Monday, April 4, 2011 TheXXXIX Daily Free Press Year xli. Volume lxxxi. Issue . www.dailyfreepress.com [ The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University ] Campus & City Sports In Business Arts & Crafts: Accident Prone: Weather Today: Rain, High 50 Students find crafty ways Sunday Mourning: Softball commits Budget cuts shutter BPL Tonight: Cloudy, Low 46 to earn money through art multiple errors in back- Tomorrow: 54/34 page 5 for one day a week to-back losses to Maine page 3 page 8 Data Courtesy of weather.com Hundreds flock to Cambridge for International Pillow Fight Day City Councilor By Andrew Wen Daily Free Press Staff Pressley reveals All hell and feathers broke loose on the Cambridge Common as hordes of people she was victim gathered to pummel each other with pillows for the annual Boston Pillow Fight on Satur- of sexual assault day. The annual Pillow Fight was part of the larger International Pillow Fight Day, and while at BU By Dejeanne Doublet was hosted by Banditos Misteriosos, an orga- Daily Free Press Contributer nization with a mission to “get people out and experiencing Boston,” according to Bandito City Councilor-at-Large Ayanna Pressley J, a member of the planning board for the pil- revealed that she was raped as a college stu- low fight. dent during a Boston City Council meeting on “Why a pillow fight?” J said. “It’s a cele- Wednesday. bration of spring. It gets people out and meet- Though she did not specify where she ing new people, which is great.” went to college during the meeting, Pressley Several hundred Bostonians, college stu- attended Boston University’s College of Gen- dents and a few grown men dressed up as gi- eral Studies from 1992-94. She dropped out ant horses gathered at the Common with pil- of the Metropolitan College in 1994 to take lows ready to impromptu attack. care of her mother, according to a profile of “It’s vicious in there, and only a few will MICHAEL CUMMO / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF the councilor on the CGS website. survive,” said Kyle Rowe, a resident from Hundreds gathered at the Cambridge Common Saturday afternoon to partake in “I am a survivor of sexual assault while Groveland. the fourth annual International Pillow Fight Day. a college student,” Pressley said. “My truth The annual Pillow Fight has become one they’re fighting children,” Pond said. “We hit that many times on the head, it hurts,” Syl- is shared by 17.7 million American women of Banditos Misteriosos’ more popular events started as a group of three and every year vester said. and like 90 percent of those other survivors, I since they first started hosting it in 2007. we recruit more and more members. It’s our The children were the most vicious and knew my attacker.” Laura Pond, a student from Northeastern greatest day of the year, better than Christ- hard-hitting participants, he said. Pressley called for support of an upcoming University, started a team with two of her mas.” “There was one that keeps hitting us for hearing to examine local college’s policies on friends. For the Pillow Fight, they wore iden- Her teammate Brent Sylvester, who was 15 minutes, wouldn’t go away. We had to re- preventing and dealing with sexual assaults. tical pink shirts with the words “Tuff Fluff” visiting from Roger Williams University in cruit her to our team. It’s the only way to stop The hearing, sponsored by Pressley and across the chest. Rhode Island, said he wondered if the tiny her,” Syldester said, fully embracing the “if Councilor Felix Arroyo, is set for the end of “We’ve been a team for four years—there flecks of blood on his pillowcase were his. April for National Sexual Assault Awareness are four others with us right now, I think “You’d think it doesn’t hurt, but if you get PILLOW, see page 4 Month. As chairwoman of the Committee on Women & Healthy Communities, Pressley Website offers dating service exclusive to Boston students has been focusing on women’s issues since her election to council in 2009. By Alex Nawar Some students acknowledge that BU stu- ful college dating site despite dozens of tri- Daily Free Press Staff In addition to sexual assault she has ad- dents could benefit from this dating service. als. It’s not easy, but we seem to have found dressed issues such as child abuse and ne- “I think there’s a lot of potential,” said the secret sauce,” Balazs said, pointing at glect, bullying, substance abuse, hunger and Creators of a new online dating site College of Fine Arts sophomore Micaela that 20 percent of Columbia students and homelessness. She is running for re-election called DateMySchool.com aims to design an Brody. “There’s a stigma around BU that 10 percent of NYU students have signed up for her second at-large City Council term this exclusive online community where college there’s not enough straight, datable guys.” for Date My School since it went live earlier fall. students can feel comfortable finding dates. BU’s student body, which is 60 percent this year. “Like all survivors, I have been forced to On Saturday, the creators opened their female, could be countered by a school like Date My School has been expanded deal with the feelings of shame, the below- site to undergraduates, graduate students MIT, which is nearly 60 percent male, some to students at Yale University, Princeton the-surface emotional trauma and the mem- and alumni of Boston University, Harvard of the students acknowledged. University, Stanford University and other ory of the social isolation in the aftermath of University, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- The website started in New York when schools around San Francisco, Balazs said. my sexual assault,” she said. “However, I feel nology and other Boston-area schools. Balazs and his friend Jean Meyer, also a Co- Balazs said the embarrassment usually it is my responsibility to speak up about this “We build small, safe, trusted communi- lumbia business student, realized that a large associated with using a dating website is issue and give voice to the millions who suf- ties where everyone is authenticated through degree of separation existed between differ- eliminated by Date My School’s complete fer in silence.” the school email address,” said Date My ent departments at Columbia, making it hard privacy. Users’ identities are not searchable Sexual assault may be tolerated on cam- School co-founder and Columbia University for students to find people to date, Balazs online and cannot be seen by friends, family puses and according to the National Institute business student Alexa Balazs in an email. said. The degree of separation is even more or others. of Justice, college women are at higher risk “We are completely anonymous, safe and significant between different schools. BU students will initially be restricted to for sexual assault than their non-college inaccessible for people who are not students “We did our homework and found out or alumni.” that nobody has ever pulled off a success- DATING, see page 2 PRESSLEY, see page 4 Local bars punished for serving ‘beer towers’ STRAIGHT SHOOTERS By Alex Nawar businesses were cited not for selling beer Daily Free Press Staff towers but for misusing them by serving il- legal quantities of beer. After Boston police cited two restaurants While the two businesses are licensed to for serving large, portable beer taps on St. serve alcohol, police said that Boston busi- Patrick’s Day, licensing officials have moved nesses had been informed about a week to suspend the “beer towers,” and are requir- before St. Patrick’s Day that they should ing businesses to request city permission request hearings with the Boston Licensing to sell the drink dispensers, according to a Board if they wanted to serve portable beer March 29 article in The Boston Globe. dispensers. Tavern in the Square in Allston and Rog- A letter sent by the licensing board to gie’s Brew and Grille in Brighton both were businesses said that the board “is taking this cited for serving beer towers, which police stance based on its concerns with serving the reported might be in violation of state law. public need and at the same time protecting State law prohibits serving patrons more the common good and safety of all.” than two drinks at a time and selling malt Police found that at least three 148-ounce beverages or mixed drinks by the pitcher ex- beer towers had been served at Roggie’s cept to two or more persons at one time. Brew and Grille and the Tavern in the Square The portable beer taps can come in sizes served 128-ounce beer towers. double to triple the size of a typical pitcher. While the management at the Tavern told The tall, cylindrical reservoirs that give the policy that there needed to be two to three beer towers their name can hold about three patrons in a party to order a beer tower, po- JULIE O’NEILL / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF liters of liquid. School of Education senior Stephanie Sklar, front, and College of Communication junior Ben Cooper Licensing officials told The Globe that BEER TOWER, see page 4 photograph a lacrosse game on Saturday at Nickerson Field. 2 MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2011 Some students say online dating services still not preferable to meeting someone in person DATING: From Page 1 fied networks, send private mes- we authenticate every single Dan Reineberg, a Sargent Col- to making friends online, she still sages and fill out matchmaking user through their emails, trust is lege of Health and Rehabilitation would not be comfortable going on students at other Boston schools, surveys.