In May, Boston University student Lejla Huskic found herself on a dirt road lined with crumbling one-room houses in a small township in Johannesburg. She met the children living there, who were just learn-ing English, only going to school a few times a week.

“I’ve never seen poverty like that be-fore,” Huskic, a College of Arts and Sci-ences sophomore, said. “It was eye-open-ing.”

Five months later, Huskic still works with the organization that gave her the op-portunity to visit the South African town, the African Presidential Center at BU.

The APC is an on-campus organization that studies and supports the growth of de-mocracy and free-market reform in Africa.

Huskic had the opportunity to meet Af-rican heads of state when she traveled to Johannesburg for the African Presidential Roundtable forum for the future of energy in Africa through her internship at the APC.

“It was really amazing to be involved in something amazing like that,” Huskic said. “I felt like I played a role in something re-ally cool.”

Huskic, one of 18 student interns work-ing at the APC, said she learned about the organization through a friend and applied to become an intern in the spring of her freshman year.

“It’s an internship program through BU and we get to work with other colleges that are part of our collaborative and the conti-nent of Africa,” she said. “It’s a base for so many cool networks.”

Now in her second semester as an in-

Boston University had the 13th highest population of international students among U.S. colleges for the 2011–12 academic year, according to the Institute of Interna-tional Education.

A report, titled Open Doors Data on International Educational Exchanged, re-leased Monday stated BU had 6,041 inter-national students during the 2011–12 aca-demic year.

“We’ve always been ranked high in the Open Doors Report,” said BU spokesman Colin Riley. “We have a long history of international students studying at Boston University.”

Riley said for many years, BU has had the highest percentage of international stu-dents.

“We still have a strong percentage,” he said. “We have a diverse representation.” He said students from India and China comprise a significant portion of BU’s in-ternational students because the countries have large populations.

A number of international students want to study at BU because of its quality of education, Riley said.

“BU has an outstanding reputation in-ternationally as evidenced by the employ-ability study recently released [released Oct. 25 by The New York Times],” he said. “BU graduates who work around the world are highly regarded by employers.”

Employers around the world ranked BU graduates 17th in the world in employabil-ity. BU was ranked seventh nationally.

Riley said BU works to accept students from around the world.

“BU has a strong alumni presence in many countries and recruits and regularly visits these countries,” he said. “We have an English-language program, Center for English Language and Orientation Pro-grams, that is also attractive for students who want to pursue American education in the United States who don’t have the lan-guage skills for it.”

International enrollment in Ameri-can colleges increased 6 percent from the 2010–11 academic year to a total of 764,495 students.

Riley said BU benefits from having a diverse population.

“Students who are sitting in the class may be sitting next to someone who has a different cultural background, who has dif-

ferent experiences, different language and a different upbringing and will contribute and bring that perspective with them and helps inform in many instances the disci-pline they’re studying,” he said.

Jordan Sen, an international student from Hong Kong, said he sees how BU is trying to increase its international popula-tion.

“I went to this conference where Presi-dent [Robert Brown] was there, and he said he really wanted to increase the number of international students,” Sen, a School of Management junior, said. “It’s surprising to know BU is 13th, though.”

Sen said studying in the U.S. will give him a better education all around.

“I’m Australian originally, and I was considering it with my family, and they agreed it’s much better to have an educa-tion in America rather than Australia,” he said.

Sen said he is pleased BU has such a diverse student body.

“It’s always nice to know that there’s not a small percentage of people like me,” he said. “It doesn’t feel like I get left out or

Student Government unanimously passed a vote to host a public debate Jan. 31 to educate senators and Boston Uni-versity students on the sanctions in Iran at their meeting Monday.

The debate will draw some of the most staunchly opposed groups on campus to-gether to debate and converse about the is-sue at hand, said Aditya Rudra, executive vice president of SG.

“It’s definitely been an issue that has been a dividing force on this campus and an issue that started well before we were born,” Rudra, a School of Management ju-nior, said.

Members of BU Students for Israel and members of the Anti-War Coalition came to an Oct. 15 SG meeting to debate whether the current sanctions in Iran are justified. At the same meeting, SG passed a motion to create a committee to send to activities hosted by both groups.

Zach Herbert, College of Engineering junior, said hosting the debate could set a positive precedent for SG.

“This is more than just us voting on one thing,” Herbert said. “Other groups might be going to ask us to host these [types of] debates.”

SG also heard arguments from a BU’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, an international drug policy reform network.

KC Mackey, a College of Arts and Sci-ences senior, said she wants BU to adapt a “good Samaritan policy” that allows students to call for medical help relating to alcohol- and drug-related health issues without facing punitive action.

“No students seeking medical as-sistance for an alcohol- or drug-related emergency will be subject to university disciplinary action due to possession or consumption of alcohol,” Mackey said.

Mackey said these are rules that will provide students with the clarity they need to make responsible, life-saving decisions.

“They are not policies that are sup-posed to reward binge drinking,” she said.

Mackey said Student Health Services, South Campus RHA and the Off Campus Council are just some groups around cam-pus that support this policy.

Mackey also said she hopes BU can incorporate this policy into its Lifebook, which provides rules and guidance on be-ing a member of the BU community.

Emily Talley, a sophomore in the School of Education, said this conversa-tion has the potential to be transformative.

“You [SSDP] should also consider the things you are really trying to combat here which include underage drinking, intoxi-cation, responsibility,” Talley said in the meeting.

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Authorities investigate Allston fatal accident involving 21-year-old cyclistAuthorities are investigating the facts sur-

rounding the death of a 21-year-old bicyclist who was struck by a vehicle in Allston Monday night, officials said.

“Everybody is still out, and the investigation is still ongoing,” said Neva Coakley, a Boston Police Department spokeswoman.

The accident occurred at 6:36 p.m. on the corner of Brighton Avenue and Harvard Av-

enue, Coakley said.CBS Boston and other news outlets reported

that the bicyclist was a Boston University stu-dent, although BU officials did not confirm this information.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said the MBTA is looking into whether a Route 57 bus is involved in the incident and that a bus driver has been removed from service during the in-vestigation. He would not confirm whether an MBTA bus struck the victim.

“A Route 57 bus operator has been taken out of service while police investigators work to establish facts in this matter,” Pesaturo said in an email. “He is 58, and he has been with the T for six years.”

Pesaturo said the BPD and the District At-torney’s office have taken over the investiga-tion, with Transit Police assisting.

Police officers from District 4 in Brighton responded to the accident and upon arrival they observed a male victim that was seriously in-

jured, Coakley said. The victim of the accident was transported to Beth Israel Hospital and was pronounced dead upon arrival.

A Boston College graduate student was killed in June after an MBTA bus hit her on Huntington Avenue. In August, BU School of Management alumnus Steve Binnam Ha was hit by a Route 57 bus after witnesses saw him walk across the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Babcock Street when the bus had a green light.

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Talley said Mackey and her colleagues could make the issue one pertaining to alcohol issues on campus if SSDP were to make it an accountability-based policy.

SG also heard updates on the Towers Planning Committee and its plans to repurpose the base-ment and dining hall of the Tow-ers residence hall.

Sophia Wodya, vice president of SG internal affairs and CAS senior, said members have been working with the administration to create a new use for the vacant space.

Herbert, president of the BU Residence Hall Association, said there might be two study lounges, a recreation room, a faculty-in-residence, two music rooms, a laundry room for Towers resi-dents and for Bay State Road residences as well as a satellite fitness facility along with some other features.

“It’s difficult because there’s

going to be no extra revenue coming in, but there is going to be higher operating expenses for FitRec overall,” said Herbert. “It’s definitely something very likely, and it’s something that something that the entire commit-tee supports.”

Caitlin Seele, SMG junior and SG director of advocacy, said SG has made progress in implement-ing its holiday bus service which will shuttle students to Logan air-port for school breaks.

Seele said SG received survey results from students saying stu-dents were willing to pay around $8 for a ticket.

“Realistically, we are thinking of doing the first bus for spring break,” Seele said. “We need time to have a real advertising push because it is so important that we have [enough people].”

The buses will be less expen-seive than taking a cab and will make stops in front of various dorms and areas on campus, Seele said.

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tern, Huskic said she has already had the opportunity to travel to Johannesburg and meet the for-mer president of Zambia, Rupiah Banda.

Huskic, a sociology major, said international relations has always been an interest, but she never thought it would lead to in-terning for the APC.

“Once I started the internship, I got so much more knowledge about the continent,” Huskic said. “I feel like being there all this time I am learning about things as they happen, so it’s very real time. I don’t think I have gotten this information about Africa in any of my classes before.”

Huskic said Africa is an inter-esting, up-and-coming area.

“They’re still undergoing development — it’s not a very westernized place,” Huskic said. “Researching Africa has been eye-opening. It’s a totally differ-ent type of cultural experience.”

Amrita Singh, a CAS junior, said the center appealed to her because she was interested in in-ternational relations, especially in Africa.

She said the APC has given her the opportunity to become friends with people who have the same passions on BU’s campus.

“It [the APC] has definitely helped me situate myself as a BU student,” Singh said. “Sometimes with BU being so big, sometimes I am like, ‘Where are the people that like the things I like?’ It’s nice that I am surrounded by people who I really like being around.”

Singh said her experience at APC has educated her and provid-ed her with endless opportunities such as attending the Roundtable conference in Johannesburg.

“I can’t really capture the ex-perience that I had there,” she said. “It was definitely a unique experience that helped me grow as a person and as a worker.”

Singh said the APC has given

her the opportunity to put her in-terest in international relations and Africa to use in a practical way. It has also allowed her to see the options she has for her future career.

“I will most definitely will be doing something within the con-tinent, but I don’t know exactly where I’m headed,” Singh said. “The center has definitely helped me see what I am passionate about.”

Singh said her experience at the APC has helped her to take a step further in her education by interacting in a meaningful way with the type of work she wants to do in the future rather than just reading about it in class.

“I totally appreciate being part of an atmosphere where your work and you hours are taken very seriously,” she said. “You’re not just doing stuff to put this on your resume — you’re doing things that are important.”

anything, there’s a lot of activities that involve international students and a lot of those things that the international students office does help us with incorporating our-selves into the community.”

Shannon Almeida from Bom-bay, India, said BU’s environ-ment was not too different from her home city.

“BU is in a city, and I grew up in Bombay, so I was used to that,” Almeida, an SMG junior, said. “I also wanted a really di-verse school, and I think BU was a good choice for that. It fit every-

thing that I wanted ... It is also a college city, which is good, since you get to meet a lot of students from other schools.”

She said BU benefits from having so many international stu-dents.

“You understand other cultures — you’re more aware of every-thing,” she said.

Urs Weber, a College of Arts and Sciences junior from Bre-men, Germany, said he was not surprised by BU’s ranking.

“When I was looking at American colleges and univer-sities while I was in Europe, at the college fairs around Europe,

I lived in Switzerland, England and Spain, and BU was I think the only school from the U.S. that consistently came to all the col-lege fairs in those countries,” he said.

Weber said the inclusion of in-ternational students helps others to see different viewpoints.

“Any sort of diversity always enhances any academic interac-tion or academic conversation,” he said. “The biggest influence on students in college is interac-tions they can have with other students.”

Amy Gorel contributed to the reporting of this article.

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Despite the overwhelming sup-port for medical marijuana by pop-ular vote in Massachusetts, some people in the medical community question marijuana’s healing abil-ity as concerned advocates claim medical marijuana will hurt Mas-sachusetts residents.

Massachusetts became the 18th state to legalize medical marijuana on Nov. 6, with 63 percent of voters answering yes to Question 3.

The ballot question allows pa-tients with certain medical condi-tions to have a maximum 60-day supply of the plant, permitting some patients without an access to treat-ment centers to grow enough plants only for the maximum 60 days.

In the days leading to Election Day, many state groups rallied hard against the passage of Question 3, including the Massachusetts Pre-vention Alliance, the Massachusetts Chief of Police Association and the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Heidi Heilman, president of the Massachusetts Prevention Alliance, said the majority of people using medical marijuana in other states are not those with chronic illness-es, but users that get cards for the vague symptom of pain. More than 100,000 medical marijuana card holders, and 95 percent of those fall into that other condition category, underneath pain.

The Massachusetts law is cur-rently vague in parameters, Heil-man said.

“Anyone can get a medical mar-ijuana card at any age, without any approval from parents, and have a lifetime membership to a pot store or to grow at their home,” Heilman said.

But proponents of medical le-galization said Massachusetts resi-dents would benefit from the law.

Bill Downing, spokesman for The Massachusetts Cannabis Re-form Coalition, said legalizing marijuana would not open the floodgates for anyone to access the substance.

“People think ‘legalize’ and think [of] 5-year-olds going into a soda shop and buying marijuana cigarettes off the shelf,” Downing said. “No, [marijuana’s] not going to be legalized so that all people

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Although Democrats took back a Senate seat with the victory of Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren after a heated race, political experts said the win represented nothing more than a shift back to the status quo in the Commonwealth.

Last Tuesday’s election returned a Massachusetts Senate seat back to Democratic control when Warren triumphed over incumbent Repub-lican Sen. Scott Brown.

Warren joins fellow Democrat John Kerry in the Senate for the 113th Congress.

In a Commonwealth with about three Democrats to every one Re-publican, there was a 37-percent in-crease in Democratic voter turnout for the 2012 election than there was in the 2010 special election.

Doug Kriner, a political science professor at Boston University, said the biggest factor in party change for the Senate seat was the unique circumstances that surrounded the 2010 special election after former U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death.

“Electorates in midterms are

different from those in presidential election years,” Kriner said. “In special elections, the electorate is even smaller and more skewed de-mographically.”

Brown, who ran on a campaign that promised Independent voice and bipartisan votes for Massachu-setts, won the 2010 special election against Democrat Martha Coakley with 52 percent of votes.

Peter Ubertaccio, director of the Martin Institute and political sci-ence professor at Stonehill College, said Brown’s victory came at a time when Democrats were discouraged by President Barack Obama’s lead-ership.

“Republicans were energized when Brown ran that first cam-paign,” he said. “It was a lower turnout election, and Democrats were really demoralized. Brown’s campaign was well run, and all things came together at once.”

In the 2012 election, Warren won with more than 53 percent of the votes at the same time Obama was reelected for a second presi-dential term — something Kriner said helped Warren win the seat

over Brown this time around.“The different composition of

the electorate coupled with a huge enthusiasm gap helped Brown im-mensely [in 2010],” he said. “In 2012, the electorate was bigger and more demographically diverse, and Warren benefited from having Obama at the top of the ticket.”

“Obama came and spoke that year right before the election, and urged Democrats to go out and vote,” Ubertaccio said. “But people stayed home and that’s significant.”

Jerold Duquette, a political science professor at Central Con-necticut State University, said news organizations and political analysts were scared to call the race early in Warren’s favor because they feared they would predict incorrectly as they did when Coakley was as-sumed to win the Senate seat in 2010.

“The electorate was light on committed progressives and it was light on regular Democrats who didn’t want to come out in the cold,” he said of Brown’s win in 2010. “Brown was the only race in country, so he got national sup-

port.”Duquette said within a normal

election like in 2012, the differ-ence in circumstances did not favor Brown — something that people did not pay attention to when com-paring elections.

“It was perfect timing for a Republican [in 2010],” he said. “Republicans didn’t even think he would win. He [Brown] gets elect-ed in surprise, so people thought he had a chance at winning [in 2012] because nobody suspected he could do it the first time.”

But Duquette said Brown was doomed to fail the Senate race from the moment Warren became his op-ponent.

“She was a viable candidate who could raise money and become nationally recognized and run a na-tional campaign,” he said. “She ba-sically ran an incumbent campaign while he [Brown] ran one like a challenger.”

Because Democrats overwhelm Republicans in the majority of Mas-sachusetts and this was a normal election within a presidential

By Nicole LeonardDaily Free Press Staff

Students hurrying to class along the streets of Boston might see street canvassers as a nuisance, but organizations such as the American Red Cross and Greenpeace reap substantial benefits from street can-vassing, also engaging students on college campuses to support their cause.

“What we try to do is find the people who are supportive but aren’t yet active and to try to inspire and awaken that activism in them,” said Greenpeace representative Dan Stafford.

Tom Fauls, a professor of adver-tising in BU’s College of Commu-nication, said he is skeptical of the effectiveness of street teams.

“The big disadvantage is that it doesn’t scale very well, and it’s

hard to believe that it’s very cost-effective,” Fauls said. “In today’s era, I think that your efforts and whatever money you are spending would be much better spent in a so-cial media campaign.”

Despite Fauls’s opinion on the potential greater value of social media marketing, teams such as Greenpeace are still able to make an impressive return on investment for the cost of hiring staff.

Stafford said Greenpeace em-ploys between 15 and 25 street marketers in Boston, each of whom makes $12 an hour or more once training is completed. The return on investment is about 2-to-1.

But Fauls said this type of mar-keting is probably not lucrative.

“It’s difficult for me to believe that it scales well at all because how many people can you really convert

in a situation like that,” he said. “If you could convert one out of every 10 people who stop, that probably is pretty good, but also very low.”

However, some of the activist group members said that campaign on campus are less concerned with raising money from students than they are with raising awareness and increasing activism.

“Our street team is not only rais-ing awareness of the fact that we need donation in a college area, but it is also raising the awareness that we need volunteers,” said Kat Pow-ers, a spokeswoman for the Red Cross.

Stafford said students tend not to be as willing to donate as they are to listen.

“In our experience, students tend to have more idealism and

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Mass. back to status quo with Warren’s Senate victory, analysts say

Larry Kohn, director of develop-ment at the Boston University Cen-ter for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, said although many programs for mental health are available through Student Health Services, it is dif-ficult to help people seek the treat-ment they need, especially students.

“The goal to have the culture on campus seeking help for emotional struggle should be as easy as seek-ing help for a common cold, but it’s not,” he said. “People feel lonely, despair and pain. You walk by them everyday.”

In response to the death of Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old Ca-nadian girl who was bullied to the point of suicide, universities such as York University in Toronto are reexamining their mental health programs.

BU students and professionals said it is more important than ever to be aware of mental health issues and utilize the resources available to help.

College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Rosie Bauder said al-though there are resources on cam-pus for people who struggle with mental health or behavioral issues, students might not be fully aware

of them.“[As] college students as a

whole, we’re definitely more aware than we were in high school,” she said. “There are so many resources

on [mental health] education, but there might be a lack of education on how to use those resources.”

Bauder, who helped organize a suicide-awareness walk with the

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in April, said it is im-portant to be compassionate when dealing with the issue of suicide,

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Medical marijuana legalization in Bay State could conflict with federal law, BU prof. says

in all circumstances can buy marijuana. That’s not what we want. ”

Heilman said there is no re-search that ensures marijuana has any medicinal value.

“We don’t decide on medicine through popular opinion or voter initiative,” she said. “It’s reckless, and it’s irresponsible in that it puts our public at risk of fraudulent un-safe medicines.”

Richard Aghababian, president of Massachusetts Medical Society, said in an email statement that Mas-sachusetts Medical Society does not consider marijuana medicine because it has not been rigorously tested as other drugs.

“Above all, the prescribing of drugs by a physician should be based on clinical and medical evi-dence, not by popular vote,” Agha-babian said.

There is still some uncertainty over how marijuana prescriptions will be issued in Massachusetts. David Rosenbloom, a Boston Uni-versity School of Public Health professor, said marijuana is not medicine.

“Medicine is a substance which has been shown in randomized con-trolled trials to have some benefi-cial effect on some desired health endpoint,” Rosenbloom said. “Mar-

ijuana has never been subjected to that, so marijuana is not medicine.”

Rosenbloom said a doctor would never prescribe marijuana because it is still illegal at the federal level. He also said a doctor would not en-courage a patient to smoke.

“Doctors are not in the business of recommending or writing pre-scriptions for smoked marijuana,” he said.

Heilman said the new law does not state a Massachusetts state phy-sician has to write a prescription, adding another problem to the leg-islation.

“These medical marijuana rec-ommendations could come over the Internet from unscrupulous doctors from other states,” she said.

Heilman said in Oregon, one doctor issued over 35 percent of medical marijuana cards over the course of a year.

This worked out to be 29 pa-tients a day and $200 a piece for the doctor who was recommending these patients.

“This sort of law brings out the worst in doctors,” Heilman said.

Heilman said most Massachu-setts voters probably had no idea what was in the law in Question 3 and that is why it passed. She said because marijuana is so addictive for people with developing brains, the industry would target and capi-talize on young people.

“We’re going to have a popula-tion of people growing up stoned,” she said. “What does that do to our competitive market as a country? What does that do to our economy? What does that do to our social health?”

But Downing said many anti-marijuana groups propagate false information about marijuana.

“Cannabis is actually the saf-est, most therapeutically active substance known to man,” he said. “The substance has very little to do with the behavior. Addictive behav-ior has to do with someone’s per-sonality.”

Downing said cannabis prohi-bition creates a $60 billion under-ground economy, that is untaxed and unregulated, managed only through violence.

He also said marijuana use ar-rests more than 800,000 Americans each year, which weakens the moral impact of the term ‘illegal.’

Douglas Kriner, a professor of political science at Boston Univer-sity, said the move to legalize mari-juana in Massachusetts could pos-sibly conflict with federal law.

“Perhaps the most interesting angle to me is one involving the su-premacy of federal over state laws,” he said. “States can ‘decriminalize’ various usages of marijuana, but it is still against federal law.”

and that it is preventable.“We kind of read these stories

and they don’t really affect us like they should — we’ve kind of been desensitized to it,” she said. “They don’t think that they’re worthy of help, and it’s important that people are aware of this.”

Active Minds at BU mailed blank notecards to 8,000 students and told them to anonymously submit their secrets to BU Secret, modeled after Frank Warren’s Post-Secret.

The organization received about 1,000 cards from BU students who admitted to eating disorders, suicid-al thoughts, depression, self-harm, loneliness and other issues, Kohn said.

“It was a great thing that we did in the third year of Active Minds at BU,” said Ashley Waters, Active Minds president. “You need to be aware. Active Minds is there for if you feel stressed, you can come in and just talk to someone about it.”

Waters, a School of Manage-ment junior, said people who are familiar with the struggle against depression, loneliness and suicide need to know that someone will lis-ten to them and the feelings they are experiencing.

Waters said in Todd’s case, her passing could have been prevented if someone had encouraged her to seek help for her emotional issues.

“If one person said something, like, ‘It’s going to be okay,’ or if someone just stepped up and said,

‘Let’s go to lunch together’ — if she just knew someone was there,” Waters said.

The Student Support Network trains students to recognize warn-ing signs for suicide and distress in their peers and teaches them how to encourage these students to get help.

“The students were there to try and get them [distressed students] to get help,” Kohn said. “They didn’t give advice, they just lis-tened. You want to be part of a com-munity that notices someone who’s going through a hard time and help them.”

Kohn said the top indicators students in the SSN are trained to look for include a decline in grades, emotional deregulation, over-eating or sleeping and vice versa, alcohol or drug consumption, risky sexual behavior and isolation.

“Your life is like plates spinning on sticks in a balancing act, where each plate is a part of your life,” he said. “You try to keep them all spin-ning, but sometimes when a plate begins to wobble, there’s a ripple effect, and the other plates start to wobble too.”

The SSN, Active Minds and SHS mental health programs and professionals are available at BU for students who want to talk to a professional or get help for mental and emotional concerns.

“If you’re allowed to get the help that you need, then by all means, it should be there,” Bauder said, “but there’s so much we’re un-aware of that might prevent getting that help.”

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VotInG: From Page 3

Prof.: Mass. Republicans need to organize better

election year, Warren would have had to do something drastic to her reputation and her campaign to be in danger of losing to Brown, Duquette said.

“Brown would have had to turn Warren into Cruella De Vil, or she would have had to been caught rob-bing a liquor store,” he said.

Both Ubertaccio and Duquette said Republicans would not regain a Massachusetts Senate seat in the

foreseeable future. Duquette said unless another

special election is held for John Kerry’s vacated seat, Republicans should not get their prospects up for regaining that seat.

“Massachusetts Republicans haven’t done a good job at orga-nizing and providing an alterna-tive that’s workable in this state,” Ubertaccio said. “They need to bet-ter organize themselves. It’s hard to imagine Republicans successfully competing for that seat.”

CanVaSSInG: From Page 3

Students say canvassers guilt passersby, disregard timing

time than they do money,” Stafford said.

While most not-for-profit or-ganizations have their own can-vassing branch, some third-party firms have made a career out of providing street marketing teams for non-governmental organiza-tions, political campaigns and so-cial causes.

Grassroots Campaigns has worked with LGBT rights, the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International by re-cruiting and deploying canvassers on their behalves.

Grassroots Campaigns aims to increase the public’s social con-sciousness “by hitting the streets, talking to people and getting them involved,” according to the orga-nization’s website.

While certain BU students see the utility of street marketers, a number of them said they do not stop to engage with street team members.

“I support them in spirit, but I don’t financially support any of them,” said College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Sarah Kraft. “That’s why I don’t stop [when

approached by a street team mem-ber] because in the end I’m not going to benefit from a conversa-tion with them, because I can’t give them money and I already support their cause.”

College of Engineering senior Ian Peezick said canvassers at-tempt to elicit guilt in passersby.

“Their strategy is trying to guilt people into giving them money,” Peezick said. “It’s not like the things they’re supporting are bad, but when I walk by them they shouldn’t try to guilt me.”

Other students said they are approached by street marketers at entirely the wrong time and are often too busy to stop and chat.

“Most of the time it’s during my transition time to class, and it’s very inconvenient,” said CAS sophomore Caroline Eng.

Alex Ionescu, a School of Management junior, also said stu-dents might be too busy to engage street marketers.

“It’s a good way to grab at-tention, but kind of aggressive just because students are always so busy,” Ionescu said. “They are also always causes that are al-ready on campus and it gets old after a while, even though that isn’t nice to say.”

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Scientists are using an online test to study how people cope with pressure in sports and everday life

Everyone has sunken into a stress response when ex-pected to perform, minutes before a test or while com-peting in a race or making a speech.

BBC Lab UK, a website operated by the British Broad-casting Corporation, is conducting a study on how people per-form under pressure to see if the same psychological coping methods athletes use to control stress can be used to handle pressure felt from job interviews, tests and other situations.

Why It MattersHandling stress is not only important for success in per-

formance, but also for physical health. Prolonged or repeti-tive stress is harmful as it builds up over time, said Gloria Callard, a biology professor at Boston University.

“It’s prolonged stress, chronic stress or multiple stresses that wear out a lot of body processes that are otherwise useful in the short term,” she said.

Stress developed as a means of responding to immediate physical threats, such as running away from danger, Callard said. If a man encountered a hungry lion, the man’s blood would leave his stomach and go to his muscles because run-ning away is more important than digestion at the time.

“Stress is a response that evolved when man was quite primitive or before there were humans, and now it is mal-adaptive very often,” Callard said.

Stress response never changes, even if the stimulus does, she said. In other words, if an emotional occurrence such as an upcoming exam is the cause of the stress, the body will still react in the same way it does when presented with a vi-cious predator.

Prolonged periods of stress can quite literally destroy the body — in extreme cases, ending in the depletion of body stores such as fats and carbohydrates, Callard said.

The BBC experiment sets out not only to test how effec-tive these psychological skills are, but also what emotions are best for pressure performance and how controlling emotions and performance are related— a mystery in the field of psy-chology.

A Complicated StudyThe website is designed to collect data for major, ground-

breaking experiments from around the world. Launched in 2009, it started with the Brain Test Britain experiment, de-vised to determine if brain training actually works. Since then, a series of major experiments have collected data through BBC Lab UK using online tests and surveys.

The worldwide reach of the website allows for scientists to gather much more information from thousands more par-ticipants, resulting in more accurate data and conclusions. In return for their time, participants often receive some new in-formation about themselves — in this case, how they handle stress when under pressure.

One experiment designed by Professor Andrew Lane of the University of Wolverhampton and Professor Peter Tot-terdell of the University of Sheffield, according to the BBC, involves an online test called “The Grid.”

First, participants are asked a series of questions about their personal lives, experiences with competition in games and sports, ability to control emotions and attitude toward competition, followed by a survey of how the participant feels at the moment.

Then, participants play “The Grid,” which consists of a grid of numbers from one to 35, scattered at random, in which the participant must find and click on each number in increasing numerical order. Though the first test is only a race

against the clock, the following tests have a computer “op-ponent,” complete with a face that allows the participant to determine its mood, who is performing the same task on a similar grid. The opponent’s performance is actually based on the performance of other participants in the study.

College of Communication sophomore Hannah Landers said that the game was frightening. It was the competition and audio that she said nearly made the game overwhelming.

“The whole heartbeat sound ... I was shutting down. I can’t do this,’” she said.

Following the test, participants must rate how much ef-fort they put into a game on a scale of one to 100, followed by how strongly they feel a series of emotions ranging from anxiety to anger to happiness on a scale of one to five.

This is repeated multiple times, but participants are asked to use specific coping mechanisms for some of the latter tests, like visualization, self-talk and if-then planning.

How to CopeScientists and psychologists have proposed different ways

to cope with stress, according to the BBC. Visualization is the process of envisioning what one wants

to happen or feel, according to Sport and Exercise Psychol-ogy: Topics in Applied Psychology. Athletes often use this technique to “intend” the result of a race, game or training session in order to embody the feeling of a successful perfor-mance and make it a reality.

Self-talk, on the other hand, refers to the constant inner conversation people have with themselves day in and day out, according to the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology. Self-talk can be either negative or positive. Negative thoughts are one of the biggest causes of pre-performance anxiety. Conversely, consistent positive self-talk has been shown to improve performance, as long as the goal is feasible.

If-then planning, according to the British Journal of So-cial Psychology, incorporates qualities of both visualization and self-talk, to anticipate every possible eventuality and de-cide a course of action based on each.

The scientists, according to the BBC, aim to find wheth-er or not these psychological coping skills help outside the sports realm.

College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Paul Riley said he has heard of these techniques and has used all three.

Although starting out on exams might be “a little over-whelming,” he is able to handle it, he said.

“Once I get into it, it’s usually not a big deal,” he said.

Future Use and ApplicationThe results of this experiment may be used in the future,

according to the BBC, to help students to score better on tests or runners to trim full seconds off their personal records just by using psychological skills like visualization or regulating emotions.

College of Fine Arts sophomore Kathryn Potis said she would like to see the experiment results used to help students like herself.

“It could be helpful if people are having problems with stress and pressure and stuff like that,” she said. “Maybe or-ganize something for people to teach them the proper meth-ods ... so they could learn how to not be stressed.”

COM junior Kyle Huemme, a self-declared non-stressor, said the results of the study will likely be beneficial.

“If not for me, then for my friends because I know plenty of people who are stressed,” he said.

Those interested in taking the online test and learning about their own stress response can learn more at ssl.bbc.co.uk/labuk.

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CourseSmart, a company that sells elec-tronic textbooks, is introducing a tool that will enable professors and others to monitor how much time students spend reading and how many notes they make, according to an articyle in The Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion Saturday.

Sean Devine, the chief executive of CourseSmart, told the Chronicle that stu-dents who do not want their data shared would be able to opt of the program, which only makes sense. By the time students have arrived at college, many of them have already developed their own unique reading and note-taking styles. A professor who re-quires his or her students to share that infor-mation would appear to be micromanaging them.

Professors should be able to gauge their students’ understanding of course material. However, there are other, less inhibitive and perhaps more useful ways for them to accomplish that. Exams and classroom dis-

cussions can give professors a clear idea of how concepts are landing, while a time code might simply reveal that a student opened his or her book.

Not every student interacts with reading material the same way. Some students read more quickly than others or take fewer notes when they read. Some professors might take that information and assume that those stu-dents sped through material without under-standing it, which might not be the case. Some students absorb information more quickly than others and with fewer notes.

While a reading surveillance program might assist students who are not strong readers, it should only be employed upon students’ requests. Really, it falls on the stu-dents to decide how they interact with their course material, if at all. Monitoring them seems inhibitive and ineffective. Ultimate-ly, the goal is for students to understand the material. It should not matter how they got there.

Did you do the reading?

It’s all relative, right? Relatively short, that is. I’m talking about time, of course. It’s kind of like that kid who gets picked

last to play basketball: the kid’s a little all over the place, doesn’t have a steady rhythm, and when it comes down to it, he is just plain too short. But just like that kid, time eventually grows up, too, and when it does, well, it quickly becomes a crazy power hungry dictator to the helplessness of your “underdeveloped” life. That’s when it really starts paying you back for all those cruel years of being forced to watch sitcoms and do family game night. The dictating is not a pretty sight.

Time is such an abstract ideal — that fourth dimension thing. We count it in ticks and sand, shadows and snow, and it’s seemingly everywhere: on every computer screen, every cellphone, in every classroom on everyone’s mind. Yet, somehow, I’ve straight up gone and lost it.

But where did it go? Well, I’m not re-ally sure. I checked my hamper, under my bed, in my wallet with all them dolla’ bills. I thought of plunging the toilet but decided that might be taking it too far. I looked out-side under the piles of leave but only found melted snow. I checked in my backpack but couldn’t get through the mountain of unfin-ished papers and readings. I even found my way into the George Sherman Union’s lost and found, but besides a few (100) Terrier Cards, the keys to a Lexus and a textbook on how to properly shape a pie, the place was devoid of time. Time, my fellow readers, has been playing one mean game of hide-and-seek, and no matter how long I seem to count it, I never seem to actually find the time to look for it. I think it deserves a good old-fashioned time out.

I can see this conversation getting rather complicated.

We’ve got so many idioms for time: it’s time to wake up, time to eat, time to get down to business and time for bed. Yet, what happened to time for me? Where did all of that time for recess go? Or for doing nothing? Maybe I spent too much time on my college education. Maybe I did wasteful things from time to time. But how long can I live on borrowed time? When I’m pressed for time, because time is money, can time really heal all wounds? Time sure flies when you’re having fun, and let me tell you, I must be having so much fun that I’m not even aware of it, because time has gone and transformed into some mythological demon bird and straight up left the world behind. It’s flown the coop, and there’s nothing I can do about it. It’ll be the same tomorrow. Since tomorrow never comes, and yesterday never happened, right?

However, there is one alternative, an idea so dastardly, so diabolical, so mani-cally chaotic, it must be true: someone must be killing time! All of it!

And if I had to guess who, I’d say it was those rabid, muddy, savage beasts with mur-der in their eyes and a faint smell of blood and death about them. That’s right, I’m talk-ing about kindergarteners. When in doubt, always blame the kindergarteners. There’s a hole in the ozone layer? I smell ill-potty trained kids. Iran’s got a nuke? Sounds like arts and crafts to me. Petraeus was having an affair? We’ve been foiled by that damn naptime again, people! See, it really puts everything into perspective. Kindergarten-ers, I find you guilty as charged.

So, what do we do next? I can’t simply suggest that we annihilate kindergartners across the globe. It would create havoc. Why, just think of the pure surplus of goods and services we would require. The world would simply erupt in a fiery explosion from our sudden excess of time. No, like all international conflicts in life, this issue must be dealt with delicately, with a firm, but kind of flimsy hand and by a group of people who have absolutely no idea what on earth they could possible do to solve it. I tried the House of Representatives, but they were busy taking in circles (no surprise there). So, I gave the task to the kindergart-ners. Ha ha! Killing two birds with one bird, that’s what I always say.

Their idea: well, it was a mix of giggles, burps and spit bubbles. My translation: Let’s start a Time Drive! We can all wear baseball caps that same “Time Ules” on it and go around door to door asking for small donations of people’s time. “Sounds like fun to us, David!”

And I’m not one to leave people out ei-ther: we’re collecting tiempo right out of the sky, zeits fresh from your faces, aegs scram-bled or boiled, tijd whatever that is! No mat-ter how you say it, we’ll take it from you. If you’ve got too much time on your hands, we’ll be over in a jiffy to help you wash that gook right off. All it takes is a little warm water and a squirt of procrastination, and in no time at all your hands will be time free!

Alright folks, we’ll begin tomorrow at the first light of dawn. But if I’m not on time, you guys can just go on ahead with-out me. My alarm probably didn’t go off, but I’ll be sure to make up for any time I’ve lost. And as for our success, well, only time will tell.

David Fontana is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Fall 2012 col-umnist for The Daily Free Press. He can be reached at fontad5@bu.edu.

Killingtime

DAVID FONTANA

Slaughter the school ox?Lou, a beloved ox at Green Mountain

College in Vermont, was quietly eutha-nized Sunday, according to The Boston Globe. The euthanasia took place amid outrage that Lou and another ox would be slaughtered and served in the campus din-ing hall.

In early October, the college announced its plan to serve the ox’s’ meat “in keeping with its emphasis on sustainable agricul-ture,” according to the Globe.

Lou was euthanized Sunday because he suffered from an injury, not because his meat was going to be served.

The college’s decision to euthanize the sickly ox seems appropriate. Veterinarians determined that Lou’s condition “would not improve and that his quality of life would continue to diminish,” according to the Globe. If that is case, then euthanasia seems like the humane choice.

However, the college should never have proposed to serve the ox’s meat in the din-ing hall in the first place. It’s noble that

the college wanted to promote sustainable food practices, but serving a beloved ox’s meat seems inappropriate. Lou lived on the farm for about a decade and had become a symbol of the college’s farm program during that time. Because the school had formed a sort of emotional attachment to the ox, serving its meat to students seems insensitive.

No matter how resourceful or practical their intentions were, the college should have taken Lou’s status into account. It will be interesting to see what the school chooses to do with Lou’s work partner, Bill. Following Lou’s death, the college an-nounced that Bill will remain on the farm, where he will “receive care consistent with appropriate livestock practice”, according to an article in The New York Times on Monday. However, that statement seems open-ended. Hopefully in its future deal-ings with Bill, the college weighs the ox’s status more closely.

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with Alford’s extended time on the court, caused fatigue that became an obstacle that the Terriers would have to overcome in order to stay competi-tive in the contest.

“You just have to push through it, we knew the game was close throughout,” Alford said. “But it was one of those things that you have to fight through. BU coach Kelly Greenberg also said she noticed the effect fatigue had on the matchup.

“It played a part in the game in spots, not a whole lot in long stretch-es,” Greenberg said. “I thought at one point in the first that they looked tired.”

With less than five minutes left in the first, and the Terriers down 24–20, a run sparked by senior guard Mo Moran’s contested layup shifted the momentum to the BU side. The Terriers finished the half leading the

Mountaineers, 33–28. Alford set up senior guard Kristin

Sims for a 3-pointer and junior for-ward Rashidat Agboola for an easy layup for her two assists, just before the end of the frame.

In the game’s closing minutes, with the outcome still in the balance, Alford assumed a critical role in the game. She took two free throws with 29 seconds remaining and the Terri-ers behind 57–55. In a silent gym-nasium, Alford stepped to the line as the crowd waited intently and buried both free throws.

After a foul and a series of free throws put West Virginia in the lead by three, Alford was given the ball at the foul line. She heaved a shot from midcourt that rattled off the left side of the rim. Alford lay on the court ex-hausted by the loss.

“It was a great game,” Alford said. “Both teams battled back and forth.”

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Neff: Heisman trophy does not signify future professional success

Women’s hockey loses 4–2 without Poulin

alford: From Page 8

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Junior guard D.J. Irving scored 20 points on Monday.

the Wildcats’ leading point-getter and 13th in Hockey East in points.

Just 10 seconds after the power-play goal, forward Jessica Hitchcock scored to put BU in a 3–0 hole 1:18 into the second period.

Durocher said the deficit came as a result of a reliance on talent.

“We aren’t being very hard to play against right now,” Durocher said. “We are relying on talent rather than combining the two.”

But the Terriers did not go down easily. After 9:20 into the second period, junior defenseman Kaleigh Fratkin got BU on the scoreboard when senior forward Jenelle Kohan-chuck and sophomore forward Kayla Tutino broke out into an odd-man rush and Fratkin was there to finish it off.

About four minutes later, the Ter-riers struck again. Senior forward Isabel Menard fed the puck to Lou-

ise Warren, who ripped a shot past goaltender Jenn Gilligan to decrease BU’s deficit to one goal.

The assist was Menard’s 15th point of the season, which puts her behind only junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin (16) for the team lead in points.

The goal was Warren’s fourth in two games, continuing her hot streak.

“[Warren] is somebody who plays very hard,” Durocher said. “She is a great forechecker, fearless along the walls and going to the net. It all adds up to puck possession for her and her line.”

However, Warren’s goal did not spark the comeback that the Terriers were looking for, as they failed to get the equalizer despite having almost a period and a half to do so.

One of BU’s best chances at tying the game came midway through the third period. Fratkin forced a turn-over and had a breakaway, but her

shot was saved as she was slashed. BU was given a power play, but Frat-kin was not awarded a penalty shot.

Durocher said he thought the call could have gone either way.

“[It was] a bang-bang situation and the ref blew the whistle quick. Some nights the ref blows the whistle slower than other nights,” Durocher said. “Nobody is blaming the offi-cials.”

Once the Wildcats iced the game with an empty-net goal late in the third period, the Terriers were de-feated, 4–2.

Durocher said the team has to improve its effort if it wants to start winning games again.

“We gave up a little bit too much because we weren’t hard to play against defensively,” Durocher said. “We have to decide as individu-als and as a team whether we want to start playing harder and winning games.”

WoMen’S SoCCer: From Page 8

Terriers fall short of upset, lose to Mountaineers 60–57

sive players are always overlooked when the voting takes place, and even if Te’o and the Irish defense can help lead Notre Dame to a national championship, he’ll still probably be judged crookedly.

Braxton Miller isn’t getting too much play because Ohio State won’t be playing any Bowl Games this year after an NCAA ban.

The kid is legit. He’s the fourth-leading rusher in the Big Ten, mak-ing him a big double-threat as far as quarterbacks go. But since Ohio

State is banned, Miller, in effect, is banned from winning the Heisman.

Everybody seems obsessed with it, but I truly don’t think it matters who wins the Heisman.

Seeing someone do the pose drunk is as impressive as winning the trophy itself.

The last really good player to win the Heisman was Reggie Bush in 2005, and it didn’t even count. He had to give back the trophy over al-legations that he was given special treatment and prizes for playing at USC.

As football shifts to a quarter-

back-driven sport, the Heisman has been awarded to more quarterbacks (10 of the last 11 have been QB). The quarterbacks who’ve won aren’t all they were cracked up to be now in the NFL.

Things looked great in Cam New-ton’s first year in the NFL, but he hasn’t done anything remarkable this year. He’s thrown eight touchdowns and 10 interceptions this season.

Not the big, hyped-up Heisman winner we all remember last year who shattered rookie records.

Mark Ingram, the only running back to win it since 2000, won in

2009 and isn’t what he used to be. After leading the Crimson Tide in 2008–09, he ran for almost 500 yards and five touchdowns in his first year with the Saints. This season, he has fallen in the depth chart and only has one touchdown.

Sam Bradford? Brutal. The Rams haven’t been good since Kurt War-ner and Marshall Faulk were on the team. Bradford isn’t their savior and continues the trend of disappointing Heisman performances in the NFL.

Tim Tebow was allegedly Jesus incarnate when he played for Florida. He won the Heisman as a sopho-

more in 2007 and now he’s riding the bench behind the equally awful Mark Sanchez.

So who cares who wins the Heis-man? It’s just an excuse for an ESPN College Football special.

Of the 76 men selected the Heis-man Trophy winner, just five have made the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

It’s overrated, so don’t buy the hype.

Mike Neff is a weekly columnist for the sports section. He can be reached via email at mneff@bu.edu or via Twitter at @mneff2.

neff: From Page 8

Alford steps up, almost leads Terriers to win over WVU

Dunning got to the free throw line, sinking one of two shots before getting the chance to shoot anoth-er pair after an offensive rebound. Dunning effectively iced the game when she converted her final two free throws.

With less than two seconds re-maining in the game, Alford threw up a desperate half-court shot that banged off the rim as time expired.

BU finished the second half with a 27.6 field goal percentage, as well as a 33 percent free throw percentage.

“It was really intense,” Green-berg said. “Every play was like the last play in the Super Bowl. I just thought that we were extremely tough. I am really, really proud

of them, and I just told them that this is not a moral victory for us, we really felt like we could have won that game, in a lot of ways we should have if we had knocked down our free throws a little bit … We have some things to fix, but again our overall effort was tre-mendous.”

Alford echoed Greenberg’s pride in the team’s effort.

“It was a tough one,” Alford said. “We know that West Virginia is a very good team, but we just wanted to go out there and play our basketball, and we were able to do that. We just fell a little short.”

The Terriers will end their homestand on Friday with a game against Richmond at Case Gym. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

WoMen’S baSketball: From Page 8

riers found themselves down by 10 with four minutes to go in the half.

Canisius’ 3-point shooting was strong in the first half as it hit seven shots from beyond the arc. Guard Harold Washington, Canisius’ lead-ing scorer last year, led the Golden Griffins with 15 points in the first half including three 3-pointers. Addition-ally, guard Billy Baron added seven first half points to give Canisius a 38–28 halftime lead.

Irving picked his game up in the second half, nailing six shots for BU. But the Terriers still trailed the Gold-en Griffins.

Twelve minutes into the second frame, Canisius opened its largest lead of the night at 57–44. Momen-tum went back and forth during the middle portion of the second half. The teams exchanged 3-pointers and eventually BU found itself down just seven points with four minutes left.

Morris, who was in foul trouble,

struggled to make an impact in the second half for BU.

“It’s early in the year,” Jones said. “Dom is a terrific player and I’m sure against George Washington, he will be ready to go.”

Late in the second half, freshman guard John Papale found his stroke. He started hitting shots from beyond the arc and, with the help of a clutch three from Irving, brought BU back into the game with only three min-utes left.

“[Papale is] a terrific shooter,” Jones said. “He’s a tough kid. He’s got a chance to be very, very good and we knew that coming in.”

Momentum then swung back in Canisius’ direction and the Golden Griffins kept it for the rest of the game. At the final buzzer, the Terriers had fallen for the second time in as many games on the season.

BU’s next game will be its home opener at Case Gym against George Washington University on Saturday Nov. 17 at 1 p.m.

Men’S baSketball: From Page 8

Men’s basketball winless after first 2 games

Going into the fall 2012 season’s cross country NCAA Northeast Re-gional in New London, Conn., junior Rich Peters was determined to make an impact.

By finishing ninth in the men’s 10-kilometer race on Friday and qualifying for the NCAA Champion-ships, he did just that.

For a while in the race, there was a bit of uncertainty as to whether Pe-ters would finish high enough to meet the qualifying standard.

“There was a significant period in the race where he was not in the right position,” said BU coach Bruce Le-

hane. “He’s a pretty calculating run-ner, in other words, he’s measuring what has to happen, what he has to do in the race. He was kind of gaug-ing himself by what was going on, and by the time he got to the final 800 meters … with his type of mile speed … he can finish fast.

“He just kept himself close enough that when he got near the fin-ish line, he made a strong move and found himself in the right position.”

Peters finished with a time of 30:29.8. He finished just 2.8 seconds behind fourth place.

Seniors Matt Paulson (28th, 31:07.7) and Robert Gibson (50th, 31:34.1) both finished inside the top-

50 to end their successful BU cross country careers.

Lehane praised the seniors on their races.

“They did a great job … I was re-ally happy [with their performance],” Lehane said.

Freshman Kevin Thomas finished 129th with a time of 32:49.1 in his first Regionals race. Senior Elliot Le-hane (156th, 33:18.3) was the Terri-ers’ final contributor to the score.

BU finished ninth out of 34 teams with a score of 372 points. Iona was the overall men’s champion with a team score of 45 points. The ninth-place finish was one place higher than projected and BU also finished

91 points better than any other Amer-ica East team. Stony Brook Univer-sity, the closest America East com-petitor, finished 15th with 463 points.

In the women’s six-kilometer race, junior Monica Adler finished 41st with a time of 20:59.1 to lead the Terriers. Junior Danielle Bowen (88th, 21:52.1) also finished within the top 100.

Lehane applauded Adler’s perfor-mance, noting her vast improvement.

“For the first time in her life, [Adler] saw that she could become a strong cross country runner,” Lehane said of Adler’s outstanding season.

Along with Adler, Lehane had some positive comments regarding

Bowen’s performance.“Danielle Bowen ran really, re-

ally, really well,” Lehane added. “When you measure people in terms of improvement, and past perfor-mance, and obstacles overcome, Danielle is one of the people who you can point to.

“Let’s look at what Danielle has done in terms of her progress and improvement, because she’s run-ning almost a minute a mile faster than not much more than a year and a half ago. That’s a testimony to her spirit and her determination to reach higher”

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In its first game against a ranked opponent, the Boston University women’s basketball team (1–1) lost to the No. 14 West Virginia Univer-sity (2–0) at home.

During the 60–57 loss, senior guard Chantell Alford rose to the oc-casion in one of the best games of her collegiate career. Alford contrib-uted 30 points, two assists and nine rebounds in 39 minutes of playing time, besting her former career-high of 29 points.

During 2011–12 season, the Terri-ers took on the Mountaineers in Mor-gantown, W.V., where Alford played a critical role in the BU offense. She finished the game with 17 points and four rebounds in 27 minutes of play.

Alford began the game with a hot hand, dribbling past an opponent on the left side and pulling up for a jump shot along the baseline. She then netted two free throws, scoring the Terriers’ first four points in a physi-cal battle that was extremely tiring for each team. Alford was harassed all game, with a host of defenders at-tempting to cool off her sharp shoot-ing. She finished the game tying her career high in 3-pointers with six.

“It was a tough one, we know that West Virginia is a really good team but we wanted to go out there and play our basketball,” Alford said. “And we were able to do that, we just fell a little bit short at the end, but it was a great game overall.”

The Mountaineers’ large, physical defense continued to wear down Al-ford, along with the rest of the Terrier team. They forced 23 turnovers in the game, four of which came from Alford.

The stifling defense, combined

Women’s basketball nearly upsets West Virginia

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Junior guard Chantell Alford scored a team-high 30 points in the Terriers’ 60–57 loss to No. 17 West Virginia.

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Quotable“ “Every play was like the last play of the super bowl. BU women’s basketball coach Kelly Greenberg

Who’s going to win the Heisman trophy?

That seems like all anybody is talking about after this weekend of college football. A couple of big games, an Alabama loss and all of a sudden, we’re talking about who will win college football’s most coveted prize.

There are some interesting candi-dates out there, so I’ll go through the motions and entertain those of you who care.

Let me tell you, it’s a little bit soon to be calling Johnny Manziel anything other than Johnny Manziel. Not Johnny Football, and certainly not Johnny Heisman.

First, and foremost, he’s a fresh-man. No freshman has ever won it. And he won’t. Period.

But there’s no question his play this weekend was superb as he led Texas A&M to victory over ‘Bama on Saturday. But to say that qualifies him as a Heisman winner outright is flat-out ridiculous. A guy named Adrian Peterson was a freshman back in 2004 and broke almost every first-year rushing record there is. He still finished second behind quarter-back Matt Leinart. Johnny won’t win it this year.

Does Alabama’s loss this past weekend eliminate A.J. McCarron from the discussion? I think so. Two interceptions basically cost his team an undefeated season. I think his numbers aren’t the flashiest either. He’s had five games where he hasn’t thrown for more than 200 yards. To win the Heisman, you have to be consistently throwing for at least 200 yards.

Quarterback Collin Klein creates all of the offense for Kansas State. He’s racked up 31 total touchdowns this season, but has only thrown 12 of them. The senior quarterback hasn’t proven his arm is the real deal and that could affect his chances. If he increases his passing yards, it could give him a leg up.

Linebacker Manti Te’o is the force behind the Irish defense this season. He has 92 tackles, six inter-ceptions, 1.5 sacks and a fumble re-covery thus far.

But is a defensive player likely to win it? I’m about to graduate college and the last time it happened, I was graduating kindergarten. Charles Woodson won it in 1997. Defen-

Tuesday’s Take

Who cares about the Heisman?

mike Neff

The No. 5 Boston University women’s hockey team lost to the University of New Hampshire Friday night in Durham, N.H., and extended its winless streak to three games.

BU (7–3–1, 3–2–1 Hockey East) came into the game after a wild matchup against Boston College that ended in a 5–5 tie. It was the second consecutive game the Terriers were unable to come out with a victory over BC.

UNH (4–7, 2–2 Hockey East) was having struggles of its own coming into the game, having suffered losses in its last six contests. BU coach Bri-an Durocher said those losses do not reflect UNH’s skill.

“[UNH had] losses to … all teams that have been or were previ-ously or still are in the top 10 or 12 in the country,” Durocher said. “Those are some quality teams they played

against and they made a good num-ber of them close games.”

The Wildcats kept the game close right from puck drop. The game re-mained scoreless until freshman defenseman Alexis Crossley put the puck past senior goaltender Alissa Fromkin 13:07 into the opening pe-riod to get UNH on the board first.

The goal was Crossley’s fifth of the season, which ties her for ninth in Hockey East in goals and first on the Wildcats.

The score remained 1–0 until early in the second period when ju-nior forward Arielle O’Neill scored a power-play goal to extend UNH’s lead to two.

Forward Kristina Lavoie earned her seventh assist of the season on the play, which leads UNH and ranks her seventh in Hockey East, tied with several others. It was also her 10th point of the season, which makes her

By Gregory DavisDaily Free Press Staff

BU extends losing streak to 3 in loss to New Hampshire

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Despite a career-high 30 points from senior guard Chantell Alford, the Boston University women’s basketball team was defeated by West Virginia University 60–57 in a nail-biter Monday night at Case Gymnasium.

With the loss, the Terriers fall to 1–1 on the year while the Mountaineers, who were BU’s highest ranked opponent since 2007, improve to 2–0 on the year.

The first half was a back-and-forth affair between the Terri-ers and the Mountaineers. There were three lead changes, and both teams had their own five-point lead in the first half.

After a brief 5–0 run by the Terriers, led by the great interior scoring of junior forward Rashidat Agboola and a clutch 3-pointer from senior guard Mo Moran, BU took a 33–28 lead over the heavily favored Mountaineers into half-time.

The Terriers boasted an im-pressive 55.6 field goal percentage in the first half, while the Moun-taineers only managed a paltry 27.8 field goal percentage.

“We talked a lot about [WVU’s] size and their quickness, and our goal was to really keep them in front,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg. “’Let’s not let them get layups,’ and I thought that we did a great, great job of that in the first half … We played, man, I was expecting to play a lot of zone to-night, but we came out so strong on our man that I was like ‘the heck with our zone, we’re staying with it and we’re going to keep being aggressive with this team.’”

The Terriers continued their

great play in the second, at one point leading by eight points with 12:32 remaining in the game. But an 8–0 run by the Mountaineers tied the game up at 45 apiece with 10:33 remaining.

With less than three minutes to go, the Mountaineers had a 57–50 lead. But a 7–0 run by the Terriers was capped by two clutch Alford free throws that tied the game at 57 apiece with only 29 seconds

remaining.“You’re just there on the line

by yourself, and you know you have to make it, and it’s just about taking your time and doing what you know how to do,” Alford said about her free throws. “I was just thankful that they went in.”

With the final possession of the game, WVU senior center Ayanna

By Conor RyanDaily Free Press Staff

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Saturday, Nov. 17M. Basketball vs. George Washington,

1 p.m.Cross Country @ NCAA Champion-

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Thursday, Nov. 15Wednesday, Nov. 14 Friday, Nov. 16No Games Scheduled

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W. Hockey vs. Providence, 5 p.m.M. Hockey @ Vermont, 7 p.m.

W. Basketball vs. Richmond, 7 p.m.

Terriers lose to No. 17 WVU 60–57

Alford almost leads BU to upset

The Bottom LineTuesday, Nov. 13

In its second game of the 2012–13 season, the Boston University men’s basketball team had a difficult first half against Canisius College and never found rhythm as the Terriers lost to the Golden Griffins, 75–83.

“There were a lot of little things in this game that we just didn’t do,” said BU coach Joe Jones. “We have to make the plays late and we have to get bigger contributions from guys that we are dependent on. That’s the bottom line.”

Despite the lackluster 5–25 record put up by Canisius during the 2011–12 season, Jones said he and his team knew better than to expect an easy victory from Monday’s matchup.

“They are a much different team than they were last year,” Jones said. “They got three transfers that are all starters, and they got a kid on the bench who was a starter last year and

their second leading scorer. They are a much different team, a very talent-ed team and a better offensive team than Northeastern. They are not what people are going to think. They are a very good offensive team.”

Canisius (1–0) started strong, opening the game on an 11–2 run in which it outplayed the Terriers both offensively and defensively. The Terriers (0–2) cut the deficit to four midway through the first half thanks to six points down low from junior forward Dom Morris.

The Golden Griffins then went on another run after making BU pay for turning the ball over. They scored 11 points off of Terrier turnovers. Fresh-man guard Maurice Watson Jr. and junior guard D.J. Irving both had two first half turnovers.

Since they were unable score for three minutes and were outrebound-ed on both ends of the court, the Ter-

By Michael BagarellaDaily Free Press Staff

Terriers fall to Canisius, lose second straight game

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