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by Joe Walsh

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Several new members were elected to Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, the Committee on Student Life (CSL) and TCU Judiciary after an online election Wednesday, according to an announcement from TCU Elections Commission (ECOM). In addition, a runoff election will be held today for the Class of 2020.

Voter participation for this year’s election was 28.73 percent, up from 24.31 percent in last spring’s election, according to ECOM Chair Klavs Takhtani.

For the Class of 2020, Malcolm Akinje was elected, joining reelected incumbent first-years Harry Kong, Kevin Gleason, Finn McGarghan, Shannon Lee and Phil Miller. The runoff election will be held on Student Information System (SIS) today to fill the seventh Class of 2020 seat, which was tied between Charles Brogdon-Tent and Christopher Campbell, according to Takhtani.

Campbell mentioned student life and Greek life reform, promoting healthy offerings in dining halls and improving student

printing services as issues he would focus on if elected.

“I hope that at the end of the runoff election, I will be victorious, but regardless of the outcome, the Class of 2020 has a great Senate lined up to represent them in the upcoming school year,” Campbell told the Daily in an email.

Brogdon-Tent pushed for transparency in Greek life and tuition increases, better representation for student groups on Senate and general changes in the way that Senate operates.

“We need structural changes such as allowing resolutions to be amended as they are being debated, before they are voted on,” Brogdon-Tent told the Daily in an email. “[Also] I think the Senate has avoided standing up to the administration and demanding transparency on issues like Greek life and tuition hikes.”

In the Class of 2019, next year’s senators will be Adam Rapfogel, Malachy Donovan, Emily Sim and Jacqueline Chen, all of whom are currently on Senate, in addition to newly-elected Emma Phillips, Karan Rai and Matthew Kennedy.

Kennedy explained in an email to the

Daily that his primary goal is to make TCU Senate more approachable and accessible to students.

“I ran for Senate after hearing from a lot of people that they didn’t feel represented by senators,” Kennedy said. “I found it unacceptable that students were intimidated by Senate as a group, so I decided to run to try to change that feeling.”

For the Class of 2018’s uncontested election, incumbent senators Benjamin Neikrie, Arden Fereshetian, Benya Kraus, Rati Srinivasan and Anna Del Castillo were reelected. Jordan Kemp and Seth Moreida will be the new 2018 senators. In Senate, Kemp hopes to expand opportunities for first-generation students and work to help part-time faculty.

“I feel that holding senate office will give me the opportunity [to] provide representation for students that share my mixed-race, low income and first generation identities,” Kemp told the Daily in an email.

Also elected for next year were Womens Community Senator Michelle Delk,

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Faculty in Tufts’ Portuguese and Italian programs have been working to expand opportunities for students of their respective languages.

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of Romance Languages offered a Portuguese minor for the first time, awarding its first degree to one Class of 2016 graduate who happened to have already taken the six requisite courses, according to Portuguese Program Coordinator Cristiane Soares.

“She was a senior and was able to complete the minor. It was great,

because it was just one semester [since starting the minor] and we had a person already,” Soares said.

So far four students, in addition to the one who graduated last year, have declared Portuguese minors with 10 more expected to declare in the coming years based on study abroad participation and accumulated course credits, according to Soares. Soares attributes this growing interest to the benefit of earning a credited degree for one’s coursework.

“We really give these students the opportunity to continue with Portuguese so they can show [proficiency] in their CV [and] their transcript, and that is something important,” Soares said. “It’s something practical.”

Soares added that the four current seniors who have taken Portuguese at Tufts will not be graduating with the minor, as they have not taken all of the requisite courses for the degree.

She attributed this discrepancy to students favoring courses that they knew would count towards a degree before the Portuguese minor was approved.

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Tufts and 30 other universities filed a joint amicus brief against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban on March 31, contending that the ban on visas from six predominantly Muslim countries places unwarranted restrictions on international students and faculty alike.

The decision to join the brief was made by University President Anthony Monaco, according to Senior Vice President Mary Jeka. It argues that the institutions on the brief “have a strong interest in ensuring that individuals from around the globe can continue to enter the United States and share their unique skills and perspectives.”

The brief also states that the travel ban will harm students and staff of the universities and that there is no clear evidence that citizens or visa holders of the six countries named in the ban pose any threat to the United States.

“Even though the Executive Order is currently limited to six countries, American universities are already feeling its damaging effects,” the brief said.

“The Order threatens amici’s ability to attract the best students, faculty, staff and scholars from around the world, and thus directly affects amici’s ability to pursue their missions.”

This is the second amicus brief that Tufts has joined because of an attempted travel ban. In February, Tufts and seven other Massachusetts schools filed an amicus brief challenging the original executive order signed by Trump. The current travel ban is unenforceable due to a temporary restraining order.

Jeka explained that Tufts’ opposition to the new order was tied to its fears about the school’s global reach.

“We are concerned that the executive order could limit our ability to attract quality students and faculty

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continued from page 1 LGBTQ+ Community Senator Parker Breza, Latino Community Senator Leticia Rocha, Africana Community Senator Fatima Ajose, International Community Senator Maureen Kalimba Isimbi and Asian American Community Senator Charlie Zhen.

Zhen, who has spent the past year as a Class of 2019 Senator, explained that he

ran to be a community senator to continue his work on culture club recognition and with the Asian American Center.

“I hope to make the Asian American Center more accessible for South and Southeast Asians, multiracial people and international students who may need more support,” Zhen told the Daily in an email.

In addition, according to Zhen, elections for the newly created First-

Generation Community Senator position will be held in the fall of 2017.

For the Judiciary, sophomores Kieran Taylor and Sophia Gomez, juniors Emily Tannenbaum, Meg Kenneally and Parth Patel and first-year Leo Mandani were elected. Finally, CSL’s student members for next year will be junior Erin Quinnan, first-year Dean Ericksen, sophomore Samson Braun, sophomore Marissa Birne and junior Ania Ruiz.

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continued from page 1 Chair of the Romance Languages Department Pedro Palou noted, however, that the national issue of declining interest in Romance languages has not disappeared, though language enrollment at Tufts is fairly steady.

Citing a 2015 survey by the Modern Language Association (MLA), Palou explained that dwindling interest in both Romance languages and foreign languages as a whole has been observed across the nation. The survey indicates that between 2009 and 2013, enrollment in foreign languages decreased 6.7 percent in the United States.

This trend is particularly evident in the Italian program, where, according to Italian Language Program Coordinator Cristina Pausini, enrollment has suffered in the past. She said that since the spring of 2011, an average of five undergraduate students with Italian minors have graduated annually, and that last year, the number was down to two. However, Pausini does expect five to graduate with the minor this year, followed by another five the next year.

Pausini elaborated that the overall decrease in Italian enrollment is not unique to Tufts, pointing out that recent economic and political tumult in Italy, in addition to its decrease in geopolitical prominence, have contributed to the decline.

Nonetheless, Pausini explained that a new minor for engineering students has recently been offered, with slightly different requirements. “[The engineering minor is] something that is picking up,” Pausini said.

“We would love for that to grow, because studying a language can make them a lot more marketable than just being completely proficient in their own subject.”

One limiting factor for the Italian program is the lack of a Tufts study-abroad offering in Italy, according to Pausini.

“You have to keep in mind that to open a Tufts program abroad, it costs a lot of money,” Pausini said. “We do not have the perfect numbers. Unfortunately … [the lack of a program] is hurting us as a language.”

Pausini added that a cross-disciplinary Italian study abroad program, with course options not just for students studying Italian, would be promising.

Pausini noted that the push for such a program would have to come from students.

Similarly, Soares noted that a possible Tufts Portuguese program in Brazil would be important not only to draw more people to the minor, but also to help students thoroughly learn the language.

“When you have to really use the language with a purpose, to communicate, to buy bread or to take a bus, is when you really get to know how much you can do with a language,” Soares said.

For now, however, both the Portuguese

and Italian programs are working to make their programs on the Medford/ Somerville campus more robust, according to the directors. Palou explained that the key in this process is taking advantage of Tufts’ stated commitment to active citizenship.

For example, senior Elena Bell, who will be going to Brazil on a Fulbright scholarship next year as an English teaching assistant, elaborated that one of the Portuguese program’s strengths is the presence of a large Brazilian immigrant population in the Somerville area.

Soares hopes events that engage this community, such as Brazil Week, will draw more students to the program.

The Italian program has hosted similar events, according to Palou, such as annual presentations by Italian filmmakers about the Italian immigrant experience.

Both Soares and Pausini expect their respective programs to continue to have lower enrollment yet stay healthy in the coming years, and they emphasized the continued importance of languages and humanities in an academic setting increasingly focused on STEM programs.

“Right now, students are more oriented toward something that would get them a job,” Pausini said. “They do not understand that learning how to get to know another culture actually expands their horizons in a way that lets them develop as people, not just as experts in their own field.”

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continued from page 1 from around the world,” Jeka told the Daily in an email. “These students and faculty members enhance our educational experience, enrich our culture and contribute to our economy.”

The university sees the brief as a part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen its position against Trump’s immigration action, according to Jeka.

“Joining this amicus brief is one of several ways in which Tufts has taken a leadership role on the issue of the Trump administration’s executive orders on immigration,” she wrote.

Monaco has published a number of statements challenging presidential policies since Trump took office.

On Jan. 29, he wrote a letter to the university community pledging that Tufts will not help enforce immigration laws or provide information unless mandated by a subpoena, warrant or court order.

Less than a week later, Monaco co-signed an open letter to Trump asking that he “rectify or rescind” the orig-

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ResLife to restructure staffing in central office, RA roles

by Ariel Barbieri-Aghib News Editor

The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) will be restructured for the next academic year, with new positions both in ResLife’s central office and in dorms throughout campus.

According to ResLife Director Yolanda King, the office will have an an associate director of housing operations, an associate director of residential education, three assistant directors, an off-campus housing specialist and six graduate residence directors.

The three assistant directors will be tasked with engaging the student body and organizing events based around wellness, community projects, education and social activities, according to Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon. ResLife staff will focus on more specialized responsibilities instead of being “all hands on deck,” McMahon explained.

The six graduate directors will be split between mixed housing on the Medford/Somerville campus as well as on the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts campus, McMahon said.

The SMFA has a total of 60 beds available on the Fenway campus.

The system of Area Resident Directors (ARDs), which were full-time staff responsible for overseeing an area of the on-campus housing system, will no longer exist, according to McMahon.

The ARD system was initially created in 2015 to replace a previous system of part-time directors, according to an Oct. 1, 2015 Daily article.

Additionally, Assistant Director of ResLife Jerome Holland and Assistant Director for Community and Judicial Affairs Carrie Ales are planning to leave Tufts at the end of this month, McMahon said. Holland is leaving to work at Menlo College, and Ales will work at a veterinary hospital, according to McMahon.

Other changes include a restructuring of the student Resident Assistant (RA) positions. RAs will be separated into First Year Advisors (FYAs) and Community Development Advisors (CDAs). FYAs will live in first-year housing and will act as resources for those students, according to McMahon.

The CDAs will live in mixed residence halls and have the option of bringing in other students to form a suite in the hall they are assigned to, according to McMahon. CDAs will focus on educational programming specific to returning students. The number of RAs as compared to the projected number of CDAs and FYAs will increase by about 20, putting the new total at approximately 90 CDAs and FYAs for next year, according to Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Chris Rossi.

Another change between the past RA positions and these new ones is the difference in compensation. According to McMahon, the FYAs will receive free room, a partial meal plan and a stipend, while the CDAs will only receive a partial meal plan and a stipend.

These changes to ResLife are a response to suggestions by the student body as well as a large culmination of the issues raised in the Residential Strategies

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Working Group, according to McMahon.

The working groups have allowed some Tufts students to act as representatives of the larger student body, voicing students’ concerns and proposing solutions to the administration.

“I think it’s going to be a pretty different first-year experience in a really positive way,” McMahon said.

McMahon also noted that there will be a new off-campus housing specialist, a position created to assist students not

living in dorms. This specialist will act as a resource to help off-campus students with their concerns and questions, particularly about leases, landlord issues and local regulations. Additionally, the specialist will be in charge of bringing upperclassmen back to campus, in an effort to break the off-campus and on-campus bubbles, she explained.

“A large part of the restructure is giving students what they want,” Rossi said.

Monaco hosts town hall meeting on Medford/Somerville campus

by Zachary Hertz News Editor

University President Anthony Monaco spoke about how President Donald Trump’s administration was affecting university policy, the implementation of the Student Life Review Committee and plans for renovations at a town hall meeting in ASEAN Auditorium on Thursday.

The meeting started on a light note, as Monaco praised Tufts’ current third-place standing in the Learfield Directors’ Cup. “We’re so good at athletics now that Matt Damon has decided to come work out in our fitness center not once, but twice,” Monaco said, referring to Damon’s trips to the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center on March 15 and 19.

Monaco then talked about what Tufts has done to support its faculty, students and staff following Trump’s actions on immigration.

“We have done much to make statements in support of [the international] community, as well as our Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and undocumented students, making it clear that we would not cooperate with immigration officials who wanted information or wanted to detain our students or faculty unless they had a judicial review,” Monaco said.

One way that the university is showing its support, according to Monaco, is with a video from Provost David Harris’ office that will feature local mayors, Harris, students, staff, faculty and Monaco himself welcoming international applicants to Tufts.

The university president said that

several community forums had been held to help students, staff and faculty understand and navigate how they might be affected by the executive orders and that the university had signed on to several amicus briefs to fight them.

“We are keeping a close eye on these policies and pushing back as hard as we can,” Monaco said.

Monaco mentioned that the restrictions on H1-B visa processing would make it difficult for international postdoctoral fellows, faculty or staff to continue to work at the university. He noted that although there was a slight decrease in the number of international applications for graduate and professional programs, the application deadline of Jan .1 predated the executive orders.

“But we’re worried about what yield we might get from those candidates once they’ve been accepted,” Monaco said. “We’re also worried about what the cycle might look like next year.”

Another consequence of the Trump administration, Monaco noted, is a possible decrease in the university research budget, which had already been cut by the federal government.

“We suffered, as many institutions of higher education, from three years of sequestration,” Monaco said.

According to Monaco, these budget cuts affect the schools’ research and the potential for collaboration across schools. He expressed hope that bipartisan support for research could encourage Congress to oppose further budget cuts.

Monaco then discussed the progress of the Mental Health Task Force, which was created last fall.

“I know at the undergraduate level in particular there’s been huge outreach to the community this semester, with many different student groups to get their feedback, and we hope that’ll come together with some recommendations in the fall for us to then think about implementing,” Monaco said.

Monaco also talked about the Student Life Review Committee.

“This was triggered, I think, in particular by some hazing incidents that were reported in the Greek fraternity system, and also in the sororities, but we also see these types of behaviors occurring in other student organizations, and also issues around diversity and inclusion and accessibility of these different stu-

dent organizations to the entire student body,” Monaco said.

He said that the Student Life Review Committee was created to assess student life holistically and offer recommendations on policies that could improve and rethink organizations involved in student life.

“I’m hoping to get these recommendations by May and share them with the Board of Trustees, and then bring them back to the community at the start of next semester to discuss them further before implementing them,” Monaco said.

He touched on future campus renovations and the newly formed faculty senate, before the meeting ended with a question and answer session.

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Sarabande Dance Ensemble aims to boost mood with new show “Saratonin”

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Tufts University dance group Sarabande Dance Ensemble will be giving their main performance of the semester, “Sarabande Presents: Saratonin,” April 13-15. The performance will feature 14 dances, original choreography and impressive skills.

Sarabande, which takes its name from a triple-time Spanish dance, is made up of accomplished dancers who choreograph and perform their own American contemporary dances. Their contemporary style of dance generally includes elements of ballet, jazz and modern dance. Any dancer in Sarabande can choreograph a piece for the whole company to perform, bringing their own styles and personalities to the table.

All numbers performed by Sarabande are original creations of its dancers.

Sarabande regularly guest performs for other dance events at Tufts, including “Relay for Life” and “Dance Marathon,” but has one special major performance of their own every semester.

Because of all the preparation and organization necessary to make Sarabande function, the ensemble also has a student executive board. On the board is co-producer Cecily Lo, a senior who has been with Sarabande since her first year.

Lo has been dancing since the age of 12.

She has trained in modern ballet and jazz since high school and has danced for the prestigious Joy of Motion’s Youth Dance Ensemble, the Joffrey Ballet School’s Summer Jazz & Contemporary Intensive and the International Summer Dance at Point Park University. Despite her years of experience in formal, pre-professional training, Lo is enjoying the all-student dance experience.

“A strong point [of Sarabande] is our diversity of talent. We’re mostly a contemporary dance group but with different choreographic and technical talents,” Lo said. “It allows us to learn from each other, and I’ve diversified my dancing ability through Sarabande.”

A unique feature of Sarabande is its

opportunity for students to prepare original choreography and then teach it to others. Lo has grown to love choreographing while dancing at Tufts and has choreographed a dance in every semester she has been in Sarabande. Two of her dances will be featured in “Saratonin:” an emotional, contemporary piece called “Karmic Jungle — What Dreams are Made of” as well as a contemporary jazz piece influenced by Japanese folklore called “Yurei.” The show will feature ten other contemporary pieces, as well as two entirely jazz pieces.

Preparing 14 dance numbers is a tall order for the dancers of Sarabande, as their performances usually only feature nine or 10.

“Even though more people than we have slots for wanted to choreograph, we wanted them to have that chance,” Lo explained. “We have an allotted amount of time per week in the studio space in Jackson Hall, so now we have to find different areas to dance in as well. We have to be creative.”

In addition to technical complications, getting all the choreography down in such a short time is a challenge. All 19 dancers have been practicing for many hours during the last week, and in the past three days they’ve had over 20 hours of rehearsal.

“With so many pieces, it’s taxing,” Lo said. “And we’re all sore and tired. But the excitement of the upcoming show is what’s getting us through it.”

In addition to the physical demands, much of the choreography in “Saratonin” pushes its dancers mentally and emotionally. Many dances have heavy themes and come from the personal feelings or experiences of the choreographer, meaning it’s up to the dancers to connect with the choreographer in a personal way to convey the dance as it was intended.

However, the show also stays true to the pun of its name — a play on words of the chemical serotonin that regulates happiness in the brain — with several cheerful, upbeat dances.

The name “Saratonin” has been in the

back of the group’s mind for some time, Lo explained. She said in the face of so many difficulties Sarabande “wanted an upbeat, fun show title and theme.”

According to Lo, Sarabande has only been growing in popularity and talent since its foundation.

“Six or seven years ago we were kind of an unknown group, and maybe a hundred people would come to our performances,” Lo said. “Now we consistently sell out and are better known. Our caliber is higher.”

An important factor in this year’s success is the group’s leadership, which includes seven seniors, whereas there are usually only three to five. With more experience in the company, younger dancers have more guidance and encouragement.

However, the seniors aren’t the only accomplished dancers of Sarabande.

Most dancers are classically trained and the yearly auditions for spots are competitive. Many dancers also take dance classes through the Department of Drama and Dance for academic credit.

“The performing arts scene at Tufts, through extracurricular groups and through the department, is really strong,” Lo said. “Right now, this is one of the strongest casts that we’ve had technique-wise and with choreography.”

This weekend’s performance will be the last time Lo and six other senior dancers perform in Sarabande.

“For many of us, this will probably be the last time we’ll perform on stage, which is really scary,” she said. “But at the same time, it’s a final hurrah.”

Lo also expressed gratitude for her time in Sarabande where she was able to dance with other students and choreograph her own pieces. Her contributions to “Saratonin,” particularly “Karmic Jungle — What Dreams are Made of” are not just dances or even just pieces of art to Lo. They are, in her words, “vehicles for my self-expression.”

“Sarabande Presents: Saratonin” will take place at Cohen Auditorium. Tickets are free and available at the Mayer Campus Center Information Booth.

hat do you major in if you want to change the world? International relations? Peace and justice studies? I propose an alternative: art history. There are only 16 seniors graduating this spring with a degree in art history. What this tells me is that the subject has yet to shed its reputation as an esoteric, purely aesthetic discipline.

However, all 16 of us have the capacity to make real change, and this is because art history teaches something that very few other disciplines can instill in their students: empathy.

In my first art history class at Tufts, 19th Century Art (FAH 55), we spent several weeks learning about the paintings of JacquesLouis David, whose works serve as a visual documentation of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic years. His paintings provide insight into the French psyche during this tumultuous period. While my history professor’s lectures on the Revolution provided a thorough understanding of why certain events happened when they did, my art history professor’s visual analyses of David’s paintings situated actual people within the context of revolutionary France. Contorted faces and bleeding bodies made me feel afraid and angry. The clash of silver swords, reflecting against glistening pillars, instilled patriotism in me for a country of which I’m not a citizen. I came to empathize with David and the population he represented.

In today’s stratified world, the ability to foster empathy is a valuable one. What if grade school and high school history classes were actually taught this way, combining history with art? Would students learn empathy along with strings of dates? Art has the power to incite emotion in the viewer. Imagine for a moment that a lecture in the American Studies course Race in America included a study of Kara Walker’s paintings. A good teacher will make you understand and care about America’s history of institutionalized racism. Walker’s stark depiction of racial stereotypes in America will make you FEEL something — sadness, anger, fear, motivation to take action.

If America is ever to be safe for POC and other marginalized identities, then today’s youth needs to be taught how to care about people that are different from them. I argue that fostering empathy through art has the potential to do so.

While my vision for a reimagined public school system may be far from implementation, we at Tufts have control over our course schedules. I urge you to consider studying art history seriously or supplement your education with a course in empathy—I recommend contemporary art if you’re passionate about current events or an Islamic art class if you’re focused on the Middle East. If you’re like me and intrigued by the history of socialism, you can watch it unravel through the brushstrokes of different artists over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Art history will teach you to empathize with faceless names in history books and with people whose opinions you don’t share. An interdisciplinary approach to history and current events may very well be the key to conflict resolution. After all, if we don’t understand the emotions driving people’s behavior, how can we ever hope to find common ground?

-Chloe Hyman, Polykhroma Polykhroma is an independent curating collective founded by eight students excited to encourage active engagement among our community with the arts.

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continued from back According to sophomore attacker Dakota Adamec, the team tried to make sure that giving up the lead wouldn’t affect the players’ mentality by focusing on the situation at hand.

“Yes, we were tired, but everyone had their focus on getting the next draw control,” Adamec said. “Once the ball was in our attackers’ hands, all we needed was a little patience and composure. After working the ball for a bit, we put one in the back of the net to bring us ahead 8-7.”

After retaking the lead, sophomore Annie Sullivan netted two more goals in as many minutes to counter a Red Dragons score and keep her team up 10-8 with 13 minutes remaining.

Cortland and Tufts traded goals for the rest of the game, but Tufts never lost its lead and held on for a 13-11 victory.

The Red Dragons cut the lead to one as

the game sat at 12-11 with 7:21 remaining, but junior Taylor Meek iced the game on an unassisted goal with 4:42 left to secure one of her teams’ most impressive wins of the season so far.

Overall, Mackin led Tufts with five goals and Games continued a strong breakout in her debut season with two goals and two assists. The Jumbos had a 35-23 advantage in shots and an 18-9 advantage in ground balls. Tufts also took full advantage of its free position shots against Cortland and converted four of seven after being the victim of Williams’ strong free-position shooting last week.

Adamec said the Jumbos were not expecting an easy game.

“Coming off of a loss, we had a mission to beat Cortland by fixing our problems that we had against Hamilton,” she said.

“We focused on our play and pushing the fast break in transition, which really helped get our confidence back. I feel like

we have found the connection between the offense and the defense, which will definitely translate in our future games.”

Playing against the Hamilton Continentals the day before, the Jumbos weren’t nearly as productive on offense. They were held to just six goals, tying their season low and well below their season average, by a smothering Hamilton defense that has allowed fewer than seven goals per game this season.

Mackin again was the catalyst for most of the Jumbos’ limited offensive production, recording two goals and an assist.

Both of Mackin’s goals came during the first half and they were all Tufts was able to produce as the team fell behind 5-2 going into the break, despite a 10-6 advantage in shots.

The second half did not fare much better for the Jumbos, as they were only able to get off six shots, while the Continentals had 14. Tufts cut the

lead to two with a goal by Adamec just five minutes into the second half.

The Continentals responded with three consecutive goals, and the game was never within reach again.

Hamilton’s defense was credited with 17 caused turnovers in the game, disrupting Tufts’ offensive flow and its ability to get quick shots. This translated into the Jumbos putting relatively little pressure on the Continental goalie, who faced just 16 shots the whole game.

Though Tufts sits in seventh place in the NESCAC, the team will have the chance to climb in the conference and improve its potential postseason seed on Saturday against Amherst. Three of the Jumbos’ next four games are at home and all four are against conference opponents, so they will be looking to make a late season push heading towards the NESCAC tournament.

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continued from back Fournier powered a pitch over the right field wall, scoring for herself and junior utility player Samantha Siciliano.

Senior utility player Shelby Lipson’s RBI double in the third frame added to Tufts’ lead. Meanwhile, O’Connor improved her record to 5-1 by holding the Beavers scoreless in four innings of work. Sophomore pitcher Amolee Hawkins contributed an inning of scoreless relief to complete the shutout.

O’Connor credited her teammates for enabling her and her fellow pitchers’ successes this season.

“We have a really strong pitching staff as a whole, and I think we all complement each other,” she said. “If someone throws up-pitches really well, somebody else throws really good down-pitches. I think that we have great defense behind all the pitchers. We have great catching this season … and we’ve had really great support with our hitting also.”

Earlier that day, Babson defeated Tufts 9-4. The visitors began the game scoring three runs in the second courtesy of a two-run single by junior catcher/ utility player Sara Willner-Giwerc and a sacrifice fly by senior outfielder Maggie Hoffman. The Jumbos’ 3-0 advantage vanished in the bottom of the third inning, however, as two errors allowed six runs — five of which were unearned

— to cross the plate. The Beavers tacked onto their lead in the fifth and sixth frames, and a sixth inning run-scoring fielder’s choice by first-year outfielder Emily Serata did little to change the outcome of the contest.

Horowitz praised the team’s resilience in winning the second game against Babson.

“We certainly didn’t come out the way we wanted to come out in the first game, and it almost felt like we beat ourselves, so that was pretty disappointing,” she said. “But we did show a lot of grit and relentlessness in the second game by coming right back out and run-ruling the other team. It was good to see we had a lot of fight in us.”

On Sunday, Tufts improved its 2017 NESCAC East division record to 4-0 by edging out Bates, 2-1. Both of Tufts’ scores came on Siciliano’s two-run single to center, plating senior tri-captain outfielder Carrie Copacino and junior catcher Sarah Finnigan. First-year pitcher Allison Tilton took care of the rest with relative ease, striking out a career-high eight batters in her teamhigh fourth complete game.

Earlier that day, Tufts blanked Colby 8-0 in five innings. Junior pitcher/utility player Raina Galbiati tossed a gem, scattering six singles and striking out six in a complete game shutout. After scoring two runs in the first frame and ousting Colby hurler Wiley Holton, the

Jumbos blew the game open with a fiverun third.

Ruscz began the inning by socking a home run over the left field wall. After Fournier doubled and first-year infielder Jamie Stevens singled, a groundout to third by Galbiati allowed Stevens to advance to second. With one out and runners in scoring position, junior outfielder/catcher Michelle Chisdak delivered with an RBI groundout to first that plated Fournier. During the next at-bat, Horowitz slapped an RBI single to bring home Stevens. Siciliano’s two-run double to left field later that same inning cemented Tufts’ control over the contest.

After going 5-for-35 (.143) while in Florida, Horowitz has significantly improved at the plate by going 4-for-14 (.286) in her first six games back from the trip. The Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. native acknowledged her early-season struggles while expressing hope that her hitting would improve as the season progresses.

“Offensively, I’ve been off to a really slow start, so I’ve just been working hard,” she said. “I’m still not where I want to be, but I’m sure that as the season goes on, with enough practice, I’ll get there.”

The day before, Tufts won both its games against Colby in five innings.

The Jumbos began their defense of the NESCAC East Division title by beating the Mules 19-1. Nine Jumbos plated runs, led by Hoffman’s four RBIs in

the first two innings alone. Tilton and Hawkins combined ceded a single run while striking out seven.

In the next contest, the hosts once again trounced the visiting Mules 9-1.

After surrendering a first inning solo shot to junior catcher Skylar Labbe, O’Connor managed not to concede any more runs. Horowitz responded with a one-run dinger of her own in the second, and Copacino gave Tufts the lead with an RBI single to left in the fourth frame.

The Jumbos tacked on four runs in both the fourth and fifth innings, capped by a game-ending two-run three-bagger

by Fournier. In doing so, the Springfield, Mass. native recorded her seventh career triple, thereby vaulting to fourth on Tufts’ all-time record list.

According to O’Connor, the team’s chemistry continues to improve.

“I think that we’ve come into working together as a team,” she said. “At the beginning of [the team’s trip to] Florida, it was interesting to see the team dynamic and how everybody was on the field for the first time. Since then, we’ve gotten a lot more comfortable with each other … I think the team is just working really well together so far.”

The Jumbos next travel to Hartford, Conn. to square off against the Trinity Bantams (14-9). The first installment of the three-game series will take place today at 4 p.m.

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Tufts bounces back from tough NESCAC loss with stunning upset

by Sam Weidner

Assistant Sports Editor

Though still struggling within the conference, the Jumbos (7-4 overall, 2-4 NESCAC) capped off an undefeated 5-0 record in non-conference play this season with an impressive pair of wins this week.

Quickly rebounding from a tough loss on the road to then-No. 15 Hamilton on Saturday, the Jumbos upset ninth-ranked SUNY Cortland in another away game on Sunday and then dominated visiting Keene State on Wednesday. The win over the Red Dragons on Sunday also snapped the hosts’ 82-game home winning streak at the Stadium Complex in Cortland, N.Y. First-year Emily Games noted that the Jumbos were able to learn from the weaknesses in their play on Saturday to bounce back the next day.

“There are usually some specific goals after [each] game that we will try to work on,” Games said. “Sometimes it will be draw control, sometimes it will be ground balls, the transition or just our shooting. It really is different each game.”

In their final non-conference game of the regular season on Wednesday, Tufts handily defeated Keene State 16-3.

The Jumbos played some of their best lacrosse of the spring against the Owls, particularly in a lopsided first half that saw seven different Jumbos score to jump out to a 12-0 lead. Tufts’ defense also completely shut down Keene State’s offense for most of the game, refusing to concede a single shot until almost 10 minutes had elapsed in the second half.

Coach Courtney Shute brought some of the younger players off the bench in

Junior midfielder Caroline Nowak defends during Tufts’ 16-8 win against Claremont-M-S on March 15. the second half. First-year goalie Kelly Melin saw her first action of the season, making three saves against six shots in 30 minutes of play, while first-years Alison Moky and Dana Gill were among the three new Jumbos to tally goals in the half. The Jumbos again outscored the Owls 4-3 in the second period and coasted to an expected victory.

Sunday’s victory against SUNY

Cortland was similarly due to a hot start, as Tufts scored the first six goals of the game and didn’t concede a goal until 1:36 remained in the first half. The Red Dragons had not lost at home since March 23, 2010 — ironically in a loss to Hamilton — going into the match-up.

But senior quad-captain Kate Mackin helped power the Jumbos from the starting whistle, scoring four of the team’s first

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five goals. Cortland’s first score late in the half, however, kicked off a quick threegoal spurt that cut Tufts’ lead to three heading into the break.

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Jumbos 5-1 in April games, face three-game series at Trinity

by Sam Weitzman

Assistant Sports Editor

After wet weather washed out a week of games, the Jumbos (14-6) returned to the diamond eager to extend their fourgame winning streak that began during

spring break. The team played six games in four days, starting with home contests against the Colby Mules (7-12) and the Bates Bobcats (5-7) before traveling to face the Babson Beavers (16-9).

According to senior first baseman Summer Horowitz, the rainy weather

exacerbated the difficulties of readjusting to playing against NESCAC teams after a two-week break.

“This year was a particularly hard adjustment in that we had two weeks off between when we got back from Florida and when we played due to the

weather,” she said. “It almost felt like we had a second preseason, which was a bit disappointing because everyone comes back [wanting] it to be nice outside after coming back from the beautiful weather of Florida.”

Horowitz added that the games against NESCAC opponents are comparatively more important, therefore requiring more focus from the players.

“It’s less of a grind and more of a conscious effort into playing our best softball,” she said.

First-year pitcher and first baseman Gillian O’Connor elaborated on the additional challenges that came from moving from one-off contests to the two- and three-game series format.

“If we have to play the same team a few times in a row, we have to change our approach every game. So, we change up positions [and] change up our game plan, and obviously, the other team’s probably going to change up their pitchers and everything as well,” O’Connor said.

“Whereas if we see a new team every game, then it’s going to be different.”

On Tuesday, Tufts split a two-game series against Babson and won the second encounter 8-0 in five innings.

The Jumbos scored five runs in the first inning, spearheaded by senior tri-captain first baseman Cassie Ruscz’s three-run shot to left. During the next inning, junior catcher/outfielder Raven

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Then-junior first baseman Summer Horowitz hits the ball during Tufts’ 7-5 win against Bowdoin on April 1, 2016.