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MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2010

VOLUME LIX, NUMBER 45

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Two juniors announce run for TCU presidency

Students get colorful on Holi-day

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ELLEN KAN

Daily Editorial Board

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Students on Saturday gathered in the Residential Quad to celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of color.

Following tradition, participants threw packets of colored powder (rang) at each other to celebrate the spring festival. The event, sponsored by the Hindu Student Council, also featured Bollywood music and free Indian food, including samosas, pakoras and mango lassi.

One of the 10 rising seniors competing for the nine available Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate seats allocated to seniors yesterday dropped out of the race, leaving the Senior Senate race uncontested.

In the wake of this development, juniors Sam Wallis and Lauren Levine announced their intention to seek nominations to run for TCU President.

The student government candidates’ meeting took place Thursday night. The Junior Senate was elected uncontested with five rising juniors — Tomas Garcia, John Peter Gabriel Kaytrosh, Kate de Klerk, Timothy Lesinski and Matthew Schuman — submitting their candidacies for seven available seats. All information about the elections and candi-

dates comes from Tufts Election Commission (ECOM) Chair Sharon Chen, a sophomore, and the ECOM Web site.

The two remaining Junior Senate seats were reallocated to the rising senior class, which originally saw 10 individuals competing for nine spots. Junior Matthew Kincaid, however, yesterday withdrew from the race, meaning that the remaining candidates were all elected unopposed to the Senior Senate.

Potential TCU president candidates are not allowed to officially launch their campaigns before being elected onto the Senate.

This recent development opened the way for Levine and Wallis to confirm their intentions to run for president. The two must now be officially nominated as presidential candidates by the newly elected Senate.

Neither Levine nor Wallis served on the Senate this semester. see SENATE, page 2

Students volunteer for Kids’ Day, Peace Games BY

GABRIELLE HERNANDEZ AND SMRITI CHOUDHURY

Daily Staff Writer and Contributing Writer

Children on Saturday flocked to the Hill as part of the Leonard Carmichael Society’s (LCS) annual festival for children. Just a day earlier, the Tufts Cooperative Peace Games program held its final event of the semester at Medford High School.

For Kids’ Day, now in its 47th year, the Medford/Somerville campus transformed into a playground for children, with hotdogs and Oreos for lunch at Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center and carnival rides and arts and crafts stands in Gantcher Center.

Children aged five to seven were invited to join in a day of fun at Tufts planned by student volunteers, who led the participants around campus to take part in a variety of activities.

The day included performances put on by theater group Traveling Treasure Trunk, dance lessons at Jackson Gym and a pirate ship carnival ride.

A new objective for Kid’s’ Day this year was to be environmentally friendly, according to sophomore Sarah Soffer, one of the program coordinators.

“One of the big goals this year was for Kids’ Day to go paperless, so we had the option of having paper registration packets but emphasized online registration,” Soffer said. “The big goal of this year was going green and we hope to continue that in the future.”

Freshman Alexis Donnaruma, one of the group leaders, felt the event was a great success.

“Kids’ Day was a lot of fun, not only for the kids but also for me,” Donnaruma said.

“There were so many fun activities for the kids to do and at times I felt as though even I wanted to be a kid again. Not one kid was left disappointed.”

Another group leader, freshman Amanda Puerto, noted some difficulties of

supervising the children.

“There were those kids who just wouldn’t listen to anything you said, which made it difficult walking from activity to activity,” Puerto said.

She echoed Donnaruma, however, in saying she enjoyed herself spending the day with the children.

“Once at the activity, it was super easy to just have fun with [the children], because they loved everything so much,” Puerto said.

Soffer agreed with the two group leaders that the event went well.

“The children seemed to have a great time, we talked to some of the children as they left and they seemed excited … which is our goal,” Soffer said.

Meanwhile, the Tufts Cooperative Peace Games program, co-sponsored by LCS, the Peace and Justice Studies (PJS) Program and Zeta Psi, on Friday evening celebrated the end of a successful semester with an exhibition showcase.

Peace Games over the course of the semester sent Tufts volunteers into various Medford public elementary schools to lead third to fifth graders in a series of activities designed to teach students about negotiation and conflict resolution, according to sophomore Katie Greenman, a member of the PJS program.

At the event, 40 students and parents took part in various activities at the Medford High School gym to demonstrate cooperation and collaboration skills, Greenman said.

The purpose of the event was to provide students with the opportunity to share what they have learned, according to senior Coza Perry, an LCS co-coordinator.

“This is our attempt at a culminating event where all the kids from all the schools can come to show off their skills from the lessons to the parents,” Perry said.

Tufts volunteers led the students see KIDS, page 2

Inside this issue

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Tufts Relay for Life participants on Saturday and Sunday walked against cancer.

Tufts Relay for Life raises funds and spirits

BY JENNY

WHITE

Daily Editorial Board

The eighth annual Tufts Relay for Life on Saturday night was the only event on campus that lasted until 6 a.m., running on its participants’ energy and passion for the cause of fighting cancer.

The 2010 Tufts Relay for Life began at 6 p.m. in the Gantcher Center with a ceremonial first lap led by cancer survivors. Sixty-four teams and 583 participants took part in the event, taking turns to walk around the track while enjoying a host of other fun activities and games throughout the night.

Relay for Life is the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) main fundraising event.

Campuses and communities worldwide host relays to raise money and awareness about fighting cancer.

The overnight aspect of the event is

meant to symbolize patients’ journeys from diagnosis to remission and the constant presence of cancer in their lives during that period, according to event co-chair Kate Carpenito, a junior.

The goal this year was to raise $89,000, and even before the night began, teams, individuals and sponsors together had raised over $76,000, according to Carpenito. She added that more funding will be added to that total.

“Tufts Relay is growing every year in participants and money raised,” junior Sam Johnson, another event co-chair, said. “It’s an awesome atmosphere the whole night.”

In terms of fund raising, Theta Delta Chi (123) was the top team with $12,225 raised, and the top individual was freshman Sara Honickman with see RELAY, page 2

Today’s Sections

Four students will compete in the final round of Microsoft’s U.S. Imagine Cup competition with their “Nanobot” game.

The women’s lacrosse team beat previously undefeated Trinity on Saturday.

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Monday, April 12, 2010

Visiting the Hill This Week MONDAY “Judah Friedlander Show” Details: Judah Friedlander from “30 Rock” is coming for the Entertainment Board’s Spring Comedy Show. Tickets are available for $10 with a Tufts ID from the Cohen Box Office.

When and Where: 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Cohen Auditorium Sponsor: Entertainment Board

WEDNESDAY “Lunch and Learn: The Ethiopian Jews of Israel” Details: Len Lyons, author of “The Ethiopian Jews of Israel: Personal Stories of Life in the Promised Land” (2007), will discuss his experiences with Ethiopian Jews in Israel.

When and Where: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.; Hillel Center Sponsor: Tufts Hillel

TUESDAY “African Christianity Rising” Details: James Ault, author and filmmaker, will present a screening of his film “African Christianity Rising: Stories from Ghana and Zimbabwe” (2009). Ault will answer questions after the screening.

When and Where: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Lane Hall 100 Sponsor: Department of Sociology

“Sovereignty Matters: American Indians in Higher Ed” Details: Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies and co-director for the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University, will discuss American Indians in higher education.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Barnum 104 Sponsors: Department of Education, Office of Institutional Diversity, American Studies Program

“2010 Birger Lecture” Details: Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at Harvard University Jeremy Stein will talk about repairing the financial system.

When and Where: 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Barnum Hall 008 Sponsor: Department of Economics “You Are What You Eat” Details: His Holiness Romapada Swami, a Vaishnava monk and scholar, will discuss the relationship between food consumption and personality.

When and Where: 7:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Pearson 106 Sponsor: Bhakti Yoga “From Oppression to Freedom” Details: Regina Waldman, founder of Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA), will discuss her story about escaping persecution from Libya.

When and Where: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Hillel Center Sponsor: Tufts Hillel

“The New/Old Power Balance Inside the Arab World” Details: Rami George Khouri, political columnist and author, will discuss the power balance in the Arab World.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Cabot Intercultural Center 702 Sponsors: Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Program, International Relations Program THURSDAY “Jamaica Kincaid Lecture” Details: Professor of Literature at Harvard University Jamaica Kincaid, an award-winning author, is coming to speak at Tufts.

When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Coolidge Room Sponsors: Center for the Humanities at Tufts, Africana Center, Tufts Institute of the Environment

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Tufts volunteers put on a host of activities for local area children at Kids’ Day.

Peace Games teaches students about cooperation KIDS continued from page 1

through a series of activities designed to emphasize cooperation and problem solving skills. Children and their parents worked together to hop across a simulated toxic swamp and stack buckets using string, among other activities.

Peace Games started in 2006 in response to a call by Medford Public Schools District Superintendent Roy Belson for the community to aid in educating the “whole child.”

“Schools are increasingly responsible for teaching students how to behave as citizens, and our schools need our help in doing that,” Dale Bryan, PJS assistant director, said.

This semester alone, Peace Games worked with over 150 elementary school students in after school programs, according to Greenman.

Co-coordinator Maura Donahue, a senior, believes Peace Games’ curriculum serves to fill a gap in general education.

“Peace is not part of the regular curriculum,” Donahue said. “Kids spend so much time doing math problems and writ-

ing English papers that there’s not a whole lot of dialogue about conflict resolution, and by the time you get to middle and high school, you get to issues of bullying. This is a good way to head that off and have kids act as mediators instead.”

Parents like Lauren O’Keefe were excited about the effect of the program on their children.

“It has really helped his self-esteem, and he’s gotten a lot better with communication,” O’Keefe said of her son, Liam. “When he joined, he was uneasy about it, and by the end, he was like, ‘that was so much fun!’”

Belson has been impressed with the program so far.

“I think it’s great,” Belson told the Daily.

“Schools are becoming more and more responsible for educating not just the academic child, but the social and emotional child. It’s important that students learn that their success is not just about individual success but also the ability to network and cooperate.”

Saumya Vaishampayan contributed reporting to this article.

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Explaining her decision to seek a nomination as a presidential candidate, Levine cited her previous experience on Senate and her desire to increase the body’s student outreach.

“After serving on Senate in various leadership roles, I truly feel committed to making Tufts the best place it can be,” she said.

“I really think it’s time that Senate begins to listen and seek input from every single student on campus.”

Levine has in the past served on the Senate for two years and was associate treasurer her sophomore year. She was not on the body this year because she was studying abroad in the fall.

Wallis likewise emphasized his goal of a Senate centered on the people it serves — the student body — and expressed his desire to be a unifying force.

“I’ve been a member of the Senate for three years and I really think we can do a better job of making it about students,” Wallis said on the phone from Israel, where he is currently studying abroad. “This needs someone who can bring us together, and I

can really do that and bring different groups together. That’s what it’s all about, being a union … and that’s what I plan to do.”

Wallis was a Senator for two-and-a-half years before resigning at the end of last semester to study abroad this spring. He last semester served as the Senate’s Services Committee co-chair.

Levine explained that she will be running on a general platform of enhancing communication and community.

“I think that communication between the student body, the Senate and the administration could be greatly improved and could really bring a better sense of satisfaction to everyone in the TCU,” she said. “There are many aspects of Tufts life in which we leave out parts of the Tufts community, and I think overall every student at Tufts feels like there could be a better sense of community on campus.”

Wallis’ campaign is based on five key pillars, one of which, like Levine’s platform, stresses community.

“The five are the following: making Tufts easier to navigate by taking what we have and making it even better, second is reducing costs on campus, third is centralizing

community and really bringing different groups together … fourth is connecting with alumni and fifth improving education quality,” Wallis said.

He added that in line with his main goal of making the Senate focused on students, this platform was derived out of conversations with different groups on campus.

“These ideas are from students, not from Senate … the single most important thing is I want to make [the campaign] about the student body, because it’s all about us,” Wallis said. “I’ve been fleshing [the platform] out … based on projects I’ve seen in the past. A lot of the ideas have come forth in conversations with people … [in] this campaign the ideas are all sort of grassroots driven.”

Both Levine and Wallis face challenges of their own in the upcoming campaign.

Levine has not been on Senate this year, although she feels that this has better empowered her to lead.

“I’ve been serving as a walk-on member of Senate, participating but not being an active member,” Levine said. “I actually think it will give [the campaign] an advantage … it’s given me a much better

view of how Senate operates and how it can improve its outreach to the full student body.”

Wallis will have to run his campaign while abroad, a challenge which he welcomes readily.

“I think it’s actually going to provide a great opportunity because it’s never been done,” Wallis said. “We can do things differently; that’s what the campaign is about, that’s what I want to do as president. If we’re able to communicate with the students when I’m not there … I can only imagine what we can do when I am there.”

The elections scheduled for Wednesday will thus involve only the rising sophomores, with 11 vying for seven seats. A candidates’ forum will take place at 9:30 p.m. tonight in Hotung Café.

The nine rising seniors elected to the Senate are Chartise Clark, Ian Hainline, Ryan Heman, Levine, Nadia Nibbs, Dan Pasternack, Carolina Ramirez, Tomas Valdes and Wallis.

Seven seats on the TCU Judiciary were on Thursday filled uncontested, as were Programming Board seats for the Classes of 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Over $76,000 raised so far this year by Tufts Relay for Life RELAY continued from page 1

$4,050 procured and contributed.

Johnson said that this year’s Relay planning team was able to enhance the night because the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary last semester recognized Tufts Relay for Life as a club, allowing it to seek funding from the TCU Senate. This funding provided the event with a moon bounce and an inflatable arena for jousting, among other activities.

Carpenito and fellow co-chair Julie Amenta, a junior, said a number of features at this year’s event distinguished it from that of previous years.

One notable addition was the inaugural Fight Back Ceremony, according to Carpenito.

“It’s an entire hour dedicated to the promotion of healthy behaviors, so that people can reduce their risk of getting cancer,” Carpenito said. “We have a kick-boxing class, a Wii boxing tournament, a jousting tourna-

ment and plates of healthy food available for people to enjoy.”

Also for the first time, hair stylists from the Amal Niccoli Salon in Somerville cut participants’ hair for donations to Pantene Beautiful Lengths, which makes wigs for cancer patients. Twelve students volunteered to have their locks shortened and donated, according to Carpenito.

The night also included a Tufts Student Resources fitness class, music from a DJ, a ping pong tournament, tie-dye and a hypnotist show. There were also performances by Tufts groups such as La Salsa, the Irish Step team and the Jackson Jills.

The Relay for Life theme across the country this year was a birthday celebration, Amenta said.

“The [ACS] made a new slogan for this year: Recreate a world with more birthdays and less cancer,” Amenta said. “Through more research, we can create a world with more birthdays because people affected

by cancer who maybe wouldn’t even live to see their 10th birthday will live to see many more.”

Many people at the event had a personal reason for relaying to fight back against cancer. Some had seen family members suffer after diagnosis and experienced the pain they felt, and others were simply struck by the ubiquity of the illness in the world. In the case of two of the co-chairs, cancer has struck even closer to home.

“I’m a cancer survivor — I had a rare type of leukemia through high school,” Johnson said.

He added that his grandmother, uncle and two good friends have also battled the disease.

“I’ve been around cancer for a long time, so that’s why I come to Relay,” Johnson said.

As she described in a speech at the start of Saturday’s relay, Amenta was also personally diagnosed with cancer in high school when doctors discovered a malignant brain tumor.

“I was affected by cancer and overcame it, but my story is just the triumph of one,”

Amenta said. “There are plenty of those diagnosed who weren’t as fortunate as me, and I want to just help see that there are more people like me in the world. Relay has become a much more personal experience for me since my cancer, but I cared even more after coming to Tufts because I saw how much we can do to create positive change.”

Johnson, Amenta and two other Tufts survivors led the initial lap around the track that started the event.

Amenta noted that everyone at the allnight marathon event was eager to participate because they have all been impacted by cancer in some way, whether vicariously, personally or emotionally in any way. Inspired by their individual experiences, participants joined in an effort to help limit cancer’s future reach.

“For one night, everyone comes together for something totally selfless and tons of fun,” Amenta said. “The money we raise actually accomplishes so much in what the [ACS] is able to do.”

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From left to right: the virtual representations of team members Nadia Rodriguez, Cobin Dopkeen, Anit Das and Gilad Gray.

Tufts group hopes to win Microsoft’s ‘Imagine Cup’ with innovative video game BY

CARTER ROGERS

Daily Editorial Board

Breaking into the video game design industry might seem like a distant dream for many, but Tufts senior Cobin Dopkeen, juniors Gilad Gray and Anit Das and School of the Museum of Fine Arts junior Nadia Rodriguez (who is spending this academic year studying at Tufts) are closer than ever to doing just that, thanks to their success in Microsoft’s U.S. Imagine Cup competition.

Their team, officially called Team AwesomeSauce, has advanced to the final round of the cup with its “Nanobots” game. The final round of the competition will take place in Washington, D.C. next week. The team is mentored by Ming Chow (E ’02), who is a lecturer in the computer science department.

The Microsoft U.S. Imagine Cup is a biannual competition and has categories in software design, game design, digital media, information technology (IT) and embedded design. The theme of this Imagine Cup is “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems,” according to the competition’s Web site.

Contestants in the game design category had to create a game that addressed the theme and had to use a Microsoft-developed set of software tools to create it. “[The software contest competitors] are actually developing tools to help people,” Das said.

In the game, players control one of the titular nanobots and fight off bacteria and viruses by shooting them with things like pills, syringes and antibacterial spray.

The “Nanobots” team chose to work with Microsoft XNA (which stands for “Not Acronymed”) Game Studio 3.0.

XNA Game Studio allows users to create games for PCs, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console and the Zune MP3 player.

Developers using XNA Game Studio can post their games for sale on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Indie Games marketplace.

The group first heard of the Imagine Cup in Chow’s Introduction to Game Development course when two representatives from Microsoft’s New England Research & Development Center (NERD) spoke to the class.

“They showed us how easy the platform XNA is to program in to make games on the Xbox [360], PC or Zune,” Das said. “And then they told us about

the competition, and we were super psyched because we’ve always wanted to make a console game.”

Gray and Dopkeen are currently in a directed study in game design under Chow. Both took Chow’s Introduction to Game Development as an Experimental College class, while Das and Rodriguez are currently enrolled in the class’ first semester as a full computer science class.

“They were only informed about it at the end of January and they had deliver a product by March 15. It’s been a fabulous experience for them, but the work they have done during that short duration has been absolutely phenomenal.”

Ming Chow lecturer in computer science

The directed study has five students who were originally going to make a game on their own, but they then realized that Imagine Cup’s timeframe coincided perfectly with their semester schedule. Imagine Cup rules limit each team to only four members, however, so the class had to split up into multiple teams. Gray and Dopkeen drew Das and Rodriguez into their team to help create the game.

The other team did not make it to the final round but is still working on a game, according to Gray. It is a real-time strategy game pitting environmentalists against industrialists in a battle to control the game’s map.

“We wanted to do something more fast-paced than what they were doing,” Dopkeen said of the other game. The group looked at the popular modification of “WarCraft III” (2002), “Defense of the Ancients,” in which players control just one character while fighting hordes of weaker enemies.

“To fit with the [Imagine Cup] theme, it would have to be a lot more peace[ful],” Das said. With that in mind, the “Nanobots” game was born.

“You’re controlling this nanobot, which is a nano-scale robot inside the

human body in various parts of the body,” Gray said.

The gameplay of “Nanobots” will be familiar to anyone who has played the Xbox hit “Geometry Wars” (2005) or the arcade classic “Asteroids” (1979). “‘Geometry Wars’ was a huge influence,” Gray said.

“We have two main modes in our game,” Das said. “There’s a story mode, where you’re going through various parts of the human body and so there’s a nose level that you start out in and you’re just fighting basic things. Then there’s a lung level where you’re fighting pneumonia. There’s a bowels level where you’re trying to fight off a tapeworm. There’s a heart transplant level where you’re trying to fight infection so the transplant doesn’t get rejected.”

The game also has a four-player multiplayer mode featuring competitive gaming staples like capture-theflag mode, deathmatch and a survival mode in which players have to fight off never-ending hordes of enemies while competing against each other for a high score. Players can also play through the story mode alone or with up to four players.

“A girl I talked to yesterday who is a sociology major thought it was interesting that this game, while it was shooting and stuff, was training people to fight medical [disease] and not hurt people,” Das said.

Although they do not know exactly what their competitors will bring to the table, the team members expect that the games won’t be stereotypically violent, as entries were required to have content that would be roughly equivalent to a game rated “E” for Everyone by the Electronic Software Ratings Board, the video game ratings body.

“Our original idea of fighting hordes of enemies was like: ‘That’s pretty violent,’ and then we were like ‘Oh, wait, let’s make it medicine or bacteria, because no one likes them, they’re disease,’” Gray said.

“We played it pretty loose with the theme, but it worked out, apparently,” Das said.

The stipulation that the game be appropriate for children forced the group to get creative with the names of the nanobots’ weapons. “We came up with all the weapon names two hours before we submitted the game,” Dopkeen said. see NANOBOTS, page 4

ditor’s Note: This week’s column is written by guest columnist Xavier Malina, who is a senior majoring in International Relations.

When Emily asked me to help her contribute some thoughts about what guys wanted girls to know, I jumped at the occasion. Some things are small, others big, but either way, I think they can alter your romantic experience at Tufts.

1. Splitting the bill: Most of the time, if you’re on a date, the guy you’re with is probably willing to pick up the bill.

But every now and then, either he can’t afford it or he’s not sure if it was that kind of date — either way, he’s probably wishing you’d bring up the topic. When the bill arrives, ask something innocent like, “What’s the total?” or “How much each?” If he can’t pay for it, it’s an easy way for him to say so. And if he’s got the means to be a gentleman, than you’ve just given him the perfect opportunity to say, “Don’t worry about it. Tonight is my treat.” This little step can go a long way toward disarming a potentially awkward situation.

2. Sloppy drunk: If we’re texting to meet up late on a Saturday night, there’s a good chance that we’re both a little inebriated. You let us know you’re at a certain party, we tell you we’ll see you there later. But then it’s 11:35 p.m., we walk in the door and there you are: one friend holding you up against the wall and both eyes are in drunk screensaver mode. We think it’s cute when you’re kind of drunk. But if looking at your face spells out clearly that the rest of the night will be spent holding your hair back in the bathroom at a frat, we might rethink your attractiveness factor. Either hold off on the heavy drinking until we’re both there together, or do us a favor and send us a text saying you’re sorry, but you have to take a rain check. We’d much rather wait another week than have to see you at your worst. Trust me.

3. Taking too much time to get ready: There’s no doubt that we appreciate it when you look nice. Makeup, cute clothes, the way you do your hair. We notice it all. But if you went into the bathroom at 6 p.m. and it’s now 7:33 p.m., there’s a high likelihood that we’re tired of pretending we’re not really an hour late to the movie. Girls, I want to let you know of a clear sign that it’s time to fall back on the eyeliner and go, go, go! We offer to help. We say, “Is there anything I can do to help?” We mean, “If you’re trying to make me seriously annoyed at you for the rest of the night, please, by all means continue trying to find the perfect angle for your ponytail.”

It might seem like nothing to you, but if you’re getting ready and we offer our help, it means you’re late, and we’re not digging it. When guys get together, a frequent complaint is about how slow their significant others are at getting ready.

Those with lightning-quick significant others are the envy of the group.

4. We are not your ex-boyfriend: Just because he was the scum of the earth does not mean we are too. If you think we’re going to turn out to be a jerk hard enough, you might just make yourself see one. Give us a clean slate to work from.

Give us a chance to come through!

5. Hookup enthusiasm: Forget the “Top 10 Places On His Body You Didn’t Know Will Turn Him On” lists you all read. Showing us you’re into it is all you need to do to get us to keep coming back for more. There is nothing that turns a guy on more than a girl who is enthusiastic between the sheets.

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

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Team hopes that game is a successful combination of action and a positive message NANOBOTS continued from page 3

“It was like: machine gun, shotgun and grenade launcher, and we were like: ‘hold on — pill shooter, shot [as in syringe] gun, it’s a pun, Dr. Molotov’s Cocktail,’ which is kind of iffy, but it’s a pretty good pun,” Gray said.

The team has sunk quite a few late nights into “Nanobots.”

“We had five weeks from figuring out what we wanted to do, learning the platform and how to code the game and then submitting a demo,” Das said.

“They were only informed about it at the end of January, and they had to deliver a product by March 15,” Chow said.

“It’s been a fabulous experience for them, but the work they have done during that short duration has been absolutely phenomenal.”

The group said some of the best moments of the development process were when they realized they were having fun playing their game. “At some point in our de-bugging, before we made the demo, we discovered that our game was actually really fun to play,” Das said.

“One night I remember, it was Tuesday. We were working really hard … and the demo [for that phase of the competition] was due the following Sunday. It got to 2 a.m. and we stopped working and kept playing, and it was really fun, and we were like, ‘Wow, this is awesome,’” Gray added.

The group members praised the XNA tools with streamlining the development process.

“We learned and put this game together in five weeks, we didn’t work with this stuff before, and it’s the biggest

project we’ve ever worked on,” Das said.

The group has 11 days before heading to Washington, D.C. to show the full game at the finals.

Twenty teams out of about 3,500 initial entrants are partaking in the finals, according to Gray. The top three teams get prizes of $8,000, $4,000 and $3,000, for first, second and third place, respectively.

Even if they do not win, the team’s members believe they cannot put a price on the experience they’ve gained from making the game and going as far as they did.

The team members all hope to go into game design professionally after graduation.

“That’s a big reason why we’re doing this,” Gray said.

“What they have done has been absolutely the highlight of my semester,” Chow said.

Though they are making a game, rather than a “serious” program, the team members insist that it has tested their skills as much as developing any other program would have.

“It looks kind of really silly and fun, but it’s actually pushed everything we’ve learned in our comp sci classes to a good degree,” Das said.

Rodriguez, who is designing the art aspects of the game, also hopes to move into the creative side of the video game industry.

Rodriguez heard about the Imagine Cup competition from Chow while in Chow’s Intro to Game Development course and decided to join Team AwesomeSauce.

“Basically, it’s been more of a learning experience in terms of learning how to produce a video game,” Rodriguez said.

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“Nanobots” combines a tongue-in-cheek medical backdrop with fast paced shooter gameplay.

“I learned a lot about having to just figure out the different sprites [2-D animations or images] that are needed in terms of video game making and just trying to figure out how we’re going to implement each different thing.”

Rodriguez added that the group is currently implementing three different images for the nanobots depending on the amount of damage the nanobot has taken.

“Way back when I was little, I was very fond of the old retro games, and that’s basically one of the things that inspired me — playing games like ‘Super Mario Bros.’ (1986) and seeing the art of video games ... made me want to create characters and [see] them [put] into the videogames that people like my other

teammates would be coding,” Rodriguez said. “I had always been interested in art, but I had always wanted to get into the game design field as well, so I figured, what better way have a cake and eat it too?”

“A lot of the technical work and starting of the story begins with storyboards and things that I’ve done through my classes in animation,” Rodriguez said “Basically, [ideally], I would be doing a lot of environmental concepts and sketches and a lot of the pre-production artwork that you see when they release art books of video games.”

Rodriguez cited the games “Bioshock” (2007) and “Assassin’s Creed” (2007) as some recent games that stood out to her for their excep-

tional environmental design.

“Bioshock” is set in an artdeco inspired underwater city, while “Assassin’s Creed” takes place in the holy land during the crusades.

“I hope that it sends me some [places] in the future, because it’s one of those things where we found out that we were going to D.C. and we all immediately cheered, because its something you can put onto your applications and immediately be able to wow your prospects,” Rodriguez said.

Even if they don’t win the competition, the “Nanobots” team plans to finish the game in its spare time over the summer — Xbox 360 owners with a taste for some frantic, medically-themed action should keep a lookout.

Tufts University, Department of Physics and Astronomy invite you to attend:

The Kathryn A. McCarthy Lectureship in Physics “Fun with Ultracold Atoms”

Presented by Deborah S. Jin National Institute of Standard and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder

Monday, April 12, 2010, 4pm Tufts University, Pearson Hall, Room 104 Talbot Avenue, Medford MA Deborah Jin is an acclaimed physicist who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a winner of the MacArthur "Genius" Grant. In this lecture, she will explain why her laboratory is not only one of the coldest places in the universe, but also a place where atoms pair off to engage in strange quantum behavior.

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High on Fire delivers rock fury at the Middle East BY

RYAN ZUCKMAN

Daily Staff Writer

Walking down Massachusetts Avenue, it’s hard not to miss the Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub. Outside the club last Wednesday night, for example, a few patrons smoked their last cigarettes, swapping stories of concerts past before going back inside. These concertgoers were aged, tattooed, pierced and clad in leather and black band T-shirts; they are the stalwart fans of metal who have lived through the genre’s peak and fully appreciate its current resurgence. Such fans as these are hard-won but extremely loyal — and they were there for High on Fire.

High on Fire are possessed of that particular hazy-eyed heaviness that recalls Black Sabbath, laced with incendiary aggression and passion. A power trio in the truest sense of the phrase, frontman and guitarist Matt Pike’s band has been developing a strong underground following since 1998. Last Wednesday night Pike, bassist Jeff Matz and drummer Des Kensel delivered an awe-inspiring set of pure rock fury to an avid audience, easily outclassing the rest of the lineup.

In the dark, grungy basement of the Middle East Downstairs, openers Bison B.C. fit right in with its road-worn amps, duct-taped bass and members’ scraggly beards and long hair. Playing to the sparse crowd of 50 as if it were a thousand, the quartet performed its thrash-infused brand of heavy metal with great enthusiasm. But stage presence only goes so

far; devoid of hooks but full of ubiquitous half-growl/half-scream vocals and down-tuned riffs, the music ultimately felt meandering and generic. Only when the musicians fell into a rare mid-tempo groove did they begin to show promise.

Black Cobra answered Bison’s call to arms, besting the latter’s efforts with a tighter performance and more cohesive, consistent tunes, all with only two members. Here, the drummer was the heart and soul, switching effortlessly between simple rock beats, tricky compound figures and measures of pounding double bass. The songs didn’t lack for a second guitar thanks to their primarily chordbased style, but the overly technical guitarist’s singular foray into slow, melodic soloing revealed poor vibrato and weak expression. Unfortunately, Black Cobra’s performance also included unintelligible, monotone vocals.

While the show’s first two bands took cues from the doom movement of the ’90s, Priestess — perhaps best known for its Guitar Hero hit “Lay Down” (2006) — worships at the altar of Judas Priest and other classic metal acts from the ’70s and ’80s, and thus provided a breath of fresh air when it took the stage. Wielding the power of simple hooks, the verse/chorus format, dynamic instrumentation and the chops to back it up, the band’s set was infinitely more accessible and downright fun set than those of the previous two.

Oddly, though the audience cheered heartily, there was little to no head-banging — nodding, at most. It is possible that the

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High on Fire brought back hardcore metal to the Middle East in Cambridge. band’s genre was a little too out of place among the others, but it is much more likely that audience members were eagerly anticipating the headlining band.

As High on Fire took the stage, it was greeted with a deafening roar and a sea of see FIRE, page 6

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High on Fire’s Matt Pike ‘The Greatest’ is discusses group’s latest album heartwrenching, promises tears BY

RYAN ZUCKMAN

Daily Staff Writer

The members of heavy metal band High on Fire are experiencing something of a high point in their careers. Their latest album, “Snakes for the Divine,” which was released in February to great critical acclaim and is their highest-charting album to date, debuted at No. 62 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart — quite a feat for a metal band that isn’t Metallica. Currently on a headlining tour of the United States, High on Fire performed last Wednesday at the Middle East club in Cambridge.

Daily staff writer Ryan Zuckman caught up with frontman Matt Pike before the show to discuss the album and music in general.

Ryan Zuckman: What’s the inspiration behind the album?

Matt Pike: It’s based off the David Icke theory that Adam and Eve weren’t the first human beings, that they accepted the alien Reptoid DNA, so I just started going

off on that theme a lot on this album. A lot of it has to do with reptoids and snakes and creepy-ass things.

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RZ: Everyone’s raving about it.

MP: I know, and I expected to get a bunch of s--t because we used a big producer, you know? But not so much — Greg Fidelman’s kind of a badass.

RZ: The production is cleaner than in the past, and the vocals are more upfront. Is that his idea or yours?

MP: Kind of both of ours. I wanted the vocals to be out front. He really pushed me to write more. [He said,] ‘There’s something there, it’s missing something …’ and I’m like ‘You motherf--ker, you’re making me f--kin’ sing more ... this is going to suck playing live, dude.’ But I’d do it anyway, and sure enough he’d be right about it. It’s rough on my voice … five days in and I’m already f--kin’ f--ked. see PIKE, page 6

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How does a family remain stable after the death of a son? In “The Greatest,” not without much pain, sorrow and a new life

The Greatest Starring Carey Mulligan, Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon Directed by Shana Feste to make up for such a loss. In the film, written and directed by newcomer Shana Feste, the Brewer family must overcome the loss of Bennett (Aaron Johnson) and take care of his pregnant girlfriend. The film succeeds in portraying a realistic account of death, love and family problems.

On the last day of high school, Bennett musters up the courage to talk to Rose (Carey Mulligan) after four years of distant longing on both ends. They spend a perfect night together — “the greatest” for both of them. However, their young love is cut short by a tragic accident, leaving Rose alone and pregnant with Bennett’s baby.

Desperate, Rose seeks out his family for support.

While Bennett’s death leaves everyone to deal with grief differently, his parents discover the only way to bring them back together is to accept Rose into the family.

Unable to bear her pain, Bennett’s mother, Grace (Susan Sarandon), blames Rose for her son’s death and resents her presence in the household. His father, Allen (Pierce Brosnan), instead uses Rose as a crutch to shut out his own grief. Allen’s refusal to talk about Bennett creates marital issues between him and Grace. Meanwhile, their

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ately I’ve been having a bit of an existential crisis. It all started a few years ago when I realized that I was, under the law at least, a grown-ass man. As a grown-ass man I have a certain amount of freedom: I can buy candy whenever I want. As a grown-ass man I have certain commitments and obligations to myself and to society: I’m not supposed to buy candy whenever I want.

I call this the Grownup Problem.

All kids want to grow up faster.

Everyone has their own reasons for wanting to be a grownup, but when they get to be a grownup, they usually find that what they wanted doesn’t fall under the generally accepted role of “grownup.”

Kids want to stay up all night; grownups know they shouldn’t. Kids want to buy a pool and fill it with Jell-O; grownups know they shouldn’t. Kids want to eat pizza and candy all the time; grownups know they shouldn’t (usually after the first semester of freshman year, at least).

I understand that I’m not fully grown up yet. I don’t have a nine-to-five, I’m not yet approaching my midlife crisis and I haven’t yet graduated from the school of hard knocks (let alone college).

But I can vote and swear and drive and smoke and buy health insurance and join the military and see R-rated movies and drink and … well pretty much do everything short of run for president and join the AARP. Under the law I can get a credit card and use it to buy candy. I could buy candy with my credit card until I go bankrupt.

But I can’t because I’m a grown-ass man.

Being a grownup sucks.

And it isn’t just candy that grownups are constantly denying themselves: Based on no results of a study that I didn’t conduct based on no science whatsoever, I have concluded that all adults have something that as a kid they swore they’d do and then never did. Maybe it’s eating cake for dinner every day. Maybe it’s moving to Disney World. Maybe it’s never talking to girls. It doesn’t really matter what it is; everyone has some distant dream that is currently being ignored.

If we had time machines, most of us would be liable to be slapped by our eight-year-old selves.

The Grownup Problem is the worst.

It’s a lot like Schrödinger’s cat, and not just in like a “The cat is an adult who is buying candy, the cat is an adult who is not buying candy” kind of way. Bear with me. The Grownup Problem works along the same lines as quantum mechanics: Just as the velocity and position of a particle cannot be measured with unlimited accuracy, the adultitude and buyingcandyness of a person cannot both be measured with unlimited accuracy.

We can’t know if the adult is buying candy or being an adult without taking a measurement, and taking this measurement inherently affects one of the variables. If asked, no adult will admit to buying candy all the time, and someone buying candy all the time will probably not admit to being an adult ... or whatever.

Camus once said, “How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!” He was probably referring to the inner struggle, the search for meaning in life, the quest for something greater, the trouble of carving out a place in the world, discovering the self and coming to terms with reality, but regardless of what he meant, it’s undeniable that becoming a man would be a lot less bitter if more candy were involved.

The Grownup Problem: 1.5 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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devil’s horns extending from the front of the stage to the merchandise stand in the back.

Pike and his bandmates greeted the crowd with a deafening roar of their own, diving into a new track aptly titled “Frost Hammer” — a song that beats any naysayers into submission. Not even three seconds into the song, a mosh pit had already formed and worked itself into a fevered frenzy.

The band was a thunderous force, reaching the heights to which every opener aspired.

Masterfully, it struck the right balance between heavy chords, dexterous licks, fast shredding and smooth melodic leads.

Pike proved himself to be not only a seasoned and exciting guitarist, but also an extremely charismatic frontman. He physically expressed the fury of the music in his interaction with the audience, all while delivering powerful, throaty vocals with great depth and inflection that recalled Motörhead’s lead vocalist.

As a rhythm section, Kensel and Matz could not have been better or more airtight. When Pike’s guitar briefly dropped out of the mix, the complex bass lines and pummeling drums proved every bit as interesting as the guitar work, a true genre rarity. This is a band at the height of its powers, poised to break free from underground obscurity and become a household name in metal.

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RZ: Is there more of a focus on the lyrics on this album than in past ones, because there’s more singing?

MP: Yeah, there’s more focus on the amount of singing, I suppose. But yeah, we just did more of everything. We tried to soup up the last bit we did, “Death Is This Communion” [2007]. That one we were f--king with, being a little bit more of a roller coaster, a little more psychedelic with the heaviness.

RZ: Was it a conscious decision? Or did it flow naturally in the studio?

MP: Albums come in and just write themselves out for awhile.

You just start picking and choosing. You have a lot of material to sort though, which is the opposite of having writer’s block. We had over-writer’s block. Can’t decide on anything.

RZ: High on Fire is a pretty distinct name. Where did it come from?

MP: An [Electric Light Orchestra] song, “Fire On High” [1975]. We f--kin’ flipped it around and kind of stole it. And it looked good on a flier.

RZ: When did you start playing guitar?

MP: When I was about eight or nine — I was kind of born into it.

My grandfather and my uncle used

to play for me when I was a baby, and I got the shapes in my head, like I was a sponge, I just already knew how to play. So I started picking it up because I had a good idea of the fundamentals and it stuck with me.

RZ: Self-taught?

MP: For the most part. I went to school for jazz at a community college, for a little while, just to learn theory and a little piano and figure out what the f--k I was doing, which did help me a lot with arrangements and improvisation.

RZ: Why do you play music?

MP: Because I breathe it. I live with

it. I bleed it. I love it. I’ve been doing it since I was a kid.

RZ: And if you weren’t playing music...?

MP: I’d shoot you. [laughs] I don’t know, probably be in porn. Nah, I’d probably be a luthier, or something to do with guitars. Or I’d be the same as I am now, a really super good, functional alcoholic. I don’t know. I’ve worked construction half my life, so I know what I’m doing there.

RZ: Why does the world need High on Fire?

MP: What would you do without it? I’m counting on High on Fire to f--kin’ save metal from itself.

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other son Ryan (Johnny Simmons) hides his emotions and withdraws from the family.

While Rose’s presence definitely has an effect on the family, the main focus is on the relationship between Grace and Allen. Allen plays the role of the pillar of strength for the family, showing no outward signs of his internal mourning and suffering.

His apparent lack of care for their dead son leaves Grace upset. And at several points throughout the movie, Rose and Allen appear more like a couple than Grace and Allen, creating another source of tension for the married couple.

Rose must face the loss of the time she could have had with Bennett. Even though the basis for the affection between them seems superficial, the film accurately portrays their love as perfect, pre-

cisely because it cannot be fulfilled.

Flashbacks spread throughout the movie are the only tantalizing hints the audience and Rose get of Bennett’s character. Like Rose, the audience yearns to know more about the man she should have gotten to know better.

The superb acting from the entire cast makes “The Greatest” even more moving and depressing than the plot suggests. The most touching scene surprisingly comes not from Bennett’s parents or Rose, but from Ryan and his admission that he must forever live with the fact that he never got the chance to say goodbye to his brother. The Brewer family comes within inches of breaking under the strain of personal pain, even causing Rose to run away.

However, Rose’s desire to learn more about Bennett enables the family to open up and appreciate

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his life, healing in the process. Once Grace realizes that Bennett truly cared for Rose and there was nothing anyone could have done to prevent his death, she allows herself to stop hating Rose. And when Grace starts to pull together a bit more, Allen finally allows himself to release his emotions.

While this film is heavy and offers no easy answers to pain, it brings comfort in its authenticity and the sharing of mutual heartbreak. “The Greatest” is worth seeing, if not just for the cathartic experience, but also for the strong acting and beauty of great, unfulfilled love.

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Supreme Court nomination should not be politicized Friday’s announcement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’ retirement has raised somewhat of a dilemma for Republicans whose seats will be contested in the coming midterm elections.

With the minority party gunning to regain Congressional seats and possibly the majority it lost in the 2006 elections in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, many current Republican members of Congress are torn between opposing President Barack Obama’s forthcoming selection on principle, thereby appealing to their more conservative base, or avoiding the political fight that would ensue and confirming the nominee — who is predicted to be centrist — as long as he or she does not seem to hold views that veer toward the left.

During midterm elections, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives as well as 34 of the seats in the Senate are up for grabs. Additionally, many state gubernatorial races are decided during midterm elections, making the months leading up to November crucial for members of Congress trying to solidify support within their own party or hold on to hotly contested seats.

For candidates whose positions are particularly precarious — such as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is facing opposition from the more conservative former congressman and talk-radio host J.D. Hayworth

— the temptation to stick to the party line and automatically raise a strong opposition to Obama’s Supreme Court nominee should not be underestimated. Indeed, with the passage of the health care bill, there may be few opportunities between now and Congress’ summer recess for members to give any substantial champion party values aside from at the confirmation hearings.

The staunch Republican resistance that accompanied the appointment of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, during which Republicans attempted to block and postpone the appointment of Obama’s nominee for as long as possible, provides a glimpse into what the upcoming confirmation hearing could be like. However, this tendency to make the confirmation process politicized is not unique to Republicans: Democrats, including Obama, often receive criticism from their opponents for the fights they raised against former President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees.

But opposition, as Republicans discovered during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, is expensive. Conservatives had announced plans to mount a full-scale campaign against her appointment, only to realize that they were without the funds necessary for such an extensive endeavor. No Republicans seem particularly inclined to filibuster Obama’s upcoming choice, but they could look to

reap some political capital from it. Some believe that the party perceives a populist opposition to President Obama — exemplified by the Tea Party movement — whose support the GOP could gain if it raised such issues as gun control, abortion rights or religion, all of which are likely to come up in discussions surrounding the philosophies of Supreme Court nominees.

However, some Republican leaders, such as Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), have said that they intend to take politics out of the equation when examining the President’s nominee.

This may seem unlikely in a process that is so frequently politicized, but the sentiments of people like Cornyn, who on April 11 told The New York Times, “We need to do our due diligence, and we need to probably bend over backwards both in appearance and in reality to give the nominee a fair process,” are extremely promising.

The Daily applauds those Republicans who seem willing to be open, flexible and to make decisions about the nomination based upon the facts rather than party politics or personal political gain. While nothing is guaranteed, we hope it is this attitude that comes through in the upcoming confirmation hearings and begins to find its way back into the minds of Congressmen on both sides of the aisle.

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Apple knows its primary target well enough, which can be generally encapsulated as gadget-obsessed techies who may or may not have some concern for the environment.

And that’s where their money lies — gadgets.

Unfortunately, after plowing through every possible consumerist invention ranging from computers to music players to cell phones, the Apple store has run out of ideas.

That’s when the iPad enters the high-anddry scene. Now, you can own an oversized iPod Touch with a unique and completely unexpected name: the iPad! Geez, who would have thought? Never before was I able to read e-books, watch YouTube videos or listen to music on my MacBook because this overbearing keyboard has always been in the way. And who really needs more than 16 gigabytes of space or to run more than one application at a time?

The iPad is saving the world in many ways.

With just $500 to $700, everybody can own this essential device that allows you to do everything your MacBook and iPod touch couldn’t (oh wait, what was that again?).

Another proclaimed feat is that this is an essentially “green” product. It includes ecofriendly features such as an enclosure made from recycled aluminum, power-saving LED displays (as opposed to LCD), mercury-free back-lighting and an arsenic-free display glass. Meanwhile, the entire product is not made with PVC, a chemical commonly found in computer power chords, which releases toxic compounds when it is put in landfills.

The iPad’s battery also lasts 10 hours, making it more battery-efficient than a laptop.

According to Green Living Tips, the battery is reusable for other applications even after it has reached the end of its life.

Despite its recyclable design and ability to conserve battery energy, the iPad eats at a much larger source of power. According to Greenpeace, it accesses an enormous energy-whoring “cloud” of online services, which is stamping a larger carbon footprint on this planet than previously expected.

Basically, when any iPad owner watches a YouTube video, reads an e-mail or downloads an e-book, it is reaching up into a network of energy utilized by millions of interconnected Web sites that are streaming, networking, storing, emailing and much more.

Greenpeace’s report “Make IT Green: Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change” shows that at this rate, this cloud of data centers and telecommunication networks will consume about 1,963 billion kilowatts hours of electricity in 2020.

That is more than the current electricity consumption of France, Germany, Canada and Brazil combined.

Even so, this all doesn’t change the fact that the mere existence of the iPad is wasteful. Even if it had no Internet access and thus couldn’t devour this supposed cloud of interconnected energy, we’d still be driving our cars to the nearest mall, texting and calling our friends along the way and walk into the Apple store to fish out a credit card that hasn’t already been maxed out. Hello, debt! Hello, failing economy!

Of course, I’m caught up in this Internet mess just as much as anybody, and I am also a victimized owner of Apple products.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re incredibly convenient. Still, the iPad is merely a regurgitation of preexisting Apple products, thus making it a waste of time and resources, additionally signifying that the company has run out of ideas.

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Tufts Energy Conference and green jobs BY

GRAHAM ROGERS

Since returning from Spring Break, I’ve faced two questions pretty consistently. The first, “How was your spring break?” is pretty innocent. It’s all about the now of college life. When’s the last time you got a death stare because you asked how someone’s Spring Break was? Spring Break is college hedonism. Exhibit A: Asking someone to describe it usually leads to (mildly) embellished tales of sun-drenched debauchery, places with palm trees and no freezing temperatures, and maybe a hangover. In the grand scheme, hangovers aren’t so bad.

The second question is pretty much the polar opposite, so it usually comes a little more tentatively. People even preface it with, “If you don’t mind my asking…” as if they’re prying into my darkest fears and worst doubts — which they are.

“So, do you know what you’re doing next year?” Oh, the humanity. Unless you live under a rock, you know the job market for newly minted college grads isn’t exactly humming right now. Unemployment rates for 20-24 year olds hover around 15 percent, a solid five points higher than the national average. Things are better if you have a college degree, but it’s still not a rosy picture by any stretch. A BusinessWeek article in October, titled “The Lost Generation,” referred to recent grads as “bright, eager, and unwanted,” and noted that stunted employment prospects now might create a kind of lost generation.

Employers, in an effort to cut costs, have begun to axe the recent college grads that fill the lowest ranks on their employment totem poles. These professionals, armed with a year or more of experience, have in turn begun to fill positions usually reserved for newcomers. All of which leaves rising graduates holding the short end of the stick.

So what’s left for new grads to do? Many will take refuge in grad school and hope to ride out the recession while making themselves more employable. Others will engage in service projects or travel (AmeriCorps programs like

MCT

Teach for America have seen a surge in applicants). For many these aren’t perfect solutions, but they’re preferable to living off a couch.

Now the good news: There are actually a bunch of eco-

nomic sectors that are growing and are going to need recent college graduates really soon. Health care is one, especially as the U.S. population ages and requires a more developed medical support system. Accounting and finance are others, though it remains to be seen if the U.S. financial system will ever revert to its former glory. The sector with possibly the greatest potential for growth, however, is green jobs.

Green jobs have a few advantages over other, more established sectors — most notably diversity of possible careers.

While engineers currently make up the largest slice of the sector’s options, grads with other academic backgrounds can find choices too. Everyone, from energy firms to policy think tanks to environmental consulting practices, is looking for employees. Since sustainability seems to be the new profitability, that trend seems likely to continue. Given its huge range of applications, the green sector might just be what the computer industry was 40 years ago.

Of course, actually finding a green job is a little trickier than knowing they exist, which is why this year’s Tufts Energy Conference will be more than a simple academic forum.

Participating students will have several opportunities to network and interact with employers, including the Conference Showcase on Friday April 16 in the Cabot Intercultural Center.

This catered event will be free to all students and will allow them to meet various companies, non-governmental organizations and academic organizations concerned with energy and the green market. Students who pay the $5 conference registration fee will not only be able to attend all keynote and panel sessions, but will also be able to participate in résumé drops with sponsors British Petroleum (BP), Dow Chemical, Chicago Bridge and Iron and Enel Energy. Registration can be completed at Tuftsenergyconference.com.

Graham Rogers is a senior majoring in International Relations. He is the on-campus advertising coordinator for the Tufts Energy Conference planning team.

IsraelFest brought some food for thought

BY STEPHANIE

CROSBY

I was just about to leave the Mayer Campus Center after meeting up with a fellow Muslim Students Association member to turn in paperwork for our upcoming retreat.

I glanced hungrily at the tables of free falafel set up for IsraelFest, but didn’t feel quite right partaking. I like Jews, and Israel is fine in theory, but considering its West Bank settlements and reactionary military escapades, I’m not about to throw a party just yet. Before I reached the door, I was stopped by a soft-spoken young Israeli man wearing a blue IsraelFest T-shirt. He said, “Can I interest you in a T-shirt?” He held up a handful of red shirts that resembled the recent Gap Inspi(Red) tees, but that read “COLO(RED)” instead.

I explained that I didn’t have any cash on me, but I stayed to listen to his pitch. The proceeds from each T-shirt would benefit the Sderot Community Treatment Theater, which aims to help ease the psychological toll on Israeli children who live in a town often hit by Qassam rockets from the Gaza strip. As somebody more biased toward “the other side,” my immediate thought was, “And what about the infinitely more numerous psychologically scarred children of Gaza?” Of course, I kept this thought to myself, and sincerely, if awkwardly, wished him luck as I continued home.

As soon as I walked away, however, I was hit with that gnawing feeling I get when I know I’ve passed up an opportunity. I started wondering what kind of conversation I could have had with this guy if I had brought up my side of the story. What if I had asked whether any part of the theater program encouraged the Sderot kids to humanize their peers on the other side of the Israeli border? What if I had asked whether they considered partnering with non-governmental organizations in Gaza to provide psychological care to even more young victims of warfare and poverty? Most likely this would have been a very interesting if not extremely productive conversation. But I passed it up because I was afraid to broach a potentially contentious subject. Shame on me.

I feel strongly that one of the most potent weapons of all those who oppose a comprehensive solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dehumanizing the population on the other side. I have heard perfectly reasonable Arabs say things like, “There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian. They are all soldiers,” and thus, legitimate military targets. I am sure that equivalent statements can be heard from behind the wall Israel has built in an effort to keep out Palestinians, and from within the fortress-like Israeli

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settlements which have metastasized throughout the West Bank since 1967. These structures separate populations both physically and psychologically, greatly decreasing the possibility of cooperation.

The fact that Sderot’s children suffer from the boom of Qassam rockets is tragic, all the more so considering the fact that their sons and daughters are unlikely to live any more securely unless they learn to work with their Palestinian neighbors to alleviate the extreme conditions currently nurturing extremism in Gaza. Healing the youth of Sderot is one step toward this goal, but stopping short of promoting humanization of the other side guarantees that the shells will continue to whiz overhead. It also guarantees that many more innocent Palestinians, including children, will die.

Humanization must come before peace.

I wish to begin the conversation I should have started in the campus center. To get things going, I would like to make one suggestion to the Sderot Community Treatment Theater: Please stop describing Qassams as “Palestinian missiles.” They are Hamas missiles. To make them a symbol of all Palestinians, including thousands of children suffering just like yours, is to completely and utterly give up hope for a future without Qassams.

Stephanie Crosby is a senior majoring in Middle Eastern studies. She is the co-chair of public relations for the Tufts Muslim Students Association.

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Tufts continues to climb rankings with win over No. 4 Trinity BY

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It seems as though the women’s lacrosse team is well on its way back to the top of the NESCAC, WOMEN’S LACROSSE (7-2, 4-2 NESCAC) at Hartford, Conn., Saturday Tufts Trinity

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beating the previously undefeated and nationally ranked No. 4 Trinity Bantams 11-9 on Saturday in Hartford, Conn. With the upset — their sixth win in a row — the No. 12 Jumbos improve to 7-2 overall and 4-2 in conference play. The loss knocked the Bantams into second in the conference, and not only secured Tufts a place in the ensuing NESCAC tournament, but kept its hopes of hosting the playoffs alive.

Though the Jumbos controlled the pace of the game for most of play, the final minutes threatened Tufts’ waning lead. With just over five minutes remaining, the Jumbo defense gave up a free position shot that allowed the Bantams to come within two, 10-8. Less than two minutes later, Trinity struck again to close the gap to a single goal with 3:42 left to play. However, a clutch save from junior goalkeeper Sara Bloom, who recorded a seasonhigh 10 saves on the day, denied

Trinity the tying goal and allowed the Jumbos to transition to offense and prepare to stall.

“Knowing the game is so close makes everyone work a lot harder,” sophomore Katie Lotz said.

“And I think we were a lot more aware about where the ball was and marking up tight when they came down on attack … Bloom’s save was incredible and pumped us up a lot, which made us work even harder to not let them score again.”

When Tufts lost possession in Trinity’s defensive end, sophomore attacker Lara Kozin stole the ball right back, and was able to score at 2:29 left in regulation. The security goal relaxed the Tufts squad and rattled Trinity, as the Bantams committed an offensive foul and squandered their own chances of a comeback, allowing the Jumbos to run out the clock for an 11-9 win.

“We knew we had to score again,” sophomore Casey Egan said. “And there was definitely a sense of urgency. But when Lara intercepted the ball and scored that goal we got a new wave of confidence. In the last few minutes we knew if we maintained possession and kept our confidence … we would keep our lead.”

For the first 20 minutes of play, neither team could establish a lead, as each of Tufts’ first four tallies was immediately answered by the Bantams. But Egan broke the seal and set off a four-goal Jumbo run that bridged the intermission. Egan

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Sophomore midfielder Casey Egan’s tally at 8:38 in the first half sparked a four-goal rush that put Tufts ahead of then-undefeated Trinity for good. The win moves the Jumbos to 4-2 in the NESCAC and ties them for second in the league. minutes of play. Back-to-back goals from sophomore Steph Perez gave Tufts its three-goal cushion, which proved necessary when the Bantams made their final efforts.

In the end, the Tufts offense, arguably the most dominant in the NESCAC, was too much for the previously stellar Bantam defense.

The Jumbo attack forced Trinity to

and senior Emily Johnson scored to go ahead 6-4 heading into halftime.

After the break, Tufts didn’t let up, as freshman Kerry Eaton added one and sophomore Kelly Hyland stretched the lead to 8-4. But Trinity, determined to protect its flawless record, fought back with a threegoal surge of its own and held the fierce Tufts attack scoreless for 12

Sunday slugfest gives Jumbos three-game sweep BY

ETHAN STURM

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All it took was a little change of scenery for the softball team’s offense to finally emerge in full force.

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Senior defender Eytan Saperstein dominated on defense, controlling 10 ground balls and keeping Trinity at bay in the team’s 9-5 win over the Bantams. The win marks the Jumbos’ ninth straight, the longest streak on record dating back to 1946.

Victory over Trinity gives Tufts best start in team history BEN KOCHMAN

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After grinding out a 9-5 win over Trinity this Saturday, the men’s lacrosse team has reached uncharted ground. While last year a MEN’S LACROSSE (9-0, 6-0 NESCAC) Bello Field, Saturday Trinity Tufts

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commit 22 fouls, while the Jumbos played a clean game with only 11.

The Jumbos outshot the Bantams 31-27 as well. Draw controls were dead even at 11 for each team, with Tufts sophomore Emily Pillemer picking up a game-high three.

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road loss to the Bantams ended Tufts’ eightgame winning steak to start the season, this season the Jumbos were able to beat their conference rivals and, as a result, have reached a nine-game winning streak for the first time in team history — or at least as far back as 1946, when the athletics department began archiving games.

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After scoring just 12 total runs at home in the squad’s conferenceopening series win over Bowdoin — including four in an April 2 loss to the Polar Bears, Tufts’ first loss to Bowdoin since 2004 — the Jumbos exploded for 27 runs in three games at NESCAC cellar-dweller Bates this weekend, returning to last season’s form (when the team averaged 7.3 runs per contest).

Entering this weekend, though, the Jumbos were putting up just 4.8 per game, but that all changed in Lewiston, Maine. Capped off by an 8-3 win in Sunday’s game following a two-game sweep on Saturday, Tufts has moved up 5-1 in the NESCAC East and looks to have prime momentum heading into next weekend’s showdown with first-place Trinity.

After the series got pushed back due to rain, the extra day of rest worked wonders for the Jumbos.

On Sunday, senior co-captain Casey

Sullivan crushed two home runs as Tufts pounded out 12 hits in the winning effort.

“I think we were just excited to come out and play a NESCAC game,” Sullivan said. “We definitely had the potential; I think the difference was that we capitalized on base runners and took advantage on hitting key opportunities more so than we did last weekend against Bowdoin.”

Sullivan homered in consecutive at bats in the fifth and seventh innings, helping turn a two-run lead into the final margin. Her four RBIs were a game-high, as three Jumbos had multi-hit efforts. Sophomore Lena Cantone, an All-American last season, had three hits, while senior Stefanie Tong, third on the team with a .368 average, had a pair of RBIs. In the circle, freshmen Aly Moskowitz and Rebecca DiBiase teamed up to limit the Bobcats to six hits, as DiBiase picked up her sixth win of the year with 3.2 shutout innings, closing the door after Bates opened up the game with a two-run lead. A five-run frame in the top of the fifth, however, gave the Jumbos an insurmountable lead.

“You know that no matter who’s on the mound, they’re capable of getting people out and it takes a lot of pressure off of the defense,” Sullivan said.

In the early game Saturday, Tufts jumped out on Bates freshman pitcher Caroline Gattuso. With two outs in the top of the first, Gattuso walked Sullivan, bringing Cantone to the plate. Cantone then laced a shot to straight away center, giving the Jumbos the 2-0 lead before they had even taken the field.

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Mariners hope offseason additions will result in playoff run

BY SAM

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The Seattle Mariners have not been to the postseason since 2001 when they recorded the best regular season record in baseball history (116-46), only to lose to the New York Yankees in the ALCS. Over the last eight seasons, however, Seattle has wallowed in mediocrity, while the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim — along with the Oakland Athletics at times — have dominated the AL West.

But 2010 could mark a turning point for the hungry Mariners, who in this year’s off-season, in the small market of Seattle, have made some big-time moves to put themselves in prime position to make a bid at the division title.

Seattle features the best one-two punches of starting pitchers of any Mariners team in recent memory. The team’s staff is anchored by 24-year-old phenom Felix Hernandez, who has been pitching in the majors for the Mariners since he was 19 years old.

After struggling with inconsistencies for the first few years of his career, Hernandez finally settled down in 2009 and posted Cy Young-like numbers (a 19-5 record and a 2.49 ERA to be exact). Now still at a ripeyoung age, Hernandez will undoubtedly continue his dominance in 2010, barring injury. He has an incredible upside and an impressive repertoire of pitches. Although Hernandez can touch 100 mph on the radar gun, he relies heavily upon a nasty two-seam fastball that falls away from hitters. Hernandez is a scout’s dream, a rare commodity: a true ace.

What makes the Mariners so dangerous this season is that they are one of the few teams in baseball that can realistically claim to field two aces in their rotation.

Cliff Lee, who won the American League Cy Young award in 2008 with the Indians, will pitch behind Hernandez in 2010. The Mariners acquired Lee this winter in the last year of his contract from Philadelphia in a multi-team deal that also sent perennial All-Star Roy Halladay to the Phillies.

Lee is a crafty lefty who pitched beautifully against the Yankees in the 2009 World Series. Having hit a stride over the last two seasons, Lee has an opportunity to bloom in the AL West, where the hitters will not be as familiar with his style.

Although he is on the disabled list to start the season, Lee will probably be pitch-

ing by May. At least on paper, there is no better top of a rotation than that of the Mariners in 2010.

The magical 2001 Mariners season was also perennial All-Star Ichiro Suzuki’s rookie season. In that year Ichiro became only the second player in history to win the MVP and Rookie of the Year award in the same season. Arguably the best leadoff hitter of the 2000s, Ichiro has stayed remarkably consistent since he broke into the league. Furthermore, he has stayed loyal to the Mariners, choosing to stay in the small market city for his entire career in the states. And this offseason the Mariners’ management acquired some quality hitters to back up Ichiro, forming one of the most promising lineups they’ve had this decade.

The Mariners went out and acquired Chone Figgins, Casey Kotchman and Milton Bradley in the offseason, forming the middle of their line-up. All three could potentially have career years and carry the team to the division title, but the up-and-down trio could end up being busts.

Figgins, who is coming off another solid season with the Angels and will start the year hitting in the Mariners’ two hole, is the safest bet out of the three to excel in 2010. Although the speedy Figgins failed to reach a .300 batting average last year, he still found ways to get on base, sporting an impressive .395 on-base percentage. Although his numbers may not be as high in 2010, he will likely be able to get on base often behind Ichiro and set the table for the middle of the lineup.

The first baseman Kotchman ended his 2009 season on an inconsistent note for the Red Sox. He batted only .218 and also seemed to be off-balance at the plate.

When playing with Atlanta for the first half of 2009 as more of an everyday guy, Kotchman hit .282. He will undoubtedly benefit in 2010 with his spot in the starting lineup ensured. At the young age of 27, Kotchman has not yet had that kind of opportunity in his career, and 2010 could mark a turning point for him.

The Mariners’ last big offseason acquisition is also the team’s most risky and controversial. Milton Bradley perhaps has as much raw talent as any hitter in baseball. He batted .321 and had an on-base percentage of .436 in his magical 2008 season with the Rangers.

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The Mariners hope that the enigmatic Milton Bradley can return to form as one of the most productive hitters in the American League.

Bradley. Unfortunately, he is also widely regarded as a loose cannon. Bradley burned out in 2009 with the Cubs and was suspended for the final 15 games of the season after criticizing his team in a local newspaper. Perhaps Bradley is too much of a free spirit to play in a big market like Chicago, Boston or New York. The Seattle press is rather tame, though, and a new start in a new city could be what Bradley needs to become dominant once again.

Hopes are not terribly high in Seattle, but there is a sense that 2010 could mark a rebirth. The window of success, though, is small. Cliff Lee’s contract will expire next season, and he will probably get signed by a team with more money to

Upcoming games offer break from tough competition

Athletes of the Week CASEY SULLIVAN, SOFTBALL Following a disappointing start to NESCAC play on April 2 when the softball team dropped its first contest to Bowdoin since 2004, the Jumbos headed to Bates this weekend looking to get back on track and reassert themselves as the dominant offensive team they were last year when the squad made it to the College World Series. Thanks in large part to senior tri-captain Casey Sullivan, Tufts is looking strong.

Sullivan swatted a pair of home runs on Sunday as part of a four-RBI day, helping the Jumbos to a series sweep of the Bobcats with an 8-3 win in the third and final game of the weekend.

Sullivan, a shortstop, hit home runs in the fifth and seventh innings to help break open a close contest, finishing with two hits and two runs in three at bats.

In Saturday’s 9-0 and 10-2 routs of Bates, Sullivan had a banner day, going a combined 5-for7 with four RBIs and five runs scored. She also added to her gaudy home-run total with a pair in the early contest and sparked a seven-run rally in the fifth inning with a leadoff single in the latter game, adding another hit in the frame as the Jumbos batted around.

The Jumbos’ No. 3 hitter is currently leading the team in most offensive categories, including runs (23), hits (31), doubles (7), triples (2), home runs (7), RBIs (20) and on-base percentage (.446). Sullivan has also thus far posted an impressive .900 slugging percentage, which is well ahead of pace to break the current program mark of .869.

spend than the Mariners. Ichiro, additionally, is already in his mid-30s, and although Bradley could settle down, he has not been very consistent in the past.

The Angels may not be as solid as they have been in past years, but will still be the favorite to win the division. The Rangers were in the wild card chase late into 2009 and could also have a solid year out West. Mariners fans are used to not getting their hopes up.

However, one cannot help but hold out a small slice of optimism for Seattle in 2010. It really has been a while since they have been on top of the baseball world, and this year might be the year that they regain that status.

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STEVE FOGLIETTA, MEN’S LACROSSE Last season, the Jumbos’ eight-game, season-opening winning streak was halted on the road thanks to an 11-9 loss to Trinity. Ranked fifth in the nation at the time, Tufts allowed three consecutive fourth-period goals as the Bantams overcame the one-goal deficit. But with sophomore goalie Steve Foglietta leading the charge on Bello Field this weekend versus the Bantams, there was no such upset.

Foglietta, who stopped 11 out of 16 shots in the net, helped sixth-ranked Tufts to its ninth straight win, the longest winning streak in program history dating back to 1946 (when records started being kept). Foglietta was stellar in goal all afternoon, saving five shots in the third quarter which helped the Jumbos’ offense go on a 3-1 run to surge ahead.

On Tuesday in Tufts’ 12-6 midweek win over NESCAC foe Bates, Foglietta came off the bench to shut down the Bobcats’ offense. After teammate Bryan Petillo gave up five goals in the opening 14:17, coach Mike Daly pulled his starter, making way for Foglietta, who was lights-out from then on. In just over 45 minutes on the field, Foglietta allowed only one goal, making 10 saves as visiting Tufts turned a two-goal deficit at the end of the first period into a crucial victory that kept them in first place in the league.

The sophomore, who saw just three games last season, has a .573 save percentage on the year and a team-high 47 saves as the Jumbos’ defense has given up just 7.33 goals per game on the year.

together against Trinity,” Lotz said. “We were very vocal and communicated really well, so we were always there for the doubles and the slides. We had gone over some of their plays in practice, so we had a general idea of what they were going to do, and luckily it all worked out and we were able to get a lot of turnovers and bring the ball back up to offense.”

“The defense really stepped it up,” Egan added. “Their great play made it possible for us to have opportunities to score. Our attack simply capitalized on the defensive plays.”

The win serves as a stepping stone for the young Jumbos, who have only five upperclassmen in their starting lineup. They move into a three-way tie for second place in the league with Bowdoin and Colby and have renewed their chances for a return to the national quarterfinals. And, with the opportunity to extend the win streak through this week on Thursday against a 9-2 Endicott team out of the comparatively weak Commonwealth Coast Conference and Saturday versus Conn.

College (1-5 NESCAC), early doubts of the team’s ability are soon to be forgotten.

“I think this win is a huge message to the rest of the NESCAC and to the rest of Div. III,” Lotz said. “We may have had a rough start in the beginning of the season, but our team has really come together, and both our attack and defense has really gelled and become really strong. This win has definitely given us a lot of confidence individually and in our team, and it lets us know that we can’t accept losing to anyone, and shows us how well we are capable of playing.”

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But as the game progressed, the Jumbo attack grew stronger and stronger, and in the second half Tufts outscored the Bantams 6-3.

Junior Matt Witko led the team with three goals, while classmate D.J. Hessler added a goal and three assists. Sophomore goalie Steven Foglietta was steady in net, allowing only five goals on 16 shot attempts.

Although the Jumbos are happy to keep their undefeated season alive, the 9-5 win was their lowest goal total of the season, and the game as a whole was marked by turnovers and sloppy play on both sides, as both teams failed on clear attempts 11 times.

“I think that it was a great conference win, but we haven’t played our best lacrosse yet this season,” senior tri-captain Doug DiSesa said. “We want to be playing our best in late April and May. “Offensively we struggled at times taking care of the ball,” he continued. “But on defense we did a great job of playing together as a unit. Trinity has some great players and scored some goals, but we did a solid job with our rotations and of playing ‘inside-out’ defense.”

Tufts held a 3-2 lead at the half, which the Jumbos stretched to 6-3 by the end of the third quarter. In the fourth, Tufts put the Bantams away with two goals from senior tri-captain Mike Droesch and disciplined goalten-

ding from Foglietta.

While Trinity — whose method of slow play has also kept NESCAC opponents Williams, Colby and Wesleyan under 10 goals in games this season — successfully executed its game plan, sophomore Nick Rhoads won 12 of 16 face-offs for the Jumbos, giving the team chances to score in transition, which is its comfort zone.

“Nick Rhoads did a great job on face-offs, which allowed us to get the ball, and in the second half we started finishing those opportunities,” Witko said. “We started slowly, but we were confident the whole time that we’d be able to come back and take the game.”

Senior tri-captain Eytan Saperstein led a smothering Jumbos defensive unit, keeping the Bantams at bay all game long.

Saperstein picked up 10 ground balls on the day, while the team as a whole finished the game in front of Trinity 40-34 in the category.

Tufts’ goaltending was also key: Despite the Bantams holding a 34-33 edge in shots on the day, Foglietta was able to build on his dominant performance in three quarters on Tuesday against Bates and once again get the job done.

“The fact is that we were on defense for the majority of the game,” Saperstein said. “Trinity likes to slow the game down, and the turnovers and failure to clear did not help us either ... [but] I think we [as a defense] didn’t try to do too much and played

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our game. Our goalie also played really well, and made a bunch of huge saves.”

With Saturday’s victory, the Jumbos preserved their pristine record, but the team’s leaders have bigger goals in mind.

“It means a lot [to win nine straight], but no one really had on their goal sheet at the beginning of the season ‘go 9-0,’” Saperstein said. “Our goal is really to win one game at a time and to be playing deep into the playoffs.”

“While that’s great that our team is winning, it’s not really what we set out to do,” DiSesa added. “We want to ultimately win our first NESCAC title and our first national title.”

Tufts will attempt to keep its undefeated season alive this Tuesday night at Western New England College against the team that beat them in the second round of last year’s NCAA Div. III Tournament.

“We need [on Tuesday] to play a very fast-paced style, make good decisions and cash in on our opportunities,” Witko said.

“The most important thing is that we come out firing straight from the start.”

“This game definitely has our attention and all of our focus,” DiSesa added. “They’re a great team, a solid program, so it will be fun … With that taste of last year’s defeat in our mouth, we want to get out there and take care of business.”

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go out on the mound and be a little more relaxed,” junior pitcher Izzie Santone said.

“There is less pressure on your shoulders when you have a lead.”

Santone, who had battled a knee injury throughout the early part of the season, appeared relaxed out on the mound. In the first five innings, Bates only managed to get the ball out of the infield once as Santone retired the first 15 batters she faced. The pressure built as Santone pulled within six outs of a perfect game.

“I was aware of it, and I know other people were,” Santone said. “I was going pretty crazy, and was getting pretty excited about the fact that this could happen.”

But it was not to be. Bates freshman AnnaMarie Martino led off the sixth with a single, ending Santone’s bid for perfection. Santone managed to keep her composure though, getting out of the inning without any further damage. In the seventh, Bates threatened to break up the shutout, putting two on with two out. But Santone completed her dominant performance, striking out sophomore Monica Berube, her eighth of the game.

“I went at it with a different outlook than previous games,” Santone said. “My coaches and I have been talking a lot about pitching strategy, and I used that better in this game. They definitely have some strong hitters, but I got a stroke of luck and kept them off balance.”

While Santone shut down the Bates bats, Sullivan’s was very alive. She singled in the third and hit home runs in both the sixth and seventh, her fourth and fifth of the season.

She finished the game 3-for-3

with four RBIs. The Jumbos’ offense tallied nine runs in total, cruising to the 9-0 victory.

The second game on Saturday was closer, at least for the first four innings. Bates sophomore pitcher Kristen Finn and DiBiase both allowed a pair of runs in the second, before an error by the Bobcats’ sophomore right fielder Karen Ullmann gave the Jumbos the 3-2 lead.

The score held until the top of the fifth, when the floodgates opened. The Jumbos exploded for seven runs on eight hits in the frame, including a two-run blast from Tong and an RBI double by junior catcher Julia Silberman.

“Innings like that just click; your team finally catches a groove, and that is a huge deal for our team,” Santone said. “It means we can go out against other teams and do the same thing. It was definitely a good feeling.”

DiBiase, meanwhile, closed the door on the Bobcats in the bottom of the frame, and Tufts took the game in five innings by mercy rule by a score of 10-2.

The Jumbos will be back to work quickly, making up a game at home against Bridgewater State on Tuesday.

They will then be off until their weekend series, in which they will play host to the Trinity Bantams, who currently sit atop the NESCAC East with a spotless 6-0 conference record.

“We’re looking to continue with the offensive success we had this weekend, just by continuing to do what we’ve done all weekend,” Sullivan said.

“But there are definitely offensive areas that we could get better in all week.”

Alex Prewitt contributed reporting to this article.

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