2009-10-05

THE TUFTS DAILY

Sunny 66/48

TUFTSDAILY.COM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009

VOLUME LVIII, NUMBER 17

Where You Read It First Est. 1980

I-Cruise fails to set sail after alcohol abuse incidents

BY SAUMYA VAISHAMPAYAN

Daily Editorial Board

SHREYA GANDHI/TUFTS DAILY

A series of technological glitches have made the JoeyTracker GPS system unusable this semester.

JoeyTracker remains idle

With flaws in TCU-run GPS going unresolved, student group creates alternative system

BY JENNIFER

WHITE

Contributing Writer

The Joey has been stuck in the same place for two months now — or so says its Web site.

The JoeyTracker, the online resource meant to show students the whereabouts of the Joey, Tufts’ campus shuttle bus, has suffered from a series of recurring technical malfunctions since its installation nearly two years ago.

As the problems remain largely uninvestigated, a group of students outside the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has created an independent Web site to help locate the Joey.

The university’s JoeyTracker is designed to use a global positioning system (GPS), which has units installed in each of the two regularly circulating shuttles. But the

buses’ locations on the satellite grid and their estimated arrival times have not been reported on the tracker’s Web site, joey.tufts. edu, since the start of this year.

Neither the TCU Senate, responsible for maintaining the Web site, nor Joseph’s Limousine and Transportation, the company that administers the Joey and whose drivers man the GPS systems, can definitively identify the cause of recent glitches.

Installed in January 2008 through the efforts of the TCU Senate, the JoeyTracker is a free service. Its GPS is meant to transmit the location of buses to the Web site.

Tufts’ Support Services Manager Sheila Chisholm, who works on improving shuttle service, said her department is open to holding a meeting with the TCU Senate “to talk about where everything is going” with

The boat was all packed up and ready to go, but it never left the dock.

Two cases of serious intoxication and one arrest prevented Saturday night’s I-Cruise from leaving Boston Harbor.

The boat hosting the annual event, which is organized by the International Club (I-Club), remained docked at the World Trade Center for the duration of the evening after employees abiding by company policy refused to move the boat in response to students’ drunken behavior.

The manager for the Spirit of Boston, the cruise’s boat, informed members of the International Club’s executive board that a female student had been hospitalized for alcohol poisoning and was in serious medical danger. Paramedics removed the student from the boat around 11:30 p.m., minutes before the boat was scheduled to depart,

and took the individual to a nearby hospital.

I-Club executive board member Alyssa Edoo, a junior, confirmed a report of an additional hospitalization and an arrest but could not provide details for either incident.

Boat employees closed the bar on the boat, which was open to individuals 21 and over, about a half an hour after the first hospitalization, according to Edoo.

Sgt. Richard Ball of the Marine Unit of the Massachusetts State Police, who was at the scene, told the Daily that students arrived around 11 p.m. and “many appeared to have been drinking already.”

“The boat was ready to go but there was a medical issue, and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) had to respond and remove a body,” Ball said. “The boat stayed at the dock.” see I-CRUISE, page 2

Tufts set to ‘go green’ for Parents Weekend BY

CORINNE SEGAL

Contributing Writer

Parents from around the world will see a greener side of Tufts in two weeks.

Weathering a 25 percent budget cut for the annual Parents Weekend event, now in its 20th year, Tufts is planning to highlight the university’s enduring efforts toward becoming more environmentally friendly.

Running from Oct. 16 to Oct. 18, Parents Weekend is titled, “It’s Not Easy Being Green: Environmental Exploration at Tufts.”

The university chose the environmental-consciousness theme in order to highlight Tufts faculty members who

see JOEY, page 2

see PARENTS, page 2

AALOK KANANI/TUFTS DAILY

Parents coming to the Hill in two weeks will attend environmentally oriented programming thanks to Parents Weekend green theme.

Hoping to defy job market, many students attend Career Fair BY

BETH MEBRATU

Contributing Writer

Students gathered in the Gantcher Center on Friday for the annual Tufts Career Fair, exploring a broad range of employment, internship and volunteer opportunities.

Over 900 students, ranging from freshmen to those in graduate programs, attended this year’s fair, according to Director of Career Services Jean Papalia. Papalia called the event a success, citing the high number of students that

attended and the variety of their class years.

The 95 employers in attendance represented a variety of fields, including health care, government, engineering, education, finance and the non-profit sector. They offered several different employment options, including full-time jobs, internships and volunteer positions.

Thoughts of the gloomy economic climate hung in the air as students paraded through vendor tables. Many attended the fair with the recession in mind.

JOSH HALE/TUFTS DAILY

Over 900 students attended Tufts’ annual Career Fair on Friday

“I’m here to find a job,” senior Akrati Agarwal said. “The economy is really bad right now and it’s hard to get a job, so I’m a little worried.”

“Considering today’s current job market, it is always good to start early and see what’s out there,” junior Jaya Birch-Desai said.

Multiple employer representatives told the Daily that their firms had not yet finalized the number of candidates they expected to hire and were also unsure of the number of positions they had available.

Danielle Martin-Alston, corporate paralegal coordinator for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, said that her firm did not yet know how many new employees it could hire because it did not know how many of its current employees are going to law school.

Papalia encouraged Tufts seniors to attend the Just in Time Fair this spring, held specifically for seniors, when employers will have a better idea of the number of positions available within their company.

Employers who participated in the fair were more than satisfied with student turnout. Maki Park, director of Outreach and Administration at WorldTeach, a

Inside this issue

non-profit organization, noticed a significant increase in the level of student interest in her organization’s volunteer opportunities compared to past years.

“I know at this time most students are looking for paying jobs, so it was surprising to see so much interest in service opportunities,” Park said.

Major firms like Fidelity Investments and nonprofits such as Teach For America saw crowds of students waiting to speak with a representatives.

Students expressed doubts that attending the fair would lead to an actual job offer because of the high level of competition at Tufts for employment.

“Seeing all the students in line makes me think how many kids are applying for the job,” BirchDesai said. “Tufts has a lot of smart students.”

Students from different class years expressed different goals for the fair. Most seniors were interested in a full-time position beginning after graduation, while many juniors searched for internship opportunities and underclassmen looked for an educational experience outside of the classroom.

Agarwal said the fair piqued her interest in specific companies. She initially doubted how helpful the fair would be, but left Gantcher hopeful about her employment prospects.

“I’m optimistic about job opportunities after being at this fair,” Agarwal said.

Sophomore Aisha Farley came to the fair hoping to explore and develop new interests. She found a policy division on environmental health particularly interesting.

“I definitely wouldn’t have learned about it if it weren’t for the fair,” she said.

A few of the employer booths were manned by Tufts alumni who received job offers after applying for positions they had learned about at a previous Tufts Career Fair.

There are two more career fairs coming up later this year.

In addition to April’s senior job fair, Career Services will hold their annual Science and Technology Fair in February.

Papalia encouraged students to attend as many career events as possible in order to explore a broad range of opportunities and employers.

Today’s Sections

University performance groups are grappling with ramifications of a new policy barring ticket sales to Tufts students.

The football team improved to 1-1 on the season with its road victory over Bates on Saturday.

see FEATURES, page 3

see SPORTS, back page

News Features Arts & Living Editorial | Letters

1 3 5 10

Op-Ed Comics Sports

11 12 Back

THE TUFTS DAILY

2

Monday, October 5, 2009

NEWS

Looking for alternative to JoeyTracker, students create text messaging system with bus schedule

Parents Weekend to highlight Tufts’ history of eco awareness

JOEY

PARENTS

continued from page 1

regards to the JoeyTracker system.

Chisholm said Support Services is “in the very early stages” of looking into possibly attaining a new system for the shuttles. Whether that system would entail acquiring replacement buses or updated GPS units is a determination that remains months away and would ultimately be based on which system is most cost-effective.

But updating the JoeyTracker is not among the Senate’s top priorities, said TCU Senator Joel Greenberg, co-chair of the Senate Services Committee.

Meanwhile, a group of students independent of the Senate and of the Joseph’s Limousine company has established a new system to improve access to the Joey’s whereabouts, simply by publicizing the bus’s schedule.

The students’ recently created catchthejoey.com allows students to access the times of the Joey’s scheduled departures from Davis Square, the Olin Center, the campus center and Davis Square. Students can also text “findjoey” to a specific number to access the information by cell phone.

Four computer science students initiated work on catchthejoey.com last academic year, and the three remaining students leading the cause unveiled the system at the beginning of this semester.

Senior Dan Schoening, one of the system’s organizers, said they saw a need for a more reliable system.

“We haven’t really found that [the JoeyTracker] was always available when we needed it,” he said. “It’s definitely a work in progress, too, and it’s going to be great when they get it going, but in the meantime … this provides a serious option.”

Former TCU Senator Matt Shapanka (LA ’09), who oversaw the JoeyTracker project during his time at Tufts, said that the system he helped create works off of reliable, hard-wired GPS units. “The hardware and Web site are excellent,” he said.

Shapanka said he believes the source of the difficulty this year has been that the bus company does not always plug in the GPS systems.

Shapanka said Joey drivers sometimes unplug the devices to start the diesel engines, especially on cold mornings.

“If you have something drawing electricity from the battery, it’s harder to turn the bus on,” he explained. Once the shuttle is revved up, Shapanka added, the GPS units might mistakenly remain disconnected.

But the testimonies of Joey drivers throw doubt on Shapanka’s argument. Ed Marchant, a driver who covers weekend shifts, said that the GPS units light up whenever the bus is started, and drivers never switch off the buses’ engines during the course of the day.

“I never unplug it,” Marchant said of his bus’ GPS unit, which he thought was internally connected to the bus and could not easily be detached.

Marchant was not aware that the devices were not operating

normally, nor had he been alerted of the current problems with the JoeyTracker.

Another driver, who asked to remain anonymous because he did not believe he was authorized to speak on the record about his work, has been steering the shuttle for three years. He said he was instructed by the Joseph’s Limousine company to make sure the two red lights on the GPS unit are always on, an indicator that the unit is functioning. Still, even after the driver verified the red lights, the JoeyTracker did not register the information.

The idea of having GPS units inside shuttles originated from a Senate initiative started by Shapanka to quell student complaints that the shuttle was frequently tardy.

“One of the big issues was that everyone was kind of annoyed that the Joey would be late or never run on time,” Shapanka said.

With the JoeyTracker, the Senate is “trying to make the use of the Joey service as seamless as possible and as easy as possible,” said Greenberg.

Senators view the JoeyTracker as a tool to be used not just for convenience, but also wellbeing. “Safety is a bigger and bigger issue at Tufts,” said Greenberg, a sophomore. “We don’t want students waiting for a bus they don’t know is coming,” particularly when they are alone late at night or standing in inclement weather, he said.

Alexandra Bogus contributed reporting to this article.

With boat staying docked amid ‘mayhem,’ some I-Cruise attendees leave event early I-CRUISE continued from page 1

Six hundred students attended the sold-out cruise.

Following the policy of Entertainment Cruises, the company that administers the Spirit of Boston, the captain refused to leave the dock because of some students’ levels of intoxication.

“They noticed that too many people were drunk so they wouldn’t let us move and they closed off the bar,” I-Club Vice President Tala Kayyali said. “The captain said that they didn’t want to be in a situation where someone dies of alcohol poisoning because of no access to medical care on the water.”

According to Kayyali, a junior, the first individual hospitalized was underage and had already consumed alcohol before boarding the boat. Once inside, she obtained more alcohol through someone who was able to purchase drinks from the bar.

Edoo said the second case of hospitalization was not as severe.

“I heard there was someone else that was taken, too,” she said. “It was not as serious as the first one.

The first one was pretty bad. We were all pretty worried.”

“We’re really sorry about this incident because we did our best at the entrance to try to make sure everyone was in good shape and avoid [an incident], but we can’t control the bar,” said junior Irmak Yalniz, president of the I-Club.

Yalniz added that toward the end of the event, members of the I-Club’s executive board tried to persuade the captain to take a short cruise around the harbor, but the captain refused.

“This happened two years ago [at I-Cruise] and they were able to have a short 10-minute cruise, but this time he couldn’t because there wasn’t enough time,” Yalniz said.

When it became evident that the boat was not going to leave the dock, executive board members arranged for early transportation back to Tufts, according to I-Club Treasurer Sanya Ramjatta, a sophomore.

“We plan the event in that we book the cruise and get the transportation, but it’s up to students to hold their own and be responsible,” Ramjatta said.

Senior Corey Briskin left I-Cruise early on one of the provided buses.

“I ended up leaving soon after the [incident],” Briskin said. “I heard there were going to be buses, and it seemed like everything was in mayhem. I know that a lot of people left because my bus was full.”

Although transportation was provided for those who wanted to leave early, dancing and other planned events continued.

Sophomore Sejal Soni said that she had fun even though the boat didn’t leave the dock.

“It was fun and the dance floor was really packed,” she said. “After the bar closed they opened up the upper level for everyone,” Soni said. Soni added that she was not officially told by organizers that the boat was not going to leave the harbor.

continued from page 1

have strong backgrounds in environmental understanding, according to Provost and Senior Vice President Jamshed Bharucha.

“We have quite a few faculty members at the university whose work is directly related to the environment,” he said.

Nancy Morrison, director of the advancement office’s Parents Programs, agreed. “By having a theme, it allows us to look at faculty and draw good faculty members around the theme,” Morrison said.

Parents Weekend is organized by the Parents Program in conjunction with the Office of Special Events.

When they first began planning in January, the event’s organizers considered “ethical issues” as a theme for the weekend’s events, but they later decided environmental awareness was more upbeat, Morrison said.

“We want people to come and be able to escape from their reality and think about a hopeful theme,” she said.

As part of the weekend’s programming, Director of Campus Sustainability Sarah Hammond Creighton will lead a Campus Sustainability Tour to exhibit Tufts’ green initiatives.

Bharucha will host a seminar entitled, “Education for a Complex World,” which will focus on the actions that Tufts is taking to educate students about how to address environmental concerns.

“My own remarks will be about how, at Tufts, we seek to prepare our students to be leaders in solving complex world problems — and environmental problems are among the most complex,” he said.

Creighton cited student involvement as a major achievement of Tufts’ environmental efforts. “We’ve had over 2,000 students who worked on projects in their academic work looking at campus-based environmental decisions,” she said.

The theme complements Tufts history as a leading university in the area of environmental awareness, Creighton said.

“Tufts was really the first university in the country to embrace greening the campus, which began in 1990 when we issued the first environmental policy [from] a university in the country,” she said. “We’ve really been at the forefront of this movement for the last 20 years.”

One of Tufts’ first major environmental endeavors,

Creighton said, was to make Tufts a non-smoking campus in 1990. Since then, projects have addressed transportation issues, harnessing solar energy and serving locally grown food, as well as other ventures.

Tufts also spearheaded the creation of the Talloires Declaration, written in 1990 at an international conference in Talloires, France. The conference was organized by then-University President Jean Mayer. It signifies the first official pledge from Tufts administrators to support environmental awareness; to date, over 350 university presidents in 52 countries have signed the document.

Parents Weekend will feature faculty speakers from a variety of disciplines, including English, community health, biomedical and environmental engineering, economics, law and political science.

The weekend will also host an assortment of student performances. Various theater groups are scheduled to perform, including Torn Ticket II, Bare Bodkin and Traveling Treasure Trunk. Student a cappella groups such as S-Factor, the Jackson Jills, the Amalgamates, Essence, Shir Appeal, sQ! and the Beelzebubs will hold concerts.

This year, the budget for Parents Weekend was slashed by 25 percent in the face of hard economic times for the university. This cut resulted in less expensive staging for performances, the cancellation of a Friday night reception and small reductions in the amount of free food served.

Morrison said the cuts were made in order to avoid charging admission to Parents Weekend lectures, the perceived alternative to cutting spending.

“The administration feels very strongly that the program needs to be free,” she said.

“Just like the administration doesn’t want the cuts to affect the student experience, we don’t want our cuts to affect the parent experience.”

Both Morrison and Bharucha said they hope that the weekend’s events will interest and appeal to parents. “I want the parents to walk away feeling excited about what they’ve learned [and] feeling excited about the faculty who are teaching the students,” Morrison said.

“I want [parents] to come away from it with a sense of excitement about the way in which the environment and environmental work is featured at Tufts,” Bharucha said.

Visiting the Hill this week THE VENTURESOME ECONOMY Details: Amar Bhidé, a former professor of business at Columbia University, will discuss how the spread of innovation, research and development abroad will advance technology and sustain a prosperous economy in a globalized world.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Mugar 200 Sponsor: International Business Center at the Fletcher School

REUNIFICATION OF THE ISLAND Details: Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus H.E. Andreas Kakouris will give the Constantine Karamanlis Chair Lecture, discussing ongoing negotiations between Cyprus and Turkey to reach a settlement after Turkey’s 1974 invasion of the island.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Cabot 206 Sponsor:Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at the Fletcher School

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

PROSPECTS FOR A CYPRUS SETTLEMENT AND

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS LECTURE BY JEAN-PIERRE

MONDAY

LEHMANN Details: Jean-Pierre Lehmann is professor of international political economy at the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland and founding director of the Evian Group, an organization promoting trade liberalization. He will speak on the socio-economic impact of globalization on the developing world. RSVP to Angela Borseti.

When and Where: 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.; Cabot 702 Sponsor: International Business Center at the Fletcher School LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX BABY Details: Paul Joannides, author of “The Guide to Getting It On,”

will share advice on how to have a healthy sex life in college. A question and answer session will follow.

When and Where: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Pearson 104 Sponsor: Tufts Hillel FRIDAY WITHOUT A HOME: CHILD REFUGEES Details: Two experts will speak on the difficult circumstances facing child refugees around the world. Speakers include Elizabeth Barnett of the International Clinic at the Boston Medical Center and Professor Astier Almedom of the Fletcher School.

When and Where: 9 a.m. to 10

a.m.; Eaton 201 Sponsor: Office of the Provost INSIDE THE ACTIVIST’S STUDY Details: Amy Goodman, host of the news show “Democracy Now!” and her brother David Goodman, an investigative journalist, will discuss how media outlets can bring about social change. Their talk will mark the first in a series of lectures featuring prominent figures in media who are social justice advocates.

When and Where: Reception at 5:30 p.m., discussion begins at 6:30 p.m.; 51 Winthrop St. Sponsors: Communications and Media Studies Program, Peace and Justice Studies Program

Features

3

tuftsdaily.com

New TCU policy limits performance groups’ fundings, makes shows free to Tufts students

BY YURI

CHANG

Contributing Writer

So, you want to put on a performance at Cohen Auditorium? Great.

All you need is about $1,000 to rent the space. But then don’t forget about all of the staff who will be there to sell tickets, clean up and set up the equipment — not to mention the costs for strobe lights, the CD player, video cameras, microphones, programs and posters. By the end, you will be looking at a long list of rental, AV and maintenance fees that could potentially cost $6,000 per show.

After the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate approved it last spring, a new policy has put in place this year stating that Tufts groups cannot charge other Tufts students for admission, many of the performance groups are left scratching their heads trying to figure out how to tackle such daunting rental figures while still putting on the best show at their greatest possible ability.

With a budget of roughly $13,000 and Cohen Auditorium’s rental costs for two performances at nearly $12,000, the Spirit of Color (SoC) dance troupe, along with several other performance groups at Tufts, faces a budgeting dilemma in the wake of the new guidelines.

“We pretty much have enough [funding] to reserve Cohen [and] pay for the labor costs, but other than that we don’t really have any other money to afford anything else other than have a show,” said junior Jamie Gang, the director of SoC. “We pretty much have to front costumes on our own.

We basically have the bare minimum.”

Some students argue that because a portion of the rental money goes right back to Tufts University, the costs are unjustly expensive. Associate Director of Campus Life Laura DaRos addressed this argument as a complete misperception.

“We want the students to be able to have events on campus,” DaRos said.

“The money allotted to the groups go [sic] right back towards the student workers, paying for the metal detectors and things like that. Also, when groups hold events, they are required to distribute [tickets] through the info booth and the prices go towards booth staff, the licensing for the computer program,

JAMES CHOCA/TUFTS DAILY

Students no longer have to pay to attend Tufts plays or performances, but this new policy has placed a strain on some organizations’ budgets. rather than back to some account.”

TCU Treasurer Aaron Bartel affirmed DaRos’ statements.

“When a group rents Cohen, the Cohen box office doesn’t give us anything,” Bartel said. “It wouldn’t even make sense because in effect it just reduces the cost of the event; it would just go back to groups’ budgets anyway.”

Still, many of the performance groups are affected this year by the sudden change in the current budgets from past years’.

“I totally understand why the budget is a lot less flexible now, but I do wish that we were given more preparation. The groups themselves should have been told what exactly was going to change,” Gang said.

“Right now, SoC is stuck in a tight situation. We might only be able to afford one show per semester, when we usually have two. What are we going to do? Have a bake sale every week?” see PERFORMANCE SPACES, page 4

PE department and TSR programs provide ways for students to stay fit DAPHNE KOLIOS

Daily Staff Writer

Late night pizza binges, unlimited meal plans and occasional keg stands have long been the scapegoat for college weight gain. On the other hand, between the built-in gym membership and myriad athletic teams, college is also an environment conducive to an active lifestyle. For those students who don’t want to commit to a varsity team, there are a dizzying variety of fitness choices.

One such option combining academics and athletics is offered through Tufts’ Department of Physical Education (PE), which offers athletics classes that can count for up to two credits toward graduation. These classes meet approximately twice a week as a regular class and span the entire semester.

Because the courses count for credit, they are often more challenging than other fitness classes. However, this accountability serves as motivation to follow a regimented exercise routine.

As well as offering courses for credit, the PE department sponsors minicourses. Since the program’s inception 10 years ago, it has expanded from offering only a modest number of classes “to the point where there are now waitlists for a few of our courses,” Assistant Athletics Director

The truth about beer

L

Tufts helps students to become less jumbo BY

JESSIE BORKAN | COLLEGE IS AS COLLEGE

Branwen Smith-King said in an e-mail to the Daily.

As opposed to courses for credit, mini-courses generally meet once a week for 10 weeks. They are open to all members of the Tufts community and are taught by both full-time staff and part-time instructors from outside the PE department.

Smith-King explained that the minicourses, which range from $40 to $100 depending on the class, came about to “provide affordable opportunities on campus for students, staff and the faculty to engage in a variety of fitness activities.”

Freshman Rachel Kornetsky, who takes part in the Cardio, Strength and Pilates class, praised her mini-course.

“The teacher is really energetic, so it gets the class motivated,” she said.

The PE department also offers a program known as the Tufts Personalized Performance Program. The program began seven to eight years ago with the mission to ameliorate the trend of bad habits that often emerges in college.

Fitness Program Manager Dan Kopcso explained that the findings of the Tufts Longitudinal Health Study, which took place between 1998 and 2007, prompted the department to take initiatives to provide students with opportunities to acquire lasting healthy habits. “[The study] found that kids don’t

have the same passion for staying healthy in college,” Kopcso said.

Every student at Tufts is eligible to receive five free personal training sessions, taught by either a certified staff member or a student. Instructors are “just people who happen to have a passion for fitness,” Kopcso said.

Following the completion of five free sessions, students can opt to continue their training. Each additional session is $25 if taught by a nationally certified trainer and $100 for five sessions if the trainer has only passed the Tufts requirements — rates that make the sessions far more accessible than standard private training sessions.

Trainers are required to take and excel in the Advanced Principles of Exercise course prior to becoming eligible to participate. They must also have appropriate medical certifications.

All training sessions are individual. However, Kopcso recognizes the importance of friends in creating an environment most conducive to prolonged commitment to a program.

“Friends provide motivation to stay with it,” he said.

As a result, participants are not only permitted to bring friends to their sessions but can also receive discounts for sharing their exercise time. see FITNESS, page 4

isten up, world: Jessie Borkan loves beer. I don’t mean this in a shotgunning, keg-standing, future-alcoholic kind of way, but rather in the same way my mom likes “Antiques Roadshow:” as a little bit of quality programming every night before dinner. Now I won’t deny a few latenight (or early afternoon) marathons of my own personal “Antiques Roadshow,” but for the most part, I just really and truly enjoy the taste of a delicious beer.

This may sound like a pretty standard statement coming from a 21-year-old college student, so let me make my point: The reason I am writing this is not because I like beer but, rather, because I am a girl. It may seem archaic to even be discussing this. After all, this is the 21st century, and Tufts to boot; everyone is running around all self-actualized and unburdened by stereotypes and wearing unisex shoes. Why then, are my male friends continually shocked, confused and/ or disproportionately impressed by the cornucopia of awesome beer in my beer fridge at all times? Or the existence of a beer fridge in my all-female house in the first place? I once had a guy friend “compliment” me on our lack of femininity.

“Excuse me? We’re feminine!” I responded too defensively, nervously eyeing my dad’s flannel and my un-brushed hair in the reflective glass of our kitchen window.

“No, you’re not ... you guys all love beer.”

Whoa.

The unknown whereabouts of my mascara aside, I do not feel the least bit un-ladylike, at least in terms of my beverage choices.

The same certainly goes for my beer-loving girlfriends, who have been known to wear lip-gloss and even high heels, which is more than I can say for those Miller Lite manlaw dudes. So why is it that a love of Sam Seasonals and a good IPA makes us less of the women we thought we were?

The way I see it, there are two devastating misconceptions that cause girls to dislike beer. The first is that beer tastes bad, which is undoubtedly due to the fact that the first beer most of us taste in any significant amount is the kind cheap enough to provide in excess for hundreds of scantily clad freshmen. This beer comes out of brightly colored cans or possibly a keg, and tastes like bread-flavored bubble water. I get it. Drinking this beer, particularly when warm or presented in a dirty Solo cup, is enough to put you off anything with “Lite” or “Ice” in the name forever. But fear not, girls (and boys!): There is a whole world of classier, infinitely more delectable beers out there for your imbibing pleasure, and while they may be an acquired taste for some, they are definitely worth trying out.

The second outrageous and unjust fallacy about beer is that it makes you fat.

Okay, so this is not actually that far-fetched, but the idea of replacing beer with liquor as some kind of drunk-and-skinny diet is. A shot of liquor is comparable in calories to a 12-ounce beer, and when added to the sugary mixers and chasers we are all so fond of, comes out about the same, if not more, in terms of caloric intake. Besides, girls everywhere are openly obsessed with chocolate.

It is practically a rite of passage for girls to sit around and eat copious amounts of the stuff together. No one ever got skinny doing that — what makes beer any different?

Don’t get me wrong: there is nothing bad about non-beer alcohol (or chocolate!) — I have been known to partake in it myself. I am just painfully aware that, like Clint Eastwood and sandwiches, beer is tragically underappreciated in the female realm. So ladies, (and my Dad, who once had the waitress bring him her favorite drink and ended up with blueberry Stoli), why not ditch the vodkatonics this weekend and have a few brewskies? You just might love them.

Jessie Borkan is a senior majoring in psychology. She can be reached at Jessie.

Borkan@tufts.edu.

THE TUFTS DAILY

4

Monday, October 5, 2009

FEATURES

Change in policy will not necessarily be permanent PERFORMANCE SPACES continued from page 3

JODI BOSIN/TUFTS DAILY

From dance classes to bench presses, there is no shortage of ways for students to work on their fitness.

TSR oers variety of classes to keep Jumbos in shape FITNESS continued from page 3

Students looking for a way to stay fit can also participate in classes provided

by Tufts Student Resources (TSR) which fill a niche for casual, convenient exercise opportunities designed to be easily accessible to students. “The division is important for students to have another fitness outlet,� TSR Fitness Manager Andrea Schpok said.

TSR classes boast flexibility and variety. In contrast to courses given by the PE department, which requires registration for individual courses, TSR allows students to attend all of its fitness classes. An unlimited semester pass for $99.99 provides access to all of the classes offered by TSR — and, as an added incentive, attending more classes equates to a lower overall cost per class.

A five-class pass, retailing at $19.99, allows students to attend five classes per semester, while an individual class is $5 for a drop-in.

Schpok said that compared to PE courses, “there’s a different atmosphere [with TSR]. It feels like you’re going with your friends, you make friends — it becomes a social thing.�

TSR employs student instructors for all of its courses. CPR certification is required, as is a class demonstration prior to becoming an official instructor.

Senior Arielle Carpenter, inspired by her extensive experience in Pilates classes, decided to instruct a class for TSR. “My favorite part of teaching is passing my knowledge of Pilates onto other people,� she said.

Alternatively, dance classes incorporate exercise with the chance to explore

a new activity. Belly dancing caters to students who have “always wanted to try it but never had the chance,� junior Patricia Pop said.

Pop instigated the belly dance program at Tufts, which currently provides weekly classes for beginner and intermediate students. Nikki Traylor-Knowles, named the best belly dancer in Boston in 2005, teaches the two classes.

As well as providing an exercise opportunity, belly dancing is a creative release that opens up chances to further explore the world of dance. Pop described the program as a “progressive funnel� that allows participants to “achieve any level of technical skill.�

Classes are held Sunday evenings in Hill Hall. Beginner classes are $5 for a one-hour class, while intermediate classes are $10 for an hour and a half.

Bartel acknowledged the small amount of wiggle room that several groups face. “[The performance groups] weren’t as informed as they should have been,�

Bartel said. “Nobody had the intention of doing this, but in hindsight what would have been better was to pull all the performance groups together and have a meeting to ask them how they feel and how comfortable they feel about this rather than just issuing a mandate. The price of renting spaces is expensive, which is unfortunate, but that is ... just what individual spaces cost.�

The new guidelines likely will force performance groups to reexamine their costs and to approach their budgets in different ways. But Bartel emphasized that even in the worst-case scenario, the TCU policy could be changed back to what it has been in the past. “Some people might think it’s phenomenal and some people might think it might hurt their group,� Bartel said. “The important thing is that if it doesn’t work out this year, we can always go back to how it was done last year.�

Despite difficulties with the changes, Tufts students, performance groups, representatives and faculty seem to agree on the good intentions of the new TCU policy and remain optimistic despite the new constraints. “Technically, Tufts is paying for the space because it’s allotted in our budget, and Cohen spots are so expensive, so it’s kind of hard to avoid all of [the costs],� Gang said. “Still, I do think that Tufts students should be able to see their fellow students perform without having to pay.� “I think that students should be able to go to all the things that they want,�

DaRos said. “It’s more like the Tufts community providing entertainment for the Tufts community.�

TCU Special Elections Forum!

ATTN: ALL STUDENTS Come meet the candidates for:

• 2010 Senate

ase.tufts.edu/ecom

• Committee for Student Life

!

"

ecom@tufts.edu

Arts & Living

5

tuftsdaily.com

MOVIE REVIEW

CHARLES LAUBACHER | EARS OPEN

Jay-Z, DOA: Death of Artistry

J

THESUN.CO.UK

This looks suspiciously like the wedding from “Wayne’s World 2” (1993), Rob Lowe and all.

‘Lying’ is a cinematic sin BY

LAUREN HERSTIK Staff Writer

There is no fiction and no flattery in Mark Bellison’s world, just facts. Mark

The Invention of Lying Starring Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey Directed by Ricky Gervais

is Ricky Gervais’ character in the new comedy, “The Invention of Lying,” and, as the title suggests, the only person in his world who can tell a lie. The unfortunate truth is that the film only works for a while, and then takes a tragic dive into snide mockery.

Mark is introduced to the audience through the dulcet tones of Gervais’ voiceover, outlining the premise and basic plot of the movie. Mark lives in a world in which humans haven’t developed the ability to lie; they have no concept of

TV REVIEW

Hugh Laurie back in the ‘House’ for sixth season

Cynical doctor digs deep during his stay in mental ward BY

CHARISSA NG

truth and falsehood because neither is necessary. Gervais, in his English lilt, describes Mark as a loser, but a loser whose luck will soon turn. Mark is going to tell the world’s first lie. “So look out for that,” Gervais says.

The film’s first half-hour, well paced and with sharp wit, is replete with laughs.

The setup is clever, featuring a series of vignettes in which Gervais — also the film’s writer — gets the most mileage out see LYING, page 8

INTERVIEW | WOODY HARRELSON AND JESSE EISENBERG

Harrelson and Eisenberg talk zombies, costumes BY

RYAN ZUCKMAN

Daily Staff Writer

Daily Editorial Board

“Zombieland,” out now in theaters, follows a few survivors of the zombie apocalypse and details the unlikely bonds they forge with each other. The Daily participated in a roundtable interview with the film’s two principal actors, Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg.

There’s no denying that any sane person would refuse to be diagnosed by a brilliantly cynical doctor with no

House Starring Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison Airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on FOX morals and a crippling Vicodin addiction. But fans of Fox’s hit show “House” agree that watching Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House torment others with his cruel sarcasm is not only okay, it’s much more entertaining than they’d care to admit.

Entering its sixth season, “House” experiments with a different angle in its first two episodes, “Broken” and “Epic Fail” — and the change pays off. The show picks up where it left off last season, with House struggling to detox from his Vicodin addiction at the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital.

Unfortunately, although House is ready to return to practicing medicine after kicking his Vicodin habit, the head of the psych ward, Dr. Nolan (Andre Braugher), warns House that he has to stay because his issues run deeper than addiction. Dr. Nolan blackmails House by refusing to write him a recommendation for his medical license unless

Question: What part of the script really caught your eye and made you want to do the film?

Woody Harrelson: For me, it was mostly the 100 pages in between the front and back covers.

BUDDYTV.COM

House? More like Pharmacy!

House agrees to seek further help at the hospital’s long-term treatment center.

What was so refreshing about this season premiere is that it shied away from the more formulaic structure of past episodes without losing the show’s essence. In previous seasons, every episode was structured around House and his team of doctors trying to diagnose patients with bizarre medical illnesses. Though fans were not necessarily clamoring for the show’s writers to take House out of see HOUSE, page 8

Jesse Eisenberg: That’s a good part.

Yeah, I would say everything except the title page, because when I saw it was a zombie movie, I couldn’t imagine how it could offer a character that an actor would actually want to play.

But from page one, it was clever, the lines were actually funny, the characters were nuanced and real and even the drama was touching.

WH: I felt the same way, that it was bound to be stupid, but the writers really did a great job.

Q: Did you find that the director had a specific vision, or was there leeway in where the scenes could [go]? see ZOMBIELAND, page 7

ay-Z’s highly anticipated new album, “The Blueprint 3” (2009), hit stores Sept.

11, exactly eight years after his seminal “Blueprint” rocked the hip-hop world and cemented his place among the greatest MCs of all time. The buzz surrounding “Blueprint 3” had been growing since Jay-Z premiered the first single of the album, “DOA (Death of Auto-Tune)” on New York’s Hot 97 radio station.

“DOA” is a statement on the current character of commercial hip hop. As the title implies, Jay takes particular issue with the over-use of Auto-Tune within the industry. Auto-Tune was originally developed as a production tool to correct and improve pitch on vocal performances and create vocal effects.

Recently, hip-hop artists have used AutoTune to create the distinct vocal warble most often associated with T-Pain. T.I. uses it.

Weezy uses it. Kanye uses it gratuitously to produce a self-indulgent debacle of a pop record. Auto-Tune is slathered haphazardly all over almost every track in rotation on mainstream hip-hop stations. While the use of Auto-Tune seemed at first to be a creative step forward for hip-hop producers, it has now rendered much of contemporary hip hop almost unlistenably bland.

Jay’s beef with today’s hip-hop culture goes beyond the perversion of Auto-Tune. In a telling line, Jay spits, “y’all n-----s’ jeans too tight, colors too bright, voices too light.” Many see the changing tide of hip-hop fashion, which is moving away from baggy jeans and hoodies toward skinny jeans and ’80s neons, as a step forward. Jay sees instead artists leaving behind hip-hop culture in favor of today’s trendier fashion. Furthermore, when today’s foremost rappers cease to rap, opting instead for “light-voiced,” Auto-Tuned quasi-melodies, can their music still be considered hip hop? The line between hip hop and pop has always been vague, but now a majority of mainstream tracks are closer to manufactured pop than traditional hip hop.

When I first heard about “DOA” and “The Blueprint 3,” I will admit that I was somewhat skeptical. First of all, Jay-Z is certainly not exempt from criticism. In recent years he has sometimes seemed the very embodiment of commercialism in music. He recently left his long-time affiliate label Def Jam, where he has previously held court as CEO, in favor of a mega-deal with Livenation, the same multimedia conglomerate that represents Nickelback and Shakira. Furthermore, I had been relatively underwhelmed by his last two records, “Kingdom Come” (2006) and “American Gangster” (2007), both released after his widely proclaimed retirement in 2003. So, excited as I was about the fact that Jay was taking up the anti-Auto-Tune charge, I wondered if the King of New York was still cut out for the role of hip hop’s Messiah.

But thankfully, our boy did not disappoint.

He reclaimed his throne with a triumphant concert in Madison Square Garden on Sept.

11. Jay gave an explosive performance that reminded anyone who might have forgotten exactly why MTV named him the greatest MC of all time. “The Blueprint 3” may not be his best, but it still showcases strong production paired with aggressive lyricism. The sparse production on “DOA” fortifies his pertinent lyrics, reminding us that a real artist doesn’t have to hide behind endless synth and oceans of Auto-Tune.

Jay-Z may not be hip hop’s savior, but at the very least he reminds us that performance and artistry belong in hip hop. Auto-Tune is not the enemy; it is simply indicative of a decline in the quality of mainstream hip hop. It is one of many production tools used to create glossy but vapid tracks that lack any real originality, creativity or content. Jay-Z reminds us that the production of a track should enforce the power of an artist’s performance, not act in its stead. I hope that Jay-Z’s return to power will raise the bar and our expectations.

Charles Laubacher is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at Charles.Laubacher@tufts.edu.

6

THE TUFTS DAILY

ARTS & LIVING

Monday, October 5, 2009

THE TUFTS DAILY

Monday, October 5, 2009

7

ARTS & LIVING

Leads admit their reluctance to star in a zombie movie ZOMBIELAND continued from page 5

WH: The director had everything storyboarded and was really very prepared, and I think that’s best kind of director — almost over-prepared, but not to the point where he didn’t allow spontaneity and input into things like blocking. He was pretty open-minded, which I think helps a film a lot.

Q: How much creative input did you have into the characters?

JE: The characters were very well-written and well-defined, except for Woody’s character, who was supposed to wear “thick, ironic glasses” and I never knew what that meant.

WH: I actually kind of liked the idea, but it was nixed. But I had never taken that much time over a character’s outfit in my life, and I felt that the look was so important to the character. There were so many meetings over it, but you want to see the character and believe it right away.

JE: The director originally wanted shirts with funny sayings, like [shirts from] BustedTees, and it was so over the top.

There’s a fine line with this movie, and it would have become an annoying kitschy thing, and thankfully it didn’t.

So we ended up just going to American Apparel and picked out some clothing.

Q: What was the process of getting into character?

WH: I mostly just smashed s--t up.

JE: I’ve been getting into character for 25 years. So there wasn’t much research to be done, it was mostly about defining how comedic you could be while staying realistic.

OUTNOW.CH

Harrelson and Eisenberg defend themselves in an alternate zombie universe. and that gives you a lot more leeway to improvise, so after we finished a scripted scene, the director would let us improvise, which lends a sort of freshness and spontaneity that’s lost after like 20 takes, so some of that is in the movie.

Q: Both of you have done work in both theater and television. How would you relate those experiences and would you like to return to them in the future?

Q: Was there any improv in the scenes?

JE: We were filming on video, not film,

JE: I want to be a playwright, ultimately, and people are reading my play now

because I’m in a zombie movie. I wrote a musical that’s going to be produced soon, it’s called “Me Time.” It’s a satire on modern self-indulgence.

done that you regret making?

WH: Theater is what really drew me to this fine profession. I love it and want to get back to it soon. I was in London recently, doing Tennessee Williams’ “The Night of the Iguana,” and I really liked the production and how it turned out, so I’m eager to get back to it.

JE: Usually you know on the first day of shooting, “Oh, this was a mistake.” Every day on the set of “Zombieland,” I thought “What am I doing here, I’m doing terrible,” but when I saw the end result, I was a bit more happy with my performance.

Q: Are there any projects that you’ve

WH: Oh yeah, although, there’s no point in really talking about them.

WH: And you realized it was all in your head.

SENIORS: On-Campus Recruiting

Job Application Deadlines Organizations and deadlines change daily.

Check weekly for updated deadlines and additional opportunities.

Full Time Entry Level Jobs 9/30 Nielsen Company—Professional Services Analyst 10/1 BlackRock—Analyst Positions 10/1 Exeter Group—Business Analyst/Consultant, Technical Consultant, Software Developer 10/4 Fidelity Investments—Equity Research Associate 10/4 New England Consulting Group—Project Manager 10/4 VistaPrint—Business Analyst 10/5 Analysis Group—Analyst 10/5 EMC—Finance Training Program 10/5 Putnam Investments—Tech. Associate Software Engineer 10/7 GE Aviation—Operations Management Leadership Program 10/7 KPMG—Economic & Valuation Services Associate 10/7 Raytheon—Software/Systems/Electrical/Mech. Engineer 10/8 Cambridge Associates—Research or Consulting Associate 10/8 MIT Lincoln Laboratory—Various Technical Positions 10/9 Putnam Associates—Analyst

Don’t miss additional opportunities posted in Tufts Career Connect.

Search the job and internship listings.

Apply in Tufts Career Connect http://careers.tufts.edu/students

Tufts Career Services

careers.tufts.edu

Do you know where you can have the most impact on the issues that matter to you? Participants in this hands-on training will practice identifying opportunities for engagement from service to advocacy and will leave with a practical understanding of how to…

Make the Greatest Impact Tuesday, October 6 5:30 – 7:00 pm Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Hall Open to all students interested in developing their leadership skills.

RSVP is required to ocl@tufts.edu.

Pizza will be served.

Upcoming Leaders for Change workshops: Challenge the Process, October 22 Recruit and Manage Volunteers, November 17 Grant Writing, February 11 Developing Leaders Conference, February 27 Ethics of Speech in Community, March 9 Sustain your Work/Officer Transition, April 17

For more information visit activecitizen.tufts.edu or ocl.tufts.edu/LeadersForChange In collaboration with: CEEO | Jumpstart | Peace and Justice Studies Student Affairs Social Justice Initiative | Tufts Hillel

THE TUFTS DAILY

8

Monday, October 5, 2009

ARTS & LIVING

‘Lying’ wastes its potential, is utterly transparent LYING continued from page 5

of the film’s premise.

Mark goes on a date with Anna McDoogles ( Jennifer Garner), a high-class beauty who is out of his league. The dialogue in these first scenes is an onslaught of stream-ofconsciousness insults hurled almost exclusively at Mark. Just before he’s fired at work, coworkers Shelley (Tina Fey) and Brad Kessler (Rob Lowe) inform Mark that they’ve always hated him and that he’s a loser.

Gervais does a great job with the script, adhering to the film’s premise and employing every aspect of the environment to craft a world in which there are no lies. Advertising is relieved of every trick of the trade, resulting in ads for Coca Cola with the slogan, “Coke: It’s very famous.”

The arts, the grandest of lies, are reduced to what little can be produced in a world of absolute truth: a retelling of history. In a very meta joke, Mark works as a writer for a film company called Lecture Films whose tagline is “We film someone telling you about things that happened.”

While the premise is funny, it soon proves tiring. Eventually the pacing slows down, burdened by a heavy twist after Mark’s lies get out of hand; he uses his new skill to comfort his mother on her deathbed, essentially inventing the notion of heaven, and thus religion.

It seems inevitable that, when dealing with lies from a slightly controversial perspective, religion will come up, and while it’s humorous for a while, even with the aid of clever sight gags like the Ten Commandments taped to pizza boxes, it soon loses steam.

“The Invention of Lying”

FANPOP.COM

This, without a doubt, is what heaven looks like. gets bogged down by its bluntness. The people who inhabit the lie-less world start to seem less like innocent inhabitants of a strange world and more like deliberately dumbed-down followers. Suddenly morals begin to crystallize.

Even the casting is an exercise in utter transparency.

Famous people were hired to do exactly what they’re famous for. Garner, reprising her role

from “13 Going on 30” (2004) plays Anna, the vapid waif with whom Mark is hopelessly smitten. Lowe is exceedingly good-looking as Brad, a jerk that works with Mark and subsequently moves in on Anna.

Fey, whose talents are criminally underutilized, is Shelley, Mark’s secretary who seems to be speaking in Liz Lemon’s (“30 Rock”) inner monologue with an acerbic tinge.

Celebrate Crime Prevention Month

“Lying” simply relies on a steady stream of big-name cameos to revive the lagging plot as it trudges along: Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and an un-credited, mustachioed Edward Norton all show up to lay down their brutal two cents. Gervais manages to hold his own in the leading role, with his usual English charm peppered throughout the dialogue. As a romantic lead,

‘House’ strays from procedural roots in sixth season HOUSE

October 2009 For a fun and safe Halloween, the TUFTS POLICE Crime Prevention Unit offers the following safety tips: Be aware of your surroundings at all times!

Use common sense if you are attending a party! Don’t put yourself in a situation you have no control over!

When out at night, walk in well-lit areas of the campus! Go with a friend and use the safety shuttle.

Remember your personal belongings! Do not provide an opportunity for someone to steal your property!

Before leaving for a Halloween function, make sure your residence hall room door is locked! Windows and security screens should be secured. Be sure to tell someone where you are going, and what time you’ll be back!

Report suspicious persons and behavior to the Tufts Police!

Tufts University Police EMERGENCIES ON ANY CAMPUS X66911 OFF-CAMPUS 617-627-6911 Non-emergencies Boston Campus 617-636-6610 Off-Campus X66610 On-Campus Grafton Campus 508-839-5303 Off-Campus X84900 On-Campus Medford Campus 617-627-3030 Off-Campus X73030 On-Campus

though, he falls flat, as it’s slightly uncomfortable to picture the squat Gervais with the lithe and beautiful Garner.

“The Invention of Lying” presents an intriguing premise which, if handled with a bit more subtlety, could have been a truly wry and witty comedy. But in the end, the story is beaten to death, turning the absence of lies into little more than a mean-spirited jibe at ignorance.

continued from page 5 his element of immorally practicing medicine on innocent, dying patients at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, the choice ultimately worked.

It was impressive to see show creator David Shore and his team of writers put House into a completely new environment at the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital without any of his usual minions, yet manage to keep him true to character. Stubborn as ever, House threatens to wreak havoc and make Dr. Nolan miserable until he agrees to write House a recommendation.

Nothing is secretly funnier (because admitting how funny this is would make anyone sound heartless) than watching House deliberately target each ward patient’s problems — telling the guy with an eating disorder that he’s fat or asking the girl who cuts herself how she felt after she screwed up even her attempt at suicide. When this doesn’t seem to rattle Dr. Nolan, House cleverly turns the tables by staging a patient rebellion against the wardens, hearkening back to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975). Ultimately, whether he is solving medical mysteries at Plainsboro Hospital or rallying fellow psychiatric patients at Mayfield, House’s acerbic and manipulative nature is what makes him so amusing to watch.

This season, the writers of “House” are finally beginning to devote more plot lines to doctors’ relationships with one another. This may be a medical drama, but in the past House and his team of doctors spent so much time bantering about medical jargon that they left little room for character development outside of the work realm.

Seeing only snippets of the characters’ lives often left avid fans wanting to know more. Before they revealed too much, the writers were always quick to interrupt insights into the doctor’s lives

with urgent scenes of cardiac arrests and dying patients.

Ironically, the audience got to see and learn more about House’s personal struggles in this season’s two-hour premiere than it does in all of the previous five seasons combined. With the help of Dr. Nolan, House finally admits that he is sick of being miserable and wants to be happy. By cooperating with treatment, House breaks down some of his cold exterior.

In fact, House does two things that most never expected of him: He apologizes — to a fellow psychiatric patient whose life he risked — and, more surprisingly, he begins to trust and let in others, namely Dr. Nolan and his new love interest, Lydia (Franka Potente), the friend of a fellow patient. House even chooses to resign in the second episode because he fears he could go back to being miserable and abusing Vicodin.

Although some fans may bristle at this vulnerable, more morally inclined House, the writers have done a good job of making House’s character development believable. While it’s nice to see that he really is a good person deep down, it is only a matter of time before the old, loveable House is back to his manipulative ways.

Luckily for fans, this relapse in character may occur sooner than expected.

After House resigns from Plainsboro Hospital, in the second episode Dr. Nolan encourages him to find a hobby to help him cope with his pain. After growing bored of cooking and all of the other hobbies he’s pursued, House realizes that the only thing that keeps his mind from the pain is solving medical cases. With House expected to return to his medical practice at Plainsboro Hospital, fans can only hope that House no longer has to be a Vicodin addict in order to be the enthralling genius he so cunningly is.

Monday, October 5, 2009

THE TUFTS DAILY

ADVERTISEMENT

Like to draw? Have opinions?

The Daily is looking for talented artists to draw one editorial cartoon each week about current events and issues facing Tufts students.

No former cartooning experience required. Biting sense of humor preferred.

E-mail daily@tuftsdaily.com to learn more!

9

THE TUFTS DAILY

10

THE TUFTS DAILY GIOVANNI J.B. RUSSONELLO Editor-in-Chief

EDITORIAL Naomi Bryant Managing Editors David Heck Alexandra Bogus Executive News Editor Nina Ford News Editors Tessa Gellerson Ben Gittleson Christy McCuaig Matt Repka Ellen Kan Assistant News Editors Harrison Jacobs Katherine Sawyer Saumya Vaishampayan

Robin Carol Executive Features Editor Marissa Carberry Features Editors Meredith Hassett Alison Lisnow Emily Maretsky Kerianne Okie Romy Oltuski Christina Pappas Charlotte Steinway Julia Zinberg Sarah Korones Assistant Features Editors Carter Rogers

Jessica Bal Executive Arts Editor Emma Bushnell Arts Editors Mitchell Geller Adam Kulewicz Catherine Scott Josh Zeidel Charissa Ng Assistant Arts Editors Benjamin Phelps

Michelle Hochberg Executive Op-Ed Editor Vittoria Elliott Editorialist Nina Grossman Opinion Editors Andrew Rohrberger Molly Rubin Erin Marshall Editorial Cartoonists Alex Miller

Monday, October 5, 2009

EDITORIAL | LETTERS

EDITORIAL

Students must be responsible to be credible The efforts of Tufts Community Union President Brandon Rattiner and the student members of the newly formed Alcohol Task Force to open dialogue with university administrators on the new alcohol policy have already been unnecessarily complicated by yet another instance of excessive alcohol consumption by underage students.

The International Club’s annual I-Cruise, which was ready to set sail Saturday night at 11:30 p.m., never left the dock because an underage Tufts student was hospitalized, reportedly for alcohol poisoning. The International Club’s efforts to create an environment that was both fun and safe were hampered by a combination of alcohol consumption before arrival and continuous intake once on board. While the Daily in no way supports the newly instituted alcohol policy, incidents like these make it more difficult for students like Rattiner to advocate in earnest for more student input in the university decision-making process.

I-Cruise, which sold all 600 available tickets at $25 each, was deemed unsafe to sail by its captain in accordance with the Entertainment Cruises company’s safety policy. The captain felt that there were too many heavily intoxicated students on board to leave the dock, as that would render them inaccessible to emergency

medical care. Police were dispatched to the incident, further amplifying the impact of students’ choices to drink.

This is a shameful reflection upon the Tufts student body as a whole. Not only was the overall level of intoxication inconsiderate to responsible students who paid to have a fun evening out — away from the dock — but it also could reinforce the view of many Tufts administrators that students do not know how to handle themselves in social situations and must be reined in by drastic policies. Students cannot expect to be treated like responsible adults at the bargaining table for university policy if they consistently prove themselves to be irresponsible.

The Daily hopes that Rattiner and those on the Alcohol Task Force will seek to demonstrate that the new, stricter alcohol policy — which states that underage students who are found to be under the influence of or in possession of alcohol go directly to university probation level one, or pro-one — is unwise and self-defeating. Under this policy, not only does an underage student who chooses to unlawfully binge drink put her life and safety in danger, she also places her friends and fellow students in the difficult position of choosing between contacting health officials and thereby landing their friend on pro-one, or potentially

leaving her to suffer the effects of alcohol poisoning.

In truth, Tufts freshmen are thrown into a campus culture that too often revolves around alcohol consumption, and they are bombarded with entertainment media that propagate the idea that college life ought to be about chugging beers and cheap vodka.

It is this system that needs attacking, and the way to get at this is to confront matriculating students’ preconceptions through dialogue before they are faced with situations in which pressure and mob mentality can be blinding and lead them to throw what knowledge they have of responsible drinking habits (three sheets) to the wind.

That said, when students act so rashly as to impede the functioning of a campus tradition — and when they do so to such an extent that they endanger their own lives — it can reinforce the administration’s point of view that we need iron-fisted enforcement and, more importantly, can compromise the credibility of student representatives who purport to argue on behalf of the entire student body.

The Daily urges students to be mindful of how their actions impact not only those involved, but also the community as a whole. Nothing comes for free, and the trust and respect of the university administration is no exception.

NATE BEELER

Ethan Landy Executive Sports Editor Sapna Bansil Sports Editors Evan Cooper Philip Dear Jeremy Greenhouse Alex Prewitt Michael Spera Alex Lach Assistant Sports Editors Daniel Rathman

Annie Wermiel Executive Photo Editor James Choca Photo Editors Aalok Kanani Danai Macridi Andrew Morgenthaler Josh Berlinger Assistant Photo Editors Kristen Collins Alex Dennett Emily Eisenberg Rebekah Sokol Tien Tien

Arlin Ladue Executive New Media Editor Jessica Bidgood New Media Editors Kyle Chayka

PRODUCTION

OFF THE HILL | HARVARD UNIVERSITY

New diplomacy a big step for America

Karen Blevins

Production Director Steven Smith Executive Layout Editor

Dana Berube Layout Editors Caryn Horowitz Andrew Petrone Amani Smathers Menglu Wang Adam Gardner Assistant Layout Editors Brian Lim

Grace Lamb-Atkinson Executive Copy Editor Rachel Oldfield Copy Editors Ben Smith Elisha Sum Ricky Zimmerman Sam Connell Assistant Copy Editors Sara Eisemann Katherine Evering-Rowe Ammar Khaku Niki Krieg Luke Morris Lucy Nunn Regina Smedinghoff

Ben Schwalb Executive Online Editor Christine Jang Online Editor

Michael Vastola Executive Technical Manager Muhammad Qadri Technical Manager

BUSINESS Kahran Singh

Executive Business Director

Benjamin Hubbell-Engler Brenna Duncan Dwijo Goswami Ally Gimbel

Advertising Director Online Advertising Manager Billing Manager Outreach Director

The Tufts Daily is a nonprofit, independent newspaper, published Monday through Friday during the academic year, and distributed free to the Tufts community.

P.O. Box 53018, Medford, MA 02155 617 627 3090 FAX 617 627 3910 daily@tuftsdaily.com

BY

RYAN DUNN

The Harvard Crimson

Paying your dues pays off. The Obama administration apparently realizes the wisdom of this logic and appreciates smart foreign policy, as evidenced by their recent choice to reengage with the U.N. by paying U.N. member dues, unlike the previous administration, which neglected its fiduciary responsibilities to the body. This reconciliatory approach, coupled with the removal of aggressively situated missile defense shields in Eastern Europe, has paid out enormous political dividends in the form of cooperation from other nations on the problem of nuclear weapons in Iran. Specifically, Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev has expressed a new level of receptiveness to the idea of helping the U.S. curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions, stating, “We believe we need to help Iran to take [sic] a right decision ... sanctions rarely lead to productive results, but in some cases, sanctions are inevitable.”

The addition of Russian support in the effort to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a major victory for the U.S. The Obama administration should capitalize on this moment by drafting up a plan for multilateral intervention that secures a written agreement from Russia and leverages the United States’ position in the battle against nuclear proliferation. The Russian expression of a desire to cooperate comes at a particularly convenient time considering the recent discovery of a secret Iranian uranium enrichment facility. Clearly, Iran has not been entirely transparent about its nuclear development, and the Obama administration needs [to] make sure that the U.S. will not be blindsided by the nuclear ambitions of Tehran.

But this does not mean that the United States’ newly buttressed position should be used to antagonize Iran. The volatile nation is not one that responds well to threats or accusations — shortly after the Obama

administration’s censure of the Iranian deception, Iran test-fired several shortrange missiles in what may be interpreted as a show of force. There is still potential for reconciliation, and the upcoming talks with Iran in Geneva should be defined by neither appeasement nor Axis-of-Evil-era aggression, but rather by a U.S. that is willing to negotiate but is unwilling to tolerate further deception. These talks represent the first direct negotiations with Iran in 30 years and a chance to repair a relationship that has continued to decline into a state of disrepair for the last eight years.

The Iran issue is dauntingly complex and terrifyingly volatile, but not impossible to solve. It is not in Iran’s best interests to start an international conflict when the only one on their side is an Iranian public who questions its own government’s legitimacy. Rather than immediately coercing Tehran, Obama should make sure that he continues to adopt a flexible and multilateral foreign policy through negotiation, not alienation.

Corrections The article, “Kwak hopes for government seat despite flyer incident,” that ran on Oct. 2 incorrectly stated that Judicial Affairs Officer Veronica Carter serves on the Committee on Student Life. Carter does not sit on the board.

The credit accompanying a photo that ran with the article, “In poor economy, journalism schools see rise in applications,” on Oct. 2 mistakenly identified the photographer as Rebekah Sokol. In fact, the photographer was James Choca.

The article, “Tufts isolates ill students to prevent spread of swine flu,” that ran on Oct. 1 suggested in one instance that students living in on-campus single dorm rooms need not self-isolate. In fact, as described elsewhere in the article, the university is isolating students already living in singles in those students’ own rooms instead of sending them elsewhere.

EDITORIAL POLICY Editorials that appear on this page are written by the Editorial Page editors, and individual editors are not necessarily responsible for, or in agreement with, the policies and editorials of the Tufts Daily. The content of letters, advertisements, signed columns, cartoons and graphics does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Tufts Daily editorial board.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters must be submitted by 4 p.m. and should be handed into the Daily office or sent to letters@tuftsdaily.com. All letters must be word processed and include the writer’s name and telephone number. There is a 350-word limit and letters must be verified. The editors reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, space and length.

ADVERTISING POLICY All advertising copy is subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief, Executive Board and Executive Business Director. A publication schedule and rate card are available upon request.

THE TUFTS DAILY

Monday, October 5, 2009

11

OP-ED

The line between offensive and censorable BY

C.J. SARACENO

Every so often, the seriousness of a bias incident reaches seemingly unprecedented levels. This is to discourage future behavior that could further upset the balance of Tufts’ social environment, in which people from all walks of life can come together freely and openly to share experiences, knowledge and ideas. After all, Tufts’ social environment is certainly one of its selling points and is only made possible by the student body’s compliance.

Upon entry, freshmen are silently shepherded into tacitly consenting to this unstated social contract. They trade in a few freedoms to help forge a unique and vibrant environment in which openness and individuality thrive — an environment that noticeably dissipates as you move away from campus. The e-mail sent out Sept. 21 by Deans Robert Sternberg and Linda Abriola in response to the recent bias incident even referenced the need to preserve this ideal community, stating that “the denigration of any individual or group based on race or ethnicity is not consistent with the civic discourse that makes for a great university community.” Tufts students are repeatedly asked to do what is best for the community, and it is not like acquiescing to this demand is difficult for most Jumbos who, according to Princeton Review’s student survey, are “genuinely nice,” “laid back” and “only competitive with themselves.”

However, some individuals choose to violate this unspoken contract the moment they are first confronted with it, like when freshman In-Goo Kwak came to Tufts and decided to parody the poster of a candidate running for a seat on the Tufts Community Union Senate. The campus’ reaction to Kwak’s parody poster, which included front-page Daily coverage and a reactionary meeting, had students in a hysteria that was all too reminiscent of last year’s bias incident involving members of the Tufts Korean Students Association. However, equating Kwak’s case to cases like last year’s bias incident, in which a freshman shouted racial slurs amid an altercation with a group of Korean students, sets a dangerous precedent.

When an individual refuses to follow the herd, no matter how feeble or ill-conceived his attempts at resistance are, steps are taken by those in charge to force the rogue into compliance. One initial step involves the demonization of the individual by those on the offense. In an op-ed published on Sept. 28, fittingly titled “Time for intolerance,” Robert Siy, community representative of the Asian Student Union, said Kwak made many people feel both “hurt and confused.” In addition to being scolded by various officials, Kwak will probably also gain a reputation for being a racist. Most students refuse to sympathize with this handicap, despite knowing that it will surely influence and possibly poison every one of Kwak’s future relationships with students, faculty and staff members who are familiar with his past. Upsetting the balance in the community prompts reactionary justice that is characterized by the same prejudice this campus intended to expunge. Vilification of perpetrator precedes vilification of offensive speech in general.

I’d check off this step the moment Siy demanded the administration “recognize [Kwak’s] posters and all similar ones as unwelcome in the Tufts community.”

Before this issue officially expires from public debate, I must express my hesitancy in letting a student representative tell our university that this poster and all similar ones are unwelcome in the Tufts community. While we are all aware of the harmful effects of Kwak’s racist and offensive poster, are we to assume that such effects overshadow the inherent value of this individual’s chosen method of self expression? Tufts students were very quick to jump back on the April 9, 2009 bandwagon in

REBEKAH SOKOL/TUFTS DAILY

pronouncing Kwak’s poster deplorable, but if we suspend our rage and take a brief glance at it, we might see other interpretations. We might even determine that this is not the equivalent of painting a swastika on a doorway, hanging a noose on a tree or calling a bunch of Koreans “chinks.”

Some students made the point that because Kwak is South Korean, his poster represents an attempt to distance himself from his own heritage, an act that is harmful because it reaffirms a negative stereotype of Asians. This stereotype might be related to what sociology professor Nazli Kibria says in her 1999 study, “College and Notions of ‘Asian-American,’” in regards to Asian students’ popular image as “nerdy” — that is, “extremely studious, serious, shy, mathematically inclined and lacking in social skills and outside interests.” She goes on to say that “the ‘Asian nerd’ embodies qualities that are fundamentally antithetical to individuality.” Kibria’s study analyzes the college lives of 64 second-generation Chinese and Korean Americans and her findings could shed some light on why Kwak felt the need to comment on a stereotype. Finding himself in a new place surrounded by strangers, Kwak saw an opportunity to express his individuality by simultaneously rejecting a stereotype he felt being placed on him by strangers and taking action so bold that it prompted people to reexamine their expectations of him and his race.

A simpler explanation might be that he wanted to highlight the ridiculousness of freshmen running for Senate at the start of the school year despite having little experience with which to govern. Kwak obviously had no intention of insulting the Senate candidate whose poster he was parodying, and he issued an apology to those he did offend.

My point is not to defend Kwak’s poster but merely to point out the fact that just because it was received publicly as offensive does not mean it is inherently bad. Students can be offended by what they see, but that should not give them the right to label it censorable. Yet there are people

urging our administration to ban Kwak’s poster and all similar ones from Tufts. Keep in mind that similar posters could be ones that depict Muhammad, insult President Barack Obama or make the case for atheism; no matter what, they’re all offensive to someone and therefore should be unwelcome at Tufts.

This entire time, we’ve been shamed into thinking that because of people like In-Goo Kwak, our environment has been tainted and we must work to quash the infestation.

But this is not the case. Instead, a poster, as unauthorized and offensive as it may be, is a form of speech, and if an individual lacks the freedom to express such speech on a college campus of all places, then what exactly are we trying to preserve in the first place? This poster, while certainly immature and crude, has brought up interesting questions, lively debate and the type of controversy that characterizes the college experience.

What truly stands at odds with the goal of a college environment is the same mindset Ray Bradbury warned us about in “Fahrenheit 451”: Society requested the government shield it from anything that could be deemed offensive, which led to the burning of all books. It is complacency, apathy, demagoguery and the fear of opposing viewpoints that now pose the real threats to our precious environment. To avoid such hazards, we must call upon both our courage and our maturity to look past the initial shock value of speech and leave our emotions at the door. And as Tufts President Lawrence Bacow stressed after last semester’s bias incident, “We must be vigilant in defending individual liberties even if it means that from time to time we must tolerate speech that violates our standards of civility and respect.”

C.J. Saraceno is a junior majoring in political science. He is the assistant web editor of The Primary Source.

FROM THE PUBLIC EDITOR

Missed opportunity: the Daily’s TCU presidential election coverage BY

DUNCAN PICKARD

The public editor seeks to be the liaison between campus media and their readers.

As Public Editor, I hope to advance a campus conversation on Tufts media, bringing forward important issues we often take for granted and putting issues in new contexts that challenge the way we get our news.

Now in its second year, the Public Editor works under the Media Advocacy Board as an ombudsman for all campus media outlets. This semester, I will write weekly in the Daily, blog regularly at tuftsroundtable. org/publiceditor, tweet from time to time at @TuftsMedia and maybe pop up in other places around campus. I intend to field comments from the community and will do my best to relay questions and answers to and from campus editorial boards.

I do not want to bash one publication all the time, and I do not want to be seen as objective; like all informed audiences, I have my own opinions. Rather, I hope the Public Editor becomes an independent voice in the campus media that audiences and editorial boards can trust to provide a fresh perspective.

The Daily failed to live up to one of journalism’s greatest responsibilities and take advantage of one of its greatest oppor-

tunities in its coverage of the 2009 Tufts Community Union (TCU) presidential election: to challenge the status quo and uncover the beauties and the beasts of our campus community.

Specifically, in its editorial endorsing then-senior Brandon Rattiner, the election’s eventual winner, the Daily neglected to even mention one of the candidates, thensophomore Samia Zahran. Only Rattiner and then-sophomore Chas Morrison were compared and touted for their experience and leadership skills.

Forgive me for reviving this issue five months after the fact. But I considered this an important oversight from last semester’s Daily editorial board, providing important lessons for the future.

In its editorial, the Daily reflected what many considered at the time to be the status quo, the mainstream idea that only Morrison and Rattiner made viable candidates for the presidency. And although the Senate duly nominated all three candidates, it is within the editorial board’s discretion to discredit one of the candidates running. Rather, the Daily missed an opportunity to editorialize on important issues on campus, reflecting a hyper-politicized campus mainstream the Daily is often quick to criticize.

One reaction to this criticism is that

national publications often do not consider third-party candidates in their endorsements, and television networks only invite frontrunners to debates. But too often we compare our political and media networks to their national counterparts, comparisons that are always false. Not only is the scope entirely different, but also Rattiner and Morrison were not backed by decades of party histories that legitimize the dominance of the Democrats and the Republicans in national electoral politics. Are we really a campus that assigns national partisanship to its student leaders?

Indeed, the Daily’s editorial board has often criticized the hyper-politicized Senate taking itself too seriously, notably in “A questionable allocation” from April 7 on the decision to fund the Trips Cabin at the Loj and “A botched election” from April 10 on the recount of the 2012 Senate seats. In its presidential endorsement, the Daily’s editorial board mirrored the elitism of the Senate they found pernicious in other editorials.

Win or lose, one of the most exciting parts about running for TCU president is the ability to affect campus debate around important issues and bring new debates to the fore. I think Zahran did a wonderful job of doing just that, raising controversial and important issues — if narrow in scope —

about race and campus climate that would likely not have been explored to the same degree had she not included those issues in her platform. The editorial board lost a wonderful opportunity to comment on the importance of those issues when it wrote her out of the election.

Perhaps the editorial board didn’t think Zahran had the experience to lead the Senate. Or maybe it didn’t think her ideas were fresh. Or maybe it didn’t think race and campus climate are important. We don’t know, because it didn’t explain its thinking.

A wonderfully thoughtful editorial could have highlighted the importance of Zahran’s platform while endorsing someone else. Or one editorial could have endorsed Rattiner while another evaluated Zahran’s absence from the mainstream campus conversations about the election. Either way, her ideas merited at least some mention. But it’s a new editorial board now and in the future, so we’ll see how its perspective changes.

Duncan Pickard is a senior majoring in history. He is the Media Advocacy Board’s public editor, and his opinions are strictly his own. He can be reached at tuftspubliceditor@gmail.com, or through his blog at tuftsroundtable.org/publiceditor.

OP-ED POLICY The Op-Ed section of The Tufts Daily, an open forum for campus editorial commentary, is printed Monday through Thursday. Op-Ed welcomes submissions from all members of the Tufts community. Opinion articles on campus, national and international issues should be 600 to 1,200 words in length. All material is subject to editorial discretion, and is not guaranteed to appear in The Tufts Daily. All material should be submitted by no later than 1 p.m. on the day prior to the desired day of publication. Material must be submitted via e-mail (oped@tuftsdaily.com) attached in .doc or .docx format. Questions and concerns should be directed to the Op-Ed editors. The opinions expressed in the Op-Ed section do not necessarily represent the opinions of The Tufts Daily itself.

THE TUFTS DAILY

12 CROSSWORD

COMICS

DOONESBURY

Monday, October 5, 2009 BY

GARRY TRUDEAU

NON SEQUITUR

BY

SOLUTIONS TO FRIDAY’S PUZZLE

MARRIED TO THE SEA

www.marriedtothesea.com

SUDOKU Level: Beating Bates Bobcats

LATE NIGHT AT THE DAILY Solution to Friday’s puzzle

Naomi: “Lunch meats don’t spout condiments out of their orifices.”

Please recycle this Daily

WILEY

THE TUFTS DAILY

Monday, October 5, 2009

13

SPORTS

Jumbos sweep through competition en route to Tufts Invitational title VOLLEYBALL continued from page 16

the sixth annual Tufts Invitational at Cousens Gymnasium, dropping just one set over four matches en route to reclaiming the title at their home tournament.

“To win our own tournament and take that title back is always awesome,” senior cocaptain Dena Feiger said. “Those were some of the best teams we’ve seen so far, so we had to step up our game to beat them.”

With the 12-1 set record they accumulated over their four matches, the Jumbos were able to edge out MIT for the tournament title even though the teams never played head-to-head. While Tufts invited some tough out-of-region teams to put them to the test, the Jumbos seemed to make easy work of their competition.

In their final match Saturday afternoon, the Jumbos clipped the Keene State Owls in straight sets, earning their 10th shutout of the season and extending their winning streak to 16 matches, tying a program record set in 2004. After falling behind early on in the first set, coach Cora Thompson used a timeout to regroup her squad and send them back onto the court with purpose.

The break seemed to work, as the Jumbos quickly turned around and took the set 25-21 despite a valiant fight from the Owls.

From then on, things only seemed to get easier, as Tufts rolled through the next two sets 25-13 and 25-12, including a nine-point run to lead off the third set.

Feiger, the tournament MVP, set up the offense with 34 assists as junior Dawson Joyce-Mendive and senior co-captain Brogie Helgeson led the attack with 16 and 11 kills, respectively. Sophomore Audrey Kuan was on her usual form as the team’s defensive anchor, racking up 12 digs on the match.

In its first match of the day, which was also a sweep, things went even more smoothly as Tufts crushed Potsdam State 25-14, 25-9, 25-10. The Jumbos never gave the Bears a chance, not once surrendering a lead. Leading the onslaught with 10 kills was junior Caitlin Updike, whose 46 kills over the course of the weekend earned her All-Tournament honors.

While starting setter Feiger took the opportunity to get some rest, freshman Kendall Lord impressed in her debut start, proving that the Jumbos need not worry who will be running the offense next year. She posted 26 assists and, perhaps more notably, was efficient attacking herself with six kills and no errors on eight tries.

“Having games like this gives us confidence and a picture of where we stand in the region,” Helgeson said.

Friday evening produced the only scare of the weekend for the Jumbos when Hiram handed them a first-set loss by eking out a

SCOTT TINGLEY/TUFTS DAILY

Senior setter Dena Feiger was named Tournament MVP at this weekend’s Tufts Invitational.

Feiger led the Jumbos to a 4-0 record to win the tournament while only dropping one set. back-and-forth 27-25 win with a key block by senior Randa Jackson and freshman Ariel Pund.

After the difficult start, it looked like Tufts was back in business when it jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the next frame and built that margin to 14-4. But the Terriers proved scrappier than expected, rallying to capture the next

nine points and pull to within one. Finally, an Updike kill put a stop to the bleeding and the Jumbos went on to take the set 25-22.

The strike was one of the junior hitter’s teamleading 17 during the match.

A much smoother third set saw the Jumbos take a 25-19 win as Joyce-Mendive landed three of her 11 kills on the match.

But just when it looked like Tufts finally had the Terriers on the leash, Hiram proved once more that it had some fight left, taking a 9-3 lead to start the set. It was not enough to halt the Jumbos’ momentum, though, and Tufts clawed its way back to finish off the match with another 25-19 win.

“After playing a weaker team [earlier in the day], it’s hard to get pumped up for a harder match,” Helgeson said.

The Jumbos committed an uncharacteristically high 29 errors, though they say that fatigue was not a factor.

“We don’t see [the season] as a test so much as a continued project of getting better and better every match,” Thompson said.

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

“We want to be challenged by the best teams we can be,” she continued. “The way we make our schedule, we want to play the toughest teams so there aren’t any lulls or peaks and valleys in our season.”

In their opening match of the tournament, the Jumbos were looking for a little vengeance against Union, a theme as of late. The last time these two teams faced each other was in the 2008 Tufts Invitational, when the Dutchwomen handed the Jumbos their first loss of the season, ending a 15-match winning streak. That loss was also the last time the Jumbos dropped a regular-season match at home. With that in mind, Tufts looked to settle the score. “[Last year] was on our minds, but the Union we saw [Saturday] was a lot weaker than the team we saw last year,” Helgeson said.

Paced by Updike and sophomore Lexi Nicholas with 11 kills apiece, Tufts swept Union 25-23, 25-15, 25-14 to close the book on the rivalry, at least for now.

“Revenge is sweet,” said Feiger, who posted 32 assists and 10 digs in the victory.

“Beating Union was so awesome. A lot of us were still feeling we had to beat them after last year’s loss.”

With their second tournament championship in as many weekends in the books, the Jumbos can now turn their attention to the incredibly demanding conference schedule that lies ahead of them. Starting with a match on Wednesday against Bowdoin, Tufts is slated to face six straight NESCAC opponents in 11 days. And with the exception of Wednesday’s contest, the Jumbos will spend the remainder of the season on the road, returning to Cousens Gym only if it is to host the NESCAC Tournament or NCAA Regionals for the second year in a row.

“We’ve been getting ready the entire season and we finally have all our NESCAC competition coming up all in a row,” Feiger said. “We’re confident and ready to face any opponent.”

Tufts dominates pace of game, sets season highs in shots and penalty corners

Jumbos now look to Plymouth State match on Wednesday

FIELD HOCKEY

MEN’S SOCCER

continued from page 15

time to get used to it. I think that they had more space to work with than they would on zone, but it took some time to realize that.”

In the first half, the Tufts squad found some difficulty acclimating itself to the Bobcats’ defensive style of play. While the Jumbos were slowed in the initial minutes of play, the tide soon shifted as the forward line found its rhythm against Bates’ oneon-one coverage.

After 15 minutes of scoreless play, junior forward Amanda Roberts exploited a breakaway opportunity to notch Tufts’ first goal of the game. The goal ended Roberts’ own scoring drought this year, marking the first of the season for the third-team All-American.

Just four minutes later, the Jumbos were on attack once again, this time on a penalty corner play. Just as the Tufts squad set its season total record for shots, the Jumbos’ 21 penalty corner opportunities were the most since the team recorded 36 in a November 2008 faceoff against the Trinity Bantams.

On her first goal of the season,

Scholtes caught a pass from junior midfielder Jess Perkins to put the Jumbos up 2-0 for the remainder of the half.

“We’ve been practicing a lot on penalty corner shots, and I’ve specifically worked with Margi on her shots on corners,” McDavitt said. “It was nice to see that work pay off today with the goal off the penalty corner, and it was a very well executed play.”

In the second frame, the Bobcats briefly showed up on offense with some nearbreakaway opportunities, but their scoring hopes were generally squashed by Tufts’ defensive unit. Ten minutes in, however, Bates freshman Michelle Brady scored on a controversial free hit against junior goalie Katie Hyder that was initially challenged by the Jumbos, though to no avail.

Having allowed only four goals total this season, the Jumbos were generally satisfied with their strong play on defense that saw a number of players receive playing time.

“We did a good job of working together, and we had a lot of players sharing time on the field,” Scholtes said. “We did well on making low block tackles and double-teaming. They

only had a few shots on goal, with one ending in a goal on a questionable hit. We basically stopped them and really didn’t give up many opportunities.”

Three minutes following the Bobcat goal, the Jumbos responded when senior co-captain Amanda Russo, off a feed from senior forward Michelle Kelly, caught the Bobcats’ keeper on the opposite side of the net to notch an insurance goal that would be the game’s last.

The victory placed the Jumbos atop the NESCAC alongside the undefeated Bantams.

The Jumbos only have a few days of rest before matching up against non-conference opponent Wellesley on the road Tuesday. The last time the Jumbos lost a regular season away game was on Sept.

12, 2007 against the Blue.

With the season halfway done and the team’s history with Wellesley in mind, the Jumbos are taking a steady approach to their non-conference foe.

“I think we really need to show up on Tuesday,” McDavitt said. “Wellesley is a feisty team and they always give us a challenging game, so we’re going to have to prepare ourselves for them in the next few days.”

continued from page 14

“We’re OK with a tie, but I’m disappointed that’s one of the reasons we didn’t get a win.”

Tufts had another excellent chance to score in the first overtime, when senior tri-captain midfielder Bear Duker put a ball in the air for senior forward Dan Schoening.

Schoening sent it over the head of Watts, and for a moment the Jumbos thought they’d won the game with their first NESCAC goal of the season.

“I started walking off the field because I thought the game was over,” Duker said. “It was past their goalie, but it hit the crossbar, and we’ve kind of been unlucky that way this season.”

Still, the Jumbos were upbeat after the game, as they showed significant improvement.

Despite the unfavorable conditions, Tufts played well defensively and possessed the ball for the majority of the match.

“Half of soccer is not letting the other team score, and so we’re happy to get out of there without allowing a goal,” Muakkassa said.

Much of the credit for the shutout goes to senior tri-captain goalkeeper Pat Tonelli, who had an excellent game. Tonelli made

four saves and was instrumental in helping the defense keep the Bobcats at bay. It was the seventh shutout of Tonelli’s collegiate career.

“Pat had one of the best games I’ve seen him play in goal in my four years,” Duker said.

Although they also were unable to land a shot in the back of the net, the Jumbos, who are competing with Bates and Colby for the final spot in the conference tournament, were pleased to emerge with their first tie in NESCAC play this season. With five more conference games to go, Tufts came out of Saturday’s contest tied with the Bobcats for the last slot. Colby is half a game behind with an extra loss on its ledger (0-4-1).

“The season just hasn’t gone our way yet, and we’ve been unlucky, but we just need to not be in one of the last two spots so we can make the playoffs,” Duker said.

“And though we’re still scoreless in NESCAC play, this tie didn’t really hurt us.”

After traveling to Plymouth State for a non-conference game on Wednesday, the Jumbos will return for a crucial NESCAC tilt with the Colby Mules during Homecoming weekend next Saturday at 1:30 p.m. on Bello Field.

THE TUFTS DAILY

14

1-1 Polar Bears await Jumbos

Monday, October 5, 2009

SPORTS

MEN’S SOCCER

Tufts plays to scoreless tie at Bates

FOOTBALL

BY

DANIEL RATHMAN

Daily Editorial Board

continued from page 16

“At that point we were down and needed to change the momentum and we did that with the drive. I was talking to the guys and we said that we needed to pull one out right there.”

In Tufts’ first possession of the fourth quarter, the Jumbos snagged some insurance when McManama, under pressure from a blitz, found junior Pat Bailey on the opposite end of the field for a 71-yard touchdown play.

“We ran it a few times in practice; it was wide open every single time,” McManama said. “In the game it worked out pretty well because they blitzed four guys and had nine guys coming at me, so only one guy out in the flat was covering Bailey. I saw the cornerback’s back was turned so I just chucked it up to him.”

Bates’ best offensive opportunity came in the second quarter when it recovered Bailey’s fumble on the Jumbos’ 26-yard line.

On fourth down, Tassinari stopped senior Tom Beaton just short of the goal line, effectively ending Bates’ only red-zone drive on the afternoon.

“Any stop in the red zone is important; every time you make a stop it’s huge for your team,” Perry said. “The goal is to always try to hold the offense to a field goal. When they don’t get any points, it’s huge.”

From there, the Jumbos took over with a clock-burning offense designed to preserve their lead. Tufts finished with 41 ground attempts against just 12 passes, rushing for 168 yards. Bailey led the squad with 152 all-purpose yards, including his lengthy touchdown, while freshman Mike Howell and McManama contributed 40 and 27 yards, respectively.

Through the air, McManama was much better than he was against Wesleyan, completing 50 percent of his passes and two scores, against just one interception. More importantly, with senior quad-captain starter Anthony Fucillo out with an ankle injury, McManama directed the Jumbos to their first win of the year.

“Getting this win is huge,” McManama said. “It’s definitely putting us in the right direction and a huge step for us. The offense is improving a lot; we finally got in the end zone a couple times. We just need to come completely focused to practice and be aggressive.”

Despite the win, the Jumbos have gotten through the easy part of their schedule at a 1-1 clip and now turn their attention to Saturday’s homecoming game against Bowdoin. Though the Polar Bears fell to 1-1 with a 13-12 loss at Amherst, senior quarterback Oliver Kell is averaging 345.5 passing yards per game, or roughly 90 yards more than the total yards the Jumbos have given up per contest thus far.

But for Tufts, which is 10-2 in home games since 2006, returning to the Ellis Oval for consecutive NESCAC matchups could not feel better.

“It’s the homecoming game so there’s going to be a lot of people there,” Perry said.

“It’s always nice to play at home, not taking a two or three hour bus ride. But you get up to play with all 70 guys the same way each week, doesn’t matter if it’s home or away, there’s nothing better than that.”

Coming into last week with an 0-4-1 record, the men’s soccer team knew that it needed to find a way to start winning MEN’S SOCCER (1-4-2, 0-3-1 NESCAC) at Lewiston, Maine, Saturday Tufts Bates

0 0

0 — 0 0 — 0

games. The Jumbos came through with an overtime victory against Suffolk in a nonconference game on Tuesday and then took the pitch in Lewiston, Maine against Bates looking to start a streak.

The Bobcats (2-4-1 overall, 0-3-1 in NESCAC play) are considered a lower-tier team in the conference and a team that the Jumbos needed to beat if they were to compete with their more successful rivals. Even though the Jumbos outplayed Bates for the majority of the match, they never achieved a goal, and the game ended in a scoreless draw after two overtime periods.

Tufts was outshot by Bates 20-19 and made fewer attempts on goal — two against four for Bates — but the Bobcats’ gameplan was hindered by the wet conditions at Russell Street Field.

“Their strategy was to kick the ball over the top, and in that weather, their means of attack really didn’t work,” junior tri-captain midfielder Naji Muakkassa said.

ANDREW MORGENTHALER/ TUFTS DAILY

Senior goalie Pat Tonelli made four saves to preserve a shutout for Tufts on Saturday, the seventh of his collegiate career. The Jumbos, however, failed to score their first NESCAC goal of the season and tied Bates 0-0. with just over 10 minutes left in regulation.

Muakkassa took the kick from 11 meters away but sent it just high. The ball hit the crossbar, leaving the 0-0 score unchanged.

“I put the weight of missing that penalty kick on my shoulders,” Muakkassa said.

The Jumbos had the game’s best chance to score in the 78th minute. Junior midfielder Ron Coleman’s shot beat Bates’ sophomore goalkeeper Greg Watts but was then hand-balled out by sophomore forward Chris Okano. Okano was red-carded and ejected from the game for the play, and the Jumbos were awarded a penalty kick

see MEN’S SOCCER, page 13

SCHEDULE | Oct. 5 - Oct. 11 MON

TUE

WED

THUR

FRI

SAT

SUN

vs. Bowdoin 1:00 p.m.

Football

vs. Colby 1:00 p.m.

at Wellesley 4:30 p.m.

Field Hockey

Men’s Tennis

Men’s Soccer

at Plymouth St. 6:00 p.m.

Women’s Soccer

at Brandeis 4:00 p.m.

Volleyball

vs. Bowdoin 7:30 p.m.

vs. Colby 1:30 p.m. vs. Colby 3:30 p.m.

vs. Bates at Bowdoin 8:00 p.m.

vs. Colby at Bowdoin 8:00 p.m.

Women’s Tennis

JumboCast

STATISTICS | STANDINGS Field Hockey

Women's Soccer

Men's Soccer

Volleyball

Football

NCAA Div. III Field Hockey

(7-0, 4-0 NESCAC)

(4-3-0, 2-2-0 NESCAC)

(1-4-2, 0-3-1 NESCAC)

(16-1, 2-0 NESCAC)

(1-1, 1-1 NESCAC)

(Sept. 29, 2009)

NESCAC

W 4 Trinity 4 Tufts 4 Williams Middlebury 3 2 Bowdoin Conn. Coll. 2 2 Amherst 1 Colby 0 Bates Wesleyan 0

T. Brown A. Russo M. Kelly M. Burke T. Guttadauro J. Perkins M. Scholtes L. Griffith A. Roberts

OVERALL

L W 0 7 0 7 0 4 2 5 2 6 2 3 3 5 3 4 5 1 5 2 G 7 5 2 1 2 1 1 1 1

Goalkeeping GA M. Zak 3 K. Hyder 1

L 0 0 3 2 2 4 3 3 6 5 A 4 2 1 3 0 2 1 1 0

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pts 18 12 5 5 4 4 3 3 2

S S% 12 .800 3 .750

NESCAC OVERALL

W Middlebury 5 4 Williams 3 Amherst 2 Bowdoin 2 Tufts Wesleyan 2 1 Trinity 1 Bates 0 Colby Conn. Coll. 0

A. Michael W. Hardy A. Maxwell C. Cadigan S. Nolet J. Love-Nichols F. Gamal L. O’Connor J. Jamison

L 0 0 1 2 2 3 2 3 3 4 G 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0

W 7 8 5 4 4 5 2 2 2 3

L 0 0 2 3 3 3 2 4 4 5

T 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0

A 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0

Pts 6 4 4 3 3 1 0 0 0

Goalkeeping GA S S% K. Minnehan 4 27 .871

NESCAC

W Wesleyan 3 Williams 3 Conn. Coll. 3 Trinity 2 Bowdoin 3 Amherst 2 Middlebury 1 Bates 0 Tufts 0 Colby 0

L 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 4

D. Schoening S. Saropoulos Blumenthal A. Lach R. Coleman M. Fitzgerald B. Green P. Tonelli N. Muakkassa

G 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

T 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 1

OVERALL

W 5 6 5 5 5 4 4 2 1 1 A 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0

L 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 5 Pts 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 0

Goalkeeping GA S S% P. Tonelli 12 23 .657

T 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 2

NESCAC OVERALL

W 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

L W L 0 8 2 0 6 3 0 12 1 0 9 4 1 7 5 1 10 3 0 8 2 1 3 15 2 8 2 2 4 9 2 4 8

Offensive C. Updike Joyce-Mendive B. Helgeson L. Nicholas E. Lokken K. Ellefsen B. Neff

Kills SA 190 59 160 48 140 54 74 46 69 48 30 12 26 26

Amherst Trinity Tufts Williams Bowdoin Conn. Coll.

Middlebury Hamilton Bates Colby Wesleyan

Defensive A. Kuan D. Feiger B. Helgeson C. Updike N. Shrodes K. Engelking

B 0 6 2 1 1 0

Digs 253 116 113 113 97 70

Amherst Trinity Bowdoin Hamilton Middlebury Tufts Wesleyan Williams Bates Colby

W 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0

L 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2

PF 34 61 62 38 80 18 21 44 21 19

Points (First-place votes) 1. Messiah, 1085 (44) 2. Salisbury, 1025 (2) 3. Tufts, 975 (6) 4. Ursinus, 906 5. SUNY Cortland, 848 6. Trinity College, 761 7. Lebanon Valley, 708 8. TCNJ, 606 9. Johns Hopkins, 604 10. Skidmore, 527

PA 24 35 48 35 50 14 29 45 50 68

Rushing Att. Yds. Avg. P. Bailey 28 92 3.3 D. Ferguson 25 55 2.2 M. Howell 4 48 12.0

TD 0 0 0

Passing Pct. Yds TD INT McManama 42.2 245 2 1 Receiving P. Bailey M. Howell

No. Yds Avg. TD 10 141 70.5 1 2 22 11 0

Defense M. Murray T. Tassinari F. Albitar

Tack INT Sack 1 14.0 0 0 14.0 0 1 10.0 0

N.E. Div. III Women's Soccer (Sept. 29, 2009) 1. Messiah 2. Puget Sound 3. Williams 4. Wheaton 5. William Smith 6. Illinois Wesleyan 7. Ithaca 8. Trinity (Texas) 9. Wartburg 10. Johns Hopkins

THE TUFTS DAILY

Monday, October 5, 2009

15

SPORTS

FIELD HOCKEY

DAVID HECK | THE SAUCE

Undefeated Jumbos thrash Bobcats 3-1 BY

MICHAEL SPERA

Daily Editorial Board

The women’s field hockey team routed the Bates Bobcats 3-1 in Lewiston, Maine on Saturday for the Jumbos’

B

FIELD HOCKEY (7-0, 4-0 NESCAC) at Lewiston, Maine, Saturday Tufts Wesleyan

2 0

1 — 3 1 — 1

seventh consecutive victory against the fledging NESCAC bottom-feeder.

By the end of regulation, the Tufts squad had racked up some of its best offensive numbers all year. In the Saturday afternoon matchup, the Jumbos held a striking 44-4 advantage in shots that helped them cruise to the win over the 1-6 Bobcats. The 44-shot mark is Tufts’ highest of the season, surpassing the 42-shot total set in its late September shutout of the UMass Dartmouth Corsairs.

Though the Jumbos scored two of their three goals on free-hit shots, Tufts generally set the pace of play.

The Bobcats were on defense all game, resulting in a multitude of rebound opportunities and rapid-fire shots. In all, five Jumbos tallied at least five shots over the course of the game, while the Bobcats’ goalie recorded 17 saves.

“We were good on the initial shots, but it was the rebounds that we scored on,” senior co-captain Margi Scholtes said.

“They played man-to-man defense, and they were very physical so we had to find ways to work around that. We had

ALEX DENNETT/TUFTS DAILY

Senior co-captain Margi Scholtes scored what proved to be the game winning goal against Bates on Saturday. The Jumbos, who took 44 shots in the game, improved to 7-0 on the season. to make quicker passes to get around the girls.”

“I think we had a lot of opportunities, but the problem was that not all of our shots were that great,” coach Tina McDavitt added. “Another

issue was that Bates plays man-toman defense, while most of the teams we go up against play zone defense.

I think the girls had to take a little see FIELD HOCKEY, page 13

Tufts now tied for fourth place in NESCAC standings WOMEN’S SOCCER continued from page 16

advantage in the 10th minute when senior co-captain Whitney Hardy scored the second goal of the game — and her second of the season — by heading in the ball after a scramble up front.

“It was definitely a confidence-builder,” Cadigan said. “We know we can do it now, so from this point on it will be building on that.”

“I think we just finally have been doing everything that we have been talking about doing and practicing doing,” Minnehan added. “It all came together on Saturday.”

The Tufts defense was solid and kept the Bobcats from getting any offensive push, though both teams finished with six shots in the second half. On the game, however, Minnehan was forced to make just one save and recorded her

fourth shutout of the season.

“I think we kept possession for such a majority of the game it didn’t even give their forwards and midfielders time to produce anything,” Minnehan said.

“While our defense has obviously been very consistent, I think that [in] this game, since we were keeping possession for so much time, it gave them less stuff they had to deal with.”

The win brings Tufts’ season record to 4-3, but more importantly to 2-2 in the NESCAC. That puts them in a tie with Bowdoin and Wesleyan for fourth in the conference standings, with the Jumbos owning a win over the Cardinals.

Tufts could go a long way to ensuring a spot in the top end of the conference in the next two weeks, as it plays its next four games at home. Those contests will include three games against teams on the lower rung of the NESCAC

in Colby, Conn. College and Trinity, who combined have just one conference win this year.

“At this point in the season, it is such a short season that every game matters,” Cadigan said. “Every game is important, and we are just trying to win and keep winning until NESCACs.” For now, however, the Jumbos will focus on Wednesday’s non-conference match up with Brandeis, the team currently ranked one spot above them at No. 7 in the Div. III New England rankings. Tufts has beaten the Judges four years in a row, including last year’s 1-0 victory in Waltham.

“I don’t know much about Brandeis, but we always have a good game against them,” Minnehan said. “I think we need to go into this game with the same mentality that we went into this weekend and stay focused.”

Athletes of the Week PAT BAILEY, FOOTBALL After Tufts’ offense struggled in the season-opening 7-3 loss to Wesleyan on Sept. 26, it was junior Pat Bailey who jump-started the squad and led the team to a 15-7 victory at Bates.

The tailback was a steady force for the Jumbos, averaging 3.5 yards per carry and helping Tufts control the pace of the game and keep Bates’ offense off the field. Bailey led the Jumbos in both rushing and receiving yards — compiling 63 and 89, respectively — but his most important contribution was on the game’s biggest play.

On the Jumbos’ first offensive play of the fourth quarter, with Tufts clinging to a 9-7 lead, Bates brought pressure on Tufts quarterback Tom McManama. Bailey got himself open for his quarterback and hauled in the cross-field pass, then took it all the way to the end-zone for a 71-yard touchdown. The score provided Tufts with much-needed insurance and effectively sealed the victory for the Jumbos.

ANDREW MORGENTHALER/TUFTS DAILY

ALIX MICHAEL, WOMEN’S SOCCER

JAMES CHOCA/TUFTS DAILY

The playoff disclaimer

On Saturday’s road match against the Bates Bobcats, sophomore midfielder Alix Michael came up big with two goals to preserve a Tufts lead in the 3-0 NESCAC shutout victory.

In its fourth conference match up of the season, the 4-3 Tufts squad faced off against a struggling 2-4-1 Bates team that had dropped two out of its last three games. Setting the pace of the game from the onset, Michael notched an unassisted goal from 25 yards out just five minutes in, despite a swarm of defensive players in front of the net, to make it 1-0 Tufts.

About 41 minutes into the first half, the Mercer Island, Wash. native slipped past her defender to tally her second goal of the game and her third of the season. She now leads the Jumbos in goals this season.

Topping the team in shots, goals and points, Michael played an integral role in recording the Jumbos’ biggest win of the year thus far.

ack in late March — as is the custom — newspapers, radio shows and fans alike were asking plenty of questions about the upcoming MLB season.

Would the Yankees come back after their free-agent spending spree and make the playoffs? How good could the young and improving Rays be? Who would take control of the relatively wide-open National League?

Six months and 162 games later, we know the answers to a lot of those questions.

Yes, the Yankees’ free-agent acquisitions were as good as advertised — at least for the 2009 regular season — leading the Bombers to baseball’s best record. No, the Rays did not improve and take control of the AL East, despite their remarkable run to the World Series last year. And in the NL, the high-spending Mets and Cubs proved to be two of the season’s biggest disappointments (again), while the Phillies, Dodgers, Cardinals and Rockies showed themselves to be the cream of the crop.

Even the normally contentious major individual awards are largely settled and agreed upon. It seems clear that the MVP trophies will be sitting on the mantels of Albert Pujols and Joe Mauer, respectively, while Zack Greinke and his absurd 2.16 ERA appear destined for the AL Cy Young.

But the most important question is one we still don’t have an answer to — and no, it’s not about who will win the one-game playoff between the Twins and Tigers (even though that’s still pretty important).

The real question is: Who will take home the World Series crown? There are the favorites and the dark horses, sure, but the results of the MLB playoffs often amount to little more than the spin of a roulette wheel. It’s not like the NBA, in which the better overall team almost always emerges victorious from a sevengame playoff series (which is why the No. 8 seed has upset the No. 1 seed only once since the first round was expanded to seven games).

No, in baseball, any team has about as good of a shot as anyone else. That’s part of the reason why eight different teams have won it in the past nine years, including three wild card teams. In fact, last year was the first time since 2001 that a wild card team did not take part in the World Series.

Regular season records will mean nothing come Wednesday. If CC Sabathia drops Game One of the ALDS, the only numbers that will matter for the Yankees are these: 0-1. The media would have a field day discussing the potential downfall of the league’s most expensive team, and rightfully so — because if the Yanks start in the hole, they will indeed be in some serious trouble.

It doesn’t matter if you got into the playoffs by backing in or by winning your last 10 games. Momentum from the regular season gets washed away in October; every team is capable of making a splash and every team is prone to drowning.

Ultimately, what wins games over the course of a six-month season is not the same thing that wins games in the playoffs. To survive the grind of a 162-game schedule, teams need depth everywhere: the rotation, the bullpen, the bench and even in the minors.

But in the postseason, it’s the top-heavy teams that often excel. A club with a couple of shutdown starters and a single exceptional hitter (I’m looking at you, Cardinals) can seem unstoppable in a short series.

Rarely do individual players dominate the competition for the entire regular season; frequently do individual players dominate their opponents in playoff series.

So while you may be proud of what your team has done so far, just realize that everything can be changed by as little as one poor inning. Sit back, watch the playoffs and enjoy all the drama. But don’t get your hopes up.

If you do, you’re liable to get your heart broken.

David Heck is a senior majoring in philosophy. He can be reached at David.Heck@ tufts.edu.

Sports

16

INSIDE Field Hockey 15 The Sauce 15 Men’s Soccer 14

tuftsdaily.com

FOOTBALL

Stingy defense leads Jumbos over Bates for first win of year BY

ALEX PREWITT

Daily Editorial Board

Saturday’s contest would see one of two things broken: either the Jumbos’ 23-game history of winning FOOTBALL (1-1) at Lewiston, Maine, Saturday Tufts Wesleyan

3 6 0 6 — 15 0 7 0 0 — 7

against Bates or their six-game, onthe-road losing streak. Fortunately for Tufts, it was the latter.

Thanks to a stifling defense which applied pressure at exactly the right times, the Jumbos locked up their first away victory since Sept. 29, 2007, consequently earning their first win of the year over the Bobcats 15-7.

“It’s nice to get the first win in anything because it takes the monkey off your back a little bit,” senior quad-captain Alex Perry said. “It was big, we just needed that win on Saturday at all costs. Going in there it didn’t matter if we had the best game in the world or the worst game, as long as we came out with a win. We went up there to get done what we needed to do.”

Though Bates outdistanced Tufts in yardage — 304 to 280 — the stingy Jumbos defense allowed the Bobcats just one red-zone opportunity and ceded no scores.

Bates’ lone touchdown came early in the second quarter when sophomore Cam Evans snared a pass from Tufts senior quarterback Tom McManama and scampered 12 yards into the end zone.

LAURA SCHULTZ/TUFTS DAILY

Senior quad-captain safety Tom Tassinari (21) led the Jumbos’ defense with 11 tackles. While Tufts allowed Bates 304 total yards of offense, the Bobcats only managed one red-zone attempt, which Tassinari stifled with a fourth-down tackle.

Aside from the yardage totals, Tufts was nearly flawless on the defensive end. Bates converted on just three of 15 third downs and was sacked three times. Led by junior Matthew Murray and senior quadcaptain Tom Tassinari’s 11 tackles apiece, Tufts consistently closed up the running lanes, holding Bates to just 3.4-yards per carry.

“The defense played great today,” McManama said. “It’s real comforting to know that they’re probably going to get a stop every time they go on the field and you’ll get the ball back almost immediately.”

The Jumbos also recorded eight tackles for a loss, while their secondary, which allowed just 55 passing yards in last week’s opener at

Wesleyan, was again stellar, breaking up six passes.

“I thought we played pretty well as a defensive unit; we [bent] but we didn’t break,” Perry said. “They were able to put together a few drives, but once they got into the red zone we were able to step up and make a few big plays, give the ball back to our offense.”

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Jumbos slay endangered Bobcats 3-0 in their most lopsided win of the season BY

ETHAN LANDY

Daily Editorial Board

After a frustrating offensive performance against Babson on Tuesday, the women’s soccer team was left ruing a WOMEN’S SOCCER (4-3, 2-2 NESCAC) at Lewiston, Maine, Saturday Tufts Wesleyan

3 0

0 — 3 0 — 0

number of missed chances. Against Bates on Saturday, however, that was not a problem.

The Jumbos exploded in the first half for three goals en route to a 3-0 victory over the Bobcats, their second consecutive NESCAC win. It was the most goals Tufts has scored in a game thus far this season, and the result was also a marked difference from the close affairs that most of the Jumbos’ games have been, including the 1-0 loss versus Babson.

“If anything it shows that we should have scored on Babson because this team tied Babson,” senior co-captain Cara Cadigan said. “This proves we basically can compete with all the teams in the Northeast if we keep our confidence up and play like we did [Saturday].”

JAMES CHOCA/ TUFTS DAILY

Senior co-captain Whitney Hardy scored the second of Tufts’ three goals against Bates.

The Jumbos have talked about wanting to strike first and not play from behind, and they did just that on Saturday. Sophomore midfielder Alix Michael provided the offense for Tufts early on in the game. She took a chance from 25 yards out and managed to get

the ball into the net despite some traffic up front.

“We went in and Bates was really pumped up, so we wanted to quiet them down and that is always the best way to do it,” senior goalkeeper Kate Minnehan said. “I think that we have been waiting for this breakout moment of getting more than two goals and that is what I think was most important of this game.”

For Michael, it was the first of two goals on the day, as she became the first Tufts player to score two goals in a game since then-freshman Jamie LoveNichols did so on Oct. 14th last year at Keene State. Michael’s second goal of the day came in the 41st minute when she beat a defender and deposited the ball past Bates sophomore keeper Annie Burns, who was the NESCAC Co-Player of the Week last week. Michael’s three goals on the season lead the team.

Tufts dominated the first half and continued to control the pace much of the rest of the game. The Jumbos put up 20 shots in the opening 45 minutes compared to just four for the Bobcats. The offensive onslaught also helped Tufts get 10 corner kicks in the game. The Jumbos would use one of those corners to their see WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 15

“Though we didn’t have any interceptions of fumbles or anything, making stops on fourth down sets the tone and the momentum,” he said. “Their offense had some big plays, but when it came down to it we made the stops when we needed to and kept them in check.”

Most notably, Tufts kept the Bates offense off the field, allowing McManama to grind out the clock with lengthy drives. The Bobcats had three drives that lasted over three minutes, while the Jumbos had five, including back-to-back second-quarter possessions that combined to drain over nine minutes on the clock.

“As an offense we struggled at times but when we needed to put points on the board, we had long drives to do that and we pulled it together at key times,” McManama said. “We wanted to get everything smooth, get first downs and keep moving the chains and keep the defense off the field.”

After striking first with a 35-yard field goal from sophomore Adam Auerbach, the Jumbos found themselves in a 7-3 hole following Evans’ score. But McManama immediately atoned for his turnover, directing an eight-play, 62-yard drive on the ensuing possession and capping it off with an 11-yard touchdown pass to sophomore tight end Nick Croteau. Croteau’s lone reception turned out to be the impetus the Jumbos’ defense needed to win.

“I knew I had to have a short memory and forget about [the interception],” McManama said. see FOOTBALL, page 14

VOLLEYBALL

Winning never gets old: Jumbos earn 16th straight W BY

EVAN COOPER

Daily Editorial Board

You would think that after exacting revenge on both Williams and UMass Boston earlier in the week the Tufts’ volleyball team would VOLLEYBALL (16-1, 2-0 NESCAC) Tufts Invitational at Cousens Gym, Friday Union Tufts

23 25

Hiram Tufts

27 25

15 25

14 25

22 19 25 25

— —

0 3

19 — 1 25 — 3

Tufts Invitational at Cousens Gym, Saturday Potsdam State Tufts

14 25

9 10 25 25

Keene State Tufts

21 25

13 25

— 0 — 3

12 — 0 25 — 3

be out of scores to settle. Unfortunately for their next four adversaries, that was not the case.

Starting Friday, the Jumbos swept through see VOLLEYBALL, page 13

FIELD HOCKEY: TUF 3, BAT 1 - TRI 3, WES 2 - MID 7, COL 0 - WIL 2, AMH 0 - BOW 1, CON 0 - MID 5, WES 3 - MEN’S SOCCER: BOW 0, CON 1 - WES 2, TRI 1 - COL 1, MID 1 - WIL 2, AMH 1 - BAT 0, TUF 0 WOMEN’S SOCCER: MID 3, COL 0 - TUF 3, BAT 0 - WES 1, TRI 0 - BOW 4, CON 0 - WIL 3, AMH 0 - MID 1, WES 0 - VOLLEYBALL: AMH 1, WIL 3 - WES 3, COL 0 - TRI 3, HAM 0 - CON 3, BAT 0 - AMH 3, HAM 0 - MID 3, TRI 0 - CON 3, COL 1 - WES 3, BAT 2 - WIL 3, TRI 0 - AMH 3, MID 2 - FOOTBALL: TUF 15, BAT 7 - HAM 26, WES 14 - AMH 13, BOW 12 - TRI 26, WIL 21 - MID 45, COL 0