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Students archive computer science creations through Tufts.io see FEATURES / PAGE 3

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Jumbos fight for playoff contention against Bates

Art and objectification: What does an all-black Spring Fling lineup mean for Tufts? see WEEKENDER / PAGE 4

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New study abroad course offerings available during summer session by Daniel Caron

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For the first time, Tufts will be offering two study abroad programs for students during the summer 2017 session. “Rome in Focus: Philosophy & Photography in the Eternal City” is a new course offered by the Department of Philosophy, while “Bridging Venice” is a course that was previously only offered at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). Julie Graham, lecturer of painting at the SMFA and one of the instructors for “Bridging Venice,” explained that part of the focus of the course is to view art in context. “It’s a class for artists and people who are really interested in art … and we will be in Venice for a few weeks during the Venice Biennale, which is one of the foremost art venues in the world,” Graham said. “We will spend a lot of time at the Biennale and the outlying exhibitions.” According to Graham, the Venice Biennale is an opportunity to see a wide variety of contemporary art. “[It’s an] opportunity to see one of the major art exhibitions in the world that

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‘Rome in Focus’ is one of the summer study abroad programs Tufts will be offering. happens every other year in Venice. It’s one of the oldest biennales … in which artists from all over the world participate,” Graham said. “So it’s an incredible

opportunity to see what’s going on in the contemporary world around the globe.” Graham believes that this course would be less effective if held in a tradi-

tional classroom because of the benefits of seeing art in person. see STUDY ABROAD, page 2

Ming Chow wins award for outstanding teaching by Aneurin Canham-Clyne Assistant News Editor

Ming Chow, a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, has won this year’s Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Advising. The award is given annually to a professor in the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering, according to an announcement by the School of Engineering. Dean of Arts and Sciences James Glaser said that the award is a major recognition of Chow’s commitment to his students as well as his excellence and creativity as a teacher. The prize, which was first awarded to Gerald Gill in 1998, is a premier teaching award intended to recognize faculty who make a difference for students, Glaser said. He added that all full-time faculty are eligible for the award, regardless of tenure eligibility. Spencer Perry, a sophomore working as a teaching assistant for Chow’s class COMP-20, noted that Chow genuinely cares about his students and goes well beyond the normal expectations for a professor.

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“I’ve emailed him at just heinous times or over the weekend and he’s always very prompt in his response. He also has more office hours than any other computer science teacher I know of,” Perry said. In addition, Perry emphasized that Chow’s connections to the technology industry meant that many students went to Chow for advice about internships. “He’s definitely the point person for anything related to a real world job in computer science,” Perry said. Perry said that Chow is skilled at informally connecting students with people in the industry and the academic field. Chow agreed that Tufts should emphasize connecting people with alumni. He added that he hopes to support students by sharing his experience. “I use war stories, experiences, that one luxury I do have compared to a lot of people here. I talk about failure, mistakes, what it was like to build systems in production,” Chow said. Chow is co-teaching a course with Professor of Political Science Jeffrey see MING CHOW, page 2

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continued from page 1 “We all look at digital images online and in books, which is wonderful, but it doesn’t compare to seeing the real things in person,” Graham said. Meanwhile, “Rome in Focus” will incorporate both philosophy and photography. It will address the philosophical contrast between insiders and outsiders and the political and social ramifications of these relations, Stephen Martin, program manager for the philosophy department and an instructor for “Rome in Focus,” explained. “We ourselves will be outsiders to Rome, which is this ancient city that has had a lot of insiders represented in its population,” he said. The course will include two weeks in the city of Rome, but Martin believes this may not be enough time to fill the introductory class with rigorous material. “The real challenge I would say of doing short-term international programs is that it’s difficult to pack everything in,” Martin said.

To solve this, the course has an online supplement that students complete before going to Rome, he explained. “We see the two weeks in Rome as the culmination of … a six-week program,” Martin said. “So the first four weeks starting in May … we [will have] online modules, each of which is designed to anticipate a different day in Rome.” According to Martin, studying philosophy and photography in conjunction helps build connections between the two. “We really think that artists … are concerned with deeply philosophical questions and we are interested in having conversations with artists in this respect,” he said. Martin suggested that this course could change people’s perceptions of philosophy. “There is [an] opportunity here to show that philosophy, like photography, can be this completely active discipline where you’re getting out into the world, being stimulated in various ways and using that stimulation to generate new ideas and explore the intellectual world,” he said. Martin explained that one potential

benefit of summer study abroad programs is that they allow students to view their studies in a new perspective due to the new environment in which they are taught. However, this environment sometimes leads students to take summer courses less seriously, and Martin hopes this will not be the case with his course. “I think that our major hurdle is that Tufts students do not think of the summer session as anything but a time to maybe check off some boxes [so] that you don’t have to do it in the [next year],” Martin said. “They don’t really think of it as a time to do really cool, groundbreaking stuff.” According to John Barker, the dean of international education and extended programming, Tufts hopes to create more of these abroad courses in the future. “It is truly exciting to collaborate with the campus community to bring new programs and international opportunities to our students at Tufts,” Barker told the Daily in an email. “In the future, we will continue to develop new programs that meet faculty and student needs to create new dynamic international opportunities.”

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continued from page 1 Taliaferro this semester about the intersection of technology and security in the context of cyberwar, according to Perry. “If you’re making policy, knowing the details is important,” Perry said. “It’s about actually giving a crap about the world around you and not getting too dug down in the nitty-gritty code and realizing that these things have a real world impact.” Chow said that the key to teaching is showing students what they can be instead of telling them what they should be. He noted that this award reflected his influences as a teacher and the influences of other faculty members in the computer science department. “I’ll be honest, there’s nothing special at all,” Chow said. “A lot of it is based on

a couple things. For one, you’ve got to be there for students and be responsive. I don’t do anything elaborate.” Chow emphasized that his teaching has built on the experience of other computer science professors, many of whom have previously won the Lerman-Neubauer Prize. Chow claimed that the award belongs not just to him but to all the teachers who have influenced him. He mentioned that his inspirations include Senior Lecturer of Education Steven Cohen, Professor of Computer Science Robert Jacob, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Benjamin Hescott and Associate Professors of Computer Science Norman Ramsey and Alva Couch. “Those are the people that stand the test of time,” Chow said.

According to Glaser, the winner is selected by a committee headed by Dean of Undergraduate Studies Carmen Lowe and the previous two recipients of the award. This committee, Glaser noted, is tasked with compiling student recommendations and looking at the individual nominees. Perry emphasized how much of a presence Chow is for computer science students in Halligan Hall. “He’s basically given up his office because he prefers sitting on the couches talking to people. I think everyone feels like they could just ask him everything and anything,” Perry said. “He’s a character in every sense of the word. I think sometimes people classify him as a crazy fun personality, but I think sometimes in that narrative people lose track of just how much he cares.”

Police Briefs – April 28 Due Dates A student sent in a report to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) at 12:41 p.m. on April 20 after finding that a book he had bought online from the bookstore was marked as active property of Tufts. Earlier on, the student thought he had misplaced some of his history textbooks from the library, so he kept extending their due dates until he could find the books elsewhere. Eventually, he bought replacements for the books from the bookstore. When he received the books, he noticed that one was stamped as Tufts property. It is unknown how the book had traveled away from Tufts.

and offering treatment to the bicyclist. She refused medical treatment, and there were no serious injuries.

A Good Sport On April 20 at around 4 p.m., two nonTufts affiliated individuals were involved in a collision on College Avenue. One of them was riding her bike down the street when she was hit by a car in front of the Steven A. Tisch Sports and Fitness Center. The driver stopped and exchanged information with her. TUPD officers assisted the Medford Police Department and an ambulance in checking on the incident

“You Can’t Stop the Music” At 8:30 p.m. on April 22, the Director of Campus Life called TUPD to ask for help with a student. The Director was trying to inform a student that they couldn’t perform at Tufts Dance Collective (TDC) but the student would not listen. TUPD officers intervened. The student was uncooperative with TEMS and TUPD officers but was evaluated and eventually transported to the hospital.

“I Used to be An Adventurer Like You…” A student called TUPD to request medical aid on April 22 at 8:57 a.m. after he woke up to find his knee swollen and uncomfortable. He reported having previously dislocated the knee while walking. The student had then popped his knee back in and continued about his day. TUPD officers and Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) responded to the call.

At 9 p.m. that night, another TDC performer was reported as unsteady on her feet and having slurred speech. This prompted a TUPD and TEMS response. She was evaluated by TEMS and transported to the hospital for further evaluation. At the same TDC event at around 10 p.m., another student was seen carrying alcohol in the performer’s area. Upon discovery, she tried to evade the TUPD officers. She was caught, the alcohol was confiscated and the student was reported to the Dean of Student Affairs. Around the same time at the same event, a female student was reported for using obscenities toward the Director of Campus Life. The student was told not to stand in the hallways of the performance area in Aidekman Arts Center, which prompted her response. TUPD informed her of who she had been rude to and sent the student to speak with the Dean of Student Affairs about the incident.

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When senior Richard Kim interned at Google last summer, he was fascinated by one of the features of their Wi-Fi network. According to Kim, a computer science major, the “go/” feature at Google allowed interns and employees to create web pages for one another that exist only on the Google Wi-Fi network. Pages such as “go/imstarving” would yield nearby places to eat, while “go/help” would send users to a help resource. Kim wanted to bring this idea back to Tufts, and the result has been tufts.io. Tufts.io, as a domain, has a longer and more winding story. The original URL was bought by a student in the Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies (ELS) program who wanted to create a network for entrepreneurs at Tufts, according to Kim. It was then bought by senior Tom Wang, a computer science major who wanted to create a place for students to build projects online. The domain was then purchased by senior Alex Lenail before Kim obtained it from him. Kim used the domain to help facilitate the Polyhack hackathon in the fall, of which he was the lead organizer. During the hackathon, he realized that tufts.io could serve a similar purpose as “go/” for computer science students and spent much of last December working on it. He explained that tufts.io is a sort of archive for computer science projects that students build over the years. “If someone builds a Rate My Professors for Tufts, then they submit it to this [tufts.io],” Kim said. “In five years time, if someone wants to build a new Rate My Professors for Tufts, then it’ll exist here in the archive, almost like a Google for Tufts projects.” Kim hopes that through this domain, computer science majors will be able to more easily collaborate on projects and pass their projects down to future generations. He sees this as the solution to a real problem with the computer science department and among its students. “Tufts CS isn’t cumulative, that’s the problem,” Kim said. “One of the differences between Tufts CS, Harvard CS and MIT

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The inspiration for tufts.io, a domain for students’ computer science projects, came from Tufts’ Polyhack hackathon on Oct. 14-15. CS is that at MIT, when students build a project, I think a lot of the time it has an impact and stays around.” Tufts.io, which was co-created by junior Max Bernstein, has already been put to use for this purpose. One example of the numerous projects on tufts. io is StudentBridge, an Android app developed by senior Nicholas Carlino and junior Georgios Papakostas. StudentBridge allows students or teachers who are a part of a university to ask any questions to be answered by others from around their university community. Many of the projects on tufts.io are final projects from computer science classes such as COMP 20: Web Programming or COMP 150: Mobile Development. The current iteration of tufts.io is fairly different from Kim’s initial vision. Kim had wanted to create a platform that any member of the Tufts community could use to build web pages that would only be available to Tufts Wi-Fi users.

However, Tufts Technology Services (TTS) turned down this idea last semester. According to Kim, TTS argued that without any way to regulate the pages created and the content that would go on the site, it could pose security threats to users and to the university. The future of tufts.io might lie outside of the computer science community. Sophomore Selena Groh, the producer of Torn Ticket II’s spring musical “Chicago,” said that the site also has potential as a link shortener, much like TinyURL or bitly. Torn Ticket II used the site to feature programs for “Chicago” online, which proved to be more cost effective than printing the programs. “I thought it would be nice to just have tufts.io/chicago,” Groh said. “And since there is less on tufts.io, you have a choice of what you want the slash to be. I was trying to find that online. Apparently a lot of places don’t let you do that, but tufts.io did.”

As of now, Kim has turned his attention to a project known as JumboSmash, a dating app for seniors that will be launched during senior week. Kim hopes that Bernstein will continue to work on the app after he graduates. Bernstein, also a computer science major, has some ideas for how to further develop the project, but hasn’t nailed down the specifics just yet. In particular, he would like to try to make the domain specific to Tufts Wi-Fi, despite the concerns of TTS. “I had some initial ideas that would involve requiring users to add a setting or two to their computers to get [that] kind of functionality,” Bernstein said. “I have qualms with these ideas though. They would give the maintainer of the service far too much power over how people using tufts.io would view the internet. … I think it’s certainly possible with some imagination and a bit of persuasion, but I don’t know the answer yet.”

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Spring Fling lineup raises questions about dynamics between black artists and largely non-black audience

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Tinashe performs at Heaven in London on March 2, 2015. by Paige Spangenthal Assistant Arts Editor

This year’s Spring Fling will have the first all-black lineup since 1982, when Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers and Chubby Checker performed at Tufts. The 2017 lineup, which originally consisted of T-Pain, Tinashe and Aminé, was selected amid complaints about inadequate race representation among performers at the annual concert. When the original lineup was announced on March 13, Tufts University Social Collective ( TUSC) Concert Co-Chair Alex Mitchell told the Daily that the past few years’ lineups had been criticized for not having enough representation for people of color, and TUSC Concert wanted to respond to those criticisms. Since then, T-Pain has cancelled his Spring Fling appearance. Instead, Tinashe will headline the show and Metro Boomin will join as an opener, maintaining the presence of black artists in the lineup. Jonathan Moore, a senior majoring in Africana studies and American studies, spoke about his thoughts about the lineup and, more generally, the interactions between black art and largely nonblack audiences. “I’m happy black people are coming for Spring Fling,” Moore said. “That’s amazing. I hope that that trend is replicated in other groups. I hope it’s replicated in funding. I hope it’s replicated in speakers that the university brings for its lecture series. I hope that it’s replicated in commencement speakers.” Moore also discussed the ways that representation can be further improved at Spring Fling and other events on campus. He noted the lack of non-black artists who are not white at previous years’ Spring Fling concerts. “I can’t think of any Asian artists, I can’t think of any Latino artists, which I think speaks to a larger problem of reducing university concerts or public concerts to independent white people or headlining rappers,” he said, adding that the lack of diversity within

Spring Fling’s black performers reflected Tufts’ wider creative climate. “Maybe it wouldn’t be so hard to find black artists … that come from a variety of different musical backgrounds if, through the other nine months, campus organizations were adamant about bringing black artists to campus, whether it’s musicians, whether it’s contemporary artists, whether it’s performance artists,” he said. Moore cited Trapfest Weekend, hosted by the Africana Center from April 28 to 30, as an alternative event to Spring Fling that promotes the diversity within black music. He encouraged students disheartened with the lack of representation at Spring Fling to donate time and energy to Trapfest. Spring Fling’s all-black lineup has the potential to raise other race-related questions: What is the role of a non-black audience member at Spring Fling? Which behaviors are appropriate and which are violent or unacceptable? In particular, racial slurs could cause controversy on Saturday, given that Tinashe, Aminé and Metro Boomin all use the n-word in their most popular songs. While singing along to songs like Aminé’s “Caroline” (2016), some non-black students may choose to omit the slur in the lyrics, while others may include it. In a more recent interview with the Daily, Mitchell and fellow TUSC Concert Co-Chair Gracie Kanigher expressed their expectations for non-black concertgoers at Spring Fling. “Be respectful. Be a good person,” Kanigher said. “I think that you should just try and be a conscious and responsible person.” Mitchell added, “Explicitly addressing what Gracie’s getting at, don’t say the n-word in the songs.” Moore discussed the complex relationship between language, race and music. “Concerts tend to be public environments where language is contended more so than in other spaces,” he said. “In those environments, people feel entitled to language in a way that they might not otherwise … they’re more comfortable expressing their entitlement than they normally are.”

Moore explained that concerts can cultivate a crowd mentality in which people can feel supported by one another to engage in acts of racism and violence. This group mentality is fueled by an unwillingness of audience members to think critically about the music they are hearing, he said. “[It] has to do with black art being seen as something that is free for consumption without having any sort of thoughtful relationship,” he said. “At large, I think non-black people have very thoughtless relationships to black cultural productions, whether that’s black writing, black music or feeling that you can inhabit the body of a black basketball player.” Moore cited a specific incident that demonstrates this relationship of consumption between non-black audiences and black artists. When rapper Noname came to Boston on March 3, she performed her song “Casket Pretty” (2016), which is about her relationship to the black people in her life who have been murdered. “Non-black people in the crowd were singing along with her and she ended up stopping and saying, ‘Why are you singing this with me? This isn’t your story, I don’t want you to sing this with me.’ I thought it was really powerful, and I wish I had been there,” Moore said. Moore explained that the n-word has its origins in objectification and violence, leading to a disparity in the relationships that black people and non-black people have with black performers. “A lot of black people do not feel safe when they are surrounded by non-black people saying ‘n—-.’ Those same people saying ‘n—-’ feel pretty safe. That’s a problem to me,” he said. “When black people go to concerts, we know that non-black people, their relationship to those people on stage is not just one of consuming their art, but consuming them. Moore described steps that Tufts can take as a community to prevent Spring Fling from turning into a dangerous environment for black people this year. He hoped that, before saying the n-word, non-black people will ask themselves, “Is me saying this worth

making a black person uncomfortable? Is me saying this worth evoking and dabbling in a violent history that I am a part of? If I am a non-black person and I choose to do that, am I prepared for the repercussions?” Moore also urged non-black students to think about where their desire to say the n-word comes from. “If people just thought where the compulsion to say certain things comes from and thought about it not as ‘Can I or can’t I?’ but rather ‘Why do I want to?’ they might actually get somewhere,” he said. Associate Professor of Music Stephan Pennington echoed these questions. “I think people need to be a bit more self-critical about the things that they enjoy,” Pennington said. “Why are you saying it? What charge are you getting out of it?” Pennington reflected on the enjoyment that non-black people derive from black art and the ways in which this enjoyment can turn into fetishization. He spoke about the ways that nonblack consumers can dehumanize black artists and project unrealistic fantasies upon them. “For me, it’s about fantasy and humanity. This particular sort of fetishization of black pain happens all the time. Black anger, black violence, black pain, it’s a fantasy,” he said. “That’s the story of American popular music. It’s theft disguised as appreciation.” Reversing these problematic thought processes requires non-black people to reflect on their own position in systems of music consumption, Pennington said. “I think the only way for people to work through this is to decolonize their mind,” he said. “I think that people have to do a lot of self-work and be self-critical.” Moore also emphasized the importance of critical thinking. “Black students and non-black students would benefit from thinking through the type of environment that we create when we have concerts like this,” he said. “I want the community to hold people accountable when [these] things happen, but that requires people to think.”

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Jumbos take two out-of-three from Polar Bears by Sam Weitzman

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The Jumbos (18-12) concluded their 12-game road trip this weekend by traveling to Pickard Field in Brunswick, Maine for a three-game swing against their NESCAC East rivals, the Bowdoin Polar Bears (24-8). Although the Polar Bears entered the series on a 12-game winning streak, the Jumbos won two out of three games to keep their playoff hopes alive. Tufts beat Bowdoin twice on Sunday. In the first leg of the doubleheader, the Jumbos thumped the Polar Bears, 8-1. Bowdoin’s solitary run came on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first inning. After that, first-year Gillian O’Connor and sophomore Amolee Hawkins, both pitchers, combined to keep the Polar Bears scoreless. The Jumbos’ bats, meanwhile, were largely silent for four innings before exploding for seven runs in the fifth. For the game, senior first baseman Summer Horowitz and first-year infielder Jamie Stevens had two hits and two RBIs each. Stevens has shone offensively in her first season with the Jumbos, slashing .433/.466/.627 with three home runs and 17 RBIs. According to coach Cheryl Milligan, Stevens is productive no matter where she is slotted in the batting order. “Jamie [Stevens] has been a great contributor for us. She has been able to help us start off innings as well as drive in runs,” Milligan told the Daily in an email. “For our money, we have used her in spots in the lineup where we need to be effective, both getting on and driving in RBIs. She takes great swings and has been excellent about learning about hitting, making good decisions and getting better and more confident.” In the second game of the day, Tufts beat Bowdoin, 6-3. O’Connor was effective in her second start of the afternoon, holding Bowdoin to three runs in six innings. Meanwhile, sophomore Christian Cain put Tufts’ first runs on the board in the top of the fourth with a two-run single. After Bowdoin’s junior infielder Lauren O’Shea halved the deficit to 2-1 with an RBI groundout in the bottom of the fourth, Tufts’ offense put the game out of reach with four runs in the top of the fifth. With one out and runners at first and second, junior catcher/outfielder Raven Fournier slashed a RBI double down the right field line. In the next at-bat, Horowitz plated both Fournier and senior tri-captain first baseman Cassie Ruscz with a two-run single. Milligan praised the performances of O’Connor and the other first-year pitchers. “Gillian [O’Connor] had a great day on

Sunday and helped us through some tough games when we really needed her,” Milligan said. “Overall, [the first-year pitchers] have received a lot of feedback, and we are beginning to make our pitches and be more effective in the edges of the zone. We have been [on] a learning curve to keep our pitches from creeping up in the zone and coming over the middle of the plate.” The day before, Bowdoin won the first game in the series, 4-3. With the game deadlocked at two runs apiece in the top of fourth inning, first-year outfielder Emily Serata doubled down the left field line to score firstyear pitcher/outfielder Maria Ostapovich and give Tufts a 3-2 lead. Bowdoin responded in the bottom half of the inning, however, tying the game on an RBI double by junior catcher/outfielder Jordan Gowdy. The Polar Bears took the lead for good in the sixth frame with an RBI single by senior tri-captain infielder Marisa O’Toole. On April 19, the Jumbos recovered from a five-game losing streak to beat the MIT Engineers (21-9) twice. Tufts won the early game, 8-0, in five innings. Junior pitcher/utility player Raina Galbiati tossed a onehit complete game shutout for the Jumbos. Tufts’ offense, meanwhile, jumped out to an early lead by scoring four runs in the top half of the first and never looked back. Stevens led the offense by going 3-for-3 with three RBI. Sophomore catcher/utility player Kelsey Dion described the emotional importance of beating MIT to end Tufts’ losing streak. “It was great to get our bats going and play well against a historically good, ranked program,” Dion told the Daily in an email. “We got some really positive momentum and energy in game one [by] ending the game in five innings, which carried nicely and gave us confidence going into game two.” Later that same day, the Jumbos beat the Engineers, 7-3. O’Connor held MIT to three runs and six hits in seven solid innings of work. Meanwhile, Tufts scored four runs in the second and added insurance runs in the third and fourth frames. All told, seven different Jumbos crossed the plate in the victory. On April 17, Tufts lost both games against Williams (24-10). In the earlier match-up, first-year pitcher/outfielder Rebecca Duncan outdueled Galbiati, and Williams staved off a Tufts comeback attempt to put out a 3-2 win. With two outs, a runner on first and the team trailing by two in the top of the fifth, Ruscz socked a two-run shot down the left field line to tie the game. With her fifth home run in as many games, Ruscz became the first NESCAC player this season to reach double-digit dingers. Just as they lived by the

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Junior Samatha Siciliano bats during a game against Bowdoin on April 1, 2016. home run, however, so too did the Jumbos die by the home run. With one out in the bottom of the fifth, Ephs sophomore infielder Jessica Kim drilled a ball over the left field wall to give her team the lead for good. In the later contest, the Ephs cowed the Jumbos, 9-1, in five innings. Kim opened the scoring for the hosts in the bottom of the first with a leadoff solo shot to left. Williams broke the game open with a five-run second, and Tufts never recovered. The only Jumbos score came on a fifth-inning RBI single by Stevens. On April 15, the Trinity Bantams (1811) closed out a three-game sweep of the Jumbos with two wins. In the first game, the Bantams withstood the Jumbos, 6-5. After Tufts scored two runs off Trinity’s first-year pitcher Lindsay Golia in the top half of the first, Trinity promptly replied in the bottom half of the inning with a two-run home run by junior infielder Michelle Treglia. Ruscz opened the fifth inning with a solo shot, and Tufts added two more runs in the sixth via an RBI double by junior utility player Samantha Siciliano and an RBI hit-by-pitch by Fournier. Tufts did not score again, however, and Golia earned her team-best ninth win with a complete-game performance. Later that day, the Bantams beat the Jumbos, 6-3. Trinity sophomore Courtney Erickson opened the scoring in the bottom of the first with a two-run single, and two Bantam RBI singles in the second inning gave Trinity a 4-0 lead. Tufts got on the board in the third frame, but an inning later, sophomore catcher Nicole Towner drove a tworun double to center, and the Jumbos could not muster a rally in the seventh inning. The day before, Trinity overcame Tufts in the series opener, 6-3. The Bantams notched

their first run in the bottom of the first when a single by first-year first baseman/catcher Natalie Bruno plated Towner. The Jumbos answered in the third inning when Siciliano tied the game with an RBI single. The next batter up, Ruscz, smashed a two-run home run to give the visitors a two-score advantage. In the bottom half of the third, however, Trinity demonstrated the notorious fragility of a 3-1 lead. The Bantams scored three runs of their own, courtesy of an RBI double by junior outfielder Meaghan Race and a two-run single by junior first baseman/third baseman Katharine Haghdan. Haghdan slapped another two-run single in the fifth inning to seal up the game for the hosts. Reflecting on the Jumbos’ season so far, one of the strongest predictors of victory has been scoring first. While Tufts is 12-4 in games that it scores first, the team is 6-8 in those contests where its opponents plate the first runs. When asked, Serata affirmed the importance of getting on the scoreboard first. “Scoring first is definitely something we emphasize as a team,” Serata told the Daily in an email. “It definitely gives everyone confidence and causes everyone to play more loose when we have a lead.” This weekend, the Jumbos close out their regular season with two home match-ups against the Bates Bobcats (10-13). Serata underscored the postseason ramifications of the encounter. “Winning the games against Bates [is] crucial this weekend to get to the NESCAC tournament,” she said. “I feel like the team’s momentum is moving in the right direction after our games at Bowdoin, and we are all excited to play this weekend.” The first game in the series begins on Sunday at 12 p.m.

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continued from back ble and O’Hara slapped an RBI single to give Tufts a 5-1 lead. The Jumbos added to their lead in the fourth when O’Hara hit a solo shot to right field. A number of Tufts players have been having strong offensive seasons, with eight players boasting a batting average of .300 or better. Shackelford holds the team’s highest batting average, hitting .406 in 22 games played with 15 runs and 26 hits on the season. Despite this, he explained that he does not look at his statistics. “I made a decision at the beginning of the year … that I wasn’t going to look at stats at all and that has helped me a lot,” Shackelford said. “Being a sophomore, I didn’t start many games last year at all so I was hoping I would get an opportunity this year. As I’ve had opportunities, I just tried to play baseball as well as I can each game and I try to have a whatever happens, happens kind of mentality.”

Shackelford has a simple mentality about his at-bats. “When I walk up to the plate, I try to clear my mind,” he said. “I get the sign from coach and I get into the box and I really just try to see and hit the ball. I simplify it down … because it’s so easy to overcomplicate hitting and try to do too much when you are at the plate.” O’Hara was named the NESCAC Baseball Player of the Week after he went 8-for-17 (.471) in the last five games. In the Bowdoin series alone, O’Hara went 5-for-11 (.455) with four RBI. For the season, O’Hara is ranked first in the NESCAC in walks with 24, second in home runs with three, second in on-base percentage at .504, fifth in RBIs with 26 and sixth in runs scored with 29. Looking ahead, the team will host Bates at home for a decisive three-game series this weekend. With Bates ranked first in the East, the winner of this series will clinch first

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Senior pitcher Matt Rothstein pitches during the game against the Roger Williams Hawks at Huskins Field on April 11. in the playoff rankings, while the loser will take second. “This is a pretty big week for us as we are getting close to the playoffs,” Santos-Ocampo

said. “Our mentality is focusing on winning every pitch and every inning. With the talent we have on this roster, I think we can go pretty far as long as we are mentally there.”

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Jumbos close out regular season with four losses, gear up for NESCAC quarterfinals by Maddie Payne Sports Editor

The Jumbos closed out the regular season on Wednesday with a 19-15 loss against the Bowdoin Polar Bears. Last Saturday, Tufts also lost to Wesleyan in a thrilling 17-16 game in which Wesleyan took the lead in the last 30 seconds of the game. Despite a four-game losing streak to end the regular season, the Jumbos posted a winning record of 11-4 on the season and 6-4 in the NESCAC. The Polar Bears opened up the scoring on Wednesday night in heavy rain. Thirty two seconds into the contest, junior midfielder Matthew Crowell pulled off a shot from the right side of the field that found its way past sophomore goalkeeper Ben Shmerler. However, it was only a minute before senior midfielder Lucas Johnson equalized. Tufts was briefly behind again before pulling ahead thanks to goals from junior midfielder Griffin Johnson, junior attackman Andrew Seiter and sophomore midfielder Nick Katz. Crowell brought the Polar Bears within reach at 4-3 before Seiter made it 5-3. However, the Polar Bears closed out the quarter with four straight goals to take a 7-5 lead and maintained their lead for the rest of the game. The second quarter was 3-3, with two goals from senior attackman Michael Mattson and one from sophomore attackman Ben Connelly. Early in the third quarter, the Jumbos leveled the score at 10-10 after successive goals from junior attackman Frank Hattler and another from Katz. However, the rest of the quarter saw five Bowdoin goals and only two more from Tufts. The Polar Bears went into the last 15 minutes with a three goal advantage that grew to a four goal lead by the end of the game. The Jumbos got close early in the quarter after Connelly and junior midfielder Zach Lesko brought them within one, but three successive goals by the Polar Bears to close out the game made the win out of reach for the Jumbos. Noticeably absent on Wednesday was Tufts and NESCAC leading point scorer sophomore attackman Danny Murphy, who has 46 goals and 32 assists on the season so far. The Polar Bears had four man-up oppor-

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First-year midfielder Nick Shanks slips past a Williams player to capture the ball during a game on April 5. tunities, but the Jumbos ran out the clock on all four penalties. Junior goalkeeper Robert Treiber explained that communication is key for the team. “Communication is huge, [as is] staying packed in and not expanding out to leave the middle open,” Treiber said. “We did a good job communicating on the cuts and picks inside.” According to Hattler, despite Tufts giving away seven full minutes of penalties compared to only 1:30 by Wesleyan, the team was happy with its performance. “Our team philosophy is to play as hard as we can and let the referees do what they want to do,” Hattler said. “We are going to play our brand of lacrosse, and whatever happens in terms of penalties happens, and we’re okay with that.” On Saturday, the Jumbos maintained the lead until the final two minutes of the game. The Cardinals got a man-up opportunity less than 30 seconds into the game and quickly took advantage of it. However, Tufts answered with three straight to go 3-1 in the first five minutes. Each team scored twice more, and the Jumbos had a two-goal

advantage into the second quarter. The second quarter mirrored the first in that Wesleyan opened the scoring with a man-up goal, followed by three Tufts goals. Each team scored one more, and the game continued into halftime at 9-5 to the Jumbos. The third quarter saw the Cardinals close the deficit to 12-11, with three Wesleyan goals by junior attackman Harry Stanton. In the final quarter, the Jumbos led by three goals at one point. Of the last six goals, however, the Cardinals took five. Stanton alone scored three more goals, totaling eight in the game and earning NESCAC Player of the Week for his performance. With 2:32 remaining, the score was 16-16, and both teams fought desperately to pull ahead. Finally, after several back and forth plays, senior attackman Tom Dupont netted a goal for the Cardinals with 19 seconds remaining, and the Jumbos couldn’t get back the lead before the final whistle blew. Hattler netted two and assisted one in the final quarter, scoring four goals overall and assisting two. Following this week, Stanton is now tied with Murphy for first place in points in the NESCAC with 78 each. Robert Treiber made six saves against

Bowdoin and seven against Wesleyan. “Anything outside of 12 yards I like to think that I should save,” Robert Treiber said. “If my guys can keep people outside the 12, which we do a great job of every time, it means that I can have a good chance of making those saves. Defense did a great job of staying on hips, delivering the slides and giving me the best chance of stopping the ball.” The Jumbos move to 6-4 in the NESCAC and sit at fifth place. Tufts will play Bowdoin again in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC tournament tomorrow in a heated rematch. Meanwhile, the Jumbos dipped in the national rankings from No. 3 to No. 9 after four consecutive losses. “Our mentality is that we’re on to the next one,” Hattler said. “In terms of what we’re looking to do going into this weekend, we’re going to play confidently. We know that we’re a great team and capable of beating anyone in the country. We’re going to go out and show that this weekend.” With seven straight victories in the NESCAC tournament over the last seven years, the Jumbos must win tomorrow’s game if they want to go for an eighth consecutive title.

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Jumbos to battle Bobcats for NESCAC East supremacy by Savannah Mastrangelo Assistant Sports Editor

After taking two out of three games at home this past weekend against the Bowdoin Polar Bears (12-15), the Jumbos (22-5-1) are just a game behind the Bates Bobcats (138) in the NESCAC East Division. Additionally, Tufts is now ranked No. 10 in the country. In Sunday’s series finale, the Jumbos fell to the Polar Bears in a low-scoring 3-2 contest. Both teams remained scoreless until the top of the second, when Bowdoin’s sophomore first baseman Jack Wilhoite stepped up to the plate with two men on base and grounded out to shortstop, plating an unearned run. In the next at-bat, senior left fielder Bjorn Hanson singled to shortstop to score another unearned run and give Bowdoin a 2-0 lead. Later, Bowdoin added what proved to be the winning run in the top of the sixth when senior third baseman Evann DumontLaPointe hit a sacrifice fly to right, plating

junior center fielder Joe Gentile. In the bottom of the seventh, the Jumbos finally responded. After sophomore left fielder Casey Santos-Ocampo singled to left and senior tri-captain center fielder Harry Brown walked, Bowdoin swapped pitchers. Following the switch, Tufts’ sophomore catcher Harrison Frickman grounded out to second base, allowing the runners to advance to second and third with two outs. Sophomore shortstop Will Shackelford then scored both Brown and SantosOcampo with a single to left, bringing Tufts within a run of tying the game. The team was unable to even the score, however, and Bowdoin clung to the victory, narrowly escaping elimination from playoff contention. “As a team, we couldn’t really string together hits at times and [Bowdoin] made some really good plays,” Santos-Ocampo said. “They didn’t give us any free bases, only made one or two errors, and had one or two walks. They made some really good defensive

plays, and that was the big difference in that game.” The day before, Tufts won both games in the doubleheader against Bowdoin. In the later encounter that yielded a 6-5 victory, the Jumbos produced offensively up and down the order as seven different players had base hits. Tufts got on the scoreboard in the first inning with an RBI single from junior infielder Nick Falkson to second, scoring senior infielder Tom Petry. In the second inning, Shackelford smashed a two-run double to right center, giving Tufts a 3-0 lead. Later in the inning, junior third baseman Tommy O’Hara hit a sacrifice fly to left field to plate Shackelford. O’Hara added to the lead in the fourth frame with an RBI single to right, bringing home Petry to make the score 5-0. Bowdoin responded with four total runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh frames. The Polar Bears almost scored again in the ninth inning, as infielder Eric Mah hit a run-scor-

ing fielder’s choice off of junior pitcher Ian Kinney to cut Tufts’ lead to one. However, Kinney managed to get Wilhoite to ground into a double play to end the game. Earlier that day, Tufts claimed a 6-1 victory in seven innings with senior tri-captain pitcher Speros Varinos clinching his seventh consecutive win on the season. Speros has now won every start this season, amassing a 1.47 ERA in 49 innings pitched. The game opened up early for the Jumbos in the bottom of the first, when junior outfielder Mike McLaughlin doubled to left center to score Petry and senior outfielder/ pitcher Oscar Kutch. After junior outfielder Malcolm Nachmanoff walked, Brown plated O’Hara on a sacrifice fly to left-center field for the third and final run on the inning. In the bottom of the second, after Bowdoin had scored a single run in the top half of the inning, Kutch hit an RBI dousee BASEBALL, page 7