Thursday, November 3, 2016

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Recycling at Tufts: repurposing your refuse since ‘90 see FEATURES / PAGE 3

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As presidential election nears, former presidential chief of staff, governor discuss leadership, civic duties

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Bill Richardson speaks while Andy Card reacts in the back during the panel “Looking Forward: What It Takes to Govern” in the Alumnae Lounge on Nov. 2.

Dr. Tony Affigne speaks in lecture on Donald Trump and Latinx electorate

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Tony Affigne, professor of political science at Providence College, spoke on Wednesday about the effect of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign on the Latinx electorate in a lecture titled “Building a Wall or Digging a Hole: Donald Trump and the Latinx Electorate.”

The lecture, held in Barnum Hall, was hosted by the Latino Studies Program, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Sociologyand the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.

Affigne began the lecture by expressing his confidence that the election would be decided in favor of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

“The cookie’s already baked,” Affigne said of the election’s outcome. “The election’s been over for some time.”

Affigne said one reason for his certainty of a Clinton win is that battleground states in the Midwest have been polling in favor of Clinton. He continued by saying that Latinx populations in other battleground states were being under-surveyed and that they were the demographic most like-

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ly to vote for Clinton. According to Affigne, the percentage of Latinx citizens in favor of Clinton was nearly 90 percent.

Affigne first discussed “Latino Emergence,” a term describing the Latinx population boom. According to Affigne, the Latinx population in the United States grew by 43 percent between 2000 and 2010, while the white population grew by just one percent.

As a result of the “Emergence,” about 57 million Latinx now live in the U.S., a demographic that is primarily Mexican but includes Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Salvadorans, Dominicans, Guatemalans and Colombians.

This growing Latinx demographic, Affigne said, could have provided a needed push for Obama during his 2012 run for re-election.

“The national election of 2012 was the first one where Latinx electorates may have determined the outcome,” Affigne said.

Affigne described what he said was a failure by Trump to treat the Latinx electorate with respect. Affigne referred to Trump’s claim that some immigrants from Mexico were “rapists” and “murderers,” his plans for a “big wall” along the border between

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The Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series hosted a discussion last night with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (LA ’70) and former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush Andy Card, focusing on the transition of government after the election, the civic responsibilities of young voters and the speakers’ own experiences with national elections. The talk, which was held at 6 p.m. in the Alumnae Lounge, drew a full house of attendees, including Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke and former Ambassador to Belize George Bruno.

The discussion, titled “Looking Forward: What it Takes to Govern,” was moderated by Dean of the Jonathan

M. Tisch College of Civic Life Alan Solomont and was sponsored by Tisch College and JumboVote.

According to Tisch College Special Projects Administrator Jessica Byrnes, the event was intended to focus on the aftermath of the election more than the election itself.

“There’s so much more at stake than who wins or loses in an election,” she told the Daily in an email. “How does our next president bring people together after such an ugly election, or build an administration that will work across party lines to create change?

Our guest speakers can … help the Tufts community think about the election with a wide-angle lens.”

Card, who oversaw the transition of power from George H.W. Bush’s see ELECTION, page 2

Class of 2018 elects Mihm, Sossenheimer in special TCU Senate election Juniors Claudia Mihm and Anna Sossenheimer were elected to Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate in a special election yesterday. Three candidates Mihm, Sossenheimer and Justin Will ran for the two open junior class senator seats.

Both Mihm and Sossenheimer said they are excited about their victories and are enthusiastic to begin working as senators.

“I am very humbled and very grateful that I have the opportunity to serve Tufts,” Sossenheimer said. “I’m very excited to ... learn from others.”

Mihm said she was looking forward to opening up conversations with students of all identities and increase Senate access for them.

“I think that having this opportunity to come into the Senate as a junior is really valuable, because I know what Tufts is about and what the Tufts expe-

the United States and Mexico, his promises of a “humane” deportation force and his denigration of former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, a Latinx American citizen, as “Miss Housekeeping.”

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rience is, but I haven’t really been in a place to make real change and have the amazing access and resources that Senate has,” she said.

According to TCU Elections Commission (ECOM) Public Relations Chair Whitney Miller, voter turnout for the election was at 13.19 percent.

Miller said elections are usually held during the spring for the upcoming year. Yesterday’s special election was held because two senators for the Class of 2018 recently resigned and the spots needed to be filled.

“According to our bylaws, if members of senate/CSL/the judiciary resign, then ECOM attempts to fill these spots so that these groups can continue to function to their full potential,” Whitney told the Daily in an email.

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continued from front Journal/Telemundo poll held in July, 14 percent of Latinx supported Trump and 76 percent supported Clinton.

“It’s clear that there’s something going on with Latinos,” Affigne said regarding polling numbers.

Affigne said that Latinx voters are continuing to mobilize as Nov. 8 draw nearer, adding that between 13.1 million and 14.7 million Latinx will vote in 2016, according to a weekly tracking poll released by Latino Decisions this week.

“As we get closer to the election, more Latinx voters are paying attention to the election,” Affigne said.

Latino Decisions also projected that 79 percent of Latinx would vote for Clinton, a number Affigne believes is based in Hispanic antipathy for Trump.

“Latinos are settling on a candidate and they don’t like Trump any more than they did a year ago,” Affigne said.

“In fact, they like him less than they did a year ago, and they’re excited about the possibility of making sure he doesn’t win.”

Affigne also mused that Trump may have affected the future of US politics and the GOP. He particularly felt that the hostility directed toward minority voters, which he said was instigated

by Trump, might exacerbate growing racial tensions in the country.

“Trump has energized the ‘alt-right,’” Affigne said, referring to a segment of far-right wingers that generally embrace white nationalism and reject many of the tenets of traditional conservatism. “He has made their ideas acceptable again.”

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Professor Tony Affigne, from Providence College, visits Tufts to give a presentation regarding the Latinx electorate in the Presidential Election.

Affigne also believed that Republicans might have lost their opportunity to attract a generation of young Latinx voters.

“Trump may have reversed a trend that has existed for decades in the US, by which Latinos become more conservative and more Republican as they move through generations,” Affigne said.

At the same time, the Latinx impact on the election is expected to be markedly greater than in previous elections, with an estimated 27.3 million Latinx being eligible to vote this year.

“Trump’s campaign appears to have sparked record Hispanic registration in

key states,” Affigne said. “As the Latino electorate grows more powerful, you can thank [Trump].”

The lecture was followed by a question-and-answer session.

Associate Professor of Sociology Helen Marrow, who introduced Affigne at the start of the event, spoke to the Daily about her thoughts on the lecture.

“I think the presentation was wonderful,” Marrow said. “I really liked the content. It was exciting, we’re one week away. I felt invigorated and even hopeful about the election coming out of that.”

Card, Richardson discuss bipartisanship, healing postelection at Tisch College, JumboVote event

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continued from front administration to Bill Clinton’s as well as George W. Bush’s transition into the White House, said that there are many things that the eventual president-elect must do to ensure that the transition goes smoothly, no matter who wins.

“The president should work to heal the wounds that are always there after an election,” he said. “Capitol Hill will be a difficult place to find healing, but first the president has to reach out and offer it.”

Richardson concurred, saying that the president-elect should seek to find common ground with members of both parties on issues such as income inequality, national security and infrastructure.

“The party divide has become way more divisive since my time,” he said. “Certain issues, like national security, were always non-partisan. Now, nothing is.”

Richardson also warned against voting based on vision rather than experience, a trend he says he has noticed since President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

According to Card, one of the main problems with modern politics is that more radical opinions have overtaken both parties’ discourse.

“When I was running for governor of Massachusetts, the rug of American politics had more rug than fringe,” he said. “Today, the rug of American politics has more fringe than rug.”

In an interview with the Daily before the event, Richardson, a candidate for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination in 2008, said that he has recently spoken at events that,

like the Tisch talk, pair him up with a Republican speaker.

“We’re here to promote this concept of working together, which this campaign has just deteriorated,” Richardson said. “Any opportunity I have to appear in public and talk about getting things done, I take it.”

Byrnes echoed these sentiments, and said that one of the goals of the event was to present Tufts students and community members with varied perspectives.

“Tufts is a liberal campus, which is why we work hard to bring speakers to Tufts who will challenge our community to think critically,” she explained.

“Especially during such a divisive election cycle, it’s so critical to get the facts and be well informed before you vote, and hearing from speakers who make us think critically about our own views and what’s at stake is one way to achieve that goal.”

Byrnes said one of the reasons Tisch College has been holding events centered around the election is to get students excited about voting.

“Students face a lot of unique barriers to voting, and it’s so important we do everything in our power to tackle them,” she wrote. “We’ve partnered closely with JumboVote at every event this fall to make sure we’re registering students, educating them on the issues and helping them get to the polls.”

In his conversation with the Daily, Card said that millennial voters in particular should seek out opinions that challenge their own in order to become more informed citizens.

“Millennials … have a social network that sometimes can trap them

into groupthink,” he said. “The nature of politics today is that everybody wakes up with a bias.”

Richardson said that young voters also have the potential to re-introduce civility into politics.

“You’re a new electorate, and I think if we can instill a civic responsibility of working together and getting things done… there has to be civility to have a dialogue, and that’s why I’m here,” he said.

Card, despite being a self-described “staunch Republican,” told the Daily that he’s not a fan of his party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

“I tend to be more inclusive than exclusive, and I’m troubled when I find candidates who are more exclusive,” he said. “So I don’t like Donald Trump because I find him to be weeding people out rather than inviting them in.”

Card added some advice for young Republicans disillusioned by Trump’s candidacy.

“Don’t abandon the responsibility of building the party. Don’t walk away,” he said. “I think it would be wrong for people, especially millennials, to choose to abandon the party when the party needs them to be engaged to better define it.”

Richardson’s advice for disillusioned young Democrats also highlighted the importance of continued political involvement rather than withdrawal.

“I would say that Sanders’ message should be listened to. The party needs to concentrate, in my view, on job growth and reducing the income inequality that exists,” he said. “But I think what is most important is that the parties come together to get something done.”

Thursday, November 3, 2016

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The Evolving Cycle of Recycling

by Zachary Essig

Contributing Writer

Campus recycling was limited throughout most of Tufts’ history until Karen White (LA ’91) and a few other students decided to establish an official recycling and waste management program for the university in 1990. So began Tufts Recycles!, according to Betsy Isenstein, the director of Facilities Technical Services.

Tufts Recycles! was run primarily by Tufts students, who worked to increase recycling rates at Tufts and bring all campuses to “zero-waste” status throughout the 1990s and 2000s, according to its website. Isenstein, the self-proclaimed “energy person” at Tufts, began to work with the students at Tufts Recycles! during its early days, helping to promote the initiative. Together, they worked to lay the groundwork for a strong recycling program at Tufts.

Today, however, recycling on all of Tufts’ campuses is largely conducted by Facilities Services and the Office of Sustainability, with Tufts Recycles! student interns now mostly working on education and outreach as a result of ongoing structural and programmatic changes, according to sophomore Morgan Leppla, a current recycling intern.

Most of these changes to the program took place after Dawn Quirk —who was hired as the Waste Reduction Program Manager in July 2004 — left Tufts in November 2014. Quirk was the first and only administrator with a full-time position dedicated solely to recycling efforts at Tufts, according to Isenstein.

While she was originally responsible for overseeing recycling, Quirk said her job expanded to include managing

the solid waste programs on all three campuses instead of focusing only on recycling. She also oversaw the projects and campaigns of student interns.

“I was blessed with amazing Tufts Recycles! interns who enabled [the program] to get so much done,” Quirk said.

According to a report compiled by Quirk in 2014, during her 10-year tenure at Tufts, the combined recycling rates for all three campuses grew by approximately 10 percent. Quirk said she also helped establish several new initiatives during her time at Tufts, including Tufts’ partnership with GreenBean Recycle, a start-up based in Somerville that has developed a recycling machine.

Freecycle boxes were also introduced to many of the dorms, and Tufts competed in Recyclemania, a national collegiate recycling tournament that takes place every spring.

Tufts’ growing recycling program was recognized in 2012 by MassRecycle, according to Quirk. Additionally, Quirk and the Tufts Recycles! program received a silver recycling award at MassRecycle’s 17th Annual Recycling Awards Ceremony that same year.

According to Isenstein, no one was hired in the immediate period after Quirk left Tufts in 2014 to work for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Having knowledge of and experience with the recycling program at Tufts, Isenstein stepped up to work with students until Kate Doherty Bolivar was hired in December 2015 as a Supervisor in the Office of Facilities Services. In her role, she oversees Solid Waste and Recycling, C&W Services for all campuses and Pest Control and Grounds on the Medford campus, according to the Tufts Recycles website.

Prior to this role, Bolivar said that

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Kevin Lawson The Tufts Daily Show she had been at Tufts for approximately four years, working as a Facilities Supervisor on the Boston campus and also working for one summer on the Grafton campus. According to Bolivar, before she assumed the position there was minimal oversight of pest control at Tufts. In her new role, Bolivar oversees many aspects of campus services at Tufts including pest control, rather than just solid waste and recycling, as Quirk had.

Since hiring Bolivar, Facilities Services has partnered more closely with the Office of Sustainability to try to reach recycling goals.

“Prior to me here, we had not partnered with the [Office of Sustainability] that much, but now we are a true partner,” Bolivar said. “I would say I’m almost a liaison between Facilities Services and the Office of Sustainability.”

Still, each office retains distinct roles in terms of recycling efforts at Tufts. According to Bolivar, the Office of Sustainability focuses more on communications and research regarding recycling at Tufts. Facilities Services, in turn, focuses on operational needs and manages payments and purchasing.

“I think both [bodies] think strategically, but we think strategically in different ways,” Bolivar said.

Bolivar explained that these structural changes have drastically reduced the presence of Tufts Recycles! because the offices have taken on many of the organization’s former responsibilities.

“We are no longer really called Tufts Recycles!” she said. “It’s really just recycling and waste management.”

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The Academic Quad was declared a waste-free zone for Community Day on Oct. 4, 2015, and members of Tufts Recycles assisted in sorting out compostable and recyclable items.

RE: The complete timeline of Clinton’s email saga

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appy belated Halloween, everyone.

Before I begin, I’d like to do a quick PSA: please, remove that pumpkin from your front porch. Remove it. It is no longer a festive decoration. It is now a piece of rotting fruit. It is becoming mushy. Squirrels have been eating it and getting drunk and making poor life decisions. The trash bin is right there.

Okay, moving right along. We’re just five days from Election Day, and — wait, is that mold? Great, you let it get moldy. Really freaking great. Now it’s going to be seriously annoying to clean up. Get rid of the pumpkin please.

Moving right along. It’s five days ‘till Election Day, and we’re embroiled in yet another email scandal. I understand that the constant email discussion during this election has been confusing. That’s why this week, I’m providing you with an exhaustive timeline of events from this drawn out cyber-debacle: 2008 – Clinton’s private server is created.

I begin wondering and asking around about what a private server is. Like, a butler?

January 2009 – Secretary Clinton creates the email address HDR22@clintonemail.com.

HDRs 1 through 21 are apparently already taken by other users on the server.

February 2009 – Hillary opens her email by double-clicking an icon that only needs to be single-clicked.

March 2009 – August, 2012 – I lead my high school soccer team in goals. This doesn’t have to do with Hillary’s emails, I just thought you should know.

September 2012 – The Benghazi attack occurs, killing four Americans. Initial intelligence about the attack is fuzzy and conflicting. All that is known is that [thing that occurred] was directly caused by Hillary’s [thing we find out about Hillary]. A massive investigation into Clinton’s State Department practices begins.

April 20, 2013 – Blaze it March 2015 – Clinton announces that she has deleted 32,000 personal emails. Fearing that they will be backed up in some “cloud” in Silicon Valley, she has all clouds permanently eliminated from California, causing the drought.

May 2015 – The State Department begins releasing 30,000 of Clinton’s emails, including one bombshell with the subject line “RE: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: Cat video.”

October 2015 – Bernie Sanders says in a debate that Americans are “sick and tired of hearing about [Hillary’s] damn emails.”This is not a political move – he actually longs for the simpler days of writing messages on stone tablets.

July 2016 – FBI Director James Comey says that Clinton acted carelessly but not illegally in her handling of information. The investigation is finally complete.

October 2016 – Haha, just kidding, you idiots. It is never over. Not while we have two parties that work together about as well as grandmothers and computers.

Nov. 3, 2016 – I have almost figured out what a private server is. Really hoping to have this down by Tuesday.

Thanks for reading! Now remember, get rid of that pumpkin. Clean up the freaking pumpkin, Connor Brown. It’s starting to stink up our porch and we’ve asked you like five times now.

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

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continued from page 3 “I think there is more of a focus. I don’t know if we take it more seriously, but I think that there is a stronger focus to reach our sustainability goals,” Bolivar said. “Now the management has shifted more from students, as when it started, to [being] managed internally within Facilities and more of a collaborative effort from management.”

However, Bolivar still has student interns as a part of the recycling program. Luke Rivers, a senior at Endicott College interning at Tufts for a semester, is the first co-op student to work for Bolivar. Currently, Rivers is work-

ing almost entirely on educating the student body about Tufts’ upcoming switch from a dual stream recycling program to a single stream program, in which glass, metal, plastics, paper and other recyclable materials are collected together.

“We have a lot of bins on campus already, so I’ve been going around taking inventory of every bin that we have so we can standardize everything to make it easier for the users to approach the bin and be like, ‘Oh, I know what this means,’” Rivers said.

Bolivar said the transition to single-stream will officially take place in January 2017.

“Now you have two bins for dual stream, one for paper and cardboard and one for glass, metal and plastic,” Bolivar said. “Basically, one of those bins goes away and all of those materials go into one bin now.”

According to Bolivar, a single stream system is easier for users. She also explained that the shift to single stream is a reflection of where the recycling industry is headed. For example, other colleges have switched to a single stream recycling program, such as Yale University in 2012, according to a November 2012 article from the Yale University website.

However, there are some critics of the single-stream system, due to its poten-

tial inefficiency in processing recycled materials. According to a March 31, 2015 NPR article titled, “With ‘Single Stream Recycling’, Convenience Comes at Cost,” the single-stream system can lead to more recyclable products ending up landfills, especially when contaminated products are put in recycling bins.

Despite this, Bolivar maintained that it is still the best option for Tufts at this time.

“We’ve done a lot of research prior …

I think we’ve done research for several several months about how it works at other universities, what universities are doing, what contributes to their success,” Bolivar said.

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“The Economics of the Populist Backlash” Dani Rodrik Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University Dani Rodrik is an economist whose research covers globalization, economic growth and development, and political economy. Rodrik rejoined the Kennedy School faculty in July 2015 after two years at the Institute for Advanced Study In Princeton NJ where he was the Albert O. Hirschman Professor in the School of Social Science. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Science Research Council, and honorary doctorates from universities in Europe and Latin America.

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Lady Gaga is back on her least outrageous album to date

by Justin Krakoff

Executive Arts Editor

Lady Gaga is back – again. After an unusually long absence on pop radio, the former dance/pop queen known for thrilling hits such as “Just Dance” (2008) and “Bad Romance” (2009) has returned with her fifth studio album and taken the eponymous moniker of her deceased aunt Joanne, which is as bizarre as it sounds.

The album, which was released on Oct. 21, finds Gaga at an interesting point in her pop career. While radio has clearly moved on from her, the question lies in whether or not she has moved on from it.

The answer is somewhat of a mixed bag. “Joanne” travels much of the same sonic terrain that she explored on her blockbuster sophomore release “Born This Way” (2011) — namely its rock and disco inspired elements — but strips it down to a reflect a more acoustic, country-based sound. In pursuing this new musical direction, Gaga has largely abandoned her previous collaborators to write and produce most of the album with Mark Ronson and BloodPop, who played instrumental roles in shaping the careers of Amy Winehouse and Justin Bieber respectively.

This time, however, her comeback feels less assured. Perhaps this can be attributed to the oversaturation of the Gaga brand around the release of her fourth studio album “Artpop” (2013), when the public simply began to grow tired of her wearing meat dresses, hatching out of an egg or vomiting on stage.

Whatever the reason, “Joanne” reflects Gaga’s attempt to gain back the relevance she has slowly lost over the years by billing this as her most emotional, raw

record to date. Its efforts almost succeed, but don’t quite make it all the way.

“Perfect Illusion,” the lead single to her fifth LP, is indicative of this crux.

While the song is more thrilling than anything she has done since “Edge of Glory” (2011), it ultimately falls victim to an unfinished quality that comes off as sloppy and inauthentic, which can be seen in the song’s reluctance to fully commit to its 1980s-dance heritage. Moreover, its chorus is as towering as one would expect from a huge Lady Gaga anthem, yet the song moves too quickly in getting to that explosion, making the moment of release not very satisfying.

Much of “Joanne” suffers from this tendency to reach for elements that are great in theory, but never quite get there in execution. “A-YO,” which was theoretically supposed to be the second single off the record until someone clearly realized this was not going to get any radio play whatsoever, is a stomping country-pop anthem that feels almost like a parody when she sings “I can’t wait to blaze for real / Track burns like a road rail.”

Similarly, “Hey Girl” seems like an outstanding idea on paper with Gaga evoking Prince-esque grooves and collaborating with British songstress Florence Welch, yet the track sees Welch overwhelm Gaga with the sheer soullessness of her voice.

The rest of the LP, however, is by no means a tragedy. The album opener “Diamond Heart” is an excellent midtempo anthem, juxtaposing the sexual assault Gaga experienced in her early career days with the refrain “I’m not flawless, but I got a diamond heart.”

While “John Wayne” contains cowboy-referencing lyrics that do not indicate that Gaga knows what role he plays

in American pop-culture, the track contains the best breakdown on the album as she wails, “I’m strung out on John Wayne,” before the guitars come crashing in for a truly head-bopping experience.

Back in more traditional Gaga territory, “Dancin’ in Circles” makes use of collaborator Beck to great effect as the reggae-influenced ode to masturbation has never made loneliness seem so sexy, especially as she yelps “Dancin’ in circles, feels good to be lonely.”

Yet it is on the ballads of “Joanne” that the album truly shines and finds its purpose. The title track is a heartbreaking remembrance to her aunt who died before Gaga was born. The result is a vulnerability not felt across most of the record as she pleads “Girl / Where do you think you’re goin’?” “Million Reasons” also evokes a similar sorrow, though it is for a dying relationship. The simple country ballad is built around repeated references to this idea of “million reasons” as Gaga looks for signs why she should stay or leave this relationship behind. Whether or not the subject of the song is her ex-fiancée Taylor Kinney, the emotional potency of the track is reflected in its understated nature, never letting the listener forget the pain and sorrow of a break-up.

Though there’s nothing overtly offensive on “Joanne,” except for the way too Christmassy-sounding “Come to Mama,” the record is a good pop album but not the triumphant record Gaga truly needed. While there are enough high-quality songs to keep the public paying attention to her, Gaga is still at a crossroads in her career, and her fifth album has merely delayed this decision between relevance and true authenticity. Here is to album six finally revealing her answer.

hat is streetwear? This is the question that plagued designers on this week’s episode of “Project Runway” (2004-present) as many stepped out of their comfort zone of cocktail dresses into the “Urban Jungle” (it’s clever because that’s the title of the episode!).

The show goes off the product placement deep-end this episode, flying all ten remaining designers to Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla. for a five-minute rollercoaster montage. This is, however, the first product plug that Emily actually enjoyed watching as the designers trekked through a virtual reality ride called “Skull Island: Reign of Kong,” which became the source of inspiration for this week’s streetwear challenge. Back in New York less than 24 hours later, the designers rush through Mood Fabrics, collecting textiles inspired by the ride’s rocks, bats and creepy crawlers.

This week, back by popular demand, we welcomed our guest judges, SMFA seniors, Mary Herrera and Kevin Valderrama. We also invited two of our favorite people and Ana’s housemates, senior drama and computer science double major Mitchell Katz and junior chemistry major Monica Dawes.

Mitchell has been begging to be a guest judge since we started writing this column and did not disappoint. Monica is a religious watcher of the show and is actually the person that inspired us to write this column.

Designer Erin Robertson returned to her roots this episode after being in the bottom last week for using embroidery to create her own new textile for a pair of shorts. While we were initially excited to see what she would make, her lack of time management meant that the stitching on the shorts was wonky and the look’s accompanying shirt was not thought-out and poorly made.

Designer Dexter Simmons collected canvas in different shades of green that he turned into a weird army jacket-inspired look with round protruding shoulders that looked like Mickey Mouse ears.

Nathalia JMag was inspired by bats, creating a jacket with wing-like sleeves. Mitchell aptly responded, “[It] looks like an ugly blazer had sex with a tent.”

The most controversial look of the episode came from our dear, quirky Brik Allen. He mixed a lot of patterns together and, while some of us thought it was successful, the judges hated it and sent him home. The winner this week was Laurence Basse who created yet another impeccable red leather jacket mixed with yet another horrible drop-crotch pant.

This episode was harder to watch and critique as we all are feeling exhausted by the overbearing force of midterms. When we asked about everyone’s semesters during the commercial breaks, we mostly got panicked laughter. Mary vividly described the sensation of wanting to “scream and backflip into the sun.” We did begin to warm up after we decided to make a batch of pizza rolls which reminded Ana of childhood.

Thanks, pizza rolls!

Ana Antolin is a junior studying International Relations. She can be reached at ana.antolin@tufts.edu.

Emily Friedlander is a senior studying international relations. She can be reached at emily.friedlander@tufts.edu

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Aren Torikian The Arena

Carlos Danger’s last hurrah

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his election is the terrible Christmas gift that just keeps on giving. At about half a dozen junctures in the last few months, I was ready to throw up my hands and call the election over. But I knew better after writing off Donald Trump earlier in this campaign. With the FBI re-opening its investigation of Hillary Clinton less than two weeks before voters go to the polls, this election is back and better (worse) than ever.

You really have to feel for Clinton at this point; it finally looked like she had the race in the bag. She was looking great in polls and was facing fewer and fewer questions about her personal email scandal. But thanks to the emails seized in the separate case of Anthony Weiner, former congressman, sexual miscreant and ex-husband of a leading Clinton staffer, the investigation is back on. Top marks to whoever is writing this election script; nobody could have expected this twist in the finale.

I am not one for conspiracy theories, but I do not particularly like the timing and vagueness of the FBI’s announcement.

To be fair, it is better than announcing after the elections as voters should have as much information as possible before Election Day. Of course, nothing has been announced yet that incriminates Clinton from the new email. But just hearing the words “FBI,” “Clinton” and “investigation” in a sentence together is going to have an effect on some voters.

But it is going to be tough to tell just how big an impact this will have.

Polls showed Trump had been starting to reel Clinton in well before the FBI’s announcement; Clinton’s seven point lead has turned into a four point lead over the last two weeks. As of now, there is not enough polling to isolate the effect of the investigation. I cannot imagine it will help Clinton, though. Trump needed a Hail Mary to have a shot at this election, and he may just have found it. In a nice bit of timing, Trump was giving a speech just as news started to trickle. The crowd started to roar, “lock her up.”

Just a few weeks ago, it looked like the Clinton campaign would make a real play to swing traditional Republican strongholds Arizona or even Georgia to the Democrats. I think that became just a bit more unlikely. As of now, Clinton is down in Ohio and ahead by a very thin margin in Florida. She would be better off campaigning in these battleground states. We are approaching the time where she hunkers down and consolidates what she has.

To end, I just want to take a bit of my weekly space to publicly ridicule Anthony “Carlos Danger” Weiner. The man ruined his own political career and his marriage by being caught sexting not once, not twice, but three times. Most recently, it turns out he was in an online relationship with a minor. But if it was not enough to ruin his own life, he may have just shifted the balance of power in our democracy.

Aren Torikian is a junior majoring in Economics and International Relations.

Aren can be reached at Aren.Torikian@ tufts.edu.

Opinion

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016

EDITORIAL

Reflections on political inclusivity With the election season coming to an end, perhaps it’s time for some honest reflection on how we ended up with such a polarized national political climate and two of the most unlikable candidates in the history of the United States. Critics of this year’s election most often cite political incompatibility between Republicans and Democrats as the culprit; the inability to find common ground on political issues has led our two parties to nominate candidates that many Americans feel do not do an adequate job of representing the values and interests of our country as a whole. The lack of political cohesion among Americans has left many feeling both frustrated and ostracized by the election process. This begs the question, “How can we, students at Tufts, help solve this problem?”

Before we can even begin to think about solutions, we must first identify our own part in the problem. At Tufts, according to a March 2016 survey conducted by the Daily and Enigma (Tufts’ Independent Data Journal), about 72 percent of undergraduate students identify as Democrats, while only seven percent identify as Republicans. This statistic alone provides significant insight into the direction that political discussions at Tufts tend to lean.

The fact that Tufts is a liberal-leaning university is not a secret to anyone. However, such a large disparity between the number of Republicans and Democrats on campus presents a serious challenge for social cohesion. The ability to work with others who have opposing views is one of the most important skills one can gain from their college experience; not only is it a necessary component of most future careers and endeavors, but it also helps us become more open-minded and productive members of our society as it allows us to work out compromises with our neighbors and peers.

One-sided political discussions do more than just prevent cohesion, though. They

also rob individuals from both sides of the opportunity to make themselves heard and learn from the other side. This is particularly damaging to the side of the political discussion that is left out. At Tufts, many conservative students feel they are not given a voice, many refuse to discuss their conservative values for fear of being judged and many feel that when they do discuss their conservative values, they are ostracized by their peers.

Of course, there have been opinions espoused by many on the right this election cycle that we cannot expect certain members of this community to respect, or even to engage with in an emotionally detached manner. Muslims and undocumented students cannot be expected to be civil when someone says they believe that their families should be deported. Jewish students should not have to abide antisemitic sentiments.

Transgender individuals can’t be expected to give someone the space to tell them why their gender identity is “incorrect.”

A civil, respectful political discussion can happen if the parties stick to some ground rules. Discussions should avoid dehumanizing rhetoric, respect each person’s lived experience and avoid jumping to conclusions. That last one is important: A wide range of people call themselves conservatives and Republicans, and to assume that someone who subscribes to these labels necessarily also subscribes to racist, sexist, transphobic or otherwise dehumanizing ideology is reductive, in the same way that assuming someone who identifies as a liberal doesn’t subscribe to that ideology. It prevents a civil discussion from happening in the first place, let alone succeeding, and when liberals and conservatives don’t get to engage in that discourse, both of them lose the opportunity to learn something new and to form nuancd opinions.

BY NOAH KULAK

Our two-party system is functional when it facilitates productive dialogue between different groups of opposing values. However, that system can only work as long as both groups are willing to listen to and show respect for one another. Tufts students are often described as great political activists; yet, in order to achieve the social change we seek, we must first work to promote an environment that isn’t limited to the majority perspective.

Conservative values, while perhaps in the minority at Tufts, help make political decisions for half the country; thus, they are entitled to, if not necessarily agreement, at least a certain degree of respect.

By excluding conservative viewpoints, we are robbing ourselves of discussions that are more representative of the general American public as well as depriving Republicans of a welcoming political environment.

Currently, organizations like Tufts CIVIC are working to promote formal environments where this type of respectful, bipartisan discussion can be had. While this is most certainly the first step in working towards greater inclusiveness for conservative thought on campus, the next step is much more challenging. As a student body, we need to be more open to discussions like those that CIVIC promotes in the informal setting as well. This means that Democrats should encourage divergent thought from Republicans and be willing to hear their views and opinions, so long as those views don’t infringe on their own rights to liberty, speech and safety.

While this most certainly is not a problem that can be fixed overnight, it is one that if given enough time and effort, will drastically improve political inclusivity on campus — both during election periods and on a day-to-day basis.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

On Question 2

by Pat Jehlen

To the Editor: Question 2 will determine the future of public education in Massachusetts. Can we continue to improve our schools, or will we develop a two-tiered system with preferred funding for privately-run schools that focus on the easiest-to-educate children? There’s a lot at stake.

So, point by point, I’d like to respond to Scott Oran’s Oct. 25 letter to the Daily, in which he challenged what I said at a recent Tufts event.

Are urban schools mostly disasters? No. The achievement gap is real. But to label schools that serve low-income students as failing is damaging and false. The state uses an approach that measures income. Researchers do not use this approach because they know it doesn’t measure school quality.

If we use the measures that all researchers use — whether they support charters or not — we will see that Boston is not in the bottom 25 percent of school districts — in a state with the highest achievement scores in the country.

Are there really 32,000 children waiting for charter seats? The waitlist Mr. Oran cites includes Horace Mann charter schools, under local control, which are not affected by the cap. It includes families who applied two years ago and haven’t applied since; it even includes students who are now in charter schools such as those who applied to two and got into one. Boston has school choice, and the number of students on waitlists for district public schools is comparable, possibly even greater, than that of charter schools.

There are also thousands of students who have been waitlisted for Boston’s early kindergarten program, which is proven to reduce the achievement gap. If Boston weren’t sending more and more of its budget to charter schools, it could expand early education.

Do charter schools educate all kinds of students?

The answer is clear: They don’t. Dave Sweeney, CFO for the City of Boston, writes:

“BPS serves a greater percentage of high-need special education students (for instance, an aggregated 2.5 percent of BPS students are blind, deaf, or autistic versus 0.9 percent of students in Boston-based charter schools) and English Language Students (30 percent of BPS students versus 13 percent of the students in Boston-based charter schools).”

Mr. Oran says charters are required to educate all children. True, but that doesn’t mean they do. Mr. Oran chairs the Board of Trustees of the Brooke Charter Schools in Boston. His schools have about six percent English language learners, on average. Boston Public Schools have almost 30 percent English language learners, including many who speak almost no English. Brooke has about eight percent students with disabilities, on average. Boston Public Schools have 20 percent, many with serious problems. These facts are from the state website. In addition, Brooke schools don’t accept students above eighth grade.

Will more charter schools drain money from district schools? Yes. Contrary to what Mr. Oran said, charter schools are not funded like METCO. That’s funded by a state appropriation; no local money leaves the sending district. Charter schools are not funded like vocational education: A school committee decides to join a regional vocational school and whether to fund capital expenses.

Charter schools are funded by local districts, largely from local property taxes. The decision about whether to open a charter school is made by an appointed state board. When a charter school is successful, the local school committee often has to cut other programs or close schools. The state board doesn’t consider the effect on other students. So if a new charter causes another school to close, the choices and needs of other parents are ignored. Decisions about local property taxes and local schools should be made by people accountable to the taxpayers and voters and parents.

Do charter schools help students learn more?

Studies that suggest charter schools work miracles in closing the achievement gap have been roundly criticized by other eminent researchers. But the

most interesting recent study is by Harvard Professor Roland Fryer. He found that while “no-excuses” charters like Brooke do raise test scores, they do not raise the incomes of their graduates later on. He wonders whether the methods these schools use to raise scores — test prep and hyper-discipline — may actually hurt students’ job skills. That’s the kind of schools that are expanding in Massachusetts.

Question 2 is far too extreme: As Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone writes, “This ballot question – if approved – would allow the indefinite expansion of charter schools with up to 12 new openings each year. There would be no restrictions on where these charters can open, and local taxpayers and governments would have absolutely no say so in the charter’s approval.”

Question 2 won’t just affect Boston. Somerville, Medford, Cambridge and many other cities are close to their “cap” on how much tuition can be sent to charter schools.

And Question 2 won’t just affect the students in charter schools. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a strong supporter of charter schools, made a far more modest proposal for lifting the cap last year. But he strongly opposes Question 2 because it goes way too far. He wrote in the Globe that Question 2 is “super-sizing an already broken funding system to a scale that would have a disastrous impact on students, their schools, and the cities and towns that fund them … It’s a looming death spiral for our district budget, aimed squarely at the most vulnerable children in our city.

It’s not just unsustainable, it’s unconscionable.”

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

Pat Jehlen is a Massachusetts state senator who serves the cities of Medford, Somerville, Winchester and Cambridge. Senator Jehlen can be reached at patricia. jehlen@masenate.gov.

CAMPUS COMMENT

The following are quotes given to the Daily by undergraduate students in response to the question, “How would you describe bipartisan discussion at Tufts?”

“At Tufts, general antipathy toward conservative policies and ideologies can sometimes manifest [itself] as dismissals of entire schools of thought, or fallacious ad hominem attacks. This type of generalization can hinder bipartisan dialogue, as well as stifle meaningful intellectual debate.”

– Sophomore Ria Mazumdar

“The problem is that the people who do care about positive bipartisan discussion at Tufts are usually ‘out-shouted’ by individuals who are simply trying to convince everyone that they are absolutely right about everything. It’s super discouraging to anyone who may have divergent opinions from them, and makes them feel as if their opinion is less valued.”

– First-year David Stern

“Bipartisan discussion happens all the time at Tufts, but as a left-leaning student in the middle, I feel like I’m always watching people on the extremes of either side argue with each other,” – Sophomore Sara Kalra

“Many conservative ideas at Tufts are too easily dismissed. I myself am a liberal at heart, but I think that conservatives deserve to actually be debated against in a legitimate setting. I think that it is silly to dismiss beliefs that literally half the country holds as being true just because you and your friend think they are silly.”

– First-year Turner Yardley

“I think that at Tufts, the campus environment pays lip service to bipartisan discussion, but actually demands people only share opinions within a narrow band of progressivism. Opinions that are left, right or just different from the orthodoxy often open you up to personal attacks if shared.”

– Senior Drew Latimer

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THE TUFTS DAILY | Sports | Thursday, November 3, 2016

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Editors’ Challenge | Week 9 Hello Sports fans, welcome to Week 9 of the Editor’s Challenge. Last week was not a good one for those at the bottom of the standings, as Sophie “Burrata” Lehrenbaum and Nina “Mascarpone” Joung’s attempts were about as solid as their cheesy namesakes. Both scored only six points out of a possible 13. On the other end of the spectrum, Zach “Sharp Cheddar” Hertz held firm onto first place in the standings with nine correct picks and Maclyn “White Cheddar” Senear overcame Phillip “Gouda” Goldberg for the runner-up slot. David “String Cheese” Westby finally made good on his promise to move up, as Eddie

“Roquefort” Samuels stunk up a storm and was relegated to the bottom three once again.

This week Evan “Swiss Cheese” Sayles’ strategy is full of holes — he picked against the majority for every match-up. However, that put him in line with Gouda’s Detroit pick, so who’s complaining? The guest for Week 9 is Executive Arts Editor Justin “Revlochon” Krakoff whose refined taste and dearth of NFL knowledge resulted in San Fransisco and Tennessee selections. We will likely be eating our words. With that said, may our balls bounce favorably, may we pick the winningest teams and may Eddie continue to lose.

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Tasker's goal not enough, Tufts falls 2-1 against Bowdoin MEN'S SOCCER

continued from back created chances but we didn’t move the ball quickly enough to get wide open enough chances to get the goal we needed.”

From that point on, the Jumbos were playing catch up. They pressed hard for the remainder of the first half with several strong goal-scoring opportunities from senior forward Gaston Becherano, who had three shots, and junior defender Matt Zinner, whose free kick came close to going in but failed to do so.

Two minutes before the half, first-year midfielder/forward Gavin Tasker found the ball at his feet after it bounced around the box on a corner kick. He deftly slotted the ball all the way from the right side of the box into the bottom left corner, narrowing the deficit to one and giving the Jumbos the boost they needed before the end of the first half.

“We were the better team for 70, maybe 75 minutes, but clearly they were the better team for the first 15,” coach Josh Shapiro said.

“We were down two but it could have been three, even four. I thought we created enough chances to get more than even but we weren’t lucky enough to take them.”

In the second half the Jumbos poured on the pressure, outshooting the Polar Bears 12-1 and earning four corner kicks to the visitors’ two. Becherano tallied five shots in the second half, two of which came on one-on-one opportunities against senior goalkeeper Noah Safian.

Junior defender Stephen McMillian was a dominant force both defensive play

and on the attack, making important slide tackles to turn over possession and nearly capitalizing on two shots of his own.

“I think we showed a lot of character towards the second part of the game and that was a lot more reflective of our team’s ability,” McMillian said. “In the first half we came out too slowly and forgot that talent doesn’t win games.”

The Jumbos played much better over the final 45 minutes, as they easily kept the ball in the final third of the field. It was not enough though, and the two-goal deficit that they had allowed in the first 10 minutes could not be overcome.

The Jumbos must now wait until Monday to find out whether or not they receive an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Despite losing out in the first round of the NESCAC tournament, they can still make a deep run in the NCAA. The team has earned at-large bids each of the last two years despite being eliminated in the quarterfinals, winning the NCAA championship in 2014 and making it to the third round last year.

“It’s brutal,” Shapiro said. “They are waiting nine days [to find out if they have a bid to the NCAAs] … If we do get a bid next Monday, we’ll have had another week to prepare for our first-round meeting. We’ll get to lock in and get as sharp [as] we can, and look as fresh as we can going in to a potential NCAA bid.”

Throughout the season, the team has bounced back from its worst start since

2009 — going 0-2-1 in the first three games — to soundly beating several nationally-ranked teams, including a 3-0 win over defending national champion Amherst, currently ranked second nationally, and a 2-0 win over No. 19 Middlebury to snap its 16-game unbeaten streak.

“One thing we’ve worked on is trying to expose each line of the team a little bit more,” Shapiro said. “We defended collectively really well over the year, midfield was able to protect the back four from getting exposed. But in the times where the midfield wasn’t necessarily doing as well, the defense was cleaning up a lot of their mistakes.”

The team will continue to train for the next week in anticipation of receiving a bid, he explained.

“This week we’re trying to work on the individuals in the groups to try to lock in the details of how we want to handle our defensive schemes and put guys into a lot of offensive scenarios around the box because we’ve been in those situations a lot, and haven’t scored as many goals as we want given how many chances we’ve created,” he said.

Regardless, Shapiro explained that as the team waits for its bid results, the Jumbos hope to also focus on their time left as a group.

“We try to change the focus a little bit, make our training sessions lighter and more fun soccer, making sure we [are] enjoying the rest of our time together,” he said.

Busse takes 7th at Head of the Fish WOMEN'S CREW

continued from back spring, and they’ll help make the varsity teams stronger next year,” Conroy said.

The varsity team also took on the Quad division before handing it over to the novice team for the eights. The Jumbos had three entries into this division that only featured six boats total.

The “A” quad was made up of MitchellSparke, Conroy, Busse and Lichter, and their time of 12:41 was good for a third place finish.

Lowenstein and the “B” quad finished just behind the “A” quad in fourth place with a time of 13:38. Lowenstein was joined in the boat by Mann, sophomore Miranda Finestone and Cohen.

“What I really like about quads is that there are 8 blades entering the water, the same as in an eight, but there are only four rowers, so essentially [it]

could be similar to a lighter eight,” Lowenstein said. “Our boat was moving together and smoothly, and I am pleased with how we did.”

The women’s novice team filled both of Tufts’ entries in the eights division, where Tufts grabbed another victory in the 30-boat field. The A boat beat out competitors Williams and William Smith College by three seconds and nine seconds respectively.

“Our ‘A’ boat consisted of recruits and experienced walk-ons, some of whom competed in the Head of the Charles, and [they] came in first,” Lowenstein said. “For the rowers in our novice ‘B’ boat this was their first race ever. They have all walked on this year and have all just started rowing but still came in 13th out of 30 entries.”

High finishes like these display the promise of the new class of first-year row-

ers, and the team can look forward to contributions from them in the spring season and beyond.

The Jumbos are coming off of a very successful fall and an especially successful final regatta, but their attitude remains focused and driven heading into the winter.

“I think how our spring goes depends heavily on how effectively we train this winter, but we have a lot of potential and I’m already very excited for spring racing,” Conroy said.

The team now turns its attention to the off-season and preparing for the competitive spring.

“We had a strong spring season last year, but with a strong [first-year] class, an overall young team, and strong leadership from our three captains, there is a new fire under us going into winter training,” Lowenstein said.

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Vinny Donofrio Vinny’s Variety Pack

Week 9: If you’re reading this it’s too late…for the Browns

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wasted all of my words talking about a Browns player, so my intro will be brief; hi mom!

Jameis Winston, QB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tampa Bay versus Atlanta this week.

Man, can you say gun show? Tampa and Atlanta allow the sixth most and second most fantasy points to opposing teams respectively. Recently, the Tampa Bay offense has been run-heavy, but with the recent injury to running back Jacquizz Rodgers and with the recurring injury to Doug Martin (RB, TB) it will be a big day for the young Buccaneer.

Unless you have Matt Ryan (QB, ATL) as your quarterback, you should be starting Winston.

Terrance West, RB, Baltimore Ravens In the two games this season that Terrance West has had 20+ carries, he has scored 17 and 24 fantasy points. In three different games this season, opposing teams have had 20+ carries against the Steelers: their running backs scored 42 points twice and 33 fantasy points the third time. Do you see the nice pattern here? You can bet that Ravens coach John Harbaugh does.

Jarvis Landry, WR, Miami Dolphins Jarvis Landry has been underwhelming in standard format fantasy leagues this year, having hauled in only one touchdown this season. However, Landry is coming off a bye week and will have had two weeks to prepare against the New York Jets, who happen to boast the league’s worst pass defense. I smell a big game coming! Oh wait, that was just me. Go Dolphins!

PPR WR: Terrelle Pryor, WR, Cleveland Browns Is this a bad dream? Am I really about to have a Browns player in my column? *Throws water in face* Okay, now hear me out. Terrelle Pryor is a bona fide WR1 in PPR leagues, even if he is on the worst team in sports. He is the tenth best wide receiver in PPR formats. THAT’S HIGHER THAN ODELL BECKHAM. Let that sink in a little bit. I have him in one league and have started him zero times because he’s on the Browns. Apparently I’m not alone either: according to ESPN, only 65 percent of people have Pryor in their starting line-ups at press time. If you’re part of the 41 percent who have Pryor riding the pine, it’s time to swallow your pride and start him against Dallas, which has allowed 8 total WR touchdowns and over 100 WR yards every game. Okay, I’ve now wasted most of my allowable words talking about a Browns player. If this isn’t rock-bottom I don’t know what is.

Kyle Rudolph, TE, Minnesota Vikings The Vikings looked incredible in the first six games of the season, but during their last game against the Bears, they looked like me wearing a Speedo: god-awful. The Vikings will have to return to their roots this week against Detroit, which will involve dumping the ball to Rudolph while waiting for a deep route to open up eventually. It worked the first six games, and it will work against Detroit which has let up a staggering eight touchdowns to tight ends this season.

Vinny Donofrio is a senior majoring in clinical psychology. Vinny can be reached at vincent.donofrio@tufts.edu.

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Thursday, November 3, 2016

MEN'S SOCCER

Jumbos knocked out of NESCAC tournament in quarterfinals, await NCAA at-large bid

by Maddie Payne Sports Editor

Tufts was eliminated from the NESCAC tournament on Saturday after falling 2-1 to the Bowdoin Polar Bears, thus losing in the quarterfinal round for the fourth consecutive season. It was a frustrating loss for Tufts, as the team had lost to Bowdoin 2-1 earlier that week and was looking for redemption.

The Jumbos entered the NESCAC tournament as the No. 2 seed with a 6-2-2 record in the conference, while the Polar Bears were the No. 7 seed, with their 4-3-3 record. At the beginning of the match, Tufts came out with low energy and appeared sluggish on defense. In the seventh minute, Tufts’ defenders left a loose ball to roll towards senior keeper Scott Greenwood.

Bowdoin senior tri-captain forward Cedric Charlier was able to chase it down and face Greenwood one on one. Greenwood saved the first shot but the ball rebounded back to Charlier and he put the second shot in the back of the net.

Just two minutes later, the Polar Bears were awarded a penalty kick after their attacker was brought down in the box, much to the dismay of the Jumbos as the Polar Bears’ attacker was offside at the time that the ball was played to him. Greenwood guessed the direction of the shot correctly, and dove to the left for a critical save.

On a Bowdoin corner kick in the 11th minute, Tufts’ defense left the back post

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Junior back Stephen McMillian fights to keep possession of the ball in the Jumbos’ 2-1 loss against Bowdoin in the NESCAC quarterfinals on Oct. 29. unmarked and Bowdoin senior tri-captain midfielder Matt Dias Costa capitalized on the opportunity, heading the ball into the bottom right corner to put his team up 2-0.

According to Tufts first-year midfielder Zach Lane, while the Jumbos had a “scattered” start, they were eventually successful in holding onto the ball in their own half.

“We lacked a little bit of creativity in the final third to get the goal,” he said. “We see MEN'S SOCCER, page 11

WOMEN'S CREW

Conroy, Mitchell-Sparke earn “Fish Head” in final fall meet

by Onat Tarimcilar Staff Writer

Women’s crew traveled to Saratoga Springs, N.Y. this weekend for its final regatta of the fall season, the Head of the Fish. The regatta gave the team an opportunity to work on its sculling, and to race in doubles and quads with different arrangements.

“This race was a great way to end the season,” sophomore Nat Lowenstein, who

rowed in the Tufts B quad this weekend, said. “Because we were not in eights, we got the chance to scull in different combinations of people that we may not always get to row with.”

The Jumbos captured victories in many of the races at the Head of the Fish and ended the season strong with numerous additions to their medal collection from this fall.

“Our goal was to leave it all out on the water and get excited for winter training,”

Lowenstein said. “Since we came away with a few wins and placed in other events, I think our team was proud of how we did.”

Six rowers represented Tufts in the Women’s Collegiate Singles Division.

Tufts’ top finisher was junior Sera Busse, who placed 7th with a time of 17:54. She was a minute and a half behind the winner of the event from Western Rowing Club, who finished in 16:28. Other Jumbo single scullers included sophomore Libby Lichter, senior tri-captain Hayley Cohen, sophmore Erika

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Members of the Women’s Crew team that participated in the Head of the Fish regatta pose for a picture after the races on Oct. 29.

Madrian and juniors Suruchi Devanahalli and Arielle Mann.

One of the strongest performances of the weekend for the Jumbos came from the Women’s Collegiate Double Division.

Tufts won this event last year and came in determined to defend its title. The duo of junior tri-captain Emma Conroy and first-year Emma Mitchell-Sparke occupied Tufts’ “A” double and won the event in 15:18, ten seconds ahead of the second place team from UMass Amherst.

Because the Jumbos spend much of practice in their usual varsity eight-seater boats, doubles present a problem with steering and balance of the boat. This, combined with the especially difficult weather, made capturing first place no easy task for Conroy and Mitchell-Sparke.

“I like competing in doubles and quads because it’s more technical and individual, but also more stressful because bad weather causes more trouble in smaller boats, and I bowed our double so I had to row and steer at the same time,” Conroy said.

The Tufts “B” double, which featured sophomore Bibi Lichauco and senior tri-captain Natalia Kastenberg, came in fourth place with a time of 16:45, just outside of a medal finish.

The C and D doubles included three first-years and one sophomore and finished tenth and seventh, respectively. Tufts’ younger talent has been important to the team all season and looks poised to make a strong impact this spring, Conroy said. “[This race] showed [the firstyears] what they’re capable of for the see WOMEN'S CREW, page 11