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Student senators discuss potential changes to campus shuttle system

by Roy Yang News Editor

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate agreed to provide funding to continue the Late Night Dining program after discussing changes to campus shuttle routes and supplementary funding requests at its Sunday night meeting.

TCU President Brian Tesser opened the meeting with updates on the ad-hoc residential group committee that met last Monday. According to Tesser, a senior, the group prioritized short-term goals that Senate and the administration can accomplish together.

Senator Luis Del Rosario then discussed his meeting with Transportation and Fleet Manager Andrea Breault about improving the campus shuttle system.

According to Del Rosario, students have reported that the buses from A & A Metro Transportation, the shuttle company that replaced the university’s original shuttle provider, Joseph’s Limousine & Transportation, this fall, are cleaner than the old shuttles; however, many students also feel that the A & A Metro buses cannot adequately accommodate the number of people going to and from campus, particularly on the weekends. For this reason, there are plans to deploy a third, additional shuttle bus, he said.

Del Rosario, a sophomore, added that the administration is also considering adding another route to the shuttle system — one that may include the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center and Cousen Complex as one of its destinations. Administrators are also looking to potentially routing the Boston Ave. shuttle to go to Whole Foods, or changing the Davis Square shuttle course to have the shuttle drive down Curtis St. instead of College Ave., which is a shorter, more sensible path, he said.

Boston Intercollegiate Assembly Representative Brad Mullen and Senator Arden Fereshetian updated Senate about the Advocacy Summit, a NESCAC student government conference, that they attended this past week at Northeastern University.

At the conference, Mullen and Fereshetian spoke with other NESCAC school representatives about social justice on college campuses, smoke free-campuses and sexual assault policies, Mullen, a junior, said.

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Hand-washing study to research substances effective in preventing ebola outbreak

by Gil Jacobson Staff Writer

Almost 100 members of the Tufts community, mainly undergraduate students, participated in a hand-washing study over a 28-day period in October and November for research in ebola outbreak prevention.

According to first-year Ph.D. student Marlene Wolfe, who is working on the study, the purpose of the research is to determine what kind of soap or other washing substance is most effective in preventing the outbreak of ebola. Many such outbreaks occurred as a result of the ebola epidemic in West Africa last year. The study is run by Daniele Lantagne, the Usen family career development assistant professor and assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Wolfe, who is studying environmental health in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, explained that international organizations disagree about whether to use chlorine, hand sanitizer or soap as a hand-washing substance in communities that are vulnerable to an outbreak. “[International organizations] actually contradict each other [about this], so we wanted to do a study to see what happens if we ask people to wash their hands using these different methods,” Wolfe said.

According to Wolfe, 108 participants signed up for the study and 91 completed it.

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Participants were put into one of six groups.

They either washed their hands with soap and water, hand sanitizer or one of four different chlorine solutions, each containing .05 percent chlorine.

However, participants were not told what compounds were in the chlorine solutions, and those who received a chlorine solution instead referred to it by its color, i.e. green chlorine, red chlorine, etc., according to study participant Kyle Lui.

Lui, a first-year, said that he received the green chlorine solution in the study.

“I have no idea what was in it, and my hands smelled bad,” he said. “It made my hands dry.”

Wolfe said that none of the hand-washing methods employed in the study posed any risks to participants, she said.

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Tufts ASBMB connects students to faculty research with guided tours

by Miranda Willson Assistant News Editor

Approximately 40 Tufts students attended free guided tours of 10 research laboratories by biology and chemistry professors at 200 Boston Avenue on Friday. The Tufts chapter of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) sponsored the tours, which took place between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Michaela Gold, president of Tufts ASBMB, said the purpose of the tours was to help undergraduate students learn about some of the research being conducted on campus and to connect students with professors studying in fields that interest them. “[ASBMB] is trying to get undergrads into the labs to help them start this whole research process,” Gold, a junior, said.

“There aren’t a lot of labs at Tufts, and it can be hard to get into one [as an undergraduate].”

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She explained that the students toured labs that focus primarily on molecular biology. These labs are run by professors and lecturers, including Juliet Fuhrman, an associate professor who focuses on immunology and infectious disease; Kelly McLaughlin, an associate professor whose work centers on molecular development; and professor of chemistry David Walt, whose lab works on infectious disease detection, cancer biomarker diagnostics and analysis of basic biological processes, according to the Tufts’ department websites.

One of the labs included in the tours is run by professor of biology Catherine Freudenreich, who uses yeast to study how genome instability contributes to genetic disease. She said she agreed to participate in the tours after she was informed about the event by Gold, who works in Freudenreich’s lab. “[Lab tours] further enhance the interaction between students and the research labs

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on campus,” Freudenreich said. “It’s fun for [students] to come see where we’re doing research on campus and what it’s like.”

This is the first time Tufts ASBMB has held a tour, although Freudenreich has given tours to undergraduate students from the Boston area working with the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program, and has given informal tours to friends and their children.

“I like to open my lab and have people who are interested in it check it out,” she said.

According to Gold, two graduate students also spoke about their ecology research labs in Barnum Hall. These presentations, unlike the tours, were open to the public and did not require a ticket.

Gina Tomarchio, the head of social media for Tufts ASBMB, explained that many of the

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continued from page 1 how appropriate they are for an ebola context,” she said.

First-year Shaan Merchant, who also participated in the study, said participants were told to wash their hands 10 times each day, as well as to go into the study’s lab every day for 28 days to have their hands inspected and to take a survey.

Participants were also told not to use any other products that they would normally put on their hands, such as lotion, shampoo or conditioner, in order to ensure that any observed affects on their hands were not caused by different products they were using, Wolfe said.

“I’m not sure who uses what products at home and what impact it might have on their skin, so by controlling that, we were able to compare these groups directly to

each other,” she said.

Participants were all given the same soap, shampoo, conditioner and vaseline product, in order to homogenize the results, according to Merchant.

“They gave us gloves in case we had to put on shaving cream or something like that,” he said.

This study was part of a larger study funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), an organizational unit within USAID, according to Wolfe. The larger study aims to determine the best hand-washing methods to implement in medical care facilities and in a general community during an outbreak.

Participants were given $600 each for completing the study at Tufts, which was funded by a $500,000 grant from USAID and OFDA, Wolfe said. She explained that

the grant covered both this study and other studies related to disinfection and the ebola virus.

According to Wolfe, participants were paid hundreds of dollars for their participation because the study was time-intensive and involved significantly regulating one’s behavior. She said she believes that people were drawn to the study for more than just the money itself.

“I think a lot of people did it because they were also really interested in what we were doing,” she said. “I’m really excited to be able to share the results with our subjects when they come out, because it’s so exciting to see something that you were a part of.”

Wolfe said she is excited to analyze the results of the study soon.

“We know that there are a lot of people who are anxious to hear about what we’ve discovered,” she said.

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continued from page 1 such as sustainability, student relationships with administrators and mental health, Fereshetian, a sophmore, said. Both senators spoke highly of their experiences at the conference and offered to provide any interested seniors with more detailed opinions and observations.

TCU Treasurer Shai Slotky, a junior, then opened the floor for this week’s Treasury appeals.

Tufts Anime Brigade requested funding for students to attend Anime Boston — the largest anime convention in the Northeast.

The group requested $5,548 for registration costs, transportation and hotel fees, but members of the Allocations Board (ALBO) felt that the location of the convention was too close to campus for students to request funding for hotel lodging, and recommended $2,110 in supplementary funding. Senate

members passed ALBO’s recommended amount by a vote of 26-1-0.

Next, the Vietnamese Student Club requested $2,420 in funding for a speaker event. Senate passed ALBO’s recommended amount of $2,120 by acclimation. The Crafts Center requested $5,976.80 in funding for various purposes, including for their Makea-thon event and updates to their security system. Senate passed ALBO’s recommended amount for the group of $2,007.81 by acclimation.

Tufts’ La Salsa requested $254 for rental car expenses to travel to a competition at Williams College. Senate passed ALBO’s recommended amount of $204 by a vote of 25-1-0.

TCU Senate itself was the last group to request supplementary funding. Tesser, who presented the case, requested $6,000 to financially support the Late Night Dining program.

According to Tesser, the program has come under scrutiny due to the behavioral problems in the Mayer Campus Center on Friday and Saturday nights. Tesser said Senate could not supply all of the necessary costs to improve and secure the program for the over 800 students that attend Late Night Dining each week.

The requested amount of $6,000 is part of the $18,000 that will be required to continue the program for the rest of the academic year, he said. University President Anthony Monaco, Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Students John Barker and other administrators will supply the remaining $12,000, Tesser said.

Tesser also requested $500 for Senate’s Pancake Student Break event — a breakfast event held during finals week at the Commons Marketplace. Senate eventually passed a total of $6,500 for itself by a vote of 25-1-0.

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continued from page 1 members of Tufts ASBMB work in the labs featured on the tours. Tomarchio said she works in associate professor of molecular biology Mitch McVey’s lab, which allowed her to provide a student perspective about working in a lab during the tours. “[We spoke] about the labs we’re part of and were there to give more insight in terms of what’s in the labs, what the machines are, where we keep our organisms and yeast, et cetera,” Tomarchio, a junior, said.

Tomarchio added that she did not anticipate the lab tours to sell out, but all 40 available spots were taken.

“I just advertised [the tours] via Facebook,” she said. “It obviously got enough people’s attention. We had plans to spread the word through some of the intro [biology] classes, but we ended up not needing to do that.”

Tomarchio explained that many undergraduates face roadblocks when trying to work in labs.

“It’s hard when you first come into Tufts to figure out where the labs are, who’s doing research and how to get involved,” Tomarchio said. “There’s no outlet to figure that out except for exploring it on your own, so we [were] hoping to bridge that gap.”

Gold said that even when students know which labs they want to join, getting hired

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Junior Michaela Gold, president of Tufts American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), helped organize tours of 10 biology and chemistry department labs at 200 Boston Avenue on Friday. can be a competitive process.

“Compared to how many students want the research, there aren’t that many labs, or there are more students who want to do research than there is space,” she said.

“For the past few years, that’s always been the case, probably because we have a high number of biology majors at Tufts.”

In addition to hosting the tours, Tufts ASBMB runs a weekly lecture series, during which faculty members from the chemistry and biology departments discuss the latest

discoveries and ideas in the science world, according to Tomarchio.

Freudenreich explained that it is important to connect undergraduate students to professors and their research, regardless of the kind of background students may have in science.

“Even if you’ve done research in a class, it’s a totally different atmosphere in the lab,” she said. “And it’s a window into a career and into the whole enterprise of biological research.”

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Johnny D’s Uptown, a culinary and musical staple for many Tufts community members, will soon close its doors.

Johnny D’s, music club for both local, Tufts musicians, to close in early 2016

by Emma Rosenthal Staff Writer

Johnny D’s, a local restaurant and music club, announced over the summer that it will be ending its 46-year-long history of celebrating and hosting musical performances in Davis Square in late January or early February. The local joint, which has hosted famous artists like Alison Krauss, Ben Harper, the Avett Brothers and the Dixie Chicks, has also provided a stage for several Tufts bands and musicians.

Johnny D’s was first opened as a bar in 1969 by John and Tina DeLellis. Later, it expanded into a restaurant and music club.

Hosting acts from a variety of different genres — from country to jazz, soul, rock and funk — the 300-capacity club has long provided the Davis Square community with a distinctive venue for musicians, fans and patrons.

Carla DeLellis has owned Johnny D’s since 1985. She grew up working at the club alongside her parents and coordinating musical acts.

“Johnny D’s has been in my family since 1969 … Johnny D was my dad,” DeLellis said. “And then my father passed away at the end of ’84, so I grew up in the business. But I came on full-time after college, and I was booking the bands, and that’s when I first started.”

While Johnny D’s has been an important part of DeLellis’ life, it has also touched the lives of many Tufts students throughout its 46 years of showcasing local music.

Melissa Weikart, a senior at Tufts and a member of a band on campus, played her first show at Johnny D’s in October.

“We know some of the members in American Symphony of Soul and…one of them reached out to us and was like, ‘Oh we need an opener,'” Weikart said.

“And we were like, ‘Okay!’ So we prepared some extra songs, whipped up some stuff, and then we went. It was really fun; there was a nice crowd, and it’s a really nice atmosphere.”

Although Weikart had attended a Sunday Jazz Brunch show at the restaurant

before, she described being on the other side of a performance.

“It’s a great environment because it’s a very open space, and there’s a dance floor,” Weikart said. “And there was a really good mixture of old and young people, so that was cool to see people who are living around Tufts who aren’t Tufts students, older couples coming out on a Thursday night. Then a bunch of Tufts students went too … We got really good feedback from some local residents, which meant a lot because it wasn’t just my friends from Tufts who say, ‘Oh, good job.’”

Another band, Bad and Blue, comprised of four Tufts students and four New England Conservatory students, has also played at Johnny D’s. They have performed there twice since 2013, according to the band’s guitarist, senior Lila Ramani.

“Our first show we played there we were not headlining, we were just opening for another band; that was our friends who happened to be playing there,” Ramani said. “And that was super fun … It was really low key; it was just our friends and family basically in the place.”

Senior Tammara Gary, one of Bad and Blue’s vocalists, added details about the distinctive experience Johnny D’s provided to the band during their first performance.

“It was cool being off campus, especially as a [first-year],” Gary said. “The bar is a great space; the sound system is awesome, and the lights, and there’s a stage, so I love the vibe. It’s also nice being…part of the community of Somerville, and that’s kind of what Johnny D’s was for, at least for me — I think for a lot of the music at Tufts [it was] a good outlet, and it gave a homey feel.”

All three musicians noted that it will be a loss to the Tufts and Somerville community when Johnny D’s closes, especially for Tufts musicians looking for an outlet that is close to campus.

“So it will just, I think, be a little harder because then you have to go more outside of Davis Square, and then not necessarily getting your friends out there to support you,” Weikart said. “And then just generally our relationship with Somerville will be

affected because I think that our music scene and people who play in Davis, I think, at least from the feedback I received, it seemed that non-Tufts students were enjoying the music.”

Ramani noted the strong connection Johnny D’s had with Tufts musicians and its willingness to showcase Tufts bands to the local Somerville community.

“It’s sad, because they are super into supporting Tufts,” she said. “When we emailed them…they wanted us to play there. So it’s a good space for Tufts bands to play at in general, so that sucks that it’s closing.”

While many people might be looking to the past to reflect on the legendary music bar and restaurant, DeLellis is looking toward the future as she considers what to do with the space once Johnny D’s closes.

“It’s unknown right now; you never know until the deal is signed,” she said. “I am considering anybody who wouldn’t be a late-night place, just because it’s going to be residential above. Honestly, I’ve got this little idea — not that I’d want to do it myself, but you see a lot more of these coffee houses… that are starting to sell beer and wine, where it’s like part coffee house, part bar. I think that would be a really nice mix where there could be music, but it’s not late-night.”

DeLellis also spoke to the future of music in Davis Square after Johnny D’s closes.

“I know Davis Square really was defined in many ways by Johnny D’s, or by what Johnny D’s brought,” DeLellis said. “So I hope that somehow live music stays alive in Davis Square. Music finds its way. I know that things will be picked up and I also know that my plan is to keep a music presence in Davis Square.”

The connection between the Tufts musical community and Johnny D’s is something that DeLellis expressed gratefulness for. “[I want to say] thank you to the Tufts community for supporting us and for always being good customers and supporting us and bringing their musical talents to us.”

ord of the Day: fulsome adjective \FULL-sum\ 1: aesthetically, morally or generally offensive I spent my summer in a wormhole.

Actually, it was an endless time of serving diners variations of sad looking chicken, watching guests enjoy the “original” yet egregiously cliché event photo booth and looking at tipsy white people dancing to Pitbull. My boss had essentially monopolized the northeastern Ohio entertainment venue scene.

I originally took a job from her as a Little League baseball concessions worker, where my responsibilities consisted of sitting in a lawn chair while watching three-year-olds in the adjacent playground beat each other up. But soon, I went from cooking doubtlessly carcinogenic soft pretzels to passing out hors d’oeuvres at her wedding hall, a.k.a. the wormhole.

And I say “wedding hall” with some hesitation. It was more of a poorly decorated hellscape where the souls of elderly, divorced employees slowly atrophied away in the most depressing manner imaginable.

The simple orientation of the place said it all. Two sets of train tracks, a Ford Motors assembly plant and a storage lot of white vans circumscribed the business. The inside décor just exacerbated the gloominess of it all. Gaudy, ’80s plastic chandeliers were scattered throughout each of the rooms, with white faux-leather chairs and brown floral carpet really pulling the space together. I couldn’t tell if the space had been originally designed as a funeral home, but I don’t think anyone would have noticed if one of the older workers just decided to finally drop dead on the ground after serving one too many chicken cutlets.

The clients that came through the place also exacerbated the fulsome aura of the space. To put it kindly, we weren’t the RitzCarlton of wedding venues. Not even close, actually. We were the exact antithesis of the Ritz-Carlton. We were the Motel 6 of weddings, and the guests expected nothing more. One time, I had to oversee a couple who, taking advantage of the “garden package,” got married on-site. The wedding was held inside a deteriorating gazebo directly in front of the parking lot. The table used in the ceremony had a glaringly large chunk of wood missing from it, and the grand finale came in the form of the family’s matriarch passing out in a pile of dirt due to heat exhaustion.

It was during this wedding that I think I may have actually temporarily died and moved onto another plane of existence, considering how unreal everything was.

The bride was already sloppily drunk before entering the room and actually began dry heaving during the couple’s first dance to a Toby Keith song. Their random ice sculpture of a motorcycle was rapidly melting and becoming more phallic by the second. And best of all, a guest grew tired of waiting for dessert and decided to take a fistful out of the wedding cake before it could even be cut. And as I stood in the corner of the room, wearing my white uniform while a nearby guest donned only a tank top and jorts, a single tear rolled down my face. My end had come while a crowd of middle-aged, obese people danced to the “YMCA” (1978).

Henry Jani is a sophomore majoring in English. He can be reached at henry.jani@ tufts.edu.

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Evans in “The Man in the High Castle.” “hospital.” Apparently not content to keep the dream of a “pure” race confined to Europe, Hitler’s government has extended its ethnic cleansing policies to its colony across the pond, disposing of all “weak” or “unwanted” peoples.

Blake’s counterpart at the other end of the continent is Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos), an American living under Japanese rule on the eve of a visit from the royal family. Life in the Japanese Pacific States seems far more relaxed than that in its neighbor to the east, yet the show makes its viewers aware that the secret police are an ever-present force.

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A police officer (Ron Rogge) in the German partition helps a stranded trucker, Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank), and offers him a meal on a gray and rainy day. A tattoo on the officer’s arm is a remnant of his time fighting for the Americans, but, just above it, he wears a Nazi armband. When ashes begin to fall with the raindrops, he informs the confused trucker that this is a product of a nearby

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What if Germany and Japan had won the second World War? Based on the portrayal of just such an alternate universe, Amazon’s new show, “The Man in the High Castle” shows how an Axis victory would have wrought superficial change to the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The show, which was released on Nov. 20, is an adaptation of a book by the same name written

by Philip K. Dick in 1962. The first episode is available DJ Qualls and Rupert for free through Amazon’s instant video service, and the rest of the season is available with an Amazon Prime membership.

In this world, the United States has been split into the Greater Nazi Reich (the East Coast and Midwest), the Japanese Pacific States (the West Coast) and the Neutral Zone (the Rocky Mountains), and while much is fundamentally the same as it would have been in 1950s America, things are amiss.

Coming attractions in movies, for example, are replaced with propaganda, and friendly interactions between citizens are punctuated with “sieg heil.” This is 1962 in defeated America, and the

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“The Man in the High Castle” is first and foremost a historical fiction experiment, incorporating equal amounts of historical content and imaginative creation. The German state’s flag is almost the stars and stripes, but a swastika has replaced the stars, while the Japanese state’s flag is an evolution of the rising sun in red, white and blue. Where this experiment in historical storytelling gets intriguing is in its incorporation of the real world, the viewer’s reality, into its own. That is, when Juliana comes into possession of a newsreel showing Allied

victories and Axis defeats, including VJ day (the show makes reference to a VA day in a discomforting twist), she begins to doubt the outcome of the war, as should viewers.

Not much more is revealed in the first hour-long episode. This first episode establishes what may well be the main conceit for the entire season (or series), yet it hardly seems like a whole episode was necessary to accomplish this set-up. Indeed, there are many moments where the action could have been compressed. For example, a montage backed by swelling music shows Juliana watching the newsreel over and over and over again but gives viewers hardly more than a few discordant glimpses of wartime footage, with the famous image of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin perhaps the only one of note.

The sequence drags on for too long, only to be explained later with a succint explanation by Juliana’s boyfriend, Frank Frink (Rupert Evans).

In fact, dialogue seems to come second to the marvelous scene-building present in each frame. Much of the dialogue, especially that delivered by secondary characters, is trite and almost cringe-worthy at times. Sometimes, too, the metaphors employed in the imagery can be so thinly veiled that they fail to be thought-provoking and induce only eye-rolls.

The writers for “The Man in the High Castle” incorporate elements of various genres into the relatively short time span of the first episode. This season opener has elements of action, espionage, political intrigue, romance and, as noted before, historical fiction.

If the writers are able to streamline the rest of the series, then this could all turn out very well for viewers; if not, however, the series could be a slog fest.

Assuming the former, this show may be one of the few series that can bring fiction and non-fiction fans together with its fascinating concoction of historical content, analysis and dramatic embellishment.

uthors have been fascinated with the end of the world since the beginning of the world, and recently there’s been a veritable epidemic of dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction. The world has ended by way of zombies, epidemics, nuclear accidents, corporate takeovers and anything that even vaguely possesses the potential for disaster. Here are two futuristic novels that offer inventive world-building, thought-provoking issues and, perhaps, even some hope to temper the despair that pervades the genre at its worst.

“Station Eleven” (2014) by Emily St. John Mandel is a novel that has the power to remind its readers of the best and worst in characters. It is one of the few dystopian novels I’ve read whose characters felt real.

During a performance of “King Lear” one snowy night in Toronto, famed actor Arthur Leander collapses on stage, paramedic and former member of the paparazzi Jeevan Chaudhary attempts to resuscitate him, child actress Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror and, outside the theater, a deadly flu epidemic is spreading. The novel moves back and forth in time in the lives of Jeevan, Kirsten and Arthur, portraying the strange connections that bind them all together both before and after the epidemic. This is a beautifully constructed novel whose twists and turns feel both surprising and organic. The precise, spell-binding prose brings the world to life.

From the Museum of Civilization constructed in an old airport to the dangerous prophet who haunts a small Great Lakes town to the Traveling Symphony that brings Shakespeare from settlement to settlement, this is a society that has not only survived the end but is trying to learn how to thrive and grow from it.

Mandel has a talent for balancing the beautiful and the terrible, and it’s on full display in this gently elegiac novel.

“The Proxy” (2013-2014) duology by Alex London presents a world turned upside down by a disease of an entirely different kind: capitalism. In a city where contracts govern everyone’s lives from the moment they’re born, Syd serves as the proxy for Knox, a wealthy troublemaker. When Knox commits a crime, Syd is punished for it. So when Knox kills a girl in a car accident, Syd is sentenced to death. “Proxy” is the perfect blend of thoughtful ideas about capitalism and our increasingly corporate world and well-plotted and exciting action sequences, offering a little bit of everything. The world-building is both clever and well integrated into the story, as London slips in details like the personalized ads that hover around everyone, the extinct exotic animals cloned and brought back to life in the zoo and the genetically programmed Guardians that prosecute wrongdoers. The characters are more than the usual dystopian saviors and villains. They’re not always the most likable, but the swift changes between multiple third-person points of view ensure that the reader isn’t stuck in anyone’s head for too long. As an added bonus, there are diverse characters whose diversity isn’t their defining characteristic.

It’s something different in the world of dystopia and hopefully something that bodes well for the future of the genre.

Natalie Girshman is a senior majoring in history and drama. She can be reached at natalie.girshman@tufts.edu.

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by Grace Segers I was six years old on Sept. 11, 2001. My mom and I had just moved to Connecticut from Manhattan barely a month beforehand. While I was in elementary school that day, she had returned to New York City to finish unloading our things from the old apartment. I remember when the attacks were announced over my school loudspeaker, and how terrified I was. I was worried for my mom, but I was more afraid for my city, my home. It had been hurt, and I couldn’t understand why.

People of my generation and I are in the odd situation of being old enough to remember the attacks, but too young to remember what the world was like before they occurred. I don’t remember the shift from post-Cold War to post-9/11, because I lived it. My childhood was a series of world-shattering events, but I had little context. I remember when the United States went to war in Afghanistan, and then in Iraq. I remember that my mother opposed the wars from the beginning and that more people began to agree with her as time passed. Most importantly, I remember that I was supposed to love America. Every morning in elementary and middle school, students would pledge allegiance to the flag hanging in the corner of the classroom, because we were proud of our country.

This brutal combination of enforced patriotism and increased anxiety greatly affected my early childhood. I knew that the world was changing, that it was a scary place where people had the ability to hurt my hometown, but I didn’t know why it was all happening. I wasn’t politically aware until the 2008 election, when I was

13, and by then 9/11 had become a fact of life rather than a shocking occurrence.

Older generations were horrified by the terrorist attacks. To me, retroactively, 9/11 was a part of my childhood: this was the way of the world. The terrorist attacks in London in 2005, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 all seemed to confirm the fears that I had known since I was six years old. There’s a tiny voice in my mind that kept repeating: this is the world, and we are not safe.

When I first heard of what happened in Paris, I got the sick feeling in my stomach that I had when I was in my first grade class, and news of 9/11 was announced over the loudspeaker. I was immediately worried for my friends studying abroad in Paris, for the people of that city as a whole.

Yet the aftermath of these attacks, and acts of terror elsewhere in the world as well, are scaring me far more than the possibility of a similar one occurring in London, where I am studying now, or in New York. I’m 20 years old. I understand what’s going on, and it terrifies me.

I remember the uptick in patriotism after 9/11, but what I didn’t recognize was how damaging that nationalist sentiment could be. It took me many years to realize how post-9/11 jingoism had led to rampant Islamophobia in America, which affected my Muslim friends. It took me many years to appreciate the toll of the wars we had waged in the Middle East. As an elementary and middle school student, I was told to remember 9/11 and to support our troops. It took time for me to recognize how the wars we were waging, wars which have been occurring for most of my

life, resulted in the further destruction of a region. We were supposed to support our troops, but we weren’t supposed to talk about the conflicts that they were fighting, and we weren’t supposed to ask questions when they got back home.

I feel like I’m reliving that time in my life, only with a different perspective. President Hollande has declared that France is at war in the aftermath of the attack. I remember when the “war on terror” first began. The House of Representatives just passed an act to make it incredibly difficult to accept Syrian refugees. I remember when I was told by my eighth grade Social Studies teacher that we had to watch out for Muslim immigrants. The world has gone into crisis mode, and governments are battening down the hatches and spewing hateful rhetoric without pausing to think or remember what happened the last time we went down this road. I remember when the world went to war the first time after a terrorist attack, I remember the poisonous language of politicians, only this time I understand the context and recognize what is happening.

I was a child on Sept. 11, 2001, but I’m not anymore. I feel just as hopeless now as I did then, only this time I understand the ramifications of what is occurring. I know what a war will do; I grew up watching it unfold. I can only hope that this time, the world will have learned from its mistakes, or the next generation of children will have to grow up with the same anxieties that I had.

Grace Segers is a junior majoring in political science. She can be reached at grace.segers@tufts.edu.

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articularly when faced with poor poll numbers, politicians will say and do anything to get elected. The aftermath of the recent attacks in France is an excellent case study in this. Instead of discourse on attacks across the globe, from Beirut (this writer’s hometown) to Paris and what they mean, Republican politicians have turned these tragedies into an opportunity to buttress anti-refugee, and in some cases anti-Islam, résumés.

Millions of refugees are escaping from ISIS in Syria. Should we, to quote Ted Cruz, “welcome refugees, the tired huddled masses,” as we have for centuries?

Some, such as Ted Cruz, would argue, “Anyone with an ounce of common sense would say ‘no.’” Nope, that’s not a typo.

Senator Cruz said both of these statements just a few months apart, the latter coming just this week. Apparently, the Harvard Law graduate developed a keen sense (or at least an ounce of it) in the last few months.

Donald Trump and Ben Carson took this one step further. Dr. Carson created an analogy in which refugees were rabid dogs. In fairness, Dr. Carson changed his analogy to one with bad apples. Frankly, the last thing a Syrian refugee is thinking of at this point is whether bruised produce or diseased animals represent their struggle better. Mr. Trump wants a database to register and track Muslims in this country.

What’s next? Making Muslims wear yellow crescents and stars? The attacks gave a stagnating Trump campaign an opportunity to re-energize and grow with the same hate that made it relevant.

I expect this from these two bigots; neither will ever be president. Jeb Bush, however, a former governor and part of a political dynasty, showed just how desperate he is for votes by entering this scramble. Bush suggested the United States, if it accept any refugees, take in only Syrian Christians. Apparently it is easy to screen for religion. Maybe we can ask refugees their favorite color too.

Purple is a non-violent one, I’ve heard.

But if they say “red”…

This response by politicians is exactly what ISIS wants. Every anti-Islam soundbite from a Ben Carson or a Donald Trump is recruiting material. The fact that we are even discussing some of the things for which Republicans have called is sad and shows just how far ISIS’ actions can infiltrate the political process. France’s Front National (think Donald Trump but with seats in parliament), already the country’s third-strongest political party, will surely exploit voter fear and insecurity ahead of regional elections next month. (There may be an Arena, or L’Arena, ahead of that election.)

ISIS can only win by forcing the United States to turn its back on values and norms like religious freedom and equality; to make us afraid to go to restaurants, or concerts at the Bataclan, or soccer games at Stade de France; to make us discriminate against swaths of people not for any rational reason, but for whether their holy day is Sunday or not. Suffice to say they may be succeeding, thanks in no small part to our politicians.

Aren Torikian is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at aren.torikian@tufts.edu.

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continued from back earned more corner kicks than the Lords, 4-1, and put more shots on goal, 4-3. Despite the advantage in the statistics, the home team controlled the pace of the first half after taking the lead, outshooting Tufts 11-8.

The second half began in back-and-forth fashion, and the Jumbos were able to break through in the 71st minute on Majumder’s second goal of the game and his 11th goal of the season. The striker beat Cougher on a shot that snuck inside the right post off of a pass from junior forward Gaston Becherano.

“After coming back against Salisbury, our team understood that we are capable of coming out with a win in a game that we trailed in,” Kayme said. “That confidence is crucial in the NCAA tournament, and I believe it flows throughout our team.”

The next goal scored decided the match, and it came off the foot of Myers. The Lords put together a late push that began with Wynn’s feed into the box that junior forward Jordan Glassman was able to head toward net.

Greenwood saved the shot easily, but Tufts was unable to hold possession, resulting in a scrum around the front of the net with less

than a minute remaining in the game. Myers was able to hit the back of the net to send the Lords to the national quarterfinals.

Tufts had not allowed three goals in a game since Oct. 1, 2011 in a 3-0 loss to Amherst. The team played excellent defense all season — during a three-week stretch from Oct. 10 to Oct. 31, it did not allow a single goal. The team kept Kenyon’s biggest threat, junior forward Tony Amolo, who has 18 goals this season, in check for the entire game, and he only attempted one shot. Tufts ranked 12th in the nation, allowing just 0.58 goals per game. The Kenyon offense, ranked 28th nationally with 2.65 goals per game, was able to expose Tufts to find chances throughout the matchup.

The loss ends the careers of six seniors who have contributed to the rise of Tufts soccer over the past four years into a nationally recognized program. Connor Brown, Jason Kayne, Connor Schaible, Monil Patel, Rui Pinheiro and Tal Smith have guided the program to three NCAA tournaments throughout their careers and won the school’s first national championship in 2014. Tufts was the No. 1 seed in the NESCAC tournament in 2014 and

began the 2015 campaign ranked atop the National Soccer Coaches Association of America rankings. Although the team came up short of winning back-to-back national championships, this group has significantly affected the work ethic and mentality of the team.

Coach Josh Shapiro will certainly have a talented team in 2016, despite the loss of the senior class. This year, the team started a new era without the seniors of the 2014 team, who guided the team throughout the NCAA tournament, and Shapiro will no doubt have the team ready to do the same next season. Majumder will return for his senior season after being selected to the first team All-NESCAC. Greenwood and Becherano will also lead the team in 2016, along with the rest of their classmates, who include midfielders Kevin Lawson and Zach Halliday and defender Daniel Sullivan.

“I believe that this tournament run proved that the Tufts soccer deserves to be a Sweet 16 team every year,” Kayne said. “We proved that our national championship was not a fluke, and I believe this will continue to be motivation for this group.”

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“We knew [Wentworth] was going to come out hard,” assistant coach Derek Retos said. “They’re always well-coached and well-prepared, so our goal was to match their intensity and exceed it, and I thought we did a good job of that at some points in the game.”

Tufts’ high-pressure defense led to a Wentworth turnover on the very first possession. After a brief period during which both teams struggled to score, the Jumbos launched a barrage of 3s and jumped out to a 16-4 lead, capped by a triple from sophomore guard Vincent Pace. This quickly led to a Leopards timeout. The Jumbos did not look back for the remainder of the game.

The team’s high pressure man defense did not always work to Tufts’ advantage, however. Even though the Wentworth forwards were similarly matched to Tufts’ guards, Wentworth was able to overpower some of the weaker defenders. Sophomore forward Jason Ganley gained 20 points for Wentworth and often was the spark of Wentworth’s offense.

Wentworth’s lack of height showed on the defensive end as well. Both the Leopards’ forwards stand at just 6’5”, while Palleschi stands at 6’8.” The rest of the Jumbos starters range from 6’3” to 6’5.” Wentworth played a 1-3-1 zone defense for most of the game to try to neutralize Palleschi’s effectiveness and slow down the rapid pace of Tufts’ offense, but rotations and double teams on Palleschi proved to be a bad strategy, since the junior center showed good skill in finding open teammates for 3-pointers. Palleschi ended the game with three assists.

“Doubling the post is typically our adjustment to playing against a really good post player,” Wentworth coach Arlen Galloway said. “We knew going in that [Palleschi] is really smart and a great passer and that they’d be ready. We didn’t really have any adjustment after he started finding the open shooter, so we let it go after that.”

Tufts’ fast pace did not leave much room for Wentworth to get back into the game, but with several minutes left in the halfthe Jumbos started settling for 3-pointers and did not make many of

them. A pair of Wentworth 3s pulled them to within 14 with a little over seven minutes to go in the half, but junior guard Tarik Smith finally pulled Tufts out of its shooting slump with two minutes to go, making a 3 to extend Tufts lead to 41-21.

In addition to his 3s, Smith created what was undoubtedly the play of the game at the end of the first half. Off a Wentworth turnover, Smith handled a 3-on-1 break for Tufts, and ended it with a lob to Pace for an emphatic alley-oop dunk that set fans on their feet. Smith led Tufts at halftime with nine points and ended the game with 12.

“We knew [Wentworth] was going to come out hard,” assistant coach Derek Retos said. “They’re always well-coached and well-prepared, so our goal was to match their intensity and exceed it, and I thought we did a good job of that at some points in the game.”

Tufts coasted in the second half and never allowed Wentworth to get closer than 18 points. Wentworth drew many fouls on Tufts, including two offensive fouls at the beginning of the half, and this led to the bench players getting more minutes. The Tufts bench outscored Wentworth’s bench 40-14. Secondchance points also played a big role in the win.

Junior center Drew Madsen led the Jumbos with 11 rebounds, seven of which were offensive, which led to 19 second-chance points, compared to the Leopards’ five.

The game against Emerson was far more difficult for Tufts. Spadaford had a career day, scoring 20 points and grabbing 10 rebounds to lead the Jumbos. Only six of those points came from distance, although

he attempted nine during the game.

Palleschi also played a significant role, stuffing the stat sheet with 17 points, seven rebounds, five assists and three blocks.

After leading the first half 40-34, aided by 11 free-throws in the half, Tufts fell behind 57-56 with 10 minutes left in the second half. Palleschi led the Jumbo response, scoring to regain the lead before grabbing two rebounds, which led to scores by Pace and Spadaford.

Three-pointers once again proved to be Tufts’ advantage as they hit three to go up by nine with 4:54 left. Emerson, however, continued to pressure Tufts until the last minute. Down by seven with 35 seconds left, Emerson sophomore guard Michael Sheng was fouled while shooting a 3-pointer and sunk all of his free throws. Moments later, an and-one and another 3-pointer had Emerson within touching distance, at 85-83.

Free throws, one of the Jumbos’ strong points throughout the game, proved to be the Lions’ undoing, with Smith sinking one to increase the lead to 86-83 with five seconds left. A desperate charge up the court for Emerson led to an offensive foul that ended the game, with Tufts edging out a win 86-83.

Although Tufts played excellent defense against Wentworth, holding them to 26.7 percent shooting in the first half, the high-pressure style seemed to affect Emerson less, who shot at 46.3 percent.

A potential danger for the Jumbos as they move forward could be too many attempted 3-pointers. The offense seems happy to move the ball around the perimeter, but sometimes lacks penetration, which leads to 3s as the shot clock is winding down.

This was the case a few times against both Wentworth and Emerson.

“We’re not too worried about that at this point in the season,” Retos said. “We did a great job defensively, which can compensate for missed shots, so we focused on that. We guarded them really well, and were able to overcome those missed shots. We’ll keep taking those shots, and we’ll make them even more down the stretch. We’re confident in our guys shooting the ball.”

This Tuesday, Tufts will play MIT at home — a matchup they lost last year. The team is hoping to build on the momentum gathered in these first two wins and keep their hot start going.

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he Golden State Warriors have been off to a blistering start this year at 14-0 having just defeated the Chicago Bulls at home 106-94. Their 14-0 start marks the best start to a season by a defending champion since the Boston Celtics went 14-0 in the 1957-1958 season.

With their win on Sunday night against the Denver Nuggets, the Warriors now hold the record for best start coming off a championship win the previous season.

This would be an incredible accomplishment for this year’s Warriors team, but that’s not the only record it is chasing. If the team is able to defeat the Nuggets Sunday night, then it will have a chance to play the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday for a 16th consecutive win, penciling the Warriors in the history books yet again as the team with the most consecutive wins to begin an NBA season. After the Warriors’ win Friday night against the Bulls, Stephen Curry was asked about their record and had this to say: “It would be a huge accomplishment because obviously doing something that hasn’t been done in the history of the league is special, but you never know if this opportunity will come back again.”

Regardless of whether the Warriors are able to break this record, by Tuesday night we will be talking about a different record the Warriors have their sights on breaking: the Chicago Bulls’ illustrious 72-win season in the 1995-1996 regular season. The Warriors have the chance to do what no team has done before. Through the first 13 games, the Warriors were a perfect 13-0 while the 1995-1996 Bulls were 11-2 through their first 13-game stretch.

During their historic season, the Bulls also reeled off an 18-game win streak en route to their 72-10 record. Barring any catastrophic injuries and with a little luck, the Warriors just might surpass the mark set by Michael Jordan and his Bulls team.

One of the bigger questions to ask about all of these records is whether the Warriors even be chasing them. If the ultimate goal of any NBA team is to win an NBA championship, then maybe the Warriors should take a page out of the Spurs’ playbook and rest their star players so that they will preserve their health and energy for the playoffs. The Warriors, having such a strong bench, could coast into a playoff spot, so why not play Stephen Curry and his co-stars for 30 minutes per game and allow them to remain fresh down the stretch of the season? It is all a matter of opinion, but one thing is for sure: this record breaking regular season by the Warriors sure is fun to watch.

Zach Ohara is a junior majoring in economics. He can be reached at zachary. ohara@tufts.edu.

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Kenyon scores in final minute, ends Tufts’ tournament run

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When the final whistle sounded, the referee ended not only the third round NCAA tournament game between Tufts and

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Kenyon, but also the careers of six seniors who have led the Tufts program to new heights. Tufts fell to Kenyon, 3-2, on Friday in Gambier, Ohio in a hard fought game from beginning to end. The defeat moved the Jumbos’ record to 11-5-3 to end a season for a team that would have needed just four more wins to become back-to-back national champions. The win moved Kenyon into the quarterfinals against Calvin College, who won their Saturday matchup.

The Jumbos scored first on a goal in the 15th minute on a header by junior forward Nathan Majumder. Majumder has been the biggest scoring threat for the team this season, and, like many teams before them, the Lords had a hard time containing him.

Majumder was able to head in a goal off of a corner kick sent into the box by senior midfielder Rui Pinheiro. The Jumbos have been dangerous off set pieces, especially corner kicks, all season and played to their strength early in this game. Tufts kept the pressure on Kenyon junior goalkeeper Sam Clougher, as junior midfielder Kevin Lawson took a shot, and Majumder headed another ball toward goal. Clougher, however, was able to save these two opportunities to keep the deficit at one goal.

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Tufts sophomore defender Conor Coleman runs the ball down the field ahead of a crowd of Middlebury players in the homecoming game on Saturday, Oct. 10. sus-one match-ups for our outside mids outside backs,” senior tri-captain midfielder Jason Kayne said.

The Lords got on the board in the 23rd minute after the Jumbos were whistled for a foul in the box after attempts by Lords junior midfielder Josh Lee and sophomore

midfielder Henry Myers. Senior midfielder Jeremiah Barnes converted the penalty kick to knot the score at one. This was the second game in a row that Tufts conceded a penalty kick, as Montclair State scored its first goal in the game in similar fashion. Kenyon kept the pressure up and scored again just under

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Fast-paced offense gives Tufts strong start

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the Wentworth Institute of Technology (1-3) 86-62 Saturday in Tufts’ home opener at Cousens Gym. The high tempo of the offense has already increased scoring numbers from last year, when the team averaged just 67.6 points per game. Senior tri-captain guard Ryan Spadaford and junior tri-captain center Tom Palleschi led Tufts against Emerson, with Spadaford recording a double-double.

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