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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

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Tufts Relay for Life raises over $6,000 following November kick-off

by Ariel Barbieri-Aghib Staff Writer

Tufts Relay for Life (RFL) has raised over $6,000 for the American Cancer Society (ACS) in preparation for its main relay event in April following the group’s November kick-off event.

The fundraising effort will culminate with the spring RFL event, which will take place from April 8 to 9 at the Gantcher Center from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. At the event, people will gather to honor, remember and support cancer survivors and their caregivers as well as people battling cancer or who have died from cancer, according to the Tufts RFL website.

“We fundraise and do publicity all year for this [April] event,” senior Emily Casey, the group’s event chair, said. “We do educational events and entertainment events to raise awareness and get people interested.”

According to the RFL national website, RFL began in 1985 when cancer researcher Dr. Gordy Klatt decided to fundraise for his research. He ran around a track for 24 hours, allowing people to pledge a certain amount of money to walk or run with him, ultimately raising around $27,000. This set in motion Relay for Life, which would become a national ACS fundraising event with the same premise of Klatt’s initial run, though it has been adopted by teams and participants in cities, towns and schools across the country. According to the ACS website, Relay for Life is the largest non-governmental funder of cancer research.

According to Casey, the RFL kick-off event took place on Nov. 4 and aimed to publicize the group’s spring relay. The two-and-a-halfhour kick-off showcased four performance groups, as well as speakers from the organization who are cancer survivors, Casey said. The event also included free food, donations and discounted registration.

Tufts Relay for Life has 35 teams and 151 participants as of press time, according to the Tufts RFL fundraising website. According to Casey, participants this year have raised three hundred more dollars than they did around mid-November last year.

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Students, community members attend Temple Grandin lecture

by Isha Fahad Staff Writer

Tufts students and community members gathered to hear Dr. Temple Grandin, a lecturer on autism and animal handling, give a talk titled “My Life with Animals” in Cohen Auditorium Monday evening. Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and a consultant for livestock handling facilities, as well as the subject of a 2010 HBO biopic, according to the Grandin Livestock Handling Systems website. Through her work, Grandin has transformed the functioning of slaughterhouses in the United States, with half of the cattle in the country now handled through a system she designed that minimizes fear stress for animals.

The event was sponsored by the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the Cummings School’s Office of Continuing Education, Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction (TIHAI) and the Center for Animals and Public Policy.

Dr. Lisa Freeman, director of TIHAI, introduced Grandin and the TIHAI department at the podium before the talk. see GRANDIN, page 2

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Professor of animal science at Colorado State University Temple Grandin spoke to students and community members in Cohen Auditorium on Nov. 30. Grandin is an autism activist as well as an expert in the field of animal research.

Former National Security Council Advisor gives lecture at Fletcher School

by Liam Knox Staff Writer

Former National Security Council (NSC) Advisor Stephen Hadley gave a talk Monday evening in the ASEAN auditorium titled “A Challenge of the Middle East in Flames” as part of the Dr. Maurice S. Segal Lecture series.

The discussion, which was free for all members of the public, was facilitated by Admiral James Stavridis, dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander.

Hadley served as the National Security Advisor under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009. Since leaving the position when Barack Obama took office, Hadley has been a founding member and principal of the strategic consulting firm RiceHadleyGates LLC, according to the RiceHadleyGates website. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs Anja Manuel are also principals and founding members of the firm.

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During the talk on Monday, Hadley discussed strategies to defeat ISIS and the growing power of China, as well as the role of the military in combating climate change.

In his talk, Hadley argued for an increase in hard power — the use of coercive tactics like military force — from the United States in dealing with ISIS on the ground.

“America needs to assert itself; we need to be present militarily much more than we are,” he said. “If we do that, it will give strength to our diplomacy.”

Hadley then spoke about how he would change the discussion to allow the United States “to think about all possibilities in combating ISIS, without considering budget limits or politics.”

The former Bush advisor also argued for letting majority-Muslim countries take the reigns in the fight against ISIS. “The main victims of ISIS are fellow Muslims,” he said. “We need to stand aside and let the 1.4 billion followers of Islam reclaim their faith from the Islamic State.”

According to a June 7, 2013 article from the Pew Research Center, the global population of Muslims is now closer to 1.6 billion people.

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Hadley, who was part of the team responsible for military escalation in Iraq in 2002, admitted that ISIS was created in part by unforeseen consequences of the Iraqi conflict.

U.S. involvement in the region led al-Qaeda to begin a strategy that provoked Shiites to spur a vicious cycle of sectarian conflict, which ISIS relies on to maintain its influence in the region, he said.

Following the discussion, the room was opened up for questions from audience members.

In response to one Fletcher student’s question about many Americans’ concerns about the “slippery slope” that ground troops in the Middle East region might lead to, Hadley said the concern was more politically constructed than it was real.

“Slippery slopes are only slippery slopes if you slide down them,” he said. “I’m not concerned about ground troops. You’re right to be skeptical, as always, and putting American sons and daughters in harm’s way should never be done lightly. But what’s going on in the Middle East is a real threat to so many

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Temple Grandin discusses animal handling work in lecture GRANDIN

continued from page 1 “While Dr. Grandin has visited Tufts before (on the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine campus), this is the first time that TIHAI has hosted her (with support from the Lawrence Fund),” Freeman wrote in an email to the Daily.

Freeman said that TIHAI was launched in March of this year to promote the health, strength and well-being of humans and animals through trans-disciplinary partnerships that foster innovative research, education and service programs in human-animal interaction. She explained how the healing power of animals enriches people’s lives in many ways, such as with seeing-eye dogs, therapy dogs and therapeutic horseback riding.

During the lecture, Grandin spoke about her work with livestock and the discussion of the feeling of “fear” in animals.

“Fear is a proper scientific word as used in veterinary science literature; it is this fear that we wrongly perceive as agitation in animals,” she said. “Always remember: a calm animal is easier to handle.”

Grandin discussed at length the symptoms of fright in animals and addressed the importance of acclimating animals to handling. She also said that over-selecting for a single trait may cause defects in animals.

According to Grandin, separation distress varies in different animals.

“Sheep may not be sad being separated from owner as opposed to dog,” she said.

Grandin also spoke about various animal procedures in which voluntary cooperation from the animal is important.

“When an animal is forced into procedure, you see fear stress,” she said.

She added that there is a need for animals to be acclimated to their environment, whether it is in a transport truck or at an animal show with flags and colorful decor.

“An animal’s first experience with a person, place [or] vehicle should be good to prevent the formation of fear memories,” Grandin said. “Animals have specific fears, and these include men with beards and women with long hair.”

She explained that animal thinking is sensory-based.

“Animals tend to pick up sensory detail we tend not to notice,” she said.

Grandin said that as an autistic person, she personally thinks in pictures and not in words. She added that she is also prone to being fearful.

“My amygdala, or fear center, is three times larger than that of a typical brain, and I’ve explained more about it in my book, ‘The Autistic Brain’ [2013],” Grandin said.

More than half the audience gave Grandin a standing ovation after she finished her talk.

The event culminated at the Tufts Bookstore opposite the auditorium, where Grandin sold signed copies of her books.

Event attendee Erin Dolan, a developmental specialist who works in early intervention, said was very excited to have listened to Grandin’s lecture.

“She could spend the two hours talking about the history of chalkboards, and I would still be over the moon,” Dolan said. “I think I’m starstruck!”

Dolan added that she has been following Grandin’s work for many years.

“While I was in school, I read ‘Emergence: Labeled Autistic’ [1986] by Temple Grandin for a class, and my fascination with her started then,” she said. “Since college, I have read a bunch of her books and watched the HBO movie based on her life. Her books are well written and easy to read and provide an interesting perspective into the mind of a person with autism.”

Dolan said that Grandin’s insight on humane animal handling will help her interact with her dog, who is afraid of things like thunder storms and the iron being turned on, as well as the kids that Dolan works with.

“Dr. Grandin’s insight on how to help animals be less afraid and different types of fear responses was very interesting and thought provoking,” Dolan said.

Dolan said she greatly admires Grandin for the work that she has done in her field of work as a woman.

“In a time where ranch hands were almost 100 percent male, she did some trailblazing work,” Dolan said. “She was able to change how people handled cattle at slaughterhouses, and a lot of her gift in her area of work can be attributed to how her brain works because of her autism.”

Dan Houlihan, a post-doctoral occupational therapy student at Tufts, said he was at the talk because of his interest in Grandin’s work on autism and animal treatment.

“Looking around, I can tell you that the Tufts Occupational Therapy Department is heavily represented here this evening,” Houlihan said. “Temple Grandin has brought a lot of focus on autism [and on how we treat animals, which] I’m really fascinated by.”

Relay for Life holds fundraising events after November kick-off RELAY

continued from page 1 fundraising event on Nov. 19 at Joshua Tree Bar and Grill in Davis Square, where the profit that the sports bar makes throughout day will be donated to Tufts RFL. According to Casey, RFL partnered with Joshua Tree for the event in order to gauge community support and Tufts’ students support for the cause.

The group also hosted a “Zumba for Life” event, which was a free Zumba class for all pre-registered participants, on Nov. 17 in the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center. The event promoted healthy living and breathing to raise awareness about lung cancer, according to Casey.

Casey explained that this year’s RFL centers on the theme “Olympics,” which will guide the direction of the RFL events in the spring to include culture houses and culture societies on campus, expanding the cause’s audience that traditionally includes primarily athletic teams and members of Greek life.

“Cancer affects everyone all across the world, and we also want to celebrate more of what culture societies do, as well as the students,” she said. “We hope to have over 1,000 participants and raise of 100,000 dollars this year for ACS.” The event is catered toward Tufts student groups and faculty members, since the surrounding Medford and Somerville areas have their own individual RFL events, according to Casey. However, there are nonTufts groups that do participate in the Tufts RFL event, she said.

“We even have a team come from Malden Middle School [from Malden, Mass.] who participates every year,” Casey said.

The Tufts chapter of RFL had around 800 participants last year, but this year, it is looking to expand that number to 1,000. “[Our goal is] to also have one-fifth of Tufts (1,000 students) signed up for Relay in the Spring as well,” Tyler Lueck, the co-event chair of Tufts RFL, told the Daily in an email.

Lueck, a senior, added that the team hopes to fundraise over $100,000 this year.

“The last time we broke 100k was our freshman year, and we’d love to do it again,” he said.

In the past five years, Tufts RFL has raised over half a million dollars in total, and every year, Tufts places in the top five in terms of amount of money raised at New England schools, according to Casey. Tufts’ high ranking allows it to be in the same field as larger schools such as Northeastern University, she said.

“We’re one of the top five relays in New England,” Casey said. “That’s a really huge accomplishment, and we’re very proud of it.”

Casey and Lueck both said that they hope Tufts RFL will gain more awareness on campus this year. “[In the long run, we] would love to see Tufts RFL continue to exist as a large group on campus that makes a big impact with fundraising and awareness every year,” Lueck said.

Former advisor to President George W. Bush discusses military conflict, strategies HADLEY

continued from page 1 people and a big threat to us at home.”

Rockford Weitz, entrepreneurship coach and director of the Maritime Studies Program at the Fletcher School, asked Hadley about the possibility of assembling “the first international military alliance against a non-human threat” in the Arctic to help deal with the consequences of climate change.

Hadley deflected this question to Stavridis, noting that his expertise was strictly in Asia and Europe.

Stavridis said that to limit the response to a military one would not necessarily be productive, citing public stigma around a militarized

Arctic that might hinder any possible efforts to combat climate change.

One Fletcher student, who was a member of the United States Army Special Forces, brought up the use of drones as a part of the U.S. solution to dealing with ISIS. Hadley’s response was critical of counter-terrorism strategies.

“You can fall in love with the technology because it seems to be lower risk, but it isn’t a strategy,” he said. “We’ve fallen in love with counter-terrorism, but we don’t recognize that if that’s all your strategy is, you’ll just be killing terrorists until the cows come home. At the end of the day, different strategies need to be used to bring insurgency down and make it

less appealing, to bring down terrorism in a permanent way over time.”

Hadley also spent a portion of the talk addressing student attendees from the Fletcher School, advising them on how to perform in their jobs if they work for the NSC. He asked the Fletcher students in the audience to minimize their personal ambition to allow for the most effective governance.

“It will be tempting, since you’re working directly for the president, to cut down other agencies and be the savior that claims credit for cleaning up others’ messes,” he said.

“Don’t do it … The job requires a real dose of humility. We’re just staff members. We do not run the world.”

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ell, we’ve certainly veered from the topic of body hair. You must be thinking, “Using the column to persecute spandex-stealers?!

How dare she wield her power (?) and fame (?) for non-hair affiliated pursuits!”

We’re back to hair! To celebrate the 100year anniversary of the first advertisement suggesting that women remove their armpit hair, here is a little history. Turns out the story behind female underarm hair-removal is sort of a classic one. It goes like this: an advertisement tells women they must do something because, if they don’t, they’ll be embarrassed. So, they do it.

Before 1915, there was no reason to shave one’s armpits. Everyone knows men and women weren’t allowed to look at each other naked, even during marriage.* But even if one naughty couple did sneak a peak during copulation, divorce was still a no-no.

A man might just be stuck with a woman with some hair under there.

In the early 20th century, sleeveless dresses hit the runway** and Gillette was paying attention. In 1915, an ad ran in Harper’s Bazaar with a picture of a young, attractive, white woman with her arms raised, revealing hairless underarms. It read: “Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair.” Indeed.

Another ad is titled “Be yourself” (Oh the irony!) where a woman sits on the beach with her arms lifted above her head and a male admirer glances in her direction. This one claims to leave underarms with “unexpected loveliness and charm.”

That’s just what I was looking for, a little unexpected charm in my armpits to attract male suitors.

My friend recently asked me if a man had ever commented on my body hair.

While I’ve had a response ready for the last two years, I realized none had challenged me on it. The push-back I have gotten has been from female friends (or host mothers), who typically responded with “gross,” “yucky” or “no comment”.

For that reason, an ad from 1923 stood out. It displays another young, pretty white woman with her arms above her head, this time in the sand. In the print it asks, “Are you going to shrink from the scrutinizing glance of your friends?” These advertisements don’t name the person that is demanding that armpits be hairless, but they are naming the people who are going to enforce this rule — your friends.

It’s part of a long tradition of women being pitted against one another; 100 years later and body hair is still considered embarrassing, and women are still supposed to judge each other for it.

Cheers to the women who don’t give “scrutinizing glances.” Here are some retorts to give the women / men who do: “What do I look like, a reptile?,” “Don’t worry, I swear yours will grow back too” and “Deforestation is really bad for the environment.” *This is not a fact. ** Unclear if this existed.

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

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Gary Goldstein, a Tufts physics faculty member, expresses his support for protestors during the Community Rally on Day 6 of the Tufts Labor Coalition hunger strike outside Ballou Hall on May 8.

by Nicholas Pfosi Staff Writer

Throughout the last year, Tufts Labor Coalition ( TLC) has been organizing in support of DTZ custodial employees who work on Tufts’ campuses. Students, faculty, staff and members of the custodians’ union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ, held demonstrations in opposition to a reorganization of the staff, which was originally estimated to result in 35 layoffs and was projected to save the university $900,000 annually. After the restructuring was implemented earlier this year — ultimately displacing 18 custodians, seven of whom are no longer working with DTZ — efforts have turned to fundraising in support of those workers who were affected.

In the second installment of this four-part series, the Daily charts the two-decade history of similar clashes between students and custodial workers and the Tufts administration.

1994: Outsourced In early 1994, Tufts custodians were employees of the university who received health care packages, tuition remission for themselves and their children and pension plans.

The University Cleaning Company (UNICCO), the company with which Tufts decided to contract, would save the administration $500,000 dollars that year, and any where from one to one-and-a-half million dollars in the coming years, according to a Sept. 16, 1994 Tufts Daily article. Janitors were offered the same salaries and working conditions, but would lose the pension plans and health benefits afforded to only Tufts staff. The janitors’ union, Local 254 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), oversaw the new contract negotiations, which went into effect on July 1, 1994.

1997: Layoffs and Outrage After three years without layoffs, a stipulation of the UNICCO contract led Tufts to terminate its business relationship with the firm. According to a Feb. 4, 1998 story by the Boston Globe, Tufts turned to International Service Systems, Inc. (ISS) to provide contracted custodial services in July 1997. Staff members who were laid off as a result of the shift were offered employment with ISS, but with around a $3.50 reduction in their hourly wage.

The validity of the contract between the janitors’ union, Local 254 of SEIU and ISS was also questioned. A handful of dissident members of the local union, known as the Trabajadores Unidos (or Workers United), claimed that Local 254 collapsed the contract into a so-called “regional master agreement” which combined some 8,000 regional members into a single bargaining unit, according to the Boston Globe article. The union allegedly brought non-Tufts custodians to vote on a contract which impacted Tufts custodians’ pay. The Workers United group claimed that no IDs were checked at the vote to verify if janitors did, in fact, work at Tufts. At the time, the union denied that it had committed any wrongdoing.

According to an Aug. 20, 1997 Boston Globe article, then-Somerville Mayor Michael Capuano wrote to then-Tufts President John DiBiaggio about the impact of that summer’s change in contract.

“These people have been treated as little more than an employee number,” Capuano wrote in 1997. “They have been part of the Tufts family for years and, as such, deserve more than a choice between a last minute termination or a serious reduction in their lifestyles.”

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by Dr. Gary Goldstein, a professor in the Physics department, at a 1998 Meeting of the Ethical Society of Boston, picket protests were held in front of Ballou

Hall each week, and a petition written by Tufts faculty and staff was signed by 150 people and sent to DiBiaggio. Parents and alums wrote letters, and several members of the Somerville Board of Aldermen and the State government called on Tufts to rehire its long term workers, Goldstein said the in the speech.

1998: Janitors Struggle for Food, File Lawsuits Gary Goldstein, a Tufts physics faculty member, expresses his support for protesters during the Community Rally on Day 6 of the Tufts Labor Coalition hunger strike outside Ballou Hall on Friday, May, 8. Nicholas Pfosi / Tufts Daily Archive In February 1998, about six months after Tufts switched its contract from UNICCO to ISS, a group of custodians filed three separate lawsuits against the university, against their union and against the subcontractors, according to a Feb. 28, 1998 Boston Globe article. “[ The] lawsuit alleges that the 18,000-member union violated its duty to fairly represent the custodians . . . and that union officials did not attempt to enforce collective-bargaining accords that would have protected their jobs,” according to the Globe.

Robert Warren, the janitors’ representative in the proceedings of the three lawsuits, also specifically addressed workers’ complaints about the university.

“The custodians feel they were not treated with respect after spending most of their adult lives working for Tufts,” he said.

At the time, university and union officials declined to comment. The three lawsuits were eventually dropped due to prohibitive legal expenses, according to Goldstein’s speech.

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continued from page 4 Poverty and Nutrition Policy at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy launched a food drive to help support 20 struggling janitors who used to work at Tufts.

“These are Tufts families who are going hungry,” the Center’s Director, J. Larry Brown, told the Globe. “We, faculty and students, have an obligation to help them.”

The central administration, however, refused to promote the campaign through a campus-wide email, citing university policy, according to the March 1998 Globe story.

“There are many worthy humanitarian causes that we could promote,”

a university spokeswoman said at the time. “But Tufts’ policies prohibit the use of its university resources for private causes.”

During the 1998 Commencement ceremony, 2000 fliers were distributed and 70 percent of university faculty wore yellow buttons to show support, according to Goldstein’s speech.

Later that summer, a survey was distributed to 49 affected janitors by a group called the Faculty/ Staff Committee in Support of the Custodians, which included Goldstein, sociology professor Susan Ostrander and history professor Steven Marrone.

The survey sought to record information about the lives of former Tufts custodians since the switch to ISS. According to a press release following the collection of the survey’s results, over a dozen janitors reported being out of work, and several said they had lost their homes. One janitor was told that area employers were actively discouraged from hiring former Tufts janitors.

2001: Activists Win After years of relative quiet, the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), a student group organized during the summer of 2001, planned a “learn-in” and several protests, includ-

ing one at that year’s matriculation ceremony, according to a Sept. 1, 2001 Daily story.

The group’s co-founder, Iris Halpern (LA ’02), and a Deputy Trustee of SEIU Local 254, Rocio Saenz, claimed that low wages and a lack of available full-time work were the primary motivations behind their political actions.

As the group’s protests intensified, DiBiaggio — who had retired from his position as university president earlier that year — said the outsourcing to OneSource (formerly called ISS) saved Tufts nearly $1 million annually, and that increased wages would only burden student tuition fees more, according to a 2001 story in the Daily.

insurance options and an increase in available full-time work.

“The only way you will get more money is by increasing the costs for the students,” DiBiaggio said.

However, a wage increase, expanded full-time work opportunities and family health insurance were all in fact implemented, according to another 2001 story in the Daily.

These developments led to a protest at Harvard University on March 31, 2002 and a series of strikes and demonstrations across the region demanding better job conditions around Sept. 30, 2002.

“[ The agreement] includes an 80 cent per hour wage increase each year for the next four years, meaning the janitors will be paid $14.65 an hour in 2009 and $17.05 in 2012,” the Somerville Times wrote at the time.

2004: Positive Negotiations Tufts’ contract with OneSource was set to expire in June 2004, and according to a Sept. 21, 2003 Daily story, members of SLAM expressed concern about potentially detrimental contract renegotiations. However, after intense negotiations, in the summer of 2004, an amenable agreement was reached, according to a Sept. 22, 2004 Daily article.

“Of course we wanted more, but it’s a negotiation,” Union representative Dan Nacolai said. “It’s a good agreement.”

The outcomes of these negotiations included an increase in wages from $11.45 per hour to $13.80 per hour after four years; an increase to three sick days a year in four years’ time; superior family and individual health

2008: Gaining Ground The janitors’ contract with OneSource — which was acquired

by American Building Maintenance (ABM) Industries Inc. in November 2007, according to a Jan. 11, 2008 Daily article — was once again due for renegotiation. Jumbo Janitor Alliance ( JJA), a student group that emerged in 2007, planned to ask for increased wages and more sick days.The union and student activists succeeded in increasing wages and tripling sick days from three to nine, according to an Aug. 28, 2008 article in the Somerville Times.

2011: A Formal Grievance As students returned to campus in September 2011, OneSource/ ABM Industries was underbid by UGL UNICCO for Tufts’ contract, prompting the university to change its provider, according to a Sept. 20, 2011 Daily article. Activists were concerned that the less expensive contract would mean layoffs for staff, but the university administration denied this possibility.

A month later, on Oct. 23, 2011, union members and students protested 62 vacancies that had yet to be filled

by UGL. These vacancies deprived janitors of full-time work opportunities and affected the ability for working janitors to do their jobs, according to a Oct. 24, 2011 Daily story.

“There are a lot of part-time workers and janitors here at Tufts that would love to be full-time and really need the hours in order to get health care and benefits,” Daniel Rosebrock, a junior at the time and JJA member, told the Daily.

In November, SEIU filed a formal grievance against UGL UNICCO, as the

vacancy issue had yet to be resolved, a Nov. 2, 2011 Daily story said.

2014: Layoffs Loom Early in the 2014 fall semester, members of Tufts Labor Coalition ( TLC), formerly JJA, reported that they had heard from janitors that a downsizing of the custodial staff was set to take place in the near future. Tufts administrators confirmed these concerns in a Nov. 21 email to the student body, which introduced the restructuring as a means for “improving custodial operations efficiency” and “encouraging ‘green’ behaviors.”

The email explained that DTZ, formerly UGL UNICCO, found Tufts to be inefficiently deploying their janitorial staff.

According to an op-ed penned

by Patricia Campbell and Vice President of Operations Linda Snyder in April, reorganizing the staff would save the school approximately $900,000 annually.

TLC met with Tu f t s administrators throughout the fall semester, but escalated their demonstrations over time, including a 33-hour-long occupation of Ballou Hall, according to a Jan. 22 Daily Shirley Wang / The Tufts Daily article.

2015: Protests Escalate The occupation at the end of the fall 2014 semester led to an agreement which prevented any staff cuts until April and included a provision that required Campbell and Snyder to attend a public forum between the community and the administration.

The public forum was attended

by Tufts alumni and local politicians, including Somerville Alderman Matthew McLaughlin, who voiced their opposition to the layoffs, according to an April 1 Daily article.

As the semester came to a close, TLC actions included janitorial staff marches on March 10, union rallies in which students and union members were arrested, city resolutions from Medford and Somerville on April 8 and a weeklong hunger strike that lasted from May 3 to 9.

Somerville Alderman Mark Niedergang expressed his support for the custodians and student protesters at one of the rallies at the end of last semester.

“When Tufts comes to the City of Somerville for something they need, we will not forget,” he said.

For a comprehensive update on the current state of the janitorial restructuring, please see Part 1 in this series.

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Despite weeks of speculation by music industry experts, no one could have predicted that Adele’s “25,” released on Nov. 20, would, in only three days, become the fastest-selling album ever. In less than a week, Adele had managed to shatter the single-week sales record of 2.4 million, set by *NSYNC’s “No Strings Attached” (2000). “25” went on to sell a mind-boggling 3.38 million copies by the end of its opening week. To put this number into perspective, *NSYNC’s record occurred when 700 million albums per year were being sold in the United States, while Adele’s comes at a time when 2014 alone saw a mere 247 million albums sold, including both physical and digital. In other words, Adele is truly a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.

None of this success, however, would mean much if the music behind this blockbuster release had failed to live up to the high standards set by Adele herself. While inevitable comparisons will be made to her heartbreak tour de force “21” (2011), it is a testament to Adele’s artistry that her third album is filled with superb moments that more than justify the hype. Even though “25” does not radically alter the sonic palette Adele uses to tell her tales of romance and sorrow, the record sees Adele playing a different role; she is no longer the scorned lover from “21” but rather a woman filled with regrets and weariness.

Nowhere is this more evident than on lead single “Hello.” The sweeping ballad sees Adele reaching out to a former lover she clearly wronged. From the iconic opening line, it is apparent that Adele is now experiencing remorse as she desperately sings “Hello from the other side / I must’ve called a thousand times / To tell you I’m sorry, for everything that I’ve done.” Yet it is the softer moments like when she sings “It’s so typical of me to talk about myself, I’m sorry” that the listener can really hear a newfound maturity and wisdom.

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her doubts about the future, asking, “Cause what if I never love again?” Adele’s ability to capture such conflicting emotions is what infuses these songs with impactful emotional gravitas despite their familiar subject matter.

Not all of “25,” however, is doom and gloom — Adele ensures that there is some levity to the record. On “Send My Love (To Your New Lover),” Adele brings out her sassy side, sauntering her way through a springy send-off to a no-good ex-boyfriend. The thumping “Water Under the Bridge” provides another fast-paced moment for the album, as the song’s gospel and disco influences meld beautifully, echoing Adele’s urgency as she confronts her indecisive lover. The album even ends on a relatively high note with “Sweetest Devotion.” From the song’s “woo-hoos” to its heavenly backup choir, the touching ode to her son Angelo sees her basking in the joys of being a parent.

Yet the shining jewel of “25” comes rath-

ture is relatively simple — it is primarily built around the use of a piano — yet its complexity lies in the emotions that Adele feels towards this man. This moment reminds her of the love they used to share, but she also expresses frustration at the passage of time, practically shouting, “I’m so mad I’m getting old / It makes me reckless.” The song focuses on a timeless and universal theme — wondering what could have been — and it will most likely be wildly overplayed for years to come.

While nothing on “25” comes close to matching the sheer magic and ferocity of “Rolling in the Deep” (2011), Adele’s third album is a triumph in every sense of the word, building upon the formula that made “21” such a successful record. By continuing to prove that heartbreak is the most universal of all human emotions, Adele is a rare figure in the ever-changing world of pop music.

She knows exactly how to connect with her listeners and imbue them with emotions that

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Adele performs at the 54th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. sees her sounding tired beyond her 27 years as she painfully admits “I feel like my life is flashing by.” Even more haunting is “All I Ask” in which she resigns herself to a final, romantic night with her lover and expresses

er unassumingly with the opening chords of “When We Were Young.” In this song, Adele imagines being at a party in the distant future where she encounters a past lover bringing back a flood of emotions. The song’s struc-

they did not know they could even feel. So for all of our sakes, let us hope that Adele does not get too happy anytime soon because, at 27 years old, she certainly has a long career ahead of her.

he only thing that might be more enjoyable than actually attending college is watching the countless television shows and movies that focus on the best four years of your life. This list goes over some of my favorite fictional colleges.

Greendale Community College NBC’s “Community” (2009-2015) is not only a great binge-watching choice for finals season, but it also introduces us to one of the best fictional colleges, Greendale, whose motto is “You’re Already Accepted.” The school prides itself on five characteristics (Accessibility, Affordability, Air Conditioning, Awesome New Friends, A Lot of Classes) as well as on the “No More Than 64” promise, which guarantees that students will never pay more than $64 per credit hour.

Greendale is home to an eccentric dean, paintball fights and some hilarious professors. A great choice for your higher education needs.

Blue Mountain State Spike’s short-lived “Blue Mountain State” (2010-2011) focused on the titular institution — a huge state school home to the crazy antics of its football team. It is also a haven for partying, drinking and general debauchery. The Mountain Goats are routinely one of college football’s best teams, despite having a core group of players that would much rather party than practice. BMS student-athletes include Alex Moran (Darin Brooks), the ambitionless backup quarterback, and Sammy (Chris Romano), his best friend and team mascot.

The biggest personality, however, is Thad Castle (Alan Ritchson), the linebacker and team captain who, though lacking in intellect, is a force on the field. Going to BMS would, quite simply, be a 24/7 party.

Monsters University Pixar’s 2013 offering, “Monsters University,” is a creative, entertaining and engaging parody of the quintessential American university and packs in many entertaining allusions to college life. Sulley and Mike Wazowski (voiced by John Goodman and Billy Crystal, respectively), of “Monsters, Inc.” (2001) fame, first met at MU’s School of Scaring, which is ranked number one by the Monster News & Report. Greek Life is also very important to MU students — the university boasts six fraternities and six sororities. MU is located outside of the city of Monstropolis and was founded in 1313 after a land grant. To this day, it is still a top-notch institution where many young monsters learn the tricks of the scaring trade.

Faber College This was a no-brainer addition to the list.

“Animal House” (1978) is perhaps one of the best college movies of all time and has inspired decades of fraternity debauchery, both real and fictional. The movie tells the story of how the brothers of Delta Tau Chi challenge the dean of Faber College, and features John Belushi in the now classic “College” crewneck. Faber is an outright ridiculous place: professors sleep with students, kids urinate on each other and students vomit on the dean. Nonetheless, the movie is now a part of the National Film Registry and is such an iconic college film that it should be required viewing for all university-bound kids.

Faber, like many of the other fictional schools on this list, provided us with many laughs and unforgettable moments, all while shaping our view of what college is and what it can be.

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

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couple of years ago, I got a concussion in West Hall. I just stood up and hit the ceiling. For those who were not there to witness it, it was quite a scandal — a fire truck, an ambulance and two police cars all arrived on the scene. The Tufts medical team deemed me “incapable of making medical decisions,” and I was swiftly taken to the hospital.

A week and a half later, I received a letter with a bill for ambulance and hospital services beyond anything I could pay for — summing up to more than my four years of full tuition, to give an estimate. Luckily, my somewhat comprehensive health insurance was there to cover most of it. This, though, is not the case for a significant portion of Americans. Health care access remains a challenge and insurance a financial burden.

Health care has been in the center of public attention for the past few years. Obamacare has allowed for increased accessibility and coverage of health insurance — yet the programs’ impacts are far from offering class-cutting health care access. Obamacare imposes a fee on uninsured individuals and families who can “afford” but choose not to buy insurance, with the intent of expanding participation and further coverage. While perhaps well intentioned, the fee may be even more detrimental to those for whom even the most basic programs remain financially, or otherwise, inaccessible.

Even the most basic insurance “bronze plans,” which do not offer extensive enough coverage, bring a significant financial burden that a portion of Americans can’t bear.

The medical industry in the United States presents a significant challenge in its complexity, making health care difficult to access beyond financial roadblocks. Differences in socioeconomics, culture, primary language, race, education, etc. create difficulties in accessing a medical system that prioritizes mainly the historically wealthy. My family, both as immigrants and non-native English speakers, has had a lot of troubles fighting our way through the medical industry when in need. The solution to these problems, though, doesn’t lie in allowing people to refuse health treatment or even insurance, but in developing a medical care system with comprehensive treatment that is accessible regardless of background and financial means.

A single-payer system would be one where all health care fees and costs would be managed centrally by the U.S. government. Creating centralized universal health care would allow for more streamlined accessible care. Not under this system, the United States remains far from what can be called universal health care.

When I was young in Latin America, free health care was always rhetorically the marker of development. Inaccessibility to health care, poor quality of public health care and health care systems based on financial means are seen as markers of national and governmental failure. It still appears incongruent to me that in the United States, health care is not prioritized — the need for accessible health care is probably the most universal political topic. Universal health care, while initially placing a structural and financial challenge for the United States, is not outside of the realm of plausibility.

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

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Politicians must tamp down rhetoric in light of anti-abortion violence “No more baby parts.” This was the sentiment repeated by Robert Dear as he fired his gun at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last Friday. Three people lost their lives, and nine others were injured in the attack. Mass shootings are an epidemic in this country that have gone largely unaddressed by politicians, as the country comes to stalemate about the balance between individual gun rights and the safety of citizens. This week’s incident, however, has implications beyond the general issues brought up by all mass shootings; Dear’s comments allude to recent allegations against Planned Parenthood which assert that the organization illegally trafficked and profited from the organs of unborn fetuses.

The allegations are based on a series of videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion advocacy group. Experts analyzed these videos and found that they were based on deceptive editing, and that the allegations were, in

fact, untrue. Despite the facts, most of the Republican presidential candidates have made statements demonizing the organization for a policy that doesn’t exist in the first place.

Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., accused Planned Parenthood of coercing women into having abortions “so that those tissues can be harvested and sold for a profit.” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas stated, “we are now a nation that harvests the body parts of little baby boys and girls. It is the very definition of inhumanity to treat children like agriculture, to be grown and killed for their body parts, to be sold for profit.” Carly Fiorina made what was perhaps the most outrageous statement, consistently repeating that she had witnessed in one of the videos the killing of a “fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking,” so that its brain could later be harvested. Such footage does not exist, and her claims had been proven false over and over again. Still, she has refused to relent. Additionally,

twenty-four hours passed before a single Republican candidate even expressed sympathy for the victims of the attack.

The organization that Cruz once declared a “criminal enterprise” has actually helped thousands of women get access to the health care they need.

Planned Parenthood receives $450 million annually in federal funding, and the idea that this money is primarily for abortions is unfounded. In fact, that funding is only used for abortions in cases where the mother’s life is in danger, or if they are victims of rape. The political rhetoric used to justify attacks against Planned Parenthood not only endangers the health care rights of these women, but has also begun to endanger the very lives of our citizens. Politicians must act more responsibly about the claims they make regarding Planned Parenthood, or their words may continue to fuel and encourage the climate of violence in which Robert Dear was able to perpetrate his attack.

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Op-Ed: Elephant in the Room

For candidates and voters alike, a foreign policy must-read

by Zach Shapiro The Obama years have borne witness to more than their share of books on foreign policy strategy. Standouts particularly worth applause are Bret Stephens’ “America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder” (2014) and Vali Nasr’s “The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat”(2013). Yet Eurasia Group founder and president, Ian Bremmer, sets himself apart even from the exceptional few with his newest book, “Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World,” which was released in May. This is the book presidential candidates and voters should be reading. As Bremmer indicates in his introduction, his goal is not to convince readers of one doctrine’s merits over another. The author, in fact, withholds his views until the final pages. His true opinions defied my expectations. On this front, then, the author succeeds with flying colors. His language clear and his examples relevant, Bremmer deftly explains complex

policy issues and precedents without reducing them.

The crux of his work is the presentation of what he considers to be the only realistic doctrines from which the United States must choose. First, Bremmer discusses a vision of “Independent America.” This is an America which “[proclaims] emancipation from the responsibility to solve everyone else’s problems.” He contends that as “Americans deserve a government dedicated to the proposition that security and liberty may prosper together,” “we can no longer accept burdens abroad that underpin our values at home, sap our strength and resources, entangle us in fights that are not our concern, and threaten the heart of our democracy.”

Bremmer then turns to a clever metaphor, likening former Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s “moneyball” philosophy to a pragmatic foreign policy strategy. This doctrine “relies on a cold-blooded, interest-driven approach that redefines America’s role in the world in a way designed to maximize the return on the taxpayer’s investment.”

Finally, the author touches upon the exceptionalist paradigm: “Indispensable America.” According to this view, the world is better off with America’s leadership than without it: “For all its faults and mistakes, the United States has done more than any nation in history to ensure that leaders in other countries must answer to their citizens.”

I am not sure what I enjoy most about Bremmer’s analysis, but of particular note are chapters one and six, which explore the recent absence of a coherent American grand strategy.

Skeptics of the Obama administration should not miss chapter six, in which the writer takes the president to task for his lack of consistent foreign policy rhetoric and strategy.

At any rate, Democrats and Republicans, doves and hawks, isolationists and interventionists alike would find enormous use in clarifying and challenging long-held views through “Superpower.” Bremmer even includes periodic quizzes to help readers better understand where their views sit on the paradigmatic spectrum. My only

substantive issue is the author’s own choice: “Independent America.” While it is reasonable to argue that if the United States stops intervening in global messes, our allies will no longer have incentive not to act, he underestimates the scale of the collective action problem.

This is especially true when considering the decades of foreign policy hangover and disorder such a move would cause.

Even if an American president were to announce the new doctrine, the adjustment period would be drawn out and rife with conflict and instability.

Whether or not Bremmer’s choice is yours, whether or not you believe American foreign policy needs moral clarity, his book is the first of many steps on the path to doctrinal clarity. This is especially crucial as we enter an election year. I’ve spoken previously on questions the candidates need to answer on foreign policy and here’s another: which America do you choose and why?

Zach Shapiro is a senior majoring in international relations and an op-Eed contributing writer. He can be reached at zachary.shapiro@tufts.edu.

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Tufts sophomore forward Melissa Baptista dribbles the ball past senior Laura Cote during the first half of the Tufts women’s basketball game against Fitchburg State in Cousens Gym on Dec. 6, 2014.

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continued from back Both offenses struggled in the first half, with Tufts shooting 31.3 percent (10 for 32) and UNE shooting just 27.6 percent (eight for 29).

Most impressive was the defensive work from the Jumbos who held two of the Nor’easters’ top three scorers, senior captains and guards Alanna Vose and Lauren Hayden, who are averaging 17.3 and 11 points per game respectively, to just six points between the two of them.

“In the first half, it seemed like there was a lid on the rim,” coach Carla Berube said. “We got open shots, but we didn’t hit them. They really packed it inside, so it was hard for Michela to get good looks. But it’s early in the season — if our offense was running smoothly now, what would we have to work on?”

The second half saw Tufts hit more open shots and marginally raise its overall shooting percentage to 32.3 percent. Dillon repeatedly drove into the teeth of the UNE defense and found the open perimeter shooter.

She finished the game with six assists as well as three steals that sparked the Jumbos’ offense.

Though good offensive looks came at a premium, Tufts had no problem turning defense into offense, scoring 25 points off of UNE’s 25 turnovers.

Baptista was often on the end of the fast breaks, including an and-one that extended Tufts’ lead early in the third quarter.

Of Baptista’s 12 rebounds, six were offensive, and Tufts often converted second-chance opportunities into points, scoring 17 while limiting UNE to just seven. The Jumbos had trouble taking their first chance, many times forcing the ball to North in the post, who was not in a good scoring position, resulting in turnovers or passes back out to the perimeter. These second-chance points and points off of turnovers turned out to be the separation between two teams who otherwise seemed very evenly-matched.

UNE shifted in and out of its 1-3-1 zone for the remainder of the game, responding accordingly to Tufts’ shooters. Meanwhile, Tufts’ defense remained the same, putting high pressure on shooters, fronting the post and jumping the passing lanes. The Jumbos sustained their lead throughout the third quarter, ending it 35-29

behind solid performances from North and Baptista.

The fourth quarter saw Tufts extend its lead to 15, the largest of the game.

UNE pulled within five with 6:20 remaining, following back-to-back baskets by Brown, but this was the closest the score got all half. Fouls at the end of the game led to free throws that extended Tufts’ lead, but this was another area that the Jumbos struggled in: they went just 10-22 from the stripe. A last-second 3 for the Nor’easters cut the score to 55-43 when the buzzer sounded.

“We have a lot to improve on, but I’m happy with the effort and how the team grinded it out — especially on defense and in transition,” Berube said. “We gave up some second-chance opportunities, missed some boxouts and gave them some life, but I thought we were scrappy and tough and made it difficult on them.”

Going forward, Tufts faces Bowdoin (2-2) away on Saturday, Dec. 5.

“We know that everybody is gunning for us,” Dillon said. “I think it puts pressure on the teams we play, not on us. They all want to be the one to knock us off — and we know that before we go into games.”

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continued from back will face all season,” Stanco said. “I had no idea who was going to step up or who would crumble under pressure, and everyone stuck it out and left it all out on the court. We definitely have room to improve, but that will just take time and more match play.”

Sophomore Claudia Udolf recorded the team’s only victory in a hardfought match in the No. 6 slot. Though the result was not what the team had hoped for, it proved to be a valuable experience for the young roster.

“It was nice to get the first match out of the system, we all just had so much energy and we were able to be more calm in the second match,” first-

year and No. 7 Chista Irani said. “Even though we didn’t win against UVA, they were a very good team, and even just gaining the experience of playing that game gave us more confidence going into the Boston College match.”

Later in the day, in its matches against Boston University, six firstyear starters recorded their first collegiate wins. The first of its twogame win streak gave Tufts plenty of momentum heading into its fourth and final game of the busy opening weekend, where it met NESCAC rival Hamilton College, although the matchup ended in a loss.

The team took a brief break for Thanksgiving, but will return to action this Saturday when Tufts faces off

against Dickinson, Conn. College and St. Lawrence.

“They will be tough games, but if we play our game we should be able to get some wins,” Irani said. “I think we expect to come out of the weekend 4-0.”

The Jumbos will try to focus on one game at a time, but with six first-years already in the top nine of the ladder, the team’s future looks bright. Jafry and Irani both added that another strong recruiting class is coming in next year.

“Coach has hopes of us finishing in the top 20 this year, which is definitely doable, and we will have to win some critical games,” Jafry said. “It is definitely exciting to be part of the upward trajectory; it is going to be a fun year.”

o it’s that time of the year again in which we eagerly anticipate presents for Christmas and Premier League managers write to Santa (or their board) for a little something more.

And then it’s up to their executives to decide if the managers have been naughty or nice.

Arsenal Someone to assist Francis Coquelin. The Frenchman has been a revelation ever since returning from his Charlton loan spell to add much-needed defensive steel, allowing other players to be liberated from defensive responsibilities. However, Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini simply have not got the quality to act as his back-ups, as the Gunners look that much weaker without Coquelin. The board must be secretly wishing for Wenger to actually spend the cash available.

Aston Villa In all fairness, they need a play-maker to build out from the back. But really, they need a formula to find a way to win. Any way will do.

Bournemouth After that horrible injury to Callum Wilson, Bournemouth need another striker. Wilson was in scintillating form, and his dynamic movement has been sorely missed. Glenn Murray is more static, while Joshua King, though talented, is not a Premier League player.

Crystal Palace Perhaps a recognized striker? I didn’t count Connor Wickham as one, but their artillery from attacking midfield should serve them well.

Chelsea A “get-back-to-form” guidebook because, let’s face it, they’re a good team on paper. But Cesc Fabregas and Eden Hazard have not played as well as they did last year. They’ve missed that creative spark from midfield, and that’s what let them down this year. Defensively, I think Chelsea is fine. Ivanovic has improved compared to earlier this season, and the same could be said of the overall Chelsea defensive performances.

Everton They couldn’t really strengthen their roster during the summer, but I think Everton should look to strengthen the core of their midfield because Barry looks vulnerable.

McCarthy’s currently the engine in there, but Martinez would love to have one more defensive-minded player. And they’d love to keep ahold of John Stones.

Leicester A magic potion to keep Jamie Vardy in scoring form, because who else do you need to score goals if the Englishman keeps up this fairytale?

Liverpool They’ve made their biggest signing already by appointing Jurgen Klopp, and their improved form is evidence of the German’s impact on the team. I would say they needed a new central defender, but Klopp’s gengenpress game has allowed Liverpool to win the ball back much earlier. Lovren looks much improved as well.

Manchester City Another goalscorer to relieve Sergio Aguero’s burden. Wilfried Bony has not lived up to his £28 million price tag, with his size often slowing down the City attack. They’ve got many other talented players that can put the ball in the net, but any City fan would have been worried when they saw the talented Argentinean hobble off the field.

Manchester United Another goalscorer. Martial made a wonderful start but has faded in trying to adjust his game, and Wayne Rooney simply isn’t an out-and-out striker anymore. United can’t get goals from anywhere often enough to be true title contenders.

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

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Stanco leads underclassmen team to 2-2 start

by Onat Tarimcilar Contributing Writer

Senior captain Paget Stanco stands alone on her team. The undisputed leader is the only upperclassman player on a roster with 13 spots and made up, in part, by an astonishing eight first-year athletes. Stanco said that having all the younger players on the team has put her in a great position to lead. She pointed to energy, rather than inexperience, as a result of the youth of the team.

“All the young talent brings so much energy to our team, and all the girls are willing to go out there and give it their all during each match,” Stanco said.

Just four games into the season, the young team sits at a record of 2-2. The team’s most recent matchup against No. 19 Hamilton ended in a 8-1 loss.

No. 2 Zarena Jafry, a standout firstyear, was the lone Jumbo to record a victory on Nov. 22 in a five-set thriller over the Continentals’ Lindsay Arader, 11-8, 11-6, 7-11, 9-11, 11-6. This win raised Jafry’s personal record to 2-1 and earned her NESCAC Player of the Week honors in her opening tournament.

“It was very flattering,” Jafry said.

“I just went out trying to play my best; it gives me a lot of confidence to be rewarded for playing hard.”

Jafry had not played in the team’s blowout victory against Boston University the day before due to a back

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Tufts junior Lynn Cheng plays against Boston College at the Belmont Hill courts on Jan. 29, 2014. injury. First-years Hannah Burns and Olivia Ladd-Luthringshauser stepped into the number two and number three slots, respectively, and both delivered victories, proving that the team could

dominate from top to bottom.

On Nov. 20, the team played two games, opening their season with an 8-1 loss to University of Virgini but bouncing back later that day to defeat

Boston College 8-1.

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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

No. 3 Tufts holds off No. 10 UNE at home

by Noah Smith

Evan Sayles / Tufts Daily Archive

with Tufts players aggressively fronting UNE junior center Alicia Brown in the post. Brown stands at 6’4″ , two inches taller than North, though North’s active hands and quick feet batted away many entry passes at the beginning of the game.

“We pride ourselves on our defense,” sophomore point guard Lauren Dillon said. “We shut down their main scorers, and our big girls did a great job moving their feet and getting us the ball back.”

With just under six minutes to go in the first quarter, however, UNE switched to a 1-3-1 zone that stymied the Tufts offense.

“Offensively, we couldn’t execute our plays very well,” Dillon said.

“We were rattled by their aggressive, unique defense. We scouted them and practiced a lot around it, but they play hard.”

After the Jumbos’ game-opening run, the Nor’easters went on a run of their own, scoring nine unanswered points to take the lead. Senior tri-captain guard Emma Roberson responded by sinking a 3-pointer, regaining a lead that Tufts never relinquished.

After the first quarter ended 15-11 in Tufts’ favor, UNE switched back to a man-on-man defense. The switch back and resulting pressure led to turnovers by the Jumbos, who finished the half with six. The Nor’easters pulled within four with 4:20 left in the half, but fouls and free throws led to a 24-18 Jumbo lead at the break.

Tufts junior guard Josie Lee attempts to move the ball around a Fisher defender to make a shot during the second round of last season’s NCAA Div. II Championship on Saturday, March 7.

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In a hotly contested struggle between two nationally ranked teams, No. 3 Tufts beat the visiting No. 10 University of New England (UNE) 55-43. The win moved the Jumbos to 3-0 on the season, while the Nor’easters drop to 3-1.

The game was a defensive dogfight, with both teams’ defenses putting pressure on their opponents and leading to missed shots, but the Jumbos were able to sustain a lead and eventually pull away in the final quarter of the game.

Sophomore forward Melissa Baptista notched a double-double, leading Tufts

in both rebounding and scoring with 12 points, while junior center Michela North contributed a double-double of her own, matching Baptista’s rebounding numbers and scoring 10 points.

The game had the makings of a blowout early, with Tufts jumping out to an 8-0 lead. Its defense was particularly effective during this period,