Higher paying jobs boast larger gender pay gaps than less profitable jobs, even among pro-fessionals with post-secondary degrees from colleges such as Boston University, according to a NerdScholar study published March 26.

“I wouldn’t say higher education is not suc-cessfully closing the gap, but rather that in spite of a higher education, the pay gap still exists,” said NerdScholar Strategy Analyst Rachel Ny, the study’s author.

Women are more willing to take on debt for higher education degrees only to face larger pay gaps at the top, according to the study.

In 2010, 2 million women earned degrees compared to 1.3 million men, but in that year, women earned an average 82 percent of what men did.

Ny said while there is debate as to why the gender wage gap appears wider in high-paying jobs, the gap may have to do with different character traits between the sexes.

“Studies have shown that males are more

likely to negotiate their initial salary,” Ny said. “… The same studies have shown that men are more likely to pursue raises than females.”

As chief executives, women earn an aver-age $76,128 as opposed their male counter-parts, who, in the same position, would earn $110,344, the study stated.

“Women often have to take maternity leaves and take a leave of absence from work to care for her child,” Ny said. “This can disrupt her work and chances to move up the ladder … The jobs with the widest wage gaps may be set up such that these particular disadvantages are far more apparent.”

BU women’s, gender and sexuality profes-sor Carrie Preston said there are discrepancies at the top that cannot be explained by differ-ences in grades or course selection in college.

“In many courses … We talk about the wage gap — we discuss some steps women can take, including not being afraid to ask for a raise, talk about their wages and assert their value on the

Acknowledging the importance of compost-ing excess food scraps in addition to separating trash from recyclables, Boston officials pre-sented a proposal to City Council Wednesday that would institute a curbside compost pick-up program wherein scraps of food would be sold to local farmers to use as fertilizer and to land-scape city parks.

City Councilor Matt O’Malley, of Jamaica Plain, and Councilor At-Large Felix Arroyo are spearheading the campaign and said they ex-pect the program to be widely supported when introduced in a public hearing and reviewed by the city.

“[The proposal] was almost unanimously supported,” O’Malley said. “The vast majority of my colleagues signed on as co-sponsors, so we decided to call for a hearing order and we’ll be bringing all of the pertinent state-holders into the room to talk about what options are out

there and how the city can play a role in devel-oping composting capabilities in Boston.”

At the hearings in the coming months, city officials will discuss the plausibility of running a compost pick-up service using the materials and resources they already have, Arroyo said in a press release Monday .

“It wasn’t that long ago that single-stream recycling was a new idea and now it is a suc-cessful program in our city,” he said. “By intro-ducing composting, we can reduce the amount of trash that ends up in our landfills and we can sell or use the compost collected as fertilizer.”

In October 2011, the city of Portland, Ore. launched a curbside collection service for com-postable items that shifted garbage collection to every other week, according to a report by the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability from Dec. 5.

The program yielded a 38-percent decrease in the amount of residential garbage collected curbside just a year after it was put in place, ac-

cording to the report.O’Malley said after seeing the success of

single-stream recycling in Portland, compost-ing seemed like the next reasonable step in helping the environment.

“We just started doing the single-stream re-cycling five or six years ago and it’s just taken off like wildfire,” he said. “We see so many more people recycling, aware of what it takes, familiar about how you go about recycling, and it’s really just been a great success in Boston.”

Like recycling, a composting program could help create revenue for the city, O’Malley said.

He said the economic benefits of compost-ing would become apparent once the program is put in place.

“It’s one of those great confluences, in that it’s a great thing to do and it’s right for the en-vironment, and also can generate revenue after a while,” he said. “There may be some small administrative costs at first as we begin this

Monday marked the kickoff of Boston Uni-versity Center for Gender, Sexuality and Ac-tivism’s first ever Sexual Assault Awareness Week, designed to open dialogue on sexual as-sault concerns and to make students aware of available tools, officials said.

“In general, sexual assault isn’t something that is talked about in the public sphere a lot,” said Chelsea Schwalm, CGSA health resources coordinator and organizer of the week. “This is something that is taking it a step further to real-ly delve into more complicated issues in sexual assault that maybe haven’t been addressed in past years.”

Schwalm, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said the week includes nightly presenta-tions hosted by representatives of various par-ticipating organizations, including BU’s Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center, the Feminist Collective and the Queer Activist Col-lective.

“The thing that should be remembered is that everyone feels differently and wants to talk about this topic in different ways, so it’s really important to have different resources for peo-ple,” Schwalm said.

The week will culminate with Take Back the Night on Friday at 5 p.m. at Marsh Plaza. Take Back the Night first came to BU in March 2012 after a series of reports of sexual assault on or around campus.

“It’s a survivor-centric event that we also have open to the community, open to the pub-

lic, for people to come hear stories of survivors talking about experiences of sexual assault and to have a group cathartic experience to take back the streets,” Schwalm said.

Other presentations scheduled for the week include an Anti-Street Harassment Workshop and Chalk Walk presented by Hollaback! Bos-ton, a “Queer Survivorship” Panel on Sexual Assault for the LGBTQIA community and a presentation on “Social Media, Video, and Technology Related Sexual Misconduct.”

“A lot of the activities are to help people that

have been impacted by sexual assault in some way to not feel so isolated,” said SARP Direc-tor Maureen Mahoney.

Mahoney said organizers intend for the week both to address culture surrounding sex-ual assault and to inform students of available sexual assault response resources.

“One [goal] is to bring awareness of the cul-ture that can promote sexual assault,” she said. “Also, to offer people who have been impacted by sexual assault in any way different ways of

Almost five years since the recession hit the Commonwealth and the nation, the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development announced March 26 that Massachusetts finally surpassed pre-recession employment levels in February.

Massachusetts’ seasonally unadjusted un-employment rates for February 2013 were down in 21 areas and up in one, according to a press release from the EOLWD.

The seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate for February set unemployment at 6.8 per-cent, down from 7.4 percent in January, accord-ing to the release.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, which was released Mar. 21, was at 6.5 percent, down from 6.7 percent in January, and estimates a 500 net gain of jobs in February, ac-cording to the release.

Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates are used to smooth out the data and eliminate the influx of recurring seasonal jobs that could affect employment numbers. Seasonally unad-justed rates see a rise and fall of jobs at various points throughout the year due to weather.

Kevin Franck, communications director at the EOLWD, said these statistics put Massa-chusetts back where it was economically before the recession hit.

“As of February, we now have more jobs in Massachusetts than we did when the recession hit, which was April 2008,” he said. “Job num-bers started going down and for the first since then, we now have more jobs than at the peak of the recession.”

Despite the drop in unemployment, Franck said there are still issues that need to be ad-dressed.

“We still have a lot of issues out there, espe-cially with people who have been unemployed for a while and younger people looking for jobs,” he said. “Even though it is evident that Massachusetts is recovering and faster than other states.”

In February 2013, six areas in Massachu-setts had job gains, but six others recorded a loss, according to seasonally adjusted job esti-mate statistics.

The Boston-Cambridge-Quincy area, for example, saw an increase of 2,200 people em-ployed between February 2012 and February

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Franck said legislation over the years has helped Massachusetts re-cover from the recession faster than other states.

“It’s clear from the data that the Patrick-Murray administration has moved us forward, and we are recov-ering in a smart way that is good for all citizens of the Commonwealth,” he said. “They have been focusing on [various job sectors] to make sure the economy grows and we are now

at the point for the plan to continue growing.”

But with the effects of sequestra-tion cuts beginning throughout the country, Franck said this drop in un-employment might not last.

“The amount of uncertainty in the economy and Washington shakes people,” he said. “Sequester budget cuts haven’t been felt yet and we don’t know how that will affect jobs in Massachusetts. If we look at the trends the data show, the Patrick ad-ministration has helped the recession from being worse and hopefully we will keep moving forward.”

Kevin Lang, a professor of eco-nomics at Boston University, said while these statistics might be signifi-cant, they should be taken with some caution.

“I would not put a lot of faith in [the statistics],” he said. “Monthly figures have a lot of variation, and while the unemployment rate has been well below its peak for a num-ber of months and the economy is picking up in Massachusetts, the im-pact could be a lot smaller.”

Randall Ellis, professor of eco-nomics at BU, said he expects the drop in the unemployment rate to

proceed.“I see them continuing,” he said.

“No one-month change will be no-ticed, but over the past year many people have seen things get better.”

Ellis said less research funds for universities will hurt the economy in Massachusetts, but the amount spent on healthcare should balance the bur-den.

“The negative thing for Mas-sachusetts is the decline in govern-ment spending on research,” he said, “but the positive aspect is that the increased health insurance coverage for other states should increase de-

mand for medical care services, of which Massachusetts is an important leader.”

Lang said the Massachusetts gov-ernment helped the unemployment statistics reach pre-recession levels.

“The fed has been doing a good job and keeping interest rates low,” he said. “Overall, the stimulus has played a role in getting us out of the recession, but the sequester, interna-tional economic problems and debt ceiling could negatively affect the recovery.”

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Feminist Collective member: U.S. culture a ‘rape culture’aWareness: From Page 1

getting support, raising awareness and participating.”

KC Mackey, a member of the Feminist Collective, said organizers intend to open dialogue about cul-ture that makes sexual assault seem a common occurrence and that allows society to equate sex with violence.

“Rape culture is what allows sexual assault to happen so often and be so normalized,” Mackey, a CAS senior, said. “We all live in a culture where violence is sexualized and sex is made violent.”

Mackey said she hopes the week

will also encourage people to talk about what is causing rape instead of just talking about how people can protect themselves.

“The root of the issue is not that people are unable to protect them-selves but that people are raping in the first place,” she said. “When I say rape culture, I’m not talking about some separate culture — I mean our American culture is a rape culture.”

Schwalm said there are multiple ways in which society deals with sexual assault, but it is important to remember that sexual assault is a community-wide issue.

“It’s really important to have re-

sources for survivors — and that’s the first and foremost most important part of conversation about sexual as-sault,” she said. “It’s also a commu-nity issue that everyone takes part in, that everyone should be involved in and learn more about.”

Schwalm said each of the week’s workshops serves a unique purpose and all students are encouraged to attend.

“They’re not exclusive events,” she said. “They will make people come and join the conversation and give us their thoughts to what their exposure has been to these issues.”

process, but over the long-term as we encourage people to do it, it will gen-erate a revenue.”

Andy Brooks, president and founder of Bootstrap Compost, great-er Boston’s only current year-round compost pickup service, located in Jamaica Plain, said executing a city-

wide composting program is pos-sible, although it may take significant effort.

“I definitely think it’s feasible, I just think it’s going to be a process of trial and error,” he said. “It’s go-ing to be a mixture of entities work-ing together to get it right, and it’s not going to happen overnight, but it’s

definitely going to happen.”Even if the petition fails to pass

the legislature, the future of compost-ing will benefit from the discussion of a citywide composting program in Boston, Brooks said.

“Just by the virtue of people hav-ing this discussion is doing a lot for the sake of composting,” he said.

“It sheds light on the issue of com-post and the importance of diverting food from landfills, and is attempting to fix a broken waste-stream system and also improve the local food com-munity.”

While O’Malley and Arroyo said they hope to get their program started as soon as possible, they will not

push their proposal to be passed be-fore the election of a new mayor.

“I’m less concerned about rush-ing it for any certain deadline than I am about taking our time and making sure we do it right,” O’Malley said. “We want to maximize the best pos-sible program we can offer to the citi-zens of Boston.”

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job,” Preston said. “But I believe that gender bias is largely responsible for the wage gap.”

She said while women in lower paying jobs are statistically are less affected by this wage discrepancy, those women still feel significant ef-fects.

“When dealing with lower paying

jobs, women’s salaries as a percent-age of men’s salaries tend to be less dramatic,” she said. “That doesn’t mean that the discrepancy in wages isn’t affecting women in lower pay-ing jobs very dramatically.”

Preston said the gender gap issue is present even at BU.

“BU has publicly recognized that there is a pay gap between men and women faculty, with women making

less than men at all ranks,” she said.Despite the wage gap, Ny said fe-

male graduates should stay optimistic about the value of higher education.

“A college degree confers many advantages and opens doors to pur-sue a career of your choice,” Ny said. “The idea that there could possibly be a pay gap should not discourage anyone from putting their best foot forward after graduation.”

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Gender studies prof.: BU has pay gap ‘at all ranks’

Boston University environmental programs are joining with the BU Arts Initiative to offer education on climate change in a new, engaging way, officials said.

Sustainability@BU will combine with the Arts Initiative to host The Crossroads Project, a performance that will attempt to teach BU students and community members about en-

vironmental issues through art, said Sustainability@BU Outreach Coor-dinator Lisa Tornatore.

“The Crossroads program is a performance that incorporates art and science,” she said. “It allows the viewer to get an understanding of where we are in terms of climate change and where the climate is headed using science, but also using art, music, sculpture and painting to evoke a visceral response to the sci-

ence that is being presented.”The program, expected to last

one and a half to two hours, will take place April 23 at the Tsai Per-formance Center, Tornatore said. Several professors and Crossroads performance artists will host a com-munity conversation in conjunction with the Dean of Students Office and the BU Arts Initiative after the show.

Tornatore said the performance, which was created at Utah State University, will feature performers and other community members from Utah State, such as physicist Robert Davies and the Fry Street Quartet.

“Dr. Davies, the physicist from Utah, has a speaking portion, and that is intermingled with imagery on screen, images of painting and sculp-ture that was created initially for the Crossroads project as well as other images,” Tornatore said. “That is also intermingled with the string quartet which will play music that was com-missioned specifically for the Cross-roads project.”

Ty Furman, managing director of the BU Arts Initiative, said Sustain-ability@BU members saw the pro-gram at a conference and contacted

While college students might not be their primary demographic, Re-publican candidates seeking Secre-tary of State John Kerry’s former sen-ate seat might impress them anyway.

A number of Boston University students said party affiliations do not matter when they are choosing who to vote. And with all three Repub-lican hopefuls saying they support the repeal of the Defense of Mar-riage Act, students said they were impressed by the candidates’ social leanings.

“I’m generally a single-issue voter, so I think that being pro-choice and wanting to repeal DOMA are good positions to move forward on,” said College of Arts and Sciences and School of Education senior Cait-lin McGuire. “But I would have to look at the other candidates and see what their positions were on different issues, foreign policy, how they feel about different social issues before I would make a choice.”

Republican candidates Gabriel Gomez and Michael Sullivan said they agreed with their party’s pro-life platform, but Dan Winslow said he supported a right to choose.

“I’m pro-choice, … but for me it’s a very personal decision, and for that

reason consistent with my view of a limited role of government,” Win-slow said during the debate Wednes-day. “The decision to have that pro-cedure is a question for a person’s conscience, her faith and her family, and those are three areas into which the government has no business be-ing.”

CAS senior Kerry Aszklar said the special election candidates might represent a shift in Republican atti-tudes as a whole.

“I definitely think that this dem-onstrates that the party has changed their stance on a lot of issues to maintain their power, or play through equal footing as a party within the U.S.,” she said. “I think that this demonstrates that the tide within the American population is shifting more toward liberal attitudes. Their adjust-ing their stance reflects a changing attitude toward social issues.”

Polls show Democrat Ed Markey as the front-runner for the election, but on the GOP side Sullivan has pulled ahead by a significant margin, according to a poll by Real Clear Politics.

“I think it’s a big step,” said Su-zanne Gallanter, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sci-ences sophomore. “It’s great that their views can change over time

depending on how things are going. Hopefully there can be more room for change.”

And while students such as Gal-lanter said they were impressed that Massachusetts Republicans were straying from their socially conserva-tive party platforms, not all think it will swing the entire election.

“I’m pretty surprised [that all three candidates support the repeal of DOMA] but at the same time not, because this is Massachusetts,” said Douglas Johnson, a graduate student in the Metropolitan College. “Massachusetts Republicans are usu-ally more liberal than those in other states.”

Aszklar said while she was im-pressed with the attitude of the Re-publican candidates, she needs more than support of same-sex marriage and women’s rights.

“Because I am a university un-dergraduate student, I would also be looking for a candidate who can fo-cus more on a younger crowd,” she said. “So making tuition for univer-sities not sky-high is something that should be addressed by the candidate I would vote for.”

Gabrielle Newton, Elyssa Stern-berg, Morley Quatroche and Sam Dutra contributed to the reporting of this article.

After the U.S. Department of Ed-ucation launched two online tools to help college graduates manage pay-ing off their student loans, several Boston University students said they supported the initiative and would use the resource.

“It sounds like a good idea,” said College of Communication senior Sam Smith. “I have a couple different loans, so it would be nice to be able to see all together what my monthly payments would be.”

Smith said he intends to graduate in May, and therefore the new fea-tures would be useful to him.

“It will help to plan for the future — how much money I will be able to make and budget each month to pay off my loans,” he said.

With the tools, students will have access to a Complete Counseling web page and a repayment estimator that will enable them to compare and contrast different monthly payment options and then track the status of their loans depending on which re-payment plan option they prefer, ac-cording to a Tuesday Department of Education press release.

“With college graduation around the corner, thousands of students will soon start to repay their loans,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the release. “We want to help them select the repayment plan that makes sense for them.”

Duncan said with the newly cre-ated student loan online tool, the De-partment of Education hopes to make student debt less burdensome for newly graduated students.

“These tools give students the information they need to understand how to better manage their student loan obligations,” he said in the re-lease. “Our goal is to make the entire challenge of college costs much less daunting, and these tools are addi-tional steps in that direction.”

School of Management senior Dylan Duzey said while he has not heard of the features before, their convenience and availability will bring benefits to students with finan-cial aid.

“It is a useful resource,” Duzey said. “It definitely helps students with tracking down how much they have to pay back and how much they have

Plans for Russian restaurant expansion face concerns from community

Campus & CiTy Tuesday, april 2, 2013

A proposal to expand a Rus-sian bar and restaurant in the neighborhood of Allston has re-cently raised some community opposition.

The Russian Benevolent So-ciety, a family-owned restaurant with live music, is traditionally used for weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs and private events.

The restaurant seats 299 peo-ple, but the management is look-ing to expand the capacity to 450 people and add an outdoor space, said the Society’s lawyer, Richard Vetstein.

“The expansion will have no effect on the other tenants in the building because the new space will occupy an underused, old commercial garage,” Vetstein

said. Vetstein said the proposed

restaurant expansion has support from the Allston Civic Associa-tion, the mayor’s office and the City Council.

Reports from various news sites said the restaurant expan-sion has faced some community backlash. The Zoning Board of Appeals deferred a hearing on the expansion so that members of the community and the Boston Police Department could contribute to the dialogue regarding the change.

Since there has been support for the expansion from govern-ment officials, Vetstein said he is surprised that the restaurant is facing any opposition because it is modestly located behind a large building at the corner of Linden

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KIERA BLESSING/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFThe Russian Benevolent Society is trying to expand a restaurant and bar at the corner of Cambridge and Linden Street in Allston.

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The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from March 25 to March 31.

A student’s bike was vandal-ized Monday at about 12 a.m. while locked overnight to the railing in front of 844 Beacon St. The front wheel was shattered, the bike chain was ripped off and there was dam-age to the handlebars and brakes.

He’s no RomeoEarly Monday morning at 25

Buick St., a non-affiliated male was arrested at the Romeo Santos con-cert at Agganis Arena after alleged-ly assaulting his wife at about 12:07 a.m. His wife refused medical help when offered. The case is currently under investigation.

Blue Honda Civic bluesAn employee’s blue Honda

Civic was damaged while parked in front of 2 Silber Way Monday af-ternoon. The employee reported the damage to BUPD officials and was reported at 1:08 p.m. the same day. The driver-side mirror had been broken off and there was a large scratch on the driver-side door. It appears that another car had hit the parked car and left.

Couldn’t resist the GucciAn employee’s silver Toyota

was broken into while parked in the parking garage located at 750 Com-monwealth Ave. Monday night at about 7:50 p.m. Her purse was sto-len from the vehicle and has not yet been recovered.

Rug thugzTuesday, a George Sherman

Union employee reported that over a three-day period the rug from the GSU Link was stolen. The rug measured 16 feet by eight feet and weighed more than 300 pounds, prompting BUPD to believe that of-ficers should be on the lookout for multiple suspects.

The other Barnes & NobleOn Wednesday at 6 p.m., BUPD

officers teamed up with the staff of the Kenmore Square Barnes & Noble staff to search for a child that had been reportedly left behind at the store. After receiving a phone call from the concerned parent, the search began. However, after going through the entire store the child had not been found, at which time BUPD officers and the parent real-ized it was the incorrect bookstore.

Having a wheel bad nightA student’s bike was stolen from

the bike rack in front of Mugar Me-morial Library Wednesday night at about 6:30 p.m. The owner reported to police that the front tire was still locked to the rack but the rest of the bike was missing.

Bad Luck Brian strikes againAt about 12:00 a.m. Wednesday,

several students were found smok-ing marijuana behind Nickerson Field. All of the students fled but one, who was then issued a civil citation for possession of illegal drugs.

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and Cambridge Street. “The site is really tucked away below

street level, and you really would not even know it is there even if you passed by the establishment on the street,” he said.

Adrian Shapiro, treasurer and secretary for the Russian Benevolent Society, said the establishment has not faced any prob-lems or violations in the past with its neigh-bors.

“We have been here and unbothered for 8 years … now that we are trying to make an expansion, we are facing some opposi-tion,” Shapiro said.

Shapiro said the management does not know who originally began the opposition within the community.

“We have been told that it was a senior citizen in the neighborhood who is getting signatures from people who are just passing by, and who do not even necessarily live in the community,” Shapiro said.

As well as gathering signatures, those in opposition have also allegedly been pe-titioning against the society by putting bro-chures into resident and federal mailboxes, Shapiro said.

The restaurant’s management planned to meet today, but the meeting has been post-poned until next Tuesday in order to ac-commodate a meeting with the opposition, Shapiro said.

“We want to meet with the opposition because we are productive in the commu-nity, and want to be good neighbors,” Shap-iro said. “We also want to see why they are

opposing us so hard.” Shapiro said members of the manage-

ment have gone around the neighborhood and asked residents if the restaurant’s presence bothers them, yet no one openly voiced any concerns to them.

Margarita Kvacheva, building manager for the Russian Benevolent Society, said the opposition is most likely due to mis-communication within the community.

“The main source of this problem is the fact that people don’t quite understand what we are trying to accomplish,” Kvacheva said. “We are simply just trying to expand the capacity of our restaurant.”

Kvacheva said she thinks the neighbors are opposed because they feel the expansion will attract a younger crowd, and therefore create safety issues in the neighborhood.

“We currently attract an older crowd of young professionals and people in their 30s, and are in no way trying to attract 18-to-20 year-olds,” Kvacheva said.

Kvacheva also said the restaurant is ben-eficial to the community’s security.

“We help the police when incidents happen on Pratt Street because we have a 24-hour video camera that helps monitor the area,” she said.

Additionally, the Russian Benevolent Society donates some of its funds toward the upkeep of a synagogue on Common-wealth Avenue, Kvacheva said.

Kvacheva said although the restaurant has more support than opposition, the slight community resistance is still holding them back from expansion.

russian: From Page 3

Building manager: Opposition likely due to miscommunication

recruited in terms of loans.”Duzey said the tool would be helpful for

recent college graduates, but has not been pub-licized well and is not well known among stu-dents who might find it useful.

“If the Department of Education can find a way to make it more known, I think that will be pretty useful,” he said.

Andrea Arreguin, a College of Arts and Sci-ences junior, said the features are very practical.

“I know personally I am taking a lot of loans right now and it is hard to keep track of them,

especially because they are coming from differ-ent funds,” Arreguin said. “They are all federal loans, but it is hard to track them, to see how much interests are accumulating and just to find out a plan for action after graduating.”

Arreguin said she plans on continuing to study after graduating from BU, but will still need to stay financially organized in order to do so.

“I am applying either for graduate school or for medical school so I definitely need to keep track of it [loan status],” she said. “Especially because I am taking a gap year.”

Dept. of eD.: From Page 3

SMG senior: New debt tools need better advertising to get more users

him about the project. Its goal is to educate viewers and encourage them to take action.

“What they’re doing is using arts to hope-fully break through that intellectual understand-ing of something and get to the part of moving someone to action,” Furman said. “… We hear about it [climate change] a lot and people know a lot, but you never know how much someone is doing.”

Furman said the BU Arts Initiative exists to support and celebrate art programs at BU, bringing visibility and engagement.

“We are here to raise visibility, build en-gagement, support unique initiatives and sup-port interdisciplinary cross-school initiatives,” he said. “There are actually very few programs we will do on our own, but we will be a collabo-rator and supporter of lots of cool and interest-ing things coming from all kinds of academic environments and student initiatives.”

Tornatore said what will make Crossroads a unique project is the audience’s emotional response, as it will inspire viewers to take the issues personally.

“The performance itself really evokes a re-sponse from the audience and forces the audi-

ence to really think about consumption on a larger scale but also on a personal scale,” she said. “The entire performance itself discusses the larger impact of our typical way of life here in suburban America, but it also brings in im-agery of how that lifestyle impacts other areas of the earth.”

Curtis Woodcock, BU professor and chair of the earth and environment department, said he is pleased to see BU taking environmental concerns seriously.

“Sustainability is going to be central to the long run success of the university,” he said. “It [Crossroads] is a really interesting idea. At times it’s hard to get the general society to un-derstand and accept basic science, and maybe this will help.”

Cutler Cleveland, a professor of earth and environment, said combining science and hu-manities makes sense given the nature of cli-mate change.

“Climate change is an interdisciplinary problem that touches all segments of society,” he said. “It only makes sense one would in-corporate that natural sciences and the social sciences and try to communicate to people the nature of the problem.”

Earth and env. chair: Sustainability ‘central’ to long-term success of BU

CrossroaDs: From Page 3

The blood is the information highway of the body. By accessing its secrets, doctors can make more accurate di-

agnoses, assign better treatments and keep patients healthy. This can be seen in a va-riety of television shows, from the fiction series House to the documentary series, Medical Mysteries.

However, the importance of blood work is not unique to television shows. Patients undergoing treatment for cancer, organ transplants and other chronic illnesses have blood drawn on a regular basis — in some cases, this is every hour.

These types of patients were in the minds of researchers Sandro Carrara and Giovanni de Micheli of the École Poly-technique Fédérale de Lausanne, a research university in Switzerland.

In a March 20 EPFL press release, Carr-ara and De Micheli announced the develop-ment of a small device that can be inserted beneath the skin and monitor the blood of patients without a trip to the doctor.

A tiny laboratoryCarrara and De Micheli said they want-

ed to develop technology that would make the process of blood work easier for both patients and doctors.

Their new device — which is about a half an inch long — consists of five biosen-sors in a membrane that is inserted about a centimeter beneath the skin. These biosen-sors comb through the blood in search of molecules that trigger whatever doctors are searching for.

“By choosing which kind of probe mol-ecules — which enzymes we plug on top of our sensors — we can decide to target different molecules,” Carrara said.

He said this means that doctors will be able to utilize this technology in diabetes patients, chemotherapy patients, and in other illnesses.

Once the device’s biosensors have col-lected the data, information is transferred through a small battery patch that is placed on the skin over the device, according to the press release. This patch powers the device with one-tenth a watt of power and communicates with it through radio fre-quency signals.

These signals are then sent to a doctor through a telephone or neighborhood col-lection device.

De Micheli said this patch is more ideal than inserting batteries under the skin.

“We don’t want to put batteries inside the human body and we don’t want to have wires because wires are typical vehicles of infection,” De Micheli said.

He said this patch also enables doctors to replace batteries without removing the device.

Carrara said some scientists expressed concerns with the design because devices in the blood often become clogged. How-ever, he said this is not an issue.

“The clogging is solved by the fact that we use to protect our sensor a commercial-ly viable membrane,” he said.

Carrara said the membrane is FDA ap-proved and has been proven to stop the clogging of the biosensor.

Its significanceResearchers said the device will make

blood testing simpler for patients, especial-ly those living far away from hospitals and in rural areas. For these patients, getting

blood work done every day — and some-times every hour — is not viable.

With this development, however, pa-tients would only need to leave their homes in the case of a medical emergency or to remove the device.

“The patient does not even have to re-member about the test and it gets done,” De Micheli said. “The information is transmit-ted to the doctor or the medical provider.”

Michael Stephenson, a freshman in the School of Engineering, said he thinks this concept could be helpful for a variety of patients.

“I think for a lot of people — especially in a lot of different parts of the world where there is an undersupply of doctors, and people have to travel a long distance to see a doctor — having access to something like this, it would be a lot simpler for them,” Stephenson said.

Lissy Rosner, a freshman in the School of Education, said the device could help patients lead more normal lives.

“I think that this device would help people with chronic illness forget that they have that illness,” Rosner said. “For exam-ple, if they were in school they wouldn’t have to leave so often and it wouldn’t af-fect their lives as much.”

Researchers said this device will also aid in the regulation of drugs.

“In the case of chemotherapy or in the case of organ transplants it is very impor-tant to measure the exact dose of drug in the blood stream,” said De Micheli. “This is extremely important in order to have ef-ficient personalized medicine.”

With this new access, doctors would be able to monitor their patients more closely and check their blood more frequently.

“We can also monitor pharmaceutical compounds that have been supplied to the patients in order to correlate the progress

of the disease with the amount of the drug compound in the patients’ bodies,” Carrara said.

He said closer control of drug dosages will allow doctors to be more precise in treatments and could increase the success rates of chemotherapy and organ trans-plants.

Elbert Foo, an ENG freshman, said he was excited by this aspect of the device.

“I think this is a great advancement for the betterment of humanity and science,” Foo said. “It’s easy and convenient at the same time.”

Sargent College of Health and Rehabili-tation Sciences freshman Jason Kim said he agreed with Foo.

“The technology is very accessible, so more people could get easy access to quick and easy medicine,” Kim said.

The challengesCarrara and De Micheli said one of the

biggest challenges in developing this tech-nology was the cost. To squeeze technol-ogy of this caliber onto a silicon plate the size of a small safety pin has been extraor-dinarily expensive.

“On one side, we have nano-materials, we have soft materials, proteins, and of course we have metals on silicon,” Carrara said. “It has been a huge challenge in such a tiny space.”

To combat this, De Micheli said that he and other researchers tried to make the de-vice as multifunctional as possible.

“We think we have achieved a plat-form that can be programmed chemically to sense different types of compounds, and as a result this can be used to treat and to monitor various pathologies with a lower cost because it’s versatile,” De Micheli said.

Researchers said another challenge in-

volved the enzymes that the device uses, which have a relatively short life span.

“We are still limited by the duration and the degradation of some of the chemicals, the enzymes, that are used for doing the de-tection,” De Micheli said. “The implant, as it is now, can last for one to two months. We hope that we can have longer times.”

With further research and testing, Car-rara and De Micheli said these devices will soon have longer life spans, which will in-crease effectiveness and decrease costs.

The scientific waitLike many new developments in sci-

ence, Carrara and De Micheli said the sys-tem needs more tweaks until it is ready for distribution. In the meantime, the product is being tested on mice.

“We have tested it for functionality. The test was positive, and of course we look forward to an entire path of tests on larger animals and eventually on humans,” De Micheli said.

Both scientists said the path to human testing is a long one on which they are just beginning. However, they said this tech-nology will be licensed to test humans in about five years.

After four years of working to develop this technology, another five years seems daunting, but both researchers said they are determined to perfect this tiny device.

Part of the researchers’ enthusiasm stems from the response they received when they announced their invention.

“I think the biggest success is the in-terest in medical doctors, the interest of patients that call us that really would like to test it and use it,” De Micheli said. “We have to tell them that we have to go through the whole experimentation path before op-erating on them, but I think all this is very encouraging.”

New device monitors blood without a trip to the doctor

Features StaffJemma Douglas

PHOTO COURTESY ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a research university in Switzerland, developed a small device that can be inserted a centimeter beneath the skin and monitor patients’ blood without a doctor’s visit.

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An hour until the next train

BRIAN LATIMER

This happened just over a year ago. I have written it in the present tense so you may experience it along with me.

I’m grabbing onto my sheets like they’re the straps to my parachute. I’m sitting upright, trying to catch

my breath. It must be 50 degrees in my room. Or is it 100? All I can actually dis-cern is that I cannot catch my breath and droplets of sweat are rolling off my nose.

This does not happen often, so that is why I must have been shaken. I have never dreamed of losing a loved one, and after speaking to my grandparents that day, I dreamt I lost them simultaneously. The de-tails of that reverie are irrelevant.

The next morning I decided that I need-ed to get back home. I booked my bus tick-ets, packed a bag, and as soon as class was over, headed over to South Station. I didn’t tell anyone I was going. I don’t feel like explaining why I had to go home to my suburban sanctuary in New Jersey.

So I mount the 5 p.m. Fung Wah bus to New York. I have heard rumors of the dan-gers, and by rumors, I have seen the photos of charred buses after they smashed into medians on the way to the City. When the bus hurdled itself out of South Station, I gripped my armrests and accepted that the Fung Wah was actually Kingda Ka.

After a just under a four-hour trip to New York City in a monsoon — which is pretty much as fast as my parents drive in our modest sedan on a really good day — I made it. Because I sit in the back of the bus, constantly worrying about having a head-on collision, I didn’t make it out for what seemed like 90 minutes. I frantically grabbed my suitcase then realized my train left in twenty minutes. Two women offered to share a cab because apparently I looked “too cute and stressed to take the subway.” Why not milk that, smile a lot in a cab and make a friend or two?

They dropped me off at Penn Station and refused my meager $5. I blew a kiss, shouted my gratitude and made like Usain Bolt. With my backpack embarrassingly jostling my center of gravity — you know, in that way you tried to run for the school bus — I made it to my train. Wait, no, it left a minute ago and the next one is in an hour.

Utterly defeated and exhausted, I plopped down on the chairs, accepted that my phone was dead and stared at the tiles. At least I have a moment to breathe. This hour could —

Then I hear a man spit the largest, gross-est loogie you could imagine next to me. I

look over to the man sporting a faded black sweat suit, a ragged knit cap and a box of 20 McNuggets. He proceeds to regurgitate slam poetry about how, “everyone wants to see him dead in the gutter, but he will keep fighting.” All I could do was say, “Yeah, man! Fight the system!” I sprinkled a few inspirational words that I prayed would get him to walk away. Thankfully they worked.

Once he left, a woman sitting in the seat next to the one the man occupied, leaned over to me. She wore a wide, sun-bleached sunhat that may have been a deep pink or purple at one point. Her matted hair curled around the brim, adding to the sun protec-tion. She wore two long jean jackets, a blue flannel and old hiking boots. She looked at me with soft, brown eyes and asked me if I was doing okay.

I couldn’t help but smile. Yes, people were kind to help me get to the train station quickly, but her immediate, curious sympa-thy was striking. I told her about my dream, my catatonic bus ride and the sprint to the train. I told her I wanted to see my grand-parents this weekend. We had the most cap-tivating discussion.

Then she told me this story:“My nephews never quite got to appreci-

ate how important they were to each other,” she said. “My younger nephew, Jason, who must’ve been 14, always wanted to follow his 17 year-old cousin, Jackson, when he would go hang out with his friends. Jack-son always made a fuss and made Jason stay home to watch TV. I hated watch-ing him sit there, crushed Jackson never wanted to spend time with him. Then one day, Jason went to follow Jackson. They left him running after the car in the street. Then another came by and killed Jason.”

She sighed. She let me put my hand on her arm.

“Always go out of your way to make your family feel loved and welcomed,” she said.

We did not speak for a couple of min-utes. I sat absorbing her story. She smiled, at ease with her past. Isn’t that what we all want?

Then the loudspeaker announced the de-parture of my train. I wanted to stay, but all she said was, “Be someone who makes everyone feel loved.”

If only I had more time to talk to her.

Brian Latimer is a sophomore in the College of Communication, and the new Opinion Page Editor at the Daily Free Press. He can be reached at letters@dai-lyfreepress.com.

We are all too familiar with this narrative. Someone walks into a public area — a movie theater, a press event or an elementary school — and the gunman fires, injuring and killing too many. James Holmes, the alleged shooter responsible for the Aurora theater shooting, faces the death penalty after prosecutors re-jected a plea bargain proposed by Holmes’ lawyers. If he were to receive the death pen-alty, he would be fourth on death row in Colo-rado.

Colorado has not executed an inmate in more than 30 years. It could be over a decade before Holmes faces the needle. His incarcera-tion on death row will not nearly match the amount of tax dollars that the state and citizens of Colorado — not to mention those affected by the shooting — will have to pay. Accord-ing to a study called “The Price of Prisons,” released in 2012, the average inmate costs $30,374 annually. As reported by news outlets such as The New York Times and NBC News, people present at his trial called for the death penalty so that victim’s families would not have to pay for a life sentence.

People are calling for the death penalty in this case. The Times even led its story with a quote about why Holmes should be executed.

The general consensus is emotionally charged, and with each subsequent shooting, the sen-timent grows. But even people who commit crimes like Holmes, especially if the evidence overwhelmingly points towards a guilty ver-dict, should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis like any other trial.

The death penalty is a dramatic end to the case that will give people solace and soothe open wounds, but that step is dramatic. The death penalty seems to make sense in certain situations, but if decisions such as these are so driven by anguish, the alternatives, like a lifelong prison sentence, seem to be more of a punishment than the needle, the permanent solution.

People similar to Holmes strive to be eter-nalized, which is why their crimes are so dra-matic. The incessant national news coverage feeds their need for attention. These shooters formulate their plans far in advance and work out every kink so that they accomplish their goals. Although clouded by their rage and hostility towards innocent people, they think clearly enough to foresee the consequences. Every move is premeditated. The death penal-ty seems to be the solution people throughout the U.S. want for Holmes.

The death penalty sometimes

In the throes of rampant budget cuts throughout the nation, new legislation in Tennessee, if passed, would cut welfare payments to families 20 to 25 percent. The reason? Their children perform poorly in school. This legislation aims to put pressure on parents to stay present and active in their child’s education, but it effectively delegates the responsibility to contribute to the family’s income on the child.

Children cannot handle this amount of stress on top of social and academic pres-sures. Should children be penalized if these anxieties catch up to them? Should it affect their entire family? There are numerous fac-tors that can contribute to a child performing poorly at school, and yes, improper parent-ing is among them, but poor grades are not evidence of deadbeat parents. Children earn poor grades when they cannot focus on their work.

The small percentage of lazy, irrespon-sible parents should not be the primary focus of this legislation. This bill comes at a time when people are struggling to maintain mini-mum wage jobs or find some work to provide for their families. Low-income families do not have the flexibility or financial security to sustain a 25-percent blow to their welfare. Children already empathize with their ex-hausted parents, and that alone causes them to worry while in class.

There is a correlation between low-income families and their children’s performance in school, but negative family values or general neglect are not as common as issues such as when the family will eat a full meal or if they have the funds to send their children to en-riching after-school activities. This bill is dis-criminatory to those who prioritize rent and food over tutoring. Parents are responsible for the burden of stretching welfare checks. Children should worry about their next soccer game instead of feeling responsible for why their brothers, sisters and parents are hungry.

Try going through most of the day with-out eating and try to focus on your work. Remember grade school without breakfast? Lunch could not come sooner, and as you daydreamed of pizza, social studies and arith-metic were over. Without that 25 percent of the welfare check, children could be experi-encing this daily.

There should be guidelines and require-ments to help these families instead of dam-age them more. The bill offers these families a chance for those affected by a cut in their welfare checks, though. If the child goes to summer school and successfully improves his or her grades, that 20 to 25 percent will be reinstated to the family. But a child should not have to bear the burden of knowing that if they cannot pass a summer course, their fam-ily will lose their home or go hungry.

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peted well enough this season to earn spots in the NCAA Champi-onships in Iowa. Juniors Nestor Taffur and Kevin Innis, as well as freshman Dane Harlowe, quali-fied for the NCAA Champion-ships.

Taffur led the Terriers in Des

Moines, Iowa, as he took two vic-tories with him in his first appear-ance at the NCAA Tournament, defeating wrestlers from the Air Force Academy and the Univer-sity of Wyoming.

Innis and Harlowe rounded out the Terriers at the competition, and they each won one of their three matches.

Taffur, Innis, Harlowe gained NCAA championship wins

Wrestling: From Page 8

SARAH FISHER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFTerrier junior midfielder Sydney Godett scored the game-winning goal for BU off a free-position shot with 11 seconds remaining in a game against Harvard.

scored against her. Her eight saves in the opening frame proved to be critical, and allowed the Terriers to stay in the game.

BU lagged in the draw-control department — which has been a season-long source of trouble — losing nine of 14 in the first pe-riod.

From the opening draw in the second half, it looked as if the Crimson might run away with the game, as they found the back of the net fewer than 30 seconds into the half. But the Terriers bounced back, going on a three-goal run, which began with an Etrasco goal on a free-position shot.

“I was really pleased with the way they came back in the sec-ond half and got back to the game plan which we had set in place,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw. “When they did that, good things happened.”

Leading 9-8 six minutes into

the half, Todd scored again to give it a two- goal lead and end the Terrier scoring run.

With 14 minutes left in the half, Morse found the back of the net to bring the Terriers back within one goal, and three minutes later, sophomore attack Jenna Boarman found fellow sophomore attack Kelsey Marafioti for her first goal of the season, which tied the game at 10.

“I’m excited for Kelsey, we gave her some playing time and she did some good things,” Rob-ertshaw said.

With seven minutes to play and the score still knotted up at 10, Harvard midfielder Nina Kuchar-czyk beat Sheridan for a score to give the Crimson a one-goal lead.

Two minutes later, Marafioti was active again around the cage, receiving the pass from Etrasco and finishing with a shot to beat Cook for her second goal of the game and the game’s second tie.

After stifling defense from both

teams, junior midfielder Sydney Godett was fouled and awarded a free-position shot with 11 seconds left in the game, giving the Ter-riers a chance at the victory. Af-ter hearing the referee’s whistle, Godett took a few steps towards the cage with the Harvard defense closing in, and fired a shot passed Cook to give BU the lead as time expired.

“The team effort in the second half is what we’re looking for on a more consistent basis,” Robert-shaw said.

The Terriers outshot the Crim-son 13-7 in the second half, and outscored them 7-3.

Etrasco finished the game lead-ing all players with five points on four goals and one assist.

Defensively the Terriers were strong, forcing 16 turnovers while committing 13.

“I just told them ‘Calm down, just keep trusting each other, stick to the game plan,’ and they did that,” Robertshaw said.

Terriers come back from 4-goal deficitlaCrosse: From Page 8

Morris: College baseball should be broadcast on TV more oftenserious problem.

I also watch college sports to see each sport in its purest form, before the players are tainted by paychecks and contract negotia-tions. I love watching college bas-ketball players play their hearts

out during March Madness, not for anything with a dollar sign, but for the love of the game and school pride.

But if you’re like me and can’t get enough baseball, your only option on television is the big leagues. I love professional base-ball, but sometimes the player

salaries make me sick. Did you know that A-Rod will make more money this year than the entire 25-man roster of the Houston Astros? That’s absolutely disgusting.

But other than the College World Series, it’s almost impossi-ble to ever find a college baseball game on television. This needs to

change. I want to hear the loud ping of a metal bat. I want to see promising young players before they are corrupted by millions of dollars. I want to see the evolution of great players as they go from college to the pros.

I’m looking at you, ESPN. You need to start covering more col-

lege baseball. I guarantee that if you started showing more college baseball games that the popularity of the sport would increase.

And if you’re worried about the ratings, do you honestly think you’re better off showing bowl-ing on Sundays instead of college baseball games?

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brought in both of them, giving the Terriers a 2-0 lead.

The two runs were enough for Tuthill, as she held the Friars scoreless and BU pulled out the victory in the opening game.

“It’s always good to get the first game of a doubleheader,” Gleason said. “It was a big boost for our team.”

The second game was an of-fensive slugfest, as the teams combined for 18 runs.

Thanks to an early BU error, Providence was able to stake it-self to a 3-0 lead in the first.

The Terriers answered back in the next half with four runs, in-cluding two RBIs from Roesch, giving BU a 4-3 lead.

The Terriers made two errors in the next inning, leading to six runs for the Friars, including catcher Stephanie Kiesel’s grand slam, which allowed Providence to take a 9-4 lead. Hynes got the start for the Terriers, but was re-placed in the circle by Tuthill af-ter 1.2 innings of work.

The Terriers scored three in the next inning, thanks to a lead-off homer by Clendenny and RBI singles by sophomore right fielder Emily Felbaum and sophomore left fielder Mandy Fernandez, cut-ting the score to 9-7.

The score remained at 9-7 until

the sixth inning, when BU came up to the plate and scored two on junior third baseman Megan Vol-pano’s two-run home run, tying the score at nine.

Tuthill held Providence score-less in the following innings and the game ended in a tie.

“We kept crawling back in,” Gleason said. “Unfortunately, we didn’t get three more outs because it got dark out and [the Friars] don’t have lights.”

After hard-fought games in Rhode Island, the Terriers moved on to Binghamton (11-10, 2-1 America East) in their first con-ference games this season.

BU took the opening game of the three-game set by a score of 3-2. Tuthill got the start and pitched a complete game. She allowed eight hits and two runs while striking out four.

Although the Terriers fell be-hind 1-0 in the second inning, they fought back yet again, and took a 2-1 lead on the bat of des-ignated hitter Haley King, who hit her first career home run.

Although Binghamton an-swered with one the next inning to tie the score, Volpano gave BU the lead in the sixth on an RBI single. Tuthill held the Bearcats scoreless in the final two frames, and the Terriers came away with the victory.

In the second game, senior

pitcher Erin Schuppert started for the Terriers. She went six innings, allowing four runs and eight hits in the outing. Although she pitched well enough to keep the Terriers within reasonable scoring distance of the opposition, pitcher Rhoda Marsteller held the BU bats quiet.

BU scored three unearned runs in the final frame, forcing Bing-hamton to switch to relief pitcher Kate Price with one out remain-ing. Price got the job done with the bases loaded, and the Bearcats held off another Terrier comeback attempt.

“It was really tough,” Gleason said. “We had the bases loaded. We felt like we had it.”

Binghamton overwhelmed BU in the final contest and came out with an 8-0 mercy-rule victory.

Pitcher Demi Laney started for Binghamton, and allowed just four hits in six innings.

Tuthill again got the start for BU and was strong in her first three innings, but allowed a total of five runs on six hits in the fourth and fifth. Schuppert relieved in the sixth inning and allowed three runs, giving Binghamton enough for the mercy-rule win.

Despite the loss, Gleason said she is looking forward to her team’s next opportunity.

“We’re excited to play at home on Wednesday,” Gleason said.

BU wins 2, loses 2, ties 1 in 5-game showingsoftball: From Page 8

“If you take [senior attack] Dani-elle Etrasco and [senior midfielder] Kristen Mogavero out of the mix, you don’t have a lot of returning ex-perience for us,” Robertshaw said. “Some of the players have been try-ing to hide themselves, and we’ve kind of called them out and told them that they need to step up and play to the level that we need them to play to win games.”

It seems as if imposing these chal-lenges has paid off, as a number of players contributed to the score sheet by the end of Friday’s game.

While regular contributors such as Etrasco (four goals), Mogavero (two goals) and junior attack Eliza-beth Morse (two goals) had a big impact on the offense, other players stepped up to help the Terriers secure the win.

Sophomore attack Kelsey Mara-fioti scored the first two goals of her career, while junior Sydney Godett also added two tallies, including a free-position score with 11 seconds remaining to give the Terriers the vic-tory. Sophomore attack Jenna Boar-man contributed as well, assisting on Marafioti’s first goal of the game.

After the contest, Robertshaw said she was pleased with the effort from her team on offense, especially from players such as Marafioti and Godett.

“In the weeks prior, everyone was always looking to Danielle, but

that’s what every opponent is look-ing at,” Robertshaw said. “We told them, ‘everyone can score, and ev-eryone can be a threat.’ The fact that Kelsey Marafioti had two goals and Sydney Godett was our game winner — those are things [because] every-one trusted [them] to take that shot. It’s huge.”

While the Harvard game may not have been a perfect offensive show-ing from the Terriers, especially with their slow start, Robertshaw was glad to see the team progressing and mov-ing on from its struggles over the last few weeks.

“In the beginning, we were a little tight,” Robertshaw said. “But I think they’re responding. I don’t think we’re there yet, we’re a work in progress, but I definitely like the fact that you saw different people on that score sheet, and that’s something important to us. “peted well enough this season to earn spots in the NCAA Championships in Iowa. Ju-niors Nestor Taffur and Kevin Innis, as well as freshman Dane Harlowe, qualified for the NCAA Champion-ships.

Taffur led the Terriers in Des Moines, Iowa, as he took two victo-ries with him in his first appearance at the NCAA Tournament, defeating wrestlers from the Air Force Acad-emy and the University of Wyoming.

Innis and Harlowe rounded out the Terriers at the competition, and they each won one of their three matches.

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After foregoing his senior sea-son to sign an entry-level contract with the San Jose Sharks, Boston University men’s hockey junior forward Matt Nieto said he is ready for a new challenge beyond what college hockey can offer him.

“I think that’s what it came down to — I want to challenge myself, and I thought that it was better for my development as well,” Nieto said Monday after joining the Worcester Sharks, San Jose’s AHL affiliate.

Nieto said he has been weigh-ing his options since BU’s season ended March 23 and only decided to sign with the Sharks “recently.” Outgoing head coach Jack Parker and incoming coach David Quinn were both notified of his decision by Monday.

“It was up in the air,” Nieto said. “All year I was just trying to focus on winning. I was just wait-ing till the end of the season to make a decision.”

San Jose drafted Nieto in the second round (47th overall) of the 2011 draft. He said the three-year deal he signed is worth $833,000 per year.

The 20-year-old wing also said he plans on finishing the remain-ing courses he needs to earn his BU degree over the next few years.

In his junior year, Nieto put up 18 goals and 37 points, with 28 of those points coming after Jan. 4. From mid-February to the end of the season, his line, with sopho-

more wing Evan Rodrigues and freshman center Danny O’Regan, was BU’s best, with all three play-ing significant roles both on the power play and at even strength.

O’Regan was also drafted by the Sharks, in the fifth round (138th overall) of the 2012 entry draft. Nieto said with a laugh that it would be exciting to play with O’Regan again at the professional level in the next few years.

Nieto said he did not consider leaving BU after his sophomore season, in which he had the sec-

ond-most points of any Terrier (42) and was tied for the second-most goals (16) in 37 games. Known as a streaky scorer, he said sticking around for his junior year helped him in a number of ways.

“I definitely gained maturity,” Nieto said. “I think, along with that, I struggled at the beginning of the year. I know one of my weaknesses is that I need to be more consistent, so there’s a lot of things that I can use moving for-ward from this season.”

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The Bottom Line

By Annie MaroonDaily Free Press Staff

MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFTerrier junior forward Matt Nieto, who scored 18 goals and put up 37 points, signed an entry-level contract with the San Jose Sharks.

Friday, April 5

Track @ Florida Relays, All Day

Wednesday, April 3Tuesday, April 2 Thursday, April 4No Events Scheduled

The Houston Astros currently lead the AL West. No, this is not the April Fools

Edition.

W. Lacrosse vs. Albany, 4 p.m.Softball vs. Connecticut, 4 p.m.

Softball vs. Boston College, 4 p.m.

Monday night, Boston Unvi-ersity Director of Athletics Mike Lynch announced that the BU wrestling team would cease com-petition at the varsity level after the 2013-14 season.

The athletes on the roster next season will be allowed to transfer as soon as they desire, per NCAA rules. The school will help those who want to transfer and will honor the athletic scholarships of those who will not be able to com-pete for all four years of their time at BU.

This year’s squad had 11 ju-niors, so the Department of Ath-letics allowed the team to contin-ue one more season at the varsity level. BU coach Carl Adams has led the wrestling program for the last 32 years. In that span, he has led the Terrier squad to 10 confer-ence titles, with the last of those coming in 1994. Throughout his coaching career he has compiled 324 wins, which ranks fourth among active coaches in Division I wrestling. Adams won 301 of those while coaching the Terriers.

While coaching the team this year, Adams led BU to a fourth-place finish in the Colonial Ath-letic Conference Championships.

Three of his wrestlers com-

laCrosse, see page 7

Glory, Glory Matt Nieto

Junior forward Matt Nieto will forego his senior year with the BU men’s hockey team to sign an entry-level contract with the San Jose Sharks. P.8.

Quotable“ “Some of the players have been trying to hide themselves, and we’ve kind of called them out.

-BU coach Liz Robertshaw on getting lacrosse’s depth players to step up

Lacrosse picks up big win vs. Harvard

On a sunny day in front of a packed house, the Boston Univer-sity women’s lacrosse team came away with a thrilling 12-11 come-back victory over Harvard Uni-versity Friday night.

Just more than one minute af-ter the initial draw, the Crimson (2-6) were on the attack after a ground-ball pickup led to their first goal of the game, quieting the energetic crowd.

The Terrier (3-5, 0-1 America East) offense was stagnant to be-gin the game, but with about 14 minutes left, junior attack Eliza-beth Morse was fouled and award-ed a free-position shot. She put it past Harvard goalkeeper Melanie Cook for the score. The goal was Morse’s 12th of the season.

Two minutes later, Harvard re-sponded with a free-position goal from defender Amelia Capone to bring its lead back to six.

Following Capone’s score, the Terriers went on a four-goal run to get themselves back in to the game.

Senior attack Danielle Etrasco sparked the Terriers with her team-leading 22nd goal of the season. Senior midfielder Kris-ten Mogavero and Etrasco traded goals to round out the BU scoring run.

Harvard attack Audrey Todd added a score for the Crimson to give them an 8-5 lead heading into the locker room at the half.

In the first half, junior goal-keeper Christina Sheridan played well in the cage despite the goals

By Matt Fils-AimeDaily Free Press Staff

Wrestling team ceasing varsity- level competition

By Andrew BattifaranoDaily Free Press Staff

Wrestling, see page 7

Nieto moving on to new challenges

Ah yes, it’s finally here: The opening week of the Major League Baseball regular season. From the sweet smell of freshly cut grass to the loud crack of the bat, ev-erything is perfect as the greatest sport in the world is back for an-other long season. All teams are given a fresh slate, and the numer-ous woes of last season are soon forgotten. And as a Red Sox fan, there is certainly a lot to forget af-ter last year’s disaster of a season.

But one thing is missing in the world of baseball: The college game. I know college baseball is popular in some areas of the coun-try, but in others it’s almost non-existent. Can you tell me where your favorite baseball player went to school? I know that Dustin Pe-droia went to Arizona State, but that’s only because I looked it up.

I understand that there are many reasons why college base-ball isn’t as popular as other sports. For one, the best players in college basketball and college football can make an immediate impact when they move up to the professional level.

But in baseball, this is rarely the case. For even the best of play-ers, it takes some time in the mi-nor leagues before they are ready to move up to the big-league club. Also, many of the best players in the MLB never even went to college. A lot of them just went straight from high school to the minors. But this doesn’t mean that college baseball shouldn’t be more popular.

There are three main reasons why I watch college sports. The first is to support my school. I do wish BU had a varsity baseball team, but until we get a football team I won’t complain about any-thing else. The second reason is to watch the evolution of my favorite players’ careers. I love being able to talk about watching Kevin Du-rant’s sweet jump shot at Texas. I love being about to talk about watching Adrian Peterson running the football for Oklahoma. I wish I could talk about watching Tom Brady at Michigan, but unfortu-nately that was a bit before my time. But I can honestly say that I’ve never seen the college careers of any MLB players, and this is a

America’s Sport?

morris, see page 7

Driving The Lane

John Morris

Saturday, April 6Softball @ Hartford, 1 p.m./3 p.m.

Track @ Florida Relays and George Davis Invitational, All Day

big response, see page 7

Terrier offense responds to weak play

After the Boston University women’s lacrosse team dropped a 7-6 overtime contest to the Universi-ty of Maryland-Baltimore County on March 23, BU coach Liz Robertshaw declared her team’s lack of execution on offense the main culprit for the team’s two-game losing streak.

“It was a very poor offensive showing for us,” Robertshaw said of the performance against UMBC. “From our attacking perspective, there were too many dropped balls, too many missed opportunities and we were a little too casual attack-wise.

“You can’t win games scoring six goals. You’re just not going to win it.”

Ever since the Terriers (3-5, 0-1 America East) scored 15 goals

against Ohio State University March 16, their offense has struggled to cap-italize. BU only mustered 15 goals over its next two games, dropping both of those games to Boston Col-lege and UMBC (7-3, 1-0 America East).

As the Terriers took on Harvard University Friday night, it seemed like more of the same from the of-fense, as the team went scoreless during the first 15 minutes of play. However, the offense completely turned around in the final 45 minutes of play, outscoring the Crimson (2-6) 12-5 to secure a 12-11 victory and snap the team’s losing streak.

Earlier in the week, Robertshaw said she has challenged some of the younger and less experienced players during practice to step up and assert themselves during games.

By Conor RyanDaily Free Press Staff

softball, see page 7

Softball takes on Providence, Binghamton in weekend series

For the first time in 2013, the Boston University softball team gained game experience outside of a tournament in the South. This time, the Terriers stayed north, taking on Providence College and Binghamton University over the weekend.

“It was great to be back on the

field,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason. “It was 11 days since we had played.”

Thursday, the Terriers (9-16-1, 1-2 America East) ventured to Providence, R.I., to take on the Friars (9-17-1) for two games.

In the first game, senior pitcher Whitney Tuthill faced off against Corinne Clauss. Tuthill went sev-en innings for the Terriers, allow-

ing only four hits, while striking out 11 hitters.

Although Tuthill was strong, Clauss was just as good. Clauss went the distance as well, going seven innings, giving up five hits and striking out five.

Both pitchers kept the game scoreless, and neither team had a great chance until the top of the sixth inning, when the Ter-

riers finally broke through. With one out, junior shortstop Brit-tany Clendenny doubled to left, followed by a walk from fresh-man first baseman Lauren Hynes. Sophomore infielder Kendra Meadows pinch ran for Hynes, and after Clendenny stole third, second baseman Emily Roesch

By Andrew BattifaranoDaily Free Press Staff