Prospective Boston University student Brooke Eyer said BU was her first choice.

“I really wanted to go there, and when I saw that the letter said ‘congratulations,’ I was go-ing nuts and telling everyone,” she said. ”Then I saw that it was for January 2013 and that re-ally caught me off guard.”

The high school senior from Oakland, N.J., is one of a “fairly small number of 85 to 100 students,” who were accepted to BU for Spring 2013 instead of Fall 2012, said BU Executive Director of Admissions Kelly Walter.

“It changed my mind a little, but I’m still going to try to work it out,” Eyer said.

Walter said this was partially due to the strong group of applicants.

“Because our pool was so large and so strong, we made a decision to offer a number of students a place in our class — but for Janu-ary,” Walter said. “There is a January class at the university and there always has been. So rather than having these students reapply for January, we’re giving them the option [now] to begin their studies in January.”

Prospective students said they didn’t know the school admitted students for the spring se-mester rather than for the fall.

“I was afraid I accidentally applied for Jan-uary. I didn’t understand why my letter didn’t say September at first,” said Alex Ben-Jakov, a high school senior from Benicia, Calif., who said she will consider entering BU in 2013.

After the initial shock, she said she calmed down. But even after realizing she had definite-ly been accepted, she said she still felt disap-pointed.

“I won’t be entering BU with the rest of my class and get the real freshman experience, such as coming to school for the first time,” she said.

Ben-Jakov said despite the modified “fresh-men experience,” she remains confident that she’ll meet people and find friends.

Rosa Dale-Moore from Rainier, Ore., also received a January acceptance from BU. She said she is concerned she will miss key experi-

College of Arts and Sciences Student Government slates for the spring 2012 elec-tion were released Saturday on the Boston University Student Elections Commission website.

SEC listed profiles for two slates, CAS New Directions and BAAAM, which an-nounced their candidacy.

CAS students running in BAAAM in-clude junior Alexandra Michel as presi-dent, sophomore Avia Bui as executive vice president, sophomore Melissa Chua as vice president of financial affairs, junior Ashley Vineyard as vice president of internal af-fairs and sophomore Robert Patrovic as vice president of student affairs.

Winning the election would allow BAAAM to reach out to students whose voices are otherwise not heard, Michel said.

“I’ve basically volunteered to hold events just because I know students want-ed to do it,” Michel said. “Throughout the

course of this year, I’ve been watching dif-ferent members of the student government of CAS, and there’s a lack of volunteering to hold events, to do extra shifts at the [George Sherman Union] Link, basically just not a lot of motivation from the students.”

As junior class president, Michel said she listened to students’ concerns about not having enough non-carbonated beverages in CAS, and she was able to get two additional vending machines placed in the building.

CAS students running as CAS New Di-rections include junior Blyss Buitrago as president, junior Abigail Ridley-Kerr as executive vice president, junior Marcos Villarreal as vice president of financial af-fairs, junior Megan Ware as vice president of internal affairs and sophomore Nicolas Pantages as vice president of student affairs.

CAS New Directions’ platform promotes a greater outreach to the student body and better communication between student groups and college governments, Buitrago said in an email interview.

“My slate and I have been involved with CAS Student Government since our fresh-men year, so we definitely feel that our ex-perience and perspective on how CAS has been run allows us to take what has and hasn’t worked in the past and the see how we can raise the bar,” she said.

Buitrago said she has deep-rooted rela-tionships with administration and a number of student groups on campus.

Though Student Union has recently changed its election cycle and will hold elec-tions again in the fall, CAS Student Govern-ment will continue to run on a semester year election cycle, Buitrago said.

“I do believe that switching to a calendar year cycle is definitely something to consid-er as it has many pros and cons,” she said. “Yet, the decision to switch or not stems from what cons are worth dealing with in order to benefit from the pros.”

Elections will take place from April 16 to April 24, and students in any college can vote via the Student Link.

Boston University’s Invisible Children awaits the upcoming sequel to “Kony 2012,” which will provide updated info on the Lord’s Resistance Army, led by warlord Joseph Kony, in Uganda.

The video will include an update on “Cover the Night,” scheduled for April 20 nationwide, and will detail the activities of the LRA to show the army and its outcomes are “still prevalent and still active,” said Amanda Crawford-Staub, BU’s Invisible Children president and a Col-lege of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

“The second video is really targeted at people who really do want to stay educated and who want to know what they can do next toward the ultimate goal of ending the war,” Crawford-Staub said.

“Kony 2012: Part II” is expected to be re-

leased this week. BU IC gained more than 200 new members

on Facebook a few days after “Kony 2012” premiered March 5, Crawford-Staub said.

The group is set to screen “Kony 2012” for an audience Wednesday. Invisible Children representatives and a “roadie” from Uganda will be in attendance.

The original 30-minute video, which aimed to make Kony “famous” for capture, gained Internet fame with nearly 87 million views on YouTube since its release.

Many students were critical of how much money Invisible Children spends to create its campaigns, including production and travel costs, Crawford-Staub said.

“People forget that Invisible Children is not an ordinary nonprofit,” Crawford-Staub said. “They work to produce videos. They started out as filmmakers.”

However, other critics of Invisible Children and the campaign, such as College of Arts and Sciences freshman Luca Moneti Schliemann, said the nonprofit organization oversimplifies a complex problem.

“People felt the need to share [“Kony 2012”] with others,” Schliemann said. “I think they had the misconception that simply by shar-ing the video they were actually doing some-thing to help the cause, whereas [in reality] they weren’t actually getting up and trying to work themselves to try to find a solution to the prob-lem.”

Schliemann said the bad press about director Jason Rusell removing his pants in the streets of San Diego during a mental breakdown turned his interest away from the campaign.

“I knew that there was nothing in my power

Boston economic and mortgage experts said increased demand in the housing or property market might not have anything to do with mortgage rates, which a Freddie Mac survey reveals have been slowly on the rise.

The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose from lows in February to a little more than 4 percent for the week ending on March 22. The rates broke the 4 percent barrier for the first time since October 2011, when the rates averaged 4.1 percent, according to a Freddie Mac press release.

Freddie Mac Vice President and CEO Frank Nothaft said in the press release that mortgage rates are “catching up with in-creases in U.S. Treasury bond yields.”

“Bond yields rose over the past two weeks in part due to an improving assess-ment of the state of the economy by the Fed-eral Reserve, better than expected results of commercial bank stress tests and the likeli-hood of a second bailout for Greece,” No-thaft said.

But the slight increase in mortgage rates may signal an improved economy.

Cameron Dietrich, a senior loan consul-tant at the Boston-based MBA Mortgage Corporation, said the general trend is that when the economy is good, the rates are usually bad and vice versa.

Dietrich said the increase in demand might have more to do with people’s con-fidence in the economy than the mortgage rates.

“I think the fear is starting to alleviate,” Dietrich said. “People have been fearful of owning and buying over the past couple of years.”

Paula Callaghan, realtor at McCormick & Scanlan Real Estate in Jamaica Plain, said she has noticed a recent increase in demand for properties in Boston.

“There’s more than one demand on mul-tiple properties I’m seeing here [compared to] last year if there was a property on the market,” Callaghan said. “I think the market is hot right now and people are taking ad-vantage of the rates.”

But Dietrich said the recent increase in housing demand is correlated with the mort-gage rates, since the rates were just as good last year.

“As far as purchases from last March to this March . . . it seems like more people

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A Boston University School of Medicine professor revealed liver proteins could help prevent lung infections.

Joseph Mizgerd and his col-league Lee Quinton found that a mutated gene in the liver can help stop infections such as pneu-monia, according to a BU press release. He published his research in The Journal of Clinical Investi-gation online Tuesday.

“While the acute-phase re-sponse was discovered in 1930, the mechanism and meaning be-hind the changes in certain blood protein concentrations are not well understood,” Mizgerd said in a press release.

Mizgerd and Quinton dis-covered the significance of the acute-phase response - when blood proteins change - during a lung infection, Mizgerd said in an interview with The Daily Free Press.

This identification allows re-searchers to discover why the changes matter.

In the study, researchers mutat-ed two genes in liver cells, which

Many Massachusetts residents still have no idea what Hepatitis C is, said state Rep. Carl Sciortino, of Medford, adding that the liver-inflaming disease has become a “si-lent epidemic.”

About 40 advocates lobbied at the State House Tuesday for a $4 million increase in funding for ser-vices for those living with or at risk for viral hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and STDs.

A $4 million increase would mark about a 13 percent increase from the approximately $31 mil-lion HIV/AIDS prevention, treat-ment and services budget for fiscal year 2012.

“We have a lot of work to do and that’s what you’re contributing to today,” said Sciortino, who said his mother had lived unaware of her hepatitis for more than 20 years.

Members of the Massachusetts Viral Hepatitis Coalition spoke of the importance of sharing stories of people affected by hepatitis with state representatives before the House Committee on Ways and Means releases its budget proposal next Wednesday.

The issue is not just an individu-al struggle, but also a public health challenge and issue, said Rebecca Haag, president and CEO of the AIDS Action Committee.

“What we really need to do is . . . care for people and provide ser-vices for people currently infected . . . and help them lead healthy, productive lives, just as we do in other diseases,” Haag said, adding, “but we have a second burden here, which is really [to] raise awareness about viral hepatitis and the impact of that.”

Of the 100,000 people with

viral hepatitis in Massachusetts, about 1,000 of them are among teens and young adults largely due to the shared use of injection drug equipment, according to the Com-mon Health for the Commonwealth 2010 report.

From 2002 to 2009, the rate of Hepatitis C infection among this age group has doubled.

“The longer we delay testing and the longer we delay screening, the more expensive [and] profound the impact is for those living with it,” Sciortino said.

Gary Langis, 63, of Gloucester, a consumer advocate who said he has been living with Hepatitis C for 26 years, shared his daily struggles “just to get rolling.”

“I think right now the worst thing . . . what really hurts is the fa-tigue,” Langis said.

He said that hepatitis affects not only those with the disease, but also families and communities as well.

Langis said after his wife died of HIV, he began doing prevention work, volunteering in clinical trials and keeping in touch with state rep-resentatives.

“I know this stuff that we do – talking to legislators – makes a dif-ference,” he said.

Funding for hepatitis services was only recently added to the budget line, said Deborah Silva, director of public policy at AAC, but despite the added services, the state budget for HIV/AIDS has de-creased.

Attendees were given a chance to introduce themselves to share their reasons for lobbying.

Among them were members of the Massachusetts Nurses Asso-ciation and AAC Needle Exchange

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The Boston Globe’s Movies and Book Development Editor Janice Page said the Globe has “a treasure trove” of information on Fenway Park in a panel discuss-ing a book that commemorates the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, “Fenway Park: A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America.”

Tuesday’s panel consisted of several current and former Bos-

ton Globe staff members, includ-ing Page, sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy and book authors Ron Driscoll and John Powers.

Bill Littlefield, the host of WBUR’s “Only a Game,” served as the interviewer for the panel.

The Globe has had a long-standing relationship with Fen-way Park dating back to when Charles Taylor, one of the paper’s early publishers, purchased the Red Sox as a gift for his son John Taylor in 1904.

“I think there was always a sense and a knowledge that the

Globe was going to do a book about Fenway Park’s 100th an-niversary because of the ties that Joe and Bill alluded to between the park and the Taylor family that owned the Globe from the beginning, and the close ties that they had,” Driscoll, a former copy editor for the Globe, said.

The members on the panel said that the Globe felt compelled to write the book because of the prominence Fenway Park has had as an institution in the city of Boston.

“There’s a reason why people think of it as a combination of a town hall, a temple, cathedral, backyard and living room,” Page said. “We own that park as citi-zens of this place as much as any-thing else.”

Powers, a sports writer for the paper, said while doing research for the book it was interesting to see how the practice of journal-ism has evolved with the game of baseball.

Powers said when he tried to find a quote from the park’s open-ing day he could not because the journalists did not include any in their stories.

“It was fascinating to see not only how baseball has changed, and how Boston has changed, but also how journalism has changed,” Powers said.

But one thing that has not changed over the years is Fenway Park itself.

When Littlefield asked the panel how close the owners came to building a new park in the early 2000s, the Globe cohorts were unanimous in their assertion that the project was never close to happening.

Powers said the fans would have never allowed it.

“We like keeping old stuff around,” he said. “How many cit-ies have an old state house and the new state house, the old city hall and the new city hall, the old Han-cock building and the new Han-cock building?”

Shaughnessy said that the fans’ devotion to the park, despite its age and all of its infamously ob-structed views, is a testament to their loyalty.

“I’m amazed. The fans really don’t complain about it,” Shaugh-nessy said. “That’s a credit to the people who soldier on there, year after year.”

The crowd cheered when they heard things they liked, hissed when a New Yorker asked a ques-tion and heckled when they dis-agreed with the speakers.

Allan Knowles, an attendee, said at his first Fenway game he was struck by the Green Mon-ster, Fenway’s famous wall in left field.

“It was incredible,” Knowles said. “I heard that same feeling described by several other guys tonight, which was nice.”

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ences such as the First-Year Student Outreach Project in August. She also said the prospect of being stuck with an already-rejected roommate wor-ried her.

“I’m very ready for college,” she said. “If I could, I would start next week.”

Many of the prospective students said they shared her eagerness, add-ing that they would not only prefer to start in the fall, but also want to graduate with their class, despite the Admissions website’s suggestion that they spend eight semesters in college rather than seven.

“My initial reaction was that I might be behind everyone else, which would push back graduation,” Ben-Jakov said. “I figured that I would be able to catch up with sum-mer classes and my AP credits.”

In addition to worrying about possible academic disadvantages, Dale-Moore said she is concerned about social disadvantages.

“I think it would be much harder to find friends,” Dale-Moore said. “I come from a small school, so it would already be hard to find a niche at such a big university and more so if you arrive half a year late.”

BU spokesman Colin Riley said making friends should not be too hard for anyone.

“The biggest, probably most common perception of freshmen is that they may get lost in the shuffle on such a big campus,” he said. “But it’s the biggest unrealized concern by the end of your time here.”

While choosing between entering BU in January or accepting offers of fall admission from other colleges, a number of prospective BU students said they also must consider what to do with the four-month lapse.

Ben-Jakov said the promise of a gap-semester interests her even though she will feel disappointed when her high school friends start college without her.

“I’m not 100 percent sure what I would do during that semester. . . . My mom really likes the idea of me having the semester off,” Ben-Jakov said. “It would be fun to travel. My alternative would be to take classes or probably get a job.”

Dale-More also said she would try to keep busy during the time be-tween the end of high school and the beginning of college.

“I would get to do a lot of things - volunteer, travel, make some money,” Dale-Moore said. “If BU had given me admission in Septem-ber, there would be no choice in my mind, but the caveat is going in Janu-ary. It’s definitely making my choice a little harder.”

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are purchasing,” he said. “Interest rates are doing better, but I don’t think it has anything to do with rates.”

Rates probably will not have a huge influence on the housing market right now, said Professor Marc Rysman, who teaches eco-nomics at Boston University. If they continue to rise, he said, the rates would be more impactful.

Callaghan said she has noticed a recent trend of people saving their money to place down pay-ments of up to 25 percent on prop-erties.

The buyers who were waiting to see if the mortgage rates would drop are actually saving more

money, she said.Callaghan said she thinks the

spike in interest rates is just a phase.

“I think [rates] will stabilize. I think its at a phase right now; it’s a good spike but I don’t think it’s going to spike like three years ago,” she said. “If the rates were to spike they would be around the 5 to 5.5 percent [range], which is quite good.”

It is impossible to predict whether the rate would go up or down, Rysman said.

“If the rate were going to go up,” he said, “they would be high-er right now and if they were going to go down they would be lower right now.”

that I could immediately do to help,” Schliemann said. “Simply being aware of the problem is a good thing, spreading the word to other people who do have the potential to help is a good thing, but I just didn’t think that I had the means to do that.”

COM junior Julie Ha said though the campaign is powerful, she ques-tioned the veracity and genuineness of the video.

“It’s sort of like the whole Occupy

Wall Street thing – everyone’s just so hyped up about it,” Ha said. “Not everyone really knows the depth of this.”

However, College of Engineering freshman Garrett Moore said IC’s campaign has brought attention to the events in Central Africa.

“People need to keep in mind that although Jason Russell was the lead-er, he was not the movement,” Moore said. “I’m glad that it has promoted awareness for the conflict.”

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In a world that is concerned with tech-nological advancement, computer usage has increased dramatically. We use them in educational and professional settings, and we have now integrated them into our lives to such an extent that we can’t imagine life without them. Now, in order to meet this demand for computer profi-ciency, some colleges are demanding that students be required to take a computer class. Amidst other classes such as writ-ing, history and social sciences that are often required for certain programs, there has been increased support for a computer science class to become part of the core classes students must take in order to graduate.

According to an article published in The New York Times on Monday, the va-riety of computer science classes at col-leges is significant. Some classes require students to immediately delve into com-plicated programming material, while others are more theoretical in their ap-proach. Of course, having a computer science requirement independent of any other would have to accommodate stu-dents who are averse to taking courses filled with technical jargon and compli-cated material.

Many of the members of our genera-tion are already at a superior level of fa-miliarity with computers in comparison to our parents and grandparents. And for most jobs, at least in the foreseeable fu-ture, having extensive knowledge of com-puter programming and encoding web-sites can be reserved for those who are majoring in math and computer science. Unfortunately, pushing a challenging computer course on students who know they will not succeed could be viewed as a waste. Students will be frustrated with their academic performance, especially if they know taking such a challenging class – one they have limited interest in – is re-quired. If we want to educate the young generation on computer proficiency, we could probably implement this at high schools.

Of course, if the classes that are made mandatory manage to gage the skill level and aptitude of these non-major students and tailor the course to their needs, the new rule can be a success. However, if this initiative is poorly executed without taking into consideration students’ needs, the effort will ultimately collapse and the departments involved would have to re-evaluate its effectiveness.

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MARIA GELLEPES

For one month I didn’t have a working cell phone. Today I fi-nally got my phone back from being repaired. “But Maria,

how can you go a whole month without a cell phone? Didn’t you die without being able to text people?” No, I have no prob-lem with going without my cell phone for long amounts of time. Call me crazy (or Maria, whatever works), but I don’t see the need for us to be constantly attached to our mobile devices.

“But Maria, if I don’t respond to a text the second after I receive it the whole world will explode!” No, imaginary con-versation partner, it will not. “Maria, you don’t understand, if I turn my phone off for a few minutes I may miss an important text or call! I can’t turn off my phone.” Once again, I assure that if you turn your phone off for a few minutes the world will still be fine.

It seems like many people around me are too attached to their cell phones. I wish people could not worry so much about who is contacting them every five seconds. The most annoying people I encounter during my everyday walk to my classes are the “text-walkers.” This may be horrible, but every time I see a person walking towards me while they are staring blindly at their phone I want to trip them. Let’s get real, BU – If I trip them they won’t even no-tice me because they will be so busy tex-ting that they won’t see me coming. Now, I don’t know if I could ever actually trip them, but I have wanted to trip many peo-

ple that have almost walked into me. I hate that this society has created

phone-obsessed zombies. Is it so hard for people to put their phones down for five minutes and just walk around like a normal person? How about if you have an urgent text message, you sit down on a bench and finish reading and writing it there, instead of almost running into me while you are staring at your iPhone! Oy vey!

People also seem to lack manners these days when they are using their cell phones. I absolutely hate it when I’m eating with a friend and while we are conversing they are texting on their phone. Those friends of mine need to learn table manners ASAP. If you are eating with me you need to eat with me and not with your texting buddy.

We survived many years without cell phones so there’s no reason why we need to be so attached to them now. I long for the days of yore when people weren’t so attached to their cell phones. So, read-ers, don’t worry about me not having a cell phone for a month. I was quite happy without it, and if I ever have to give up my phone again I know I will be fine. I can go one month without my phone; how long can you go without yours?

Maria Gellepes is a senior in the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences and a weekly col-umnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at mg887@bu.edu

Often, when we are describing what our world would be like in the future, we imagine conveyor belts as sidewalks, holographic figures emerging out of fu-turistic phones, flying cars and other in-conceivable gadgets making human life infinitely more convenient. According to an article published in The Christian Science Monitor yesterday, one of these dreams is soon to be a reality: The Ter-rafugia Transition is a flying vehicle that can fold itself into a car. The car – or plane? – needs a runway to launch into the air. The vehicle, which has been in a testing phase, completed its first flight on Monday and can fly into the air to an alti-tude of 1,400 feet.

Of course, such a novel product is incredibly expensive. The car costs ap-proximately $279,000. Despite the ob-scene price, more than 100 people have already paid the $10,000 deposit required to reserve a guaranteed flying car. Fur-thermore, the relevant governmental or-ganizations have already made sure any traffic laws that would bar this vision from appearing on our streets and airport

runways were surpassed. Of course, the initial expense will be supplemented by costly fuel and maintenance costs when the vehicle eventually branches out into the wider consumer market. In order to garner media attention to the new inven-tion, the flying car will be introduced at the New York Auto Show.

While this is definitely an exciting new venture, such a drastic change in private transportation will need a lot of consider-ation. How does anyone intend to regulate traffic for a vehicle that can be operated both on and above public roads? In ad-dition, authorities have allegedly waived some safety measures to make sure the vehicle is light enough. Will this compro-mise the overall security of the flying car? Unfortunately, much more time will have to pass before we know whether we’re dawning on a new way of life or anoth-er valiant attempt at change. Naturally, consumers will be hesitant to spend such an enormous amount of money on a car, which can only fly from a runway. How-ever, with additional progress, we could be on the brink of significant change.

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with being its coach. In his three years on the job since then, Calipari has regu-larly and continuously announced that he feels he has the greatest job in the coach-ing profession, and I believe him. Surely, his record in those three years both on the court and the recruiting trail serve as sound evidence to the statement’s validity. It is important to note, however, that it might be the most demanding in the profession as well.

The Kentucky basketball program is a perfect storm of tradition, expectations and unwavering fan support. On the surface, those defining characteristics are all ex-ceedingly positive and are not uncommon on many campuses across the country.

At Kentucky though, everything is magnified. Simply put, Kentuckians care more about their basketball program, and given the legacy of their flagship program, they have every right to be accustomed to excellence.

For many coaches, the daunting task of weathering the Big Blue storm would not be worth the headache. Surely, some have turned down job offers because of it. Oth-ers, like Calipari’s predecessor Billy Gil-lispie, have buckled under the pressure and have shown themselves woefully unquali-fied for the job. Calipari, on the other hand, is the perfect fit to helm the program.

What separates Calipari from Gillispie and others is not solely his God-given abil-ity to coach. It’s not his unmatched recruit-ing record either. Calipari is the perfect coach for Kentucky because he needs the Big Blue Nation every bit as much as they need him.

To say that UK’s beloved coach Cal is the most misunderstood coach in sports

today would be no great stretch of the imagination. He is far too often tagged with names such as “used car salesman,” with his critics quick to connect his blue chip-laden recruiting classes to unfounded rumors of impropriety. He will be forever linked to his two vacated seasons, at Mem-phis and the University of Massachusetts, despite that in both cases, he himself was cleared of any wrongdoing.

Even those who do not find Calipari to be as morally repulsive as his rivals find ways to criticize his record and recruiting philosophy. His history of recruiting the controversial “one-and-done” players is oft critiqued. College basketball champion-ships cannot be won solely with NBA tal-ent, they said. For years, he has received an onslaught of criticism and vitriol from all sides. He is public enemy number one among basketball purists.

But at Kentucky, none of that mat-tered. He was taken in by the fan base, and given full support to coach and recruit as he pleased. The only stipulation being that he won. And recognizing that the passionate Big Blue Nation was just as misunderstood as he was, Calipari agreed to those terms.

In October 2009, Calipari addressed a sold-out Rupp Arena during the annual in-stallment of extravagance that is Big Blue Madness. In it, he announced “my vision is one of celebrations and banquets, diplomas and banners, rings and parades. A return of this legendary program back to its rightful place atop the mountain of college basket-ball.”

Monday night, he finally delivered on this promise, leading UK to its eight na-tional championship. In doing so, he has not only vindicated himself, but has given Big Blue Nation the ideal wedding gift to celebrate a perfect marriage.

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program, one of four state-sanctioned and funded syringe exchange programs that distribute and exchange syringes to active-injection drug users, according to the AAC website.

Daniel Church, epidemiologist and viral hepatitis coordinator at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Kevin Cranston, director of the Bureau of Infec-tious Disease at the DPH, said they attended in support of the lobbyists as they made their legislative visits.

“As state employees, we can’t lobby, but we’re here to support those of you who can,” Cranston said. “This is a time of in-credible challenge and incredible oppor-

tunity, and it’s time to make it clear to our state representatives about the opportunities that stand before us.”

Langis said sharing stories is an easy thing to do.

“All you have to do is change one per-son’s life,” he said.

State representatives need to better un-derstand these challenges and it all starts with one group of people, Haag said.

“It’s the basic works of politics. It’s the basic beginnings of a movement,” Haag said. “I know some of you are frustrated because you’ve done this before, but you know what? That can’t stop us. . . . I know many of you have gotten knocked down and now you have to climb back up, but where else is there to go?”

create the blood proteins that change dur-ing an acute-phase response, according to the press release.

Before an infection, the mutated genes had no effect.

When made to interact with pneumo-nia, however, the mutations prevented changes in blood proteins.

“It’s really important for preventing dissemination of infection out of that lo-cal fight,” Mizgerd said. “If you have pneumonia . . . [it] often progresses to what’s called bacteremia, a blood stream infection, but this acute response from the liver changes to blood proteins [to keep the infection from spreading].”

Mizgerd said the research may have a number of implications for basic medical care.

“A lot of these proteins are measured

in patients already, so we see that they change in response to acute diseases like pneumonia or chronic diseases like acro-sclerosis,” he said.

Tracking these changes will aid in the treatment of different ailments, Mizgerd added.

“Those changes in proteins tell us if [patients] are getting better or if they’re getting worse of if they’re having new types of changes,” he said.

“Instead of just being in the intensive period known for trauma they might have an infection on top of the original trauma that originally put them in the hospital.”

Other members of the research team include BUSM Professor Stephen Pelton, Computational Biomedicine Chief Avrum Spira and Plumonary Center Assistant Professor Matthew Jones, according to the press release.

After narrowly avoiding a sweep by conference rivals Stony Brook University, the Boston University women’s softball team will return to BU Softball Field Wednesday afternoon to take on Bryant University.

The last time the Terriers (20-11, 4-2 America East) played Bry-ant (7-17) was earlier this season in a slugfest the Terriers won 13-3. The Terriers hit a school-record 19 hits, breaking a 19-year-old record.

“I don’t want us to be too con-fident,” said BU coach Shawn Rychcik. “You know, we should be able to do a good job against them. I think we’re a better team, and as long as we do what we’re supposed to do we’ll be fine.”

The game was marked by high offensive production by the Terri-ers as seven of nine players had at

least two hits. Sophomores Jayme Mask, Amy Ekart and Chelsea O’Connor led the team with three hits each and rookie left fielder Mandy Fernandez recorded her first career home run and drove in a team-high four runs.

BU dominated the game from the beginning, putting three runs on the board in the first inning and continuing to put points up as junior pitcher Erin Schuppert held Bryant to three hits and three earned runs.

“You start looking past them or you take them too light, and you can get yourself in trouble,” Rychcik said.

It is this type of slugging pow-er that the struggling BU offense hopes to recreate on Wednesday afternoon. In the Terriers’ most recent game, they scored eight runs, all off of home runs, end-ing an offensive slump that had plagued BU for the last three

games.“I think we’re pretty focused.

We got handed a pretty good piece of humble pie this weekend,” Ry-chcik said. “So I think our goal is to get back on track and get ready for conference.”

Mask leads the Terriers’ of-fense as her .367 batting average and .436 on base percentage are both team-highs. Also contribut-ing to the Terriers’ offense is Ek-art, who, despite struggles in the series against Stony Brook, still leads the team with 20 RBIs.

This offensive push may be aided by the weakness of the Bry-ant pitchers, whose collective ERA stands at 7.33 and whose opponents have a .372 batting av-erage.

The Terriers’ pitchers, on the other hand, have a team ERA of 2.48, led by sophomore Holli Flo-etker’s 1.83 mark. Schuppert es-pecially has played a critical role

in recent games for the Terriers, hurling two full games on Sunday against Stony Brook and allowing Floetker to recover from a diffi-cult outing on Saturday.

The Terriers’ strong pitching is also backed by a strong defense. Despite a couple errors that cost them runs against Stoby Brook, BU’s defense still has an impres-sive .972 fielding percentage.

“We worked on some outfield stuff [in practice],” Rychcik said. “Not related so much to what we’re doing immediately and then we went back and worked on some hitting.”

Despite the fact that Bryant is not a conference opponent, Rych-cik said he is not willing to brush off any game as unimportant.

“It’s good that we continue playing and we continue to com-pete,” Rychcik said. “And you know, try to get better.”

Three years ago, when John Calipari was announced as the newest head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, he rode onto campus as a conquering hero. It had been 12 years since the last UK national champion-ship, and the rabid fan base was ready for its return to the top of the mountain. Calipari had been tabbed to lead them there.

Given that he himself had never won a title, and his two finest coaching performances would both be wiped off the re-cord books due to NCAA sanc-tions, some viewed the fawning reception as unjustified. Those surrounding the program openly questioned whether the flash matched the substance with the former Memphis coach.

“Sure, he can coach . . . but can he coach here?” they asked.

Once he stepped to the podium at his introductory press confer-ence, however, the perfection of the marriage was obvious.

Dressed smartly in a Kentucky blue tie, and without a hint of ner-vousness, he began, “This was a dream I had since . . . I believe it was 1992. . . . We came down here, and I could not believe the environment. And at that point I said, ‘I’d love to coach there someday.’”

For most elite programs, that ego-stroking statement alone would have been enough from its new coach, but he continued.

“The challenge of being here is not competing for national cham-pionships, but winning them. . . . They don’t hang banners up here for anything else except national champions,” he said. “That’s why you want to coach here.”

With those two statements combined, he not only acknowl-edged the tradition and legacy of the Kentucky basketball program, but also expressed his willing-ness to shoulder the burden of immense expectations that comes

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Senior midfielder Annie Stookesberry scored the game-win-ning goal during BU’s win over UMBC on Saturday.

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Softball looks to repeat offensive outburst against BryantBy Sam Simmons

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Saturday, April 7Thursday, April 5 Friday, April 6Wednesday, April 4

W. Lacrosse vs. New Hampshire, 4 p.m.Softball vs. Bryant, 4 p.m. W. Tennis vs. UMass-Amherst, 2 p.m. Track @ Stanford, All Day

Track @ Florida, All Day

W. Lacrosse @ Albany, 2 p.m.Softball @ Maine, 12 p.m.Track @ Stanford, All DayTrack @ Florida, All Day

Softball @ Maine, 12 p.m.W. Golf @ Brown, All Day

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With five wins in a row and a cur-rent position atop the America East standings, the Boston University lacrosse team will host the Univer-sity of New Hampshire on Wednes-day afternoon at Nickerson Field. BU coach Liz Robertshaw again focused on the details as she de-scribed what she thinks her team needs to do to continue the streak. “Getting ball possessions, getting draw controls,” Rob-ertshaw said. “Slowing down our opponents attack-wise [are things we need to focus on].” The Terriers (6-4, 2-0 America East) return to Boston after com-ing from behind to win 12-11 on a game-winning goal from senior midfielder Annie Stookesberry in the final 16:28 at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County on Sat-urday. Junior attack Danielle Etrasco scored four goals and assisted on two more. Senior attack Molly Swain, junior midfielder Kristen Mogavero and freshman attack Mallory Collins each scored twice. Sophomore goal-keeper Christina Sheridan played all 60 minutes and made seven saves. Prior to the trip to central Mary-land, BU beat the University of Vermont at Nickerson Field on the preceding Saturday, also with a late-game run. Wins at the Univer-sity of California, at Saint Mary’s College and over Yale University at home round out BU’s streak. To begin the season, UNH (3-6, 1-1 America East) lost four straight games against Dartmouth Univer-sity and the University of Con-necticut at home, and the Univer-sity of Massachusetts and Stanford University on the road. The team’s first win came at Fresno State Uni-versity on March 14, 14-7. It lost another non-conference game af-ter that to Fairfield University. The Wildcats are an even .500 through their two America East

games thus far this spring. They beat Binghamton University 16-9, but lost at the University of Vermont 18-8. In between, they beat Vander-bilt University 12-11 to put together their only win streak of the year. Junior Jenny Simpson leads the team with 22 points, 17 of which are goals. Behind her in goals comes senior Kate Keagins with 16 and freshman Laura Puc-cia with 15. Keagins also leads the team with ground balls (19), draw controls (24) and controlled turn-overs (20). Senior Ilana Cohen leads the Wildcats with 11 assists. The most important challenge Robertshaw said the Wildcats hold for the Terriers is the qual-ity of their shots and attempts. “We need to limit how many looks they get on cage and the kind of looks they get,” Robertshaw said. “We want to make sure we’re forcing them to double team and to really try to slow them down.” In net, three goalkeepers have started for the Wildcats. Junior Kath-leen O’Keefe tops all statistical cat-egories. She has played in six games and started four, totaling 255:57. She has made 36 saves while allowing 56 goals. Freshman Taylor Hurwitz follows her with six games and three starts, allowing 35 goals and mak-ing 21 saves across 156:25. Finally, senior Kate Gunts started two games and played in another, allowing 19 goals and making 16 saves in 127:38. The last two wins have been in large part the results of late-game efforts from the Terriers, but that doesn’t mean Robertshaw is pleased with the second-half heroics alone.

“I would absolutely like our team to come out stronger from the start of games and establish our defensive stops and be as aggressive as we can be in a positive way,” Robertshaw said. “And then I would like our at-tackers to come out and be a little bit more . . . finishing and getting some better looks on cage.”

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Quotable“ “We got handed a pretty good piece of humble pie this weekend.

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Late-game Lax

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