dfp 10 6 all merged

Louis Rodriguez, now 22, moved to Bos-ton from Puerto Rico to seek treatment for his cancer, but when he lost the room he was staying in he became one of a growing num-ber of homeless youths in the city.

“I moved to Pine Street [Inn] with my dad, but my doctors said I could not live there because of my weak immune system,” Rodriguez said.

A new bill moving through the Massa-chusetts State House will attempt to remedy

youth homelessness. It will also form a new commission that targets homelessness with 18 to 22-year-olds.

-man Services would administer programs funded under the bill.

“These kids are in and out of the system, they are with and without some relatives,” said Rep. James O’Day, of West Boylston, the bill’s lead sponsor. “This is really a mat-ter of looking at how cracks form and how to

Mass. school districts reported about 6,000 students living without their parents during the 2009-2010 school year, but many experts said they worry that the number is

the New England Aquarium on Wednesday to walk amongst swimming sea creatures and learn about marine life at the aquari-um’s annual College Night.

The aquarium, which opened its doors to the public at 5:30 p.m., featured music from Jam’N 94.5 and a variety of vendor and ad-vertiser tables, including Hubway, Zipcar, Ben and Jerry’s, Shear Madness and Improv Asylum.

Students were offered free admission and IMAX tickets. Regular admission price with a college ID is $20.95, and IMAX tick-ets usually cost $7.95 with a college ID.

Last year’s College Night hosted 3,600 students, according to aquarium employees. They said they expected numbers to break 4,000 this year.

Before the doors even opened, the line of students stretched from the Aquarium entrance all the way to Legal Sea Foods across the street. Students broke formation to check out the Atlantic Harbor Seals Ex-hibit in front of the building.

Kate McCune, a junior at the Massachu-setts College of Pharmacy and Health Sci-ences, said she had been waiting all day for the open house.

Tammy Auyeyng, also a junior at MCPHS, said she recommended the pen-guin exhibit.

Both girls said they were eager to see the Shark & Ray Touch Tank.

“It’s new, so I haven’t seen it yet,” Mc-Cune said.

The Touch Tank was closed for the night. Kate Sears, a senior at Salem State Uni-

versity, said she lives near the Aquarium and comes all the time.

“I like the sea turtles and penguins, but I came to see the sharks and rays,” she said.

The entire main building of the aquar-ium, which houses over 70 exhibits, was open for students to explore. The building is designed in an upward spiral, with large tanks in the center and smaller tanks lining the sides. If visitors look down, the bottom level is dedicated to the penguin exhibit.

Many students raved about the penguin exhibit, which is a habitat that contains sev-eral different species of penguins, including African Penguins. There is no glass separat-ing the animals from visitors, making it one of the most personal exhibits in the build-ing.

The largest exhibit is the Giant Ocean Tank, located at the top of the Aquarium.

The tank holds 200,000 gallons of wa-

Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University

T!" D#$%& F'"" P'"((Year XLI. Volume LXXXII. Issue XX. www.dailyfreepress.com

[ ]

Getting schooled: College night at the Aquarium hooks students

Today: Sunny, High 59Tonight: Clear, Low 40Tomorrow: 59/40

Data Courtesy of weather.com

W"#)!"'Home Improvement:Allston low-income housing

complexes in works

S*+')(Cicci Says:

Q & A with The Antlers’ Darby Cicci

T!" M,(" C#-*,( . C$)&Meet the Puckstars:

Special edition hockey guide

insidepage 7 page 3

Bay State aims to curb rising teen homeless rate

By Lester Black

Daily Free Press Staff

HOMELESSNESS, see page 2

By Thea Di Giammerino


ABIGAIL LIN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A student takes a photo of a shark at the New England Aquarium’s annual College

Night Wednesday.

This article is part two in a three-part series on alcohol on campus.

Despite Boston University’s efforts to curb underage and binge drinking, BU Po-lice Department captain Robert Malloy said alcohol education does not seem to be changing students’ behavior.

“We try to educate about the dangers of alcohol and enforce these rules, but every year we see a percentage increase in the number of alcohol transports,” Malloy said. “We try to reach out and explain to students, but I guess it’s not hitting home.”

Colleges continue to try to inform stu-dents of the dangerous consequences of underage and binge drinking in their alco-hol education campaigns, but that has not stopped students from consuming alcoholic beverages, according to an Aug. 29 report in The Chicago-Sun Times.

Researchers found that the negative ef-fects of alcohol did not prevent students from drinking in excess and that many stu-dents intend to get drunk regardless of the consequences.

Students reportedly engage in excessive

alcohol consumption, the Times reported, because it lowers their inhibitions and causes them to feel emotionally and sexu-ally liberated.

Malloy said that the increased patrols in the Gardner-Ashford-Pratt area in Allston would hopefully make a difference in the number of students drinking excessively.

“There’s been a decrease in the number of bodies we’ve seen out, but the hospital transports are still increasing,” he said. “It’s still too early to tell if what we’re doing will make a big impact.”

Despite the number of underage people that drink, BU students said alcohol educa-tion has a value.

“I don’t drink, but I think educating stu-dents about alcohol might change how much they drink. They would also know how to deal with friends who get too drunk,” said a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilita-tion Sciences freshman who asked to remain anonymous. “People are going to drink any-way, but at least they can be safe about it.”

College of Arts and Sciences freshman Zach Bogart said that while he considers alcohol education important, he thinks it is

-thing they enjoy so much.

“Alcohol education is necessary to some extent because it might change some peo-ple’s drinking, but ultimately people are go-ing to do what they want,” Bogart said.

“I feel like people don’t take alcohol edu-cation that seriously here,” said an anony-mous College of Arts and Sciences fresh-man. “People at freshman orientation joked

about the alcohol education, but hopefully came away with knowledge about how to care for really drunk people.”

education,” said a SAR junior who asked to remain anonymous. “If it’s not working, the university should try other types of educa-tion, but giving up is never a good option.”

Awareness of alcohol’s negative effects does not reduce drinking, study saysBy Sarah Payne


AMANDA SWINHART/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Despite the presence of alcohol education, underaged college students continue

to drink heavily.

This year, violence, a theme “endemic to our times and societies,” will be the fo-cus of many students of the College of Fine Arts’ programs and performance.

-place, around issues as diverse as gender, religion and social,” said CFA Dean Ben-jamín Juárez in an interview.

The initiative aims to show how the “emotionally challenging” theme is omni-present in family life, the workplace, reli-

gion and artistic expression, Juárez said. The theme could shed light on violence

in politics, as well as methods of preven-tion and its interpretation in the arts.

“It has raised our collective awareness of how constant a presence violence is in our society, and so in the theme that artists feel compelled to express - in music, plays,

and drawing,” Juárez said. “So CFA faculty and students have had no problem coming up with work that they want to present to take a truly multidisciplinary look at vio-

lence and its possible solutions.”The violence theme was proposed by

Jim Petosa, director of the School of The-atre, and then adopted by the School of Music and School of Visual Arts, Juárez said.

Not every play, opera or showcase will have physical violence in it, said CFA se-nior Callie Farnsworth, who said she will be acting in “The Violence Project.”

-reographer, we have taken a route that involves no physical violence,” she said.

expected, and we want to challenge that ideal.

“The power of words is enough,” she said. “I am really excited about this be-cause it takes the glamour out of violence

follow our impulses, and suppress emo-tion, that is when violence is incited.”

Christiaan Smith-Kotlarek, a graduate student in CFA’s Opera Institute, said he

By Amanda Dowd


College of Fine Arts productions to draw attention to violence

VIOLENCE, see page 4

AQUARIUM, see page 4

INSERT

Across1 Bit of cat chat

5 Phobia

10 Cell signal strength indicators

14 __ mater

15 Unconventional

16 Atty.-to-be’s chal-lenge

17 Indian princess

18 Flightless birds

19 Where some de-scents start

20 Elite socialite

major

24 Dick and Harry’s leader?

25 __ name: computer ID

27 Delivery method

31 Russian coins

33 Grinders

34 1960s Canadian prime minister Pearson

36 Pound of poetry

37 Planned attack times

38 Middle __

42 Ironic tales’ tails

44 Sharapova of tennis

45 Low parts

48 Online investing

50 Bambi’s aunt

51 “Baseball Tonight” channel

53 Like some stocks, for short

54 Camera lens ratio

56 Bare wear

60 Wasatch Mountains ski resort

61 Body-care brand named from the Latin for “snow-white”

63 Sch. with Riverside and Irvine campuses

64 Soup vegetable

65 Stunning weapon

66 Tableland

67 __ majesty

68 Like some bars

Down1 Kate of “We Are Marshall”

2 Airline to Ben-Gurion

4 Oxford vests

5 Moola

6 German coal valley

7 Riviera season

8 Emirate natives, mostly

9 Menu heading

10 Not at all scintil-lating

11 Comparable to a cucumber

12 Punk rock icon Joey

13 Inscribed slabs

21 Young ‘uns

23 Rock’s Mötley __

25 Yet to be had

27 Revolutionary Guevara

28 “Oh yeah? __ who?”

29 Misjudge

30 Auto pioneer

32 Bit of a fairy tale trail

35 Process: Abbr.

37 Begs to differ

39 Jackie’s “O”

40 Sloth, for one

41 Price indicator

43 Hall of Fame NFL coach Ewbank

44 Dillon of “There’s Something About Mary”

45 Happen to

46 Shakers founder

47 Pan-fries

49 Prayer beads

52 Trojan War king

55 Brand

56 Computer nerd

57 “Happy birthday” writer, perhaps

58 Org. that reaches for the stars?

59 “I’m __ it’s over”

62 Brandy letters

T!" D#$%& F'"" P'"(( C'+((/+'0B& T'$1,2"

M"0$# S"'3$4"(

S+%,)$+2 $( +2 P#5" 6 S,0+7,-P,88%"(.2") D$99$4,%)&: M"0$,- S+%,)$+2 $( +2 P#5" 6

S,0+7,

BOSTON UNIVERSITYTHURS. 10/6 1.875” x 4”

RYAN GOSLING

NOW PLAYINGIN THEATERS EVERYWHERECHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATERS AND SHOWTIMES

“!!!!GOSLING MESMERIZES.”

– Peter Travers,

“GOSLING CRANKS UPTHE INTENSITY.”

– Betsy Sharkey,

“!!!! GOSLING DELIVERS A WHITE-HOTBURN OF A PERFORMANCE.”

– Ann Hornaday,

“!!!!”“!!!!”– Jessica Wedemeyer,

Bored in class?

Tweet us!

@dailyfreepress

DailyFreePressDailyFreePress

Near Harvard University’s Allston campus, the sound of backhoes and drilling signal the start of a two-year long project to build a new low-income housing complex.

The housing complex, which Google Inc. recently invested $28 million in, will replace the cur-rent 40-year-old Section 8 housing complex located in Allston, ac-cording to the Boston Globe. Con-struction began in May and will continue until 2014.

“If it’s snowing, we’ll still be working,” said Tony Coward, a worker at the site.

behind the complex, provides sub-sidized housing to tenants with low incomes, requiring rent pay-ments reduced well below market value, according to the Boston Re-development Authority’s website.

The Community Builders, Inc., the developer undertaking the construction of 340 units at the new site, is focused on “creating a place that people will care for

and adapt as a part of a neighbor-hood, a place that will grow into a historical community,” said Jeff Beam, senior project manager of the redevelopment.

The new Charlesview Resi-dences will sprawl out over more land than the original, and include

spaces for small-business retailers, a park and a playground, large pe-destrian walkways and bike paths, a community center and an under-ground parking garage, Beam said.

The development has been de-signed, he said, to stimulate the neighborhood and cater to its resi-dents to create a community.

“Western Avenue doesn’t really have an identity yet,” Beam said,

in reference to the location of the project.

He said that The Community Builders, Inc. hopes that the new Charlesview Residences will bring “character” and liveliness to the area by creating a place that “peo-ple love.”

Instead of the concrete con-struction of the current Charles-view, the new development will include a mix of townhouses and

windows and building materials, Beam said.

The construction contracts, he said, are “incredibly sophisti-cated” and “the best quality,” add-ing that the complex will meet or

exceed the city’s benchmarks for environmentally conscious devel-opment.

The current Charlesview, resi-dents said, is crumbling into dis-repair.

Vince Anzalone, the former vice president of the tenant asso-ciation, and Susan Hague said that their apartment, which they’ve lived in for more than a decade, is one of the nicest in the current complex.

Anzalone and Hague said that the rest of the complex hosts huge amounts of rodents. Many apart-ments have three-inch gaps be-tween walls and ceilings, and re-quests for repairs are perpetually backlogged, they said.

Despite this, Anzalone said, Charlesview does not have a high turn-around rate for residents.

“I’ve had the same neighbors for about 12 years,” he said, and noted that many units have two generations of families living in them.

All of Charlesview’s current

CAMPUS & CITY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 3Allston low-income housing complex gets a facelift

BU speech policy infringes on students’ rights, speaker says

The following reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton

District D-14 crime logs from Sept. 27 to Oct. 4, 2011.

St. in Allston at 3 p.m. last Tuesday in response to a call from a victim requesting his roommate’s removal from the apartment. On arrival, the victims, a 25-year-old female and 29-year-old male, told police that their roommate had been stealing checks since April to pay for his drug habit. The male victim discov-ered that the suspect took checks worth over $2,068 and $200 in cash. The suspect admitted his addiction and theft, and police placed him un-der arrest. After searching the sus-pect, police found two checks, two orange pills and two yellow pills that the suspect said were Suboxone and Klonopin. The suspect also had a black eye and multiple scratches from the angry female victim. The suspect was charged with larceny over $250, forgery and possession of class E drugs.

Tomb Raider IIA worker at Evergreen Cem-

etery reported vandalism to tombs for the second time this month at 8:45 a.m. on Wednesday. The work-er reported that the vandalism took place sometime the previous eve-ning at 2016 Commonwealth Ave. The vandal knocked the marble top off one tomb, smashed a marble door of another and completely destroyed a third marble door to a third tomb. Police collected evi-dence, but it is still unknown if any-thing was stolen from the tombs. Previous and similar vandalism oc-curred on Sept. 16.

Six on oneAt 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, Bos-

ton Police responded to a call re-porting an assault and battery at 28 Gerald Rd. in Brighton. On arrival, the victim, a 20-year-old male stu-dent from Boston College, stated he was attacked by six black males aged 16 to 18 as he was walking home. He claimed to be hassled and then followed to his residence after refusing to converse with the group. As he turned for his door, he was punched in the back of his head. After he closed the door, he stated that one of the suspects stabbed and scratched the glass of his door with

the victim yelled, “Call 911!” to his roommate. The suspects were not found.

Bicycle bulkhead burglary

7:50 a.m. on Sunday at 21 Gardner St. in Allston regarding two stolen bicycles. The victims, a male aged 30 and a female aged 27, said that they woke up to a window open at their residence at 14 Farrington Ave. and later saw a man open their bulkhead and run. The two walked

the suspect and the bicycles and found one behind 21 Gardner St. One bicycle, a $500 Trek, was not recovered even after searching the area for the suspect. The victims described the suspect as a male wearing dark clothing and a red backpack.

CITY CRIME LOGS

ROOMMATE WANTED

LAURA JANE BRUBAKER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick speaks at a press confer-

ence at the State House Wednesday about the weekend inci-

dent that left his Community Affairs Director, Ron Bell, poten-

tially facing DUI charges.

THAT GUY

By Gina Curreri


Greg and I have a reputation for coun-terintuitive arguments. We like to push the envelope.

-Alex Taubes,

BU Debate Society member

William Creeley, the director of Legal and Public Advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, told about a dozen students that their free-dom of speech may be restricted due to a number of Boston Uni-versity policies at his “Red Light” District presentation , organized by Liberty at BU, at the College of Arts and Sciences building on Wednesday.

Creeley said that while public universities are bound to ensure

their students, private universi-ties such as BU are not. BU must

it still impresses “speech codes,” making it a “red light” university.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Anthony Pries-tas, president of Liberty at BU,

said the group asked Creeley to speak because he gives talks across the country about free speech at public and private uni-versities. These talks are based on his experience at FIRE defending a variety of cases involving stu-dent groups.

foundation, aims to defend and sustain individual rights at Amer-ican colleges and universities, according to its website. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, reli-gious liberty and sanctity of con-scious – which in their pamphlet they deem to be “the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity.”

Students at universities should be given the same rights they have in society at large, Creeley said. “For example, students here at BU should have the same free-

dom of speech when they step off of Commonwealth Ave.”

Creeley said that while BU outlaws verbal abuse, he won-ders what BU means by “verbal abuse.” Students know extremes of verbal abuse, he said, but may be unaware that some more nu-anced examples, such as diatribes via email, are still considered ver-bal abuse.

“When a policy is vague, it causes people to choke on their own words because they don’t know where the line is drawn with verbal abuse,” Creeley said.

BU’s policies regarding ha-rassment and Internet usage are also deemed to be “red light,” he said. “Despite these “red lights,” FIRE gives a “green light” clas-

student responsibilities.”“Being on campus as a gradu-

ate student, these rights are im-

portant to me again,” said Ashley

BU’s School of Law.Creeley said that the Supreme

Court has come down on free speech rules at universities sev-eral times over the past 50 years, with rulings in favor of the stu-dents.

Defending personal ideas gives students a better idea of what the truth is, he said.

“BU’s policies are restrictive. We are asking BU to live up to its

Creeley said in an interview after his presentation.

Students said they were sur-prised by things they learned in the lecture.

“It is weird that BU can restrict things that a majority of students do everyday,” said freshman Col-lege of Arts and Sciences Andrea Say.

By Meg DeMouth


By Kaylee Hill


ALLSTON, see page 4

Sarah Slautterback, the home-less education specialist for the Mass. Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, spoke

Tuesday.“Many homeless youth do not

come forward because they’re worried about being reported to DCF [Department of Children and Families] or having their younger siblings reported to DCF,” Slaut-terback said.

Homeless youth advocates at -

lessness is not a problem restricted to larger cities.

“This bill is not just for urban areas but also for the whole Com-monwealth,” said Lisa Goldsmith, senior director for youth service programs at DIAL/SELF Youth and Community Services. “Home-less youth in rural areas stay invis-ible, they are more important to take care of because of their invis-ibility.”

The commission formed by the bill would bring numerous voices to the table and allow different ap-

-eted problem of youth homeless-ness, said Kelly Turley, director of legislative advocacy at the Mass. Coalition for the Homeless.

“There’s not one answer to the problem,” Turley said. “We need a range of programs to meet this population’s needs. Housing isn’t the only answer they also need support for transportation, coun-seling and medical and dental care.”

Turley said that this bill would allow the state to meet those needs.

After leaving the Pine Street Inn, Rodriguez was eventually

Over Troubled Waters, a sup-port center that has some beds for homeless youth.

“Bridge [Over Troubled Wa-ters] has helped me with a lot, with my homeless situation,” Rodri-guez said.

“We just want to be a part of society.”

HOMELESSNESS: From Page 1

Adolescent homelessness not only in cities, youth advocates say

Today’s crossword solution brought to you by...

BIRTH TIMES

4 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011

ter and over 600 animals. One of the most notable is Myrtle the sea turtle, who weights more than 500 pounds, making her the heaviest animal in the aquarium.

The tank also holds several smaller turtles, multiple species of

-est of which is an 8-foot Sand Ti-ger Shark. Divers enter the tank to feed sharks twice a day to prevent

accidents, the aquarium educator said.

“Sharks eat once a day, once a month in the wild,” the educa-tor said. “Feeding them so often is just a precaution.”

The educator said that it is pos-sible for students to dive into the aquarium tank as volunteers, if they have diving experience.

“You need about 100 dives,” she said. “Then you can become a volunteer with dive access.”

Enormous ocean tank is largest aquarium exhibit

AQUARIUM: From Page 1

is starring in the Three Decem-bers, and that the heartfelt and emotional aspects of these violent themes give him a “rush.”

“It’s the perspective of loss as a result of violence and that’s a very emotional thing to portray,” Smith-Kotlarek said. “It does somehow feel good to portray that and go to that place and be able to take other people there, as well.”

“I have to experience the worst parts of myself. I have to go plac-es I don’t like to live in,” Farn-sworth said.

Farnsworth said that she hopes

the upcoming performances will spark a conversation among audi-ences about violence.

“Hopefully performing our show will give an opportunity to the audience to safely explore those same places in themselves … I hope this starts a conversa-tion with the community about where we face violence every day,” she said.

“It isn’t just on television, or in wars. It can be about how we treat each other, or ignore what is going on. Once we start talking about it, we can start doing some-thing.”

CFA Dean: Violence is a theme ‘artists feel compelled to express’

VIOLENCE: From Page 1

tenants have decided to move to the new complex in 2013, Hauge said, and Charlesview Inc. will

-tracted movers or a “moving sti-pend” to tenants.

About 90,000 Boston residents rely on Section 8 Housing, accord-ing to a report submitted in Febru-ary by City Counselor Rob Con-

salvo. The waiting lists for existing housing programs are “many years long,” according to the report.

Tenants who qualify for Section 8 housing generally must allot 30 percent of their income to paying rent, and the federal government pays the difference, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s web-site.

About 90,000 Boston residents rely on Section 8 housing

ALLSTON: From Page 3

DFP

LOVES

YOU

Want a Starbucks gift card on us?

Help us get to 2,000 likes on Facebook

and you will be eligible to win.

Facebook.com/dailyfreepress

@dailyfreepress@dailyfreepress@dailyfreepress

[email protected]

Start Your Career in Accounting.

Northeastern’s MS in Accounting/MBA for non-accounting majors:

Application Deadlines:November 15, February 1 and March 15

www.msamba.neu.edu.

Become our fan on Facebook.facebook.com/northeasternuniversitymsamba

www.twitter.com/dailyfreepress

OPINION6 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011

THE DAILY FREE PRESSThe Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University

41st &"#' V+%,-" :; I((," ;<

Saba Hamedy, Editor-in-ChiefChelsea Feinstein, Managing Editor

Megan Riesz, Executive Editor

The Daily Free Press (ISSN 1094-7337) is published Monday through Thursday during the academic year except during vacation and exam periods by Back Bay Publishing

be reproduced without the permission of Back Bay Publishing Co., Inc.Copyright © 2010 Back Bay Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved.

Alex Nawar, Campus Editor

Craig Meyer, Sports Editor

Amanda Swinhart, Photo Editors

Praise Hong, Advertising Manager

Chelsea Diana, City Editor

Sydney Moyer, Opinion Page Editor

Hannah Rex, Layout Editor

Valerie Morgan, O!ce Manager

Yesterday, the Supreme Court began to hear a case that, for the first time, will define the scope of the “ministerial ex-ception,” a concept grown in the lower courts for the past several decades when settling discrimination lawsuits involv-ing religious organizations. Ministerial exception was established to preserve the First Amendment enumeration of separation between church and state.

The case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangeli-cal Lutheran Church v. Equal Employ-ment Opportunity Commission concerns a grade school teacher, Cheryl Perich, who was made a “commissioned min-ister” at the Lutheran School where she works so that she wouldn’t have to work on a year-to-year contract. In 2004, she went on leave for over six months to treat her narcolepsy, and due to the length of her absence was subsequently asked to resign. She refused and filed suit with the EEOC under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

While it was perhaps insensitive to terminate Perich as an employee after giving her a ministerial position, if the Supreme Court chooses to side with the EEOC, it would be a blatant violation of

First Amendment separation of church and state. If the Supreme Court were to interfere in ministerial policy, other cas-es in the future pertaining to religion and government would become more mallea-ble with the basis of a shoddy precedent.

This case is not unlike the situation of Noor Abdallah, an employee at Disney-land who was prohibited from wearing her hijab, a religious garment, while at work. She sued the company and soon afterwards, Disney agreed to provide her with a uniform scarf and cap so that she could comply with the codes of both her religion and her workplace.

The church would do well to give Perich the opportunity to appeal her ter-mination and take into account the seri-ousness of her medical condition when reexamining their policy. That being said, it is not within the government’s prerogative to tell the church to do so. There is a fine line between upholding the civil rights of citizens and telling a religious organization how it should op-erate. Cheryl Perich deserves the right to fight for her case, but that does not mean that the government has to fight for her.

Separation and equality

Have an

opinion?

Tell us about it!

Submit a letter to the editor to

[email protected]

INTERROBANG?! Yesterday, former CEO of Apple Steve Jobs tragically passed away after a long battle with cancer. So we here at the ol’ Free Press thought of ways that BU could honor his memory.

SMG students pull up the lighter app on the iPhones and wave them in rememberance.

COM students write obituaries, create biopics and tweet about it at least ten times each.

The Allston arsonist burns a MacBook in mourning.

CFA kids act out a performance art piece chronicling his life.

Coach Jack Parker asks who Steve Jobs is.

SHA students plan out an Apple-themed resort dedicated to his memory.

The FreeP feels more attached to their MacBooks than ever before.

[email protected]@[email protected]

Athrough my bones walking down Newbury Street, I felt un-

inspired. A depressing realization hit me: there was prob-ably no hyper-bole or intricate imagery I could weave about Boston that hadn’t already been expressed in letters, books and newspaper articles. There are just some cit-ies proclaimed photogenic by manic tourists milling around,

poking lenses into shop windows and aim-ing at timeless buildings. Buildings which have probably been captured by previous generations of other, less advanced lenses, held by less worrisome people, who lived in what we consider a less sophisticated time. Creatively frustrated, I grappled with a con-cept that weighed on my mind all week: expectation. We vigorously seek its ful-

at its destruction. Hopes are piled up like stacks of clothing that you never have time to hang up in your closet. An inner turmoil brews. This week alone, our world has wit-nessed two instances where expectation has disappeared into the deep abyss of disap-pointment. From hushed tones in court as a verdict is reached, to a much anticipated unveiling of technological advancement, we watched with bated breath as fate took its unpredictable course.

Meredith Kercher was the victim of a ruthless murder in November of 2007. What ensued was a cruel, real life game of Clue as investigations spiraled into a tangled mess of contradictions. Meredith’s family has endured grueling emotional volatility throughout their trips to Perugia, Italy, hop-ing for any evidence that could bring clo-sure to such tragedy. Adding insult to injury, Amanda Knox, Meredith’s roommate and a strong suspect in her murder case, was ac-quitted in an Italian court earlier this week. Televisions, newspapers and websites have been bombarded with images of Knox mak-ing an emotional appeal to jurors. Tears streamed down her face before she received her verdict. In America, the common per-ception of Amanda Knox is of a hapless victim who suffered the failings of Italy’s judicial system. Simultaneously, in Europe she is painted as “Foxy Knoxy”. Much like a leaf being blown away by a gust of wind, Meredith’s memory has been sidelined to accommodate a feeding frenzy of public

opinion and warped media perception. In the circus that we call life, perhaps this case has succumbed to being just another ball tossed in the air by a complacent juggler.

From the theatrics of court, our eyes and ears travelled to the drama of technology. All the elements for a grand spectacle were present. Fifteen months had passed since Apple had unveiled a new product in the iPhone range. Steve Jobs, the supreme com-mander of his technological empire, was no longer at the forefront of the company’s daily operations, and has since tragically passed away. Tim Cook, his successor, was faced with the opportunity to charge the are-

What actually transpired lacked the feroc-ity we had all expected. This was not the iPhone 5, but the iPhone 4S. I have no doubt that this well-designed piece of machinery will take communication and technologi-cal convenience to new heights; the device has already revolutionized voice command technology. However, the bubble of hype surrounding this unveiling burst with a re-sounding pop. Human nature is character-

Apple has enjoyed admirable progress in the past four years, no matter how many ac-colades you accumulate over a career, you will always be remembered for how steady your hands held the weight of society’s ex-pectation.

I waded through headline after head-line on my battered laptop. Global markets were tumbling due to questionable stability in Europe. Disney is contemplating the re-release of “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Little Mermaid” in 3D. Michele Bachmann made a fool out of herself . . . again. Schools in France are planning to ration ketchup in the name of patriotism against American snacks. I grew tempted to turn off my phone and computer in resignation. Surely some-where, anywhere, there were individuals who could say that life exceeded their ex-pectations. Teetering close to the brink of hopelessness, Sloan Churman saved me. Af-ter living a life without sound for 29 years, the miracle of an advanced ear implant al-

time. Finally, a miracle demonstrating hope in a world disillusioned and chaotic. Over-whelmed by the momentous occasion, she broke down into sobs of delight. She would

her doting husband. For once in her life, she would be able to hear bubbly squeals from her baby. I smiled as she exclaimed in be-tween sobs, “I can hear myself cry!”

--

umnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be

Great expectationsMind the gap

SOFIYAMAHDI

On Tuesday, The Muse’s Lucien Flores talked with Darby Cicci of the ethereal indie-rockers, The Antlers. The Brooklyn-based act burst onto the music scene in 2009 with their depressingly beautiful tale of terminal illness, Hospice. Cicci is the band’s talented key-boardist and multi-instrumentalist, a perfect

Michael Lerner. The band is back on tour after releasing one of the best albums of the year, Burst Apart, in May. The Antlers play The Or-pheum Theater in support of Explosions In the Sky on October 5th.

Lucien Flores: In March, The Antlers played a show at BU Central and debuted “Pa-rentheses,” “No Widows,” “Rolled Together,” and “Hounds.” How did this show come to fruition and what did you make of the BU au-dience (were they accepting of the new num-bers)?

Darby Cicci: We’ve been trying to get to BU for awhile and the opportunity came to us right around the time we were getting ready to release Burst Apart, so it seemed an appropri-ate show to try out some of our live arrange-ments of some new songs. It seemed like peo-ple really enjoyed them. It’s always strange playing songs that no one in the audience has ever heard, as you’re never gonna get too de-tailed of a criticism, but I think it went well.

LF: Burst Apart is billed as more of a col-laborative process (the songwriting credits go to The Antlers) than Hospice. How was the songwriting process different this time? Did you feel more involved?

DC: Yeah, the three of us co-wrote these songs. We built them from the ground up through writing arrangements and recording

and we just kind-of built the songs through moods and textures and chords. So, yes, we all spent hundreds of hours in the studio on

months. LF: Your keyboard and banjo playing are

integral to the sound of The Antlers. Who are your musical role models and how do you go about writing your parts?

DC: Yeah, I ended up playing a lot of in-struments on Burst Apart. Keyboards and ban-jo of course, but bass guitar, trumpet, and har-mony vocals were a big focus of mine on this record. As far as writing, I have different ap-proaches to different instruments. I think with

sounding groove. Bass balances the rhythmic side of things with the harmonic/tonal chord progression side. Whereas with keyboards and synths, it’s more about texture, creating different harmonies and of course creating the whole atmosphere and mood. Trumpet is about half harmony and half melody. And with singing, I just try to be as creepy and as pretty as possible. Creepy and pretty are the same in my opinion. As far as role models, I pretty much look to James Jamerson as the only bass player who ever lived. There’s a lot of amaz-ing synth players, from Air, Broadcast, Jean Michel Jarre, Brian Eno, Jonny Greenwood, Jay Bennett, Stereolab, Portishead, Aphex Twin, Four Tet, I could seriously list hundreds of them, but I won’t.

LF: One thing I’ve noticed about The Antlers is that the band seems to have a strong grasp on fan interaction, especially on Face-book, where you guys always seem to be jok-ing around with fans. Who is in charge of “Facebooking” in the band and how important do you think having a solid interaction with your fanbase is?

DC: Extremely important to us. Facebook and Twitter are by far the best way to inter-act with fans. Peter and I split the Facebook-ing and Tweeting. Sometimes we sign our posts, but it’s usually meant to be the band as an entity. We don’t take either very seriously. We’re very strange people and usually just use social media as outlets for our insanity. I like asking strange questions and seeing all the crazy responses I get from fans. It’s fun to give guest list spots away for shows if we have them available, too. It’s also a great boredom killer (since we’re usually traveling every day of our lives). So many great reasons to follow us. And so many hilariously bad jokes! Or just bad, you decide. It’s a sickness.

LF: The Antlers are playing in support of

Explosions in The Sky for a few dates. How did these shows come about and were you a fan of the band before the tour?

DC: We’ve worked with some of the same people. It’s a pretty small music world. We’ve been huge fans of them for a long time, and have always just heard how they are the some of the nicest, most supporting guys out there. It really is true, the tour has been so easy-going. We’re both pretty atmospheric bands, I think, and it’s a rarity to be so stylistically compatible, yet still different enough to make it interesting. It’s a great tour, I only wish it were longer.

Senior defensemen Tara Watchorn has yet to play so far this season for the Terriers because of a concussion that she suffered over the summer.

“Tara is such a day-to-day thing with how the concussion reacts,” Durocher said. “She’s just about ready, I believe, for step two which is you start feeling well in step one, in step two you start raising your body temperature and doing some

and playing where there’s a little more concen-tration, maybe a little bumping and seeing if you come out of there still feeling well without any

side effects or ill effects.”Redshirt freshman defenseman Caroline

Campbell, who played in the Terriers’ exhibition game against the Ottawa Senators, did not play last weekend because of an ankle injury that will likely have her out for three more weeks.

The Purple Eagles (0-2-0) had even less luck

On Friday night, Niagara faced off against

forty minutes of play, UNH tallied six goals to take a 6-1 advantage over the Purple Eagles.

Despite a late attempt at a comeback where

three Niagara players scored, the Purple Eagles

went on to lose 6-4. The Wildcats took an early lead again on

teams exchanged goals in the second, UNH held a 3-1 lead over the Purple Eagles. Niagara netted a second goal in the third frame but was unable

“They look like they had a great series with UNH,” Durocher said. “[I’m] disappointed they came out on the short end of both games. They were both nail biters.”

According to Durocher, the key to the game is for BU to be prepared for whatever Niagara brings them.

“I’m sure we’ll have all we can handle against [Niagara] because their kids will be ex-cited to match up against the Menards, [the Ko-

the world and a team that went to the national championship game last year.

“We’re going to have to be ready. We’ve always talked about if we give respect to the opponent, most of the time you’re going to be prepared to play.”

COUGHLAN: Start of Jones era for men’s basketball, grudge-match against Saponari among must-see BU games

WOMEN’S HOCKEY: From page 8

other contributors to step up offensively until she returns, but the talent is still dense, and the wins will keep coming.

BC handed the Terriers their worst loss of the regular season last year, administering a 6-3 beatdown on the Terriers’ home ice. Don’t count

this time.And for the skeptics out there who fear that

the women’s brand of hockey -- where checking is penalized and play tends to be slower, won’t be able to keep their attention for three periods -- get over yourself. You want to see a highly com-petitive, fast paced game between archrivals? You want to see a championship-caliber team,

cannon of a slap shot and sophomore goaltender Kerrin Sperry’s lightning glove?

All this, and for literally a fraction of the cost of a men’s ice hockey game? You can’t lose, BU.

Men’s Basketball vs. Northeastern Uni-versity, Nov. 11, Case Gymnasium

In a rematch of last year’s season opener, the

Terriers take on the Huskies on their home court

round of the NCAA tournament.Not only will the Terriers be playing at home

Holland single-handedly carried his team to the America East Conference Championship last

year head coach Joe Jones.This game should provide a litmus test to

gauge just how cohesive this year’s hoops squad will be on the court. And for a team returning every cog from last year’s America East cham-pionship machine except for Holland and high-octane head coach Patrick Chambers, they sure do have a lot of questions surrounding them.

-fensively, if anyone? Will the Terriers play the same brand of defensively-oriented basketball that Chambers preached under the direction of a brand new coaching staff? Will they be able to salvage a second straight year without redshirt senior forward Jake O’Brien?

Last year, when the Terriers took on North-

eastern at Matthews Arena, they came up two points short of a victory and displayed plenty of early season jitters along with bunches of raw talent. After a year of playing together, this game will determine whether any of the cohesiveness the Terriers’ built in 2010-11 has rubbed off on 2011-12.

Men’s Ice Hockey @ Northeastern Uni-versity, Jan. 15, Matthews Arena

Two words: Vinny Saponari. This cross-town showdown will be the junior

successful seasons with the Terriers, BU head coach Jack Parker gave the winger the boot af-ter he missed a team bike ride, although such

instances behind it as well.Saponari found his way back to Comm. Ave

– or tried to, at least – by attempting to weasel his way into BC. When he was denied admis-sion, he decided to try his luck with the Huskies. It paid off.

At this point, Saponari’s intentions regarding

the Terrier’s archrival and second with the Ter-rier’s second archrival are unclear. On the one hand, maybe he just couldn’t stand to be away from Boston. He loves the sport and the city, and he wants to play in Hockey East, the pre-mier NCAA hockey conference. There’s nothing wrong with that.

But maybe, just maybe, the Vinster is look-ing to push back. After all, by securing a position on a team that could challenge the Terriers up to four times in the regular season and will be prac-ticing mere minutes from the ice that the Sap-man used to call home, Vinny is guaranteed that if he wants to jab back, it will not go unnoticed.

If that doesn’t provide the drama necessary to convince you to take the E line in the snow three days before spring semester’s classes start up, don’t forget the fact that the Huskies ended the Terriers’ season prematurely last year at the Greek with a 5-4 series-winning decision.

There are major questions regarding whether Jack Parker’s team has the spunk to get psyched up for big game situations anymore. In the regu-lar season, it doesn’t get much bigger than this.

COUGHLAN: From page 8

Down-on-luck squads meet as women’s hockey faces Niagara

Muse Editor | Chris GambonFilm Editor | Michela SmithMusic Editor | Lucien FloresFood Editor | Jaime LutzLifestyle Editor | Rosalie Fransen

Thursday, October 6 7

Answers With The Antlers: 10 Questions with Darby CicciBy Lucien Flores

Music Editor

Peter Silberman, Michael Lerner and Darby Cicci of The Antlers.

WANT MORE FROM THE ANTLERS? SEE OUR WEBSITE FOR FULL INTERVIEW.

The University of Notre Dame, in a joint press conference with Hockey East and Boston University represen-

that the Irish will join Hockey East beginning during the 2013-14 season.

The announcement comes as no surprise to many of those familiar with the situation after months of speculation and rumors.

“Hockey East is very proud, very excited to be part of the excitement going on with Notre Dame hockey,” said Hockey East commissioner Joe

Bertagna.With the coming demise of the

Central College Hockey Association, Notre Dame had three options when it came to the future of its hockey program, according to director of ath-letics Jack Swarbrick: join the newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference, stand alone as an inde-pendent school or join Hockey East.

“There were pros and cons to each, but at the end of the day it was a clear one for us,” Swarbrick said.

The school decided to join Hockey East after weighing several factors, national exposure, the possibility

for a large nonconference schedule and geographic/travel considerations among them.

Boston University athletic director Mike Lynch was on hand for the an-nouncement, and headed a committee that looked into the expansion of the conference. After months of delibera-tion, the committee decided to extend an offer to Notre Dame to become Hockey East’s 11th member.

“We think we’ve made a great move in the right direction,” Lynch said, “and we are thrilled to welcome Notre Dame to Hockey East and look forward in many great years together

in our conference.”The committee took its time with

the process, Lynch noted, to be sure it was making the right decision.

“We’re not going to be quick just to add for the sake of adding,’” Lynch

partner.”On a similar note, Lynch also said

Hockey East won’t necessarily be so quick to add a 12th team to even things out schedule-wise

“We’re letting the paint dry, so to speak,” Lynch said.

BU will visit South Bend, Ind. to play the Irish on Dec. 31.

So, you’re going to the Beanpot, are ya?

And you’re planning on making the trip down to ‘ol Madison Square Garden, leftover turkey in hand? Gonna watch the Ice Dogs mop the ice with the Big Red Bears?

How about Dec. 3? I’m sure you’ve got that date sealed off. Gotta let Parker Milner know he’s a sieve for

Wouldn’t want to miss that…So, what else? That’s all? Well,

allow me to retort.

through your calendar, ex-tract every Boston Uni-versity sport-ing event that you plan on attending in the upcoming year, line them

up side-by-side and realize that they look something like the meager com-pilation above, then you have some work to do.

Don’t get me wrong, no BU sports fan in their right mind would miss out on the Beanpot, nor should they. The same goes for Red Hot Hockey and for the only guaranteed home bout that the men’s ice hockey team has with Bos-ton College this season.

But three or four games, even if they promise to be some of the most attended of the year, are the mere skel-eton of a healthy sports experience at Boston University.

To get the most out of the plethora of collegiate competition this aca-demic year, it is imperative that you get your hands dirty. Dig into the story

athlete or squad that peaks your inter-est. Figure out which games promise the most bang for your buck, and then go to them.

Here are some suggestions:Women’s Ice Hockey vs. Bos-

ton College, Nov. 5, Walter Brown Arena

If you have yet to set foot in Walter Brown Arena for a women’s ice hock-ey game during your BU career, now is the time to do it. Your Terriers have a better chance of winning an NCAA tournament this year than any other BU squad. Last year, sixth-year head coach Brian Durocher’s team cruised to a pristine 27-7-4 overall record and waltzed their way through the NCAA

falling to No. 1 seed University of Wisconsin 4-1 in the championship game.

This season, an untimely injury to Colin Wilson-esque sophomore for-ward Marie-Philip Poulin will force

In just the second game of its young season, the Boston University women’s hockey team suffered two losses, as they were defeated by the University of North Dakota and star sophomore forward Marie-Philip Poulin suffered an abdominal injury that will have her, and her offensive production, off the ice until around December.

The Terriers (1-1-0) will, nonethe-less, have to lick their wounds and shake off the fatigue from last week-end in another two-game home series this weekend. This time BU will face

the team’s history. “It’s a little bit of an unknown,”

said BU coach Brian Durocher. “Be-cause Niagara has a proud tradition but they had a coaching change a little late in the summer and their assistant coach Josh Sciba has taken over the team.”

Last weekend, BU opened up its season for the second-straight time against North Dakota and for the second-consecutive year, split the contests.

“I think we just let North Dakota – they’re a very talented team – have the middle too much,” Durocher said.

“If we can clog that up a bit, slow the other team down, I know we’re going to go down and score goals and get opportunities.”

On Friday night, the Terriers scored four goals en route to their 4-1 victory over the Fighting Sioux. Senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk started off the scoring for the Terriers on a power-play goal in the second

period.Sophomore forward Louise War-

ren notched the game-winner seven minutes later and senior forward and

more goals, one a power-play goal and one a short-handed tally, to bolster the Terriers’ lead.

The next day, however, the team’s only offense came from junior for-ward and transfer student Isabel Men-

-rier with 6:09 left in the period. Her lone goal, however, was not enough to

“That was an elite team,” Duro-cher said of North Dakota. “Maybe if we scored one other goal we could have changed the complexion on the game on Saturday, but we couldn’t do that. North Dakota got away from us.”

More devastating for the Terriers

was the knowledge after Saturday’s loss that Poulin had suffered an injury in the third period that would likely have her out of play for about three

months. This makes Poulin the third BU

player to be injured so far this season.

Injured Terriers look to start rolling

SportsEARLY CHALLENGE

Back at the .500 threshold,

men’s soccer faces quick

turnaround against

defending conference

champion UMBC, p. 7

THE DAILY FREE PRESS

Quotable“ “We think we’ve made a great move in the right direction.

[ www.dailyfreepress.com ]PAGE 8 Thursday, October 6, 2011

=e Bottom Line

By Meredith Perri


COUGHLAN, see page 7

Monday, Oct. 10

U-JIN LEE/DAILY FREE PRESS FILE PHOTO

The absence of star forward Marie-Philip Poulin will test BU.

Mark your calendars,

Terrier Nation

LUKECOUGHLAN

PUT UP YOUR LUKES

Early conference litmus test awaits men’s soccer in UMBC

No Games ScheduledIn today’s episode of “Addition by

Subtraction,” the Miami Dolphins will be without Chad Henne for the season

WOMEN’S HOCKEY, see page 7

In what has a chance to be a pre-view to this year’s America East Con-ference men’s soccer championship game, Boston University will host the University of Maryland-Baltimore County Saturday at Nickerson Field.

The Terriers (5-5-0, 1-0-0 AE)

struggling early in the season. BU is in the middle of a three-game winning streak, and most recently knocked off No. 22 Providence College Tuesday.

Despite the positive results lately, BU coach Neil Roberts still sees room for improvement.

things out, but there is still a long way to go from where we need to be or want to be,” Roberts said. “We are def-initely heading in the right direction.”

UMBC (4-3-3, 1-0-0 AE) has been inconsistent this season, but has shown it has the ability to play with any team in the country. The defend-

ing America East champion’s most impressive game may have come in a loss, when they were defeated by No. 1 University of Maryland by a score of 4-3 in double overtime.

With talented forwards Andrew Bulls and Pete Caringi leading the way for the Retrievers, the Terrier de-fense will have one of their toughest tests it has faced all season.

lanes and he can hit a lane quickly and if he gets the ball going to goal he is dangerous,” Roberts said. “We will

[Bulls and Caringi] are because they look for those two guys.”

Defensively, the Terriers have stood out lately, posting back-to-back shutouts. Some of the credit for these performances should go to the reign-ing America East Rookie of the Week, freshman goalkeeper Nick Thomson.

However, the defensive unit as a whole has shown great improvement in their poise and decision-making in

recent games.“The defense is playing better -- I

think they are starting to feel a little bit more comfortable,” Roberts said. “I think we still have work to do as a total group, but I think it is getting there.”

One defender who has made his mark on the team offensively has been freshman Taylor Washington. Wash-ington has appeared on the score sheet with a key assist in Tuesday’s win, as well as the game-winning goal against Harvard last Wednesday.

The Terriers may still be without two of their most talented and expe-rienced players in senior defender Colin Henry and senior forward Ben Berube. Henry is still recovering from a hamstring injury, while Berube is trying to fully heal his quad before he tests it again. The two will be evaluat-ed over the next few days before they are inserted back into the lineup.

Stephen Knox has been relied upon to create offense for the Terriers. While

he did score the game-winning goal against Providence on Tuesday, fresh-men forward Dominique Badji and

will also be thrust into key attacking roles in Saturday’s game.

And while conference play is just getting started, every America East game is important for BU, as it will be vying for the top spot in the league.

“When you play a conference team, three points from the top team or three points from the bottom team, you try to take your points when you can get them,” Roberts said.

While it may be early to predict the standings at the end of the season, these two teams were ranked among the top of the preseason rankings and will not lose many more America East games all season.

“I think coming into the season, I -

perienced and most talented team,” Roberts said. “It should be a great game.”

Hockey East reaches out, formally adds Notre DameBy Tim Healey


By Kevin Dillon


Sunday, Oct. 9Friday, Oct. 7 Saturday, Oct. 8Thursday, Oct. 6W. Soccer vs. Binghamton, 1 p.m.

M. Tennis @Quinnipiac Invitational, All Day

W. Soccer @ New Hampshire, 3:30 p.m.W. Tennis @ Riviera All American Championship Main Draw, All Day

Field Hockey @ Dartmouth, 3 p.m.W. Hockey vs. Niagra, 7 p.m.

M. Soccer vs. UMBC, 1 p.m.W. Hockey vs. Niagra, 3 p.m.

M. Hockey vs. New Hampshire, 8 p.m.

ggg

T!" D#$%& F'"" P'"((

Thursday October 6, 2011

Page 4:Evolution of

Corey

Trivino

Page 5: Captains’

Corner

Page 7:Rise of

Justin

Courtnall

Page 8: Women’s

season

preview

Hockey Supplement

Page 2:Men’s

Season

Preview

Last season’s Boston Univer-sity men’s hockey team was a di-saster by program standards.

The only championship it won all year was the season-opening

time since 1980. It fell to North-eastern University in the Hockey

the second time in as many years, it watched the NCAA tournament from the comfort of dorm room couches.

But last year’s team was not lacking in talent or desire. They were simply too young.

Now a year older, the Terriers are more motivated than ever to become the top dog once more in Hockey East.

“This program is expected to be in the top 16 teams in the nation and make the national tournament year in and year out,” senior cap-tain Chris Connolly said. “I took it a little personally last year being one of the captains to not make it the second year in a row.

“The Beanpot and Hockey East and home ice is all very important, but I think this year we really want to focus on making it back to the national stage.”

Joining Connolly as captains this season will be junior assistants Alex Chiasson and Justin Court-nall. Together, the trio will attempt to bring a national championship

three years.

Forwards

The Terriers lost little and re-turn plenty, and this is especially true with the forwards.

Although BU lost former co-captain Joe Pereira and his 21 points (15 goals, 6 assists), its top

that list is Chiasson, who led the team in scoring last season with 14

goals and 20 assists. “He’s going to be a big part of

the offense,” coach Jack Parker said. “I don’t think he has to be the guy that carries it because we have other guys that are talented too, but whatever line he’s on is going to be a real good line. He’s going to get an awful lot of ice time.”

Along with Chiasson, the Terri-ers will look to Connolly (10g, 18a), senior Corey Trivino (8g, 20a), and sophomore Charlie Coyle (7g, 19a) to spark the offense. Coyle, a native of Weymouth, Mass., said he is especially motivated to have a better season this year after f i n i s h i n g last in the Beanpot, a tournament he grew up w a t c h i n g and hoping to play in, last season.

“ I t ’ s pretty humiliating,” Coyle said. “We’re obviously forgetting about that. It’s a new year.

“We’re going to have to step it up this year. Through experience last year, we know what it takes. It’s going to be a good Beanpot this year.”

BU hopes experience will help its young offense be more produc-tive this season. Five of its top 10 scorers last season were freshmen (forwards Coyle, Sahir Gill and Matt Nieto and defensemen Adam Clendening and Garrett Noonan).

season ranging in age from 17 to 19, and Parker is hoping that with increased experience and age, they will be even more effective.

“Those guys for the most part

all year long and they were 18-year-olds playing against 24-year-olds sometimes,” BU coach Jack Parker said. “It’s one thing for our 18-year-old freshmen to be playing

against 20-year-old freshman. It’s another thing for them to be play-ing against 24-year-old seniors.”

In addition to the returning of-fense, BU will add three freshmen forwards: Cason Hohmann, Evan Rodrigues and red-shirt freshman Yasin Cisse. By losing one and adding three, competition for play-ing time will increase and Parker is hoping that will help the team improve.

“When you only lose one for-ward and you add three, you’re going to have more depth,” Parker said. “You’re going to have more

going to have more skill. They’ll be important because they’ll give us new blood.

Defense

The blue line does not have the same depth and talent that the for-wards possess this season, but it does have plenty of potential.

The Terriers lost defensive leader David Warsofsky, who left school early to pursue a profes-sional career. Red-shirt junior Ryan Ruikka, the oldest defense-man on the team, will miss the

a hairline fracture in his foot. In their absence, juniors Max Nica-stro and Sean Escobedo will take over as the elder statesmen of the blue line.

Neither Nicastro nor Escobedo enjoyed a solid season last year and their inconsistency proved problematic for the Terriers, as

worst minus-9.“At times, those two looked

like really top-notch defensemen, and other times they were less than that,” Parker said. “There’s incon-sistency game-to-game and shift-to-shift. I think they both have the potential to be all-star defensemen. But more than anything else, they have to be consistent.”

Sophomores Clendening (5g, 21a, plus-8) and Noonan (4g, 11a, plus-6) both had solid freshmen seasons. They will have to take a step up this year as veteran blue

liners. Sophomore

Patrick Mac-Gregor saw limited ice time last sea-son, and he

playing time with freshman Alexx Privit-era and junior Ben Rosen,

who played as a forward last year, for one of the two remaining de-fensemen slots.

Goaltending

The Terriers return one of the best goaltenders in Hockey East in Kieran Millan, who was a runner-up for the Hockey East Player of the Year Award last year and won BU’s Most Valuable Player Award.

Millan has yet to replicate his breakout freshman season, when he posted a 1.94 goals against average, but he had a record-breaking year last season. Millan set a program record for saves in a season with 1,085 and boasted a .919 save percentage, .002 points shy of his freshman year .921 save percentage. The Edmonton native enters the season one win shy of tying Sean Fields’ program-record 62 career wins.

While Millan struggled in an

goals on 17 shots, the Terriers con-tinue to have faith in Millan’s abil-ity between the pipes.

“Millan will be the number one goalie,” Parker said. “[Grant] Roll-heiser will get a chance to get in there and play, but it certainly will not be every other game.

so far and he was our MVP last year. Given that he plays up to his ability, we expect him to play most of the games.”

Backup goalie Adam Kraus graduated last season, so Roll-heiser and sophomore Anthony Moccia will wait in the wings should anything happen to Millan.

League

Hockey East has changed quite a bit since the end of last season. Northeastern University, the Uni-versity of Massachusetts-Lowell and Providence College all have new coaches, which makes them harder to scout since nobody knows their style of play.

Northeastern coach Greg Cro-nin departed after six years on Huntington Ave. for a job with the Toronto Maple Leafs, and former Northeastern player Jim Madigan replaced him after a stint as a scout with the NHL’s Pittsburgh Pen-guins.

Norm Bazin took over for Blaise MacDonald at UMass-Low-ell and Nate Leaman succeeded Tim Army in Providence.

“It’s kind of disheartening to tell you the truth, but that’s the way college hockey is going,” Parker said of the coaching chang-es. “Job security is not as good as it used to be.

“I do think that all three of those schools selected really good coaches that will give their team a different outlook that can then challenge incumbent coaches to

us a little differently. New blood always makes the old blood better coaches, I think.”


The Redeem TeamTerriers look to regain championship form of years past

By Arielle Aronson


The Beanpot and Hockey East and home ice is all very important, but I think this year we really want to focus on making it back to the national stage.

-Chris Connolly, Men’s hockey senior captain

For more of the best BU hockey coverage around visit:

www.thebostonhockeyblog.comAnd follow on Twitter: @BOShockeyblog

ALL PHOTOS BY AMANDA SWINHART/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

University, Corey Trivino made a name for himself on campus.

There is the innocuous – a trade-mark fauxhawk that is consistently gelled to perfection – and the more objectionable – the clouds of scan-dal that almost cost Trivino his BU career at the end of his sophomore season.

But beyond those perceptions lies the real Corey Trivino – a talented college hockey player trying to make his mark with one of the best teams in Hockey East.

The dark-haired 21-year-old has been playing hockey for most of his life, but he has not always enjoyed it.

“I hated skating lessons when I was little,” Trivino said. “I cried the whole time I was on the ice. [The coaches] told my mom to leave the stands or else I wouldn’t do any-thing.”

goal, he fell in love with the sport. Trivino grew up in Toronto where

most young hockey players develop through the urging of their fathers. But his passion for hockey came from his mother since his father, Hugo Trivino, is a native Argentin-ian who is devoted to soccer more than the foreign sport on skates. A younger Corey played both hockey and soccer until he turned 16 and had to decide between the two.

“I enjoy playing soccer, but I de-cided that hockey would give me a better future,” Trivino said. “When I decided to play hockey, my dad was heartbroken but he got over it and he loves hockey now. Well, he loves watching me play hockey.”

After deciding to pursue hockey, Trivino joined the Stouffville Spirit of the Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League. The forward totaled 65 points (25 goals, 40 assists) in his rookie campaign en route to captur-ing the OPJHL Co-Rookie of the Year award. In his second season with the Spirit, Trivino put up an as-tounding 91 points (24 goals, 67 as-sists) in 54 games.

His performance in juniors etched him toward the top of NHL draft lists, and Trivino reached a new high in his hockey career when he was drafted by the New York Islanders in the second round, 36th overall, of the 2008 NHL draft.

Trivino was 18 years old and new-ly drafted when he arrived in Boston

was part of a talented freshmen class that included four other players (An-

drew Glass, Grant Rollheiser, Vinny Saponari and David Warsofsky) who had already been drafted.

As the highest-drafted freshman on the team, Trivino was supposed to headline the newest Terrier forwards. But just four games into the season, Trivino went down with a knee in-jury and missed a month of action.

“I think watching the team prac-tice when you’re not practicing and gaining that experience, especially as a freshman, it was tough,” Trivino said. “Adjusting to the college game, you have to take it to another level that you have to commit to.

“The decisions that you have to make on the ice are a little bit faster. Just not being able to adapt because you’re sitting on the sideline kind of put me back a little bit.”

Trivino returned to the lineup in late November as the center on a freshman line that featured Chris Connolly and Vinny Saponari as his

-giate goal in just his third game back, a 3-1 win at BC on Dec. 6.

Although the Toronto native was back on the ice, he struggled to regain the scoring prowess from juniors that propelled him to the top of draft lists. In February, Trivino missed a few games with a shoulder injury and was a healthy scratch toward the end of the month.

By the time the Terriers reached the national tournament, Trivino be-came a key part of the offense. He scored goals in both of BU’s wins in the NCAA regionals in Manchester, N.H., including the game-winner in BU’s 8-2 drubbing of Ohio State University. In the national champion-ship game, it was the freshmen line that was on the ice in overtime when defenseman Colby Cohen scored the game-winning goal.

“I remember we were looking at each other and we were like, ‘Man, if we go on the ice, we cannot lose it for the team. It cannot be our fault,’” Trivino said. “We went out there and had to kind of make sure we did ev-erything possible to keep the pressure on them. Thankfully a goal came out of it.”

In the wake of the national cham-pionship, Trivino was part of a blur of celebrations both in the locker room and back on Comm. Ave, where he rode in a duck boat and celebrated at Marsh Plaza during the champion-ship parade.

But when Trivino and the Terriers returned for the 2009-10 season, the euphoria from the national champi-onship squad was gone. The Terriers struggled to live up to expectations

all season and Trivino continued to fail to put up the numbers he had in juniors. The then-sophomore scored just four goals and 11 assists before suffering a broken leg in February just as the Terriers started to regain steam for a late-season push.

“It was devastating,” Trivino said. “It was probably the worst mo-ment of my hockey career. We were

were dominating teams. And then I couldn’t do anything about it but watch from the sidelines.”

The rest of the team was just as devastated by the injury as Trivino was.

“We were really coming on in the second half of the season and Corey

our team,” Connolly said. “For him to go down at that point, it was hard

We did the best we could but we would have been better off with him in the lineup, that’s for sure.”

The Terriers’ season ended with a loss to the University of Maine in the

-nament, and BU could do nothing more but watch from the sidelines as Boston College won the national championship.

But for Trivino, the worst was yet to come.

The trouble started in March when, according to sources, a group of Terriers had been out drinking on St. Patrick’s Day, a night when the team was not allowed to go out. To complicate matters, Trivino was un-derage at the time.

BU head coach Jack Parker re-portedly punished the team with a series of bike rides. Trivino and Sap-onari allegedly showed up extremely late to one of the rides despite a warn-ing from Parker saying if anyone was late, they might as well not show up at all because they would be kicked off the team.

Trivino and Saponari were imme-diately suspended. To worsen mat-ters, a video of Trivino and Saponari performing a vulgar rap song titled “Party like a Puckstar” surfaced on the Internet around the same time that his other troubles were develop-ing.

In early May, Saponari and his brother Victor were both kicked off

the team. Trivino was suspended -

ing to a press release from the team, the Saponaris were punished more severely because of “cumulative in-stances in which Victor and Vinny Saponari have displayed conduct unbecoming of a Boston University hockey player.”

Because Trivino apparently did not share the same behavioral history as the Saponaris, he was given a sec-ond chance.

were meted out, Trivino said he “def-initely” thought he would be kicked off the team.

“You don’t know what kind of consequences you’re going to get for your actions,” Trivino said. “I’m thankful that [Parker] gave me a sec-ond opportunity to stay on. Hope-fully I can make sure that it’s not a decision he’ll regret.”

The second chance proved to be a learning experience for Trivino, as he accepted his punishment and ma-tured from the incident.

“I think he took that to heart a little bit that one of his better friends - Vinny at the time was his room-mate – didn’t do the right things and left the program,” Connolly said. “I think that was a little bit of a shock for Corey and I think he’s matured a lot over the last couple of years.”

Trivino was suspended for the

but since that time, Trivino rebound-ed, enjoying his best season in a BU jersey last year, as well as improving his behavior off the ice.

Trivino tied Connolly as the second-leading scorer on the team last season with eight goals and 20 assists. He continued to play well

forwards with a plus-4. But his most important break-

through came when January ended and February began, as Trivino rode

removed from his devastating leg injury.

Trivino explained the offensive -

stick, he could do something with it rather than simply pass it away. He

from his string of injuries.

“You get injured and you’re like ‘Oh, I have to get back to what I was before, not better than I was before,” Trivino said. “I was always trying to play catch-up with my body and it

what the rhythm was on the ice and what I was going to do. You’re a to-tally different player when you play

Parker offered a bit more praise than Trivino was willing to give him-self when explaining why Trivino

two-and-a-half seasons.“He came in as a very young

freshman and it took him a while to get adjusted here,” Parker said.

ever given himself credit for that. I don’t think he realizes how good he is.”

There’s no better time than the present for Trivino to blossom. After

championships, Trivino and the Ter-riers are hungry for some trophies.

“It’s been a big slap in the face especially because we haven’t made the tournament since freshmen year,” Trivino said. “You want that feeling again where you win the champion-ship, you win it all, and you’re the best team in the NCAAs. Hopefully we can get that feeling back because I know how it feels to not win it for the past two years and it’s not a good feeling at all.”

If the Terriers are able to make an extended postseason run this season, Trivino will have to be a major factor for the team. Although Trivino has proven he can play defense the way Parker demands from his forwards, both the head coach and the center are hoping he will be more of a pres-ence on the score-sheet.

“We won the national champion-ship his freshman year, and he was a third-line center who didn’t have to be the guy [on offense],” Parker said. “This year, we need him to be the guy. We think he has that capability, but we have other guys that can do it too.

“If he’s just a third-line center, he’ll be the best third-line center in college hockey. But I think this year

everybody perceived coming in.”

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 3

Trivino SuaveForward looks to come into his own in !nal collegiate season

By Arielle Aronson



Corey Trivino rushes up the ice on a breakaway in an exhibition game against St. Francis Xavier last Saturday.


Use your smartphone to get tailgating tips, games, and recipes.

No QR reader? Visit tervis.com/college

Looking for more smart cup fun?

Self-Warming SystemA cup that keeps drinks hotter than other cups. Take a cautionary sip before you start swigging.

Eternity WarrantyEvery Tervis tumbler is guaranteed for life. That’s eleventy-zillion beverage sips, give or take.

Portable CoolerKeeps cold drinks cold.It’s a smaller, more portable version of your dorm fridge.

Identity ProtectionMore than 1,000 designs to choose from. So, you can change your emblem as often as you change your major.

Virtually UnbreakableYour Tervis tumbler won’t crack, melt, chip, or fail any other final exam.

tervis.com/smartcup

© 2

011

Terv

is

Meet your new favorite cup.(Second favorite if you count a certain Beanpot.)

9.12.11Tervis


Captains’

Corner:

By Tim Healey



Junior forward Alex Chiasson, senior forward Chris Connolly and junior forward JustinCourtnall are expected to lead this year’s team.

Connolly, Courtnall and Chiasson hungry after two down years

On April 11, 2009, the Boston University men’s hockey team was on top of the college hockey world.

Then-sophomore Colby Co-hen netted the game-winning goal against Miami University to cap-ture a 4-3 overtime win and a na-tional championship. It spurred a parade days later that closed Com-monwealth Avenue from Kenmore Square to Marsh Plaza as the team rode by on duck boats.

Understandably, Terrier Nation was in a frenzy.

Senior forward and captain Chris Connolly, just a freshman at the time, was on the ice for the Cohen goal and can still remember it vividly.

“It was a really strange play,” Connolly said. “I remember watch-ing Colby wind up for the big slap shot, it hit another guy and I real-ized the goalie had no idea where the puck was. I was just watching it quickly and said, ‘Well, this has a chance to go in.’

“I was standing off to the side near the wall and watched it drop in. I couldn’t believe it. After that it was kind of a blur because I was just overwhelmed with adrenaline.”

But since then, the Terriers have won nothing substantial. No Bean-pots. No Hockey East Champion-ships. No NCAA tournament ap-pearances. Nothing.

“It sucks,” said Alex Chiasson, forward and one of two assistant captains on this year’s team. “For myself, the junior class, I’ve been here for two years and I haven’t re-ally won anything.”

Chiasson is one of nine members of BU’s junior class, a group too young to have been members of the 2009 championship team but too old to sit back and hope that BU’s rich hockey tradition alone will take the team places.

Junior forward Justin Courtnall, the other assistant captain, has had enough of it too.

“I think especially the junior [and] sophomore classes are re-ally hungry to come out of our little slump,” Courtnall said. “Our class

something under our belt, especially a Hockey East [championship] win or something to do with that.”

With April 2009 just another BU hockey fairytale for the underclass-men and a memory in the now-dis-tant rearview mirror for the seniors, Connolly and his assistants agree it’s time to put an end to this trend.

“You play for the end of the year, [so] come April you want to be one of those teams still playing,” Con-nolly said. “We’ve been very close the last two years, I think we were the last team out. It comes down to the little things, so we really need to tighten up and focus on those close, one-goal games.”

If the Terriers fail to be one of the teams playing when the calendar

lack of leadership – all parties agree BU has tons of it.

It starts at the top with Connolly,

-bers of the national championship team.

After serving as captain last year, a team vote last spring was over-whelmingly in favor of giving Con-nolly another season with the big red ‘C’ on his chest, according to coach Jack Parker.

“He’s a real good example of what we want in a player, kid, stu-dent and teammate,” Parker said. “He’s also real important ice-time-wise, he’s real important skill-wise.

“He’s a very good player for us over these past three years. He is obviously a guy we can follow and count on to keep us on the right track.”

It was harder for the coach to pick the assistants. Most years the team vote indicates a secondary player or two that the athletes look up to as leaders, but with Connolly

garnering most of the captain votes, Parker chose to put off picking assis-tants so he could see who pulled the team together over the summer and early fall.

27 that he settled for Courtnall and Chiasson, though “settle” doesn’t nearly do the selection justice.

“Both those guys are vocal guys that will help Chris out, and they’re both hard-working guys that show the way not just by saying it, but do-ing it,” Parker said.

Courtnall in particular will com-pliment Connolly’s leadership style, one that is mostly “by example,” be it on the ice, in the weight room or around the classroom.

Courtnall described himself as a very talkative guy, constantly cheer-ing teammates on and unafraid to resolve an issue between teammates.

Parker backed that up.

“There’s no question in my mind that [Courtnall is] a vocal leader in the dressing room, he’s a vocal lead-er in the dorm rooms,” Parker said. “He knows when he needs to step in with somebody, and I think having the A on his shirt will make it that much easier for him.”

Chiasson, on the other hand, wasn’t a natural locker room pace-setter from the start like Courtnall. In his early days with BU, Parker said

as a leader. He has always been a vocal player, but it used to make his teammates “jumpy,” whereas it is now a guiding light that makes the team better, not nervous.

Chiasson, though, said the affec-tive factor has always been a part of his game.

“I’ve been an emotional guy since I was young,” Chiasson said. “It’s something that I can’t really change, but you have to be careful with how guys take it and how guys see you as a leader.

It’s something that I’ve been working on. I try to be more posi-tive this year. Obviously, I know it’s going to happen one time that I’m going to get mad and it’s going to come out. At the same time, I have to make sure that everyone stays calm

-selves.”

With the captain and assistants in

leaders on the team – the senior class is ready to go out with a bang, and the underclassmen are looking to put

Parker said that due to the incred-ible competitiveness of Hockey East, he would be happy with a third-place

which would ensure home-ice ad-vantage for BU during the Hockey

But that doesn’t mean his players agree. Connolly for one was con-cise when it came to his conference hopes.

said quickly. “[Parker] is right in saying that a third place would be a



BU tops Hockey East preseason Power Rankings

1. What’s the best prank you pulled on a teammate?

We’ll get tape and put it on the

front of the helmet. We’ll put a name

on it or something like that or make

fun of something they did that week

and they’ll skate around practices

the whole time so it’s pretty funny.

It’s pretty good.

2. Favorite pregame meal?

Chicken cutlets and penne with

a peach Snapple from T. Anthony’s.

3. Favorite sport other than hockey?

Queens, New York and my whole

family just played basketball and

I’m always at the park in the sum-

mer playing basketball.

Seven Questions with. . .Sean Escobedo4. If you were to go into a profession other than hockey, what would it be?

Brain doctor. I think I could do

that.

5. Favorite NHL player?

Henrik Lundqvist. He’s probably

the best player on the Rangers and

that’s the only reason they make the

playoffs.

6. Favorite subject in school?

-

term. I didn’t do too good [sic] but

I’m pretty sure I could do it.

7. Favorite chant from the Dog Pound?Ugly goalie. I like that one. When

they lift up their mask, they go

‘Ugly goalie.’

1. Boston UniversityThe Terriers return all but two of last

season’s regular players, and they should be hungry following a disappointing run in the Beanpot and Hockey East tourna-ment. Senior Kieran Millan returns for a final season in net for the Terriers, and last season’s leading scorer Alex Chiasson and Hockey East Rookie of the Year Charlie Coyle headline a deep offensive attack.

2. Boston CollegeThe Eagles always field a quality

squad, but they also lost four of their top five scorers and their two-time national champion goaltender in John Muse. Junior Parker Milner is certainly capable between the pipes and they still have star forward Chris Kreider, who was a first-round draft pick of the New York Rangers. Senior Tommy Cross and junior Brian Dumoulin will lead the defense.

3. University of New HampshireThe Wildcats lost its four top scorers

from last season who together provided close to 50 percent of UNH’s total of-fense. They return senior goaltender Matt DiGirolamo, who led the league in save percentage (.923) last season. Senior for-wards Stevie Moses and Mike Borisenok will have to step up on offense, but UNH also has a solid incoming freshman class. Three of their freshman scored 70 points in their junior leagues last year.

4. Merrimack CollegeThe Warriors return star goaltender

Joe Cannata, but they lost their offensive spark plug in Stephane Da Costa, who left for an NHL career. In addition, they lost defensemen Adam Ross and Fraser Allen who were both mainstays on the blue line. They have two capable senior forwards in Ryan Flanigan and Jesse Todd as well as talented sophomore Mike Collins, but if their younger players do not step up, they will not be nearly as deep up front as they were last season.

5. University of MaineThe Black Bears lost their star on of-

fense when Gustav Nyquist left for the NHL. They do return their second and third top scorers, Spencer Abbott and Brian Flynn. But Maine’s goaltending last season was suspect, and they have nobody new coming in to improve the situation. Maine also does not have a lot of big game experience recently.

6. University of MassachusettsThe Minutemen, like the Terriers, were

a very young team last season, but they have a lot of talent. Its top four scorers re-turn, and both Danny Hobbs and Michael Pereira could be stars. The Minutemen will have to see how sophomore goaltender Jeff Teglia adapts to the starting role in net, but they have freshman Steve Mastalerz coming in as a backup, and he was a prep school All Star last year.

7. University of VermontThe Catamounts will have Rob Madore

(.907 save percentage last season) back in net for his senior season, but aside from him, they are a question mark. Vermont won eight games last season and finished second-to-last in Hockey East in scoring. This season, they will rely on eight fresh-men to bring them back to relevance in the league.

8. Northeastern UniversityNortheastern is an unknown in terms of

playing style now after losing coach Greg Cronin. They also lost their top line to graduation last season, and freshman star Brodie Reid bolted for the professional ranks. Most of their highly touted recruits decommitted, but former Terrier Vinny Saponari will play for the Huskies this sea-son. Northeastern will also look to sopho-more defenseman Anthony Bitetto and ju-nior goalie Chris Rawlings as leaders.

9. University of Massachusetts – Lowell

The only reason the Riverhawks are not last is because Providence has even less to work with than Lowell does. The River-hawks also have a new coach this season as former assistant coach Norm Bazin re-turns to take over for the departed Blaise MacDonald. The Riverhawks did not necessarily lose a whole lot – top scorers David Vallorani, Riley Wetmore and Matt Ferreira all return. They have yet to prove, however, that they can compete in Hockey East.

10. Providence CollegeThe Friars have a decent goalie in se-

nior Alex Beaudry, but that is about all Providence has going for it. Their offense was the worst in Hockey East last season, and they lost their top three scorers. They have a new coach in former Union College bench boss, and while he will bring a new style to Providence, he does not have much talent to work with.

Compiled by Arielle Aronson, Daily Free Press Staff


Junior defenseman Sean Escobedo plays keep away with an X-Man in between studying for his calculus midterm and pursuing a career in neurosurgery.

Compiled by Arielle Aronson, Daily Free Press Staff

Chances are, if you grew up in Canada, you learned how to ice skate at a relatively young age.

Chances are, if you have relatives playing professional sports, you have a pretty athletic set of genes.

And, chances are, if those rela-tives were your father Geoff and uncle Russ Courtnall, and when you were born, they were in the midst of 17- and 16-year NHL careers, respectively, you wouldn’t have much of a choice but to play the sport yourself.

But Boston University men’s hockey forward Justin Courtnall beat chance: He did have a choice.

“I think that you have to love the game to be good at it, and you have to have fun playing it,” Geoff said. “So that’s why I didn’t push [Justin and his brother, Adam] when they were young.”

But, given the choice, Justin re-sponded exactly the way you would expect the son and nephew of NHL players to respond – he picked hock-ey.

Justin got skates for Christmas at age two, and realized his intense lev-el of sibling competitiveness about a year later. During the warmer months of their early years, he and Adam – 20 months Justin’s elder – ditched the ice skates for a different kind of blade.

“Even in the summer we’d have our roller blades on and get all marked up,” Justin said. “My dad was always there helping us and making sure we were learning. From a really young age we always wanted to play hockey.”

Justin’s obsession was fed by Geoff bringing his sons to the rink on game days on a regular basis, and slowly but surely Justin let other sports – soccer, baseball and golf among them – fall by the wayside in favor of Canada’s favorite.

But the factor that got Justin so close to the game at such a young ago, his father’s career, proved to be a double-edged sword. Due to the travel, Geoff had to leave his family for weeks at a time during the season, leaving a heavier load for his wife Penni, who had to handle the crazy youth hockey schedule on his own.

The mother’s effort certainly didn’t escape her younger son.

“She’s always been behind the scenes a little bit; she was the one taking my brother and I to 6 a.m. practices,” Justin said laughing. “I was fortunate to have my mom, who

has been there for me. She’s been a great mom and has helped raise my brother and I when my dad was gone for those long periods of time.”

Just as his mom’s remarkable commitment didn’t escape Justin, his family’s notoriety didn’t escape him either. Starting around early adoles-cence, players on other teams went after Justin “because of the name on

my back,” he said.“I had some guys rooting against

me just because of who I was,” Jus-tin said. “That will always kind of be there, but I notice . . . guys are much more skilled and that’s not really much of a problem [at BU] because you’re just worried about going out there and playing your position and focusing on the game.”

The pseudo-bullying likely wasn’t helped by the fact that for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons Jus-tin was a member of his hometown Victoria Grizzlies of the British Co-lumbia Hockey League, under the tutelage of none other than his dad himself, the team’s head coach.

Both father and son agreed that Geoff was harder on Justin than any other player, but with reason – Justin was simply one of the best.

“You feel like when you’re coach-ing your own son you don’t want to be easy on him, you don’t want people basically pass judgment that he’s getting a free ride,” Geoff said. “And then also from basically raising him you want the best for him, and I was trying to push him to be a better player.”

Justin harbors no hard feelings or bitter resentment, though. In fact, he was grateful that he had the opportu-nity for his life-long mentor to coach him on the ice, and learned lessons he carries with him today.

like that,” Justin said. “He taught me a lot and made me a better player and person. I learned a lot from him in both aspects, especially around the rink. I get a lot of my work ethic from him.”

Now an assistant captain for the

2011-12 season at BU, Justin contin-

play.The 6-foot-3, 215-pound junior

fought for ice time his freshman sea-son, playing in 21 games but scor-ing no points, a trend that continued through the beginning of his sopho-more year.

Then he got his opportunity.

“Fortunately [BU coach Jack] Parker gave me a break and put me in a lot of games and started put-

Courtnall said. “It was a lot easier to play once I had a few games under

comfortable in the lineup.”According to Parker, Justin – a

self-described “late bloomer” – start-ed improving, showing a ton of effort and physicality whenever he put on skates. Justin’s ability doesn’t always shine through during practice, Parker said, but once he gets on the ice dur-ing a game he becomes a critical slice of the BU offense.

Justin tallied three goals and three assists in 32 games last year, with two goals and one assist coming dur-

against Northeastern University, a series BU ultimately lost two games to one. Hitting his stride right as the team’s season ended was a frustrating climax for the then-sophomore on a rather young team, but he’s using it to motivate him this year.

Justin’s evolution as a player has even led Parker to second guess his own role in the Victoria, British Co-lumbia native’s development.

“He’s a piece of the puzzle for a certain line or the piece of the puzzle for the team, and all of those things added up to him performing better

said. “Maybe we should have given him more games earlier to let him show us that.”

For now, both father and son in-sist Justin is focusing on his studies. After taking a School of Hospital-ity Administration introduction class last year, Justin decided to focus his

education in SHA, with aspirations of opening his own restaurant – again following in the footsteps of his fa-ther, a former restaurant owner.

That said, although his profes-sional prospects aren’t as bright as those of some of his teammates, there is still a bit of hope that Justin will continue the family trend and make the NHL.

The Tampa Bay Lightning drafted him in the seventh round and 210th overall in the 2007 NHL draft. Since the two parties didn’t come to agreement on a contract, Tampa Bay has since lost his rights, but Justin still talks to some teams as a free agent.

This past summer, Justin attended a week-long training camp with the Vancouver Canucks, one of the premier or-

ganizations in the NHL and a team fresh off of a Stanley Cup Finals ap-pearance.

“Canucks camp was great,” Jus-

tin said. “I was fortunate enough to learn a lot and have a lot of good ex-periences while I was there. Going to those camps opens your eyes to a lot of new things – it shows you how hard you need to work.”

Geoff’s career itself – all 17 years, 1,048 games, 367 goals and 1,462 penalty minutes of it – stands as a source of inspiration for Justin. Geoff successfully climbed the ranks of professional hockey as an undrafted free agent, giving the pair even just a sliver of hope that Justin can do the same.

Chances are, Justin won’t make the NHL, just like a vast majority of college hockey players. Chances are, he’ll graduate from SHA and, by applying the determination and hard work that has gotten his hockey ca-reer this far, he’ll eventually own his own restaurant.

But, chances are, one can never rule out the possibility for such a driven player, and a Courtnall at that.

to see another Courtnall in the NHL someday, and hopefully it’s Justin,” Geoff said. “You just never know.”


All in the family: Courtnall uses roots to drive successBy Tim Healey



Junior Justin Courtnall is an assistant captain this season.

Terriers return most of strong defensive corePRIVIEW: From page 8

I had some guys rooting against me

just because of who I was.

-Justin Courtnall,

Men’s hockey assistant captain

the season with 10 goals and a career-high 21 assists in 36 ap-pearances.

On the blue line, the Terriers are returning six players from last year’s team that ranked seventh in the nation for team defense.

Seniors Tara Watchorn and Kasey Boucher lead this year’s defensemen.

Last season, Watchorn netted six goals and had 19 assists for a total of 25 points on the season. Boucher, who was named one of the team’s assistant captains for

with four goals and 10 assists. “They’re slightly different

hockey players,” Durocher said of Watchorn and Boucher. “Tara is a kid who has tons of range, a

tremendous shot, all the skill in the world. Kasey probably plays a little more of a defenseman’s style.”

Tara Watchorn has yet to play a game this season, however, be-cause of the lingering effects of a concussion that she suffered while at the Canadian national team’s camp in August.

Rounding out the team’s de-fense are junior Kathryn Miller, who was named the team’s Most Improved Player last season, sophomore Kaleigh Fratkin, who had one goal last season along with nine assists, and senior Carly Warren, who is the other assistant captain on the team.

“I see people every year that I’m hoping to see step forward and without a doubt Kathryn Miller on the blue line last year

was our Most Improved Player and had a fantastic sophomore year,” Durocher said. “Kaleigh Fratkin is a talented defensemen and Carly Warren is someone who’s been kind of a steady eddy all throughout her career.”

In the net, sophomore Kerrin Sperry will look to repeat a strong rookie season where she won the title of starting goaltender on her way to 21-4-3 record. The net-minder was 14th in the nation last season with a .929 save percent-age in 28 appearances.

“Kerrin Sperry certainly estab-lished herself as the number one kid last year,” Durocher said.

Junior Alissa Fromkin and sophomore Braly Hiller will also most likely get some time in net.

The Terriers welcome four new faces and one redshirt fresh-

man to the squad this year. Most notable are Shannon Stoneburgh, who will join the team’s group of defenseman, and forward Kayla Tutino.

“Shannon, she’s a kid with her best days ahead of her,” Durocher said. “I think through the work of Darcy Gould and our strength and conditioning program, she will get nothing but better in her bal-ance, agility and movement.

“Kayla Tutino is an extremely hard working kid. Very strong, very competitive . . . We think she’s going to be somebody people recognize here quickly at BU.”

Redshirt freshman Caroline Campbell will also help out on the blue line as soon as she recov-ers from an ankle injury that will likely keep her out of play for an-

other three weeks. Campbell was out for the entirety of last season because of a concussion.

“I expect her to be more than a freshman, more than somebody

she’s been around for a while,” Durocher said.

his team’s talent, he believes the team will need more than that to compete against the other Hockey East teams this season.

“We work hard every day,” Durocher said. “We prepare for what’s going on in games and certainly we know that we’ve got a very talented league here – a league that continues to grow with more and more elite players that are choosing schools here in the Hockey East.”

Roughly a year ago, the Boston University women’s hockey team started off its season on the road against the University of North Da-kota. In the two-game series, which the Terriers would split with the Fight-ing Sioux, a new addition to the team began the process of integrating her name into the BU record books.

The player, a transfer from the University of New Hampshire, had a history of being a strong athlete and

game against North Dakota, then-ju-

on to lose.

two more goals and have two assists

earned her the title of Hockey East’s Pure Hockey Player of the Week.

During the course of the next six

one point in 29 games, established career highs in assists and points,

matched a career high in goals and became the record holder for the BU single-season goals and points record with 32 goals and 54 points.

“She is a very, very hard worker and also a very intense individual as far as preparation, focus and her goals,” said BU coach Brian Durocher

the ice, it stands out in the weight room and it even stands out in the way she carries herself around campus.”

These were the reasons that led to

the 2011-12 Terrier squad – a squad that has a target on its back because of extreme success last season.

“On the ice, she is a courageous kid, very tough,” Durocher said. “We’ve talked about the obvious skills that she has: size, hands, speed and a tremendous shot.

“But I look from a personality standpoint. She’s a very focused per-son and that’s the reason her team saw her as a good prospect to be a captain here.”

This on-ice ability is what led to

career with New Hampshire and the Canadian national team in 2007.

In her rookie season with the

27, than any other rookie in the na-tion, leading her to the title of Hockey

efforts assisted her team in making it to the Frozen Four.

In UNH’s 3-2 loss to the Univer-sity of Minnesota during the Frozen

temporary, lead. During the same season, Wake-

-tions Cup with the Canadian national team.

“It’s been a long ride with them,”

Canada. “You never know kind of where you’re sitting just ‘cause there are so many good Canadian players coming up the system. It’s just been amazing to be able to travel all over the country.”

-tinued to improve, leading the con-

Memorial Award, an honor presented to the best Division I women’s hockey player.

“She has a lot of experience,” said current teammate and assistant captain Kasey Boucher. “I think she always comes to the rink, to the games, ready to play. She’s a really intense player.”

For the second-straight year, -

tions Cup. However, her involvement with the national team was about to reach a whole new level. The 20-year-old took a year off from college to play for the Olympic team.

Despite her obvious abilities, the Pickering, Ontario native was cut from the team in late December due to a broken wrist. She did, however, remain with the team as an alternate.

to make a decision on what she want-ed to do. UNH was no longer a part of that picture.

-ing for New Hampshire. “I don’t re-gret it. We had a very good team, we were able to go to the Frozen Four… Just after the year of centralization, I

me anymore. I wanted more of a city atmosphere.”

While making her decision, Wake-

from the Canadian squad. “I really wanted to stay in Hockey

East and I really kind of like the area just being in the city and just Boston,”

Watchorn and Jenelle Kohanchuk and I talked to them a bit before contacting

Boston University and they had noth-ing but good things to say.”

with the Terriers. “It’s honestly such a pleasure to be

able to work with somebody with her work ethic,” said senior defender and assistant captain Carly Warren. “She came into our program and she’s been a part of Team Canada for such a long time.

“I think the caliber of that and the effort she’s put into that transferred over when she came into our pro-gram.”

-

the Terriers surpass Mercyhurst Col-lege and advance to the Frozen Four.

At the team’s annual banquet in

an honor that came with an under-standing of the responsibilities the job would entail.

said. “I know I’ve heard a lot about previous captains, and I was able to be on the team when Holly Lorms was captain so I know it’s a big responsi-

those shoes.”

Warren didn’t seem concerned about her teammates’ ability to lead the Terriers.

“It’s just how she presents herself that you know that you have to give it to her,” Warren said.

“She’s a good leader because when you’re on the ice with her and stuff she’s so passionate about the game and she’s so passionate about our team that everybody wants to work hard and be good for her, be good for them-selves and be good for our program.”

the Terriers. The captain started off her second season with BU against North

Walter Brown Arena. The team split

points in the win, with two goals and

was named the Hockey East Player of the Week.

-nior season are the same as her goals for the team as its captain.

“I feel like my goals for myself and the team are just to be better than

-fully build another contender for the national championship and hopefully win the Beanpot and hopefully Hock-ey East.”

PAGE 8 Thursday, October 6, 2011

A Wake to Remember: Transfer to captain in 12 monthsBy Meredith Perri


Unfinished business: Women return after loss in championship gameBy Meredith Perri


We also returned a pretty good group of tal-

ented players here that are going to make our team

on paper a pretty good team.

-Brian Durocher,

women’s hockey coach

U-JIN LEE/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The women’s hockey team celebrates a goal during the 2010-11 season.

With a Hockey East title and an NCAA championship game in its recent history, the No. 2 Bos-ton University women’s hockey team has successfully embla-zoned a target on it’s back for the upcoming season.

The Terriers, who were picked as the preseason favorite in Hock-ey East, were ranked second in the nation by U.S. College Hock-ey Online – the highest national preseason ranking in the team’s seven years of existence.

“We’ve had two seasons of pretty high recognition,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “That ob-viously creates a bit of a target for your opponents. We also returned a pretty good group of talented players here that are going to make our team on paper a pretty good team.”

In the season following the team’s most successful campaign

as of yet, BU will return most of its high-caliber players despite losing four to graduation. Missing from the team’s roster this year are forwards Holly Lorms, Jil-lian Kirchner, Lauren Cherewyk and defenseman Catherine Ward, the latter of whom was named the

American.Even though

they have lost three forwards, BU can still be expected to have one of the most dynamic offensive lines in the nation.

Leading the charge is senior forward and captain Jenn Wake-

after a career year where she broke the BU single-season re-cords for goals with 32 and points with 54.

“Jenn is one of the best goal

scorers anywhere,” Durocher said. “[She’s a] big strong kid who’s hard to match up against because she can be a line in her-self sometimes. She just has a lot of talent, a lot of individual goals

and strengths.”Expected to help lead the team

in points was sophomore forward and assistant captain Marie-Philip Poulin who, despite missing near-ly a month last season because of a wrist injury, still netted the sec-ond highest amount of goals on the team with 24.

-

ed for 56 combined goals last sea-son, which makes up more than 42 percent of the teams offensive output.

“Marie-Philip Poulin is an-other highly decorated player that

can do everything in the game,” Durocher said.

The Terriers, how-ever, will likely be without Poulin until December because of an abdominal in-jury that the standout player suffered in

games. Despite the dent that would put

in the team’s offense, Durocher is convinced that it shouldn’t hurt the team too much.

“I think it has to be done by committee,” Durocher said of how the team will make up for the offensive loss. “If [Poulin] was to give us ‘X’ amount of points and

by committee we can get 60, 70, 80 percent of those points and play hard and play tough defen-sively, I still think there’s an aw-ful lot of talent here to succeed.”

One of the players that may pick up some of the slack from the Poulin injury is transfer stu-dent Isabel Menard. The junior forward, who played at Syracuse University the past two seasons, has already proved that she can handle the Terriers’ pace with

of play. “[Menard] is a very accom-

plished college hockey player,” Durocher said. “She will be some-body that comes into the lineup not as a typical freshman with their eyes uncertain of what’s ahead of them, but somebody who comes here with plenty of knowl-edge of college hockey.”

Flying “under the radar,” ac-cording to Durocher, is senior

PREVIEW, see page 7

U-JIN LEE/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Terriers.

dfp 10 6 all merged

Documents