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In final days of campaign, both Somerville mayoral candidates talk tough on Tufts

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riating the university for the lack of progress. The mayor said he was setting a February 2020 deadline for the conclusion of the talks and that after that point, “all bets are off.” Curtatone also used the meeting to attack Tufts over the opioid epidemic, another pressing issue in the mayoral race. The incumbent mayor said that the city has

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As Somerville residents head to the polls today to decide whether incumbent Joe Curtatone or challenger Marianne Walles will be their mayor for the next two years, both candidates are still making their pitches to voters,

which have included a fair number of jabs at Tufts. Both candidates are attacking the university over issues like affordable housing and stalled payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) negotiations. Curtatone did not mince words at a community meeting about the status of PILOT negotiations with Tufts, exco-

had to pay a heavy price in lives and financial resources in response to the epidemic to which he said Tufts contributed, alluding to the influence that Purdue Pharma, an opioid manufacturer, may have had over a pain management program at Tufts University School of Medicine. see ELECTION, page 2

Tufts tackles Lyme disease in new interdisciplinary event by Greg Saccone

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Tufts students participated in the Lyme Disease Challenge — a day of lectures, panels, discussion and competition designed to educate participants about the dangers of and potential solutions to Lyme disease — on Nov. 1. Alumnus and Trustee Hugh Roome (A’74, F’77, AG’74, FG’80, FG’80), the driving force behind The Lyme Disease Challenge and a Tufts alumni, wanted to create more opportunities for interdisciplinary programs and chances to form connections between Tufts’ various campuses. He said the event brought together students from differing fields and

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allowed them to use their unique, specific skill sets to help solve the issue. The interdisciplinary focus allowed students from different schools to approach the multi-faceted problem of Lyme disease in unique ways, according to the individual’s area of expertise, according to Roome. For example, a student from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life could consider what policies to put in place to prevent the spread of Lyme disease, while Fletcher school students may focus on the international ramifications of the disease and medical students could try to create a take-home test for Lyme disease, Roome said. According to Linden Hu, the vice dean for research and professor of microbiFor breaking news, our content archive and exclusive content, visit tuftsdaily.com @tuftsdaily

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ology at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts’ long history with Lyme disease research makes it a natural fit for the challenge. Additionally, the issue of Lyme disease is particularly relevant to Tufts’ location, according to Roome. Lyme disease is particularly common in the northeast United States: many household pets and humans contract the disease, increasing parental concern over children’s well-being and whether some outside areas can be considered safe. In recent years, Lyme disease has begun to spread at an increasingly rapid rate, according to Roome. Each year, there are around 300,000 cases of the disease, leading to significant health costs in the U.S., Hu said. In addition,

due to factors such as global warming, Lyme disease has begun to spread from the Northeast to other parts of the U.S., making Lyme disease a national problem. Hu added that ticks have begun to carry additional diseases. These factors have increased the urgency of finding solutions to the impacts Lyme disease has on the daily lives of U.S. citizens. The university-wide program began with a welcome by Roome and David Snydman, a professor of medicine at Tufts who pioneered early research in Lyme disease. The day continued with a keynote by Public Health Advisor with the Centers for Disease Control Amy Ullman, who discussed recent trends

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continued from page 1 Walles, a social worker and union organizer challenging Curtatone, has not held back in critiquing Tufts either. In a televised debate between the two candidates last month, in her first response, Walles pointed to Tufts regarding housing affordability. “Tufts University has not met the demands of our community by refusing to build a student dorm and forcing the students into the community,” she told viewers of the Somerville Media Center’s Mayoral Forum on Oct. 11. Walles said that Tufts’ housing policies are the leading contributor to the affordability crisis in West Somerville. Both candidates said that they would be tougher on the university than the other and pointed to their records dealing with Tufts in the past as evidence. Walles has served on the Our Revolution Somerville PILOT working group for the past two years and authored an article in the Somerville Journal about an open letter several organizations, including Our Revolution Somerville, sent to University President Anthony Monaco, that was highly critical of the university’s stance on PILOT and union negotiations with Tufts Dining workers. Walles said that she and her group pressured Curtatone and the city to include community representatives on the PILOT negotiating team and that she would be even more transparent about the negotiations with Tufts than Curtatone.

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“I would take a better lead at keeping the community involved and monitoring and be very transparent about what’s happening,” she told the Daily in an interview. Curtatone took issue with that characterization and said that it was his decision to increase community involvement in the talks in this round. “Let me clarify, there was never any type of community benefits or PILOT agreement until my administration came to office. We developed the first, we negotiated the second and in this round we’ve done something that no other community has done,” he told the Daily. Curtatone also stressed that his administration not only put community members on the negotiating team, but also commissioned a 2018 survey to get community input on how negotiations should proceed and has been personally involved with the negotiations. Walles says that in her first meeting with Monaco upon becoming mayor, she would press for the university to construct a new dorm to slow the flow of Tufts students into the West Somerville rental market, while Curtatone says that his administration has been pushing that in the PILOT negotiations. Both Curtatone and Walles want to see Tufts paying more in PILOT cash payments and doing more in Somerville public schools. Both candidates believe the key to getting the university to accept the city’s demands is more public pressure from the community. And both say that they stand with students fighting for these changes on the hill.

The candidates’ focus on Tufts comes after years of tense town-gown relations over housing and PILOT that have stirred up resentment among residents and voters. Regardless of what either candidate says about Tufts, Curtatone will be hard to topple. Curtatone beat Walles in the low-turnout preliminary election in September by 20 points. If he wins reelection tonight, he’ll be entering his ninth term as mayor of Somerville, a role that he’s served in since 2004 after eight years on the Somerville Board of Aldermen, now called the Somerville City Council. According to campaign finance reports, Curtatone has raised some $128,000 since the beginning of the year and spent nearly $144,000. Walles, on the other hand, has raised more than $15,000 and has spent only about $13,000 in the same period. Walles said that Curtatone’s significant advantage shows his coziness with real estate developers, who, according to a WGBH analysis this year, have contributed to Curtatone’s campaign. Despite their criticism of Tufts’ administration, Curtatone and Walles have both been courting students voters. Curtatone says that he met with several student groups on campus this year, and Walles spoke at length about her involvement with Tufts Housing League last academic year. Polls will be open tomorrow from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. and preliminary results are often posted on the City of Somerville website around 9 p.m.

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continued from page 1 and challenges in Lyme disease research. The speech was followed by a series of panels taught by Tufts faculty that discussed how specific fields, such as education, policy, environmental sciences and ecology can approach the issue of Lyme disease and make an impact. Participants then entered smallgroup breakout sessions, depending on the student’s area of interest. Guided by coaches experienced with Lyme disease, students worked together to brainstorm and develop potential solu-

tions and projects in order to stem the continued growth of the disease. At the end of the event, teams presented their ideas and received feedback from the larger group. Roome hopes that students “found something out about a disease that could affect them or their family.” Robert Kalish, a rheumatologist currently running a Lyme disease clinic, believes that students can bring a unique, fresh and cross-disciplinary perspective to the issue. While great strides have been made on the issue, Lyme disease still remains mysterious,

and students can play an important role in continuing important research, Kalish said. Students who participated in the Tufts Lyme Disease Challenge are not yet done, however. On Dec. 1, teams will offer their proposals of a potential project to help combat Lyme disease. The top teams will receive cash prizes: two first place winners receive $1,000, second place $500 and third place $250. Winning teams can then submit budgets of up to $5,000 to make their projects a reality, according to the Tufts Lyme Disease website.

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TCU Senate hears 7 funding requests, shares updates by Robert Kaplan News Editor

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met to hear seven supplementary funding requests and share updates in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room on Sunday night. TCU Senator Deepen Goradia reminded the Senate about its first town hall with Tufts University President Anthony Monaco of the academic year on Nov. 13, which will focus on mental health. The town hall comes after Tufts’ Mental Health Task Force released its report analyzing student mental health after a three-year-long review. Goradia, a sophomore, added that a Dec. 5 town hall focusing on budget transparency and university advancement will likely move to another date in order to accommodate the availability of the relevant administrators. “It will probably be pushed towards the beginning of the second semester, because there’s no date where all of the major heads are available at the same time,” Goradia said. According to TCU Senator Philip Miller, a senior, the TCU Textbook Exchange will be following through on an agreement with the FIRST Center, which stipulates that books unsold after two years are donated to the Book it Forward lending library. TCU Senator Tim Leong, a sophomore, announced that the Turkey Shuttle, which helps students commute to Boston Logan International Airport at low cost for flights over Thanksgiving break, will

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TCU Senate holds a meeting on Oct. 14 in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room. lower its ticket price to $3 down from $5. Additionally, TCU Treasurer Sharif Hamidi summarized and detailed how much the TCU Senate has allocated in supplementary funding so far in the academic year. “As of right now, we have spent $94,000 … in supplementary funding,” Hamidi, a junior, said. “In terms of the breakdown, we’re looking at about 47% of our money being spent on events and programming.” Hamidi added that his goal of spending no more than $200,000 in supplementary funding requests this academic year still seems possible.

The TCU Senate then approved seven supplementary funding requests, all of which eventually followed the Allocations Board (ALBO) recommendations. Tufts Culinary Society requested $1,005 for its Culture Crawl event on Nov. 8, which was approved by ALBO, according to its report. The TCU Senate approved the request in full, which was passed by acclamation. Electric Racing initially requested $2,300 to cover the registration fee for a competition in April, though ALBO only approved an allocation of $2,070. The TCU Senate approved the ALBOrecommended total of $2,070, with 28 senators in favor and none opposed.

Ears for Peers initially requested $725 for costs associated with its Nov. 22 retreat, though ALBO only recommended $484, according to its report. The TCU Senate approved the ALBOrecommended total of $484 in full, which was passed by acclamation. ENVY initially requested $830 to cover transportation costs for a competition in New Jersey on Nov. 9, though ALBO only recommended $747, which Senate approved by acclamation. GlobeMed requested $624 to cover the registration and transportation costs for a conference in New York City, though ALBO only recommended $562, which TCU Senate approved. The School at the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) Student Government requested $6,275 in supplementary funding for the student organizations on the Fenway campus, though ALBO only recommended $5,355, according to its report. Hamidi explained that the difference in funding was largely attributed to ALBO’s decision not to allocate $770 towards seven new student organizations at the SMFA, since they did not yet submit a budget. The TCU Senate voted to approve the ALBO-recommended total of $5,535, with 25 senators in favor and three opposed. Women Entrepreneurs @ Tufts requested $1,258 for costs associated with its conference on Nov. 9 and 10, which ALBO approved, according to its report. The TCU Senate voted to approve the request in full, with no senators in opposition.

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National PERIOD movement comes to Tufts

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hat happens when a company commands a country? Tech giants such as Facebook, Amazon and Google increase their markets and product offerings like empires expanding their spheres of influence. Yet in a society where the government is increasing attempts to reign in and battle against the whims of such omnipresent firms, when can we decree that a business has overstepped? The past presents a glaring example. The East India Company (EIC), originally formed to handle British trade with India and the East Indies, eventually came to dominate the sub-continent and start a war with China over the opium trade. Its rule saw millions of indigenous people suffer and starve at the expense of profit — allegations similarly lodged at firms such as Facebook, which is criticized for criminally underpaying the contractors to which it outsources its more gruesome work, such as PTSD-inducing content moderation. Watching Mark Zuckerberg’s recent congressional testimony, one couldn’t help but be reminded of the EIC’s own attitude when under government review. The arrogance of Zuckerberg, who evaded inquiries concerning the possible malefic influences of Facebook’s various activities and provoked congressional ire, was reminiscent of Robert Clive’s now infamous testimony before Parliament in 1773. Clive, an EIC general who gained vast and dubious riches during his Indian exploits, showed little remorse. When asked if he had overstepped in his attempts at self-enrichment, he famously replied: “By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation.” Zuckerberg’s nonchalant refusal to commit to content moderation, asserting that his abilities would best be used elsewhere, provides a painful parallel to Clive’s own hubris. For the modern giants to follow in the EIC’s path is not inconceivable. The EIC established two schools to maintain its private empire: the Addiscombe Military Seminary to staff its private army and the grandiose East India Company College to train the “writers” who administered the company’s global ventures. With the increasingly cutthroat competition surrounding employment at such firms, is it that far-fetched to imagine, some day in the future, such firms establishing feeder programs, if not full-fledged colleges, to train their ever-expanding armies of engineers and programmers? The news that Amazon’s new headquarters will include space for a family shelter was seen as long overdue philanthropy by a company thought to bear much responsibility for Seattle’s housing crisis. However, more concerning is that a company, instead of righting its own wrongs, is stepping in to provide a service traditionally done by the government. What does it say about our country that these firms are creating not just their own currencies, but effectively their own worlds? As accusations of antitrust behavior are lobbed against such firms, one is left wondering what type of disaster it will take before the firms that dominate our economy and daily lives suddenly find themselves unable to manage the empires they’ve carved out for themselves. For the EIC, it was the Indian Mutiny of 1857, which saw the company lose control over India and proved its inability to effectively govern a state. For Google, Facebook and the cabal of other giants, one can’t help but shudder at the question of what will end their dominance. Jon Adams is a senior studying international relations and Spanish. Jon can be reached at jonathan.adams@tufts.edu.

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Members of the Executive Board of PERIOD at Tufts pose for a photo on Oct. 28. by Jillian Collins

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The movement to end menstrual inequity and stigma has arrived at Tufts. A new student group called PERIOD at Tufts held its first general interest meeting (GIM) on Oct. 28, joining multiple pre-existing chapters from Boston and hundreds from across the country of the global nonprofit organization PERIOD. In 2014, then-high school students Nadya Okamoto and Vincent Forand founded the national organization with the goal of increasing access to menstrual products in their hometown of Portland, Ore. It has now grown into much more than just a high school club, with over 600 chapters across the globe on both high school and college campuses. Yasmeen Meek, president of PERIOD at Tufts, works from experience as the former president of a PERIOD branch at her local high school. “I started PERIOD when I was in high school in Maryland, because I went to this conference called the Student Diversity Leadership Conference. [Here] I met the sister of the girl who founded [PERIOD],” Meek said. “I was very inspired, because I never really confronted this issue in any way before.” A 2017 Always Confidence & Puberty Survey found that one in every five girls in the U.S. have missed part of a day or a whole day of school because of their period, consequently impacting the access that anyone menstruating has to their education. Meek, a sophomore, said that PERIOD at Tufts is looking to combat the stigma that can accompany periods. “I think PERIOD chapters are very focused on what their individual community needs. Our primary focus is going to be local outreach and local shelters and serving those people,” Meek said. “I was hoping that as a club we could also break into three teams: service, education and advocacy … just so we can maximize our talents and strengths and make a really strong presence on our campus and in the community.” The group’s first service project will be collecting menstrual products for Heading Home, a service provider for families with home insecurity in Boston.

“The drives are going to be week-long drives on campus, so really anyone who is interacting with the Tufts community can drop off supplies,” Meek said. “Our service partner in the community is requesting that we get the products and put them into individual packages.” Outside of the public in Boston, Meek wants to increase the accessibility of menstrual products for Tufts students as well. She cited goals of making products more available at Health Service and in other public areas. “In my high school, I got the school to put pads and tampons in all the bathrooms. I think that will be a great project to work on at Tufts,” Meek said. Meek stated that she wants the club to creatively conduct outreach, mentioning ideas such as administering a “captain” for dormitories that would be in charge of motivating other students to collect menstrual products for their residence hall. Through such initiatives, along with other ideas such as hosting a Red Dress Gala fundraising event, the club hopes to make it easier for students to contribute to the cause. “A cool thing for the product drive would be, each dorm has a dorm captain, and there could be a box in each dorm. Therefore, [students] wouldn’t have to walk to the [Mayer Campus Center] or the library to donate,” Meek said. Beyond service, Meek said she wants to make education and advocacy a priority for the group. She mentioned the 2018 Academy Award-winning documentary “Period. End of Sentence.” as a film that the group feels could increase on-campus engagement with the issue. “‘Period. End of Sentence.’ is a new documentary about menstrual equity in India. It’s really cool. We could set up a movie screening of that for the Tufts community,” Meek said. The first-ever National Period Day occurred on Oct. 19 in what may represent increasing public awareness of menstrual inequity as a public health issue. PERIOD marked the date by hosting a rally in Boston, in what WGBH stated was one of more than 50 rallies across the country. In light of the national movement’s building momentum, PERIOD at Tufts hopes to bring light to injustices taking

place domestically and abroad through the group’s locally-focused work. “We are going to work a lot with the community and raising period products to serve menstruators in need. Having a club like this on campus will just be a good starter to lots of conversations,” Emily Sinrod, a sophomore and the education chair of PERIOD at Tufts, said. Planning to pair these conversations with action, Meek mentioned specific policy-related issues the club hopes to work on as well. “There’s a lot of legislative campaigns that focus on menstrual equity in prisons, where often times people get denied sanitary napkins,” Meek said. “There’s legislative campaigns about luxury tax and sales tax on tampons, there’s a lot of stuff we can do for that.” At PERIOD at Tufts’ GIM, some students who expressed interest in working with the club mentioned past experience with volunteer work. “I’ve been looking to get involved with clubs that deal with women and feminism,” Lily Ahmed, a Tufts first-year present at the GIM, said. “I did a tampon drive in high school with my ‘interfem’ club … I’m really excited to get involved [here at Tufts].” At the GIM, the group mentioned plans to expand, with leadership opportunities available in the form of open advocacy chair, secretary and treasurer positions. The organizers mentioned that the club will have a wide range of commitment levels and seeks student volunteers to help with their various planned events. If interested in getting involved, students can contact period.tufts@gmail.com. The leaders stated that they are still searching for new ideas and perspectives on how to end menstrual inequity. They are eager to get started with a menstrual product drive planned within the month. “My goal is to do [the drive] in a month, because Heading Home has about 420 total menstruators that they would like to serve, and they are really anxious for our support,” said Meek. “People don’t really go and donate menstrual products. They donate clothing or food and don’t really think about those. Which is why I think it would be a really important presence in Medford and Somerville and at Tufts.”

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FILM REVIEW

‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ is slow-burning excellence by Christopher Panella

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This review contains spoilers. Shown by the Independent Film Festival Boston during its fifth annual Fall Focus at The Brattle Theatre, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (2019) is a meticulous film. Following Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a painter, as she is hired to paint a portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), a woman being married to her dead sister’s betrothed, the film builds a late 18th century love story that crackles and aches with desire and loneliness. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” takes its time with Marianne and Héloïse’s relationship while making it crystal clear that there is no good outcome or world where the two can be together. But before its last scene, a powerful release of heartache and love and longing, the film allows the viewer the chance to sit with Marianne and Héloïse. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is both an intimate love story and social commentary. It spends much of its time presenting the struggles of its characters, from Héloïse’s engagement to a man she’s never met and servant Sophie’s (Luàna Bajrami) struggles with pregnancy and eventual abortion — a moment that’s particularly sobering as Sophie stares into the eyes of a baby as the procedure happens — to Marianne’s inability to advance her career. These threads focus the film on the internal and external struggles of the characters and allow the viewer to get attached to them. Director Céline Sciamma’s excellent work focuses the gaze on how Marianne and Héloïse intricately study one another as Héloïse’s future approaches. For much of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” Marianne and Héloïse get too close and then quickly regain composure. They notice the small things. Marianne studies Héloïse without telling her that she’s painting the portrait for Héloïse’s future husband, pretending to be a companion on her daily walks and becoming fascinated with details, like her hands and how to paint her face when Héloïse doesn’t smile. The time they spend together is time of comfort and closeness. But there’s a volatile bubbling underneath the surface of Héloïse. In one particular scene, as she runs during one of the pair’s daily walks towards a cliff, Marianne is visibly horrified at the thought that Héloïse will

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A promotional poster for ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (2019) is pictured. end her life just as her sister did by jumping off the cliffs in order to escape the bleak future of marriage. The film features beautiful shots of Marianne painting, with the camera watching closely as she takes her time to get Héloïse right. The effort is astounding — it’s a reminder that any form of art, like painting or film or even love, is about observing the subject and understanding

their essence. The scenes where Marianne and Héloïse walk along the cliffs on the coast are breathtaking; the water is rough and deep blue, and so is the attraction between the pair. If the cinematography of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is best described by anything, it’s textured. Some of the best moments of the film are shared between Marianne, Héloïse and Sophie. The three are seen playing cards

and eating dinner together. Héloïse reads the story of Eurydice and Orpheus, and the three women debate Orpheus’ reasoning behind turning around and sealing Eurydice’s fate. This story proves important: Later in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” as Marianne rushes to leave the house after saying goodbye to Héloïse, Héloïse asks her to “turn around” and see her one last time. It seals Héloïse’s fate too, as she wears her white wedding gown that her mother brought to her. The wedding gown haunts Marianne throughout “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” but it’s when Marianne is forced to leave Héloïse that the image becomes particularly harrowing. But the pleasure between the two is secretive and wonderful. When they talk about individual quirks they have — things they do with their eyebrows or lips when they’re feeling stressed or nervous — the love is palpable. It’s these smiles that make the tears when the two aren’t together even more upsetting. This duality in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is shown best when Héloïse asks Marianne to draw herself on page 28 of a book. Later, after the two have gone their separate ways, Marianne sees a portrait in a gallery of Héloïse and her child — Héloïse is holding a book too, and the top of page 28 is shown. The impression is that Héloïse has been thinking about and looking at Marianne every day since their departure. It’s both the pleasure and pain of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” — a reminder of the two being soulmates but unable to share their lives with one another. And this is where “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” subjects its viewer to a painful burn. It never cuts corners. It delivers every moment in layers — sure, there’s happiness, but there’s pain and longing, too. It makes the viewer feel everything. There’s never any rest. And in the previously mentioned last scene, where Héloïse sits and watches an orchestra perform a song that Marianne once tried to play for her, the emotions that the film has been playing with all come to a head. Marianne watches Héloïse cry exasperatedly, smiling and shaking as the music pounds. Héloïse’s reaction is the physical manifestation of everything that “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” realizes. It’s impossible not to leave the theater reacting the same way.

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his week I was powerfully floored by Patrick Chamoiseau’s “Slave Old Man” (1997). Originally published in French and Creole in 1997, Linda Coverdale’s translation is accurate and allows for Chamoiseau’s beautiful and significant text to be read by English speakers. Chamoiseau was born in Martinique and is a celebrated author and part of the Créolité movement. Within his writing, he mixes Creole into his French. In turn, he validates Creole while displaying its strength and importance. He is deeply focused on language and the effects that this particular language can have, representing Martinique and this slave narrative in a devoted and dutiful way. “Slave Old Man” follows a fugitive slave’s, referred to as the old man, flight from a plantation through thick woods in Martinique. Split into seven sections, you are constantly moving with him. His running creates the constant movement of the novel while he is pursued by the plantation master and his monstrous dog. Chamoiseau switches quickly between points of view. Instead of being sloppy in its speed, the switching is so deliberate and quick that it emphasizes the rapid pace of the chase. As the dog gets closer to the old man and the climax of the story approaches, the switching becomes a step faster, quickening my heart rate with the heightening of the story. Moreover, Chamoiseau also blends time, going between human and animal, past and present. The book is historical but also has dream-like sections that push your imagination. The narrator conflates the dog itself, as “The dog is the Master’s rudderless soul. It is the slave’s suffering double.” The old man blends into the forest, interacting and slipping into the earth itself. The language is simply baffling. Chamoiseau’s descriptions and images are lyrically stunning. Words are so perfectly and powerfully placed next to each other to create images I’ve never imagined before so vividly. I am simply in awe of so much of the language, of descriptions like “tamed the rivers vomited by the volcano” (80) and “floating in a dizzy whirl of aggravation” (86). The old man’s flight through the woods seems doomed and impossible. Yet, he continues surviving and enduring even though everything, roots and stumps included, is set against him and becomes obstacles in his path. The strength he displays draws on the incredible strength of so many generations and centuries full of oppressed people like him, persecuted by the world and desperately and determinedly finding a way through it. Chamoiseau understands the history of the Caribbean and slavery and its lasting effects that continue to be seen in white supremacy today. I have not even begun to unravel all that he does in “Slave Old Man,” and honestly don’t think I could on my own. It is a deeply important text that I will continue to work to understand. I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to read it.

Devina Bhalla is a sophomore studying sociology and English. Devina can be reached at devina.bhalla@tufts.edu.

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Fast-fashion producers Forever 21 recently filed for bankruptcy. by Colette Smith

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Fashion, like all art forms, is first and foremost an exercise in self-expression. We often wear our clothes and only think about how they will serve the particular objective we need and forget to consider the long and arduous process it took to be holding a particular garment in our hands. While it is commonly acknowledged that the fashion industry has significant impacts on the environment, the actual extent of the damage it causes is staggering. Between the production of clothing and the increase in the amount of clothing people own, the environment is feeling the damages more than ever. According to the United Nations, the fashion industry produces 20% of global wastewater and 10% of the entire world’s carbon emissions. The dyeing process of textiles is the second largest source of pollution of water. To produce one pair of jeans, it takes around 2,000 gallons of water. Half a million tons of microfibers are released into the ocean when clothes are washed per year. With the average woman in America owning seven pairs of jeans and the average American family washing around 8–10 loads of laundry per week, this is clearly not a sustainable cycle. Due to clothing underutilization and lack of recycling, $500 billion of value is lost annually. If the industry is allowed to continue

unchanged, it will use up a quarter of the world’s carbon budget by 2050. Clearly, this is an issue that requires timely and serious change through international collaboration, individual companies taking steps to improve and consumers changing their behavior to be more sustainable. In response to the growing environmental impacts, The United Nations Alliance for Sustainable Fashion was launched in March. The group aims to change “the path of fashion, reducing its negative environmental and social impacts; and turning fashion into a driver of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.” Fashion is a $2.4 trillion-dollar industry, employing 75 million people worldwide, and the Alliance acknowledges how this can be viewed as a source of potential, as making significant changes to an industry of this size could greatly help our overall progress towards our sustainability goals. The organization is attempting to promote collaboration between different initiatives that have similar goals and use the established name of the United Nations to give a voice to the issue of unsustainable fashion. While it is still relatively new, the Alliance represents a starting point for improvement through international collaboration which will be necessary to change the path the industry is travelling on. On a smaller scale, change from individual manufacturers and retailers will be

necessary for any real change to be possible. Specifically, companies should move away from fast fashion, where remade runway looks are produced quickly and cheaply. Fast fashion leads to negative environmental impacts because of the increased manufacturing it requires and because a much higher volume of clothing is being produced. However, the garments are not quality-made, so fast fashion leads to quicker overturn of clothing and more waste. However, some retailers that are fast fashion producers have had to recently file for bankruptcy, like Forever 21 did in September. This could represent a shift in consumer preferences to more sustainable and higher-quality garments. Some companies have already tried to make the necessary changes to remain competitive as consumers begin to be more conscious of the environmental impacts of their purchases. Prada, for example, announced in June the launch of their Re-Nylon project, which is a line of bags produced from regenerated nylon. While companies like Prada clearly have a very long way to be environmentally sustainable (Prada still produces leather products), these steps are a start and indicate potential for a larger, industry-wide shift. On a smaller scale, individuals can decrease their environmental impact by purchasing fewer fast fashion products and being more mindful about supporting companies that are sustainable.

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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, documents one of the most sinister crimes and racial injustices in American history. Described in the New York Times Book Review as a “riveting” work that will “sear your soul,” Killers of the Flower Moon was a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best true crime book, a Spur Award for best work of historical nonfiction, and an Indies Choice Award for best adult nonfiction book of the year. A #1 New York Times bestseller, Killers of the Flower Moon was named one of the best books of the year by the Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, PBS, Bloomberg, GQ, Slate, Buzzfeed, Vogue, and other publications. Amazon named Killers of the Flower Moon the single best book of the year, and so did Shelf Awareness. The book is being adapted into a major motion picture, with Martin Scorsese slated to direct and Leonardo DiCaprio to play a role.

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oop. It’s gross, smelly and no one really wants to talk about it. It’s not the kind of heart-wrenching cause that has billionaires ready to drop a few million. But here’s the thing: lack of access to proper toilets has profound effects on the health, economies and well-being of global populations. In public health, this is called a “WASHrelated” issue. WASH stands for water, sanitation and hygiene. These three distinct topics are inextricably intertwined even though many researchers focus their efforts on one of these fields. For example, without toilets people defecate into the environment. When this occurs, sanitation is affected. Then people have contaminated water, and hygiene cannot be maintained. Open defecation is the practice of defecating on the streets, into the bushes, or really in any place other than a toilet. This occurs frequently when people lack access to a toilet. This issue is most prevalent in India, where 626 million people openly defecate. WASH infrastructure is absolutely necessary to address this issue. There are many reasons why this problem puts humans in danger. First of all, open defecation poses a unique challenge for women and children. When defecating in the open, these populations are susceptible to snake bites and physical attacks like sexual assault. Additionally, out of fear of losing their dignity or being seen, women often wait until nightfall to relieve themselves. Unfortunately, this timing only increases their likelihood of being attacked. This practice also exacerbates the rates of disease in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). According to UNICEF India, one gram of human feces contains 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria and 1,000 parasitic cysts. The likelihood of contracting diarrheal disease is directly impacted by insufficient sanitation. For example, take a person infected with hookworm in a LMIC. That person then defecates outside, and the helminth eggs in their body are then deposited into the environment. Those eggs mature and hatch to form hookworm larvae. These baby parasites can then penetrate the skin of humans, so a barefoot child walking along a path covered in human feces would then contract hookworm. The accumulation of intestinal worms then causes diarrheal disease across populations. Additionally, the practice of open defecation has an enormous economic cost. After accounting for costs associated with mortality and morbidity, decreases in productivity, losses in tourism and lower rates of education, the World Bank deemed that improper sanitation cost India 6.4 percent of its entire GDP in 2010. For context, that is the equivalent of $53.8 billion. The construction of toilets in communities requires investment. But there is surely a return on this investment. Coined as the ‘sanitation market,’ building WASH infrastructure can not only improve health but also increase the job market in LMICs. Open defecation most significantly affects the poorest urban households. As of now, there are 1 billion people around the world who are forced to defecate in the open due to extreme poverty. This is more than just a health issue: it’s an issue of human dignity. Deeksha Bathini is a junior studying community health. Deeksha can be reached at deeksha.bathini@tufts.edu.

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continued from back In the end, a stellar Jumbo defensive performance was key in lifting the Jumbos past the Continentals. Rojas praised the team’s defensive performance, highlighting how the secondary will play an enormous role in the rest of the Jumbos’ hopeful playoff run. “I don’t even think [sophomore goalkeeper Erich] Kindermann had to make a save, so all around it was a really good team defensive performance, which is something we’ve been struggling with a little more than we have in years past,” Rojas said. “So, we’re moving in a positive direction at a time where defense

becomes most important.” The win marks their first NESCAC championship tournament victory since 2017 when Tufts took home the conference crown in a 1–0 victory over Middlebury. Despite going undefeated last year, the Jumbos were unable to advance past the NESCAC quarterfinal following an unsuccessful penalty kick-determined draw with Colby on Oct. 28, 2018. Rojas spoke about the prospects of the win following last year’s NESCAC disappointment, indicating the team’s excitement in getting the chance to beat No. 1 Amherst in a potential NESCAC championship appearance.

“Obviously, we won the NESCAC in 2017,” Rojas said. “I think traditionally, we’ve been a little more focused on NCAAs, but I think I’m super excited to have advanced, and I think we’re most excited at the opportunity to go to Amherst and potentially play them in a final if we do get past Williams. [Amherst] beat us earlier in the year and they’re the only undefeated team left, so we’re definitely excited, and hopefully we get a crack.” Tufts will move on to face Williams Saturday at 1:30 p.m. for the NESCAC semifinal in Amherst, Mass. With a win, the Jumbos will then move on to compete for the NESCAC title on Sunday.

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continued from back thing we look forward to every season,” Stewart said. The first set began as a close back and forth affair, with the set locked at 15–15 in the middle of the first set. It wasn’t a particularly clean set from both teams either; both the Jumbos and Bobcats committed a handful of service errors, bad sets and attack errors that led to the set’s close affair. The Bobcats also took a different approach to their attack, taking in the Halloween spirit by using a lot of trickery in their attack. Rather than going up for powerful spikes, they often found space behind the middle and outside blockers by simply lofting it over them. It was a different approach, but it was never enough to rattle Tufts. When it mattered the most, the Jumbos were able to keep their composure and clean up their game, rattling off five straight points at 15–15 to create a bit of distance from the Bobcats through a mix of both kills from senior middle/ opposite hitter Heather Holz and errors from Bates. They never looked back after that, winning the first set 25–18. In the second set, the Jumbos looked determined to not let this set be as close

as the first, as they came out with a fierce attack and never trailed in the set. They came out with a fierce attack, winning 9 out of their first 11 points from kills to lead the Bobcats 11–6. They then ramped up their blitz on Bates, going on a 6–0 run to create an ultimately insurmountable lead. By the end, it was kills thanks to junior middle/opposite hitter Jennifer Ryan and senior middle/ opposite hitter Christina Nwankpa that closed the set out 25–14. The third set saw the Jumbos ride their momentum to an immense 10-point lead to start the set. With their intensity still high, the Jumbo attack seemed to demoralize the Bobcats completely. The signs had all pointed to a breeze of a third set, but late in the third set, with Tufts leading 22–10, the Bobcats suddenly came to life and rattled off 8 of the next 10 points with the help of a couple errors from Tufts and a service ace. However, the comeback was quickly thwarted as Ryan, who finished the game with eight kills, emphatically finished off the match with a kill to win the set for the Jumbos 25–18 and ultimately the match three sets to zero. While Senior Night was celebrated

two weeks ago, the final home games of the season were a lot to take in for the seniors on the team. “It feels surreal to have finished my last ever regular-season game. I suppose it is quite true that time flies when you are having fun,” Stewart said. For first-year opposite hitter/defensive specialist Anna Nachmanoff, their presence was truly felt throughout every part of their season. “I have learned so much from the seniors and other upperclassman both on and off the court so far… all five of them are leaders in their own way,” Nachmanoff wrote in an email to the Daily. While these last three games have meant a lot to the team, there is still work to be done for them. By clinching the best record in the NESCAC with a perfect 10–0 record in conference play, the conference tournament will be held at the Cousens gymnasium with the first game of the postseason being against Hamilton on Friday at 5 p.m. From there, they will hope to win the NESCAC tournament to qualify for the NCAA tournament. For the Jumbos, the journey is just getting started.

in one for the little guy. After a lot of debating and a lot of waiting, a big decision shook up college athletics. A wise man of many words wrote about the problem earlier this year. Studentsathletes are much more of one than the other. The discrepancy between the time they put into the sport versus the time they put in on the academic quad can be huge, but the discrepancy between their pay and their play was even larger: zero. Up until very recently, college athletes were not paid. Not only that, they could not make money in any way associated with their performance. With the top-25 grossing NCAA football teams making more than $2.5 billion, the players who got them to championship games, were getting injured and risking their futures and being played as characters on Xboxes by kids like me across the country received no payment. Finally, a decision came in the form of California’s recently passed Fair Pay to Play Act. The bill does not give college athletes salaries and pay them out of pocket. Instead, it takes one of the routes that others have proposed. With questions of how to pay, how much to pay whom and whether that would give an advantage to schools willing to pay more, giving actual salaries to student-athletes might be a lot less complicated and a lot less healthy to the system than this law. The Fair Pay to Play Act rules that college athletes can profit off of themselves. They can hire agents and sign promotional endorsement deals and for the first time, see the money go to themselves. This may not seem like a huge deal, but to athletes like Shabazz Napier, who made a public statement about not being able to eat enough because he could not pay for it, it makes a huge difference. Oh, and Shabazz Napier won UConn the NCAA tournament the night after he said that. A major star for a team who helps them win a championship and he could not make a buck off of his name or his jersey sales (the one with his number on it but not his name). I will tell you personally that I have bought Rutgers jerseys before and I exclusively buy the number my favorite player wears. I would play NCAA Football 2009 for hours and stare at Arkansas’ Darren McFadden’s likeness on the cover. He got no money for it. I know that this favors some college athletes more than others. Men’s football and basketball stars will profit much more than some of their fellow student-athletes. That being said, this is a great step in the right direction. No student should go hungry, period. Certainly, no student should go hungry when a Final Four appearance earns their school $8.3 million and they are a key proponent of why the team got there. Good for the law and NCAA for coming around. Let’s hope they keep an open mind.

David Meyer is a senior studying film and media studies. David can be reached at david.meyer@tufts.edu.

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ment 25–10 scoreline and wrapping up their season with an incredible and historic 24–1 record. The first of the Saturday doubleheader was against the 9–20 Colby Mules. The match, for the most part, was smooth sailing for the Jumbos, with Bell and senior outside/opposite hitter and co-captain Maddie Stewart leading the attack for the Jumbos. Their dominance was consistent throughout the entire match, with the only Mule lead coming at 3–2 in the first set. The first set was not entirely safe to start, with Tufts holding on to a 3-point lead by the middle of the first set. However, from that point onward, the Jumbos used their strong attack to continue their sublime form and close out the set 25–16. The second and third sets featured much of the same, with a mixture of kills and Colby errors to give Tufts a large margin to begin both sets. In both sets, the Jumbos jumped out to 8–2 leads and never gave the Mules a chance to respond, leaving them with no breathing room as they cruised to win the second and third sets 25–13 and 25–15, respectively. Their first game of the weekend was the annual Dig Pink game on Friday night, playing the 16–9 Bates Bobcats. Cousens Gymnasium was covered in pink and white to celebrate the occasion, raising money for Living Beyond Breast Cancer. For the players, it was an opportunity for them to step back from their busy lives and contribute to a larger cause. Stewart wrote about the experience in an email to the Daily. “Having a chance to play for something bigger than ourselves is always an incredible opportunity and some-

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Over Halloweekend, the No. 14 Tufts volleyball team served up some tricks and treats for its home fans, closing out their regular season with three home wins. The final match of the weekend and of the entire regular season proved to be the toughest of the three, as the Jumbos faced off against the Hunter Hawks. The first two sets seemed to be relatively easy for the Jumbos, as senior outside/ opposite hitter and co-captain Brigid Bell led the team to finish her fine form over the weekend with a number of key passes and kills that heavily contributed to the Jumbos’ success. The first set saw the Jumbos ease past the Hawks, going on two big runs at the start and the middle of the set to win it 25–11. The second featured the same as well, with a big 7-point run at 8–7 fueling the 25–12 second set victory. Where things got tricky for the Jumbos was in the third set, where a handful of Tufts errors gave Hunter an opportunity to mount a comeback. The Hawks and Jumbos went back and forth for the better part of the start of the third set, with neither playing a particularly clean set. However, it was then at 14–12 when the Hawks made their lead known, making a number of vital kills and going on a suffocating run where they won 11 of the last 13 points. They had seized their opportunity and stole the third set 25–14, never trailing once in the set. In a blink of an eye, the Jumbos suddenly had a fight on their hands as this was the first set they dropped in their last 17 sets of play. However, never once for a second did they doubt themselves, coming out with new energy and new life and pummeling the Hawks in the fourth set, closing it out with a state-

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Men’s soccer defeats Hamilton in 3–0 NESCAC quarterfinal blowout by Alex Viveros

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On Saturday, the No. 5 Tufts men’s soccer team soundly defeated the Hamilton Continentals in a decisive 3–0 shutout to clinch their first win in the NESCAC championship tournament. With the win, Tufts now moves on to face Williams on Saturday for the NESCAC semifinal in Amherst, Mass. Despite their ultimate three-score margin of victory on Saturday, the Jumbos started out their game over the Continentals with a good but relatively slow progression in the first half of regulation. An opportunity to score was created in the first 10 minutes of the game with the assistance of the Jumbo attacking core, as senior midfielder/ forward and co-captain Gavin Tasker launched a shot off of a pass from senior midfielder Brett Rojas that was deflected off the crossbar. Although the Jumbos maintained good possession of the ball, they were contained to only three shots in the first 30 minutes of the match. Tufts coach Josh Shapiro spoke about the team’s slower performance in the first half,

making sure to give Hamilton the credit they deserved. “I think [we] knew Hamilton would be really competitive,” Shapiro said. “We knew we were going to have to be ready to battle, we knew it was going to be maybe gritty and not as pretty out of the gate, but that was what a playoff game was going to look like. I thought the game early on was tighter and not as open as you might like, but that was predictable. As we kind of implemented our game and continued to work hard and maybe wear them down a touch, I thought we were able [to create] more advantages — we wanted to open the game up and create more danger going forward.” Indeed, danger came for the Hamilton defensive core in the 34th minute of regulation. Junior forward Max Jacobs managed to find a pass towards junior midfielder/forward Alex Ratzan, who launched a goal to the lower right corner of the net for his fifth goal of the season, putting the Jumbos up by a score of 1–0. Rojas spoke about the first half for the Jumbos, echoing the words of his coach in highlighting how determined

Hamilton was to advance in the NESCAC tournament past Tufts. “I think Hamilton is a good team. We played against them away after losing to Amherst and tied 1–1. They’re always tough to break down, but we knew at home, getting it done on our turf would be a little easier now,” Rojas said. “I think in the first half, we played pretty well. First 20 minutes, we kept the ball well but didn’t really create any good chances. So our second line came in, [and] Ratzan was able to get a really good goal.” Following Ratzan’s goal and into the second half of the match, the Jumbos began to wear the Continentals defense down. Despite being only allowed three shots up until the goal, the Jumbos bombarded the Continentals with a whopping 14 shots throughout the rest of the game. Hamilton, meanwhile, was only allowed three shots throughout the entirety of the match. By the final minutes of the match, it was evident that Tufts had run Hamilton down. In the 89th minute of play, senior midfielder/defender Zach Trevorrow sent a ball to Rojas that found its way to the back of the net, setting the score at 2–0. Just over a minute later, with only

four seconds remaining in regulation, Trevorrow found Rojas yet again for a second insurance goal, capping off the decisive Jumbo victory at 3–0. Rojas spoke about the two goals in the final minutes of the game, commending the assists from Trevorrow. “The game was just so open at that point because they were obviously chasing the game, and then Trevorrow just gave me two great balls,” Rojas said. “I didn’t really have too much to do, so all credit to him.” Shapiro also spoke about the final two goals of the game, praising both his players while also highlighting how the team had broken the Continentals down. “I think the last 20 minutes, we were looking really dangerous, and no one really put their foot through. They were scrambling, we were working hard to get forward, but he had a really clear mind and made simple, smart decisions and put Brett in great places,” Shapiro said. “Brett did what he’s capable to do; he’s technically powerful and he decided he wasn’t going to mess around and just blew some balls through the back of the net.”

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