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Enrollment drops at formerly Tufts-owned day care center

by Liam Knox

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Daycare center Bright Horizons at Teele Square, formerly the Tufts Educational Day Care Center (TEDCC), has had lower enrollment and increased prices since the transition of its ownership and management from Tufts to Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a national corporate child-care provider. According to its website, Bright Horizons is the largest provider of employer-sponsored childcare in the country.

Tufts Executive Associate Dean of the School of Engineering Scott Sahagian, who has been in charge of overseeing the transition from TEDCC to Bright Horizons, said the decreased enrollment numbers are a predictable part of the process.

“The center is working hard to maintain the curriculum and staffing that was the norm, but enrollments are down as a result of natural transitions,” Sahagian told the Daily in an email. “They are slowly building up.”

Enrollment in the center has indeed decreased dramatically over the past year. According to a document circulated in a meeting with Tufts School Arts and Sciences Dean James Glaser last August, enrollment dropped from its full capacity of 82 under TEDCC to 68 total children immediately after the transition. Currently, Bright Horizons Teele Square enrolls only 54 children—28 slots under the center’s average capacity.

Tufts history professor Alisha Rankin, who is a member of the Transition Advisory Committee, blamed the low enrollment numbers on Tufts’ abrupt and ill-received transition announcement last summer.

“In terms of the transition, I think [Bright Horizons] has done a better job than Tufts,” she said. “I think [Bright Horizons] has done all they could…but I think the way Tufts negotiated this contract and then just announced it out of the blue with no warning really stacked the cards against the center.”

According to Jayne Bradley, the regional director for Bright Horizons whose supervision includes the Teele Square center, there is currently no waitlist at Bright Horizons Teele Square. Center Director Harriet Garskovas said the lack of a waitlist is odd for day care centers in gentrified areas like Somerville.

Rankin said the lack of a waitlist has produced a vicious cycle that can discourage new families from registering their children.

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Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a national company which has day care locations in both Teele Square and Davis Square, has seen low enrollment at its Teele Square site since taking over operations from Tufts Educational Day Care Center last year. The Davis Square location is pictured here.

“There used to be a pretty big waiting list, and now they’re scrambling for kids,” Rankin said. “If people are used to having a hard time getting into daycares, they wonder what’s wrong with a place if they don’t have a big waitlist, so it’s sort of a self-fulfilling cycle that’s gonna take a little while to break.”

Garskovas agreed that the lack of a waitlist affects student enrollment.

“It’s the Cambridge/Somerville/ Medford parent group mentality,” she said.

“If you have a school with a waitlist, everyone wants to get in no matter how good the school is.”

She added, however, that she expected the center will have a waitlist soon.

“For parents, change is really hard and scary,” Garskovas said. “It was a big unknown I think because [Bright Horizons] came in and said, ‘We’re here,’ but nobody really knew what that meant.

Trust has to be earned and built.”

Rankin explained that for-profit day care centers like Bright Horizons also struggle with a perception problem, which has contributed to low enrollment in the Teele Square location.

“This is a community that really believes in the non-profit model, and so it’s going to be a harder sell for a lot of people to put their child in a for-profit center, which, fairly or not, is viewed as a corporate behemoth,” she said. “I would prefer TEDCC, but I do think this center is being a little

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unfairly punished by the idea of corporate being bad.”

According to Rankin, if the center’s enrollment does not increase, the center will stop making a profit on the space and subsequently will shut down.

Tufts political science Professor Elizabeth Remick said that this would be a real problem for Tufts faculty with young children.

“It is so important to have some kind of childcare on campus,” she said. “My junior colleagues could not do their jobs without it. Employees at Tufts spend a lot of time thinking about childcare. It is important for employers to make this a priority because it allows people to focus on their jobs.”

Despite this, Tufts faculty members are pulling their children from the center. The total number of Tufts faculty and affiliate children enrolled in the center has dropped from 29 under TEDCC — or about 35 percent of total enrollment — to 16 immediately after the transition, or 24 percent of total enrollment, according to data collected in an “Open letter to the Tufts administration on the decision to cease operating the Tufts Educational Day Care Center,” written last September by the Work Life committee. For the 20152016 school year, there are 11 children of Tufts affiliates enrolled, which is around 20 percent of total enrollment at the center, according to a document circulated at a recent meeting with Dean James Glaser of

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“I think key to increasing enrollment is getting Tufts families to go back [to the center],” Rankin said.

Remick, who helped author the open letter last fall, agreed.

“For the long-term health of the center, we need to encourage Tufts affiliates to enroll,” she said. “The center is a crucial resource for members of the Tufts community, and higher enrollments will make it sustainable.

According to Bradley, Bright Horizons is actively working to increase enrollment through community outreach and is looking to partner with Tufts in doing so.

“We’re open to year-round enrollment now … We’re also going to offer things like parent referral programs and new signage, because the signs that are outside the center are old and not entirely accurate,” she said. “We are also going to increase our communication with Tufts as a partner to try to enroll children in the program.”

However, according to Rankin, Tufts has been less committed to such engagement.

“Tufts is giving Bright Horizons only a very low level of support,” she said.

She also said that the university should consider its former role as the primary benefactor of the daycare center when defining its role in the future development of Bright Horizons Teele Square.

“I don’t think Tufts really took anything into consideration in terms of what the impact was going to be on faculty,” she said. “They just wanted it off their hands as quickly as possible, I think.”

In addition to decreased enrollment, prices at the daycare have also increased by 5 percent for returning families and 10 percent for new students, according to Tufts history professor David Ekbladh, who had a daughter in TEDCC last year. He said that if the prices of other Bright Horizons centers in the Boston area are any indicator, they will continue to rise for Bright Horizons Teele Square families.

“A corporation has an incentive,” he said. “It’s eventually going to trap faculty under this financial burden. I think [the Tufts] administration should have considered this.”

Tufts announced the ownership change for the Teele Square day care center in a press release last July, months after parents had already registered their children in April to enroll in the center for the following academic year. This led to “Save

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continued from page 1 TEDCC” protests by parents in the community, including Tufts faculty members.

“Some of us were so agitated because it wasn’t just a change in curriculum,” Ekbladh said. “It really had a human cost.”

Sahagian explained at the time that the decision for the transition was made in order to maintain the standards of the center.

“As the child care field has grown and evolved, Tufts has found it increasingly difficult to ensure that we are managing the center in accordance with the most current regulations, industry standards and best practices, and in the most fiscally responsible way,” he wrote in a press release. “We have also been unable to respond to growing requests for infant and toddler care.

We have concluded that the best solution to these changing needs was for Bright Horizons to assume operation of the center.”

Sahagian told the Daily last year that the day care’s loss of accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) also influenced the university’s decision.

“The decision to transition to Bright Horizons was made after thoughtful consideration of the needs of enrolled families, center staff and the university,” he wrote in the press release. “Providing the highest quality program possible while assuring the safety and well-being of our children

has always been our most important priority.”

The transition process has been aided by the Transition Advisory Committee.

It was formed to identify the traditions and cultures most important to TEDCC, which had been a part of Tufts since 1973 and was known as “Little Tufts.” The advisory committee is made up of Bright Horizons staff, teachers, parents and university administrators like Sahagian, according to a statement that Bright Horizons’ Division Vice President Amy Vandever gave to the Daily for a Sept. 4, 2014 article.

Sahagian explained that in addition to the advisory committee, there is a staff member on the Tufts Committee on Faculty Work/Life who is responsible for monitoring the center and ensuring that “parents receive a positive experience.”

“Through this arrangement, the Medford/Somerville campus will have a quality day care center located on-site with services provided by a nationally recognized organization whose sole focus is providing excellent child care,” he wrote in last year’s press release.

Rankin said that there had been concerns this past year about Bright Horizons’ ability to continue the same quality of special needs catering to students. She said that these concerns result from the daycare’s status as a for-profit center, which has proven a barrier in persuading Medford and Somerville townships to send specialists there, she said. Despite

worries that the Special Friends program under the Leonard Carmichael Society would be discontinued after the transition from TEDCC, the program has continued to partner Tufts students with students at the day care.

However, Rankin said that the curriculum and culture of inclusion in place under TEDCC has remained relatively unchanged.

“It doesn’t seem like they’ve really meddled in the classroom at all; I think the curriculum has been allowed to stay how it was,” she said.

However, Rankin said that there are concerns over how long the level of consistency in the daycare’s curriculum and culture can be maintained before the corporate template begins to overtake it.

“I worry, as more teachers transition out and there’s no one left who knew TEDCC as it was, whether the high level that I think is still there for the time being can be sustained,” she said.

Bradley said that the curriculum in place will be maintained, as she believes it “fits right in with the Bright Horizons mission.”

“We are committed to maintaining consistency throughout the transition,” she said.

Garskovas said she is confident that trust for the center is being earned slowly but surely in the Somerville community.

“My job now is to bring the dialogue back to the children and the high quality day care we offer,” she said.

‘Free Thinkers’ series hosts Boston Globe art critic Mark Feeney

by Liam Knox

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An audience of about 60 gathered to hear Mark Feeney, a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Boston Globe, speak at the second installment of the second annual Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s “Free Thinkers” series in Barnum Hall last night.

The “Free Thinkers” series, which is free and open to the public, began with an Oct. 8 talk, “Advice to the Egyptians (and other Arabs) from the Founding Fathers,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood and will end with a Nov. 5 talk from actress, director and author Tina Packer, who will speak about women and Shakespeare.

Feeney’s lecture, entitled “Unemployment and Debt,” centered around his book, “Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief” (2004), which explores former President Richard Nixon and the film industry. “[My research explores] the fascinations of Richard Nixon’s movie-watching history,” Feeney said.

Feeney said that the connection between Nixon and the film industry became apparent when Nixon could no longer escape the Watergate scandal and watched the 1966 film “A Man of All Seasons.”

“This was a film about a political figure who was punished for standing by his beliefs, which is probably how Nixon saw himself in the midst of the scandal — a victim of a changing system,” he said.

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning art critic Mark Freeney spoke to members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute about former President Nixon’s fascination with film.

Feeney also shared various facts about the infamous former president. Nixon’s favorite film was “Around the World in 80 Days” (1956), and he also very rarely watched foreign movies, seeing only five in his over 500 viewings, Feeney said.

According to Feeney, Nixon once said, “I like my movies made in Hollywood.”

Feeney also talked about why thinking about Nixon as a movie watcher makes him a more relatable figure. “[Ronald] Reagan was the movie star as president; [John F.] Kennedy was the president as movie star,” he said. “Nixon was the president as movie fan.”

Feeney explained that Nixon was very comfortable as a film viewer.

“In the dark, no photographer could ever catch him off guard,” he said. “He could finally…relax. He recognized the appeal of the screen in that you could gaze at it, but it would not return that gaze.”

Feeney said that everyone can empathize with the appeal that movies give people. “[The] particular seductiveness [of cinema] was all the vividness and pageantry of life without any of the human complications,” he said. “With that in mind, how could Nixon not love the movies?”

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If you happened to be looking for recent Tufts graduate and current Fulbright scholar Hannah Arnow (LA’ 15) last fall, chances are you would have found her in the library.

“I went to class, but I don’t think I did homework for the first month and a half of school because I was working on my application,” Arnow said, describing her Fulbright application process. “I had nine drafts of my grant statement. The week before it was due, I literally lived in the library with my writing tutor, going through incarnations and making sure it was as concise and powerful it could be.”

After being offered a grant to do anthropology research in Estonia, Arnow joined over 1,900 U.S. citizens traveling abroad with the 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Student Program, according to a Fulbright press release. Fulbright scholarships, which annually send students to over 160 countries, are awarded to students who have demonstrated academic and professional achievement and leadership capabilities. The grants are “designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries” and are sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

According to the official Fulbright statistics page, only about 7.43 percent of 2015-2016 applicants received a grant in the Europe/Eurasia region, though award rates varied by country. Such low grant offer statistics are common not only among other Fulbright programs but also among other big-name fellowships and scholarships, including the Rhodes Scholarship, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship and the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, according to these programs’ websites.

Still, last year alone more than 79 Tufts students applied to seven such scholarship and fellowship programs, according to Dr. Anne Moore, the program specialist for scholar development. Moore said she believes exposure to research opportunities gives Tufts applicants an advantage.

“There are a lot of opportunities to pursue independent research as an undergraduate at Tufts,” Moore said. “We are a research [institution] with a relatively small graduate population.”

According to data provided by Moore, most Tufts students who apply for and

are awarded scholarships receive them through Fulbright. Eleven of 52 Tufts applicants received the grant during the 2015-2016 cycle. Between 2009 and 2012, Tufts placed annually on The Chronicle for Higher Education’s list of top Fulbright producers.

Tufts students have also been relatively successful competing for the Goldwater Scholarship, which is awarded to undergraduates who intend to pursue research careers in science, math and engineering.

For four of the past five years, at least one Tufts student has been chosen to become one of 260 annual Goldwater Scholarship recipients, Moore said.

Tufts has historically struggled with the Rhodes and the Marshall Scholarships; it has been several years since a Tufts student received one of these scholarships, Moore said. In fact, between 1904 and 2015, only four Tufts students have ever won a Rhodes Scholarship, according to the program’s website. These scholarships, which fund graduate study in the United Kingdom, are among the most competitive scholarships nationwide, with 40 or fewer Americans receiving them each year.

“I get my heart broken every year

by Rhodes and Marshall,” Moore said.

“We have these students, and they’re so incredible, and they have such a strong leadership record, and they’re so smart and nothing happens.”

Moore said that part of the reason Tufts students do not perform as well as other schools could be historical disadvantages in the selection process.

“I think historically the numbers of Rhodes and Marshall in terms of coming from Ivies are higher,” she said.

To make the university more competitive, Tufts has implemented an internal review process for applicants, Moore said.

“There’s no limit from Rhodes or Marshall as to the number of students a school can nominate, but we have imposed an internal limit of two for Rhodes and four for Marshall,” Moore told the Daily in an email. “During my time at Tufts, we’ve always had an internal review process to get nominated for Rhodes or Marshall, but we added an interview element to that internal process two years ago … It’s a prestige factory … We need to communicate to them that we are as invested in sort of selecting the very, very best brightest amongst our students.”

Students awarded scholarships in

the past were impressed with the help they received from the Office of Scholar Development and from Moore herself, saying it gave them an advantage. Senior Luke Sherman, who received a 2015 scholarship from the Udall Foundation, which funds college sophomores and juniors committed to studying the environment or health care and tribal policy concerning American Indian and Alaska Natives, explained that he worked with Moore on his application. “[Moore] is such a great resource, and so much of your success and how your application goes is determined by your fellowship advisor,” Sherman said. “And Tufts is so lucky to have an incredible fellowship advisor.”

In fact, if Moore had not reached out to Sherman about the scholarship, he probably would have never applied, he said.

“I’m actually [a] first-generation [college student], so I didn’t really understand that these things existed,” Sherman said.

Under Moore’s guidance, Sherman recently submitted applications for the Marshall Scholarship and the Mitchell Scholarship, which funds graduate study in Ireland.

Arnow also praised Moore and the resources her office provides for applicants.

“Anne Moore was absolutely influential. She’s amazing…[and] was fantastic and completely supportive,” she said.

“You go through a Tufts interview process and they give you a writing tutor from the graduate school who has been trained to work with Fulbrights … They had workshops. They had information sessions.

They really help a lot and support and encourage you.”

According to Assistant Director of Career Development Nicole Anderson, scholarships can greatly improve one’s future professional opportunities.

“As fellowships are often competitive and are fewer in number, there is prestige in having one listed on the resume or curriculum vitae (CV ),” Anderson told the Daily in an email. “In some fields, fellowships are well-known for training and preparation in the field and can help with networking for the job search and graduate school admissions.”

Sherman can attest to the career boost provided by winning one of these prestigious awards.

“I have four new job postings in my inbox a day,” Sherman said.

Though scholarships like these are competitive, Moore said students should not feel discouraged about applying, since there is always a chance.

“If you don’t apply for something, there’s always this imaginary possibility on Earth B that you did get it, and you would have been like….imagine how good life is on Earth B; if only I had done that,” Moore said.

Even unsuccessful applications can benefit students, according to Moore and Arnow. Applying can help students practice completing applications for other fellowships or for graduate school.

“If you’re going to graduate school, you should be used to asking people for money,” Moore said. “That’s what you’re going to do for the rest of your career if you go into research.”

Arnow said thinking of her Fulbright application as just “practice” helped her deal with her fear.

“I was intimidated,” Arnow said. “[I thought] ‘I’m going to do this now because I’m going to learn how to apply’ … So later on in my academic career when maybe I’m in graduate school, I’ll have applied once and be more successful.”

Applying can help people get a clearer sense of their goals for the future, according to Sherman.

“Even if you don’t win, you still enjoy a lot of benefits of the application process, such as helping crystalize your own thoughts about your future and your academic background,” he said.

Moore agreed, asserting that self-reflection in any capacity is a useful skill.

“You have to answer some pretty difficult questions about what motivates you and what kind of impact you want to have on the world,” Moore said. “And that kind of self-knowledge is incredibly valuable.”

Anderson emphasized the usefulness of fellowships and scholarships for students still deciding on their career paths.

“I suggest post-grad fellowships to students, particularly seniors who are indecisive about post-graduation plans and don’t want to make a long term commitment by applying for full-time permanent jobs,” she said.

Ultimately, Moore thinks applying can be just as valuable as winning.

“I want [students] to win,” Moore said.

“I really want them to apply just to apply.

Just applying for things is super valuable.

It helps you take yourself seriously and present yourself as someone who should be taken seriously.”

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Students boycotted classes, rallied support for financial aid, 1990

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In February 1990, Tufts administration announced projected cuts in financial aid up to $500,000. A week after the announcement, Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate unanimously called for full student participation in a boycott of classes and a rally in front of Ballou Hall on Feb. 15, demanding that the administration meet the financial aid needs of

incoming students.

According to a Feb. 16, 1990 article in the Daily, over 1,000 students took part in the hour-long protest in snow and sleet, arguing that the shortfall of financial aid would compromise the student diversity. The article noted that most faculty expressed sympathy for the financial aid cause. The administration argued that there were financial constraints preventing it from increasing the amount of aid.

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ARTS&LIVING Movie Review

‘Suffragette’ looks at past with eye to future

by Miranda Siler

Contributing Writer

“Suffragette” is not only a great film, but is also an important one. Set in turn of the century England, the movie focuses on a few major players in the radical suffrage movement led by Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep) — a crucial part of women’s history that is not often talked about.

Carey Mulligan delivers a stellar performance as Maud Watts, a lower-class working woman who seemingly accidentally gets herself involved in the suffrage movement. Her emotion is incredibly authentic and definitely evoked a tear or two from the audience.

Other performance highlights include Helena Bonham Carter as Edith Ellyn and Anne-Marie Duff as Violet Miller. It was refreshing to see Bonham Carter outside of the Tim Burton universe — it is easy to forget that behind all of the spooky and wacky roles she plays, Bonham Carter is in fact a wonderful actress. Duff did an amazing job as well, bringing out many of the complex issues within the suffrage movement in a way that hit the audience emotionally.

Streep was perhaps the biggest disappointment in the movie. Even though she was given top billing and her face was featured on the movie poster, she only actually appears on screen for about five minutes — and those five minutes weren’t that great. She played Emmeline Pankhurst, the vivacious and infamous leader of the radical suffrage movement. In her only scene, she gives a speech to rally a group of suffragettes, then goes back into hiding from the police. Her performance was a bit silly; she plays her role almost as

a sort of weird fairy godmother whom women are meant to look up to rather than a hardened radical inciting rebellion. Her accent is also particularly unconvincing, sounding more like Mrs. Doubtfire than anything else. It would have been more appropriate to give a spot on the movie poster to Duff, an integral part of the movie, than to try to capitalize on Streep’s star power.

Aside from Streep’s scene, “Suffragette” was an incredible film. The characters are compelling, and the cast executed the script Eva Rinaldi via Flickr Creative Commons and evoked emotion In “Suffragette,” Carey Mulligan shines as Maud Watts, a working flawlessly. The movie’s class woman who finds herself involved in the suffrage movement. depiction of physical, emotional and psychological violence toward gressive countries granted women the right women made it hard to watch at times, but to vote. Along with the release of the movie, these sequences serve as important remind- the people behind it have created a campaign ers of how much the suffragettes had to sac- for women around the world to share their rifice to achieve their goal. It seems that the voices.

While the movie is set in a particular creators of this movie understand how far society still has to go in the struggle for wom- time and place, its message is universal. en’s rights. Refreshingly, “Suffragette” did not The themes and issues brought up in sugarcoat this struggle in the slightest. At the “Suffragette” are, for example, reminisend of the movie, the audience is shown a list cent of the current debates happening of different countries around the world and about Planned Parenthood. So much has when they granted women suffrage, and it is already been done, but there is even more shocking to see how late some seemingly pro- left to do. The fight is not over.

Rundown

Guide to upcoming music releases of 2015

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tal accompaniment. “Radio Silence” will hopefully display Blake at his best, much like his earlier albums “James Blake” (2011) and “Overgrown” (2013) did. The upcoming release will feature Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Kanye West, a signal that Blake is treading in new territory by employing high-profile guests.

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The past 10 months or so have been jampacked with great music releases. From industry legends like Sufjan Stevens and Björk, to newer artists such as Julia Holter and Vince Staples, music-lovers have had a lot to be excited about. There has, of course, been a fair share of forgettable projects, as well. Who actually thought Ryan Adams could successfully cover “1989” (2014) and provide the same addicting, youthful exuberance that Taylor Swift brought on her own version? And how could any reasonable person sit through the excruciatingly painful 92 minutes of “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz” (2015)?

Luckily, there’s still a good crop of records to get amped about as 2015 comes to a close.

Here are five albums to get excited (or hopeful) for in the final weeks.

1. Joanna Newsom — “Divers”

Set for official release on Oct. 23, “Divers” is singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom’s fourth studio album and her first since “Have One on Me” (2010). Newsom’s earlier work was heavily influenced by polyrhythms — the synchronization of two rhythms, one of which is an irrational rhythm — but she moved away from this tactic on her previous album, “Have One on Me,” and will likely do the same on “Divers.” New listeners will quickly notice her unique voice, her keen ear for songwriting and the delicate intricacy of the accompanying musical arrangements.

2. Grimes — “Art Angels”

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James Blake’s upcoming album will feature guest stars like Kanye West and Justin Vernon. ly quiet about her upcoming album, “Art Angels,” revealing new information in a slow, unconventional manner. The album art and title, for example, were announced earlier this week, a few months after she hinted at releasing it in “surprise” fashion sometime in October. Boucher scrapped her last album in 2014 after dropping the polarizing single “Go” (2014). Since then, she has released two more terrific singles, “REALiTi” and “Entropy,” both of which dropped earlier this year. She’s stated, however, that “Art Angels” will be quite different from her singles and not to expect them to find their way onto the album (at least not on the A side). The anticipation for “Art Angels” is high, and indie music’s favorite alternative pop singer has major expectations to meet.

3. James Blake — “Radio Silence”

James Blake’s third full-length album is expected to be released sometime in 2015, though no official date has been set.

Blake’s songwriting incorporates gripping lyrics with an electronic backdrop defined by deft changes in tempo, exhilarating pacing and skillfully woven instrumen-

4. Rihanna — “Anti”

Rihanna’s eighth studio album “Anti” — which is currently without a firm release date — is being executive produced by Kanye West and will feature singles she dropped earlier this year: “Bitch Better Have My Money,” “FourFiveSeconds” and “American Oxygen.” The album cover, which also includes a poem in Braille, is different from her usual fare. It features picture of Rihanna as a child, wearing a gold crown that covers her eyes and holding a black balloon, with red paint dripping down the photo. “Anti” will be Rihanna’s first full-length album since “Unapologetic” (2012), and considering the range in styles of her newest singles, it likely will be Rihanna’s most risky and diverse project to date.

5. Kanye West — “SWISH”

“SWISH” will, most likely, not drop in 2015 (Kanye has stated, albeit very vaguely, that he’s not interested in rushing a project for this year), but one never knows with West. The hip-hop star released “Yeezus” rather unexpectedly back in 2013. He has given fans tastes of new material in a variety of forms since then, eliciting both positive and negative feedback. West’s near-perfect streak of albums is at stake, so fans should be hoping for quality over rushed, half-baked hip-hop.

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ooja: Since I am an only child, I was essentially born a third wheel. While Rebecca can actually claim to be a tricycle (she is a triplet), I was born as the add-on to a pre-existing relationship.

So, it’s safe to say that I’ve gotten pretty good at it. During high school, I found myself on more dates with couples than with significant others. What’s worse is that I found myself liking those dates a lot more … However, this summer I third-wheeled a date so traumatizing that it may have just been my last. When hanging out with a certain friend of mine (obviously not the co-writer of this column … I have other friends) and her boyfriend in Manhattan, we passed the Museum of Sex. I had been bombarded with ads for it on the subway, and the effective marketing got the best of me. A word of advice to readers, whether you are experienced or new to third wheeling, going to a sex museum with a couple is NEVER a good idea. The looks of pity, disgust and, sometimes, even fear persisted from the time we paid for tickets to the moment museum staff had to make an exception to allow an “extra” onto the Boobie Bouncy Castle. My take away from this experience is that, while third wheeling can be fun, it is probably best to avoid all date-related activities that include the word “sex,” “boobie” and “bouncy” in the name.

Dear NYSD, So, is this a sex column?

Pooja: You just read my using the word “boobie” multiple times in a published column that potential employers will find when Googling my name; I really hope for the betterment of humanity and journalistic practices that this is not a sex column.

Dear NYSD, My belly button burns. Help.

Rebecca: Wow, reader, this does not sound fun. I know what it is like to deal with itchy or burning skin. Growing up, I suffered from terrible eczema. My mom used to call me “Eczema girl” or tell people that I had “alligator skin.” This is the same woman who refuses to brag about her children because “every mother cockroach thinks her baby cockroach is beautiful, but have you ever seen a beautiful cockroach?” My mother is the kindest but most honest person I have ever met, which means my eczema must have looked as bad as it felt. I recommend using Aquaphor by Eucerin — I regard it as a cure-all. That said, NYSD should not be your only source for medical advice. You should check out health services.

Dear NYSD, DO YOU FEEL THE BERN? Rebecca: As Pooja cannot vote, I will answer this. Yes. Bernie Sanders is a Jew from Brooklyn. As a half Jew from Brooklyn/ Queens, hearing him lament about inequality in his Brooklyn accent feels like home to me. My family friend, a professor at Brooklyn College, was recently discussing Sanders and mentioned that he had attended Brooklyn College before transferring to “some no-name school in the Midwest.” That school was the University of Chicago … Clearly Brooklyn College did not take the loss easily. But, yes reader, we at NYSD feel the Bern.

That’s all we have for this week. Keep sending us questions to our Google Doc or TUFTSNYSD@gmail.com!

Rebecca Solomon is a senior majoring in economics. She can be reached at rebecca. solomon@tufts.edu. Pooja Sivaraman is a senior majoring in economics. She can be reached at pooja.sivaraman@tufts.edu.

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by Ray Paul Biron “[Garrell] had a great game Saturday,” and new roles, we also changed up coach Kareem Afifi told the Daily in an many of their plays and implemented home game of email. “Watching the film, I was more a new game plan with our attack strucregular season Tufts men’s rugby defeated Babson impressed with everything else he did ture.”

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College 55-0 during a cold night at Bello Field last Saturday to improve to 3-1 on the season. Sophomore eighth-man Jake Garrell scored five tries to lead the Jumbos’ offensive onslaught in the lopsided contest.

“It was just overall excitement for how the team was playing,” Garrell said.

“Once you get that excitement, it is easy to play. Once we started scoring everything fell into place.”

The Beavers, considered one of the Jumbos’ rivals because of their proximity alone, were unable to keep up with the Jumbos’ fast-paced offense, which made use of a combination of technical skill and quick ball movement. The game was deadlocked at zero for the first 25 minutes, but Tufts was able to pull ahead right before the half and went into the break up 14-0, behind two tries from Garrell.

“They were giving us a really good fight defensively,” junior wing Will Dolan said. “Then we switched offensive strategy and started doing kicking and set plays instead of just trying to move the ball wide and it worked well.”

Tufts came out on fire in the second half, with Garrell taking the lead and scoring three more tries. The Jumbos ended up outscoring the Beavers 41-0 in the second period.

aside from scoring five tries. He really set the platform for the forwards in set pieces and was an anchor in our defense around the breakdowns. He has a very high rugby IQ and is always thinking a few plays ahead. It’s great to have experienced players like him when we have such a young team.”

The Jumbos came into the season expecting growing pains after graduating more than 10 seniors last year.

They were forced to play a slew of firstyears, some of whom had never played rugby before.

“The growth of the team is remarkable,” senior back Cole Priest said.

“The kids all played a variety of sports and were athletic, but most have never played rugby. But because of our coaching staff, it’s a quick learning process.”

Afifi also commended the first-years’ ability to grasp the rules of the game quickly.

“This team has grown a lot since the beginning of September,” Afifi said. “[First-years] have been asked to learn not only the basics of a game quickly, but to understand a sophisticated game plan. Returning players were also asked to do different things than what they are used to. I think for the first month the team was really just trying to figure things out. On top of the new players

The Jumbos have one more game in the regular season at Nichols College this Saturday. A win would secure the team a spot in the postseason, during which teams from both the north and south conferences will compete for the National Small College Rugby Organization (NSCRO) Champions Cup. “We need to close this game out to lock up the No. 2 Seed in the NSCRO South Division, which would put us back into the playoffs for the second year in a row,” Afifi said. “I’m looking forward to getting back into the tournament and advancing to nationals. It’s going to be a tough road, but I’m confident in the team and that the coaching staff will get them prepared.”

To reach nationals and potentially win the National Championship, the Jumbos will have to beat some tough competition in their own conference. Tufts lost to undefeated Eastern Connecticut State University 38-10 earlier this season, a team that currently sits at first place in the South Division.

“Our goal since the first day of pre-season has been to win a National Championship,” Afifi said. “We are one step closer, working hard and still getting better. As long as we stay mentally tough, scrappy and never give up then [the] sky’s the limit for our team.”

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Thompson has also taken notice of Yu’s efforts and had a great deal of praise for the first-year. “[Yu] has certainly stepped up as a rookie this season and has helped us run the offense that works best for the team,” Thompson said. “Her composure and competitive spirit have really been assets to our team immediately upon her arrival.”

The Jumbos will next look to the New England Challenge this upcoming weekend. The team will host Wellesley for their last home game of the regular season. On Saturday, they will travel to MIT, where they face MIT and Babson in a doubleheader. Their opponents for this weekend hold records of 12-11, 23-2 and 19-7, respectively.

The Engineers pose the biggest threat to the Jumbos’ winning streak, as they currently hold a stifling .920 winning percentage.

“There’s a little bit of pressure [to maintain the winning streak],” Yu said. “But we focus on taking each match as its own match, and within those matches taking it point by point and doing all the little things right.”

After improving to 15-4 on the season after Saturday’s emphatic win over Trinity, Tufts will look to carry the winning spirit into their last home game and beyond.

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Tufts bests Trinity, wins seventh straight

by Bradley Schussel Contributing Writer

When Tufts entered Cousens Gym on Saturday for its game against Trinity, there were plenty of numbers going through the

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Jumbos’ heads: 25 points to win the set, three sets to win the match, six games left in the regular season. But there was one number that was on the minds of everyone in the gym that afternoon: seven.

Tufts increased its impressive win streak to seven games on Saturday, beating NESCAC rival Trinity 3-0 in straight sets (2522, 25-16, 25-16).

“Every NESCAC match is an important one, so the team works hard to secure those wins,” coach Cora Thompson told the Daily in an email. “More important than the actual win is how we played, so we really pay attention to how points were scored as a way of analyzing how we did. Offensively, we are working this week to be more efficient than we were last week.”

The victory came on Tufts’ senior day, where the Jumbos honored seniors Maddie Kuppe, Kyra Baum and co-captains Carolina Berger and Esme Nulan.

“We have so much respect for our seniors, and they do so much for our team,”

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Tufts setter Kyra Baum, A16, sets the ball for a teammate in the game against Springfield College on Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2015. said first-year Angela Yu, who leads the team in assists. “This wasn’t our last time playing with them as we still have a few more games, but at that moment [when they were honored] we had complete respect for them.”

Yu remarked that playing with the seniors has helped her improve her game.

“It’s really incredible [to be around them] because although I am four years younger than [they are], they don’t treat me like I am [four years younger],” Yu said. “Not only are

they role models for me but they’re also very friendly and encouraging.”

Kuppe has been particularly successful this season and had 13 kills on the day — half of the team’s total. The former NESCAC Player of the Week (awarded on Oct. 12) also added 12 digs to an already impressive stat line.

“There is no question [Kuppe] has been a go-to player for us, and Saturday was no different,” Thompson said. “Her performance is always important but, in a sport

like volleyball, one player’s performance is not possible without her teammates setting her up for that success.”

Yu had an impressive day of her own on Saturday, contributing 14 assists. Yu’s season total is now 309 — the most assists of any Jumbo so far this year.

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WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY

Jumbos emerge as runners-up at Conn. College Invitational

by Chris Warren

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The women’s cross country team traveled to Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Conn. this past Saturday for the annual Connecticut College Invitational. Tufts, ranked No. 3 in the latest USA Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USATFCCCA) poll, fared well at the meet, narrowly losing first place to No. 4 MIT, 62 to 67.

Despite the windy conditions on the shores of Long Island Sound, times were quick. Temperatures hovered in the 50s, and the course was relatively flat and the ground dry and compact, creating ideal racing conditions. The Jumbos capitalized on this, and the top five scorers averaged a fast 22:02 for the six-kilometer course.

The race got out quick, as junior Abby Shafer of New England College bolted to the lead. Her lead grew until she was almost 100 meters ahead of second place, but in the end, this strategy caught up to her. Junior Maryann Gong of MIT unleashed a ferocious kick over the final half mile to catch her and take the victory in 21:31.3.

The first runner to cross for Tufts was senior co-captain Audrey Gould, who took eighth overall in 21:48.8. A tight pack soon followed, as classmate Olivia Beltrani was three seconds behind in 21:51.6, good for 10th overall. Junior Kelly Fahey kept the momentum going for Tufts, crossing the line in 14th place with a time of 22:00.3. Sophomore Brittany Bowman was the fourth Jumbo harrier to cross the line, coming in at 22:08.3 and taking 16th overall. Junior co-captain Alice Wasserman rounded out the Jumbos’ top five with her

22:23.5 time, earning her 19th place.

Junior Sam Cox and senior Lily Corcoran finished sixth and seventh for the Jumbos, respectively. Cox, who has raced her way into the top seven this season, had another impressive time of 22:30.2, taking 23rd overall. In a tremendous effort, Corcoran was right behind Cox in 22:34.3, shaving over a minute off of her six-kilometer PR and throwing her name into the hat as a possible number seven runner.

Bowman explained her strategy in the race, arguably one of her best races of her college career.

“I wanted to go into the race confident and ready to focus for all six kilometers,” Bowman said. “Normally I [go] into races letting the others dictate my race…but at Conn. I led my own race, with the motivation of others, staying mentally tough throughout.”

While Wasserman acknowledged the role the weather played in the team’s strong showing, she also attributed the fast times to the team’s improvement over the season.

“The race conditions were great,” Wasserman said. “The weather was great, and the course was not worn out. There were a few sandy spots, but generally, the terrain was smooth. It was a generally fast day with MIT in the mix, and our times as a team have drastically improved [in] the past two years that we have run this course. Our team is extremely deep this year, and we have been pushing each other to run fast and stay together.”

Wasserman explained how the racers wanted to take as many MIT scalps as possible.

“Our strategy during the race was to use each other and communicate and go

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The women’s cross country team narrowly lost the Conn. College Invitational to MIT. after MIT,” she said. “It was the final meet of the season for a lot of our teammates, so everyone wanted to go for it and have a great race all together for the last time this fall.”

Overall, Wasserman believes that the Jumbos won the day but does think some improvements need to be made going into the NESCAC Championships.

“Although we didn’t win, we had a great day,” she said. “We demonstrated how deep we are. I came in fourth for Tufts last year at this meet, and this year about 10 girls were ahead of that time.

It has been really amazing to watch us improve together and truly race as a team … However, I certainly think our top pack can improve and subsequently take the rest of the team with it. We definitely have more to show moving into post-season.”

After a week off from racing, the

Jumbos will lace up their spikes again on Oct. 31 at Wesleyan for the NESCAC Championships. Tufts is a strong favorite going into the race but will face stiff competition from Williams and Middlebury, both opponents that Tufts defeated at the Paul Short Invitational on Oct. 2.

“I think we have a real shot at winning NESCACs…but it will certainly be a fight,” Wasserman said. “Our lineup is still being worked out, and these next weeks of training will determine who will fill out the lineup … We are going to keep pushing hard because we know that NESCACs is where our work will really pay off … How we do at NESCACs can certainly set the pace for how we finish off the season, and I think a lot of us are looking for some redemption after last year’s performance at that meet. We are definitely ready to surprise people.”