November 4, 2015

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movie. Termed “callbacks,” audience members are free to shout out and fill in lines after characters’ pauses or in between conversations.

“I think for me, the favorite part is definitely how interactive the audience is and how much fun they have with it,” Cox said. “Last year, I was an audience member, and my favorite parts were the callbacks. There are some hilarious callbacks.”

Joshua LaPalme, one of the shadow cast members, also said that some of the highlights of the event came from callbacks with the audience. He said part of the challenge of the production is getting audience members who are too timid to participate in the callbacks to engage with the cast. He cited measures that have been put in place to ensure full audience participation.

“People are naturally timid to scream things at a movie screen, and I think it’s pretty engrained in people that you do not talk in theaters, or you have to turn off your phone for the movie, but that’s not what we are

The environmental studies department has announced its plans to unveil a new Food Systems and Nutrition minor that will be released in the fall of 2016.

This initiative is being led by Professor Colin Orians, who has been the director of the environmental studies department since 2010.

“The idea of having something related to food systems and nutrition as a minor has been a long-standing hope and desire by people who preceded me,” Orians said. “The question has always been what…the best home [is] for a minor like this.”

The environmental studies major currently has four main tracks that students can focus on, including an environmental science track, a sustainability, policy and equity track, an environmental communications track and a relatively new food systems, nutrition and environment track, which was established in fall 2014. There is also a fifth track option for the major, for a self-designed track with an advisor.

While all of these tracks have considerable student support, a little over a quarter of students involved are in the food systems track, Orians said.

Ninian Stein, a program lecturer in the environmental studies department, said that the new minor is designed to be complementary with other existing academic programs.

“This [new] minor is designed not to replace [the current food systems track], but to complement it for students who are in other programs,” she said. “If you do not have time for a major, it’s designed to be a minor that could be compatible… with other options.”

Orians explained that purely offering the food and nutrition major track, without the food minor, has certain disadvantages. These drawbacks result from the fact that environmental studies is only offered as a second major, meaning that in order for students to major in it, they must also major in something else.

Orians said he hopes that by creating

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LGBT Center and Tufts Film Series host Rocky Horror show on Halloween night

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The Tufts LGBT Center peer leader program Team Q, in collaboration with Tufts Film Series, organized the second Halloween production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975) to a full house in Barnum Hall on Friday.

According to Shakura Cox, one of the Team Q peer leaders and organizers of the show, the event opened with a costume contest, then had a traditional Rocky Horror production where actors from a shadow cast portrayed the plot of the film on stage in front of the projected movie. The LGBT Center distributed paper bags full of props to the audience so that students could participate in Rocky Horror traditions, such as throwing various items at the actors and yelling phrases at the movie screen.

“You throw a bunch of things at people, you put newspapers over your head when the [scene] is them running around in the rain, you throw cards at the stage, you yell at the screen, and its just a really big cult following, and it’s

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a big part of specifically queer theater,” Cox, a senior, said. “But it’s also something that so many simply enjoy because it’s really a fun, crazy experience.”

According to Director of the LGBT Center Nino Testa, the Rocky Horror Picture Show had its first showing at Tufts last year around Halloween. It has historically been promoted for its cultural importance among the queer youth community, he said.

“I just initially [pitched] this [idea] out to Team Q, and they just took it and ran with it, and [I] was excited that they wanted to make it an annual thing,” he said. “I think we were just looking for a fun way for students to celebrate a particular kind of aspect of queer culture that has a lot of resonance for young LGBT people. Midnight screenings of Rocky Horror are a place that a lot of queer youth have found community and connected to others with common interests.”

Cox explained that one of the main attractions or highlights of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” tradition is for audience members to yell out responses to specific audio cues from the

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continued from page 1 going for, and most shadow casts have dedicated callback people,” LaPalme, a junior, said. “So we will go and call in response with each other and try to get it going, and [eventually], I think a lot of people were very involved in the callbacks.”

Team Q has made some changes to the show to make it more welcoming and community-friendly, Testa said. This has included changing some of the callbacks, because some termi-

nology in Rocky Horror is harsh and derogatory.

“I was really pleased that Team Q found a way to maintain the fun elements of the callback process whilst weeding out the ones that did not feel as welcoming,” Testa said. “I was really pleased that they decided to do something different with that [aspect], and I think they did some cool stuff to keep the spirit of the tradition but also reflect the values of the LGBT Center and Team Q.” Testa said he hopes to see “The Rocky

Horror Picture Show” tradition continue for years to come at Tufts.

“I would like to see it continue and see people pass it on to younger students and for them to take it up,” he said. “We just love to see, as long as it’s a tradition that feels fun to them, for it to keep evolving and for people to keep working on it.”

Cox also expressed her desire to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show tradition continue.

“I think we are dedicated to making it an annual thing for Tufts, the night before

Halloween kind of thing,” she said.

According to LaPalme, who participated in both last year’s and this year’s Rocky Horror event, the freedom of the interaction between audience and actors creates a memorable atmosphere for the event.

“This event is probably one of the highlights of my Tufts experience,” he said. “It’s an opportunity to get on stage and just have fun; it doesn’t really matter what you’re doing, it’s just a chance to let you be you on stage and have fun.”

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continued from page 1 this new minor, the environmental studies department will be able to capture the interest of students doing majors or double-majors outside of environmental studies who really want to engage in food systems and nutrition.

The Food Systems and Nutrition minor will join another minor that is currently being offered by the environmental studies department, according to Stein.

“We [currently] have the environmental studies minor that is offered to engineering students,” she said. “It’s a very specific department, just for engineering students, which is a bit different. The new [food systems] minor would be open to students from any part of the university.”

While this new minor is being introduced in the environmental studies department, the subject matter can

relate to a wide variety of majors, including biology, anthropology and religious studies, Stein said.

According to Orians, although much thought and planning has gone into the preparation of the new minor, deans and environmental studies faculty have not yet met to officially approve the curriculum.

“What we have is a dream, an idea, but all of this is going to be voted on by the faculty at some point in time,” he said. “What it will look like in the end may not be exactly what it looks like now because it’s very important that the faculty have a voice over the curriculum of the university.”

Orians said that despite not having official approval, the environmental studies department knows how it would like the minor to be structured, including having an introductory gateway course for the minor.

“Our hope is that we’ll have an… introductory course that will serve as an

interdisciplinary gateway course to food systems and nutrition,” he said. “The way I like to think about it is a course that will go from farm to table to body.”

After this gateway course, students will have the opportunity to choose from a number of existing introductory courses that deal with different aspects of food systems, Orians said.

“If they’re interested in food justice, they might select one set of courses,” he said. “If they’re interested in sustainable agriculture, they’re going to set up a different sequence of courses.”

Stein, who has spent much of her career studying food systems, said that there has been significant interest in food as an academic topic at all of the institutions at which she’s worked. “[At] every school I’ve been at, student, faculty and staff interest in food and food systems has been very high,” Stein said. “[The interest] seems to be very strong here at Tufts. Food is a topic

whose star is rising.”

Orians echoed Stein’s sentiment about the popularity of food studies within the Tufts student body.

“There’s this huge growing interest,” Orians said. “We just created this brand new track that was really different [from] anything else, and a lot of students just immediately migrated to [it].

So that was a real confirmation of food systems being something that students are really interested in and are wanting to engage in.”

Orians explained that though the Food Systems and Nutrition minor is not yet official, members of the environmental studies department are optimistic about the program’s popularity and eager to begin teaching students in the fall.

“We have this mass of faculty that are quite excited about the potential to engage students around food and [to use] it to teach basic concepts as well as applied concepts,” he said.

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Founded in 1989, Teachers and High School Students Program (TAHSS) at the Tufts School of Medicine aims to provide a bridge between high school students from the Greater Boston area and the medical school community. The program has been offering students interested in medicine and healthcare academic and research opportunities, as well as access to faculty mentors for more than two decades.

The program began as an extension of the the School of Medicine’s Minority High School Tutorial PLUS Program and the Minority High School Research Apprenticeship Program, which aimed to provide minority students with access to student medical tutors and summer research opportunities, respectively, according to the TAHSS website. In 1999, TAHSS became a joint project of the School of Medicine and the National Center for Resources Minority Initiative: K-12 Teachers and High School Students, a National Institutes of Health-supported program.

Today, TAHSS students participate in a five-week-long program over summer vacation and receive a stipend for up to 25 hours of weekly participation in various clinical and bench research positions throughout health sciences campuses in the Boston area, according to TAHSS’ website. In addition, students are expected to partake in independent study and present their findings at the end of the program.

According to Program Administrator for Multicultural Affairs Marlene Jreaswec, TAHSS started as an outreach program for poor or minority high school students to meet health professionals, gain access to research experience and find mentoring opportunities.

The admission process for the program is highly competitive and involves a selection committee, according to Jreaswec. Students must be invited to interview for the program and are evaluated on several factors, including their transcript, letters of recommendation and a personal statement, much like what applicants must produce when applying to medical school, she said.

The program received over 100 applications this year, according to Jreaswec. The applications are read by a selection committee composed of approximately half a dozen members, including Jreaswec and Dr. Joyce Sackey, dean of Multicultural Affairs and Global Health, as well as physicians who work in the Tufts University Medical Center and Medical School professors.

“A student must not necessarily have a 4.0 [GPA], but must show an interest in the sciences, must show growth,” she said. “And although it’s sometimes harder to gauge that when looking at the application of a 10th grader as opposed to a 12th grader, the letters of recommendation [will] show [if] they are well-rounded students, [if] they have extra-curricular activities, [if] they volunteer and give to the society as those things matter.”

Jreaswec said the program has seen growth in the strength of applicants over the years.

“I’ve seen development in the caliber of the student[s],” she said. “They tend to be very bright and motivated students. We get a lot of students from underserved [urban] communities, as those are the students that we tend to target the most, but we are seeing more students from the suburbs getting involved as well.”

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Tufts Medical School summer program TAHSS offers minority high school students the experience to work with faculty mentors and to do independent research. up TAHSS to a larger pool of students in the future, Jreaswec said.

According to Jreaswec, expanding program funding would allow for such growth.

TAHSS, however, no longer receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and is solely funded by the School of Medicine. The administration has discussed ways to increase funding to facilitate the growth it wishes to see, Jreaswec said.

According to Sackey, who, in addition to her role as dean, is also an associate professor of medicine, the most important factor that prevents the program from continuous expansion is a lack of mentors.

“Finding mentors from among our busy faculty who will be willing and available to work with high school students for an entire summer remains a challenge,” Sackey told the Daily in an email.

During the program, students have the ability to decide their area of research for independent study. Past research projects include the impact of gentrification on immigrants in Boston, work in pediatrics and oral cancer studies. Rachel Zhang, a 2015 alumna of TAHSS from Westford Academy in Westford, Mass., explained that conducting a research project provided her with a new set of practical skills.

“It made me better in researching techniques because I was not familiar in a lab format,” she said. “[I also learned] critical thinking [skills], what to do with research procedures and the tools that you use in lab.”

The program also requires anatomy and physical diagnosis classes taught by Tufts medical students, according to Jreaswec.

These courses are intended to expose students to graduate-level laboratory-based science.

“The classes are taught at a level that 10th to 12th graders can understand and are taught by first and second year instructors who have good command of the courses,” Jreaswec said.

The teachers are carefully chosen based on their past experience with high school students and teaching capacity to allow for a conducive learning environment, according to Jreaswec.

“The medical students…knew how to explain in ways that even the most amateur people could have gotten,” Kisha James, a 2015 alumna of the program and current junior at Waldorf High School in Belmont, Mass., said.

The participants also have the opportunity to interact with and learn from professionals in the medical field through field trips led by graduate students as well as the mentorship aspect of the program. This year, the group visited the Museum of History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital during the program, according to Zhang.

James emphasized the importance of the mentoring and shadowing aspect of the program. She identified the highlight of the program as attending her mentor’s practice in Arlington.

“He has a family practice there with maybe four other doctors, and he let me shadow his interns and also him,” she said.

“We got to meet a very wide variety of people because it was a family practice so we met with toddlers … We met with middle-aged people; we met with recovering drug addicts … I got a giant overview of what being a family doctor is all about.”

According to the information provided on the TAHSS website, even after the program has run its course, mentoring and support is still available for former students. The program office often checks in with students and provides information on upcoming conferences, the college application process and financial aid.

Additionally, some students who build strong relationships with the mentors, faculty, physicians and hospitals they work with may remain for the rest of the summer or return at some point in the future to continue researching, according to Jreaswec and student participants.

Some former TAHSS students go on to have careers in healthcare and dentistry, Jreaswec said.

According to Wang, a senior at Quincy High School in Quincy, Mass., TAHSS has helped her become more clear about her future career path.

“Prior to applying to the TAHSS program, I wanted to do something in the medical field and so I applied to the TAHSS program specifically just to explore different fields of science and to actually help me narrow down what field I wanted to do,” Wang said. “It really helped me.”

Wang also noted that she has now applied to university and hopes to major in biology or biochemistry and follow a pre-med track.

“The most beneficial aspect of the program for me, other from narrowing down what I actually want to do in the future, [was that] I also got to know a lot of people from different parts of the world,” she said.

Wang expressed her appreciation of the diversity of not only the program’s high school participants, but also of the medical students and professionals involved. She noted that the program created a sense of community between participants that still exists after the program has ended. According to Wang and James, the 2015 cohort is still tightly knit and interacts on social media.

“I would recommend [TAHSS] very, very highly,” James said. “I would do it every year if I could.”

alloween sort of haunts me as a concept. It is fraught with outfit questions: When does sexy become too much? When does poking fun become offensive?

When do we get to go home and take off these dumb ears?

This year, I thought about how I could include my leg hair in my costume. Dirty Hippie? Bigfoot? Second-wave feminist?

I thought about Gloria Steinem, but she’s a controversial figure these days. Also, my friend nixed Gloria and told me Halloween was for silly costumes. I guess Gloria is too serious. Her glasses are very serial killer-esque.

Anyway, Halloween is around the time when things start feeling sad. The days are shorter, and midterms have arrived and seem to be here to stay. With all its promises of fun and excitement, Halloween stands as a glimmering beacon of hope.

It’s sort of like when New Englanders tell you that you need to find a winter sport, or learn to enjoy cocoa, wear knit sweaters and snuggle up with a furnace.

And you want to say, but, but, but, I can do all of those things in San Francisco.

Then they’re like, it’s not my problem — you chose to come to this school. And you both scowl at each other because you know you chose this school, and they know California is better.

Halloween is sort of like that. It’s this thing that people tell you to get excited for because they know the weather is going to shit. Everyone has found their sad corner of the library that has their favorite monologue penciled into the cubby by the last sad library dweller. On the way to said cubby, they think back to a time when they might have ventured elsewhere to study. But not now. They return, like salmon to the creek, back to the same corner because the misery is familiar.

All that time spent in wooden cubicles really gets everyone into a frenzy about Halloween hook-ups, myself included.

Cue imaginary conversation: Who are you going to end up with tonight? Are you doing a walk of shame right now? Oh my gawd, you’re the coolest.

So, it’s that time of year. And everyone starts to believe in the fantasy of Halloween. It’s like those big Hollywood movies devoted to a day — Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve…Halloween.

Everything can change in a night!

You’ll finally meet the person of your dreams and fulfill every Tufts student’s deepest longing to join the pool of graduates who marry a fellow Jumbo! Think of the pride! Think of the wedding pictures in front of the cannon or Goddard!

Think of all the things one can do with a blue and brown color scheme!

I have believed the myth! But no longer. The universe has communicated that Halloween is not my night. In years past, I’ve tried to fix relationships, I’ve had bad sex and I’ve been flat out rejected. To the fine folks who read (skim?) this column, I’m here to tell you that I have found the secret. Stay indoors, eat a lot of candy and, if you’re lucky, enjoy the company of two spelling bee champs with a Bloody Mary in hand.

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

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A giant chrome anthropomorphic eagle, with a huge star (reminiscent of that on the Texan flag) for a chest and American flag-painted wings, explodes onto the screen in a flash of lightning.

The eagle screams and flexes its bulging arms. The eagle’s entry complete, a deep masculine voice roars “BROFORCE!” with throat-rending force, while a soundtrack comprised of blaring horns, shredding guitars and suspense-building strings blasts

in the background. Then the game’s main menu appears.

With its cacophonous opening sequence, “Broforce” — a 2D shooter-platformer developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital — presents an experience that is equal parts homage to and parody of testosterone-soaked action movies, their hulking heroes and the kind of unthinking attitudes toward military might they so often present. “Broforce” has been in development since April 2012 when it began as a submission to the Ludum Dare game jam and has been available via Steam Early Access since

April 2014. After a year and a half spent in Early Access, “Broforce” finally released on Oct. 15.

In “Broforce,” players begin selecting missions by maneuvering a helicopter around a blocky three dimensional representation of the game’s world and navigating to a “terror hotspot” somewhere on the globe. After choosing a mission, players must navigate a level by killing enemies and avoiding environmental hazards.

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TV Review

‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ is entertaining mess of gore, satire

by Merilla Michael Assistant Arts Editor

“The Evil Dead” movies are known for striking a weirdly entertaining balance between gore, horror and comedy. The first two in the franchise, “The Evil Dead” (1981) and “Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn” (1987) were critically acclaimed across the board, but the reboot in 2013, “Evil Dead,” complete with a new cast, didn’t quite impress fans. The noticeable absences of Bruce Campbell as protagonist Ash Williams, and director Sam Raimi are probably to blame for the disappointing resurrection of the beloved franchise. To the delight of fans everywhere, the spinoff television series “Ash vs. Evil Dead,” which premiered on Oct. 31 and takes place 30 years after the original movies, brings back the missing alumni of the original movies.

For someone who hasn’t seen any of “The Evil Dead” movies, the pilot of “Ash vs. Evil Dead” may seem absurd. Viewers meet Williams, who is, frankly, a pretty lame 40-something loner. He might have been a cool guy back in the day, but viewers can see he’s well past his prime. His introductory scene is of him struggling to put on a girdle before going out to a bar, where he picks up a woman. In the middle of this scene, Williams is shocked when the woman’s face momentarily turns demonic and then, all of a sudden, turns back to normal.

It’s clear that, despite his shock, the image

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Bruce Campbell, left, returns as Ash Williams alongside Lucy Lawless, right, in the new “Evil Dead” spinoff series “Ash vs. Evil Dead.” is one he has seen before. Later that same day, Williams reads from an old, creepy book, which viewers later learn is “The Book of the Dead.” By reading from this book, Williams sets off a series of demonic possessions all around town.

Viewers get the necessary background on the book later when Williams explains its history to his co-worker and friend, Pablo Simon Bolivar (Ray Santiago). It turns out that Williams, 30 years ago, while

staying at a cabin with his friends, read out of the “Necronomicon Ex-Mortis,” an alternate name for “The Book of the Dead,” and, in doing so, released demons into the world. All his friends were possessed, and he had to kill his own girlfriend. Williams was the lone survivor of the event, but only because he chopped off his hand to escape. He has been hiding see Evil Dead, page 8

f anyone at Tufts asks me what music I like, I immediately respond with “hiphop,” usually getting a nod of approval in return. However, when I go back home, slip into my car and jet across the New Jersey Turnpike, the playlist blasting from my car speakers is exclusively country. I know what you are probably thinking: I’d much rather listen to chalk screeching than a Luke Bryan song or Brad Paisley ballad. However, with the 2015 Country Music Association Awards coming up on Nov. 4, now is the perfect time to explain why I am unequivocally in love with country music.

The genre embodies spending long nights with my best friends, driving without a care in the world, falling in love and enjoying life. Nonetheless, I wasn’t always an ardent defender of country music. At one point, I hated it — I would cringe whenever my friends turned it on, loudly proclaiming my disdain. But then a Kenny Chesney track, “Pirate Flag” (2013), got stuck in my head and that lead to “Bartender” (2014) by Lady Antebellum and “Play it Again” (2013) by Luke Bryan. By the time I stumbled onto the Bryan catalog, I was hooked. There was no turning back. I raced through album after album before discovering Blake Shelton, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Florida Georgia Line and one amazing country artist after the other.

It’s easy to pinpoint why I love the genre so much. The songs are relatable and easy to listen to. If you are feeling great, there’s a tune for that. If you’re feeling sad, there’s no better way to drown out your emotions than by blasting a country crooner that feels the same way you do.

The songs tell stories and paint pictures of a life full of highs and lows. If you want to feel nostalgic, go on a long drive, dance, sing along or feel patriotic, country music has you covered.

The themes expressed in country are important ones. Yes, there are the throwaway party jams that exist in any genre.

There are many more songs, however, with real meaning. Country music is patriotic like no other. “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” (2001) by Alan Jackson, “Chicken Fried” (2007) by Zac Brown Band and “Made in America” (2011)

by Toby Keith are great examples of the sheer and unbridled enthusiasm country artists have for the United States. There are many songs that show the love country artists have for each other, their families and their hometowns.

Country music is also, surprisingly, a haven for female empowerment. The genre features some amazing women like Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum, Kacey Musgraves and Maddie & Tae. These country rock stars are perfect role models for someone like my little sister, who’s a fan of them all. They also all put on amazing shows; you haven’t been to a concert until you’ve been to a country concert. The level of community, joy and summer fun is merely unmatched by any other genre.

So, next time a country hit pops up on shuffle, think twice before hitting the skip button.

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

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Elements of chance, satire elevate gameplay in ‘Broforce’ Broforce

continued from page 7 control of a “bro,” a cartoonish parody of a well-known action hero. “Broforce” derives much of its character from its bros, each of which has a name made from the nom de guerre of a popular action hero with “bro” unceremoniously shoved into it (Rambro, Brominator, Indianna Brones, Bronan the Brobarian). These equal parts cringeworthy and hilarious “brombinations” are enough to make Barney Stinson request the highest of fives. Along with silly names, all bros have a unique primary weapon and special ability that pay homage to the character that inspired them. Indianna Brones, for example, sports a whip and has a potent revolver as a special ability. For all their disparate weapons and abilities, the 30 bros of “Broforce” are united in their fragility — each can only withstand a single shot or

endure a single explosion before dying.

Where “Broforce” shines is how it makes players choose between bros. A lesser game would have had players simply select a bro at the beginning of the level, leaving them to pick a character that they liked and/ or that suited their playing style. Instead, “Broforce” assigns the player a random bro at the beginning of the level and scatters imprisoned bros throughout the level.

Freeing one of these bros grants the player another life, but also randomly changes their player to another bro. This way, players have to decide whether the guaranteed extra life is worth being assigned a new, random bro. The randomness inherent in bro selection challenges the player to come up with a way to best the enemies before them with the tools they have and introduces something of a cerebral element into the otherwise tired 2D side-scrolling shooter

formula.

The game’s other defining feature is its destructible levels. Almost every part of the game’s levels can be reduced to dust by gunfire and explosives, and “Broforce” encourages delightfully hectic experimentation as the player tries to destroy the level around their enemies without killing themselves.

Tunneling through a level (using a machine gun) to reach a gas main that, if damaged, will explode and cause a building full of cartoon terrorists to plummet into the abyss also elicits a sublime childlike giddiness.

The combination of randomly selected bros and chaotic level destruction that defines “Broforce” makes it a (literal) blast to play with friends, either through the game’s online or local cooperative mode. Up to four players can team up to battle through the game’s levels, and the tension that comes from how easy it is to kill your fellow bros is a recipe for high fives

and/or streams of expletives.

The gameplay is outstanding in both single and multiplayer, and, fortunately, its presentation measures up. “Broforce” wears its influences on its sleeve, employing a gorgeous pixel art style and character designs reminiscent of classics like “Metal Slug” (1996 – 2009) and “Contra” (1987). “Broforce” also features a narrator of sorts, who, though he sounds scarcely capable of human speech, roars monosyllables when important game events occur. His pained growl of “Nraawwwagrh!” when the player has failed a mission is a highlight.

There is very little not to like about “Broforce,” which features an uncommon level of polish in both its art and gameplay.

Some players may find its militarism distasteful, but, all in all, the game is more a commentary on the depiction of force in film than an endorsement of the American military.

Building off viewer nostalgia, ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ leans heavily on series’ cache Evil Dead

continued from page 7 away for the past three decades hoping to forget about this incident, but it has now come back to haunt him.

Scenes from the original “The Evil Dead” movies play while Williams performs his dramatic retelling — a curious cinematic choice. Santiago’s presence, meanwhile, is a welcome one — he makes for a charismatic addition to the cast.

Bolivar is extremely loyal to Williams, seeing in his friend a bravery that isn’t apparent at first glance.

This show is kind of a mess, but this is because it is intentionally staying true to the themes and atmospheres of the original movies. Some of the action sequences are borderline laughable but entertaining nonetheless. At one point, a possessed elderly woman jumps in midair about to attack Williams, who, in slow motion, attaches a chainsaw tossed to him

by Bolivar to a contraption on his handless arm. He then proceeds to decapitate his would-be attacker. The show does not shy away from gore, racking up a number of decapitations, brutal gunshots and

stabbings in the premiere. The spurting of blood, however, is so overdone that these scenes don’t come off as scary or horrifying like they would in any other situation.

The music, which can be described as upbeat rock, is well-timed to augment overly dramatic scenes and exaggerated acting. Kelly Maxwell (Dana DeLorenzo), a co-worker of Williams and Bolivar, plays the token female character. Grossed out by the protagonist at first, she will likely become romantically interested in him, especially since Williams saves her life. Hopefully DeLorenzo’s character is given more sub-

stance through the season because, right now, she isn’t as memorable as the other two in this trio. A less interesting side plot is that of officer Amanda Fisher (Jill Marie Jones) who killed her he own partner after he became possessed while they were investigating mysterious deaths related to the “Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.”

The entire “The Evil Dead” franchise is an acquired taste, and “Ash vs. Evil Dead” is no exception. Some may not be able to look past the campy vibe of it all and take it seriously, but those who aren’t bothered by the atmosphere will enjoy the wild ride.

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Founded in 1995, the Tufts Ballroom Dance Team competes at six collegiate competitions in the New England area each year. This past Sunday, the team attended the

Brown University Ballroom Dance Competition, the first competition of the semester for “newcomers.”

The Daily followed two couples — first-year newcomers Louisa Kimmell

and Ivan Tan, and seniors Amanda Hutter and Max Greenhouse — through their preparations and competition day.

When Hutter and co-captain Greenhouse joined the team as first-years, neither of them had any ballroom experience. “[I] did ballet and modern and lyrical throughout the end of high school, so I did a lot of dancing, just never ballroom dancing,” Hutter said. Other than a couple months of tap in high school, Greenhouse came to Tufts with little dance experience. “I liked ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’” he said.

Both Kimmell and Tan had no dance experience at all before coming to Tufts — in fact, both were drawn to ballroom by its first-year recruitment efforts, they said.

Kimmell remembered the swing-dancing General Interest Meeting on the Tisch Rooftop as being a memorable event. “They actually showed us the dances, and we danced with partners,” Kimmell said.

Tan agreed, saying

that the recruitment efforts at the beginning of the year drew him in. “I was at the O-show, and I just fell in love with the dance, so I just went for the next few sessions and just kept on going,” he said.

Greenhouse had a similar experience as a first-year. “I went to the Orientation Show, and I really liked it, and I started coming and coming,” he said.

Excitement permeates the team before a competition. “[I’m] excited to…see how all the hard work pays off in a competition setting,” Hutter said.

Greenhouse felt the same way. “I usually get very excited because I feel like every competition’s a performance,” he said. Tan said he does not look as the experience as a competition.

“I’m excited,”

he said. “I’m just looking at it as a 90-second opportunity to have fun.”

Meanwhile, Kimmell said, “I think I’ll be more nervous right before ...

But I’m also really excited.”

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Hutter still remembers being discouraged by her first competition. “I remember for the first competition thinking…‘I’ve been doing this for two or three months; it feels like so long,’ and expecting to get better results,” she said. “[I was thinking,] ‘Oh, I didn’t make the finals. Oh, I’ll never make the finals,’ the first few competitions when I hadn’t made finals yet.”Greenhouse notes that he has improved partially based on encouragement from older members on the team. “I remember how much fun it was getting help from the older members and how I could really feel a sense of improvement with every note that I got,” Greenhouse said. Here, Kimmell and Tan are helped by an older member during an open practice session.

For Greenhouse and Hutter, ballroom is more than just an extracurricular activity. “I like the competitive aspect of it and…there’s always improvement that you can do,” Hutter said. Outside of technique, one of Hutter’s favorite aspects of the ballroom team is how it feels like a family. “It’s nice because in addition to all of the dancing and the technical work, it’s a very personal relationship between you and your partner and you and your teammates,” she said.

“Ballroom has really changed my life.” Greenhouse said, “I started on the team as an activity that I could try to fit in outside of theater. I’ve now added a dance minor, and I hope to compete in ballroom professionally one day. So, it’s really completely changed my goals professionally.”

Hutter and Greenhouse, competing in the Gold level, came in first place in both styles and won the Gold Overall Award. Both Kimmell and Tan plan to continue participating in ballroom.

When describing ballroom, Hutter said, “It’s very infectious. I come into rehearsal, thinking I’ll be here for an hour, and I stay for three hours, four hours, because...I want to get better at a move, and dancing is really fun.” After only about two months of rehearsals, Kimmell agreed. “Ballroom dance is really fun! It’s just fun to do the actual dances,” she said.

At the Brown competition, both couples competed in the Smooth dance category, performing Waltz and Foxtrot. Kimmell and Tan received callbacks in both styles and made it to the Newcomer Quarter-Finals for Foxtrot.

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by Luke Sherman College students have played a unique role in catalyzing social change in our country. In the 1960s, thousands of students participated in Freedom Rides, boarding buses across the country to travel to Southern states and register to vote African-American adults who faced institutionalized disenfranchisement.

Student-driven protests against the Vietnam War shaped the 1968 presidential election. In the 1980s, direct actions on hundreds of college campuses helped dismantle the apartheid state that was South Africa. And yet, severe discrimination is currently occurring in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts while college students remain largely uninvolved in the effort to correct this grave injustice.

Transgender and gender non-conforming people lack explicit legal protection in areas of public accommodation here in our state.

Public accommodations comprise a number of spaces, such as retail establishments, public parks, transportation centers, hospitals and other medical facilities, restaurants, movie theaters and more. Simply put, an area of public accommodation is any space that is open to and solicits the public.

An historic legal victory earned by the LGBTQ community this summer does little to address the day-to-day concerns of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. In 27 states in our country, it is legal to fire someone based on sexual orientation — a practice that is legal in 31 states on the basis of one’s gender identity or gender expression. Federal civil rights protections, extended to racial minorities, the disabled and many other groups, do not safeguard LGBTQ Americans, leaving millions of them who reside in more conservative states to live in fear. Fortunately, Massachusetts fully protects LGBTQ Americans, but it has a much more damning history when it comes to protecting non-cisgender people.

Four years ago, the Massachusetts legislature passed legislation that updated Massachusetts’ civil rights law to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of protected classes in employment, public education, credit/lending and housing, and then-Governor Deval Patrick signed the bill into law. Following its imple-

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mentation on July 1, 2012, it became no longer legal to refuse a rental application or deny a loan to a transgender or gender non-conforming person on the basis of that individual’s gender identity or expression. The media devoted much attention to the signing ceremony but neglected to cover in great depth the more sordid history behind the bill’s passage.

Days before the legislature voted on the matter, Republicans and conservative Democrats convinced legislative leadership to strip public accommodations protections from the final bill, fearing that failing to do so would stoke a backlash in their districts. These lawmakers worried that their constituents would be angry if they were to have to comply with state law to treat transgender and gender non-conforming people the same way they were obligated to treat everyone else.

Although data on the experiences and demographics of the transgender population are scarce, the stories of transgender and gender non-conforming Bay Staters and a 2014 study released by the Fenway Institute and the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) reveal that discrimination against transgender people in places of public accommodation is widespread. The report, Project VOICE, surveyed 452 Massachusetts residents who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming. According to the survey, 65 percent of respondents reported discrimination in one or more places of public accommodation in the past year. The settings where this discrimination was the most widespread were, in decreasing order, transportation centers, retail establishments, restaurants, public gatherings and health care facilities.

The negative effects of this discrimination are clear and measurable. According to the study, those who reported experiencing discriminatory treatment had an 84 percent increased risk of suffering from adverse physical symptoms, such as an upset stomach and headaches, and 99 percent were at an increased risk of experiencing negative emotional symptoms, such as feeling upset or sad, in the 30 days following the event during which the discrimination took place.

This sort of discrimination worsens the severe marginalization that the transgender

community faces. Statistics provided by the National Center for Transgender Equality indicate that transgender people are among the poorest, unhealthiest and most harassed members of society. According to its 2011 report, “Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey,” one of the most comprehensive efforts ever undertaken to study the experiences and demographics of the national transgender population, 15 percent of transgender Americans reported living in extreme poverty or having a household income of less than $10,000 per year, nearly four times that of the general population. An astonishing 41 percent of respondents reported attempting suicide, which compares to 1.6 percent of the general population. Less than one-third of respondents reported owning a home, compared to 67 percent of the general population.

Those living in areas lacking explicit protection on the basis of gender identity in areas of public accommodation faced increased harassment, assault and violence.

These statistics are unconscionable. If the Commonwealth is to adequately address this issue, it must join the 18 other states and the nation’s capital that extend public accommodations protections to transgender and gender non-conforming people, and more college students need to join the effort. At MassEquality, the leading grassroots organization that is working to catalyze the passage of a bill that would do just that (and where I have interned since early June), we engage supporters across the state to lobby their legislators to support this bill. I implore all members of the Tufts community to contact their legislators and ask them to support HB 1577 and SB 735, to get in touch with me to ask about ways to get involved in this effort and to attend one or more of the weekly phone banks we hold every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at a church adjacent to campus, the First Church Somerville UCC. It is past time that we ensure that all people, regardless of their gender identity or expression, can enjoy full protection under the law here in the state we call home.

Luke Sherman is a senior majoring in environmental studies. He can be reached at luke.sherman@tufts.edu.

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New York Maritime College by a margin of 5.5 seconds, ranking second in a field of 10 with a time of 11:55.14.

“Second place is a good finish, but I would be lying if I said we weren’t disappointed,” Cohen said. “A few of us had been cutting weight so we felt pretty drained, but honestly I think we rowed the best race we had in us.”

Lightweight rowers are not permitted to weigh more than 160 pounds individually. As a boat, the average weight cannot exceed 155 pounds, taking the crew’s coxswain into consideration.

Lightweight rowers must often restrict their diet while performing under the same expectations as open weight (or heavyweight) rowers.

“In the end I think we and [New York Maritime] both had good races, but they just slightly outperformed us,” Cohen said.

Quickly following was the men’s collegiate second varsity eight event, which saw two entries from Tufts that ranked sixth and 12th in a field of 17.

First-year recruits like Rohail Rai competed in both collegiate varsity and novice events.

The “novice” distinction represents members of a crew who are in their first year of rowing. At the collegiate level, this is taken to mean the first year of collegiate rowing, regardless of whether the rower has prior experience. This made it possible for both the varsity first-year and walk-on novice crews to compete in the same collegiate novice eight event.

The experienced novice entry was comprised of first-year strokes Ryan Bell, Glass, Issac Mudge, Richard Gilland, Ryan Magnuson, Rai, Daniel Grichevsky, Alec Whipple and coxswain Hannah Frankel.

The walk-on novice entry consisted of first-year stroke Trent Turner, first-year James Miller, junior Jeremy Slavitz, firstyear Tamas Takata, first-year Reed Collins, sophomore Hani Chkess, sophomore Chris Gregory, first-year bow Max Klaver and first-year coxswain James Grant.

Although the novice crews were troubled with too-close steering of other boats that is typical of a novice race, both teams performed admirably. The experienced novices ranked third with a time of 10:54.49, winning a bronze medal, and the walk-on crew finished 15th in a substantial field of 41 with a time of 11:47.11 These two finishes are indicative of the hard work and progress that the crew program has made over this fall season. “[This race showed] the potential of the freshman class [in helping to make] Tufts Crew…a serious contender for the New England Rowing Championships,” Rai said. “[Head coach Noel Wanner] said that winning in the freshman boat will show other schools [that] our program is becoming faster.”

The walk-on crew was encouraged by its top-half finish following the support from, and the precedent set by, the varsity squad.

“Getting a pat on the shoulder and an approving smile from the more experienced rowers really made us feel that we are part of the team,” Chkess said.

The novice and varsity crews leave their fall racing season on a positive note.

Looking ahead, the Jumbos have a highly intensive program of indoor winter training to prepare them for their championship races in the spring.

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In defense of the Special One

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helsea manager Jose Mourinho has not had the best of times. It is hard to believe that this was the same Chelsea squad that romped to the title just a few months ago. It seems that Eden Hazard’s missed penalty is a representation of his own decline in form.

If there’s anyone who can turn it around, however, it’s Mourinho. Granted, his behavior (raging at everyone, including his club doctor) has not been the most gentlemanly.

His PR skills are severely questionable, and that’s placed a negative mood around the club. Transfer dealings have not been the most spectacular, but Pedro and Asmir Begovic could hardly be considered bad signings. Some of the blame has to fall on the players for letting their manager down and not playing to the same standard.

But to sack the best manager that Chelsea has ever had would be a grave mistake. Who would they appoint in replacement? Fabio Capello’s hardly convincing — and equally defensive-minded. Guus Hiddink’s stock has fallen with his Dutch embarrassment, and the Jürgen Klopp boat has sailed. Brendan Rodgers will never be half as convincing as Mourinho, and the Chelsea faithful will not take kindly to the possible return of André Villas-Boas. Neither will he, nor Carlo Ancelotti.

You saw a fighting spirit at Stoke, and Chelsea actually started out well against Liverpool. The squad wants to find a way out of the slump, and the last thing they need is instability with a change in manager. Chelsea have a relatively easier run of fixtures next — with home games against Bournemouth, Norwich and Sunderland, and an away match at Watford. Even with trying fixtures against Tottenham and Leicester, I expect an improvement in Chelsea’s performance.

The fans are behind Mourinho. Posters of “The Only Way is Jose” and “Stick with Jose” decorated Stamford Bridge on Saturday. For all the talk about “third-season” syndrome, perhaps this would be the opportunity for Mourinho to reshape his image.

Gone are the days where Chelsea had a culture of rapid firing. In Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich’s reappointing of Mourinho, the manager he so publicly feuded with, Abramovich sent out a sign that he was ready to stabilize the Chelsea ship. A quick-fix — i.e. sacking Mourinho — is not the answer, but they have some of the best talent in the country, winning the FA Youth Cup thrice in four years. Perhaps sacrificing the season to rebuild with youngsters could strengthen Chelsea going forward.

Loosening the defensive shackles and allowing players like Cesc Fabregas, Hazard and Oscar to attack freely could restore confidence to the side. Arguably that was how the title was won — Chelsea played scintillating football in the first half of last year.

I think that Chelsea will still be playing European football come next season.

Mourinho is not David Moyes, and this Chelsea squad is nowhere as weak as the Manchester United squad that Moyes inherited in 2013.

Sacking Mourinho again would end the relationship once and for all, and I’m not sure if that’s the best move for Chelsea.

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

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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

MEN'S CREW

Jumbos finish fall season strong at Head of the Fish

by Andre Chuong Staff Writer

The men’s rowing team took the Head of the Fish Regatta in Saratoga, N.Y. by storm on Saturday, fielding 18 entries in eight events in its final regatta of the fall racing season. Boasting highly ranked finishes and taking home medals, the Jumbos left Saratoga on a high with eager expectations for the spring.

Dominating the competition in the men’s collegiate singles event were sophomore gold-medalist Andrew MacMillen and senior bronze-medalist Andrew Warren. MacMillen had finished in second place at this event last year and entered the race with high expectations for his performance this year, citing a less competitive field and his own growth over the course of the season.

“My closest competitors from last year were not present this time around, and I [have] been practicing in the single a lot more this fall,” MacMillen said.

“Additionally, my fitness is much better now, and I relied on [that] much more heavily to get me through the race.”

MacMillen finished first in a field of 13 with a time of 12:50.11, holding a large margin ahead of Binghamton University’s Dylan Hartwick (13:15.09), who finished in second place, and teammate Warren (13:58.46), who finished in third place.

Following an early-morning victory in single sculls, Tufts competed in the men’s collegiate first varsity eight event with an entry of first-year Ryan Bell, MacMillen, senior tri-captain Jon Williams, first-year Chandler Glass, sophomore Tyler Hagedorn, junior Tyler McCullough, senior Zhuangchen Zhou, junior tri-captain Zach Merchant and senior coxswain Maria Karam.

This lineup of rowers has been left largely unchanged since the crew’s

Courtesy Anna Lindgren-Streicher

Senior rower Zhuangchen Zhou competes in Saturday’s Head of the Fish. bronze-medal finish at the Head of the Snake Regatta in early October and has proven to bew a formidable and competitive boat.

“The lineup for the fall was selected based on the power curve data the coaches collected during the season,” Zhou said. “However, [we] make a lot of progress during the winter, and in the spring the lineup might change a lot.”

Calm conditions at the Head of the Fish set the Jumbos up for success on the water. The first varsity eight was not passed by any of its competitors on the

course, and the crew was able to row its own race, finishing in the top quarter of all entries. Tufts’ first varsity eight was ranked seventh in a field of 28 with a time of 10:34.60, just .17 seconds behind NESCAC rival Williams.

“We were not satisfied with our placement in [our race], as we know we have much more speed,” Zhou continued. “Placing behind Williams by [a fraction of a second] is both reassuring of our work on the water and inspiring for our winter training.”

The men’s collegiate lightweight four was fielded by an entry of senior stroke

Jackson Horwitz, McCullough, sophomore Andrew Takasugi, sophomore bow Matthew Cohen and coxswain Karam. The crew was the first to launch in the time-trial head race based on their first-place finish for the past two years at the Head of the Fish.

Over the course of their race, the lightweight Jumbos were able to maintain their position, keeping a considerable distance between themselves and other boats.

However, they were ultimately bested by see Men’s Crew, page 15

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY

Jumbos finish third at NESCAC Championship

by Ben Feinberg Staff Writer

Tufts continued its impressive season by finishing in third place out of 11 teams in the eight-kilometer NESCAC Championship race at Wesleyan this past Saturday.

Tufts scored 99 points, losing out to first place Williams, who scored 36 points, and second place Amherst, who registered 61 points. Points are tallied by adding the places of the top five runners from each school. Rounding out the top five were Hamilton and Middlebury in fourth and fifth, respectively.

Leading the Jumbos were juniors Tim Nichols and Luke O’Connor. Nichols finished in fifth place out of 129 total runners in a blistering 25:08.97 while O’Connor finished right behind him in sixth place, with a time of 25:10.94.

“Tim and Luke both ran great races,” first-year Christian Swenson said. “They have been leading our team all season, and it was great to see them run so well today.”

Sophomore Ty Enos came in third for the Jumbos and 20th overall, finishing in a time of 25:57.01. Following him was senior co-captain James Traester in 34th place overall, completing the eight-kilometer course in a time of 26:19.06. Rounding out the scoring for the Jumbos was senior co-captain Michael Curley, who

Courtesy Ty Enos

Members of the men’s cross country team start their run at the Bates College Invitational on Sept. 19. finished in 36th place overall, with a time of 26:20.58.

“Ty had an incredible race,” firstyear Dylan Jones said. “This is a hard course and it was great to see him set such a great personal record. He’s had a great season, and I think he’s only going to get even better from here on out.”

In addition to the runners who scored points for the team, many younger Jumbos ran outstanding races.

Swenson finished in 61st place with a time of 26:44.41, and classmate Mathew McDermott came in 69th place, finishing in a time of 26:51.81. Jones completed the race in a time of 27:11.30, good for an impressive 81st place. Sophomores Samuel Little and John Greenberg came in 92nd and 97th place, with times of 27:32.59 and 27:37.39, respectively.

“I was really proud of our whole team [because] there are a lot of underclassmen

on this team, and to see us all able to compete and able to race well in a meet this big is a huge confidence builder,” Swenson said. “We’ve been training all season for races like this, and it was great to see us go out there and get third place in a race that some people were saying we might not do as well in.”

In the Oct. 14 rankings by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, Tufts was ranked 24th nationally in Div. III, behind Amherst, Williams, Bates and Wesleyan. Amherst, the favorite going into the race, ranked second in the country while Williams was ranked seventh, Bates was 19th and Wesleyan was 22nd. Tufts was quickly followed

by Colby at 29th and Hamilton at 31st.

But after the Jumbos’ strong showing this past weekend, they will most likely see their place in the rankings rise.

The team, however, is not overly concerned with rankings and believes that its approach to each race will continue to be the same. “[The rankings] won’t change anything,” Swenson said. “We’re still going go out and try our hardest…and hopefully beat everyone regardless of [whether] they are ranked higher or lower than us.”

The Jumbos’ next race will be the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship at Williams on Saturday, Nov. 7.