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by Will Kenneally Contributing Writer

Nearly 300 students participated in the annual PolyHack hackathon at the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC) last Friday night and Saturday morning.

The event, hosted by the Tufts Computer Science Exchange (CSX), provided an opportunity for Tufts students from all disciplines to collaborate with other students and industry professionals on computer science projects of their choosing, according to Vice President of CSX and event organizer senior Arthur Berman.

Berman explained that after roughly 20 hours of coding and working with industry mentors, the teams of students had the opportunity to present their work to professionals and peers, who judged the projects along with PolyHack student organizers.

According to the PolyHack website, the first-place prize of $1,000 went to a project called InTime, which is described as “a new way to create playlists of a spec-

ture,” Anderson, who also oversees career programming for international students at the Career Center, said.

There was a fairly even breakdown between undergraduate and graduate students — including those from Tufts’ Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts’ Boston campus and the Fletcher School — who attended the event, Anderson said. Approximately 20 of the 120 students who registered for the conference were first-years.

“Whenever a program is done for international students, [first-years] tune in early,” Anderson said. “The freshmen know to start looking and to get accus-

Human Connections, a non-profit organization founded by Tufts alumni, is currently recruiting students for a trip to the Sierra region of Ecuador during spring break this upcoming March.

According to faculty trip leader Adam Grenier, the upcoming trip, which is organized by both Human Connections and Tufts faculty members, will focus on microfinance in Equador. It will give students the opportunity to interact with entrepreneurs from cultures in parts of Ecuador that have been historically neglected by financial services, he said.

“We will be able to…witness and observe these entrepreneurs in their markets and be able to generate income in their livelihoods,” Grenier, a Tufts Experimental College lecturer in microfinance, said. “We will be able to provide consulting…during these observations, and…we will be able to provide guidance and feedback [about] what might help their businesses thrive, and their families thrive, in that region.”

Grenier said that Human Connections is dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in economically challenged parts of Mexico, Ecuador and Peru by bringing tourists to these regions.

“Human Connections provide business and language classes to entrepreneurs in economically challenged parts of Mexico and Ecuador, and they are able to support these entrepreneurs by…leading tours,” he said. “Their most common tours are your traditional tourists who are looking for a different experience, and want to participate in the local markets and learn about local cultures and indigenous cultures.”

According to Grenier, Human Connections, which was co-founded by Elly Rohrer (A ’11), also leads educational tours for American college and high school students.

“That’s ultimately how we got connected with them,” Grenier said. “The founder…is a Tufts alum, and she reached out to me a couple of years ago knowing that I taught microfinance, and we ended up establishing this relationship and partnership with them.”

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ified length,” and the runner-up prize of $500 was awarded to Simterview, a project that helps prepare users for technology interviews.

The TripAdvisor Application Program Interface (API) award went to Trvlr, a project that combines elements of Google Maps and TripAdvisor, and the Bose API award went to Audio Span, an app that maps trends in music both geographically and over time. According to the website, the best newcomers award went to Skeleton Life, which celebrates Halloween by generating a story about where the user’s skeleton travels as they sleep based on nearby location sourced from Google Maps. The people’s choice award, determined by student votes, was given to DisKinect, which allows users to control their speakers with simple body movements.

The hackathon also served as a potential recruiting venue for technology companies, Berman said.

According to Berman, some of the

companies that attended were technological giants such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Cymbal, a social media app that was created by members of Tufts’ Class of 2015, was also represented at the event.

CSX was most excited about sponsorship from Facebook, who was in charge of acquiring the sponsorships for the event, according to Richard Kim, another event coordinator.

PolyHack also created a separate inaugural competition for designers this year. The competition began at midnight, after the designers were done working with their hackathon team, according to Berman.

Kim, a junior, said that the competition was created to welcome team members who design logos and user interfaces. The top five designers had their portfolios submitted to Facebook designers, who would see HACKATHON, page 2

International Center, Career Center host first career conference for international students

by Vibhav Prakasam News Writer

Seventy undergraduate and graduate students attended the International Center and the Career Center’s first career conference for international students — the Career, Culture, and Communication Conference: Helping International Students Navigate the Global Workplace — in Cabot Hall last Saturday.

According to International Student and Scholar Advisor Whitney Sullivan, an International Center organizer for the event, students who attended the conference, which ran from 8:30 a.m. to around 4 p.m., were invited to watch and participate in nine panels and work-

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shops. These included an alumni panel, an employer panel, an interview workshop and an internship workshop, among others. The conference was sponsored by the Tufts Career Center, the International Center (I-Center), the Arts, Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) Diversity Fund and the Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Students.

Assistant Director of Career Services and conference organizer Nicole Anderson said that the event was geared toward all international students on campus, from firs years to Ph.Ds. “[The event had the intent of ] going beyond the mechanics of a job search and helping [international students] with networking and transitioning into a new cul-

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Students create various projects and designs at annual PolyHack hackathon HACKATHON

continued from page 1 be able to provide critiques and, possibly, a follow-up interview, he said. “[Facebook is] one of the best and most responsive companies I have worked with,” Kim said.

The event turned out to be the most successful that CSX has had in the past three years, Berman said. There were 396

people at the event in total, including sponsors, coders and industry members, 280 of whom were participating coders.

“It was triple what we had seen in previous years,” Kim said.

The funds raised from hackathon sponsors out-paced any other year, he added.

The success included an increase in the number of freshman that the event drew, Berman said.

Daniel Dinjian, a first-year coder, said that the event’s environment was very open.

“I loved it,” he said. “I would absolutely do it again…everyone was very friendly, and the environment was nurturing.”

The hackathon was the premier event for the computer science department at Tufts, Berman said. “[PolyHack is] starting to hit its stride in

the department,” he said.

Berman is excited to see what will become of some of the apps, including Audio Span.

Dinjian said that, in the future, other students should attend the hackathon for the experience.

“Just do it,” he said. “You don’t know what’s going to happen, so just go and see what happens.”

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continued from page 1 tomed. I would’ve liked to see more students in general, though, because I think the offerings were so great, and will be hard to replicate.”

The event featured two keynote speakers, according to its Student Life event page. The first, CEO of Dreambridge Consultants Judy Shen-Filerman, spoke about social and cultural norms and values relevant to students looking for jobs in the United States and offered tips for interviewing and networking.

Arlene Dallalfur, a professor of sociology in international higher education and intercultural relations at Lesley University, also spoke at the conference.

Dallafur’s work examines pedagogy, sociology and feminist theory from a cross-cultural perspective.

According to Anderson, ShenFilerman collaborates with top business schools, working extensively with international students and bringing them to special career sessions.

“With the international population being so large and diverse, I felt that there was not only a need for a job search, but also need for help with cultural nuances,” she said.

Anderson explained that some international students studying in the U.S. plan to return to their home countries for their careers. This poses a challenge for students attempting to contact employers who are very far away.

Sophomore Alizée Weber, who attended the conference, said that ShenFilerman gave a great presentation on the main cultural challenges international students face during their internship and job search processes.

“She highlighted the importance of storytelling as a vital tool for effective self-marketing, encouraging us to include stories in our elevator pitches and cover letters,” she told the Daily in an email.

According to Anderson, Dallalfar, a native of Iran, spoke about international communication in her keynote address.

“Both speakers were excellent and practical,” Anderson said. “They included

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Judy Shen-Filerman, CEO of Dreambridge Consultants, offered advice for competing in the American job market at the International Student Career Conference hosted by the Career Center and International Center last Saturday. interactive activities and exercises in their presentations. It was not like a figurehead giving another lecture.”

She said that other guest speakers and attendees of the event included immigration attorney Richard Iandoli, who spoke about the logistics of post-graduation work permissions, and Ingrid Goldblum-Block, a consultant at Mosaic Careers. Tufts Tamasha, the BollywoodFusion dance team, also performed at the end of the event.

“I think that, overall, the conference did a great job of covering all aspects of international students’ job search process, addressing the cultural, emotional, and legal challenges,” Weber said. “Knowing that Tufts cares enough about its international student population to organize such events, and that the International

and Career Centers are there to support us is really nice.”

Planning for the conference began last winter, when Anderson first learned about Shen-Filerman and contacted her, Anderson said. She had originally wanted to bring Shen-Filerman on campus next spring, but decided that the fall semester would be a more appropriate time.

“It slowly evolved into a larger event where we worked with the I-Center and decided to revolve a large workshop-like setting around [Shen-Filerman’s] speech,” she said.

She explained that the Career Center also sent out a pre-event survey to about 750 students to find out what kind of workshops they wanted to see at the event.

Approximately 150 students responded, and planners organized the conference

based on those results.

Weber also said that she wished the conference had not been scheduled to during midterm season.

“I know some of my friends…were too busy with studying to take a whole day off, yet wish they could have attended,” she told the Daily in an email. “Scheduling the event a little earlier during the year would allow for more students to participate.”

Anderson said that following this year’s conference, the centers are aiming to make the event either annual or biannual.

“Overall, it was a really great experience to be able to put this conference together,” she said. “There were elements from a career perspective that are different from what we offer to the larger population; we are thinking more broadly to cater to more students’ needs.”

Students to travel to Ecuador on microfinance trip over spring break ECUADOR

continued from page 1 Grenier previously accompanied a group, with Rohrer, who is the executive director of Human Connections, and three other Tufts students, on a trip last year to Bucerias, Mexico during spring break to better understand microfinance.

Senior Juan David NúñezHurtado, who is helping to plan the upcoming trip, said that he got involved with Human Connections while looking for opportunities with social enterprises.

“We want to connect microentrepreneurs who have taken microfinance loans with visitors, and also connect microfi-

nance representatives from microfinance institutions in Ecuador with the students [going] on the trip, so they can have a hands-on experience with what microfinance is and see the real effects of microfinance,” he said.

According to Núñez-Hurtado, who is from Ecuador, microfinance has been instrumental in helping to de-marginalize indigenous Ecuadorian groups from traditional financial services.

“When I was working at Human Connections, we had the goal of creating a new trip with the [focus on] microfinance, so we started…doing research on which places have the most devel-

oped microfinance landscape,” he said.

“We figured out that Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia were the ones with the biggest reach of microfinance … That was really exciting because I’ve always wanted to do something in my country and have an impact there, so this was an opportunity to do that.”

Grenier said that this trip provides students with an interesting alternative to a more traditional spring break trip. “[On this trip,] we get to go some place really interesting and learn a lot and have a direct impact,” he said. “You’re looking for…experiential learning, a really unique way to…see the world.”

According to Grenier, having a background in finance or Spanish is not a prerequisite for getting involved with the upcoming trip.

Junior Kathleen Frost, who worked as a Human Connections intern this past summer and went on an eight-week trip to Bucerias, Mexico, said that she experienced a unique culture of entrepreneurship on her own trip.

“Everybody’s an entrepreneur, and everybody finds some way to sell whatever they are doing, which I think is really… cool and inspiring,” Frost, a junior, said. “I would 1,000 times over recommend this internship. I think it’s incredible.”

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Tufts administration grapples with meaning, value of high rankings

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Contributing Writer

When navigating the high-stakes decision of where one should attend college, lists and rankings can seem to be everywhere. Depending on which list one is looking at, Tufts might be presented as the 27th best university in the nation overall, a school in the top percent for LGBTQ friendliness and health, 34th for innovation, third for its biology, 43rd for its campus aesthetic (but only in the fall) and 20th for its food. These numbers all claim to represent an aspect of the university, but to reflect a real college experience at Tufts, a mere number is not enough, experts say. “[Rankings] have…power, [but] I do think they should be more questioned than worshipped,” Senior Lecturer of Education Steve Cohen said.

Cohen is skeptical of the kinds of rankings doled out in the lists above.

He argues that they fail to tell the whole story of a college experience.

“I don’t really think that you can compare colleges that way,” he said. “I understand if you can put together a lot of metrics and a lot of numbers, but the question of what those numbers really tell you about someone’s college education or experience of college, I’m not convinced.”

Cohen believes that college rankings oversimplify the depth and complexity of higher education and the college experience, as the numbers often arise from an attempt to measure qualitative experience quantitatively.

“It’s sort of a science that isn’t a science…and [an] attempt to compare things that are not that comparable,” Cohen said.

Cohen points out that the average salary of graduates is a significant but troubling component of the ranking system.

“Mostly richer kids go to these higher ranking schools,” Cohen said.

“They’re mostly going to come out

making more money. This doesn’t seem to me surprising, so that’s another criteria that’s part of the feedback loop, and just keeps everything the way it was.”

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Coffin compared this metric to the injustice of class rank in high school.

“Class rank [is] just like college rankings,” Coffin said. “The difference between #3 and #33 could be one B+ on the transcript. That shift dropped you six points. It’s a false way of ordering a group of students, and I think the same is true if you look at the rankings.”

Noting the considerable variation across each list’s criteria and methodologies, Coffin also points out that they cannot possibly include every single statistic on the university. “[US News & World Report] doesn’t collect any data about diversity, socioeconomic or racial, financial aid, low-income access, what number of students on campus are the first in their family to go to college, undergraduate satisfaction,” he said. “All of these numbers exist out there that US News [doesn’t] count, so to me their headline ‘Best Colleges’ is leaving out a lot of topics that could change that ranking quite a bit.”

Cohen agreed, noting that the ranking system organizes information ineffectively.

“The American education system is so fragmented and diverse in so many different ways,” he said. “There’s a lot of information out there, and rankings try to sort of put them in one place and give this order, but you know, again, I think it’s not particularly meaningful.”

Coffin adds that rankings really can offer insight into the vast world of colleges, but more research by the applicants is required as well.

“There’s data buried in the rankings that often tells a really positive story, [but] I don’t know how many consumers understand how to go behind the numbers,” Coffin said.

Coffin sees a better alternative to sequential ranking systems in Tufts’ latest LGBTQ-friendly ranking. Campus Pride’s LGBTQ-friendly ranking gives a list of 25 schools in no particular order; it merely offers the best 25 schools in that particular category.

“That kind of ranking is a bit more open-ended because it’s not saying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It’s saying that this group of schools shine in this way,” Coffin said. “Where they’re dangerous is when someone says this ranking in and of itself tells me the story.”

College rankings mean different things to different universities, Cohen said. Schools such as Reed College have chosen to abstain from the U.S. News and World Report ranking systems, while Northeastern admitted to focusing heavily on U.S. News and World Report metrics and formulas to garner the students and grant money it wanted and boost its reputation, according to a Boston Magazine story from September 2014.

“Institutions play with these rankings because they see it as a way to advertise, get their names out there,” Cohen said.

According to Cohen, universities are often called the big businesses of education. As a result, rankings serve as advertising and marketing for these corporations. “[Organizations like US News] put out rankings for grad schools, business schools, med schools and law schools; we see it in K-12 education,” Cohen said. “If they can sell it, they’re gonna rank it.”

According to Deputy Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins, Tufts Public Relations does not advertise different rankings.

“While there are occasional exceptions, the university’s public relations office typically does not publicize rankings due to their volume, wide see Rankings, page 6

uring the recent Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton made several references to her gender, suggesting that her womanness differentiated her from other candidates. She even made a joke about how it takes her longer to go to the bathroom than the other candidates.

I must admit that the idea of having a female president is exciting to me. I agree with everything Clinton says about helping working mothers with paid sick leave, supporting Planned Parenthood and her long history of championing women’s rights, even when she was told to tone it down. And I know people who think a woman should not be president, or who have suggested that her husband’s affair somehow makes her a weak, unreliable, shady character. I find these arguments absurd, frustrating and reflective of prevailing sexism.

But being a woman isn’t enough for me, nor should it be for anyone. Clinton may be a woman, but she is also an extremely wealthy, privileged, straight white woman, who supported the ridiculously-named “Defense of Marriage Act.” Her gender is really the only groundbreaking thing about her.

Being a Democrat isn’t enough for me, either. During the debate, when Anderson Cooper asked Clinton how she could represent the interests of the middle class since she is a member of the top one percent of income earners, her response was that the economy does better when there is a Democrat in the White House. She also vilified the Republicans more than any other candidate, which, while justifiable, detracted from her actual policy ideas.

Essentially, it seems that Clinton is riding on two aspects of her candidacy: her gender, and her superior ability to beat a Republican candidate (at least according to most political commentators). Clinton demonstrated during the debate that she is a true politician; she is good at stating the obvious and insisting she is different from her opponents, without offering many innovative, groundbreaking policy ideas.

When I talk to my parents about the election, I get the sense that they would never consider supporting a candidate other than Clinton (cough, cough, Sanders). Their argument is that Sanders couldn’t win the election even if he did win the Democratic nomination. Even though neither of them is excited about Clinton, knowing she likely wouldn’t change much in terms of the economy, foreign affairs or social benefit programs, they’re convinced she could beat a Republican, and they can’t say the same for Bernie. They know she is backed by corporations, hazy on environmental issues and was initially in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as Secretary of State, a trade deal that will weaken important trade regulations that protect working-class people, consumers and the environment.

Of course, being pragmatic is important, and sometimes it’s necessary to choose the lesser of two evils. But if there are so many individuals who deep down support Sanders’ policies, as I believe my parents do, why are they so afraid to vote for him? How are they satisfied voting for a candidate who they know will continue the U.S.’s history of oppression abroad and domestically just because she is the lesser of two evils — and happens to be a woman?

Miranda Willson is a junior majoring in environmental studies and urban policy & development and can be reached at miranda.willson@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 5 variations in approach and the fact that news media are unlikely to cover such announcements,” Collins told in the Daily in an email.

Tufts Admissions does not use rankings to attract prospective students either, Coffin said.

“We don’t formally use them,” Coffin said. “We participate…if they request data. It’s not part of our narrative.

Usually I don’t even know they’re happening.”

However, Coffin noted the impact that some rankings have had on the popularity of Tufts and its programs.

“When I first got to Tufts, Newsweek was still a magazine, and they did a big story about the best programs around the country,” Coffin said. “And for International Relations (IR) it said we were one of the best. Boom. IR just kind of took off. It had always been strong, but Newsweek putting a spotlight on IR made IR just explode in popularity.”

According to Coffin, while rankings are often in the back of prospective students’ minds, international students will be more likely to pay attention to rankings than American citizens as they make their decisions. “[If ] you live in China, Turkey, Africa [and] you’re looking at US colleges, it’s a way of understanding the options,” he said. “So there’s value

there, but it’s also a challenge. Usually, [my colleagues who recruit abroad will] come back from their trip overseas and they’ll say we got a lot questions like, ‘Why are you ranked this not this, or why is this not that?’

Within the US, as I’ve traveled around the country over the years, it doesn’t come up a lot.”

However, Coffin said that with today’s marketing, no one can completely ignore the temptation to see what number a school is. Rankings do help prospective students organize all the information that’s thrown at them in the beginning of the application process.

“Guidebooks’ rankings are part of the broad infrastructure that surrounds college admissions in its current state.” Coffin said. “[Students and families] will often deny it, but then who’s buying those magazines?”

Ultimately, Collins recognizes Tufts’ lauded place in the ranking world and appreciates the subsequent benefits, but asks applicants to view them carefully.

“Although it is gratifying that Tufts continues to be recognized as a leading university on various measures by a number of organizations, the university always urges applicants, their families and others to consider rankings cautiously and to view them as only one indicator of a school’s quality,” Collins said.

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in production The drama department puts on “Daybreak,” a play that acknowledges and commemorates the past in Armenia

GENOCIDE REMEMBERED Tufts Drama Department explores Armenian Genocide with production of ‘Daybreak’

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On Thursday, Tufts drama department

will debut its production of “Daybreak,” a play

by Boston-based playwright Joyce Van Dyke. photos courtesy of Ted SImpson

“It’s a play where some of it is real, some of it is fake, whatever; but that’s not the point, said Reeves. “It’s the same way that when you’re having a dream, it all feels real.”

- Kristen Reeves

Titled “Deported/a dream play” when it was first put on at Boston’s Modern Theater in 2012, “Daybreak” tells the stories of refugees from the Armenian Genocide.

Structurally, the play is split into three scenes depicting the different stages of protagonist Victoria’s changing relationship to the often overlooked tragedy. Victoria, played by sophomore Kristin Reeves, is modeled after Van Dyke’s grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide.

History of the Armenian Genocide

During the Ottoman Empire’s reign, the Armenian people were treated as second-class citizens. They were able to maintain their own communities but were considered them inferior to Muslims and were not afforded the same freedoms. In 1915, Ottoman government began rounding up Armenian men, ostensibly for conscription, and deporting Armenian women and children with little warning. Armenians were forced to walk toward Syria on what were essentially death marches, during which they were abused by Ottoman soldiers. Many Armenians died from lack of nourishment.

Others were systematically murdered. Those who survived scattered into the diaspora.

The timing of the Tufts production of “Daybreak” is fitting, as 2015 marks the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. In those 100 years, Turkey has continuously denied culpability, let alone the existence, of mass, ethnically targeted killings. Yet, blame is not the point of the play, nor this production; rather, it is acknowledgement and commemoration of the past.

Barbara Wallace Grossman, professor of drama and “Daybreak” director, has a particular fascination with the Holocaust and other genocides, teaching courses like “Confronting Genocide on Stage and Screen” in which students analyze art’s relation to massive tragedies.

“I am very committed to using the arts to illuminate the Holocaust and genocide,” Grossman said. “I’ve created two courses here [on the subjects]. I felt that I had to do

something [to commemorate the 100 yearanniversary of the Armenian Genocide]. I felt the department had to do something. I felt that Tufts had to do something to honor that … If this year were the 99th or the 101st, I might not have. But the 100th anniversary — to me — demanded attention. Plus, it’s a play I have used in my course … For me, it was an opportunity I had to seize.”

A collaborative process

Grossman also noted that the process of putting on “Daybreak” has been a collaborative one, involving students, faculty and staff as well from some outside the Tufts community.

“I could not have asked for a more dedicated, creative, imaginative, wonderful group of people [to work with],” Grossman said. “It’s been a very meaningful experience.”

According to Grossman, Susan LindSinanian, a textile curator at the Armenian Museum of America in Watertown Mass., has provided a number of the costumes and set pieces for the Tufts production that also serve as an integral tie-in with a recurring plot point. Lind-Sinanian and her husband, along with Daniel McCusker, senior lecturer in the Department of Drama and Dance, also helped with producing the choreography for the production. The ensemble’s dances heavily feature spinning and twisting, as if to whirl the audience through the time between scenes.

“Daybreak” has also continued to adapt with this production. One of the actors, senior Artoun Nazareth Festekjian (who plays Victoria’s husband Harry, among other characters), found a linguistic inaccuracy in the script that has since been remedied.

Martin Deranian, who was a faculty member at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine for more than 40 years, also assisted with the production. Were it not for Deranian “Daybreak” may never have been written at all. According to a April 8, 2013 TuftsNow article, Deranian met Van Dyke in 2003 after attending one of her plays. He had discovered 50 years earlier that his mother, Varter Nazarian, and Van Dyke’s grandmother Elmas

Sarajian (whose name is changed to Victoria in the play) had been childhood friends who survived the Armenian Genocide together, the article said. According to Grossman, Deranian encouraged Van Dyke to write a play about the Armenian Genocide.

“Once [Deranian] began passing this material on to me — stories, letters, photos, artifacts — I couldn’t stop thinking about these two women and the way their story could give focus to this huge cultural cataclysm,” Van Dyke wrote about the development of the play on its website.

Grossman said that Van Dyke offered her guidance to the Tufts production, as did Deranian, who will also be participating in a talkback after the performance on Oct. 31.

“A dream play”

According to Festekjian, working on “Daybreak” has been difficult for the actors, who bear the play’s emotional weight.

“It was a difficult topic,” Festekjian said.

“I felt emotionally connected to this piece.

It’s been the hardest production to work on in terms of having to go home at night after rehearsals … It’s hard to do your homework.”

Grossman added that the play’s non-linear narrative structure was an added challenge.

“It’s a complicated play, because when you read it on paper, it is extremely confusing. So much of it appears in flashbacks,” Grossman said. “We spent two or three rehearsals literally just walking through the play.”

It’s easy to understand how the plays previous title — “Deported/a dream play” — came to be. Throughout the show, the past continuously intrudes on the play’s present.

Specters and memories interact with each other and the people they haunt.

“It’s a play where some of it is real, some of it is fake; but that’s not the point,” Reeves said. “It’s the same way that when you’re having a dream, it all feels real.”

“Daybreak” debuts tonight at 8 p.m. in Balch Arena Theater. Tickets are $10 with a Tufts ID. Check the production’s Facebook page for more showtimes over the next week.

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Looking to have fun this Halloweekend? Try some of these events:

MFA College Night

Throwback Thursday: In this case, “throwback” means throwing way, way back. Explore the MFA’s exhibits during extended hours on the eve of Halloweekend. There will be free snacks and discounted museum goods all night.

Thursday, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. at the MFA. Admission is free with student ID.

Daybreak

Tufts Drama Department debuts its new production tonight. “Daybreak” is the story of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, one of whom has a connection to Tufts. Check out this week’s Weekender for a full preview of the show. Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. in Balch Arena Theater; Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 with a Tufts ID.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Hosted by Tufts Film Series and the LGBT center, this showing of the infamous “Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975) includes a full shadow cast and prop gags. Wear costumes, as there will be a contest before the show begins.

Friday at 9 p.m. in Barnum 008. Tickets are free from the box office and online at Tufts Tickets. Tickets do not guarantee entry.

Halloween Midnight Organ Concert The annual midnight organ concert takes place this Halloween night with Tufts’ new organist, Chris Lane. There will be warm cider and donuts as well.

Saturday at 11:50 p.m. in Goddard Chapel. No tickets required. Admission is free.

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Top 10 ways to get in the Halloween spirit

by Merilla Michael

Thanksgiving, at which point it will have been rotting for weeks. You do not want to discover that the smell you thought was your dirty laundry was actually a rotting pumpkin under your bed.

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Whether you like it or not, Halloween, which, in college, is more like a weekend affair than a single-day event, is approaching rapidly. There will be countless events happening on campus and in Boston, and there’s no real way to avoid it all unless you lock yourself away in Tisch for the weekend — but even then, Tisch is only open until 9 p.m. Since the festivities are unavoidable, here are the top 10 ways to get yourself in the Halloween spirit.

1. If you’re easily frightened, aren’t a fan of horror movies and would rather not spend the majority of the night completely terrified, relive your childhood and watch the Disney Channel Original movie “Halloweentown” (1998). If you’d like to make this trip down memory lane a weekend-long affair, you could revisit the three subsequent movies in the Halloweentown franchise as well as other Disney Channel originals, “Twitches” (2005), “Twitches Too” (2007) and, of course, “Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire” (2000). For those of you who didn’t grow up on Disney Channel Original Movies, “Hocus Pocus” (1993) and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993) are also appropriate choices.

2. Take advantage of all the ridiculous candy sales at grocery stores and CVS — espe-

6. While on the subject of doing things for the photo, dress up in costume even if you don’t plan on going out. Clever costumes are always appreciated and it’s fun to coordinate ideas with your friends.

7. Play creepy music constantly around your dorm room or apartment — especially when you sleep. It’s therapeutic.

cially during the after-Halloween sales when stores are desperate to get rid of all the excess Halloween-themed treats. Pro tip: Avoid candy corn at all costs unless you’re desperate.

It’s just not good.

3. Give yourself a laugh and hide scary objects (fake fingers, spiders — real or fake, you pick) in your roommate’s closet or in their bed. Even better, hide yourself in one of these places and frighten them at the most unexpected time.

Yes, they might hate you for an extended period of time, but it will be worth the guaranteed hilarity.

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4. Learn that the best (or, at least, the most consistently delicious) pumpkin-inspired edible is chocolate chip pumpkin bread.

Then, convince your roommate or best friend to bake some so you don’t have to expend any effort and can continue to eat as much as possible, relishing in the food coma to follow.

5. Carve a pumpkin, take a picture of it and then quickly dispose of it. College students are the most likely demographic to neglect… sanitary needs. So it’s a definite possibility that, after carving a pumpkin during the swing of midterms, you forget about it until

8. While you’re being creepy on the music front, brush up on your Latin and read about the history of satanic rituals. Or watch an episode of “Supernatural” (2005 – present). It’s pretty much the same thing.

9. Spend all weekend trying to rationalize how Tufts Mountain Club could have placed pumpkins in the most impossible locations on campus.

10. If you really hate Halloween and can’t think of anything redeemable about the holiday, just know that there are only 49 days until the new Star Wars movie comes out, so not all is terrible in the world.

Artsy Nugget

by Anjali Nair

Somerville Theatre to host Halloween Horror Marathon

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Somerville Theatre, the cute local cinema down in Davis Square, is about to get its spook on for Halloween. For 12 hours straight on Oct. 31, the theater will run a horror movie marathon featuring six classic flicks spanning nearly 60 years of (artificial) blood, guts and gore. Film nerds and hipsters can look forward to viewing all the films in 35mm film, the medium in which most of these films were originally shot.

The marathon will kick off at noon with “West of Zanzibar” (1928), a silent film about a paralyzed magician, Phroso (Lon Chaney), who is out to get revenge on Crane (Lionel Barrymore), the man who injured him in a brawl over Phroso’s wife ( Jacqueline Gadsden).

Continuing the theme of caped anti-heroes, the marathon will feature everyone’s favorite vampire, “Dracula” (1931).

Far from the sparkly, self-restrained

vampire heroes of “Twilight” (2009), the dashing Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) is hell bent for blood. He hypnotizes a British soldier (Dwight Frye) into being his slave, commandeers residence over a castle and begins sucking the blood of local women, turning them into vampires.

Aside from these two early films, the marathon will delve into the monster movie era with “The Monster That Challenged the World” (1957). In this film, giant prehistoric mollusks rise from under the sea to wreak havoc on the human race. With now-hilarious special effects and voice-over narration, the movie has garnered respect from critics over the years. Approaching a more subtle type of horror, “Seconds” (1966) is a cautionary tale about the futile quest for eternal youth. Middleaged Arthur Hamilton ( John Randolph) is disappointed with his life when he is approached by the nefarious Company, which offers him the body of a young man (Rock Hudson) through experi-

mental surgery.

Two horror flicks from the ’80s will bring the marathon to its end. The first, James Cameron’s “Aliens” (1986) tells the tale of Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor among a group of space voyagers who colonize a planet later found to be infested by vicious aliens.

Tom Simpson via Flickr Creative Commons Now accompa- Bela Lugosi starred as Dracula in the classic 1931 film, which will nied by a group of be screened this Saturday as part of Somerville Theatre’s Halloween Horror Marathon. marines, Ripley must return to the planet and defeat the to California and begin fighting a gang of aliens. Finally, “The Lost Boys” (1987), a vampires.

Tickets for the Halloween Horror comedy horror film, recounts the story of two brothers from Arizona who move Marathon are available now for $30.

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Neon Indian glossy new release, “VEGA INTL. Night School,” refreshing addition to chillwave genre

by Ascher Kulich

Assistant Arts Editor

Electronic music group Neon Indian — led by Mexican-born singer, producer and composer Alan Palomo — released their third album “VEGA INTL. Night School” on Oct. 16. This newest project expands on Neon Indian’s previous works, which can be categorized under the “chillwave” genre — a newer form of electronic music defined by a heavy use of synthesizers, looping and altered vocals. The genre is heavily influenced by ’80s retro pop, and has grown in popularity since the mid 2000s with the rise of bands like Toro Y Moi and Washed Out, as well as Neon Indian. “VEGA INTL. Night School,” however, is refreshingly different from other chillwave projects, and shows Palomo at the peak of his artistic acumen.

Start by glancing at the cover of “VEGA INTL. Night School.” It’s vibrant and gripping — Palomo poses confidently on a maroon-crimson stage. Bordering him are the words “Neon Indian” and “VEGA INTL” written in Japanese on the left, and “Night School” in neon-blue on the right. VEGA is the name of Alan Palomo’s other music project. “VEGA INTL. Night School” sees Palomo merging the

sounds of “VEGA” and “Neon Indian” to create an upbeat dance project.

Fans expecting “VEGA INTL. Night School” to have the same lo-fi chillwave that was present on Palomo’s previous two albums, “Psychic Chasms” (2009) and “Era Extraña” (2011), might be initially disappointed. Palomo’s new release gives listeners a more refined take on his earlier sound and, while different, it’s enticingly bubbly and addicting. From start to finish, Neon Indian’s third album is full of glossy production, intriguing beat-changes and heart-melting vocals. The opener, “Hit Parade,” glides blissfully along until groovy track, “Annie,” revs into gear. “Smut!” is aware of its own quirkiness (Palomo sings “Tonight she takes me to the night school / (Hey, that’s the name of the record!)”), and the song injects a dose of sexual innuendo into “VEGA INTL. Night School.” It’s somehow more hip than it is kitschy. By the time the listener gets to the closing tracks, “61 Cygni Ave” and “News From the Sun (live bootleg),” he or she is probably delirious from a wild night of boogying in the retro-eighties.

The singles — “Annie,” “The Glitzy Hive” and “Slumlord” — are the standout songs here, but that shouldn’t throw shade on the rest of “VEGA INTL. Night School,” which

flows with an effortless continuity. “Annie” is a spectacular tune about Palomo chasing a girl and calling her repeatedly, but always getting her answering machine. “Now I try to sleep, but all I can hear is the beep / Answering, answering machine / Answering, answering machine / Just your answering, answering machine.” It’s like a sleek, electronic-driven version of “Hotline Bling” (2015), without the embarrassing dancing and the trillion-or-so parody vines to accompany it. “The Glitzy Hive” shines as a funky, youthful song, with a playful charisma that fuels its momentum for four minutes. “Slumlord” sounds like an older Neon Indian track at the start, but then blossoms into a chic retro jingle about money and the continuous heartbeat of urban clubs. It fits nicely into the album’s ’80s dance-revival party vibe.

“VEGA INTL. Night School” takes a few listens for it to emerge as a terrific project.

Each song is swathed in a glossy sheen that can feel a bit repetitive at first. In reality, Neon Indian’s third project is far from that, and, with repeated listens, it becomes clear that “VEGA INTL. Night School” is some of Palomo’s most polished and successful work to date. It’s a humorous, flashy and downright groovy 51 minutes of modern chillwave.

Spotlight

First-year Tom Frikker contributes to ‘Steve Jobs’ movie

by John Gallagher

Assistant Arts Editor

First-year engineer and potential computer science major Tom Frikker has been fascinated by computers for as long as he can remember. From a young age, Frikker channeled his interest into taking apart and repairing his collection of Apple devices, giving him an intimate knowledge of Apple computers. Before even matriculating at Tufts, this familiarity led Frikker to an experience that almost any computer science major would envy — not an internship at a top tech company, but rather an opportunity to make significant contributions to the dramatization of some of computing history’s most significant events in the recently released and critically acclaimed film “Steve Jobs.”

In January of 2014, Frikker was going out to California.

“I can’t even remember [why] now; it may have been a college visit, it may have been visiting relatives…but there was an event happening, and that was the 30th anniversary of the original Macintosh,” Frikker said.

At this event, Frikker met several members of the original Macintosh team, one of whom had a floppy disk containing a copy of a technical demonstration Steve Jobs showed on stage during the Macintosh’s reveal in 1984. As Frikker put it, Jobs inserted a floppy disk into a Macintosh, which then started a demonstration. “[The computer] showed a slideshow of 12 pictures, and then [it] spoke,” Frikker said. “[This was the] first computer to speak in public — at least to the mass public — so people thought that was just amazing. [This was] the first real graphical demo that had ever bee shown.”

Since the original floppy disk that Jobs used had long since gone missing, the disk that this former Macintosh team member had was, as far as Frikker knows, “the last copy” of the demo that Jobs showed at the 1984 event.

Frikker, who owned an original Macintosh, approached the engineer who owned the disk

and asked him if its contents had ever been backed up; they had not. Sometime after this conversation, it occurred to Frikker that the disk’s historic content might be lost forever if it were not properly backed up.

Frikker got in touch with the engineer and offered to back up the disk. After its owner mailed it to him, Frikker proceeded to copy it using an old Mac, and then transfered its contents to a more modern computer. Once this process was complete, he made the demo available via private Dropbox to a few of the Macintosh team members in order to “give this stuff back to them.”

One of the former Apple engineers whom Frikker got to know through preserving Jobs’ demo was Andy Hertzfeld, a prominent member of the Macintosh team who is portrayed in “Steve Jobs” by Michael Stuhlbarg. The film’s producers had contacted Hertzfeld and asked him for help with some of the historical aspects of the movie, but Hertzfeld instead referred them to Frikker. The producers contacted Frikker in January of 2015, and he provided them with a copy of the 1984 demo.

Jobs’ demo was featured in only one shot in the film — but Frikker did more for the film than simply grant the producers access to some old software he backed up. Frikker spent two non-consecutive weeks on set, providing advice about props by pointing out details like “that keyboard wouldn’t have existed for another two years, that can’t be in this shot.”

More importantly, Frikker helped the producers create simulated screen activity for the various historical computers that are featured throughout the film. Modified versions of historical computers that could display a video feed on screen were employed by the film’s producers throughout the film, and Frikker was responsible for creating “videos that would be played on those screens”. “[The producers] were basically simulating whatever would have been done [on screen] at that point.” Frikker said. “So there is a scene where [the actors] are programming…on a Lisa, this old computer. So, for a bunch of different types of [historic computers], I had to

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After meeting some of Macintosh’s original team members, first-year Tom Frikker was invited to help design props for the film “Steve Jobs.” get emulators of those [historic computers] on my [modern computer], simulate whatever they were doing [on screen], [record] a video of it and make sure that [the video] was in the right format so [the producers] could play it through that [historic] computer, so it looked like [the actors] were programming.”

Frikker’s efforts in producing screen images and ensuring the historical accuracy of props earned him recognition from the producers in the film’s credits, as well as a paycheck.

Frikker felt that, while working on the set to ensure historical accuracy, he was surrounded by people who were as passionate about Apple as he is.

“I talked to Danny Boyle briefly…and you [could] tell that he, and everyone on set, really had their heart in it … It seemed like everyone on set was an Apple geek to an extent.”

When asked if he would work on another film in the same capacity, Frikker responded that he “would do it again” without hesitation.

Lara LoBrutto Sinoscope

What umbrellas and tanning oil have in common

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hen I visited a shopping mall in Beijing, I encountered one luxury good that I had never before encountered: the umbrella. With silver snake- or skull-shaped handles and intricate floral designs, the umbrellas at the mall went for $400 apiece. Since I am notorious for losing umbrellas, I hardly thought this a worthy investment.

The umbrella is a permanent fixture in the Chinese urban landscape. No, it is not because China experiences an inordinate amount of rain, although rain does seem to fall more heavily and abruptly there than it does in New England at any time of year. In Beijing, the colorful circles can be seen bobbing among the skyscrapers in all seasons and in all weather. They are meant to protect from sun as much as to shield against the rain.

This is a foreign concept to most Americans. Why would you want to avoid the sun? My mom gets funny looks, from me and the general public, when she carries her umbrella as a “parasol.”

Many in China have a similar obsession with skin, but their habits fall on the other end of the spectrum: they want to be pale. This valuing of whiteness goes way back to when paleness represented social status, or the privilege of staying out of the sun.

Many cultures believe that creamy tones are more attractive. Westerners once agreed on this point until recently as well, and it wasn’t until the 19th century, when doctors began prescribing sunbathing as a cure for illness, that the white and wealthy took a liking to sunlight. Now, labor is done under artificial light and it is only the upper classes who have time for the great outdoors. Not only has olive-toned white skin become associated with class, it also is considered a sign of good health.

While Western beauty standards have changed with the times, Chinese standards have remained largely the same. It is ingrained in the language as well. The common term for an attractive woman is “baifumei,” meaning white, rich and beautiful. (The male equivalent is “gaofushuai,” meaning tall, rich and handsome.)

At the same time, “bai” has in some ways lost its literal meaning, making the phrase simply refer to a beautiful woman, like the word “fair” in Shakespeare-speak.

Interestingly, the Chinese “pale standard” reflects only on women, while tan skin is considered attractive for both genders in the West. Still, women of both cultures spend excessive amounts of time obsessing over their epidermis. Many Chinese women carry umbrellas regardless of the weather, while Western women lay out on deck chairs slathered in tanning oil.

When I visited my grandfather after returning from China, his first question was, “Don’t they have sun on the other side of the world?,” referring to my perpetual state of paleness. I just laughed.

Lara LoBrutto is a junior majoring in international relations and minoring in Chinese. She may be reached at lara. lobrutto@tufts.edu.

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Administration must plan for new dorms in light of growing political pressure

The new, massive Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) being erected near Bromfield-Pearson and Anderson Halls, which is slated for completion in 2017, as well as the recently completed 574 Boston Ave. building and the complex at 200 Boston Ave. that was completed in 2012, all display the university’s admirable commitment to developing its STEM programs. The question should be raised, however, of why some of those spaces were not used for additional on-campus student housing instead. A dorm even half the size of the new 175,000-square-foot SEC would be enough to save a considerable number of students the stress of scrambling for off-campus apartments — certainly a worthwhile investment given the current local housing climate.

As an institution heavily focused on research, it certainly makes sense for Tufts to allocate resources toward the development of facilities to support such work. However, the intensive concentration on these projects does not

indicate a careful balance of priorities.

The Residential Strategies Working Group (RSWG) initiated last semester is a step in the right direction, and it will hopefully help to alleviate the stress that both students and community members have been subject to due to the housing shortage, but it emerged quite late; housing has been a major problem at Tufts since at least spring 2013. It is difficult to imagine that opening three new research facilities in five years is more urgent than opening even one new dorm in the same amount of time, considering the serious tension housing has caused.

While Residential Life has focused on providing students with information regarding off-campus living options, links to good websites for househunting and updates on changes in Medford and Somerville building codes, these efforts serve only to cope with, rather than resolve, an increasingly unsustainable situation. While this advice may have been enough before, the stricter enforcement of housing codes that limit off-campus

living options. Alongside the rise in firstyear enrollment, this applies pressure on the students and the community that could have been avoidable had the different needs and interests of all students been weighed more thoughtfully.

With the Green Line Extension also on its way, the changes that affected Davis Square from the ’80s — when the Red Line station was constructed — into the new millennium may happen all over again. Continued gentrification in the area is a moral problem that the university should not be making worse, but which will undoubtedly be exacerbated as the annual housing frenzy continues to strain and overvalue the limited local housing supply. The Tufts community should be working to smooth over relations and alleviate the pressure being placed on those who have lived in Medford and Somerville for far longer than most students have, but this will not be feasible if students continue to be left without sufficient opportunities to live on our campus.

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Halloween: not the season for cultural appropriation

by Anna Del Castillo

Alright folks, Halloween is right around the corner, and we all know what that means: it’s time to spend hours in your closet, at a thrift shop or — if you’re feeling especially inspired — at an actual costume store. Even then, we all are familiar with the struggle of finding the perfect Halloween costume. Those hours spent on Pinterest and at the Garment District have long replaced your PS 61 study time, your friendships have become a little tense because someone didn’t want to be the Mickey to your Minnie and it’s all one big, spooky mess.

Our advice to help get you through all the Hallo-stress: don’t be that person with the racist or culturally appropriative costume.

Halloween is not a time to borrow anyone’s identity. That means sombreros, kimonos, Native American headdresses and blackface — among many other things — are completely off-limits.

While you may think that these costumes are clever, ironically funny or even cool, there is no humor in parodying systematically marginalized groups. Even if it is “just for one night,” culturally appropriative and insensitive costumes only add to the pain of daily microaggressions and reintroduce stereotypes that are socially engineered to hurt and oppress specific groups of people. Just having the ability to appropriate part of another culture by dressing up is a sign of immense privilege, threatening to reinforce and perpetuate the power dynamic that harms systematically marginalized groups. Think before you choose a costume, because if a fellow Jumbo enters a

party and sees you mocking their identity while chugging a beer, it can be scarring and only exacerbates a lifetime’s worth of aggression, marginalization and incessant oppression.

So before you pay a ridiculous amount of money for a costume that “was just a joke,” ask yourselves a few simple questions: 1) Is the costume in question racially, ethnically, religiously or culturally based?

If the answer is yes, or if you have even that slightest inkling that the answer is yes, don’t buy it. Chances are, that costume won’t be doing you any favors and will most likely promote appropriation.

2) Are you a member of the group that the costume represents? If the answer is no, toss it. Halloween does not give you carte blanche to borrow anyone else’s culture, religion, heritage, gender or identity.

3) What makes your costume funny or sexy? An unbelievable majority of humorous and/or erotic costumes are of regularly marginalized and oppressed groups of people. Again, let it go.

Want a few examples of what not to do? We’ve got you covered. Here are a few don’ts based on some currently popular trends.

Don’ts: Geisha — This hypersexualizes and fetishizes an entire population of women of a specific race.

Blackface — Just don’t do it.

Sexy “Indian”– This disrespects an entire group.

Middle Eastern “terrorist” — This emphasizes erroneously violent stereotypes and mindsets.

“Let’s be Caitlyn Jenner”– Someone’s gender identity is not yours to mock for

a night.

Anything from the Latin culture — You are not their “amigo.”

“Pope on vacation” — Remember the third commandment? Someone else does.

Oversexualized careers — Leave that sexy nurse costume on the shelf.

We know this gives you a lot to think about, but consider the implications of your actions — and your costume — on the identities of those around you.

Everyone is out to have a good time, and no one appreciates seeing their culture exploited to satisfy the humor of a dominant group. Do yourselves a favor and consider what message your costume may be sending, because being called out for being racially or culturally insensitive is never fun. And while you may have good intentions, your actions will make all the difference. So, this Halloween, let’s all do our best to set a higher standard of respect and make this campus a safer space for everyone to enjoy.

Submitted by the Tufts University Culture, Ethnicity, and Community Affairs Committee (CECA). If you have further questions or want to chat about these issues, feel free to contact any CECA member.

Anna Del Castillo at anna.del_castillo@tufts.edu Luis Del Rosario at luis.del_rosario@ tufts.edu Amaya Contreras Driggs at amaya. contreras_driggs@tufts.edu Benya Kraus at benya.kraus@tufts.edu Anna Del Castillo is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at anna.del_castillo@tufts.edu.

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Biden still mulling over whether to enter Benghazi hearings

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ast week, Congress held its 21st hearing on the Benghazi affair. Four more and they get a free hearing! With Thanksgiving coming up, it was nice to see members of the House spend 11 hours on a Thursday yelling at each other.

But some questions totally ensnared Hillary: “Would you not not say that you are not not not NOT personally responsible for everything bad, ever?”

“If you had a gun with one bullet, and you were in a room with Benghazi mastermind Ahmed Abu Khatalla and Adolf Hitler, who would you nag harder while waiting two weeks for your firearm background check?”

“On a scale of 9.5-10, how much treason do you commit per day?”

Republicans are right to be suspicious.

Hillary is clearly trying to hide something, albeit incredibly ineffectively. Asked in August if she wiped her email server, she responded “Like with a cloth or something?” Apparently, after Yale Law, Hillary attended the Derek Zoolander School of Computing, where she learned that wiping the server with a cloth would just smudge all her documents. Hillary clearly doesn’t get how memory works, which explains why after the attack, she got a concussion after “fainting.” More like trying to wipe her memory “with the ground or something”.

Unfortunately for Hillary’s poll numbers, a Michael Bay movie based on the book 13 Hours in Benghazi will come out before the election.

Scared for her image, Clinton’s campaign is releasing a counter-film called 13 Hours At Ben Ghazi’s, a rom-com featuring Hillary as her ultra presidential self and Jason Segel as Ben Ghazi, the affable campaign donor who hosts amazing slumber parties.

Also bad for Hillary’s numbers is Republicans’ persistent focus on her alone. In its last report, the Benghazi committee didn’t mention President Obama once, since Obama is totally old news. For the committee, female is the new black. That’s why the report made 36 mentions of Clinton, or She-Who-Must-NotBe-Named.

Yet there was no mention of terror group Ansar al-Sharia, known by retired Navy admiral James Lyons as That-Which-Is-Hard-ToName. After the attack, Lyons went on Fox and called it “Ansar al — the terror group that conducted the attack.” The same Lyons also conspired that Obama may have orchestrated the terror attack. How does someone so misinformed attain four-star status as an admiral in the Navy? Yelp had the answer. Apparently, “Admiral Lyons has a fantastic atmosphere, and his naval experience is exquisite. Unfortunately, at times he can be just a tad obtuse and offensive. Also, a bit pricey. Overall, four stars!”

Hillary spent all 11 hours in the hot seat, but many eyes were set on a second hot seat that Republicans had set up in case Vice President Joe Biden chose to jump into the witch-hunt.

After spending 10 hours in the hallway contemplating, Biden decided to run…away from the House at full speed. Also in the hallway was Bernie Sanders, waving his hands like he was doing karate against invisible capitalists and screaming that “the top 10 percent of the top one percent of Democratic candidates are harassed in hearings more than the bottom 90 percent combined!”

Kevin Lawson is a junior majoring in political science. He can be reached at kevin. lawson@tufts.edu.

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Tufts heads into NESCAC Championships as favorites

by Ben Feinberg

Contributing Writer

On Oct. 31, both the Tufts men’s and women’s cross-country teams will compete in the NESCAC Championship hosted at Wesleyan University. The NESCAC Championships mark the start of the postseason and also serve as a preview for the all-important Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships and the NCAA Regional Championships, which will take place on Nov. 7 and Nov. 14, respectively.

The men’s cross-country team has had a successful season, which first-year Dylan Jones credits in part to the team’s top seven runners.

“Our top seven has been training really hard all season which has established a solid base for the team, [and] they’ve really led us to a great regular season,” Jones said. “We have a lot of guys who were really great runners in past seasons, and they’ve progressed even more so I really feel confident about this group.”

Jones and first-year Christian Swenson both felt confident about the team’s chances heading into Saturday.

“All season we’ve tried our hardest, and we’ve gotten better as the season [has] progressed,” Swenson said.

A big reason for the team’s success this season has been coach Michael Schmidt’s leadership.

“Schmidt has given us a lot of optimism and really believes in us,” Jones said. “That certainly helps us run better, knowing that he thinks we are a special year and that we have a chance at beating anyone.”

Competing against other NESCAC schools gives the team an opportunity to see how it stacks up against the competition before the NCAA Regional Championships. The highest ranking teams competing at the Regional Championships all come from the NESCAC conference, with the notable exception of MIT. The women’s cross-country team have also had an impressive season. The team finished in first place at the Bates Invitational on Sept. 19 and then followed that up with another first place finish out of 12 teams in the Codfish Bowl at Franklin Park on Sept. 26. On Oct. 2, the Jumbos claimed 16th place out of 35 teams at the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University, in which Div. I, Div II and Div. III teams competed. The women capped their regular season with a second place finish out of 25 teams at the Connecticut College Invitational on Oct. 17.

“This season has been exciting,” junior Sam Cox said. “A lot of people are finally getting closer to or even reaching their [full] potential as runners and that [means] big things for our team. We’ve been performing better than we expected.”

Due to their strong performances in the regular season races, the Jumbos are considered favorites for the NESCAC Championships, though Cox said the team has remained humble.

“It’s nice to get some attention for sure, but we’re just keeping our eyes on our team goals and trying to not get distracted by any sort of hype,” she said.

“We are an incredibly solid team, and I firmly believe that we can do really well at this meet.”

In last year’s race, the women did not quite meet expectations. They entered as one of the favorites but finished in fifth place out of 11, a worse result than they had anticipated.

“Last year’s race was tough for sure, but the team knows that this year will be different by a long shot,” Cox said. “We’re not worried … New year, new course, new race. I’m really proud of what my team has accomplished this season, and I know we have a lot more in store. We work so hard, and we’re ready to make our school proud.”

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continued from back Grubman goal in the final minute of play — this time off a cross punched out not quite far enough by the keeper — for a final score of 3-2.

Last Saturday, the Jumbos travelled to Williamstown, Mass. as the underdogs against the No. 4 Ephs, who, coming into the game, were a perfect 8-0 in the NESCAC, and 12-0-1 on the season. The Jumbos started the game shakily, and the Ephs pressed mercilessly until just under five minutes in, when first-year striker Kristina Alvarado danced down the right side and played a ball into junior forward Kristi Kirshe. Her first shot was saved well

by Bowers, but was unable to corral the rebound, which Alvarado slotted in with ease, making Williams’ early dominance evident on the scoreboard as the hosts pulled ahead 1-0.

The goal made the Jumbos’ defense find their rhythm. Tufts’ back line, anchored by Campellone and junior back Alexa Pius, repeatedly broke up dangerous attacks headed by Williams senior midfielder Mai Mitsuyama and Alvarado.

The defense was aided by several excellent saves from Bowers, who ended the game with six.

The Jumbos started to pressure Williams’ goal late in the half, with sophomore forward Alex Scheman’s fierce shot forcing the keeper to palm the ball over the bar for a corner kick. A few minutes later, Grubman put another shot on target, only to have it saved by the keeper.

The tone of the game changed in the second half. After initial scoring pressure, again, from Alvarado and Mitsuyama, Tufts came out and pressured the ball hard, not giving much time on possession, which led to sloppy turnovers that created chances for the visitors. Ranalli unleashed a booming shot from distance, only to see it barely

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Tufts senior forward Allie Weiller fights with a Middlebury player for possession of the ball in the homecoming game on Saturday, Oct. 10. deflected onto the crossbar by the Williams keeper. Just a few minutes later, sophomore midfielder Chandler Quintin hit a shot almost identical to Ranelli’s, which hit the inside lip of the crossbar and bounced down for junior striker and leading scorer Capone, who struck the rebound over the top of the net.

“Especially early in the second half, it felt like we were going to score,” Ranalli said. “You could tell they were taken aback and you could tell they were nervous. It was exciting to be competing with a team that we knew was as good as Williams is. Of course, it’s frustrating for shots not to go in, but we just have to keep shooting.”

Williams pulled further ahead when Alvarado powered a rolled cross into the roof of the net. Tufts ended the game with six shots on target compared to Williams eight.

The Jumbos have struggled to score all season, with many games ending 1-0, 0-0 or 1-1.

“It’s strange to say, but we played well against Williams,” Tufts coach Martha Whiting said. “Our back line was strong, we defended aggressively. As a coach, you worry if the [scoring] opportunities stop coming. We’re getting them, they’ll end up in the back of the net eventually. We haven’t played our best recently, and it’s frustrating, but we have to move forward.”

The Jumbos will have a rematch with the Polar Bears on Saturday at the NESCAC tournament. This time, Tufts will travel to Maine to face Bowdoin, who will enter the tournament as the No. 2 seed. Williams lost to Middlebury, ending their undefeated season, but they will still go into the tournament as the No. 1 seed.

“Everybody is 0-0-0 in the tournament, and we know we have to play our best soccer yet,” Whiting said. “We’re getting better, coming together more as a team, and I anticipate us making a good run.”

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his week in the NFL was — compared to most weeks — tame.

There wasn’t much that went truly and horribly wrong, and, for the most part, football was the most memorable thing that happened. Still, there’s no such thing as a week in which everything goes right.

The Jaguars: It amazes me that the Jags are allowed to continue calling themselves a professional football team. If I were one of the 31 NFL owners not named Shad Khan, I would have initiated a vote to revoke Jacksonville’s status as a full-time member of this league. I understand that the Jags managed to beat the almost equally terrible Bills in London this weekend, but they did so while reminding everyone watching exactly how incompetent they are.

Ryan Mallett: Career backup quarterback Mallet was released this week following his missing the Texans’ flight to Miami this weekend. By all accounts Mallett claimed he was late as a result of traffic on the way to the airport, but it’s likely that no one is losing sleep about the cutting of a questionably skilled backup who was unlikely to see any more major playing time. The Texans remain a mess and will likely be in search of a new head coach at the end of the year. At 2-5, the Texans’ season is already looking like a bust. Meanwhile, Mallet is stuck looking for a job.

The Colts and Saints: A year ago, if you’d told me there was a game between the Colts and the Saints in the middle of the season, I would’ve said it would be one of the best games of the year with a possible shootout between Drew Brees and Andrew Luck. This year, however, such a game is just a display of ineptitude. There’s obviously still hope for a brighter future for Luck, but at 36, Brees’s best days seems to be in his past.

San Diego: In one of the least surprising moves of the last decade, the Chargers officially declared their intentions to leave San Diego in search of a better situation in Los Angeles.

The NFL will still have to go through an extensive process to approve the move for the 2016 season, but all indications are that the League would like to have two teams in the L.A. market in the next few years. The last two decades have demonstrated a couple things to football fans: a team can be bad in a major market (i.e. Jets, Dolphins), and a good team can exist in a smaller market (i.e. Packers, Broncos) but when you combine a bad team and a small market, you have an unsustainable situation.

As much as this year has been an incredible mess, filled with blunders, goofs and downright incompetence, it is nice to have a simple week where the actual sport is the focus. Next week will no doubt be filled with more hilariously unfortunate situations, because this is the NFL and two weeks of peace and quiet is truly insane.

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

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Tufts fights for home win against undefeated Amherst

by Eddie Samuels Staff Writer

With just three weeks left in the regular season, the 4-1 Jumbos are looking to continue their strong run this Saturday at home against the undefeated Lord Jeffs, who are tied with the Trinity Bantams for first place in the NESCAC. Coming off a massive win at Williams last weekend, Tufts is looking to carry its momentum forward, with its sights set on the conference championship.

According to Coach Jay Civetti, the game strategy is familiar: play physical football, win battles at the line of scrimmage and commit to the run game early and often. The Jumbos will look to NESCAC leading rusher junior running back Chance Brady to put up yet another big game. So far, Brady has 583 rushing yards and eight touchdowns this season.

“Our goals remain the same,” Civetti said. “Run the football, be the better third down conversion team and protect the football. That’s going to be our mindset; it’s what we’ve done so far and it’ll continue to be the focus offensively.”

The Jumbos have a similar approach to defense. The first priority is to stop the Amherst run game — a philosophy that, so far, has worked out well. Tufts allowed just 35 rushing yards on 17 carries against Williams last Saturday.

“When you look at Amherst, they’re always very big and fundamentally sound up front,” defensive line coach Kyle Duncan said. “We’ve just got to be excellent in our technique, excellent in our strikes — that’s getting hands on guys. As always, stopping the run is going to be our top priority. Once we get into obvious passing situations, we’ve got to win one-on-one match ups.

We’ve just to make sure that our playmakers win some of those match ups.”

Amherst, on the other hand, relies first and foremost on the arm of sophomore quarterback Reece Foy, who has thrown for 1,118 yards, and rushed for 163 yards

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Tufts junior RB Chance Brady sprints toward the Trinity end zone in the game on Oct. 17. this year. Catching Foy’s passes is a duo of receivers with more than 340 yards apiece — junior Devin Boehm and senior quad-captain Jackson McGonagle. “[Foy] is a different breed of quarterback,” Duncan said. “He’s a great runner and he’s got a big arm too. He’s a bit quicker and a little shiftier. A big part of it is just keeping contain[ed] in the pocket, making sure that he’s not able to get out on the edge and threaten us with his feet. As always we’ve got to get him off balance…”

The backbone of the Jumbos’ defense has been their dominant defensive line, made up of defensive ends sophomores Micah Adickes and Zach Thomas, who, with 4.5 and 5.5 sacks respectively, are ranked first and second in the NESCAC.

The Jumbos hold a significant edge in the turnover margin. Defensively, the Jumbos have forced 13 turnovers, whereas the Lord Jeffs have only managed to force nine. With seven interceptions on the season, Tufts is going to continue looking for big plays from their secondary against an impressive Amherst aerial attack.

“Offensively they do a lot of great things,” Civetti said. “Their quarterback has done a great job. He’s good in the vertical game. He’s dangerous when he gets out of the pocket. Their offensive line is very big — they’re as advertised. Defensively, the plan is to stop the run, to take away the football — they have thrown a good number of interceptions over the last couple of weeks — and to pressure the quarterback.”

After their close Homecoming loss to Trinity, Tufts is looking forward to facing off against Amherst at home and capitalizing on its home field advantage. “[Being back at home] is that much more exhilarating,” Civetti said. “We take a lot of pride in the success that we have here. I don’t think anyone on the team would be surprised [by a win against Amherst]. I think more people outside our locker room would be surprised that we beat them. I have all the confidence in the world in my guys. I believe we can beat anybody.”

The Jumbos will look for their fifth victory this Saturday at Kraft field. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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Jumbos finish regular season with tough consecutive losses

by Noah Smith

Contributing Writer

After a windy Saturday away game against an undefeated Williams that ended in a 2-0 loss, Tufts looked to its final game

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of the regular season to secure a higher seed in the NESCAC tournament, but fell to Bowdoin 3-2. Defeats against the top two NESCAC teams in the final two games of the regular season leave the Jumbos at 6-7-2 on the season and 4-5-1 in the conference, just behind Middlebury for the 7th seed going into the tournament.

It was an early onslaught on Tuesday against Bowdoin. Tufts’ defensive laps-

es led to two shots in the early minutes that were saved by first-year goalie Emily Bowers, who ended the game with a remarkable 12 saves. Bowdoin eventually pulled ahead with a slip in midfield that led to a run down the right. The goal resulted from a combination of perfectly timed plays from Bowdoin; senior midfielder Jamie Hofstetter received a cutback pass, then delivered a beautiful arc pass to the top of the box to classmate midfielder Maggie Godley, who fired a dipping shot into the upper right corner that left Bowers with no chance.

Down a goal, the Jumbos began to push aggressively for an equalizer. Senior co-captain center-back Nicole Campellone thwarted the Polar Bears’ defense through balls over the top again and again, and did well to step in front of balls up to the strikers and clear; her level of physicality set a precedent for the rest of her team.

Conversely, control in the midfield was

lacking, with many clearances simply ending up back in Bowdoin’s possession.

Junior forward Jess Capone offered options up front, cutting in and testing the Bowdoin keeper, but it was off first-year midfielder Emma Ranalli’s free kick that the equalizer was scored. A foul just outside the box led to another dangerous long shot from Ranalli that was pushed onto the crossbar, but first-year midfielder Sarah Grubman was there to deflect the ball into the back of the net.

Bowdoin’s lead would regain the lead before halftime, with four corners in as many minutes allowing Bowdoin to score.

With eight seconds left on the clock, the ball fell to Godley, who once again shot from the top of the 18-yard box, this one dipping over Bowers’ head into the top left.

The second half saw Tufts midfield forcing long clearances that allowed Bowdoin to get free runs down the sidelines or in on goal.

“Against a team like Tufts, we knew they were going to play physical and press us hard,” Bowdoin coach Brianne Weaver said. “We knew we had to control possession and take the chances that came to us — whether they come from set pieces or from open play.”

A corner won by first-year forward Julia Patterson led to the third Bowdoin goal.

The ball was headed into the six-yard box and was tapped in by Hofstetter, essentially sealing the result for the visitors with a 3-1 lead.

Tufts continued to pressure, shifting the back line forward and sending numbers into Bowdoin’s half, catching many Bowdoin players offside with their high positioning. Many chances were stopped short by the Bowdoin keeper, who had six saves of the day, but Tufts’ mounting pressure finally led to another see WOMEN'S SOCCER, page 15