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Spring Fling made dry event BY

ELLEN KAN

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Granoff Music Center will next week host a music festival featuring Tufts composers.

University to host first-ever music festival featuring Tufts composers BY

AMELIE HECHT

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Tufts will host a weeklong music festival beginning Sunday featuring Tufts composers performing alongside guest musicians in a notable collaboration between different musical talents.

The festival, which Professor of Music John McDonald organized, will include four distinct performances throughout the week and facilitate collective work between musicians.

“The most exciting thing about this concert is that it affords collaboration with other musicians in

the area,” McDonald said.

Six guest artists will participate in the concert series, McDonald said. The festival will also feature eight pieces written by graduate and undergraduate students in McDonald’s seminar see MUSIC, page 3

Spring Fling this year will a be completely dry event as the steering committee, after extensive deliberation, has decided to eliminate alcohol from the annual concert in the hopes of making a statement that the drinking culture on campus needs to change.

This decision comes after a long discussion about possible policy changes to Spring Fling, partially prompted by last year’s event, which was declared a masscasualty incident due to the high number of students requiring medical attention for alcohol poisoning.

The process started with the Alcohol Task Force, chartered by Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman, which produced a report for the steering committee that included a suggestion that students be barred from bringing alcohol into the event entirely.

The task force proposed simultaneously establishing a separate 21-plus pub area where of-age students would be able to purchase and consume alcohol.

Reitman explained that while the steering committee seriously considered this proposal and recognized its many benefits, the logistical difficulties that arose prompted a re-evaluation of the very nature of the event.

These difficulties were centered on creating the pub area, the cost of which would have been prohibitive, according to Reitman.

“One of the [factors was] the cost of setting up a pub area, which proved to be exorbitant and probably an expense that … the [Tufts Community Union (TCU)] Senate may not be able to afford or choose to afford,” Reitman said.

Additionally, the pub area would require applying to the city for a one-day alcohol sales license that was unlikely to have been granted.

“This is the city where there was a mass-casualty incident declared last year … so the likelihood was low,” Reitman said. “We struggled back and forth with whether to even try that and see if it could be afforded.”

TCU President Brandon Rattiner, a senior and member of the steering committee, strongly disagreed with the decision.

“I think it was one of the most irresponsible and worst decisions I’ve ever seen the administration make at Tufts,” he said. “This is not addressing the problem. The problem is pre-gaming and the lack of control by students who don’t … handle their alcohol appropriately.”

Rattiner also felt that more of an see SPRING FLING, page 3

Panhellenic Council raises funds for rape crisis center in show of solidarity The Tufts Panhellenic Council last week kicked off a fundraising campaign for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) with a series of bake sales in the Mayer Campus Center.

According to senior Jillian Joseph, president of the Panhellenic Council, while the bake sale was “quite successful, it is just the beginning of our fundraising efforts for the BARCC walk.”

In addition to the bake sale, the Panhellenic Council on April 11 will participate in the upcoming BARCC Walk For Change.

The fifth annual Walk for Change, which will take place along the Charles River, will continue to raise awareness about sexual violence and generate funds to support the organization.

The Panhellenic Council decided to direct its efforts toward the BARCC because the organization is the only free provider of rape-crisis assistance in the Boston area.

“The BARCC plays a critical role in the greater Boston area, as it is the only rape crisis center in the region, and it has become a national leader in the realm of providing care to victims of sexual violence,” Joseph said.

According to senior Becca Weinstein, director of public relations for the Panhellenic Council, the BARCC provides a unique service to the women in the community.

This is the second year in a row that the Panhellenic Council has supported the BARCC through fundraising efforts, Joseph said.

“Because the sororities that we represent on campus are women’s organizations first and foremost, we think it is especially important to support organizations that impact the lives of women in our community,” Joseph said.

Weinstein agreed that this was a critical show of solidarity by women’s organizations on campus, but also pointed out that other student organizations, including a number of fraternities, will potentially take part in the walk as well.

The BARCC Walk is organized in conjunction with April’s status as Sexual Awareness Month. The event was created to bring community, friends and family members together to call attention to the issue of sexual violence and generate sufficient funds to support at-risk women all over the Boston area.

Last year’s walk raised over $110,000, with 1,150 registered walkers participating. This year, the organization hopes to increase profits to $125,000 and attract 1,200 walkers.

The Tufts Panhellenic Council will continue fundraising on the Tufts campus until April 11, and also through the BARCC fundraising Web site.

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Culture groups will host performances during the expanded Culture Fest.

CECA expands its annual cultural event BY

KATHRYN OLSON Daily Staff Writer

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate’s Culture, Ethnicity, and Community Affairs (CECA) Committee has decided to expand its annual culture event, known in the past as Culture Fest, to a weeklong event with the goal of increasing campus awareness of diversity.

The event, which celebrates diversity and community on campus, has in previ-

ous years only lasted one day.

According to junior Nedghie Adrien, the chair of CECA, this year’s event starting on April 11 will vary its theme daily to focus on different cultures in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Pacific Islands, South and Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.

The week will incorporate lectures, discussions, student performances and activities, see CULTURE, page 3

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Like in past years, the Tufts Energy Conference will feature several panels of energy experts.

This year’s Tufts Energy Conference looks to bring the future of energy to Tufts, widen scope from past years BY

CARTER ROGERS

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The Tufts Energy Conference, which originally began as a duo of panels five years ago, will next month be bigger than ever, spanning two days of speeches, panels and workshops.

The 2010 Tufts Energy Conference, which will occur on April 16 and 17, is organized by the Tufts Energy Forum, a club that is part of the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL).

The event will feature energy experts such as Michael Elkhart, founder and president of the American Council On Renewable Energy; Nick D’Arbeloff, president of the New England Clean Energy Council; and Sara Greenbaum, chief strategy officer of the Clinton Climate Initiative.

There will also be an energy showcase that will bring “all the great [energy] research at Tufts under one roof,” according to senior Peter O’Regan, co-chair of the conference. The showcase will be free and open to the public, however there is a $5 registration fee for Tufts students for the rest of the conference.

Though this is not the conference’s first year, it is the first time it will be such a large event. “This is actually the fifth year we’ve done it, but it’s really going to reach a new scale this year,” senior Daniel Enking, the other conference co-chair, said.

“We recently expanded to work with the Fletcher Energy Consortium, a group at the Fletcher School,” Enking said. “We’ve also brought in students from UEP (Urban and Environmental Policy) and the School of Engineering. We’ve kind of turned this into an across-the-university, multi-disciplinary planning team planning this event.”

“I think that the Tufts energy conference, from what I’ve seen, is the first that’s really working to pull together expertise from all areas of Tufts: from the undergraduate community, from the Fletcher School, from the engineering schools and from different areas of expertise within the faculty,” Fletcher student Daniel Resnick, one of the sponsor and speaker coordinators for the conference, said.

“The goal is to showcase what’s going on at Tufts in terms of energy research, especially in the engineering school and the Fletcher School and at other schools, and we also want to educate students about energy and provide them with opportunities to network with professionals in the energy industry and find jobs, internships — that kind of thing,” Enking said.

The Tufts Energy Conference changes its theme every year; this year’s theme is “The

Evolution of Energy.”

“We’re kind of looking at energy in a historical context and how it has evolved beyond the industrial revolution,” Enking said. “We want to look at future scenarios.”

The conference’s organizers are in the process of lining up several sponsors for the event, but two are already confirmed: energy giant British Petroleum (BP) and Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I), a construction and engineering firm that focuses on projects involving oil and gas companies.

“The sponsorship process is a little bit difficult, particularly because this year we’re looking to dramatically expand the scope of the conference,” Resnick said.

According to Resnick, the organizers hoped to educate potential sponsors on the value of sponsoring the conference, such as getting their names out to Tufts undergraduates and graduates, as well as tying their brands to the goals of the conference and networking with the other sponsors.

Lining up sponsors was a learning experience, according to sophomore Sharmaine Oh, the conference’s content director. “One aspect of it is really developing people skills, because we had to do a lot of cold calls to companies and really promote the conference,” Oh said.

BP was a natural fit to bring on as a sponsor, according to both Enking and Resnick.

“We were talking to them for quite a while before they agreed to be a sponsor,” Enking said. “They kind of fit into this whole evolution of energy theme because if you’ve seen some of the recent press campaigns, they’re going ‘beyond petroleum.’

“They’re trying to expand to different markets for energy and they have a big investment fund for renewable energy,” Enking added. “We’re kind of looking at it in the same way. You know, petroleum has been one of the dominant energy sources for the past hundred years, but now we’re trying to go beyond that …

They’ve been generous enough to give us a big contribution; they’ll be hosting a workshop at the conference and involved in a few other ways.”

“To be realistic, fossil fuels are still going to be required to sustain global economic growth, but they need to supply it in a sustainable, clean and transparent manner,” Resnick said. “The message of the conference and theme of the conference is what really resonates with the sponsors.”

As this year’s conference has expanded in scope, it required far more planning than in years past. In years past, planning began in January, and the conference usually occurred in May, according to Enking.

“We really started last May even, right after last year’s conference,” Enking said.

“We started doing a little bit of planning, really developing our mission a little bit more and trying to expand our mission to make this a cross-university event. We actually have [University] President [Lawrence] Bacow giving welcoming remarks this year, because he’s kind of seen that we’ve really expanded into this whole new thing.

“Since basically early late September and early October, we’ve been planning the content of the conference,” Enking added. “We got it mostly solidified back in December, actually. Now we’ve been starting to work on the marketing and the operations aspects and continuing to get corporate sponsors.”

The nature of seeking out corporate partners necessitated the long term planning, according to Resnick. “It’s a fluid list … we have a number of our speakers’ positions finalized, there’s still a few slots available on our panels, and there are a few keynote spots that we are pursuing,” he said.

“Basically the thing that happens when reaching out to corporate partners is that there’s long lead times.”

The organizers have been working hard to make sure that the conference reaches its full potential attendance-wise. “We kind of have a two-pronged strategy — one for on campus, one for off campus — because a big part of this is that we want to get professionals, clean-tech professionals from the Boston area and traditional-energy professionals to come participate and interact with students,” Enking said.

Enking credited the IGL as a reason that the organizers have been able to establish connections with speakers. “A major origin of [the conference] and origin of our group is the Institute for Global Leadership, and some of our students, especially myself, have had the opportunity over the last few years to go on a lot of research trips and to go to conferences and do a lot of networking with these energy professionals, and that was really a big way that we got a lot of the speakers to come that we have this year,” Enking said.

The organizers hope that the conference’s convergence of different areas of the university will set an example for the future. “[We want] to create a bit of momentum to grow the Tufts brand and to demonstrate the great things and work that goes on at Tufts,” Enking said.

Those interested in registering for the conference can do so at TuftsEnergyConference. com. The registration fee is $10 for nonTufts students, $40 for Tufts alumni and $60 for registration for the general public.

Corrections The March 11 article “Beelzebubs to star in documentary” incorrectly attributed quotes to Conor Flynn. His quotes should have been instead attributed to Matt Thomas (LA ’09), president of the a cappella group for the 2008-09 school year.

The photo accompanying the March 11 article “Entrepreneurs share experiences, hear students’ pitches,” was not a picture of the panel discussion sponsored by Young Entrepreneurs at Tufts.

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TCU President Rattiner strongly opposed to steering committee’s decision SPRING FLING continued from page 1

effort should have been made to see if the funds for the pub area would be available. “The cost argument is nonsense because they didn’t even vote to give Senate the opportunity to see if they could rally the funds,” he said.

Reitman acknowledged that the decision was not arrived at easily and was not unanimous, but eventually hinged on the message that the decision would be conveying.

“The discussions all came down to — this is a four-and-a-half hour concert … do we really need to make a statement that says you need to have alcohol in order for it to be successful?” Reitman said.

“There was the thought that … the benefits of a possible pub area if it would have been possible to obtain it … were outweighed by saying you just don’t need alcohol to be a successful event.”

Rattiner disagreed, however, saying it was merely indicative of the administration’s disregard for students’ opinions.

“I think they’re punishing half the school that hasn’t done anything wrong just to be sending a message that I don’t think will be particularly well received,” he said. “I don’t think it conveys any message besides the fact that the administration is really unwilling to compromise with students.”

Making Spring Fling an alcoholfree event is a long-term investment in the process of shaping the drinking culture on campus to be less dangerous and pervasive, according to Reitman.

“This is not going to be a one-year or two-year … turnaround if we are going to be successful in changing attitudes about alcohol use, what role alcohol plays in campus social life and taking the idea that good friends call [Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS)] for drunk

friends and change that to good friends prevent TEMS from needing to be called,” he said. “That’s going to take a number of years to be accomplished.”

Reitman said that members of the committee felt this was a particularly appropriate time to begin enacting this change.

“Each year has produced more and more medical emergencies because of alcohol poisoning,” he said. “The steering committee saw this as a time to say that this is enough, you don’t need alcohol to enjoy this concert … we need to begin the cultural change.”

Research conducted by the Concert Board and The Office for Campus Life has also shown that Tufts is almost alone among colleges in permitting alcohol at a public school-wide concert, Reitman added.

Junior Bruce Ratain, the chair of the TCU Senate’s Administration and Policy Committee and the author of the Senate’s November alcohol resolution, agreed with Reitman on the need for a cultural change but felt this decision would not serve that goal.

“I’m very concerned about this decision because to me, this seems to be another attempt to enact a culture change through a policy change,” Ratain said.

The Senate’s resolution, while not specifically addressing Spring Fling, contained proposals for crafting a broader healthy alcohol strategy and centered on preventive and educational measures to reduce alcohol abuse.

The Spring Fling decision, Ratain said, was contrary to the intention of the resolution, as well as the Alcohol Task Force’s broader recommendations on the campus alcohol policy.

“All the research I’ve done on this issue suggests that reducing dangerous drinking will come through extensive social norms market-

ing and not a punitive regulatory focus,” he said. “I simply don’t think that disallowing of-age students from drinking is likely to change the social norms about drinking by underage students.”

Addressing the concern that eliminating alcohol from the event might extend the problem of dangerous drinking to of-age students by causing them to pregame heavily, Reitman pointed out that it was unreasonable for students to react this way.

“The fact that there won’t be alcohol for five hours … does not mean that therefore people should drink more in the neighborhood or dormitories,” Reitman said. “That’s just stupid.”

He shares the worries about pre-gaming and called for students to take personal responsibility for their own and their friends’ wellbeing.

“I’m always worried about dangerous drinking — I don’t sleep on nights when we have events like what used to be Winter Bash, the quad run or Spring Fling, because … it’s only luck that has prevented a death, not friends stopping people from dangerous drinking,” Reitman said.

“I think, especially in this first year of the change, it’s critical for people to realize that it’s their responsibility to avoid endangering themselves or letting friends get to the point of being unconscious,” he said.

Reitman added that there will be extensive outreach leading up to Spring Fling to convey this point, as well as increased patrols in areas outside of the concert on the day itself to keep an eye on students’ activities.

“I understand it’s not easy to create change and there will be people who make stupid decisions … I certainly hope it’s not the case, but we’ll be watching … to make sure we address those issues as best we

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Students at this year’s Spring Fling will not be allowed to have any alcohol at the event. can,” he said.

Junior Rameen Aryanpur said he could sympathize with the committee’s decision. “I think that it’s unfortunate that it has to come to this, but I can understand why they would be pushed to that kind of decision after what happened in past years,” he said.

Becca Citron, a junior, felt that the committee should either have provided the option of reentry into the concert or have allowed alcohol at the event for of-age students. “One of the two needs to be an option, otherwise this will be a counterproductive policy,” she said.

Senior Patty Pensuwan agreed that such a stance would backfire, saying that the regulations ignore the real issue. “I think it’ll just cause more problems than it’ll actually solve,” she said. “I don’t think seniors are the problem or

the cause of any ruckus.”

Echoing Ratain’s view that regulation was not an effective way to approach the alcohol abuse problem, senior Zach Rich felt that the policy would be limited in its reach.

“Students aren’t going to stop drinking just because the university isn’t allowing it to happen,” he said.

“It would just be safer and better if they were more relaxed.”

Ratain said he would continue to push the administration to move beyond mere policy changes. “My primary concern is making sure that the administration understands that these sort of regulatory changes are not the solution,” he said.

Rattiner reiterated his displeasure with the decision. “I am severely, severely disappointed in this decision, I think it was a disaster,” he said.

Tufts composers will perform in first-of-its-kind music festival

CECA hopes Culture Fest will raise diversity awareness

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class on composition.

According to Manager of Music Events and Publicity Jeff Rawitsch, this is the first time that the Department of Music has put on a large composer festival.

“We generally have concerts throughout the year with Tufts composers and musicians, but they are usually spread out,” Rawitsch said. “Professor McDonald decided this year to organize it all into a festival.”

McDonald said that his decision to put on a festival this year was motivated by his desire to take advantage of the new concert space available.

“Granoff Music Center gave us a lot of possibilities that the music department didn’t have for events before,” Rawitsch said. “Now [that] we have the recital hall, we can achieve a professional level much more easily.”

Rawitsch expressed his enthusiasm for the musical diversity the event will bring to the university.

“We are all very excited,” Rawitsch said.

“This is the most eclectic gathering of composers and new music folks that I have seen so far in my time at Tufts.”

According to McDonald, each night boasts a unique program with an instrumental octet Sunday, vocal performances and improvisational pieces Tuesday, a combination of instrumental pieces Thursday and piano performances Friday, among other things.

“They are all very different programs in terms of types of pieces being performed and arrangements of ensembles,” Rawitsch said.

The festival will open with McDonald’s original work. An instrumental octet will perform his first piece, “Braced,” which McDonald hopes will set the tone for the week.

“It’s a piece that is designed to leave listeners in a state of suspense and excited for the rest of the festival,” McDonald said.

The last event of the festival will feature McDonald playing the “pulsoptional piano book,” a combination of seven works by dif-

ferent composers.

A portion of Thursday evening will honor the recently deceased composer Hale Smith, McDonald said. Joel Smith, a lecturer in the music department and a former student of Smith’s, will play two movements of a piece he composed.

“It’s a tribute to Hale Smith,” Joel Smith said. “I am going to be playing a work that I had worked on with him when I was a student.”

McDonald expressed his desire to acknowledge Hale Smith’s contributions to the music world with this concert.

“Hale Smith was a very talented but underappreciated composer, and I really wanted to give him his due recognition,” McDonald said.

Other guest performers will present a wide array of music. Erin Gee, an American-born and Austrian-trained 200910 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, on Tuesday night will perform a number of compositions she calls “Mouthpieces.”

“Her work is so interesting and offbeat that it inspired us to do an improvisational piece in homage to her,” McDonald said.

Gee will share the stage with the Tufts New Music Ensemble for an improvisational piece.

She will also perform with Italian Fulbright Fellow and composer Filippo Perocco and Scott Woolweaver, a faculty violist at Tufts.

According to McDonald, junior Joshua Hahn will also premier his index of pickup lines in between performances Tuesday night.

McDonald and clarinetist Ray Jackendoff, also a professor of philosophy, on Thursday night will play one of Pulitzer Prize winning musician and guest composer Yehudi Wyner’s pieces.

Music department faculty members are eagerly awaiting the event. “I think this festival will definitely be great,” Joel Smith said.

All of the performances will take place in the Granoff Music Center and are free and open to the public.

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all with the goal of getting students more involved in the festival.

“We felt that Culture Fest always had the potential to be more than it was in the past and really wanted to make it more interactive so that students have the chance to learn something rather than just grab some ethnic food and a t-shirt,” Adrien said.

The expansion of the cultural event coincides with a larger discussion about community and cultural diversity, which, according to TCU Vice President Antonella Scarano, has this year been a major theme in the Senate.

“This event coincides nicely with the bigger conversation on community representatives in the Senate, but it is not a response to the community representative issue,” Scarano, a senior, said. “This has been on the table for a while and is something we are all excited to improve.”

The Senate has been debating the issue of diversity representation in the body and reevaluating the role of community representatives.

Scarano believes there is a need to help culture groups engage with the wider Tufts community more often in order to promote diversity and cultural understanding.

“This is a great opportunity for a Tufts student who does not usually identify with one community to take away something from many different cultures different from their own,” she said.

The event will feature activities like a soccer tournament on Fletcher Field, dance classes taught by the African music and dance group Tufts Kiniwe ensemble and student panels covering religion and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues. There will also be a series of lectures such as “Island Talk,” which will discuss the history of colonialism in the Caribbean.

“We wanted to follow the [Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) symposium] model where you have different lectures at different places all over campus so it would be more accessible to different populations at different times” Adrien said.

There will also be performances from student cultural groups, like the Vietnamese Students Club, African Student Organization, Caribbean Club and Tufts Hip Hop for Social Change.

Scarano feels that this year’s event presents an opportunity for students to be directly involved with groups they would otherwise not have any interaction with.

“I really believe that students don’t get involved because they don’t know who to contact,” she said. “It’s much easier to get involved when you have a face to the name and have broken the ice. That’s what we’re trying to do — break the ice.”

Sophomore MJ Murphy, the PanAfrican Alliance’s community representative to the Senate, explained that one of CECA’s goals was to bridge different student groups and create the opportunity for cross-cultural communication and cooperation.

“So often people say in their application essays that they love learning about different cultures, but the reality is that people rarely step outside of their bubbles,” Murphy said. “People are much more willing to hop on a plane to Chile than get involved with the Latino Center.

They’re willing to explore but not utilize the resources we have here.”

Murphy has been working with sophomore Lisnerva Nuez, the Association of Latin American Students’ representative to the Senate, to put together the event.

Scarano similarly noted that for an institution that actively promotes diversity, Tufts does not offer many venues for students to stretch their cultural boundaries in a fun and accessible way.

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Statement from the Dean of Student Affairs Regarding Spring Fling March 10, 2010 ________________________________________________________________________ The University’s Steering Committee on the Role of Alcohol on Campus decided last week to eliminate alcohol from the venue for this year’s Spring Fling, which will be held on May 1. The vote of the Committee followed many hours of discussion on this issue. Committee members gave strong consideration to the recommendation of The Task Force on Alcohol Use, commissioned by the Dean of Students this summer, which proposed that alcohol be eliminated from the concert venue but allowed in a separate outdoor pub where those of age could purchase a limited amount of beer from a caterer. Ultimately, the attractiveness of this proposal was outweighed by the substantial cost of the pub area, which would have had to be funded by an already financially strapped TCU Treasury. The pub also would have required a license from the city. The Steering Committee was told that it was unlikely such a license would be issued considering last year’s debacle at Spring Fling, when twenty-four individuals were sent to the hospital for alcohol poisoning, many of them in critical condition and one in grave danger. The number of transports last year caused the city to declare a “mass casualty condition” when local emergency rooms could not keep up with the number of urgent cases coming from the concert. Many Committee members felt this was too close to disaster and that it would not be responsible to wait for a fatality before eliminating alcohol from Spring Fling. Furthermore, promoters staging Spring Fling for Tufts have indicated that Tufts is one of only a small number of universities that have continued to allow alcohol at an outdoor concert, most others having stopped the practice years ago.

The Steering Committee did not wish to dampen student morale or enthusiasm for Spring Fling, but was compelled by the troubled history of the event, the fact that Tufts has become an outlier in allowing alcohol at this type of event and the belief that a five-hour concert on a Saturday afternoon should not require alcohol to be successful.

Concerns about safety will not go away solely because there will be no alcohol at the concert. Members recognize that much of the dangerous drinking on the day of Spring Fling does not happen at the concert itself.

Almost all of the students who needed medical assistance last year were drinking in pre-gaming before the event. It is always each student’s responsibility—including on the day of Spring Fling—to make good decisions about health and safety, and to help friends avoid dangerous drinking. Students should also remember that those who are intoxicated will not be admitted to Spring Fling and that inappropriate behavior will be addressed, wherever it occurs.

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Two Tufts freshman dancers in step with each other BY

BEN KOCHMAN

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The sound of Irish hornpipes cascades through the room, ricocheting off the cavernous Cohen Auditorium walls, as two dancers on stage prepare themselves.

Freshmen Claire O’Brien and Alexa Petersen stare intently ahead at the horizon, their upper bodies forming two rigid lines: shoulders straight back, chests proudly jutting out, arms stuck to the side of the torso, fists clenched into little balls.

The two freshmen wait a few beats, counting off the rhythm. A layer of black tape has been applied to the hard plastic tips of their dancing shoes for added grip. Even after weeks of practicing their Irish dance routines here, the wooden Cohen floor is still relatively unpredictable.

On the surface, today’s practice is just another mundane exercise for Petersen and O’Brien. Petersen has been training in the art of Irish dancing since she was seven years old and O’Brien since the age of four. But with the World Irish Dancing Championships less than a month away, every moment of practice becomes crucial.

That’s where the black tape comes into play. Petersen and O’Brien cannot afford to slip and twist an ankle or sprain a wrist — not when they have only two or three years left to compete internationally before their knees and ankles can no longer handle the massive strain.

Petersen and O’Brien will leave in late March for the 2010 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. It will be Petersen’s seventh time competing and O’Brien’s fourth.

For the past few years, the duo has dominated at the regional and national level, and by sheer coincidence, both young women enrolled at Tufts this fall.

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Freshmen Claire O’Brien and Alexa Petersen will head to the World Irish Dancing Championships at the end of the month.

The two freshmen lean on each other for support as they deal with practicing in a foreign environment and living dual lives as Tufts students and world-class Irish dancers.

“It’s really nice to have some time to talk to about your frustrations,” Petersen said.

“You’re kind of used to being a fine-tuned

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Groove Armada heads toward the dark side with ‘Black Light’ BY

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The electronic duo Groove Armada, consisting of musicians Andy Cato and Tom Findlay, has

Andy Warhol is one of the most well-known artists of our time. Our society is so saturated with Warhol’s prints and

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At the Dean’s Gallery, through April 23 MIT List Visual Arts Center 20 Ames Street Building E15, Atrium Level, Cambridge, Mass.

617-253-9458 images that even if one knows absolutely nothing about art history, his name and work are familiar. Best known for prints like “Campbell’s Soup I” (1968), he defined pop art in the ’60s and ’70s. The legacy of his simultaneous glorification and criticism of the mass production of images is continued in our society today, with his works pervading popular culture decades after his death.

“Photographs from the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program” is a selection of Warhol’s Polaroid pictures and is now on display in the Dean’s Gallery at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). According to the gallery’s Web site, MIT acquired 156 of Warhol’s photographs through The

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Works in MIT’s new exhibition showcase Warhol’s powerful use of Polaroid photography.

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the foundation, which gave over 28,500 photographs to 160 university art galleries in the United States. Displayed in an office space, the small photos line a wall next to a group

of cubicles. The gallery space may not be worth visiting, but the images are definitely worth exploring. The small Polaroid portraits and still lifes provide a microcosm of Warhol’s irreverent genius. see WARHOL, page 6

See tuftsdaily.com for video of O’Brien and Petersen.

long been known for its numerous collaborations and a laidback sound characteristic of ’90s British club music. Billed as an expression of the darker side of the band, their ninth album “Black Light” is a mix of longing and melancholy music, with dance beats throughout. While this approach succeeds in many of the tracks, the album occasionally feels forced and too reminiscent of the band’s electronic-pop contemporaries.

The most enjoyable song on “Black Light” is the soulful “Time and Space.” The track contains an impressive vocal performance by guest artist Jessica Larrabee, as well as the diverse instrumentation that makes electronic music such an interesting genre. Rather than cutting off Larrabee’s voice during breakdowns, the band plays heavily reverbed and filtered samples of the last word of her verse, creating a feeling of anticipation leading up to the dense beat of the chorus.

The layering of echoed guitar and piano parts is reminiscent of legendary British punk rockers The Clash, but the synthesizer arpeggios and chords that play in unison throughout the

song still have a sound unique to Groove Armada. When mixed with Larrabee’s vocals, these combined elements transform the song into a track fit for a dance floor. This song is by far the album’s best example of Groove Armada’s dark side.

The same emotional touch completes the song “Shameless.”

Throughout the entire song, a bright synthesizer playing only one chord pulses in unison with the kick drum. The other parts of the track modulate keys and rhythms, but the synth chord is ever-present. This effect creates a trance-like state for the listener that can be relaxing — and a bit irritating. The vocals on this track are where the emotions really surface. With an astonishingly David Bowie-esque performance, singer Bryan Ferry tugs on the listener’s heartstrings. While it’s uncommon to hear grinding music that’s also designed to induce feelings of heartbreak, it somehow works here.

Where the album falls flat is on tracks with less melodic vocals like “Not Forgotten.” On an album meant to show the two artists’ emotional identities, this song feels devoid of personal expression. While the drum parts and trance-inducing reverb remain strong, the overall product sounds like a knockoff of Animal Collective or MGMT, rather than an original and innovative song.

Due to the nature of modern electro-pop, artists often flirt with the line between modern synthesized music and bad ’80s see ARMADA, page 6

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machine, and you get to college and you’re trying so hard to get that perfection that you used to have … and sometimes you don’t have a mirror, sometimes you don’t have a good stage or enough time to practice. It’s good to share that with somebody.”

O’Brien and Petersen have settled into a routine of practicing in Cohen and sometimes on the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room dance floor. These places are not as precisely designed for Irish dancing as the studios at the O’Shea-Chaplin Academy of Irish Dance in Allston, Mass., where Claire grew up, or at the Pender Keady Academy of Irish Dance in Stamford, Conn., where Petersen learned her moves, but the two 18-year-olds make do.

“Alexa is a sort of mirror for me, and I’m [hers]” O’Brien said. “At this point, she can anticipate what I am going to do, since we’re practicing so much together.”

Today’s practice begins with a few warm-up drills that O’Brien learned at O’Shea-Chaplin. Then O’Brien and Petersen each run through the routines that they will be performing at the World Championships, where the competition is broken up into two components: the rhythmic hardshoe section — in which swift, precise steps are paramount — and the more graceful soft-shoe section, in which style and technical perfection are the keys to success.

As O’Brien practices her routine,

Petersen barks out advice. When Petersen starts her routine, O’Brien does the same. There are no teachers here, just two young women pushing themselves to improve.

“Alexa is a sort of mirror for me, and I’m [hers]. At this point, she can anticipate what I am going to do, since we’re practicing so much together.”

Claire O’Brien freshman, Irish step dancer

“We really are going back and forth all the time, always correcting each other so that we get better,” Petersen said. “We both have a trained eye for what the judges are looking for.”

The two dancers have contrasting styles, a product of their different kinds of training and coaching.

“The styles come from our teachers,” O’Brien said. “I see Alexa doing things that every teacher wants from a dancer, and then she does something that’s the one thing my teacher looks [to correct].

And then I do things that Alexa sees and says, ‘If you walked into my studio and did that, my teacher would kill you!’ Which is funny, because all the teachers are judges as well.”

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Claire O’Brien and Alexa Petersen have been step dancing since they were young children.

Both women only have a few years left of competitive dancing.

They have yet to see a dancer older than 22 compete at Worlds, due to the physical toll dancing takes on one’s body.

“I’ve sacrificed much in my life: time, sometimes even academics,” said Petersen, who has already had knee surgery and has been in physical therapy since she was eight.

While O’Brien and Petersen have

already garnered many honors, including top-five regional finishes and top-10 national finishes, they still have goals to fulfill. At Worlds, the judges will see over a hundred dancers, but only one-third will be called back — a great honor, especially for an American in a competition traditionally dominated

by Europeans. Petersen was called back last year and hopes to repeat her success in 2010. O’Brien, after three years of coming up empty, is

still looking for her first callback.

Regardless of how the two dancers finish in Glasgow, they will continue dancing as long as their bodies will let them. After a lifetime of training, being Irish step dancers has become a fundamental part of their identities.

“We’ve known some of these girls since we were four and seven years old,” O’Brien said. “Our teachers are so important to us; they’re our role models.”

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Groove Armada mixes genres in latest album, but sometimes seems a copycat

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Most of the Polaroids are portraits of various celebrities; one of the most intriguing is entitled, “Hearn, Pat,” from 1985. The picture is tiny and depicts Pat Hearn, a New York gallery owner, framed by a blank white wall.

Hearn’s attractive face is covered in white powdery makeup that washes out her features and increases the harshness of the camera’s flash. Her features in the photograph are highlighted by garish red lipstick, which provides the only color in the image besides her short brown hair. Through the photograph’s simple and harsh formal composition, Warhol managed to capture a transient, moving vulnerability in Hearn’s face. Her slightly hunched shoulders and deer-in-theheadlights expression result in a portrait that contrasts with the unforgiving nature of Warhol’s medium.

Warhol provided a very different image in the Polaroid entitled, “Hall, Jerry,” from 1984. The same harsh, red lipstick is used on Hall, a model and actress most active in the ’70s, but Warhol did not use any of the powdery white makeup that covered Hearn’s face and shoulders. Instead, Hall confronts the camera in defiance, her shoulders slightly hunched.

She is the image of female sexuality.

Hall may be attractive in Warhol’s image, but she is not exempt from any deeper conclusions. She is not smiling or laughing in the image. Her face is placid and emotionless, and she stares out at the viewer without any great self-assurance. The disposability of the Polaroid picture seems to haunt Hall’s face; the image is as disposable as her youth was to society.

Not all of the pictures displayed are portraits. Also included in the collection are some Polaroid still lifes, such as one called “Easter Eggs” (1982). Instead of being an image of the colorful eggs normally associated with the holiday, it is a picture of an open carton of eggs shot from above against a dark background. Some of the eggs have been taken out and scattered next to the carton. In the

pop. Groove Armada cites pop pioneer Prince as one of its biggest influences, but a few songs on “Black Light” sound more like Duran Duran or a-ha.

Since the duo became a band in the ’90s, Groove Armada has shown itself to be a talented ensemble capable of furthering a progression in its genre of music. “Black Light” is most successful in this regard, as it represents a convergence of two types of popular music. Groove Armada’s newest project is infused with the emotional and introspective qualities of indie rock and folk, as well as the heavily synthesized dance beats of electronic-pop. In some spots, the two styles mesh perfectly to form a type of emo-dance music that sounds original and inventive. In other places, it’s clear that Groove Armada hasn’t done enough to separate itself from the existing artists in these genres — such as Animal Collective, Passion Pit, MGMT and M83.

While the songs “Shameless,” “Look Me in the Eye Sister” and “Time and Space” are standouts, a few weak tracks prevent

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Andy Warhol’s works highlight his interest in simple compositions. image, Warhol captures the mediocre with his camera in a way that further reduces the objects to shape and form — preserving the eggs in the fleeting medium.

“Photographs from the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program” is a small exhibit in an unlikely and slightly depressing venue, but it is still worth seeing. Visitors may be sharing the gallery space with unlikely companions, but the small faces staring out of Warhol’s snapshots are riddled with meaning and emotion.

The bleakness of the Polaroid medium, only heightened by Warhol’s use of white makeup and stark contrasts, reveals emotions that are stripped bare of any distracting material.

They are fleeting, temporary images of what turn out to be equally precarious individuals (or objects). Warhol’s unforgiving ability to capture the mundane and the disposable is on display in this set of pictures, and is countered with an equally vicious exploration of equally fleeting, delicate human emotion.

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sort of more invested in it all, and you can see that on the court.”

In the middle of her exceptional final year, Baily realized that she had an outside chance at scoring 1,000 career points — a feat only nine other players had accomplished in Tufts history. But even then, she didn’t dwell on it until the team was preparing to face the nationally ranked No. 2 Kean Cougars in the NCAA Tournament — when she was informed that she was only 14 points away from the milestone.

“Halfway through the season, a teammate had mentioned that I was in distance,” Baily said. “I had thought about it but then forgot about it and figured it wasn’t going to happen. The next time I thought about it was when my dad said to me after the [first round of the NCAA Tournament] that I needed to get [15] points. And I was so mad at him because I didn’t want to have that in my head going into that game when I just wanted to win.”

But Baily remained relaxed heading into the game, even knowing that the Jumbos’ chances against Kean — which at the time was in the middle of a 27-game winning streak — weren’t fantastic.

“Going into that game, I was really calm about it, and I just knew if I played the basketball that I knew how to play,

and the team operated the same way it had all season, then it was going to happen,” she said.

The Jumbos played Kean tight in the first half and headed into halftime down just one to the Cougars. Meanwhile, Baily had 10 points and was comfortably on pace to break 1,000 points without much drama.

But things turned in the second half, and Baily started to feel the pressure.

“We started missing a lot of shots, me and as a team,” Baily said. “It was definitely a little more stressful when I was at 12 points and couldn’t seem to put the ball in the net.”

She did manage to cross that monumental barrier eventually, finishing the game with 17 points. Sadly, the team did not fare as well, as Kean defeated the Jumbos 75-56 and ended their season.

“It was bittersweet that she got her 1,000th point, because it was at the end of her career, but I’m glad she was able to do that,” Berube said. “I know that she’s worked very hard, and I’m proud of what she’s accomplished here.”

“It was pretty anticlimactic because it was my last game,” Baily added. “I think it’s going to be a lot nicer to look back on rather than really appreciate now.”

Baily ended her Tufts career having been to the NESCAC Tournament all four years and to the NCAA Tournament for the past three. And while the Jumbos

didn’t win any titles during Baily’s time with the team, she’s still happy with the results of her college career.

“My freshman year, when we had been winning, everyone was surprised and excited, but I didn’t have an idea why,” Baily said. “I guess to me it had been a standard … It’s been a goal [to win] every single year, and we accomplished it every single year. I think it was a successful four years. We didn’t come away with any championships, but to know the program is headed in really good direction, I’m happy with that.”

Despite all the individual and team success that she enjoyed with the Jumbos, Baily said the thing she will miss the most down the road is the camaraderie she shared with her teammates, particularly in her final year.

“I’m going to remember this season,” Baily said. “The friendships I’ve made,

the overall atmosphere around this team, I’ll have very fond memories of it. Just to end with that, it was a lot of fun. And although we didn’t get as far as we wanted, I think the relationships and the friendships are what I’ll remember.”

With Baily’s graduation on the horizon, the Jumbos will again have to transition and find a new way to be effective with their post play. Considering her contribution to the team over the past few years, it’s safe to say that no matter who ends up playing down low, Baily will be missed.

“She’s been such a huge part of our program, from on the court to the goofball that she is off the court,” Berube said. “It’s going to be different without her here. She’s definitely left a legacy here.”

Sapna Bansil contributed reporting to this article.

A PERFECT TEN The completion of this season marks the eighth in which coach Carla Berube has been in charge of the women’s basketball program. Since the arrival of the Class of 2010 at Tufts in 2006, however, the Jumbos have seen marked improvement, both in regular-season and in postseason play. The Daily takes a look at Tufts’ success in Berube’s first four years at the program’s helm as compared to the latter four.

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Julia Baily is used to winning.

Having been the go-to scorer on her high school and AAU basketball teams, she regularly carried her squad to victory.

She became the only 1,000point scorer in the history of Miss Porter’s High School, and her AAU squad made nationals and finished in the top 10 in the nation in all four years of her participation.

So the fact that Baily, a senior, put together one of the greatest careers in Tufts history — scoring over 1,000 points and finishing in the top 10 of the program’s all-time scoring list — isn’t too surprising. The fact that she did it while barely playing at all freshman year is.

But according to senior Casey Sullivan, a former Jumbo basketball player who faced Baily in high school and has lived with her all four years at Tufts, that’s just the type of person and player Baily is.

“Julia is definitely driven to win,” Sullivan said. “That’s one of the things that I think motivates her in playing well. She’s definitely a big-time gamer.

She loves the sport of basketball and has great knowledge of the game. She’s one of the best basketball players I’ve ever played with.”

Despite her pedigree, Baily was forced to ride the pine for much of her first year at Tufts — something that took a bit of getting used to.

“I came into a really seniordominated team,” Baily said.

“Four of the five starters were seniors, and I was behind Khalilah [Ummah (LA ’08)] and eventually [Katie Tausanovitch (LA ’09)]. I was a practice roleplayer … It was a role I’d never been a part of or had in my life.

So it was definitely something different. It took a little bit to overcome, but it helped in the long run.”

Still, Baily’s teammates and coaches could see her potential right from the get-go.

“She was one of those players that everybody knew was a true basketball player,” Sullivan said. “The seniors just said you’ve got to bide your time, learn the program and coach [Carla] Berube’s style of play.”

Baily’s role on the team grew significantly in her sophomore year, when she was essentially the team’s sixth man.

Then, during her junior year, she proved herself as a starter, leading the team in both points and rebounds with averages of 12.9 and 8.1, respectively, and earning All-NESCAC Second Team honors.

The women’s basketball team set a program record with 26 wins in Baily’s sophomore year, reaching the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. The next season, the team went 22-5 and made it to the second round of NCAAs. But a lot of the Jumbos’ team success — and Baily’s individual achievements — was a result of the play of Tufts’ true post players: the 6-foot-1 Ummah, the 2008 NESCAC Player of the Year, and the 6-foot-3 Tausanovitch, who had transferred from Div. I William and Mary.

“Khalilah and Katie were tall, really post-minded players, whereas I was more of a running, more athletic post player,” said Baily, who is

5-foot-11. “So I came in games [my sophomore year] expected to be that spark off the bench and hopefully get my defender tired.”

Ummah graduated at the end of that season, opening up a starting spot in the frontcourt, but the presence of Tausanovitch still took a lot of the pressure off of Baily in the post. “[My success junior year] was largely because of that confidence,” Baily continued.

“I rely a lot on that. I knew I had the skill, but it was just going into games believing I could do those things. It also helped that Katie and I were very different players, so it was hard to defend us. We had a great high-low thing going, and I think [my junior year] numbers are a lot because of her.

She did a lot of the dirty work and let me excel.”

Going into her senior year, Baily lost the safety net of veteran post players who she had played with throughout her college career. But with the entire team in transition, Berube changed the squad’s style of play to be more uptempo — something that fit Baily perfectly.

“We were kind of unsure who we’d be as a team — our identity, our style,” Baily said. “And I think not only did I have that hesitant feeling about the season, but the team did as well.

We just refocused and drastically changed our offense. And I think it worked well.”

It certainly did for Baily, as she put together the best season of her career, averaging 15.7 points and 9.0 rebounds — good enough for No. 2 in the conference in both respective categories. Her 424 points rank as the fourth-most by any Jumbo in a single season, and her superb play earned her a place on the All-NESCAC First Team.

“Julia put a lot on her back, a lot of the games, just controlling the boards and controlling the lane,” Berube said. “We put a lot on her to play a lot of minutes and stay out of foul trouble, which she never really had to do. She was always the ‘other post player’ her first three years. She really stepped up and had a great season.”

While Baily always had the potential to excel at the college level, those close to her are still extremely proud of how she was able to grow and put all of her talents together.

“I think that she’s always had the ability to take over games, but the difference between her first two years and her last two was knowing what works for her,” Sullivan said. “She figured out what shots to take and what not to take, and how to get position on rebounds, because that’s just where she’s absolutely dominant. It wasn’t about gaining all those skills, but rather learning to use the skills she already had.”

“From where Julia Baily was as a little freshman to what she became as a senior is phenomenal,” Berube said. “It’s been kind of crazy. She’d been in the shadows and was okay with being in the shadows, to be that post player that nobody was keying on, and she’d just come in and get the dirty work done … She’s taken on every role and every year gotten better and more confident and see BAILY FEATURE, page 9

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After spending much of her career in the shadows of her teammates, Baily (32) anchored the Jumbos’ post in 2009-10, racking up 13 double-doubles.

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The only player in the NESCAC top five in both points and rebounds, senior Julia Baily closed our her career by topping the 1,000-point mark in her last game in a Jumbos uniform.

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rival by single digits for the fifth time in the last three years. The setback marked the beginning of a threeweek slide, in which the Jumbos also suffered both their worst loss in two years and their quickest NESCAC Tournament exit since 2006.

The late-season stumbles wound up costing Tufts dearly. Though the team did earn an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, it was shipped out of the region for the opening weekend and placed in a pod with national No. 2 Kean.

“Once you lose one game that you maybe should have won, it kind of deflates your team and your confidence, so the losses carried over to each other,” Wholey said. “As a testament to our teams in the past, we don’t really know how to deal with losing, so it took us a little while to come back from that.”

“I just don’t think we played to the best of our ability and at the highest level toward the end of the season,” Berube said. “It was a little frustrating, and we sort of got the draw that we did because of the end of our season.”

But as per the theme of their 2009-10 campaign, the Jumbos rose just when it appeared that they were down. In its first-round meeting against Muhlenberg, a matchup that was considered largely even, Tufts never trailed and ran away with a 12-point victory, thereby advancing to the NCAA round of 32 for the third consecutive season.

There, the Jumbos hung with the juggernaut Cougars well into the second half, holding a 36-35 lead with 16:26 to play. Kean commanded the remainder of the game and moved onto tonight’s Sweet Sixteen.

But in spite of the loss, Tufts was

glad to end its season playing some of its best basketball.

“During the game, it was so fun to watch us compete like that,” Berube said. “We took away what they were really good at and did what we’re capable of doing offensively. It was sort of a culmination of the whole season. We got back to playing Jumbo basketball, which kind of got away from us at the end of the season.”

The setback marked the end of the banner careers of Baily and Wholey, both of whom have been privy to the program’s remarkable ascendance to regional supremacy and national relevance. (Their classmate, Miller, will be using her final year of eligibility in 201011 after taking a medical redshirt her freshman season). At the time both arrived on the Hill in August 2006, Tufts had never won a postseason game under Berube.

They graduate in May with two NESCAC finals appearances and three NCAA Tournament berths on their résumés.

“They came in, and things really turned around from that point on,” Berube said. “The two of them, though very different personalities and players, have just been a huge positive impact on our team and program, and we’ll miss them very, very much. It’s been a pretty good ride with them.”

“My freshman year, we did well in comparison to other teams before by making it to the NESCAC finals, and at the time, that year seemed like as good as it could get,” Wholey said. “I guess I expected to carry on that, but I think in all circumstances, we exceeded that first standard of the first team that I was on. I never expected the NCAAs to be more of the rule rather than the exception.”

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anchor in a position where he can win the race. I think we have the talent and the experience this year where we can be really successful.”

“Billy is probably one of the faster 800 runners in the DMR,” Faller said. “The best thing about Billy is that he can run a really good 800 regardless of if he’s running right behind people or right in front of people. You can be sure that he will give you a good, solid effort.”

Anchoring the relay at NCAAs for the second year is Faller, running the 1,600-meter leg.

“He is our strongest leg,” said Hale of his classmate.

“You’re getting the top runners in the country [at Nationals], but I still wouldn’t choose any other anchor on any other team than [Faller].

I think that if we hand the baton off near the front of the pack, we have the strongest closer in the field.”

According to Faller, his goal is to move up a few positions from wherever he receives the baton. In last year’s race, Tufts was in ninth place overall when Faller was handed the baton, and Faller moved up six spots to secure a thirdplace finish and give him and his teammates All-American status, which is awarded to the top eight finishers.

The Jumbos’ qualifying time of 9:59.97 for this year’s national meet seeds them fourth among the 11 entrants.

Engelking today makes his first national appearance in the pentathlon, though he took third at NCAAs in the decathlon last outdoor season.

Engelking enters the competition as the 12th seed in the competition in a field of 12 competitors. His goal is to gain his second career All-American title, meaning he will have to ultimately finish with a goodenough point total to boost him up four spots on the list.

“I just think if I prepare myself well, if I have good warm-ups and if I just really relax and do what I know I am capable of doing, I think I will move up a couple places,” Engelking said.

However, Engelking’s qualifying score of 3,529 points is only 76 points from the athlete ranked eighth.

“I definitely think [I can improve] in the 1,000[-meter dash] and also probably the shot put and the high jump,” said Engelking, whose strongest event is the 55-meter hurdles. “But I think the key is not really one big improvement in any one event. It’s sort of just doing a little better in all of the events and I think I’ll be alright if I do that.”

On the track, Faller will look to gain another All-American finish in the 5,000-meter run.

Faller’s qualifying time of 14:34.07 ranks him in sixth of 12 competitors entering the race. Faller hit the NCAA qualifier back in December before taking time off due to injury.

“I haven’t run a 5K since December, and quite frankly I haven’t had the training that I would have liked to have at this point in the season because of various injuries, so that’s why I’m not putting a lot of pressure on myself to do well,” Faller said. “But I think in the past I have sur-

prised myself with running very good times off of little training, so I’m confident that I can run with the competitors at this meet, and I’m confident that I’m supposed to be here at this meet even though I ran the qualifying time over two months ago.”

The 5K at nationals tends to be a tactical race, meaning many cautious competitors do not end up running as fast as their seed times. Last indoor season, Faller crossed the line in 14:35.46 to finish fourth at NCAAs and was the only athlete to post a faster time in the race than his qualifying time.

“It normally goes out slow because people are nervous to make a move too early,” Faller said. “That’s what has happened in almost all of the nationals races I’ve been in, so I expect this year to be no different. This kind of tactical race plays into my favor because that is the way I like to run anyways, and I think this will give me the best chance at doing well.”

Only 14 seconds separate the seed times between the first and final 12th competitor.

This small range suggests that the 5K could be anyone’s race.

No athlete enters the race as a clear favorite, whereas last year the top qualifying time was over 18 seconds ahead of the rest of the field.

“I’m excited to have the chance to be running in the 5K at nationals,” Faller said.

“It’s difficult to get into the race, and I’m excited to have another shot at it this year. I was successful last year, and I hope that I can come home with the same success again.”

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON RECAP

Despite early-season questions, Jumbos rack up another 20-win season

BY SAPNA

BANSIL

Daily Editorial Board

There probably weren’t too many people out there who thought that the women’s basketball team had much of a chance this season at duplicating its success of recent years.

And really, who could blame them? Tufts’ roster was considerably thinned out after nearly half of its 2009 squad either left the program or graduated. No longer did the Jumbos boast a 6-foot-3 anchor in the post, long and athletic players on the wings or much experience on the bench. Instead, they fielded a depleted and largely unproven team that would have to compete against a tough out-of-conference schedule and arguably the strongest league in the nation.

But then, Tufts actually started playing the games. Twenty-one wins and one trip to the NCAA Tournament later, the Jumbos reflected on a season in which they achieved more than perhaps anyone could have reasonably expected.

“The beginning of the year was definitely a little rough, but I think in all regards, we overachieved in our own eyes and in other people’s eyes,” senior tri-captain Katie Wholey said. “No one expected us to do as well as we did this year, and I think we really came out and proved to everyone that we still had a lot of talent on the team and that we were going to make an impact.”

Tufts’ lack of depth forced it to lean heavily this season on its starting five, all of whom averaged at least 29.8 minutes per game. Among them were sophomores Kate Barnosky and Tiffany Kornegay and senior Vanessa Miller, all three career reserves who were suddenly taking on far more prominent roles than they were accustomed to.

Meanwhile, returning starters Julia Baily and Colleen Hart were being asked to shoulder an even bigger load.

Each player, however, rose to the challenge.

Hart and Baily earned First Team All-NESCAC honors after going one-two in the confer-

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NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year Vanessa Miller helped lead the women’s basketball team back to the NCAA Tournament in 2009-10. ence in scoring, respectively, while Miller took away the Defensive Player of the Year award in part for averaging 3.15 steals a game.

By season’s end, every member of the starting five had set new career highs in points and rebounds.

“We knew that a lot of roles were going to change this year, so I think everyone was just motivated to be better and to have the team do just as well as before,” Kornegay said.

“Everyone took advantage of the summer and just went extra hard — practicing, getting better, lifting weights. I think a lot of people stepped up.”

“Those five needed to step up their games — every one of them — and they did,” coach Carla Berube said. “They stepped into big roles and big shoes, and it says a lot.”

With all the extra contributions they were receiving from their core players, the Jumbos soared to a 19-2 start — their only losses came in double overtime to New Paltz and at the buzzer to Williams — and climbed into the top 10 of the D3hoops.com national top 25 for the first time in program history. Along the way, Tufts recorded a road victory over preseason No. 9 Brandeis, swept two-game slates at the Park Lodge Tournament and Land of Magic Classic and knocked off thenNo. 23 Emmanuel.

But maybe the highlight of that earlyseason surge came on Jan. 22-23, when the Jumbos scored consecutive wins over conference rivals Colby and Bowdoin, both of whom were inside the top 25 at the time. The victories confirmed that Tufts could contend with

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Jones, Wilfert represent Jumbos at nationals

BY SARAH

NASSER

Daily Staff Writer

In the culmination of a strong indoor season, the women’s track and field team will send two representatives to the NCAA Div. III Indoor Championships this weekend at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. With sophomore Nakeisha Jones and junior Amy Wilfert the lone competitors for Tufts, the Jumbos are looking forward to competing on the sport’s biggest stage.

“We have a much smaller squad this year, and it’ll be a lot harder to score as well with only two people in one event each,” said Wilfert, who will run in the one-mile race.

“Provided that, we’re still confident and hoping to do well.”

“I’m excited to be back again,” added Jones, an All-American in the triple jump. “Hopefully I can do well.”

In 2009, Jones went into the indoor championships ranked second in the nation for the triple jump and, with a qualifying distance of 39-3 1/4, ultimately received fourth place, which was good enough for All-American honors. At the 2009 outdoor championships, she was also an All American and came in third at the NCAAs with a triple jump distance of 39-5 3/4.

Last year, Wilfert ran the 1,200meter leg of the distance medley relay (DMR). Wilfert, along with

then-seniors Halsey Stebbins (LA ’09) and Jackie Ferry (LA ’09) and current junior Stephanie McNamara, captured the DMR championship with a time of 11:46.88, the second consecutive year the Jumbos won the national championship and their third toptwo finish in as many years. Wilfert also earned All-American honors at the meet.

Jones’ and Wilfert’s success helped contribute to Tufts’ fifthplace overall finish in the national indoor championship at last year’s meet, an improvement over their placing of 16th in the outdoor meet.

This spring, Jones is ranked first in the triple jump after setting a mark of 39-2 1/2 at the All-New England Championships on Feb. 27 and most recently won the triple-jump title at the ECAC Championships on March 6 with a leap of 39 1/2.

Though her qualifying mark is slightly behind the distance that she posted at last year’s championships, Jones expects to experience improved results this weekend.

“I feel like I’m better prepared this year than I was before,” Jones said. “You never know what will happen, but I’m going for the win.”

Wilfert will enter Greencastle as the ninth seed for the mile run after setting a qualifying time of 4:59.46 in the All-New England Championships. But the junior is more focused on representing Tufts

well than adding more All-American honors to her trophy case.

“We’re both here to do well,” she said. “So that’s the priority.”

After having a much larger group representing Tufts at the Indoor Championships last year, it will be a big adjustment to have only two Jumbos go out to the meet this weekend.

“It’s always a little hard because there are not a lot of familiar faces,” Wilfert said. “But it’s also not entirely new, so we know what to expect.”

Senior co-captain Andrea Ferri and senior Logan Crane both barely missed the qualifications for the NCAAs. The NCAA committee cut off the time for the 55-meter dash at 7.26 seconds, while Crane’s best time was 7.28.

Ferri, who was ranked 18th for the pentathlon, narrowly missed joining Jones and Wilfert as the qualification stopped after the top 17 competitors were selected.

Despite the Jumbos’ minimal representation in the upcoming weekend, Tufts is no stranger to the NCAA championship meets.

As of 2009, the Jumbos have had 12 national champions, and numerous athletes have received All-American honors. Jones, the ECAC triple jump champion, has a good chance to repeat as an AllAmerican, as does Wilfert.

“I worked hard this season,” Jones said. “I’m just hoping for the best.”

the nation’s elite.

“We knew going into that weekend how much two wins or two losses could have changed the season,” Kornegay said. “We just went in motivated to win. Bowdoin and Colby, at the time, were both nationally ranked with us, so we knew it was going to be good competition. But we were just confident going into those games that we could compete with them.”

When the calendar flipped to February, however, the overachieving Jumbos appeared to come back to earth a bit. It began in the second half of their Feb. 9 showdown against national No. 1 Amherst, when Tufts coughed up an eight-point lead and fell to its bitter see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 11

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Jumbos send five athletes to NCAA Championships BY

LAUREN FLAMENT

Daily Editorial Board

It all comes down to this.

As of this morning, the men’s track and field team has sent five athletes to Depauw University in Greencastle, Ind. to compete in three events at the NCAA Championships this weekend in the final meet of the season.

The Jumbos return AllAmerican athletes to the national field in both the distance medley relay (DMR) and the 5,000 meter. A relay team consisting of seniors Jesse Faller and quad-captain Billy Hale, sophomore Ben Crastnopol and freshman Sam Haney will compete today in the relay, along with senior quad-captain Jared Engelking in the pentathlon. Faller also will return to compete in the 5,000-meter run tomorrow.

Hale and Faller are returning members of the national third-place DMR team from last year and are looking to gain All-American status in the event consecutive years with an even stronger relay team this season.

Leading off this year will be Haney in the 1,200-meter portion of the race, making his premier to the national scene.

“I think Sam Haney is a smart racer,” Faller said.

“Even though he’s a freshman, we have a lot of confidence in what he can run, and I think the race is really going to play into his hands.

That 1,200 leg is usually a ‘sit and kick’ kind of race, which is perfect for his style.”

Haney will hand the baton off to Crastnopol in the 400, the shortest leg of the relay, where position can be crucial to avoid the traffic of a chaotic handoff.

“The DMR is not won in the 400,” Hale said. “Ben is going to run fine really regardless of where he is in the race at that point.”

Hale, the 1,200-meter leg of the All-American relay team last year, will return to nationals as the Jumbos’ 800meter leg of the relay this year with more experience at the national level and the advantage of a distance better suited for him.

“I think this year with the experience and with the distance that I am more comfortable with — the 800 is something that I’ve been running for eight years, while the 1,200 I have only done a few races — that I’m going to run with a little more aggression and a lot more confidence,” Hale said. “I want to put our see MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, page 11