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Proposal may greatly increase Tufts’ student health benefits by

Michael Del Moro Daily Editorial Board

The federal government earlier this month brought to the forefront the debate over student health insurance with proposed regulations that could drastically increase benefits of student plans and require that these plans meet similar standards to those stipulated in the recent national overhaul of the health insurance system.

The proposed rule would vastly enlarge the benefits of Tufts’ student plan, which is brokered through the insurance company Aetna. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) put forth the regulations and has now entered a period of public review.

Student health insurance plans have remained in limbo throughout the greater universal health care debate, according to Director of Health and Wellness Services Michelle Bowdler. Insurers, policymakers and university administrators often have not known whether the plans

must meet the same standards that private insurance companies now face with regard to the general public, she said.

“People have been looking at student insurance for a long time because one of the concerns has been about how the plan has now evolved to bring more comprehensive coverage for students,” Bowdler said. “It has to comply with some regulations for full universal health care, but not every regulation.”

Individual private insurance plans can cost between $4,000 and $8,000 because of the more comprehensive coverage they offer to clients, Bowdler said. Tufts’ current student plan costs approximately $1,500.

Students are typically healthier than members of the general public, which consistently results in less-expensive student plans, sophomore Daniel Markowitz, a member of the Student Health Organizing Coalition (SHOC), said.

Originally founded in 2008 by Tufts students, SHOC advocates improved benefits see HEALTH CARE, page 2

Two community reps appointed to TCU Senate

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Fletcher School Dean Stephen Bosworth has served for two years as of this week as U.S. special envoy to North Korea.

Bosworth marks two years balancing diplomacy, deanship

By Ben Gittleson Daily Editorial Board

As students at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy sat down for exams in December, their dean had other things on his mind: how to prevent war on the Korean peninsula.

For Stephen Bosworth, the dean of The Fletcher School and the Obama administration’s special envoy on

North Korea, balancing the demands of a full-time deanship with the mitigation of rising tensions in the North has become the norm.

Since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced his appointment as special envoy two years ago this week, Bosworth has played an instrumental role in U.S. policy toward North Korea, maksee BOSWORTH, page 2

The Tufts Community Union Senate on Monday appointed two students as community representatives to represent the Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) and the Asian American Alliance (AAA).

Freshman Grainne Griffiths will represent QSA and Tufts’ LGBT community on the Senate. Griffiths on Feb. 14 ran unopposed in an election held by QSA after sophomore Alex Lis-Perlis resigned from the position last month.

Griffiths aims to better coordinate QSA’s activities with those of other groups on campus in an effort to emphasize shared experiences.

“I want to integrate more events with other Group of Six members as well as other groups on campus,” she said.

“We don’t want to focus on an issue that only people who identify as LGBT can relate to; we want to recognize similarities between different groups.”

Griffiths also hopes to improve coordination between different LGBT-focused groups on campus.

“I’m very excited to integrate all the different efforts of the LGBT groups at Tufts,” she said. “Right now, everyone seems to be on a different page, but I’m excited for us to work together more.”

Junior Richa Batra will serve as the community representative for the AAA and the Asian-American community at Tufts. Batra was selected for the position two weeks ago in an election held by the Asian American Center.

She stressed the importance of increasing diversity within Senate “I want to act as a voice for the Asian-American community within Senate,” Batra said. “I think the position is very important, especially now that community reps have more rights on Senate and because it brings more diversity to the body. I’m happy to be a part of it.”

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Freshman pre-orientations centralized under one office

by Jenny

White

Daily Editorial Board

Logistical changes to Tufts’ pre-orientation programs will next year bring all five programs under the supervision of the Undergraduate Orientation Office, streamlining their advertisement and application processes.

The office, in conjunction with the programs’ coordinators and the Office for Campus Life (OCL), will this year help develop a universal application and payment mechanism for all five of the programs, which include Conversations, Action, Faith and Education (CAFE); Fitness and Individual Development at Tufts (FIT);

Freshman Orientation Community Service (FOCUS); International Orientation (IO); and Tufts Wilderness Orientation (TWO).

It will also provide training for all program leaders and staff and coordinate the logistics for students storing belongings in their dorms before preorientation programs begin, according to Coordinator for Orientation and Administration Jamie Engle.

“We are helping to coordinate the logistical aspects of the programs but are leaving control of the content to the individual programs,” Engle said.

The changes will bring a sense of see PRE-ORIENTATION, page 2

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International Orientation, along with Tufts’ four other pre-orientation programs, will now fall under the supervision of the Undergraduate Orientation Office.

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Political slogans, accurate or not, leave a memorable impression on the public.

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and lower costs for student plans across Massachusetts.

Bowdler said the cost of student insurance will inevitably rise over the next few years since colleges and universities like Tufts will likely implement changes to comply with the proposed regulations beginning in the 2012-13 academic year.

Health insurance is mandatory for all residents over 18 in Massachusetts, though many undergraduates opt to remain on their families’ health plans, which typically offer more benefits than the student plan.

Since September, young adults nationwide have been allowed to stay on their parents’ insurance until the age of 26 as a result of the Affordable Care Act President Barack Obama signed last year.

Coverage One stipulation in the proposed regulations calls for an annual limit of at least $100,000 for essential health benefits. The stipulation would go into effect between January and September 2012. This would mean, for example, a large increase in the Tufts plan’s maximum for prescription-drug coverage, which is currently $2,000, Bowdler said.

Prescription drugs are included in the HHS definition if essential health benefits.

The majority of students do not exhaust this benefit, according to Bowdler, with only five to 10 students per year going over the $2,000 mark.

Still, Bowdler said the university would work to adjust benefits incrementally over the next few years in light of the proposed regulations. Administrators, she added, are currently considering options for improving student insurance.

“If there’s one person who has an unexpected illness, we wouldn’t want that one person not to be covered and have to worry about their health care,” Bowdler said.

Students in SHOC believe the new regulations are moving student health insurance in the right direction and that current health care plans are inadequate, according to Markowitz.

“Students are required to buy health insurance, and if they’re required to buy health insurance, they should be covered by plans that actually cover them,” Markowitz said. “You should be promoting education, and you should be promoting your students. ... Any regulations that do help increase benefits, I think, [are] a very big step and a very important step.”

Markowitz called the $100,000 maximum “very substantial.”

Sophomore Brent Abel, chair of Tufts’ Student Health Advisory Board and a member of SHOC, said the new maximum could mean a lot for students with pre-existing medical conditions.

Abel remains optimistic that the proposed regulations set standards that are achievable through negotiation.

“In order to get the cheapest price for Tufts,” he said, “it’s important to do a lot of bargaining with the insurance companies.”

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Proposed regulations would expand breadth and cost of student health care plans.

Cost Bowdler, however, is unsure about how the proposed regulations will affect student health insurance costs at Tufts.

“I think it’s OK, but I’m worried about the cost increases,” she said. “I’m also confident that some of this will work itself out of the next few years.”

Fletcher dean reaches two years of distinguished State Department service BOSWORTH

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ing numerous trips to Washington and northeast Asia to discuss with officials on both sides of the globe the secretive nation’s nuclear program and humanitarian record.

All the while, he has managed the affairs of and fundraised for The Fletcher School, fulfilling his academic responsibilities to a degree that he says has not diminished.

Bosworth has instead used his civic service position to enrich the educational experience at the graduate school, holding half-a-dozen off-therecord briefings for members of the Fletcher community and updating colleagues during monthly faculty meetings, he said.

Seth Leighton, a first-year Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy candidate, said that through attending two of the off-the-record talks, he has learned how uninformed U.S. officials really are when it comes to on-goings in North Korea.

“I’ve become aware of … the extent to which there’s a lack of information and how much that constrains the ability to negotiate and look at policy choices,” he said.

A number of smaller-scale, informal events like guest lectures have also brought Bosworth’s expertise to the classroom, according to both Bosworth and Ian Davis, assistant director for media relations at The Fletcher School.

Bosworth said his return to civil service represented the ideals of the university and The Fletcher School.

Prior to coming to Tufts, he served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea for four years and had earlier been ambassador to Tunisia and to the Philippines.

“It’s an illustration of the kinds of things that we are educating our students to be able to do,” Bosworth said of his current role.

While he conceded that the increased demands on his time over the past two years have added stress to his private life, Bosworth said

that his academic work “keeps [him] sane.” He estimated that about 20 to 25 percent of his time is spent on his State Department position, and he devotes the rest to Fletcher.

“My life here at Tufts and at Fletcher adds an element of balance, gives me a sense of perspective,” he said. “It’s been a healthy balance in dealing with the frustrations of the North Korean problem.”

Depending on “the tenor” of events in northeast Asia, the dean travels to the region once every two or three months and spends one or two days in Washington every couple of weeks.

Next week, he is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

Constant travel has taken a toll on Bosworth, who travels on Fletcher business in addition to his work on North Korea policy. In the fall, he visited London, Spain, India, Dubai and Brazil for The Fletcher School in addition to two trips to northeast Asia this academic year, according to the State Department’s website.

“Steve is a remarkable guy,” University President Lawrence Bacow said in an e-mail. “Beyond being a terrific dean and a distinguished public servant, he has amazing energy and stamina. I don’t know how he does it.

From my perspective, he is performing public service at the highest possible level so he has my full support.”

Bosworth’s dual role, Bacow said, has “provided great visibility for Fletcher on the world stage.”

A State Department official in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs was unaware of any other official in the current administration at Bosworth’s level of seniority simultaneously holding an academic position of the same stature.

Leighton, who concentrates on law and development in Pacific Asia, said he has appreciated Bosworth’s openness when speaking with students.

“I think he certainly is as knowledgeable as anyone else, perhaps in the world, on the Korean peninsula,” Leighton said.

Abel and Markowitz said sometimes a large amount of what students pay for their plans goes toward administrative overhead and not their health care.

As much as 30 to 45 percent of certain plans’ costs do not go toward health care, according to Markowitz.

“One really important thing

for bargaining power is that universities have to join together on this,” he said. “The bigger your clientele, the more power you have.”

Abel added that it was important to make insurance companies compete for Tufts’ patronage by constantly comparing their benefits and costs.

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administrative authority to the way the programs are run, according to Assistant Director of Athletics and FIT coordinator Branwen Smith-King.

“It’s important for the administration to have a hand in what we do and for us to feel supported,” Smith-King said.

While the change aims to streamline pre-orientation programs, several students who helped coordinate this year’s programs expressed concern that the common application would dampen the individuality that program-specific applications allowed.

“We like to write our own application in a very FOCUS-specific way,” FOCUS co-Coordinator Mike Borys, a sophomore said. “We’re afraid we might end up with people who don’t really want to be at FOCUS.” Junior Elliott McCarthy, who served as a co-coordinator for CAFE, expressed similar concern that the common application would take away from the individuality of each program.

“It will be harder to tell whether a student would be a good fit for your program or not,” McCarthy said, adding that he hoped to avoid creating an application as formal as the one used by Tufts’ Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

The Undergraduate Orientation Office and coordinators for each program are in the process of collaborating on a final version of the official application, Borys said.

The universal application will help encourage cooperation among the groups and streamline the application process, Smith-King said.

“There was a feeling that we needed to collaborate more, and the common application will be a step in the right direction,” she said. “I’m in favor of the work [the Undergraduate Orientation Office] is trying to do to make the programming more uniform.”

The new application process will now also require all pre-orientation programs to notify students of their acceptance in June, according to International

Office Director Jane Etish-Andrews, who serves as the IO coordinator.

The Undergraduate Orientation Office this year will also centralize the advertizing of the pre-orientation programs into a joint brochure featuring all five options. Advertisement was a responsibility formerly delegated to the heads of individual programs. The office will circulate the brochure online and on paper at April Open House.

Since the Undergraduate Orientation Office will allocate a higher budget for the common brochure than individual programs have had available to them in the past, Borys believed the packet will be of better quality.

Etish-Andrews believed that centralizing the programs’ recruitment efforts would bring IO in league with the better-known pre-orientation programs.

“It’ll make us more mainstream,” she said. “It will give the program more visibility to be with the other four programs that we’re not usually listed with.”

McCarthy agreed that CAFE, which is sponsored by the student interfaith initiative of the same name and last year hosted nine participants, will benefit from the heightened visibility.

“It gives everyone equal exposure,” McCarthy said. “We’ll probably see an increase in numbers.”

TWO co-Coordinators Louisa Bradberry and Duke Fountain, both seniors, believed that the changes were in the best interest of students and their families and would not hurt the integrity of any programs if implemented properly.

“We are doing our best to work with the OCL to meet their concerns, while also trying to retain the individuality and excellence that people have come to expect from TWO,” Bradberry said.

The move, Smith-King said, reflected the university’s belief that pre-orientation programming is valuable for incoming freshmen.

“We’re all responsible for these young people,” she said. “The university has taken it seriously enough that they want to combine our efforts, and that really shows the value of these programs.”

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The efficacy of political catchphrases, like the ‘8 is Enough’ slogan used in President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, is often questioned.

‘Winning the future’: What, if anything, do political slogans actually mean? by

Romy Oltuski

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Anyone who watched, read or heard about last month’s State of the Union Address came away with a knowledge of at least one new goal on America’s political to-do list: Win the future. The public reception of the term was less unanimous.

While some named President Barack Obama’s newest slogan as just the morale boost the country needed, others reduced it to an acronym: “WTF.” But the catchphrase — also the title of a 2005 Newt Gingrich book, as well as a handful of other modern political manifestos — is not the first to make it big during Obama’s presidency. Nor is Obama, for that matter, the first politician with a penchant for wordplay. Political slogans of years past have been met with equally divergent responses and with equally persuasive arguments, leaving many divided on whether political aphorisms hold any real meaning or whether they are mere publicity stunts.

The answer is as simple and complicated as, “both,” according to Bob Lehrman (A ’65), chief speechwriter for former Vice President Al Gore.

“Take ‘winning the future.’ Meaning?

Yes. The message is, ‘At a time when Americans worry that we’ll never have prosperity again, and we will lose out to China or India, who seem to be moving ahead, we will recover, and we’ll win that battle,’” Lehrman, who is currently an American University speechwriting pro-

fessor, told the Daily. “But it was also done in a way that guaranteed publicity.”

Deborah Schildkraut, associate professor of political science at Tufts, explained that whether a political slogan holds any weight or, more importantly, any efficacy, depends on the situation in which the slogan is used and to what end. Wording is often just about getting the audience to remember something, she said, but words’ contextual associations can also help win or lose a political battle.

The most transparent of these situations is what social scientists would categorize as framing: when opposing sides of a debate craft phraseology to present a stance more publicly palatable than their opponent’s, if only linguistically.

“A catchphrase associated with a particular policy can matter in terms of framing the debate about that policy and helping figure out what an issue is about. That can be consequential,” Schildkraut said. “The side that succeeds in framing gets the upper hand, and the other side is then in a position of trying to dislodge the framing of the issue that is being discussed.

An example that comes to mind is using a term like ‘death panels’ when talking about health care reform.”

Framing can be as simple as associating words that register as “good” with your own argument and words that register as “bad” with your adversary’s. Of course, opponents in a semantic battle can fight back, as the “pro-choice” camp did to a strong, offensive phrase “pro-life,” which at first seemed to leave its corollary framed as the

“pro-death” position, Lehrman said.

“You try to find a phrase that means something to a lot of people — and try to get a lot of people to hear it,” he said.

“Americans like optimism. They like people who are for something good. Both parties devote a lot of time and money trying to find slogans, phrases or acronyms that are both optimistic or for something impossible to oppose.”

And it’s no wonder political figures pour time and money into focus groups that scrutinize the terminology of their platforms; the effect of this name game on manipulation of public support is measurable, Schildkraut said.

“We see this in debates about immigration reform. One side promotes giving illegal immigrants an opportunity for ‘earned citizenship,’ while the other side opposes ‘amnesty.’ Research shows that the American public favors allowing illegal immigrants to earn legal status, but that support is weaker — though still a majority — if the survey question uses the word ‘amnesty,’” she said.

Slogans are used as framing devices on smaller political battlefields as well.Former Tufts Democrats President Seth Rau, a junior, cited the debate surrounding voting rights for the Tufts Community Union Senate’s community representatives.

“Choosing your words in a debate is critical. Look at this fall’s vote between Referendum 3 and 4. One proposal that won by one vote nearly won the election because it talked more about celebrating diversity, which is a key buzzword on our campus,” he said. “At the end of the day, the public wants a memorable phrase that the media drives into their heads, whether they realize it or not.”

Current Tufts Democrats President Ryan Long, also a junior, sees framing as potentially hazardous to campus affairs.

“I have seen language manipulation used in many different contexts, including on campus and think that it can be a serious problem on a national scale,” he said.

“I think that people are frequently swayed by rhetoric and do not investigate policies and the truth of what people say or even really think about it.”

Still, senior Kevin McDonald, vice president of Tufts Republicans, does not think that the slogans used on campus — or in Washington — make much of a real difference when it comes to voters’ leanings for one reason: “They’re short and easily forgotten,” he said.

Lehrman is of a same opinion. While he agreed that language manipulation can

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‘Yes We Can’ was one of the defining slogans during Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential run.

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magine this scene: You’re walking across the Academic Quad on a brisk autumn day in October 1954.

You hold a copy of the Tufts Weekly in your hands, eagerly scanning an article that has made big news on campus. In fact, this news is so big the Weekly was moved to declare this “the first time that such liberal rules have been put into effect in any men’s college in the East. We have set a precedent.” What headline, you may ask, transformed Tufts into such a radical institution?

“Women Permitted in Dormitories.”

Men and women in the same residential building before marriage? What kind of lunatic could even dream of such a policy?

Considering the context and putting sarcasm aside, it appears that Tufts really did take a big step by allowing men to bring their dates back to the dorms. Just look at all the ways this new policy essentially turned Tufts into a coed free-for-all: 1. You’ve been out all night at the local watering hole, wooing that special girl. Things are going so well that the two of you decide to go back to your room for the night. Well ... not quite. First “a dormitory resident signs his date in by putting her name, her school, his name, and the time” in a book kept at the front desk in each dormitory. And as for spending the night?

If this is a weekend we’re talking about, then “hours after 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings come under the regulations for parties and must have chaperones.” Nothing screams “party” like a chaperone in your dorm room.

2. So, you’ve finally managed to follow all the rules: Your date is signed in. It’s Sunday, so she’s visiting from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Now the fun really begins, as long as “the doors to the rooms are left fully open and normal lighting [is] being used.” I’ve always found the harsh glow of fluorescent lights to be particularly romantic.

3. Though it’s hard to believe, you were one of the lucky ones if your date actually made it into your well-lit, easily monitored room. According to these liberal rules, you weren’t allowed to bring a girl to your room if your dorm had a lounge. Instead, the two of you had to remain in the lounge and your date couldn’t leave “for any reason except to us[e] the toilets.” This is where it starts to sound like prison.

4. Let’s assume you’ve found a girl who has not yet decided to desert you. Things seem to be looking up because you and your date are the only two people in the lounge, even though your ninety minutes of visiting time are almost over. You lean in for the kiss and ... your Faculty Resident stomps through the lounge, performing his duty to provide a ten-minute warning before all girls have to leave the dorm.

What a mood-killer!

But look at us now: Not only have we done away with the check-in desks, open door policies and visiting hours, but men and women can actually live together in the same dorms! I sometimes wonder, though, if these relaxed policies are really worth it. Because when I think about the guys’ wing of my freshman dorm, all I can remember are my male neighbors’ impossibly loud, three-hour-long Guitar Hero battles and the fact that their half of the hall constantly smelled sort of funky.

I guess that’s just the price you pay for progress ...

Alanna Tuller is a sophomore majoring in English and Spanish. She can be reached at Alanna.Tuller@tufts.edu.

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Experts evaluate political catchphrases SLOGANS

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sometimes be effective in the specific case of framing, its outcomes even then are overestimated: Language can only complement a politician’s message, not define it.

One catchphrase often cited as having cast a politician in a favorable light is President Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America.” Still, Lerhman clarified, the slogan accompanied Reagan’s politics, rather than defined them.

“While Reagan won, the slogan didn’t make much difference,” he said. “The TV ad using it made some [difference]; it was really skillful. But the economy, the lingering unpopularity of Carter and Reagan’s avuncular appeal were much more important.”

Moreover, framing is only one use of political catchphrases, and if a phrase is being used for another purpose — like to describe a political philosophy or provide an uplifting message midterm, as is the case with “winning the future” — the effect is likely to be much more negligible, Schildkraut said.

“For the most part, I don’t think they help all that much, especially during governance, i.e. ‘Winning the future.’ During the campaign, a phrase like, ‘Yes, we can,’ can tap into a zeitgeist and feed into the enthusiasm that people have for the campaign. That enthusiasm can certainly help to sustain involvement. During governance, however, a vague catchphrase about an approach to policy-making has difficulty resonating,” Schildkraut said.

Lehrman agreed that “Yes, we can” was effective as a slogan but differed from “Winning the future” significantly. “‘Winning the future’ was a State of the Union message, calculated to express optimism,” he said. “‘Yes, we can’ was not only a theme of Obama’s campaign. He used it in the long, brilliant end of his victory speech … at a time when that message struck home.”

McDonald, who believes that the language that characterized the beginning of Obama’s presidential campaign — words like “hope” and “change” — have immense power to inspire and mobilize

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Politicians often use slogans to make campaign messages more memorable for the public. supporters, thinks that the president’s most recent linguistic offering falls short for other reasons.

“It doesn’t strike me as anything special,” he said. “This slogan doesn’t have the same panache that others do; it lacks any kind of emotional power that many good slogans have. ‘It’s morning again in America’ gave the sense of rejuvenation and renewal for the country; ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid’ summed up the anger of the American people at the time. ‘Winning the future,’ to me, doesn’t have any of these qualities of a lasting slogan.”

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Formosa Betrayed

Thursday, February 24 (Monday Schedule) 6:00 p.m. , Metcalf Hall Lounge

6:00 p.m. Screening, 7:45 p.m. Dinner & Talk with Will Tiao Inspired by actual events.

In the early 1980s, FBI Agent Jake Kelly investigates the murder of an Asian professor at a small, mid-western college. Agent Kelly follows the fleeing killers to Taiwan, where he finds himself on a collision course with the FBI, the State Department, the Chinese Mafia, and the Government of the Republic of China -- in a land where the truth is not what it seems and the only people he can trust, cannot be trusted at all. Come watch this riveting tale about the rarely discussed conflict of Taiwan, and the darkness behind it.

Additional Screenings, 7:30-9:30 p.m.: Tues., Feb. 15 Barnum 08 Wed., Feb. 16 Olin 011 Thurs., Feb. 17 Olin 011 Tues., Feb. 22 Pearson 106 Wed., Feb. 23 Pearson 104

Taiwanese-American actor/producer, Will Tiao, A96, graduated with a B.A. in International Relations and worked in the field of international politics before entering the Hollywood scene. He received a Fulbright Scholarship for his research on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila, Philippines. Tiao served as a Presidential Management Fellow under the Clinton administration and went on to become an international economist under the George W. Bush administration. In 2002 he decided to leave politics to pursue a career in entertainment.

Funded through AS&E Diversity Fund Co-sponsored by Asian American Center,Taiwanese Association of Students at Tufts, Office of Alumni Relations, Tufts Asian American Alumni Association For more information contact: asianamcenter@tufts.edu

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Album Review

Earth takes on a more refined, musically mature sound in ‘Angels of Darkness’ Melissa MacEwan Daily Staff Writer

Ever wonder what exactly happened to some of grunge’s classic bands?

Look no further than Earth.

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Recently, fans of doom metal band Earth haven’t been sure exactly what to expect, and its highly anticipated sixth album, “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I,” released earlier this month, continues to surpass expectations.

Founded in 1989 by Dylan Carlson, Earth originally depended on the Black Sabbath-esque distorted guitar sound that bands like Melvins and Nirvana repopularized. The band rapidly built up a fan base and inspired a number of bands, including Sunn O))) and Sleep. Sunn O))) even went so far as to name itself after Earth’s favorite Sunn-brand amplifiers.

But just as Earth’s grungy, dronemetal popularity started to gain momentum and a number of imitators, the band went on hiatus in 1996.

It returned in 2002 with a noticeably different sound. Drifting away myspace.com/earthofficial

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Earth frontman Dylan Carlson performs songs from the band’s new album.

Movie Review

TV Review

Bieber fever comes to theaters in 3-D

New CBS sitcom relies heavily on recycled plot lines

by Joseph Stile

Daily Editorial Board

I have to admit I was a little more than ashamed when I bought my ticket for “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.” Dignity aside,

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never Starring Justin Bieber Directed by Jon Chu though, it is actually a fairly entertaining movie. Although marketed as a concert film, its real strength lies in the backstage footage and home-movie clips that help viewers understand Justin Bieber and his journey to massive popstardom.

The moment Bieber’s face appeared on the big screen, the tween girls in the audience started screaming — loudly. If just his picture can drive little girls that wild, it is not hard to imagine the effect he has on the girls at his

concerts and in real life.

A good portion of the film is simply tween girls: the kind still in the awkward middle school phase, talking about how much they love everything from the Biebs’ personality to his looks to his voice. All of the girls have a slightly crazy look in their eyes, like they honestly believe they will actually marry Justin someday. These clips of fans provide some laughs; whether intentional or not, it is still funny.

Bieber and his production team know their target audience. Scooter, Bieber’s manager, even states that Justin’s fans are a “loyal group of girls.” There is no doubt that Justin Bieber is being marketed to young females and the constant shots of crying girls during the performances show the filmmakers know this too.

One of the funniest scenes in the movie plays off Bieber’s fans and their undying obsession with him. In the middle of the movie, there is a continuous slow-motion shot of see BIEBER, page 6

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Alex Kaufman

Daily Staff Writer

If you’re looking for the next “How I Met Your Mother,” look elsewhere.

Mad Love Starring Jason Biggs, Sarah Chalke, Judy Greer, Tyler Labine Airs Mondays at 8:30 p.m. on CBS “Mad Love,” the latest sitcom from CBS, tells the story of two pairs of friends, Ben and Larry, and Kate and Connie, searching for love in New York City.

The pilot begins as Ben ( Jason Biggs) and Larry ( Tyler Labine) are leaving the observation deck of the Empire State Building and Ben forgets his phone. He returns to the top and finds Kate (Sarah Chalke) holding it. They share instant “fireworks” — coincidentally the same name as the pilot episode and an obvious allusion to the classic movie, “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993).

The pilot retains its unoriginality as Ben invites Larry to go out with Kate and her best friend, Connie (Judy Greer). Larry and Connie, as the best friends of Ben and Kate, respectively, are at odds from the start, a sort of hate-at-first-sight, and viewers are expected to find comedy in their snarky bickering.

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acaroni and cheese is the ultimate American comfort food.

Even the snottiest, pickiest of children pine for that combination of pasta and orange dairy product of questionable origin. It’s creamy, it’s salty, it’s like a cuddly blanket that tastes good.

I’ve yet to meet anyone that outgrew their love of macaroni and cheese. The ability of this dish to transcend generations — in conjunction with a new restaurant trend revolving around the transformation of simple, homey foods into expressions of gourmet extravagance — has led to the creation of recipes for mac with double-take-worthy price tags.

Take, for example, the gentrified reincarnation of macaroni and cheese at the Los Angeles fine dining establishment, Mélisse.

The $95 concoction consists of fresh tagliatelle and parmesan cheese topped with white truffles and brown butter truffle froth. Some restaurants have gone so far as to devote themselves exclusively to this one dish, like Cheeseology in my hometown of St. Louis.

Thinking outside the blue box does not by any means require spending all of your dough.

The key to making your own fancy mac rests on executing one technique, after which you are the master of your own cheesy destiny.

This essential part of the equation is the sauce, which typically begins with a béchamel, the classic French white sauce of milk thickened by a butter and flour paste called roux (pronounced “roo”). Cheese is added to the béchamel to create Mornay sauce.

The following is an extremely inexact recipe I put together that packs tons of flavor and a silky texture. I’ll walk you through the steps and my reasoning behind choosing the ingredients. You can, of course, omit and substitute where you want.

About a third of a box of campanelle Milk Butter Salt and pepper Garlic powder Shredded American and cheddar cheeses Sherry (I got a bottle of inexpensive Amontillado at Trader Joe’s) 2 strips of bacon A handful of shrimp: raw, peeled, deveined and chopped into bite-size pieces Panko breadcrumbs Cook the campanelle, or whatever pasta you choose, until al dente. I like campanelle because it holds thick sauces beautifully and looks pretty cool too. Drain and set the pasta aside.

While the pasta boils, cook the bacon until crispy. Crumble it up and set that aside.

In a medium to large pot, melt about four tablespoons of butter and add an equal amount of flour, stirring vigorously to keep it free of lumps. The mixture should form a smooth paste; add more flour if it looks too thin. Cook the roux over medium heat for about a minute, just to get the raw flour taste out. At this point, pour in milk, while stirring; then, add shrimp. Cooking the shrimp in the sauce will add a briny flavor.

Turn the heat off after a minute or so.

Add a few handfuls of the shredded cheese.

I chose this particular blend for cheddar’s sharpness and because American melts real smooth-like.

Stir in the bacon, an ingredient I really should not have to explain (smoky! bacony!) and no more than two tablespoons of sherry.

Sherry is great because it adds a certain “je ne sais quoi” and reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Don’t argue. As one housemate put it after trying this dish, “I’m never eating macaroni and cheese again without sherry.”

Season with salt, pepper and garlic powder to taste. Stir in the pasta.

At this point you can just eat the stuff, or, you can take it to the next level and bake it at 350 degrees with breadcrumbs on top until golden brown and you can’t wait anymore.

Emily Balk is a senior majoring in biopsychology. She can be reached at Emily.Balk@tufts.edu.

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is the relationship between Ben and Kate. Biggs and Chalke are not only well-suited for each other chemistrywise, but they are also matched in their acting abilities. Biggs, known for his starring role in the famous teen film series “American Pie,” has found similar roles ever since, perfecting his lowbrow comic acting. Similarly, Chalke’s role in “Scrubs” (2001-10) exhibited her “dramedy” sensibilities, which she effortlessly brings to her new show.

Their charm, comedy and touch of romance could have enhanced this failing comedy, if only their lines hadn’t been heard countless times in varying combinations over the past 20 years.

Their chemistry is dependent on the script and could have been more pronounced and unique had the lines contained an ounce of novelty. Instead, the romance falls on its face.

Greer and Labine, on the other hand, prove to be a disastrous match. Greer has played more challenging roles that better demonstrate her talent in movies such as “27 Dresses” (2008) and “13 Going on 30” (2004), and in TV shows such as “Arrested Development” (2003-6). This role is a step down for her — it demonstrates none of her range. She could bring so much life to the show if it just offered her some creative freedom.

Greer is quite unequally matched with Labine, an actor who has not nearly as much acting prowess. His acting experiences display a remarkable lack of variety or range, and his character attests to that.

His role is a combination of all the crass, goofy men who appear in TV shows and is reminiscent of a stripped-down Barney Stinson of “How I Met Your Mother,” adding nothing to the show. His character is not comical — he’s unappealing and will certainly turn off many viewers if his streak of tactless comedy continues.

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‘Mad Love’ seems to copy ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ right down to the bar table.

Though the “Mad Love” cast includes familiar names like Biggs and Greer, and the producers attempt to use them to create a competent show, the program’s major downfall is its writing. It doesn’t make any departure from more relevant and successful sitcoms, yet it constantly reminds us of its competitors. The series could showcase its actors’ talents and strengths; instead, it takes the tack to entertain the audience, recycling material

from relationships on past sitcoms. Even the settings lack a certain believability.

Greer’s character could be made much more human by adding humor that doesn’t involve venom. Occasional snide comments, given the right circumstances, can certainly enhance a show, but they shouldn’t be used a first option.

And as for the lead romantic couple, the writers could afford to differentiate the characters. “Mad Love” may be a com-

edy, but every comedy has to have a bit of drama in it — a quality that will be lacking if the two are too compatible and similar.

“Mad Love” may be a failed “How I Met Your Mother,” but if the producers were to make it its own show and flesh out its characters’ intentions, it could be promising and enjoyable to watch. It would be a shame for these actors, aside from Labine, to be robbed of the opportunity to make the show a success.

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Justin Bieber and Usher perform together in ‘Never Say Never.’

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Bieber smiling and whipping his hair back. It is humorous and shows that Bieber can make fun of himself and the persona that has been created for him. The shot is completely ridiculous and the filmmaker knows it; the director is winking at the audience and letting them know that Bieber does not take his teen idol image too seriously.

Bieber’s army of schoolgirl fans is one of the reasons why so many people brush him off as a teen celebrity instead of a real musician, but the film compiles enough clips of Bieber as a child to prove that the kid does have talent.

Home movies of a 7-year-old Bieber keeping great rhythm on a drum despite his lack of training would be impressive enough. Add on Bieber as a child playing the guitar and singing some complicated songs and it is clear that there is more to this little Canadian than just a smile and a hairdo.

Despite the glimpse behind all the celebrity and hysteria in Bieber’s life, the film is still constructed in a way that retains his wholesome image. Clips of Bieber praying over a slice of pizza before eating and refusing to ever cancel a show come off as manipulative in a blatant attempt to show Bieber as a nice guy.

Even with these kinds of scenes, though, it is interesting to witness Bieber’s world and try to understand what goes along with fame and

wealth at a young age.

Performances from Bieber’s tour are sprinkled throughout the film. Shot with 3-D cameras, the stage and performance pops out at the audience. Yet sitting in a movie theater even with that technology never matches the experience of seeing a concert in person.

Plenty of guest stars, including Boyz II Men (who should probably be called Men II Seniors pretty soon), Usher, Jaden Smith, Ludacris and Miley Cyrus, sing with Bieber to liven up the concert portions. But while Bieber definitely has a stage presence and his songs can easily get stuck in the viewer’s head, the performances never seem to elevate to the level of justifying the massive craze around him.

The film ends with a massive performance of Bieber’s ubiquitous hit “Baby” (2010), with tons of confetti and 3-D effects: It is the Bieber equivalent of a showstopper. If you are not a fan of Bieber after hearing about his struggles to make it in the industry and hearing his catchiest track sung in one of the most important musical venues in the world (Madison Square Garden), you probably never will be.

But let’s be real: This is a film made for those who have already caught Bieber Fever.

And considering that audience has already led “Never Say Never” to a $50 million domestic gross on a reported $13 million budget, Paramount Pictures can’t be too upset with the results.

from the traditional territory of doom metal, the band began to incorporate jazz, classical and country into its songs. Incredulous fans might have also noticed that some of its songs even sounded almost upbeat.

From the first dusty notes of Wild West-reminiscent “Old Black,” “Angels of Darkness” has steadily, and almost predictably, continued this trend.

While Earth’s fourth album, “Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method”(2005), foreshadowed the band’s increasing obsession with low-key soundscapes, its fifth album, “The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull”(2008), showed the band’s increased willingness to wander further and further away from the standard confines of the metal genre.

“Angels of Darkness” possesses a comfortable musical maturity found on none of Earth’s previous albums. Earth’s earlier music lay barely outside the realm of Sleep’s “Dopesmoker”(2003) and Melvins’ “Stoner Witch”(1994), but this album is more refined and cohesive. That’s not to say that Earth’s original sound isn’t still there: The music still trudges, drones still lend a subtle but continued presence, and a mere five songs comprise the hour-long album. However, this album’s instrumental subtlety draws it particularly far from Earth’s roots.

At times, the songs can be slightly unrewarding. Slight emotional variations aside, the songs start to resemble each other. Just as a song seems to build to a climax, it frequently shies away and pursues other directions. Indeed, rather than having the songs progress toward anything in particular, the band seems much more interested in exploring the different instruments’ interactions in a drawn-out progression of musical textures. “The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull” exemplified Earth’s talent of emphasizing the voice of each instrument, yet “Angels of Darkness” takes rather the opposite approach.

Despite this psychedelic musi-

cal doodling, the songs maintain an impressive degree of warmth and depth due to the presence of another, lesser-known ’90s icon.

Cellist Lori Goldston, best known for her work with Nirvana, Bush and David Byrne, adds a critical depth to “Angels of Darkness” with sonorous, grinding cello parts that complement the band’s guitar work perfectly.

This album’s focus isn’t on the musical progression within the songs; rather, the songs’ structure and merit revolve around the complex, incredibly melodic interactions between the weighty depth of the cello and the comparably soaring guitars. The almost physical presence of the cello and electric bass grounds the songs and leaves the band free to dabble and experiment overhead.

And experiment it does.

On the track “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I,” for example, the extreme baritone of the cello is barely noticeable until a few carefully selected inter-instrumental harmonies resolve some particularly experimental sections.

Similar moments of effective tonal disparateness occur on the strangely victorious “Hell’s Winter,” rescuing the song from sounding exactly like a funeral march.

Though the album’s length and lack of predictable song structure may make it difficult for some fans to enjoy initially, these brief, sporadic moments of complete resolution that make all the listening worth it.

Earth may be losing some of its original fans, but the band clearly has a method to its madness. It is hard to believe that grunge and post-rock could ever be effectively reconciled, and yet Earth has done just that. Its change in musical style stays true to its roots, while keeping pace with the thriving modern sub-genres of postrock and ambient.

Earth still has plenty up its sleeve, which fans will be able to enjoy as soon as next year with its 2012 release of “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II.”

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Student health plans should be on par with nation’s Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a new regulation that would bring student health insurance plans up to the standards of the Affordable Care Act, which passed last year. The new rule would affect insurance plans offered at colleges and universities, including the plan at Tufts offered through Aetna, and is a sensible step toward assuring quality care for college students.

The proposed regulation defines student insurance plans as a type of individual health coverage, instead of their current status as either “shortterm limited duration insurance” or “blanket” group insurance, neither of which allow for many protections of the Affordable Care Act. The new classification would reconcile student health insurance plans with other individual plans, allowing the federal government to regulate them effectively. This would ensure that students get the same benefits from the health care overhaul as the rest of the country does.

This is an important and welcome change, one that puts necessary protections on students’ health care plans. These include ensuring that no monetary limits can be placed on lifetime coverage, an integral part of

the Affordable Care Act. It would also prevent arbitrary revocation of coverage based on mistakes in the original application process for insurance.

Finally, the regulation would end the exclusion of students under age 19 who have pre-existing conditions.

These were important components of last year’s health care bill, and it is prudent that they apply to and protect college students as well.

In addition to these new protections, the regulation would provide a common minimum coverage of $100,000, which is essential to student health care.

Currently, coverage limits for existing student plans vary widely. According to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), annual coverage limits for college plans range anywhere from $15,000 to $250,000, with the median at $50,000. Tufts’ Aetna plan is on the high end, allowing for up to $250,000 of benefits per policy per year, and thus would not be greatly affected by the new rule. Students at other many other universities, however, are not as fortunate. Over 20 percent of plans offered in the student health market have a coverage cap of $100,000 or less, compared with only about 0.2 percent in the individual market.

This wide range leads to discrepancies in student coverage and, in turn, in the quality of student health care. These unfair and unacceptable discrepancies are exactly what the HHS proposal aims to alleviate. The GAO and HHS estimate that between 1.1 and 1.5 million students will be affected by the regulation. The new rule will also increase transparency in the student health market. It will be mandatory for student health insurance providers to disclose to their customers whether or not their plan meets all requirements laid out in the Affordable Care Act. This regulation makes sure those individuals who purchase their health coverage through their college or university will also benefit from the new consumer protections now in the law.

The Affordable Care Act allows for individuals under the age of 26 to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans, but for many students, university-provided plans are the only option.

Though college-age students are, on average, healthier than the population at large, they should not be discriminated against because of this. The quality of their health care should be on par with the rest of the nation’s.

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Think for a moment about how much trust we put into Internet search engines like Google. They are our springboards to the otherwise nearly impenetrable expanse of information available online.

That’s why it’s a bit disturbing that a single company — JCPenney — manipulated the largest search engine in the world for months on end without Google noticing. When The New

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York Times saw the department store showing as the top Google search result for everything from bedding to dresses, they brought in an expert who explained the devious means companies use to attain higher results.

JCPenney [allegedly] planted links in abandoned sites to boost its standings — and it worked, to Google’s dismay. The search engine has since tried to correct the problem manually, but the damage to our trust is done. With as enormous a place to patrol as the Internet, how are search engines sup-

posed to stop people from breaking the rules and falsifying the results?

The simple answer is that they can’t: People always will find a way around the guidelines.

That leaves us, the searchers, questioning the order in which results are presented to us. We’re left wondering if the top result is really the most popular website for a given term or if its placement comes as a result of some stringpulling. If nothing else, the problem proves once again that we’re making the rules up as we go with the Internet.

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Under what circumstances can democracy survive? Political scientist Robert Dahl argues in his book “Polyarchy” (1971) that the citizens of a democratic state must be allowed to “formulate preferences” and “signify their preferences” by means of “individual and collective action.” This action can come in the form of speech and other forms of public expression. Based on Dahl’s assertions, it may be prudent to ask the following question: What is democracy without freedom of speech? In more specific terms, at what point does political correctness infringe upon our inherent right to free expression?

That The Primary Source was forced into self-censorship because of its provocative treatment of affirmative action (the publication removed the piece from its website) testifies to the high level of political correctness within the Tufts’ community. Contrary to Ryan Heman’s argument in his Feb. 15 op-ed, “More speech, not less, and certainly not hate speech,” political correctness is the issue here. Free speech should not be thrown out in favor of sensitivity. Those who felt victimized or offended by The Primary Source’s piece on affirmative action had every right — and perhaps even an obligation — to respond.

But if we rely on filtered exchange instead of honest opinion, intellectual growth becomes nearly impossible. While the fact

that the Primary Source printed a piece as offensive as “O Come, All Ye Black Folk” should have undermined its credibility as an intellectual publication, it should not have prompted calls for censorship, like when then-senior Biodun Kajopaiye declared, “I urge [the] Senate to ask campus publications to make a lifelong pledge to say that they won’t do things to offend different communities.” Freedom of speech was the real victim here.

Heman also argued in his op-ed that hate speech is not conducive to “intellectual discourse.” Although this may be true, I would hesitate in classifying The Primary Source’s carol on affirmative action as tantamount to hate speech. I would not consider it morally justifiable or journalistically responsible either, but this brings me to an important detail: “Good morals” and freedom of speech do not necessarily have to be compatible. Allow me to explain this point further. Many of us are familiar with the town of Skokie, Ill., a heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago which, during the late 1970s, found itself at the center of a national debate over First Amendment rights. Neo-Nazis expressed an intention to march through the town, and the majority of Skokie’s citizens expressed outrage at the thought of such a possibility.

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lars of freedom and equality that vitalize democracy? The case, National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, ultimately made its way to the Supreme Court, and in 1977 the Court ruled in favor of the neo-Nazis’ right to demonstrate. The First Amendment protects hateful and insulting speech, so long as that speech does not directly incite action that threatens human life.

Democracy relies upon various institutional frameworks in order to maintain stability and legitimacy, including regularly held elections, vigorous competition between opposing political forces and basic rights including freedom of association, religion and, of course, expression.

The point is that to limit freedom of expression is to limit democracy.

Thus, demanding that offensive publications be banned or censored is irreconcilable with the basic tenets of a free, democratic society. I would expect the Tufts community to uphold these democratic principles and encourage the expansion of — not the limitation of — dialogue and expression, no matter how uncomfortable this process may be.

For if we cannot uphold the principle of free expression, where do we stand as a society?

Daniel Frey is a freshman who has not yet declared a major.

Why nukes still matter

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The focus of this year’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) course is “Our Nuclear Age: Promise and Peril.” Although my friends have enjoyed teasing me about giving up my social life in exchange for learning about “nukes,” I’ve found great relevancy to our lives in this experience.

Most students at Tufts were born after the end of the Cold War, but for our parents and previous Tufts students, the nuclear arms race was a part of daily life; it was a serious concern and a heavily debated issue. Unfortunately, these debates are no longer a part of life at Tufts. The rest of this piece will attempt to prove that this debate is still worth having on campus.

Nuclear weapons are still a part of our lives despite the end of the nuclear arms race and continued nuclear disarmament.

Although the United States no longer tests nuclear weapons, France was actively testing nuclear weapons until 1996, both India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons in 1998, and North Korea tested nuclear weapons in 2006 and 2009. The nuclear arms race has changed, not gone away. Israel has never openly tested nuclear weapons, but the Federation of American Scientists estimates that Israel has anywhere from 75 to 400 nuclear warheads. While Iran does not have nuclear weapons, it has been developing and testing ballistic missiles which could serve as delivery vehicles for nuclear warheads. Iran also has not been forthcoming in providing the International Atomic Energy Agency with information regarding its nuclear program and as a result the international community has no way of accurately knowing what the Iranians are truly up to.

The debate over nuclear weapons is not a one-sided debate in favor of disarmament, as there are many reasons that having a nuclear arsenal is better for the United States. Deterrence provided by American nuclear weapons gives non-nuclear weapon state allies reassurance that they can have the powerful deterrent force of nuclear weapons without having their own nuclear arsenal. Countries like Japan need not worry about threat from nuclear weapons states because the United States is jointly responsible for Japan’s national defense. There has also not been a major conflict on the scale of a world war since the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since 1945 there has been what some international relations scholars call a “nuclear peace” that explains the lack of

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major conflict in the second half of the 20th century and the present day.

In the unfortunate age of terrorism that we live in, nuclear terrorism is also a threat that some experts view as a very credible threat in the years to come. Many experts who study the possibilities of nuclear terrorism, including political scientist and Harvard professor Graham Allison, Harvard professor Matthew Bunn and former CIA intelligence officer and Department of Energy Director of Intelligence Rolf MowattLarssen (who will all be presenting at the EPIIC Symposium held at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Feb. 23-27), have all called nuclear terrorism a preventable catastrophe against which the United States has done little to protect itself.

What makes the nuclear-weapons issue such an interesting point of debate is that the effects and repercussions of our nuclear age are long-lasting and more complex than condemning nuclear weapons as dangerous to the world. In order to get the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) ratified by the Senate, President Obama pledged $85 billion to be spent over the next 10 years to modernize the infrastructure of the nuclear weapons program infrastructure. This $85 billion promise, however, does not include funding for replacing the current nuclear stockpile, much of which has been in operation longer than intended.

Recently in Congress there has been a push to lower the federal budget and cut government spending. The pressure to cut government spending raises an interesting

question: What will happen to the $85 billion currently slated to be spent on reviving and rebuilding the U.S. nuclear weapons infrastructure? The funding of the national labs and plants has remained stagnant since the end of the Cold War — this $85 billion commitment would bring muchneeded modernization to some of the facilities that are still operating in buildings that date back to World War II. Does the need to modernize our nuclear infrastructure, weapons and arms control programs outweigh the need to cut federal spending?

Nuclear weapons once again entered the public’s eye in December, as the Senate battled over New START’s ratification.

Unfortunately, though, little discussion on nuclear weapons took place outside of EPIIC. The Daily for the most part ignored the issue with the exception of a couple articles that merely focused on the partisan political debate revolving around the treaty and not what New START meant outside of the political realm. Given the importance of nuclear weapons in foreign policy and international relations and as an indirect factor in our every day lives, the debate over nuclear weapons is certainly one fitting for a college campus like Tufts. As future leaders in our fields — whether as scientists, journalists or peace negotiators — it is important that we form opinions on issues that will shape the world we live in outside of Tufts.

Jonathan Garbose is a sophomore majoring in political science.

America is not in decline

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oreign Policy published a Jan. 3 article boldly titled “Think Again: American Decline” by Gideon Rachman. The last time I checked the website, 2,380 people “liked” it.

I don’t. Very little about “American decline” is real or new. Similar predictions of U.S. decline have surfaced every decade or so since Washington rebuilt the international system after World War II, from the aftermath of Sputnik in the 1960s to the economic distress of the 1980s. Foreign Policy is also hardly the only peddler of the latest declinism fetish. Everyone from Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria to former Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani to American intelligence agencies themselves has parroted a version of it.

But every myth has a grain of truth. In this case it’s the fact that — God forbid — other powers are rising. Goldman Sachs says China will overtake the U.S. economy by 2027 and that the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) will emerge as major world players. But so what? Other powers have been rising for decades. Yet, to take one statistic, the American economy in 2004 was the same size relative to the world’s total GDP as it was in 1975 — 20 percent.

The real and more useful questions about decline are therefore not who is growing and by how much, but whether emerging powers can dent American power sufficiently and whether the United States will lose the key advantages that have sustained it as the world’s sole superpower.

For all the fretting, the United States, as Mr. Rachman himself admits, remains the leader across the board. U.S. military power is still unmatched and vastly technologically superior to any other nation. Military spending is almost as much as the rest of the world combined. The American economy dominates futuristic industries like biotechnology and nanotechnology with a potent combination of technological prowess and entrepreneurial flair. According to China’s own Jiao Tong University’s rankings, 17 of the world’s top 20 universities are American. Millions still flock here to pursue the American Dream, while America’s melting pot of cultures bodes well for its exceptional innovative capacity.

Provided the United States continues to encourage immigration and starts controlling its debt, there is little reason to believe that such a resilient colossus will see its vast advantages perish.

There are also few signs of a“global multipolar system” emerging anytime soon. Despite doomsday realist predictions, no country has attempted to balance Washington’s hegemony since 1991. And while the future rise of Asian powers may boost the case for eventual American decline, the truth is that each of the United States’ potential balancers also faces significant challenges going forward.

For China, it is the growing disparity between its coastal and inland areas, its physical isolation and the risk that it will get old before it gets rich. For India and the European Union, the challenge will be to painfully negotiate the divergent interests of states in a noisy democratic system. As for Iran, Russia and Venezuela, they are flexing their muscles as proud spoilers, not global powers. It is also quite unlikely that these states will soon form a coalition to confront the United States, given their own divergent interests. Even China and Russia compete ferociously in Central Asia today.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t believe we’ve reached Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history,” particularly with the slowing of democracy’s progress during the last decade. Nor do I think the United States will be able to dominate and dictate terms to others all the time in the future. Still, I just don’t see the irreversible decline in U.S. power and the rise of a new world order that many seem to reflexively accept.

Prashanth Parameswaran is a first-year Fletcher student. He can be reached at Prashanth.Parameswaran@tufts.edu. His blog is asianist.wordpress.com.

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Bringing down the house: Students turn out for Senior Day Fraternity-led pregame celebration leads to largest Cousens crowd of the season by

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When the men’s basketball team took on Bates on Feb. 12 in a winner-take-all battle for fifth place in the NESCAC, it was boosted by a factor that has been missing for the past few seasons: a loud, boisterous student section.

Led largely by a contingent from the Zeta Psi fraternity — which also organized a pregame get-together at its on-campus house on Professors Row, a throng of over 50 students stayed on its feet from tipoff until the final buzzer marked a 66-62 Tufts victory. The students harassed the referees when unfavorable calls were made and chanted, swayed and berated opposing players.

“It was a good atmosphere and it was especially noticeable because it was something we haven’t had for the rest of the year,” junior center James Long said.

“Everyone that night was great. Everyone was excited with it being Senior Night and with all the playoff implications that were there with the Bates game. We fed off the crowd. They brought great energy and I think they were a huge help that night.”

For Zeta Psi, the idea of the pregame festivities and the effort to get a big crowd out to the game originated from three sophomore fraternity brothers who also play for the Jumbos — forward Scott Anderson, guard Alex Goldfarb and center Matt Lanchantin. see MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 17

Courtesy Pat Cordeiro

A mob of over 50 students flooded Cousens Gym on Feb. 12 to watch Tufts beat Bates on Senior Day. The 500 overall attendees formed the largest crowd at Cousens all season.

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Tufts ends season with Colby, Vassar upsets by

Ann Sloan

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For the women’s squash team, a season full of close losses and shutouts was WOMEN’S SQUASH (9-14, 1-4 NESCAC) Walker Cup at Princeton, N.J., Friday-Sunday Tufts 6 Vassar 3

Tufts 5 Colby 4 Tufts F&M

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Freshman Kyle Gallegos, pictured above in a Dec. 4 game against St. Anselm, has been a bright spot in Tufts’ tough 2010-11 campaign.

Seniors close with split weekend

Tufts defeats St. Michael’s, loses to Norwich to finish season by

David McIntyre

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To finish off what has been an up-and-down and at times disappointing regular season, ICE HOCKEY (6-16-1, 5-14 NESCAC) at Northfield, Vt., Saturday Tufts Norwich

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the ice hockey team went on a road trip to Vermont, where it faced conference foes St. Michael’s and Norwich. Much like the rest of its season, Tufts’ results were mixed: a 6-3 defeat to Norwich on Feb. 19 and a 5-3 victory over St. Michael’s on Feb. 18, which left the team’s final season record at 6-16-1.

The game against Norwich on Saturday was expected to be tough, as the Cadets were on an eight-game winning streak and had just clinched their 13th consecutive ECAC title. But Tufts battled from the outset and jumped out to an early 1-0 lead after a goal from

senior forward Mike Vitale.

Norwich managed to take a 2-1 lead, but Tufts fought its way back into the game, tying the score with freshman forward Kyle Gallegos’ 15th goal of the season.

“We were on a power play, and [senior forward Tom] Derosa got pressured in the neutral zone, so he just threw the puck to me at the blue line,” Gallegos said. “There were two defenders in front of me, but I managed to slip through them and put the puck in between the goalie’s arm and his body for the goal.” see ICE HOCKEY, page 19

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unsurprising given the inexperienced squad, whose starting nine consisted of just one senior and three rookie players, two of whom had barely picked up a squash racket before the season began.

Yet the Jumbos maintained all season that they were capable of better and finally proved that this weekend at the Walker Cup in Princeton, N.J. After losing its opening round match, Tufts recovered to win two consolation matches, ending the season on a high note and finishing with a 9-14 overall record.

The No. 24 Jumbos finished 21st overall in the tournament, an improvement over last season, when they came in second in the Epps Cup D division, equivalent to 26th place.

On Sunday, Tufts, the lowest seed in the tournament’s C division, beat No. 22 Vassar

6-3 in the final round of the consolation bracket to secure fifth place. The previous day, Tufts, which had not beaten a team above it in the rankings all season, faced No. 21 Colby, a team that twice beat them 5-4 during the regular season. Yet the Jumbos reversed the trend, upsetting the Mules for a 5-4 win.

On Friday, Tufts lost its first match against the division’s top seed, No. 17 Franklin & Marshall (F&M), 9-0. F&M went on to finish first in the Walker Cup, beating No. 18 Hamilton 5-4 in the final round.

“Beating [Colby and Vassar] was, of course, great because we believed that we could do it all along,” senior co-captain Valerie Koo said. “In our previous matchups, we just psyched ourselves [out], but this time around we knew it was our last chance and everyone definitely played hard.”

The Jumbos’ victory over Vassar in the consolationround final was a team effort, with the top six of the Tufts’ ladder all bringing in wins.

Koo, junior co-captain No. 3 Mercedes Barba and junior No. 5 Alyse Vinosky each won in three games, while junior No. 1 Alix Michael and sophomores No. 4 Jess Rubine and No. 6 Ushashi Basu pulled out four-game victories. At the No. 7 spot, sophomore Hafsa Chaudhry had a close five game loss against Vassar sophomore Avery Siciliano.

Tufts lost to Vassar 6-3 see WOMENS’S Squash, page 18

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More student sections in the works for the spring MEN’S BASKETBALL continued from page 15

“We have some basketball players who are in Zeta, and they were talking about having some people over,” Zeta Psi President Luke Metcalf, a junior, said.

“They checked in with me, and they were the ones that actually put up the Facebook group.”

Fans started arriving to Zeta Psi’s house at around noon on Saturday, and by 12:30 p.m., a pretty large crowd had turned out.

“It was an open-invitation thing,” Metcalf said. “A lot of kids who often come to Zeta showed up, but there were also a lot of people who we didn’t really know, which was sort of the point. For me, I just invited most of anyone I knew. It wasn’t really exclusive at all.”

The crowd stayed at the house until just before 2 p.m., the scheduled tipoff time, at which point the mob made its way down to Cousens Gymnasium for the start of the game. The group, mostly clad in layers of Tufts attire, made its presence felt almost immediately and provided a stark contrast to what the crowd, the team and other fans usually expect. “[For most games], at the end of the day we have to bring our own energy,” Long, a tri-captain, said. “At this point, if you can’t get yourself up for a game you’re going to be in trouble, but it still helps. It doesn’t hurt when you have a bunch of people there cheering.”

The energy was ubiquitous, from the Jumbos’ bench to the portions in the crowd not involved in the more raucous

activities. Senior Pat Doherty, who has attended a number of games during his time on the Hill, thought it was the best crowd he’s seen in his four years here.

“They were really into it from the first minute to the final whistle, and I think that kind of school spirit and camaraderie between the students was something I’d like to see more of at Tufts. It was a breath of fresh air,” Doherty said.

All parties agreed that the presence of the robust student section brought substantial energy to the game and the overall game experience. Metcalf said that while fraternities should not feel obligated to organize fan sections in the future, last Saturday was a fun experience that could easily be replicated.

“It’s definitely an opportunity. We do have houses that can host these things, and it would be good to see it happen more,” Metcalf said. “Most of the crowd, but not all, was at our house beforehand.”

Attendance at most Tufts athletic events, especially from students, is usually sparse, compared not only to Boston’s Div. I schools like BC and BU, but also to rival NESCAC schools like Amherst and Williams. A few different theories have been posited.

“I think some of it has to do with size,” Long said. “Some of those other schools are small and everyone knows each other, and it’s a smaller network of getting people involved to go to the games. Tufts is twice the size of most of the other schools.”

Doherty agreed that Tufts’ peer schools have a unique camaraderie due to their

small size and tight-knit community.

“I know other NESCAC schools where I have siblings or friends that have gone there, have had very, very intense student support for their athletics and it might be because they’re smaller or because they’re in the middle of nowhere,” Doherty, who played on the men’s soccer team for three years, said.

Though there is somewhat of a tradition of apathy by students towards Tufts athletics, both Long and Metcalf agreed that the fan turnout against Bates was definitely a much needed first step in the right direction.

“It’s kind of like a rolling snowball effect — the more everyone is going to the game, the more everyone that isn’t going to the game wants to go to the game,” Metcalf said. “After the game, we were lamenting the fact that we hadn’t done this all semester long. I think that if it did happen often, there would be better attendance at these things. They are events, but Tufts students don’t really see them that way.”

Metcalf believed that such large turnouts could easily happen again as both Tufts fans and athletes look forward to the spring season, which includes Tufts’ defending NESCAC champion baseball team and defending national champion men’s lacrosse team.

“It does happen, and last Saturday proved that, but it doesn’t happen enough,” Metcalf said. “It is fun to go to these things, and I could definitely see us doing it again in the spring for whichever sport.”

Elephants in the Room I’m tired of hearing about...

Alex Gross Senior Men’s Squash

How good the Celtics/Patriots/ Red Sox are

Lindsay Katz Sophomore Women’s Tennis

How I barely leave campus

Paul Kohnstamm Senior Men’s Tennis

Valerie Koo Senior Women’s Squash

Favorite late-night snack

First thing I do in the morning

My body is a Push-ups, pull-ups temple; I don’t and sit-ups eat late-night

Everything, especially pop chips

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The New York Wheat thins and Check my iPhone Yankees’ lack of hummus starting pitching

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Denzel Washington (Editor’s note: Yeah, right)

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And the 2011 World Series champ is...

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he San Francisco Giants, because they won last year and are primed for their young talent to continue to improve this year. No wait, the Red Sox because they had the biggest offseason, and Jon Lester will win the AL Cy Young. But what about the Yankees, who re-signed their captain and are a threat every year?

The Phillies, and their J.D. Power and Associates Highest Rated Pitching Staff award? The Pirates and their … wait, never mind.

The calendar says late February, and that means hope springs eternal for the fan bases of every Major League Baseball team. Everyone is convinced that this is the year their young talent blossoms, their aging veterans turn back the clock and their team makes a run to October’s biggest stage.

Projections flow like wine at a Dionysus party, and there seems to be no limit to the optimism by fans and players everywhere. There are headlines about players all but guaranteed to start the year no higher than Class A (oh hey, Bryce Harper), and others about players who we hope and pray didn’t miss their chance for a graceful exit (looking at you, Jason Varitek).

Every big free agent signing is greeted with an outpouring of emotion across the country, as everyone begins the hot stove season convinced that their team will find a way to fill all of their glaring needs. Some signings fly under the radar — Brandon Webb to Texas?

Former Cy Young winner on the World Series runner-up? — while others are greeted with as much derision as Asher Roth playing Spring Fling two years ago — $126 million to Jason Werth, Washington? Really? REALLY? But through it all, everyone is convinced their team has taken a step forward. The Red Sox think they can begin a Yanks-in-the-late-’90s run with so much talent locked up. The Orioles think they can compete in the AL East with the Mark Reynolds, Vladimir Guerrero and Derrek Lee signings.

Detroit is in win-now mode after signing Joaquin Benoit, Victor Martinez and Brad Penny. The Yankees are apparently satisfied with a slightly less-portly CC Sabathia, a Phil Hughes who managed a 4.90 second-half ERA, and three clubhouse attendants as their rotation.

The A’s have young pitchers who seem to be on the verge of challenging San Francisco for best in the Bay Area.

But my favorite part of spring is still to come: the spring training updates.

Like I’m sure many others do, I take pride and joy in reading the most obscure notes and tidbits about everything that goes on in different training complexes. For example, I might read that Paul Konerko woke up with a headache this morning, at which point I will bust into my roommate’s room and declare absolutely that this will keep his beloved South Siders from competing with the Twins this year.

Or I might happen to read a story about how Pablo Sandoval looks like he swallowed the actual Kung Fu Panda and immediately proclaim to another roommate that this means his Giants will never, ever repeat.

I subscribe to the springtime ritual of over-emoting about my favorite team as much as the next guy, but this year is a little different, since I already know the Red Sox have the AL East title wrapped up. Fortunately, in baseball, the idea of fantasy has become reality, and I get to focus on channeling my inner Theo Epstein to give my keeper team a leg up. But how can I lose there either, with Albert Pujols anchoring my offense? I’ll have to go heckle my roommates about this too.

Brian Rowe is a senior majoring in economics. He can be reached at B.Rowe@tufts.edu.

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Tufts swept by Franklin &Marshall in first round of Walker Cup at Vassar, ends season on high note after wins in consolidation matches Women’s Squash continued from page 15

just one week earlier, on Feb. 13, with the only Tufts wins coming from Koo, Barba and Vinoski.

Tufts showed depth and strength against NESCAC rivals Colby, with wins coming up and down the ladder.

Michael, after losing to sophomore Kate Pistel in both matchups in the regular season, managed to pull through with a win in a five game match: 8-11, 11-8, 11-8, 6-11, 11-9.

Basu beat Colby junior Coco Cowan in four games after splitting her two previous matchups against her. The final and deciding win came from sophomore Caitlin Doherty at the No. 9 spot, who won in five games against senior Ellie Hoyt to clinch the victory for the Jumbos.

Doherty is one of two players on the team who had never played squash prior to the season’s start.

“It felt so great to help the team win, especially since it was such a vital game. I’ve learned so much this season and [Coach] Belkys [ Velez] has really helped me improve my technique and figure out how to play up my skills against opponents,” Doherty said. “Coming into the season with no experience, I never really expected to have such an integral part in how the team does.”

In the first game of the Walker Cup against F&M, eight of Tufts’ nine matches were lost in three games, with Vinoski, who won the first game 11-9 at the No. 5 spot before dropping three in a row, as the only exception. Koo played a competitive first game against sophomore Chelsea Ross in which she lost 18-16. She then fell 11-8 in both consecutive games.

The CSA individual squash championships are held at Dartmouth on March 4-6. Michael, the Jumbos’ top performer, will likely be the sole Tufts entry in the tournament.

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Junior co-captain Mercedes Barba, left, in a match against Vassar on Feb. 13. Tufts lost that match, but beat the Brewers 6-3 in this weekend’s Walker Cup.

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to capture its sixth win of the season on the previous day, a 5-3 victory over St. Michael’s. The game followed a similar offensive pattern for Tufts: Vitale poked home the first goal, while Gallegos blasted home the second. The difference was at the other end of the ice, though. The Jumbos managed to keep the Purple Knights off the score sheet at critical moments and never relinquished their lead in the game.

“Kyle is an incredible offensive weapon, and he can create a scoring chance out of nothing,” Cooper said.

“It doesn’t matter who’s playing with him on a line — he is always going to find a way to create opportunities.

against them because they can attack at any moment.”

Saturday’s matchup was the final game for the seven seniors on the roster, including three quad-captains — Cooper, senior defenseman Andy Davis and Derosa. The seniors will be remembered fondly for their careers, highlights of which included NESCAC tournament appearances in 2009 and 2010.

“It’s everything to have those guys around you, supporting us and leading us throughout the season,” Gallegos said. “They’ve been incredible, and it’s been amazing having them around.”

The loss to Norwich was made less painful by the fact that Tufts managed

continued from page 15

In the second period, however, Norwich controlled the game and acted like true conference heavyweights.

Freshman defenseman Francois Gatien put the Cadets in front for good with a power-play goal at the 11:50 mark of the second period, and sophomore forward Pier-Olivier Cotnoir completed his hat trick as Norwich stormed ahead to a 5-2 lead that it never relinquished.

“Norwich has just incredible depth and plays the game at such a high speed,” senior quad-captain forward Dylan Cooper said. “It’s so hard to play

StatISTICS | Standings

SCHEDULE | Feb. 23 - Feb. 27 WED

Men's Basketball (13-12, 4-5 NESCAC) NESCAC

W Williams 9 Middlebury 8 Amherst 7 Trinity 4 Tufts 4 Bates 3 Conn. Coll. 3 Bowdoin 3 Weseleyan 2 Colby 2

L 0 1 2 5 5 6 6 6 7 7

Women's Basketball (18-6, 5-4 NESCAC) NESCAC

OVERALL

W 24 23 22 14 13 12 12 14 11 11

L 1 1 2 11 12 13 13 10 13 13

Individual Statistics S. Anderson A. Quezada A. Goldfarb A. Orchowski J. Long K. Firempong O. Cohen M. Lanchantin T. Folliard S. Mason A. Dowton P. Saba M. Galvin

PPG 11.9 10.5 9.2 9.0 5.6 5.4 5.4 3.8 3.1 3.1 1.9 1.6 1.4

RPG 5.9 2.3 1.5 7.4 5.0 1.9 1.6 2.1 1.7 2.6 1.3 1.0 0.9

APG 0.5 2.6 0.8 0.6 0.8 2.8 2.8 0.4 1.0 1.1 0.1 0.2 0.7

Team

68.7 37.0 13.6

W Amherst 9 Colby 7 Bowdoin 6 Williams 6 Tufts 5 Bates 5 Middlebury 3 Trinity 3 Conn. Coll. 1 Wesleyan 0

L 0 2 3 3 4 4 6 6 8 9

L 1 4 4 4 6 8 9 11 15 16

Individual Statistics Colleen Hart Collier Clegg T. Kornegay Vanessa Miller Liz Moynihan Ali Rocchi Kate Barnosky Bre Dufault C. McClure Lindsay Weiner Sam Tye Issy Cless Maggie Riddle Sarah Nolet

PPG 16.0 9.6 9.4 7.5 7.2 5.8 4.8 4.1 3.4 1.8 1.6 1.3 1.3 1.3

Team

61.4 39.9 10.9

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W 24 21 21 21 18 17 15 14 9 7

RPG 5.0 3.9 7.9 5.4 3.1 4.5 2.0 2.8 1.0 0.8 1.5 2.0 0.8 1.7

That goal he scored against Norwich was one of the best I’ve seen the whole season, and he played well against St. Michael’s too.”

Gallegos has unquestionably been one of the few very bright spots during the season and has emerged as one of the star forwards on the team. Gallegos led the Jumbos with 15 goals in only 20 games played, which represents a remarkable 22.7 percent of Tufts’ 66 goals scored on the season.

“This season motivates me even more for next year because I know I can be successful here,” Gallegos said.

“I just want to continue that progress into next season and beyond.”

APG 3.3 0.5 3.3 1.8 1.2 0.3 0.8 0.8 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.0 0.4 0.2

NESCAC

W Hamilton 11 Williams 11 Middlebury 9 Amherst 10 Bowdoin 11 Colby 10 Trinity 9 Wesleyan 8 Conn. Coll. 6 Tufts 5

L 4 6 5 6 7 7 8 10 12 14

T 4 2 5 3 1 2 2 1 1 0

Men’s Basketball

Women’s Basketball

THU

FRI

SAT

SUN

OVERALL

W 14 14 11 12 15 11 11 9 7 6

L 6 7 7 8 7 10 9 11 14 16

T 4 3 6 4 1 2 4 3 3 1

Individual Statistics A Pts. 21 32 8 23 9 16 13 16 5 12 9 11 4 8 4 7 4 6 4 6 105 171

Tom Derosa Kyle Gallegos Dylan Cooper Zach Diaco Mike Vitale Dylan Plimmer Andy Davis Trevor John Nick Pappas Conor Pieri Team

G 11 15 7 3 7 2 4 3 2 2 66

Goalkeeping Evin Koleini Brian Phillips Team

S GA 428 60 178 36 722 106

S% .877 .832 .882

Ice Hockey

Men’s Swimming and Diving

NESCAC NESCAC NESCAC Championships Championships Championships at Bowdoin at Bowdoin at Bowdoin

Women’s Swimming and Diving Men’s Indoor Track and Field

All-New Englands at BU

All-New Englands at BU

Women’s Indoor Track and Field

All-New Englands at BU

All-New Englands at BU

CSA National Singles at Harvard

CSA National Singles at Harvard

Men’s Squash Women’s Squash

CSA National Singles at Harvard

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011