Allston Fire Victim Enters Rehab Center After Waking from Coma
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Monday, February 13, 2012 Year XLI. VolumeThe LXXXII. Issue LXX. Daily Free Presswww.dailyfreepress.com [ The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University ] Campus & City InBusiness Sports Weather THROUGH THE THINK BIG: BEANPOT SHOT: M. hockey goes for first Today: Sunny, High 39 AGES: Black Student Local business owners react to Tonight: Clear, Low 24 Union reflects on history title since ‘09 Tomorrow: 45/30 page 3 Obama’s proposals page 5 page 8 Data Courtesy of weather.com Allston fire victim enters rehab SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE center after waking from coma By Steph Solis for six to eight weeks. Although Josh is Daily Free Press Staff missing the spring semester, he will likely A Boston University student who was return to BU in the fall. in critical condition after jumping out of “We’ll see what’s going to happen over a burning house in Allston has begun re- the summer, but our expectation is that he’s habilitation for his traumatic brain injury, going to return for the fall semester,” Da- family members said. vid said. Josh Goldenberg, a College of Commu- Josh suffered injuries from jumping out nication sophomore, was transferred from of the third-story window of his burning Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital to Spauld- apartment at 84 Linden St. on Jan. 22. The ing Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston on building caught fire early that morning, and Feb. 6, his father David Goldenberg said. the jump left him in a coma for about 10 Josh is undergoing speech, physical days. and occupational therapy to recover from David said while he was elated to see the brain injury. He has trouble speaking Josh wake up, the recovery process is and can’t walk or support himself, but has slower than what people tend to expect. shown signs of improvement overall, his “When people hear that, they think it’s father said. like television or the movies where some- “Josh was a walkie-talkie, college soph- one sits up and goes ‘Hey, where have I omore, hockey player, fraternity brother,” been for two weeks?’” David said. “They David said. “We’re hopeful he’ll make a open their eyes and they start to look and KAT SORENSEN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF full recovery, but it’s scary in the begin- see, but the actual process of coming out of College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Casey Ching and Sargent College for Health and Reha- ning.” bilitation Sciences sophomore Jensen Hu Sargent bust a move while playing a dancing game for Josh is expected to undergo treatment GOLDENBERG, see page 2 the Xbox Kinect at the Overdrive 2.0 Jam and Dance showcase. MBTA documentary to make public debut, shows T after hours Hacker group By Alex Diantgikis cation and marketing at the DOR. offers a compelling reason why it takes time Anonymous says Daily Free Press Staff The film showcases footage of the tech- to shut down.” A new documentary reveals what hap- nical work that occurs in the dark, follow- Part of that reason, he said, has to do pens on T lines and commuter rails after- ing a crew working with a complex tamping with the age of Boston’s public transporta- there is ‘plenty more hours— when teams of Massachusetts Bay machine that towers twice as tall as the men tion system. Transportation Authority workers congre- walking around its base. “This is the first train system, so there gate at different stretches of track to repair The machine, the workers said in the are constraints to what it can do,” Olejnik mayhem to deliver’ and maintain the rails. video, shifts and fixes the tracks and “puts said, referring to the T’s status as the oldest By Shayan Banerjee The MBTA and the Massachusetts De- the rail back to where it was when it was subway system in the country. Daily Free Press Contributor partment of Revenue recently focused in on designed” after the rails endure the stress of Olejnik said spending time with the The Internet hacker group Anonymous, that nightly effort, releasing a documentary weather and daily use. MBTA workers was enlightening. acting in protest of the police response to last week about the work done after the T Olejnik and a four-person crew produced “It’s amazing to see the professional- Occupy Boston, claimed credit for a recent stops running called “Boston Under: After the 45-minute long film in their spare time. ism,” Olejnik said. “It’s such a dangerous cyber-attack on the Boston Police Depart- Hours.” “It was an eye-opening experience,” said job. Someone could potentially lose a limb ment’s website. Between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. the T shuts Olejnik, who works for the DOR’s media or a life. There was such camaraderie and The site, BPDNews.com, was taken down, according to the film, and soon after agency. “I learned a lot to see what it takes seeing how everyone worked with unity over on Feb. 3 and replaced with a user- work begins. The film juxtaposes interviews to keep services running.” was amazing. Watching everyone interact designed interface the attackers titled “An- with T riders and their experiences with the Massachusetts DOR Director of Commu- and all the pieces that have to be put in tisec,” according to a video police officials T workers’ jobs and experiences. nications Robert Bliss said the film shows a place was pretty cool. It was a privilege to recently released. “The goal is to educate the public what side of the T the public doesn’t usually see. capture.” For about a week, the site had noth- the men and women [MBTA workers] are “I thought it was an important point The film depicts parts of that nightly rou- ing but a red warning set against a black doing after hours,” said the film’s director that’s overlooked because it needs to shut background in which the group reminded Peter Olejnik, director of media communi- down to work on it,” Bliss said. “[The film] MBTA, see page 2 the BPD that Antisec released hundreds of passwords a few months ago for “brutality” at Occupy Boston. Boston-area college students, locals gather to fight hunger “[The police] clearly ignored our warn- By Hina Tai sophomore, said. ings because not only did they raid the Daily Free Press Contributor Members of soup kitchens and represen- camp again and kick protesters off of pub- More than 1 billion people on earth tatives from different faiths joined students lic parks, but they also sent undercover don’t have enough food to lead healthy in debating hunger issues on a global, na- TSA agents to assault and attempt to steal lives, including one in six Americans, said tional and local level, as well as different from some organizers,” the statement on Kids Care regional manager Matthew Mar- measures college students could take to ad- the website said. “So you get your kicks tin. dress the problem. beating protesters?” “I will spend rest of my life and all the Students of various religious and philo- Anonymous said it threatened more at- breath God gave me packaging meals,” sophical backgrounds shared stories, ex- tacks in the future. “There is plenty more mayhem to de- Martin, former pastor of Faith Lutheran cerpts from religious texts and poetry. liver for this,” the statement said. Church in Quincy, said. “In most religions, there is this idea of Martin joined about 50 Boston locals helping others and especially feeding the The attack came on the same day Anon- and college students at Boston University’s hungry because there’s that parallel be- ymous leaked confidential FBI phone calls. College of Arts and Sciences Saturday for tween that hunger of the physical kind and In response to the attack, the BPD re- the interfaith dialogue “HUNGERally,” a the spiritual kind,” Clauhs said. leased a video that featured short inter- series of speeches aimed at raising aware- Mike Bancewicz, and administrator of views with officers dismayed by the dis- ness about hunger relief and homelessness the Church on the Hill, said the people he appearance of “Boston’s primary public in Boston. serves are not solely the homeless. service website.” The dialogue, co-organized by BU In- “We see a lot of foreign students who “I’ll tell you what I miss the most – the terfaith Council President Abigail Clauhs, have no family here and are too embar- great community stories [and] the great involved the Values in Action at the Hu- rassed to tell their fellow students they’re community pictures,” said one officer in manist Chaplaincy at Harvard University hungry,” Bancewicz said. the video. “Why would anyone want to and students from Massachusetts Institute The organizers told students to tweet destroy a community website that does so of Technology, Brandeis College, Fisher and make Facebook posts throughout the much?” College, Tufts University, Boston College event to bring awareness about hunger and The video announced the computer ex- pert tasked with putting the site back online KAT SORENSEN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF and Gordon College. inspire others to take action. Walker Bristol, Tufts University student, “We’re in a city with so many colleges “We think it makes a big difference to was confident the issue had been resolved. addresses HUNGERally attendees. HUNGER- share this broadly,” said co-organizer Chris The site was restored Thursday, six days ally is a joint collaboration between various that it just makes sense to involve the dif- Boston-area schools hosted by the Boston ferent communities from so many differ- ent colleges all together,” Clauhs, a CAS University Interfaith Council.