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Following Somerville, Medford City Council files home rule petition, requesting Tufts’ master plans

by Elie Levine and Alexander Thompson News Editors

The Medford City Council passed a home rule charter petition Sept. 5 that, if passed by the Massachusetts state legislature, would ensure that Tufts and other nonprofits provide the city with institutional master plans. The home rule petition was filed in the Massachusetts state legislature the same day by State Rep. Christine Barber.

Under a Massachusetts law, cities cannot require nonprofits, such as educational institutions, hospitals and religious institutions, to provide an institutional master plan. The same law limits the zoning power cities hold over such institutions.

The law, known as the Dover Amendment, allowed Tufts to easily expand its student housing through Community Housing (CoHo), which was previously owned by Tufts’ real estate arm Walnut Hill Properties and had served as housing for faculty and staff. The Medford Zoning Board approved this development last year; community members and lawmakers were frustrated by the lack of communication from Tufts.

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Medford City Hall is pictured on Sept. 16.

The home rule petition would exempt Medford from the Dover Amendment and allow Medford to require an institutional master plan and impose zoning restrictions as needed.

“The City of Medford is hereby authorized to adopt local legislation imposing institutional master plan review to regu-

At June Trustee meeting, administration optimistic about finances, diversity

by Alexander Thompson News Editor

The Board of Trustees held their last meeting of the 2018–19 academic year during Commencement weekend inMay. The Trustees heard presentations from the university administration on the institution’s financial outlook and its efforts to promote diversity, according to a June 25 message from University President Anthony Monaco.

In a statement provided to the Daily by Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins, Peter R. Dolan (A’78), the chair of the Board of Trustees, expressed confidence about the state of Tufts’ finances. Dolan pointed to Tufts’ rating by the global credit scoring company Moody’s as evidence of its healthy financial state.

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“The university has had a long history of effective financial management, as evidenced by our strong Moody’s rating, which is affirmed annually,” Dolan said.

According to Moody’s website, Tufts maintains a healthy Aa2 credit rating, the third highest rating available, on its $34 million 2018 bond issue and $719 million debt.

“We’ve been vigilant about managing our finances responsibly, and we’re confident in our direction,” Dolan said.

Tufts’ Treasurer and Vice President for Finance Thomas McGurty told the Daily in a statement that revenue increased 4.5% in the last fiscal year ending in June 2019, giving the university around $2.4 billion in revenue, according to its latest tax filings. see TRUSTEES, page 3

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late the use of land or structures for land owned, leased or otherwise occupied by hospitals, health care institutions, colleges, universities, and non-profit educational corporations,” the bill reads.

Somerville passed a similar home rule petition that has now been refiled in the state house by Barber for the third time

this spring, after failing to reach a floor vote in the previous two sessions.

Barber said that both petitions are essential to improving the relationships between Tufts and its host cities.

“Having both pending before the Legislature underscores the importance of such action, and shows that institutional master planning is important to multiple cities that house large institutions,” Barber told the Daily in an email.

“Hopefully we can get it passed by the state house with both Cities working on it!” Breanna Lungo-Koehn, vice president of the Medford City Council, told the Daily in an email.

In an email to the Daily, Patrick Collins, Tufts’ executive director of public relations, explained that while the potential of exemption from the Dover Amendment has prompted Tufts to examine its land use more thoughtfully, the proposal presents a challenge to campus planning.

“The Dover Amendment seeks to find a balance between preventing discrimination against educational uses while honoring local municipal zoning laws,” see HOME RULE, page 2

Marvin Casasola appointed new director of Latino Center

by Alejandra Carrillo News Editor

Marvin Casasola, who previously served as university relations and campus outreach manager at Boston University’s (BU) Study Abroad Office, has been selected as the new director of the Latino Center, according to a Sept. 3 email from Student Life. Casasola assumed his role over the summer.

The Latino Center serves the Latinx community at Tufts by acting as a space and resource for students to share their experiences as well as demonstrate their support and appreciation of Latinx identities, according to its website. Casasola’s arrival follows the departure of Julián Cancino in January.

During his time at BU, Casasola organized events as part of the Study Abroad

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Office and was senior international students and scholars coordinator. This position involved instructing students and faculty on immigration policies and procedures, according to the email.

Casasola spoke to the Daily about his transition, and expressed that his priority as director of the Latino Center will be serving his new community.

“I had never been on Tufts’ campus before, so it was a new experience for me and a new challenge for me, which I was very excited about,” he said. “My main focus has been the students, because I not only represent the Center but the students that come into the Center.”

Throughout the summer, Casasola connected with alumni to learn more about the Center. He indicated that by

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continued from page 1 doing so, he gained new perspectives of the Center’s history and the different identities it fosters.

“I felt I could add value regardless of what has happened in the history … I know there’s a lot of rich history since [the Center] was created in 1983 and officially started in 1993,” Casasola said. “I think that says a lot about Tufts and what the university wants to offer to our community and Latinx population.”

Casasola emphasized that all are welcome and represented in the Latino Center.

“You’re going to be welcomed here no matter what … even for people that feel that they want to learn more about the Latinx culture or they want to brush up on their Spanish skills or even Portuguese skills. They’re all welcomed,” Casasola said.

He said that students have already shared with him the improvements they would like the Latino Center to make this year, adding that his main goal is to reach all students and create a space for the Latinx community and students interested in celebrating Latinx culture.

“Our community should be able to take part in the celebration of our differences and be able to learn from who we are as a people,” Casasola stated.

Oliver Martinez Lopez has been involved in the Latinx community at Tufts and hopes to participate in events hosted by the Latino Center and Casasola.

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Martinez Lopez, now a sophomore, served as first-year representative for the Association of Latin American Students (ALAS), a club that focuses on fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment for Latinx students on campus.

“First year, I was trying to get to know the community … I was more involved with ALAS and other Latinx clubs, not so much the Latino Center,” he said.

This year, Martinez Lopez is a Latino peer leader with the Latino Center and mentors 12 first-years. “[Casasola is] very supportive of any concerns or issues that may come up … he tries to bridge the gap between the Latino Center and other student organizations,” he said.

Martinez Lopez also noted that the Center is planning several events for National Hispanic Heritage Month, which is a period from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

Jocelyn Arroyo spoke to the Daily about her involvement with the Latino Center and excitement at Casasola’s arrival. Like Martinez Lopez, though she was not heavily involved with the Center during her first year at Tufts, she seeks to change that this year.

“I wasn’t heavily involved last year, but I’m going to try to go to more events and join ALAS,” Arroyo, a sophomore, said.

Arroyo noted that she first met Casasola over the summer as a Bridge to Liberal Arts Success at Tufts peer leader and FIRST Resource Center intern.

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“He immediately feels like someone you’ve already met before … super kind and open to everyone in the space. You don’t have to be Latinx in order to feel welcome,” she stated.

Arroyo explained that Casasola is open to new programming and finding different ways to make the Latino Center better.

“He has a genuine interest in understanding what the Tufts campus is and the history of the Latino Center,” she said.

Tufts’ host communities examine 10-year development plan HOME RULE

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continued from page 1 Collins said. “Any new project that the University proposes must go through a rigorous review by the building department, elected officials and our neighbors.

For these reasons, Tufts University opposes any proposal like this home rule petition which would weaken our ability to make sound campus planning decisions to carry out our mission.”

Richard Doherty, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM), Tufts’ lobbying group on Beacon Hill, concurred with Collins in a statement, arguing that an exemption would threaten the academic and religious freedom of private colleges and put them at the mercy of local zoning politics.

“AICUM supports the fundamental protections and balancing of interests that the Dover Amendment is designed to provide because it allows for both appropriate long-range campus planning and reasonable zoning regulations,” he said. “Introducing the unpredictability of a special permitting process to colleges and universities, as well as hospitals and health care institutions, would undermine that opportunity for sound campus planning.”

Erin DiBenedetto, a Medford School Committee member and longtime resident of the Hillside neighborhood whose daughter attended Tufts, believes the university’s lack of transparency about its planning decisions harms its host communities. DiBenedetto criticized the university’s expansion into Medford, referring to CoHo as the “Capen Creep” down the hillside.

“Tufts is creeping down the hill, taking two-family houses and converting them into dormitories,” she said. “If they were really transparent with the community, we wouldn’t feel like we have to watch everything they’re doing.”

Despite the positive attitudes of Medford’s elected officials, Somerville’s experience trying to pass its own measure in the state house gives little hope.

Somerville City Council President Katjana Ballantyne, who represents Ward 7 in the southwest of Tufts, said she has seen little development on the home rule petition.

“Five years ago, I proposed an institutional master plan requirement. It is the tool that a municipality has that allows us to have a conversation, a pre-planning conversation,” Ballantyne said. “What does the university anticipate that it will be doing? And I will say … we’re not any further on that.”

Ballantyne explained that of Somerville’s major developers, Tufts wields the most influence yet communicates with the city the least.

That influence has been felt nowhere more than on the issue of master plans.

A Daily investigation last spring revealed that under University President Anthony Monaco’s direction, Tufts’ lobbyists played an important role in killing the last version of Somerville’s home rule petition in the Bills on Third Reading Committee of the state legislature.

Ballantyne said that the master plan’s requirement would bring a small measure of accountability to Tufts — the same accountability to which for-profit developers are already held.

“The for-profit developers are required to go through a community process to talk about what their future plans are so that we can anticipate what the impacts are on our community,” she said. “In the west here, we have no opportunity to have that five-year, 10-year look on what the university wants to do in order to anticipate what kind of impact they will have on our community.”

In Medford, residents and administrators tend to look to Somerville when

deciding what the city needs from Tufts, DiBenedetto explained.

“Medford’s attitude has typically been, ‘We’ll see what Somerville gets and we’ll get the same thing.’ That’s not proactive for Medford,” she said. “We want a 10-year plan for Medford. It’s not going to be the same 10-year plan for development in both cities.”

Housing remains a concern for residents of both Medford and Somerville.

Lungo-Koehn said she was worried about Tufts’ enrollment increasing faster than its capacity to house students. Ballantyne echoed this concern.

“When I first started in my position as an elected official, I would meet with students occasionally, and … the number one thing they would always bring up is housing. In particular, it really started to erupt three years ago,” Ballantyne said. “Students were coming to me and saying how much they were impacted by the fact that they have to plan two years in advance to figure out what their housing is. The cost increase of living in Somerville is impacting them and absentee landlords [are] an issue.”

DiBenedetto stressed that the strength of the relationship between Tufts and its host communities depends on a commitment to cooperation from both parties.

“I believe Tufts wants to be a good neighbor, and we just need to tell them what we think a good neighbor looks like,” DiBenedetto said.

Likewise, Barber stressed that Tufts should be willing to work together with Somerville and Medford as its plans for development progress.

“Institutions play a key role in the cities where they are located—they bring many benefits and can pose some challenges. It is important that the relationships between the institution and the city are collaborative, especially as it relates to planning,” she said.

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Board meeting highlights capital projects, new diversity efforts TRUSTEES

continued from page 1 McGurty said that enrollment goals, which the Daily reported in February are about 100 more students per academic year until 2020– 21, are also being met, improving cash flow in the university while also hitting its targets for investment returns and the current capital campaign, Brighter World.

This is a far cry from a decade ago, when the university, reeling from the dual blows of the 2008 recession and its losses in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, faced $36 million in budget cuts.

Nonetheless, the university still has to navigate difficult financial seas ahead.

McGurty said that trends in higher education, such as the declining number of high school graduates, low retention of faculty and staff and high healthcare costs consistently outstripping inflation, are negatively impacting finances. Monaco expressed similar concerns in his report on the meeting.

In terms of enrollment, McGurty pointed to the more than 22,000 applications that Tufts received for the Class of 2023 and said that Tufts is operating within its financial aid budget in contrast to other liberal arts schools

which have had to attract students with steep tuition markdowns.

The new collective bargaining agreement signed with UNITE HERE Local 26, which represents the dining workers, included new provisions which will increase healthcare costs for the university. Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Jim Glaser even cited the agreement when justifying the tuition rise last spring.

However, McGurty again asserted that Tufts is managing the impact.

Still, the university’s operating surplus remains around 1% of the total budget, which, according to McGurty, ideally would be around 3%. McGurty said this threshold would provide Tufts with a buffer to deal with market shocks like a recession and reinvest in long-term projects.

In his report on the meeting, Monaco gave what may lie at the root of the university’s problem with financial margins: Costs are rising faster than revenue for most of Tufts’ constituent schools.

Nonetheless, McGurty is confident the university will be able to turn that around too.

Key to the administration’s response is the newly-created University College, which will offer courses and programs to non-traditional students.

“An important part of our vision and mission at Tufts is making education accessible, and these efforts — in addition to generating revenue — will make courses at Tufts more accessible to more people, such as a mid-career professional or a high school student interested in a summer course,” McGurty said.

Also important to the university’s financial strategy going forward is the Joyce Cummings Center, currently under construction near the intersection of Boston Avenue and College Avenue, McGurty explained.

McGurty said that the building’s location adjacent to the new Green Line stop will make it ideal for working adults and non-traditional students who commute, allowing The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy to expand its executive education programs and facilitate large revenue-generating conferences.

The other primary focus of the Board’s May meeting was a presentation by Joyce Sackey, associate provost and chief diversity officer for the health sciences schools, on the university’s efforts to increase diversity.

According to Sackey, each school will now name a new associate dean for diversity and inclusion. All the diversity deans will then form a cabinet co-chaired by Sackey and Rob Mack, associate provost and chief diversity

officer for Medford/Somerville and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, which will coordinate their approaches university.

Sackey explained that this new structure sprang from the results of a diversity and inclusion audit conducted during the last academic year, which highlighted the need for greater coordination across all campuses.

The Board’s 11 committees also met this past May, with a non-voting student trustee representative, Connor Goggins, attending the open-session portion of the Administration and Finance Committee. Goggins, a junior, said that his committee focused on the Cummings Center’s construction progress and the fate of fraternity houses recently purchased by the university.

The Trustees also marked the departures of several high-ranking women in the Tufts administration that were previously announced, including former Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell, former Dean of Admissions and Enrollment Management Karen Richardson, former Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon, former Senior Vice President and Provost ad interim Deborah Kochevar and former Vice Provost for Research Simin Meydani.

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Animal groups at Tufts provide students with study breaks, emotional support

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Cotton poses for a photo with senior Madison Clay on April 19, 2018.

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During stressful periods of the semester, seeing a dog in Tisch Library may light up the day for students cramming inside. While events featuring dogs and other animals happen on campus a handful of times throughout the year, the desire for more consistent pet contact has prompted many students to search out animal interaction in other ways.

Tufts provides several resources and programs centered around human-animal interaction, which are designed to help students enjoy their college experience. Animal Aid is a subgroup of the Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) at Tufts and coordinates with Medford and Somerville residents to provide dog walking services. Madison Clay, a senior at Tufts, began walking her neighbor’s dog during the second semester of her sophomore year after finding the gig with the help of her volleyball coach.

Having had experience taking care of her sister’s dog, Clay craved pet interaction at college.

“I treat my sister’s dog like my own,” Clay said. “I have a key to her house, so during the summer I go by her house and steal her dog for runs while she’s at work. I miss him! I wish dogs understood FaceTime.”

For Clay, dog walking has turned into a weekly opportunity to destress.

“My mood is definitely better during and after dog walks,” Clay said.

It’s no surprise that Clay’s weekly dog walks have a positive effect on her mood. Dr. Megan Mueller, an assistant professor at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts who specializes in human-animal interaction, stated that pets can provide invaluable emotional support.

“Many of us rely on our pets for comfort, especially during times of stress,” Mueller told the Daily in an email.

While Clay has found her perfect fit through dog walking once a week, many other students look for even more immersive ways to interact with animals. Tufts offers three different programs: Service Animals, Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT ) and Animal Assisted Interaction (AAI).

Under Tufts policy, service animals can be a dog or miniature horse that is trained to assist a student with a disability of any kind. Students are not required to register service animals with Student Accessibility Services. However, it is strongly recommended.

“While pets are wonderful, they are also certainly a responsibility and require care that can vary by species, a goldfish is different than a horse,” Mueller wrote. “Especially in college, where students may be living in close proximity and small spaces, it’s important to keep in mind your own schedule

and space to figure out what type of animal would be best for you and feasible in your life.”

Should a student be unable to commit to or support a service animal, there are still other ways to receive quality pet time. Some counselors at Counseling and Mental Health Services (CMHS) use their own dogs in therapy appointments to assist in the session. Tufts also has a certified therapy dog named Angel with whom students can schedule a free fifteen-minute appointment.

The third type of animal-based program Tufts offers is AAI. Handlers and their dogs fill the Tisch lobby, the Academic Quad or other popular hangouts for students to pet, play and destress. These events are coordinated by the Director of Health Promotion and Prevention Ian Wong.

“We know that the blood pressure and heart rate of people being with animals drops. What I think is when you see the dogs, you calm down, and then what seemed like an impossible thing to learn doesn’t seem impossible anymore,” said Wong. “If I took a 3-foot by 3-foot board and put it on the ground and told you to jump on it, you could do it. But if I take that board and raise it higher, 20, 30, 40, 50 feet, could you do it? No. I didn’t make the board smaller, but you’re looking off the sides thinking you’re going to fall. So with animal-assisted interactions, we try to bring you back down.”

Wong works with the Tufts Paws for People, which is a non-profit organization through the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts that finds volunteers willing to support AAI events like the ones organized at school.

“We know from the data that the impact from the dogs lasts about 24 to 36 hours.

Really, how do we strategically use them knowing finals are coming, midterms are coming, to say you need to relax now, and then let’s go back to studying,” Wong said.

Though many students would love to see service animal events hosted more often, Wong explained why the program chooses to focus on especially stressful times.

“We are concerned with our students as much as we are concerned with the dogs, or any other pets that come in,” Wong said. “A lot of students and student groups want to have dogs, but again, we don’t have that many dogs and they’d be worn out if it were everyday.”

While any type of human-animal interaction can be an addition to therapy, Wong says there is still more work to be done on the mindfulness front. The animal contact is a stepping stone to a greater state of self-awareness.

“The dogs, the therapy animals, are just one part of this,” Wong said. “So you might see our Kuru mindfulness projects and all these other things out there. Let’s also teach [students] how to meditate, let’s teach some mindfulness pieces.”

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ooking and eating food can often evoke memories. For senior Nimish Adhikiari, lightly frying paneer and sautéing onions, bell peppers and tomatoes remind him of his younger brother. Each dish prepared for us was one of his family member’s favorites, he and his mom sharing their love for daikon and his dad preferring the channa dal. His mom is not the type to give out recipes. When Nimish asked, in preparation for this column, she said, “just cook it.”

In Nepal, Nimish explained, they don’t have specific names for dishes. For example, if one were to say they were eating carbonara, we may already know that is some egg, cheese and pork cooked with the heat of the freshly boiled pasta. If somebody were to ask what Nimish and his mom’s favorite dish is, he would say daikon. If they wanted to recreate the delicious flavors and textures, one must start a conversation and further inquire about the preparation, which starts with slight charring of the sliced onions and daikon. As Nimish added tomato and cumin, the white crisp and peppery radish transformed into something so wonderfully tender and spicy.

This was the first meal Nimish’s mom taught him to cook, the first meal she cooks whenever Nimish returns home, and the first meal they ever ate together as a family, right before he left for boarding school. Before then, Nimish’s home was always full with eight to ten people who would join them for dinner time.

While the daikon made our mouths water, Nimish proclaims it was always his and his mom’s worst dish. He instead raved about how his neighbor, who was like a grandma, would always invite him over for a meal of daikon when he returned home.

We also feasted upon channa dal prepared in a pressure cooker, which had traveled over 7,000 miles from Nimish’s home. He told us that dal is a ubiquitous word that encompasses everything from beans to peas to lentils cooked into a consistency ranging from soup to paste. The dal we ate that evening was made from pressure cooking split chickpeas and turmeric in some water. It was soupy, just like Nimish’s dad prefers.

The magic of the meal was from toasting coriander, clove and dried chili in ghee with some onion and tomato. If we were to add the spices as the chickpeas cooked, Nimish explained, the flavors would have been diluted. This method allows them to develop, bringing them to the tip of our tongue.

All three dishes were served with rice, presented in the traditional style. This consists of a neat mound of rice in the middle that is topped with dal and surrounded by the daikon and paneer.

While dishes in Nepal go unnamed, Nimish calls the fried paneer dish “Tigris Paneer,” in reference to his brother’s birth name which he feels is cooler than his own.

He also named this column. Thanks, Nimish!

Alice Yoon is a senior studying chemistry. Alice can be reached at alice.yoon@ tufts.edu. Madeleine Schwartz is a senior studying computer science and political science. Madeleine can be reached at madeleine.schwartz@tufts.edu.

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‘Crossing Lines’ explores power, limitations of contemporary art in documenting history

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On Sept. 6, “Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art” (“Crossing Lines”) opened at the Harvard Art Museums. Of the 40+ artworks in the exhibition, only one does not belong to the Harvard Art Museums’ permanent collection. Despite the limited institutional origin of its artworks, the exhibition impressively approaches the cause and significance of migration from both the political and personal perspectives, and represents subjects from wide-ranging cultures in diverse artistic media.

Bosco Sodi’s “Muro” (2017) channels compassion through an increasingly divided society. The artwork, as presented at the exhibition, is a brick cube; it records an interactive performance that Sodi launched in New York in September 2017. In Washington Square Park, Sodi built a brick wall and invited passers-by to take it down. The project is a product of international exchange: The bricks were made by Oaxacan craftspeople, assembled and given meaning

by Sodi and deconstructed by viewers in New York. The breakdown of the wall suggests that the confluence of global labor and minds should bring unity, not polarization and hatred. This perspective directly counters the populist accusation of international trade as the culprit of domestic unemployment in

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Bosco Sodi’s ‘Muro’ (2017) is pictured in the Harvard Gallery on Sept. 14. the U.S., as well as the exploitation of globalization as a platform for nativism.

“Hub, Ground Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7SB” (Do Ho Suh, 2016) upholds the importance of memories, and especially so for migrants. Still, it recognizes them as artificial representations of the past.

The sculpture is a recreation of a segment of a basement corridor from Suh’s former home using polyester fabric and stainless steel pipes. The fabric assumes a dusty, nostalgic yellow, augmenting

the backstory in the artwork’s title in framing the sculpture as Suh’s memory of his old home. The evanescent and illusory texture of the sculpture alludes to memories’ inauthenticity. The fabric of the sculpture is thin and porous, like a screen, and the two ends of the “corridor” are open.

Therefore, when standing inside the sculpture, viewers are also fully present in the world outside, enveloped in conversations, gallery lights and moving silhouettes. The dislocating experience in

the sculpture symbolically suggests that memory is a compromised recreation of the past that is constantly invaded and reshaped by the present. The superficiality of memories is further illustrated by the “mold-like” structure of the sculpture. Suh uses a two-dimensional medium, fabric, to recreate a three-dimensional structure. Therefore, the sculpture’s internal projections are indentations externally, meaning that the sculpture only restores the appearance of the space in Suh’s memory, not its substance, like the shadows on the wall of Plato’s allegorical cave.

Suh’s sculpture speaks to the irrecoverable loss of home upon moving.

However, it also endorses maintaining memories, despite their inevitable limitations, as a necessary practice. The artwork stands right in the middle of its gallery space; its architectural structure allows it to claim more space and attention than its photography — or installation-based neighbors. This assertive stature of the sculpture from its inherent anatomy and curatorial organization portrays memories as needing constant attention and revisits from the present.

Indeed, as imperfect as they are, memories constitute the most accessible portal to the remnants of the past — the cornerstone of our identities.

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THE TUFTS DAILY | Arts & Living | Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Devina Bhalla Bhallin’ with Books

Mourning Morrison through respect

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Read anything, as long as you can’t wait to pick it up again.” Nick Hornby, “Ten Years in the Tub” (2013).

Classes and homework come around and, like clockwork, I forget every book I was itching to read by Sept. 1. My 2019 school year resolution is to stop this from happening.

There are way too many good books to only read for pleasure during the summer. So, my sophomore year brings my commitment to reading.

As if finding time to read for pleasure wasn’t difficult enough, I have led myself into a difficult predicament of being accountable to the Tufts Daily for consistently reading. Though this might conflict with the idea of ‘for pleasure,’ I will nonetheless attempt to share the positive, non-academic reading endeavors I embark on.

A little over a month ago, I realized the unfortunate reality that most of us will face at some point: not appreciating someone before they are gone. Toni Morrison’s expansive list of world-altering books should have brought me to her sooner. Sadly, it took her death to get me to pick up “Beloved” (1987).

Surely not defined as a ‘beach’ or generic ‘summer’ read, I grabbed some comfort food and a box of tissues, preparing myself for the worst heartache possible.

“Beloved” is based on the true story of a slave mother, Margaret Garner, who escaped from a plantation in 1856 with her children and husband. However, their owners caught up with the family while they were hiding in Ohio. Sethe is an embodiment of Garner and a passionate and devoted mother. The story is disclosed through flashbacks, slowly revealing the shocking narrative and enduring impact of slavery.

What Morrison does with “Beloved” that so many before have commented on is to gorgeously and poetically show the tragic reality of slave mothers. She reveals their constant ambivalence between wanting life and wanting anything but life as a slave for their children.

Morrison delicately pulls out each piece of a former slave mother’s heart and relationships, creating a discussion around a reality often clumped into the overall umbrella of slavery.

Starting eighteen years after her escape, Sethe is technically free from bondage but continues to be haunted by memories of her former slave home and the ghost of her baby daughter who died nameless. Her baby’s gravestone bears only one word: Beloved.

It is dark. It is powerful. It forces you out of your comfort zone, causing you to understand and sympathize with a fierce and confused mother. Defying realism, it is still mournfully real.

With so many people already having read this book, people often give it a nod of approval and move on to one of the many other must-reads they haven’t read yet. However, the commentary that Morrison is still able to have in 2019 is both baffling and poignant.

Her former slave narrative pulls out the current social dichotomies and difficulties that so many African American mothers are put through on a daily basis.

Sometimes, classic books that are often assigned in school fail to be appreciated with the thought and respect they deserve. Reading “Beloved” purely out of choice was both rewarding and heartbreaking.

I always feel as though if a book doesn’t spark enough emotion (of any type, not simply sadness) to make you feel like crying, then perhaps it isn’t doing its job. Morrison was a craftsman and truly knew her trade.

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

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FILM REVIEW

‘Tall Girl’ comes up short

by Brigid Bell

Contributing Writer

When I first heard about “Tall Girl” (2019), my initial thoughts were actually pretty positive. As someone who has always been tall, I’m well aware of the disadvantages to towering over peers. Then after watching just the first few minutes of this movie, I wanted to simultaneously chuck my television out the window and gouge my own eyeballs out.

In short, “Tall Girl” is a new Netflix original movie whose story centers around Jodi (Ava Michelle), a blonde 16-year-old girl whose life is perfect, except she’s 6 foot 1. She’s beautiful, intelligent and has supportive friends and family, but is taunted for her tall stature and thinks of herself as a freak of nature. Through a series of events and a crush on a Swedish exchange student, Jodi discovers that she’s more than just her height.

The premise of “Tall Girl” as a movie is absolutely ridiculous. I’m tall. I watched this movie with a literal team of tall girls.

Each of us found this movie equally cringeworthy. Because here’s the thing: 6 foot 1 just isn’t that tall. If Jodi were 6 foot 4, then I could begin to understand how a scenario like the one in the movie could realistically present itself.

Normally, I have no qualms about suspending reality in order to enjoy a good old-fashioned romantic comedy, but the plot of this movie was so unoriginal and underdeveloped that suspending reality wasn’t enough to redeem it. While I appreciate that “Tall Girl”’s plot-line harkens back to the heyday of classic teen comingof-age movies, I don’t think John Hughes would approve. The character development was shallow and painfully obvious. The plot-line almost directly follows Hughes’ “Pretty in Pink” (1986), complete with Jodi’s best friend Jack Dunkleman (Griffin Gluck), the modern version of Duckie, with his quirky demeanor and funky style.

While “Tall Girl” missed the mark more than it hit, it did have some redeeming qualities. Like some of Netflix’s more successful studio movies, “Tall Girl” was scored aptly and the music ended up doing much of the emotional and contextual legwork in places where the script and acting lacked. The cinematography was reminiscent of the more popular Netflix original movie “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”’s (2018) chromatic colors and blunt camera angles.

The one relatable plot line for all tall girls out in the world was Jodi’s struggle to find shoes that fit. But while any

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A promotional poster for ‘Tall Girl’ (2019) is pictured. woman over a size 10 can tell you that it becomes difficult to buy cute kicks after a certain size, a woman who stands at 6 foot 1 doesn’t usually wear a men’s size 13 shoe.

All in all, it seems to me that this movie wasn’t made by tall people. There are multiple holes in the plot that could have been avoided with just some expert advice from someone who actually has experience being asked, “How’s the weather up there?”

The exaggerations are understandably for dramatic effect, but “Tall Girl” takes the exaggerations to a point where they are no longer plausible.

This movie is just the latest installment of disappointing, cringeworthy Netflix

original teen movies. “Sierra Burgess is a Loser” (2018), “Swiped” (2018), “The Kissing Booth” (2018) and now “Tall Girl” all seem to have come out of the same movie-making factory where little thought goes into character development or script drafting.

If you enjoy incredibly cheesy movies with unrealistic plot lines or just really loved “Pretty in Pink,” then “Tall Girl” might be the movie for you. Otherwise, it’s not worth your time.

Being tall rocks, and “Tall Girl” makes it out to be an issue that Jodi has to grapple with in order to accept herself. But you know who can reach the top shelf at the grocery store? Jodi can.

Harvard Art Museums’ ‘Crossing Lines’ features diversity in perspectives CROSSING LINES

continued from page 7 itations and ethics of photography.

“Muslim Girl #14” (2009) by Lili Almog shows how photography is a staged performance of selected aspects of reality. “Muslim Girl #14,” the promotional artwork of the exhibition, depicts a young Chinese Muslim woman in front of a green plastic strip curtain. The woman stands upright, with hands joining in front of her body and a faint smile. The young woman’s well-mannered but nervous stature echoes the traditional Chinese impression that one needs to invoke their best decency and formalism in front of the camera.

This belief endures strongly in the country’s rural parts, where photography had been generally reserved for bureaucratic procedures and significant occasions until the last two decades.

The subject’s mannerism in front of the camera conceals the authenticity of her mundane life, like how the green strip curtain obscures the everyday objects behind it in Almog’s photograph. With the rising popularity of photoblogs, crediting photographs with William Blake’s power of “[seeing] a World in a Grain of Sand” must be proceeded with caution, for the line between synecdoche and oversimplification is obscure.

Andrea Modica’s subject, on the other end, seems to have assumed little to no

control over their photographic representation. “Ron McNeil, Fort Yates, ND” (Andrea Modica, 2002) (“Ron McNeil”) depicts a young Native American man on a motorcycle in front of a warehouse. The young man observes the camera suspiciously, looking perplexed and slightly irritated. “Ron McNeil” reminds its viewers of photographer’s bias and the nature of photography being more artistic than journalistic. Although photography restricts the artist’s creative agency more than traditional artistic mediums, there is still no such thing as a perfectly objective lens.

“Crossing Lines” will stay on view until Jan. 5, 2020. Students may access the Harvard Art Museums for free with valid student IDs.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 | FUN & GAMES | THE TUFTS DAILY

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LATE NIGHT AT THE DAILY Jess: “I have a lot of angst. I am a ball of angst all the time ... this is a really angsty song and also how I feel all the time.”

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Seminars, classes and conferences provide satisfying and lucrative opportunities. Travel and explore fresh terrain.

Handle your chores and then go discover something new.

Difficulty Level: Running into a professor whose class you skipped

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Deeksha Bathini Looking for life, destroying life

Why should you care about global health?

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ast semester, I wrote a column that explored the pitfalls of the American healthcare system while simultaneously taking Global Health (CH0056), a course offered by the Department of Community Health. After taking this class, my understanding of health was fundamentally altered. It might seem rather obvious that health is a universal issue; however, the diseases that are most prevalent across the world are often neglected, even forgotten.

The interconnectedness of global communities has brought to light common issues — one of which is inequality. But inequality in health is the cruelest form. In fact, the sheer price tag of healthcare for populations in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) actually pushes them below the poverty line.

However, global health issues that affect LMICs rarely make headlines.

As I moved through the curriculum of CH-0056, I realized common themes between American and international health: Healthcare systems have the most adverse effects on the poor, access is incumbent on privilege and poor health has negative effects on every aspect of a person’s life. So, if these are issues that transcend American borders, why, then, do we largely ignore these concerns for LMICs, where the disease burden is more punishing?

In this column, I strive to address this discrepancy in knowledge by paying heed to topics such as neglected tropical diseases, communicable diseases, water, sanitation and hygiene and social influencers of health in LMICs. The title — “Looking for life, destroying life” — is a famous Haitian proverb that describes a woman looking to sell mangoes to keep her family alive. In seeking out her livelihood, she falls off the mango truck and dies. Her plight can be attributed to her socialization. Neglected disease is often caused by social factors. When poor people look for life amidst terrible odds, their pursuits are typically futile, even destroyed.

So, the question becomes: Why should you care? In the current globalized world, communicable disease is a threat to everyone, including you. As people travel and meet, the spread of disease is inevitable.

Not only does disease know no borders, but it also is becoming increasingly difficult to treat. Diseases like tuberculosis, which was once treatable, are now becoming multi-drug resistant. Antibiotics like penicillin that we depend on are no longer the ‘wonder drugs’ that can cure any and all infections.

Additionally, I truly believe that a healthier world is a better world. When people can contribute to society without being afraid of hospital bills, faulty healthcare infrastructure and sickness, economies can flourish. Health should be a human right, but it most definitely is not. In so many ways, we put less value on the lives of poor people. Global health is a start in paying attention to the people who need it the most. I thank you all in advance for exploring this side of health with me. I hope to not only educate myself but also spread some awareness about life outside the Tufts bubble that traps us all.

Deeksha Bathini is a junior studying in community health. Deeksha can be

Opinion

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

EDITORIAL

Equal opportunity must mean equal access Colleges are institutions where students of radically different backgrounds come together to learn, progress and grow to become leaders in society. Every student that attends university should have equal opportunity to experience the ordinary and extraordinary, whether that is going to the dining hall or attending highly anticipated discussions with politicians. Unfortunately, students with disabilities are often put at a significant disadvantage when navigating around campus and accessing common resources. Tufts must do much more to support its students with disabilities and improve accessibility and accommodations.

While Tufts has been making small steps to improve the accessibility situation, such as making Tisch Library keycard accessible at the entrance near Professor’s Row and offering Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) as a resource to travel distances on campus, these positives are overshadowed by a system still in need of great improvement.

Petty complaints about our campus’ central uphill trek seem to be a commonplace topic of conversation among the able-bodied at Tufts. For the disabled or injured, the same trip quickly crosses into the realm of unacceptable. Furthermore, many dorms and academic buildings do not have ramps or elevators, including Carmichael Hall, Metcalf Hall and Tilton Hall. The topography of Tufts — and lack of proper solutions — takes away disabled and injured students’ rights to live

out their days with the same dignity as the rest of the Tufts population.

First-year Sydney Schulman described to the Daily how the only resource she was given access to when she tore her ACL was TUPD for shuttling her far distances around campus.

She marked how, although in theory this is a good resource, TUPD is inconsistent, as they are often occupied with campus safety and security. She has waited for both 45 minutes and two minutes before, never knowing exactly how quickly they’ll arrive. “It is frustrating because I never know when to call them,” she said. “I have to explain to professors when I am late.” Additionally, Schulman reflected on the lack of space in TUPD vehicles for wheelchairs, a further example of incomplete service.

Another key barrier to accessibility on campus is Student Accessibility Services (SAS) itself. Schulman discussed her negative experiences with SAS, telling the Daily that over the summer she sought to change her room assignment due to her injury. SAS ultimately offered a spot on the second floor in Carmichael, still accessible only via stairs. Schulman is still working with SAS to resolve the problem, a process she began two months ago.

This problem is not limited to current members of the Tufts community: It also prevents prospective students from ultimately choosing to enroll at Tufts. One first-year explained how a high school classmate chose not to attend Tufts due

to the lack of accessibility resources on campus, and several told the Daily they would not recommend Tufts to anyone with a disability. If this is preventing Tufts from matriculating qualified individuals, isn’t that just another sign of the urgent need of improvement?

Immediate steps must be taken to improve campus life for those with disabilities. One of the most important tasks is to make all buildings on campus easily accessible, either by including a ramp or an elevator, and by ensuring that doors are large enough for wheelchairs and not too heavy for those unsteady on their feet. Adding adjustable countertops and tables of different heights in dorms and dining halls would promote inclusivity.

Dorm rooms for students in these situations must be large enough to store their physical therapy equipment — items that are crucial for maintaining their health.

Mobility and transportation options beyond TUPD must be made available and easy to use. Tufts must be willing to address the concerns of students who feel like their needs are not being met, and SAS must be less hesitant to come to the aid of the students on whose behalf they are commissioned to advocate.

Ultimately, access is not only an issue of health but also one of fairness. We must practice the values of equality, togetherness, safety and wellness that Tufts claims to champion. We are a community that believes in equal opportunity and we deserve more.

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Sports

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David Meyer Postgame Press

Happy Luck-go-y

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elcome back to Postgame Press, the column about the hottest sports stories off the field. The NFL started recently and already has no shortage of news. The first story on the docket was the retiring of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck. Hailed as one of the greatest draft prospects of a generation, Luck found himself sitting on the bench often due to a seemingly endless string of injuries. That said, when he was on the field, he excelled and showed glimpses of the prospect who was promised.

This offseason, at the age of 29 — younger than half of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL — Andrew Luck retired. This was a nearly unprecedented moment for football. Following on the heels of Rob Gronkowski’s retirement at the same age, Luck showed that this may not just be an outlier. Recently, some young NFL players have been retiring due to possible future, not past, damage.

Players like Gronkowski and Luck had long histories of poor health, but other players, such as Chris Borland, retired even before they had issues. While the NFL has ‘superhuman’ men like Tom Brady, who has played for nearly two decades and is still going strong, some younger players are retiring before their bodies are destroyed. There is a growing concern about the sport’s future considering what further chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a condition prevalent among football players due to the violent nature of the sport — studies may reveal, and whether those findings may stop aspiring players from pursuing the NFL. Andrew Luck came into the league with championship expectations, whether that was fair or not. He performed well when on the field, but he could not stay healthy. He decided that a life of rehabilitating was not a life he enjoyed and decided that money was not incentive enough to continue through the pain and sorrow.

A man with so much weight on his shoulders, who had played so hard and come back from injury time and time again, was a class act as he decided to hang up his shoulder pads.

When he walked off the field after the announcement, which came from a tweet from NFL insider Adam Schefter and not from Luck himself, he received boos. I have previously written about my dismay at booing in stadiums, but this was brutal. Andrew Luck gave so much to Indianapolis. Some, like myself, called him a bust. Luck, despite being heroic, did not live up to the (perhaps undeserved) heavy expectations that fans had for him. While he did not ask to be placed under such pressure, he belongs to the category of ‘what-might-have-been’.

But whether or not he was a bust compared to the public’s hefty expectations, he deserved so much better than homecrowd boos.

To me, his impact and legacy is more important than what he did on the field.

Luck proved that someone can walk away from the game, in spite of the pressure, absurd public opinion at someone else’s career choice and loads of money, to preserve his future and do what will make him happy. It was a brave choice and I wish Luck joy in his retired life.

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

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Sports

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Soccer takes down rival Brandeis, remains undefeated

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Goalkeeper Conner Mieth (LA‘19) winds up for a long pass in the NESCAC semifinal against Hamilton on Nov. 4, 2017.

by Aiden Herrod

Assistant Sports Editor

Men’s soccer is off to another hot start to begin the season, having notched its third and fourth wins against Keene St. and Brandeis, respectively this past week. After handling Keene St. with a sure-handed 3–1 victory Wednesday, the Jumbos turned their attention to the No. 25 ranked Brandeis Judges, whom they shut out in a decisive 2–0 victory on Saturday.

Coach Josh Shapiro, who has led Tufts to 25 consecutive games without losing, spoke about the team’s rivalry against Brandeis. The Judges remain the last team to beat the Jumbos, dating back to their meeting in the 2017 NCAA Div. III tournament, where Brandeis upset Tufts 1–0 in the sectional final.

“It’s a huge rivalry game,” Shapiro said. “But our guys are always up for it.”

Historically, Brandeis has represented a tough-as-nails opponent for Tufts, so the victory was even more meaningful to the squad. The game proved to be a scrappy, physical affair with a lot of energy coming from both teams.

However, according to sophomore defender Will Raphael, it was the Jumbos who set the tone right from the get-go, coming out with speed and determination.

“We had a dominant first five minutes to set the tone,” Raphael said.

“Once we got the ball moving, Brandeis couldn’t hang with us.”

Being an old rivalry, both teams aimed to bring their best stuff to the pitch. The rivalry also led to lots of pushing and jostling, with very physical play styles from both squads.

“We kind of knew it would be a very physical, hard-fought game,” senior defender/midfielder Zach Trevorrow said.

The physical nature of Saturday’s game came to a head when, after Tufts scored their first goal of the night following a corner kick, Brandeis midfielder Max Breiter was forced out of the match with a red card after a scuffle broke out. The Judges had to play the rest of the match with a man down.

Raphael spoke about how the Jumbos were able to score their first goal.

“That happened as the result of pretty good pressure on a corner kick,” Raphael said. “We’re a team with a lot of aerial threat.”

Playing with a man up, the Jumbos were able to build off of their strong start by controlling the tempo and clamping down defensively, Shapiro explained.

“I was really pleased with our ability to sustain pressure and put good sequences together,” Shapiro said. “We kept the pressure up and consistently

put eight to nine passes together before they could clear it.”

Ultimately, Tufts avoided making similar mistakes to Brandeis and maintained a focused, level-headed approach. Through the rest of the match, they avoided conceding fouls so that they would keep their one-man advantage throughout the remainder of the match.

Tufts closed out the win over Brandeis with fantastic rotations on the defensive side, sealing the affair at 2–0 with a header from senior midfielder Brett Rojas in the 58th minute.

To some players on the team, it appeared as though the tempo of the game worked primarily in Tufts’ favor.

“Once we were up a man and up a goal, our rotations really tired them out,” Trevorrow said.

The atmosphere at the game was absolutely fantastic. Playing in an evening game illuminated by the floodlights on Bello field, cheered on by countless alumni, the Jumbos capped off their impressive performance and took down a high-profile ranked opponent in the process. They left the pitch that night remaining undefeated and proving they are here to stay after incredible runs in the past couple of years.

The mental toughness and preparedness that characterized the team in this match have been a big theme this sea-

son. Following such a dominant run to the NESCAC championship last year, the team has been laser-focused on making sure to avoid the championship hangover and stay atop its game.

“We focus on one game at a time,” Raphael said. “In the locker room, we keep a large whiteboard with the name of our next opponent written on it.”

The Jumbos have kicked off their season with an immensely strong start, but the team refuses to let that eat into its focus, and coach Shapiro is determined to round the team into its midseason form.

“I want the team to focus on putting together a quality, 90-minute performance,” Shapiro said. “We need to take care of the details at every part of the field.”

With that in mind, the team now turns its attention to Wheaton, where they will remain on home turf to try and stretch their undefeated streak this season to five games. Following that match, which will take place on Tuesday at 7 p.m., a gauntlet of four straight conference games await the Jumbos. Tufts will close out September by facing off against Colby and Bates, before opening October with Wesleyan and Trinity.

For the Jumbos though, this grind is just a part of the process.

“Our mentality remains the same,” Shapiro said. “One game at a time.”