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Greek houses reach out to LGBT community at Tufts

Conn-gratulations: Huskies best in show

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Corinne Segal

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The University of Connecticut (UConn) men’s basketball team ended Butler’s Cinderella run last night, holding the No. 8-seed Bulldogs to a paltry 18.8 shooting percentage in a 53-41 win in the NCAA Tournament final at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.

UConn pulled away in the second half for its 11th consecutive win, a streak that includes five straight wins, to take home the Big East Tournament title. Junior Kemba Walker, the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, led the Huskies with 16 points.

UConn coach Jim Calhoun won his third NCAA championship, becoming at age 68 the oldest coach to win a title.

The Greek community has in the past month stepped up cooperation with campus lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students and organizations after members of both groups expressed the need for better mutual understanding.

The widespread discussion began as a result of several incidences of verbal abuse that occurred within fraternity houses, Tom Bourdon, director of the LGBT Center, said.

“Some of the incidents were based around language and things being said to people that definitely don’t work as far as creating a safe environment on this campus,” he said.

“We thought it was time to create a better understanding between the two communities,” Bourdon said.

The Greek and LGBT communities earlier this month hosted Shane Windmeyer, an activist for improving LGBT life on college campuses nationwide.

Windmeyer’s lecture, the centerpiece of a larger attempt at cultural change on the part of the Greek community, was entitled “Pledging Acceptance: The Intersection of LGBT and Greek Life at Tufts.” The

audience at the presentation filled Cabot Auditorium, Bourdon said.

New members of the Greek community were required to attend the lecture as part of their member education following rush, which also includes seminars on hazing and alcohol policy education, Interim Director of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs Jamie Engle said.

“By working with our newest members, we set a new precedent for the house, and we’re able to build off of each new class,” Theta Delta Chi (123) Vice-President Aaron Tartakovsky, a junior, said. “The younger guys help make the future of the house.”

“These are issues that we feel, as a community, are important,” Engle added. “We want to educate our new members on these issues and hopefully shift the culture in the direction of being more inclusive.”

Logan Cotton, a 123 brother who helped to organize the event, said that one of the event’s goals was to bridge the gap between the two communities.

“It’s an opportune first step in the larger considered effort between the LGBT center, LGBT community, progressive students and Greek life,” Cotton, a sophomore, said. “We’re trying to make the see GREEK, page 2

TuftsLife proposes SMS Professor receives Indian award for short code for the Hill excellence in chemical sciences by

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Students this month may be voting on a referendum calling for the purchase of a university SMS code to facilitate communication and information dissemination on the Tufts Medford/Somerville campus.

An SMS code is a shortened telephone number made available to a particular group of people, such as members of Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus, according to senior Michael Vastola, chief operating officer of TuftsLife, which is sponsoring the referendum.

Students will either be able to text the number to receive information — in a way similar to how FindJoey works — or sign up to be part of a group that receives text updates, he said.

“The idea is that you’ll be able to get information back just by quickly texting a number,” Vastola, who is also a technical manager for the Daily, said.

TuftsLife’s proposal would mandate that the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate disburse $20,000 to TuftsLife to fund the purchase of such an SMS short code for a one-year trial period. The system, if adopted permanently, would cost $20,000 annually.

“We want to see if it gets used before we make a commitment,” Vastola said.

The referendum includes

provisions for the Senate to explore how to continue funding the system if it is deemed a success at the end of the trial period.

Before the referendum can be put to a vote, it must first pass several TCU committees.

The Committee on Student Life is currently reviewing it to ensure that it is consistent with university policy and state law, Vastola said. The TCU Judiciary must then approve the language, after which TuftsLife must collect 250 signatures from the student body in order for the proposal to be voted on, he added.

If all of these conditions are met, the referendum will appear on the April 26 presidential election ballot.

A majority of voters, and at least a sixth of the student body, must approve the referendum for it to pass, according to Senator Dan Pasternack, a senior.

“We really hope it passes,” Vastola said. “We think it’s going to be valuable to the school.”

The organization started to pursue the purchase of an SMS code for Tufts after a meeting with the university’s Web Communications Department, according to Vastola.

“We realized it could have a lot of features for students on the go,” he said.

A central feature of the new

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Minyoung Song

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Krishna Kumar, a professor of chemistry in the School of Arts and Sciences and an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering, was in February honored by the Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB) for his chemical research work with proteins that colleagues call “significant.”

The organization’s Award for Excellence in Chemical Sciences honors scientists across the globe who have made extraordinary accomplishments in the field of chemical sciences.

Professor of Chemistry David Walt praised the accomplishments that earned Kumar the recent recognition.

“Professor Kumar has developed methods for modifying proteins in a way that helps understand their function, and

this fundamental work would have significant implications and applications towards drug development and understanding diseases that result from misfolding of proteins, such as in Alzheimer’s disease,” Walt said.

Walt nominated Kumar for the award, marking the first time he formally recommended an individual for the honor.

“I am thrilled to be able to see KUMAR, page 2

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Chemistry professor Krishna Kumar in February won the 2011 Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists Award for Excellence in Chemical Sciences.

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environment as accepting as we possibly can.”

Bourdon said that Greek Life will continue to play a more active role in LGBT outreach this semester, citing specifically the fourth-annual Ally Appreciation Soulfood Dinner, which he said Theta Chi will host on April 10. This marks the first time not only that the dinner has occurred in a fraternity, but also that it has been held outside of the LGBT center, Bourdon said.

“They’re helping us celebrate being an ally,” he said. “[Theta Chi] is another chapter that’s really stepping up.”

Tartakovsky said that the incidents that prompted the discussion mainly consisted of inappropriate jokes about members of the LGBT community in Greek houses.

“I’ve heard stories of fraternities where two guys were dancing together, and somebody came by and made a comment,” Tartakovsky said.

This type of behavior, he

noted, is not limited to the fraternity or sorority “If anything, it’s something that’s sort of a nationwide thing, that the LGBT movement, and especially the gay community, haven’t always been welcomed into larger society as much as they should be,” he said.

Engle said that stereotypes that typically surround fraternity culture are no longer applicable.

“I think that’s an old view of fraternities,” she said. “I think fraternities and their national organizations are moving in a direction of inclusion.”

The media has often perpetuated a negative view of Greek houses, Tartakovsky said. “We want to demonstrate to the wider Tufts community that the Greek system is not at all the stereotype you see at movies and in the media,” he said.

Bourdon said that the mission statements for Greek organizations indicate that these organizations should not be exclusive.

“If you look at most of the mission statements for these chapters, reading them, you

would think it would be the opposite,” Bourdon said.

“Whatever the basis might have been before, whether you’re talking a hundred years ago or twenty years ago, that’s not where we’re going today.”

Tartakovsky said the separation between the two communities is not as drastic as some people perceive.

“If they came into these houses, they’d see that we are very open,” he said. “We do have a lot to work on, but especially on the Tufts campus, we have a pretty intelligent and progressive student body. The gap between our two communities is not as wide as a lot of people may think.”

Bourdon and Engle agreed that they are optimistic about future efforts at outreach between the two communities.

“I don’t see why Greek life would be any different than any other system that’s out there that we want to make inclusive,” Bourdon said.

“It’s an important collaboration between the LGBT community and the Greek communities,” Engle said.

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A proposed SMS code system would function like the JoeyTracker, which provides information updates.

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The Greek community has recently initiated an effort to promote an LGBT-friendly culture among its members.

system would be the ability to distribute messages to certain groups, which Vastola likened to a text version of an e-list.

Professors, student groups and departments would be able to send out updates to subscribers.

The Tufts University Police Department ( TUPD) could also use the feature to send out safety updates that do not qualify as campus-wide crises, Vastola said.

“We think this has a lot of benefits considering our school has been unfairly labeled as the most dangerous campus in the country,” he said.

Another feature, known as the “Information Query Service,” would allow students to text keywords, like “Carmichael Hours,” to the server, which would respond with a preset answer. Students would also be able to access event information by searching based on time, location and sponsoring organization.

The referendum stipulates that the SMS system would only be funded if the TCU surplus funds are greater than or equal to $170,000 at the start of the fall semester.

“It’s a very fiscally responsible proposal, and it won’t really affect the budgets of groups or the stability of the treasury,” TCU Treasurer Kate de Klerk, a junior, said.

Vastola first began his quest for TCU funds for the project last semester when he applied for a surplus grant, according to de Klerk. The request was denied, she said, because the purchase of an SMS short code is not a capital expense and thus not entitled to financing from the surplus fund,

which is dedicated to bringing physical changes or improvements to campus.

“The project was cut out of earlier phases of the selection process,” de Klerk said. De Klerk and Vastola then began to brainstorm other ways to fund the project. “One option available to Mike was to petition the Senate to give him $20,000 out of the surplus money towards the SMS short code system,” de Klerk said.

Vastola approached the Allocations Board (ALBO), which sets all budgets and is a key decision-maker in the surplus grant selection process. With a 5-3 vote, ALBO voted to send the proposal to the Senate on March 16, according to de Klerk.

The Senate rejected the proposal with a 6-13 vote and one abstention, according to Senator Yulia Korovikov, a sophomore.

She believes that there are better uses for the money given recent technological advances, and hence voted against it.

“I think [the plan] was a few years too late because everyone has smartphones now,” she said.

Vastola, however, cited the relative speed and ease of the SMS short code compared to browsing the Internet on a smartphone as key benefits. He also said it is important to remain cost-neutral when considering the implementation of new technology.

“You don’t want to disadvantage students who can’t afford a smartphone,” he said.

TuftsLife would oversee the project implementation under Vastola’s direction. Although he is graduating, he plans to remain in the Boston area.

“I will be working on it and making sure it launches correctly,” Vastola said.

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extend my congratulations to Professor Kumar for his incredibly important work, and I’m sure that this is just the first of many significant awards that he will receive for his transformative research,” Walt said.

A nonprofit established in 1995 to encourage and recognize the contributions in the natural sciences, ISCB selected Kumar along with Katsuhiko Ariga, a chemistry professor from Japan, as this year’s two recipients for the award in chemical sciences.

“The fact that Professor Kumar was able to win this award … is really an

incredible achievement,” Walt said. “It’s not just Professor Kumar who should be proud, but all of his colleagues in the department and all of the students at Tufts should take pride in the fact that a professor of his caliber should be recognized at that level.”

The award ceremony, which also marked the 15th annual ISCB conference, took place this February at Saurashtra University in Rajkot, India.

Chemists and biologists from all across the world were in attendance, said Kumar, who gave a lecture at the ceremony. He spoke on the fundamentals of interactions of bio-molecules, the use of chemistry in medical therapies and diagnos-

tics, and the origin of life.

Kumar studied at St. Stephen’s College in Delhi, India, and received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Brown University.

Kumar started out as an assistant professor in Tufts’ Chemistry Department in 1998 and served as its chair from September 2006 until 2009.

Deniz Yüksel, one of Kumar’s past advisees, noted Kumar’s investment in his students’ research. Yüksel is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston.

Yüksel stated that Kumar’s accessibility to students was one of his strengths as an adviser.

“He would be supportive in research in the lab and would be very understanding at a personal level,” Yüksel said.

Yüksel said it was Kumar’s research that motivated her to apply for the Ph.D. program in the chemistry department at Tufts, and upon acceptance, she joined his lab.

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine student Rebecca Lambe, another past advisee who worked in a lab with Kumar as an undergraduate, described Kumar as an inspiring mentor.

“In terms of chemistry, he would always have answers, but [he] encouraged me to look for them on my own, so I could learn for myself,” Lambe said.

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Adolescents use condoms more than adults The message of safe sex appears to be reaching teens

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The college hook-up culture is associated with many images — one-night stands, sloppy encounters and copious amounts of alcohol, to name a few. The lack of monogamy on some college campuses frequently comes under attack by health officials and student wellness groups who decry the culture as risky and unsafe. Yet recent studies show that when it comes to using condoms, teenagers and college students may practice the smartest sex of all.

Last year’s National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior found that the onethird of surveyed adolescents who were having intercourse were frequently using condoms with their sexual partners. In the same survey, adults in their 40s, 50s and 60s who described their sexual partners as “casual” as opposed to “relationship partners” used protection at substantially lower rates than teens. Males aged 18 to 24 were less than half as likely to use condoms as adolescent males, but this group still used condoms far more than those in their 40s, 50s, and 60s.

Margaret Higham, medical director of Health Service, attributed the results of the study to differing educational experiences between the generations.

“Reproductive health is a big concern and a big issue for young adults,” she said. “The general medical office, particularly for older adults, is not geared towards that. They’re really focusing on the health issues that are most prevalent at that age, which are obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer screenings — things like that.”

Issues of sexual health are simply not geared toward older adults, Higham said.

These topics tend to come up in settings where adults do not find themselves on a day-to-day basis. “Honestly, a lot of them probably haven’t been exposed to the newer health issues or health education issues around sexuality and preventing

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Adolescents and college-aged individuals are the age group most likely to practice safe sex by using condoms, a 2010 national survey found. [sexually transmitted infections] because they’re not in a place in their life where that happens,” Higham said. “That often happens in school, through physician visits, through educational programs. But they’re not at school — they’re out in the working world, and that’s probably pretty far off their radar screens.”

For the current generation of college students, education about condom use has been used in part to respond to the growing threat of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). For previous generations, a lack of information surrounding STIs led to minimal education about the topic.

“When those adults grew up, there really was very little information about STIs,” Higham said. “They were not well understood, certainly there was little publicity about them. There was no HIV back then — that’s a more recent phenomenon.”

Sexual education in prior generations, she said, principally focused on contraception and left out much of the knowledge that adolescents today consider normal to learn about in school or from doctors.

But even with increased education about the perils of risky sexual behavior and STIs, not everyone in the younger age group is responsive to the necessity of using condoms. Higham said there was a lack of uniformity in the attitudes of adolescents and young adults, explaining that very young teenagers seem to be the most concerned about safety and health, while those aged 16 to 19 often express feelings of invulnerability, an observation consistent with the national study.

“I think in general the younger teenagers, the really young ones, are very concerned about safety and health. … I feel that their responses and viewpoints are different than I see when talking to high schoolers or students 18, 19 years old coming into college. I think when you look at adolescents as a group, there’s actually not uniformity,” she said.

At Tufts, it’s unclear just how safe sex is. Susan Golbe, former president and a current member of VOX at Tufts, a group affiliated with Planned Parenthood that see CONDOMS, page 4

‘Glee’ skyrockets Tufts Beelzebubs to fame The all-male a cappella group finds itself busier than ever these days by

Amelia Quinn

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What if every week you got to hear yourself sing on one of the most popular TV shows in the nation? For a select few Tufts students, this dream is a reality.

It’s fairly common knowledge at this point around campus that the Tufts Beelzebubs are the group singing for the preppy Dalton Academy Warblers on

Fox’s “Glee.” The show reached its peak number of viewers this season with its post-Superbowl episode, as 39.5 million people tuned in to watch their favorite singing high schoolers. That same episode featured the Bubs backing up one of the show’s stars, Darren Criss, on Destiny’s Child’s “Bills Bills Bills.”

“I know that we’ve had at least eleven songs on ‘Glee’ so far and have recorded even more,” sophomore Bubs singer Jack

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The Bubs are riding a wave of newfound attention as they sing for the Dalton Academy Warblers on Fox’s ‘Glee.’

Thomas said. “I still have a special feeling for ‘Teenage Dream,’ because it was so absolutely thrilling; it was surreal and it’s a really sweet recording, too. It stands out in my mind.”

“Teenage Dream,” which briefly topped the iTunes charts as the top-selling track in the nation, was the Bubs’ first appearance on “Glee,” launching them onto the radar of fans across America.

“Getting a deal like ‘Glee’ has raised a lot of awareness across the country, so now instead of doing high school shows, we’ve been doing many more corporate shows far away; it’s been a really wild year,” Thomas said. “We’ve gone to a lot of awesome places.”

While the Bubs traveled to New York City to record “Teenage Dream,” subsequent songs have been recorded much closer to home — Q Division Studios in Davis Square, which has allowed the a cappella group to work on songs at the drop of a hat.

“The producers will call us, and they’ll ask us for a track in the next two days, so we’ll get to the studio as soon as possible and start laying down tracks,” he said.

With their bolstered celebrity status this past year, the group’s role both on and off campus has certainly changed.

“Sometimes it’s really hard to gauge what the on-campus reception is like, because we’re not here much … but I’d say that during home shows when we sing songs from ‘Glee,’ we get bigger responses,” Thomas said. “It’s the same situation for away shows; when we went to [Boston University] to perform, the first time we started singing ‘Teenage see BUBS, page 4

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‘Imagine all the people’

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hen I was younger, I assumed that having an imaginary friend must be fun: Everyone had one. This is the same logic that leads many people to buy Silly Bandz or try heroin or wear those ridiculous sock/ flipper/shoe things with the separated toes that aren’t acceptable footwear at all.

Those people, though, would be wrong.

Like most fads, imaginary friends just aren’t for everyone. When all my nursery classmates were playing with their made-up playmates, I tried to think one up, too. I even went as far as telling everyone how awesome she was and describing all the adventurous things we did together. But it was all a sham. Sarah didn’t exist, nor was she very much fun. Because I, like everyone else, knew that Sarah, nice as she was, was a fraud.

Later on in life, though, I had an epiphany.

It is impossible that I was the only member of my nursery class who did not suffer from hallucinations. Yes, they were a little weird; the boys too often smelled like poop, and the girls had an unyielding inability to learn to build block towers with any architectural stability to them. But still. It was impossible that any of them believed in their Joanna’s or Princess Samantha’s any more than I believed in my Sarah. Imaginary friends must have been about something more than companionship; they must have been about performing.

I posed this theory to my sister and suggested we try and do imaginary friends over again, the right way. She agreed, for some reason, and so, from our experiences, we devised a four-step instructional for anyone who’d like to do the same.

Step one: Choose a name. Franklin. Feel free to get more creative.

Step two: Find people to convince to believe in your imaginary friend or at least to be confused by him. This was not difficult as we were in Manhattan, where people are usually either crazy or way too interested in other people’s lives or both.

We started small. Yelled at people who bumped into Franklin. Linked arms with Franklin. Held the door for Franklin. Waved to Franklin. Had conversations about other people in front of those people with Franklin.

Laughed at things Franklin told us. Bought Franklin an extra drink and saved him a seat at Starbucks. Notice how I’m saying Franklin’s name a lot. Especially when interacting with strangers, make sure to call your friend by his or her name. This both allows strangers to get invested and increases the amount of deranged they’ll think you are. Preferably, point to your friend while doing so.

Step three: Use a metonymical signifier for your friend. Like a pair of shoes. Attention paid to our interactions with Franklin increased significantly when we incorporated a visual.

We set down Franklin’s shoes everywhere we went so that it was clear we were talking to the body emanating from them. With a visual introduced, an imaginary friend is able to participate in much more than just conversations and meals. Franklin, for example, went rock climbing, see-sawed and rode the Central Park carousel, which works nicely when you have to tell a child she can’t sit there because Franklin (pointing, of course) already is.

Step four: Document your adventures. In addition to immortalizing our memories with Franklin, this really increased audience participation. Between activities, we stopped to ask passersby to take a picture of the three of us.

Then we’d review the pictures with Franklin and, every so often, run after the photographer and ask her to take another because Franklin’s eyes were closed. Sometimes Franklin also requested to take pictures WITH strangers.

I have to give credit to my nursery classmates. Having an imaginary friend is terrific.

Perhaps they don’t make good confidantes or playmates, but they can certainly be a good entryway into the world of performance art.

Who knows? Maybe there’s even some merit to heroin and those “shoes.”

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

Oltuski@tufts.edu.

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promotes reproductive rights and safe and healthy sexual behavior on campus, has been disappointed with the administration’s response to initiatives for condom distribution. Earlier this year, the group requested surplus funding from the Tufts Community Union Senate in order to have condom machines built into all the dorms, but the Senate denied their request.

VOX also tried placing manila envelopes filled with condoms in the laundry rooms of dorms, but this plan proved unsuccessful as well.

“Basically everyone would just steal the envelopes full of condoms,” Golbe said. “It was impossible for us to keep them full.”

Students, Golbe said, are also often hesitant to take free condoms from VOX’s

informational events, such as the Sex Fair and Oh Megan.

“I think that, in general, people want to seem cool and will not necessarily take a condom from our table,” she said. “They’ll kind of look at the condoms on our table, we’ll tell them that they’re welcome to take whatever they want and then they’ll tell us that they don’t ever need condoms, which seems unlikely.”

But whether they are public about their condom use or not, at least some Tufts students seem to be aware of the risks that come with sexual behavior.

“I make it a point to always use condoms no matter what,” one senior, who wished to remain anonymous, said. “I’ve heard too many horror stories about STDs and accidental pregnancies to take any risks.”

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Dream’ it was like a wall of sound — 800 girls screaming at the top of their lungs. It was spectacular.”

And beyond screaming fans, it seems that the group has attracted prospective students as well.

Kyle Carbone, a sophomore tour guide for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, makes sure to include in his tours that the Bubs can be heard almost weekly on “Glee.”

“It’s one of my fun facts,” Carbone said.

Carbone enjoys the reactions he receives.

“People are usually shocked,” he said.

“The girls tend to giggle, and some of the guys do too. I feel like people often ask me follow-up questions and immediately ask me if I know anyone in the Bubs, to which I gladly answer yes.”

As a self-proclaimed avid “Glee” watcher, Carbone said that sometimes the fact that he knows the people who are singing blurs with the show’s characters.

“I guess it’s kind of weird that I don’t see them, rather I hear them, so to be honest,

sometimes I forget that I know the people who are performing,” Carbone said.

“When I do make that realization, though, and it comes back to me, I think that it’s really cool.”

Sophomore Natalie Salk agreed that the Bubs’ involvement with “Glee” has offered a selling point for Tufts.

“I tell my friends at other schools that the Bubs are the Warblers on ‘Glee,’ and they’re just blown away,” Salk said. “I think that the Bubs are really stepping up their game by making songs that are heard by so many diverse groups of people.”

Though Thomas is a fairly new member of the group, having joined just a month before the end of last school year, he didn’t believe that the “Glee” fame changed the Bubs’ underlying goal to bring the joys of a cappella to campus.

“The motto is ‘Fun through song,’ and we talk to each other and remind ourselves why we’re doing what we’re doing before every performance,” Thomas said.

“We don’t think more highly of ourselves now because of this. The only thing that has changed is how busy we’ve become.”

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‘Body of Proof’ a tired take on forensics drama ABC’s latest show characterized by lack of imagination, trite characters by

Andrew Padgett

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Anyone looking to shatter their mind into irretrievable pieces should check out ABC’s new drama “Body

Body of Proof Starring Dana Delany, Nicholas Bishop, Jeri Ryan, John Carroll Lynch, Sonja Sohn Airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on ABC of Proof.” It’s not that the show is particularly ill-constructed or poorly acted — in fact, it’s all quite carefully planned out. Writer and creator Chris Murphey has strung together every predictable plot possible to produce a nightmarish deja vu.

The show combines all the cliches from medical dramas with those from crime and mystery dramas, and the result is a lumpish hybrid of “House” and the “CSI” franchise. It stars Dana Delany (“Desperate Housewives”) as Dr. Megan Hunt, a former neurosurgeon who had to quit her job after a traumatic car accident. She now works as a medical examiner for the Philadelphia Police Department, finding evidence for murder cases in the bodies she inspects.

If it sounds all too familiar, that’s because it is. Trying to set the show apart from the anonymous mass of forensic-themed drivel in today’s TV lineup, Dr. Hunt explains her “unique” approach to solving mysteries in one of the pilot’s opening scenes: “The body is the proof. It will tell you everything you need to know.”

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Despite its strong cast, ‘Body of Proof’ falls completely flat.

Wait, so … she’s going to look for clues of the murder on the murdered body? Why didn’t I think of that? The concept just doesn’t hold up — there’s nothing original about finding evidence from an autopsy. And it’s not like Hunt spends the whole episode examining the corpse either — each episode’s storyline ultimately pans out like any other murder mystery, with police investigations and interrogations and so forth.

Just in its first episode, “Body of Proof” has already contradicted the philosophy it champions.

Unfortunately, the character development doesn’t fare much better than the tired plot. Hunt is portrayed as an emotionally cut off but brilliant workaholic who loses her husband and custody of

Movie Review

‘Win Win’ tells slightly flawed but heartwarming story by

Robert Gottlieb Daily Staff Writer

When you’re pinned to the ground, you have to do whatever you can to get back in control. The wrestling-enthusiast characters

Win Win Starring Paul Giamatti, Alex Shaffer, Amy Ryan Directed by Thomas McCarthy at the heart of the new dramedy “Win Win” take drastic measures in order to survive — sometimes with tragic consequences.

For Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti), it seems like everything has gotten out of control. His water boiler and toilet are broken, his small law practice is struggling to stay afloat, the wrestling team he coaches never wins a match and his constant stress is beginning to take a toll on his health.

When he illegally exploits an elderly client with early dementia to be paid as his legal guardian, Mike assumes an unforeseen responsibility: taking care of the client’s grandson, Kyle (Alex Shaffer), who arrives unexpectedly at his grandfather’s doorstep. Irreverent and uninspired, but with a good heart, the teenage runaway finds warmth in the Flaherty household and instant success on the wrestling mats. Kyle’s estranged, desperate mother, however, comes looking for him and threatens to expose Mike’s original betrayal and undermine his good intentions.

Despite unoriginal voices for his characters, writer-director Thomas McCarthy (“The Visitor” (2003), “The Station Agent” (2008))

draws notable performances from his principal actors. Paul Giamatti does not disappoint as the go-to weak schlub character who manages to compensate for his cynicism and constant anxiety. Despite his arguably unforgivable mistakes, Giamatti packs his character with resilience and real warmth.

Giamatti’s solid acting chops are complemented by the naturally talented Shaffer, a former high-school wrestling champion making his big-screen debut. Perfectly cast as Mike’s houseguest, Shaffer is refreshingly subtle and unexpected as the damaged youth. As Kyle becomes an inspiration to his new family and his teammates, it is heartwrenching to watch his being forced to deal with his unpredictable, unstable mother.

It’s a shame that the supremely talented supporting cast is awarded such limited screen time while Giamatti and Shaffer face off. As Mike’s tough, morally-grounded wife, Jackie, the hilarious Amy Ryan (who was nominated for an Academy Award for 2007’s “Gone Baby Gone”) is severely underutilized.

She gives a heartwarming performance as she transitions from skeptical to incredibly protective of Kyle, and Jackie memorably announces without shame that it will not be her fault if she “happens” to punch Kyle’s culpable mom in the face.

With similarly amusing one-liners, certain characters deserved more attention.

Deadpan-master Jeffrey Tambor (“Arrested Development” (2003-06)) is perfect as the frustrated assistant wrestling coach, while newcomer Clare Foley is charming as Mike’s young daughter Abby.

The same goes for Bobby Cannavale, Mike’s best friend, who inspires many laughs see WIN WIN, page 8

her daughter (cue sympathy here) as a result of her self-absorbed schedule.

Yet Hunt’s tough and witty exterior begins to break down after her car accident and career change, and viewers get glimpses of this change through unbearably sentimental conversations between her and her partner, medicolegal investigator Peter Dunlop (Nicholas Bishop).

At the moment, it is unclear how many episodes it will take for these two to get together, but viewers can look to the protagonists of “Bones” or “The X-Files” (1993-2002) to make a decent prediction. My guess is that it will happen sooner rather than later: see BODY, page 8

Music Feature

Vinyl recalls the pleasures of predigital listening by

Matthew Welch

Daily Editorial Board

The digital age has changed pretty much everything about music — how we get it, how we store it, how it’s recorded. When our parents wanted to listen to music, they had to do more than just push a button. Now, laptops and iPods give us instant access and huge volumes of storage, but they fail to bring us something enjoyed by generations of previous music listeners: tangibility. Listeners of the past had to unearth the record they wanted, take the vinyl out, blow the dust off and put it on a turntable. Even though this process is a relatively simple one, it creates a different experience from the one our generation is used to.

Little rituals like this may seem superficial, but they establish a connection to the music that iPods and other digital media don’t offer. To actually hold a record in your hands and see the cover art and all the work that went into the product gives the listener a wider impression of the music and the album itself. Liner notes often shed light on the recording process or give information about the album’s genre or approach.

The first thing you realize when you hold an LP in your hands is the prominence of the album art. The sheer size of the medium makes the cover a perfect canvas for artists and designers.

CDs are too small to offer this visual expressiveness, and the little cover art see VINYL, page 8

Madeline Hall | The Tasteful and the Tasteless

Cultural creepiness

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’m fond of grandfatherly rants, and I reserve the right to use this particular column to emulate that advisory style.

Increasingly so, I feel as though our society is abandoning general decency and recognition of privacy for the sake of technology. I do not identify as a Luddite, nor do I object to advancements in order to preserve some sense of the “good old days” (which I understand is just code for the 1950s in America, if we want to put a spatiotemporal label on these things). Instead, I refer to the fact that venues for broadcasting one’s life are growing larger, turning our society into some kind of sick collective exhibitionist cult. We just don’t wear any snazzy cult robes.

My concern grows from a basic concept: the normalization of digital stalking.

Now I’m sure you’ve heard of those newfangled “social networking” sites like the Facebook and the MySpace (I understand the youth use them). The proliferation of profile-based sites facilitates the creation of endless portals through which we view one another’s “identity.”

Most importantly, they create virtual windows for peeping-Tom tendencies. The phrases “Facebook creeping” or “Facebook stalking” are so ingrained in our vocabulary that we rarely take the time to truly consider how WEIRD those actions truly are. Because we are physically distant and only digitally proximal, the exhaustive investigation of identity enabled by social networking sites is culturally acceptable. I am not peering into your window; instead, I am obsessively analyzing pieces of information I can glean from your various Internet profiles and filling in a personal background that will later be recognized as conjectural at best. This is all OK, though, since I found it on your page (after two solid hours of searching).

The recently released smartphone application called Color enables the habit and makes the topic relevant. We are familiar with the old forms of compulsive following, but Color takes it all to a new level.

Innovative in its technological implications, Color is an app that allows users to upload pictures, videos and messages to be accessed, without barrier, by other smartphones using Color within 150 feet.

The app creates a mobile network for users that is shared among friends and strangers, making it a hip place to meet other individuals in your immediate vicinity. Its impressiveness lies in its speed; this sharing can be conducted in real time and without the necessity of constructing a profile. This, of course, is incredibly valuable, because it advances the process of uploading 50 photos of your cat to be adored by your doting fans (no seriously, I love every pose your cat strikes in a given day).

Color will help revolutionize virtual stalking in a very real way. There are almost no restrictions on uploads using the application, and its creators have come under fire for the seeming lack of privacy provisions. Color users permit an intense hike in publicity of their private life, and with the increased use of Color, we just might start seeing more of everyone than we would really like to see … or should see.

The stipulation to all of this, however, is that it is society itself that encourages and allows this erosion of privacy. The dissolution of the veil is not imposed by some Big Brother figure denying a basic human right; it is our cultural willingness to display and share our every move without restriction that propels this tendency. With every photo I share, I am personally responsible for my exhibition. Our need to show, to prove, to broadcast is so ingrained in every action that our criticism of celebrity is starting to seem a little hollow.

Vain? Absolutely. Culturally encouraged?

I guess so … (cries).

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

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Winning supporting cast makes up for some of the flaws in ‘Win Win’ WIN WIN

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Record stores like these offer listeners a more personable and interesting shopping experience than the Internet.

Vinyl culture differs greatly from modern file-sharing and digital marketplace VINYL

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icon on your iPod is even less affecting. Maybe this is why so many of the covers of classic records from the ‘60s and ‘70s have become iconic: Can you imagine Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon� (1973) without picturing the prism that adorns its cover?

While digital music is instantly accessible and more conveniently obtained than vinyls, it has its negative sides as well. For one thing, one’s attention span can suffer when a song can be changed instantly. If you listen to new music on an iPod and don’t immediately enjoy it, the temptation to switch over to a more familiar track can be overwhelming.

With vinyl, this isn’t an issue. Unless you’re willing to get up and change the record in favor of another (a dauntingly physical process for lazy listeners), you’re stuck with whatever you put on. This can be great for listening to longer pieces of music that would otherwise try your patience. Unlike playing an MP3, listening to a vinyl involves a physical commitment that makes a surprisingly large difference.

Keeping music in the tangible realm has other benefits as well. Obtaining vinyls can be an extremely fun process. Walking into a

record store rarely guarantees any purchases; in fact, it’s usually a crapshoot. Flipping through rows of LPs under dingy lighting and the watchful eye of a quirky clerk is an experience unto itself. For anyone who’s seen “High Fidelity� (2000), you have an idea of what record store owners can be like: knowledgeable, humorous and often endearingly pompous (if that makes any sense).

Instead of logging onto iTunes or searching the Web with the knowledge that you can find almost any album or song, record stores give a less certain experience. In some ways, you’re even more likely to try unfamiliar music.

Perhaps a cover attracts your attention or you find an unknown album by a familiar artist (a common occurrence — not everything was remastered for CD). This unfamiliarity contributes to a completely different approach to discovering and listening to music.

At the end of the day, music is music. What you hear is what you hear, but vinyl records surround your listening experience with a whole different set of practices and attitudes.

While forgoing the convenience and selection offered by digital mediums has its downsides, making the leap to vinyl can nevertheless be an exciting and ultimately rewarding move.

as he tries pathetically hard to be the cool guy. With such a talented batch of comedic actors, “Win Win� surprisingly lacks the comedic edge that might have lightened the film’s depressing tone.

When Kyle gets into trouble, Jackie reassures him that “We all do stupid things.� This important lesson is central to McCarthy’s film, which is driven by the desperation and ethical quandaries with which his characters wrestle. What grounds “Win Win,� though, is also what brings it down: the “stupid things� that Mike does are ultimately excused. At the cliche-laden moment

when his secret is exposed, he justifies his actions by telling his family, “I never realized it would get this complicated,� and we begrudgingly have to accept this to be sold on Mike’s eventual triumph.

In his latest film, McCarthy folds mild wit and tenderness into his dreary Loserville, NJ setting but ultimately fails to successfully redeem his flawed, desperate hero. Strong performances by a supporting cast help to save “Win Win� from its imperfections, but these performances are clouded by predictable plot points and a too-uplifting conclusion. In a movie where team spirit reigns, we’re left without a protagonist whom we really want to root for.

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Dunlop is already averaging one deep conversation about life and family with Dr. Hunt for every two scenes they have alone.

I pity Bishop for some of the lines he has to say, especially the ones that try to force absurd parallels between the murder victim’s life and Dr. Hunt’s.

This trite scenario is an example of two major problems in the show’s execution. The first is that the characters have all known each other for over six months at the start of the show, so it feels like viewers have been thrust into the action midway through. It’s hard to believe Hunt and Dunlop’s sappy friendship because it literally hasn’t been developed at all. Viewers will get the feeling that the characters are all in on something and hiding it when in fact there’s nothing underneath.

The second and much broader problem with “Body of Proof� is that it chooses unimaginative ways to devel-

op meaning and complexity. While the murder mystery takes every twist and turn possible, none of it seems to contribute much to the idea that “the body is the proof.� Hunt occasionally says something about the victim’s corpse and spends maybe 10 minutes on camera with it (tops), but, overall, it appears to be a tacked-on concept.

As the show progresses, the writers must flesh out the theme of the body in a more compelling way so that the title actually makes sense. A dead body full of hidden surprises at the beginning of every episode just won’t be enough to sustain an entire TV series. Well, it actually will be, judging from the number of successful “CSI� spin-offs, but this show has the potential to do more. If it abandoned some of its formulas and delved more into an exploration of the human body and all its functions, faults and implications in the characters’ lives, “Body of Proof� might be worth watching. For now, it’s dead in the water.

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Military trial better than none at all

The administration of President Barack Obama has abandoned plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and four co-conspirators in a civilian court.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced yesterday that Mohammad will be tried for war crimes by a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. The Daily reluctantly supports the administration’s decision to allow a military trial. Criminal proceedings for alleged terrorist suspects have historically occurred in civilian courts, and we believe that is where they belong. But we recognize that the alternative to a military trial would be to leave the case tied up in political gridlock for years to come. Since Obama declared his intent to close the facility at Guantanamo Bay when he assumed office, a number of security and political issues have made it nearly impossible to empty out the facility, particularly congressional roadblocks that have effectively prevented the military from moving prisoners into prisons within the United States.

These roadblocks were in place even when Obama enjoyed large Democratic majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Now that the balance of power in Congress has shifted to favor Republicans -- and with no signs that this trend is going to reverse itself in the near future -- it will undoubtedly be many years before the process of bringing Guantanamo detainees into the United States can proceed more smoothly.

Obama may have erred politically when he announced in November 2009 that he planned to hold the civilian trial in a court in Manhattan. Many Americans objected to seeing the terrorists behind the attacks return to New York. And though many New York politicians including Mayor Michael Bloomberg initially supported the idea, they turned on it -- the straw that broke the camel’s back -- when the economic costs of securing downtown Manhattan became clear. This put too much political capital in the hands of his opponents and fueled their push for a military trial.

Clearing the way for a civilian trial would take years, and it benefits no one

except the defendants to pin the future of the 9/11 trials on the outcome of a contentious partisan issue, for which no end appears to be in sight. Given this choice between holding off the trial indefinitely and holding it in a military court, the Obama administration must opt to hold military proceedings.

That said, this decision comes with considerable drawbacks. Trying 9/11 suspects in a military court casts the attacks strictly as a war crime. The attacks didn’t occur within the context of a war. It wasn’t an act against the American military; it was an unprovoked attack on the American people, on our civilians. A trial by jury would have held the terrorists directly accountable to the victims of their crime. A guilty verdict handed down by a jury of American citizens, rather than by a tribunal of military officers, would have been a much more meaningful and satisfying result.

Still, it is better that a guilty verdict come from our military in the near future than to wait 20 years for a verdict to occur at all.

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Drug cartels may find themselves in even more trouble than normal if new legislation in Congress passes.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) introduced a bill Wednesday that, if passed, will designate six top Mexican cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

If the cartels are indeed labeled terrorist organizations, the U.S. State Department would be able to charge drug and gun traffickers with supporting terrorism. According to McCaul spokesman Mike Rosen, this is the first time any member of Congress has tried to designate what the cartels are doing as acts of terrorism.

The legislation is targeting the by

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Arellano Feliz, Beltran Leyva, La Familia Michoacana, Los Zetas [...] Sinaloa and Gulf cartels — the most violent and successful cartels in Mexico. The war on drugs has already claimed nearly 35,000 lives since 2006.

The proposal is more than just a new title — the distinction would allow prosecutors to tack on 15 years to any conviction of providing aid or supplies to cartels. It would also level a federal death sentence against any cartel action that results in death.

McCaul recognizes that cartel actions are not religiously motivated, but said in the [Houston Chronicle] that the organizations are routinely found “using similar tactics to gain political and economic influence,” as well as utilizing “kidnappings, political assassinations,

attacks on civilian and military targets, taking over cities and even putting up checkpoints in order to control territory and institutions.”

Frankly, any label that can be used to stop the cartel’s criminal operations is fine. Label them terrorists, mafiosos, drug traffickers — the end result is the same.

To put the cartel’s 35,000 death count into perspective, that’s more than [seven] times the casualties the U.S. has sustained in the Iraq war — and the cartels have racked it up in half the amount of time America has spent overseas.

McCaul seems to have the right idea.

If a label is what’s needed to crack down on the violence south of the border, then a label is what Congress should provide.

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STIR had no part in recent information leak by

Caroline Incledon

This Saturday, Jumboleaks posted on its website a “leaked document” of the university’s investment holdings. The data is thus far unsubstantiated and administrators have not confirmed any of its contents.

The list has now been circulated online, its controversy revolving around the university’s investments in companies such as Monsanto, the world’s leading producer of genetically engineered seeds and a corporate enemy of sustainability advocates.

Students at Tufts for Investment Responsibility (STIR) took no part in this leak. STIR was created in 2007 with the goal of raising awareness of a variety of issues concerning the endowment investment process. While endowment transparency has been one of the questions STIR has addressed, we have striven to ensure that our goals have been pursued through respectful collaboration and discussions with administration. University administrators and students, for example, worked to form the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), a body of Tufts students that advises the university on socially responsible investment decisions and is privy to private financial information. Although ACSR is essentially a compromise between full endowment transparency and the administration’s decision to keep its holdings confidential, similar committees at Harvard, Brown and Wesleyan have been remarkably successful at attaining the ultimate goal of socially responsible investment.

While we should always move toward increased transparency in the investment process, STIR regrets the practice of leaking confidential documents. At the end of the day, the information, if true, was confidential and entrusted to certain individuals. STIR

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shares Jumboleaks’ belief that “Tufts can and should hold itself to higher standards of investment ethics, particularly considering our image as a leader in international affairs and global citizenship” and supports the call for transparency. However, rather than focusing on the leak, we should be questioning the environment that led to these actions. It is important that the controversy about the companies on the investment list does not overshadow the real concern, which is the lack of transparency between the administration and students. That is not to say the leak was justified; we must encourage transparency and open dialogue in all aspects of our university, including in dealings with school administrators. Rather than seemingly conspiring against the administration, STIR wishes that members of Jumboleaks had engaged the administration or student body collaboratively (in the same way that Jumboleaks seems to wish the administration would engage with them).

If we are going to pursue responsible investment as a community, we must be willing to engage with each other in good faith, share information and create a dia-

logue driven by ideas on how we can make our school a more responsible investor.

STIR takes these factors into account when making decisions. Our current community investment campaign exemplifies this, as community investment would signify that the school, administration and community were working together to promote the best interests of all. Community investment is a responsible investment opportunity that creates positive, constructive and collaborative change. Furthermore, community investment is a simple, financially safe step for a university to take toward becoming a more socially conscious investor, while investment transparency can be a more difficult and uncertain one.

Ultimately, the site and its information have spurred discussion over the social and political importance of the endowment.

Many students recognize that the university’s powerful reputation as a leader in international affairs and global citizenship can and should be mirrored in how we approach our investments. Many also realize that their personal beliefs and causes could be at odds with the financial dealings of Tufts.

STIR believes that the awareness this raises and discussion it sparks have a powerful effect and urges students to do their own research about the validity of Jumboleaks and the ethical reputations of the companies included on the alleged investment holdings list. Hopefully, we can turn this controversial leak into a more extended, productive and collaborative discussion about the most effective and socially conscious way to manage our endowment.

Caroline Incledon is a sophomore majoring in political science. She is president of Students at Tufts for Investment Responsibility.

Now that we’ve heard their stories, we must take action against genocide

by Sofia Shield

My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. Throughout my mother’s childhood, the subject was never mentioned around the house, but as time passed, my grandparents slowly let the topic into the forefront of conversation. Now my grandfather is president emeritus at the Anne Frank Center USA and lectures to kids and adults all over the country about tolerance and his past experiences. During my childhood he shared his knowledge about the Holocaust with anyone who would listen. Except me. I always was sheltered from hearing of these atrocities, even though they were so close to my own life. I had no idea about the stories within my family: I knew little of what was said at the lectures my grandparents gave to communities of every kind, of the love letters they wrote between concentration camps that were later translated and published in the book “Steal a Pencil for Me” (2000) or of the documentary of the same name, released in 2007, about their miraculous love story.

I was frequently asked questions and always had to carefully maneuver around or deflect them, making sure I did not expose my lack of knowledge. I desperately wanted to run up to my grandparents and ask them why they wouldn’t tell me anything or, better yet, demand they fill this big void in my knowledge. I later found out, while watching my grandparents’ documentary with a hundred other people around me, that this was their way of protecting their “sensitive, little Sofi.” I would have been too easily hurt by the issue, so better not tell me anything at all? By not sharing anything with me, I was unable to use my passion, compassion and, yes, sensitivity to help make others aware of what had happened to my family members in the past.

People often say that they want to take a stand against genocide, that they want to teach others about what has happened in the past. However, no one can do this without acquiring as much knowledge about

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these past atrocities as possible. As the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles as time passes, I run to my grandparents, great-aunts and family friends for stories, experiences, morals and lessons. This is the mindset we should all have for survivors of any genocide. Being survivors inherently gives them a unique story, and we have a duty to listen to these stories and take action against genocide so that, in the future, the only stories of genocide will be from those the world has already experienced.

At the Survivors Speak panel put on

by Tufts Against Genocide as part of the Cummings Challenge, we had the unbelievable experience of seeing five genocides represented side by side. With survivors from the Holocaust and the Rwandan, Cambodian, Bosnian and Armenian genocides, we got to see both the similarities and the differences between these tragedies.

They are often all put under the umbrella of genocide, but rarely have I heard them specifically compared. Unless we examine the similarities between these horrific events, we will not be able to see why they continue to recur and thus will not be able to prevent them from happening again.

This past Thursday, my grandparents came to speak at a Tufts Against Genocide event, and we had the opportunity to view

their documentary as well. My grandparents have what some like to call the “Holocaust love story” or the “uplifting Holocaust story.” They exemplify the same idea that the speakers at Survivors Speak highlighted: hope. Without hope, they would not have been able to survive, and, without hope, we will not be able to strive for a future free of genocide.

By empowering our generation with knowledge, and the courage to take a stand against human rights violations, we have the power to prevent future genocides. In the last few years my family has opened up discussion on the Holocaust and I have been struck by how important it is to make sure nothing like it happens in the future, even though there have been multiple genocides since the Holocaust. Seeing the passion in my grandfather’s eyes as he talks to teenagers who have never heard of Anne Frank is inspiring, and at age 98 I realize he won’t be able to give those lectures forever. That’s why our generation must step in. We must take as much information as we can possibly get our hands on and continue the legacy of these amazing people.

Sofia Shield is a freshman who has not yet declared a major.

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Beyond the prison system

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ast week I talked about hate crimes legislation (HCL) and its buttressing effect on the criminal justice system.

To continue, this column will highlight issues with the prison industrial complex (PIC) because the conversations on penalty enhancement due to HCL and the hyperincarceration of marginalized people, among others, all intersect.

First, the national grassroots organization Critical Resistance, which seeks to abolish the prison system, uses PIC “to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing and imprisonment as solutions to what are, in actuality, economic, social and political ‘problems.’” To further contextualize, let’s not forget that the United States has not only the highest numbers of inmates but also the highest rate of incarceration in the world. As a side note, we also love coloring in the lines of our prisons that we keep expanding: There are more black people in prison now than were enslaved in 1850, according to Michelle Alexander, an associate professor of law at Moritz College.

Although various social categories (e.g. race, class) intersect to shape the lives of every individual and their experiences with the criminal system, this column will focus on intersectionality only in relation to queer people. The unjust criminal system manifests itself in anti-queer discrimination, violence and incarceration in our society informed by a climate of homophobia and transphobia, the very factors that pipeline queers into prison while also facilitating our arrival there.

Queer youth often find themselves disproportionately out on the streets due to their sexuality and/or their gender identity and expression; 20 to 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBT though they make up only 5 to 10 percent of the youth population.

Living on the streets, they become prime pickings for our criminal system, which profiles and harasses deviant individuals. They are subject to increased police harassment and often face charges for crimes of survival (e.g. prostitution, robbery, drugs, etc.). Even when the state intervenes and places them in foster care, the results are not promising: A study found that 78 percent reported being removed or running away due to a hostile environment, 100 percent reported verbal harassment, and 70 percent reported being victims of physical violence.

And trans people, whether young or old, deal with even more trouble. Police criminalize and arrest them for using their preferred bathroom, for a lack of proper identification, and for soliciting money for sex, regardless of the veracity of such an assumption. If we throw homelessness, the resultant poverty and higher exposure to police harassment and scrutiny into the mix, we may perhaps understand that the criminal justice system results in much more violence and incarceration of queer bodies than the average Joe. Before we talk about what happens in prisons, let’s also be aware that prosecutors use the “gay panic” defense in order to acquit or lessen sentences for those charged with hate crimes against queer people and also employ homophobic reasoning to urge a jury to confer the death penalty to LGBT defendants.

Lastly, once in prison, queer people face verbal, physical and sexual abuse from other inmates, prison staff and guards. Additionally, the system classifies trans people who have yet to undergo genital surgery by their birth sex, which results in higher risk of violence for male-to-female transsexuals. To “protect” these individuals, prisons isolate them in what is called “administrative segregation,” which “also results in exclusion from recreation, educational and occupational opportunities, and associational rights.” Some prisons may also deny them hormones or other trans-specific forms of health care.

In sum, the flawed system royally screws us over, and we cannot be a party to efforts that bolster it. We need to re-examine our ideas of justice, rehabilitation and human rights.

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

Sum@tufts.edu.

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Cut to the chase: Tufts sweeps Bates behind walkoff single by

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With its pitching staff running thin after 16 innings of work, the winning run at secBASEBALL (9-4-1, 3-0 NESCAC East) Huskins Field, Sunday Bates Tufts

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Final ond base, and the score tied at 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth, the baseball team could not have been happier to see senior outfielder Chase Rose step to the plate with a chance to put the finishing touch on a sweep of the Bates Bobcats.

The team’s batting average and RBI leader worked the count into his favor before drilling a fastball into left field, bringing home senior second baseman Frank Petroskey for a walk-off 3-2 Jumbos victory.

“I’m primarily a fastball hitter, so I was able to lay off the curveballs to start the at-bat, get to a 2-1 count and then hit the

pitch I wanted,” Rose said of his game-winning at-bat. “It was great to get the sweep because I thought that while we pitched really well, we could’ve done better on offense.”

The Jumbos’ hopes of a 3-0 start to their NESCAC slate seemed in peril early on in the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader, as senior starter Derek Miller coughed up two runs in a laborious first inning. But the southpaw settled down after that and allowed just two more hits while holding Bates scoreless for the remainder of his seven innings of work.

The bullpen picked up where Miller left off, as freshman Christian Sbily and junior Jake Crawford each posted a zero on the scoreboard, with the latter earning his first win of the season.

Junior catcher Matt Collins crushed his second homer of the game in the second inning of the contest, while senior centerfielder David Orlowitz and junior co-captain third baseman Sam Sager delivered back-to-back doubles to plate the tying run in the seventh.

Earlier on Sunday, in the first game of the twinbill, junior starter Dave Ryan endured his worst outing of the season, as the Bobcats plated six runs in just over four innings against the righty. Senior catcher Gordy Webb accounted for two of those Bates runs in the second on a long homer to left field, putting the Jumbos behind from the get-go.

Although Ryan’s pitching line included four walks and four hits, Coach John Casey blamed his struggles on the fierce gusts that pounded Huskins Field throughout the weekend.

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Junior third baseman Sam Sager drilled two doubles in Tufts’ 3-2 win over Bates Sunday.

“Ryan’s fastball has a lot of tail, and the wind consistently brought it toward the middle of the plate,” Casey said. “That helped them square up the ball and made the ball fly when they hit it.”

Fortunately for Ryan, though, the Tufts bats had no trouble getting Ryan off the hook, as they bashed Bates’ starter, sophomore Kevin McGregor, for five runs in 3 2/3 innings. Four of those runs came in the third inning — during which the Jumbos batted around — before Orlowitz added a solo shot in the fourth.

A sixth inning rally, which began when Orlowitz was hit by

a pitch with one out, continued with a Sager double and peaked when Sager sprinted home with the go-ahead run on a passed ball, gave the Jumbos a 7-6 lead they would not surrender. Senior closer Eddie Bernstein — who picked up his first win of the season — worked the final 2 2/3 innings of the game and allowed just one Bobcats batter to reach base while fanning three.

“Our bullpen did a great job,” Casey said. “Bernstein worked overtime for us in the first game, and Crawford kind of filled the role Bernstein had last year in the second game.

“They’re a good offensive

team,” Casey added of the Bobcats, who left the series with a .279 team batting average and .376 on-base percentage. “They make you work hard to get outs, and their middle of the order can really hurt you when you make mistakes.”

The Jumbos would not have had their bullpen rested for Sunday’s nail-biters without a dominant performance by junior lefty Kevin Gilchrist in the series opener on Saturday.

Gilchrist mowed down the Bobcats lineup, dominantly working his way through inning see BASEBALL, page 14

Softball

With Gilchrist pitching, Jumbos tame Bobcats with dominant endless possibilities weekend showing at Spicer Field by

Alex Prewitt

During an on-court interview after the final buzzer sounded in his team’s dramatic Game 6 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2008 NBA Finals, Boston Celtics power forward Kevin Garnett screamed to the world that “Anything is possible!”

A similar mantra might apply to the baseball team, especially given the way the Jumbos’ own K.G. is playing these days.

Since 2009, a Tufts pitcher has hurled a complete game shutout just twice. The first was a one-hit gem on April 23, 2010, in a 5-0 win on the road against Bowdoin. The second was a six-strikeout, no-walk outing on Saturday in the Jumbos’ 5-0 win versus Bates.

Both games were thrown by junior Kevin Gilchrist.

Starting to see how anything is possible?

In the first game of Tufts’ NESCAC-opening series with the Bobcats, Gilchrist went the distance, needing just 111 pitches to plow through the Bates lineup and kickstart the Jumbos’ three-game sweep. The junior had masterful command of his three Daily Editorial Board

pitches, scattering 10 hits over nine innings of work.

Only one Bobcat — senior co-captain Pat Murphy — reached third base.

Gilchrist’s outing was not a culmination but rather a continuation of years of hard work that have transformed him from an ineffective freshman who posted a 31.50 ERA over just four innings into the team’s opening day starter.

“Looking at the stats, I would say it could be seen as a disappointment, but it was just part of the learning process,” Gilchrist said of his first year. “I learned from the older guys then that it just wasn’t my time. I had a few opportunities then, but I didn’t step up. It was a learning year.”

After an offseason of rapid maturation, in coach John Casey’s opinion, Gilchrist finally got a chance to shine last spring against defending NESCAC champion Trinity, turning his first collegiate start into a six-inning, fivestrikeout, no-walk effort in the Jumbos’ 10-4 win. Just five days later against the Polar Bears, Gilchrist twirled see GILCHRIST, page 15

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Zachey Kliger

Senior Staff Writer

In a season defined by up-anddown play, the softball team has been in search of a spark. Coming SOFTBALL (11-8, 3-0 NESCAC East) Spicer Field, Sunday Bates Tufts

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Final off a gut-wrenching loss to Springfield College in their home opener on Wednesday, followed by a narrow victory over Williams on Thursday, the team knew it had a lot to prove heading into this past weekend’s three-game series against Bates College, one

of the perennially weaker sides in the NESCAC East.

With much hanging in the balance as the teams opened conference play, the Jumbos rose to the occasion, sweeping the series in convincing fashion and sending the Bobcats home in disarray.

After two-and-a-half innings of play in the first game of the series on Saturday, the Bobcats held a commanding 5-1 advantage.

With sophomore starting pitcher Aly Moskowitz struggling in the circle, Bates looked poised for victory while the Jumbos looked on their way to an opening loss in NESCAC East play.

But in the bottom of the third inning, the Jumbos’ bats came to life. After senior Kristen Finn recorded the first out of the inning for the Bobcats, the Jumbos strung together four consecutive hits, including a two-run double by first-year outfielder Sarah Hedtler.

Then, with two on and two out, a pop-up fell between Bates’ junior first baseman Monica Berube and freshman second baseman Alayna Garbarino, plating two Jumbos, tying the game at five and drastically shifting the momentum.

“That inning definitely boosted our confidence,” senior pitcher Izzie Santone said. “It wasn’t

that we didn’t believe in ourselves before we came back to tie the game, but actually doing it, I think, reminded us just how good we really are.”

The Jumbos orchestrated yet another four-spot in the fifth inning. Freshman infielder Chrissie Massrey capped off the offensive explosion with a two-out, two-run single that gave the Jumbos a 9-5 cushion.

Meanwhile, freshman pitcher Lauren Giglio tamed the Bobcats with 3 2/3 innings of shutout ball before getting into a jam in the seventh, allowing Bates to score two runs and load the bases with nobody out.

However, sophomore Rebecca DiBiase came on and managed to close the door, retiring the Bobcats in order, earning the save and securing the 9-7 victory for the Jumbos.

Moskowitz, who struggled in her fourth start of the year, was charged with five earned runs on six hits over her 2 1/3 innings of work.

After an inspired performance on Saturday, the Jumbos looked to carry their newfound confidence into Sunday’s double-header. The Jumbos did not trail the entire afternoon, and in game one they took advantage of a three-run first see SOFTBALL, page 15

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’m not quite sure there is any possible method of counteracting this statement, but Brad Stevens is the best working coach in college basketball today. That much became certain even far before the Bulldogs once again came up short of making history. Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and John Calipari need to move over, because the 34-year-old Golden Coach with the boyish looks and the trendy glasses has proven himself over the past two seasons to be better than the rest.

Of course, it’s going to take much more than two mere Final Four appearances to vault Stevens up to the pantheon of legendary coaches, or even into the upper echelon of current coaches, in the public’s eye. We’re a generation inundated with household names, and why not? Before 2011, the running list of championship-winning coaches read as follows: Krzyzewski, Williams, Self, Donovan, Donovan, Williams, Calhoun, Boeheim, Williams, Krzyzewski, Izzo, Calhoun, etc. I could go on but history begins to repeat itself after a while.

This is why Stevens’s success is so significant. He’s 34 and tied for 12th among active coaches in Final Four appearances. His March Madness winning percentage is .733 (11-4), second to only Krzyzewski. Since the 1985 tournament expansion, Butler is the 11th school to make it to consecutive Final Fours. Twenty-six schools have earned 11 or more NCAA bids without making any Final Fours. And Stevens did it in two years with a relatively undersized budget and second-rate recruiting classes.

Young players on the court and elderly coaches on the sidelines collectively dominate the college basketball landscape. The former adjective and the latter noun are not supposed to combine. But since when has Stevens listened to anything anyone said?

Perhaps we slept on Butler and should have seen this coming, but who would have thought that the Bulldogs, sans Gordon Hayward, could ever don the glass slipper — again? Underestimate Brad Stevens and you’ll be outcoached time and time again.

A flash in the pan is still a noticeable occurrence regardless of whether it happens again. A steady flame sticks in our minds longer than an ephemeral bonfire. If Stevens never reaches the NCAA Tournament again, he will still be remembered for being the Boy Wonder who brought Butler within a combined 14 points of two NCAA titles.

Pop-culture writer Chuck Klosterman once posed an interesting question: Would you rather have a legacy as a good, honest person who worked hard and contributed to society but have no one remember you; or an obscure legacy that’s wildly popular but had little to do with your day-to-day life (the best example, he writes, being General Tso Tsungtang and his poultry dish).

The latter choice is the obvious answer; most would rather be remembered for something ridiculous than not remembered at all, and the majority who choose Option A do so out of a conscious recognition to avoid sounding greedy. But in reality, we cannot determine our own legacies; those are constructed by external forces. It’s clearly impossible to tell whether coaches like Krzyzewski — probably — or Calipari — certainly not — could do what Stevens did given his inherently underdog situation at Butler.

Around this time in 2010, I pleaded with Brad Stevens to avoid temptation and return to Butler. He listened for one year, saying that he would only leave if kicked out. But the offers will inevitably come; the princes will arrive to court Cinderella and she’ll have to decide whether to ride off into the sunset with Prince Charming.

Here’s another hypothetical: Would you rather be a once-in-a-lifetime coach and build a new legacy at a small school or take a paycheck and a bigger office at a larger one?

The first answer. One hundred times out of 100.

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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Women’s Tennis

No. 5 Jumbos whip Mules, sweep weekend by

Ann Sloan

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Coming off of a successful spring break trip to Florida that included an impressive win over No. 3 University of Chicago, the No. WOMEN’S TENNIS (7-2, 1-0 NESCAC) Wellesley Invitational, Sunday Tufts Brandeis

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5 Jumbos added three more strong victories this weekend. Tufts beat Colby on Saturday and No. 18 The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) and No. 30 Brandeis on Sunday.

The Jumbos’ successful 3-1 record over break — with the only loss coming in their last match of the week against No. 1 Emory — bumped them up in the national rankings from No. 8 to No. 5. The new ranking is the squad’s highest since before anyone on the current roster was playing for Tufts, Senior captain Julia Browne said.

“We’re really happy and excited to have moved up in the rankings, because it shows how talented we are,” sophomore Janice Lam said. “It doesn’t really put any pressure on us as a team, though, because we play every team like it’s a big match.”

On Sunday, the Jumbos competed in the Wellesley Invitational, beating TCNJ and Brandeis. Tufts beat TCNJ 5-0, as the top-four singles matches went unfinished after Tufts had already clinched the win.

Browne, the No. 1 singles player in the nation and the only upperclassman in the Tufts lineup, and freshman Shelci Bowman continued their hot streak in the No. 1 doubles spot, winning their match 8-1.

Sophomore Lauren Hollender and freshman Sam Gann were each able to grab wins at No. 5 and No. 6 singles, respectively.

Hollender let up only one game to opponent sophomore Lauren Balsamo.

“The sophomores have really stepped up

Freshman Shelci Bowman won in straight sets Saturday as Tufts trampled Colby 9-0. to be leaders this year, since a lot of the lineup are freshmen,” Browne said. “But they’ve all really grown to feel comfortable on this team and everyone has a very important role. We would not have the success that we’ve had this season without them.”

Following the TCNJ win, the Jumbos headed to Brandeis, where they came up with the day’s second big victory, beating the Judges 8-1. The Jumbos once again swept the doubles matches with Gann and Lam boasting an 8-2 win in the third doubles match.

At No. 2 singles, sophomore Lindsay Katz won in two quick sets, allowing Brandeis sophomore Faith Broderick to win just three games in the second set after shutting her out in the first. Gann also won her No. 6 match 6-0, 6-3. At the top of the lineup, Browne faced off against senior Rachel Rosman, who came into the match ranked 46th nationally. After losing the first set 6-2, Browne came back to take the second set 6-4 and won 10-3 in the decisive tiebreaker.

Tufts’ only loss was in the No. 4 singles spot, with freshman Eliza Flynn falling to Brandeis freshman Ally Bernstein. Flynn won the first set 7-5 before dropping the next two.

The day before, Tufts faced Colby at home, marking the team’s first NESCAC matchup of the spring season. The Jumbos dominated the Mules with a definitive 9-0 victory.

At No. 1 doubles, Browne and Bowman easily beat Colby seniors Katie Muto and Katie Brezinski in an 8-1 match. At No. 2 doubles, Gann and Lam won slightly less decisively in an 8-4 match. Katz and freshman Dana Siegel won 8-2 at No. 3 doubles.

In singles play, Tufts enjoyed a blowout over the Mules, not giving up a single set.

At No. 1 singles, Browne defeated Colby’s Muto 6-0, 6-1 for the first singles win of the day. Gann won almost as convincingly at the No. 5 spot with a 6-0, 6-2 finish. The sixth match marked freshman Rebecca Kimmel’s first collegiate outing, which she won 6-2, 6-4.

“Everyone just goes out there and tries to take care of their own business on the court,” Browne said. “Dana and [Rebecca] stepped in and did a really great job against Colby, so they should both be very proud of how they competed, as well as everyone else on the team.”

The next three Tufts matches are against NESCAC opponents, the first of which comes on Friday, when the Jumbos face No. 13 Bowdoin at home.

“We’re definitely looking forward to playing a more competitive team like Bowdoin,” Lam said. “It’s going to be tough so it will push us harder and prepare us for the season’s big matches against Williams and Amherst.”

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after inning. The southpaw allowed 10 hits, but fanned six batters while not issuing a single walk. He kept hitters guessing and controlled the tempo from beginning to end in Tufts’ first complete game shutout since Gilchrist himself delivered a one-hit gem against Bowdoin last April.

“I pitched to contact and kept the ball low to get groundballs,” said Gilchrist, who recorded nine of his 27 outs that way. “All three of my pitches were working, so I was able to mix things up and keep the hitters off-balance.”

Meanwhile, Bates junior starter Karl Alexander stymied Tufts’ lineup for the first three innings before the Jumbos burst through with a four-run effort in

the fourth. Rose and Collins singled, and sophomore outfielder Eric Weikert was hit by a pitch, setting up the bottom of the order with the bases loaded and nobody out.

Senior left fielder Ian Goldberg opened the floodgates with a sacrifice fly before sophomore first baseman Tom Howard singled home another run. The Jumbos added two more when co-captains senior shortstop David LeResche and Sager received free passes with the bases loaded, the former on a walk and the latter on a hit-by-pitch.

Tufts manufactured an insurance run in the fifth, as Collins led off with a double, Weikert bunted him over to third and Goldberg sent him home on his second sacrifice fly in as many innings.

The 5-0 tally held up as the final score

of the game.

The Jumbos (9-4-1 overall, 3-0 NESCAC) appear to have righted their ship after an up-and-down spring break trip and are now riding a six-game winning streak.

Tufts will head to Waltham, Mass., today for a doubleheader against Brandeis and Daniel Webster beginning at 3 p.m. Its NESCAC campaign resumes on Friday with a three-game series against Trinity, and the team’s next home match comes on April 13 against Bentley.

“We played well this weekend, but there’s definitely a lot of room for us to get better,” Rose said. “We need to have better at-bats and get better pitches to hit to improve offensively. We’re definitely going to need to do that to come away with three more wins against Trinity next weekend.”

Jo Clair, Casey Egan named NESCAC Players of the Week A dominant weekend at the plate earned freshman catcher Jo Clair NESCAC Player of the Week honors for the first time in her young career. Clair, who entered the team’s three-game set against Bates this weekend with six home runs, showed no signs of slowing down, going 7-for-8 with three home runs and eight RBIs. Her slugging percentage for the weekend was a gargantuan 2.125 as she helped her team to a three-game sweep of the Bobcats.

The freshman has made an immediate impact for the Jumbos since arriving on campus this fall. She leads the team in home runs, RBIs, slugging percentage and walks. She has also split time with classmate Chrissie Massrey behind the plate, filling the gap left by junior Julia Silberman, who is not playing this season. With nine home runs, Clair is already within five home runs of the Tufts single-season record of 14, set by Courtney Bongiolatti (LA ‘05) in 2005.

Junior midfielder Casey Egan also won the NESCAC Player of the Week award after the women’s lacrosse team went 2-0 in conference play this past week. The Massapequa, N.Y., native netted 10 goals and compiled 14 points on the week, tripling her goals total for the year (15) and contributing to Tufts’ two dominating victories (19-9 over Wesleyan and 11-8 over Bates).

Egan also added two draw controls and two ground balls while causing two turnovers against the Cardinals and Bobcats. The junior now leads the team with 25 points, while also racking up nine ground balls on the year, good for fourth on the team.

Tufts has scored 68 goals in conference play to lead all NESCAC teams and is 4-1 against league opponents, tied with Trinity atop the wins column.

—compiled by the Daily Sports Department

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Jumbos begin NESCAC season with up-and-down week

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Senior Staff Writer

The tennis team began its NESCAC season on Thursday with a resounding 9-0 victory over Connecticut College before MEN’S TENNIS (7-3, 1-1 NESCAC) Brunswick, Mass., Sunday Tufts Bowdoin

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being overmatched on Sunday by No. 14 Bowdoin College, 8-1.

The match against Conn. College was forced indoors due to the inclement weather, and the quick courts posed a challenge to both teams. Coming off a 6-3 victory against No. 27 Vassar, Tufts looked to maintain its momentum heading into the NESCAC slate.

“We were pretty confident going into the Conn. College match,” senior co-captain Paul Kohnstamm said. “As a team we take every match seriously, but Conn. College has traditionally been one of the weaker teams in the NESCAC.” The Jumbos resoundingly defeated the Camels with sophomore Andrew Lutz winning a three-setter at No. 1 singles, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2. Lutz began the match slowly, trying to gain his footing on the quick courts that suited his style of play well. In the last two sets, however, Lutz made quick work of Camels senior Trevor Prophet.

“Going into the match the fast courts were ideal for a serve and volleyer like me, which favored big serving and quick points,” Lutz said. “During the first set, it took a while for me to adjust. I had a lot of errors at the net and had difficulty returning my opponent’s serve.”

Sophomore Ben Barad won his match at No. 2 singles against Jeff Weisberger, 6-2, 6-2, while freshman Austin Blau won his match at No. 5 singles by the same tally. The

match was also Blau’s first of the season, after returning from a broken finger.

Junior Sam Laber in the No. 3 singles pulled through in a tough third set tiebreaker, defeating sophomore George King, 6-4,4-6, 7-6 (5).

In the doubles matches, Tufts also produced big victories. The No. 1 pairing of junior Kai Victoria and Lutz started slowly, falling behind 5-3, but quickly regained the momentum and pulled out an 8-6 victory.

Lutz and Victoria have made great strides in their first season together.

“Kai and I, over spring break, really found our game, and we like to be aggressive and show a lot of formations,” Lutz said. “Against Conn. College we got off to a slow start and were down 5-3, but we got it together and bounced back and managed to pull it out 8-6.”

After playing Conn. College, the Jumbos had to transition from playing on one of the fastest surfaces in the NESCAC to playing on one of its slowest at Bowdoin College.

The Jumbos were overmatched by the Polar Bears’ strong doubles play and the Polar Bears carried that momentum into their singles play as well.

“Going from Conn. College to Bowdoin was a very unique challenge,” Kohnstamm said. “We tried as much as we could to work on our topspin and slowing down our strokes.

A lot of the times in Gantcher in the winter we try and play fast, hitting the ball flat with a lot of slice, but that doesn’t work on Bowdoin’s courts. Instead, we tried to work our kick serves and topspin.”

The closest match was at the No. 1 doubles where Tufts’ top pairing of Lutz and Victoria faced off against Bowdoin’s senior Stephen Sullivan and freshman Sam King. At five-all and up 15-40 in the first to eight-games set, Sullivan hit a clean winner off of a perfectly placed Lutz serve and the Polar Bears broke serve. In the next game, the Jumbos had three break points on Sullivan’s serve but couldn’t capitalize.

“Sullivan came up with some big shots at big moments,” Lutz said. “In the end we can’t say that we didn’t play well. It was a tough loss, but we can take a lot of positives from the match.”

The lone win for the Jumbos came from senior Tony Carucci, who won at the No. 6 singles spot in an abbreviated match, 8-4.

“To beat a top 20 team we need to bring

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Sophomore Andrew Lutz, pictured above in a match on April 30, 2010, was victorious in both No. 1 singles and doubles as Tufts blanked Conn. College on Thursday. our ‘A’ game, and we didn’t against Bowdoin,” Kohnstamm said.

The Jumbos will now rest up until facing MIT on April 13, embarking on the most grueling part of their season with seven matches in sixteen days.

The Jumbos last year lost to MIT 5-4, winning two of the three doubles matches, but losing ground in singles. However, they will

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his first complete game for Tufts and earned NESCAC Pitcher of the Week honors in the process.

“He’s matured a lot in the last year and a half, just in terms of knowing how to go about his business as a pitcher and maintaining poise and composure,” Casey said. “His first year, he wasn’t ready to pitch, but last year he took his steps all the way along.

He’s just staying within himself, doing his job, trusting his stuff. He’s confident when he stays on top of that ball. Until you face him, you don’t realize how much his ball moves.”

And down the stretch in Tufts’ best-ever season, Gilchrist became a regular fixture in the rotation, earning the win in the conference tournament opener versus Wesleyan and pitching a complete game against St. Joseph’s (Maine) in the NCAA

Div. III New England Regional Tournament. He finished 2010 with a 6-1 record in 51.2 innings, 34 strikeouts against 18 walks and a 3.48 ERA; were it not for a four-inning, seven-run showing in the New England Championship versus UMass-Boston, though, Gilchrist would have sported a 2.45 ERA. Through his third season under Casey, Gilchrist has hardly missed a step. And although his coach is hesitant to slap the “ace” label on any Jumbo, Gilchrist is undeniably pitching like one lately, on an incredibly deep staff filled with quality starters and relievers.

But for all the success and the Second-Team All-NESCAC honors, Gilchrist has avoided adopting a big head, preferring to remain humble and focused rather than adopt what Casey called a “rockstar” persona.

“If you don’t always focus

on what you have to do, you’re not going to be able to make good pitches, and you’re going to be worried about stuff that’s not really relevant,” Gilchrist said. “We have so many good pitchers that anybody can step in at any moment, so you really have to be on top of your game. If you allow yourself to get distracted, you could lose your spot at any time.”

A Medford native, Gilchrist knew little about Tufts’ baseball program before he began looking at colleges. But now that he’s spent a few years on the Hill, he can’t imagine himself anywhere else.

“Being on this team is my favorite thing about Tufts,” he said. “The guys who have been in the program are awesome and the experience has been unbelievable. To be from Medford and to be able to play with these guys from all over the country in my hometown is just great.”

go into this year’s match with confidence.

“If there is anything we have learned, we are a deep team and everyone in the starting six is pretty even,” Lutz said. “MIT beat us 5-4 last year but we are definitely more confident, and typically MIT hasn’t been as strong at doubles so we will look to take advantage of that. Our goal is to take a lead from doubles and hopefully that will translate to singles.”

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inning and a five-spot in the fifth to catapult to a 9-3 win.

The second game of the afternoon finished much like the first. The Jumbos rode a fourhit, five-inning shutout performance from DiBiase en route to an 8-0, mercy rule walk-off victory in five innings. Once again, Tufts made use of one big inning to secure the victory, though this time the bats waited until the fourth to do the damage.

Tufts sent nine batters to the plate and scored five runs in the frame that was highlighted by a three-run blast to left field off the bat of freshman catcher Jo Clair.

The long ball was Clair’s third of the afternoon and brought her season total up to nine.

Clair’s numbers on Sunday were remarkable, as she went 5-for-6 and produced seven RBIs. Junior first baseman Lena

Cantone also did her part, going 5-for-7 on the day with five singles and three runs scored.

DiBiase had good velocity and mixed in her change-up well in a stellar weekend, striking out eight and walking five in 15 innings without allowing an earned run.

The team improved to 11-8 overall, but more importantly is now undefeated (3-0) in the NESCAC East. The question remains whether the Jumbos will continue to stay hot or, in a season characterized by fluctuations, regress into another slump.

Their next test comes today with a double-header at Wellesley, and coach Cheryl Milligan is confident the team is heading in the right direction.

“We’re playing really sound softball right now,” Milligan said.

“We’re doing all the little things rights, we’re not making errors and we’re taking good at-bats. We need to keep this up moving forward.”

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