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Linguistics minor reinstated after year-long pause

by Minna Trinh

Assistant News Editor

The linguistics minor has been reinstated, effective immediately, after it was temporarily put on hold in spring 2016. The minor will continue to be housed in the Department of Philosophy, according to Department Chair Erin Kelly.

Kelly said that the linguistics minor was reinstated partly because 146 students signed a petition, submitted this fall, which requested the minor’s return. She explained that the philosophy department now has permanent members who can manage the program. “[The department] feels optimistic that [it] will be able to sustain the requirements of [the] minor going forward,” Kelly said.

According to a Feb. 4, 2016 Daily article, the linguistics minor was paused last academic year in part because Professor of Philosophy Ray Jackendoff will retire at the end of the current academic year. Jackendoff was co-director of the linguistics minor and also served as the advisor for most linguistics students, the article noted.

Professor of Psychology Ariel Goldberg, co-director of the linguistics minor and director of the Psycholinguistics and Linguistics

Lab, added that Jackendoff was responsible for teaching two of the linguistics minor’s core courses.

“It was not immediately clear at the time how we could continue to teach these courses [after Jackendoff’s requirement], and the administration decided to pause the minor to preserve its focus on linguistics — rather than say, restructure it — so that we could work out how these courses could be taught,” Goldberg told the Daily in an email.

Since then, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Dilip Ninan has offered to teach the introductory courses, Goldberg explained.

Dean of Arts and Sciences James Glaser said that the faculty is “in a more stable place now,” and it is therefore able to offer the linguistics minor consistently.

“Our ability to offer a minor depends upon having the right faculty and the courses.

We had some changes and potential changes in the faculty that led us to put a hold on the minor,” Glaser told the Daily in an email.

Kelly noted that the minor’s requirements have not changed. According to Goldberg, the minor includes a core set of linguistics courses on language structure as well as a number of interdisciplinary offerings.

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Fletcher Arctic VI, a two-day conference, took place over the weekend at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The annual Fletcher Arctic Conference has been hosted since 2012 to discuss the implications of sustainable development in the Arctic, according to the event website. Many professors, students, government officials and entrepreneurs gathered to participate in the event.

During the TEDx-style event, the program held nine separate panels focused on environmental, legal and diplomatic issues in the Arctic region. Each panel lasted about two to three hours, featuring various speakers who shared their findings on Arctic development and answered questions.

The conference began with an opening speech by Director of Diplomatic Studies Professor Alan K. Henrikson before starting with its first three panels. The second panel focused on approaches to diplomacy in the Arctic, with Robert Sauvé, chief executive officer of the Société du Plan Nord, introducing Quebec’s Plan Nord.

Sauvé explained that the Plan Nord is an economic development plan that was created

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by the government of Quebec to boost natural resources and mining in the northern part of the province. He explained how important it is to balance between economic and environmental issues and cooperate with the international community when planning future investments in the Arctic.

“There are different forces involved in stabilizing the economic engine of the Arctic,” Sauvé said. “The engagement with non-Arctic states that clearly have rights and responsibilities in the Arctic high-seas makes the Arctic a region that needs consistent strategies to cooperate.” Éric Théroux, from Quebec’s Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie, elaborated on this idea in his follow-up speech. Théroux said he conducted research on local communities in Quebec and found that the life expectancy of the Inuit population was 10 years lower than that of Canada as a whole. This work has informed development decisions in the north, Théroux said.

“We want both technological and social innovation for the Inuit communities,” he said. “For the last two years, the implemensee ARCTIC, page 2

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“The minor also includes courses from other fields that connect and build on the theory courses, covering topics such as how languages change over time, how children acquire language and topics in reading and dyslexia,” Goldberg said. “This interdisciplinary program allows students to learn about the structure of language and relate this

knowledge to many areas of application.”

Nesi Altaras, chair of Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate’s Education Committee, explained that TCU Senate was involved in the reinstatement of the linguistics minor. He worked with Rati Srinivasan, see LINGUISTICS, page 2

Medford’s Riverside Plaza to be redeveloped as a community gathering space

Tufts hosts conference to address sustainable development in the Arctic

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Ariel Goldberg, co-director of the linguistics minor, poses for a portrait in his office on Feb. 17.

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The City of Medford is planning the redevelopment of Riverside Plaza in Medford Square to become a more usable community gathering space. The city was formally awarded a $250,000 grant from the federal government to help fund the plaza’s construction in November 2016, according to Clodagh Stoker-Long, an economic development planner in Medford’s Office of Community Development.

Medford City Councillor Michael Marks was the original author of a resolution that sought to repurpose the bus shelter on Riverside Avenue due to its degraded condition and inconvenient location. Marks said that one of the goals of the project is to create opportunities for cultural events and recreational activities that will bring the community together. “[The plaza] will be used now as a gathering spot in the square, a place [where] we can have entertainment, a place that we could use to show art exhibits and a place that will be much more useful for residents,” Marks said.

“We’re going to have a staging area, so there will be a place where people can come and

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do live performances. There will be an interactive play structure or several play structures throughout the area.”

According to Deneen Crosby, the principal and director of landscape architecture at Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge LLC, the firm designing the plaza, the renovated plaza will include several new features that will make the area more appealing as a community gathering place. “[There will be an] outdoor stage, sculptural exercise area, outdoor chimes … picnic tables and movable tables and chairs, movable Adirondack chairs, a plaza for events with lighting [and an] interpretive sign about the burial ground [off Salem Street],” Crosby told the Daily in an email.

According to Marks, the planning for the plaza’s redesign has been a community-driven initiative, and Medford’s Office of Community Development held several meetings to collect community input. Marks emphasized that this will be a unique project and said that he is not currently aware of any comparable gathering spaces in any of the city’s five business districts. Marks is hopeful that these kinds of spaces will eventually

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TCU Senate works with philosophy department to reinstate linguistics minor LINGUISTICS

continued from page 1 the former committee chair and current TCU Senate Historian, as well as the Department of Philosophy on the initiative.

“Our work with [Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences Bárbara Brizuela] and the philosophy department was critical to the restarting of [the minor],” Altaras, a sophomore, told the Daily in an email. “First, we got Tufts to notify students about the pause of the [minor]. Then we met with differ-

ent professors teaching classes for linguistics and put out a survey gauging student interest. We asked whether students wanted to see these minors exist, and almost everyone who responded said they wanted to see the minors exist, which is not the same as expressing interest in doing the minor themselves.”

Goldberg said that he is looking forward to the minor’s reinstatement. He encouraged students to minor in linguistics and expressed enthusiasm for the minor.

“Anyone who is interested in language can find a course of study within the minor to suit their interests,” Goldberg said.

Jackendoff added that he hopes the linguistics program will be successful.

“I’m delighted that the relevant faculty and the deans have found it possible to reinstate the linguistics minor,” Jackendoff told the Daily in an email. “Ironically, perhaps it was the pausing of the minor that has evoked greater student interest than we’d seen in previous years.”

Arctic Conference focuses on environmental, legal, diplomatic issues ARCTIC

continued from page 1 tation committee of Quebec has been working together to bring both technological and social innovation to the Inuit people.”

In order to train people and transfer knowledge to the local communities, Théroux said that researchers from climate change research organization ArcticNet would meet with local residents to understand and define the key issues they were facing. He explained that this was a more accessible and direct method of communication than publishing journal articles.

The conference’s third panel covered the legal challenges faced in the Arctic. Timo Koivurova, the director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, explained how complicated Arctic governance is at the global, national and regional levels. In particular, he mentioned the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental group that helps coordinate sustainable development in the Arctic region.

“The High Seas area is available for all the states in the world, but the Arctic Council [consists] of eight Arctic states with 32 observers,” he said. “The first thing we have to do is recognize the extreme complexity of the landscape governance in the Arctic.”

Suzanne Lalonde, professor of international law at the University of Montreal, used a specific case to visualize the legal complexities of the Arctic. She presented the recent voyage of the Crystal Serenity cruise ship in the Arctic Ocean.

“There were many concerns about the harmful impact it could bring upon the marine environment,” Lalonde said. “However, the preparation process spanned three years, and the reviews were extremely positive. The voy-

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Societé du Plan Nord CEO Robert Sauvé discusses the economic, social and environmental strategies of the Plan Nord project in Quebec in the ASEAN Auditorium at The Fletcher School on Feb. 17. age contains the lesson that Canada has to and businesses in the Arctic, but would also exercise sovereignty over the waters it claims cause challenges from a policy perspective, as its own instead of just assert.” particularly for the Coast Guard, with whom A panel during the next day of the con- she is affiliated. ference, titled “Arctic Security Scenarios,” Finally, the last panel, entitled “The Rise of discussed the Arctic situation in relation to North Atlantic Trade,” was about trade relathe United States Coast Guard. Professor of tions in northern regions and solutions to Maritime Policy Rebecca Pincus explained the rising question of globalization in Arctic the big picture implications of the Arctic waters. region’s expanding role, especially given Fulbright Scholar Anita Parlow said that the decrease in polar ice caps as a result of distributive justice in the Arctic can only be climate change. achieved by using technological improve“There is new available open water for ments to create world-class industry, in tanhuman activity,” Pincus said. “While the dem with environmental concerns. trend lines are clear, the interaction of “It is also important to take into considchange in the environmental sphere and eration the impacts of globalization to the the human activity sphere makes it highly functioning capacity of local communities,” unpredictable in the future.”

Parlow said. “We have to be careful not to let Pincus said that these changes would cre- the efforts to protect the environment bypass ate increasing opportunities for communities the needs of the communities.”

Medford works with local businesses to redesign Riverside Plaza RIVERSIDE

continued from page 1 spread to the rest of the community.

“We are in the process of revitalizing the downtown business district, and this will act as one aspect of bringing more foot traffic into the square,” Marks said. “It’s really important to have areas in business districts where people can sit down, meet their neighbors, meet other people in the community and have a sense of belonging.”

Stoker-Long has also been working on the project since it was proposed. She said that construction will be completed by June 2018.

“We submitted a grant application for the development about this time last year.

The project is to begin construction after the first of July, and according to the grant commission, it must be finished by the following June,” Stoker-Long said.

According to Stoker-Long, the city projects that total construction costs for the project will be $550,000, which will leave about $300,000 in costs for the city after the federal grant of $250,000.

According to Crosby, the design will be finished in March and the project will be con-

structed by the end of 2017. Crosby said that the project has not faced any major challenges so far but that budgets are always a limiting factor in construction projects. “[The project] has gone pretty smoothly.

There are always different aesthetic tastes but in general people have been happy with the design work. The budget is a challenge as we want to use very nice materials and we can’t afford everything we’d like,” Crosby told the Daily in an email.

Stoker-Long added that historic value of the area and its potential as a center for community events are a few of the reasons why the renovation of the square will be successful. “[The plaza is] adjacent to a really beautiful historic cemetery of which people may not be aware, but it’s also in a part of Medford Square which needs to be revitalized,” Stoker-Long said. “This was an opportunity to create a really special space there, which would not only be a recreational space where people could sit and have lunch, but also the idea is that it would be a functional space where there could be a sort of outdoor theater, a farmer’s market.”

According to Stoker-Long, many different community partners were consulted during

the planning process, including an architect, the local arts community and other stakeholders. Crosby also emphasized that the community played an active role in planning different aspects of the redevelopment.

“The arts community gave us a lot of information on what kinds of events could happen there so that we could plan for them,” Crosby told the Daily in an email. “So there’s an informal stage with lots [of] gating and electricity.

The historic commission and others gave us info on the burial ground and it led to an idea to use rubbings of some of the beautiful stones in the design of the pavements.”

Sharon Hepburn owns Mystic Coffee Roaster, a local coffee shop on Riverside Avenue, and attended the initial meeting where the original plan for the redevelopment of the plaza was presented. Hepburn hopes that the project will foster increased community engagement.

“I think it’s going to be really good for the square,” Hepburn said. “And hopefully [the redevelopment] will encourage people to come in on their own. Art exhibits there would be fantastic and I’m hoping that the city would allow musicians there.”

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

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Students advocate support for low-income students, emphasize university role in social mobility

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by Becca Leibowitz and Liam Knox Features Editor and News Editor

On Jan. 18, a New York Times article highlighting the extent of socioeconomic disparity among students at Tufts reinvigorated frustrations about the lack of socioeconomic diversity on campus.

However, student efforts to push for increased university support for students with high financial need are not new.

Tufts Student Action (TSA) — a student group that, according to member Parker Breza, works for racial, economic and gender justice — released the demands of their #HaltTheHike campaign on Nov. 1, 2016. These demands focused on transparency, accessibility and accountability surrounding financial aid and tuition.

In response to student feedback and conversations with members of Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, the financial aid office reinstated a previously existing Financial Aid Student Advisory Board (FASAB) in January, according to Director of Financial Aid Patricia Reilly.

According to a Jan. 13 email sent to members of the Tufts community, the advisory board will serve as a communication channel between students and the financial aid office.

“The purpose of the [FASAB] will be to offer advice and feedback to the Tufts Financial Aid staff concerning issues of student services and outreach and to act as a sounding board and focus group for our programs and services,” the email, signed by Assistant Director of Financial Aid Wenimo Poweigha, said.

Breza, a sophomore who also sits on the FASAB, said that prior to the #HaltTheHike campaign, there was almost no communication between the student body and the financial aid office.

But while Breza hopes the board will lead to more accountability in the financial aid office, he said that no structural changes are likely to emerge from its existence.

“I don’t know that it’s going to be an incredible mechanism to hold the financial aid office accountable, but it’s a good way for some students to provide feedback that otherwise wouldn’t get to the office,” Breza said.

Though Breza would like to see largescale changes — for example, Tufts becoming a need-blind institution — he said that smaller changes can have an impact.

“I don’t know that there will be large changes that come from [FASAB], but things like making sure financial aid officers’ contact info is on the website, small things like that that actually do make a difference in people’s interactions with the office are important and are not useless changes,” he said.

Sophomore Charlie Zhen, who also sits on the board, expressed doubts regarding whether FASAB will be an effective way to make the changes that he feels are important, calling it a “rubber stamp formality.”

“I think the [FASAB] is moving too slowly,” he said. “It’s only meeting monthly, and I’m not totally clear on how anything we say will be taken into effect.”

Zhen said that he does not expect the board to lead to concrete change. see SOCIOECONOMIC, page 4

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MJ Griego Mind the Gap

Queering relationships for mental growth

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hroughout my life, I have grappled with the concept of romantic love.

Growing up with a strong single mother and a combination of anxiety and low self-confidence, I didn’t have any model to base my definition on. Having few experiences seeing people in conventional romantic relationships outside of television, I saw romance as both unrealistic and confusing. Wikipedia’s definition states that romantic love “distinguishes moments and situations within intimate relationships to an individual as contributing to a significant relationship connection.” Any definition of romantic love, and most displays of it that I have come across, leave much to be desired. Adding in the fact that I have gone through most of my life without feeling physical attraction toward people based on the way they look, I have felt a bit like an outsider in a world obsessed with one particular kind of ‘love.’

In picking apart love, I’d like to start with the two categories of platonic and romantic.

Our society makes a point of separating the two into distinctly different territories, with platonic being seen as inferior by most of popular culture (as illustrated by both Biz Markie’s “Just A Friend” and every femme’s favorite, the infamous “friend zone”). I’ve always been a person who wants to develop a friendship before displaying any obvious desire for someone.

Our generation, deemed “the hookup generation” even though we as a group are having sex less often, still looks to media that keeps a strict line between friendship and romance (in straight couples) from the get-go. Tropes and recycled plots lead us to know from two people’s first encounter whether they will be friends or romantic opposites. We are then indoctrinated with this sense of exclusivity between the two, and other tropes like intense jealousy or poor communication only solidify the fact that we are told that dating someone isn’t about being friends.

Seeing the same confessions of love on television and then the ensuing stress and drama honestly confused my ideas of the concept even more. Love is treated as possession, and interest in other people — platonically or romantically, even without acting upon it — is demonized instantly (Google “microcheating” if you dare to discover all the ways in which wearing a nice outfit can be imagined into infidelity).

So what can we do to be both less jealous and less stressed in our own romantic relationships and to value our platonic relationships more? A solution comes in blurring the lines between the two. Societally, we treat romantic relationships as very rigid, even though hookup culture has done a lot to break down the social scripts that we think are ‘required’ to be intimate with someone or to be in a romantic relationship. The most important step in my efforts to understand romance has been to value friendship more: both the friendship of partners and of all the other people who support me in my life. The second has been to get away from seeing affection as a zero-sum game: Different people have different thresholds for love, and putting time into another relationship doesn’t necessarily take away from your own.

Unlearning toxic societal relationship standards can be key to not seeing people as possessions and seeing all your relationships as valuable.

MJ Griego is a senior majoring in sociology.

MJ can be reached at madeline.griego@ tufts.edu

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Financial aid, housing costs pose challenges for low-income students SOCIOECONOMIC

continued from page 3 “From what I’ve experienced, these are just measures to say that they did something. And I think this is the case with the FASAB, it’s to say ‘we have this,’” he said. “To me, it seems like a great deflection tool.”

Zhen said that, ideally, the university would switch to a policy of community-based budgeting.

“Community-based budgeting doesn’t mean having students come up to the table and telling them what’s going to happen and just having them deal with it. It means having students and family members at the table making decisions with them,” he said.

According to Zhen, this would vastly improve transparency in university budgeting, an issue that was included in the #HaltTheHike movement’s demands last November.

“Having a say in the money and where that goes — if they can’t approve funding for something without student and faculty approval, that’s real power,” Zhen said.

As Reilly pointed out, the FASAB was not meant to give students any say in how the university’s budget is distributed, but rather to streamline communication between students and the financial aid office.

Poweigha, who is in charge of the FASAB, declined to comment for this article.

Zhen said that any students who responded to the Jan. 13 email were able to participate in the FASAB. According to Reilly, students on the board suggested a variety of improvements at the first meeting, which took place on Feb. 10.

“We wanted the students to drive the discussion to let us know what they feel is important,” Reilly told the Daily in an email. “Some of the suggestions were ideas for improved communications from our office, an FAQ section on the website and offering clear information to incoming first-years well before they arrive for orientation. The next meeting will be focusing primarily on ideas for improvements to our website.”

The student push for university support of low-income students is not confined to the financial aid office, however. For sophomore Bethany Kirby, concerns about the cost of off-campus housing heightened as she and other students began looking for houses last semester. In fact, Kirby had a house she planned to live in before realizing that she would not be able to afford the deposit.

As QuestBridge’s Tufts chapter liaison, Kirby had several sophomores and juniors approach her with similar worries regarding off-campus housing.

“I had at least 10 or 15 students [come up to me] just so stressed out about it, because they weren’t clear about how the housing worked, if they would have housing, things like that,” she said.

Zhen expressed similar concerns about the often-prohibitive cost of off-campus housing.

“Off-campus housing as a whole is just very inaccessible for low-income students,” he said. “I don’t have the money to pay up front, the refund comes in too late for many students [and] finding that money to pay the first deposit, pay rent, that’s a lot.”

Zhen added that many low-income students are often needed at home over breaks and signing a lease on an off-campus house can be inconvenient for those who cannot pay rent before school starts.

“Signing a lease does kind of anchor you to a certain location,” he said. “If I were to sign a lease over the summer, I’d feel very hesitant to actually go back to New York over the summer, even though that’s where my family is and that’s where I’m needed more.”

Zhen said that he’s had discussions with Director of the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) Yolanda King about the possibility of a new administrative hire to help students find affordable off-campus housing. This position, Associate Director of Housing Operations, will be responsible for managing various aspects of the on-campus housing system and assisting students with off-campus housing, according to a Jan. 31 article in the Daily. Zhen said he was recently told there are plans to formally create this position by the end of the semester.

Kirby said that she reached out to Robert Mack, dean of student success and advising, who set up a meeting with Associate Dean of Student Affairs Chris Rossi, King, Kirby and himself. After two meetings this month, it was decided that 20 beds in Carpenter House will be reserved for low-income and first-generation students starting next semester, Kirby said.

According to Kirby, the process by which high-need students will gain access to this housing has yet to be determined.

She plans to form a student committee to further discuss the creation of a center for low-income and first-generation students.

Kirby said that being able to live or spend time with other people from a similar background would benefit students who often feel like outsiders due to their socioeconomic status.

“You come in already disadvantaged with the wealth and the privilege around you, and so I think it’s important to … first of all, have a community similar to you who faces the same struggles and to kind of navigate Tufts’ campus as a low-income or [first-generation college] student and to have the resources you need to do that,” she said.

While Zhen agreed that guaranteed housing for low-income students would reduce stress around finding housing, he also underscored the importance of having a communal space for low-income and first-generation students, whether or not that space is residential.

“Having a space where it’s like, ‘oh, all the low-income kids live here,’ could be a bit problematic,” he said. “But I think having a center for resources and for gathering and holding events, having that space would be helpful. And I think it certainly would help build community.”

Zhen stressed that university attempts to build community for low-income students on campus, while important, do not address the root issue: the institution’s exclusivity.

“Instead of dedicating more beds to students who are low income, I think just having more students who are low income to fill the beds that are already there would help,” Zhen said.

Social mobility at Tufts According to the Times article, the average low-income Tufts student will have an income in the 76th percentile at age 34 — just one percentage point lower than the income of the average wealthy Tufts student at the same age.

Greg Victory, director of the career center, said that this statistic speaks to the work that the university does to support low-income students.

“To be able to say that the students who attend Tufts who are from lower socioeconomic levels actually perform post-graduation at the same or similar levels as their higher-income colleagues — that’s pretty spectacular when you think about it,” he said. “That article has … shone a light for a lot of institutions on some of the challenges, but for me in the work that I do, that’s a data point that’s something that people should be celebrating too.”

Reilly similarly said that these statistics demonstrate Tufts’ capacity for supporting social mobility.

“The report shows that Tufts is seventh out of 64 highly selective schools in providing students from low income families with the opportunity to become a high-income adult,” Reilly told the Daily in an email.

However, Breza noted that this statistic merely underscores the importance of ensuring socioeconomic diversity to begin with. “[The Times article] shows that schools like Tufts do an incredible job of accelerating students’ ability to move up in social class, so that just shows how big of a difference it can make to go to a school like Tufts,” he said. “If low-income and even middle-class students are excluded from Tufts, then they don’t get to be a part of shaping the future of America, its economy, its cultural institutions.”

According to Karen Richardson, dean of admissions and enrollment management, socioeconomic diversity in the student body is an important consideration and a desirable outcome, but it does not necessarily influence the admissions process itself.

“When reviewing applications, our goal is to evaluate on the basis of merit (academic and extracurricular) without consideration of a family’s finances,” Richardson told the Daily in an email.

“When we are shaping the class, we do have to stay within the confines of our aid budget and make some tough decisions. But by reviewing applications the way we do, we are maximizing our resources while also ensuring that students who are the best fits for Tufts are offered admission.”

But as Breza pointed out, increasing Tufts’ socioeconomic diversity would ensure the social mobility of the largest number of students.

“Whether we like it or not, schools like Tufts and other private schools are the quickest way to make change in our current society, the quickest way to move up in social classes, so it’s vital that these schools are actually educating America instead of the one percent, which is what they’re currently doing,” he said.

This article is Part II of a two-part series on socioeconomic diversity at Tufts. Part I addressed the experiences of low-income students at Tufts and some of the university’s existing support structures.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Daily’s 2017 Oscar Predictions: What to expect on Sunday night

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The 89th Academy Awards are on Sunday, Feb. 26. in Hollywood, CA.

by Eran Sabaner

Executive Arts Editor

If one were to summarize the 2017 awards season with one word, it might as well be agitating. The season revealed the film industry’s own hypocrisy by failing to keep the promises it made at last year’s ceremony. From the racial controversy that followed “La La Land” (2016) to the questionable nominations of Casey Affleck and Mel Gibson, the industry regrettably undermined last year’s #OscarsSoWhite campaign as well as the iconic statement Lady Gaga made in her performance of “Till It Happens to

You” (2015) surrounding sexual assault.

Furthermore, the season snubbed many lesser-known gems in favor of the mainstream, including Meryl Streep over Annette Bening. Given the ceremony’s history of exclusion and predictability, here is a quick roundup on what to expect this Sunday night: Safe Wins In 2009, Academy members decided to increase the number of Best Picture nominations from five to 10. Two years later, they decided to revise the rules and announced that the number of nominations would be between five

and 10. Yet none of the changes actually mattered. As time has proven, the race is generally always between two movies.

In this year’s case, it’s between three, but the competition is also admittedly less stiff. While “Manchester by the Sea” (2016) and “Moonlight” (2016) might make the cut, chances are the big winner will be “La La Land” (2016). Do not expect any major surprises from this year’s primary categories, save the competitive Best Actress category.

While Natalie Portman surely deserves to win just for the eerily-accurate voice see OSCARS, page 8

TELEVISION REVIEW

A star-studded cast lifts ‘Big Little Lies’

by Paige Spangenthal Assistant Arts Editor

In the first episode of the HBO limited series “Big Little Lies” (2017), viewers are plunged into the world of affluent parents in Monterey, California.

The first episode of the show, which is based on a Liane Moriarty novel of the same name, opens in the aftermath of a homicide. Throughout the episode, police interviews that occur after the murder intertwine with scenes leading up to the crime. In the interviews, secondary characters gossip about the lives of the primary characters. This device works well, as it illustrates the snoopy nature of the wealthy community and gives viewers an intimate portrait of the three protagonists: Madeline Martha Mackenzie, Celeste Wright and Jane Chapman.

Madeline, Celeste and Jane are the mothers of children starting first grade at Pirriwee Public School, which is described as a “private school at a public school price.” Madeline (Reese

Witherspoon), the preppy and feisty mother of Chloe Mackenzie and Abigail Carson, is thoroughly involved in the school’s social atmosphere. It seems plausible that Witherspoon was type cast for the role; Madeline is reminiscent of Elle Woods from “Legally Blonde” (2001). Though the role is rather uninspiring in this regard, Witherspoon’s quips and mannerisms are as hilarious as ever.

Celeste, played by Nicole Kidman, is the soft-spoken mother of twins Josh and Max. The other characters criticize Celeste’s relationship with her husband Perry (Alexander Skarsgård), complaining that the couple exhibits too many public displays of affection. Celeste is also supposedly much older than Perry. This detail seems a little unrealistic, considering that Kidman looks as youthful as Skarsgård and the other female stars on the show.

Jane, played by Shailene Woodley, is perhaps the most refreshing figure in the show. Jane is a young single mother who comes from a markedly less

affluent background than other parents in the school district. Whereas Celeste and Madeline live in huge houses with elegant balconies overlooking beautiful California scenery, Jane lives in a modest one-bedroom house with her son, Ziggy.

Jane is new to Monterey and the Pirriwee Public School community. During first grade orientation, Madeline takes Jane under her wing.

Tensions arise when the parents come to pick up their children. Another student, Amabella Klein, accuses Ziggy of purposefully scratching her neck.

Ziggy adamantly denies this, even when Amabella’s mother, Renata, tries to force him to apologize. Madeline jumps to Ziggy’s defense, and it becomes clear that Renata and Madeline have not gotten along in the past.

At the end of the episode, the details of the homicide remain unclear, but the scratches on Amabella’s neck seem to be connected to the murder.

Alongside the larger conflict of the see BIG LITTLE LIES, page 8

spent Thursday afternoon stalking an internship description as if it were a crush on Facebook. I read it so many times that I had the desired qualifications memorized, and they started to feel not widely applicable but eerily personal. “I’m intellectually curious!” I thought. “I’m accurate!” I crafted my cover letter with great care, as if each line were a ballast against disappointment — and that’s when it hit me: I wanted it too badly.

“Loving anyone, or anything, opens you up to loss,” I wrote in my journal circa junior year, melodramatically devoting an entire page to this one-line realization. It’s not exactly a groundbreaking one, but don’t we spend our whole lives tiptoeing around it?

“I think I really like him,” a friend told me a few months ago, after spending the night with a guy she had just started dating. It had been a long time since she’d felt that way. “We kissed on the street in the morning while I waited for my Uber.

But as soon as I got into the Uber, I started sobbing.” A moment later, she added, “That probably doesn’t make any sense.”

But it did.

Poets rarely counsel caution on matters of the heart. Mary Oliver is no exception. If she were a college stereotype (instead of an 81-year-old smoker who takes long walks through the sand pine scrub of Hobe Sound, Fla.), she would be the friend who responds to both your best and stupidest ideas by shouting, “Do it! What do you have to lose?”

I’m hesitant to write about her, because of all the poets whose words I have carried inside of me as inspiration and protection, she is the one who has mattered the most to me.

But I have to write about her, because this question I’m asking — how do we continue to care when hurt is just on the horizon? — roars through her poems.

In “West Wind #2,” Mary Oliver writes, “When you hear, a mile / away and still out of sight, the churn of the water / as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the / sharp rocks — when you hear that unmistakable / pounding — when you feel the mist on your mouth / and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls / plunging and streaming — then row, row for your life / toward it.”

Those lines take the reader for a ride, especially the first time you read them.

You’re clutching the oars, preparing to flee from danger, from the churning water and the sharp rocks, and then she upends you: “row for your life / toward it.”

Sometimes there isn’t energy for the battle. Sometimes I cancel Tinder dates because I’m consumed with dread.

Sometimes the “unmistakable pounding” of the heart when you run into an ex-hookup at a party is a good reason to leave. But when it really matters, Mary Oliver believes — I want to believe it, too — you move toward what might hurt you.

Abigail McFee is a senior majoring in English. Abigail can be reached at abigail. mcfee@tufts.edu.

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peers. “Amabella” is a perfect demonstration of the cringe-worthy names that rich mothers today sometimes bestow upon their children. A fairly typical HBO series, “Big Little Lies” is beautifully filmed, showcasing vivid colors and intriguingly-composed shots.

These small details could make up for the rather generic premise of the show. A slew of crime mysteries with predominantly white casts already exists in the world of television, so it will be interesting to see if “Big Little Lies” brings anything new to the table in future episodes.

continued from page 7 murder, the three protagonists are wrapped up in their own personal problems. Madeline is jealous of the attention that her eldest daughter gives to her ex-husband’s new wife, Bonnie Carlson (Zoë Kravitz). Celeste’s marriage may seem perfect and affectionate to an outsider, but a private argument reveals hidden violence and turmoil. Jane is fiercely protective of Ziggy, determined to protect him from punishment for a misdeed he did not commit. These well-constructed mini-conflicts easily get viewers emotionally invested in the show.

The payoff from watching “Big Little Lies” comes from its tiny details. Chloe bears an amusing resemblance to her socialite mother — as a first grader, she already enjoys networking with her

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(From left) Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley and Nicole Kidman star in ‘Big Little Lies.’

Expect boring outfits, unwanted guests at this year’s Oscars OSCARS

Oktoberfest-esque outfit should be cherished in our minds forever. While stars occasionally choose to freshen the carpet a bit (like Emma Watson’s jeansunder-dress look at the 2014 Golden Globes that totally worked), it is best to keep fashion expectations low this year.

continued from page 7 impression of Jackie Kennedy in “Jackie” (2016), Emma Stone might also snatch the prize with “La La Land.”

Boring Outfits The days of risqué red carpet fashion are long gone. Nowadays, people top the ‘worst dressed’ lists for being too lazy. While the MTV Video Music Awards leave viewers plenty of opportunities to question certain choices, it is sad to see that the days of the swan dress are no longer. In fact, looks such as Whoopi Goldberg’s neon green and purple dress/tracksuit at the 2012 Oscars or Uma Thurman’s cheap 2004

Irrelevant Guests Some might question why model and television personality Heidi Klum was invited to the awards ceremony in 2016, even though she did not act in a movie that hit theaters the previous year.

While the Academy did not invite transgender musician Antoni Hegarty to perform her Oscar-nominated song “Manta Ray” (2015) last year, it surely did invite

irrelevant celebrities in an attempt to keep the ceremony relevant. Truth be told, even the producers knew that Klum’s dress would draw more attention than an environmentally-conscious song. While Hegarty’s decision to skip the event had little media exposure, Klum’s fashion faux pas made all the headlines the day after the ceremony.

Who will skip the ceremony this year, and which increasingly obscure celebrities will inexplicably show up? Only time will tell.

Inconsistent Speech Cut-offs The current political climate — especially the Trump administration’s dealing with immigration, environment and

women’s rights — will surely leave a lot for politically-conscious Oscar winners to talk about. While viewers can expect a full-on speech from A-listers without any time restrictions, they should also anticipate other winners’ speeches to be cut off much more quickly, as has been the case in years past. The irony in this, of course, is that less wellknown directors who make documentaries about these issues are more likely to be experts.

Predictable wins, boring outfits and silenced marginalized identities have long been a redeeming quality of the awards ceremony. It is too bad Beyoncé has hit pause on acting, because at this point, only she can save the Oscars.

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by Khuyen Bui Dear Jumbo

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FOMO and JOBI

he other night, an old buddy named Fear Of Missing Out, or FOMO, gave me a surprise visit. I was planning to go to a party with a group of good old friends starting at 9:30 p.m. I finished my work at 10 p.m., and by then I was a bit tired. Should I still go?

Whenever this FOMO buddy comes, he always clogs my mind with indecision. I missed these friends whom I had not seen for a while. But I knew from experiences it would be loud, and I wouldn’t able to enjoy the conversations. But again, I already said yes. But I was tired …

I texted a friend there to see if I should still go. He said I should, but I was still indecisive until the choice seemed more apparent: it was late, I was too tired, people might be already leaving by the time I arrived. I texted back, “I’m so tired … say hi to everyone!” I then went to sleep early, feeling great. Old buddy FOMO left for good, leaving me some insights to share with you.

Last year, while struggling with FOMO, I found out that he had a close, beautiful but somewhat shy partner called JOBI: Joy Of Being In. FOMO is asking, “What else may be happening?” JOBI is not asking and simply staying in the present experiences. FOMO is for humans. JOBI is for cows.

Wait, what??

Let me explain. FOMO is the byproduct of evolution that allows the human brain to think about alternative scenarios for the future. On the other hand, JOBI is what you find by staring at a cow’s eyes. It is complete presence. I don’t want to be a complete cow, but I’d love to have some cow elements in me. In other words, I want to become a cowboy.

Ok Khuyen, this sounds good in theory, but how do I get to this cowboy stature?

I wish there were a simple answer.

It took me a long time to acknowledge JOBI. In my experience, it has been extremely helpful to remember that whenever you say no to something, you say yes to something else. No to a party means yes to sleep. No to a schoolwork means yes to a date with a friend. No to a predetermined goal means yes to something spontaneous along the way.

FOMO is not bad; without the ability to think ahead, we wouldn’t be able to dream of a better future. But it has to go with JOBI. Otherwise, our brain will run in an infinite loop of asking “What’s next?” until it exhausts itself.

Let me repeat: FOMO is not bad.

Perhaps FOMO has even gotten us to college by motivating us to do a gazillion cool extracurriculars on top of a dozen hard classes in high school. But FOMO can only bring us so far.

To thrive, we need JOBI. That is how we can make the world a better place, one moment at a time.

Thanks for reading! I’d love to hear your thoughts at bit.ly/dearJumbo.

Khuyen Bui is a senior majoring in computer science. Khuyen can be reached at g.khuyen@tufts.edu.

Opinion

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS Last semester, the Daily debuted its support fund, offering two first-years with demonstrated needs a stipend for their contributions to the Daily. As we strive to provide more comprehensive and accurate coverage of the Tufts community, we recognize that this is only possible with a staff that fully represents the diverse perspectives and experiences on campus. We also recognize that not all students have the resources or time to devote significant hours to a volunteer position with the Daily. Thus, we are happy to reintroduce our support fund again for the spring semester, this time opening it up to any Tufts students with a passion for journalism who want to contribute to the Daily but are unable to because of financial restrictions.

This semester, we have three awards available to anyone contributing to the Daily in any section (or multiple sections), including written content sections, photography, videography, graphics, social media, layout and copy editing.

Students of all backgrounds, including those who have no experience in journalism, are encouraged to apply.

Two awards of $250 will be offered to students who are just starting to work for the Daily in positions such as con-

tributing writers, layout editors, copy editors, contributing photographers, contributing videographers or graphic designers. We hope these awards will serve as jumping-off points for these students’ involvements in the Daily.

A third award of $500 will be given to a student who regularly devotes a significant number of hours per week to the paper. Possible recipients of this award include, but are not limited to, editors and assistant editors for any section, editorialists, staff photographers and staff videographers. Students who work for multiple sections are also encouraged to apply for this award.

Additionally, working on the Daily now qualifies as an on-campus job for students who receive work-study. As of this semester, those on the Daily’s masthead can use the hours they work for the Daily as work-study hours. Because of this, students on masthead who qualify for work-study will not be considered for the support fund stipend.

We would like to stress that this award is open to anyone interested in contributing to any section, not exclusively to written content sections.

We are actively seeking new students to

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This initiative is part of a larger effort of the Daily’s to become a more inclusive and intentional student organization. A diverse newsroom is not only critical to our ability to accurately and respectfully represent the Tufts community, but it is also important to us personally.

Today more than ever, there is a need for high-quality, tireless journalism.

Though this is only a small first step and only one of our ongoing efforts to be a more inclusive paper, we hope this support fund will help lower the barriers faced by many students who care about informing their peers and the broader Tufts community. We welcome any questions about this initiative.

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Tufts must act with care in implementing smoking ban Tufts Tobacco Free, a student initiative to make the Medford/Somerville campus tobacco-free, announced at the Feb. 12 Tufts Community Union Senate meeting that the group had gained tentative support from several Tufts administrators and that the university would become tobacco-free over the next few years.

While the group is currently seeking feedback on how the ban should be implemented, Tufts Tobacco Free and the university did not seek input from students before making this important decision. This sets a harmful precedent for future administrative actions and undermines student trust in the university.

The details for the plan itself are still being developed. The university has provided few details about how the ban will be enforced or what cessation resources will be offered to help smokers quit, although senior Megan D’Andrea, a member of Tufts Tobacco Free, said in a

Feb. 21 Daily article that Tufts University Police Department would not be enforcing the smoking ban.

Tufts’ rationale for instituting the ban is to create a healthy campus by discouraging smoking. There is little debate over whether smoking is bad for one’s health. Smoking has been labeled the number one cause of preventable deaths by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is responsible for the yearly deaths of over 480,000 Americans.

It is understandable that the university seeks to rectify this public health issue, but it must act with extreme care and concern moving forward, given the negative consequences of poor implementation. A ban with financial penalties would disproportionately impact low-income students and staff (smoking rates are higher among low-income people). The ban may also physically drive certain groups with higher smok-

ing rates, such as the LGBTQ community, away from campus, further widening existing divides between majority and minority groups here.

Despite D’Andrea’s reassurances, students’ concerns about the ban include the potential for increased interaction with campus police, which could lead to undesirable situations for minority groups due to the potential for biased enforcement.

Additionally, the university and Tufts Tobacco Free should provide more clarity about the smoking cessation resources that will be provided.

There is a major difference between providing educational resources and providing more expensive but more effective nicotine replacement products as part of cessation counseling. A 2010 survey in the United States found that 52.4 percent of smokers were unsuccessful in their attempts to quit in the previous year. Without pro-

viding helpful and effective resources to aid smokers, the university would be infringing on rights without providing a solution.

Now that Tufts has decided that the ban will take place, it should look to other schools such as the University of Michigan when evaluating models for effective implementation. The University of Michigan offers free nicotine replacement treatment, “Quit Kits,” with information and other tools to help smokers who wish to quit, as well as other free nicotine replacement products for faculty, staff and students.

Additionally, its enforcement guidelines emphasize respecting smokers’ choices and reminding them of the resources available.

The student group heading the initiative at Tufts is seeking comments at tobaccofreetufts@gmail.com. We urge you to reach out to them with your thoughts, suggestions and concerns.

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Sports

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Jumbos win but need to focus on three-point shooting and execution

by Alison Kuah Staff Writer

Second-seeded Tufts defeated seventh-seeded Williams 58-40 in the NESCAC quarterfinals over the weekend in a game in which both teams struggled offensively.

The Jumbos shot 34.3 percent from the field (23-for-67) while the Ephs went 15-for-45 on field goals (33.3 percent). The Jumbos led from the opening minutes, jumping ahead 17-12 after the first quarter. Sophomore guard Jacqueline Knapp scored nine of her 11 points in the first half, while also posting a team-high three steals and going 5-for-9 from the field on the day.

“I definitely think that the game this weekend had ups and downs. There’s a lot of good things that came out of it, but there’s also a lot of things we need to work on just to make sure we keep getting better,” Knapp said. “Whenever it’s the playoffs, everyone steps up their playing style. It’s different from the regular season because everyone’s a brand-new team.

You can’t take anyone lighter or look back to an earlier game because everyone’s really fired up and has a whole new energy. It’s just something we have to make sure we match.”

Williams opened up the scoring off a lay-up by junior Kristin Fechtelkotte, which would be one of the few times Williams led the whole game. Tufts led by as many as 22 points in the game, placing three different players in double digits.

“There were definitely some parts of the game where our energy dipped, and looking back there are definitely a lot of things we can learn both offensively and defensively,” senior tri-captain forward/ center Michela North said. “Even knowing

that Williams was going to come strong, they still kind of shocked us with the way they came out.”

North recorded game highs of 14 points and 10 rebounds, and junior forward Melissa Baptista added another 11 points for her team, despite shooting just 5-of-15 from the field and 1-for-6 from beyond the arc.

“Three-point shooting wasn’t great for us. I think we were 4-for-25, which isn’t great, especially when the other team is packing the paint and closing off some of our options inside, so when they’re giving us the open threes we really have to hit the shot,” North said. “We don’t want to live and die by the three, but also when the [other] team gives us the opportunity, we just have to take them.”

The Jumbos defended well from beyond the arc, holding their opponents to just 1-for-16 from outside (6.3 percent), but they shot just 16 percent from downtown (4-for-25).

“In practice when there’s 12, 14 girls on a court, it’s hard for everyone to work on their shooting, so just taking the time outside of practice to work on our shot is important,” Baptista said. “I know that for me, [my shooting] is about confidence, so if I’ve been shooting well before games, I’ll be more confident in games.”

Tufts last played Williams on Feb. 10, holding them to just 27 points in 40 minutes of play and six or less points in three of the four quarters.

“I think we executed better in the first game [against Williams],” Knapp said. “A lot of times, our transition defense is getting the steals on defense, just being really energized [and] making it hard for the team to score. I think this weekend we didn’t do as good a job [doing that], and I think Williams, with their end of their

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Senior Michela North runs with the ball during the game against Trinity on Feb. 3. season on the line, came out with a whole different mentality.”

Tufts will take on third-seeded Bowdoin (21-3, 8-2 in NESCAC) in the NESCAC semifinals on Saturday at 4 p.m. at Amherst. The Jumbos defeated the Polar Bears by a three-point margin, 46-43, on Jan. 6.

“We’re really excited to play Bowdoin again [because] we didn’t have a great showing against them the last time,” North said. “We’re just being grateful for the opportunity to keep playing. I think realizing that some teams have ended their season without making it to the quarterfinals of their conference, we’re

grateful that we have the opportunity to keep playing.”

If Tufts wins against Bowdoin, it will have the opportunity to face up against Amherst, which needs to get past fifth-seeded Colby to make it to the NESCAC Championship. The Jumbos lost to Amherst on Feb. 4, their only loss of the season.

“I think we’re just trying to channel any anger that we felt about that loss to Amherst.That cost us two home games in the NESCACs, [and] now we have two away games,” Baptista said. “We’re just trying to turn that anger into positive energy for the opportunity to play them again.”

ICE HOCKEY

Jumbos lock up sixth in NESCAC tournament after win over Bates, loss to Colby

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Junior forward Oliver Takacsi-Nagy fights for possession of the puck in the men’s ice hockey game against Amherst at the Malden Forum on Feb. 11.

by Savannah Mastrangelo Assistant Sports Editor

Tufts finished the regular season on Saturday with a record of 11-10-3 and clinched the sixth seed in the NESCAC playoffs after falling to the Colby Mules (11-4-3), by a margin of 3-2, in the final

two minutes of the game. Colby simultaneously guaranteed itself the second seed. On Friday, the Jumbos defeated the Bowdoin Polar Bears (5-12-1) at 3-1.

Saturday’s game was scoreless until Colby’s junior forward Michael Rudolf collected a puck that rebounded off of junior goaltender Nik Nugnes and scored 27 sec-

onds into the second period. A hooking penalty called against Colby gave Tufts a power-play a minute later. First-year forward Anthony Farinacci capitalized on the advantage and scored his seventh goal of the season, assisted by first-years Tyler Scroggins and Cooper Stahl. With 15 points on the season, Farinacci ranks fourth in scoring among first-years in the NESCAC. First-year Machlan Sawden scored from the right point at 5:15 in the second period, taking the lead for the Jumbos. Accordingly, Tufts entered the third period with a 2-1 lead, and the team was able to maintain its lead for the first half of the period. At 13:55 into the third, however, Rudolf netted his second goal of the game on a power play assisted from the left side by junior forward Phil Klitirinos. Just five minutes later with 1:43 left in the game, sophomore forward Nick O’Connor scored the winning goal. After a Colby teammate collected a blocked shot and swung the puck to the left side, Klitrinos slid the puck to O’Connor, who was waiting at the front of the net and tallied the final goal of the game.

While Tufts outshot Colby 15-5 during the first 20 minutes of play, Colby

had 18 shots in the third period alone and Nugnes had 34 total saves on the game.

According to senior tri-captain forward Mike Leary, the game inspired a lot of emotions.

“The first time we met [Colby], we played them a similar game, and we knew it was going to be close, but we were up in the third period and we just weren’t able to hold onto that lead,” Leary said. “I think our emotions got the best of us a little bit.

We were taking penalties and let up two shorthanded goals, so it was a mix of taking bad bounces and not being able to get it done in the shorthand.”

Against Bowdoin, Tufts got an early lead after junior forward Brian Brown received a pass from junior forward Trevor Davis, sped down the left side and scored 10:39 into the first. A few minutes later on a power play, senior Matt Pugh scored the second goal of the game at 13:58 after ripping a shot from the blue line and scoring on a screened goaltender.

The second period was scoreless for both teams, and it was not until 3:08 into the third that the Polar Bears got on the scoreboard after first-year forsee ICE HOCKEY, page 15

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Tufts places third at New England Div. III Championships

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by Sam Weidner

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Over the long weekend, Tufts tied with other NESCAC rivals Middlebury and Bates for a third place finish at the New England Div. III Indoor Championships with 62 points each.

The trio finished behind Williams with 140 points and MIT, who won at its home track with 149 points.

Tufts’ third-place finish is its best at the meet since the 2013-14 season, when they also placed third.

The Jumbos gained most of their points over the weekend on a number of impressive relay finishes. They placed second in the 4×200 relay, third in both the 4×400 and 4×800 and fifth in the 4000 distance medley relay (DMR). The 4×200 relay run by first-year Alina Strileckis, senior quad-captain Rita Donohoe, sophomore Sydney Ladner and junior Annalisa DeBari ran a time of 1:46.80 ,which was the best time of the season for the Jumbos and 0.28 seconds behind relay winner Southern Maine.

The Jumbos also had six different firstyear runners competing in different legs of these relays, showing even more promise in the rookie class, which has been successful so far.

Junior distance runner Brittany Bowman highlighted how rare it is to have the level of depth and talent the Jumbos are enjoying this season.

“Relays proved to be important at Div. III last weekend. The four relays we raced in provided 24 points for our team,” Bowman told the Daily in an email. “We are able to find four girls who are good at the 200, 400 or 800 while some other teams might only have one or two girls.

That depth certainly gives us the advantage at these postseason meets.”

Tufts’ best individual placements were a second place finish by first-year Julia Gake in the 600-meter and third place finishes by both Bowman and Cox in the 3000-meter and 1000-meter, respectively. DeBari finished fourth in

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First-year Rhemi Toth competes in the second 4000m DMR heat at the New England Div. III Indoor Championship at MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center on Feb. 18. the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.09 seconds, picking up five points for the Jumbos. Her time of 9.06 from the preliminaries ranked as the 24th best time in the nation for Div. III as of Tuesday afternoon.

Highlighting the field events, sophomore Brita Dawson placed eighth in the long jump at 5.25 meters. This finish both earned a point for Tufts and moved Dawson three spots above her 11th place seeding.

Bowman explained that athletes often approach the postseason meets with different mentalities and goals in mind.

“A lot of people went into this meet with place-orientated goals instead of time goals, but many still PRed and ran good times, or jumped or threw good marks,” Bowman wrote. “Annalisa DeBari had a great day for us, she ran a PR in the 60-meter hurdles and scored points. Sam Cox also had a great day PRing in the 1000 and scoring points.”

To meet those goals of scoring for the team and running individual qualifying times, the athletes often start a period of rest leading up to their meet. Before last

weekend, Donohoe described how the team changes its practice style depending on the time of the season.

“The sprinters especially will stop lifting.

Last week we only had one lift,” Donohoe said. “We will do a lot more sprinting, and distance too will do a lot more speed-oriented stuff and stuff that will make us less tired. So while we usually have like two hard workouts a week, around this time we will start doing one hard one and a day of more technical stuff.”

Up next, the Jumbos will compete at the All-New England Championship in Boston at the Reggie Lewis Center, starting at 12 p.m. on Friday. At this point in postseason action, however, individual competition, rather than team scoring, starts to become more important.

“We take All-New Englands next weekend as more of an individualized meet and less to do with the team,” Bowman said.

“This meet has tougher qualifying standards so fewer kids are competing, mostly short sprints, distance and relays. Mostly people are competing to get the race experience in or to qualify for Nationals in three weeks.”

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continued from page 14 ward Thomas Dunleavy scored off of a rebounded shot from senior defenseman Mitch Barrington. After Bowdoin pulled its goaltender in the last minute of the game, Farinacci scored an empty-netter, finalizing the 3-1 victory.

Nugnes had 26 total saves on the game, while Bowdoin’s junior goalkeeper Peter Cronin had 25.

The team will face the Trinity Bantams (15-6-3) in the quarterfinals of the playoffs on Saturday to continue a long-lasting rivalry between the teams. The Jumbos have faced the Bantams in the NESCAC tournament for the last two

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years, defeating them in the quarterfinals of the 2014-15 season and losing to them in the semi-finals of the 2015-16 season.

“As soon as we got the news that we were playing Trinity [in the playoff quarterfinals], everyone was ecstatic,” Farinacci said. “We were so pumped up because we knew everyone was going to doubt us playing at the sixth seed. We are playing a team we are very used to [playing]. Being a freshman, it’s exciting playing them twice after we got to beat them in a statement win [earlier in the season].”

Farinacci also stressed that the game against Trinity is not going to be easy.

“It is going to be a hard-fought game, but every game in the NESCAC is a battle

and it will be the same thing in the first playoff game against Trinity,” he said.

Senior tri-captain Sean Kavanagh is also optimistic going into the Trinity game after playing his 100th career game against Colby. Kavanagh is the first player in Tufts history to play triple-digit games for the program.

“These past four years have been unbelievable for me,” Kavanagh said. “I’ve been watching the program change and take form, and being part of that is pretty special. Going all four years without missing a game is special, and I’m looking to extend that a little longer during these next few games in the upcoming weeks.”

elcome to The Coin Toss, where I make some bold, unlikely predictions about your favorite professional sports.

Last week, I predicted two of four AllStar event winners correctly. I learned not to doubt “Porzingod” as the 7-foot-3inch Porzingis won the skills challenge over my pick of Isaiah Thomas. Perhaps my best pick of the week was Eric Gordon, who won the three-point contest. Aaron Gordon, my (and basically everyone’s) pick to win the dunk contest, seriously underperformed, and Glenn Robinson III went on to win.

The West came out on top, as I predicted, in an All-Star Game seriously lacking in defense. Overall, I was two-for-four on my All-Star predictions.

NBA action returns this Thursday, Feb. 23, so let’s get to some picks for this week…

Pelicans win in Cousins’ first game with new team The trade of DeMarcus Cousins to the Pelicans shocked the sports world. In the team’s first game together, the new-look Pelicans will be looking to establish themselves as a legitimate contender. They’ll be doing it against James Harden and the Rockets, who have the clear advantage. The Rockets average more points, rebounds and assists per game than the Pelicans.

Additionally, MVP candidate Harden has been an absolute monster this season, carrying his team to victory night after night.

Despite being the underdog in this game, I think the Pelicans will prevail. Cousins, who is averaging 25+ points and 11 boards this season, will give them a boost all over the floor. The new frontcourt combo of Boogie and Anthony Davis will propel New Orleans to an upset win over Houston.

Kristaps Porzingis puts up 30 points against Cavaliers Porzingis is coming off an All-Star Weekend to remember, so you know he’ll be pumped for this game against Cleveland. I won’t say that the Knicks can beat the Cavs; they probably can’t. However, I do think KP will have a big night. In the absence of Kevin Love, Cleveland won’t have anyone to man up with Porzingis consistently, as LeBron James will have to focus his attention on Carmelo Anthony. “The Unicorn” has scored 30 or more points three times this season. Those games were against the Pistons, Trail Blazers and Suns. The pattern here is that those teams don’t have a reliable defender at the power forward position.

Porzingis took advantage of that, just as he will tomorrow night against the Cavaliers.

Warriors score 140 in blowout of Nets This is an unlikely pick that was made for obvious reasons. One could argue that this matchup is between the worst team in the NBA and one one of the best.

Statistically, it is a matchup of the NBA’s top scoring offense of Golden State (118.2 PPG) versus the NBA’s worst defense (Brooklyn’s) in terms of points allowed (114.2 per game). However, the Warriors have only scored 140+ three times this year. Additionally, they only scored 117 in their first game against the Nets. However, if there’s a time to have a scoring outburst, it’s in a game against the league’s worst defense, at home, coming out of All-Star Weekend. The pick is in: The Warriors will walk all over the Nets and score 140+.

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

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