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Bacow announces decision to step down as university president BY

ELLEN KAN

Daily Editorial Board

University President Lawrence Bacow at this weekend’s Board of Trustees meeting announced his decision to step down as university president effective June 2011, according to a press release forwarded to the Daily by Kim Thurler, director of university public relations.

Bacow, who took office as Tufts’ 12th president in September 2001, explained that the decision was motivated by the length of his tenure.

“When I took the job, I told the [Board of Trustees] that I thought 10 years was about the right amount of time as president,” Bacow told the Daily. “It’s long enough for one person to have a substantial impact but not so long for either the institution or the president to get comfortable.”

Bacow added that multiple factors came together to make this the right time to leave.

“The timing was right for me — and I’d like to think for Tufts,” he said. “By June of 2011 we will finish the [Beyond Boundaries capital campaign]. I’ll be just about to turn 60. It just feels right.”

Both Bacow and Chair of the Board of Trustees James Stern indicated that this decision was not a surprise and to an extent had ANNE WERMIEL/TUFTS DAILY

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University President Lawrence Bacow will step down after a decade at the helm of Tufts.

Positive reviews for new Winter Bash, despite chaos at coat check BY

MARTHA SHANAHAN Daily Editorial Board

Attendees and organizers deemed the revamped Winter Bash a general success except for mishaps surrounding the coat check and departures from the hotel.

“I would rate it a B plus,” said junior Sarah Habib, the Programming Board co-chair.

“Everything that we could control went well.”

Approximately 2,700 tickets costing $10 each were sold for the overhauled event, held off campus at the Sheraton Boston Hotel for the first time, according to Habib. This fell slightly short of the 3,000 tickets that Programming Board was hoping to sell.

Programming Board decided to make Winter Bash, now named Break the Ice, a more upscale event in response to students’ past misbehavior at the annual dance and other community events.

Sophomore Jimmy Zuniga, marketing chair of the Programming Board, felt that the changes went over well.

“We designed it to be a classier, semi-formal event,” he said.

“I think we did a great job … a lot of people had fun and were very happy with the venue, food and dancing.”

Zuniga added that students behaved well for the most part, in contrast with previous years’ events that featured excessive drunkenness and public urination. “[Attendees were] largely… respectful of the rules, and the Sheraton was fine at the end of the night,” he said.

Habib agreed and said having students board buses to the hotel at pre-assigned times worked well. “ S t u d e n t s’ behavior was great,” she said.

“The DJ was awesome; people who were dancing had a lot of fun. People loved that there was real food. The shuttle system worked out well too.”

Many students, however, complained of problems with the shuttle system, which they said caused lines through Cohen Auditorium and delays while en see WINTER BASH, page 4

CEO of DuPont says experience as a female engineer was instrumental in her success

BY SAUMYA VAISHAMPAYAN

Daily Editorial Board

Ellen Kullman (E ’78) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of global Fortune 100 chemical company DuPont. She shared at Thursday’s Lyon and Bendheim Lecture her experiences at Tufts and how they influenced her career. The Daily sat down with her beforehand for an interview.

Saumya Vaishampayan: As an undergraduate engineering student at Tufts, what did you see yourself doing post-graduation?

Ellen Kullman: You know what, I went into engineering because I was always drawn to math and science and I really enjoyed that kind of work. But as I got into it, what I realized was that’s not really what I wanted to do. I didn’t want to necessarily work as a design engineer; I like working with people, I like being out, so I ended up going into sales of technical products, I ended up going to work for a company — you know, electrical distribution equipment, that kind of stuff, into sales and product management, and ended up going back and get-

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ting my MBA so I had a more full business view.

SV: At Tufts, were you a member of any clubs or organizations that influenced your career path?

EK: So I played basketball for a couple years, was actually on the team. I was always very competitive, so that was a lot of fun. You know, engineering school pretty much took up a lot of your time, so there wasn’t a lot of time to do other things.

SV: In 2009 there were only 15 Fortune 500 companies run by women. How did your time at Tufts prepare you for being a female CEO in a male-dominated business world? Or your time after Tufts?

EK: Well, you know, I was always the only woman or one of only one or two women in most of my classes coming through Tufts, so you learned how to deal in that world.

I didn’t view myself as any different than the men. We were just there, we competed, and so I think that I was obviously very comfortable in it. I think that when you’re com-

fortable in an environment, you make other people comfortable in the environment as well as being the one who’s a little different, so I think that learning how to work in a very open and a very engaging fashion with all different kinds of people is something that I took away from my experiences here.

SV: What advice can you give students about life after graduation?

EK: Well you’ve got to really figure out what you love to do and the younger you are, the easier it is to try different things and move around because you don’t have a whole [lot] of stuff or a whole lot of roots usually. So, I tried a couple of different companies and different jobs and ended up going back and getting my masters. Just enjoy it and try to figure out what your real passion is because if you really love something, then you’ll do it.

People always ask me the question of, “Gee, you’ve sacrificed a lot to get to where you are,” and my response is always, “If I thought it was a sacrifice, I don’t think I would have done it.” I mean, I’ve loved it see KULLMAN, page 4

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Junior Clark Duverger reflects on the personal impact of the earthquake in Haiti on his family and friends.

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University President Lawrence Extreme makeover Tufts edition: campus improvements Generous donations sought by Bacow have enabled extensive construction and renovation on Tufts campuses.

University Trustee Bernard Gordon gave a gift of $10 million, making possible the environmentally friendly Sophia Gordon Hall, now a favorite living option among seniors.

Completed in 2006, the residence hall was the first at Tufts to be built along Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, and uses approximately 30 percent less energy and water than normal buildings.

The Granoff Music Center, which opened in February 2007, was supported by a gift from University Trustee Marty Granoff and his wife Perry. The state-ofthe-art facility is home to the music program and Distler Performance Hall, and it hosts over 180 concerts and events annually.

In the same year, producer and

New York Giants executive Steve Tisch (A ‘71) committed $10 million for the expansion of Cousens Gym and athletic facilities.

Tisch Library has experienced significant changes during Bacow’s tenure, including the creation of the Tower Café.

The library roof, renamed Alex’s Place in 2009 in honor of former Tufts student Alex Mandell, has benefitted from public planning initiatives. Bacow believes the presence of the redesigned space will help create a stronger sense of community for students.

The newly renovated Packard Hall, now the home of the political science department, is the latest in the series of changes on the Medford/ Somerville campus.

Improvements have been made on other campuses too, including the landmark addition of five additional floors to the 10-story School of Dental Medicine, completed in 2009.

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Expanding the network: connecting students and alumni

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Bacow has made strengthening Tufts’ alumni network by connecting alumni to students and the university through improved resources and communication one of the priorities of his tenure.

The Tufts alumni network has expanded its regional programming for alumni, and the alumni chapter program has grown fourfold, from 15 in 2001 to 68 chapters worldwide today.

With the launch of the Tufts Entrepreneurial Network in 2009, there are now 21 alumni shared interest groups, compared to three in 2001.

Additionally, more than 40,000

alumni have now joined the Tufts online community.

Tufts has also improved its alumni communications through various media, such as the Tufts Magazine, which has received many national awards for its content and design.

Bacow believes that these advances have helped strengthen the relationship between alumni and the university.

“Our alumni are a wonderful resource for the university,” he said. “Connecting them to current students helps students, but also gives our alumni that many more reasons to be involved.”

Town-gown relations on the upswing: improving community relations Tufts under Bacow’s direction has strengthened its relationships with its host communities through both community initiatives and Tufts-sponsored programs.

In 2004 the university created a partnership with Medford and Somerville to support — among other programs — economic development, housing and open space, pledging $1.25 million over the next 10 years to each city.

This partnership marked the culmination of a several-yearlong effort to improve community relations.

The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy in 2002 started the Shape Up Somerville project, which has helped improve the health of the Somerville community through research and a citywide fitness campaign.

The inaugural Tufts Community Day took place in 2003 in an effort to promote interaction with surrounding neighborhoods. Tufts now annually invites neighbors and town residents to participate in a day of musical performances, food, presentations and celebration.

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Leveling the playing field: keeping Tufts financially accessible

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Tufts has retained its commitment to increasing financial aid for students despite trying economic times.

Bacow has made making Tufts more financially accessible a major priority, and the university has been making steady progress toward a completely need-blind admissions policy.

This has been helped by the almost-complete Beyond Boundaries capital campaign, a $1.2 billion fundraising effort to increase the endowment that began in 2006.

Tufts managed to offer completely

need-blind admissions for the Classes of 2011 and 2012.

The financial crisis last year dealt this goal a setback, forcing the suspension of need-blind admissions for the Class of 2013 toward the end of the admission process. However, 95 percent of the applicant pool was still reviewed need-blind.

There has also been a significant increase in the number of Pell grant recipients enrolling at Tufts.

The Class of 2011 experienced a 60 percent increase over the Class of 2010 in the number of recipients,

with a total of 162.

Beginning with the Class of 2011, Tufts replaced loans with grants for students with household incomes of under $40,000.

Tufts in 2008 also instituted the Loan Repayment Assistance Program for graduates employed in the public service and not-forprofit sectors to assist in the payment of educational loans incurred at Tufts.

“I’m really proud of the progress that we’ve made in making Tufts more accessible,” Bacow said.

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Bacow’s Tenure in Review

Compiled by Saumya Vaishampayan and Katherine Sawyer with contributing reporting

by Ellen Kan

Money, money, money: fundraising for Tufts

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Bacow’s tenure as university president has seen unprecedented levels of donations to the school, as well as significant strides in fundraising for two capital campaigns.

From fiscal year 2002 through December 2009, the university’s endowment grew to $1.26 billion, an increase of nearly 86 percent.

The five largest gifts donated during Bacow’s tenure amount to $366 million, all of which have gone toward increasing financial aid in all schools and improving the student experience.

Throughout his term, Tufts has received landmark donations, such as the Cummings Foundation’s 2004 commitment to investing $50 million in the School of Veterinary Medicine, Pierre (E ’88) and Pam

(LA ’89) Omidyar’s 2005 gift of $100 million to Tufts to create the Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund and Jonathan Tisch’s (LA ‘76) 2006 gift of $40 million to endow the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.

The first two gifts were, at the time of their donation, the largest in the history of the university.

More recently, Tufts in 2008 received $136 million from trusts the late Frank C. Doble (A ‘11) created. The gift, which supports the Schools of Arts, Sciences and Engineering again set a record for the largest charitable gift in the university’s history.

Near the beginning of Bacow’s presidency in 2002, Tufts completed the Tufts Tomorrow campaign, which raised over $609

million for teaching, scholarships and improvements to campus life.

Bacow has also seen considerable success with Beyond Boundaries: The Campaign for Tufts, which launched in 2006 with the goal of raising $1.2 billion for students, faculty, research facilities and programs in citizenship and public service.

The campaign in 2009 surpassed $1 billion in donations from over 117,000 parents, alumni, friends, foundations and corporations, and recently reached $1.05 billion, bringing it close to completion.

Chair of the Board of Trustees James Stern said that fundraising under Bacow has been “extraordinary” and an integral “part of his strategy when he came to the university.”

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Inching away from the red: steering through the recession Tufts has endured the economic recession better than many peer institutions, in large part due to Bacow’s guidance and leadership.

“I think it’s fair to say that Tufts weathered the financial storm of 2008 and 2009 better than most,” Chair of the Board of Trustees James Stern said. “A number of our competitor schools are still feeling the pinch.”

Bacow, an economist by training, has stressed the need for universities to reduce the risk of their endowment investments.

The university’s advanced financial planning model helped Tufts continue to increase financial aid and preserve employment during the recession, according to a press release from Kim Thurler, director of public relations.

Although the economic crisis

forced the university to hold or slow down some projects — including the expansion of athletic facilities — drastic cuts in funding and employment that took place at other institutions have been largely avoided.

In an e-mail to the Tufts community in September, Bacow announced that the university managed to balance its budget for fiscal years 2009 and 2010. In addition, the university’s budget absorbed the full extent of the 25 percent endowment decline.

Bacow has advocated financial stability and judiciousness during his tenure, leading the school with the motto: “A University Poised.”

“I think we’ve tried to be very prudent in the initiatives that we’ve undertaken,” Bacow told the Daily.

“We have not bitten off more than we can chew and that’s why we’re in

relatively good shape.”

Bacow indicated his satisfaction with the steps the university has taken to steer its way through the financial crisis.

“Another thing that I’m really, really proud of is that we’ve been able to navigate our way through this recession with minimal if any impact on our students,” he said.

The university responded quickly to the impacts of the recession with measures like salary freezes and continued to maintain open communication with students and staff about the Tufts’ financial circumstances.

Although the recession hit the endowment, there has been a remarkable response in giving with record fundraising, and the endowment is on the road to recovery.

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Loving Larry: the people’s president

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One of Bacow’s enduring legacies will be his availability and visibility on campus. Students have embraced the president and his wife Adele Fleet Bacow, evident in graduating students’ chants of “Larry, Larry” at every Commencement.

Known for serving hot chocolate to students sledding down the president’s lawn and doling out pancakes during reading period, Bacow is also a frequent attendee of student performances and programs.

He also launched the first-ever President’s Marathon Challenge team for the Boston Marathon, which raises funds for medical research and unites members of the Tufts community through training and volunteering. He

himself has completed the marathon four times.

Bacow regularly trains with members of the team and calls it one of the things he will miss most about being at Tufts.

“One thing that has become a big part of my life is the marathon challenge, just running with everybody all the time,” he told the Daily. “I may come back from time to time to run with people.”

Bacow also advises freshmen and sophomores and began the tradition of hosting senior dinners, in which he invites all graduating students to Gifford House. He estimates that close to 9,000 people pass through the doors of his house each year.

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When and Where: 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; Science and Technology Center 136 Sponsor: Department of Biomedical Engineering “Profit and Prose: Multinational and the Science of Corporate Research” Details: Stephen Collesano, senior vice president of global research and development at ACE Group, will discuss his commitment to enhancing research, developing client bases and managing e-business for the global insurance organization.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Cabot 702 Sponsor: Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy TUESDAY “Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster” Details: Peter Victor, an economist who has worked on environmental issues, will speak about the emphasis that wealthier countries place on economic growth as a guiding principle of economic policy.

When and Where: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Cabot 702 Sponsor: The Global Development and Environment Institute “Charles Francis Adams Lecture: Future of

Global Finance” Details: Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance, will discuss “The Future Shape of Global Finance and Implications for the World Economy.” Reservations are required; get free tickets from http://www.eventbrite. com/537873795.

When and Where: 12:30 p.m.; Chase Dining Center Sponsor: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy WEDNESDAY “Israel, the Palestinians, and the OneState Agenda” Details: Hussein Ibish, senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, discusses his experiences as part of the Fares Lecture Series Spring 2010.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Cabot 702 Sponsor: Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies THURSDAY “Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series Spring 2010” Details: Assistant Professor Alexander Mitsos, from the mechanical engineering department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present on the optimization of concentrated solar power.

When and Where: 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.; Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall Sponsor: Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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Monday, February 8, 2010

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route to the hotel.

Students agree that the main problem they faced at the event was the coat check, especially during the mass exodus of students at the end of the night.

Junior Dirk Fruitema waited in line twice for a total of 50 minutes trying to collect the correct coats for himself and others. He described a chaotic situation.

“There were girls crying, everyone was pushing and trying to get out,” he said. “I left [the dance] at 1 a.m. to get my coat, and I didn’t get back to my room until three, so [getting my] coat and leaving was a three-hour ordeal.”

Students corroborated Fruitema’s description, citing multiple instances of hour-long waiting times, physical injuries and missing coats.

Attendees and event workers said the coat check, which was staffed by hotel workers and members of the Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD) program, was not sufficiently prepared to process the number of coats they received.

BUILD is part of the Institute for Global Leadership, and members worked the coat check to raise funds for their projects, which center on promoting sustainable development.

Junior Kathryn Taylor, a BUILD program co-coordinator who was working at the coat check, cited a poor organization system and insufficient coat hooks and workers as reasons for the

Bacow intended to resign after a 10-year term

Time at Tufts prepared Kullman for business world

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always been planned.

“It has always been my intention; it’s the timeline I’ve always had,” Bacow said.

Stern agreed that this announcement was not unexpected for the trustees. “He has always said that it would be a 10-year term, and Larry is a man of his word,” he told the Daily.

Stern indicated that the process of developing a search committee for Bacow’s successor will be launched immediately, and every effort will be made to consult students, faculty and other relevant groups in the global search.

“The search committee will hear the views of all the constituencies … it will be the intention of the committee — as we did in the last search — to hold meetings on all campuses to make sure that everybody’s thoughts are heard about the kind of things we’re looking for,” he said.

Bacow said that a process concerning leadership renewal is an important one for universities, and this reasoning has led to his belief about the sufficiency of a 10-year term.

“I think transitions are healthy for institutions like ours,” he said. “It gives the university, the board and the community the opportunity to pause and reflect on the kind of leadership that is needed for the next 10 years. That almost only happens when you have a change in leadership.”

Stern, in assessing Bacow’s tenure, gave him high praise.

“I would say that the president has had an extraordinary run … he’s a wonderful leader, accessible to all, very visible, very transparent,” he said. “In academic terms, I am a tough grader, and he’s really done a great job.”

Bacow, noting that his departure is still 16 months away, said that he has no concrete plans yet for the future. One thing he is sure of, however, is that he does not want to run another institution.

“If I wanted to continue to be president of a university, I would stay here,” he said.

He added that he would like to continue teaching and be actively involved with “some organizations,” though he said that he would take his own advice that he gives to seniors frequently, which is to “recognize opportunity when it comes and hits you in the face.”

Bacow emphasized, however, that whatever he does in the future, it will not be at Tufts.

“I think that I should get out of my successor’s hair,” he said. “My successor ought

complications.

Some students tried to avoid waiting in line by staying away from the coat check until the crowd thinned out.

Sophomore Lydia Chevalier said that she “waited in another room for an hour, then in line for another 40 minutes.” She added that aside from the wait, the event went smoothly.

“I think [the dance] worked out well,” she said.

Responding to complaints about the coat check, Habib said that the fault lay with the hotel, which did not supply enough racks and manpower.

“The coat check was run by the hotel; they were in charge,” she said. “So we cannot take the blame for that. They only provided 800 racks when they knew more coats were coming. Maybe 25 people were working the coat check but a thousand people needed to get [coats].”

Some drunken students were prevented from attending the event, and there was one report of a student being sent to the hospital from the hotel, according to Habib.

Habib felt that the event was successful enough to justify continuing to organize other off-campus events if funds were available.

“Students were great. The behavior of students was one part of the night that went well,” she said. “And you learn from the things that didn’t go right, because you can’t control everything.”

She added that money from the Tufts Community Union Senate’s buffer fund will make up for the event costs that were not covered by ticket sales.

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along the way, so I think when you’re young; I found out my passion was in business and industrial businesses for some odd reason, probably because of my mechanical engineering degree, and I just have always worked with companies that were like that where those skills have been valued.

SV: Can you explain a little bit about the industries that you work in? So you said, more technical industries?

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Bacow discussed his decision to step down in an interview with the Daily. to have the same freedom that I had to chart a course for the university, to decide what they want to do and not want to do.

And I expect that would involve changing some things that I might have started.”

Looking back on his tenure, Bacow said that he is proud of what the university has accomplished, although some of his goals have been temporarily set back by the economic recession.

“I think I made a lot of progress on a lot of things I set out to do,” he said. “But if you achieve everything you set to do, you probably weren’t trying to achieve a lot.

The recession has forced us to slow down a few things.”

Bacow cited the example of the construction of new laboratory facilities and the next phase of the project to expand Tufts’ athletic facilities, which have both been put on hold.

Naming his proudest achievements, Bacow listed making Tufts more financially accessible, improving the undergraduate experience and campus, strengthening the alumni network and navigating through the recent financial crisis.

Bacow highlighted the strength of the community at Tufts as one of the defining characteristics of the university.

“One of our real core strengths, one of our real core assets that doesn’t appear on a balance sheet is the social capital that is represented by Tufts as a community,” he said.

This sense of community, he said, was evident in employees’ willingness to “sac-

rifice to put students first” and accept difficult measures like salary freezes during the recession.

Over the rest of his time at Tufts, Bacow will be focusing his efforts on completing the Beyond Boundaries capital campaign, which has just surpassed the $1.05 billion mark, and continuing to make progress on the university’s core initiatives.

“Only two things matter in a great university — great students and great faculty,” he said. “We focus like a laser beam on trying to create a nutrient-rich environment for great students to collaborate with great faculty.”

Stern echoed Bacow’s emphasis on these initiatives.

“He really has accomplished an enormous amount for the reputation of the school in terms of pushing forward more strategic initiatives on what makes the school great — great students and great faculty,” Stern said. “The statistics about our entering classes speak for themselves, and we’ve attracted a number of great faculty members.”

Stern expressed his high regard for Bacow. “He’s just a wonderful human being, a great president, someone we’re all very lucky to know and have him as part of our lives,” he said.

Although Bacow says he will miss life at Tufts, especially interacting with the community, he added that he is “looking forward to what [he’s] hoping will be a quieter, simpler life.”

EK: So, there’s consumer products industries and there are industries that are more industrially-oriented. I never worked as an engineer, but I have a deep understanding of engineering principles, project management skills. I mean, a lot of the skills that engineering school taught me were how to solve problems and in the industrial world, you’re working with other businesses. It’s business-to-business, and understanding how technology can really help them be a better company and have better products for their customers and the like. I really like the science part and the technical part of it, so my company is science based. Everything we do comes from chemistry, biotechnology. I like to say that mechanical engineers are the most important because we know how to keep it all inside the pipes, but there’s an argument about that at my company.

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The devastation in Haiti impacted countless people outside of the country’s borders.

For student, Haitian earthquake hit home Junior lost two relatives in the disaster in the Caribbean

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Senior Staff Writer

Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, junior Clark Duverger witnessed from abroad the devastation of his birthplace, all the while uncertain of his family’s safety.

“I don’t know what to think now,” Duverger said. “Everything I knew is gone. Places where I used to hang out aren’t here anymore.”

Without a television, Duverger was unaware of the earthquake crisis in Haiti until he began receiving calls from worried friends.

“I got a message that day from my friend who graduated from Tufts last year who is also Haitian,” Duverger said. “I listened to her message, and she said, ‘I just wanted to make sure your family is okay.’ I had no idea what she was talking about.”

After checking Facebook.com, Duverger noticed that many of his Haitian friends were posting con-

cerns about the earthquake that had just occurred.

“In my mind, it wasn’t registering yet. You don’t really know what an earthquake of that magnitude means,” Duverger said.

When Duverger found out from a friend that the National Palace had crumbled, he started to worry about his father, who lives nearby.

Duverger and his mother began trying to reach his father, but weren’t able to get through. The following day, his father’s whereabouts were still uncertain.

“We kept trying and trying, everybody was trying, everybody was helping everyone,” Duverger said. “I was watching TV, and it was just ridiculous, gruesome and chaotic. I didn’t really know what to think. You don’t want to think the worst.”

Around 6 a.m. the following morning, Duverger received a text from his father letting him know that he was OK, but that his uncle and cousin

were missing.

Though Duverger’s father’s house didn’t sustain any damages, his cousin told him later that day that his uncle’s house was leveled, and while two of his cousins managed to escape, his uncle and one of his cousins were killed.

“The crazy thing is, my uncle and cousin were actually in the States two or three days before for a wedding.

Everyone was together, everyone was happy and celebrating,” Duverger said.

“When they arrived home, they called and said they were back home. Two hours later, it happened.”

As he had spent much of his childhood in the neighborhood where his uncle and cousin lived, Duverger lost several other acquaintances as well.

“I used to go to their neighborhood all the time because in my neighborhood, there weren’t many kids my age,” he said. “I heard that the entire neighborhood was leveled, and a couple of see HAITI, page 6

Bundle up: Students learn to adjust to the New England cold Jumbos from warm climates have hard time coping with wintry weather BY

EMILIA LUNA

Daily Editorial Board

Making it through the winter months is difficult for every Jumbo, but students who hail from warmer climates face the additional obstacle of transitioning from sunshine 12 months a year to living in the harsh New England chill.

Freshman Alexandra Geada, a Miami native, still has trouble with the Boston area’s weather. “I have been used to a warm and humid climate my whole life,” she said. “I had to get used to not wearing sandals everywhere. That is a year-round thing in Miami.”

Sophomore Amalia Toro, a native of Colombia, also had a hard time adjusting to the cold. “[I hate] the feeling you get when you walk out of a restaurant, and you [are] warm

and well-fed, but then you have to be exposed to the miserable cold and the wind that feels like someone is sticking needles in your face,” Toro said.

For international students, weather can be an aspect of the choice to come to school in the New England area; some international students, however, said that they did not consider the weather to be a crucial factor when making decisions about college.

“Weather was only like the fourth or fifth factor I was taking into consideration,” said sophomore Alisha Sett, who is from India.

The weather can be such a shock for foreign students that it can sometimes interfere with mood and even mental health, ranging from mild annoyance to severe depression.

Sophomore Omar El Gazayerli, from

Egypt, found the cold affecting his lifestyle. “People tend to get lazy because of the cold,” he said. “You become more reluctant to go out and see your friends, but I guess it forces you to work.”

According to Marilyn Downs, director of outreach for Tufts Counseling and Mental Health Service (CMHS), the most common reaction to the weather is developing Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). “Some of the potential indicators of SAD are depressed mood, sleep or appetite disturbance, low energy or fatigue, decreased motivation or concentration, or social isolation, to name a few,” she said.

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ou remember those orientation-week rookie mistakes during freshman year: traveling in hordes to random off-campus parties, signing up for Friday 8:30 a.m. classes, trying (and failing) to navigate though the South Hall maze.

Don’t forget hooking up with the girl who lived “conveniently” just down the hall during the first week, only to awkwardly avoid eye contact for the next month. Despite all the advice we’re told about avoiding “dormcest,” it’s almost like a college rite of passage — a lesson you’ve got to learn from personal experience.

Throughout college we all get involved in different situations and relationships across campus. Sometimes they involve the girl who (literally) lives next door. Other times, it’s the guy who’s in the far corner of Lewis.

Maybe you’ll get lucky and meet someone who lives three houses down, or maybe you’ll fall for someone who lives all the way on North Street. However, relationships certainly feel the impact of campus geography — especially the ones that develop within a few yards of each other.

So perhaps you thought you could rise above “hallcest,” despite conventional wisdom. I still remember my innocent freshman self falling (briefly! naively!) for the guy who lived two doors down from me … the first weekend of school (am I a walking college cliché or what?). The two of us stumbled back to Houston one night after a party, and we kept up our affair for a little while.

For a week or two the perks were great!

We already had a bunch of hallmate friends in common! We were conveniently located for afternoon sporadic “study breaks!”

And then, he met someone else. I could tell something was up when he walked by my room one day without even saying “hi.”

Afterwards, he thought avoidance was the best tactic, but umm … we passed each other multiple times a day. I felt weird bringing other guys back to the hall and had to see him with his girlfriend constantly. Not to mention, those old “hallmate friends” are STILL teasing me about it three years later.

Hallcest plus two years’ experience?

That’s what I like to refer to as “housecest,” or off-campus intra-house relationships.

The prospect of seeing an ex-boyfriend/ current housemate bring home other women seems insane to consider in my opinion, but there are a few couples who take the risk every year. Perhaps I’m biased because almost all the couples I’ve known at Tufts that have moved in together have since broken up, but it seems like it might be best to stick with cross-campus coupling if you’re in a relationship.

One of my friends who is living with an ex-girlfriend stated the obvious.

“Pros? You live with them, so you see them all the time while you’re dating. Cons?

You live with them, so you see them all the time when you break up,” he said.

Still, despite the fact that the tide’s against you, if you’ve thought about it and your fellow South Hall sweetie really is the one for you, don’t let conventional wisdom stop you.

Sometimes things are meant to work out — Peter Gallagher (LA ’77) said in a speech at Tufts a few years ago that he met his future wife in the Bush Hall stairwell the first week of his freshman year. And despite the fact that I think living together in college is a little crazy, my own parents moved in together during their junior year, and almost thirty years later, well, neither one has moved out.

For most of us, however, it’s probably best to consider whether or not it’s worth the potential consequences of a hallmate hookup if things don’t work out.

Emily Maretsky is a senior majoring in engineering psychology. She can be reached at Emily.Maretsky@tufts.edu.

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Duverger discusses family, friends still in Haiti HAITI continued from page 5

people died from the neighborhood, people that I know.”

The rest of Duverger’s close relatives were safe, but their days were not without grief and discomfort.

“On my mother’s side, my aunt and cousin’s house was damaged and they had to sleep outside,” he said. “My aunt told me how they had to sleep with dead people, because no one knew if a person was dead or sleeping. Everyone was dirty, everyone had blood on them.”

Though Duverger said he doesn’t consider himself to be an emotional person, the experience has at times been upsetting for him.

“When I’m around people who are emotional, who are affected by this and start getting upset, that’s when I start getting upset,” he said. “It’s really messed up that my 11-year-old cousin had to experience that and will have to grow up with that.”

Duverger and other members of his family in the United States have largely helped support family members in Haiti by sending money. One family member in Florida shipped a package of dry goods to Duverger’s father.

“Compared to the general population, I feel that we were lucky, even though we did lose two people. My family, we have resources, we are definitely in a better position, but that’s only because we were in a better position to begin with,” Duverger said.

While Duverger’s father and other family members intend to stay in Haiti for the time being, his aunt and cousin on his mother’s side are now moving to

the United States.

“Those who were already struggling, though, what are they going to do now? Even if they didn’t lose anyone, but lost their house, their business … that’s their lifeline. What are the options, what are the choices?”

Duverger said.

“They had to sleep with dead people, because no one knew if a person was dead or sleeping. Everyone was dirty, everyone had blood on them.”

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This week, Duverger will begin assisting with crisis mapping for Ushahidi.com for the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where Tufts students involved with the program search through online information and text messages to relay the location of trapped persons, insufficient and available supplies to those working for the relief effort in Haiti now.

This spring break, Duverger plans on visiting his family in Haiti, but likely won’t be making the trip alone.

“I’ve been getting lots of requests from people all over campus wanting to go help.

People are interested in organizing a group,” Duverger said.

“I’m happy to go and see my family. I know that it’s going to be horrible, but it happened, and I guess we have to start looking forward.”

Tufts students adjust to the New England winter — poorly.

Students hailing from warmer climates adjust to the cold WINTER Continued from page 5

Downs added. “We would suggest that a student make an appointment at CMHS to have an evaluation and determine what might be most helpful for their particular situation.”

Furthermore, different groups on campus attempt to help students adjust to life in the winter. The International Center, for instance, has a tradition in which they collect winter clothes from faculty and staff, and give them out to those international students who are not well equipped

for the winter. The Office of Residential Life and Learning and resident assistants are also available if students have trouble with their heaters, or even if they need tips to last through the winter.

Students that have never faced the winter find that tips from students from the local area can come in handy.

Sett said that the most useful advice she has received has been to layer clothing.

“If you keep the ears and feet warm, you’re halfway there,” she said. “You will also need to wear more clothing than others. Do not be embar-

rassed to walk around looking three times your size. You’ll be happier warm,” Sett said.

Sett, after three full semesters as a Tufts student, still hasn’t quite adjusted to the temperature. “I am not used to it yet. I’m from Bombay — what do you expect?”

Some warm weather natives noted that the cold winter does have its high points, like skiing and playing in the snow.

“Coming from a place that has heavy rain, the snow is absolutely adorable,” Geada said. “I don’t know how people don’t like it.”

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In Aug/Sept 2007, in collaboration with the Robert and JoAnn Bendetson Public Diplomacy Initiative of the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership, O’Malley headed up a project that brought 16 senior officials from all Sunni and Shia parties, including Minister of National Reconciliation Akram al Hakim, to Helsinki to meet with the chief negotiators from Northern Ireland (NI), including the former chief of staff of the IRA, Martin McGuinness, who had reached agreement in NI in 2007 and the chief negotiators who had brokered the settlement in South Africa (SA) in 1994, including Cyril Ramaphosa, Nelson Mandela’s chief negotiator, to share experiences of conflict, and the processes of peace negotiations and reconciliation. The result was an agreement which was submitted by participants to their political leaders for ratification. Since 2008, he has been engaged in conversations with members of all the ethnic groups that comprise the Kirkuk provincial council, in Kirkuk and Boston.

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After the release of the Apple iPad, Xbox 360 and other gaming devices with a plethora of uses other than gaming, it seems our culture has outgrown the need for its old school, one-function gaming devices. Luckily, a scene has emerged that uses Game Boys and other ’80s-era hardware to create a style of music called chiptune, or 8bit, synthesizing vintage sounds with thoroughly modern ideas.

“It’s music made using sound chips of pretty much any old technology that wasn’t capable of sampling,” said Damon Hardjowirogo, who programs for the New York-based band Starscream. “It’s lowbit, meaning it uses the actual soundchips that most old video game consoles and computers have.”

To access these soundchips, 8bit musicians use programs like Little Sound DJ (LSDJ), which “allows you to access the sound chip of a Game Boy,” said Louis Shannon, who plays in various 8bit projects. “[On the program] you have four tracks you can write in, like four tracks of a live band — bass, drums, guitar, vocals — and you apply the tracks you write to these four channels.”

Although the sounds of chiptune are limited to the capabilities of the technology these musicians employ, the music itself is not limited. The scene includes bands like Starscream, which combines the sounds Hardjowirogo creates from the ’80s home computer Commodore 64 and bandmate George Stroud’s drumwork, and Anamanaguchi, a group of NYU students who play traditional instruments over tracks created from old Nintendos COURTESY OF JOSH DAVIS, PHOTO BY CHARLIE SUH

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Tufts alum Josh Davis (LA ’95) rocks the house with Game Boy sounds.

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“Fish Tank” is not a film for the faint of heart. This dark portrait of a teenage girl growing up in work-

Fish Tank Starring Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing Directed by Andrea Arnold ing-class England is harrowing in its brutal honesty. Writer-director Andrea Arnold offers a teen drama

that Hollywood doesn’t usually present. Instead of trendy lingo, a hipster soundtrack and a love interest to bring salvation, Arnold presents a harsh dose of real life.

Mia Williams (Katie Jarvis), the protagonist, is the definition of teen angst. She is a 15-year-old mess of a girl who lives with her ever-partying mother Joanne (Kierston Wareing) and foul-mouthed younger sister Tyler in a public-housing estate in Essex. Mia is perpetually angry, lonely and insecure.

When we meet Mia, she has just been expelled from school and dumped by see FISH, page 10

THEATER REVIEW

Plague infects ‘One Flea Spare’ BY

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Whistler in the Dark’s production of Naomi Wallace’s “One Flea Spare” brings to light the human frailties tested during

One Flea Spare Written by Naomi Wallace Directed by Meg Taintor At the Factory Theatre through Feb. 21 Tickets $10 to $20 the time of the Black Death. Amid the backdrop of this disease-ridden world, love and loyalty are harder to find and deception is rampant, as one upperclass couple, a sailor and a girl are forced to remain together in a single room for a month under quarantine. Under Meg Taintor’s direction, “One Flea Spare” opens and closes doors to the human heart as the characters confront disease, death and — almost as heartbreakingly — survival.

When the sailor Bunce (Curt Klump) and the girl Morse (Jen O’Connor) break into a home looking for supplies and shelter, they find themselves quickly imprisoned. The owners of the house, Snelgrave (Jeff Gill) and Darcy (Lorna Nogueira), must live with the two strangers, spending the majority of their time in a single room — the only room where no one has died. The new situation is undesirable to everyone involved, leaving the characters fighting for survival

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Katie Jarvis plays troubled, working-class teen in “Fish Tank.”

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’m so excited about this week’s review.

I want to get up and shout my excitement from the mountaintops. I want to dance through the streets proclaiming how incredible this thing is. I want to tell everyone and get riled up!

But I can’t do any of these things, because this week I’m reviewing Valium.

Let me explain: I used to love flying.

It was great. I wanted to be a pilot and I wanted to fly all around the world, like most eight-year-old boys do at some point or another. But then, somewhere between fifteen and twenty, I started to hate flying.

This past summer, I found myself panicking when I had to fly. There was nothing I could do to remain calm.

People close to me tried to calm me down on both of my flying trips, but it was to no avail. White-knuckled, I gripped the armrests and braced myself against the floor as the 747s gently lifted off the runway and banked slowly over the endless landscape.

When I realized that I would be flying alone to the U.K. for my study abroad semester, I figured that, rather than get intimately close (by force) with the people in my row, I would get something to minimize my anxiety.

One conversation with my doctor later and I was in possession of six ten-milligram diazepam tablets (a generic version of Valium).

Before I go any further let me clarify: I’m not scared of flying. As Stephen Fry, an amateur pilot (in addition to being an outstanding British actor, comedian, author and generally great person), once said, “I’m not afraid of flying, I’m afraid of crashing.” I enjoy flying and landing, but the whole take-off thing has been sort of annoying lately.

Cue Valium.

Sitting in Terminal Four, the international departures terminal at New York’s JFK airport, I popped a Valium at 6:10 p.m. By 6:30 p.m. everything was a-okay.

Believe it or not, much of this column was typed while I was experiencing the effects of the Valium.

It’s called a tranquilizer, and whoever named it such was nothing short of a genius. I still was not thrilled about getting on the airplane solo, but I understood that it would be fine. Things were sort of fuzzy and slow, and I was — surprise, surprise — tranquil.

I wanted to take a nap, and I wanted to talk to everyone.

Walking was a lot of fun; it was sort of like being on roller-skates. Someone was moving, but it was more like being gently pushed in a shopping cart on clouds than hustling with a heavy backpack to get onto an airplane.

As it turned out, I was tranquil enough to take a nap on the airplane and then not freak out when I woke up to find that, nearly two hours later, we were still sitting on the runway. By this point, I thought that the effects of the Valium had run out. But I discovered that this was not the case some time later when, after we finally took off, I was rudely awakened from yet another nap when the plane dropped about 15 feet and, rather than shriek like the gentleman next to me, I simply smiled, blinked and went back to sleep.

All in all, Valium is fantastic. On a serious note, this anti-anxiety medication is not a fun drug to take willy-nilly. It was prescribed to me by a medical professional, only to be taken under extreme cases.

This somewhat minor detail prohibits me from awarding Valium the highest distinction of five stars.

These pills helped me out a lot, but altered states aren’t super great all the time.

Valium: Four out of five stars.

Mitchell Geller is a junior majoring in psychology. He can be reached at Mitchell.

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her best friend. Her life is an exhausting cycle of humiliation and isolation.

Whenever she makes an effort socially, other people do not hesitate to knock her down. On the rare occasion that someone offers Mia a shred of kindness, she lashes out against them and closes herself off in order to preempt the worst.

She sees her life as a prison, a fish tank. She lives in a bleak world in which people tell her what to do and then expect her to fail. In turn, Mia is drawn to the things around her that are also in captivity, such as a sicklylooking horse. Her effort to free the horse from its chains is illustrative of her own imprisonment, and it foreshadows her eventual escape from the life she hates.

Connor (Michael Fassbender), a charming Irishman, moves in with the Williams clan as Joanne’s new boyfriend. To Mia, he is at once a friend, a father figure and an object of sexual attraction. Connor is the only person in Mia’s life -- and perhaps the first ever -- to offer her any positive support.

While Connor ultimately takes

advantage of Mia’s vulnerability, their relationship does lead Mia to gradually open up to people. She smiles more and begins a relationship with a boy in her neighborhood. Mia’s slow transformation through her relations with Connor can be seen as beneficial for her; though her dreams are eventually crushed once again, she seeks solace in people rather than self-imposed isolation for the first time in her life.

Jarvis, a newcomer whose own background is similar to that of Mia, is remarkable at expressing Mia’s internal struggles along with her external behavior, such as her guarded smile and her hesitation before lashing out at others. The viewer is well aware that Mia acts out of self-protection, not malice. It would have been easy for Arnold to create a character that is simply mean, but instead, Mia is a fully fleshed-out, yet pitiful, person.

The camera is rarely focused on anyone but Mia, creating a wholly singular perspective of the action in the film. This relentless focus particularly colors Mia’s relationship with Connor as excessive kindness leads to casual flirtation. The inappropriate, yet desired, nature of these events

makes the viewer question Mia as a reliable narrator. Through Connor’s eyes, the same scene might be motivated by fatherly impulses rather than sexual ones, but Mia’s sexual attraction to and desire for Connor clouds the viewer’s judgment.

The film eventually answers the question of Connor’s interest in Mia, and it does not come out favorably for him. From that point on, Arnold presents the theme that no one is entirely good or evil. The viewer learns that Connor, temporarily a bright light in Mia’s dark world, has a mean streak a mile long. Mia’s mother, on the other hand, has the capacity to show forgiveness to and affection for her daughters, whereas in the beginning viewers believed her to be unfeeling and indifferent. Mia has the ability to be truly cruel in intention as well as outcome, making even the protagonist a complex, often misunderstood creation.

At the close of “Fish Tank,” Mia’s life is still not perfect. Mia has changed, but the film depicts only one chapter in her life. Arnold’s script and characters illustrate the real world behind the troubled teen and encourages the viewer to look at his or her own struggles.

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against each other as well as the plague.

O’Connor conducts a striking performance as the young, slightly demonic girl Morse. Her opening monologue is dramatic and her gaze incredibly spellbinding throughout the performance. As the first and last voice in the production, it is tempting to let her character assume the role of narrator, yet Morse’s history and personality are troublesome, and her stories lack credibility.

Discovering the truth is not easy; revelations require betrayals and accusations from every character until the plague puts an end to it all. O’Connor perfects her character’s disturbingly promiscuous and morbid nature and yet succeeds as the enchanter, leaving one equally eager for her next line and horrified in anticipation of it.

Kabe (Ben Chase) is the guardsman for the four other characters and the only one who has the freedom to come and go at will. However, this luxury has not made him sympathetic or less fearful. Kabe is callous with his games and jokes, just as desperate for human sympathy and comfort as the rest. In bribing those confined in the house, Kabe’s lust and monetary desire are satisfied. He too must survive and is equally threatened with the plague.

Chase is comical yet threatening in the role, mastering his position as comedian and enforcer.

Curious desire propels the play as the

characters ask more than they sometimes wish to know of one another. It is at these moments when the script is brutally upfront. When Snelgrave attempts to ask Bunce what he does to satisfy his sexual desires when he is at sea for long periods of time, Snelgrave desperately tries to imply what he wants without actually asking for it. When Bunce’s only answer is to suddenly force an orange onto Snelgrave’s finger and then eat it, Gill flawlessly portrays genuine shock and understanding at what the character both desires and expects. This moment is one of unspoken truth.

The Factory Theatre is the perfect venue for this type of performance, forcing an intimacy that the characters themselves must overcome. The set is simple and spare, consisting of only a ladder, a doorframe and a couple of chairs. It is an environment where no one can hide, compelling the characters to reveal their secret wounds and unspoken desires.

Disease in many different forms works as a theme throughout the entire performance. All of the characters struggle with their own diseases under the frightening context of the plague. Darcy and Snelgrave reveal their sick and dying marriage as a result of Snelgrave’s cruel indifference and Darcy’s carefully concealed skin. Bunce has a wound that will never heal, and Morse is a mentally unstable manipulator.

Illness is not a new concept for them, but the fear that follows the plague causes them to act out and expose themselves in

ways they might have otherwise kept hidden. As a result, the entire play is a sort of infection that is painfully cleaned out with truths and revelations throughout its duration.

“One Flea Spare” is on stage at the Factory Theatre until Feb. 21 with performances every day of the week. Reduced prices are available for students.

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and were called one of the “8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear” by the L Magazine.

Also prevalent are solo musicians like Bit Shifter, also known as Josh Davis (LA ’95), who fell into the scene “accidentally.”

“I stumbled upon a Web site for one of the programs used to compose on the Game Boy, called Nanoloop,” Davis said. “I was pretty amazed by this idea in general, to use the Game Boy as a music-making platform. I’d always had an interest in that style of sound, the character of those old machines.”

As a teenager, Davis developed an interest in electronic music, but didn’t find anyone to share that passion with until later in his life. “Most of my social circle wasn’t really into that, so I figured out on my own what was what within that realm,” Davis said.

His friends helped in other ways.

“When I became a teenager, I started listening to really terrible heavy metal, and I was rescued from that by some friends in high school who lent me cassettes of punk and hardcore bands, independent pop and post-punk and indie rock and stuff like that, and that’s where my taste for the most part has come from,” Davis said. This music inspired Bit Shifter’s music, a sound Hardjowirogo describes as “going from electronic hardcore to sugary power-pop.”

Davis isn’t the only one within the scene with a multitude of influences; in fact, most 8bit bands come from different musical backgrounds, creating a group of musicians united not by a genre but by the hardware they use.

“These bands have other intentions, and 8bit is their way of getting it across,” Shannon said. “Anamanaguchi basically defines 8bit punk, while Starscream is more of a post-rock band.” Shannon cited Beck, Portishead and other psychedelic electronic musicians as his own influences.

“I’ve never considered myself an 8bit musician,” he said, “but more a musician who sees the possibility of using hardware and what the positives are of using outdated software to reinvigorate your creative spirit.”

Because 8bit comes from so many different influences, people unfamiliar with the music often don’t know how to react to it.

“We recently played at a punk house party in Baltimore,” Hardjowirogo said, “and they weren’t too big on it at first. I talked to a few of them after, who said they normally hate electronic music but realized that you can create any kind of music with chiptunes.”

While the different 8bit musicians might have different styles, what unites them is the chiptune community, which has spread through the Internet to nearly every major city worldwide. Within the more localized scenes, musicians and organizers use the Internet to connect to other groups in other cities and help each other out.

Davis is a central member of 8bitPeoples, a collective that puts on the monthly showcase Pulsewave and the annual Blip Festival in New York City. The series was the brainchild of musician Peter Swimm and is now in its wildly successful fourth year.

“We’ve been really lucky with Pulsewave,” Davis said. “It was an idea that got started for selfish reasons, because we thought it would be fun to throw these events and get our friends to play these shows. But they definitely brought in people who otherwise wouldn’t have been aware of chip music.”

“Blip Festival has helped show how global the chip music scene is, even though a good majority of the musicians are from the New York scene,” Hardjowirogo added.

In the wake of these festivals, more and more chiptune bands from across the globe, from Tokyo to Montreal and Philadelphia to Boston, have enjoyed the welcoming scene.

“Right away, I was really struck by [the 8bit community],” Davis said, explaining that because the scene is central to the use of certain hardware, it’s created a very tight-knit and inclusive culture.

“I hate to sound like a hippie,” he added, “but it’s such an atmosphere of mutual respect and admiration and excitement.”

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Bacow more than an administrator Since his inauguration in 2001, University President Lawrence Bacow has proved himself to be far more than simply a figurehead of the Tufts community. It is easy to recount Bacow’s many measurable achievements and contributions to the university as a whole, but the impression that he has left on the Tufts undergraduate campus, though more difficult to quantify, is equally important.

Bacow has made it clear, time and time again, that his personal involvement in students’ lives takes a high priority. He will be remembered by future generations of Tufts students and faculty as the economist who strived to make the university more financially accessible and as the president who improved alumni and towngown relations.

While these accomplishments will persist in our memories, they are not the only facets of his presidency that will stand out in our minds. We will remember Bacow as the runner who

woke up at the crack of dawn to train with the Tufts marathon team as part of his President’s Marathon Challenge, bonding with his students through the pain of early-morning exercise in the bitter Boston winter air. We will take with us the memory of a welcoming host who, along with his wife Adele Fleet Bacow, took the initiative to open Gifford House to every member of the graduating class to dine with them during his or her last year on the Hill. And when other students boast that their university’s president attends their student performances, we’ll be able to proudly reminisce about the time that our president not only attended but made a cameo appearance in Tufts Opera Ensemble’s performance of “Dido and Aeneas” in February 2008.

Bacow has set a precedent for future Tufts leaders. He has established the standard that it is not enough to crunch numbers and push papers all day while ignoring the value of main-

taining a relationship with the student body. He often remarks that while now he is president of the university, he has always been a teacher first and foremost. Carrying this philosophy into his presidency, Bacow has made it his priority to help foster educational experiences for his students that are as fulfilling as they can possibly be. His task force on improving the undergraduate experience successfully opened up opportunities for students to become more involved with research and work directly with faculty, encouraging student involvement in all aspects of the university.

When Bacow leaves the Hill in June 2011, he will certainly be missed for his accomplishments and leadership, but most of all for his dedication to improving all aspects of the community, both on and off campus. We hope that Tufts’ next president will carry on his tradition of being not only an administrator but also a friend, an ally and a teacher.

LOUIE ZONG

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CBS must standardize ad practices Advertisements during the Super Bowl are arguably some of the most entertaining of the year; for some they can even be more entertaining than the game itself. But one ad this year — the non-profit organization Focus on the Family’s spot featuring Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, a former Christian missionary — drew a particularly notable amount of attention. The ad, entitled “Celebrate family, celebrate life,” features Pam discussing her “miracle baby” who “almost didn’t make it into this world.” While the ad itself does not explicitly discuss “their story” — Pam decided not to abort her child despite enduring a life-threatening pregnancy — it directs viewers to the Web site of the blatantly pro-life, evangelical Focus on the Family.

The “Celebrate family, celebrate life” ad is unique in that it is the first advocacy ad to appear during the Super Bowl, the most-watched television broadcast in the United States with an estimated viewership of over 100 million. Since Focus on the Family announced plans for the ad on Jan. 15, numerous advocacy organizations

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have spoken out against CBS for agreeing to air it. On Jan. 25, a coalition of women’s advocacy groups, including the Feminist Majority and the National Organization for Women, called for a protest against the broadcasting company, stating that by giving Focus on the Family airtime, CBS is effectively supporting the group’s agenda.

The Daily’s objection is not to the content of the Focus on the Family ad but with CBS. While the broadcast company decided to air this controversial ad containing implicit political and social meanings, it rejected a commercial last month from a gay dating Web site, Mancrunch.com, which shows two men kissing. At the time, CBS’ Standards and Practices Department said the Mancrunch ad was “not within the Network’s broadcast standards for Super Bowl Sunday.”

CBS needs to clearly define what these “standards” are and how a politically fueled advocacy ad fits into them.

CBS has not maintained standardized practices in deciding when to reject Super Bowl advertisements. The network has a track record of turning away morals-based advocacy ads

from the Super Bowl broadcast — in 2004, the network would not air ads from the United Church of Christ and MoveOn.org, a political advocacy group that wanted to air an antiGeorge W. Bush piece — but it chose to air the “Celebrate family, celebrate life” spot. While one can argue that the 2004 ads contained more explicit messages than the Tebow ad, CBS still decided to run an ad this year that broadcasts the political and social messages of an advocacy group.

The Daily feels that CBS’ decision to allow an advocacy spot during the Super Bowl inherently implies that the network supports the message the ad contains. The fact that this is the first time such an ad has been shown during the game, and that it was shown in such a way — during the first commercial break of the Super Bowl — gives the spot a prominence that reflects a bias on the part of CBS. If CBS as a business organization wishes to remain impartial when it comes to political messages, it has two options: either reject or run all politically charged ads. There is no middle ground.

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‘New Moon’ marks ‘Twilight’ of feminism BY

MICHAEL LAHA AND KIA WIDLO

My concerns about the new “Twilight” movie began when my girlfriend, after watching the “New Moon” trailer with me, whispered into my ear: “We have to see this!” I inquired with my female friends, who had seen the movie already, whether it was worth 10 bucks and a 45-minute-long T-ride to Boston Commons. I received enthusiastic responses ranging from a rather harmless, “Oh, my God, yes … you need to see it! It’s so cute!” to a more R-rated, “Oh, my God, yes ... yes … yes … YES ... YEEESSSSS!!!” Since I am interested in keeping my girlfriend happy, I grudgingly bought two tickets and apprehensively submersed myself in the most anticipated vampire saga of the millennium.

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” was an interesting experience to say the least. I am a guy, so I will skip my tirade about how corny and cheesy I felt it was. However, the underlying messages of this hugely popular film struck me as cause for feminists to rip out their hair.

Given that Stephanie Meyer, author of the “Twilight” book series, is a Mormon, it is hardly surprising that the movie would contain conservative ideas about love, relationships, sexuality and gender roles.

Bella Swan, a human, and Edward Cullen, a vampire hottie, are passionately in love. However, Edward’s natural drive to kill humans in order to drink their blood poses a central problem for this interspecies romance.

Fearing that he may lose control of his desire, Edward has to limit intimate contact with Bella — this means only minimal kissing, a lot of staring into each other’s eyes and, of course, no sex. Edward’s continual fight against his animalistic instinct highly sexualizes their relationship without actually engaging in sex. “New Moon” therefore offers the viewer abstinence as an alternative to sex, without sacrificing the rush of emotions that are generally associated with the sexual act itself.

The Tufts Observer carried an interesting article on Dec. 9, 2009, entitled “Suck My Love: Vampires for Virginity.” The author, Cara Paley, suggests that the “no sex” message of the book and movie has young American girls wanting to abstain. I find that plausible and would applaud it if, in fact, teenage pregnancies in the United States drop after the release of “New Moon.”

However, bearing in mind the rather unsuccessful abstinence-only sex education philosophy (popular under former President George Bush), I find celibate vampires unlikely to curb America’s unplanned pregnancies.

Most striking, however, is Bella’s consistently passive role. Her character is constantly led, protected and surveyed by two men, Jacob and Edward. When Edward leaves her, she is tormented for months by the heartbreak; she cannot attend school, abandons her friends, hardly leaves the house and has nightmares that wake her, screaming in despair. Her happiness is entirely dependent on Edward and the movie seems to suggest that women are incomplete beings without a man by their side.

Furthermore, Bella is particularly naive at the point of the break-up. Edward manages to convince her without much effort that he is leaving her because he does not love her anymore, even though he actually feels the whole vampire-human thing isn’t working out. When Edward leaves, Jacob steps in to protect her, something the

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movie suggests she cannot do by herself. It isn’t unheard of for romantic stories and real-life relationships to be structured in such a way that women receive protection while men play the protectors. Yet this distinct role-play is hardly the standard for modern heterosexual relationships. According to the article “Women and Work: We did it! The rich world’s quiet revolution: women are gradually taking over the workplace” that ran on the front page of the Dec. 30, 2009 issue of The Economist, women are (and should be) equals to men in the workforce and are already surpassing them at American universities. In a matter of months, The Economist reports, women will be making up the majority of the working population in the United States. “Twilight: New Moon” does not reflect this gender zeitgeist.

Another particularly troubling relationship is the one between the werewolf leader Sam and his fiancée, Emily. We learn that her face was severely scarred when Sam hit her in a burst of uncontrollable anger during his transformation into a werewolf. Throughout the film, the pack transforms when heated or angry.

Therefore, the transformation into a werewolf becomes a metaphor for uncontrollable (and excusable?) behavior. This all sounds shockingly similar to the description of emotionally and physically abusive relationships on the pamphlets you can pick up at Tufts Mental Health Service. Emily’s continued love for Sam, despite the fact that he hit and mutilated her, endorses the idea that it is okay for women to accept physical abuse.

Interestingly, the conservative role of Bella in “Twilight” has been compared to Hermione, the female witch from the even more popular “Harry Potter” series.

The wizarding world has been hailed as a progressive counterpart to the traditional vampire novels. In contrast to Bella’s image, Hermione is a studious, intelligent and self-confident teenage girl who falls in love with Ronald Weasley. Nevertheless, she does so without skipping class, losing motivation or her independence. To me, Hermione seems more like a twenty-first-century women than Bella.

In the end, I am glad that I took my girlfriend to see this movie. In fact, I would also take my 14-year-old sister to see it just to show her the kind of woman not to be. However, I ask myself if such a blockbuster film like “Twilight” is the kind of romantic script we want our young girls to follow. Already being bombarded by TV shows such as “The Bachelor,” “MTV Spring Break 2010” or “Jersey Shore,” this movie only adds to the inundating volume of media that presents a severely distorted view of romantic relationships to impressionable teenagers.

I believe that our society would be significantly happier with more Hermiones than Bellas running around.

Script writers and novelists should consider this as they flick their pens and put their ideas to paper.

Michael Laha is a senior majoring in chemistry. Kia Widlo is a sophomore majoring in International Relations.

How to beat ‘depression’ BY

EVAN WECKSELL

I am a Tufts alumnus who was back on campus last week while headlining Theta Chi’s Comedy Night for Haiti. I picked up a copy of the Tufts Daily in the Mayer Campus Center and found the Jan. 25 Features article by Carter Rogers, “High expectations take their toll like never before.”

While I can agree and say how hard it is and how we are surrounded by burdens and how it’s impossible to get a job, make money, etc … that just isn’t true. So I’d rather give you, my fellow Jumbos, a few pointers to help lessen the overwhelming troubles of life.

You should know your environment. It is the job of mainstream news media to make the world seem as dangerous as possible. Fortunately or unfortunately, that is what sells. If I could break news stories into three categories, they would be: problems, distractions and solutions. Their purposes are to upset, to divert and to inform, respectively. Problems have actually been upgraded to catastrophes thanks to the economic recession, which is a contraction in the marketplace and not an apocalypse. Distractions are the reason we’re stuck with Paris Hilton and forced to wonder where the “Jersey Shore” cast is going to show up next. And solutions may wait ’til page 10 of a publication when the other two categories take up the first nine.

Also, the quantity of media has grown exponentially in the past decade with the advent and expansion of the Internet and social media. That’s why terror and panic seem so rampant in our environment. Thanks so much, Ashton Kutcher, for getting in a race with CNN to see who could have one million followers first on Twitter.com. Because the more

we see tweets about bloodshed or scandal, the more unsettled we’ll feel.

I could recommend two remedies for that: Either try avoiding the news for one week and see if your mood changes, or take a walk and see for yourself how dangerous the environment is or isn’t.

You should follow your nose. At the risk of sounding like a commencement speaker, don’t let the pressure of finding a job run you ragged and don’t let that first job define your career. A career is just a series of jobs.

My first job was a day camp counselor. After college my first job was an intern for the National Hockey League. Now I’m a comedian — go figure. You’re only looking for what you’re going to do next, not what you’re going to do for the next 50 years. I don’t expect to be a comedian my whole life, but plans change (or stay the same).

And don’t feel like you have to change or compromise your integrity to fit in to some company or club.

It’s just like a relationship — the other person should like you for who you are. Another alternative is you could always make your own club. That’s what Bill Gates did, that’s what Tufts alum and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (E ’88) did and that’s what Oprah Winfrey did times infinity.

It’s okay to seek out help. Communication is the universal solvent. Whether it’s making up with your parents or getting back together with your girlfriend or boyfriend, it’s all accomplished through communication. That’s why counseling can be very helpful.

While at Tufts I went to the Counseling and Mental Health Service once and got through every present problem and upset I had at the time, and when I walked out of the building, I felt the weight of the world off my shoulders. Why did it work? Because

someone was listening to me and acknowledging what I had to say. That was really it. It’s good to have a few people like those at a counseling center who can listen, because stuff happens.

When there are cases that can go off the rails, this is when the person in the other chair suggests what is wrong with you. However, any medical diagnosis is not the best idea; it’s one thing to have a friend offer two cents, but it’s another when you’re being told what your problem is and then it’s given a label.

Depression is a feeling, not an illness. Anyone can be in a funk, but if you’re feeling down, it doesn’t warrant you being labeled as something out of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If someone has high blood pressure, that’s something clinically proven that you can treat, but if I’m sad or feeling overwhelmed, that doesn’t mean I need to be put in an arbitrary category. It may mean I need to take steps to handle my environment, whether it’s a person, a group or a situation.

Those are a few of the things I have applied to my life to keep the gloom away. Yes, the gloom sometimes returns when we don’t want it to or when our schedule overwhelms us or we’re overstressing about life’s obstacles, but it’s just gloom; it’s not us. If we let it be us, we won’t get anything done. Thankfully, we all know we are capable of getting a lot done because we all did get into Tufts in the first place.

So do the next thing ahead of you, plan accordingly and have fun when you get there.

Evan Wecksell graduated from Tufts in 2001 with a degree in child development and psychology. He is now a touring college comedian.

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the double digits at one point in the second half against Amherst (14-7, 3-4 NESCAC), but they were resilient. With just over a minute to play and with Tufts down four, freshman Scott Anderson converted an old-fashioned three-point play to bring the team within one point.

Thirty seconds later, Pierce hit the layup that put Tufts ahead for good.

Senior Dave Beyel led all scorers with 23 points, while Pierce and Anderson added 22 and 15, respectively.

Fortunately for Tufts, the Lord Jeffs were missing their best player in junior Conor Meehan — who averages 14.2 points, 6.3 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 1.9 steals — as he was out with a right quad contusion.

“It was very frustrating [sitting on the bench],” Meehan said. “I don’t think I could ever be a coach. It’s a helpless feeling ... I can cheer and everything and try to get the guys ready to play, but it’s definitely frustrating just sitting there.”

On Friday, things did not go quite as well for the Jumbos, as they lost to a middle-of-the-pack Trinity squad 67-62. Despite being down by as many as 12 points in the second half, Tufts battled back to come within two, but Beyel missed a potential game-tying jumper with 23 seconds left, and the Jumbos followed that up with two technical fouls that effectively put the game out of reach.

But all of that will be forgotten come next Saturday when Tufts travels to Bates, which sits fourth in the NESCAC with a 4-4 conference record. It’s a simple situation for the Jumbos: A win against the Bobcats will most likely give Tufts its first trip to the postseason since the 2006-07 season.

“We’re going to come back in next week focused,” Pierce said. “Bates is a hot place to play — it’s a hot gym — the fans are right on the court and will be on us ... It’s really a playoff game for us, just like today was. So it’s just a matter of being focused and playing 40 minutes of basketball like we did today.”

Saturday afternoon in Cousens Gym, Amherst improved to 5-0 all-time against Tufts under coach G.P. Gromacki, with all the victories coming by single digits.

The Daily takes a look at the Jumbos’ letdowns against the Lord Jeffs since the 2007-08 season and the success the they’ve had against the rest of the NESCAC in that same span. vs. Amherst vs. rest of NESCAC Record 0-5 26-3 Playoff record 0-2 3-0 Avg. scoring margin -5.2 pts +13.5 pts FG percentage .330 .426 Turnovers/gm 16.8 15.4

gear and push through and get the win.”

The momentum began to shift in Amherst’s favor at the 15-minute mark of the second half, when senior forward Julia Baily was forced to the bench with her third foul. Minus Baily, who had already tallied a double-double through that point, the Jumbos yielded 12 of the next 16 points and never led again.

“She needs to be on the floor for us to be successful — that’s how important she is,” Berube said. “When she picks up tickytacky fouls, it’s tough.”

Despite the loss, the first for national No. 10 Tufts (19-3, 6-2 NESCAC) in the newly renovated Cousens Gym, there were many positives that came out of the weekend.

The Jumbos did, for instance, manage to outplay the country’s top team for the first 25 minutes of Saturday’s contest, limiting an offense that was averaging 77.2 points per game to just 31.3 percent shooting in the first half. In part because of its strong defensive effort, Tufts carried a six-point lead into halftime and maintained a slim advantage into the early minutes of the second half.

In the end, the Jumbos became just the third team all year to come within single digits of the juggernaut Lord Jeffs.

“We said from the beginning that the pressure is on them, so we were going to go all out the entire game no matter what, every possession,” said junior tri-captain and guard Colleen Hart, who finished with a game-high 19 points. “We know we can play with them, and it certainly should give us confidence going into playoffs.”

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Sophomore Tiffany Kornegay and the No. 10 Jumbos were unable to hold on to a six-point halftime lead, falling Saturday at Cousens Gym to top-ranked Amherst, 65-56. locker room after the game,” Berube added. “I just love our fight, and we rise up when we need to. I think it shows we belong with the best of the best, not only in the Northeast region or the NESCAC, but in the country.”

Another highlight of the weekend came on Friday evening, when Tufts fought off a challenge from Trinity (14-7, 2-5 NESCAC) and clinched home-court advantage for the first round of the upcoming conference tournament. Down 35-26 with 3:13 remaining in the first half, the Bantams closed the period with a 9-0 run, capped by a half-court buzzer-beater by senior tri-captain and guard Claire Arnstein, to draw even. The score was tied once again at the 13:36 mark of the second half, before the Jumbos scored 19 of the game’s final 28 points and escaped with a 68-58 victory.

“That was the one I was really keying on this weekend,” Berube said. “Yeah, absolutely, it would’ve been awesome to beat Amherst, but we needed to beat Trinity, and we did that. [The Bantams are] scrappy, and they gave us everything we thought

they would, but we made plays down the stretch, like great teams do, and we pulled out a great win.”

Tufts is now in the middle of one of its longest layoffs of the season, a weeklong respite that extends until its NESCAC regular season finale against travel partner Bates. The Jumbos have won their last seven meetings against the one-time conference powerhouse Bobcats, the most recent coming on Jan. 9 in a 78-52 Tufts win that didn’t count against either team’s NESCAC record. But Bates has pushed some of the conference’s elites to the limit this season, losing by three to national No. 23 Bowdoin on Jan. 7 and six to Amherst on Friday evening.

The challenges in the upcoming weeks should help the Jumbos put the sting of Saturday’s setback behind them.

“We have to look ahead,” Hart said. “We know Bates is a good team — they gave Amherst a tough game. We have beaten them before, but it’s tough to beat teams twice. So we need to work hard, move on and keep our heads up.”

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and forward Dave Antonelli said about Trinity. “And for my money, they’re one of the top two or three teams we’re going to play this year.”

The Bantams came out flying with 19 shots in the opening stanza and, though they only got two pucks past Tufts sophomore goalie Scott Barchard in the first, which came from junior forward Matthew Quigely and sophomore forward Sean McCarthy, the lead proved to be enough.

Senior captain and forward Richard Hollstein notched his fourth goal of the season midway through the second period to give the visitors a healthy 3-0 lead with 30 minutes left to play. The Bantams’ final goal came when freshman defender Michael DiCenso fired on an empty net with just 40 seconds left to play in the game.

Tufts’ lone tally came 49 seconds after Hollstein’s goal when junior forward Zach Diaco spun around in the slot and scored inside the left

post, his fourth of the weekend.

Though Tufts fired 27 shots at Trinity junior goaltender Wesley Vesprini, the Jumbos were unable to convert on any of their seven power-play opportunities. Barchard finished with 44 saves and assisted on Diaco’s tally.

On Friday, while most Tufts students were busy putting on suits and dresses for Break the Ice, the Jumbos laced up their skates to do battle with a cellar-dwelling Wesleyan unit that had lost five of its last six games and seven of its last nine.

In the 8-5 romp, the Jumbos opened the scoring early with a short-handed goal by junior forward Lindsay Walker just over two minutes into the game. The goal was set up by freshman defenseman Trevor John on a perfectly executed two-on-one rush.

Six minutes later, junior tricaptain Dylan Cooper beat senior goalie Tim Archibald, doubling the Jumbos’ lead. Cooper, a forward, added his second goal of

the game and seventh of the season on a power play, giving Tufts a three-goal edge heading into the first intermission.

Though Wesleyan came out strong in the second, with heavy offensive zone pressure that set up a goal by senior co-captain and forward Sam Robinson 3:29 into the period, Tufts junior forward Tom Derosa fired a shot past Archibald on the power play, restoring the Jumbos’ three-goal lead.

Coming into the third period, it appeared that the Jumbos were ready to run away with the game.

Just 55 seconds into the final stanza, Diaco chased Archibald out of the net with his 10th goal of the season.

With 15 minutes to play and down by four goals, Wesleyan called a time out and decided to pull its goalie in favor of an extra attacker, a move that surprised the Jumbos.

“It was definitely something I had never seen before in my hockey career,” Barchard said.

“But they were desperate and trying everything possible to get

back in the game.”

The plan backfired initially, as Diaco shot the puck into the empty net for his second goal of the game, stretching the score to 6-1, but the Cardinals cut the lead back to four goals when senior co-captain and forward David Layne found the back of the net at the 11:12 mark in the final stanza.

With the Wesleyan goalie still on the bench, Diaco added a hat-trick goal and Plimmer scored one of his own to give the Jumbos an 8-2 lead. With the game all but over, the Cardinals refused to yield and kept their goaltender out of the net, climbing back with two power-play goals in the final two minutes.

Senior forward Jeff Beck beat Barchard with five-minutes to play before Walker took a five minute major penalty that saw the Jumbos play the remainder of the game down two skaters. Cardinals sophomore forward A.J. Ferraro scored twice with the two-man advantage.

“At the end of the day, we got two points, which when you look at

the standings is what’s important,” Antonelli said. “It was kind of frustrating because it felt like we had the game pretty well in hand, and the score doesn’t necessarily reflect that. It was a weird game, but we got the win and got out of there. There’s no real reason to dwell on it.”

Tufts still possesses a playoff spot, something it knows can change in the final two weeks of the season if it doesn’t pick up its play. The Jumbos have a break until next weekend when they take on ECAC East foes Southern Maine and University of New England on the road.

“We want to move up in the standings, not necessarily just hold on to that last playoff spot,” Antonelli said. “We’re trying not to worry about who’s behind us, because in some sense we’re in the driver’s seat. If we win our games it doesn’t really matter what they do.”

“We have to look at our next game on Friday as the start of the playoffs,” Barchard added. “We need to start rolling and start playing better.”

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Monday, February 8, 2010

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Saints rally in second half to defeat Colts in Superbowl

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They toasted Drew Brees, Jeremy Shockey and Tracy Porter surely far into the morning on Bourbon Street SUPER BOWL XLIV at Miami, Fla., Sunday Saints Colts

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for their fourth-quarter heroics in New Orleans’ historic 31-17 Super Bowl XLIV win over Indianapolis on Sunday night in Sun Life Stadium.

Brees was seven-for-seven in the 59-yard drive that put the Saints ahead in a game that lived up to the air battle predicted between the New Orleans quarterback and his counterpart, Peyton Manning. He capped the march with a two-yard strike to tight end Shockey, the former Giant who missed the Super Bowl XLII win after breaking his leg late in the season.

Brees finished 32-of-39 for 288 yards and two scores without an interception to earn the Most Valuable Player award.

“It was all meant to be,” Brees said. “It’s all destiny.”

Porter, who picked off Brett Favre near the end of the NFC Championship win over Minnesota, stepped in front of a Manning pass when it appeared the Colts were driving for the tying score. He returned it 74 yards for the clinching touchdown as the Saints won their first Super Bowl and completed their climb from the disjointed 2005 season in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

“It was great film study,” Porter said of the interception. “We knew that on third-and-short they stack, and they like the outside release for the slant.”

“It’s time for the Saints to celebrate. It’s their field and it’s their championship,” Manning said.

Saints coach Sean Payton started the second half with the first onside kickoff before a fourth quarter in Super Bowl history. Thomas Morstead’s kick bounced off the Colts’ Hank Baskett and, after a

huge delay, the officials finally determined the Saints’ Jonathan Casillas had recovered.

New Orleans rode the surprise move to its first lead as Brees directed a 58-yard drive in six plays to a 16-yard TD run by Pierre Thomas. At that point, the Saints had the ball for 32 of the 38 plays after the first quarter.

“We talked about (the onside kick) at halftime,” Payton said . “It’s a credit to everyone of these players here. ... They carried out the plan. I just told our guys you’ve got to make me look good on this. That really becomes like a turnover.

“I’m just proud of this team and this coaching staff. And everyone back in New Orleans gets a piece of this trophy. Here we go.”

Thomas, who started the drive with a 12-yard cut, broke back to the left on his TD run, avoided Antoine Bethea’s tackle at the five-yard line and dove into end zone. Garrett Hartley’s extra point put the Saints up for the first time at 13-10 with 11:41 left in the third quarter.

But Manning, who finished 31-of45 for 333 yards, answered with a 76-yard, 10-play drive on which tight end Dallas Clark caught passes of 27 and 11 yards to convert third downs. Joseph Addai ran through some tacklers for a 4-yard TD run with 6:15 left in the third quarter.

Matt Stover’s kick put the Colts up, 17-13.

Hartley’s Super Bowl-record third field goal of 40 yards or more, this one from 47 yards, cut the margin to a single point. Manning moved the Colts again after the kickoff, but this time Malcolm Jenkins, then Jonathan Vilma came up with big defensive plays to halt the march.

Stover’s 51-yard field-goal attempt was wide left, however, setting up the Saints at their 41 with 10:39 left.

They began their go-ahead drive at that point, with Brees connecting with seven different receivers during the march.

“We just believed in ourselves and we knew that we had an entire city and maybe even an entire country behind us,” Brees said.

“What can I say? I’ve tried to imagine what this moment would be like for a long time, and it’s even

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As the confetti rains on Miami’s Sun Life Stadium, New Orleans quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees admires the Lombardi Trophy after the Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17, giving New Orleans its first national title in franchise history. better than I expected.”

New Orleans managed a single first down during the opening quarter as the Colts’ aggressive defense pressured Brees and played the receivers tight. Only Reggie Bush breaking free on a short pass and taking it 17 yards gave the Saints a new set of downs, although a big drop by Marques Colston ended that drive.

While the Colts owned the first quarter, gaining 164 yards to 36 for New Orleans, the Saints controlled the second. Indianapolis gained only 15 yards on six plays in the quarter.

Brees was behind, 10-0, before he put together his first drive of the game that resulted in a Hartley field goal. Brees was dumped during the drive on a one-handed sack

by Dwight Freeney, who started the game despite missing practice all week with an ankle injury.

Before the sack, Brees had completed two 11-yard passes to Colston as New Orleans moved from its 11 with the aid of a 15-yard late-hit penalty against linebacker Philip Wheeler. Hartley kicked his field

goal from 46 yards with 9:31 left before halftime.

After an Indy three-and-out, Brees started his next drive from his 28. Colston continued to make up for his early drop with a 13-yard catch to convert a third-and-3, and later a 27-yard reception that put the ball on the Colts’ 3. Brees also completed a 21-yard pass to a wide-open Lance Moore during the march as the Saints began to handle the Colts’ pass rush with more success.

Unfortunately for Brees and the Saints, they got nothing out of a 71-yard time-consuming drive.

After a false-start penalty moved back New Orleans, Thomas rushed to the 1-yard line. Payton tried to power in the end zone on two runs, even though his best short-yardage back, Lynell Hamilton, was inactive because of an injury.

However, Mike Bell slipped on third down, and on fourth, Thomas was stuffed short of the goal line by Gary Brackett and Clint Session.

The Saints got three more points before intermission, however, as they forced a Colts’ punt and Brees completed three passes, one of 19

yards to Devery Henderson to get the ball to the 26. Hartley banged home his second three-pointer, a 44-yarder, to make the halftime score 10-6.

Indianapolis had taken its 10-0 lead on its opening two possessions.

Manning first drove his team 53 yards in 10 plays to set up a 38-yard field goal by Stover, who at age 42 became the oldest man to play in a Super Bowl game. Manning opened things with an 18-yard pass to Clark and connected with Austin Collie for 14 more during the drive.

Indianapolis, which finished dead last in rushing during the regular season, used Addai and the ground game to great advantage in the second drive. Addai carried the ball three times for 53 yards, including a 26-yard burst on a third-and-1 from midfield. Manning capped the 96-yard march, which tied the longest in Super Bowl history, with a 19-yard scoring pass to Pierre Garcon with 36 seconds left in the opening quarter.

Garcon beat cornerback Usama Young, who had replaced the injured Jabari Greer, off the line.

Top Ten | Moments From Super Bowl XLIV After 43 years of frustration, the New Orleans Saints are finally NFL champions, upsetting the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV 31-17.

They are likely to still be partying on Bourbon Street. It didn’t always look pretty, however, particularly when the Colts took a 10-0 lead after the first quarter. And New Orleans coach Sean Payton could have been the goat after his decision to go for the touchdown toward the end of the first half did not pan out. But the Saints responded to every punch Indianapolis threw, and emerged victorious.

After falling behind 17-13, New Orleans scored 18 unanswered points to get the win.

With quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees clicking and the New Orleans defense flummoxing Peyton Manning, the Saints’ comeback was in full swing. Cornerback Tracy Porter capped it with an interception return for a touchdown, putting the game out of reach.

For Saints owner Tom Benson, who has

owned the team since 1985, and for the city of New Orleans, it was a cathartic victory. After enduring years of futility and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Saints are finally champs. The Daily counts down the top 10 moments from Super Bowl XLIV. 10. Indy’s goal line stand: Saints coach Sean Payton took a gamble at the end of the first half when he decided to go for the touchdown on fourth down with a little over a yard to go. With a three-receiver set, Payton thought he could fool the Colts with a run with Pierre Thomas. But Gary Brackett and the Colts defense were not fooled, stopping Thomas behind the line and keeping the Saints from tying the score at 10.

9. White gives laughs: Some people watch the Super Bowl for the game. Others watch for the commercials. The latter group must have been disappointed, as a violinplaying beaver and Stevie Wonder and Tracy Morgan for Volkswagen were some of the only bright spots. But despite the mediocrity

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there was one commercial that delivered: the Snickers ad with Betty White and Abe Vigoda.

The lesson: combine football and an elderly Golden Girl, and you will get laughs.

8. Freeney’s impact: In the end, the biggest story of Super Bowl week, “the most talked about ankle” as CBS’ James Brown deemed it, was indeed a factor in the game.

Freeney looked good early, and even had his first sack of the postseason in the game. But he looked like he slowed down in the second half, and Brees was not pressured in the second half, allowing him to display his accuracy on quick, short throws.

7. The kids are alright: It might not have been the best halftime show ever, and it certainly could not hold a candle to Prince, but the performance by The Who was not half bad. From the harmonica solo on Baba O’Riley to the myriad signature windmills from Pete Townshend, easily shattering the over/under of 6.5, it was a solid performance worthy of a solid game.

6. The two Pierres: Pierre Garcon, who seemed to develop into Peyton Manning’s favorite target during the postseason, scored the first touchdown of the game to give the Colts a 10-0 lead. His counterpart on New Orleans, Pierre Thomas, had a performance to remember as well. He finished off the opening drive of the second half with a 16-yard touchdown catch and run and had 88 total yards.

5. Garrett who?: Hartley did not attempt a field goal in the first 12 weeks of the season, missing the first four weeks on suspension and John Carney handled the kicking duties until December. But after knocking the game-winner through the uprights in the NFC Championship, Hartley kicked three field goals over 40 yards, a Super Bowl record. In a postseason where kicking has been a catastrophe, a player with only 22 career field goals, and had none over 40 yards in the regular season,

was the most steady.

4. The two-pointer: Leading by five, New Orleans made the logical choice to go for the two-point conversion, hoping to boost its lead to 24-17. Receiver Lance Moore caught the ball on an out route, but looked like he dropped it when he went to the ground.

Payton challenged the call, and Moore was ruled to have crossed the goal line in a play that Indy fans are still likely griping about.

3. Porter makes the play: The former Indiana Hoosier corner, and Louisiana native, covered Reggie Wayne perfectly on the game’s biggest play. With the Colts on the New Orleans’ 32-yard line and driving for the tying score, defensive coordinator Gregg Williams sent the blitz and Porter broke in on the pass and intercepted the ball, taking it 74 yards to the house to give the Saints a 14-point lead.

2. The onside kick: Payton and the Saints shocked everyone when they had Thomas Morstead perform an onside kick to open up the second half. After separating a pileup that seemed to last an eternity, the Saints came out with the ball, and the momentum, to start the third quarter. It was the first onside kick in Super Bowl history that did not occur in the fourth quarter, and it led to a Pierre Thomas touchdown catch and the Saints’ first lead of the night.

1. Brees-in’ to victory: After a shaky start, Brees settled in and was automatic all night. The game’s MVP, Brees tied Tom Brady’s record for completions in a Super Bowl with a 32-39 night, and had the second most accurate performance in a Super Bowl, completing 82.1 percent of his throws. He had two touchdowns, including a two-yard strike to Jeremy Shockey that turned out to be the game-winner. The Colts simply had no answer for New Orleans’ signal caller.

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From heartbreak to elation: Jumbos upset Jeffs on Senior Day BY

DAVID HECK

Daily Editorial Board

In the span of four games stretching over eight days, the men’s basketball team had lost in MEN’S BASKETBALL (6-16, 2-6 NESCAC) Cousens Gym, Saturday Amherst Tufts

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just about the most heartbreaking ways imaginable: a quadrupleovertime gut wrencher, a buzzerbeating three-pointer, a would-be game-winning jumper that was waved off after time expired, and a technical foul-laden meltdown.

Each game was decided in the final minute, with the Jumbos’ average margin of loss a mere three points.

So on Saturday, when Tufts found itself trying to defend a one-point lead with 34 seconds left against Amherst — a team the Jumbos had not beaten since the 2002-03 season — it comes as no surprise that coach Bob Sheldon was mindful of the team’s recent disappointments.

“I had all kinds of flashbacks,” Sheldon said. “I said to [junior] Matt [Galvin], ‘I’d rather lose by 30 than go through this again.’ I actually went down to the trainer and told her make it look [like I’m having heart trouble] and my arm’s dead — I’m faking just so I

could leave.”

Fortunately for his team, Sheldon stuck around, and he witnessed his squad hold on against the Lord Jeffs 69-68 for its first victory since Jan. 26. With 34 seconds left in the game, senior tri-captain Jon Pierce scored the go-ahead bucket, giving the Jumbos their second NESCAC win of the year — equaling the team’s conference win total from the past two seasons combined — and keeping Tufts’ playoff hopes alive.

“I just told [the team] during a timeout, ‘It’s our time,’” Sheldon said. “There’s an [Amateur Athletic Union] coach in the area that comes here every day and works out, and he died Monday — he coached about eight of our guys. So we went to his funeral ...

It’s been a long, tough week, and I think finally karma, or whatever you want to call it, came around and we got the win.”

In the final moments of the contest, Amherst had numerous chances to deliver another last-minute loss to the Jumbos but was unable to convert in the paint, thanks in large part to a blocked shot by Pierce with 15 seconds left.

“After I made that basket, I was just thinking that we had to find a way to get a stop,” Pierce said.

“And fortunately, we did … The thing is, if you can keep the ball on one side of the floor, we felt like they couldn’t get a good look.

So everyone did a good job in forcing them to stay on the right side of the floor, and they had to take a tough shot.”

The win was even more meaningful for Tufts as it came on Senior Day — the team’s final

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With 34 seconds left on Senior Day, senior tri-captain Jon Pierce elevated above the Amherst defenders to can the game-winning basket, helping the Jumbos upset the Lord Jeffs 69-68 on Saturday. home game of the year and the last time that Tufts’ six seniors would have the opportunity to play in Cousens Gym. “The magnitude of the win speaks for itself,” Pierce said. “A lot of things were on the table today

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with the way we lost our last four games, [the fact that] the senior class had never beaten Amherst.

So we just wanted to come out and battle — which has sort of been our motto. The seniors have had some tough times, but we

tried to stay together and never give up. And today showed what can happen when we trust each other and stick with it.”

The Jumbos faced a deficit in see MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 14

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Depth, balance too much for Tufts in top-10 battle

BY SAPNA

BANSIL

Daily Editorial Board

For a while, it seemed like the women’s basketball team could have actually been able to pull it off.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (19-3, 6-2 NESCAC) Cousens Gym, Saturday

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Junior Zach Diaco, shown here on Friday against Wesleyan, exploded for a hat trick in the third period as the Jumbos rolled over the visiting Cardinals 8-5.

With playoff spot on the line, Jumbos deliver BY

ADAM PARDES

Daily Staff Writer

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to the last slot in the conference tournament thanks to a crucial weekend split.

Despite losing to visiting Trinity College on Saturday 4-1, the Jumbos remained in eighth place in the NESCAC after rolling over Wesleyan on Friday night, 8-5.

In its latter weekend contest, Tufts fell victim to a tough and deep Trinity club that entered the game having won three of its last four matches and was looking to gain ground on third-place Bowdoin in the conference standings. The Bantams surged out to a 2-0 lead in the first period against the Jumbos and never looked back, cruising to their third consecutive victory.

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Leading by eight early in the second half of its Senior Day showdown against Amherst, Tufts appeared to have the No. 1 team in the nation — also a bitter rival and source of constant torment over the last two years — on the ropes.

But then, a questionable foul call sent the Jumbos’ best post presence, to the bench. Then, a Lord Jeffs team that missed 11 of its first 12 three-point attempts suddenly discovered the stroke from beyond the arc.

And then, the natural order was restored.

For the fifth time since the start of the 2007-08 season, Amherst got the better of Tufts, and once again, the Lord Jeffs didn’t exactly run away with the victory. After outscoring Tufts 43-28 in the second half, Amherst pulled away with a 65-56 win Saturday afternoon in Cousens Gym, the

sixth straight meeting between the teams decided by single digits.

With both schools ranked inside the top 10 of the most recent D3hoops.com national poll, the latest chapter of one of the conference’s best rivalries had a bit of extra hype going into the weekend. But undefeated Amherst (21-0, 7-0 NESCAC) showed that it is perhaps a cut above the rest this season — both in the conference and in the nation — with a second-half run that put its remarkable balance and depth on display.

“They’re the No. 1 team for a reason,” coach Carla Berube said. “We were with them the whole way, but great teams make big plays at the end of games: big shots, big offensive rebounds, big defensive stops. I thought we played really hard, we played Jumbo basketball, we got after it — it just wasn’t quite enough.

Credit the Lord Jeffs.”

Trailing 36-28 with 15:29 remaining in the game, Amherst proceeded to outscore Tufts 37-20 the rest of the way, getting 16 points in the paint and another 15 off three-pointers. With sophomore Shannon Finucane enduring an off-night from the field, classmate Lem Atanga McCormick sidelined by a heart condition and junior Sarah Leyman limited by foul trouble, the Lord Jeffs received major contributions from sophomores Caroline Stedman and Jackie Renner, who combined for 26 second-half points.

“We have such confidence in ourselves and in the people that we play with,” Finucane said. “Trying to get into the flow of things with people getting hurt is hard, see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 14