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On-campus housing has approached maximum capacity this semester, putting many first-year and transfer students in overflow housing and nontraditional firstyear housing.

Yolanda King, director of the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife), said there are currently 12 available beds on campus, most of which are in open spots in campus doubles. Because of this limited availability, there is very little flexibility for students who want to change their residential accommodations, King said.

Of the 17 student residence halls, eight are available to incoming students and 16 are special interest residences. These buildings supply a total of approximately 3,000 beds on campus, according to Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon and the ResLife website.

According to King, the Class of 2019 and the group of new transfer students are an unusually large group of incoming students.

Numbers cited in Tufts Now articles show that the Class of 2019 contains 1,360 first-year students, an increase from last year’s incoming first-year class of 1,352 students and the previous year’s class of 1,318 students.

The number of transfer students vary in any given year, but typically anywhere from 50 to 100 transfer candidates will be offered admission, according to the Tufts Admissions website.

King said the influx of students has caused ResLife to think creatively in order to find optimal housing placements for them.

McMahon explained that many of the on-campus spaces that ResLife typically sets aside in case people need to be moved during the academic year are currently being used for permanent student housing.

“Our planned overflow space is being used this year, which tells you that we have plenty of people on campus,” McMahon said. “We still have other overflow space, and there’s this constant process where people change their plans [at the last minute], so the capture number changes [from day to day].”

Transfer students have been placed wherever there were spaces available in various on-campus apartments, special interest houses and some residence halls, according to King. Transfer students have been housed in Wilson House in the past few years, but because the residence is staffed with a resident advisor, placement of firstyear students was prioritized over transfer students.

King called the current arrangements for transfer students “temporary placements.”

“There were plans to house the transfer students together in one location, that being

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roommates having conflicts, the in-hall staff are prepared to assistant students…with switching roommates, which we call mutual swaps, and on some occasions hosting a gathering for those looking to [swap] roommates,” King said.

According to McMahon, if there is a need to move large numbers of students for any reason, ResLife will look into ways to repurpose space and move and consolidate people at the midyear point.

“With 3,000 beds, there’s a lot of room to do some creative problem solving when we have to, and we’re going to try to do that thoughtfully,” she said.

McMahon said there are two retreat suites that remain separate from the housing system and are effectively offline, but which can be made available if a student needs to be removed from their housing situation immediately.

“The Counseling [and Mental Health Services] and Health Services and TUPD have access to them on the weekend, as does the administrator on call,” she said.

“We can sort of coordinate and say, ‘Okay, we have this space for someone to go because they need short-term space while we figure out what else is happening with their room assignment.’”

McMahon and King both said they hope to explore possibilities to improve on-campus housing experiences, including working through the Residential Strategies Working Group (RSWG), which was established last spring to investigate student housing options. RSWG has worked over the summer with housing data collected by administrative units to pursue its goals effectively, according to Provost and Senior Vice President David

The Student Judicial Process, which holds students and student organizations accountable for violations of university and local policies, was revised over the summer recess by the Student Affairs Office.

According to Judicial Affairs Administrator Mickey Toogood, most of the process has remained the same, though the scheme of disciplinary sanctions has undergone significant revisions.

The judicial process — which is managed

by Toogood and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Chistopher Rossi in the Dean of Student Affairs Office — still includes hearings, Dean’s decisions and administrative resolutions, according to Toogood.

“The changes that I think are going to be most interesting to students are the changes in disciplinary sanctions,” he said.

The old scheme of sanctions was warning, Disciplinary Probation Level I (Pro I), Disciplinary Probation Level II (Pro II), suspension and expulsion, according to Toogood. The new scheme is warning, reprimand, probation, formal censure, suspension, indefinite suspension and expulsion.

Toogood said removing Pro I and Pro II will help students better communicate the meaning of their sanctions with people outside the Tufts community.

“Probation level I and II isn’t something that is universally used by universities,” he said. “We wanted something that would translate better for students, because the more efficiently you can talk about what happened…the easier that conversation can go for students when they have to report their record out.”

In the new disciplinary scheme, a reprimand, rather than Pro I, follows a warning.

Toogood noted that although it occupies the slot that Pro I used to fill, a reprimand is quite different from being placed on probation.

“A reprimand is not a new name for Pro I,” he said. “It is a non-disciplinary sanction …

I think in the long term [a reprimand] is less severe for students.”

Two other new sanctions in the revised policy are formal censure and indefinite suspension, both of which are meant to be responses to serious violations, Toogood said.

“This is not a sanction that is designed to be used as an escalation if there are multiple violations,” he said. “It is if there are particular

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Wilson House is one of the locations first-year students have been placed because of overcrowding Wilson House, so that they would have a cohort group as they became acclimated to Tufts,” King said. “However, there was a need to house the freshmen in Wilson House this year and assign the transfers to spaces on campus that were suitable for upper-class students, as we are committed to freshmen being in staffed halls.”

King added that some juniors will go abroad next semester, creating free spaces in housing.

“There will be a lot more options and opportunity for students to move in the spring semester,” she said.

The Wilson House will be made available for transfer students again for the next academic year, according to McMahon.

Sophomore Lucy Purinton, one of three transfer students placed in the Chinese House on Curtis St., said the incoming transfer students were originally told over the summer that they would be placed together in Wilson House. On July 17, however, the students were informed that there would not be room in the house for all of them.

Purinton said her housing situation has made the adjustment to Tufts more difficult and that given the opportunity, she would likely elect to move to another building.

“I think it would have been a lot easier if I were in a traditional dorm with all of the other transfers, or at least more transfers,” she said. “Also, if I were on campus, just because it’s a good way to meet people, but I feel kind of restricted based on where I am living.”

While there is limited flexibility, students who have issues with their current housing situations can switch with other students at any point in time, as long as the desired swaps are mutual, King explained.

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Iranian journalist speaks about Tehran Bureau reporting a few years before officially partnering in 2014 with the British newspaper The Guardian, which has been hosting the organization since.

Niknejad spoke highly of her partnership with The Guardian. “[The Guardian] is very open-minded, and there is a lot of room to do interesting things,” she said.

Niknejad said news coverage of Iran had been dominated by inaccurate reporting up until the Tehran Bureau’s inception.

EVAN SAYLES / THE TUFTS DAILY) As an Iranian herKelly Golnoush Niknejad, founder of the Tehran Bureau, spoke about her career to an audience of Tufts students in the Rabb Room self, Niknejad said last night. mainstream reporting did not ring true.

by Will Kenneally Eastern Studies, and moderated by Kamran Instead, Niknejad found a network of Contributing Writer Rastegar, the director of the Arabic Program. Iranian reporters on the ground to do reportNiknejad said she started the Tehran ing for the Tehran Bureau.

Journalist Kelly Golnoush Niknejad spoke Bureau as a blog in 2008, and the site quickly “I wanted Iranians to cover Iran,” she said. about her career and the creation of the Tehran gained traction as it caught the attention of Niknejad said the bureau’s reporting even Bureau, a Boston-founded independent news different news outlets. resonated with readers inside Iran. organization covering news on Iran and the After the contentious Iranian elections in After Niknejad’s talk, Rastegar, a professor Iranian diaspora, in the Rabb Room last night. 2009, the Tehran Bureau became a go-to of Arabic literature and culture, opened the The talk, “Tehran Bureau: Beyond Crisis source for many national news organiza- floor to student questions.

Reporting,” was sponsored by Middle tions, including The New York Times and One student asked Niknejad how Eastern Studies, Film and Media ABC News, according to Niknejad. she stayed strong in the face of adverStudies and the International Relations Niknejad explained that the Tehran sity. In response, Niknejad spoke about Program. It was organized by Amahl Bureau collaborated with the Public the Tehran Bureau’s struggle with lack Bishara, the program director for Middle Broadcasting Service’s series “Frontline” for of funding, which posed a major prob-

lem when the organization was just beginning.

According to Niknejad, the bureau relied on Paypal donations from its readers to keep functioning until the organization became supported financially by “Frontline.”

Niknejad said she would not allow the bureau’s stories to pander to gain more attention and potentially more funding.

“I have not been able to bring myself to that,” she said. “I do not want to simplify for an American audience.”

Niknejad added that she wants the Tehran Bureau to focus solely on the quality reporting that has helped the organization gain the attention it has so far.

Rastegar said the Tufts campus lacks complex dialogue on the topic of Iran.

“I want there to be a conversation about the good, bad, ugly and everything in between,” she said.

With discussions about Iran pervading the news, Bishara, an anthropology professor, said there is no better time to have these discussions.

“It is a region that has had a very dynamic relationship with the United States, and it is a relationship that certainly needs to be more thoroughly understood in the United States,” Bishara said.

Niknejad agreed, adding that if there was one thing that students could take away from her talk, it would be how important journalism is, especially amid the U.S. election cycle.

“I wish people realized…and how important [journalism] is to a democratic society,” she said

ResLife works to maximize on-campus housing opportunities HOUSING

continued from page 1 Harris, who leads the working group.

University Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell said she has partnered with Harris on this working group, providing support with data about the current state of housing, including models and projections of costs of potential changes. The data comes from various student surveys and other sources that have been analyzed by the Office of Institutional Research, she said. “[We are] looking at what it might take to do renovations, what [it would] take if we were to build new [housing] and understanding some of those opportunities, as well as chal-

lenges, involved in that,” Campbell said.

RSWG held its first meeting in mid-September, according to Harris.

Campbell said that during the group’s first meeting, RSWG members talked about approaching housing from various perspectives in order to optimize student experience.

“One goal of the RSWG is to recommend a housing strategy that will enable us to provide students with an even better residential experience,” Harris told the Daily in an email.

“Part of this requires us to consider the ideal mix of on and off-campus housing, and the characteristics of these units [of] housing.”

McMahon said she is interested in looking into how space is being used

currently and in devising a way to make use of space more efficient in the future.

“We are definitely looking to see if there are rooms that if we renovated them…could we do something to them to bring them back online?” she said.

In addition to traditional housing, the university has other spaces to work with, including a guest suite, retreat suites, scholars-in-residence areas, area residence director (ARD) apartments and College Transition Advisors (CTA) and ARD offices, according to McMahon.

“Those spaces are all sorts of things that we’re also looking at, like how are we using those spaces, and going forward, what makes sense?” she said.

Campbell hopes RSWG will meet throughout the fall and into next semester to form concrete proposals and ideas by the end of the academic year.

“Our goal is to look at how [we can] improve the experience of student housing on campus,” she said. “So does that mean adding beds, does that mean renovating beds, does that mean adding students, does that mean changing the way people are assigned housing, does it mean supporting, in some way differently, students that are living in the surrounding community? It is very complex and there are many questions, and we’re prepared to look at it in a comprehensive way.”

Changes to Student Judicial Process in effect this fall DISCIPLINE

continued from page 1 violations that occur at the university — obviously particularly serious violations.”

Formal censure takes a student out of good standing with the university until the student graduates or withdraws from Tufts, according to Toogood.

“It is sort of like permanent probation,” he said.

Indefinite suspension differs from a suspension because it does not prescribe when a student may return to the university, according to Toogood.

“An indefinite suspension does not have an end date,” Toogood said. “A student has to reapply, or apply for reinstatement with the university.”

According to Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon, warnings are still non-disciplinary, and suspension and expulsion have gone unchanged.

“Suspension means the same thing as

suspension used to mean,” McMahon said.

“Expulsion means the same thing as expulsion used to mean.”

Changes to the Student Judicial Process have made the document more concise, accessible and student-centered, Toogood said.

The Student Affairs Office worked with students on the Committee on Student Life (CSL) to help craft the new policy and guide the process, McMahon said.

“I think it is really important to note that all of these sanctions and the Code of Conduct review went through a student-staff review process and was approved by the CSL,” McMahon said. “It wasn’t just our individual decision, there was a process.”

Toogood said student input was important to the administration in this process.

“We want [the policy] to be not just understandable but meaningful to students,” Toogood said. “I don’t want to issue probation if it doesn’t mean anything.”

The disciplinary changes will affect student violations of the Code of Conduct, the

Academic Integrity Policy and other policies in the Student Handbook, according to the Student Life website.

This includes how academic integrity violations are punished, according to Toogood. For example, the punishment for having “unauthorized materials” visible during an exam without proof of “cheating,” which previously would have been grounds for a suspension, is now formal censure.

The Student Judicial Process Handbook has been added to the new Student Life website, making it more navigable for students, according to Toogood.

“This is the first time that it has really lived online,” Toogood said. “One of my big goals when I took this job — and it is still one of my goals — is to make things more transparent. And one of the reasons I think things weren’t as transparent as they could be was, for one thing, they weren’t available on the website this clearly.”

Toogood said the judicial process is on the website in an “accordion-style docu-

ment,” allowing each section of the document to be maximized or minimized in a web-friendly layout.

“If I tell a student, ‘Hey, I’m sorry — you are on interim suspension,’ and they want to know what that is, they can just click on it and find out what it means,” he said.

The Student Affairs Office has also made minor revisions to the Academic Integrity Policy and digitized the information, according to Toogood. Prior to this, the academic integrity policy was in a 47-page physical booklet, which made it difficult to find specific information.

“Almost all of this information is still here; it is just a lot easier to find,” he said.

Toogood believes these changes will create more transparency in student judicial affairs. He hopes to further revise the Academic Integrity Policy in the future, with the input of faculty, students and staff.

“The last time [the policy] was visited was 10 years ago in 2006, so I think it deserves a revamping,” he said.

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Pre-orientation program CAFE allowed incoming students an opportunity to visit different Boston-area religious sites.

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While all first-year and transfer students participate in orientation upon their arrival at Tufts, many also begin their Jumbo careers as participants in one of five pre-orientation programs, each of which is organized around a specific theme or activity. According to the undergraduate orientation website, these programs provide first-years with the opportunity to get to campus early and to meet classmates with similar interests.

Although many first-years do participate in pre-orientation programs, they are not required to do so, according to Joe Golia, director of the Office of Student Life. Golia said that it is not his goal that every first year participate in a pre-orientation program, but rather that every first-year should have the option to participate in one of the programs.

According to Golia, 823 first-year students — over half of the incoming class — took part in pre-orientation programs this year.

Golia explained that Tufts Wilderness Orientation (TWO) was the largest, with participation capped at 264 students, followed by Freshman Orientation CommUnity Service (FOCUS) with 241 participants, Fitness & Individual Development at Tufts (FIT) with 182 participants and Global Orientation (GO) with 142 participants. The Conversation, Action, Faith & Education Orientation Program (CAFE) was also reinstated this fall with 18 participants.

Initially run from 2009 to 2011, CAFE was

reinstated by the chaplaincy after a four-year hiatus, according to a Feb. 9 Daily article.

Sophomore Nicole Morris, a peer leader for the program, said that CAFE caters to incoming first-years who prefer smaller groups, close conversation and self-exploration. She explained that despite participating in FOCUS as a first-year, she was drawn to new opportunities for growth with CAFE. “I have always been interested in interfaith work and [am] still exploring my interfaith identity, so I thought I could to learn a lot from the program with the first-years,” Morris said. “I did FOCUS, and I really loved FOCUS, but I feel like [in] CAFE, because of the conversations we had, the relationships are a bit stronger.”

Morris noted that because the group of students was so small, rather than breaking off into smaller groups as they would in other programs, CAFE participants and leaders all traveled together to various social justice trainings and religious sites. Afterward, they would discuss their experiences and reflect on how the different sites intersected with one another.

One organization that participants visited was the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK).

“We talked about how religion plays a part in how someone may react to domestic violence,” Morris said. “And we talked about how to be understanding of those religious views when trying to help someone in a domestic violence situation.”

Although CAFE was the smallest of the

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Eighteen students participated in the newly reinstated pre-orientation program, CAFE.

pre-orientation programs by a large margin, Morris feels that the program’s size largely contributed to its success.

“Because the program was so small…it was a very intimate group,” she said. “Everyone got really close … It felt like the students thought of us as peers, so they were actually very open with us.”

Morris hopes to see the CAFE continue to engage more students in the future.

“I hope that the community will continue to grow and that we’ll have more interfaith conversations,” she said.

The addition of CAFE was not the only change to pre-orientation programs this fall.

GO, which used to be known as International Orientation (IO), was restructured in order to attract more incoming first-years, according to GO C-coordinator Shanice Kok. “We wanted to up our pre-orientation game,” Kok, a senior, said. “We wanted to seem more open and more welcoming to American students.”

According to Kok, some American students did participate in IO, but GO leaders wanted to ensure that incoming American first-years knew that the program was an option for them, too.

“I think it’s really important…at an American university to really foster the relationship between both [international students] and Americans,” she said.

Along with the name change, Kok also aimed to alter the structure of the program in order to optimize the experience for first-years.

“For the first time, we had this thing called life stories where each group would go off with their host advisors…and they would just… talk about their life stories,” Kok said. “A lot of the events we did…made the program more memorable. I personally did [IO] when I was a [first-year], and I made a lot of good friends… but I didn’t feel that the program was memorable. I can’t even tell you what we did during the program, but I made some really good friendships.”

To enhance GO, Kok said they even drew upon aspects of other pre-orientation programs.

“I wanted to take a little bit from TWO, take a little bit from FOCUS and develop the group-bonding aspect of Global Orientation,” she said. “I wanted to create…events that foster group relationships.”

s promised, here are some thoughts on my Argentine host mother: My host mom was a diva. That’s right, a DIVA. I never knew her real height because she always wore heels. One of the first conversations we had was about my leg hair, which had been growing for nine months at that point and was certainly a shock to people who are unaccustomed to seeing women look like women.

She was appalled. “Es muy mal visto acá!” which translates to something like, “It reflects poorly on your character and your upbringing, and your parents and their ancestors going back through the millennia!” She insisted that I come with her to the salon to get them waxed.

As you might expect, she had some unusual ideas about food. She ate little meat for living in a country famous for its cowboys. However, her opinions about chicken were far more extreme; she called it “the dirty animal.” She clarified this statement by saying they eat off of the ground.

It is yet to be determined where she thinks other animals get their food from.

Breakfast was strictly limited to oranges.

She ate only fruit until lunch. If one doesn’t, she claimed, one would surely get rolls on his or her hips. Mixing sweet and savory was also a no-no — because sugar.

There were many things she was particular about, such as her need for her outfits to be color-coordinated and her disdain for feminism. I teased her about these traits. We had an easy banter, exchanging sarcasm and trading phrases in our respective languages.

As my Spanish improved, so did my personality. Figuring her out quickly became the most interesting part of being abroad. Some people have boyfriends abroad — I had a host mom.

Our first fight was about her opinion that gay people shouldn’t be able to have kids, which took a turn for the worst when I used a new curse word I had learned. Her aggressive arguing faltered, and we didn’t speak for a week.

It was then that I realized how much I had overlooked. The sense of playful companionship we had established was sliced by irreconcilable difference — she started calling me fat and would engage in nonsense political debates that pushed the boundaries of both my patience and my language skills.

I came back to the United States with an incredible numbness where I thought there would be longing, and with the body confidence of my first-year self.

After a six-week recovery rafting down the Salmon river, I understand how much I internalized her messages. Although they began as ideas that I could laugh off or explain away as “cultural differences,” they got old. Nothing is more emblematic of this than the fact that I spent $25 to wax my legs in what may have been the most painful experience of my life, minus that time my uncle pulled out the wrong tooth.

But this is not the first time I’ve made the mistake of letting people who are close to me influence my own self-image, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Perhaps the next time I’ll tell it to laser off. OOOOOOOOH! Emma Arnesty-Good is a senior majoring in American studies. She can be reached at emma.arnesty_good@tufts.edu.

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Ryan Adams’ ‘1989’ covers give Swift’s music new life

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“1989” (2014) was perhaps Taylor Swift’s biggest step away from her country singer-songwriter roots and toward the world of pop. She collaborated with high-profile pop producers like Max Martin and Shellback to create hits including the chart-topping “Shake it Off” and “Blank Space” and showed that album sales are not necessarily a thing of the past. “1989” sold almost 1.3 million copies during the first week of its release, breaking Swift’s own personal sales record. Unafraid to take on music industry giants, Swift also challenged the policies of streaming services Spotify and Apple Music — and ultimately removed her music from the Spotify catalog. With “1989,” Swift definitively proved the power of her immense cultural cache.

All of the above makes singer-songwriter Ryan Adams’ release of his own “1989” on Sept. 21 all the more interesting.

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Ryan Adams and Jenny Lewis arrive at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 8.

‘How to Get Away with Murder’ continues to redefine murder mystery genre

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ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” (2014 – present) premiered its second season last week and somehow managed to introduce even crazier plot twists than the first.

Though viewers know from the season finale that it was in fact defense attorney and law professor Annalise Keating’s (Viola Davis) associate Frank (Charlie Weber) who killed a girl at the request of her now-dead husband, Sam (Tom Verica), Annalise and her group of law students, known as “The Keating Five,” are still in the dark. To make matters more complicated, the season finale ended with the killing of Wes’ girlfriend Rebecca (Katie Findlay), who was also a suspect in the

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murder case, but only Frank, Annalise and the killer know she is dead.

This is just the beginning.

Viewers might have assumed the entire second season would be focusing on who killed Rebecca, but to everyone’s surprise, that mystery is solved in the first episode. The season’s arc is revealed when the sound of gunshots and the image of Annalise bleeding out on the floor of a mansion, while Wes runs off the property looking very suspicious, concludes the episode.

Last season, Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), a brilliant criminal defense attorney and professor at fictional Middleton University School of Law, picked five ambitious law students — Wes (Alfred Enoch), Connor ( Jack Falahee), Michaela (Aja Naomi King), Asher (Matt McGorry)

and Laurel (Karla Souza) — to act as assistants on her legal cases. They worked together all season on a case concerning the death of a member of a sorority at the university.

Davis is a firecracker as Annalise, and her character is one of the best on television; her Emmy Award this year for the role was clearly well-deserved. Her relationship with Wes is both charming and creepy at the same time. They have severe trust issues that stem from Wes’ determination to protect Rebecca at all costs, despite evidence against her. They have a mother-son relationship that seems to cross the border into romantic territory in this episode, in which Annalise takes The Keating Five see KEATING, page 6

his was unquestionably the summer of Fetty Wap. The previously unheralded rapper from Patterson, N.J. burst onto the scene with the ubiquitous single “Trap Queen” and then followed that catchy tune up with three other top 40 hits: “679,” “My Way” and “Again.” In the process, he became the first hip-hop artist to have his first four singles simultaneously chart in the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs list. Fetty has, additionally, been rubbing elbows with Kanye West, Chris Brown and Taylor Swift and has played at venues across the nation.

Drake even took time out of a surely busy schedule to remix one of Fetty’s tracks. In a short period, the 24-year-old crooner became the hottest name in hip-hop.

It would have not been altogether surprising if Fetty’s long-awaited debut album had seen the biggest rap stars providing guest verses or featured beats from the most popular producers. That wouldn’t have been unexpected, especially in a genre where it pays to have famous friends. When “Fetty Wap,” his self-titled album, was released on Sept. 25, however, it was devoid of any guest verses besides those of Monty and M80. Perhaps most telling, all the production was done in-house. Drake’s remixed version of “My Way” was rejected from the album; instead, Monty, Fetty’s right-hand man, is featured on that song as well as on nine of the 20 tracks.

When Monty raps, “I come from the hood, baby / Loyalty’s in my blood,” he isn’t lying.

Fetty has brought his crew — nicknamed the Remy Boyz because of their affection for the cognac Remy Martin 1738 — from the streets of Patterson to the top of hip-hop. Unlike a lot of rappers who come from the bottom, he has not forgot about his friends or sold out during his meteoric rise.

The album feels less like a Fetty Wap record and more like a statement from the entire Remy Boyz crew that they have arrived.

Fetty’s allegiance to his Patterson buddies bears a lot of resemblance to that of another summer smash, the “Entourage” movie.

Monty is the Eric Murphy (Kevin Connolly) to Fetty’s Vince Chase (Adrian Grenier), while Mike Goon, the Remy Boyz hypeman, and Big L, Fetty’s DJ, fill the roles of Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) and Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon), respectively. The Patterson crew is a bit bigger than the fictional gang from New York, but the sentiment is the same. Willie Maxwell, Fetty’s birth name, is undoubtedly living the Cinderella story of Vinnie Chase.

This isn’t the first time a celebrity has allowed his friends to piggyback off his fame — and it certainly won’t be the last — but Fetty’s effort is still admirable. While on the road from Soundcloud wannabe to rap sensation it is easy to forget about who was with you when Drake wasn’t offering up guest verses and to get caught up in the hype and fame. But, through it all, Fetty has stayed grounded and always remembered that, two years ago, the Remy Boyz were handing out mixtapes at basketball courts. His crew has come a long way since then, and their leader has successfully parlayed the song of the summer into an impressive and expansive record, proving that the one-eyed rapper indeed has legitimate staying power. As Fetty would say, “Yeaaaahh, baabbbyyy.”

Soven Bery is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at soven.bery@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 5 Whiskeytown in 2000. In fact, “1989” is the singer’s 15th studio album — though it’s his first to be comprised solely of covers. Adams includes every song from the original Swift production but completely reimagines them as anything from folkrock to light metal. His renditions are truly unique — so much so that listeners may have a hard time matching Adams versions with the originals.

For the most part, though, the covers sound like a crossover between Swift’s work and Neil Young’s musical style circa “Freedom” (1989), whose year of release is coincidentally the same as Swift’s album title. The similarities to Young lie in the reverb applied to Adams’ voice and the interplay of acoustic guitar with highlighting notes from its electric counterpart. Plus, Young owned the

classic-rock-mixed-with-folk-rock style — the kind that gets heads bobbing but not banging. In fact, if one were to dial up the acoustic aspects of Adams’ “1989” just a little bit, his renditions would fit in perfectly around a campfire with their mellowed-out sound.

The album opens to the sound of seagulls on “Welcome to New York,” immediately putting listeners on notice that this is not just a simple cover but rather a total revision of the source material. The ocean sounds seem to set the stage for mellow music to follow, but the seagulls are soon joined by fervent strings that descend a minor scale, lending the sequence an almost cinematic quality. Suddenly, the strings are gone, replaced by an upbeat acoustic guitar punctuated by cheerful piano.

The greatest indication of Adams’ classic rock ambitions is the simplistic

instrumentation of the verse — a bass line and some drums behind his vocals.

By no means are these covers simplistic, however.

“Blank Space” showcases guitar playing almost on par with some of the coffeehouse folk greats like Richard Shindell and Shawn Mullins. Adams takes Swift’s stylized, edgy track and smooths it out, softening it and singing her belted lyrics almost in a whisper.

This version may actually be more listenable than its original, especially for those who do not want to get caught up in Swift’s emotional charge.

“Style,” however, is where Adams really breaks out of the mold. This song has a red-light-district feel to it with its driving, incessant guitar riff and Adams’ reverberating half-yelled vocals. Though “Style” moves into a more hectic and aggressive music

style, the rest of Adams’ “1989”″ is far more relaxed, fitting comfortably into the folk rock and classic rock genres.

A highlight on this cover album is “Wildest Dreams.” Already a cult favorite off of Swift’s “1989,” here it takes on a whole other life. The recording sounds like it was taken at a live stadium concert, and the soundscape is textbook classic rock. Adams’ version is equally deserving of cult fandom, managing to maintain the original’s ethereal qualities through totally different musical devices.

This version of “1989” should be taken as an example of how covers should be done: leave some of the original to draw people in, but change enough to make listeners crave the new version. With “1989,” Adams has put together an outstanding collection of covers — covers that embody what covers should strive to be.

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continued from page 5 (minus Asher) out to a club to blow off some steam. Her dancing scene with Wes skirts the line of uncomfortable intimacy, which could possibly be a sign of developments to come in this season.

The rest of the Keating Five are just as compelling. Asher is the comic relief for the most part. He’s an obnoxious and overly masculine character who is not taken seriously by the rest of the crew. Bonnie is an insecure character, constantly seeking approval from Annalise, who is less than willing to give it freely. The relationship between Bonnie and Asher is on the rocks now that the latter has been blackmailed into spying on Annalise, which is doing wonders for her fragile state.

Connor continues to be an excellent, albeit frustrating, character, especially as viewers watch his developing relationship with his boyfriend, Oliver (Conrad Ricamora). Oliver is the most decent human being on the show, loving and caring even when Connor is sucked

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Laurel, sadly, who spent the majority of the episode bickering until after the night at the club, when they reconciled.

Everyone is mostly dealing with the aftermath of the previous season.

“How To Get Away With Murder” will no doubt provide a strong showing in its second season, supported by a talented cast and sharp writing. The dialogue is quick-witted and perfectly executed, and viewers can’t help but care about even the most morally questionable characters, of which there are plenty. Almost everyone on the show besides Oliver has lied or committed felonies, and some have aided in murder or covering it up.

It forces viewers to understand that the characters are human and can fall prey to persuasion and temptation.

This show is truly golden. It takes the murder-mystery genre and manages to avoid all clichés and expected plot directions. At the end of every episode, viewers will have a different opinion on who killed whom, who’s alive and how in the world so many people are able to get away with murder.

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My name’s Nesi Altaras and I’m running for Senate. Like everyone else running, I was in student government in high school. I’m from Istanbul, Turkey but I now live in Tilton. I’m planning on being an IR and Econ double major and I’m running because Tufts is my home and I want to work so that others feel the same way.

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Hi, I’m Jacob Cantor. I’m a freshman from Wilson House and super stoked to be running for TCU Senate. In the past, I have been my school president and lead the coalition to change our American Indian mascot. I’ve developed the skills to work with administrators, legislators and aim to represent the whole student body. Yes We CANtor. Cheers!

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My name is Malachy Donovan, and I am running to represent the Class of 2019 as a TCU Senator! If elected, listening to you will be my top priority. I will represent every club and interest on campus to the best of my ability. From installing gender free bathrooms to allowing financial aid to undocumented immigrants, the TCU Senate has an amazing track record. As senator, it would be an honor to work for continued inclusiveness and equal opportunity in the Tufts community.

rayane Haddar

Hey, my name is Rayane and I am an international student from France. I am running for TCU Senate because I am beyond excited at the prospect of representing such intelligent and active community. While it would be silly to promise you that I will get you the best toilet paper that is currently manufactured in the world, I guarantee you that I will be an extremely active Senator and make sure that your voice matter and count.

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My name is Frederick Hissenkaemper and I am an international student from Germany running for TCU Senate.

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Greetings Jumbos! My statement isn’t going to be the quintessential kind: bragging about my talents or making empty promises. I recognize that this is a social contract of mutual trust and one thing I can definitely assure you of is being a strong representative voice, fearing or favoring none. It’s your vote. Vote Smart. Vote for Akshat.

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Tufts is a great community, and I already feel at home here. If elected Senator, I hope to use my position encourage Tufts to divest from its investments in fossil fuels and will try to make the process for creating new clubs more straightforward. Above all, I want Tufts to be a welcoming, safe environment for everyone!

sobHon kHairy

One of the biggest reasons I chose Tufts is because of the active and diverse population of students. The reason why I am running for TCU Senate is to ensure that these groups of students have what they need. The students in these groups have rigorous academic careers at Tufts, and as a member of Senate, I will make sure that we, as a Senate, are not another obstacle they must hurdle over. My experiences as a leader have emphasized the responsibility to look at a situation through many lenses. If elected to Senate, I promise to consider the perspectives of all groups in order to make equitable decisions regarding the allocation.

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Hello fellow Jumbos! My name is Brian Kipchumba and I am running for senate. Being part of the Student Government at my previous institutions has given me the experience to lead my fellow classmates. I want to be YOUR voice and I welcome you to share YOUR issues with me, because I’m confident that together, there’s nothing we can’t solve!

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CNN’s Trump coverage narrows space for political conversation Donald Trump, whose campaign for the presidency has been alarmingly successful thus far, has been a field day for CNN. They’ve run on average more than two articles a day since his campaign announcement on June 16. They’ve given him three hours of airtime a week and have dedicated half of their daily news coverage to him — a business plan that even the Fox News network hasn’t applied to their “enemies.” CNN has ushered a poll and a handful of editorials every week. While CNN is formally “exposing” Trump — their articles of choice have been op-eds on Donald Trump’s political spars with other GOP candidates — it has also given a reliable platform for his vitriol.

The truth is that CNN’s plan to take down Trump so that the public can

focus on “legitimate candidates whose motives are to help America” is backfiring. CNN is covering so much Trump that it has heralded as the informative platform for his supporters and foes alike. When such an influential media force devotes so much of its resources to superficial coverage of one candidate, the very serious national conversation about who the next president should be is diluted at best and totally derailed at worst.

CNN’s pseudo exposé efforts aren’t even a fraction of the damage done

by Jake Tapper and Chris Cuomo’s “Hardball-style” interviews. The two frequently ask Trump about other candidates, China, ISIS, FEMA and the Federal Reserve. They look through the vault to try to stump Trump. Cuomo even closes these interviews in a

semi-distraught tone with a “hit me up on social media with the hashtag Trump to let me know what you think.”

But like the articles, they’re giving Trump airtime.

In its sub-par attempt to do justice, CNN has fallen into the dismal political game that Trump has created. There is a certain truth to the phrase “no PR is bad PR.” Many on the left blame the questions and topics that CNN chooses to use against Trump, claiming that they lack “point” or “agency.” This isn’t a question of content, however, or of the ways in which coverage of Trump should be framed. Based on the way the campaign’s media circus has gone so far, any framing of Trump will end up working to his advantage. If you want to beat him, CNN, stop talking about him.

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by Chad Simon

On classroom etiquette

It is my sole conviction that the intended benefit of class discussion has taken two steps back and then an additional five in the same direction. I am also exhaustively convinced that chivalry is dead. But for the sake of clarity and my sanity, let us now and forever cleanly wipe Saturday’s failed nocturnal pursuits off the slate and zero in on the former issue: common courtesy in the classroom. Or lack thereof.

As I’ve come to realize, nothing moves me further from sadness than the united efforts of the ill-mannered and the long-winded.

Of places where these temperaments fester wantonly, I can think of only four: the jury room, Scrabble night at any senior center, Dallas and an alarming number of Ivy League classrooms.

If anyone has ever had the immeasurable misfortune of suffering through one of these classroom settings, one would have needed to do nothing but sit idly on one’s own thumbs in order to detect a suffocating, pretentious and noticeably passive-aggressive air of latent academic one-upsmanship wafting through space. It’s irritating, contrived, stymying and grossly intolerable.

Until three days ago, I was but outwardly resolved to call for a moratorium on classroom etiquette as we know it. But what good would that do?

So by dint of some very hard work and meticulous research, I did my level best to create 10 prescriptions that, if strictly adhered to, will improve one’s class persona and general likability in spades. I present “The New Ten Commandments,” a title which already engenders all kinds of delicious biblical controversy and self-assumed importance.

Let us learn.

Commandment One: Beginning your comment with “for me,” “in my opinion” or “I believe” discourages your classmates

from partaking in the groundbreaking self-discovery that’s surely unfolding before them.

Commandment Two: Your lengthy self-apologetic preamble undermines whatever point that follows, provided there is one. For instance, prefacing the meat of your comment with “this is probably going to sound really stupid” indicates to me that what you’re about to say is not the only thing deserving of the label “stupid.”

Commandment Three: If you end your comment employing uptalk or vocal fry, consider yourself hopeless beyond redress.

Or a Kardashian.

Commandment Four: If you are of the persuasion that the adverb “honestly” adds validity to whatever it is you’re saying, please refer back to Commandment Three.

Commandment Five: Any answer longer than 15 seconds is not an answer; it is a testimony. Though brevity may be the soul of wit, sometimes silence is the soul of appropriateness.

Commandment Six: Nothing shows one’s hand of ignorance like the excessive use of one’s hands. You’re not Sicilian. And if you are, I apologize profusely and concede to whatever demands you will invariably make.

Commandment Seven: Referring to “something interesting” you just came across on your laptop is nerdy and does not delight me. It also fails to deceive the class into thinking the last 30 minutes were spent doing anything but scrolling through Reddit.

Commandment Eight: When you “add onto” or “jump off from” a classmate’s point, be sure your addendum does not bulldoze the prior comment for the sake of paving a fresh foundation on which to build your irrelevant case and equally unwarranted jabbering.

Commandment Nine: If you choose to disregard Commandment Eight, then for the love of all that is good and holy, do not under any circumstances attempt to

contribute to the discussion by posing a tangential question. It should go without saying that not every unanswered curiosity merits exploration.

Commandment Ten: If you somehow have the chutzpah to disregard the two aforementioned commandments, you would do well to put down this paper at once and resume reblogging Politico articles on topics in which you developed a tenacious interest no more than four hours ago.

Let there be realness.

At this point, I’m reminded of a lunch I had exactly one week ago with a very dear friend of mine. Per usual, we sat down under an elm tree and I made my displeasure known about everything in existence. In return, he listened. But as I broached the topic of classroom etiquette and how, for reasons unbeknownst to me, nobody at present seemed capable of managing a single declarative sentence, he did something, well, typical: He quoted Plato.

“Chad, wise men speak because they have something to say; fools speak because they have to say something.” I nodded approvingly, though somewhat miffed that my rambling diatribe had been interrupted.

I responded with all the grace and candor one could expect from a petulant rabble-rouser.

I told my friend to pardon the blunt observation, but Plato is dead, and I am not.

So until Plato’s self-exhumed corpse pays a visit to a Brown philosophy section, his words have lost all their gravitas and universality. (If there existed a lunch bell, then would have been prime time for my friend to be saved.)

Thus and thus, in the spirit of Brown patois, I’d like to “add onto” Plato’s crumbling platitude with a question: for me, I feel, at least like for me, and I’m not even remotely qualified to say this, but honestly, for me, why does the fool have to speak at all?

Kevin Lawson The Tufts Daily Show

A clockwork random What’s a worse use of the word “random”? A girl, upon realizing she has the same name as the barista, saying, “OMG that is so random,” or a TSA agent motioning to a brown guy and saying, “You’ve been randomly selected”?

The question matters in light of the recent Ahmed clock incident and the strained American-Muslim relations it symbolizes. If you’re not sure who Ahmed is, I’m impressed that someone out there has been off social media for, like, 11 days. I read an article* saying that’s very rare.

Here’s what happened: Ahmed Mohamed — or, as he’s known in math circles, Ahmed[1 + Mo] — transplanted the innards of an old clock into a pencil case, resulting in a pretty unhelpful contraption that I won’t judge because I once failed at Building-A-Bear in a Workshop designed specifically for that. His teacher thought the contraption looked like a bomb, and he was arrested.

The day after Ahmed’s arrest, Donald Trump was asked, “When can we get rid of [Muslims]?” His response was seriously off-putting: “We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things.” I’m sure you’d agree that this is far too vague. This isn’t healthcare, Donald. We cant just “work out some sort of a really smart deal” later. This is actually pressing!

Among the skeptics is social assassin Bill Maher, who defended the school’s actions on the basis that “it looks exactly like a fuckin’ bomb.”

Fair criticism. But then he attacked Ahmed’s skill as an engineer, noting that “it took 20 seconds for somebody [on Youtube] to do what this kid did.” Not so fair, considering that the guy on Youtube, perhaps highoffdank himself, probably studied electrical engineering in college. You can’t just attack a prepubescent’s skills in order to draw conclusions about his character.

If I could, I’d show up at one of Maher’s kid’s little league games, and just after he dinked a grounder to the pitcher, I’d step up and launch one way out of the park and get all up in little Billy Jr.’s face like “HAHA YOU IDIOT WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? DO YOU NOT HAVE ALL THIS MUSCLE MASS I’VE ACCRUED OVER MY MID-TO-LATE TEEN YEARS?” During the (social) media whirlwind, Chris Matthews articulated what should be the main takeaway of this incident: everyone has been too quick to take sides without appreciating all the facts. If we want to tackle our Islamophobia, perhaps we should start not with a high school engineer, but with the undiscussed, systematic racial profiling instituted by the NYPD after 9/11. *a tweet.

Kevin Lawson is a junior majoring in political science. He can be reached at kevin. lawson@tufts.edu

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VOLLEYBALL

Update: Jumbos bounce back with undefeated weekend

Yuan Jun Chee Thoughts of a Soccer Fan

by Noah Smith

Death by possession

Contributing Writer

After a five-set loss to Amherst last weekend, Tufts bounced back with an impressive three-game winning streak starting at home on Friday against NESCAC opponent Connecticut College and continuing into Saturday at UMass Dartmouth against the host and non-conference foe Western Connecticut State. The Jumbos didn’t surrender a single set throughout this streak.

Friday’s home win against Conn.

College was characterized by a tough second set that went to extra points, with the Jumbos eventually topping the Camels 27-25. Sets one and three were much more comfortable for the Jumbos, with dominant serving by senior Maddie Kuppe leading the way to a 25-14 victory in the final set.

Their Saturday match against Western Connecticut offered a different challenge, with a closely fought first set (25-23), giving Tufts the confidence to push on and improve in each of their next two sets, eventually winning

the final one 25-18. The Jumbos won each set in the last game of the day against the UMass-Dartmouth Corsairs, and the matchup saw several first-year players particularly impress with strong performances.

With these three wins in the bag, the Jumbos move to 7-3 on the season and 2-1 in conference play. During this streak, Tufts has not just dominated play, but has also ruled the stats board, leading in hitting percentage, blocks, aces and kills in all three games. The only statistic the Jumbos failed to lead in was digs. UMass Dartmouth managed 34 digs to Tufts’ 32, and, in the most competitive match of the three, Western Connecticut racked up 56 digs to Tufts’ 54.

The weekend also saw many different players contribute to the Jumbos’ winning efforts. Leading the team in kills the first two games was Kuppe, with 11 against Conn. College and 13 against Western Connecticut. First-year Alexandra Wood led the team with seven kills in the final game of the weekend versus UMass Dartmouth. Senior Kyra Baum and first-year Angela Yu supplied

Kuppe and the rest of the offense with 16 and 15 assists, respectively, in the first two games. First-year Katie Zheng also racked up an impressive 25 assists against UMass Dartmouth in addition to collecting five digs.

The strong defensive performance was a team effort as well. Five players contributed to blocks against Umass Dartmouth, each with either a team block or individual. Senior co-captain Carolina Berger did the digging work for the game, registering 12. Against Western Connecticut, sophomore Wendy Dyer led the team with three blocks, while Kuppe registered two blocks and capped off a good all-around game with eight digs. Berger also had 25 digs to fight off the Western Connecticut Colonials.

Against Conn. College on Friday, several different players racked up blocks, and Kruppe picked up 13 digs.

The team is looking to build off this impressive three-game display and has their next home match on Oct. 1 against UMass Boston. On Oct. 3, they travel to NESCAC rival Bowdoin to take on the host and Keene State.

Disappointment in doubles as both seeded pairs fall in first round MEN'S TENNIS

continued from back ed in a tense tiebreaker, with Telkedzhiev ultimately losing out 7-6 (9-7).

“It’s still the beginning of the season — we can still improve, we need to practice together and work on our communication,” Gupte said.

Gregor echoed Gupte’s insistence that the team expects to improve over the course of practices and matches throughout the season.

“We are going to increase the focus and intensity of practices, which

comes with getting further into the season,” Gregor said.

With the tournament coming only three weeks into the new school year, Gregor prioritized getting the team onto the courts and hitting as much as possible. He said that this single-centric mentality explained why doubles play had been neglected in practice.

He aims to remind the team of its goal of finishing in the top three of the NESCAC, and wants to emphasize that hard work is needed to get to the level of some other schools.

The team is looking ahead to the

Wallach Invitational at Bates and the Boston Invitational at home, both of which are scheduled to take place in October. Last year, the Gupte/Cary doubles team finished runner-up at the Boston Invitational, and will be looking to repeat their success next month.

The Jumbos hope to translate their practice into more wins against many of the same opponents, with familiar contenders such as Middlebury attending the Boston Invitational. The tournament will be held at Tufts on the weekend of Oct. 24.

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or all the agony that Manchester United fans have had with the new way Louis van Gaal has his team playing, we have to admit it is working.

So what of this “van Gaal philosophy,” then? Days of the swashbuckling Manchester United running riot down the wings with waves of attacks on the opposition can now almost be condemned to history. In its stead, Louis van Gaal looks to have United keep the ball, working it around slowly as they attack in different phases from the back before moving into the final third. By controlling the ball, United prevents the opposition from having it as they look for a way to draw the defenders out.

But it did not always work last season.

United struggled to kill off teams despite having the bulk of the possession. The team did not create enough chances, and more defensive resolute teams would know how to be tight at the back. The defeat against West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford last season, for example, saw United having 80 percent of ball possession but suffering a 1-0 defeat. Similarly, they had 70 percent of the ball at Stamford Bridge and still lost to Chelsea on an Eden Hazard goal.

Yet what’s improved so much this season is the injection of pace into the United front line. The pace and movement of Memphis Depay and Anthony Martial, as well as the return to form for Luke Shaw from left back, adds significant speed to their attack. In particular, Martial’s daringness to take players on and his strength on the ball adds a very complete — albeit still raw — presence to the United front line. This allows considerably slower players like Juan Mata and, with respect to Martial, Wayne Rooney to then drop deeper and drift around behind the front line to try and pick them out. This was similar to the way the 2013-14 Liverpool team almost delivered the Premier League title back to Anfield – the movement of Luis Suárez, the pace of Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling and the genius of Philippe Coutinho and Steven Gerrard that allowed Liverpool to dominate the ball.

Key to the success of this philosophy for United is the integration of Daley Blind into the back line. While the Phil JonesChris Smalling partnership worked as United qualified for the Champions League, United lacked someone who could play out from the center of defense, arguably the first phase of United’s attack. Blind adds a different element by allowing the team to look for the short option playing out from the back, or hit it long more accurately to split open opposing defenses. This was evidenced when Blind marauded forward and found Rooney leading up to the first goal against Ipswich and when Blind assisted on Memphis’ strike against PSV. It effectively allows players like Michael Carrick and Ander Herrera, as well as Bastian Schweinsteiger and Mordan Schneiderlin, to have more influence with their passing abilities further up the field to advance United’s attack, as their manager would like to call it, in the second and third phases.

To the United fans clamoring for the return to the old ways, get used to this new way of United domination. Not as swashbuckling as Fergie’s teams of old, but by the looks of it, effective enough.

Yuan Jun Chee is a first-year student who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at yuan.chee@tufts.edu

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MEN’S TENNIS

Success in singles but disappointing doubles showing for Jumbos

by Maddie Payne Contributing Writer

On Friday, sophomore Rohan Gupte advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2015 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Regional Singles Championship held at Williams, beating opponents from Clark University, Colby-Sawyer College and Middlebury.

Gupte won his first two matches easily, with scores of 6-2, 6-3 against first-year Alex Wright of Colby-Sawyer College and 6-1, 6-0 against senior Fernando Pinoargote of Clark University.

On Saturday, he clinched a third victory in three sets with a score of 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 against Middlebury sophomore Timo van der Geest, progressing to the quarterfinals. Gupte was defeated in the quarterfinals by first-year Alex Cauneac of MIT. Despite being able to take the second set against Cauneac, he eventually lost 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.

“I felt like I played a solid game; I served strongly, and I hit all my groundstrokes pretty well,” Gupte said. “You just can’t prejudge an opponent before he walks on the court.”

Gupte’s performance did not escape the attention of coach Karl Gregor. The eventual winner of the tournament, Middlebury sophomore Noah Farrell, had lost to Gupte last year, which makes Gregor confident that Gupte can contend with top competitors in the NESCAC. “Gupte was the highlight,” Gregor said. “I think he could have won his quarterfinals game, but we’re still pretty early in the fall. The guys are still finding their game, [but] he knows that he’s right in the ballpark with the other top players in the country and conference.”

The two doubles pairs that competed had high aspirations going into the tournament, as they were seeded second and fifth among the 32 teams competing. In matches that were played first to eight games, the second-seeded pair of Gupte and senior Nik Telkedzhiev were defeated 8-4 by Amherst senior

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Senior tri-captain Nick Cary played doubles at the Regional Singles Championship at Williams on April 10, 2014.

Ben Fife and first-year Zach Bessette in the first round, while fifth-seeded junior Ben Battle and senior Nick Cary fell to Bowdoin’s duo of sophomore Kyle Wolfe and first-year Jerry Jiang by a score of 8-3, also in the first round. This was an unexpected result for the Jumbos, who had anticipated a much more successful run in the doubles. Both of the opposing duos reached the semi-finals stage.

“I’d attribute the result to a slow start for Battle and Cary,” Gregor said. “They didn’t really get into the match the way

they needed to. They played well toward the end, but it was a little too late.”

There were two other Jumbos in the singles tournament at Williams. However, both Battle and sophomore Zain Ali lost in the first round. Gregor pointed to the difficult draw that the Jumbos received to explain the result: Ali’s opponent was Farrell, who went on to win the tournament, while Battle’s opponent was the other finalist, Bowdoin sophomore Luke Tercek.

“We didn’t get as deep into the draws as I would have liked,” Gregor said. “In

a 64-draw tournament, it’s nice to get a round or two under your belt to get some momentum before having to play some better players.”

Telkedzhiev managed to progress to the second round of the tournament, blowing past Endicott senior Michael Dolph 6-1, 6-1. Telkedzhiev was tested against Wesleyan junior Jake Roberts, losing the first set 6-3, but managed to clinch the second set 6-3. The match culminatsee MEN'S TENNIS , page 15

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

Tufts runs away from competition at Codfish Bowl

by Chris Warren Sports Editor

On Saturday, most of the women’s cross country team traveled a few miles down I-93 to historic Franklin Park for the annual Codfish Bowl, a low-key meet featuring college, club and high school teams. Tufts, which was resting its top pack, absolutely obliterated the field, running away with 31 points for the victory, 63 points lower than second-place Phillips Andover Academy and 68 points lower than third-place Merrimack College.

Franklin Park is an historic venue located in Boston’s Jamaica Plain, Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods that has hosted hundreds of high school, collegiate and professional cross country meets, including the 1992 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. All-time greats such as marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe, multiple world record-holder and multiple-time Olympic gold medalist Haile Gebrselassie and multiple U.S. marathon champion Shalane Flanagan

have all traversed Franklin Park’s course in its storied history.

Over the weekend, junior co-captain Alice Wasserman led the Jumbos on the day, taking the individual victory in the 161-person race, running 19:01 for the 5000-meter course and holding off Carmen Bango of Phillips Andover.

Senior Sydney Smith, who after a strong outdoor track season which saw her run a super quick 4:32.42 in the 1500-meter, nabbed fourth in 19:20, while senior Lily Corcoran and first-year Kelsey Tierney grabbed seventh and eighth in 19:35 and 19:36, respectively. First-year Clara Wagner rounded out the scoring as the fifth runner for the Jumbos, taking 11th in 19:40, finishing just a few seconds behind Corcoran and Tierney. Overall, the Jumbos put six runners under 20:00 (sophomore Sara Stokesbury was 15th in 19:57), an impressive number that highlights the team’s depth.

“Going into the race, my plan was to get out hard and to try to stay up close to the front…with a few of my teammates since it was a relatively small meet,” Corcoran told the Daily in an

email. “Then I tried to just hang on as best as I could for the second half of the race.”

The first-years also had an impressive day overall, as all of them placed in the upper half of the field.

“The freshmen looked really good this weekend,” Corcoran said. “We have a really deep team this year, and the freshmen have done a great job of jumping right in and adding to that, even this early in the season.”

The first-years have had a phenomenal impact on the team, and Tierney thinks they can do even more.

“Because our class already has a few girls in the top pack, we’ll be able to contribute a lot to the team in the future, both this year and in the coming years,” she told the Daily in an email.

Tierney also explained how her overall impression of collegiate cross country compares with high school running.

“College running has been better than I expected; it’s similar to high school with how close and supportive the team is, but with more numbers and increased depth,” Tierney said. “I

just wanted to improve upon my race the weekend before [at Bates] and work together with the other girls.”

Most of coach Kristen Morwick’s squad will have next weekend off as the top pack travels to Lehigh in Bethlehem, Penn. for the annual Paul Short Invitational. “Paul Short,” as it has become known, is one of the largest high school and collegiate cross country festivals in the nation, featuring thousands of runners from Div. I, Div. II, Div. III and high school who want to race against national competition.

However, the squad that raced this weekend will be back at Franklin Park in two weeks for the annual New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association Championships, known informally as “Open New Englands,” to race against the region’s best runners from all divisions.

“This weekend we are sending 10 girls, most of whom didn’t race this weekend, to Paul Short,” Corcoran said.

“For the rest of us, we’re going to train through this weekend and get ready to go back to Franklin Park in two weeks.”