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Monday, October 12, 2015

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Jumbos bring the win home

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TCU Senate Update

Administrators address TCU, encourage engagement

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but because they felt comfortable with someone who was trained in self-defense,” Levy said.

Levy added that, during the confrontation, the brothers attempted to restrain Palacios by grabbing his wrists, asking him who he was and if he was a Tufts student.

When Palacios appeared to be reaching for his identification, the brothers released him, but Palacios instead punched one of the students in the mouth while holding needle-nose pliers, knocking out the student’s tooth.

The brothers released Palacios in surprise and the Somerville resident ran toward Sawyer Avenue, according to Levy and the victim statements. The brothers immediately flagged down Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers, who began a search for the alleged assailant.

Within five to 10 minutes, TUPD officers located Palacios on Raymond Avenue,

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate had a full schedule at its meeting last night: they met with three administrators, held elections for the Allocations Board (ALBO) and tackled supplementary funding requests.

TCU President Brian Tesser, a senior, opened the floor for three administrators who attended the meeting to discuss future opportunities for collaboration with Senate.

Director of the Office for Campus Life (OCL) Joe Golia spoke about his role as the point person between student organizations and the operations of the Mayer Campus Center. Golia, citing his eightyear tenure and experience at Tufts, encouraged members of Senate to reach out to him and ask for help.

He said that the Senate’s community projects, which often take years to implement, are valuable to the Tufts community, and he asked the Senate to continue brainstorming project ideas.

“Keep working on it. It may not happen until you graduate, but keep working on it because things do take time, especially the things you want to see changed,” Golia said. “But I have seen many projects that people start, and once they graduate, are carried on by the next class, so these projects may still have life after you leave, and may happen eventually.”

Christopher Rossi, assistant dean of Student Affairs, then discussed his role as the point of contact for first-year students who wish to connect with the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.

Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon took the floor after Rossi and said that she strongly encouraged all members of Senate to work together with her office to improve the engagement of the student community.

McMahon echoed the two previous administrators’ calls for active participation and cooperation between Senate members and the administration.

After the administrators spoke, Chair of the Elections Commission Paige Newman, a senior, facilitated an election to fill vacancies on Allocations Board

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Tufts University Pep Band plays during the football game and leads a cheer on Homecoming Weekend on Saturday, Oct. 10.

For more homecoming coverage, see Captured: Homecoming Sports, page 7, and Sports, back page.

Somerville resident charged with alleged assault at Zeta Psi fraternity

by Nicholas Pfosi Staff Writer

Three Tufts students were allegedly assaulted by a 23-year-old Somerville resident outside the Zeta Psi fraternity house during the early morning of Oct. 3. The suspect, Jorge Palacios, is now facing charges of home invasion, assault and battery with a deadly weapon, possessing a burglarious instrument and possession of a deadly weapon.

At a dangerousness hearing — in which the Commonwealth requests a judge to jail a defendant without bail for up to 90 days — held last Friday, First Justice of the Somerville District Court Maurice Flynn ordered, among other contingencies, that Palacios stay away from all Tufts University properties. In spite of the Commonwealth’s request, Justice Flynn also set a $500 bail for Palacios, who is scheduled back in court for a hearing on Nov. 10. Court documents show that Assistant District Attorney Ryan Rall requested that the vic-

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tims’ names be redacted from public documents and that a restraining order be issued against Palacios.

According to Zeta Psi’s president Ben Levy, Palacios attempted to enter Zeta Psi’s registered party at approximately 1 a.m. on Oct. 3 through the side-door of the house, which was a designated exit rather than a point of entry.

Victim statements in court documents detailed that when a Zeta Psi brother manning the side-door turned Palacios away, the suspect allegedly punched the student in the face. A second Zeta Psi brother witnessed the altercation and confronted Palacios, at which point Palacios punched the second brother twice in the face before running toward Professors Row. According to Levy, a third brother trained in mixed-martial arts and self-defense joined the two brothers that Palacios allegedly assaulted, intending to confront him. “[The three brothers] go to find the kid [Palacios], not to hurt him or anything,

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continued from page 1 (ALBO), where two out of the seven eligible nominees of the first-year senators were selected. After a fully body vote, firstyears Chris Leaverton and Rayane Haddar were elected as the new ALBO members.

A secondary election was conducted, in which Leaverton was voted Assistant Treasurer of Senate.

TCU Treasurer Shai Slotky, a junior, presented the supplementary funding requests for the first time this year in front of a full body Senate.

The Senate approved funding of $3,297.26 for Tufts Quidditch, $540 for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), $4,392.74 for the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) and $266 for Spirit of Color. Senate voted to break its policy on a set radius for student group travel and approve travel funding of $540 for Active Minds at Tufts. The location of

Active Mind’s intended travel — Irvine, California — is beyond the “radius of 500 miles south of Boston, 300 miles north of Boston, and 1000 miles west of Boston,” according to the Treasury Procedures Manual (TPM).

ALBO and Senate spent the majority of the Treasury report debating the funding requests of Minority Association of Pre-Health Students (MAPS) and Tufts Financial Group (TFG). According to the TPM, the number of students funded for a non-competition event such as a conference is limited to six members of an organization, and only in extraordinary circumstances will more members be permitted to attend.

TCU members debated whether MAPS’ request for funding for the registration fee at a conference at Yale University merited an extraordinary circumstance, eventually voting 17-12-0 to fund the group in the amount of $478.28.

Senate then took up a debate about

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continued from page 1 at which point they questioned him and took him into custody, according to court documents. The Zeta Psi brothers involved in the incident subsequently identified Palacios as the man who assaulted them.

Police reported finding needle-nose pliers, wire strippers, an electrical tester and electrical tape in Palacios’ backpack. Near the area where they found the suspect, police also discovered a knife wrapped with electrical tape that matched the tape found on Palacios.

According to an article in the Somerville Journal, Palacios has been arrested for violent assaults in the past. Boston police reports indicate that the Somerville resident was charged with assault and battery, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest last Halloween.

Levy said the whole incident was brief and that he thought the police performed quickly and professionally.

“From the time the kid entered [the fraternity house] to the time he was apprehended, it was probably 20 minutes at most,” he said.

Su McGlone, the director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, agreed that

TUPD’s response was quick and effective.

“Risk management is as much trying to prevent bad things from happening as it is knowing how to respond when something does happen,” McGlone told the Daily in an email. “From what I know about the situation, Zeta Psi responded exactly how they should have by calling TUPD.” McGlone explained that, although no party safety policies have changed as a result of this incident, nor in light of double-stabbing that took place at the Delta Tau Delta (DTD) fraternity house on May 31, several new initiatives have been launched this semester to facilitate and support fraternities with their parties. In the past, fraternities were required to send up to 10 brothers to university-held general information sessions about party safety. This semester, Tufts has instead organized party host training sessions in individual fraternity houses.

“By going into their houses, we were able to have more specific dialogues with the organizations and train larger percentages of members,” McGlone said. “The new training model was well received by the chapters.”

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The Zeta Psi fraternity house, at 80 Professor’s Row, was the scene of the assault.

TFG’s funding request for $1,100. Some members of Senate believed that the group’s networking conference benefited only a few students, and others believed that Senate needed to maintain consistency in voting after funding the MAPS networking conference. After an initial vote of 10-16-3 to overturn ALBO’s original recommended amount of $600, the Senate then re-voted 17-11-0 to approve a lowered amount of $500.

At the conclusion of the supplementary funding requests, Tesser reminded Senate of the open Community Outreach Liaison position. He explained that the liaison position, which is intended as a point of contact between Tufts and the host communities of Medford and Somerville, is important, and he encouraged members to apply.

Tesser then referenced the newly formed Residential Strategies Working Group (RSWG), a university-wide committee that will represent Tufts students

in issues of housing. According to Tesser, the university committee will include four members of Senate, who will work with administrators to deal with the fundamental residential issues of on-campus housing, off-campus housing and the residential life experience.

Tesser explained that the administration has taken notice of the issues surrounding housing and residential life. He encouraged all Senate members to join a separate new ad-hoc committee that will work with the Senate representatives from RSWG to list all the housing issues brought forward by students.

TCU Vice President Gauri Seth then concluded the meeting by reminding the Senate of committee meeting times and the pending application process of the Student Faculty Committees.

Seth, a junior, echoed Golia’s earlier statements, saying that continuing community projects were important, despite the long processes that come with them.

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ARTS&LIVING Album Review

After seven-year hiatus, Janet Jackson remains ‘Unbreakable’ on 11th studio album

by Justin Krakoff

Contributing Writer

Earlier this year, a missing person poster depicting a 49-year-old African American woman with brown hair and brown eyes went viral on Twitter.

The missing person in question? None other than pop icon Janet Jackson, or Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.

The poster was obviously a hoax, and the star herself tweeted back at the poster with a hearty “LOL. Too funny, too sweet.” Yet the sentiment behind the viral prank was more than justified. A fixture in the music industry for almost 30 years, Jackson’s fame skyrocketed in the 1980s with the release of “Control” (1986). She eventually escaped from the shadow of her older brother, Michael Jackson, in the ’90s as she continued to define the R&B/pop template that many pop stars lay claim to today.

However, the ’00s were not kind to the younger Jackson — see the now-infamous Nipplegate incident — and after the commercial failure of her last studio album, “Discipline” (2008), she largely retreated from the public spotlight. During her absence, the extremely private star weathered the shocking passing of her brother and quietly married her third husband, Qatari fashion magnate Wissam Al Mana, in 2012.

After such an extended break from releasing new material, Jackson certainly had a lot to address on “Unbreakable” (2015), as both the music industry and world around her

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She may have made her fans wait seven years for new music, but Janet Jackson has delivered with "Unbreakable." have changed quite a bit. Luckily for her fans — and for the music-consuming public at large — “Unbreakable” is a triumphant comeback that lives up to her stature in the industry.

Clocking in at a little over an hour over 17 tracks, Jackson’s 11th studio album is divided into two “sets.” The first half offers more standard pop

music, while the second contains more experimental songs that are largely devoid of standard song structure. The album also sees Jackson reunited with longtime collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who co-produced and co-wrote the majority of her iconic see Janet, page 4

Movie Review

‘Freeheld’ tells important story, lacks depth

by Eran Sabaner

Contributing Writer

“Freeheld,” starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page, is a social drama that touches upon an important issue. Sadly, that is all that can be said about the film. Based on the true story of New Jersey detective Laurel Hester (Moore), the movie, released Oct. 2, centers on terminally ill Hester’s legal troubles to ensure that her pension benefits go to her domestic partner Stacie Andree (Page). While the subject matter is interesting and essential to understanding the struggle that LGBT communities went through to gain the rights they have now, the movie lacks originality and depth, which becomes a recurrent issue throughout the movie.

Hester is a very intriguing character; she is a closeted lesbian detective who has a traumatic past due to her sexuality. She meets Andree, and their relationship quickly develops. The relationship is never examined in depth, however, and this treatment makes it difficult to understand how much Andree and Hester love each other. Hester is a tough person to be in a relationship with, but the movie barely tackles this issue and, consequently, the relationship is never very convincing. Also, Page seems very uncomfortable playing a stereotypically masculine lesbian, and, perhaps as a result of this apparent discomfort, Page and Moore lack chemistry on screen.

We also get to see the hardships Hester faces as a female detective in a

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Page often appears uncomfortable in her role as Stacie Andree. workplace that is practically run by men.

Even though they have a close relationship, Hester is unable to come out to her work partner, Dane Wells (Michael Shannon).

The relationship between Wells and Hester is intriguing as well, but, like other subplots, is not explored enough.

The second part of the movie tackles Hester’s fight for justice after she is diagnosed with stage-three lung cancer.

In the wake of her diagnosis, Hester decides that she wants to give her pension benefits to Andree. Moore, as Hester, once again creates miracles with

her role, even though she’s given very little material to work with. Viewers are able to see the agony Hester feels at the hands of injustice, even though she herself is not very involved with the legal case. Instead, LGBT activist Steven Goldstein (Steve Carell) and Wells handle the case, repeatedly appealing to local freeholders — the county legislators in New Jersey. Carell is the comic relief of the movie. His scenes succeed in striking a much-needed lighter tone. see FREEHELD, page 4

istorical fiction tends to be set in Western countries and, even then, it tends to cluster around certain places and certain time periods: Great Britain during the Tudor era, France during either the decadence of the Bourbons or the downfall of the French Revolution, the World Wars in all their various theaters. (I surpassed my own limit for books about the French resistance at least four heroic tales ago.) Here are three books that take place in non-Western countries and reveal lesser known pieces of history that are equally as captivating as all six of King Henry VIII’s wives.

“The Poisonwood Bible” (2009) by Barbara Kingsolver is perhaps one of the most technically accomplished and emotionally wrenching books I’ve ever read. Set in the Belgian Congo during the 1950s and 1960s, it follows the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a zealous Baptist missionary, as they attempt to transplant everything from tomato seeds to the Bible into the Congo and discover just how impossible that is. It’s a family epic, a post-colonial parable and a tale of political intrigue, as the Congo unravels around them due to the CIA assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Most of all, it’s the story of a group of remarkable women. If you’re looking for complex, well-written female characters, this is the book for you. Kingsolver manages to craft five distinct points of view, all of them rich in detail and characterization, and, best of all, she’s not afraid to write flawed, real female characters. So often, female characters are only written as saints or sinners, but in one book, Kingsolver captures the whole spectrum.

“Night of Many Dreams” (1998) by Gail Tsukiyama also tells the story of women caught in the midst of conflict. It’s the story of two sisters, Emma and Joan, who flee to Macau after Hong Kong is captured by the Japanese during World War II, ending their idyllic childhood. This is a novel that might appeal to those who are interested in World War II but are also looking for a more character-driven, less bombastic story.

Tsukiyama captures the atmosphere of 1940s Hong Kong with graceful, elegant prose and crafts two very different but equally appealing main characters in Emma and Joan. “Night of Many Dreams” also features a clever nonchronological timeline, slipping back and forth in its characters’ lives as it constructs a subtly powerful story.

Finally, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Half of a Yellow Sun” (2006), which takes place in Nigeria during the Biafran War, is highly emotional and simply devastating. One quick note about this book: do not, as I did, attempt to turn it into a beach book. This is a book that demands your full attention and concentration and, perhaps, some appropriately solemn weather outside. It will reward you accordingly. Adichie truly brings 1960s Nigeria to life and her sharply pointed observations, whether they’re about characters, events or the setting itself, are well-written and ring uncomfortably true.

The fact that the reader knows what’s coming only makes the events of the novel more heartbreaking. “Half of a Yellow Sun” may not be an easy or comfortable novel to read, but it shouldn’t be.

Natalie Girshman is a senior majoring in history. She can be reached at natalie. girshman@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 3 albums. “Unbreakable” proves once more that the trio is one of the most enduring and successful partnerships in pop history.

From the opening track, Jackson makes it clear that she’s recording this album for her fans, greeting the listener in her signature whisper voice with a warm “Hello / It’s been a while/ Lots to talk about / I’m glad you’re still here / I hope you enjoy.” She wastes no time in kicking the album into overdrive, as “BURNITUP!” comes blasting through the speakers with a fun yet all-too-brief Missy Elliot appearance. “Dammn Baby” is one of the best bangers of 2015 so far, as the track’s DJ Mustard-type beat shows Jackson’s keen ear for modern production. She also throws in a reference to the roots of her

career, as the song uses a sample from her own 1999 hit “I Get Lonely.”

“The Great Forever” continues the album’s winning streak. The mid-tempo anthem has classic Michael Jackson written all over it, from the song’s message of universal love to Janet’s own voice, which she drops in register to sound eerily like her late brother. Janet lets her guard down to speak about his death for what may be the first time in “Broken Hearts Heal,” but she mourns in an uplifting manner, with her faith and reported conversion to Islam being referenced throughout the song as she sings “Inshallah” or “God willing” in Arabic.

Lead single “No Sleeep” marks the midway point of the album and is a classic Janet slow-jam that eschews the hyper-sexuality of her recent output. With sensual lyrics and a hazy tempo, the song

leads the album into its second half, signifying Jackson’s willingness to experiment.

While this section is a little bottom-heavy, “Black Eagle” stands out. The track is a love letter to Jackson’s downtrodden fans, the ones she’s supported throughout the years, and contains a powerful reference to the Black Lives Matter movement with the lyrics “Because every life matters / (We all need to do better).”

“Unbreakable” is a breath of fresh air in 2015, as Jackson demonstrates the ease with which a pop star can sound modern and assured after a nearly three-decade-long career. This joyous ode to her fans feels genuine in its discussion of mature subjects and its refusal to give into ageism, which so often disproportionately affects female pop stars.

Welcome back, Miss Jackson. Now don’t go disappearing again.

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A fake missing poster commenting on Janet Jackson’s radio silence circulated on the internet recently.

Compelling storyline fails to make ‘Freeheld’ interesting FREEHELD

continued from page 3 Viewers constantly see the reactions of conservative freeholders to Hester’s case, but never know what the public thinks.

Perhaps the movie is trying to criticize the legal system for ignoring public opinion, but it would have been better to see how the case might have affected the county’s opinion on marriage equality.

The movie has a predictable ending, but this is reasonable since the movie is biographical. The best part of the film is its end credits, where viewers see pictures of the real life Hester and Andree — ones that bear a striking resemblance to shots from the movie and remind the

viewers that the story is nonfictional.

Seeing the couple’s story through real life pictures is very emotional since it is easy to ignore the reality behind the movie while watching it.

It is truly remarkable to see how much society has changed over the past seven years. “Freeheld” is a great movie to remind us of the shift in political and legal attitudes. That said, it is also a very forgettable movie, relying on its main storyline so much that it fails to experiment or explore its subplots deeply. It will never be a timeless classic, but it is a movie that expertly shows the development of LGBT rights during the 21st century.

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Despite their talents as individuals, Julianne Moore and Ellen Page fail to find chemistry in “Freeheld.”

TV Review

‘The Vampire Diaries’ keeps interest despite incomplete cast

by Merilla Michael Assistant Arts Editor

In all 133 episodes and six seasons of The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries” (2009 – present), the seventh season premiere was the first one that didn’t star Nina Dobrev in her leading role as Elena Gilbert. Elena was the on-again, off-again love interest of brother-vampires Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) Salvatore in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Va. The last season ended with an homage to the “Game of Thrones” (2011 – present) brutal and violent Red Wedding, resulting in the death and departure of many key characters. Last season’s villain, Kai Parker (Chris Wood), put a spell on Elena so that as long as her best friend Bonnie Bennet (Kat Graham) was alive, Elena would be in a coma.

At this point, Elena has been turned into a vampire. When she wakes up in 60-odd years, she will be able to reunite with her true love, Damon, but she will never see her non-vampire friends again, including Bonnie. The season finale was as emotional as teen supernatural shows can get, and it seemed that it would be impossible to fill the void that Dobrev created by leaving the show. She was such an influential and integral, albeit sometimes annoying character that the concept of attempting to continue “The Vampire Diaries” without her seemed futile.

In the seventh season premiere, Damon, Stefan, Bonnie and vampire Caroline Forbes (Candice Accola) are still dealing with the aftermath of last season. They

are all trying to heal their wounds, some more successfully than others. They now have to deal with new threats to the town of Mystic Falls and keep their friendships from unraveling.

Dobrev’s departure may actually be a good challenge for the show’s writers.

Now that they don’t have a cliché love triangle to rely on, they might have to delve deeper into the personalities of these remaining characters independent of their relationship with Elena. During a panel for “The Vampire Diaries” at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, Somerhalder revealed that Damon’s character will revert to his “bad boy” aesthetic from the previous seasons now that his moral compass (i.e. Elena) is no longer with him. Damon is arguably the most complex and misunderstood character on the show, so this additional layer will hopefully lead to compelling developments in his relationships.

Another growing relationship, long overdue, that will delight fans across the board is the one between Stefan and Caroline. Caroline’s mother, Sheriff Liz Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre), died last season of cancer, which sent Caroline off the rail. Stefan was able to comfort her better than anyone else, including Elena. In this season premiere, viewers finally see the spark of romance between Stefan and Caroline that they’ve been waiting for.

The most interesting emotional relationship this season, however, will likely involve Bonnie and Damon. Bonnie feels guilty that the only reason she is alive is because Elena is, for all intents and pur-

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Actors of “The Vampire Diaries” revealed overarching plot points at the San Diego Comic Con. poses, dead. Damon can’t help but blame her for this, though they are still best friends and care deeply for each other.

There is an underlying tension between them that will likely spill over at some point during the season.

No one would call “The Vampire Diaries” a work of art, but, in its defense, many of its characters and relationships are compelling. The cast, now full of experienced actors, has improved tremendously since the first season. The writing is more concise, the story is more interesting and less predictable and the characters have developed long enough for viewers to have strong feelings for them. Each season, the

writers seem to introduce more villains and lately, those villains have ended up victorious. Viewers can no longer assume that everyone will come out alive and unharmed in some convenient twist of fate. As Elena’s fate shows, no character is safe, no matter how major they may be.

“The Vampire Diaries” will continue to appeal to a specific group of viewers — namely teenage girls and college-aged women who got sucked into the show during high school — but these demographics have provided a strong cult following for the show. The show has generally improved with each new season. Hopefully the seventh season will follow suit.

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HONK! Festival celebrates 10th anniversary

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The Party Band from Lowell, Mass. performs at the annual HONK! Festival on Saturday, Oct. 10 in Davis Square.

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In its 10th year, with 28 bands traveling in from all over the country and abroad, the annual HONK! Festival brought music blended with activism to a variety of free events in Somerville, Cambridge and Boston this past weekend, from Friday, Oct. 9 to Sunday, Oct. 11.

HONK! has more than doubled the number of bands it brings to the area since its inaugural year in 2006, when 12 bands performed in Davis Square. The festival has evolved into an annual celebration of “the cause of freedom, justice and collective emancipation,” with activist bands coming from as far afield as Paris, New Orleans, Detroit, Seattle and Austin, according to its website.

According to a press release, the 12 bands that comprised the 2006 festival gathered on a Saturday in October.

“Those initial bands gathered in response to a call sent out by the Somerville-based Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, who had a need to seek out kindred spirit music makers and invite them to gather and play their collective hearts out, while raising awareness for local and global just causes,” the press release said.

The 2015 HONK! Festival also commemorated the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with the New Creations Brass Band, and the Original Big Seven Social Aid & Pleasure Club (the Big 7) came from New Orleans to perform, according to the press release.

According to Terry Gable, vice president of the Big 7, their band is not a marching band, but rather a “second lining” society, or a brass and dance group practicing a particular tradition of New Orleans’ parade culture.

Gable, who has been second lining for more than three decades, roamed around Davis Square with other members of the Big 7 on Saturday and danced with various bands as they played. He expressed his excitement to perform at HONK!, as it brings people from different backgrounds together. “[HONK!] is beautiful. This is my third year coming up,” Gable said. “I love it. I’d be ready to come every year.”

Continuing its mission of bringing street

band music to the Boston public to “create an irresistible spectacle of creative movement and sonic self-expression directed at making the world a better place,” according to HONK!’s website, the 2015 Festival started with a Day of Action near the Boston Commons that led to Downtown Crossing on Friday.

Seven activist bands, including Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Les Vilains Chicots, partnered with various unions and community organizations such as Jobs with Justice and Fight for $15 at the kickoff event.

The bands performed and handed out information in Downtown Crossing for most of the day to increase awareness of the ongoing national conversation about raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and promoting other workers’ rights.

More than 25 bands played at different places in Somerville on Saturday, including Davis Square Plaza, Seven Hills Park behind Elm Street, Highland Avenue Lot and Statue Park near JP Licks. Many members of the bands wore colorful outfits, including sequined clothing and spandex in bright colors. The Dead Music Capital Band, from Austin, wore zombie face paint. After the opening ceremonies at noon, the music kicked off at around 1 p.m., according to the event schedule.

Though Davis was not blocked to traffic, police directed cars because of the increased number of pedestrians. According to HONK! all-volunteer organizing committee member Ken Field, who is also the saxophonist the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, Davis Square is an ideal location for the festival because bands don’t get in the way of one another acoustically.

“This isn’t generally a festival people play at because they get paid; they play because they believe in what they’re doing, both musically and with what they’re doing in their communities,” Field said.

Most of the bands had two one-hour slots, each of which was set for a different place around Davis Square. There was also an information booth set up in Statue Park where the organizers of HONK! were selling T-shirts and buttons to raise money for future iterations of the festival.

HONK! also sponsored several exhibits for

participants and pedestrians around Davis Square on Saturday, including a photo exhibit and a poster series. The “What is an Activist Street Band” poster series near Davis Square Plaza featured posters highlighting various bands and their activities in their respective communities.

The entire festival is organized by the HONK! Committee, which is a non-hierarchical body of about a dozen people, according to Field.

“There is no one person who is empowered to make the decisions; we make the decisions as a group, and I’ve really learned a lot about that kind of organizational structure,” he said. “It’s something that can be really challenging and really frustrating, but is also something that can be really powerful.”

Local businesses also took advantage of the jump in foot traffic in Davis Square, with Diesel Cafe opening its storefront and setting up a table to sell mulled cider, whoopie pies and other items directly to passerby.

“The festival as a whole has been really attentive to the community needs in making sure we’re working together with local businesses and community groups to grow [the event],” Sara Honeywell, who is also a member of the HONK! Committee and a trombone player for Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band, said. “We try to pay attention to detail when it comes to getting everyone involved.”

While many Tufts students were at the Homecoming festivities on Saturday, some were able to make it to Davis to enjoy HONK!’s music and activities.

“I love HONK! It’s quintessential Somerville ethos,” junior Ben Kaplan said after walking through most of the festival with friends.

Sunday saw more than double the number of Saturday’s bands participating in the parade — which marched from Davis Square to Harvard Square, passing through Porter Square — and one band also brought the spirit of street band activism to the tension between the Tufts administration, Tufts Labor Coalition, Tufts’ custodial staff and DTZ, Tufts’ cleaning services contractor. Rand Wilson of the Red Bandanna Brigade organized an event see HONK, page 6

Wooden adjective \WOOD-un\ Definition made or consisting of wood; lacking ease or flexibility : awkwardly stiff My elementary school playground was a splinter palace. Our wooden, monolithic jungle gym decorated the entire front façade of the school, an obvious remnant from the yesteryears of the school’s original construction.

Thinking about it now, I’m always shocked that anyone would think it was kosher to let small children frolic around on such an edifice. On a daily basis, shards of wood would get lodged and shoved into various appendages of children. I specifically remember the removal of a half-foot-long splinter in my thumb being a rather pedestrian procedure at the nurse’s office, without even a congratulatory Dora the Explorer bandage at the end.

Despite its rather treacherous nature, the playground remained the hotspot of pre-k socialization for my friends and me. It was a place free of adult preconceptions and rigidity.

Perhaps it was the closest we would ever get to a state of nature, and I often feel nostalgic about the simplicity of it.

For example, an entire friendship cycle could take place on the playground within the span of a few minutes. My best friend Andrew and I had a rather turbulent dynamic when it came to our time at recess. We would enter as friends everyday, only to soon degenerate into enemies once Andrew dared to play with anyone besides me. I would have sought therapy at that time if I knew what the concept of foreshadowing was, but I digress. The end of every recess always resulted in a make-up, through a direct affirmation of our reinstated friendship. No furtive coercion, apologetic gifts or subversive grudges commonplace in adult interactions ever made appearances. I definitely believe the world would undoubtedly be a better place if “I’m sorry” balloons on a stick ceased to exist.

I also feel like everyone needs a quality playground monitor in their life. Windbreaker, white New Balances and megaphone in hand, Ms. Buchanan was always at the ready to chastise anyone who forgot to follow common schoolyard etiquette. The other night, when it was 4 a.m. and I was still studying for my history exam, it may have been nice to have someone with a megaphone remind me that I was breaking the rules of having some semblance of a healthy mental state. Or adequate social life. She also always checked our outfit appropriateness during the winter, which I also need nowadays to tell me if my outfit is looking all kinds of a mess.

But alas, like all good things, the unrestricted joy of playground life came to an end in the third grade via alarming emotional corruption. I had developed an affinity for throwing chips at the heads of certain girls throughout recess. Through the meddling of a teaching assistant, said girls came to the conclusion that I was harboring feelings of young love. I really just liked throwing things at people, but soon the drama of a grade school love triangle had arisen.

So the moral is to first let kids be and enjoy their paradise of naiveté before the corruption of adulthood, and second, deny all of your problems by behaving like a child again now.

Cheers.

Henry Jani is a sophomore majoring in English. He can be reached at henry.jani@ tufts.edu.

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continued from page 5 on Facebook for Tufts workers and students to march with the Brigade during Sunday’s parade in order to “Call on Tufts to respect its workers and our community.” Wilson could not be reached for comment by press time.

Describing its bands as socially engaged, either in direct political protest or community-building, HONK! is spreading nationally and internationally, according to Field. He spoke with HONK! organizers in Australia, who came to visit Somerville’s HONK!.

Additionally, according to the festival’s website, yearly HONK! festivals are being held in places such as Providence, New York City, N.Y. Seattle, Detroit and Brazil.

Tufts sociology lecturer Brett Nava-Coulter, who specializes in sex and gender in society as well as social movements, noted the importance of HONK!.

“Obviously the model is spreading, that model of public performance,” NavaCoulter said. “Things like HONK!, and HONK! in particular, are part of this broad repertoire of social movements. [These are] the kinds of tactics that social movements, and in particular progressive movements, use to get their message out, recruit members and have a cohesive presence.”

Commenting on the festival, Honeywell said music is the connection.

“I think that playing music with other people has a really big ability to make strong, lasting connections right off the bat,“ she said.

Field agreed, noting the importance of the camaraderie surrounding the festival.

“For me, it’s all about the people and the community,” he said. “The HONK! community.”

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Chaos in race for Speaker in Congress should open door to bipartisanship Last week, national news outlets reported that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) had dropped out of the race to replace Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) after Boehner announced his resignation from Congress on Sept. 25. McCarthy, tipped to be the next Speaker ahead of other candidates Representatives Daniel Webster (R-Florida) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), ended his candidacy for the position after committing a major PR flub in saying that the committee to investigate the events around the killing of American diplomats in Benghazi was meant to damage Hillary Clinton’s prospects for President. His decision, of course, is also based on the lack of support from the House Freedom Caucus, a group of about 40 members who dislike the way the Republican conference is run and want to pressure the Republican leadership to be more conservative. With few Republicans able to win over the most conservative members of their

party, some have suggested that the Republicans look to the Democrats to gain enough support to elect a Speaker.

While this plan may be anathema to the Freedom Caucus and does not seem likely to happen, the merits of fostering bipartisanship by themselves and the grim state of affairs for the Republicans may make it necessary. Charlie Dent, a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is considered a longtime ally of former Speaker Boehner, has suggested as much saying, as reported by The Hill, that working with Democrats is “a very real possibility right now, and I think anybody who’s honest about this knows it. They may not want to talk about it, but they know it.” Republicans and Democrats last week teamed up in a similar scenario to force a vote on legislation to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank.

What’s more, the looming possibility of a government shutdown throws further weight in the argument to find a durable solution sooner rather than

later. The fight between establishment Republicans and their fellow conservatives has played a big role in government shutdowns before, when, in 2013, squabbles among party members increased the threat of credit downgrade. The impression left on the world was that the United States could not govern itself. Avoiding a shutdown was hard with Boehner as Speaker — and he could barely control the Republican Conference.

A bipartisan alignment between the Democrats and moderate Republicans has the possibility of not just surviving the deep-seated problems that currently plague policy-making but also setting a new standard of cooperation. Of course, it’s fanciful to imagine that Democrats and Republicans could cooperate at all, let alone set a new standard of government functioning. If both parties end up coming to that conclusion, however, the chaos within the Republican conference could yet be a positive development, instead of an additional reason to worry.

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My students, our future

by Fabiola Paz In the bilingual Texas classroom where I first became a teacher, cultural celebrations were a regular part of our curriculum. My third and fourth graders loved sharing stories of their families, their traditions and the communities that made them who they were. But every year, when Hispanic Heritage Month rolled around, I felt a responsibility to push our conversations one step further, challenging my kids to connect their individual stories with the world around them.

This challenge animated our work all month long. We started with journal reflections and small group discussions on the countries we represent, traditions we celebrate, food we eat on special occasions, music we love to dance to and so on. I brought in books on César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Ellen Ochoa and Jaime Escalante. Throughout it all, we reflected on how strong cultural identities can help us stay in touch with our histories, uphold our values and see our way through difficult times.

Over the course of the unit, one little girl wrote about the challenges her family faced, and how they compared to those of other immigrant groups we’d studied.

She noted that her experience paralleled those of other groups not in the majority.

With nuance and care, she painted a vivid picture of what it’s like for low-income, first-generation students in this country.

I must have read it a dozen times.

Looking back, I know that my students and I were part of something much bigger than the walls of our classroom – both in the progress we made and in the difficulties we faced. Today, Latinos lag behind their white counterparts in academic achievement – graduating high school, reading, writing and performing in math at lower rates. This has nothing to do with ability or will.

It’s a direct reflection of systemic gaps in opportunity according to race, class and zip code.

As a first-generation college student, I experienced these gaps first-hand.

I came to the U.S. from Guatemala at age six and spent the next two years working my way toward fluency – constructing foreign sounds to read fluidly and comprehend the new Anglo world around me. I went to traditional public schools until I received a scholarship to a boarding school during high school. When I got there, I found myself behind, struggling to keep up.

I worried about my ability to stick it out. My teachers, meanwhile, refused to. They recognized where I was struggling, leaned in to help and assured me I could do the work when I was often sure I couldn’t. I would never have made it to Tufts without them, and certainly not with the abilities I gained. Thanks to my teachers, I knew how to make the most of office hours and study sessions. I also felt empowered to engage with other minority students, leading the Association of

Latin American Students and founding the Latino Women’s Club. I think about the impact they had on me at least once a day.

All of this drew me first to Teach For America, then to college counseling and now to the joint Master’s program in Business and Social Work that I hope will prepare me to one day lead a district or influence policies at the state level. Eventually, I hope to be part of developing a holistic approach to college persistence – one which takes into account the very real social and emotional challenges that students face.

The tired model of educating students in isolation, and expecting immigrant families to somehow figure out how to support their kids in a system they don’t know, isn’t working. We’ve got to do better.

Whenever I lose faith, I think of my own parents – the value they placed on education and how much they sacrificed to see me succeed. And every time I get a text or an email from a student I taught or counseled – with an update, a question, a good report on a course they’re just loving – I get the boost I need to keep going. This work isn’t easy.

I can’t imagine doing anything else.

Fabiola Paz (A ’06) is pursuing a joint Master’s degree in Social Work and Business at Washington University in St. Louis. She first began teaching bilingual third- and fourth-grade at Hearne Elementary School in Houston, TX as a 2006 Teach For America corps member.

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remember seeing a Hillary Clinton campaign general interest meeting (GIM) poster just a few weeks into last year; it’s when I really knew I was at college.

Instead of focusing on a critical gubernatorial race that the party ended up losing, factions of Tufts’ Democrats got “ready” for a candidate that was already polling at over 60 percent. A year later, Clinton might just need another GIM. Clinton is hemorrhaging ground to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders ahead of Tuesday’s debate. Sanders, a self-described socialist, just drew over 20,000 supporters at an event in Boston — 10,000 times the average attendance of Tufts football games (not including parents).

The problem for Democrats is choosing between voting for a candidate they prefer and a candidate that would win the general election. Unfortunately for Sanders, his leftist nature probably eliminates any chance of his winning the presidency. The other candidates in the pool are polling about as well as I am. So a Democrat is left to choose between a candidate with no chance at the general election and Clinton. Hardly a choice.

Coalescing around an established, oldhat candidate is uncharacteristic for the Democratic party. This is the same party that nominated Bill Clinton, an unknown Arkansas governor, JFK, a second term senator from Massachusetts and of course Barack Obama, who went from Illinois State Senate to President of the United States in four years. The party needs another candidate. But trying to break into a campaign where 70 percent of voters are with two front-runners is tough; imagine a candidate pitching that to donors. It’s also October, and we are just three months from the first polls opening in Iowa.

The solution then is a candidate that does not need to break in, one that has a strong network of voters and donors already in place. Somebody needs to ask Democrats if they are only voting for Clinton because they want a candidate that can beat whichever Republican emerges. It is not much of a campaign when only one of the candidates can conceivably win the White House.

As of now, unless President Obama runs for an unconstitutional third term or the Pope figures out he is a natural born citizen, there is only one person that could really shift the Democratic field. Vice President Joe Biden has the voters, the record and the donors to make this race interesting. Clinton’s likeability numbers on the other hand make Jeb Bush’s (see last week) look decent. Biden, though, is well-known, reliably liberal and could actually win a general election.

The vice president would force Democrats to decide why they are voting for Clinton.

Because just reasoning that she is the only one that can win, and thus deserves votes, is terrible logic. It goes contrary to the party’s history, and will result in a shock during the general election campaign. Clinton stands a strong chance to win even with Joe Biden in the race, but at least she would be forced to run a proper campaign, rather than treating the race as the party-driven fait accompli that it has been.

Aren Torikian is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Aren can be reached at aren.torikian@tufts.edu.

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Tufts’ running backs dominate in runaway victory at home Jumbos equalize,

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continued from back In a series of possession changes, senior co-captain Corey Burns forced a three and out for Bowdoin with two tackles against firstyear running back Andrew Tichy on first and second down. Tufts gave the ball back when Snyder threw to the left sideline and senior defensive back Greg Thompson intercepted the pass. However, Adickes forced Drakeley to fumble just two plays later and Tufts recovered at Bowdoin’s 16-yard line. The Jumbos were unable to punch in another score, but junior kicker Willie Holmquist split the uprights to make the score 17-0.

In the second quarter, Drakeley found sophomore Nick Vailas for a three-yard touchdown to put Bowdoin on the board. Tufts answered back with another Holmquist field goal on a drive that saw first-year running back Dominic Borelli rip off an 11-yard run and senior wide receiver Mike Rando move the chains with two receptions for 19 yards and 11 yards each.

Snyder was intercepted again in the second quarter by first-year defensive back Cameron Rondeau, but Bowdoin’s ensuing drive ended in a punt.

Tufts’ last possession of the first half began with 2:22 remaining. One minute and two seconds of regulation time later, the Jumbos had scored on a 17-yard connection between Snyder and junior wide receiver Ben Berey, and the Jumbos went into halftime leading 27-10.

“Half time felt quicker, it felt like everyone was like, ‘Dude, get us out of this locker room and let us unleash hell for the next 30 minutes,'” Brady said.

Brady picked up right where he left off in the first half, running over Bowdoin lineback-

ers for gains of 12, 7, -1, 18 and 6 on Tufts’ first third-quarter drive. Brady flashed his characteristic evasiveness on the six-yard run, making his way through a gaping hole and getting through the second level virtually untouched for his third touchdown.

“I wanted to kill those guys,” Brady said.

“I wanted to put the game away and have the fourth quarter essentially just be watching the younger guys and seeing what they can do. Being able to help my team like that, I mean, that was huge. I could have brought my truck through the [offensive] line, they were unreal yesterday. They made massive holes every single time. Every time I went through the hole I was dealing with a oneon-one with a linebacker, which I’ll take any day of the week. I don’t think the D-line had a single tackle on me, I think only the linebackers hit me, which means they did their job perfectly.”

With the game rapidly getting out of hand, Bowdoin aggressively challenged Tufts’ defensive backs downfield. Tichy found Vailas for a 25-yard gain to bring the ball to midfield. Challenging first-year defensive back Tim Preston turned out to be a mistake for Drakeley, however, as he was intercepted and Preston returned the ball all the way to Bowdoin’s goal line, almost vaulting a wouldbe tackler in the process.

“Tim Preston is excellent,” Civetti said.

“He’s still got a lot of things to learn, but he’s learning on the fly. He saw a lot of different things today. He saw fleaflicker, he saw speed pass, he got challenged deep and I thought he responded really well. I was really pleased with him.”

Unable to convert in the red-zone, the Jumbos settled for another Holmquist field goal from 22 yards. The kick tied Holmquist

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with kicker Chris Wild’s 1991 Tufts record of three field goals in one game.

Bowdoin’s Tichy responded with a seven-yard run for a touchdown after senior wide receiver and captain Daniel Barone caught a 43-yard bomb to bring the offense within range, making the score 37-17 when the Tufts offense came back onto the field. With the game all but over, Borelli capped off another impressive Jumbo drive with a twoyard run for a touchdown — the first touchdown of his college career. Holmquist missed the point-after attempt, which would have given Tufts 44 points.

The Polar Bears scored again in the fourth quarter, when the Jumbos began cycling in younger players in their runaway victory.

“As a coach, I always think there are areas [where] I can get you better, but the thing I was proud of was that we were able to continue the momentum,” Civetti said. “We didn’t let up. We certainly didn’t change anything. We kept playing football the way we started the game. We try to focus on finishing how we started and being as consistent as we can.”

The players and coaches appreciated the home crowd, including friends, family and alumni, and cited it as a major motivating factor.

“The crowd yesterday was awesome,” Adickes said. “It just brings a whole different element. Instead of working against adversity you have the whole stands behind you and it just really pushes you to keep the momentum. It’s always special when you get to play in front of guys that have played before you in the same program.”

The 3-0 Tufts football team takes on undefeated Trinity next weekend at home in a game that could decide which team sits atop the NESCAC standings at the end of the week.

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continued from back were all aware of where the [overlapping players] were, stepping before they got the ball and not letting them turn, so I’m very happy with the way our defense played.”

As the game went into overtime, Tufts’ determination to find a way through was epitomized by the energy that Scheman and Sadler displayed although they were denied by a Panthers defense determined to keep the door shut at every opportunity.

“We started out the first 10 minutes [of the game] a little bit slow,” Campellone said. “We let Middlebury possess the ball in the midfield and get some shots off. But by the end of the first half and throughout the second half, we really picked it up, and I was really happy with our performance.”

Though the Jumbos did not record a loss, Whiting admitted to feeling frustration about failing to convert their strengths into results.

“My first thought [of the result] is ‘frustrating,’ because I felt as though we actually were probably the better team and carried more of the play,” Whiting said. “The fact that we played well, we can take consolation in that…[and] the most important thing moving forward is to stay confident, keep the momentum and stay focused for 90 minutes.”

Tufts will go on the road for its next two games, traveling to Endicott on Wednesday before trekking to Bates on Saturday and playing again at home against UMass Boston on Oct. 20.

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Tufts junior running back Chance Brady approaches the end zone for a successful touchdown run in the homecoming game against Bowdoin on Saturday, Oct. 10.

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Tufts routed Bowdoin 43-24 to earn a 3-0 start for the first time since their 2007 season. Bowdoin never led throughout the game, and fell to 0-3 on the season after the defeat.

Despite having lost their previous five meetings against the Polar Bears — their last win came in overtime during a 2009 match-up — Saturday’s victory marks the Jumbos’ second

dominant homecoming victory in a row after last year’s 42-24 thrashing of the Bobcats.

“Bowdoin’s gotten us five times in a row, and it feels like they always get those real close tight wins,” junior running back Chance Brady said. “They’re always the ones giving us heartbreaks, so [we came into] Homecoming with everyone there, all the alumni, and just seal the deal and put it away and kind of put our stamp on the league that the ‘Bos are here.”

This was Tufts’ offense at its best. On the first offensive play of the game, junior quarterback Alex Snyder hit senior wide receiver Jack Cooleen, NESCAC’s offensive player of the week last week, for a 20-yard gain. Brady capped a drive that saw only one incomplete pass with a 12-yard run up the middle to Bowdoin’s 17 and a subsequent charge through the left side of the offensive line for his first touchdown.

Bowdoin appeared ready to respond in kind, as junior quarterback Tim Drakeley completed consecutive passes to three different receivers for a total of 19 yards. Yet on the Polar Bears’ fourth play from scrimmage, sophomore Micah Adickes intercepted Drakeley from the right side of the defensive line for his first-ever college interception.

The Jumbos’ next possession began on the Bowdoin 30, but Brady barreled through a sizable hole that was opened for him by the offensive line to make it all the way to Bowdoin’s three-yard line. The next play was a run to the inside on the right, but Brady wisely bounced outside and beat Bowdoin’s linebacker corps to the front right corner of the goal for his second touchdown.

“I love inside running,” Brady said. “Outside is always where you have to hit the burners and have some speed. I’m not renowned for my quickness so usually, if I’m outside, something went wrong and I’m trying to outrun somebody, which is not a great look for me.” see FOOTBALL, page 11

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Panthers hold Jumbos to double OT draw

by Yuan Jun Chee Contributing Writer

Tufts was held to a 1-1 draw by Middlebury after double overtime at Kraft Field on Saturday as part of Tufts’ Homecoming Weekend. The result brings the Jumbos to 4-5-1 this year and 3-3-1 in NESCAC. On Senior Day, coach Martha Whiting paid tribute to the team’s three seniors — forward Allie Weiller and co-captains Emily Morton, a goal keeper, and Nicole Campellone, a center-back.

“The three seniors have played such a huge role in everything we’ve done in the last four years, [and] if anything else, the players and the team are playing for those three girls today, because they deserve it,” Whiting said. “They’ve put their heart and soul into creating a culture on this team that is second to none. I’m so proud of everything that they’ve built and I just want to see them succeed.”

Middlebury coach Peter Kim also acknowledged the competitive nature of the game against Tufts.

“Tufts is one of our most difficult opponents; they’re strong, they’re fast, they’re athletic and the homecoming emotion always plays in their favor,” he said.

The Jumbos started the game tentatively, giving the ball away under immense pressure from the Panthers. Middlebury attacked down the wings, with Tufts junior fullbacks Stephanie Brunswick and Brooke Fortin seemingly unable to cope early on. The first chance of the game fell to Middlebury, which forced a smart save from first-year goalkeeper Emily Bowers — last week’s NESCAC Player of the Week — just three minutes in.

Tufts paid for its inability to hold on to the ball in the opening moments of the match, as the Panthers took the lead off Middlebury junior Adrianna Gildner’s goal at the 10-min-

ute mark. Continuing where she left off half fell to the Panthers when Soroka’s freeagainst Keene State College, Gildner applied kick rattled the crossbar. Middlebury conthe finishing touch to teammate senior Jamie tinued to deny Tufts with resilient defense, as Tufts’ best chance to pull ahead — a shot Soroka’s cross from the left.

Playing catch-up early on appeared to by junior forward Jess Capon from 15 yards be the spark the Jumbos needed; they soon out — was saved by Reinmuth.

“We’re certainly disappointed to have began to have better control of the ball, and applied increased pressure on the Panthers’ given up the lead; we made a bad mistake defense. Gildner and senior Middlebury that Tufts was great at capitalizing on,” Kim midfielder Hannah Robinson, however, said. “I’m proud of the [Middlebury] girls for continued to be constant thorns in Tufts’ holding on and battling despite the condiside, leading their team’s efforts to win the tions and full credit to Tufts; they’re always very difficult to beat.”

50-50 balls on almost every occasion.

In the 81st minute, Bowers pulled The first real chance of the game for the Jumbos came in the 40th minute, off another excellent save to fend when sophomore Alex Scheman fired a shot off Middlebury. Campellone led the attack from the right, only to be smartly denied from the back, and Fortin and Brunswick with a diving save from Panthers junior added to the threat. Despite their dominance on the ball in the second half, howevgoalkeeper Kate Reinmuth.

However, with 42 seconds left to play er, the Jumbos could not find the final ball to in the first half, relentless chasing from unlock the Panthers’ defense.

“We got organized and got together, and Weiller saw Tufts win the ball outside the Middlebury penalty box. From the left, we handled it well being down a goal in the Weiller swung in the cross that allowed first- first 10 minutes,” Bowers said. “We kept up year Alessandra Sadler to score the equalizer the communication and [made] sure we for Tufts.

“We have not been in a situation where see WOMEN'S SOCCER, page 11 we’ve been losing and [came] back,” Whiting said. “To continue to be confident in ourselves and our ability and keep fighting till the end of the half was amazing, and to score with less than a minute left gave us great momentum in the second half.”

The impact of the goal was evident as the Jumbos kept the pressure up in the second half and took control of Evan Sayles / Tufts Daily Archive the game, but the first Tufts captain and defender Nicole Campellone, a senior, attempts chance of the second to steal the ball from a Lesley player on Wednesday, Sept. 9.

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Kobe’s New Role

obe Bryant, arguably the greatest to ever play the game, is heading into his 20th season this year with the Los Angeles Lakers. His upcoming season with the Lakers will be the longest stint of any player with one franchise in NBA history, but will likely be very different for Bryant and the Lakers. An interview with Lakers head coach Byron Scott and team executives suggest that Bryant will play a much more limited role this year on the team. There have also been reports that Bryant could even be playing as a small forward this year in order to complement some of the young talent the team has acquired. As the 2015-2016 NBA season approaches, in all likelihood, Bryant will be much more of a mentor compared to his previous role as the focal point of the team’s offense.

In the last several seasons, Bryant has received a slew of injuries to seemingly every part of his body.

As Bryant has aged, his game has had to evolve to accommodate the constraints of his body. When Bryant first came into the league, he was known for aggressively attacking the rim, yet in recent years, we have known Bryant to be much more of a fundamental jump shooter. As his athletic ability diminished, he worked tirelessly on his footwork and shooting ability to become one of the best shooters in NBA history.

As Bryant enters what could be his final season in the NBA, we will see how his game evolves once again as he transitions out of the offensive spotlight for the Lakers.

Scott has already made statements this offseason saying he will limit Bryant’s minutes this year in order to preserve the player’s body, which will hopefully allow him to play all 82 games of the regular season. With this shift, we will likely see Bryant’s numbers drop as he takes a back seat to some of the other young stars on the team, such as Julius Randle and D’Angelo Russell.

As members of the ultra competitive Western Conference, it seems unlikely that Bryant and the Lakers will make the playoffs this year, but it would benefit the Lakers franchise to have Bryant as a facilitator for the Lakers’ offensive and as a mentor to the younger players.

D’Angelo Russell in particular seems eager to learn from the 20-year veteran and has requested that his locker be next to Bryant’s. Although it appears that the final leg of Bryant’s illustrious career will involve him taking a back seat role, given Bryant’s competitive nature and desire to remain in the spotlight, it would not be surprising to see the NBA legend give us one final show.

Zach Ohara is a junior majoring in economics. He can be reached at zachary. ohara@tufts.edu