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TUPD receives third accreditation by

Nina Goldman

Contributing Writer

The Tufts University Police Department ( TUPD) last month successfully completed its third accreditation process in accordance with Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission (MA-PAC) standards, according to Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire.

The MA-PAC recognition process involves two steps: Bureaus are first certified, and then they are accredited.

TUPD was first certified in 2003, becoming the 14th certified bureau in the state, according to Executive Director of MA-PAC Donna Taylor Mooers.

The department then received its accreditation in 2005, she added.

Becoming certified or accredited involves an in-depth examination of the department’s practices, Mooers noted.

In order to receive certifications, departments must

meet at least 159 mandatory standards, Mooers said. As an accredited bureau, TUPD must now meet more than 300 standards, according to Tufts’ Accreditation Manager Captain Linda O’Brien.

“We have cutting-edge policies and procedures that direct our people in relation to the best practices in the industry that are currently in place,” Maguire said.

TUPD, last accredited in 2009, must repeat the process every three years to maintain its accredited status, according to Mooers.

TUPD must maintain its high standards between reaccreditations as well, O’Brien noted. “It’s pretty much a daily process.”

Maintaining its accreditation status is critical to preserving the Tufts community’s confidence in the department, according to O’Brien.

“There would probably be a perception that we’re not see TUPD, page 2

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Alpha Phi’s Bid Your Heart Out charity auction last night attracted 400 eager bidders.

Alpha Phi hosts charity auction soiree by

Laina Piera

Daily Editorial Board

Tufts sorority Alpha Phi last night hosted its second annual Bid Your Heart Out charity event which consisted of live and silent auctions supporting women’s heart health.

The event last year raised just under $6,000, according to junior Kelly Shorr, one of the sorority’s vice presidents. All of the money raised through the auction both last year and this year goes toward women’s heart health, the philanthropic cause of the Alpha Phi Foundation, Shorr said.

The red carpet-themed event offered the approximately 400 attendees entering the soiree an opportunity to stroll down

a red carpet and pose to have a photographer snap their pictures.

There were 105 items auctioned off this year, according to senior Taryn Brandes, one of the auction chairs. Items auctioned off included tickets to see the Red Sox and the Yankees play at Fenway Park, a room for two at the Liberty Hotel in Boston including dinner at Figs in Beacon Hill and a “Tuesday Night Taxi Service,” transporting the winner and three of his or her friends to and from destinations of their choice, according to Brandes.

In addition to the silent auction held in the lobby of Aidekman Arts Center and the see AUCTION, page 2

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Panelists last night discussed the injustices perpetrated against Native American and Australian Aborigines during the ‘Share Experiences: Indigenous Voices’ panel.

Activists highlight commonalities between indigenous experiences

Panelists last night during an event titled “Shared Experiences: Indigenous Voices” brought to light the past and present injustices inflicted upon Native Americans and Australian Aborigines and drew connections between the experiences of the two groups.

The American Studies Program and the Arts, Sciences & Engineering Diversity Fund co-sponsored the event, which was held in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room.

The event kicked off at 5:30 p.m. with a buffet catered by a Native American-run company in the Aidekman Arts Center.

Attendees next were offered a guided tour of the Tufts University Art Gallery exhibition displaying the work of Australian Aboriginal artist Richard Bell, whose work is a form of activism shedding light on past and present social injustices.

Joan Lester, lecturer of American Studies, who specializes in Native American issues and moderator of the panel discussion, cited Bell’s work as an inspiration for the event.

“When I read the catalog of Richard Bell’s work … I realized that there were incredible and disturbing connections between what had happened and what is still happening in Australia and what was happening and is still happening here in the United States to native people,” Lester said.

Lester was also motivated to organize a film series on Native American and Australian Aboriginal topics, the third film of which will be showed on Nov. 3.

The panel featured three Native American panelists, each of whom delivered a

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15-minute presentation, and one Australian Aboriginal activist who responded to each of the presentations.

“The panelists are impressive, all four of them are amazing,” Lester said. “All of these panelists are warriors.”

Linda Coombs, an Aquinnah Wampanoag Martha’s Vineyard resident and the program director of the Aquinnah Cultural Center, delivered the first presentation. She discussed the destructive impact of colonization and the silencing of Native American history.

“The deeper, darker meanings of colonization have been bred out of American history,” Coombs said. “However, people still carry associated attitudes and behaviors that go unrecognized for what they actually are.”

Ron Plain, an Anishinaabe activist from Ontario who has fought against local environmental contamination, followed, highlighting instances of environmental racism inflicted against the native peoples of North America. He cited as an example the health crisis in his homeland caused by exposure to 62 petrochemical plants.

Jennifer Weston, a Hunkpapa Lakota woman and manager of Cultural Survival’s endangered language program in Cambridge, discussed the attempts to eradicate Native American languages.

She screened a short film called “We Still Live Here” (2010) about the struggle of Euchee people of Oklahoma to preserve their language. The tribe, which is not recognized by the federal government, has a language linguistically distinct from any other, she said.

Despite the UNESCO estimates that she cited that an indigenous language “goes silent” every two weeks, Weston

has not lost hope in her fight to save tribal tongues.

“It doesn’t really matter what kind of attack our people come under; our languages are our people’s souls,” she affirms. “They hold our connections not only to the past and the future but also to our very origins. Every language is a very unique account of human creation.”

The final panelist, Mick Dodson, is a visiting professor at Havard University’s Ke n n e d y School of Government and in 2009 was named Australian of the Year for his work on behalf of the nation’s Aboriginal people.

Dodson related the experiences of the other speakers to his own.

“Listening to my brother and my two sisters talk about their experiences, I can assure you this is the same s--t we’re dealing with at home,” he said.

“The commonality of the issues in front of us is stark, and that’s because they’re not very different, because we also were sick of being discovered.”

Dodson explained that white people today do indeed share responsibility for the injustices perpetrated by whites of the past.

“We accept you weren’t the thief, but god you’ve been benefiting from that theft for a long time,” he said.

Lester, from her perspective as a white woman, echoed Dodson’s remark in her closing statements.

“We [white people] enjoy white privilege often without even knowing that we’re enjoying it, and I think one of our responsibilities is to recognize that, and serve as allies as much as we possibly can, not to take over, not to lead, but to be there as support, as listener, and as ally whenever it’s possible,” she said.

Today’s sections

The Daily presents a timeline of Tufts’ 13 university presidents.

Betsey Johnson holds a fashion show honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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see ARTS, page 4

News Features Arts & Living

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Comics Sports Classifieds

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Alpha Phi auction draws hearty crowd

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The Tufts University Police Department is one of nine university police departments in Massachusetts to be accredited by the MA-PAC program.

TUPD undergoes voluntary reaccreditation process TUPD

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where we should be professionally,” she said. “I think that we’ve always maintained a high level of professionalism in this department.”

The MA-PAC program has grown in recent years; 35 groups are currently certified, and 108 more are either certified or working toward their certification, according to Mooers.

Before TUPD began the certification process, Mount Holyoke and Northeastern University were the only other schools involved in the MA-PAC program, according to Training and Accreditation Coordinator James Anderson.

Today, nine Massachusetts colleges and universities’ police forces are accredited or certified, including Boston University and University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mooers said.

No police department in Massachusetts, including city or town police forces, is required to undergo the accreditation process, Maguire noted.

“It’s all voluntary,” he said. “Police departments actually step up to the plate and request to be accredited because of the tremendous internal leadership and management that is demanded by police departments.”

Former Senior Director of Public and Environmental Safety John King, who left Tufts in June 2010, initially spearheaded TUPD’s effort to become certified, O’Brien said.

At the time, King recognized that TUPD already met many of the MA-PAC requirements for certification, and receiving the actual accreditation would have been relatively simple, O’Brien said.

“We’ve always been held to a higher standard in this department, and this pretty much just documents it,” she said. “It helps us because everybody knows what’s expected.”

Accreditation is a sign of the department’s commitment to pro-

CORRECTIONs The Oct. 19 article “Senate forgives five student group debts, not its own” neglected to mention that Sarabande only appeared to go over budget due to an accounting error that the group was not to blame for.

The Oct. 19 Sartorial Scene feature incorrectly referred to Ben Hescott as a lecturer of computer science. He is in fact an assistant professor.

The Tufts Daily is a nonprofit, independent newspaper, published Monday through Friday during the academic year, and distributed free to the Tufts community. EDITORIAL POLICY Editorials represent the position of The Tufts Daily. Individual editors are not necessarily responsible for, or in agreement with, the policies and editorials of The Tufts Daily. The content of letters, advertisements, signed columns, cartoons and graphics does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Tufts Daily editorial board.

fessionalism, Maguire noted.

“What that tells you is that the internal workings of the police department, from its senior leadership and management to its police officers and public safety officers, that they’re dedicated, they’re professional, they’re hard-working, and that they adopt and maintain the current best practices in the industry,” Maguire said.

live auction held in a nearly full Cohen Auditorium, the event featured musical performance by Tufts students and a performance by Spirit of Color.

The event was brought back this year due to its fundraising success last year.

“It was a fun philanthropy social event … It was really successful and we wanted to do it again,” Brandes said.

Although the event was held in Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall last year, the venue moved to Cohen Auditorium this year because of the lack of space in the dining hall.

“We went way over capacity, which we weren’t expecting, which was a great problem to have, so now it’s in Cohen,” Brandes said.

In addition to raising money for women’s heart health, a goal of the event is to bring together many different parts of the campus.

“We thought this event would be great to raise money, but it also brings together tons of different people, because who doesn’t like items for cheap and who doesn’t want to go see their friends perform?” Shorr said.

The auction aimed to have a wide variety of selection for attendees.

“We definitely have an item for everyone and we worked very hard to at least have something that a lot of different groups would be interested in bidding on,” Ally Abouzahr, a sophomore member of the auction committee, said.

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FEATURES

The presidency at Tufts: A brief history Anthony Monaco will be inaugurated as the 13th president of Tufts today, joining a long line of men who have served at the helm of the university. In case you missed Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Sol Gittleman’s lecture on the history of Tufts presidents on Wednesday, here’s a rundown of the Tufts presidency since Charles Tufts put a light on the Hill in 1852.

— compiled by Jon Cheng, Victoria Rathsmill and Martha Shanahan

1853-1861

The president: Hosea Ballou The rundown: The first president of Tufts College, Ballou was a clergyman, theologian and historian. His presidency ended in 1861 when he died in office.

Specialty: History and intellectual philosophy.

The president: Alonzo Miner The rundown: Appointed as the second president of Tufts following the death of Hosea Ballou, Miner was originally a schoolteacher and a Universalist minister.

Specialty: Miner was dedicated to the cause of education in Massachusetts, and he was also very involved in a variety of moral and civic organizations. He is credited with saving the college from financial disaster.

1862-1875

1875-1905

The president: Elmer Capen The rundown: Capen graduated from Tufts in 1860.

While he was still an undergraduate at Tufts, Capen served one term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, giving up his seat in order to graduate on time. Capen supervised the beginning of coeducation in 1892.

Specialty: Capen practiced law and served as a Universalist minister before coming to Tufts.

1905-1912 The president: Frederick Hamilton The rundown: Hamilton created the all-female Jackson College in 1909 amid public controversy and his own negative opinions about co-education. After a fallingout with the Board of Trustees, he resigned as president in 1912, later becoming the business manager of a forestry company.

Specialty: Hamilton obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tufts in English, literature and philosophy.

1915-1919 The president: Hermon Bumpus The rundown: Bumpus was the first non-Universalist president of Tufts, and he was chosen to be president specifically because of his educational and administrative experience. Bumpus oversaw the college through World War I before resigning in 1919.

Specialty: Bumpus received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 1884, specializing in biology and science, and he worked as a professor of comparative zoology at Brown.

1920-1937 1938-1952 The president: Leonard Carmichael The rundown: Having previously established himself as a prominent psychologist, Carmichael expanded Tufts across several fields. He later went on to become secretary for the Smithsonian Institution.

Specialty: In 1964, Carmichael left the Smithsonian to become vice president for research and exploration for National Geographic.

1967-1976

The president: Burton Hallowell The rundown: Hallowell, a New Orleans native, was known for his openness to student demands and as a result made broad changes to the university curriculum during his tenure. While he was president, students engaged in protests over the Vietnam War, army recruiters’ presence on campus and the lack of racial diversity among dormitory construction workers.

Specialty: Before coming to Tufts, Hallowell worked as an instructor of economics at Wesleyan College, for the United States’ Office of Strategic Services and for the U.S. Army.

The president: John Cousens The rundown: Cousens served as acting president in 1919 and went on to lead Tufts through the Great Depression, which left the school’s finances relatively unharmed. He died in office in 1937.

Specialty: Cousens worked to establish The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

1953-1967 The president: Nils Yngve Wessell The rundown: Tufts College became Tufts University in 1955 during Wessell’s tenure, and the Lincoln Filene Center and the Experimental College were founded. Wessell oversaw a wide-reaching expansion of the university’s facilities that included the construction of dormitories, laboratories, a library and an engineering building.

Specialty: Wessell served as the resident psychologist at the Bradley Home in Providence, R.I., as well as the director of the Mobile Child Guidance Center at the University of Michigan.

1976-1992

1992-2001

The president: John DiBiaggio The rundown: Before coming to Tufts, DiBiaggio served as president of both Michigan State University and the University of Connecticut. While on the Hill, he oversaw the establishment of the University College of Citizenship and Public Service ­— the precursor to The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. He prided himself on being more accessible than the typical university president.

Specialty: Under DiBiaggio’s leadership, Tufts underwent a decade of academic and financial improvements, with the university’s endowment tripling during his tenure.

The president: Jean Mayer The rundown: Mayer succeeded in founding the first graduate school of nutrition in the United States and New England’s only school of veterinary medicine. He increased the school’s endowment to $200 million from $30 million.

He died in 1993 after his last year in office.

Specialty: Mayer served as the chair of the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health under former President Richard Nixon.

2001-2011 The president: Lawrence Bacow The rundown: Bacow took on the job as president of Tufts weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, and he retired at the end of last semester after a decade on the job. While president, he also directed the Tufts Medical Center and held faculty appointments in five departments.

Specialty: Bacow holds degrees in economics, environmental studies and law, and he was recently named president-in-residence of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and a member of the Harvard Corporation.

2011The president: Anthony Monaco The rundown: Tufts’ 13th and newest president joins the Hill from a post as pro-vice-chancellor for planning and resources at the University of Oxford.

Specialty: Monaco is a distinguished geneticist, having discovered the gene responsible for X-linked Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, which weaken the skeletal and heart muscles.

All information and images are compiled from the Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives and the archives of the Tufts Daily.

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Flair and a good cause share stage at Betsey Johnson’s Boston fashion show by

Ashley Wood

Daily Editorial Board

Hot off the trails of Boston Fashion Week, Betsey Johnson, a New York fashion designer and owner of her own label since 1978, held a fashion show at the Cyclorama this past Saturday in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Proceeds from tickets went to the South End Community Health Center’s new breast cancer prevention program.

The 69-year old designer, who fought breast cancer over a decade ago, has since used her success and talent to promote the cause.

And yet this doesn’t quite answer: Why Boston? Breast cancer awareness events happen all over the United States — especially in October — and after Boston ranked in GQ’s worst-dressed cities list, it seems to be an unlikely locale for a high-profile designer to put on a show.

It turns out Johnson did have an ulterior — though hardly insidious — motive for choosing Boston. Her visit came on behalf of her brother, Bobby Johnson, president of the South End Community Health Center and local Boston resident.

Regardless of Johnson’s reason for coming, fashion lovers and patrons of the cause were promised a complete, New York-style show exhibiting Johnson’s Fall/Winter ready-to-wear collection.

While fashion shows typically last for half an hour at most, Johnson seemed truly determined to host an eveninglong affair. Guests mingled, combed through their gift bags, took photos in front of a Betsey Johnson-logo backdrop and even met the designer herself when she appeared among the crowd before the show.

In addition, the Cyclorama was transformed into an open, glossy white space. Pops of pink reflected Johnson’s signature color while alluding to the iconic pink ribbons of the breast cancer awareness cause.

Though the show was scheduled to start at 7 p.m., it kicked off a few minutes fashionably late. When the seating lights finally dimmed, the long, illuminated

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At Betsey Johnson’s Boston fashion show, philanthropy met flair in the fight against breast cancer. white runway became the main focus.

Johnson briefly appeared onstage and playfully spray-painted “XOXO Betsey” in pink beneath her label logo.

Next came the models. It’s worth mentioning that the average Betsey Johnson model is nothing like the stereotypical, expressionless waif associated with most

designer shows. They have more in common with the lovely ladies of Victoria’s Secret than the avant-garde Kate Moss.

Rather than using models as walking coat hangers for her designs, Johnson chooses women who are sexy, playful, energetic and confident — personality traits that fall perfectly in tune with, and

even amplify, the style of the clothes.

The clothes themselves stayed true to Johnson’s typical over-the-top canon.

Bold cheetah prints, touches of pink and skull patterns adorned a number of pieces, and the cuts carefully danced between girly and all-out sexy. The show was clearly about “girl power” — a fitting message for an event benefiting breast cancer awareness.

Standout items from the show included a skull-covered bodysuit, a red plaid and pleated schoolgirl skirt with a matching blazer, a pink and purple ruffled dress with lace sleeves and graphic tees designed to look like comic-book pop art. Johnson contrasted nearly all of these feminine looks with her staple ’80s glam necklaces and chunky, aggressive footwear.

After the last model strutted down the runway, Johnson appeared before the cheering crowd in her iconic pink tutu and customarily cartwheeled into splits right on the catwalk.

Soon after Johnson’s lively performance, the string of models reappeared, sporting graphic pink tanks.

The shirts bore an altered design of the famous “We Can Do It” illustration from the 1940s, subbing in Johnson for Rosie the Riveter.

The show ended with a speech by Johnson and her brother, which shed light on the creation of the event and the breast cancer program it benefited.

After their words, in perhaps the biggest surprise of the night, a representative from the Boston Mayor’s Office thanked Johnson for her contribution to the city, and somewhat comically proclaimed Oct. 15 as “Betsey Johnson Day.” Whether or not the new citywide holiday will inspire Beantown residents to trade in their St. Patty’s Day gear and Bruins jerseys for pink tutus is yet to be seen. Regardless, by the end of the night, it was clear that Johnson had contributed more than her name and her clothes to the fundraiser.

The event represented a sincere effort on her part to put on a show worthy of a New York stage, all while raising a significant $150,000 for an excellent cause.

Album Review

Waits’ 17th release lacks experimentalism but offers strong tracks by

Matthew Welch

Daily Editorial Board

During Tom Waits’ fabled career, he has visited almost every fertile territory for an aspiring singer-songwriter. From his naive

Bad As Me Tom Waits ANTIstart writing innocent ballads on “Closing Time” (1973) to the gravelly blues invectives he launched on “Heartattack and Vine” (1980) to the deliciously strange percussion and schizophrenic vocals of “Bone Machine” (1992), Waits’ music has truly run the gamut.

With “Bad As Me,” Waits’ 17th studio album, the cult icon shows he still has plenty to say but fewer ways to say it.

“Bad As Me” is the first album of all-new material that Waits has released since the unabashedly experimental “Real Gone” (2004), and many fans have longed for an album that returns to the more delicately crafted tunes from LPs like “Mule Variations” (1999), his last truly great album.

Many will be pleased to see that “Bad As Me” is a return to Waits’ more comfortable form. The album is a smattering of several different genres, spanning macho rockabilly, heartfelt balladry, dreary blues and raucous New Orleans jazz. While such a range on a single album would be huge for most artists, this selection is actually relatively conservative for Waits.

My biggest qualm with the album is that each song fits pretty securely into the catego-

ries described above. “Bad As Me” features a handful of ballads and each feels relatively interchangeable. “Back in the Crowd,” “Last Leaf” and “New Year’s Eve” all strike the same maudlin pose, revealing Waits’ compromising penchant for overly tender songs.

While one or two of these kinds of tracks work their way into many of Waits’ albums, their prevalence on “Bad As Me” is overpowering and often conflicts with the more assertive atmosphere of the album’s other songs. While the contrast between gritty rock and heartfelt balladry has been one of Waits’ most successful dynamics as a recording artist, the softer tunes on “Bad As Me” feel a bit incongruous.

That being said, “Bad As Me” is still a great album. The title track is one of Waits’ catchiest numbers in recent years, and his hysterical vocal work underscores the absurdity of the lyrics. The song opens up with a ribald baritone sax riff and Waits’ characteristically muscular percussion. Waits’ is quickly wailing, “You’re the key that got lost/You’re the letter from Jesus on the bathroom wall/You’re mother superior in only a bra/You’re the same kind of bad as me.” Insouciant lines like these show how great Waits is at writing lyrics that match the atmosphere of his songs.

Another highlight from the album is “Kiss Me,” a lo-fi tribute to the bluesy crooners that Waits grew up listening to. Over low-key guitar work and slinky piano lines, Waits beckons, “Kiss me like a stranger once again.” This song shows how little Waits needs to craft a compelling song: With just a few simple instrumental lines and a standard chord progression, he can deliver a song that lingers with the listener.

Waits isn’t shy about social issues, either, though he usually deals with them with a less inflammatory attitude than most of his

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Waits’ newest album, ‘Bad As Me,’ is his first release since 2004’s ‘Real Gone.’ contemporaries. “Talking at the Same Time” offers a refreshingly tongue-in-cheek criticism of America’s economic inequality and the communication breakdown between liberals and conservatives. “We bailed out the millionaires/They got the fruit/We got the rind/And everybody’s talking at the same time.” Waits delivers these lines in a sickly falsetto that makes the track sound all the stranger, imparting the song with a

dreamy air that makes Waits’ social commentary more expressive than a run-ofthe-mill protest song.

Though “Bad As Me” doesn’t stand up to the titanic achievements of Waits’ previous albums, it offers solid affirmation of the traits that make him a great songwriter. While fans won’t find any new ways to appreciate Waits, they’ll have plenty to chew on while they await his next release.

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SUDOKU Level: Being chosen to serve as Tufts’ 13th president

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Level the Field

Jumbos help ‘Level the Field’ for Boston-area schoolchildren Tufts’ Rachel Gerhardt leads blossoming program involving athletes Claire Kemp

This year, the field hockey team is garnering attention not just for their national ranking but also for their extracurricular endeavors.

On Sept. 17, team alumni Melissa Burke and Amanda Roberts’ (LA ’11) successfully launched “Fan the Fire” to popularize Tufts athletics through recognition of the student body’s common interest in community service. Less than two weeks later on Sept. 26, junior midfielder Rachel Gerhardt realized her own vision for her fellow Jumbos by bringing the New York-based organization Level the Field (LTF) to the Hill.

Founded in 2008 by Erica Woda, a New York City public school teacher and Columbia University graduate, LTF works to empower inner-city youth by fostering partnerships with highachieving collegiate student athletes through both sport and dialogue.

Woda’s mission to erase financial barriers of organized sports began after watching an unorganized game of soccer near a public school in New York City. After a long summer of laying the groundwork, Woda was able to launch her first partnership, between her alma mater and The Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School, on July 24, 2008. Gerhardt took notice.

“Erica and I both attended Bancroft School, a small private school in Worcester,” Gerhardt said. “I heard about Level The Field when Erica was first starting it up in New York City; I by

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Junior midfielder Rachel Gerhardt is sixth on the field hockey team with 11 points, but her biggest achievements may come off the field.

Crew

Jumbos set for annual Head of the Charles regatta by

Zachey Kliger

Senior Staff Writer

This weekend, more than 8,000 athletes from around the world will converge on Cambridge, Mass., for the 47th annual Head of the Charles Regatta, the largest two-day regatta in the world.

Tufts’ men’s and women’s crew teams will be among the hundreds of rowers racing as they compete in the collegiate Four and Eight categories, as well as the Lightweight Eights category.

“This is one of the biggest races of the year and we couldn’t be more excited,” sophomore Ian McConnell said. “We all just can’t wait to get out there and compete.”

The Regatta features 55 different events involving almost 2,000 boats in the two-day period. The three-mile race begins at Boston University’s DeWolfe Boathouse near the BU Bridge and finishes past the Eliot Bridge by the Artesani Playground in Brighton. In addition to the races, the action-packed weekend will feature displays by boat builders and a rowing and fitness expo. An expected turnout of more than 300,000 enthusiastic spectators should make for a fun and chaotic weekend scene.

“The most important thing is to just stay focused while we’re out there and not think about the crowd,” senior Erika Parisi, who will be racing in the Lightweight Eights Race, said. “Having said that, it is a long race so having people cheer for you the whole way can definitely help to keep our adrenaline pumping and keep us moving fast.”

Aside from the excitement of the weekend, the race will give the Jumbos a golden opportunity to gauge the strength of conference rivals, as well as a chance to finally put their hard off-season work to the test. Both the men’s and women’s sides will look to take advantage of the early season event.

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The annual Head of the Charles attracts fans from around the world and is the biggest event of the Jumbos’ season.

The Head of the Charles is the third event for both Tufts squads this season.

Both teams opened their season on Oct. 2 with the Textile River Regatta, where the men’s team placed fifth out of 14 and the women took an impressive first place out of five. On Oct. 15, both teams had mediocre races at the Quinsigamond Snake Regatta in Worchester, Mass. The men placed 13th out of 20 teams and the women finished 17th in a field of 36.

“We’re not thrilled about the way we performed in the first two events,” McConnell said. “But we’ve worked on a few different things and improved our

technique and we’re extremely confident heading into this weekend.”

Both teams have gone to great lengths to prepare for this weekend’s race. The Head of the Charles is a difficult course in part because of its length. The teams have practiced on the Mystic River multiple times over the past few weeks to improve endurance, setting a course that offers a similar distance to what they will see at the Charles. In addition to working on technique and mixing and matching with different lineups, the men’s team has intensified its training days with longer distances as well as short, sporadic pieces.

The women’s squad has also been switching up its lineup in hopes of finding a winning combination.

“We’ve tried a bunch of different people in different spots and tried to get a sense for what lineup works the best,” Parisi said. “You have to take into account height, weight and which rowing pairs work best. I think we’ve reached a point where we feel comfortable and confident with the lineup we’re sending out there.”

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Sophomore running back Ryan Pollock will provide balance to a Jumbos offense that figures to focus on the passing game this week.

Jumbos head to Williams this weekend seeking first win of the season by

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The Jumbos have little time to dwell on their recent 9-0 loss to Trinity, because the defending NESCAC champions, the Williams Ephs, will require all of their attention. Tufts will need to build on the sparse positives and work to correct the negatives from their game against Trinity to turn their season around and avoid the program’s first winless campaign since 1886.

“There’s always something to work on, win, lose or draw,” interim head coach Jay Civetti said. “We can always be better at tackling, better at throwing the football, at running the football — there’s never an area that you can’t get better at in my opinion. There are a lot of things that we’re going to continue to work at.”

Tufts showed vast improvements in their game against Trinity on the defensive side of the ball; holding the highpowered Bantams offense — which had previously been averaging 28 points per game — to just nine was no small feat. The Jumbos also posted their first interception of the season when junior defensive back Austin Crittenden hauled in an errant pass late in the first quarter.

“I think it’s a good step with what we want to do around here,” Civetti said. “I think for us, it’s a great thing to

build off of. You can’t get complacent and say, ‘Hey, we held the team to nine points and four passing yards, it’s time to stop.’ If anything it’s time to get hungrier.”

One of the key contributors to the Jumbos’ defensive success, and an important player to watch in this week’s matchup against the 2-2 Ephs, is senior linebacker Zack Skarzynski.

Skarzynski is easily the leading tackler in the NESCAC so far this season, and he demonstrated his dominance on the defensive side of the ball against Trinity with 18 tackles, 2.5 of them for a loss.

“I think it sets a standard for what we’re looking for going forward, and realizing what we’re capable of,” Skarzynski said. “We let up some big runs and some big plays but we didn’t let that deter us and we came back swinging at them. I think it was huge for us from a mentality standpoint.”

For the second straight week Tufts will be pitted against an up-tempo offense, and they will need a similarly stellar defensive performance if they are to compete with the Ephs.

Sophomore quarterback Adam Marske anchors the Ephs offense, averaging an impressive 235.0 yards per game through the air with a 139.7 quarterback rating — good for second-best in the conference in both categories.

Marske’s favorite target, junior wide

receiver Darren Hartwell, leads the league in receiving yards and will be on the minds of the Jumbos’ corners and safeties all game.

The key for the Jumbos to gain their first win of the season should come as no surprise: They need to put points on the board. Tufts has struggled offensively this year, ranking last in the league in scoring offense and second to last in rushing offense. The Jumbos have, however, used a balanced attack behind the leadership of senior quarterback Johnny Lindquist and sophomore running back Ryan Pollock.

Getting the ball into the end zone has been a problem for the Jumbos, but they will be poised to correct that issue against the Ephs, who have struggled against the pass this year. Williams ranks ninth in the league in pass defense, allowing a whopping 993 yards through the air — more than double Tufts’ 487.

It is easy to be discouraged and give up in the situation the Jumbos are now faced with: an 0-4 record with tough opponents coming up. But the players have remained positive and continue to improve every week by holding themselves accountable for their individual play while encouraging cohesion on the field.

“They want it for each other, and that’s more powerful than anything I can coach,” Civetti said. “They play with heart and commitment to each other, and that’s immeasurable in my opinion.”

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race in the Collegiate Fours event, with Carter Palmer on stroke, Andrew Rogers in the third seat, Timothy Peng in second, Luke Abdow in the bow seat and Jessie Howard as coxswain. Sunday’s Eights team boasts a bit more experience, consisting of sophomore Jeremy Rosenblatt as coxswain, junior Kyle Flood on stroke, junior William Hickey in seven, sophomore Denis Richard in six, sophomore Ian McConnell in five, senior Chris Park in four, sophomore Jeffrey Thibodeau in three, senior Michael Bai in two and sophomore Nathan Yuen in the bow seat.

“Our guys have been together awhile

now,” McConnell said. “We have a great chemistry and good rhythm with each other.”

The women’s team will be participating in the Collegiate Eights and the Lightweight Eights. The Collegiate Eights team consists of senior Gillian Hodes as coxswain, senior Maggie Debski on stroke, sophomore Caroline Ricard in seven, senior Lily Carey in six, sophomore Rebecca Perrin in five, junior Katie Fitzgerald in four, senior Kara Breen in three, sophomore Ginny Trumbull in two and senior Georgia Gunner in the bow seat. The Lightweight Eights team fields junior Sara Honickman as coxswain, senior Erika Parisi on stroke, sophomore Hanna Buechi in seven, freshman Isabella

Stelle in six, senior Miriam Gutman in five, senior Hannah Will in four, freshman Brett Mele in three, sophomore Rachael Filer in two and freshman Sonia Chokshi in the bow seat.

“We feel really good right now,” Parisi said. “Our boats have been moving really well in practice the past couple of days and we know what we’re capable of this weekend.”

The men’s Collegiate Fours is scheduled to begin at 5:32 p.m. on Saturday, while the eights race will commence at 5:28 p.m. on Sunday. The women’s Collegiate Eights is set to begin at 5:46 p.m. on Sunday, while the Lightweight Eights race is scheduled for 6:35 p.m. on Sunday.

he European leagues are back in full swing after an agonizingly long international break, and the fall is beginning to seriously set in. This means only one thing for soccer fans: the Champions League. And since I’ve just finished watching the third game of the group stages throughout my Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon classes, it’s a great time to renew my annual feature and make my predictions for the greatest tournament on earth (which will definitely, definitely, come true).

OK, so they probably won’t come true, but it’s still fun to try. And to start out, it’s pretty easy to identify which teams will qualify for the knockout stages in most of the groups.

While no team has actually wrapped up qualification, the following teams have a very high likelihood of making it: Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Benfica, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen, Arsenal, Marseille, AC Milan and Barcelona.

For those of you playing along at home, 11 teams are pretty much already in the knockout stages, meaning there are five spots left for the rest of the contenders in the groups that are close — namely, groups A, B, D, and G. With just three group games left to go, the spots are still up for grabs but, in the end, I see Napoli prevailing from group A (beating out Manchester City and its oil money), CSKA Moscow from group B, Lyon from group D and Zenit St. Petersburg and FC Porto from group G. So now we have the field and, at this point, the predictions start getting a lot harder. All the teams are so close in talent and, more obviously, the draw has not been set yet. Because of the ambiguity, I once again decided to break the teams up into groups for the interests of weeding out the pretenders and finding out which clubs actually have a chance of winning.

We’ll start at the bottom, because like the New York Times Monday crossword, it’s by far the easiest to do. By this, I mean the minnows — the clubs that are just happy to be in the knockout stage and will probably be out in the first round. While it’s always nice to think of a Cinderella story, you have to go all the way back to the 2003-04 season to find a real upset winner (FC Porto), and historically, the Champions League really has been dominated by the big clubs. With that in mind, we can say goodbye to Zenit, FC Porto, CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen, Marseille and Benfica.

Now it gets harder, because all of the remaining 10 teams have loads of talent and smart managers. But with a closer look, it’s easy to see that a few of the clubs aren’t up to the level required to win such a grueling tournament. Arsenal, Chelsea, Napoli, Lyon, AC Milan and Inter Milan are all clubs either on the rise or that have fallen from their peak levels of a few years ago; not exactly ideal states for teams trying to win a European Cup. This leaves just Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Barcelona. Obviously, at this point, all the teams are outstanding and distinctions between them are almost impossible. In the end, though, if I were forced to make a prediction right now, I’d have to go with Barcelona. I know it’s the easy pick to make, but given how dominant they were in last year’s tournament and how much deeper they are now, it’s almost impossible to pick against them. No club has won the Champions League back-to-back since 1990, but this year, I think Barcelona has the best chance in recent memory to do just that, and capture its fourth European Cup since 2006 in the process.

David McIntyre is a sophomore who is majoring in political science. He can be reached at David.McIntyre@tufts.edu.

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In one of its most heartbreaking losses of the season, the volleyball team was just one point away from a four-set VOLLEYBALL (8-1 NESCAC, 17-4 Overall) at Beverly, Mass., Wednesday Tufts Endicot

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victory on two different occasions, but could not put Endicott away. Instead, the Gulls edged the Jumbos in five frames, leaving Tufts with a 17-4 record (8-1 in NESCAC play) this fall.

Even more frustrating than the scoreboard was the fact that the Jumbos dominated the stat sheet, besting the Gulls in kills, hitting percentage, assists, service aces and digs. Tufts also defeated Endicott earlier in the season, though the Jumbos were pushed to the limit in that match as well.

Blocks were the only category in which the Gulls had the edge on Wednesday, but that defensive effort was the springboard for their comeback in a contest where the Jumbos outscored them, 111-100.

The first two sets, though, showed no indication of the complete turnaround that was to come, as Tufts dominated the pace of the play and did not allow Endicott to score over 19 points in either frame. The Jumbos exhibited similar control of the match at the start of the third set, jumping out to a 16-10 lead and putting themselves on the cusp of their ninth straight victory.

“We had a game plan, which worked well in the first two sets,” coach Cora Thompson said. “But they adjusted over the rest of the match, and we weren’t able to make any adjustments to counter theirs.”

Endicott took 12 of the next 16 points, before closing out the set 25-23 to regain a foothold in the match.

However, the Jumbos were able to rebound, taking a 24-22 lead in the fourth set and putting themselves just a point shy of an important road victory. One slip up by Endicott, one successful attack, one weird bounce off the net — any of those would have given Tufts a tough road victory.

But it was not to be, as back-to-

back kills by Endicott sophomore Falyn Torelli leveled the set. Tufts then won the next point to get another match point at 25-24, but Endicott rattled off three consecutive kills as they took the set 27-25 and evened the match in dramatic fashion.

“Nothing really changed, it was just that we had too many unforced errors and lost our composure,” Thompson said. “We got rattled, but you have to give Endicott credit too, because they started playing much better. It was a combination of things.”

“We were too defensive and back on our heels, and just couldn’t win those last two points,” senior tri-captain outside hitter Cara Spieler added. “We’ve been working on closing out those leads the whole season, which is unusual because in years past, we’ve fallen behind and had to come back.”

Even after a frustrating frame in which they had an opportunity to close out the match, Tufts would not go out with a whimper and again jumped out to an early lead in the fifth set, this time by a count of 8-2. Yet Endicott rallied again, and the Jumbos continued their bad habit of blowing big leads as the Gulls stormed back on a five-point serving streak by junior Ashley Norley and eventually won the set 15-13 and the match 3-2.

“It was a pretty disappointing loss,” Spieler said. “It was just crazy to think that we lost by two points. But we talked a lot about it in practice and have come to terms with it.”

For Tufts, the agonizing defeat could bring back haunting memories of a similar loss to Bowdoin on Sept. 30, when the team held an 11-1 lead in the second set only to let it slip away and lose the match in three. However, the Endicott loss may be even worse, because the Gulls were just 12-10 coming into the game and the Jumbos were twice on the verge of victory.

“It’s about not getting to that point at all, and keeping up the intensity so we can finish strong,” Thompson said. “Of course, games like this sting, but we’re going to learn from it and keep on playing well for the rest of the year.

“We want to compete with the best teams in New England, and our schedule gives that to us,” she added. “Physically, I think we have proven that we are as good as anyone. But in order to get ourselves prepared for the tough games, we need to strengthen our mental game as well.”

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The Jumbos, thanks in part to first-year Kelly Brennan (above), out-killed the Gulls 68-41, but they were unable to put the game away in the fourth set.

The Jumbos, who were ranked No. 4 in New England coming into the game, will have little time to feel sorry for themselves, as they have just seven games left in the regular season. Tufts

will immediately play a three-game nonconference slate this weekend against Westfield State, Springfield and Williams in the Hall of Fame Tournament at Mt. Holyoke and Smith.

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have always had an interest in working with underprivileged communities and I have always had a passion for sport, so combining these two interests is something I always wanted to do. I followed LTF through the first couple of years and then thought it would be pretty amazing to bring something like this to Tufts.”

Last December, Gerhardt began making her ideas a reality.

“I contacted Erica and we talked on the phone for about an hour discussing how I would go about launching an LTF Boston chapter at Tufts,” she said.

“She sent me off to do some research and talk to the athletic department to see if there would be any interest in getting involved. I met with [Assistant Athletic Director] Branwen [Smith-King] and also emailed Director of Athletics Bill Gehling and they officially approved the program and kind of gave me free range to do what I needed to in order to launch the program.”

That free range launched into an extensive research project to find the partner middle school. Gerhardt compared Medford and Somerville public schools with LTF’s established criteria and decided on East Somerville Community School (ESCS).

“In 2007, a fire displaced the students and teachers and forced them to relocate to two different campuses,” Gerhardt said. “They are still in these buildings and their new school is not supposed to be finished by 2013. Erica and I contacted ESCS and met with

them in March to explain LTF; in May they officially signed on as the second LTF partner school.”

Hoping to launch before the heart of her own field hockey season in September, Gerhardt took charge of securing volunteers for LTF’s three-tier service model. Through attendance at games, sports clinics and personalized classroom instruction, LTF volunteer teams work with their student groups to teach the values developed from participation in organized athletics: sportsmanship, teamwork, leadership and time management. Gerhardt knew that if she could get Tufts’ coaches on board, athletes would follow suit. So she reached out to her own coach, Tina McDavitt, for help enlisting the athletic faculty. Seven teams jumped into the mix.

“We officially have seven athletic teams signed on to the program, including field hockey, baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse and football,” Gerhardt said. “These teams will run clinics in their off-season as well as volunteer in the classroom component of LTF. When these teams are in season, students from ESCS will watch their games.”

With most of Tufts’ biggest rosters involved, Gerhardt successfully sent 38 Jumbos to ESCS for September’s opening ceremonies of LTF’s second Boston chapter. Sixty-five sixth-graders from the school ran relay races and played games with the athletes who would become their mentors over the next

year. On Oct. 6, the classroom phase began as a core group of representatives traveled to ESCS for their first discussions with the students about the balance and focus it takes to reach college — and how achievable it is.

“Going into the classroom is such a great experience for us and the kids,” said field hockey senior co-captain defender Taylor Dyer, who leads one class every Thursday at ESCS. “It’s great to see them really engaging in the program’s messages about the importance of teamwork, time management and sportsmanship beyond all the fun we have outside the classroom.”

The men’s and women’s basketball teams kicked off the series of fall clinics for the students on Sept. 23, as they welcomed the sixth-graders onto their court. On Oct. 8, the baseball team — always on the forefront of active citizenship — held the second.

“Our team’s LTF clinic was just a great experience,” senior co-captain third baseman Sam Sager said. “We had the chance to not only show the kids some skills, but also just hang out and get to know them. Our team recognizes how fortunate we are and welcome the chance to give back to the community.

All of these experiences have been as rewarding and beneficial for us as for the kids.”

Oct. 29 will mark the beginning of the intercollegiate games portion of the structured partnership as the football team will welcome the participating students to their game against Amherst. After the lacrosse teams’ Nov.

5 clinic, the football team will host the group a week later for their game with Middlebury.

So far, Level the Field is proving a huge success for both Tufts’ teams and their sixth-grade students, but Gerhardt hopes this fall’s full slate of activities will only blossom into a department-wide movement in the winter and spring seasons.

“Our next steps include having more Tufts teams sign on to participate and to especially get more volunteers working with the students in the classroom,” she said. “For the first session of LTF this is great, but I am definitely looking forward to increasing the number because the students love seeing the athletes come work with them at the school. Because this is our pilot year, we are only working with the students in the sixth grade class, however, as long as all goes well, we will increase to sixth- and seventh-graders next year, and then eventually to eighth-graders as well.”

Ultimately, Woda and Gerhardt hope to build the Boston chapter into a multischool network, matching new universities with new middle and high schools so that team relationships can be maintained throughout students’ path to college. If the program continues to gain momentum with the athletes’ dedication and Gerhardt’s leadership, that goal seems attainable.

“Tufts athletes are truly embracing this program,” Gerhardt said. “The enthusiasm they have showed so far is truly inspiring and encouraging.”

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Editors' Challenge | Week 7 Strap in and strap on (your seatbelts) sports fans, because the Daily sports section has shed its network TV label and is moving to premium cable. That’s right, this week’s Eds Challenge will be simulcast on HBO with no commercials, no censors, no -----ing ---- ---------.

With the halfway mark of the NFL season one week away, two esteemed prognosticators have already separated themselves from the pack and are rapidly pulling away as the undisputed leaders of Eds Challenge. Daniel “Six Feet Under” Rathman is digging a grave for his fellow pickers after going 11-2 during Week 6. His chances aren’t dying, unlike everyone else’s.

Alongside Rathman at 66-24 overall is David “The Sopranos” McIntyre, whose gangliness makes him seem almost like a mob’s hired henchman nicknamed “Legs.” Instead, McIntyre kept pace with Rathman after an 11-2 week for himself.

Tony Soprano may have had trouble balancing his home life and his shady dealings, but McIntyre hasn’t had any trouble balancing football and winning.

Far down the ranks, five games behind the sports section’s dynamic duo, is Lauren “Sex and the City” Flament, whose gossipy urban antics have her at 61-29 overall, in a three-way tie with Aaron “Eastbound and Down” Leibowitz and Kate “Boardwalk Empire” Klots — two gangsters in their own right after each going 10-3 during Week 6 to remain within striking distance of their fellow sports editors. Leibowitz may not be experiencing overwhelming success in the statistical department, but his

flowing hair and stellar goatee have wholly diverted our attention.

Alone in sixth place, at 60-39 overall, is Ben “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Kochman, a fitting nickname given his Larry David-like religious affiliation and unbelievably annoying zest for life. He may constantly argue mundane things, but there’s no doubting his skills as a picker, especially after an 8-5 week that has him at 59-31 overall.

Further down the ranks, seven games behind the leaders, are Alex “How to Make it in America” Prewitt, Ethan “Game of Thrones” Sturm and Matt “Deadwood” Berger. After immigrating to this country, Prewitt’s been striving for the American Dream, but a 59-31 overall record certainly won’t get him there. Sturm, on the other hand, LARP’ed his way to a 9-4 showing in Week 6 and sits in a three-way tie for seventh along with Berger, whose nickname accurately explains his function once the Daily’s resident Fratman gets a few drinks inside him.

Far into the cellar, like a vampire definitively stabbed in the heart with a stake, is Annie “True Blood” Sloan, who is tied with Claire “Entourage” Kemp, the proverbial Turtle to the field hockey team’s Vincent Chase, at 54-36 overall, 12 games out of first place.

Guest-picking this week is Jeremy “The Wire” Greenhouse, who’s overcome a life of crime, poverty and Emmys on the inner-city streets to school the young editors on being an Eds Challenge champion.

OVERALL RECORD LAST WEEK

Daniel 66-24 11-2

David 66-24 11-2

Lauren 61-29 9-4

Aaron 61-29 10-3

Kate 61-29 10-3

Ben 60-30 8-5

Alex 59-31 9-4

Ethan 59-31 9-4

Matt 59-31 10-3

Annie 54-36 8-5

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Presidential Inauguration 2011 JOIN THE CELEBRATION! You are invited to attend the Inaugural Ceremony of Anthony P. Monaco as the thirteenth President of Tufts University. A reception for the campus community will follow the ceremony.

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