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Tufts Medical Center’s annual Asian Health Symposium to be held Friday

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Tufts sophomores from left to right Elaine Wang, Somya Banwari and Jacob Hafey have co-founded the IR group DIRECT. They pose in Carmichael Hall on Sunday, Oct. 11.

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Debating International Relations and Exploring Current Trends (DIRECT), a new student group devoted to international relations (IR), was formed this fall in order to explore global current events and facilitate discussion using international relations theories.

The group, started by sophomores Jacob Hafey, Somya Banwari and Elaine Wang, held its first general interest meeting last week. The three DIRECT founders explained that a shared passion for international relations brought them together in spite of their different upbringings and backgrounds.

According to Hafey, DIRECT will address fundamental questions about the current state of the world, new theories emerging in the fields of international relations and the ways in which those theories help to explain foreign affairs.

He explained that DIRECT will explore current international relations theorists and theories that are not covered in “PS 61: Introduction to International Relations,” a mandatory introductory class for IR majors. Hafey said that the introductory IR class only deals with 20th-century theories such as realism, liberalism and constructivism and does not draw enough from contemporary schools of thought.

As DIRECT looks to establish itself on campus, Banwari hopes to form an all-encompassing group that is accessible to students.

“I hope to gain a community for international relations majors — and people just interested in politics as whole — to come and

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discuss how they feel about global affairs, to talk about what’s happening and let out their opinions on it regardless of their background, regardless of whether they are interested in [the] military or China,” Banwari said. “It’s for everyone to come together and just talk.”

She explained that the group aims to be different from other international relations-related groups on campus, such as Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), which addresses the military-civilian component of international relations, and Sino-U.S. Relations Group Engagement (SURGE), which focuses on relations between the United States and China.

“The reason we formed DIRECT was because we felt that on campus, there are a number of clubs that address different subsets of the IR community,” Banwari said. “There is no club that encompasses the entirety of the IR community; there isn’t a non-partisan, combination group, and we want DIRECT to be that forum.”

With so many IR groups already on campus, Wang said it will be difficult for DIRECT to break into the established circle. According to Wang, it will take time and numerous events for the group to differentiate itself as a general discussion forum to students who are already in certain international relations niches.

Wang added that although the international relations program is popular at Tufts, the fact that there is no department dedicated to international relations also contributed to the formation of DIRECT. “IR is such a big major on campus, yet we only have these small subject focus groups

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and not a huge community we could come to,” she said. “We want to serve as sort of a home base for students.”

DIRECT, which is not yet recognized by Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, aims to draw from the Tufts community of professors and other IR groups to facilitate group discussions, according to Hafey.

“We are really hoping to work with other IR groups that do specialize, because if we are talking about specific theories such as Chimerica — a theory of the symbiotic relations between the U.S. and China — then maybe we want to talk to and bring in a group like SURGE because they discuss Sino-U.S. relations all the time,” he said.

Wang explained that DIRECT is a platform to discuss not only the political aspect of IR, but also its cultural aspect.

“If again we are looking at Chimerica, maybe we can get CSA [Chinese Student Association] involved, or the Chinese House, and have them come and talk about their personal experiences for people, because I feel like a lot of times, politics involves such people who never had personal experience discussing issues,” she said. “So we want to make it more personal and more real.”

Wang said she wants DIRECT to be a forum of open discussion between students and professors.

“Hopefully, we can make the IR community stronger and more closely knit,” Wang said.

“I feel like since there isn’t an IR department, professors of the field are distant from the students. And we want to bridge that gap between students and professors.”

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The annual Asian Health Symposium, this year entitled “Together: Strengthening the Health of Chinatown,” will be held at the university’s School of Medicine this Friday.

The symposium is hosted by the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations through Translational Research (ADAPT). ADAPT is a CTSI initiative that is a coalition of local community non-profit organizations and several schools of Tufts, according to Amy West, manager of communications and media at Tufts CTSI. ADAPT’s member organizations include the Asian Community Development Corporation, Boston Chinatown Resident Association, Asian Women For Health, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC), Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), Tufts School of Medicine’s Public Health Program, Tufts School of Medicine and Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, according to West. The members meet monthly outside of the symposium to talk about community-engaged research, particularly in the Boston Chinatown area, she explained.

ADAPT receives financial support from CTSI and the School of Medicine, according to Carolyn Rubin, assistant professor in the community health department and director of ADAPT. The symposium will take place at the Arthur M. Sackler Center for Medical Education and will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to a press release yesterday.

West said she is expecting symposium turnout on Friday to be similar to last year’s; around 90 people, including students, attended the 2014 event.

West said the symposium focuses on health in Asian and Asian American communities and that it brings students, residents and clinicians together to discuss community-specific health issues. “[We’re] looking to explore ways to work together to improve Asian health,” she said.

This year’s symposium will touch on the

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Tufts Students for National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), a university-based chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, was formed at Tufts this fall to focus on political organization and on-campus activism for women’s reproductive rights.

According to junior Samantha Berg, president and founder of Tufts Students for NARAL, the newly formed chapter will have a mission of working toward NARAL’s political objectives, both on the Tufts campus and at the state and federal level, to oppose restrictions on and increase access to abortion.

“We’re really excited to get going, and we want everyone to support us,” Berg said. “We hope to leave a positive mark on the Tufts and surrounding communities.”

Berg, who interns for NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts as a campus organizer, began planning to create a Tufts chapter of NARAL in May at the suggestion of organizers she met through her internship.

As the group’s founding member, Berg held a small general interest meeting on Oct. 5 to recruit what she referred to as a small but committed team of students. According to Berg, these students have been working on recruiting additional members, and she feels optimistic about students’ receptiveness to their messages so far.

“A large part of what we want to do is just educate people in the type of language that they should be using, what’s appropriate, and just making everybody aware of what individuals, especially young individuals, are feeling,” she said.

While Berg has many event ideas for the group, Tufts Students for NARAL is currently

unable to book spaces on campus since it is a new organization that has not been recognized

by Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate. Berg said she plans to seek Senate recognition of the Tufts chapter of NARAL, but this will require the group to be in existence for at least six months and to hold at least three events, excluding their general interest meeting.

According to Lillian Lanier, an organizer for NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, most campus chapters of NARAL seek chartering and recognition from their school. Since this can be a time-consuming process, the groups organize and recruit members in the interim.

Berg said she hopes to collaborate with Tufts Film Series to screen “Obvious Child,” a romantic comedy about a woman’s decision to get an abortion. She also wants to collaborate on projects with Tufts VOX: Students for Reproductive Justice throughout the next year.

According to Tufts VOX co-president Paris Sanders, the group’s mission has significant overlap with that of Tufts Students for NARAL, and she is very open to collaborative work between the groups.

“There is a very large world outside of Tufts that is relatively non-receptive toward not only pro-choice initiatives, but even contraception, even sex education,” Sanders, a sophomore, said. “We’re really looking forward to work with NARAL in the future, and we’re extremely supportive of everything that they want to do on campus.”

Berg plans to host an endorsement party after NARAL announces its presidential endorsement for the 2016 election cycle.

Lanier said that NARAL prioritizes on-campus organization, so most campus chapters are involved in participating in both mixtures of on and off-campus activities.

“We’re really interested in supporting their vision and the work that they do on campus,

and we also find that students are interested in doing some political engagement and activism off campus,” she said.

Clark University’s NARAL chapter has also done both on- and off-campus work, according to Clark University Chapter President Hallie Blashfield.

“During campaign season, we’ll do a lot of stuff with NARAL Massachusetts,” she said. “[But] right now at Clark, most of our work is very campus-centric.”

According to Berg, NARAL is particularly focused on crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), which are designed to dissuade women from getting abortions. Recent undercover NARAL investigations allege that staff members at CPCs exaggerated potential side-effects of abortions and tried to make clients feel guilty.

NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts is currently advocating for “an Act promoting access to accurate medical information,” a bill in the Massachusetts Legislature that would prevent the state from funding organizations that dispense advice based on medically inaccurate information.

Tufts Students for NARAL plans to assist with further undercover investigations into CPCs, according to Berg.

“We’re hoping that students in our network will help us with undercover work at CPCs to gather information and to help our bill in the legislature,” Berg said.

Lanier said that NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts provides many opportunities for students and will do so at Tufts as well.

“We’re really excited about building this relationship with [students at] Tufts,” Lanier said. “We hope to create a space at Tufts for pro-choice activists to feel power, engage students in political action, have fun and leave a positive mark on both Tufts and the surrounding communities.”

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continued from page 1 collaborative projects that emerged from last year’s between Tufts researchers and professors and Chinatown organizations, who work together to survey Chinatown residents about health issues or work with residents to better understand health in their community, West said.

“Our overarching goal is to [find] examples of what it means to do research in partnership with these communities,” Rubin said. “I see my role as acting as the bridge between Tufts and the Chinatown community.”

The event will features various speakers, including Susan Koch-Weser, an assistant professor at Tufts Medical Center’s Department of Public Health and Community Medicine; Kieran Reid, a scientist at the physiology lab at the Tufts Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging; and Mei-Hua Fu, program director at ABCD’s Chinese Church Head Start Program, according to West.

After morning presentations from speakers and lunch, the symposium attendees will break up into four different work groups to discuss different areas for collaboration across their respective fields and areas of expertise, West said. These areas include wellness and chronic disease management, health care access, child health and family development and environmental and land use.

“The [symposium’s] goal is to continue to bring academics and community partners together, so they can talk and learn together about ways to improve research within

the community and the actions taken on research findings,” West said.

Fu said that she will speak at the symposium about the impact that collaboration with Tufts has had on the Chinese Church Head Start Program. This partnership has included working with Tufts researchers to do parent focus groups, observations of children and oral health education.

“All these have been very helpful [in that they allow us to] look at the issue and try to understand what the causes are and how to address [them],” she said.

The Head Start Program, as one of the 20 ABCD sites across the Boston area, has raised concerns and awareness about what is needed to improve the health status of children and families in the Chinatown community, according to Fu. “We serve 100,000 people each year because we do all different service areas,” she said.

Fu added that through the collaboration with Tufts, her program has been able to connect more effectively with the communities they work with.

“Because of the collaboration, we have stronger connections with the community, with all other organizations, and we all work together for the cause of health disparity,” she said. “So we have been talking about different issues, [including] oral health, chronic diseases, [the] language barrier, mental health concerns and all other issues…for the new immigrant community.”

Joann Yung, the associate director of development at BCNC, said that the sym-

posium will focus on community-based research that is collaborative in nature, since groups are working with Tufts.

“Research has been done with local community residents and community-based organizations that are working directly with the population,” she said.

Symposiums that focus on health among Asian communities are important because researchers need to know the concerns of the communities, according to Fu. In addition, researchers can help community partners and residents form a framework around the issues so that communities can more effectively address them, said Fu. “We are able to bring everyone together and really talk about all the issues that need to be dealt with and to have a…really open and honest conversation about all these issues,” Fu said.

She added that much of the data on Asian health is oversimplified.

“We don’t get to see what exactly is happening in Chinatown because the data…is [usually] diluted in number,” Fu said.

Additionally, Fu explained that many of the residents have had to deal with issues on their own because they are often isolated due to the language barrier and a lack of access to services about which they are unaware or which they choose not to use.

“All these researchers, they have a lot of expertise and knowledge and skills, and the community has a lot of experiences so…it’s very important that the two fronts work together,” she said. “It will be a very rich conversation.”

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Jon Danilowicz, new Diplomat in Residence for New England, discusses his role at Tufts

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Jon Danilowicz, the newly appointed U.S. Department of State’s Diplomat in Residence (DIR) for the New England area, has spent 26 years working as a foreign service officer and is now based at Tufts.

According to the State Department website, “[DIRs] are career Foreign Service Officers and Specialists located [at colleges and universities] throughout the [United States] who provide guidance and advice on careers, internships and fellowships to students and professionals in the communities they serve.”

Returning to his home state of Massachusetts to focus on this new chapter of his career, Danilowicz sat down with the Daily last week to talk about the passions that brought him to the foreign service, his experiences abroad and his role as the DIR for New England.

The following is an abridged version of the interview.

The Tufts Daily (TD): What responsibilities constitute your role as a DIR? Jon Danilowicz (JD): My role as DIR is focused on recruiting for the State Department, for jobs in both the civil service and the foreign service, [including] internships as well as civil service positions, foreign service officer generalist positions and foreign service specialist positions.

TD: Why did you choose to take on this new role?

JD: It’s a role that I’ve been interested in for most of my foreign service career. It’s a great opportunity to come back to New England, which is where I grew up, and also to talk about a job and career that I love — working for the State Department.

TD: What are your first impressions of [Tufts]? What are you most looking forward to during your time here at Fletcher?

JD: Well, the relationship between the State Department and Fletcher is a long and…positive one. I feel very fortunate that I’m able to follow in the footsteps of my predecessors. I’ve only been on campus [since last Tuesday], so [I’m] still find-

ing my way around. But I look forward to interacting with students and faculty and staff and looking for ways that we can support each other in our various missions.

TD: According to [a June 1] The Express Tribune [article], you joined the foreign service directly after graduating college.

What made you choose this career path?

JD: I grew up in Worcester, Mass. and definitely had an interest in exploring the world and also an interest in public service … Working for the State Department as a member of the foreign service was an opportunity to combine both my interests in travel and…in public service.

TD: According to the same article, you were based in Bangladesh and Peshawar. How does it feel to be back in your home state?

JD: My father worked [at] an insurance company two miles away from our house and drove back and forth to work every day, two miles. In some ways, my choice of career was probably influenced a bit to be different [from my father’s]. I now feel that, in some ways, life has come full circle, that after 26 years of traveling the world, I’m back home in Massachusetts.

I’m looking forward to reconnecting with friends and family and having a chance to explore parts of New England that I haven’t seen before.

TD: What has been the most rewarding part of your time in the foreign service? The most challenging?

JD: [Representing] the United States [and helping] explain the United States and U.S. policies to foreign audiences has been very rewarding. In my career I’ve had the opportunity to serve in different parts of the world. I think the challenges of foreign service life vary, but for me, one of the challenges has been to maintain a balance between my professional life and my personal life. I’m very grateful to my family, my wife and my four children, who’ve followed me around the world and shared adventures and also some of the hardships that come with an international career.

TD: What piece of advice would you give to students interested in pursuing a career in the foreign service?

JD: Well, I guess the advice I would give is that both the process of entering the foreign service and a foreign service career are more of a marathon than a sprint … For applicants coming straight out of school, [especially], it can be quite a challenging process to get through the very steps in joining the foreign service.

But I would advise people to persevere… to stop by my office to say hello and talk with me in person [and] certainly to check out the State Department careers website, careers.state.gov, which has a great deal of information about both the foreign service as well as civil service [and] the various opportunities and the different pathways to entering into State Department careers.

TD: Do you have plans to return to working abroad?

JD: Well, I’m still serving as an active member of the foreign service, so this is a two-year assignment for me here at Tufts. We’ll see what happens after that, whether it’s opportunities to take me overseas, or back to Washington or another domestic assignment. One of the fun parts of the foreign service is that there’s a lot of variety in the job, and [there are] lots of opportunities to daydream about the future.

TD: Is there anything else that you would like to add about your role here at Tufts?

JD: Just to add that while I feel very fortunate to be based at Tufts, to have the institutional relationship between the State Department and the Fletcher School, my responsibility as [DIR] extends to the entire New England area. And [although] certainly we value our relationship and the opportunities on a university campus, our field is a lot broader than that.

I look forward to interacting with individuals at other schools and institutions throughout New England — former military personnel who are looking for new careers and also…younger students who are thinking more about the future — [and help them] start thinking about ways in which they could prepare for a career in the foreign service.

began freshman year with a mix of self-loathing, contempt, depression and a dash of delusion. I was working eight-hour shifts at a café nearby because I wanted to support myself, and thus felt that everyone else was childish and entitled. But we all know that game.

I call it “cool, aloof girl that doesn’t know how to express feelings.”

A combination of social anxiety and exhaustion helped me avoid interactions, which I justified with a feeling that I didn’t need friends.

Look at me! I’m succeeding without people — HAHA I’ve unlocked the key to Gringotts! I’ve solved the mystery of breast cancer! I know how to live without friends!

I KNEW I WAS SPECIAL! My parents were busy trying to make lives for themselves and getting over my decision to move across the country, so their infrequent (though really, pretty frequent) calls were further evidence to me that I didn’t need anyone to succeed. But success is a precarious definition for what was going on.

My “sleep deprivation” and “depression” tend to look pretty similar, which is too bad because my dean later said that she never would have approved my course schedule had I come to see her.

Spring (WINTER) semester was rough.

I stopped running because of the snow, and the scones at the café definitely didn’t aid my health. I felt unattractive and alone while quickly sinking into the hole of darkness and doom that was my Haskell single.

By spring break, I was convinced that I wouldn’t return to Tufts the next year. I spent the week in San Francisco re-watching all three seasons of “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”

Back at school, I took up a casual conversation with God at night to supplement the lack of social interaction I was receiving.

After some sappy poetry on the matter, I quit out of embarrassment and self-pity.

And then, suddenly, it all went away, and there were rainbows and fluffy bunnies running around in my head! Just kidding. I got a summer internship. But that was boring, so instead, I became a raft guide. Or I tried to.

In my attempts, I learned how to row.

I re-learned how to yell. I built up muscles in my back I didn’t even know existed. I learned how to wear a big hat. I stopped shaving because it didn’t matter if I was pretty; it mattered that I could get a 1500pound boat down the river. It mattered that I could get up at 6 a.m. to make coffee and keep working until 10 p.m. after the guests were fed, the dishes were cleaned and the water jugs were filled for the next day.

It’s hard to sum up what feels like a very dramatic shift in my life in fewer than 500 words. And I’m not entirely sure why I am trying to. Perhaps because I looked at my legs today and thought “ugly.” Let the story and the legs serve as a reminder to the brief time when I just didn’t care so god damn much.

Emma Arnesty-Good is a senior majoring in American studies. She can be reached at emma.arnesty_good@tufts.edu.

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‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ premieres shocking, bloody season

by Merilla Michael Assistant Arts Editor

Ryan Murphy, the creator of “American Horror Story” (2011 – present), has done it. He has somehow made the fifth season premiere of the popular FX horror anthology the creepiest one yet. This season is based at the Hotel Cortez, a fairly nice-looking hotel that gradually begins to unsettle all its visitors. The hotel is owned by a couple, The Countess (Lady Gaga) and Donovan (Matt Bomer). The majority of previous “American Horror Story” cast members play employees of the hotel.

In the B-plot, detective John Lowe ( Wes Bentley) investigates suspicious murders that all seem to be connected to the hotel. Viewers get a glimpse of his home life and discover that his son was kidnapped at a carnival without a trace. Somehow, this will connect to the goings on at the Hotel Cortez.

Viewers, including this reviewer, had some doubts about how compelling this season could be without former main star Jessica Lange. Though she was a fan favorite for the past four seasons, she announced earlier this year that she would be leaving the show. However, the additions of Bomer and Lady Gaga show tremendous promise in Lange’s absence.

For those unfamiliar with the structure of “American Horror Story,” each season tells its own separate story unrelated to those before or after it. However, each new installment more or less retains the same cast. This premiere did an excellent job of balancing development of the season’s plot and sharing with viewers — who have no idea what to expect with regard to characters or storylines — the necessary background information to understand what is happening.

The episode ends with a flashback that throws a lot of information at viewers without showing them the events connecting that to the present, leaving them eager to see the next episode so they can fill in the gaps.

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Lady Gaga stars as The Countess in “American Horror Story: Hotel.” this season premiere was especially graphic. The sequence of scenes that take place after viewers are introduced to The Countess and Donovan will go down in “American Horror Story” history. The Countess and Donovan go to an outdoor movie in order to scope out potential couples to court sexually. They look fantastic dressed in black and red and have no trouble finding an eager young couple. Back at the hotel, the sexual acts begin, but after a few minutes of this, The Countess and Donovan proceed to slit the couple’s throats and bask in the blood. This fades into a scene in which the two leads lie on top of the dead couple on a blood-soaked bed.

When Donovan complains about the mess, The Countess responds simply by telling him to call housekeeping.

From this scene alone, it is clear that the diabolical chemistry between The Countess and Donovan will make them compelling — albeit terrifying — characters in the coming season.

Other striking aspects of this premiere were the cinematography and sound design. When the camera first enters Hotel Cortez, the scene looks as though it’s in a fishbowl, making for unusual, unique shapes on the screen.

This unique aptitude for making viewers feel uncomfortable and on-edge is what makes “American Horror Story” so impressive. The music is eerie, and the show often cuts quickly between shaky visuals and alien-sounding noises to disorient the viewer. This premiere was focused on scaring viewers more through tension and buildup than with make-you-jump-in-your-seat moments, a strategy that proved quite effective.

At this point, the talented and harmonious main cast is accustomed to playing different characters and adjusting as necessary. In general, “American Horror Story” has improved markedly since its first season, bringing innovative ideas to set each season apart from the others. This season promises to continue in that vein.

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ICA showcases Black Mountain College art in new exhibit

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Assistant Arts Editor

A new art exhibition — “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957” — opened this week at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. The new collection showcases art from Black Mountain College, a small liberal arts school founded in 1933 in Black Mountain, N.C. The school’s liberal education focused on the arts, with an emphasis on painting, weaving, music and poetry. Black Mountain College’s education philosophy stemmed directly from the progressive education movement in the United

States in the late 19th century, and students came from across the globe to partake in its experimental instruction.

Although the school closed in 1957 after only 24 years of existence, its influence on postwar American art and the formation of alternative colleges in the United States continues today.

The Black Mountain College approach to education combined the craft principles of Bauhaus with interdisciplinary inquiry, discussion and experimentation and formed the template for American arts schools.

Despite the college’s rural location, it played host to a diverse range of art and individuals, and the ICA exhibit

makes the claim that Black Mountain College exemplified the relationship between art, democracy and globalism.

“Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957” highlights the global influences of the school’s artists and teachings. The collection also focuses on the school’s goal of facilitating creative expression in a variety of forms. According to the ICA’s website, the exhibit features pieces by more than 90 artists, including student work, musical performances and archival materials.

“Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957” is open through Jan. 24, 2016.

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Soven Bery According to Soven

Power ranking Drake’s albums

If you are Aubrey Drake Graham, it really is a great time to be alive. The Toronto rapper’s recently released surprise collaboration album with rapper Future, “What A Time To Be Alive,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart. It was Drake’s second No. 1 album in 2015, following the success of February’s “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” and was his fourth chart topper of all time. Drake’s recent run to the top has produced an impressive catalog, and, with his fourth official studio album “Views from the 6” set to drop soon, this is a perfect time to look back at Drizzy’s career.

1. “Take Care” (2011) The work that was put into developing this catalog — called “Take Care” because Drake felt his debut album was too rushed — is evident.

The album includes chart toppers (“Headlines,” “Take Care”), ubiquitous vintage Drake phrases (“HYFR”), vulnerable and emotional moments (“Marvin’s Room,” “Doing It Wrong,” “Look What You’ve Done”) and flawless collaborations (“Crew Love,” “The Real Her”). It is, from top to bottom, classic Drake and flows together magically.

2. “Nothing Was The Same” (2013) Nothing was the same after Drake dropped this collection of hit after hit after hit. If his first two albums introduced the former “Degrassi” (2001 – present) star to the mainstream hip-hop community, then it was this album that vaunted Drake into the best rapper conversation and set the stage for his 2015 takeover. Of course, the album is littered with smashes (“All Me,” “Hold On, We’re Going Home,” “Started from the Bottom”), but there isn’t even one simply decent song: they’re all knockouts.

3.“IfYou’re Reading This It’s Too Late” (2015) “If I die, I’m a legend,” raps the 6 God on the first track of this surprise mixtape, and he isn’t wrong. “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” marked Drake as an unprecedented cultural phenomenon; the internet very nearly broke when the superstar dropped this fiery, lyrically-sound and intense collection. It was a sharp turn from previous records that featured Drake’s sing-songy sensitive side. Here, Graham raps on every track in a brash manner, full of bravado.

4. “Thank Me Later” (2010) Drake’s official debut album, with hits like “Find Your Love” and “Over,” was released to commercial and critical success.

The album was a great accomplishment in 2010, but since then Drake has expanded and perfected the themes of heartbreak, fame and self-doubt, carved out a signature sound and flow that “Thank Me Later” just touches on and become much more confident in himself and his abilities. The first three albums on the list basically sound like a more polished version of this offering.

5. “What a Time to Be Alive” (2015) It is still far too early to see what the ultimate legacy of “What a Time to Be Alive” will be, but I have difficulty seeing it surpass “Thank Me Later.” The collaboration project — recorded in just six days — was good fun, and the record flows well and features great moments — but Metro Boomin’s production and even Future himself outshine Drake. It almost seems like Graham, riding high on the colossal success of 2015, phoned in this album, as he appears less focused and polished than he is on his solo records. Hopefully, Drake finds his element again before the highly anticipated “Views from the 6” drops.

Soven Bery is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at soven.bery@tufts.edu.

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ACROSS 1 Volkswagen Type 1, familiarly 4 Yemeni neighbor 9 Old-timey oath 13 1956 Gregory Peck role 15 Add a lane to, say 16 University of New Mexico athlete 17 Irish city in a recession?

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21 Like dotted musical notes 23 Cellphone accessories 26 Body work, briefly 27 Result of a Czech checkup?

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42 Spirited diversions 43 Febreze targets 44 It’s on the house 46 Not as pricey 47 North African dieter’s light fare?

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Opinion OP-ED

The collegiate battleground

by Daniel Lewis Last Thursday around noon, my phone buzzed. “Nine people killed by school shooter at community college in Oregon,” a CNN alert glowed at me. I read the headline, internalized it and, sadly, felt very little. I have seen this before, countless times before. Too many college students have had their lives cut short because of gun violence.

I don’t want that to be me next year.

Next year, I will be one of 21 million Americans preparing for an amazing future at 4,140 institutions of higher education. Right now, I am in Brazil working for a year before I start college. But it is agonizing to sit here overseas and look toward my future in a potential collegiate warzone; my new home should not be a battleground.

American students deserve a brighter future on college campuses, not a more violent one.

When faced with what happened at Umpqua Community College or at Sandy Hook, American gun rights activists must ask themselves, “What is the ultimate goal of widespread gun ownership?” They must ask, “What does a dream society where everyone owns a ‘protective’ weapon look like?”

They must ask these questions because the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies have to be fighting for some end game. To me, an upcoming college first-year, when I see the NRA say things like “expanding background checks isn’t the answer,” it seems fairly obvious that gun rights supporters want a society where guns are easily accessible to all.

Whatever the NRA’s imagined reality, the United States would not be safer if everyone had a gun, just as we would not be safer if people did not need to be tested in order to drive a car. Cars at least have an intrinsic purpose other than violence. Guns do not. But guns hold a special place in the heart of America, one that gives them a free pass — even if they are the cause of 11,208 deaths every year (nearly 70 percent of all homicides).

The NRA has tweeted more than 30 times since Thursday’s tragedy; Oregon was explicitly mentioned once.

Even its website is devoid of condolences. The organization does not even try to directly counter the obvious anymore because it can’t. When actual deaths occur, it can not say that more guns equals more lives saved.

The NRA’s best solution is to pretend

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that guns had nothing to do with the 10 lives lost last week.

There is no world in which everyone has a gun for protection and, as a result, gun-related homicides decrease. In that world, instead of punches, high schoolers might reach for their parents’ Glocks; instead of screaming, an older sister might reach for her .45 in anger. There is no stable democracy where guns are everywhere legally, concealed in the pant legs of mothers, under the suits of fathers. That society is called anarchy. But if you truly believe that the Constitution supports near-universal gun ownership, then it also follows that the Constitution kills people and must be changed. We must all support and “defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;” guns give us 16,121 reasons annually to be among one of our greatest domestic enemies, and we must use legislation to defend ourselves against their prevalence.

Daniel Lewis is currently living in Florianopolis, Brazil as a participant in the Tufts 1+4 Bridge-Year Service Learning Program. He can be reached at daniel. lewis@tufts.edu.

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Maria-Jose Fabre Comments from the Peanut Gallery

Remembering anachronisms

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y historical education in many of the Latin American countries where I’ve lived focused on pre-Columbian Latin America and its colonization until I attended the sixth grade world culture class in Bogota, Colombia. In primary school in El Salvador, I painted pictures (and stuck cotton balls to the sails) of La Niña, La Pinta and La Santa María, the caravels that Christopher Columbus used to sail to America and discover the Ghanaian Island. In elementary school, we learned of the major pre-Columbian American tribes, the Mayan calendars, the Incan plantation and the Aztec conflicts. As I became older, my knowledge of the course of history got deeper but not particularly critical. My history and heritage were defined and shaped by colonialism, as it was the European in me that had given me significance. During my youth in Latin America, Columbus Day, or the Day of Race as it is called in most countries, was understood as a day to celebrate the commencement of a long period of cultural fusion.

To an extent, the large holes in my education and understanding of colonialism were due to a generational gap. In both the United States and Latin America (and at Tufts, to the dismay of those who have Monday seminars), Columbus Day is understood more as a day of remembrance and not celebration.

Likewise, in both the United States and Latin America, dressing up as pilgrims and Native Indians with colored paper cutouts no longer seems very appropriate. I am unsure of why we did this in my kindergarten as I would never describe the Spanish colonizers as “pilgrims” (neither did they wear bonnets), but that is beside the point. Even the gluing of cotton balls on crayon-painted caravels may be pushing it too.

In 1994, the United Nations renewed its policy and declared Aug. 9 to be the International Day of Indigenous People. Since then many countries in Latin America, like recent movements in the United States, have followed suit. In 2002, Venezuela changed the name of the holiday to Day of Indigenous Resistance, Chile recognizes it as Day of the Discovery of Two Worlds and perhaps more problematically Argentina celebrates the Day of Respect of Cultural Diversity. Still, the 500 years of erasure of the realities of colonialism are hard to take back with a day of commemoration.

While symbolic advances are being made and the public perception is shifting, problems remain. Many South American countries, Argentina for instance, experienced colonialism in a similar way to the United States, through the replacement of the natives.

Most countries, and even significant portions of Argentina outside of the capital Buenos Aires, experienced colonialism through cultural and intellectual erasure.

Like my education on indigeneity, natives in Latin America remain a relic of the past.

Indigenous populations are isolated as anachronisms, attached to a culture and a “way of life” that is incompatible with the rest of the European-influenced Latin American lifestyle.

The heritage of a majority of Latin Americans as mestizos is negated.

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

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Sports FIELD HOCKEY

Jumbos secure win against Christopher Newport as clock ticks down

by Noah Smith

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Tufts first-year forward Hanaa Malik plays in the game against Colby on Saturday, Sept. 12. tablish their lead. After Tufts’ initial control of the half, CNU began to fire shots at first-year goalie Emily Polinski, who ended the game with three saves. This effort was to no avail, however, as the Jumbos narrowly secured a victory as the clock wound down.

This win came off the back of a disappointing 3-0 loss to No. 3 Middlebury over the Homecoming weekend.

“We had just as many shots [against Middlebury on Saturday],” sophomore midfielder Mary Travers said. “Our defense was getting the ball out to our midfield, but we weren’t able to finish the chances that we had. It didn’t help [our] cause that the Middlebury goalkeeper played an outstanding game, ending with four saves.”

The Jumbos held a 6-4 advantage on penalty corners on Saturday but failed to convert any against the Panthers.

“It was a disappointing game to lose,” Thomas said. “Middlebury is a very talented team and capitalized on their chances, while we did not. Despite the score, we worked very well as a team and really started to click. From here on out, we have to win every 50-50 ball.”

Some matchups this season, like this CNU contest and the Sept. 20 Trinity game, were come-from-behind wins, indicating the

team’s ability to bounce back from slow starts.

“We never stopped fighting [against Middlebury],” Travers said. “Even in the last 10 minutes we had possession and control of the game. That’s what a good team has to do — fight harder from a deficit rather than be discouraged.”

The Jumbos currently hold a No. 16 ranking in Div. III, but they are one of five nationally ranked squads in the NESCAC (Bowdoin, Middlebury, Amherst and Williams are the other four). Tufts enters a challenging stretch of games against nationally ranked opponents — Wellesley (No. 9), Williams (No. 18) and Bowdoin (No. 2) — and the team is looking to carry its momentum forward to its next game against No. 9 Wellesley on Thursday.

“None of our upcoming games [will be] easy,” Travers said. “So to come off the back of a game that we really earned is huge.

Wellesley is a really good team, but we feel like we can build off this result and keep getting better every day, as we have over the course of the season. [Coach Tina McDavitt-Mattera] always says that if [practice] isn’t the most fun two hours of every day, you shouldn’t be here.

That’s the way the team feels — we didn’t start at the top, so building up every day has made our team even stronger at working together.”

Men’s Cross Country

Tufts finishes in 11th place at All-New Englands

by Ben Feinberg

Contributing Writer

The Tufts men’s cross-country team continued its solid season with a strong display in Saturday’s All-New England Championship at Franklin Park in Boston. The team finished in 11th place out of 38 schools in the varsity race, competing against runners from a mix of Div. I and Div. III schools. The Jumbos finished in eighth place out of 20 schools in the junior-varsity race. Both races were run on an 8000-meter course.

Tufts scored 312 points in the varsity race. Boston University came in first place, Amherst came in second place and the University of Maine finished third with 143, 176 and 199 points, respectively.

Points are tallied by adding the places of the top five runners from each school. The Jumbos emerged third out of all Div. III schools, the first two being MIT and Amherst, in arguably the biggest race of the season for the team.

Junior Luke O’Connor led the seven Jumbos in the varsity race, finishing in a brisk time of 24:45.95 for sixth place. O’Connor’s time was the fifth-fastest ever for a Jumbo at Franklin Park.

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With under a minute remaining and the score against Christopher Newport University (CNU) tied 1-1, senior midfielder Maddie Chapman won a penalty corner. As time expired, Chapman slid the ball to classmate midfielder Dakota Sikes-Keilp at the top of the circle. Sikes-Keilp wound up and drove a stunning shot past junior goalie Bailey Lien, sealing the 2-1 home victory. Chapman won three penalty corners in the last 10 minutes, and assisted the win-securing blast from SikesKeilp that allowed the No. 16 Jumbos to move to 8-3 on the season.

CNU, which just moved from a No. 14 ranking to the No. 13 spot, opened the scoring in the 17th minute, despite Tufts dictating the pace early on. By the time CNU scored, Tufts first-year attack/midfielder Hanaa Malik had already put a shot on goal, seen another from senior tri-captain Rachel Terveer, which slipped past the post, and won a penalty corner. The team, however, had been unable to convert on any of these opportunities. Despite the pressure from the Jumbos, first-year attack/midfielder Rachael Allshouse cut in from the right and hit a fierce bouncing shot into the cage, allowing the CNU Captains to capitalize on their only shot on target in the entire half. CNU withstood strong offensive pressure from Tufts throughout the half, with Tufts players Malik and senior forward Hannah Park drawing excellent saves from Lien. At the half, the Jumbos had a 7-1 advantage on shots and a 4-0 advantage on penalty corners.

“Despite being down, the team dug deep and played with heart,” sophomore defender Ellexa Thomas said. “[The score] did not diminish our desire to win. We fought back till the very last second.”

Tufts’ offensive outpour continued in the second half. The team tested Lien twice until Chapman, assisted by Sikes-Kielp, finally put a shot in off a penalty corner to tie the score at one goal apiece.

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“Luke had one of the best races he has ever had,” first-year Christian Swenson said.

“He got second among Div. III athletes. He’s obviously poised for a fantastic season.”

“Luke ran insanely fast,” first-year teammate Dylan Jones said. “One of the fastest times I’ve seen someone run for a race that long,” first-year teammate Dylan Jones said.

O’Connor was followed by classmate Tim Nichols, who finished in 25:11.67, good for 15th place. Then came seniors James Traester (82nd place) and Michael Curley (106th place) with times of 25:52.63 and 26:05.73, respectively. Swenson rounded out the scoring for the Jumbos, placing 113th with a time of 26:08.56. “[Nichols] ran fantastic,” Swenson said.

“I don’t think he was too happy with how he ran the first meet, so he was really excited to run in this meet … The team’s strategy was just to go out quick and it was a lot of fun for a lot of us to set personal records in this race.”

In the junior varsity race, Boston College came in first place with 35 points. Amherst came in second and Northeastern came in third with 70 and 85 points, respectively, while Tufts finished with 199 points, good for eighth place.

The Jumbos were led by senior Mitchell Black, who ran an impressive 26:21.61 for 28th place out of 236 participants. He was followed by sophomore Samuel Little, who completed the race in 26:27.14, finishing in 37th place. First-year Matthew McDermott came in third for the Jumbos, finishing in 26:30.29 and 42nd place overall.

“This was [Black]’s first big race of the season, so this was essentially his first real race, and it was great because he ran really well,” Jones said. “Our strategy was just to play it appropriately. Go out at an appropriate pace, and if you think you’re getting winded too early, slow it down.”

This race was different for the junior varsity circuit; in the last meet, the team ran a shorter race of 5,000 meters.

“We usually run [8000-meter] races, so it was nice to return to normalcy,” Jones said. “Franklin Park is a great place to set some personal records and it was great to see everyone do so well. A lot of kids ran great races, and at least five kids PRed by over 30 seconds, so that was awesome.”

The next race for the men’s cross-country team is this Saturday, Oct. 17 at the Connecticut College Invitational.

t’s the first time in a very long time that I’ve seen the Kop so excited by the arrival of a new manager. He even has his own hashtag — #KloppforKop. And that’s because Jurgen Klopp isn’t as normal as he claims to be.

What Liverpool will get is a man obsessed with the idea of a pressing attacking game, a formula that worked very well when Borussia Dortmund toppled Bayern Munchen.

Liverpool has one of the hardest-working midfields in James Milner, Jordan Henderson and Emre Can. A higher pressing game will hopefully protect that not-so-strong defense.

More importantly, they will get a manager that will change tactics if necessary.

Ultimately, the stubbornness that Brendan Rodgers displayed was what cost him his job.

Klopp’s attendance at the Under-21 games shows his desire to use the youth squad to strengthen Liverpool, and his ability to spot talent. It’s not new though — does anyone remember Marco Reus and Robert Lewandowski before Dortmund? Youngsters like Jordon Ibe and Joe Gomez may get more of a look-in, and the famed Liverpool academy of old will grow to be of significant importance once again.

Klopp’s ability to connect with his players personally will get the best out of them. He will foster an ethos that is dedicated to playing football for passion. Much like what he did when he showed Dortmund players photographs of Barcelona players celebrating goals, he will want that same energy and passion in his team.

Make no mistake: Liverpool have some very good attackers in their squad — Daniel Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho among others. When Klopp finds the right way to use these players and a system to utilize their strengths, Liverpool will get better. He will find a way to best utilize the ballplayers like Adam Lallana and Roberto Firmino, as well as players out on loan like Lazar Markovic.

Klopp will find a way to improve Liverpool’s leaky defense. After all, he did make Real Madrid look very ordinary by stifling Xabi Alonso and neutralizing the threat of Cristiano Ronaldo, perhaps inspiring Mourinho to use the same tactics against Bayern the following year.

As a “fifth-division footballer with a first-division brain,” Klopp’s tactical abilities are some of the best in the world, recognized by equally great managers like Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola. But over all of that, Liverpool will get a passionate football man that gives intriguing press conferences — a welcome change from the “great character” quotes and without the behavior associated with Mourinho. His rejection by Hamburg and Bayern Munich due to his “sloppy,” baseball cap-wearing appearance was Dortmund’s gain. And this too will be Liverpool’s. That picture of him putting his hands around the decision makers at Liverpool — Ian Ayre and Tom Werner — shows he’s ready to build a club with a unique identity. He will bring this same passion to the Anfield touchline, a welcome change from Rodgers’ solitary handin-the-air celebration.

Anfield, much like the Westfalenstadion at Dortmund, will become a very difficult place to play at again. Because Jurgen Klopp is not the Normal One. He is a Very Good One, a Unique One. And as a Manchester United fan, I am very, very worried.

Welcome to the Premier League, Jurgen Klopp.

Yuan Jun Chee is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached yuan.chee@tufts.edu.