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TCU Election results

Charlie Zhen wins Freshman Class Council presidency

by Sarah Zheng

Executive News Editor

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held an election yesterday to fill five openings on the Freshman Class Council, to select seven first-year senator seats and to fill three Community Representative positions.

According to Tufts Elections Commission (ECOM) Chair Paige Newman, 44.88 percent of the eligible student body voted, meaning that 670 cast their ballots in the election.

For the elections open to members of the Class of 2019, Charlie Zhen was elected Class Council President, Meghan Lauze was elected Class Council Vice President, Jaya Khetarpal was elected Class Council Secretary, Eric Osherow was elected Class Council Marketing Chair and Emma Balin was elected Class Council Treasurer.

The new TCU senators for the class of 2019 are Jackie Chen, Frederick Hissenkaemper, Nesi Altarasm, Emily Sim, Adam Rapfogel, Chris Leaverton and Rayane Haddar.

Three of the five open Community Representative positions were officially filled by candidates who ran unopposed, according to Newman. The Asian American Community Representative is sophomore Faryal Jafri, the LGBTQ Community Representative is first-year Parker Breza and the Africana Community Representative is sophomore Fatima Ajose.

“I’m really happy with how the elections turned out,” Ania Ruiz, Head of Public Relations for ECOM, said. “We had

a lot of candidates this fall… everybody was very excited to run and they were all very qualified.”

Zhen said he is happy to have been elected President of the Freshman Class Council and is grateful for everyone who took part in the election process.

“I’m really excited to get to know the freshmen class and I can’t wait to have a great year,” he said. “It’s kind of surreal right now.”

Breza said he is really looking forward to representing the LGBTQ community on the Senate this year.

“Regardless of where Senate is at right now, it needs to be a place where the Group of Six voices are heard,” Breza said.

Evan Sayles / The Tufts Daily He added that the Charlie Zhen poses for a portrait on election day for Community Representative his Freshman Class Council presidential campaign on positions guarantee that the Wednesday, Sept. 30. voices of members of certain or the Latino Community Representative communities will be heard on Senate.

“I ran unopposed,” Jafri told the Daily seats, which students have already in a Facebook message. “How much repre- expressed interest in.

Breza said he hopes that the two vacant sentation would there be if I wasn’t there?”

The remaining open Community positions will be filled, but he thinks that Representative positions are the seats to the struggle to fill the positions may be a represent the Latino and women’s com- cultural and systemic issue for Senate.

According to Judiciary Treasurer munities. The representative position for the international community was filled last Michael Kalmans, a junior, the October elections will also include a TCU Judiciary spring, Newman said.

According to Ruiz, Senate will hold spe- position that opened up after a member cial elections in October to fill the women’s of the judiciary body resigned last month.

Contributing Writer and Executive News Editor

The Area Residence Director (ARD) system implemented last year by the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) has run into staffing issues as it transitions away from the former Residence Hall Directors system.

Under the new system, four fulltime ARDs have replaced 10 part-time Residence Directors (RD), according to Director of ResLife Yolanda King “This is in line with the best practices in other residential life programs at other institutions,” King told the Daily

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in an email. “By moving to this model, the positions allow all the ARDs to spend more time focusing on the needs and support for the students who live on campus.”

Each ARD is assigned to one of four residential areas where they manage the resident assistants (RAs) and dorm communities within those areas, according to a September 2014 Daily article. ARDs also host area-wide events, such as the upcoming Olympics event in on Oct. 6, Mascary said.

Julie Kennedy, who manages Area Three (Bush Hall, Hodgdon Hall, Haskell Hall and Tilton Hall), is the newest addi-

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Computer science surpasses IR as most popular major

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tion to the ARD staff, joining Tanya Mascary, the only returning ARD, who now manages Area One (Hill Hall, West Hall, Houston Hall and Miller Hall). The two remaining ARD positions for Area Two (Carmichael Hall, Wilson House, Wren Hall, Carpenter House, Metcalf Hall and Richardson House) and Area Four (Lewis Hall and South Hall) have not yet been filled for this semester, according to the ResLife website.

Only one of the previous four ARDs has remained at Tufts; one person left late last semester, another left late in the

Computer science has become the most popular undergraduate major at Tufts, ahead of international relations, which had been the biggest major at the university for the past decade.

There were 466 declared computer science majors in the spring of last semester — slightly more than the 464 declared international relations majors, according to Associate Provost for Institutional Research and Evaluation Dawn Geronimo Terkla.

The number of computer science majors at the university has been steadily increasing over the years, Terkla said; in 2005, computer science was the 14th largest major, with 92 declared students, and stayed that way until 2013, when it became the 13th largest major with 121 declared students.

Chair of the Department of Computer Science Soha Hassoun said the department has anticipated the growing interest in the major at Tufts, which matches similar trends across colleges nationwide.

“We’ve been looking at these numbers for the last five years, and we’ve seen the increases — first in the intro classes, then in some of the required classes and then in the upper level electives,” Hassoun said. “So we knew this was going to happen.”

The major’s growth in popularity, however, has impacted course sizes and the department’s resources, posing challenges for faculty, teaching assistants and students, she added.

“The load for faculty has increased tremendously,” Hassoun said. “Faculty are now teaching mostly between 40 to 120 people per class, so instead of dealing with 20 emails, they have to deal with 120 emails. But they have been very excited to have all these majors.”

Despite the increased class size for lectures in the computer science department, Hassoun said labs have remained at approximately 18 to 22 students per section.

“We’ve maintained a more collaborative experience with the students in the intro courses, and that’s what’s kept students engaged in the major,” she said.

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continued from page 1 The department has also continued to hire undergraduate, upper-level students to work as teaching assistants (TAs) for students in lower-level courses, according to Hassoun. She estimated that 95 percent of the computer science majors from the Class of 2015 served as TAs at some point as during their undergraduate careers.

Junior Eliza Schreibman, a computer science major, said that while she wishes her computer science classes were smaller, the professors work to accommodate everyone, even in big classes.

“The professor of COMP 40 [Machine Structures and Assembly Language Programming] knows everyone’s names and often comes in at 11 p.m.,” she said.

Sophomore Ben Nissan, also a computer science major, said the small recitations and the dedication of the faculty and TAs make up for the large class sizes.

“There’s so much individual attention and a huge sense of camaraderie between the students,” he said. “You don’t get the sense that you’re lost or have no resources.”

Increased student interest in computer science has also caused the department to place restrictions on its introductory courses since March of last year, accord-

ing to a 2014 Daily article. These changes confined enrollment in both Introduction to Computer Science (COMP 11) and Data Structures (COMP 15) to students who have declared a major in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or cognitive and brain science, and to those who had declared relevant minors or were first-years.

“The proposed changes to registration ensure that we continue to serve the students taking our courses at the best of our abilities without placing unrealistic demands on our graduate teaching assistants and our faculty,” a March 2014 letter from the Department of Computer Science to the student body said.

While many students were frustrated by the restrictions, Nissan said the enrollment cap encourages more people to pursue a major or minor in computer science. “[The cap] means that a lot more people get sucked into the major because they can’t take it later on,” he said. “I had no computer science experience in high school, so coming to Tufts I had the incentive [to] take it [my first year] before it was too late.”

Computer science lecturer Mark Sheldon told the Daily in March that the course caps do not look like they will be

disappearing any time soon.

“We could handle more students if we just didn’t give them the same support,” he said. “One of the reasons we have the cap is because the faculty is resistant to that idea. We want to give a quality education to as many people as we can.

The computer science department hopes to receive additional resources so that every student who wants to take a computer science course can do so, Hassoun said.

The department also aims to increase the number of graduate students employed as TAs and to enhance its research portfolio to improve its computer science curriculum, according to Hassoun.

“We would love to increase the teaching capacity of our current department and teach more upper-level electives, but a lot of the faculty are being utilized to teach the required courses,” she said.

Both Schreibman and Nissan said the department appears to be struggling with the resources it receives from Tufts. A lack of resources could prevent the department from hiring more professors and TAs and from splitting the courses into additional sections.

“I remember taking COMP 11 my first year, and I could get a TA within an

hour even when an assignment was due,” Schreibman said. “Now, you can see the Halligan Helper queue is 30 people deep, making it tough for people in the class and the TAs.” Schreibman, who is a TA for the data structures class, said she finally got the position after applying for four semesters.

“Finally I got it, even though the department desperately needs more TAs,” she said. ” I know so many people who are overqualified, but it’s just so hard to get [hired].”

Nissan said he believes the perceived lack of TAs is due to insufficient funding, which is largely out of the department’s control at this time.

“The department deserves the ability to do better, to do more,” he said.

It is up to the university to allow the department to accommodate the rapidly increasing interest in computer science, Hassoun said.

“The national trends say the number of majors have increased, but the interesting question is how other schools have managed to deal with that,” she said.

“Some schools have spun off a school of computing or increased the size of the department. We’re hoping the university will take some action to address the growth in computer science.”

Residential area system experiences staffing issues RESLIFE

continued from page 1 summer and the last person left at the beginning of the fall semester, according to Dean of Student Services Mary Pat McMahon.

McMahon said the ARDs left for various reasons and for different opportunities, and that the turnover can be explained by the fact that the ARD position is designed to be an entry-level professional job.

“People are going to take this experience and go do it somewhere else too,” McMahon, former director of residential life at Bowdoin College, said. “It’s designed to be your way into a great experience at a great place. Is it a little higher turnover than we wanted? Yes, but we anticipate that there is always going to be turnover in this job.”

Mascary added that the ARDs who left pursued other opportunities that aligned with their interests more.

McMahon said the remaining two ARD positions will be filled as soon as possible.

Former RA Aditya Hurry said he thought that many of the ARDs left because they were unsatisfied with their work experiences.

“I think that’s a main reason why the three out of the four left — one of whom is actually a Tufts grad,” Hurry said. “He was a Tufts [undergraduate] and he left as well. He didn’t have the patience to deal with the bureaucracy even though he came from within the system and should have known the systems any better than the rest of them. ” Mascary said there have been some challenges working with the new ARD system, including trouble building connections between the ARDs and students.

“The ARD system is obviously a new system and I think there were obviously some challenges with that,” she said. “I would have loved to have a little more connection with residents … On an RD sys-

tem, with an RD for each building, you technically have more time to kind of spend more time in the building and get to know residents … It’s a smaller population, but because I have 700 students within four buildings, I wasn’t able to do that.”

Despite these struggles and the staffing issues, the ARD residential system has made improvements since its inception, Mascary Students lug their belongings through Haskell Hall during the Class of said.

“The first year I feel like is always a to improve the ARD system and the whole challenging year and then the second ARD structure a little more.”

Mascary, who previously worked in year…is taking those challenges and then playing it forward for the second year,” ResLife at the University of Bridgeport, said her overall experience at ResLife has she said.

McMahon also expressed a desire to been a positive one thus far.

She added that it was beneficial for improve the ARD system, particularly aspects involving the job’s terms of ResLife to have its own judicial and programming resources, as well as platemployment.

“One of the disadvantages that we’re forms for students. One such event, working to address…is the ARD’s being on which Mascary has planned for Oct. 19, a 10-month contract, just because there’s is called “Teatime with Tanya.”

Although changes are being made to a stop and a start associated with restarting at the beginning of the year,” she said. the system this year, Hurry said that, in “‘What’s working. What can we do better?’ the past, the conflict between the ARDs, I’m certainly working with the entire team RAs and ResLife led to a compromised environment. on that question, including students.”

“Working…as an employee of ResLife ResLife has also added a senior RA position, a leadership liaison posi- was not a lot of fun because they’re not tion among the RAs, this year, according very organized department at all,” Hurry, a junior, said. “We felt that, as RAs, the to Mascary. “[The position] creates a better com- ARDs felt…[that] we kind of had to push munity within the ResLife staff,” she said. back against [the ARDs] when we felt that “I think little changes like that are going something that wasn’t right was happen-

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2018’s matriculation day on Aug. 27, 2014. ing…That dynamic never really worked very well.”

Hurry said some of the issues RAs and ARDs faced were inherent to a bureaucratic system and would be difficult to change. On the other hand, he acknowledged that, in many ways, the ARD system did streamline residential programming.

“It was easier to do programming with that one central person we were meeting with once per week,” he said. “Actually, planning stuff in our area got 10 times easier than it would have been if there were five different grad students we were reporting to.”

Hurry added that his friends who are RAs this year said they noticed improvements from last year based on suggestions students had made.

“The staff is doing something right,” Hurry said. “They are listening to our opinions, but they just have a long way to go still.”

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Recognized by the faculty as the basis of a liberal arts education regardless of one’s major, two semesters of college writing holds its essential place as one of the three Foundation Requirements for College of Arts and Sciences students. Even though this requirement is generally completed in the first year, some first-year students experienced difficulties in registering for “English 1: Expository Writing” this semester, as the sections filled up before every first-year who wished to take it was able to do so.

According to Associate Professor of English and Director of First Year Writing Modhumita Roy, 558 first-year students enrolled in 44 sections of English 1 this semester, which is about 41 percent of the incoming class. Last year saw similar numbers, with 563 students registering for English 1. However, in the fall 2013 semester, 35 percent of the class of 2017 – only 457 students – enrolled in the course.

Professor of English and Interim Department Chair John Fyler discussed the causes of the increase in the number of students looking to take English 1. He said the large size of the previous two incoming classes is one factor.

According to Tufts Now articles, there were 1352 students in the incoming Class of 2018 and 1318 in the Class of 2017. This year’s incoming class remains relatively consistent with last year’s class size, with 1360 students in the Class of 2019.

The increase in the size of the incoming class two years ago was unexpected, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Coffin told the Daily in an email. “[E]ven with our increasing selectivity, we’ve had a historic yield on offers of admission for the last two years as well as lower than usual ‘summer melt,'” Coffin wrote. “Both are positive results but, when combined, it created a larger than anticipated class.”

While this jump was a surprise last year, the English department anticipated a similar trend this year and tried to prepare in advance, Roy explained.

“We are obviously trying to implement policies…to cope with [the increase in numbers] to make sure that people who need to take English 1 can take English 1,” she said.

Among these policies is a slightly increased class size for those sections taught by part-time faculty — up to 16 students from 14 students last year, according to Roy. However, the English department is not likely to consider increasing class sizes beyond 16 students.

“These are writing intensive classes, the courses are about writing itself, so so much attention…goes into students’ writing, their thinking about writing, the process of writing, re-writ-

ing, drafting and so on, that we — I do and my colleagues — feel quite strongly that classes should not be enlarged,” Roy said.

Although three faculty members unexpectedly did not return to campus this fall — two retired and one may have gone to work elsewhere, according to Roy — that did not affect the English department’s plans, which had already started preparing for the incoming class.

“Over the course of the spring and into the summer, we had been planning ahead, trying to predict what the incoming class might look like and so on, and so we had added two new faculty [members] who are now teaching in the program and one advanced graduate student who’s teaching one section,” Roy said.

When asked to address a rumor that the shortage of sections offered was a result of part-time faculty union issues, Fyler explained that the problem of students getting closed out of English 1 classes is not a new one.

“I was head of [first-year] English 30-plus years ago, and I think this always happened, for one reason or another,” Fyler said. “There are always a few students who can’t get into an English 1 section — either it’s at a time they can’t take, or we haven’t estimated it quite exactly … It has nothing to do with the union, it has nothing to do with the Dean not wanting to hire lecturers. We did our best to make sure that everybody was covered and came pretty close.”

The First-Year Writing section of the English department’s website strongly recommends that students take their first-year writing courses before their sophomore year.

“Students should complete this requirement in their first year except under extraordinary circumstance,” the site says.

For the first-years who were closed out of English 1 this semester, however, this will not be possible unless they place out of English 2 by receiving a grade of an A or A- in English 1 next semester.

The English department estimates that between 13 and 20 students were unable to get into a section of English 1 this fall, according to Roy. This estimate comes from the number of students who enrolled in Section 99 — the department’s extra English 1 section for students waiting for space to open up in another section — at the beginning of the semester. Therefore, the estimate may not account for students who decided not to enroll in this extra section, Fyler said. In any case, students who were unable to register for English 1 this semester should be able to take the class in the spring, Roy said.

Still, Roy acknowledged that it is never desirable for students to be closed out of a class they want to take.

“It’s disappointment, it’s anxiety, and one can understand if this is your very first registration what that must feel like. So I’m very sympathetic to that … Even if it’s three students who got locked out and were unhappy, we pay attention to that.”

First-year Rachael Meyer is one of those students. With a late registration time, all but two sections of English 1 were closed before she went to register, both of which closed before she could click “register,” she said.

Since her high school does not offer AP classes, Meyer’s high school English credits did not transfer to Tufts.

Therefore, Meyer, who is considering an English major, was hoping to take English 1 this fall.

“I have to take English 1 and I was preferably going to do it this semester so I would…get a jumpstart and not already be behind compared to everyone else, who [aren’t] even [considering being] English majors,” she said.

Fyler explained that recent policy changes within the English Department now allow students to take lower-level literature courses without having completed the First-Year Writing requirement. Aspiring English majors who are unable to take English 1 and 2 their first two semesters at Tufts, then, are not necessarily at a disadvantage.

“We did that in some ways to be consistent with what was happening across the university; in other words, if students can sign up for Russian Film at the same time they’re taking freshman English, we thought, “Why shouldn’t they be able to sign up for Shakespeare or whatever?” Fyler said. “English 1 and 2 are a foundation requirement; they’re not literature courses by design, they’re writing courses, so it makes sense to be able to take a literature course as well as [English 1 or 2].”

Nevertheless, the First-Year Writing requirement provides a basis for the kind of college writing that students will encounter in all their classes. For Meyer, this was a concern when considering which classes she should take this semester.

“I was…on the fence about taking [another] English class instead [of English 1]…[I] feel like for papers I have to write for this semester I’m gonna be behind, you know, like not know exactly what the professor wants me to write [without having taken English 1],” she said.

Roy emphasized the importance of the foundation requirement and the positive reception it has gotten from students.

“We are quite proud to see that outgoing students routinely will say that even when they took English 1 reluctantly, they came out of it with a great appreciation for writing, and they report that their writing improved, so that’s great to know.”

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Miranda Willson Ecofeminism for All

On trying too hard

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his morning, I devoted a half-hour to crafting my physical appearance for the day. In the back of my mind throughout these 30 minutes was the thought that I was wasting my time with vain, superficial activities — that I should’ve slept longer or gotten a head start on coursework or talked with my housemates.

I don’t think I’m the only person who devotes some measure of time to my appearance but feels bad for doing so. Tufts is an intellectual, social, busy environment where personal issues in general, and especially personal issues that are not deemed serious or important, are often considered worthless ways to spend time.

Certainly, when I first came to Tufts, I thought the clubs, organizations and activities here that celebrated people’s physical appearances and bodies were trite.

And much of the world, it seems, agrees.

Women in particular are expected to look perfect, but we aren’t supposed to care too much or “try too hard.” We are supposed to be skinny but also eat burgers and drink beers, at least according to advertisements.

We are supposed to look beautiful without wearing makeup, and makeup advertisements often emphasize how their particular products make us look like we aren’t wearing makeup at all, as if we really did wake up like this.

I remember one of my friends from high school remarking on how she never wore “subtle” makeup. When she chose to wear makeup, she selected lip colors that sharply contrasted with her skin tone and drew thick cat-eyes around her eyelids. It seemed like such a radical idea to me at the time, because everything women wear is meant to conceal the truth in some way; if we aren’t wearing a bra, for example, we’re supposed to wear a dress or shirt that hides this fact, and if we have our period, we’re certainly supposed to keep that a secret.

This notion that what we do in order to look the way we do is inherently shameful and must be kept secret creates an environment conducive to so many psychological problems — most obviously to eating disorders. Those with eating disorders are often ashamed of the condition and incredibly secretive about it.

Or at least I was when I had an undiagnosed eating disorder at age 15. I remember thinking to myself that I couldn’t really call myself a feminist until I got over it, because having an eating disorder meant I was overly concerned with how I looked and, God forbid, affected by the western media’s standards of beauty. I never admitted it to anyone until I ostensibly recovered from it.

We have to get over this ridiculous idea that strong, powerful and desirable women don’t “care too much” about their appearances, because it only encourages women to hide the things they do — dangerous or not — in order to look the way they look.

We live in a society that tells us we must adhere to specific western, white supremacist beauty standards. That’s what we need to be critiquing — not the women trying to exist within it.

Miranda Willson is an assistant news editor at the Tufts Daily. She is a junior majoring in environmental studies and urban policy & development and can be reached at miranda.willson@tufts.edu.

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Know Tomorrow music festival to bring artists, speakers, students together for day of climate action Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey (left) and actor Ian Somerhalder (right) are among the speakers partipating in the Know Tomorrow Day of Action in Boston on Oct. 2.

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It’s no surprise that students on American college campuses have been working for years — if not decades — to enact more climate friendly policies on their campuses, in their states and across the country. Though these efforts are usually done independently of one other, on Oct. 2, students nationwide will come together to rally for climate justice. At over 50 colleges across the United States, students will host events that aim to bring together activists, politicians, celebrities and their fellow students.

According to its website, these rallies are part of a Day of Action organized by student-led environmental action campaign Know Tomorrow. Know Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization that seeks to spread awareness about climate change, is part of a collaboration between Cool Globes and the Climate Reality Project, which works to organize global citizens “mobilizing action around climate change,” according to a Sept. 10 press release from the organization. In Boston, the Day of Action event, organized by Tufts senior Ben Silver, will be a free music festival that also features speakers on climate change.

“My background is really [in] music, but climate change action is something I’m [also] passionate about,” Silver said.

For Silver, organizing the event brought together these two interests.

“Five or six years ago, I would table for [Cool Globes] at environmental expos,” he said. “Then…they started this new project where they wanted to synchronize campus activism and really create a unified voice about climate change. One day they reached out to me and asked if I would organize their event in Boston.”

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Working with a team of other Bostonarea students, Silver organized a festival, which was originally planned to take place outdoors on Boston Common, but has since been moved to the nearby

Ritz-Carlton Grand Ballroom due to predicted inclement weather. With help from his team, Silver has been working to book bands, speakers and sponsors since the summer.

“We have artists coming from [Los Angeles], D.C…so I’ve been in charge of doing the booking, making contracts and offers to artists,” Silver said. “I’ve been in charge of sponsorship, getting people to pay and fund the festival… [working] with our PR company, organizing the speaker schedule…and also trying to tie in the cause.”

“The climate crisis is real and daunting, but so is the power of youth to unite for our planet and for justice.”

The lineup includes local and national acts such as Will Dailey, Outasight and Speedy Ortiz, while Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey and Harvard professor James Engall are among the speakers. Student musicians Kate Diaz and Natalie Joly will also perform, as will a new Tufts band, currently playing under the name Starcatcher.

The band consists of seniors Melissa Weikart and Erik Broess, backed by junior Aidan Scrimgreour, senior Gabe Terracciano and sophomore Jackson Fulk-Logon — Broess’ bandmates from his other project, Blue Ives.

“We started playing together a year ago, and we’d just jam on covers and some original songs,” Weikart said.

“And then this summer, we started to craft what we wanted…the vibe of the project [to be].”

“It’s basically like jazz harmony with a funk and hip-hop beat and soul,” Broess said of the band’s sound.

Though this is the first live show the band will be playing together, Broess and Weikart didn’t seem fazed by the

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size of the event.

“The two of us [Broess and Weikart]… have been performing for a year now, but this is our first time playing a show of all original music, with the stuff that we rehearsed and [with] the band behind us. So I’m just kind of excited because it completely changed the sound from when we were playing open mic nights or jazz standards gigs,” Broess said.

Broess hopes that performers and attendees alike will keep in mind the importance of gathering all these various people together at the music festival.

“People come out to hear music; they come out to support their friends, but at the same time, music can convey a message,” Broess said. “You can find musicians who are not only dedicated to showing up and being there but [to] actually using their music as a vehicle to create change,” Broess said.

Silver cited singer-songwriter Kate Diaz as one such performer whose music directly addresses environmental activism.

“I think what we see in music is that a lot of artists that become brands have very specific causes that their brand communicates, but [that] their music does not,” Silver said. “This is why we’re excited to have a few student artists perform [who] write climate justice songs … Having people that are still penning songs and writing creative music relating to the cause is cool.”

Balancing music with politics

While Silver handled the music and PR aspects of the project, two of his areas of expertise, the other students on his team came from an environmental justice background. According to Silver, their experiences working on renewable energy, sustainable resources and climate activism helped engage the community and integrate the two goals of the event.

Junior Shana Gallagher, who is a member of Tufts Climate Action, worked on Silver’s team. She ran a campus representative program that aimed to spread awareness about the event and strengthen Know Tomorrow’s ties

with other environmental groups such as the Citizen’s Climate Lobby and the Student Divestment Network. In addition, a new student initiative will also begin at Friday’s event.

“This Know Tomorrow [Day of Action] will be the launch site for a new student movement: calling for a price on carbon,” Gallagher told the Daily in an email. “Economists agree that pricing carbon is the most effective way to reduce emissions, not to mention to address the fundamental flaw of the fossil fuel industry being allowed to profit from destroying the environment.”

“Everyone can get behind this cause”

Though the Day of Action will be replete with free music and food for college students, Silver’s ultimate goal of the event is to teach attendees about steps they can take to support climate action and advance environmental legislation. He hopes that the event will inspire attendees and partner organizations to share a unified mindset.

“I feel like climate change is something that everyone should care about, but not everyone does, especially on college campuses,” Silver said. “I think past movements have been sort of alienating, whether through civil disobedience and protests and other things that can sort of…polarize these organizations from this cause, which really everyone should care about. So [I’m] trying to create a fun event that has broad appeal, so that everyone can get behind this cause.”

Gallagher agreed.

“Know Tomorrow is effective because it has a message of hope and optimism — not doom and gloom — and recognizes the exciting opportunity of this generation to face the gravest challenge humanity has ever known,” Gallagher said. “The climate crisis is real and daunting, but so is the power of youth to unite for our planet and for justice.”

The Know Tomorrow music and climate festival will take place this Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the RitzCarlton Grand Ballroom; the Tremont Street entrance will be open to the general public.

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Looking to make your weekend artsy? Just trying to find something to do? Here are some cool events in Boston this weekend:

Know Tomorrow Music and How I Met…Story Slam Wing Fling Climate Festival The first ever Tufts Podcast Network The sisters of This festival is meant to stir up concern about climate change by bringing interested people together for an afternoon of musical performances and speeches by influential speakers. Artists include Speedy Ortiz, Outasight and Tufts own Starcatcher, among others. Friday at 2 p.m. in The Ritz-Carlton Grand Ballroom. Free admission, but the event is ticketed.

(TPN) Story Slam takes place this weekend. The Story Slam is meant to be a creative and open space to share stories.

Select stories from the slam will be featured on TPN’s next podcast. Friday at 8 p.m. in the Terrace Room. Free admission.

Chi Omega are hosting this event as a fundraiser for the Makea-Wish Foundation, which grants wishes for children with life-threatening diseases. There will be food, prizes and a wing eating competition at the event.

Saturday at 12 p.m. at 51 Winthrop Street (moved from the Tisch Library Roof due to inclement weather). Tickets are $7 ahead of time and $10 at the door.

OctoBEER Bar Crawl

Boston Ski and Sports Club will host this bar crawl through Davis Square and Somerville — just a hop away on the Joey. Participants can look forward to an afternoon full of social day drinking, prizes, swag, games and more. Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in Davis Square. Tickets are $10-15 and available at BSSC.com.

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by Merilla Michael

Top 10 female TV characters currently on air

Assistant Arts Editor

Female leads on television are becoming increasingly prominent, but they’re not always done right. It’s easy to take a female character and make her one-dimensional or dependent on a man, so when a complex and strong female character comes onto the screen, she deserves recognition.

This list of female TV characters is limited to shows that are currently airing or on hiatus because, otherwise, this list would have to be a top 50. This ranking is essentially based on how likely a viewer might say, “Wow, she is awesome!” and/or how hardcore they would consider the character.

1. Annalise Keating from “How to Get Away with Murder” (2014 – present) is a brilliant criminal defense attorney who knows what she wants and, most

3. The star of “Agent Carter” (2015), Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), landed her own show after her appearance in the Captain America franchise. Losing Steve Rogers — Captain America’s alter ego — didn’t break her down, but instead strengthened her.

Carter is now helping to prove billionaire Howard Stark’s (Dominic Cooper) innocence, beating up sexist men in the ’40s and looking fabulous at the same time.

4. Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) of “Game of Thrones” (2011 – present) is incredibly loyal to the daughters of Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) after their mother passes away.

She briefly entertains romantic feelings for Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj CosterWaldau), but realizes her protective duties are more important. She can also school anyone, male or female, in combat and has the best swordswoman

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Tatiana Maslany stars as the protective Sarah Manning on BBC America’s “Orphan Black.” on crimes. She is respected and looked up to by her co-workers, but is not afraid to lay down the law and call the shots. She is fierce, brave and admirable.

7. Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) is almost as ruthless as her husband, Frank (Kevin Spacey), in “House of Cards” (2013 – present). While Frank seems unaffected by morally questionable decisions, she displays some sense of guilt over their exploits. Don’t be fooled, however, because getting on her bad side will result in some serious damage. She’s sly, sharp and an overall intimidatingly strong woman.

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Gwendoline Christie plays Brienne of Tarth, a master swordswoman, on “Game of Thrones.” of the time, gets it. Prosecutors falter when they realize they’re up against Keating, a powerhouse speaker. When she finds out her husband is cheating on her with one of his college students, she makes sure he pays for it.

2. Picking only one clone from “Orphan Black” (2013 – present) feels wrong, but out of the many that Tatiana Maslany plays, Sarah Manning stands out. She’s had a rough life and dealt with substance abuse and crime, but has always put her family, especially her daughter Kira (Skyler Wexler) above all else. She will do anything to protect her daughter, and their relationship is one of the most compelling on the show.

Manning doesn’t let anyone push her around; in fact, she’s usually the one doing the pushing.

skills around. In a time in which women are encouraged to do literally nothing other than stay home and give birth to children, Brienne refuses to do either, and it’s glorious.

8. Sun Bak (Doona Bae) from “Sense8” (2015) is similar to Melinda May in that she’s grounded and skilled in martial arts. She uses martial arts as a way to center and calm herself and she’s able to hold her own under attack. She also cares deeply about her family — so much so that she confesses to a crime

and goes to prison to save her brother.

That’s dedication.

9. Not even being sent back in time 200 years could stop Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) from being her normal “crude” self among a gang of Scottish men, hellbent on proving that she’s a spy. Fraser swears, drinks, yells and doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her in “Outlander” (2014 – present). She may not always make the best decisions, but she stays true to herself.

10. Sophia Burset (Laverne Cox) on “Orange Is the New Black” (2013 – present) is an inspiration to all, despite her callous surroundings. As a transexual woman, Burset has to deal with harassment both in and out of prison, but puts on a brave face. She knows where she stands morally, and stands up for herself and what she believes in, even when nobody else will.

5. Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) is so stoic that viewers of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (2013–present) may think she’s heartless. She can be callous and cold at times, but she cares about her team and will do anything to save them. May is skilled in martial arts and could probably take down a dozen armed men with her bare hands. In addition, she’s also a pilot. Her quick one-liners don’t hurt her case either.

6. If you have a problem, you want to go to Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) from “Scandal” (2012 – present). She solves problems for a living, protecting people’s reputations and cracking down

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Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), who appeared in 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger,” is a force to be reckoned with.

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Lara LoBrutto Sinoscope

Disclosure’s sophomore album safe yet strong

by James Davis

The art of memorization

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In June 2012, two brothers released an EP called “The Face.” Their remix of Jessie Ware’s single “Running” (2013) had already been tearing up dance floors for three months, and the duo, known as Disclosure, had been gathering momentum since 2010 in the underground house scene. However, with “The Face,” the duo were catapulted into the limelight. The soulful, funky four-track EP was unique and stood out to underground and pop music lovers alike.

In October of that year, they released “Latch,” the first single from their debut album “Settle” (2013), which featured pop singer Sam Smith. The track was a surprise hit and paved the way for the huge success of the additional singles and album that followed. Almost two years after its initial release, “Latch” took over the airwaves in the United States following Smith’s rush of popularity following the release of his worldwide hit “Stay With Me” (2014).

“Latch” was not the only success on “Settle.” The album rocked dance floors and radio stations alike by combining poppy cuts like “You & Me” with bouncy club hits like “When A Fire Starts to Burn.” The juxtaposition gave the album color and depth, and, were it not for Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” (2013), “Settle” may have been the biggest electronic album of 2013. Since then, Disclosure has been one of the hottest names in dance music.

“Caracal” is not quite as exciting as Disclosure’s previous work. All 14 of the tracks on the deluxe edition feature vocals for their full duration, indicating that Disclosure’s signature instrumental complexity has taken a back seat. Though this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s a good indicator of the direction Disclosure took the album. Originally known for their

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English house duo Disclosure recently released their second album, “Caracal.” quirky, flavorful underground music, they are now often categorized as a pop act, and at its core, “Caracal” is a pop record.

Disclosure played this album very safely.

Every song is solid, and some are better than solid, but none of them give the listener that rush of excitement that comes with hearing something really new and different.

However, not all albums are made to be revolutionary, so it is best to look at “Caracal” for what it is rather than what it could have been. In the context of being a sparky, interesting pop album, it excels.

Ten songs are sung by featured vocalists such as Lorde and Sam Smith — all of whom deliver stellar performances — and four are sung by Disclosure member Howard Lawrence, who has not sung on any of the duo’s previous records. Though Howard’s voice sounds a bit flat compared to the other vocalists, the songs he sings are intentionally less reliant on vocals. It

is also worth mentioning that the songwriting itself is strong, especially in the context of most pop music. Each song is written by a combination of Disclosure, Jimmy Napes (an unsung hero in pop music with writing credits on hits like Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” and Clean Bandit’s “Rather Be” (2014)) and the song’s featured artist. The result is an album of 14 songs with the same stylistic core, but individual splashes of color.

In the end, “Caracal” is a good album.

The songs are well-produced and catchy.

The vocal performances are strong and the instrumentals sound great, especially when compared to those in other modern pop music. While it is a bit disappointing that Disclosure didn’t take more musical risks — and there is no denying that there are points in the album where the songs fall a bit short — ultimately there’s nothing wrong with a solid album that does what works.

Spotlight

With boundless energy, Fury Sheron pursues eclectic collection of artistic activities

by John Gallagher

Assistant Arts Editor

The array of artistic abilities that sophomore, and undeclared computer science and Japanese major, Fury Sheron possesses is truly impressive. Her artistic pursuits on campus range from visual art, to music, to fire spinning. It would seem that there are very few constraints on her artistic exuberance.

The most publicly visible examples of Sheron’s work are, arguably, the cartoons that she produces for the Daily each week.

Sheron’s comically illustrated commentary on campus life has won her regular praise. Her most recent work lampooned the state of wifi at Tufts.

Sheron also performs with a variety of on-campus musical ensembles, both as a vocalist and instrumentalist. Sheron plays alto saxophone for the Pep Band, a group which performs at various events on campus, including home football games and the Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony. Sheron also sings on campus as a member of the concert choir.

Sheron is a member of Tufts Jumbo Jugglers, a group she joined through sheer serendipity.

“I found some Jumbo Jugglers spinning in the daytime my first week I was here,” Sheron told the Daily via Facebook message. “[I] just pulled out my poi [a ball of woven

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flax used in Maori dances] and met some of the people I’m still friends with today.”

Sheron is also taking Introduction to Game Development this semester,

which will almost certainly open up new avenues of creative expression. Who knows where her artistic talents will take her next?

or Chinese students, a significant slice of the pie called education involves recitation. They start with simple poems and stories and move on to more advanced literature, eventually memorizing English works as well. That’s what my Chinese university friends told me this summer. They were shocked that I had only been asked to memorize something twice in my academic career. Both times involved Shakespearean monologues that I performed in English class as acting exercises.

We generally regard memorization with disdain, especially at American universities.

It is a strategy for lazy educators, it is pointless and we forget as easily as we memorize. Even the Chinese have a term for it, “tianyashi,” meaning “stuff-the-duck” strategy. It is the hallmark of the Chinese education system, culminating in the “gaokao,” the college entry test that makes millions of students’ lives miserable halfway across the globe.

The vaguely familiar concept of memorization returned into my life with full force this past summer in China. Every Friday, we were asked to present an essay written in Mandarin, that we had handed in, of course, on Wednesday night. On the day of my first presentation, my palms were sweaty, and I frantically awaited my turn. I fumbled and stumbled and, in the process, turned an imperial red. As my teachers gave me pity compliments, I resolved that I would master this test, which was undoubtedly the most difficult part of every week.

On Thursday nights, I could be found pacing my room and talking to myself. I started by marking the tones of words that I usually missed. Then I would read through the essay again and again, ironing out the pronunciation. Even though I might’ve know a character all by itself, I still could say it entirely wrong when I put it into context. Once that process was done, I started stringing together the lines paragraph by paragraph. And when I turned off the lights and slipped under the covers, I would see my essay scrolling, movie-credits style, behind closed eyes.

There were certainly times — and by this I mean every Thursday night — that I viewed this experience as an unnecessary pain and a waste of my time. It wasn’t until finals week that my appreciation for everything increased, that I began to notice certain tendencies in my own writing. Some phrases could be worded more eloquently; others made me proud because they precisely expressed my meaning. Not only that, but I was more likely to remember the expressions I used in my essays and bring them up in conversation. What I had approached as a stressful and pointless exercise was deepening my understanding of the language and of my own writing.

So when my Chinese friends told me that they regularly memorized texts for class, the benefits became apparent. Could it actually encourage greater appreciation and deeper analysis? It is easy to miss a great deal of meaning after reading through something only once. Upon the second read, one can discover alternate connotations. Memorizing, though, goes beyond familiarization. One must acquaint oneself with the shape of every word so it slides smoothly into the next. One must follow the cadence to attain the correct spoken rhythm. One must understand why the author chose to follow one word with the next. Only then can we truly memorize.

Lara LoBrutto is a junior majoring in Chinese. She can be reached at lara.lobrutto@tufts.edu.

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On-campus revolution The Daily Arts section has a mission this semester: to grow its coverage of the Tufts arts scene. This may come as a surprise to some, since the mission seems so obvious; of course Tufts’ school paper would cover the plethora of artistic and cultural events going on across campus.

Yet over the past couple of semesters, on-campus coverage has made up only a sliver of the content produced by the Arts section. This should change.

The relationship between the Daily and campus arts groups has not always been as healthy as it should be. Decent journalism requires a professional distance between writer and subject, but there is such a thing as too much distance. Since the Arts section shares an interest with student and faculty artists in publicizing

the latter’s artistic achievements, there is no reason why the Daily and student art should not be in closer dialogue.

Last semester, visiting lecturer in the Department of Drama and Dance Gibson Cima reached out to the Daily for a review of his production of “Richard III.” His invitation led to a nuanced interview that enhanced our coverage of his and the students’ work. Outreach like Cima’s makes it more attainable to achieve our mission.

Work toward our mission this semester is already underway; the first two Weekenders — the Arts section’s weekly extended feature that explores a topic or event in depth — covered Tufts University Television and Tufts Podcast Network.

This week’s edition explores the Know Tomorrow Music and Climate Festival,

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As members of the Tufts community, Arts editors care about the events happening around us, and it’s important for us to be aware of them early enough to allow for quality coverage. So, let us know about your event — reach out to us at dailyarts@ gmail.com. This section of the Daily is making an effort to better serve the Tufts arts community, and we welcome your help in pursuing this goal.

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by Nathan Kohrman Earlier this week, Lady Gaga released a new music video called “Til it Happens to You,” which details three graphic scenes of sexual violence, in order to raise awareness about sexual assault on college campuses.

A few days later, the American Association of Universities released the results from a recent survey on collegiate sexual violence. Both offer grim perspectives of collegiate sex culture, and both received a lot of attention at Yale and across the country.

Though I still struggle to make sense of the AAU report, I’ve found that Gaga’s video serves as an instructive foil revealing some of the preconceptions we hold about sexual violence, and how, after these disturbing revelations about our community, we can work to move forward.

Gaga’s effort to raise awareness about sexual violence is laudable, but her message is misleading and her medium is inept. The story arc of her music video is archetypal and simplistic. Three heterosexual men use force or drugs to incapacitate and then rape young women. The tableau is shocking but familiar; such portrayals of collegiate sexual violence have become embedded in the American psyche, nestled next to our fear of the stranger in the alley way. We are painfully aware of this kind of violence and it takes up too much of our conversational bandwidth.

When we allow ourselves to be fixated by rape, other insidious but less severe forms of sexual misconduct fly under the radar.

Sexual violence unfolds on a spectrum — from rape to harassment, to behavior that is not severe enough to fit Yale’s standards of misconduct but disrespectful

Unwanted Hands enough to violate standards of common decency. While a hand being repeatedly swatted away from a thigh is not as gripping an image as a roofied teenager lying unrobed, lower forms of sexual pressure and disrespect are still profound problems because they serve as both the context and cloaking for more severe behavior.

Lower-level sexual impropriety deserves more of our awareness because it is the realm in which we can make progress.

The most shocking implication we can draw from the survey is that, as a community, we have not yet figured out what sexual violence looks like. An important step towards figuring this out is raising our awareness of sexual pressure and disrespect. We should look for unwanted hands and make sure they stay off of uncomfortable thighs. When a friend talks about their hook up, instead of asking “What base?” we should ask “Did you guys have fun?” We dig up weeds by pulling out their roots.

The other lamentable aspect of Lady Gaga’s music video is her portrayal of men. From the video, one gets the impression that college men are divided equally between allies and predators. This notion, also deep-seated in American discourse around sexual violence, leads to the perennial claim that college men are cavalier and disrespectful, which is often followed by the complaint that college men are unfairly persecuted. Neither notion is accurate or constructive.

The efforts of college men and all-male college groups, are essential to addressing sexual violence. At Yale, as at many American colleges, male-dominated organizations have disproportionate steward-

ship over drinking and socialization. Yale has fraternity houses, sports team houses and all-male a cappella houses. Regardless of one’s gender, everyone in the Yale community has a responsibility to make our community safe, but all-male groups have the social capital and positioning to make an enormous impact.

This is particularly true when it comes to sexual pressure and sexual disrespect, which thrive in dark, loud places. College men are not a homogenous group, and thus are not necessarily allies or predators.

But men and all-male groups are the stewards of much of Yale’s partying, placing us on the frontlines of lower-level sexual misconduct. Small adjustments could make a huge difference. At parties, try playing music at a lower volume, and leaving the lights a bit brighter. I’ve found that Yalies like hearing and seeing each other. Also, party hosts and partygoers can ask people who look uncomfortable or excessively drunk how they’re doing. Hopefully nothing is amiss, but it never hurts to check in.

This is hardly exhaustive, and each group will know best how to begin a healthy conversation, but we can all agree that it is counterproductive to portray college men as the problem when we can be such a substantial part of the solution. We have the power to ignore these behaviors or address them.

It is easy to fixate on the horrors of rape, but we must also raise our awareness and commitment to preventing lower-level sexual pressure. What we pay attention to dictates how we respond. These lower-level issues are not always the most intuitive to look at, but they are the platform to make the most positive change.

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quick Google search of the terms “government shutdown” and “other countries” returns an excess of articles from the past five years with pretty much the same title: “Why don’t other countries have government shutdowns?” To me, the question is absolutely ludicrous. You mean the government is expected to shut down? How is this a normalized behavior?

Government shutdowns rarely actually occur in other countries. When they do, they are usually an indicator of a major national crisis (think states of emergency), not a budgetary disagreement. Even in systems of government that mirror many of the political structures of the United States — presidential systems, bicameral legislatures, strong executive branches — budget disputes do not lead to government shutdowns.

Disagreement, debate and argument are natural parts of a healthy democratic system.

Moreover, as my Montgomery County, Md. high-school government teacher, Mrs. Starin, liked to remind me: inefficiency (although perhaps not to the point of deadlock) was intentionally built into the American political system. It serves as a safety measure against rash, unilateral decisions. If gridlock was expected and even encouraged, why would the functioning of federal institutions and branches be tied to a budgetary consensus?

The answer is that it wasn’t. Government shutdowns as a political circumstance have actually only been around for the past 30 years.

The phenomenon, according to an April 7, 2011 Foreign Policy article, emerges from a reinterpretation of the legal stipulations in the 1884 Antideficiency Act, which “prohibits federal agencies from conducting activities or entering into contracts that haven’t been fully funded by congressional appropriations.” Formerly, when this was was done in most other countries in the world, federal agencies and services would continue to function by default while cutting unnecessary expenditure.

What is of concern is understanding the increasing reoccurrence of government shutdowns as a new form of partisan politicking that serves a similar function to a filibuster: they both exploit a structural loophole. Using a government shutdown as a tool to express political and ideological discontent is disgraceful and petty. While the shutdown does not affect what are considered to be essential federal functions, furloughed employees are delayed pay until the re-institution of a budget, document issuing offices shutdown and some benefits, including unemployment insurance and veteran aid, are reduced or delayed. This is without needing to mention the high costs required for the government to shut down and start again, as well as missed financial opportunities.

Politicians, as public servants, should have the well-being of their constituents at heart.

What is perhaps more surprising to me is the lack of public acknowledgement of the death of political responsiveness.

While a government shutdown was avoided yesterday, the newly passed spending bill will allow for these same claims and tactics to re-emerge in December. On my end, I would like to visit the Smithsonian museums over the holiday break.

Maria-Jose Fabre is a senior majoring in political science. She may be reached at maria.fabre@tufts.edu.

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continued from back which poses unique challenges for the team.

The Bobcats’ triple-option offense is fueled by its powerful slot receiving unit — arguably the team’s most dangerous unit on the field — which is led by senior slot receiver Shaun Carroll. Carroll had a strong start to the season this past weekend, scoring Bates’ first points of the season with an 80-yard touchdown run in the opening play against Amherst. Carroll finished the game with 107 yards on 13 carries and looks poised for another strong season.

The slot receiver earned 281 rushing yards, 3 TD; 96 receiving yards, 1 TD for his team in 2014. Slot receiver is also the Bates’ unit with the most depth, as Carroll will be supported by sophomores Frank Williams, Mickoy Nichol, Sean Peterson and junior Tyler Janssen as well as former captain Shawn Doherty, who leads the slotbacks as an assistant coach this season.

“First and foremost, we’ve got to stop the dive, you’ve got to stop at least three, really four phases of their offense, that’s the difficult part defending the triple,” Civetti said. “You’ve got to stop the dives, then you’ve got to stop the quarterback, then you’ve got to stop the pitch. The fourth phase obviously is that they’re going to throw off. First and foremost, it’s always to stop the dive and limit the phases down to two.”

Tufts did an excellent job stressing Hamilton’s offensive line last weekend, earning four sacks and limiting Hamilton’s rushing attack to a paltry 42 yards. However, Hamilton quarterback Chase Rosenberg found success rolling out of the pocket and through play-action maneuvers, suggesting that Tufts’ defensive front seven might find corralling Dugan difficult when Bates runs triple-option plays.

With the pressure on the Tufts defense this upcoming weekend, the leadership of the Tufts 2015 football team is especially important, particularly when contrasted with Bates’ decision to field “game captains” this season, rather than naming captains for the entire season.

The Jumbos are officially led by senior co-captains Corey Burns and Matt McCormack, both of whom play on defense, but the leadership of other seniors on the team is crucial to the cohesiveness of the defensive unit.

“Corey [Burns] and Matt [McCormack] have done a good job promoting and encouraging leadership from those other guys to step up whether you’re a starter or whether you’re a role player,” Civetti said. “They also recognize other seniors on defense like Patrick Williams, who is not only a great player, but a great leader in the locker room and does things the right way, [and] it’s hard not to recognize guys like Garrett Ewanouski who’s an army ROTC, to-be second lieutenant and he has literally the best training for leadership in the world.”

The final challenge for the team, coming off its first road win, will be consistency on the road — a quality that eluded them all of last season.

“I think [this past weekend] was important for us to prove what this 2015 team is capable of,” Civetti said. “A new challenge for us will be stringing wins together on the road.”

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his week in the NFL is exactly what you might expect: a week full of hilarious mistakes, missed throws and just down right misses. At this point, the season is in full swing and as blunder-filled as ever. Here’s what went poorly in week three: The Falcons: Falcons fans (if you exist), I know exactly what you’re going to say: “You won.” Congratulations are in order; you beat a Cowboys team with Brandon Weeden at quarterback and no Dez Bryant threatening your secondary. Joseph Randle, the only guy anyone cares about on that offense, ran for three touchdowns Sunday. I don’t claim to be a defensive visionary, but when a team has no quarterback and no wide receivers, I think it’s safe to bet the running back is the only guy to be afraid of.

The Edward Jones Dome: I get the feeling this is going to become a constant; every week I sit down to write this column and find myself inevitably making fun of my favorite team above all others. Rams, we get it, you’re a joke. Do you think you could save the fans the slightest bit of dignity and, I don’t know, not set the field on fire!

The Rams came out of the tunnel to a blazingly mediocre fireworks display that delayed the game because — and I could not make this up if I tried — it set the turf aflame.

The NFC West: A year ago this division was cited as potentially the greatest in football. The aforementioned terrible Rams sat at the bottom and even inspired fear in some lesser division’s teams. This year, however, three teams sit at 1-2, two of which were playoff contenders last year. The defending NFC champion Seahawks are 1-2. At one point, I probably would’ve cheered about it, but by now, the division is so bad it’s actually sort of nice to see the Cardinals get some recognition for some stellar play this season.

You: Yes you, dear reader. You know who you are; you’re the guy who had the first pick in his fantasy draft, and for some reason, you continue to justify to yourself why you passed on Adrian Peterson. You had your chance to take him, and you didn’t because “he’s coming off an injury,” or “he’s a running back over 30,” and yet the future hall of famer is proving what we all secretly knew: he cannot be stopped. Sit there and realize that while you picked Eddie Lacy because he was the “safe” running back, you could’ve had an absolute beast of a man touting the football for your fantasy team every week and you chose someone else instead.

That wraps up this week in Roger Goodell’s National Football League. Next week, I look forward to criticizing the Saints and their continuing decision to pay Drew Brees, who is certainly past his prime, and the big bucks for average quarterback play.

I look forward to yet another ridiculous week of football.

Eddie Samuels is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at edward.samuels@tufts.edu

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Tufts to face new challenges at Bates this weekend

by Alison Kuah

Executive Sports Editor

Tufts and Bates both finished 4-4 in the 2014 season. The Bobcats graduated their team’s quarterback and offensive MVP Matt Cannone last season, and the Jumbos’ junior quarterback Alex Snyder has big shoes to fill following Jack Doll’s (A ’15) senior-season total of 1,119 yards, or 186.5 yards per game.

Both teams experienced considerable roster turnover on defense since last season. Bates’ defense is returning only three players who started at least half of the games in 2014, while Tufts completely overhauled its secondary with new cornerbacks — first-year Alex LaPiana and sophomore Bryce Joyner — and a new safety in junior Mike Stearns.

Bates is coming off a one-sided 37-14 loss to NESCAC defending champions Amherst, while Tufts secured a nail-biting 27-24 win in overtime against low-ranked Hamilton.

Tufts recorded a dramatic come-frombehind 42-24 win over Bates during homecoming last season in a game that saw Tufts generate 405 total offensive yards to Bates’ 280, outscoring the visitors 29-7 in the second half.

This year, the Bobcats host the Jumbos in a rematch of two teams that, at least on paper, look evenly matched.

Bates junior linebacker Mark Upton, one of two returning First Team All-NESCAC selections along with senior wide receiver Mark Riley, spoke to the

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Junior Mike Stearns tackles a Hamilton player during the first half of Tufts’ 24-17 victory against the team on the Ellis Oval / Zimman Field on Sept. 20, 2014.

Boston Globe of the team’s goal to improve upon their 4-4 record and “steal some games from some of the top teams” — Amherst, Williams and Middlebury — which makes this weekend’s game a must-win for Bates.

Jumbos coach Jay Civetti is unworried

by Upton’s comment.

“We don’t necessarily concern ourselves with what Bates wants,” Civetti said. “Tufts doesn’t want to go 4-4 either.

Not trying to be a wise guy…but Bates

can do whatever Bates wants to do. What they do is not up to me.”

The Jumbos will focus their attention this weekend on the Bobcats’ playmaking, see FOOTBALL , page 15

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Jumbos return to form in MIT match

by Yuan Jun Chee Contributing Writer

Tufts recorded its first victory in three games as they beat the MIT Engineers 2-0 at the Henry G. Steinbrenner Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. Goals from firstyear midfielders Alex Aronson and Sarah Grubman in each half secured the victory for the Jumbos.

The Jumbos started the game with a high-intensity pressing strategy intended to get the ball back as soon as they could. It worked, and Tufts scored on their first serious attacking move in the final third. Sophomore midfielder Chandler Quintin launched a fiercely hit effort on goal from 25-yards out. The shot rebounded off the crossbar and landed kindly for Aronson as she beat the MIT defense to open the scoring for Tufts in the third minute.

After the first goal of the game, Tufts quickly settled, controlling the ball and pressing to set the tempo of the match.

Another long shot, this time from Grubman, tested the MIT junior goalkeeper, Lauren Ullmann, who tipped it over the bar.

Tufts was able to play out of the back thanks to the composure of co-captain senior Nicole Campellone in central defence, but MIT fired a warning shot close to the end of the first half, as sophomore Olivia Struckman had a good opportunity in the 41st minute with a break away. The Jumbos first-year goalkeeper Emily Bowers was equal to the effort, however, getting a hand to the chipped shot before junior right back Stefanie Brunswick got it away for her

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First-year midfielder Emma Ranalli kicks the ball away from a Lesley player on Sept. 30. team, allowing the Jumbos to go in 1-0 at the half.

The Jumbos’ pressure resumed in the second half as they attacked down the two flanks, attempting to exploit the spaces left behind by the Engineers seeking the equalizer. In an attempt to mitigate the threat from MIT, junior Brooke Fortin was shifted to left back to deal with senior Morgan Moroi and Struckman’s runs, as the hosts started to grab a foothold in the center of the park during the second half.

Yet, the Tufts frontline continued to attack the MIT backline; junior Jess Capone’s impressive hold up play helped lead the attack as her team put cross after cross in. Tufts’ second goal eventually came after some unrelenting pressure

down the right wing. From there, Fortin won the ball and swung the cross deep in her zone, finding Grubman, who finished from within the box to seal the game for the Jumbos.

“We used the wings and found the little triangles on the field to connect passes, and it helped us going forward,” Fortin said. “I think [the win] was important going into an important NESCAC weekend. It gave us some confidence and it puts us in a great position to go forward.”

Campellone added that the win gave the Jumbos the momentum necessary to propel them into the upcoming NESCAC weekend.

“The mood was very fired up [after the victory], and the momentum we’ll have

going forward will be huge going into this weekend,” Campellone said. “There were definitely signs of improvement [with our attacking play]. Again we have to work on our finishing. There were a couple of opportunities we missed, but I’m confident that this weekend [we will] be able to finish those.”

Coach Martha Whiting was pleased that the players had been applying skills from practice in their games.

“There were things that we were working on in practice yesterday, as far as what our forwards were going to do, how they were going to play, how we were combining on the flanks,” Whiting said. “We did lots of what we talked about in practice, so that’s really great for us to see when we put the concepts in pretty quickly. I’m very happy with the level of play, consistency and the result, but I don’t think we’re satisfied. We’re definitely still better than this, and we’re going to continue to work to improve…every time we step on the field.”

MIT coach Martin Desmarais agreed that the game against Tufts, while challenging, was a valuable experience for his team.

“Going into this game, I thought that we were going to be challenged physically, and athletically, and I think we didn’t do a good enough job rising to that level of holding off players,” Demarais said. “In the end, that resulted in at least one of the goals that happened today … Sometimes you get a disappointing result and it helps you step up. Either way this stuff will help us prepare for the Conference play [against Mount Holyoke].”

The Jumbos improve to 3-4 of the season, and have a big weekend ahead with road games at Amherst and Hamilton.