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Tufts Engineers Without Borders to begin project in Tanzania

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“What kind of world are you trying to create?” Turner asked. “You are creating a two-tiered system with two classes of people. Being a part of a union has given me a platform to achieve my goals and support myself.”

Paula Castillo, a Tufts janitorial staff employee, also spoke up at the event. She asked Monaco to host a meeting involving students, janitors, Vice President for Operations Linda Snyder and Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell. Her speech was translated from Spanish by sophomore Arismer Angeles, a member of TLC. “Do not ignore your students,” Castillo said. “They provide all the capital you get. We are people, not animals, and we deserve some respect as workers for this university.”

Lorain Chen, who graduated from Tufts in 2012, spoke about Tufts Medical Center workers. She said that the Medical Center

Tufts’ chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is currently planning a new five-year project in Tanzania, with the goal of improving rural water access.

According to Thomas DePalma, a sophomore and project leader, two EWB members will travel to Tanzania in January 2016 for an assessment trip. The members will visit different communities, meet with local non-governmental organizations and ultimately select a community to partner with.

The Tanzania project will focus primarily on improving access to water in EWB’s partner community there, according to DePalma. EWB also hopes to help the local community adapt to the Tanzanian government’s burgeoning rural electrification program, he said.

The group will consider adding charging stations to the community, educating teachers about use of technology in their schools and helping residents learn to use cell phones for educational and informational purposes, DePalma added.

“We’re hoping to help the community that we choose to work with adapt to [electrification],” he said. “[Our emphasis is] not just [on] engineering projects but also [on] cultural projects [and] helping…with the social adjustment that comes with electricity.”

DePalma said that EWB began planning its Tanzania project this semester under the guidance of Roger Stillwater, the group’s professional mentor. Tufts’ EWB recently completed a project in Uganda but decided to relocate its efforts to Tanzania because it determined that it would be safer to work there than in Uganda.

Aaron Forrest, president of Tufts EWB and one of the EWB members who had gone to Uganda, said that the Uganda project was largely successful.

In Uganda, members of the group built a solar-powered automated pumping system that pumped water into a tank, reducing wait times for villagers from several hours to a few minutes, according to Forrest.

DePalma said that he intends to apply

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Students, university staff and community members — organized by Tufts Labor Coalition — protest Tufts’ labor practices outside Gifford House on Halloween evening. University President Anthony Monaco stands in the back, dressed as Gumby.

Tufts Labor Coalition organizes Halloween protest outside Gifford House

by Emma Steiner News Editor

Approximately 50 people gathered outside of Gifford House on Halloween evening to call for fair labor practices on Tufts’ campuses.

The group — organized by the Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) — included students, custodial workers and their children and a few construction workers from non-Tufts affiliated projects.

Protesters gathered with banners and signs on the lawn outside University President Anthony Monaco’s door at 6 p.m. — where Monaco annually greets trick-or-treaters — and asked for a dialogue with the administration. Monaco remained outside throughout the entire event but did not answer questions or make any comments until the very end.

Speakers, representing different university-related labor efforts, delivered a total of five speeches to Monaco about Tufts’ labor practices.

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Students asked what Monaco would do to help janitors who had been laid off during the restructuring of the university’s custodial staff last spring. They asked whether or not Monaco would be willing to work without benefits and take a 10 percent salary cut in order to give money to former Tufts janitors who had been laid off.

TLC member Nicole Joseph explained why TLC used Halloween as an opportunity to confront Monaco.

“We knew this was the only time workers and students would have access to Monaco, as he has never previously tried to work with or talk to workers,” Joseph, a sophomore, said. “We hoped he would have some response to workers’ grievances, but he only gave his continued silence in person.”

Among the protesters was Shamaiah Turner, a Somerville resident and sheet metal worker, who questioned Monaco’s values and intentions. She spoke about her experience as a worker and the importance of unions in her life.

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Somerville mayor gives guest lecture for political science seminar

by Kyle Blacklock Contributing Writer

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone was invited to campus to lead a guest lecture in a sophomore political science seminar on Monday morning, as well as a lunch with students.

Curtatone was invited to give the lecture by Jeffrey Berry, a political science professor, in Berry’s course, “Politics in the City.”

During the lecture, Curtatone led students in discussions about issues that cities face, such as challenges surrounding transportation, affordable housing, public health and safety and environmental sustainability. He said that cities that are able to plan around these problems are generally successful.

“I was impressed at how in-tuned the students are about the challenges for our society and the role cities will play in that,” Curtatone said. “The students were very poignant…and understanding of the challenges around those issues.”

He added that he was fascinated by the subject matter of Berry’s course, particularly the class’ emphasis on urban policy and the crucial role cities play in the future of society.

“It was a fantastic conversation with some great young minds,” Curtatone said. “I always love the opportunity to speak at the academic level. It’s great to come into Tufts and do it.”

Curtatone said that Monday’s visit was not the first time he had spoken on the Tufts campus.

“Every so often I get invited,” he said.

“It’s great to do it … I have such a passion for curiosity around urban policy and cities and cities as ecosystems. The setting today was really good because it was a very intimate, up-close conversation, and it was unfettered, which I like.”

The lunch that followed the lecture was held in Packard Hall and included several members of Tisch College. At the lunch, Curtatone answered more questions from interested students about the Somerville community.

Alan Solomont, dean of the Tisch College, began the lunch by introducing Curtatone. Solomont said that Curtatone’s accomplishments include

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Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone speaks to a group of Tufts students and faculty at a lunch organized by the Tisch College on Nov. 2. transforming Somerville’s public transportation and redeveloping Assembly Square and spoke about Curtatone’s leadership in shifting the conversation in cities to promote healthy and sustainable communities. He referenced the Shape Up Somerville project, which he said has been encouraging healthy eating and exercise habits in the Somerville community for over a decade.

Students at the lunch asked Curtatone questions about the Somerville community and the mayor’s policies, including topics such as the Shape Up Somerville initiative, the pressures faced by immigrant communities within Somerville and the controversy surrounding Green Line construction.

Students asked a number of questions about the changes that have taken place in the city of Somerville during his tenure.

“We were always a creative, original,

diverse community, and we needed to leverage our assets…and promote who we are and what’s so special about us,” Curtatone said. “[We] used to be called ‘Slummerville’ … We vowed that we would change that narrative. As a community, we started to say we’re not gonna sell short any longer.”

Curtatone also addressed the controversy surrounding the Green Line Extension Project, which has sparked negative media attention in recent months due to uncertainty regarding the project’s costs.

“The Green Line’s happening,” Curtatone said. “If you do the math, you’ll know it’s happening.”

He added that many community members have put a lot of work into the Green Line project.

“Members of the community — the public, the activists…put their blood, sweat and tears behind it,” Curtatone

said. “If we can’t do the Green Line… what the hell can we do as a state? It’ll happen.”

One student asked Curtatone what measures he was taking to ensure the Green Line Extension project would not displace Somerville residents. Curtatone replied by saying that the project alone would not necessarily have such an effect and that a more complicated set of factors, including wage disparity, contribute to resident displacement.

After the lunch, he told the Daily that he preferred straightforward conversations over lectures and speeches.

“I always take a cup of coffee and a conversation over anything,” he said. “I love the casual setting of it, and I’m just, at the end of the day, someone who grew up in the community, trying to help make the city better with everyone else, and to share my experience with the Tufts community is something special.”

Students, community members protest Tufts’ labor practices on Halloween LABOR

continued from page 1 workers have low salaries and low benefits, and have been trying to form a union in the face of strong opposition from the administration.

“Tufts University has always prided

itself as being a light on the hill,” she said.

“I hope you can hear the voices of your workers and create a just working environment.”

After listening to the various speeches, Monaco briefly thanked the students and workers for sharing their opinions but

declined to comment further or answer questions at that time.

Executive Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler spoke on behalf of the president about the event.

“President Monaco is always willing to listen to the views of all members of

our community and supports the right of students, faculty and staff to engage in thoughtful and respectful dialogue,” she told the Daily in an email. “Each year he enjoys greeting trick-or-treaters at Gifford House in the spirit of fun that characterizes Halloween.”

Tufts Engineers Without Borders seek to improve water access in rural Tanzania ENGINEERS

continued from page 1 lessons from Uganda to the new project in Tanzania. The largest challenge in Uganda was effective communication with the residents, he explained.

According to Forrest, Tufts EWB tends to focus on water resources, with its past few projects concentrating on rural water access. DePalma attributes this to the diverse skill sets of the chapter’s members.

“We’re not all engineers,” he said. “We have a lot of community health people, a lot of economics [and international relations (IR)] majors and engineers

as well. We have engineers that design the project, we have community health people that can run the water testing [and] we have economics […] and IR majors who can communicate with local authorities.”

According to Emma Inhorn, a junior and EWB fundraising co-chair, the group held a three-on-three basketball tournament on campus on Oct. 23 in order to help fund initiatives such as the Tanzania project. EWB plans to hold two more fundraisers this year, she said.

Inhorn explained that although revenue from the fundraisers such as the basketball tournament are helpful, the

primary goal of these events is to raise awareness for EWB and its mission.

“It’s not our main funding source, but it’s something that…a lot of [people] participate in,” she said.

According to Inhorn, most of the funding for EWB’s projects comes from grants, typically from the Dean of Engineering and Tisch College, as well as from EWB’s national organization. The group also plans to apply for additional grants both within and outside of Tufts.

In addition to the Tanzania project, Tufts EWB is in the process of concluding a project in El Salvador and has plans to start a new project in Nicaragua soon,

Inhorn said. The proceeds from the basketball tournament and other fundraisers are split between the group’s various projects.

DePalma said he wants to learn about the culture in Tanzania before traveling there, which he hopes will allow him and other members to have more candid conversations with the community. He added that the biggest challenge for the students will be connecting with the people they meet and making them feel comfortable enough to talk about what they want and need.

“You can never really know what it’s like until you meet the people,” DePalma said.

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An open letter to the professors in Houston’s basement

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American political pundits often focus on racial, socioeconomic and gender demographics. But if you want to talk instead about age demographics — and the teenage to college-age demographic in particular — you go to CIRCLE. CIRCLE, which stands for Center for Information and Research on Civil Learning and Engagement, operates both as a research center and a civic engagement organization. It moved to Tufts in 2008 and is now based at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, according to its website. Delving into multiple topics relating to young people, CIRCLE facilitates meetings with media outlets to discuss policy and to conduct broad systemic reviews of voting trends.

Peter Levine, associate dean for research and Lincoln Filene professor of citizenship & public affairs at Tisch College, was the founding deputy director of CIRCLE and served as primary director until this past April. He said that CIRCLE has become the leading authority in its field due to its specialized focus.

“Mostly what distinguishes us is the topic,” Levine said. “It’s that we’re the people that specialize in youth civic engagement … We take a broad view of youth civic engagement, but on the other hand, we don’t study anything else; we specialize in that. So I think… we have a niche.”

CIRCLE is almost always engaged in multiple projects simultaneously. Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, the current director who took over for Levine in April, talked about some of the recent research projects initiated by CIRCLE. “One of the newest projects that we are able to do through WT [William T.] Grant Foundation’s support is to look at how the neighborhoods can affect how young people see themselves as active citizens growing up,” she said. “So we’re looking to see now, can investing in neighborhood resources, [like] having… more youth-based community centers or better parks in the neighborhood, have long-term consequences as they become adults and actually care about the communities they grew up in?”

A more recent research project, announced on Oct. 20, seeks to determine the effects that one year of service with AmeriCorps, usually following college, can have on young people, according to Kawashima-Ginsberg.

“If somebody that didn’t go to a fantastic high school or didn’t [necessarily] have a lot of resources before graduating from college does a year of service, does that actually increase their chance of having…a more solid career or better entry into the job market?” she said. “[We] promote a lot of national service, and we think that it’s a really great way to have a really meaningful year for

young people. But does it also have practical benefits, instead of holding somebody back?”

CIRCLE also engages in survey projects related to youth civic engagement.

Currently, there is an effort underway to measure levels of news literacy among the youth, which is an indicator for their civic development, KawashimaGinsberg said.

The 2016 Presidential campaign provides an opportunity for CIRCLE to look into disparities in youth voting.

According to the Center’s research, individuals who never attend college are almost half as likely to vote as those who did attend college. This could potentially be attributed to politicians’ frequent skepticism of young voters, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.

“We really try to push back on that narrative,” she said. “[It] really puts young people in one box, as if they’re the same people across different backgrounds and groups and interests, when it is a really diverse group racially and politically … Today’s young people really are so interesting in that they’re less…attached to the dogmatic party line and what they present. They’re much more likely to sort of inform themselves and decide what’s right for them. So that makes this group — if we may talk about group — much less predictable in terms of how they’re going to vote, what issues are going to be important to them and how much they are going to vote.”

Yet the decline in voting could also be attributed to the structure of civic life itself, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.

“I think we’ve been seeing some trends in which young people are sort of abandoning voting as a trustworthy mechanism for democracy, and that’s a huge problem,” she said. “It partly has to do with things like the perception of corruption, but also things like campaign financing, where people feel their votes don’t really count. The same with…how much we’ve become formalized and how the campaigning has become focused on a handful of states where the electoral votes really matter. So something like 90 percent of the young people’s votes actually don’t really count.”

Given this trend, CIRCLE has begun to account for other ways in which young people can become civically engaged. Kawashima-Ginsberg explained that, on the whole, many younger voters are concerned with issues and have a desire to be active, but they resent conventional methods of civic engagement. As a result, many have turned to voicing their opinions through alternative routes of participatory politics, such as Black Lives Matter or Student Immigrant Movement, instead of institutional politics.

“Participatory politics is really about getting out of the box,” she said. “[These

protest organizers] sort of broke out of the old organizing model. They decided to gather around, and they sort of broke some codes that were in old-school organizing and became a really effective and impactful voice.”

According to Kawashima-Ginsberg, because of their broad scope of research topics, CIRCLE is able to connect experts from disciplines across academics and politics.

“We think [it’s] really important to have a connector organization for any field,” she said. “We’re able to contribute what we’ve heard from other fields and other perspectives. So a lot of times, people that we know at two different nodes have never met each other, and we’re the ones connecting that. And it’s a rewarding thing to do.”

CIRCLE also serves as an outlet for other researchers to publicize their findings. Often, a professor’s research may be noteworthy but will only be available to a few individuals through select journals. Therefore, posting their findings through CIRCLE offers an opportunity both to apply their insights to the broader community and to convey their work to a larger audience, KawashimaGinsberg said.

Throughout its history, CIRCLE has been able to effect actual policy through its research and engagement efforts, Levine said.

“In the early 2000s, we put together a paper called ‘The Civic Mission of Schools,’ which is about K-12 education, and that’s really been the main guide or…manifesto for civic [education] ever since,” Levine said. “So there’s now a campaign called the ‘Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools,’ which is co-chaired by [former Associate] Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Governor Bob Graham from Florida, and they push for civic education across the country. So that was a good example of an effective piece of work, because it was research that we did that turned into advocacy and policy.”

Abby Kiesa, a youth coordinator and researcher at CIRCLE who is currently based in Washington, D.C., also works toward CIRCLE’s mission of focusing on real-world implications and using research to bring about a greater good.

“We want to make sure that a) our research is informed by what’s happening on the ground and by the people who are working directly with young people, and b) we want our research to actually be used,” she said. “We all have contacts with folks who are working on the ground, and one of my specific roles is to make sure that we have ongoing relationships with youth groups, with national organizations who are doing work across the country, as well as my colleagues [who] have great relationships with folks in Boston and Massachusetts.” see Circle, page 4

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ear Professors Pennington, Proctor, Clerge and Atherton, Three weeks ago, in the Houston Hall basement, you guys put on a Scholars-in-Residence event called “Behind the Scenes: Professors.” I have a few confessions to make. First, I only decided to go to your event because of the “sushi provided” note at the bottom of the flyer. Second, I originally planned to just grab the sushi and then get out quick.

But I didn’t leave. I stayed for the full hour and a half and have kept thinking about it until now, when I decided it merited a thank you letter/cliff-notes for anyone who wasn’t there.

At one point, you were asked what you wanted your legacies to be. Professor Pennington, you said: “He made me feel like I wasn’t alone.” Professor Proctor, you only had two words for yours: “He cared.” I’ll let those statements speak for themselves, but I think they set a tone for the evening.

You also talked about your “aha moments” and the impacts you thought your work could have. Talking about everything from seeing bacteria display quantum behavior to emulating W.E.B. Du Bois and hearing Rita’s Latina sound “erased” in the middle of West Side Story, your responses were full of genuine love for what you did. One day, I want to tell someone about my “aha moment.” When I do, I hope my voice holds the same honest passion that yours did.

But perhaps more important than saying wise/inspiring/funny/interesting things, you created a safe space. Building walls of honest frankness, self-deprecatory jokes and personal anecdotes, you made Houston’s sketchy basement lounge into a place of community.

One kid raised his hand for a question; he talked about feeling isolated, about struggling to adjust and connect, about not knowing what he wanted to do in life. He got choked up. Everything he had said hit home for me. I love it here, but being a college freshman can be really, really hard. You didn’t lie about that.

You called your own freshman years “difficult,” “overwhelming,” even “traumatizing.” I can’t say how good it felt to have those things given weight and for a space to be created where it was okay to show hurt.

But you also gave powerful advice: Be patient, don’t feel like you’re supposed to suffer, remember that you’ve got lots of time to figure out the future, always tap into your authentic selves. You made it sound as though at its heart, college was really about making yourself happy, and as dumb as it sounds, that had never occurred to me before. Since then, I’ve thought a lot about letting “happy” be my guide — in choosing classes, making friends, joining clubs and deciding what to do on Saturday nights.

I know this happened a while ago, but it’s shaped my past month in a lot of important ways. It’s also just made me keep coming back to how grateful I am that the professors here — and a whole lot of other people — honestly do care. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for speaking with honesty, passion and love. It means a lot, to a lot of us.

Sincerely, Clara Wagner Clara Wagner is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at clara.wagner@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 3 Kiesa added that CIRCLE’s research aims to inform the community about government policy.

“We’re definitely trying to do research that illuminates the effect of policy, as well as providing information for people who are looking at possible policy impacts or policy solutions, and what the potential effect of those could be,” she said.

CIRCLE often engages with other

areas of the university, working alongside professors whose research relates to the topics on which they work. “[There are] a lot of people here who are good colleagues for us, who care about things that we care about and we can learn from,” Levine said. “It is the administration, but it’s also a bunch of faculty. There are some strong people here doing some things that are relevant to our work.”

Kawashima-Ginsberg commented on the symbiotic relationship between

CIRCLE and the Tufts faculty. “[The] Tufts faculty does incredible work, and many of them really change the world, and I think we should all be really proud of that,” she said. “At the same time, I think we bring something to their work sometimes … When they do, for example, hard-core science work that has the purpose [of advancing the] greater good…[CIRCLE is] able to bring in…whatever larger meaning their work entails, [and] that’s a significant thing for them sometimes.”

Kawashima-Ginsberg believes that CIRCLE’s mission is not only reflected

by Tisch College, but also by the Tufts community in general, as both institutions try to promote civic values among young people.

“President Monaco talks about [it on the] first day: ‘If nothing else, vote,’ which is fantastic, and that’s really the reflection of the Tufts spirit,” she said. “[It’s] an active campus, and it’s really revered across the country about how active it is.”

Tufts United for Immigrant Justice participates in HONK! festival

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Indie pop duo Beach House, composed of vocalist and organist Victoria Legrand and guitarist and keyboardist Alex Scally, released its newest album “Thank Your Lucky Stars” on Oct. 16

Indie pop duo Beach House surprises with second album of year

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Beach House released its new album, “Thank Your Lucky Stars” on Oct. 16. The announcement of this newest album came just weeks before its release and surprised the music community. Beach House, a duo from Baltimore consisting of vocalist and organist Victoria Legrand and guitarist and keyboardist Alex Scally,

has been making dreamy indie pop for years. Legrand’s soft, airy alto voice blends perfectly with an assortment of synths, drum beats and guitar tones present on every release. They are not the type of artists that would have the audacity to drop an album completely by surprise, but a majority of fans would not be disappointed if that were to happen.

The album arrived hot on the heals of the release of “Depression Cherry” — the

same group’s first album since “Bloom” (2012) — released this past August.

The long wait leading up to the release of “Depression Cherry” made fan expectations for the album high. As the title suggests, that album contained songs with slower and more depressed tempos than one would expect from the band.

The guitar from Scally is also moodier see Beach House, page 6

Movie Review

‘Spotlight’ marks departure for director Thomas McCarthy

by Jonathan Heutmaker Staff Writer

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Rachel McAdams arrives at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on Sunday, March 7, 2010.

While “Spotlight” (to be released Nov. 6) deals with the complexities of child molestation, it is ultimately not a film about trauma or morality but rather about institutions and the individuals who work within them. For director Thomas McCarthy, it’s a productive departure from the understated indie comedy-dramas such as “The Station Agent” (2003) and “Win Win” (2011) that have earned him critical acclaim in the past but ran the risk of becoming formulaic. Based on the true story of the 2001 sexual abuse scandal in Boston’s Catholic Church and the team of Boston Globe reporters whose investigations brought the abuse to light, “Spotlight” does, in fact, have a dose of humor here and there.

Overall, however, it bares more similarity to the work of a director like Bennett Miller — of “Moneyball” (2011) and “Capote” (2005) — a master of the fact-based drama, than it does to McCarthy’s trademark mixture of quirk and melancholy.

Writers McCarthy and Josh Singer do a good job handling the real-world material,

in which an investigation into a series of sexual assaults by Catholic priests turns into the uncovering of a hard truth that no one in Boston wants to hear: that high-ranking clergymen have known about prolific sexual abuse for decades and have chosen to cover it up. The film achieves a difficult balance. It does not try to bite off more than it can chew, yet it does not oversimplify. The viewer must remain focused, remembering who’s who and listening to all the details in the film’s fast-paced dialogue. It may get confusing at times, but this works in the film’s favor. Every scene offers up new information — sources end up knowing more than they let on, and important documents reveal shady cover-ups — but, in turn, raises many new questions.

“Spotlight” boasts strong performances from Michael Cyril and Paul Guilfoyle as victims of childhood assault who come forward to speak to journalists Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo) and Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), but the audience never wholly identifies with the victims’ struggles — the journalists are our see Spotlight, page 6

n honor of the recent news of a possible “Gilmore Girls” reunion series on Netflix, I’m going to write about one of my all time favorite shows.

“Gilmore Girls” (2000-2007) is a classic comedy-drama created by Amy ShermanPalladino starring actresses Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. The series premiered on Oct. 5, 2000 to critical acclaim and aired its final episode on May 15, 2007 after seven seasons. The show remains a cult classic for many, and episodes still air as reruns today.

I started watching Gilmore Girls in the sixth grade. ABC Family showed reruns of it every day at 4 p.m., and I would watch them when I ate snacks after school. I loved and still love everything about the mother and daughter pair of Rory and Lorelai Gilmore and their interactions with the show’s many wacky characters, including people from their town, Stars Hollow, the insane Gilmore family and their high society friends. Over the years, I grew up watching Rory grow up from a timid high school sophomore to a college graduate to a professional journalist. Rory was my role model, and I wanted my life to mirror her’s. The characters that Rory and Lorelai met along the journey were also very funny, and I became invested in how these recurring characters would impact Rory’s and Lorelai’s lives. For example, the town funny-man, Kirk, shows up in almost every episode of “Gilmore Girls” in a comedic way because he handles various jobs around town including store employee, t-shirt maker, gutter cleaner, etc.

The show was recently added to Netflix, which made it a prime candidate to begin binge-watching again. There are references in the show that I see now that I didn’t understand when I watched it for the first time in middle school — specifically language and references to cultural figures that went above the heads of most middle schoolers. For example, in one episode, Rory has a dream that her mother is Madeleine Albright, the former United States Secretary of State. Before watching the show for the second time, I had no idea who this woman in bed with Rory was. Now that I’m older, I can also relate more to Rory than I could in the past, as before I could only relate to her high school years, but now I can connect to certain instances in Rory’s college experience, like when she moved into her dorm, went to her first college party, had difficulties with classes, etc.

I wouldn’t say this show is perfect for binge-watching. I wish it were, but if you’ve never watched the show, it might be best to take it in slowly. I know that if I had the opportunity to watch the show, without having seen it before, I would want to savor every moment. In addition, there aren’t any particular merits that would come from binge-watching that one wouldn’t otherwise get from just watching the show sequentially over a longer period of time. Each episode ends slightly further along the same plot arc, leaving audience members begging to know what happens next. With such a great show, sometimes it can be beneficial to savor each moment.

Maya Blackstone is a junior majoring in drama and peace and justice studies. She can be reached at maya.blackstone@ tufts.edu.

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‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’ continues and expands on Beach House’s previous work Beach House

continued from page 5 on “Depression Cherry” than on previous records. The dreamy escapades the group is well known for became even dreamier than usual. Nevertheless, it’s a solid record, and nobody was expecting more.

Most of the songs on the newest album follow a similar structure to that of “All Your Yeahs” — a simple track dominated by a synth melody and a few noticeable key changes. This isn’t a bad thing.

These simple tracks promote a relatively happy atmosphere — happier, overall, than most of Beach House’s repertoire.

The lyrics are certainly less remorseful than previous releases.

One of the best tracks off the album is a cliché poem of admiration entitled “She’s So Lovely.” The lyrics don’t necessarily describe how the subject is beautiful, because it — a girl — is just beautiful by its very existence. The simple lyrics complement a beautifully woven canvas of melody and harmony created through an assortment of synth sounds, drum machine beats and moody guitar from Scally.

One of the biggest surprises off the album comes from the track “One Thing,” which differs from most Beach

House tracks in its initial heaviness. The song starts off with the type of bluesy riff one might expect from bands like “The Black Keys” or “Alabama Shakes,” but that same riff also has a tone color that only Beach House can seem to pull off. The heaviness in “One Thing” helps define a dreamy landscape that is more familiar to the band’s fans. It’s a strong moment on the record.

All in all, the lively construction of melodies and counter-melodies in “Thank Your Lucky Stars” is akin to that of Beach House’s early releases. Frankly, however, the album is not as captivating as “Teen

Dream”(2010), “Bloom” or the astoundingly recent “Depression Cherry.” Despite not being as thought-provoking or interesting as previous albums, it is a great easy-listen. The synthesizers are gorgeous and provide a relaxing atmosphere. This is perfect music for a casual get-together or a barbecue. It isn’t in-your-face or aggressive in any way. Your grandmother will love it and so will your neighbors.

Beach House performs next March at the House of Blues. Tickets are almost sold out, however, so buy them now if you’re interested in seeing these masters of dream pop live.

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continued from page 5 protagonists. On the one hand, this is regrettable — some viewers may leave feeling that the film glazed over the trauma experienced by survivors of abuse.

However, the film ultimately chooses to focus on the process of investigative journalism and what its role in society should be, and it does so elegantly.

Michael Keaton does an impressive job as Walter “Robby” Robinson, the head of the Spotlight team (the name of the Globe’s investigative unit). Fresh off a successful comeback, thanks to “Birdman” (2014), Keaton leaves the wonkiness behind and appears as an aging journalist dealing with a hefty mix-

ture of idealism, regret and ambition.

He manages a difficult feat for big-name actors — he looks like a regular person.

This is a bit harder for McAdams, but she does a good job making what is regrettably a somewhat less-developed role into a memorable one. We get much more insight into the personal life (or lack thereof ) and motivations of her colleague Rezendes as a frazzled, career-minded yet idealistic bachelor who lives on pizza, beer and coffee. Other noteworthy performances include John Slattery — “Mad Men” (2007-2015) — as a world-weary editor providing some comic relief with well-timed one-liners and Stanley Tucci as Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer who represents child survivors of sexual assault, actually carrying the film in some

places by keeping the audience guessing as to the character’s true motives.

While “Spotlight” is not a perfect film, it is one of the best so far this year. It deals with its sensitive subject matter in a clear-cut way but manages to add layers of complexity in unexpected ways, raising almost as many questions about the Boston Globe as it does about the Catholic Church. It indulges in its setting in a way that never feels postcard-perfect (this is a good thing), and is still sure to please a Boston crowd as well as those who’ve never set foot in New England. All in all, “Spotlight” represents a promising moment for director McCarthy — hopefully he’ll continue to try new things. Who knows, this year it might just earn him an Oscar nomination.

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Obama administration’s Testing Action Plan not sufficient corrective to excessive testing On Oct. 24, the White House released its Testing Action Plan, a document that discusses “Principles for Fewer and Smarter Assessments.” As national discourse about the amount of time and funding spent on standardized testing in K-12 education gains more and more of the media spotlight, this plan could have been a solid opportunity for proposing real reform. However, it focuses largely on solving political problems rather than actual classroom issues, perpetuating the Department of Education’s current agenda with more palatable phrasing. The Obama administration’s “Race To the Top” initiative encouraged states to adopt common standards (which inevitably come with more standardized tests) and tied teachers’ performance evaluations to the test scores of their students.

These two initiatives have been central tenets of the administration’s previous education policy, and the Testing Action Plan only bolsters this problematic trajectory.

The crux of the Testing Action Plan is a proposal to reduce the amount of time students spend on standardized testing

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to two percent or less of class time. While the cap sounds dramatic, it won’t actually result in much change. Some states already are under the two percent testing cap. A Center for American Progress analysis of 14 districts in seven states found that testing consumed an average of only 1.6 percent of instructional time.

In states spending more than an average of two percent of class time on testing, the cap will not necessarily bring about a positive change. If these standards are adopted, there will inevitably be conflict over which tests get to compete for this limited space, and as an Oct. 30 Washington Post op-ed notes, “Tests backed by powerful interest groups would remain untouchable, while tests that provide teachers with the data they need would be cut.” While standardized testing in this country is excessive in comparison to other educational systems, a blanket cap of two percent testing time is only intended to make headlines and not to create legitimate systemic change.

The Testing Action Plan also asserts that “no standardized test should be given

solely for educator evaluation.” Upon first glance, this seems to be a step forward that would provide teachers with greater flexibility in the classroom. However, even with this change, it would still be acceptable for states like New York to use the Common Core exam (which 20 percent of students this past spring opted out of taking) to count for 50 percent of teachers’ evaluations and to determine the quality of the school as a whole. Meanwhile, experts such as the American Statistical Association find that standardized tests are an invalid evaluation tool for teacher performance.

The administration should go further in limiting the influence of such tests on evaluating performance, especially when expert consensus shows that the current policies are ineffective. Overall, the Testing Action Plan does little to reform the state of education in the United States. In order to solve the complex and multifaceted issues posed by standardized testing, we must focus more on the tests and standards themselves rather than imposing arbitrary rules designed to make headlines.

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Let’s talk about consent

If you’re a first-year, you’ve probably already heard a lot about sexual consent.

If you’re a senior, maybe less so. That’s because in the last three years, the ways in which consent is taught and viewed on university and college campuses has changed — a lot. Much of this change is due to the efforts of student activists and sexual assault survivors who have collectively put pressure on schools to improve their sexual assault policies and administrative measures for handling sexual assault.

A further catalyst for change has been the recent interpretation and application of Title IX. Title IX, a piece of legislation passed in 1972 that outlawed gender discrimination at any educational institution receiving federal funding, was initially known mainly for its impact on college athletics, as it requires schools to fund men’s and women’s athletic programs equally. In more recent years, however, the government has determined that sexual assault and harassment are also forms of gender discrimination and that schools must “take immediate and effective steps to end sexual harassment and sexual violence” or risk losing all federal funding.

What does all of this have to do with sexual consent? In April 2014, Tufts was found to be in violation of Title IX. According to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Education on April 28, Tufts “failed to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to address sexual assault and harassment issues.” National media coverage and massive student rallies led to increased awareness about the issue of sexual assault on campus and also added urgency and

leverage to the work that was already being done by groups working with the administration to improve Tufts’ policies for preventing and handling sexual assault.

Since fall 2013, theTufts Sexual Misconduct Prevention Task Force (a group of students and faculty from all three campuses) has been working to revise and improve Tufts’ Sexual Misconduct Policy. Redefining consent, and thereby redefining sexual assault, has been central to this process. According to Tufts’ most recent Sexual Misconduct Policy (last revised in March 2015), consent “[only] occurs when individuals willingly, unambiguously and knowingly agree to engage in sexual activity in a clear and affirmatively communicated way that is understood by all of the parties involved.” Furthermore, “Consent is active, not passive. Signals of consent must be part of a mutual and ongoing process, offered freely and knowingly.”

Let’s pause here for a moment. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that many of us, if not most of us, have had sexual experiences that were not, by this definition, consensual. Why? Because asking for consent every step of the way is not something that we’re used to doing or seeing. Think of any sex scene you’ve ever seen in any movie.

At any point in the sexual encounter did either party ask, “Is this okay? Should we keep going?” Would it have killed the mood if they had? Would it have made the sex scene less sexy?

Many critics of affirmative consent — the type of consent policy to which Tufts subscribes, also sometimes referred to as a “yes means yes” approach — have argued that affirmative consent is not viable, awkward and perhaps even a threat to individual liberty. Although engaging in affirmative

consent practices in every sexual encounter and at every stage of a sexual encounter may be unfamiliar, uncommon, and initially a bit obtrusive, I would argue that affirmative consent is, or at least has the potential to be, an extremely sexy feature of sex. Before you laugh, let me explain.

Have you ever had someone you really weren’t into try to stick their tongue down your throat while they were dancing with you? Yeah, not super hot. Now imagine your partner breathlessly whispering into your ear how much they want to go down on you and then coyly asking, “May I?” Or what about this: You’re in bed with someone (hopefully consensually), and they ask you, “Does this feel good? Should I keep going?”

Compare that to someone who doesn’t ask you what you want or what feels good for you. Somehow that’s supposed to be hotter?

Am I missing something here? As one journalist put it, “If you need ambiguous consent to sustain your schwing, you’re doing something terribly, terribly wrong.”

Whether you’re practicing consent with someone you just met or with someone you’ve been dating for years, “yes means yes” isn’t just about avoiding unwanted sex but also about making wanted sex better. Asking for consent might be new to you, and it might be uncomfortable at first, but it’s extremely important because it shows that you respect the sexual autonomy of your partner, and it has the potential to be incredibly sexy when done in the right way.

Tala Brewster is a senior majoring in cognitive and brain sciences and philosophy. Her senior honors thesis focuses on the topic of sexual consent. She can be reached at tala.brewster@tufts.edu.

Maria-Jose Fabre Comments from the Peanut Gallery

For the love of the game?

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couple months ago, I was sitting at Mike’s in Davis Square, and there was a baseball game playing on the TV set. It was the middle of the day, and a few customers (plus the cashier) were watching it. It took me a couple of minutes to realize these adults were yelling at a game played by children — children who weren’t their own.

A quick Google search submerged me in the complex world of “Little League,” almost the same as adult baseball — except that the players are children. While movies like the “The Sandlot” (1993) and “The Bad News Bears” (1976) were dubbed and played constantly — at least twice a day for weeks, sometimes in a row — on Latin American television, I had never understood the kid’s game as an adult obsession.

I must admit to be a biased author. Sports fanaticisms are not outside of the context of my life — my family is so obsessed with football (the one you kick with your foot) that my uncle is the host of a longstanding radio show that discusses the Estudiantes de la Plata’s performance and its internal politics.

Still, it remains something that I look at from the distance. But this isn’t a comment against fan bases or even how boring and confusing baseball is. I don’t think I am being unreasonable when I question the intense participation of children in the monetized event.

Sports are fun and can promote health, competition and family relations. It’s healthy to encourage kids and young adults to participate in them. What surprises me is the degree to which the media and public give youth sports their attention. In the West, we try to hold up the sanctity of childhood.

It is a period to be naïve and pure, a period to play, enjoy and learn. The viewership and media involvement behind Little League indicates a pressure and training that goes far beyond sport for fun. I don’t think it’s incredibly far off to equate Little League with child labor, as the league is a large source of profit.

While college students are not children — most are at an age to be productive members of the labor force — college sports, primarily football (the one with the oblong ball), stump me similarly. It took me some time to understand that college football is played, well, by college students — students who are supposed to be like me, with overwhelming classes and midterms. In Latin America, professional soccer players usually are recruited through youth club teams, not academic institutions. There is a separation in functionality between institutions intended for education and training and those that manage monetized competition.

College sports are often seen a conduit towards professional athletic careers, not necessarily the access to a college education.

Of course, this is a generalization. The heavy recruitment of players by certain universities allows higher education scholarship to be accessed through impressive sport performance — and not just good grades. Still, the idea that these institutions offer the recruited an “education with an emphasis on their public sports performance” stands.

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

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Tufts finish runners-up at NESCACs

by Chris Warren Sports Editor

The women’s cross country team traveled to Wesleyan on Saturday for the annual NESCAC Championships, hoping they could shake off the demons of last year’s disappointing fifth place finish.

They did.

The No. 4 Tufts scored 66 points to take second overall for their best finish at the meet since 2006, defeating other nationally ranked teams such as Middlebury (third, 92 points) and Amherst (fourth, 113 points), but losing to perennial powerhouse No. 2 Williams, who posted a 30-point score and placed five runners in the top 10, an impressive accomplishment at a meet as large as the NESCAC Championships.

Senior co-captain Audrey Gould led the Jumbos on the day, taking sixth overall in a time of 22:07.10. Junior Kelly Fahey was right behind Gould, taking seventh in 22:08.70. Senior Olivia Beltrani, who has had a very impressive final campaign so far, was 15th overall and third for the Jumbos in 22:30.00. Sophomore Brittany Bowman and junior Sam Cox finished next for Tufts.

Bowman took 18th overall in 22:43.30, and Cox took 20th in 22:47.40. Bowman and Cox have made important strides this

season in training and racing, efforts that have clearly paid off for the Jumbos. Junior co-captain Alice Wasserman was sixth for Tufts, running 23:00.50 for 29th overall, while senior Sydney Smith was only half a second behind in 23:01.00.

“I have been reacting better to my training this year than I was last year,” Bowman said. “I came from a high school focused on low-intensity workouts, so the transition to high-intensity college training was hard, and a few months in, I got fatigued and couldn’t complete the season.”

The six-kilometer course was not a particularly flat one.

“The course was slanted, especially over the first 250 meters of the course, which definitely proved to be an obstacle for some of the teams placed in boxes or running in areas of the course that were more uphill or downhill than others,” junior Lindsay Atkeson, who placed 38th overall in 23:15.30, said. “Overall, I thought the course was manageable and also very beautiful with the New England autumn colors.”

The course brought runners along field loops and into a woods loop, which ended with a short but very steep hill, and finally spit them out onto a long straightaway to the finish.

“My strategy for this race was the strategy that I use for every race: employing a relaxed and confident mentality and having faith in the power of my training and teammates to pull me through the course of the race,” Atkeson said. “As a team, we focused on getting off the line in order to not get boxed in by our competitors, running in packs and being vocal.”

Bowman employed a very different strategy.

“I wanted to go out and be aggressive throughout the race without giving up,” she said. “My main goal this race was to feel as if I couldn’t have gone any faster…because in each of the three races earlier this season, I finished and thought that maybe I could have raced even harder. I didn’t want that at NESCACs, so I went out with my training group and tried to hang on.”

As they have done all season, the Jumbos were able to keep their No. 1 to No. 5 spread relatively tight, with only a 40-second gap between Gould and Cox. This has been the crucial difference between this season and the previous one.

Last season, Tufts’ No. 1 to No. 5 spread was much larger, usually over a minute.

This season, however, the front pack has gotten faster and tightened up, allowing

Tufts to maximize its low scoring potential to a much greater degree.

Overall, the Jumbos were very happy with how they raced, even though the Ephs eventually got the best of them.

“We are very pleased with second place,” Bowman said. “Williams is a very strong team, and [it] ran a great race. I think as a whole team, we haven’t peaked yet, so I am hoping to be even more competitive with Williams at Regionals and Nationals once we are peaked. Regardless, we all ran great races at NESCACs, and I’m very happy with how we did.”

The varsity squad will have next weekend off, but some of the team will be traveling back to Williams for the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships and will be looking to have an impressive race to end the season. The varsity team will next be in action in two weeks at the NCAA Div. III New England Championships at Conn.

College, where it will hope to send its team to the national championships, held in Winnecone, Wisc. in three weeks.

“At ECACs this weekend we will race [No.] 8 through [No.] 14,” Bowman said.

“We are a very deep team, so I think the group of runners racing will be very competitive and finish near the top.”

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continued from back down a player,” Kayne said. “The ability to run a game with one less player shows the willpower and desire our team has to win games.”

Kayne and junior Kevin Lawson each had two shots on goal, but neither could convert them into goals. Sophomore Kevin Halliday and Majumder also got shots off on Van Siclen but experienced the same fate as their teammates.

“It was definitely frustrating as we hit the crossbar and post several times,” Kayne said. “However, [Bowdoin’s] keeper made some great saves, and [our] team gained some experience on how perfect execution needs to be in order to score in this league.”

The loss knocks Tufts out of the NESCAC tournament and leaves the team waiting until Nov. 9 to hear if it will be

selected for an at-large bid into the Div. III national tournament.

“I think we’re a bubble team that, frankly, is going to need help from a lot of top-ranking teams to win,” Shapiro said.

“If the first-choice seeds win their conference tournaments throughout the country pretty effectively, I think we’ll have a decent shot … So we’re firmly on the fence.”

The goal-less effort on Saturday followed a scoreless draw on Wednesday. The two teams played 110 minutes on a rainy afternoon on Kraft Field with neither able to hit the back of the net. Once again, the hosts held the advantage in shots by a tally of 17 to 9, but Bowdoin shot six times on goal to Tufts’ five.

The best chances for each team came in the overtime periods. Tufts had four corner kicks in the first overtime, a set piece on which the team has been dangerous all

year but could not convert. In the second overtime, Kayne ripped a shot that required a dive by Van Siclen to tap the ball over the crossbar. The Polar Bears’ best chance came in the second overtime, when senior tri-captain Andrew Jones sent a ball into the box where Morant headed it toward the goal.

Greenwood was there for the stop, and this game marked the sixth consecutive shutout for the Jumbos. The draw also extended Bowdoin’s unbeaten streak to five games (the team had gone 3-0-2). That streak was extended to six games on Saturday.

The upset against Tufts came on a day when the top seeds in the conference had similar trouble. Top seed and undefeated Amherst, which is ranked No. 1 overall in the country, fell to eighth-seeded Wesleyan, 1-0. No. 4 seed Conn. College was pushed to penalty kicks by fifth-seeded Williams before

the Camels pulled out the victory. The only top seed that had an easier time in the quarterfinal was No. 2 Middlebury, who defeated seventh-seeded Trinity by a score of 5-0.

The Jumbos’ loss potentially ends a season where aspirations were to repeat what the team did last year and defend their national championship title. The team will wait and see whether its goal of winning the ultimate prize can still be accomplished. “[The seniors have] been such an important group in our transition into becoming a nationally recognized program,” Shapiro said. “These guys, along with the senior class [before] them, have been the core of our group for four years.

Frankly, my whole experience with Tufts soccer feels like with these guys … I really, really hope they get another opportunity to get together and play.”

Defense records sixth shutout in victory over Trinity FIELD HOCKEY

continued from back and blocked by a resilient Trinity defense.

Eventually, however, the Jumbos doubled their lead with a penalty stroke. The move was started off in the 30th minute

by Chapman from a penalty corner, and Sikes-Kelip took a shot that was saved by the Bantams’ goalkeeper. First-year forward/ midfielder Hanaa Malik tried to force a rebound home, but Trinity first-year defender Molly Reilly stopped the shot illegally with her body. The resultant penalty stroke was coolly converted by Sikes-Kelip into the top right corner, leaving the keeper helpless as the Jumbos took a 2-0 lead into the break.

The second half was scrappier and less eventful than the first, as both sides sought to end each other’s offensive movements, largely contributing to the scoreless second half. Both sides sought to find a way forward. Zarrella came close to adding to the Jumbos’ lead, as her shot 51 minutes in hit the post. The Bantams came closest with a series of penalty corners in the last 10 minutes, but there was no way through

Polinski and the Tufts defense, who were determined to maintain the shutout.

Despite the victory, Dyer felt the team still had room for improvement.

“The first half was definitely our better half; we were dominating play, we had a ton more opportunities, so that’s really what won us the game,” Dyer said. “[In the] second half we let up a little bit, which we need to work on and learn from going forward.”

Overall, Tufts outshot Trinity 18 to 12, with 14 to eight on target. Polinski pulled off six saves, while her counterpart in the Trinity goal was forced into 11 saves.

With this victory, Tufts moves on to the semifinals, where it will next play Middlebury at Bowdoin on Saturday, Nov. 7. Trinity will have to wait to discover if it receives an at-large bid to enter the Div. III national tournament.

Zarrella spoke about the fortunes of the team going forward, and has more than just the victory in mind.

“Right now we’re really focusing on taking it one game at a time and practice this week will be intense, and will help us pre-

pare to take on Middlebury on Saturday,” Zarrella said. “If we can keep taking advantage of opportunities on offensive corners and focus on possession passes and play-

ing our game then good things will come.

Losing to Middlebury during the regular reason is still in the back of our minds, so we’re hoping to get some revenge.”

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Tufts tri-captain junior forward Dominique Zarrella evades two Trinity players in their quarterfinal victory on Oct. 31.

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Tufts senior tri-captain midfielder Jason Kayne winds up to kick the ball in the homecoming game against Middlebury on Oct. 10.

Tufts falls to Bowdoin in NESCAC quarters

by Steven Hefter Sport Editor

After wrapping up its regular season last week, the men’s soccer team then played in the NESCAC quarterfinal on Saturday, where it lost to Bowdoin. The Jumbos had emerged as the No. 3 seed in the postseason conference tournament after tying the Polar Bears in a scoreless match on Wednesday. The draw resulted in Bodwoin taking the sixth seed in the eight-team tournament, meaning that the teams were set to play three days later on the same field. Although neither side was able to break through on Wednesday, Bowdoin emerged with a 1-0 win on Saturday to advance to the NESCAC semifinals.

“We definitely put them under pressure,” senior midfielder tri-captain Jason Kayne said. “Going into the game, we knew that they are a well-organized, defensive team, so our goal was to pin them into their own half.”

The NESCAC quarterfinal matchup was physical and intense, with each team committing six fouls. There were two yellow cards awarded in the first half, one to Tufts’ leading scorer, junior forward Nathan Majumder, and another to Bowdoin first-year forward Levi Morant. These bookings had consquences later in the match: Majumder picked up his second yellow card in the 50th minute, thus receiving a red card. He was ejected from the game.

This left Tufts with 10 men on the field for the remaining 40 minutes to try to dig out of a one-goal hole. Bowdoin’s lone goal of the game had come in the 25th minute when senior tri-captain Nabil Odulate converted a short chance past junior goalkeeper Scott Greenwood.

The opportunity came off a corner kick that Bowdoin played into the box after its free kick attempt was knocked out of bounds by Tufts, and the assist on the goal was credited to junior Patrick Kearon. It was the first goal that the Jumbos had

allowed since Oct. 4 against the Hamilton Continentals. Entering halftime, Tufts could point to its 7-1 shot advantage to instill confidence that it could score against Bowdoin in the second half.

“I thought we played well; I thought we played much better than we played on Wednesday,” coach Josh Shapiro said. “I think just a couple little tactical tweaks and the mentality of the guys was right … I think the goal was harsh in that Scott was run into on the goal … The guys responded really well and controlled the game [while] down a man.”

Despite Majumder’s red card, the Jumbos still outshot the Polar Bears 6-1 in the second half and had many quality chances to equalize. Sophomore goalie Stevie Van Siclen stood on his head and made seven saves despite being barraged with shots throughout the afternoon.

“I am extremely proud of this team for fighting in that second half despite being see MEN'S SOCCER, page 11

FIELD HOCKEY

Jumbos brush past Bantams to advance to conference semi-finals

by Yuan Jun Chee Staff Writer

Tufts recorded a 2-0 win in its NESCAC quarterfinal against Trinity at Bello Field on Saturday afternoon, with goals from junior tri-captain forward Dominique Zarrella and senior midfielder Dakota Sikes-Kelip sealing the result for Tufts.

“We overall played a great game,” coach Taylor Dyer said. “Every game could be our final one, so I think we did a good job coming out strong and getting on the board early. We know that every opponent we face from now on in is going to be a little bit tougher, so we need to work on elevating our play throughout the whole 70 minutes of the game.”

The Jumbos had held the No. 3 seed in the NESCAC tournament, while the

Bantams were seeded sixth. However, it was the visitors who applied early pressure offensively, closing down in the hosts’ own half. Trinity’s high-intensity game eventually presented opportunities for sophomore forward Kelcie Finn and junior midfielder Mia Olsen, as well as two penalty corners. However, they were to be expertly denied by Tufts first-year goalkeeper Emily Polinski and a defensive save by senior defender Alexandra Jamison.

“Trinity is a really good team and has some really dangerous forwards and midfielders, so when they got the ball near our defensive 25 it was a little scary, but between Lexy, Elle [Chrupcala] and Nicole in the back and Emily in net, I have so much faith in our defense to keep the ball out of the net,” Zarrella said. “Emily made some

awesome saves and we had two defensive saves coming from two different defenders, which shows both how dangerous Trinity is and how good our defense is.”

The Jumbos slowly grew into the game, forcing the Bantams’ senior keeper Sophie Fitzpatrick into three smart saves to keep the scores level. Tufts eventually made Trinity pay for its profligacy. From a penalty corner, senior tri-captain midfielder Maggie Chapman found junior midfielder Elle Chrupcala before Chrupcala found Zarrella. Zarella expertly found the back of the net to give the Jumbos a 1-0 lead just inside 15 minutes.

Tufts continued to pressure Trinity, but senior forward Hannah Park, Chrupcala and Sikes-Kelip had their shots saved see FIELD HOCKEY, page 11

t seems like every week a superstar running back suffers a season ending injury. Jamaal Charles, Arian Foster and now Le’Veon Bell have all been wiped out of the fantasy equation.

The “highly hyped” group of Todd Gurley, Charcandrick West, Dion Lewis and Devonta Freeman has arrived and hopefully you nabbed at least one of them before your superstar broke down. If not, then go for DeAngelo Williams, who filled in admirably during Bell’s early season suspension.

Despite finishing with 60 yards on 15 carries, Jeremy Hill looked revitalized against Pittsburgh. The Stealers’ run defense is solid.

The same cannot be said for the Browns, who have allowed four 100+ yard games in a row and five on the season — not including Dexter “Lackluster” McCluster’s 98 yards in week 2. Hill is a recommended play and trade target for week 9.

I’ve frequently talked up Chris Ivory, but he fell off a cliff this week. The Jets as a whole look nothing like the team from earlier this season. Luckily, there is nothing like a matchup with the hapless Jaguars to temporarily mask offensive woes.

Ronnie Hillman finally rewarded owners, but C.J. Anderson again muddied the situation by having his best game yet. Whether Anderson is healthier or fixed his play during the bye doesn’t matter as he will continue to eat into Hillman’s carries, making the latter a risky RB3/FLEX play.

Eli Manning and Drew Brees absolutely torched each others’ defenses. Manning bounced back from two bad outings to post 350 yards and six touchdowns in a loss.

Classic Eli. Brees was even more impressive, throwing for 511 yards and seven touchdowns. The two teams combined for 101 points — the third highest number in NFL history — and while Brees is the real deal, Manning’s rest-of-schedule season following a week 9 tilt with the Buccaneers is atrocious: he’ll play the soul-crushing Patriots, the average Redskins, rebounding Miami, shutdown Carolina, Violent Vikings/Purple People Eaters, and finally have a grudge match with Philly. That provides plenty of opportunity for “Bad Eli” to show up. Disclaimer: There is no rhyme or reason as to how well Eli plays. Without a crystal ball, I really can’t rule out his throwing 300 yards and four touchdowns a game for the rest of the season.

We’ve been here before, but Geno Smith is worth a look in two QB leagues. DeAndre Hopkins is carrying Houston’s offense and Brian Hoyer with it. Jameis Winston displays improvement weekly and hasn’t thrown an interception in three games.

Tight ends. If you haven’t heard about Benjamin Watson or Gary Barnidge by now then you might as well be throwing paper airplanes. Jacob Tamme is worth a look as a borderline TE1. Eric Ebron and Vernon Davis would be TE1s if their respective offenses were anything more than utterly ineffectual. Richard Rodgers is touchdown dependent, but Aaron Rodgers is undoubtedly chomping at the bit to take down the Panthers after the Broncos embarrassed his Packers. Heath Miller is Ben Roethlisberger’s preferred checkdown option now that Bell is done and could see 6-8 targets per game going forward.

Phillip Goldberg is a Sports Editor at The Tufts Daily. He is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major and can be reached at phillip.goldberg@tufts.edu.