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Water service disrupted until at least Wednesday BY

BRENT YARNELL

Daily Editorial Board

Water supply to 38 communities in Massachusetts including Medford and Somerville has since Saturday been disrupted, and the earliest the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) expects regular service to be restored is Wednesday.

A major water main in Weston broke, affecting water supply to more than 2 million people, including Tufts’ Medford/Somerville and Boston campuses. The break occurred in a coupling connecting two pipes carrying treated water from the Quabbin reservoir.

Storage tanks located at the end of pipelines enabled water service to all areas to continue uninterrupted,

according to MWRA Communications Director Ria Convery. She also said there was no decrease in water pressure, posing no problems for fire departments.

Emergency water supplies were activated but are not safe for consumption, prompting the MWRA to mandate a “boil-water” order in affected counties until further notice. Gov. Deval Patrick then declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts to expedite response.

A boil-water order requires that boiled and bottled water be used for drinking, cooking, washing fruits and vegetables, washing utensils and food preparation surfaces and for brushing teeth. see WATER, page 4

Guerilla artists hope to create an open 24-hour space BY

ELLEN KAN

Daily Editorial Board

Students from the Experimental College (ExCollege) Guerilla Performance Art and Politics class are for their final project creating a 24-hour open space owned by students in the hopes of building a second culture on campus.

Lecturer Milan Kohout teaches the class, which is about the fusion of art, politics and life.

“The artist would completely disconnected from the main culture so that they would not be part of the main culture in any way …

It was the creation of a completely separate entity from the main culture,” Kohout said.

“This class is trying to teach this technique,

and one of the techniques was performance art … which you can incorporate within a public space at any time.”

Kohout explained that for their final project, students in the class are embarking on a collaborative attempt to create a second culture within the university through the creation of a 24-hour open space for students.

“Many of [the students] felt there is no permanent space for Tufts students to socialize, which would really be owned by them … and which would employ the rules created by them,” Kohout said. “So they decided to find and locate some space in the university grounds where they will be starting to build see SPACE, page 4

Students and alumni celebrated Tuftonia’s Day on Friday

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Students were better behaved at this Spring Fling, with fewer individuals needing treatment for alcohol poisoning.

Officials and organizers happy with Spring Fling 2010

BY SAUMYA VAISHAMPAYAN

Daily Editorial Board/

Early reviews of this year’s Spring Fling indicate that it was an improvement over last year’s, marked by better student behavior and fewer emergency calls.

“On behalf of our office, we were really pleased with the students’ behavior and want to thank the students with helping us put on such a great event,” Office of Campus Life Director Joe Golia said. “Overall, the students were wonderful, which was very different than last year,” Golia said. “Students entering the event were very excited, polite and respectful.”

Spring Fling was last year declared a mass casualty incident after the number of individuals requiring medical

treatment — mostly due to alcohol poisoning — exceeded the capacity of emergency services teams.

Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman described this year’s event as a return to the norm after last year’s anomaly. “Just from the statistics, it was a much better day than last year,” Reitman said. “I’m proud of the students.”

Approximately half as many students required medical attention this year compared to last year, and the number of students needing to be transported to the hospital because of alcohol poisoning also decreased.

Emergency services treated 14 students, and nine students were taken to a hospital for further treatment, according see SPRING FLING, page 4

Letter calls for president prioritizing diversity

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The annual Tuftonia’s Day celebration on Friday ended with a fireworks display. It began with a carnival on Fletcher Field that featured food, rides and games. The event was the culmination of the Alumni Association’s Traditons Week, celebrating its 150th anniversary.

Three-hundred-and-thirtyfour students have signed a letter to the Presidential Search Committee calling for members to prioritize finding a new university president committed to diversity issues.

The letter, written by senior Lucy McKeon, also calls for the committee to emphasize searching for candidates “who also identify themselves with one or more marginalized groups.”

McKeon explained that she wrote the letter because she was unable to attend the open forums hosted by the committee on the Medford/Somerville campus.

“I couldn’t attend any of those, but I definitely have opinions on what types of change I would love to see at Tufts, and I know a lot of students who have similar opinions, so in writing a letter, I wanted to give voice to students that I knew felt similarly,” she said.

McKeon further explained what she meant by a commitment to diversity issues.

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“A commitment to diversity, not solely as a filling of university administrative positions with an array of representative figures, but a dedication to changing the actual systems of power in institutions like Tufts … I want a president with a social justice agenda to address disparities that arise in institutionalized hierarchies of power,” she said.

McKeon added that she wanted to have a president who would promote a supportive environment for students.

“Most importantly, having a president that sets the tone to foster a climate where all students feel accepted and safe,” she said. “Where a bias incident occurs on campus, we want all students to feel supported and represented.”

Senior Jenny Lau, who joined McKeon in this effort, explained the reasons behind calling for a president from a marginalized background.

“I have met people in the dominant category who have thought to learn more about

how marginalized groups are oppressed, but … it may be helpful to actually have someone who’s had those experiences … of being marginalized to make decision and policies,” Lau said.

Lau noted that diversity should be a priority because of the role of the university. “[The university] is supposed to prepare us for real life … and seeing that the United States is an increasingly diverse place … it would make sense that leadership within this university sees it as a reality and makes it a priority,” Lau said.

McKeon noted the prevalence of bias-related incidents on campus.

“Incidents have been happening at least once a semester … As a student I feel there could be more preventative measures, and if the next president were committed to these issues … it would set the tone for students to follow suit.”

—by Ellen Kan

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More students are choosing to become vegetarians for various reasons.

The men’s lacrosse team defeated Bowdoin in overtime to finish out the regular season.

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The Semester in Review

— compiled by Martha Shanahan, Amelie Hecht, Jenny White and Ellen Kan

Parties on edge A number of school events came under scrutiny following changes to their formatting and rules this semester.

Winter Bash was re-branded, moved off campus and made a ticketed event in the hopes of making it more upscale and potentially preventing alcohol-related problems. Questions were raised about whether money should be charged for a major campus-wide event and whether moving the event off campus deterred attendance.

The event itself, for the most part, however, ran smoothly, with few alcoholrelated incidents, except for a messy coat check situation that left students frustrated.

The steering committee after much discussion on March 11 announced that Spring Fling would be a completely dry event with students banned entirely from bringing alcohol into the concert.

The decision sparked a great deal of debate about whether it would worsen the problem of unsafe drinking, but initial statistical data from the event indicated that it was an improvement over last year’s mass-casualty incident.

Senior Pub Nights, which last semester were cancelled after excessive student misbehavior, also went smoothly and without incident.

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Movers and shakers University President Lawrence Bacow on Feb. 8 announced his decision to step down, effective June 2011, following the completion of a 10-year tenure in office.

A Presidential Search Committee, comprised of 13 representatives from a number of university constituencies, was formed in February. The committee in April held open forums on all the campuses to gather information and feedback from the community about what to look for in Bacow’s successor.

The Beyond Boundaries capital campaign, one of the hallmarks of Bacow’s tenure, reached a key milestone at the end of January, raising $1.05 billion to move it closer to its target of $1.2 billion.

The funds raised since the campaign’s inception in 2002 have been used to support students, strengthen the faculty and contribute to the endowment.

In other Bacow-related news, President Barack Obama in March appointed him to serve on the U.S. President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, which concentrates on helping to bolster the educational capacity and diversity at such institutions.

Bacow also endorsed in April the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants who moved to the United States before turning 16 to enroll in institutions of higher education or the military.

In other news related to administration changes, Dean of Arts and Sciences Robert Sternberg, who announced his decision not to seek a new term as dean last semester, accepted the position of provost and senior vice president at Oklahoma State University.

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Change in the works The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate worked with the administration and Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) to revise Tufts’ sexual policy, which has been criticized for being inadequate and unclear.

A Boston Globe report found that sexual assault perpetrators at 10 surveyed New England colleges and universities, including Tufts, often got off lightly or even unpunished. A revised policy with comprehensive guidelines has been in the works at Tufts and is expected to be ready by the beginning of next year.

The undergraduate and graduate student health insurance plans also underwent changes that increased coverage while raising costs slightly.

The Senate in February, following a request from the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, endorsed a rise in the on-campus housing commitment fee from $500 to $750 in order to stem increasing abuse of the housing system.

A move towards an online course evaluation system made progress when the Educational Policy Committee in March passed a resolution calling for a

number of changes. The resolution was eventually tabled due to debate over some of its provisions.

Possible changes to the Senate’s community representatives system and the broader issue of the body’s diversity representation were extensively debated. A task force was formed to consider the issue, and the two competing proposals emerging from that discussion were put to a campus-wide vote in April.

Both referenda passed, leaving the final decision up to the TCU Judiciary.

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Active citizenship in action

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Election dramatics This semester’s election season was an eventful one that saw multiple date changes, controversy and questionable practices.

The presidential race between juniors Sam Wallis and Lauren Levine took an interesting turn when Wallis returned from Israel, where he had been studying abroad, to campaign.

This led Tufts Election Commission (ECOM) to rule that Wallis had exceeded spending limits, which he appealed and accused ECOM of inappropriate conduct.

Questions were also raised about the two campaigns’ tactics, and some voiced unhappiness about the use of spray chalk in campaigning as well as

the use of treasury signatory lists to promote candidates.

Four referenda were originally put on the presidential ballot but saw their vote date changed three times due to appeals from parties who wanted to keep the original date to boost turnout and others who wanted it pushed back to allow for adequate advertising. The referenda were eventually put back on the first ballot following a last-minute decision.

Wallis eventually won the presidency with a campaign emphasizing serving students in a tangible way, while all four referenda, including two on community representatives, passed.

Students waited anxiously for news about members of the Tufts community in Haiti at the time of the devastating Jan. 7 earthquake. As information poured in confirming the safety of individuals, students and faculty rapidly

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mobilized to aid in relief efforts, which became a major theme in campus fundraisers.

A team of Fletcher students and other volunteers played a major role in crisis-mapping efforts, Theta Chi spent the

semester raising funds for Haiti, student groups participated in a Somerville fundraiser concert, and the Cause Dinner for Haiti at the two dining halls raised record amounts of money, among other efforts.

The community again awaited news about students studying abroad in Chile after the earthquake that hit the country at the end of February. All students were confirmed to be safe, and the Tufts-in-Chile program proceeded with only a minimal delay.

Students also took part in the relief efforts of Tufts Solidarity with Chile, working with other colleges to fundraise for victims.

Students and administrators also came out in great force to push for student participation in the 2010 Census in order to ensure that government offices have an accurate picture of the population to appropriately allocate funding.

On the environmental front, the trayless pilot took place in Carmichael Dining Hall to study the feasibility of removing trays from the dining halls to reduce the university’s environmental impact. A campaign also began to reduce paper waste on campus.

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Tearing it down Jumbos’ first weekend back on campus served as a bellwether for the rest of the semester. The weekend began with a citywide power outage caused by a fault in the main power line supplying service to the university. The Medford/Somerville campus was plunged into darkness for approximately three hours. Just a day later, a fire in a room in Miller Hall forced residents to evacuate.

Record heavy rains in mid-March across New England left much of campus underwater. Residents of many dorms, including Latin Way and Lewis, Wren and Haskell Halls experienced flooding. Other non-residential buildings like Lane and Bendetson Halls and the Aidekman Arts Center saw significant water leakages as well. A light fixture in the kitchen of 45 Sawyer Ave. also collapsed due to water damage.

The water damage also forced the closure of the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) house after rain compromised the fire alarm system. The closure made AEPi the second fraternity to have its residence shut down, as just a week earlier authorities had shut down the Delta Upsilon fraternity house due to significant health concerns including mold, water damage and damaged doors.

Brothers of both fraternities had to find alternative housing until their residences were cleared for reoccupation.

Tisch Library in April experienced two back-to-back evacuations. The first evacuation occurred following a fire scare when a machine failed. The following afternoon, a power outage caused by construction work in the library took place.

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Early reviews indicate this year’s Spring Fling went smoother than last year’s.

Many changes were implemented to improve Spring Fling this year SPRING FLING continued from page 1

to Tufts Emergency Medical Services ( TEMS) Advisor Geoffrey Bartlett. Only seven of the nine transports were related to alcohol.

Reitman noted that the cooler weather and free breakfast made available to all students before the event may have contributed to Spring Fling’s success.

Concert Board was equally pleased with the event’s success and overall student behavior.

“We feel it was incredibly successful, there were less alcohol-related incidents, people had a great time, we were very happy with the turnout, and overall we thought it was a very smooth event,” Concert Board Co-chair Theodore Finn, a freshman, said.

This year’s Spring Fling was made a completely dry event in a March 11 decision by the Steering Committee. Although it is too early to credit the new policy with improving student behavior and reducing medical emergencies, Golia believes that the elimination of alcohol from the event facilitated its management.

“Alcohol makes the event very difficult to manage,” Golia said. “For our staff, it’s easier to manage a massive event without the introduction of alcohol. From our perspective, [the policy] worked and we were really happy.”

Golia added that the elimination of alcohol from the event did not seem to affect student attendance.

Approximately 6,000 people attended the event — roughly 4,000 students and 2,000 guests.

“Students seemed to be just as happy because numbers were right up here,” Golia said.

Bartlett was unable to comment on the elimination of alcohol and its role in improving behavior. “Right now, it’s clear that fewer students than last year required medical attention, but at this point I cannot analyze what factors led to the reduction,” he said.

Golia believes Spring Fling will remain a dry event in the future, although he emphasized that Reitman and the Steering Committee will make the official decision.

“I don’t foresee the policy changing from the policy that was enacted this year,” Golia said. “OCL would support keeping [the alcohol policy] as it was this year.”

It is too early to make a decision about alcohol at next year’s Spring Fling, according to Reitman, who stressed that students’ views will play a major role in the decision.

“I personally don’t think you need alcohol to enjoy the concert, so my inclination is that if this model works, then this is what we should do,” Reitman said.

In response to last year’s overwhelming demand for emergency medical services, Bartlett and TEMS reviewed and adjusted their response plans in preparation for Saturday’s event.

The changes included creating treatment stations with ambulances both uphill and downhill, Bartlett said.

Furthermore, there were four TEMS teams stationed around the venue that responded on foot to calls.

“The idea was that if someone called for medical attention, a foot team could go into the venue and make contact with the patient, TEMS would be able to take them outside of the venue and to a treatment center, where EMS personnel were stationed and could do a more thorough evaluation,” Bartlett said.

Due to the unexpected demand for emergency services last year, emergency services teams from the surrounding communities had to be deployed, according to Bartlett. This year’s revised plan called for sufficient emergency services to be at the event.

“Our goal in designing our response plan was to provide enough EMS capability on campus so that we didn’t need to draw upon local ambulances, and we met that goal,” Bartlett said.

Concert Board also implemented a few changes to this year’s Spring Fling. The stage’s location was slightly shifted, and a new type of barricade was used to help with crowd control, according to Finn.

“We used more sound and lights, and it was hugely successful,” Finn said. “There were no major problems, and [Spring Fling] went off without a hitch.”

The water being temporarily supplied from Chestnut Hill Reservoir is safe for bathing and washing hands but is less sanitary than regular tap water because Chestnut Hill is an open reservoir, exposed to contamination by animals, according to Convery.

The aqueduct to which the resevoir provides supplies is also dirty and has not been used in 40 years, she added.

“The water is not treated in quite the same way as the water we usually receive, so they’re being a little cautious,” Senior Director of Public and Environmental Safety John King said. “There is believed to be some bacteria in the water.”

Replacement of the damaged coupling and further testing is scheduled for completion by Monday, according to Convery. The MWRA will then begin sanitizing and sampling the water in coordination with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

King said that Tufts is preparing for the water shortage situation to outlast MWRA’s most optimistic predictions. “We’re trying to be prepared for about a week here,” he said.

He said students living in offcampus apartments with kitchens are encouraged to boil their water for one minute before usage, while measures are being taken to provide students in on-campus residence halls with clean water.

“We’d prefer if you have the ability to boil and make the water safe yourself, it will make less of a demand on supply,” King said, “There’s a major strain on the water supply in general.”

Boiled water is available at both dining halls, and bottled water is available at the Mayer Campus Center and the Tower Café, according to Director of

Dining and Business Services Patricia Klos.

Technical Services Manager Geoffrey Bartlett said that an emergency management group, led by King, is continuing to meet regularly to coordinate the university’s crisis response.

An emergency planning meeting was held yesterday morning with administrators to assess the university’s needs, according to King.

Two emergency alert text messages were sent out Saturday, alerting students to the situation and directing them to Tufts’ and MWRA’s websites for more information. E-mail updates were also sent out throughout yesterday.

“The information that we’re trying to get to people is not something you can put in a text message,” King said.

A website, emergency.tufts. edu/water, has also been set up, on which further announcements will be posted. There is also a form for students to post questions, feedback and concerns.

The water situation poses a challenge for Dining Services.

Fountain soda, filtered water and the juice machines cannot be used, Klos said. Dining Services has bought portion packs to make lemonade, ice tea and juice.

Though unavailable this weekend, limited amounts of coffee will be provided, according to Klos. She added that the kitchens will operate using paper utensils and dishes because the quantity makes it difficult to heat enough water to clean them.

“We do have ways to sanitize or sterilize cooking equipment, but for dishes, we’re going to use paper products,” Klos said.

Bartlett said that many aspects beyond hygiene and dining will potentially be impacted by the water shortage. “Research, for example, might be affected,” Bartlett said.

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The dining halls have been providing boiled water for students to use during the shortage.

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that space by guerilla means.”

Will Ramsdell, a junior in the class, explained that they are going to use the empty space next to Metcalf Hall and over the three days of reading period will have students discuss topics of interest to them.

“We’d like to have a new school, something called the Tufts New School,” Ramsdell said.

“For the most part … we’re liberal arts students. We sit around talking about stuff we know and care about from class, but it doesn’t happen nearly as much as it ought to. So we’d like to take the coolest readings and topics we’ve studied and give them more attention.”

Maya Grodman, a freshman in the class, added that students hope to promote interaction.

“One of the main problems in our society is

how people seem closed off and comfortable in their own lives — that makes them form closed-off social walls,” Grodman said. “We’re creating our own 24-hour space on campus where people can meet other students and break down the social walls we’ve created.”

Another goal is to creatively merge art into the performance project.

“This can be considered as an art project but yet also a serious part of the life of the student body at Tufts … There are no borders between art, life and politics,” Kohout said.

“Another mission is to have art be part of everything that happens there,” Ramsdell said. “From the constructing itself to the way we decorate it will be art. We’re using crafts center resources and resources around campus.”

Ramsdell noted the possibility that the class’ actions could draw the attention of officials.

“Our plan is to go out to this spot, sleep there, do art there, for three days straight during reading period,” Ramsdell said.

“There’s a fairly legitimate concern that we may be arrested. I would be ashamed if that did not happen to me once before I graduated.”

The class has put together a petition calling for support for opening up a space for students to “define and operate.”

The petition explains the motivation behind the class’ act, saying that “As Tufts students, we have no SPACE to call our own. That which Tufts provides … is over-regulated and fails to address many of the needs and desires of its students and faculty.”

Ramsdell feels that the administration has too much control over the university, which manifests in rules concerning the usage of university space, including common rooms.

“It’s not a university by the students and faculty but a university run by the administrative individual,” Ramsdell said. “Every single space on campus has a closing time, an administrative official running it and policies restricting what kind of activities can happen there.”

While the space is starting out as a temporary construct, class members hope that it will eventually lead to a permanent structure for students to use.

“While this space is going to be temporary, what we want people to know is that what we’re asking for eventually is a real space for students,” Ramsdell said. “We’ve been telling people to watch out; there will be this new building on campus. We’re hoping that [this location] becomes a visible shock that we need this.”

Jenny White contributed reporting to this article.

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Students cite a variety of reasons for switching to a greener diet.

Veggie Tales: The pros and cons of not eating meat at Tufts BY

MARY BETH GRIGGS Daily Editorial Board

People who decide to eat less meat are becoming increasingly common in the United States, as well as on the Tufts campus. A 2007 poll by Harris Interactive found that the number of teen vegetarians had tripled since 1997.

Those who decide to become vegetarians do so for a variety of reasons, ranging from ethical to environmental.

For freshman Noa Naftali, it is a clear-cut ethical issue. “I became grossed out by the way animals are treated to produce commercial meat,” Naftali said. “I am not even a big animal person, but I do believe that there is a clear line between right and wrong when it comes to raising animals for meat.

And I do believe that it is totally natural for humans to eat meat; we have been eating meat since forever. But in the past, we raised animals on farms, where they lived normal animal lives before being given the boot.

The way we do a lot of it now is just so vulgar and reductive.”

Naftali has been a vegetarian since her junior year of high school and is one of many Jumbos who came here already following a vegetarian lifestyle. Senior Courtney Morrissey has been a vegetarian since eighth grade and cited her love of animals as the reason she stopped eating meat. However, she has been encouraged to continue with the pattern based on the environmental impact of raising

meat in this country.

“It wasn’t until after I’d been a vegetarian for a few years that I started reading more about it and felt even more strongly about it,” Morrissey said. “I think the environmental factor is huge. People try to negate it by saying that organic, free-range, grass-fed beef exists, but people typically don’t buy it.”

Environmental issues can greatly influence people to become vegetarians. For senior David Gainsboro, who became a vegetarian 11 months ago, it was the driving motivation to make the switch.

“It was really the energy issues,” Gainsboro said. “The problem is that in our country, we’re not even feeding our cows grass — we feed our cows corn. Corn is grown with incredible amounts of pesticides and oilbased products, so you’re basically just putting oil into these animals.”

He had been previously unaffected by arguments that it should be an ethical choice. “The moral dilemma just doesn’t play a role for me,” Gainsboro said.

Alice Lichtenstein, director and senior scientist of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts, and the Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Friedman School of Nutrition, said that college is not at all a bad time to become a vegetarian. She added that as long as all nutritional needs are met, a vegetarian lifestyle isn’t any different than any

other form of dietary pattern. “[College] is not an inappropriate time to do it,” Lichtenstein said. “You still have to consume your fruits and vegetables. You could be a vegetarian and eat french fries and diet sodas, but that’s not the recommendation.”

Lichtenstein listed many different kinds of vegetarians and vegetarian lifestyles. Pescetarians eat fish but no other meat or poultry, ovo-lacto-vegetarians eat milk and egg products but no meat, and vegans do not eat animal products at all. In addition to the above groups, many people follow guidelines that make the most sense for them. The term “flexitarian” has been coined for people who occasionally eat meat. Flexitarianism is still considered by many to be part of the vegetarian hierarchy.

“I do eat local meat,” Gainsboro said.

“For Thanksgiving, I got a locally-raised turkey, and I cooked it very carefully, and I ate it. I was there with a vegetarian and vegan, and they ate it too.”

Though being a vegetarian is a personal choice, it can affect how others perceive this choice. Some are welcoming and accommodating of the different diet choices, and some are not.

“I participate in a dinner rotation with my friends, and I have never had an issue see VEGETARIANS, page 6

BY THE NUMBERS | VEGETARIANISM 7.3 million: Americans who are vegetarians 1 million: Americans who are vegans 47 percent: Percentage of vegetarians who cite environmental concerns as a factor in their decision to be a vegetarian 53 percent: Percentage of vegetarians who cite personal health as a factor in their decision 54 percent: Percentage of vegetarians who cite animal welfare as a factor in their decision 5 points: Average number of points higher a 10-year-old who later became vegetarian scored higher on an IQ test than one who remained an omnivore, according to a 2006 study One-Fifth: Fraction of greenhouse gasses caused by livestock production Sources: Vegetarian Times BBC News.com Guardian.co.uk —compiled by Alexa Sasanow and Carter Rogers

erris Bueller once waxed poetically, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” OK, OK, I’ll save my favorite clichéd movie lines and general college sappiness for my FOCUS kiddies and sophomore friends who mistakenly ask me about how it feels to be graduating in less than a month.

Let’s face it — either you’re an underclassman who’s heard similarly nostalgic lines from older friends or you’re a senior who can’t stop thinking about your last Spring Fling or bowl of dining hall butternut bisque.

In the spirit of “lasts,” in my final Monday column, I’m going to take a minute to look around and reflect on what I overanalyze best and babble on about most: dating.

Four years of college have flown by just like everyone told me that they would — I don’t know where senior year went. But at the same time, the beginning of freshman year seems like forever ago — I feel like I was a little kid back in 2006.

My wide-eyed, naïve, 17-year-old self didn’t go on a single date freshman year. Nope. I was the hallmate who wandered into friends’ rooms on Sunday mornings with goofball stories that began with, “Guys, you’ll never guess what happened to me last night...” I got tangled up in brief pseudo-relationships, dance floor make-outs and other optimistic yet unrequited crushes.

But like history or classics majors trying to get unrelated jobs, I liberal arts-ified and critically analyzed my experiences so I could apply them more broadly. KiddingI just read too far into my text messages.

A lot of people complain that they don’t know how to date. But no one else really knows how to either — it’s just taking pieces of related experiences, playing it by ear and hoping someone else is on the same page that you are. There aren’t any dating experts, and even if there were, they’d have some serious credibility issues if they were single.

Actually, I learned many lessons about approaching relationships from my unsuccessful, non-date freshman-year experiences, several of which have resurfaced in this column my senior year.

For example, my first year of college, I learned that good decisions take a few questions into consideration, mid-date or prehookup. Am I enjoying this right now? Will I be OK if this situation doesn’t work out in the long run? What am I going to think tomorrow or next week? Or even, is this worth it for a good story?

Similarly, I recognized that some people can navigate the friends-with-benefits situation, but I’m not one of them. If you like someone enough to consistently hook up with them, why wouldn’t you consider them relationship-potential? And if you don’t like them that much, why hook up with them?

There are plenty of people who can separate the two, but you need to figure out if you’re one of them.

I realized (occasional flings aside) that I’m only interested in guys who also make an effort to go on adventures outside the dorm room. It’s also tough to get to know someone if you don’t just hang out — hence why I like going on dates.

Last, I found that a proportional response strategy trumps “playing hard to get.” When someone you like calls when they said they would and shows interest, you can reciprocate without worrying about coming on too strongly. It’s much easier for both sides when they’re upfront from the beginning. If you’re interested, return your text messages like you would do for a friend. If you don’t respond, the other person will get the picture eventually — it’s easy.

Throwing all of this together, I think that it’s similar to writing a literature review for a project. Like trying to synthesize a dozen articles for a research paper, you learn a lot about dating by drawing on different sources, making conclusions, then evaluating your research see MARETSKY, page 6

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Advice for Rising Seniors The members of the class of 2010 are nearing their final days on the Hill. What advice do graduating seniors have for rising seniors?

“This is the last eight-to-nine months of being together with your friends in such a close environment where you can easily get together with them. You won’t as easily be able to meet someone for coffee or a drink or go out together at night or to a bar, so make the most of that and make the efforts to spend time with each other, because once you’re geographically more spread out, it’s harder to see each other.”

—Raoul Alwani

“Be as involved as possible and don’t turn down any opportunities to be involved in projects and activities. Don’t let your work interfere too much with the time you have left. You’re going to remember going out with friends rather than writing a paper.”

—Hayley Kamin

“Enjoy the time that you have left here because senior year goes by really fast, and I’m already surprised it’s here, so just take your time and enjoy the last few months you’re here at school.”

—Nicole Slaughter

“I would suggest that seniors talk to their advisors as soon as possible about different avenues to access in terms career options, about how [their advisors] came to their particular job, different networking tools they could use and just advice about career options and where to go.”

—Sarah Cleary

“Put all your harder classes first semester so that second semester doesn’t suck as much.”

—Katie Houstle

“Enjoy first semester and try not to stress too much about jobs because it will fall into place eventually.”

—Adam Frank

“Start your job search early.”

—Jeremy Haber

Students deal with the consequences of going green VEGETARIANISM continued from page 5

with vegetarian options,” Morrissey said.

“They like to be creative in cooking, and will let me know ahead of time what the meat/ vegetable ratio of the meal will be. Other, lessdear people are often not so understanding.

I’ve been quizzed on every ‘would you eat meat if ...’ scenario and certainly made fun of, but I think it’s mostly defensive behavior. A lot of people think I am out to convert them, or that I’ll throw red paint on them. But I’m just open to have a discussion about it — I think personal choice is the most important thing,” Morrissey said.

Gainsboro has had similar experiences.

“My friends call me a vagina-tarian,” he said.

“Some of them have taken offense to me having become a vegetarian and take it as a personal affront to [them being omnivores].

I don’t mean it as an insult, I just think it would be good if everyone just reflected on the implications of eating meat. I don’t like to proselytize. If people ask, I’ll tell them why I’m a vegetarian, but I don’t broadcast it at all. One of my friends has redoubled his consumption of meat as a result of my meat decrease,”

Gainsboro said.

Despite these less-than-enthusiastic reactions, being a vegetarian is in some ways becoming mainstream.

“I think being a vegetarian now is a lot easier than it used to be because there are always vegetarian options when you go out, or eat in the dining halls, or go to the supermarket,” Lichtenstein said.

However, the options in the dining hall may not provide enough options for vegetarians to fight off dietary deficiencies commonly associated with their eating habits.

“The dining halls do have some vegetarian options, but they are limited,” Naftali said.

“Suffice it to say that I have been on a steady diet of veggie burgers this year. However, midfall semester, I found out that I had become quite, quite anemic. So that’s been tough — trying to remain a vegetarian and be healthy,” Naftali said.

“The options at Dewick and Carmichael are pretty bad, which is frustrating,” Gainsboro said. “But if you can make your own food I think it’s really easy, and it’s cheap. I mean generally it’s cheaper being a vegetarian than buying meat.”

Looking back at four years of Tufts dating MARETSKY continued from page 5

questions or what you’re looking for datingwise. Tisch is full of books to cite, just like Tufts is full of potential dates. Or hookups, or whatever; decide for yourself!

As early as freshman year, it was apparent that I’m a sappy date kind of person who tries to tease way more logic out of emotional situations than is, well, logical.

If only I had taken a class in behavioral economics…

During the course of this year, I had plenty of real dating adventures to apply my unpolished logic to, learn from and write about, thanks to my friends and the guys who willingly or unwittingly provided column fodder. All of you guys who read my column were like research advisors who covered my papers in red ink and sent me back to the drawing board.

I originally hoped that this column would discuss a few dating-related topics that people think about in the shower or daydream about

in class. However, the reason these topics are tricky to write about is because they have no right answers and are all opinion based — it’s impossible not to take a side.

If dating and relationships were simple, we wouldn’t waste time agonizing about the next move or planning dates. I’ve been guilty of violating my own column advice a few times because even if you know what you “should” do, it’s tough to follow through.

I don’t know too much about post-graduation dating or meeting guys outside of class or clubs, but I’m crossing my fingers that college experiences translate into “real world” lessons as well as freshman stories did into senior year.

See you guys in the commencement issue; otherwise, say hi if you ever see me awkwardly trying to flirt in a bar next year.

Emily is a senior majoring in engineering psychology. She can be reached at Emily.

Maretsky@tufts.edu.

“You should take a yoga class. I took a yoga class and it was really great and relaxing and was something I couldn’t get into not as a senior.”

—Annie Jacob

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ARTS FEATURE

Strong emotions, compelling films screened at Boston’s Independent Film Festival BY

ZACH DRUCKER AND CATHERINE SCOTT Daily Editorial Board

The eighth annual Independent Film Festival of Boston ended last Wednesday at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, concluding a run of great films that screened at various art house theaters throughout the week. The Daily writers got to see a few more films before the festival ended: “The Killer Inside Me” (2010): In a small west Texas town, the young Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is a well-respected man. He has been known as a good boy all his life, and he is seemingly a true Southern gentleman. Though he lives in a small community, no one knows the truth about Lou’s dark past. When he was a young boy, he sexually assaulted a young girl, but his adoptive brother, Mike, took the blame and went to prison. As deputy sheriff, Lou is sent on a call to try and run the prostitute Joyce Lakeland ( Jessica Alba) out of town. Though Lou has a girlfriend, the schoolteacher Amy Stanton (Kate Hudson), he begins an aggressive sexual relationship with Joyce and plots to exact revenge on the local construction magnate, Chester Conway (Ned Beatty), for the alleged murder of Mike. One murder leads to the next until Lou finds himself tangled in a ghastly web of death.

Based on the eponymous 1952 pulp fiction classic written by Jim Thompson, “The Killer Inside Me” highlights Affleck’s acting prowess but fails as a film. Despite a stellar cast and great cinematography, director Michael Winterbottom insults Thompson’s original novel by overemphasizing carnal sadomasochism and graphic violence. The viewer is in a constant state of cringing agony as Affleck moves from one gruesome murder to the next in a Western-style “American Psycho” (2000).

In fact, prior screenings have led to an uproar among audiences and Alba even walked out of the Sundance premiere due to the brutality of the film.

Though there are several grisly scenes, the film’s most harrowing scene fol-

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Jessica Alba stars in a cowboy drama that’s no match for “No Country for Old Men”(2007). lows Affleck as he proceeds to senselessly beat Alba in the face until she slips into a coma. For viewers, “The Killer Inside Me” is overly intense and vicious, squandering an opportunity to compare to “No Country for Old Men” (2007) as the next great Texas-based crime thriller.

“Marwencol” (2010): This documentary screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the South End to an almost-packed theater. The story focuses on Mark Hogancamp, a middleaged man who was beaten so viciously outside a club one night that he suffered severe brain damage. Not able to afford the necessary therapies to recover, Hogancamp decided to build an entire world named Marwencol in his backyard using dolls. Hogancamp’s experiment becomes intertwined with his real life so much that it starts to take over, until outsiders begin to see his project as a beautiful story and inspiring art.

Director Jeff Malmberg handles

Fifteen months in studio result in ‘High Violet’

BY JOSH

ZEIDEL

The members of indie-rock band The National can’t agree on anything. For its upcoming fifth album — “High Violet,”

High Violet The National

ing some critical acclaim for the latter album, The National signed with Beggars Banquet Records for its next two LP’s, “Alligator” (2005) and “Boxer” (2007).

These two albums saw The National really hit its stride in the studio, earning high praise from the Los Angeles Times, Pitchfork Media, New Music Express (NME) and Paste Magazine. The see NATIONAL, page 9

4AD Records due out May 11 — the band did more than 80 takes on one song alone. But this attention to detail and obsession with finding the perfect sound makes “High Violet” a reverberating masterpiece.

The National formed in 1999 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Lead singer Matt Berninger and bassist Scott Devendorf began to make songs on a small eight-track recording console. In need of a drummer, they called Scott’s brother, Bryan Devendorf.

He then suggested identical twin guitarists Aaron and Bryce Dressner to fill out the band.

The National then released a self-titled debut in 2001 and a follow-up called “Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers” (2003) on its own Brassland Records label. After gain-

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Hogancamp’s story perfectly, drawing attention solely to his life and his progress in getting back to the real world. The film flip-flops between Hogancamp’s real life and the ongoing narrative story of Marwencol and its characters, drawing the viewer into Hogancamp’s life completely. The film won an award at last month’s South by Southwest festival and followed up with a Special Jury Prize from IFFBoston because of its emotional, amusing portrayal of one man trying to survive after a traumatic event.

“Micmacs” (2010): There was quite a fuss over this year’s closing film, as it was scheduled to be James Franco’s documentary “Saturday Night” — until at the last minute, the program directors were informed that it couldn’t be shown.

Thankfully, they quickly pulled together and got French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s new film “Micmacs.” Jeunet is most famous for directing the quirky see FESTIVAL, page 8

GALLERY REVIEW

‘Signs’ displays work of local children BY

ADAM KULEWICZ

Daily Editorial Board

Visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) may be surprised to see a wall-sized installation of brightly painted

Signs and Symbols: The Community Arts Initiative Artist Project At the Linde Family Wing, through Sept. 6 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 465 Huntington Ave., Boston 617-267-9300

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panels with phrases like “Save Our World” and “Bro-Fist” a few feet away from an exhibition of photographs by American photographer Harry Callahan. Because they were created by local children after their visits to the museum, however, these panels seem well placed, and display a side of art creation not commonly on view

“High Violet” is the result of lots of effort in the studio.

see SIGNS, page 9

know very little about Minnesota.

I know that Minnesota was admitted to the Union in May of 1858 as the 32nd state, and its name is derived from the Dakota Indian word meaning “skytinted water,” an origin that is reflected in the state’s motto, “Land of 10,000 Lakes.”

I know that Minnesotans have a distinct way of speaking. I know that those from Minneapolis think that they’re better than those from St. Paul. I know that it is very, very cold in Minnesota.

All of this I learned from a few Minnesotan friends and from Wikipedia.com.

From personal experience, I know that there are a lot of Minnesotans in Europe.

This is weird because no one in the United States is from Minnesota. Well, almost no one: Though Minnesota comes in as the 12th largest state in the United States, its population comprises a mere 1.5 percent of the total population of the nation.

Oh, and I know one more thing: All children in Minnesota are racial profilers.

Children in Minnesota, just like children everywhere else in the world, play games for socialization, recreation and edification. One of the most popular games played by children worldwide is “Duck, Duck, Goose.” This game involves sitting in a circle and having one person walk around the circle patting each player on the head naming him or her either “Duck” or “Goose.” The Ducks simply get to sit and wait for a Goose to be named. When someone is named Goose, he has to get up and chase the namer. If the namer gets back to the Goose’s seat before he is caught by the Goose, the Goose is the new namer. If not, play continues as before until there is a new namer, ad nauseam.

“Duck, Duck, Goose” is a silly game but it teaches children to pay attention and run quickly. In Minnesota, however, the nefarious element of racism is added to this quintessential children’s game. Rather than “Duck, Duck, Goose,” children in Minnesota play “Duck, Duck, Gray Duck.”

I am not even making this up.

While “Duck, Duck, Goose” is a bit racialized as is, changing the foundation from “Animal, Animal, Different Animal Altogether” to “Animal, Animal, Different Color of the Same Animal” just hits too close to home. If home were a racist.

What if the game were “American, American, Minnesotan?” They probably wouldn’t like that one bit.

Battle lines have been drawn and the debate has been raged (and researched), and it seems as though Minnesota is the only bizarro-Twilight Zone where this beloved game has been so deeply perverted. There really isn’t anything wrong with “Duck, Duck, Goose” but there is something deeply disturbing about “Duck, Duck, Gray Duck.”

I don’t mean any offense to Minnesotans, but I can’t, for the life of me, think of any reason that “Gray Duck” is preferable to “Goose” — they even start with the same letter!

After the election of Barack Obama, we were told that we were living in a postracial world. Since that historic election, events have proved, time and again, that we don’t actually live in this ideal world yet, although we are getting much closer.

Minnesota’s population is a tapestry of ethnicities: Scandinavians, Native Americans, Africans, Latin Americans and Asians live in unity, all tolerating the frigid winters together (most likely too bundled up for racial differences to matter), all enjoying lovely summers at scenic lakes (one lake per 500 people, give or take) together.

They love each other, so why do they have to pick on the gray ducks?

Duck, Duck, Gray Duck: 0 out of 5 stars

Mitchell Geller is a junior majoring in psychology and English. He can be reached at Mitchell.Geller@tufts.edu.

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Monday, May 3, 2010

MOVIE REVIEW

‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ reboot adds nothing to franchise BY

KEITH HINTON

Daily Staff Writer

The trailer for “A Nightmare on Elm Street” gives every horror movie fan exactly what he or she is

A Nightmare on Elm Street Starring Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara and Kellan Lutz Directed by Samuel Bayer looking for. The adept viewer may even recognize Jackie Earle Haley’s raspy voice as the menacing Freddy Krueger and remember his creepy-but-cool performance as Rorschach in the film “Watchmen” (2009). Haley’s distinctive growl on a brutal snatch of dialogue — “Why are you screaming? I haven’t even cut you yet” — allowed even

the most diehard horror fan to think this remake would have the potential to revitalize a franchise worn down by countless generic and forgettable sequels.

Unfortunately, the 2010 version of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (the original was released in 1984) works much better in trailer form than as a full-length feature. Director Samuel Bayer and producer Michael Bay prove once again that in their minds, slick direction and special effects replace inspired cinematic vision, making this “Elm Street” a by-thenumbers, underwhelming remake that will be better known for the potential it squandered than for its few merits.

“A Nightmare on Elm Street” stays true to the original film’s plot, a tale that is beautiful in its simplicity. The children who live on Elm Street in Springwood, Ohio, are having nightmares about a burned man in a red-and-green striped sweater

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Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger haunts teenagers in the remake of a horror film classic. and a glove with knives for fingers.

Several of the teens believe that these dreams are responsible for the apparent suicide of one of their friends, Dean Russell (Kellan Lutz).

As the movie progresses, the chil-

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“A Nightmare on Elm Street” fails to stand out in the genre.

dren discover that the man in their nightmares is Freddy Krueger, a former child abuser who terrorized them in preschool and who has returned from the grave to avenge his death, which was at the hands of the children’s parents. As the body count rises, Nancy Holbrook (Rooney Mara) and Quentin O’Grady (Kyle Gallner) must find a way to stop Freddy before their insomnia and hallucinations allow him into their waking world.

The original “A Nightmare on Elm Street” had advantages over similar horror franchises like “Friday the 13th” (1980) and “Halloween” (1978). Freddy Krueger has the potential to truly strike fear into the minds of audiences because he taps into a primal fear of all humans: that of nightmares, in which there are no rules. And perhaps most importantly, people can’t outrun their nightmares. Sooner or later, everyone must sleep.

Unfortunately, Bayer horribly fails to exploit the psychological effect of nightmares. The film makes a point, divergent to the original film, that after staying awake for more than 70 hours, human beings begin to experience “micronaps,” which are essentially waking dreams. This adds an intriguing race against the

clock that the original film lacked.

However, Bayer falls short in portraying these hallucinations. The film never disorients the audience, nor does it inspire viewers to question what is real. Even with more visually stunning special effects, the remake fails to capture the paranoia and psychological strain of the original film.

The acting in “Elm Street” is hardly worth mentioning. The characters killed off early in the film are essentially walking pieces of scenery, though they are nice to look at. Lutz and Gallner do decent jobs with their characters, and Haley delivers a creepy performance as Krueger. But the acting, while certainly not strong, is not the film’s biggest problem.

The overall effect is not of “Elm Street” being a bad movie. It is simply perfectly average and completely forgettable. Baley and Bay — who also produced the horrible “Friday the 13th” (2009) remake — seem to not understand the difference between a movie that startles and a movie that scares.

Anyone can make a movie that is startling. It’s as simple as having a character jump on screen at the same time as cymbal crash on the musical score. But it takes a vision, and inspired directing, to make a film scary.

TV REVIEW

‘Happy Town’ riddled with eeriness, fails to grab interest BY

REBECCA GOLDBERG Daily Editorial Board

To promote its new dramamystery series “Happy Town,” ABC has been using the arch slo-

Happy Town Starring Geoff Stults, Amy Acker, Steven Weber, Sam Neill Airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on ABC gan, “Don’t let the name fool you.”

On Twitter.com last week, Sam Simon (one of the creators of “The Simpsons”) quipped, “Hey, ABC, if your promo has to be, ‘Don’t let the name fool you,’ maybe ‘Happy Town’ isn’t such a good name.”

The show, which attempts to create intrigue from a vague murder mystery and random suspicious behavior, fails to live up to any of the sly disquietude its name attempts to evoke.

“Happy Town” takes a lot of its cues from the landmark series “Twin Peaks” (1990-1991), in that a seemingly innocent character moves to a quirky small town where everything is slightly off. Years prior, the town of Haplin, Minn., had been ravaged by a mysterious figure called the Magic Man, who caused a handful of Haplin residents to disappear without a trace. Now, following a strange murder — the town’s first in

years — the Magic Man may or may not have returned to wreak some kind of havoc on some of the many characters the show introduces.

The fresh-faced Henley (Lauren German), who is Haplin’s newest citizen, has told everyone that her mother recently passed away, and she plans to use her inheritance to open a candle shop. However — unsurprisingly — Henley isn’t as innocent as she seems; the end of the pilot reveals that her real name is Chloe, which links her to the strange outbursts of the town’s sheriff (MC Gainey). Meanwhile, the sheriff’s son, Tommy (Geoff Stults), has, of course, some kind of unsavory past that he’s trying to leave behind with the help of his wife (Amy Acker) and young daughter (Sophia Ewaniuk).

Though Tommy perhaps gets the most screen time, the “Happy Town” pilot spends so much time establishing the shiny-with-a-veinof-spooky tone of Haplin that it forgets to appoint a protagonist.

Instead, a handful of characters are introduced with only the task of being off-putting. The innkeeper, Dot (Lynne Griffin), is the textbook sweet-but-eerie old lady who really, really doesn’t want Henley checking out the third floor. Sam Neill slums it as the stately boarder who intones all of his dialogue, relying on his British accent to do the scaring. John Haplin (Steven Weber), the magnate who owns the bread factory that drives the town’s economy, definitely has something up

his sleeve, judging by his wild mane of hair and unhinged wife.

In order to make things frightening, the writers throw in everything but the kitchen sink. A strange symbol — a question mark with a halo — is aligned with the Magic Man and then reappears as a tattoo on Henley’s shoulder, á la the “single helix” on “Heroes.” The sheriff has no memory of his strange visions, which eventually turn violent. And, just in case the audience gets bored, there’s even a “Romeo and Juliet”type love story between Haplin’s son and Tommy’s daughter’s babysitter.

It’s hard to care about any of these plotlines, and not just because there’s no audience surrogate to latch onto. The writing on the pilot is so laden with clumsy exposition, empty spookiness and weak humor that none of the characters even really talk like humans.

Presumably, the exposition will ease up after the first couple episodes, but there’s nothing in the pilot that indicates the writers will ever let viewers think for themselves. Even the score, which ramps up every time the sheriff has a vision, seems to tell the audience how to feel.

“Happy Town” may well develop into an interesting mystery when the Magic Man and his (or her) evil plan become clearer. At this point in the season, however, the narrative needs to be distilled and find its footing. To be successful, this show can’t simply be every slowburning mystery series — it has to be unique.

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“Happy Town” is really more creepy than happy.

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in the MFA’s galleries.

“Signs and Symbols: The Community Arts Initiative Artist Project” is on view until Sept.

6 in the entry area of the Linde Family Wing. It features hundreds of painted wooden panels created by local children from eight community centers around Boston, who visited the MFA to tour its collection with artist Caleb Neelon.

As the exhibition’s introduction explains, during their visits to the MFA, the youth groups searched the collection “for the paring of text and images” in works ranging from ancient to contemporary art. After their visits, they painted their own messages on wooden boards of varying sizes, which were then assembled and installed on a large wall.

The signs are an explosion of colorful messages and are arranged to cover the entire wall on which they are displayed. Although there is no standard size or composition of the boards, the majority of them feature a painted message in or near the center surrounded by a brightly colored pattern or background.

According to the exhibition’s introduction, the show is intended to explore the “basic human impulse: to send a written message to people one will never meet.” It continues: “Just as important is the impulse to make those messages look cool in order to stand out,” and the vast array of painted words demonstrates the young artists’ attempts to make their panels stand out from the rest.

The messages range from expressions of gratitude to the museum for the opportunity to interact with its art to professions of love for food. Among the most notable of the brightly painted messages are, “Hey U with

the Face!!,” “ABC What are letter,” and “Got Dorito’s? (The MFA won’t allow ’em.)” As a result of these, and many other such phrases, the exhibition is extremely amusing.

Though many of the messages are lighthearted, others evoke more subdued and occasionally distressing emotions than one would hope children would have experienced such as, “Who would win the fight: Love or Anger” and “Summer is Painful.”

Panels such as these are randomly spread throughout the installation and cause the viewer to reflect on the lives of these young artists. In addition, they make the overall experience of the brightly colored wall very compelling.

Another notable aspect of this exhibition is its setup in the modern entry area of the Linde Family Wing. For many years, this space served as the main entrance to the MFA and was one of its most heavily trafficked wings.

Now, as a result of the museum’s ongoing renovation campaign, the entrance has been closed to the general public and the space has become relatively quiet.

The design of the former entry area is relatively simple and consists of clean lines and smooth surfaces. It is also largely monochromatic and has been in need of some form of color, particularly as works formerly on display there have been rearranged as part of the renovation.

The brightly colored panels of this exhibition provide exactly the right profusion of color needed and seem to complete the space.

In their remarkable diversity of message and design, they can be at once both amusing and thought-provoking and are unique because they demonstrate the importance of children (and all visitors) viewing and interacting with the museum’s enormous collection in their own individual ways.

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Artist Caleb Neelon in front of the “Signs and Symbols” exhibit.

Drumming elevates ‘High Violet’ NATIONAL continued from page 7

increased exposure led to a tour with Modest Mouse and R.E.M. in 2008.

The National switched to the 4AD label, a Beggars Banquet subsidiary, for the upcoming “High Violet,” though the group is once again working with Peter Katis, who produced both “Alligator” and “Boxer.”

Although the band originally intended for this newest release to be light and catchy, “High Violet” delivers much of The National’s usual melancholia-tinged, reverbridden rock. The (literally) twin guitars of the Dressner brothers intertwine in spacious, echoing phrases above an engaging rhythm section. Over it all rumble Berninger’s laconic phrases: His weary baritone delivers vaguely insightful sentiments gleaned from three-and-a-half decades of middle-class life in Cincinnati and New York City.

But life in the very middle of the middle-American Dream might be more emotionally taxing than previously expected:

“Sorrow found me when I was young/ Sorrow waited, sorrow won/ Sorrow that put me on the pills/ It’s in my honey, it’s in my milk,” Berninger laments on the album’s second track, appropriately titled “Sorrow.”

Where did the “light” and the “fun” go? Into more than 15 months spent in the recording sessions, behind the mixing board and at the mastering studio. With five different, stubbornly passionate points of view on each song, The National has spared no amount of time or effort in the creation of each track, and it shows on “High Violet.” Most tracks feature an elaborate instrumental arrangement, with a veritable parade of woodwinds and brass horns subtly adding to the basic rock template, not to mention choruses of ghostly, atmospheric backing vocals.

But the real hero of The National has to be Bryan Devendorf, whose innovative rhythmic patterns drive the songs in fascinating directions while simultaneously injecting muchneeded exuberance. He synco-

pates a rapid-fire, kick drum and snare pattern that drives the piano-tinged “Bloodbuzz Ohio.”

But Bryan Devendorf also knows when to fall into the background, and he minimizes his presence on some of the more laid-back tracks, especially the slow, acoustic “Runaway.”

Some songs on “High Violet” stun with their careful, shimmering arrangements, but others take a more lo-fi approach, as on “Lemonworld.” After doing 80 takes of this song, The National decided that the best version was one of the most basic. By contrast, the introduction to “England” plays like it was arranged, recorded and produced for a particularly anthemic Coldplay song. On the whole, the sounds of “High Violet” bear remarkable similarities not to the Brit-pop band, but to those of fellow New York indie-rock band Interpol. Yet The National produces a more textured, subtle effort than Interpol, and occasionally, if the group really works at it, something a little more upbeat.

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The documentary “Marwencol,” which was shown at the Independent Film Festival, delves into the world of Mark Hogancamp.

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“Amélie” (2001).

This film is about a young man, Bazil, who decides to get revenge on two arms dealers after his father is killed by one company’s land mine and he himself is accidentally shot by the other’s bullets. He is taken in by an odd family of misfits who live in a landfill, and all have some sort of special talent — for example, one girl can tell any measurement just by looking at something — creating a silly, “X-Men”-like family.

The film is visually stunning,

but the real heart of the film lies in that it is able to handle light-hearted comedy with a pretty heavy message about the dangers of arms dealers in today’s world.

Like “Amélie,” this film is very busy, so it requires special attention on the part of the viewer, as Jeunet sets up multiple intricate cons in order to get the arms dealers where he wants them. If marketed properly, this film could be another major hit for Jeunet, and luckily, it was a wonderful replacement for the last film of the festival.

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Monday, May 3, 2010

EDITORIAL | LETTERS

EDITORIAL

University’s handling of water emergency laudable This weekend’s water main break in Weston couldn’t have come at a worse time for many Tufts students. Not only did Saturday’s Spring Fling leave worn-out Jumbos feeling thirsty after the concert, but the warm weather of the last few days has made it particularly difficult for students on and off campus to cope with the lack of clean water.

While the lack of drinkable water has so far been anything but a pleasant experience, the administration at Tufts has been handling the situation in the most responsible and orderly fashion possible.

Immediately upon learning of the water crisis and the potential dangers that it could pose to students, the Department of Public Safety put to perfect use its safety alert system, telling students about the “boil-water” order. Although the original text message may have been confusing — as it was difficult to explain the entire situation in the length of a text message — it referred students to e-mails with far more specific details on the situation. While the

safety alert system has been used many times since its inception, Saturday’s two alerts showed the student body how useful the system can actually be and ensured students confidence that the administration was taking care of the emergency.

In addition to warning students about the emergency and telling them the best ways to handle the situation without risking their health, the university has also done a commendable job of providing water and resources to students. Tufts has been providing water to those who live on campus and allowing students to take boiled water out of the dining halls provided they bring their own containers. Bottled water is also available for sale at both the Mayer Campus Center and Tower Café, though students who live off campus are encouraged to boil their own water at home. An emergency management group, led by Senior Director of Public and Environmental Safety John King, has also been holding regular meetings to coordinate the university’s response and ensure student safety.

The university has also set up a website, emergency.tufts.edu/water, through which students can access updated information about the crisis and learn of any updates. They are also encouraged to give feedback and ask any questions through a link on the website. This type of interaction and communication is particularly commendable, partially because it will help keep students safe and also because the constant flow of information will prevent students from panicking.

It is very difficult for the university to prepare for a large-scale emergency, especially one that is as unpredictable as the current water crisis. There is really no way that Public Safety could have specifically prepared for this catastrophe, but the university took a difficult situation and handled it extremely well. While students remain frustrated by the inconvenience, Tufts has done everything in its power to ensure that frustration is the greatest of our troubles, and that our health is not in jeopardy.

worthy events, the Daily has had some breakthroughs of its own. We have continued to increase our use of new media content, using our website to supplement the paper’s print edition with sound slideshows, podcasts and videos. One of our proudest accomplishments was the growth of the Tufts Daily Twitter account, which now has over 1,000 followers and allows us to disseminate breaking news more quickly than ever.

But for those of us who spend our days and nights working on this newspaper, the dedicated members of the staff who sacrifice sleep and schoolwork to bring you the Daily, this semester has meant a lot more than just improving our coverage.

This semester, I’ve had the honor of working with some of the most talented, dedicated and gracious people I’ve ever met: people who don’t complain for a second about coming down to the Daily office at 11 p.m. to take a photo; people who don’t give a second thought to writing an article after receiving an e-mail at midnight about a breaking news story; people who gladly hang around the office until 2 a.m. just so they can make sure all of our headlines are perfect or come back on days they shouldn’t be here to pick up dinner for us when no one else has a car — even though

it isn’t actually their job to do so; and people who will get furious in solidarity with their fellow editors.

When I was trying to decide whether or not to take this job before the semester began, I got a lot of advice from my friends and family. Everyone was quick to tell me what a great résumé-builder it was going to be, or how I was going to get such valuable leadership experience. This advice certainly had merit, but as this semester comes to an end and I say farewell to my time as editor-in-chief, it’s clear that my semester at the Daily has been about so much more than preparation for future jobs. Over the course of the past few months, I have made some of the best friends I’ve ever had and had some of the most fun and memorable moments of my time in college. And I would say, more than anything else, this has been the most valuable part of my time on this paper and at Tufts in general.

I hope that all of you have enjoyed this semester as much as I have, and that the Daily has lived up to your expectations. Good luck with finals, and thank you for reading.

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The Daily has seen quite the whirlwind of news this semester. We got a shock early on when we learned that University President Lawrence Bacow would be stepping down, an announcement that got the entire campus buzzing — and kept us in our office in the Curtis Hall basement until 5 a.m. The decision to make this year’s Spring Fling a dry event caused a massive stir among students and elicited a slew of online comments from disgruntled Jumbos. More recently, this spring at the Daily has been marked by a controversial Tufts Community Union presidential election season that caused another week of late nights for us.

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ExCollege to host student versus faculty trivia night BY

BENJI COHEN

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word “professor” as “a faculty member of the highest academic rank at an institution of higher education.” These esteemed teachers are experts in their field. After years of undergraduate and graduate programs, these men and women are some of the brightest people in the world. Students at Tufts University are lucky to have access to an extremely knowledgeable, inspiring and impressively intelligent faculty. Every day, students gawk at the knowledge their professors randomly spew — it is one of the reasons that Tufts is such an attractive destination.

Although professors can be frighteningly smart, almost every Tufts student has had a moment when they wanted to challenge one of their professors. Across disciplines, across majors, across years, students always have moments when they think to themselves, “I might be smarter than my professor.” The thought is overpowering — you hear a professor state something, but you know, you are positive, you would bet your life, that it is not correct. Traditional manners and respect for our venerated faculty forces students to hold their tongues. But, undergraduates of Tufts University, what would you do if you had the opportunity to prove your intellectual status?

Could you step to the plate and hit knowledgeable home runs? Ladies and Gentlemen of Tufts University, the Experimental College (ExCollege) invites you to prove your worth.

Join us for “Are You Smarter than a Faculty Member?” trivia night.

On May 5 (the Wednesday of reading period) from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Hotung Café, take a two-hour study break to challenge an elite group of professors to trivia. The ExCollege has assembled an all-star squad of six professors who will be the undergraduates’ opposition. This “dream team” is the target that undergraduates will aim for. Beat the all-stars, and a powerful point can be made. This faculty squad includes a dean, a program director, a rising star who already is one of Tufts’ most popular teachers, two former recipients of the “Professor of the Year” and one of the most prestigious and respected publishers on campus.

The faculty team is made up of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of Political Science James Glaser, Professor of Community Health Edith Balbach, Professor of Political Science Kent Portney, Professor of Psychology Sam Sommers, Professor of Education Steve Cohen and Professor of

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The rules of ExCollege Students vs. Faculty trivia night are simple. Assemble a team of six people, and on May 5 show up to Hotung at 8:00 p.m. There is no pre-registration and no sign-up sheet — the event will operate on a first-come, first-serve basis — so be on time! Free food will be provided and Harpoon UFO will be in stock at Hotung, so make an evening out of trivia. Work your brain, prove you are smarter than the faculty and snack on delicious trivia munchies.

Best of all, the ExCollege has assembled an unbelievable first-place prize package. The team of six that emerges victorious (the faculty team is also eligible for this prize) wins a collection of prizes to eateries and shops in Davis Square that is valued at over $200! Included in

this bundle are gift certificates to Dave’s Fresh Pasta, J.P. Licks, Mike’s Pizza, Boston Burger Company, Davis Squared, Buffalo Exchange and many more. In addition to the first-place reward, there will be a mystery prize for every team that finishes with a better score than the faculty.

Part of the Experimental College’s mission is to foster interaction between Tufts’ faculty and student-body. Every semester, the ExCollege runs an event that creates a dialogue or enables relationships to be formed between professors and students outside of the classroom. “Are You Smarter Than a Faculty Member?” trivia night is the most recent manifestation of this goal. This event is extremely valuable because it helps strengthen and mold a community here at Tufts. The ExCollege recently held Feedback,

a luncheon between students and faculty, and in Fall 2008 the ExCollege hosted the Election Night Extravaganza. Both of these events served to bring students and faculty together outside of office hours.

Although academic relationships between undergraduates and professors serve many important purposes, social relationships are just as critical. Professors care about their students — they want to know what the students want and work hard to ensure that students achieve their goals. Perhaps the most beneficial way to start such a relationship is outside of a classroom setting that is usually run with traditional expectations of lecture and/or discussion. At the ExCollege trivia night, the mind will still be tested, but the setting will be much more relaxed. This enables a dialogue between the faculty and students that, without the ExCollege, might never be realized.

It is not only the student versus faculty aspect of trivia night that fits into the ExCollege’s communal goals. Every semester, the ExCollege recruits professionals from the Boston area to teach courses and provide important learning opportunities for Tufts students. In keeping with that idea of not only creating the micro-community on campus, but also reaching out to those beyond the Hill, we have partnered with Davis Square businesses for our prizes. The Davis Square prize package features local spots that recognize the centrality of Tufts University. Each place was eager to donate because they enjoy the relationship they have with Tufts.

The timing of this event is perfect. Amidst the stress and studying of reading period, take a much-needed two-hour break from the books and distract and relax your mind with some intellectually stimulating trivia.

Listen to a stand-up comic, junior Brian Agler, emcee the evening’s affairs, eat staple trivia cuisine and prove, once and for all, that you really are smarter than your professors.

With any questions about the event please do not hesitate to contact the ExCollege at excollege@tufts.edu or (617) 627-3384. In the meantime, study up, take some Sporcle quizzes and get ready! Our all-star team of professors is on a mission to assert their intellectual dominance, and the student body may never again get another opportunity to prove them wrong!

Benji Cohen is a junior majoring in history. He is a member of the Experimental College Board.

UC Berkeley and the Israel divestment bill BY

ARIELLA CHARNY

Over the past few weeks, international attention has turned to the University of California (UC) Berkeley. On March 17, the UC Berkeley Student Senate passed a resolution that the university should divest itself of companies in which it owns stock that conduct business with Israel. The resolution targets over $130 million purportedly invested by UC Berkeley in two companies, General Electric and United Technologies, which supply jobs, military equipment and electronics to Israel. On March 24, the Student Body President of UC Berkeley, Will Smelko, vetoed this divestment bill; Smelko called the resolution “a symbolic attack on a specific community” that is “being used as a tool to delegitimize Israel.”

On April 14, the Student Senate voted on whether to override the President’s decision in the packed and contentious senate meeting. Twelve voted in support of Israel divestment, with seven against and one abstained. Since a two-thirds majority vote of the senate is needed in order to override a presidential veto, the resolution to divest from Israel did not pass. Nevertheless, the vote was tabled again for April 21, but the president’s veto was not overturned then either. On April 28 the final decision to not divest was established.

Fighting for human rights is an extremely noble cause, but, in the case of Israel, a divestment bill is “immoral, bigoted and if done by a state university, illegal. It encourages terrorism and discourages peace,” as stated in March by Harvard Law School

professor, Alan Dershowitz. This bill is not a legitimate critique of Israeli policy; it is hateful, it singles out Israel for condemnation and it distorts the truth. Israel is under siege by terrorism and has a right to secure her citizens. The reason the Palestinians do not have a state of their own is not due to Israeli policy in the disputed territories, West Bank and Gaza, but rather, because over the years Palestinian leadership has failed to denounce terrorism and to accept peaceful coexistence.

Yet the biggest problem with the UC Berkeley divestment bill is that its supporters believe that their efforts are comparable to the efforts made in 1980 to end apartheid in South Africa. Indeed, a UC Berkeley Senator, Rahul Patel, supported the Israeli divestment bill, declaring that “in the 1980s the Student Government was a central actor in demanding that the university divest from South African apartheid … We must utilize these spaces to engage each other about issues of justice worldwide.” South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote to the UC Berkeley community that “[Your predecessors] changed the moral climate in the United States and the consequence was the anti-Apartheid legislation, which helped to dismantle apartheid [in South Africa] non-violently. Today is your turn.”

The regime in South Africa was racist and unjust and called for international condemnation. But comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa has no basis in fact and is an inflammatory lie that is damaging to both Israelis and Palestinians. An institutionalized system of racial discrimination and strict,

legally-enforced segregation defined apartheid South Africa, giving the white minority population control over the state and the black majority population. Black South Africans were disenfranchised because of the color of their skin, and were prohibited from sharing public places with whites, from studying at the same universities and voting in South African elections — let alone running for office.

Israel is a textbook example of multicultural society, whose equal and free citizens are Kurdish, Ethiopian, Russian, Polish, Iraqi, Yemenite, Bedouin, Druze, Bahai, Christian, Muslim, Jewish and more.

Every Israeli citizen is free to vote, participate in political life, free to practice their religion, and share schools, hospitals, beaches and bars with one another.

Twenty percent of Israeli citizens are Arab, and there are countless examples of Israeli Arabs who serve in the country’s government, courts and army. In short, Israel is a liberal democracy.

Those demanding divestment from Israel and comparing Israel to South Africa are at best naïve and at worst seek to demonize Israel to make it appear that seeking Israel’s dismantlement has moral ground. Even worse than perpetuating this malicious, untrue comparison is that genuine oppression is ignored in this bill, and that the energy spent spewing hatred at Israel could be spent fighting true injustices. Sudanese human rights activist and former child slave Simon Deng articulates the truth and responds to Archbishop Desmond Tutu best when he says, “Bishop Tutu, I see

black Jews walking down the street here in Jerusalem. Black like us, free and proud …

Today, black children are enslaved in Sudan, the last place in the continent of Africa where humans are owned by other humans … So where is Desmond Tutu when my people call out for freedom? Slaughter and genocide and slavery are lashing Africans right now. Where are you for Sudan, Bishop Tutu? You are busy attacking the Jewish state. Why?” The students calling for divestment from Israel at UC Berkeley, and those comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa, as so many do during the annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” held in March on various campuses, need to realize that their condemnation of Israel feeds the fire of the conflict. Instead of advocating for collaboration between Israelis and Palestinians, they incite hatred.

Those who truly seek to advocate for peace in the Middle East and to earn the title “proPalestinian” should “publicly campaign against financial corruption and abuse of human rights by Fatah and Hamas,” as Palestinian-Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh writes. Being pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel are not mutually exclusive; calling yourself a human rights activist doesn’t mean you are one. In the case of these activists, they are part of the problem, not the solution, to the Middle East conflict.

Ariella Charny is a sophomore majoring in International Relations. She is a student fellow for CAMERA: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

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The Mules did not manage to get another runner past first base.

The Jumbos, on the other hand, still had a few more runs in them.

They extended their lead to 5-1 on a solo shot by senior captain Casey Sullivan in the fifth, her second of the weekend and 10th of the season.

They then added two more in the seventh, as Sullivan had a two-out, RBI triple, and then came in to score on a single by Beinecke, extending the lead to the final score of 8-1.

Earlier in the day, Tufts put freshman Rebecca DiBiase in the circle, looking for the division-clinching win. The first-year was up to the task, throwing a complete game shutout, while giving up only five hits and one walk. Colby never managed to get a rally together, and only put a runner in scoring position once, in the bottom of the fifth with two outs.

The Jumbos’ lineup, in the meantime, quickly gave DiBiase a sizable lead to work with. With two outs and a runner on second in the top of the first, Tufts strung together four straight hits and a walk and suddenly found itself on top 3-0, a lead which it would ultimately stretch to the final tally of 8-0.

In the series opener Friday night, Tufts relied on its veteran ace, junior Izzie Santone, to get the win. The Jumbos struck early, with Sullivan reaching on a two-out error by the right fielder and coming around to score an unearned run on a hit by Beinecke.

“It’s a huge boost,” Santone said. “It’s easier to go after teams as a pitcher when you know you

have the support of runs behind you. Especially in the first inning, knowing you have that advantage is huge.”

Over the next four-and-a-half innings, Santone and Colby senior starter Brittany Tasi took turns putting zeros on the scoreboard. The only real threat from either lineup came in the bottom of the fourth.

The Mules put two runners on with one out, but Santone calmly worked out of trouble.

In the top of the sixth, the Jumbos finally broke through, once again with some help from the Colby defense. Sophomore outfielder Lizzy Iuppa reached on an error by the pitcher before a single by classmate Lena Cantone and a double

by Sullivan brought her around to score. Cantone and Sullivan later scored when Beinecke reached on an error.

Colby finally tacked on an unearned run in the bottom of the frame, but the Jumbos elevated their game in the seventh, exploding for six runs in the inning, including a two-run home run by Sullivan. Even after two more runs from Colby, the Jumbos finished with a comfortable 10-3 victory.

It was a combination of dominant pitching and timely hitting all weekend that earned win after win for the Jumbos. The pitching staff gave up only three earned runs over the three games, earning it a 3-0 record with a 1.00 ERA on the weekend.

“We went after Colby with the same strategy that we are going to go after the teams in the NESCAC Tournament,” Santone said.

“Hitting our spots, keeping the ball

low and keeping them off balance.

Definitely trying to make them hit the ball weakly. It’s what we did against them and what we hope to do in the future.”

Meanwhile, the heart of the Tufts lineup — Cantone, Sullivan and Beinecke — combined to go 19-for-35 with two home runs and 16 RBIs. They were in the middle of every big inning and crucial to the Jumbos’ success.

“For most of the season, we have been experimenting with our lineup,” Beinecke said. “Just recently, I started batting cleanup, and I feel having Casey and Lena batting before me fires me up. I typically hit better and have a better mentality with people on base. This weekend something just clicked, and I think everyone felt it.”

The Jumbos will now be looking ahead to the NESCAC Tournament at Williams next weekend. They will be opening Friday at 5 p.m. against Wesleyan, the NESCAC West’s No. 2 seed, which Tufts has yet to face this season. Also joining the Jumbos in the tournament are the Bowdoin Polar Bears and the host Ephs. But with the best record in the conference, Tufts remains the favorite to capture its fourth straight NESCAC Tournament.

“I feel really confident,” Santone said. “I feel we have improved a lot as a team since we played Bowdoin, and definitely Williams too. I feel that our experience as a team has made us better, and hopefully we can dominate these teams. We know based on our experience who we need to not pitch too and that we need to play good defense.”

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Sophomore Lena Cantone and the softball team captured their sixth straight NESCAC East title with a three-game sweep over Colby.

Squad trying to improve on 13thplace finish at Open New Englands

Members of squad sit out New Englands to prepare for later meets

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competition, winning the heptathlon with a score of 4,353 points — 134 more than her previous high on the year. Ferri has slowly improved in the event at New Englands over the past few years, coming in third as a sophomore and second as a junior. This year, she finally got over the hump, besting her nextclosest competitor by nearly 100 points.

“It was really exciting because I was competing against the same girls [as the past few years],” Ferri said. “I was really happy to finally beat them. My score overall was a [personal record (PR)], and that was exciting, but I can still do better — there are still two events I know I can improve in. But I can’t complain — it was just satisfying to finally beat those girls.”

Sophomore Dayorsha Collins also enjoyed a strong showing at the meet, winning the high jump with a height of 5’6’’ — just one inch off Tufts’ school record — and improving her NCAA provisional qualifying mark. She was originally tied with another athlete for first, so the two had to take part in a “jumpoff” until one of them missed, in order to determine the event champion.

“I was really happy with [my jump] because it’s was also a PR for me,” Collins said. “And I have a better chance of going to nationals with that. I had to jump off against another girl because we were tied for first, so that was pretty intense.”

Standout freshman Kelly Allen was the third and final Jumbo to win her event, as she took the discus throw with a distance of 140’9’’.

Meanwhile, junior Amy Wilfert — a 2009 All-American in cross country who this year missed out on the honor by one place at

indoor track and field nationals — ran an NCAA provisional time of 4:38.13 in the 1,500 -meter, earning her fifth place in the event.

“It’s always exciting when you hit a national standard,” Wilfert said. “I know it’s not going to be good enough to travel [to nationals], but it’s at least some place to start. I haven’t raced the 1,500 since MIT, so it’s been about two weeks.”

Sophomores Heather Theiss and Nakeisha Jones also furthered Tufts’ cause with their impressive finishes; Theiss cleared 11’7.75’’ in the pole vault to tie for second in the event, while Jones’ mark of 39.5’ in the triple-jump earned her a runner-up finish as well.

The Jumbos rounded out their scoring with senior Julia Feltus, who took fourth in the hammer throw, and the 4x100-meter relay squad, which registered a seventhplace finish.

Tufts will continue its championship season next week when the Jumbos travel to Northeastern to take part in the Open New England Championships, in which Div. I, II and III schools compete. Last year, the Jumbos took 13th at the event, though the meet mostly serves as a chance to compete against high-level athletes and as another opportunity to register qualifying marks for NCAAs. “It’s not exactly focused on how the team does,” Ferri said. “It’s definitely more focused on individuals getting or improving their marks for NCAAs.” “It’s just better competition — there’s a lot of Div. I schools that will go,” Wilfert added.

“It’s always promising when we do perform well [as a team], but in terms of team goals, we just want to get as many people as we can in the meet and have them perform well. If that happens, the team score will come anyways.”

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considering how strong the field was,” Rand said. “There were probably 10 guys that had a chance to win it, so I was really just trying to stay with the top pack. I thought that top five would be the best-case scenario, so I was happy with fifth.”

On a day when the temperature reached the 80s, the long-distance athletes were less concerned with their times and more with place.

Rand’s time of 15:07.33 was 11 seconds behind the leader’s time of 14:56.20. “[Senior and second-place finisher Thompson] Ogilvie from Bowdoin and [freshman] Kyle Marks [from Tufts] led it out pretty quick, probably a 14:40 pace, and I could feel that was a little too quick, so I stayed back with the chase pack for most of the race,” Rand said. “When it started to slow down, which was with about five laps to go, was when I surged ahead of them and picked it up, and then it became a battle to the finish really.

“Kyle ran a tough race; he went out with the front and then fell back a little bit, but then battled to come back and stay in the top 10, so he ran really strong,” Rand continued. “[Sophomore] Scott McArthur ran around a 15-second [personal record], and he was right with me most of the way, until maybe two and a half laps to go. He ran really well.”

Marks and McArthur finished in 10th and 11th, respectively, with times of 15:13.49 and 15:13.55.

“In the 5K, the competition was probably the toughest I’ve seen all year. All the guys were strong, and it was just a battle the whole way,” Rand added. “I think a lot of guys felt the same way in their races.”

Also scoring for Tufts on the distance side was junior Christopher Brunnquell, who took eighth in the 10,000-meter run in a time of 32:53.53.

While many Tufts athletes showed their strength at the Div. III level, others sat this weekend out, as the program focuses more on team success at NESCACs — which occurred last week — than at Div. IIIs. “The biggest team meet of the year is NESCACs, and I think we really proved that we are a strong team last week,” Rand said. “The intensity level was a little lower this week. We didn’t put all our guys out there, so we knew we weren’t going to come out with that many points, but I think we were expecting a little more than we came out with. “[The competition] was a huge step up from NESCACs, obviously,” Rand continued. “Double the teams, plus I think other teams put all their energy into this meet, rather than their conference meets like we do, so that had an effect on the results.”

The field of competition will continue to increase this weekend when the Jumbos travel to Northeastern to compete in the Open New England Championships, where they will face off against competitors from Div. I, II and III.

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The Tufts Student Fund

T H A N K YOU! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the 2010 Tufts Student Fund.

We are happy to announce that:

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Jumbos supported the 2010 Tufts Student Fund

You and your classmates helped to raise more than

$35,000* for financial aid.

Once the final results are calculated, we’ll share them with you.

Thank you for supporting the Tufts experience. * Total as of April 30, 2010.

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Baseball ties wins mark, DeGoti new saves leader With a dominating pitching display in torrid head yesterday, the baseball team swept Middlebury in a twogame, non-NESCAC set to tie the program mark for wins of 27. The current record, set in 2002, was achieved when the Jumbos reached the NCAA Tournament. This year, the 27-5 squad has tied the record with one game left in the regular season.

On Sunday, sophomore Chris DeGoti earned his own slot in the history books, breaking the program record for single-season saves when he closed the door in the seventh inning of the first game, earning his ninth save of the year in a 3-1 win. In the latter contest, sophomore Dave Ryan was perfect through 4.1 innings and finished with a one-hitter through six in the 5-1 victory. Throughout the day, Tufts’ pitchers allowed just four hits in 14 innings.

The victory came one day after Tufts swept Springfield on the road, 12-10 and 12-4, while on Friday the Jumbos completed their season sweep of twotime defending NESCAC Champion Trinity at home with a 14-9 rout. Tufts is now 6-1 in the past six days.

Cardinals score historic upset over Camels In the history of NESCAC tournaments, no eighth-seeded team had ever upset a No. 1 seed in the first round. That all changed yesterday when Wesleyan shocked host and top-seeded Conn. College, 6-5, after senior Jon Killeen scored the go-ahead goal with 2:58 remaining in the men’s lacrosse game. Since conference tournament play was adopted in 2000-01, 44 straight top seeds had won in the first round. Now, second-seeded Tufts will host the rest of the NESCAC Tournament, beginning on Friday.

Conn. College is currently ranked sixth in the nation and had lost just one game entering the game versus the Cardinals.

Men’s tennis snatches home finale In its final two matches of the season, the men’s tennis team split, capturing a win for its seniors in the final home match on Friday before losing to Bates, 6-3, on Sunday.

Versus the Bobcats, ranked No. 26 in the country, the Jumbos (7-8, 3-5 NESCAC) dropped five of six singles matches despite taking two of three doubles. Freshman Andrew Lutz, at No. 6 singles, won in three sets.

Against Colby, all but sophomore Kai Victoria won in singles, including senior tri-captain Andrew Rosen’s 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 3.

Sailors take fifth at ICSA Semis With a chance to earn a bid to the national regatta on the line, the co-ed sailing delivered, scoring a fifth-place finish at the ICSA semifinals in Charleston, S.C. over the weekend. Seniors Tomas Hornos, Rachael Brill and Nathan Rosenberg sailed in the A Division, taking home a fifth-place finish that included a win in the eighth race and two runnerup showings. Senior Andrew Criezis teamed up with juniors Catherine Swanson and Roisin Magee, as well as senior Jennifer Watkins, to earn sixth in the B Division. That boat won the sixth race and finished inside the top 10 in seven of the first eight races.

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not score until over 10 minutes into the first half, when senior co-captain Jenna Abelli netted one off an assist from sophomore Casey Egan.

“It all started with not controlling the ball in the 10 minutes,” senior Emily Johnson said. “They were just winning draws and controlling possession, and we really didn’t have a chance to respond.”

Tufts eventually did come back from the early deficit, however, plowing its way out of the three-goal hole by scoring three of the next four goals in the contest — including three from Abelli and one from Egan — to tie the game at four. But the Lord Jeffs regained control of the game in the minutes leading up to halftime with a three-goal flurry, led by two from sophomore Allie Horwitz, who led all scorers on the day with four tallies.

Amherst kept Tufts at a distance for most of the second half, until a late two-goal spurt from the Jumbos narrowed the lead to two. But ultimately, the Lord Jeffs were able to limit the league-leading Tufts attack with a methodic approach and hold on for the win.

“One main thing was that they slowed us down on their attack,” Abelli said. “They pretty much ate up the possession, and we were on defense for most of the game. In the second half we came out with more of a sense of urgency, but Amherst was patient on attack and with shot selection.”

While the Jumbos actually finished the game out-shooting the Lord Jeffs 22-18, Jumbo junior goalkeeper Sara Bloom had two saves, compared to eight from Amherst’s sophomore netminder Lamia Harik, a testament to the efficiency of the Amherst offense. Another contributing factor to Amherst’s domination of possession was a perfect clearing rate on 14 attempts.

After being held to only seven shots in the first half, the Jumbo offense got back on track a bit in the second half, when it took fifteen shots, two of which ended in goals from Johnson and Egan in the late-game comeback. But on a scorching hot day, Tufts just ran out of time.

“We started winning a lot more draw controls [in the second half ], but the conditions today were very tough,” Johnson said. “We’re normally a very fast team, but we weren’t so fast today.”

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Sophomore Casey Egan and the fifth-seeded Jumbos suffered a heartbreaking loss on the road in the first round of the NESCAC Tournament and now have their fate in the hands of the selection committee. early March opened up the team’s schedule. After a logjam of four teams — including both Tufts and Amherst — ended the regular season at 6-3 in the NESCAC, it was decided that Sunday’s game would take place at Amherst after a series of tiebreakers was applied.

Despite an 11-9 win over Bowdoin on Friday, in which the Jumbos outscored the Polar Bears 8-2 in the second half, Tufts found itself playing on the road Sunday as the No. 5 seed.

After Sunday’s win, Amherst will face Colby next weekend in the NESCAC Tournament semifinals, while the Jumbos await word from the NCAA selection committee. After spending most of the season with a high national ranking, the Jumbos hope that the

committee will give them one final chance to make a run.

“We’ve been in the top 10 for the last couple weeks, and if we get [to the NCAA Tournament], we can definitely do great things and go far,” Johnson said.

While Sunday’s contest may be the last hurrah for the 2010 Jumbo squad, Abelli is proud of the way the team competed, even if the first-round defeat was a letdown for a team that opened the year with national championship aspirations.

“I don’t think we have any regrets,” she said. “They’re a great bunch of girls, everyone played their hardest, and even if it’s our last game, I wouldn’t be disappointed.”

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Playing in the blistering heat with limited bottled water, the Jumbos let the Ephs back in the game after leading 8-4 at the half. In the third, Williams dominated with a three-goal run that tied the score at 9-9. But the Jumbos found their second wind when Hessler put one in just before the end of the period.

In the fourth frame, Tufts didn’t look back, as juniors Matt Witko and Ryan Molloy each scored before Hessler finished the scoring with 4:34 to go.

Looking fatigued in the heat amid the local water crisis, the Ephs didn’t fight back and the Jumbos began to celebrate as news of Conn. College’s loss reached the field.

“Mark Doughtier, our trainer, supplied us with his own water bottles and ice, which helped us out a lot,” sophomore Nick Rhodes said. “After they came back, we started playing a lot smarter and stopped forcing the ball into the crease and making selfish plays driving to the goal and started holding on to the ball more.”

Molloy led all scorers with four, while senior Jamie Atkins notched his first career hat trick. Rhodes, who has been dominant all season, won half of the 24 face-offs for Tufts, leaving Williams with equal offensive possessions. However, the Jumbos put their chances to better use, out-shooting the Ephs 46-27 while the defense stayed tight, with junior

Alec Bialosky grabbing six ground balls and sophomore keeper Steven Foglietta making nine clutch saves.

On Friday, in a thrilling season finale under the lights, a victory didn’t come easily for the Jumbos. The game saw seven ties in the second half alone, and, with no team leading by more than a goal since 10:28 of the second quarter, overtime seemed inevitable.

The teams traded goals for the last 13 minutes of regulation, with Bowdoin junior Owen Smith converting with 58 seconds to play to tie it 13-13. With under 10 seconds remaining, Witko tried to finish it, but sent one over the cage, and time ran out before the Jumbos could get another shot off.

However, the team wouldn’t need much more time, as it took only 33 seconds of overtime for sophomore Kevin McCormick to give the Jumbos the 14-13 win.

“We didn’t really have a play,” said McCormick of the Jumbos’ overtime strategy. “But we got the ball, and we were still subbing, so I wasn’t planning on doing anything to risk losing possession, but once Alec set the pick, I chose to dodge off of it, and then once I saw an opening for the goal I couldn’t not take it. When it went in, I was just really happy.”

Tufts had looked rattled at the start as it quickly went down 4-0 in the first 13 minutes. From there, the Jumbos would battle back to tie the game 5-5 midway through the second quarter

on a Witko goal. The second half went back and forth, until the McCormick overtime goal sent the home crowd into a frenzy.

On Saturday, Tufts will welcome an upset-minded Wesleyan team in the NESCAC semifinals. Though the Jumbos beat the Cardinals 14-11 in their last meeting a month ago, Wesleyan has since taken down NESCAC No. 3 Amherst 16-8 as well as Conn. College, which on Sunday became the only team to beat the Jumbos this season and the first eight seed in NESCAC history in any sport to beat a No. 1 seed.

The Jumbos will look to knock Wesleyan out of the game early and avoid another long nail-biter so that they can enter Sunday’s finals against the winner of the Middlebury-Bowdoin matchup at full throttle.

“When we went to gather around the goalie, people started talking about how Conn. [College] had lost, and we just felt such a relief that we don’t have to travel and we get to sleep in our own beds and play on our own field,” Rhodes said. “So now we’re going to focus on our stick skills and clearing and playing Tufts lacrosse and just believing in our players to do what they do best — win.”

“The home-field advantage is the biggest thing right now,” McCormick added. “We’re just really excited to play on our own field and have all of our fans there watching us. And sleeping in our own beds is always cool.”

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Jumbo jumpers lead team to 15th-place finish at New Englands BY

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4x400-meter relay. Entering the race, MIT led Williams by one point. But the Ephs’ winning relay team guaranteed the crown for Williams for the seventh straight year and for the 18th time in the past 20. Williams finished with a score of 159, while MIT trailed five points behind with 154.

Meanwhile, the Jumbos, who hosted the event at Ding Dussault track, took 15th place with a team score of 15, as most of their roster took the day off. The highest finisher for Tufts was senior Isaiah Paramore, who clinched fourth in the long jump with a leap of 22’5.75”.

Along with Paramore, Tufts’ jumpers contributed over half of the team’s point total. Freshman Michael Blair added two points for Tufts by clearing a height of 6’2”to earn seventh place in the high jump, while in the triple jump, classmate Gbola Ajayi took eighth with a jump of 44’2.5”.

“I jumped well, not my best, but I was happy with it,” Ajayi said. “I got hurt indoors, so I haven’t been able to jump much outdoor. Really, I have only been able to jump last week at NESCACs and this weekend at Div. IIIs, so all things considered, it was a very good day for me in the triple.

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At the Div. III New Englands, senior Isaiah Paramore, shown here during the indoor season, was Tufts’ top finisher with a fourth-place showing in the long jump.

“We had a pretty good weekend for the jumpers overall,” Ajayi continued.

“I believe everyone [in the triple or long jump had a personal record].”

Ajayi also was a leg on the eighthplace 4x100-meter relay team, along with freshman Vinnie Lee, sophomore Ben Crastnopol and senior Marc Soskin.

The relay ran a time of 43.40 seconds.

“It was a very competitive race that came down to the end, except for Springfield that pulled away early, but aside from that, it was a very good race,” Ajayi said. “Our anchor leg [from last weekend] was hurt, so we ran a different team. We didn’t run as well as

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

In hosting New Englands, Tufts enjoys strong performances BY

DAVID HECK

Daily Editorial Board

Unlike in most sports, a track and field team cannot be evaluated by its win-loss record. In fact, one can barely even assess a team by how it performs in the opening weeks of the season. Instead, the way to judge a team is by how it finishes a season, when the championship meets roll around.

That time has come for the women’s track and field squad, and so far, the team couldn’t ask for much better outcomes.

After taking second out of 11 teams at last week’s NESCAC Championships, the Jumbos turned in another impressive outing over this past weekend, when they hosted the New England Div. III Championships and took fourth.

But, unlike at the conference championships, the focus at New Englands is to accomplish personal goals, something that many Jumbos were able to do. Three team members won individual championships in their respective events, while several others registered NCAAqualifying times and high finishes.

“It’s such a different atmosphere than [at] NESCACs,” senior cocaptain Andrea Ferri said. “This meet was more individual performances. We had great weather and good performances. A couple girls were injured, so it was too bad they weren’t able to compete, but we were pleased overall with how we did.”

Ferri led the way for Tufts at the see WOMEN’S TRACK, page 16

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Senior co-captain Andrea Ferri took advantage of the friendly home field this weekend, winning the heptathlon and improving her NCAA provisional qualifying score as the Jumbos took fourth overall at the Div. III New England meet.

last weekend, but it didn’t go terribly.”

Freshman Matt Rand also put on an impressive display, claiming fifth in the 5,000-meter in a field of 27 competitors.

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“[Meghan and I] had two tough losses to Williams and Amherst … We just really needed to build up our confidence again,” Browne said.

“We feel like we were able to do that on Saturday.”

Heading into singles with a 2-1 advantage, it was smooth sailing for the Jumbos as Brown, McCooey and Lam notched easy two-set wins at first, second and fifth seed, respectively. Katz and junior Edwina Stewart each faced a grueling three-set match at the third and fourth seeds, respectively, with Stewart pulling out a hard-fought win.

Sophomore Jennifer LaCara fell just short of her opponent at the No. 6 spot to the tune of a 6-4, 6-3 decision.

“We were able to put into play what we’ve been working on in practice,” Hoguet said. “As a result, we gained a lot of confidence.”

The regular season victory improved the Jumbos’ record to 13-5 overall and 7-2 in NESCAC play. Although the official playoff match-ups won’t be announced until later this week, the Jumbos are more than ready for the postseason.

“We’re hoping to win NESCACs,” McCooey said.

“We’ve had some tough losses lately but we definitely have the potential to win, and we’re looking forward to a great weekend.”

Ranked as of April 29 No.11 in the nation and with only

two NESCAC losses to their name throughout the season, the Jumbos will look to continue the success that they have had this year, and believe that they can contend with the Div. III elite if they keep up their intensity and focus.

“We have a lot of confidence in our game so far,” Browne said. “We don’t need to do anything different.”

“We’re just going to continue to sharpen our game,” Hoguet added. “We’re taking it one match, one point at a time.”

Saturday’s win also the marked the team’s annual Senior Day. Seniors McCooey, Hoguet and Erica Miller were honored by their teammates as they played their last regular season match as Jumbos.

“It was bittersweet,” McCooey said. “Sad because we’ve had such great times on these courts, but exciting that we had a great match and were able to go out with a big win on Spring Fling day.”

The seniors will have one more chance to compete as Jumbos alongside their teammates this weekend as they begin the NESCAC Tournament at Amherst, where they could have a chance to unseat Williams, the defending national champion, or the host Lord Jeffs, the defending conference champion.

“We’ll keep working on the things we need to and just get hyped up for this weekend,” Hoguet said.

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Jumbos ousted by Amherst in first round of NESCACs

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and Williams, the squad broke the program record for most wins in a season, moving to 14-1. And after a 6-5 loss by the NESCAC tournament No. 1 seed Conn. College Camels to No. 8 Wesleyan, the No. 2 seed Jumbos are now the highest remaining seed and have earned the right to host the rest of the NESCAC Tournament this weekend.

Bouncing back from an emotionally draining overtime win over Bowdoin on Friday, junior D.J. Hessler led the Jumbos to a 13-9 victory in the NESCAC quarterfinals against Williams yesterday at Bello field. Hessler scored twice — including the game-winner — and also had six assists to bring his career total to 106 and break the school record of 101 set by Bryan Griffin (LA ’05). see MEN’S LACROSSE, page 18

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Playing on the road against a hot Lord Jeffs team that was coming off a win against NESCAC top seed Trinity, the Jumbos were held to single-digit scoring for only the fourth time all season.

The tough loss may be the last game Tufts plays all season; the four Jumbo seniors on the roster now must wait until next week to find out whether they will receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and have the chance to extend their careers.

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Jumbos tame Mules, clinch NESCAC East

Tufts backs up new ranking with win over Bowdoin

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This weekend, in a three-game sweep of Colby, the Jumbos yet again had all of the answers.

The Jumbos dominated Colby in the set at Waterville, Maine, clinching their sixth straight NESCAC East title in the process. Tufts took all three games from the Mules, outscoring them 25-4 on the weekend.

Along with the title comes a

No. 1 seed in next weekend’s NESCAC Championships.

“We knew we had a job to do, and we know we have a very strong program,” freshman second baseman Emily Beinecke said. “We have tended to let off the gas, and we didn’t do that this weekend.”

Even after clinching the NESCAC East in the early game Saturday, the Jumbos kept the pressure up for the nightcap. Tufts gave the ball to senior Erin Gallagher, who was making just her third start of the season, while Colby countered with freshman pitcher Lauren Becker.

While the Jumbos had been in firm control all series, it was the Mules who jumped out to an early lead in the bottom of the first inning of the second leg of the doubleheader. Four of the first five Colby hitters in the order singled, bringing in a run and loading the bases with one out. But Gallagher settled down, working out of the inning without further harm after inducing a 5-1-3 double play.

The 1-0 line score held until the top of the third, when the Mules gifted the Jumbos the lead. The Jumbos plated four runs, yet got only two hits. Instead, it was a walk and two errors that did most of the damage, leading to three unearned runs.

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ground, the women’s tennis team ended its regular season on a high note with a decisive 6-3 rout of Bowdoin. The win came days after the Jumbos moved into the national top 15 in the latest ITA poll with a No. 11 ranking.

“It was a great match for our last home match before going into NESCAC play,” senior tricaptain Laura Hoguet said.

“The team played with great focus, especially given the circumstances of Spring Fling.”

After dropping two of its last three team matches, the Jumbos’ first-seeded doubles team of junior tri-captain

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On Senior Day, tri-captain Meghan McCooey helped No. 11 Tufts to a top-25 upset over No. 13 Bates in preparation for the NESCAC Tournament.

Julia Browne and senior tricaptain Meghan McCooey returned to normalcy with a quick 8-0 victory. First-years Lindsay Katz and Janice Lam also cruised to an 8-4 finish

at the No. 2 pairing, while Hoguet and junior Hillary Rosen lost a close 8-5 match at the No. 3 spot. see WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 20