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Structural issues in Arts Haus force residents to relocate

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The Department of Facilities Services on Feb. 9 during a routine inspection of the Bartol House, commonly known as the Arts Haus, discovered split floor joists, forcing students living in the residence to move out the next day.

“We were fairly surprised,” Arts Haus president Luke Boelitz said. “We’d known for a long time that there was something weird about the floor in the living room, but it has been abnormal for so long that we just didn’t consider it might be a legitimate problem.”

The joists likely split in the living room floor because too many students had been in the area at once, Director of Facilities Services Bob Burns said.

Residents received an email from the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) Director Yolanda King the morning of Feb. 10 alerting them that they had to organize their belongings to temporarily move to Hillside Apartments later that day. With only a few hours to pack, students stuffed what they could into a few cars

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Arts Haus residents since early last month have been living in Hillsides Apartments after the Department of Facilities Services found that the living room floor had split joists. and drove it uphill, Boelitz, a senior, said.

“I was so stunned that my initial reaction was to keep doing my laundry and work since I didn’t know what else to do,” Anna Troein, a sophomore resident, said. “Obviously, when it sunk in that we had to move out, it quickly changed to deciding what I needed and what I could leave behind, as well as figuring

Tufts adds physician assistant program by

Patrick McGrath

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The Tufts University School of Medicine has announced a new physician assistant (PA) program that will welcome its first class in January, according to School of Medicine Assistant Professor Richard Murphy.

The development of the PA program at the School of Medicine has continued over a year and a half, and the proposal for the program was submitted last fall, Dean of the Public Health and Professional Degree Programs and Chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine Aviva Must said.

PAs practice medicine under the guidance of physicians and surgeons, and they are approved to offer diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive healthcare services, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ website.

The program is currently undergoing an accreditation process that should be completed by September, according to Murphy.

The application portal for the program will be open this May and the first class, comprised of 30 students, will matriculate next January, Murphy said. In the next three years, Murphy said that the program hopes to increase its class size to 50 students.

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The program duration is 25 months — the first 12 months being dedicated to classroom training in areas such as advanced anatomy and physiology, surgery, psychiatry, women’s health and behavioral medicine, and the final 13 months including clinical rotations among affiliated hospitals, private practices and clinics under the supervision of physicians and other graduate PAs, according to Murphy.

After the program is completed, PAs may pursue careers in a variety of fields based on their individual interests, according to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Carol Baffi-Dugan.

The PA profession has expanded particularly in response to the growing lack of healthcare staff, Dean of Clinical Affairs at the School of Medicine Henry Klapholz said.

“There’s a tremendous shortage nationally of qualified physician assistants,” Klapholz said. “This is done in an attempt to improve and enhance the quality of care.

We’re a medical school, and our goal is to provide the education necessary to provide optimal care to our population both here and globally for that matter.”

Must believes that society’s awareness of health care options is increasing. see PA, page 2

out how to move all my things.”

After the students were out of the house, a structural engineer surveyed the issues in order to inform the Department of Facilities Services about what specific elements of the house needed to be fixed, Residential Facilities Coordinator Jennifer Bevins said. In an email to Arts see ARTS HAUS, page 2

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Genocide survivors discuss experiences

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Four genocide survivors and the descendant of a survivor gathered at the second annual Survivors Speak panel discussion on Monday night to recount their experiences to the Tufts University community.

The Cummings/Hillel Program for Holocaust and Genocide Education hosted the event.

The panelists included survivors of the Holocaust and of genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia. The panel also included Dennis Papazian, a descendant of an Armenian genocide survivor, who works as an oral historian to record and document Armenian survivors’ stories since 1970.

Papazian retold the story of a survivor.

“They asked all the men and boys to separate from the women,” Papazian said. “There were some teen boys who were dressed like girls, disguised. They remained behind, but my father had to go.

They killed them with bayonets at the end of their rifles. They did this killing right in front of us. I saw my father being killed.”

For some of the panelists, sharing their experiences with genocide is part of the healing process and

helps them move forward.

Chantal Kayitesi, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, explained that she felt reinvigorated after she joined a weekly group in which she discussed her experiences. The weekly group then became an advocacy organization.

Kayitesi recalled being so motivated by the work that she decided to return to it after completing college.

“I was able to gain strength by talking to other survivors … every week we would meet and talk about our experiences,” Kayitesi said.

Max Michelson, a survivor of the Holocaust from Riga, Latvia, recalled that he was unable to speak about his experience for several decades.

“It took me 35 years before I started to speak about the Holocaust,” Michelson said. “I felt that that by being productive and building a decent life … I was honoring my parents. That seemed to me the only way I could rebuild life and go on.”

He said that he cannot connect God with the Holocaust.

“I cannot believe in a God who had anything to do with killing 1.5 million Jewish children,” he said.

“That was a matter of evil men, not of God.” see GENOCIDE, page 2

Tufts engineers gather for fourth annual Engineering Week by

Lizz Grainger

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The School of Engineering last week celebrated its 4th annual Engineering Week (E-week) which featured a series of events to promote engineering throughout the university and embrace camaraderie among different fields of engineering.

This year’s E-week, which was organized by the Engineering Student Council (ESC), included activities put on by various student organizations and the eight pre-professional organizations affiliated with the School of Engineering, according to ESC President Maren Frisell, a senior.

Members of different engineering fields competed in events such as a silk cocoon race, a robotics competition and a Halo tournament. Other activities included a networking event and the perennially popular game show-style “Date an Engineer.”

Each team of engineers earns points based on its attendance at the Engineering Week lectures and its success in the competitions, according to ESC Treasurer Ashley Martin.

The combined civil and environmental engineering group won for the fourth straight

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The School of Engineering last week celebrated its fourth annual Engineering Week. year with 28.4 points, followed by biomedical in second and mechanical in third, according to Martin, a junior.

This year’s E-week was celebrated on the Hill a week later than the national celebration, according to Frisell.

“It was actually [the week before], but we changed it to get an extra day because we had Monday off,” Frisell said.

Frisell said the ESC’s goal

during its second year sponsoring E-week was to increase communication among all engineering majors.

“We just want to promote engineering throughout the entire school and encourage people to participate and boost spirit throughout the School of Engineering, because the way it is now is every engineering see E-WEEK, page 2

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program has a different school,” she said.

E-week allows all engineers to see each other since the different engineering majors are separated into three buildings, Martin said.

“If you’re in Anderson [Hall], then you never see anyone who’s in Halligan or SciTech [Science and Technology Center], so it’s a way to get everybody in the same place at the same time,” Martin said.

Frisell added that all of the events except “Date an Engineer” were new. Some of the new activities included a density jar competition, a talleststructure competition involving marshmallows and spaghetti, a Lego competition and an open forum with Dean of the School of Engineering Linda Abriola.

“There [was an] open forum with Dean Abriola, which is huge because her time is very limited,” Frisell said. “She [gave] a talk about demographics in the School of Engineering — so funding, construction and where

she sees the school going.” “‘Date an Engineer’ is a pretty big event and [nearly] everyone from the whole school comes to it, and SWE [the Society of Women Engineers] does that,” she said.

“Date an Engineer” was the most-attended event this year, according to ESC Publicity Chair Laura Burns, a sophomore who won a date at the event.

“There are four rounds of it. Two of them had a girl buying for three guys, and then two of them had a guy buying for three girls,” she said. “They always ask dorky engineering questions, and it’s funny. It’s a good time.”

Burns added that the density jar competition was also very popular.

“Basically, we had different jars of liquid and we had to figure out what order to put them in so that they would layer up properly,” she said. “So there was honey, syrup, and soap and a variety of things.”

Burns said this year’s E-week was well publicized, so more engineers were aware of the

schedule of events and the competitions. The ESC decorated the buildings and put up posters with Quick Response (QR) Codes so people could scan them using their smartphones and link to the website with the schedule of events. They also handed out E-week buttons and bracelets.

“Each engineering major has an associated society with it, so each one of those respective groups emailed their members too to let them know about [E-week],” Burns said. “The buttons and bracelets were a new addition this year. I think we’re going to do that every year and have them be collectors’ items.”

Burns — who on Monday was elected ESC President for next year — said the ESC is looking to alter the schedule of events for E-week next year.

“We had some new events this year, some of the activities were switched up, but for the most part it was the same structure, and I think that’s something we’re going to think about changing for next year,” she said.

Physician assistant program would offer new career opportunities

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“Mid-level physician assistants are one of the solutions that people are looking at as a way to improve access to care at a reasonable cost to residents of the U.S.,” Must said.

Klapholz was in charge of finding hospitals where PA students would work during their second year in the program. He said that he initially thought it might be difficult to find institutions willing to help train the PA students, but almost all of the institutions that he approached were excited to help host them.

“It turns out that essentially every hospital that we approached was thrilled to participate because they viewed this as a training ground for their future workforce,” Klapholz said.

“They too have had trouble getting adequate trained physician assistants, particularly in certainly specialties.”

Baffi-Dugan noted that a PA program was notably lacking at the Tufts University School of Medicine and that there are only two PA programs available in the Boston area.

“In my estimation there’s a need for more physician assistant programs. [Boston has] multiple programs in many of the other health professions, but only two to train physician assistants, and they’re not very large,” she said.

“So I think our health sciences center downtown, and our medical school in particular, saw the gap and felt that there was a place for them to step in and help fill the gap.”

The two other current PA programs in Boston are located at Northeastern University and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, although the future PA program at Tufts will be the only one based out of a medical school, according to Baffi-Dugan.

“Being based at a medical school makes a lot of sense,” Murphy said. “The faculty there is used to teaching healthcare providers at a physician level, and PAs basically can perform almost 80 percent of what primary care physicians can do, so it’s a natural place for PAs to be trained.”

Murphy also noted the international advantages of the developing PA profession.

“We’re seeing PAs going off to underserved areas such as Haiti or Central America and Africa and doing tremendous work on a volunteer basis at some of these underserved countries,” Murphy said. “PAs are really gaining a foothold or a beachhead in healthcare delivery not just in American medicine but throughout the world.”

Must said that the PA career has been ranked as the best or second-best profession by a number of sources. She said the Tufts pro-

Panelists at Survivors Speak urge students to guard against future atrocities

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The Tufts University School of Medicine in May will begin accepting applications for its first class in the new physician assistant program, which will matriculate in January 2013. gram would offer opportunities for inter-professional education by having PAs training alongside the medical students.

“I hope it will lead to another wonderful opportunity for [my students] to pursue a rewarding career where they can take care

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Tooch Van, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide of 1975-79, said he had no choice but to keep moving forward after the rule of the Khmer Rouge.

“In my case, I had no choice. I had to [keep moving forward],” he said. “I still have nightmares when I talk about how I lost my family. I feel lonely, but I have a responsibility to share this.”

Papazian suggested that the United Nations could play a role in preventing future genocides and added that there needed to be appropriate punishments administered to perpetrators in order to prevent similar crimes.

“If we can somehow harness the good idea and remove the weaknesses, it’s the road to international peace and harmony,” Papazian said. “There has to be punishment for the leaders otherwise new perpetrators will say ‘they got away with it, we can get away with it.’”

Jasmina Cesic, a survivor of the Bosnian civil war of the 1990s, urged her listeners to consider the best interests of humanity as opposed to what

Haus residents, Bevins said a contractor would begin work on the house on Feb. 27.

“Both ResLife and Facilities have been really helpful in trying to ensure the smoothest possible transition,” Troein said. “It’s not an easy situation for anyone, especially since it happened so suddenly. I really appreciate the effort they have put into helping us.”

In addition to restoring the floor, the contractor replaced some of the heating system, Boelitz said. Once the electrical work on the house is complete, the structural engineer said it might be possible for the Arts Haus residents to return to their home at the Bartol House later this week, Bevins said.

“I think everyone will be excited to move back,” Boelitz said.

“Obviously it’s the best situation for us. I think most important is that we’ll all be living together under the same roof and we’ll have more space. That’s going to be a big relief.”

The Department of Facilities Services is in the process of

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Four genocide survivors and the descendant of a survivor recounted their experiences Monday night at the second annual Survivors Speak event. is in the interests of a particular state.

She believes that today, there are still good Serbs and bad Serbs.

“People who really believe in religion are good-hearted people, and they share love. I think that’s how I sustain my love,” she said.

“After everything that has happened to me, I am still able to love, and I still believe there are good Serbs and bad Serbs.”

Papazian added that there is no real concept of internationalism and argued that the con-

cept of state sovereignty must be deconstructed.

Steve Cohen, who served as the moderator of the panel and is also a lecturer in the department of education, encouraged the audience to eliminate violence, racial hatred and indifference.

Michelson exhorted the audience to guard against atrocities like genocide in the future through discussion.

“To the extent that you can, try to prevent other holocausts by telling our story,” Michelson said.

of patients, because most students who come to see me want to make a difference, want to care for patients and want an opportunity to do that, so here’s another great opportunity,” Baffi-Dugan said. “So I hope it will lead to that, and I’m pretty sure it will.”

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investigating the cause of the structural problems in the Bartol House as well as determining who will pay for the repairs.

“The floor has been bouncy in the living room for as long as I’ve lived in the house,” Boelitz said. “When you jump on it, it feels like a trampoline.

It’s definitely gotten worse in the last year.”

While contractors work to repair the structure of the Bartol House, female Arts Haus residents are living in a Hillsides suite while the male residents are scattered around the building in spare rooms, Boelitz said.

He added that though the environment is not their first choice, these students named their temporary homes “the Arts Haus on Vacation.”

“The Arts Haus is very much about the community, and it’s difficult to sustain the same level of community when half of the house is living in different suites,” Troein said. “However, it’s really been a bonding experience, and I definitely think that I am closer to everyone in the house and make sure I see everyone because of this.”

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A Taste of Tufts: Anthony Monaco by

Amelia Quinn

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University President Anthony Monaco was at bat last Friday at the Experimental College’s ongoing lecture series, “A Taste of Tufts: A Sampling of Faculty Research.” His lecture, entitled “Genes for Walking, Genes for Talking: 25 years of Human Molecular Genetics,” focused mainly on his studies involving Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and specific speech impairments. During the presentation, he gave a summary of his involvement with genes that have been linked to these disorders.

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disease that involves a rapidly worsening form of muscular weakness. It has a recessive X-linked inheritance pattern, meaning that the genes that code for it are located on the sex chromosomes in humans. Therefore, since males only have a single copy of the gene, due to their Y chromosome, they are much more likely to suffer from this debilitating disorder. DMD affects 1 in 3,500 live male births, making it one of the most frequently occuring “rare” inherited disorders. Patients present symptoms at 3 to 5 years of age, showing decreasing motor skills and extreme muscle weakness, and they are generally confined to a wheelchair by the age of 12.

When Monaco started his research, very few human genes had been isolated. He said that geneticists were able to identify some defective proteins and backtrack from there, but only with certain diseases.

Essentially, genes are distinct portions of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) located on chromosomes, which make ribonucleic acid (RNA), which in turn make proteins. By identifying faulty proteins, it is possible to laboriously backtrack and pinpoint exactly where on the chromosome the gene lies.

However, not everything on the original genome is expressed; a splicing process separates exons from introns, expressing only the exons in RNA and discarding the coding from the introns. The only thing that was known about the gene that codes for DMD when Monaco began his research in 1982

was that it was located on the short arm of the X-chromosome, on band Xp21.

“I was a Ph.D. student in the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard and was introduced to Louis Kunkel through his seminar in our Neuroscience of Disease course in my first year,” Monaco said. “He presented a genetic approach to understanding Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. I was so inspired by his proposal that I asked him to take me on as his student on the project the next day.”

A group in Toronto approached the gene by examining the DNA of the rare cases of women who suffered from DMD to look for translocations that would have caused a dissection of the DMD gene. During translocation, chromosomes exchange pieces with each other, and the zones that are split are therefore rendered inactive. Kunkel and Monaco tried a different approach, which relied on deletions of chromosome material in the band Xp21 in male patients.

Eventually, Monaco and Kunkel were able to identify the dystrophin gene, which codes for an important component of muscles that is missing underneath the muscle cell membrane in patients suffering from DMD. The gene proved to be massive, consisting of 79 exons spanning at least 2,300 kilobases, making it the largest known gene. In fact, it comprises 0.1 percent of the human genome.

“The identification of the gene responsible for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy with Louis Kunkel was my most rewarding research discovery because at that time, nobody had ever identified a gene for a human inherited disorder using genetics alone,” Monaco said. “Therefore, a number of intellectual and practical hurdles had to be overcome in order to find and clone disease genes to which Lou and I contributed in this project. These solutions influenced the field of human molecular genetics for many years until the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003.”

While working as a student researcher, Monaco also served as Kunkel’s lab representative in the Neuromuscular Program clinic at Children’s Hospital Boston. Once a week, he would visit the clinic and meet the patients and their families and hear firsthand

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University President Anthony Monaco discovered the gene for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

was it was like to battle against a disease that would eventually take their lives.

“To say the least, that experience in the clinic was one of the most rewarding aspects of my Ph.D project and a real motivator to finding the gene,” Monaco said. “After we identified the gene, we had hundreds of letters from families with boys with muscular dystrophy expressing their gratitude and hope.”

There are myriad applications of Monaco’s research, and this discovery has the power to impact tens of thousands of people.

Knowing which gene is implicated in DMD allows for 80 percent accuracy in prenatal screening, which would allow mothers to screen their fetuses for the debilitating disease. Perhaps even more importantly, current clinical trials are working with a molecular mechanism that Kunkel and Monaco hypothesized in 1988, which could alleviate the symptoms of Duchenne patients.

“Clinical trials have been successful in trying to force the dystrophin gene with Duchenne deletions to skip an additional exon to put the reading frame back in place, therefore allowing a Becker-type protein to be made … they now need to scale it up in larger trials on more patients,” Monaco said.

Becker Muscular Dystrophy is a milder form of muscular dystrophy, which includes some muscle weakness and occasional heart issues and progresses more slowly than DMD. In contrast to those with DMD, patients with Becker Muscular Dystrophy can lead a fairly full life.

Monaco pointed out that the idea of “deletions” can be explained by the sentence “the sky was blue,” using 3-letter reading frames.

If a single letter were deleted, the sentence would now read “hes kyw asb lue,” which makes no sense at all. However, in contrast, if the whole first word were deleted, the sentence would read, “sky was blue,” which is slightly cropped but still comprehensible.

This is the difference between Duchenne and Becker; in Duchenne, the message coming from the genome is completely garbled, while in Becker it is just slightly abbreviated. According to Monaco, by forcing more deletions, the reading frames can be reestablished, therefore reducing the severity of the disease.

In his lecture, Monaco also briefly covered his research with a specific speech disorder, which is linked with the FOXP2 gene.

The gene is expressed in areas of the brain that are important in motor planning and sequencing of events, both of which are related to speech.

“The FOXP2 gene was found to be mutated in rare cases of patients with a severe speech and language disorder which was inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion,” Monaco said. “It is not mutated in more common forms of specific language impairments that represent 5 percent of school-age children. However, we did find that FOXP2 regulated a target gene called Contactin Associated Protein 2, which is associated with common forms of specific language impairments and also with autism. Therefore, it shows how FOXP2 gave us an entry point into the pathway of genes that are involved in the brain pathways for speech and language,” he said.

Interestingly, Monaco said, chimps’ FOXP2 genes are more similar to those of mice than those of humans, although humans and chimps share close to 98 percent of the same genes. This suggests the human-specific changes in FOXP2 probably occurred largely in the last 200,000 years, which is consistent with the changes in the human language in that same time frame.

Although in the last 15 years Monaco has switched his main focus to more common disorders, he still takes pride in the advances he helped to bring about in the study of genetics.

“My favorite moments in my research were those times when we had been searching for a disease gene for years and got the first sequence of it,” Monaco said. “At that moment we knew that we had opened up a whole new field of knowledge based on our discovery that will increase our understanding of basic biology and hopefully provide insights for better diagnosis and treatments for patients.”

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n the Girl Scouts, I did a lot of beading, sold cookies and read survival tips aloud from a book. Meanwhile, in the Boy Scouts, my brothers went on overnight trips, hiking and rock climbing.

Reminiscent of my Girl Scout days, I was cautious in high school when one girl started a subsection of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). It felt like another excuse for girls to hang out with cookie dough and gossip about boys.

Even worse, it isolated my guy friends.

It’s not that I resisted women entirely; it’s just that the proportions were always in favor of guys. As one of five girls in an engineering program at my high school, I had loyalty to those guys who entertained me in bio class. Anyway, the other option was to befriend the girly girls on the soccer team who talked up mascara like it was a religion and attacked me with eyelash curlers. Not to mention, someone was always trying to straighten my hair.

But once I started college, I hoped to surround myself with inspiring, strong women, either through their work with the Timmy Foundation or Engineers Without Borders. Luckily, Tufts Engineering accepts a strikingly high percentage of women, and my major is even more densely populated with women.

Still, I admit that I have been cautious around all-women professional groups. I was convinced that SWE was something even worse in a college setting — like a sorority or something. So I surprised myself when I attended the SWE Regional Conference this weekend. But I really needed to secure a summer internship.

Keynote speaker Natalie Givans looked young and strong, like her outfit. Her striking red blazer and cinching belt complemented her perfectly defined, blonde, curly hair. In between wondering if she used Garnier hair products, I listened to her go on and on about how I should dance like no one’s watching. Come on.

It was like she was egging me on to make sweeping generalizations about SWE and the thrill of all-women conferences.

But rather than making a hackneyed speech about the importance of balance to women’s lives, she started the conference off well. She was the first person I met who unapologetically said that it is impossible to balance being a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, Pack Committee Chair for Cub Scout Pack 673 and a 5K runner, all without a Time Turner.

Since she chose to be a leader in her company and have kids, she admitted that she could not be the best at both in the same day. Maybe in a week, but not in one day.

Do you know of many men who dream of their future careers, only to have those dreams be rudely interrupted with thoughts of fitting in a family? Because even in college, my female peers have a thought or two about it. Even someone as accomplished as Givans worried about whether she would have a job when she got back from her short maternity leave.

Overall, at the SWE conference, I heard the stories of women in successful engineering careers who had it all: family, friends, career and great clothes. I don’t like to admit it, but I am starting to understand why women find these conferences enjoyable. Even if SWE was a sorority, perhaps a sorority does more than just equip its members with straightening irons and eyebrow pencils, but rather the courage to achieve their M.D., B.S., M.R.S or whatever else it is that they want.

Right now, I want to play with concrete, survive Steel Design and paint my nails. If successful, I’ll be lucky if I can celebrate with a gallon of cookie dough and a group of girls like SWE. Jasmin Sadegh is a junior majoring in civil engineering. She can be reached at Jasmin.

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Hollywood’s favorite mullet is back and more heinous than ever. Kenny Powers, the larger-than-life character assumed by

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Since the show’s conception in 2009, loyal Powers lovers have exalted the flamethrowing miscreant for his hyperbolic narcissism, his slovenly, ’80s-inspired appearance, his utter disregard for and exploitation of his fellow man and his God-given talent on a baseball diamond.

With a sagging beer belly, two flabby drumsticks for arms and a propensity for consuming hard drugs and marijuana, Kenny is a far cry from the romanticized picture of a professional athlete.

But throughout the show’s run, the volatile main character has taken on a life of its own, appearing on his own HBO-licensed clothing line and filming

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For all the pride Bostonians take in the North End, the culinary offerings of most kitschy fixtures in this area

Trattoria Toscana 130 Jersey St. Boston, MA 02215 (617) 247-9508 $20-$40

“Visions,” Grimes’ latest release, fits like a retro re-release of a Michael Jordan sneaker. You put it on and feel the sensation of the past and future meeting in one glorious moment. Grimes joins a host of trending contemporary artists making bedroom music that aches of the ‘80s and ‘90s. The sounds on the album are supplied by a basic microphone and an old-school Juno-G keyboard, and they are then mixed and sequenced through GarageBand.

Despite the mechanical beats allowed by

leave a lot to be desired. Every place seems to have its drawbacks — too loud, too proud, too expensive. In fact, it seems that the only universally respected nosh is the cannoli at Mike’s Pastry.

How ironic, then, that one of the city’s most authentic Italian restaurants is in the gastronomic boonies of Boston. But thanks to its cozy interior and fluid menu, which allows for seasonal changes, this Fenway restaurant serves Tuscan dinners that would make most North End eateries green with envy.

Nestled in a residential area by the underappreciated Back Bay Fens, Trattoria Toscana is as unassuming inside as it is on the outside. Its large bay window helps open up the modest dining room that in total seats about 30 guests. But the small space is inviting, and characteristically squat bottles of Chianti decorate the warmly lit walls.

In spite of the restaurant’s canonization of Chianti, the house wine manages to live up to expectations.

Chianti is the prototypical Italian red, and this one was supple enough to allow for a wide range of food pairings. Smoothly tannic, it was a great deal and could be purchased by the glass or carafe for $7 or $28 dollars, respectively.

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o you want to work in the fashion industry? Then, first you must intern somewhere. As midterms overwhelm us, we must all be reminded that summer will be upon us (and hopefully spring will hurry on up so I can break out those espadrilles and white dresses) which means that internship application time is … now. There are many areas one can go into in fashion: design, marketing, PR, advertising, publishing, copy, photography or coffee fetching. Some of these tips are specific to the fashion industry, but others might be good life lessons.

1. Interns are rarely paid: Seeing as the White House doesn’t pay its interns, you might have tough luck seeking out a fashion internship with pay. There is a fine line between productive, mutually beneficial internships and exploited, unpaid labor.

Some magazines and PR firms will pay for an unlimited bus or subway card, which they should. Otherwise, do not expect remuneration for your countless hours spent hauling clothes between publications or airbrushing a model’s face. Your compensation is invaluable experience and contacts.

2. Smaller is usually better: From personal experience, the smaller a company is, the better your internship will be. Be it working with the publisher or accountant, personal interaction helps build lasting relationships and future job offers, things that rarely come about when you take orders from a secretary. With that said, there is serious brand recognition for working at a place like Vogue or GQ, which facilitates a holistic approach to learning fashion as an industry and moneymaker that a boutique publication or firm might lack.

3. Keep a black book: The global fashion industry is a very small world. Keep track of who knows whom in your office, of what designer the editor-in-chief loves or what model the designer says has a bad attitude.

Don’t snoop, don’t spy. Be cognizant. It’s a lot easier to approach a former boss when you have specific names and places and you are hoping for an entree.

4. Be on time but don’t expect timeliness: As an intern you want to impress and always be on time. It’s rude if you’re not. Do not expect everyone else to abide by this guideline. Just like fashion shows never start more than 30 minutes after their supposed start time, the workday begins and ends later than a nine to five job. Blame it on all the late events and socializing that is mandatory…

5. Have style: This sounds rather obvious, but if you have seen “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006), you know what this means.

Regardless of whether you are a thrift-store junkie or preppy, Barbour coat-wearing gent, have a look, have a style. Dress with purpose because in this industry, you can bet people judge you for it. Rules are more lenient in terms of what is office-appropriate (shorts in the summer — sure!) but flip-flops are never chic.

6. Self-edit your social media: Now that every major editor and DJ-cum-stylist-cumLord-knows-what has their own blog and Twitter feed and Pinterest board, interns should be allowed to tweet everything that they learn and hear on the job, right? Not true. Depending on where you work, there may be a strict rule against mobile uploads (obviously if you’re working on editorials or a designer’s newest collection) or blogging.

Even if there’s not, be wise. Yes, you want to impart knowledge or gossip or whatever, but don’t use your Twitter feed (public or not) to rehash specific details.

7. Thank people: Don’t grovel at every foot you work for, but thank the people who teach and guide you the most. Get email addresses so you can shoot off quick emails, and if someone went out of their way to mentor you, a handwritten note will certainly be remembered ,and so will you.

Elizabeth Landers is a junior majoring in political science. She can be reached at Elizabeth.Landers@tufts.edu.

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the restaurant’s attention to aesthetics.

Artfully plated on a large wooden block, paper-thin slices of cured meat imported from Florence and wedges of cheese surround a white ceramic bowl of black and green olives.

As mentioned, the menu changes according to the seasons. Current dishes feature hearty ingredients such as squash, house-made sausage and sage.

For instance, the appetizer stew — with its white beans, root vegetables and earthy seasonings — helped warm us up after the cold walk from the Green Line.

Of the pastas, the most enjoyable was the gnocchi. A potato-based dumpling, gnocchi dough is often undercooked or overworked, resulting in a sticky, gummy texture. These frequent errors detract from the nuanced qualities that good gnocchi can possess. At Trattoria Toscana, the satisfyingly tender gnocchi comes with walnuts and a creamy Gorgonzola sauce. The cheesy base had the characteristic tang of bleu cheese, but it was subtle enough to balance the delicate flavor of the gnocchi.

The entrees at Trattoria Toscana are devoid of culinary cliches like chicken or eggplant parmesan. Much like the restaurant itself, they highlight unexplored or else underappreciated aspects of Italian cuisine. The slow-cooked cow tripe — the first or second chamber of the stomach — literally melts in your mouth, and the calf’s liver is served in a deep and darkly sweet Marsala sauce. Don’t let the ingredients scare you; find your inner Andrew Zimmern and trade in the meatballs for something a little more exciting.

Tuscany, located along the Ligurian Sea, is known for its seafood as well, and Trattoria Toscana manages to pair that maritime tradition with Boston’s own seafood culture. During my visit, grilled rainbow trout and sea bass were both on the menu.

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Trattoria Toscana abandons massive portions for carefully prepared delicacies.

While the prices are reasonable — averaging around the high teens for most first and second plates — the portions are smaller than you might expect.

Italian mothers and restaurants share the stereotype of Brobdingnagian, guilt-

tripping portions. But this is not so at Trattoria Toscana, where no food overstays its welcome. Two diners might consider splitting a first plate of pasta before enjoying their entrees. However, the pushy servers make such economi-

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the basic computer program, Grimes’ spirit and personality shine through luminously via her girlie falsetto and boyish confidence. These core ingredients create the perfect background of lo-fi nostalgia and moodiness for Boucher’s wailing like a modernday Mariah Carey. It makes for a sound that is simultaneously reminiscent and modern in its style and flair.

“Oblivion,” the album’s only single, sounds like it belongs on the “Donnie Darko” (2001) soundtrack. The spooky track features a glossy, ominous bassline that congeals with thin, papery lo-fi drums and Boucher’s airy, effervescent voice. The latter half of the track features sounds that seem like they were ripped right out of a Nintendo 64. Boucher’s voice has an impressive range, as she starts out high and fluttery before plummeting into a tenor range where the melody resolves.

Her lyrics, sung through a distorting microphone, are often difficult to decipher. In the end, listeners are left with the spirit and emotionality of the track, which is spearheaded by Grimes’ outpouring of soul.

Most of the tracks are quite likeable and intimate with propulsive, pulsating beats. The image that comes to mind is a lonely ‘80’s making a personal album out of lyrics from her diary for her enjoyment. This impression is emphasized by Bouchen’s quirky, childlike way of singing. She barely bothers to pronounce her lyrics at times, like a 7-year-old struggling with the strange rhythms of a new word.

Over the course of the 13-track album, it becomes clear that the most compelling aspect of Bouchen as an artist is her unique voice and spirit. This ultimately trumps her production. In inter-

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Grimes’ singing and GarageBand effects barely conceal the albums corny and uninspired beats. views, she cites influences like choral hymnals, a cappella songs and Michael Jackson. Grimes joins contemporary artists like James Blake and How to Dress Well in an attempt to infuse the soul of R&B with forward-thinking electronic music. In “Vowels = Space and Time,” the most danceable track on the brooding album, Grimes sounds like a futuristic soul diva.

Against a Caribbean backdrop, she hits and holds notes that you would expect to be out of her vocal range, effortlessly cascading up and down scales. From time to time, she subtly puts subtle effects on her voice and pitches her vocals to weird registers, taking the music to a trippy atmospheric place.

Strip away the catchy, R&Binfluenced siren voice and you are left with beats that are, by Boucher’s own confession, made by someone with little musical background and knowledge. The rhythms get repetitive and static in quality, and the timbres of the drums are corny and outdated. The mechanical nature of

the beats is the result of Grimes sequencing all of her beats in GarageBand instead of actually playing the rhythms out herself.

While this emphasizes the ‘80s aesthetic, it also makes for boring, robotic music. There are moments of the album that are painfully amateurish, especially for a musician signed to a major label. It is very apparent from listening to the album that the majority of the work was put into the vocals, while the backdrops were a secondary affair.

Grimes’ do-it-yourself aesthetic is one that has garnered success for many a bedroom musician in the last five years; it has also garnered Grimes her own fair share of hype. Often, the hype around the recording aesthetic and the oddball personality of the musician transcends the music itself. In this case, Grimes unequivocally shows merit in her bid to be a lauded pop star of sorts. Her charisma and personality are undeniably contagious, and her catchy vocals have plenty of crossover potential.

cal dining uncomfortable.

While the surrounding neighborhood may not evoke the intense Italianism found in northern parts of the city, Trattoria Toscana is a small yet satisfying place that is more than worth a try.

Character-driven plot, dark humor power ‘Eastbound’

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In season one, Powers accepted a job as a gym teacher in his hometown, pledging to teach the children to follow his reckless example while simultaneously preparing for an improbable baseball comeback. Along the way, Kenny rekindled his high school romance with the buxom April (Katy Mixon) and recruited his subservient, dimwitted assistant, Stevie Janowski (Steve Little).

Then, in season two, Kenny fled to Mexico to escape the utter heartbreak of a failed return to the Major Leagues with the Tampa Bay Rays. There, Kenny bided his time enthralling Mexican audiences and spreading the American ideals of freedom, patriotism and excessive showboating while pitching for the Mexican baseball team Los Charros.

Now, in the first three episodes of the third season, Kenny has made the pilgrimage back to the motherland, throwing pure heat for the Double-A Myrtle Beach Mermen while trying to sort out his personal life with April and their infant child, Toby.

With Will Ferrell and Adam McKay attached as executive producers, “Eastbound” has frequently been graced with hysterical cameos. Craig Robinson (of “The Office” fame) drew constant laughs as Powers’ heavyhitting nemesis, Reg Mackworthy, and Ferrell himself has reprised his season-one role as Ashley Schaeffer, the silver-haired, sharp-tongued car dealer, in the current season.

Joining the cast for the first time are Jason Sudeikis — who has undeniable chemistry with McBride as Shane, Kenny’s equally brash and egotistical teammate — and Ike Barinholtz, a “MADtv”

(1995-2009) journeyman who joins the cast as a Russian pitching protege named Ivan.

The deeply comedic cast and artfully done direction makes each 30-minute “Eastbound” episode a visually captivating, sidesplitting thrill. Most episodes feature at least one lengthy montage, set to an apropos, featured song, following one of Kenny’s famous drug binges or sinful adventures along the South Carolina coast.

Surprisingly, the third season has transitioned seamlessly back to the States after a year and a half long hiatus. New storylines have seduced viewers, including Kenny’s futile search for April, his desperate attempts to reconcile with Stevie, his reharnessed arm power and his newfound responsibility for Toby.

The main issue Hollywoodeducated viewers have with the show is the focus on Kenny, who lacks moral fiber almost entirely.

Yet co-creators McBride, Ben Best and Jody Hill have constructed the new, self-centered anti-hero: impossible to sympathize with yet difficult to despise. His exaggerated egocentricity, explosive anger issues and unadulterated chauvinism — especially when contrasted with his egg-like shape — make him oddly endearing. After all, the vast majority of American television viewers have an inexplicable affinity for characters who make them laugh.

So, for those deprived souls who have refrained from flicking on HBO at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night, “Eastbound & Down” is must-see television, especially with just five episodes left. The extravagant sets and ridiculous characters make each episode a fleeting but insanely satisfying hell-ride to the deepest pits of the dark comedy underworld.

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The Internet was abuzz yesterday over the news that authorities dealt a serious blow to “hacktivist” collective Anonymous. Five alleged members of LulzSec, a now-disbanded offshoot of the group, were charged with hacking crimes.

The arrests were made possible by the work of one of Anonymous’ most prominent figures, Hector Xavier Monsegur, who was known under the alias “Sabu” and was the leader of LulzSec. Monsegur had been working as an informant for the FBI since last August, when he pleaded guilty to 12 hacking-related charges. While cooperating with the FBI, Monsegur continued to pretend to act as a cooperative member of Anonymous, tweeting on Monday, “The federal government is run by a bunch of f--ing cowards. Don’t give in to these people.

Fight back. Stay strong.”

While the arrest of LulzSec members does not mean the end of Anonymous, which is a decentralized collective with hundreds possibly thousands of members, it does sow seeds of distrust in the movement.

Some see this as a bad thing, glorifying hacktivists like members of Anonymous and

LulzSec as freedom fighters, noble vigilantes or modern-day Robin Hoods. The truth, though, is that these groups are little more than hotbeds of cyber terrorism and need to be targeted as such.

It is true that, as vigilantes, some members of Anonymous do mean well. Late last year, members targeted child pornography websites and visitors. Anonymous also undertook an unsuccessful scheme to publish the names of members of a violent Mexican drug cartel. However, any vigilante justice the group executes is completely overshadowed by its delusional self-righteousness.

The website of Anonymous Analytics, an Anonymous offshoot claiming to be devoted to exposing corrupt companies, notes that Anonymous as a whole is “focused on promoting access to information, free speech, and transparency.” But the collective’s actions speak louder than words.

Anonymous believes not only that its views are correct, but also that all other views should not have a voice at all. What other reason could there be for justifying the complete takedown of the websites of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Motion Picture

Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America?

The behavior of LulzSec was similarly malicious. Members previously targeted and took down the website of PBS. PBS’s crime? Unfavorable coverage of Anonymous ally WikiLeaks. If hacktivist groups actually cared about free speech, they wouldn’t try to promote themselves by silencing their opposition.

Not only do companies and agencies become the targets of Anonymous, but anyone using their services becomes a target as well. Anonymous recently released hundreds of thousands of email addresses and thousands of credit card numbers from customers of private intelligence firm Stratfor. Users of something as mundane as the website of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system found their personal information published online last year thanks to Anonymous. The BART had decided to temporarily shut down cell phone service in its facilities to prevent a protest, an action worthy of activism in itself. But Anonymous’ behavior is not activism: It’s misguided and harmful extremism.

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Sleep is a college student’s best friend.

However, as often as we neglect it, it abandons us. Between classes, schoolwork, intramural sports, socializing and procrastinating that ends in an all-night cram session, college students seriously lack the sleep they need.

The United States is becoming significantly more sleep deprived as a nation, according to Psychology Today. It’s probably safe to say that college students only add to this problem. But like the convergent thinkers we were taught to be, give us a problem and we’ll find a solution.

The solution for our sleep deprivation takes us back to the 1990s and the floors of our kindergarten classrooms. I’m talking about the classic midday nap.

Everyone has probably heard from some source or another that naps are good for you. Or they just assume a quick snooze is beneficial because they feel better afterward. But is this really true? According to the Mayo Clinic’s website, naps can increase relaxation and alertness, improve mood and cognitive performance and reduce fatigue.

That’s quite the list of accolades for 10 to 30 minutes of shut-eye.

Sleeping does more than just rest our bodies and minds; it also clears out a region of the brain called the hippocampus, making room for the formation of new memories. The hippocampus is responsible for temporarily storing factbased memories before other regions of the brain can process the information, according to Psychology Today.

Getting enough sleep can also positively affect the immune system and metabolic rates that help keep you healthy. Experts agree, though, that while napping has its benefits, it can’t make up for a sleep deficit. One doctor, JoAnn Manson of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, never recommends naps for healthy young adults. Manson told Glamour Magazine that most studies which suggest benefits of naps are performed on sleep-deprived subjects like astronauts. Instead, Manson encourages healthy, young subjects to refresh by taking a walk or simply getting more sleep each night.

When I read this article, I was actually upset. Here’s a professional doctor telling me that naps are not the answer.

That’s like telling young children not to ask “why.” Naps are just a part of my lifestyle. I represent the tiny fraction of college students who go to bed before

midnight and wake up before 9 a.m.

But still, every day I crave a nap. Most mornings, the only thing that gets me out of bed is telling myself that I can get back in later.

College students nap for many different reasons. I’m going to go ahead and assume most of us don’t lay our heads down thinking, “I better sleep so my hippocampus can empty.” No, we nap because we were up all hours of the morning the night before studying. (Or most likely doing anything but studying.) We also nap to procrastinate on school work. Convincing yourself that you’re doing something beneficial for your learning while simultaneously not studying is like the golden ticket. Finally, we nap as a form of luxury and selfindulgence. Better yet, it’s free — if you don’t count the time you spend doing it.

Do what works best for you. Maybe naps make you drowsy. (Try cutting them down to less than half an hour, before you get into the deep, rapid eye movement cycle.) Or maybe exercising and caffeine do the trick. To be honest, it doesn’t matter how many doctors tell me taking a 20-minute walk would have more rejuvenating benefits than 20 minutes of sleep. We work hard, and we deserve to nap.

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The Jewish and demographic state by

Cory Faragon and Lucas Koerner

Despite a great deal of advocacy for this or that liberal cause, there is one matter of contention where a large portion of Tufts students have decided they dare not direct their critical gaze: the Zionist character of the state of Israel. It would be unheard of for a Tufts student to openly advocate, for instance, minimizing the minority presence on campus, but every day we are faced with students who openly avow their desire to bolster the Israeli occupation, as if it were an article of secular faith. In the American Jewish community, this is the one taboo, the one question on which we must remain silent on the pain of ostracism. We are forbidden from addressing the obvious incongruity of a “Jewish and democratic state,” the mistaken idea that a state that legally defines itself on the basis of a particular ethno-religious identity can be a democracy for those who do not hail from this group.

Contrary to the claims of those arguing against our purpose in holding Israeli Apartheid Week at Tufts, Israel is not a “state of all its citizens.” Israel retains an anachronistic 19th century model of citizenship: It defines itself not in terms of the people actually residing within its everexpanding frontiers, but on the basis of a specific ethno-religious group, no matter where they might reside on the planet.

Therefore, of the roughly 13 million people between the river and the sea who fall under the de facto or de jure rule of the Israeli state, only about 6 million enjoy the “full menu of rights,” as Desmond Tutu remarked in 1985 regarding the South African apartheid regime.

Some five million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip live in Bantustans under the ultimate control of Israeli military authorities, deprived of all forms of political, economic and social rights in a regime the South African Human

Sciences Research Council described as “colonialism and apartheid.” In the West Bank, Palestinians are confined to noncontiguous cantons comprising less than 17 percent of their territory by a “matrix of control” that consists of illegal Jewish-only settlements, Jewish-only roads, over 500 checkpoints and other obstacles to movement, as well as the “Separation Barrier,” running four times as long as the Berlin Wall and three times as high, built almost exclusively on Palestinian land. Likewise, in Gaza, Palestinians are subject to a state of indefinite siege in which Israel controls all exits and airspace, constricting the flow of people and goods, resulting in what many NGOs term a “humanitarian crisis.”

However, as the internationally respected Russell Tribunal on Palestine observes, this “institutionalized regime of domination” of the Palestinian people does not miraculously stop at the green line. Indeed, “Palestinian citizens of Israel, while entitled to vote, are not part of the Jewish nation as defined

by Israeli law and are excluded from the benefits of Jewish nationality and subject to systematic discrimination across the broad spectrum of recognized human rights.”

The 1.5 million Arab Israelis, comprising one-fifth of the population, are systematically marginalized by the state, deprived of a whole host of basic rights, ranging from family unification to land ownership, by over 20 discriminatory laws, according to Adalah, the Legal Center for Minority Rights in Israel. Under the Absentee Property Law of 1950, most of the land belonging to expelled Palestinian refugees, comprising over 90 percent of the total land and property in 1947, was formally confiscated by the new Israeli state and placed under the purview of the quasi-governmental Jewish National Fund, tasked with managing it on behalf of world Jewry. Today, this land remains effectively off-limits to Palestinians, who are excluded from settling in the plethora of new towns and suburbs by “admis-

sions committees” charged with excluding residents deemed “socially incompatible,” such as Palestinians, Ethiopian Jews, samesex couples and other “undesirables.” This apartheid is not the outcome of the recent far-right turn of the Israeli state under Netanyahu, but is inscribed into the very founding laws of the state.

The flipside of this system of oppression of Palestinians, no matter where they reside, is the cult of Jewish exceptionalism. Nowhere is this unabashed worship of Jewish privilege more apparent than in the Taglit Birthright-Israel program, which provides Jewish youth with a free trip to the Holy Land. It was in fact my own experience on Birthright that opened my eyes to the dark legacies of colonialism and racism lurking below the surface of Zionism.

Editor’s note: the following portion refers only to Faragon’s experience.

Apartheid was the name of the game in my Birthright experience, determining the sites we did and did not see, the voices we heard and didn’t hear, the unrelenting use of massive historical trauma to justify the production of yet more violence and oppression. Take the name, even. The notion that I, a secular, privileged college student whose ethnic affiliations hardly extend beyond “New Yorker,” have more of a right to visit a land than the descendants of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians to me seems more than a little outrageous. My Birthright trip granted me privileges most Palestinians in the occupied territories couldn’t even dream of: from Tel Aviv night clubs to access to Jerusalem.

But the most appalling privilege it sought to confer on me was that of ignorance, of not knowing the material conditions of the occupation, of not having to find myself face-to-face with a checkpoint or a bulldozer coming at last-minute’s notice to raze my house, the uprooting of olive trees from my backyard. There is only one word to describe these two wildly divergent reali-

ties existing side-by-side in the same small strip of land: apartheid.

Beautiful as it was, the Tel Aviv skyline concealed a much darker reality, and it was there that I first got the sense that democracy and Jewish exceptionalism can never go hand in hand. As Jews of conscience, we cannot subscribe to this fantasy any longer. Israel was founded on the ethnic cleansing of over 700,000 indigenous Palestinians. It is time for us, to the extent that we are intellectually honest, to accept this historical truth, which has been scrupulously confirmed by Israel’s own “New Historians.” Israel’s precious “Jewish majority” and consequent ethnocratic political character were achieved and are subsequently maintained through the de jure exclusion of historic Palestine’s indigenous population through ethnic cleansing, colonialism and military occupation.

The stakes are high, even on our campus. Anyone who dares to challenge this basic premise of a “Jewish state” is rapidly demonized as an anti-Semite who seeks the destruction of the State of Israel. Yet if demanding a state provide its citizens with full equality regardless of ethno-religious affiliation means the “end of Israel,” then what does that say about Israel? Is a Jewish political entity really worth preserving if its existence entails the sacrifice of democracy and equality? The lines are drawn and the choice is clear: Zionism or democracy. Israel can either retrench as an apartheid state and international pariah, or it can recognize that the land between the river and the sea has always been one country, opting instead to establish a secular democracy in which Jews and Palestinians can finally coexist as equals.

Cory Faragon is a senior majoring in English. Lucas Koerner is a sophomore majoring in sociology and Spanish. Both are members of Students for Justice in Palestine.

Why 3.11 still matters by

Ken Nozaki

Nearly a year ago on March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck northeastern Japan, unleashing a massive tsunami and leading to widespread devastation across the region. It was the fourth-largest earthquake since 1900 and has left a staggering 15,000 dead with thousands more still missing. Japan continues to reel from the most expensive natural disaster in history and is struggling to cope with an alarming nuclear crisis.

But Japan can recover, right?

The Japan we have come to know, the mighty industrial machine, the third-largest economy in the world, the wealth of technological innovation, the champion of peace — this is the Japan that we would expect to rebound quickly. It is the Japan that inspired one of the largest international humanitarian responses, with 128 countries providing aid and Red Cross donations totaling $1 billion just one month after the earthquake. With such strengths and such overwhelming international support, Japan was expected to be stronger in the aftermath of 3.11.

However, this is not the reality that Japan faces today. The Japanese population, once united behind the tragedy, is now fractured and crippled by political impasse as well as by an unprecedented mistrust of the government. Rather than bringing Japanese society together or revitalizing a nation that has remained stagnant for two decades, the disaster has instead fueled an already toxic political

environment and demoralized a Japanese population that has experienced very little optimism in recent years.

In addition to the social and political implications of the disaster, the economic outlook looks equally bleak. On top of the $122 billion cost of reconstruction, the Japanese government will struggle to rebuild the once-thriving fishing industry of the shattered northeast and the country will continue to suffer from the economic consequences of an arbitrarily strong Yen. While we cannot ignore the impressive rebuilding and relief efforts, which have allowed thousands to return to their homes and revived local communities, we must also not forget the harsh realities that the Japanese people are set to face in the near future.

But perhaps the most troubling outcome of this tragedy has been Japan’s inability to truly recapture the spirit of its people.

While Japan has suffered more calamities in the past, many Japanese people retained the hope that this disaster, which brought crowds of volunteers from all over the country to come to the aid of their brothers and sisters, would become a symbol of a new, unified and rejuvenated Japan. Instead, we see that Japan has become even more divided and more concerned with the merits of nuclear energy or condemning the government, rather than coming together to repair the fundamental issues behind its dispirited society.

This grim situation is perhaps best demonstrated by this image: While thousands in northeast-

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ern Japan remain without jobs, without homes and continue the painful search for missing loved ones, politicians in Tokyo throw jabs at each other for the botched response to the nuclear crisis, and citizens in the capital struggle to remember the name of their country’s latest prime minister. While this dire picture is not the Japan that we have come to know, it is unfortunately one side of Japan that has emerged from the disaster.

It is therefore clear that Japan

is still crying out for help, just as it did on March 11, 2011.

The tragedy of 3.11 was a global one, and 3.11 of this year is no different: Japan still needs the support of the international community and cannot possibly move forward alone. Just as the Japanese people will never forget the generous donation of $10,000 from the Tufts community in 2011, we must not forget the tragedy of 3.11 in 2012 and in years to come.

Please join the Tufts Japanese

Culture Club as we commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 3.11 tragedy. On Wednesday, March 7, during open block on the Tisch Library Patio, we will be taking a photo of Tufts students in the shape of the Japanese flag and the message “Tufts 3 Japan,” to show the Japanese people that they will always remain in our hearts.

Ken Nozaki is a senior majoring in international relations.

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NESCAC preview: Amherst, Middlebury, Tufts lead the way Kate Klots

With the 2012 NESCAC menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse season beginning this weekend, questions surround Tuftsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ability to rebuild after losing a strong senior class. Meanwhile, Amherst looks to be Tuftsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; biggest threat, and other personnel changes have similarly shifted the power dynamics across the conference.

The league also welcomes a new program as the Hamilton Continentals prepare for their first year of full membership. With five NESCAC teams ranked among the top 20 in the most recent USILA/Coachesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Poll, it remains to be seen whether Amherst, Middlebury and Tufts can meet expectations and set themselves apart as the conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elite programs, or if a sleeper team might emerge.

No. 5 Amherst The Lord Jeffs look poised to assume the NESCACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top spot, returning four of their top six poles as well as the players who accounted for 98 percent of their scoring. They are coming off a strong 15-3 season during which they advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals.

Three of the squadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quad-captains â&#x20AC;&#x201D; midfielder Alex Fox and attackman Evan Redwood, both seniors, and junior long-stick midfielder Danny Gold â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are preseason All-Americans, and sophomore Devin Acton, the NESCAC rookie of the year, led Amherst in scoring during his freshman season. Amherst has depth in the midfield and Gold, who had 64 ground balls last year, anchors a relatively experienced defensive unit.

With all that returning talent, the Lord Jeffs seem poised to improve on last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance.

Bates Bates returns several starters, but that is little consolation for a team that went 1-8 in the NESCAC last season. Bates finished ninth out of 10 NESCAC teams in goals, assists and total points, and the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only noteworthy offensive effort came from now-graduated attackman Luke Charest, the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading scorer.

Charest finished fourth in the NESCAC in assists per game last season.

Senior Kevin Helm is the heart of the Bobcatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; defense and Bates must improve between the pipes to compete.

While nearly every other NESCAC team has two or more high-impact playmakers who can take games into their own hands, it appears that Bates lacks both the tools and the standout players to create game-changing opportunities against the conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top programs.

No. 18 Bowdoin Bowdoin shows threatening potential for the upcoming season, despite having graduated 10 seniors last season. The Polar Bears started 3-6 last year before surging to five consecutive wins, including a massive 15-9 upset of then-No. 1 Tufts and an equally one-sided 14-9 defeat of Amherst in the NESCAC quarterfinals.

Last season, Bowdoin trailed only

Tufts in scoring and topped the rest of the league by a substantial margin.

Current senior Brendan Hughes did well to ensure possession, winning 56.2 percent of his face-offs, and Bowdoin returns three of its top four scorers.

Year in and year out, one of Bowdoinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advantages is its size, and it must capitalize on the defensive end by playing a physical on-body game and forcing opponents into mistakes. Last year, the Polar Bears won 502 ground balls to opponentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 430.

Bowdoin has plenty to work with and returns capable players at every position excluding goalkeeper, a spot where it can arguably only improve. If the Polar Bears continue to capitalize on their size and develop the depth on their maturing bench, they can make coach Thomas McCabeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 22nd and final season with the program a memorable one. Â Colby Judging by its 4-5 conference finish, Colby was an average team last year, but with junior midfielder Ian Deveau leading the way, the Mules have the potential to improve and finish a few games above .500 in the conference this spring.

Deveau, who led the team with 49 points, returns along with classmates John Jennings and Greg McKillop to round out the menacing trio of junior attackmen who accounted for exactly half of Colbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total scoring last season.

Colbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most glaring disadvantage compared to last season will be at the faceoff X; two-time All-American and All-NESCAC faceoff man Craig Bunker graduated last year. The short-stick specialist led the NESCAC with an unprecedented .714 faceoff percentage.

Senior Eric Eberhart and junior Bjorn Knutson, who combined to go 32-for-51 on faceoffs last season, have massive shoes to fill, but if they can continue to post percentages in the high .500s, Colby can minimize the impact of Bunkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence.

On defense, Colby graduated tri-captain Chris Healy, but four of its top six defenders are back. The Mules can score, but what will determine their success is their ability to win faceoffs in Bunkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence and the degree to which their young defensive unit improves.

Conn. College Last year, Conn. College finished a disappointing 6-10 and won just two NESCAC contests, while many of its statistics-padding wins came against weak non-conference teams. Conn. College finished above only Williams and Bates in points per game. As a team, Conn.

College committed 70 turnovers and forced just 16.

The Camels are unlikely to improve significantly. The team lost three of its top five scorers, including tri-captain Mark Mangano, an All-NESCAC midfielder who was the Camelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; leading goal scorer last year. The Camelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; junior class will provide leadership in the midfield and attack units, but the dearth of formidable scoring threats puts pressure on the younger players.

In 2011, the Camels finished third in

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Now that her final season at Tufts is nearing its end â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the team will travel to Chicago to play St. Thomas in the national sectional semifinals on Friday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kornegay realizes that she is playing games that are of greater importance than ever. Kornegay called her last weeks of organized basketball â&#x20AC;&#x153;bittersweetâ&#x20AC;? and expressed gratitude toward her teammates for winning two NCAA games this past weekend to prolong her senior season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my last year of playing any kind of organized basketball, and you always want to end on a good note,â&#x20AC;? Kornegay said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just crazy to think that our last regular season game was a month ago, so you figure that [three] NESCAC teams ended [their seasons] a month ago, while we had the privilege to continue to play.

This is just an honor, to continue to practice every day.â&#x20AC;?

While she may be best remembered for leading the Jumbos to their first Sweet 16 appearance in four seasons, Kornegay, like her head coach, realizes that her greater gift to the program has been percolating over the last few seasons before manifesting itself in full this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll mostly be remembered for my determination, my defense and the effort that I put into each game and practice,â&#x20AC;? Kornegay said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially this season, I just tried to be the best example I could be, trying to motivate my teammates and build their confidence at the same time.â&#x20AC;?

The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball program will continue to play great defense as long as Berube is in charge, but true Berubian players donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come around so often. For her energy, consistent improvement, and, of course, her dominant defense, Kornegay will join Moynihan, Hart and Miller among the best guards to put on a Tufts uniform.

the NESCAC in goals allowed, and they now return their entire defensive unit, including Mike Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell, Nick Rodricks and All-American pole Clay Hillyer. The Camels must play consistent defense to hold opponents to goal totals their limited offense can match. Â Hamilton The Continentals are largely untested in NESCAC waters, and their biggest advantage may be their unpredictability. A former Liberty League member, Hamilton opens its season with its first contest against Tufts in 12 years.

The Continentals, who outscored opponents 154-87 last season, return the players responsible for 97 percent of their points. Attackman Jon Leanos, an All-NESCAC caliber player, will lead Hamiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scoring efforts. The Continentals also have strong players in All-Liberty League attackman Henry Burchenal and midfielders Pax Anthos and Luke Walsh. In addition, they return four of their top five defenders.

When it comes to schedule overlap for the sake of comparison, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much to work with; in 2011, Hamilton shared just one mutual opponent with Tufts. Hamilton narrowly won its season opener against Babson, 8-7, while Tufts handily defeated the same Babson squad 15-6 on April 25. Â No. 8 Middlebury The Panthers graduated their two most dominant scorers in All-NESCAC attackman David Hild and midfielder Andrew Conner. John McGoldrick, who had 28 points in his rookie year, is also no longer with the program, meaning that attackmen Tim Cahill and Mike Giordano must lead a young offensive unit.

The Panthers have an experienced corps of midfielders and return five of their top six defenders. While they lost keeper Ryan Deane, senior tri-captain defenseman Matt Rayner, fully recovered from a broken foot sustained in the fall, returns to offer leadership in the backfield.

Despite significant losses on the attacking end, Middlebury has garnered recognition in the preseason polls. It needs feeds from Giordano and increased offensive production from its midfielders in order to finish in the top three again. Â No. 16 Trinity In head coach Michael Higginsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first season, the Bantams finished fourth with a 6-3 conference record. Trinityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only NESCAC losses came to Tufts, Middlebury and Amherst â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the three strongest teams in the conference â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the Bantams proved that they could hang with the big dogs.

However, the Bantams lost nearly their entire defensive unit to graduation, including All-American Teddy Bascom, a ferocious ground-ball getter and defender. On the other hand, they return players who contributed 94 percent of their points. Also, Peter Johnson, one of the best goalkeepers in the NESCAC, will back a young defense between the pipes.

In his junior season, Johnson finished third in saves, saves per game and save percentage, posting a .620 mark in the

last of those categories.

As the Bantams adjust to Higginsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; system, their style of play will likely develop, and if they can hold things down on the defensive end, they could return to the late rounds of the NESCAC tournament.

No. 2 Tufts The Jumbos feature a revamped offense and a well-tested defense. Tuftsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mature back line, bolstered by the junior trio of Matt Callahan, Sam Gardner and John Heard, can jumpstart its success, while several strong poles and depth in goal will create problems for opponents.

Coach Mike Daly generally emphasizes strong defensive play and quick transition scoring, putting less stake in time of possession. In many ways, then, an experienced defense and young offense fits well into to the Jumbosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; style of play.

With a plethora of scoring options and a midfield captained by All-American Kevin McCormick, the Jumbos can adapt to massive personnel changes. It remains to be seen if the new faces in the attack and midfield units can convert on the same transition opportunities that graduated quad-captains D.J. Hessler (E â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11), Ryan Molloy (LA â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11), Alec Bialosky (E â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11) and Matt Witko (LA â&#x20AC;&#x2122;11) used to sting opponents last season.

Wesleyan In 2011, the Cardinals finished 5-4 in the NESCAC. They led the conference in caused turnovers, averaging 4.93 a game, and senior tri-captain goalkeeper Grant Covington posted the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secondlowest goals against average.

Like the Jumbos, the Cardinals often play an up-tempo game and look for scoring opportunities in transition. Senior midfielder Teddy Citrin must step up, and Wesleyan hopes that Christian Kennedy, a transfer from Div. I Georgetown, will also contribute in the midfield.

The Cardinals, who return four of their top five poles, will miss long-stick midfielder Gabe Kelley but have responded by shifting junior Mike Robinson up to that position. Overall, the Cardinals have the ability to improve on last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mark by a few wins.

Williams The Ephs finished at the bottom of the pack last year, posting a 1-8 record and finishing dead last in points per game and turnovers.

Like the Bobcats, the Ephs return the majority of their scoring, but this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reveal much considering the Ephs were arguably the worst offensive team in the conference.

Williams lost its biggest asset in AllNESCAC faceoff man Corey Jacobs. The Ephsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bright spot in 2011 was at the X, where they finished second in faceoff percentage, largely due to Jacobsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; .586 mark.

Jacobsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; absence does not bode well for the Ephs. If they cannot control possession, it is unlikely that they will create scoring opportunities and doubtful that they will be able to shut down some of Div. IIIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strongest offensive players.

If they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it with Jacobs, they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it without him.

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Junior Lindsay Katz is the captain of a women’s tennis squad that has a tough act to follow after last year’s trip to the Elite Eight.

Quarterfinals and beat Washington & Lee, 5-4, in a close contest during the regular season.

“Washington & Lee may be the team to watch out for,” Gann said. “They added eight new strong freshmen players.”

But rather than focus solely on their opponents, the Jumbos are tweaking aspects of their game in order to squeeze the maximum potential out of their short roster. The entire team has used the opportunity to rework its doubles game.

“Our doubles play has greatly

improved and continues to get even better,” Gann said. “Last year, we had five freshman players who were new to Coach Bayard’s methods of doubles strategy. This year, the returning sophomores are more comfortable with their doubles play, and we hope to see even greater success.”

The team opens the spring season on March 19 against Washington College.

“We are well aware of the tough competition out there,” Gann said.

“But the eight of us are confident we can get the job done.”

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making team nationals and having a nationally ranked individual at season’s end.

“I’m hoping that we follow through on the goals that we all agreed upon,” said Bossen, who added that they also particularly want to beat their closest competition, including teams like Bates, Trinity, Colby and Bowdoin.

“Those are our four matches that we’re probably going to want to win the most,” he said.

These goals have been emphasized

by Kenney, the first-year coach who, according to Blau, has brought a disciplined style of practice and is expecting big things out of the squad.

“The emphasis is on us being a team,” Kenney said. “The emphasis is on look-

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Women’s Tennis

This season, the women’s tennis team comes in short on players but high on optimism. Over the winter, the Jumbos, whose roster lists just eight active players, have worked hard and kept in mind that, even when the weather didn’t allow them to get on the court, every day was a chance to improve.

“During the offseason the team was training hard both on court and off court,” junior captain Lindsay Katz said. “We were lifting three times per week, as well as getting in a good amount of practice so we could hit the ground running by the time season started; that way, we should be even more prepared when our matches start over spring break.”

Head coach Kate Bayard provided the women with an offseason strength and conditioning program that not only ensured maximum improvement in the team’s physical abilities, but also took into account the specific needs of each player.

The team enters the regular season shorthanded following the graduation of national champion Julia Browne (LA ’11) and various other roster changes.

The Jumbos must also do without junior Lauren Hollender, who is currently suffering from an injury.

Still, Tufts gained a promising young talent in freshman Sophie Shonfeld, and the squad is doing everything in its power to use its small roster to its advantage.

“We get more individual work and singles play as well as becoming a closer-knit group,” Katz said.

According to Gann, Bayard can instruct her team on a player-by-player basis, which is invaluable for player development.

The women will approach their spring schedule realistically, but they still hope to match their success last year, when they reached the Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament and finished the year ranked No. 5 nationally.

In the NESCAC, Amherst and Williams caused problems for Tufts.

The Jumbos went 0-3 against the Ephs and 0-2 against the Lord Jeffs, who handed them the NCAA quarterfinal defeat.

Tufts will also take on a number of challenging non-conference opponents, including Emory, Johns Hopkins and Washington & Lee. Last year, Tufts lost to Emory, 7-2, at the Fab 10 Tournament, defeated Johns Hopkins 5-1 to advance to the NCAA

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ing down the courts and knowing that every person on this team is working just as hard and is just as important to the success of this team.”

Their first chance to put that philosophy to the test will come on March 16, when the Jumbos take on national No. 7 Middlebury on the road.

“Playing Middlebury first is a great gauge for these guys to figure out what we have to do for the rest of the season,” Kenney said. “It’s a great opportunity for us to figure out what we need to work on.”

Laber added that the match will help them solidify their doubles pairings, which have not yet been set for the opener.

After that, the Jumbos will spend spring break in Hilton Head, S.C. taking on some of the best squads in the

nation, including No. 22 University of Chicago.

“Depending on how we do, that could be an important win come [NCAA] tournament time to see who gets in,” said Bossen, referring to the match against Chicago. Even early in the season, the Jumbos are already thinking big picture, aware of how slip-ups in their challenging opening slate could impact seedings down the road.

But from the opener next Friday to the end of the grueling campaign, Kenney wants her team locked in on the present and on team dynamics.

“The focus has been on the 12 people that are really working hard to help this program move forward and achieve our goals,” Kenney said. “We get better, as a team, every single day.

I like our chances against anyone.”

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he report implicated between 22 and 27 defensive players, defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, general manager Mickey Loomis and beloved coach Sean Payton — the man often credited with reinvigorating what was, and in many ways still is, America’s most broken major city.

The Saints breathed life into New Orleans in Katrina’s devastating aftermath, starting with the win heard ’round the world: a victory over division rival Atlanta Falcons on a blocked punt in the first game back in the Superdome. Five and a half years later, this beautiful synthesis of team and city has devolved into arguably the worst NFL scandal in recent memory.

“The investigation by the league’s security department,” ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported, “determined that an improper ‘pay for performance program’ included ‘bounty’ payments to players for inflicting injuries on opposing players that would result in them being removed from a game.” In other words, the Saints’ defense has been running a ring of hit men since 2009.

Of all their games during that season, I recall most vividly the 2009 NFC Championship game that pitted the eventual-champion Saints against the Minnesota Vikings. It was the type of one-and-done ballgame typical of the NFC — lightning fast, hard-hitting and down to the wire. I also recall watching Brett Favre being tossed around like a ragdoll, utterly dumbfounded at the absence of flags.

Watching Favre receive a long overdue buttkicking was great, but that game teetered far too precariously on the vague boundary between insanity and competitiveness. It wouldn’t have been overstating things to claim that the Saints were out to get him, although sports conspiracy theories almost never gain traction.

These men are millionaires earning thousands — pocket change, really — for inflicting undue harm upon their opponents. That’s what football is, though, right? I, for one, would agree. But it doesn’t take an expert to identify the disparity between doing the job delineated in a contract and doing the one discussed clandestinely in the locker room.

No matter how many fines are doled out, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell can’t turn back the clock on football’s most heinous incidents, like James Harrison unleashing on Mohammed Massaquoi and Ndamukong Suh stomping on Evan Dietrich-Smith’s arm.

The worst of it, however, is probably yet to come. That is not to suggest that mercenaryesque behavior is an epidemic, but it certainly wouldn’t come as a surprise if more teams were outed. The NFL is now investigating the Washington Redskins, an investigation that will almost certainly yield similar results, because Williams was their defensive coordinator from 2004 to 2007.

It takes multiple cogs in an organization to sustain an illicit bounty system. Common sense, therefore, would tell us that there needs to be some semblance of accountability as well as an effective monitoring system, both of which are sorely lacking at present. But the issue of implementing each remains unsolved, and until Goodell and company get their stuff together, teams adept at concealing illegal activities will continue to do so.

The welfare of players, especially in light of the increasing prevalence of head trauma and premature death, is not something to be toyed with. As much as the NFL and team owners care about revenue, it is their moral obligation to look out for their employees.

If Southern Methodist University received the “death penalty” in 1987 for recruiting violations, why shouldn’t a pro team that abets thuggish behavior suffer a equivalent punishment? Common sense, making its second guest appearance in this column, would say it absolutely should.

Sam Gold is a freshman who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at Samuel_L.Gold@tufts.edu.

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Protect and defend: Improved ball-handling, stifling ‘D’ are hallmarks of Kornegay’s game by

Matt Berger

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Anyone who has come through coach Carla Berube’s women’s basketball program knows what she expects from her players more than anything else: maximum effort and intensity at all times — especially on the defensive end of the court.

By following these tenets of the Jumbos program, senior guard Tiffany Kornegay — who overwhelmingly led the Jumbos in both steals and rebounds this season — was recently named NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year, and has helped lead the team run to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. Kornegay is undoubtedly a classic “Berubian” player, something the coach noticed the potential for immediately while watching Kornegay play for her AAU team, which made its home in Massachusetts.

“Even back in high school, you could see that she was a great athlete,” Berube said. “But when she started to understand what type of defense we play here, she was able to just shine. Even though she was playing in the shadows of Colleen [Hart] (E ’11) and Vanessa [Miller] (LA ’11) over the last few years, you always knew what Tiffany was going to be able to bring.”

What Kornegay brought was suffocating defense from the very first day she stepped on campus. A natural athlete, Kornegay is also a quick learner who developed a passion for tough defense within Berube’s consistently successful system. Although she averaged only 10.7 minutes per game as a freshman, Kornegay made her greatest impact in practice, pestering star guards Hart, Miller and Kim Moynihan (LA ’09) with her ability to guard the ball.

“I found quickly that I was going to be able to make the most impact on the team with my defense,” Kornegay said. “I remember the first game where I got decent minutes against Bowdoin.

I just locked down on the girl, and that kind of sparked my coach to have confidence in me and my team to have confidence in me.”

Offensively, things were not always as easy for Kornegay. Like many young guards, she sometimes struggled with her decision making and turned the ball over

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Senior Tiffany Kornegay has led the Jumbos this season by playing suffocating defense and making the right decisions in transition. She is second on the team with 7.9 points per game and leads the team with 8.7 rebounds per game.

41 times her freshman season despite her limited minutes. She was also a non-factor as a shooter, allowing defenders to play off of her and take away her driving ability. While Kornegay’s offensive play has steadily improved each season, Berube has seen the greatest difference this season, as the senior has been forced into a greater role with the graduation of Miller and Hart.

“Offensively, she needed to step up her game, and she’s really done that this year,” she said. “She’s played very, very controlled, and now we want the ball in her hands making plays for us and making good decisions.”

Even though she’s not a natural point guard and normally yields those duties to freshman guard Kelsey Morehead in half-court sets, Kornegay excels in leading the Jumbos’ fast break and usually takes control when Tufts is running the floor.

“There’s nobody else who we would rather have the ball in transition than Tiffany,” Berube said. “She makes good reads, meaning she knows when to take it herself or when to dish off to her teammates.”

Although it may hardly seem possible, Kornegay has also taken her defense to an even higher level in her senior season. She finished fourth in the NESCAC in steals with 2.5 per game and second in rebounds with 8.7 per game, remarkable numbers for a guard that stands at just 5-foot-6 and is often battling against much taller post players.

Kornegay’s play has also had a tangible effect on her teammates. As senior cocaptain forward Kate Barnosky explained, she creates “contagious defensive energy” — other players seem to up their intensity and effort on the defensive end after witnessing one of Kornegay’s crucial steals or blocked shots.

“She has the ability to just take over the game both defensively and offensively,” Barnosky said. “She’s one of the best defenders we’ve ever had in the program, but she just generally plays at a level that gets everyone going.”

“When Tiffany is running on all cylinders, it really gets the team fired up and playing at another level,” Berube added. see KORNEGAY, page 14

Men’s Tennis

Jumbos set sights on lofty spring season goals by

Marcus Budline

Contributing Writer

Seasoned seniors and talented juniors in the top spots, and a new coach with an invigorating system, give the men’s tennis team considerable promise for their upcoming spring season despite the loss of several starters and a daunting early schedule.

The Jumbos come into the season ranked 27th in the nation after a perfect 3-0 finish to their abbreviated fall campaign. Since that time, practices have moved indoors, where the team has worked on more technical parts of their games, welcoming coaches and specialists to help with strategy and point management.

“We’ve been focusing a lot on doubles,” sophomore Austin Blau said. “We’re making sure that we’re not making errors too early in the point.”

Blau is one of several younger players being asked to fill the void left from offseason attrition, as the Jumbos graduated two of their best doubles

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Junior Andrew Lutz is likely to occupy the top singles spot for the men’s tennis team this spring. players and had other starters leave the team, including sophomore Pat Monaghan and

senior Kai Victoria.

That leaves them with a sophomore- and junior-heavy roster

led by juniors Andrew Lutz and Ben Barad, who will hold down the top two singles spots. Still,

the team is anchored by its cocaptains, Sam Laber and Morrie Bossen — the squad’s only seniors — who are determined to finish their Tufts careers on a high note.

“I’ve been playing tennis since I was 10, so I want to make it a really fun and successful last year,” Bossen said.

“It’s our last competitive go around.”

So far, Bossen and Laber have thrived in their leadership roles.

“The leadership from Sam and Morrie has been outstanding,” coach Jaime Kenney said.

“They’ve been not just leaders on the court but leaders off the court.”

Last spring, the Jumbos qualified for the NESCAC tournament as the No. 5 seed but were eliminated in the first round by fourth-seeded Bowdoin. They were ranked as high as 23rd in the nation.

To make this year successful, the Jumbos have set a number of important team goals, including making NESCACs, see MEN’S TENNIS, page 15