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Classes to be held on Columbus Day this fall

by Isha Fahad

Assistant News Editor

For the first time, Tufts students will have classes on Columbus Day, Oct. 12, due to the late start to the semester and student input.

While fall classes are usually not held on Columbus Day, Veterans Day or Thanksgiving, Secretary of the Faculty in the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences Jillian Dubman said that exceptions are made when Labor Day occurs as late as it did this year, on Sept. 7.

“In those years when Labor Day is late, we need to schedule classes on a day that would otherwise be a class holiday,” Dubman said.

That class holiday was Veterans Day in past years in order to maintain the long Columbus Day weekend and allow an extra day for pre-Thanksgiving break travel, according to Dubman.

However, many student and community members told the administration that they wanted to participate in ceremonies to honor loved ones or others who have served in the armed forces on Veterans Day, according to Dean of Academic Advising and Undergraduate Studies Carmen Lowe.

Dubman said that in April 2010, the Arts and Sciences and Engineering

Educational Policy Committee and Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a proposal that would honor student and community responses. “[The proposal said] in those occasional years when the timing of Labor Day means we cannot accommodate the usual Columbus Day, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving holiday schedule, we hold classes on Columbus Day,” she said.

This would give necessary respect to veterans and to make it easier for students to attend the university-sponsored Veterans Day program, according to Dubman.

The decision was made years ago because the university’s academic calendar is set five years in advance by the Academic Calendar Committee, Lowe told the Daily in an email.

This committee contains faculty representatives from the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E), a TCU Senate representative, the registrar and other administrators, Dubman said.

Dubman added that the committee considers input from the broader Tufts community, including from parents and students.

“AS&E faculty members officially vote on the academic calendar for several years at a time, and those calendars are posted online,” she said.

No day for Columbus this fall

by Melissa Kain News Editor

nuances of and nature of terrorism and political violence.

“I felt we were in danger of doing two things with education: infantilizing students and disregarding the wisdom of older generations,” Teichman said. “I wanted to create a serious multidisciplinary framework emphasizing immersive experimental education and I wanted to prepare students for ethical challenges…and avoid… ideological sensibilities…that I felt endangered intelligent discourse.”

Barry said the IGL program initially included a one-day event to discuss international terrorism. The following year it became a six-week-long program culminating in a day-long symposium.

She explained that in subsequent years, the program became a single-credit fall semester course, until 1991 when

Problems with overcrowding, poor behavior and damage are threatening the existence of the Late Night Dining service held at the Commons Marketplace.

“We really want to work with the student body to stop some of this negative behavior and activity which continues to put the future of the program in jeopardy,” Director of the Office for Campus Life Joseph Golia told the Daily in an email.

The Commons, which reopened last semester after undergoing renovations, allows students to use a meal swipes from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.

According to Golia, the Late Night dining program, which started operations for the semester last Friday, has been popular among Tufts students — up to 800 students can visit in one night.

“It’s become very popular, which is great,” Golia said. “The problem is, it’s a lot of people coming at once…A lot of those people are coming after 11 p.m., and really, they’re coming within a small block of less than an hour.”

This sudden influx of students causes lines and backup, Golia said.

Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos said that managing Late Night is often challenging due to problems with intoxicated students.

“The challenges are anything from inebriated individuals trying to get into the servery even though there’s no room…to throwing up all over the floor and the staff having to take care of that,” she said. “And then [there’s the] general behavior in the dining room — smearing food in places it doesn’t belong. Just a variety of things.”

According to Klos, there are many health benefits to having a late night dining option at the Commons.

“It’s a service that we offer that helps disrupt a binge cycle, so it has great validity in keeping young people healthy,” she said.

“We also recognize the benefits of the service,” Golia said. “Getting food into students late at night, having a safe place for students to come…that type of thing is really beneficial, and we want that part to continue.”

Golia and Klos stated that there is a need for supervision at Late Night, but

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Due to a late start in the academic year, Tufts will not be taking off Columbus Day on Oct. 12.

In recent years, the ethical value of celebrating Columbus Day has been challenged by many schools and workplaces that have decided to remain open on that day. Brown University has been one of the many places that has voted to eliminate the observance of Columbus Day, following student prosee COLUMBUS, page 2

Longtime IGL director Sherman Teichman to leave Tufts

by Sophie Lehrenbaum News Editor

Sherman Teichman, director of the Institute of Global Leadership (IGL), is finishing up his last year at the university after working on the Hill for more than three decades.

Te i c h m a n , who will be honored with a university Emeritus title, said he will use Teichman his time away from Tufts to travel and nurture programs like the IGL globally. He hopes to develop a mentorship program for current students at Tufts and to travel to major universities in London and Beijing

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looking to establish their own IGL programs.

According to Heather Barry, the IGL’s associate director, Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris will lead efforts to find Teichman’s successor. Possible candidates for the position could include speakers and officials who have become involved with the IGL and offshoot programs.

“I think [Teichman’s departure] is a little unexpected,” Barry said. “It’s a surprise because [Teichman has] really driven [the IGL] forward and he has such a strong passion for this….I think everyone is waiting to see what will happen next.”

Teichman began his career at Tufts in 1978 as a lecturer in the political science department. He said he started the IGL in 1985 in response to a plane hijacking that garnered international attention and sparked campus-wide buzz. He hoped to help students better comprehend the

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continued from page 1 tests about the brutal treatment of indigenous peoples in the Americas following Columbus’ arrival. Last year, Tufts students and faculty, including members of TCU Senate, urged the university to take similar measures. A TCU Senate resolution requesting that Tufts’ official academic calendar rename the holiday Indigenous Peoples’ Day was passed on Sept. 28, 2014, and on Oct. 13, a rally was held on the lower patio of the campus center in support of the same effort.

According to the resolution, Cornell

University and University of California, Berkeley, as well as four states, have already re-recognized Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. According to the Tufts academic calendar, which is available online, the academic schedule has already been set through Aug. 2019. The calendars for 2016, 2017 and 2018 show that Columbus Day, in addition to both Veterans Day and Thanksgiving, will still be a fall academic holiday in spite of the demands of the TCU Senate resolution. The calendar has not yet scheduled holidays for 2019 after August.

In designing the academic calendar, Lowe said the calendar committee is restricted by several parameters.

“The committee must designate enough weeks of instruction and days of instruction to meet federal guidelines on the semester,” she said. “So for the past few decades, Tufts’ fall semester for the AS&E always starts immediately after Labor Day and ends before Christmas Day, allowing anywhere from one to three reading days and six days for final exams.”

According to Dubman, AS&E must have 65 working days, or days when class-

es are scheduled, during the fall semester to meet the academic accreditation requirements. Classes do not start earlier than the day after Labor Day in order to accommodate first-year orientation programs and travel plans by students and families.

“We need to accommodate a threeday reading period before finals, and we need to make sure final exams conclude

by Dec. 22 in order to meet parent and student requests that students be able to travel home before the holiday ‘blackout’ dates are in force,” Dubman said.

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continued from page 1 there are questions about how that will be accomplished.

“It’s not [Tufts Dining Service’s] responsibility to deal with a very intoxicated student,” Golia said. “They’re trying to serve food to people, and a lot of times, the dining manager…has had to get involved in some pretty serious situations.”

Golia added that toward the end of last year, there were Tufts University Police Department officers who were coming into the Commons weekly to help diffuse situations.

“We will have a few [officers there] for the first few weeks this year to start the program, but we also don’t want that to be a norm,” he said. “That shouldn’t have to be.”

Kinsey Drake, a sophomore, said she is often surprised by her peers’ behavior when she visits the Commons.

“I always look at the faces of the people who are working there, and that tells me how everyone has been behaving,” Drake said.

The Office for Campus Life (OCL) hopes to raise awareness about what is considered appropriate and inappropriate behavior by flyering and creating table tents to be located in the Campus Center, Golia said.

The goal is to preserve order in the Commons so that everyone can have a place to gather and eat without damaging the equipment or disrespecting the staff, Klos said.

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Students enjoy the different dining options in The Commons on Wednesday, April 22.

Not all changes to the Commons concern safety. Klos said that the Commons added new furniture and photographs on loan from the Tufts University Art Gallery. Tufts Dining has also added new menu items to the Commons, Tower Café, Mugar Café and

also to Hodgdon On-the-Run, which now features a changed pan-Asian concept station and new comfort food.

Klos said that it is important for students to be aware of how their actions affect themselves and those around them,

particularly when interacting with Tufts Dining staff.

“There are community standards that we all want to uphold for one another without squashing fun,” she said.

Sherman retires, university prepares for search for new IGL director TEICHMAN

continued from page 1 the symposium project morphed into today’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) program.

The year-long course, which this year will focus on “The Future of Europe,” allows students to study an international political theme as part of a rigorous, multidisciplinary program.

Barry said that the IGL has become a greater umbrella organization to house and foster the growth of smaller programs.

These organizations include the Building Understanding through International Learning and Development (BUILD) program, which focuses on sustainable development, and the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) program.

“It grew to a point where we had 32 programs; some have gone off independently now or interests have changed,” Barry said.

“It’s an ebb and flow…that’s the whole purpose of them.”

According to Barry, Teichman, who is the

son of a Holocaust survivor, has played an indispensible role in the IGL’s history as a dedicated mentor devoted to helping navigate contentious international issues. In his role, he has helped students conduct field research, pursue projects and hold intern positions. Barry said 75 to 100 students have the chance to conduct personal research annually through funds awarded from the Carnegie Corporation to the IGL. Barry emphasized Teichman’s hands-on leadership approach as the driving factor for the program’s success. “[Teichman] is very much about saying ‘yes,'” she said. “It’s about finding ways [to] help students get prepared. This is a place to engage in that discussion and struggle with your preconceptions and confront things you may not agree with but need to understand…He is a whirlwind.”

Over the years, however, there has been some controversy over Tiechman and his work with the IGL, especially concerning a student blog entitled “Tufts IGL Students Speak Out.” The authors of the blog list numerous grievances collected anony-

mously from students that detail problematic parts of the IGL’s nature. Some accused the institute of exploiting foreign cultures and being unsympathetic to the experiences of marginalized groups. Others claimed the program was male-dominated and discriminatory. The university responded to these complaints with a survey-based inquiry into the IGL’s inner functions, according to the blog.

Senior Bruna Gaspar, however, said Teichman acted as a personal guide with a vested interest in her well-being even prior to her enrolling at Tufts.

“I came back just for a special meeting with [Teichman],” Gaspar said. “That is when I really fell in love with Tufts [and saw its] different sides and different nuances. I eventually did EPIIC and through EPIIC I got an internship from the World Bank.

I guess from now on it’s hard to separate what happened to me [from] EPIIC.” Tiechman said he has a personal stake in the well-being of students.

“When I look back at 30 years, it is the story of hundreds of students,” he said. “We

have a community that is so powerful and so meaningful and it is utterly exciting to… be in their midst,” he explained. “This is what invigorates me.”

Teichman said he views his departure as the natural bookend to three-decade run at the university. Thinking about his career, he said he felt remarkably fulfilled, yet hardly sated.

“I am going to turn 72 at the end of October…and I know I am not immortal, but I feel tremendously alive and excited for the next chapters of my life,” Teichman said.

He wanted to thank Barry and the external advisory board for helping him bring the program to life. He emphasized his gratitude for the collective, collaborative community he found at Tufts — the one forged by his constant teachers: the students. “[There are] thousands of students I have felt honored and fortunate to have touched and to have been touched by,” he said. “That’s important to me. This was never a solitary work.”

Monday, September 21, 2015

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Tufts Democrats attend annual NH Democratic State Convention

by Mengqi Sun

Executive Features Editor

On an early foggy Saturday morning, 68 members of Tufts Democrats departed in groups to attend the 2015 Democratic Party State Convention held in Manchester, N.H. Over 4,000 people from the surrounding states and the Democratic Party gathered in the Verizon Wireless Arena to hear from various Democratic Party officers and six Presidential candidates, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

As the first state in the nation to hold a primary election, New Hampshire plays an important role in election season. Held each year by the state party, the state convention serves purposes that vary from voting on issues to electing delegates, according to Tufts Democrats member junior Ben Kaplan.

“The conventions on the state level serve different purposes,” Kaplan said.

“Sometimes a convention is held to vote on the new platform…Each state does it very differently….It’s a whole big to-do, it’s a major major thing.”

But after observing the convention on Saturday, Kaplan noted that it was more like a rally for the Democratic Party, instead of one for voting. “[From} what I saw [on Saturday], New Hampshire kind of does it a bit differently,” he said. “It seems to me that the point of this convention was, first and foremost, to rally delegates, activists and political leaders around the Democratic Party, celebrate the victories New Hampshire had in 2014 and look ahead to the municipal race in 2015, as well as generate support for the Democratic Primary in early 2016.

So it wasn’t necessarily a convention that decided specific policy points, it was much more of a convention to get folks excited, to be able to hear from all the Democratic candidates in one place.”

According to Kaplan, the participants signed up for the event at the first Tufts Democrats meeting this semester and through their e-list. The majority of the attendees were first-year students who were undecided about their candidate preferences, Kaplan said.

Even though, according to a press release, “no official business [was] conducted” at the convention on Saturday, Tufts participants expressed excitement to hear from the candidates, hoping to learn more about their different approaches and policies. For many of them, the convention was their first attempt at getting politically involved, and at getting ready for the 2016 elections.

“I actually haven’t been politically involved,” first-year Jake Lawicki said. “So it will be interesting to see everyone’s opinions at the [convention] and gain information from everyone’s perspectives.”

First-year student Alara Hanci agreed, anticipating to learn more about other candidates.

“I’ve been involved with Bernie and Hillary so much,” she said. “I know all the names, but I’m not very familiar with [the other candidates] as much as I am with Bernie and Hillary. And I want to get to know Bernie more because I think I will end up supporting him. And if I will, I want to get all the facts right.”

First-year Maria Grant, another Sanders supporter, said the convention

was a way for her to learn more about Sanders’ policies.

“I just want to know more about them, and see them in a more comprehensive way than just, like, radical Vermont Bernie supporters, and see it in a more political way,” she said.

Departing in several groups, around 40 students took buses that were sponsored by Clinton’s and former governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley’s campaigns.

According to Kaplan, all the tickets were sponsored by different campaigns.

While waiting for the convention to begin, the Tufts participants, including members of Tufts for Hillary, Tufts for Bernie and Tufts for O’Malley, gathered at Manchester’s Veteran’s Park for a short rally

by O’Malley.

O’Malley, whose speech was followed by performances by an a cappella group and a local artist, expressed his appreciation for his supporters on-site, and took two selfies with Tufts students after his remarks.

First-year Deborah Mayo, a dedicated supporter of O’Malley, believes that his experience as the governor of Maryland and his approachability make him stand out among the candidates.

“Martin O’Malley is a genuine person who is skilled at retail politics,” she told the Daily in an email. “He is someone who is willing to answer every question and take the time to shake every hand — [Saturday] at the convention, he waited until he had taken pictures and chatted with everyone who wanted to before he made his way to the convention itself.”

With 3,000 other participants and around 1,000 delegates — including town, city and county party officers, elected delegates at large by the state committee and Democratic nominees for office in 2014 — this year’s convention was the largest in its history, according to the press release.

When Clinton spoke, she received enthusiastic cheers from the crowd; people beat inflatable noisemaker sticks, and she talked about her policies on small businesses, paid leave for parents, gender equality and mental health problems, among other issues. Clinton’s roughly 40-minute speech prompted her supporters to believe in her victory, according to junior Alison Aimers.

“I think Hillary did a great job and really touched on all of the issues that we wanted to hear about,” Aimers said. “Her platform is strong and I’m confident in her ability to win and her ability to lead, especially after hearing her speak today.”

First-year Ben Hewitt, a Sanders supporter, believes that Sanders provided the basis for Clinton’s perspectives.

“I thought it was really good, I enjoyed it,” he said. “It actually made me feel better about Hillary, just to see her endorse more progressive ideas. I think Bernie deserves a lot of the credits for that though, for kind of pushing Hillary to the left and [being] supportive for a lot of the topics she discussed.”

However, at the same time, first-year Noah Meixler believes that her speech revealed the discrepancies between her policies and her funding sources.

“I find it interesting that she spoke against Super PACs and the Citizens United case despite them…predominately making up the money that she receives for her campaign,” he said.

While he drew a smaller crowd, O’Malley remarked on building a country and econ-

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Members of the Tufts Democrats pose for a group photo at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic State Convention on Saturday, Sept. 19. omy that works for people. In response to a question about college affordability posed by the Daily, O’Malley answered with a specific plan to make a debt-free option for pursuing a college degree within the next five years, including more investment from the national government, lower interest rates by the Congress and a better use of community colleges.

“I think I’m the only candidate in this field that actually made college more affordable during my terms in the office,” he said. “Four years in a row without any increase in college tuition, even in the middle of a recession.”

Commenting on O’Malley’s speech, Mayo said that his credibility makes her optimistic about his race.

“His speech [on Saturday] showed that his knowledge spans a variety of issues,” she said. “For instance, he was the only candidate to reference the Syrian refugee crisis, stating that as a good, compassionate and generous people we have to do better in order to have any credibility as a moral leader in the world. I support Martin O’Malley because he truly does have a record of actions, and not just words.”

With ecstatic cheers from the audience, Sanders started his speech by saying “it certainly sounds like some people are ready for a political revolution.”

Tufts Democrats President James Golden said that he supports Sanders due to the candidate’s ability to engage people with opposite perspectives.

“I love all the candidates,” Golden, a senior said. “But Bernie just really stands out to me as [someone who has been] on the frontline of the most important issue for a very long time. I just really trust his messaging, his availability to make people see the other side of every issue, even with Republicans.”

Overall, Tufts participants were satisfied with the speeches, according to Golden.

“I think it’s great. This is the live blood of the American politics,” he said. “Obviously it was hard to get here, but I’m happy to be here.”

Kaplan said he believes that it was a really rare opportunity to have all the major Democratic presidential candidates speak at the same time.

“I was really happy with what I heard,” he said. “I’d say there are a lot of strong Democrats in the field in this election cycle, and I’m very pleased to hear all of them.

All the candidates that we heard from gave very lengthy and policy-specific speeches…Sometimes you go to a convention or political rally, there is a lot of fluff, a lot of verbiage, we really didn’t see that [on Saturday]. We saw candidates speaking very eloquently in a great way about very specific policy questions, which was super cool.”

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Picking Your Brain

Word of the Day: druthers def: the power or opportunity to choose My room was wet, cold and rather noisy this morning. At the Crafts House, I am surrounded by sprinklers and a cement path, so my night consisted of intermittent shifts of mist diffusing through the windows and students’ voices echoing loudly between buildings. Needless to say, I hit the snooze button on my alarm until 8 a.m. as I decided to slowly melt in my bed reading New York Times articles instead.

I opened the first article that popped up on my iPhone due to its intriguing title: “A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future.” In retrospect, not the best decision for my just awakening mental state. No one should ever subject themselves to the twisted mélange of emotions I felt while reading this article first thing in the morning. I teared up learning about Kim Suozzi’s journey through being diagnosed with brain cancer and entering the terminal state; was skeptical about her choice to cryogenically freeze her brain in hopes of it being revived again one day; and slightly astonished at the research behind this phenomena based in neuron connections called “connectome.” I was crying, still alone and freezing, by the time I read about her death. But then it all turned further south. Suozzi’s corpse was quickly ripped from her deathbed, thrown onto a bed of ice like a mackerel at an outdoor farmer’s market and shipped off to a nearby lab. The article went on to explain how her husband watched her head being chopped off and pumped with various liquids and chemicals, creating the image of a twisted French Revolution romance novella written up by Robespierre himself. A picture of the machine her brain was frozen in wrapped up the piece, and I was fairly certain I was going to combust due to my recent roller coaster ride of empathy, shock and wonder — all before I even put pants on or brushed my teeth.

Nonetheless, this story and my current academic state are oddly paralleled, which lead to today’s word of the day, “druthers.” As I spent the better half of pre-orientation, orientation and the first few days of class contemplating my classes and having several existential crises over what second major best accompanies an English degree, others are, at the same time, shopping for which freezer will be best value for their brain over the next century or so. Sadly, none seem to be available at The Home Depot.

While the latter, admittedly, is vastly different and inclusive only to a very particular niche, the juxtaposition works even better when putting into perspective the notion of choices and the wide range they manifest into.

While it sounds odd, this story was actually the one thing that really put me at ease about my ability to choose a major, and especially reminded me of the privilege I have in making a decision that leads to positivity and opportunity. It wasn’t my parents’ affirmations that they would support me no matter what random endeavor I chose to pursue, countless upperclassmen telling me that I had plenty of time to decide or even physically mapping out the logistics of each semester with my advisor. Instead, it was the random article concerning a project about posthumous life that got to me. But in the end, I think that a reminder of life’s delicacy can do anyone good, as it offers a poignant message that choices we make on a daily basis are truly miniscule over one’s overall lifetime — or lifetimes, in Suozzi’s case.

Henry Jani is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at Henry.Jani@tufts.edu.

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The Boston Calling music festival draws in students from across the Boston metro area.

by Dana Guth

Contributing Writer

As summer, the prime time for lovers of live music, draws to a sad, sad close, Boston students still have one last beacon of hope to look forward to: Boston Calling. This three-day gathering in downtown Boston’s City Hall Plaza never fails to impress, with big-name lineups, major sets and student-friendly vendors — giving us the perfect encore to concert season.

Next weekend, Boston Calling, which was founded in 2013, will bring in its usual handful of indie rock darlings.

Among these acts are Friday performers the Avett Brothers, Of Monsters and Men and Alt-J, as well as Chvrches,

Chromeo, Father John Misty and Walk The Moon, who all have Saturday shows.

The festival will close on Sunday with the Alabama Shakes, Hozier and Tufts Spring Fling alums Misterwives. Other big names include Fun.’s Nate Ruess and twangy folk singer Sturgill Simpson.

The Daily chatted with Boston Calling co-founder Mike Snow about improving the festival, recruiting artists and keeping it all accessible for students.

“I grew up 10 miles north of Boston, and I felt like we could set up something great in our own town, so music lovers wouldn’t have to keep traveling,” Snow, who had previously worked on other events in the plaza, said. “Boston is such a small town, and people who live here know exactly how to get around, what

to do, where to go. So [co-founder Brian Appel and I] knew it would be the perfect location for a big festival, logistics-wise.”

Another ingredient for a successful event centered around food, art and alternative rock? Thousands of college students.

“Boston is two different cities: one when students are here and one when they’re not,” said Snow. “That’s why we have one in September — when they’re all rushing in — and one in May, which is the festival more [non-student] locals generally attend.”

While young adults are a demographic that Snow and his team of full-time festival planners try to target, he says see CALLING, page 6

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Mac Miller displays newfound energy, endearing contradictions on ‘GO:OD AM’

by Yotam Bentov Arts Editor

To try and understand Mac Miller, it’s somewhat necessary to understand the conversations people are having about him.

One might start by mentioning some of the talked-about contradictions of the young, white rapper from Pittsburgh: Miller has been able to flaunt his white-Jewishness like a badge of honor and make a name for himself, but he has not been met with charges of cultural appropriation directed at the likes of Macklemore and Iggy Azalea.

More notable than Miller’s acclaim as a white rapper, though, is the transformation he has made from frat-house dingus to boundary-breaking artist. The only thing that ties together songs like the quite awful single “Donald Trump” (2011) and newer singles like “100 Grandkids,” a track on “GO:OD AM” (2015), is his nonchalant, stoner-chic voice.

The first striking characteristic of “GO:OD AM” is the cover: the artist’s face, neck cropped out, is shown in what seems to be the middle of a yawn. The image could perhaps be to Miller’s brand of hiphop what Che Guevara’s face is to modern revolutionism: an icon that conveys a sense of purpose and captures both the ambition and attitude of an affinity group. In this case, that group is high school kids who like to smoke pot, put on Biggie beats and cypher.

In a conversation with a fellow music enthusiast about Miller a couple weeks back, this reviewer mentioned the new album coming out and asked for thoughts about Miller’s somewhat abnormal career.

“I don’t know, man,” one interlocutor told me. “He put out some pretty awful shit.

SONY DSC I heard he’s respected now, though.”

Full disclosure: by the time this Mac Miller’s new album is endearingly washed-up. see MILLER, page 6

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f you want some powerful, thought-provoking and original words, Margaret Atwood’s work is the right place to look.

She’s written everything from terrifyingly plausible dystopian futures to refreshingly feminist studies of famous women to sharp contemporary novels that explore women’s lives today. For anyone seeking feminist fiction, Atwood is my first recommendation.

Here are four books that serve as a good introduction to her incredibly diverse works.

“Oryx and Crake” (2003) is the first novel in Atwood’s MaddAdam trilogy. It flashes back and forth almost constantly between the past and present as it slowly unravels exactly how the world fell apart. In the present, Snowman, who may be the last human alive on Earth, lives surrounded by a new human race — the green-eyed and strangely docile Children of Crake — as he mourns his lost love Oryx. In the past, Jimmy, the man who Snowman used to be, watches as corporations slowly devour his world and genetic engineering twists nature into unrecognizable shapes. It’s a fascinating and chilling exploration of the consequences of corporate greed, filled with strange creations that could, and probably will, give you nightmares. With immeasurably flawed, fascinating characters, the dystopia often feels uncomfortably familiar. (You may never look at fast food the same way again.) Dystopian novels tend to revert to familiar tropes, but “Oryx and Crake” is surprising at every turn.

Of course, there’s the work that Atwood is probably most famous for: “The Handmaid’s Tale” (1985). Set in a radically conservative religious republic where women have been stripped of all rights and the protagonist is used as a broodmare, “The Handmaid’s Tale” is every woman’s worst nightmare.

Honestly, it’s the kind of book that everyone should read at least once in their life. The beginning can be challenging, as its narrator is passive and broken, but every sentence is worth the effort. The novel becomes more and more compelling as it goes on and the plot picks up steam. Two years after reading it, I’m still thinking about it.

“The Blind Assassin” (2000), set mostly in the 1930s and ’40s in Toronto, has a permanent place in my top 10 favorite books of all time. The blind assassin tells three different stories: the tumultuous relationship between the sisters, Iris and Laura Chase; the doomed love affair that features prominently in Laura’s novel, published after her suicide, and the pulp science fiction story told by one of the lovers in Laura’s novel to another. It’s a book that contains stories within stories, like an endless series of Russian nesting dolls. Each one manages to be satisfying, both emotionally and intellectually. “The Blind Assassin” truly has the best of both worlds, appealing to both the heart and the mind, pushing every literary button there is.

Finally, “Alias Grace” (1996) tells the story of Grace Marks, a notorious nineteenth-century murderess. If you’re fascinated by unreliable narrators, unsolvable murder mysteries and insane asylums, this Atwood book might be the right one for you. “Alias Grace” captures insanity in many forms, the elusive nature of truth and, like all of Atwood’s novels, the struggle of being a woman in any time period.

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continued from page 5 reviewer found out about Miller, his hiphop metamorphosis had already taken place. “Avian,” a single on “Watching Movies with the Sound Off” (2013), came on by accident one day. The druggedup, semi-silly flows were surprising, as was the fact that they were so enjoyable.

The track’s production — a hazy, high-reverb, liquid beat — was also unexpectedly strong. What was most striking, though, was the sense of self-conscious melancholy. There was something so endearingly washed-up about the whole thing.

“Watching Movies” was followed by

“Faces” (2014), a long, dazed mixtape that explored Miller’s drug addiction, party fatigue and absurd lifestyle as a young 20-year-old that had somehow become famous.

Miller’s new album is not only an extension of those emotions, but also a resolution of his previous doubts. On the first verse of the album, Miller raps, “You know it’s been a minute since I been awake / Didn’t mean to cause you pain, I just needed to escape / They saying that I’m sober, I’m just in a better place/ I’m on my way over, I’m just running kind of late.”

He then raps about a wide range of topics, including his promise to his mother to

provide her with 100 grandkids (on the track of the same name), his self-loathing yet self-indulgent party ethos and his success.

The whole thing is filled with equal amounts of braggadocio and self-deprecation and features an eclectic mix of guest features.

It’s hard to understand Mac Miller because he is an exception to the rule: his partying is reluctant and his seriousness is playful. But, ultimately, he provides thoughtful forays into his own psyche over an extremely well-produced background. Audiences were supposed to forget about him, but they didn’t — and they won’t anytime soon.

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"GO:OD AM" sees Mac Miller continue his transition from musical oddity to hip hop mainstay.

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Leona Lewis returns with uplifting ballads on ‘I Am’

by Josh Podolsky

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The most successful prodigy of the “X-Factor” (2004-present), Leona Lewis, is back with a new album: “I Am” (2015). Lewis won the U.K. version of the singing competition in 2006, earning herself a recording contract with Simon Cowell’s Syco Music, with which she recorded “Bleeding Love,” one of 2007’s inescapable hits.

The pop singer has kept herself busy over the years, churning out three other albums along the way to “I Am,” including a Christmas album and an album full of

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Leona Lewis sings her lungs out on "I Am," but the onslaught of uplifting, balladic songs without reprieve distracts from each song's individual merit.

dubstep collaborations with the likes of Avicii. None of these endeavors enjoyed the success of her album “Spirit” (2007), which included “Bleeding Love,” but “I Am” has a lot of promise.

After Lewis’ two previous albums strayed from her powerful and effective pop diva sound, “I Am” comes out of the gates with textbook examples of pop ballads. “Thunder,” which was released as a single in July, sees Lewis putting her best foot forward. The track sounds similar to Ella Henderson’s “Ghost” (2014), as it swings from suspenseful, husky, almost a cappella whispering to uplifting, confident belting underscored by driving piano and drum lines. “And I won’t wait any longer / When you left me down, I got stronger / If you want to wait for the lightning / I’m on the horizon / Well, I’m coming back with the thunder.” This song would fit in at a sporting event as a celebration for a come-from-behind win, or as a pickme-up during all-nighters spent studying.

Lewis goes a bit more R&B and soulful on the album’s second track, “Fire Under My Feet.” Trumpets join the backing ensemble, which sounds much like that of “Thunder” otherwise. The trumpets boost the piano and drums accompanying them, giving new life to the instruments around them. A chorus is eventually added to the

song’s texture as well, lending it some gospel undertones and giving Lewis a platform from which to belt out the last bars of the song. However, the belting does not work as well here as it does in “Thunder.”

It sounds like Lewis gets tired halfway through an admittedly impressively long section of powerful singing, making it hard to groove along to. What’s more, the following sequence obviously sounds like it incorporates multiple takes (or just one put on loop). The end of the song loses much of the magic of the beginning.

The album’s title track, another uplifting power ballad, shows Lewis singing about affirming her own identity and autonomy. “I am with or without you / I am breathing without you / I am somebody without you / I am, I am.” If there is a common theme to this album, the phrase “I am” aptly embodies it in its purest form.

The following song, “Ladders,” is less effective, exemplifying some of the flaws on Lewis’s latest release. The metaphor employed for “Ladders” is cliché, and the song is riddled with recycled pop phrases and imagery. It is hard to knock Lewis for these flaws, however. Each song, no matter how formulaic, is crafted to uplift listeners in mind and body and does so to an almost obnoxious extent. Listeners will feel the machinery at work and want to

fight it, but resistance is futile. Perhaps it is Lewis’ way of balancing original, meaningful lyrics with fluffy, recycled pop lyrics that makes her music so engaging.

“You Knew Me When” and “Thank You” contain the most tasteful nuances on “I Am,” and they punctuate the album with methodical introspection. “Thank You” is particularly captivating, as the pop diva makes use of her impressive range to express gratitude to her collaborators. “Thank you, thank you / For seeing the best and the worst of me / The angel underneath / Thank you.” The song employs the same trifecta of piano, drums and soulful backup singing as the rest of the tracks on “I Am,” and after almost a whole album of different variations on these three instruments, the pattern starts to feel restricting. “Thank You” itself is beautiful, if not necessarily creative.

That sentence more or less captures how listeners may feel about “I Am” as a whole. The album is full of perfectly listenable and uplifting tracks, some of which are sure to become power ballads in their own rights, but a whole album of them starts to feel like too much of a good thing. There just isn’t enough variation on “I Am,” a little of which would go a long way toward making it more of an exciting experience.

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continued from page 5 that age is not the only factor in choosing who takes the stage.

“It’s more business oriented than you might think,” he said. “We’re constantly gathering intel on what’s popular and who college kids are listening to, but mainly it’s who’s touring, who’s available and who has new albums coming out.

It’s a very small team of people who select the artists.”

Snow admitted that running the show is a business venture as well as a labor of love. For younger music lovers, this can be a drawback of the festival — tickets for Boston Calling are expensive enough to strain a student budget. Snow noted that balancing bringing in popular acts and affordability is one of the hardest parts of the job.

“We really, really want to make it accessible, but it’s tricky,” he said. “We want to benefit the artists and the audience, and everyone knows that musicians don’t make money on actual music sales anymore. Bringing the price down to a level we think consumers can reasonably afford is absolutely the toughest

part of our jobs. It’s extremely difficult, but we make a real effort. We reach out to schools…at orientations and fairs to try and take care of students. Last time, when it rained, we scrambled to get 5,000 ponchos and hand them out at the show, because what else can you do? You have to try to be accommodating.”

The music festival’s website offers several options to make the festival more accessible to students. This includes joining the Boston Calling “Street Team” — a group of people hired to help promote the event in exchange for passes and a small paycheck. Volunteers, meanwhile, get free two-day passes in exchange for their work. There are online applications for both positions.

Other efforts, like minimizing wait times and making the festival easy to access via public transportation, are more behind the scenes, according to Snow.

“It’s such a small and familiar space, so a lot of the public just won’t notice the improvements of the event season after season,” Snow said.

Snow also discussed upgrades to this fall’s event.

“We have an awesome new light-

ing package, new partners [sponsors include Xfinity and Whole Foods] and we’re working on reducing lines,” he said. “Nothing is done by just pushing replay.”

Festival-goers might catch Snow sprinting across the grounds, checking up on things and making sure the entire show is running smoothly — but he still makes time to enjoy the music.

“I’m really excited to see Father John

Misty — he’s just so genuine,” he said.

“You’ll see me in the audience for that one. I think everyone’s going to have an amazing time. It’s going to be a complete party.”

Boston Calling will be held in Boston’s City Hall Plaza from Sept. 25 to 27. Single day general admission passes are still available on the Boston Calling website.

Tickets can also be found using vendors like StubHub and Ticketmaster.

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Democrats risk more than ire of party activists over debates

Twenty-three million Americans tuned in to watch CNN’s Republican debate last week, perhaps drawn equally to its reality show spectacle as to the prospect of learning more about the fifteen candidates. Regardless, the national attention being paid to the Republican debates highlights the absence of Democratic debates so far in the presidential campaign. With just six debates planned for the entire primary season compared to the Republicans’ 12, Democrats face the possibility of fielding a weaker candidate in the general election.

The Democratic leadership’s decision to limit the debates received more than a little backlash this past weekend at the New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention. Supporters of upstart Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley drowned out a speech by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, with their calls for more debates.

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crowd by asking. “What’s more important, drawing a contrast with Republicans, or arguing about debates?”

Some pundits believe that the DNC’s attempts to limit debates are an effort to protect Hillary Clinton from the same attention beleaguering Jeb Bush’s campaign (though, considering all the intense scrutiny Clinton is already facing, this strategy doesn’t seem particularly effective). The DNC may also intend to avoid the possibility of the populist base weakening Clinton’s public standing should she become the party’s nominee for the presidency — after all, not too long ago during the George W. Bush administration, it was Democratic primaries that damaged candidates too greatly for them to succeed in November.

Having fewer debates will not be a benefit in the long term for the Democrats, however, despite all of the chaos coming out of the Republican debates.

Perceptions of former Secretary of State Clinton are already negative enough as it is, with some voters seeing her as distant and guarded perhaps to the point of

inauthenticity. Jamelle Bouie, a writer for Slate magazine, wrote in a June 17 article that instead of managing Clinton so tightly, her team should allow her to loosen up in public, to engage with the press in a more direct, less evasive way, to nerd out about policy and to shed, as much as possible, her political insider image. If the lack of debates is in fact a move by the DNC to protect Clinton as its nominee, it is a misguided strategy, for these would be prime opportunities for Clinton to celebrate her nerdy side.

Even more foreboding in the long term is the nature of political parties themselves — and what their level of control of the election process means. Instead of letting the public at large dictate which candidates will come to prominence, political parties made up of a permanent upper class of political operatives, lobbyists, fundraisers and elected officials present candidates picked out long in advance of their party’s nominating convention.

With the amount of control that the parties exert, fewer debates means less participation — and a weaker democracy.

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by Carly Reilly

Seniors 2012, No Regrets!

As I embark on my senior year of college ­– witty, beautiful, wise and potentially narcissistic –­ I am inclined to share some thoughts on my 16-year academic journey. Or really, to highlight one of the particularly crucial years.

Enter 2010. I began my junior year of high school at a new school, a boarding school, where I had not, contrary to most stereotypes, been shipped off by my unloving, jet­setting parents nor attended out of some obligation to a family legacy and tradition. I was, however, surrounded by a whole lot of kids who did seem to have long­standing familial ties to boarding school and jet­ setting parents and were wealthier, skinnier and cooler than I was. As someone who was, at that point, clinging only tenuously to a sense of self­ -confidence –­or really a sense of self, period ­– this was bad news. It didn’t take long for me to lose what little self-­esteem I had, and in its place gain a flattering 20(plus) pounds.

“Just be yourself,” my mother advised me over the phone one winter afternoon, undoubtedly unnerved by my nightly impressions of a character from a J.D. Salinger novel. The problem was that I had become so self­-conscious and self­censoring that I had lost my weak, childhood conception of “myself” long before it ever had a chance to solidify. Being told to “be it,” therefore, felt more mocking than encouraging. Like telling a person without access to food that eating will solve their hunger. It’s not that I didn’t know that being myself was important, it’s that I had simply forgotten, or lost access to, what “myself” even was.

“I can’t,” I told her, ­not bothering to elaborate since I was, then, unarmed with the clever analogies I have today.

“Just fake it ‘til you make it!” she insisted ­hopefully, well­-meaningly, desperately (god bless mothers).

This, as it would turn out, would actually be important: faking it ’til making it. But I didn’t realize it on that winter afternoon.

Years later, a friend would describe

high school to me as four years of continuously bumping your nose into a wall, which I think is a wonderful analogy. The misery of my junior year was, in fact, very similar to bumping my nose into a wall: embarrassing, painful and entirely avoidable if only I had a little more foresight and a birdseye view.

But it strikes me that perhaps many students,­at least many Tufts students,­ didn’t have this high school experience.

Many were actively involved in school activities, had wonderful, lifelong friend groups, snuck alcohol into basement parties, drove around listening to music and maybe even felt cool, or at the very least, smart in a way that they believed would be vindicated in college. In other words, they had identifiers which placed them neatly within their social teenage hierarchies. Grappling so immeasurably with my social self­ -worth and the question of who I was, was, I believe, my more distinct pleasure as someone who left her home and lifelong friend groups a bit earlier than most.

So here’s why it matters today: a new freshmen class has descended on the Tufts campus. Plenty are, undoubtedly, former nose­ bumpers like me, while others felt thoroughly fabulous in high school, at least by the time senior year rolled around. What many of them share is the fact that college will be their first experience away from a town that has known them since at least age 14, and maybe even age zero. This means it will be the first time they are ever forced to consciously ask the eternal, angsty question: who am I and how do I prove it?

Some people will thrive on this challenge but others might not,­struggling much like I did during my junior year. It is for them that I bring all this up now.

My shift from a perpetually self­ conscious, self-­censoring 16­-year­-old to a self-­ assured 18­ -year-­ old was due in large part to a mantra I developed in the Fall of 2011: “Seniors 2012, no regrets!”

It became the aid and abettor to some of my more questionable decisions (like procrastinating with friends and then

pulling all­-nighters to finish essays and presentations. And, third piece of cake?

Seniors 2012, no regrets!) It was fortuitous perhaps that 2012 would later become the year of “YOLO” and I like to think I was simply ahead of a generational trend. I was even suspended during my senior spring for sneaking out of my dorm late at night to skinny dip in a river just off campus (YOLO, amirite?). But mostly “Seniors 2012, no regrets!” and all it embodied catalyzed in me a tendency toward a lot of positive risk-­taking and impulsivity, like speaking up in class, confronting the boy I liked with my feelings and being generally socially bolder.

It was all incredibly nerve­ -wracking at first and necessitated a lot of faked confidence (shout-out: mom), but I eventually managed to establish my own, more fearless new normal, and I finally started to rediscover who “myself” was.

Part of this was realizing that other people’s opinions of me weren’t that scary, not because they were always glowing or favorable, but rather because the people who may have judged or disliked me had essentially no bearing in my life. I had used my mantra as a trigger for acting before I had time to consider what anyone else might think. This in turn helped me to find the more genuine “myself,”­ the one that wasn’t shaped in the image of what I thought other people thought.

I had started to internalize the old adage about those minding not mattering and those mattering not minding. Ultimately, this all led to one of the best years of my life to date and has continued to serve me through three years of college.

In short, freshmen, don’t worry this year if you lose “yourself” or think everyone else is more popular or successful than you. Make up your own mantra and be bold; life falls into place more easily that way.

Just some advice from a wise, witty and potentially narcissistic senior: Seniors 2016, no regrets!

Carly Reilly is a senior majoring in political science. She may be reached at Carly.

Reilly@tufts.edu.

Social media and the now

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he “Live in the Moment” mantra has been preached so profusely that it induces a gag-reflex where it would have usually received some thoughtful nods and complete mental 180’s. Of course we live in the moment. We’re breathing this polluted air while we digest the political upheaval in the Middle East and actively partake in enlightening discussions about current events — “current” being the key word. Our lives consist of appreciating food, whether it be at chic restaurants with unpronounceable names or at cafes that foster an image of independence and creativity. When we’re not appreciating the finer gastronomical things in life, we’re traveling to foreign places or even the next street corner and eating up all culture we can. The point is, we human beings, are living the moment, and we’re appreciating it.

We’re savoring our food, tasting all of our travels and synchronizing ourselves with the pleasures of the now. Anyone doubtful of this claim just has to look at Facebook and Instagram: therein lies tangible proof that we do, indeed, bask in the present.

In fact, Instagram will show you that we’re so infused with the present that we are driven by the quest to publish our every waking action on social media. Nothing is excluded from the heavenly gates of Instagram and Facebook.

Instagram does not discriminate. It will let you publish anything worthy of your generous and yet limited time as a human on this earth. If you feel like the mouth-watering sushi gazing pleadingly at you from your plate is worth the ten seconds you need to upload the picture to show everyone just how delicious it is, then so be it.

Chances are you might suffer from cardiac arrest by the time the picture is well and fully loaded, but well before you’ve gotten one bite of that promise of heaven. While you’ve spent your time trying to capture the moment on your phone, you’ve barely processed the moment at all.

Most people use Instagram and Facebook to post up traces of enjoyed moments. But now those traces are unrepresentative of the moments themselves. This ranges from the girl wielding her phone every five seconds at a gathering of people while ordering them to smile and “act like you’re having a good time,’ to the guy taking a closeup of his new car. Why not actually have a good time instead? Why not just get inside the bloody car? What are the chances the guy gets run over before he even breathes in the leather aroma of his new beauty? On the bright side, at least he’ll have the seemingly tangible display of satisfaction posted on Instagram that he never got to experience for himself.

These pictures aren’t for ourselves. If they were, we’d keep them stashed away for only us to see.

These pictures are for the audience that social media has us believing is tracking our lives. If they can even be called lives. Because the truth is we’re not living, at least not really. Some people would rather lose time embellishing a crappy moment for the camera than actively embellishing the moment for themselves. They want people to know they’re having fun, or at least to believe they are. Instagram and Facebook are a great way to share experiences and moments while actively engaging with the community. But they have also led to our losing touch with the present.We do not know how to live in the moment. And as if that weren’t enough, it seems that we have begun to live for others instead of living for ourselves.

Isabella Garces is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. She can be reached at Isabella.Garces@tufts.edu.

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Zach Ohara The Best Kept Secret

Men’s Soccer

Top-ranked Jumbos continue undefeated season

by Steven Hefter Sports Editor

The No. 1 ranked Jumbos took down their fourth NESCAC opponent of the season — Trinity College Bantams — 2-0 yesterday, propelled by junior forward Nathan Majumder’s two first-half goals to take their season record to 5-0. Though the win makes this the 14th straight regular season victory for Tufts, the real story of the weekend was the team’s 3-2 victory over Connecticut College on Saturday — the very team that had upset the then-favorites Tufts in the NESCAC quarterfinal last season.

After 90 minutes of intense and hard-fought play on Saturday, the Jumbos breathed a sigh of relief. The ghosts of last year’s NESCAC quarterfinal lost did not return to Kraft Field as Tufts defeated Conn. on a hot and sunny afternoon.

The first goal of the game came quickly in the first half when the visiting team scored on its first offensive chance.

Though Tufts began the game with the ball and possessed it in the offensive zone, the team could not muster a shot on goal.

After Conn. College took control of the ball, it capitalized on the opportunity, and first-year Mark Leon scored his first collegiate goal on a ball sent into the box in the fourth minute of the game.

“Last year, we went down 1-0 against Conn. in the regular season and were able to comeback from behind to win,” senior tri-captain Jason Kayne said. “I believe that this gave us confidence, and we always know that a game against them is a battle so we had to stay mentally tough regardless of [whether] we go down early in the first half.”

Despite trailing early, Tufts continued to create quality chances and found the equalizer off the head of sophomore defender Conor Coleman in the 19th minute. After a foul call gave Tufts a free kick on the left side of the field, senior midfielder Rui Pinheiro sent a ball into the box that drew Conn. College junior goalkeeper Andrew DaCunha off his line. Coleman got his head to the ball before DaCunha could save it and knocked it into the back of the net to tie the game.

“The first thing you need to have to be successful at set pieces is quality delivery, and we have that,” coach Josh Shapiro

Tufts tops all teams at season-opening Invitational

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Tufts senior midfielder Connor Brown is forced to the ground by a Colby player in Tufts' 2-0 victory on Saturday, Sept. 12. said. “And once you get that, the players [believe] that they’re going to get on the end of it. And they start attacking with the appropriate mentality and confidence and then good things start to happen.”

The game remained tied for 11 more minutes before the Camels struck again off their own set piece. Senior midfielder captain Daniel Adair sent in a bending cross that first-year forward Chris Lockwood ripped past Jumbos goalie Scott Greenwood to give the Camels a 2-1 lead. This one goal lead, however, would not last as long as Conn.’s first. Majumder took the ball and launched a right-footed shot that hit the crossbar and bounced into the net to tie the game up within just a minute of the Camels’ goal. “[Majumder’s] physical presence up top is what made the offense so successful,” Kayne said. “Whenever we were in trouble we knew we could find [Majumder] as an outlet and make runs off of him into dangerous areas. Other than that, I thought our wingers did a great job of finding pockets to collect the ball so we could run at Conn.’s backline.”

The next best chance in the first half from either team came on a Tufts corner kick that senior defender Monil Patel sent

into the box. After a struggle for the ball, Tufts was able to get a shot off that hit the post before Conn. was able to clear, ending the first half with a 2-2 score.

“I thought we played with good pace going forward…It’s always a scrappy, tough game against Conn.,” Shapiro said.

“We started to get them between their lines and get connected on our strikers and run at them a little bit. I thought we did that pretty successfully.”

The second half — characterized by competitive, even play throughout — saw only one goal. Tufts was able to break through in the 84th minute when Majumder slipped past his man on a run and tapped the ball past DaCunha for his second goal of the match, third of the season — and the eventual game-winner.

The Jumbos continued to put pressure on their opponents, outshooting them 14-2, although the Camels converted on both of their shots on goal.

“I would say that the opportunity to win two NESCAC games in one weekend is what excites us about our [games this weekend],” Kayne said. “We had the depth to give a bunch of players rest and we are ready to come up and take that opportunity.”

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Executive Sports Editor

The Jumbos emerged as the first out of three teams this past Saturday at their season-opening Bates College Invitational. Junior Luke O’Connor topped his field of 64 runners, winning with a time of 25:39.8, seven seconds faster than his closest competitor, junior Benjamin Fazio of Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. The Jumbos won with a score of 133 followed by host Bobcats’ score of 152 and RPI at 180.

The beginning of the Best Kept Secret

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Members of the men’s Cross Country team start their run at the Bates College Invitational on Sept. 19.

am from San Diego, but my family is originally from the San Francisco area.

Go Warriors! This column will discuss relevant basketball topics, mostly in the National Basketball Association (NBA) but occasionally around the world.

The U.S. basketball team has been put in quite a predicament with the announcement of the new International Basketball Federation (FIBA) qualifying schedule. With two of the four qualifying windows occurring during the NBA season, the team has been searching for options in order to field a team.

Generally, NBA players participate in what is referred to as “The Dream Team” during Olympic and World Cup play. The new qualifying schedule occurs during the NBA season.

The most obvious option was for the NBA to put the season on hold for the players participating in the qualifying matches to play for their country. This would not only apply for players from the United States, but foreign players whose countries rely much more heavily on their NBA stars in order to compete. The reasoning behind this decision stems back to the injury Indiana Pacers small forward Paul George sustained during a Team USA scrimmage in Aug. 2014 in which George suffered a compound fracture of both his bones on his lower right leg). As a result, NBA teams have encouraged their stars to rest more during the offseason in order to preserve themselves for the season.

Another option that was suggested was to use National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) players or American players who were playing overseas. While these players would no doubt be able to compete and likely qualify for one of the seven spots in the World Cup, it again comes down to whether these players will be able to take the time to play for Team USA. NCAA players especially would have to take time away from classes and their respective teams in order to compete.

Overseas players would also have to take time away from their teams and it is unclear whether their team contracts or requirements would allow them to participate.

This leaves the most likely decision of using NBA Development League, or D-League, players to compete in World Cup qualifying matches. The concept has been placed under consideration by the U.S. basketball team and the NBA. No decisions need to be made until 2017 and it is unlikely they will come to any conclusions until then. The idea of using D-League players, however, seems sound because these D-League players are playing in this league is because they are trying to prove they can make an NBA roster. The exposure they would get by playing on nationally televised games in front of millions is better than anything they could get by playing in the D-League. Also, the D-League itself is a cutthroat league in which team chemistry and a willingness to win come second to proving yourself as an individual player, so the teams would not miss their players leaving for a short period of time, and winning a D-League championship is irrelevant. This seems to be the best option that Team USA has, so don’t be surprised if you see D-League players playing in the qualifying matches for the FIBA World Cup in 2019.

Zach Ohara is a junior majoring in economics. He can be reached at Zachary.

Ohara@tufts.edu.