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Thursday, March 8, 2012

VOLUME LXIII, NUMBER 29

Where You Read It First Est. 1980

Friends of Israel ad causes controversy by

Patrick McGrath

Daily Editorial Board

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The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate last Monday published the first issue of the monthly TCU Newsletter, which will provide students with information about new Tufts events and initiatives.

TCU newsletter highlights Senate activities, campus events by

Leah Lazer

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The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on Feb. 27 published the inaugural issue of the monthly TCU Newsletter sent in an email to the entire undergraduate student

body. The newsletter is intended to serve as a means of providing students with relevant information about upcoming events and initiatives within the Tufts community.

The newsletter included information on recent Senate activities and initiatives, a “Know

Your Rights” section about university policies and information about major campus events and opportunities.

Future issues of the newsletter will be sent only to students who see NEWSLETTER, page 2

The inclusion of multiple Tufts Community Union (TCU) senators among the signatories of an advertisement in the Monday, March 5 issue of The Tufts Daily has stirred controversy among some students.

The advertisement, which was sponsored by the Tufts America Israel Alliance and Friends of Israel (FOI), read “As a student leader at Tufts I support the U.S.-Israel Relationship” and listed a number of student leaders across campus who signed the advertisement alongside their specific leadership positions.

The advertisement included a disclaimer at the bottom of the page that stated: “The views expressed are my own and do not represent the positions of my stated leadership role or organization.”

“The reason why we chose the phrasing that we did … was because we wanted it to be completely uncontroversial,” Aaron Tartakovsky, a senior who helped organize the advertisement, said. “It is in no way a knock on any other groups, whether student groups or any other populations.”

Cory Faragon, a member of

Japanese Culture Club pays tribute to victims of March 2011 earthquake by

Nina Goldman

Daily Editorial Board

The Japanese Culture Club (JCC) yesterday during open block assembled over 100 Tufts students and faculty members to create a photo message for those affected by last year’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Those in attendance wore red and white shirts and stood on the patio outside of Tisch Library for two photos: one forming the Japanese flag and the other in the formation of “Tufts,” a heart shape and the characters for the Japanese word for “Japan.” The photos were taken from the Tisch library roof.

The photographs will be sent to media outlets, Japanese cultural clubs at other Boston-area schools and organizations in Japan, according to JCC Co-President Yuki Tanimoto.

“We want to send this image everywhere,” Tanimoto, a sophomore, said.

A major goal of the initiative is to keep people thinking about the disaster even though it happened a year ago, according to Tanimoto.

“They’ll learn about it, hopefully,” he said. “That’s a big part of what we’re doing this year: awareness.”

JCC does not want people to assume that just because Japan is a first-world country it has recovered completely in a year.

“We want people to remember that

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The Japanese Culture Club yesterday assembled over 100 Tufts students and faculty members to form photo messages that will be sent to media outlets and organizations in Japan. people are still affected, people still haven’t gone back to their homes, people still don’t have homes,” Tanimoto said.

The photo event was coordinated through a Facebook page and a Google Document, with colors pre-assigned to those who signed up in order to ensure the right balance of people dressed in red

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and white, according to Shuhei Miyasaka, a senior.

Although 118 people had signed up to participate as of the afternoon before the event, the number of people who actually came was a pleasant surprise, accord-

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), was among those disturbed by the use of senators’ names in the advertisement.

“My problem with the ad and the problem that a lot of other people had was that by coming out in support of this … misleading statement, the senators and people affiliated with Senate at Tufts were in fact breaking one of their bylaws which said that they cannot endorse political statements unless it’s been voted on by the Senate,” Faragon, a senior, said.

The Senate bylaw in question is Bylaw 2, Section 9, which states that “no individual may use the Senate’s name or logo in advocating on behalf of projects, ideas or initiatives without a supporting piece of legislation unless it is clearly stated that Senate has come to an agreement upon the issue” and that “disciplinary actions shall be filed against any member in violation of this provision.”

“They shouldn’t have done this,” Faragon said. “It was against their bylaws. There should be disciplinary consequences.”

TCU Senate Parliamentarian John Peter Kaytrosh said that see ADVERTISEMENT, page 2

Inclement weather leads to pedestrian accidents Last week, three members of the Tufts community were struck by cars while crossing streets on or near campus, all within a three-day period.

The Tufts Department of Public and Environmental Safety sent out a campus-wide email after the first two accidents, explaining what had happened and offering pedestrian safety tips “in order to raise awareness of the hazards that pedestrians face while walking, especially after dark, and especially in inclement weather.” The briefs for the three accidents are as follows: A female student at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 29 was hit by a car when crossing Winthrop St. on her way to Carmichael Hall. She was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for treatment after reporting pain in her hip.

A male student at 7:25 p.m. on March 1 was crossing toward campus at the intersection of Leonard St. and Powderhouse Blvd. when he was struck by a motor vehicle. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment.

A Tufts professor at 7:25 p.m. on March 2 was struck by a car while crossing at the intersection of Powderhouse Blvd. and Packard Ave. She was taken to Somerville Hospital for treatment.

—by Nina Goldman

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Boloco remains a popular spot for busy Tufts students looking for a quick and tasty meal.

“Hamletmachine” gives a modern perspective on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy.

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2 Police Briefs We’re not in Compton anymore, Toto The Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers at 11:56 p.m. on March 2 had just finished checking on a party on Packard Ave. and were getting back in their vehicle when a male student standing on the sidewalk yelled, “F--k the police!”

The three women accompanying him tried to push him away but he persisted, saying, “No, f--k them!” several times. The officers got back out of their car and took him to Lewis Hall, where they discovered that he was not a Tufts student and was visiting one of the girls who had been attempting to disassociate themselves from him earlier. When the officers told her that she was responsible for his actions, she became angry and told them that they were

no different than the police in her hometown. TUPD officers reported unfamiliarity with her town’s police department but are assuming she did not mean it as a compliment.

Whose house is it anyway?

Officers arrived at the Alpha Epsilon Pi house at 45 Sawyer Ave. at 2:08 a.m. on March 4 to break up a party. They reported seeing 10-15 people on the first floor and 15-20 on the upper floors, but none of these people reported being a resident of the house. The officers found a beer keg with a tap in the middle of the kitchen floor and confiscated it along with a nearly empty one in the fridge.

Eventually, they did find a resident and broke up the party.

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JCC emphasizes lingering effects of 2011 disaster JAPAN

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ing to JCC Chairman and Photo Committee Member Sho Igawa.

“We really appreciate so many students coming,” Igawa, a senior, said.

The crowd was augmented by people walking by Tisch Library who were encouraged to join if they happened to be wearing a white or red shirt.

“We tried to grab as many people as were passing by,” Igawa said.

This event was part of JCC’s ongoing work in remembering what happened one year ago.

The club last year raised about $10,000 to help victims of the quake shortly after it happened, Tanimoto said.

“Last year we collected a lot of money … and we were really grateful and it was really

powerful,” he said.

Their focus this year is to show that people still care about those affected and to increase awareness of the work that still needs to be done.

“They’re still struggling and they’re still rebuilding, but I think right now what they really need is more of the emotional support,” JCC Co-President Shuhei Miyasaka said. “It’s important not to forget about what happened.”

Other planned events include encouraging students to write well-wishes to be tied to a tree in Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall all week and a panel discussion next Tuesday with three Tufts professors who will address the natural disaster’s effects on the Japanese economy and psyche.

Community members can also write words of encouragement

on JCC’s blog, and more than 40 comments have already been posted.

Although for some participants this event was a reminder, for those like Tiffany Campbell the quake was close to home and hard to forget.

“I was in Japan during the earthquake,” Campbell, a senior, said. “In reality, there’s still suffering.”

Tanimoto also emphasized the lasting effects of the disaster when describing his and the club’s motives for taking the photographic message of support.

“If you think about it, there are 15,000 people that died. If you say it, 15,000, that’s just a number,” he said. “But if you think about it, each one of those people was a father, a mother, a daughter, a son.”

Fall Senate survey helped gauge student interest in newsletter NEWSLETTER

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sign up via a survey linked in the email, according to TCU Vice President Wyatt Cadley.

The senators who worked on the newsletter felt that it filled a niche that was not being fully addressed by other sources like TuftsLife, Facebook or campus publications, because it updated the student body on the Senate’s activities with the ultimate aim of increasing transparency, Cadley, a junior, said.

“A student government should have the power to communicate with its constituents,” Cadley said. “We want to explain to people ourselves how we perceive our roles and our projects.”

“This is something for Senate to put their stamp on,” Director of the Office for Campus Life (OCL) Joe Golia said. “I would hope in the future it’s more about their initiatives and the things they’re working on, and then with some opportunities for others to advertise.”

The newsletter provides a highlighted digest of upcoming events and opportunities,

as opposed to the large amount of information available on social media websites like TuftsLife and Facebook. “[The newsletter is] a forum to distribute information with an emphasis that’s not coming from the original source,” Cadley said.

The Senate aimed to highlight highprofile campus events, policies and opportunities, such as the sexual assault policy reforms and the new emphasis on athletics, according to Cadley.

“We wanted to build more partnerships with other organizations and not have it just be about Senate,” Cadley said. “It’s really made by students, for students.”

One of the Senate’s goals when it published the newsletter was to reach a wider audience, including off-campus students who would otherwise be unaware of the Senate’s decisions, according to TCU webmaster Brian Pilchik. “[We hope to engage] people who are off campus, and maybe aren’t running in to the posters and the literature as often,”

Pilchik said.

“Any way to get information out to students certainly helps,” Golia said. “It’s one of our biggest struggles here because every student is different in how they want information and what they do with the information.”

Golia supported the initiative logistically and administratively by sending out the finalized newsletter to the student body and by providing content information to writers.

The Senate used the feedback from the fall Senate survey to determine how often students would want to receive the email and the means by which they wanted to receive it, according to Cadley. The responses showed that students displayed a significant interest in receiving a monthly issue rather than a weekly issue and favored an opt-in process that would preclude them from being automatically registered on the mailing list, Cadley said.

At least 30 students had opted in within 10 minutes of receiving the initial newsletter, according to Pilchik.

Pilchik was responsible for designing the

layout of the newsletter once the information was compiled, as well as organizing the optin system.

The idea of creating a TCU newsletter had been discussed periodically for several years.

A Senate newsletter was discussed but eventually abandoned. The Senate this academic year published minutes from their meetings in advertisements in the Daily, but this initiative was deemed to be prohibitively expensive and ineffective in terms of highlighting relevant information. Ultimately, the Senate decided to create an all-encompassing TCU newsletter, according to Cadley.

“A lot of the work last year and the year before that was conceptually setting the framework of what we wanted to do,” Cadley said.

The Senate received input and support from Golia, Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman and members of the Senate’s Executive Board.

Although the inaugural newsletter’s material came from the OCL and Programming Board, Cadley anticipates that student groups will submit information in the future.

Senators say advertisement does not violate bylaws ADVERTISEMENT

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the inclusion of the senators’ positions is not meant to voice the position of the entire Senate.

“An individual supporting a position — one that Senate has at this point stayed silent on, or an issue where they’re in direct opposition to the position Senate has taken — as long as they’re acting as an individual, which it’s very clear that these individuals were, that presents no issue with our bylaws,” Kaytrosh, a senior, said.

Kaytrosh said that the disclaimer shows that the advertisement is not in violation of the bylaws.

“In broad strokes, it is true that before anybody can use Senate’s name or advocate especially on behalf of the Senate as a body, there has to be some sort of approval given to that project,” he said. “I think I speak for [TCU President] Tomas [Garcia], we as a body are very committed to upholding that rule. It’s something we’re serious about.”

Jimmy Zuniga, who is not a member of either SJP or FOI, was also among the students who were disturbed by the advertisement.

“While other organizations on campus don’t have really strict constitutions and are free to do this — free to write their name and their organization and not have their entire student group vote — Senate does have very strict bylaws, and they are usually pretty obsessed with following those rules, so it was shocking to me that they would abuse their power and abuse their title to try and sway the opinion of students on campus,” Zuniga, a senior, said.

Zuniga said that he found the disclaimer insufficient.

“If they really didn’t want to add the social capital of their title, they shouldn’t have attached the Senate name,” he said.

A number of students have expressed concern regarding the signatures of non-

senate members, as well.

Faragon said the ad falsely implied that the groups mentioned in it endorsed the United States’ relationship with Israel.

“By using various members of the Tufts community who they’ve deemed to be student leaders, describing what those leadership positions are in the groups, and saying it’s not actually about that — it just seems incredibly disingenuous,” Faragon said.

However, Freshman Senator Dan Katter said that the signatures did not represent official Senate positions and that the disclaimer at the bottom of the advertisement makes this clear.

“I would not have put my name on it if I thought it was against the Senate bylaws,” Katter said. “It said that the senators who signed it were senators under the name, but I think the disclaimer at the bottom should be enough to inform anyone who reads it that it’s not an official Senate position.”

Sophomore Senator Arielle Evans also said that the disclaimer shows that the signatures only represent the views of the individuals.

“When I signed this statement, there was very clearly a disclaimer on the bottom saying the view represent only mine, not the views of the Senate,” she said.

“I don’t think I compromised my integrity as a Senator ... Having there that I’m a TCU Senator doesn’t mean that Senate’s endorsing it, it just is showing my position as a campus leader.”

Evans noted the significant increase in response to the advertisement despite the fact that a similar advertisement was released last year.

“On campus especially, there have been a lot of Daily articles about the issues, so people who weren’t necessarily involved before are starting to educate themselves on the issues and becoming more involved and looking for ways to be involved,” Evans said.

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The advertisement above was originally published in the Monday, March 5 issue of the Daily.

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Jack Webster and Hannah Furgang | A Piece of Advice

Dingle city

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ear Jack and Hannah, I have a dingle. I also have the biggest room on the floor. I don’t know what to do with the space.

Suggestions?

Sincerely, Single in Dingle (and Ready to Mingle)

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The Boston Ave. Boloco location is a favorite destination for Tufts students looking to grab a quick bite.

Burrito culture finds home in Boston

by Justin

McCallum

Daily Editorial Board

Last Tuesday, the Boston Avenue Boloco location celebrated its birthday in an unconventional way — by giving each of its customers a present.

In honor of their 15th anniversary, various Boloco stores have been offering free mini- and small-sized burritos and $1 regular-sized burritos.

“We’re excited about it,” Boloco’s Director of Marketing Cait Simmons said. “We usually do one or two ‘free burrito’ days a year so we decided ‘Let’s make it a big deal.’”

Heightened enthusiasm for the Tex-Mex staple shown outside Boloco represents an emerging trend in the greater Boston area. Over recent years, the number of burrito joints in Boston has grown tremendously, and there are now 15 locations within a five-minute walk from the Downtown Crossing MBTA station, according to Urbanspoon, an online restaurant locator.

Across the country, consumption of burritos is tipping scales and busting banks. Mint, an online personal finance resource, compiled the staggering figures in its interactive report,”The Great Burrito Breakdown: How the Consumption of this Mexican Food Favorite Impacts the National Economy.” According to Mint, in 2009, the collective production value of tortillas, beans, meat, lettuce, salsa, guacamole and rice was over $127.5 billion dollars, with nearly $2 billion spent on the tortilla casings alone.

“Burrito Breakdown” also included reports on the astounding amount of salsa — 89.5 pounds per capita — consumed in the United States.

Although it’s not a national chain, the New England franchise Boloco: Inspired Burritos definitely contributes to these huge sales. With 19 locations across the Northeast, the company has grown exponentially since it was originally founded as “The Wrap” in 1997. The past year has been one of their best “growing years” to date, according to Simmons.

“We noticed the shift in dialogue and fear of heavy carb ‘wraps,’ so one day we became ‘Boloco: Inspired Burritos’ without changing a thing on our menu,”

she said. Since then, the company has undergone many marketing shifts to appeal to new audiences, especially the thousands of college students in Boston. Boloco flaunts its eco-friendly attitude with recycled cups that proudly proclaim where they originated. In addition, many menu items can be ordered on new touch screen monitors.

More important to Simmons are the various sizes they offer.

“One thing that others don’t have is variety in sizes, which I think is really important because just looking at our competitors can give me a food baby,” she said.

Boloco has also found a way to capitalize on this surge in burrito culture.

Simmons noted that, despite Boloco’s rent troubles at the Tufts location, the company at large is expanding beyond its original Boston base.

“For us, business really has been booming,” she said. “We’re actually opening new locations in Vermont and New Hampshire this year.”

Competition isn’t short for Boloco, with national and regional chains like Anna’s Taqueria, Qdoba Mexican Grill and Taco Bell encroaching on its home turf.

One restaurant that has firmly cemented its place in the stomachs of loyal customers is Chipotle Mexican Grill. Originating in Colorado, Chipotle has expanded rapidly in the Northeast, capitalizing on a market whose palate wasn’t as exposed to the Tex-Mex flavors.

“I think all across the country the burrito business just boomed,” Mike Mendez, general manager of Chipotle’s Davis Square location, said. “Everyone loves them because they’re tired of burgers.”

Mendez attributes Chipotle’s success to the steady stream of college students coming through the door.

“Students just love this food,” he said, adding that it’s an inexpensive way to eat out that’s quick and easy. In particular, he cited the menu’s innovative “burrito bowls,” which allow for a lot of food for a low price, as a contributing factor the chain’s success.

Apart from appealing to the taste buds of a younger crowd, Mendez feels that the company’s “Food With Integrity” campaign resonates with his customers. Chipotle ascribes to the organic food movement, offering local

produce and hormone-free meat.

“We really push that,” Mendez said.

Mendez is working with Boston Sports Club on promotions for his health-conscious clients, who appreciate the particularity Chipotle offers with their food, down to how the jalapenos are cut for their salsa.

“We have a really high food cost compared to our competition, but that’s not really what it’s about,” Mendez said.

Depending on what goes into a burrito, Mendez’s message of healthy tortillas can ring true. According to Jessica McGovern, a Master of Science candidate at the Friedman School of Nutrition, a typical burrito adorned with beans, rice, chicken, vegetables and salsa contains around 500 calories, or roughly one-third of the average person’s caloric intake for the day.

“Burritos can make a healthy and convenient meal if you choose wisely,” she told the Daily in an email.

“Try salsa instead of sour cream, pile on the fresh vegetables, choose whole wheat wraps and brown rice and stick to leaner meats or no meat at all.”

McGovern also commented on the new trend of burrito joints popping up around town.

“Wraps … will always be around in a city simply due to convenience,” she said.

“The trend of burrito restaurants may have something to do with an increasing interest in Mexican cuisine in Boston, although I think that it has more to do with convenience and the emphasis that a few of the bigger burrito chains place on sustainability and being green.”

McGovern went on to say that people look for businesses with similar values to their own, and that many burrito joints offer a convenient meal a customer can feel good about.

The Tex-Mex tortilla certainly has made an impact, both around the city and on campus, where Carmichael offers a build-your-own-burrito station twice a week. Sophomore Maia Plantevin, an international student for whom burritos are a novel meal, noted that the display at Boloco last week caught her eye.

“I noticed at lunch, but came back for dinner too,” she said. “For me it’s new, since when I came to the U.S. I had never had them. I’d say now burritos are a pretty regular part of my diet.”

First things first, set up a tent. Don’t have a tent? Here are some other things you can do: 1. Throw a party! Actually don’t throw a party. That would probably get you in trouble, and you would probably lose your dingle. But hey, nothing fills cold, lonely space like TUPD officers responding to a noise complaint.

2. Remember, you have a dingle. That means no roommate constantly snoring, slobbering, spilling and/or stumbling around your room at all hours of the day or night. So celebrate your alone time! Play Twister (alone). Watch a movie (alone).

Watch the TV show “Friends” (alone). Prep for the big party tonight (alone). Host hall snacks in your room (alone). Soon you’ll be back at home with your family and you’ll wish you were in your dingle.

3. Some say your body is your temple, but we say FALSE. It’s college, you treat yourself like crap anyway, so you might as well make your dingle your temple and decorate that ish until it looks like a Crate & Barrel shoot with cinderblock walls and linoleum floors, maybe a vase or two. Read up on your feng shui and reorganize your belongings until the place oozes positive energy. Joules on joules on joules of positive energy.

4. Use university furniture to decorate your room.

5. Make a mess. Now that you’ve decorated your dingle, its time to throw your stuff everywhere and not have to worry about anyone judging your cleaning habits, unless you want them to (see the next tip).

So throw your clothes on the ground, strew your books everywhere, post up on your bed and survey your kingdom.

6. Buy some incense (but don’t burn it!) and some body oil (but don’t spill it!), and invite your special someone over. You have a dingle! Don’t be afraid to use it. You might as well just discard the 41st page of Habitats.

You don’t need that anymore.

7. Trampoline.

8. Trick-turn everything and start running your own Hodgdon.

9. Bunk the beds to make more room for activities, or your now massive stash of Luna Bars.

10. Build a shrine. A big one. With lots of shiny things in it. Because Santorum is going to need a pick-me-up after last Tuesday.

11. Get a fish. An enormous fish. Invite your friends over to swim with the fish. If you’re no good at maintaining pets, make sushi. A lot of sushi.

12. If none of the previous tips cut it for you, just get the heck out. Go for a walk.

Tire your calves out on the Hill. Go away for the weekend. Go to the Loj. Hop on the next Joey and see where it takes you. Camp out on the Res Quad and grill some rats for breakfast. Just remember to lock your door and don’t forget your key.

13. And, most importantly, be sure to brag about it a lot. It’s always nice to have people be jealous of you, even if in actuality you’re pretty miserable. *To our (wizard people) dear readers: Don’t forget to let us in on your various issues. Email us with whatever is bugging you, and we’ll do our best to help you out, sorta kinda.

Jack Webster and Hannah Furgang are freshmen who have not yet declared a major.

Jack can be reached at John.Webster@ tufts.edu and Hannah can be reached at Hannah.Furgang@tufts.edu.

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3Ps perform ‘Hamletmachine’ in Balch Arena Theater Matthew Welch & Kate Griffiths

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The plays of William Shakespeare are easily some of the most culturally influential pieces of art in history. Since Shakespeare’s death, his works have been adapted, transformed and altered in myriad ways, producing a rich body of interpretations, each capturing a different facet of the Bard’s genius.

Productions have ranged from purist renditions that strive for historically correct performances to freewheeling adaptations that recast Shakespearian works in different settings and time periods.

Tonight, the Tufts 3Ps will be performing one of the most radical reinterpretations of Shakespearian drama: “Hamletmachine” (1977)

by Heiner Müller.

The play is a postmodernist drama in five acts. Director Jonny Hendrickson, a senior and drama major, chose the play after reading it in his freshman year in a drama class.

“This is the first time I have been in charge, and it was a very physical process,” he said. “I used a lot of techniques I learned from my abroad program and as an ensemble member of Double Edge Theatre, which actually started at Tufts.”

The play’s development started just five weeks ago, requiring a streamlined rehearsal process.

The 3Ps is Tufts oldest studentrun group on campus, having been founded in 1910. The Ps in question stand for Pen, Paint and Pretzel: “Pen” for the art of writing, “Paint” for the art of design and “Pretzel” for the standard snack for the audience. 3Ps puts on student-directed and -produced nonmusical plays encompassing one major production and two workshops per semester. Some involved in the organization have no formal theater experience; others are drama majors. Still, 3Ps is open to everyone who has a passion for the stage. The group’s decision to take on Müller’s play presented the group with a unique production experience.

“Hamletmachine” is one of the most subjective, challenging plays of the later 20th century. The minimalist structure of the play rests on a series of monologues delivered by Hamlet and a few other characters. With relatively few stage directions and virtually no description of what the stage should look like, “Hamletmachine” presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities for any theater group. The absence of overt guidelines for the production allowed the 3Ps to design the show from the ground up, an opportunity that set designer Cara Guappone took full advantage of. “[Jonny Hendrickson] said, ‘we don’t have a set designer,’ and I said, ‘I want to design the set. I know what it should look like.’ My catchphrase for the show was ‘postapocalyptic industrial wasteland,’ because a lot of the images evoke something desolate and destroyed.

When you picture ancient civilizations, they have ruins of temples.

This is what will be left if life were gone now,” Guappone said as she looked out at the stage, where piles of gutted computers, radios, televisions and other electronic devices were strewn about the stage.

At only nine pages in length, the script for “Hamletmachine” features relatively small amounts of speaking and formal content, requiring new levels of physical-

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Self-aware characters gave 3Ps’ actors opportunity for experimentation and personalization. ity from the performers, who must maintain their stage presence without talking, often for several minutes at a time. Guappone took this critical aspect of the play into account.

“I wanted the space to feel like a crate, and there isn’t much in the way [of actors] — so much of the piece is about the movement and the space the actors are creating, so I wanted a space that was uncomfortable. The entryways are a little

on movement. It’s like a combination of dance and theater,” he said.

With such a freeform structure to play with, the production process for “Hamletmachine” was very unique. Junior Ryan Willison, who plays Hamlet in the show, described the atmosphere of rehearsals as highly collaborative and open-minded.

“Jonny was very clear from day one that we would build it together. I would show up and we

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Actor interplay ensures that each “Hamletmachine” performance is unique.

At several points throughout the play, the actors themselves admit to playing their characters, purposefully disrupting the immersion most plays seek to foster in their audience.

“What was incredible for me was when I realized I wasn’t necessarily playing a character. I was just a vessel for these ideas and images. It freed me up to just respond to the play instead of worrying the whole time, ‘Am I playing Hamlet cor-

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blocked, but there’s still space for them to deal with open rehearsing,” she said.

Senior Scot Istvan, who oversaw stage lighting, also chose to emphasize the movement and special qualities of the actors’ performances. “[“Hamletmachine” was] a little different from what you’d normally do. Normally you worry about faces and expressions [as a lighting technician], but this is a movement piece, so there is more emphasis

would work on ten ways to say one line, or he would say the lines for me and I would move in response and we would build these physical textures, and from that, the lines would make sense. It was wild,” Willison said.

Willison found the metafictive aspects of the play particularly liberating. While most plays try to engross readers in a fictional world and suspend their disbelief, “Hamletmachine” readily acknowledges its fictional, dramatic status.

rectly?’ That [role] was something I could define differently for myself every night,” Willison said.

Cast members Hannah Wellman, a senior, and Maya Grodman, a junior, found the procedure to be taxing but rewarding at the same time.

“It was a uniwque rehearsal process. A lot of productions start with a read-through, character production and a discussion of the story,” Grodman said. “We didn’t do any of that.”

“The actors would come in and move in any way that they wanted, and, if Jonny liked something, he would say to put that in. It was an ensemble process, and we became very close as a cast and developed a strong sense of trust which is important in this kind of show,” Wellman added.

Much of this physicality was palpable during the dress rehearsal, when actors would match their body movements with the tone of particular lines of dialogue, or take subtle cues from the script or their fellow performers’ stage presence.

“We move about the space and try to fill it in different ways. Jonny is very free with what he lets us do,” Wellman said. “Sometimes we take specific lines which are important to us, sometimes you get in a dialogue with another person which develops. It’s good because you get to say lines in the play you wouldn’t have otherwise said and works as a way to get grounded in your space and mindset.”

Grodman encourages the audience to come in with an equally open mind.

“This will be something they have never seen before in a wonderful and intense way and we hope everyone will be open with what we have to say. I think people are going to see a lot of meaning and a lot of depth in what we’re doing. Because the play is so abstract different people are going to take away their own individual meanings from what we’re doing.”

“Hamletmachine” is open to a range of interpretations. Since the script itself is so short, the productions that have been put on have varied in length, set design and characterizations. Some productions have clocked in at over three hours long, whereas the version 3Ps is performing is only one hour.

The play is running March 8, 9 and 10 at 8 p.m. in Balch Arena Theater, Aidekman Arts Center. Tickets are $7 and are on sale at the box office at the Balch Arena Theater Box office.

Anyone interested can stop by or call 617-627-3493.

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Music Review

‘Sweet Sour’ seeks originality, fails Band of Skulls unable to replicate signature style by

Kate Griffiths

Daily Editorial Board

Any band that attempts a bluesy rock sound in this day and age is going to have people likening them to The White

Sweet Sour Band of Skulls Electric Blues Recording/Psycollective Stripes. With its new album, “Sweet Sour,” Band of Skulls attempts to go above and beyond those comparisons and prove that its has a sound of its own.

This is the trio’s second album and, while their sound has definitely matured, it has not changed beyond recognition as a three-year gap between albums might very well do. Songs from their first record did garner comparisons between lead singer Russell Marsden’s vocals and Jack White’s style of singing. The comparisons were fueled by the addition of Emma Richardson’s voice and her Meg White sound. Now, however, the band is clearly trying to stray from that path.

Title track and album opener “Sweet Sour” is loud, brash and indicative of the energy contained in the album. The accompanying music video depicts four children acting generally like nuisances.

While a deeper reading could provide

a better understanding of the video, a superficial interpretation suggests this is the kind of music that makes a perfect soundtrack for being a menace.

The second track, “Bruises,” starts off sounding eerily similar to Kings of Leon but progresses into a heavier sound.

Richardson’s vocals keep the song’s similar chord progression from sounding too much like Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire.”

The album really picks up and perhaps reaches its peak with “Wanderluster.”

Easily the best song on the album, “Wanderluster” starts slowly with a repetitive and catchy guitar riff that slides in and out of the listener’s consciousness before building up to a drum-laden chorus. The music is excellent, but the lyrics lack substance as Richardson croons, “What you forgot / I still remember / Far far away / Not long ago.” This is not exactly the poetic elegance of Led Zeppelin or the wacky storytelling of The White Stripes, but it does give Richardson something to sing about.

“Devil Takes Care Of His Own,” however, is a song that would fail without its chorus. Still, the entire song seems to lack something that even the high energy of the guitar and Matt Hayward’s enthusiastic drumming can’t satisfy. Band of Skulls tries its hand at the slower, more melodic tunes in “Lay My Head Down,” which doesn’t quite live up to its potential. Richardson has a soothing enough voice for such a venture, but the band

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The recording studio fails to capture the energy of Band of Skulls’ performances. works more successfully as a cohesive unit when each is playing his own instrument with the brash mentality that must have spawned “Sweet Sour.”

Thankfully, the next track is exactly the opposite. “You Aren’t Pretty But You Got It Going On” is quick and dirty right see SKULLS, page 8

Top Ten Snooki Baby-Daddies The news of Snooki’s pregnancy is a blunt reminder of the dangers of unprotected jacuzzi sex. Here at the Daily office, we couldn’t help but imagine a better father than the guido gorilla known as Jionni.

10) Hugh Hefner: He might have had three girlfriends at once, but trust us, Snooki would be more work.

9) The Vlasic Stork: It’s perfect. Snooki loves pickles, and he could just drop the baby off at her doorstep so she can guilt-

lessly drink her way through pregnancy.

8) Rasputin: Bartok would be a fantastic godfather.

7) The Situation: The baby would be 100 percent Jersey. God help it.

6) Lars von Trier: Both are great artists; that baby would have some talent.

5) George Hamilton: The child would be an unsettling shade of orange ... Mmm, crispy.

4) Guy Fieri: Think of the sorts of baby food Fieri would feed lil’ Snook. We’re talking deep-fried butter and bacon-

wrapped Oreos. Take that, Gerber Peas!

3) Rick Santorum: Because he wouldn’t dare let her abort it.

2) James Gandolfini and Justin Bieber: Just in case Bieber may not be enough man for the Snook. Luckily, Gandolfini’s back hair more than makes up for Beebs’ lack of facial hair.

1) Bob Saget: Together they would have a FULL HOUSE. —compiled by the Daily Arts Department

Restaurant Review

True Grounds succeeds with great coffee, friendly staff

by Ingrid

Hagele

Contributing Writer

Are you sick of studying at Tisch Library between countless bookshelves and under grim neon lights? Do you want to avoid

True Grounds Coffee House 717 Broadway, Ball Square Somerville, MA 02155 617-591-9559 Price Range: Under $10 being seen at the campus center and making contact with people you don’t like? Do you need to get out of your room? If you want to escape campus life for a little while, check out True Grounds Coffee House.

This charming little cafe is situated in Ball Square, just 10 minutes from campus.

Entering the cafe, any visitor can smell the freshly brewed coffee, hear the gentle groove of jazz music and decide whether to sit at the little tables or lounge on the couches in the back of the room. True Grounds is as cozy as a private living room and visitors feel as though they are at home in the welcoming atmosphere.

It can be crowded during the afternoon, but there are plenty of small tables in the cafe so it is relatively easy to find a free spot.

In the process of finding a seat, visitors will meet a variety of people here. After all, coffee shops are notorious for being places where nobody speaks, everybody is occupied with a laptop and social interaction is rarely the top priority. True Grounds rejects this stereotype, and seems to be a nice place to hang out and meet other people.

A lot of customers sit and work there, several read books and sometimes one can find a group of people playing card games.

It is like an oasis from the busy life on campus where students have to hurry from one place to another. Having coffee here allows anyone to forget the rhythm of daily life. It doesn’t hurt that the coffee is some of the best in the area, too.

The prices are hardly higher than those at the campus center’s cafes and cheaper than most coffee chains in the area, making True Grounds a good deal. Try a medium chai latte for $3, take a seat at the window front and enjoy just watching the people passing by. Even the cups seem to come right out of one’s own kitchen shelf, emphasizing the cozy familiarity that permeates the restaurant.

True Grounds also makes a good study spot because there are outlets around the room to charge your laptop, although the tables are a bit too small to offer space for more than two people studying. It is worth mentioning that wireless internet is not free see TRUE, page 8

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Beans, beans, beans

’m pleased to announce that two major developments have happened in the past few weeks, both of which I feel the need to mention to my readers.

Development One: It snowed. Yes, after weeks (no, who am I kidding, months!) of 50-degree weather and incessant talk about global warming and the end of the world, Tufts saw snow: wet, slushy, gross snow that laced our lawns and sidewalks for a couple of days. Don’t get me wrong, I love the snow — I mean, jeez, considering this past winter it was almost a welcomed novelty — but after the first … oh, I don’t know, half-hour, I was already sick of it. I dreaded walking up the hill to Olin because, forgetting about the muddied boots, the soaking wet coat and the frozen, ashy hands, all I wanted to do was stay in my pajamas with a hot cup of coffee and watch movies. It’s what the snow does: it makes me cozy and lazy all at once.

Development Two (the more important one): I have become vegetarian. No, it’s not a matter of ethics or that I, in a state of madness, sold my soul to PETA. The reason is Lent.

I come from a fairly devout Catholic family. To put it into perspective, one grandmother used to go to Mass almost every day and the other is a Eucharistic minister that has attended Saturday evening Mass for as long as I can remember. So, in the spirit of Lent, the sacrificial period of the Christian calendar we currently find ourselves in, I usually put myself up to big challenges. One year I gave up Facebook (which, let me just say, was horrible, because my birthday happens to fall during Lent. Imagine opening up Facebook after Easter and seeing over 200 notifications … oops). Another year it was junk food, forcing me to say goodbye for 40 days to favorites like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Cheez Doodles.

This year, no more chicken, no more beef: Meat has been eliminated from my diet.

At first I was really nervous and apprehensive about this decision. Would I really be able to last without a chicken cutlet or spaghetti and meatballs for 40 days? And what the heck was I going to replace these proteins with?

Nuts? Eggs? Tofu? Gag me.

But then I actually took a look at my overcrowded pantry shelves and noticed one ingredient that’s not only a good source of protein, but something I can’t seem to get enough of: beans!

On Saturday night, given the poor weather, my best friend Sasha and I embarked on a vegetarian chili recipe that is incredibly easy and, after two bowls, becomes the perfect winter warmer.

“Hamletmachine” at Balch Arena Theater: 3Ps spring major, a post-modern hour-long play will be performed on March 8, 9 and 10. Tickets are $7 and can be purchased at the Aidekman Box Office or by calling (617) 627-3493.

MLK Morehouse Glee Club Concert: This glee club is famous worldwide and will be performing classic gospel numbers to raise scholarship funds for Boston area high school students The performance will be held at Old South Church in Boston on Friday, March 9, at 7 p.m.

“Hamlet the Hip-Hopera” at Hotung: The notorious “hip-hopera” returns for a longer and more rap-filled performance on Friday, March 9. Doors to Hotung open at 11:15 p.m. and admission is free.

J-Way at the MFA: Created by graduates of Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, J-Way is one of Boston’s most interesting musical acts. Come watch them perform their unique blend of classical, jazz and world music in Gallery 168 at the Museum of Fine Arts. They will perform tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. No tickets are required.

Ingredients: 1 tbsp. vegetable oil Half of an onion, diced ½ cup of diced yellow bell pepper, and ½ cup of diced green bell pepper Note: most supermarkets sell bags of bell pepper strips in the frozen-foods section … easier and less expensive! ½ tbsp. of garlic, minced 1 tbsp. brown sugar 2 tbsp. chili powder 1 tsp. ground cumin 1 tsp. oregano 2 cans of stewed tomatoes 2 cans of black beans, drained and rinsed 1 can of kidney beans, drained and rinsed 1 can of pinto beans, drained and rinsed Salt and pepper to taste

­—compiled by the Daily Arts Department

Niki Krieg is a senior who is majoring in Italian studies and history. She can be reached at Nicole.Krieg@tufts.edu.

Heat the oil in a saucepan on medium-high and, once hot, add the onion, peppers and garlic and sauté until the onion is goldenbrown. Add the brown sugar and remaining ingredients. Cover the pot, reduce the heat, and let simmer for a half-hour.

Serve while hot and preferably with cheddar cheese.

It’s easy, satisfying and meat-free: a perfect trifecta.

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from the beginning. The guitar in this song seems to be following the same route as The Black Keys, a group that Band of Skulls recently supported on tour. Unlike The Black Keys, however, Band of Skulls has yet to perfect the gritty bluesy style it seems to be striving for so intensely.

“Navigate” is another attempt at a slower song. Unfortunately, it would probably be far more enjoyable out of the context of this album. Songs like this only seem to hold up the more gratifying bluesy, heavier tunes within the flow of the album. The static nature of the guitar and drums in “Navigate” and the repetitive refrain, “Oh we’re drifting out to sea / Into deep water,” hold a promise of a build-up to something that never comes, leaving only a desire to listen once more to the better songs on the album.

For anyone discovering Band of Skulls for the first time, a good listen to their first album “Baby Darling Doll Face Honey” (2009) is recommended before giving “Sweet Sour” a try. Band of Skulls seems like the sort of band who would put on a really vigorous live show, but some of that energy gets lost through the clean-cut nature of studio recording. The group’s sound relies on the static and distortion that comes across best through huge speakers, not iPod headphones.

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at True Grounds; you can purchase it for $5 for three hours or $8 for the day. While this might count as a big disadvantage for some visitors, True Grounds’ lack of free Wi-Fi helps makes it a break from the dayto-day grind with which so many Jumbos are familiar.

True Grounds is a refuge from reality and gives any visitor time to read a book or talk to a friend without being distracted.

However, the volume is low enough to study comfortably, even on crowded days.

The background music is a good mix of jazz and lounge genres.

If a customer gets hungry, he will benefit from True Grounds’ variety of baked goods like muffins, scones or different types of bagels. The muffins are delicious and will cheer customers up even on bad days.

They also offer breakfast and a huge variety of salads, wraps and sandwiches, all priced between $7 and $9.

In short, True Grounds is a small, cozy cafe that makes any customer feel at home.

The coffee is a welcome change, as is the food. The staff is friendly and contributes greatly to the chummy, welcoming atmosphere of the space. True Grounds is the perfect place for a study break, or to relax and forget campus life for a bit. And you can always be back in 10 minutes if you decide not to stay forever.

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The Artsy Jumbo

Stephanie Phoutrides approaches social issues through filmmaker’s lens After dodging both trains and police arrest, senior Stephanie Phoutrides can proudly say that filming for her International Literary and Visual Studies (ILVS) senior project is thoroughly under way (and that filming on MBTA train tracks is not the best idea).

Phoutrides finished writing the film in the fall, cast its actors last month and is excited by the film’s progress.

“I have a great crew and an amazing cast. It makes the project so much more enjoyable,” she said.

Making an entire film was not mandatory for Stephanie’s minor, but she was still excited by the creative opportunity. The result? A presently untitled short film concerning a young woman who must choose between a college education and a job.

Phoutrides has long had an interest in film, though her subjects of interest have changed over time. After her childhood dabblings in short films like “Tears for Pearl,” a drama about a model who is replaced by her stunt double, Stephanie realized her potential for more serious filmmaking while making a documentary for her high school’s Greek dance troupe. With her Film Studies minor through the Communications and Media Studies program, Phoutrides intends to move

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to Los Angeles after graduation, ideally to pursue a career in directing.

A true Jumbo, Phoutrides isn’t going into film for the glitz and glamor. Indeed, one of her idols is highly acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair, who was responsible for “Monsoon Wedding” (2001).

“I saw her speak once and I was really inspired by her,” Phoutrides said.

“She takes her work very seriously and sees it as a tool for change. That’s where I ideally see myself one day.

In her free time, Phoutrides enjoys watching a self-proclaimed “bizarre range of films,” with titles ranging from “The Pink Panther” (1963) to ‘80s comedies.

—by Melissa MacEwen

Thursday, March 8, 2012

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editorial

Remaining objective about Invisible Children On Tuesday evening, Facebook news feeds were suddenly set ablaze with the phrase “Kony 2012.” Students across the country changed their profile pictures to a red box with the words “Kony 2012” and “The Worst” or “Stop at Nothing” emblazoned in bold black letters. A halfhour documentary-style film encouraging viewers to “Make Kony famous” were posted to Facebook walls, and thousands of “Kony 2012 Cover the Night” Facebook events were created, with millions of people listed as attending the campaigns.

Within a few hours, “Kony 2012” took the Facebook generation by storm.

The film pulls at the heartstrings of its intended audience: American middle school, high school and college students.

It explains that Joseph Kony, an internationally recognized war criminal, has led the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda and surrounding Central African countries on a 26-year long tirade of abduction, murder and rape of innocent natives, primarily children. The film is the 11th on the same subject produced by the non-profit organization Invisible Children, which aims to end Kony’s and his army’s violent operations by publicizing it to the American public through film and online campaigns.

Invisible Children has been successful in achieving their goals. They’ve lobbied congress and President Obama to deploy American military aid on the ground in Uganda, and have triumphed in their goal of making Kony an infamous household name.

But they’ve also been intensely scru-

tinized for years. Scholars who study the lengthy war in Central Africa have claimed that the organization has perpetuated violence by supporting the Ugandan government in getting rid of Kony. But the Ugandan military has been accused of committing the very same atrocities of murder and sexual trafficking that Invisible Children works to end.

Researchers also claim that the LRA has not operated in Uganda since 2006, and that President Obama’s decision to send representatives from the American military has paradoxically caused an uptick in the violent conflict there. According to sources that have spent time in the region, Ugandans themselves, who live in fear of President Yoweri Museveni’s despotic regime, have charged Invisible Children with being more of a threat to public safety currently than the LRA itself. While these accusations could be brought into question, the fact that such inquiries must be made at all proves that we are jumping into this issue blindly and far too quickly.

The organization’s financial records lead to even more questions about its true intentions. In 2011, the organization only spent $2,810,681 of its $8,894,632 total budget on direct services to stop the LRA, a mere 31.6 percent. They used nearly as much on themselves, spending a combined total of $2,799,266 on employee salaries and travel costs. They spent another $1,209,162 producing the 11 films aimed at indoctrinating American youth with their interventionist ideology. Their suspicious financial records have prompted some critics to accuse the “Kony 2012”

campaign of being predominantly motivated by a desire for revenue. Such records, combined with the organization’s refusal of an independent audit, has led to just a 2-of-4 rating on Charity Navigator, a wellknown nonprofit rater.

At Tufts, we advocate for solutions to the world’s problems. We fight for an end to violence, and for peace to take its place.

We are committed to intellectual honesty thorough research, and should not accept what we hear at face value. We are skeptics, and we search to understand all facets of stories that seem implausible.

Tufts students always think for themselves. We should not log on to our Facebook accounts and immediately post a status or video with emotional appeal without looking into what we are doing.

We should not insist that our friends allocate their time and money to an organization that wastes those resources. We should be ashamed of these actions, and should not buy into the hype of an emotional ploy until we are certain it will improve the reality of a situation.

We at The Tufts Daily do not encourage students to perpetuate the “Kony 2012” campaign of Invisible Children.

The “Cover the Night” event will not help children in Central Africa escape the violence of their governments and the LRA; it is a waste of time, money and energy.

Instead, students should work to find a plausible solution, perhaps through diplomacy, to an extremely complex and long conflict. Tufts students deserve more intellectual integrity than Invisible Children offers them.

American Student Assistance, a Bostonbased non-profit, to launch the new webbased SALT Financial Literacy program.

The SALT website offers tools for students to track their loans, their repayment schedules and their accrued interest. Since paying the bills can be something that often slips students’ minds, they can sign up to receive email reminders when their loan payments are due. If students begin to have trouble with their loans, ASA staff will answer questions about loan deferral or refinancing options. Students can take brief online seminars on topics like budgeting, credit card management and identity protection.

SALT is free and students can use the program as little or as much as they want. But since Tufts funds the program, students are only able to sign up while they are students here. Tufts students should have received

emails last week issuing them personal links to sign up for the SALT program for free. If students think that they may want to use the program, they should sign up today. And if they need help signing up, they should stop by the Campus Center today between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. The Financial Aid Office will provide coffee, cookies and hot chocolate to snack on while students sign-up on provided computers.

The world of finances after graduation doesn’t have to be scary. With a little bit of thought and preparation right now, students can face their post-graduation years in a smart way. Think about it. Talk about it.

The dialogue has to start here.

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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor,

We are proud that Tufts is a place for vibrant student dialogue on a wide range of social and political issues, but there seems to be a lack of talk among students on one of the most important aspects in the lives of the students: personal finances. Although it doesn’t seem popular to talk about finances at Tufts, it is a topic that is relevant for almost all Jumbos, who leave the Hill with an average education debt of $16,454. The average undergraduate will spend 10 years paying nearly $190 a month to pay off these loans — which has a huge impact on career and life opportunities.

While college debt can be frightening, the good news is that Tufts students don’t have to go down this road unprepared. The Tufts Financial Aid Office has teamed up with

Sincerely, Mark Rafferty Tufts Financial Aid Office

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Op-Ed

Back on track: how to start a serious conversation about the T

by John

Peter Kaytrosh Rau

and Seth

The op-ed published by The Tufts Daily on Mar 5., written by Kristen Johnson, (LA ‘12), is rife with inaccuracy and ill-thoughtout reasoning. While it is true that the MBTA’s early closing hours do mean that public transit is inaccessible after 1 a.m., the op-ed fails to supply any evidence that this is connected to a desire on the part of state or local government to police lowincome residents. Indeed, a far more logical explanation is the one that Ms. Johnson dismisses: fiscal priorities.

Simply put, the MBTA does not have the money to run latenight service. (In reality, the MBTA does not have the money to run any service, but that is an issue for another op-ed.)

Ms. Johnson does not suggest where it might come from, or whether or not such service is worth providing. For reference, the MBTA offered night-owl bus service from 2001 to 2005, where buses traversed the subway routes above-ground. The cost of providing such service came to nearly $8 for each passenger’s ride. Providing either this service or any type of rail service would require extensive — and expensive — renegotiations of union contracts, among other costs.

Moreover, nighttime rail service is nearly physically impossible. There are exactly four urban rail systems in America that provide 24-hour service: New York City, Chicago (on two lines only), the PATH system which runs from New Jersey into Manhattan, and the PATCO system crossing the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden. New York City, by far the most prominent example of a 24-hour system, is able to run all night because nearly every route has two tracks in each direction — one local and one express. The MBTA possesses no similar infrastructure, except for a very short segment on the northern end of the Orange Line. While New York can perform maintenance on one set of tracks while running service on another, the T has no such recourse, and must therefore stop revenue service at night.

The op-ed piece continues, “Although the T dictates its

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transportation policies based on its financial capacity, much of the resistance to late-night hours can be summarized in the sentiment ‘crime rides the rail.’” The author provides no factual support for this statement. Despite citing the MBTA’s stated reason for not providing late-night service, we never learn why this explanation is illogical in light of the T’s crushing debt, and why a desire to police minorities is instead the culprit.

The author goes on to discuss other ways in which the MBTA’s infrastructure supposedly discriminates against poor Bostonians, beginning by comparing the Red Line stations downtown with Orange Line stations in Roxbury. Firstly, the Orange Line also goes downtown. Ms. Johnson describes the “dark floors and brown wood panels” as somehow distinguished from stations on other lines. Yes, it is true that the Orange Line’s stations on its southern end look different

from those on its northern end, or, for that matter, any others in the system. This has everything to do, however, with the method of construction of the Orange Line as well as the time in which these stations were built (1987).

Structural similarities are apparent in most stations built in a particular time with a particular construction method, and the op-ed fails to tell readers what is so sinister about “dark floors and brown wood panels.”

Furthermore, the MBTA also runs the Blue Line, which services three stations downtown, one little-used station at Logan Airport, as well as serving East Boston and Revere — two areas at least as poor as, or poorer than those served by the Orange Line. And yet, the Blue Line is one of the most modern in the system. The MBTA recently completed a costly renovation project to redo nearly every station on the line, install more modern rail infrastructure and buy a new fleet of cars. To add another

example, the T is in the process of renovating a little-used commuter rail line that runs entirely through Boston’s under-served Dorchester and Hyde Park neighborhoods; these improvements will add both stations and trains to the line in the hopes of attracting more riders and giving innercity residents another option to commute within Boston.

Ms. Johnson continues by noting the “small, precarious trolley to Mattapan” as evidence of racial disparity and privilege on the T. In reality, Mattapan residents have something few other Bostonians have: a vintage trolley. Boston once had many trolleys like the Ashmont-Mattapan one, but the MBTA’s predecessors ripped them all out in favor of (generally inferior) bus service.

Doubtless, better transit service is necessary, particularly for under-served communities in Boston. It is even reasonable to say that any decision the MBTA makes has a disproportionate impact on low-income popula-

tions, given the demographics of its ridership. However, in implying that the MBTA engages in active discrimination through its decisions about service, the op-ed published in the Daily ventures too close to conspiracy theory. Certainly, neighborhoods in Boston have felt the pain of lack of service — the end of E line service from Heath Street to Forest Hills comes to mind, as well as the demolition of the Washington Street Elevated Railway in favor of the Silver Line. Surely the author of Monday’s op-ed could have focused on these tangible questions of urban policy, instead of advocating for fiscal impossibilities by casting aspersions on MBTA leadership with no evidence to back it up.

John Peter Kaytrosh is a senior majoring in Judaic studies and political science. Seth Rau is a senior majoring in international relations and political science.

Khader Adnan and the Islamic Jihad

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Ariella Charny

Last week, Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held “Israeli Apartheid Week” on campus. SJP held a one day hunger strike in solidarity with 33-yearold Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan and other Palestinian prisoners on Thursday, Mar. 1.

Khader Adnan has been arrested nine times: seven times

by Israeli Authorities and twice

by Palestinian Authorities. His most recent arrest took place on Dec. 17, 2011. In protest of his detention by the Israeli Army, Adnan began a hunger strike which lasted 66 days, gaining the attention and sympathy of media outlets worldwide.

On Feb. 21, 2012, The Israeli Ministry of Justice announced

an early release for Adnan.

According to international law, the holding of person by a state without trial is legal under strict conditions. For example, Article 4 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights permits procedures such as administrative detention during emergencies that threaten civilian populations.

That said, I agree that the debate about and critique of international administrative detention policies as they pertain to Khader Adnan is important and valid.

On the other hand, here there should be no debate: Adnan is not a hero. Tufts SJP either minimizes or ignores Adnan’s role as spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an organization that has been classified by the United

States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, Canada and Australia as a terrorist organization. The aim of the group is to destroy Israel and to replace it with an Islamic State.

The group is responsible for the murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians in dozens of suicide bombings in shopping malls, cafés and buses throughout Israel cities. An offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and inspired by the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the group now operates mainly from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, posing both a political and military challenge to the governments of Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and Israel.

Khader may not have pulled the trigger himself, but as the spokesperson for the Islamic Jihad, Khader Adnan’s job was

to incite terror and violence against Israelis. In 2007, during the funeral of one of the senior commanders of the Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, Khader Adnan exclaimed to his audience: “Who among you is the next Hasan Abu Zeid [suicide bomber who murdered five Israeli civilians in Hadera in October 2005]? Who among you is the next suicide bomber? ...Who among you will fire the next bullets? Who among you will have his body parts blown all over?”

And yet, Khader Adnan is referred to as “the Palestinian Ghandi,” and SJP claims that their event in solidarity with Adnan was “in the spirit of love and non-violent resistance.”

Mohandas Gandhi selflessly dedicated his life to non-violent

political action; Adnan dedicated his time to the Islamic Jihad, the bastion of brutal militancy and fierce intolerance a remorseless group that deliberately murders civilians.

Here at Tufts, no matter where you stand on the political spectrum, however you chose to criticize administrative procedures, there is no mistaking the character of the Islamic Jihad. There is no moving forward for either side as long as Khader Adnan is praised as a hero, as long as Israel’s partners in the peace process advocate for a state replacing Israel, not next to it.

Ariella Charny is a senior majoring in international relations and economics.

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championships. She has been named an All-American at all six of those competitions and will look to make it seven of seven this weekend in the triple jump. Her distance of 39-1 1/4 on Feb. 24 at the Open New England Championships earned her the ninth seed for the event.

Theiss is the other senior competing for the Jumbos at Nationals. She is seeded 11th in the pole vault after clearing a personal record height of 12-0 1/2 at the Open New Englands. This is her third trip to Nationals, and she has her goals set especially high for this weekend.

“I’m very excited for Nationals this time around. The nerves won’t be a problem, as I’ve been here before,” Theiss said. “I’ve been jumping better as the season has gone on, and I definitely have momentum going into this weekend. My goal is to finish in the top eight and be an All-American, and I feel that this is the time for me to do it.”

Allen, who has been the Jumbos’ leading point-getter all season, rounds out the foursome. She will compete in two events, the weight throw and the shot put, which will be a new experience for her; at her previous two national meets, Allen competed in the discus. Allen is ranked ninth in the weight throw with a school record-setting toss of 57-4 3/4 at the Div. III New Englands on Feb. 17.

In the shot put, Allen was able to sneak in as the 15th-ranked athlete with her throw of 43-3 3/4 last weekend at ECAC Championships. That distance put her in a two-way tie for 15th in the nation. Allen went on to win the tiebreaker with a heave of 42-11 1/2 that beat out her opponent’s next-best throw.

While all four women have been to Nationals before, none of them have taken home a title. Jones came the closest, earning a runner-up finish in the 2010 indoor triple jump.

NCAA.com will provide links to live results of the meet tomorrow and Saturday.

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petition definitely boosts my confidence,” Marvel said.

Also taking to the track for Tufts on Friday is the Distance Medley Relay (DMR) squad, featuring McShane in the 1,200-meter leg, Beutler in the 400, Rose in the 800 and Rand in the 1,600 at 8:05 p.m. Tufts’ time of 10:01.64 (converted from 9:58.64) from the ECAC Championships last Friday was the last of the 10 times to earn a bid. The qualifying foursome of McShane, Beutler, Marvel and Rose will be shuffled to include Rand, and Marvel will only compete in the 800-meter this weekend.

“We had to shift some guys around in the DMR, but I think they can do some real damage in the meet and I think they can be a top finisher,” Marvel said.

Rand, a veteran at the national level, has earned two All-American honors, one in cross country this fall and one in the 10,000meter run last outdoor season. Friday will mark McShane’s and Beutler’s premiers at the national level.

Yancy and Ajayi will represent Tufts in the field events this weekend, and both are first-timers on the national scene. At 6:00 p.m. on Friday, Yancy will compete in the weight throw; he enters the event ranked 11th after his launch of 61-4 1/4 at the ECAC Championships last Saturday. The event begins with two flights, from which the top nine competitors will earn spots in the finals.

Ajayi will represent the Jumbos on Saturday in the triple jump, beginning at 11:00 a.m. Ajayi’s leap of 47-5 3/4 at Open New Englands ranks 12th among the 13-man field. Like the weight throw, the triple jump kicks off with two flights and the top nine jumpers advance to the finals.

“I am not expecting much; I am just looking to go out there, compete and see what happens,” Ajayi said of his first national experience. “I would like to jump at least as well as I jumped to get to Nationals, hopefully better, but I have no particular goals place-wise. I don’t want to put that pressure on myself.”

Ajayi will not be the only one trying to shake off some nerves this weekend.

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Junior Jeff Marvel will compete in the 800-meter race at Nationals this weekend looking to improve on his 12th-place finish in the event last year. nation. But we need to realize that we are the best guys in the nation too,” Ajayi said.

The seven athletes will look to carry the momentum from their strong qualifying performances over the last two weeks into the national meet.

“We’re all pretty confident and feeling good,” Marvel said. “Last year it was just me and Connor that traveled, and this year it’s seven guys traveling so it definitely will

help the energy and motivation to have a bunch of your teammates along with you competing.”

“We are very excited and we think that any or all of us can do very well at Nationals,” Ajayi added. “I’m excited to see what we can all do and excited to see what the girls can do.

We’re sending four very good girls, so it can be a very good weekend for Tufts track as a whole.”

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Sophomore attackman Gabby Horner was tied for second on the team with 37 goals last season.

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tice time in the last two weeks. The team will also rely on junior Tess Shapanka for the majority of the goaltending duties, after starter Sara Bloom (A ’11) graduated last year.

With all the changes involving the team’s roster and strategy, the freshmen might be expected to struggle to adjust to their new team. However, on a squad that has eight freshmen on a roster of just 25 players, the

first-years have already begun to assimilate into the style of play required at the college level.

“Our class has eight [players], and so do they, so it’s interesting to look back and see how we must’ve been,” Lotz said. “I think they all have really great skill and they’re all starting to adjust to playing in college.”

Once the team masters the new defensive system and adjusts to offensive roster changes, Tufts will likely be able to compete

with anyone in the league. The team’s first test will be an unknown Hamilton squad, on Saturday at Bello Field.

“We definitely want an NCAA bid and want to be competitive in NESCAC like we have been for the last three years,” Pillemer said. “Last year lost we lost five one-goal games, so we want to be on the winning end of some of those games this year. If we do that, there’s no reason why we can’t achieve our goals.”

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how we fill in the rest.”

Stability on the bump The pitching staff is led by seasoned performers, though there are some question marks behind them. Seniors Kevin Gilchrist and Dave Ryan headline one of the NESCAC’s deepest staffs, a unit that ranked sixth nationally last season in ERA and ninth in hits allowed per nine innings. The pair combined for a 13-3 record in 2011, striking out 63 batters against 42 walks in 117 innings.

“We both had pretty good seasons last year, so we’re going to try to keep going with that,” Gilchrist said. “All year long, we’ve been trying to introduce the freshmen to the system and how everything works, get the sophomores to step up and be leaders themselves, because the sophomores usually spend a lot more time with the freshmen. Just been trying to do everything the right way.”

As for the young pitchers, sophomore Christian Sbily (1-1, 2.08 ERA, 30.1 IP) will likely be the Jumbos’ third starter, while classmate Dean Lambert and junior Alex Cronkite — who was Bernstein’s primary setup man last season — could see a heavy workload out of the pen.

“The younger guys have been, for the most part, watching and learning, getting spot appearances here and there,” Gilchrist

said. “I’d say this year, more than last anyway, there are a lot of opportunities for guys to make statements.”

Casey downplayed the notion that he’s figured out definitive roles, even with the season-opener just over a week away.

“We don’t stick guys in spots,” Casey said.

“We’re just trying to win games. When push comes to shove, we’ll have to see how it all shakes out.”

in life.”

As far as the actual 100 innings go, Gilchrist referred to it as “controlled chaos.” The Jumbos rotate positions every inning, and players — pitchers and fielders alike — take one-swing at-bats off the pitching machine.

“We’re down there for a while, it’s a fun atmosphere, no one’s taking it too seriously obviously,” Gilchrist said. “But it’s good to be down there for a good cause.”

Hitting the century mark On Feb. 1, the Jumbos gathered in the cage, as they tend to do every Wednesday night once the second semester begins. This time, they played 100 innings.

The tradition began as a method to raise money for Tufts’ annual spring break trip. At some point along the way, the Jumbos began donating a portion of the proceeds raised to the Jimmy Fund. When assistant Kevin Burr passed away in 2007, Tufts donated a portion to a college fund for Burr’s son, who is currently at UMass Dartmouth. Now, they split proceeds between the college fund and a fund for the Adrian Misic Foundation, named after a young boy whom the team adopted through the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation.

Adrian lost his fight with brain cancer on Sept. 21, 2010, at age eight.

“Some of it is we want to teach our kids that they’re fortunate in that they get to play,” Casey said. “There are more important things

Notes According to Casey, a freshman will likely start at catcher for the Jumbos this season.

Senior co-captain Matt Collins, second on the team last season with a .343 average, three home runs and 11 doubles, underwent Tommy John surgery during the offseason.

However, the reigning NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year is expected to see at-bats during the spring break trip. Backup Nick Cutsumpsas, who started 11 games in 2011, suffered a torn ACL during the offseason.

The Jumbos, who received 38 votes in the latest D3baseball.com national poll, will open their season on March 16 at Lynchburg as part of a 10-day, 12-game trip to Virginia and North Carolina. On March 23, Tufts will visit No. 3 Christopher Newport.

Casey also has a new face on his coaching staff — Paul Chiampa, a 2011 Bates graduate who ranks second on the Bobcats’ all-time strikeouts list.

Ultimate Frisbee

E-men number one in national rankings The men’s frisbee team, the Tufts E-men, this year boasts an impressive squad that has caught the nation’s attention. Tufts currently sits atop the USA Ultimate College Series Rankings, holding onto first place yesterday when the rankings were updated.

The team has a 7-1 record and won the Queen City Tune Up tournament on Feb. 11-12. That tourney included a number of tough opponents, including four other top-15 teams — North Carolina-Wilmington, Ohio, Penn State and Dartmouth. The E-men’s one loss came at the hands of North CarolinaWilmington, a team Tufts bounced back to defeat in the finals. North Carolina-Wilmington

is sixth in the rankings among 272 schools.

Over spring break, the E-men will have a chance to defend their top ranking at a tournament in Austin, Texas.

Ewo tested out West On the women’s side, the spring season is just getting underway. The Ewo ‘A’ team traveled to Palo Alto, Calif., last weekend to compete in the 2012 Stanford Invite for their first matches of the year. Though the team returned to Massachusetts with a losing record of 2-5, they secured impressive wins against two strong teams in Carleton College and Pittsburgh, and their losses came at the hands

of some of the best teams in the country.

Tufts was defeated by Washington — the number one women’s team in yesterday’s rankings and the tournament winner — as well as UCLA and British Columbia, two schools that rank in the top 10. Its other losses came to top20 teams UC Santa Barbara and Stanford. Tufts’ performance earned them the 21st-place USA Ultimate ranking among 162 teams.

The squad will next compete over spring break at the College Southerns, a tournament hosted by Georgia Southern University.

—by Lauren Flament

Dance with the (Blue) Devils

very diehard sports fan has a bucket list. While it differs for various individuals, there are a few staples that should be universal among them. One of these has to be a trip to Cameron Indoor Stadium to witness a Duke vs. UNC basketball game, arguably the most intense rivalry in college basketball.

Now, I must confess, I hate Duke.

Between the players and the way they carry themselves, Duke basketball is perhaps the most polarizing college sports team in the country. You either despise them fervently, or you steadfastly support them and believe the sun rises in the morning because of Coach K. There is no in-between, because there are two types of Duke fans: the alumni whose sense of pride borders on extreme arrogance and fans of the program with no familial ties to the school who one day chose to blatantly become one of those arrogant fans. Quite simply, if you’re not with them, you’re against them, and Coach K’s infallible morality is the shield that Blue Devils hide behind.

I say all of this as a preface because I was fortunate enough to be invited to this past weekend’s matchup and, being a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to check off an item on the bucket list, I graciously accepted.

The much-anticipated rematch of Duke’s Feb. 8 victory, in which Austin Rivers hit a buzzer beating threepointer to overcome a 10 point deficit in the final two and a half minutes, unfortunately did not live up to its billing. Apart from watching a handful of potential future NBA All-Stars play, the game itself was not overly exciting.

But as the game became one-sided and UNC entered halftime with a 48-24 lead, I realized I was not there to watch a basketball game, but rather to be a part of the Duke basketball experience.

For those unfamiliar with the layout of Cameron Indoor, the lower half of the tier across from the team benches and behind the baskets is the student section. The sections contain a dozen or so rows of bleachers and a wooden panel that acts as a partition to the upper half. Unlike many arenas or athletic venues in any collegiate sport, the students are given the seats closest to the floor and the alumni and booster seats are further up in the stands.

Upon entering the stadium, I felt as if I were being transported back to my teenage years, as the unassuming glass trophy cases and the carpeted hallways and staircases reeked of the staleness of a high school gym. I found my seat in the third to last row across from the student section. But in a stadium that seats just over 9,000, I was still practically on top of the court. And even though I arrived 30 minutes early, I was clearly late, as the legendary “Cameron Crazies” were already in prime form, jumping up and down and chanting eerily in unison.

Maybe it was just the fact that this is one of the biggest rivalries in all of sports, but the Duke fans did not let up for a single minute the entire night, even as Duke fell 88-70. Their immunity to the effect of home-team-islosing-so-arena-goes-silent syndrome amazed me. The intimacy and the antique feel of Cameron truly makes it a special place, especially in an era of oversized high-definition scoreboards and peripheral entertainment acts that inhabit modern-day sporting events.

What I took away from my trip to Durham was an appreciation for Duke’s fans and an understanding of where their pride comes from. Whether that pride manifests itself appropriately or not is up for debate.

But had I decided to be a Cameron Crazy, I certainly would not be shy to let people know it.

Alex Arthur is a sophomore majoring in economics and English. He can be reached at Alexander.Arthur@tufts.edu.

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Seven members of the men’s track and field team flew out to Iowa yesterday for the NCAA Div. III Championships, which will be held at Grinnell College on Friday and Saturday. The top 13 individuals and top 10 relay teams in each event earned the right to compete. For the Tufts men, that includes senior tri-captain Connor Rose, juniors Jeff Marvel, Gbola Ajayi, Curtis Yancy and Matt Rand and sophomores Graham Beutler and Bobby McShane, the largest group of athletes the team has sent in recent years.

Rose will kick off the action for Tufts on the track in the preliminaries of the mile run at 6:00 p.m. Eastern time on Friday. Rose’s time of 4:09.65 (converted from 4:08.65 on Boston University’s banked track) from the Feb. 24 Open New England Championships ranks him sixth among the 13 individuals allotted bids. The top three athletes from each of two heats, as well as the next four fastest athletes, will advance to the finals at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.

“Connor is poised to do really well in the mile,” Marvel said. “He’s been racing well all season, and I think his best race is still in front of him, based on how his training has gone and seeing him work out.”

Marvel will also compete on Friday evening in the 800-meter run, where he ranks fifth at 1:52.03 (converted from 1:51.43), a time achieved at Open New Englands. The

800-meter preliminaries begin at 7:45 p.m., with the top two in each heat and the next four fastest runners moving on to Saturday’s finals at 5:55 p.m.

“The goal going in is to get All-American,” Marvel said. “Last year, I wasn’t able to do that, but I gained some valuable experience just being at the meet, so I think this year I will be in a good position to make the finals and do really well.”

All-American recognition requires a top-eight finish, so qualifying for the finals in the 800-meter would guarantee Marvel the honor.

This weekend will not be the first appearance at indoor nationals for Rose or Marvel, who both qualified in the 800-meter run last season and earned 10th and 12th, respectively.

“Last year I didn’t make the finals, but I was able to see how the meet was run,” Marvel said. “It is a little different than most meets. It forces you to change your warmup a little bit, so by being there it helps me know the process so it’s not totally new or unexpected. I also think I’m a little better able to handle the hype and the energy at Nationals after being there last year.”

Marvel will be one of seven New England athletes in the 800-meter, meaning that he will line up with several familiar faces.

“Knowing that I’ve raced these guys and knowing that I’ve done well against the comsee MEN’S TRACK, page 14

Baseball Notebook

Veteran presence helps to support youthful revolution by

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For the baseball team to challenge for its third straight NESCAC title, the Jumbos are going to need a youthful renaissance.

Of Tufts’ top six hitters from last season, just two are returning. Gone along with one of the program’s most successful classes are first-team All-NESCAC selection David Orlowitz (LA ’11), who had a team-high .400 batting average and four homers, and leadoff hitter David LeResche (LA ’11), among others. Likewise, the pitching staff has graduated two starters, as well as All-American closer Ed Bernstein (LA ’11), he of the 0.00 ERA, nine saves and NESCAC Pitcher of the Year honors.

“When you get in a cycle you can’t come out in a way,” coach John Casey said. “You get a really talented class which sort of smothers the class underneath them, theo-

retically. Basically, where we are right now, is we have to see if these guys who have been in our program for two or three years can play, because they haven’t had much opportunity because of the performance of other guys.”

Still, a solid veteran presence is in place, one that can help acclimate players who have been in Casey’s program for some time to the pressures of seeing college innings. In the field, senior co-captain Sam Sager is a two-time All-NESCAC infielder who, according to Casey, has been working out at shortstop for the past two weeks after spending the bulk of his collegiate career at third.

Sager hit .333 last season with a team-high 12 doubles, 33 RBIs and 27 walks.

“We just need Sager to be Sager, nothing more,” Casey said. “The others need to do what they’re capable of doing, and we’ll see see BASEBALL, page 15

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Senior Kevin Gilchrist, who went 5-2 with a 1.99 ERA in 2011, will anchor the Jumbos’ pitching staff along with classmate Dave Ryan.

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Senior Nakeisha Jones, seen here in the high jump, will be seeking a seventh career All-American honor in the triple jump this weekend in her seventh time competing in a national meet.

Fantastic four fly to Iowa for NCAA Championships

by Jake Indursky

Contributing Writer

The women’s track and field team flew to Grinnell College in Iowa yesterday for the Div. III NCAA Championships, the final event of the indoor track season which will take place Friday and Saturday. Four women will be representing Tufts — seniors Heather Theiss and Nakeisha Jones, junior Kelly Allen and sophomore Jana Hieber.

Nationals will give them a chance to compete at the highest level, as well as an opportunity to earn All-American accolades if they earn one of the top eight spots in their respective competitions.

Hieber is the youngest of the three, but she does not lack experience. She competed at Nationals in the spring of 2011 in the 400-meter hurdles, as well as in the winter of 2010 in the pole vault. This weekend, Hieber is competing in the pen-

tathlon, where she is ranked 12th out of 15 athletes after scoring 3,236 points at the Tufts Stampede on Feb. 4. The Stampede was the only time this year that Hieber has competed in the pentathlon.

“It’s exciting working on different events,” Hieber said. “I’m looking forward to being the underdog.”

While Hieber has excelled in the 60-meter hurdles, high jump, long jump and 800meter race, she struggled in the shot put her first time around. However, she has been working to improve in the shot put over the last month and feels ready to compete.

“My goal is to place in the top eight of the event and be an All-American,” she said. “I’ve been preparing for a while now, and I’m just really excited.”

Jones is the most seasoned of the group, having previously competed in six national see WOMEN’S TRACK, page 14

Women’s Lacrosse

Women’s lacrosse returns eight seniors, ready to contend by

David McIntyre

Daily Editorial Board

Over the last few seasons, the women’s lacrosse team has been competitive in the NESCAC, posting winning conference records in each of the last four seasons and challenging the best teams in the conference. But this year, the team wants to take the next step — from competitive to elite.

The roster certainly has the groundwork for success, with eight seniors returning from a team that went to the second round of the NCAA tournament and the semifinals of the NESCAC last year. Even before playing any official games, the team has seen the benefits of having many experienced players.

“I think the state of our team is really great, because we just have a huge returning senior class and we’ve all been playing together for four years,” senior tri-captain Katie Lotz said.

“And all the underclassmen are playing amazingly. Even the difference from our first scrimmage to our second scrimmage was amazing to see.”

The strength of the Jumbos lies in their offense, which scored 104 conference goals last year, good for second in the NESCAC. However, the team will find it more difficult to repeat that performance without the help of senior Steph Perez, who last year was an Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches

Association Second Team All-American. Team members declined to comment on why Perez will not be playing this year, but she will certainly be missed after contributing 32 goals from the midfield last season.

“She was a really important player, but people are already stepping up,” senior midfielder Emily Pillemer said. “Everyone knows it’s a big spot to fill, but everyone is also taking on little bit more responsibility to fill the gap.”

The team will have to rely on some of the underclassmen, including last year’s 37-goal scorer, sophomore attackman Gabby Horner, to replace some of the scoring and intangibles that Perez brought to the team.

“Obviously it’s a really hard adjustment, because we’ll never replace her and she’s awesome,” Lotz said of Perez. “But I think we’re slowly starting to figure out how to play without her. We’re doing our best.”

But for all of the focus on the team’s alreadystellar offense, the Jumbos have also been working hard on improving their defense, which faltered toward the end of last year as the team allowed 10 or more goals in four of its last six games.

According to Lotz, the team has introduced a new defense, going from a zone with a chase to a man defense or a backer zone, a process that has consumed much of the team’s pracsee WOMEN’S LACROSSE, page 15