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Tufts maintains position in Forbes, U.S. News rankings

by Sarah Zheng

Executive News Editor

Tufts remains one of the top 30 schools in the country this year, according to the annual college rankings lists from U.S. News & World Report and Forbes Magazine.

The university maintained its No. 27 position on the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best National Universities” list on Sept. 9, while rising one spot to No. 24 in Forbes Magazine’s 2015 “Top Colleges” list.

However, for University President Anthony Monaco and other members of the university’s administration, these rankings aren’t everything.

Monaco recently wrote a letter to “Times Higher Education” with his co-chair for the Talloires Network, Cheryl de la Rey, on Sept. 5, where he argued that university rankings should consider community engagement.

“Global university rankings endeavor to play a positive role in motivating and recognizing excellence,” he wrote.

“They pay scant attention, however, to the quality of universities’ engagement with their own communities.”

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Coffin echoed this sentiment, pointing to the importance not only of student engagement, but also of stu-

dent retention rates and graduation rates.

“I think President Monaco’s raising an important point about what matters,” he said.

Tufts’ first-year retention rate of roughly 96 percent is considerably higher when compared to national averages of 67 percent for all schools, according to U.S. News & World Report, and 80.4 percent for private universities, according to CBS News.

“That’s a really telling statistic, what percent of your first-year class comes back for sophomore year,” Coffin said.

“How many [members] of the first-year class graduate in 4 years or 5 years… that matters.”

Despite the significance that rankings often hold for college applicants, Tufts does not let the rankings factor into the way they operate, Coffin said.

“Rankings are part of the higher education environment — they’re there, we can’t control them,” he said. “To a degree, they’re useful, but…I’ve been here for 12 years and I have not heard anybody in the years I’ve been here talk about rankings as a motivating factor in the way we run the place.”

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the weekends, according to Clarke.

“Sometimes people have busy schedules and would flake and then numbers would change last minute, and it really affected our operations of our Loj and [our ability] to allow other club members to come up,” Clarke, a senior, said.

This change offers more transparent transactions between student groups and TMC, Clarke said.

“We are basically changing it to a tier-based pricing for our rooms, so that groups know exactly what to expect — one room with a specific number of bunks,” she said. “And it also helps us because then we aren’t shuffling people around at the Loj, and we know exactly what to expect with where they are going to be staying.”

Kentaro Okazaki, current member and former president of the Japanese

The Africana Center is holding the inaugural Africana Festival under the theme “We Are Africana” on the Tisch Library Roof this Saturday afternoon.

The festival will be sponsored by the recently created Africana Advisory Alliance, an unofficial group formed to connect black affinity groups with the Africana Center, according to Airian Williams, a member of the festival’s performance subcommittee.

According to Williams, a senior, the festival will feature performances from various student groups, including all-female step team ENVY, West African Music and Dance Ensemble Kiniwe, female a cappella group Essence, BlackOut Step Team, Spoken World Alliance at Tufts, African Dance Collective, male a capella group S-Factor and the historically African-American fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi. There will also be a steel drum performance by first-year Isaiah Thomas. “[The festival] allows students of color to see groups of color perform, and to see them showcased outside of the very, very busy events fair, so that people of color can see other people of color in groups very exclusively in an intimate setting,” Williams, who is also the president of S-Factor, said.

Williams said that different student leaders from performance and professional groups of color on campus have all come together for this festival. “[We] tried to all be in the same room so we can do more creative events that better serve the community [and] communities of color on campus,” he said.

According to Williams, the theme of the festival, “We Are Africana,” is central to the event. “[The theme] is really trying to embrace a holistic view of what the diaspora means, and be very inclusive of all the different branches of the diaspora that are represented here at Tufts in our community,” he said.

Senior Bryce Turner, captain of BlackOut and an e-board member of the Africana Center’s Black Men’s Group, said the festival is part of the Africana Center’s resurgence effort to be more involved with black affinity groups on

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TMC makes changes to Loj student group use policy

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The Tufts Mountain Club (TMC) recently changed its Loj group use policy, requiring student groups to sign up with a specified number of bunk beds and pay as a unit instead of as individuals.

The Loj, located in Woodstock, N.H., is owned by Tufts and run by TMC, according to the TMC website. It houses 48 bunk beds, and though it serves primarily as a retreat for TMC, there is limited space for other student groups as well.

In the past, student groups would pay based on the number of individuals they were bringing to the Loj, which presented a problem for TMC, according to TMC President Charlotte Clarke. Student groups would typically reserve dates for Loj use in the begin-

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ning of the semester but would often show up with either extra people or fewer people than had been originally planned. With the policy change, student groups will be able to reserve rooms of six, eight or ten bunks. They now will pay TMC for the number of beds reserved, rather than number of individuals attending.

According to Clarke, the new policy will make it up to the group to commit to a specific number of bunk beds for their members.

“The idea is that [student groups] have that initial commitment that they are going to be paying for those bunks as one unit, and so then it’s on the club to fill those spots and change numbers around accordingly,” she said.

Before this policy change, the number of people that groups reported would be at the Loj were unreliable, affecting how bunks were allocated on

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continued from page 1 ing to Coffin. He referenced a Boston Magazine story on how Northeastern University used the U.S. News World Report as a template for its strategic plan as an example.

“The thing to remember is each [ranking comes from] a distinct media outlet that is defining their elements in their own terms,” he said. “What I think it captures for potential applicants and their parents is a broad representation of quality.”

Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler agreed, arguing that the methodology often used to determine university rankings is potentially flawed.

“Used thoughtfully, rankings can be

a guidepost, but they are not the whole map,” Thurler told the Daily in an email.

She added that this year, Tufts has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Princeton Review and Campus Pride’s 25 most LGBTQ-friendly campuses, as well as Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of best value colleges.

“While no ranking system is perfect, we can be proud that this year, Tufts’ continued strength is once again being recognized by a variety of organizations,” Thurler wrote.

Broad representations from overall rankings often leave out certain factors that are important for evaluating institutions of higher education, Coffin explained. These include student engagement, financial aid, diversity

and the number of first-generation students in a student body.

“There’s less attentiveness to these other categories that may end up being more meaningful to people,” Coffin added. “Some will argue that also adds more subjectivity to it, but the whole thing is considered subjective.”

Coffin said he feels that, in many ways, certain subcategories are overlooked.

“There are a lot of indices that could be added to U.S. News that would broaden the definition of best universities,” he said.

Tufts does well when looking at subcategories of rankings, such as admissions and assessments of universities by high school guidance counselors,

according to Coffin. He said that high school guidance counselor ratings place Tufts at No. 22.

“I think the guidance counselor [statistic] is meaningful because they’re referring students to college…and I think it accurately captures the quality of what we’re doing at Tufts,” he said.

Coffin said that despite the flaws he sees in many college rankings lists, he believes that many of the metrics do accurately describe Tufts.

“I think the big picture to me is great that we’re consistently considered among the top 50 national research universities in the United States,” Coffin said. “I think that’s a tribute to Tufts that we’ve stayed among that group for so long.”

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continued from page 1 Culture Club ( JCC), said that based on his experience with the Loj reservation process, the changes are a step up from previous policies.

“I think it’s a good system, and definitely it sounds more organized,” Okazaki, a senior, said. “For those new members and groups that have never gone to Loj before, this [policy] allows an easier time with planning and logistics for the group.”

Okazaki said when he went to the Loj with JCC his first year, there weren’t enough bunks, so the group had to resort to sleeping on couches and sharing bunk beds.

It was will also help differentiate student groups from individuals who come to the Loj on weekends, according to Clarke. Individual TMC members are permitted to stay at the Loj and to bring up to four guests with them, according to the TMC website.

“This new system just makes a little more sense as far as differentiating between groups and individuals, and kind of shifts the onus away from us a little bit so that we make sure the groups are in charge of managing it,” she said.

This change in group policy is first of many to be made regarding Loj sign-ups and regulations, Clarke said. TMC wants to maintain the same fees and access to the space, but the Loj’s popularity often leads to overcrowding, she added.

“It sometimes gets to a point where if there are too many people — which has happened on a couple of occasions,” she said. “You get into fire safety issues and disturbs the general atmosphere of [a] place that’s supposed to be a relaxing space.”

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This year, TMC has instituted a new reservation method for student groups visiting the Loj. Although it is only few weeks into the school year, Loj reservations for the fall semester are already full, Clarke said.

According to Clarke, TMC’s policy still specifies that no more than twenty people from a student group should be

at the Loj in order to maintain the quality of the space.

TMC wants make sure the open and shared common space is accommodating for everyone, whether they are from a group or are an individual going up

for a hike, she added.

“It’s hard, because we want to be inclusive, but you also have to be realistic about the community that is there, and how you want to build that community,” Clarke said.

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continued from page 1 campus, and an opportunity for the groups to be more involved with the student population as a whole. “[We’re also] working more to form alliances between groups [and] between organizations so that we don’t have any redundancies and can continue to support each other as we grow and expand and stay true to our missions as individual groups,” Turner said.

According to Katrina Moore, director of the Africana Center, the event will

ideally help engage students, particularly first-years, at Tufts.

“We wanted to have this visible way for us to celebrate the different cultures and the different talents that are encompassed in the Africana community,” Moore said.

Moore added that the Center, working with the Africana Advisory Alliance, decided to try this new approach in order to achieve various goals.

“One [goal is] to have this festival that is highlighting the many talents of the students of African descent on cam-

pus, and to not only just introduce this community to the first-years but also to the greater Tufts community,” she said.

The festival is being widely promoted to heighten the presence of the Africana Center on campus, according to Moore.

“We are not only trying to be sure that students in the community know about the center…but also [that] the greater Tufts community does as well,” Moore said.

She explained that the Africana Center has been on the Tufts campus

since 1969.

“We are trying to also honor all of the hard work [of ] the students who fought to have a center like this exist… and to continue to provide opportunity for the students to celebrate their talents,” Moore said. “They are here for academic purposes, but they are some unbelievably talented students as well.”

According to Williams, the Center is hoping for a turnout of 200 to 300 people. The event, which will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., is free.

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Cooper McKim, founder of Tufts Podcast Network, sets the group up for a blockbuster year of aural entertainment after a rocky start.

by John Gallagher

Assistant Arts Editor

Becoming more prominent in mainstream media, podcasting is experiencing something of a golden age — just in time for the Tufts Podcast Network to come into its own. Founded two years ago by senior Cooper McKim, the Tufts Podcast Network grew out of McKim’s passion for sound as a medium and a desire to meet people who share his love of good stories.

“I love journalism, but I think often that writing news stories can be really dry, and I was hoping that using sound would allow narrative to take place in a more layered way…which provides communication in a way that the page does not,” McKim said.

The podcast, an on-demand audio program delivered via the internet, is an art form that grew out of the widening proliferation of broadband and MP3 players (particularly Apple’s iPod) in the early 2000s. Buoyed by the possibility of access to a global audience and a relatively low barrier to entry, podcasts large and small sprung up to cater to every conceivable interest, with everyone from passionate individuals to national broadcasters putting out regular audio content via the internet.

Despite a deluge of high-quality content and wide awareness of the concept of a podcast, actual listening to podcasts remained a niche activity. The Pew Research Center estimated in 2006 that only 11 percent of Americans over the age of 12 had ever listened to a podcast. Perhaps the awkwardness of listening to podcasts in the pre-smartphone era in some ways stunted their potential audience.

Prior to the wide availability of internet-connected mobile devices, those who wanted to listen to podcasts on the go had to first download them to their computers and then sync them to their devices before they left the house — an awkward process by today’s standards. The ubiquitous smartphone, with its access to fast mobile data, has smoothed the process of listening to podcasts immeasurably, as podcasts can now be downloaded

or streamed via dedicated apps virtually anywhere with cell service.

By 2015, one third of Americans over the age of 12 had listened to a podcast. The wider audience brought about through improved delivery infrastructure was arguably one of the factors that led to the success of NPR’s smash hit podcast “Serial” (2014–present), which investigated the 1999 murder of Maryland teenager Hae Min Lee. “Serial” became the fastest podcast to reach five million downloads on iTunes, and its first season has received tens of millions of downloads to date. The podcast also received extensive coverage and praise from the mainstream media.

This surge in podcasting’s popularity comes just in time for podcast-lovers on campus. According to McKim, who is majoring in American studies and environmental studies and plans to graduate a semester early to pursue audio production, the founding members of the Tufts Podcast Network were all “NPR lovers” with a common love of good stories. Not all the members’ initial plans came to fruition, however. “[I wanted] for there to be a whole bunch of different podcasts, all with unique staffs,” McKim said. “We had two or three episodes of multiple series, but most all of them have ceased to exist and most of the staff members are gone.”

McKim attributes this high level of burnout during the network’s first year to the sheer amount of energy and commitment required to produce a polished podcast, as well as structural problems.

“In the beginning, people like the idea of making a podcast…but it’s really hard to keep going,” he said “You put a lot of energy into making one episode, and then it’s discouraging because then you have to do that whole process again.”

Junior engineering psychology major and former Co-President of the Tufts Podcast Network Ronna ten Brink echoed McKim, saying that she too had seen burnout at the network. She noted that her own substantial academic commitments keep her from being as involved with the network as she would like.

In order to resolve these issues, during the group’s second year, staff at the Tufts Podcast Network began to work more collaboratively on podcasts, and McKim pointed out that the level of collaboration is only increasing this year.

“This semester, we have a lot more time for people to work on their episodes and we make sure that the editor is working a ton with them so that they are comfortable, that they don’t get burnt out and that they feel they are producing the story they want to produce,” McKim said.

In order to keep people invested in the podcasts, the network does not give out assignments, but instead allows staff to choose which stories they would like to produce from a central board of ideas or, if they don’t see something they like, pitch their own idea. On this score, Brink also claimed that the Podcast Network allows students the most freedom to execute their own ideas out of any media club on campus.

The founding members of the Tufts Podcast Network were all “NPR lovers” with a common love of good stories.

According to McKim, these changes have massively increased member retention. After this semester’s GIM (the largest in the network’s history, with a turnout of about 20 students) the Tufts Podcast Network has acquired approximately 10 new members.

The group has instated a few structural changes this year — the expectations of the network’s staff are now more clearly defined than they initially were, McKim said. In addition to structural reforms, the Tufts Podcast Network is also changing the format of the podcasts it produces, a transition that McKim described as a move to “story-based rather than seriesbased” content. In practical terms, this means that the network will be producing shorter podcasts in the range of three to five minutes.

McKim was quick to point out, however, that shorter podcasts are not synonymous with lower quality podcasts.

“A good radio piece has nothing to do with length,” he said. “A three to five minute piece on NPR is probably better than a 10 to 20 minute episode.”

The hope behind this change is that allowing people to work on just the stories that are interesting to them in a short-form format will increase investment, lead to better quality content and further protect the network against burnout.

“People, I think, can relate to producing one story that really speaks to them, rather than a whole series,” said McKim. Senior history major Stephanie Li, the group’s head of marketing and design, believes that the new format will also increase audience engagement, remarking that audiences are more likely to listen to the entirety of a short podcast rather than a long one.

The Tufts Podcast Network will release its first podcasts of the year on Sept.

27 and will continue to release podcasts every Sunday at 8 p.m. throughout the semester. In the cards for this semester are a collection of fake news segments, some improv podcasts and an as-yet-unnamed flagship podcast.

The network’s podcasts are online at tuftspodcastnetwork.com and will soon be available via iTunes, which will allow listeners to subscribe to a podcast and automatically receive new episodes as they are released.

The future looks bright for the Tufts Podcast Network. Interest in podcasts has never been higher and, thanks in part to the rise of the smartphone, it has never been easier to start listening.

Changes in the network’s structure and podcast format are starting to pay dividends and have allowed the group to move past the problems that it had early on. As McKim prepares to graduate and hand off leadership of the organization to senior Xander Landen, he leaves the Tufts Podcast Network in a position to produce quality content while retaining its staff.

Stay tuned; the best is yet to come.

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Looking for cool stuff to do this weekend? The Daily has you covered! Check out these upcoming events: Hillel Beer Garden

Tufts Hillel is hosting a free beer garden for students of drinking age to schmooze and enjoy a cold one. Non-alcoholic beverages and snacks will also be available. Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Tufts Hillel. Admission is free. No tickets required.

Walk to Cure Arthritis Bake Sale 1 Minute Solo Movement The sisters of Alpha Omnicron Pi will be hosting a bake sale to support the Arthritis Foundation’s Walk to Cure Arthritis, in which they will be participating over the weekend. Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Campus Center. Cash and Venmo accepted as payment.

Multiple artists will share their interpretations of movement in the form of solo performance pieces. Curated by Jimena Bermejo-Black, this event will seek to challenge the very definition of the word “movement.” Saturday from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Mobius Gallery in Central Square. Admission is ticketed, but audience members can choose what to pay.

Greenway Open Market

This arts market will feature handmade and locally produced works, including fine art, jewelry, ceramics, apparel and fair trade imports as well as a variety of good eats. Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Wharf District Parks. Admission is free. No tickets required.

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Chloe Hyman explores varied artistic passions at Tufts

by Ascher Kulich

Assistant Arts Editor

It would not be inaccurate to say that junior Chloe Hyman lives and breathes art. At Tufts, she has explored a variety of artistic avenues, both inside and outside the classroom. Her studies as an art history major have led her to Venice, Italy, where she is currently working on a research paper for a seminar on the treasury in St. Mark’s Basilica. She was inspired to take on the project after a trip to Venice this summer.

Hyman participates in many different arts-related extracurricular activities at Tufts. She currently works at the Tufts University Art Gallery and sits in on the gallery’s Student Advocacy Council, a group that publicizes gallery events and

activities to the student body. Chloe also works for Medium, the Tufts art history journal, participates in sketch comedy group The Institute and acts in the TUTV miniseries “Pantheon University” (2016). Hyman’s vision for her future, however, used to be more specialized.

“I was actually an actor as a kid,” she said. “I did a lot of child acting growing up. So I thought that I was going to go to college to get a degree but also [to] use the theater department … I’ve instead sort of segued into appreciation of art.”

This past summer, Hyman interned at an art gallery in New York City, an experience that changed her stance on working at a gallery in the future.

“I actually spoke on the phone with someone from ‘Breaking Bad’ [20082013]” she said. “He wanted to buy a

painting, and I was like, ‘Oh are you gonna come in and see it?’ He ended up not caring which one he bought. I was thinking, ‘You’re gonna drop $20,000 on a painting and you don’t even want to look at it?’

So, I’m nixing the whole weird, expensive gallery thing.”

Hyman also created a personal art blog, canvasandcrumpets.com, where she displays her own art — including psychedelic coasters made out of alcohol ink and tile — and reviews others’ artwork.

“I posted DIYs, so I showed people how to make those psychedelic coasters,” Hyman said. “And then I also review exhibitions I’ve been to … I also like the idea of museum work and doing curating or education for a museum because art changed my life, and it’d be great to get art into schools that don’t have it.”

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Hyman complements her fine arts endeavors with participation in The Institute and TUTV.

Music Video Review

Lil Dicky shows promise as professional rapper, but stumbles over himself

by Josh Podolsky

Executive Arts Editor

Lil Dicky is now, by all accounts, a professional rapper. The skinny white man from the northern suburbs of Philadelphia first appeared on the music scene in early 2013 and gained notoriety with the launch of the music video for his song “Ex-Boyfriend” (2013). Back then, David Burd, the man behind the Lil Dicky pseudonym, was working as an accountant at an advertising firm with a side project as a rapper.

What started as a side project quickly grew into a bona fide career; Burd announced in 2014 that Lil Dicky was now his full-time gig. While his lyrical content is often satirical and comedic (read: downright silly), Lil Dicky is as serious as rappers come. Comparisons have been drawn between this relative newcomer and Childish Gambino, as both have sought to carve out off-beat, masterfully witty niches in the rap world.

With the release of his first full-length album, “Professional Rapper” (2015), Lil Dicky has planted his flag in the rap world.

“Professional Rapper” is a repudiation of the stereotypes and clichés perpetuated in mainstream rap music and an affirmation of the quotidian. Rather than becoming some rap god, Lil Dicky seems more interested in being an everyman to his listeners.

His subject matter is not too different from that of the rappers he derides in songs like “Personality” -- he is, for example, rapping about picking up women on nights out -- but he drops all the pretense that other rappers might adopt in their takes on the subject. Lil Dicky does not pretend to be a stud; instead, he

raps about how he is attractive because of his personality (and T-Pain, amazingly, joins him on the chorus). “$ave Dat Money,” a song about Lil Dicky’s frugality in comparison to some of his fellow rappers, is a special delight on this release. This is the kind of song that listeners will want to listen to several times to hear all the jokes embedded in the rapid-fire vocals.

The music video for “$ave Dat Money” went up on Lil Dicky is known for YouTube on the 17th and garnered four million views in four days. It is a natural extension of the song from which it springs. At almost nine minutes long, it is considerably longer than its source material (4:51), but it uses that extra time to supercharge the song’s punch. As Lil Dicky repeats throughout the video, the goal was to make the most epic rap music video of all time on a budget of no money at all.

At the opening of the video“Dave,” as Lil Dicky introduces himself, pitches his concept to Beverly Hills homeowners in an attempt to secure a location for his film shoot. The most amazing part is that someone actually does let Lil Dicky use their home to make his music video. Not only does he get inside a Beverly Hills mansion, but he also gets on a boat, into

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his comedic, satirical rap, but only recently made his music a full-time pursuit. a night club and into a Lamborghini, all for free. Perhaps the most shocking part of the music video is when Lil Dicky hijacks T-Pain’s video shoot for his own video (look closely at this scene and one will notice that the dancers are totally ignoring Lil Dicky).

The satire is all well and good in this music video -- until it stops feeling like satire. During the boat scenes, Lil Dicky is accompanied by models as the boat cruises into the sunset. The satire is in the fact that the scene was produced for zero dollars and zero cents while Lil Dicky struts around like he owns the place. The satire breaks down in how the rapper interacts with the models. Some might argue that Lil Dicky playing with a model’s be-thonged behind is still a

lighthearted joke, but it is, at the very least, toeing the line between humorous and disrespectful (if not leaping across it).

Does the whole video lose merit because of a few seconds of questionable content? No. There is a lot going for this music video, which is downright hilarious for the vast majority of its rather extended run. The credits at the end are worth a gander as well, as they reveal how the music video was paid for (mostly through bartering special mentions at the end of the video in exchange for locations and services). It may not win points for style and finesse, but “$ave Dat Money”’s music video more than makes up for that loss with its biting satire and sheer improbability.

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Top 10 songs of the summer

by Merilla Michael Assistant Arts Editor

The academic semester is in full swing, TV shows are coming back for season premieres and there’s a definite chill in the air. All these things signify the end of summer 2015, which officially concluded on Sept. 22. This summer was filled with impressive singles and albums alike, and this is the perfect time to reflect on the best of the best. These may not necessarily be the most popular songs of the summer, but they were the ones of the highest quality, and they’re presented here in no particular order.

1. “In the Night,” by The Weeknd was a track from his latest studio album “Beauty Behind the Madness,” released on Aug. 28. It is reminiscent of a Michael Jackson track, which is unusual for The Weeknd, but he pulls it off flawlessly. The track, overshadowed by his two popular singles “Can’t Feel My Face” and “The Hills,” released earlier in the year, is definitely the most underrated selection on the album.

2. “Unbreakable Smile” by Tori Kelly, from her album of the same name released on June 23, is an upbeat, catchy song that still shows off Kelly’s incredible vocal abilities. Kelly is best known for her single, “Should’ve Been Us,” released on June 2. The verses of “Unbreakable Smile,” especially the second, almost resemble slam poetry due to Kelly’s conversational way of singing and the power that she puts into her lyrics. The 20 seconds of layered and harmonized vocals at 2:25 are striking every time.

3. “Castle” is the first track on Halsey’s album “BADLANDS,” released Aug. 28.

The song has a dark, mysterious tone to it, which is supported by strong vocals and a gorgeous (and catchy) pre-chorus and chorus. The album had some hits and misses, but “Castle” is the strongest showing on Halsey’s debut studio album. It experiments with creative background noises that manage to come together seamlessly.

Aug. 25. The second release gained more traction. The song begins with an excellent sonic layering that builds suspense, and shows Weaver taking advantage of subtle electronic noises and focusing on her voice, which somewhat sounds like that of Sara Barellies. It’s the kind of song you’d blast on a road trip with the windows down.

4. A Great Big World collaborated with rapper FUTURISTIC to release the single “Hold Each Other,” an upbeat love song, on July 22. The song is fueled primarily by simple piano chords, strings and the sturdy vocals of A Great Big World. The rap portion provided by FUTURISTIC is creative and fits snugly into the rest of the song.

8. This is for all those who have suffered from Beyoncé withdrawal: “Runnin’ (Lose It All)” was a single released by Naughty Boy featuring Beyoncé and Arrow Benjamin on Sept. 18. Anything featuring Queen Bey deserves multiple listens, and this whole song is actually pretty good.

The music video, which was shot underwater, is a spectacle in itself.

5. Lana Del Rey released the single “High by the Beach,” from her new album “Honeymoon,” on Aug. 10, and it shot up on the iTunes top 100 almost immediately.

The song has, in typical Lana style, soothing vocals, a memorable chorus and a full background. The album follows suit as an impressive collection.

9. Collaborators Disclosure and Sam Smith joined forces again for the single “Omen,” released on July 27. The two artists first worked together on 2012’s “Latch,” a single that saw mainstream U.S. success in 2014. “Omen” will surely join “Latch” on the list of successful collaborations. Sam Smith’s vocals are always strong and clear, but on this track they are given more of an electronic feature to match Disclosure’s sound, which is a nice change of pace for Smith.

6. “Soap,” from Melanie Martinez’s Aug. 14 debut album “Cry Baby,” is a surprisingly innovative track from the young singer-songwriter. She incorporates exaggerated sounds of soap bubbles forming and popping, which serve both as background beats and as central themes in the song. The track has a bit of a creepy vibe to it, emphasized by Martinez’s distinctive voice.

7. Ryn Weaver first released the single “Promises” on her EP of the same name last summer, but also included it on her debut album,”The Fool,” released on

10. “Expensive,” also from Tori Kelly’s recent album, rounds out this top 10.

Take a listen to this song (and the entire album while you’re at it), and you’ll realize why she takes up two spots on this list. Her vocal strength, dexterity and range are highlighted in this power anthem about refusing to let a guy buy her love. The background instruments, especially the brass section, support Kelly with an energetic beat.

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Viola Davis makes history at the Emmy Awards

by Merilla Michael Assistant Arts Editor

The annual Emmy Awards, which celebrate the successes of actors and actresses in television series spanning all genres, left viewers with many things to discuss last Sunday night: Who wore the best dress? Why wasn’t this actor nominated? Why didn’t this actress win?

Should I start watching this show? All of these questions and more were still circulating after the cameras went off, but one actress really stole the show this year: Viola Davis.

Davis won the award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for her role as talented defense attorney Annalise Keating in ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” (2014 – present).

She not only beat out incredibly talented fellow nominees, but was also the first African-American woman to win this award in the history of the Emmys.

This is a significant statement about the place of women of color in the entertainment business, specifically in television.

Davis brought up many important points throughout her acceptance speech and even moved actress Kerry Washington, who plays Olivia Pope on “Scandal” (2012 – present), to tears.

After beginning with a quote from Harriet Tubman, Davis leapt into a stirring and emotional speech that drew

applause from the entire audience.

“The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity,” Davis said. “You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there. So, here’s to all the writers…the awesome people…who have redefined what it means to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be a leading woman, to be black.”

She went on to thank fellow actresses of color including Halle Berry, Kerry Washington and Taraji P. Henson for their help and support. In her speech, she highlighted the fact that it is still difficult for women of color to receive roles, regardless of their talent.

STemoc via Wikimedia Commmons Davis’ speech Viola Davis gave a moving speech during last Sunday’s Emmy Awards. had the strength to empower women of color to pursue and it is clear that she will continue to their dreams, entertainment-related or do great things with “How to Get Away otherwise, in the future. There is no with Murder,” as well as any other teledoubt that Davis is an incredible actress visual pursuits.

Lara LoBrutto Sinoscope

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p until high school, I was a major germophobe when it came to food-sharing. By the time I reached college though, I grew accustomed to friends taking bites out of my sandwich, giving me a spoonful of their froyo or taking a sip out of my solo cup. College is no place for germophobes, and I was lucky to have changed my ways, because it turns out that China was not either.

I’m not talking about the health standards, which probably would have driven me crazy if I hadn’t gone out of my way to blind myself to them. One of my friends told me that she saw our cafeteria food dropped on the floor and then gathered back up again to be served. Since I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, as far as I was concerned, it hadn’t happened. Maybe that was not the best call, because I did come home with a parasite in my stomach. I had gone out of my way to eat cooked food while my friends went out for the sushi I craved; I drank warm bubble tea while my friends got the more summer-appropriate option that included ice.

It was fruit that was my downfall -- Eve and I have that in common.

All I asked for was some fresh fruit to supplement my diet of rice, rice, more rice and some measly morsels of meat. I ate a banana a day, but soon that wasn’t enough.

So I got some apples. Since I had nothing to peel them with, I moved on to the next best option, which was scrubbing them really well with soap and rinsing them off. With tap water. You know, that Chinese tap water that you shouldn't drink under any circumstances.

And there I was, back home in New York, unable to eat the food I’d been craving all summer and facing a daunting antibiotic regimen. I have no way of knowing, but I would swear it was those apples that got me.

But no, I am not talking about the health standards. I am talking about family-style eating. Every Tuesday and Thursday, we would eat lunch at a big round table with our teachers and classmates. As far as I was concerned, it was the most highly anticipated event of the week. It was a more social and less sanitary version of an all-youcan-eat buffet meal. Our teachers would order ahead of time, and when we got there, food would already be on the table: "mantou" (steamed buns) with a sweet dip, fried pumpkin, spicy tofu that numbed your mouth and Peking duck, if we were lucky.

Serving utensils were not bothered with; instead we all stuck in our chopsticks and reached for the food that squirmed stubbornly as we pinched for it. Just as my eye settled on a delectable specimen, the lazy susan would spin. The dish I desired would wind up all the way at the opposite end of the table, and I would glare at the cruel culprit digging into what should have been my pork buns. Friends and teachers alike were suddenly transformed into rivals, all striving to fill their bellies with the same oil-soaked dishes.

Not exactly familial feelings, you may say.

But somewhere amidst the competition, there was camaraderie, and once the dust and saliva settled, you felt a sense of shared accomplishment for having cleared those plates down to the last morsel.

Lara LoBrutto is a junior majoring in Chinese. She may be reached at Lara.

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Club sports merit equal support from Tufts community Many students, alumni and members of the campus sports community were happily shocked when the football team broke their seasons-long losing streak at their first home game last season. The football team’s unexpected victory was not, however, the only much-talked about sports story last year. The success of the men’s soccer and women’s field hockey teams on the national Div. III level also received their fair share of on-campus attention.

While some varsity teams like football will likely always be championed by alumni, students and the university itself, club sports deserve support from the Tufts community as well. Yet club teams, like women’s volleyball and tennis, whose members are just as passionate and enthusiastic as the varsity athletes, don’t get the same attention or assistance needed to succeed and expand their programs.

It should be said that Tufts has taken significant strides in building a foundation for club sports to continue growing and to solidify themselves as permanent campus fixtures. After an upswing in the num-

ber of club teams and increase in student interest in competing at the club level, the university created two separate categories for club sports, Tier I and Tier II, with different benefits for each, according to an Oct. 28, 2009 Daily article. Tier I teams receive significant funding, and those designated as Tier II are allowed to use the Tufts name and compete against other schools. They must also coordinate policies about health and safety with the university. Though Tier II teams were not originally university financed, a March 14, 2014 Daily article reported that, after a reorganization of the fund allocation, these teams also began receiving funding. As the article also noted, however, Tier II teams found that the financial assistance was not enough to cover many of their expenses.

Many of these clubs put a great deal of effort into making their programs run — time that comes right out of hours that students could spend on academics.

Organizing trips to competitions off campus — for sports like cycling, for example — is a major part of the club’s activities. For

all the effort that teams put in, it’s worth remembering that they schedule and organize without full-time staff employed by the university dedicated to this job. Nor do all the club sports have the same level of access to university medical resources when they get injured.

Many students could say that time and effort goes unaided about their own, nonsports clubs. Nonetheless, all clubs and students should come together and celebrate the passions that our student athletes exhibit on the field, on the court or on the water. The university should take a close look at how much it is funding its club sports and remember how crucial they are in keeping campus life strong, especially as the university continues to expand.

Students flock to the possibility of engaging in sports that drive and excite them at the college level, where they can begin to find a way to incorporate those activities into their daily lives. Ideally, our passions should be what bring us to support each other as we build up our club sports for future Jumbos to enjoy.

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by Aviva Schmitz

College Expectations

It’s no secret that many students expect the four years they spend in college to be the most socially vibrant years of their lives. One doesn’t have to look far for the source of this expectation. Adults of speak longingly and fondly of the their college relationships, the media dramatizes virtually every aspect of college social life and students themselves post photos, videos and statuses on social media websites that depict their seemingly constant socialization. With few sources willing to give an entirely honest and unbiased account of college life, students can arrive on campus with a warped view of the way in which most students experience life on campus.

They expect to quickly become surrounded by a large group of close friends, to attend and enjoy multiple parties every weekend and to stay awake until the sun rises having profound philosophical discussions about the nature of life.

Granted, many of the commonly touted social benefits of college life do exist for many people, and students should by all means arrive on campus excited to experience them. Many students, for instance, do make lifelong friends in college.

They also may frequent parties and eschew sleep long enough to watch the sun rise. However, these events rarely happen in the way that we anticipate.

For instance, my first attempts at forming relationships in college were failures. I collected dozens of phone numbers of people I never contacted. I introduced myself to many people I never talked to ever again. I started a conversation with one of my fellow first-years, only to have him say, within the first minute of our chat, “By the way, you should know that I have a girlfriend.” My first encounter with my roommate started with an awkward moment of indecision between a handshake and a hug and ended with a stiff conversation that led me to believe that we would be able to be acquaintances, but never friends.

It took me more than a month to realize that my roommate was in fact one of the greatest friends I could ever hope to have, and even longer to find a larger group of people whose company I enjoyed. Interestingly, Mr. “I Have a Girlfriend” is now an integral part of that group. In fact, I’ve grown so fond of him that I feel a little bit bad for bringing attention to this incident again. This is the last time, I promise.

But I’m choosing to refer to my relationship with him because it serves as a reminder that few social situations are as seamless as we want and expect them to be. Somewhere in the back of our minds, we all know this. Alcohol is a prominent feature of parties

because we’re blatantly aware that stuffing strangers into a dank basement would be painfully weird if any of us were operating at top mental capacity. We are so worried about feeling awkward that want to lose some of our cognitive abilities before we even arrive at the event. And thus, the pregame was born.

Refusing to acknowledge the true, uncomfortable nature of socialization means that we may become upset when it manifests itself. For example, I was worried that my failure to make good friends quickly meant that I wasn’t likeable or active enough. Whenever I didn’t have fun at parties, I thought that I wasn’t outgoing enough. I believed that I was doing college wrong when I saw my first Tufts sunrise after staying up all night to complete an essay, not to engage in philosophical debate.

I saw my second Tufts sunrise at the very end of my second semester. My friends and I had just returned from the hospital, where we had been vising another friend admitted for alcohol poisoning. It had been a scary night, and as we sat on the President’s Lawn at 5:13 a.m., I realized that I still hadn’t discussed the meaning of life with anyone. But thankfully, by that point, I no longer expected to.

Waiting around for the perfect sunrise under the perfect conditions just leads to more waiting.

Maria-Jose Fabre Comments from the Peanut Gallery

Politics, satire and drinking

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ince arriving in the United States, I’ve spent most of my summers living at home, in a suburb of DC. However, this past summer was the first time I felt tuned into popular life in our capital city. I commuted early in the morning in cramped Metro cars with hundreds of others, frequented happy hours with my coworkers at $3 margarita bars in DuPont Circle and donned “J-Crew hip” attire (think pattern pencil skirts and statement necklaces). But I quickly realized that election years bring an entirely different array of challenges for your token assimilating expat — from understanding campaign finance and the Electoral College to Donald Trump.

Politics — its satire and drinking — became integral parts of the everyday, and the makers of any good weekend. Though when it came to the popular political debate drinking games, there was something about it that I just couldn’t stomach.

The more liberal side of the city (and honestly, the part I am more engaged with) went wild with parties and drinking events. Sponsored by local bars, CNN, Rolling Stone and even the DNC (Democratic National Committee), drinking games were said to be a “coping mechanism” for Democrats to listen to more conservative Republican politics.

With your $40 dollar purchase at the DNC (now on sale from its original $45 dollars) you will receive, according to their website, “Four (4) ‘I survived the GOP Debates’ 16 oz plastic cups, Four (4) “I survived the GOP Debates” lapel stickers (please only wear these if you do survive!), and One 50-sheet bingo pad to play our official GOP Debate Bingo game with your friends.”

While undeniably clever, both as humor and as a political maneuver, the phenomenon does enlighten a concerning lack of faith in the capacity of the opposition. For instance, The Rolling Stone drinking queues included, most notably, drink when “the crowd cheers a racist/bigoted statement by a candidate” or a candidate “tries to speak Spanish.” The games do not only focus on enduring the contrarian politics and policies, but instead imply the ineptitude, disrespect and immorality of the opposition party politicians.

In contrast, most Latin American countries do not function under a bipartisan system, but have an array of platform, ideology and candidate oriented parties.

Primaries, therefore, do not have the political force or audience that they do in the United States. Perhaps as a consequence of the violence that has followed some of our democratic processes in the past, we have very strict dry laws when it comes to voting periods, a policy absence in the United States that my mother will often express outrage over. More importantly, though, while we have also claimed the ineptitude of our opposing parties’ politicians (and sadly, sometimes just all of our politicians), never have I heard of a massive organized and institutionally supported drinking game at the expense of the opposition.

My concern emerges from an understanding of American bipartisan politics as one that requires constant checking and engagement with the opposition party. The system intends for mutual thriving and balance of power through the encouraged competition.

While in no way am I making the claim that politics in the past has been an institution characterized by mutual respect and transparency, the widespread comedy of the opposition is something else. It creates a human distancing from the opposition and in no way promotes actual engagement with candidates, issues and platforms.

What is more demoralizing than the attitude of the drinking games themselves is the accuracy in predictability that many of these have showed toward the debates. National politics are scripted: issues and platforms predictable and politicians comedic tropes.

Maria-Jose Fabre is a senior majoring in political science. She can be reached at Maria.Fabre@tufts.edu

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2 Naysayer 3 Really hard test 4 Lynn with the album “I Remember Patsy” 5 Phot. lab request 6 Ready to strike 7 Bracelet site 8 Sax, e.g.

9 Simple card game 10 Out in the open 11 Prove false 12 *Torque-providing component 13 Salinger title 13year-old 14 Rod attachment 23 Clinton’s attorney general 24 Shop class fixture 25 Longtime Hydrox competitor 26 Run out 27 Syrian leader 28 *Big band genre 29 Dank 31 Set aside

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ACROSS 1 *Subject of a San Francisco museum 9 Speculate 15 Intimate meeting 16 Reluctant 17 Five-pointed, say 18 Coordinated health program 19 Ticked-off state 20 Honorary law deg.

21 Debussy contemporary 22 December purchase for many 24 Singer Lenya married to Kurt Weill 26 Stood the test of time 29 Damage 30 “¿Cómo __?”

33 Egyptian city on the Nile 34 Clever 35 Laugh syllable 36 Deflategate letters 37 *Unpretentious 40 1970 Jackson 5 chart topper 41 __ Andreas Fault 42 Works in un museo 43 M16, for one 45 Sharpen 47 Half a Western couple 48 Less than broadcast 49 Polite title 51 Fermented beverage usually served warm 52 Take five 54 N.L. East team 55 Nutritional stat 58 Steal, Westernstyle 60 Random way to decide 63 Bay windows 64 Arrived at, Western-style 65 Rite-related 66 Office building feature, which can precede the ends of the answers to starred clues

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(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: GRIEF KNIFE LAGOON LAPTOP Answer: When it came to whether or not she’d be able to keep a secret, there was — NO TELLING

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continued from page 12 Jacobson argues that the lineup this past weekend has little or no bearing on the team lineup for the spring. “[The fall season] is for the coach to keep a finger on the pulse, [see] how everyone’s playing,” Jacobson said. “These tournaments are more for experience.

They can have implications on our lineup in the spring, but everything can change.

It’s more about who’s playing well in the spring. Whoever is playing in which draw doesn’t necessarily correlate with the lineup in the spring.”

The Jumbos are coming off their most successful spring season in recent years.

They beat Williams, a team they never thought they could beat, and long-time assistant coach Karl Gregor was hired recently as their new head coach.

“Karl [Gregor] just brings the mentality to the team that we’re going to be the hardest-working team in the conference, and everyone really buys into that … That’s kind of been an attitude he’s brought, and it’s really contagious and everyone’s very excited to be innovative and creative and just come up with new ways to improve,” Jacobson said. “He’s really brought a new energy to the team and a new culture that’s really revolved around enjoying tennis and working hard.”

The team’s newest coaching addition, Christo Schultz, is a recent graduate of the Harvard tennis program.

“He has the energy to tolerate us and steer us in the right direction,” senior tri-captain Nick Cary said. “It’s not just about all energy all the time, but kind of needing to regroup and be your own agent — and he’s the go-to guy.”

In addition to the strong singles play last weekend, junior Ben Battle and Cary competed in A flight doubles, making it all the way to the title match before losing 8-6 to McKinley Grimes and Sherman Uyeno from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Glickman and his partner, freshfaced first-year Ethan Chen, lost 8-6 in the B doubles to Lucas Pickering and Steven Koulouris from Skidmore College.

“We had never played together before…but overall we had good chemistry on the court. He covers the net very well,” Glickman said. “For him, it’s his first year and he definitely has a bright future [with] Tufts tennis.”

The team also has three new firstyears who, while unlikely to jump directly into the starting lineup, look to challenge and motivate the returning starters to improve as they settle into the Tufts tennis program.

“This is going to be the best men’s tennis team in a really long time, and I’m excited to be a part of it,” Jacobson said.

Tufts returns to action this weekend at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association New England Regional, hosted by Williams, and will be looking to further the strong forward momentum that was kick-started by their stellar performances last spring. “[The thing to look out for] is going to [be] the progression and maturity that we’re going to have this year compared to last year,” Cary said. “Last year we made strides in terms of performances and skill but this year…you’re going to see a tougher, more energized group.”

Eddie Samuels Terribly, Horribly Wrong

What Went Wrong in the NFL’s Week 2

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his column will not focus on what goes right. In fact, it will not even focus on what goes fairly well. It will focus solely on what goes terribly, horribly, laughably, miserably and disturbingly wrong the National Football League. Without further ado: The Cowboys: I know, Cowboys fans, you won the game Sunday. Unfortunately, that may be your last win for quite some time. Tony Romo is on injured reserve/ designated and is ineligible to return until week 11. Dez Bryant is likely to miss eight to 10 weeks. This team is going to be a mess; the immediate replacement on the roster is Brandon “I’m not good enough for the Browns” Weeden, whose performance was mediocre whilst he filled in for Romo Sunday; Weeden cannot be the long term solution for the Cowboys.

The Eagles: The only thing giving Cowboys fans hope is that the one team in the NFC East that looks worse than theirs is their mortal enemy. The Eagles did not lose much in the offseason. And then, out of nowhere, the team fell apart. Please, Philadelphia, the rest of the sports world would like to watch gleefully as you lambaste Cowboy fans for their horrendous start to the season.

Josh Scobee: Pretty much everyone here is a Patriots fan. So you all remember the week one game against Pittsburgh, where the Steelers’ kicker, Scobee, missed two field goals. That performance apparently affected the team’s judgment this week, as after their first two touchdowns, the Steelers offense remained on the field for the two-point conversion rather than allowing Scobee to attempt the new 33-yard PAT. All was fine in the end, however, as Coach Tomlin sent the kicker out after the third touchdown and he redeemed himself, right? Wrong!

Scobee is almost assuredly out of a job as the Steelers continue to attempt two-point conversions for the foreseeable future.

The Rams: As a diehard St. Louis sports fan, this one is especially painful, but I feel the need to demonstrate that I’m an equal opportunity jerk. After an absolutely incredible week one win over the Seattle Seahawks, the Rams lost to the horrendous Washington Redskins. Not only did the Rams lose, but they made Kirk Cousins look like an All-Pro. I guess we’ll always be able to gloat about getting three first-round picks for RGIII, but if those first rounders can’t get us a win over Kirk Cousins, did it even really matter?

Rex Ryan: The former Jets and current Buffalo Bills head coach was expected to usher in a new era for the Bills. This week’s game against the Patriots was supposed to be the first sign of life for the new Ryan-led bills. His arrival at the game was heralded with signs like “I came in like a Rex-ing Ball” featuring the coach’s head on a not-so-proportionate likeness of Miley Cyrus. The Bills certainly looked good in the game, for about five minutes; unsurprisingly, the Patriots won 40-32.

Amazingly, this week was not particularly filled with blunders, but in this league there’s always plenty to lampoon. I look forward to next week’s issue, in which I hope to be mocking the (soon to be) 0-3 defending NFC champion Seattle Seahawks.

Eddie Samuels is a sophomore who has yet to declare a major. He can be reached at Edward.Samuels@tufts.edu.

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Tufts wins singles tournaments at Middlebury

by Alison Kuah

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Two Jumbos, sophomore Garrett Weinstein and senior Jay Glickman, came away with the C and D singles crowns respectively this past weekend at the Middlebury Invitational.

“Obviously, Jay won his flight, so he’s playing very well, [and] every time a player wins a tournament, that’s a big deal; it’s not something we take for granted,” senior tri-captain Rob Jacobson said. “It’s important to recognize when we do have good results, we also take it with a grain of salt…and just make sure everyone’s getting better every day.”

Glickman, while happy with his first performance of the fall, agreed that he needed some perspective on his win.

“Leading up to the tournament this weekend, I worked extremely hard to ensure I was in a good position to compete, and ultimately I was happy with the result,” Glickman said. “That being said, it’s the first tournament of the year and there’s still a lot of work to put in throughout the rest of the fall to make sure we have a successful spring season.”

Glickman recorded another easy 6-4, 6-0 win over Skidmore’s Ted Berkowitz, while Weinstein defeated sophomore teammate Danny Coran in an all-Jumbo final, 6-1, 6-0.

“Garrett’s been playing good tennis as of late. He put in a lot of work over the summer and it definitely showed this weekend,” Glickman said. “He was able to outlast his opponents during points, he does a good job of staying in the match and making a lot of [returns], and that’s

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Senior tri-captain Nick Cary was part of the doubles duo that made it to the finals this weekend at the Middlebury Invitational. frustrating for the people he plays.”

During the fall season, the team competes in invitational tournaments, such as the Middlebury Invitational this past weekend, where the A flight is generally for the No. 1 and 2 players, B flight is for the No. 3 and 4, and so forth, depending on how many players the team has.

“The fall season is more to get a sense of where our game is at, [and] a lot of it has to do with individual results, guys trying to get national rankings,” Jacobson said. “It’s more of an individual-minded season.”

The team is preparing for the spring season, in which the roster is arranged into a lineup of nine matches — six sin-

gles and three doubles — and schools are pitted against one another. While the fall schedule ensures that new players get some valuable college playing time and returning players shake off some of the rust from the summer, see MEN'S TENNIS, page 11

Volleyball

Jumbos nearly pull off upset against Lord Jeffs

by Yuan Jun Chee Contributing Writer

Tufts came close to an upset against Amherst at the LeFrak Gymnasium last Saturday, losing 3-2 (23-25, 23-25, 25-14, 25-23, 15-10) to their NESCAC rivals.

Tufts raced to a 14-9 lead in the first set, eventually wrapping up the set with 11 kills. Senior Maddie Kuppe led the way with five kills. It was a close finish for the Jumbos, as the Lord Jeffs clawed back into the first set to come within one. After a Tufts timeout settled the team’s nerves, an attack error by Amherst senior Lizzie Ahern gave Tufts the first set and the lead early on.

The second set, despite ending with the same score, had a completely different tone. The Lord Jeffs initially took control of the game to go up 16-11, but junior Mckenzie Humann picked up three kills to pull the Jumbos ahead 18-17. With the game poised at 24-23 after some impressive play from Ahern, Kuppe sealed the second set with a fine assist from senior Kyra Baum.

“We were making few errors and being smart with where we put the ball [in the first two sets],” Kuppe told the Daily in an email. “Our serve-receive was solid and our serves were tough and on target. When a team’s fundamental game is going well, usually the results correlate. We kept our side of the net under control for the first two sets against Amherst.”

Yet Amherst managed to turn it around in the third set, led by junior Nicole Gould, who eventually ended the match with 13 kills. Attacking errors from Kuppe, Humann and firstyear Mackenzie Bright gave Amherst a 20-10 lead at one stage before another error from the Jumbos, this time from sophomore Katie Kim, gave the Lord Jeffs a way back into the match.

In a flurry of exchanges in the fourth set, the two sides fought for every point, with 10 score ties and seven lead changes. Neither team managed to pull away convincingly. At 23-22, Amherst junior Maggie Danner leveled the set from senior Nicole Carter, but two attacking errors by Tufts led Amherst to take the fourth set to even the match at two sets apiece.

The momentum of the match shifted as Amherst built a 6-2 lead early in the fifth. Tufts managed to fight back to level the score at 8-8 with some fine attacking play from junior Elizabeth Ahrens. The Jumbos’ attempt to shift the momentum once again fell short, however, as Lord Jeffs senior Samantha Newby delivered her fifth block of the match to record a come-from-behind win for her team.

“It was a tough game for us [because] Amherst play great defense,” senior co-captain Esme Nulan said. “But it showed us what we need to work on, and we’ll use it as a lesson moving forward.”

“The primary obstacle we faced in

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Tufts senior co-captain Esme Nulan and junior Elizabeth Ahrens block a Springfield College player on Sept. 9. the Amherst match was a gap in communication,” Kuppe added. “After the first two sets, we struggled to communicate effectively about how to handle each time the ball came to our side. It wasn’t necessarily one aspect of our game that fell apart, but rather tiny pieces of different systems on our side that ran into some issues. As it is still early in the season, I think this loss to Amherst was important to us as a learning experience. I would much

rather get losses like this out of the way in the beginning of our season, rather than later on when there will be more on the line.”

With this loss, Tufts falls to 4-3 and 1-1 for the season and the NESCAC, respectively, while Amherst remains undefeated at 7-0 overall and 2-0 in the conference. The team will be playing another NESCAC opponent, Connecticut College, tomorrow at 7 p.m.