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Tufts runners cross the line at 115th Boston Marathon by

Martha Shanahan Daily Editorial Board

Over 200 Jumbos yesterday joined a herd of almost 25,000 runners in the 115th Boston Marathon as part of the President’s Marathon Challenge (PMC).

The team of 210 Tufts runners were cheered on by a crowd including many fellow Jumbos along the 26.2-mile trail from the town of Hopkinton to Copley Square in downtown Boston.

All but one of the registered PMC runners finished the race, according to PMC Director Don Megerle.

“We had an unusually high ninety-nine-percent rate of completion,” he said. Only one Tufts runner was unable to finish the race due to severe dizziness and dehydration, for which she was hospitalized and then released after a few hours, according to Megerle.

Daniel Hatfield, a graduate student at the Friedman School

of Nutrition Science and Policy, had the fastest Tufts time at 3 hours, 16 minutes, according to Megerle.

The fastest time overall went to Geoffrey Mutai, a Kenyan.

His time of 2:03:02 was the fastest time for any marathon, but due to technicalities associated with Boston’s course will not be recorded as a world record.

A Kenyan also took the top woman’s slot, with a 2:22:36 finish time.

Juliana Slocum, a senior who Megerle said ran the fastest female time of the Tufts runners at 3:25:27, said she appreciated the support she received from Megerle and the members of the Tufts community who showed up to cheer the runners on.

“It was awesome; it was a beautiful day, and the crowd was amazing,” Slocum said. Slocum, who qualified individually for the marathon but still ran in the see MARATHON, page 2

Sixth Tufts Energy Conference draws high-power speakers by

Michael Marks Daily Staff Writer

Students, faculty and international experts in the field of energy this weekend gathered on the Hill for the sixth annual Tufts Energy Conference. This year’s event featured prominent speakers and the first Tufts Energy Challenge, a competition between student projects dedicated to finding sustainable energy solutions.

The conference, this year themed “Energy’s Great Debates: Moving Past Posturing to Arrive at Achievable Energy Solution,” featured keynote speakers including Former Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Suedeen Kelly and American Council on Renewable Energy President Michael Eckhart.

Keynote speaker Michael Sachse, vice president of regulatory affairs and general counselor for software company Opower, on Friday addressed the issue of public apathy toward energy efficiency.

“Energy is boring,” he said.

“It’s boring in a lot of ways. You can’t see it, if you can smell it it’s a problem and you shouldn’t ever taste it,” Sachse said.

Sachse, citing a study showing that Americans spend about six minutes of each year thinking about energy, stressed the importance of changing the incentives for energy use.

He said many state systems have effectively addressed this problem by rewarding utility

companies’ engagement in sustainable practices.

“We can make utilities care what they produce by incentivizing clean energy and de-incentivizing dirty energy,” he said.

Sachse said social incentives for individuals to decrease their energy use are another way to have an impact on overconsumption of the world’s resources.

“One of the most powerful things, as it turns out, has been people being able to see how much energy [they use] compared to their neighbors,” he said. “Psychologically, shame is an incredibly powerful tool.”

“It is hard to imagine a single aspect of our lives today that is not affected by energy issues,” University President Lawrence Bacow said in his opening remarks to Sachse’s speech.

“Our choices are being affected, maybe distorted, by our dependence on foreign oil,” Bacow added. “[This] is a moment in time when we see the impact of cost and benefits of energy on a society that is dealing with income inequality.”

Friday’s talks were followed on the conference’s second day by a series of panels exploring topics such as deep-sea drilling, the future of mass transit and the relationship between energy use and poverty.

At a panel on Saturday titled “Clean Energy Imperative: Improving Energy Access or Promoting Energy Poverty?”

Grameen Bank co-founder and see ENERGY, page 2

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Tufts Student Resources will close the REZQuad Café following the university’s request to free up the space for doctoral students and rehearsal space for student performance groups.

University evicts REZQuad Café by

Corinne Segal

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Tufts Student Resources (TSR) has decided it will close the REZQuad Café as the university, which owns the space in which it is located, has announced its intention to reallocate the area for use as a rehearsal space for student performance groups and a new Tufts Institute for the Environment (TIE) doctoral program.

TIE this summer received a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, allowing it to fund stipends for doctoral students to study water and diplomacy, according to Vice President for Operations Dick Reynolds.

Reynolds said the new program, The Water Diplomacy Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Ph.D. Program, will use a third of the space to house its new students, and the other two-thirds will be made available

to student performance groups as a rehearsal area.

Reynolds said the basement of Miller Hall, where the cafe is located, was the university’s preferential option for both purposes.

“When we started looking around campus for a potential co-location other than the Miller space … we came up empty,” Reynolds said.

The closing will eliminate 24 student jobs, TSR President Arnav Garg, a sophomore, said. TSR owns and operates the cafe.

To offset this loss, TSR has reserved approximately five jobs for current REZQuad Cafe employees in the fall at The Rez. In addition, Dining Services has extended the deadlines for RezQuad employees to apply for positions at Tisch Library’s Tower Cafe and Brown and Brew, according to sophomore Anya Gelernt, a REZQuad employee.

Dining Services will also accept

applications from RezQuad employees for managerial positions, Caitlin Weissman, vice president of operations for the REZQuad, said.

Junior Angela Lyonsjustus, TSR Vice President of Operations, said that TSR would also try to compensate by expanding both its marketing division and Tufts Tees, a TSR initiative that provides insignia clothing to student organizations.

“We’re taking this as an opportunity to expand other divisions in TSR,” Lyonsjustus said.

While Lyonsjustus expressed regret that the closing would require adjustments in students’ employment, Weissman, a sophomore, said the university has taken an active role in its effort to relocate the student workers affected by the closing.

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Garcia, Richards nominated as TCU presidential candidates In the first official meeting of the newly elected Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, the body last night nominated juniors Tomas Garcia and Ben Richards as the candidates in the presidential election scheduled for April 26.

The two senators accepted their nominations after their peers in the Senate initiated and seconded the nominations for each candidate.

The present senators then voted on the nominations, with both Garcia and Richards receiving votes of confidence.

Senator Matt Schuman, a junior, and Senators Wyatt Cadley, Ard Ardalan and Shawyoun Shaidani, all sophomores, were also nominated by the body but declined to accept the offers. Such nominations are often conducted as a formality by the body.

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Garcia, who has served for two years on the Senate and this year served as the body’s historian and chair of the Student Outreach Committee, said if elected he would strive to understand students’ needs and communicate them to the administration.

“When I first came to Tufts, I didn’t feel like I was part of something bigger,” Garcia told the Daily after accepting his nomination. “I didn’t feel that the students’ voice was being listened too. I am willing and ready to fight for students.”

Garcia added that he was ready to guide the student body through upcoming administrative transitions, referring to Presidentelect Anthony Monaco and the as-yet-unnamed replacement for outgoing Provost and Senior Vice President Jamshed Bharucha.

“Next year is the greatest opportunity the Tufts student body has ever had,” Garcia said. “We have the chance to redefine what it

means to be a Jumbo.”

Richards, who was elected in February of 2010 to the Senate in a special election and served through April of last year, said he could bring an outsider’s perspective to the body. He did not serve on the body this year.

“I am running for president to represent the silent majority of students whose voices for too long have been muted by the small, activist voices about issues that do not affect the majority of students,” he told the Daily after the nominations.

Richards walked on to the Senate in the general election held earlier this month, securing his spot on the body for next year.

“I am running to restore the TCU Senate to an institution that actively improves the quality of life and services for my fellow Jumbos on campus,” Richards said.

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Visiting the Hill this Week TUESDAY “Why Literature Has Nothing to Teach Us About the Mind” Details: University of Nottingham Professor Gregory Currie, whose research focuses on the role of narrative and imagination in thought, will deliver a lecture about the relationship between literature and philosophy.

When and Where: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.; Center for Humanities at Tufts (Fung House) Sponsors: Department of Philosophy “La migración de mexicanos y centroamericanos hacia Estados Unidos” Details: Eduardo González Velázquez of the Universidad de Guadalajara will offer a lecture in Spanish about the migration of Mexicans and Central Americans to the United States.

When and Where: 6 to 9 p.m.; Terrace Room, Paige Hall Sponsors: Charles Smith Fund, Department of Romance Languages

“The W. Kamau Bell Curve” Details: Stand-up comedian W. Kamau Bell, who has been seen on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend,” will offer a comedic discussion of race in America.

When and Where: 8 to 10 p.m.; Hotung Café Sponsors: Tufts Lecture Series WEDNESDAY “Lunch with Ambassador Peter DeShazo” Details: Ambassador Peter DeShazo, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, will host an informal lunchtime chat.

When and Where: 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.; Cabot Auditorium, Room 108b Sponsors: The Fletcher Diplomacy Club “Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power” Details: Robert Kaplan, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and senior fellow at the Center for New American Security,

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school’s being very accommodating,” Weissman said.

Garg said that the closing’s effect on the REZQuad’s workers was TSR’s primary concern.

“The biggest loss in this is not the revenue so much as the job loss,” Garg said. “The main priority of TSR is to provide jobs to student workers.”

TSR loans the space from the university and never paid rent or signed a lease on the property, Weissman said.

She added that the decision to close the REZQuad was not related to the cafe’s profitability, but rather stemmed from TIE’s requirement of the space.

“I think that no matter how successful the REZQuad was, or how long it had been there, that once they got this grant, it wasn’t going to be our space anymore,” she said.

Reynolds said the university is in the process of attempting to find an uphill replacement for the REZQuad, although any new uphill coffee vendor will not be as large as the cafe’s current location.

“We’re working with TSR to see if we can come up with an alternative location at the top of the hill for at least a coffee bar,” Reynolds said.

Garg said TSR would in September work with the university to determine the location of a replacement. Once they decide on a new space, he said, a new cafe could open in three to six months, depending on whether renova-

tions are necessary.

A new cafe would open by next spring at the earliest, TSR Vice President of Finance Alexander Freiberg, a sophomore, said.

Reynolds said the decision to allocate a portion of the space to student performance groups stemmed from a consensus between university officials and student organizations that existing facilities couldn’t fill the demand for rehearsal space.

“There’s a clear indication that there is a lack of rehearsal space and practice space on campus,” he said.

“This would be a space where students could have practices and rehearsals to take some of the pressure off the Jackson Gym, Hill Hall and Sophia Gordon [Hall],” Associate Director of Campus Life Laura DaRos added.

Gelernt said the allocation of the area for rehearsal space for student groups did not make up for the lost benefit for the students who use the REZQuad.

“I think that there are more people on campus who aren’t involved in things that need rehearsal spaces, who just want a place to do homework and hang out,” Gelernt said. “I think that’s a bigger population on campus than people who are looking for rehearsal spaces.”

Gelernt said she was disappointed with the decisions, given the lack of a similar space uphill.

“There are other coffee shops on campus … but there’s nothing uphill,” she said. “That takes away the main study and meeting place that there is uphill.”

will discuss his book on how the Indian Ocean has influenced history.

When and Where: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Mugar Hall, Room 235 Sponsors: Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies THURSDAY “2011 Wellington Burham Lecture Series” Details: MIT Professor David Autor will present a lecture titled “The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States.”

When and Where: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.; 51 Winthrop Street Sponsors: Department of Economics “Domestic Mysticism: A Look at Religion and Food” Details: Poet and Harvard Divinity School student Grace Egbert will discuss the role of food in worship at this Chaplain’s Table installment.

When and Where: 5 to 7 p.m.; Dewick-

MacPhie Dining Hall Conference Room Sponsors: University Chaplaincy “Is There a Place for Atheists in Religious Pluralism?”

Details: The Tufts Freethought Society will host a moderated panel on atheism and faith, featuring prominent religious and nonreligious leaders.

When and Where: 6:45 to 7:45 p.m.; Robinson Hall, Room 253 Sponsors: Tufts Freethought Society FRIDAY “The Ur of Thottiapatti: A Village in Transition” Details: Jonathan Fine, a doctor and founder of Physicians for Human Rights, will discuss his experience in rural health care in India.

When and Where: 5 to 8 p.m.; Paige Hall, Crane Room Sponsors: BUILD —compiled by Elizabeth McKay

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traditional yellow PMC singlet, said the team was especially motivated given that this year marked the challenge’s last year under the tenure of its creator, University President Lawrence Bacow, who started it in 2003 and ran the marathon for its first five years.

“There’s nothing like crossing the line and getting a hug from your university president,” Slocum said. “I think we all felt it, [we were] just wanting to make sure it was really great day,” Flocum said.

Slocum said she looks forward to the tradition continuing in coming years despite Bacow’s departure.

“Hopefully the program will continue,” she added. “I’d love to run as an alumni.”

“It’s going to be hard to come down from the emotional high and go to class tomorrow,” Slocum added.

PMC student runners, who are through the challenge sponsored to run the marathon without meeting the normal qualifying times, are expected to raise $1,000 in donations for programs at the Friedman School.

Non-students are expected to raise $2,500.

This year’s donations, which totaled more than $300,000 according to the PMC website, will benefit the Personalized Performance Program, a Friedman School professor’s initiative to increase health and fitness program among Tufts’ students, faculty and staff.

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Senior Bryan Petillo and Tufts parent Joe Findaro attack the final 2 miles of the 115th Boston Marathon yesterday.

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Michael Sachse, vice president of regulatory affairs and general counselor for software company Opower, gave the keynote address at this weekend’s sixth annual Tufts Energy Conference.

chairman of the Bright Green Energy Foundation Dipal Chandra Barua described the company’s work improving access to renewable energy in Bangladesh.

“We’ve been installing low-cost solar home systems across Bangladesh to spread access to energy,” Barua said. “Instead of having to pay for kerosene, which can turn out to be quite expensive, they can have solar-powered electricity for as low as four to five dollars a month.”

Barua stressed the importance of affordability, among other factors, in the attempt to create solutions to the developing world’s energy problems.

“You need a cost-effective product that is usable and effective, but at the same time you need financing,” he said. “If we train women, they will continuously work hard and will bring cost effectiveness and it will also bring sustainable energy supply.”

Two student semifinalists from each of two categories in the energy challenge competition on Friday presented at the conference, with the Tufts Hybrid Racing team winning the first prize of $1,000 in the in the competition’s “Action” category.

Their entry, a project proposal titled “High Voltage Lithium Ion Battery Management System,” outlined ways to increase the efficiency of lithium ion batteries in racecars.

“The prize money is going directly into building the battery management system,” junior William Salisbury, a member of the team, said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to include it in our vehicles by 2012.”

Juniors Jonah Kadoko and Kristen Johnson, winners of the “Research” category, created “Wind Turbines and Solar Cookers in Zimbabwe,” a project dedicated to increasing access to clean energy in Zimbabwe.

“For us, winning the prize was more of an indication that we should pursue our project further,” Kadoko said.

“Ideally, we would like to use the money to talk to people on the ground and work towards finding clean energy solutions for Zimbabwe,” Johnson said.

The conference also featured an Energy Showcase in which approximately 15 students and private sector companies showcased their proposals for cleanenergy solutions.

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Though the trangender identity is frequently bundled with lesbian, gay and bisexual identities, advocates say it is often more complicated.

In face of serious misconceptions, transgender community perserveres to find a voice by

Falcon Reese

Daily Editorial Board

In the wake of last fall’s prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) suicides, University President Lawrence Bacow sent an email to the Tufts community urging them to proudly support all of its LGBT members and to “model the behavior we would hope to see in the rest of the world, and that is of a community that is supportive and welcoming to all.”

In a world increasingly threatened by sexual intolerance, using this campus to create the kind of accepting and inclusive community described by President Bacow is now being brought to the forefront by several student organizations at Tufts.

Students Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE) is a student-run affiliate of the Tufts Women’s Center working to create a safe and supportive environment on campus for students of all genders. After Bacow sent his letter, the LGBT community was asked what could be done to encourage this kind of environment on the Tufts campus. SAGE put together a proposal for gender-neutral housing options at Tufts, which it submitted to the administration in February.

This document, titled “Recommendations for Gender Neutral Housing at Tufts,” outlined a series of suggestions for how gender-neutral housing, an “option in which two or more students may share a multipleoccupancy bedroom, in mutual agreement, regardless of the students’ sex or gender,” could be implemented on campus. It emphasized that genderneutral options would provide housing choices for transgender students or students questioning their gender identity and cited schools best exemplifying these practices, such as Brandeis University and Connecticut College.

Although initially asked to provide suggestions for how to create a more inclusive campus for all of the LGBT community, SAGE submitted a proposal that seems to focus on an often overlooked letter in LGBT: the “T,” a community of people defined by their expression of gender rather than their sexual orientation and by their defiance of the social norms that tell them how they must express their gender.

For the transgender community, gender is a continuum, not a concrete either-or, man-woman construction.

The gender of those in the community, and how they choose to express it, does not align with their biologically determined sex. This is a concept neither easily nor widely understood, according to Tom Bourdon, director of Tufts’ LGBT Center.

“In our country, there’s very little trans visibility and very little understanding of trans people and who they are and what they go through,” Bourdon said.

In fact, Bourdon said, the public has long been more amenable to outwardly gay identities than outwardly trans identities.

“I think it’s fair to say that historically speaking, it’s unfortunately been ‘us first, then you,’ because the assumption has been that the world is going to be ready to accept a gay identity before it’s ready to accept a trans identity.”

Yet while LGB and T communities have often been seen as separate, sophomore Maya Grodman, a member of Team Q, an LGBT peer-education group on campus, said that there are certain shared experiences and discriminations that seem to form an inevitable bond between the two.

“I think it’s marginalization that they all have in common. Even if they’re different groups, they’re still the ‘other,’” she said. Grodman went on to explain that this marginalization is a result of the LGBT community defying the gender and sexuality norms set forth by society.

“They are sort of united in that in a heteronormative society, you either are a man or a woman, and you’re heterosexual,” she said, implying that the LGBT community hardly fits into such neat boxes.

Besides often feeling like societal outsiders, there is a fundamental similarity bonding the two groups together, according to senior Ryan Heman, a former Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) co-coordinator and former LGBT community representative.

“The main reason ‘T’ individuals are in the same community [as LGB individuals is that] the basic concept underlying these two things is a radical deconstruction of gender,” he said. This deconstruction again refers to the LGBT

community’s refusal to fill the mold that society presents them with, and that refusal to conform has shaped all of the struggles and stereotypes that the transgender community in particular faces.

The psychiatric community has long viewed transexuality as a disorder requiring treatment. Gender identity disorder (GID) is defined as “a strong and persistent cross-gender identification” by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV ).

“I guess it’s a disorder because it creates distress,” Professor of Psychology David Harder said. Harder explained that being transgender creates both personal distress — not being at home in one’s own body — and social distress in trans people’s surrounding environments.

“If they’re expected to function as a gendered male, [but they feel] like a woman, [they] can’t function as a socially accepted gendered male,” Harder said.

The status of GID also presents a double-edged sword for trans-identifying people who wish to get a sexual reassignment operation. Accepting a diagnosis may mean accepting the stigma that goes along with it, but it may also mean the chance for surgery.

“Generally, to get any surgery you need a diagnosis,” Harder said. In that sense, the problem then becomes whether it’s more beneficial to transgender individuals to maintain the current status of gender identity disorder or to work to have it — and some of the associated stigma — removed from the DSM. Bourdon expressed support for a reevaluation of the DSM. “In my opinion, it is important to get [GID] removed from the DSM, but for that to happen, a lot of other things need to fall into place so that trans people can still have access to any services and medical care they might need,” Bourdon said. Director of the Tufts Women’s Center Steph Gauchel agreed that proper medical care is an issue that the trans community must struggle against.

“Health care is definitely a barrier in terms of discrimination,” she said, explaining that, in terms of sex-change surgeries, there exists a discriminatory double standard. see TRANSGENDER, page 4

s children, we learn that talking to strangers is something we should never do. I disagree.

I say, the stranger the better. And the best place to do so is at the airport, which is where I found myself with three extra hours of time this weekend. In general, people are averse to talking to strangers because they suspect that people who approach them with no obvious reason are either con men or crazy. But this doesn’t apply at airports, which, like Hugh Grant says in “Love Actually” (2003), are a place of love, actually.

Airports are a place of people who are nervous about flying and want some human comfort; people who are so happy to have finally gotten away from their families, they’ll tell anyone about it; people who travel alone a lot and are perpetually lonely; people who never travel alone and are newly lonely; people who’ve been passing time by making identities for other people and want to confirm their intuitions about you; people who’ve been passing time by making up their own identities and need someone try them out on. The point is, it’s easier to pick up a temporary friend at an airport than it is to pick up whomever College ACB is currently swearing is easier.

And the nice thing is that, while it’s sad to say goodbye to a real-life friend, the fact that you’ll soon never see these strangers again is the very foundation of your fleeting companionship. I’ve met some crazy people in this manner and some wise ones.

I’ve opened up to people I shared little more than a couple hours on a bus with and played shrink to dozens more.

That’s not to say one should abandon all discretion when choosing acquaintances.

The lady sitting next to me on the plane, for example, seemed innocuous enough at first, which should alone have made me skeptical, as I’ve never spent a plane ride next to someone who didn’t smell bad or have the bladder of a pregnant lady or get drunk within an hour of takeoff. Once we got to talking, that was it; she didn’t even stop to let me hear how to secure my own breathing mask before securing that of another person, should I be traveling with one. Instead, I heard about the weather in Baltimore, her son’s accomplishments, her week’s itinerary, … “n,” where “n” is the last element of the finite series of mundane conversation topics. (She finally relented to play with her kid, whom she whined at for cheating at Hangman before throwing a hissy fit because she didn’t want to play Go Fish and her kid did, and her kid ALWAYS got to choose the game. When she tried to get me mixed into this conversation, I had no choice but to feign sleep.) Romy: 0. The universe: 1.

Then there was my BFF, the stewardess. Our relationship developed slowly but steadily, as she came by first for snacks, then for drinks, then for garbage. The other passengers got jealous, or just hungry, when she stopped by my seat to chat with me for longer than she did with anyone else. I’m fairly sure she mistook my friendliness for flirting, though, and was almost definitely flirting back. This culminated when, passing by my seat wholly unnecessarily, she took my headband, which I was holding, out of my hands, told me it was nice and then walked up the aisle to show it to all of her stewardess friends. I think, at that point, the relationship dynamic shifted, and I became her plaything. Universe: 2.

But I don’t mean to come off on the side of the worried parent. These were a couple of memorable new friends, but there were plenty of pleasant-enough conversations to make the endeavor worth my while, not least of all small talk with the hot pilot.

Romy: 1.

Romy Oltuski is a senior majoring in English. She can be reached at Romy.

Oltuski@tufts.edu.

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“What modification[s] to the body is considered ‘normal,’ [and] which are pathologized?”

Gauchel asked rhetorically.

Gauchel went on to say that while breast implants are often encouraged in our society, sexchange operations are stigmatized. In addition, not only are trans people stigmatized for seeking out the surgery, but also for the result of that surgery, according to senior Tom Calahan, the discussion leader for QSA and a member of SAGE who took the lead on drafting the gender-neutral housing proposal.

“Basically the body is the ultimate site of discrimination,” he said. “Trans people might be discriminated against because their bodies are kind of novel.”

Physical discrimination, however, is only one small aspect of the wide range of stereotypes the transgender community is confronted with.

“There are a lot of stereotypes associated with gender nonconforming because it is a category defined by how diverse they are,” a transgender graduate student who requested anonymity out of privacy concerns, said. For example, many assume that the concept of transgender still works within a concrete gender binary, he said.

“People assume if you are physically transitioning that you’re going to adhere to very strict gender stereotypes,” he said, referencing the general belief that transgender people will still follow an exclusively male or female gender expression. Another stereotype trans people face is the assumption that transitioning — when a

transgender person begins to live as their new gender — is an experiment in sexuality.

“A more pervasive misconception … [is that] people assume that transitioning is due to your sex life. I think that’s a misunderstanding of why we transition,” the transgender student said. People also make assumptions about trans people’s gender expression before they transition.

“Trans men are almost always assumed to have always been very butch women,” the transgender student said. The media also plays a role in how trans people are perceived, according to Calahan. “[There’s a stereotype that] people who are not cisgendered, [people whose gender matches their biological sex] are not people we should take seriously … [that they’re] not heroes, not breadwinners,” he said. “I mean, do trans people get taken seriously in any movie you’ve ever seen?” Calahan added that people often make erroneous assumptions about why trans people express their gender the way that they do. “[People think] that they’re doing it for attention or that it’s for fashion,” he said. Grodman agreed that in this sense, the media plays a large part in how trans people are perceived.

“I think the first thought is that they’re a cross-dresser,” she said. “In the media, that identity gets the spotlight the most.”

Grodman added that because of this, their sexual orientation is also often stereotyped.

“People will just assume that [trans people] will have a sexual identity that’s not straight,” she said. “They can be a straight trans man.” Gauchel agreed that

sexual orientation and gender identity are often confused.

“We often read people as gay or lesbian because of their gender expression … gender expression doesn’t say anything about sexuality, but people are always looking to make that a fact,” she said. Gauchel added that both media and society play a crucial role in how trans people are perceived by the public at large by providing a comparison for what’s considered “normal.”

“To give something social relevancy or currency, you have to have ‘normal’ to have ‘abnormal,’ but it is not about ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal.’ … ‘Transgender’ is just one identity among endless possibilities within the spectrums of gender identity and expression,” she said.

In the face of all this discrimination and stereotyping, equal rights legislation is a vital part of improving the trans experience. For example, the Mathew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA) gives the Department of Justice jurisdiction over, and thus the power to investigate and prosecute, prejudice-motivated violent crimes, such as those perpetuated against members of the transgender community. In addition, the Employment NonDiscrimination Act (ENDA) is a bill currently being considered in Congress that, if passed, would provide protection against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Despite those protections, however, recognition is still the major issue facing the transgender community.

“Trans people just face an incredible, incredible struggle for their legitimacy to be recog-

nized,” Calahan said.

This struggle to have their lifestyle validated by society parallels the struggle that trans people face to recognize themselves.

“My transitioning came from a place of understanding how I wanted to look and feel and see myself … when I look in the mirror. The main reason is recognizing myself,” the transgender student said. However, this personal recognition doesn’t always translate into others recognizing the same thing.

“Gender-wise, I’m always a guy now,” he said, explaining how people see him, but then adding that’s not always the case.

“Little kids often get it right, but parents correct [them],” he said, explaining that children often come up to him on the playground and call him “mister,” but then parents come over to “correct” their kids and apologize to the transgender student.

“Stuff like that happens all the time,” he said.

“Passing,” in which one’s trans identity isn’t physically evident to those around them, can often be the goal of a trans person: to not be called out on their gender identity, just to be recognized externally for how they feel internally. In this way, while the LGB community strives to “come out,” many trans people are happy to “come in.”

“People have to decide how out they are and there’s never going to be one level of out-ness for all trans people,” the transgender student said, explaining that while some want everyone around them to know, others see it as a personal invasion.

“The trans person can take responsibility in any given

moment and say, ‘I don’t want to be outed,’” John said. Bourdon agreed that everyone has a personal comfort level, which needs to be respected.

“Some people have gotten to a point where they are living the life they want to live in a body and identity they’re comfortable with, and they might choose to go stealth … they might just want to live their lives without necessarily being identified as a ‘trans’ person,” he said. This may be part of why there are so many misconceptions surrounding the trans community, according to Gauchel.

“The only way we can understand how people identify and name themselves is to ask … [but] it’s not something that’s considered polite or appropriate in our culture, so we work off of assumptions,” she said.

Yet a lack of general knowledge, which could be remedied by a more open community, shouldn’t be addressed by forcing the trans community to step outside their comfort zone, according to Bourdon.

“We need to not put pressure on people to use certain labels or to be ‘out’ simply because we want them to be out,” he said.

SAGE’s gender-neutral housing initiative, in emphasizing the impact on trans students, may be considered a response to a silenced community at Tufts.

“To me, it’s not important that we have a large trans community which is out and visible,” Bourdon said. “More importantly, we need to have an environment where all people are treated equally and can be comfortable and respected, whether cisgender or transgender.”

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‘Hanna’ offers fresh spin on thriller genre

Arresting visuals and an original script place ‘Hanna’ ahead of the pack

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Joe Wright is a literary man. Having previously adapted “Pride & Prejudice” (2005), as well as Ian McEwan’s

Hanna Starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett Directed by Joe Wright “Atonement” (2007), he’s proven himself adept at making the transition from novel to feature film, making the shift into action movie territory with “Hanna” all the more beguiling.

But beneath the surface of this radical new direction, Wright is still channeling his old muse, and with remarkable verve this time around. Though it doesn’t quite hit every note perfectly, Wright’s latest effort offers both unique style and artistic daring — two qualities all too often lacking in the usually formulaic revenge thriller.

The inspiration for “Hanna” lies in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, but from there the film blossoms into a thoroughly modern take on the spy fiction of spooks like Jason Bourne. The titular heroine — portrayed stunningly by a ferocious, feral Saoirse Ronan — has been trained from birth as an assassin by her father (Eric Bana). During their 16 years isolated in the Finnish tundra, he has provided her with all manner of instruction in the

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Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) hones her lethal skills in the Finnish tundra. disciplines of a killer, from weapons training to hand-to-hand combat and everything in between. The target: his calculating, emotionally unstable former handler in the CIA, Marissa Wiegler (an icy Cate Blanchett).

Underneath this feud, years in the making, lies the sinister question of the nature of Hanna’s very identity. Wright unveils a shadowy triangular relationship that sets Wiegler up as the familiar evil stepmother of the Grimms’ tales. The parallels

TV Review

Chef tries to fix LA’s nutrition problems in new reality show by

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Jamie Oliver has a mission: to create a healthier, better-fed world. He’s been successful across the globe, and his next destination is Los Angeles. “This is not reality TV:

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Starring Jamie Oliver Airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on ABC This is a campaign,” Oliver says as he speaks to concerned parents about the food their children are being served — and the audience believes it.

Last season, “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” focused its efforts in Huntington, W. Va., which has been cited as one of the unhealthiest cities in the country. Oliver butted heads with the cafeteria workers in the city’s schools, but

his endeavors garnered the program the Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2010 and the Television Academy Honors for embodying “television with a conscience.”

This season, Oliver is back with a vengeance as he moves his food revolution to LA. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second-largest school district in the United States, banned Oliver from filming in the district for fear of bad publicity surrounding its food service practices.

But now he’s hell-bent on getting through to the children in the schools, one way or another. All he wants to do is help — what could be wrong with that?

With this huge impediment, from a governmental institution no less, Oliver rallies support from local parents in any way he can. He appears on co-producer Ryan Seacrest’s radio show to communicate with parents on a mass level and gets hundreds of responses. see OLIVER, page 6

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Jamie Oliver meets with a group of students at a high school outside the Los Angeles Unified School District, which he was banned from entering.

stretch far beyond this singular connection, though, infusing this vendetta with an intelligence and symbolic meaning almost unheard of in a genre traditionally light on brain activity.

The deaths, for example — and there are many — are often gruesome and inventive in a manner that mirrors the story’s folk origins. The concept of Seth Lochhead and David Farr’s screenplay existing as see HANNA, page 6

Restaurant Review

Trident Booksellers & Cafe has winning combination by

Allison Dempsey

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Generally speaking, two things mixed together tend to be better than one. Chocolate-and-vanilla swirl fro-

Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02115 (617) 267-8688 Price Range ($-$$$$): $$ zen yogurt is better than either flavor individually. New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys have fused to form a new boy band supergroup with the potential to surpass all ’90s fame. And the same goes for Newbury Street’s Trident Booksellers & Cafe, which assumes the roles of bookshop and restaurant simultaneously.

Located at the far end of Newbury Street, just outside of the Hynes Convention Center stop on the Green Line, Trident is a great way to fuel up for a long afternoon of shopping.

Open daily from 8 a.m. to midnight, it serves quintessential brunch fare all day long and steps up the selection with a dinner menu for those later diners. The menu offers many homestyle favorites, often with a unique twist, and truly runs the gamut in terms of brunch offerings. Also on the menu? Books of all varieties.

Because Trident is an extremely popular spot in the world of Newbury Street cafes, a short wait may be in order. But luckily, the bookshop part of the venue is there to provide see TRIDENT, page 6

Madeline Hall | The Tasteful and the Tasteless

Royal disgust

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ticking countdown of days, hours, minutes and seconds normally indicates an event of significant importance. For example, when featured in movies, the detonation of a bomb that threatens the entirety of human existence is often preceded by ominous shots of a countdown clock attached to a complex series of wires. Countdowns are also great for holidays (see: New Year’s Eve), sporting events and space shuttle launches.

Countdowns are a big deal, OK? But in comparison to these worldwide events, countdowns seem a little excessive when applied to something as relatively insignificant as the Royal Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton.

Perhaps something is wrong with me, but I never bought into the royal fairy tale story; regardless, the anticipation for the world’s most structured and excessive event has been building to hysterical levels since the original engagement announcement.

Countless articles and websites have been created with the sole purpose of discussing and covering the wedding, exhausting every minute detail of the procession.

This obsessive frenzy has also yielded multiple variations of the Royal Wedding Countdown Clock, a downloadable application that enables the user to have a desktop clock that ticks away at the time remaining before the big day. I suppose I would describe it all as “thrilling” if I didn’t have a deep respect for the English language and wanted to abuse the word.

The wedding, to be held on April 29, 2011, represents one of the most extravagant and excessive events of the year thus far. If TLC’s “Say Yes to the Dress” teaches us anything about modern weddings (and the craziness of ladies in dresses), it is that the cost of a wedding often exceeds the yearly earnings of an average American household. Taken to a royal level, then, this overindulgence can make poor plebian heads spin. Estimates place the total cost of the British government-funded wedding at a whopping $48 million.

I won’t even pretend to draw a parallel to the number of Tufts tuitions that sum could buy; making my readers cry is not my primary goal. In addition to the overt cost of the wedding itself, the decision to make April 29 a British national holiday will cost the country an additional $9.6 billion in forgone business. “Exorbitant” doesn’t even begin to cover it.

A saving grace to this glut is the couple’s gift policy. Instead of registering at the royal equivalent of Crate & Barrel, they have requested gift-givers to donate to a variety of charities in a sign of good will toward the world. I suppose I would be more touched by their seeming generosity if they had scaled back on the grandiose nature of the entire ceremony; then again, if the royal family doesn’t make the world feel inferior with its exhibitions of wealth, who will?

I understand the charm and, to some extent, the appeal of a fairy tale wedding.

I also cannot blame Prince William and Kate Middleton entirely for this spectacle; pressures from their family, their country and every envious individual in the world escalate their special day and add further absurdity. What I can say is that something of love is missing from this wedding. Every detail of the cake’s icing is broadcast to the millions of eager followers; every minute of the ceremony obsessively outlined and analyzed to the point of exhaustion. Isn’t the true beauty of a marriage the joining of souls in love? Isn’t there something to be said for the way she makes his heart jump or the crooked smile of his that makes her laugh?

I guess I’m more of a romantic than my criticisms would make me seem and more human than this writer’s shell permits.

Madeline Hall is a sophomore majoring in international relations. She can be reached at Madeline.Hall@tufts.edu.

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endless entertainment while you pass the time until a table is available. Trident is proud to call itself Boston’s last independent bookstore, and it retains the vibe of a cozy old-world bookshop, filled with literary types and devoted readers. Replete with an impressive selection of magazines, classic tales and new releases, it’s difficult to walk away empty-handed. Books are priced very reasonably, and the friendly staff is quick to offer recommendations.

The menu provides an impressive array of coffees, teas, juices and smoothies to choose from. Keep it simple with a latte or a hot chocolate or branch out and try a Viennese espresso (espresso, coffee, whipped cream and cocoa) or a Chocolatino (espresso, steamed chocolate milk, whipped cream, cocoa and chocolate syrup). If you’re looking for something a bit more filling, try the Trident Smoothie (apples, strawberry yogurt, bananas, wheat germ, honey and orange juice). Add in bee pollen for an extra $1.25 to any smoothie, which supposedly staves off the effects of aging.

When you’re ready for food, try not to be overwhelmed by the delicious-sounding selection on Trident’s menu. At brunch, you can try a twist on an old favorite (get the Eggs Benedict with Canadian bacon or avocado) or try an unusual combination of winning ingredients. The Morning Monte Cristo sandwich features fried eggs, Canadian bacon, raspberry jam and cheddar cheese on Challah bread French toast.

Another fan favorite is the

lemon ricotta French toast, smothered in blueberry sauce.

If breakfast food at all hours of the day doesn’t tickle your fancy, there are more lunchcentric options available on the brunch menu. Start out with a basket of sweet potato fries before turning healthy with a fresh Asian chicken salad. If sandwiches are more your style, try the unique avocado and Havarti melt (avocado, mustard, and dill Havarti melted on sourdough) or the prosciutto and melted Brie sandwich, featuring a walnut pesto along with greens and tomatoes on a French roll.

If you’re visiting Trident after dark, the menu is far less expansive but equally appealing. Start out with appetizers like spinach and artichoke dip or Korean short-rib wonton tacos, and complete the meal with pumpkin and Brie ravioli with maple sage cream or the poached salmon with horseradish root vegetable mash. Top it off with a Boston cream pie, or go for the exotic with a cinnamon-orange creme brulee.

As long as your intellectual curiosity doesn’t draw you immediately back to the shelves of books on your way out the door, you will leave Trident having spent an extremely reasonable amount of money for all the food in your belly. The American-with-a-twist cuisine satisfies immensely, and you might end your day needing to go up one more size in your Newbury shopping expedition.

A delightful spot filled with bookworms and foodies alike, Trident’s hybrid of delicious and literary proves to be a winning combination.

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Diners enjoy the cozy atmosphere at Trident Booksellers & Cafe.

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Eric Bana plays Hanna’s revenge-bent father.

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a fairy-tale analogue both allows for and excuses the bare-bones plotting and narrative shortcuts that occasionally crop up.

Most impressive, though, in this thematic underpinning, is the incredible balance of style and substance — Wright’s various flourishes remain wonderfully intellectual, even as the bodies stack up.

And there’s no shortage of style here.

How often do you see a film’s composers share top billing with its director? Like Trent Reznor and Daft Punk before them, The Chemical Brothers shift gears from popular music to film scoring splendidly.

With booming bass and driving, serpentine beats, their contributions hardly go unnoticed, perfectly accenting chase sequences and virtuoso combat alike.

It’s almost a perfect score — appropriately increasing adrenaline at just the right moments, but all without slipping into cloying predictability. Why almost? It could have used a few more of the band’s fingerprints. But then, perhaps that’s the kindest form of criticism.

And it’s challenging to be anything but kind in critiquing Wright’s directorial approach, especially when his artistic intent is so admirable. Yes, there are missteps, but

they’re made with unimpeachable motives.

Early on, he goes full-bore stylistically rather than feathering the throttle, and it results in transparent artificiality.

An escape sequence from a top-secret military facility offers a prime example.

Pounding score in full effect, Hanna flees, pursued by dozens of masked soldiers.

But the extensive use of raked angles, pulsing strobe lights and a rapidly spinning camera quickly jump from intriguing artistry to headache-inducing overload. The abundance of quick-cuts and jarringly symmetrical frames weakens the film’s opening set-pieces, but at the same time set Wright up as a director offering proof that film can be just as much art as entertainment.

In that sense, he’s a model for the best of what mainstream commercial filmmaking has to offer, making mistakes by taking risks, not by shying away from them.

“Hanna” doesn’t redefine the revenge film, but it stands out as a picture that uses genre as a foundation to build off — not a framework to languish in. For that alone, it deserves to be seen and appreciated.

Without a doubt, we’ll soon see Wright return to his more conventional literary roots, but here’s to hoping he takes some of this panache along with him.

He then opens his kitchen in LA and invites concerned parents of the LAUSD to stop by and listen to his sell. Their children bring their school lunches to Oliver, who takes each lunch and castigates the school’s food program for serving students “airplane food.”

It doesn’t take long for Oliver, the parents and even the audience to become enraged with the food administration: How can it let elementary-school children eat garbage and pass it off for lunch?

Oliver seems hopeful that he will save the kids of LA from the monstrous tyrant of inorganic packaged food. The parents are with him, and he has reason, facts and motivation, not to mention a tad bit of sass, on his side. But when he ventures to a school lunch convention, he is appalled to find that it condones and promotes unhealthy eating habits that have been proven to lead to obesity and diabetes. Oliver appeals once again to the superintendent of the LAUSD to let him enter its schools, but his efforts prove unsuccessful, as he is mired down in the district bureaucracy and cannot

get a meeting with the food administration director.

Although it is a reality show, almost nowhere in “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” is there an impression of the scripted “reality” found in such programs as “The Amazing Race” or “The Real World.” This is a genuine attempt to revolutionize the way the children of America eat.

“Revolution” succeeds in shocking some sensibility back into the American viewership and the people Oliver encounters along the way. It’s frightening to think that the food consumed by the majority of Americans is what is making us sick and diseased and that there is little support from our local or federal governments to stop it in its track.

The fact that LAUSD is seemingly reluctant to work with Oliver and consider a change is infuriating and disheartening.

Jamie Oliver, partially through sarcasm and comic lines, plainly informs us that young America is on a one-way track to health problems, and it won’t change unless there’s a food revolution. For those who lead hectic daily lives, healthy eating generally go to the wayside, but Oliver makes it immensely clear that our priorities need to change.

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Jamie Oliver fires up some healthy fare on the new season of ‘Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.’

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Tufts should offer gender-neutral housing Students Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE) earlier this semester submitted a proposal to the administration for the creation of gender-neutral housing at Tufts.

The proposal, titled “Recommendations for Gender Neutral Housing at Tufts” outlined an “option in which two or more students may share a multiple-occupancy bedroom, in mutual agreement, regardless of the students’ sex or gender.”

While the administration seems to have put the proposal on the backburner, for the remainder of this semester at least, we at the Daily believe Tufts should implement gender-neutral housing because it would carry a myriad of benefits for students both within and outside the LGBT community. Perhaps most importantly, gender-neutral housing would provide a safe, inclusive environment for transgender students, a population that — albeit small — is far too often segregated from the rest of the Tufts community.

Currently, the housing options for transgender students are too limited, especially for freshman students.

Explicitly listed options for freshman students who identify as transgender include either living in a single occupancy room or sharing a room with someone of the same legal gender. This means that transgender students who wish to live

with a roommate their freshman year — a fundamental part of the freshman living experience — must enter into a housing situation that is potentially fraught with awkwardness and conflict. Students who identify with any segment of the LGBT community should not be forced to choose between the isolating experience of living in a single and the uncomfortable experience of sharing a room with a potentially hostile stranger.

If freshmen were able to opt into gender-neutral housing, it would far decrease the likelihood that transgender students in their first year at Tufts — indeed all freshman LGBT students — would be paired with a roommate who does not accept their lifestyle. Beyond the first year, upperclassmen would also benefit from the inclusion of a gender-neutral housing option. Currently, mixed-gender housing on campus is limited to the 10 students who occupy the Rainbow House, the Hillsides Apartments suite organized by the LGBT Center. This is not nearly big enough to meet the needs of all students who would choose to live in gender-neutral housing, a population that not only includes individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered but to the straight community as well.

Additionally, choosing to live in the Rainbow House constitutes an overt admission of one’s affiliation with the LGBT community. To be sure, the Rainbow House is open to both LGBT students and straight students allied with the LGBT community, yet students should not be forced to publicly admit their affiliation with the community in order to partake in a mixed-gender living environment.

Gender-neutral housing would provide a living experience that is more inclusive and less self-segregating than the Rainbow House, and it would provide LGBT students with a living environment that still meets their needs but that isn’t so restricted to the LGBT community.

Several other universities, including Brandeis University and Connecticut College, have implemented gender-neutral housing programs that could provide models for a program here at Tufts. These programs give students the flexibility to live with whomever they choose without forcing them to identify with a particular on-campus group.

Tufts is a university that prides itself on its diverse student body, and the creation of a gender-neutral housing option is a logical step toward including — rather than segregating — students of all lifestyles.

Police Department (TUPD) is even aware of crime reports from the Davis T stop. Criticize the alert for vagueness if you must (in which case you should take issue with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Transit Police too), but any criticism of jurisdiction is off-base.

I have received a number of safety alerts over the past four years and I do not believe TUPD is misusing the system. With the possible exception of the April 1 alert, I do not remember any alert that was obviously frivolous at the time it was issued. And I have yet to see the flood of alerts that your editorial

page fears will trivialize the safety alert system. Two emails in two weeks does not a trend make.

The editorial seems to decry a problem that has yet to happen. Yes, students should be vigilant about crime by virtue of going to an urban campus, and an occasional email reminder of that doesn’t hurt. Shelve this editorial until a time when TUPD actually floods student inboxes with the daily crime logs of Medford and Somerville.

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In his address to the American people on the crisis in Libya, delivered on Monday, March 28, President Barack Obama claimed, “For generations, the United States of America has played a unique role as an anchor of global security and as an advocate for human freedom.” This assertion by our commander-in-chief is not far from the truth but it is quite misleading. The continuing uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa have been a test of American foreign policy. Some say we have acted swiftly and appropriately while others won’t stop criticizing American actions. However, the fact is that our actions have presented a dichotomy and to many, appear to reveal American hypocrisy.

Our intervention in Libya was and continues to be painted as a humanitarian mission. In the same address on Libya, Obama said, “Our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives. We knew that if we … waited even one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could have suffered a massacre that could have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.” Many may point out that these humanitarian values were absent while atrocities were being committed in Rwanda, Sudan and the Congo.

However, Obama said that he “refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.”

To many liberals, Obama seemed to embody the humanitarian we’ve all been waiting for in our president. Realistically though, our actions in Libya look more like a symbolic, political move. Obama is attempting to show solidarity with the protesters and our commitment to democracy, freedom and justice. This tactic is being employed to cover our real intentions and goals: maintaining the status quo in which the United States is dominant in that region.

Ever since 2003, when President George W. Bush managed to negotiate with Libyan dictator Col. Muammar [el-]Qaddafi and rid him of his nuclear capabilities, Libya has had little, if any, political importance. Yes, Qaddafi provided intelligence and aided the United States in the “War on Terror,” but the presence of a pro- or anti-America leader won’t destabilize Africa or the greater Arab world.

Additionally, although Libya’s oil deposits are large, they are not vital. After all, when oil markets began to get skittish in February, the Saudis assured the United States they had enough in their reserves to cover Libya’s normal daily production of 1.6 million barrels during the predicted months of unrest.

Washington’s most recent mingling in a destabilized Arab country was seen [earlier this month] with the United States’ intervention in Yemen, where the Obama administration seeks to end President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year reign. Although Obama’s cabinet has not been quoted as denouncing the Yemeni government’s violent reaction to protests, it would not be too far-fetched to think they hope that trying to end Saleh’s reign will be seen as another gesture of pro-democratic and humanitarian values.

Negotiations are most likely taking place so as to assure him that he can count on gaining political exile to the Caribbean island of his choice with enough money to live lavishly. And this is after the country

has had unsettling uprisings for the past two months and many deaths at the hands of security forces loyal to Saleh. BBC News conservatively put the toll at more than 100, while some nongovernmental organizations such as Amnesty International put the number near 100 as of April 5.

Obama’s administration tried to wait it out with Saleh. As [T]he New York Times reported, the administration “refrained from directly criticizing him in public, because he was considered a critical ally in fighting the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda.” In spite of the administration’s patience in the past, the move to oust Saleh comes at a time when Saleh is increasingly authorizing extremely violent and repressive measures against demonstrators. However, what truly has lead the Americans to “flop” on their longtime ally is the fact that Saleh “has lost allies, the army is split, the government has lost control of entire areas of the country and the economy is collapsing,” according to the BBC. This bears a candid resemblance to what occurred in Egypt only two months ago.

Hosni Mubarak, like many of his fellow former Middle Eastern dictators, was in a tense situation, with millions of protestors in several cities including Cairo, Alexandria and Aswan demanding his exit. Things became chaotic for Mubarak when pro-government forces, thugs and police in plain clothes began attacking the peaceful anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo.

Surprisingly enough, Egypt’s army, an institution that has historically been in sync with Mubarak’s hardline policies, showed its support in favor of the common folk. It proved to be vitally important to the protesters’ protection against such violence and became a huge factor in analyzing the possibility of a post-Mubarak government.

Such calculations of power relations within the country were being carried out by the usual suspects, namely the United States, Britain and France. Thus, with mounting international pressure, Mubarak saw his exit from power on Feb. 11. Ironically, the government left in his place still employs the services of his former ministers.

The proof of this dichotomy in foreign policy, though, lies in the United States’ support for the extremely autocratic and violent regimes that control Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. In both countries, the popular uprisings have been systematically repressed. In mid-March, Saudi Arabia, a Sunni monarchy, sent troops into the island to support the Bahraini government. And although the United States has criticized the move, it dared not press too hard as relations were already strained after King Abdullah expressed his disdain for Obama’s apparent abandonment of Mubarak, who, like Abdullah, was a long-time ally of the United States. Obama’s administration has been even less inclined to comment on its allies’ little remorse for shooting protesters in the streets. Ahmad Chalabi, a Shiite member of the Iraqi Parliament, “denounced what he called a double standard in the Western powers’ response to the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East,” according to [T]he New York Times.

What the Iraqi Parliament member failed to recognize is that politics are dirty and that these two nations — Bahrain and Saudi Arabia — are vital to the region’s political and economic stability. Calling for regime change in either Saudi Arabia or Bahrain

would cause severe problems not only for the United States, but also the world.

Putting aside the obvious facts that Saudi Arabia is the world’s leading oil producer and that Bahrain is home to the United States Navy’s Fifth Fleet, containment of Iran and its mullahs is a key goal of American policy for the Middle East. We all know the fall of Ahmadinejad is one of the United States’ deeply coveted goals. Seeing power change hands in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia would leave the Middle East’s power arena with one major actor, Iran. Among the things that would certainly occur, include a war on Israel — a nation that is unquestionably an American ally — and even more frightening, Iran would have a nuclear warhead built in a matter of months. Thus, these two countries are extremely important pieces in the chess game of Middle Eastern power relations.

The United States was also considering the effects of its interventions in Egypt, Libya and Yemen would have on Iran. The New York Times quoted Benjamin J. Rhodes, a senior aide to Obama: “The ability to apply this kind of force in the region this quickly — even as we deal with other military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan — combined with the nature of this broad coalition — sends a very strong message to Iran about our capabilities, militarily and diplomatically.” Evidently, the United States is trying to send a message to Iran. This message is clear: Do not take actions that will threaten the status quo, or we will have no choice but to intervene.

In Yemen, some read between the lines as a New York Times article pointed out that “criticism of the United States for failing to publicly support Yemen’s protesters has been loudest here, where the protesters insist the United States’ only concern is counterterrorism.”

This may prove true. According to [T]he New York Times, “American intelligence officials have collected information from informants and electronic intercepts that Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen has increased planning discussions about another attack.”These developments are a result of the chaotic security conditions in the Arabian Peninsula and they are instigating fierce debates in Washington. The quicker Saleh leaves office the better, though, because the unrest will not be quelled until he’s gone. However, the Obama administration has made it clear that they won’t support — or even permit the ascendance of — any Yemeni leader that didn’t agree with the American policy of hunting down [al-Qaeda] and other fundamentalist groups in Yemen.

In the case of Libya, Obama defended his decision to attack Qaddafi’s forces by claiming, “The democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power.”

He should not be so vain and treat us like children the next time he tries to justify another intervention. He ought to strip the romantic notions of spreading democracy from our actions in Egypt, Libya and any future troubled Arab countries like possibly Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The ideals of democracy, freedom, justice and human rights only really exist where we allow them to. The truth of the situation in the Middle East is simple: [M]oral concerns may very well be superseded by practical ones.

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Trump card: Poll shows name recognition matters by the

Alligator Editorial Board Daily Florida Alligator

We understand the limitations of polls and know they can easily go awry through any number of errors. And we’re hoping every possible error converged when CNN conducted its poll on who Republicans and Republicanleaning independents think should win the party nomination.

Sitting at the top of the list were Mike Huckabee and — we’re having trouble just writing this — Donald Trump.

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For now, we’re consoling ourselves by remembering that it’s very early in a race with no clear frontrunners. Maybe people are relying on name recognition right now but aren’t yet ready to make a decision that will stand months down the road.

Part of us, however, wonders if the people polled weren’t sincere in their trust of a man who is more famous for his wives, bankruptcies, stupid TV show slogan and ridiculous hair than for his political viewpoints. It is also alarming that people are saying they would con-

sider voting for someone who may be talking about throwing his name in the ring solely to get publicity for a TV show.

Maybe we misunderstood the last few years. Do Republicans want Obama to get another stint in office? This question extends beyond even the nonsensical Trump campaign. With the possible Republican candidates, we’re finding that name recognition is overriding any other qualifications they bring to the table. We just don’t want another president the world would laugh at us for. Is that too much to ask?

Transition to transfeminism

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o branch off of my discussion of semiology and the unstable signifier “woman,” this column will address transfeminism. Historically, various strands of feminism, from radical separatist lesbian feminism to Marxist to cyberfeminism, have all shaped today’s version. Throughout the critiques and tweaks, the question of what is a woman comes up and results in the exclusion of trans women and leads to transphobic rhetoric leveled against them. The late radical feminist Mary Daly described trans people as “Frankensteinian” in “Gyn/Ecology” (1978), professor Janice Raymond asserts that trans women partake in a patriarchal intrigue to subvert feminism in “The Transsexual Empire” (1979), and Germaine Greer, a prominent voice of second-wave feminist discourse, characterized trans women as a “ghastly parody” in a 2009 Guardian piece. Need I continue?

Although feminism asserts that biology is not destiny, a narrow-minded perspective colors much of mainstream feminism. In the newsmagazine In These Times, feminist historian Hanne Blank notes that “Transfolk, increasingly numerous, loud and proud, are calling our bluff.” Feminists cannot ignore their hypocrisy in perpetuating an oppressive essentialism vis-a-vis trans people. In response, transfeminism, following in the footsteps of the work that women of color have done with an intersectional approach, moves beyond an essential account of “woman,” allowing for the inclusion of transsexual and intersexual women, and “embodies feminist coalition politics in which women from different backgrounds stand up for each other,” according to social justice activist Emi Koyama’s “The Transfeminist Manifesto.” Pointing out that “women should not be accused of reinforcing gender stereotypes for making personal decisions, even if these decisions comply with certain gender roles,” the article critiques lazy transphobic thinking of feminists like Julie Bindel, who disparage transsexuality as a reification of the gender binary. Those like Bindel fail to realize the importance of “passing” and that trans individuals have to operate under the same system of socially constructed gender norms and that external forces do impose strictures on them. Trans women cannot be faulted for expressing stereotypical “femininity” just as cisgender women cannot be either.

In addition, transfeminism goes one step further than feminism in contesting essentialism, considering both sex and gender as social constructs. In “Sexing the Body” (2000), feminist biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, focusing particularly on intersexuals, demonstrates the variance that nature produces in terms of bodies. Our society lacks sex and gender signifiers for those whose anatomy screws with the “natural” characteristics of males and females. Transfeminism recognizes this to the full extent and concerns itself with “the right to define ourselves from medical, religious and political authorities” as Koyama notes.

Another contention leveled against trans folk revolves around them benefitting from male privilege as a result of the opposition’s faulty grasp of intersectionality and their ignorance of the trans experience. To address such a criticism, Koyama points to the intersection of male privilege and transphobia, that despite certain advantages of the former, the latter certainly disadvantages a trans individual. Trying to quantify intersecting forms of oppression for comparison is a simple-minded and fruitless endeavor. Doing so divides and distracts the movement from the issues at hand Other issues I can only briefly mention are the necessity of reframing reproductive justice to include queer people, of addressing health care options and availability, and the heightened violence and incarceration of trans people, considering the intersection of homophobia, transphobia, socioeconomic status, homelessness, survival tactics, including robbery and sex work, etc.

In sum, transfeminism can widen the scope of feminism to become more inclusive and effective.

Elisha Sum is a senior majoring in English and French. He can be reached at Elisha.

Sum@tufts.edu.

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Fantastic 14: Tufts breaks NESCAC-era winning streak record by

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After a doubleheader sweep of nonconference foe UMass-Dartmouth yesterday and a three-game sweep of Colby BASEBALL (17-4-1, 9-0 NESCAC East) at North Dartmouth, Mass., Monday Tufts 16 UMass-Dartmouth 1

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this weekend, the baseball team extended its winning streak to 14, its best since at least 2000.

Tufts beat UMass-Dartmouth 16-1 and 4-3 yesterday in North Dartmouth, Mass. But the Jumbos’ sweep of the Mules was more important to a team looking to repeat as NESCAC champions.

On paper, the weekend matchup between undefeated Tufts (17-4-1 overall, 9-0 NESCAC) and winless Colby (10-14, 0-6) seemed a mismatch. But by sundown on Friday, it was clear the Jumbos would not roll out of Waterville, Maine, with a much-needed sweep unless they stepped up their game.

Tufts was up to the task and, with a determined effort, clinched a berth in

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Senior centerfielder David Orlowitz, shown here in a game earlier this month, was an integral part of Tufts’ 10-4 win over Colby Saturday. the NESCAC tournament and is two wins against Bowdoin away from the East division’s No. 1 seed.

The Jumbos saved their best for last in the series against Colby, putting forth a strong performance at the plate, on the

mound and in the field to take the finale by a final score of 10-4.

But even that game didn’t start smoothly. Senior co-captain shortstop David LeResche, senior centerfielder David Orlowitz and junior co-captain third base-

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man Sam Sager each singled to start the game — a scenario that under most circumstances would almost certainly lead to at least one run. But LeResche was thrown see BASEBALL, page 14

Men’s Lacrosse

Jumbos overcome early deficit to top Camels by

Kate Klots

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It wasn’t pretty, but the formerly No. 1 — now No. 4 — men’s lacrosse team, sparked MEN’S LACROSSE (9-0, 6-0 NESCAC) at Bello Field, Saturday Tufts Conn.

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Junior attackman Lara Kozin leads the NESCAC in points and assists.

Jumbos smoke Camels for eighth win in previous nine games by

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The women’s lacrosse team’s five-game winning streak earlier this year saw the team cataWOMEN’S LACROSSE (9-3, 5-2 NESCAC) at New London, Conn., Saturday Tufts 9 Conn. 3

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pult up the NESCAC standings.

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wins against non-conference opponents earlier last week, the team dominated Conn.

College Saturday 13-7 on the road; the Jumbos are on their way to another hot stretch heading into the final portion of the season.

Though the Camels brought a 0-6 conference record into the matchup, Conn. College was far from a pushover. The team had already pushed Amherst to overtime in conference play, and fell by only one goal to Bowdoin. The Jumbos

could not have afforded to take the Camels lightly.

“We have the same warmup for every game, and we always want to try to remain focused,” junior attackman Lara Kozin said. “We don’t really care who we’re playing; we just have to stay composed and play hard, no matter who the opponent is.”

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by a run of five unanswered goals that started late in the second quarter and continued throughout a dominating third quarter, was able to gut out a 6-5 win Saturday at Bello Field against Conn. College, the team that ruined the Jumbos’ bid for a perfect season last year.

Tufts fell behind 3-0 in front of the home crowd, and sluggishly went into half down 3-1, with a goal from senior quad-captain attackman Ryan Molloy as the lone Tufts tally against a Conn. College team content to slow down the pace of the game. But Tufts came out with newfound intensity in the second half, dominating the Camels 4-0 in the third frame and ultimately avenging last year’s only loss, an 8-6 defeat to the Camels.

“In the first half, they outstrapped us,” freshman goalie Patton Watkins said. “They got more of the groundballs and

just pretty much out-hustled us. At halftime we got really pumped up and decided, ‘No more. This team’s not going to work harder than us. We’re not going to be outworked in the second half.’”

Conn. College, which was unranked but received votes in the latest United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) coaches poll, held a decisive advantage Saturday when it came to possession; the Camels captured 30 groundballs to the Jumbos’ 19 and ran an effective settled offense for much of the contest. Meanwhile, Tufts struggled with possession for much of the game.

Yet gutsy efforts from junior attackman Sean Kirwan and senior quad-captain attackman D.J. Hessler, who together led Tufts with three points apiece, allowed the Jumbos to eke by a threatening Camel team led by senior tri-captain midfielders Eric Doran and Mark Mangano and sophomore midfielder Mike Giambanco.

Tufts dug itself into a hole early after Doran’s man-up score gave the Camels the first tally of the contest less than five minutes in. Mangano and Doran added two more goals for the Camels, and sophomore goalkeeper John Lenehan kept the Tufts offense at bay with see MEN’S LACROSSE, page 15

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Jumbos suffer first-ever NESCAC series loss to Polar Bears by

Zachey Kliger

Senior Staff Writer

With the NESCAC East regular-season title — and with it the right to host the conference championships — still SOFTBALL (14-14, 4-2 NESCAC East) at Brunswick, Maine, Saturday Tufts Bowdoin

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very much up for grabs, Tufts could not afford to give up ground on its trip to Bowdoin this weekend. The Jumbos had reason to be confident, given that they had never dropped a series to the Polar Bears in the 10-year history of the NESCAC. But after a pair of gems tossed by freshman Melissa DellaTorre, Tufts came away with just one win out of three and sent the division into chaos in the process. With the losing series, the Jumbos fell to 14-14 overall, but more importantly, 4-2 in the NESCAC. Bowdoin, meanwhile, improved to 17-14 on the season, with 6-3 mark against NESCAC opponents. The two squads will likely be in a three-horse race with Trinity for the NESCAC East title and the division’s two playoff spots.

Both Tufts losses this weekend came by just one run, to a Bowdoin team that entered the game riding a nine-game winning streak while boasting a perfect 5-0 record at home. The Jumbos dropped the series opener 5-4 and the finale 2-1.

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Sophomore second baseman Emily Beinecke had her best offensive weekend of the season this weekend against Bowdoin.

Men’s Tennis

Doubles pairings lead the way in close victory over Colby

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After a close loss to nonconference foe MIT last Wednesday, the men’s tennis MEN’S TENNIS (8-5, 2-2 NESCAC) Medford, Mass., Sunday Amherst Tufts

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team was looking to bounce back this weekend in NESCAC matchups against Colby and Amherst. The Jumbos earned a split, defeating Colby 5-4 on Friday but falling 8-1 to No. 4 Amherst on Sunday.

The Amherst contest started outdoors on the Voute Courts, but was ultimately moved indoors to the fast surface of the Gantcher Center because of rain. In the doubles matches, the Jumbos lost two competitive tilts at the No. 1 and No. 3 spots, with the top pairing of junior Kai Victoria and sophomore Andrew Lutz losing in an 8-6 battle. Sophomore Mark Kahan and junior Andrew Jung of Amherst broke the Jumbos’ serve at 6-6 and 15-40, before holding their own hold serve to seal the victory.

“Kai and I were definitely struggling to execute with the tough, windy conditions outside,” Lutz said. “We felt

more confident going indoors at Gantcher, because we were used to the courts and they weren’t.”

Despite the loss, the Jumbos felt that the match was within their grasp.

“Kai and I were a little off on our volleys and overheads, but it was a matter of executing, and we were right there,” Lutz said.

The lone win for the Jumbos came from Sam Laber at the No. 6 singles spot, as the junior dropped the first set but surged back to win 6-7 (5), 6-4, 10-5.

But even though they were blown out by Amherst, the weekend was far from a disaster, as the team pulled out a critical victory over Colby on Friday, a team that it is directly competing with for one of six NESCAC playoff spots. The Jumbos were boosted by strong performances in the doubles matches, with the No. 1 pairing of Lutz and Victoria defeating Colby’s Matt Carroll and Jack Bryant, 8-6. The Jumbos No. 2 pairing of junior co-captain Morrie Bossen and sophomore Mark Westerfield also contributed a big victory, taking the match in a tiebreaker 9-8.

In singles, the Jumbos were helped by strong performances from freshman Austin Blau, who won at the No. 5 singles spot, 7-5, 6-0, and classmate Pat Monaghan, who won at the No. 3 spot, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.

In addition, sophomore Ben Barad put in a solid performance at No. 2 singles, winning his match 6-1, 6-1.

“The win against Colby was huge for us,” senior co-captain Paul Kohnstamm said. “Colby is the number eight in the NESCAC and we’re the seventh, and only the top six make it to the NESCAC tournament, so it was a big stepping stone for us to get the win against them.”

Both freshmen, Blau and Monaghan, came back from injuries earlier in the season to contribute, with Blau recovering from a broken finger, and Monaghan shaking off back problems.

“Pat had a back injury earlier in the season, and he really stepped up as a freshman with the season on the line. We are going to need him and everyone else against Trinity to get into the NESCAC tournament,” Kohnstamm said.

The Jumbos (8-5 overall, 2-2 NESCAC) attributed the weekend split to improved confidence, and believe that it will continue to serve them well in their home match against Trinity on Thursday.

“Our team’s attitude has changed since last year,” Lutz said. “Last year we had lots of doubt, so we would go into big matches and lose, and it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. This year we are a changed team, and we know going into the Trinity match that they are the favorite, but they lost a couple of players from last year and … are definitely a beatable team.

It would be a huge win for us.”

Weather permitting, the matches will begin at 4 p.m.

Thursday on the Voute Courts.

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The Vick conundrum

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Sophomore attackman Kerry Eaton was one of two Jumbos to finish with four goals Saturday against Colby.

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by netting five unanswered goals in the first ten minutes of play, including two each from juniors Steph Perez, an attackman, and Casey Egan, a midfielder.

And although Conn. College responded with three goals of its own, Tufts added three more late, heading into halftime with a commanding 9-3 advantage.

“We know that we can’t let the other team go on runs,” freshman attackman Gabby Horner said. “If they score a couple goals, the attack knows that we have to respond immediately; we can’t just let them keep going. If they score, we just shake it off and know that we have to get the next goal.”

All through the second half, Tufts kept a healthy margin on the scoreboard.

Senior midfielder Abby Hill scored just 16 seconds into the half to give Conn.

College some life, but Tufts quickly scored the next three goals, pushing its lead to 12-4 and effectively putting the game away.

The Jumbos were boosted by more stellar performances from their stars, with Perez and sophomore attackman Kerry Eaton both netting four goals apiece.

But without a doubt the standout per-

former was once again junior attackman Lara Kozin, who added to her teamleading points total with two goals and five assists.

“Lara is just an amazing player,” Horner said. “She’s really a team player, so you know that if you make the right cut, you’ll get the ball. If she doesn’t have the run, she’ll always look to pass it, and she has just played amazing these last few games.”

“We’re trying to get better and better. ... As long as we come out hard and stay focused, stick to our fundamentals and stick to playing smart, we can go really far this season.”

Lara Kozin junior attackman

Kozin, who was coming off a sevenassist performance against Endicott on April 14 that broke the Tufts record for

assists in a game, now has 25 goals and 29 assists on the season. Those marks are good for the NESCAC lead in points and assists.

Kozin has undoubtedly been the focal point of a Tufts offense, which has scored at least 10 goals in all but one game this season, and her ability to find her teammates in the offensive zone has only improved game by game.

“As the season progresses, you start to feel more and more comfortable with how your teammates play,” Kozin said.

“You know when they are going to make a move, and you can really start to feed off others on the attack.”

The Jumbos will have little time to savor the victory, as they will hit the road on Thursday for a matchup with nonconference opponent Wheaton. The most important upcoming matchups, though, will undoubtedly be the last two games of the season, against Middlebury and Bowdoin at home. All three squads will be looking to improve their seeding for the NESCAC tournament.

“We’re trying to get better and better,” Kozin said. “As long as we come out hard and stay focused, stick to our fundamentals and stick to playing smart, we can go really far this season.”

NESCAC Players of the Week

Three Jumbos earn POTW honors Three Tufts athletes were named NESCAC Players of the Week yesterday in their respective sports. Here’s a rundown: Baseball centerfielder David Orlowitz Orlowitz had no trouble reaching base or clearing the bases during the Jumbos’ weekend sweep over the Colby Mules.

The senior collected four hits and walked five times in his 14 plate appearances, driving in four runs along the way. Three of those RBIs came on a triple with the bases loaded, which keyed Tufts’ 10-run output in the finale.

Orlowitz now ranks third among the Jumbos’ starters with a .306 batting average and has reached base in more than half of his trips to the plate (.507).

In fact, dating back to Tufts’ 13-0 win

against Trinity on April 8, Orlowitz has logged a remarkable .571 on-base percentage. If he had enough at-bats to qualify for the NESCAC leader board, Orlowitz’s .507 on-base percentage would rank fourth in the conference.

Lacrosse attackman Lara Kozin The junior has been in incredible form in recent weeks, boasting 17 assists over the last three games, including a Tuftsrecord seven in the team’s 19-10 victory on April 14 over Endicott College. Kozin now leads the team in points and assists by far, boasting marks of 54 and 29 in the respective categories, while her next closest teammates sit at 42 and 15.

Kozin also now leads the NESCAC in points, points per game and assists and

has also scored a pair of goals in each of her last three games.

Track runner Amy Wilfert The track and field team now boasts two consecutive NESCAC Players of the Week, as senior Amy Wilfert was able to follow up freshman Jana Hieber’s efforts and earn the honor, thanks to her dominating performance in the 5,000 meters at the MIT Invitational this past Saturday.

Wilfert, who finished with a time of 17:38.31, bested her next-closest competitor by over 16 seconds and blew away a field that included 25 other runners. Wilfert fell just 3.31 short of the NCAA provisional qualifying time.

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ew off-the-field achievements exemplify an athlete’s success and influence like an appearance on the cover of the “Madden NFL” franchise. Consider it the technological equivalent of the MVP trophy; if you succeed on the field, then EA Sports will find a place for you atop the wildly popular and successful video game.

In past installments, EA selected the cover athlete. For “Madden NFL 12,” however, the company opened up voting to the fans. A 32-player bracket was created and the votes poured in. Each first-round matchup received an average of 427,862 votes. Like March Madness, upsets ruled: San Francisco linebacker Patrick Willis, a seven seed, was the only defensive player to advance to the Elite Eight. Ninth-seeded Adrian Peterson bested first seed Philip Rivers and ultimately reached the Final Four. Tenth-seeded Peyton Hillis took down second-seeded Matt Ryan and is now in the finals, the results of which will be announced live on April 27 on ESPN2.

The Cleveland Browns bruiser, that downto-earth star from Arkansas with the Christian roots and the boyish charm, could become the first white non-quarterback to appear on the cover. It would represent a victory for the common man, for the blue-collar, hardworking Americans obsessed with notions of “scrappy” and “giving 110 percent.”

Or the cover could go to Michael Vick.

The burning you smell is PETA spontaneously combusting.

The story, along with the canine-related puns, has been beaten into the ground by now. Michael Vick was part of a dog-fighting ring. Michael Vick was charged with a felony.

Michael Vick served 19 months in prison.

The Philadelphia Eagles signed Michael Vick upon his release. Michael Vick took the NFL by storm to the tune of consecutive playoff appearances and the rejuvenation of his electrifying half-arm, half-bazooka.

If Hillis were up against any other player, it would be simple: You either like Hillis better or you don’t. Insert Vick into the equation, and everything becomes muddled. Guns come out blazing as sides get drawn. Voting for Vick is a vote for excitement. Voting for Hillis equates to social consciousness.

The question is whether a business whose sole objective is to sell copies and make millions should be an exemplar of moral purity.

Is “Madden” within its rights to deny Vick a second cover appearance because his illegal activities prevent him from ever being a positive role model? Does forgiveness extend into the gaming realm as well?

Vick, as a No. 3 seed, breezed into the championship matchup with Hillis. He took out DeMarcus Ware by 52 percentage points, Andre Johnson by 24, Patrick Willis by 22 and Adrian Peterson by 18. The margin of victory is narrowing for the NFL’s most polarizing figure.

The general argument against Vick seems to be that dog-killing outweighs success.

Appearing on the “Madden NFL” cover is a glamorous award, one that opens the athlete to the highest level of idolatry. But should the millions of American children who will line up on August 30 to buy the latest edition regardless of the cover athlete worship a convicted felon?

Maybe we should trust today’s youth to separate the good from evil, to recognize Vick’s wrongdoings as wholly separate from his gaudy passing stats and heart-pounding scrambles. We act as though purchasing “Madden” is a cultural necessity and that having the game means having friends.

The Helen Lovejoys will scream, “Won’t somebody please think of the children,” as though the message that anything is acceptable so long as you’re a good football player will actively poison kids’ minds.

Boycotting a second Vick cover is still a viable option, but it would accomplish about as much as a sternly worded letter demanding that EA stamp “Convicted Felon” beside Vick. People will buy the game, regardless; that much is certain.

Or maybe, given the haunting history of injuries associated with cover athletes, naysayers should just vote for Vick anyway and hope the Madden Curse strikes again.

Alex Prewitt is a junior majoring in English and religion. He can be reached at Alexander.Prewitt@tufts.edu. His blog is livefrommudville.blogspot.com.

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out at the plate on Sager’s hit, followed by senior designated hitter Chase Rose and junior catcher Matt Collins both making unproductive outs to end the inning.

“We definitely fought ourselves at times,” senior pitcher Ed Bernstein said.

“But we battled and found a way to get things done.”

It didn’t take long to do so, as the Jumbos put up a three-spot an inning later and followed with another in the third.

Sophomore first baseman Eric Weikert started4.9˝ both of those rallies with a single bility ad 4/5/11 x 3.9˝ and came around to score both times.

Senior second baseman Frank Petroskey drove in the first run of the game on a single of his own, and the Jumbos pushed their other two second-inning runs across when Orlowitz was hit by a pitch and Rose walked with the bases loaded.

When Orlowitz came up with the bases loaded again in the third, he made sure that

Earlier in the series, the Jumbos were involved in a pair of much tighter affairs.

They grabbed a 3-0 lead in the second inning of the seven-inning middle match, taking advantage of an error and a runscoring wild pitch. Sager plated the other two runs with a double.

Junior starter Dave Ryan made that lead stand up through four, but a catcher’s interference error, a passed ball by Collins and a wild pitch by Ryan helped catalyze a tworun rally for Colby.

Tufts was able to manufacture the winning run in the top of the sixth, when Goldberg walked, sophomore first baseman Tom Howard laid down a sacrifice bunt and LeResche picked up his second RBI of the game on a single.

An error by Petroskey enabled the Mules to post an unearned run in the sixth against Bernstein, but the senior stopped the bleeding there to earn his third save of the season. He also added three strikeouts, upping his team-high total to 26 in 16 1/3 innings after the 4-3 win.

Ryan had the unique distinction of starting game two after he finished game one, claiming two victories in the process. The righty is now 5-0 and has taken over the NESCAC lead in wins.

On the heels of two flawless performances against Bates and Trinity, junior pitcher Kevin Gilchrist struggled on Friday. He was tagged with seven runs (four earned) on seven hits, a walk and two hit batsmen. But the offense had Gilchrist’s back, ensuring that he wouldn’t also be saddled with a loss.

The teams traded four-spots in the first before the Jumbos surged ahead with a tworun second and three-run third. Weikert and LeResche each had two hits, while Sager chipped in a couple of RBIs. Yet the Mules kept chipping away at the lead, scoring in each of the first five innings and tying the game in the seventh.

Freshman Christian Sbily and Lambert held Colby to just two runs (one earned) over their six innings of long-relief, but the offense couldn’t solve Mules freshman Lucas Geoghegan to put Colby away. As twilight set over Coombs Field, the game was tied at 9-9 after nine innings and wouldn’t

Colby starter Nathanael Sugarbaker paid a much steeper price. The senior cleared the bases with a triple, giving Tufts a four-run lead it would not relinquish.

Senior starting pitcher Derek Miller wasn’t perfect, allowing four runs on five hits and five walks while striking out six in six innings, but thanks to the offense, he didn’t need to be, and improved to 2-1 on the season. Freshman reliever Dean Lambert contributed three shutout frames to slam the door.

The Jumbos added three more runs in the fifth inning, sparked by a leadoff single from senior Ian Goldberg and a walk drawn by Petroskey. Sophomore transfer Nate Izzo then put down a sacrifice bunt attempt, which Sugarbaker played into a triple with a critical error that allowed both runs to score. LeResche cashed Izzo in with a sacrifice fly.

Tufts added one more run in the eighth inning, producing a double-digit output for the sixth time this spring.

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But the Jumbos were unfazed.

“The way we looked at it was the same as if we were just playing the normal doubleheader,” Howard said. “The only difference was that we were going to have to play 17 innings instead of 16. Nothing changed in our preparation. We just wanted to go out and take three games.”

“Going into the series, Coach [John] Casey emphasized that we continue to play the way we’ve been taught to play. … When we were able to do that, things went our way and we were able to have success.”

Tom Howard sophomore first baseman They took care of business quickly in the 10th inning. Rose was hit by a pitch, Goldberg doubled him home and Howard gave Tufts an insurance run with a single.

That’s when Ryan took the mound, pulling double duty as a closer and a starter. He pitched a scoreless inning, leaving the final score at 11-9.

“Going into the series, Coach [John] Casey emphasized that we continue to play the way we’ve been taught to play,” Howard said. “When we were able to do that, things went our way and we were able to have success.”

The Jumbos won’t have time to savor the sweep, as they have seven more games to play this week. Two of those games — against Daniel Webster on Thursday and Bentley on Friday — will take place at Huskins Field.

“We’re all really excited for this week,” Bernstein said. “I can’t think of anything we’d rather be doing than going out there every day and playing baseball.”

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four saves in the first quarter.

“The first half was a case of a hot goalie and a team that liked to slow the ball down,” Kirwan said. “We weren’t getting the best looks at first and we had a little bit of an off-day finishing.”

In the second quarter, Tufts quadcaptain attackman Ryan Molloy had the only score of the period, on a feed from Hessler. Facing a 3-1 halftime deficit, the Jumbos were in danger of losing both their second game in five days and their grip on the top seed in the NESCAC. But three goals from Kirwan, including two off feeds from Hessler, helped put Tufts up 5-3. The Jumbos never looked back.

“The key thing was that we needed to stick to what we’re good at and what we do well,” Kirwan said. “I think we did that to the maximum in the third quarter, and we were confident with our decisions.

“It was just being patient on offense,” he added. “We like to push the ball but at the same time we have to understand what’s a solid look and what’s not, and that’s something that we were able to pick up as we went on.”

Conn. College did not go down without a fight, however, and following a Tufts goal from senior quad-captain midfielder Matt Witko, Camels sophomore attackman John Lyons scored with 3:55 remaining to close the gap to one.

With less than five seconds left, Watkins, facing a man-up Conn. College unit, made one of the biggest saves of his short collegiate career. The freshman stuffed Doran’s top left-corner shot, securing possession, and the win, for the Jumbos.

Watkins finished the day with a stellar 13 saves, while John Lenehan backed up a staunch Conn. defense with 15 of his own.

Junior midfielder Nick Rhoads won eight of 15 faceoffs for the Jumbos, and Rhoads and senior quad-captain Alec Bialosky led the Jumbos with three groundballs each.

A strong Jumbos defense stepped up in the wake of Tufts’ offensive frustrations and tied its season-low for goals allowed.

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Senior quad-captain Alec Bialosky led the Jumbos with three groundballs Saturday in a battle against Conn. College, from which Tufts emerged with a hard-earned win.

“The main thing that our defense did a great job at was communicating,” Watkins said. “We played great fundamental defense. Everyone slid early to

the middies dodging down the lanes and we recovered really well. If you do that over and over again they’re not going to get any inside shots.”

The Jumbos will play at No. 10 Middlebury next Saturday in its nextto-last conference matchup of the season.

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game of a doubleheader on Saturday, DellaTorre earned her second win in as many days, out-dueling the combination of Tufts freshman Lauren Giglio, who worked two innings, and sophomore Rebecca DiBiase, who tossed four.

DellaTorre came out even stronger than she looked a day earlier, striking out eight batters and allowing only one run in seven innings of work. The Jumbos were held to little more than a murmur in the early innings, until putting runners on second and third in the bottom of the fourth with just one out. But DellaTorre had the answer, posting back-toback strikeouts to get out of the jam.

Tufts’ lone run in the finale came on a single by freshman Sara Hedtler in the sixth inning, but the Jumbos did

manage to put the tying run on second base in the seventh with freshman catcher Jo Clair, the team’s leader in RBIs, at the plate. Once again facing adversity, DellaTorre had just enough in the tank for one final strikeout, ensuring that her squad’s two second-inning runs were enough.

Earlier in the day, the Jumbos proved they were not deflated from a tough loss on Friday, pounding out 13 hits en route to an 8-2 rout.

DiBiase followed up a disappointing performance Friday with a dominant showcase on Saturday, allowing one earned run in six innings of work.

But Tufts’ offensive output was the story of game one of the doubleheader, as the Jumbos tallied three runs in both the fourth and fifth innings. Junior shortstop Mira-Lieman Sifry was 4-for-4 and came around to score twice, while sophomore second baseman Emily

Beinecke went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs. Beinecke finished the day 6-for-7.

“We’ve had our ups and downs this season, but all that is behind us now. … All we can do is move forward and try to win as many games as possible from here to the end.”

Izzie Santone senior pitcher “When your offense is giving you so much support, the game is much easier,” DiBiase said. “I could just relax and focus on making my pitches.”

In Friday’s opener, the Jumbos looked poised to send

a message to their division rivals, jumping out to a 2-0 lead on a homer by Clair in the first inning that tied the Jumbos’ single-season home run record.

But the Polar Bears responded with three runs of their own in the bottom of the frame.

Meanwhile, DellaTorre settled down after a rocky start, allowing only two runs in her final six innings of work.

The Jumbos trimmed the deficit to one run on two separate occasions but never could get over the hump. After junior centerfielder Lizzy Iuppa singled to left field in the sixth inning to cut the Polar Bears lead to 5-4, DellaTorre escaped with two consecutive outs, stranding two Jumbos on base while securing the lead heading into the final inning. In that final frame, DellaTorre allowed only a bunt single in order to seal the victory.

DiBiase, who allowed five

runs on eight hits in six innings of work, took the loss for the Jumbos, while DellaTorre notched the victory with a complete game performance in which she allowed only three earned runs and struck out four batters.

While Tufts has underperformed at times thus far this season, the Jumbos have a great opportunity to finish the year strong. More than half of their remaining games are against division opponents, including a season-ending series at Trinity that will likely determine the playoff picture.

The team knows that if they can hit their stride now, they are definitely capable of ending the season on a high note.

“We’ve had our ups and downs this season, but all that is behind us now,” senior pitcher Izzie Santone said. “All we can do is move forward and try to win as many games as possible from here to the end.”

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