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Nicastro Due in Court for Arraignment Tuesday Morning Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Year XLI. VolumeThe LXXXII. Issue LXXIV. Daily Free Presswww.dailyfreepress.com [ The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University ] Campus & City Sci Tuesday Sports Weather KRAZY FOR KAZIS? FICTION TO FACT: CLINCHED: BU alum running for Terriers down UConn Today: Cloudy, High 46 Scientist may have found way Tonight: Showers, Low 38 Dem. State Committee en route to Hockey East Tomorrow: 57/37 page 3 to read minds page 5 page 8 playoffs Data Courtesy of weather.com Nicastro due in court for arraignment Tuesday morning BPD supervisors to sue By Tim Healey Daily Free Press Staff city in federal court for Junior defenseman Max Nicastro was ar- rested early Sunday morning for an alleged alleged discrimination sexual assault of a female student, and he has been suspended indefinitely from the No. 5/6 in lieutenant exam Boston University men’s hockey team. Jake Wark, Suffolk County District Attor- By Chris Lisinski ney spokesman, said Nicastro will be arraigned Daily Free Press Staff in Brighton District Court Tuesday morning. Nine black Boston police supervisors are Neither BU coach Jack Parker nor any of suing the city of Boston in federal court, claim- the players are currently available for com- ing the test for promotion to lieutenant is dis- ment, and will not be until late Tuesday morn- criminatory against minorities. ing at the earliest. Promotions to lieutenant in the Boston Po- BU spokesman Colin Riley said the incident lice Department are based heavily on a written occurred “on campus” in a dormitory, but could multiple-choice exam, which minority officers tend to score lower on than white officers. not offer much information. “[The exam] doesn’t really take into account “The facts as they are are upsetting,” he the skills a supervisor would need to perform said. the job,” said Larry Ellison, president of the No further action will be taken - be it con- JUNHEE CHUNG/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Massachusetts Association of Minority Law cerning Nicastro’s status as a member of the Boston University junior defensemen Max Nicastro skates with the puck during a Enforcement Officers. “Very little of [what is team or a student at BU - until the investigation game against Maine in Agganis Arena. on the exam] is related to the position.” is complete, Riley said. five defensemen. Freshman Alexx Privit- rey Trivino was arrested and dismissed from BPD declined to comment on pending law- suits, said a police secretary who asked to re- On the ice, Nicastro is currently the team’s era is out with a broken wrist - he may return the hockey team after an incident on Dec. 11. main anonymous. third most offensively productive defenseman. this weekend against Vermont, Parker said on Following that incident, residents of 10 The 6-foot-5, 210-pound blueliner has regis- Ellison said once those who score highest Thursday - and Parker used five defenseman Buick St. told The Daily Free Press there was on the exam are promoted, they are sent to the tered three goals and six assists, putting him when Nicastro was out earlier this semester consistently raucous behavior by members of police academy for four weeks of training on behind sophomores Adam Clendening (three with a bad shoulder. the men’s hockey team. Those residents identi- the skills necessary for the position. goals, 23 assists) and Garrett Noonan (11 goals, The Nicastro incident comes just two fied Nicastro as the worst offender, though to The department trains the highest scorers six assists). months and six days after news broke that Co- that point nothing had been reported to officials. rather than promoting those who already have His suspension again leaves the team with the skills necessary for leadership positions, he said. Ellison said he has personal experience with Charges dropped aganist BU prof. suspected of meth distribution the lieutenant exam. “I’ve taken several exams, and they have By Emily Overholt The DA and Kristy were unavailable for The letter, dated Jan. 11, noted Kristy’s ac- very little to do with the job,” he said. Daily Free Press Staff comment in time for publication. complishments as an activist, educator and per- The arrival of exams for detective positions Kristy declined comment in November son. in the past 10 years or so demonstrates the poli- Somerville District Court dismissed the tics and bias in the promotion process, Ellison case against Boston University lecturer Irina when The DFP originally reported her arrest. In “Her absent-mindedness coupled with mis- subsequent articles, she has also been unavail- guided respect for privacy rights of her son to- said. Kristy on Thursday, according to the Somer- Previously, he said, there was no exam for ville Journal. able for comment. gether with the focus on her work and humani- Lev Levitin, a professor in the College of tarian activity on behalf of other people created the detective position, and it was based on the The Somerville Police Department and the commissioner’s discretion, which took into ac- Middlesex District Attorney’s office dismissed Engineering and a personal friend of Kristy, this unfortunate situation,” the letter stated, said he was unsurprised by the dismissal. “but she is certainly a distinguished member count leadership skills and experience. the charges after further investigation, a DA’s “I would like to see a police department that office spokesman told the Journal. “I expected that because the charges were of Greater Boston academic community and a absolutely preposterous, absolutely unground- heroic defender of human rights.” is reflective of the population of the city, and Kristy faced suspicion after her son Grig- Boston is not that,” Ellison said. ory Genkin was charged with distribution of ed,” he said in a phone interview with The DFP. In the letter, the petitioners said “under no “I know [her] so well that it was ridiculous to circumstances” could Kristy have committed There are 23 captains in the Boston police methamphetamine, conspiracy to violate the department, one of who is black, Ellison said. drug law and drug violation in a school zone, allow the idea that she could be involved. Ab- any criminal act. solutely impossible.” The undersigned said the criminal com- Out of the department’s 51 lieutenants, two according to an article published by The Daily are black and one is Asian. Free Press on Nov. 17. Police had named her Levitin collaborated with more than 30 oth- plaint and ensuing media attention caused both er members of the Boston community to write BU and Suffolk University to place Kristy on Ellison said the testing methods could be “complicit” in the operation. fixed by being more similar to those of the Somerville Deputy Police Chief Paul Upton a letter of petition to Gerard Leone, the Middle- administrative leave. declined to comment. sex Country District Attorney, on Kristy’s be- half. KRISTY, see page x BPD, see page x Israeli and Palestinian activists gather to exchange experiences, ideas of peace By Maha Kamal CEO Howard Sumka. Daily Free Press Staff “Our mantra is two states, our guiding While growing up in Tulkarem in the value is nonviolence and our operating West Bank in the midst of conflict, Reem mode is building up grassroots to create a Ghunaim’s question became, “How can I constituency for two states,” Sumka said to fix this? How can I contribute to change?” the audience. she told students at Boston University. Sumka said both Ghunaim and Kraus Ghunaim, a Palestinian woman, spoke are leaders in their respective communities. alongside Israeli Ella Kraus in a conversa- Kraus, from the city of Sderot, near the tion hosted by BU’s Elie Wiesel Center for Gaza strip, said she was born in a Kibbutz, Judaic Studies at the College of Arts and a small socialist community, and was al- Sciences Thursday night. The two shared ways interested in politics and peace activ- their experiences of living through and ism. working to end the Israeli-Palestinian con- “I saw a beautiful dream of peace, but flict. with the Oslo Agreement, Baruch, etc., “As a young woman in the West Bank, these dreams faded away when we didn’t I became more aware of the complexity of see any progress,” Kraus said. “It was al- solutions, and I faced the struggle of mov- ways talking, talking, talking.” ing on with your daily life,” Ghunaim said Kraus said living in Sderot, a city fac- to the group of 20 students. ing rocket attacks from Palestine, gave her Both women are activists from One- a new life-changing familiarity with the situation. AUDREY FAIN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Voice, an international grassroots move- Dr. Howard J. Sumka, right, CEO of OneVoice International, and Reem Ghunaim, “For me, it was important to experience ment working toward a two-state solution center, a Palestinian, listen to Ella Kraus, an Israeli, share her experiences of living and a peaceful end to the occupation, said through the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ISRAEL-PALESTINE, see page x 2 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 SJP president: Israel-Palestine presentation Lieutenant exam potentially in ‘whitewashing apartheid conditions’ violation of 1964 Civil Rights Act From Page 1 theory of “disparate impact,” which ISRAEL-PALESTINE: From Page 1 munities and the world,” she said “I personally think they were BPD: in an interview with The Daily biased towards the solution, that occurs when a business practice, such Massachusetts State Police. that different perspective, and Free Press. it is possible,” Brintzenhofe said. as a test, has a disproportionately “You cannot even take a state po- that experience changed my life,” Theresa Cooney, graduate as- “I think it’s a good idea on paper, negative effect on a minority group.
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