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Initiative aims to Collegiate Housing bill could have large bring independent impact for Tufts’ Greek community bookstore to Davis BY SAUMYA VAISHAMPAYAN
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Following the March 2008 departure of local bookstore McIntyre and Moore Booksellers from Davis Square, community members have organized a grassroots effort to attract another independent bookstore to the area. “I think that the vibe and community of Davis would be a great place for a bookstore,” said Krysta Chauncey, a Tufts graduate student involved in the movement. Chauncey said she thought a bookstore would provide new cultural opportunities that the Davis Square area would be wellpositioned to take advantage of. “Besides the obvious of a place to get books, it’s a good flashpoint for local authors, a good meeting place for reading clubs, a great place to be a local community hub, and I think that Davis is the kind of community that could support something like that,” Chauncey said. The group spearheading the effort, known informally as the Davis Bookstore Project, is made up of community professionals who hope to find a bookseller interested in opening a store in Davis. The project started as the brainchild of online entrepreneur Jay Neely, who said she was inspired by a message written on the construction barriers surrounding Starbucks while it was in mid-March undergoing renovations. “When I was walking through Davis,
Even as two recent evictions this semester have raised questions about the maintenance of fraternity houses, one Tufts student is heavily lobbying for the passage of a U.S. Senate bill that could have a significant impact on Greek organizations. The Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2009 (CHIA) on April 2, 2009 was introduced in the U.S Senate and seeks to improve collegiate housing while alleviating rising college costs. CHIA addresses the disparity between universities and non-profit organizations, such as fraternities and sororities, in the area of taxdeductible donations for the creation and improvement of college infrastructure. Universities are currently allowed to accept tax-deductible charitable donations for college infrastructure upgrades, but other organizations that also provide housing on campus, like fraternities and sororities, cannot. “Any organization that seeks to provide a housing component as part of its educational program is currently unable to use tax-deductible dollars for improvement of infrastructure,” Dan Backer, a volunteer with the Zeta Psi Government Relations Program, told the Daily. If passed, CHIA would modify the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to
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The CHIA bill could potentially increase funding for the maintenance of fraternity houses.
Research Symposium lets undergraduates showcase work BY
CARTER ROGERS
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Panelists on Wednesday discussed how to rebuild Haiti after the country’s devastation in the aftermath of the January earthquake.
Panelist calls for real rebuilding, not finger pointing, in Haiti BY
BETHLEHEM MEBRATU Daily Staff Writer
Boston Attorney Jacques Dessin speaking on Wednesday evening at Cabot Auditorium about his home country of Haiti stressed the need to focus on the actual process of rebuilding Haiti instead of appropriating blame. “We need to think of what we can do instead of simply blaming the Haitian government,” Dessin said. Dessin was speaking as one of
the panelists at “What it Means to Rebuild Haiti,” a discussion in which distinguished panelists shared their insights on the process of rebuilding Haiti in the aftermath of the massive earthquake that in January devastated the country. The panel was made up of Tufts faculty members with specific connections to Haiti, as well as specialists within the local Haitian community. see HAITI, page 3
This afternoon, members of the Tufts community will be able to see undergraduates from all academic disciplines display their research. The Undergraduate Research Symposium, now in its 12th year, allows Tufts undergraduates to showcase the research they’ve done either on or off campus. This year’s symposium planning committee consisted of seniors Nicole Cherng, Michael Shusterman and Rebecca Ross Russell; Associate Professor of Biology Harry Bernheim; and Director of Advising and Scholarships Laura Doane. Bernheim credited the students in the planning committee with doing the majority of the work planning the symposium. The symposium will consist of 47 oral presentations and 60 poster presentations, according to Cherng. The oral presentations will take place in rooms in Eaton Hall from 1:30 to 3 p.m. and from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. The poster presentations will be held in Tisch Library from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
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There will be four rooms in use in Eaton with five or six presenters in each room. Students are limited to about 15 minutes for their presentations. “The university likes to say that they like the hybrid conditions here as far as faculty teaching and doing research and also having interaction with the undergraduates in research settings, and this way this symposium gives the university a way to show off all the research done by undergraduates,” Bernheim said. Though the research being presented focuses on a variety of subjects, most presenters were part of the Tufts Summer Scholars Program. “Our students heavily come from Summer Scholars, the former Summer Scholars are required to present their work at the symposium, and we also have a [good number] of students from the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) with Sherman Teichman,” Cherng said. “Those are our two biggest groups.” Summer Scholars make up the biggest contingents of presenters because they agree to present at the symposium as a part of their grant. Summer Scholars are given
a grant to pursue research at Tufts over the summer. “The provost’s office and some very generous donors [fund] between 40 and 50 grants every year,” Doane, who runs the Summer Scholars Program, said. “It’s full funding with the intent to help the students be able to pursue research opportunities full-time without having to work in addition. The idea really is to encourage mentorship between faculty and undergraduate students.” While their actual research takes place over the summer, Summer Scholars often build off their summer research throughout the year. “For Summer Scholars, obviously their commitment is over the summer, but oftentimes, a lot of Summer Scholars will use their work over the summer to do a senior thesis or project, and so that helps a lot. In the fall, there’s an opportunity for the Summer Scholars to show their work, but in the spring, we have Summer Scholars but we have [other students],” Cherng said. see RESEARCH, page 3
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EMILIA LUNA
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Going out in Boston can be fun for students from Tufts and other colleges in the area. With so many young people craving a release from academic stress, however, club hopping can be an exercise in claustrophobia as well. A newly launched Web site, InstantNightLife.com, hopes to revolutionize Boston nightlife by making it easier for people to hit the party scene. Through the Web site, people can have access to real-time updates of different popular clubs to know how long the lines are, the male-to-female ratios, how packed the dance floors are, the music quality and the cover charges required, among other variables, before they’ve even left the campus. “Although going out on the town is fun, it can also be a hassle — long lines, expensive covers, potentially bad music. You never know what you’re going to get,” Web site founder Kayvan Zainabadi said. “With InstantNightlife. com, we hope to take some of the guesswork out of going out.” The Web site not only provides updates every 10 to 15 minutes, but also features useful basic information about the clubs, such as drink prices and the location of the closest T stop, as well as dress codes, seating availability and crowd type. InstantNightLife.com also has a featured event section that changes every week, as well as photos taken at different clubs. The Web site has been an immediate success, according to Zainabadi, who said that the site received more than 5,000 visitors in its first month of operation, and the numbers are growing. “We've been online for nine weeks and are fast approaching our 10,000[th] visitor to the site,” Zainabadi, who received a Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) last year, said. “I think that's a pretty good indication that we're on to something.” Currently, the Web site only operates its real-time features during weekends from 10:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., and only contains information about seven clubs: Caprice, Estate, Gypsy, Liquor Store, Pearl, Royale and Underbar. “We have started small in order to test the idea and business model,” Zainabadi said. “Once we have ironed out the kinks, we're definitely going to expand.” The service also utilizes Facebook. com and Twitter.com to keep clubhoppers updated on upcoming events and the atmosphere at various venues, such as its April 2 tweet, “Tufts Party @ Royale — long lines already forming outside.”
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The new Web site InstantNightLife.com aims to revolutionize Boston nightlife. Zainabadi also said that he plans to introduce a text messaging service for those who plan on heading out on the town but don’t have access to a computer or a smartphone, and thus can’t check InstantNightLife.com or its Facebook and Twitter offshoots. “We are working on a short-code text messaging service where anyone can text the name of the club and what they want to know and get a text back with the answer,” Zainabadi explained. An iPhone application for the website will be launched on April 16 due to the high demand from the Web site’s users, along with an upcoming mobile-friendly version of the site itself, he said. “I would be much more likely to use it as an iPhone app,” senior Ty Burdette
said. “I feel like it would be good for when you’re already out and looking for somewhere else to go. If you’re at another club, or pre-gaming at a bar, it would be more useful for picking an alternate location rather than trying to figure out where you’re going at the beginning of the night.” Zainabadi stressed that the Web site is not paid by the featured clubs, which means that users can receive unbiased information. “We have their blessing, but we perform the updates independently of them,” Zainabadi said. The information featured on the Web site is provided by scouts employed by InstantNightLife. com, each of whom is sent to a club to see NIGHTLIFE, page 3
CHIA housing bill could make donations to Greek organizations tax deductible HOUSING continued from page 1
allow for tax-deductible donations for collegiate housing and infrastructure at non-profit organizations. “CHIA is a way to offset costs without putting pressure on university budgets and without putting pressure on taxpayers,” Serge Eygenson, a junior who is involved with lobbying for CHIA in Washington, D.C., said. “This will give people who want to help students the benefits of tax deductible donations … Everyone wins.” This change encompassed by CHIA will create an increased incentive for alumni to make charitable donations that will support organizational collegiate housing and improvements to such housing, according to Eygenson, a Zeta Psi brother. “In tough economic times, it is hard to explain to an alumni that a donation is not tax deductible … that is a big difference-maker,” Eygenson said. Increasing funding for the maintenance of safety standards at non-uni-
versity housing is especially relevant to Tufts, given the recent evictions at the Delta Upsilon and Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity houses, according to Eygenson. He added that the ballooning Greek population on campus and the strain on campus housing are both issues that CHIA can address. “The cool thing about this act is the huge potential impact at Tufts,” Eygenson said. Eygenson recently introduced a resolution in the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate expressing support for CHIA’s passage. The Senate on March 14 unanimously passed the resolution. “It’s pretty much to stand in support of what Serge is doing,” TCU President Brandon Rattiner, a senior, said. “We recognize that there are implications of this sort of legislation, and we want to support a cause that we think is correct.” Supporters of the bill on the national level link CHIA’s goals with maintaining the affordability of universities. “It essentially allows private donors
to invest private dollars into a public good that creates jobs and keeps college affordable,” Backer said. CHIA has 27 current sponsors in the U.S. Senate and 182 current sponsors in the House of Representatives. “The majority of the house is either a current or past sponsor, and we hope to achieve a current majority of sponsors this year … It is a widely supported, bipartisan bill,” Backer said. “We’re hoping that the bill passes in 2010.” A significant safety upgrade that CHIA’s tax-deductible donations will sponsor is an increase in the number of fire sprinkler systems in residences. Currently, only 39 percent of Greek housing at American universities have fire sprinkler systems in place. The presence of sprinklers directly affects the fatality rate in the case of a fire; there have been no fire-related deaths at fraternities with sprinkler systems. Eygenson noted that at Tufts, every Greek organization that provides housing has a sprinkler system.
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Web site uses social media to enhance clubbing experience NIGHTLIFE continued from page 2
relay information back to the Web site managers at regular intervals. Freshman Sofia Poma explained that when she goes out in Boston, she relies on her friends to let her know how packed a club is or how long the line is. “I think this Web site will be effective for the Boston nightlife because you can always count on the system to reply to your message, while your friends may be too busy dancing to reply to your text,” she said. The initial plan for the project arose from Zainabadi’s personal observa-
tions of the Boston club scene. “We were tired with the uncertainty associated with going out on the weekends,” Zainabadi said. Through the Web site, he hopes people can make more intelligent decisions on where to go out and spend their money. “I personally think it’s a good and worthwhile idea to pursue,” he said. “This is a service I would have liked to have had, and when I found no one was doing it, I decided to do it myself.” As far as growing and succeeding, Zainabadi thinks the Web site has a good chance, especially with the prevalence of smartphones and instant
updating services. “Hopefully we'll see more Web sites harnessing the power of mobile technology and social media to actually provide a useful service,” he said. Zainabadi and his colleagues are currently entertaining the possibility of expanding the site to club scenes outside Boston. “We currently have no competition, so we definitely have our eyes on other major cities,” he said. An official launch party for the iPhone app is planned for April 16 at Underbar with no cover charge before 11:30 p.m.
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This year’s Undergraduate Research Symposium will give students a chances to share their research.
Symposium a key part of Tufts’ mission of promoting undergraduate research, organizers say RESEARCH continued from page 1
“It gives students the opportunity to present their work, which is nice, but it also shows that this campus is encouraging research, which I think is really important, because one of the only ways for students to get funding for their research is Summer Scholars,” Cherng said. “There are a few other ones, but they’re much more selective, and not as many students can. By having something like this symposium, it allows students to see the wide range of research that goes on on campus.” Senior Adam Steinbrenner will be one of the former Summer Scholars presenting at the symposium. His presentation will focus on how plants defend themselves against insects and how stresses on the plants affect their ability to do so. The research Steinbrenner is presenting is part of his senior thesis. “The symposium itself is pretty good,” Steinbrenner said. “I did a poster pre-
sentation sophomore year … It’s a good way for undergrads to present in a supportive environment.” Sophomore Leslie Ogden’s presentation builds off her work with the IGL’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) program. Over winter break, Ogden and two other students traveled to Sri Lanka to research post civil war reconciliation. Sri Lanka ended a bloody 26-year civil war last year. Ogden’s group spoke with U.N. officials, activists and villagers, among others, and presented its findings at the EPIIC symposium earlier this year. “When we were first going there, I expected to leave with a sense of, ‘Oh, everything’s going to be fine, and they’re going to administer this, justice will be had,’ but I think I ended up leaving with more of a lack of hope,” Ogden said. “We are pretty much split half natural sciences/engineering and half being humanities/social sciences, so we really are split down the middle,” Cherng said.
Awards will be given to the best presentations and posters. “We’re looking for people who have done a significant amount of work … and can convey that to the judges,” Cherng said. “That may or may not be someone in their same field. So, if they’re doing a science presentation, they need to be able to make their judge, who may be someone that’s focused on history … be able to understand what this person is talking about.” A faculty and student pair will judge each presentation and poster. This year, there are 12 faculty and 12 student judges, according to Cherng. “The best thing for the community to know is that research and scholarship … affects everybody at the university, affects what opportunities are open and how we converse as an academic community, so I just encourage everybody, faculty, staff and students to come out and support folks who are presenting tomorrow,” Doane said.
Haiti panel spurs talk of rebuilding, recovery HAITI continued from page 1
Students at Tufts Advocating for Immigrant Rights (STAIR), the Haitian Coalition of Somerville and the Department of Sociology hosted the event in order to gather people to discuss the steps needed to restore and rebuild Haiti’s infrastructure and society. Dessin spoke further about the problems that he believes Haiti currently faces and noted that many areas other than the Haitian capital city Port-au-Prince were equally devastated and required as much attention. Professor of History Peniel Joseph, one of the panelists, spoke about the part of Haitian history that he feels is never acknowledged. “We can’t act like the [United States] has nothing to do with Haitian poverty,” Joseph said. “In the process of rebuilding Haiti, we have to re-cast the narrative of Haitian history, even though the [United States] fails to recognize the history that is generative of the revolution of 1804.” The other panelists were the Haitian Government Minister for the Diaspora Edwin Paraison, Patrick Sylvain, who has taught courses in Haitian language and culture at Brown and Harvard Universities, Center for Haitian Creole Development Founder Yvon Lamour, Tufts Lecturer of Community Health Linda Martinez and Institute for Global Leadership Director Sherman Teichman. A lengthy question-and-answer session followed the panel, spurring discussion on the real situation in Haiti during the earthquake and whether the government did all it could with the available resources. “There are experiences and then there are facts,” Sylvain said in response to an audience member who said she felt the Haitian government did all it could to help its people. Senior Marie-Gabby Isidore, member of STAIR and event organizer, believes Haiti has been deprived of respect as a country. “It is important for people to know that Haiti isn’t just a place of misery,” Isidore said. “The first thing you hear in the news is ‘Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.’ This is the biggest injustice that could be done.” Isidore highlighted the importance of seriously studying the country and the challenges it faces. “We had this panel to remind people of the power of branding a country without evaluating other problems that exist, such as those within the Haitian government,” Isidore said. Junior Kenneth Burris found the event to be an overall success, highlighting many lesserknown issues Haiti faces, including the issue of what it means to be a Haitian citizen. “I didn’t realize there was such a big discourse about citizenship,” Burris said. “I think right now the only way you can be counted as a citizen in the nation is if you are born in Haiti. If you are born outside of Haiti, with Haitian parents, you essentially cannot be a citizen. They are trying to change citizenship so that it doesn’t just apply to those on soil, which I think is really important.”
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I saw that someone had written in black Sharpie, ‘Please bring us a bookstore,’” Neely said. Neely explained that she then posted a flyer in Diesel Café hoping to attract volunteers, which produced a fairly large response. In the three weeks since, the group has grown to include former book publishers, Web designers and writers, among others. “Right now, we have over a dozen people actively helping out, a dozen more who’ve indicated interest and plenty who’ve indicated support,” Neely said. “I think there’s a really large community who supports this.” Despite the following the Davis
Bookstore Project has gained, the movement is still lacking an individual or company willing to start up the bookstore. “It’s sort of an unusual effort in that none of us is proposing to own or run the bookstore ourselves,” Chauncey said. “But we’re looking for a bookstore that we can support in the endeavor.” The group currently operates a Web site and has arranged meetings with other local bookstore owners to research and gather information. The group’s main aim is to find an individual to own and operate the proposed bookstore. “Until we find someone who wants to open a bookstore, the main thing we’re all doing is looking for that person,” Chauncey
said. “We’re all talking to publishing communities, authors and business communities to figure out how to find that person.” The group is looking for a bookseller willing to work with a hybrid business model and run a non-traditional bookstore, according to Chauncey. “Given the challenges of local independent bookstores, we think that a bookstore with a café in it, that is, a non-profit that is focused on hiring homeless people or with an author co-op aspect or a music section, would not only help make it unique but also help draw people to it,” Chauncey said. Neely hopes that once the Davis Bookstore Project finds a storeowner, the group will be able to provide much needed
support to that person. “Bookstores are a really old business, and independent bookstores are having a really hard time adapting to the new business and new economy because they’re operating on facts that are outdated,” Neely said. “This is why I think this group could be so helpful, because it’s made up of an incredible variety of people with different kinds of resources.” Neely also hopes that the bookseller will continue the tradition at McIntyre and Moore — the last bookstore to have a presence in Davis — of selling used books. “A large used-book selection is key to reflecting the history of the community,” Neely said. “Plus, it would serve college stu-
dents and young professionals to have a wide variety of cheaply available books.” McIntyre and Moore maintained its Davis Square location for 10 years before it in 2008 was forced to move to a new location in Porter Square due to the high rent. Junior Katherine EveringRowe feels that having a bookstore in Davis Square would benefit students and improve community relations. “I think that would be a great way to connect the Tufts community to the Somerville community,” Evering-Rowe said. “I think that it would be incredible to be able to buy textbooks at a price that isn’t ridiculous at a place within walking distance.”
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Sarabande’s new dances convey the excitement of spring.
Sarabande performance celebrates spring’s arrival BY
ARIANA SIEGEL
Daily Staff Writer
It is official: Spring has sprung. Its blooms are blossoming, its fragrances are flying, and dancers are heralding its arrival on the Cohen Auditorium stage. Tonight at 8:30 p.m., Sarabande, Tufts’ repertory dance ensemble, will again perform its show of this semester, entitled “Spring Has Sprung,” which debuted last
night. This tribute to the season could not come at a more apt time, considering the way spring has paraded onto campus this week, carrying on its coattails a lawn full of sunbathing students and a nagging inability to focus on school work. Sophomore Toka Beech, a dancer and the interior producer for the show, was relieved that the weather cooperated with the theme. “We were really worried when it rained on Sunday. We were thinking,
‘Oh God, please let it get nicer for the show!’” Beech said. “And then, luckily for us, it did! So the theme makes perfect sense.” Though the theme for Sarabande performances never emerges until all of the pieces are complete, the dances in this show coalesce perfectly to evoke the season. With hips that plié and pop under flouncy skirts, the dancers evoke the carefree lightheartedness of spring, though
some pieces do so with a tongue-incheek whimsy. A cheerful piece by senior Phoebe Pickering, the group’s president, set to Meaghan Smith’s “Here Comes Your Man” (2008) pays homage to the romance in spring’s air. “In the past, we’ve had more muted or mellow pieces, but this time we have a lot of light-hearted, happy, energetic see SARABANDE, page 6
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Torn Ticket II puts fresh spin on ‘Cinderella’ BY
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COURTESY TORN TICKET II
Torn Ticket II’s production of “Cinderella” takes a new spin on the classic play.
Torn Ticket II is breaking down stereotypes about musicals. While some people think that musicals are boring, this is not the case with “Cinderella,” and audience members should prepare to have their expectations shattered. Director senior Rebecca Baumwoll chose Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic because she was drawn to the music and also because she realized that there was a demand for something new and popular. “Cinderella” may be considered old-fashioned, but it is a beloved classic story many have grown up with. However oldfashioned it may be, an advantage to working with a classic is the ability to spice it up with a new twist or two while still staying true to the original. As long as the script and score went unchanged, there was the chance to use some creative freedom when deciding what direction to take “Cinderella,” according to Baumwoll. “I wanted to take what seemed oldfashioned and prove to our audiences that old-fashioned still has a lot of beauty and simplicity,”
Baumwoll said. Even though the story has been around since the ninth century when it was first written, “Cinderella” can still speak to audiences today.
“I wanted to take what seemed old-fashioned and prove to our audiences that old-fashioned still has a lot of beauty and simplicity” Rebecca Baumwoll, senior, “Cinderella” director For the director and cast, putting an original twist on the musical while leaving the script and music unchanged required a bit of thoughtful maneuvering. Baumwoll added pauses to the script and used characters’ actions to add meaning without actually changing the script. One major difference is how Cinderella achieves her dream. Instead of being granted her wishes by a fairy godmother, Cinderella gets to go to the ball because she realizes that she
has the power to make her own dream come true. In contrast to the fairytale version, this altered version is based in reality; the audience is better able to relate to it. Cinderella’s inner transformation is meant to inspire the show’s audience, showing the viewers that dreams can come true but that sitting and waiting for someone to come along and grant wishes is not the way to do it. All it takes is some faith and the guts to just go for it. “It’s her realizing that her dreams could come true,” Baumwoll said. Baumwoll hopes that the audience will leave with a deeper appreciation of using strong gut feelings to make decisions instead of always using logic. She explained that “Cinderella” is all about learning to see the beauty and magic in everyday life. Unfortunately, the kind of magic that happens in everyday life often goes unnoticed — it is the magic that happens when someone pays attention to an emotional reaction in the gut and acts on it, even when that means risking a lot for a crazy feeling. see CINDERELLA, page 6
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Sarabande, along with other Tufts dance groups, will be performing tonight.
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dances,” Pickering said. “It’s a happy, feel-good show.” Pickering also said that this semester’s show is very physical. Many of the dances boast impressive displays of technique, including complicated lifts that seem all the more impressive considering that the female dancers are all lifting other dancers of equal size. Junior Alyza DelPan-Monley, a seasoned dancer and choreographer, said that when she initially proposed some of her ideas, the dancers were incredulous. “I envision the way I want bodies to move,” DelPan-Monley said. “But when I explained it to my dancers, they looked at me and were like, ‘You want us to do what?’” Junior Molly Schwartz, who has danced with Sarabande for five semesters and also has choreographed, said that this semester’s repertoire has presented more challenges than ever before. “I’ve never been as challenged by any dance as I have been by this year’s dances,” Schwartz said. The show is not only physically arduous, but also emotionally exigent. Sarabande comes of age in this show, displaying a mature sense of movement and emotion without losing the rosy-cheeked enthusiasm of youth. Schwartz’s eccentric, literal take of Ingrid Michaelson’s “Keep Breathing” (2008) causes the heart to pause with its hard, truthful look at human relationships. In this and several other dances, the participants collectively demonstrate a range of emotion that is difficult to cultivate individually, let alone in a group.
“That is something unique about Sarabande,” Pickering said. “Because we’re so small, we’re really close and have developed a level of trust sometimes missing in other campus groups. The respect and affection among us is really remarkable.” No one has experienced the maturation process better than the group’s seniors, who perform a retrospective on the experiences of the past four years to a Backstreet Boys mix. Pickering said that for her and the other seniors, this performance brings with it a considerable amount of nostalgia and feels somewhat bittersweet. Yet, while many talented members will take their last bows this semester, Sarabande continues to burgeon with new talent. Beech and freshman Lauren Miller, both in only their second semester in Sarabande, coproduced the show. “It’s my favorite thing on campus,” Beech said. “Dance has been a huge part of my life since I was young, and to come to college and lose that would leave a huge hole in my life. With Sarabande, I can be involved in dance again, and I’ve made 17 wonderful friends in the process.” Sarabande is only one of many groups dedicated to dance at Tufts, most of which will be performing in between Sarabande dances tonight. Sarabande’s show will also include performances from other Tufts dance groups including Spirit of Color, Tufts Dance Collective, La Salsa, Ballroom, Tap Ensemble, Garba, Tamasha and Blackout. The ballroom club’s performance, set to “Time” (2007) by Chantal Kreviazuk, has a wistful gracefulness that
attests to the wide range of talent at Tufts, and the TDC dance chosen to perform earlier in the show elicits a laugh-outloud response. Another special guest performance by Static Noyze — which has two members in Sarabande — a group that appeared on “America’s Best Dance Crew,” will amp up the energy of the show with its electric atmosphere, political undertones and sensual scenes. The all-cast dance is a literal depiction of the four seasons. Summer dangles its bare legs off the stage, sizzling and spinning in bathing suits, while autumn soothes and swirls beneath sweaters and plaid scarves. Winter saunters in various shades of grey, whisking senior dancers gracefully through reflective frames of movement, and finally spring bounces and branches through the air with a no-nonsense whimsy that brings the entire troupe of seasoned dancers onto the stage. DelPanMonley, one of the dance’s three choreographers, said that the songs for this dance were carefully chosen to fit each season. “For this piece, we tried to find music that grasped what the season meant to each of us,” DelPan-Monley said. “Choreography is about bringing something external to what the choreographer feels internally about the song. It’s not about making the dance edgy or modern, but more about finding the uniqueness in the song and fitting the dance to that.” The Sarabande show is at 9 p.m. on Thursday and at 8:30 p.m. on Friday night. Tickets are available in the Cohen Box Office and are free with a Tufts I.D., and $5 without.
Another aspect of “Cinderella” that sets it apart from previous versions is that it is going to be performed outdoors. “Cinderella” will take place on a stage under a tent across from Ellis Oval, behind the Aidekman Arts Center in the Remis Sculpture Court. To explain this radical choice, Baumwoll said, “In taking ourselves out of the confines of a typical theater, we return to the universal and timeless arena of the outdoors.” After all, plays were originally performed outdoors, and the outside performance will be very unique since a play has not been performed outside at Tufts for quite a long time. Baumwoll said that she is very proud of her work with “Cinderella,” noting that it has been the best experience with an ensemble and working crew that
she has had at Tufts. According to Baumwoll, the pit has been wonderful, and the cast has been great to work with. “Everyone [working on ‘Cinderella’] is insanely capable and kind,” Baumwoll said. She is extremely appreciative of all the help she has had along the way with turning her vision into a reality. She had been thinking about “Cinderella” and wanting to direct it for over a year. Now, her dream has finally come true. Tickets are free. Shows began on Wednesday, April 7 and will run until Saturday, April 10. Shows begin at 7 p.m. every night, and on April 10 there will also be a matinée performance at 2 p.m. The tickets are already sold out for Wednesday through Friday, but more may go on sale, and there may be standing room. Tickets for the matinée performance will go on sale at noon the same day.
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uncorked a wild pitch with runners at the corners and two away in the inning. But DeGoti slammed the door by inducing a comebacker to the mound from senior pinch-hitter Zach Wooley, who represented the tying run. The victory was encouraging for the Jumbos, as they enjoyed solid pitching and stout defense, but their offense has cooled considerably after getting off to a terrific start. Tufts’ team batting average has dropped to .317 on the season, and its lofty .408 on-base percentage is inflated by 23 hit batsmen. “As pitchers, we’re really confident that we have a good defense behind us and that the guys are going to make plays for us,” Hill said. “We also know that we have a strong lineup, which makes it easier for us to just focus on what we have to do, even when we’re not scoring a lot of runs.” The Jumbos will need to find their stroke at the plate again with NESCAC rival Colby (9-5 overall, 0-3 NESCAC), coming to Huskins Field this weekend for a three-game series beginning Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. followed by a Saturday doubleheader set to begin at 12 p.m. Tufts swept the Mules in Waterville, Maine last April to earn a berth in the conference tournament, and Colby will undoubtedly be looking for revenge. The Mules are currently riding a six-game winning streak and are batting .353 as a team this season. “We’re all really excited for this weekend because it’s nice to not have to travel three hours before a series,” Goldberg said. “We’re looking forward to playing in front of our own fans, and I’m sure we’ll come out strong.”
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Kelly Hyland, who had two goals on the day. “We needed to get back faster on defense and settle the ball more on offense to give the defense a better break.” The Jumbos answered the early Babson goal with three of their own in just over five minutes. Beavers junior attacker Alyssa Hood added back-to-back tallies to tie the game for the second and last time at 17:52 left in
the first half. The next five goals came from Tufts, three of which were scored by Johnson. Hood struck one more time in the half, but Johnson added her fifth of the day to send the Jumbos to the bench up 9-4. Babson scored three goals in five minutes after the break, catching the Jumbos’ defense flat-footed for the only time since the Beavers’ quick opening tally. But any hint at a comeback was
quickly dismissed with a Kozin goal. From there, the teams traded goals until Egan, sophomore Sterling Champion and Abelli — uncharacteristically silenced up until that point — combined for four unanswered, prompting Tufts to pull its starters and prepare to run out the clock. A late three-goal rush by Babson didn’t threaten the Jumbos’ lead, and the buzzer sounded with Tufts on top 19-13. “We came out really strong
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in the second half and paced our attack a lot more,” Hyland said. “We gave a lot of people more opportunities. Babson had some free-position opportunities and started to penetrate the corners of our zone more, but the defense played really well and limited the shots.” Though the stat sheet speaks to a blazing offense, the defensive unit displayed an outstanding performance on the day as well. Tufts won the battle on the ground with sophomore midfielder Steph Perez picking up a season-high seven of the team’s 24 ground balls, compared to the Beavers’ 15. Meanwhile, junior goalkeeper Sara Bloom was stalwart between the posts, tying her season record with nine saves. “Our zone played really well,” said Hyland of the defense’s unsung strength. “We haven’t played a full zone in the past games, so keeping our zone going the whole game was really good. They were really quick on the slides and were able to help Bloom by putting them in bad spots.” Both attack and defense will have to be on their games again tomorrow as they prepare to take on the only undefeated team in the conference, national No. 1 Trinity. Despite their flawless record, the Bantams sit in the middle of the pack of NESCAC offenses. Trinity only has one player in the top 10 NESCAC point scorers, while Tufts boasts three in Johnson, Abelli and Kozin.
Where the Bantams do lead is in turnovers, caused turnovers per game and goals against average. It seems the game will be decided by the battle between Tufts’ fast-paced, aggressive attack and Trinity’s clean and consistent defense. “I think this weekend will be a huge test of our abilities,” Abelli said. “Learning each attacker’s style of play and taking advantage of their strengths is key for success on offense. Everyone on our attack is able to contribute to scoring plays, which makes it difficult for teams to defend us.” Tufts boasts arguably the best defender in the league in senior co-captain Alyssa Kopp, and with the Jumbos’ newfound zone success, they should be able to shut down a mediocre Trinity attack as they have in the past, having lost only once in the teams’ last six meetings. But Trinity’s defensive unit, with star sophomore Liz Bruno, has shot the Bantams to the top of Div. III. The undeniably hot Jumbos will have to keep it up to rattle a defense that seems to have no weaknesses. “Coming off the big win over Babson, who was a top-10 team, we’re confident and ready to play Trinity,” Hyland said. “We definitely have two big days of practice ahead of us, but we’re going into it like any other NESCAC game — focusing on winning the small things like ground balls and keeping our offense dynamic. We’re pumped.”
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Tuesday the move paid off, as Foglietta, in 45 minutes of action, allowed only one goal while making 10 saves. Foglietta started in goal earlier this year in a game against Skidmore, but with the Jumbos down 9-7 at the half, Daly decided to put Petillo in the game in an attempt to boost his team’s momentum. The result was a second half in which the Jumbos throttled the Thoroughbreds 8-1. On Tuesday, the two goalies’ roles were reversed, but the result was the same: a resounding comeback victory. “Our team is blessed because we have two or three goalies that can step up when we need them,” DiSesa said. “We [as a defense] hadn’t been protecting Bryan, but when Steve came in, we rallied around him, just like we rallied around Bryan at Skidmore.
“We’re fine with whoever’s in the cage,” he continued. “It’s more about team defense than any specific player.” With Tuesday’s win, the team moves to 8-0 on the season and 5-0 within the NESCAC. In its first eight games of 2009, Tufts had jumped out to an identical record and also ranked in the top 10 in the national poll before a 9-11 road loss at Trinity College snapped the team’s win streak. The Jumbos will have a shot at redemption against their conference rival this Saturday at home on Bello Field. “It’s always fun playing on Bello and seeing all our fans lining up on the sideline,” DiSesa said. “Especially with Trinity being a conference rival and with what happened last year, it should be a good game.” “Trinity is a very good team who ended our undefeated run last year,” Witko added. “And we respect every team that we play, but we go into every game expecting to win.”
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Tufts steamrolls Wesleyan while tuning up for end of season Jumbos virtually unchallenged in both doubles and singles matches BY SAPNA
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In the weeks ahead, the women’s tennis team will have to contend against the best competition in the NESCAC. WOMEN’S TENNIS (7-3, 3-0 NESCAC) at Middletown, Conn., Wednesday Tufts Wesleyan
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But for now, the Jumbos are certainly having fun feasting on the soft underbelly of their conference schedule. On Wednesday afternoon in Middletown, Conn., nationally ranked No. 17 Tufts ran over Wesleyan 9-0 for its third shutout victory of the last week. Outside of third doubles — in which freshman Lauren Hollender and junior Edwina Stewart eked out a 9-7 win — the Jumbos were virtually unchallenged throughout the lineup. Stewart won love-and-love at No. 4 singles, while Hollender, fellow freshman Lindsay Katz and junior tri-captain Julia Browne each yielded just one game in their respective singles matches. Wednesday’s outcome kept up a recent stretch of dominance for Tufts, which also trounced Colby and Bates by 9-0 margins over the weekend. Since returning from a spring break trip to Florida, the Jumbos have won all of the 36 singles sets they’ve played and surrendered just 24 games across nine doubles matches. “We really took control of our matches and just played every single point to win it,” senior tri-captain Meghan McCooey said. “It’s kind of easy to go out there when your opponent is maybe weaker and have a few loose points and let a game or two slip away from you, but everyone throughout the lineup was so focused on winning every point and winning every game and not giving up anything.” The scores of Tufts’ recent contests are, at least in part, a reflection of the level of its competition. Of the Jumbos’ last three opponents, none are nationally ranked, and only Colby has placed someone on the All-NESCAC First Team in the last five years. But beginning next weekend, Tufts will enter a potentially season-defining stretch of its schedule, which will include contests against defending NCAA champion Williams, national No. 1 Amherst and two other conference rivals ranked in the top 15 in Middlebury and Bowdoin. Before it
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Junior tri-captain Julia Browne and the women’s tennis team won their third straight match 9-0 this Wednesday. Though the streak has boosted the team to No. 17 in the country and 7-3, the Jumbos have yet to face their toughest competition. that are maybe a little bit tougher, we want to have that confidence and be able to just go out there and play our best tennis without even thinking about it. These matches have helped us build all of that.” For Hollender and Stewart, Wednesday afternoon showed that the pair can dig deep when it matters most. After taking a commanding lead in its
dives headfirst into the brutal homestretch of its regular season, Tufts will use Wednesday’s match, as well as those this weekend against Trinity and Hamilton, to help develop a winning mentality. “I think what we’re trying to get is the confidence and the mindset of winning every single point,” McCooey said. “By the time we start playing those teams
third doubles match against Wesleyan’s tandem of senior Casey Simchik and freshman Taylor Morales, the Tufts duo was able to withstand a late charge and improve to 4-3 on the spring. “We were up by a lot, and we started overthinking things maybe or just getting a little bit nervous, so it became much closer than it should have been,” Hollender said. “But we’re just learning from all these matches, and I think we’re definitely taking something away from each one. It was really important for us to be able to close that [ Wesleyan match] out, and we know that when things get really close, we can pull through.” In addition to working on the mental parts of their game, the Jumbos have been developing chemistry with their doubles partners. On Wednesday against Wesleyan, Tufts featured the exact same doubles lineup as its previous seven matches, with Browne and McCooey on top, Katz and classmate Janice Lam in the second spot, and Hollender and Stewart at No. 3. The consistency of the doubles lineup stands in stark contrast to what coach Kate Bayard did last season when she used 16 different combinations at second and third doubles alone. “I think that definitely helps you get mentally prepared for matches,” Hollender said. “Even though [Bayard] doesn’t set the lineup ’til the day of, if you have a sense that you know where you’re playing, it helps you get in that mindset earlier than just the warmup before the first match. You sort of just get into a rhythm playing with the same person every time.” On the same day that they collected their seventh dual-match victory of the season, the Jumbos were also announced as the recipients of the ITA’s National Sportsmanship Award, which they received thanks to a nomination from an undisclosed team or coach. The distinction capped a great day for Tufts both on and off the court. “It was such a huge honor,” McCooey said. “[Sportsmanship] is a part of the game that doesn’t have to do with skill, but it’s such an important part of the game, and it’s something that we always talk about. We always say ‘nice job’ to our opponent, and our coach won’t accept us throwing our racket or behavior like that on the court. “It’s nice to know that other teams notice and appreciate our good sportsmanship enough to nominate us for an award like that,” she continued. “We were really, really honored, and I’m really proud of our team.”
STATISTICS | STANDINGS Men's Lacrosse
Women's Lacrosse
(8-0, 4-0 NESCAC)
(6-2, 3-2 NESCAC)
Conn. Coll. Tufts Middlebury Williams Amherst Bowdoin Colby Wesleyan Trinity Bates
W 5 5 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 0
L W 0 9 0 8 2 5 2 4 3 3 3 4 3 5 3 6 4 6 5 4
L 0 0 2 4 4 5 4 4 4 5
Individual Statistics G A P D.J. Hessler Ryan Molloy Matt Witko Kevin McCormick Sean Kirwan Brian Donovan Mike Droesch Jamie Atkins Nick Rhoads Doug DiSesa Team
17 16 14 10 14 7 7 4 4 4 114
19 13 3 7 2 2 1 3 2 2 69
36 29 17 17 16 9 8 7 6 6 183
Goaltending Steven Foglietta Bryan Petillo
GA 30 28
Sv S% 36 .545 37 .569
Softball (11-7, 2-1 NESCAC East)
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NESCAC OVERALL
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Trinity Bowdoin Amherst Colby Tufts Middlebury Bates Williams Conn. Coll. Wesleyan
W 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 0 0
L 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 5 5
W 8 6 5 7 6 4 4 4 3 2
L 0 3 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 7
Individual Statistics G A P
USILA Div. III Men’s Lax
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OVERALL
East Trinity Bowdoin Tufts Bates Colby
W 4 2 2 1 0
L 2 1 1 2 3
T 0 0 0 0 0
L 3 5 3 5 5
T 0 0 0 0 0
East Trinity Tufts Bowdoin Colby Bates
W 3 2 1 0 0
L 0 1 2 0 3
T W L 0 9 7 0 11 7 0 15 7 0 4 10 0 2 13
T 0 0 0 0 0
West Amherst Wesleyan Williams Middlebury Hamilton
4 4 2 2 0
2 2 1 4 3
0 11 7 0 16 6 0 9 8 0 5 8 0 5 13
0 0 1 0 0
West Wesleyan Middlebury Amherst Williams Hamilton
3 2 1 0 0
0 1 2 0 3
0 14 7 0 11 6 0 11 9 0 4 12 0 2 11
0 0 0 0 0
W 11 15 12 11 9
Individual Statistics AVG HR RBI
Emily Johnson Jenna Abelli Lara Kozin Casey Egan Steph Perez Kerry Eaton Kelly Hyland Sterling Champion Kaitlyn Leidl Emily Pillemer Team
32 22 14 19 11 8 5 5 3 2 121
12 7 15 5 6 5 2 1 2 0 56
44 29 29 24 17 13 7 6 5 2 177
Ian Goldberg Ben Walkley Frank Petroskey David LeResche Sam Sager Caleb Sims Chase Rose Nate Bankoff David Orlowitz Alex Grzymala Team
.471 .429 .378 .375 .350 .333 .315 .308 .269 .267 .324
0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 5
7 6 11 10 16 0 12 9 14 2 102
Goaltending Sara Bloom Tess Shapanka
GA 79 8
Sv 50 3
S% .388 .273
Pitching Pat O’Donnell Dave Ryan
W L ERA SO 2 1 2.79 8 2 0 1.52 17
Individual Statistics AVG HR RBI 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 8
6 12 7 11 2 16 6 8 0 1 69
Emily Beinecke Casey Sullivan Stefanie Tong Lena Cantone Lizzy Iuppa Christy Tinker Mira Lieman-Sifry Julia Silberman Izzie Santone Liz Pinzino Team
.455 .393 .375 .333 .300 .300 .267 .250 .217 .200 .303
Pitching Aly Moskowitz Rebecca DiBiase
W L ERA SO 3 0 2.03 15 4 2 2.62 21
Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) 1. Stevenson (8) 2. Salisbury (6) 3. Gettysburg 4. Corland 5. Dickinson 6. Tufts 7. Middlebury 8. Roanoke 9. Geneseo
IWLCA Div. III Women’s Lax as of March 29, 2010
Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) 1. Salisbury (20) 2. Franklin & Marshall 3. Hamilton 4. Trinity (Conn.) 5. TCNJ 6. Gettysburg 7. Colby 8. Middlebury 12. Tufts
ITA Div. III Women’s Tennis as of March 30, 2010
Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) 1. Amherst 2. Williams 3. Chicago 4. Emory 5. Washington & Lee 6. Denison 7. Depauw 8. Pomona-Pitzer 17. Tufts
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Stifling defense leads Tufts to road victory at Bates Jumbos outscore Bobcats 6-0 in second half to seal win BY
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The men’s lacrosse team continued to stake its claim as the top Div. III team in New England on Tuesday night, dominatMEN’S LACROSSE (8-0, 5-0 NESCAC) at Lewiston, Maine, Tuesday Tufts Bates
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ing opponents Bates in the final three quarters on its way to a 12-6 victory. After finishing the first quarter behind 5-3, the Jumbos surged back into the game on the heels of some strong team defense and the stellar play of sophomore goalie Steven Foglietta, who was substituted for junior starter Bryan Petillo at the beginning of the second quarter. The Jumbos — who had given up the first goal in three out of their last four NESCAC games — came out strong at first against Bates, with juniors D.J. Hessler and Matt Witko netting two quick goals to put Tufts ahead, 2-0. But this early surge was quickly followed by four consecutive Bobcat goals. As the first quarter ended, the Jumbos were down by two goals and scrambling to find answers.
“We struggled a bit coming out flat, but [at the end of the first quarter] we talked about how this is our season and that we decide how good we’re going to be,” senior co-captain Doug DiSesa said. “We picked each other up and came together, pulled together as one instead of trying to do everything individually.” In the final three quarters of the game, the Jumbos were dominant, outscoring the Bobcats 9-1. Goals in the second quarter from junior Ryan Molloy and sophomore Kevin McCormick evened the score at 6-6 going into the half. And in the second half, the Jumbos, with a deadly combination of smothering defense and solid goalkeeping from Foglietta, shut down Bates’ offensive attack and kept the Bobcats off the scoreboard completely. “Our whole defensive unit just clamped down from the second quarter on,” Witko said. “The defense definitely got their communication much better, particularly in the second half when they didn’t give up a goal.” While the Jumbos struggled to win faceoffs against Bates, Tufts was able to control possession by crushing the Bobcats in the ground ball category 34-21. The Jumbos’ defensive pressure was also a major factor, forcing Bates into 33 turnovers compared to 24 for Tufts. “The defense played a big role in our offensive [attack],” Witko added. “They
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Sophomore Kevin McCormick added two goals to Tufts’ 12-6 win over the Bates Bobcats on Tuesday. The win moved the nationally ranked No. 6 Jumbos to 8-0 on the season. enabled us to get the ball a lot more and have the possessions that allowed us to score more.” The substitution of Foglietta for Petillo in the second quarter proved to be a major
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turning point in the game. Coach Mike Daly has done a bit of mixing and matching with his team’s goalkeeping this year, and on see MENS LACROSSE, page 9
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Ahead of showdown at Trinity, Pitching stops Brandeis Tufts extends winning streak to five in home opener BY
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DANIEL RATHMAN
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The women’s lacrosse team’s recent surge continued on Tuesday, when it took down the then-na-
Coming off a series win in its opening NESCAC tilt with Bates, the baseball team
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tional No. 9 Babson Beavers 19-13 in an offensive battle. In their five-game winning streak, the Jumbos have scored 91 goals and soared to the top of the NESCAC standings in almost every offensive category. For now, it seems as if the issues that dropped the team to 0-2 in the conference standings are in the past. The win improved Tufts’ record to 6-2 (3-2 NESCAC) and vaulted the team up to No. 10 in the national poll. “We’re really excited after every win and use the momentum after every game,” senior co-captain Jenna Abelli said. “In the beginning, we were in a learning period, but now we’ve really built on team chemistry on and off the field, and it’s one of the reasons we’ve been so successful.” Nine different Jumbos found the back of the net on Tuesday, with senior attacker Emily Johnson leading the way with six goals, sophomore midfielder Casey Egan adding four and classmate Lara Kozin assisting on five scores. Overall, the entire unit was unstoppable, as Babson only held a lead for 26 seconds — after having scored in the first 20 seconds of the game. Perhaps it took the Jumbos
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Senior attacker Emily Johnson led an explosive offense on Tuesday with six goals in the Jumbos’ 19-13 win over Babson. No. 10 Tufts will have to keep up the intensity on attack to defeat national No. 1 Trinity tomorrow. a little time to warm up, but after they did, a blaze of goals put them up by five at the half, and the Beavers never got within four afterward.
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sought to continue its strong play while hosting Brandeis (8-13) on Tuesday afternoon at Huskins Field. Tufts improved to 12-3 on the year (2-1 NESCAC) with a 3-1 victory that lasted just two hours and 34 minutes. Offensive power was scarce in Tuesday’s contest, as the teams combined for nine hits, and Tufts junior Ian Goldberg was the lone player to finish with more than one. After the Jumbos scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning, the pitchers went on cruise control. “Early in the game, Brandeis kind of struggled with their command and couldn’t work in their breaking stuff, which helped me get off to a good start,” Goldberg said. “Later on, they started mixing in their off-speed pitches, and we didn’t really see the ball as well. I’m sure we’ll figure that out soon.” Senior righty Tom Hill was credited with the victory for pitching a scoreless first and moving to 3-0 on the season. Freshman Dylan Britton took the loss for the visiting Judges, falling to 0-2. Britton could not find his
control early on, hitting Tufts’ leadoff man — junior tricaptain Dave LeResche — to start the game and surrendering four walks in his four innings pitched. The Jumbos took advantage of his erratic performance with RBI singles by sophomore third baseman Sam Sager and junior outfielder Ben Walkley, as well as a run-scoring groundout by junior outfielder Chase Rose. Meanwhile, Tufts’ parade of eight relievers tamed Brandeis’ attack, holding the Judges scoreless until the final inning. Brandeis threatened briefly in the fourth after drawing a pair of walks from junior Jack Dilday, but sophomore Kevin Gilchrist coaxed a double play ball to keep the Judges off the board. “I thought the whole pitching staff did a really good job of just going out there and pounding the strike zone,” Hill said. “In midweek games like that, we each only have three outs to work through, so it’s really important to just get into a groove early, throw strikes and get the job done quickly.” Sophomore Chris DeGoti was credited with his fourth save of the season, despite allowing Brandeis’ lone run in the top of the ninth. A one-out infield single by senior second baseman John O’Brion eventually cost DeGoti when he see BASEBALL, page 8
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