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Brent Yarnell

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Students looking to participate in and engage with domestic politics will now have a new opportunity to do so, thanks to a new student group that

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has emerged out of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.

The Institute for Public Citizenship (IPC), established last month by sophsee IPC, page 3

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A new Tisch College-sponsored group will encourage students to engage in policy issues and interact with politicians.

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MBTA grants one-quarter of funds to extend Green Line

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The Ma s s a c h u s e t t s Ba y Transportation Authority (MBTA) Board of Directors on Feb. 7 approved $21.9 million for the Green Line Extension Project, an amount that represents just under a quarter of the $95 million in funds that MBTA officials had requested to complete the project.

The project, which has been in the works since the early 1990s, would extend the Green Line seven stops past its current Lechmere Station terminus through the Union Square and Medford Hillside neighborhoods.

The approved funding will cover approximately one year’s worth of initial design and engineering for the extension, according to Ken Krause, a representative of the Medford Neighborhood Green Line Alliance.

The project is partially supported by federal funding and partially from Commonwealth backing.

Approval of the requested $95 million would have financed the project for its projected remaining five years.

The extension is currently estimated to cost $1 billion.

The board made the decision to stem their funding at $21.9 million because of uncertainty about federal funding that

would benefit the project, Krause said.

The board wishes to proceed cautiously and fund the project incrementally after learning that budget cuts proposed in the House of Representatives would eliminate the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts program, which indirectly provides money for the Green Line extension. “[If funding for New Starts is eliminated,] MassDOT and the MBTA will work closely with the state’s congressional delegation to identify other potential sources for funding,” MBTA Spokesman Joe Pesaturo said.

These alternate sources may include bonds from the state’s capital budget, a solution that would ultimately cost the state more money, according to Krause.

The state initiated the Green Line Extension so that it may meet its legal obligation under the federal Clean Air Act to offset the environmental impact of the Big Dig, Boston’s 15-year highway project, by December 2014.

“Around 1990, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had to agree to a number of public transit projects in order to get the environmental permits necessary to begin the Big Dig project,” Pesaturo said. “The Green Line extension is one of the projects see MBTA, page 2

Tufts-sponsored documentary contest announces winners

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Tralins

Contributing Writer

The Child and Family WebGuide, a Tufts-run online resource for information on parenting and child development, announced the winners of its inaugural documentary contest Feb 15.

The 501c3: Capturing Change on Camera video contest, launched in October, provided an opportunity for filmmakers to showcase the work of nonprofits assisting children and families through documentary films.

The WebGuide, which sponsored the contest, is a joint product of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and Tisch Library.

Tufts provided the contest with funding and insight, as members of the university community offered advice and guidance to help direct its organizers to success, according to Kris Carter, a graduate student in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and one of the coordinators for the contest.

Ben Tuller, a 2008 graduate of the University of California, San Diego, won first place for “A New Way Home.”

The film documents the George Mark Children’s House in California, which cares for children and families that have life-limiting illnesses.

The second-place winner, “Chess Saved My Life,” was a documentary by New York City-based filmmaker Bao Nguyen about the nonprofit Chessin-the-Schools, an organization that uses chess to boost self-esteem and

academic performance in inner-city public schools.

Faculty and graduate students in the Child Development department reviewed the WebGuide, which is meant to be a trustworthy resource for parents, Castillo said.

In the future, submitted films from the contest will be incorporated into the website.

Fred Rothbaum, a professor of child development and co-founder of the WebGuide, led a team of three students in executing the contest, which accepted submissions between October and December.

“The work of volunteers and nonprofits is underappreciated,” Rothbaum said. “The 501c3 contest is intended to help correct that problem — to highlight their wonderful work.”

Rothbaum was satisfied with the outcome of the contest’s first year, crediting his team of students with its success.

“The most rewarding aspect of this project for me, the supervisor, was working with the students,” Rothbaum said. “It was a treat for me to see them envision our [public relations] campaign, the prizes, the website describing the project, the selection of judges and every other aspect of the 501c3 contest.”

Carter and co-coordinator Tiffany Castillo, a senior, both hope the videos will be shared in communities and spur awareness on the impact of nonprofits see CONTEST, page 3

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Combined-degree students balance their Tufts course load with classes at the New England Conservatory and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

NEC dual-degree program comes with challenges

by Sarah Strand

Daily Editorial Board

Think your current course load is tough? Try doubling it.

Many Jumbos find themselves spread thin: between school, jobs, extracurricular activities and having a social life, students pack their undergraduate years densely. But Tufts’ combined degree students might know this better than anyone else — in five years they earn not one but two full degrees.

Tufts operates combined degree programs with both the New England Conservatory (NEC) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA). The NEC program, however, which began in 1978, is unique in its application process and size.

Students pursuing a combined degree with SMFA apply to both schools separately, and those who are accepted to both are accepted into the program. Associate see COMBINED DEGREE, page 2

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In a unique take on the documentary, “Utopia in Four Movements” combines film, live narration and music.

Preppy attire sheds its elitist ties in “The Ivy Look.”

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Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeanne Dillon, who also serves as an advisor to students in combined degree programs, said that applying for the NEC program requires an extra step.

The admissions committee reviews candidates accepted to both schools and then selects a maximum of five students who are invited to participate in the dualdegree program, she said. According to Dillon, about 140 prospective students applied to program for next fall.

Only 16 students are enrolled in the NEC program as a result, while the SMFA combined program has significantly more students, Dillon said. In contrast with the SMFA program, which has experienced dropout rates of up to 50 percent in recent years, students who begin the NEC program rarely, if ever, fail to receive both degrees, Dillon added.

The combined-degree program allows students to fully take advantage of two highly regarded institutions without settling on a lesser level of instruction in any one area, according to Mary Weber, an academic and international student advisor at NEC. “It allows students to fulfill a lot of their passions and dreams,” Weber said. “It’s a good option in comparison to a place where you could do a double major; it’s a higher standard.”

Attending two rigorous colleges concurrently, of course, has drawbacks.

Combined degree students complete a dense course load while navigating the

intricacies of each campus. Yet given the selectivity of the program, those accepted are usually ready for challenges and excited to be able to pursue two passions at once, Dillon said.

“It’s a whole different world, a whole different set of expectations,” she said.

“Usually the people who get into this program are ready for this. They know they have to divide their time between practice and what Tufts requires.”

Adding to the difficulty of scheduling classes, Tufts and NEC operate on completely divergent schedules. Combineddegree students also run into trouble, for example, when Tufts declares a Thursday to be run on a Monday schedule while NEC does not.

“My friends say one of my extracurricular activities is arranging and re-arranging my schedule,” Kate Schimmer, a fifth-year NEC program student, said.

Another challenge is the required commute between the two campuses, which lie on opposite banks of the Charles River. A free shuttle runs between the two schools, but maneuvering through Boston traffic on a cramped bus with musical instruments can be tiresome.

“I’m very glad that we have the shuttle,” junior Will Myers said. “But the schedule that it runs on and the drivers can be suspect.”

Logistical issues aside, meeting the requirements of two separate schools in five years is a major challenge. Those completing a combined degree sometimes take up to ten courses between the two schools,

Myers said — about seven Tufts credits.

“It kind of sucks to go to two completely different institutions that don’t talk to each other,” freshman Peter Atkinson said. “As dual-degree students, we are expected to meet the needs of both institutions, which can be hard.”

Regardless, enrolling in the combined degree program is often a hard opportunity to pass up for the academically and musically talented. Only a handful of other schools, including Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt Universities, offer comparable programs.

By attending both a music conservatory and an academic institution, students are spared having to choose music over another subject area or vice versa.

“I’ve basically been putting off as long as I can the decision between music and academics,” Myers said.

“And with this program I can continue stringing that along.”

Though signing up for the combineddegree program involves shoving eight years of curriculum into five years and paying for two extra semesters, students in the program are dedicated to their pursuits. Schimmer, who will be graduating from the program at the end of this semester, described the degree as the perfect way to exist in two worlds at once.

Atkinson agreed.

“I think it’s definitely worth it. I’d be sacrificing too much to pick one or the other,” Atkinson said. “In that regard, it is definitely worth it. It’s challenging, but I appreciate the challenge that it presents.”

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the Commonwealth agreed to do.”

MassDOT, however, announced in July that the extension will not be completed until October 2015 at the earliest.

Massachusetts will therefore in the interim implement other projects to improve air quality, according to Krause.

The extension project is aimed at serving densely populated communi-

ties in Medford and Somerville to give drivers a more attractive option for travel, Krause said.

“If the Route 16 station were built, there would be three stops close to the Tufts campus: Ball Square … College Avenue in the middle and a Route 16 stop by Boston Avenue — a way for people to travel within campus,” Krause told the Daily.

Congestion on Mystic Valley Parkway

will be greatly alleviated by the Route 16 stop, Krause added, with approximately 10,000 people within walking distance of the proposed station.

“We need to continue to demonstrate the importance of this project for the environment, and for increased mobility,” Krause said. “Boston is so dense already, it’s hard to put in more roads, which is not something we’d want anyway.”

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omore Eric Peckham, aims to create a nonpartisan community for students interested in pursuing domestic politics and public policy.

Peckham, a Tisch Scholar, decided to create the IPC as part of an individual project each scholar is asked to head. He hopes to create an oncampus community for students interested in policy issues in part through social events such as a State of the Union address viewing party in January, but also through more traditional political initiatives, like encouraging voter registration and bringing high-profile public policy leaders to campus for small-group discussions.

The group is a reincarnation of a previous Tisch initiative with a similar name that disbanded in 2008, according to Tisch College Director and Associate Dean Nancy Wilson.

Peckham said his revived group was more focused on providing local internships and encouraging engagement in state and local politics as opposed to national politics.

The IPC will encourage student activism in public policy partly by helping members obtain parttime research internships with the Massachusetts State House, an effort Wilson believed would be valuable in the long-term for students.

“We had many students leverage those internships for jobs and for honors theses,” Wilson said.

Freshman Jacob Wessel, president of civic engagement for the IPC, said the group will collaborate with other public policy and active citizenship groups like Tufts Votes to further its goals.

The IPC plans to host discussion series based around specific topics. This semester, for example, topics will include the role of Islam in Europe and the relationship between

the White House and members of the media, Peckham said.

“All the discussion series are small roundtable discussions. They’re informal, for the most part off the record.

So those will really be an opportunity for people to come in and just say what they think … giving students the opportunity to sit down with a leader in public policy to share his or her experience about getting elected, working your way up through government bureaucracy [and] stuff like that,” he said.

Peckham said small-group sessions are more beneficial than large, highprofile lectures for students wishing to engage with policymakers “Usually, when a high-profile leader comes to campus ... if you’re lucky, you get to shake their hand or ask them one question at the end,” he said. “By having a smaller discussion group — 20 to 25 people — you really get a lot more out of it.”

Sophomore Jameelah Morris, an IPC member, said the group will host former White House press secretaries as well as news analysts as speakers at the discussion centered on the White House and the press.

Morris said the IPC-sponsored discussions are meant to foster a conversation on campus and educate students about specific topics pertaining to current issues in politics.

“We’re bringing people who have experience in those fields in the hope that students in the future can have intellectual discussions about those topics.”

Wilson said the Tisch College provided initial financial support and strategic advisement for the IPC, as it does for other on-campus public policy student groups.

“We typically don’t try to hold on to them,” she said. “Our idea is to nurture them, provide support where it’s needed, and then let people fly.”

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Ben Tuller won first place for his documentary “A New Way Home,” his submission in a child development department-sponsored filmmaking contest.

Inaugural nonprofit-focused film contest celebrates its completion CONTEST

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on families. The contest intended to support nonprofit organizations by helping them expand their network and resources, Castillo said.

Even the nonprofits featured in submissions that that were not finalists in the contest will still be able to benefit from the videos in the future, Castillo said.

“Media is a new way of tapping into a larger market and an easier way to spread the word and let people know, this is what we’re doing,” Castillo said.

“I honestly hope that now that they have the videos they didn’t before that they can use the videos to recruit volunteers and spread information.”

Contest judges, including Belle Adler, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, evaluated the entrants on the films’ story, creativity, technical merit and originality.

“I was impressed by the level of professionalism these nonprofits projected,” Adler said. “I most enjoyed the storytelling and high level of engagement in the films. It was hard to make a decision, although some were more compelling than others.”

Ultimately, the films’ emotional impact was not to be underestimated, Adler said.

“There were a couple programs that tugged at the heart, and that … made all the difference,” she said.

Rothbaum and the rest of the team are excited to continue with another round of the contest next year.

“We hit major cities and took every youth and family and child nonprofit and e-mailed and called them,” Carter said. “We reached out to every graduate film program in the country as well.

It will be easier now that we have a network for the future.”

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With film and performance, ‘Utopia’ a novel take on an old form

by John-Michael Sequeira

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Film may be a half step behind music as a rapidly traded digital commodity, but the medium is well on its way toward an irreversible evolution. As film stock gets replaced by zeros and ones, the classic experience of a night at the cinema recedes into the past.

What remains is a web-based market for instantly accessible art, but only a fragmented online community with which to share it — we’re oversaturated with content but can no longer tap into the common film-going experience we once had.

With an unexpected step in the other direction, Sam Green and Dave Cerf offer up “Utopia in Four Movements,” a “live documentary” shadowing the rise and fall of faith in humanity’s collective future. The film is full of fever dreams of progress and promise that never quite caught on but can proffer wisdom even as they disappear. As the film plays, the co-directors gently guide their audience through these visions of a better tomorrow, with Cerf in the shadows manipulating sound, Green taking the stage with honest and unadorned narration and the Quavers giving a live musical performance to shape the film’s score.

If this all leans a bit toward performance art, it does so in a manner that draws the best from the medium. There’s honesty without pretension, clarity rather than obscurity and that essential element of humanity that’s often lacking in the coldness of a traditional film.

The actual content of “Utopia” ranges from the world’s largest

shopping mall in Dongguan, China to the creation of Esperanto as a “universal” language, but Green remains a fascinated observer throughout, never lapsing into either didacticism or polemics.

This isn’t the disembodied voice of an overanxious political radical.

Instead, it’s a flesh-and-blood man, and one whose enthusiasm can’t help but wash over his audience.

This quality of passive, interested observation characterizes the work as a whole. In a sense, it’s feature-length portraiture, telling stories rather than espousing platforms and speaking to the heart, not the head. It’s all too rare that a documentary can claim such an approach along with provocative intellectual content, but here it is a feat made to look easy.

The film is effective precisely because — not in spite — of Green’s reticence to offer up a prepackaged solution or mandate for human behavior. Pressed hard enough, would he have some idea, some prescription for our society? Probably.

But he’s too honest a storyteller for that, and too willing to admit his own smallness in the scope of an idea so grand as utopia.

Right alongside that honesty comes a careworn, unpolished beauty that slips directly into his filmmaking style. The portraits of its varied cast are positively gorgeous — simple frames of closeups, often wreathed in natural light, make for non-elaborate but memorable shots. They offer clues into the meaning submerged beneath the far-flung ideas on display.

Beneath the layers, it is a picture about human connection, about groups of people and the ideologi-

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Dave Cerf provides lighting to complement Sam Green’s soothing narration. cal bonds that keep them tied to one another. And that, on the face of it, is exactly what makes Green’s live, poignant and self-effacing narration a necessity, not a luxury.

Along with the stirrings of the live musical accompaniment, it creates a warm, tactile atmosphere, rich with feeling and personality — it gives us something human.

“Utopia” recognizes our flaws, including fleeting ideologies, and dying movements with heartfelt sentiment, more so than it mourns them. What we’re left with is a snap-

shot of fervor in plain color, a sort of far-off respect for those baptized with idealism — a reverence for the budding hope and faith they show not only in their own selves but in the potential of humanity at large.

Green wisely elects not to wallow in sorrow or wanton longing for an idealized version of the way things were. He doesn’t belabor the often harrowing nature of the times in which we live. Instead, he recognizes it, moves around it and begins exploring, delving into the present as a bridge to the future, and above

all, just wondering aloud.

At first, the meaning in each movement may seem as fleeting as the utopia it describes. But, if you burrow deeply enough and search long enough, something will indeed take shape — far off in the distance.

“Utopia in Four Movements” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 and is currently touring across the country and internationally. It screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston on Saturday, Feb. 26.

Book Review

‘The Ivy Look’ gives brief history of East Coast preppy attire by

Ashley Wood

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Buried within the book “The Ivy Look” is an Oscar Wilde quote that sums up its intention: “To me, beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.”

With an oxymoronic mixture of Ivy style elitism and fashion socialism, Graham Marsh and JP Gaul embark on an attempt to explain why the Ivy look, aka “preppy” style, is both exclusive and refined, while at the same time flattering to any person who embraces it.

Throughout the book, the most significant point the authors convey — though never in the clearest terms — is that any person donning the Ivy look does so out of an appreciation for style and beauty.

In other words, the types of people who embrace the Ivy look can vary drastically, from college professors to modernist painters, because it simply represents an interest in creativity and appearance, a characteristic not confined by profession or social class.

This idea sheds away some of the abrasive elitism that often comes with the style, further supported by the fact that black jazz musicians in the 1950s and 1960s — a

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‘The Ivy Look’ strives to convince readers that ‘it’s hip to be square.’

group that, as history shows, didn’t enjoy an elitist position in society — embraced the Ivy look and made it their own.

Toward the end, “The Ivy Look” begins to veer a little off topic. The authors stray from fashion when they decide to delve into the influence of film — a topic that cannot be sufficiently covered in the limited text format that they give each section.

Next comes a section on cars, which seems added for no reason except to demonstrate that Volkswagen Beetles and Porsche Speedsters were cool. Cars are illogically lumped in with cigarettes, their only connection being that “in the 1950s and 1960s everybody smoked” and that sometimes smoking occurred in cars. The book then ends in a bizarre one-page ode to Steve McQueen, whom the authors call “the best dressed bad boy in Hollywood.”

Despite its drawbacks, however, the book makes some interesting points about Ivy style and its relationship with men’s fashion. A woman’s perspective of men’s fashion, especially when it comes to suits, often assumes that it all generally looks the same. Marsh and Gaul could not disagree more.

“The details make the difference,” they write, and, in fact, the two spend most of the book explaining the subtle, illusive nuances between buttoning one button and buttoning two, deck shoes and saddle shoes, club collars and tab collars, and so forth. A category of fashion that was seemingly limited to a monotonous suit-shirttie combo is actually a complicated and delicate balance of masculinity and fashion sense, toeing the line between not trying too hard and simultaneously paying attention to something like the placement, roll and style of one’s shirt collar.

While the book lays down some elitist Ivy-look claims, such as the necessity for

natural fabrics instead of manmade ones or the fashion faux pas of wearing trousers with front pleats, one can assume from the introduction that the authors aren’t snobs but instead passionate connoisseurs of this particular genre. And somehow, the two are not one and the same.

In his introduction, Gaul writes of Ivy, “It is a wardrobe that bestows tradition and elegance upon those who were not born into backgrounds of tradition and elegance.

It’s a quiet, decidedly un-flashy way of communicating an appreciation for clothes.”

This is the most interesting statement in the whole book, and it is unfortunate that it is not delved into further.

Instead, the rest of “The Ivy Look” concerns itself with superficial descriptions of things that are or were “cool.” This goes hand in hand with one of the benefits of the book, which is that it is short, straightforward and light on text, but much of the discussion nevertheless remains surface level.

It’s possible that the authors simply did not have time to delve any deeper if they wanted to maintain the integrity of a fashion book heavy on visual images.

And indeed, the best aspect of “The Ivy Look” is its immense compilation of vintage men’s clothing advertisements and vinyl covers. It provides context, as well as the chance for an interesting sociological study of how advertisers approached men’s fashion.

Although there are drawbacks to “The Ivy Look,” Marsh and Gaul are sincerely passionate about style in a way that is rarely seen among men anymore. Their attention to specific detail, as well as the unique connection they make between Ivy style and jazz is both interesting and unexpected.

Overall, the two diehard, Ivy-clothed authors should be able to convince just about any reader that “it’s hip to be square.”

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Top Ten | Strange But True College Rules BYU sophomore Brandon Davies was dismissed this week from the Cougars’ third-ranked basketball team for the most heinous of BYU honor code violations: He had premarital sex with his girlfriend.

The university has a strict honor code, which requires all students to abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee and substance abuse, and attend church regularly. But we at the Daily don’t think the administration at BYU has gone nearly far enough. Below are some stipulations at other schools that BYU should be inspired by: 10. Iona College: At this New York college, students are forbidden from rollerblading, skateboarding and sledding. But where are we going to get our shred on, brah?

9. Penryn College: In this institution in the United Kingdom, several regulations are imposed on personal style: watches must be of a “traditional” style and makeup is not allowed. Clearly, everyone at Penryn is already good-looking enough.

8. Tufts Daily Sports: We may not be technically a “school,” but we’ve banned Cheetos in our office. Laugh it up, people, but those things are dangerously cheesy.

7. Oral Roberts University: This televangelist namesake does not allow raffles on its campus. Seriously.

6. West Point: Our nation’s finest have a

strict set of rules meant to instill discipline, including a regulation prohibiting members of the opposite sex from sitting on the same set of furniture. But what about loveseats?

We won’t ask, you won’t tell....

5. Clearwater Christian College: This Florida institution prohibits couples from standing near parked cars or swimming together. Breaststroke, anyone?

4. The BCS System: OK, so this actually isn’t a strange college rule. But it’s equally ridiculous.

3. Bob Jones University: At this South Carolina school, students are prohibited from listening to rock ‘n’ roll and owning moviestar posters, televisions, DVD players and violent video games.

2. Tufts University: In a BYU-inspired move, Tufts responded to widespread roommate orgies with a rule last year that does not allow sex in a room while a roommate is present.

1. Liberty University: This institution, founded by evangelical Christian Jerry Falwell, has by far the craziest rules. Students are barred from horseplay, witchcraft, seances (or other occult activities), association with those consuming alcohol, entering the room of a member of the opposite sex, “deception,” attending a dance and watching R-rated movies. ­—compiled by the Daily Sports Department

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I believe that our team this year could beat any team, at any level, when we play to our ability.

Callahan, a transfer from Div. I Fairfield University, joins the men’s lacrosse team in hopes of defending its 2010 NCAA Div. III title. Callahan’s skills on defense will be instrumental in the Jumbos’ quest for a repeat trip to the championship after last year’s graduation left the team greatly depleted in the backfield. Senior quad-captain longstick midfielder Alec Bialosky, sophomore midfielder Sam Diss and freshman defenseman Dan Alles will also work to fill gaps left by the class of 2010.

National No. 1 Tufts will open the season at home against Amherst on March 12.

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MAJORS WEEK OPEN HOUSES

March 2

Sociology Department

Reception 12:00-1:20 pm East Hall Lounge

March 8

March 7

American Studies Major Information Session 12:00-1:00 pm Eaton 202

English Department Meet the faculty 12:00-1:15 pm East Hall Lounge

Geology

Open House Open Block Lane Hall Room 7

German Studies Open House 12:00-1:30 pm German House 21 Whitfield Road

Department of Religion 12:00 pm Eaton Hall, 3rd Floor

Psychology Dept Open House 12:00-1:30pm 1st floor Conf Room 490 Boston Ave Romance Languages Major’s Day Event 12:00-1:30 pm Olin Center, 2nd Floor

12:00-1:15 pm 124 Eaton Hall

Physics Department Open House 7:00 pm Robinson 251

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—Tufts transfer sophomore Matt Callahan, on the potential dominance of the No. 1 men’s lacrosse team in 2011

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things … but when you are on a team, you have to be part of the team and make time for it,” Velez said.

Barba is looking forward to competing in the CSA tournament for her first time.

In the two weeks since returning from the Walker Cup, she has practiced consistently with Velez and teammate No. 4 sophomore Jess Rubine to prepare.

“I didn’t really question it that much,” Barba said of Velez’s decision. “I know that’s what [my coach] wanted, and it’s what made sense in the end for our team.”

Barba has undoubtedly had her high points this season, including the only individual Tufts wins against NESCAC opponents Hamilton and Bowdoin. She is one of only two players on the team to boast an individual winning record, with 14 wins

and only nine losses. Michael, at the No.1 spot, has a record of 6-12, albeit against superior competition.

As captain, Barba has also established herself as a leader on a team in which two starting players came into the season with no prior squash experience.

The weekend will certainly be a challenge for the junior, however, as she will likely be facing either No. 1 players from similarly ranked teams or players from the top three or four spots on higher ranked teams that send numerous players to the tournament. Barba’s competition will be stiffer than what she has faced all season long.

“I don’t really know what to expect at this point. I think it will be a really good weekend of squash,” Barba said. “There will be a lot of great players going, so I’m definitely excited.”

March 9

Chemistry Department

Info Session 12:00-1:15 pm Pearson Chemistry Building Room P112

You tell him about the hot girl in your Psych class.

Breakfast with IR 9:30-10:30 am Cabot Mezzanine

Mathematics Department 4:00-5:00 pm Dept Conference Room Bromfield-Pearson

Political Science Department 12:00 pm Eaton Hall Room 206

March 10

Department of Anthropology 4:30 pm Eaton Hall, 3rd Floor

Community Health Open House 12:00-3:00 pm 112 Packard Avenue

Philosophy 5:45-6:00 pm Miner Hall, 2nd Floor

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You tell him where to get the best pizza on campus.

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12 season-opener against NESCAC-rival Amherst, the team hopes to reinforce the skills Judgment Day emphasizes.

“I was able to see some of what the team participated in last year during [senior Arlin Ladue’s] documentary, ‘Road to the Championship’ (2010), but I don’t really know what to expect,” firstyear attackman Jack McDermott said.

“Judging by what I’ve heard from the upperclassmen, it’s challenging, yet an incredibly worthwhile experience for our betterment.”

The team’s seasoned veterans can anticipate some of what Kapitulik will demand of them, but senior quad-captain Ryan Molloy said that even returning players could be in for a few twists when Sunday afternoon rolls around.

“All of the guys who competed in Judgment Day last year tried to instill what we learned into the freshmen and create recurring themes for them,” Molloy, an attackman, said. “I think we are a little more prepared this year, but at the same time, we have no idea what they’re going to throw at us, so it’s almost like we’re going into it blind again.”

Last year, the Jumbos’ were pushed to their physical boundaries, treading water in full sweatsuits and carrying teammates the length of a lacrosse field.

But the program also tested players’ mental strength and leadership capacities. Daly has stressed mental toughness during the offseason.

“Personally, the most challenging part of Judgment Day is when you’re called out to lead the team,” Molloy said. “You have to remember all the instructions, compete in all the events and delegate to teammates what you want them to do.

But that’s also the most beneficial part.”

From their American-flag-themed helmets to their camouflaged shooting shirts, patriotism is a core principle for Daly’s squad. The team aims to emulate the military’s values of commitment each time it takes the field.

Courtesy Drew Innis

During last year’s ‘Judgment Day,’ the lacrosse team was made to perfect the jumping jack.

The military presence at Judgment Day puts the Jumbos’ season in perspective.

“If people are willing to risk their lives for a greater cause, then we should certainly be able to focus and practice in a game,” McDermott said.

The Jumbos feel that they are well conditioned for Kapitulik’s challenge.

Throughout the fall, the team worked out during captains’ practices and conditioned in the weight room almost daily to reach their physical peaks for the season.

“One thing we learned last year was never to just get through something but to attack it,” junior midfielder Kevin McCormick said. “That’s something about Judgment Day. There’s no way to

get by doing the bare minimum. I think our upperclassmen will really help the young guys, too, but we’re going to really work at pushing it.”

The veterans also feel that they have more to gain from participating in another Judgment Day. Molloy explained that, last year, the lessons the team learned defined the season.

“When it came to the tight games we were able to pull it out and come up with big plays like we really hadn’t before,” he said.

According to McCormick, a nationalchampionship-caliber team must continue to embody Kapitulik’s lessons of teamwork, leadership and persistence far past the Marine’s early-March visit.

“The staff is only there for two days, so the choice is left up to the team of whether we just want to get better for two days and go through the motions or whether we’re going to get better the whole season,” McCormick said. “[Last year] we decided to take what we learned from Judgment Day and got better the whole season.”

Sometimes, Judgment Day boils down to refining even the most basic skills.

“We worked on doing one perfect jumping jack,” Daly said. “The point Eric hammered home to our guys was that if we don’t have the discipline and attention to do one perfect jumping jack, how could we expect to apply that in a whole lacrosse game where there are so many other moving factors and scenarios?”

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Baseball opens season as No. 15 in nation

Courtesy Alix Michael

Junior Alix Michael, left, was Tufts’ No. 1 player for the bulk of this season, yet coach Belkys Velez decided to send No. 3 player Mercedes Barba to the CSA Individuals instead.

Coach Velez chooses No. 3 Barba over No. 1 Michael for CSA Individual Tournament by

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Most collegiate teams will send their No. 1 player to the CSA Individual Tournament this weekend at Dartmouth College. Yet Tufts coach Belkys Velez decided two weeks ago to bypass No.1 Alix Michael to send junior co-captain Mercedes Barba, the team’s No.3 player this season, to the national tournament instead.

“I can understand if [Michael] is disappointed, but I think as a coach I will always make my decision for the team. All the girls were working hard and I [made] my decision based on who deserves it,” Velez said.

Michael beat out both Barba and senior co-captain Valerie Koo for the No. 1 spot

on the ladder for the majority of the team’s 9-14 season. Her efforts included a decisive five-game win that earned Tufts a 5-4 victory over Colby in last weekend’s Walker Cup, a team win which moved the Jumbos up to No. 21 from No. 24 in the national rankings. In the same match, Barba lost a heartbreaker 11-9 in the fifth set.

Yet despite the fact that Michael was the team’s best player all season, Velez still decided that her No. 1 player was not the most deserving candidate to represent Tufts at the national tournament. Velez’s first choice was the veteran Koo, who represented Tufts at last year’s tournament.

Yet the senior co-captain was unable to make the time commitment this weekend, so she went with Barba instead, leav-

ing Michael surprised to find her season ended prematurely.

“I was definitely surprised and disappointed, but ultimately it is the coach’s decision, and I wish Mercedes the best of luck because she is a teammate. I hope she does well,” Michael said.

According to Velez, Barba’s superior effort and devotion to the team was enough to make her more worthy of the spot than Michael.

“As a coach, you have to see who gives you more during the season, who works hard, who was there all the time, which person was doing everything,” she said.

“Everyone has commitments and other see WOMEN’S SQUASH, page 6

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Once again, Jumbos take to the battlefield ‘Judgment Day’ training weekend arrives for defending national champs by

Kate Klots

The baseball team, fresh off a 34-7 campaign that ended with the team’s first NESCAC title since 2002 and broke the program record for wins, has been ranked No. 15 in the nation by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association as it heads into the 2011 season.

The Jumbos stood at No. 10 in 2010’s final poll and will look to break into the top 10 again beginning on March 18 against Lynchburg College. The game will kick off a week-long stretch of games on the road for the Jumbos during Tufts’ spring break.

The Jumbos will return seven of their nine starting position players, including arguably the best infield in the conference. Junior third baseman Sam Sager and senior shortstop David LeResche both earned spots on the All-NESCAC First Team last season, while senior second baseman Frank Petroskey was a Second Team honoree in his first year at Tufts.

The team’s leaders in home runs (senior David Orlowitz) and on-base percentage (senior Ben Walkley) will once again anchor the lineup.

Seniors Derek Miller—who led the team with 52.1 innings pitched—and Ed Bernstein, who struck out 42 batters in 29 frames out of the bullpen, will pave the way for the pitching staff.

With both talent and experience on their side, the Jumbos should be among the best teams in the regiothis spring.

Derosa named to AllNESCAC for third time Tufts’ senior forward Tom Derosa has been recognized as one of the top athletes in NESCAC hockey for the third year in a row. Yesterday, Derosa was named to the All-NESCAC second team — his third conference honor in his three seasons playing for the Jumbos since his 2008 transfer from Merrimack College.

Derosa finished this season as the No. 4 scorer in the league with 11 goals and is tied for the third-most assists with 21, despite Tufts’ dismal 6-16-1 record. He completes his Tufts hockey career with 41 goals, 50 assists and 91 points in his 72 games in a blue and brown uniform — leading the team’s scoring in his three seasons of play.

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The men’s lacrosse team may not have any scrimmages lined up for the last Saturday before the start of its regular season, but that hardly means a weekend off for the Jumbos. On Sunday and Monday, the team will hit the pool deck, the gym and the practice field, as it participates in its second-annual Judgment Day training program, as the team has dubbed it.

Hosted by Program Athletics, based in Woburn, Mass., the two-day program aims to improve teamwork and develop leadership skills. Coach Mike Daly (LA ’95) implemented the program last spring after Program Athletics employee and former Marine Eric Kapitulik reached out to Tufts. Over the course of two days, the Jumbos were pushed to their physical and mental limit. The team last year won the school’s first Div. III NCAA team championship.

This year, a young squad adds 13 freshmen to the 44-man roster, and with just over a week until the Jumbos’ March

Courtesy Drew Innis

see MEN’S LACROSSE, page 7

Part of last year’s training regimen involved carrying teammates the length of a lacrosse field.

Sabreman Mingalone a regional All-Star Junior Tyler Mingalone was named as one of the All-Stars in the Northeast Intercollegiate Fencing Conference, the second time in his career that he has attained All-Conference recognition. He was joined near the top of the conference standings by freshman and fellow sabreman Eli Kohlenberg, who compiled a 20-10 mark and just missed NIFC honors.

On the women’s side, the Jumbos were led by senior epeeist Georgia Ranes, who went 24-10. Freshman Julia Hisey and junior Sara Danly both won more than two-thirds of their bouts with the sabre. Tufts fencing should vastly improve upon its 6-6 record from this season with improved performance from its foil squad.