Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Hitting the halls once more: ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ captures quintessential teen moments with brutal honesty see ARTS & LIVING / PAGE 5

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Axelrod discusses Trump, stresses Community members fight to empathy to overcome divisions address airplane noise from Logan Airport

by Jesse Najarro

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) released a statement on Oct. 7 announcing that they would explore changing flight paths out of Boston Logan International Airport due to noise complaints from residents in Somerville, Medford, Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Watertown and Winchester.

According to Boston West Fair Skies, an advocacy group that deals

with airplane noise, the announcement came after a three-year fight by residents to reverse a June 2013 FAA and Massport decision to implement a new measure called Area Navigation (RNAV ) to improve the efficiency of flights departing from runway 33L at Logan Airport.

In an effort to improve effectiveness and safety, RNAV’s implementation resulted in flights being concentrated over only a few cities, according to Edward Beuchert, a member see AIRPLANES, page 3

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David Axelrod, who advised President Barack Obama in his first term, poses with Tisch Professor of the Practice David Gregory and Tisch College Dean Alan Solomont in front of the Tisch College after speaking during a Civic Life Lunch discussion on Nov. 21.

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David Axelrod, chief strategist for both of President Barack Obama’s election campaigns and former senior advisor to the president, discussed the recent election of Donald Trump, pro-

gressive youth engagement going forward and ways to overcome divides throughout the country.

The talk, sponsored by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, was hosted by Tisch Professor of the Practice see AXELROD, page 2

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An airplane flies over Olin Language Learning Center on Monday, Nov. 21.

TCU Senate passes resolution calling for alumnus’ release from Iranian prison

by Daniel Nelson

Assistant News Editor

A Tufts Community Union Senate resolution that pledged support for the release of American-Iranian citizen Siamak Namazi (LA ’93) and his father, Bagher Namazi, from an Iranian prison passed on Sunday night’s meeting by a vote of 24-1-1.

The two each received a 10-year prison sentence in October for “espionage and collusion with an enemy state,” according to the resolution. The resolution stated that “Namazi’s only crime had been to speak out against the negative effects of [U.S. sanctions on Iran].”

President of Tufts Amnesty International Emma Plankey, who co-submitted the resolution, noted that the Namazis’ case is not well-known on campus or within alumni circles “What I find particularly interesting and frightening about this case is that the people who enjoyed their time at

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Tufts with Siamak don’t know where he currently is,” Plankey, a junior, said.

The resolution urges the Tufts administration to “publicly express support for Siamak Namazi and Bagher Namazi and their immediate release” and asks that the university “make this case known to the Tufts University alumni network.”

Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins said that the university does not believe it was “appropriate or helpful” to make a statement regarding the situation because they had “no independent knowledge” of it. “[The university appreciates] the TCU Senate’s concern for the welfare of Siamak and Baghar Namazi and share its desire that justice is done in their case,” Collins told the Daily in an email.

Amy Dunlap (LA ’93), a college friend of Namazi who co-submitted the resolution, told the Senate that alumni outreach was the most critical aspect of the resolution.

The resolution’s submitters, which

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also included TCU Diversity and Community Affairs Officer junior Benya Kraus, said that they were hopeful about the potential for alumni of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy to advocate for the Namazis’ release.

The Namazis’ advocates were hopeful that Fletcher’s alumni network includes “people who can take more concrete actions than concerned citizens,” Plankey said.

Before Senate debated the resolution, Plankey advised that anyone who had family ties to Iran refrain from asking questions.

“Having a public opinion about this resolution may not be advisable,” she said, noting that the Iranian government could use any negative sentiment as grounds to jail family still in the country.

TCU Parlimentarian Adam Rapfogel, a sophomore, facilitated the debate, during which a number of senators questioned lines 34 and 35 of the res-

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olution. In the original resolution, the lines read, “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the TCU Senate condemns the abuse of the Namazis’ human rights by the Iranian government.”

According to the resolution, Siamak Namazi is currently being held in Tehran’s Evin prison, which is known as one of Iran’s most notorious prison.

Some senators felt that it was not the place of TCU Senate to condemn a foreign government’s actions, while others believed it was Senate’s duty to speak out.

“Human rights abuses are wrong, no matter what,” TCU President Gauri Seth said.

Seth, a senior, further explained that the international politics surrounding this case should not have a bearing on the Tufts community’s response.

After a period of debate, Plankey, Kraus and Dunlap agreed to remove

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continued from page 1 David Gregory at noon on Monday.

About 40 people attended the event, though many more spilled out of Dowling 745B into the hallway as students crowded in doorways to hear Axelrod speak.

“The one thing we should take away from this is not to turn away but to lean into democracy and understand that there are responsibilities associated with it,” he said. “This is how we grab the wheel of history and steer, and if you don’t have your hand on the wheel, someone else is going to steer us in a direction that you don’t necessarily want.”

Axelrod discussed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s defeat and how so many people in academia and media were unable anticipate it. He specifically cited their ignorance of how rural Americans were feeling about their lives and prospects as a reason for this blindness.

“These are good people, these are hardworking people. They’re great neighbors, they care about others, so let us not be too quick to demean or denigrate those people who made a different choice than perhaps you would have made in this election,” Axelrod said. “Instead, let us try to understand what is going on.”

However, in an interview with the Daily, Axelrod emphasized that he did not approve of the controversial statements, tones and policies that were often used in the Trump campaign.

“I excuse nothing. I don’t excuse the racial appeals. I don’t excuse the xenophobia. I don’t excuse the anti-immigrant sentiment of his campaign. I don’t excuse the sexism or the vulgarity,” he said. “But I also know that there are a lot of good people who voted for him despite all of that, because they were desperate for a change that they haven’t seen.”

According to Axelrod, Trump was able to capitalize on feelings of resentment and disenfranchisement among white working class voters in part because Clinton’s campaign excluded them in favor of minorities.

“The Democratic campaign, I think, were unwitting accomplices in that,” he said. “Now we slice and dice the electorate and say, ‘Well, these are the voters we need to win’ and the campaigns are tailored to those voters and I think the message that was sent [to white working class voters was] … ‘We

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David Axelrod, who advised President Barack Obama in his first term, speaks during a Civic Life Lunch discussion moderated by Tisch Professor of the Practice David Gregory in Dowling Hall on Nov. 21. don’t need you. You’re not part of this.’

And it only exacerbated their sense [that] they were being disrespected and discarded.”

Despite his calls for empathy for Trump voters, Axelrod had serious concerns about the preparedness and focus of the candidate they supported.

“I sat in the office next to the president for two years. I saw what comes to that desk, serially, one hour after the next, problem after problem that are monstrously complex and many of which have grave consequences for human life, the economy, that will shape the future,” he said.

Axelrod stressed the importance of leaders valuing institutions and these institutions’ necessity in governance.

He continued by saying that public service had to be a politician’s main goal.

“What happens now too often is you have people who run for office because they want to be something, not because they want to do something,” he said.

“Donald Trump, he symbolizes that in a way. This was an exercise in vanity as much as anything else.”

However, Axelrod warned against calls to block Trump at every turn, saying that the president-elect was not an ideologue and that if there were points on which the left could work with him for the good of the country, there was an obligation to do so.

“I don’t want to get into this mad cycle where you elect a Republican and Democrats try to destroy him and prevent anything from moving forward, and you elect a Democrat and Republicans do the same,” he said.

Axelrod said that it was important for young people to use the energy and motivation generated by the election’s outcome to drive the changes they want to see happen rather than simply maintaining an anti-Trump scope.

“Young people, look, this is your time. If there are young people who are progressive in their outlook, my message is: If you don’t like the way the Democratic Party is going, get involved and change it. Use it as your vehicle,” he said.

Axelrod continued by reassuring young people that this country has seen difficult times in the past, yet there were always more elections and more opportunities to overcome the nation’s challenges.

“Our politics runs in epics, and this is one of them. We’ve had moments, dark moments in our history where we turn inward and turned on each other, and we’ve come through them because people demanded something better,” Axelrod said. “But if we withdraw into cynicism and inaction, then the potential for changing progress is much reduced.”

Police Briefs Meal Swipe A student alerted the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) at 10 a.m. on Nov. 16 that her laptop had been stolen.

The student had left her backpack in the Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center the previous night. When she went to retrieve the backpack the next day, she found her laptop missing, although everything else was present. The item has not yet been located and the incident is currently under investigation.

Dog Bite A Tufts-affiliated individual reported an incident of a dog bite to TUPD at 3 p.m. on Nov. 6. The individual, who was not a student, was walking down Boston Avenue when a “big black dog” tried to bite him. The dog missed and bit his

coat. No medical attention was needed.

The animal’s owner is unknown. Animal Control was informed about the incident.

No More Cuddles A Tufts student reported a case of theft from the front of Olin Center at 7:45 p.m. on Nov. 17. He had left his sixfoot-tall teddy bear on the bench outside of Olin Center when he went to the bathroom inside the building. When he returned, the bear had disappeared. The bear has since been returned, according to the student.

Soiled A Tufts student reported to TUPD at 12:15 a.m. on Nov. 19 that his car had been vandalized. The vehicle had been

parked in the lot next to Bray Laboratory.

During the night, someone had thrown a bag of potting soil on the car. The soil was cleaned off the car and there was no permanent damage. The incident is under investigation.

Bad Hair Day The Somerville Fire Department and TUPD were called to 14 Sawyer Ave., the location of Alpha Phi sorority, at 3:25 p.m. on Nov. 19 in response to a fire alarm. A student had set off the fire alarm while blow-drying her hair. The fire department checked the system and authorized a reset.

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continued from page 1 lines 34 and 35 from the resolution. The passed resolution does not include any formal condemnation of the Iranian government.

Plankey later said that while she had not anticipated that the lines would be a point of contention, she recognized the senators’ hesitance to include a formal condemnation.

“I understand that the way in which it was phrased sounded like an attack on the Iranian government,” Plankey said. “I understand concern for people who might in their future be working on policy, be working in the government and might have to interact with the Iranian government. To not want to have that in their past is more than understandable.”

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International was first made aware of the Namazis’ case when Dunlap contacted the group the day after Namazi’s sentencing, according to Plankey.

“We held an emergency meeting to brainstorm things we could be doing on [Namazi’s] behalf,” Plankey said.

Now that the resolution has passed, Plankey said that Tufts Amnesty will continue to advocate on the Namazis’ behalf. This will include participating

in Somerville Amnesty International’s annual “Get On The Bus” campaign, in which activists are bused to New York City for a day of protest outside foreign embassies, according to Plankey.

While the Namazi case has not yet been chosen as a focus case for the “Get on the Bus” campaign, Plankey is hopeful that it will be selected. Plankey said that the Somerville chapter will vote on its cause on Dec. 5.

Local residents organize for even distribution of flight paths AIRPLANES

continued from page 1 of the Board of Directors at the West Somerville Neighborhood Association.

“I understand that the FAA … routing decision was made in June of 2013, but I believe I particularly noticed planes becoming very loud and frequent over West Somerville in 2014,” Beuchert told the Daily in an email.

Boston West Fair Skies was the first organization that mobilized to address the noise, Beuchert explained.

According to its website, the organization was started by Adriana Poole, a resident of Belmont who recognized a need to address the issue about a month after the FAA’s decision in 2013.

“I, at the citizen level, organized the Boston West Fair Skies,” Poole said. I started up a group that I called Quiet Belmont, just an internet group, a Google group, and I thought, well am I just the one? Then, I discovered [Belmont Community Advisory Committee Representative] Myron [Kassaraba] said it’s the whole thing … We became this, like a coalition, with everybody who was affected by it,” Poole said.

According to Beuchert and Poole, since RNAV’s implementation back in 2013, the FAA and Massport have not been receptive to noise complaints and remain detached from community concerns.

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An airplane flies over West Hall on Monday, Nov 21st.

“My impression has been that the FAA and Massport have been essentially unresponsive to the complaints from the affected communities,” Beuchert said. “It seems the FAA and Massport decision makers have their objectives to achieve. The pain of the human casualties those decisions cause is just an abstract cost to them.”

Poole agreed that the FAA and Massport have been unresponsive.

“They didn’t talk to us for a long time,” Poole said. “It took a lot of pressure. I mean there are two separate things. There are the letters from the Massport that we get, and they say you were affected by this and that, which is a cookie-cutter letter, and it doesn’t mean anything.” Massport did not respond to the Daily’s requests for comment.

After countless community efforts to re-evaluate RNAV’s implementation, Congressman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts’ eighth district was one of the earliest representatives interested in helping move the issue forward, Poole said. She explained that the congressman motioned to cut $25 million from the FAA’s community outreach budget.

Congressman Michael E. Capuano, who represents Massachusetts’ seventh district, has also been dedicated to the issue, according to Alison Mills, director of communications for the congressman.

“This is not a new issue for us,” Mills told the Daily in an email. “Since the day he took office, Congressman

[Michael] Capuano has been bringing constituent concerns to Massport and the FAA. He has fought for more soundproofing, additional environmental reviews, greater transparency from Massport and so much more. He was the first elected leader to raise concerns about a new runway that Massport wanted to build more than a decade ago.”

Capuano has proposed evenly distributing flights so as to diminish noise while specialists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop test projects to diminish noise and appease residents, according to Mills.

“Congressman Capuano has proposed dispersing flights over a broader path if a community and an airport request it. We think the best solution is to spread the flight paths out where practicable so no single neighborhood or community bears the greatest burden. He has urged the FAA to update its noise measurements, which will make more neighborhoods eligible for noise mitigation efforts, and to increase the amounts spent on soundproofing,” Mills said.

Going forward, Poole suggested that affected parties submit complaints and actively fight to reduce airplane noise pollution in their respective cities.

“Spread the word. Make sure you place complaints. Not crazy, you don’t have place 300 complaints a day, but I’d say 10 a day,” she said. “We might organize … a protest or something in a year or so, just be part of it.”

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‘The Edge of Seventeen,’ a biting teen dramedy

by Elliot Storey

The classic American high school of cinematic imagination probably bears little resemblance to most teenagers’ experiences. For some, the only difference may be the suspicious amounts of free time the students seem to have, while for others the suburban and overwhelmingly white campuses might as well be Narnia. Why, then, is “The Edge of Seventeen,” released on Nov. 18, so familiar and relatable?

It’s set in one of those film fantasylands beloved by filmmaker John Hughes and so many others, but like the best of the genre, it doesn’t desperately try to dodge stereotypes and standard tropes. Instead, writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig deploys these stereotypes to great effect and does not let them go unexamined.

The film’s protagonist is Lakewood High junior and misfit Nadine Byrd (Hailee Steinfeld), who might be charitably described as a handful. While she believes her misanthropy stems from her self-proclaimed old soul, her teacher and reluctant confidant Mr. Bruner (Woody Harrelson) wryly points out that maybe it’s just because nobody likes her. She does have one friend, Krista (Haley Lu Richardson), who’s been with Nadine through thick and thin. As the two laugh, confide in one another and have a drunken night in, their friendship is eminently believable in the early stages of the film.

Of course, this bond can’t go untested,

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Following the Bush Doctrine of relationships, she takes Krista’s refusal to choose as the end of their friendship. Her only tether severed, Nadine is cast adrift. Her single mother, Mona (Kyra Sedgwick), has enough problems of her own, Nadinegenerated or otherwise, to anchor her.

Nadine resorts to having lunch with Mr. Bruner, who does not give her much advice and rather places his tongue firm-

ly in his cheek and informs her that not everything is about her.

Still, without Krista to shoot down her worst ideas, Nadine quickly begins making bad decisions. Craig beautifully captures that harmony of teenage angst and narcissism as the seemingly-small problems of being a teenager mean the world to Nadine. Viewers who think Nadine is a bad person based on these decisions might need to take a closer look at their adolescent years. Like “Boyhood” (2014), see SEVENTEEN, page 6

‘Nocturnal Animals’ is ambitious, impressively stylish

by Eran Sabaner

cess of those industries. Musicians often pursue acting roles, actors experiment with filmmaking and filmmakers author It’s common to see people who work books. While contemporary cultures have in creative industries shift roles frequent- blurred the division between high and low ly, mostly due to the collaborative pro- art, there’s still a stigma against those who transition into new mediums. Designer Tom Ford, who is known for revitalizing the Italian highend fashion brand Gucci in the 1990s, proved critics wrong with his directorial debut, “A Single Man” (2009).

Starring Academy Award winners Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, “A Single Man” was a visual masterpiece; Ford’s eye for fashion lent the movie sophisticated miseen-scene.

With expert cinematography, costume, set design and musical score, the movie felt more like an established director’s magnum opus than a fashion designer’s debut.

Seven years later, Ford returns to the silver screen with “Nocturnal Animals” (2016), an FOCUS FEATURES of Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams star in "Nocturnal Animals," the adaptation newest film from Tom Ford.

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novel “Tony and Susan” (1993). “Nocturnal Animals” is an arguably more ambitious project than “A Single Man;” the narrative features a story within a story, exploring multiple sceneries as well as genres.

Furthermore, the cast and budget are both significantly larger. Despite all the possible shortcomings that could have made the movie a messy experience, Ford avoids a sophomore slump with artful direction.

The movie’s opening scene might be one of the most spectacular introductions in recent memory. The scene is over-thetop but elegant, grotesque but beautiful in a unique way. It’s clear that Ford wants to demonstrate his strengths as a fashion designer within the first minutes, and it works. The scene is stylistically groundbreaking. It’s also a nod to the story-within-a-story narrative that will occur later in the movie.

“Nocturnal Animals” follows the affluent gallery owner Susan Morrow (Amy Adams). Susan is a textbook anti-hero, as she is portrayed as cold and distant.

Very much fitting the wealthy Hollywood stereotype, she has marital problems and seems to dislike her work even though she is very good at it. Susan receives a manuscript of a novel penned by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal), titled “Nocturnal Animals”. The movie then dissolves into three different narratives; the plot of the book melds with Susan’s current life as well as her past relationship with Edward.

Edward’s novel is extremely violent, and it’s meant to parallel the brutal way Susan has broken up with Edward. In fact, the title “Nocturnal Animals” comes from a nickname Edward uses for Susan, and see NOCTURNAL, page 6

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s I was scrubbing the deep reaches of the internet for Oscar predictions this week, it dawned on me that I am a colossal snob. Here’s how it went down: I was angrily dismissing the predictions of several critics who tipped Damien Chazelle’s upcoming musical spectacle “La La Land” (2016) as the top contender to win this year’s Oscar for Best Picture.

Generally, I’m not big on whimsy (I only like SOME of Wes Anderson’s movies), and movie musicals tend to crank up the whimsical factor. After the third article that picked “La La Land” as the Oscar favorite, I sighed and thought, “Why can’t they give it to a movie that’s more JADED?” It was then that I realized that I had just spoken the second-snobbiest sentence of my life. The first? “I would only like that pattern if it were on wall tiles in the courtyard of a Moroccan villa,” a phrase uttered by my actual mouth two years ago during “House Hunters International” (2006-present). Paradoxically, my snobbishness toward movies is mostly manifested in an antipathy toward films that, in my own assessment, are “trying too hard” to be good. For example, I still become enraged every time I remember that “The Artist” (2011) won five Oscars.

I mean, a SILENT FILM?! In the 21st century? If you would like to hear a 45-minute rant about why “The Artist” didn’t deserve the Oscar, please call, email or accost me on the street.

I think the reason I hate cutesy, avant-garde movies is because I firmly believe that cinema, and life, in the end, is about stories. I don’t go to the movies to “ooh” and “ahh” over the fact that “Boyhood” (2014) was filmed with the same cast over 11 years (ugh). I go to the movies to experience what it’s like to connect with the loneliness we all feel (“Moonlight” (2016)), to trek deep into the jungles of Vietnam and come face-to-face with the human personification of the madness of war (“Apocalypse Now” (1979)) and to watch a pathologically lying Manhattan socialite’s world crumble around her (“Blue Jasmine” (2013)).

I can’t separate my love of stories and my love of being human. The films that light a fire under my ass are the ones that make me feel unabashedly human and make me love it. In “Gravity” (2013), astronaut Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) stands on the pinnacle of scientific achievement, but when things go awry, scientific babble can’t help her.

To survive, she must look inward and battle her fear, regrets, grief and loneliness. She sweeps up her cluttered assets: knowledge, instincts, determination, Bullockian spunk (of course) and most importantly, her hope. Alone, she looks death square in the eyes, goes to bat and wins. It’s that senseless belief that, despite all that has happened and all that we’ve striven for and failed, we’re going to keep trying, and one day we’ll come out triumphant. At least until the ghost of George Clooney tells us what to do.

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

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Natasha Khwaja and Faryal Jafri Karachi vs. Kansas

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atasha Khwaja (NK): This week, Faryal got lost in Europe, so we have a very amazing guest to fill in for her! And it’s not just because her name is also Natasha.

Natasha Karunaratne (nK): I’m also Natasha, otherwise known as “little Natasha” (hence the nK) in our overlapping communities. I know “big Natasha” from the South Asian Political Action Committee (SAPAC), an on-campus organization that strives to (and is struggling to) bring the political voice of South Asia to Medford/Somerville. Natasha and I have a lot in common, as both of us are South Asians and non-Indians — I’m Sri Lankan and Natasha is Pakistani. We’re considered the “leftovers” of South Asia, often overlooked in representations of the region.

NK: South Asians, both at home and in the diaspora, have long been labeled as “apolitical,” which has made it increasingly difficult to politically organize through SAPAC. We’re constantly faced with obstacles, whether it’s the model minority myth in the United States or the post-conflict scars that tend to open frequently in the region. This has been most challenging for SAPAC when it comes to bridging the interests and perspectives of international South Asian students with those who also identify as American. nK: Another obstacle that I’ve had to face as a South Asian American, besides those of race and gender that permeate all parts of life, is age, especially in terms of being “political” when it comes to issues that are held so close to my ethnic culture.

In my Sri Lankan diasporic community, I’ve been raised to internalize an ideal of how a young Sri Lankan woman should act, and that never encompassed a political voice.

While this doesn’t affect me as much on campus, it still remains at the foundation of why I don’t understand as much about my culture politically — because those conversations were never meant for me to be a part of. It’s been really hard to process all of this independent from my diasporic community, but luckily I’m part of communities at Tufts like SAPAC that let me think this through with people of similar identities in similar situations.

NK: I see SAPAC as a great community, like you said, for those who want to engage politically with the region, but the challenges we’ve faced are definitely reflective of deeper ones. These include dynamics within South Asia and its history of internal conflicts, the diaspora and its lack of organizing consensus and political consciousness compared to the greater Asian American community, and on top of that, the disjuncture between South Asians, South Asian Americans and everyone in between. nK: Exactly! Even as a South Asian, I think of my own identity group last when I think about the diasporic communities that organize around issues that affect them here in the States and at home.

While I’ve never really seen South Asians take political action around issues that are so integral to the members of our communities, like immigration and citizenship status, those are all trends that SAPAC hopes to change. All I ask is that South Asians who are tired of being the “leftovers” join us and that our fellow diasporees join us in our struggles and successes.

Natasha Khwaja is a junior majoring in International Relations and Anthropology. Natasha can be reached at Natasha.

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Kelly Fremon Craig creates a teen classic on directorial debut SEVENTEEN

continued from page 5 “The Edge of Seventeen” is pitch perfect when it comes to recreating universal moments and feelings like the heady pause before a kiss, the trepidation of approaching someone you like and the instant regret of sending a message that had no business being sent.

Even in the few moments when Craig’s script falters, Steinfeld’s performance manages to keep the viewer invested, though the same can’t be said for Jenner or Lu Richardson. Once separated from Nadine, their dialogue loses much of its natural feel, and neither actor is able

to salvage those moments. Jenner can’t seem to break out of the friendly charm that worked so well in Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!” (2016) but is frequently out of place here. But Steinfeld and Hayden Szeto, who plays Nadine’s classmate Erwin, are stellar. Erwin has a crush on Nadine and is both frustratingly and hilariously awkward in pursuing it.

His attempts to woo her are like a worst-of compilation of every mistake that can be made, and Szeto somehow makes it possible to believe that there could be someone both so inept and so adorable.

That this is Craig’s directorial debut occasionally shows through in a hand-

ful of odd shot transitions and seemingly-staged scenes, but this is a film where it’s really the thought that counts. Craig communicates universal experiences through the decidedly non-universal lens of a movie version of an American high school, and casting director Melissa Kostenbauder made a fantastic choice in Steinfeld. Unlike most actors playing high schoolers, Steinfeld is actually the right age, having been 18 during filming, which took place last year. Her combination of talent and temporal proximity to the material make for an excellent performance, that expertly blends teenage nervousness, hormonality and dramatics.

Tom Ford avoids sophomore slump in his latest film NOCTURNAL

continued from page 5 the book is dedicated to her. Reading the book, Susan is able to reflect on her current life and soften her cut-throat attitude.

Every frame of the movie is a work of art. Ford is able to deliver visually both in the flashy, glamorous Los Angeles and damp, deserted Texas settings. Ford mirrors images of Susan and Tony Hastings, the protagonist of Edward’s book also played by Gyllenhaal, to create a connection between the two contrasting settings.

The movie features a star-studded cast.

In addition to the impressive performances by Adams and Gyllenhaal, Aaron TaylorJohnson and Karl Glusman shine in their roles as murderers Ray and Lou. While his role in the movie is rather small and his breakthrough performance is yet to come, Glusman finally secures his spot as one of the biggest emerging actors in Hollywood after delivering solid performances in mediocre films such as “Love” (2015) and “The Neon Demon” (2016). Established actors such as Michael Shannon, Laura Linney, Michael Sheen and Jena Malone

also feature in the cast, while “True Blood” (2008-2014) alumnus Kristen Bauer van Straten has the funniest cameo of the year.

The movie’s ending is rather disappointing, as it is unable to bring closure to Susan’s story. While Ford does an impressive job with the movie, it’s also safe to say that his strengths lie in simpler narratives.

Compared to “A Single Man,” the movie, particularly its second act, may seem unfocused. Overall, “Nocturnal Animals” is a solid effort by a fashion designer proving once again that he is an expert in multiple creative fields.

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OP-ED

A statement from Students Advocating for Students

by Jake Goldberg This past weekend, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate voted nearly unanimously against a resolution put forth by Students Advocating for Students (SAS), which called for clarifications of student conduct policies in line with First Amendment protections.

The final vote tally was zero votes for, 26 votes against and two abstentions. This is deplorable.

In September, SAS put forward a resolution calling for Tufts University to alter its student conduct policies in a way that would provide Tufts students with First Amendment protections on campus. While Tufts is a private university, it has, on countless occasions, promised its students free speech rights. It is important to note that the TCU Senate itself unanimously passed a resolution in 2012, which called for free speech to be protected on Tufts’ campus “now and forever.” It appears that a lot can change in four years.

It is also important to remember that, upon seeking supporters for this resolution within the Tufts community back in September, I — in addition to others who favored the resolution — was subjected to a hostile, abusive and harassing environment both on campus and online.

This hostility and abuse came from Tufts students, including TCU Senators.

Additionally, during this time period, SAS met with Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon and contacted Jill Zellmer, executive director of the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) and Title IX Coordinator, via email. Our meeting with McMahon went well, yet it yielded few tangible results. We contacted Zellmer on Aug. 29 with a multitude of questions, and despite her both claiming to be easily accessible and promising SAS that she would give us answers to those questions by early October, we still have not heard back from her.

During the TCU Senate meeting on Nov. 20, members of the TCU Senate made their disdain for the First Amendment abundantly clear. Below are the TCU Senate’s two primary arguments against the resolution.

Free speech endangers students With concerns that free speech threatens the safety and well-being of students, many senators expressed the belief that campus life is a zero-sum game in which students can either be protected and have no speech rights or be endangered and have full speech rights. Of course, this line of reasoning is absurd. As I made clear in my rebuttals to these claims,

academic institutions that provide their students with free speech rights do not suffer from inordinate amounts of violence and mental health issues. These senators’ concerns were simply not compatible with reality.

Free speech protections make administrators’ jobs impossible Many senators were under the impression that vague, ill-defined policies are a necessity for determining proper administrative punishment. When policies are specific and clear, they reasoned, administrators will not be able to properly punish everyone who deserves discipline.

Most concerning, a member of the TCU Senate stated that the suggested clarity is entirely subjective and therefore serves no purpose in Tufts’ policies.

The TCU Senate’s logic is as flawed as it is disturbing. Without clearly-defined policies, students run the risk of engaging in illicit conduct without their knowing in advance that such conduct is prohibited. Additionally, a university with vague policies is a university with no standards for punishment. Everything, in such a scenario, will be decided on a case-bycase basis in which decisions can be made arbitrarily and based upon administrators’ personal biases. Alternatively, having properly-defined codes of con-

duct gives students the ability to properly understand what they can and cannot say and establishes a standard to which administrators can be held accountable when their actions seem capricious.

In the end, by nearly unanimously voting to disallow the implementation of free speech protection into Tufts’ politics, the TCU Senate has struck down the protective restrictions Tufts has on free speech.

Nevertheless, SAS’s work is far from over. We will continue to take our case to the student body, and we encourage anybody who supports our initiative to join us in our efforts. SAS plans on continuing to meet with school administrators to address this important issue.

Editor’s note: If you would like to send your response or make an op-ed contribution to the Opinion section, please email us at tuftsdailyoped@gmail.com.

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Jake Goldberg is a sophomore majoring in political science. Jake can be reached at jakegoldbergsas@gmail.com.

CORRECTION Yesterday’s article about women’s volleyball had the headline, “Jumbos bow out in NESCAC Quarterfinal Round,” rather than “Jumbos bow out in NCAA Quarterfinal Round.” The article has been updated accordingly. The Daily regrets this error.

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Not your mother’s Thanksgiving

by Caroline Enloe On the scale of political views, I hover between “very liberal” and “extremely liberal.” This is not the case for a lot of my friends and family. In fact, my parents often have a hard time understanding how I have ended up so far on the left. It’s an oddity in a state such as North Carolina.

Like many people at Tufts, the night of Election Day was incredibly hard. I called my best friends from high school when I got back to my room at three in the morning, and we spent a great majority of the call in silence. We had no words for what was about to be announced. It’s been two weeks, and the white board on our door still bears the Hillary “H,” and we are not the only ones. The girls two doors down have a sign that says, “We are still with her.” Someone across the hall wears his Hillary hat almost everyday with pride.

At Tufts, this is okay. Even if people don’t agree with you, they respect your right to your own opinion. But this week, I’m going home — to a place where politics are especially polarizing.

Politics are a tricky thing. They cause families to stop speaking and friends to cut each other out of their lives. It is both incredibly irrational and totally understandable. Political beliefs often line up with personal values, and people do not take kindly to those whose values contradict their own. That is why I try to be very careful when talking about politics with people whose beliefs I do not know.

I am also terrified of provoking someone into a fight from which our relationship might never recover. Some people are willing to get into arguments with those they disagree with and are seemingly okay with losing whomever they are fighting.

I am not one of those people. I wish that I could be, because my convictions are strong and I have educated myself on each and every one of them, but I would lose too many people. My county might have voted for Hillary Clinton, but my state didn’t, some of my neighbors didn’t, some of my friends didn’t and I am going to have deal with it all.

Going to Tufts has meant that I have been living in a bubble. The entire campus felt like it was in mourning on Nov. 9, when I know so many people at home were cheering. This week, I will be going back to people who cheered when I mourned, and that is going to be hard. There are a lot of people I know who have been nothing but wonderful to me and who also voted for Donald Trump. They may not have voted for him because of his policies, but it will be because of their vote that his policies have a chance to be enacted. Needless to say, I find his policies despicable. It is my opinion that, whether or not he means to, Trump will cause great harm to come to the people of this country. I’m scared of what is going to come from his presidency, and this week I am going home to a lot of people who will not understand that.

When my extended family gathers for the holidays, I can’t remember us ever

discussing politics. I do not know what ideology they prescribe to and, frankly, I do not want to find out.

Even without politics, I have never particularly enjoyed the holidays. There are always too many people in a room, too much stress, too many things to get done.

This holiday season, there is also going to be too much pent-up anger. I am not looking forward to the surprises in political ideology that will inevitably come.

There is no advice that I can give as to how to deal with relatives or friends who voted for the “enemy,” whichever candidate that is in your opinion. All I know is what has gotten me through being a “bleeding liberal” in the Old North State: You have to respect people’s right to their opinions. It is not fun, but it is the only way that both parties can get through unscathed. If, in the more likely scenario, people aren’t respectful of your opinions, you can always say that politics has no place at the dinner table.

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Caroline Enloe is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Caroline can be reached at caroline.enloe@tufts.edu.

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Jake Lawicki Jumbo Steps

One round of ‘20 Questions’

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’ve been channeling my inner Mr. Moseby from “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” (2005-2008) quite a bit lately. In the past month alone, I’ve had many visitors: my sister-in-law’s parents, my aunt and uncle, a prospective student, my brother and two former high school teachers. But last week, I said my final goodbye to my last visitor of the semester — Ryan.

I’ve known Ryan for an eternity and a half: We attended kindergarten, preschool, elementary school, middle school and high school together. We share secrets, memories, jokes and tears together. We fight over stupid things. We bond over even stupider things. He’s not like a brother. He is my brother. He knows a lot (perhaps too much) about me — more than most of my family members know about me. This is why his off-the-cuff question struck me rather unexpectedly.

“What are you scared of?”

Why was he asking me this? It wasn’t just a random question; it was a random question to which I knew he knew the answer.

“Horror films. Where did that come from?”

But he ignored me, merely responding to my question with another question: “What do you like to do first thing in the morning?”

“Uh, check my email?” I could sense a wave of his iconic cackle beginning to explode right out of him. (He loves to poke fun at my daily goal of having zero unread emails.)

For 20 minutes, I remained obedient, answering all of his trivia questions: “To travel to Amsterdam … Hands down, getting meals with friends … Eating fried Oreos at the Orange County Fair … Founding an after-school STEM program …“This Will Be” by Natalie Cole … Probably “Existential Anxiety Sold Separately: A Memoir”… Most likely Italy, because pasta … My love life … (and on and on).”

The interrogation abruptly stopped.

(He’d exhausted his list of questions.)

“Alright,” I said. “You succeeded in utterly confusing me. What the hell?”

“Well, you brought up that girl you like.

So, I went on my phone and found some common ice-breaker questions to ask your crush. You know, for practice.”

There is no such thing as a dull moment when I’m with Ryan. He loves to keep me on my toes, forcing me to enjoy the moment and not question it. I guess that explains why he took his sweet time before finally telling me there was actually a point to his random line of questioning.

It’s always a ride with Ryan — a ride I’ve been longing for. In the midst of some of this semester’s extraordinarily arduous academic and familial hurdles, I am truly grateful to have been visited by someone who cares so much for me. Ryan was the first visitor from back home since my grandfather’s passing, and he was exactly the person I needed to see. Why? Because he’s just so entertaining.

Take his “interrogation” as an example — it’s a testament to how well he can distract me from thinking about the wounds of the past or the concerns of the future.

Sure, grieving with my family over text and video-chat has offered some solace.

But, at the end of the day, Skype calls and iMessages are just pixels. They’re not hugs.

They’re not laughs. They’re not personable.

They weren’t Ryan.

Jake Lawicki is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Jake can be reached at jake.lawicki@tufts.edu.

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THE TUFTS DAILY | Sports | Tuesday, November 22, 2016

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Tufts, Messiah deliver drama in defensive championship duel FIELD HOCKEY

continued from back to an early score with a shot off of the second Tufts corner that would have beaten Falcon sophomore goalie Shelby Landes if not for a defensive save from sophomore defender Shayna Landis.

The Falcons, on the other end of the field, had fewer but more threatening chances. While moving away from the goal, junior forward Carissa Gehman fired an impressive backhand shot from the left side that clanged off the post in the 10th minute. Messiah claimed the momentum late in the first half, getting off a shot that forced a defensive save from junior midfielder Mary Kate Patton and then back-to-back shots in the 31st minute that sophomore goalkeeper Emily Polinski saved. The half ended with a pair of dangerous Messiah corners, but Tufts’ defense held strong and blocked the shots on both.

As the wind and snow picked up in the second half, both defenses locked down and scoring opportunities were scarce, with possession mostly staying in the middle of the field. Neither team seemed to have a definitive edge in momentum. The Falcons threatened in the final minute of regular time and got off a shot that went wide, but with 16 seconds to play, Lewis was given a green card.

As both teams headed into seven-on-seven overtime, Lewis had another 1:44 left on her card to give Messiah a crucial man-up advantage. The Falcons pressed early in the first 15-minute overtime period and unleashed a shot that nearly ended the game just 30 sec-

onds in, but the Jumbo defense held on until Lewis’ card expired.

Messiah continued to press and created a few heart-pounding moments, including multiple breakaways by Gehman and senior midfielder Lindsay Bower, but Polinski charged out of goal each time and disrupted the plays just enough to prevent the Falcons from finishing.

After getting outshot 5-1 in the first overtime period, Tufts regained the momentum in the second overtime, outshooting Messiah 4-1 and earning three penalty corners. The Falcon defense did a good job of blocking up Jumbo shots on the penalty corners and staved off a game-ending score.

Time expired after 100 minutes of play without a score, and, per field hockey rules, the game went to a fiveround shootout. In a field hockey shootout, players start with the ball 23 meters out in a one-on-one against the goalie and have eight seconds to shoot, with the showdown ending when the eight seconds expire or the ball goes out of play.

Adding to the suspense, there were several minutes of delay before the shootout started, as a facilities crew had to bring in a snowplow to clear the accumulating snow in front of the net as the temperature dropped to 31 degrees.

“That moment where we were waiting for the plow to clear the snow was one of the most telling moments for our whole team,” Arata said. “We were huddled around this space heater on the bench just singing our favorite songs to keep warm and jumping up and down.

Everybody was just so amped but trying to stay calm and poised at the same time and not get too nervous.”

None of the Jumbos’ first three shooters — senior co-captain Dominique Zarrella, sophomore defender Issy Del Priore and Arata — were able to score on their attempts, but the first two Falcon shooters both came through to put the Jumbos into a must-make situation, down 2-0 with just two more rounds to go.

In the first must-make attempt, Tufts sophomore midfielder Fallon Shaughnessy slipped a shot past Landes to close the margin to 2-1. The next Falcon shooter then missed to keep Tufts’ hopes alive.

In the next critical attempt, senior forward Annie Artz, the team’s leading scorer with 14 goals on the season, saw the ball knocked away as Landes came sliding out to seal the win and earn the Falcons their first ever NCAA title.

The win broke Messiah’s long-running curse of losing in all eight of its previous trips to the national championship game.

Just as the Jumbo defense kept the team in Sunday’s game, it was the defense that won Saturday’s semifinal. Facing another prolific offense — Salisbury ranked second in the nation behind Messiah with 4.50 goals per game — Tufts limited Salisbury to just seven shots, only three of which were on goal.

Saturday’s contest was a battle for possession with few good scoring opportunities. In the first half, the ball almost never entered either team’s cir-

cle, with the Salisbury Sea Gulls earning one corner and getting off two shots and Polinski kicking away the only one on goal as soon as it entered the circle.

Though they were shut out of scoring chances in the first period, the Jumbos began to build up momentum in the second half. Tufts had a definitive 12-5 advantage in shots and put significant pressure on Salisbury’s defense with five corners. With the offensive pressure mounting, the Jumbos finally broke through with just under 11 minutes remaining in regulation when Zarrella scored for the first time since the season-opener against Colby. Zarella led the team in scoring the past two years but has been hampered by a bulging disk in her back for most of the season and only started easing back into play in late October.

The Jumbo defense held on in the face of renewed pressure from the Sea Gulls’ offense in the final 10 minutes and was able to run out the clock to hold on for the team’s 13th shutout of the season and advance to Sunday.

Despite the results of the weekend, there are plenty of positive takeaways for the Jumbos. “[After the championship game, coach] Tina [McDavitt-Mattera] was telling us to hold us to hold our heads high, that we had a lot to be proud of and that it was a battle that unfortunately didn’t go the way we wanted it to,” Arata said. “But going forward now, all of the underclassmen have a taste of what it feels like to be in a championship game. So that’s going to shape the program for the years to come.”

Tufts remains unscored upon in NCAA Tournament through four games MEN'S SOCCER

continued from back Majumder said it was exciting to score the winner in such a high-profile game.

“We’ve been working on the long throw deep into their end, and we executed it very well, which we hadn’t done so far this season,” he said. “It was [Eichhorst] who found the ball at his head and did a perfect flick in. I was just trying to get any part of my body on the ball to try to get it in the net.”

The Jumbos’ top scorer, senior forward Gaston Becherano, was uncharacteristically quiet this weekend, only taking one shot in the two games.

First-year midfielder/defender Zachary Trevorrow was a force on the left wing the entire weekend, contributing several runs down the side to execute crosses in. First-year midfielder/forward Gavin Tasker, who switched off with Trevorrow, was equally impactful. First-year forward Joe Braun started his first game of the season against Kenyon in order to give Becharano a chance to rest.

Coach Josh Shapiro said that he knew that the team would be ready to take on Kenyon.

“I think that was a very good Kenyon team. They only graduated one significant contributor from last year who was a very good player … Regardless, that was a very good team that came in and beat an excellent Trinity team,” he said. “We knew we had our hands full today. It was a back and forth game, and both teams probably felt like they deserved it, but we got it, and the win over them feels fantastic.”

The UMass Boston Beacons entered their Saturday contest against Tufts with an 18-3-3 record and a bad reputation. Their second round game

against Haverford resulted in two red cards and their leading scorer, 28-yearold first-year Ocane Williamson, being escorted off the field in handcuffs after head-butting the referee. Neither Williamson nor junior midfielder Joshua Khang, who was ejected for kicking a dead ball into an opponent’s face, played against Tufts.

The first 30 minutes saw the Beacons take control of play, as they took eight of the first nine shots. The Jumbos found themselves desperately clearing the ball out of the defense, only for a Beacon to kick the ball back in. In the 13th minute, UMass Boston had a corner kick opportunity that resulted in a scrum in front of goal, which Tufts was lucky to emerge from without letting up a goal.

It wasn’t until the 33rd minute, when Tasker sent a cross to first-year midfielder

Zach Lane, whose header shot was saved by first-year goalkeeper Omar CastroDreher, that Tufts reminded everyone why they were in the tournament. From that point on, Tufts was the dominant team and earned four more close scoring opportunities before the end of the half.

In the second half, the Jumbos outshot the Beacons 14-7. Right from the start, the Jumbos pressed, with senior midfielder Kevin Lawson, junior midfielder Kevin Halliday, senior defender Daniel Sullivan and junior midfielder Tyler Kulcsar all making the Beacons’ jobs difficult.

In the 68th minute, Eichhorst found the ball at his feet on the edge of the box after the Beacons defenders miscommunicated. Without hesitation, he sent the ball into the back of the net, giving the Jumbos the lead that they maintained for the remainder of the game.

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Junior midfielder Dexter Eichhorst celebrates his goal in the third round of the NCAA Div. III men’s soccer tournament on Nov. 19.

For about six minutes following the goal, the Jumbos’ attack was entirely made up of first-years, with Lane and forwards Brett Rojas and Joe Braun all coming on and Tasker flanking on the wing. They continued to press, searching for an elusive second goal.

UMass Boston had a final opportunity to score with just under five minutes remaining, when it was awarded a free kick in a threatening possession. Greenwood made the save to keep Tufts in the lead. The game ended 1-0, marking the Jumbos’ third consecutive shutout and ninth in the season.

The weekend saw Greenwood’s 37th and 38th career shutout as the senior goalkeeper continues to extend his record as Tufts Soccer’s most successful goalie. He attributes his success to the entire back line of the team.

“A lot of the credit a lot of the time goes to me for getting the shutouts, but it’s not just that by any means,” he said.

“Our team has such excellent defensive effort on and off the ball, pressuring where pressure is needed. Every time [the back line] come[s] out, I trust them with my life. I trust them to defend my net, and they make my job a lot easier than it could be.”

There is a 12-day gap between Sunday’s game and the semifinals, which will be held on Dec. 2 in Salem, Va. In the Final Four, the Jumbos will face No. 8 University of St. Thomas (201-3). In the other semifinal matchup, Brandeis (13-5-4) plays Calvin College (22-2). Over the weekend, Brandeis, which is also unranked, upset reigning national champion Amherst in a penalty shootout. Should Tufts defeat St. Thomas, it will either face Brandeis, which the team defeated earlier in the season, or Calvin.

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MEN'S BASKETBALL

Jumbos seize first at John K. Adams Classic

by Sam Weitzman Staff Writer

The Jumbos (2-0) prevailed in both of their games at the John K. Adams Tip-Off Classic at The Golden Dome in Newark, N.J. en route to winning their first tournament of the regular season. Senior co-captain guard Tarik Smith led the way for Tufts and received the tournament’s Most Valuable Player award after averaging 13.0 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists across the two games.

Despite the relatively comfortable margins — Tufts won both match-ups by double digits — neither contest was a blow-out.

“I think we have a ways to go,” junior guard KJ Garrett said. “The NESCAC starts two weeks later than all the other conferences, so I think we’re — I’m not saying rusty, but we just haven’t clicked fluidly yet. But … we have a lot of potential … [I’m] pretty optimistic for this season.”

Sophomore guard Ethan Feldman offered a similarly diagnosis.

“I think overall we shot the ball really well,” he said. “Our offense was good. We moved well without the ball. I guess the only [thing] that didn’t go so well was the third and fourth rotations weren’t always there defensively.”

Tufts defeated the Southern Virginia Knights (1-2) 80-69 in the championship game, with three Tufts starters scoring in the double digits. Senior co-captain Tom Palleschi filled out the scoresheet with 14 points, 10 rebounds, four blocks and two assists. Meanwhile, Smith shot six of eight, making all three of his three-point attempts for a team-high 15 points and dishing five assists.

Against Tufts, Southern Virginia’s bench outperformed its starters. Two first-year guards, Rashay Douglas and Chris Richardson, scored more points together (29) than all five starters combined (25). The only Southern Virginia starter to reach double digits was junior center Cale Thornton, who put up 11 points, seven rebounds and three assists.

Despite the efforts of Douglas, Richardson and Thornton, the Knights failed to challenge the Jumbos for most of the contest. The Jumbos led by seven at halftime and only extended their lead in the second half. A late attempt at a comeback stalled out at 70-67 when Tufts went on a 10-2 run in the last few minutes of the game.

In the high-scoring game against FDU-Florham devils (1-2) on Friday, two Tufts guards — Feldman and first-year Eric Savage — scored a combined 36 points. Of Feldman’s 18 points, all but two came either via his seven free throws or set of three pointers, demonstrating an efficient shot selection. Savage, coming off the bench, made the most of his 27 minutes in the game, as he shot 66.7 percent from the floor against the Devils, adding five rebounds and an assist. Junior guard Everett Dayton contributed 16 points, eight rebounds and four assists in a well-rounded performance.

Despite senior captain forward Donte Ali’s 17 points and 14 rebounds, FDUFlorham never led after the first three minutes of the game. The Jumbos led by as many as 15 at multiple points in the first half, but a late run helped the Devils enter halftime down just six points at 43-37.

The Devils were not easily dispatched in the second half. Early in the period

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Tufts senior co-captain guard Tarik Smith drives the ball down the court in the 88-80 victory over Skidmore on March 5.

Tufts led again by double digits, 62-51, as Feldman hit a three-point shot and added four free throws within the span of two minutes. With 6:14 remaining in the game, Ali sank a free throw to make the score 72-69, bringing the Devils within striking range of the Jumbos. Tufts did not allow FDU-Florham to get any closer, though, and finished with a 91-81 victory.

Feldman noted that the team needs to improve in keeping its lead over its opponents.

“We always need to show respect to every team, but I think we did a poor job of kicking them while they were down,” Feldman said. “We had both of them by double digits at different points throughout the game, and we allowed

them to stay in it … We definitely need to do better in that regard.”

One potential area of concern moving forward is the Jumbos’ propensity for wasted possessions. In two games, Tufts turned the ball over 32 times while only forcing 26 giveaways despite leading for the vast majority of the two contests. Garrett explained that the team also needs to decrease the number of turnovers — especially those resulting from mistakes on fast breaks and loose balls.

“Turnovers happen,” he said. “That’s going to stop. It’s going [to] slowly go away — it’ll go away and erode.”

In its next game, Tufts travels to take on MIT (1-1) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Tufts returns home to host Emerson at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

MEN'S ICE HOCKEY

Jumbos defeat rival Bantams in season opener, outscore Cardinals

by Savannah Mastrangelo Staff Writer

The Jumbos opened their season this weekend with two-back-to back wins, defeating the Trinity Bantams, last year’s conference champions, 3-1 and the Wesleyan Cardinals 4-2. D3hockey.com ranks Trinity No. 13 nationally after it went 1-1 over the weekend.

Tufts hosted Wesleyan on Saturday in the Malden Valley Forum where junior forward Brian Brown scored his second game-winner of the weekend. He roofed the puck to the top left corner a minute and a half into the third period.

Senior forward Pat Lackey scored an

unassisted goal 47 seconds into the game and scored again at the 13:50 mark, assisted by senior co-captain Mike Leary, to put the team up 2-0 in the first period. Wesleyan managed to climb back, scoring one goal at 14:39 in the first period and another on a power play at 3:18 of the second period, tying the score at 2-2. Those two goals were not enough, though, as Brown’s goal put Tufts ahead and first-year forward Anthony Farinacci finished the Cardinals off at 18:41 in the third period with an empty-netter to finalize the score at 4-2.

“We followed our systems really well this weekend, but it’s tough because the season starts on November 1st and our first game is three weeks after that, so to

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Junior forward Brian Brown looks to shoot in the home opener against the Trinity Bantams on Nov. 18.

be able to understand and know how to implement and utilize our systems is [a] really hard thing to do,” senior goalkeeper Mason Pulde said. “I think we did that really well from our power play to our penalty kill to our [defensive] zone. We had a great result but we still can be even better despite that great result which bodes well for us in the future.”

Junior goalie Nik Nugnes started in net, making a total of 28 saves and blocking all eight shots he faced in the third period.

However, Tufts lost the majority of faceoffs, as Wesleyan won 38 of 63.

In its season opener on Friday, Tufts hosted NESCAC rival Trinity. The Bantams defeated the Jumbos thrice last season as payback for the Jumbos upsetting them in the NESCAC quarterfinals two years ago. Tufts had the last laugh on Friday, as Trinity fell 3-1.

Trinity senior forward Brandon Cole put Trinity on the board first, scoring at 18:05 in the first period. Trinity took 14 shots in the period and Tufts fired off nine. The rivalry game started off chippy, with two penalties for each team in the first period, and continued that way throughout.

Just 6:01 into the second period, firstyear defenseman Cooper Stahl scored his first collegiate goal, and the team’s first goal of the season, to tie the game 1-1 against Trinity. In the third period, Brown scored both the game-winner and an insurance goal within three minutes. The first was on a power play around the 17-minute mark and the second, an empty netter, came with less than a minute remaining after Trinity pulled junior goalie Alex Morin.

“It was really exciting to score the first goal because we had been working so hard throughout the fall,” Stahl said. “It was awesome to have everyone excited for and with me. I will never forget it.”

Pulde picked up right where he left off last season with 38 saves against Trinity and helped kill all six of Trinity’s power plays.

Tufts was very active defensively and created offensive opportunities by putting pressure on Trinity and causing chaos. While the team has a consistently strong penalty kill, the number of penalties committed each game is something they would like to reduce. Additionally, the team won 33 of the face-offs to Trinity’s 35 face-off wins.

“Team-wise, I think we wanted to reduce a lot of penalties and get rid of the dumb penalties we have been taking and play with more discipline,” Brown said.

“We didn’t really get to do that on Friday, but our penalty kill is the best in the country and it stayed that way on Friday night.”

First-year players stepped up this weekend with two goals — one from Stahl and one from Farinacci — and many integrating into the top lines and defensive pairs.

“Coach definitely did a great job recruiting [first-years], I think the first recruiting class of our new head coach is really good because the guys have great character.

They integrated really well and really bought into our systems,” Brown said. “I think this showed in week one with two [first-years] playing on the top line and top d-pair.”

The team hosts Becker College today at 7 p.m. before traveling to take on Brockport College at Castleton University at 3:45 p.m. on Friday.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Jumbos fall just short of second NCAA title in shootout

by Maclyn Senear Sports Editor

Tufts field hockey extended its season as long as possible and delivered plenty of drama, battling through two overtime periods in a scoreless national championship game on Sunday before falling to Messiah College in a heartbreaking 2-1 shootout. Tufts advanced to its third NCAA title game — having won in 2012 and lost in 2008 — by edging out Salisbury 1-0 on Saturday in a semifinal contest.

Senior co-captain defender Nicole Arata expressed the team’s mixed emotions coming out of the season.

“I think everyone is proud of how far we came and that we extended our season to the last possible second, but also initially we all feel really heartbroken and it is really painful because we did get so close, and the game could have gone either way,” she said. “In that respect, it hurts to have lost and to have been so close, but there’s so much to be proud

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Senior forward Dominique Zarella chases the ball in the NCAA Championship Quarterfinal game against Skidmore College on Nov. 13. of [for] this team and … the season.”

As snow began to fall on McCooey Field on the cam-

pus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y., the Jumbos and the Messiah Falcons fought to a 0-0 tie

through 100 minutes of play in a showdown between the nation’s top offense and one of the nation’s best defenses.

Messiah entered the weekend leading Div. III with 4.81 goals per game and has been ranked No. 1 in the national polls since early October.

The only time Messiah scored fewer than three goals in a game prior to Sunday was in its season-opening 1-0 overtime loss — the lone loss of its 22-1 season — to Shippensburg University, a Div. II school that just won its own national championship this weekend.

Tufts entered the NCAA Championship ranked No. 3, having allowed just 13 goals in 20 games this season for a 0.65 goals against per game average, the third best in the nation.

Regulation time saw a hardfought battle for possession as both teams struggled to create scoring opportunities. The Jumbos perhaps had the edge early in the first half, earning a 5-3 advantage in penalty corners and leveraging those five corners to get off eight shots to the Falcons’ six. Junior midfielder Celia Lewis came close see FIELD HOCKEY, page 10

MEN'S SOCCER

Double overtime win sends Jumbos to Final Four

by Maddie Payne Sports Editor

The Jumbos hosted the third round and the quarterfinals of the NCAA Div. III Tournament over the weekend at Bello Field, coming

away with 1-0 victories in both games. Tufts faced No. 15 UMass Boston on Saturday and, thanks to junior midfielder Dexter Eichhorst’s second-half goal, was able to progress to the quarterfinals.

On Sunday, the Jumbos

defeated the Kenyon College Lords. Senior co-captain forward Nate Majumder found the net for the go-ahead goal after over 100 minutes of scoreless play.

The quarterfinal round match up against Kenyon was a rematch from last season,

when Kenyon eliminated Tufts with a game winner 18 seconds before the final whistle. As both teams came out strong again this year, the first half of the game consisted of a lot of play in the middle third and continuous back and forth between each

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The men's soccer team poses for a photo after the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Div. III men's soccer tournament on Nov. 20.

goal. Although both teams took five shots in the first half, senior goalkeeper Scott Greenwood went unchallenged in the first half while Tufts forced Kenyon senior keeper Sam Clougher to make two saves.

Although Kenyon took 12 shots in the second half as compared to Tufts’ seven, it was not indicative of the flow of the game. Tufts settled in and controlled the tempo, and the ball spent the majority of the period in Kenyon’s end.

Greenwood made six saves in the second half, the majority of which were easy balls that were either sent straight at him or were misdirected crosses. In the 54th minute, senior co-captain Zach Halliday had Tufts’ best scoring opportunity when he received the ball from a cross right in front of the goal. His shot skimmed past the left post.

The game progressed to overtime after 90 minutes of scoreless play. It was not until the second overtime, though, that the game was decided. In the 109th minute, sophomore defender Sterling Weatherbie executed a long throw-in that connected with Eichhorst in the box. Eichhorst headed the ball to Majumder, who managed to get a foot on the ball and send it past Clougher for the win. see MEN'S SOCCER, page 10