November 13, 2015

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Interfraternity Council to launch new Risk Management Assistance Team

by Kyle Blacklock Staff Writer

The Interfraternity Council (IFC) will be launching a new Risk Management Assistance Team (RMAT) this Saturday in order to help make all IFC-regulated fraternity events safer for members of the Tufts community.

According to IFC President Rob Jacobson, who is heading the initiative, members of the RMAT team will be volunteers from Greek organizations who will act as sober-monitors at fraternity events to assist both fraternities and partygoers if any need arises. Volunteers will go through basic training and will be easily identifiable by the bright green RMAT T-shirts they will wear at all IFC events, he said.

Jacobson, a senior, hopes RMAT volunteers will play a specific and critical role in making a difference in the Greek party culture at Tufts.

“They [will] serve a purpose of changing

a culture that surrounds parties in general on campus, where people excessively drink, to a culture of being responsible adults and enjoying ourselves in a safe way,” he said.

Sexual misconduct prevention specialist Alexandra Donovan said in a Nov. 10 Daily article that the party monitors will be able to intervene if necessary to prevent sexual assault at social events.

Jacobson said his goal is to have 100 fraternity members registered as RMAT volunteers by the end of the semester.

“There’s an awareness that we want to improve, and people are…willing to give up their Friday or Saturday night to go to someone else’s party and keep an eye on things,” he said.

According to senior Adam Kochman, president of the Pi Delta fraternity, Jacobson has already recruited people from several fraternities to join RMAT. see GREEK, page 2

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Executive members of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) meet in Olin Hall on Nov. 10 to discuss the implementation of the new Risk Management Assessment Team.

New Effective Altruism chapter guides students in creating positive change

by Vibhav Prakasam Contributing Writer

Approximately 20 Tufts students have become regular members of the newly established campus chapter of Effective Altruism, a social and philosophical movement aimed at improving the world.

According to Tufts’ Effective Altruism chapter co-founder Dillon Bowen, the movement is a “new and better way of doing good.”

“It’s about improving the lives of as many people as we possibly can, by as much as we possibly can,” Bowen, a senior, said.

Unlike other service organizations such as the Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS), which focuses on local problems — specifically those facing residents of Boston, Somerville and Medford — Effective Altruism takes a far-reaching approach to charity, concentrating on effecting the greatest positive change possible.

“It turns out that most of these problems and the most tractable problems are ones which are more global in nature,” he said. “We try to think of think of every-

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one in the world as though they’re a part of our local community.”

Bowen said he decided to found Effective Altruism at Tufts after returning from his year abroad at the University of Oxford, home of the Centre for Effective Altruism. While in London, Bowen was the president of the Centre’s chapter of 80,000 Hours, an organization that helps students choose careers that will allow them to bring about the greatest positive social impact, according to the organization’s website.

“It seems that every school should have something like it,” Bowen said.

Co-founder Luke Sabor, a senior, also studied abroad in London last year.

He said he saw what Bowen was doing and decided to support him in bringing Effective Altruism to Tufts.

According to Bowen and Sabor, Effective Altruism has already hosted multiple events on campus this year.

The group’s first lecture featured a talk from a couple that annually donates about 40 percent of their pre-tax earnings to charity.

Tomorrow afternoon, the chapter will host a talk by Catherine Hollander,

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an outreach associate for donation platform GiveWell, one of the world’s leading charity evaluation organizations.

The group has also held a discussion group and game night event to help members of the organization bond, Bowen said.

“In addition to getting information out about Effective Altruism, we also want to create a community,” he said. “It’s important not just to be an effective altruist in isolation, but to also have this community aspect and network of people who believe in and live by similar ethical principles.”

Sabor added that having a community is important to helping group members live by effective altruist philosophy.

“It definitely makes it easier to be committed to those sorts of principles when you have a support group of other people who are also committed,” he said.

Effective Altruism has not yet been recognized by the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, but according to Bowen and Sabor the organization is scheduled for a hearing in the near future.

If the group successfully gains recognition, the two co-founders hope to apply

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for Senate funding and to attract more speakers. Bowen and Sabor also hope to bring in more group members and begin collaborating with the Harvard and MIT chapters of Effective Altruism, since those chapters already have networks of speakers and connections.

The long-term goal is to get as many people as possible to pledge to donate a self-determined percentage of their income to charity, Dillon said. He added that the roughly 1,300 people worldwide who have signed the pledge have already donated hundreds of millions of dollars, according to estimations.

Sophomore Camille Mbayo, one of the members in charge of generating publicity for Effective Altruism, explained that the group seeks to educate donors to keep them informed about how their money will be used.

“I feel like it’s a little like educating shoppers in figuring out what the best brand for them is,” Mbayo told the Daily in an email. “In the context of charities, some may say that what matters more is the number of lives saved.”

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continued from page 1 “I think the idea behind RMAT was if you get enough people, then everyone has to work about one or two weekends a semester, which would be nice,” Kochman said.

According to Jacobson, fraternity presidents and leaders, as well as IFC representatives and university staff, have all contributed to the RMAT project.

Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Su McGlone explained that she has been advising Jacobson and his fellow members on the IFC board for the planning of the initiative over the course of the current semester.

“They’ve been working with me since the beginning of it, coming up with ideas,” McGlone said. “One of the things we’ve been talking about… for years with [the] IFC is that the thing that’s going to be the most successful when it comes to creating a safe environment in the parties is if the initiatives are coming from within and coming from the students.”

She added that IFC has been collaborating with university staff throughout the project’s development.

“They really came up with this great model,” McGlone said. “They run everything by me in terms of just asking for feedback and advice. I’ve been able to connect them with some other departments on campus to think of other areas that they can get resources for training and that sort of thing.”

Jacobson, who has been working for years to make Greek culture at Tufts safer, said that RMAT will be a supplement to existing risk management efforts in Greek life.

“The reason that this program…will be successful is that the climate, the attitude, the culture of Greek life right now is transforming into a very proactive approach,” he said. “The trend is that fraternities are doing more and more to protect their own brothers and sisters, and they’re also doing

more to help their guests. These risk management procedures are working…but I think they can be improved, and we can supplement them.”

Jacobson said that RMAT will in no way be a policing program, but will instead be a way for the IFC to ensure safety and security at all regulated fraternity events.

“I think the culture and the spirit of the Greek organizations is to hold themselves at a standard that is in line with the Tufts community,” he said. “If I was sending in people that had the power to get them in trouble, then no one would trust the organization, no one would want to use it because it’s all about creating a safer space; it’s not about punishment.”

According to Jacobson, the RMAT initiative has been met with overwhelmingly positive support from Tufts fraternities and Greek organizations on campus, including from Kochman.

“I think it’s definitely something we’ve discussed…for a while, and it’s important to make the Greek community function better and to make people who go into Greek parties feel safer,” Kochman said. “I think it’s important just because it’s always nice to have extra bodies and extra people just there helping in terms of all risk management type situations.”

Fraternity Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) President Matthew Felsenfeld and Vice President Joseph Cirone also expressed support for the RMAT initiative.

“Risk management is something we take very seriously here at ZBT,” Felsenfeld, a junior, said. “The fact that the entire Greek community is getting together to make this a priority for Tufts Greek life makes me really appreciate…the community as a whole.”

Felsenfeld explained that RMAT creates an inter-Greek collaboration and bond among fraternities and sororities.

“It’s not just going to be brothers from one house protecting their own house,”

he said. “It’s going to be the entire Greek community coming together and volunteering to help out the other houses.”

Jacobson said that the IFC will gather as much data as possible on the effectiveness of the RMAT program and use the findings to refine the program at the end of the semester.

“Once it’s launched and up and running, I’ll be able to get feedback,” he said. “I’m very willing to make changes; I want this to be the best possible program it can be.”

Kochman expressed a similar understanding of how RMAT will adapt over time.

“I think once it starts taking place, we’ll have debriefing sessions about what went well, [and] what didn’t go so well,” he said.

Jacobson has also been holding a public relations campaign to raise awareness about RMAT. The campaign includes photos of Jacobson and fellow IFC members standing outside campus fraternity houses with bright-green RMAT T-shirts to emphasize the importance of the shirts for convenient, easily identifiable means of assistance at social events.

“The whole idea behind the PR campaign… is that this program can’t work if people don’t know about it,” Jacobson said.

“If you [don’t] know…to look for the person in green, the program can’t function properly. The key…is to get every person at Tufts to know that if you go to a fraternity house, this person’s there, there’s a sober monitor there.”

Jacobson said he is excited about what RMAT could bring to the future of Greek life at Tufts.

“The hope is that in years to come, this will be the culture at Tufts,” Jacobson said.

“You’ll see the green shirts at every fraternity and sorority social event. My vision for it is that we’re going to lead the Tufts community as a whole, in taking accountability and responsibility and making Tufts a safer place.”

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continued from page 1 According to Bowen, the most impactful charities in the world are nearly 1,000 times as effective as the average charity.

“This is extremely important because a lot of the value that our money could have or our time could have when we try to help others is not actualized,” he said.

According to Bowen, the poorest 20 percent of the world’s population is several times more destitute than the poorest 20 percent of people in the United States. Moreover, the poorest people in America are wealthier than 90 percent of the world’s poorest people.

Therefore, the relative effect of donating to charities that help the world’s most destitute people is “orders of magnitude greater” than donating the same amount to people living in the United States, he said.

“We are very rightly concerned with poverty everywhere, including the United States,” he said. “But given how much worse poverty is on a global scale, it makes sense to be concerned with the global population.”

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From left, junior Keran Chen, sophomore Camille Mbayo, senior Luke Sabor, senior Dillon Bowen, senior Ziliang Yang, junior Khuyen Bui and junior Siyi Chu, the founding members and co-presidents of Tufts Effective Altruism, pose for a group portrait on the Academic Quad in front of Ballou Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Mbayo said that she decided to join Effective Altruism because she wanted learn about the motivation behind the members’ altruism.

“It’s not every day you meet a group of people who seek to help people they

have no emotional attachment to, so I decided to go figure out what motivated these people,” Mbayo told the Daily in an email. “However, what I’m learning is that intentions don’t matter, as long as they are doing positive things, which they are.

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Upon 50th anniversary, Fletcher’s Edward R. Murrow Center undergoes revitalization

by Catherine Perloff Staff Writer

In 1965, the Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy was established at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy to honor the famed journalist and to further Fletcher’s program of public diplomacy. Fifty years later, through additional course offerings and initiatives, the Center’s leaders hope to reinvigorate an institution that forms an enduring part of the school’s mission and Murrow’s legacy.

An award-winning journalist that came to prominence during WWII, Edward R. Murrow influenced the field of broadcast journalism and produced a famous critique of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s communist witchhunt. He also served as director of the United States Information Agency between 1961 and 1964 and helped transform the agency from one that focused on cultural programming to one dedicated to public diplomacy.

“The Edward R. Murrow Center was established in 1965 in memory of the man whose distinguished reporting and analysis of world news and imaginative leadership of the United States Information Agency set a standard of excellence,” the Center’s website says.

Murrow’s career was particularly relevant to the Fletcher School in terms of “public diplomacy,” a term coined by Dean Edmund A. Gullion at the time of the Center’s installation that refers to “the influence of public attitudes on the formation and execution of foreign policies.”

Thus began the connection between the life and works of Murrow and the Fletcher School. The Center’s physical archive, which resides in the Fletcher School and in the University Archives, includes Murrow’s library, papers and audio and visual recordings.

Vice Chairman of the Board of the Fletcher School Hans Binnendijk (F ’69) said that when he and fellow alumni attended the Fletcher School in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Center was a vibrant place for scholarship and learning.

“We all tremendously benefited from the Murrow Center during that period,” he said, referring to himself and two other alumni, current Murrow Center Director Edward Schumacher-Matos (F ’72) and Richard Weintraub (F ’72).

“We were all shaped in our early thinking by the Murrow Center as it was in the ’60s [and] early ’70s,” Binnendijk said. “I was a research assistant at the Murrow Center in the late ’60s and did some publishing there. It taught several courses on public diplomacy and journalism.”

However, as the Center approached its 50th birthday, alumni worried that it was starting to lose its initial vitality.

“We all were concerned that the Murrow Center was becoming moribund,” Binnendijk said. “It didn’t have adequate funding. Its web page…was way out of date. It was not active in the school. It wasn’t holding programs and conferences. Student enrollment seemed to be in decline.”

Schumacher-Matos emphasized that the Murrow Center suffered from fiscal problems.

“What was lacking was money,” Schumacher-Matos said. “The Murrow Center has always had a lot of one-off programs and a few courses attached to it…but little in the way of an ongoing research initiative [and] ongoing programs.”

Since 2014, these three alumni, in conjunction with Dean of the Fletcher School James Stavridis, board members, professors and other members of the Fletcher community, have been working to revamp the Center. Binnendijk told the Daily in an email that these community members submitted a proposal to Stavridis for the revitalization of the Murrow Center on March 1, 2014. One of the new initiatives is to ensure the Center can prepare students to respond to current public diplomacy issues. “[There] would be study of media, and particularly social media and information flows on global affairs,” Binnendijk said. “The Murrow Center and Fletcher and Tufts would become a place where… the theory of international communications would be taught.”

Additionally, the Center would ideally help students learn certain journalism skills, such as public speaking and analytical writing, in order to apply it to their future careers.

“This is what we call professional development,” Binnendijk said. “There would be not just journalism courses on how to be a good international journalist, but also how to have impact with these tools: blogging, using video footage, tweeting.”

This emphasis is highlighted in several Fletcher courses being offered now.

“I’m teaching a course on how to influence the Global Debate,” SchumacherMatos said. “That’s kind of a writing course, writing news and analysis. We’re teaching another course about how to use video to have international impact.”

“The Arts of Communication,” a course on public speaking and facing

the media, will also be offered, according to Mihir Mankad, the course’s lecturer. While the course was not originally designed under the auspices of the Center, Schumacher-Matos and Binnendijk both said it serves to advance the goals of the Center.

Another goal is to use the Center to increase the publicity of faculty research. This initiative has produced several new projects. First, a new television studio was created in 2015 so that news channels such as CNN or China Central Television (CCTV) can directly connect with Fletcher experts, without professors having to go to an off-site studio. This effort also ties in with a $1 million Carnegie Corporation grant to help academics better communicate their research with policymakers and the media.

“It enhances the Fletcher name,” Binnendijk said. “It gets the expertise of Fletcher faculty out there in mainstream thinking.”

While the grant was awarded to the Fletcher School and not specifically the Murrow Center, the School hopes to use Murrow Center resources to accomplish the grant’s goals, according to a statement released by Fletcher last September.

Schumacher-Matos said that the Center could perhaps work to solve the problems he sees with United States’ current international communications.

“The government could be better communicating its values and intentions and therefore furthering America,” he said.

Schumacher-Matos described an American public diplomacy model based on the Cold War era that was unable to respond to and utilize new forms of communications and lacked international perspective.

“Too often, we come to think the debate in Washington is the global debate, and it’s not,” he said. “We’re trying to create a national series of workshops with a mix of both Washington

hands and Silicon Valley type to totally redesign the American government’s international communication effort.”

Schumacher-Matos listed several potential partners in such initiatives, including the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and Stanford University’s International Policy Studies program at Stanford.

He also hopes to create a publishing platform where scholars from around the world could contribute articles about international affairs.

“Think Quartz, think Foreign Policy, think Foreign Affairs — but international, comparative,” Shumacher-Matos said. “All of those are very Americanoriented. This would be an attempt to try to be global, to try to be international. There is not an international publication today.”

Mankad noted that this initiative will take a lot of time to get off the ground. However, he hopes to get more involved in advancing this project when his schedule relaxes in the spring.

“It’s a grand initiative,” he said. “It requires resources and a lot of attention and just as the academic year starts, it’s been difficult to focus people.”

Furthermore, Schumacher-Matos hopes for more collaboration between the Murrow Center and other departments at Tufts on scholarship in these areas. He listed the Tisch College, the computer science department and journalism scholars as potential partners.

“There are a lot of people here thinking about the rest of the world both in terms of international relations and what’s going on with technology,” he said. “There’s so much talent at Tufts and it would be stupid to not take advantage [of it].”

“If Murrow were alive today, he would do something different,” SchumacherMatos said. “We want to reposition the Murrow Center for the new world.”

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ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos speaks during the The 10th Annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism, an event sponsored in part by the Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy, in Cabot Auditorium on April 8.

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ARTS&LIVING album review

Beach Slang showcases youthful punk rock on debut album

by Ascher Kulich Arts Editor

There is a plethora of modern punk rock bands with angsty, nostalgic angles, still reminiscing on their childhoods and making music with sad wails and uninspiring guitar chords. The 1990s were fun and crazy for sure, but that mantra can get tiring. Beach Slang, a newly formed outfit from Philadelphia, Pa., is distinct in its ability to channel that youthful exuberance and nostalgia into really solid punk music.

Lead singer and guitarist James Alex brings a bit of a twist as well. At 40 years old, he’s very much the elder member of the group and is recording his first release in nearly 15 years. He provides a mature perspective, but isn’t afraid to dial up the sound and yell about being “young and alive” and taking “not enough drugs” in some of the songs. Alex, along with the other three members of Beach Slang, brings a refreshing take on typical ’90s-centric themes with their debut album, “The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us” (2015).

The album starts with “Throwaways,” in which Alex sings about kids who have

a knack for throwing their lives away.

Alex offers listeners an invitation to join him, yelling, “Are you in with me?” “Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas” has a similar chord progression to Interpol’s “PDA” (2002) and provides comparable feelings of eternal solitude and vitality. “Noisy Heaven,” with its addicting riff and oddly melodic vocals, shines as well. Beach Slang isn’t afraid to reveal a piece of its past, and the band doesn’t sacrifice its music or its integrity in the process.

In an interview with Music Times, Alex talked about his songwriting process with Beach Slang.

“We’re more of a punk band in ideology than sound. When I sit down to write a song, I really just try to write loud pop songs that have some sort of affecting, honest thing to them. I don’t sit down and go, ‘I’m going to write punk songs.’ I think like a punk. I enjoy that whole ‘be who you are, live what you want to live, just don’t hurt anybody’ aspect. Just be a good thing in the world, don’t judge — all that really great stuff.”

Album highlight “I Break Guitars,” is successful because of its restraint: it’s not too vocal-centric, nor is it too focused on gargantuan build-ups and

formulaic come-downs. It’s short, sweet and in your face, like much of the rest of “The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us.” The album clocks in at just under 30 minutes, and with 10 songs, Beach Slang gives listeners their weekly allowance money’s worth. “I can’t think with all this noise / I break guitars; I weight my voice” Alex sings, providing listeners with a taste of his ubiquitous debauchery.

Beach Slang is similar to Japandroids in its ability to create tightly knit jams that blossom in creative, energetic and hypnotizing ways. “Porno Love” is all about taking drugs and escaping the confining grip of the real world, while “Hard Luck Kid” is about the band coming to terms with their downtrodden, mischievous lifestyle. “Nothing really happens if you think it might / Nothing really changes when you change your mind / I try to shake it off, try to get alive / Really I’m okay, kinda getting by. I’m a hard luck kid, so why even try? / I’m a nowhere bum, I’m dumb, I don’t mind.” Beach Slang unlocks its box of childhood memories — many of which listeners can relate to — and asks the right rhetorical questions: Is it all worth it? Does it even matter?

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by Cassidy Olsen

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How do you keep a franchise fresh after 52 years? That was the question facing the team behind “Spectre,” released Nov. 6, as it began production of the twenty fourth official film in the series. Everyone understood that following the critical and commercial success of “Skyfall” (2012) was never going to be easy. Possibly completing Daniel Craig’s arc as Agent 007, “Spectre” tries hard to build off the depth of Bond’s character in recent films. But ultimately, it falls back into the established Bond formula, relying on tropes to do most of the legwork. It appears that the stakes had been raised so high — both for the character and for the franchise — that there was nowhere to go but down.

When asked by TimeOut whether he could imagine doing another Bond movie, Craig responded that he would “rather break this glass and slash [his] wrists.” If he were to do another, the actor says, “it would only be for the money.” Craig’s weariness and distaste for the character is apparent throughout “Spectre.” Although he has never been the most expressive Bond, “Spectre” represents a new low for Craig. He goes through the motions in his bespoke Tom Ford suits and armored Aston Martins, but any semblance of the vulnerability and personality that was once behind his steely blue eyes has disappeared. Craig delivers lines about imminent bombings and the fate of MI6 with the same urgency that he delivers pick-up lines to women and quips at superiors — namely, not much. Bond might not be a franchise that relies on good press to sell tickets, but having the lead actor speaking candidly about his complete lack of interest does not bode well for a studio behind one of the most expensive films ever made.

Craig’s comments also speak volumes

about the quality of the script and how poorly it engages the emotions of the actors and the audience. While “Skyfall” excelled at conveying the emotional stakes of 007’s redemption and his relationship with M through compelling writing, “Spectre” falls flat in this regard. Motivated

by M’s dying wishes, Bond becomes obsessed with understanding and destroying Spectre, the evil organization in this installment of the series. The audience is never given a sense of what is truly important to Bond and, as a result, no suspense or driving force pushes the movie forward.

Seeing glimpses of characters like Vesper Lynd and others who have died during Bond’s life is simply not enough to make the hero’s current struggle urgent, nor does it convey the effect that Ernest Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), Bond’s adoptive brother and the film’s villain, has had on his life.

Blofeld says that he has always been the “author of [Bond’s] pain,” but his character is not fully introduced until it is too late for his words to have much power.

Although Waltz is, predictably, excellent in the role of a vaguely-German evil mastermind, the film does not use his talents to their utmost value. He doesn’t get very much time on screen in the film’s 148-minute runtime, and much of his dialogue (including a painful “Cuckoo!” line) is challenging to deliver with a straight face. The final showdown between Bond and Blofeld lacks the urgency that would be expected of a battle between archenemies. Director Sam Mendes may argue that this shows an evolution in Bond’s character or a subversion of the usual tropes, but it comes off as a lack of understanding of the situation at hand.

Writing aside, “Spectre” deserves credit for its technical assets and other successful components, like its beautiful cinematography and stunning action scenes, which are on par with those in “Skyfall”

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Ben Whishaw and Daniel Craig in “Spectre.” and earlier Bond movies. Mendes plays with symmetry, light and color throughout the film in a way that enhances the action onscreen. Both new female leads, Monica Bellucci and Léa Seydoux, are well casted and assume their admittedly one-dimensional roles with ease. These films will never be applauded for their feminist statements, but the established trope of “every Bond girl must die” is, for once, not realized in “Spectre.” The costuming is extravagant but calculated, and the choice to have Seydoux’s character, Madeleine Swann, channel Marilyn Monroe in her fashion style is a clever, elegant nod to the era of the franchise’s origins.

“Spectre” delivers small successes and glimpses of the Bond audiences know and love, but ultimately fails to provide a story compelling enough to sustain the action. If “Casino Royale” (2006) was the love story, “Quantum of Solace” (2008) the revenge story and “Skyfall” the redemption story, then the role of “Spectre” in the contemporary Bond narrative remains unclear.

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ebecca: I hate change. Not in an unhealthy way, but in a crotchety, obstinate, “I refuse to update anything way.” I live under the theory of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I especially feel this way about technology.

I was using iOS 5.1 until last semester. As I am writing this intro, I find myself getting irritated that Word defaults to Cambria.

WHAT IS CAMBRIA? Why can’t we all just use Times New Roman forever? It’s a classic. Why is Word pressuring me to change with the times (New Roman)?

My inability to accept tech changes extends to apps. When my friends or family would go abroad, they would always pressure me to download Viber to talk to them. I already have WhatsApp, why do I need two apps that can do the same thing?

Rather than downloading another app, I just do not talk to Viber users.

The only change that I have ever welcomed was the creation of the double chocolate Milano. I do not understand why they still make single chocolate Milanos; they should remove them. Who would ever prefer less chocolate? Enough of my ranting, on to your questions.

Rebecca, when does the hotline bling?

I do not know. In fact, I thought that Drake was talking about the High Line, the rail line that hipsters made into a park, and I was like, “Ughhhh gentrification.” But the NYSD hotline blings whenever you send us a question, so SEND US QUESTIONS to our google doc, anonymously, or to our email, TUFTSNYSD@ gmail.com Pooja, is your tall, cute suite-mate on the market? I think I’ve seen him playing basketball?

Yes, I do know which suitemate you are referring to. Unfortunately, he has recently started to see someone — or rather, something. My basketball-playing suitemate has recently purchased a poster of a smiling Sunnyside-up egg on a bed of toast with bacon pillows. He has given the poster a name, “Gautika,” which is his female counterpart. So I apologize, dear NYSD reader, but this man appears to be off the market.

Where did the betel nut guy go?

Pooja: I assume you are referring to the avid yik-yaker — and to answer that, I really don’t know. And I have to say, I think I really miss him. Betel nut guy, if you are an NYSD reader, please come back. I want to learn more about betel (areca) nuts and its deadly properties. That being said, NYSD has been following (and LOL-ing at) a new thread of Yik Yaks under the tag “my virginal housemate.” Some of the yaks include, “do boys control…like the sex?”

While our involvement in P.H.E. as sexual health educators makes us quite concerned about such statements, the thread of yaks are quite hilarious. If NYSD were to answer that question, however: no, virginal housemate, consent is important.

That’s all we have for this week. If you think our consistent Facebook posts about sending questions are obnoxious, then send us questions! Only then will we stop.

Never underestimate the power of NYSD to infest your newsfeeds.

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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Tufts senior midfielder Jason Kayne races a Bowdoin player for possession of the ball on Oct. 31.

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continued from back its opponents in 10 of its 19 games and only surrendered 0.58 goals per game on average this season, which ranks 16th nationally. In addition, the Seagull goalkeeper, senior Drew

Staedeli, saved 89.8 percent of the shots taken on him, which ranks fourth in the nation. On offense, junior midfielder Leslie Umunna led the team in scoring with seven goals this season, while sophomore forward Brooks Zentgraf scored six. Salisbury scored 1.63 goals

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per game this season, meaning that the team will have its hands full with Tufts’ vaunted defense.

“They are a seasoned veteran team that will know how to play,” Shapiro said. “They don’t concede a lot of goals and they score goals, but they don’t score outrageous amounts.

Sounds like they are pretty similar to us in that they’re a playing team that is going to be very sound defensively and look to take some chances when they are created.”

The Jumbos have given up only 0.47 goals per game this season, ranking ninth nationally. Junior goalkeeper Scott Greenwood, who currently holds the school’s record for career shutouts with 28, patrolled the back line on last season’s national championship team and did not let up this season. He has only given up 0.50 goals per game, on average, and saved 85.5 percent of the shots he has faced, which is ranked 12th in the nation. The defense has been stingy all year and put together a stretch from Oct. 10 to Oct. 31 during which they did not concede a goal.

This strong defense takes the pressure off of the offense. Leading the attack for the

Jumbos this season has been junior forward Nathan Majumder, who scored nine out of the 20 total goals the team scored this season and frequently provided an offensive spark in many crucial games. The next leading scorer was senior Rui Pinheiro with two goals. Other key players on the offensive side of the ball include Kayne, fellow senior tri-captain Connor Brown, sophomore Kevin Halliday and junior Kevin Lawson.

“I think our confidence seems to be high this week,” Shapiro said. “I think we’re confident that we can go in and make some noise. I think we certainly believe that we’re not a favorite in our pot … but they’re not too many teams out there happy to be staring across the line from Tufts University right now. I think we’re very capable of playing with anybody and I think we’re confident that we can go in and create results.”

The players understand what it takes to win an NCAA tournament, as many of them played a big role last season when the Jumbos made history by becoming the first team ever to win all six of its games on the road. They have a chance to achieve the ultimate goal and send the seniors out with back-to-back championships — an opportunity they will not take lightly.

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Tufts makes NCAA Tournament, looks to defend national title

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Tufts’ fate was in the hands of the selection committee as the team sat and watched the selection show on Monday for the Div. III national tournament. The Jumbos were fighting for one of 19 at-large bids for the tournament and were hoping that their resume was good enough to receive one, even though they knew that they were firmly on the bubble. The team had earned the third seed in the NESCAC tournament but lost at home 1-0 to sixth-seeded Bowdoin, who went on to win the conference tournament. With a 9-4-3 record, the team was confident in its ability to make noise in the tournament despite its less than stellar resume.

Eventually, the selection committee agreed to award the Jumbos one of the last spots in the tournament. Tufts will take on Salisbury University in the first round on Saturday at Montclair State in Montclair, N.J. at 7:30 p.m. If the Jumbos advance further, they will play the winner of the game between Montclair State (182-1) and Daniel Webster College (18-3-0).

“I know the guys were in the room together and watching the selection show, and I think we all believed collectively we were good enough and deserved to be in, but at the same time, knew that our record wasn’t stellar,” coach Josh Shapiro said. “It was really going to come down to what the committee valued. I was certainly relieved to see us on the board and now we are excited to begin our second season.”

This is a familiar position for the Jumbos, who were awarded an at-large bid to the national tournament last season before running the table to win Tufts’ first national title. Though defending its title has been one of the team’s goals since the preseason, for a brief moment it looked as though Tufts would not get the opportunity, as there were teams in the NESCAC with better overall records. One such team was the

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Tufts junior midfielder Nathan Majumder knocks a Bowdoin player backward after attempting to block him from kicking in an Oct. 31 game. second seed in the NESCAC tournament, Middlebury, which ended the season with a penalty kick shootout loss in the conference semifinal to the eventual runner-up Wesleyan.

The Middlebury team had a 13-2-2 overall record, but Tufts triumphed over them 1-0 in a head-to-head matchup on Oct. 10. Tufts’ resume also includes a Nov. 13 win against Gordon

College, who ended the season as the champions of the Commonwealth Coast Conference. These wins were good enough in the committee’s mind to award Tufts a spot in the tournament. This is Tufts’ third berth in the last four years, as the team qualified for the tournament in 2012 as well as last year.

“I was extremely excited to be given

the opportunity to defend our title,” senior tri-captain Jason Kayne said.

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Jumbos’ 2015 season one of hope, disappointment

by Soven Bery

Contributing Writer

Expectations were sky-high for the Men’s A team of the Tufts University Football Club (TUFC) after a 2014 season that saw the group become the only Div. III school to advance to the National Tournament in Memphis, Tenn. This year, the team was unable to replicate that success and fell short of a return trip to Nationals. However, there are many positive takeaways after a 3-1-2 season for the Jumbos.

The team knew that the season would be one of rebuilding after losing a core that led the squad to prominence in Tennessee.

Even though the team did not make it to regionals or nationals, it still only had one loss on the season to Harvard University’s A team. A few different bounces of the ball and the final outcome for the year could

have been drastically different.

“The season [low], for me, would be when we were leading one-nil against Harvard and they came back from behind to beat us 2-1,” sophomore Craig Vitirinyu said.

The team also played against Northeastern University to a 2-2 tie. The Harvard heartbreaker, coupled with a pair of draws, left the club just short. If they had won one of the two games they drew, the team would have qualified for the regional tournament.

“The late start to school put us at a disadvantage compared with other schools in our division,” junior co-captain David Heim said. “That being said, we had a big comeback win against Boston University to start off the year and, in the end, only lost one game all season.”

Vitirinyu also noted the big win over crosstown rival BU with a final score was 4-2, as a highlight of the season.

While there was just a single loss in 2015, the team also mustered only three victories. In 2016, the focus will be on finishing strong, playing great soccer for the entire match and converting potential draws into victories. With a strong group of returning players and a dominant B Team, hopes are high for the 2016 season.

“We feel that the team just keeps getting better every year; playing spots are more and more competitive, [and] we’re consistently drawing around 80-plus kids to tryouts, so expectations are very high for next year and we are all looking forward to it already,” Heim said. “The team continues to work hard and overachieve for the amount of resources that we have.”

With a solid mix of first-years, additional exposure, improved coaching and increased interest, it would not be surprising to see the team back at nationals next fall.

“We are basically a solid team right now, and we have some pretty good freshmen on our team,” Vitirinyu said.

As a club team, however, the focus is about more than just wins and losses.

Emphasis is also put on carving out an enjoyable, meaningful and worthwhile experience for the students.

“We also have fun team-building events and some mixers with other clubs,” Vitirinyu said.

According to Vitirinyu, the tight-knit team has come together throughout the year and meshed into a family. The club looks to build on the victories of 2015, foster the existing soccer talent at Tufts, continue to improve and reach greater heights next fall.

“Club soccer is definitely my best activity on campus,” Vitirinyu said. “The sense of family that it gives me is one that I value so much.”