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Sexual Violence Working Group fosters awareness

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A new university-wide Sexual Violence Working Group, spearheaded by the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO), will meet throughout the semester to address sexual assault prevention and awareness among students and to make current university policies regarding sexual assault readily available and visible.

The working group, comprised of administrators, faculty, staff and students from the Grafton, Medford/Somerville and Boston campuses, aims to revise the university’s approach to combating sexual violence, according to Violence Prevention Education Coordinator Elaine Theodore.

“The goal is to have a really diverse group of people and to look at all the issues that affect sexual violence on campus, ranging from reporting, to peer groups, to policy,” she said.

Members of the working group are responsible for making recommendations to a steering committee of administrators and staff about the most effective ways for the campus to confront sexual violence, Theodore said.

The working group includes representatives from many different departments on campus, ensuring that the steering committee will receive a wide array of opinions and suggestions, according to Theodore. The Office of Residential Life and Learning, the Athletics Department, the Tufts University Police Department and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs are represented in the group.

Subcommittees of the larger working group have been meeting to discuss spesee WORKING GROUP, page 2

Cummings School partners with Worcester Technical High School to open animal clinic by

Patrick McGrath

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The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine earlier this month unveiled a partnership with Worcester Technical High School (WTHS) in Worcester, Mass., to open a low-cost primary care clinic for animals on the high school’s campus this spring.

Cummings School Professor John Rush and Associate Professor Elizabeth Rozanski and both in the Department of Clinical Sciences, originally developed the core ideas for the initiative around four years ago, and Cummings School graduate and Staff Veterinarian Gregory Wolfus will serve as the supervisor for the clinic, according to Rush.

The clinic was created in part to offer more primary care experience to Cummings School students, according to Rozanski.

“We were interested in increasing our students’ ability to learn how to deliver primary care to veterinary patients that they don’t get exposed as much to in a teaching hospital — vaccines, ear infections, minor surgical procedures, stomach upsets — those sorts of things that they’ll see a lot of once they finish veterinary school,” Rozanski said.

The clinic was also developed to provide treatment for underserved animals in the Greater Worcester area that do not have access to treatment for diseases such as rabies and parvovirus, according to Rozanski.

Work has already begun on the clinic space, which will be located on the high school’s campus.

Worcester is an ideal location for the clinic not only because of its proximity to the Cummings School, which is located

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The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is partnering with Worcester Technical High School to open a low-cost primary care clinic for animals on the high school’s campus. in nearby Grafton, but also based on the substantial population of underserved animals in the area, according to Rush.

“The school has done some things in the past with the Worcester Housing Authority and found that the majority of the animals that are there are not getting regular veterinary care, often due to the cost of veterinary care,” Rush said.

“We think there’s a significant additional low-income population in the Worcester area whose needs are not being met right now because they can’t afford it, so the animals are not getting care,” he said.

Rush explained that, given the num-

Harvard Professor Pinker to deliver EPIIC keynote address by

Mahpari Sotoudeh

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Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University Steven Pinker on Friday will deliver this year’s Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award keynote address at the 26th annual Norris and Margery Bendetson Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) symposium.

Pinker is one of nine recipients of this year’s Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, an honor that is traditionally presented at the EPIIC symposium to individuals who have demonstrably utilized the values of scholarship, research and teaching in order to solve pressing global issues.

The speech will be followed by an interview with renowned journalist Christopher Lydon, former host of National Public Radio’s see PINKER, page 2

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World-renowned public intellectual and scientist Steven Pinker will deliver the keynote address at this week’s EPIIC symposium.

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ber of thriving veterinary clinics in the Worcester area, the new clinic will be committed to serving only those animals whose owners have genuine financial need.

The collaboration between the schools was initiated in part by the Cummings School’s Shelter Medicine Program, launched in 2008, which provides outreach to local shelters and animal welfare organizations, particularly in Worcester, according to Cummings School Associate Director of Communications Tom Keppeler. see CUMMINGS, page 2

Tufts Mock Trial Update Tufts Mock Trial (TMT) has earned a bid to the American Mock Trial Association’s Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) following wins this weekend at a regional tournament in Goddstown, N.H., according to Officer of External Affairs for Tufts Mock Trial Brian Pilchik.

TMT sent two teams to the tournament, according to Pilchik, a sophomore.

Tufts’ A team finished in third place out of 24 teams and will continue on to the ORCS in White Plains, N.Y., on March 10-11, where the team will compete for a spot at Nationals in Minneapolis, Minn.

Tufts’ C team has been placed on the open-bid list, which serves as a waitlist for a bid to the ORCS, according to Pilchik.

The top eight teams from this weekend’s tournament will continue on to the ORCS, according to Pilchik.

Wellesley College came out on top with a record of 7-01, followed closely by Colby College, which went 7-1.

Harvard University finished in

fifth place, and Yale University rounded out the top eight.

At the tournament, senior Nicholas LoCastro and junior Alexander Gottfried received Attorney Awards. Freshmen Abby Hollenstein and Vincent Carbone, as well as sophomore Laura Lasko, received Witness Awards.

TMT hopes to earn another bid to the ORCS at the Boston regional next weekend, where two Tufts teams will compete, according to Pilchik.

The match records were as follows: Tufts A Team Overall: 6-1-1 2-0 v. Brandeis 1-0-1 v. UNH 1-1 v. UMass Amherst 2-0 v. Maine Tufts C Team Overall: 4-3-1 2-0 vs. UMass Amherst 1-0-1 vs. BC 0-2 vs. Colby vs. UNH —by Laina Piera

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2 Visiting the Hill this Week TUESDAY “1.4 Billion Reasons” Details: The Global Poverty Project will bring a multimedia presentation to campus to educate students about extreme poverty.

When and Where: 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Cabot ASEAN Auditorium Sponsors: Engineers Without Borders and Timmy Global Health WEDNESDAY “American Democracy in Crisis” Details: Dr. Cornel West, author of “Race Matters” (1993) and “Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism” (2004), will discuss the upcoming presidential election.

When and Where: 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Cohen Auditorium Sponsors: The Diversity Fund, the Peace and Justice Studies Program, the Africana Center, the Office of Intercultural and Social Identities Program, Student Affairs and the Office for Campus Life “The Legal Implications of Guantanamo Bay” Details: New England School of Law Professor Jamie Williamson, an expert in international law, will discuss the history and future of the offshore

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When and Where: 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., Miner Hall Terrace Room Sponsor: IR Director’s Leadership Council “Meet the Producers” Details: Television and Stage Writers and Producers Prudence Fraser Sternin (J ‘77) and Robert Sternin (A ‘77) will discuss their careers in television production, including their work on “Three’s Company,” “Who’s the Boss?” and “The Nanny.”

When and Where: 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Aidekman 12 Sponsor: The Department of Drama and Dance, the Communications and Media Studies Program and the Office of Advancement FRIDAY “Iki Cihan Arasinda/Between Two Worlds — An Ottoman Musical Tapestry” Details: The DÜNYA ensemble will present a program of Turkish music and other educational activities.

When and Where: 8:00 p.m., Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center Sponsor: The Granoff Music Fund —compiled by Elizabeth McKay

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WTHS is also an ideal institute to partner with as the school offers a veterinary assistant program, according to Keppeler.

The two institutions’ shared local interests led to their cooperation, he said.

Although WTHS students learn veterinary assisting theory, they have not previously had access to live animals. Through the clinic, WTHS students will have the opportunity to communicate with clients in reception, speak with clients on the telephone, serve as cashiers for clients, help with general animal steadying and restraint for veterinary students and learn how to process laboratory materials, according to Wolfus.

“The majority of things that need to be accomplished in a small animal hospital, the high school students will be challenged and allowed to do — obviously senior students getting more exposure than junior and younger students,” Wolfus said.

“We’re hoping to have sort of a peermentor program amongst the high school students along with the other students that are going to be in the clinic,” he added.

Cummings School students will gain experience in communication skills and decision making for finances and treat-

ment approaches that would be useful at any veterinary clinic. Students will also learn how to conduct some of the more challenging conversations that come with being a veterinarian, according to Rush.

The clinic is scheduled to continue indefinitely. Its model is intended to serve as a standard that can be replicated and used by veterinary schools elsewhere, according to Keppeler.

Rush explained that between the roles of veterinarian and veterinary assistant, there is also the role of veterinary technician, which is taught at the undergraduate level.

Rush said that he hopes that the clinic will establish a relationship with Becker College in Worcester to provide training for their veterinary technician students in the future.

“I think that this is just a wonderful initiative for Tufts to take on and is a real testament to the university’s commitment to active citizenship,” Keppeler said.

“This is Tufts once again being a leader in the community and figuring out a way to deliver education in a way that incorporates mentorship, that incorporates nontraditional learning and provides a good to the community,” he added. “In that sense, it is a win-win from every angle.”

Pinker selected for his strong interdisciplinary background PINKER

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Office of Equal Opportunity Director Jill Zellmer is among the university leaders who are members of the steering committee for the Sexual Violence Working Group.

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cific topics such as the communication of the sexual assault policy, the reporting of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment prevention training, Theodore said.

“We have people in high positions [on the steering committee] who can see these changes come to fruition and a working group for those who are more in contact with students day to day,” she said.

The steering committee includes OEO Director Jill Zellmer, Title IX Investigator Sonia Jurado, Senior Vice President of University Relations Mary Jeka, Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman, Judicial Affairs Officer Veronica Carter and Director of Alcohol and Health Education Ian Wong, as well as other university leaders, according to Theodore.

“A lot of the people on this steering committee feel strongly about being in this working group,” Theodore said. “It’s wonderful because these are people who can really make things happen.”

While the working group is still in its nascent stages, members have already established encouraging students to report episodes of sexual violence as a primary objective, according to Reitman.

“There has been a dramatic underreporting of incidents of sexual misconduct,” he said. “It’s the most underreported offense in the college community, whether it’s this college or any other.”

The working group has been actively developing a plan of action to improve the communication of sexual assault policies to students, according to Carter.

“We’re trying to make the policies as visible as we can,” she said.

“How do we get information to students where they’ll read it? Is it through email, through the Daily, or online?”

The working group recently prescribed two changes towards the achievement of that goal, Reitman said. These changes include a link provided on the TuftsLife.com homepage to direct students to sexual misconduct resources and the inclusion of sexual assault policies in the recently proposed Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate newsletter, according to Reitman.

Student input is an integral part of the subcommittee meetings, with the students on the working group sharing their experiences and proposing new ways to reach out to the Tufts student body regarding sexual violence, according to Theodore.

In early February, Theodore advertised participation in the working group via TuftsLife in an attempt to involve students.

“This group is the place where students are really heard,” Theodore said. “They’re eagerly listened to about what needs to change and how it needs to change.”

Another major concern of the working group is making sure that every student reads and understands the university’s Policy on Sexual Assault and the Sexual Misconduct Adjudication Policy of the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, both of which can be found in the Student Handbook on the Student Affairs website, Reitman explained.

“Usually by the time students are looking for that information, there’s been some trouble,” he said. “Part of the conversation of this group is how to get people to look at that stuff and pay attention beforehand.”

Theodore expressed optimism for the working group to produce substantial changes this semester.

“Things are not perfect right now, but for the first time since I’ve been here, I think that we have stuff on the table that really can be changed,” she said. “I’m pretty excited about this whole effort.”

“The Connection,” as well as a question-and-answer session with the audience.

This year’s symposium, which runs Wednesday through Sunday, is titled “Conflict in the 21st Century” and will bring together prominent speakers and experts as the culmination of the EPIIC colloquium.

Pinker, a distinguished public intellectual with extensive scientific credentials, forayed into the field of international relations in his new book “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” (2011). In the book, he combines political science, game theory, statistical analysis and sociology into a hypothesis that explains the decline of global violence in the second half of the 20th century.

He argues that the development of pacifistic social norms engendered by numerous exogenous factors — such as the development of a powerful state Leviathan that enforces law and the concomitant construction of a positive-sum economy — has made humanity fundamentally more humane and less inclined to resort to violence.

Pinker’s keynote speech will serve as one of the major focal points of this year’s symposium, according to Institute for Global Leadership Director Sherman Teichman.

“I think this will be one of the pivotal moments of the symposium in terms of the uniqueness of Pinker’s argument: has violence declined or not?” Teichman said.

Teichman said that Pinker’s multidisciplinary synthesis of various academic fields made him a natural candidate to be the keynote speaker at this year’s symposium.

“It’s significant that an individual of such great stature is going to deliver the keynote speech,” he said.

Graham Starr, a freshman EPIIC student, explained that Pinker’s position within the intellectual community, together with the power of his rhetoric, figured prominently in his selection as the keynote speaker.

“He understands what we’re doing, and he is the ideal person

to be our speaker because he is such a powerful person in ideas and in conveyance and in ideology,” Starr said.

“Because he is such a powerful intellectual, he is not only the type of person we could learn a lot from, but also one who could also influence us and influence others to go through this path of understanding conflict and making the world a little better, because I think at the end of the day that’s what most people do.”

Teichman anticipates that the rapport between Lydon and Pinker will invigorate the symposium with the robust intellectual inquiry and interdisciplinary exchange that are hallmarks of the IGL and its cornerstone EPIIC program.

“Christopher Lydon will be coming in dialogue with Steven Pinker, so we’ll have a dialogical moment on the book to keynote this symposium,” Teichman said.

Pinker is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and has been named one of “Time Magazine’s” 100 most influential scientists and thinkers amongst his numerous accolades. He also holds a spot on “Prospect and Foreign Policy’s” prestigious list of the 100 top public intellectuals and has received numerous awards for his work in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

EPIIC student Aparna Ramanan hopes that the thought-provoking argument that lies at the core of Pinker’s 800-page manifesto will lead to discussion among attendees and influence them to examine and reanalyze the prisms through which they view modern global conflict and pacification. She added that she was interested in probing deeper into the statistical methodology that informed Pinker’s conclusion.

“He’s talking about the fact that war has decreased, and I think that’s a very important assertion to debate and argue about because that changes how we look at the 21st century and conflict within it,” Ramanan, a junior, said. “Our class found it a contentious issue and we had a lot of questions about the methodology by which these statements are made. We thought it would be a very noteworthy keynote to address,” she said.

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Trexler leaves behind three decades of dance achievement at Tufts by

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Not every Tufts professor remembers a time when Jackson College was listed on female students’ diplomas or when the Hill lacked Tufts Dance Collective performances. Associate Professor and Director of Dance Alice Trexler has seen it all. After 34 years at Tufts, she plans to retire in May. Trexler’s career in dance has spanned decades. She first fell in love with dance at the age of four, and recalled repeatedly listening to the song “Tina the Ballerina” on a children’s record.

“My parents didn’t want me to [dance],” Trexler said. “But I begged and begged and begged, and my parents finally relented when I was in the first grade.”

Beginning with dance lessons in her home state of North Carolina, Trexler explored all types of dance, including jazz and ballet. She aspired to become a Broadway dancer and majored in dance at New York University (NYU). During that time, she performed on multiple stages, even en pointe in the ballet “Giselle.”

However, while under the tutelage of professors at NYU, Trexler realized her real passion was teaching.

“I just got captured by the whole world of dance education … and by everything going on in the world of education” Trexler said.

Before coming to Tufts in the fall of 1978, Trexler taught at Wellesley College and Bryn Mawr College.

At Tufts, Trexler has been instrumental in improving and updating the dance department, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008.

“One of my top goals [when I got to Tufts] was to add non-Western dance,” Trexler said.

Trexler was successful, and currently there are a variety of non-Western dance classes offered, including African, Salsa and Indian. These courses culminate in a World Dance Night, where students demonstrate samples of the dances they learn throughout the semester.

In addition, when Trexler arrived in 1978, studio dance courses could not fulfill the arts distribution requirement, unlike music or art classes. She petitioned to get dance Contributing Writer

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Professor Alice Trexler has taught at Tufts since 1978, broadening the Dance Department and fostering the creation of student dance groups along the way. classes recognized and succeeded in doing so in 1980.

Originally held in Jackson Gym’s wrestling room, dance classes also benefited from Trexler’s organization and are now held in the gym’s studios.

Trexler is especially proud of the university’s 15 student dance groups.

“There were no extra-curricular dance groups when I came here. TDC was not a performing group. They were a programming board,” she said. “Now, over 75 percent of student dance groups rehearse in [Jackson’s] spaces.”

Trexler has also been involved in many facets of Tufts outside of the dance department.

“I guess I’ve been sort of the unconventional dance faculty member in ways. I didn’t stick clearly with dance all the time,” Trexler said. “I kept myself very busy.”

Trexler has headed various Arts and Sciences committees and has also taught one of the first courses for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, “Challenging Boundaries,” with Professor Emeritus of

English Jesper Rosenmeier and Professor of Biology, Francie Chew.

Trexler and Chew also jointly developed a cross-listed dance and American studies course, “Viewing African-American Dance: Perspectives from Art and Science.” The course delves into the histories of dance, social politics, medicine and biology.

Trexler and Chew aimed both to show how the natural sciences have reinforced differences and to shed light on the Civil Rights Movement.

Chew relayed one example from the class, saying that Rosa Parks did not just choose randomly to refuse to give up her seat. According to Chew, it took years of preparation on the part of Parks as well as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Trexler and Chew also looked at the use of dance as self-expression by AfricanAmerican choreographers and dancers.

Both Trexler and Chew have a long-standing interest on this topic and are interested see TREXLER, page 4

Tufts-in-Ghana still study-abroad mainstay

Diversity and global reach are among Tufts’ core values, and its study-abroad programs are essential to that foundation.

Furthering this mission was the goal of the Tufts-in-Ghana program when it was established in 1996 and continues to be its goal today. The program has overcome many obstacles to that end, including a year-and-a-half-long suspension.

The Tufts-in-Ghana program was the brainchild of Associate Professor of Music David Locke and Associate Professor of Political Science Pearl Robinson, the director of the International Relations Program at the time. Along with potential programs in Japan, Hong Kong and China, the studyabroad program in Ghana was an effort “to make the International Relations Program truly global and to open up opportunities for study abroad to a broader range of undergraduates,” Robinson said.

Locke, who specializes in Ghanaian music and dance, was also part of the faculty group interested in diversifying the foreign study programs. While other locations were considered, the University of Ghana (Legon), located in the capital city of Accra, was an advantageous choice because of the contacts Locke maintained after studying and traveling there for many years, he said. Tufts now sends between 12 and 15 students to Ghana every year.

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the Hill. The Ghana program has a unique take on this reciprocal exchange by not only educating Tufts students, but also engaging them in global issues, according to Robinson.

However, this exchange can create a “brain drain,” an issue that many developing African countries, including Ghana, face. Therefore, instead of undergraduate students, junior faculty and graduate students from the University of Ghana spend a year on the Tufts campus in fellowships to work on their dissertations.

They are allowed to take classes and gain access to Tufts’ library resources, according to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Director of Programs Abroad Sheila Bayne.

“We like to think of it as a reverse brain drain,” Locke said. “Instead of attracting the best and brightest talent from Africa and have it leave Africa, we’re rather adding value to Africans that are committed to helping Ghana, and then they return to Ghana.”

Robinson reported that the program has sponsored over 35 Ghanaians at Tufts.

“We feel really proud that it has been a reciprocal arrangement,” Bayne said.

“It’s not just Tufts sending students out to have experiences somewhere, but it’s also contributing to the development of the Ghanaian [intelligentsia].”

The leaders behind the launch of the program also recognized the importance of having a study-abroad program in Africa considering Tufts’ commitment to diversity, according to Locke.

“We wanted to give students of color the opportunity to go to a place where it was a majority population,” he said.

Junior Ruth Tam, who participated in Tufts-in-Ghana last semester, explained that the diversity of the group of students who studied alongside her in Ghana contributed a great deal to her experience. “[In general], the majority of Tufts students are white kids, and as a student of color that’s something I’ve had to get used to on the Medford campus,” Tam said.

“But when we were abroad, the majority of the students that went were black, and for the first time I was able to feel that, as a student of color, I was the majority, something I had never experienced before.”

This diversity enabled the discussion of topics that are normally considered taboo, Tam said.

“I think that discussions about race get swept under the carpet when we’re on campus, [but] in Ghana, discussions about race came up naturally because it was something we were all affected by regardless of our background,” she said. “It was refreshing to talk about experiences of race and not feel it was the minority opinion.”

Materially, students experience a considerably different lifestyle during their time in Ghana than students who choose to study abroad in popular destinations like the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain.

“My daily routine involved getting up and seeing if the water was on,” Tam said. “The water lines would go off see GHANA, page 4

W

e all want to be one in a million.

How about one in a billion? You could be a forensic ornithologist!

What? Well, in this age of CSI, anything with “forensic” in the title is irresistibly sexy.

Bird strikes have posed an enormous threat to airplanes from the time of Orville Wright. But before you grab the airsickness bag in the seat pocket in front of you and develop an irrational fear of flying, remember that bird strikes are common, and engineers have designed jets to take up to five pounds of bird. (That more than covers tiny songbirds or even a goose.) Still, when a bird hits a plane, the consequences can be dire, like in the 2009 Miracle on the Hudson, when a routine commuter flight landed safely and relatively smoothly after intersecting with an entire flock of migrating Canada geese.

When that happens, it’s time to call in the experts — the world’s premier forensic ornithologists are based out of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Behind the scenes, the museum isn’t only dealing with ancient artifacts. Ongoing research takes place. Under fluorescent lights, big white boxes are filled with shelf after shelf of archived bird carcasses, tagged with detailed labels and shaped into narrow, torpedo-like bodies lined up side by side.

Welcome to the Division of Birds. There is only one lab in the world devoted exclusively to bird strike identifications, the Feather Identification Lab, in which four scientists churn out about 6,000 identifications per year and up to 300 cases a week during peak migration in the fall. Research assistant Marcy Heacker explains that airlines will send her “what we call ‘snarge,’ a contraction of snot and garbage. Basically, it’s the mess of blood and tissue and yuck left over when a bird hits a plane.” Yum. It makes sense that such an operation is run out of the Smithsonian, which has the world’s third-largest collection of taxidermied specimens. The collection dates to the 1800s, well before the advent of airplanes. The scientists at the Feather Identification Lab used to perform identifications by looking at the morphology of the whole feather, and particularly at the fluffy down, under a microscope. They compare feather fragments from bird strikes to the specimens in the archives.

More recently, the lab has switched to DNA technology to return more specific results.

Still, old fashioned identification can provide a valuable system of checks and balances; geneticist Nor Faridah Dahlan recalls that on one of her first days on the job, she received a sample from a damaged Air Force case.

“I’d run the sample multiple times, and it kept coming back, ‘DEER,’ and I thought, oh no! I’m supposed to be getting ‘BIRD,’” she said.

While most common, birds aren’t the only wildlife strikes that threaten aviation, and large animals like deer do get hit during takeoff and landing, like a car accident. But the pilot in this case insisted that it occurred in the air.

“Yes, I remember I was exactly 1500 feet up and I remember the pop, and then there was a hole in my wing,” he said.

The whole incident occurred shortly after Christmas, and Dahlan likes to joke that the plane struck Rudolph. (The forensic ornithologists had to piece together all the clues and eventually found that the plane had hit a turkey vulture. The vulture had just eaten a deer and still had deer tissue in its crop.)

Solving mysteries, saving lives … sound glamorous? Unfortunately, your job prospects are pretty slim, since the Smithsonian lab has just four staff scientists and is the only one in the world. You might not see “forensic ornithologist” pop up in Career Connect anytime soon.

Alyson Yee is a senior majoring in biology and French. She can be reached at Alyson.

Yee@tufts.edu.

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in pursuing it further in the future.

“We both have a long-trailed history of being interested in and committed to eliminating racism,” Chew said. “I think our point was any social movement has its rock bottom and some very committed people with a lot of hard work. Leaders are made, they’re not born.”

Chew had nothing but praise for Trexler.

“She’s enormously creative … and has a sly sense of humor,” Chew said, noting that she is especially impressed by Trexler’s ability to use movement to both help people understand each other and to create trust.

“She has a very deep understanding that we live an embodied existence, meaning we are in our bodies … but once you’ve danced with somebody, you can sit and talk,” she said. “She’s the sort of person who would do something because it needed to be done, even if there was nobody to do it except her.”

Trexler’s colleague, Daniel McCusker, senior lecturer and head of Dance Performance Activities, agreed.

“I was amazed by her level of energy and commitment to the dance program at Tufts. There was a point when she was the only person teaching dance, and that says something about her per-

severance and vision,” McCusker said.

Furthermore, Trexler has made an impact on many alumni and continues to maintain relationships with past students. In fact, she noted that she would miss the students most.

“I love my students, I really do,” Trexler said.

She has even left an indelible mark on Tufts’ newest students.

“After I took [her] class, I wanted to continue taking dance,” freshman Cokie Nanka, who had little dance experience before taking the class, said.

“She definitely cares about everyone,” freshman Kirk Jackson said. “She gives us

hugs, and [her attitude] is more like, ‘We’re going to go through this experience together and explore what we can create.’”

Trexler said that her proudest accomplishment at Tufts is breaking down stereotypes of dancers by teaching students across various disciplines. She is excited to begin working for political campaigns and environmental and social justice causes after retirement.

“My philosophy has always been just do what you have to do, do as much as you can and stop worrying about things you can’t control,” Trexler said. “So I’m trying to really enjoy my students and get to know my new group.”

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occasionally, as would the electricity.”

Bayne agreed that the day-to-day experience of living in Ghana is fundamentally different from many of the other study-abroad programs Tufts offers.

“The experience you get in Ghana, a place that has a very different history from our country, that is materially in a different place, and living that and seeing it up close is a tremendous cultural learning experience, probably more so than any of the other programs we offer through Tufts,” Bayne said.

The program has overcome several obstacles as it developed over the years, amending its policies along the way. It was suspended in 2000 following the sexual assault of a Tufts student on the Accra campus, one of a string of reported incidents of sexual assaults against participating Tufts students.

Cultural differences surrounding the sensitive subject threatened to damage the reputations of both institutions in what turned into a high-profile case, Robinson said.

“People at Legon felt it was inappropriate of this American student to think she could go jogging in a forest near campus at six o’clock at night, something no Ghanaian student would have done,” Robinson said.

Courtesy Ruth Tam

Students in the Tufts-in-Ghana program are introduced to a vastly different culture than those who study abroad in Europe. “[There were] certainly people at Tufts who thought Africa was far too dangerous a place to send students.”

After a year and a half, the university decided to reinstate the program, but added several provisions, according to Bayne.

First, all potential applicants are now required to interview with Bayne. During the interview, Bayne tells them about the history of the program and what they can expect, even before they receive an application. Second, the Office of Programs Abroad

hires a Tufts-in-Ghana program advisor every year, usually a Tufts graduate and preferably an alum of the program. This advisor conducts a six-hour mandatory orientation during which he or she discusses some adjustments that need to be made concerning gender and cultural issues once the students arrive in Ghana.

“You might think of yourself in a certain way and in a certain category, but might be seen completely different from that upon arriving in Ghana,” Bayne said. “How do you

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deal with that? The advisor talks in detail about these issues during the orientation.”

In addition to pre-departure adjustments, several changes were made to the actual program in Ghana, according to Bayne. Dr. Kweku Bilson, the program’s resident director, hired several college-age Ghanaians to serve as guides. Their job is to serve as the students’ first cultural informants and friends, help students adjust, teach them how to be street savvy and answer any questions.

Lastly, students were moved out of the University of Ghana dorms, where they previously lived alongside other Ghanaian students. They now live in the International Students Hostel, moving responsibility for the students from the University of Ghana into the hands of the international student supervisors.

Since its reinstatement in 2002, the program has not reported any further safety issues.

“The Western perspective of Africa is so skewed. When I told people I was going to Ghana, they skipped over the name Ghana and said, ‘Oh, you’re going to Africa,’ or, ‘How was Africa?’” Tam said. “It’s so important to have these programs because it shows people that there is life beyond the United States and beyond the Western world. It’s really eye opening.”

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The Northeastern Creates art gallery is featuring recent work done by fulland part-time faculty members of the

Faculty Show At the Northeastern Creates Gallery, through March 26th Northeastern Creates 360 Huntingdon Avenue, Boston, 021 55 university’s Art and Design Department in the exhibit “Faculty Show.”

With pieces by a number of artists, the exhibition is incredibly varied in its media and content. Despite a few noteworthy works though, the “Faculty Show” is generally bland. It is also frustrating that the exhibit does not provide the media used in the art on display. The exhibits in the other wings of Northeastern Creates are far more captivating and worth the trek on the Green Line.

Thomas Starr’s “Exploded View” (2011) disrupts our understanding of patriotic symbols. The piece drastically alters two American flags and juxtaposes them. One flag with just white stripes sits next to a flag that has been stripped of its blue. Even though this piece distorts the familiarity viewers have with a ubiquitous national emblem, “Exploded View” is not as explosive as its title suggests. Perhaps its awkward placement in the first corner of the exhibit, cluttered around several other pieces, detracts from its provocative intent.

“Forest St. Helena Island, South Carolina” (2010), a photograph by Dana Mueller, is one of the most stunning works in the “Faculty Show.” In her series, “The Devil’s Den,” Mueller phosee GALLERY, page 6

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The promotional poster is just as exciting as the exhibit itself.

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Richly textured samples, rhythms drive Lapalux EP

At Grillo’s Pop-Up Shop, pickles get the spotlight

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Lapalux’s latest endeavor into musical manipulation showcases the essence of the creative global beat that

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Pickles are terribly misunderstood. Rarely does preserved produce get much attention. Sure, it’s an

Grillo’s Pickles Pop-Up Shop

When You’re Gone EP Lapalux Brainfeeder Records is currently captivating producers and audiences alike.

Modern electronic artists like Skrillex have been garnering praise for their intricately designed, bass-heavy dance floor thumpers, but on the other side of that spectrum lies a plethora of electronic artists that take a more unique and artistic approach to sound design.

Hailing from London and signed to Los Angeles’ Brainfeeder label, Lapalux typifies the trippy atmosphere and elegant sound that a slew of global artists have embraced as the new intelligent dance music.

Combining jazz, hip-hop, soul, psychedelia and the occasional R&B sample, artists such as Flying Lotus have created a musical form frequently categorized as the “Beat Scene” move-

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ment. Even as the press and music audiences were taking a while to catch up with the sound, producers were discovering the adventurous musical soundscapes via Myspace and SoundCloud. They took elements of this new genre and crafted it into their own computer-based compositions.

Lapalux is one of the many artists captivated by this sound emerging from the West Coast. Now signed to the very

unwritten rule that every delicatessen serves a sandwich with a pickle, but when was the last time you actually got a good marinated slice of cucumber? More often than not, deli shops thoughtlessly garnish sandwiches with a cheap, sorry, flaccid excuse for a pickle. The lack of quality has warped our perception of the pickle, making it the butt of many culinary jokes. You know you’re at the bottom of the gastronomic totem pole when your biggest proponent is a four-foot-nine reality TV star.

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Brainfeeder’s Lapalux has created a sensual, captivating EP.

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‘Strategic Vision’

ollowing last week’s review of Gaddis’ biography on George Kennan, one of America’s greatest Cold-War era statesmen, this week’s review features a book by another great Cold War strategist: President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbgniew Brzezinski. Don’t be fooled by its relative brevity, “Strategic Vision” is a little gem of foreign policy analysis and a stirring call to action. It is a thorough, articulate evaluation of the decline of America’s influence and the dangers therein. Brzezinski offers an astute, piercing appraisal of the waning of America’s “global appeal” and the severe consequences of the shifting of power from West to East.

Despite filling the vacuum left after the fall of the Soviet Union and providing critical leadership during the 1990s, the West, especially the United States, is tottering as a global superpower. Brzezinski looks carefully at this shifting redistribution in global power as the West recedes in relative dominance, making way for the nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America, so long relegated to the periphery of political calculations and now seized by a sense of their own political maturity.

He expresses great concern that American idealism and constructive materialism (vs. consumptive materialism), the twin motivations for a strong, dynamic American republic, are waning. America’s own domestic realm is in disrepair; and its populace is increasingly indolent and, frankly, ignorant about the outside world. Weakened further by its expensive interference in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. is now seen as a negative influence on world affairs instead of the guardian of peace that it once was. Meanwhile, the sun is rising in the East, and Brzezinski looks at growth in China, Japan, Turkey, Russia and India. He also indicates other hotspots that make up the “geopolitically most endangered states,” such as Taiwan, Ukraine, Belarus, Afghanistan and Israel, which could be the pinnacle of future conflicts.

In an increasingly unstable world, Brzezinski suggests, the United States remains, in the words of the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the “indispensable nation.” He views many of the future great powers, such as India, China, Russia and Turkey, as requiring more development, being plagued by too many internal problems of their own to become viable world leaders.

Thus, the U.S. has a critically important role to play in world affairs for at least another two generations, says Brzezinski. Though no longer a hegemonic “hyperpower,” America remains essential, in his view, to promoting “a larger and more vital West.”

Ultimately, Brzezinski provides a powerful cautionary tale with his prescription for a happy ending. If the United States continues on the path of political expediency, global ignorance and strategic overextension while neglecting pressing problems of domestic economy, political morale and a restoration of national idealism, Brzezinski fears that the consequences for both the United States and the world could be dire. However, by harnessing its overall strengths in terms of economic, social and political status, superiority of higher education, rich natural resources and population resiliency (the United States ranks as one of the few industrialized nations with overall net population growth), America can indeed rise to the occasion and become a positive influence on world affairs again.

In his crisp, systematic fashion, Brzezinski offers in turn pointed criticism and rational, compelling solutions to many of America’s challenges in domestic and foreign policy. His arguments are not so much inspiring as rational, dispassionate and incredibly persuasive.

His penetrating insights and acute analysis of many of America’s and the world’s greatest strategic issues provide the college student with something to think about regarding the future of the current political-economic system and therefore the value of their education.

This book is accessible and an important read for anyone, but a must-read for aspiring political scientists.

Rating: ****

James Barasch is a sophomore majoring in history. He can be contacted at James.

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Grillo’s liberates pickles from sandwich-based servitude PICKLES

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seemed like the nail in the coffin, but in reality, pickles are going through a renaissance. Artisan pickle makers have liberated the pickle from its sandwichbased servitude. Finally, the humble pickle gets its moment in the spotlight at Grillo’s Pickles Pop-Up Shop in Inman Square.

Grillo’s started back in 2008 when owner Travis Grillo began making his grandfather’s pickles and selling them out of the back of his car in Salem, Conn. The following year, Travis moved to Boston with hopes of reaching a bigger market. He took up shop at the Park Street T stop in Boston, selling pickle spears out of an old wooden cart.

That summer, hundreds of hungry Bostonians enjoyed Grillo’s cool, crisp pickles, warranting a Boston Globe spotlight for Travis, which resulted in a wholesaler agreement with Whole Foods and Stop & Shop. The following year, the business grew by over 500% in overall profit.

Now, in 2012, Travis has opened a small pop-up establishment in Inman Square. No longer does the pickle have to play second fiddle to paninis at Dave’s Fresh Pasta or to organic flaxseed cereal at Whole Foods — now there is a shop dedicated to the pickle.

Pop-up establishments are a relatively new phenomenon. Born out of the recession’s thrift-minded entrepreneurs, pop-ups are defined by their short duration. Lasting only for several weeks or even just days, pop-ups rely on low overhead and rent to keep costs at virtually zero. Popular examples include Dorie Greenspan’s weeklong CookieBar; she annually opens it inside hair salons or clothing boutiques.

By having its own dedicated storefront, Grillo’s offers a wealth of options that extend beyond the original snack

of two cucumber spears for a dollar or the seven-dollar jars of pickles featured at most specialty stores. Jars of whole asparagus for eight dollars are a great, crisp snack, and the container of grapes, six dollars, is both tangy and sweet. The golden or red beets, five dollars, retain their bright color and flavor.

The brine itself is amazing, thanks to the generous addition of dill and garlic.

The vinegar-based acidity of the brine intensifies the flavor of the vegetables without overpowering them. The pickles taste and look like cucumbers, in a good way.

Also, Grillo’s uses grape leaves, which apparently release a natural enzyme that keeps the produce crisp. Many mainstream pickles have synthetic compounds, but thankfully Grillo’s keeps their brine free of artificial additives.

The secret to Grillo’s success is its commitment to freshness. The shop doesn’t pasteurize its product; the heat would break it down, rendering it soft.

The shorter shelf life — two months instead of a year — seems less of a compromise and more of a commitment to quality.

While Tufts students can certainly purchase their pickles closer to campus, a trip to Inman Square is worth the time. The two-spears for one dollar is one of the cheapest, most satisfying snacks you can get in Boston. While there, customers can talk shop with Travis and even buy pickle swag in the form of branded hoodies, t-shirts or even temporary tattoos. Never before have pickles been so sexy.

Grillo’s Pop-Up Shop has been open since mid-January and will remain open until sometime in March. Travis hopes to work something out with the landlord to extend the rent agreement.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

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record label that undoubtedly inspired his early music, he is pushing the sound of this ever-evolving genre. Lapalux’s sound is ethereal and boundless, like an interstellar journey on the Millennium Falcon. You never know what you might encounter.

The music demands frequent listens, preferably through headphones, for the listener to truly process the meticulous sound design.

Throughout every track on this nearly 30-minute long EP, instruments with varying timbral textures greet you from all angles and directions. Indeed, texture plays an important role in this genre of music. “Found” sounds — recordings of specific environments and real time occurrences — are utilized and manipulated throughout the EP, as opposed to the prepackaged sounds found in your average Billboard Top 40 song.

Each track features a variety of unique timbres and instruments that melt together flawlessly into a broken beat groove.

The groundwork of each track is the removal and addition of rhythmic layers. Synths are dispersed throughout, but for the most part, their colors are relegated to the background.

Instead, emphasis is placed on immersion into a dizzying textural world.

This tonal highlighting creates a warm, beckoning musical space and in the process creates a musical soundscape that for all intents and purposes has never been encountered.

Think of the tinkering of metal against metal, scratches from an old worn vinyl, rain on trees

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Soundscapes and textures dominate Lapalux’s ‘When You’re Gone.’ and wooden mallets. Combined with punchy kick drums, guttural bass lines and sparse use of synthesizers, the cacophony of noise comes together like a funneled wisp of cotton candy.

“102 Hours of Introductions,” the first track on the album, slowly builds a swirling textural world around your ears.

Listeners continue to ride along with the delicious textures that are thrown at their eardrums, while glitchy chords and tinkering water drums fill in the musical color.

Unlike the numerous instrumental beat-makers that operate on the Brainfeeder label, Lapalux utilizes a variety of sampled female and male voices in the majority of his tracks.

The use of voices and lyrics fleshes out the tracks and gives otherwise redundant beats a narrative and story. Lapalux makes the voices captivating by bending pitches and shifting the singers’ voices to very odd low registers and siren-like higher sounds.

“Gutter Glitter” is the most obvious banger on the album.

The track begins with vinyl scratches and an ominously beckoning androgynous vocal.

As the track progresses, you are met by an erratic, booming kick drum and seductive synths. The highlights of the track are the bass lines that have the physicality of an underfoot electric current and the numerous glitchy, fluctuating chords. Combined with the noise layering found throughout, it makes for a very trippy musical experience.

The greatest triumph of the album is the inimitable beauty of its unique timbres and textures. The music is adventurous and risk-taking; it does not cater to listeners’ needs. It blows right through you and forces you to tag along for the ride. It places you in a unique musical space that is gently pushing and pulling you, grabbing onto you and punching you away at the same moment. It’s deep space musical exploration at its finest.

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tographed in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and all over the American South. She focused on German prisoner-of-war camps and their surroundings, where over 400,000 German prisoners were put to work on local farms and in small industries during World War II. The piece at Northeastern is a gorgeous photograph of a dense forest. The vegetation is very different from that of New England, with beautiful but oddly haunting Spanish moss covering the stately live oaks that dominate the landscape.

Sophia Ainslie’s mixed media piece, “Fragment K” (2011), is impressive when analyzed on its own, but is poorly displayed by the Northeastern Gallery.

Ainslie used brown and black ink to create an abstract spiral design, forming a texture that looks similar to that of wood.

Green, orange and blue solid abstract shapes complement the design. It is a standout work in the exhibit, but is tacked on the wall as though it is a band poster in a dorm room. It is a shame that the gallery staff did not provide “Fragment K” the professional presentation it deserves.

The Faculty Show boasts a number of still lifes, and “Yellow Vase” (2011), by Jason Polins, is one that shows exceptional technique. Polins effectively utilizes color, with the yellow vase commanding the observer’s attention against a background of dull purple. However, “Yellow Vase” is pleasantly boring at best. It demonstrates excellent use of shadows and highlights, but a still life of a vase is not exact-

ly the most groundbreaking, let alone original, idea for a painting. Polins could present his process in painting the still life to a class of beginning artists, but the piece itself does not draw much attention in a gallery.

“Hoodoo” (2011), by Edwin Andrews, is a minimalistic but striking sculpture in the exhibition. It is a metal spiral — the type of metal is unexplained by Northeastern — that is at least nine feet tall and is very effectively placed in the middle of the gallery. Andrews evokes a sense of majesty in his piece, while nonetheless maintaining subtlety. “Hoodoo” reveals astounding craftsmanship; its shape is reminiscent of DNA, as if it were a triple or quadruple helix.

Another sculpture in the exhibit is “Lifetime Piling Up” (2011), by Julia Hechtman. It is a sculpture of small, metallic silver stones that are stacked on top of one another. “Lifetime Piling Up” is a very aesthetically pleasing piece that takes a commonplace image and alters it with the use of metallic silver paint. Despite this alteration, it still looks like an optional desktop background found under “Pictures” on a Mac or PC. The Northeastern Faculty Show has a few remarkable artworks, but its overall presentation is a disappointment.

The show is cluttered and lacks cohesiveness. Most of the pieces are generally uninspiring and lackluster. Nevertheless, it is worth a visit if you are at a loss for something to do and would also want to check out other exhibits at Northeastern Creates.

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The Medford city council recently began considering a move to make liquor licenses more widely available to restaurants in the city. Liquor licenses come in two varieties: a license to serve beer and wine and a license to serve hard liquor or cocktails in addition to the lighter beverages. The requirement for the beer and wine license is a reasonable 19 or more seats, but for a full liquor license the requirement is much higher — a capacity of at least 99.

Granted, the city has already taken steps in the right direction in this regard. Until 2008, restaurants needed 250 seats to be eligible for a hard liquor license. The earlier policy created a clear business disadvantage for smaller, independently-owned restaurants. Put simply, people who couldn’t get a cocktail in Medford instead went to similar establishments in townships nearby.

Somerville has already moved to address this issue. Last fall, the Daily reported that Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone was pushing for the number of hard liquor licenses the city could issue to be uncapped. In order to boost business for restau-

rants and eateries in town, Somerville attempted to gain the right to issue as many liquor licenses as it saw fit, beyond the 16 beer and wine and 84 all-alcohol licenses allotted to it by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Somerville councilman Robert Trane stated that a restaurant’s ability to serve alcohol often defines its “bottom line” in profits.

The two cities surrounding Tufts are not the only ones faced with the issue of boosting restaurants’ revenues with liquor licenses. Both Cambridge and Arlington have dealt with the same problem by acquiring unlimited liquor license allotments.

In making it so difficult for small restaurants to obtain all-alcohol liquor licenses in the face of vastly different policies in neighboring towns, Medford has been hampering its own businesses, as the competitive advantage offered by alcohol licenses is massive. A place like Blue Fuji, an Asian fusion restaurant in Medford Square, cannot serve ethnic cocktails because it’s too small for an all-alcohol liquor license.

If customers want Mai Tais with their crab rangoons, they would simply go to an Asian fusion restaurant in

Somerville or another nearby township where the chance of getting a liquor license is much higher for an establishment of the same size. Restaurants lose revenue, through no fault of their own, when cities restrict their growth with policies like the one Medford has in place.

The current laws do the most harm to small, independently owned restaurants. While multiple spots in Somerville — including Davis Square — have been revitalized by such businesses, Medford continues to lag behind. The city’s downtown area has developed slowly, and a change in policy could deliver a renaissance both economically and culturally.

We understand that Medford took a large step forward with its 2008 changes. But we also feel that more can be, and needs to be, done. In an era where major chains can be found on every street corner, the entrepreneurship shown by independently owning and operating a restaurant should be rewarded and protected by the city, not hampered by restrictive policies.

The benefits of reforming Medford’s alcohol licensing policy would be shared by the owner and the city alike.

In fairness to the reporter, who missed the link between the personal stories of their arrests at nonviolent civil disobedience actions several decades apart, readers of the ambiguous coverage ought not to dismiss these personal acts of high-risk activism. Both Lakey and Schils had wellreasoned motivations and understandings of the nonviolent acts they willingly undertook.

What is important to point out is that where Lakey’s act led him to undertake rigorous scholarship of nonviolent action, Schils’ was engaged in research of nonviolent action and which, in part, upon deep reflection motivated her to commit civil disobedience. The panel was another step in her education, as she conceived and planned the event (along with Lindsay Carpenter, another database researcher).

Schils will present her analysis of nonviolent environmental defense at a conference scheduled here next October (see www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference).

Lakey’s and Schils’ anecdotes capture a truism of experiential learning: acting one’s way into new ways of thinking and thinking one’s way into new forms of act-

ing ought to be rigorously understood and practiced. Being a reflective practitioner is simultaneously a pedagogic and political act.

The reporting conveys an unfortunate misperception about the Peace and Justice Studies program. As the current 50 majors know too well, as have all their predecessors, PJS students and the curriculum are invariably cast in a caricature of “sixties activists” and “leftist indoctrination.”

What else to imagine when a PJS advisor “incites” a student to illegal acts?

Also in fairness to the reporter, there is no need here to defend the PJS major and its students (and faculty) from this unfortunate portrayal. Perhaps not lost on the audience, where the Tar Sands movement promotes climate justice and Occupy advances economic justice, PJS engages students in an education for active citizenship that must be learned from rigorous engagement.

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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, Coverage of the event sponsored by the Peace and Justice Studies program (“Panel discusses Tar Sands, Occupy movement,” Feb. 16) includes reporting errors and misinterpretations, and unwittingly contributes to a misperception about the PJS program.

In reference to Lakey’s Global Nonviolent Action Database, the number of countries included in the current cases is 190.

Occupy is not included because documentation is limited to completed campaigns.

The reporting of Prof. Sobieraj’s remarks is not altogether accurate either. Media give “fleeting reference” to movement organizations, with a not uncommon frame concerning “disorder” rather than the substance of their political claims or grievances.

While the reporter’s interpretation of other panelists’ remarks (Schils and Kwoba) is also somewhat off the mark of intended meanings, others in attendance hopefully got a more nuanced sense of the dialogue. Indeed, “racism and white supremacy” present complex obstacles to Occupy’s future, in Kwoba’s view.

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You are walking through a rather sparsely populated, fast-moving street. A few hundred yards away, you see a man being beaten by a couple thugs wearing inconspicuous track jackets. He is then loaded into the back of a van that drives away almost immediately. No one stops, stares or questions what’s going on. After all, there is a law against loitering in a location for too long, as well as one against congregating in groups of more than a few people. You stop for a few moments, but some burly man wearing a suit and speaking Russian pushes you along, muttering something along the lines of “Keep moving or you’ll be in the same situation.” There are occasional posters of the autocratic leader who has firmly held onto power with help from the KGB secret police.

But you are not in the Soviet Union.

It is not the 1970s.

It is 2012 and you are in Belarus.

Aleksandr Lukashenko has been in power since 1994 and after a few years of revolutionizing Belarus’ economy, making its capital, Minsk, the center of the CIS economy, and increasing the human development index of Belarus to the highest in non-EU Eastern Europe, he has asserted himself in a permanent position of power as the last dictator of Europe.

Oh yeah, maybe I forgot to mention that Lukashenko is the only dictator still in power in Europe. In many ways, Belarus is both the last European dictatorship and the last remains of the Soviet Union. But before I go more in depth with those aspects, I feel it’s necessary to discuss the most interesting parts about this place you may have only heard mentioned off-handedly when discussing oil trade or (if you’re not an Eastern Europe aficionado) as “that-placenext-to-Russia.”

So what’s the deal with Belarus? Well, Lukashenko has assured its economic prowess by ripping off neighboring nations. See, Belarus has a good chunk just covered in forest (about a third of the total land mass), and its major sources of revenue are agriculture and manufacturing. “But wait,” you may ask, “what about all that oil stuff you mentioned before?”

Well, interestingly enough, Lukashenko put through a trade agreement in the late 1990s with Russian president Boris Yeltsin, which assured a free trade region between the nations, similar to NAFTA. Except the Belarusian president is also rather shrewd: he takes a percentage of the profit from the oil that Russia sends through Belarus to be traded abroad and adds it to the Belarusian economy — something he calls his “economic miracle.”

But this doesn’t make any economy flourish, or even succeed comfortably, to be honest. In fact, the only reason Belarus isn’t completely bankrupt right now is because up until 2002, Belarus’ economy had been running on what is mostly a glitch in the system of post-Soviet subsidies: profiting off the collapse of the Soviet Union. That economic boost is what caused the human development to rise off the charts. Belarus

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progressive among us have to see this as an important victory for reproductive rights with little collateral damage.

Obviously the President would have preferred to avoid doing harm to allies on the religious left such as Sister Carol Keehan, but he took quick steps to amend their relationship by shifting to the policy the majority of American voters agree with. And that is the most important point anyone can make: at the end of the day, 59 percent of the country got the policy it wanted. From where I’m standing this seems like a big win for the President, both in politics and policy.

umbos, I hear your cries. You say, “Enough about your beloved Facebook, Walt. It’s a big deal. You like to talk about initial public offerings and why they’re over-hyped.

We get it. Now tell us about how Walmart and China have become inextricably linked.”

I have always been a man of the people, stretching from my days as fifth grade class representative to my time at Tufts as hall dodgeball coordinator. So let’s talk about how Walmart and China are best friends.

Mega-department store Walmart announced plans to buy a majority share of a Chinese e-commerce site Saturday. The details of the deal have not been released, but that’s not what I’d like to focus on.

Walmart wants to expand its footprint in China, and it is very actively doing so.

Walmart and China really are best friends. Though Walmart’s announcement on Saturday means little to the average American shopper, Walmart has fledged a strong relationship with the world’s most populous country. In his 2005 book, “China Inc.”, Ted Fishman notes that Walmart’s trade with China accounts for nearly 1.5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

When people think of imported Chinese products, their first thought probably isn’t about the economic benefits. They usually think of the jobs lost due to cheap Chinese laborers, children in sweatshops pumping out Air Jordans and DVDs of Paranormal Activity 3 like clockwork. “Buy American” has become a common slogan in recent years, and for good reason. Though Walmart keeps the exact number private, various sources have estimated that between 80 and 90 percent of products sold in Walmarts are made in China.

But is that such a bad thing? Before you tell me about the factory worker that lost his job to a Chinese worker that does his job for half the wage — which is terrible, and there’s no arguing that — consider this: Chinese imports have saved the average American household $1,000 a year, according to an Oxford Economics study.

America needs to understand that it simply doesn’t make sense for us to be the manufacturing giant we once were. Jobs are going to China, India, Vietnam, and other Asian countries because labor is dirt cheap there, plain and simple. I’m going to take a wild guess and say that the average American wouldn’t accept a job assembling consumer electronics eight hours a day, even if it did pay minimum wage.

Walmart sells so many Chinese goods because it is good business. Though they’re not perfect comparisons, Walmart’s revenues are greater than the GDPs of nearly 80 percent of the world’s countries. We want to buy American, but if it means paying up for an identical product we’re probably going to stick with the Chinese one that Walmart offers.

But Walmart is trying to do good with its size. The company has taken on bold sustainability goals in the past few years, and it hopes to push the 30,000 Chinese factories that supply it to do the same. Because of its size, Walmart enjoys its own halo effect: anything it does will drive its competitors to do the same, creating system-wide change.

So why is China trying to expand into Walmart — er, I mean, why is Walmart trying to expand into China? The simple answer is that China didn’t have any Walmarts for a long time. Factories like the ones that make goods for Walmart have slowly created a burgeoning middle class in China, and that middle class eventually needed Walmart-like suppliers. So why not Walmart?

Yet as mounting evidence points towards increased cases of depression in large factories and discrimination against women in the workplace, Walmart keeps us wondering if bigger really is better. For now, let’s hope that Walmart can remain both an efficient economic market and a catalyst for social change.

Sincerely, Jake Strassberger Class of 2012

Walt Laws-MacDonald is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at Walt.Laws_MacDonald@tufts.edu.

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has better literacy and health than, and similiar factors for people (except for the whole oppressive dictator part) as, much of the developed world. But once 2002 hit, Minsk ran out of money, and has been operating off of what little it can scrape from Russia’s economy, as well as loans from the IMF and the EU. But starting this year, Belarus is required to pay back its loans, using money it still doesn’t have.

As we’ve seen throughout history, bad economies create internal tensions. The people have taken to the streets in protest against the Lukashenko regime and its economic policies. To paraphrase President Clinton, everything goes back to the economy. But the government doesn’t allow protests, so the Belarusian people have been organizing something known colloquially as “The Applause Movement.”

Essentially, a group of about 30 or so people takes to an area in the street, and just starts clapping. That’s it. Not explicitly sardonically or protest-like, but enough so that it garners the attention of the state. During their July 3rd Independence Day ceremonies, hundreds of people gathered and started applauding, like they do every Wednesday, and many of them met similar ends.

First, inconspicuously dressed secret agents of the government grab some members of the protest, throwing them to the ground and beating them into submission if they do not comply. Then, a larger group of thugs dressed in track jackets come as the second wave, ensuring people are subdued and dragging them into vans waiting on the street corners. And finally, a group of secret police with suits and earpieces clean up the area, subdue the crowd, and make sure people act as though nothing had happened.

The response is quick and the reaction is violent. This is one of the reasons Lukashenko put forth a law barring anyone from meeting in a pre-determined location in large groups (yes, that is actually codified).

Much of this, though, is purely for public image — it’s the ideology that, if no one notices that there are people protesting your regime, then there’s nothing wrong with it.

In fact, just to be even stranger, there was an incident a few months ago where protesters

gathered in the Minsk streets, and in order to make it appear as though there was nothing wrong and that the regime was still in control, Lukashenko quickly organized a rock concert at that exact spot where people were gathering. That way, what was originally a protest turned into a distraction. It’s rather brilliant and shrewd, in some ways. It is interesting, though, that it is entirely unpredictable whether protesting will get you exiled or to a rock concert.

Lukashenko is starting to be a little more creative in his oppression as well. During the July 3rd protests, the government did something truly ingenious. We saw the use of Twitter in the Iranian Green Revolution, the Tahrir Square uprisings and in Syria as a means of getting news out about protests. However, all of these information movements took place under regimes with little technological capacity. Belarus, more technologically adept, created thousands of fake Twitter accounts, all tweeting positive statements about the regime, with the same #July3 hashtag. Thus, there was information overload and no one could discern true or false information. Belarus is getting creative, but the people are getting stronger.

The regime is collapsing. Right now, everything depends on the Russian elections. Putin is keeping Lukashenko afloat, much to the dismay of the Russian economy, and without Russian subsidies, Belarus will have no money to pay back the IMF or EU. The protests are growing and spreading. The opposition leaders have all been exiled to Poland or Lithuania, but there are more opposition movements constantly growing and organizing. In all honesty, the future of Belarus is quirky, tumultuous and unpredictable.

As for right now, that burly guy in the track jacket is starting to get really angry and you can see a van following you. Maybe you should start walking a bit more quickly.

This topic, and others related to it, will be discussed at the EPIIC symposium, which will take place from Feb. 22-26.

Graham Starr is a freshman who has not yet declared a major.

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, While there is little doubt that President Obama’s approach to health insurance for church-affiliated organizations (hospitals, universities, etc.) is the correct one, the notion that his was the wrong execution is too simplistic.

First and foremost, there are no signs to suggest it will turn “key voters against Obama come November,” as the editorial entitled “Right idea, wrong execution” on Feb. 16 mentioned. Results from a recent New York Times/CBS poll indicate strong support for Obama’s policy, specifically among Catholics: 59 percent of all voters and 57 percent of Catholic voters support “the federal requirement that religiously affiliated employers’ health insurance plans cover the cost of birth control.”

While the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has declared its opposition, the data suggest a clear divide between Church leadership’s take and the views in the pews.

But more importantly, if the debtlimit fight from last summer taught us anything, it is that Obama cannot start in the middle, even on issues with grave consequences for our country.

Perhaps it is the reality of politics, but members of the Republican Party, be they in Congress or on the campaign trail, simply never miss the chance to paint his most moderate views as leftist extremism. Had he started with the Hawaii policy that is now in place, there is little doubt that his opponents would still decry his efforts as an onslaught against religion.

On the whole I think the socially

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play are going to come out better than before, and we cannot have lapses of bad play. We play our best ball when we are on the same page and making plays off of defensive stops.”

The Jumbos turned up the intensity in the second half and distanced themselves from the Camels. Tufts capitalized on 16 Conn. College turnovers to build an 11-point advantage with 11:51 to go, and climbed to its largest lead of the game at the 8:39 mark, 48-30. The Camels would cut the lead to 12, but that was the closest they would come the rest of the way.

Kornegay had one of her best games of the year, leading all scorers with 16 points on 8-12 shooting and grabbing 10 rebounds to complete a double-double.

She also did an exceptional job of frustrating senior guard Jenn Shinall, who is averaging 13.3 points per game — fourth best in the NESCAC — but finished Saturday with just two points on 1-of-8 shooting. Shinall was all but invisible in the second half, attempting just two shots in 13 minutes.

“I definitely think that Saturday was one of my best games of the year,” Kornegay said. “I felt good taking the ball to the hoop and comfortable shooting my jump shot.”

Barnosky also had a solid game, finishing with 11 points and seven rebounds on 5-for-12 shooting. Junior guard Jeanna Dunleavy was the high scorer for the Camels with 13.

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its stride in the second half, it was once again a strong defensive effort that propelled them to victory. The Jumbos held the Camels to just 32.7 percent shooting, in the 11th game of the season in which they held their opponent to 40 points or less, the most in the NESCAC. Besides the team’s success against Shinall, they also held Gabelman, the secondleading scorer in the conference entering the game.

“What helped us pull away from Conn. College in the second half was our communication on the defensive end and then making points in transition,” freshman guard Kelsey Morehead said. “We forced them to take bad shots, and then we took advantage on the fast break.”

Tufts improved to 20-5 overall and further solidified its at-large profile — they currently sit fourth in the regional rankings and likely will remain there this week.

Conn. College, which saw its season come to an end on Saturday, finished at 16-7.

With the win, the Jumbos advances to the semifinals against No. 3 Bowdoin. The final two rounds of the NESCAC tournmanet will be held at Amherst.

When the two teams squared off in the regular season on Jan. 13, Bowdoin pulled out a one-point victory at the buzzer. The Polar Bears are led by the NESCAC’s most prolific scorer, senior guard Jill Henrikson, who is averaging 17.2 points per game.

Undefeated No. 1 Amherst will take on No. 4 Colby in the other semifinal matchup on Saturday, and the semifinal winners will play for the championship on Sunday.

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Jumbos were unable to grab four points, the Cardinals and Ephs helped them along. Wesleyan fell to Trinity in a 5-2 decision on Friday evening, while Williams lost 3-1 to conference leader Amherst on Saturday.

Early on in Saturday’s contest, Gallegos gave the Jumbos the early advantage with a goal less than five minutes in, assisted by defenseman Nick Metcalfe and forward Dylan Plimmer, both juniors. The 1-0 score held until the beginning of the second period, when Voigt doubled Tufts’ advantage with a tally of his own.

A minute into the final stanza, Colby sophomore Nick Lanza scored on a breakaway to pull the Mules within a goal. However, it took the Jumbos just four minutes to extend their lead back to two.

At the 5:34 mark, Voigt and classmate defenseman Shawn Power assisted Gallegos on his second score of the day, giving Tufts a 3-1 lead and ultimately becoming the game-winning tally.

“Shawn and Tyler were able to get a turnover on [Colby’s] blue line and put the puck on the net,” Gallegos said. “I was able to get [there] and put in the rebound. I think our forecheck was really working against Colby, and that helped.”

With less than a minute remaining in regulation, Colby pulled goalkeeper Matt Delaney, and the Mules capitalized from the man advantage, with senior Dan Nelson netting the Mules’ second score with just 30 seconds remaining.

But as the clock ticked down, Colby was unable to find the equalizer,

and Tufts prevailed, 3-2.

Saturday’s contest was a mustwin for the Jumbos, who dropped a 9-2 contest on Friday in front of a large crowd at the Malden Forum. In the Polar Bears’ victory, senior Jordan Lalor and sophomore Colin Downey each contributed four-point efforts, who finished the conference regular season in second.

In the first period, Bowdoin jumped out to a 4-0 lead, provoking Tufts head coach Brian Murphy to pull his starting goalkeeper, senior tri-captain Scott Barchard, in favor of classmate Evin Koleini, who entered the game with just over five minutes remaining in the first.

“Bowdoin is a good team,” Voigt said. “I think most of their goals came on the run, and our forwards need to come back and communicate with our defense better so everyone has a guy and there isn’t anyone left open.”

The Jumbos tried to piece together a comeback at the start of the second period, and senior forward Evan Story netted his fourth goal of the season at the 1:15 mark to pull them within three. But after several Tufts efforts to pull closer, Bowdoin gained control of the game and answered Story’s goal with another four-goal spree to move ahead 8-1 midway through the second period. “[Bowdoin’s scoring right after Story did] definitely hurt,” Voigt said. “We gained some momentum when he scored, but they came back quick and got a couple on us, which deflated our morale.”

Murphy looked to the bench a second time, this time replacing Koleini with sophomore net-

minder Brian Phillips. Minutes later, junior defenseman Jared Barker capitalized on a five-onthree power play to light the lamp, pulling the Jumbos one goal closer, 8-2.

In the final period, Phillips made several outstanding saves, rejecting 16 Bowdoin shots. But with less than two minutes remaining, the Jumbos’ defense collapsed, and freshman Danny Palumbo added a ninth Polar Bears goal.

“We definitely missed a couple of opportunities. I don’t think they were doing anything special defensively, but their offense was what really makes them go,” Gallegos said. “We didn’t have an answer for all of the opportunities they were getting.”

The Polar Bears held a wide margin in shot advantage, 45-34, and while the Jumbos cleared their bench in the goalkeeping position, Bowdoin goalie Steve Messina had a solid 32-save performance. In the loss, the Jumbos, who went just 2-for-6 on power plays, missed countless scoring opportunities and sent several shots just wide of the net.

On Saturday, the Jumbos, who are the NESCAC’s fourth seed, will host the fifth-seeded Ephs at the Malden Forum. Last winter, Tufts missed out on the conference tournament altogether. The Jumbos, who have never won a NESCAC tournament game, hope to capitalize on a prime opportunity to do so on their own ice.

“It’s really big to have a home playoff game this weekend,” Gallegos said. “Nobody likes to travel and we feel that we have the advantage on our rink.”

Games of the Week looking back (FEB. 18) | ice hockey holds off mules to earn HOME ICE On Saturday, for the first time in 12 years of NESCAC Championship play, the ice hockey team will be hosting a playoff game. Tufts defeated Colby 3-2 on Saturday, finishing the regular season at 12-10-2 overall and 9-8-1 in conference play to earn the tournament’s fourth seed.

The Jumbos led 2-0 and 3-1 in the game, and sophomore forward Kyle Gallegos scored two goals while freshman forward Tyler Voigt added a goal and an assist. There were some nervous moments when the Mules pulled within one with 30 seconds left — but the Jumbos contained them for the final half-minute to secure the victory.

The final two regular season weekends weren’t pretty for Tufts; in three games prior to their win over the Mules, the Jumbos were outscored 23-2. But they came through when it counted on Saturday, and they were aided by Wesleyan and Williams losses that ensured a home playoff contest.

Tufts’ 12-win regular season comes a year after the Jumbos missed out on the conference tournament altogether. On Saturday, they will host the Ephs with a chance to win their first-ever NESCAC tournament game. Williams is 11-8-5 overall and 8-8-2 in league play, but has struggled of late. Before beating Hamilton on Sunday, Williams went seven consecutive conference games without a win.

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looking ahead (FEB. 25) | women’s basketball to take on bowdoin in nescac semifinals

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The second-seeded Jumbos are hungry for another shot at the undefeated Lord Jeffs. To get that shot, though, they must first get past third-seeded Bowdoin in the conference semifinals on Saturday. The women cruised to victory against Conn. College in the first round this past weekend, but Bowdoin promises to be a much tougher opponent. Last time the Jumbos and Polar Bears met on Jan. 13, the Polar Bears won 57-56.

In order to take down Bowdoin and advance to the NESCAC championships on Sunday, Tufts will need to limit the league’s leading scorer, senior Jill Henrikson. The Player of the Year candidate dropped 19 points on the Jumbos in January, and she posted 22 points and 12 boards in the Polar Bears’ 53-37 quarterfinal win over the Wesleyan Cardinals.

The Jumbos boast one of the top defenses in the league, and on Saturday they held a team to 40 points or less for the 11th time this season, while limiting the NESCAC’s second- and third-leading scorers, Tara Gabelman and Jenn Shinall, to 11 combined points.

The Tufts-Bowdoin showdown will be held at Amherst, and the winner will face the hosts in the finals — assuming, of course, that Amherst rolls past the fourth-seeded Colby Mules.

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victory in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 14:55.43, separating himself from the runner-up by over six seconds. Rand was supported in the event by classmates Kyle Marks and Tyler Andrews, who earned sixth and eighth with times of 15:08.23 and 15:10.46, respectively.

Ajayi contributed the most individual points for Tufts, earning two second-place finishes in the jumps.

His leap of 22-5 1/4 was good for runner-up in the long jump, while 46-5 1/4 earned him runner-up in the triple jump as well.

Sophomore Graham Beutler also posted a second-place performance in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.57 seconds, just one-tenth of a second off the winning time.

Recording two third-place finishes on Saturday were sophomore Bobby McShane and freshman Brian Williamson. McShane crossed the line in the 1,000-meter run in 2:30.55, while Williamson launched the shot put 50-10 3/4.

“Bobby’s race was definitely one of the most exciting races of the day,” McArthur said. “He was running out of the slow heat and still managed to get third place in the 1,000. He definitely surprised everyone with his performance.”

Over the course of Friday and Saturday, sophomore Andrew Osborne claimed fourth in the heptathlon, with a score of 4,166 points.

Junior Jeff Marvel also earned a fourth-place finish on the track Saturday, with a time of 1:56.56 in the 800-meter run.

The meet was ultimately decided in the final events of the day, the 4x400 and 4x800 relays and Distance Medley Relay (DMR), in which the Jumbos secured two

more fourth-place finishes.

“We went into the relays with a legitimate shot at first and pretty much dead-tied for second, so everyone was really excited,” McArthur said.

“It didn’t finish out quite as perfect as it could have, but everyone gave their all, and there was a lot of energy and excitement going into those relays and that contributed to the good feeling it came down to when the meet was over.”

In the DMR, the foursome of senior Jeff Prescott in the 1,200, junior Lawrence Xia in the 400, freshman Alex Schifter in the 800 and sophomore Brian McLaughlin in the 1,600 clocked a time of 10:26.76. Last on the track, Marvel, McShane, junior Adam Brosh and freshman Aaron Roseman combined for a time of 7:59.21 for fourth in the 4x800.

The Jumbos will look to build on this past weekend’s momentum as they continue the championship season.

“The hope is the team will carry the momentum forward. At this point in the season, the focus begins to shift to individuals and getting guys to nationals,” said Ajayi, who has national hopes in the triple jump and the long jump.

On Friday and Saturday, the squad will compete among the top Div. I, II and III athletes at the Open New England Championships, hosted by Boston University.

“I think the big focus is going to be on running good DMR and 4x400 relays,” McArthur said.

“That’s the big team goal and everyone, those still competing and those not, is going to try to keep the momentum going and try to help those relays. have some good performances and hit national qualifying marks,” he added.

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Sophomore Graham Beutler finished the 200-meter dash in 22.57 seconds, just shy of the winning time.

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denly took complete control, going on an 18-3 run that ran the clock down to 5:25.

“I felt like Kwame’s threepointer definitely gave us momentum going into the second half, but in the back of our minds we knew we needed to play a lot better if we were going to win the game,” junior tri-captain forward Scott Anderson said.

“We came out strong in the beginning of the second half like we talked about during halftime, but then we lost the momentum again towards the end of the game.”

The game was lost in the trenches for the Jumbos, who were out-rebounded 39-28 overall and 23-14 on the offensive glass.

“Throughout the season, whenever a team has made a run like that [18-3 Bates run], it’s because we allow middle penetration,” said junior forward Matt Lanchantin, who posted five points and four rebounds, including three offensive boards, in just nine minutes off the bench.

“Defensively, during that stretch we allowed Bates to drive through the middle of the paint too easily, and as a result they capitalized on some crucial offensive possessions.”

The Jumbos struggled to close the gap, but after consecutive steals-turnedlayups from Ferris and Firempong, they were within three with 1:39 remaining.

Unfortunately, the Bobcats grabbed two offensive rebounds to prolong their

next possession, and by the time the Jumbos had the ball back there were less than 30 seconds left on the clock.

Neither team was able to pull away at the beginning of the game, with no lead stretching beyond four points before halftime, and the Bobcats compensating for their shooting disadvantage with stellar work on the boards.

Tufts was shooting at 50 percent, while holding their opponents to just 41 percent from the field, but the Jumbos did not have an answer for senior forward John Squires, who posted 15 points and four boards in the first half on his way to a 25-point, 13-rebound performance overall.

“In the first half, Bates as a team was not shooting well,” Anderson said. “We needed to take advantage of their poor shooting percentage, but we couldn’t keep them off the offensive boards.”

Ferris paced Tufts with 11 points despite four missed threes, while Anderson and Firempong each added 10 points of their own. Tufts was off the mark all game from long range, shooting just 2-for-16, and no one came close to competing with Squires on the boards.

“We knew that the Bates offense as a whole could be contained if we controlled the glass and limited their offensive rebounds, so that was our main focus from the start,” Lanchantin said. “Throughout the game we struggled with this and as a result Squires and others were able to get second and third shots that really hurt us down the stretch.”

It was a heartbreaking loss for Tufts’ most promising squad since 2005-06. While Bates will travel to take on the No. 1 seed Amherst next weekend, Tufts will say goodbye to four seniors — Long, tri-captain guard Amauris Quezada and forwards Peter Saba and Alex Orchowski — who have been integral in steering the program toward a bright future.

“More so than anything else, all four guys in the senior class were leaders that we are very much going to miss going into next year,” Anderson said. “The seniors led by example on and off the court, and that’s what us juniors, as seniors next year, plan to do as well. Everyone is confident that after the last two seasons we have had, next year should be a real special one.”

After two tournament appearances in the past two years and a top-half NESCAC finish, it appears that Tufts has the potential to continue to move closer to a conference championship in the coming years.

“The next steps for us as a team are the same as always,” Lanchantin said.

“Over the summer, we will have to take personal responsibility for our individual development as basketball players and then come back next fall ready to take all of our individual talents and amplify them through discipline and teamwork. We will take [the seniors’] dedication and sacrifice to heart as we try to continue to bring this program to the next level,” he added.

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put event for a second straight year. “Obviously that didn’t happen, and I think part of that can be attributed to being physically and mentally fatigued. We had a lot of success this year, but the season definitely took its toll.”

The Jumbos were able to fight through some of that fatigue to claim two victories, in the pole vault and shot put, as well as five other top-three finishes.

As has been the case all year long, Allen led the team in points, earning 18 by winning the shot put with a throw of 42-5 1/4 and finishing second in the weight throw with a toss of 57-4 3/4.

Senior Ronke Oyekunle also stepped up in the shot put, throwing a distance of 40’9 3/4 to take third place.

While the throwing events have been the team’s strong suit all year long, the Jumbos knew they were going to need to accumulate points in other areas as well.

Senior Heather Theiss continued her impressive season, winning the pole vault competition with a jump of 11-11 3/4. Over the course of the year, Theiss has racked up five top-five finishes, including two first-place finishes.

While Allen has garnered much of the attention with her record-breaking performances, Theiss has consistently provided the team with key points.

“Twelve feet has been a little bit of a barrier for me all season,” Theiss said. “I’ve only jumped it once before in a meet, and my difficulty has been transferring my practice performance to meets.

The key was that I had no misses, as I tied another girl who had a miss.”

The Jumbos entered the weekend aiming for the top three, but they came up eight points short of Bowdoin’s third-place total.

“We were somewhat disappointed with the final result,” Theiss said. “It was a little bit of a blow to come in fourth.”

Still, there were certainly some bright spots, including sophomore Jana Heiber’s third-place performance in the 600 m with a time of 1:37.67. Senior Nakeisha Jones also grabbed a third-place finish in the triple jump with a leap of 37-11 1/2.

Two relay squads rounded out the Jumbos’ top-five finishes for the day. The 4x800-meter relay, consisting of freshman Lauren Gormer, sophomore Laura Peterson, junior Anya Price and senior Sarah Boudreau came in third with a time of 9:35.68.

Meanwhile, the DMR team of freshman Lindsay Rogers, sophomores Madeline Carey and Colleen Flanagan and Senior Grace Perry placed fifth, finishing in 12:47.73.

Now, with Div. III New Englands behind them, the Jumbos will shift to a more individual focus for the remainder of the championship season. “[New Englands] was our team focus,” Price said. “Now, individuals will try to improve their marks over the next few weeks to prepare for nationals.”

This weekend, the Jumbos will head to Boston University for the third time this year for All New Englands, where they will take on Div. I, II and III teams from throughout the area. The following two weekends, select team members will travel to New York for the ECAC Championships and then Iowa for the NCAA Championships.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Tufts pulls away from Conn. College in second half for first-round playoff victory Jumbos advance to semifinals, will face Polar Bears on Saturday by

Zachey Kliger

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The women’s basketball team entered postseason play this past weekend as the No. 2 seed and, in theory, the heavy favorWOMEN’S BASKETBALL (16-9 Overall, 6-4 NESCAC) NESCAC Quarterfinals at Cousens Gym Saturday Conn. College Tufts

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ite against Conn. College in the NESCAC quarterfinals. On the court, the Jumbos did not disappoint, taking care of business across the board.

Tufts took nothing for granted on Saturday afternoon in Cousens Gym, playing characteristically strong defense and pulling away in the second half to earn a 57-40 NESCAC quarterfinal victory over Conn. College.

Junior forward Bre Dufault and senior forward Kate Barnosky — the team’s cocaptains — each hit three-pointers out of the gate, and the Jumbos raced to an 8-0 lead. But Conn. College was not prepared to go down without a fight. The Camels stormed back, tying the game at 13 with under 11 minutes to play in the first half. Sophomore Tara Gabelman then hit back-to-back jumpers to give the Camels a 20-18 lead late in the first frame, the team’s last of the game. The Jumbos closed the half on a 7-0 run, including five points in the final minute, and went into the locker room with a 25-20 advantage.

Still, the squad knows it was not playing at the top of its game early on.

“I think the team is playing well right

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Senior co-captain Kate Barnosky posted 11 points and seven boards in Tufts’ 57-40 NESCAC quarterfinal win over Conn. College on Saturday. now, but we have yet to play our best complete game,” senior guard Tiffany Kornegay said. “Our goal is to come out strong minute one and keep the intensity

level high through minute 40. We know that at this point in the season, teams we see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 13

ICE HOCKEY

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Freshman forward Tyler Voigt had a goal and an assist in the Jumbos’ 3-2 win over Colby on Saturday, which locked up a first-round playoff home game.

Jumbos earn home NESCAC quarterfinal matchup for first time in 12 years by

Kate Klots

Daily Editorial Board

In its final regular season doubleheader, the men’s ice hockey team split a pair of home games against conference rivals Bowdoin and Colby to move to 9-8-1 in the NESCAC and, most importantly, clinch its

first-ever home playoff berth in next weekend’s conference tournament. They got there with a 3-2 defeat of Colby on Saturday afternoon after taking a disheartening 9-2 loss to Bowdoin on Friday.

Sophomore forward Kyle Gallegos, who leads the team in scoring, had two goals including the game-winner, and freshman

forward Tyler Voigt added a third to help lift Tufts over the visiting Colby squad.

To clinch home ice for the playoffs, the Jumbos needed to either win both games, or split the weekend along with losses for both Wesleyan and Williams. Although the see MEN’S ICE HOCKEY, page 13

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So Minnesota nice

here is a sweeping turnaround occurring in Minnesota right now, a story perhaps relegated to the back burner amid the dizzying influx of Jeremy Lin-related puns, LeBron James’ absurd statistical season and the battle for Hollywood supremacy. Then again, storylines involving .500 teams rarely attract substantial national media attention, lest the focal point be on a from-nowhere story about an underappreciated Harvard graduate filled with underdog love, layups and unintentional racism.

The Timberwolves are 16-16 this season, an unimpressive mark by Western Conference standards, especially in the loaded Northwest Division, where none of the five teams has a losing record. Given Minnesota’s recent plight coinciding with the constant abuse of inept GM David Kahn, this record appears to be a miracle. The Wolves won 17 games in 2010-11 and 15 the season before. What in the world is happening in the Twin Cities?

Smart money goes to Ricky Rubio, he of the boyish haircut and equally alluring playground style, the exciting Spanish import who’s drawn comparisons to Pete Maravich and Jason Kidd. Had the NBA figured things out and played a full 82-game season, Rubio would be on pace to record the second-most assists ever by a rookie, and his 2.34 steals per game are already hovering around the top three. He’s charming, humble and the floor general of an enigmatic Timberwolves offense that somehow manages to start two point guards and still rank third in the league in rebounding.

Much of that can be attributed to Kevin Love, the reigning NBA Most Improved Player, who’s abusing the league right now with his array of post-up moves and soft hooks and who became the first player since Hakeem Olajuwon in 1992-93 to record 15 straight double-doubles. But Love is a holdover from last season, from the futile Kurt Rambis era when a few egos — and the unselfish Love — were trapped in basketball purgatory, that unhealthily frustrating place sandwiched between unpolished talent and productive results.

I spent the summer in Minneapolis and inherited the cautious optimism that constantly follows the Timberwolves. It didn’t help that the Minnesota Lynx won the WNBA title, drawing frequent scoffs about how Maya Moore and company became the city’s most successful franchise — by far.

One by one, however, the Wolves brought in the pieces, none too overhyped, but each drawing golf claps and enthusiastic head nods from the fan base of the Western Conference’s perennial bottom-feeder.

Rubio finally came over. Then the Wolves picked Derrick Williams second overall.

They got rid of Jonny Flynn, a solid rookie whose injuries caused a sophomore fade.

They hired coach Rick Adelman and signed J.J. Barea to a four-year deal. Combine that with the resurgence of Nikola Pekovic (18.3 points, 10.5 rebounds over the past 11 games), as well as the solid role-playing of Luke Ridnour and Michael Beasley, and the future suddenly looks bright in the dark, snowy Minneapolis winter.

Success, or lack thereof, is occurring in short spurts for the Wolves, who are 6-4 in their past 10 as of Monday but won three in a row, lost four straight and then won another three. They started the season 0-3, then reeled off victories against Dallas and San Antonio on consecutive nights.

Still, they’re well within the playoff hunt, a near-miracle given the hole out of which they’ve only recently climbed. Just one game separates Portland, Denver, Utah and Minnesota at the statistical halfway mark, and the Wolves are only 2.5 games behind the Lakers, currently the West’s fifth seed.

The postseason is within reach, an unthinkable notion only last season when it took the Wolves 66 games to reach 16 wins.

Adelman’s rebuilding track record is proven, the pieces for a full turnaround in place for one of the league’s most fun teams to watch. All that’s left? A few more wins to get rid of the media’s obsession with Linsanity.

Alex Prewitt is a senior majoring in English and religion. He can be reached on his blog at livefrommudville.blogspot.com or followed on Twitter at @Alex_Prewitt.

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Fifth-seeded Bates upsets Tufts in NESCAC quarterfinals Loss marks bitter end to Jumbos’ milestone season by

Claire Kemp

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The men’s basketball team entered the NESCAC tournament this past weekend on a downswing. The Jumbos had MEN’S BASKETBALL (16-9 Overall, 6-4 NESCAC) NESCAC Quarterfinals at Cousens Gym, Saturday Bates Tufts

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dropped three in a row, and they seemed to have lost the rhythm that had earned them 16 regular season wins.

Fourth-seeded Tufts retained the right to host a playoff quarterfinal game on Saturday against No. 5 Bates, but for the second straight year the Jumbos were knocked out of the playoffs in the first round. Tufts relinquished a sevenpoint second-half lead, missed three last-second chances to tie and ultimately fell by a final score of 57-54.

The Jumbos had the ball trailing by that tally with 29 seconds left in the game. With 10 seconds to go, a threepoint attempt from freshman Ben Ferris rimmed out, but senior tri-captain forward James Long came down with the ball and head coach Bob Sheldon called a timeout. Off the inbound pass, sophomore guard Kwame Firempong missed a three, but Ferris grabbed the rebound and gave the ball to Firempong for one last shot from almost 30 feet.

Firempong’s effort was too long, however, and the buzzer sounded with the Jumbos watching their best season in

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The men’s basketball team had three chances to tie the game in its final seconds on Saturday, but they were ultimately ousted by Bates in the NESCAC quarterfinals. six years end on their home court.

It was an exciting contest, and Firempong did hit a three-point buzzer-beater earlier in the game — at the

end of the first half, to give the Jumbos a 28-27 lead at the break. Tufts came out firing at the start of the second half, too, building its largest lead of

the game, 42-35, with 14:36 to play. But Bates answered with a three and sudsee MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 14

MEN’s TRACK & FIELD

Women’s Track & Field

Nakanishi, Rand lead the Jumbos

Allen tops team with 18 points in throwing events

Men’s squad claims Tufts women place fourth at third place at regionals New England Championships by

Lauren Flament

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It was a battle right until the end for the title at this weekend’s men’s track and field Div. III New MEN’S TRACK & FIELD Div. III New Englands Springfield, Mass., Saturday 3rd of 24 teams 1. Bates 2. MIT 3. Tufts 4. Williams

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England Championships, hosted by Springfield. Ultimately, Bates stood atop the podium, becoming just the second team since 1991 to wrestle the title away from perennial powerhouses Williams and MIT — the first being when the Jumbos ended the streak in 2008. The Jumbos didn’t topple any giants this year, but they did secure third place with 89 points, outscoring rival Williams and improving three places from their disappointing sixth-place finish in 2011.

“It was a very good day as a team.

It started on Friday with the heptathlon and … through to the last

event, the 4x800, we had some great performances,” junior Gbola Ajayi said. “We used the metaphor of the meet being like a relay, so we had to get the baton to the relays in a good position ... Once people scored points, the energy carried through.”

Energy was a major theme for the Jumbos throughout the meet.

“Since it was our first championship meet, it was the first time that the team really came together with a good energy and pulled the competitors through with the momentum during the day,” senior tri-captain Scott McArthur added.

“It was definitely the highest energy I’ve seen all season.”

Bates won the meet with 103 points, while 2011 winner MIT earned runner-up honors with 95 points.

On Saturday, juniors Brad Nakanishi and Matt Rand led the way with the two Tufts victories of the weekend. Nakanishi, the 2011 runner-up in the pole vault, claimed the title this year, clearing a height of 15-11 — a mark that ranks ninth nationally. The height is also a personal record for Nakanishi. just an inch away from the school record of 16-0, set in 1980.

On the track, Rand earned the see MEN’S TRACK, page 14

by Jake Indursky

Contributing Writer

Despite a solid overall performance at the Division III New England Championships at WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD Div. III New Englands Northampton, Mass., Saturday 4th of 22 teams 1. Williams 2. MIT 3. Bowdoin 4. Tufts

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Smith College this past weekend, the women’s track and field team fell just short of its top-three aspirations, finishing in fourth with 64 points. Williams came in first place with 143, edging MIT by a single point. Third place belonged to Bowdoin with 72 points.

“We were thinking, on a great day, we were shooting for a topthree finish,” said junior thrower Kelly Allen, who won the shot see WOMEN’S TRACK, page 14

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Senior Ronke Oyekunle, pictured above, excelled in the shot put on Saturday at Div. III New Englands, placing third. The Jumbos finished fourth overall.