Among a number of other dissimilarities, federal budgets proposed by Democrats and Republicans in Congress offer varying ef-fects for students involving federal financial aid and education funding.

Democrats in the House of Representa-tives’ House Budget Committee announced an alternative budget plan Monday in re-sponse to the budget released March 12 by House Budget Committee Republicans, ac-cording to a Monday press release from the committee.

“Any help that students can get — by committing to funding Pell Grants and just keeping interest rates as low as they have been — is really helpful,” said BU Demo-crats Communications Director Margarita Diaz. “… It’s important to ensure that every-one can actually afford an education.”

The alternative budget proposed by House Democrats continues full funding for stu-dents receiving Federal Pell Grants and pre-

vents subsidized student loan interest rates, currently set at 3.4 percent, from doubling in July 2014.

“This focus on education is in sharp con-trast with the Republican budget,” the Demo-cratic budget summary stated. “Their budget makes it harder for out-of-work Americans to get the education and skills needed to find jobs in a competitive global economy by cut-ting job training services and by cutting stu-dent aid by $168 billion over 10 years.”

The Republican budget plan aims to re-serve financial aid for those most in need, cap Pell Grants awards at $5,645 annually, streamline federal aid programs and remove barriers in higher education, particularly those relative to non-traditional teaching methods like online college courses.

Tim Buckley, communications director of the Massachusetts Republican Party, said in an email that the Republican budget would protect students in the future and ensure the

After legalizing medical marijuana in November, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced March 13 that it will file draft regulations with the Secre-tary of State and officially open policies to public review.

The initiative, which passed with 63 percent of the vote, allows for up to 35 marijuana dispensaries, at least one in each county, to grow and sell marijuana to quali-fied patients. These dispensaries will be approved and overseen by DPH, and draft regulations must be filed by March 29 and be approved by May 1, according to a state-ment Wednesday.

“The voters gave the department a clear mandate and an aggressive timeline for [creation] of these regulations,” said Cher-yl Bartlett, DPH interim deputy commis-sioner in the statement. “We have actively

solicited input from interested parties in shaping these regulations in an effort to put in place a system that is right for Massa-chusetts,”

The DPH must create regulations within 120 days that set application fees for the dispensaries to fully cover the cost to the Commonwealth, define the quantity of marijuana that constitutes a 60-day supply and create rules for cultivation and stor-age of marijuana, according to the medical marijuana statute that went into effect Jan. 1.

Local governments in Wakefield, Read-ing and Melrose attempted to ban dispen-saries from their towns, but Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley said in a release Wednesday that total bans on dispensaries were not allowed.

Matt Simon, representative of the Mari-juana Policy Project, said enforcement of the regulations is up to dispensary owners

to deal with local resistance in order to cre-ate an effective program.

“The better job [dispensary owners] are able to do of getting local approval and making local officials and governments comfortable with these facilities and where they’re operated will contribute to the suc-cess of the program,” Simon said.

While Simon said there has been local government opposition in other states, he said the clash is just part of the process of figuring out what works best for the state.

“Some towns are resistant and others are more welcoming,” he said. “Trying to find towns that are most comfortable with what’s happening is a good idea for dispen-sary owners.”

Owners of marijuana dispensers may find less disapproval if they open a dispen-sary on a nonprofit level, he said.

“Keeping it nonprofit means that people

Boston Redevelopment Authority ap-proved Harvard University’s request to amend an expansive redevelopment project in Northern Allston Friday.

“In order to clear the site, Harvard needed to remove facilities and move them somewhere else,” said Gerald Autler, the senior project manager and planner for the BRA. “They identified another site they

owned, the former Comcast building, and decided that would be a good location for this project.”

The Harvard University administration plans to renovate their facilities at 28 Travis St. to house current Harvard facilities at 219 Western Ave., Autler said. The university also plans to lease open land to Samuels and Associates, a local developer, to build more facilities, but this amendment will be sent to the BRA board for approval in April.

“Some people are frustrated by the slow pace of some of Harvard’s other develop-ment,” Autler said. “This has become much more politically controversial than we an-ticipated in terms of all the development. Some members of the neighborhood saw it as not a very desirable proposal by Harvard, which may not have drawn attention if their other things were moving forward at a faster pace.”

The project will serve as a temporary home for existing institutional uses, includ-ing Harvard University Information Tech-nology, mail and transportation services and the Harvard University Police Department training facility, said Lauren Marshall, se-nior communications officer for the Harvard University Planning and Community Pro-grams, in an email.

“Over the past eight months, we have re-ceived clear feedback about the 28 Travis St. relocation plan from the [Harvard-Allston] Task Force, the city, Allston neighbors and elected officials,” Marshall said. “The 28 Travis St. project includes the renovation of an existing single-story warehouse building and the construction of an additional single-story building.”

The improvements will not increase the square footage of the Travis Street location, she said.

“This [Institutional Master Plan Noti-fication Form] amendment also includes

While a new study reports students who pursue double-major degrees are more likely to develop integrative thinking skills than stu-dents who do not, BU officials said not all stu-dents benefit from double majoring.

College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Student Academic Life Steven Jarvi said pursuing a double major is only worth-while if the student is genuinely interested in both subjects he or she chooses to study.

“If there are two things that you are pas-sionate about, it makes sense, but it doesn’t make sense if you’re doing it just to look good to an employer,” he said. “It’s a waste of time and money to do something just to look good.”

However, Jarvi said employers might see students who pursue double majors as having certain positive character traits.

“The double major also could just reflect the student’s motivation and initiative, and that is never a bad thing to demonstrate to an employer,” he said.

Vanderbilt University professors Richard Pitt and Steven Tepper surveyed 1,760 stu-dents from nine different colleges. Of those students, 19 were double majors, according to the study.

About 76 percent of double majors re-sponded that their main reason for double majoring was to prepare themselves for the workforce.

Seventy-two percent of double majors said the subjects they chose to study expressed their individual identity, and 70 percent said the subjects they studied complemented each other, according to the study, published Friday by The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy.

Taking courses in two different majors might help students develop alternative ways of thinking and problem solving, according to the study.

“This, in turn, should result in more oppor-tunities for students to cultivate a capacity for deep, integrative learning,” the study stated.

While Jarvi said he does not know which double majors BU students most often choose to pursue, many CAS students study more than one subject.

“There are definitely some double majors more popular than others,” he said. “It’s not

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Pell Grant program is sustainable.“This budget plan looks to

maintain current Pell Grant levels and reform the system so today’s middle school students can access the same resources currently avail-able — which left alone, would go broke,” he said.

He said measures aiming to low-er costs of college in the past have generally been ineffective.

“It is important to remember that throwing money at efforts to reduce the cost of higher education has not worked, as anyone paying tuition today knows all too well,” Buckley said. “More spending is not trans-lating into results.”

BU College Republicans Vice

President Mara Mellstrom said the budget proposals do not appear as if they will affect a majority of col-lege students, and that most of the provisions for higher education deal with streamlining program funding.

“Where [U.S. President Barack] Obama wants to do more Pell Grants and more price control, it looks like [House Budget Commit-tee Chairman] Paul Ryan and the Republicans just want to trim the fat,” Mellstrom, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said.

Mellstrom said the budget pro-posed by Republicans is fair and appropriate.

“The Republicans are well aware that everyone deserves a col-lege education and that everyone should have equal opportunity to

get it,” she said.While it is troublesome that

Congress takes so long to come to a consensus on the budget, these dilemmas are more complex than most Americans think, Mellstrom said.

“It’s not black and white,” she said.

Diaz, a CAS senior, said the cur-rent stagnation in Congress is caus-ing further distress for college stu-dents trying to fund their education.

“We are at a point where students must address the skyrocketing costs of college tuition, but we’re also at a point where, in Congress, ev-erything is completely stalled right now,” she said. “The House Demo-crats, they’re just trying to make sure with this budget that college

students don’t get caught in the fray of things like inflation or economic conditions in this country.”

Kayla McDonald, a CAS senior, said Congress should be quicker to make a decision on the national budget.

“It makes sense that it’s taking them [Congress] a long time, but they should definitely be able to come to an agreement faster than this,” she said.

McDonald said she receives fed-eral aid, but would still like to see some improvement to federal aid programs.

“I think they overestimate the family’s contribution a lot of the time,” she said.

School of Law graduate student Kelly Soltis said while she does not

receive federal aid, she would like to see a limit on how much colleges can charge.

“It would be helpful for students like me who don’t receive finan-cial aid to have some sort of cap on either the percentage increase on tuition or tuition in general at uni-versities, especially private univer-sities,” she said.

CAS freshman Ellen Nevers said it is important to maintain a low interest rate on federal loans.

“It’s definitely helpful that some of the federal loans come with a much lower interest rate,” she said. “They’ve offered me a lot of loans that would be easier to pay back than trying to take a loan out my-self.”

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BU College Republicans V.P.: Budget issue ‘not black and white’

the Bright Arena Project, an inte-rior renovation within the Bright Hockey Center and Gordon Indoor Track facilities within Harvard’s Athletics area,” Marshall said.

Rob Ridde, 22, a worker at Or-chards Skate Shop in Allston, said in his two-and-a-half years living in Allston, Harvard has greatly increased its presence. He said he does not see why Harvard wants to build more.

“Half of Allston already feels like [Boston University] and now the other half now will feel like Harvard,” Ridde said. “You can

only assume with a college taking up more space the area is going to get more gentrified.”

Jeremy Given, 24, an employee at Buffalo Exchange in Allston, said the area already resembles Cambridge with the amount of Harvard students and buildings in Allston.

“Lower Allston feels like Cam-bridge anyway because there are a lot of Harvard students there,” Given said. “Harvard’s further in-fluence on Allston may change the feel throughout Allston, though.”

He said construction has been going on for a long time already, but it has not affected him directly.

Maryssa Hartsgrove, 20, said the area Harvard is developing is disconnected from areas with higher pedestrian foot traffic. She said the area in which Harvard is building is isolated from where most college students live.

“It’s already off to its own part, it doesn’t really have much of an effect on the rest of Allston,” Hartsgrove said. “That area of Allston is not the focal point. Allston is mostly focused in the central area and surrounding areas, and the [Harvard] part is separated from there.”

Tori Brigham contributed to the reporting of this article.

Allston employee: ‘Allston feels like Cambridge’Harvard: From Page 1

surprising that our larger majors — psychology, international relations and economics — also have the most double majors because they just have more students in general.”

Ann Jacob, a CAS junior double majoring in international relations and political science, said she de-cided to pursue two fields of study because she was passionate about both.

“I am a double major because I started out as an international rela-tions major and I just loved studying international relations,” she said. “I added political science to it because I interned in Washington, D.C. last summer and I worked a lot with do-mestic U.S. poverty policy and I re-ally enjoyed it ... It didn’t really have anything to do with job searches or what employers were looking for.”

Jacob said she found the majors complementary and said it made sense to study them simultaneously.

“When you put two things to-gether, they might overlap,” she said. “You might see something in a different way when you are studying something else at the same time as something else.”

Jacob said often, students sim-

ply have more than one interest and want to learn about different topics.

“It’s true of our generation in general that we have a lot of inter-ests, so double majoring is a good way to learn about other things you’re interested in,” she said.

Laurens Spethmann, a CAS and School of Management sophomore studying neuroscience and either en-trepreneurship or law, said students might choose to study multiple sub-jects to take advantage of what BU has to offer.

“You’re paying nearly $250,000 — that’s what it basically comes down to — and if you have the possibility of doing a dual degree, you’re getting the most out of your time,” he said. “You’re really using that time to the highest level of ef-fectiveness.

Spethmann said while he has been discouraged to pursue a double major, it is feasible for a student who is motivated enough to do the required work.

“If you want a dual degree, no one is going to baby you through it,” he said. “You really have to do it yourself and you have to actively pursue it yourself. There are going to be people who are critical of it.”

CAS junior: Double majoring allows for wider perspectives

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are not trying to make a quick buck off of the program,” Simon said. “A lot of people are more comfortable with that idea of dis-pensaries being nonprofit.”

Richard Aghababian, presi-dent of the Massachusetts Medi-cal Society, said there are other regulations that are necessary for the change in medical marijuana policy to succeed.

“We have a high set of stan-dards for medicine and the ways in which we treat people, but we have not applied [those standards]

to marijuana,” Aghababian said. “This law is calling it a medicine without scientific data.”

Aghababian said if studies show marijuana to be at least as effective as other medicine and have minimal side effects, they would support medical marijuana.

Aghababian said medical marijuana should be included in the Massachusetts Prescription Monitoring System, which would allow the government to watch for patients who may abuse the drug, and specify regulations of the physician-patient relationship

with conditions under which a pa-tient is eligible for medical mari-juana.

The law states that eligible patients must be diagnosed with cancer, glaucoma, AIDS, Hepa-titis C, Crohn’s disease, Parkin-son’s disease, multiple sclerosis or other conditions as determined by a qualifying physician.

“We aren’t against marijuana any more than we are against ex-cessive use of alcohol or medicine that change your mood,” Aghaba-bian said. “We have to protect the public interest.”

Med. Soc. Pres.: Pot may not meet treatment standardsMarijuana: From Page 1

The Massachusetts Legislature website is one of the least trans-parent government websites in the U.S., according to a transparency report card released by the Sunlight Foundation last Wednesday.

The website, which was given the worst grade of ‘F’ by the gov-ernment watchdog Sunlight Foun-dation, was faulted for not post-ing roll call votes online, having a buggy and broken site much of the time and not retaining records be-fore 2009.

“The biggest loser here are the residents of Massachusetts,” said Liz Bartolomeo, the communica-tions manager at the Sunlight Foun-dation. “When they want to go on-line and see about a bill they read about and how their local represen-tative voted on it, they can’t do it.”

Out of all 50 states and the Dis-trict of Columbia, only five states, including Massachusetts, received an ‘F’ rating. The methodology for grading focused on the wealth of information provided on a given legislative website, the timeliness posted information, the perma-nence of content posted and the

ease of electronic access, among other factors.

“You need to have the most re-cent version of Java Script to access the Mass. website, that’s a little problematic,” Bartolomeo said. “One thing we are also seeing is if anyone wanted to go to the Mass. legislature website and look for something older than 2009, they are not able to find that information online.”

Tom Nash, news editor at trans-

parency watchdog and public re-cords request service MuckRock, said as a journalist he has had trou-ble accessing legislative records.

“I’ve tried looking up bills and it’s hard to find them,” Nash said. ”That’s information that other states have figured out how to do. They’re always pushing to show Massachusetts as an incubator of technology and they should lead by example. Democracy isn’t working

Despite having appropriate grades to do so, many low-income, high-achieving students do not ap-ply to selective colleges or univer-sities for financial reasons, a recent analysis of every high school stu-dent who took the SAT found.

Boston University economics professor Andrew Newman said underprivileged students often do not apply because they are unaware of certain selective universities or because they do not believe they can achieve admission.

“They seem to be thinking that the reason why disadvantaged high achievers don’t attend prestigious universities as much as their more advantaged counterparts do is be-cause either it doesn’t occur to them or they don’t believe they can do it, or they’re too far away,” he said.

The study, reported by The New York Times Saturday, was con-ducted by two longtime education researchers from Harvard Univer-sity and Stanford University and

appears as a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.

Only 34 percent of high-achiev-ing high school seniors within the lowest income quarter attend any of the most selective colleges in the U.S., according to the study.

Newman said it is important for low-income students to be exposed to others because it advances their careers.

“Your exposure to other high-achieving people from other back-grounds helps you not only learn and acquire other skills, but also helps you with networking which will help you later on in your ca-reer,” he said.

Opinions vary on how to en-courage universities to draw more low-income students and provide them with more money, although it might be most beneficial to force universities to meet a certain quota of less privileged students, New-man said.

“The kind of policy that we want, assuming we want to get more integration, is something more like an affirmative action pol-icy, where you actively force elite

universities to admit high-achiev-ing underprivileged people so that they’re actually going to the same school as high-achieving, privi-leged people,” he said.

Writing Program professor Alli-son Blyler said that although mon-ey is a factor, it is also important for people surrounding low-income students to help them understand their potential. “

“Universities offer financial aid, but that’s not the only thing that students need, it’s not just about the money,” she said. “You need to wonder if students aren’t be-ing directed to the universities, or if they’re being intimidated by the universities not reaching out to them.”

A number of BU students said money should not be a factor in be-ing able to attend prestigious uni-versities.

Katelyn Burns, a College of Communication junior, said money should be offered to needy students who are able to get into more selec-tive schools.

In joint association with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick filed legislation Wednes-day to fund infrastructure im-provements over the next 10 years.

“These investments will create the jobs and opportunity today that will build a stronger Common-wealth for tomorrow,” Patrick said in a press release Wednesday. “A modern, safe, equitable 21st cen-tury transportation system is what our citizens want and our Com-monwealth needs to unlock eco-nomic growth in every region.”

Patrick’s plan calls for dis-bursement of $13.7 billion to vari-ous transportation-based projects in the Commonwealth, according to The Way Forward: A 21st Cen-tury Transportation Plan released Jan. 14.

In order to pay for the many infrastructure improvements, sales taxes would increase from 6.25 percent to 7.25 percent and state income taxes would increase from 5.25 percent to about 5.66 percent, according to the plan.

While the increase in payments may seem unwanted, they actually come as a middle ground between improving quality of transporta-tion and costing the public money, said Michael Verseckes, spokes-man for MassDOT.

“’It’s never good to raise taxes’ — you‘ll hear that refrain quite frequently, but also it’s not a good time to get stuck in traffic, stuck on a broken-down train, or even to hit a pothole,” Verseckes said. “We’re really at the point where we need to take a look at the system we have and how we’re financing it, what we’ll wield and move for-ward with.”

The higher taxes also would be put in place to compensate for years of irresponsible money man-agement in terms of transportation, Verseckes said.

“We unfortunately have a long-standing practice of borrowing money to pay for the highway sys-tem’s operating cost, and that is

BU to offer summer study abroad programs in Africa, Dakar

caMpus & city Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Boston University will add to its already-strong African studies program by introducing two new six-week study abroad programs in Africa for summer 2013, officials said.

One of the programs will be hosted in Zanzibar, Tanzania from May 27 to July 5 and will explore religion, politics and other issues of the area. The other is set to run from May 19 to June 30 partly in Dakar, Senegal and partly in Paris, and will explore issues of youth and migration, according to a Thursday College of Arts and Sciences press release.

“We really have a rich ability to prepare students for going abroad, and also to provide them with op-portunities to study further when they come back,” said Timothy Longman, director of the center for African studies and head of the

Zanzibar program.Longman said the Zanzibar

program offers a unique setting for students to learn about African culture.

“It’s a part of Africa that has a mix of Arab, Indian, Persian or Arabian and African cultures, as well as some Portuguese and Brit-ish influence,” he said. “It’s fasci-nating to see how all those differ-ent societies come together in one place.”

Students in the Zanzibar pro-gram will enroll in two four-credit courses: A Swahili course and a course titled “Religion, Politics and Identity in East Africa,” according to the release.

“Frankly, it’s going to be a fairly small program, so there will be lots of ways that we can adapt to stu-dents’ interests,” Longman said.

Longman said if the program is successful, CAS officials might expand it for future summers or de-

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The following crime reports were taken frpm the Allston-Brigh-ton D-14 crime logs from March 12 to March 19.

At about 12:09 p.m. Friday, Boston Police Department received a call about a suspicious person at 17 Cummings Road. When they ar-rived at the scene, authorities con-ducted a search for the suspects and discovered an open door in the back of apartments one and two. A wit-ness said he saw the suspects leave through the rear door of apartment two, each carrying a shopping bag and backpack. The apartment was found in disarray, as objects were thrown around the room and bed-room doors were damaged. The front door of the apartment, which leads to the hallway of the building, was covered in pry marks. The vic-tims reported a gold watch and sev-eral electronic devices were stolen from their rooms.

...But here’s a big knifeAn armed robbery occurred at

about 7:00 p.m. Monday near 21 Quint Ave. The victim reported that the two suspects were following him while he was walking to his friend’s house. The two suspects drew closer and threw the victim onto the ground. One of the men, described as a white Hispanic man between the ages of 18 and 22, pulled out a four-inch knife and held it in the direction of the vic-tim’s face. He said, “I don’t want to hurt you, give me everything you have” and told his accomplice to check the pockets of the victim. The victim’s iPhone 5 and wallet were stolen during the incident.

Good thing she sleeps inPolice responded to a call at

about 12:24 p.m. Monday about a breaking-and-entering incident at 137 Chiswick Road. The victim stated that she heard a banging sound from the back living room window while she was sleeping. She walked to the living room and saw a person outside the window attempting to enter the apartment. The suspect fled the scene by foot once seen by the victim. The only characteristic the victim remem-bered about the suspect was that the suspect was wearing a dark gray sweater. The police observed that both locks to the victim’s living room window had been broken.

Say pleaseSaturday at about 2:30 a.m.,

a man was assaulted with a hand-gun while talking on the phone at a Dunkin Donuts restaurant, located at 214 North Beacon St. A group of seven to eight unknown suspects approached him and two other wit-nesses. One of the suspects, who was wearing a red jacket, held a black handgun to his throat and told him to “leave the car.” The victim was also given a cut on the back of his head, a scratch to the neck and a swollen left eye. The group then fled the scene in an unknown direc-tion, and one of the witnesses took the victim to the St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center emergency room. However, nothing was taken from the victim during the incident.

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sign a program to run during the academic year.

Odile Cazenave, head of the Dakar and Paris program and a professor in the Depart-ment of Romance Studies, said the program allows students to learn about two distinct cultures.

“The first two weeks will be spent in Da-kar in Senegal, and the four remaining weeks in Paris,” she said. “The idea is that both Da-kar and Paris are unique sides to understand the complexity and context about the evolu-tion of issues around youth and migration.”

Cazenave said the program gives students an opportunity to examine film and literature

of the area and understand what migrants from Senegal might experience during a tran-sition from Africa to Europe.

“You have many programs going to Sene-gal, but usually it’s just an introduction to the culture,” she said. “… This program is more focused on the key issues both of youth and migration, which is one of the key issues in the global economy.”

Students in the Dakar and Paris program will enroll in two four-credit courses titled “Youth and Migration in Literature and Film” and “Historical and Social Dynamics of Mi-gration,” according to the release.

Students will also learn basic conversa-tional Wolof, a language used by many Sen-egalese, Cazenave said.

Local host families will house students in both programs, she said.

Several students said they perceive unique benefits to the new study abroad programs in Africa.

Paula Sokolska, a College of Communi-cation sophomore, said the culture shock a student might face in an African study abroad program would be much greater than that of a student enrolled in a European program.

“Somewhere like London or Madrid, it’s still a city, so there are still a lot of familiari-ties from home,” she said. “... But if you go to a place in Africa, depending on where you go, that’s not something that you would nec-essarily have been exposed to.”

Rachel Franklin, a CAS junior, said she

studied abroad in Grenoble, France, and would have gone to Africa, had there been an appropriate opportunity.

“I would have gone somewhere like that if there was a program offering science courses in those places, but there wasn’t at the time,” she said.

Alexa Aldrich, a School of Management senior who studied abroad in London as a junior, said she would consider studying abroad in Africa if she had more time at BU, citing the great cultural differences as being of particular intrigue.

“Cultures that are so drastically different from ours are just so fascinating and interest-ing,” she said. “... It could actually change your life a lot.”

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Students in Senegal program to learn conversational Wolof

if they aren’t going to show information on their site.”

Bartolomeo said since the report cards were posted last week, a couple of states, in-cluding Rhode Island and New York, reached out to Sunlight and managed to bump up their ratings by tweaking their sites. Bartolo-meo said Massachusetts officials have not contacted Sunlight regarding rating.

Mass. Sen. Jamie Eldrige said the “F” rat-ing was fairly accurate, and an overhaul is

needed for www.malegislature.gov.“I think that the rating should have been

higher, but not by much,” Eldridge said. “We are making steps to have a more transparent government, but there is still work to do.”

Eldridge and others amended the rules of the Senate last week in a move to make roll call votes available online.

“The Clerk shall make available on the of-ficial website of the General Court the results of all roll call votes not later than 48 hours after such vote is taken, not including quorum calls, in a manner easily identifiable, search-

able and conspicuously located,” according to amended Senate rule 8A. “The Clerk shall include the number of the roll call and the title of the matter voted upon.”

This rule will take effect by May, and El-drige said it would surely increase transpar-ency online.

“It’s important to provide the votes we take each week so they can be seen by our constituents,” Eldridge said.

Eldrige also said the Senate will soon pro-vide voting information in committees, so constituents can see what is brought to the

floor and who is voting on bringing it there. This rule was proposed as a joint rule for both houses of Congress, but only the Senate ad-opted it, Eldridge said.

Nash said it is inexcusable how hard the legislative website is to navigate.

“There is no excuse for it,” Nash said. “At this stage, it is an embarrassment that they would sit and not do anything where they should let people understand what they are doing. They are hiding what they are voting.”

Kyle Plantz contributed to the reporting of this article.

Sunlight spokeswoman: RI, NY sought feedback, improved website gradestransparency: From Page 3

not a good practice in the business world,” he said.

MassINC Polling Group released a study Thursday stating voters are open to the dis-cussion of raising additional revenue for transportation improvements throughout the Commonwealth.

About 51 percent of the people polled supported increases in transit fares for rev-enue to improve general transportation. 61 percent supported an increase in the gas tax to fund improvements for roads and high-ways, and 56 percent supported an increase to the income and sales tax to improve pub-lic transportation, according to the poll.

Patrick would allocate the most money to road and bridge projects in all parts of the state. Highway maintenance, new con-struction, regional rail expansion and public transportation are also included, according to the plan.

“Governor Patrick’s transportation fund-ing plan is vital,” said Kelly Smith , dep-uty press secretary for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, in an email. “This is why Governor Patrick, Secretary [Richard] Davey, General Manager Dr. Beverly Scott and many other leaders have been travelling the state to speak with both elected officials and constituents about the importance of the passage [of] ‘The Way Forward.’”

The MBTA would receive $3.2 billion for projects including replacement of trains, improvements of signals and tracks and cre-

ation of new technology for better customer service, according to the plan.

“MassDOT and the MBTA know that the passage of Governor Patrick’s transpor-tation funding plan is vital to the sustain-ability and future growth of the Common-wealth’s transportation system,” Smith said.

Some state senators said they are aware of the plan and are prepared to vote to pass it.

“I am very much for it [the plan],” said Mass. Sen. William Brownsberger. “It’s very important for my district. The House has got to make the first move…[but] it is encouraging to see that there’s already ac-tion for it [in the Senate].”

Regardless of what the cost would rise to, it can and should be paid for by the pub-lic, said Michael Manove, professor of eco-nomics at Boston University.

“In general, I think that the American taxpayer, including the Massachusetts tax-payer, has foolishly allowed the infrastruc-ture of our economy to decay,” Manove said. “The result is that roads, bridges, and public-transportation facilities, have fallen into dangerous disrepair.”

He said there are plenty of opportunities to upgrade and improve public transport in Boston.

“Our country and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts need to invest in the public sector,” Manove said. “The word ‘com-monwealth’ itself means something that we need to pay attention to.”

Kyle Plantz contributed to the reporting of this article.

Transportation plan to give MBTA $3.2 bil. for general improvements

taxes: From Page 3

For some students at Boston Uni-versity, spring break means going back home, visiting friends, eat-

ing home-cooked meals and catching up on sleep. However, a number of students ditch the couch potato act and instead gave back to the community through Alternative Spring Break programs.

Fighting HIV in San Juan, Puerto RicoSince San Juan, Puerto Rico has in-

creasingly high rates of HIV transmission and drug use, College of Arts and Sciences senior Alex Valdovinos helped organize an ASB trip on which volunteers worked with a nonprofit organization, Iniciativa Comu-nitaria, to help spread public health aware-ness as well as provide materials and medi-cal kits to underserved populations in the area.

After participating in the First-Year Stu-dent Outreach Program as a freshman, Val-dovinos said he was still looking for ways to give back and help those in need. After some encouragement from his friends, he became involved with ASB, where he was able to combine his interest in service work and public health.

“Alternative Spring Break is one of the best programs in BU, if not one of the best experiences I’ve encountered,” Valdovinos said. “You get that gratifying feeling by do-ing something good for the community.”

Valdovinos said coordinating an ASB trip took more preparation than FYSOP, for which staff had five days of training. ASB coordinators train from October to March. He said as an ASB coordinator he had to contact coordinators at the volunteer site to ensure that students will be welcomed and have the best experience they can get.

“They want to learn the issue, they want to have a new experience and I’m there to give it to them,” Valdovinos said. “I’m His-panic, so I want to give them that Latin fla-vor of Puerto Rico while they’re experienc-ing the different areas of public health and the different issues in Puerto Rico.”

Valdovinos said the most inspirational part of the trip was when he met with the Executive Director of Iniciativa Comuni-

taria, Dr. Jose Vargas. On the first day of ASB, Vargas told volunteers that he created Iniciativa Comunitaria because he was ap-palled by the way the patients were treated, Valdovinos said.

Of all the things he learned during his time in Puerto Rico, Valdovinos said he was most impressed by how caring the volun-teers were.

“I’ve never seen so much commitment and hard work in my life,” he said. “[The volunteers] don’t do it for the money, but because of love and compassion.”

Rescuing refugees in AtlantaCollege of Communication sophomore

Jun Tsuboike said he wanted a new experi-ence and realized he wanted to assist com-munities, which is why he sat in front of his computer at 7:59 a.m. on December 1, fervently refreshing the ASB registration page until he landed a spot on the Atlanta ASB trip.

While pursuing a dual degree in interna-tional relations and journalism, he said par-ticipating in ASB would bolster his aware-ness about people in need.

“What’s important to me is helping people, that’s what my passion is about,” Tsuboike said. “Journalism is great because I want to inform people and I think that’s very important. But for international rela-tions, it’s for understanding people. The en-vironment I’m going to be in is going to be very different.”

In Atlanta, Tsuboike worked with the In-ternational Rescue Committee, a program that helps refugees settle into the U.S. The volunteers helped by filling out paperwork, writing portfolios for the refugees and teaching them English.

Although Tsuboike said he has not done community service to this scale before, and even foresaw some difficulty with the language barrier between him and the im-migrants, these factors did not deter him from getting involved. He said he helped the immigrants with Teachers of English to Speakers for Other Languages programs and did charades to explain the meaning of the words.

“I see myself being a cosmopolitan citi-zen,” Tsuboike said. “I want to be part of the world, not just a bubble. I have to un-derstand those people in completely differ-ent environments that I’ve never been in.”

Helping the homeless in Washington, D.C.

Growing up as a girl scout, College of General Studies freshman Shannon Stocks devoted a large amount of time to volun-teering. She said she was initially focused on achieving awards and recording num-bers of service hours but as she grew up, she realized that those badges aren’t impor-tant.

“It wasn’t to get the awards, it wasn’t to get the hours, it was because I really liked the project,” said Stocks. “When I came here I did FYSOP and joined a commu-nity service sorority, so ASB was the next level.”

When signing up for ASB, Stocks thought the Washington, D.C. trip suited her the most.

“I like to do more hands on activities and one-on-one activities with people,” Stocks said. “It’s more interactive and you get to see how you’re helping.”

Stocks said the volunteers worked with Capital Area Food Bank and Food & Friends to help the homeless in the area and educate the public on health and nutrition.

They packaged food and non-food prod-ucts that were donated from schools and homes to patients who have diabetes, can-cer, HIV and other diseases. She said there was an executive chef and a nutritionist on site when they were packaging to help ac-commodate those patients with specific di-etary needs.

Initially, Stocks said she thought the main issue was hunger, but the trip taught her even more about public health, cancer and diabetes. She said she would love to participate in this trip again, but would like to travel to a different destination.

“I became more interested in public health after this trip, so Puerto Rico would be great,” said Stocks. “Even the environ-ment sounds interesting.”

Stocks put ASB on her long list of com-munity service accomplishments and said she hopes to become a co-coordinator next year.

Helping a fuzzy friend in New Orleans, La.

Participating in one of the few ASB trips involving animals, Justin Pennisi, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sci-ences senior, traveled to New Orleans to as-sist cats and dogs that were abandoned or separated from their owners.

“I never had a pet growing up, so I said, ‘Why not?’” Pennisi said.

The volunteers assisted the Louisianan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a nonprofit organization, with tasks such as cleaning shelters, assisting vets and handing out flyers. He said it was heart-warming to see great families adopt the animals.

Besides being able to interact with the animals, Pennisi said he enjoyed convers-ing with the New Orleans locals, learning about the culture and listening to their sto-ries, especially about Hurricane Katrina.

“I’ve never been anywhere near New Orleans and I’ve heard really great things about the culture and the people,” Pennisi said. “When we had our dinner [with the lo-cals], we learned a lot of great stories and experiences, especially Katrina … I think that was a lot of people’s favorite part.”

During the 2012 ASB, Pennisi not only helped disabled children when he went to Texas, he said he also formed strong friend-ships on the trip, which he said “changed his college experience around.”

Even though the ASB groups only met twice before departure, Pennisi said he was confident that with the 28-hour car ride, the volunteers would end up as best friends once they arrive down south. By the end of the trip, he said all the volunteers had become close and learned a lot about each other.

“Just that one week being next to 11 or 12 other people,” he said, “you really get to know and appreciate each other’s differenc-es and … see other people’s perspective.”

BU students share their experiences fromAlternative Spring Break

Deborah Wong

PHOTO COURTESY OF SHANNON STOCKS CAS freshman Katelyn Flowers (Right), COM freshman Jillian Richardson and CGS fresh-man Shannon Stocks (Left) work with a Food and Friends manager in Washington, D.C.

Features Staff

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALEX VALDOVINOSCoordinators, CAS senior Alex Valdovinos and SED sophomore Chloe Walker volun-teered in San Juan, Puerto Rico to help spread public health awareness.

6 Wednesday, March 20, 2013

opinion

CNN and WCVB News reported Monday that sugary drinks are linked to over 180,000 obesity-related deaths across the world every year, according to research presented this week at an American Heart Association conference. This means that one in one hundred deaths are purportedly caused by over-consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.

The U.S. ranked third on the worldwide study of death rates from sugar-filled drinks. Still, the fact that sugary beverages can ulti-mately lead to death should be read as a warn-ing sign that our country needs to slow down on its consumption of soda, sugary juices, en-ergy drinks, etc.

Granted, the government and its food ad-ministrations can never fully regulate our na-tional consumption of sugary drinks (or can they? New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently attempted a soda ban), as that would infringe on our freedom and right to drink as much sugar as we please and suffer the health consequences accordingly. Government also cannot regulate the manufacturing of sugary beverages. According to The Boston Globe, Coke is the world’s biggest beverage manufac-turer, one that provides hundreds of thousands of jobs and generates millions of dollars across the globe.

What it can potentially regulate, however, is the way in which sugary drinks are marketed to the public, and especially to younger gen-

erations. It can debate the safety of marketing soda to children. It can, if it wants, label soda the way it labels cigarettes now that soda has been cited as a cause of death. People should know to avoid soda both regular and diet. It’s likely that they already do, but unlikely that they know it helps lead to death. The govern-ment’s main effort should be to continue and further its obesity-education efforts, especially because public money is often put into funding the health care of those who do not make so-cially responsible choices about the beverages they repeatedly consume.

In January, The Huffington Post reported on Coca-Cola’s recent “Coming Together” ad-vertisement, which highlighted how the com-pany has worked with school systems to of-fer bottled water and juices to children, while also making an effort to create 180 low-calorie drink options and offer smaller-sized full-calo-rie sodas to help control portion size.

These company efforts are good, but they do not solve the problem. Neither does a sim-ple ban on soda, as people should limit their sugar consumption in any form. Still, accord-ing to WCVB, scientists have found that more people died from diabetes, heart disease and cancer in parts of the world where consump-tion of sugary drinks is high. Ultimately the way to encourage a sugar limit is to use gov-ernment money to continually educate people about sugar’s negative affects on health.

Sugary drinks can lead to your death

Terrier Talk Reflections

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hear students weigh in on their experiences with the dangers of

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To date aFat Guy

SANDOR MARK

When it comes to courtship, the tradition-al “date” has all but vanished, and I find the alternatives to be a little depressing.

Let me clarify: If you’ve been in a relation-ship with someone for three months and then take them out one night, that’s not a “date.” Dinner with someone you’d like to be in a relationship with is a date. And I’m saying that this kind of social interaction has almost vanished for our generation — along with the sex lives of people who use the words “social interaction.” Our generation has a radically different structure of socialization, and for fat guys, it’s made the possibility for romantic relationships a rarity.

These days there are only about two plac-es for people between the ages of 21 and 25 to meet — bar or club. Where else are we supposed to meet new people? Parties? All the people I’d ever want to go to a party with I met before I was 20. Classes? I generally alienate people in my classes because of my condescending tone. I hear that some people take cooking classes to meet new people. But I already know how to cook — it’s one of the main reasons I’m fat. As for the gym, I’ve been perfectly clear about how I feel about gyms. My point is that if you want to meet someone special, it appears your only choice is White Horse or T’s.

What’s interesting is how this has affected relationships, and more specifically, the way in which relationships start. In the past, the process was pretty tame, a fact I learned from my dad. In his day, you’d take a girl to a movie a couple times, then you get some food once or twice — and before you knew it, you were married with two kids, a house in Scarsdale and a monthly ticket on the Metro North. There’s something so predictable and safe about this. It’s ritualistic and cookie-cutter, and also seemingly bland — which is why some people might consider it boring. But the way in which our generation has tried to fix the dating game is just so bizarre. Ran-dom hook-ups are exciting, but as for starting a relationship, they’re the social equivalent to spilling your drink and refusing to get paper towels.

I know people who consider themselves in “serious relationships” because they hooked up in StuVi more than six times. We’ve turned into a culture in which relationships can be manufactured with two shots and a Ri-hanna song. My own roommate and his girl-friend are one such example — they’ve been together for two years. And I’d like to say that the two of them are soulmates and that it was destiny that brought them together. Soulmates? Maybe. Destiny? Only if that’s another word for vodka. Their relationship started with a random hook-up in someone’s living room sophomore year. That’s the story

they’ll end up telling their kids. The random hook-up poses a serious

threat to the romantic lives of fat guys ev-erywhere. Why? Random hook-ups are based purely on physical appearance. And fat guys are playing a desperate game of catch-up in that department — you won’t find too many fat guys hooking with sorority girls under the dim lighting of Tavern in the Square. Still, what we lack in physical appeal we make up for in other areas, which is why the demise of the traditional date is such a tragedy for fatties.

There are two things you need to under-stand. The first is that entering a relationship is like making an investment. When you’re first getting into the relationship you’re try-ing to convince the other person that you are worth their affection. The second is that physical appearance is not synonymous with physical attractiveness. You could be born looking like Mick Jagger but if you have something that makes you interesting, you could be the most attractive person in the room. How do you think Kevin Smith snagged Jennifer Swalbach? The traditional date was the place that fat guys could make themselves attractive to a nice young lady — it gave them a chance to state their case. The bland, ritualistic date was the forum where fat guys could show another person how charming, funny, interesting and sexy they could be. But with the decline of traditional dates, we are forced to try and play a game we will always lose. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be that way.

I know tons of girls who would love it if a guy were to ask them on a date. I may not know much, but I know that girls like ges-tures that let them know they aren’t just an-other notch on the belt. So there’s only one explanation as to why the random hook-up has been allowed to take over. Real Gentle-men are either too scared or too ignorant to ask girls out. For fat guys, it’s the latter reason. We are both scared of rejection and scared to break with the cultural norm. We’ve learned that this is what people our age do, but only because we haven’t given the fairer sex another option. For once, fat guys have the chance to lead the charge — instead of wheezing and gasping for breath at the back of the pack. All it takes is a little more cour-age to show the ladies there’s more to ro-mance than making out on a dirty couch in someone’s apartment. Chivalry isn’t dead. It’s just shy. Trust me, act like a gentleman and you’ll snag a lady.

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

FAT BOY IN A SKINNY WORLD

CVS requires employee health informationA new CVS policy requires workers who

use company health insurance to report their weight, body fat and glucose levels to the in-surer or pay a $600-a-year penalty, according to The Boston Herald. The Herald also reported that privacy groups are calling the requirement “coercive” and “invasive,” a breach in employ-ee privacy.

CVS has said this is not the aim of the new requirement. According to the Herald, the com-pany has dubbed the request “a health screening and wellness review so that colleagues know their key health metrics in order to take action to improve their numbers, if necessary.”

Still, workers must sign a form claiming that the screening of their health is voluntary and that the insurer can provide their test results to WebMD Health Services Group. This, indeed, is a breach in privacy. The privacy groups en-raged by the policy claim that the $600 fine pre-vents the procedure from ever being voluntary, according to the Herald.

“There is an important line here between a

valid method of incentivizing wellness versus discriminating against sick workers, but I’m not sure where that line is,” said one privacy activist to the Herald.

On the one hand, doesn’t a company pro-viding health insurance to its employees have a right to know about the general health of its employees in the first place? It’s possible that the disclosure of such information is a good thing, so that CVS can be prepared to provide employees with the best healthcare coverage necessary.

However, it does seem as if CVS is plan-ning to discriminate against those employees who are less healthy than others — and a per-son’s weight and glucose levels should not af-fect whether they get and stay employed, or are eligible for company health benefits. It is un-likely that CVS can legally discriminate against employees who are unhealthy and thus costly to the company. It must make sure that its new requirement is for health-encouragement pur-poses only.

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“It’s dangerous, be-cause cars don’t really pay attention to [bikes]. I crashed in Brookline last year. I don’t have my bike here anymore.”

- CGS sophomore

“I have friends who bike, they’ve been in acci-dents. I hear a lot of com-plaints. I would never bike in the city of Boston.”

- CAS junior

“Bike traffic lights could be a possible idea for the safety initiative. I got hit by someone on a bike. I still have the scars.”

- CAS sophomore

“I have friends who bike and they’re scared that some-one is going to hit them or hit them with their car door. I guess have better thought-out lanes.”

- CAS junior

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for most of the game, but returned to form when his team needed him and was ultimately the difference, as he finished the game with 16 points.

“He is a very good player,” Jones said of Cormier. “My hat goes off to him because he didn’t score in the first half and he came out in the sec-ond half and scored 16. He basically put the team on his back.”

The Terriers made the game look easy for a majority of the contest, but in the end they could not finish.

As a young team, Jones expressed how important of an experience this was and how it will benefit the team in the long run.

“We needed to go through this,” Jones said. “We needed to know what this felt like. Now we need to

learn. Overall it’s going to really ben-efit us. To have a chance to experi-ence something like this, it’ll be great for us.”

With their 2012-13 campaign over, the Terriers will focus on their future in the Patriot League. Loyola, like BU, will be leaving its current conference to play for the Patriot League in 2013-14, and tonight was the first matchup of the future confer-ence rivals.

“They wanted to play us, we wanted to play them,” Jones said. “We learned a lot about ourselves to-night, as well as a lot about them, and I have to think we will be competing for the top of the league in the future.

“There are some very good teams in the league too, but Loyola and BU will hopefully be two of the better teams.”

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Terriers gain experience in loss

Brock gave me the confidence and guidance I needed to be success-ful in both softball and life, and for that he will always be one of my role models.

One thing is for certain. Without Brock, I wouldn’t be sporting a BU

softball jersey. That’s why I don’t step in

the box thinking about statistics or hitting for myself. All my motivation comes from the greatest coach any-one could ask for.

The fact that I recovered from my injury and can continue to make

Brock proud playing at the Division I level drives me every pitch.

When a ball is coming at me, all that crosses my mind is “this one is for Brock.”

For some people, they would find this absurd — the fact that I feel I owe a single coach that much. But hey, it

motivates me and seems to work.Everyone has something that

drives them. For some it’s family, for others it’s proving critics wrong, and then there are those who are motivat-ed by their own stats.

What motivates you isn’t impor-tant; the only thing that matters is

there is something that gives you an overwhelming desire to succeed. Ev-eryone needs his or her own Coach Radaker. Without it, you won’t be hitting walk-off homers to win the nail-biters any time soon.

Instead, you’ll find yourself fall-ing short in clutch situations.

King: Motivation necessary for athletes to reach fullest potentialKing: From Page 8

Men’s BasKetBall: From Page 8

MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFTerrier senior guard Mo Moran has averaged 5.9 assists per game in a season during which she played a large role in getting BU to the NIT.

decision-making process sets a bad precedent.”

Lynch was also adamant about leaving no stone unturned in find-ing the person best suited for the job. There are the guys on “the list proba-bly in everybody’s head,” he said, but also some not-so-obvious contenders — including non-BU alumni — he did not name.

He also did not rule out current Hockey East coaches.

“We’re looking at everybody,” Lynch said.

The names most often tossed around as potential replacements in-clude Colorado Avalanche assistant coach David Quinn, New York Rang-ers assistant coach Mike Sullivan and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL) head coach John Hynes.

Only one name is confirmed, however: BU associate head coach Mike Bavis.

Bavis said March 11 after Park-er’s press conference he is very quali-

fied for the job.“Over the years I’ve had to

handle the team on Coach’s behalf [while Parker was out for medical reasons],” Bavis said. “I feel pretty confident the players have responded to me. In some ways I think I’m a lit-tle more uniquely positioned to deal with this. As the last couple of years have shown, this is more than just a hockey job.”

Lynch said with Bavis, as will likely be with every person up for the job, there are pros and cons.

Bavis has been with the program for the last decade and a half, first as an assistant coach and for the last four seasons as Parker’s associate head coach. He knows the program “inside and out,” as Lynch put it, including both current athletes and those committed to arrive in the com-ing years.

But Bavis’ familiarity with BU men’s hockey could also be his pit-fall: By being involved with the team for so long, some link him to the “culture of sexual entitlement” with-

in the program Brown’s task force found last year.

Lynch was noncommittal in terms of how heavily last season’s off-ice troubles will be weighed.

“Clearly there were some things that occurred over the last couple years that have shown negatively on the team,” Lynch said. “We do have to take those things into consider-ation.

“I also think that there’s broad enough perspective here around the table [on the committee] with the people that are going to be involved in the decision making that that’s go-ing to be taken into account.”

Besides the obvious — that Park-er’s replacement has to be a good hockey coach that can win, and win a lot — Lynch pegged a number of other qualifications he’d like to see.

He said he wants someone “who understands our community and someone who understands how im-portant it is for our hockey team to be visible and to be active in our com-munity,” as well as someone who un-

derstands the “challenges” of the last few years.

Lynch also said he prefers some-one with head coaching experience — something Bavis does not possess but the three previously mentioned potential candidates do — and some-one who has worked with young men, be it in college or elsewhere.

Bavis fits the bill for that. Quinn is a former BU associate head coach and spent some time as a head coach in the AHL. Sullivan has never joined the college ranks, but is a former bench boss of the Providence and Boston Bruins. Hynes was the head coach of the U.S. National Develop-ment Program and spent a combined three seasons with the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and the Uni-versity of Wisconsin.

No matter who it is, Lynch wants to find his guy relatively quickly. He would not divulge a target date to end the coaching search, but he called mid-April “a marker on the road.”

The Frozen Four is April 11 and 13 in Pittsburgh.

“That’s certainly out there in my mind,” Lynch said, laughing.

Lynch is not looking to rush the process, however. Picking the pro-gram’s first new head coach in four decades, replacing the all-time sin-gle-school wins leader and finding the right person to usher BU hockey into a new era is a pivotal moment not just for BU athletics, but also for the university as a whole.

“It’s a much bigger job than just being a hockey coach,” Lynch said. “Especially here at a place like BU, where the program is so visible, where we’re coming out of a tough year off the ice, where we’re at a place that really values the academic experience of the student-athlete. Those are all things that will chal-lenge the next head coach in different ways.

“The person we choose is some-body that can drive the program for-ward in the best possible way for BU … We’re also really working hard now to find the next great guy.”

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ran, in her final season with the Terriers, played strong at the point guard position. Moran led BU with 5.9 assists per game, which eventu-ally placed her ninth on the all-time BU assists list. To go along with her impressive assist totals, Moran also scored 10.4 points per game with 4.1 rebounds.

“They are tremendous players for this program,” Greenberg said. “They’re the ultimate team players. They’re so humble. I’ve been ex-tremely fortunate.”

Although Moran and Alford have led the Terriers all season long, other players have been es-sential to the team’s success as well

Junior forward Rashidat Ag-boola has been a force on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball. Agboola is second on the team in scoring, averaging 11.8 points. She also leads the team in rebounds, grabbing 8.9 boards per game.

Agboola’s partner in the paint, junior forward Whitney Turner, has

been a huge factor on the defensive side of the ball for the Terriers. She is second on the team in rebound-ing, catching 6.4 off the glass per game. Guarding the inside shot is her specialty — she is tied with Ag-boola for the team lead in blocks, swatting away 1.6 per contest.

Off the bench, the Terriers have had a spark plug in the form of junior guard Danielle Callahan. Coming off a season where she sat out due to injury, Callahan has been impressive for the Terriers. She averages 7.9 points per game and has also shot the third-highest 3-point percentage on the squad, hitting 37 percent of her shots from behind the arc.

BU’s opponent in the opening round of the WNIT is a tough one, and one that is completely unfa-miliar. BU has never faced Sacred Heart (22-10) in the history of its women’s basketball program.

The Pioneers are led by their strong offense, scoring 63 points per contest and posting a 38.3 shooting percentage from the field. Guard Gabrielle Washington leads

the team in offense, averaging 16.8 points per game with a field goal percentage of 37.1. Washington also nailed 92.5 percent of her free throws.

To couple with the impressive numbers of Washington, forward Morgan Merriman is second on the team in scoring average, dropping 11.2 per game with a shooting per-centage of 45.7. To go along with her great shooting numbers, Merri-man also grabbed 5.5 rebounds per effort.

Despite never having played Sacred Heart, Greenberg said the team can still come up with a game plan for Thursday.

“We see them quite a bit on tape,” Greenberg said. “We can get tape on almost anyone now-a-days.”

Greenberg also said the team is excited to be playing and hosting a WNIT game.

“We get to host a playoff game, unlike last year,” Greenberg said. “We like our seed and we’re really excited, especially after having some time off.”

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team and are lead by a couple of really good sophomores,” Robert-shaw said. “I think they are find-ing their way and they’re similar to us in a lot of aspects.

“They had a great game against [Virginia Polytechnic In-stitute and State University] that we had the chance to see, and we know we need to slow them down, because they can be a very high-scoring offense.”

The Terriers are fresh off of a big victory last Saturday, in which they defeated No. 15 Ohio State University 16-11.

Senior attack Danielle Etrasco was unstoppable, scoring eight goals and chipping in four assists to finish the game with a school record of 12 points in a single

contest. For her performance, Etrasco was named America East Player of the Week.

Senior midfielder Kristen Mo-gavero recorded six goals in the matchup. Etrasco and Mogavero are the leading goal scorers this season for the Terriers, with 17 and 12 goals, respectively.

The last time the Terriers and Eagles faced off was April 11, when BC defeated BU 18-9.

Robertshaw said her team fell short last year because it was too wrapped up and excited about playing a rival such as BC.

“We were too hyped up,” Rob-ertshaw said. “We were really emotional. We kind of stretched ourselves too thin on defense … Attack-wise, we got a little ner-vous with some of our shots and

we weren’t finishing, and that’s something that we want to take out of the equation this year.”

Despite dropping its last three contests against the Eagles, BU still leads the all-time series against BC with an 11-7-1 record.

For Robertshaw, the biggest key to a Terrier victory Wednes-day lies in putting together a com-plete-game effort.

“For us to win tomorrow, we have to play together for 60 min-utes,” she said. “If we can go out and play the style of defense that we want to play, take the chances and find the success that we’re looking for on attack and be re-ally aggressive in the midfield — those three things combined for 60 minutes — I think can get us a win, but it’s going to be tough.”

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The Boston University men’s basketball team ended its season with a 70-63 loss to Loyola University-Maryland in the opening round of the Collegeinsider.com Tournament, Tuesday night in Baltimore.

“We were up 11 in the second half — it’s just a tough way to lose,” said BU coach Joe Jones. “I told the guys we had a very good year. We really battled and persevered all season. We played well in some big stretches to-night, but we just weren’t able to pull it out. It’s always tough to lose your last one.”

The Terriers (17-12, 11-5 Ameri-ca East) came out with a high energy level and, taking advantage of the noticeably sluggish early effort from Loyola (21-11), controlled both sides of the ball with strong ball move-ment, crisp passing and stiff defense. BU got out to a quick 8-1 lead only 3:15 into the game and spent most of the first half building on that lead.

It seemed like it would be a long night for Loyola when BU found it-self up 21-8 with 11:25 to play in the first half, but the Greyhounds refused to die easily on their homecourt.

Guard Robert Olson silenced his early shooting troubles by draining three shots from beyond the arc to give Loyola a spark in the last seven minutes of the opening frame. Cou-pled with a small scoring drought for BU, Loyola crawled back into the game and, despite never leading in the first half, was within reach going into the locker room, 33-27.

Junior forward Dom Morris led the Terriers with 11 first-half points, while BU as a team had 23 points in the paint with easy layups. Loyola committed 12 turnovers in the first half and BU took advantage with 12 points off those turnovers.

Similar to the beginning of the opening frame, the Greyhounds stag-gered out of the gate in the second

half. BU quickly rebuilt its double-digit lead, 45-30, only three minutes into the half.

Midway through the frame, Loyola began fighting back with an Olson 3-pointer and guard Dylon Cormier’s first points of the game. Each time Loyola came close, BU prevented a lead change, but this changed with six minutes left in the game.

“We got out of the gate really well in the second half and then we just struggled to score,” Jones said. “We had a hard time putting together our press and they did a good job of fig-uring out how to attack us.”

Pouring the pressure on defen-

sively, Cormier and forward Anthony Winbush each nailed 3-pointers and gave Loyola its first lead of the night, 58-55, with 5:09 to go in the game.

“[The Greyhounds] started mak-ing some shots,” Jones said. “They average four threes a game and they got 10 tonight. They just made some big shots, but we need to know how to handle those situations better.”

Refusing to give up the lead, Loyola took command of the game when it mattered most. The Grey-hounds ramped up the intensity and finished off the Terriers 70-63.

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The Bottom Line

By Michael BagarellaDaily Free Press Staff

MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFTerrier sophomore forward Malik Thomas put up 16 points and gathered 6 boards in BU’s 70-63 loss to Loyola University-Maryland in the CIT.

Sunday, March 24

Softball v. Albany, 12 p.m.

Wednesday, March 20 Friday, March 22Thursday, March 21 Saturday, March 23

W. Basketball v. Sacred Heart, 7 p.m.M. Hockey v. Boston College

(Hockey East Semifinals), 8 p.m.W. Hockey v. Mercyhurst

(NCAA Semifinals), 9 p.m.

Softball v. Albany, 1 p.m./3 p.m.W. Lacrosse v. UMBC, 1 p.m.

Extra innings, trailing by one, runner on second base.

You can feel your heart beating, the blood rushing through the veins spidered throughout your body.

You hear the subtle roar of rival fans booing you as you glance at the pitcher tossing spins in the circle, the bright stadium lights engulfing you.

You kick away the loose dirt from the box and plant your back foot, stepping in, resting your bat on your shoulder.

Without drive and the desire to compete, you can expect a strikeout or a half-hearted hack right at the shortstop, not a walk-off hit.

You have to want it. Better yet, you have to whole-

heartedly believe you can destroy the ball and knock it out of the park.

Baseball is a mental game, which is why motivation is of the utmost importance.

It’s exhausting to maintain such a high level of motivation when not be-ing successful at the plate. Everyone needs to find his or her own form of motivation to power him or her past his or her failures.

Stepping into the box with any doubt in your mind, you will fail ev-ery time.

When I step into the batter’s box, I don’t think about the fact that I whiffed at the change-up during my last at-bat. I think of my old travel coach, Brock Radaker.

Brock’s love for the game was contagious. He inspired me to give my 100 percent effort in everything I did. He made me want to succeed just to make him proud.

I remember the feeling of remorse that coursed through my body when-ever our team lost, feeling like we let Brock down after he put so much time and energy into making all of us better ball players. So after we lost, we would work harder and harder and tried everything we could to pre-vent that feeling of disappointment.

But more importantly, Brock helped me to recover emotionally af-ter I broke my back during the heart of recruiting season my junior year of high school.

The night Brock called me after finding out my back was fractured, I discovered the difference between a good coach and a great coach, and how much he truly cares about each and every one of his players.

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BU Athletic Director Mike Lynch and his committee are considering any and all options in their search for the next heach coach of BU men’s hockey. P.8.

Quotable“ “We like our seed and we’re really excited.

- BU coach Kelly Greenberg on the up-coming NIT

Prior to the start of the 2012-13 season, the Boston University women’s basketball team knew the road to a postseason berth was go-ing to be difficult after being barred from competing in the America East Conference postseason tour-nament.

Although the Terriers (23-5, 13-2 America East) did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament, they did post good enough numbers to be selected to compete in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament for the fourth time in five seasons.

“We were just on the edge of getting in,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg of the NCAA Tourna-ment. “We were, I think, 67. I’m very proud of our players. They did everything they could.”

Thursday night, the Terriers are set to face off against Sacred Heart University.

Playing in their last season to-

gether, senior guards Chantell Alford and Mo Moran were a dy-namic duo and major factors in the team’s success.

Alford, who came into the sea-son with two consecutive America East Player of the Year awards, did not disappoint in her final season at BU. After opening the campaign up with 17 points against rival Boston College, she followed with a career-high 30 points in a close battle against West Virginia Uni-versity, in which the Terriers fell 67-64.

Alford has been consistent all year and has led the Terriers in points per game, averaging an im-pressive 16.6 points, along with a team-best 42.2 percent from behind the 3-point arc. Her play earned her a spot on the Mid-Major All-America Third Team along with her fourth All-Conference award in the America East.

The other half of the backcourt duo did not disappoint either. Mo-

Moran, Alford lead BU to WNIT

You motivated?

Men’s BasKetBall, see page 7

By Andrew BattifaranoDaily Free Press Staff

Search is on for next BU hockey coach

With Jack Parker’s announce-ment Monday that the 2012-13 sea-son will be his 40th and final as the Boston University men’s hockey head coach, the search for his re-placement has already begun.

BU Athletic Director Mike Lynch said he started contacting candidates last week, shortly after Parker made it official, but picking the coach’s successor is far from an easy task.

“You’re replacing a legend, so I think we have to do our due dili-gence,” Lynch said in his office Fri-day morning. “We have to at least review and try and get to our best possible candidate, no matter where that person is across the country. And that’s what we’re in the process of doing now.”

The process is no simple one, ei-ther. According to Lynch, a commit-tee including himself, BU President Robert Brown, BU Provost Jean Morrison and a number of senior athletic department staffers will in-terview and ultimately select the next coach.

Parker will not be on the commit-tee, but will be consulted during the process.

“We wanted to develop a pro-cess that is as fair as possible to the incoming coach, and to have the former coach involved in actually picking his successor is probably not something that would be a great idea,” Lynch said.

“We would be crazy not to uti-lize his knowledge of hockey and his understanding of Boston Uni-versity during the process. But to have him directly involved in the

By Tim HealeyDaily Free Press Staff

King, see page 7

The Inner Edge

Haley King

Men’s basketball suffers CIT defeat

Men’s HocKey, see page 7

W. Lacrosse @ Boston College, 4 p.m.

W. BasKetBall, see page 7

No matter the sport, any matchup between Boston Uni-versity and longtime rival Boston College is a primetime event. Ever since the Terriers and Eagles first played a hockey game in 1918, both schools’ athletic programs have been intertwined through-out the years, with competitive, hard-fought games expected from every single matchup between the two schools.

The latest chapter in the BU/BC rivalry will take place Wednesday, as the BU women’s lacrosse team is set to take on the Eagles in Chestnut Hill at 4 p.m.

The Terriers (2-3) and Eagles (3-4) may not play in the same conference, but BU coach Liz Robertshaw still expects a heated and competitive game between the two teams.

“It’s been a renewed rivalry over the past five or six years,” Robertshaw said. “It’s something

that we have a lot of fun playing in. I think that it will be a tight game, I think it will be a hard fought game, and there’s a lot on the line.”

Boston College has struggled out of the gate, dropping four out of its last five games. How-ever, three of its losses this sea-son came against top-15-ranked teams. In their last game, the Eagles fell to No. 1 University of Maryland, 13-5.

The Eagles have been led this year by sophomore Covie Stan-wick, who has recorded 32 points in seven games this season. Soph-omore Emily Mata has appeared in every game in goal for BC, owning a 11.57 goals against av-erage and a .302 save percentage.

With a potent offense and a batch of young talent, Robert-shaw said she believes the Eagles will be a big challenge for the Terriers.

“BC is a young and aggressive

Lacrosse ready for rivalry gameBy Conor Ryan

Daily Free Press Staff

lacrosse, see page 7