As you may remember from last Spring the BU men’s hockey team has been under some pressure lately. After accusations of sexual assult took place there were some very upset people in our community. Now, as fall semester is underway, a recent Boston University report finds a culture of “sexual entitlement” exists among some of the school’s men’s ice hockey players. The school has been looking into all of their issues further and this report came out yesterday from the task force. The report claims players’ elevated social status as five-time national champions is partly to blame. This task force was assigned by Boston University president after the events last spring. While two players were accused of sexual assult, one of the charges were eventually dropped while the other plead guilty. Ice hockey is certainly a popular sport in the Boston area and it may continue to be a very touchy subject.
Olympic champion and former BU player Mike Eruzione, who was consulted by the task force, also applauds the university for taking a critical look. “I think athletes, men and women, sometimes feel a sense of entitlement because of the stature that they carry at a university — whether it’s a hockey player at BU, football player at Texas or a woman basketball player at UConn. What I was happy about is that they found is that’s really nothing drastically wrong with the BU hockey program — I think it’s more the culture of college athletics,” he said.
We are Boston Life 
Leave a comment