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Lucius to headline sixth annual Cage Rage concert

by Joe Walsh Staff Writer

Tufts Concert Board announced last week that the sixth annual Cage Rage concert on Dec. 5 will feature indie band Lucius as its headliner, with musical duo You Won’t and English singer-songwriter Dan Croll as the concert’s openers.

The announcement of the concert lineup was made through a scavenger hunt on Nov. 11, in which Concert Board hid the letters in Lucius’ name throughout campus and posted clues to the locations on Facebook. Each student who found a letter was awarded two free tickets to Cage Rage.

Concert Board co-chairs Samantha Berg and Ben Averill, both juniors, expressed confidence that the scavenger hunt would reach a wide range of students. They explained that the Facebook event for the scavenger hunt informed hundreds of students of the event. see CAGE RAGE, page 3

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Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig are lead vocalists of the indie pop band Lucius, which will headline this year’s Cage Rage.

Tufts Amnesty International hosts discussion of solitary confinement

by Robert Katz Staff Writer

Tufts Amnesty International hosted a keynote and panel discussion about solitary confinement and human rights in Barnum Hall Monday evening.

The event, entitled “Voices from Solitary: Think Outside the Box,” was presented in partnership with the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora, the Department of Peace and Justice Studies and the Tufts American Civil Liberties Union chapter.

According to its Facebook page, the event aimed to “present a discussion of the different facets and experiences of solitary [confinement],” as well as address the current movement to make solitary confinement illegal.

Stina Stannik, president of Tufts Amnesty International, explained why the organization decided to put together the panel.

“My vision for it was to build a network of people working on similar issues,” Stannik, a senior, said. “We tried to pull in other organizations at Tufts who are working on these issues, who are concerned about these things. We wanted to bring [in] speakers who are not only for-

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mer prisoners but [who are] also actively involved in trying to create change. [Our hope was that] they could bring ideas and actions [to] audience members.”

The keynote speaker for the event was John Artis, co-founder of Innocence International and co-defendant in the case of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, an American middleweight boxer wrongfully convicted of murder in 1967.

Innocence International, according to Stannik, was founded by Artis and Carter in order to build a network between groups working on issues in the American criminal justice system. According to its website, “the IGL is in the process of establishing a research and internship program with Innocence International.”

In Artis’ keynote address, he discussed his experience with incarceration.

Artis explained that he and his friend Carter were both convicted of three counts of first-degree murder at the age of 20, despite a lack of evidence.

In prison, Artis said he faced traumatic experiences, including witnessing murders. He also spoke about his experience in solitary confinement — also known as administrative segregation but colloquially dubbed “the hole.”

Artis explained that solitary confinement meant that an inmate would be locked up alone in a room, sometimes without windows, for 24 hours a day.

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Inmates could be given an hour for recreation and 15 minutes to bathe, meaning that a year of solitary confinement could result in around 12.5 combined days outside of the cell, he said.

“I had problems just doing 15 days in ‘the hole,’” Artis said. “I can’t begin to imagine what a guy went through having to be on death row or in solitary confinement for years. I cannot imagine that at all.”

Artis went on parole after 15 years in jail, but Carter was not freed until after 19

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years of imprisonment when he received a writ of habeas corpus, or a court summons to review his conviction in federal court. The presiding judge claimed that the case had “at its basis an appeal to racism, rather than reason; concealment, rather than disclosure.”

Artis said that race issues from his youth persist today, citing the protests that took place in Ferguson, Mo. last

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Generation Citizen volunteers help with annual Civic Tech Challenge

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Tufts participants in Generation Citizen (GC) helped coach high school students at GC’s second annual all-day Civic Tech Challenge at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center on Nov. 7.

According to sophomore Julie Murray, Tufts GC outreach coordinator, Generation Citizen is a national nonprofit that focuses on increasing civic engagement by sending college volunteers into high school classrooms to teach action civics. The GC curriculum has been developed to solve community issues through government and give students the tools to become change makers, she said.

The nonprofit’s curriculum is built from the “advocacy hourglass,” in which students identify a focus issue, a root cause, a goal, a target person or group of influence and tactics for achieving the goal via political engagement with the targets, according to the GC website.

The Saturday event was a hackathon fundraiser in which high school students in the program worked with professional technology volunteers, according to Murray.

Over 1,000 high school students from from more than 20 Bostonarea schools came together in attendance at the event, according to Microsoft’s New England website. The event’s attendees launched action projects to advocate for change in a significant local community issue identified by students.

Murray explained that the high school students learned “technology tools to make their action projects effective” and demonstrated how they can use technology to engage in the civic process by building a website, Facebook page, infographic, video or other platform to share their work.

In addition to working on their action projects, the students in attendance also participated in professionalism workshops, interviews, presentation practice and arts activities, according to Tufts GC Research

Fellows Director Sophie Dulberg.

Tufts GC Democracy Coach Alex Mitchell said that 40 participants from the Josiah Quincy School met in the morning with their Democracy Coaches — undergraduate program volunteers — from Tufts, Boston College and Northeastern University, and approximately three technologists were assigned to their group to explain their project and goals.

Murray said that the high school class with which she worked chose youth homelessness as its focus issue, targeting Massachusetts Senators and Representatives to reach the goal of passing Bill H119. That particular bill was introduced to ensure accessible housing for children and has been in committee for eight years, according to Murray.

She said that the high schoolers in the group were split into two sections, with one focusing on communicating their message by creating a website and a Facebook page and the other focusing on why the issue was important, creating infographics on youth homelessness. The website included information about the bill and why youth homelessness is such a big issue in Boston, a petition and information about lobby day, according to Murray.

According to Dulberg, a junior, the technologists in the groups worked to create the materials they designed with the students. They also helped students in the group by compiling and presenting relevant data sets for their meeting with their target influencers, Murray said.

According to Mitchell, a sophomore, another class of seventh graders chose gun violence as their focus issue, and they split into two tracks at the hackathon to address different goals.

The first track used hackers to structure and follow coordinated mass youth outreach efforts to legislators, hoping that advocacy from youths would help influence the legislation. The group aimed to support and enhance the mayor and police commissioner’s outreach efforts to registered gun owners, Mitchell said.

The second track raised awareness about gun violence and rallied support for the Massachusetts legislature to revise the Tiahrt Amendment, a bill provision that restricts the release of information from the national firearms trace database in order to make it easier to track guns, according to the GC event presentation.

Together, the groups from the two tracks created a website where users are taken to separate information pages based on their gun ownership status, according to Mitchell.

Mitchell said that the high schoolers knew a lot about many of the community issues that were discussed. “[The whole day was] very kid-driven, as much of GC is,” he said.

The event was not a competition, but final projects from the students were evaluated and scored by judges based on alignment to the civic change process, usability by young people and group collaboration during the hackathon, according to the GC website.

The event, which took place from around 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., was followed by a fundraising reception for the organization.

Dulberg said that she felt that a lot of innovation had gone on during the event.

“You spend the whole day inside, but there’s so much creativity and thinking,” she said. “I left feeling like I accomplished something … It got more people from the community involved in Generation Citizen, and certainly a lot [of ] these projects will help with the kids in these classrooms getting their projects to be heard.”

Mitchell said that the hackathon was a great opportunity for the students who were there.

“It definitely makes an impact on the kids,” he said. “There’s this whole day outside of school where adults are coming to help them and create the tools that they need.”

Dulberg explained that the organization’s work is important because it recognizes kids’ intelligence and creativity.

“It’s super important that they get heard and that they know that they can be heard,” she said.

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continued from page 1 summer as evidence of this. He added that racism has led to the high rate of convictions of African-Americans, which he referred to as “assembly-line justice.”

“Untold men and women are in prison…simply because they’re black,” he said.

After Artis spoke, the event’s panelists were asked to introduce themselves, according to Stannik.

Panelists included Five Omar Mualimm-ak, activist and founder of The Incarcerated Nation Corporation, a non-profit seeking to reform incarceration methods and help integrate ex-convicts into society; Al Tony Simon, an organizer for Release Aging People in Prison, a group which aims to release elderly and infirm people from New York state prisons; Dr. Kirk A. James, a writer and a co-founder of EVOLVE, an organization working to end mass incarceration through education; and Douglas Rogers and Ashley Diamond, members of LGBTQI prisoners’ rights organization Black and Pink. All of the speakers

had served sentences in prison, and all except Artis had spent time in solitary confinement.

Each panelist had a short period of time to talk about their experience with prisons and the criminal justice system, according to Stannik. The next part of the discussion was guided by questions prepared in advance by Tufts Amnesty members and shared with the panelists, but Stannik said that the panelists were free to talk about whatever they found most important.

“We had proposed questions, but we left it up to them whether they wanted to follow the questions or expand on what they had started [to talk about] in their intros,” Stannik said. “We [explicitly] said in front of the audience [that] we [did] want this [conversation] to be somewhat organic. Obviously our questions and our perspectives would be different from the panelists. They have a better sense of what is most important and what should be talked about … We had formulated questions, but they…determined the conversation.”

The panelists broached various topics during the panel and during the question and answer session that followed, including mass incarceration and its connection to American slavery, the psychological effects of solitary confinement, the significance of the television series “Orange is the New Black” (2013 – present) and mistreatment of LGBTQI prisoners.

The panelists agreed that America’s prison system, as well as said prisons’ disciplinary measures, were in need of substantial reform. Drawing a connection between mass incarceration and America’s slaveholding past, James said that the most effective way to solve the injustices caused by the modern prison system would be to abolish it entirely.

“Solitary confinement doesn’t work,” James said. “It isn’t based in any empirical data. How can we leave this room a little more informed? For people who are for solitary confinement, ask them why.

You know, for people who can’t imagine a world without prisons, why? The idea of abolishing prisons, the idea of abolishing solitary confinement has become a radical idea. Abolishing slavery was once

considered a radical idea. If, for you, the abolishment of a racial caste system is a radical idea, you should look in a mirror.”

Although the rest of the panelists spoke in person, Diamond participated in the discussion over Skype from her home in Georgia. According to Stannik, Diamond was released from prison for two months and is still under parole and therefore unable to leave the state. Diamond said that she still suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

“I am so grateful that I am free,” Diamond said. “But I am still haunted every single solitary day by everything that has happened.”

Stannik said that it is important for former prisoners to have a forum in which they are able to share their experiences.

“Solitary seeks to repress these voices and to make it harder for people to work together to change the system,” she said.

“I think events like this…facilitate a way for people who are working on these issues throughout the country in very disparate ways to come together.”

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continued from page 1 “I think that this year’s [announcement] was pretty effective,” Berg said. “We had about 215 saying they were going to our event, another 100 were interested and another 900 were invited.”

Berg said she was surprised that the headliner was revealed within an hour of the scavenger hunt, with people participating in the competition in spite of bad weather outside.

The lineup for Cage Rage last year was announced with the release of a large Spotify playlist and the gradual removal of artists from the playlist until only the Cage Rage performers were left on it. Matthew Marber, last year’s co-president of Concert Board, previously told the Daily that their 2014 strategy restricted the number of

students Concert Board was able to reach.

According to Berg and Averill, Cage Rage, which is held annually in Cousens Gymnasium, tends to focus on indie-rock performers.

Formed in Brooklyn, Lucius is wellknown for their song “Turn It Around,” which appeared on their 2013 album “Wildewoman,” according to the band’s website. They previously performed at the threeday music festival Governor’s Ball in 2014.

You Won’t, set to perform first, is a band formed in Boston and has toured across the United States and Canada since the release of its debut album “Skeptic Goodbye” (2012) according to the band’s website.

Cage Rage’s second opener, Dan Croll, is a musician who just released a new single “One of Us,” according to the artist’s website.

Averill and Berg explained that they began the selection process for this year’s artists over the summer, and booked Lucius in August.

“Once we had our headliner lined up, we tried to think about what kind of music would go best with them,” Averill said.

The two started with a list of available performers in their price range, then added artists and curated the show based on the list.

“We thought that Dan Croll was a really good complement to Lucius, as more of a pop-y sound,” Averill said.

“We’re trying to keep it within the indierock-pop genre and have each artist spread out with different sizes of sound.”

Berg explained that they wanted to have less of a deliberate emphasis on

widely recognizable acts for this year’s concert, in contrast to last year’s Cage Rage, which was headlined by MS MR, with supporting acts Gentlemen Hall and STRFKR as openers and which sold approximately 1,100 tickets, according to a Nov. 15, 2013 Daily article.

Averill added that this year’s concert will forgo the DJ set that was present in last year’s concert, in response to student suggestions.

“We thought that having three live acts instead of two live acts and a DJ set was the way to go, based on what we had heard,” Averill said.

According to Berg and Averill, online ticket sales for the concert began Monday and will remain open for about three weeks.

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’ve been feeling terrified about my future as a human being in “the real world” (enough to postpone graduation? Maybe). But I’d like to discuss my missing bathing suit.

That’s right. Someone took my swimming spandex from the gym locker room. I couldn’t believe it. Sure, it wasn’t locked or anything. But who takes a wet, chlorine-stained, dirty pair of spandex? I thought perhaps I had misplaced it and would find it lying around somewhere on the floor of the locker room. I didn’t. I checked to see if other people hung their bathing suits on their lockers. They did. I checked to see if any of them were MY bathing suit.

They weren’t. I thought about taking someone else’s. BUT THEN I DIDN’T BECAUSE I’M A DECENT HUMAN. After looking in the Lost and Found, I gave up my search and biked home to get my other spandex. The problem is, these spandex are looser. It sucks to swim in spandex that are too big. They move around and create drag. They also fall down a lot.

If you (yes, you) are the person who did this, please, please, please, just bring them back. I promise that I won’t be mad. I swear, if I find them there tomorrow, it’ll be our little secret. (Wednesday Daily readers will also be in on it, but they’re quiet people.) I’ll never hunt you down — I won’t wait for you in the gym and demand answers. I’ll just be grateful that my spandex are back and that I can start on the blocks without my bottoms flying off.

At the very least, I hope you really needed them. I hope that you were in the locker room when you just shit in your pants, (after showering and washing thoroughly), saw my spandex hanging on the locker and desperately took them, thinking no one would ever know. I hope you realized that there was a camera in the hallway, and so you went through some secret exit that involved pipes or heating vents. Maybe you threw something at the camera so you could run out of the building unseen. I hope it really stressed you out. I hope you’re still thinking about it now. Maybe the guilt is crushing your soul, and you’ve decided to start an anti-theft club on campus. Your friend is on the TCU Senate and has already approved your budget — five pairs of binocs and a loud speaker with prerecorded audio of Dora’s incredibly effective, “Swiper, no swiping!” chorus. Your parents will be so proud.

If I were in a more reflective mood, I might connect this preoccupation with the missing bathing suit to an avoidance strategy of some sort. Having trouble letting go of replaceable and inconsequential objects? Choose one: Click here to see what this reveals about your relationship status. Or click here to see how this limits your career opportunities. Just kidding, silly-willy! A relationship is your only career opportunity!

But seriously, please just give me back my spandex, and we can all go on with our lives.

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

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Tufts CAMP study finds Boy Scouts helps build character according to John Templeton virtue scale

by Constantinos Angelakis Contributing Writer

Many students may have heard of the pinewood derby, or of the rigors of achieving the Eagle Scout rank. Perhaps they even know some Boy Scouts or have been directly involved in the organization themselves.

According to a recent report published by the Tufts Character and Merit Project (CAMP) Study, researchers have found that involvement in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) programs could have a positive impact on youths’ character development. Study participants involved in Cub Scouts demonstrated higher levels of growth in several areas, including helpfulness and trustworthiness, in comparison to their peers who were not involved with BSA. Founded in 1910, BSA, with its 2.5 million members between ages seven and 21, is one of the nation’s largest “value-based youth development programs,” according to its website. For its study, CAMP chose to focus on BSA’s Cub Scout program members between the ages of six and 10. During the three-year study, CAMP collected data from over 1,000 students, measuring six traits: hopefulness, helpfulness, obedience, cheerfulness, kindness and trustworthiness According to the CAMP study’s principal investigator Richard Lerner, a child development professor and Bergstrom chair in Applied Developmental Science, the study began in 2012 as a collaborative effort involving BSA and the John Templeton Foundation, which supports research in character virtue development in the framework of stock investor John Templeton’s personal philosophies, among other areas.

Lerner explained that the project began after he was approached by the head of the Cradle of Liberty Council, the BSA council for the greater Philadelphia area, to conduct research on the impact of scouting on character development.

Dan Warren, the recruitment and sample manager for the CAMP Study, said project leaders chose these qualities because they reflected the common interests of BSA and the John Templeton Foundation.

“There is the Scout Oath and [Scout] Law, which represent the ideals of the organization,” Warren, a doctoral student at Tufts and a program analyst for BSA, said. “They happen to overlap a lot with John Templeton’s character virtues.”

In order to go about quantifying these qualities, the team developed a system of question items and interviews, according to Jun Wang, the project manager for CAMP who worked on developing this scale.

Study leaders were careful to choose sample groups that reflected Boy Scouts’ national demographics, and they gathered a control group of non-Cub Scouts that could be used to evaluate the effects of scouting on development.

“When we do this research, we very carefully get a comparison sample, who are exactly the same in every theoretically related way — obviously age, sex, but also race, religion, geographic area, socioeconomic status,” Lerner said.

Wang said the study questions used to measure the boys’ positive qualities were adapted from a rating scale usually used to measure personality characteristics in older children. Because it is often difficult to interview younger children as they do not always understand precisely what each rating means, the team also conducted separate qualitative research, according to Wang.

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Jacob Schumacher, 15, a Boy Scout troop guide, center, discusses an upcoming trip with troop members at Cedar Park Church in Bothell, Washington. The church has decided to part ways with the Boy Scouts. The troop, sponsored by Cedar Park Church, is one of three churches in the Puget Sound area that has decided to part ways with the Boy Scouts over the policy change. “[The development of the system includes a] very elaborate process of coming up with items first that were used to get at these ideas among older kids, then a process of trying to adapt them down in age level, figuring out if the kids actually understood them, and then running pilot research,” Wang said. “Because if they understood [the items], there should be more than random answers. There should be something systematic.”

Wang said this qualitative work, mostly conducted through interviews in which researchers would sit down with the children to determine their level of understanding for each of the items, helped researchers understand the children’s perspectives on the question.

When questions are presented correctly, children should demonstrate the same level of development in a particular characteristic from question to question. For example, they should show the same levels of generosity in volunteering and helping neighbors, Lerner said.

“Qualitative research allows you to understand what these characteristics actually mean to you in your life,” he said. “Over the course of the last 10 years, mixed method research has really come to the fore, where people put together quantitative and qualitative. And that has become a major part of this lab’s work.”

Recently, BSA came under scrutiny for its reluctance to end its ban on allowing openly gay youth and leaders to participate in the organization’s programs. The CAMP Study has carried on throughout debates over BSA’s controversial policies, which culminated on July 28 of this year, when BSA executives officially ratified a resolution to remove the ban on openly gay adult leaders. All the while, in Philadelphia, where the research was being conducted, the Cradle of Liberty Council was engaged in a lawsuit over leasing public land, since the organization was deemed discriminatory, according to a June 18, 2010 story on CNN. This controversy posed challenges to researchers trying to interviewing young students for the study, Warren said.

“This was all going on as we were starting the study,” he said. “So it became a really big news story going on in Philadelphia. The problem then was trying to get, for example, public schools to work with you. They couldn’t work with [us], because [we] were a discriminating organization.”

The study also worked with youth from Scoutreach, an effort by BSA to offer scouting to what they consider to be some of the hardest demographics to reach. The program

works slightly differently from traditional scouting in that it is often community-based and operated through something like an afterschool group, instead of someone’s home, according to Warren.

Kaitlyn Ferris, a postdoctoral fellow and researcher for the CAMP study, observed that the Scoutreach youth also demonstrated similar character development, according to the study team’s findings.

“It’s been designed to bring scouting to some of the hardest, the most difficult to reach groups,” she said. “So in our study, that group was ethnic minorities, particularly African-American children, from low-income backgrounds in urban areas, like Philadelphia.

And we found that this measure of character worked similarly for these youth as it did for boys involved in traditional scouting.”

The study also found that Boy Scouts demonstrated high levels of tolerance toward their peers in general.

“When we interviewed both traditional and Scoutreach youth, we asked them questions about tolerance,” Ferris said. “These questions were not directly assessing their views about BSA’s national policies at the current times, but we just asked them more questions more generally about tolerance toward other scouts and toward girls’ being potentially involved in the program. Although I can’t really comment on how or what they would have said if we had asked them about the policies that were in place at the time, we did see some very positive findings in regard to tolerance when we asked scouts about it as a more general construct.”

The findings of the study have illuminated positive aspects of scouting, but some are skeptical about the results.

“I’m not entirely surprised that this study found that there are ‘better’ people than the general public, but I wonder how much of that is because of the experience of people in the actual organization,” John Russell, a senior at Tufts who achieved the Eagle Scout rank his senior year of high school, said.

The researchers intend to continue their research by studying older groups of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

“We’re hoping that we’ll be able to continue the work that we’ve done in the Cradle of Liberty into the regular scout years, 10 and on, and go beyond Cradle of Liberty and look at councils across the United States,” Lerner said. “That’s our hope. Right now we’ve just finished the Cradle of Liberty study.”

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Album Review

Grimes’ ‘Art Angels’ excellent, ambitious pop record

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Claire Boucher, a.k.a. Grimes, is a singer and producer from Vancouver. She’s become a darling of indie music listeners, especially after the release of her third album, “Visions” (2012) — her strongest to date. “Visions” was met with acclaim from critics and fans alike; it’s a strange, intriguing masterpiece, as Boucher is able to explore the wild recesses of her mind and convey her discoveries, but not at the expense of many catchy, and often spellbinding, hooks and vocals. Boucher’s music is, at its most basic, pop music, though it’s more complex than the loaded genre moniker may suggest. Grimes has experimented with many pop styles, including art-pop and dream-pop, and garners influence from myriad different genres, including R&B, hip-hop and electronica. Her fourth studio album, “Art Angels,” was released on Nov. 6. It’s Boucher’s most polished, eclectic and radio-friendly album and includes important underlying political messages in its collection of dreamy future-pop tracks.

When Boucher recorded “Visions,” she took an extreme and reclusive approach to achieving inspiration for her album: over multiple weeks, she took several drugs and kept herself awake for days at a time to induce hallucinations. In an interview with The Guardian in 2012, Boucher explained that, in her approach to recording “Visions,” she entered states in which “you have no stimulation, so your subconscious starts filling in the blanks. I started to feel like I was channeling spirits. I was convinced my music was a gift from God. It was like I knew exactly what to do next, as if my songs were already written.”

“Visions” is definitely out there, so to speak; it’s weird and spooky in places, but also innocent and adorable in others.

Boucher didn’t go to the same dangerous lengths to record “Art Angels,” however, and the album, coincidentally or not, sounds like a more mature Grimes. It has

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Boucher also focuses her attention on making “Art Angels” a monument to women’s strength and creativity. None of the featured collaborators are men, which is a powerful challenge to the sexist, male-dominated conventions of the music industry. In an interview with The Fader earlier this year, Boucher stated that, in her experiences working in music studios, “There [were] all these engineers [that didn’t let her] touch the equipment […] and then a male producer would come in, and he’d be allowed to do it.”

This left her “disillusioned with the music industry” and made her “realize what [she] was doing is important.”

“Art Angels” is at its best when it combines catchy riffs and choruses with Grimes’ signature airiness, either quirky and cute or scary and gripping. “Flesh Without Blood” focuses on Grimes’ disappointment in a friend she had once admired. It’s funky and gleeful, as Grimes reaches a blissful state after making peace

with her decision to leave the friend behind. “REALiTi,” originally released as a demo earlier this year, is changed up to fit the sound of “Art Angels” more smoothly.

It sounds great here, and Grimes reaches a similar state of eclectic highness that she’d found on “Genesis,” one of the highlights of “Visions.” “California” and “Butterfly” are two excellent pop cuts, with country-pop influences, which gives them a strange, familiar feel, despite their off-kilter beats and spacey vocals.

The former, “California,” is undeniably adorable, uplifting and groovy all at once.

Though “Art Angels” may make it seem like Boucher has fully realized her mainstream potential, that argument is a lazy one, as “Art Angels” is still an outstanding project despite being less “experimental” than “Visions.”

The original follow-up to “Visions” (2012) was scrapped in 2014 due to Boucher’s dissatisfaction with the material, but the fully realized “Art Angels” shows Boucher at her most confident and comfortable.

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Netflix’s ‘W/ Bob and David’ revives HBO favorite

by Josh Podolsky

Executive Arts Editor

Sketch comedy is making a comeback. Though this brand of comedy first became popular in the ’80s and ’90s, it has, in recent years, reasserted itself as a mainstay of the living room and, now, of the mobile screen. “Portlandia” (2011 – preset), “Key & Peele” (2012 – 2015) and “Inside Amy Schumer” (2013 – present) are just three of the myriad — and most loved — sketch comedy shows currently on the air.

Netflix, perhaps best known for its original series — such as “House of Cards” (2013 – present), “Orange is the New Black” (2013 – present), and “Narcos” (2015 – present) — is also in the business of resurrecting the shows of yesteryear.

For example, the online streaming giant has brought back fan favorites like “Arrested Development” (2003 – 2006; 2013), betting on viewers’ nostalgia to boost its subscriber base.

The latest object of Netflix’s otherworldly resurrection powers is “W/ Bob and David,” a revival of the HBO classic “Mr. Show with Bob and David”

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David Cross and Bob Odenkirk in “W/ Bob & David” on Netflix.

(1995 – 1998). The Bob and David in both of the aforementioned shows are Bob Odenkirk of “Breaking Bad” (2008

– 2013) and “Better Call Saul” (2015 – see W/ Bob and David, page 6

rowing up as an Indian-American child who loved television, I rarely saw anyone who looked like me on the small screen. At the time, I never thought of it as an issue, and relating to t​ he mostly African-American or Caucasian characters ​in the shows I watched​was not an extremely difficult task. It did, however, slightly irk me that the only times I saw Indian-Americans on television were as caricatures. Apu from “The Simpsons” (1989-present) immediately comes to mind as the immigrant owner of a Kwik-E-Mart, a convenience store much like 7-Eleven. It was Apu who first popularized the phrase, “Thank you, come again,” which is one that I hear all too often.

But I do have a sense of humor and, much like the rest of America, I thought Apu was funny.

While Apu’s character was not harmful in itself, it was damaging in its perpetration of stereotypes at a time when there were very few portrayals of Indian-Americans in popular culture; this shaped the way many viewed the whole race, even coinciding with violence against Indians in New Jersey in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Beyond Apu, I can only point to the random appearance of Baljeet Tjinder, a gas station owner in “Phineas and Ferb” (2007-2015), and Sanjaya Malakar, who was viciously ridiculed throughout his time competing on “American Idol” (2002-present). I never expected to see an honest representation of an Indian-American on television; I never knew such a concept existed. Even Russell Peters, the successful Indian-Canadian comedian, perpetuated stereotypes constantly in his material.

What a difference a couple years make.

Today, Indians on television are doctors — Mindy Lahiri, “The Mindy Project” (2012-present); scientists — Raj Koothrappali, “The Big Bang Theory” (2007-present); entrepreneurs — Tom Haverford, “Parks and Recreation” (20092015); models — CeCe Parekh, “New Girl” (20112014); cooks — Padma Lakshmi, “Top Chef” (2006-2014); private investigators — Kalinda Sharma, “The Good Wife” (2009-present); and whatever Kal Penn does. For the first time ever, there are finally real, three-dimensional Indian characters on television. The fact that this list is so long and that there are so many people I left out is an amazing development. It was something that eleven-year-old me could have never even dreamt of as I watched Disney Channel and saw Baljeet talking about math problems in a thick Indian accent.

Mindy Kaling and Aziz Ansari are leading the Indian-American television revolution, but they are not alone. Indian musicians, anchors, minor characters, hosts and comedians are popping up everywhere. For example, Ansari’s new Netflix show “Master of None” premiered on Nov. 6. The project succeeds in portraying Indian males like no other American television program has before.

Dev Shah, Ansari’s character, is sexual, successful and funny. His story is one of thousands of first-generation Indian kids who grew up devoid of role models like Ansari and Kaling.

“Master of None” features Ansari’s real-life parents and beautifully explores the immigrant story as well as the state of Indian-Americans in entertainment. Much like “The Mindy Project,” though, it does not come off as preachy or incredibly political. Both shows, thankfully, spend a great deal of time focusing on the protagonists’ jobs, relationships and daily lives, which creates realistic and fully formed characters. From Apu selling goods at the Kwik-E-Mart to Ansari selling out Madison Square Garden, Indians have come a long way in Hollywood, and, hopefully, the exciting times will only continue.

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

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continued from page 5 present) fame, and David Cross, who is well-known for his starring role as Tobias Fünke on “Arrested Development.” Implications of a show moving from HBO to Netflix aside, Netflix clearly saw potential in reuniting the two comedians.

A direct descendent of its HBO predecessor, “W/ Bob and David” uses a similar formula and brings back many of the same faces — Brian Posehn, Tom Kenny, Jay Johnston and others. Unlike other sketch comedy shows like “Saturday Night Live” (1975 – present), this one has a consistent narrative, at least within each episode. Skits flow from one to the other and either make direct use of characters and events from preceding skits or make reference to them. Within the span of the first episode, viewers are befuddled by a remarkably un-funny, slightly meta theatrical

interaction between a character and his doctor, repaid for their confusion by a hilarious introduction and expansion of this character and his friends and, finally, caught between grief and laughter when he passes away. The 30-minute route from point A to point B is serpentine and unexpected. Along the way, Odenkirk and Cross make reference to their previous show with a time travel skit that will have grammarians and diehard fans in stitches.

With such layered and long-running jokes, the show requires avid attention for maximum effect; anything less, and viewers may chuckle along, but the real comedic gold will remain lost to them under a layer of obscurity. The jokes are, by and large, targeted at popular culture, and some of them — such as the ones about television judges, smartphones and religious figures — may seem passé and dull with age, but others — such as the one lampooning

politically correct language — are rather pointed and cut close to sensitive areas.

It seems obvious while watching “W/ Bob and David” that this is a show put together by friends doing what they love. The actors are having a genuinely great time goofing around on the set. To wit, in an interview with Vanity Fair, Cross said, “I think so highly of [Bob] and his mind that it’s hard to put into words. It feels pretty goddamn special, more than you want it to be almost.” Their chemistry goes a long way toward making the show so fun to watch.

All four half-hour-long episodes launched on Netflix on Nov. 13, along with a one-hour special on the making of the series. While Netflix may have banked on nostalgia when creating this show, clearly the show does not have to rely on the good will of viewers for success. Anyone who enjoys involved, nonsensical comedy is sure to like “W/ Bob and David.”

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24 Lose it 30 Kentucky college or its city 31 Cod cousin 32 __ gratia artis: MGM motto 34 Spot in the control tower 35 Lose it 37 Twosomes 38 Brillo competitor 39 Alert 40 Packers quarterback Rodgers 41 Lose it 45 NASA affirmative 46 Big name in speakers 47 Prophetess 50 Works like a demon 55 Lose it 57 Lowly worker 58 True-crime author Dominick 59 Wine barrel sources 60 Applies gently 61 Hilarious types 62 Bout enders, briefly

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Maria Jose Fabre Comments from the Peanut Gallery

A call for (awareness of ) politicized solidarity

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hose who read my column regularly will know I usually make an attempt toward humor. This week, I chose to take a more somber tone. This in part is how I deal with empathizing with loss, but it is also comes from a sense of respect.

The atrocities that occurred in Paris, in Beirut and in Kenya have highlighted both current and historical human loss, hatred and unfairness.

I was incredibly uncomfortable when trying to write this column; in fact, it took significantly more rewrites than usual. Not from fear of being incendiary (though who wouldn’t fear backlash in The Daily’s comment section), but because I was unsure if it was my place to. To me, grief and mourning are incredibly personal and private.

Massive loss of life has not always been distant to my reality. Violence, injustice, even mass killings are frequent in the countries I come from: El Salvador and Argentina, by way of Colombia. The upperclass circles I was educated in tried to limit their exposure to these realities through the routinization and denial of these atrocities.

Still, while violence and injustice are not blind to class, the boundaries were often broken. Nevertheless, empathy and collective sorrow were definitely selective.

While “community” definitely serves a key role in acquiring resilience to the personal burden of loss, I wonder if that is the role that social media plays for the victims of Paris.

I wonder whether the request for a collective “humanizing pause” — a suspension of politics and critique — for the victims of Paris is even at all possible. Looking even beyond the direct political statements about and around the implication of the attacks, both the “viralization” of support and the actual symbolism behind these manifestations of support are not apolitical. The hashtag #NousSommesParis and #PrayForParis and the use of the French flag as a Facebook filter are not clean of political and geostrategic (colonial) implications. Moreover, the nature of most viralized and massive social media responses is not of collective mourning or grief, but of collective solidarity. This is undeniably a kind and humane gesture, maybe one even undeserving of the political backlash it has received by some of the more liberal social media presences, but still one that is heavily political.

To me, again, grief is personal. The feelings of empathy and sympathy are communal and humane; their public expression becomes solidarity.

I write this not in an attempt to condemn those who have expressed solidarity for victims — regardless of their locations — or even those who have pressed on both the political implications and altercations of recent events and their consequential developments.

I guess I am not sure why I write this. Perhaps as a necessity to express empathy myself, and urge to insist that the loss of every life is political, and it is the responsibility of politics in it that most troubles me. We cannot continue to act without self-awareness as to why we empathize, sympathize and with whom.

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

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Free speech debates lack nuance, empathy It has been over two weeks since Erika Christakis sent a now-infamous email to the residents of Yale’s Silliman College, over a week since Timothy Wolfe left his post as president of the University of Missouri and nearly a week since Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students at Claremont McKenna College Mary Spellman resigned from her position. The editorial board has not yet weighed in on the conversations that have emerged around these events, but as members of our community join the action being taken nationwide to fight racism on college campuses, it is time for us to do so.

On Nov. 16, an incredibly well-researched article was published on PostScript’s website describing a hate crime committed in 1975 by white Delta Upsilon brothers who were not held accountable for their actions. This is the legacy all of us have to deal with at Tufts; it is part of the legacy that makes Tufts and universities like it, in the words of those organizing on our campus as #TheThreePercent, “microcosms of the essential American condition: White supremacy.” That such a crime has been buried in the record for so long illustrates the kind of amnesia that allows for discussions whose interlocutors are “assuming that individual actions” of the sort that have given rise to protests on campuses across the United States “can be divorced from their broader context, or from the larger and more troubling legacy of racial discrimination in America,” as Gillian B. White writes in the Atlantic.

“But they can’t,” she continues.

Many of the articles that have emerged in the wake of the last few weeks’ events miss this entirely and grossly misunderstand who is entitled to free speech, who is subject to censorship and, indeed, what counts as an “idea” and what counts as an attack.

The 2013 protests at Brown University in reaction to then-New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly — like the protests that were organized in opposition to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s invitation to Tufts’ campus around the same time — brought up similar debates about free speech on college campuses. In this way, they’re directly related to the conversations currently making waves in the press, and constitute an instructive example of the kinds of discourse that have sought to use the First Amendment to excuse discrimination and violence.

Brown University President Christina Paxson responded to the protests with a statement that called them “an affront both to civil democratic society and to the University’s core values of dialogue and the free exchange of views,” according to the Brown Daily Herald. Of course, as Paxson’s statement and many other entries in this broader conversation are right to point out, it is important to be exposed to new ideas that challenge one’s view of the world — intellectual life depends on it. But there is a massive difference between an abstract idea and a lived experience or identity, and the former is too often confused with the latter. Paxson’s argument only holds water if we consider discourses and practices that degrade and dehumanize as “views” worth “exchanging.”

But they aren’t.

“I welcome and thrive off the legitimate intellectual discourse that the Providence community, and this includes my university, has afforded me,” then-student Doreen St. Felix wrote in The Guardian in an explanation of the protests’ motivations.

“But stop-and-frisk is not just an idea.

Racial profiling is not an intellectual puzzle to be spread across the table.

Stop-and-frisk is a politically sanctioned system of police brutality.”

Racist symbols and language, culturally reductive Halloween costumes and the tokenization of individuals that results from positing an exclusionary university “mold” — while absolutely not the same kind or degree of violence as racial profiling and police brutality — are enabled and structured by the same systemic racism. If we treat these acts like speech, all they are saying is that students of color do not deserve respect — and in so doing, they are speaking on behalf of the status quo, not the minority opinion.

It is our view that free speech is an invaluable feature of civil society because of its capacity to challenge such a status quo, not because of its capacity to reinforce it. “The freedom to offend the powerful is not equivalent to the freedom to bully the relatively disempowered,” Jelani Cobb wrote in the New Yorker. His insight addresses the ahistorical arguments that paradoxically defend acts of free expression that constantly silence and invalidate not only the ideas, but the very existences of people of color.

The idea that manifestations of the discrimination that is coded into much

of our socialization could offer anything new or be intellectually stimulating for anyone, and especially for those who have to deal with its violence daily, is truly baffling. The idea that a woman of color could be represented as a “bully” in a misguided but incredibly popular piece in the Atlantic for expressing her anger at a man holding a position of power at an institution of immense privilege is equally absurd. When students of color at Mizzou were finally listened to, they received death threats and little compassion from their faculty. That, not the demand to be heard, is the work of brutal censorship; protests declaring that enough is enough are free speech, not its antithesis.

As members of the free press, these declarations and demands that address power ought to be what we pay closest attention to. But when we get it wrong, we do more harm than good.

So while many media outlets are confused and outraged by the protesters and faculty who prevented journalists from documenting the campsite at University of Missouri following Wolfe’s resignation, we are not. We understand that the “twisted insincere narratives” members of Concerned Student 1950 sought to avoid have very real histories in the mainstream media’s coverage of challenges to oppression.

“These student protesters were not a government entity stonewalling access to public information or a public official hiding from media questions,” journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr wrote in the Washington Post.

“They were young people trying to create a safe space from not only the racism they encounter on campus, but the insensitivity they encounter in the news media.”

The Daily is a project analogous to those mainstream outlets, and as such, we have been guilty of producing such narratives and hostile spaces.

We strive to be better. We are committed to making our office and our pages into spaces where intellectual stimulation means challenging dominant assumptions about the world rather than reproducing them and where discomfort comes with growth rather than degradation. We aim to be a resource to which everyone can submit news tips, op-eds and columns without having to worry that their narratives will be distorted and overtaken by those “ideas” that persist and do harm.

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Op-Ed: Elephant in the room

The great debate

By Zach Schapiro In both Democratic and Republican debates thus far, some candidates have already given impressive and eloquent monologues on key issues. I call these West Wing (1999-2006) moments. These distinctive scenes are inspired by the words of President Josiah Bartlet himself, who, in the series’ fourth season, spars for re-election. In private conversation with his opponent, the New Hampshire Democrat remarks that “we should have a great debate …

We owe it to everyone.” His fictional assertion holds true today as Democratic and Republican fields begin to shrink.

A frank foreign policy debate is still overdue.

Both fields of candidates have not had a great debate on foreign policy. Some blame lies on the Trump and Carson campaigns. Especially after the awkward FoxWall Steet Journal moderating, networks are clearly at fault as well.

Out of self-interest and principle, the candidates should give the American people a sustained opportunity to better understand their perceptions and policies. Here are key foreign policy questions glossed over by moderators thus far: 1. Many of you have said, repeatedly, that your foreign policy would be fundamentally different from that of the Obama administration. One key point of contention is the question of whether America should promote its values externally. Would your foreign policy be rooted in advancing American-style democracy abroad?

Truly challenging questions should start here, at the

foundation — whether candidates take the conventional line or a more realist, or isolationist, approach.

This will inform a great many of their decisions on a variety of issues — namely entanglement abroad and foreign aid.

2. Aside from Iran, name one alliance the United States should re-evaluate, and why.

Responses to this question give the electorate a chance to distinguish more thoughtful, polished doctrines from those posed by Trump and Carson.

Candidates will be forced to explain their choices and, in doing so, they will reveal their views on certain problematic diplomatic relationships.

3. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are two notable and controversial American allies in the Middle East. As president, how would you respond to Egyptian and Saudi requests for more aid or greater support?

Much like the first question, this poses a doctrinal challenge to each candidate. Their answers to this question would be telling on two levels. First, comparing this series of responses to those of the first question will show how cohesive each doctrine would be. Second, it yet again tests candidates’ level of polished, nuanced knowledge of the issues. In the Egyptian case, since President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s ascent to power, many American leaders have called for expanded support while skirting the implications of supporting a repressive leader. Historically, pre-

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vious administrations — Democrat and Republican alike — have supported dictators like Sadat in Egypt and the Shah in Iran, with mixed results at best. And bringing up the Saudi case helps shift the conversation to the issue of energy, another key facet of any strong, coherent foreign policy doctrine.

4. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for “some of the mistakes” made during the 2003 Iraq invasion and occupation. With this controversial decision behind us, how would you define your criteria for going to war and concluding a military campaign?

What concrete objectives indicate success and failure in war?

Challenging the candidates to provide concise overviews of quantifiable objectives in deciding to go to war and waging war again with this broad question would help test for nuance. Under Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama, American foreign policy has suffered from mission creep — widening military campaigns beyond an original set of goals, often leading to prolonged, unsustainable intervention and post-war occupations.

Candidates’ answers would speak for themselves. This challenge offers another opportunity for the more knowledgable candidates to shine and for the weaker ones to fall short.

Zach Shapiro is a senior majoring in international relations and an Op-Ed Contributing Writer. He can be reached at zachary.shapiro@tufts.edu.

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Returning players expected to step up under new coach Norton

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continued from back stands. I think we’ve got a lot of guys who are ready to step up and contribute.”

New coach Pat Norton is meeting with players and attempting to build a rapport with them before the season opener. Norton’s hiring is a boon for the program, and the players and coaching staff alike are excited.

“Coach Norton is great,” senior co-captain defenseman Brian Ouellette said. “He got hired late, so he got thrown into a tough role right away. But he’s really stepped up. He’s been meeting with all of the guys. He tells it how it is, which is great. It’s what we are looking for. He runs good practice and knows the game well, so we are looking forward to seeing how he does in games.

And hopefully [we will] get him some good wins.”

Keating believes Norton wants the team to play with pace, win and lose with

class and be a nuisance to play against.

“You get your coaching philosophies from who you played for and who you coach for, and what you do is you mold it together and become your own coach,” Keating said. “[Coach Norton] is one of the only coaches I know who’s coached with the [now retired] Div. I national coach of the year…Bruce Crowder, at Northeastern and the Div. III national coach of the year at Norwich in Mike McShane, so he’s had a lot of people to learn from.”

Perhaps the Jumbos’ greatest asset is their depth at goalie. Junior Mason Pulde started last year and logged 75 percent of the Jumbos’ minutes in goal.

His .914 save percentage was eighth in the NESCAC last season. Sophomore Ryan McConnell guarded the net in six games, including in a 4-3 overtime victory over Bowdoin. Sophomore Nik Nugnes is new for the Jumbos in goal this season.

“We have three goalies, and they are

all very good,” Keating said. “They’re all battling right now, and they’re all competitive. And they are all supporting each other, but at the same time, they are beating each other out. The person who starts will earn it, but they will all get playing time throughout the year because they are all so close and competitive and good.”

The Jumbos plan to take the season one game at a time, with the hope of winning a NESCAC championship in the forefront of their minds. Keating believes winning a NESCAC championship is even more difficult than winning a national championship because of the high level of competition in the NESCAC right now.

“Our focus is on winning this league,” Ouellette said. “We’ve never done it, but last year really gave us a taste … One hundred percent our focus right now is getting back to that championship weekend and winning those last two games.”

Tufts looks ahead to season-opening meet against Middlebury, Conn. this weekend

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continued from back The first-years have lived up to their rankings, with Jinn and Doolan clinching the titles of men’s and women’s Swimmer of the Week on collegeswimming.com, respectively, following their impressive performances at the New England Invitational held on Nov. 7 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Bowen has already set an unofficial Tufts record for the 100-meter medley race at the recent Alumni meet.

Both teams look ahead to the Middlebury Invitational on Nov. 21, where they will be competing against Middlebury and Conn. College. Mahoney highlighted that Middlebury has recruitCaroline Ambros / Tufts Daily Archive ed very strongly this year and therefore Tufts swimmer Kathryn Coniglio (LA ‘15) competes against Wellesley College on Jan. 21. will be a force to reckon with this weekThe teams will compete in a numend. Conn. College, meanwhile, will con- presence and show them that we’ve trained really hard already,” women’s team senior ber of dual-meets to open the season. tinue to be an important rival.

“Connecticut College and Middlebury tri-captain Randi Katz said. “We’re hop- They are both working toward the NESCAC are very big competitors, so with this week- ing that at [the] NESCAC [Championships] Championships, which will be held in March 2016. end coming up we want to have a strong we’ll be on par with them.”

t seemed like just another international friendly match in which France and Germany were writing yet another chapter in their sporting rivalry. The horrors that struck 83 minutes into the game, however, changed all of that.

From inside the Stade de France, located just outside Paris, the blasts could be heard. Was it merely someone setting off fireworks or firecrackers in the stadium to add to the atmosphere? Television viewers and attendees alike couldn’t tell. The French fans continued to chant “aux armes,” a war chant sung to inspire their team during matches. Little did we know that over the course of the night, more than 120 lives would be taken and hundreds would be left wounded.

And when the gravity of events became clear, so too then, was our path forward.

We love the beautiful game because of how the individual brilliance of a player can bring joy to our lives. We love the sport even more when we see sheer grit and camaraderie displayed on the field.

The French team demonstrated this yesterday when it was given the opportunity to pull out of a friendly match held yesterday in England.

The players decided to compete. In being determined to carry on, they have demonstrated their tenacity.

And because of this, we have won.

By not letting terror beat us, we have instead continued to honor valor, beauty and humanity.

In our moments of despair, we take pleasure in supporting our clubs and national teams. We paint our faces in our team’s colors. We celebrate when our team wins, and we feel the sorrow when it loses. On Tuesday, the French donned their soccer jerseys with more pride than ever, as they stepped into Wembley Stadium in London, home of one of their oldest sporting rivals. With English fans singing “La Marseillaise” (1792) — the French national anthem — with gusto, we are reminded of the beauty of our game. Our humanity transcends any sporting rivalry. The beautiful game heals.

Will there be any enemy greater than the face of terror? Or were there any greater sorrows than the lives lost? I think not. Just like how the many landmarks from Sydney to Dubai, Tokyo to D.C., turned blue, white and red, the soccer world will put aside its many differences to stand together, as we remember the lives lost in Paris on Nov. 13.

We remember, too, the lives lost in Beirut. And those lost in Baghdad.

Every innocent life taken by the terrorists is a crime against humanity.

We bleed soccer. But we bleed too, for a little more love, a little more humanity.

Je suis Paris. Je suis un enfant du monde.

I am a child of the world. We all are.

Yuan Jun Chee is a first-year majoring in history. He can be reached yuan. chee@tufts.edu.

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Sports

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

HOCKEY

Tufts plays defending national champion Trinity in season opener

by Phillip Goldberg Sports Editor

The Jumbos are at a crossroads. They have not posted a winning record since the 2011-12 season (12-11-2), yet last year’s 9-15-2 regular season finish belies their postseason success. Tufts defeated eventual national champion Trinity 2-1 in the NESCAC quarterfinals before falling to future NCAA tournament semifinalist Amherst 3-2 in the NESCAC semifinals.

For a team that had never before won a postseason game, these results were nothing to be scoffed at. The Jumbos hope to build on their performance in last year’s postseason in order to legitimately contend for a NESCAC championship. While there is potential for the team to succeed, it could, however, remain mired in mediocrity and post another losing season.

An away game against Trinity on Nov. 20 marks the beginning of Tufts’ new season and will provide an excellent measure for how the team is shaping up this season. Although losing six players to graduation — including former all-NESCAC second team defenseman and tri-captain Blake Edwards (LA ’15) — significantly decreases the level of experience on the team, the six seniors hope to continue the program’s momentum.

“We obviously had some important [players] graduate last year, [and] going into [the season with a game against] the defending national champion — there’s not really a tougher test going in to start the season,” senior co-captain forward Stewart Bell said. “It will be exciting to

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Tufts senior forward Keith Campbell carries the puck during Tufts’ 7-2 defeat against Trinity at the Malden Forum Ice Rink on Nov. 16, 2014. see where we are…and [to] hopefully get two big points on the road.”

Assistant coach Matthew Keating expects the Jumbos to pick up from where they left off in the postseason last year.

“Every year is different,” Keating said. “[Trinity has] a different team. We have a different team. Our mentality hasn’t changed. We beat them in the playoffs last year, so why can’t we do

it again? Everybody is…picking Trinity again, and nobody is really giving us a shot, so I think that’s motivating us.”

The Jumbos return 10 members of the sophomore class this season — the largest class on the team. Sophomore forward Brian Brown led the team with 13 goals last season and tacked on 10 assists as well. His ability to build or maintain those numbers will be an

indicator of how well the Jumbos are doing this year.

“I think we’ve got a good group of [first-years] coming in this year, and everyone who is coming back from last year is going to be expected to build their role up some more,” Bell said. “So it will be interesting to see where everyone see HOCKEY, page 11

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Jumbos aim to move up NESCAC rankings with host of fresh talent

by Maddie Payne Staff Writer

With 29 new first-years joining the squads, the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams look formidable going into the winter season. New members include two-time Ohio state champion Kingsley Bowen, two-time West Virginia finalist David Nason, two-time Mississippi state champion Alexandra Good and four-time Michigan finalist Larisa Kokubo.

In the last three seasons, the men’s team was able to claim fourth place finishes in the NESCAC, consistently losing out on a top three spot to Williams, Amherst and Conn. College.

“We always strive to be top three; we’re always really competitive with Conn.

College,” senior tri-captain Cam Simko said. “That’s definitely the school that’s right in front of us every time. We’re really hoping that this year with our strong freshman class we can push up there.”

Both Simko and fellow senior tri-captain Michael Winget pointed to first-years Bowen and Brandon Jinn as potential stars of the team.

“Kingsley [Bowen] and Brandon [Jinn] are people whose times should put them in contention to be top eight in the NESCAC,” Simko said.

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Sophomore Jacob Siegelbaum and other contestants push off the ledge to start the 100meter backstroke at Hamilton Pool on Jan. 20.

Despite the large number of incoming first-year recruits, every swimmer is given the opportunity to swim and practice equally, with four opportunities per day to practice. The volume of incoming talent has forced the upperclassmen to raise their performances in order to compete with the first-years.

The incoming swimmers are often in peak athletic form as they are coming straight off summer training sessions

with their club teams. The strength of these incoming athletes therefore forces the entire team to up its game.

Winget is not concerned about the large team size of 43, explaining that in college, swimmers compete in fewer races per meet, giving them the opportunity to focus on a few key events. Swimmers can become highly effective in a certain event, rather than having to be strong in many dif-

ferent ones to score more points for the team.

The women’s team has been frustrated by disappointing finishes in the NESCAC the past few years, finishing seventh in both 2013 and 2014. Senior tri-captain Sarah Mahoney believes that this was not a true reflection of the team’s talent and said that it aims to finish in the top five this season.

Mahoney is excited about the team’s prospect this season, citing first-year Colleen Doolan as an extremely promising new member. She also mentioned three new long-distance swimmers who will likely make an impact this season.

Adam Hoyt is entering his 12th season as the head coach of the men’s team, but this will be his first year leading the women’s team. Former women’s head coach Nancy Bigelow now serves as the associate head coach to both programs.

“We’ve seen some changes in the way we train, the way we lift…and the way we operate as a team,” Mahoney said. “It’s been an adjustment period, but I think we’re only going to get faster and stronger.”

Hoyt has also been recruiting heavily, leading to a decrease in the number of walk-ons in the past few years. see SWIMMING AND DIVING, page 11