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In his first of three annual public lectures at Boston University, professor Elie Wiesel fo-cused on how the prophecies of Ezekiel relate to today’s generations and the values society encompasses.

“I admire Ezekiel and I fear him,” Wiesel said. “He has a passion for truth, and for his love. He is the prophet of exile, yet Jerusalem is in him. He doesn’t dwell in the Holy City, but the Holy City dwells in him.”

Wiesel, a writer, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Holocaust survivor, spoke before a crowd of more than 1,000 students, professors and Boston residents in Metcalf Hall Monday night for the lecture, entitled “In the Bible: Ezekiel and His Vision of Our Time.”

BU President Robert Brown introduced Wi-esel.

“I have pride, because it is my pleasure to welcome Elie Wiesel, yet sadness because it is usually Dr. John Silber [who introduces him], who passed away this year,” Brown said.

The late Dr. Silber, president emeritus, re-cruited Wiesel to teach at BU more than four decades ago. Since 1976, Wiesel has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humani-ties.

In his lecture, Wiesel weighed in on how the lessons from the Jewish prophet Ezekiel, who was exiled from Jerusalem, are especially im-portant to generations today.

The book of Ezekiel is a story of a proph-et unlike any other, namely because his story makes readers at first doubt God’s power, Wi-

esel said. “Based on Ezekiel’s actions, we wonder are

there no good people in the land, or no just men, you might ask,” he said. “You would wonder if God abandoned all of his people.”

Ezekiel’s story is relatable to the generation of Holocaust survivors because his story offers insight into the consequences of violence that could ultimately be applied to the future, Wiesel said.

“Professor Wiesel expanded on the lessons of these prophecies and what it means for us to be human beings,” said Joel Udwin, a School of

Management junior and president of the Hillel Student Board.

“Ezekiel’s story applies to us today because we’re in an age where we need to step up and recognize our values, and see where we need to go to hold true to our values,” Udwin said.

Natalie Landau, a College of Arts and Sci-ences sophomore, said Wiesel’s talk reminded her of her Jewish heritage.

“Considering what Elie Wiesel has been through, and given that he’s still incredibly ac-tive, you can recognize that he’s really passion-

A Boston University post-doctoral chemistry associate student was injured in a chemical spill on the eighth floor of the Life Science and Engineering Building at about 4 p.m. on Monday, said BU spokes-man Colin Riley.

Spandan Chennamadhavuni was work-ing on the eighth floor of the chemistry lab at 24 Cummington St. when a trifluoro-acetic acid reaction spilled over, splashing his arms and face, said Veronique Martin, a fellow post-doctoral chemistry associate student.

The student used the lab deluge shower in the lab to decontaminate himself im-mediately after coming in contact with the chemicals, said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald. No one else was injured in the spill.

Chennamadhavuni was wheeled out of the Life Sciences building on a stretcher with minor injuries at about 4:25 p.m. He

was taken to a Brigham and Women’s Hos-pital, Riley said.

The Boston Fire Department Hazard-ous Materials Response Unit arrived at the scene, in addition to the BU Police Depart-ment and Boston Emergency Medical Ser-vices.

At least five fire trucks, six response ve-hicles, four BUPD cruisers and two EMS trucks were on scene.

The Boston Fire Department cleared the scene, then the BU Office of Environmen-tal Health and Safety took over, Riley said.

People who were on the eighth floor were brought outside until the scene was cleared, Riley said.

BUPD vehicles blocked traffic onto Cummington Street while the acid spill was being contained.

Students were let back into the building at 5:10 p.m.

Amy Gorel contributed to the reporting of this article.

While Fourth Congressional District Re-publican candidate Sean Bielat continued to challenge Democrat Joseph Kennedy III’s ex-perience, he was hit hard with questions about the Paul Ryan budget, women’s rights and par-tisanship during their third debate at Wellesley College Monday night.

Jo-Ann Berry, co-chair of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts’ Citizen Education Committee, moderated the debate, which was sponsored by Wellesley College and LWV and featured questions from the League and Wellesley students.

Early in the debate, Bielat hit a bump in the road when Wellesley students asked him if he supported women’s rights.

“I’m pro-life,” Bielat said in a live stream of the debate on the Wellesley College website. “I think, though, when I hear women’s issues, I hear the issues that matter to us all. I hear ‘How are we going to pay our bills? How are we go-

ing to make sure we have jobs? How are our families going to grow and prosper?’ Those are all women’s issues.”

Kennedy responded by telling the audience what they could expect if Republicans gained control of Congress.

“Let’s be realistic about what a Republican-led Congress means and the impacts that that has on women’s health,” he said, citing 10 ini-tiatives the current Congress has brought up to reduce a woman’s access to healthcare and abortions.

Partisanship played a large role in the de-bate, which seeped into discussions about the national budget and healthcare.

Kennedy brought up the “Ryan budget” many times, saying that his opponent supports it despite its flaws.

“Putting the specifics and the [tax] cuts aside, I think, Sean, it is fair to say that you have embraced the framework of the Ryan budget,” Kennedy said. “And the framework of the Ryan budget is big cuts and big tax breaks, and that is

not reflective of a society where each of us has to do our part.”

Although audience members were told questions should address both candidates, sev-eral audience questions singled out Bielat dur-ing the night, questioning his bipartisanship and his reasons for running.

One audience member asked whether Bielat could resist being a “whole-sale Republican” if he represented a largely democratic state.

“I don’t know where you heard that I was a whole-sale Republican ... It is certainly true that more of my ideas and beliefs align with the Republican party,” he said.

Bielat told the audience that he had not re-ceived much aid from his party, and said Ken-nedy’s politics were more in line with the Dem-ocratic Party than his were with the Republican Party.

Bielat said trying to link himself to Paul Ryan was a Democratic Party message, and

Student Government voted Monday night to nullify the amendment to their election cycle made in February, reinstating the academic-year Senate term.

The amendment, which changed the Bos-ton University election cycle to a calendar-year system, reportedly passed with a proxy that should not have been counted.

“We found that the methods used to pass the voting timeline change were unconstitu-tional,” said Jonathan Donald, one of SG’s ju-dicial commissioners and a College of Arts and Sciences senior. “Howard [Male] had a senator who had missed four consecutive Senate meet-ings give him a proxy.”

Donald said the former election timeline was to be automatically reinstated unless the Senate were to vote to uphold the calendar-year cycle.

Andrew Cho, a senator, motioned to have the calendar-year timeline reinstated, but SG almost unanimously turned it down.

Donald explained that SG rules dictate that any senator who misses that many meetings must cede their seat and their voting rights, meaning that the senator in question is unable to become or give a proxy.

“The senator who was giving Howard the proxy power was not to be seated senator for that meeting,” he said.

Cherice Hunt, director of communication, said SG is in talks with the administration about how the process of changing the election timeline will work.

“We can’t actually officially say that the change has happened,” Hunt, a College of Communication junior, said.

Sophia Woyda, vice president of internal af-fairs, said reverting back to the old election cy-cle would benefit the student body as a whole.

“I think the overturning of the amendment and the return back to the election cycle will allow the freshmen who would want to run for executive board in the spring to have more experience, to allow seniors who would like to run for executive board to do that,” Woyda said.

Woyda, a CAS senior, said she was glad the motion to reinstate the January-to-January election timeline did not pass.

“I personally am happy that it did change back because it really does give the executive board more opportunities to build their team,

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MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFThe Boston Fire Department Hazardous Materials Response Unit are on the scene after Boston University post-doctoral student Spandan Chennamadhavuni came into contact with acid at the Life Sciences Building Monday afternoon.

TAYLOR HARTZ/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFProfessor Elie Wiesel delivers his lecture on the topic, “In the Bible: Ezekiel and His Vision of Our Time,” Monday night in the Metcalf Ballroom in the first of his lecture series.

to work independently over the sum-mer,” she said.

SG also heard arguments from both the BU Anti-War Coalition and the BU Students for Israel group on whether or not SG should endorse or not endorse the sanctions being put up in Iran.

“Our resolution has four parts to it,” said Tyler Cullis, a School of Law student and coalition member.

“Most importantly, that the BU stu-dent government initiate and support programs … informing the BU stu-dent community about the ill-effects of sanctions on civilian life.”

Jack Goldberg, COM senior and member of BUSI, said the sanctions on Iran are justified.

Tarif Ahmed, CAS senior and di-rector of social affairs, said SG is be-ing asked to choose what they stand for and to be leaders.

“We’re being asked to have a

spine,” Ahmed said. “[Goldberg] mentioned that there are 100 sena-tors in the United States Congress that voted to pass the sanctions, and I don’t remember being asked for my opinion on the decision they made … [SG has] the discretion to lead, to make choices and to set precedents.”

SG passed a motion to create a committee of five students to send to the BU Anti-War Coalition’s meet-ing Friday and the BU Students for Israel’s meeting next Tuesday.

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GRACE DONNELLY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFStudent Government turned down a vote to uphold the calendar-year election timeline at its meeting Monday night, after finding the calendar-year change unconstitutional. Members also heard arguments about the Iran sanctions.

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Joe Kennedy III says service, not family name validates campaignthe talking points Kennedy uses are straight out of the book.

“Listen to Obama, listen to the next debate, you’ll hear ‘Paul Ryan this, Paul Ryan that,’” he said.

Bielat also called claims that he supports the Ryan budget “debatable at best.”

Bielat praised “Romney-care” in Massachusetts but then said that the Affordable Care Act, known by many as “Obamacare,” was harming the job market.

“I would say that one of the sourc-es of unpredictability is the Afford-able Care Act,” Bielat said. “Many small business owners have told me over and over, ‘I don’t know what’s coming.’ And one of the things they always say is, ‘I don’t know how the Affordable Care Act is going to affect my business and I don’t know what

it’s going to do if I hire more people, so I’m not.’”

But people in the audience also targeted Kennedy in their questions, as a Wellesley resident asked if Ken-nedy’s campaign would be a joke if his name did not have “Kennedy” at-tached to it.

After Kennedy pointed out his service record with the Peace Corp., Bielat again stressed that he did not believe Kennedy had the experience for the office.

“I wouldn’t say that Joe’s candi-dacy is a joke,” he said. “I would say that he doesn’t come to the table with enough experience.”

With three weeks until Election Day, the two candidates recently scheduled a final debate to air on Oct. 24 at 7 a.m. It will be the only live televised debate before the election, according to a press release from the Bielat campaign.

ate about what he’s doing,” Landau said.

Wiesel said that Ezekiel was the first prophet to speak of Israel’s privilege and, because of his exile, he speaks to all generations about the dangers that could result from social structures.

“In his worst outbursts, Ezekiel declares his own nation ugly and repugnant,” Wiesel said. “But in his best, everyone radiates serenity. There is nothing in between. He is a man of extremes.”

Ezekiel’s solution to humanity can be applied today, Wiesel said.

“Ezekiel believed that suffering is always because of sin,” he said.

“There is no pain, no death and no suffering if people do not sin.”

Jeremy Meltzer, a Sargent Col-lege of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior, said though he was not educated on the topic, he appreci-ated Wiesel’s expertise.

“The content was different, and I’m now going to do research,” he said. “Wiesel was very inspirational and very engaging.”

Aditi Amlani, a SAR sophomore, also said she knew little about the Book of Ezekiel, but Wiesel was able to make her understand how it ap-plied to modern times.

“It was interesting to see how his experiences have shaped his insight into issues of today,” she said. “You can always learn from someone. Just

by listening, I came away with some-thing new.”

Landau said she especially was struck by Wiesel’s reference to the city of Jerusalem.

“When Wiesel said that Ezekiel wasn’t in Jerusalem, but that Jerusa-lem is in Ezekiel, it goes back to what I learned in Hebrew school,” she said. “Even though not every Jewish person can go to Israel, Israel is still in us because it is a part of our history and culture.”

Wiesel will hold two other lec-tures at BU, “In the Talmud: Is Martyrdom or Sanctification of His Name a Valid Response?” on Oct. 22 and “In Contemporary Writings: Open Heart” on Oct. 29.

Grads face loan issues, report shows

One of the suspects allegedly tied to two of the four armed rob-beries that occurred near Boston University’s campus pleaded not guilty at his arraignment at Brook-line District Court Monday morn-ing.

Taquari Milton, 17, of Rox-bury, charged with two counts of armed robbery in relation to two robberies on Sep. 25 and Oct. 5, of which three BU students and one BU graduate were victims. He is being held without bail until a later hearing on Thursday.

Milton returns to court at 2 p.m. on Thursday for a dangerousness hearing, in which his defense at-torney could argue to lift Milton’s detention without bail.

“By moving to have a danger-ousness hearing, he is held with-out bail until that time,” said Nor-folk District Attorney spokesman David Traub.

Police arrested Milton, the one adult suspect who did not will-ingly turn himself in, on Oct. 12, The Daily Free Press reported pre-viously.

No further information was re-leased or open to the public on the juvenile suspects in the armed rob-beries, who turned themselves in last week.

Court documents show a rela-tive and attorney accompanied the juvenile suspect who turned him-self in to the Brookline Police De-partment last Thursday.

The relative stated that the 15-year-old suspect “was turning himself in so he wouldn’t get hurt and so he couldn’t hurt anyone else,” according to court docu-ments.

Later that day, police conduct-ed a search of the apartment where the relative lived.

Police also received a tip from the Boston Police Crime Stopper Tip Line at about 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, informing police that one of the suspects was a junior at the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers.

Police officials visited the school, located on the Northeast-ern University campus, on Friday and showed school officials the surveillance video retrieved of Egmont Street.

As the country’s student debt climbs to over $1 trillion, borrowers nationwide struggle with dead ends, loan defaults and benefits, according to a new report by the Consumer Fi-nancial Protection Bureau.

Rohit Chopra, a student loan ombudsman with the Consumer Fi-nancial Protection Bureau, released details on a student loan ombudsman report in a press call on Monday, de-tailing complaints from loan borrow-ers nationwide.

“I think that the issue inventory will actually help industry with how they might address the customer ser-vice issues to make sure consumers are protected and laws are being fol-lowed,” Chopra said in a conference call with the press.

The report aggregates complaints from people with under a $1,000 in debt to more than $80,000, he said.Since the report’s launch in March, borrowers have filed 3,000 com-plaints, 95 percent of which were re-lated to servicing and collection.

Many of the complainants, who are mostly ages 22 to 29, graduated in a tough economy and are strug-gling to pay their federal student loans, Chopra said.

“The lender may be better off negotiating a payment plan the bor-rower can afford,” Chopra said. “Sometimes servicers cannot make those deals efficiently.”

The report will reach the Secre-tary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Education and Congress on Tuesday.

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Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is pushing to require graphic images on cigarette packag-ing, controversy over First Amend-ment rights has stirred a number of health and smoking rights advocates.

The FDA asked for a full-court re-view of a U.S. Court of Appeals de-cision ruling that the FDA’s motion to enforce all cigarette companies to display images, such as diseased lungs and corpses, on packaging vio-lated the First Amendment.

In 2011, the FDA released the nine graphic health warnings that cigarette companies were required to put on the back of every cigarette pack. But in August the court decided that the FDA’s proposed rule violated the First Amendment and was not put into affect, as intended, in September.

Leonard Glantz, a professor of health law at Boston University, said cigarette companies were concerned that the government was attempting to persuade consumers.

“What they [the cigarette compa-nies] are complaining about are the pictures, and that the pictures are de-signed to persuade as opposed to be-ing designed to inform,” he said.

The warning labels proposed by the FDA would cover 50 percent of the front and back of cigarette packs, as well as 20 percent of all cigarette

ads.Glantz said he believed these

cigarette labels would be unconsti-tutional.

“The government can persuade people, they just can’t make indi-viduals do it on the government’s behalf,” he said.

But Micah Berman, director of the Center for Public Health & To-bacco Policy, said the court had made the wrong decision in prohibiting the FDA from attaching the labels to cigarette packs.

“The courts have been clear for a very long time that as long as the

warnings that are being proposed are factual, then in general, warnings can be used to alert consumers to the dan-gers of a product,” he said.

Berman said previous case law has sided with the notion that these labels should be allowed.

“There’s a Sixth Circuit case which was about exactly the same law, where the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal said essentially the opposite,” he said. “Its analysis was in conflict with what the D.C. court said, so that’s a major reason why the govern-ment’s appealing this case.”

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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ABIGAIL LIN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to place certain images on cigarette cartons has stirred controversy over First Amendment rights.

College of Communication sophomore Devon Dunn said she at-tends viewing parties of the political debates in part to see the diversity of ideas exchanged among students.

“[Watch parties] widen the debate with people so you can get opinions on what the candidates are saying,” she said. “I think the discussions that people have about the debates are im-portant to forming an opinion about what happened at the debate.”

Dunn said she looks forward to attending Tuesday night’s watch party as a member of BU Democrats.

“I’m excited to watch it with Re-publicans, too, and get their side,” she said.

BU Student Government will be hosting a watch party in BU Central for Tuesday’s presidential debate, along with BU College Republicans, BU College Democrats and Democ-racy Matters.

Margarita Diaz, deputy commu-nications director for Boston Univer-sity College Democrats, said debate watch parties allow viewers to see other viewpoints.

“If you’re watching it with other

people there’s always an opportunity to expand your own views, to expand your own mind and to get into a dis-cussion,” she said. “I think discus-sion always fuels ideas.”

Sophie Miller, president of BU College Republicans, said she does not see watch parties as necessary.

“I actually don’t think they’re that important, I think that they’re more fun than anything else,” Miller, a CAS junior, said.

However, Miller said there are some benefits to attending.

“You get to hear everyone else’s live reactions in real time and bounce thoughts and reflections off each oth-er,” she said.

Dexter McCoy, SG president, said watch parties are a good way to encourage dialogue.

“I think a watch party creates a community around this idea of your civic duty to vote,” McCoy, a COM junior, said. “The watch party gets people together ... starting a conver-sation together.”

McCoy said while watching a de-bate in a group prevents a personal connection with the debate, watch parties are good idea.

“I think it’s important that people

really come out to get sense of what’s going on and what people are talking about on campus and this is a biparti-san-hosted event,” he said.

COM professor Tobe Berkovitz said the debate itself is far more im-portant than the watch party.

“It’s important [to watch] because you’re watching candidates who are less filtered and less protected by all the handlers who work on their cam-paign,” he said. “It is the best way to take a measure of who are these can-didates, what they stand for, what do they believe in, and so for those rea-sons debates are important for voters to make up their minds.”

Berkovitz said watching at a debate party can undermine the de-bate’s seriousness.

“If you’re watching with a group who all pretty much have the same political views, it can be sort of ex-hilarating, but to watch in a group where some people are Republican and some are Democrats, a few are sort of Independent, then it’s more like watching a ... football game,” he said.

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Students question effectiveness of watch parties

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MICHELLE KWOCK/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFBoston University students perform at professor Sean Fielder’s intermediate tap dancing class Monday afternoon.

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Depart-ment crime logs from Oct. 8 to Oct. 14.

Last Wednesday, a female student reported a stolen MacBook computer from the Metcalf Science Center, lo-cated at 590 Commonwealth Ave. The student said that she had forgotten her laptop in a classroom and that when she returned an hour later, it was gone.

Police said that students oftentimes leave their things behind in this building dur-ing labs, which can lead to theft.

Swiper, no swiping Last Wednesday at about

11 a.m., a male student living at 57 Park Drive told police that he noticed a suspicious male outside of his home. The student witnessed the stranger by peeking through his keyhole.

After the student saw the person outside trying to swipe into the building mul-tiple times he quickly called the BUPD. BUPD officials responded immediately, but by the time they arrived at 57 Park Drive the suspect had left the area.

I got nothin’BUPD officers stopped

a male non-affiliate who was taking pictures through the glass at BU’s Fitness & Recreation Center, located at 915 Commonwealth Ave., on Thursday.

When asked why he was taking pictures, the man said he was working on a photog-raphy project for his class. BUPD politely asked him to leave the area, according to the report.

Family matters A female student living

at Rich Hall, located at 277 Babcock St., called BUPD at 3:15 p.m. on Friday to report that her estranged father was attempting to get in contact with her. Since the student did not want to speak with her father, BUPD gave the father a trespassing warning.

Grab and goA female student reported

that her bag was snatched from her side while she was in T’s Pub at 973 Common-wealth Ave. on Sunday. The suspect came from behind her, snatched her bag and im-mediately ran away. The stu-dent told police that she was not able to get a clear view of the suspect.

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School officials identified the suspects in the video, and on Friday an attorney for one of the robbery suspects announced the suspect would turn himself in, ac-

cording to court documents.Later that night, the suspect ar-

rived at the station with his moth-er and grandparents.

Milton’s attorney, Robert Sheketoff, declined to comment

about the specifics of the case outside the courthouse on Mon-day. Traub said is it not yet known whether the two juveniles will be tried together with Milton, and a trial date has not yet been set.

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loanS: From Page 3In the same ruling, the U.S. Court

of Appeals also said the government failed to present data showing that the warnings would cut smoking rates.

But Berman said the labels would cut smoking rates, and that this has been witnessed around the world.

“There is a lot of experience with this in other countries,” Berman said. “And in other countries where this has been used, smoking rates have gone down.”

Stephen Helfer, a smoker’s rights advocate, said he sided with the ciga-rette companies.

“It absolutely violated the First Amendment,” he said. “The govern-ment, in this particular case, is com-pelling cigarette companies to cover probably most of their package with a government message.”

Will O’Brien, a chef that works at BU, said the labels probably would not affect his smoking habits.

“I wouldn’t want to smoke if I saw those images,” he said. “I mean, it depends. I guess if it was before I

got addicted to cigarettes, I wouldn’t have started, but now that I’m ad-dicted and can’t stop, I really don’t mind.”

But O’Brien said labels would persuade non-smokers not to begin the habit.

Bethany Vanora, a sophomore at Emerson College who has one or two cigarettes a day, said the labels would be effective.

“If you see the image, it might trigger you to do more things to stop,” she said. “I think the images are a really good start.”

Glentz said it was necessary that the government be able to prove that the images would have a substantial affect.

Haejin Hwang, a sophomore in Sargent College of Health and Reha-bilitation Sciences who also smokes, said the labels would not stop his smoking habits.

“It wouldn’t make a big differ-ence,” he said. “Maybe a higher price would make a bigger difference. I think the cost would influence more than just graphics.”

The CFPB published suggestions for Congress on how to deal with the quality of loan disclosure agreements and customer service tips for private and public lenders.

Although students nationwide struggle with growing debt, Congress has implemented some legislation aimed at ensuring prudent financial decisions by college students.

The 2008 Higher Education Op-portunity Act allows students to weigh the cost of college after finan-cial aid is given. Students can with-draw after being accepted in case financial aid is insufficient.

The Higher Education Oppor-tunity Act also requires schools to disclose information about the fair-est, most beneficial moneylenders. But student debt is still growing fast.

The country passed the $1 tril-lion threshold in student debt in May. More than 850,000 private loans are in default and even more in delin-quency.

“We have heard from borrow-ers that have said that they cannot always get a straight answer and face surprises, runarounds and dead ends,” Chopra said. “We also heard from borrowers that access pay-ments were accredited to loans with the lowest interest rate instead of the highest rate.”

Many student loan borrowers noted how difficult it is for them to take advantage of the benefits given to them by law, Chopra said.

The complaints that were filed seem to be the last input from people who have been searching for help for years, Chopra said.

“We heard from a borrower pay-ing on time and doing everything agreed on in the contract,” Chopra said. “The cosigner, the parent, filed for bankruptcy, but because of a term in the loan note, their loan went into default.”

Some Boston University students with loans said they were not com-pletely aware of all that accompanied a loan. Evelyn Ling, a junior in the School of Management, said she took both government and private student loans out to pay for school.

“I don’t really know how the pay-ing process works,” Ling said. “They don’t really tell you. It just says you are paying after graduation, but it doesn’t say where you should go to do all these things.”

Ling said because she does not have to pay right now, her parents in-form her about her loans.

“My mom gets the letters and then she’s telling me things, and it’s [the loan is] piling up a lot faster than I thought,” she said. “I didn’t know it would accrue interest that fast.”

Mary Froehlich, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she does not have to worry about paying her loans, although they are issued for a high amount.

“I took my loans out through pri-vate companies,” she said. “My par-ents are paying for my loans.”

Mariah Bailey, a College of Gen-eral Studies sophomore, said she had to take her first student loan out this year from the private company Sallie Mae.

“I did a lot of research, because I don’t want to be stuck with some-thing like this and then just be up to my neck in debt when I graduate,” Bailey said.

Bailey said she picked to have a fixed interest rate on her loans, so that there was no chance her interest rate could waver up.

“I think student loans can stink when companies aren’t very straight-forward with how they are going to deal with the students after gradua-tion,” she said.

Bailey said that while she has al-ready started paying off her loans, her parents have reminded her several times to be responsible for her loans.

“My mother is a cosigner,” she said, “and she told me she’s not get-ting stuck with anything and that I have to be on top of it.”

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Advocate: Labels could cut smoking

The recent announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physi-ology or Medicine winners, John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, has stirred emotions in the Boston

University scientific community. Gurdon and Yamanaka, who received the combined No-

bel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 8, were awarded the prize for their combined findings on the nature of cells, particularly stem cells, throughout their careers, according to the Nobel Prize website. Their combined findings have created the foundation for further research on the manipula-tion of living cells.

In 1962, Gurdon demonstrated that cells that were previ-ously considered fixed could be changed. By taking a ma-ture or “specialized” cell from a frog and isolating its DNA or genetic material, Gurdon was able to create the first clone — a tadpole, the website stated.

Gurdon took a frog egg and replaced its nucelus with the DNA of a specialized cell to see if a new tadpole could develop. The egg with the specialized DNA was able to cre-ate a tadpole, demonstrating that cells were not as static as originally imagined.

In 2006, Yamanaka took this concept a step further us-ing mice. He found that he could reprogram cells to revert back to a more generalized state and that by inserting certain genes into the cell, it could become an unspecialized cell to be used for stem cell research. An unspecialized cell can develop into any specialized cell.

The announcement brings to light the gains scientists have made in finding alternatives to embryonic stem cell experiments — a controversial aspect of the research, ex-perts said.

BU biology professor Frank Naya said that while the findings were introduced to the scientific community six years ago, the announcement helps the public understand what scientists already know — embryonic cells are not the only option for stem cell research.

¨Now [cells] have the ability to do something else, to change their function,” Naya said.

The findings, he said, especially those by Yamanaka, have altered the way cells are viewed. The findings have also changed the way students are taught because they are now made aware that cells are not as fixed as once believed.

Reactions from BU Community MembersMany within the scientific community said they see great

potential in the findings of Gurdon and Yamanaka. ¨The concept is novel and groundbreaking,” said BU

post-graduate student Nicole Vega, 32.Vega, who studies molecular, cell biology and biochem-

istry, said the findings have been incorporated virtually into all forms of cell study, especially at the graduate level. She also said that professors have made students at the graduate level aware of these findings.

Vega said that she hopes the undergraduate students are also being made aware of the findings because of the poten-tial that bring to cell studies.

Finnegan Hewitt, 24, a third-year post-doctorate student in the cell and molecular program said that the findings of both Gurdon and Yamanaka debunk the ethical issues re-lated to stem cell work.

Yamanaka’s finding of reprogramming cells without the use of cloning has made the controversial aspect of stem cell research less serious or important because it no longer

involves destruction of embryos, Hewitt said. Other students also said that the recent Nobel Prize

award will impact the stem cell debate. Abby Cecchine, a freshman in the College of Commu-

nication, said she did not know that stem cells do not only develop from embryonic cells as the research shows.

“What’s so great about this discovery is that the ethical controversy that used to surround stem cell research won’t be such an issue anymore,” Cecchine said.

Some members of the BU science community said that while the Nobel Prize award has been given to important research, the findings are no longer considered as ground-breaking.

Iker Etchegaray, 28, a neurobiology graduate student said he learned about Yamanaka’s findings in a molecular biology course in 2008. Etchegaray, unlike Vega, said that the concept discovered in Gurdon and Yamanaka’s findings had been taught and recognized for a while and that the re-cent publicity no longer plays a revolutionary impact in the scientific world.

The Limitations Yamanaka’s findings have a certain limitation, said Fry-

dman. Although the work has demonstrated that cells can be reprogrammed, the cells he worked with were only of a specific type — tissue cells. Tissue cells are easy to access and not fully differentiated, meaning they can be used for stem cell research. However, other cells do not appear to

have those capabilities.“Theoretically, yes all cells can be reverted, but there are

several practical limitations,” Frydman said. Certain cells, such as neurons, or brain cells, are hard

to isolate completely because of their extended size and complex features. As a result, trying to reprogram a neuron would be impractical, Frydman said.

Naya also said that in most cases, specialized cells such as neurons are still considered to be relatively fixed because it would be practically impossible to reprogram them effec-tively compared to less differentiated cells.

Potential: Tissue RegenerationSeveral students and faculty members at the BU biology

department said award is expected to influence a number of future research projects.

“I can see an increase in research in this area in years to come,” said Sarah Yunes, 22, a graduate student in the mo-lecular, cell biology and biochemistry program.

Yunes said that in the labs, these findings have widened the possibilities of stem cell research and its applications in medicine especially in pharmaceutics and therapeutic re-search.

“What an amazing achievement,” said College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Jacqueline Hwang, who also was not aware of the findings. “Hopefully this will pave the way for further research into this discovery and make it a wide-spread technique that doctors can use to help patients.”

Cells that Change Themselves Has the recent Nobel Prize Award in Physiology or Medicine added fuel to the stem-cell debate, or is it old news?

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By Paula Garcia

Features Staff

Nobel Prizes 2012The Nobel Prize in Physics

Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland

The Nobel Prize in ChemistryRobert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineSir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka

The Nobel Prize in LiteratureMo Yan

The Nobel Peace PrizeEuropean Union

The Prize in Economic SciencesAlvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley

Information courtesy of NobelPrize.org

PHOTO BY ABIGAIL LIN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFJose Medrano, GRS’15, cultures mouse cardiac tissue cells in a Boston University lab. The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to stem cell researchers who used tissue cells.

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With the presidential election three weeks away, Americans have taken to Facebook and other popular social media websites to spout their views on the candidates and their plat-forms.

That behavior can be positive as it is a form of political activity. Those posts suggest that a person has been following the candidates and or the issues and is passionate about the out-come of the election. Americans should be civi-cally engaged.

Political statuses might also inform Face-book users who have not followed the election as closely. Chances are, more Americans are tuned into their newsfeeds than the homepage of a major news publication. Election related material on the site may keep them informed.

However, that is not to say users should take every political post they see at face value. Rather, those posts should encourage them to learn more about the issues and the candidates.

Some users probably have hidden agendas and the material they post may not be all that

accurate. Also worthy of discussion are the political statuses that come off as militant and overly aggressive. Who wants to log onto their Facebook page only to find material attacking them for thinking a certain way? No one.

Then again, users have the option of hiding more militant posters from their newsfeeds. Just because someone has a habit of posting hostile statuses doesn’t mean you have to sub-ject yourself to them every time you log onto the site.

For better or for worse, people’s behavior on Facebook and other social media websites sometimes influences their interactions in the real world. Someone who attacks a political party online might find that they have fewer friends who are willing to carry on a conver-sation about the subject with them in person. Their friends may even steer clear of discussing any controversial topics with them in the future. In the end, these people will likely not refrain from posting political statuses, but it does not mean their Facebook friends will listen.

Political throwdowns on Facebook

In life, there are those days when your brain’s not working, your eyes and your butt hurt and you’re thinking, “I

just really don’t want to touch my com-puter ever again.”

I am right in the thick of midterms and papers, a period of disillusioned produc-tivity, and I’ve started to just feel like a 10-piece bucket of Kentucky Fried Chick-en Colonel’s Secret Recipe chicken — greasy, crunchy and completely fried.

Of course, I’m using that all-encom-passing “I” we’ve been using since about the time we could talk: “I want food,” re-ally means we all want food. “I am bored,” really means someone should find some-thing fun for us to do. And “I hate you,” re-ally means everyone, even you, hates you. Because we’re all really fried, aren’t we? And we could all really go for some KFC, couldn’t we (only $9.99)? And, well, some gigantic part of us all really does loath midterms, doesn’t it?

But in the midst of these study sessions that drag on late into the eternal evening at MuMeL, (Mugar Memorial Library) when you find yourself studying for mid-term number seven, (even though you’re only taking four classes) you turn to the only good thing in your life that you have left. What you crave is that human connec-tion, that place you can go where every-one knows your name, a home filled with words of encouragement. But where can you find this magical land? Well, lucky for you, there’s at least one located in every building, (designated by law) and all you need to do is follow nature’s call and head for the bathroom.

What you’ll find there is strange, but true: yes, there will be dirty stalls, un-flushed toilets and wads of half-used paper towels littering the ground, but more im-portantly, there will, without a doubt, be bathroom graffiti.

There’s nothing quite like sitting down on the porcelain throne and finding the exact words of wisdom you needed to get through that 34-page research paper on the subtle nuances between the color blue and light blue used during Pablo Picasso’s blue period in one of his many paintings that could aptly be entitled “Blue.” And under the mental fatigue of one such paper, there it was, a simple idea that broke from the dark brown walls of my bathroom stall like a light from heaven, if light were the scribbles of a dark, black permanent mark-er: “My Advice: Don’t Force It.”

Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Come on David, that phrase could have

been written by any old Joe Schmo with a whole assortment of different activities in mind!” But I implore you to look deeper: why else would it have been written slight-ly above my eyesight and in a library’s bathroom no less — it was a sign that I was fated to see, understand and spread to the four corners of the earth.

Thank you, guardian angel for taking the form of some random college student with a large amount of pent-up angst and frustration, probably stealing that marker from some friend and expressing yourself artistically. You have provided a great ser-vice.

Of course, sometimes you run the risk of encountering some truly saucy mes-sages such as “Hail Satan” or “Call me Wexler,” but most of the time it’s exactly the advice you need, the essential recharge your brain requires before conquering its next big obstacle.

It’s kind of like a hodgepodge of for-tune cookies conveniently located on the public bathroom walls, only there’s no overpriced Chinese food, stale “fortune cookie” flavor and if you don’t like your first fortune, you can always just choose another stall. And now that I’ve unlocked this revolutionary source of peace, how can we spread word and alert the global masses? I propose a two-pronged plan of attack. First, we need to start offering more water — it should be everywhere, and it should be free. I want to see water fountains in classrooms, sprinklers in the Sahara desert, the lines at the single wa-ter dispenser in the entirety of the George Sherman Union should wrap across the globe! We need to insure that bathrooms are kept in high demand. Secondly, I sug-gest an ad campaign featuring Christopher Walken saying, “I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more permanent mark-ers!” — if you feel like singing, draw, if you feel like writing, draw, if you feel like doing nothing, go use the bathroom and draw. If you feel like drinking, well, drink water and then draw! I can’t emphasize the importance of perfecting your graffiti art enough. In the words of one stall, “A clean wall is a Sin.” Not just anyone can draw surrealist appendages of the human body on walls and make it change the world.

And that’s what we’re doing, really, changing the world, one Wexler at a time.

David Fontana is a senior in the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences and a Fall 2012 columnist for The Daily Free Press. He can be reached at [email protected].

Nature’s calling you home

DAVID FONTANA

Hasty decision-making from SG?The Student Government’s vote to change

the election cycle from the calendar-year to the academic-year system Tuesday night was a sign of hasty judgment, one that did not ap-pear to involve much consideration of students’ opinions outside of the Senate.

While the ruling is still subject to approval from the Boston University administration, it is still an attempt by Student Government to extend their term for another semester despite the provisions under which they were elected.

All in all, this change is not something that should have been agreed upon by the SG mid-semester. The Senate, including the executive board, will not have to run for re-election in November as was agreed upon in February.

Although the election change was ruled un-constitutional, the Senate had the choice to vote to uphold the law. The members’ decision to strike it down deviates from their original com-mitment to serve for one semester.

Why did the SG think that now was an ap-propriate time to make the change? Why not after the November elections?

It is unfortunate that an institution that is supposed to represent BU students most likely did not consult them on whether or not SG President Dexter McCoy and his executive board should be allowed to continue another term without an election.

It would be interesting to see how students react to this ruling, if at all. Hopefully, they will call the ruling into question and demand their opinions be considered before such fundamen-tal decisions are made. An apathetic student body would be just as upsetting, if not more upsetting, than the SG’s ruling.

We would hope that Student Government could hold itself accountable to the students by issuing some sort of an explanation. A vote to lengthen an officeholder’s term, after all, is not something that can be done on a whim.

To the Editor: It was a year of change and contrasts. I was a

senior in 1962 at Boston University’s School of Public Relations and Communications (SPRC). In a few months I would be graduating — hop-ing for a job in journalism. Boston was in the spotlight because of its association with Presi-dent Kennedy and life at that time for a col-lege student was quickly changing. There was a metamorphosis from the peaceful fifties to the uneasy turbulence of the ‘60s. No one was thinking Armageddon, but that was about to change. The Air Force, conducting secret sur-veillance flights over Cuba, discovered a bat-tery of Soviet missiles aimed toward the United States. Ultimatums were flying around fast and furious by both the U.S. and Fidel Castro’s Cuba. It looked like we were heading down the path to thermonuclear war … and that was the reality.

As a journalism student and also as news director of BU’s radio station WBUR, I got to

be involved in my first big story, but it was tem-pered by knowing that we were at the brink. I remember walking down Commonwealth Av-enue and looking skyward toward the nearly completed 52-story Prudential Center and wondering if it soon would be tumbling to the ground. I was not unique in my angst. Class-mates and I looked for escapes, and many of us went to the movies and saw the newly released Cinerama film “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm.” We went twice.

But I realized I had a job to do and that we had to confront news events and deal with them. Our professor, H. Paul Jeffers, mobilized us, and soon we were on the air telling our lis-teners what little there was to know. We knew we were up against the big boys … WBZ Radio and the television networks … but we did have a 20,000-watt radio station that had the capa-bility of reaching a lot of people. What would make our coverage unique — something that would be different from the wire copy spurting

out endlessly on our teletype machine? We knew that Castro was about to deliver

a major foreign policy speech that might give a hint of what the Cuban dictator or the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev were planning to do. This was in an era when satellite technol-ogy and live overseas radio transmission were in their infancy, but we wanted to make a dif-ference and give listeners a unique perspec-tive of what was happening. Our veteran radio engineer Jim Bonney had a great idea that we thought might work. Why not try to get a short wave radio signal of Castro’s speech and broad-cast it live? Impossible — not for Jim. He went to the roof of 640 Commonwealth Ave., armed with coils of wire and an antenna. But there was a problem. Where would we get the radio?

Well, Radio Shack was just a couple of blocks down the street from SPRC. We cajoled, schmoozed and persuaded its manager to let Jim borrow a radio. The next barrier for Jim was not so easy, but he found the frequency and

soon we had Radio Havana feeding into BU. But who speaks Spanish fluently? Again our collective journalism instincts kicked in. We found a language major who was willing to join our team and made sure that the local newspa-pers knew what we were doing.

That night, as the world bit its collective fingernails and wondered what bellicose com-ments would come from Cuba or Russia, our interpreter paid very close attention to what Castro was saying:

“They threaten us with being the target of nuclear attacks. They do not frighten us ... and the consolation of knowing that the aggressors in a thermonuclear war, those who unleash a thermonuclear war, will be exterminated.”

I recall my words that night, “Oct. 22, 1963. Remember this day. It will go down in history.”

Lester KretmanSPRC [email protected].

Letter to the Editor: A journalist’s take on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 50 years later

Amelia Pereira, was held to only one shot. Hartford was also de-nied any corner kicks.

As the game wore on with each team trying desperately to gener-ate offense, the Terriers caught a break with about 16 minutes to play when senior defender Jessica Morrow was awarded a corner kick.

She lofted the ball into the box where Junior Midfielder Emma Clark was there to finish, beating the goalkeeper for her fourth goal of the season.

“It took us a while to get the winning goal,” said BU coach Nancy Feldman. “But we played a really good game defensively, and I thought we actually had the ball really well.”

Clark was also given the task of marking the Hawks’ Pereira, who is widely considered their best player.

“I knew I had to be really con-scious of moving my feet and keeping my footwork,” Clark

said. “[Pereira] is really techni-cal, and I knew that if I did that, I would succeed.”

Offensively the Terriers stayed on the Hawks all game, taking 11 shots and being awarded six cor-ner kicks. Their slow, wear-down-the-defense approach once again proved successful as the Terriers were able to capitalize when the moment presented itself.

“It was a total team effort,” Feldman said. “We knew that we were going down to their home field, and they don’t give up a lot of goals anywhere, particularly their home field.”

Moving into Sunday, Feldman said the team had more than just soccer to focus on as it took on Binghamton.

“We can’t forget that the kids have a lot of academic work to do in between soccer practice and soccer games,” Feldman said. “It’s hard to dig down deep and bring out that full effort.”

But BU rose to the occasion and came away with a win.

The Terriers were again solid

on defense, as junior goalkeeper Andrea Green captured her sec-ond straight shutout. BU allowed 11 shots and was trailing the cor-ner kick differential 4–1.

“They tried to control the tempo by playing with high pres-sure,” Feldman said. “The first half we didn’t play quite crisp enough, but at the beginning of the second half, our kids came out and changed the way the game was going and really upped the tempo with our attack.”

One minute into the second half, the Terriers were on the at-tack when freshman midfielder Clare Pleurer received a pass from junior midfielder Megan McGold-rick and fired a shot into the box, bouncing it off of the far post and into the back of the net from 16 yards out. The goal was Pleuler’s second of the season.

Following the win, the Terri-ers will take a break from their conference schedule on Thurs-day when they travel to Hanover, N.H., to take on Dartmouth Col-lege.

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Neff: MLB umpires should use instant replay to make correct calls

Terriers prepare for match with Crimson

a Hockey East Tournament record with 44 saves.

Chloe Desjardins has played all four games this season, and cur-rently leads Hockey East in goals-against average, save percentage and winning percentage.

“Desjardins done a great job at getting in there and getting her feet wet,” Durocher said. “It’s prob-ably their most talented team up to this point. It will help them transi-tion from an all-world goalie to a new goalie.”

However, the team’s “bell ringer,” according to Durocher, is sophomore and Olympian Ken-dall Coyne, who currently leads the Huskies’ offensive charge with

five goals and two assists. Coyne was named the Hockey East Ath-letic Republic Player of the Week for her performance.

“Casey Pickett is a Hockey East all-star type player. Brittany Esposito is a very talented played. Rachel Llanes has outstanding speed, and I think that another freshman to watch is a girl named Paige Savage, who’s a two-time under-18 US National Team play-er,” Durocher said. “It’s not one kid or two kids the girls have to watch out for.”

Coming off the loss of key player such as previous captain Jenn Wakefield, the Terriers have had success getting used to the new team dynamic.

So far, freshman forward Sarah

Lefort has scored five goals this season.

Lefort and fellow freshman Dakota Woodworth have been key goal-scorers over the past two games, as they have combined for five of the team’s nine goals.

“The last game of the year that [Northeastern] played and lost to Providence has kept them from getting into the NCAA tourna-ment. Maybe if they had won dif-ferent games in their season, it would have changed the tables for them,” Durocher said. “You’ve got to win these games for local brag-ging rights, for Hockey East and for the NCAA.

“It will be a nice start if we can follow this one up after the BC win and get two quality wins.”

Women’s hockey set for battle with HuskiesWomEn’S hockEY: From Page 8

WomEn’S SoccER: From Page 8

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Junior midfielder Emma Clark scored her fourth goal of the season in BU’s 1–0 win over Hartford.

foes while just .391 overall. Although the season has been a

subpar one for Harvard, the Crim-son have had a few bright spots which they can look forward to over the course of the season’s re-mainder and into the future.

One of these bright spots has been freshman forward Jake Free-man.

The freshman comes to the Crimson after captaining his high school team during the 2011 cam-paign. So far with Harvard, he has provided some spark that could be potentially dangerous for the Ter-riers on Tuesday night. Freeman

is tied for the team lead in points with four, having scored two goals this year. Although Free-man has only started in three of Harvard’s games, he has still been an impact player.

Freeman scored a crucial goal against Michigan State, which ended up being the game-winner. He also leads the team in shots with 22, and is fifth on the team in shots on goal percentage at .636.

For the Terriers, this means that any time Freeman touches the ball near the goal, sophomore goalie Nick Thomson must be on his toes and ready to defend the net.

Despite the power outage on offense for the Crimson, their

defense has kept them in most games. Harvard’s mostly young defense led by a bevy of sopho-mores has limited opponents to 1.68 goals a game, which has al-lowed the Crimson to be in any game they play.

The Crimson have been work-ing a goalie platoon, using fresh-men, Joe Festa and Evan Mendez. Festa has the slight edge in play-ing time, and has solid numbers. In seven games started he’s had a strong .714 save percentage while allowing 1.50 goals a game.

“Both of us have been strug-gling out there,” Roberts said. “You’ll see two hungry teams go-ing at it on the field Tuesday.”

mEn’S SoccER: From Page 8

Terriers riding 8-game winning streak

didn’t blame Nelson for being a terrible person.

“It’s frustrating. I don’t have a problem with Jeff’s effort,” Gi-rardi said following the loss. “I don’t, because he hustled to get to the point. But in this day and age, when we have instant replay avail-able to us, it’s got to change.”

I’ve got to agree with the Yan-kees skipper here.

Hiroki Kuroda, the Yankees starter, was charged with three earned runs and was lifted from the

game after the blown call. That out would have finished a valiant effort by Kuroda of eight innings pitched with just one earned run. Would the Yankees have rallied with con-fidence knowing they only had to score one run?

We’ll never know.The Yankees chances were less-

ened because MLB is resistant to modern technology. There must be at least 20 cameras within Yankee Stadium. They must be able to cap-ture just about every possible angle where a play could occur within

the park. Why doesn’t MLB follow the lead of the NFL and realize that their umpires are prone to mistake?

This is the second notable in-stance this postseason of umpires brutally blowing calls. A fly ball to left field was ruled an infield fly during the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves Wild Card game. If a play like that was reviewable, umpires would have watched the replay and realized that an infielder could not have played that ball with “routine effort,” as the MLB rule-book stipulates and was therefore

not an infield fly. Many believe this call cost the Braves the game.

So what’s holding you back MLB?

Opponents of instant replay in baseball note that it would slow down the game more.

The manager running out to the field and arguing for five minutes about a call, which the ump won’t change, slows the game down just as long as it would take an umpire to run into the dugout, review the play and make the correct call.

Why don’t we just get it right?

These guys play from April through October nearly every day. Why blow it for them by not insti-tuting an instant replay to ensure accuracy? It’s worked already for home run review.

Just do it.Wait, did I just support the Yan-

kees?

Mike Neff is a weekly colum-nist for the sports section. He can be reached via email at [email protected] or via Twitter at @mneff2.

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Field hockey falls in tough road contest with Hofstra

riers earned another corner and the team’s leading scorer, senior Jacinda McLeod knocked in the go-ahead goal.

Six minutes later, Coll knocked in a goal of her own and gave the Terriers a nice cushion.

The goal was Coll’s second of the season, which puts her tied for sixth on the team in goals.

BU held onto the 3–1 lead for the remainder of the game, easily closing out the victory.

By the end of the evening, the Terriers held a 20–4 shot advan-tage, a 9–1 corner advantage and improved their record so as to put them in a tie for the first-place spot in the America East.

It was a tale of two days for the Terriers though, as they went on to face Hofstra University (6–8) Sunday afternoon in Hempstead, N.Y.

As they have done most of this season, the Terriers fell behind early.

In the 19th minute, Cerda Ei-mbcke allowed a goal from soph-omore Jonel Boileau, who slipped past the last BU defender and knocked in a goal while on a fast break.

When it came to their second half performance, the Terriers were unlike themselves and were unable to overcome their first half woes. By the end of the game, however, BU outshot the Pride 11–7 and held the advantage when

it came to corners by four (5–1).The loss was very unlike this

year’s Terrier team. Not only was Sunday the second time this season that BU has fallen on the road, it is the second time that they have been upset by an un-ranked team.

Despite the loss, senior Jess Maroney and Coll were named America East Field Hockey De-fensive Player of the Week and Rookie of the week, respectively, on Monday. It is Maroney’s third Defensive Player of the Week award this season while Coll earned her second Rookie of the Week honors.

As to what this loss does for the teams’ hopes of making the NCAA tournament in November, and possibly advancing to the national championship, the Ter-ries will have to prove over the next five games that they belong among the other top teams in the nation.

This process of showing their worth will begin this weekend, as the Terriers have another big se-ries ahead. On Friday night, they will travel to Durham, N.H., to take on No. 20 University of New Hampshire in a battle for first place in the America East.

This game will be followed by another tough game against No. 11 Northeastern University at Jor-dan Field, which could determine the Terriers’ fate as an at-large bid in the NCAA tournament.

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In a big week for the Boston University women’s soccer team, the Terriers put aside both physi-cal and mental fatigue to garner key victories over the University of Harford and Binghamton Uni-versity.

The Terriers traveled Hartford, Conn., Thursday night to take on the then-undefeated Hawks, and then continued on to Bingham-ton, N.Y., on Sunday for a match against Binghamton. The Terriers (11–5–1, 7–0 America East) were successful, achieving 1–0 victo-ries in each match.

Thursday night the Terriers were put to the test against Hart-ford, who had a share of the top spot in the America East. The game was a defensive battle, with only four shots taken in the first half.

As the game progressed, the Terriers’ defense, which has seen

success for the better part of the season, stifled a very good of-fense. BU limited Hartford’s chances to score all game long, holding them to four total shots in the match. The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division I Offensive Player of the Week,

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Junior midfielder Ella Gunson scored a goal in the Boston Uni-versity field hockey team’s 3–1 win over the University of Maine.

The No. 3/6 Boston Univer-sity and Northeastern University women’s hockey teams have both started the season off strong — BU with a record of 3–0–0 and North-eastern with a record of 4–0–0 — and are due to meet at Matthews Arena on Tuesday.

“You’re looking at a really good top-to-bottom team [at Northeastern],” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “Their team is a very deep team. It’s a very quick team, and it’s a very highly com-petitive team.”

Northeastern finished up the 2011–12 season with a record of 22–7–4, and BU finished the same season with a record of 23–14–1. In that season, BU lost to North-eastern three out of four games, including a loss in overtime at the Beanpot Championship.

“It’s a team that we didn’t have great luck against last year … and I tip my cap to them,” said Duro-cher. “We are both pretty competi-tive, and we both want to win this game because it’s a game that’s big

not only in Hockey East, but on a national scale it’s a big game.”

The Terriers only scored seven goals against Northeastern last year in their four games.

A lot of that offensive struggle was due to the play of then-senior goaltender Florence Schelling, who shut out the Terriers on Nov. 30.

Schelling had a 1.75 goals against average against BU alone last year while posting a .952 save percentage in those games.

“The only uncertainty [at Northeastern] is the fact that you’ve got to replace an all-world goalie — Florence Schelling — but obviously so far [sophomore] Chloe Desjardins has done a super job in her first four games,” Duro-cher said.

A competitor for the Swiss national women’s hockey team, Schelling goaltended for North-eastern during the span of 2008–12.

During the 2010–11 season at Walter Brown Arena, Schelling set

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BU to travel to Northeastern for Hockey East showdown

Dog fight

The No. 3/6 Boston University women’s hockey team will take on defending Hockey East Regular Season champion No. 8 Northeastern University on Tuesday. P. 8.

Quotable“ “I tip my cap to them.

BU coach Brian Durocher on Northeastern’s success against his team last season.

Is it time to institute more wide-spread instant replay in the MLB? Yankees fans would say so.

And I agree.The blown call during Game 2

of the ALCS highlights the reason that instant replay is a necessity in most, if not all, situations in Major League Baseball.

The idea that one wrong call in an under-pressure moment by an umpire can cost a team a run, a game, a series or potentially their season, is mind-blowing.

After sitting on the couch watching football all day Sunday and seeing countless amounts of “Under Review” chyrons on the TV, I flipped by to see highlights of the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers ALCS games. I’d read on Twitter that an umpire had made a terrible call.

After seeing the replay, ter-rible is an understatement. Any-body with two eyes could clearly see that Yankees second basemen Robinson Cano tagged the Tigers’ Omar Infante out as he dove back to the bag after overrunning it. If you haven’t seen the video, go check it out online. It’s brutal.

The Yankees were trailing 1–0 at that point, and following the blown call, with two-outs, the Ti-gers managed to put two additional runs on the board. Infante, who was “safe,” scored. The Yankees went down 3–0 and it would re-main that way.

Following the game, second base umpire Jeff Nelson acknowl-edged the error.

“I had the tag late and the hand going into the bag before the tag on the chest,” Nelson said. “The hand did not get in before the tag. The call was incorrect.”

Ya think?Did Joe Girardi storming you

at second base and the visceral reaction of the fans not convince you enough that perhaps you were wrong then? But, in Nelson’s de-fense, there is no recourse for an umpire after making an out call like that. They can’t use instant re-play to review it. They can’t take the advice of another umpire who was in a different position on the field. They can’t say, “my bad” and do it over.

Girardi, after the game, said he

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The Boston University men’s soccer team lost on 5–1 to the University of Maryland-Balti-more County Saturday night, ending the Terriers’ four-game unbeaten streak. On Tuesday, the Terriers look to start a new streak against cross-river Cambridge ri-vals Harvard University.

Although the Terriers (4–6–4, 1–1–2 America East) have seem-ingly faced a tough schedule all season long, the Crimson do not appear to pose as much of a threat as others have to the Terriers. Coming into the game, Harvard has a record of 1–7–3 overall, while holding a 0–2–1 record in the Ivy League Conference.

The Crimson’s only win of the season was all the way back on Sept. 7, when they defeated Mich-igan State University. Most re-cently the Crimson dropped their last two games to No. 16 Cornell University by a score of 3–1, and 2–1 to No. 19 Brown University.

“They’ve had a tough sched-ule,” said BU coach Neil Roberts.

“They have a lot to prove, and I’m sure they’re going to play us tough.”

Throughout Harvard’s cam-paign they have played in a num-ber of close games, similar to how BU’s season has gone. Six of its games have been decided by one goal, three by ties and one game was decided by two goals. Things have not been bouncing the Crim-son’s way in these games as they have only won one of these close battles.

One major problem with Harvard is its lack of offense. Throughout the 2012–13 season, Harvard has not generated more than two goals in a game, which only happened once. The Crim-son have only been averaging a low 12.1 shots a game, which has culminated in 0.7 goals per game. When they do shoot however, they have not been able to put the ball on goal. Throughout the sea-son, the Crimson have only been able to boast a .408 shots-on-goal percentage against conference

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Going into this past weekend, it seemed as if the No. 12 Bos-ton University field hockey team would coast through another duo of games as they faced No. 25 University of Maine and Hofs-tra University. While the Terri-ers topped Maine on Friday, they dropped a close contest at Hofstra on Sunday.

On Friday night, the Terriers (9–5, 3–0 America East) wel-comed the Black Bears (9–7, 2–1 America East) to Jordan Field to play one of the team’s final games at Harvard University before its move to New Balance Field in the fall of 2013.

Less than 11 minutes into the game, sophomore Holly Stewart slipped the ball past sophomore goalkeeper Valentina Cerda Ei-mbcke’s outstretched leg to give the Black Bears a 1–0 lead. The score remained the same entering the half.

“Almost the first 10 minutes we could have had a shot, corner or goal and we just gave it [back to Maine],” said BU coach Sally Starr, “and that was really frus-

trating in the first half.”In typical Terrier fashion, it

was not until the 44th minute that the Terriers responded with a goal of their own. On one of their nine corners of the game, the Terri-ers tied the game on a goal from junior midfielder Ella Gunson. Gunson was set up by freshman forward Rachel Coll and with a bit of help from a Maine stick, the ball found the net.

“We played a much more ag-gressive press than what we played in the first half, I think that almost acted as a catalyst and our team was playing quicker and harder,” Starr said. “It’s just like football — high risk, high re-ward, and I really think it set up a faster pace game for us and really helped us on that end of the field.”

With the support of one of the biggest crowds the team has seen this season, the Terriers took the momentum they gained during Gunson’s goal and did what they were used to doing most of this season — make a big second half push.

In the 49th minute the Ter-

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Saturday, Oct. 20M. Soccer vs. Albany, 2 p.m.

W. Hockey vs. Cornell, 7 p.m.M. Hockey @ UNH, 7 p.m.

Tennis @ ITA Regional, All Day

Tuesday, Oct. 16 Thursday, Oct. 18Wednesday, Oct. 17 Friday, Oct. 19

W. Soccer @ Dartmouth, 7 p.m.M. Soccer vs. Harvard, 7 p.m.W. Hockey @ Northeastern, 7 p.m. M. Tennis @ ITA Regionals, All Day

Field Hockey @ UNH, 7 p.m.Cross Country @ Central Conn. Mini

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