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Monday, October 31, 2011 Year XLI. VolumeThe LXXXII. Issue XXXII. Daily Free Presswww.dailyfreepress.com [ The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University ] Campus & City In Business Sports We’ve got spirit: Costumes, Candy and Cash: Close call: Weather BU’s hosts first M. hockey tops Today: Sunny, High 51 How Halloween spending is impacting Tonight: Cloudy, Low 36 annual spirit day UMass in Boston business owners Tomorrow: 52/39 page 3 page 5 overtime battle page 8 Data Courtesy of weather.com COM graduate, CBS anchor advises students to be flexible, authentic Union invites BPD to By Steph Solis Daily Free Press Staff discuss Occupy protests From covering the dot-com bubble to Hur- ricane Katrina, Boston University alumna Erica with BU students Hill said that no two days in her career as an on- By Matt Hawley screen reporter have been the same. Daily Free Press Staff “One of the things I love is that it’s different every day,” she said in an interview with the Col- Boston Police Department officials and Bos- lege of Communication. “It’s a gift to be on the ton University students debated the direction of front lines of everything.” the Occupy Boston movement, the suspicions of Hill, co-anchor of “The Early Show” on CBS, police brutality and the possibility of a Halloween returned to BU on Thursday, as an honoree of the Day march during an open forum on Friday in Distinguished Alumni Awards, held by the Col- Sleeper Hall Auditorium. lege of Communication at 7 p.m. in the Burke The forum, hosted by the Student Union, in- Club Room in Agganis Arena. volved conversations about the United States’ role “When I first received the [honoree] email, I in the Middle East, but quickly shifted into a series thought it was a joke,” Hill said at the ceremony, of questions and responses about communication upon accepting her award. issues between the movement and BPD. Hill received her award, along with COM “Occupy Boston has taken a lot of resources alumni Samantha Swindler, Shauna Brook and out of communities that need it more, like the Travis Roy, and spoke of the “foundation” BU gang unit and drug unit,” said Jay Walsh, direc- gave her. tor of Boston’s Office of Neighborhood Services. “BU gave me a foundation for telling stories, “As important as Occupy Boston is, I hate to see for telling them well,” she said. AMANDA SWINHART/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF us neglect neighborhoods because of it.” Co-anchor of “The Early Show” on CBS and Boston University alumna Erica Hill COM Dean Tom Fiedler described Hill’s ca- College of Arts and Sciences junior Brandon speaks to students at the College of Communication on Friday. reer path as “a little bit of a roundabout route,” Wood, a member of BU Occupies Boston, among from her days as a assistant producer at “PC Week that exemplifies some of the people who are seri- “They told [their children] ‘there’s nothing other students, raised questions about BPD fund- Radio” to her morning show on CBS. Fiedler ous about what they do,” Fiedler said. you can’t do, but you have to work for it,’” Hill ing and rumors of police brutality. said she has gained recognition for reporting on Hill’s accomplishments stem from her par- said. “I was one of the protesters arrested, and I technology, national conflicts and international ents’ encouragement, she said. Hill brought her They supported her endeavors, she said, from saw some questionable things,” Wood said. “Not issues, including a series on CBS about Kenya’s mother to the award ceremony. Her father, who studying abroad for a year while in high school to to be criticizing police institutions, but some of- refugee camps for starving Somalis. passed away a year and a half ago, emphasized ficers were out of hand. One had put a protester “I think [the series] is the kind of reporting the value of education. ERICA HILL, see page 4 in a headlock.” As the forum turned to the arrests that oc- curred a few weeks ago, BPD Superintendent Salem tourists scared away by stormy weather William Evans said the protesters are responsible By Allison DeAngelis by a guitar player dressed up as an octopus. maining open were restocking hats and umbrel- for not having followed legal orders. Daily Free Press Staff “There’s definitely much less people than las for those trekking from haunted house to “That night turned ugly and that was the last last year,” said Mud Puddle Toys employee haunted house. Tour leaders put up advertise- thing we wanted . We had made it clear you The streets of Salem were dead this Satur- can’t destroy that park which cost the city spend- day – not with the undead, but deserted after Jennifer Brooks, “but there’s still plenty of die- ments saying that their witch and ghost tours hards out there.” were warm or took place on a trolley. ing thousands of dollars for it,” Evans said. “We wind and rain forced costumed visitors to hang had a great dialogue up until then that they can do up their cloaks and wings and call it a day. Among these diehards were people dressed Holly Feld, a Boston University College of as Hogwarts students, a team from “Legends of General Studies sophomore, said she chose to whatever they want but not to go on there.” Students who visited Salem said the weather Evans said he asked Occupy leaders several caused many changes to plans and disappointed the Hidden Temple” and a pair of murderous take a ghost tour instead of walking around the Teletubbies, complete with bloodied knives and town. times to return to a different section to protest. some newcomers to the town. “We repeatedly asked people to leave. Every- A snowstorm hit the northeast Saturday, severed limbs. “I’m sure if it hadn’t been raining and freez- State University of New York at Purchase ing cold we would’ve explored Salem a bit one knew we were coming. It was an unlawful prompting The Weather Channel to coin the assembly,” he said. “We told them if they didn’t phrase “Snowtober.” The storm caused power sophomore Rachel Bass, who came to visit more, but unfortunately we just wanted to get Salem for Halloween weekend, said that many back to our warm rooms,” she said. move, they were going to be arrested . Unfortu- outages up and down the East Coast. nately they dug their heels in and sort of gave us In contrast to years past, many of the favor- people chose to stay inside on Saturday. Not all of the stands were able to brave the “We went into a small indoor mall, and there elements. Stand owner Rumi Mahui said he no choice.” ite town fixtures were missing due to the weath- As far as claims of police brutality, Evans said er. There were no street performances, which were a lot of people there,” she said. gave up around 3 p.m., much earlier than he ex- Outside, Bass said, “it was emptier than pected to. As he packed up his stand in the town that he saw “no such thing.” Officers separated drew large crowds in the town square last year. people who locked arms, but nothing more, he The main stage was empty as well, despite I thought it would have been on Halloween weekend.” attempts to liven the small gathering of people PROTESTS, see page 4 To ward off the weather, the few stalls re- SALEM, see page 4 Trick-or-treaters raise money for local families at annual Pru Boo By Kristen Gloss Center’s Halloween celebration last year, but Daily Free Press Staff Messer said that more came this year. Every Children dressed as princesses, witches and year, the Pru tries to pick a different organization superheroes trick-or-treated with their families at to support, said Elizabeth Chernack, community the Prudential Center on Sunday to support the relations’ manager for Room to Grow. 15th annual Pru Boo. “The Pru asked [Room to Grow] to be the “It’s a great community event where we get beneficiary for them this year,” she said. “It was to partner with local charities and be involved in a perfect match for us with all the children that local families,” said Julie Messer, customer ser- come to the event since we help out young chil- vice manager at Boston Properties. dren and families. A lot of people don’t know The Prudential Center teamed up with the about our organization, so it is a great venue to charity, Room to Grow, to raise money to aid in- teach everyone about us.” fants and their families in poverty as part of Pru Room to Grow received all of the proceeds Boo. from the Pru Boo, which were raised from the $4 “It’s great when everybody helps everybody cost of trick-or-treat bags. The organization was else,” said Sharon Carey, an instructor at the also there to collect new and used items to give University of Massachusetts at Boston. “The to the families they help. Prudential Center is a great neighbor. It brings all The money will help Room to Grow to pro- the neighbors together.” vide funding and supplies for their three-year Carey attended the Pru Boo with her grand- social program that works with local hospitals to daughter, seven-year-old Sadie Keesbury, a stu- identify women in their third trimester that are dent at the Joseph J. Hurley School. living in poverty.

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