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Bubs honored for performance on “The Sing-Off”

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Jumbos’ first weekend back hit by power outage, fire BY

ELLEN KAN

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Students’ first weekend back on the Hill was an eventful one, with a power outage on the main campus early Friday morning and a fire in Miller Hall early Saturday morning.

An underground cable fault in the main power line providing service to the university caused the power to go out on most of the main Medford/Somerville campus at approximately 1 a.m. Friday morning, according to a National Grid spokesperson.

National Grid workers were able to restore

power back to the campus over three hours later, at approximately 4:25 a.m., by switching the university to a backup line while testing on the primary line continued, according to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) Capt. Mark Keith.

The cable fault has since been repaired, and power was restored back to the main line as of 9 p.m. on Friday night, according to Keith.

The university sent out two notifications via SMS text message and e-mail informing see FIRE, page 2

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The Tufts Beelzebubs were recognized Thursday at a special banquet at Carzo Cage in Cousens Gym to commemorate their performance on NBC’s “The Sing-Off.” The Bubs, who performed two songs following the ceremony, were presented with keys to the city of Medford and received commendation from state and city representatives. See ARTS page 5 for further coverage of the Beelzebubs.

Government simplifies FAFSA BY

MICHAEL DEL MORO Daily Editorial Board

The federal government has streamlined the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to ease the financial aid process for college students applying for federal loans and grants for the 20102011 academic year.

The changes built into the new application, which took effect Jan. 1, will not affect the pool of eligible applicants, though the process itself will be easier to navigate, according to Tufts Director of Financial Aid Patricia Reilly.

In the past, all applicants were required to answer all questions on the form, but the new software program distinguishes between applicants so that students answer only questions applicable to themselves.

“There are a lot of questions that only refer to some subsets of the population,” Reilly said. “It used to be there were questions that a lot of people would say ‘not applicable’ to over and over again … what they’ve done is they’ve used programming logic to skip those.”

The new software features more tar-

geted questions, shortening the application for the majority of students applying online while collecting the same amount of information.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Dr. Jill Biden unveiled the changes to Washington, D.C.-area students on Jan. 5, according to a press release from the Office of the Vice President.

According to the press release, the changes will help the United States top the world in terms of the proportion of college graduates by 2020, a goal set by President Barack Obama in Sept. 2009.

The United States is currently ranked seventh in the world for college enrollment, with only 34 percent of adults aged 18 to 34 enrolled compared to 53 percent for firstranked South Korea, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Although students may now begin applying for aid using the new application, the Office of Financial Aid at Tufts has yet to receive the new software. It is too early to tell, therefore, if the changes will have any see FAFSA, page 2

Greenberg announces decision to resign from Senate Sophomore Joel Greenberg last night announced his resignation from his seat on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at the first Senate meeting of the semester.

Greenberg did not go into the specifics of his reason for resigning but expressed his belief that the time was appropriate for his decision.

“It was the right change at the right time,” he said. “I feel strongly that given current circumstances, the remainder of my term would be better served by one of my peers.”

Senators Dan Pasternack, a junior, and Alice Pang, a freshmen, were elected unopposed as co-chairs of the Services Committee, positions that had previously been held by Greenberg and junior Sam Wallis, who resigned at the end of the last semester to study abroad.

Greenberg’s resignation brings the number of vacant student government seats to three. Wallis’ seat has yet to be filled and junior Lindsay Helfman left a seat on the TCU Judiciary empty when she resigned as chair at the end of last semester.

Tufts’ Election Commission (ECOM) Chair Sharon Chen confirmed that all three seats will be filled in an upcoming special election. ECOM will announce the date of the election in the next few days.

Greenberg expressed his hope that his resignation would open up an opportunity for someone who would not otherwise have had the chance to serve on the Senate. He also said that serving on Senate had been a valuable learning experience.

— by Ellen Kan

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The Tufts campus experienced its third blackout in two years following an underground cable fault.

Water source discovered underneath Residential Quad BY

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A drilling project led by Professor of Geology Grant Garven has led to the discovery of a natural underground water source beneath the Tufts campus that could potentially be used for university operations.

The project, called the Tufts GeoJumbo Borehole Array, began last summer as a partnership between Professor Garven and three geology students. It consists of a series of four boreholes located across the campus that are used primarily for teaching and data collection purposes.

The third hole, which was drilled into the Residential Quad in September, revealed the presence of a previously undiscovered underground layer of permeable sand and gravel containing high percentages of water, called an aquifer.

The discovery was completely unexpected, according to Garven. “It was a big surprise to find water right under the Tufts campus,” he said.

Garven has been involved in discussions with Tufts facilities personnel about the possibility of using the water under the Residential Quad as a source for irrigation on campus or for use in fire hydrants.

John Vik, ground supervisor for maintenance in the facilities department, said that the university is “abso-

lutely” willing to consider using the water, and that they have embraced it as a possibility. “The university spends a lot of money each year to use water from the grid,” he said.

Vik added that it might be possible to tie the aquifer source into an existing irrigation line that services buildings on the Residential Quad, and that construction plans for the upcoming fiscal year near the Residential Quad may also provide the opportunity to incorporate the aquifer into the university’s main water system if there is enough underground water.

“If the tests work out, we’ll give it a shot,” Vik said.

Currently, all the water used at Tufts and the rest of Somerville and Medford is piped across the state from the Quabbin Reservoir, which is the main water supply for the Boston area, according to Garven.

A fourth hole was drilled in November near the Residential Quad following the discovery of the water source, but no extension of the aquifer was found.

The first two holes that were drilled last summer at lower elevations near the Mayer Campus Center and the Powderhouse rotary also failed to yield similar results.

Byeongju Jung, a graduate student in School of Engineering who worked on the project with Garven, explained see WATER, page 2

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WEDNESDAY “FARES LECTURE: THE SUPREME COURT OF ISRAEL” Details: David Kretzmer, inaugural fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, New York University School of Law, will discuss law, politics and the Supreme Court of Israel.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Cabot 702 Sponsors: The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts Hillel, Middle Eastern Studies Major, International Relations Program THURSDAY “CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS LECTURE SERIES: 21ST CENTURY MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT” Details: Farah Pandith (F ‘95), special representative to Muslim Communities in the State Department, will discuss Muslim engagement for the

21st century.

When and Where: Cabot ASEAN auditorium Sponsor: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Lecture Series “EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE CHANGE” Details: Dr. Bert Metz, senior researcher and climate division head for the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, will present on his most recent book “Controlling Climate Change,” and on the implications of the Copenhagen Climate Summit’s failure to reach an agreement.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.; Crowe Room (Goddard 310) Sponsor: The Center for International Environment and Resource Policy — compiled by Brent Yarnell

major effects on the applicant pool.

Reilly, however, does not expect to see any variations in the number of applications for aid. “Typically, because [Tufts tuition] costs so much, most students don’t have the option to say ‘the FAFSA is too hard so I won’t bother,’” she said.

Still, Reilly said the changes are “great,” while at the same time uncontroversial. “Everybody kind of agrees it’s a great idea.”

This may not be the case with future anticipated changes to the application that could hit the floors of Congress after the health care debate is resolved.

According to Reilly, the application may establish asset caps that distinguish between students whose families possess lots of material wealth and those who do not.

Another proposal could eliminate asset considerations altogether and just focus on tax returns.

Legislators in Congress are also considering establishing a more direct link between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the

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students about the outage and the restoration of power.

Keith said that TUPD received no reports of any major security issues taking place during the blackout.

TUPD alerted the Office of Residential Life and Learning to the power outage and residential assistants were deployed to man the front doors of dorms and to place battery-operated lights in stairways and hallways to provide lighting.

The power outage was the third in two years to occur on the main campus. The previous two outages, occurring in October of 2008 and 2009, lasted much longer, with the power going out for 14 hours and close to a whole day, respectively.

The administration has been working to improve its response protocol following the first blackout when students expressed their concerns. Keith said the university’s response to Friday’s outage benefited from experience gained from previous blackouts.

“With each episode you get a little better at it because you learn from mistakes, so unfortunately we are getting better at it,” he said.

Unlike last October’s blackout when significant portions of Medford lost power, the outage mostly affected buildings on the main Tufts campus because the line affected was dedicated to the university.

Some smaller, wood-frame houses on campus were spared because a different grid services them.

Less than 24 hours after power had been restored, residents of Miller Hall had to evacuate at approximately 3 a.m. Saturday morning when the fire alarm went off.

TUPD and Medford fire investigators responded to the alarm and found heavy smoke coming out of a room on the first floor of Miller, according to Keith.

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firmed the report. “When I was outside I saw smoke coming out of the window … they didn’t tell us what was going on but it was pretty obvious there was a fire,” Badruddin, a sophomore, said.

Keith said the sprinklers in the affected room were activated and had mostly doused the fire by the time the responders arrived.

He declined to comment on the cause of the fire until a final report had been released.

“I know that Tufts’ fire marshal along with Medford fire investigators were investigating it over the weekend,” he said. “There is some speculation on the cause but until the fire report from the fire marshal is out, I don’t want to say.”

Fire damage to the room was minor, with most of the damage resulting from water from the sprinklers, according to Keith.

Danielle Pike, a sophomore living on the first floor of Miller Hall, caught a glimpse of the damage in the affected room Sunday morning. “[The room resident’s] personal belongings are outside of the room on the carpet in the hallway,” she said. “There’s nothing in the room, the drawers are taken out and on the floor, the walls are blackened by the smoke and there’s ash on the walls.”

Sophomore Arielle McAloon, a Miller Hall resident, said that most residents were allowed back into the hall at approximately 4 a.m., an hour after the alarm first went off.

The exception was residents on the first floor in the east wing of the hall where the affected room was, who were housed elsewhere for the rest of the night.

“Everything was flooded and wet so they didn’t sleep there. I think some of them slept with friends or in the common room,” Badruddin said.

Keith confirmed this and said that the university also found housing for residents who needed it. All residents were allowed back into the hall as of the following morning.

FAFSA form that would enable applicants to forego copying information from their tax returns and simply reference their financial information from the IRS, according to a Sept. 2009 report from the Executive Office of the President.

For now, the application is largely the same as what it has been in years past. “This is the exact same

rules as last year. There’s no change in who gets money or how much money they get. It’s just easier to get the money to them and easier to fill out the forms,” Reilly said.

For students with questions concerning the FAFSA or financial aid, there are walk-in hours at the financial aid office Thursday afternoons from 2-5 p.m.

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Dr. Jill Biden joined U.S. Education Secretary Duncan and Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) to showcase the new FAFSA.

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that it is possible that the layer of permeable rock extends past the September drilling site, but that for now it is only known to exist in that local area.

“It’s hard to be conclusive; we’ll have to see how much is there,” Garven said. “That’s the nature of geology; you can’t tell what’s beneath the ground until you dig a hole.”

The GeoJumbo Borehole Array project is unusual among Boston-area schools, according to Mason Stahl (A ’09), a member of the group that developed the drilling holes. He felt that his involvement with the borehole project enhanced his learning experience.

“You can actually see the principles firsthand, and it makes [the subject] even more interesting,” Stahl said.

Jung agreed and said he appreciated being able to “do experiments outside of the textbook.”

Mack Carlson, a senior and one of the students originally involved with developing the project, will continue analyzing data found at the sites for a class this semester.

Garven has in the meantime invited a crew of geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey, based in Denver, to come to Tufts and collect data from the four sites.

The new project will also make practical learning experiences more accessible for geology students.

Before the boreholes became available for student use, Garven used to bring his students on afternoon field trips to local drilling sites for hands-on experience with hydrogeol-

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Professor of Geology Grant Garven led a team that discovered an underground water source below the Residential Quad. ogy, which he said was not an ideal situation. “[It was] hit and miss as to what you can see or what the availability [was], and difficult to organize, especially with a large group of students,” Garven said. “For geologists, our data is in the field, so we try to get our students out in the field to see the groundwater and sediments.”

With the new boreholes, his hydrogeology class can now visit the campus drill sites on a regular basis for data collection and practical research.

Garven hopes that the GeoJumbo Borehole Array will be “an installation that [the university] will be able to use for the next 20 years.”

Programming Board launches overhauled Winter Bash today Programming Board will today host the first-ever launch event for this semester’s revamped Winter Bash during open block in Hotung Café.

The event is intended to promote a significantly different Winter Bash, which is now called Break the Ice as the result of a renaming competition organized by the Programming Board last semester.

“This year Winter Bash has drastically changed … We want to really get the student body excited,” Programming Board Co-Chair Sarah Habib, a junior, said.

Amid food, games and a raffle for free tickets, the launch event will publicize the changes that have been implemented for Winter Bash, in particular its move to an off-campus location and the institution of a $10 ticket fee.

The event also marks the official start of online ticket sales. Although tickets

have technically been available online since Jan. 21, “Programming Board is viewing [tickets] as going on sale tomorrow,” Habib said.

Tickets will be sold online by credit card until Jan. 31 and then at the Mayer Campus Center Information Booth by cash or JumboCash. Unlike Fall Ball, Winter Bash will have no cap on tickets because its venue, the Sheraton Boston Hotel, is larger than Gantcher Center, where Fall Ball was held.

“The space at the Sheraton is so immense. We’re lucky that there’s one whole ballroom that will be for the whole event and another separate ballroom for a 21+ area,” Director of the Office for Campus Life (OCL) Joe Golia said.

Winter Bash’s change in name reflects drastic changes to the event itself. Instead of just being a dance at the gym, the Feb.

5 event will include a light dinner with different food stations offering fare such as pizza, tapas, sliders and salads, as well as complimentary drinks. “[It is] an upscale event compared to [the] gym … there’s a beautiful ballroom that can sit pretty much anyone who wants to come,” Golia said.

Habib feels that the inclusion of substantial amounts of food and free drinks at the event makes the $10 ticket worthwhile.

“Seniors pay $10 for a pub night, which doesn’t include food or drinks,” she said.

“The food is really important; it makes paying $10 more appropriate.”

Decreasing alcohol-related misbehavior at the new Winter Bash is a major concern for the Programming Board, OCL and the Tufts administration.

One of the measures organizers are employing is a new bus boarding system

at the Aidekman Arts Center featuring five distinct boarding times and increased supervision by the Tufts administration, Tufts University Police Department officers and OCL employees. “[We will] have an eye on students as they are waiting in line. Hopefully if anyone is out of control or really drunk already we can remove them from the line,” Golia said.

The Boston Police Department and Boston Emergency Medical Services will take over supervision after the buses leave from Tufts and arrive at the hotel.

Programming Board is optimistic about student behavior at the event. “After all that’s happened, we’re sure that the Tufts community is going to behave appropriately,” Habib said.

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Mom.com? Parents on Facebook create new dilemmas BY

ROBIN CAROL

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College students have long worried about potential employers snooping through their Facebook.com pages. But more and more, there’s another set of culprits that might be taking a peek: mom and dad.

Since Facebook opened its doors (or more accurately, its online network) to non-student members, the undergraduate’s favorite procrastination tool has become popular with the over-40 set. This has created new dilemmas for families, such as whether to accept a friend request from a parent or child.

Macalester College senior Nate WilsonTraisman said that he initially balked at the idea of communicating with his father on a social networking Web site.

“I was just really anti people not from our generation having Facebook,” he said. “The same thing happened when my sister got Facebook. I was biased towards college students, and that’s mostly who I interact with and who it was originally for.”

Wilson-Traisman eventually came around and added his dad as a friend.

“I felt kind of bad. Lots of my friends and my sister were friends with him. I figured he’d enjoy looking at my pictures and I kind of realized it was just harmless that he has one,” he said.

The idea of opening their online profiles to the scrutiny of their parents has been met with mixed reactions by college students as well as parents.

Facebook user Sheri Seidmon has a son attending the University of Colorado at Boulder and another son in high school, but said she has stayed away from viewing their profiles altogether.

“It’s partly because they don’t want me to be their friend, and also I don’t want to either because I feel like it’s too nosy into everything they’re doing,” Seidmon said. “I just feel like, that way they don’t have to be worried about what they put on there that I might see.”

Tufts junior Alyza DelPan-Monley has avoided that problem by utilizing Facebook’s updated privacy settings to control what her parent has access to.

“I’ve restricted [my dad] from pretty much everything except maybe my profile pictures —no wall, no status updates, no anything,” she said.

Portland State University junior Beryl Bessemer had the opposite reaction to her parents’ new tech savvy. After her dad joined

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Facebook, she helped her mom make a page.

She then added both of them as friends.

“Personally I don’t really mind overall. I’m pretty open with my parents,” Bessemer said.

“I guess if I were somebody else and I had 100 photos of me beer-bonging and them being able to see that, it would be a little uncomfortable. But everything I put up for the most part is OK for the world to see.”

Bessemer’s father, Paul, argued that Facebook has not changed parent-child relationships so much as it has provided another arena for communication.

“If your kid has a bad relationship with you, they probably won’t friend you on Facebook,” Paul Bessemer said. “Facebook is so weird and exhibitionist anyway. It’s just another way [for parents] to get access and learn what their kids are doing. Parents love embarrassing their kids even without Facebook.”

And embarrass them they do. Perhaps the most obvious generational divide is the differing ways that students and parents use — or

overuse — the ubiquitous networking site.

“My dad uses the status feature in a way that just kind of annoys me,” Wilson-Traisman said. “He’s always on my news feed. My friend had a status about mice in her house, and my dad commented with all these suggestions on how to catch the mice.”

These types of reactions are common as children critique their parents’ Facebook etiquette.

“They write on each other’s walls with full punctuation, with what should be saved for Christmas cards, and the ‘read more’ option is necessary because they [write] so much,” Haverford College junior Eve Gleichman said.

Rolling their eyes at questions like, “What is a poke?” kids are still adjusting to an older generation contributing content to their news feeds.

“Nothing will kill Facebook like having your parent on it,” Paul Bessemer said.

But there is a place for the shamed offspring to commiserate. The Web site

Myparentsjoinedfacebook.com collects awkward parent Facebook blunders and posts them for others to view.

All jokes aside, Wilson-Traisman feels that by tapping into their children’s social networks, some parents might find more than they bargained for.

“I don’t think it’s a problem so much with kids and their own parents, but I think parents are finding a lot about their children’s friends that they otherwise wouldn’t,” he said. “They can just follow gossip through Facebook, and find out relationships and stuff they wouldn’t think to ask about and that maybe their kids wouldn’t tell. They can kind of snoop around.”

But senior Sarah Philips does not feel that parenting will change much as a result of Facebook.

“I think the way you’re friends with your parents on Facebook is an extension of the relationship you have with them in the first place,” Philips said.

High expectations take their toll like never before Study shows college students more likely to be depressed now than during the Great Depression BY

CARTER ROGERS

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It’s no secret that being a college student can be a stressful experience, with exams, social obligations, extracurriculars, work and financial worries creating the perfect storm of stressors. What is news, however, is that, according to a recent psychology study, these factors are weighing more heavily on the mental health of college students than they ever have before.

The study looked at data obtained by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Researchers from five universities analyzed 77,576 responses from college and high school students and found that in 2007, those types of students were five times as likely to fit the criteria for mental illnesses such as depression than their counterparts in 1938.

The MMPI, which has been in use in a largely unchanged format since 1938, is a series of yes-or- no questions that are used to determine how participants score in several mental health categories. The study controlled for variables such as

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Experts believe the stresses of modern college life are leading to more instances of mental illnesses like depression.

increased enrollment by women and minorities in colleges since the MMPI was first given.

Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, led the study.

Twenge and other researchers believe that modern society’s fast pace and increasing focus on materialism and financial success contribute to the results by stressing out students who feel the need to meet unreasonably high expectations.

Twenge had already analyzed these trends in her two books “Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled and More Miserable Than Ever Before” and “The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement.”

As to whether the study’s results mean college students themselves are more depressed now than in 1938, Julie Jampel, the director of training and the continuing education director of Tufts Mental Health Service, thinks other factors might be at play.

“The numbers of students seeking counseling has increased over the last several years. This has

been a national trend, and we have noticed it at Tufts, too,” Jampel said in an e-mail to the Daily.

“The reasons why today’s college students report higher rates of mental health concerns, such as depression, than their Depression-era counterparts are complex and multifaceted. There is no ‘one size fits all’ formula. I do think that there is greater awareness of mental health concerns today and an increased willingness to acknowledge or endorse symptoms. This can, of course, increase the reported incidence of mental health concerns,” she added.

Junior John Salvatore, a member of the Tufts chapter of Active Minds, a national mental health advocacy organization, also believes improved awareness of mental health issues might have contributed to the results.

“I am no expert, but I have to wonder whether today’s improved diagnostic tools and criteria have something to do with the increase in reports of depression and anxiety. I would imagine that the prevalence of see STRESS, page 4

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the disorders have not changed as dramatically as peoples’ opinions of mental illness and their willingness to seek out help, especially since the treatment for behavioral problems around the time of the [Great Depression] consisted of inserting an icepick into the eye socket and severing the prefrontal cortex from the rest of the brain,” Salvatore said in an e-mail to the Daily.

“In various ways, our society is more dangerous, confusing, chaotic, and materialistic today than it was during the years of the Great Depression and World War II. These changes may well affect the trends noted in the study.”

Julie Jampel director of training and the continuing education director of Tufts Mental Health Service “In addition, more of today’s health insurance companies are covering mental health treatment, which provides more incentives for patients to report their illnesses to the doctors and scientists who come up with these prevalence ratings,” Salvatore said.

Salvatore did not discount the study’s findings. “That doesn’t rule out the possibility that the stresses of college and the pressure to succeed don’t play a precipitous role, though,” he added.

Jampel also believes that “societal change matters, too. In various ways, our society is more dangerous, confusing, chaotic, and materialistic today than it was during the years of the Great

Depression and World War II. These changes may well affect the trends noted in the study,” Jampel added.

One member of Ears for Peers, a group that provides an anonymous peer support hotline to Tufts students, believes college students face far more stressors than just materialism and expectations.

“The thing that we get called about most often is relationships. We clump a lot of things into that category, but that includes boyfriend and girlfriend stuff and general making friends, that kind of thing … So I think that sort of general relationship problems are what we see as being the biggest problem,” said the member, who wished not to be named due to the fact that the group’s focus is anonymous counseling.

The member said that one thing that might be hurting relationships is technology. “You can either call Ears for Peers on the phone or you can IM us, and we get a lot of IMs, and I think a lot of people feel more comfortable talking about things that way and I think that’s sort of a sign that relationships between people have changed because you used to not be able to do that, and now that’s a new way to talk to people, and it’s a less personal way,” the member said.

“A lot of the times we talk to people on IM, they’re a little more vague and it’s sort of harder to get them to say what they’re really upset about, so I think it helps people [to] be more distant in their relationships.”

Ears for Peers has received numerous calls from students who feel they cannot live up to what is expected of them.

“We definitely get calls from people who are stressed about their schoolwork and they feel like they’re not doing well enough in their classes, and I think there definitely is a lot of pressure on people today to succeed at a very high level,” the member said. “Most people would be surprised by how many calls we get … A surprising percentage of the student body has called Ears for Peers.”

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The Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Thursday, January 28, 2010 4:30pm Goddard Chapel

Peniel Joseph Ph.D.

All members of the university community are invited to attend Tuft’s annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Keynote Address: "From Martin Luther King to Barack Obama." will be delivered by Peniel Joseph, Professor of History at Tufts.

Dr. Peniel Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University and the author of Waiting ‘til the

Midnight Hour and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. He is the editor of The Black Power Movement and Neighborhood Rebels. The recipient of fellowships from Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Ford Foundation, his essays have appeared in The Journal of American History, The Chronicle Review, The New York Times, and American Historical Review. He is a frequent national commentator on issues of race, democracy, and civil rights whose commentary has been featured on NPR and Public Radio nationally.

Sponsored by the Office of the President & Co-Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Office of Institutional Diversity, Africana Center, the Office of the University Chaplains, Hillel, Office of Equal Opportunity, Office of Residential Life and Learning, Pan-African Alliance

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The Beelzebubs dish about life after reality television

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As they amble through the Campus Center, sophomore Conor Flynn and junior Eli Seidman don’t seem quite as recognizable as their bright, argyle-outfitted television counterparts. But just six weeks ago, the two were rehearsing with Nicole Scherzinger, grabbing dinner with Ben Folds and chatting with Shawn Stockman. Their star-studded experience in Los Angeles with the rest of the Beelzebubs as contestants on the NBC reality show “The Sing-Off” has finally led them back to Tufts — where they can put away their punchy costumes and settle back into comfortable T-shirts and sneakers.

Well, almost. Flynn, the a capella group’s PR man, tugs at his sweater and button-down shirt combo, which looks like a toned-down version of some of his “Sing-Off” attire. “I love argyle,” Flynn said with a laugh. “I can’t get away from it. It chases me down. [The wardrobe on the show] was outside of what I would normally wear, but then again ... here I am wearing this.”

On the plus side, Flynn’s shirt includes real buttons. For the show’s live finale, the Bubs donned shirts and ties attached with velcro — things they could change out of quickly during commercial breaks.

“You had to be like Superman and rip

out of it,” Flynn said. Seidman, the current Beelzebubs president, admitted that he would have loved to be dressed like the Bubs’ rival group — and winners of the show — Nota. “They looked like bosses the whole time, so urban,” Seidman said.

“Especially when they put them next to us.

We looked dorky enough as it is.”

Outfit envy aside, Seidman and Flynn said the rapport between the show’s contestants was incredible. “We became fantastic friends with all of the groups on the show,” Flynn said. “I assumed a cutthroat atmosphere because it’s reality television, but realized immediately that everyone was so supportive of each other. It was really refreshing.” The boys say they are still in touch with other contestants and might even plan a tour of Puerto Rico with Nota.

While making friends with other singers, the Beelzebubs also rubbed shoulders with some pretty big names in the music industry — from host Nick Lachey to finale guest Smokey Robinson. Intimidated at first, Seidman and Flynn were surprised by how down-to-earth — and just plain fun — their celebrity encounters turned out to be. Seidman spoke highly of Nick Lachey in particular.

“I was trying to go into it hating him,” Seidman said. “You know, because he’s got the whole good-looking thing, the whole

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The Bubs hope to use their choreography training from “The Sing-Off” to continue to improve their performances.

MOVIE REVIEW

INTERVIEW | MICHAEL CERA AND PORTIA DOUBLEDAY

Actors Cera and Doubleday discuss being youths ‘in revolt’ BY

CHARISSA NG

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Cera plays his signature awkward character, along with a Euro version of awkward.

‘Youth in Revolt’ puts hilarious twist on coming-of-age story BY

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It’s hard to imagine Michael Cera abandoning his classic niceguy persona to cross-dress and

Youth In Revolt Starring Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart Directed by Miguel Arteta portray a scheming, sleazy-looking, mustachioed Frenchman.

That’s what viewers can expect in the new film “Youth in Revolt,” based on the popular novel by C.D. Payne. The film is a hilariously original coming-ofage story full of outrageous situations and with an incredible cast.

“Youth in Revolt” follows Nick Twisp (Cera), a geeky, virgin adolescent who realizes that everyone in his life is getting some except for him. When his mother’s loser boyfriend (Zach

Galifianakis) is caught ripping off a group of angry sailors, the oddball family escapes to a trailer park in Ukiah, Calif.

Nick meets Sheeni Saunders (newcomer Portia Doubleday), the beautifully quirky, selfassured girl of his dreams. While Nick is falling head over heels, Sheeni is counting the days until she can jet off to Paris and meet her ideal man, “François.”

Hoping to win her over, Nick creates his own version of François as a rebellious alter ego. When the lines between Nick and François begin to blur, Nick’s life starts to get out of hand.

François convinces Nick to do crazy and comical things — stealing, talking dirty, arson and cross-dressing — all in the name of love.

Doubleday, in her first major film role, does a respectable job as the irresistibly aloof Sheeni.

While most movie teens are played by actors in their midto late-twenties, Doubleday, a California State University Northridge student, actually looks the part. Doubleday’s

newcomer status also makes her character more credible; unlike Cera, she’s a fresh face.

The lanky, socially awkward romantic is essentially the same character Cera has played for most of his career in films like “Juno” (2007) and “Superbad” (2007). Cera delivers as expected as Nick, with his nervous smile and dry, deadpan humor. While jocks used to be the kings of teen comedy flicks in the ’90s, the 2000s have been all about actors with boyish looks and nice-guy charm, like Cera, Joseph GordonLevitt and Paul Rudd.

Refreshingly, “Youth in Revolt” gives Cera the chance to play both the likeable boy-next-door and the reckless French bad boy. At first, though, it’s hard to take François seriously. With his tightly fitted white pants, crisp blue Oxford shirt, sunglasses and cigarette, François is a caricature of European cool. Though Cera isn’t in his comfort zone, he proves he can play something new. As the film progresses, see REVOLT, page 6

The new film “Youth in Revolt,” based on the novel by C.D. Payne, tells the story of Nick Twisp, a sexobsessed adolescent who falls for the beautiful Sheeni Saunders.

Wearing Converse, green corduroys and a blue collared shirt (buttoned to the top, of course), Michael Cera introduces himself with the friendly, albeit slightly nervous demeanor that’s made him famous. He is essentially the same unassuming, awkwardly boyish character he plays in his other movies.

Cera and his co-star Portia Doubleday sat down with the Daily to discuss everything from shooting a movie based on a popular novel and what it was like working with some veteran comedians, to Cera’s thoughts on

an “Arrested Development” movie and a few scenes that didn’t make the cut.

Charissa Ng: What originally attracted both of you to working on this movie?

Michael Cera: I just love the book and was really excited about it being made into a movie. I thought it was really funny and wanted to be a part of it and be able to say some of the lines from the book.

CN: Having had read the book and being a fan of it, what was your first reaction to the script?

Do you think it matched up pretty well?

MC: I mean, if the book could see REVOLT INTERVIEW, page 6

TV REVIEW

‘Chuck’ learns to be a real spy in third season BY

REBECCA GOLDBERG Daily Editorial Board

Many television shows attempt to stitch more than one genre into their patchwork quilt, but few

Chuck Starring Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin Airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on NBC manage to do so as seamlessly as “Chuck.” The spy-action-comedy-drama just began its unlikely third season on NBC. Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is a part-time IT guy and

full-time nerd who accidentally opened an e-mail, downloaded governmental secrets into his brain and became the CIA’s most valuable possession.

His handlers are CIA agent Sarah Walker (the stunning and athletic Yvonne Strahovski) and the NSA’s Colonel John Casey (nerd favorite Adam Baldwin), who spend the show using their spy expertise to keep the bumbling Chuck safe.

Chuck maintains his cover life and day job on the Nerd Herd at the Buy More, alongside his even-nerdier best friend Morgan (Joshua Gomez) and oddballs Jeff (Scott Krinsky) and Lester (Vik Sahay).

Like most shows that are difficult to define early on, “Chuck” see CHUCK, page 6

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talented thing, the whole (formerly) married to Jessica Simpson thing. But he turned out to be too nice of a guy to even marginally hate.”

For Flynn, it was watching his favorite songwriter, Smokey Robinson, walk on stage that sent him into a star-struck stare. “It was one of the most unbelievable musical moments of my life,” Flynn said.

Sharing the stage and practice room with musical idols are experiences that now seem surreal to Seidman and Flynn.

“I miss waking up to Nicole [Scherzinger], I really do,” joked Seidman.

Amid 12- to 18-hour workdays in Los Angeles, the boys saw little of the sunny city while they were there. The tedious parts were the moments viewers didn’t get to see on TV: 45 minutes spent standing on stage during dress rehearsals and being shuffled over a few centimeters to perfect camera angles. Between their practice runs as posable figures for the cameras and trying to keep up with finals for fall semester, the Bubs were exhausted.

“Frankly, I think we probably would have slept through any sightseeing,” Seidman said.

While they may not have soaked in too many rays of California sunshine, the singing group did absorb some tips and tricks for improving their performances. Seidman and Flynn heaped praises on their choreographer — Broadway pro JT Horenstein. “He loved to collaborate with us, which was the coolest part,” Flynn said.

That collaboration was the force behind such memorable moves as the human bus in the Bubs’ rendition of The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour.” Horenstein suggested the stunt, while the boys added in the dramatic crawling and silly expressions at the end of the song.

“It was a great learning moment for us,” Seidman said.

“We’re a group that prides itself on our history and we kind of always do things a certain way. This was definitely a push out of our comfort zone and I think we really rose to the challenge.”

While the boys aren’t sure yet whether the magical mystery bus will drive through the Goddard Chapel during a Tufts performance, they do think their choreography and general showmanship will be enhanced by their “Sing-Off” experience.

“It would be foolish to forget anything they’ve told us,” Flynn

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said, referring to the judges and coaches like Horenstein.

“They’re such a great resource and we were just so lucky to be able to work with them.”

For the past two weeks before the start of school, the Beelzebubs were on a tour through Thailand and Singapore — one that offered them some long-awaited relaxation and a taste of the fame they’ve now garnered off the Hill. Seidman admitted to feeling overwhelmed by high schoolers abroad asking for their autographs after watching YouTube.com clips of the Bubs’ performances on television.

While the boys were in the bubble of the television show production in Los Angeles, they remained relatively unaware of their newfound national attention. Once they stepped outside, however, that changed. Suddenly, seven-year-olds asked for photos with them in the airport. A man at a rental car company in L.A. wanted all of their autographs.

“It’s still really surreal to have anyone come up to you and recognize you and say they appreciate your work,” Seidman said. “I consider myself a fairly normal person.

I’m not used to having those

experiences.”

Do the Bubs think they’ll need a bigger venue for their next performance? Seidman isn’t sure.

“You don’t want to be presumptuous. At the end of the day, it’s still just collegiate a capella,” Seidman said. “But I’m hoping it attracts more people and that they see that side of Tufts. I just hope it raises the bar.”

For now, the boys are back to their regular college selves — joking about Flynn’s fake Rolex watch (a $2 purchase that didn’t beep when he took it through airport security) and running into friends at the Rez. They continually emphasize how important support from friends, family and the university has been in their whirlwind experience.

“I can’t imagine going through the same type of process with a different group of people,” Flynn said.

“Everyone has been so nice and we just really want to thank them for their support. We feel so lucky being at a school where people are so invested in what we’ve been doing,” Seidman said. “Every time we were on stage we did it for the Bubs as an organization and Tufts as a school, and we hope we represented Tufts well.”

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Cera does an impressive job of bringing François to life.

Although at times François’ eccentricity borders on absurdity, director Miguel Arteta brings the Frenchman into the film just enough for him to be believable. Some of the best scenes in “Youth in Revolt” are when Nick and François are left to their own devices, wreaking havoc everywhere and bantering back and forth. When the two characters are together, it’s François who really steals the film with his arrogant, bad boy attitude. But Arteta succeeds in making both the goody-two-shoes protagonist and the reckless antagonist charactors who are just plain fun to watch.

“Youth in Revolt” boasts an all-star supporting cast of veteran comedians like Ray Liotta, Fred Willard and up-andcoming star Galifianakis, all of whom serve the strong comedic plot. Due to the overall talent of the cast, every character in the film is hilarious.

Nick Twisp puts a twist (no pun intended) on this classic coming-of-age story with its original plot and fun cast of characters. This is a must-see comedy for Michael Cera fans and critics alike, as Cera finally proves he can act outside of his type as the perfect combination of the nice guy Nick Twisp and the conniving alter ego François.

Cera discusses possible ‘Arrested Development’ movie REVOLT INTERVIEW continued from page 5

just be made into a script, that would be great, but it’s too long to include the whole book. But it’s pretty shootable the way it is. The dialogue is great and feels really cinematic.

CN: Do you think it’s a challenge, when you’re doing a movie based on a book, feeling like you’re bound to it?

MC: It’s really nice as actors to have something that clearly shows you what your character is, and goes really in depth.

CN: Michael, are you ever afraid of being typecast? You’re in teen movies a lot and movies that are geared towards our generation.

MC: It was really fun doing the scenes where I’m acting off myself. It was really technical, and you have to hit your mark really precisely, and the timing has to be perfect. For every situation there’s a different way to shoot it, a different trick, so it was cool watching that. I’m really interested in that kind of stuff.

CN: What was it like working with such bigname actors as Ray Liotta?

Portia Doubleday: I was just in so deep that I was kind of desensitized. When that happens you just kind of go with it. It was incredible. They were all really warm and awesome and have great personalities.

CN: Who is closer to your ideal man: Nick or François?

the characters. Everyone goes through something growing up where you feel isolated or you don’t relate to people properly.

called “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.”

PD: I don’t know. I’m doing a short, I think.

I don’t know. I guess we’ll see what happens because I’m in school.

CN: What was your favorite part to film?

MC: I like the Thanksgiving scene a lot. It was really fun to play because there were a lot of people there and almost felt like a play. M. Emmett Walsh has potatoes all over his face. Remember how annoyed he was? Fiola, this German makeup woman who’s crazy, was putting it on his face with a fork. That was fun.

PD: Yeah, he’s really tiny. I liked watching you and Trent [Jonathan Wright] figure out the rumble at the end. That was really fun, but I was just watching.

MC: You get to choose as an actor what you’re in. To be typecast, it doesn’t happen against your will. You sign onto everything you’re a part of, so I’m not really afraid.

PD: I don’t necessarily want guys burning down half of Berkeley for me, but I could say I always want a taste of both. I want there to be a little bit of adventure; a little bit of bad is always good. A good bad boy.

MC: I had rug burn on my face after that.

CN: I see you more as a Nick than a François, but in scenes with the two of them, François seemed to steal the screen. What was it like to have to act against yourself?

CN: Do you guys relate to the characters you play?

MC: Oh yeah, I love that feeling.

PD: You know that bad feeling whenever you see a fight? There’s just something so animalistic about it. I got that feeling.

CN: What’s it like at school, after the movie?

PD: It’s funny because I have a project due the day I get back. So I’m in the middle of writing an essay on self-managing me biting my cuticles.

MC: Do you have a problem with that?

PD: I have a bad problem with that.

MC: I would have never known.

CN: What’s going on with the “Arrested Development” movie?

MC: I think the same stuff. I think it’s just being developed right now.

CN: But you would be in for it?

CN: So what’s next for the two of you?

MC: I think there are some elements in there that everyone can relate to with both

MC: I have a movie coming out next year

MC: Yeah, definitely. Everyone on the show is so great. It’s sad when you get really comfortable and then you don’t get to do anything with them or do anything together.

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spent its first two years with a small but dedicated audience.

When renewal for a third season looked unlikely, an Internet fan campaign arose that went straight to the people who could make a difference. On April 27, 2009, the airdate of the second season finale, “Chuck” fans went to their local Subway restaurant to purchase a “five dollar footlong” sandwich. The scheme worked perfectly; Subway, a major sponsor of “Chuck,” subsidized much of the current season’s budget for the struggling NBC and negotiated a deal for continued product placement in the show.

It’s easy to paint Chuck, with his lack of coordination, nerdy good looks and quick pop culture one-liners, as the Seth Cohen of espionage; the show is executive produced by “The O.C.” (2003-2007) creator Josh

Schwartz, who brought his eye for quirky romance and ear for indie pop with him. Schwartz’s instincts are balanced by those of executive producer Chris Fedak, who handles the show’s surprisingly deft spy elements and action set pieces.

Though there’s rarely a dull moment in Chuck’s seemingly opposite worlds, the stakes for Chuck and his team have changed this season. Chuck unwittingly downloaded a new version of the government’s intelligence computer, Intersect 2.0, which features a new physical component.

Now Chuck occasionally “knows kung fu,” along with a myriad of other random skills such as the ability to speak foreign languages fluently.

This change gave the show a well-deserved reboot after a thoroughly entertaining second season. “Chuck” newcomers shouldn’t fear jumping right in with these new episodes, since

the Intersect 2.0 offers a whole new set of problems for the team.

If Chuck is flustered or emotional — a near-constant state for him — his new powers glitch, leaving him defenseless.

Chuck, in fact, has many reasons to be emotional. His willthey-or-won’t-they romantic tension with Sarah, which began in season one, intensified in the season premiere when Chuck was forced to decide between a life with Sarah and a life as a real spy. Quiet, “we can’t be together” conversations, scored by Schwartz’s favorite soft rock, can grate against and distract from the deft spy sequences. And Levi, always a little too good-looking to be playing a hopeless geek, makes a surprisingly convincing super-spy when his powers work correctly, a new development that makes him stand out even more at the Buy More.

The show spends some of the first few episodes exploring new

ways to wedge Chuck back into the civilian world. One of the more successful experiments is the new integration of Chuck’s affable and jockish brother-inlaw Captain Awesome (Ryan McPartlin), who learned about Chuck’s double life near the end of last season. The newest episodes see Captain Awesome inadvertently dragged into the spy world, where McPartlin’s notable charm and comedic zeal help meld Chuck’s two worlds.

Joining McPartlin in the cast’s square-jawed ranks is Brandon Routh (“Superman Returns,” 2006), who was introduced in last week’s episode as Agent Shaw, the morally dubious new leader of Operation Bartowski. Routh’s inevitable function as the third prong of the constant ChuckSarah love triangle is tiresome.

Thankfully, “Chuck” always treats its spy characters with tonguein-cheek aplomb, presenting the espionage business as a revolving

door of excessively attractive and incredibly skilled agents. There’s no reason to think that Routh’s Clark Kent wholesomeness will be misused.

So far the fun and thrills of the spy world in season three have overshadowed the other dimensions of the show that made “Chuck” so appealing in the first place. The fourth episode, “Chuck vs. Operation Awesome,” integrated Morgan, Lester and Jeff with a long-form parody of “Fight Club” (1999), but there weren’t enough laughs to stand up against scenes of Chuck and a bumbling Awesome infiltrating a CIA office.

Once the show establishes exactly what Chuck can and can’t do with the new Intersect 2.0, he’ll hopefully start to seem like a nerd again. “Chuck” needs its Everyman back so that the audience isn’t alone in watching all the cool spy stuff with starry eyes.

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Tough times As the first age group to be reared with computers close at hand and as students with tight budgets and high tuition, our generation has come to expect that nearly everything we need in terms of information and entertainment can be found for free through the magic of the Internet. This belief, however, is about to meet new opposition. The New York Times last week announced that beginning in 2011 it will make its full online content available only to those who pay a flat fee.

Under the new Times policy, an allotted number of free articles will be available to readers every month, after which they will be asked to pay for access to material on the site.

The Daily understands the dire financial situation that has made it necessary for the Times to make such a difficult choice. With ad purchases in a downward spiral and more people opting to get their information from easy and

free sources on the Internet than from print newspapers, it’s no mystery why the Times had to make some drastic changes. But it is nonetheless a sobering reminder that quality and accurate journalism does not come for free.

As members of the very age group whose constant Internet usage is said to be a primary factor in the decline of print media, we feel that this move by the Times will prevent greater readership of its coverage by the younger generation. Publications like the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, both of which have had relative success with charging for online content, are geared toward older and wealthier readers for whom business news is a focal point of their occupations.

While it is certainly true that there are a number of Times readers from this age group, it is also clear that the Times’ broader coverage appeals to a larger demographic that includes

a swath of younger people, many of whom are college or graduate students and young professionals. College students in particular, who are notoriously strapped for cash, are unlikely to pay for online readership. Additionally, even those younger people who have graduated and may have landed a job are so accustomed to getting news for free that the Times’ new fees will merely spur them to look to other sources for their news, especially for major stories that are likely to appear in a variety of media, whether that be in print, online or on television.

In this way, the Times seems to be almost removing itself from younger people, alienating them by effectively limiting their access to sound reporting and journalistic excellence and making it even more unlikely that newspapers will regain their place as a touchstone of everyday life in the coming generation.

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There is no doubt that people like David Beckham and Leonardo DiCaprio began building their careers at an early age. But when it comes to vocational development, parents should take a supportive yet handsoff approach.

Many unnecessary parental pressures are placed on children to succeed in today’s world. This is based on the fear that adolescents lacking in the talent department will not reach their highest level of achievement and will ultimately fail.

I was recently looking over a recreation activity guide for the Spokane area and was shocked at what I saw. There were normal classes such as self-protection, public speaking, painting and so on. My concern began, though, when I saw the sports programs.

There were classes offered to children as young as 18 months old so they could get a head start on their soccer careers.

However, babies should master walking before attempting to chase a ball half their size around a field.

It seems this pressure is becoming a common occurrence, not only in the United

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States, but around the world. A prime example of this was witnessed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Much controversy surrounded the women’s gymnastics team representing China.

Many of these young athletes were dodging accusations from various news sources, spectators and angry coaches for being underage.

Even before the games began, the athletes sparked the interest of human rights organizations. Many people wanted to take an indepth look at Chinese gymnastics training.

In fact, National Public Radio examined a particular Chinese boarding school. At this facility, gymnasts as young as 4 years old begin their journey to the gold.

In any case, athletes do get to work toward a dream of fame and glory. In the United States, athletes who excel in their sport become household names with hefty paychecks. While in China, gymnasts are endorsed and financially supported so they can focus on training, and they receive a salary for every gold medal won.

Beyond the sports world, the entertainment field has its own set of pressures. On the TLC show “Toddlers and Tiaras,” young girls and boys compete in pageants for their shot at winning a crown. Meanwhile,

parents who live vicariously through their children stand by to support the pageant competitors.

Since the premiere of the program, viewers have been in an uproar over the exploitation of little girls who look like toddler-sized Barbies. If this thievery of childhood is not bad enough, the consequences of pressure on youth can be devastating later in life.

Child actors perfectly illustrate the negative effects of fame. For instance, Drew Barrymore began her acting career with an early breakout role in the movie E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial. Rapid stardom eventually led Barrymore down a road of drugs and alcohol, resulting in multiple rehab visits during her teenage years.

It is understandable that parents want their children to make a mark in the world, but children should not have to pay the price for their parents’ unfulfilled dreams.

Of course, the monetary factor may benefit children in the long run. But the pressures of stardom and success will overshadow healthy childhood experiences.

In reality, most 18-month-olds will not grow up to be professional athletes or movie stars. Children should be allowed to develop and pursue their own dreams without having activities forced on them.

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Theta Chi responds to the Haitian crisis BY

DAN HALPERT, MATT WITTMAN AND ADI KULKARNI

As many of you already know, a terrible earthquake has devastated the country of Haiti in recent weeks.

Even in the past few days, aftershocks have destroyed whatever buildings remained in and around the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Before the earthquake, Haiti was already a country in need often overlooked by the rest of the world; the situation there is now more serious than ever. The coming months will be a dark time for the people of Haiti, but also an important test of the charity and compassion of the international community.

The brothers of Theta Chi fraternity at Tufts University have decided to launch a multifaceted fundraising effort to aid the Haitian people in their time of need.

In order to maximize the effect of the money we hope to raise through this fundraiser, Theta Chi has decided to donate the money to Partners In Health. This Boston-based organization is run by the renowned physician Paul Farmer and has had over 20 years of experience working in Haiti. Partners In Health offers vital health-care services that aim to break the cycle of disease and poverty. Their previously existing aid infrastructure makes them an excellent candidate for donations, as our contributions will be immediately useable. Partners In Health has established medical facilities all around Haiti, not just in Port-au-Prince — therefore they can transport those most critically injured to working hospitals unaffected by the earthquake. Please visit www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti for more information about Partners In Health.

Starting today, the brothers of Theta Chi will be selling wristbands inscribed with the words “Tufts for Haiti” on campus for a suggested donation of $5.

You can find us in Dewick-MacPhie and Carmichael Dining Centers and the Mayer Campus Center, or you can speak to a brother you know about the fundraiser.

Even though the suggested donation is $5, a contribution of any quantity will be accepted and greatly appreciated. Whatever you can give — even just a dollar — will go a long way toward the relief effort.

In addition, this coming Thursday, Jan. 28, Theta Chi will be hosting a comedy night, called Theta Chi’s Comedy Night for Haiti, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Hotung Café in the Mayer Campus Center as part of our ongoing fundraiser for Haiti. The event will be highlighting an alumnus of our fraternity, Evan Wecksell (LA ’01), a well-known comedian who

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has appeared on both the VH1 and E! networks.

Undergraduate comics such as senior Dan Millstein, junior Brian Agler and others will also perform.

Come by Hotung to support a great cause, and enjoy a few laughs while you’re at it. Admission will be free with a “Tufts for Haiti” wristband, and tickets will be available at the door for a donation of $5. Even if you have already purchased a wristband, we encourage you to donate again if you can. All proceeds for this event will also go toward Partners In Health.

More information about the event can be found on Facebook.com.

We hope that you join us as we continue our efforts to bring relief and aid to the people of Haiti.

If you have any questions about our fundraisers, if you would like to perform in our comedy event or if

you wish to work with us in any other way, feel free to email Dan Halpert at daniel.halpert@tufts.edu, Matt Wittman at matthew.wittman@tufts.edu or Adi Kulkarni at aditya.kulkarni@tufts.edu.

Please work with us to extend a helping hand.

Thank you.

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On safety in South Africa BY

MIRIAM LESHIN

The Wesleyan Argus

“I sure hope to live to read this letter someday.”

I wrote this upon arrival in Durban, South Africa last spring, in a letter to myself that my program director would then give back to us to read at the end of the trip.

I grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb historically ranked as the safest city in America. That did not stop me — or my neurotic parents — from worrying about crime while I was growing up. I was raised to take every precaution, to worry about sensational crimes my mother heard about on the news, and to generally live in fear.

Living in irrational fear in suburbia is nothing like living in very rational fear in South Africa. When we first arrived in Durban, our program directors gave us a list of basic safety precautions. Keep your money in your bra or your socks. Don’t carry more than 80 Rand (about eight dollars). Keep your phone in your pocket or bra at all times; never take it out in public. Don’t walk around with an iPod or a laptop on your person.

Don’t wear a necklace in public — someone might rip it off your neck.

I lived with a homestay family in a township for most of my trip. When I first arrived at my new home, I was told to unpack my belongings and store my suitcase above my wardrobe so that it was not visible from the window. The windows had bars on the outside, but evidently that was not enough.

My family did their best to make me feel safe, but I slept with the light on every night, constantly texting my friend who lived across the street to ask if she had heard what I always thought was a gunshot.

Sometimes when I heard these perceived gunshots while eating dinner with my host family, I would ask about them. My host father would casually remark that these were in fact gunshots and then point to the shacks down the hill as their source.

One afternoon, I was in my program’s van, driving through the center of Durban on our way home from our school. There was a traffic jam, no one was stopping at red lights and all cars in sight were

stuck. Amidst all the chaos, we suddenly heard a particularly frantic honking of a car horn next to us.

I looked over and saw that a man was standing beside the car. I saw him reach through the driver’s open window, grab the driver’s wallet from her hands and walk away. Her jaw dropped in fear and anger as she screamed, “That man robbed me!” Her whole body visibly shook. Both driver and passenger screamed for help while honking the horn for attention. I watched silently as a street full of pedestrians continued to mill about, passing the pleading car without any recognition.

This image would come back to me later. During the last month of our trip, our program required us to write a research paper as a culmination of our studies. My work focused on a Durban newspaper located a quarter-mile walk from the flat I lived in for the last month. In my project proposal, I had to allot money for transportation. I debated whether I should walk there or take a taxi. When I asked our director what he suggested, he told me it was safe enough to walk. When I asked one of the program’s most trusted taxi drivers, he also said it was safe, though he casually suggested that I buy a cheap wallet to carry in case I got mugged, so I would have something to give to the potential mugger.

Weighing my options, I decided to walk.

As I set out for the newspaper on my first morning of research, the first 10 minutes of the walk were pleasant. I strolled down a busy street crowded with restaurants and stores — the safest neighborhood I went to in all of Durban.

The last five minutes of the walk, however, entailed an isolated stretch along a road with no sign of life — deserted buildings on one side and a fenced-in dogracing track on the other. Walking down this stretch, I noticed a white pick-up truck slowing down next to me; soon it wasn’t just slowing down, it was following me. I walked faster. He drove slower. I reassured myself that nothing could happen with so many cars whizzing by.

Then I recalled the image of the woman shaking in her car as her wallet was grabbed from her hands.

No one had stopped or cared then, and no one would now. Durban’s notorious reputation as a city

of violent crime and rape flashed through my mind.

I panicked and ran. I arrived at the newspaper safe, though frazzled and embarrassingly sweaty given the 90-degree weather.

When I finished my research for the day, I immediately called a taxi for a ride home. As we sailed through that isolated stretch, I heaved a sigh of relief that I was safe in a taxi instead of vulnerable on the street. I realized that the moment with the pick-up truck was the first time in my life I had been in a situation with imminent danger. The irrational fears that had characterized my upbringing had been just that — entirely irrational. At home in my sheltered community, I had always been made fun of for being unnecessarily afraid of just about everything. Coming to Durban, I had wanted to prove to myself that I could triumph over my fears. But as I got out of the taxi in front of my flat that day, I no longer cared how others might judge me.

From then on, I took a taxi every day. I knew the taxi drivers probably thought I was a paranoid American to call them for a quarter-mile drive. I did not care.

I knew everyone on my trip thought I was a neurotic Jewish girl to pay for a taxi for such a short trip. I also did not care. My own peace of mind mattered more to me than what others thought of me. I had finally learned to trust my own discretion.

As we boarded the plane to fly home in May, our director handed us our letters from the first week of the trip. Reading my morbid prediction of my own death, I could only laugh. I had become so accustomed to constantly worrying about my safety on a daily basis that I had forgotten how much I had taken personal safety for granted my whole life.

On the flight home, I felt guilty that after only four months in South Africa I had the privilege to return to my safe community, while those who had taken care of me during my stay had to continue to live in fear. I realized that issues of safety are relative and vary globally.

But upon returning to the United States, I found that attempting to rank different safety concerns hierarchically is not productive. In the end, trusting your own instincts is.

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make a play and in that situation, it just happened to be me.”

With just over a minute left in the game, the Jumbos were down two points against the Polar Bears, but senior tricaptain Jon Pierce was able to drive to the hoop for a layup that set up Beyel’s eventual game-winner.

After the Jumbos went up by three, the Polar Bears missed two three-point tries of their own to tie it and fouled Tufts junior forward Sam Mason, sending him to the free-throw line to potentially clinch the game. But Mason misfired on both attempts, giving Bowdoin one final opportunity to even the score.

However, the Polar Bears couldn’t convert on their final three-point attempt, while Mason quickly made up for his missed free throws by hitting two to seal the 58-53 win.

Senior tri-captain Dan Cook led the Jumbos with 15 points, all of which came on three-pointers, while Beyel, Pierce and Mason each contributed double-digit points. Tufts was able to take advantage of Bowdoin’s mistakes throughout the night, registering 19 points on turnovers compared to just six for the Polar Bears.

The Jumbos also displayed a spectacular defensive effort, limiting Bowdoin to its second-lowest point output of the year.

“We were really able to control them inside,” Pierce said. “[Senior tri-captain] Tom Selby, [sophomore] James Long, myself — everyone was able to focus on shutting down their post options, and outside we really pushed shooters off the line ... It was just a great defensive effort by all five guys on the floor.”

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But things had not gone nearly so well for the Jumbos the night before. Tufts was blown out by Colby in a 91-68 game that was never close. Behind senior Adam Choice’s 21 first-half points on 9-for-10 shooting, the Mules took a comfortable 51-27 lead into halftime and never relented.

“It was sort of the opposite [of the Bowdoin game] in terms of defense,” Pierce said. “We had them knocking down uncontested jump shots and we let them gain confidence because, up to that point, they hadn’t been a good outside-shooting team. We turned the ball over at the top, which led to easy breakouts for them. And we didn’t do a good job containing ... Adam Choice. Once he got going, things flowed downhill for us.”

The lone positive for the Jumbos in the game was the performance of freshman guard Alex Goldfarb, who scored 18 points in his first-ever college start after stepping in for junior Matt Galvin, who is indefinitely sidelined with a shoulder injury. Choice led all players on the court with 25 points, while classmate Justin Sherman added 17 for the Mules.

Tufts will travel to Wheaton on Tuesday to take on a team that recently handed No. 9-ranked MIT its first Div. III loss of the season. After their latest win, the Jumbos are ranked seventh in the NESCAC — a playoff spot — with a 1-3 conference record and are eager to earn the right to play in the postseason for the first time in three years.

“I think we take a lot of confidence going forward, especially when you consider the landscape of the rest of the NESCAC,” Pierce said. “For the six seniors, [the Bowdoin game was] our first early NESCAC win in the past three seasons ... If we give the same effort that we gave against Bowdoin for 40 minutes, the season is far from over.”

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and knew we really had to step it up for the whole team,” said Barnosky following Friday’s win, in which she tallied a career-high 18 points. “We came and worked extra hard on our post defense and rebounding.”

Tufts completed the weekend sweep after surviving an ugly first half against Bowdoin, coming back and rallying from its third halftime deficit of the season.

The Jumbos went into the intermission trailing by only three despite scoring just 18 points on 24.1 percent shooting. The game remained tight until the 9:30 mark of the second half, when a three-pointer

by Barnosky gave Tufts the lead and jumpstarted a 16-2 run, sealing Tufts’ 15th victory of the season.

With 4:02 remaining and the shot clock winding down, senior tri-captain Vanessa Miller banked home a corner three-pointer that upped the Jumbos’ lead to double digits. Smiling and laughing as she went back to the bench during an ensuing Bowdoin timeout, Miller’s highlight-reel bucket effectively put the game out of reach for Bowdoin.

The win was Tufts’ third in as many years against Bowdoin, a NESCAC heavyweight that had been 14-0 against the Jumbos between 1995 and 2007. The 40 points scored by the Polar Bears were their fewest in any game since Dec. 2, 1999.

“It was great to see after a tough weekend last weekend, we came back here this week and got back to basics,” Berube said. “It was great team defense, great onthe-ball defense and great help defense.

[Saturday] was not a high-scoring game, and we relied on what we do best — that’s playing all-out defense.”

Tufts began the weekend by tripping up a red-hot Colby team that was riding an eight-game winning streak and the best start in its program’s history. Though the Mules shot an impressive 59.1 percent from the floor in the first half, the Jumbos managed to carry a five-point lead into halftime, mainly because they limited their opponents’ opportunities on the offensive end.

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“We pretty much just got dominated inside in terms of points and rebounds last weekend, and Julia and I came in this week and knew we really had to step it up for the whole team.”

Kate Barnosky sophomore forward

With the victory, Tufts avenged a 58-55 loss it suffered to Colby last year, in which then-freshman forward Rachael Mack torched them for 17 points and 11 rebounds. This time around, however, the Jumbos kept Mack out of the scoring column and limited her to just one rebound.

“Colby’s strength is in their post, and we did a good job of making it hard for them to get easy passes inside with our pressure defense on the perimeter and by getting deflections,” Berube said. “And when they did get in the post, we were doubling and wreaking havoc.”

“It’s a huge confidence boost,” Barnosky added. “It feels really good to get our revenge for last year and show that we can actually play with some of the good teams.”

Tufts will put its 15-2 mark on the line tomorrow evening, when it hosts 8-8 Emerson in a non-conference tilt before weekend action on the road at Wesleyan and Conn. College.

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ing the nation’s third-best rebounding team to just one — and forced Colby into eight turnovers. As a result, the Jumbos attempted 11 more shots and seven more free throws than the Mules in the first half.

The game stayed tight into the early minutes of the second half, as Colby whittled the Tufts lead down to one with 16:35 remaining. But the Jumbos notched 15 of the next 21 points — thanks, in part, to three-pointers by Barnosky and junior guard Lindsay Weiner — and blew the game wide open.

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first five minutes and the last five minutes. Goals then are big momentum changers,” Barchard said. “We definitely need to come out stronger in the first five and be ready to play a full sixty minutes once the puck drops.”

Tufts faced a Colby team on Saturday that came into the game unbeaten in its last 12 and exited the contest upping the total to 13, six games behind the school’s all-time record.

The teams traded goals early, with Mike Doherty scoring for the Mules in the first minute of the game and Diaco tying the game for the Jumbos less than two minutes later, but Colby regained the lead at the 6:53 mark of the first period on a goal by Tom McGinn.

Colby’s Nick Kondiles thwarted Tufts’ hopes for a second-period comeback, scoring a goal just 30 seconds into the period, and his assist on Michael Smigelski’s goal at 16:38 of the second gave the Mules a 4-1 lead.

With two minutes left to play in the period, Jumbos junior Mike Vitale scored to reduce Colby’s lead to two goals going into the second intermission, but the margin proved too insurmountable for Tufts.

“Colby was disciplined, and they all played well as a team together,” Cooper said. “It’s definitely tough losing NESCAC games, but we’re back at home now for a couple weekends, so we’re looking forward to that. We’re still in good contention to make the playoffs, so we’re optimistic about the last few games.”

Jesse Lehman tacked on yet another early-period goal for Colby, stretching the Mule lead to 5-2 just 1:33 into the final stanza.

Though John answered at the 3:54 mark, the Jumbos were unable to sneak a shot past Colby netminder Cody McKinney in the final 16 minutes of play. Barchard made 30 saves in the loss, while McKinney stopped 16 shots for the Mules.

The two losses drop the Jumbos to 4-6-1 in NESCAC/ECAC East play, but the team will have a chance to rebound when it takes on ECAC East opponents Castleton and Skidmore next weekend at Valley Forum II. “We’re not pushing the panic button now, we just need to get back to basics and that starts tomorrow in practice,” Barchard said. “We got on a roll in the beginning of the year; we’re just trying to get back on that roll.”

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and Bowdoin by large margins.

Tufts also fell short when facing a Div. I Boston College unit that earlier in the season trounced the seven-time defending NESCAC champ Williams Ephs 214-86.

Yet the team remains optimistic for its future prospects and cited this weekend as an opportunity to improve both individual performances and simulate the exhausting atmosphere of the pivotal NESCAC meet that waits only a month away.

“MIT is a top-five team in the country, so we really aren’t built to race against them and beat them in a dual meet,” senior quad-captain Rob Delean said. “But we really just tried to focus on our individual races and getting good times for ourselves.

You may not beat the person next to you every time, but as long as you’re improving on your own times, it’s a successful race.”

The Jumbos were able to garner three victories overall at the MIT meet, two of which came in the diving events that were held at the Engineers’ facility. The lone firstplace swimming finish came from senior quad-captain Lawrence Chan in the 200-yard individual medley.

Over at MIT, the Tufts divers continued to show their strength with wins in both events off the 1- and 3-meter boards. In a surprising upset, junior Trevor Stack handed Jumbo quad-captain and All-American Rob Matera his first loss of the year by the slimmest of

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The Tufts community honored the 11 seniors on the men’s swimming and diving team at the annual MEN’S SWIMMING (4-2) at Chestnut Hill, Mass., Sunday Tufts Boston College

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Senior Recognition Meet at home against MIT on Saturday. Despite the team’s best efforts to upset the powerhouse Engineers in front of a large and friendly crowd, the Jumbos ultimately fell 168-127. The team then traveled to Boston College for a Div. I opponent the next day, where it endured another loss to a Bostonarea heavyweight.

The Jumbos entered both of the weekend’s dual meets as heavy underdogs. Though Tufts has fared well so far this year against NESCAC opponents — currently it is 3-1 in conference dual meets — the Jumbos were overpowered when facing the nationally ranked MIT team that had previously knocked off NESCAC foes Colby

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Senior Patrick Kinsella, shown here on Saturday against MIT, narrowly missed out on first in the 100-yard butterfly as the Jumbos fell to the Engineers 168-127. margins — 286.42 to 286.13 —in the 1-meter event.

Against a Boston College team that the Jumbos had beaten in all three meetings dating back to 2005-06, Tufts fell in a close match.

Neither the final score nor detailed results were available at press time.

The Jumbos now head into the latter portion of their season battletested against some of the area’s toughest teams. The strategy up to this point has been perpetual training as the team continues to work relentlessly right through the meet, treating each competition as an

intense practice session.

But as the season winds down, coach Adam Hoyt plans to give his swimmers more time to rest their legs and prepare themselves for the final, crucial push.

“The last two weeks of the season basically you rest, and during that time you lose a little bit of fitness, but you have major gains in your energy level,” Delean said. “Any breaks that you take during the season keep you from being at your highest level at the end of the season. In dual-meets … we try to train right through, and try not to lose any fitness.”

The Jumbos continue their season next week with their final home meet of the year against Wheaton and NESCAC foe Bates. But even if Delean, Matera, Chan and the eight other Jumbo seniors will compete in Hamilton Pool for the final time next week, Saturday’s Senior Recognition meet was the symbolic end of four years of hard work and dedication.

“It was definitely an emotional meet,” Delean said. “It was just exciting. We had a couple of senioronly relays, where all the seniors got to race together, and it was really fun to say goodbye to Hamilton pool.”

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING

On Seniors’ Day, Jumbos fall to non-conference foe MIT

BY JESSE

WEINBERG

The women’s swimming team dropped its third straight meet in a 172.5-125.5 loss to MIT at the Hamilton Pool, spoiling strong WOMEN’S SWIMMING (2-5) Hamilton Pool, Saturday MIT Tufts

distance swimming events. In the 200-yard breaststroke, two Jumbos were neck-andneck for the length of the race, with freshman Lauren Quan ultimately out-touching her teammate, sophomore Paulina Ziolek, by four hundredths of a second.

In the backstroke events, sophomore Kelly Moriarty finished second in the 100-yard race, six hundredths of a second behind MIT firstyear Kathryn Greskoff. The Jumbos also had a strong performance in the sprint events with sophomore Saheela Mehrotra placing second in the 50-yard event and junior Maureen O’Neill finishing in third place.

Sophomore Valerie Eacret finished in second place in the 100-meter butterfly, a halfsecond behind MIT junior Amy Jacobi, while classmate Courtney Adams finished in the runner-up slot in the 200-yard freestyle.

The Jumbos, who last year went 8-1 in dual meets, dropped to 2-5 this season with the loss versus the Engineers. But far more important

10:58.99. She followed it up with an impressive performance in the 500-yard freestyle event, in which she beat out her nearest competitor —Tufts junior Megan Kono — by nearly three seconds.

“Its great having the juniors back,” senior tri-captain Joanna Drianne said, referring to third-years like Kono who were abroad for the fall semester. “They add a great leadership dynamic to the team, and they have been performing well considering that they just came back.”

On the diving boards, Gardel was equally impressive, capturing both the 1- and 3-meter events with respective scores of 253.04 and 279.30 and helping Tufts notch crucial points toward the overall standings. The senior’s final score in the 1-meter event bested MIT’s Elise Stave’s by almost 13 points, while Gardel won the 3-meter by nearly 18 points.

The Jumbos also benefited from strong performances in the sprint and middle-

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performances from sophomore swimmer Katie Russell and senior diver Lindsey Gardel on Seniors’ Day. On the annual event day, held to honor the Jumbos’ six fourth-years, it was the secondyear Russell who emerged dominant in the distance events. Russell won the 1000-yard freestyle event by five seconds with a time of

STATISTICS | STANDINGS

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Men's Basketball

Women's Basketball

Ice Hockey

(4-12, 1-3 NESCAC)

(15-2, 3-1 NESCAC)

(8-7-1, 4-6-1 NESCAC/ECAC East)

NESCAC

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

L 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 4 4

OVERALL

W 16 17 12 12 8 9 4 7 7 6

L 1 1 3 2 8 6 12 10 10 11

Individual Statistics PPG RPG Dave Beyel 15.6 4.7 Jon Pierce 15.4 6.9 Dan Cook 8.2 2.9 S. Anderson 7.9 4.6 Alex Goldfarb 4.2 2.0 Reed Morgan 3.1 1.4 Matt Galvin 2.8 2.4 Sam Mason 2.3 2.7 A. Quezada 2.3 0.5 James Long 1.8 2.6 Tom Selby 1.6 3.0 Bryan Lowry 1.0 1.2 Team

APG 1.0 1.4 0.3 0.8 1.6 0.3 3.7 0.5 1.0 0.6 0.4 0.3

63.0 37.9 10.5

NESCAC

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

L 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 3 4 4

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OVERALL

W 15 17 15 13 13 9 13 7 9 8

L 4 0 2 2 3 7 3 9 10 9

Individual Statistics RPG 4.6 8.6 5.3 6.2 4.0 1.3 1.5 1.5 0.9 1.0 1.0 0.6

for Tufts than the win-loss record will be the team’s performance at February’s NESCAC Championships. Separating the Jumbos and that meet, though, will be Saturday’s home meet with Bates and Wheaton, the final match at Hamilton Pool of the year.

“Next weekend will be another opportunity for us to show what we are made of, and I think it should be a great meet for everyone,” Drianne said. “It will be another great opportunity to compete and have some great swims.”

The experience of racing against MIT, though, should prove invaluable down the stretch.

“MIT has a great program, [and] we were just coming off our training trip,” Drinane said. “The focus for our season is performing well at NESCACs but we ... embraced the opportunity to swim against MIT, and would have liked to beat them, but it didn’t work out in our favor.”

APG 2.4 0.6 2.1 1.9 2.3 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.4 0.0 0.3 0.0

Colleen Hart Julia Baily T. Kornegay Kate Barnosky Vanessa Miller Lindsay Weiner Sarah Nolet Samantha Tye Katie Wholey S. Robinson Bre Dufault D. Collins

PPG 17.7 15.9 11.4 9.0 5.5 2.9 2.3 2.2 1.6 1.2 1.2 0.9

Team

69.6 38.2 10.9

W Amherst 7 Bowdoin 8 Williams 7 Colby 6 Middlebury 4 Trinity 5 Hamilton 5 Tufts 4 Conn. Coll. 2 Wesleyan 2

L 2 3 3 2 2 3 5 6 8 8

T 2 0 0 3 4 2 1 1 1 0

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Men’s Basketball

at Wheaton 7:00 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

vs. Emerson 7:00 p.m.

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FRI at Wesleyan 8:00 p.m.

OVERALL

W 12 10 9 10 7 8 8 8 12 9

L 2 4 3 2 3 5 6 7 12 9

T 2 0 2 3 4 2 2 1 1 0

Individual Statistics Tom Derosa Zach Diaco Dylan Cooper Trevor John Matt Amico Dylan Plimmer Mike Vitale Lindsay Walker Doug Wilson Conor Pieri Team

G 7 7 6 5 4 4 2 4 2 1 48

A 10 8 8 7 6 6 8 5 6 4 87

Pts. 17 15 14 12 10 10 10 9 8 5 135

Goalkeeping Scott Barchard Jay McNamara Team

S 634 20 654

GA 39 2 42

S% .942 909 .940

Ice Hockey

at Wesleyan 6:00 p.m. vs. Castleton 7:00 p.m.

Men’s Swimming and Diving Women’s Swimming and Diving Men’s Indoor Track and Field Women’s Indoor Track and Field

at Boston University 2:00 p.m.

Men’s Squash

at Trinity 4:30 p.m.

Women’s Squash

at Trinity 4:30 p.m.

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Banner weekend ends in two victories over conference rivals

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If teams could indeed make statements with their play, then what the women’s basketball WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (15-2, 3-1 NESCAC) Cousens Gym, Saturday Bowdoin Tufts

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team did over the weekend could best be described as loud and emphatic.

The nationally ranked No. 16 Jumbos hosted two top-25 opponents in Cousens Gym during the second week of NESCAC play and came away with a pair of potentially season-defining victories.

Tufts dealt No. 25 Colby a 72-57 setback on Friday night and followed that performance up by upsetting No. 13 and defending NESCAC champion Bowdoin 52-40 on Saturday afternoon.

The victories improved the Jumbos’ conference mark to 3-1 and upped their record against ranked opponents to 4-0.

“We definitely responded to the level of competition,” coach Carla Berube said. “We knew it was going to be tough with Colby and Bowdoin, the teams they bring in here and the intensity that they bring. But we brought

our game — we brought Tufts basketball.”

Tufts’ success was all the more impressive considering its top offensive threat was silenced for much of the weekend. Junior tri-captain Colleen Hart entered Friday averaging a NESCACleading 19.2 points on 50 percent shooting. But following some uncharacteristic performances from the field, she finished the weekend with just four combined field goals and 13 points.

Tufts’ frontcourt, however, picked up the slack. Senior forward Julia Baily finished one rebound shy of a double-double in each contest, while sophomore forward Kate Barnosky stretched the floor by going 7-of9 from beyond the arc for the weekend. Off the bench, junior forward Sarah Nolet produced eight points and seven rebounds in 22 total minutes.

“It was a really good effort from everyone, from people off the bench and from people who logged a lot of minutes and kept fighting,” Berube said. “Colleen’s shot wasn’t on this weekend, but other people stepped up.”

“Kate had a great weekend as a whole, I made some shots — I think it showed that we have a versatile team,” Baily said. “We have people that can step up and do step up.”

After struggling in the paint in their first two NESCAC games, the Jumbos drastically improved while facing some of the better post players in the conference.

Against a Colby team that rotated five players 6-foot-1 or taller in

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Sophomore Kate Barnosky posted a career-high 18 points on Friday and contributed 11 on Saturday in the women’s basketball team’s wins over nationally ranked Colby and Bowdoin. scoreless in the second half.

“We pretty much just got dominated inside in terms of points and rebounds last weekend, and Julia and I came in this week

its frontcourt, undersized Tufts managed to tie the rebounding battle at 34 apiece. The following day, the Jumbos held Polar Bears senior forward Leah Rubega, who was averaging a double-double entering this weekend’s action,

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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For the first two months of the season, little went right for the men’s basketball team, as it had compiled a 3-11 overall record heading

After thrashing Suffolk University 7-1 last Tuesday, the Tufts hockey team hoped to move up in the NESCAC

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into last weekend’s action. But after Saturday’s narrow win over Bowdoin (9-6) at Cousen’s Gymnasium perhaps the Jumbos have turned a corner.

With 40 seconds left to play in a 53-53 game against the Polar Bears, Tufts found itself with possession of the ball and an opportunity to snap a five-game losing streak and record its first NESCAC win of the year. Ten seconds later, with the game on the line, senior forward Dave Beyel stepped up and hit a three-point shot that iced the Polar Bears and put the Jumbos back in the win column for the first time since Jan. 7.

“We didn’t really have any specific play set up,” Beyel said. “It was kind of one of those things; I felt it and I just took it. I wasn’t thinking make or miss, in my mind it was only going in. Looking back, it wasn’t the greatest possession — it’s one of those shots that you have to make it if you’re going to take it. We were just trying to have someone create and see MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 10

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Senior Dave Beyel nailed a game-winning three-pointer against Bowdoin on Saturday.

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standings in key matchups against conference rivals Bowdoin College and Colby College this weekend. But a 3-2 loss to Bowdoin and 5-3 loss to Colby promptly dispatched the team back down into the league cellar.

Tufts had a difficult time containing both Bowdoin and Colby’s offensive attacks early. The Jumbos ceded the first goal in both weekend matchups. On Friday night, the Polar Bears’ Kit Smith opened the scoring with a hard wrist shot five minutes into the game, generated by a clean faceoff win by center Leland Fidler. Bowdoin kept up the offensive pressure in the first period, with Aaron O’Callahan firing a loose puck past Tufts goaltender sophomore Scott Barchard.

Late in the period, the Jumbos began to find their stride, notching two power-play goals with less than three minutes to play in the opening period. Junior Zach Diaco laced

a pass to classmate Andy Davis, who finished the play to cut Bowdoin’s lead in half.

Just a minute later, junior Tom Derosa scored his fourth goal in two games to send the game into the first intermission at 2-2. Freshman defenseman Trevor John picked up an assist on each of the Jumbos’ goals.

The second period was void of scoring but certainly not without action, as both teams earned three powerplay chances. Though neither unit was able to cash in on the advantage, the Polar Bears outshot the Jumbos 24-9 in the middle stanza, forcing Barchard to deflect a bevy of shots to keep his squad in the game.

Just two minutes into the final period, Bowdoin’s Ryan Blossom deflected an Erik Olson shot past Barchard, giving the Polar Bears a 3-2 lead and consequently the victory. Tufts killed off a penalty several minutes later, before earning a power-play of their own with five minutes remaining.

“I thought in the first game we took some bad penalties. Bowdoin was a very offensive team, and they played a system that we really hadn’t seen from any other team this year,” junior tri-captain Dylan Cooper said.

Bowdoin’s Chris Rossi made 26 saves on Friday, including an impressive pad save on Tufts junior Conor Pieri, who led a dangerous odd-man rush with only a couple of minutes remaining in regulation. Barchard finished with 46 saves against Bowdoin, but his efforts were not strong enough to save the Jumbos from defeat.

“The biggest time to score is the see HOCKEY, page 10