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Theta Chi leaders move toward reform after cease-and-desist order ends

by Elie Levine News Editor

The cease-and-desist order was lifted for Theta Chi on Oct. 7, according to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life (OFSL) website. Theta Chi was found guilty of hazing and sexual harassment, and as a result, the fraternity will be on disciplinary probation until October 2019; however, the fraternity will be able to recruit new members in spring 2018, provided new members are initiated immediately upon being offered a bid.

Both Kevin Dunn, Theta Chi’s vice president of health and safety, and Alexander Osborne, the interim president of Theta Chi, said that the investigation went smoothly not only in terms of the university’s interactions with the fraternity, but

also in terms of fraternity-wide communication. Osborne said that before he took over as president, fraternity leaders gave consistent updates on the investigation.

Dunn added that the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs and the OFSL dealt fairly with Theta Chi in the investigation proceedings.

“Given the resources the administration had, they did the best they could and I don’t hold it against them, because from what I know, I don’t think they’ve ever had a situation where they’re dealing with investigations … with the majority of Greek life all at once,” Dunn, a junior, said.

According to Osborne, a senior, discussions about the direction of the organization have been put on oversee THETA CHI, page 2

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UEP partners with Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative to help students, community

2017–18 EPIIC colloquium asks “Is the Liberal World Order Ending?”

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The Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) is launching the Co-Research/ Co-Education Partnerships (CoRE), which will allow Tufts master’s students and staff from the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) to partner in researching and developing strategies for community-controlled economic development, according to Senior Lecturer and Director of the Master of Public Policy Program and Community Practice Penn Loh, who will serve as the program’s faculty lead.

According to Loh, the program is a three-year plan that will strengthen the over 30-year partnership between university graduate students and the DSNI, an effort to empower residents of the lower-income Roxbury/Dorchester neighborhoods to help manage urban decay.

“The name CoRE comes from our belief that our partners are co-researchers and co-educators,” Loh said. “They are helping us meet our mission to provide education for our students who want to become policy planners and practitioners.”

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August 2016, but the resources to support the project were not available until the end of spring 2017, so CoRE is officially launching this fall, Loh told the Daily in an email.

The partnership will extend beyond sporadic research projects and include a practicum course, opportunities for summer internships for students and DSNI and Tufts collaborated-research projects, according to Tufts Now. However, Loh said that because of the semester-based university schedule, student participation in outside organizations like DSNI has historically been dependent on students’ schedules.

“All these partnerships happened in an ad-hoc way, meaning it was always a case-by-case basis depending on student initiative,” he said. “It was almost all based on personal relationships.”

Loh noted that the existing case-bycase basis did not always result in valuable partnerships.

“The community partner often feels like [they’re] spending a lot of time with a student just so they can grasp what they’re doing,” Loh said. “They question is, are [the students] able to add value back? Usually that takes beyond one semester to have the value kick in.” see CORE, page 2

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This year, the 2017–18 Sherman Teichman Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) colloquium “Is the Liberal World Order Ending?” is for the first time under the leadership of Abi Williams, the newly appointed director of The Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) and professor of the practice of international politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Williams said he chose the topic of this year’s colloquium, a year-long class offered through the Experimental College and culminating with a student-organized symposium, based on its relevance to contemporary politics.

“As the professor in charge of [EPIIC], I have had a central role in conceptualizing the colloquium. The first important decision I had to make was what was going to be the theme for the two-semester colloquium, and I decided that the theme would be ‘Is the Liberal World Order Ending?’” Williams said. “That’s an important question which is critical for the future of our international system, and it’s a question which demands urgent answers.”

Kai Abe McGuire, a colloquium member, said that this is the first time the

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theme of the EPIIC colloquium has been phrased as a question.

“I think [the] reason that it appears to be really pertinent today is because a lot of the tensions that exist within the ‘liberal world order’ have been at a simmer level, but a lot of different factors (economic, social, technological, political, military) have turned the burner up from simmer to boil,” McGuire, a senior, said. “Suddenly, you see these flare-ups of events and conflicts and provocations that have really brought this issue to the fore.”

One unique aspect of the EPIIC colloquium is that many guest lecturers come to speak with students who are taking the course. Williams said he chose faculty who were specialists.

“Deciding who I would reach out to has a lot to do with the course, I tried to reach out to colleagues on the faculty who were specialists and academics in a particular area. So far, we’ve had colleagues from the political science department, the philosophy department and also The Fletcher School,” Williams said. “This is a very unique thing about EPIIC, because by the end of this semester, the students in the course would have had not only me, but probably a dozen other professors,

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Brothers of Theta Chi say cease-and-desist was time of reflection THETA CHI

continued from page 1 drive since the cease-and-desist order ended on Oct. 7. He stressed the motto “An Assisting Hand” calls upon brothers to help one another.

“Our motto is ‘An Assisting Hand.’

It’s in our creed. It’s our mission statement,” Osborne said. “With the hazing allegations, we realized that these things did not fall within the motto.”

Osborne said that Theta Chi is entirely revamping its new member process.

Dunn said that he had been working with the New Member Educator, Trevor DiTrani, to draft an entirely new process that will be subject to review by Theta Chi brothers, the OFSL, the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs and the national Theta Chi organization.

The expectation is that this reformed new member process will be used indefinitely from recruitment in spring 2018 onward, Osborne said.

Dunn said that last semester, since the fraternity could not host events, it focused more on introspection and contemplating the changes it would implement once its cease-and-desist order ended.

“I was trying to make sure everyone was part of that conversation and that it wasn’t just the chapter leadership,” Dunn said.

Luke Murphy, president of the Interfraternity Council (IFC), said the IFC was committed to assisting Theta Chi in its efforts to reform.

“We will work with the OFSL to offer all available resources to assist Theta Chi in reforming their chapter and faithfully instituting their administrative resolution,” Murphy, a senior, told the Daily in an email.

One of the organization’s administration-imposed demands after the conclusion of their investigation is to hold required bystander intervention and hazing prevention trainings for all members.

Dunn said that this semester, he hopes to organize trainings on mental health and wellness, suicide prevention and hazing prevention. He will also organize sexual misconduct trainings with the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) and bystander intervention trainings with Alexandra Donovan, the OEO’s sexual misconduct prevention specialist.

By exploring these issues around health and safety, Dunn hopes to reform the fraternity. He also hopes to influence other organizations on campus, helping to ensure safety in the contexts of larger campus events like Winter Ball and Spring Fling.

Tufts housed six transfers in the Theta Chi house this semester because the fraternity did not recruit new members last semester and could not fill the house, Osborne said. He stressed that this was completely separate from the investigation, and that when Theta Chi has enough new members to fill the house in the future, brothers will live there.

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continued from page 1 Loh said that this new three-year partnership will give students the opportunity to work for DSNI for two years or more and thus be able leave a more tangible impact on the Roxbury/Dorchester community.

“CoRE is trying to figure out how to move towards a longer term, deeper engagement,” Loh said.

The CoRE program will be supported by The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, which will provide necessary compensation to DSNI staff for their work with Tufts students.

Dean of Tisch College Alan Solomont told the Daily in an email that the partnership with DSNI helps advance Tisch College’s vision of promoting civic practice and community partnerships.

“Tisch College supports the CoRE model because it is one of the ways

that Tisch can promote civic learning, research and practice in an integrated manner,” he said. “It is particularly compelling because CoRE can lead to real world impacts in Tufts host communities, in addition to creating transformational opportunities for our students.”

Solomont agreed with Loh that longer-term partnerships such as this one will ultimately yield better outcomes.

“Tisch College has always been committed to partnerships with the communities that Tufts is a part of — and beyond,” Solomont said.

“But we believed that there could be more multi-year planning with partners, which is what CoRE is all about.

Planning and resourcing partnerships for more than one semester or year creates possibilities for deeper impact for both students and community partners.”

Joceline Fidalgo, DSNI’s resource development director and a student in UEP’s Master of Public Policy program, will be involved in the CoRE program. She was introduced to the master’s program through her previous work with DSNI and from growing up in the Dudley Street neighborhood.

“The CoRE partnership allows a new level of research and offers opportunity to redefine what the relationship between communities and universities look like,” Fidalgo said.

She added that the university and the CoRE program will help her hone in on her interests and provide her with new research opportunities.

“I’m able to get involved in the community in a way I wouldn’t usually be able to otherwise,” Fidalgo said. “The connection that DSNI has with Tufts really increases research opportunities. It really is a different type of partnership.”

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EPIIC colloquium comes under leadership of new IGL director EPIIC COLLOQUIUM

continued from page 1 and so they are exposed to a range of faculty at Tufts.”

McGuire also emphasized the wide variety of guest lecturers the class is exposed to. The guest lecturers can be both academics, such as Ioannis D. Evrigenis, professor of political science and chair of the Department of Classics, or practitioners, such as anti-apartheid activist Mac Maharaj.

Lorenzo Lau, a colloquium member, said that his interest in being a part of the EPIIC colloquium was piqued by the promise of meeting interesting people and being challenged in his last year as an international relations student.

“In this class, I’ve learned more than I have in my first three years here,” Lau, a senior, said.

Williams said the panels and presentations at the The Norris and

Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium, which will be held from March 1–4, 2018, will touch on themes such as the meaning of liberalism, institutions which have underpinned the liberal world order and changes to this order.

According to Williams, developing strong connections between IGL and schools at Tufts is a priority.

“It is important for the future of IGL that the institute develops strong relationships and bridges to all the main schools at Tufts … because IGL will always need those partnerships in order to achieve the goals of the institute,” he said.

Williams hopes that his students can take away a good understanding of the tensions inherent in liberalism after being a part of this year’s EPIIC colloquium.

“I hope they will also begin to develop their own perspectives and their own sense of what they believe in, and their own approach to these very important

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Professor Abi Williams gives a lecture to his EPIIC class in Lane Hall on Oct 3. questions … [and] to understand, and have an appreciation of complexity and of

ambiguity,” Williams said. “There are no easy answers to these very difficult issues.”

POLICE BRIEFS: WEEK OF 10/16 Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Disclaimer: We know this brief is a conflict of interest, but we really didn’t like losing our camera.

On Oct. 4 at 1:30 p.m., a student reported multiple incidents relating to the Tufts Daily.

The first was a report of a missing Nikon D7000 camera that was last seen in May behind the front door of the Daily office. The camera, valued at approximately $500, has yet to be found.

The student also called in about two letters addressed to the Tufts Daily from a group calling themselves the Loyal White Knights of the KKK. In the letter, the group explained that they were not actually a hate group and that previous

media coverage of them was false. It turns out the letters were from a form letter sent to multiple college newspapers.

Wot’n (Federal Bureau of) Investigation A graduate student reported on Oct. 5 at 4:02 p.m. that they had received a suspicious email titled “Job Offer for College Students” offering $4000 for their work services. The email referenced checks, asking the student to keep $400 and forward the rest for supplies to a third party. The checks mentioned would be fake. The FBI was already aware of this job scam in January and put out a PSA about the scam, advising college students to never accept a job that requires check deposits and to forward all such emails to

their college IT department. TUPD notified the FBI of this incident.

Wet Hot Upsilon Summer On Oct. 9 at 2:25 a.m., a resident of the Delta Upsilon house flagged down a TUPD officer to tell them that there was a lot of water in the basement. Inspectors from Somerville were brought in to look and discovered that there was a water main break.

The Somerville electrical inspector turned off the electricity. The residents were told that they could not stay in the building while it was being fixed, but no one accepted alternative housing from Tufts in the meantime.

The problem has since been fixed and the residents have returned.

Campus Center of Attention TUPD was notified of suspicious packages found in the Mayer Campus Center at 1:23 a.m. on Oct. 10. The packages contained books and personal belongings. TUPD was able to determine the identity of the owner and found that the owner had active arrest warrants on counts of previous larceny. The belongings were stored by TUPD and the officers asked that the Campus Center workers notify TUPD when the person returned to get their belongings. TUPD officers arrested him the following day.

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Engineering Student Council promotes Back to the start collaboration, builds community

Kristen Moran Failing Big

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ith the halfway mark of first semester upon us already, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on where I started this journey and to see how much has happened in such a short amount of time. This column is from my application to the Daily in September.

I’m interested in graphic design, marketing and the intersection of the two: advertising. Late last semester, there was a light at the end of the tunnel: a Facebook post in the Tufts 2020 group about a new marketing board being created that needed members. Tufts University Social Collective (TUSC) was looking for students to help advertise their events, like Fall Gala and Spring Fling, as well as to establish a strong brand identity. It seemed too good to be true; I had just taken an ExCollege course on creating brand identity, and the majority of my portfolio pieces at the time were advertisements I had done for my internship the summer before. Truly a match made in heaven, club-wise.

Despite the two tons of rejection I was carrying on my shoulders, I applied, dutifully filling out questions about myself and my schedule (embarrassingly open). After an interview where I’m pretty sure I discussed my dogs more than my designs, I was offered a spot on the team. My failing streak was broken! I could accomplish anything I set my mind to!

Just kidding. While I was beyond thrilled to finally be a part of something larger at Tufts, other rejections continued to roll in. Plus, I still had the social deficits I had allowed my rejections to cause. My anxiety about sophomore year was eased, but only slightly. I knew larger action still had to be taken.

So this is me taking action. This Daily column is the third new thing I have applied for in the past week and a half at Tufts, after a sex health representative position and a job at The Rez, the latter of which is way too cool for me and — though I’m still waiting for the “We’re sorry” email — most likely a failure.

In the upcoming week, applications are due for 180 Degrees Consulting and the Tufts Community Union Senate trustee representatives. Am I ready to be burned again by two organizations that have already turned me down?

Absolutely not. But will I be submitting those applications? Absolutely. As someone with nothing left to lose, putting myself out there can only set me up for success.

So that’s my philosophy for sophomore year. Instead of asking why, I’m asking why not. I’m putting myself in situations that I never saw myself entering, talking to strangers in class and attending (almost) every general interest meeting that comes across my Facebook news feed. And while I expect many, many more failures along the way, I have high hopes for where this year of “Why Not” will take me.

(If you were wondering, no, The Rez did not hire me.)

Kristen Moran is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Kristen can be reached at kristen.moran@tufts.edu.

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The School of Engineering has over 800 undergraduate students across 15 degree programs. But until recently, the umbrella organization that sought to build a closer engineering student community had been inactive.

In 2015, a group of engineering students led by current seniors Ryan Stocking, Sopuruchukwu Ezenwa, Logan Garbarini and Danielle Skufca restarted the Engineering Student Council (ESC). According to the website, the council’s vision is to “facilitate [dialogue] between the students, faculty and administration within the School of Engineering in an effort to enhance the experience of all individuals in the engineering community.”

Stocking, current chair of the ESC, shared that the council was formed to resolve the lack of coordination and community among engineering students and organizations.

“The creation of the council was inspired by the common problems faced by engineers and engineering clubs, such as a lack of funding, a lack of space and most importantly, a lack of organization and communication,” Stocking, an electrical engineering major, said.

According to Ezenwa, the current form of the ESC is not the first attempt at creating a council of this sort at Tufts.

“The organization was originally created in 2010, but it quickly died out around 2013, likely due to a lack of a structure or framework,” Ezenwa, a chemical engineering major, said.

Since its rebirth in 2015, the ESC’s work has been focused on advocacy for club collaboration, engineering education, professional development, dialogue with engineering faculty and administrators and increasing academic opportunities for engineers.

Stocking sees the ESC as playing a role in bringing together engineers across the disciplines who take classes and do research in all corners of the campus.

“The physical infrastructure of Tufts makes it so that individual engineers are found in disparate locations across campus. Some engineers are seen at Halligan, while others are at Anderson or at 574 Boston. These engineers don’t necessarily meet that often, so a dedicated organization like ESC helps bring them together to collaborate,” Stocking said.

Ezenwa shared that through the ESC, clubs can pool together to host events together or collaborate on planning an engineering-related program.

The ESC recently held its annual kickoff barbecue at the patio of the newly opened Science and Engineering Complex (SEC). Garbarini explained that events like the annual barbecue help to further interaction between engineers specializing in different disciplines.

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Three of the leaders of the Tufts Engineering Student Council, Sopuru Ezenwa, Ryan Stocking and Logan Garbarini (from left to right), help organize the barbecue event on Oct 6.

“The events that occur with the ESC help bring mechanical, civil, electrical and biomedical engineers alike together under an umbrella,” Garbarini, an electrical engineering major, said.

Garbarini said that students can also look forward to the annual Engineering Week, or E-Week, held in the spring, where teams from each engineering discipline compete in a week-long series of quizzes and activities that help them bond and interact with their fellow engineering students.

“Though each discipline has its own friendly rivalry, this week is the kind of thing that keeps the ESC and the larger community together, and it reflects the legacy we want to continue,” Garbarini said.

The organization of the ESC also shows the emphasis on internal collaboration. Stocking estimates that nearly 20 of the 23 clubs related to engineering at Tufts are represented on the ESC. In some cases, these representatives are not necessarily heads of the organizations that they represent, Stocking said, showing the ESC’s effort to increase collaboration throughout the community.

Ezenwa agreed that there are no necessary divides in positions, recognition or hierarchy within the ESC and added that the council aims to work with all engineers equally.

Stocking mentioned that the ESC has had a great deal of success in bringing engineers together and dealing with various issues. For instance, Stocking explained that the ESC managed to secure additional funding for the Tufts chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers and the Tufts Society of Latinx Engineers and Scientists on top of the funding they receive from Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate. Stocking added that there has also been greater dialogue with the faculty and administrators of the School of Engineering to increase support for the aca-

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Students at the barbecue in front of the Science and Engineering Complex on Oct 6.

demic and professional development of engineering students.

Stocking and Garbarini both said that this sort of interaction with faculty, who are typically at the school for much longer than students, helps sustain the support that the ESC and its affiliated clubs receive, furthering the legacy of a connected set of engineers at Tufts.

According to Ezenwa, the ESC does not look to the TCU for funding or recognition, but instead works closely with and is funded by the School of Engineering.

Garbarini noted that the ESC differs from other student organizations that are recognized by the TCU Judiciary.

“The TCU does a remarkable job of catering to student life. We however, take care of academic life specific to the engineers,” Garbarini said.

Stocking added that the ESC meets the specific concerns of engineering students.

“We have kept the ESC purposely separated from the TCU specifically because many of the problems faced by engineers are different than those faced by the rest of the students,” Stocking said. “The council helped address these problems efficiently and easily.”

Though the individual organizations represented on the ESC are recognized by the Judiciary, Ezenwa said they look to the ESC for funding, support and connections.

It is through the council, Ezenwa said, that “the inclusive community for all engineering clubs is formed.”

As an umbrella organization for engineering students, the ESC can also reach out to students and faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences to fortify the dynamic and diverse Tufts community.

“Activities like the barbecue, E-Week and various events put out by each club are not only intended for engineers,” Ezenwa said.

“They serve to reach out to the Tufts community at large and display the inclusivity of the organization.”

Garbarini expressed hope that the ESC will continue to create a cohesive community of engineers at Tufts.

“The ESC has built bridges that have brought students closer with faculty and engineers of different disciplines with each other,” Garbarini said. “The hope is that the council and the faculty work to continue fostering an interdisciplinary curriculum, atmosphere and community to keep this connection going well into the future as it has done for the past two years.”

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EXHIBITION REVIEW

‘Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947–2017’ offers a window into an artist’s life

by Seohyun Shim News Editor

Renowned photographer Robert Frank, most well known for his book “The Americans” (1958), is known for not being afraid to reveal the dry, harsh reality of the lives of everyday people, himself included. His photographs capture moments of life in the most realistic way, and unlike his predecessors or contemporaries, Frank daringly reveals a facet of life that is not always beautiful, but bearable with ephemeral moments of joy. The current exhibition “Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947–2017,” the first to display Frank’s work in the context of his life as an artist, echoes the photographer’s ideals and introduces the life of a professional artist into the lives of Tufts students.

Displayed around Tisch Library, the exhibition is impossible to miss for anyone who visits the library. Everyone who enters the building is welcomed by multiple signs describing the ongoing display, and passers-by are invited to grab a copy of the exhibition’s 64-page catalog.

The show features a wide range of Robert Frank’s work, visually exploring the artist’s life as a photographer and filmmaker from his earliest days. The collection includes seven of Frank’s short films directly projected onto a wall, 24 photo books Frank published with Gerhard Steidl hung from the ceiling, and 26 photo sequences, including pages, photographs and scripts from his books and the con-

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‘Robert Frank: Books and Films, 1947-2017’ features Robert Frank’s contact sheets for his book ‘The Americans’ (1958). tact sheets for his book “The Americans,” printed on newsprint sheets.

Much of the exhibition’s beauty comes from the uninhibited and unconventional nature of Frank’s photographs,

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Blade Runner 2049’ is a lesson in how to continue a classic

by Elliott Shin

Contributing Writer

The year is 2049. Los Angeles, a megacity suffering from overpopulation, ecological upheaval and an ever increasing reliance on technology, finds itself confronted with greater issues regarding the android slave laborers, or replicants. Renowned replicant hunter, or blade runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) has vanished.

Shortly after 2019, the Tyrell Corporation dissolved due to replicant insurrection. In its absence, the Wallace Corporation absorbed all remaining research and improved the replicants, instilling in them an unbreakable obedience. Detective K (Ryan Gosling), a Wallace Corporation replicant blade runner tasked with hunting the fugitive Tyrell models, discovers a world-changing secret. As a result, his fate intertwines with Deckard’s.

The concept of a “Blade Runner” sequel can easily cultivate even more despair over Hollywood’s dearth of creativity. Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi film is considered a landmark of the genre. Scott returns as a producer on “2049,” along with original writer Hampton Fancher.

Behind the camera is visionary director Denis Villeneuve of “Sicario” (2015) and “Arrival” (2016) fame. Even with the talent involved, it’s easy to understand why someone would remain skeptical.

Luckily, Villeneuve exceeds expectations and dispels any doubt with “Blade Runner 2049.”

Though he makes plenty of nods to the original film, Villeneuve forges a unique identity, never getting caught in Scott’s shadow. His propensity for blending complex ideas with emotionally grounded storytelling shines in grandiose fashion, complementing and expanding upon the mysteries and themes presented by the preceding film. Judging by his work in “Arrival,” it should come as no surprise how in tune he is with his vision. Working with ideas at a protracted but well-timed pace, as well as offering an original spin on the mythos, he molds “2049” into a more mentally engrossing adventure.

Blade Runner’s most distinguishable characteristics lie in its scintillating visuals and depictions of future Los Angeles as a technologically dystopian, multicultural metropolis dominated by industrialization, looming skyscrapers, overcrowded living spaces and machinery.

Villeneuve takes those aspects to another level, depicting their social consequences and further developing an already ingenious world. He also infuses artificial intelligence (AI) into the narrative, which actually serves a purpose in the story, most notably in furthering Detective K’s character development. see BLADE RUNNER, page 6

and from his ability to narrate in sequences. To be specific, some of his photos don’t make much sense as disparate elements.

Something — whether it be the focus, balance or angle — feels off when viewed

individually. However, when seen together in a larger context, the photographs mesh perfectly, acting like fragments of a well-orchestrated montage. see FRANK, page 6

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Thinkin’ bout boys

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ello world! Today’s column requires some homework before you proceed, and that is watching Charli XCX’s music video “Boys” (2017). Get a cozy bathrobe and all your friends, ‘cause this one’s syrupy. If you need to watch it more than once, that’s totally fine. Same.

If you don’t recognize Charli XCX, you may remember her distinct vocals from her feature on Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” (2012) — or maybe not, since that song title could not be more generic. If you turned on the radio that summer, you likely heard her chanting, “I crashed my car into the bridge / I don’t care, I love it.” Yeah, relatable. Not. Either way, you will definitely recall her subsequent hit with Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” (2014), in which Charli quips about trashing hotels and getting drunk on minibars. Just typing all of that, I feel like I need an Advil. It’s probably for the best that Charli has mellowed out a little bit, which brings me to “Boys.”

In short, Charli calls up a few of her famous male friends (68, to be exact), and strings together a visually stunning montage of cameos, where her “boys” reverse many stereotypical gender roles — well, sort of. In an interview with BBC Radio, Charli describes them as “doing all the sexy things that girls usually do in [music] videos.” She’s got singers, comedians, Vine stars (okay, just Cameron Dallas) and Olympic athletes engaging in girly sleepover pillow fights, blowing bubbles, and laying on blankets of rose petals. Here are my favorites: Joe Jonas: I was always a Nick type of girl, but man do we have some serious pancakes by the ocean here. Strong opening to the video and highlights the importance of eating breakfast.

Charlie Puth: He’s covered in soap, sensually washing a car. After reading some of his Genius annotations, Charlie strikes me as, ahem, a little immature, so I enjoy when they throw a wet sponge at his face.

Khalid: Why are the dogs purple.

Dogs should not be purple. PETA would be horrified. It looks like he’s holding two sad Furbies.

Charli also pokes fun at some classic macho scenes. We have Wiz Khalifa and Ty Dolla $ign raining Monopoly money with Charli’s face on it, Cameron Dallas slinging a chainsaw while literal sparks fly, G-Eazy trying to look tough with a motorcycle, and Jack Antonoff doing bicep curls. Swoon! There is also rose-eating, cake-smashing, and flamingo-pool-toy floating, just to add to the fantasy. D.R.A.M. takes a sledgehammer to some old TVs, and Khalid gets kissed by a few puppies. Actually, there are a lot of puppies. Perhaps an illusion to the Tinder-verse, where every single boy magically has a dog and wants you to know about it. I’m calling shenanigans. All in all, I would have given anything to have been at this video shoot. Alright guys, that’s it for this week. If you would like to share some music with me, throw it on my collaborative playlist!

Nikki Margaretos is a senior majoring in economics. Nikki can be reached at nikoletta.margaretos@tufts.edu.

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continued from page 5 Frank’s photos are also special, according to professor of photography Mike Mandel, for the way they portray how Frank’s personal life affects the way he sees the world.

“He’s kind of intersecting his own personal life with social life and from what I saw [from the exhibition] there is a lot going on here,” Mandel said. “There’s pictures of his family, there’s pictures of what’s going on around the world. He is probably one of the most crucial artists who [has] enabled so many other artists to … use their ways of personally perceiving the world and make pictures in that way.”

Mandel also said that he appreciates the exhibition for reflecting the artist’s philosophy. “[The exhibition is] an interesting bargain that [Steidl] made with Robert Frank to be true to Frank’s ideals of not making

[his] photography into [a] commercialized, precious object and to make something people can still appreciate on [an] aesthetic level because he’s such a good printer and he can make really decent looking prints,” Mandel said.

This notion is also mentioned in one of the statements hung up on the wall. The statement also explains that the prints are destroyed after each installation of the traveling exhibition.

“Conceived by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl, this exhibition shows Frank’s work in photos, books and films in a direct accessible manner. Frank’s images are printed on sheets of newsprint … Each exhibition is to be disposed of after display, thus circumventing the normal cycle of speculation and consumption in the art market,” the statement reads.

Jennifer Burton, professor of practice at the Department of Drama and Dance, spoke on the exhibition’s acces-

sibility and encouraged students to take the time to look at what’s available in their everyday lives.

“This is a tremendous thing that Tisch [Library] is doing to allow the arts to enter our everyday spaces. And [Steidl and his team] have done it in such a way that it’s been printed on this newspaper and printed on these materials that it can be all over the library and not protected,” Burton said. “It’s available. It’s incredibly democratic — this exhibit — in conception. And so taking advantage of that — just taking a few minutes to stop in your life and look [at] what’s being offered can offer [a] tremendous amount in your life.”

The exhibition, sponsored by the Steve Tisch Foundation, Steidl and the Richard Ehrlich Family Foundation, has been open to the public since Oct. 7 after a private opening ceremony, and it will remain on display until Nov. 5.

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“Blade Runner 2049” (2017) is an American science fiction film, directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford.

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continued from page 5 Gosling proves a capable lead, snugly filling in Ford’s shoes and offering a unique protagonist with the seasoned nature of Deckard, combined with a harsh coldness. It seems contradictory, but Fancher’s sharp script and Villeneuve’s passionate direction shape Detective K into an emotionally resonant character.

With each layer of mystery revealed, K displays a tender growth that makes his large scale voyage feel personal. It’s in his interactions with his AI companion, Joi (Ana de Armas), that he exhibits a softer side of someone who’s essentially a government tool.

Gosling and Ford make a formidable pairing and an effective contrast of youth and age. K’s parallels with Deckard make their dynamic an even more interesting watch, even though they don’t share as much time together as one would hope. Deckard doesn’t have much screen time, even though the marketing emphasizes him. Nonetheless, it was a joy to see Ford playing one of his non-Indiana Jones and Han Solo roles once more. Ford’s performance as Deckard in “Blade Runner 2049″ outclasses his last

outing as Han Solo in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015).

On top of unanimously great performances, “Blade Runner 2049” also brandishes a litany of technical marvels. The visuals, guided by impeccable cinematographer Roger Deakins, consistently impress. His color choices (especially the warm yellows and oranges in Wallace headquarters) and slick camera movements never cease to inspire awe and excitement. Any shot can be taken and used as a desktop background or framed as a painting. His work precisely captures the vastness and chaos of the sprawling L.A. metropolis that defines the Blade Runner world. Throw in Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch’s blaring score, and you’re in for a treat.

On top of Deakins’ work, Villeneuve astutely combines practical effects with CGI. He emphasizes the use of real sets, only resorting to computerized effects when absolutely necessary.

There is one especially notable effect that appears near the film’s climax (which the Daily will not specify, due to its importance to the story) that continues the generally divisive trend of

facial recreation in mainstream movies, but for the better, in the story’s context.

The trailers promise an action-packed picture, but the film doesn’t entirely align with the previews. “2049” runs almost three hours, at times at a slow pace, which might not click with everyone. There are a couple, and just a couple, of story-related elements in the film’s latter half that don’t get much development, but they contain spoilers. In short, they felt somewhat hasty and didn’t go far enough for a viewer to care. However, these flaws don’t detract from the overall experience.

Some minute complaints aside, Villeneuve’s take on the Blade Runner mythos is nothing less than astonishing.

His inspired continuation neither blatantly capitalizes on the classic’s fame nor forces references, but rather expands on what made it great in the first place.

“Blade Runner 2049” is what sequels should strive for and will hopefully get Deakins his long overdue Oscar for cinematography.

This film definitely warrants rewatches, and if you haven’t seen it yet, do so now, preferably in IMAX.

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Time for The Fletcher School to reflect on inclusion

by Sasha Lipton Galbraith As the current administration puts forth a plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, we at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy have an opportunity to ask ourselves where we stand regarding students with undocumented status and students with DACA status. To what extent are we inclusive to prospective students who are either living in the United States with temporary protection against deportation or without any documentation at all?

According to the admissions office, no students with undocumented or DACA status have ever enrolled at The Fletcher School. According to administrators, this is not due to an exclusionary policy; in fact, the Fletcher admissions process is open to everyone, regardless of status. The admissions office even provides one-on-one support to students with undocumented or DACA status who call in asking for guidance.

Students with DACA status have applied to Fletcher in the past and been accepted.

However, no students with undocumented or DACA status have ever enrolled. Why have students with undocumented status never enrolled? Is Fletcher doing enough to be inclusive?

The Fletcher School cares about including students with undocumented status.

There is much evidence that Fletcher students, faculty and staff care about the rights of students with undocumented status. First, a handful of Fletcher students participated

in a recent rally at Tufts University to protest the Trump administration’s decision to end DACA, and dozens more current Fletcher students indicated on the Facebook page for the protest that they were “Interested” in the event. Second, Professor Daniel Drezner recently published an op-ed in The Washington Post entitled “Seven ways of looking at Trump’s DACA decision,” which describes the way that the Trump administration intends to end DACA as cruel and exposes that the majority of American voters (58 percent) support DACA. Third, diversity of the student body is important to Fletcher Admissions, and the admissions website states that “The Fletcher School is committed to enrolling a class that reflects the economic and racial diversity of the U.S.” If the Fletcher School cares about students with undocumented status, then this commitment ought to be presented in concrete ways in its enrollment and financial aid policies.

According to a recent Pew study, in 2015 there were 11 million immigrants with undocumented status in the United States.

A rising number of these immigrants have been in the United States for over a decade, and many were childhood arrivals. Of these childhood arrivals, only a fraction (around 800,000) have DACA status. Significant numbers of childhood arrivals are in a difficult situation when they apply for college and graduate school in the United States, as some have precarious DACA status, and others are completely without documentation. The Trump administration intends to end DACA,

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which will make it even harder for students without documentation to pursue higher education.

Many universities have taken action to not only accept students with undocumented and DACA status, but to make enrolling and attending their universities a realistic option. Tufts University, for example, decided in 2015 to accept students with undocumented status and provide them financial aid. As University President Anthony Monaco stated, this decision was “in keeping with Tufts’ long-held values of inclusion and access.” For Tufts to make this change, they needed to do more than change their admissions policies.

They pledged financial aid packages specific to students with DACA and undocumented status, created a working group to encourage campus-wide support and admissions began to actively recruit students with DACA and undocumented status. As a result, Tufts has made great progress towards being a more inclusive university. By contrast, The Fletcher School is still at the stage of simply not having an exclusionary policy — which the numbers show, is not sufficient. If Fletcher students, faculty and staff care about the school being inclusive, actions must be taken to make enrollment realistic for students with DACA and undocumented status.

Next Steps: Discussion: The first step for The Fletcher School is to create opportunities for students, faculty and staff to come together to discuss this issue. These discussions can re-evaluate Fletcher’s commitment to inclusivity, and

consider what it really means to fulfill the commitment to enroll “a class that reflects the economic and racial diversity of the U.S.” Further, these discussions can begin to explore the many blockages that might be preventing students with DACA and undocumented status from enrolling, and brainstorm solutions. (It should be noted that students with DACA and undocumented status from Tufts University and other local graduate schools must be present in these meetings.)

Commitment: The second step for the Fletcher community could be to meet with Tufts University admissions and with the campus group Tufts United for Immigrant Justice, to explore how The Fletcher School can join Tufts University in its commitment to students with DACA and undocumented status.

Action: Following the Tufts model, Fletcher can set up a working group to explore how to build capacity to support students with DACA and undocumented status. The Fletcher administration can look into establishing scholarship funds specifically for domestic students with undocumented status, and the admissions office can make plans for more active outreach and recruitment.

Yours, Sasha Lipton Galbraith Sasha Lipton Galbraith is a dual degree student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Harvard Divinity School. Sasha can be reached at Sasha.

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Shantel Bartolome and Conor Friedmann Bored & Confused

How would time travel work?

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ometimes, I think that having a big, old “rewind” button would make everything better. Hindsight and just one flick of a switch to rewind would seem to solve all my problems and cringe-worthy moments. I’ve also thought of traveling into the future — I want to see new technology and changes, and how society evolved from our current state. Based on the popularity of science fiction franchises such as “Doctor Who” (1963–present) and “Back to the Future,” (1985) we all seem to agree that time travel would be really freakin’ cool. And while time travel has cemented its place in our daydreams and movies, how would time travel actually work?

We first have to examine the concept of time to understand time travel.

Physicist Albert Einstein revealed that time is relative, varying depending on where you are and how fast you are traveling in space. It is the “fourth dimension,” another direction coupled with the three dimensions of space to make the space-time continuum. Einstein hypothesized that you can actually speed up or slow down time — time travel — depending on your speed of motion. So, the faster and closer you get to the speed of light, the more time actually slows down relative to you; you can beat time and thus, time travel.

The main theory on how to outpace the speed of light and jump forward in time is by creating a “wormhole”, a passage between different, far-away places in the space-time continuum that cuts down travel time and distance. Wormholes cheat time by providing shortcuts through not just places but the actual dimension of time. The main problem with wormholes, however, is their lack of stability and the lack of adequate technology to produce our own wormhole.

Scientists have proposed other methods of time travel as well. Scientist Frank Tipler hypothesized accumulating matter 10 times heavier than the sun, then shaping it into a cylinder. Tipler would then spin the cylinder very quickly and send a spaceship to orbit around the cylinder, creating a closed loop that would provide a different speed of time than our current one. Other scientists proposed sending a ship to move very quickly around a black hole, increasing their speed to extreme rates and splitting the rate of time in half. Once the ship left the black hole region, they would have experienced only half the time Earthlings had, and therefore would have skipped ahead into the future.

The final popular method of time travel is a time machine similar to the one in movies. Scientists have claimed that this time machine would be a doughnut-shaped vacuum that would bend space-time to create a closed, time-modeled curve; the faster and more laps taken on this curve, the more a time traveler would move back in time.

Time travel could work in many ways, with the ultimate goal of somehow manipulating Einstein’s proposed space-time continuum. And while we still have a long way to go until we finally discover the exact method of time travel, in the end, we have all the time in the world.

Shantel Bartolome is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Shantel can be reached at natasha.bartolome@tufts. edu. Conor Friedmann is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major. Conor can be reached at conor.friedmann@tufts.edu.

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Jumbos lose ground in NESCAC standings with two conference games remaining FIELD HOCKEY

continued from back Julia Altman, in the 27th minute. Two and a half minutes later, Tufts capitalized on a corner, with junior forward Gigi Tutoni recording her fourth goal of the season off a feed from junior midfielder Claire Trilling. Tufts scored its fifth goal of the first half with just 12 ticks left on the clock, as Travers (three assists) set up Trilling in front of the cage.

The Jumbos continued to dominate in the second half, even as they used the comfortable lead to rest starters and give game experience to their younger players. First-year forward Kassidy Rogers-Healion made an immediate

impact off the bench, scoring her first two goals of the season in the 51st and 57th minutes.

“As an underclassman, you have to make the most out of the [limited] time that you get and just try to make an impact,” Rogers-Healion said.

In all, Tufts registered 48 shots, 30 of which were on goal (for reference, the team took 35 shots in the previous three games combined). Malik led the way with six shots, while sophomore forward Shannon Yogerst (two assists) took five. Meanwhile, the team’s dependable defense of senior co-captain Ellexa Thomas and junior Issy Del Priore was untested for long stretches and didn’t allow a single shot.

“The communication between the three of us and the rest of the defensive unit has definitely improved throughout the season,” Polinski said. “We’re [still] working on things to continue our success.”

Tufts travels to Wellesley College on Thursday for its last non-conference match of the year, before it enters the final week of the regular season, which features important games against No. 10 Williams away on Oct. 21 and No. 17 Bowdoin at home on Oct. 25.

“We need to take it one game at a time,” Mattera said. “I think if we can take care of business in the next couple games, we should be in good shape to host a first-round game [in the NESCAC Tournament].”

After three game weekend, volleyball remains undefeated in NESCAC play VOLLEYBALL

continued from back five blocks against Middlebury, came up big for Tufts in the third set with a number of vital serves and kills. Tufts came out on top in the third (25–21) and fourth sets (25–23) to secure the victory over Middlebury.

Friday’s match was not only significant because the Jumbos faced a tough in-conference rival, but also because it was Senior Night. The team honored senior captain defensive specialist Alexandra Garrett for her four seasons of contributions before the match. The excitement of the evening did not distract the Jumbos from their goal of coming away with a win.

“Senior Night is always exciting, given we are recognizing great team players,” Holz said. “However, we are always focused on the job at hand.”

Looking at the remainder of the season, the Jumbos will play three out-of-conference matches at the upcoming New England Challenge in Williamstown, Mass. before they wrap up their regular season with two NESCAC away matches. Their current in-conference record of 8–0 puts the Jumbos at the top of the NESCAC standings and in a good position with the postseason fast approaching. Despite its stellar record and top-level play all season, Tufts remains humble and focused.

“We continue to take it one day at a time, really living in the present moment,” Holz

said. “We continue to improve as a team as the season progresses.”

Bright echoed a similar sentiment about the importance of staying focused and not thinking too far ahead.

“We have a lot of tough games coming up against awesome teams,” Bright said. “We are really trying to focus on consistency and the energy that we bring to the court. We want to make sure that we are constantly focused.”

Tufts will face the No. 15 MIT Engineers (21–1) on Oct. 20 at the New England Challenge, as well as the Babson Beavers (16–4) and the Springfield Pride (14–7) on Oct. 21. The Tufts-Springfield match will be a rematch of last year’s NCAA Div. III Tournament Regional Final, when the Jumbos beat the Pride in four sets to earn their second-ever berth in the quarterfinals.

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Arlo Moore-Bloom The Equalizer

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Gulati out

know, I know. Last column I promised to focus on Belgium’s early 2000’s domestic soccer revamp.

But last Tuesday night’s loss needs addressing. That fateful night in Couva, Trinidad and Tobago ( T&T) may well be considered the darkest day for U.S. soccer: after qualifying for seven straight World Cups, the U.S. Men’s National Team (USMNT) crashed out of qualifying by losing to one of the worst teams in the world.

It was T&T’s second qualifying win in 10 games; it had lost its last six qualifying matches straight, and all the U.S. needed was a draw to advance. As I’ve written time and time again, the U.S. is in need of a sharp wake-up call, and missing out on a World Cup is about the loudest one you can get.

Immediately after the loss to T&T, U.S. Soccer Federation’s (USSF) president Sunil Gulati was questioned about whether major changes will be implemented after such a devastating loss.

“You don’t make wholesale changes based on the ball being two inches wide,” he said.

But Gulati is missing the point. It’s not that the ball went two inches wide on Clint Dempsey’s shot late in Tuesday night’s game — it’s that those were how close the margins were against a team like T&T. Wholesale changes shouldn’t be made because of a close game not going in our favor, they should be made because the USMNT was never good enough to reach the World Cup. Had the USMNT qualified as the third placed team in a group of six with only three wins, it would be more indicative of the easy qualification process than of the USMNT’s playing ability.

In other countries with any self-respect, Gulati would’ve been pressured to step down already. The USMNT has too many resources and players to fail to qualify for the World Cup, and there is no unifying philosophy or plan that necessitates Gulati staying in charge for a record fourth four-year term. If there were such a long-term plan, it would be different, but there isn’t one. Gulati must give the reigns over to someone who can galvanize a decrepit system.

Take Gulati and Bruce Arena’s disagreement on player development in the U.S., for example. After Arena’s expected resignation on Friday, Arena faulted clubs for not developing players: “Why do people think US Soccer is in charge of player development?”

In another interview that same day with Gulati, the USSF president provided a startlingly different claim: “Our No. 1 priority has always been player development.” The lack of a unifying philosophy between Gulati and Arena illustrates a serious divide at the top of U.S. soccer. And if there is such a disconnect at the top, imagine all the division elsewhere in the country.

Millions of American World Cup dreams were crushed on Tuesday night.

Lost revenue and fewer youth players falling in love with soccer at a tender age are only some of the repercussions.

Hopefully the leaders of U.S. soccer will see the need for a comprehensive overhaul of our domestic game and will begin to pressure for the dismissal of Gulati. Until then, U.S. fans should expect only more heartbreak.

Arlo Moore-Bloom is a first-year who has not yet declared a major. Arlo can be reached at arlo.moore_bloom@tufts.edu.

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Field hockey trounces Gordon, falls to Bates

by Caleb Symons Sports Editor

The No. 5 Jumbos traveled to Lewiston, Maine on Saturday, where they lost 1–0 to a red-hot Bates Bobcats side that got an early goal and hung on down the stretch.

Bates may be the most dangerous team in Div. III right now, having defeated No. 2 Babson, Tufts and No. 6 Amherst in a span of five days. The Bobcats are coached by Danielle Ryder, a former assistant to Tufts coach Tina Mattera.

“She’s doing an excellent job with the program … and building a great culture there,” Mattera said. “The last couple years that we’ve played them, you could see huge improvements in their game” In the 12th minute of the Bates versus Tufts game, Bates junior forward Taylor Lough lofted a pass across the Tufts goalmouth toward junior forward Emma Patterson, who shrugged off a defender and bounced a shot past junior goalkeeper Emily Polinski.

“It was a little bit of an unconventional goal, which I think threw us for a loop,” Mattera said.

Patterson’s second goal of the season was the only one of the day for either side, although both teams had decent chances. In the 33rd minute, Tufts senior midfielder Erin Sanders corralled a loose ball and immediately fired a shot on goal, which Bates junior goalkeeper Adelae Durand turned away. The Bobcats had a chance to add an insurance goal with eight minutes remaining in the contest, but Polinski saved Lough’s effort.

Despite holding advantages in shots (8–6) and corners (6–2), the Jumbos were unable to convert their scoring opportunities, as the Bobcats’ defense repeatedly stymied the visitors. Durand made two saves to preserve the victory for Bates, which had not beaten Tufts since 2002.

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Senior defender Ellexa Thomas keeps the ball from a Middlebury player outside the striking circle in the Homecoming game against the Middlebury Panthers.

“Bates is a really athletic team with a lot of skill,” Polinski said. “Their record doesn’t reflect how skilled they are, and I think they’re one of the best teams in the country. Every team in the NESCAC is competitive, whether they’re [in] first place or last place.”

The loss was the Jumbos’ second to a NESCAC opponent in as many weeks, as they also dropped a contest 3–2 to then-No. 6 Middlebury on Oct. 7. After being on top of the NESCAC standings throughout the first half of the season, Tufts (8–4, 6–2 NESCAC) ceded its spot

to Middlebury (11–2, 7–1 NESCAC) and now sits in a tie with Williams (10–2, 6–2 NESCAC) for second place.

The Wednesday before being shut out against Bates, Tufts’ firepower was on display in a 7–0 rout of Gordon College.

“We knew that Gordon was struggling this season, but we talked about how we, as a team, can play better hockey,” Mattera said. “I think the girls came out hard and ready to play. We put a lot of pressure on them early.”

Junior forward Hanaa Malik scored the Jumbos’ quickest goal of the season, less than four minutes after the opening whis-

tle. The Summit, N.J. native struck again in the 10th minute, tipping in a long-distance shot by senior midfielder Celia Lewis, to spot the hosts an early 2–0 lead.

“Our gameplan is [always] to respect every team on our schedule,” Polinski said. “[Scoring early] sets the tone for the game and gives us a confidence boost.”

The Jumbos showed no signs of easing up, as Lewis took a pass from senior forward Mary Travers and rifled a shot past the Fighting Scots sophomore goalkeeper, see FIELD HOCKEY, page 11

VOLLEYBALL

With Senior Night win over Middlebury, Tufts volleyball remains atop conference

by Delaney Tantillo Staff Writer

Tufts volleyball (15–5) faced a jampacked weekend, playing a home match on Friday night followed by two away matches on Saturday. The Jumbos held their own by finishing the weekend 2–1, with their one loss coming in a five-set match.

On Saturday, the team traveled to Endicott College in Beverly, Mass., where they faced the Worcester Polytech Institute ( WPI) Engineers (8–14) and the Endicott Gulls (14–9) in back-to-back matches.

The Gulls handed the Jumbos their fifth loss this season in an intense fiveset match. The Jumbos faced a daunting 0–2 deficit after losing the first two sets 25–21 and 25–16, respectively. Tufts staged a comeback in the third and fourth sets, edging out Endicott 25–23 and 28–26.

Ultimately, the Jumbos’ efforts fell short, as they were defeated by Endicott in the tie-breaking final set by a score of 15–8.

Sophomore middle blocker Christina Nwankpa had one of her best performances of the season against the Gulls, as she led the Jumbos with an impressive 12 kills and five blocks to keep them in the contest for all five sets.

Junior outside hitter Mackenzie Bright believes the Jumbos’ struggles against the Gulls were a result of difficulty adjusting to their opponent’s style of play.

“Endicott definitely knocked us back on our heels for the first couple of games,” Bright said. “We had trouble adjusting to what they were doing. They are a really tough team to play and had a fantastic game.”

Earlier, Tufts faced WPI in the first match of the day. The Jumbos dominated from the opening serve as they defeated the Engineers in straight sets: 25–17, 25–22 and 25–11.

Tufts dominated all aspects of the match. The team boasted strong serving throughout the contest, recording twice as many aces (12) as WPI did (six).

Four of the Jumbos’ aces came from sophomore outside hitter Rachel Furash.

Twelve kills and four blocks from sophomore middle blocker Heather Holz were also a major factor in the Jumbos’ success against the Engineers.

“Our middles in particular did a fantastic job of finding spots to put the ball down,” Bright said. “They did really well constantly adjusting to the block.”

Saturday’s double header followed Tufts’ home victory over the Middlebury Panthers (14–5) in four sets

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Junior setter Angelu Yu fires a serve in the match against UMass Boston on Sept. 26. on Friday evening. The Panthers had only lost one NESCAC match going into Friday, making this one of the toughest matchups the Jumbos had seen yet this season.

“Heading into the Middlebury match, the expectations were primarily the same as any other match,” Holz said, adding that, “we need to always make sure that we are going into it with 100 percent focus.”

After winning the first set 25–19, the Jumbos were unable to overcome an early Panther lead in the second set. With Middlebury’s 25–15 capture of the second frame, the score stood at 1–1.

Sophomore opposite hitter Maddie Stewart, who recorded 11 kills and see VOLLEYBALL, page 11