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Tufts Dining to make minor changes in response Tufts sees to Senate resolution higher acceptance rate, more applicants for Class of 2021

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Tufts Dining has chosen not to change pricing for items at Hodgdon Food-on-the-Run, as suggested by a Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate resolution last semester, though it has opted to expand “meal deals” at Hodgdon, according to Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos.

The resolution, sponsored by Senator Arden Fereshetian, a junior, passed unanimously at a senate meeting on Dec. 11, 2016. It called for Tufts to allow unused meal swipes to carry over from the fall to the spring semester, to round meal swipe allotments at Hodgdon to a whole number — for example, changing see DINING, page 2

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Tufts hires bridge professor to specialize in cybersecurity

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Cybersecurity policy expert Susan Landau will join Tufts faculty next fall as a bridge professor between the School of Engineering and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Landau, currently a professor of cybersecurity policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was chosen for the Bridge Professorship because of

her expertise in both fields, according to Vice Provost Kevin Dunn.

“Professor Landau is one of only a handful of people working in [cybersecurity] with strong credentials in both the technical side and in law and policy,” Dunn said. “She is widely regarded as one of the top people in the field, and we consider ourselves very fortunate to have convinced her to come to Tufts.”

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Department of Computer Science and the Fletcher School to develop a joint program and Bridge Professorship, according to Computer Science Senior Lecturer Ming Chow.

“For years we have been trying to work with Fletcher,” Chow said. “If we have a vested interest here in computer science, and the Fletcher School has a need for cybersecurity, it would make sense to work together.”

Landau explained the value in studying cybersecurity and computer science with an interdisciplinary perspective, especially in the context of the current political climate.

“Cybersecurity is partially technical — how do you secure a system, what is a good cryptographic algorithm, what attacks might work against this particular implementation of two-factor authentication. But it’s also partially social. You have to understand how people use systems — human design — and also how laws and policies work,” Landau said.

Computer Science Department Chair Kathleen Fisher noted that Tufts created the cybersecurity and computer science Bridge Professorship because of the importance of these areas in the modern world.

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Tufts received a record number of applications for the Class of 2021 and saw a slight increase in the overall acceptance rate for early-decision and regular-decision applicants, according to Dean of Admissions Karen Richardson.

In total, Tufts received 21,101 applications, and the acceptance rate was 14.8 percent, the second-lowest in history behind 14.3 percent for the Class of 2020.

Forty-eight percent of admitted students applied for need-based financial aid, up from 44 percent for Class of 2020 admitted students, according to a 2016 Tufts Now article. Eleven percent are the first in their family to go to college and 55 percent attended a public high school.

Of the students admitted, 50 percent are white, 13 percent are AsianAmerican, nine percent are Hispanic, five percent are African-American and six percent identify as two or more races. In total, 34 percent of those admitted are domestic students of color. Those numbers are roughly similar to those of the Class of 2020 accepted students.

In addition, students were admitted from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, a number of United States territories and 133 other countries.

In a January Tufts Now article, Richardson attributed the rise in applicants to the Office of Admissions’ focus on student outreach.

“The Common Application definitely makes it easier for students to apply to more schools,” Richardson said in the article. “But we’ve also continued to do the outreach that we’ve always done. We continue to have packed campus tours, good turnout for our on-campus open houses and we try to have a finger on the pulse of what prospective students think and how they want information.”

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continued from page 1 the $9.67 lunch swipe to $10 — and to round food prices to 25-cent increments.

The resolution also suggested meal deals at each Hodgdon station and greater transparency on meal plan prices.

The resolution was a culmination of Fereshetian’s research into Tufts Dining’s options. In particular, he looked into how meals are priced and what meal plans are available for students.

“This past summer, as my initiative on Senate, I made it my plan to examine how dining is conducted at Tufts, and see where it can be improved both for students and for Dining Services,” Fereshetian said. “My research, in addition to one or two impromptu meetings with Patti Klos, led me to develop a list of suggestions that I wanted to propose to Dining [Services].”

The meetings between Klos and Fereshetian resulted in an agreement to apply the concept of “meal deals” to each station at Hodgdon — a concept currently present at certain Hodgdon stations.

These meal deals would allow multiple food items such as a main entree, a side and a drink to equate to a full meal swipe, according to Klos and Fereshetian. This would decrease students’ need to calculate how best to use their entire meal swipe, they explained.

“One thing that my conversation with the TCU Senate brought to light [is that] we’ve always intended to have a meal deal at every platform but we’ve had turnover with staff and managers and we’ve changed concepts,” Klos said. “In that process, we’ve neglected to make sure that there was a meal deal at every platform, and so that was an important oversight that they brought to our attention.”

Klos and Fereshetian were also able to find common ground on better informing students of their options by having clearer signage for meal plans and more apparent pricing and labeling in Hodgdon, they said. “[Meal plan options] will also come with little descriptions, so people can make a better estimate of what to go with,” Fereshetian said.

Some of the Senate’s proposed changes, however, are not likely to be forthcoming, according to Klos. In particular, she said that unused meal swipes will not roll over between the fall and spring semesters.

“That [meal swipe rollover] is not going to happen,” Klos said. “There may be a few schools that do that from fall to spring, but we have costs that have to be covered, and we’re doing our best to keep those increases to a bare minimum, and so that’s not something we’re going to do.”

In addition, Tufts Dining will not alter the prices of items at Hodgdon so that they fall in 25-cent increments.

She explained that such a system could end up overcharging students and that additional meal deals will more effectively allow students to use the value of their meal swipes.

Tufts Dining discussed offering a new meal plan worth 120 meals per semester but ultimately chose not to implement it, according to Klos.

Instead, she said that students should purchase a plan with fewer swipes and purchase additional meal swipes in blocks of 10 toward the end of the semester. “[It] becomes too confusing when there are too many [meal plans], but what we’re trying to do is a better job of explaining to you how you can piece together what you are looking for,” Klos said.

Also, Klos found the suggestion of increased transparency on the basis of meal plan and food item pricing to be an unclear proposal. She said that, per university policies, Tufts Dining will not discuss staff salaries and supplier contracts, but it is willing to discuss student needs.

“If you want a breakdown of a financial statement, that’s not likely to be forthcoming and not what the university typically does,” Klos said.

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continued from page 1 important now is because not only do we have to worry about cybersecurity with computers … there are many more places where bad cybersecurity can lead to consequences in the physical world, not just with money, but by physically hurting people,” Fisher said.

Dunn added that the careful study of cybersecurity and policy in tandem is even more important, not only because of technological advancements, but also because of current global affairs.

“Making policy in a vacuum of information and expertise is always a bad idea. And if that’s the general rule, it applies even more strongly here, where the stakes for our democracy are so high and where the knowledge required to make good decisions is so complex,” Dunn said.

Chow expressed hope that Landau’s Bridge Professorship will spark an initiative to create higher-level programs of study in the field of cybersecurity at Tufts.

“This is one of the bigger goals of our joint cybersecurity and policy program,” Chow said. “It’s not only to get expertise here at Tufts, but also for more opportunities for Masters programs, perhaps a Ph.D. And the grand vision is to have a joint center of studies in international cybersecurity and policy.”

Chow explained that Landau will play a critical role in launching a more expansive cybersecurity program because she can reach people involved in both policy and technology branches.

“We were looking for someone that had not only a technical background that could speak to computer science, but most importantly someone who could speak on the policy, and especial-

ly to non-technical folks. That’s a very rare mix to have,” Chow said.

According to Fisher, most of the courses taught by Landau will be cross-listed between the Fletcher School and the Department of Computer Science, and will be open to both computer science and Fletcher students. With regard to the courses Landau will be teaching, Dunn highlighted the benefits of the interdisciplinary focus of the Bridge Professorship.

“She will create exciting possibilities for undergraduate students to work alongside Fletcher students at the cutting edge of this interdisciplinary area,” Dunn said.

Landau’s position will also help meet increasing student demand in the Department of Computer Science. The department has made significant progress in filling other positions, according to Fisher, and, if all goes well, five new faculty members will be arriving in the fall.

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Yale professor unsure whether legal challenges against Trump travel ban will succeed

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The Tufts Muslim Student’s Association (MSA) hosted an event titled “The Muslim Ban: Histories of Exclusion, Practices of Resistance,” featuring Yale Clinical Professor of Law Muneer Ahmad in the Crane Room on Thursday evening.

Tufts Associate Professor of Political Science Natalie Masuoka opened the event by introducing Ahmad and by describing how the event connected to a broader American political landscape.

“Unfortunately, recent events suggest that Americans need a reminder of our history,” Masuoka said.

Ahmad began his lecture by contextualizing President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to bar immigration from six predominantly-Muslim countries within the long history of racially-prejudiced policies in the United States. The ban is currently not enforced because it was blocked by a District Judge in Hawaii.

“It is a story that is still being written as the Muslim ban unfolds,” Ahmad

said. “The Muslim ban is a contemporary event, but it is inseparable from racial exclusion.”

Ahmad further noted that the United States has historically conflated Islam with terrorism, even before the Sept. 11 attacks. He believes this sort of conflation is harmful to both immigrants and American society.

Ahmad explained that he and some of his Yale students worked with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to get Iraqi interpreter Hameed Darweesh released from John F. Kennedy International Airport after Darweesh and several other people were detained because of Trump’s executive order. Darweesh was eventually released the day following the implementation of the ban, according to Ahmad.

Though Ahmad noted that the courts were fundamental in securing Darweesh’s release and, more generally, in fighting the executive order, Ahmad added that the protests that erupted at JFK Airport and at other airports across the nation prompted many courts to take the

executive order and its consequences more seriously.

“What we have seen is the court stepping in, but they have been prompted to do so … by thousands of people around the country,” he said. “Mobilization of non-lawyers … is essential for the legal work to happen. The judge deciding the case understands that people are watching and that it is consequential.”

Ahmad explained the contents of Trump’s first executive order, including a temporary travel ban from seven majority-Muslim countries, a 120-day moratorium on the refugee settlement program as a whole, the indefinite suspension of the Syrian refugee program specifically and the reduction in the cap number of refugees admitted into the United States.

Ahmad also pointed out that the initial order carved out a preference for religious minorities in those countries, which he said was effectively an attempt to prioritize Christians over Muslims based on comments Trump made in a Christian Broadcasting Network interview. He also said that visa and green card holders were orig-

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inally thought to be affected by the order, but that changed when the White House later stated publicly that they were exempted from deportation.

After the initial ban was blocked by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Ahmad said the Trump administration tried to craft a new order that hid religious preference and excluded green card holders and visa holders from deportation. Ahmad said that even though the new order is watered down on the surface, it is still viewed by the courts as similarly discriminatory.

“Once you have rung the bell of religious discrimination as loudly as you have in this case, you can’t get rid of it,” he said. “We see it for what it is. That’s why the legal challenges of [executive order] 2.0 are having the same success.”

Even though Ahmad said that the current legal challenges against Trump’s second immigration order have been successful, he is unsure about what conclusion the courts will ultimately make.

“The legal issues are hard,” he said.

“Public engagement matters in the meantime.”

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Alec Whipple Local groups showcase skills and community Red, White and True bonds at ‘A Very Somerville 175th Birthday Party’ The future of the

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On March 29, the City of Somerville came together to toast its 175th year with what it called a “Very Somerville Birthday Party.”

The celebration was part of a yearlong effort to commemorate Somerville’s foundation when it split from Charlestown. A colonial fair and veterans’ memorial parade are among the other events planned for the anniversary.

With a drumming performance, free locally-brewed craft beverages and tables piled high with boxes of Dunkin’ Donuts, the Wednesday celebration captured the spirit of the city in a uniquely Somerville way.

“We wanted something that was kind of funny and quirky, but really celebrating the city and celebrating us becoming our own separate city,” Special Events Manager for the City of Somerville Nina Eichner, who organized the event, said.

The celebration took place at the Somerville-Charlestown line, kicking off in a lot off East Broadway Street and later moving into Mount Vernon restaurants across the street.

“This is the location where we separated from Charlestown in 1842,” Jackie Rossetti, deputy director of communications for Somerville, said. “We wanted to show off the city line.”

She said that the central location was meant to appeal to residents across the city, from commuters to families and passersby.

“We wanted to make sure that we were engaging everybody, whether they’re coming because they wanted to come to the celebration or whether they just see the celebration … on their way home from work,” Rossetti said.

The festivities began with a drumming performance from 12 Somerville High School students, in partnership with international drumming network Grooversity.

The Somerville students are part of the Boston chapter of the group which has divisions from Vancouver to Italy.

“We basically do different traditions of music, all types from around the world,” student leader Kevin Pleitez said. “We do Brazilian, Haitian, hip-hop too.”

Each branch of Grooversity is required to do something positive for its community in whatever form they choose, according to Grooversity founder Marcus Santos.

“The group in Somerville is working with the Department of Somerville Public Schools,” Santos said. “We are welcoming immigrants into the American educational public system.”

The group partners with Somerville High School to run a free class that participating students can take as part of their normal class schedule. Santos, who hails from Bahia, Brazil, said that he founded the network as a way of both spreading his love of drumming and giving back to the community.

After loud applause followed the students’ performance, the party moved across the street to celebrate inside the Mount Vernon restaurants.

Inside, partygoers were offered free Aeronaut beer, courtesy of the locally-owned craft Aeronaut Brewing Company, which started in 2014.

When asked what inspired him to start Aeronaut, co-founder Ben Holmes cited a desire to bring the Somerville community together in a more cohesive way.

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Grooversity, a drumming group from Somerville High, performs for a crowd to celebrate the 175th birthday of Somerville on March 29.

“We noticed in Somerville there were a pretty limited number of places to get together with people,” he said. “It was getting to be very crowded and we really wanted to do our passion, which was brewing beer, in a space where we could engage. So that was Aeronaut.”

Holmes described Aeronaut as a company built on innovation, and he said that he uses the scientific method to brew and create new types of beverages.

“They’re always sort of experimental, fearlessly engineered beers,” he said. “We always try to experiment with different kinds of flavors.”

At the party, Holmes unveiled a new flavor that Aeronaut brewed specially for the occasion of Somerville’s 175th birthday.

“This particular beer, the beer I’m holding in my hand, is called Municipal Freedom Gives National Strength. That is the Somerville motto,” Holmes said. “This is our sanctuary city session beer.”

Holmes said the beer was meant to commemorate Somerville’s past as both an industrial and residential community.

“We brewed it to celebrate the rich history of engineering and manufacturing and also inclusion in our city,” he said. “Glutenremoved. It’s an inclusive beer for an inclusive city.”

Eichner said that one of the things she values most about the community is its continued diversity.

“We have such a variety of people here, and that’s really important to me. That’s something I really care about and like about Somerville and want to keep that way,” she said.

Reflecting on the city’s progress, Eichner acknowledged that she had seen the community change significantly from when she grew up.

“The city used to have a bad reputation,” she said. “There was still kind of a joke about Somerville when I was younger — people

used to call it ‘Scumerville.’ Now it’s thought of as very hipster, even Brooklyn-esque.”

Eichner, a lifelong resident, said that Somerville’s ability to quickly organize events such as the birthday party was one of the things she admired about her city.

“I like that we’re nimble and small enough to make things happen quickly and respond to events, like the rally we had around immigration and sanctuary cities,” she said. “That was put together in a week or two because of the nature of the city.”

Rossetti said that Somerville’s continued appeal to a diverse population is what most excites her about the city’s growth.

“There are businesses that are choosing to relocate here, kids and families that are choosing to make this their forever home,” Rossetti said. “There’s a lot of new interest in Somerville, which is great because it’s growing and thriving in a different way.”

She mentioned Somerville’s community feel and unique local atmosphere as main factors drawing new residents to the city.

“It’s always been really community-oriented, it’s always been about a feel for the local flavor, local businesses, local restaurants,” she said. “I think now there’s a lot more interest in Somerville because of the things we’re doing as a community.”

Despite the city’s rapid growth, Rossetti is confident that Somerville will preserve its tight-knit spirit.

“There’s just this really great balance of people who have been here for generations and are really excited for the way that Somerville’s growing, and the people who are coming in and bringing a new flavor to the city,” she said.

Rossetti said she enjoyed watching the city grow and change while still maintaining its own personality.

“I love seeing everybody work together to continue to make it better while also retaining what’s so great and what makes us Somerville,” Rossetti said.

residents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”

–William Howard Taft One of the president’s greatest responsibilities is nominating a justice to serve on the Supreme Court in the event of a vacancy. With only nine justices serving on the Court, each one has the power to swing any important decision.

With many hot button issues coming before the Court, the stakes for judicial nomination are very high. Thus, the Supreme Court nomination process has gotten extremely contentious recently.

Continuing down this path will irreversibly damage the highest court for generations to come.

Years ago, the Supreme Court nomination process was not partisan whatsoever. If the president appointed a nominee who was non-controversial, they would be approved, no matter their judicial philosophy. However, things started changing in the 1960s, as several Court appointees were either rejected by the Senate or withdrawn. In the 1980s, confirmation hearings became even more contentious, as Reagan nominee Robert Bork was rejected by the Senate and the Clarence Thomas hearings were a public spectacle, accompanied by sexual harassment allegations. Justice Samuel Alito was confirmed in 2005 by a close margin after Bush nominee Harriet Miers was withdrawn due to conservative public pressure. All these incidents were dwarfed by President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. Senator Mitch McConnell immediately refused to hold confirmation hearings for Garland because of the forthcoming presidential election. President Donald Trump’s nominee for the same seat, Neil Gorsuch, has faced Democratic opposition and doubt as to whether he will be able to gain the 60 votes needed for cloture. If Senate Republicans decide to eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, the partisan intensity of Supreme Court nominations might only grow worse.

Senate Republicans and Democrats are at odds over Gorsuch’s nomination for different reasons. Republicans believe Gorsuch deserves a fair set of hearings and confirmation because of their electoral victories. Democrats believe that since Senate Republicans did not hold fair hearings for Garland, they are not obligated to confirm Gorsuch. This stalemate could potentially have disastrous consequences. If Gorsuch is not confirmed, the Court will continue to operate with only eight members, meaning many opinions will be split 4-4 and be sent back to the lower courts. Even worse, the Court might decide not to hear the most important cases for fear of a split decision. If Gorsuch is blocked, it is reasonable to assume that any nominee that Trump puts forward would be blocked as well, and the eight-person Supreme Court would stand for some time.

Long-term consequences are even worse.

With this precedent, the opposition party in Congress can push to block any Supreme Court nominee of the other party. The Court would gradually shrink in number if no new nominees get confirmed. Another possible future includes the nuclear option, which would make any nominee confirmable by a simple majority vote. This would increase the nomination process’ partisanship and allow the president to nominate and confirm more extreme nominees. The Supreme Court nomination process is veering towards an untenable and extremely partisan place, and the actions of the current Senate are only worsening this partisan swing.

Alec Whipple is a sophomore majoring in political science. Alec can be reached at alec. whipple@tufts.edu.

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‘Listen Hear: The Art of Sound’ draws visitors into Isabella Stewart Gardner’s world the museum, while other works are dispersed throughout the palace.

The works in the contemporary gallery include “Sound for Insomniacs” (2007) by artist Su-Mei Tse in collaboration with Jean-Lou Majerus, and Philippe Rahm’s “Sublimated Music” (2014-2017), created in collaboration with composer Sebastian Rivas.

“Sound for Insomniacs” includes five portraits of cats, each with its own seat and set of headphones that play the sound of that cat’s purring. The sound is quite loud and overBIRUITORUL / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which is hosting ‘Listen Hear: The Art of Sound’ appears here on whelming, which is jarring considering that April 18, 2008. cat’s purr is often seen

by Libby Langsner is best viewed while engaging all sens- as a soothing and intimate sound.

Assistant Arts Editor es. She would often host lavish dinner The juxtaposition of intimacy and parties by the museum’s great master- distance is emphasized by the separaMuseums often play to only one works, concerts in the palace’s music tion of the visual and auditory elements of our five senses: sight. Many muse- room and would sometimes even allow of the works. What you notice are not ums were built on the assumption that her friends to bring dogs into the palace. the senses provided, but the ones that vision has surpassed all other senses in The senses of taste, sound, smell, touch are deprived. The viewers cannot touch its ability to communicate and express. and sight were all to be indulged in the cat, although they hear the result of In the exhibition “Listen Hear: The Gardner’s aesthete vision. “Listen Here: a haptic experience.

Art of Sound” at the Isabella Stewart The Art of Sound” brings us a bit closer Rahm’s work is similar in its immerGardner Museum, contemporary to Gardner’s vision through contempo- sive nature. Each light in the space corartists seek to challenge this notion rary means. responds to a note of a Claude Debussy using multiple sound works.

The exhibition is not presented as melody. The audience then experiencContemporary artists are not the first a typical visual exhibition would be. es not only an audio expression of to note the importance of engaging mul- Some of the projects are outside of every note, but a visual expression as tiple senses through art. Isabella Stewart the palace, in the contemporary galGardner herself believed that visual art leries of the Renzo Piano addition of see LISTEN HEAR, page 8

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MFA exhibit pays tribute to historic instances of oppression, prejudice worldwide

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‘Good Hope Road’ (1945) is on display at the MFA until July 30.

Armenia. One is not an art piece in the traditional sense, but a chalk press from the late 19th century. The mundane, humble look of the press hides a noble history. As the exhibit tells us, its owner saved himself

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The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is now showing a new exhibit called “‘I must tell you what I saw’: Objects of witness and resistance” in its Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. It consists of only eight objects and pieces of art, but pays due diligence to them all. The exhibit seeks to bring together pieces from all corners of the world, all of which testify to historical efforts to erase, displace and silence marginalized peoples and cultures.

The title of the exhibit comes from “The Dance,” a 1910 poem by Armenian poet Atom “Siamanto” Yarjanian. “Don’t be afraid. I must tell you what I saw, / so people will understand / the crimes men do to men,” Yarjanian writes. It seems tragically appropriate that the exhibit takes its title from this author, given that Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is soon approaching on April 24. Yarjanian himself was killed

by Ottoman soldiers in 1915.

This exhibit is not centered on the Armenian Genocide, although two of the eight pieces in the exhibit are from

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and his family from slaughter during the genocide by supplying the Ottoman army with free chalk for several years. see OBJECTS, page 8

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ife itself is a proper binge,” Julia Child once famously said. “What are you?”

Gordon Ramsay once asked, to which he received the reply, “an idiot sandwich.” Though the two quotes seem incongruous at first, in the 1985 Japanese classic comedy-western “Tampopo,” the Julia Child-esque and the Gordon Ramsayesque are married into an irreverent love letter to food (specifically ramen) and, less specifically, to life in general. As director Juzo Itami constantly reminds us, the many ingredients that combine to make the perfect bowl of ramen are often as elusive as the ingredients to find a perfect experience in life.

Recently remastered and re-released in theaters by the Criterion Collection, “Tampopo” is an irreverent, raucous and plucky film that views a number of parts of life in a rapidly changing Japan — gender politics, economic worries, bullying, socio-political shift, cultural conflict and, most importantly, sex — all through the lens of food.

It follows the widowed owner of a struggling ramen shop, Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto). When two truck drivers, Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki) and Gun (a very young and, for his fans, unusually goofy Ken Watanabe) stumble into her shop and defend her against harassment from another drunk customer, Pisken (Rikiya Yasuoka), they strike up a friendship.

Slowly but steadily, they enlist a series of methods to help Tampopo perfect both her noodles and her soup, reviving her shop’s business and making a new set of friends and enemies along the way.

Despite its focus on the humorous, Western-style exploits of Tampopo and her various teachers, “Tampopo” does not solely follow the gang at the ramen shop.

Indeed, some of the film’s best and most uproariously funny scenes are the various vignettes celebrating the role of food in people’s lives and exploring the ways in which food helps them to express themselves. These scenes are a masterclass in filmmaking from Itami: Typically, the scene will be following Tampopo, Goro and Gun in their “Rocky”-esque training scenes; then, catching the eye of a passerby, the action will segue into a vignette on the role of food in that person’s life.

In one scene, a lowly businessman impresses his superiors, in the face of their constant belittlement, with his extensive knowledge of the cuisine at a French restaurant. In another, an etiquette teacher drills a class of women on European table manners, only to be constantly interrupted by a Westerner at a nearby table loudly slurping his noodles. In the film’s bawdiest (and funniest, in my opinion) subplot, a mysterious man in a white suit and his lover explore a number of increasingly farcical (or erotic, depending on your view) ways to incorporate food into the bedroom.

The film’s greatest charm is its relatable spunk, both of the main character and of the narrative as a whole. In “Tampopo,” Itami has created a film that resonates and makes audiences laugh everywhere at any time for three reasons: everyone eats, everyone laughs and everyone has sex.

Sometimes all at the same time.

Tommy Gillespie is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Tommy can be reached at thomas.gillespie@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 7 well. In Rahm’s work, it is almost as if we are hearing every work of Debussy being played at once, encompassing his entire milieu in one physical and auditory space.

Upon entering the palace, the most notable sound work is Lee Mingwei’s “Small Conversation” (2017). The courtyard garden is accompanied with sounds of insects and amphibians, reminding visitors of the space’s sense of life. The courtyard garden is the only space within the palace where objects, in this case living flowers, can be switched out and rear-

ranged. The courtyard is the ideal location for a contemporary work as it is arguably the most contemporary space within Gardner’s strict vision for the museum.

Another striking work from the exhibition is Moritz Fehr’s “Undertone” (2017) located in the Dutch room. The work plays in place of the Vermeer’s “The Concert” (1664), one of the works stolen in the infamous theft in 1990. The loss of the painting has been considered one of the largest blows to the museum’s history. “The Concert” was the first work Gardner purchased, and she specifically travelled to Paris to sit in on the auction herself, something she rarely did over

her many years of collecting. The loss of the work is also a loss to the art historical cannon. While Vermeer is considered a foundational master of the Dutch Renaissance, only 30 of his works survive to this day, and every loss diminishes the total number of Vermeer’s works that viewers are able to see and study.

The sound attached to the emptied Vermeer canvas serves not only as an auditory reminder of the work’s absence, but also graces the space with the music depicted in Vermeer’s work.

In “The Concert,” a young woman’s lips are slightly parted, suggesting that she is just about to sing. Fehr’s work

is a continuation of the visual hints in Vermeer’s painting, thus both amplifying the loss of the painting and the loss of its inherent auditory component. The work beautifully hints at how when one sense is not accessed, the others are enhanced. Although viewers lack the visual stimuli of the work, the sound piece compensates for it with auditory stimuli.

“Listen Hear: The Art of Sound” creates a museum experience closer to the one Gardner initially envisioned.

Through contemporary works, visitors are brought back into an earlier time, one with Isabella Stewart Gardner still in it.

‘I must tell you what I saw’ documents genocide across geographies, cultures OBJECTS

continued from page 7 The other piece is an expressionist painting by perhaps the most famous Armenian artist in history, Arshile Gorky. The thin lines and splashes of color characterize “Good Hope Road” (1945), an abstract landscape of the real Good Hope Rd. in Roxbury, Connecticut. It shows a tentative happiness, one that faded later in Gorky’s life as he eventually killed himself in Sherman, Connecticut. The average viewer would not have predicted his fate, just as they would not have guessed that that “Arshile Gorky” is Russian for “Bitter Achilles,” had the exhibit not told them.

A traditional Chinese porcelain vase vandalized by red paint also stands

out in the exhibit. Upon first glance, it looks like a heavy-handed Banksy piece. In reality, its owner covered the antique with praises of Chairman Mao during the Cultural Revolution to save it from the Communist destruction of traditional Chinese artifacts.

The most famous piece in the collection, J. M. W. Turner’s “Slave Ship” (1840), obscures the horrifying scene of slaves drowning in the ocean with a stunning Romantic maritime landscape. If the exhibit is trying to tell its viewers anything, it is that context — particularly hidden context — matters.

Both beauty and horror are present in one way or another.

“I Must Tell You What I Saw” is a tugof-war between tragedy and hope. Like the life and contributions of Gorky,

every piece seems to have its own paradox or plot twist. An Indonesian fertility sculpture appears undisturbed, but actually sat in Lake Sentani for almost 100 years. Interestingly, sources differ as to whether it was dumped in the lake by Protestant missionaries in order to destroy local religious practices, or by locals themselves to save the sculptures.

The exhibit is adjacent to another exhibit, “Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross.”

This photographic collection features hundreds of pictures from the early-tomid 1940s, when Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross was hired by the Nazis to shoot fascist propaganda of factory workers in the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland.

Ross managed to save bits and pieces of the film to shoot his own documentation of life in the ghetto, burying them and then recovering them once again after escaping from Auschwitz. Large and overwhelming, “Memory Unearthed” features scene after scene of impoverished, beaten-down Jewish families that eventually has a numbing effect. “I Must Tell You What I Saw,” placed in the room next door, may be the antidote to the exhibit. Undoubtedly, there is a reason why visitors must walk through “I Must Tell You What I Saw” after “Memory Unearthed” in order to exit the gallery.

“I must tell you what I saw” was launched March 25 and will be open until July 30. Tickets are free with Tufts ID.

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Nesi Altaras Looking In

Referendum

T

urkey is having a referendum on Monday, April 16, and the question is a package of constitutional changes that empower the executive, neuter parliament and dispense with the independent judiciary. It is a referendum on whether to become a full dictatorship or continue with the status quo: dictatorship-lite.

The executive who would achieve full dominance and concentrate his power to the maximum is Turkey’s current president and former prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Having been the premier since 2003, he is already extremely powerful and has entrenched influence in all aspects of Turkish social, political and economic life.

First subtly, and theb more explicitly starting in 2009, Erdoğan has been wrecking the limited democracy Turkey has had. Erdoğan rightly takes his place on the list of infamous, horrific autocrats, along with Putin, Franco and others. This referendum, if passed, will ensure his place on this list.

The package includes such changes as making the president also the official leader of a party, giving him the power to create candidate lists, to shutdown parliament, clear and reappoint all members of the judiciary, pick an unspecified number of unelected vice presidents and other such measures.

Erdoğan’s party and every government official in the country from ministers, mayors and even imams have been pushing for Yes. His campaign has even expanded into Germany and the Netherlands, where well over a million voting Turkish citizens reside, raising tensions within Europe.

The national-left and social democratic parties, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), are backing No. CHP consistently getting around 25 percent of the vote and has a reliable base supporting No. The leaders and many HDPs in parliament are currently in political prisons on made-up charges, yet their party organization is campaigning as hard as it can. Their share of the electorate is around 10 percent.

The fourth and final party in parliament, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) with 15 percent of the electorate, is currently divided. The senior members of the party have announced official support for Yes. However, many junior leaders and a strong contingent of the rank-and-file are saying No. In this fragmented system, Erdoğan is not even sure that his own voters will all turn out for him to vote Yes. That is why he has not let up the pressure. He is speaking all over the country every day and many channels are airing his speeches live.

Still, polls are close. Many show No winning. There is a chance that Turkey will preserve the semblance of democracy it has now.

I like those odds. Voting has begun in embassies and consulates across the world. By the time this column is published, I will have voted. I predict that No will win. This is coming from experience, polls, gut feeling and a small bit of wishful thinking. To all citizens of Turkey: Vote, and Vote NO. Nesi Altaras is a sophomore majoring in international relations and economics. Nesi can be reached at nesi.altaras@tufts.edu.

Opinion

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

OP-ED

On strength, recovery and It Happens Here

by Allyson Blackburn Content warning: This op-ed discusses rape and sexual assault.

This is my fourth and final year participating in It Happens Here. I’ve read over 150 narratives belonging to my peers, my friends and my loved ones. I’ve cried hot tears for every single narrative. I’ve worn their words with the trauma I wear on my own body. I’ve wondered if I am doing too much, but more often I wonder if I am not doing enough.

I am a survivor, but I don’t usually feel that way. “Survivor” feels terminal, like an end-point, like someone who has made it, who has finished, who is ‘over it.’ My state of existence post-assault does not feel like a part of my identity or who I am. Rather, it is something I have to practice every day.

I am surviving, moving forward, pressing onward. I breathe and focus on how the cool air coming through my nose feels hot against my tongue when I exhale. I sit still and I catalogue how the light changes throughout the day. I observe my own body, taking note and giving names to the parts of myself that I love, even when I have to search long and hard for them. Occasionally, I fail. Those are the days that I find the strength to forgive myself.

It’s been almost six years since rape first happened to me. I memorized the date and the hour. I remember how sterile and interrogative it sounded when lawyers read it out loud: “On the night of June the 28th, 2011 between the hours of 1 and 4 a.m.…”

Sometimes, in a panic, I forget. Was it the 27th? The 29th? Was it a dream? Did it happen at all? But then I count the faint scars on my skin and I remember, I remember, I remember.

For the past three years, I’ve walked out on stage and read narratives — those of strangers, my friends, and yes, even ones that I have written, but I’ve never actually read the story of what happened to me, of how it is that I became a person who has to survive. I feel safer discussing how surviving impacts my life and how I exist in this world and on this campus as someone who survives. My story of what ‘happened’ is tucked away, folded in with the hurt of others on the It Happens Here website. A nervous stranger wearing a Kappa sweatshirt my freshman year read my narrative too quickly. I sat with a friend who held me as I shook in Cohen.

I don’t talk about what happened, about the rape that happened to me. It hurts, and in the four years that my college career has centered on sexual violence prevention activism, I’ve never told. Re-exposing myself to what happened to me is important for my recovery, but I am choosing to do that privately.

My trauma is mine — not by choice, but now it is mine to share, if I choose. I had no choice in what happened to me. I do now have a choice. I have the choice to tell or not to tell. I am not ready to tell, and I will likely never be.

This year, I will not read and I will not walk across stage. It’s time for me to say goodbye to the event I have carried, to the event which has carried me. If you choose to attend It Happens Here this year, I encourage you to consider the strength it takes to write and read a narrative. I also hope you will consider the strength it takes to decide not to write or read, to recognize the bravery in deciding to acknowledge our own hurt and deciding that right now we must carry our hurt on our own.

My unwillingness to speak about my experience with assault does not reflect my strength or my growth. Rather, in finding my own

limitations, I am learning how to accept my pain as my own, to take ownership of it, even to love it. I am one of the many survivors on this campus who will not speak at It Happens Here. Our experiences are no less valid, no less painful or difficult to grapple with. Speaking our truths and talking about what happened takes tremendous bravery, but we are no less brave when surviving means getting out of bed in the morning, walking across campus, deciding to take time away from Tufts or trusting yourself to fall in love again.

Strength is not defined by the speed of our recovery. Recovery doesn’t have a beginning or an end because trauma is not linear. Recovery is, rather, our ability to look up at the night sky and see the moon and stars in addition to sheaths of darkness. Recovery is placing our palms open in front of us and receiving our own hurt while also receiving love and care from those around us.

Strength and hurt are not mutually exclusive. Every day, I remind myself that my body holds great weight and gives great light. I’ve named one of my vertebrae Grace and one of my ribs Fury, for I am learning that it is when I am holding the most pain that I need to love myself the most.

Two years ago, I wrote an op-ed in The Tufts Daily that closed with, “I hope you give yourself time to heal, to love and to be loved.

Take a deep breath and remember that we are here to become whole again.” Today, I write to say that I am not whole, and I may never be: That’s okay. I have found peace with that.

Through my recovery, I’m finding strength, learning to heal, learning to love and, most difficult of all, learning to accept love in return.

Allyson Blackburn is a senior majoring in clinical psychology. Allyson can be reached at allyson.blackburn@tufts.edu.

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Jumbos look to build on success Saturday at Bates WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD

continued from back place finish in both.

“Kylene’s double in long jump and triple jump was awesome,” Fielding said.

“Going out and crushing two extremely technical field events is no easy feat, and it’s tough on the legs.”

Junior Jennifer Sherwill also recorded a fourth place finish in the discus, with a 126-foot-4-inch throw. Sherwill also placed ninth in the hammer throw, with a toss of 10.72 meters.

Competing in the javelin throw for the Jumbos were first-years Julia Kissel and Erin Logee. Kissel threw 37’.63’’ for a fifth place finish, and Logee threw a 35’.35’’ for an eighth place finish. Later, during the pole vault, Ladner took fifth at 2.95 meters to earn four points for her team.

In the 10k, Tufts had three back-toback runners place for points. First-year Jennifer Jackson was the first to finish for the Jumbos with a time of 41:15.34 to claim fourth place. Senior Sarah Corning

followed her closely with a time of 41:16.29 to take fifth and junior Franchesca Burgos came in at 41:17.57 to take home sixth.

Together, the three scored a combined 12 points toward the team.

The Jumbos finished the meet with 116 points overall, trailing first-place Division I Boston University by only three points and leading third-place Southern New Hampshire University by 49. The team is hoping to build off of this success when it competes at a tri-meet hosted by Bates on Saturday.

Top-4 finish needed for championship qualifications

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Tufts sailors compete in the Mystic Lake Team Race, where the Jumbos placed first, on April 10, 2016.

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continued from back think that we learned a lot. Obviously, we always are striving to do better, but we are not disappointed with a midfleet finish.”

In that regatta, the Jumbos’ A-boats scored a strong 66 points. Their B-boats followed close behind their teammates with 81 points. Brown, the regatta’s host school, dominated the field and

finished with 46 total points. Brown’s B-boats only had 15 points to lead their team to the top score in the regatta.

Yale finished in second place with a total score of 89.

Both Tufts sailing teams received strong performances from their upperclassmen. Fuller and fellow senior MaryClaire Kiernan were a crucial part of the women’s team’s success at Brown. On the co-ed side, Barbano led the charge along

with sophomore Ian Morgan as they took part in 13 of 14 races.

Looking ahead, Tufts’ co-ed team will host the New England Team Racing Championship qualifying regatta at home in Medford. The Jumbos will need a top-four finish to qualify for the championship regatta. The qualifier will start on Saturday, the same day that the women’s sailing team will travel to Conn.

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Sam Nowicki Teeing Off

The Masters Preview: Part 2

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ow, it’s here already. The greatest week of the year!

Welcome to Augusta National, everyone. And here I am, your faithful golf correspondent, giving you my picks and predictions for this year’s tournament, as promised.

The hottest player in golf is undoubtedly Dustin Johnson. DJ has won his last three starts in a row, including back-toback World Golf Championships. How will DJ fair at Augusta? Don’t bet on him! My beef is not with Johnson, it is simply with the fact that he has peaked too soon, about two weeks too soon. I expect DJ to be competitive, but I have a hard time seeing him able to win four tournaments in a row … just playing the odds here.

How about Rory McIlroy? Rory will complete the career grand slam with a victory at Augusta. And everyone knows the McIlroy is one of those rare talents who truly is unbeatable when he has his best game. Unfortunately for Rory (and my sister, his biggest fan), he hasn’t really had that much game this year, except for a rare moment where he held the lead a couple of weeks ago in his first tournament back. Rory got off to the slow start this year because of rib injuries, which is tough luck, but hey, golf sure isn’t fair … it’s less fair than life.

Jordan Spieth? I expect big things from Jordan. First, he has never finished worse than second place at Augusta in his career. He missed the cut this past week, but I expect that to only help him prepare and rest for The Masters. Spieth has had a great year, both driving and in proximity to the hole on his approach shots. He has in the past struggled in this area and relied on his putter. If Spieth gets 30-35 makable birdie putts this week, which he should get if he continues striking the ball this well, he will win in style and capture his second green jacket.

Who is most likely to be a first-time major winner? Well, last year saw four first-time major winners. Can we see the trend continued at Augusta, making it six in a row (going back to the 2015 PGA Championship)?

I expect a strong show from Rickie Fowler, who already has a win under his belt this year and played very well in Houston this week. Justin Thomas has won three times this season already (including a 2016 wrap-around event), but has cooled off lately. He seems to have turned his whole attention to Augusta starting in February. He is surely motivated by his best friend’s (Spieth’s) success.

And who is a good dark horse pick this week? Alex Noren. That’s right, you’ve never heard of him … That’s why I went with him as the dark horse.

Noren is actually the 10th ranked player in the world. But he plays on the European Tour and thus is unknown to many American golf fans. Noren won four times in the previous calendar year and is poised for a major. The Swede has no weaknesses is his game, and he knows how to close. Alex Noren is my dark horse for The Masters, but he’s my favorite for The British Open.

Sam Nowicki is a junior majoring in biochemistry. Sam can be reached at samuel. nowicki@tufts.edu.

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Sports

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD

Tufts takes second while hosting postponed Snowflake Classic

by Mackenzie Bright Contributing Writer

The Snowflake Classic nearly lived up to its name once again, as the Jumbos wondered if they would be able to host the meet after Saturday’s snowstorm. Thankfully, the track was cleared in time for the even to begin bright and early on Sunday morning.

“Our coach saw that Saturday’s weather would be poor and made a quick decision to move the meet to Sunday,” junior Ipek Emekli told the Daily in an email. “By the time the events started, it was sunny and relatively warm, and I think we all enjoyed competing.”

The team took second place in its first home meet of the outdoor season. Several events showed as many as four Jumbos placing to earn points for their team.

“We had some women coming off of impressive performances in Vegas and others having a good start to their outdoor season,” sophomore Paige Fielding said. “It was really a great day for our team.”

To demonstrate this, Tufts placed four runners in the top-8 of the 800-meter.

First-year Julia Gake came in strong for a second place finish, posting a 2:20.51. Senior quad-captain Samantha Cox followed closely behind, claiming third at 2:20.66 to claim. First-year Rhemi Toth and junior Sara Stokesbury came in seventh at 2:23.66 and eighth at 2:23.99, respectively.

The runners of the 100-meter dash contributed their share of team points as well, with senior quad-captain Rita Donohue claiming the No. 2 spot with a time of 13.16, sophomore Sydney Ladner crossing fifth at 13.33 and first-year Raquel Whiting coming in at 13.41 for sixth place. The trio scored a combined 15 points for the team’s overall total.

“Rita crushed her events [Sunday] after being badly injured for a while,” Emekli wrote. “Recovering from an injury is a mentally and physically tough process, and she pulled through that very fast.”

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Sophomore Sydney Ladner competes in the long jump at the New England Division III Indoor Championship at MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center on Feb 18.

The 200-meter featured three more scoring Jumbos, as Donohue, Whiting and junior Annalisa DeBari all notched strong showings in the event. DeBari finished at 26.93 to take fourth place and Donohue tailed her closely to finish fifth at 27.00. Whiting came quickly behind with 27.25 to take eighth place.

DeBari then showed her prowess in the 100-meter hurdles and came sweeping in at 14.88 to take first in the preliminaries and clinch the No. 9 spot in the nation. For the 400-meter hurdles,

senior quad-captain Hannah Loss shot over the finish line and took fourth at 1:09.46, edging out several runners just behind her.

Running the 4×800 relay were firstyear Nicole Kerrigan, sophomore Julia Noble, junior Eliza Lawless, and senior Sophia Passacantando who teamed up for a blistering 10:20.55 finish, earning themselves first place and adding ten points to the team pool.

In the 4×4 relay, Cox, junior Julia Prusaczyk, Loss and Gake placed sec-

ond with a time of 4:09.34, earning eight points for the team. Ladner, Donohue, first-year Frances Kiles, and DeBari teamed up for the 4×1 relay, and came in at 50.55 for third place, contributing six more points to Tufts’ score.

The three relay events combined contributed 24 team points toward the total.

Sophomore Kylene DeSmith placed in both the long jump (16-7’ 3/4″) and the triple jump (33’4’’), with a fourth see WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD, page 11

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Sailing teams finish eighth in weekend regattas

by Bradley Schussel

Assistant Sports Editor

Both of Tufts’ sailing teams, the co-ed and women’s squads, finished eighth in their respective regattas over the weekend.

The co-ed team, which is ranked ninth nationally in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA), participated in the Lynne Marchiando Trophy regatta at MIT on Saturday and Sunday. The Jumbos finished eighth out of 16 participating schools.

The team lost a tiebreaker with the Roger Williams Hawks, who took seventh place.

Both the Hawks and the Jumbos went 4-10 on their races over the two-day meet.

Despite the eighth-place finish, the athletes, including senior Griffin Rolander, remain optimistic coming out of the regatta.

“We are looking forward to changing that top-eight finish into a top-

four finish,” Rolander said. “Our dials were a little off-kilter in our losses. We need to check those before we go out next time.”

A top-four finish in their next regatta would allow the Jumbos to qualify for the New England Team Racing Championships.

In the first day of the MIT regatta, the Jumbos took part in races against seven teams. Tufts won three of those seven races, as they defeated Yale (1-35), College of Charleston (1-2-6) and Hobart and William Smith (1-2-4).

According to some team members, it was particularly gratifying to defeat Yale, the No. 1 co-ed sailing team in the nation.

“It was very exciting,” senior tri-captain Scott Barbano said. “They are fourtime team race national champions. It was awesome to take a win off them, and it shows us that we can beat anyone.”

Coach Ken Legler was proud of his team’s

defeat of Yale but acknowledged that there might have been a bit of luck involved.

“We love beating Yale,” Legler said.

“We also beat them in a race last month.

This time, they started out with a 1-2-3 breakaway, but one of their boats capsized. The conditions were very stormy yesterday, so capsizes were bound to happen randomly. Still, we’re happy to get the win.”

At the end of the first day, Tufts sat in sixth place out of the sixteen competing teams. On the second day, the Jumbos played a round robin for another seven races. In those races, they went 1-6, losing to all their opponents but Charleston. Tufts’ second match against Yale was not as successful as the first.

Yale’s boats finished first, second and third in the race, meaning Tufts’ were behind them at fourth, fifth and six.

Meanwhile, the women’s sailing team competed at the Dellenbaugh Trophy

regatta at Brown over the weekend, where the Jumbos finished eighth, similarly to their co-ed counterparts.

“We were hoping for anything in the top 10,” Legler said. “We’re pleased they came in eighth. That event was stacked; out of 18 teams in the event, 17 of them were ranked in the top 20 nationally.”

Senior captain Julia Fuller shared in Legler’s optimism, noting that this meet served as a learning opportunity for her team.

“This regatta was a really great opportunity to prepare for the women’s New England Championships that will be at the same venue in a few weeks,” Fuller told the Daily in an email. “We came into the weekend hoping to learn a lot about the venue — what the breeze and current are like — and I see CO-ED AND WOMEN'S SAILING, page 11