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Rubén Stern to leave role as director of Latino Center by Jesse Najarro

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Latino Center Director Rubén Salinas Stern will retire this August after working at Tufts for 24 years, according to an email sent to the Latinx community on April 6. Stern explained that he made the decision to retire for several personal reasons and after realizing that it was hard to remain energized in such a bustling environment and atypical job. “This is a very youthful environment, Student Affairs as a whole,” Stern said. “I was starting to feel old and Student Affairs people work a lot of hours. They work weekends, they work nights. It’s not your typical job in that sense.” Stern will be succeeded by Melissa Colón, a research analyst in the EliotPearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, as interim director for the 2017–2018 academic year, according to Stern. Stern said he arrived at Tufts in 1993 to a Latinx community that felt nonexistent to many, and to no space whatsoever for students who identified as Latinx. Since then, through both his own and student efforts, the Latinx community at Tufts has thrived and has taken on a greater leadership role at Tufts, according to Stern. “When I got here, what I heard about the Latino community was that it was

invisible,” Stern said. “That’s the term I used to hear. I don’t think that’s the case anymore. I see a supportive community.” In particular, Stern noted that the number of students who identify as Latino at Tufts has increased from about 175 in the 1990s to more than 300 now. He also said that more students have taken on leadership positions at Tufts. Marisel Perez, an associate dean of student affairs, attributes such progress partially to Stern’s efforts to harness the voices of Latinx-identifying students and welcome other students with marginalized identities on campus. “I think that Rubén has opened those doors very effectively to make sure that the center is a place where everybody who wants to be part of it or visit it feels welcome,” Perez said. “It’s not just the Latino Center. It’s a center [for] a lot of students who may not necessarily identify as Latino, but they feel a certain alliance and sense of community by going there.” Perez worked with Stern in 2003 on an education and outreach project after several “incidents of bias” — particularly acts of discrimination such as derogatory graffiti — made many Latinx students on campus feel unwelcome, according to Perez. “We used the opportunity to, through the peer group, do a lot of outreach education,” Perez said. “Rubén was part of the conceptualization of that initiative,

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Rubén Stern poses for a photo in the Latino Center on April 24. but it wasn’t just one incident. It was just a need to have that kind of [education] like peer leaders. We would go to the residence halls, mostly the students, and put together programs that raised awareness about diversity.”

Stern worked to educate the Tufts community about diversity through these peer groups and as a member of the diversity council, which Perez also served on. She see RUBEN STERN, page 2

Brown and Brew set to close after 20 years of operation by David Nickerson Staff Writer

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Brown and Brew Coffee House will close at the end of the business day on Aug. 11 after more than 20 years of operation, according to Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos. The decision to close Brown and Brew was made when it became apparent that a new cafe will be included in the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), Klos explained. “It made sense to locate a cafeteria inside the new building,” Klos said. “So once that decision was made, does it make sense to keep the Brown and Brew operating across the street? Not really.” Klos said that the new location in the SEC will be called the Kindlevan Café and will serve a variety of items, including hot food for lunch, salads and coffee. “We will still feature espresso-based drinks, tea … we will have the grab and

go, the sushi, and the salads and the sandwiches, but we will also have the ability to have some hot food, breakfast sandwiches, possibly other breakfast items,” Klos said. Klos said that the cafe will also have a limited selection of freshly made juices and smoothies. According to Klos, meal swipes will not be accepted initially at the new cafe because it will be unable to support the high volume of customers that a meal swipe location usually attracts. “We just don’t think we will have the capacity,” she said. “That’s really the issue.” The new cafe will be connected to the SEC’s large atrium, and customers of the cafe will be able to eat anywhere in the atrium or at a bar that will be connected to the cafe, Klos said. According to Klos, no positions will be eliminated when Brown and Brew closes.

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Stern hopes next director will work to further integrate Group of Six centers into Tufts community RUBEN STERN

continued from page 1 explained that he became a leader in the social justice movement on campus. “He and Linell [Yugawa] introduced social justice here way back several years ago and has been a part of a lot of initiatives and is sort of the soul of the work we do in Student Affairs,” Perez said. Stern also established a peer leader program. Gladys Argueta Xiloj, a junior who worked with Stern as a Latino Peer Leader her sophomore year and as a current intern at the Latino Center, described working with Stern. “Working with [Stern] has been very interesting because he’s a very strong individual, I think, but it makes the other person also have strong opinions,” Argueta Xiloj said. “A lot of interns know what kind of things people want from the center, what kind of things are bothering people or what they want to see fixed, and so those are things we bring up to him.” Argueta Xiloj recognizes Stern as an important mentor for her, and she hopes the next director will continue to listen to students and address concerns within the Latinx community, according to Argueta Xiloj.

“I think there’s always a discussion about everyone’s Latinidad and [that] you don’t have to be a certain way to be at the center that, I think, is still not getting across like it should. And that’s what’s keeping people out of the center,” Argueta Xiloj said. “‘I don’t think I’m Latino enough to be at the center’ or ‘I don’t only want to hang out with Latinos’ — I think that’s definitely something the new director should address.” Similarly, Perez hopes that the succeeding director has the same dedication to students as Stern. “It’s not an academic center or research center. It’s a student center,” she said. “Whoever comes in has a kind of student commitment that Rubén has had for years and that personal commitment to really know somebody, not just a name or who they are.” As Stern reflected on his time at Tufts, he said that some of his most memorable experiences were bringing Edward James Olmos, a Mexican American actor, to campus; traveling to Cuba with students for eight years; teaching a course called Class Matters and chairing the undocumented students working group. That said, he wishes he could have further developed some projects, such as

the Latino Studies minor, a study abroad program to Cuba and better integrating the Group of Six Centers into the university as a whole. “I was part of a working group with faculty that came up with Latino studies and decided to make it a standalone as opposed to part of Latin American studies,” Stern said. “So we petitioned for that. We got students involved and it was established without any additional funding. However, there has not been on the part of the administration any movement whatsoever.” Stern also noted that Tufts currently does not require students to take courses on social justice and that there is a divide between students who are engaged in activism and those who are not. “That puts too much of the burden on students of color,” Stern said. Stern hopes that the future director makes these changes and expressed his sincere gratitude and appreciation for the Latinx community and the Latino Center space. “It’s my baby,” Stern said. “I spend as many hours here as I do in my own home. It feels like my home. I think it’s an amazing space. I think it’s the best space on campus as far as I’m concerned.”

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continued from page 1 Future plans for the re-purposing of the Brown and Brew space are not yet finalized, though discussions are ongoing, according to Vice President of Operations Linda Snyder. Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser said that he has not participated in any official conversations relating to the future use of the Brown and Brew space specifically, but he

said conversations will likely occur soon. Both Glaser and Klos said that on-campus spacial plans do not currently include the creation of an on-campus pub, though members of Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate have researched the viability of a pub, according to an April 7, 2016 Daily article. “I am not aware of any decisions that have been made [regarding an on-campus pub] or even where that is in the process,” Klos said.

Brown and Brew is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and prices will be discounted until April 27, according to the Tufts dining website. Klos said that she was working at Tufts when Brown and Brew was first created, and she feels the loss of its closing. “We can appreciate the sentimentality of a change, of a loss if you will, of what that represented, but I am confident that the university will find a good use for it,” she said.

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Activism at Tufts Part III: Tensions between activists and administrators exacerbated by claims of co-option in university rhetoric by Liam Knox News Editor

This series was reported by The Tufts Daily’s Investigative Team. Reena Karasin and Cathy Perloff contributed reporting. This is the third segment of a four-part series exploring the past, present and future of activism at Tufts. In the spring 2016 issue of JUMBO magazine, Tufts Admissions’ thrice-yearly publication aimed at prospective students and their families, Tufts Climate Action (TCA) member Shana Gallagher was featured in a student profile series titled “It’s Cool to be Smart.” Gallagher felt her efforts as an activist at Tufts were co-opted by the piece and that the details of her work as an activist over her four years at Tufts — namely, her support for fossil fuel divestment — were largely ignored. “They totally made it seem like I credit all of my success as a student activist to being at Tufts, when really if I had taken the response that Tufts [gave] in terms of my student activism as related to the sit-in to heart, I wouldn’t be a student activist anymore,” she said, referring to being put on Disciplinary Probation Level II following TCA’s spring 2015 sit-in in University President Anthony Monaco’s office, an action the JUMBO article doesn’t mention. Gallagher, a senior, said she spent about “80 percent” of her interview with the writer of the JUMBO piece discussing divestment,

but that when the writer sent her the finished piece, the focus was primarily on her work in marine biology and ocean conservancy, and that “the word divestment was not in there once” before she wrote the writer to ask that it be included. “For [Tufts] to take credit for my student activism, even though I had to sort of drag them by the teeth to even put the majority of what I do into that article and then put that in an admissions magazine to encourage other passionate students to come to Tufts, I think it’s quite misleading,” she said. The published version of the profile says that Gallagher and TCA “are currently engaged in the fossil fuel divestment movement happening nationally,” and makes no mention of the university’s continued rejection of divestment. Kriska Desir, who wrote the JUMBO article, confirmed that divestment was a large part of her discussion with Gallagher, and said that while nobody actually edited out mentions of it from the initial draft, writing for admissions was tacitly expected to be uncritical of the university. “It was an implicit part of our assignments to make [T]ufts as appealing as possible and it definitely felt like glossing over problematic aspects of the Tufts administration,” Desir, a sophomore, told the Daily in an electronic message. Desir added that this is part of the reason she decided not to work for the admissions department this year.

“The name of the game is selling a product to prospective students and if doing that means lying by omission, then I couldn’t justify my work there.” Director of Undergraduate Admissions Susan Garrity Ardizzoni told the Daily she couldn’t comment on Gallagher’s account because she was not involved in writing or editing the profile and that the editor of JUMBO magazine at the time is no longer employed at Tufts. Ardizzoni said that students aren’t intentionally profiled as activists but that the increase in student involvement with activist groups makes it more likely that activist narratives will be associated with the university. “I’ve been at Tufts for a while, and I would say that there has been a more activist spirit in the last couple of years, so naturally with that there are more students involved and there will be more of those students who could likely be in the magazine or on the website or as part of our tour guide crew,” Ardizzoni said. The headline for Gallagher’s profile calls her the “student leader of Tufts Climate Action,” and the first word in the piece describes her as an “activist.” Gallagher said she would have no issue with the university showcasing her and other activists’ work if administrators were more open to cooperation. “If they’re going to be using this as a selling point and sort of bragging about … whatsee ACTIVISM, page 4

SURGE hosts symposium, provides space for conversation about China-U.S. relationship by Grace Yuh

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Disclaimer: Yuan Jun Chee is a sports editor at the Daily. He was not involved in the writing of this article. As China continues to ascend on the world stage, Tufts Sino-U.S. Relations Group Engagement (SURGE) aims to inform and engage students in conversations about China. More specifically, SURGE focuses on building networks among students who share a common interest in China-U.S. relations. “Our club mission is to foster dialogue on one of the most important bilateral relations in the international sphere,” Winnona DeSombre, a junior and former director of SURGE, said. “But we also want to have fun while doing it.” SURGE began 10 years ago as a halfday lecture to memorialize David Rawson (LA ’07), who passed away shortly after graduation and had been very focused on China and security issues, according to the SURGE website. Kieran Green, a senior and former deputy director of SURGE, explained that the lecture series gradually grew over the course of the next seven years to include panels on business, the environment and cultural issues. This became the China-U.S. Symposium, which remained a part of the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) until 2014, when the China-U.S. Symposium left the IGL due to reorganization and became an independent club. DeSombre said this separation from the IGL, alongside official recognition by the

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Members of the planning board for this year’s symposium pose for a portrait. Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary, allows SURGE to put on a variety of events in addition to the symposium, including an annual China-U.S. trivia event and an annual bubble tea sale. She added that separating from the IGL allowed SURGE to integrate into the Tufts community as a student organization by being open to a larger group of students. Junior Jack Dunkelman, the incoming director of SURGE, said SURGE members span a wide range of majors, from international relations to computer science. “I think, thanks to the diversity of Tufts and the general curiosity students here have, SURGE’s membership is comprised of people from quite varied and international backgrounds who possess different academic interests,” Dunkelman told the Daily in an email. According to Yuan Jun Chee, a sophomore and the new deputy director of SURGE,

SURGE’s diversity is evident not only in members’ majors but also in their reasons for involvement. “People have different motivations for joining SURGE,” he said. “They could be Asian American, they could be IR majors, they could be Southeast Asian like myself, they could be Chinese internationals who want to expand that dialogue. We’re a very open community.” Chee said SURGE’s meetings cover a variety of topics that relate to the China-U.S. relationship. He noted that cybersecurity and issues surrounding the South China Sea are now being discussed differently in the wake of Trump’s inauguration. Green stressed that SURGE aims to start more thoughtful and nuanced conversations about the political, economic and cultural relationship between the United States and China. see SURGE, page 4

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MJ Griego Mind the Gap

Defining whiteness

recently wrote a column on being mixed race, which received one comment: “If you look white, you ARE white. White can also be multiracial. Stop the whining.” The commenter then linked to an article that argues that people of color perpetuate the one drop rule. I was glad to see this comment, which has since been removed from the Daily website, simply because it now gives me the opportunity to delve into race identity politics even further, for the sake of everyone, but specifically for the mixed-race community. Race is a social construct. This is a widely accepted fact among academics. In Wendy Roth’s 2010 article “Racial Mismatch,” race is given five distinct characteristics: how you identify, how you tell others how you identify, what you assume others perceive you as, what you are actually perceived as (by appearance and by how you interact or speak) and standardized coded phenotypes or genetic markers. The thing about all of these characteristics is that they themselves still depend on subjectivity. Things like categories of skin tones and hair are perceived differently to different people. In 2016, writer Matt Thorn conceptualized the question: “Do Manga Characters Look ‘White’?” Many white anime fans were confused as to how characters could have pale ‘white’ skin and big eyes and still be ‘Japanese’ in a show. He used the “marked” and “unmarked” dichotomy of Roman Jakobson: “An ‘unmarked’ category is one that is taken for granted, that is so obvious to both speaker and listener it needs no marking. A ‘marked’ category, by contrast, is one that is seen as deviating from the norm, and therefore requires marking … Americans and others raised in European-dominated societies, regardless of their background, will see a circle with two dots for eyes and a line for a mouth, free of racial signifiers, as ‘white.’” Japanese people don’t need to give characters marked characteristics to be Japanese, instead giving foreign characters these signs of otherness (Americans are consistently white with blond hair and blue eyes, etc.). I argue that similarly, people who are not multiracial, especially people who are white, categorize certain attributes with whiteness that mixed people wouldn’t. For instance, whenever I see someone with brown freckles as prominent as mine, I suspect someone is mixed because of the percentage of mixed friends I have who share the trait. I often observe textures of hair (especially when tied up, short or straightened) that white people wouldn’t ‘notice’ as not-white and would therefore passively categorize as white. Often people of color have skin tones lighter than that of a very tanned (or fake tanned) white person. To the person who commented on my article: Just because mixed people ‘look white’ to you, doesn’t mean they “look white” to everyone, and it definitely doesn’t mean that they are white. People of color look all sorts of ways, and defining race in such narrow terms is historically unhelpful and simply inaccurate. The facets of racial identity are many, and the perception of whiteness has evolved, just as the classification of race has. I can acknowledge the privilege I do have while retaining my identity and the fact that my dad is brown, and I am brown. MJ Griego is a junior majoring in sociology. MJ can be reached at madeline. griego@tufts.edu.

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Activists feel unrecognized for efforts resulting in university’s progressive image ACTIVISM

continued from page 3 ever student activism is going on, I think it is their responsibility to better engage student activists,” she said. Tufts: A place for activists? Over the past few years, Tufts has garnered a national reputation as a fierce defender of progressive values, earning the intense scorn of conservative media outlets like FOX News and Breitbart thanks to intensifying liberal activism and administrative and faculty initiatives like Tufts’ decision to accept undocumented students openly. But whether that reputation is a result of university policies or actions taken by the student body is unclear. Most of these initiatives are a product of student action, and activists say the university has often been resistant to the progressive changes it later commends. “I’ve been puzzling on this,” Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon said in an October 2016 interview. “I’ve been thinking about how much does [student activism] beget part of the culture? How much do people get drawn here for that aspect of it? How much are the ways that we engage and teach and learn here also feeding into that? I see that it informs itself, but I don’t know the answer.” Dean of Admissions Karen Richardson said that while a student’s involvement in activism prior to graduating high school is not viewed positively or negatively on applications, the personality traits such involvement might reveal, such as passion and conviction, are often rewarded during the admissions process. Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell concurred with that assessment. Whether part of an intentional strategy or not, many in the activist community see Tufts’ embrace of what Ardizzoni refers to as the “activist spirit” — both in official university messaging and in marketing materials like the JUMBO article — as opportunistic and disingenuous when compared to what they see as the university’s general antagonism toward many campus groups and causes. “Administration will take activism in whatever form and turn it into a sort of plus, to sell itself or sell its students’ reputation,” TCA member Brian McGough, a senior, said. “But that is inconsistent with how it actually deals with student activists — there isn’t an appreciation for the work we’re doing.” Gallagher said the university’s attitude toward activist groups makes cooperation difficult and fosters unnecessary antagonism toward administrators. “Unfortunately, because administration has had a lot of discrepancy between their more public perspective on student activists and the way they interact behind closed doors, it makes sense that student activist groups feel like administration is their enemy,” she said. For some students, pre-matriculation optimism about getting involved as an activ-

ist at Tufts quickly turned to disillusionment once they got to campus. Gallagher said one of the reasons she enrolled at Tufts was that she felt “this community cares about [student activists] and will be receptive to what [she’s] passionate about and what [she’s] going to want to do here,” but that administrators have been far more cold and reluctant to listen than she anticipated. “To come to Tufts with one expectation about student activism here and then to have your dreams crushed is a little upsetting,” she said. Allyson Blackburn, a member of Tufts Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP), also said there was a discrepancy between Tufts’ messaging and her experience as an activist working with administration. “I’d definitely say that Tufts marketed itself as a diverse place that valued active citizenship, and I think Tufts really likes active citizenship until somebody holds a mirror up to Ballou,” Blackburn, a senior, said. “That’s a hard reality to face.” Students and administrators alike agree that Tufts’ activist community has influenced the university’s reputation and thus has had an impact on shaping the student body. Blackburn said that Tufts’ activist community and progressive reputation was “absolutely” a factor in her decision to attend the university but credits that appeal to the students themselves as well as university marketing. “I visited Tufts a couple of times, and I actually really hated it at first,” she said. “I had a friend who went here when I was a senior in high school and I met his friends who were involved in spaces like TLC [Tufts Labor Coalition], and who were, five years ago, advocating for janitors to get things like gloves. And I wanted that out of my college experience, I wanted to feel like I was in a space that was challenging people to look around them.” Gallagher recalled encountering a prospective student drawn to Tufts for similar reasons during a TCA demonstration at an accepted students day last year. “There was one girl that we like to talk about in TCA who was saying she was picking her school based on who had the best divestment campaign,” she said. “So I think it’s something that young people are aware of and want to take action on.” Richardson said she felt that both the visibility of activist groups on campus and Tufts’ own marketing efforts have contributed to the university’s reputation as an institution where student activism is encouraged. “Tufts tends to have a reputation as a place where social justice is important to the student body … as student activism has become more prominent on campus, it becomes a part of the story of Tufts,” she told the Daily in an email. McGough argued that the university has been adept at spinning student criti-

cisms to support its progressive narrative, adding that when it comes to conversations about sustainability, this co-option has been a way for Tufts to say that it’s addressing student concerns without actually changing university policies. “Where Tufts sees a lot of demand for sustainability on campus, it sort of meets that demand in its messaging rather than through structural changes,” he said. Gallagher noted that Tufts has taken actions to support sustainability in recent years. Tufts signed the American Campus Act on Climate pledge in 2015 and began construction on the Central Energy Plant to help heat and power the university sustainably, not to mention the famed Talloires Declaration which, since its initiation by former Tufts president Jean Meyer in 2005, has garnered signatures from over 430 university presidents pledging to make their campuses more sustainable. However, Gallagher said that most of these initiatives were a result of student demands for more sustainability. “I do think that the role of student justice groups has been marginalized when it has been productive in terms of new policy that has been implemented,” she said. Gallagher added that this lack of recognition only leads to more tension between activist groups and the university. All administrators who spoke with the Daily agreed that “student advocacy,” referring to activist movements on campus aimed at changing university policy, was a positive and important part of the undergraduate experience. McMahon said input and labor from individual students were crucial to addressing campus issues. She also said that while the university’s policy on protests and demonstrations is in need of further review, she feels the importance of student activism in enhancing the undergraduate experience is recognized by the university. “I think student passion and advocacy for change is embraced as part of the Tufts identity,” she said. “I see that as a characteristic and positive part of the learning experience for students.” However, when asked if the university as an institution benefitted from campus activism, both McMahon and Campbell said they hadn’t made the connection before. This disconnect, say many student activists, is a part of a bigger problem of condescension that has fostered mistrust and antagonism between campus groups and administration. “When the past and the present speak to each other” Gallagher said that while she doesn’t expect Tufts to refer negatively to itself in its marketing materials, she would welcome a recognition of activist contributions to shaping the university’s policies and values. “To feel like an administration is vocal and forthcoming about wanting

to work with students, and to say that some of our policy has come from student activism and it is a two-way conversation, I think that’d be a fine thing to have as part of your administrative rhetoric,” she said. One source of recognition for the role of student activism in shaping Tufts over the years has come from Tufts’ historians. Since September 2015, an exhibit titled “Jumbos in Protest: Student Activism at Tufts, 1965–2015” has been on display in Tisch Library — right outside the Tower Cafe, where prospective students often stop on campus tours. The exhibit was curated by a research assistant for Tufts Digital Collections and Archives (DCA), according to the exhibit’s web page, and showcases historical documentation of student demonstrations against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam and Iraq wars, as well as Tufts’ investments in apartheid South Africa, among other social issues. Andrew Núñez (LA ’15) said historiographies like this are a good way to recognize student activists’ contributions to the university, since official Tufts marketing material is unlikely to front information about the university’s shortcomings. “I think it’s great for students like me when the present and past speak to each other … if Tufts were to create a way to credit students, it would be to create some sort of archival project so that students can visit periods of time on campus.” Homages to Tufts student activists’ role in the effort to divest from apartheid South Africa in the 1970s are prominent in many places on campus, including at Hotung Cafe in the Mayer Campus Center, where museum-sized blown-up photographs of student protests line the walls of the upper floor. Núñez said this kind of record, while important, still lacks recognition of the university’s unwillingness to give in to student demands. In fact, Tufts divested from South Africa late compared to other universities — it did so in 1989, 12 years after Hampshire college became the first to do so — after voting twice to reject divestment as a strategy, according to a 1989 New York Times article. Campbell, like the exhibit in Tisch Library, lauded the history of student activism at Tufts. “I personally really appreciate [student activism] because I’m a product of the ’60s and ’70s and watched a lot of change happen in our country because of advocacy,” she told the Daily. It’s important to note, however, that this change, seen by today’s administrators as positive, was a result of student activist efforts directly confronting university policy and being met with repeated resistance.

Following 10th annual China-U.S. symposium, new SURGE leadership hope to continue group’s mission SURGE

continued from page 3 “Broadly speaking, the China-U.S. relationship, I think, is in a lot of ways either boiled down to a trade imbalance or the typical IR ‘great power relationship,’” Green said. “And those aren’t untrue, but I think we pride ourselves in unpacking some of the complexities in what defines that relationship and looking at bringing in perspectives that add a lot more nuance to that debate.” Though SURGE has expanded its scope to include more events, the twoand-a-half-day China-U.S. Symposium

still remains the hallmark of the club. According to Dunkelman, the symposium aims to increase awareness and understanding of issues surrounding ChinaU.S. relations while emphasizing the need for international cooperation. DeSombre said the theme of this year’s symposium, which took place on April 7 and 8, was “Building Legacy.” The 10th annual symposium, which typically entails four panels, included a cultural panel about cross-exchange in education, a security panel about information warfare, a regional panel about Obama’s Pivot to Asia and a business panel. According to DeSombre, the sympo-

sium evolves with each year and depends heavily on the interests of the members of the club and on current events. “The panels change year to year. We’ve had environmental topics and cybersecurity topics and a whole bunch of other panels based on who or what we want to bring to the table,” DeSombre said. The end of this year’s symposium saw a change in leadership. Chee and Dunkelman, who will take over as leaders of SURGE next fall, hope to continue providing a space for dialogue and engagement and working with other organizations involved in similar pursuits.

“We hope to build SURGE’s sense of community and engagement with other students through expanding the scope of events and discussion opportunities we organize,” Dunkelman wrote. DeSombre and Green hope SURGE will continue to serve as an important resource for the Tufts community as U.S.China relations continue to evolve. “Fundamentally, this club represents not only something important internationally, but is also a huge issue that isn’t just going to be relevant to 10 years of Tufts students, but for future students too,” DeSombre said.

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Hi Tufts, my name is Benya Kraus! I'm a rising senior majoring in International Relations and minoring in Colonialism Studies and Urban Studies. Home to me means a lot of things. I've found home in the street noodles of Bangkok, Thailand, where I was born and attended high school. I've found home in the community theater in Livingston, New Jersey, where I lived for eight years. I've found home in the corn fields of Waseca, Minnesota where I spent every summer with my family growing up. And now I've found my home at Tufts. I've served on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate as a Class of 2018 senator since my first year here. For the past three years, I've been a member of the Allocations Board, charged with funding and budgeting all student organizations on campus. I've served as the Chair of the Student Outreach Committee for two years, and this past year, served on the Executive Board as the Diversity & Community Affairs Officer.

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ARTS&LIVING VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Tinytouchtales’ second game ‘Card Thief’ is a success with niche appeal by John J. Gallagher Arts Editor

German independent game developer Tinytouchtales had quite a hit with its first game “Card Crawl,” which released on mobile devices in 2015. “Card Crawl” received critical acclaim and managed to carve out a niche audience — no mean feat in a mobile game market almost totally dominated by titanic incumbents with bottomless marketing budgets. In a 2015 interview with the Daily, Tinytouchtales’ Arnold Rauers emphasized the importance of appealing to a small, dedicated audience, and his blog posts provide in-depth analysis of the game’s success. But with such a successful first game under Tinytouchtales’ belt, the stakes were high for its follow-up game, “Card Thief” (2017). Released on iOS on March 19 and on Android on April 19, “Card Thief” is an “[attempt] to condense the classic stealth genre into a solitaire style card game,” according to its website. Players play as a masked thief, who must pilfer as much treasure as possible while avoiding detection. Players accomplish their goal by moving their character card around a 3×3 grid of cards, each of which represents an enemy or an obstacle. Charting an advantageous path through the grid each turn is the essence of the game, and mastering the various edge-cases that must be exploited to best maneuver the grid requires some serious dedication. This level of mechanical complexity is a refreshing departure from “Card Crawl,” which only required players to perform some simple addition to determine if a move was worth making. In “Card Thief,” there are many right moves, but divining the best move in any given situation is a deliciously infuriating exercise in self-doubt. Those with a penchant for maximizing efficiency will be right at home playing “Card Thief.” “Card Crawl” had uncommonly good art direction for a small, independently developed mobile game. Visually, “Card Crawl” was accomplished and distinctive, pairing off-beat character designs with a subdued color pallet that nevertheless made masterful use of accent colors. “Card Crawl” also succeeded aurally, as it featured an atmospheric soundtrack and immersive sound design. Fortunately, this strong art

direction returns in “Card Thief,” which features a darker, cooler color pallet than “Card Crawl.” In an improvement over “Card Crawl,” cards in “Card Thief” are now lavishly animated, with the dancing flame of characters’ torches a particular highlight. It’s a shame that Tinytouchtales is not better known outside of a dedicated cadre of hardcore mobile gamers. Its games are magnificently well designed — visually, aurally and mechanically. Even if you aren’t a part of the card-game-playing niche that is

Tinytouchtales’ target audience, “Card Thief” is worth a look, if only to prove to yourself that mobile games crafted with love and care still exist in a world where “Clash of Clans” (2012) can afford to hire Liam Neeson for a Super Bowl spot. On Android, “Card Thief” is free to play, but it uses video advertisements as a means of revenue generation. Players can purchase a chest for $1.99 from the Guild Master on the game’s main menu, which removes advertisements from the game. On iOS, the title retails for $1.99.

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Abigail McFee Advice from Dead Poets (and Some Living)

Wendell Berry on feeling everything fully

took a job last summer because my bosses loved poetry. They were looking for a nanny for their three-year-old son. When I came to their house for an interview, expecting questions about past childcare experience and summer availability, they sat me down and asked if I’d ever read Wendell Berry. The 82-year-old Kentucky native is a poet, farmer and environmental activist. My bosses were so inspired by his words, they explained, that they’d named their son after him. I was sold. A summer of fruit bars, long mornings in the park, lunchtime tantrums and toy cars commenced. Coming out of a disorienting spring semester, in which I had mostly eaten quesadillas and cried every Sunday, I found it reassuring to be in the presence of a tiny human who felt so many things: wonder at every passing garbage truck, betrayal when I flushed the toilet without asking him, unadulterated despair when woken up from a good nap. One morning, I stumbled upon a collection of Wendell Berry’s poetry in his namesake’s house. I flipped open to the first poem, “The Man Born to Farming” (2011), and read a few lines to Wendell aloud: “What miraculous seed has he swallowed / that the unending sentence of his love flows out of his mouth / like a vine clinging in the sunlight, and like water / descending in the dark?” “Stop,” Wendell said. “I don’t like dat.” He was, understandably, unenthused by a book without pictures. But I repeated the lines in my head as we sat playing with his cars. I couldn’t shake the idea that the spilling forth of those things, their refusal to accept an ending, was beautiful. I have always been afraid that my emotions are excessive. If they are a vine, then they grow beyond my capacity to care for them, until they’re out of control — unpruned and embarrassing. Because I’m no longer a toddler, I’ve spent the better part of my life trying to make my emotions more convenient. But poetry keeps teaching me to do the opposite. I think a good poem speaks to whatever questions we carry inside of us. It offers an image for something we already innately understand so that when we come across the right words, there is a feeling of recognition. A good poem makes us feel more, not less. The poems in my life — the books spilling forth from my wobbly bookshelf, tucked into my sheets and piled on my floor beside dirty clothes — have taught me about fear, about taking risks, about applying for jobs, about creating space, about friendship and about the people I couldn’t get over. But poetry doesn’t have an answer for every question, in spite of the premise of this column. Some questions demand to be felt. In Wendell Berry’s ode to a farmer, the feeling that cannot be contained is a seed that bursts forth from us. There’s only one thing we can do: Plant it, and watch it grow. Abigail McFee is a senior majoring in English. Abigail can be reached at abigail. mcfee@tufts.edu.

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What’s your waste size? by Environmental Justice and World Literature class As I sit here writing this, I am wearing a patterned dress by Ecote that I purchased two years ago from Urban Outfitters for about $60. I do not know where the raw materials of the dress were produced. I do know that the fabric was sewn together and transformed from a piece of cloth into a dress in China, but I do not know anything about the person who held the dress in their hands and sewed it together. Nor do I have any information pertaining to this person’s wages, life expectancy, working conditions or quality of life. This general lack of knowledge is the reality of the fast fashion age. Retailers such as H&M, Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters have the ability to add new styles to their shelves and usher out old ones in as short a time as two weeks. Consumers flock to these stores in search of the latest trends; we purchase oversized sweaters, graphic T-shirts and pairs of jeans without considering their unique histories. These garments are made so accessible and affordable that it becomes easy to fall into a pattern of over-consumption without thinking about the greater implications of our purchases. Monday, April 24 marks the fouryear anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza, a garment factory in Bangladesh. Rana Plaza produced clothing for companies like J.C. Penney, Primark and Zara. 1,134 workers were killed in this disaster and thousands more were injured. Some were forced to amputate their own limbs in order to escape the rubble. This is just one example of the unsafe conditions under which the people who make our clothes must work. We are all culpable of unknowingly supporting this industry and practice. For instance, the Tufts bookstore sells brands that are implicated in fast fashion, such as Champion, Under Armour and Vineyard Vines. As an Environmental Justice and World Literature class, our goal for this article is to educate our community about the realities of fast fashion and encourage our peers to rethink their clothing purchases. In order to appropriately and effectively make this change, it is

imperative that we first acknowledge the various issues associated with the fast fashion industry. When you think of pollution, what comes to mind? Perhaps it is the stripmined tops of mountains, the smoke towers of coal power plants or the heaps of disregarded plastic floating in the ocean. More than likely, you do not think of the shirt on your back. Regardless of this, the fact remains that the fashion industry is the world’s second greatest polluter, following closely behind the oil industry. The carbon footprint of the fashion industry is immense. Assessing a garment means considering everything in its lifecycle from the pesticides used in cotton farming, the toxic dyes used in manufacturing, the waste discarded clothing creates and the tremendous quantity of natural resources that are used in all stages of the process — extraction, farming, harvesting, processing, manufacturing and shipping. At each stage in its life cycle, there are endless lists of staggering statistics. Consider, for instance, that it can take over 5,000 gallons of water to manufacture a T-shirt and a pair of jeans. Or that by some estimates, in one year, a single garment-transporting ship will produce as much cancer and asthma-causing pollutants as 50 million cars. We have become a society of consumption: The world now consumes 80 billion pieces of clothing each year. Fast fashion ensures that our needs as consumers are never satiated, creating an unparalleled demand. The industry is intentionally designed to make us feel out of trend with styles that continue to change at a rapid rate. In this system, it is nearly impossible to stay current on trends at any given moment, thus prompting us to consume superfluously because we are made to feel that the clothing in our possession is not enough or is old. Additionally, in this model, clothing is designed to fall apart, ensuring that the cycle of excessive consumption continues. It is easier and cheaper to justify new purchases when the quality of our garments is declining and not made to last. As a result of this, the average American throws away over 68 pounds of textiles per year.

It is important to note that some companies have begun to implement “take-back” programs because consumers are becoming increasingly cognizant that the supply chain does not end at the cash register. H&M recently began allowing customers to bring in old clothes so that they can be recycled back into textile fibers. However, recycling does not absolve H&M from its role as one of the biggest contributors to the fast fashion industry, churning out a new inventory every two weeks. Recycle programs and thrift store drop-offs can give us the illusion of sustainability, therefore inadvertently perpetuating the cycle of over-consumption. Informed consumers can avoid the demands of corporate-driven trends by investing in clothes that last. Supporting small, local companies that sell durable clothes will save money in the long run, encourage more ethical treatment of workers and have a smaller footprint on the planet. Regarding clothing as a long-term investment completely will overhaul the role of the fashion industry in society and consumer habits. Likewise, purchasing used clothes, repairing and transforming current clothes and swapping clothes with friends are other ways to easily facilitate a move toward a more sustainable lifestyle. The Environmental Justice and World Literature class wants to address the issue of fast-fashion consumption because it directly pertains to many people on this campus. As we approach the end of the school year, clothes will begin to accumulate in dorm dumpsters only to be replaced by the next year’s trends. We encourage you to consider these mountains of rejected apparel and think about where they came from and where they are going. If you would like to learn more, come visit our social action education project at the Mayer Campus Center tomorrow from 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. to learn how you can be a change agent just by altering your relationship with clothing. The students of Environmental Justice and World Literature this semester, instructed by Prof. Elizabeth Ammons, co-authored this op-ed.

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Khuyen Bui Dear Jumbo

Choose pain over numbness

ne thing I’m grateful for in life is that many people have shared with me their more intimate, vulnerable sides. Take an earlier personal experience: I grew up with neither many haves nor wants. When I went to schools with wealthier friends, I was surprised at how many put-together people are a mess inside. From broken families to broken self-images, from fear of not having enough food to eat to fear of not being enough, from hating ourselves to hating the system we are in, as long as we are alive, we all have a ton of problems. I think that speaks a lot about who we are and the condition of our lives. So what do we do with this mess called ‘being human?’ Let me first share with you my version of being a human. The story I told myself as I entered Tufts was “coming to Tufts was a dream come true, and I’m forever grateful for everything Tufts has given me. I want to give back.” It explains why I used to be really gung-ho about the whole ‘making the world a better place’ thing. In retrospect, one part of that gung-ho-ness has root in a youthful idealism, which is still very much burning. The other part, however, stems from an insecurity, a sense of not being enough for the world. Since then, that story has evolved. I still want my work to contribute to something meaningful. Nevertheless, I am learning that it’s not ‘what I do’ but more ‘how I do’ that matters. Now I simply want to be more engaged in life, to live fully day by day. Perhaps it is maturity. Perhaps it is giving up control and trusting life more. Whatever it is, life is better that way, and the work I do becomes more joyful, sustaining and surprisingly more effective. Here lies my mess: listening to people and hearing the same kind of stories again and again sometimes makes me afraid that I will not be able to feel the pain of the world, that I will be numb. As someone who spends a lot of time up in my head and not so much down here in my heart, I can tell you I’d rather be hurt than be numb. I fear becoming cynical. Why should you care? Because sometimes you question if anyone will care about your story. “Why should I burden the already messy world with my problems?” you ask. Strangely enough, many people would trade anything to be in your shoes, to feel your sadness. They are the cynics who have been hurt and never truly recovered, who deep down yearn for something to connect with. I know it. I’ve been there. And that’s why I share and celebrate with people when I feel sad. Because it’s sooo good to be sad. It reminds me that I am alive, that I am human. I’ve learned that if I cannot cry for real, I cannot laugh for real either. Getting hurt sucks, but the alternative of getting numb sucks even more. It literally sucks the vitality out of life. Please, for everyone’s sake, don’t turn yourself into a walking zombie. Please, if you can, choose pain over numbness. Laugh? Cry? Let me know at bit.ly/ dearJumbo. Khuyen Bui is a senior majoring in computer science. Khuyen can be reached at g.khuyen@gmail.com.

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Jumbo’s second, third boats take third in races WOMEN'S CREW

continued from back season. They will take part in the MIT Lightweights regatta on Sunday in the Charles River Basin in Cambridge, Mass. After that, the team will look toward May 6, the first day of the New England Rowing Championships in Worcester.

“We are excited to continue to push ourselves and get better each day,” Cohen said. “We’re not done working hard and we’re getting ready to compete as best as we can at New Englands. As the weather gets nicer, the Malden gets even more enjoyable to row on, and it’s going to be an interesting two weeks preparing for New Englands.”

This will be the first playoff regatta of the year for the Jumbos, and it precedes the NCAA Championships, which will begin on May 6 in West Windsor, N.J. The final regular season regatta for Tufts, the MIT Lightweights, will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday in Cambridge.

Jumbos to face Polar Bears in final conference game WOMEN'S LACROSSE

continued from back First-year attacker Emily Games explained that the seniors on the team played a pivotal role in helping the team develop this year. “I think all of the [first-years] on the team would agree that our seniors have been a tremendous help in our transition into college both on and off the field,” Games told the Daily in an email. “I’m definitely going to miss them next year.” With just one game remaining in the regular season, a conference match-up against No. 16 Bowdoin, the Jumbos are

hoping to bring their conference record back up to .500, which would match the 5-5 record they posted last season. Adamec explained that the mental battle will be a key part of the game against Bowdoin. “Bowdoin is definitely similar to Wesleyan [in that] they have been doing well this season. A couple of games ago they beat Middlebury, which was number one in the NESCAC for some time,” Adamec said “It’s going to be another battle and it’s going to be neck-and-neck. So it is going to be another mental game about who is going to show up.”

Bowdoin currently sits one spot above Tufts in the NESCAC rankings, and this match-up will give Tufts an important opportunity to improve its seeding as the team prepares for the NESCAC tournament this weekend. “The NESCAC is a very competitive conference, and so playing in the tournament is a great opportunity for us to match up against teams we’ve played before,” Games wrote. “[ W ]e like to take every game one at a time, so right now, while we know how important the tournament is, our focus is on our next game, which is Wednesday against Bowdoin.”

Bradley Schussel The Coin Toss

One more toss

elcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold, unlikely predictions about your favorite professional sports. This will be the last edition of the semester. Sad, I know. Over the past couple of weeks, I predicted four NBA playoff series winners. I had the Jazz over the Clippers, the Rockets over the Thunder, the Raptors over the Bucks and the Wizards over the Hawks. As I write this, none of the series is over yet, so I won’t be able to recap those predictions. Keep an eye on the results, and remember who called it! The NFL Draft starts on Thursday, so I thought I’d do a top-ten mock draft for you guys. It’s very hard, even for the Mel Kipers of the world, to get more than a few picks correct. I think it’ll be fun nonetheless! 1. Cleveland Browns: DE Myles Garrett No surprise here, the best player in the draft goes first — unless the Browns screw this up again and take a QB, which I think they’ll save for their twelfth pick. 2. San Francisco 49ers: DE Solomon Thomas The Niners need help up front, so they go with the Stanford product here. It should be an easy choice, assuming Garrett is off the board. 3. Chicago Bears: S Jamal Adams Adams is probably the best defensive back in the draft. The Bears desperately need help in their secondary. I think they’ll go with Adams here over Ohio State’s Marshon Lattimore and Malik Hooker. 4. Jacksonville Jaguars: RB Leonard Fournette How do you not pick Fournette here? The Jags have a lot of youth on defense, and Blake Bortles needs help on the other side of the ball. Fournette is a very talented back that can make an impact right away. 5. Tennessee Titans: WR Mike Williams The Titans lost out on Alshon Jeffery and they still need a target for Marcus Mariota. Enter Mike Williams from Clemson, the best wideout in the draft this year. 6. New York Jets: CB Marshon Lattimore As a Jets fan, this was the hardest pick to choose. They have so many holes, but their secondary was atrocious last year. I think they’ll address that issue by finding Darrelle Revis’ successor as cornerback. 7. Los Angeles Chargers: S Malik Hooker Very weird to write that, ‘Los Angeles’ Chargers. Anyway, the best player left on the board is Malik Hooker, and this is another team with a lot of needs. They get an impact safety here with the seventh pick. 8. Carolina Panthers: RB Christian McCaffrey If Fournette is gone, this is the obvious choice for Carolina. They need a running back badly, and McCaffrey has emerged as the second-favorite back over FSU’s Dalvin Cook. 9. Cincinnati Bengals: DE Derek Barnett Almost had Reuben Foster here, but I think teams will be afraid to take him early after the diluted sample. Barnett is the best defensive end left at this spot, and the Bengals should look to fill that need. 10. Buffalo Bills: TE O.J. Howard The Alabama product is far-and-away the best tight end in the draft. He’ll make an impact right away and he would be a dependable target for Tyrod Taylor in Buffalo’s new offense. Bradley Schussel is a sophomore majoring in biomedical engineering. Bradley can be reached at bradley.schussel@tufts.edu.

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Tufts wins big at Brown Cup

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

WOMEN'S CREW

by Bradley Schussel

Assistant Sports Editor

Tufts traveled to Worcester, Mass. over the weekend to participate in the Bernie Brown Cup. There, the Jumbos faced off against boats from Clark, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), William Smith and Skidmore. For the past two years, the Jumbos’ first varsity eight took first place at the Brown Cup, and this year was no different. Tufts’ first boat posted a time of 6:44.70 and, for the third consecutive year, won the Brown Cup. The Jumbos finished about two seconds ahead of the Engineers, who posted a time of 6:46.82 and finished second in the race. Behind the leaders were William Smith, Clark and Skidmore, which finished in third, fourth and fifth, respectively. William Smith was a whole 11 seconds behind the victorious Tufts. Senior tri-captain Emma Conroy remarked that this race served as a valuable lesson for the rowers going forward. “While we were happy with the win, we viewed this race as more of a test of our racing skills than our rowing skills,” Conroy said. “We did not expect the race to be as close as it was, so while it was ultimately a victory, the result was also a reminder that we cannot always predict what will happen going into a race.” Conroy also commented on the tight finish over WPI.

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The women’s crew team rows against Middlebury College on Malden River on April 16, 2016. “I think our edge came from determination and having a strong mental race,” she said. “While it surprised us, we did not let WPI’s speed distract us from racing well.” Following the first varsity race was the second varsity eight competition. Of the five participating schools, only four — Tufts, William Smith, WPI and Clark — had second boats. The Jumbos came in third with a time of 7:16.81. Tufts finished about four seconds behind William Smith, which finished four seconds behind WPI. The Engineers’ second boat recorded a winning time of 7:08.20.

As for the third varsity eight, only three schools had boats in the race. WPI had two boats, a main unit and a B boat. Tufts and William Smith also participated in the third varsity eight category. The top two spots in the race were filled by WPI boats. The Engineers’ main boat took first with a time of 7:17.71, while their B boat finished about 20 seconds behind in second. In third place were the Jumbos, whose third varsity eight finished with a time of 7:46.12, nine seconds behind the second-place WPI B. Senior tri-captain Hayley Cohen noted that the team puts focus on all three of its

boats and hopes that the second and third boats can replicate the success of the first. “The team is focused equally on all members of the team and on the success and capabilities of all three boats,” Cohen said. “The 2V8 and 3V8 are important components of the team and contribute to the overall success. We are all happy about the 1V8 victory and hope to see more victories across all boats in the next few weeks.” Looking ahead, the Jumbos only have one more competition left in the regular see WOMEN'S CREW, page 11

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Tufts falls to Wesleyan, drops below .500 in NESCAC play by Sam Weidner

Assistant Sports Editor

Playing in just one game over the last week, an at-home conference match-up against No. 17 Wesleyan, No. 20 Tufts (9-5, 4-5 conference) fell in a lopsided affair with a score of 15-8. The Jumbos now sit at just seventh in the NESCAC less than a week before the conference tournament begins. Tufts began the game strong, matching Wesleyan goal for goal in the first eightand-a-half minutes, as junior midfielder Caroline Nowak put two up on the board early. With 17:56 on the clock and their second free position goal of the game, sophomore midfielder Cecily Freliech put the Jumbos up by one, but it was the only time they would lead. “We were pretty neck-and-neck for the first five or six minutes, but once a poor call by the refs was made we kind of got down on ourselves and we tried to recover, but we just weren’t clicking,” sophomore attacker Dakota Adamec said. “We have played their defense before, but it was just a sense of panic that we had.” Wesleyan proceeded to score seven straight goals without an answer from Tufts. This run was largely due to the Cardinals winning seven of the next eight draw controls after the Jumbos’ go-ahead goal. The Jumbos were outshot in the first half 15-9, and the Cardinals scored four of their first half goals on free position shots. The second half was a different story for the Jumbos offensively, as they moved the ball much better and outshot the

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Players on both teams vie for the ball during Tufts’ 16-8 win against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on March 15. Cardinals 17-8. However, those extra shots and the greater possession time did not translate into much more offensive production. Tufts still scored only five goals in the second half and was still outscored by Wesleyan, which managed to put up six goals on just eight shots. Because they were unable to slow down the Cardinal offense, the Jumbos never pulled within six goals, falling behind by 10 at one point. Tufts scored two goals

in the last 90 seconds of the game on plays from sophomore midfielder Annie Sullivan and Adamec. But these were just consolation, as the outcome was already decided by that point. Nowak led the Jumbos in scoring for the game with four goals, upping her goal total to 14 for the season. Tufts and Wesleyan were fairly even in total turnovers and draw controls for the game, but Tufts only recorded four saves for the

entire game, while Wesleyan recorded 10. Saturday was senior night for Tufts as the four seniors on the roster — attacker Kate Mackin, defender Olivia Veillette, attacker Caroline Kingsley and defender Casey Briody — were all honored. The four seniors served as quad-captains this year and played a vital role in bringing together the relatively young team. see WOMEN'S LACROSSE, page 11