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It Happens Here aims to empower the voices of sexual violence survivors

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Content warning: This article discusses sexual violence.

Students shared narratives about sexual violence to a full audience in Cohen Auditorium during It Happens Here on Tuesday night. All narratives submitted to the event, which were unedited by the steering committee, were from Tufts students. Some students read their own pieces and some had their narratives read by volunteers.

This year marks the fourth annual It Happens Here event at Tufts.

Members of the event’s steering committee explained that the purpose of It Happens Here is to empower the voices of survivors of sexual violence and provide a platform for survivors to share their healing processes.

Event organizers advised attendees not to clap, as the event was not a performance. They also emphasized that It Happens Here is a critical part of addressing the prevalence of sexual violence on college campuses because, although many people are aware of statistics and have learned about sexual violence in health classes, survivors of sexual assault are rarely given the opportunity to explain the problem in their own voices and through their personal experiences.

Organizers further explained that It Happens Here is designed to combat the culture of silence that frequently surrounds the problem of sexual violence and to spark meaningful discussions. The It Happens Here project was started by students at Middlebury College in 2011, and as stated by the program handed out before the event, the project aims to give power to sursee IT HAPPENS HERE, page 2

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Students shared narratives about sexual violence during It Happens Here in Cohen Auditorium on April 4.

Tufts Democrats to host tables to phone public officials

Tufts Venture Lab provides resource for student startups

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The Tufts Democrats plans to set up regular phoning tables in the Mayer Campus Center to allow students to contact their senators and representatives.

Having hosted a phoning table earlier this semester, the group plans to set up another one in the next few weeks, according to Ben Kaplan, president of the Tufts Democrats.

Kaplan, a senior, explained that while the group was focused on campaigning for Hillary Clinton last semester, this semester they have turned toward lobbying on specific issues in response to President Donald Trump’s administration.

“This semester, in response to all of the horrible things that Trump is doing in the White House, we have oriented ourselves towards issue-based lobbying, so we’re fighting for our progressive values with these phone bank tables,” he said.

According to Kaplan, the tables are set up in the Campus Center and staffed by at least three members of the Tufts Democrats. The group aims to help and encourage students to lobby their representatives by calling and writing letters.

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“We allow students during the day to call their local representatives and advocate for issues [that are] important to them,” he said.

Kaplan argued that these tactics are effective in influencing the positions of members of Congress on important votes.

“Representatives are most likely to support what students want or change their position if they get calls from people who live in their district,” he said.

Jaya Khetarpal, a sophomore on the board of the Tufts Democrats, explained that the tables also help students find out who their representatives are and how to contact them.

“We … printed out a list of senators so that people … know who their senator is and they have [their senator’s] contact info,” Khetarpal said.

The first phone bank table that the Tufts Democrats hosted this semester was originally focused on Trump’s cabinet appointments but also served as a point of contact for people to discuss other issues with their representatives, according to Kaplan.

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Tufts’ Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies (ELS) Program has launched the Tufts Venture Lab, an initiative headed by senior Alex Rappaport and junior Shreenath Bhanderi.

The lab, located on the first floor of the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC) building at 574 Boston Ave., is a collaborative working space for student-led startup groups to connect and collaborate on their projects and ideas, according to a program overview provided

by Rappaport.

Beyond providing a working space for startup teams, the Venture Lab is also a major resource for students to connect with professionals who are experts within their field or industry. The lab has one-on-one office hours with experts and offers students the opportunity to connect with alumni working in different industries.

The lab will also host high-profile community events intended to garner further interest and support for the Venture Lab community, and such events will be centered around building skills for students to use in their own work.

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While the application process for teams to become members of the lab has closed, there are Venture Lab-related events open to the wider Tufts community, like this week’s $100k New Ventures Competition. At the competition, teams of entrepreneurs in the healthcare, social impact and high-tech fields will compete for funding, according to the competition’s website.

Tufts Entrepreneurs Society (TES), a network of students who have a strong interest in learning about entrepreneurship, has played a key role in the lab’s development. According to Bhanderi, who serves as co-director of TES, the lab was started in response to the growing desire for community among different startups on campus.

“Tufts and the ELS program started the Venture Lab initiative because they started to see traction from students’ startups cropping up around campus, but they realized that these startups did not interact with each other,” Bhanderi said.

“There was no common community. In addition, each of these startups struggled with common issues such as finding working space and mentorship.”

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continued from page 1 According to Bhanderi, the TES directors, in collaboration with ELS Director Inge Milde and Venture Lab Community Development Director Rowan Rice, have organized and developed the lab to fulfill those needs and to provide support and opportunities for the burgeoning startup community at Tufts.

David Pearl, a first-year involved in TES, has cited the significance of TES and Bhanderi and Rappaport’s efforts specifically in the growth of the lab.

“TES makes it a priority to contact and connect entrepreneurs and promote entrepreneurship across Tufts’ campuses,” Pearl said. “This semester, I have had the privilege of working for TES and creating marketing materials as part of an effort to expand our reach across campus … Working on planning events and reaching out to a broader community is very exciting.”

Pearl said that while the lab itself is a room that can house up to three teams at a time, the intended scope of the lab is much wider.

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A student sits in the Venture Lab in 574 Boston Ave. on April 4.

“Working in the Venture Lab gave me the opportunity to meet many like-minded individuals and gain insight from all of their experiences,” he said. “I found that hearing stories, both suc-

cesses and failures, from others was by far one of the most useful things about the Venture Lab, aside from those that we were connected to through events or simply meeting them in the lab.”

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continued from page 1 their representatives to oppose Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions’ appointments to the Cabinet,” he said. “But it just so happened that that same week Trump signed the [travel] ban, so we also had students call their representatives to oppose Trump’s [travel] ban.”

According to Kaplan, the first phone bank table was a success because it got students who were otherwise not involved in politics interested in their representatives’ actions on a national scale.

“We had that table set up for a couple hours and we had about 25 students call their representatives — these are 25 students from important swing districts,” he said. “And over 50 students from important swing districts wrote letters to their representatives.”

Kaplan was excited about future plans to host phone bank tables, explaining that the Tufts Democrats also want to have a more locally focused effort to support Massachusetts legislation. “[The next phone bank table will be] focused on issues at the state level, so we’re going to be asking students who are registered to vote in Massachusetts to call their representatives about the

Massachusetts Safe Communities Act [and the] Education Equity Bill,” he said.

Khetarpal explained the background and intent of the two bills.

“The Massachusetts Safe Communities Act … would make Massachusetts basically a sanctuary state where state police would not cooperate with [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] individuals or any immigration officers in deporting undocumented immigrants,” she said.

“The Education Equity Bill works a lot on trying to [get] … more money allocated to after-school programs and more money allocated to [schools in] lower-income cities and areas in Massachusetts.”

She mentioned that students who live outside of Massachusetts will be able to participate in the phone bank as well.

“We want to make sure that, if we’re targeting MA legislation, that there’s also a different topic that applies more broadly where people can call their senators,” she said.

According to Tufts Progressive Alliance (TPA) cofounder Grant Fox, the group has not mobilized using the same methods as Tufts Democrats due to its lower membership, but TPA has worked with issue-based campaigning in other ways.

“We would be calling into different district[s] where key senators were sort of waf-

fling on the vote, and we would talk to [constituents] about why [it] was important,” Fox, a senior, said. “If they were … in favor of that, we could click a button and then it would transfer them to their own senator’s office, where they could leave a message.”

Fox said that TPA is currently phone banking for Jon Ossoff, a Democrat running in a special election in Georgia’s sixth congressional district. He believes that phoning to influence voters before an election is more directly effective than calling senators before a vote.

“When you’re talking to elected officials, they have a lot of different pressures and competing things and … often the influence of one person talking to them isn’t as big as one person talking to a voter,” he said.

Nonetheless, Khetarpal believes that phoning tables for elected officials are effective and important in creating political discourse.

“It’s always important to call your senators and let them know what you’re thinking, especially as a constituent,” she said.

Fox emphasized that, no matter the specific tactics employed, both groups are working toward a common goal.

“I think at the end of the day we’re pretty much doing the same thing,” he said.

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The diversity in gender and experience of students who shared their accounts further indicated the prevalence of incidents of sexual violence among members of the Tufts community.

Several students highlighted similar points, including the importance of seeking help and the fact that the healing and recovery processes are different for every survivor. Survivors also discussed the difficulties of dealing with the long term effects of acts of sexual violence on their daily lives, relationships and academics.

One recurring element of many survivors’ accounts was the trauma caused by having to see their assailants, who often were known to the survivors,

around campus. Several survivors also spoke out against the culture of victim-blaming and the tendency to teach defensive strategies to prevent situations involving sexual violence, rather than actively teaching people not to commit sexual assault.

Organizers informed audience members that support resources were available nearby in case they needed to talk to someone during the event. The Interfaith Center was also open after the session as a space for students to decompress, discuss and find support, and Sexual Misconduct Resource Specialist Nandi Bynoe was present to speak with students.

Additionally, members of the steering committee emphasized that other support resources are also available to students beyond It Happens

Here. Audience members were encouraged to seek help when needed, and to utilize both confidential and non-confidential support options on campus and in the Boston area.

The It Happens Here program listed resources available to help students in a range of areas, including the processes for receiving medical assistance, navigating the sexual misconduct reporting process and accessing free and confidential counseling.

Several survivors highlighted the importance of not giving up hope and of remembering that no one is alone. Event organizers concluded by encouraging students to break the silence surrounding the problem of sexual violence in order to make Tufts a safer and more intentional campus.

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Scholars in Residence program brings professors, students together outside the classroom

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David Proctor, history professor and Scholar in Residence, stands in front of the door of his room in Tilton Hall on April 4.

by Michelle Kwon Contributing Writer

The Scholars in Residence program was created over 10 years ago by the Tufts Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife), according to Director Yolanda King. Faculty members who express interest in interacting with students and being part of a residential community participate in the program by living in residence halls throughout campus.

Currently, there are four Scholars in Residence: Senior Lecturer in History David Proctor, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies Orly Clerge, Associate Professor of Music Stephan Pennington and Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Atherton. These scholars are housed in Tilton Hall, Lewis Hall, Houston Hall and Metcalf Hall, respectively.

King told the Daily in an email that the program attempts to provide students with an intellectual and academic component to their residential life.

“I think this is a great program as it provides [an] opportunity for students and faculty to connect outside of the conventional classroom,” King said.

“The students enjoy the opportunity to have [an] informal conversation with the faculty member over a meal, or during a program that they may plan within the residence halls.”

Scholars in Residence collaborate with ResLife staff to plan weekly or monthly events for their students. These events aim to connect the students’ curricular and co-curricular experiences.

Past events include an advising and academic resource fair, a discussion of the scholar’s research and an informal conversation with Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon.

Proctor is currently the Scholar in Residence for the Area 3 residence halls (Bush Hall, Hodgdon Hall and Tilton Hall) and lives in Tilton Hall with his

wife, Colleen Cooper. He said that he believes the Scholars in Residence program provides regularized access to faculty members and personally allows him to be a more active part of day-to-day student life.

“They know I’m there. They know I’m a resource and I think that’s valuable,” Proctor said. “Seeing one of us in the laundry room doing our laundry or bringing groceries in is just a sense that faculty are people too and they are engaged in different things and that they are living their lives just like the students are. I think that humanizes the faculty members a bit more.”

As a Scholar in Residence, Proctor organizes advising fairs every semester, to which he invites faculty and staff from as many as 25 departments to speak to students.

He emphasized how he wants to make the events useful and enjoyable, but also educational and a way of offering more casual interactions between students and faculty.

In addition to his advising fairs, Proctor hosts trivia nights and “fireside chats” where faculty members talk to students about how they got to where they are now in their careers. He said that Tufts faculty all have different stories and sharing those stories can really be informative for students.

He also hosts health panels where faculty give tips on adjusting to college life, healthy eating, handling stress, resolving relationship issues and getting enough rest.

In his welcome flyer to the Class of 2020, Proctor wrote that he hosts monthly dinners in Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center, the days and times of which he posts to his Facebook page. He also emphasizes his availability to students both inside and outside of academic settings and his openness to any topics pertaining to the students’ interests or concerns.

Clerge is the Scholar in Residence for Area 4 residence halls (Harleston Hall and Lewis Hall). Clerge explained that she joined the program because her colleagues at other universities had enjoyed their experiences interacting with their students in residence halls.

“I wanted the opportunity to get to know students outside of the traditional classroom and advising experience, and the program was the perfect opportunity to do so,” Clerge said. “[The program] decreases the distance between students and faculty, and helps students understand that faculty are people too, have families and are willing to engage with them in non-traditional capacities.”

When Clerge discovered the program at Tufts, she found the co-curricular and social programming put on by her colleagues exciting. In particular, she said she found the research projects and social events of Pennington and former Scholar in Residence Ben Shapiro to be impressive.

Clerge also said how, as an undergraduate student at Wheaton College, she participated in special interest housing programs herself. The one she was the proudest of was the Intersectionality House, a residential space that she and other groups of women created to sponsor retreats and programs about anti-racism, gender discrimination and religious tolerance.

She believes such housing programs made Wheaton a more welcoming environment for the diversity of students on campus and hopes to replicate this experience as a Scholar in Residence at Tufts.

Last year, Clerge organized the screening of “Tested,” a documentary film that follows 12 racially and socioeconomically diverse eighth-graders who navigate the unequal education system in New York. Curtis Chin, the award-winning producer of the film, gave a talk following the discussion.

During the talk, Clerge herself shared her experiences with growing up in antiblack and anti-immigrant schools. She said the event even won the programming of the year award from ResLife.

“I was surprised to receive the award, and honored that the students appreciated the efforts involved in executing the event,” she said.

Currently, Clerge is organizing an event called “Survivors’ Stories: Creating Safe Futures for our Women and Girls” to which she has invited the national nonprofit group A Long Walk Home to perform Stories of a Rape Survivor (SOARS), which aims to empower college students, survivors and their allies to address campus sexual assault.

King emphasized that the Scholars in Residence are always available in their respective halls on move-in days to welcome students at the beginning of the academic year, and that they attend some in-hall staff meetings to stay updated on current issues and trends occurring in the community.

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Rebecca Redelmeier Tufts by Numbers

Will the tuition bubble ever be burst?

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lmost one month ago, Tufts students and parents were notified that tuition for the upcoming 2017–2018 school year will rise by 3.6 percent, tying up a Tufts education with a price tag of $68,372 for all tuition and fees. This increase matched that of last year and has students and family members worried – not only about paying for next year’s tuition, but about what a Tufts education could cost just a few years down the line. As costs for college climb steadily upwards, will they ever hit a ceiling?

To learn more about the trends in Tufts tuition costs, I took a look at patterns in national tuition costs.

Examining data reported by the College Board, the average cost of tuition at a private, four-year, postsecondary academic institution was $1,832 in 1971 when translated to current dollars. For the current academic year, that average cost of tuition has risen to $33,479.

Significantly lower than the tuition price tag at Tufts, this data emphasizes Tufts’ elite and expensive standing in a pool of similar colleges at which tuition has been rising steadily.

The rate of tuition increase has also changed since the 1970s, spiking in 1989 with a tuition increase of nine percent. Additionally, average tuition costs have not declined since 1981 and have not remained steady between two academic years since 2001.

Maybe more frightening than this steady increase is the astronomical impact that even a small percentage increase now has on college’s large price tag. Though the current rate of annual tuition increase has sat between 1 and 3 percent for the past few years, the impact that this increase has on today’s large tuition numbers is substantive. After all, just a one percent increase on a tuition of $35,000 tacks a few thousand dollars onto an already huge tuition sum.

The neat and tidy trend line of rising national tuition costs points to a pretty ugly reality and an even scarier future. How much more money can a university education be valued at before it looses its worth – or at least accessibility – completely?

Rebecca Redelmeier is a sophomore majoring in English. Rebecca can be reached at rebecca.redelmeier@tufts.edu.

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Profile of Charles Simic, featured poet for John Holmes Memorial Poetry Reading

by Libby Langsner Assistant Arts Editor

Charles Simic will read his work at the Hirsh Reading Room in Tisch Library today, beginning at 3:30 p.m. The SerbianAmerican poet, translator, essayist and memoir writer will be reading select poems from his latest poetry collection, “The Lunatic” (2015). Throughout his career, Simic has published over 20 books and been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Griffin Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship and the Wallace Stevens Award.

Simic was also the 2007 Poet Laureate of the United States.

A large portion of Simic’s poetry milieu deals with war in simultaneously heartbreaking and humorous ways. Simic grew up in Belgrade, in former Yugoslavia, during World War II, when the region was being heavily bombed. Simic’s family had to evacuate, and Simic migrated to the United States at the age of 16 in 1954.

Simic explained his early interactions with poetry in a piece for the New York Review of Books.

“The only extensive exposure I had to poetry was in the year I attended school in Paris before coming to the United States,” Simic wrote. “They not only had us read Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine, but they made us memorize certain poems of theirs and recite them in front of the class … Today, it’s clear to me that my love of poetry comes from those readings and those recitations, which left a deeper impact on me than I realized when I was young.”

Simic’s choice to write his poetry in English as opposed to his native Serbian has also come up, and his response to this question harkens back to the tone of his poetry.

“Not being a native speaker of English, they also ask me why I didn’t write my poems in Serbian and wonder how I arrived at the decision to ditch my mother tongue,” Simic wrote. “Again, my answer seems frivolous to them, when I explain that for poetry to be used as an instrument

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Charles Simic is pictured in this portrait by Zoran Tucic from the 1999 book ‘Razgovori.’ of seduction, the first requirement is that it be understood. No American girl was likely to fall for a guy who reads her love poems in Serbian as they sip Coke.”

While Simic’s poems cover a large range of tones, no matter the gruesomeness of the topic, the reader never feels subject to its harshness. Simic delivers his images in such a way that one is too focused on the delicacy of the image itself and its delivery to contemplate the larger picture the poem is hinting at.

A great example is Simic’s most recent contribution to The New Yorker, “The Infinite” (2017). The poem begins with the line, “The infinite yawns and keeps yawning,” and then goes on to ask a series of questions personifying the infinite and spec-

ulating what it thinks about. “Does it ever sit over a glass of wine / and philosophize?” The mundane quality of this image paired with the ever-expanding limitlessness of the universe almost makes the infinite more human or less daunting to try to understand. If the reader can imagine the infinite thinking over a glass of wine similarly to watching a family member ruminate, it might make the concept more approachable.

By the end of the poem, Simic flips on the humanity of the infinity by posing, “Does it find us good to eat?” Suddenly, the reader is reminded that the infinite is bigger than us and will go on long after they are gone.

“The Infinite” is just one great example of Simic’s work, and there are plenty more to be heard at his reading.

Artsy horoscopes

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not the time for you to presume that people understand the gratitude you feel — you must express it.

the new Father John Misty album, “Pure Comedy” (2017) and invest in your mental, physical and emotional health.

ARIES The new moon last week ushered in a new month, and it’s your time to thrive, Aries. Use any aggressiveness that might be stewing inside to square up to your self-doubt, and confront the bad habits that are holding you back from where you need to be. This is your season, Aries, and red is your color. Listen to Cardi B’s “Red Barz” (dropped this Monday) and don’t let anyone dim your light.

GEMINI Your ruling planet, Mercury, stations retrograde this Sunday, sweet Gemini.

You might find yourself being introspective — but avoid passing judgement on yourself. Sit with your self-discovery, but don’t allow yourself to get drawn too far inwards. Get out and enjoy the events on campus: LUX Fashion Show, SURGE conference and TFL Comedy’s standup and sketch comedy show.

LEO Don’t let yourself get burnt out, little Leo. Your goal-setting and great efforts are coming to fruition, and it can be tempting to go full speed ahead. Do not be afraid to ease off the gas pedal a little, and allow yourself to recharge your energy. A night in with Netflix never hurt anyone; Louis CK has a new special out that is only one hour and 15 minutes — leaving you plenty of time to study.

TAURUS As Mercury retrogrades into your sign this weekend, you might be reflecting on your communication patterns recently (or lack thereof ). As the end-of-semester hustle kicks up, it is easy to take for granted all those who have helped you along the way. Mercury’s retrograde is

CANCER How are you healing this week, dear Cancer? It’s time to consider any open wounds you may have and the power you are giving to them. This week should be a time of contemplation and maturation, so make sure you are patient with yourself as you think and grow. Put on

VIRGO What have you been working towards recently, lovely Virgo? Tuesday’s full moon might help you find closure, but not without a fight. Stay dedicated to what you hold dear, but keep away from

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Fury Sheron E for Everyone

Rampage Knights

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hy should you play “Rampage Knights” (2015)? Because it is arguably the most fun you’ll ever have playing a cooperative

roguelike.

Inspired by the shiny-eyed, cartoon nightmare that was “The Binding of Isaac” (2011) and the hack-and-slash mechanics of “Golden Axe” (1989), “Rampage Knights” is a two-player game like no other. From the outside, it admittedly seems pretty generic. A bunch of muscled dudes with interchangeable hats running around smashing baddies with increasingly powerful weapons and collecting gold is hardly something new. Plus, it takes maybe 40 minutes to get through all the separate levels to the boss and beat the game.

Why, then, do I have over 40 hours logged on Steam? Well, with six very different classes to choose from, four minibosses, 48 enemy types and nine curses, every time you play through the randomly generated dungeon with your partner, you’re guaranteed to have an unduplicatable, hilarious experience.

If that doesn’t sound compelling, a feature that I really believe distinguishes “Rampage Knights” from other games of its genre is the ingenious reincarnation system. After Player 1 dies in most co-op games, they just sit there and can’t do anything until Player 2 succeeds in reviving them somehow. To turn the idea on its head, in “Rampage Knights,” the dead player then gets turned into a ghost and still contributes effectively and hysterically to combat, doing one damage at a time and causing knockback, while Player 2 racks up 10 kills to revive them. This was such a pleasant surprise in an already refreshingly well-balanced and reactive game. Some “Rampage Knights” players I know even enjoy the game more as a ghost!

That being said, there are a lot of ways for you to unfairly beat some levels and for some levels to do the same to you. The more you play, though, the more achievements you get and the stronger your in-game characters become, making it easier to survive the relentlessness of some enemies. Additionally, finding ways of cheating the enemy AI or surviving things you really shouldn’t be able to are really fulfilling parts of this game.

For a game clearly inspired by “The Binding of Isaac,” the game’s feel is surprisingly pleasant. The soundtrack is well-composed but not distracting, and the combination of visual and audio effects are visceral enough that they make the actions you execute feel satisfying and powerful but very cartoonish and not even remotely grisly enough to make you feel queasy or uncomfortable (maybe with the exception of the final boss’ secondary form).

If this game sounds up your alley, I’d recommend snagging it and a whole bunch of other exceptional games in the current “Hooked on Multiplayer” Humble Bundle by paying any amount over the $7.51 average — that’s six great games, including the friendship-ruining indie sweetheart “Ultimate Chicken Horse” (2016) and the timeless “Primal Carnage: Extinction” (2015), in which you play as one of several dinosaurs or the people trying to fight them. That deal’s only around for the next week or so, though, so if you decide not to partake, it’s available for $11.99 on Steam and frequently goes on sale for $4.79 (or $6.29 for two copies).

Fury Sheron is a junior majoring in Japanese. Fury can be reached at lahna. sheron@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 4 a “shoot first, ask questions later,” mentality. Coming out of the other side completely unscathed might be impossible, but you can at least attempt to emerge gracefully.

LIBRA Libra, you have been laboring emotionally recently. Ensure that your boundaries are staying intact, and don’t make any compromises without communication. Your needs and wants are valid, darling Libra — advocate for them.

SCORPIO Create the space you need to grow, Scorpio. The moon squaring your ruling planet Mars this Thursday might create urges to toss everything aside and start over. Remember how far you’ve come and how far you still have to go.

Recognize what you want for yourself and build it. For a soundtrack to your hard work, check out the Brain Food playlist on Spotify.

SAGITTARIUS Stay patient, Sagittarius. If you’re not seeing immediate results, don’t be “Devastated.”

All of your hard work will pay off soon, just take it one day at a time. Visualize your

motivation, and keep it in the forefront of your mind these upcoming days.

CAPRICORN Keep fighting, young Capricorn.

Saturn’s transit this week may find you particularly bogged down, so make sure you’re making time to celebrate your accomplishments, too. Remember that your relationships offer you considerable support, and remember that the people you love make you stronger.

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AQUARIUS What bold moves have you made recently, Aquarius? Change is the name of your game

and you might be feeling a little restless this week as your mind and body itch for something new. Try to explore your creativity this weekend, and maybe check out the Matisse in the Studio exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, which opens April 9, for a little inspiration.

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Anna Tolette The Elephant in the Room

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he thaw between winter and spring comes at an opportune time. We get that sweet glimpse of the warmth of summer just as the weather begins to beat us down. There might be a snowstorm after that one 70 degree February day, but it doesn’t stop us from hanging up hammocks, barbecuing and wearing Birkenstocks while we’ve got the warmth. I’m writing this on a Tuesday, a really particularly rainy and windy Tuesday. A Tuesday on which if I stayed inside drinking some tea and reading a good book, or maybe that book on immigration that I was supposed to read for class a week ago, I would be perfectly content.

It’s that truly terrible time between winter and spring in Massachusetts when it can be 60 degrees and sunny one day and 35 and raining the next. I’m not going to spend this entire column talking about the weather, but I urge you to bear with me for the metaphor. I enjoy the spring at Tufts because it starts out cold and dreary outside and gradually becomes lovelier. I like to think that it’s the universe cheering me on and saying that the end of the school year is almost here, and my reward is nice weather and summer. Despite all the papers, projects and exams looming over me in the final month of the academic year, I know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

I feel like I’ve become really good at pushing through gigantic bursts of work in these past two years. Perhaps my frantic list-making looks obsessive to the average person without an anxious brain, but for me, it helps to make sense of and organize the seemingly unmanageable mountain of work that looms in front of me as the year draws to a close. The sophomore slump has appeared for me in the form of an existential crisis about the trajectory of my life and whether I really am passionate about the subjects that I have devoted a lot of my time to. Sometimes, though, I have to turn off the anxiety brain and not question every detail of every decision that I have ever made. I’ve been thinking of the fact that while I’m abroad next fall, I’ll definitely have FOMO (fear of missing out) from the happenings at Tufts, but I will also be away probably having the greatest adventures of my life.

I’ve noticed that my mood tends to correspond pretty closely with the weather outside.

Maybe it’s Seasonal Affective Disorder (the acronym for which is SAD, which I find very ironic), or maybe it’s because I’m not getting as much vitamin D as I would on a sunny day. I don’t exactly know what the overarching message of this column is this week, but I suppose that the whole point of me doing this is for me to muse and ramble about topics that have been on my mind. Here are some suggestions of what to take out of this: 1) Optimism 2) Maybe are all going through a sophomore slump 3) Follow your dreams 4) Don’t question yourself 5) Make lists — maybe it’ll help

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continued from back First-year Ben Biswas also had a strong showing, as he secured the victory by defeating the Bantams’ Philip Winser (6-2, 6-7, 6-0) in the No. 5 singles match.

Despite the victory, Gregor lamented his team’s lack of tenacity against the Trinity squad, attributing it to natural growing pains faced by any young team.

“I think [we] can be prone to not taking an inferior opponent seriously enough,” Gregor said. “I’m trying to stress that we have to be sharp for every match because [if we aren’t], we’ll have a close call like we did against Trinity.”

The previous day, Tufts played host to No. 14 Amherst College. Due to snow, the match was moved indoors to the Gantcher Center, a change that posed minimal problems — and may have even been good — for the team, according to Gregor.

“We’ve been practicing in Gantcher a lot, so we’re accustomed to the bounce,” Gregor said. “The courts [were] resurfaced this summer … but there’s always a bit of

a home court advantage when you’re not playing on a traditional hard court.”

If the court surface was smooth, the match was anything but, as the teams traded blows back-and-forth. While Gupte lost in the first singles (4-6, 6-7), Ali (6-3, 6-3) and junior Dan Coran (6-2, 6-2) were victorious in the second and third positions.

Three of the singles matches went the distance. Both Shaff (6-2, 1-6, 1-6) and Niemiec (6-4, 2-6, 2-6) fell after winning the opening set, but Kelly recorded an impressive 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Amherst’s Oscar Burney, who was ranked 19th in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association in their November rankings.

Despite his success, Kelly was quick to deflect the credit onto his teammates.

“It has a huge impact on [the] match when you have the whole [team] cheering and pushing for you to stretch for that extra ball,” Kelly said. “For those wins, it’s always a team effort.”

With the singles matches split 3-3 between the two teams, Amherst’s 2-1 edge in doubles gave the team the victory by the

slimmest of margins. A bright spot for the Jumbos was the continued success of the Shaff/Battle partnership, which won for the fifth time this year, 8-6, in the No. 2 doubles.

“Zach’s singles [matches] have been very solid, but more impressive has been how he and Ben have performed in doubles,” Gregor said. “He’s figured out doubles quickly for a first-year.”

Despite the loss, the Jumbos were encouraged by the fact that they were able to compete with a talented Amherst squad. “[The game] confirmed that we can compete with any team in the NESCAC and the country,” Gregor said. “I don’t think much of the Div. III tennis world gave us a shot at coming close, and we were a set away from beating them.”

The young team, currently standing at 5-3, will compete against four of the top teams in Div. III: Middlebury, Wesleyan, Williams and Bates. They are confident, however, that close matches like those against Amherst and Trinity will accelerate their maturation and result in more consistency in the future.

Early success a good sign for Jumbos at Snowflake Classic MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD

continued from back By the end of the day, the Jumbos accumulated a team total of 153 points to come in first place, beating out second-place Worcester State by 50.5 points. It seems that despite the rigorous training that accompanies the start of a new season, the team has been doing very well.

“It’s kind of surprising actually to see a lot of fast times in this weekend because we have been training pretty hard the last couple of weeks,” Usoff said. “We’re not

really doing anything different, we’re just at a point in the season where training takes priority over meets and it’s all about just trying to power through.”

Usoff is confident that the success the Jumbos had during the indoor season will carry over onto the outdoor tracks.

“We’ve shown over the past two weeks that we can translate our success from indoors to outdoors,” he said. “It’s just been week after week of putting up good marks, so we’re really confident going into the season.”

The Jumbos compete in the Sam Howell

Invitational at Princeton University tomorrow and a tri-meet at Bates College on Saturday.

DiMaiti, looking to build on his success from Sunday, has his eyes on the meet this weekend.

“I think this weekend will be big for some guys, in particular Luke O’Connor and Tim Nichols who are heading to Princeton to try and run some fast times,” he said. “Otherwise, I think the rest of us are just trying to get in some good races and keep competing at a high level at the Bates meet.”

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his week, about ten mock drafts came out, so I’ll spare you from hearing my predictions for a little bit. Opening day for baseball was this week, and after reading my friend and fellow columnist Max’s article, I was inspired to talk about baseball myself.

Ever since I was a little kid, baseball was my favorite sport. I may have stopped following it as closely as I did when I was young (football began to take up most of my time), but I still am a diligent fan of my Boston Red Sox. Every member of my family, spare the occasional rebellious aunt or cousin, is a die-hard Sox fan, and they made sure I was one too. Since I was a toddler, I watched my team struggle every year and battle with the diabolical Yankees.

For years, I begged my family to take me to a Red Sox game, just hoping for a chance to see the legendary Fenway Park. Before I knew it, my aunt and uncle surprised my sister and me with tickets, and I just about peed my pants.

I don’t remember too much about the actual game, but there is one thing I will never forget. After shoving our way between townies and tourists for about ten minutes, we finally made it to the entrance to our seats. Walking up the ramp, the first thing I saw was the old Coca-Cola bottles that used to be atop the Green Monster, and I could hear the hum of excitement among the fans. The stadium was bigger and more beautiful than I had ever imagined. I remember getting chills up and down my spine — it was literally the happiest I had ever been in my entire life to that point. It’s a happiness that still permeates me every time I walk into Fenway.

Being a Sox fan is a full-time commitment. Even when there’s snow falling in blankets onto our pothole-filled roads, you’ll be hard-pressed not to hear us talk about the Sox to anyone who will listen. It isn’t just a hobby, it’s a lifestyle. It’s in the beginning of April that this lifestyle truly starts to take off.

The city awakens from its winter slumber to get excited for Opening Day. It’s as if the world knew it was the first day of baseball in Boston and decided to give us a day off from the absolutely horrid weather we’ve been experiencing. The skies cleared, the wind slowed and the temperature warmed to a balmy 52 degrees. The atmosphere in the city was electrifying, and all the Sox faithful brought out their tried and true Pedroia and Papi jerseys that they’d been wearing for a decade.

Opening Day is especially meaningful to me. As I’ve grown up, baseball has lost some of the charm that it once held — I understand too much about the sport and am too busy to “feel the magic” that I felt as a kid. But on the first day of baseball, in the moments leading up to the first pitch at Fenway, I feel like the little boy seeing the Monster for the first time, getting those chills running down my spine.

Vinny Donofrio is a senior majoring in clinical psychology. Vinny can be reached at vincent.donofrio@tufts.edu

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Jumbos split a pair of NESCAC matches

by Caleb Symons Contributing Writer

Two matches against NESCAC opponents last weekend revealed the double-edged sword that is the Jumbos’ youth. A day after displaying its depth and promise during its game against Amherst, which it lost 5-4, the team then labored to defeat Trinity 5-4.

Coming off an encouraging performance against Amherst, a makeshift Tufts squad traveled to Hartford, Conn. to take on Trinity.

With junior Zain Ali, the team’s typical No. 2 singles player, unable to make the trip due to an academic commitment and injuries sustained during doubles sidelining both junior Rohan Gupte and first-year Zach Shaff, the Jumbos were without three of their top four players from the previous day’s match.

As a result, the team had to utilize its depth to pull out the 5-4 victory, according to coach Karl Gregor. “[We] have a number of players … who can all compete equally at No. 5 or No. 6,” Gregor said. “[Despite the injuries], I thought that I could interject a couple of them and we’d be okay.”

The Jumbos met the challenge but not without a few hiccups. First-year Nathan Niemiec replaced Ali in the second slot, winning 6-4, 6-4, and sophomore Ethan Chen also provided a victory (6-1, 7-5) in the No. 4 singles match. But Tufts faltered in No. 1 and 2 doubles, with the partnerships of Gupte and junior Griffin Brockman, and Shaff and senior tri-captain Ben Battle falling 8-4 and 8-5, respectively.

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Junior Benjamin Battle competes in the second doubles match against Amherst in the Gantcher Center on April 1.

Instead, the Jumbos relied on contributions from a pair of less experienced players. Sophomore Ross Kamin slid into the sixth singles spot on short notice and registered a resounding 6-3, 6-0 win. The Longmeadow, Mass. native

followed that up by partnering, for the first time ever, with Niemiec in the third doubles match to provide another victory (8-3).

Senior tri-captain Kevin Kelly praised Kamin’s performance.

“[The absences] meant that some guys who aren’t usually in the lineup had to step up,” Kelly said. “Ross came in and really [performed] for us.” see MEN'S TENNIS, page 11

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Tufts earns second straight first-place finish from two meets eight, which meant I couldn’t see anyone behind or next to me.

Usually I dislike being in the outside lane.”

First-year long sprinter Jordan Abate was not far behind in second place, ranking 25th nationally with a time of 49.31. Sophomore mid-distance runner Thomas Doyle finished sixth with a time of 50.93, but did not earn a nationally-ranked time.

The relay teams dominated the meet as well. The 4×100 relay team, composed of senior sprinter Blake Coolidge, sophoSOFIE HECHT / THE TUFTS DAILY more mid-distance Then-junior Niticon Davis competes in the 400-meter hurdles at the Sunshine Classic at the Dussault Outdoor Track runner Anthony on April 23, 2016.

Kardonsky, sophby Liam Finnegan The 400-meter was completely con- omore sprinter Brandon Levenstein and Assistant Sports Editor trolled by Jumbos. Junior hurdler Andrew first-year short sprinter Robert Jones, placed DiMaiti ran the 400-meter race in 48.54 first in the race with a time of 43.00. The On Sunday, the Jumbos hosted the seconds to win the race. DiMaiti’s time cur- 4×400 relay team, made up of Coolidge, annual Snowflake Classic at home on the rently ranks sixth in the nation.

Kardonsky, Abate and sophomore mid-disDussault Track, continuing their hot start to “[For the 400-meter], a lot of the general tance runner Christian Swenson, also came the season and dominating the competition strategy is to get out hard, float the middle out on top with a time of 3:21.90. at the meet. Tufts won eight of the 21 events and accelerate at the end,” DiMaiti said. “This There were a slew of other stand-out indiand finished first overall, their second first- weekend’s race was interesting because the vidual performances. Senior tri-captain Nick place finish in a row. lane assignments were random. I got lane Usoff placed first in both the 400-meter hur-

dles and the javelin throw. Usoff ran a time of 55.52 in the hurdles, ranking 24th nationally.

He also threw a 54.40 meter heave in the javelin throw, a mark that is ranked 37th in the nation and earned the Jumbos 20 team points from his efforts alone.

“It was all about just getting a mark in this weekend, just getting something,” Usoff said. “Getting a qualifying spot for NESCACs and maybe beyond. It just so happened that I came away with a win and I’m pretty happy about that.”

Sophomore hurdler/jumper Josh Etkind placed first in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.93 seconds. Junior distance runner Sam Little earned a career-best time in the 5,000-meter race, winning with a time of 15:36.30.

Junior jumper Stefan Duvivier continued his strong form from the indoor track season into his debut at the Snowflake Classic, winning the high jump with a 1.98 meter jump and ranking 22nd in the nation.

Other Jumbos, while not winning their events, set some season-best times for the team. Sophomore distance runner Andrew Doherty Munro ran a 32:58.97 in the 10k for a seventh-place finish and the team’s best time for the season.

In the field events, sophomore pole vaulter Ben Wallace earned a 3.95 meter mark in the pole vault for a fourth-place finish. Senior Michael Paloian threw for 39.01 meters in the discus for an eighth-place finish and had a 46.13 meter mark in the hammer throw for a fourth-place finish. see MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD, page 11