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Making politics polite again: Students participate in dialogues on the election’s personal impacts. see FEATURES / PAGE 3

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Tufts to acccept Coalition Application starting with Class of 2021

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Starting with the upcoming admissions cycle for the Class of 2021, Tufts will be accepting the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success application, in addition to the QuestBridge application and traditional Common Application.

Susan Ardizzoni, director of undergraduate admissions, explained how the impetus for the new application platform came about when the Common Application was facing a lot of technical issues. “[The Common App] went through a lot of technical issues to the point that colleges weren’t sure if applications would arrive on time and according to deadlines,” she said. “Although it all worked out, a group of colleges started discussing how it was risky to have only one admission platform. So that was what started it.”

The new application, known as the Coalition, launched in Aug. 2016, equips students with an alternate platform and is aimed at providing affordability, accessibility and success for college students, according to the application’s website. see COALITION, page 2

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The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success is a college application alternative to the Common App, pictured on Oct. 11.

Senate passes resolutions on janitors, cultural training, discusses Senator stipends

by Joe Walsh News Editor

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met on Oct. 10 in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room to consider several resolutions and supplementary funding requests.

Parliamentarian Adam Rapfogel, a sophomore, led the discussion of two resolutions.

Senators first considered a resolution affirming the rights of contracted janitors on the Tufts campus to have suitable working conditions and respect from their employer C&W Services, a contractor hired by Tufts. In particular, the resolution called for more fulltime positions, better healthcare and benefits, limited night shifts and fewer layoffs.

About 20 students, including members of Tufts Labor Coalition ( TLC), attended the meeting to show their

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support of the resolution.

After the resolution was read by Historian Rati Srinivasan, a junior, the authors explained their rationale.

According to co-authors senior Olivia Dehm, junior Nicole Joseph and LGBT Center Representative sophomore Parker Breza, negotiations between C&W Services and labor union Service Employees International Union have been contentious and ongoing, and this resolution creates an opportunity to ensure that C&W janitors’ well-being is considered.

According to the resolution, Tufts administrators have affirmed their belief that C&W Services should preserve jobs and be transparent. Thus, the resolution is meant to encourage the university to maintain the minimum standards it says it supports for workers, the authors said.

After a question-and-answer session, Senate held a roll call vote on the reso-

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lution and it passed with 21 in favor, no Senators opposed and four abstentions.

The second resolution considered at the meeting urged the administration to mandate annual cultural competency training for staff and faculty. According to a Sept. 8 Daily article, this training would educate faculty on how to accommodate and value diverse voices in the classroom.

“As a professor, you’re being taught how to be a better professor to all human beings,” co-author and Women’s Community Representative Walae Hayek said. “The idea is that, as an educator, you should be educated on how to talk to different people with different identities and different experiences.”

The resolution called for mandatory training to be held once per year and as a requirement for tenure and promotions, with optional sessions throughout the year. According to Hayek, a

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junior, the curriculum for the training is being developed and will likely be ready by next summer. She said that training would be updated annually.

Hayek explained that training could be provided either by professors of education at Tufts or by outside professionals contracted by the university. The intention of this resolution, she said, is to lobby administrators to make the change.

The resolution passed by acclamation, meaning senators raised their hands to vote rather than declaring their vote one by one.

Next, TCU President Gauri Seth and TCU Vice President Shai Slotky, both seniors, updated senators on several projects. Seth recognized Breza and Diversity and Community Affairs (DCA) Officer Benya Kraus, a junior, for their work to organize an Indigenous People’s

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Coalition application aims to improve affordability, accessibility COALITION

continued from page 1 Over time, the focus of the new application shifted from just addressing technological issues to issues of affordability and access, according to Ardizzoni. According to Admissions Counselor Sean Ashburn, the way the Coalition addresses the issue of affordability is that all member institutions have a baseline commitment established toward providing financial aid or affordable tuition. Students can thus use the Coalition as a research tool to help them make an informed decision about the colleges that are financially suitable for them.

According to Ardizzoni, the Coalition currently has over 90 member schools. These include private universities and colleges that are committed to meeting 100 percent of demonstrated financial need of every domestic student as well as public universities that have high graduation rates and are committed to giving affordable in-state tuition, Ardizzoni said.

The Coalition has several unique features that distinguish it from the Common Application, according to Ashburn. One of them is known as the “locker,” which allows students to compile and store documents such as essays and other work done over the course of high school to access later when applying to college, he explained.

Ardizzoni describes this distinctive feature as an electronic file cabinet.

“It can be described as the cardboard box above the dryer that you keep all your children’s stuff in,” she said.

Adrizzoni went on to explain that a student in the ninth grade with an interest in photography or creative writing can save his or her work over time in the locker and by the 12th grade demonstrate the progress of their skills.

Ashburn also highlighted the collaborative aspect of the Coalition which, similar to Google Docs, allows students to share essays and other files with mentors, teachers and counselors working with them during the application process. They, in turn, can leave notes and feedback in the same location, according to Ashburn.

“It provides an option to coach students on how they can improve the quality of their work,” Ashburn said.

Ashburn explained that on the Common App there are, by default, two spaces to fill in under parents’ names.

The Coalition, however, asks how many parents the student would like to list, he said.

“For a student with a family with less than two parents or no relation with more than one adult, the Coalition affirms that the student’s life does not have fit into the model of the application, but rather the student’s life drives the application,” Ashburn said.

After years of just one application platform, many students raised the question as to how admission officers will compare students applying through the Coalition and Common Application, Ashburn explained.

According to Ashburn, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions believes equally in the quality of both and does not deem either one to be more significant than the other. It is more about which application fits best for each student, he explained.

Ashburn gave the example of high-achieving, low-income students looking at Tufts and other peer institutions, who can benefit from using the Coalition.

“It serves as a resource to target and zero in on schools that are good academic fits, social fits and financial fits for them,” said Ashburn.

Due to its re c e n t launch, Tufts Admissions does not expect thousands of Coalition applications this year, Ardizzoni said.

Ardizzoni explained that in the future, Tufts and other member institutions plan to travel to underprivileged high schools to talk about the Coalition and advocate for its usage.

According to Ashburn, Tufts was one of the leading members at conferences promoting the Coalition because the application reflects the university’s own values.

Stipends for senators are source of discussion at meeting SENATE

continued from page 1 Day celebration earlier in the day.

Tr e a s u r e r Christopher Leaverton then sought approval for a project to look into introducing minors for Spanish and French for students in the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S).

Currently, those languages are only available as minors for students in the School of Engineering, even though other language minors are offered in A&S, according to Leaverton, a sophomore.

Leaverton explained that many students have expressed interest in minoring in Spanish or French. He said that faculty’s responses have been mixed, with some willing to consider the resolution and others concerned about its impact on the department and its educational value.

Senators voted by acclamation to approve the project. Leaverton said that his next steps will be to work within the Department of Romance Languages to see whether there is student interest and subsequently lobby the department to hold a vote.

Leaverton then led the portion of the meeting focused on supplementary funding requests for clubs. Tufts Hillel’s and Tufts Asian Student Coalition’s requests for funding were recommended in full by the Allocations Board (ALBO) and Senate approved those requests. Active Minds, Computer Science Exchange, Non-

Denominational Christian Fellowship and TLC saw their requests reduced

by ALBO; Senate approved the ALBOrecommended amounts.

The most contentious supplementary funding request was for TCU Senate’s own budget. $3,000 was requested to create stipends for the DCA Officer, the Historian and the Parliamentarian. $6,000 was requested to help pay for security at Late Night Dining.

The stipends for senators, Seth argued, should be made available because TCU Senate Executives spend a great deal of time on Senate business, so stipends would allow the Senate to be more inclusive to students who need to work during the school year.

Currently, the President, Vice President, Treasurer and Associate Treasurer receive stipends, though they are not need-based. The funding request would pay for three new $1,000 stipends.

Breza argued that, if stipends are made available, they should be extended to other members of the Senate who have additional responsibilities, such as Trustee Representatives and Community Representatives. He also suggested that the stipends could be proportional to need.

Junior Daniel Kamlarz, a senator, expressed concern that the stipends available for certain positions are not well-publicized, and for that reason they should not come out of the student activity fee.

Associate Treasurer Emily Sim, a sophomore, acknowledged that many other Senate members put in a lot of work, but she said that Executives are especially deserving of stipends because they have large, constitutionally-mandated responsibilities.

With regards to Late Night Dining, Seth explained that the full bill for maintenance and Tufts University Police Department security for Late Night Dining in the Commons totals $18,000 per year, of which $6,000 is borne by the Office of the President and $6,000 is borne by the Student Affairs Office. She argued that it is important to fund these expenses because previous incidents of poor student behavior have made dining staff feel unsafe.

Education Committee Chair Nesi Altaras, a sophomore, said that he was under the impression that the Late Night Dining expenditures were meant to be a one-time expense. He argued that it should not be paid for by the student activity fee.

Sim agreed in principle that Late Night Dining costs should be institutionalized, but she pointed out that TCU Senate’s contribution is a proportionally small amount.

Senators ultimately voted to table debate on the funding request, which means that it will be discussed at a future Senate meeting. They then adjourned the meeting.

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Dialogue events seek to foster campus community during 2016 election

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A student stands to ask the panelists a question at the Department of Political Science’s Presidential Debate Watch Party at Cohen Auditorium on Sept. 26.

by Constantinos Angelakis Features Editor

On Sept. 19, members of the Tufts community received an email from Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Provost Mark Brimhall-Vargas announcing the office’s efforts to build a “campus community” during the 2016 presidential election season. Brimhall-Vargas wrote in the email that he, along with the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, the University Chaplaincy, Student Affairs and a number of faculty, staff and students, were planning to host debate-watch events and panels, as well as a series of “dialogue” events that are “explicitly designed to give everyone across the political spectrum an opportunity to engage in a way that is somewhat unusual … to discuss how the election season is affecting them personally and socially.”

Brimhall-Vargas said that one of the major goals of these new dialogue events — which began on Sept. 27, one day after the first presidential debate, and conclude on Nov. 9, the day after the election — is to encourage free speech and acceptance of different political opinions during this unusual and particularly contentious election cycle.

“I think that generally, this is … a way for the institution to really start to engage not in a rhetorical way, but in a lived way [with] this notion of free speech on campus,” Brimhall-Vargas said. “We really want to be able to create an environment where people can disagree openly and survive the experience … They should be able to come to a university, engage with difficult, controversial, upsetting ideas and still feel like the experience did not injure them.”

Additionally, he said that the dialogue events are intended to address the ways in which members of the Tufts community feel personally affected by the election. According to Brimhall-Vargas, while Tisch College, the Department of

Political Science and others are organizing presidential and vice presidential debate watch parties and speaker panels — as they have done during previous presidential election cycles — the dialogue events, devised for the purpose of promoting reflection on the personal impacts of the election cycle, are entirely new.

“The debate-watch experiences are designed to help students be engaged, be informed [and] have more than passing, cursory information about serious policy issues,” he said. “But we also realized that there’s an entire social dimension to the election that was left unaddressed.”

Jennifer McAndrew, the director of policy, planning and strategy at Tisch College, said this “social dimension” largely stems from the polarity of the two major presidential candidates and of their supporters.

“I think there’s a recognition from the leadership of the university and from many people here — students, faculty, staff — that this election is really unusual for a number of reasons,” she said. “And it’s not just the extreme differences in the candidates, the first woman nominated by a major party, but also just the level of vitriol and division that it’s exposing in the country and [in] people.”

McAndrew noted that this election is also unusual because it is the first time that the number of potential voters currently aged 18 to 29 is larger than the number of potential voters that are boomers or members of prior generations. This aspect of the election makes it especially relevant to students.

“We know from the research that young people can move elections, and we know from working with a lot of young people that you all have the innovative outlook, the skills and the talent to actually help us repair our democracy,” McAndrew said. “And everyone needs you to be engaged.”

Though McAndrew said that she has heard concerns about the political dialogue on campus being reserved primarily for students who are highly politically engaged, she added that all students should feel welcome and included at these events.

“We want to be clear that these are for people with not only different types of political knowledge and interest, but also different amounts of political knowledge and interest,” she said.

In particular, she hopes that these events will attract students who do not regularly participate in politics, which would ideally create a more representative pool of voters at Tufts.

Nancy Thomas, the director of the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tisch College, also spoke about the importance of attracting a variety of students to these events regardless of their majors. She referenced a study conducted by the Institute of Democracy and Higher Education that surveyed 7.4 million students about their voting rates and found discrepancies between student voter turnout based on their fields of study.

According to the study, education and humanities-related majors are the most likely to vote, and engineering majors are the least likely. However, Thomas feels that political issues connect to nearly every academic discipline, and that therefore all students have a stake in the outcome of elections.

“No matter what you are studying here, it is relevant to public life,” she said.

Thomas explained that voting exposes the interest of younger voters to candidates, who often do not campaign to younger voters if their voting rates are low. She hopes that with the help of these dialogue events, as well as other efforts on campus such as Tisch College’s JumboVote, students will be more encouraged to vote. see DIALOGUE EVENTS, page 4

man, a Trump supporter, and a woman, a Clinton supporter, park their cars in adjacent spots in a North Carolina hotel parking lot. On the left is a Mini Cooper with New York plates and a bumper sticker that reads, “My other car isn’t a Porsche. It’s a Por-sché.” On the right: a Ford F-150 with Alabama plates and one of those ballsack ornaments dangling from the trailer hitch. I won’t tell you which car belongs to the Democrat and which to the Republican. Instead, just go ahead and infer on your own, keeping in mind that you’re the offensive party in this situation and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Both of them are in NC for the week to help organize campaign stops for their candidate. Both know that the polls show Clinton and Trump to be neck and saggy neck, but neither understands how this could be, as everyone they know is voting the same way as they are. The Trumper wonders, “Just how much voter fraud is there?” and the Clintonite ponders, “Just how many Waffle Houses are there?”

The two get out of their cars and walk to the hotel entrance. “Voting for Trump?” asks the woman. The man wonders how she knew, briefly forgetting about his “Made in America” forehead tattoo.

“Sure am! And you?”

The Clintonite steps up onto the curb, smiles a bit too big, looks into the camera (wait, when did that camera get there?) and unleashes: “From the dawn of time –” “Clinton it is. Got it.” He holds the door for her as she enters. She mumbles a thank you.

Later, the two run into each other at the hotel bar and get to talking. Somehow, they hit it off. Every night of the week, they return to the bar for drinks. The man even plans on inviting her to attend Thanksgiving dinner at his family home until, on their last day in North Carolina, she asks, “Could you believe Trump’s comments about groping women?”

“Oh, that was just locker room banter,” the man replies.

“Ugh, wait, I have to send you a brilliant article that will make you realize he’s a monster! It’s called ‘471 GIFs That Perfectly Encapsulate How I Feel About Trump’s Comments and Also Other Things and Look at These Mozzarella Sticks.’”

He freezes for a moment, offended. “Wait a minute. Did you just say ‘GIF’ and pronounce it like the peanut butter?”

“Of course. That’s how their creator says it’s pronounced,” she responds.

“I don’t care if 97 percent of scientists say it’s pronounced JIF. That’s a pile of lamestream jarbage. It’s clearly GIF.” She is taken aback. “You ignorant fool! Are you crazy? You can’t just make stuff up and say it like it’s true! This isn’t a 2016 presidential debate.”

“You know what? They were right about liberals being snobs! Why don’t you just jet the hell out of here?”

And so she does. Out the bar and back home, to what is soon to be the Northern Union. And just like that, the country’s last hope of party reconciliation dies. R.I.P. Purple.

Kevin Lawson is a senior majoring in political science. Kevin can be reached at kevin.lawson@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 3 “Voting … sure is obvious and fundamental and relatively easy,” Thomas said. “So for heaven’s sake, go pick the next president.”

Another individual involved with the dialogue events is Jonathan Garlick, a professor of oral pathology at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. Garlick taught a firstyear seminar in anthropology last fall called “Science and the Human Experience,” part of which teaches students how to engage in discussions on controversial topics.

Brimhall-Vargas decided to enlist the students in Garlick’s course as facilitators for the first post-debate dialogue, based on the course’s emphasis on training students to participate in hard-hitting discussions, according to Garlick.

“The goal was to use this dialogic approach that we’ve successfully implemented in the [first-year] seminar, bring along the students that appreciate its value, train them to do dialogues and then to enable other students to experience this dialogue and to really listen to each other with empathy,” Garlick said.

In fact, Brimhall-Vargas said that the dialogue events can also be thought of as training sessions for students to help them be more comfortable engaging with political ideas with which they might not agree.

Thomas and Brimhall-Vargas had facilitated a dialogue training session over the summer for Tufts faculty and staff members interested in improving their ability to engage in politically-charged conversations. From feedback collected after the debate,

they compiled a packet used to train facilitators for other discussions.

“If you want to have a campus that has dialogue everywhere, you need to start doing it right,” Thomas said.

“And to do it right, you need people who are trained and people who are open-minded about trying things out.”

At colleges like Tufts that are typically viewed to be left-leaning, Thomas feels that fostering balanced dialogue can be particularly difficult.

However, she Chief Diversity Officer hopes that the session on March 3. open nature of the events will attract students from various political backgrounds.

“Students on college campuses are predominantly progressive, and that means that those who are not [progressive] … don’t necessarily come to these things, because they don’t view them as spaces where their viewpoints will be valued,” Thomas said. “We’re really trying to do it differently, so that their viewpoints are valued. That being said, in this particular election climate, that’s a really tough thing to do.”

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and Associate Provost Mark Brimhall-Vargas speaks during a “Diversity Dashboard” feedback She added that the importance of communication and dialogue skills extends beyond politics, with the potential to improve interpersonal relationships and ultimately make the Tufts campus, and the world, a better place.

“Facilitating and participating in these kinds of dialogues, these are life skills,” she said. “These are skills that I used to raise my children. They are skills that I try to remember to use in the workplace.”

Brimhall-Vargas views the dialogue events as part of larger voting and civic

engagement efforts at Tufts, providing another way for students to participate in the political process as much or as little as they want.

“We’re trying to make this a cohesive experience where students can enter wherever they would like to,” he said.

“So if the only thing a student does is register to vote, that’s still a good thing … If they want to go to just the debate watch party, if they want to go to a dialogue, if they want to do it all, it’s available for them. So they have a space to participate.”

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‘The Girl on the Train’ takes wrong track

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Emily Blunt plays Rachel Watson in the film “The Girl on the Train.”

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There are many parallels between “The Girl on the Train,” released on Oct. 7, and “Gone Girl” (2014), but director Tate Taylor’s new film doesn’t weather the comparison well. The titular girl is Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt), an alcoholic woman who travels to and from New York City every day on a commuter train. From the vantage point of her favorite seat, she watches the residents of two very specific houses. One of the houses is one she knows she shouldn’t be watching: it’s where her ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux) lives with his wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson) and their infant daughter. The other is the home of Scott and Megan Hipwell, whom Watson has never met, but believes are the perfect couple. Her vision of their lives, idealized through the lens of her past and the booze, doesn’t match up with reality, and the impossibly intertwined transgressions of all involved soon make that abundantly clear.

“The Girl on the Train” makes a number of mistakes that keep it from fostering the suspense and morbid fascination that director David Fincher and writer (and author of the original book) Gillian Flynn used to such effect in “Gone Girl.”

The true villain of “The Girl on the Train” is only revealed in the final act, and the bulk of the running time is spent following Watson as she tries to piece together the events of one crucial night from her drunken haze.

Blunt makes Watson’s anger and the

pitiful feebleness that her character’s drinking creates palpable, but her performance can’t overcome the muddled proceedings. Unlike in “Gone Girl,” where the plot was driven by the need for Ben Affleck’s character to clear his name, a clear motivator is never established in “The Girl on the Train.” The film is billed as a mystery/thriller, but the “thriller” moniker should really be replaced with “(melo)drama.” The moments where the audience collectively lets out a breath, the thrills themselves, are missing in action.

Instead, much of the focus is on the emotions and relationships of the five central characters: Watson and the two couples she watches from the train.

Writer Erin Cressida Wilson, best known for the BDSM romcom “Secretary” (2002), works off of Paula Hawkins’ bestselling novel but isn’t able to generate the requisite tension, and Taylor doesn’t add much in that department. He doesn’t seem at home in the big city or in the wealthy white suburb where most of the story takes place. Parts of the film are shot using a handheld camera, the swaying and bobbing frame in close-up hoping to evoke Watson’s inebriation and the uncertainty of what exactly happened, of who is telling the truth and who is hiding a dark secret.

But this style has the effect of compressing the lust, rage and betrayal on display, confining them to this little hamlet and draining the film of any relatability or universality. This might work if the audience had sympathy for anyone but Watson, and the connection to her is

largely the work of Blunt herself and not the film as a whole. Instead, the only thing pulling the audience in is finding out what happened, and that draw is a weak tug at best here. That Watson is never in real physical or legal danger until the film’s climax makes following her retrace her steps tedious.

Further sapping the immersion are a number of elements that are distractingly artificial, breaking the admittedly weak spell the film casts over the viewer. One scene in the woods surrounding the suburb has the characters consumed by a very dense fog that was so placed that its break from reality is obvious. Throughout the film, Blunt’s hair and makeup seem not to be have been applied by a lush, but by someone told to apply makeup like a drunk would. And a moment when Watson supposedly takes a swig of liquor from a clearly empty bottle snaps any effect that the spell might have had.

Wilson and Taylor seem to have taken this film in the wrong direction, honing in on the relationship drama instead of the mystery and intrigue, and leaving other themes unexplored. In the film’s opening scene, we are introduced to Watson’s fantasy about the Hipwells and their perfect lives, but the mismatch between her perception and reality is never examined.

That question of how and why we idealize others is an interesting one, and certainly one with deep connections to this story, but it’s left by the wayside. What the writer and director tried to achieve wasn’t so much a misstep in filmmaking, but the wrong track to take this story down.

his week, Project Runway opened with the never-before-seen fabulousness of Tim Gunn in swimwear! Fittingly, our patron saint paired swim trunks with a long sleeve t-shirt embellished with a delicately-tucked pocket square. Tim donned this iconic look to welcome this week’s challenge where the contestants would design their own fabric and then use it to create a swimsuit and cover-up ensemble that would be added to Heidi Klum’s new swimwear collection.

Due to poor planning on our part, we invited our dads to be the guest judges this week.

Let it be known that both men rightfully felt uncomfortable critiquing swimsuits and stuck mostly to commenting on the designers, their fabrics and the judges. Michael Antolin, dad of student Ana Antolin, refused to be interviewed unless he was formally introduced as “Michael Antolin, dad of student Ana Antolin.”

This was his first time watching the show and maybe his last, as he declared, “I will not give up watching hockey for this.” He also gave us such gems as, “I spend as much time thinking about clothes and design as I think about warts,” and, “I’m on pins and needles — pun intended!”

Emily and her dad, Mark Friedlander, have been watching this show together on and off for years. Although he is a long-term admirer of Tim’s intellect, compassion and mentoring capabilities, Mark has a strong aversion to Tim’s style. While watching this week’s episode Mark exclaimed, “[Tim] doesn’t know how to dress – what he puts on is ugly and it has too many patterns! I expect more from him than a pinstripe suit, checkered shirt and tie that [doesn’t] match!”

What Mark did empathize with was the difficulty of this challenge for all of the designers. While swimsuits generally do not require a lot of fabric, fit and construction are almost always issues, whether it’s wedgies caused by what designer Alex describes as “hungry butt” or Erin’s “labia spillage.” Heidi worsened the already somber mood when she entered the workroom to give feedback. Everyone, dads included, agreed her critiques were overly harsh and sometimes just wrong. Designer Tasha created one of our favorite fabrics this episode inspired by Rastafarian patterns, but she was shut down when Heidi problematically compared it to “Chinese takeout.”

This week’s winner was Rik, who Michael Antolin referred to as “Goatee Man.” He created a harlequinesque black and white one piece that got Mark excited because it reminded him of Picasso paintings. Designer Sarah was sent home with a novelty print that just didn’t work and a boring swimsuit structure.

Two of our favorite looks were made by Brik and Dexter. Brik made the only swimsuit we really wanted to wear, featuring flattering boy-short cut bottoms and (obviously) a red brick pattern. Dexter made an edgy racerback top with a snake-eye print that was daring and bold. He, unfortunately, scrapped it after undeserved criticism from Heidi. We hope that next week more of the designers trust their instincts because when they do, the results are magical.

Ana Antolin is a junior majoring in international relations. Ana can be reached at ana.antolin@tufts. edu. Emily Friedlander is a senior majoring in international relations. Emily can be reached at emily. friedlander@tufts.edu.

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On vocational school

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ost of us at Tufts went to a “regular high school.” We read books we didn’t like, dabbled in sciences we couldn’t stand and sat through agonizingly painful language classes. We were told not to worry, that the boring stuff was all part of the process and that come college, we’d be able to study whatever our hearts desired.

But rarely do we ask, does every kid truly need to read Shakespeare? Does everyone need to go to a traditional four-year high school?

In the United States, the accepted path to a successful career — and life — is “high school to Harvard.” For most, vocational schools, or career schools, are completely out of the question.

Any viable method of education should satisfy two criteria: it should help create a base level of knowledge for the population and ultimately prepare that population to enter the workforce. No matter how much we may hate it, working is the ultimate goal.

Vocational schools attempt to make work a priority over a traditional liberal-arts education. They train students to be mechanics, health providers or electricians rather than college first-years. While vocational schooling has been around for hundreds of years, it has often come under fire due to the claim that they funnel disadvantaged and poorly-educated students into blue-collar jobs — keeping the freedoms and benefits of liberal arts education for the elite.

But in recent years, vocational schools have been rebranded and reformed as Career Technical Education (CTE). CTE courses and institutions offer hands-on career training mixed with a traditional high school education; they provide a middle ground between typical high school and full-on trade school. Throughout most of the United States, CTEs are already fairly ubiquitous; in 2009, 85 percent of public high school grads completed at least one CTE course during their four years. Some studies even suggest that CTEs can improve financial returns for post-graduate students, especially those in CTE-specific fields like construction and architecture. But in other parts of the world, vocational education is taken to another level.

In Germany, vocational training is the norm. At age 10, kids choose between enrolling in a vocational program, regular high school or a middle ground somewhere in between. Vocational students follow a “dual training” track, spending part of their time in apprenticeships doing hands-on work and the rest in the classroom. The apprenticeships are done in partnership with big corporations — setting up many students with jobs right out of high school. But Germany is in a very different place than the United States with 60 percent of German students receiving vocational training and 90 percent of them successfully completing their apprentice training — gifting Germany with one of the lowest youth unemployment ratings in the European Union. But, just because it works in Germany doesn’t mean it will work here.

Vocational schools are not the hot topic they once were, but important questions still remain. How important is the idea of a liberal arts education? Do vocational schools inadvertently segregate by class? And finally, is college really the ultimate answer in preparation for the workforce? All that is for you to decide, I just hope that you enjoyed some time outside The Echo Chamber.

Daniel is a first-year student in the College of Liberal Arts at Tufts University. Daniel can be reached at daniel.lewis@tufts.edu.

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Considerations for new upperclassmen housing Last month, Tufts’ Residential Strategies Working Group (RSWG) announced their intention to implement proposals for alternative off-campus housing options for juniors and seniors. The group, commissioned by President Monaco, was formed last year in response to housing ordinances in Medford and Somerville that limit the number of students permitted to live in a house, effectively driving up rent prices in neighborhoods surrounding Tufts.

These concerns have also been exacerbated by the Green Line Extension project, which would likely increase housing demand in the Medford and Somerville areas, further driving up off-campus housing prices.

The ideas proposed by the RSWG include converting university-owned houses, which are currently used for office space and staff transitional housing, to student houses that would charge university-controlled rent. While this is an interesting prospect that may prove necessary given the stipulations set forth in Medford and Somerville’s housing laws, there are a number of factors the university must consider before following through with the plan.

One of the greatest concerns regarding new off-campus housing is pricing. Housing at Tufts is exorbitantly expensive, as students living on cam-

pus pay more than an estimated $7,000 in annual residential costs, and up to $13,000 with an added meal plan.

Having control over individual expenditures is one of the biggest draws of living off campus, an option students would not have in university-controlled housing. For Tufts’ plan to be viable from an economic standpoint, the university would need to make the prices for their new housing comparable to the rent students currently pay for off-campus housing near the university, in the ballpark of $700 to $900 per month.

Additionally, a major benefit of living off campus is being allotted a lot of additional freedom. After two years of living in dormitories with strict guidelines — from mandated quiet hours to contraband candles and microwaves — upperclassmen are often eager to experience the independence that comes with off-campus living. The administration has proposed that university-owned housing would provide students with a “gentler transition to life after graduation.” However, the conveniences of living in university-owned housing would undoubtably be coupled with certain limitations, similar to those in dorms. In the case that Tufts’ plan for housing is approved, the administration should aim to ensure that students maintain as much autonomy as possible in order to closely pre-

serve the freedom students enjoy upon moving off campus.

The displacement of faculty is another factor Tufts would have to seriously consider prior to converting existing buildings to student housing. The university has already faced criticism over its unjust treatment of janitors; displacing faculty members to create more student housing could potentially be another infraction against the dedicated staff and faculty at Tufts. It is imperative that Tufts ensures that all the staff members who would be displaced by the housing conversion can find affordable, local housing comparable in size and quality to the housing from which they would be removed.

While converting university-owned houses to student apartments could prove to be a valuable solution to the scarcity of affordable options in Medford and Somerville, Tufts certainly has significant considerations to bear in mind. It is imperative that Tufts consider pricing, relative freedom and the well-being of faculty if they intend to go forward with their housing propositions. If not, the university runs the risk of putting students in a difficult situation — either they pay steeply for apartments in Medford or Somerville, or they sacrifice money, autonomy and respect for the Tufts faculty to live in a university-owned room.

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No shutdown necessary

by Jamie Neikrie In the midst of an election cycle that consumes all, it can be easy to forget that the act of governing the country must continue. And with the divisiveness surrounding Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump, lawmakers almost begin to look competent. Almost.

Congress upheld this notion just two weeks ago when both the House and the Senate signed bills that will keep the government open through December and allocated resources toward a few key issues. The aid package came just as lawmakers were about to depart for recess again, just a month after their 42-day summer break.

The law allocates $1.1 billion toward addressing the spread and treatment of the Zika virus. Of that, $397 million will be directed toward developing a vaccine for Zika, and $394 million will be given to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institute of Health to control the spread of mosquitoes carrying the virus.

The money could not have come soon enough, according to CDC Director Tom Frieden. “The cupboard is bare,” said Frieden in late August.

“Basically, we’re out of money, and we need Congress to act to allow us to respond effectively.” President Obama had initially asked Congress for $1.9 billion to combat Zika in February.

Since January 2015, almost 4,000 people in the mainland United States and over 24,000 in United States territories including Puerto Rico have contracted the Zika virus, according to the CDC. That figure includes more than 2,400 pregnant women, for whom the virus can cause birth defects. Congress allocated $66 million to aid Zika victims in Puerto Rico, where positive tests for people suspected to have the virus have increased from 14 percent in February to 64 percent in June.

This summer, emergency aid packages were delayed after Democrats claimed that Republicans had sabotaged legislation by adding provisions that would restrict funding to Planned Parenthood.

“Women’s health should never be treated like a political football,” said Sen. Patty Murray, who is the ranking member of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “I am glad that Republicans finally agreed to set aside the extreme provisions that would have specifically blocked

Planned Parenthood health care providers from accessing critical funding.”

In avoiding a shutdown, Congress also allocated money toward addressing the lead poisoning epidemic in Flint, Michigan. This action came after the Republicans yielded to the Democrats, who refused to sign a bill that didn’t include aid for the city’s residents. The law will direct resources toward improving the city’s infrastructure, replacing the lead water pipes that have already affected thousands.

As always though, there is a catch. The bill passed by the House authorized $170 million to Flint, while the Senate allocated $220 million to the city. In order to resolve these differences, the House and Senate leadership plan to convene a conference in order to reach a compromise between the two bills. This holdup is part of the reason Flint and Michigan leaders called for emergency funds, which sidestep the conference process to take aggressive measures in addressing the crisis.

Lastly, Congress provided money for flood relief in Louisiana. While the rest of the country has moved on, the flood is still wreaking havoc across the state.

It left 13 people dead, damaged an esti-

mated 130,000 homes, displaced thousands and caused roughly $8.7 billion in damages. Despite President Obama’s calling for Congress to provide the state with a $2.6 billion stopgap, the House and Senate each passed bills that provided only $500 million. “It’s not the last piece; it’s the first step,” said U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. “Obviously, there’s a lot more work to do, but this first step was in many ways the hardest piece.”

By avoiding a shutdown, Democrats helped Republicans maintain the perception that the GOP can manage the federal government, an image they’ve worked hard to create since taking over both chambers of Congress in 2014.

But this law provides evidence to the contrary. Aid for Florida, Puerto Rico, Flint and Louisiana has all come too little, too late. Even without a shutdown, the congressional leaders made it clear to the American public why new leadership is necessary.

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continued from page back College, who are second in scoring in the NESCAC with 30 goals after Amherst’s 33. The Camels are 8-3 and were on a four-game winning streak before losing to Amherst 3-1 yesterday. Conn. College also lost 1-0 to Middlebury earlier in the season.

“It’s all about six points,” Trevorrow said. “We’ve shown that we can win big

games, but in terms of really getting into where we want to be in the playoffs and making it as far as we can we have to be winning all the games that we can. That starts with six points on the weekend, no excuses, just getting the wins.”

Tufts plays the Trinity Bantams at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. The Bantams will also be in the second leg of their double-header weekend.

“We have, more than most teams in the conference, a very deep team – a lot of talented guys who can give a lot of minutes,” Halliday said.“What’s at the forefront of our minds going into next weekend is that everyone is going to be tested and we need to use our depth to outlast the other team who are most likely also going into double-header weekends.”

FIELD HOCKEY

Jumbos score huge upset over defending national champions

by Maclyn Senear Sports Editor

Field hockey went to Middlebury and notched its biggest win of the season thus far on Saturday with a 2-1 upset over defending national champions and then-No. 3 Panthers. With the win, Tufts climbed the rankings to fifth nationally and moved to 5-1 in NESCAC play (9-1 overall) to remain tied with No. 2 Bowdoin atop the conference and in excellent position for the postseason.

Plenty of psychological factors were stacked against the Jumbos going into the match-up: they had not beaten the Panthers since 2013, and they hadn’t beaten the Panthers on their own turf since 2009; since that 2009 Jumbo win, the Panthers had won five of the seven match-ups prior to Saturday, including two decisive wins over the Jumbos last year; and perhaps most importantly, the Panthers boasted a 20-game home winning streak as they headed into the weekend.

“I think we used our losses to them last year and in previous years as fuel for the game this past weekend,” sophomore defender Issy Del Priore said. “Every player on our team stepped onto that field determined to win. We knew about their winning streak, [and] they’re defending national champions, so they were the team to beat. And we knew that we were capable of winning that game, and I think every player was confident in their abilities and their teammates’ abilities. We all knew that we could win that day, so we played like it.”

The Jumbos came into the game rested, having had almost a week between their previous game and the game at Middlebury.

They used last week to specifically prepare for what would be their toughest challenge of the season so far, knowing that they would need to improve their efficiency at converting on their goal-scoring opportunities — which would be fewer — and would need to figure out how to stop Middlebury’s prolific offense.

Tufts’ defensive unit has been solid this year and seemed to have little trouble stepping up to the task of shutting down the Panthers’ junior forward Annie Leonard, the top scorer in the NESCAC. “They kept [Leonard] in our defensive 25 for most of the game, so [senior co-captain defender] Nicole [Arata] and I made sure someone was marking her the whole game,” Del Priore said. “We knew if we could shut her down, we had a really good chance of winning.”

Coach Tina McDavitt Mattera drew up a strategy that countered the Panthers’ style of play well and the team won mostly by executing its game plan and having every player up and down the lineup do their job.

“Starting Thursday, we just had this really good feeling,” Arata said. “[Fellow senior co-captain] Dom[inique Zarrella] and I and the coaches talked about how we had a high-intensity, productive practice on Thursday, and then we came back out Friday and had another high-intensity practice.

There was this general sense that we were well prepared for this game: we had watched

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Senior forward Dominique Zarrella plays the ball in a game against Trinity on Oct. 31, 2015. a lot of film, we had our defensive strategy down and we talked about playing harder and playing smarter. So we came into the game with a lot of confidence.”

Tufts’ offense pressured early, earning two early penalty corners and narrowly missing a chance to open the scoring 22 minutes in when a tip from senior forward Annie Artz went just wide of the net.

Off of the missed shot, the Panthers quickly counterattacked and caught the Jumbos in transition, with Panthers sophomore Grace Jennings and junior Lauren Schweppe moving the ball upfield on a series of giveand-go’s. Jennings sent a cross from inside the circle back to Schweppe, who swept a shot under Jumbo sophomore goalie Emily Polinski for the game’s first score.

The rest of the first half saw even play from both sides and ended without any further scoring. But the Jumbos roared out in the second half and earned a penalty corner just after the 44-minute mark.

Artz inserted the corner to junior midfielder Erin Sanders — one of the team’s go-to shooters on corners, who has started to find her shooting touch again in recent weeks — and Sanders fired a long shot in to equalize.

“Erin has a rocket shot,” Artz said. “From film, we recognized her spot on the corner would be open, so we worked all week on the low slip to Erin, and she executed it perfectly. We knew we had to capitalize on every scoring opportunity, and Erin did a great job doing that.”

The Jumbos kept the pressure up over the next 13 minutes, getting off five more shots while preventing the Panthers from getting off a single shot. With 12 minutes left to play, junior forward Mary Travers broke loose and got a one-on-one chance against Middlebury goalie Emily Miller, and Miller was forced to take down Travers inside the circle to give the Jumbos a penalty stroke.

Junior midfielder Mary Kate Patton took the stroke and snuck a shot inside the left post to put the visitors up 2-1. The Jumbos

then doubled down on defense and staved off a late penalty corner opportunity with three minutes to play to hold on for the upset.

“We were much more patient on defense in the [Middlebury] game,” Artz said. “All week in practice we worked on how we could play great team defense, which I think was a major key to our success.”

Tufts’ stellar defense — which ranks second in the NESCAC with just 0.68 goals allowed per game, behind Bowdoin — held a Middlebury offense that has averaged over 16 shots per game to just six shots on Saturday, only four of which were on goal.

The Tufts defense also allowed just two penalty corners and when the game heated up in the second half, permitted just one Panthers shot.

The win not only provides the Jumbos with a significant late-season confidence boost but also makes earning an NCAA postseason tournament bid more likely.

Tufts remains tied with Bowdoin atop the conference with their face-off approaching in a few weeks. As long as Tufts wins the games it’s considered the favorite for — which include the next four games, three of which come against NESCAC teams — the team could lose to Bowdoin and still potentially earn a favorable NESCAC tournament seed and have a strong chance of either winning the NESCAC title and the automatic NCAA bid that comes with it, or if not, then at least earning an at-large bid.

The Jumbos have a packed weekend ahead of them as they travel to take on the Conn. College Camels on Saturday and then the Trinity Bantams on Sunday. Lowly Conn.

College is 1-6 in conference play, though Trinity may prove a tougher foe as it sits at 4-2, tied with Middlebury for third place in the NESCAC. The Jumbos are still favored to win both games though, especially after this past weekend’s upset.

“I think this win sends a message to all the other teams in the NESCAC, and in Div. III field hockey as a whole, of what our team is capable of this year,” Del Priore said.

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Bradley Schussel The Coin Toss

NFL Week 6

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elcome to The Coin Toss, where I make some bold, unlikely predictions every week about some of your favorite professional sports. First, let’s recap the predictions from last week.

My one baseball prediction didn’t go so well, as the Giants swiftly took down the Mets and moved on to the NLDS against the Cubs. My NFL predictions fared much better. I predicted that after putting up 300 yards in Week 4, Julio Jones wouldn’t manage more than 100 in week 5. I was right: he only had 29 yards against Denver’s tough defense. My other football prediction had the Lions over the red-hot Eagles.

This prediction was also correct, as the Lions won 24-23. Two out of three — a pretty good week!

Now, onto what’s in the crystal ball for this week’s NFL action…

Tom Brady regresses in week six, throws for fewer than 300 yards Don’t get your #12 jerseys in a twist, Pats fans; I’m not disrespecting or denying the greatness of Tom Brady. He came out firing last week on the first game of his “revenge tour.” The reason I see a regression here is that his great performance came against the Browns, who have one of the weakest defenses in the league. That unit is certainly worse than the Bengals’ defense, who will face Brady and the Pats this week. I won’t say who wins the game (you have to like New England), but Brady will regress from last week as he’s held to under 300 yards passing.

The Raiders take a loss at the hands of the Chiefs The Raiders are on a three-game win streak, and they sit tied atop their division with the Broncos at 4-1. Last week, they won an offensive slugfest against the Chargers 34-31. This game against the Kansas City Chiefs will be quite different. The Chiefs rank in the top half of the league in pass defense.

The secondary, led by Marcus Peters and Eric Berry, should provide a decent challenge for the Raiders’ offense. I predict that the Chiefs will hold off Derek Carr and Amari Cooper enough to get the upset.

The Eagles lose again, this time to the Redskins After predicting the Eagles’ loss last week, I can see it happening again.

The Eagles are still the favorite in this matchup, but they’re coming off a tough loss to the Lions, and the Redskins just beat the Ravens. Granted, the Ravens played so badly that they fired their offensive coordinator after the game, but Washington still got the win, and will be much more motivated in this game against Carson Wentz and the division rival Philadelphia Eagles. This matchup will be a good one to watch, and I predict that Washington takes this one at home and puts themselves in contention in the NFC East. The Coin Toss’ pick is in: Washington over Philadelphia in Week 6.

Bradley Schussel is a sophomore majoring in biomedical engineereing. Bradley can be reached at bradley.schussel@ tufts.edu.

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Tufts hands Middlebury first loss of season in shutout

by Maddie Payne Sports Editor

Men’s soccer returned to action against the No. 19 Middlebury Panthers on Saturday after a week-long break to hand Middlebury its first loss of the season. Tufts is now 3-1-2 in NESCAC play and 5-3-2 overall, a strong recovery from its slow start to the season that saw the team record one draw and two defeats.

“Having midweek games can hurt our preparation and our recovery time,” first-year midfielder/defender Zachary Trevorrow said.”[Our better schedule] showed in our energy that we were able to put into each game. The long week of preparation really helped us.”

In the 2-0 victory over the Panthers, two Jumbos scored their first collegiate goals. Trevorrow and sophomore defender Jackson Najjar both scored very early in the first half to give Tufts a lead that it maintained for the rest of the game.

Less than one minute into the contest, Tufts was awarded a free kick just outside the 18-yard box. Junior midfielder Kevin Halliday, who provided both assists for the two goals against Hamilton last weekend, took the free kick. He found Najjar right in the middle of the front of the goal and Najjar put it past Middlebury senior goalkeeper Greg Sydor.

Not six minutes later, Trevorrow collected a shot that had gone off the post after a corner kick and fired the ball into the net.

With 83 minutes remaining to play, both sides had chances to get back on the scoresheet. Both Tufts and Middlebury took 12 shots during the game, although Tufts had nine on target compared to Middlebury’s five. Junior midfielder Tyler Kulcsar threatened to extend the lead to three midway through the first half, but Sydor got a hand on it to force it wide.

The game was a huge step for the Jumbos, who showed that after a rocky start to the season they have the ability to be consistent, especially against top teams. Not only was the game Middlebury’s first loss in the NESCAC,

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In an attempt at a goal, Tufts junior midfielder Kevin Halliday is grabbed and held back in the 2-0 season-opening victory against the Colby Mules on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. but it was the first time all season that it conceded more than one goal in one game. Even after the 2-0 loss, Middlebury remains the team with the fewest goals against in the conference with five, but Tufts is a close second having only conceded one more. The Jumbos have now won five of their last seven games, starting with their 3-0 victory over the Bates Bobcats on Sept. 16, and they hope to extend this run with two more wins next weekend at Connecticut College and at Trinity.

“Earlier in the season we were a little inconsistent,” Halliday said. “We showed a lot of potential but we would have a good result followed up by not as good of a result.

I think that it’s the fact that it’s no longer the beginning of the season, and we’re no longer

making beginning of the season mistakes.

We can’t afford to lose more games or give up more points. It’s mostly the mentality, a lot of the older guys are showing the younger guys that’s its do or die, essentially.”

Tufts’ defense stood out: anchored by senior goalkeeper Scott Greenwood, who made five saves, the defense protected the goal from nine Middlebury corner kicks.

Again, Tufts had to defend a tall forward in senior tri-captain Greg Conrad, who took seven shots on Saturday, two of which were on target. Greenwood was able to deflect both attempts, and earned his fourth clean sheet of the season. It was his 31st clean sheet in his collegiate career, making him the program leader in shutouts.

“[Our team’s defensive strength can be attributed to] our incredible organization from the centerbacks,” Trevorrow said. “[Junior defender] Conor Coleman and [senior defender Daniel Sullivan] both did an excellent job of keeping everybody on track: no matter how well Middlebury put the ball in the box, they were always there. Physically they are a big force, but also … they organize the whole defense with their words, and [lead] by example and [are] teammates that you’d want to replicate.”

The Jumbos head into another double header weekend, their third of the season.

On Saturday at 2 p.m. they face Conn. see MEN'S SOCCER, page 11

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

With captains sidelined, Jumbos place second at James Earley Invitational

by Marc Weisglass Contributing Writer

With the season in full swing, the men’s cross country team entered the James Earley Invitational, an 8-kilometer hosted at Westfield State University, for its fourth meet of the year. After finishing 25th out of 38 teams at the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University the week before, the Jumbos were out for retribution and retribution was had.

Tufts finished second out of 41 teams, its best finish since its second-place finish on Sept. 17 at the Bates Invitational. The Jumbos scored 108 points, 40 points behind top-finisher Brandeis, which scored 68 points, and a comfortable 81 points ahead of third-place Norwich University.

Sophomores Brian Djerf and Brian Reaney led the scoring for Tufts. Djerf finished ninth in a field of 276 runners with a time of 25:56.14. This is Djerf’s best time of the season and the first time in his career finishing first for the Jumbos. It is his second time finishing in Tufts’ top five this season as he also scored at the Purple Valley Classic at Williams on Sept.

24. Reaney placed 16th overall at 26:03.53, his best time of the year as well. Rounding out Tufts’ top five were sophomore Rory Buckman, first-year David Ng’etich, and sophomore Tom Doyle. Gordon College’s Junior Damon Kilgore finished first at the invitational in 25:10.57.

The Jumbos were without their captains and first team All-NESCAC runners seniors Luke O’Connor and Tim Nichols, whom coach Williams chose to rest. Nichols received NESCAC Performer of the Week accolades for the second time this season last week. Watching the Jumbos dominate from the sidelines offered a unique perspective for the two captains.

“I think it was a really good weekend,” O’Connor said. “We had a lot [of ] guys get after it hard and we had a lot of personal records, which was really exciting to see.”

With such strong performances from the team’s younger runners, the Jumbos have reason to believe that they will not only see success throughout the rest of the season, but also in years to come.

“I think [the team’s future] looks very good,” O’Connor said. “I think looking

forward to the next couple of years we have a very strong pack of runners. Our third through 12th runners are pretty close together and it’s a pretty young group. If they continue to improve together, that’s how you get a strong team, just by having a tight pack.”

After a strong performance this weekend and with the return of the team’s top-runners, O’Connor and Nichols, the Jumbos are ready for the home stretch of the season. On Oct. 29, the team will travel to Colby College for the NESCAC Championships, where Tufts will look to dethrone Williams, the winner of the last three championships. Tufts has not won the NESCAC Championships since 2012.

This Saturday’s Conn. College Invitational should be a good measure of how prepared the Jumbos are for this challenge.

“We haven’t all raced together since the first meet,” O’Connor said. “Having everyone go out and compete this weekend will be a much better indicator going into NESCACs.” O’Connor believes that this team bears a lot of resemblance to last year’s team, which finished third at NESCACs.

“This team is very similar to the group last year,” O’Connor said. “A lot of guys have had similar places although they’ve been training at a higher volume.”

The team expects their more intensive training regimen to pay dividends.

“We as a group have been doing more miles and the workouts have been longer,” O’Connor said. “We just need to trust in our training. Once the guys start doing that, they’ll reap the benefits and should do better than last year’s team.”

After the NESCAC Championships, they will compete in the NCAA Regional Championship on Nov. 12, which will be on the same Westfield State course as the James Earley Invitational.

“It’s a really nice course,” O’Connor said. “It’s softer, which allows for a lot of really fast times which is exciting, but it also has variety. It’s a fun course to run on because of all the scenery changes as well.”

Based on the James Earley Invitational, the Jumbos are in good shape for NCAA Regionals. In the meantime, the team gears up for the meet at Conn. College on Saturday.