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Faculty in the Department of Romance Languages approved a new Portuguese minor on Wednesday amid declining student interest in the department as a whole.

The Portuguese minor, which will become available for students next semester, may help maintain enrollment in Portuguese courses, according to Portuguese coordinator Cristiane Soares.

A March 2014 survey cited in the Portuguese minor proposal, provided to the Daily by Soares, found that 93 percent of students taking Portuguese at the time reported that they would complete the minor if it were offered.

“We see that more and more, students are coming because they have [a] professional interest,” Soares said.

“It is not just that they are heritage speakers of the language; they can see that they can use the language in their future.”

She explained that there are currently enough Portuguese courses to fulfill the university’s language requirement, but that having a minor will provide an incentive for students to continue studying the language.

“We think the minor is going to be very important because a lot of students

decided to take other languages, or simply stop taking Portuguese because they didn’t have a minor,” Soares said. “They couldn’t say, ‘I have this degree.’”

Chair of the Department of Romance Languages Professor Pedro Palou explained that without a minor, students may not seek to pursue more advanced courses.

“A lot of people just drop Portuguese after Portuguese 1 or 2,” Palou said.

Soares said when she first started at Tufts in spring 2010, there was a surge in Portuguese course enrollment.

According to data collected by the Modern Language Association (MLA), national enrollment in Portuguese, the national language of Brazil and Portugal, increased by 10.1 percent between 2009 and 2013.

“The economy of Brazil became very important worldwide,” Soares said.

“Students and professionals started to realize [that] if you want to talk about specific things, we have to include Brazil in this discussion.”

“Because of the Olympic games and the World Cup, everything was Brazil, Brazil, Brazil,” Palou said.

However, enrollment numbers have been on a steady decline since the initial surge, Soares added.

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#thethreepercent Update

by Abigail Feldman Managing Editor

Leaders of Wednesday’s march to Porter Square, organized under the name of #thethreepercent, released a more detailed version of their demands for the Tufts administration yesterday. The demands, which were first announced in the Mayer Campus Center during the demonstration, include increasing the number of Black-identifying students and faculty at Tufts, improving the quality of mental health services provided for Black students and eliminating increased police surveillance of events hosted by Black student organizations.

In the letter, the students contextualize and specify the actions necessary for the university to fulfill its obligations to Black students, providing relevant narratives and statistics about the current experiences of Black students.

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“The needs addressed in this document have been generated and written

by Black people, about Black people, for Black people,” the letter reads. “In that, we mean to speak on behalf of solely the Black undergraduate students at Tufts Medford/Somerville campus. We have not made these demands to imply that no other forms of institutional racism and oppression are perpetuated on this campus, but rather in these demands is a collection of the specific changes that must be addressed in order for Tufts to carry out its obligations to its Black students.”

Last night, Monaco and BrimhallVargas released their own statement describing their plans for addressing students’ demands. They explained that they had held a meeting with students at the Africana Center on Nov. 17 — the day before the march — to discuss students’ concerns about the diversity of the student body and faculty, public safety and

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the role of Tufts’ Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council and Working Group, among other topics.

“These are serious concerns and we ended that meeting with an agreement that we would continue the conversation on specific issues at a meeting before the end of the semester,” the letter read.

Monaco and Brimhall-Vargas said they are in the process of once again reaching out to students through the Africana Center to schedule a follow-up meeting. According to the letter, representatives from the office of the provost, admissions, public safety, health and wellness and student affairs will attend the meeting, which is expected to be held sometime early next week.

“Despite positive steps, we know that Tufts still has much work to do,” Monaco and Brimhall-Vargas wrote. “We believe that the administration in partnership with faculty, staff, and students can enable meaningful change on our campus.”

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about race, intersectionality

by Elise Westervelt Contributing Writer

Professor Fatima El-Tayeb of University of California at San Diego gave a lecture on the intersectionality of race, religion and sexuality, as well as the persistence of racism in Europe, at the Interfaith Center Tuesday evening.

The Nov. 17 lecture, titled “Queer Life of Diaspora,” was hosted by the Consortium of Studies for Race, Colonialism and Diaspora (CSRD) and the Tufts LGBT Center.

The event was organized by Lisa Lowe, a professor of English and the director of the Colonialism Studies program, and Nino Testa, director of the LGBT Center. Testa said that the talk was particularly relevant to the way recent ISIS bombings have been covered in the media.

“We planned the event a few months ago, but increasingly it feels like an especially timely event, particularly watching the coverage of the attacks in Paris this week and the lack of coverage of the attacks in Beirut,” Testa said. “To have this space where we could think in a more complicated way about the dynamics at play was really important.”

Lowe began the event by introducing El-Tayeb, who is her former colleague.

“It’s no exaggeration to say that there really is no other cultural critic who combines with such range and originality studies of race, gender, sexuality, nationalism and contemporary politics,” Lowe said of El-Tayeb. “Her work brings together studies of immigration, colonial difference and racialization in both Europe and North America, a connection that’s become all the more urgent in the last decade and in light of the refugee crisis in Europe and recent bombings in Beirut and Paris.”

El-Tayeb began her talk by explaining that the title of the lecture represents an adoption of terms that were once used to separate minorities from the rest of the population.

“Both ‘queer’ and ‘diaspora’ are in some ways terms of displacement, of being outof-sync with what is considered the norm,” she said. “So the queer life of diaspora, for me, speaks to the potential of mobilizing this out-of-syncness in order to challenge a global system of racial capitalism, of interlocking binaries.”

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continued from page 1 about Europeans who believe that they are above racism, while ignoring Europe’s own racist history.

“In short, contemporary Europeans believe themselves to be, generally, ‘colorblind,’” El-Tayeb said. “They claim not to ‘get’ race, especially after referring to the supposed American obsession with it … This ongoing racial amnesia is made possible through the erasure of the history of European racism and the history of Europeans of color.”

According to El-Tayeb, although the history of racism in Europe is different than the history of racism in the United States, it is no less fraught.

“Despite the…explicitly race-based policies of both Europe’s fascist regimes and its colonial empires, the continent is often marginal in discourses on race, in particular in discourses focused on the present,” she said. “Rather than a lack of history of racialization, what we find is a racial amnesia, an ongoing dialectic of outbreaks of racist moral panics and denials of historic presence of racialized populations.”

El-Tayeb also talked about the current European refugee crisis in relation to the history of colonialism, pointing out what she sees as the hypocritical comparison of refugees to barbarians.

“In discussions around the refugee cri-

sis, the most used comparisons are the barbarian invasions, but something that surprisingly is never mentioned is the fact that 85 million Europeans left the continent in a relatively short period to invade other parts of the world that had no say in whether they wanted to accept those people,” she said.

El-Tayeb went on to speak about the racialization of Muslims in Europe, discussing the anti-hijab laws in several European nations and what this means for European Muslims.

“In Europe, [the hijab] becomes a symbol of European inability to tolerate visual markers of otherness,” she said. “There are anti-hijab, anti-headscarf laws in France, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and the Netherlands — that is, some of the most wealthy, most secular and progressive European nations.”

El-Tayeb explained that the level of outcry against the hijab seems disproportionate given the relatively small population of Muslims in these countries, until they are viewed from an anti-Islamic standpoint.

“It makes a lot more sense if we see it as a resistance to accepting Islam as a European religion, one that requires the acceptance of public expression through hijab, through mosques,” she said. “That is, the recognition that Islam and Europe are indeed compatible.”

El-Tayeb concluded her speech with

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Fatima El-Tayeb speaks in the Interfaith Center on Nov. 17 about racialization in the United States and Europe. a discussion of the current lack of intersectionality between racial and sexual identities, saying that racial and sexual minorities are often seen as mutually exclusive.

“To become properly gay, queer people of color have to perform a version of coming out that means coming into an already liberated white queer community, while permanently leaving behind communities of color or Islam,” she said. “This is a process that has been criticized repeatedly by

Muslim and other queer of color activists in Europe.”

El-Tayeb, who was born in Germany, explained that she became involved in the discussion around queer diaspora and intersectionality because of her desire to find a place for herself and her identity.

“I’m a black German, so people always treated me as though I couldn’t exist,” she said. “It was not an intellectual interest. It was me figuring out where I fit in and what was going on.”

Romance language department launches initiatives in response to decreased enrollmemt ROMANCE LANGUAGES

continued from page 1 That number had decreased to 95 students the following year, and 63 and 64 students were enrolled in Portuguese courses in the fall 2013 and spring 2014 semesters, respectively. Last academic year, 46 students took Portuguese courses in the fall and 37 students did so in the spring.

Soares said the decrease in enrollment reflects patterns affecting other languages.

“From the first year I was here until the third year, it was just growing, growing, growing,” she said. “We had like double the numbers in the first three years. And then what happened across Romance languages, [as] we saw with all Romance languages across the country, was the numbers were going down a little.”

Student enrollment in Romance languages at Tufts has declined over the years, according to the data provided by Palou and Birdsall. In 2011, there were 86 seniors who graduated with degrees in Romance languages, but by 2014, only 57 seniors graduated with Romance language degrees. Last spring, only 36 students graduated with a degree in Romance languages.

This downward trend at Tufts reflects national patterns; enrollment in Spanish and French at undergraduate and graduate American institutions dropped by 8.2 percent and 8.1 percent respectively between 2009 and 2013, according to data collected by the MLA. National enrollment in Italian decreased by 11.3 percent during that time period.

Dr. Laura Baffoni Licata, coordinator of the Italian Studies program, said she has seen cyclical changes in participation in Romance language studies.

“I’ve seen cycles of enrollment, but

this time [the declining trend] seems to be more of a national trend in the humanities and foreign languages,” Licata said.

Licata explained that economics may have been a factor motivating this decline.

“After the 2008 economic crash, a lot of jobs were lost,” she said. “There was a huge concern students wouldn’t have jobs after leaving university, and the fields that seemed easier, more approachable to finding jobs were computer science, engineering departments, science.”

Licata said that she expects enrollment to increase as the economy improves, but that the department still needs time to catch up.

Palou also cited economic pressures as a factor turning students away from Romance languages in general.

“If you fulfill or almost fulfill the language requirement, and there is a strong push by the parents to major in something profitable, you just say I [will] get rid of languages as I get rid of the culture or arts requirements…and pursue this major that is so profitable,” he said.

However, Palou said that there can be problems with choosing a major based on its perceived profitability.

“I believe that’s a myth because if you’re not good at your major, you’re going to be serving tables, no matter how profitable [it is],” he said.

De s p i t e the e n ro l l m e n t declines, Palou said that the department is healthy and that no majors or minors are in danger of extinction.

However, he added something needs to be done to counteract this trend.

“You can’t rest on your laurels and say, ‘Oh, we are healthy,’” Palou said.

“We are very aware we want to be not only a healthy department, but a

department that offers something the students are needing and wanting and concerned about.”

The department offers courses in English about the literature and culture of various Romance languages, according to Palou.

“I think it’s a way of bringing people to the languages apart from the language requirements,” Palou said.

These English-language capstone courses already exist for Spanish and French, but a new course on “Italian Society and Culture” will be offered next fall, according to Palou. The course on Italian will be an introductory course to the culture, but will expose students to the language as well, he said.

“You start knowing the vocabulary and reading small things [in the language] and start seeing the film screened in Italian with the translation in English,” Palou said. “You start thinking, ‘Ok, this is something I could do.’”

According to the data provided by Birdsall and Palou, Italian is the language with the lowest course enrollments at Tufts. Licata explained that many students have few opportunities to learn Italian before coming to college.

“You’ll find very few high schools that will offer Italian,” she said.

He said that bilingualism is beneficial to fields such as finance and healthcare.

According to Palou, these events are hosted by the Department of Romance Languages, in conjunction with the Career Center. There will be a “What to do with your French Major” event this fall and a similar event for Spanish majors next semester, he said.

“One of the people that’s coming in the spring is an expert in stock markets and finance and is working in French,” Palou said. “And all his clients are French.”

While Licata has not formally planned an official event for Italian majors, she said she is considering hosting a Skype event for juniors, seniors and undecided majors at which alumni would explain how they used their major in their careers.

Similarly, Soares asked seniors who took Portuguese and have gone abroad to talk to first-year who are just starting the language this year. “[Seniors told] them about their experiences, how their applications for jobs have opened since learning the language,” she said. “If you want to have good opportunities in your life, you need to speak more than one language.”

The Department of Romance Languages has launched various initiatives, including hosting career-focused events. According to Palou, the department now hosts events with alumni who explain how majoring in a language helped their career, partially to combat the belief that Romance languages do not serve as profitable majors.

“There is a lot of interest and need of people that are bilingual … I’m not talking about translators or interpreters,” Palou said.

Sophomore Alex Dorfman, a Spanish and English double major, said that having a bilingual perspective makes a difference.

“Learning other languages changes how you think and how you process information,” she said.

Palou agreed that students should have experiences with other languages to expand their worldview.

“If you think monolingual[ly], it really shortens and narrows your world,” Palou said. “One language besides English has to be pursued not only as a language, but as a perspective of really engaging with the world outside of the United States.”

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Two years of constant scandal had greatly damaged Justin Bieber’s reputation and, in an industry where entire careers are built upon the ability of an artist to maintain goodwill with the public, it appeared that Bieber had long exhausted whatever favor he might have once enjoyed. After all, the Canadian pop star has never done much to endear himself to those outside of his admittedly enormous fan base of young teenage girls.

With only a month-and-a-half left in 2015, it is fairly safe to say that Bieber has done the impossible in orchestrating what is arguably the biggest comeback of the year. So, how did Bieber get people to stop paying attention to his drunken mishaps and buy his music instead? By shifting everyone’s attention back to the one thing that people of all ages can get behind: music.

The release of “Where Are Ü Now” in February set the stage for Bieber’s grand comeback. The song seemingly came out of nowhere early in the year and broke from all conventions of Bieber’s previous work. Combining Kygo-esque tropical house beats and Bieber’s instantly recognizable falsetto, the unexpected collaboration with EDM heavyweights Diplo and Skrillex cast Bieber’s music in a whole new light. While EDM is not necessarily known for addressing emotionally heavy topics, “Where Are Ü Now” does not shy away from conveying Bieber’s feelings of loss and isolation. He pleads to the listener, “Where are you now

that I need ya?” In an interview, the three collaborators even revealed that the song’s trademark flute-like sound on the instrumental section following this line is Bieber’s voice digitally altered to sound deliberately inhuman, further enhancing the song’s heartbreaking quality.

With “Where Are Ü Now” cementing Bieber’s return to pop radio, Bieber’s comeback fully came to fruition in August, with the release of an absolute monster of a pop song: “What Do You Mean?” It loses the more experimental elements of “Where Are Ü Now,” but the song continued Bieber’s winning streak. The alleged ode to ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez references “girls [who are] often flip-floppy” and fully embraces the new minimalist dancepop sound that Bieber has crafted for himself. Its debut atop the Billboard Hot 100 not only gave Bieber his first number one single but also proved that Bieber Fever was once more sweeping the nation.

Capitalizing on the success of these two monster hits, “Purpose,” which was released on Nov. 13, is where the Bieber apology tour comes full circle. After so many years of bad press, Bieber has finally managed to shift the attention away from his private life and on to what is effectively an apology set to music. Drawing primarily upon the R&B and dance-pop sounds he has previously explored, “Purpose” sees Bieber willing to try on different musical hats with varying degrees of success.

The first half of “Purpose” is an incredible opening salvo. These songs constitute some of the album’s strongest material. “I’ll Show You” is a

moody electropop tune focusing solely on the wear and tear of fame. With lines such as “Cause life’s not easy, I’m not made out of steel / Don’t forget that I’m human, don’t forget that I’m real,” it is hard for listeners to avoid hearing the weariness in Bieber’s voice — he sounds much older than his 21 years. Yet when “Sorry” comes blasting through the speakers, all sadness is obliterated. This club-ready banger makes a more-than-convincing plea to an estranged lover for forgiveness.

However, the biggest disappointment of “Purpose” is that Bieber seems to lose his willingness to experiment over the course of the album’s 13 tracks. “Love Yourself,” a song Bieber co-wrote with Ed Sheeran, sounds just like any other Sheeran tune, and, compared to previous songs on the album, that really is not much of a compliment. Even more cringeworthy is the EDM anthem “Children,” as Bieber all-too-seriously poses to the listener, “What about the children?” “The Feeling,” Bieber’s collaboration with rising pop star Halsey, saves this otherwise desolate, depressing second half, yet this song, too, suffers from unimaginative production.

While “Purpose” is a fairly uneven affair, the album succeeds in reinventing Bieber and provides more than enough highlights along the way to definitively prove that the 21-year-old Canadian is, indeed, quite talented.

Even though “Purpose” may not be remembered as the best LP of the next five years, it certainly stands a chance of becoming the most influential. That in itself is a grand achievement for any artist to make, especially for one whom most people had written off long ago.

omeone asked me this week if NYSD was just Rebecca and me talking about our personal lives and whether that is considered an “advice” column. To this, my response was… obviously. Yes, Rebecca and I do primarily talk about ourselves, but what better way to get advice? A large part of advice is learning what NOT to do, which is exactly what our SWUG-like personal anecdotes provide.

Unlike your average advice columns, NYSD has a literary take on things. We really want our readers to engage with the content we provide and try to deduce the wholesome advice we are providing. Additionally, NYSD also provides you with top notch opinions on politics, the environment and general things that piss us off. This week, daylight savings time is on my hit list. Firstly, only select countries decide they have the power to literally alter time. Secondly, I already have 12 hours of jetlag to deal with, who gets off giving me another time change? Also, the policy is apparently used to save electricity.

My question is, how are we saving electricity if we have one more hour of darkness?

Doesn’t that just mean keeping the lights on an extra hour? Take it from the dynamic duo that brought you the news of dangerous microbeads before the New York Times — daylight savings time is a sham.

Why is your food so funny?

Rebecca: I find this offensive, unless the person who submitted this question is referring to something Pooja cooked. My food is not funny — I am great at baking brownies.

Pooja, however, once told me she would make me coconut rice. She used vanilla flavored coconut milk. Her rice tasted like a mixture of sunscreen and Malibu Coconut Rum. Likewise, Pooja views expiration dates as suggestions. After her housemate, Nayana, went abroad, instead of throwing out the groceries she left behind, Pooja ate wrinkled kale for weeks. So yes, Pooja’s food is funny, and the reason is her inability to read the labels of her ingredients.

When one is texting a potential romantic partner, how should one go about “bringing it home?”

Rebecca: I am often told that I am a terrible texter. In fact, I have been told that I “text like a boy” because I “don’t use enough Ys after Yay.” The main complaint is that I type exactly what I think. If I am going to be somewhere in five minutes, I will write “Be there in 5.” It has been brought to my attention that this can be read as a command to the person that I am texting. Pooja should probably be answering this question instead but, personally, I think puns are the way to go. I am a sucker for wordplay. For instance, if you’re in the same class as your love interest, use that as material. If I had a crush on my lab partner, I’d ask them if they felt the chemistry too! So get texting and get punny reader!

That’s all we have for this week! Please send us questions to our google doc or TUFTSNYSD@gmail.com!

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

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by D3hoops.com. Her dominance in the paint — fourth in rebounds per game in the NESCAC and second in blocks — will play an important role in Tufts’ approach to this season.

Three first-year players join the roster this season: guard Jacqueline Knapp, forward Katie Martensen and forward Lindsay Bloom. While their roles for the team are still taking shape this early on, coach Berube was encouraged by the progress thus far.

“I will say they are working very hard, and they’re picking things up pretty quickly and I think that they fit very well into our team,” she said. “So I’m excited about their future … We’ll see what kind of impact they can have right away. It all has to do with what they can give every day in practice, and like I said, I think they’ve been working really hard. And they’ve gotten a lot of reps in practice because we’ve had some sicknesses and some injuries, so they’ve been on that court. You know, I think that they’re getting right out there, and we’re throwing them into the fire, so it can only be good for their experience.”

The Jumbos will start the season with an away matchup at Brandeis. The first month-and-a-half or so of competition will not count as in-conference play, giving Tufts plenty of time to prepare for the stretch of the season that will determine whether or not it has the opportunity to claim a third consecutive

NESCAC crown.

These games will be the preparation the team needs for conference play, which starts in January.

That does not mean, however, that the early games are any less important or challenging.

Brandeis is the reigning Eastern College Athletic Conference champion, and Eastern Connecticut State University, Tufts’ second opponent, advanced to the Sweet 16 in last year’s Div. III championship, Tufts sophomore guard where it was on Feb. 22. defeated by Tufts.

“This will be a really good test for us, and I’m excited to see how we respond,” Berube said in regard to the opening stretch of games. “Both teams will have played three games before we’ve played our first. It’ll be exciting for sure.”

Looking ahead a bit further, Tufts’ third game of the season, on Nov. 30, comes against another former national

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Lauren Dillon slams into a Bowdoin defender during the NESCAC Championship game

championship opponent, University of New England, a team that Tufts defeated in overtime on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from Liz Moynihan (LA ’14).

The fourth contest of the season will be a Dec. 5 game against NESCAC opponent Bowdoin — a rematch of last year’s NESCAC championship.

With a competitive stretch of first games ahead of them and a lot of suc-

cess behind them, the Jumbos are ready for the opportunity to prove themselves once again.

“I think the seniors last year were kind of a lot of our offense — they all did a little bit of everything,” Roberson said.

“So there are a lot of roles to be filled, and I think, like I said, people are just really excited to step up and fill those roles for us this year.”

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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Preview

Experience will be key to Tufts’ success this season

by Alex Schroeder Sports Editor

Of the 13 years that coach Carla Berube has led the Tufts women’s basketball team, the 2014-15 season may have been the most decorated. Back-to-back NESCAC championships, back-to-back NCAA Div. III semifinal appearances, the United States Marine Corps/Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) NCAA Div. III National Coach of the Year award and a second consecutive 30-win season. Not only that, but her student-athletes collected two WBCA All-American honors, the D3hoops Northeast Region Player of the Year award, the NESCAC Player of the Year honor, a Capital One Academic All-District team selection and three AllNESCAC selections among themselves.

“We know that we’re a new team this year and, kind of, that past success doesn’t really mean much for this year, except that I think it does almost help us in practice because we know that every team is kind of out gunning for us.”

That might be a mouthful, but it does not even cover all that the women’s basketball team has accomplished over the past few years.

The program’s prestige has steadily risen, but that is not where its focus is heading into this season. Instead, knowing that they have a target on their back as one of the top four teams in the country from last year, the Jumbos are preparing and pushing even harder to exceed that success this year.

“We’ve been super successful in the

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Tufts center Hayley Kanner (LA ’15) goes up for a layup during the first half of the Tufts women’s basketball game against Fitchburg State in Cousens Gym on Dec. 6, 2014. past, but we don’t want to dwell on that,” senior guard Emma Roberson said. “We know that we’re a new team this year and, kind of, that past success doesn’t really mean much for this year, except that I think it does almost help us in practice because we know that every team is kind of outgunning for us. You always want to be the team who won the league championship the prior year, so I think that just kind of motivates us more to work harder and know that every team is going to give us their best game.”

Tufts, who enters the 2015-16 season ranked No. 3 in the preseason polls, will take the court without some integral pieces of the 2013-14 and 2014-15 teams.

All-American Hayley Kanner (LA ’15),

Kelsey Morehead (LA ’15) and Hannah Foley (E ’15) were all starters on the teams that won the program’s first and second NESCAC championships. The tri-captains from last year could get it done on both ends of the court, often leading the team in offensive and defensive stats categories over their four-year careers at Tufts.

At the same time, however, both Morehead and Foley were injured for extended periods of time last year, which gave younger players a wealth of experience on the floor. Not only did Tufts repeat its record-breaking year from 2013-14, but it did it with a fullteam dynamic as players stepped up to fill voids left by injuries. In particular,

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The Tufts women’s basketball team poses with the championship banner after winning for the second consecutive year on Feb. 22.

sophomore point guard Lauren Dillon, junior guard Josie Lee and sophomore forward Melissa Baptista gained minutes on the court.

Berube noted that young players gained notable experience last year and have grown as players. “[Dillon] seems like a seasoned veteran out there right now running the point,” she said. “And Melissa [Baptista], as well, has stepped up into a larger role already.”

Lee, however, who often took over for an injured Foley last season, has been battling an injury of her own in the preseason. Her status for the season opener on Saturday was unknown as of press time.

The team is hopeful that last year’s conditions have built a strong foundation for this team.

“Josie [Lee’s] still coming back from an injury, so she hasn’t quite gotten on the court yet,” Berube said. “But we’ll see how all of that experience that those three, [Dillon, Baptista and Lee], got with the injuries of Hannah and Kelsey last year, how it transfers into what they are this year. So far, those returners from last year, you know, I’ve been really happy with their leadership and [that they have been] bringing along the [first-years] that we have, so we’ll see. Court-wise, it’s hard to tell in practice.”

Roberson echoed these sentiments, explaining that being given the opportunity to play vital roles in the big run during last year’s season helped the team members build the confidence needed to step up and be a leader on and off the court.

Though the Jumbos’ starting lineup for the first game was still shifting and settling into place throughout the final week of practice, one thing is certain: The team will definitely see major contributions from junior Michela North. North led the NESCAC in shooting percentage last year and was selected as a preseasee WOMEN'S BASKETBALL, page 7