multiracial artist interest-ed in combing diverse materials and imag-ery to create urban streetscapes and bold portraits of imaginary people that share a beautiful sense of movement and anticipa-tion,” according to the Babson Events Cal-endar. Exhibition on view from November 5 to January 8 in the Hollister Hall Lobby.

Babson Peers on Wellness is hosting a “Sleep Week,” including face mask making, Vinyasa yoga, guided meditation, and blan-ket raffles, “to educate Babson students about the benefits of sleep,” according to a Facebook post. November 16 to November 20. Various events in Reynolds, Horn, Web-ster Dance Studio, and Glavin Chapel.

Join in a Muslim prayer service in the Glavin Chapel from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ev-ery Friday.

Join in a Catholic Mass in Glavin Chapel from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM every Sunday.

THINGS TO DO IN BOSTONFeeling bored this weekend? The Free

Press has some suggestions for you to ex-plore, alone or with friends:

Free 3D Printing seminar: Entrepre-neurs can enjoy a free lunch while learning about how 3D printing can help your small business do more. Brainstorm, network, and learn about 3D printing! There will also be a video crew filming the event, so at-tendees will be required to sign an appear-ance release. November 17, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. 45 Prospect St., Cambridge.

#GetSocial: Twitter for Business: “Learn how to use community-related meth-ods on Twitter to increase online awareness of your business and find new clients. Social media is much more than just talking about yourself; it’s about joining the conversations already happening in your industry and lo-cation. It’s about building a following that matters,” a post on generalassemb.ly states. Admission fee required. November 17, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. 51 Melcher St, Boston.

The HUB for Social Innovation Pan-el: “Join for an exciting conversation and ex-ploration of the emerging social innovation ecosystem in the state of Massachusetts. Participants include some of the region’s leading non-profit, for-profit ‘B’ corporations, and civic entrepreneurs – as well as those working to develop and engage the broad-er ecosystem in Boston and beyond,” an Eventbrite posting states. November 18, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Wheelock College, 43 Hawes St., Brookline.

Massachusetts debates new environmental bill, cont.

to the Student Government Asso-ciation to be recognized as an of-ficial Babson organization.

“It’s been a long process,” AKPsi President Rada Ilieva (’18) said. “It’s very different than a regular org.”

AKPsi is the oldest and larg-est business fraternity in the world. Started at New York University in 1904, it has since inducted more than 250,000 students. Previous membership includes Presidents Ronald Regan and Richard Nixon, U.S. senators, and business leaders in every industry.

“The main focus of Al-pha Kappa Psi is to provide leadership development, per-

However, residents would then re-ceive a check from the state gov-ernment from the incomes of the carbon fee. Under this plan, peo-ple who rely heavily on fossil fu-els would lose money overall, and those with fewer emissions would come out ahead.

The Committee for a Green Economy, an environmentalist group, hired a bi-partisan eco-

nomic consulting firm, Regional Economic Models Inc., to study the impacts of a carbon fee on the Massachusetts economy. The study concluded that a carbon fee would boost the state’s economic activity by as much as $8 billion by lower-ing income, sales, and corporate taxes.

While Barrett’s current plan returns revenue to citizens slightly differently, through a direct check instead of lowering taxes, the study does show strong support for a carbon fee. Another report sponsored by the Department of Energy Resources concluded that

a “revenue neutral” carbon fee like Barrett’s would be an effective way of cutting carbon pollutants, lowering emissions by five to ten percent and helping Massachusetts achieve its goal of reducing emis-sions by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050. Barrett’s bill continues to gain support, with 40 senators or representatives, a fifth of the Leg-islature, co-signing the bill.

Currently, S.1747 is be-ing debated by the Massachusetts

Committee on Telecommunica-tions, Utilities and Energy, and many locals are pushing for a fa-vorable vote. A crowd of business and faith leaders, citizens, environ-mental groups, civic organizations and economists, including Tufts economist Frank Ackerman and MIT economist Chris Knittel, voiced support for Barrett’s bill on November 5.

Candidates’ support or opposition to the deal will be an important indicator for voters in 2016. The candidates are divided on this issue. Some candidates, such as Vermont Senator Bernie

The upcoming weeks have the potential to change environ-mental policies locally and globally, and as these policies change, so will business.

Students initiate Alpha Kappa Psi colony

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sonal and professional training and the fundamental ingredient higher education misses—expe-rience,” the organization’s web-site claims.

Babson’s colony has ex-panded rapidly, attracting about 80 colonists in a few months. “We grew really quickly,” Ilieva said. “We’re trying to maintain that brotherhood and have those close relationships, which is why we started in the first place.”

Ilieva says she looks for-ward to seeing the chapter come into its own. “I’m most excited about seeing things develop and people actually being able to use it for networks and fun.”

Sanders, have made the environ-ment and sustainability a key issue in their platform, and others, such as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, have a history of support for environmental policies—but there are candidates that would oppose many extreme efforts to combat climate change.

The upcoming weeks have the potential to change environ-mental policies locally and globally, and as these policies change, so will

business. If a carbon fee is enact-ed in Massachusetts, consumers and businesses will change their spending habits. If a truly influen-tial commitment is set by 190 na-tions around the globe, then large corporations will have to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emis-sions.

With Massachusetts consid-ering the nation’s first carbon tax in the state legislature and with the Paris Environmental Summit just around the corner, the decisions made in the next few months will impact business, and the world, for decades.

Alpha Kappa Psi colonists Debbie He (‘18), Lena Wu (‘16), Christiana Xiao (‘17) get inducted. AKPsi is a professional business fraternity.

Photo courtesy of ELAINE ZHANG

By CLARIBEL TRUGLIA / STAFF WRITER

Find an always up-to-date list of events at thebabsonfreepress.com.

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3NewsBabson welcomes new Assistant Class Dean

JENNY HOVICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING

Babson students and staff welcome Assistant Dean Heather Miller as the newest addition to the staff at Academic Services. Dean Miller takes responsibility for stu-dents with last names A through B, who had been served on an interim basis by Dean Rob Major.

Miller previously served as Director of New Student Pro-grams at Wentworth Institute of Technology. At Wentworth, Miller worked to develop their First Year Seminar, Academic Advising, Ear-ly Alert Programming, and New Student Orientation programs, according to an email announcing her hiring.

Miller graduated from Bridgewater State University with a Masters in Public Administration and received a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Georgia.

She says she is excited about her new role at Babson, and hopes to have the opportunity to work in-dividually with students.

“I came to Babson for many reasons, but primarily for the opportunity to work one-on-one with students. In my previous po-sition, that was only a small part of

my job, yet it was what I enjoyed the most. I love getting to know students and helping them create

BRADLEY DARLINGEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

On Friday, November 13, Academy shuttle service to Boston was reinstated after its removal last year due to behavioral issues.

Whereas shuttles last year visited multiple locations around Boston, including Copley Square, the Theatre District, and Faneuil Hall, Academy will now only of-fer service to Copley. On Thursday

nights, shuttles will bring students to Copley, but not back, and on Friday and Saturday nights they will both pick up and drop off. The regular cir-cuit to the Woodland T station and back will continue as usual.

This unusual schedule is part of an agreement meant to address the factors that led to the service’s re-moval last year. These included dam-age to buses, disrespect of drivers, and numerous alcohol-related inci-dents. According to Student Gov-ernment Association Senator Man-uel Whitfield, the ride to Babson is longer than to most schools, increas-ing the chances of such issues. “The

majority of the problems are when students are coming back from Bos-ton,” Whitfield (’16) said. The new schedule has fewer, and earlier, trips to Boston.

Last year, the SGA explored multiple alternatives to termination of service, but ultimately decided to limit service to Woodland. At that time, it had reached the point where “no bus driver wanted to drive our route,” Whitfield said. “To

the student body it seemed like a big change, something abrupt. It hasn’t been—this has been going on for some time.”

In the past, shuttle service was funded primarily by Babson College, with SGA contributing a small portion of funding. With these changes, SGA will contribute a larger amount.

Whitfield stressed that shut-tle service is a privilege. “[Students] need to take care of the things [they] have around [them]. This gives the College the flexibility to do more things. We could have a lot more fun and fruitful events.”

goals and a plan to be successful in their time as a student,” Miller said in an email.

Photos courtesy of BABSONCOLLEGE.EDU

Shuttle service to Boston resumes,

with changes

Shuttle service is back, with tweaks. Its new schedule has fewer, and earlier, trips to Boston.

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The winter of students’ discontentEvents at Yale and Mizzou beg deeper discussion

The Free Press StaffIra Simbulan

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The BaBson Free Press works for the good of the community by providing truthful information,

encouraging public discourse, and building community.

It should not have to be said that every student deserves to feel safe on their campus. Nor should it have to be said that racism, system-atic or otherwise, is alive in mod-ern-day America.

These truths are comfort-ing, insomuch as we can all agree on them. Little else in the current national debate affords such luxu-ry. The recent protests at Yale and Mizzou blend a complicated histo-ry of injustice, recent social trends, freedom of speech, and education, all set against the ugly backdrop of discrimination.

At Yale, it all began with an email from the school’s Inter-cultural Affairs Committee that requested students not wear offen-sive or “culturally appropriative” Halloween costumes. Erika Chris-takis, a professor and Associate Master (akin to an Area Director), responded to this email among her living area, pushing back: “If you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended. Talk to each oth-er. Free speech and the ability to tolerate offence are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”

“Have we lost faith in young people’s capacity – in your capacity – to exercise self-censure, through social norming, and also in your capacity to ignore or reject things that trouble you?” she asks.

This email led to wide-spread protests, clashes with the media, and calls for resignation. “We simply ask that our existenc-es not be invalidated on campus,” Yale students stated in an open letter signed by over one thousand students, alumni, and others.

And yet, as Conor Frieders-dorf responds expertly in The At-lantic: “This notion that one’s exis-

tence can be invalidated by a fellow 18-year-old donning an offensive costume is perhaps the most dis-empowering notion aired at Yale.”

No matter your views on the events at Yale, contrast them with Mizzou, where a Yik Yak post stated, “I’m going to stand my ground and shoot every black person I see,” where an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism wrote that she “[has] been called the n-word too many times to count,” and where students woke up one morning to cotton balls scattered with odious intent across the Black Culture Center’s lawn.

This is all to say that to conflate Yale with Mizzou is wildly unjust. One one hand, we have an overblown reaction to an email—a textbook example of what The At-lantic calls “catastrophizing.” There are surely racial problems at Yale, but addressing a polite, well-inten-tioned email with such a display is nothing short of shameful.

The Mizzou protesters, although not perfect in the own right, are at the very least easier to sympathize with. The details of the school’s racism are horrific; one can understand why these students feel unsafe on their campus.

Still, “not perfect” bears in-vestigation. It would be dishonest to ignore the behavior of protes-tors on both sides. At Mizzou, they shoved a student photographer. Separately, a communications pro-fessor called for “muscle” to re-move another student journalist. At Yale, activists screamed profan-ities at professors and spit on con-ference attendees.

It is difficult to see what students had to gain from treat-ing the media so poorly, or how

the media might tell an authentic story—as the protesters accuse them of failing to do—if they are blocked from access.

Clearly, the issue is far from one-sided. An email from the Stu-dent Government Association, signed “#InSolidaritywithMizzou, Your SGA,” may have obscured the variety of opinions among the Babson student body.

Certainly, many stand stead-fastly with the protesters. 94 mem-bers of the Babson community dressed in black and posed for a photo in show of support; count-less others posted a viral message on social media: “To the students of color at Mizzou. We, student al-lies at Babson College, stand with you in solidarity. To those who would threaten their sense of safe-ty, the world is watching.”

But others feel differently. “Orwellian” is the way one student described the protesters’ censor-ship of any dissenting viewpoint. “It just seems disingenuous,” said another, to pretend like posting on social media, which requires little effort, equates to true support.

In the end, progress cannot come without calm, reasoned dis-cussion. Protesters are right and wrong; administrators are right and wrong; the media is right and wrong. Babson, with its wonderful diversity, is rich with opportunity for debate and understanding.

“We have a right to be of-fensive,” Princeton student Beni Snow declared in the Daily Prince-tonian. And we do.

“Systematic injustice...is very much a reality for a lot of students of color,” Babson student Victoria Bills (’16) said. And it is.

“Talk to each other,” Chris-takis’ email urged. And we must.

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“Don’t tell me to smile.”MORGAN ROTH

STAFF WRITER

“You were great! A very strong leader, but one thing, you should smile more. You have such a pretty smile!”

I laughed awkwardly. “See, such a nice smile. It

makes people feel more at ease when you smile.”

My CLTP coach thought nothing of these words; he was just trying to being helpful. Aside from that one comment, it was a very nice conversation. We even spoke about how great he thought it was that there were so many more women in business these days. On glob-al scale, being told to smile is a very insignificant discriminatory comment. But it says so much about the subtle prejudices that a women in business has to deal with.

You may think I’m being overly sensitive, or wonder why I can’t just take the complement and move on. But I shouldn’t

have to, and no women should ever feel like she is in a room just to be a decoration, when it was her brains that got her there in the first place. Men don’t go up to other men and tell them to smile more, especially not after a business meeting. I wasn’t there to make people feel comfortable or to cut the tension in the room with a smile.

Women are not flowers in a boardroom. We are not there to look pretty or to be decora-tion for a man as he gets work done. We are there because we worked hard and have just as much of a right to be there as any man, and deserve to be shown the respect that would be given to said man. Do you think the guys in my CLTP group were told to smile by their coaches? They weren’t—I asked them.

Even though in the Unit-ed States women are advancing in the workplace, in many cases we are still subconsciously treat-

Experiences of a Babson MBA

SUN DAHAN& NICOLE LAKIN

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Editor’s note: Sun and Nicole are MBA students at Babson’s Olin Graduate School of Business.

At an average age of 28, the typical Babson MBA student arrives here with a lot of experi-ence. But we are also filled with anticipation and excitement; we are eager to evolve, to grow and to continue to pursue our goals and aspirations, and we think we know it all.

We are all college grad-uates. Some of us have already completed other graduate pro-grams. Some of us have lists of

accomplishments that can bare-ly be contained to a one-page resume. And others have lists of dreams that can barely be contained in a three-slide rock-et pitch—but this is why we’re here.

We are from all over the world and right down the street, and although it’s seems like we’ve got it all figured out, we have so much in common.

We are all here for similar

reasons, but that doesn’t neces-sarily translate to smooth sailing. Navigating the pressures of the program impacts everyone dif-ferently. Making friends seems to come easier to some than others. And, despite our best efforts, culture differences create barri-ers that feel impossible to break through —no matter how old you are.

Regardless of age or ex-perience, change is hard. We all struggle in our own ways to navigate the transitions in life as smoothly as possible. But nothing worth doing is easy, and sometimes you question whether it is worth doing at all.

One day, in the office of a professor, I was told that holding back my feelings, my worries, and my questions helps no one.

No matter how silly you think what you are feeling may be, there is someone else who is feeling the same way. So I am here to say: I am stubborn. I am not a quitter. I am sad. I am ex-cited. I am struggling. I am im-perfect. I am an MBA student at Babson.

ed as inferior. From early ages we are told to monitor the way we dress in order not to draw too much attention to ourselves or distract men with our looks, or to be careful of what we say so we don’t make people uncom-fortable.

I am writing this article from a place of privilege. I grew up in the United States, one of the most advanced countries for women’s rights in the entire world. The fact that a women in the United States still gets cat-called while walking down the street, disrespected in the work place, body shamed on the inter-net, and paid less for doing the exact same job as a man is dis-

gusting. But in many other coun-

tries, women lack even the basic opportunities that men have. There are over 20 countries in the world where more than 50% of women are illiterate. How can women move up in business and

in life when their countries are failing to educate them? There is still so much that has to change around the world before equality is reached.

There are videos of young girls declaring to the world that they don’t need feminism, and that is terrifying. To be a fem-inist means you believe that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities;

it does not mean you hate men. Because of distorted definitions of feminism, the true message is getting lost. Feminism is and should continue to be about equality.

Equality isn’t reached solely by paying women more, or ending catcalling. It takes a complete change in mindset. It takes everyone on earth seeing human beings as equal, and not judging another’s importance based on what sex organs they were born with. The battle for equality isn’t over. Now is not the time to sit idly by, content with the way things are; it is the time to question why we think certain things, and to speak out against the prejudices that have been ingrained in us. There are more than 3 billion women on this earth, with the endless po-tential to change and improve the world, and they deserve the same rights and respect as any man.

Babson’s Community Unity Educators (CUE’s) at the Multicultural Festival on November 2. These students aim to enhance diversity at Babson by unifying the community.

Photo courtesy of KATRINA FLUDD

Community Unity Educators“From ‘salad bowl’ to ‘melting pot’”

YINMENG TIANCOPY EDITOR

On its website, Babson proudly boasts of having as many as 80 countries represent-ed in its student population. In front of the Horn Library, inter-national flags wave in unison as another remind of the diversity on campus. Babson even ded-icates an entire residence hall, PRIDE tower, towards LGBT awareness.

Yet as much as Babson strives to cater to the needs of its multicultural community, it still has a long way to go. Babson is like a salad bowl, where students of

different backgrounds are tossed together, as opposed to a melting pot, where everyone contributes to the development and wellbeing of the community.

As a CUE, or Community Unity Educator, my mission is to make the melting pot a reality. I, along with four other CUES, want to start the conversation around inclusion.

One of our initiatives was a question box that asked people to explain what the phrase “BISO” means to them. Since it was anon-ymous, we received many frank responses. Someone wrote in that he couldn’t stand to be called a

BISO, because of all the negative connotations that come with the label.

Despite the stereotype, not all international students are wealthy or exclusive. Evidential-ly, there is a lot of potential for a more unified community here at Babson.

To promote this vision, the CUES are hosting office hours, where students are encouraged to stop by and share your thoughts and experiences. Whether it is an offensive comment or ideas about new initiatives and events, we are here to listen. CUE can be reached on Twitter: @BabsonCUES.

“We are all here for similar reasons, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to smooth sailing. Navigating the pres-sures of the program impacts everyone differently.”

Now is not the time to sit idly by, content with the way things are; it is the time to question why we think certain things, and to speak out against the prejudic-es that have been ingrained in us.

Feminism, subtle sexism, and women in business

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LYDIA STETSONSTAFF LAYOUT DESIGNER

Editor’s note: In the wake of the tragedies in Paris and Beirut, perpetrat-ed in the name of Islam, let the beloved community members featured in this article serve as proof that Islam is a religion of peace.

As Fatoumata Sow (‘18) says, “Islam is a religion of peace, and like any other religion people pick and choose what they want to follow. The people who made the attacks in Paris were not just Mus-lims—they were terriorists.”

Babson College has always tak-en pride in its diversity, with enrollment statistics for the class of 2019 consisting of 39% domestic minority students, 25% international, and 45 represented nations from around the world. How-ever, despite these impressive numbers, some would argue that diversity is still quite lacking at Babson, especially in religion.

“We [at Babson] are ethnical-ly diverse, but I don’t think we are in social, religious, and even economic terms,” Noora Al-Mana, a recent Bab-son grad who identifies as Muslim, said. “I think I’ve only come across around ten Muslims throughout my four years at Babson, and they were all internation-al except for one person.”

Most would agree that the Muslim population on campus is not as present as it is on perhaps other col-leges across the country, which is mainly believed due to the almost nonexistence of hijab (headscarf) wearing women at Babson. This is true except for a few students—one in particular, Gyda Su-madi, has covered her hair since age 13 and continues to do so in college.

When asked about the lack

Islam at Babson: Culture and religion of hijab-wearing women on campus and the Muslim student representation overall, Sumadi traced it back to the dif-ferences between culture and religion, and how that affects the way students express their faith.

“I wouldn’t say that the Muslim student body isn’t active, but when it comes to religion…a lot of people who come from a more secular and cultur-al background may connect culturally with Islam, but don’t really practice. I think people sometimes believe that culture and religion are the same thing, when in reality it isn’t quite so,” she said.

Mintis Hankerson, another Muslim student, further explained, “When you grow up in a Muslim coun-try, it pretty much affects how you live, in my opinion. Because everything is Islam, including the politics, so it makes your whole life culturally Islam. Where-as when you live in America you have to put in that extra effort to practice Islam.”

This highlights America’s, and even Babson’s, slightly ignorant be-lief that the only true way of proving a person’s faith is through their dress, diet, and prayer. In actuality, one can be Muslim through their lifestyle—a lifestyle that may be obvious in Islamic countries that value modesty, but be-comes less obvious in the US, a coun-try that often demands a very Western “in-your-face” attitude in order to prove one’s identity.

Not to mention, it can be chal-lenging to even want to prove one’s re-ligious faith in the explicit Western way, considering that “Muslims have already faced so much scrutiny in the U.S. due to negative stereotypes created from terrorist attacks,” according to Shaz

Siddiqi, another member of Babson’s Muslim Student Association.

However, there are some deep-er reasons why certain Muslim students are more culturally, rather than religious-ly, connected to Islam, and these rea-sons stem back to the socioeconomic status of Babson students.

“To be blunt about it, with-in these Islamic countries abroad, the more affluent people sort of... not lose their religious identity, but they Western-ize themselves through lavish lifestyles and all kinds of stuff. And most of the

international population on campus is rather ‘up there,’ so they really bring with them that Western aspect of their country in order to perhaps assimilate,” Irfaan Kazi said. “However, it’s not a loss of religion, it’s a tweak in culture.”

But regardless of these areas of ambiguity for understanding Islam in Babson, people are overall accepting and welcoming of the various religions represented in the undergraduate class.

“Babson is great. The main thing about having an international population is that nothing is seen as

odd because everyone is accustomed to everything. Even though there aren’t as many women on campus here that cov-er their hair, no one is unfamiliar with it, especially the international population,” Sumadi said. “Even the domestic popu-lation—everyone knows what it is.”

Al-Mana agrees: “In my experi-ence, the people I met and surrounded myself with at Babson are generally very prideful of their faith and back-ground and express it as they always have without being rude or disre-spectful to differing beliefs.”

Members of Babson’s Muslim Student Association. Left to right: Mintis Hankerson, Samina Baig, Gyda Sumadi, Shazeem Siddiqi, Anas Ahmed, Tareef Rahman, Mahd Sharif, and Irfaan Kazi

Photo courtesy of GYDA SUMADI

Millenial voting: Stats, trends, and how to vote

LYNN WANGCOPY EDITOR

In less than a year, the United States will be electing its 45th presi-dent. However, will the elections be truly representative of the popula-tion? The statistics say no.

Those between 18 to 24 years of age have a significantly low-er voter turnout, meaning they are

being greatly underrepresented. This has been the case for decades, and it begs the question: why aren’t young people voting?

One of the biggest problems seems to be that the young feel that they don’t know enough to get in-volved in the political world. After all, a lot of what is discussed and de-

bated does not have any direct effect on them. Issues like Social Security and foreign policy may not be very high on their list of concerns when they are in the midst of a grueling battle against college debt and strug-gling to find a job.

Another contributor to the poor voter turnout may be the fact

that young adults tend to move around more frequently. As a result, they feel less attached to their com-munity and less motivated to try and make an impact. Voting is also much harder for college students; in order to vote away from home, register-ing to vote is a chore. In fact, many do not even know how to register

if they are attending a college away from their home state. In an attempt to eradicate this problem, here’s a quick tutorial on how to register to vote:NOTE: Because students can choose to register to vote in either their home state or their college’s state, Massachusetts will be used in the following example.

1. Voting in Massachusetts First, register to vote. If your

signature is on file with the Registry of Motor Vehicles, you qualify to use the online application to register, up-date your address, and change your party.

Otherwise, you will need to fill out the voter registration form and deliver it to your local election official, whose address is listed be-low.

TOWN CLERK 525 WASHINGTON ST WELLESLEY, MA 02482

2. Voting in your home stateIf you are unable to make it

home to vote, you will need to re-quest an absentee ballot. Because voting is different in every state, you will have to contact your local gov-ernment and see what their process is to obtaining an absentee ballot. One you have received it, you can simply fill it out and mail it back to your local election officials.

Graphic by LYDIA STETSON

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Talking Babson over TurkeyJI HWAN KIM

STAFF WRITER

Being the smart and astute people that all Babsonians are, we all know that preparation for Thanksgiving is a must. However, while Thanksgiving preparation for typical college students starts

and ends with making sure that you come hungry to the big feast, Babson students face an additional task: being prepared to talk about Babson (especially if you’re not from the state of Massachusetts).

Although we all know how awesome and amazing Babson is,

how to respond to the eternal question: “what’s babson?”

not all of our relatives do. If you still don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s the scenario:

It’s Thanksgiving Dinner time and you’re ready to dig into all the delicious food on the table… but your journey to this year’s annual food coma is interrupted

by your forgetful grandmother/distanced cousin/annoying uncle: “What’s Babson!?”

Just as with any good Thanksgiving meal, you want to make sure you start off your del-uge of Babson facts lightly (the ba-sics), then lead into the juicy (and

With all this great information, hopefully you’re well equipped to properly answer the all-an-noying question: “What’s Babson?” If you’re not…you are (I mean, we all had to write an essay to get

in). But seriously, if you don’t think you’re ready, just speak on the experiences you’ve had as a Bab-son student. Trust me, any Babson experience is an interesting one.

Lastly, and most importantly, don’t forget to enjoy your Thanksgiving meal! As you conclude your meal, you’ll realize how thankful and blessed you are to attend an amazing institution such as Babson.

more interesting) details, and end the presentation with a soothing touch.

Here’s a great way to ap-pease your relatives’ hunger for Babson that won’t interfere with your relatives’ (and your) quest for the after-meal glow.

As with any good round of Thanksgiving hors d’oeuvres, you want to make sure that your appetizer of Babson facts are simple but varied. Try these basics:

■ Small private business school located in Wellesley, Mass founded by Roger Babson in 1919■ Total size of around 2,900 students (2,100 undergrads and 800 grad students)■ Our mascot is Biz E. Beaver (did you know he’s the grandson of TIM, MIT’s mascot?)■ Three campus locations: Wellesley, Boston (for MBA students), and San Francisco

The Appetizers

The Main CourseWe all know that the turkey is the centerpiece of any Thanksgiving meal. Just as the turkey is juicy and

hearty, you want to make sure that you recite some facts here that will keep your relatives’ attention. After all, your ability to properly execute this part of the meal will play a huge role in whether or not you

get asked the dreadful question again next year.

■ Every Babson student will leave being able to say that they’ve created and operated a business (through our hallmark FME Program)■ Roger Babson is buried on our campus! Don’t think that’s crazy enough? He’s buried between his first and second wives!■ ETA means something a little different at Babson. It’s not boring “estimated time of arrival;” it’s “Entrepreneurial Thought and Action.”■ By the way, we’ve got some famous alumni: o Arthur Blank: Co-founder of Home Depot and owner of the Atlanta Falcons o Akio Toyoda: President and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation o Roger Enrico: Former Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo and former Chairman of DreamWorks Animation o Daniel Gerber: Founder of Gerber Baby Foods o Alberto Perlman: Co-founder and CEO of Zumba Fitness o Remember the guy that bought Google.com for a bit? Yeah, he’s a Babson grad too. (Sanmay Ved)

The DessertOh dessert, the part of the meal that we all know we shouldn’t have. The part of the meal that we don’t really need... at least, that’s what you say until you see the gorgeous pumpkin pie screaming to let it be the pièce de résistance of the entire (and already superfluous) meal. Just like dessert, you don’t really need our rankings and accolades to describe the greatness of Babson. But, come on, why wouldn’t you want

to boast about these?

■ U.S. News & World Report: #1 Entrepreneurship (19 consecutive years)■ The Princeton Review: #1 Entrepreneurial Program■ PayScale: #5 overall ROI (#1 among all business schools)■ The Economist: #2 for Value, 2015■ Money Magazine: #2 Best College in the U.S., 2015 (#1 in 2014)

A course-by-course guide to explaining Babson at Thanksgiving dinner

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Dylan HusteD:entrepreneur insights

ELI IASLOVITSVICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE & SALES

Dylan Husted is the Founder, CEO, and CTO of a new social ven-ture whose goal is to drive college students to take action on pressing environmental issues. The venture’s vehicle for change is SaveOhno.org: a gamified platform whose protago-nist, Ohno, is representative of stu-dents’ future grandchildren, whose world will change based on actions students take on the site.

Small choices go a long way in Ohno’s world, where users can choose from up to 7,000 environ-mental petitions sourced directly from Change.org. Users can navi-gate the petitions easily by filtering for environmental issue or organiza-tion. Each time users chose to take action by signing a petition, they earn reward points, which can then be redeemed in the online store. The store lists products for environmen-tally conscious brands, like Constant Simplicity, whose t-shirt manufactur-ing process saves 400 gallons of wa-ter, so even purchases on the site are an action step for SaveOhno’s users.

Husted’s new venture isn’t the only force for change—he is, too. His insights and stories are mo-tivating. If you’re a student, entre-preneur, or faculty member with the slightest itch to do something about anything, Dylan’s interview might help you start scratching…

Free Press (FP): How did you start? Dylan Husted (DH): Very Babson oriented: Professor Fleishman’s AHS class. I no longer felt that it would be nice to do something about climate change—it was that I needed to, and that if I didn’t do the biggest thing I could possible do, I’d regret it forever. The idea started with me getting angry about the fact that there’s this incredibly important issue and were doing so little about it. I was part of that group that was doing nothing about it. So, how can we change that? I looked up some data, and found that I wasn’t alone. The numbers showed that a majority of college students know climate change is a problem, but only a tiny fraction of us do anything about it. So, for about four months during spring and the summer going into sophomore year, I met with professors, activists, en-trepreneurs, and students to see how we can change that complacency. I identified reasons why people weren’t taking action and now I’m trying to solve it with this website. FP: Why the environment? DH: I came to Babson very fo-cused on being a for-profit, Zuck-erberg-type individual—a tech en-trepreneur. I just wanted to get rich. And that’s obviously changed. It was mainly Fleishman’s course—he lit a fire that I didn’t even know existed.

FP: So, you don’t want to be rich anymore? DH: You know, I’m no longer en-ticed by money for the same reasons. In high school I wanted to get rich to buy a yacht and get a jet. Now I just want to become incredibly rich to use that money and create awe-some social change—really intense, positive change. FP: Are you scared to fail? DH: The hardest part is managing emotions, but that’s the nature of entrepreneurship, and especially so-cial entrepreneurship—it’s tough. There’s so many points in time when I think, this will never work, how am I going to get people to use this? How will I scale? But all I can do is keep trying, and if there’s a problem, take it one step at a time, right? That probably sounds corny, but that’s all it is. If I start to feel like I’m being swallowed in a whirlwind of doubt, I say, “Just stop for a second, it can’t be that bad; we can find a way.” If I’m not good enough at developing, okay, I’ll take three weeks to work on developing. As college students we have a ridic-ulous amount of time—it’s really our resource. Compared to an en-trepreneur who has to pay the bills every month, we’ve got it easy. We sit around and do nothing a lot of the time, so we can afford to launch late, we can afford to not monetize for a while and keep exploring.

Here’s what keeps me going: I think, if I try this, worst case scenario, my résumé is going to look sick. FP: How are you measuring progress? DH: The same thing rings true for this question: lack of progress is an opportunity, not just a problem. For months and months and months, when it was too early for quanti-tative stuff, my qualitative results were pointing downward. Like real-ly down. No one understood what SaveOhno was, or why I was doing it. No one was excited apart from the fact that I was young and ambitious. I wasn’t sure if this was going to go anywhere at all. But the one thing I stuck with was the notion that win or lose, I have to commit to this for at least the rest of my time in college and give it 100%. So when I recog-nized people didn’t understand the concept, I refined the messaging to be easier to understand. When I rec-ognized that people weren’t excited, I changed the entire concept, design, and branding to be more exciting. When I recognized that successful entrepreneurs and potential inves-tors weren’t impressed, I asked why and changed the business model.And now things are really turning around in terms of progress to date. We’re getting traffic, we’re gaining users, our partnership base is grow-ing, and there’s a lot of general inter-est in what I’m trying to do.

FP: When do you know you’ve identified a problem or opportu-nity? DH: It’s tough. You have to be com-fortable with uncertainty. But, again, as college students we don’t have a deadline to come up with a winning idea, so you just have to be uncer-tain about it. You start with some questions—what area or problem am I trying to get into, what prob-lem am I trying to solve? And then you explore from there. And the way you explore is you go to relevant conferences and talk to people. Just pretend you already have a start-up and see how people react. FP: What if people don’t like your idea? DH: I was so disappointed when people responded negatively, be-cause I thought my idea was gold. It was very hard to bounce back. I spent a while not doing this anymore after that. That’s another thing that’s tough—when you feel like you have the problem and idea down and it just gets shot down. It’s important to then ask what peo-ple don’t like about the idea, and get to the root it. If you identify consis-tencies, like ten different people re-acted the same way, change your idea to match what you just learned.

Read the full interview online at www.thebabsonfreepress.com

Dylan Husted presents his startup, SaveOhno, a platform where users earn points for signing petitions. The startup’s goal is to educate students about environmental issues.Photo courtesy of DYLAN HUSTED

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The Empty Space Theater presents Falsettoland

9arts & eNtertaiNmeNt

AMAN hosts annual fall show:“AMAN gets hitched”

Photos by TATIANA TRAUSLEN

SHUN PING HUANGPRESIDENT

Over Halloween weekend, The Empty Space Theater (TEST) produced Falsettoland, an off-Broad-way hit musical about homosexual romance in 1980’s New York. The musical focuses on Marvin, a gay man who has left his wife and son for his ex-lover, Whizzer. Whizzer becomes afflicted with a mysterious illness—which we know today as AIDS, but which was not yet named in 1981—and all seven characters are forced to reevaluate their relation-ships with each other as they come to understand what “family” really means.

The cast consisted of one Wellesley College student, two Bab-son College students, a 14-year-old from Sharon Middle School, and three local actors. Together with a re-nowned director from Chicago, they produced a four-day show.Starring:Anastasia Perreault as Dr. Charlotte Chandler Cummings as TrinaJack Price as JasonJacob Rosenbaum as WhizzerJordan Cohen as MarvinNash Hightower as MendelOlivia Belitsky as CordeliaDirector: Tom MullenMusical director: Sandra Graham Assistant director: Kai HaskinsStage Manager: Brandon KamAssistant Stage Manager: Sheen Hui

Bottom, from left to right: Nash Hightower, Jack Price, Chandler Cummings, Jordan Cohen, Jacob Rosenbaum, Olivia Belitsky, & Anastasia Perreault.Photos courtesy of Xinghua Li

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Being Here, going BeyondPaintings by Percy Fortini-Wright

Exhibit on View: November 5 — January 8Hollister Gallery

babsonarts.org

integrating the influences of Fine art and Street art, Percy Fortini-Wright’s paint handling

is both improvisational and disciplined, whether he is using the spray can or brush.

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Athlete of the Month:Peter Sorenson

T.Y. KIMSTAFF WRITER

Peter Sorenson (’19), the only male diver in Babson Athletics, has been show-ing great promise only a few months into his collegiate diving career.

At A UMass-Dartmouth meet, he recorded victories in the one- and three- meter diving events, and was recently se-lected as the NEWMAC Co-Diver of the Week.The Free Press: Where are you from, and what was your childhood like?Peter Sorenson: I am from Blacksburg, Virginia. My childhood was pretty good, but I was home schooled for my entire pre-high school years.FP: How did you get into diving?PS: I always went to the local pool in the summer, every single day. I always loved to go off the diving board at the pool and do as many tricks as I could. And, at the time, I was considering join[ing] competitive swimming. But then, one of my friends told me, “Hey, instead of doing the same thing over and over, why don’t you join the diving team instead?”FP: What do you love about it?

PS: I love when I need to do a new dive off the high board, especially the three meter, and I am just absolutely terrified, I just chuck it, holding on until my coach calls me out, and then I nail my dive.FP: Why did you choose Babson?PS: I was recruited, and when I visit-ed the campus every single person I met here was nicer than anyone I had ever met from home. Coming from the South, I was amazed by how nice the people from Bab-son were.FP: How does it feel to be the only male diver at Babson?PS: Diving is a co-ed sport, so I don’t nec-essarily feel alone. But I do find it strange sometimes to be the only male diver at swim meets, such as at Wellesley College, the all-girls school, I end up being the only male diver out of eight divers.FP: What are your future plans as a div-er?PS: Well, after talking to my coaches, I was informed that there is a good possibility that I may break the Babson school record for both the one-meter and the three-me-ter for six and eleven dives that I perform at different meets.

Peter Sorenson performs an inward one-and-a-half dive off of a three-meter board.Photos courtesy of JOHN MCGRATH

Photo courtesy of BABSON ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

COURTESY OF BABSON ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

BABSON PARK, Mass.—The Bab-son College men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams turned in a dominating perfor-mance, winning 23 of 24 events to sweep vis-iting Norwich University in their home open-er on Saturday afternoon at Morse Pool. The Beaver men moved to 4-1 on the year with a 124-111 triumph, while the women picked up their first victory of season with a 127-82 re-sult against the Cadets.

Eight different individuals collected at least one victory in the women’s half of the meet as the Green and White came in first in all 12 events. Junior Madeline Dupre (Fiskdale, Mass.) was victorious in the 500- and 1650-yard freestyle and the 100-yard breaststroke, while senior Becca Greenberg (Beverly, Mass.) touched the wall first in the 100- and 200-yard freestyle. Sophomore Reilly Robbins (Center-ville, Mass.) also won two events as she claimed the 100-yard backstroke and 100-yard butterfly.

Junior Mallory Ham (Norwlk, Conn.) came in first in the 200-yard individual med-ley, Philipa Yu (Beijing, China) won the 50-yard freestyle and first-year Tessa Amoroso (Row-ley, Mass.) posted a victory on the 1-meter div-ing board.

Classmate Maria Orive (Guatemala City, Guatemala) came in second in the 200-

and 500-yard freestyle and also picked up a win along with Yu, Ham and Robbins in the 200 free relay. Sophomore Fernanda Tilkian (Key Biscayne, Fla.) came in second in the 100-yard backstroke and was part of the victorious 200-yard medley relay team.

In the men’s half of the meet, seniors Chris Roan (East Wareham, Mass.) and An Truong (West Roxbury, Mass.) each collected a trio of wins. Roan was victorious in the 100- and 200-yard freestyle, while Truong touched the wall first in the 200-yard individual medley and the 500 free. They also teamed with junior Kevin Shivers (Mercersburg, Pa.) and sopho-more Mitchell Posk(Boynton Beach, Fla.) to win the 200 free relay.

Shivers and Posk were also part of the winning 200-yard medley relay squad, and came in first in the 100-yard backstroke and 50-yard freestyle, respectively. Senior Andrew Wen (Boxborough, Mass.) touched the wall first in the 100-yard butterfly and was second in the 200 IM, junior Anton Pronichenko (Pal-isades, Calif.) was victorious in the 100-yard breaststroke and 200 medley relay, and first-year Peter Sorenson (Blacksburg, Va.) finished first on the 1-meter diving board.

The meet was the last of the first se-mester for the Babson men, while the Beaver women will return to action on Tuesday, De-cember 1 when they host Simmons at 6 p.m.

Donahue, Sullivan earn All-NEWMAC Women’s

Volleyball honorsCOURTESY OF BABSON

ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

BOSTON—Coming off its second straight conference tournament champion-ship on Sunday, the Babson College women’s volleyball team had a pair of players selected to the New England Women’s and Men’s Ath-letic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Conference teams on Tuesday. Senior Mary Donahue (Braintree, Mass.) earned a first-team nod, while classmate Elizabeth Sullivan (Quincy, Mass.) was named to the second team.

The first four-time All-NEWMAC honoree in program history, Donahue leads the Beavers in kills (339), kills per set (3.11), hitting percentage (.300) and points (386.5), while also contributing 39 total blocks and ca-

reer highs of 87 digs and 26 service aces this fall. She finished fourth in the league in both total kills and kills per set, and ranked fifth in points and points per set. Entering the NCAA Tournament, Donahue is second in school his-tory in points (1351.5), kills (1,324) and hitting percentage (.289).

Sullivan earned her first all-conference honor after putting together arguably the top defensive season in program history. She leads the NEWMAC with new career highs in to-tal digs (656) and digs per set (5.51), and has contributed a career-best 87 assists to go along with 40 service aces. Sullivan enters this week-end’s national tournament ranked 24th nation-ally in total digs and 26th in digs per set, and is Babson’s all-time leader in total digs with 1,419.

Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving

sweeps Norwich

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No. 11/12 Lynchburg edges Women’s Soccer, 1-0, in NCAA tournament first round

COURTESY OF BABSON ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

GLASSBORO, N.J.—First-year Caitlin Mertens (Suc-casunna, N.J.) scored the only goal of the match in the 42nd minute as No. 11/12 Lynchburg College edged Babson College, 1-0, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday night at the Rowan Soc-cer Complex.

Lynchburg (20-2-2), which won the 2014 national title, ad-vances to face the host Profs in a second-round match on Sunday. Making its first NCAA Tournament appearance in school history, Bab-son sees its season come to an end at 14-4-5.

Despite going up against one of the nation’s top offenses, the Beavers defended well for much of the match, holding the Hornets to just eight shots on frame. First-year goalkeeper Elizabeth Mycock (Windham, Maine) made four first half saves before Mertens, who had just entered the game as a substitute, took a feed from senior Alexis Jen-sen (Brambleton, Va.) and drilled a shot from the top of the box into the upper left corner to put Lynch-burg up 1-0.

After being held without

a shot in the opening 45 minutes, the Green and White had a pair of quality opportunities to equalize af-ter halftime. Senior Kristina Simon-son (Easton, Mass.) sent a free kick just over the cross bar from the top of the box in the 56th minute, and junior Marissa Endow (Worcester,

Mass.) missed just wide of the right post in the 71st minute following a cross from the left wing.

Classmate Olivia Kerester (Chappaqua, N.Y.) also missed high on her attempt from outside the box in the 79th minute.

Mycock finished with seven

GAME NOTES• Saturday’s match was the first meet-ing between Babson and Lynchburg.

• The loss was the first of the season and just the second in 35 games for the Green and White when allowing one goal or less going back to 10/12/13.

• Babson, which set a new single-sea-son team record with 14 shutouts this fall, conceded one goal or less in 18 of 23 games on the year.

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saves, just one short of her career high, while junior Tess Frelick (New Hope, Pa.) turned away a pair of shots for the Hornets.

Lynchburg finished with a 15-5 edge in shots and attempt-ed three of the game’s four corner kicks.

Six from field hockey earn NEWMAC postseason honors

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Holmes Named Player of the Year, Tango Selected As Rookie of the Year and Ryan Tabbed as Coach of the Year

BOSTON—Following a season that included 17 victories and its first regular-season conference title since 2012, the Babson College field hockey team had six members of its program honored when the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) released its postseason awards on Tuesday.

Highlighting the Beavers’ accolades was senior Elizabeth Holmes (Southborough, Mass.) be-ing named NEWMAC Player of the Year. Additionally, first-year Ashley Tango (Reading, Mass.) was select-ed as the league’s rookie of the year, while head coach Julie Ryan collect-ed coach of the year honors for the third time after leading the Green and White to its most wins in over a decade.

Senior goalkeeper Kayla Cos-ta (Watertown, Mass.) was named to the All-NEWMAC first team, while Tango, junior Kelsi McDougle (Hopedale, Mass.) and first-year Lau-ren Drakeley (Woodbury, Conn.) all garnered second-team recognition.

After missing all but two games of the 2014 campaign due to injury, Holmes put together the best season of her career this fall as she amassed career highs in goals (15), assists (15) and points (45). She led the league in assists and was second in points, and currently ranks sixth

nationally in assists per game (0.75). Holmes finishes her career with 27 goals and 24 assists for 78 points, and ranks seventh on the school’s all-time list in assists, is tied for ninth in points and is 11th in goals.

A two-year starter, Costa was one of Division III’s best goalkeep-

ers this fall. She leads the nation in goals against average (0.50) and save percentage (.884), and set a new sin-gle-season program record with eight shutouts in 2015. She now owns the lowest single-season goals against av-erage in school history, while her 17 wins are tied for the second most in

single-season history. For her career, Costa ranks third in shutouts (11), third in winning percentage (.690) and fourth in goals against average (1.46) and wins (29).

McDougle earned her sec-ond consecutive All-NEWMAC sec-ond-team honor after finishing with three goals and five assists for 11 points. A key piece of the Beavers’ penalty corners on both offense and defense, she notched one game-win-ning goal and assisted on a pair of game winners.

Tango burst onto the scene this fall by scoring in each of the first five matches, and is Babson’s first NEWMAC Rookie of the Year 2010. She finished second on the team in scoring with 11 goals, includ-ing two game winners, and seven as-sists for 29 points while starting 19 matches in the midfield.

Drakeley started all 20 games at center back for the Green and White and was a key piece of a de-fensive unit that conceded just 10 goals. She also contributed offen-sively with three goals, including a pair of game-winning tallies, and two assists for eight points.

The Green and White fin-ished the 2015 season ranked 14th in the Penn Monto/NFHCA Division III Coaches Poll.

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