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Institute for Global Leadership hosts 32nd EPIIC Symposium

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on Friday by welcoming attendees from countries across the world, including Brazil, China, Ireland, Russia, Israel, Singapore and South Korea, as well as 40 cadets and midshipmen from the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy.

Following Monaco’s introduction, sophomore Jackson McGlinchey presented James Stavridis, dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and keynote speaker, with the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award.

Stavridis approached the changing global atmosphere from a military perspective, speaking about hybrid warfare, cyber attacks and specific situations in countries like Syria, Russia and North Korea. Stavridis said that the United States is currently gridlocked, both physically and psychologically, but he asserted that isolationism is not the solution.

Stavridis concluded by stating that only a strong combination of soft power and hard power will effectively eliminate 21st century problems.

“We’re very good at launching missiles,” Stavridis said. “We need to get better at launching ideas.”

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The Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) hosted its 32nd annual Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) Symposium this past weekend in ASEAN Auditorium.

The theme of this year’s symposium was “The World of Tomorrow: Order and Chaos in the 21st Century.”

Sophomore Leif Monnett, a member of EPIIC’s six-member planning committee said that members of the planning committee settled on the theme, given both the contentious 2016 presidential election and ongoing international security concerns.

Monnett led EPIIC’s panel on climate change. He noted that planning EPIIC and selecting speakers was a valuable experience for the student organizers.

“Overall, I think that we all learned a great deal about putting on a symposium,” he said. “It’s certainly been a very positive experience.”

Twenty-First Century Security: Challenges and Opportunities University President Anthony Monaco opened the EPIIC symposium

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EPIIC Keynote speakers Ambassador Nicholas Burns and New York Times Senior Correspondent David Sanger discuss the future of American politic on Feb. 25. in Cabot ASEAN Auditorium.

Events on the Hill: Week of Feb. 27 MONDAY “Merrin Moral Voices Keynote: Marian Wright Edelman” Details: Children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman will speak as part of the annual Merrin Moral Voices series. Edelman is the first AfricanAmerican woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Where and When: Cohen Auditorium; 8 p.m.

Sponsors: Tufts Hillel, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Distinguished Speaker Series TUESDAY “Syria’s Civil War and the PostAmerican Middle East” Details: Christopher Phillips, a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University in London, will give a talk about how the

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Syrian Civil War has shaped and has been influenced by the international power dynamic.

Where and When: Fares Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; 12:30 p.m.

Sponsor: Fares Center, The Fletcher School “Civic Science Roundtable: The Opioid Epidemic” Details: Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine Daniel Carr will participate in a roundtable discussion about the opioid epidemic and how to strike a balance between controlling opioid abuse and ensuring that patients have access to pain relief.

Where and When: Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center conference room; 6 p.m.

Sponsor: Tisch College WEDNESDAY “Sex, Hormones and Alcohol”

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Details: Professor of Psychology Joe DeBold will present his research about the effects of alcohol on the brain and the biological reasons for them.

Additionally, he will discuss how differences in sex cause different alcohol use patterns.

Where and When: Cohen Auditorium; 3 p.m.

Sponsor: Department of Psychology FRIDAY “Time, Memory and Ethical Inquiry: A Celebration of the Work of Rosalind Shaw” Details: Tufts will host a celebration of longtime Associate Professor of Anthropology Rosalind Shaw, featuring a number of professors from other universities.

Where and When: Alumnae Lounge; 1:30 p.m.

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Department of Education; Peace and Justice Studies Program; International Relations Program; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and Africana Studies Program; Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences; ToupinBolwell Fund; Center for Humanities at Tufts; Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora “Blind Justice: The Lost Opportunity of McCleskey v. Kemp” Details: Evan Mandery, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, will give a talk on McCleskey v. Kemp, a 1987 Supreme Court decision ruling that found that racial discrimination was not sufficient to overturn a death penalty case, as part of the Hugo Adam Bedau Memorial Lecture.

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Academics, government officials discuss future world order at EPIIC Symposium Climate Change: Threats to International Stability

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continued from page 1 EPIIC’s first panel discussion on Friday focused on the future impacts of climate change on cities, populations and government security interests. Among the panelists were Fletcher Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy Paul Berkman, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Professor Paul Kirshen and David Titley of Pennsylvania State University’s meteorology department.

Berkman, a coordinator of Pan-

Arctic Options, spoke about climate change in a human context. He argued that humanity has only recently entered a phase in which people are discussing interplanetary conflicts and also discussed the importance of building common interests among nations.

Kirshen, the academic director of the Sustainable Solutions Lab at University of Massachusetts Boston, discussed climate adaptation. He specifically talked about scenarios for the Nile River in Egypt, the impact of weather on farming in Burkina Faso and incremental

climate change readiness in Boston. In addition, Kirshen examined the effects of climate change on vulnerable populations and advocated for social resilience in Boston.

The event continued with a discussion led by Titley on the interconnections among global issues and the political concerns of climate change. He further delved into the security implications of melting ice in the Arctic and the United States Department of Defense’s strategies for combating these potential sources of conflict.

Identity, Integration and the Future of the Nation-State Panelists discussed the existence, significance and future of nation-states in a discussion on Friday afternoon.

The speakers were Harvard University Lecturer Yascha Mounk, Texas A&M University Communication Professor Randy Kluver, Princeton University Ph.D. Candidate Benjamin Sachs, Head of the International Policy Department at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Michael Bröning and Special Representative to Muslim Communities at the U.S. Department of State Farah Pandith (F ’95).

Sophomore Eva Kahan introduced the panel with a discussion of Plato’s views on justice and republics and commented on the ever-changing nature of nation-states. Each panelist then drew on their individual specialty to reflect on the future of nation-states.

Mounk explained that, when people experience economic anxiety, they tend to cling more tightly onto existing political entities. He predicted that for the foreseeable future, nation-states will continue to exist but nationalism could be a political roadblock.

“The big political challenge of the next 10, 15 years is how to domesticate nationalism in a way that stops it from turning nasty and use it as a tool to give people the feeling that they remain in control of their lives and their collective fate in the age of glo-

balization,” Mounk said.

Kluver underscored how domination of communication platforms can have political significance.

He explained that global channels of communication have remained relatively unchanged for the past few centuries and showed a series of maps depicting trade routes and cyber connectivity to illustrate this.

“What we see is the emergence of two separate worlds defined by communication platforms, not defined by ideology,” Kluver said. “A society that is defined by its technological networks makes us rethink our issues of political identity.”

Sachs took a geographical stance on the issue, discussing borders and boundaries. Sachs talked about the fact that borders are typically not well-defined, citing the U.S.-Mexico border as an anomaly. As nation-states try to impose rigidity on poorly-defined borders, tension and conflict can occur, especially as factors other than geography, like zones of influence or the domination of radio frequencies, are in play.

“The precise border is less important than the perception of a border,” Sachs said.

Bröning talked about the emergence of populism in Europe. He cited the failure of the political establishment

to consider views different from their own, as well as the enormous role that migration has played in the roughly forty elections in Europe last year.

“The success of the populists is really the failure of the established parties,” Bröning said.

Pandith was presented with the Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Public Diplomacy Award by sophomore Minh Dinh.

Pandith spoke about the identity crisis affecting Muslim youth worldwide. She explained that groups like Al Qaeda target young Muslims looking for answers on the Internet, and she spoke about the necessity of providing counter narratives. Pandith advocated for ending the ‘us’ versus ‘them’ ideology and called on the audience to consider Muslims in defining American identity.

“People are owning their own space,” Pandith said. “They’re redefining what it means to be American.

I would ask you to own that space too and understand why that identity of who you are — not just the Muslim identity — matters.”

The panelists then fielded questions on topics including new medievalism, the dangers of technology, free speech, sovereignty and religious radicalization.

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Keynote: The Shape of Things to Come Juan Enriquez, the managing director of life sciences venture capital firm Excel Venture Management, was awarded the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award. Enriquez then gave a presentation on synthetic genomics and the difficulties associated with regulating scientific discoveries.

Enriquez argued that old biology had been reactive, whereas new biology is proactive. As a result, he said, humanity is entering an era of intelligent design, in which life forms will

be programmed according to human specifications. According to Enriquez, governments often do not react at the same speed as scientific innovation.

He further discussed the constant change within nations and explored the possibility of the United States gaining or losing territory in the future. Enriquez attributed this prospect to internal division, pointing to the current distribution of wages, education cuts in some states and a broken system of governance.

The End of the Liberal World Order?

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Friday’s events concluded with a panel discussion on the liberal world order, which panelists argued is currently under threat. However, some disagreed on the extent and severity of those threats. The panelists were Northeastern University Professors Mai’a Davis Cross and Nikos Passas, Joachim Koops from the Institute for European Studies and Victoria Zhuravleva from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

Cross began the discussion by asking whether or not the European Union (EU) will be able to lead the liberal world order, along with potential strategies for accomplishing that task without United States backing. She said that some scholars are pessimistic of such an outcome because of internal strife within the EU. However, Cross argued that crises have actually strengthened the European cooperation project.

“I have argued … that actually [crises] do come to shape European integration and they actually provide an impetus or a catalyst for more political will to move forward,” she said. “Rather than serve as genuine setbacks, they actually help European integration.”

Cross backed her claims with EU responses to the United States’ invasion of Iraq, the 2005 EU constitutional crisis and the current Eurozone crisis with Greece. She concluded by expressing her hope that the liberal world order will persist.

“Just to sum up, I’ve argued that the liberal world order is indeed being tested right now. I think a large reason for this is the election of Trump,” she said.

“Probably if Hillary Clinton were elected we wouldn’t necessarily be having a panel asking this question of the end of the liberal world order … there is some hope stemming from Europe.”

Koops expanded the conversation to populism within the United States and the EU. He discussed what he called the “pendulum effect,” or oscillation of liberal views in the general population, pointing to German right-wing extrem-

ism, as well as widespread disagreement among Eastern European nations about refugee assistance.

Koops claimed that the core of liberalism has been put into perspective because of the rise of illiberal sentiments, and the potential of Russian cooperation with right-wing parties in the West.

“For the first time I think the light, the focus and the concentration of what is there to be lost is pretty clear for all of us now. I think we all share the analysis,” Koops said. “I think the defense of values that we saw not only as self-evident but something also defines ourselves, our identity, our approach to politics and policy-solving is under threat but worth defending.”

Zhuravleva continued the conversation on the United States, but argued that the question of the liberal world order should not be centered around the US. She proceeded to argue we are in an era of transformation.

“To my mind, it is not American leadership we should worry about,” Zhuraleva said. “It is about conflicts that are in the sense of the liberal world order.”

Passas ended the session by discussing the EU’s bailout of Greece in the context of corruption. According to Passas, German and French financial institutions profited from the crisis and the majority of bailout funds did not stay within Greece.

“The bulk of the money went to bail out the French and the German banks that took the risk, but speaking of unnatural selection of who lives and dies, they were assisted. They were the ones bailed out,” Passas said.

He argued that creating transparent and honest institutions is the best way to sustain government.

“When we fight against corruption we have to fight against institutional lack of integrity and lack of accountability as well, otherwise all other kids of policy initiatives will fall down,” he said. “There is nothing sustainable without integrity and accountability.”

The Future of Diplomacy In a Saturday EPIIC panel, speakers addressed problems in foreign policy and systemic changes to the diplomatic world. Speakers included Head of the São Paulo Office of Foreign Affairs Rodrigo Tavares, UMass Boston Professor Padraig O’Malley, Philippe Leroux-Martin from the U.S. Institute of Peace and Ambassador Daniel Feldman.

Feldman, the top-ranking State Department official for Afghanistan and Pakistan during the Obama admin-

istration, highlighted the decreasing prominence of diplomacy in international affairs.

“There has been a general downgrading of the role that diplomats play, I think very much against our core national security interests,” he said.

The other speakers went on to discuss the influence of information technology, the emerging relevance of cities in conducting diplomacy, and the foreign policy implications of the new Trump administration.

Benjamin Sachs leads a small group discussion on geography and strategy at the 2017 EPIIC symposium on Feb. 25.

Keynote: Nicholas Burns and David Sanger The EPIIC Symposium’s keynote conversation on Saturday featured New York Times National Security Correspondent David Sanger and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO R. Nicholas Burns.

The keynote event was heavily attended. Students from military academies, the Fletcher School and elsewhere filled the audience to learn about America’s changing foreign policy and emerging world conflicts.

Senior Denis Bravenec was the event’s moderator. He opened the discussion with references to President Donald Trump’s administration and the undefined nature of modern American foreign policy. Bravenec’s first question, which was centered on the perspective and actions of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, was addressed to Sanger.

Sanger said that the idea of an ‘America First’ foreign policy, for which Trump has advocated, worries other countries, even though they expect the president to put the interests of the United States first.

“What [foreign leaders] worry about is that it’s a short-term view of American interests and that the longer term view is one in which your strength, your force is multiplied by your ability to work with others,” Sanger said.

Burns pushed back against the perceived decline of American power.

“The United States is not fading, not as a world power, by any metric that you care to judge power,” Burns said. “The United States is unassailably the most powerful country in the world, and I think objectively will be for the next 30 or 40 years.”

Burns also described current issues

that the United States will have to deal with during the Trump administration, including an evolving Europe, an emboldened Russia, a weakened Middle East, the Syrian refugee crisis and negotiations with China.

The conversation then turned to Russia, its relationship with the United States and its recent actions. “[The United States tried] to see if we could go integrate Russia with all of Europe and ultimately find a different purpose for NATO,” Sanger said. “[But] Russia had to define itself in opposition to the West rather than define itself as a participant in the Western experience.”

Sanger went on to comment on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election and the fact that the United States did not anticipate this in spite of previous Russian maneuvering in other countries’ elections.

“Our failure of imagination was understanding that it would happen here, that they would take this across the Atlantic and actually try to use these same techniques to delegitimize the American electoral process,” Sanger said.

In his closing remarks, Burns left the audience with a view of the foreign policy apparatus of the Trump administration as a cabinet divided.

“You have two radically opposing views in the administration, and it’s going to be a fight for the soul of this administration,” Burns said. “If he wants to be successful, I think he needs to embrace the traditional Republican conservatism in foreign policy … but for the career people, your job is to serve and serve faithfully and loyally and do your best and give your best advice.”

Future Imperatives for American Foreign Policy The final panel of the EPIIC Symposium featured a number of speakers who addressed pressing issues in American foreign policy. The Saturday night panel showcased diverging perspectives regarding America’s global hegemony seventy years after the end of World War II. The panel featured Cato Institute Senior Fellow Doug Bandow, Institute for European Studies Director Jose Maria Beneyto, Carnegie Endowment Nonresident Fellow Steven Feldstein and Center for European Studies Visiting Scholar Alexander Görlach.

Feldstein expressed the importance of the United States maintaining a dominant role on the world’s stage.

“The U.S. is indispensable until we decide to willfully give that up,” Feldstein said.

In contrast, Bandow said America’s foreign policy dominance may have limits.

“The U.S. has to decide whether it wants to maintain primacy at all costs,” Bandow said. “Do we really believe that we can forever impose our will on nuclear-armed countries that have far more at stake?”

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Senators give committee updates, discuss supplementary funding

by Vibhav Prakasam Senate Correspondent

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss supplementary funding requests and an appeal.

After TCU Senate President Gauri Seth opened the meeting, Vice President Shai Slotky asked for committee updates.

Diversity and Community Affairs Officer Benya Kraus, who chairs the Culture, Ethnicity, Community Affairs Committee, gave the floor to sophomore Senator and committee member Charlie Zhen. Zhen said he is looking into the possibility of requiring culture clubs to hold only one event and two open meetings to be re-recognized, rather than the current requirement of three events.

Junior Senator Anna Del Castillo talked about the petition to support Boston’s Trust Act, and International Community Senator Celeste Teng mentioned that the period to donate meal swipes for the Swipe It Forward initiative ends March 1.

Education Committee Chair Nesi Altaras said the committee is still taking nominations for Professor of the Year.

Senate Historian Rati Srinivasan said that she, Altaras and Treasurer Chris Leaverton are working on modifying

graduation requirements, but administrators are generally opposed.

Services Committee Chair Kevin Gleason announced that the committee is having trouble with the project to have Hodgdon Food-on-the-Run and Pax et Lox Glatt Kosher Deli utilize reusable containers because of pricing.

Sophomore Senator Malachy Donovan said they are looking for feedback about the printer in the Mayer Campus Center so that they can consider placement in other locations on campus.

Additionally, Parliamentarian Adam Rapfogel is looking for feedback about Tufts’ shuttle services.

Administration and Policy Committee Chair Sylvia Ofoma said the committee is looking into Counseling and Mental Health Services’ policies, as well as the tobacco-free campus initiative.

LGBTQ+ Community Senator Parker Breza announced that students can now change their names on SIS and other online portals, so they will be referred to by their preferred name.

Leaverton then took the floor to discuss supplementary funding requests.

Tufts Students for the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) requested funding for a speaker event with an abortion provider. The Allocations Board (ALBO) took out funding for posters, and the recommendation passed by acclamation.

Students for Justice in Palestine asked for funding to attend a conference, a speaker event with Palestinian feminist Suad Amiry, and registration for the 1 for 3 Walk, a fundraising event.

ALBO took out funding for the 1 for 3 Walk because the Student Activity Fee is not meant to go towards donations.

The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) requested funding to attend a conflict resolution simulation. ALBO funded it in full and the recommendation passed by acclamation.

European Students’ Association asked for funding for a European Union Ambassador to the United Nations speaker event and ALBO funded it in full. The recommendation passed by acclamation.

ENVY Tufts then came in to appeal its funding recommendation. They were previously funded for a competition that they did not end up attending, so they came back to Senate to request funding for a different competition.

However, the previous competition’s funds were still in ENVY’s account, so ENVY subtracted that money from the cost of the new competition.

ENVY appealed the personal contribution of $15 per person for three days of competition. After multiple debate sessions, a personal contribution of $15 per person for two days instead of three passed in a vote of 18 for, 12

against and one abstention. During the debate, senators mainly discussed the financial burden of the personal contribution and members’ ability to access the Student Support Fund for aid.

Later, TURBO requested money for a break dancing competition. ALBO funded it in full and its recommendation passed in a vote of 28 for, one against and three abstentions.

Tufts Amnesty International requested funding for lodging and transportation for a conference that they were unable to get funding for from the Institute for Global Leadership. ALBO put in a personal contribution and its recommendation passed in a vote of 28 for, two against and two abstentions.

Hong Kong Student Association requested funding for a culture show, and Art History Society requested funding for its subgroup Currents Magazine.

ALBO funded both requests in full, and their recommendations passed by acclamation.

The last part of the meeting was an update from the Committee on Student Life Co-Chair Tafari Duncan, who said the committee is still reviewing Greek life and is looking into altering the language of one of the university’s social policies. Additionally, he announced that Provost David Harris is forming a search committee for a new Chief Diversity Officer.

The meeting then adjourned.

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This forum is an opportunity for students to share their work on women, gender, and/or sexuality with the wider Tufts community. Undergraduate and graduate students from a range of majors present abstracts of research papers or creative projects done in classes or independent studies during the previous year.

Students present for 5-7 minutes each.

Please consider submitting your work! We welcome submissions of any length.

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Bfresh provides new grocery option for Davis Square neighborhood, Tufts students

The new storefront of bfresh is pictured in Davis Square on Feb. 15.

by Fina Short Staff Writer

Davis Square has lacked a grocery story since Farmer’s Bounty Grocery closed in 2012. But this changed on Friday, Feb. 24 with the opening of the Massachusettsbased grocery chain bfresh at 240 Elm St. “We have everything,” Director of Operations Coby Reinhardt said, gesturing across the new store. “Produce and flowers and holiday cards, prepared foods we make right here … a bakery with lots of local bread and pastries, deli, anything that you could want.”

Owned by the same company as Stop & Shop, bfresh has two other locations in Allston and Brighton, according to Reinhardt, though the Davis Square location is the largest one so far.

“If you’re here in the store and look around, you’ll see that there aren’t any other grocery stores within quick and easy walking distance from here,” Reinhardt said. “We’re really looking to fill that space for the Davis Square neighborhood, to be a great grocery store that’s very convenient and is not difficult for customers to get to.”

However, Reinhardt pointed to the location’s manageable size as a distinguishing factor compared to large chain grocery retailers.

“Right here, we’re about 11,000 square feet, whereas a typical Stop & Shop, for example, is probably about 60,000 square feet,” he said. “There’s much more of a neighborhood feel to what we’re doing here and in our other stores in the Boston area, where [you don’t] feel like they’re coming into a big warehouse but that you’re coming into your neighborhood market.”

First-year Jon Adams said he was pleasantly surprised by the pricing of bfresh after visiting the store this weekend.

“Walking around as someone on a student budget, they had a decent-sized amount of ramen for 99 cents,” he said.

“From what I garnered, I did not personally think it was that expensive.”

Adams also said that the variety of products provides a new food option for students.

“They had a huge bakery with tons of fresh bread, fresh bagels, they had tons of soups and ready-made sandwiches,” he said.

“It’s just nice to have something like that so accessible to campus.”

According to a retail analysis of bfresh’s Allston location written by Samuel Stewart for the research and training charity IGD, the grab-and-go section of bfresh sets the store apart from other grocery stores.

“The food-to-go offer is particularly impressive, with an open design that works really well,” Stewart told the Daily in an email.

He also echoed Reinhardt by saying that bfresh’s size distinguishes it from its competitors.

“This format taps into the trend for smaller grocery stores in the [United States],” Stewart wrote. “With its mix of urban and neighborhood elements, there is scope for this concept in additional locations, especially as we expect to see greater convergence between retail and food service over the next few years.”

However, Reinhardt does not expect bfresh to expand significantly into other areas of the United States any time soon.

“We don’t have plans to start another store in the immediate future, but we’re looking around the northeast,” he said.

The store itself includes features such as a pour-your-own kombucha tea station, which offers four different flavors on tap, and a make-your-own nut butter machine, according to Reinhardt.

“You can grind your own nut butter with this machine,” he said, pointing to the device on a store tour. “All you do is you take a container, stick it under here, press the green button, grind it into the container, press the button to stop it. This is pretty cool, I have to say.”

The store also features a large selection of grab-and-go food, as well as meal kits with pre-assembled raw ingredients for shoppers to take home and cook themselves.

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Melissa Woods, senior planner for the City of Somerville, predicted that this grab-and-go section will contribute to the store’s appeal.

“I think you’ll see a lot of commuters using bfresh,” she said. “It’s going to be a really good quick place to grab something going to and from work.”

Woods attributed the prior absence of a grocery store in the Davis Square area to multiple other grocery stores available nearby.

“There is a large grocery store in Porter Square, and the residents have been served in some capacity by McKinnon’s Meat Market, as well as in more recent years Dave’s Fresh Pasta,” she said. “I think it was a matter of economics and density that led to an absence of a grocery retailer within Davis Square.”

Woods said that, in general, Somerville also provides a good deal of options for groceries to its residents throughout the city.

“There, geographically, could be a need filled for a grocery store in the Magoon Square area, but otherwise thankfully foodwise Somerville is pretty well-served by grocery stores,” she said.

Davis in particular is situated in an accessible location to other grocery locations, where residents may choose to shop instead.

“Urban grocery stores usually take their catchment area within a half-mile distance, and they want to compare what the density is within that half-mile,” Woods said. “So a lot of Davis Square’s catchment area has very easy access to that market in Porter Square.”

According to Woods, Davis Square has been undergoing a process of gentrification following the arrival of the MBTA Red Line stop in 1984. Bfresh comes to Davis at a time when the neighborhood continues to undergo rapid changes.

“Davis Square is loved, there are a lot of dedicated residents, longtime residents,” she said. “Of course, it’s personal preference whether you shop in the grocery store in your neighborhood or not.”

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fter I came out to my parents, I cut my hair. I went from below the shoulders to a shaggy pixie cut. I wanted to look gay. I wanted people to see me as a queer person because it was something I had denied myself for a long time for fear of people finding out. It wasn’t so much that my personality had radically changed, but I felt more open than in the past because the people who I had feared would reject me actually accepted me. I changed my appearance because I was tired of people being surprised when I told them that I liked other women. I thought that looking queer would change that.

When we talk about stereotypes, we generally conclude that assuming people are queer because of stereotypes is a bad thing. This promotes assumptions about queer people that straight people usually use as a method of ‘othering’ them. However, this doesn’t mean that all stereotypes are untrue or that the way people dress never has anything to do with their orientation.

Often, stereotypes such as “queer women wear flannel” are embraced as a self-marker. I do that. I wear flannels and I dyed my hair in the hopes that people would notice. I also happen to think flannels are comfortable and like the way I look with short hair.

Maybe someday it won’t be necessary for queer people to attempt to flag themselves as queer. On that day, it will also be unnecessary for other queer people to avoid dressing in stereotypical ways that may suit their personalities more for fear of being discovered as queer. But that day will only come when straightness is not assumed to be the default sexuality. I dress more ‘queerly’ both because being assumed straight is invalidating and because I like it.

It is important to note as well that not all queer-identifying people dress stereotypically. This is where the idea of stereotypes can be harmful. Queer people have all different personalities and senses of style. An individual can identify as a lesbian but dress as femininely as they want. Dresses and makeup do not invalidate a person’s queerness. And just because your ‘gaydar’ doesn’t pick up all queer people doesn’t mean that they aren’t queer.

Stereotypes come about for a reason. People may choose to subscribe to those stereotypes to be seen in those ways, or they may not because they aren’t the right fit for them. Both ways of being queer are valid; if you can’t believe that someone adheres to a certain identity because they don’t look it, then you should reconsider why you think all queer people must present themselves a certain way.

Stop putting people in boxes based on a few identifying markers and let them put themselves in boxes, or not, depending on what they feel to be true.

Appearance does not correlate to sexuality or gender, but people can use it to identify how they feel.

This article was written by an anonymous member of the Rainbow House. They can be reached at rhousecolumn@gmail.com.

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‘Black Muslims in the Arts’ celebrates black Muslim identity and culture

by Libby Langsner Assistant Arts Editor

On Saturday, black Muslim artists performed at “Black Muslims in the Arts,” an event dedicated to celebrating black Muslim art and identity, cosponsored by the Muslim Student Association and the Africana Center. Sophomores Muna Mohamed and Sara Arman coordinated the event as a way to honor and celebrate the art and lives of black Muslims during Black History Month.

The event additionally sought to promote local black Muslim business owners and artists, as evidenced by a list that circulated throughout the crowd containing information about black Muslim-owned businesses and artists in the area. There was also a list of black Muslim artists hung on the wall and, throughout the event, Mohamed and Arman shared facts about black Muslim artists. For example, they noted that famous musicians including T-Pain, Lupe Fiasco and several members of A Tribe Called Quest are all black Muslims.

The event began with a dinner provided by the Islamic Society of Boston

Cultural Center in Roxbury, followed by an evening prayer for those who wished to partake. Then, Tufts students performed spoken word and sang.

The first of the performances was a spoken word piece written by firstyear Samsam Dirie. Dirie’s poem described the first time she became aware of her black and Muslim identities. She said that while the intersection of these two identities can be complicated, she appreciates the experiences she has gained from the intersection of the two.

Then Salwa Lautner, an exchange student from Madrid born to Moroccan parents, sang “Lemen Nechki” by Saad Lamjarred, a famous Moroccan singer.

Lautner explained the significance of her song choice to the Daily.

“I’ve chosen this song because it reminds me of the importance of fighting for love and not taking into account other people’s opinions,” she said.

Later, first-year Hakeem Adeyemi gave a spoken word performance, first explaining that his work directly addresses the violence he has witnessed throughout his life because of his identity as a young black man. He called out the judgment

that others pass toward him, specifically referring to the “dirty looks” he receives sometimes while walking around campus.

All three solo performances gave insight into the black Muslim experience and how it can vary depending on one’s intersecting gender identity and geographical origins.

In the final performance of the night, Mohamed brought up a few other students to sing Chance the Rapper’s “Blessings (Reprise)” (2016). Mohamed said she was inspired to choose the song as the closing performance of the night because of how Chance the Rapper praises his faith and spirituality through music, citing the lines “I speak to God in public, I speak to God in public / He keep my rhymes in couplets.”

Instead of having the performers sing alone, the group put the lyrics up on the projector and had the audience stand up and sing along. The final act of singing in unison created a communal atmosphere celebrating the strength, resilience and faith of others. As the night celebrating black Muslim artistic excellence came to an end, Mohamed reflected, “In these times right now, what we need most is each other.”

by Setenay Mufti

Assistant Arts Editor

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Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) and other DC superheroes fight crime and crack jokes in ‘The LEGO Batman Movie.’

(Michael Cera). Meanwhile, the Joker is desperate to win the title of Batman’s Greatest Enemy and spends most of the movie trying to get Batman to notice him, softly saying, “I hate you” and crying when Batman does not say it back.

The movie piles on more absurdity and action from there. At one point, the Joker releases the worst villains in all of history from the Phantom Zone, a kind of virtual-reality heaven that houses an assortment of characters including Lord Voldemort, King Kong, the Daleks and the Eye of Sauron.

The villains wreak havoc on Gotham City.

Batman also reluctantly allows Dick Grayson to become his assistant Robin and even more reluctantly accepts help from Barbara and Alfred, wearing Batman’s original blue and grey costume. Slowly but surely, Batman learns how to let himself be part of a family.

Additionally, Robin provides some slapstick humor as a naive, cheery child who believes Batman and Bruce Wayne are two different people and both his dads. This running joke, however, earned the ire of a conservative Evangelical site called lifesitenews. com, which released an article titled “Beware:

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‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ delivers hilarious jokes One of the challenges of making a ‘clever’ children’s movie is knowing how to simultaneously entertain parents and older children while not getting too carried away with references and side jokes. “The LEGO Batman Movie” (2017), successor to the critically acclaimed “The LEGO Movie” (2014), finds the perfect balance. The movie subverts the depressing and morally ambiguous character of Batman by giving him a happy ending, in which he learns the value of friendship, teamwork and chosen family, while still paying tribute to classic Batman movies, famous movie villains and subtle one-liners. Though the movie is silly at times, it is also peppered with solid, laugh-out-loud moments.

This is not to say that Batman is a campy superhero in this movie. In fact, he’s the self-entitled, cruel, obsessive and arrogant Batman who DC Comics fans have come to know and love, but with a good-hearted sense of humor. Voiced by a gravelly, overthe-top Will Arnett, Batman claims he has nine abs (eight pairs and one in the center) and calls himself the “greatest orphan of all time” while visiting Gotham City’s orphanage. He lives in his massive, dark Batcave and spends his time microwaving lobster thermidor, watching “Jerry Maguire” (1996) and staring silently at framed photos of himself with his late parents. He is alone except for his butler-turned-surrogate-father Alfred (Ralph Fiennes), who constantly worries about him and is seen reading a book called “How to Set Limits for Your Out-of-Control Child.”

But when the new police commissioner Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson) launches forces Batman to work in conjunction with the police force, Batman is outraged.

But he is also so gripped by the beauty of Barbara (and her square, lego rear) that he inadvertently agrees to adopt an over-eager, dim child from the orphanage, Dick Grayson

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LEGO Batman movie promotes gay adoption.” The article also criticized the movie for “homoerotic attraction and penis jokes.” It is true that Batman and the Joker’s relationship unfolds like a romantic drama, supplementing hatred for love, and the movie does sneak in a single joke off the name ‘Dick’ in one of the best lines in the movie.

But as an animated, PG-rated movie, “The LEGO Batman Movie” could hardly be described as ‘edgy,’ much less as gay propaganda. Batman himself, however, delivers some solid burns: his password for the Batcave’s master computer is ihateironman, and he even takes a swing at DC’s movie “Suicide Squad” (2016) by saying, “What, we should let the criminals fight the criminals?

That’s a dumb idea.”

The jokes are a little mocking, but the movie is far from cynical. After decades of movies in which Batman is seen fighting his own demons and engaging in risky behavior, this movie provides an alternate reality for the character: Batman becomes a real hero with a real, loving family. The movie is as much a comedy as it is a character study, if not a true story of redemption.

John Galliano and rococo fashion

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ohn Galliano, arguably one of the most famous individuals from the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, is quite possibly the fashion designer who has best embodied the essence of 19th century European royalty in his gowns. As the head designer of Dior for 15 straight years (1996–2011) and the current creative director of Maison Margiela, Galliano has influenced the fashion world immensely.

One of John Galliano’s most iconic shows is the Dior haute couture line of Fall-Winter 2004. The designer said that for this collection he went on a research trip to Vienna and was inspired by his impressions of the lives of Austro-Hungarian empresses. Every single look Galliano sent down the runway was a full-length gown, many of them embroidered with floral motifs, something he has become known for. The models walked out with precious crowns and accessories that looked like they were coming straight out of the Tower of London, where the Queen of England’s jewels are kept.

The atmosphere Galliano managed to create on the runway was reminiscent of paintings by Fragonard, a French Rococo artist who often portrayed playful scenes of aristocrats in nature. The woman in “The Swing” (1776), for instance, could have very well been the 30th look on the runway. This show perfectly illustrated why many say that life imitates art.

Another show that arguably determined Galliano’s success in the fashion world was the Dior Fall-Winter 2000 ready-to-wear collection. One of the highlights of this runway was a newspaper print that appeared on dresses, leather jackets and furs. Not only was this a bold feature of the collection, but it was also an indirect tribute to Coco Chanel’s biggest rival, Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli, who made dresses with newspaper-like prints herself.

It is also interesting to compare the mode of composition of these garments with other pieces of visual art that include real newspaper print. For instance, in his synthetic cubist phase, Pablo Picasso made his “Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper” piece, which featured extracts of the French newspaper “Le Figaro.” Picasso and other cubist artists such as Georges Braque employed this mode of composition to highlight specific events that occurred at the time. It is therefore fascinating and extremely significant that Galliano decided to feature his own name all over the newspaper prints in the different looks he sent down the runway, probably in an effort to put himself in the spotlight (at least more so than it already was).

Although his work as a designer is undisputedly influential, it should also be mentioned that Galliano is an example of how one’s artistic talent does not always match one’s integrity or personal character.

In 2011, the fashion designer made some sordid anti-Semitic comments that led to him being fired by the Dior maison. Even though he has since apologized, it is disgusting that these kinds of remarks are still being made to this day, especially by a person with so much fame and influence.

Antonio Bertolino is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Antonio can be reached at antonio.bertolino@tufts. edu.

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Evelyn Bellew and Jessica O'Flanagan Food for Thought

Beef with the meat industry

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lmost every student subscribed to The New York Times has had at least one brief stint as an herbivore. One day you try General Gau’s tofu, and suddenly, you find yourself saying things like “living in touch with my values” and “exploring ethical veganism.” Every Meatless Monday is an ego boost and seasoned wedges are vegetarian — what’s not to love? Still, vegetarianism isn’t suitable for everyone and can often be unsustainable among busy schedules and limited food options. While vegetarians spend on average $750 less per year on food, they pay the price of inconvenience and often less appetizing options. One study shows that over 84 percent of vegetarians return to eating meat, and another survey found that one third of vegetarians morph into carnivores while under the influence of alcohol.

Why? Simply put, tofu will never be a rotisserie chicken. Folks find themselves preaching sustainability and also craving a turducken, and thus begins the hunt for a happy medium that satisfies both.

The American relationship with meat is both complicated and oversimplified. Food, particularly meat, has a long history in American culture and media. It’s paired with sports, special occasions and family traditions to be a big part of the ‘Merican experience. While the United States is the second largest consumer of meat in the world, it is rare that the average U.S. citizen will see where their barbecue actually comes from. While we may worship the product, we often do not respect and appreciate the animals that allow for its availability.

The majority of households have pets in the United States, but at the same time, we lag far behind the United Kingdom in terms of protection laws for farm animals. Most people can agree that there’s nothing that makes you question whether you’re going to hell quite like accidentally stepping on your dog’s paw. This kind of treatment often prompts vegan/vegetarian activists to accuse pet parents of hypocrisy — how can we so easily dote on our pets but support commercial farming? Many take issue with this stance because eating meat is not inherently evil or wrong. You can respect animals and still use them for consumption. You can be grateful for what they give you without allowing them to curl up at the foot of your bed.

Part of that respect comes in awareness. When meat makes it to your plate, it has been washed, trimmed and disinfected. There is no trace of slaughter or mistreatment and nothing that would indicate that both animals and workers might have been exploited in its production. In viewing our meat aesthetically, we see it only through a consumer’s lens. Factory farming is about creating the most of the tastiest product, and treatment of animals often gets lost in translation.

Humans don’t just have sharp teeth for kale.

Meat consumption is normal and natural, but it’s tricky to balance with sustainability. To be a conscientious carnivore you can look into local farmers’ markets and essentially recreate the chicken sketch from the pilot episode of “Portlandia.” All of these options are, you guessed it, very expensive! What a shock! So you, eco-friendly reader, might find yourself backed into the same rabbit-food corner that encouraged you to seek moral hamburgers in the first place. Isn’t caring about the earth fun?

Evelyn Bellew is a sophomore majoring in environmental studies and political science. Evelyn can be reached at evelyn.bellew@icloud.com.

Jessica O'Flanagan is a sophomore majoring in computer science and English. Jessica can be reached at jessica.o_flanagan@tufts.edu.

Opinion

Monday, February 27, 2017

EDITORIAL

The first-year premium meal plan should be optional There’s no choice involved. It’s go big or go home. Priced at $3,807 per semester, the Tufts Dining Premium Meal Plan is sold as the “best value for students who want to take full advantage of dining at Tufts and not have to think about planning their own meals while in school.” And while for some students — first-years and upperclassmen alike — a premium meal plan may make the most sense, it’s not ideal for everyone.

As such, it is unfair that all first-years are automatically enrolled in the Premium Meal Plan, with no option to opt out.

The most impractical aspect of this policy is the high cost of the Premium Meal Plan. A prohibitively expensive meal plan raises the already sky-high price of a Tufts tuition and serves as another source of stress for low-income Tufts students.

Though many American universities mandate that first-years and even upperclassmen enroll in unlimited meal plans, some schools, such as Northeastern University,

offer a few different meal plan packages for first-years. Allowing Tufts first-years to choose between Premium and one or two slightly smaller plans could help students who cannot afford or simply do not want to enroll in an unlimited plan.

Additionally, the nature of the Premium Meal Plan arguably encourages overeating.

Students on the Premium Meal Plan can swipe into either Carmichael or DewickMacPhie Dining Centers as many times as they want in one day, or they can swipe into Hodgdon Food-on-the-Run or Pax et Lox Glatt Kosher Deli up to three times a day. If you’re not swiping into the dining halls multiple times a day, it’s easy to feel as if you’re wasting your money. Everyone’s body is different and all require different amounts of nutrition. For some students, the amount of food offered by the Premium Meal Plan is excessive and forces students to choose between overeating and wasting their money.

It makes sense in some ways that Tufts wants to ensure that students are eating well and that dining halls are being utilized. Meal plans can also build a sense of community for first-years, seeing as the dining halls are a place to socialize. But these benefits would not go away if students were offered more choices in their meal plans, and first-years are capable of deciding for themselves how frequently they want to eat. Additionally, for many students, the financial trade-off that an unlimited meal plan necessitates is not worth the returns.

It is unnecessary and unfair for firstyears to be forced to spend thousands of dollars on something they don’t truly need. For this reason, the Premium Meal Plan should be optional for first-years.

This unnecessary requirement is just one example of Tufts’ status as an institution that imposes exorbitant, unnecessary costs on its students.

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Men’s basketball upset by Williams in NESCAC semifinals, await likely NCAA at-large bid

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Junior Everett Dayton cuts past a Williams defender on Feb. 25.

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A strong NESCAC tournament run from the men’s basketball team came to a disappointing end in the conference semifinal round for the second straight season on Saturday as the Jumbos were upset by the Williams Ephs in Cousens Gym by an 81-65 margin. Williams, who had upset Amherst the prior week in the quarterfinals, was the sixth seed in the tournament.

Despite beating the Ephs by 25 points earlier this month, the Jumbo offense stalled in the second half of the match-up and the Ephs pulled away in the waning minutes to take a decisive win. Tufts, with a 20-6 record (8-2 NESCAC) and the conference’s top seed at the end of the regular season, will now await a likely at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

“I have to be honest, I think they wanted it more than us because we had embarrassed them before,” coach Bob Sheldon said. “They knew they had to win to get in the NCAAs so they came in and had that edge, and I think it showed right from the very beginning. We will use this as a learning tool for the playoffs. The next time we play like this, we’re done and the season is over.”

The Ephs took the lead from the very beginning, scoring on both of their first two possessions to take a 5-0 lead. The Jumbos missed three-pointers on their first two possessions, but senior tri-captain guard Tarik Smith sunk a three on the third to put his team on the board. Smith later hit a jumper to narrow the lead, and then junior guard KJ Garrett, who entered the game for the first time at the 14:29 mark, hit a three to give the Jumbos their first lead of the game, 13-12.

That lead didn’t last long and Williams quickly took back control, forcing Tufts to play from behind until the 7:41 mark of the second half. The Jumbos were able to keep pace with the Ephs for the rest of the half and at times narrowed the margin to just one point, but still entered the break down 39-35.

Six minutes into the game, tri-captain center Tom Palleschi made his first appear-

ance for the Jumbos since Jan. 20, inspiring loud cheers from the audience. Still easing back into playing, however, he played just eight minutes total.

The Jumbos struggled early on. Though by the end of the first half, they had gained rhythm and were shooting a solid 44.4 percent. Junior guard Everett Dayton led the Jumbos with seven points and four rebounds at the end of the first half. The Ephs, however, shot 50 percent from the field.

The major difference between the teams was defense. The Jumbos, who had defended extremely well in the previous match-up between the two teams, were not able to get the Ephs off of the perimeter without sacrificing their ability to prevent drives to the basket. In the final minutes of the first half, Tufts defense lost Williams sophomore forward/center Marcos Soto in the paint on consecutive possessions. Soto capitalized during both instances, making a pair of uncontested lay-ups to put the Ephs ahead by seven.

“We didn’t rebound, we didn’t stay connected to the game and we weren’t taking decent shots,” Sheldon said. “We missed some easy lay-ups and we didn’t play a good game.”

The Jumbos opened the second half with stronger defense, and junior guard Ben Engvall grabbed an offensive rebound and made a lay-up on their first possession to narrow the gap to two points. But the Ephs stayed consistent with their shooting, and the Jumbos struggled to find ways to score other than from beyond the arc.

For most of second half, just as in the first, the Jumbos never trailed by more than a few points until they found themselves down 61-55 with 8:30 to play. But a pair of successful free throws from sophomore guard Ethan Feldman and then back-to-back threes from junior guard Thomas Lapham and Garrett — which put Garrett at 4-for-4 shooting from distance — gave the lead back to the Jumbos for the first time since their brief lead in the first half.

But after taking the 63-61 lead, Tufts began to lose momentum and saw Williams

tie it up at 65-65 and then pull away for the comfortable win in the final six minutes.

After the Jumbos took their lead, the Ephs went on a 20-2 run, aided by some hastily attempted shots by the Jumbos in their final possessions. Williams was able cut to the basket with ease, often without any Jumbos even close to playing the post.

Over the course of the game, the Ephs scored 32 points in the paint compared to the Jumbos’ eight. Williams also tallied 48 rebounds to Tufts’ 29. The defense that had done so well on Feb. 10 was nowhere to be found.

“On defense, [Williams] packs it in, which means they get a lot of help on any drives and want to force the other team to shoot from outside,” Dayton said. “We also struggled to finish our shots around the basket.”

Tufts threw away consecutive offensive possessions, took wild shots with over 20 seconds left on the shot clock and made careless passes. Though the game ended at 81-65, the score line was not indicative of the game overall, as Tufts remained neck-andneck with Williams up until the final minutes. Despite a full court press for the final two minutes, the Jumbos could not stop the Ephs from running away with the game.

Williams ended up losing to Middlebury 84-62 in the NESCAC Championship game Sunday afternoon at Cousens to take the runner-up spot in the conference.

Unfortunately for the Jumbos, the loss against Williams marked the end to their historic run in the NESCAC and a season that saw them host the conference championship for the first time in program history.

It is still very likely, however, that the Jumbos will receive an at-large bid for the NCAA Tournament.

“We all want to get a bid, we don’t want to end our season on a loss like that,” Garrett said. “Getting into the [NCAA] tournament, which is pretty likely and hopefully it happens, means the seniors have another chance to play and we have another chance of going out the way we want.”

The news of the NCAA bracket will be released this afternoon.

s Black History Month comes to a close, I thought it would be timely to discuss the best players of the Negro leagues, most of whom were never given the chance to play in the majors.

One of my favorite players of all time is Josh Gibson, catcher for the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords.

Gibson, as legend has it, hit over 800 home runs in his career. Those who saw both Gibson and Babe Ruth play would call Ruth “the white Josh Gibson.” His legend speaks for itself, and he’s remembered as one of the greatest power hitters of all time. Satchel Paige, speaking about Gibson said, “you look for his weakness and while you’re lookin’ for it, he’s liable to hit 45 home runs.” Gibson never had a chance to take on Major League pitchers, dying just months before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.

Next is Satchel Paige, one of the best pitchers, period. Though known for his time with the Kansas City Monarchs, Paige also pitched for the Birmingham Black Barons and Pittsburgh Crawfords in the Negro leagues. He debuted in the majors at the age of 42 for the Cleveland Indians, pitched for them for two seasons, then signed with the St. Louis Browns for three seasons before retiring.

Paige made his return to Major League Baseball in 1965, at the age of 59, to pitch one game for the Kansas City Athletics.

He hurled three shutout innings against the last team in baseball to integrate, the Boston Red Sox. Despite pitching in the majors, Paige was disappointed that he didn’t break the color barrier. He wrote in his autobiography, “…signing Jackie like they did still hurt me deep down. I’d been the one who’d opened up the Major League parks to the colored teams. I’d been the one who the white boys wanted to barnstorm against.” Satchel Paige went down as a Negro League legend who found success at the Major League level, even at his advanced age. If he had been allowed to pitch in the majors during his prime, he would have shined.

Finally, we come to Pop Lloyd who spent most of his 27-year career with the New York Lincoln Giants. As a shortstop, he batted .343 and slugged .450. Only nine MLB players have career averages and slugging percentages greater than Lloyd. His defensive play was most similar to Honus Wagner. Wagner, on Lloyd being called the “black Wagner” said, “It is a privilege to have been compared to him.” Babe Ruth, when responding to a question asking if Lloyd was the best black baseball player, stated that Lloyd was his choice as the “greatest baseball player of all time.”

The Negro leagues had a proud history born out of America’s racism. It is a shame to see all of these white players revering their black contemporaries while not pushing harder for integration.

This season will mark 70 years since Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.

Baseball has come a long way since 1947, but there is much more to be done.

Max Goder-Reiser is a senior majoring in biology. He can be reached at max.goder_ reiser@tufts.edu.