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Although the Massachusetts govern-ment has allowed the luxury car service Uber to operate in the state until further notice, Boston taxi businesses said they face “unfair competition” from a service that does not undergo the same regulations as their cabs.

Steve Sullivan, general manager of Metro Cab Association Inc., said Uber skews the competition between transporta-tion companies.

Because there are no standards or regu-lations currently in place nationally for the type of technology Uber uses, it creates “unfair competition” between other trans-portation companies, he said.

“They have no regulations on what they can charge like city taxicabs do,” he said. “They can buy a used car and put it on road, but a cab needs to be new. The expenses to go through all this are high. To do the same

business, without the same expenses, is an unfair balance.”

The state government banned Uber’s technology in early August “for using a measuring device not conforming to stan-dards,” according to court documents.

But the Massachusetts Division of Stan-dards later allowed Uber to continue busi-ness on a provisional basis while the two parties worked to fit Uber’s technology to national standards, according to a Massa-chusetts Division of Standards statement.

“We want a dialogue with the govern-ment and regulators to help them under-stand the technology better,” said Michael Pao, Uber’s general manager for Boston. “We want to continue to deliver reliable, consistent transportation to thousands of Bostonians while that is going on.”

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CHARLOTTE—Boston University alum-na and actress Alfre Woodard spoke during a student summit Tuesday at Charlotte’s Johnson C. Smith University to stress the importance of voting this November.

The conference coincided with the first day of the 2012 Democratic National Con-vention, which a number of students are covering as part of the Washington, D.C., Journalism Program.

“You can write yourself out of history if you don’t show up,” Woodard, who is a 1974 graduate of the College of Fine Arts and four-time Emmy award winner, said after the summit. “If you don’t vote, the process goes on with or without you.”

Woodard co-hosted “U-Future,” the interactive summit, alongside actors Hill Harper and Nicole Ari Parker. The confer-ence was sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and featured a number of its members who fielded ques-tions from students in attendance and oth-

ers tuning in online. “Change has always been brought about

by young people,” said U.S. Rep. Eman-uel Cleaver, of Montana, to a rousing, standing ovation from the crowd of about 500. “You can change America — you are America.”

The two-hour summit produced a wide variety of questions from the student audi-ence, ranging from loan debt to the respon-sibilities of the next elected congress.

“What congress can do is unify our-selves after being elected by you,” said U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, of Illinois, to the crowd of 15 local colleges and universities.

“They are young, but they are young adults,” Woodard said about the students who participated in the summit Tuesday. “They are affected by policy, just as much, if not more than [older adults].”

In the final minutes of the summit, Woodard and her co-hosts read out loud a letter from First Lady Michelle Obama and

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As Senate candidate Elizabeth War-ren and U.S. Sen. Scott Brown struggle in the polls, the Brown campaign stressed Brown’s Democratic side to keep the in-cumbent Republican afloat in a primarily blue state.

Fighting for a state that, before Brown, last elected a Republican senator in 1972, the Brown campaign is pushing his bipar-tisan voting record and independent voice.

MassINC Polling Group’s polling data released in July showed Warren with 40 percent of the vote, a two-point lead that lies within the poll’s 4.4-percent margin of error.

But a Public Policy Polling poll con-ducted in August showed Brown with a 5-percent lead, with 49 percent of partici-pants saying he is “an independent voice for Massachusetts.”

Another Kimball Political Consulting poll of 592 people conducted in August showed Brown with 49 percent of the po-tential vote, a 6 percent lead over Warren.

Just before Brown’s climb up in the polls, the Brown campaign stressed Brown’s democratic and independent voter

appeal. Brown’s campaign launched a new se-

ries of three TV ads in August entitled “Democrats for Brown,” each focusing on one of Brown’s Democratic endorsers.

The ads feature Democratic politicians who support Brown, including one featur-ing Former Bristol County District Attor-ney Paul Walsh.

Massachusetts Rep. Paul Casey, of Winchester, is the latest Democrat to join Brown’s endorsement list.

“We are very excited,” said Alleigh Marré, Brown’s press secretary in a phone interview. “It helps portray that Scott’s message is resonating across the aisle.”

Brown’s message, listening skills and accessibility are what made the mayor of Leominster, Dean Mazzarella, choose to endorse Scott Brown.

“I’ve been waiting for somebody like Scott Brown to come around for a long time, so it made it pretty easy to endorse him,” Mazzarella, an independent voter, said in a phone interview. “In my view, he has not taken party sides.”

Brown has garnered more than seven Democratic endorsements, including for-mer Boston Mayor Ray Flynn and former

Worcester Mayor Konnie Lukes.The publicity surrounding Brown’s

Democratic support stems from “the dan-ger zone” he is in as he tries to break 50 percent in the polls, said Warren’s spokes-woman Julie Edwards in an email before the latest PPP poll.

In a state with only 11 percent of voters registered as Republican, Brown will need more than his party to win, Edwards said.

“In Massachusetts, any Republican candidate must get significant Democratic and Independent support to win,” Edwards said. “In 2012, it is likely Scott Brown will need anywhere from 350,000 to 400,000 Obama voters to support him.”

Marré said Brown is “always going to be the underdog” in Massachusetts.

Brown only votes with Republicans 54 percent of the time in Washington and does a deal of work “across-the-aisle,” accord-ing to a Brown campaign press release.

But Brown’s history of giving tax breaks to the wealthy and voting against job cre-ation in Massachusetts, combined with his campaign’s strategy to portray Brown as an independent, may not secure success,

Student Gov. moves foward in housing, 24-hour study space

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Boston University’s Student Govern-ment is eager to begin a productive semes-ter on campus after working to promote agendas from last year, members said.

“[This summer] we’ve been working hard on tackling issues like 24-hour study space, which we’ve made a huge landmark in,” said SG President Dexter McCoy. “We’ll be offering our first 24-hour study space in the closed dining hall in Shelton [Hall].”

The 24-hour study space opened Tues-day, McCoy said.

He said SG is working this semester on developing other similar spaces at various locations in East Campus and West Cam-pus.

“Student Government has been doing a lot of work to prep for the year,” McCoy, a College of Communication junior, said.

McCoy said one of the first and simplest issues addressed was a name change from “Student Union” to “Student Government,” which will be officially voted on at the first meeting on Sept. 17.

In the interim, members have been re-ferring to themselves by the new name, he said.

SG offered a moving service for BU summer staff, who moved from South Campus to their dormitories before the be-ginning of the semester, McCoy said.

“That was very successful and we were able to help a lot of students and they really appreciated that,” he said.

School of Management junior Caitlin Seele, advocacy committee chair, said she has seen progress over the summer with gender-neutral housing.

“It’s been going really well over the summer and a lot of headway has been made with it,” Seele. who was also last year’s SMG senator, said. “A lot of students at BU really show a lot of interest in it, and showed that they were going to respect it.”

Last spring, SG successfully created and officially proposal based on student sur-veys and submitted it to BU administration.

Administrators are working with a com-mittee to discuss and research different gender-neutral housing options, Seele said.

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DNC: From Page 1a message from President Barack Obama’s Twitter account. Both encouraged students to get in-volved with the political process this fall.

“Hill [Harper], Ari [Parker] and I expect great things from you,” Woodard said to the audi-ence, moments before the summit ended. “We named this ‘U-Future’ because we can imagine you in it, successful and triumphant.”

When she was the same age as those in attendance Tuesday, Woodard said, politics made up an extensive part of her life. Years before she stepped foot on Com-monwealth Avenue, Woodard’s father encouraged her to form an opinion on the national issues of the 1960s.

“We had to watch the news ev-ery night,” said the actress, who has had recent roles in HBO’s “True Blood” and TNT’s “Mem-phis Beat.” “I started going to ral-lies when I was 14, I used to help make the coffee and the posters.”

During her time at BU, Wood-ard was an active member of the anti-war movement. She once participated in a protest by ly-ing down on the Commonwealth Avenue rail tracks, halting a trol-ley. She said her time in Boston helped her grow as both an actress and political activist.

“You can’t commit yourself to a discipline like [story-telling] and not care about the [audi-ence],” Woodard said. “So I think politics and art are inseparable.”

Massachusetts Democratic Party spokesman Matt House said in an email.

“Come November, voters won’t forget that he chose to stand with national Republicans instead of middle-class families,” House said.

That Republican stance in-cludes subsidies for big oil, Ed-wards said.

But Marré said Brown is a “friend of motorists, not energy providers” and is working to keep gas prices low.

It is Warren, she said, who is destroying jobs and plans to raise taxes $3.4 trillion in the next 10 years.

The Warren campaign re-leased a statement in August that said “phony attacks can’t hide [Brown’s] record for billionaires

and Big Oil.” Edwards said Brown has also

received endorsements from con-servative figures such as Mitt Romney, and said Brown’s re-election would give the Repub-licans the ability to enact their “extreme agenda” with “disas-trous” results for Massachusetts families.

“Elizabeth has been out visit-ing cities and towns across the Commonwealth, meeting with voters and talking about her ef-forts to create a level playing field for working families,” Edwards said. “That’s what she’s going to keep doing each day from now until the election.”

This marks Brown’s first full campaign since he was chosen in a special election in 2010 to fill Democratic U.S. Sen. Ted Ken-nedy’s seat prior to his death.

“All signs are very bright for coming to campus very soon,” she said.

McCoy said in this upcoming semester, there will be structural changes to SG.

“One of the biggest things that we have done is forming a cen-tral nucleus of leadership here on campus, so I now have what’s called a president’s council where heads of various student and ad-ministrative departments sit on,” he said. “We meet regularly to correspond with each other.”

McCoy said a goal of SG this

semester is to bring together vari-ous student leaders from across campus under one voice for com-mon issues.

“Our [general] focus will be of course on the entire student body,” he said, “but we’ll be fo-cusing on tapping into and ac-cessing our student leaders popu-lation [as well].”

McCoy said SG officials will be doing a student ribbon cut-ting ceremony at the new Center for Student Services to kick off the Commonwealth Avenue Fair Sept. 7.

“I’m really excited to in the

next month or so really strength-en the stature of Student Govern-ment on campus as a representa-tive body,” he said.

McCoy said there will be some turnover in the SG body this se-mester based on senatorial elec-tions held by residence halls and schools.

Cherice Hunt, director of com-munication for SG and COM ju-nior, said another specific goal for the semester was to get incoming students more involved.

“The best way to get involved we be to try and influence the uni-versity,” she said.

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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Pat-rick told Democrats they needed to “grow a backbone” and stand up for President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Conven-tion Tuesday night.

Patrick urged Americans to stand with the American dream and reelect Obama, according to a livestream provided through the convention’s website.

“This is the election of a life-time because more than any one candidate or policy, what is at stake is the American dream ... and the dream is central to who we are and what we stand for as a nation,” Patrick said.

Patrick hinted at Massachu-setts’ Romney years and said the state was one of the things Rom-ney did not fix.

When Romney left office,

education was cut, business con-fidence fell and there was a struc-tural budget deficit, he said.

“He’s a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was a lot more interested in having the job than doing the job,” Patrick said.

With the help of the Obama administration, Massachusetts is rebuilding their roads, bridges and community, he said.

“We still have much more to do, but we are on a better track because we place our faith ... in our values and in our common sense,” Patrick said.

He said the people need to band together instead of turning on each other.

Obama’s list of accomplish-ments is long and impressive but hardly told, Patrick said.

“If we want to win elections in November and keep our coun-

try moving forward my message is this: it’s time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe,” he said.

He said he would not stand by and watch Obama be bullied out of office and neither should any-one else.

“Quit waiting for polls or su-per packs to tell you who the next senator or president will be,” Pat-rick said. “We’re Americans. We shape our own future. Let’s all start by standing up for President Barack Obama.”

Earlier in the night, Fourth Congressional District candidate Joseph Kennedy III spoke to hon-or the memory of Edward Ken-nedy, his uncle.

Kennedy III said that although this is the first convention with-out his uncle, his uncle was “here

Passengers on the Red, Orange and Blue Lines will know when their next train arrives if countdown signs in South Station, Park Street and Downtown Crossing are successful.

The Green Line and Silver Line, however, are not expected to be re-cipients of the potential installments.

The signs count down to the es-timated time of arrival for the next two trains on each route, said Joshua Robin, director of innovation and special projects for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

“We’re using live real-time train location to generate those predic-tions,” Robin said, “so we track each train that’s moving in our operation control system.”

He said South Station first re-ceived the signs August as part of a pilot program that, if successful, will

spread to the Red, Orange and Blue Lines.

“Depending on the pilot, that will determine how and when we expand [to] the other lines,” he said.

The MBTA installed the signs in Park Street on Saturday, with a goal to set up the third pilot station in Downtown Crossing within a few weeks, Robin said.

Every few minutes, announce-ments tell riders when the next trains will arrive.

He said the software modifica-tions for the signs cost $790,000, 80 percent of which was federally fund-ed with the other 20 percent stem-ming from MBTA funds.

“Our customers really view it as a game change, I think,” he said.

But commuters on the Green Line are excluded.

“At this point in time, we do not track the Green Line precisely

enough to generate accurate predic-tions,” Robin said. “So we just don’t track the Green in as fine a way as we do the other lines, but it is a system we’re designing for the future.”

He said that system is “definitely a handful of years away.”

“Really the signaling system is what tracks the other lines, and we just don’t have a similar system for the green line,” he said.

Students at Boston University, in the heart of the Green Line’s B train, said the signs might not be necessary.

Third-year Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Mark Za-strow said other cities he has visited worldwide have similar signs.

Zastrow said Seoul has a fantastic subway system.

“Every stop has those signs that tell you where the next train is,” he

Website aims to expedite room swap process

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Three Boston University stu-dents have created a website to expedite the room swap process on campus, although some stu-dents said they have yet to see desired results.

On BURoomSwap.com, stu-dents can set up an account with their names and BU email ad-dresses to find another student who wishes to switch rooms, said College of Communication senior Maurice Rahmey, one of the web-site’s creators.

“Our website allows students to browse all listings, search for your best match — which are matches that put students with the students who have what they want,” he said. “There is the op-tion to ‘propose swap.’ It also shows the rooms the students are interested in and the students who are interested in my room.”

Rahmey created the website with Matt Auerbach and Guy Ari-dor, both College of Arts and Sci-ences juniors.

He said students input infor-mation, including their gender, current living situation and up to five room choices, and the search engine will attempt to find a match that fits.

“All the contact is done

through the site — students facili-tate communication through one click,” Rahmey said.

Some students said the website is a good idea, but that finding a swap is still difficult.

“It’s a really good idea and I’m surprised no one has thought of it before,” said Connor Cahill, a sophomore in the College of Gen-eral Studies. “It is a much better option than trying to deal with BU housing. However, there are only around 15 listings for what I’m looking for, so it really hasn’t

worked for me so far. Hopefully it will in the next few weeks, though.”

Chloe Director, a sophomore in COM, said she is also surprised that BU had not already created a similar website.

“I am so shocked at how tech-savvy BU is in other ways,” she said. “However, it is students [who] have created this easy sys-tem.”

Director said she thinks the

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Taco Bell is rumored to be coming back to Boston Univer-sity’s campus next year, but some students are concerned about the health problems that the fast food may cause.

Dining Services tweeted on Aug. 28 “So now we can talk about it. #TacoBell coming to campus next yr [sic]!”

Dining Services officials de-clined to comment on the subject.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said there was no agreement with Taco Bell as of yet, but BU is al-ways looking for new dining op-tions.

College of Communication junior Ariel Ferrante said she had heard Taco Bell was com-ing to campus and was looking forward to it. However, she said she worries about the impact it might have on herself and other students.

“I was excited to hear about a Taco Bell coming to campus since I eat it all the time at home,” she said. “But then I thought, wow, this could be a really bad idea, that something I love and that is so unhealthy for you, is going to be close to me at school.”

Ferrante is not the only stu-dent who expressed health con-cerns about a fast-food restaurant coming to campus.

College of Arts and Sciences junior Rachel Atcheson said she is not surprised to hear that a Taco Bell might be introduced to campus, but that she is concerned about the healthiness of the food.

“Is there really not a smaller, more local, healthier business we could have invited?” she said. “Another big, unhealthy corpo-ration coming to campus doesn’t surprise me, but it is a little bit unsettling.”

Atcheson, a member of the BU Vegetarian Club, said while she “couldn’t endorse an institution that supports animal cruelty,” she feels better that students who cannot make their own meals at home would be able to have veg-an options at Taco Bell on cam-pus.

“Taco Bell is highly vegan-friendly, offering numerous op-

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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ABIGAIL LIN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFFBoston University students attempt to find suitable room-swap matches quickly and efficiently on new website “BU Room Swap.”

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The following reports were tak-en from the Boston Police Depart-ment from District A-7 and D-14 from Aug. 29 through Sept. 4.

At some point between Saturday at 9 a.m. and Sunday at 9:30 a.m., a thief vandalized a 2010 black Jeep Liberty parked on 5 Amboy St. in Allston. The thief took the owner’s driver’s license, an amplifier, a Coach wristlet and a subwoofer. The thief also damaged some electronics and a door.

 Case dismissed

On Tuesday at about 11 a.m., members of the Explosive Ordi-nance Unit responded to a radio call for a suspicious silver metal case left on the steps of 52 Academy Hill Road, the address for the Brighton District Court. After arriving at the scene, tech officers performed their duties to find what was in the case. Officers found it was empty and not a threat.

Watch & wardOn Saturday at about 11 a.m., a

couple left their apartment on Brigh-ton Avenue in Allston and came back at about midnight to notice their apartment had been broken into through the front door. The stolen items were a pair of pearl earrings, a Swiss army watch, a Timex watch and an Apple computer. The police told the victim to file a supplement to the original report at the station. They also told the victim about the Trace Direct program, which pro-vides a database of stolen goods that may help in recovering the item, ac-cording to its website.

Special deliveryAt about 12 p.m. on Friday, a

U.S. Postal Inspector found a suspi-cious package sent to East Boston. After a canine test for narcotics was positive, the drug unit, postal in-spector and state police delivered the package. The postal inspector ap-proached the suspect and confirmed he was living in the apartment ad-dressed on the package. When the suspect signed for the package, po-lice arrested the suspect after about 1,300 oxycodone pills were found. Carl Desert, of East Boston, was ar-rested for trafficking drugs.

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New taxi regulations make cab rides safer, cheaper than Uber car service experience

Uber: From Page 1app that uses GPS technology and its own electronic measuring de-vice for the fares and charges, Pao said.

Users of the driving service download the app, register a cred-it card on file and hit a button on their phones to contact the closest driver to their location for pick up, he said.

“We like to think of ourselves as more of a luxury,” Pao said. “We have black cars with limo drivers versus normal taxi drivers. We’re looking to create a five-star service and give it to everybody.”

Other Boston taxi cab com-panies, however, said they are unhappy about Uber’s continued business in the city and prefer the regulations for safety purposes, Sullivan said.

“In the cab industry, the city does criminal background checks for drivers before he or she gets a license. [The drivers] get record checked every year they drive,” he said. “At Uber, there is no city background check on those driv-ing.”

Sullivan said even though taxicab companies must abide by more rules, the regulations in place make traveling in a taxi safer.

“There are more demands on us with regulations, but it’s a safer transportation with those regula-tions and it’s cheaper,” he said. “I’ve been in cab service over 40 years, and you can save so much money by using a cab service.”

Tiffany Mitchell, manager and co-owner of Top Cab and City Cab, said the competition other

driving services such as Uber bring to Boston does not pose a problem for her company and the business she gets.

“I eat competition for break-fast,” she said. “I go after all of them. If you have a strong, solid association, competition means nothing to you.”

While Uber’s fare prices are around 50 percent higher than normal taxicab companies, the driving service aims to show a way of transportation that is dif-ferent from others in the city, Pao said.

“We provide a more reliable, convenient experience. Certainly there are other choices, but we want to give the alternative,” he said. “It’s another option out there.”

site will make it far simpler to swamp rooms.

“Last year, I was very avid about swapping rooms, and I was able to do it, but it was a long and confusing three-way swap that I facilitated myself,” she said. “The site looks good.”

About 350 people have reg-istered for the site, and there are two to three acceptances leading to swaps per day, Rahmey said.

“Ideally, we want the school to use our website instead of the current process for swapping dorm rooms which involves go-ing to the housing office, filling out a card with students’ informa-tion and then browsing through a binder of other students searching for a new living arrangement,” Rahmey said. ”I won’t be here next year and the other creators will be working on other things. We want someone to maintain it.”

The website was created with the help of BU’s Digital Media club.

Rahmey said group swapping, or students swapping rooms with their roommates as a group, will begin this weekend.

“So far, we have only allowed individual swapping,” he said. “Students will make a listing with their roommate who will get an email confirming the room swap. Then students may swap with oth-er groups.”

Rahmey said Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore has been very supportive of the website and introduced it to the BU Housing Office.

Brianna Vieira, a COM sopho-more, said the website is user-friendly and easier than going through the traditional BU chan-nels.

“The process was cool, easy and convenient to use,” she said. “I didn’t know how to go about switching, so this is an easy way to get in touch with other stu-dents. I proposed a swap with a girl across campus and am hoping for the best.”

tions free of animal products,” she said. “It is comforting that Taco Bell incorporates veganism into their menu, and for that I am the tiniest bit uplifted.”

CAS sophomore Daniele Gar-gamelli said she did not care if a Taco Bell was put on campus or not, but other students would support the addition to dining op-tions.

“I’ve had it a few times, but it’s not really going to affect my life that much,” she said. “I think a lot of students would want it. Whether it’s the best idea, I don’t know, but I think a lot of people

will be happy.”Gargamelli said a Taco Bell

might not affect weight or health much on campus because of the exercise students get from going class to class.

“We walk a lot here, so you’d have to eat an awful lot for it to make an impact,” she said.

Ferrante said overall, she and a lot of her friends would be happy if BU put in a Taco Bell for stu-dents because of the quick, on-the-go service, despite the food chain not being what she called “the healthiest place to eat.”

“I know I will personally have to resist going there all the time,” Ferrante said.

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with us this evening.”“For my uncle Teddy, politics

was always about people,” Ken-nedy III said. “He came from a big family and knew that people were more than line items.”

Kennedy III then asked ev-eryone to pause to remember his

uncle. The tribute video played at

the convention featured photos of Edward Kennedy’s time in the Senate, as well as clips from his debates with Mitt Romney while running for the Senate seat.

The video also featured Ken-nedy campaigning with Obama while he was running for the pres-

idency, a theme woven in both Kennedy III and Patrick’s presen-tations.

Patrick urged everyone to stand up for their president.

“Let’s go tell everyone that we meet that when the Ameri-can dream is on the line,” Patrick said. “Barack Obama is the man we want.”

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said. “Those definitely make a differ-ence when you are worried about be-ing late — just psychology.”

But, he said, it is a hard call to de-termine if these signs are worth the investment.

“You have to think long term when you are looking at a large part of the Boston infrastructure,” Zas-tiow said. “You always have to invest

in these long-term things to keep it up to date.”

Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior Tynaya Frasier said the trains run frequently already, so she does not mind waiting.

“Fares have already gone up this summer,” she said. “If they are going to go up anymore they should just do away with it. There are apps that can estimate the schedule of trains.”

Sixth-year GRS student Mike Wheeler said he would like to know when the T comes, and he does not have a smartphone so he cannot look it up.

He said the signs are a good thing, but he is not sure if it is good right now.

“I’m not sure its necessary above ground,” he said, “but underground would be nice, in the perfect world where they have all the money.”

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S P O T L I G H TThe Do ’s o f Bos ton

As students get settled into their daily lives at Boston University, sometimes they might for-get that there are in fact places to hang out be-

sides the George Sherman Union, the BU beach and the third floor of Mugar Memorial Library. So here are a few things you must do during your time at BU.

DO: LEARN HOW TO READ THE T MAP

Known for its nine stops throughout BU’s campus, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

can be a student’s best friend or worst enemy — depend-ing on timing. Returning students recommended figuring out the T before stepping onto the bustling platform.

“Public transportation is very important — when you go to school with 30,000 other students having a car is very rare,” said College of Communication sophomore Ja-son Celaru in an email interview. “It is hard to find park-

ing spots and even if you can, it is not very cost effective because Boston has a very efficient transportation system.

“The T runs right through Boston, and you can easily get to Logan airport, South Station or any corner of the city by using this cheap and easy transportation.”

Kenmore Square is a heavily populated T stop because the A, B, C and D Lines run through it. Students who live in or near Kenmore Square can take any line from the city into this station.

“Getting on the B Line in Kenmore Square is proba-bly the best thing to do,” said School of Education junior Lauren Effune in an email interview. “The trains come so much more often and it’s in the middle of one of the most popular areas on campus.”

The MBTA offers some solutions to making transit quick and painless.

“Get a CharlieCard — A CharlieCard makes boarding MBTA buses or trains as simple as tap and go,” said Joshua Robin, the MBTA’s director of innovation and special proj-ects.

Returning students also warn to be wary of the shaky trains.

“For the Green Line, be sure to hold onto something,” said COM sophomore Mike McDonald in an email inter-view. “I’ve seen more than a few people think they’re too cool to hold onto anything and hit the ground. It may have happened to me once or twice.”

DO: ATTEND CITY AND COLLEGE SPORTING EVENTS

Fenway Park is down the street from campus — no need to worry about parking!

“I’ve grown up right outside of Boston all my life. My entire family grew up in Charlestown,” McDonald said. “I’m most familiar with the Kenmore area. I’ve been to more Red Sox games than I can count, I have met players and I have been on the field. On days with games, you’ll barely be able to get on the T.”

As for BU’s hockey team, the Agganis Arena is on the same street as campus. Students can walk, take the bus or ride the T to games.

“I definitely recommend going to hockey games, espe-cially the first one. If you got a sports pass, it’s such a great value and one of the best showcases of school spirit,” Effune said. “Even if you’ve never seen a hockey game, you’ll pick up the cheers and dislike for BC faster than you think.”

Ask any student — BU’s hockey team is a favorite. “BU is very big on school spirit. We have a strong hock-

ey team that students come to watch all year long. Some students even come in full body paint,” Celaru said. “It’s something that you can bond over with other Terrier fans. I haven’t been to a single game where I wasn’t at one point or another on the edge of my seat.”

DO: CHECK OUT NATURE SPOTS

Many students recommend going in new directions to evade the tall downtown Boston buildings and

see more of the city’s natural beauty. “College in Boston is definitely an experience like no

other. Unlike New York City, Boston moves a little slow-er without losing that city-life feel,” Celaru said. “Take Boston in your own hands and capture its beauty. Go to a Sox’s game, go to a movie in the Commons, or just go on the T, jump off at a random stop and explore. Some of the best memories I’ve had in Boston were spontaneous and random.”

“I recommend getting yourself off campus,” Effune said. “Boston is such a vibrant city with so much to offer. You can go for a walk on Newbury St., take in the sights for free at the MFA, or go for a walk in the Boston Com-mons or on the Esplanade.”

DO: VISIT OTHER COLLEGES

As easy as it is to stay in the BU “bubble,” students often take advantage of the plethora of colleges in

Boston. “The best part about Boston has to be the colleges,”

McDonald said. “It’s surprising how many colleges there are in the immediate area.”

“You go to the Commons and there’s Suffolk and Em-erson ... down toward Commonwealth Avenue, there is

Boston College and then of course Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and many more. Not only are there tons of choices where to go to school in Boston, but it re-ally makes Boston a fun, college city.”

Many colleges grant students from other universities access to their libraries.

“My favorite part of Boston is that it is such a college city,” Celaru said. “It is inhabited mainly by college-aged people, so making new friends, even at different colleges is always very easy. Just be careful. If you visit BC and they figure out that you’re a Terrier, you will be judged until the second you leave, but there’s nothing wrong with a little healthy college rivalry.”

Despite the college rivalry, a number of students in Bos-ton will agree on rooting for the Red Sox and the Bruins.

“As for college hopping, the 40-plus schools in the area are part of the reason I chose to attend BU,” said College of Arts and Science freshman Jake Saitman in an email interview. “It’s such a diverse college city, and I can’t wait to meet people from other schools as well as mine. I have quite a few friends from home coming up to school in Bos-ton as well, and I plan on seeing them a few times.”

Other colleges that are slightly beyond of Boston but can be easily visited are Harvard University, Tufts Univer-sity and Brandeis University.

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This famous statue of John Harvard resides in Harvard Yard.

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Don’t: Forget the difference between inbound and outbound.

Don’t: Assume the BU Shuttle (BUS) will be on schedule. Just don’t.

Don’t: Eat too much of that oystah chowdah in Quincy Mahcut!

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To the Editor:When the Pan Am building rose like

a massive tombstone behind New York’s Grand Central Terminal in 1963, it was al-most universally reviled. It was the largest commercial office building in the world, and it had been built, according to its detractors, seemingly without consideration of archi-tectural merit, social policy or human needs. The most pointed remarks came from Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic of The New York Times, who called the build-ing “gigantically second-rate.”

I couldn’t help but recall Huxtable’s tren-chant words, and the general derision of the Pan Am building, when I visited Marciano Commons — the Frankensteinian food fac-tory that replaced Myles, Shelton and Tow-ers dining halls. Here, as in Pan Am, is a physical manifestation of the maxim that bigger is not always better. In fact, bigness can be blinding — especially (as I quickly noticed) when clad in a dizzying array of col-ors, materials and textures. One particularly obnoxious seating area sports fluorescent green tile, carpet and paint, with matching upholstery and lighting — I felt as if I were trapped in a slice of key lime pie. The qual-ity of the food notwithstanding, I returned from dinner that night with a bad case of architectural indigestion. Granted, it’s hard to do worse than the erstwhile subterranean Towers dining hall, but what a shame it is to have traded the rich wood paneling of Myles and the neoclassical ornamentation of Shel-ton for garish yet soulless walls hung here and there with meretricious corporate “art.”

The aesthetic shortcomings, bad as they are, pale in comparison to the functional and experiential deficiencies. Not surprisingly, an especially pernicious consequence of funneling all of East Campus into one caf-eteria is lines: lines at the card-swipe, lines for sandwiches, lines at the grill, lines for dessert, lines for drinks, lines at the dish re-turn. Even during off-peak hours, one can expect to wait in a seemingly interminable succession of lines just to get a sandwich and soda.

To make matters worse, the amoeboid layout of the various serving stations lacks any clear pattern of circulation. There is such a labyrinthine sequence of spaces that one half expects to find a minotaur lurking around the next corner, and the ubiquitous

lines, stretching every which way, block aisles and conflate with queues at neighbor-ing stations so that one can’t be sure whether at the end of a long wait he’ll find a bacon cheeseburger or a tofu salad.

Size matters, and there’s something to be said for modesty of scale. In Shelton, it was possible to set my bag and coat on a table and to keep an eye on it from the salad bar, a few feet away. It was also possible to view all available menu options with a 180-de-gree turn of the head. At Marciano Com-mons, though, seeing what looks good in-volves a complete circuit of the first floor, a hike up the stairs (over the river and through the woods ... ) and then another trek around the second floor. Gone are the days of a quick power lunch. Gone, too, is the sense of community that is inherent in a small dining room, where the same familiar faces greet you at every meal.

Then there are the little things: the cumbersome and propagandistic name (of-ficially “The Fresh Food Company at Mar-ciano Commons”); the nearly horizontal silverware baskets from which half a dozen utensils tumble to the floor whenever some-one tries to grab a fork; the noise that re-sults from herding a thousand people at once into a cavernous space, obliterating any quiet corners in which to read a book. And, though it’s not an issue yet, I expect by about mid-February, east-campus residents will long for the good old days when they could stumble downstairs in pajamas and slippers instead of trudging through a foot of snow for a bowl of cereal.

Even the Pan Am building, early on, garnered a smattering of admirers for be-ing new and huge, and I have no doubt the same will be true of Marciano Commons. By 1987, though, Pan Am ranked at the top of New York Magazine’s list of “buildings New Yorkers love to hate,” and there is ev-ery reason to expect BU’s new cafeteria will suffer a similar fate.

Novelty is fleeting, and when the virginal luster of the building fades, as it inevitably will, the only remaining distinctions will be inordinate size and brute expediency.

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A federal court judge recently ruled that a Massachusetts inmate’s sex-reassignment operation must be paid for by the state, ac-cording to The Boston Globe.

In 1993 Robert Kosilek was found guilty of murdering her wife and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. That same year Kosilek changed her name to Michelle, while living in an all-male prison. Doctors in Kosilek’s prison identified sex-re-assignment surgery as the only treatment for her gender identity disorder.

The legal battle began in 2000 when Kosliek filed a lawsuit against the Massa-chusetts Department of Correction after it re-fused to pay for her surgery. Kosliek argued that the department inaction violated her Eighth Amendment rights, the right against

cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark

Wolf sided with Kosliek, ruling that her Eighth Amendment rights were indeed vio-lated and that the state must pay up.

While anyone who wants a sex-reassign-ment operation should be able to go out and get one, it isn’t necessary that the state pro-vides him or her with the funds to do so.

Moreover, Kosilek’s imprisoned because she committed a crime. Prison isn’t supposed to be the happiest time of your life. It is too bad that Kosilek didn’t requested her opera-tion after she was imprisoned.

Looking forward, we wonder how the DOC will respond to Wolf’s decision, and if any other inmates will make similar requests.

Rights violation?

Major news organizations have rumored that actor Bruce Willis is suing Apple be-cause of a policy that prohibits him from bequeathing his iTunes music collection to his four daughters. Nevertheless, the actor’s request raises important questions about music ownership.

iTunes users do not “buy music. Rather, they ‘pay for the license to listen to songs via [their] iPhone, iPod or other Apple de-vice,’” according to an article in CNN.

Now Willis, who reportedly has a “vast” amount of music could always pass along his music-filled iPod, laptop or phone to his children. But what if the women want to transfer those songs to other gadgets? If

it were the 11th, 12th device, 13th device, Apple would say, “no.”

It is doubtful that everyone has read Apple’s terms and conditions in full, which makes this news so jarring. It is funny to think that our dollar is buying a lease and not the song.

Isn’t the turn of phrase, “I bought this song on iTunes?”

Willis’s story reinforces the idea that music ownership is a grey area. Even if the actor does not sue Apple, enough peo-ple are going to ask questions, which will prompt some ambitious lawyer to step on the scene and argue in favor of iTunes us-ers.

Music ownership

Letter to the Editor

Terrier Talk

JESSICA LIPMAN

“It’s so unhealthy. I rarely eat it. It gives students easier access to unhealthy food on campus, which isn’t good.”

- CGS sophomore

The Daily Free Press asked students what they thought about the possi-bility of Taco Bell returning to cam-

pus next academic year.

Here’s what some of them said.

INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS BY SARAH ANOLIK

MONICA FAILLACE

ELANA SCHWARTZ

“I’m not a huge Taco Bell fan, but I’ll go a couple of times and I’m sure other people will too.”

- CAS sophomore

“I think it’s a fun, cheap place well-suited for a college campus.”

- COM junior

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MARASCO: Four-team football playoff system to spark more controversy

than you. It’s simple. It’s beautiful.College football doesn’t give us enough

of this fundamental principle, and at the most critical possible time — the postsea-son.

Therefore, we are often left with a mess of controversy and doubt heading into the championship game — “How can Auburn run the table in the SEC and not get a chance at the title?”

You don’t get that ugly controversy from the NFL postseason because every-thing is settled mono e mono. Teams get to the Super Bowl by directly vanquishing the other top dogs.

A four-team playoff is a step in the right direction, but it’s a baby step.

It will be nice to include two more teams in the championship picture, but the four-team system will bring with it a brand new set of arguments, controversy and hair-loss

— you still have to whittle the elites down to just four teams.

It’s harder than you may think.What if we’d had this four-team playoff

as recently 2010? Auburn went 13–0 in the SEC. That’s a no-brainer. They’re in. Or-egon, 12–0 — they’re in.

Ok, then what? You can only pick two more teams. You’ve got TCU at 12–0 (but the weakest strength of schedule), Stanford at 11–1, 11–1 Wisconsin, 11–1 Ohio State, and 11–1 Michigan State.

There’s also 11–2 Oklahoma, 10–2 Ar-kansas and LSU (with the toughest sched-ules). Missouri and Oklahoma State went 10–2. Virginia Tech was 11–2. Boise State went 11–1. Nevada was 12–1.

So, who do you take? TCU is unde-feated, but if you put them in the playoff, you’re left with one slot to fill, 11–1 Stan-ford from the Pac-12 and three 11–1 teams from the Big-10.

Oh, by the way, is it even clear that

TCU is more deserving than the 10–win SEC teams or an 11–2 Big-12 team? But you can’t leave out an undefeated team, can you? And do you put Stanford in or a Big-10 team? And how would you pick one team out of three 11–1 teams from the same conference?

Boom. Your head exploded.In 2009 there were five, yes five, unde-

feated teams — Alabama, Texas, Cincinna-ti, TCU and Boise State. Florida was 12–1 (in the SEC).

The BCS occasionally left a lonely team cursing the night sky with a bottle of bour-bon in one hand. The four-team playoff will leave a gaggle of bitter one and two-loss teams picketing in the streets every year. Heck, some years we’ll see undefeat-ed teams not even make the cut.

When only two teams were being cho-sen, fewer schools had an argument. Look-ing back at 2010 again, we had Auburn and Oregon as the clear choices to battle for

the title. TCU was the only team who had any real right to complain, and even they would admit their schedule had been much less impressive than the other candidates.

If you expand it to four teams (as we just tried), all of a sudden you’ve got a line of guys outside the nightclub yelling at the bouncer, “Hey! How come he gets to go in? If he gets to go in, I should too!” and they kind of have a point.

And who’s deciding this? Who’s the bouncer?

A selection committee - that won’t lead to more controversy?

There are already fistfights going on over where the championship game is go-ing to be played. No, the controversy is not going anywhere.

A four-team playoff is progress, so be optimistic.

Just don’t be satisfied.

(Data courtesy of collegefootballpoll.com.)

maraSCo: From page 8

Men’s soccer drops to 1–3 following tough loss to No. 1 North Carolina

Thomson’s head to put the Tarheels on the scoreboard.

The Tarheels extended their lead in the 68th minute of play on a penalty kick af-ter BU freshman defender Jeroen Blugh received a yellow card for tackling from behind.

Down by two, the Terriers continued to put pressure on the Tarheels.

The task eventually paid off in the 84th minute of play when senior midfielder Mi-chael Bustamante passed the ball to last season’s America East Rookie of the Year sophomore forward Dominique Badji, who headed the ball into the net for his first goal of the season.

It was the first time a team had scored on the Tarheels this season.

Despite several efforts, the Terriers could not put another shot on goal during the game and ultimately fell by a final score of 2–1.

The offense still has not found a go-to scorer this year, something that Roberts does not see happening with this team. In-stead, he said the team will have a lot of balanced scoring throughout its forwards

and midfielders.“We’ve just got to keep plugging away

and keep creating chances, and we think goals will come,” Roberts said. “It doesn’t matter who scores, and I don’t think we are going to have a goal-scorer that is going to get a lot of goals for us this year, but you know if we can be solid defensively and create good chances … we’ve just got to keep doing that.”

The Terriers schedule is not getting any easier, as it is scheduled to continue its road trip against Providence College and No. 4 University of Connecticut over the upcoming weekend.

However, the challenge of the early-season non-conference schedule is some-thing Roberts thinks can only have helped the team.

“The only thing [the tough schedule] can do, especially in the situation we are in this year, is help us,” Roberts said. “The strength of schedule will be real good. We would have liked to get a tie out of one of the three games against St. John’s, Wake and North Carolina. We have put ourselves in position in the last two games to pull that off, we just didn’t do it.”

meN’S SoCCer: From page 8

Hewitt, Cuffia provide spark, goals for w. soccer offense from bench

lowed seven goals and made 29 saves on the year, making her save percentage 80.6 percent.

Bench BoostFive different Terriers have scored two

goals so far this year, and only one of these players — junior midfielder Emma Clark — has started in each game. Scorers such as Brea Hewitt and Ana Cuffia have shown the ability to provide offense off the bench, as well as to get the job done with the start-ing rotation.

Feldman said that her current roster has forced her to undergo much deliberation as to who she puts on the pitch in several situ-ations.

“I’ve spent a little bit of my time just continuing to see what people are capable of and how their strengths can help us,” Feldman said. “The other thing is we have more versatile players. Overall we are a lit-tle bit more athletic, we’re a little bit more mobile.”

Strong ScheduleBU’s more significant loss this year

came to rival Boston College at the end of last month. BC is currently ranked No. 6 in the NSCAA Coaches poll.

This weekend, the Terriers travel to California where they will participate in the Stanford Nike Invitational. Queued up for BU is reigning NCAA champion No. 5 Stanford University, as well as Santa Clara University, which dropped out of the top 25 yesterday.

Feldman said the difficulty of the team’s schedule not only gives the players great experience, but also gives a boost to re-cruitment efforts.

“We really try to stretch ourselves and challenge ourselves and play the best,” Feldman said. “That certainly attracts great student-athletes, because great student-athletes want to be challenged and want to play against the best.”

BU was ranked No. 23 at the start of the season and has since dropped from the polls. However, no other America East team has been ranked as highly so far this year.

The difficult matchups that the Terriers endure prior to America East play should act as sufficient preparation for the confer-ence.

NoTebook: From page 8

Injury to Madzongwe thrusts Spivey into more critical role

and with former America East Defender of the Year Colin Henry having graduated in the spring, Roberts is forced to rely upon a group of relatively inexperienced defend-ers led by Spivey.

“Spivey has developed so much in the last year from the first time he played to what he is now so he is going to have to take a bigger role tactically where he relied on Kelvin to do all that and make all the decisions,” Roberts said. “So Sanford will have to come into that, and that will be his responsibility over the next couple games, to be able to do that.”

Spivey started all 18 games last fall while Holler started nine of the 11 games

he played in. The only other BU defender available

who has collegiate experience is senior de-fender Max White, who started six of the 13 games he appeared in last year. White played five minutes in each of the losses in North Carolina.

BU will look to bounce back from the absence of Madzongwe, but in a season in which the team needs to earn an at-large bid to make it to the NCAA tournament the loss of Madzongwe may severely hurt the Terriers’ chances at the postseason.

“It is going to take away from our whole team because he does so much,” Roberts said. “He is good on the ball, he is a good passer. So we have to make up for him.”

maDzoNGwe: From page 8

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Although the bulk of the Bos-ton University women’s soccer starters are upperclassmen, a few freshmen have made their way onto the stat sheet in a significant way at this early point in the sea-son.

McKenzie Hollenbaugh, a back from Glastonbury, Conn., is the lone freshman starter for the Terriers. Hollenbaugh has started in each of BU’s six games this season.

“McKenzie we knew would be a competitive player for the rea-son that she had been playing at a

high level this past summer with older players — college-level players,” said BU coach Nancy Feldman. “We kind of had an idea that she had at least been in an en-vironment like ours — had a taste of it.”

Midfielder Clare Pleuler and Forward Jenna Fisher have each played solid minutes off the bench in their first year as Terriers.

Pleuler has notched one goal so far this year, whereas Fisher has netted a pair on five shots. Fisher’s shot percentage of .400 presently leads the team. Both Pleuler and Fisher scored in the Terriers’ 2–2 draw with Harvard

University.“I’m very pleased with the

contribution they’ve been mak-ing, and also their overall train-ing mentality and their maturity,” Feldman said of her freshman players.

Finally getting the Green lightJunior goalkeeper Andrea

Green has been a surprise key to the BU lineup so far this season. Green had only seen time in two games in both her freshman and sophomore campaigns with the Terriers. With originally project-ed starter junior Kelly King side-lined with a season-ending injury,

Green has been given the nod in each of the first six games BU has played.

“Her first year was a big learn-ing curve in her goalkeeping training,” Feldman said. “Last year was a bigger learning year for her physical training … she came back as a junior and she cer-tainly had put herself in a position to play.”

The Terriers hold a record of 3–2–1 at the moment. Hidden within that record is a trifecta of shutouts that Green has earned. The Nashua, N.H., native has al-

With the college football sea-son currently kicking off, the big story — seemingly overshadow-ing early season games them-selves — is the implementation of a four-team playoff system, set to start in 2014.

For years, you’ve heard the clamoring for a playoff system, and rightfully so. There is an imminent need for a perfected postseason in the ever-growing conglomerate that is collegiate football.

So, we were the squeaky wheel, and we’ve gotten our grease. Cause for celebration. Right?

Let’s not dance in the streets just yet.

The new, four-team playoff model is an improvement from the current system — I am not arguing that — but be careful about thinking that college foot-ball’s postseason issues have been solved.

What is the biggest problem with the BCS? Elite teams, oc-casionally even undefeated ones, are at risk of getting left out of the national championship picture without a chance to settle it on a football field.

In 2004, USC, Oklahoma Uni-versity and Auburn all sat with perfect 12–0 records on the eve of bowl season. Since the BCS’s job is to select two teams, and only two teams, Auburn was left out in the cold. Going undefeated in the SEC and not even getting a shot at the national title is very hard to stomach.

TCU was undefeated in back-to-back years, 2009 and 2010, and was ignored from title contention. Cincinnati went undefeated in 2009 and got no love. Boise State and Hawaii have suffered the same frustrating fate.

So, the BCS picked two darn good teams, but left us with one or two teams every now and then that we pity — we wonder what could’ve been if they’d got-ten their shot. We’re left with cravings for these head-to-head matchups that never come to be.

Head-to-head combat is indis-putable evidence in the sporting realm. If I beat you, I’m better

Men’s soccer falls short twice in North Carolina

SportsFallen Hero

Former America East Defender of the Year Kelvin Madzongwe left Friday’s loss to Wake Forest University with a knee injury and is expected to miss “a significant amount of time.” p. 8

the daily Free pressQuotable“ “

[Madzongwe] has turned into such a leader for us on the field.

Men’s soccer coach Neil Roberts on injured junior defender Kelvin Madzongwe [ www.dailyfreepress.com ]page 8 Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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By Kevin DillonDaily Free Press Staff

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Sunday, Sept. 9

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Junior defender Kelvin Mad-zongwe

Hollenbaugh emerging as key freshman for women’s soccer teamBy Tyler Lay

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Saturday, Sept. 8Thursday, Sept. 6 Friday, Sept. 7Wednesday, Sept. 5No Games Scheduled

The Patriots recently worked out Kellen Winslow and released Eric Kettani.

No Games ScheduledThey lost a Navy man, but might pick up

a soldier.

M. Soccer @ Providence, 3 p.m.Field Hockey @ Boston College, 7 p.m.

W. Soccer @ Stanford, 10 p.m.

Golf @ Bucknell Invitational, All DayCross Country @ Bryant Invitational,

All Day

Field Hockey vs. Syracuse, 11 a.m.W. Soccer @ Santa Clara, 4 p.m.M. Soccer @ Connecticut, 7 p.m.

Golf @ Bucknell Invitational, All Day

By Meredith PerriDaily Free Press Staff

meN’S SoCCer, see page 7

Fresh off its first win of the season over Boston College, the Boston University men’s soc-cer team dropped two games this weekend, falling to 1–3 on the season and continuing a trend of mediocre offense against ranked opponents.

The Terriers, who came into the weekend having only scored one goal in two games, first faced off against No. 15 Wake Forest University on Friday.

The Demon Deacons (3–0) started the scoring after junior Luca Gimenez sent a pass over to classmate Chris Duvall. Duvall then slipped the shot by BU soph-omore goaltender Nick Thomson for the early lead.

BU evened up the score 19 minutes later when freshman de-fender Mac McGuire and junior midfielder Derek McCaffrey as-sisted red shirt freshman defender Parker Powell in scoring what

would become the Terriers’ lone tally of the game.

It was the first goal of Powell’s collegiate career.

After holding Wake Forest for the rest of the half, Thomson and the Terriers were unable to stop freshman Michael Gamble, who scored the game-winning goal, and eventually an insurance tally to give the Demon Deacons the 3–1 win.

Gamble’s first goal was on a misplay by Thomson. Senior Andy Lubahn passed the ball over to Gamble who took advantage of the wide open net in the 57th min-ute of play, netting his first goal.

“It was just disappointing that we gave up a really bad goal prob-ably 15 minutes into the second half which against any team you can’t do, but especially not Wake Forest,” Roberts said.

With about 10 minutes left in the game, Gamble extended the lead on another open-net goal. This time senior Luciano Delbo-

no passed a through ball to sopho-more Sean Okoli, pulling Thom-son out of the net, before Okoli sent the ball over to Gamble.

The Terriers also suffered an-other loss against Wake Forest, as junior defender Kelvin Madzon-gwe injured his knee in the 13th minute on Friday. Roberts said last year’s America East Defen-sive Player of the Year will like-ly miss “a significant amount of time.”

“I would have to say Kelvin getting hurt was the most disap-pointing part of [the weekend],” Roberts said.

In a tighter battle on Sunday, the Terriers took on No. 1 Univer-sity of North Carolina (4–0–1). Like the Demon Deacons, the Tarheels took the initial lead when sophomore Verneri Valimaa sent a long pass to junior Andy Craven in the 20th minute of play. Craven then chipped the ball over

The Boston University men’s soccer team entered its three-day trip in North Carolina with hopes of stealing at least a point from two of the top teams in the coun-try.

Not only did the Terriers fail to take any points from their games against Wake Forest University and No. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, they also suffered a critical blow to the team’s defense early in Friday’s loss.

Junior defender Kelvin Mad-zongwe left the game with a knee injury on Friday, severely crip-pling BU’s line of defense which had been anchored by him.

BU coach Neil Roberts said Madzongwe will miss a signifi-cant amount of time.

“We will probably know a little bit more by the end of the

week,” Roberts said. “It will be a significant amount of time I’m afraid … it wasn’t a violent tackle or anything like that, it was sort of innocent.”

Now, without last year’s America East Defensive Player of the Year, the team’s formation has been forced to shift from the strategy that helped lead it to a 1–0 victory over then-No.11 Bos-ton College.

In the victory over BC, BU used a formation that featured only three defenders as well as three forwards to help generate offense.

With a back line that only fea-tured Madzongwe, sophomore defender Sanford Spivey and freshman defender Jeroen Blugh, BU locked down the Eagles of-fense and upset its rival.

However, Madzongwe only lasted 13 minutes in the game against Wake Forest before go-ing down with the injury, leaving

the Terriers’ back line thin and forcing the team to move out of its original formation into a more defensive one.

Despite this change, the team still allowed a “really bad goal” in the 57th minute and lost the game 3–1.

“[Madzongwe] has turned into such a leader for us on the field,” Roberts said. “He is vocal, he is a very quiet kid off the field but on the field he is very vocal, he helps the young guys, he has just done a great job at doing that … the defense kind of worked around him. So we had to adjust a little bit there.”

Redshirt freshmen defenders Mac McGuire and Parker Powell saw more playing time as a re-sult of the injury. While Powell scored the team’s lone goal in the loss to Wake Forest and McGuire recorded an assist, it was clear that Roberts was using multiple defenders to fill the gap left by

Madzongwe’s injury.When the matchup against

North Carolina began, the team began in the four-defender for-mation it finished the last game with, this time starting Powell and sophomore defender James Holler instead of Madzongwe and junior forward Ali Sozeri.

This is not the first time the de-fender from Magwegwe, Zimba-bwe, has gotten hurt while play-ing with BU.

Madzongwe missed some time early last year as well, sitting out of the season’s first two games be-fore playing only half of the third to regain his form. The Terriers went 1–1 in their games without Madzongwe, defeating the Col-lege of the Holy Cross 2–0 before dropping a game to then-No. 17 Monmouth University 1–0.

With the team’s most experi-enced defender out of the lineup,

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