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TCU launches new website, integrating three branches

BY JENNY

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The three branches of the Tufts Community Union (TCU) government launched a new, unified website over winter break that facilitates navigation between the pages of the three branches of the TCU, according to TCU Webmaster Mike Vastola, a senior who is also the technical director for the Daily.

The new website, which encompasses information and news updates from the TCU Senate, the TCU Judiciary and the Tufts Elections Commission (ECOM) replaced the outdated and often confusing separate sites that the branches previously used, according to TCU Senate President Sam Wallis.

“Maintaining three different platforms for the group didn’t make sense,” Wallis said. “It was a necessity that we unify the site.”

The idea for a new website was introduced in a referendum approved by the student body last spring. The referendum led to a mandate in the TCU Constitution calling for imple-

mentation and proper maintenance of a new, jointly operated TCU site, according to Wallis.

Vastola was responsible for coding and designing the basic website. The website is intended to be more accessible to students seeking information about the TCU’s branches.

“We made an effort to link the websites together and put them in a common theme,” Vastola said. “We hope that it’s easier to navigate.”

Though linked by a main portal, the pages of the website specifically devoted to each of the TCU branches have their own domains for direct accessibility, according to Vastola.

The entire website shares the same background scheme, font and style and photos of the Tufts campus.

The old system of separate websites was difficult for TCU government members to maintain, according to TCU Treasurer Kate de Klerk.

The websites were often outdated, she said, and most TCU members did not have the technical expertise that the system required.

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The branches of the TCU government debuted their new website over winter break.

At annual MLK celebration, Harvard professor laments stagnant racial integration BY

AMELIE HECHT

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Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, yesterday challenged members of the Tufts community to consider the paradox of race in an America led by a black president.

Patterson delivered the keynote address at this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Celebration in Goddard Chapel.

He is a historical and cultural sociologist widely celebrated for his work on race issues in the United States.

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Demonstrations in Egypt have risen to a level few thought possible even a week ago.

Former study-abroad students ‘shocked’ at Egypt unrest BY

ELLEN KAN

Daily Editorial Board

As demonstrations in Egypt that began last Tuesday escalated to unprecedented levels and raised the once unthinkable possibility that President Hosni Mubarak may be ousted, Tufts students who have recently been in the country reacted with shock and cautious optimism for the country’s future.

Meanwhile, students studying abroad in Egypt found their programs disrupted by the political situation, with Middlebury Schools Abroad canceling its Alexandria program and evacuating the country, and the American University in Cairo (AUC) suspending classes.

Tufts students have traditionally enrolled in these programs but Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler confirmed that there are no Tufts undergraduates abroad in Egypt this semester.

The protests, which began soon after the collapse of the Tunisian government, intensified quickly and spread across major cities in Egypt as demonstrators poured into the streets, calling for an end to Mubarak’s rule. A violent crackdown by the state’s security forces failed to contain the pro-

tests, the army yesterday refused to fire at demonstrators, and the government has offered to talk with the unified opposition.

Faced with the images of unrest coming out of Egypt, Tufts students who recently spent time there were taken aback by the chaos now affecting places familiar to them.

“Just today I was watching Al-Jazeera streaming and they’re showing images of the national museum in the main square in Cairo … and there are images of broken glass and statues broken because the museum is being looted,” junior Ariana Siegel said. “I was just shocked because I was literally in that museum months ago and that may be one of the last times it was ever whole.”

Siegel returned in December from her semester abroad as part Middlebury College’s program in Egypt. Junior Caroline Standke, who last semester had been directly enrolled at AUC, echoed Siegel’s sentiments.

“It’s a bit heartbreaking and a little worrisome because I have a lot of friends who are still there and live near where a lot of see EGYPT, page 4

Senate selects Morrison as academic affairs trustee rep

introduced Patterson, describing him as the foremost expert on race relations.

“I can think of no better scholar to talk about what [President Barack Obama’s] election means than Orlando Patterson,” Bharucha said. “He is a public intellectual in the best and truest sense.”

During his speech, Patterson questioned the notion that black Americans have made significant progress toward total integration since the American civil rights movement of the 1960s.

He presented the audience

Working under a tight deadline, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate’s Executive Board at Sunday night’s Senate meeting appointed former TCU Senator Chas Morrison, a senior, to the position of trustee representative in the area of academic affairs.

The position was left vacant by sophomore Alice Pang, who is on leave from Tufts this semester.

The three trustee representatives on the Senate meet annually with the Board of Trustees to advance certain goals and projects. TCU President Sam Wallis, a senior, explained that the Executive Board felt compelled to fill the position quickly to ensure that upcoming meetings with the Board of Trustees go

ahead as scheduled. The trustees required that the vacancy be filled

by Friday of last week.

The Executive Board reviewed applications for the position throughout last week. Wallis emphasized that the quick decision by the Executive Board, rather than a Senate-wide election, resulted in the best outcome for the student body under such time constraints.

Morrison next week will meet with the Board of Trustees’ Academic Affairs Committee, where he will emphasize that the next generation of professors hired at Tufts should promote excellence in both teaching and research.

“I’m going to do my best to advocate for students’ academic needs to the trustees,” Morrison said. “I think that the trustee rep position sends a very powerful message, and I’m excited to be a part of that.”

Senate bylaws allow the TCU vice president to directly appoint a new trustee representative under such conditions, according to Wallis, who said the application and review process went beyond what was officially required and ultimately led to a more thorough selection process.

The Senate also elected Senator Logan Cotton, a sophomore, as the new chair of the Culture, Ethnicity, and Community Affairs Committee and Senator Wyatt Cadley, also a sophomore, as cochair of the Services Committee.

Logan’s election as chair of the committee leaves vacant his position as chair of Allocations Board Council V, which distributes funds for performance groups.

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The recent repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” has led several peer institutions to reconsider their ban on ROTC programs.

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Tufts Sackler School to partner with Maine laboratory for new mammalian genetics doctoral program BY

ELIZABETH MCKAY

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Tufts’ Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) in Bar Harbor, Maine will this summer join forces for a new graduate program in mammalian genetics.

The track will allow students to divide their time between conducting research and taking courses at the Jackson Laboratory and completing regular study at the Sackler School’s Boston campus.

JAX is an independent organization specializing in the use of mice as models to study mammalian genetics, program co-director and

JAX senior research scientist Mary Ann Handel said. Researchers at the institution use the models to mimic human diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes, according to Handel.

The new program will offer researchers at Tufts and JAX the chance to combine strengths, according to Erik Selsing, codirector of the mammalian track program and director of the graduate program in genetics at the Sackler School.

“The benefit [of the program] is the linkage between faculty who know a lot about mouse genetics with faculty that know a lot about human disease,” Selsing said.

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ing,” ECOM Technician Mike Borys said of the former ECOM website. “Outdated information got stuck in the archives of the website.”

Members of the TCU branches are now able to upload information, edit pages and make aesthetic changes at their discretion.

Borys said he expects students will find the new site more streamlined, facilitating services like applying for Senate candidacy and viewing election information and results.

“This is a more advanced, usable version,” Borys said.

Vastola and TCU government members will continue to add new features to the website, including an online process for creating a student group.

“Our hope is that through the website we’ll set up an integrated page that outlines all the steps it would take to get recognized and to be signatories with funding they can use,” de Klerk said.

Though the actual design has yet to be fully developed, de Klerk envisions this digital procedure being similar to an online purchase, where a sequence of pages details the important steps for completing the ordering process — or in this case, the steps for creating an officially supported student group.

Groups will be able to set up an account with the website to view all of their progress during the different stages, according to de Klerk.

The procedure to establish a funded student organization currently involves visiting the Judiciary and Treasury offices at the Mayer Campus Center and filling out paperwork, which de Klerk said leaves room for some groups to fall through the cracks.

De Klerk anticipates that the paperwork will be accessible on the website either at the end of the spring semester or the start of the 2011 fall semester.

“We’re hoping to have a submission page for paperwork,” de Klerk said.

“Then we will send automatic notifications of when groups are recognized, when they have signatories officially recognized. That’ll hopefully make it easier and clearer.”

In addition, Wallis said that a project tracker will be built over the summer in an effort to increase transparency and communication both between the Senate and the student body and among members of Senate.

“Members of the Senate body can show what they’re working on,” Wallis said.

“The Senate will also be able to exchange ideas on a backend, internal network, like an internal discussion board.”

The Senate will also develop a blog for the website, Wallis said.

“The website’s not only what’s up there now,” Wallis said. “Because the platform is standardized, there are so many more possibilities in what we can do.”

mouse models, leverage them to study the mechanisms of diseases, and interrelate that to the treatment of human diseases and diagnostics for therapy,” Handel said.

This will be the first dualcampus program offered by the Sackler School, Sackler School Dean Naomi Rosenberg said.

Graduate students enrolled in the track will spend July and August in Maine taking courses from JAX researchers and performing a lab rotation, Handel said. After dividing the academic year between Boston and Bar Harbor, students will decide by the year’s end where to conduct their doctoral dissertation research.

A JAX mammalian genetics course will be available to all Sackler School students via videoconference, Handel said.

Selsing added that Sackler School faculty will also incorporate topics pertaining to JAX research into their courses.

Rosenberg believes the new track’s unique opportunities could increase potential student interest in the Sackler School.

“I think that it will bring additional recognition to the school, certainly, and I also think it’s a novel approach to graduate learning,” Rosenberg said.

The Sackler School is currently reviewing applications for its genetics program, and will release its decisions in mid-April,

according to Selsing. He said several candidates have already expressed a specific interest in the mammalian genetics track.

“There are people who would not have applied but are because of the new opportunity,” Selsing said.

The collaboration came to fruition after the idea had long been circulating among the two institutions, Handel said.

“The talk has been going on for about a decade. Maybe a year ago the tempo of the talk picked up,” he said.

The Sackler School is now exploring the possibility of another collaboration with the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Rosenberg said.

King’s efforts against segregation incomplete, speakers say MLK continued from page 1 with a striking paradox: while black Americans seem to be fully integrated into the public sphere, even attaining great prominence in areas such as music, fashion and politics, segregation in the private sphere has simultaneously become more pronounced.

“Black Americans are now more segregated than when Dr. King was alive,” Patterson said. “Their apartness in the nation’s private sphere has worsened even as their public integration has progressed.”

Patterson used the Celtics, a mainly black basketball team, to illustrate the segregation still present in the private sphere. White fans idolize the Celtic’s black players, he said, but the same fans would react negatively to a black family moving into their neighborhoods.

This issue of geographical segregation reveals the country’s racial situation, according to Patterson.

“The paradox of public intrusion and growing private separation is most clearly revealed when examining the large-scale residential racial separation,” Patterson said. “I think this would have disappointed Dr. King the most.”

Africana Center Director Katrina Moore, who welcomed the audience with University Chaplain David O’Leary, urged listeners at the event to strive to do more than simply honor King’s legacy. They should also take steps to continue his work to restructure U.S. society, she said.

“This year we must do more than remember,” Moore said. “We must recommit to the legacy’s mission, which requires our collective action.

Let us be reminded to stay steadfast to this challenge and believe that we will one day fulfill King’s mission of equity, compassion and peace for all humankind.”

University President Lawrence Bacow also challenged the audience to honor King’s memory by working to improve the world for all humankind.

“The world is not perfect, and the only way it gets better is if good people work together to repair it,” Bacow said.

Patterson in his talk also highlighted the striking downward social mobility of black Americans since the civil rights movement.

“There has been a staggering growth in economic inequality, and the black

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Africana Center Director Katrina Moore urged students to further the efforts started by King. poor has disproportionately suffered,” he said. “The socioeconomic fragility of the black population and their economic disadvantage is the net result of centuries of exclusion from the national economy.”

Patterson blames the existing private segregation partly on the resistance of black American leaders to a fully integrated U.S. society.

“Partly in reaction to the backlash against early black progress, black leadership took a different line from Dr. King and made a move against the

idea of integration or saw it as irrelevant,” he said.

Junior Allister Chang’s winning essay for the inaugural Martin Luther King Reflections Contest was read at the celebration on Chang’s behalf, as he is currently studying abroad.

Musical selections, including “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” were interspersed throughout the ceremony. Senior Hope Wollensack also entertained the audience with a reading of Nordette Adams’ poem “Remembering a Life.”

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Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers at 9:54 p.m. on Jan. 27 responded to a report of a strong odor of marijuana from a dorm room in Tilton Hall. The students in the room denied that they had smoked the substance. The officers, however, confiscated and destroyed a glass pipe containing marijuana that they found on the floor.

TUPD at 10:07 p.m. on Jan. 28 responded to a call for a medical assist for an intoxicated student on the Joey shuttle bus. The student was transported to Somerville Hospital.

In three separate incidents shortly before 2 a.m. on Jan. 29, students from Carmichael Hall, Miller Hall and South Hall were transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford and Somerville Hospital after being reported for intoxication.

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Impact on ROTC of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal unclear Universities with long-standing bans eye return of military-commissioning program

BY SARAH STRAND

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While many Americans were preparing for holiday festivities, the nation’s lesbian, gay and bisexual community had another reason to celebrate: President Barack Obama on Dec. 22 signed into law the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT), the policy barring service of open homosexuals in the United States military.

With preparation for the implementation of the repeal slated to begin as early as this month, questions remain about the policy’s nationwide impact on Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, the college-based officer-commissioning program that requires a post-graduation active duty commitment. The military grants ROTC participants merit-based scholarships or living expense stipends.

In addition to prohibiting gay and lesbian soldiers from serving openly, DADT created significant tension between the military and colleges across the United States; many universities — though not Tufts — banned on-campus ROTC battalions and courses during the Vietnam War and have cited DADT as a factor preventing

the program’s restoration.

Part of being an ROTC member in the greater Boston area includes completing training and taking classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which serves as the host institution for the Paul Revere Battalion, encompassing close to 90 cadets from the ROTC programs at Tufts, Harvard University and Wellesley College, among others.

For Tufts, the lack of a separate ROTC battalion and courses is strictly a logistical and fiscal issue, according to Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences James Glaser, though both Massachusetts law and Tufts policy prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

“The military isn’t interested in establishing a separate unit here on campus,” he said. “It’s cost-effective that way.”

Glaser added that Tufts does not offer cross-registration with MIT, preventing students from procuring credit for ROTC courses taken there.

Despite the lack of direct relation between the DADT repeal and Tufts’ ROTC program, Glaser supports the policy’s abolition.

“I have been a supporter of ROTC all along, but I didn’t like ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ and I’m glad it is in the past,” he said.

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The repeal of the ban on gays in the military may bring ROTC back to some college campuses.

Some colleges that previously banned their own ROTC battalions have now expressed willingness to reconsider. In a statement to the Boston Globe,

Harvard President Drew Faust said that she “look[s] forward to pursuing discussions with military officials and others to achieve Harvard’s full and

formal recognition of ROTC.” Administrators at Yale and Columbia Universities have see DADT, page 4

Posthumous arrangements complicated by proliferation of online media; digital legacy an issue BY

NADEZHDA KAZAKOVA Contributing Writer

Drafting a will is not a normal activity for a college student on a free afternoon.

It seems even more preposterous that he or she would be writing instructions for handling non-material belongings, such as activities in cyberspace.

Although the destiny of someone’s online identity after death might seem depressing or trivial, the proliferation of online media has spawned discussion about what to do when the inevitable occurs.

A recent article in The New York Times Magazine, “Cyberspace When You’re Dead,” tells the story of the unexpected death of popular blogger Mac Tonnies and how his belongings on the Internet were handled by his relatives, colleagues and fans. Throughout the process, questions arose over what should be preserved or deleted and who makes these decisions.

“Intellectual property, including any media, should be passed on to the beneficiaries of the individual,” Professor of Engineering Karen Panetta, who is also the co-director of the Multimedia Arts Program at Tufts, said.

In order for this process to go smoothly, individuals have to find a way to inform others about their wishes before death. The best way for beneficiaries to find out about the online presence one wants to leave behind is to tell them in person beforehand, according to Associate Professor of Computer Science Alva Couch.

“The person should have some control over what happens through regular channels, such as a will,” Couch said.

“The default control should be just like that for real property.”

However, just as with a cemetery site, preservation in cyberspace is not free.

Couch predicts that in the future social networking sites will adopt a “delete unless paid to retain” policy for legacy

data. The prospect of people paying for the preservation of their online legacy has inspired numerous entrepreneurs.

Legacy Locker, for example, claims to have almost 10,000 subscribers to its digital estate-management service.

Another service, DataInherit, allows users to update digital legacy data via an iPhone application.

Putting competition aside, these firms co-sponsored an event called Digital Death Day in May 2010 as part of an annual online-identity conference near San Francisco. The primary goal was to spark discussion about the consequences of death in the online world, according to the website.

Although this dark business seems to have a bright future, the user base of these companies is relativity small.

According to a survey by FindLaw.com, only 45 percent of Americans, and just one in six between the ages of 18 and 34, have a will.

Presumably even fewer have thought about the afterlife of their digital property. This may be explained by the fact that young people, who are normally not near death, are the primary users of the online world.

“When you haven’t yet determined the destiny of your material possessions,” Jorge Montolio-Conde, an exchange student, said, “how are you supposed to know what to do with your virtual ones?”

Given the large amount of recreational online activity, some may not consider what may be deleted — or saved — after death.

“We are fooled to believe that all of our digital information wouldn’t suffer any change or be destroyed after our death, unless we have requested this,” Montolio-Conde said.

In other words, many people simply don’t see the need for companies like DataInherit. Others might be aware of such firms, but still wouldn’t trust them to handle their digital death.

“I’m far more worried by the prospect of having my identity stolen by the same companies whose purpose is to provide ‘vital’ services to my dead self,” freshman Evan Moulson said. “I’m way too much of a privacy freak to become a customer of such a company.”

Moulson also finds that creating a digital will is “kind of creepy.” For many people, pondering mortality is a flat-out gloomy — and, frankly, lowpriority — process.

In fact, social media sites themselves just recently started paying attention

to this problem. For example, Twitter in August 2010 established its policies in the case of the death of a subscriber.

Facebook is another place where this issue is prominent. After the sudden death of a Facebook employee in 2005, the company adopted an option to request that a profile be switched to “memorial” mode, which alters the profile into a commemorative site where eulogies and remembrances can be written. see CYBERDEATH, page 4

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Social networks now make provisions for deceased members.

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publicly expressed similar sentiments.

What remains to be seen is whether the opportunity for gays and lesbians to serve openly will impact nationwide ROTC interest and enrollment.

“ROTC develops and trains cadets and commissions officers … to serve as officers in the Army. We have a proven leadership development program. I do not see that changing,” Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Hall, commander of the Paul Revere Battalion, said in an e-mail to the Daily. “As far as participation goes, the choice to serve is deeply personal. I have no way to predict whether there will be more participation or not.”

Glaser saw a possibility for increased ROTC involvement on the part of gay and lesbian Tufts students who had never previously considered military service as a feasible option given the

sacrifices mandated by DADT. “Maybe more of our students will find the military to be a career path because they won’t have to compromise their identity to be a part of it,” he said.

Sophomore ROTC cadet Sam Chapin was indifferent to the impact of DADT on the Paul Revere Battalion.

“Personally, it won’t really affect me or those I’m around,” Chapin said. “I think it has been made more important by the media than it really is.”

Senior Sean O’Loughlin, also an ROTC cadet, noted that the distinction between ROTC and actual military service renders DADT somewhat irrelevant to active ROTC cadets.

“We live in ‘cadet land,’ not the life of an actual soldier.” O’Loughlin said.

“We are students first, and it creates a different culture that might not be true to the army as a whole.”

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“Everyone has different ways of expressing their grievances, so I think it’s fine if they write on a Facebook wall in an attempt to keep in their hearts someone who has passed away,” freshman Deepika Bhargo said.

An opposite, but equally strong, argument comes from an anonymous piece of writing in the most recent issue of the Tufts Public Journal, a publication that accepts anonymous contributions from members of the Tufts community.

Under the title “I hope no one writes on my Facebook when I die,” the author urges the readers to “put that energy into keeping the people you love close,

because you never know when they’re going to go.”

One solution to dealing with digital identity after death is filtering what is put online initially. The great majority of cyber activity is worthless, according to Howard Woolf, the associate director of and director of media technology for the Experimental College. Woolf has noticed that social media encourages superfluous material, lessening the impact of what may actually be informative and entertaining.

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the protests are going on,” she said. “The places where I used to hang out are now up in flames and that’s very scary.”

Students also questioned whether media reports accurately reflected the reality in Egypt. Junior Ahmed Hamdy, who studied at AUC in the fall, has established contact with family in Egypt who suggested that the media has overstated the extent of the disorder.

“I called my family yesterday. The general consensus among them … is that Al-Jazeera, which is doing the coverage, is greatly exaggerating the chaos,” Hamdy said. “There are protests … other than that, they’re all fine; the place my family lived in had looters and stuff but the army secured that area.”

Likewise, Harvard University Arabic Preceptor Paul Wulfsberg, who previously taught Arabic at Tufts and served as associate director of Middlebury’s Alexandria program until August, said that media reports about the protests have not been comprehensive.

“I’ve been in touch with several friends in Cairo and Alexandria; a few of them have been to the demonstrations and they said the demonstrations … were not as violent as they seem on TV and what they’re most impressed by is the atmosphere within the demonstrations,” Wulfsberg said. “There are Egyptians from all walks of life there, with families, old men, young kids. And most of them have never been in a demonstration before or been politically active.”

Students all agreed that the intensity of the protests came as a shock, and said they had not witnessed any indication while in Egypt that demonstrations would erupt on such a scale.

“I never would have expected the protests to be so attended because what I had seen last semester is that the police is so strong and so entrenched,” senior Michael Kremer, who studied in Alexandria last spring and spent winter break in Egypt, said. “If you asked me last week when I got back from Egypt if this week, Mubarak would be on the brink of falling — absolutely not, it would have been unbelievable” Siegel explained that although there was popular unhappiness with the government, inaction seemed to be the norm.

“Some people were starting to have this revolutionary spirit but for the most part, people were very cynical,” she said.

Both Hamdy and Wulfsberg agreed that it had been unclear whether popular grievances with the Mubarak regime would translate into significant political action.

“This pent-up frustration has been there for years and years if not decades, but nobody really knew what was going to set it off,” Wulfsberg said. “In the years I was there, there were never more than a few hundred demonstrators at any political demonstrations. … It seemed impossible for a while for the antiMubarak movement to be able to break this movement of having just a few educated, liberal protestors and to reach the masses discontented with Mubarak.”

Students expressed cautious optimism for Egypt’s prospects in the future, with many predicting that Mubarak would not be able to hold on much longer.

“I’m very happy with the demonstrations and hopeful that Mubarak will be overthrown, but there is also a lot of reason for legitimate concern about will happen after Mubarak goes, as that seems almost inevitable,” Wulfsberg said.

Hamdy questioned the effectiveness of the U.S. government’s response to the crisis.

“I think the U.S. response has been very, very ineffective,” he said. “Now the U.S. is trying to be more pragmatic and conservative … they’re sort of taking both sides without fully supporting Mubarak or the protestors. They hope that they just work it out with each other which is never going to happen — that’s just too idealistic.”

Both Kremer and Wulfsberg shared this assessment.

“The U.S. is in a position where it could play a much more active role in brokering Mubarak’s departure,” Wulfsberg said.

Kremer has made contact with a friend in Egypt, who said that the withdrawal of the police from many remote regions of the country on Saturday had left a security void in those places.

“Apparently the police have completely fled and there’s no authority anywhere. The army is in the big cities but not in the smaller ones like in the Delta. So he was telling me he was outside with other youth with homemade arms to act as local militia and defend against looters.”

Wulfsberg provided a similar account, noting that local communities have rallied together.

“You have everyone bonding together to create these neighborhood watch groups which are guarding their homes and businesses from looting, and these just formed spontaneously all over Cairo and Alexandria.”

At Tufts, the Institute for Global Leadership’s New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) and the Tufts Collaborative on Africa (TCA) last night co-sponsored a dialogue on the upheaval in Tunisia and Egypt as part of NIMEP’s regular dialogue series.

“This is our first dialogue back and considering the events in Egypt and Tunisia, we believed it would be imperative to organize an event related to the monumental events that are currently happening,” senior Khaled Al-Sharikh, a NIMEP co-leader said.

Kremer, who is also the president of TCA, hopes that an exchange of insight will take place.

“We want to get people together to talk about it and hear from people who have an in interest in the Middle East, who have been there and have friends there and discuss what’s going on there as events develop,” he said.

Kremer and Al-Sharikh both said that there are no plans for further events related to the protests in Egypt, but left open the possibility, particularly if the situation develops further.

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‘Seductive Subversion’ at Tufts Art Gallery explores pop art, hardships faced by its female practitioners BY

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For decades, artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg have made up the face of

Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 At the Tufts University Art Gallery, through April 3 The Aidekman Arts Center 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 617-627-3518 the male-dominated art movement known as pop art. The exhibit showing this semester in the Tufts Art Gallery at Aidekman Arts Center, however, honors an entirely different set of pop artists who failed to get attention because of the gender limitations placed on women in the 1950s and 60s. Approximately four decades later, many of the artists are now enjoying a Renaissance of their work.

The pieces exhibited in “Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 19581968,” curated by Sid Sachs, maintain many of the techniques typical of pop art. These include adventurous new mediums, bright colors, repetition, manufactured images, thick outlines, blown-up scales and a general reference to extremely recognizable people and products that make up America’s consumerist culture.

Unlike the Marilyn Monroe diptych created by Andy Warhol that hints at pop-culture as a focus for religiouslike worship, the pieces displayed in “Seductive Subversion” do not necessarily celebrate media and culture. Instead, the pieces criticize it through the exaggeration of images and techniques.

The first piece at the entrance of the exhibit is Martha Rosler’s “Hot House,

or Harem” (1967-72). This work, like many of her other pieces, is a collage of clippings she found in pornographic men’s magazines.

While the image of the naked female form posing seductively would normally excite and entice the viewer, Rosler subverts the power of the male onlooker by layering dozens of the clippings on top of one another to the point of de-sexualizing the images. By shifting the power from the viewer to the viewed, the collage incites unease and harps on the objectification of the female body in media.

Pauline Boty’s “With Love to JeanPaul Belmundo” (1962) sends another message about female sexuality by portraying an idealized portrait of the French “Breathless” (1960) actor named in the title of the work. Much like the manner in which the female image is objectified, Boty objectifies Belmundo by making him the focus of her libidinal desires. Furthermore, in a blatant statement of female sexuality, Boty paints a large red rose above the actor’s head.

The exhibit itself is divided into four sections: “Whose Fantasy,” which contains the previously mentioned pieces, “Imagery of Political and Sexual Violence,” “Heroes, Heartthrobs, and Thugs” and “Pop Art Strategies.”

For those unfamiliar with pop art, the last section showcases the various techniques employed in the genre. For example, Chryssa’s “Car Tires” (1962) places repetitious images of a tire, with slight variations, in a grid-like form.

This is a technique she used before Andy Warhol’s coke bottle or soup can pieces were even created.

Another notable piece is Idelle Weber’s “Munchkins I, II & III” (1964), which features multiple silhouettes of businessmen riding up and down escalators. The work, which superficially appears to be industrially fabricated,

TV REVIEW

ALEX KAUFMAN

For those of us fortunate enough to have seen “Skins,” a UK television series that premiered in 2007, it should come

Skins Starring James Newman, Jesse Carere, Britne Oldford, Sofia Black-D’Elia

reotype of the powerful male businessman while essentially dehumanizing these businessmen as faceless silhouettes.

The exhibit is a social commentary see SEDUCTIVE, page 6

‘Nine’ brings the hallucinatory drama of Fellini’s ‘8 1/2’ to the stage

UK show gets American face-lift, flops Daily Staff Writer

is actually done painstakingly by hand — a style that some female pop artists used deliberately in order to separate themselves from prominent male pop artists. “Munchkins I, II, & III,” which is located in the “Heroes, Heartthrobs, and Thugs” section, portrays the ste-

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MTV’s ‘Skins’ adaptation a bust BY

COURTESY OF HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, WASHINGTON, DC

Rosalyn Drexler, ‘Chubby Checker,’ 1964

as no surprise that the MTV adaptation of the series doesn’t compare. It simply can’t, due to the difference between British and American broadcasting standards. England’s lenient polices have allowed for a fuller, more realistic depiction of modern-day teenagers, sexuality and drugs; the U.S. standards are too limiting for such a compelling portrayal.

Unfortunately, not everyone has had the opportunity to see the original series in its glory, and those who have not are left with this lackluster huskof-a-show that is meant to embody and represent relevant, pressing teenage

Airs Mondays at 10 p.m. on MTV see SKINS, page 6

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This promotion will do more to entice you than anything you will see in the show.

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MICHELLE BEEHLER Daily Staff Writer

The SpeakEasy Stage Company’s current musical production of “Nine” centers on Guido Contini and his varying

Nine Book by Arthur Kopit Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston Directed by Paul Daigneault At the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts through Feb. 20 Tickets $25 to $52 relationships with many women — so many women, in fact, that even Guido can’t keep track of them.

Guido, who is a famous Italian film director, suffers from writer’s block after his last three films have turned out to be flops. As a contract looms over him, along with a determined producer, Guido runs away with his wife Luisa to relax at a spa in Venice.

But all the women in Guido’s life also show up in Venice, whether in Guido’s mind or in actuality, and the result is a romp through imagination and reality.

Guido’s happiness comes from loving women, yet the number of women he

loves — and the one or two he doesn’t — quickly becomes the biggest problem in his life. Guido realizes a little too late that women — including his wife, his mistress, his mother, his favorite actress and muse, his producer and others that flit in and out of the Venetian spa — are not as easily orchestrated as he would like.

The set’s structure attempts to aid Guido in organizing the large cast of women, supplying him with a backdrop of arched doorways that the women stand in for a good portion of the show, profiling and compartmentalizing them. Yet even when properly situated in the framed tile doorways, the presence of so many women on the stage is overwhelming and crowded.

Just as in Guido’s mind, their presence on the stage is chaotic despite attempts to constrain them.

As one of the only male actors in the performance — two young actors, Erik March and Andrew Stewart, share the role of LIttle Guido — Timothy John Smith puts on a very convincing performance as Guido. The character is a complicated man of bold actions, fluctuating confidences and incompatible desires.

Even Guido realizes the many contradictions he embodies. When he sings “Guido’s Song,” he admits to himself that what he wants is truly impossible, yet he can’t stop himself from wanting everything.

Out of the plethora of female characters, the three closest and most imporsee NINE, page 6

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Guido’s womanizing, existential crises translate well to musical format

MTV remake of ‘Skins’ only skin-deep

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and familial dilemmas.

Adapted by Bryan Elsley and his son Jamie Brittain, who also created the British version, the American “Skins” debuted on MTV on Jan. 17, 2011 to 3.3 million unlucky viewers. This attempt at edgy television follows a group of teenagers in their final years at a Baltimore high school. Though it has come under some criticism for being too risqué in its portrayal of teen drug use and casual sex, much of this, as well as language, has been censored. The result is a far weaker depiction of reality.

The premiere episode of “Skins,” titled “Tony,” proved to be a scriptural copy-paste of the first episode of the U.K. version, but lacked the flow and excitement that can only be generated by the actors. Tony ( James Newman), the supposed big man on campus, makes phone calls to all his pals in an attempt to help his friend Stanley lose his virginity — it’s simply “embarrassing” to be a virgin that long. Afterwards, dull pandemonium occurs over a drug sale, a party, a fight and a desperate race to the hospital to save a drug-induced Cadie (Britne Oldford), who unsurprisingly wakes up just in time.

Each character is introduced in a descriptive setting, giving the audience a bit of insight into who each is. This group is a mix of offbeat and stereotypical types: popular boy, pretty girl, awkward kid, girl with a disorder, party animal, dedicated musician, gay cheerleader and a pickand-choose Muslim.

Though the first episode was a bust, some viewers were hopeful that it was simply due to a bad translation of the original British script. Many anticipated that the second episode, “Tea,” would prove to be more of a success since it deviated from the original’s plot arcs. Unfortunately, we were disappointed yet again. This episode,

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tant women to Guido are Luisa (Aimee Doherty), Guido’s mistress Carla (McCaela Donovan) and the actress Claudia (Jennifer Ellis). For Guido, the three create a Bermuda Triangle when they meet in the Venetian Spa, and it leaves him in a hallucinatory space. Despite the intentional confusion, the three actresses succeed in portraying characters with very different personalities, even if Guido cannot always keep them straight.

The most prominent characteristic that the women share is their unrelenting love and adoration for Guido. No matter how he treats them, their loyalty to him persists.

The only explanation for the women’s excessive admiration is revealed in a pivotal memory of Guido’s, when the nine-year-old version of himself ventures to the disreputable Sarraghina to learn about love.

Sarraghina (Kerry A. Dowling) takes part in a climactic point in the production, as well as a primal moment in Guido’s life. Sarraghina’s powerful number “Ti Voglio Bene/Be Italian” is filled

with simple, even obvious advice, and yet it turns out to be the only love potion Guido needs to get himself into as much trouble as he does later on.

The thought of a simple idea escalating into a complicated disaster fits nicely into the overall theme of the production itself.

All of the women in Guido’s life are sources of material for his films. He uses his situation in the spa as the starting point for the film he has to make, and his tendency to blur the boundaries of dream and reality become paramount.

As the women watch versions of themselves acted out before them, they realize, along with Guido, something about love that goes beyond Sarraghina’s simple advice.

Directed by Paul Daigneault, the musical is based on the Italian director Federico Fellini’s semi-autobiographical film “8 1/2” (1963). The musical’s book is

by Arthur Kopit, with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. It is running through Feb. 20 at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts in Boston’s South End.

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Timothy John Smith (center) and company mesh dreams and reality in the musical ‘Nine.’

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which focuses on Tea’s (Sofia BlackD’Elia) sexuality and its impact on those around her, was handled in a manner that offered neither significance nor entertainment.

The problems don’t lie solely in the scripts, however. They also lie in the show’s implausibility, which can be attributed to the poor acting and even worse casting.

As Tony, Newman sounds and looks like he’s not ready to play a part that demands physical and vocal maturity.

Maybe in a couple years he’ll be ready, but at this point in time he simply doesn’t have the chops. And it’s hard to believe that a character like Chris, portrayed by Jesse Carere, can be getting “busy busy” with Overbite (a female classmate) when it sounds like his voice is on the verge of cracking.

Two character changes from the U.K. version to the U.S. version also proved unpopular among the “Skins” fan base.

The characters Tea and Cadie derive respectively from the original characters Maxxie, a gay dancer, and Cassie, an anorexic pill-popper, both of whom lightened our moods and drove our attention to critical issues.

The swap of a gay character for a lesbian character seems to be a copout on the part of the producers in an attempt to appeal to a different demographic. The change from the airy, slightly comical Cassie to the dark, morbid, hamster-embalming Cadie is a feeble choice that only detracts from the series as a whole. It seems as though MTV is more interested in achieving success by acquiescing to American standards than by mirroring contemporary truths as shows like “Glee” and “Modern Family” have.

The American version of “Skins” has fallen below the standard that the original set — failing because of its lack of edge and authenticity. Through its purposeless acting and misfit cast, the show produces a soirée of disappointment. If there were a Razzie Award for television, this show would win.

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on the position of women during the 1950s and 60s. In the film “Seductive Subversion,” which is shown in the background of the exhibit, many of the artists discuss the struggle between their career and fulfilling the obligations placed upon their gender during the time period.

While some of these female artists opted out of family life all together, others managed to raise children while simultaneously promoting their work.

The overall sentiment, however, is that their careers did not get the attention they deserved because of their gender.

“Seductive Subversion” brings many of these long-neglected pieces back into artistic circulation and discussion.

While the exhibit has been open for viewing since Jan. 27, a public reception will be held this Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Tufts Art Gallery. The event will feature an open bar with 60s-style drinks, food and screenings of “Mad Men” episodes. The exhibit will remain open until April 3.

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‘Skins’ exposes legacy of American puritanism The much-awaited teenage drama “Skins” made its debut on MTV on Jan. 7. Based on the award-winning hit in the U.K., “Skins” is marketed toward teenagers and explores issues such as teen drug use, drinking and sexuality. Though “Skins” was a huge hit in Britain, its U.S. successor has not lived up to its name, disappointing many fans of the original series.

Heavy censorship is largely to blame for the flop; a large amount of swearwords, drug references and sex was removed when the U.K. version was adapted for American viewers.

The British “Skins” garnered such a large following because of its ability to portray real teenage life. By toning down so much of the show, MTV is not only forgoing a possible hit, but it is also unnecessarily trying to shelter American children from the dangers of real life.

The idea for the original U.K. “Skins” was not thought up by a producer or a screenwriter, but by 19-year-old Jamie

Brittain, who suggested that his father, television writer Bryan Elsley, write a show about “the real lives” of teenagers. The British version has several writers under the age of 20, and Elsley has stated that it his goal to achieve the same in the U.S. A young writing staff is one of the many reasons that “Skins” is able to portray teenage life in such an honest light. “Skins” is an original product, made by people who face the same issues as their characters on a daily basis, and it is this brutal honesty that gives the show its power.

American censorship standards — much more stringent than their British equivalents — simply will not let that honesty shine through in the MTV remake. Five days after the first episode premiered in the U.S., the Parents Television Council (PTC), a media watchdog group, had already begun attacking the show. “‘Skins’ may well be the most dangerous show for children we have ever seen,” PTC President

Tim Winter said.

The PTC may see it as “dangerous,” but the British “Skins” has been one of the most realistic shows about teenage life to air on television — and that is something to be admired. Some aspects of the show are no doubt a little over the top: In one episode, for example, a few teenagers steal a car after an all-night bender and drive it into a lake.

But despite some hyperbole, “Skins” gets to the heart of what the lives of teenagers are really like when adults aren’t watching.

And while it may not be what parents want their children to see, all of the sex, drug use and general mischief that occurs in “Skins” definitely exists, and it is almost guaranteed that their kids will have to deal with these things some time in the near future. Far too many people fail to understand that shielding children from bad words and the realities of drugs will not make these things disappear from their world.

For too long, conservative

watchdogs have put up a red herring, lambasting the portrayal of vice in the media. Parents are not going to prevent their children from turning into “Skins” characters by sweeping truths about our world under the carpet. They should be educating their children about the realities of life. By chopping out so much of the original script, MTV is ruining the impetus behind the original “Skins.” It is impossible to portray the real lives of teenagers if everything that is supposed to be “real” is removed for fear of offending the more puritanical members of society.

Unless MTV can somehow manage to make the show more uncensored — and more realistic — like its British counterpart, the American version of “Skins” will probably become a B-list show akin to “The Secret Life of the American Teenager”: something that claims to show what real life is like for teenagers, but is at best some 40-year-old writer’s sugar-coated pipe dream about the harshness of adolescent life.

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Effects of Arab world riots on Israel BY

NUSEIR YASSIN

Harvard Political Review

Demonstrations all across Egypt have erupted against the government. In Lebanon, protestors have flooded the streets calling for a new government and Tunisia remains in a political turmoil.

Arabs across the Middle East are taking things with their own hands asking for freedom of choice. And freedom they shall get, but what will be the cost of freedom to the Arab-Israeli conflict?

It is no mystery that the stagnant waters of the Arab world have become violent.

Countless anti-government protestors are rising and calling for a democratic system that would offer them better living conditions. With more than 25 percent of the Egyptian population under the poverty line, drastic reforms are much needed.

However, economic incentives are not the only motives behind such protests.

The political agenda of Arab presidents has been met with nationwide disapproval. To

be more precise, many Arabs, Egyptians especially, want to cut ties with Israel and help out their Palestinian brethren by opening up the borders and voiding the Israeli peace treaty. Husni [sic] Mubarak has ignored such requests for the sake of political and economic stability with Israel.

He realized that adhering to the nation’s request by confronting Israel could potentially backfire and overthrow his government. He submitted to foreign-made pressure and to his own personal interests.

Now that riots are ubiquitous in Cairo, Mubarak’s 29.35 year-long trek is nearing its end (see my prior blog post [at http:// hpronline.org/author/nyassin/]). In addition to building a better economy, Egyptians will be constructing a different foreign policy that could affect the ongoing peace process between Israel and Palestine. As to how this new policy is going to affect the situation, I don’t know. One thing is for sure though: Israel will no longer depend on full cooperation from the Egyptian end. Now that Israel is dealing with millions of Arabs instead of

[a] handful [of] leaders, it must step back and weigh its actions accordingly.

Overthrowing any Arab government in the Middle East is dangerous for the status quo. Now, I realize that democracy in Egypt and any other Middle Eastern country is necessary. However, people should be extremely careful with their new foreign policy choices, as this could lead to more Middle Eastern conflicts. War is never the answer for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. We’ve seen many of them take place in the Middle East, and unfortunately, Palestinians suffer more with every war. As riots continue, we must practice self-restraint and wisely choose our next steps when it comes to foreign policies.

Despite all of the risks mentioned above, I support an Arab world free of greedy dictators. I used to be ashamed of my Arab roots because we were many led by few.

We were intelligent, yet we specialized in demeaning manual labor. We were consumers, but tomorrow we’ll be innovators.

This year, I am proud to be an Arab.

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The war on drugs is a failure BY

GREGORY BEACH

As you walk around Tufts, it is likely that you will overhear several conversations regarding drugs. For some, it may be regaling tales of shots taken and beers “shotgun’d.” Others may be doting praise upon the stimulants that kept them trucking through finals. And, of course, conversations on the artistic merit of glassware and the dankness of a particular plant are a constant in certain circles. Affecting one’s mental state through mind-altering substances is embedded in the human experience, being particularly prominent among college students. This enthusiasm suggests the potential for more comprehensive dialogue, one that critically examines the United States’ war on drugs and the complementary, unsustainable growth of the American prison-industrial complex. If we are to create a more perfect union, one that is both just and cost-effective, we must reform the broken institution of the American prison system.

For the sake of our wallets and our souls, something needs to be done.

I can’t stress enough how important the war on drugs is to the current state of affairs in the prison system. The number of inmates in state prisons for drug offenses has increased 550 percent over the past two decades, and of the more than two million people currently imprisoned in the United States, approximately one-quarter have been convicted of a drug offense. An oft-used counterpoint claims that most of these drug offenders deserve to be behind bars because they are traffickers. “No one gets arrested for possession,” they say. The facts seem to indicate otherwise. According to FBI data, 83 percent of drug arrests are solely for possession.

Tellingly, the growing number of drug arrests does not correlate to an increase in drug use. What then is driving this perpetual growth? Simply, the structure of the system is flawed. As the number of violent and property crimes decrease, law enforcement has increased flexibility to pursue drug crime. Law enforcement is expected to achieve specific quotas, often mandated by politicians and central bureaucracies, for reducing crime. With fewer people committing violent and property crimes,

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the source for meeting these quotas must come from drug offenders. To consistently meet this quota, law enforcement often targets the same neighborhoods it expects will produce the results it is looking for.

This “hood profiling” leads to the disproportionate imprisonment of people of color and the disruption of already disadvantaged communities.

Even arresting dealers does little to address the larger problem and may be counterproductive. Our rationale for imprisoning dealers and users alike is the assumption that the punitive measures imposed by the prison system will deter others from making similar decisions. This assumption is flawed and fails to take into account the market forces at play. When we remove a dealer from the streets, we are faced with the dilemma of the replacement effect. Because the illegal drug trade is so lucrative, a result of prices artificially inflated by prohibition, incarcerated dealers are quickly replaced, often by younger recruits more prone to violence. At a time when the national unemployment rate floats stubbornly around 9.4 percent, the job availability of dealers encourages more people to become involved with this type of criminal activity.

It’s one thing to identify what’s wrong with a system; it’s another to propose

solutions that push policy forward. Drug addiction and abuse are complex problems and are certain to yield an intense debate over what should be done. However, it is imperative that we have this discussion, on campus and beyond. The newly formed Tufts Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) aims to contribute to and facilitate this conversation on campus by hosting speakers, discussions and events that focus on drug issues that are often ignored due to taboo.

The Tufts chapter is a part of the larger SSDP, an international grassroots network of students who are concerned with the impact of drug abuse on communities, while acknowledging that the War on Drugs has failed. It must be clear that SSDP neither condones nor condemns drug use, but respects the individual’s right to make decisions about his or her own body and mind. SSDP works to mobilize and empower students to advocate for sensible policies that mitigate drugrelated harm, while opposing counterproductive War on Drug policies, especially those that harm youth.

Tufts SSDP’s first event, this Thursday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. in Barnum 104, will feature Jack Cole, co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). LEAP is a Medford-based organization composed of

current and former members of the law enforcement and criminal justice communities who are speaking out about the failures of existing drug policies. Speaking from years of experience in law enforcement, Cole will discuss the failings of the war on drugs and what should be done to bring the war to an end. It promises to be a very thought-provoking speech, and I hope to see as many Jumbos attending as the room can handle.

The regulation approach advocated

by LEAP is one of many proposed solutions as to how we should end the war on drugs. Though specific solutions vary, there is a growing consensus across the political spectrum that it needs to end.

On the right, prominent voices such as Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), televangelist Pat Robertson, journalist George Will and Glenn Beck have advocated for the decriminalization of drugs. On the left, groups such as FireDogLake and Change.org and individuals such as Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) have made ending the War on Drugs a policy priority. Change is not limited to the United States; countries such as Mexico and Portugal have decriminalized the personal possession of small amounts of drugs, an experiment that thus far has yielded positive results. Real, sustained change, however, won’t happen unless there is a strong movement behind it.

The American criminal justice system, tainted by the disastrous war on drugs, must be reformed. We must build a movement that opposes the war and promotes new approaches to dealing with the public health problem of drug abuse and addiction. Together, we will work locally to effect change nationally in an effort to create a more just criminal justice system, to ensure that addicts receive the treatment and support they need and to guarantee an individual’s right to control their own consumption. Please do what you can to help; we need all the support we can gather if we are to end this war.

Gregory Beach is a senior majoring in political science. He is the policy director for Tufts Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

What’s up with Hungary?

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GEORGE KOLEV

In a coincidence with unnerving undertones, Hungary began hosting the European Union’s rotating presidency this January just as the country’s newly created National Media and Communications Authority (NMCA) began its anointed task of monitoring Hungary’s public media. Under a new law which passed in Hungary’s Parliament in mid-December — but was drafted as early as June last year — the NMCA will be able to monitor newspapers, TV and radio stations and impose fines of up to 200 million forints (about $950,000) for “unbalanced” and “immoral” reporting and for violating new rules on sex-, drug- and alcohol-related coverage.

Because of the law, half of TV programming in Hungary must henceforward be allotted to Europeoriginating media productions, and one quarter of air time will go to broadcasting Hungarian music. All Internet bloggers will have to register with state authorities.

Most of the NMCA members, including its nine-year-term chairman, have been appointed

by Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s current prime minister and head of the center-right Fidesz party that was swept into power with a twothirds majority in April 2010. Since then, Fidesz has enjoyed the ability to pass laws without consulting the opposition, comprised of the

Hungarian Socialists, the far-right Jobbik party and, with four percent of the vote, Hungary’s greens.

Recently, The Economist declared Orbán “hungry for power” and The Washington Post lamented the “Putinization” of Hungary. France’s Le Monde reported that Hungary’s artistic institutions are being “manhandled” in a “culture under the pressure of nationalism,” Britain’s The Guardian said that “democracy [is] becoming eroded,” while Germany’s Der Spiegel called Budapest Europe’s future “capital of anti-Semitism,” awash with “a new wave of hate.” Adam Michnik, one of Poland’s most well-known journalists, wrote in the country’s second-largest daily that “Orbán’s Hungary is taking the same route as Lukashenko’s Belarus,” while his Hungarian counterpart Gyorgy Konrad told a German newspaper that the law reminded him of the national socialists’ rise to power in 1933.

Perhaps the most effective criticism came when the European Parliament openly debated disallowing Hungary from hosting the EU’s presidency, a largely ceremonial honor. Left and center-left members of parliament joined by the foreign ministers of Luxembourg and the Czech Republic, voiced skepticism about the law’s compatibility with EU principles as stated in the Lisbon Treaty. German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that “as

soon-to-be EU president, Hungary bears a special responsibility for the image of the European Union in the world.” And on Jan. 4, the French government called the law “incompatible with the application of ideas on press freedom that have been validated in European treaties.”

How did Hungary become the thorn in the eyes of Eurocrats?

A large part of the credit should go to the eight-year term of the Hungarian Socialist Party. Fidesz’s victory in April — it secured 263 of 386 seats — signaled a broad resentment among Hungarians against governmental corruption and nepotism and a willingness to give Fidesz a mandate to fix the country’s fiscal problems. Two months after Orbán became prime minister, his spokesman said that the outgoing Socialist government had left the state finances in terrible shape, with a Greek-style default scare a distant, but distinct, possibility. Economists and markets agreed, while the forint continued to decline.

So far, however, Fidesz has failed to alleviate the country’s fiscal troubles. In mid-2010, Orbán dismissed EU and International Monetary Fund demands to cut the deficit and, after the current government’s budget was passed in December, the market’s three major rating agencies downgraded Hungary’s public debt to BBB-minus, a notch above junk-bond status.

Yet this seems to have left most

Hungarians with no qualms about what their government is doing.

Students and Green members of parliament protested against the media law, but no broader outcry of dissent has been rallied against the government’s abuse of its parliamentary majority.

For this reason, members of the European Parliament call for political and economic sanctions are misplaced. EU charters don’t apply to national governments, and it is therefore improbable that sanctions will ever come into effect — as Hungary’s current hosting of the EU presidency shows — but even if they did, they would appear to go against the majority of Hungarian voters’ wishes. Until now, the highly partisan Fidesz has not threatened the democratic process itself, and it remains to be seen whether the opaque media law will in practice amount to censorship.

It would also be helpful to remember that a state-run media supervisory board is not a novelty on the Continent. Just last November, the Greek Radio and Television Council censured a TV station for running a comment by a relatively well-known Greek painter: “I do not understand why the rapist is more evil than the girl who shows her tits out and provokes.”

To unanimous public acclaim, the station was fined 15,000 euros.

If, as Hungary’s government has insisted, it is trying to “improve”

the media, rather than “wage a war” against it, and if the NMCA applies it “in a wrong way, or there are problems, as a result of objections, parliament will change this law, you should not have any doubts,” then the media law will not reflect the spectacularly sour mood of world newspapers. At its most basic, it might prevent Hungarians from watching “South Park” on TV. To be sure, the media law is just the most widely discussed of a series of anti-democratic measures, widely seen as an attack by Orbán’s government on the country’s independent institutions: its constitutional court, central bank, presidency, the budget-overseeing fiscal council and even citizens’ private pension funds. “Crises taxes” have been levied; many uncooperative civil servants have been fired.

It is disconcerting that Orbán’s government is edging towards a slippery slope, and foreign ministers might emulate Germany’s Guido Westerwelle, who called his Hungarian counterpart to discuss amending some recent legislation.

But no journalists have been beaten up on the streets of Budapest by government-sponsored thugs: We need not call Hungary fascist or Putinized just yet.

George Kolev is a senior majoring in history.

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While Tufts was encouraged by this weekend’s set of NESCAC victories, the team is now focusing on next weekend’s conference doubleheader, as it will face Amherst — which leads the NESCAC in scoring with 80.7 points per game — this coming Friday and Trinity on Saturday.

A strong performance next weekend, Dufault said, would provide solid footing for the playoffs. The team last year lost a heartbreaking game to Bowdoin in the first round of the end-of-season tournament.

“We want to finish out the NESCAC season strong to get momentum going into the NESCAC and NCAA tournaments.” Dufault said. “We don’t want to have a repeat of last year’s playoffs.”

Barnosky agreed that next weekend’s games against Trinity and Amherst — currently ranked No. 2 in the nation — will be key.

“We have two difficult matchups coming up,” Barnosky said. “We played well this past weekend, but we’re not fully clicking on offense. We need to keep working this week in practice to execute more offensively, while keeping our great team defense that we showed against [Conn.

College] and Wesleyan.

The team will need to keep up its level of play if it is to be successful against next weekend’s foes, Barnosky said.

“We’re leading the NESCAC in scoring defense, keeping our opponents currently to an average of 48.1 points,” she said. “We

weight throw, Allen won the shot put on Saturday with a toss of 40’6”.

Performances by other Jumbos weren’t too shabby either.

At Friday’s BU tournament, the Jumbos put together plenty of solid showings to start off the weekend. In the 500 meters, senior Kaylee Maykranz placed 10th overall with a 1:18.65 and sophomore Samantha Bissonnette was 26th in 1:20.55. Senior Amy Wilfert continued to knock time off her mile time, running a 5:02.23 on her way to a 14th place finish. “[Amy’s] race was really exciting to watch, because she was in a really fast heat, so seeing her race against a lot of top runners in our area and seeing her do well was really cool,” freshman Lauren Creath said.

Sophomore Lilly Fisher ran another impressive 5,000 meters, knocking 13 seconds off her previous personal record from two weeks ago with a time of 18:05.79.

“Lilly ran an amazing race and got a huge [personal record], and that was really inspirational to the whole team,” Creath said. “I think that shows everyone that they can improve that much, too, just by putting in that much work and then bringing it to the race.”

Tufts also put together its best 4x400meter relay of the season, posting a solid 4:00.07, good for seventh place. The

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Senior Vanessa Miller earned NESCAC Player of the Week honors to match her stout defense. absolutely need to bring our top defensive game against Amherst.”

With this past weekend’s successes, Tufts improved to 15-3 on the season, and 4-2 in the NESCAC. They will travel to Amherst on Friday night for an 8 p.m. start and to Trinity on Saturday afternoon, where tipoff is set for 4 p.m.

relay consisted of Bissonnette, junior Dayorsha Collins, Maykranz and freshman Jana Hieber. All except Hieber were coming back for their second race of the day. Junior Nakeisha Jones added to the solid results with a provisional qualifying triple jump, bounding 37’1.75” for a fourth-place finish.

The MIT Invitational was a much smaller meet and gave the Jumbos an opportunity to compete against equally small schools in a less intense environment. Highlights included the 55-meter hurdles, where a duo of freshmen led the way for the Jumbos. Freshman Kristen Roberts and Hieber finished in 9.26 and 9.27 seconds, respectively. Roberts was also the runner-up in the high jump, clearing a height of 5’0.25”.

Another freshman, Laura Peterson, took the victory in the mile in 5:33.11 by edging a runner from MIT by just 0.9 seconds.

“It was nice because I had some girls to run with for pretty much the whole time, and I am coming back from being injured, so it was good to have a first meet where I felt like I was running where I should be running,” Peterson said. “The competition wasn’t all that great, but there were still people there to run with and to push you so in the end it wasn’t that bad.”

The Jumbos will next host the Tufts Invitational II Saturday, looking to finetune their performances before Div. III New Englands on Feb. 18-19.

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through. We would get it into a post guy and he would pass it back out. Everyone was touching the ball more and everyone was more active.”

The Jumbos shot 61 percent from the field in the second half against Wesleyan, and their lead ballooned to 25 points, at 63-38, with just under nine minutes to play.

Ball movement was key for Tufts, as the Jumbos notched 20 assists as a team and finished the game shooting just under 56 percent from the field, including 9-for-14 from three-point range.

“On Saturday we made it a focus to get back to moving the ball, going inside out, getting post touches,” Long said. “We ran the floor better, we got some fast break points. On Saturday, we tried to do everything we didn’t do well on Friday night.”

Junior guard Amauris Quezada continued his stellar shooting, finishing with 14 points, while Anderson had 13 points and five rebounds for the Jumbos.

Contributions from the bench were also key for Tufts, as freshman guard Kwame Firempong continued his stellar allaround play, scoring four points, pulling down five boards and leading the team with seven assists.

“For a freshman to be playing that well is awesome,” Anderson said of Firempong. “He provides so much spark, both on offense and defense. He’s been playing real well the past two weeks and the entire year.”

Though everything was running smoothly on Saturday afternoon, the scene at Cousens Gym less than 24 hours prior was anything but, when Conn.

College erased a 10-point halftime deficit, outscored Tufts by 21 in the second half, and left the Jumbos with a bitter taste in their mouths.

“We just lost focus,” Anderson said.

“We took them lightly. It’s been a reoccurring thing for us. We were up 15 against Middlebury; we were up 20 against

Plymouth State. We come into games and we play well in the first half but come out flat in the second half. It’s all about focus really. We’re a young team and we have to figure out how to, instead of playing at the level of a worse team we’re playing, to step it up a notch and step on their throats.”

Tufts held the Camels to just 29 percent shooting in the first half, yet were plagued by sloppy play, committing 11 turnovers.

While Conn. College was able to turn around its offensive mistakes, Tufts was unable to overcome their own. And when the Camels made a run in the second half, the Jumbos had no response.

“We had a ten point lead, but I don’t think anyone thought we were playing as well as we could have been,” Long said.

“Then in the second half, they just kind of stuck around and then made a run and we couldn’t really do anything.”

The first run came early in the second half, with the Camels outscoring Tufts 14-4 over a six-minute stretch to take their first lead since the opening minutes of the game. The second run — this one even more devastating — occurred after Tufts had cut the Conn. College lead back to one with just over five minutes remaining. The Camels responded by scoring the next 11 straight points, putting the game away.

Despite the defeat Friday night, the Jumbos (10-9 overall, 3-3 NESCAC) are still in prime position to make the NESCAC tournament and still very much in the running to host an opening-round playoff game. Before a pair of crucial NESCAC match-ups this weekend at Trinity and Amherst, Tufts hosts a struggling UMassBoston team tonight. While the Beacons come into the game having lost seven of their last nine, the Jumbos learned this weekend not to take any team lightly.

“We know we have to take one game at a time,” Anderson said. “We can’t be focused on Trinity and Amherst. UMassBoston is going to be a good team and we know that so we just have to come out and focus on them.”

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Losing streak grows to 10 as Tufts suffers blowout losses to Castleton, Skidmore; playoff chances bleak BY

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After losing eight consecutive games, the hockey team was looking for a desperately needed change in results this weekend as they took to the road to face ECAC East rivals Castleton and Skidmore. What they got was more of the same: two more blowout defeats and a losing streak that has now reached double digits.

The doubleheader weekend started on Friday with a matchup against Castleton College, which was riding a streak of its own: The Spartans had won nine straight coming into the game and had a 15-2-0 record. So it was hardly a surprise when Castleton came out firing with four goals in the first period, two of which came from sophomore forward Ben Schoeneberger.

After Schoeneberger opened the game’s scoring with a sharp-angled shot at the 8:01 mark of the first period, Tufts allowed Castleton freshman forward Ross Herzog to swoop in and double the advantage just 37 seconds later, making it even more difficult for the Jumbos to recover. Freshman forward Garrett Sider was able to tally a goal for Tufts, his second of the season, but the Jumbos went into the locker room down 4-1 and with another loss staring them in the face.

“Castleton just plays such a physical, hard-nosed style,” senior quad-captain Dylan Cooper said. “There’s really nobody else like that in the league, so it’s hard to get accustomed to it.”

The rest of the game was more of the same. Although senior quad-captain Tom DeRosa got the Jumbos within two goals with only 1:19 gone in the second period, the Spartans quickly put the game away as sophomore forward Josh Harris scored two goals just five minutes apart to give his team a 6-2 advantage. Tufts then put in its backup goalie, freshman Brian Phillips, and both sides added garbage time goals to finish the game with a score of 8-3.

Tufts then went to Saratoga Springs on Saturday to face Skidmore and try to win its first game since Dec. 4. The Jumbos instead slumped to their tenth straight defeat at the hands of the Thoroughbreds, a team with a sub-.500 record. The matchup was competitive

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Even senior Dylan Cooper’s skillful moves could not save the Jumbos from two more losses this weekend. until early in the third period, with Tufts trailing by only one goal as late as 17:59 into the second frame.

After Skidmore forward Alex Mykolenko opened the scoring, Tufts senior quadcaptain defenseman Andy Davis equalized, providing a much-needed reply for the mercurial Tufts offense.

While the Jumbos played better than in Friday’s game, a Skidmore goal at the 2:42 mark of the third period made the score 5-2 and sealed the Jumbos’ fate.

The 6-2 final marked the fourth time this season that Tufts has been defeated

by four goals or more, which is unexpected for a team that began the season with a 4-2-1 record.

Tufts exhibited all of the signs that have sunk them to the bottom of the conference standings: poor team defense in front of junior goalie Evin Koleini, a sputtering offense and the inability to mount comebacks after getting behind early in games. But amid this losing streak, the team’s captain is staying positive.

“We just seem to be getting the tough bounces right now and it can be demoralizing,” Cooper said. “It’s just bad luck,

but when you play the way we have been playing sometimes it just feels like the deck is stacked against you.”

Next, Tufts will have a pair of matchups in Connecticut against Wesleyan and Trinity on Feb. 4 and Feb. 5, respectively. The team still has a chance of making the playoffs and at the very least will want to end its season on a positive note by breaking its losing streak that has now lasted two months.

“We can still make it to the playoffs if we perform,” Cooper said. “The two games this weekend are critical.”

MEN’S TRACK & FIELD

Jumbos bring home 30 collegiate bests from Bowdoin BY

LAUREN FLAMENT

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The men’s track and field team was split between two meets this weekend, with one squad traveling to Maine to MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD Terrier Classic at Boston University., Jan. 28-29 No Team Scoring Bowdoin Invitational Jan. 29 1. Springfield 2. Tufts 3. Bowdoin

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compete in the Bowdoin Invitational and another staying in Boston for the Terrier Classic at Boston University (BU).

At Bowdoin on Saturday, the Jumbos came away with four victories and 30 collegiate personal records.

“We did exactly what the team needed to do at this point in the season,” Coach Ethan Barron said. “We were lacking a certain amount of energy and grit in some of the earlier season meets, and I saw a different team at Bowdoin — one I was looking forward to seeing at some point during the season. If we can keep up that focus and

support from here on out, I think we’ll impress ourselves and shock some other teams.”

On the track, freshman Brian McLaughlin won the 3,000-meter run in a time of 8:52.89, among 18 competitors. Classmate Daniel Lange-Vagle also came away with a victory, finishing the 55-meter hurdles in 8:51.

Off the track victories came in the weight throw and the pole vault. In the weight, the trio of senior Alex Gresham, sophomore Curtis Yancy and junior Adam Aronson went 1-2-3, respectively; Gresham won the event with a toss of 47’1.50”.

Tufts also took the top two spots in the pole vault, as senior co-captain Sam Read won with a height of 14’5.25’’. Sophomore Brad Nakanishi took second, clearing the same height on a later attempt.

Sophomore Gbola Ajayi had a pair of second-place marks in the jumps, reaching 21’2.5” in the long jump and 45’0.5” in the triple jump.

The Jumbos’ middle-distance squad added three second-place victories of their own. Junior Connor Rose returned from injury to take the runner-up spot in the 600-meter run in a time of 1:23.91. Freshman Jamie Norton took second in the 1000-meter run in 2:32.14, while sophomore Sam Haney came back after a strong performance at BU the day before to take second in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:00.18.

“We still have a long way to go, but so does every other team in New England,” Barron said. “Every successful team that I’ve seen and worked with has had a certain level of fire, mutual respect and desire, and I was happy to see that starting to come into form this weekend up at Bowdoin.”

Highlights from Friday’s BU meet included the Distance Medley Relay (DMR) team, which opened the weekend with a bang, finishing seventh.

Tufts was the second-highest finishing Div. III school team in the race, with the top five spots all going to Div. I and II teams.

Freshman Bobby McShane led off the DMR with the 1,200-meter leg, followed by junior Ben Crastnopol in the 400, sophomore Jeff Marvel in the 800 and Haney in the 1,600. The squad crossed the line in 10:12.82, missing the NCAA provisional mark of 10:09.00 by just a few seconds.

“It was a good early-season performance for them,” Barron said. “Those were some of the fastest races those athletes have run up until this point this season. They are capable of that and more, without a doubt. I think they are on the verge of something big.”

For the second day of BU events, a slew of Jumbos competed in the 5,000meter run. Sophomore Matt Rand led the pack, placing 33rd among 113 competitors in a time of 14:58.15, just five seconds over the national provisional

qualifier time of 14:53.00.

“I was happy with my race,” said Rand, whose goal was to go under 15 minutes. “I knew that I was racing against guys who were faster than me, and I knew it was going to go out quickly, and I really just wanted to see how I could handle that quick pace to gage my fitness level right now. … I was able to do that, so I was happy.

The heightened level of competition, Rand believed, affected his performance.

“If I were in a slower group, I would have run a more balanced race and possibly a faster time, but I think with the level of the competition in the heat, I started much faster than I probably should have,” he said.

Supporting Rand in the race was classmate Kyle Marks, who finished in 15:15.18, a personal indoor record.

With just two more weekends before championship season begins, the Jumbos will host the Tufts Invitational II on Saturday starting at 11 a.m.

“I think a lot of people are pretty optimistic about what we can do at New Englands,” Rand said. “The depth that we have — especially in the 3K right now — is some of the best that we’ve had in recent years here. The throwers have been doing well; they’ve been at the top of the results at most meets. I think we are progressing pretty well and should be contending for a top spot at New Englands.”

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Jumbos trounce Wheaton on Senior Day; freshmen dominate BY

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The men’s swimming and diving team dominated Wheaton College on Saturday 188-105 in MEN’s SWIMMING (5-3) at Hamilton Pool, Saturday Wheaton — 105 Tufts — 188 Hamilton Pool for its last home meet of the season.

The victory was especially meaningful for the team’s 11 seniors, who competed in front of friends and family and were recognized during the meet in an informal ceremony.

“I thought it was a great atmosphere, as always,” senior quadcaptain Brian Canter said. “We don’t get too many chances to have home meets, and I thought it was especially nice for all the parents and the fans. There was a lot of energy and noise, and it really was a nice culmination of four years swimming at Tufts and at that pool.”

Tufts won 15 out of 16 events and had four 1-2-3 finishes, three of which came in the first three afternoon races. Sophomore Brian Marko and seniors Eddie Mayerson, Zed Debbaut and quad-captain Joe Lessard kicked things off with a firstplace finish in the 400-yard medley relay. Next, freshmen Christian Jones and Matthew Wiens and junior Lou Tamposi took the top three spots, respectively, in the 1000-yard free-

style. Finally, in the 200-yard freestyle, Lessard earned his second win of the day, while freshman Drew Berman and junior Joe McLoughlin grabbed second and third.

The Jumbos’ freshman talent was on display in their final 1-2-3 event, the 100-yard butterfly, won by freshman Austin Wood with classmates Andrew Turk and Kyle Savidge right behind him. Savidge also won the 100-yard backstroke.

Senior quad-captain Gordy Jenkins showed his sprinting prowess with first-place finishes in both the 50-yard breaststroke and 50-yard freestyle. Jenkins also won the 100-yard individual medley, edging out Lessard and senior Dave Meyer.

Even senior Trevor Stack, a diver, got in on the swimming fun, although he was tagged with a disqualification for swimming the wrong stroke.

In the 200-yard medley relay, the last event of the day, the Jumbos raced one team of freshmen, one of sophomores and one of juniors.

The junior powerhouse squad, composed of Brandon Ching, EJ Testa, Peter Debbaut and Owen Rood, earned the top spot, with the freshmen squad coming in second.

In individual events, Ching also won the 50-yard butterfly, while Testa won the 50-yard backstroke. Rood also raced in the 500-yard freestyle, which junior Alex Strittmatter won. Matthew Richmond rounded out the juniors’ successful meet with a victory in the 100-yard breaststroke.

Continuing his recent run of

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Senior Zed Debbaut fueled a winning Tufts 400-yard medley relay team on Saturday. success, freshman Johann Schmidt won the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events.

“Everyone stepped up, and people swam events they usually don’t swim,” Jenkins said. “It really shows how multifaceted we are and how much depth we have as a team.

We can mix people around and still have a lot of success.”

While the women’s team honored its seniors before the meet, the men were recognized toward the end of the meet. As the 11 names were announced, each senior ran through a tunnel of his teammates

and received an onslaught of congratulatory slaps.

“I really tried to realize this year just how much the senior class has been through together and how close we really are,” Jenkins said. “It’s a really strong class, with a lot of big personalities, and leadership coming from everywhere — not just the captains, but everyone steps up and leads this team.”

Canter agreed that the team was composed of a unique batch of talent and personality.

“I think this class definitely had everything you would want in a

group of seniors,” Canter said. “We had very different personalities, different strengths, but we had great chemistry from being and living and swimming with each other for the past three years. We were able to have a great presence and put the team in a great direction. I think I’ll have 10 other best friends for the rest of my life.”

This week, half the team will rest up in preparation for next weekend’s Wheaton Invitational, while the other half will begin training for the NESCAC Championships, which begin on Feb. 25.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING

Seniors go out in style with big win over Wheaton on Saturday BY

DANIEL RATHMAN

Daily Editorial Board

The women’s swimming and diving team on Saturday had one of its biggest assets — camaraderie — on full display as the Jumbos WOMEN’S SWIMMING (4-4) at Hamilton Pool, Saturday Wheaton — 109 Tufts — 175 defeated Wheaton, 175-109.

It was the last collegiate race in Hamilton Pool for the eight seniors on the team and they could not have asked for a better setting or result.

“The highlight of my four years of swimming at Tufts has definitely been the spirit and camaraderie we have as a team,” senior Erica Zahka said. “On Saturday, the junior class did a great job of decorating the pool and making posters, and everyone was really supportive of [the] seniors and made it a great race for us.”

Although honoring the seniors was certainly the main event, the underclassmen set the tone in the first event of the meet with a victory in the 400-yard medley relay.

Freshmen Jen Konick, Jenny Hu and Mia Greenwald left junior Courtney Adams — who swam the final, freestyle leg of the relay — with a modest gap to make up as she jumped into the pool. Adams was up to the challenge, propelling Tufts to a scintillating opening win.

“That first race was definitely the closest event of the day and Courtney swam an absolutely phenomenal 100-yard freestyle as the anchor of the relay,” senior Meghan Lueders said. “It was a blast to watch, as she came from behind, outraced [Wheaton senior Steph Perkins], and touched the wall first for the win.”

Senior tri-captain Megan Kono took it from there, winning three freestyle events in one of the best performances of her Tufts career, en route to NESCAC Player of the Week honors.

Kono nearly set a Hamilton Pool record in the 1000-yard event, with a time of 10:32.80.

She went on to post a personal season-best 1:57.62 in the 200-yard race and rounded

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Junior Megan Kono won three freestyle events on Saturday, earning her NESCAC Player of the Week honors. out the hat trick by completing the 500-yard swim in 5:10.62.

After Adams and Kono put the Jumbos ahead, the freshmen dominated the shorter events and dives to seal the victory. Hu, Greenwald and freshman Andrea Coniglio outpaced their competitors in the 50- and 100-yard breaststroke, butterfly and backstroke, respectively, while freshman Sami Bloom took first off both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving boards. Those eight victories put the Jumbos well on their way to victory.

“During the last events of the season, everyone has had some time to rest after the winter break trip and we’re looking to get some of our best times as a warm-up to the championship meets,” Lueders said.

With the win over Wheaton, the Jumbos ensured that their eight seniors would have a memorable last race in Hamilton Pool.

Now, their focus will turn to finishing the season on the highest note possible.

The first of the championship meets comes this weekend at the Wheaton Invitational, where half of the Jumbos will compete for the last time this year. Their teammates will be busy preparing for the NESCAC Championships on Feb. 18-20 at Williams College, but will not miss the chance to offer their support from the deck.

“At the Wheaton Invitational, everyone kind of gets to choose what events they want to swim, whether it’s the ones they normally swim or something different they

want to try,” Zahka said. “Then, [Coach Nancy Bigelow] is going to decide how to best set up the team so we can get the maximum number of points at Wheaton and at NESCACs.” “Even though only half of the girls are actually competing, the Wheaton Invite is still going to be very much an entire team event,” Lueders added. “The rest of the team will be there cheering, as we have been all season.”

Spirit and teamwork have been the cornerstones of the team’s success throughout the year. As the team gets ready for its final laps of the season, the Jumbos are confident that they will have the support they need to finish strong.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tufts salvages split against Connecticut College, Wesleyan BY

ALEX LACH

Daily Editorial Board

Heading into this past weekend with a three-game winning streak, the men’s basketball team looked MEN’S BASKETBALL (10-9, 3-3 NESCAC) at Cousens Gym, Friday Conn. College 17 47 — 64 Tufts 27 26 — 53 at Cousens Gym, Saturday Wesleyan Tufts

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to solidify its place in the top half of the NESCAC standings with matchups against the conference’s two worst teams, Connecticut College and Wesleyan. A Tufts sweep would have guaranteed a spot in the NESCAC playoffs for the first time since the 2006-07 season. Coming away emptyhanded would have thrown that playoff spot into jeopardy.

But neither of these extremes happened. The Jumbos split the weekend with a 64-53 loss to the Camels on Friday night and a bounce-back 79-65 win over the Cardinals on Saturday, a crucial win for their post-season hopes.

“Obviously we wanted two [wins], but we knew that it was huge to get at least one,” sophomore forward Scott Anderson said. “We don’t want to make it like that. We want to be able to get another win in the future to solidify our spot, and we couldn’t have done that without getting at least one this weekend.”

The Jumbos also understand the lessons they can take away from Friday night’s loss to Conn.

College: There is no time for off days in the NESCAC, especially when a playoff appearance is on the line.

“Against any NESCAC team, if you don’t play your best game you’re going to lose; it’s that simple,” junior tri-captain James Long said. “Every opponent you have to go in and be focused against and make sure you’re running stuff and playing defense and that’s really the only way you’re going to get a win.”

Saturday’s victory over the Cardinals was keyed by an effort to remedy many of the mistakes made on Friday night: a lack of focus, a lack of intensity and failure to stick to a game plan.

“We said going in, ‘We have to play our game — play Tufts basketball,’” Anderson said.

“We can’t play down to their level. From the get-go, against

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Junior Amauris Quezada continued his hot shooting this weekend, putting up 14 points in a win vs. Wesleyan Wesleyan we came out with a lot of fire and it worked out for us.”

The Jumbos jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead and never looked back, leading by as many as 14 in the first half before a late Wesleyan run cut the lead to seven at half-

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time. But Tufts regained control after the break, showing the kind of efficiency on offense that was not present on Friday night.

“A lot of plays that we were running against Connecticut were working better against Wesleyan,”

Anderson said. “Instead of shooting outside like we did against Connecticut, we were working it inside out. On all of our plays, we were running it all the way see MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 13

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Jumbos sweep NESCAC foes, Allen breaks record in throw lead in scoring defense BY

BEN KOCHMAN AND CONNOR ROSE

Daily Editorial Board and Senior Staff Writer

BY

KELSEY PERKINS

Daily Staff Writer

The women’s basketball team had its first NESCAC weekend sweep of the season this weekend, blowing out Connecticut College WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (8-8, 2-2 NESCAC) at Cousens Gym, Friday Conn. College Tufts

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64-32 on Friday night and defeating Wesleyan University 57-47 on Saturday afternoon.

After a slew of weekend splits against NESCAC opponents, the back-to-back conference wins were a much-needed boost to the team’s record, as well as its morale.

“This past weekend was really big for us,” said junior tri-captain forward Kate Barnosky. “We needed to win both games to improve our league standing, but it was also important as a confidence booster going into another big NESCAC weekend.”

Wesleyan on Saturday was a formidable test for a Tufts team that is still without Barnosky and senior tri-captain guard Colleen Hart, both injured. While the Jumbos were resilient on defense, they struggled to find their groove offensively, shooting only 29 percent in the first half.

After 20 minutes of back-and-forth lead changes, Tufts entered halftime with a marginal 22-20 advantage over Wesleyan.

“Wesleyan was a tough game,” sophomore forward Collier Clegg said. “The size differential put us at a slight disadvantage.

They had some really strong post players.”

After the break, the Cardinals went on a 7-0 run, holding the lead until almost halfway through the second half when a free throw from Clegg tied the game at 29. Shortly thereafter, a pair of free throws from freshman Caitlin McClure gave the

Jumbos a lead they would hang on to for the remainder of the clock.

Still, the game stayed a nail-biter until almost the very end. With less than three minutes to go, Clegg and senior guard Vanessa Miller each added 3-pointers that extended the Jumbos’ lead to 10 points, a deficit from which the Cardinals were not able to recover.

“Wesleyan was close for the entire first half, and really up until the end,” Clegg said. “We didn’t pull away until those last 3-pointers. Our defense was on, but we couldn’t pull it together offensively.”

The Jumbos finished with three players scoring in the double digits. Clegg tallied 12 points and six rebounds, while freshman forward Liz Moynihan was just shy of a double-double, netting 12 points and snagging nine rebounds.

Friday’s matchup against Conn. College was much smoother sailing. After allowing the Camels a short-lived 6-0 lead, the Jumbos gave up only one more field goal for the remainder of the first half.

A 10-minute run led by freshman guard Caitlin McClure’s 11 points and an additional 10 points from Miller put the Jumbos up 32-10 at halftime.

McClure and Miller continued their scoring streaks into the second half, while sophomore forward Bre Dufault scored 10 second-half points on her way to 14 points on the game.

The Jumbos dominated all around, finishing the game with a total of 22 offensive rebounds and forcing 28 turnovers. The depth of the Tufts bench was a considerable advantage over Conn. College’s shallower squad.

“A lot of different players got a lot of time,” Dufault said. “Caitlin [McClure] had a big game, which is really encouraging for a freshman.”

Miller — who scored 16 points against Wesleyan and has averaged 15.7 points, 8.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 6.0 steals per game over Tufts’ three-game winning streak — was selected on Monday as the NESCAC Player of the Week. see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 13

The women’s track and field team competed at two separate locations this past weekend, splitting the WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD Terrier Classic at Boston University., Jan. 28-29 No Team Scoring MIT Invitational Jan. 29 No Team Scoring squad between the MIT Invitational on Saturday and Boston University’s (BU) Terrier Classic on both Friday and Saturday, with most of the women’s events taking place on Friday.

While the two meets were technically non-scoring, the Jumbos still managed to earn some personal bests, and, in sophomore Kelly Allen’s case,

broke a school record.

On Saturday, in her first throw of the day, Allen shattered the Tufts record with a weight throw of 48’. Over the past few weeks Allen has improved every time she has entered the circle.

Her focus on increasing her strength and learning proper form and technique is already paying major dividends this season.

“I was definitely trying to go for it, and everyone was pretty excited when I broke the record,” Allen said. “The hard thing was that it was my first throw of the day, so I had to keep going afterwards.”

The scary part of this story for the rest of the NESCAC is that the weight throw is still relatively new to Allen, meaning she will only move up from here. Every time she has thrown in the event, save twice since her freshman year, Allen has achieved personal bests. And she has been equally impressive in other throwing events, too — in addition to her record-breaking performance in the see Women’s TF , page 13

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Vanessa Miller, Megan Kono named NESCAC Players of the Week The women’s basketball team is on a three-game winning streak, and senior guard Vanessa Miller has been leading the way for Tufts. Miller’s contributions were rewarded on Monday, when she was honored as the NESCAC Player of the Week.

With tri-captains Colleen Hart and Kate Barnosky sidelined by injuries, Miller has picked up the offensive slack, averaging 15.7 points, 8.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 6.0 steals per game during the recent surge. Miller’s best performance of the week came at Emmanuel College on Tuesday night, when she tallied 17 points and 10 rebounds, en route to her first doubledouble of the season. For a player who

entered the week averaging just 3.9 points and 5.0 rebounds per game, Miller’s clutch effort in the Jumbos’ 63-56 victory was stunning.

But Miller wasn’t the only Jumbo to earn the NESCAC Player of the Week honor this week. Women’s swimming tri-captain Megan Kono — one of eight seniors who were competing for the last time in Hamilton Pool — won three events in a dual meet against Wheaton College on Saturday, in one of the best performances of her collegiate career.

Kono dominated the 200-, 500- and 1000-yard freestyle races, sending Tufts on its way to a 175-109 rout.

—by Daniel Rathman