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Under-enrolled classes: some continue, some cancelled see FEATURES / PAGE 4

Winning weekend: Tufts sweeps Conn. College

Lady Gaga pleases crowd at Super Bowl halftime show see ARTS&LIVING / PAGE 5

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Somerville Mayor pledges to stand with immigrant community after sanctuary city executive order

by Robert Katz News Editor

Somer ville Mayor Joseph Curtatone reaffirmed his city’s status as a sanctuary city and promised to protect undocumented immigrants living in Somerville in a Jan. 25 speech.

Curtatone’s announcement followed an executive order released by President Donald Trump’s administration on the same day, which established a policy that would revoke federal funds from “jurisdictions that fail to comply with applicable Federal law” regarding undocumented immigrants.

Curtatone said city officials are unsure of how much federal funding could be at stake if the policy is enacted, but he estimated that Somerville receives more than $12 million from the federal government annually. He affirmed that the city will deal with those financial consequences if needed.

“These are our neighbors,” Curtatone said. “Their kids go to school with our children, they’re our friends, they’re our colleagues and we are not going to treat them like suspects at every turn.”

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Somerville City Hall is pictured here on March 12, 2012.

According to Curtatone, sanctuary status for Somerville includes assuring undocumented residents they will not be at risk of deportation if they report crimes to the police, and they will

not be turned in to federal immigration authorities for committing civil offenses.

Additionally, local police and city agencies are instructed not to profile Somerville residents to check their

immigration status. The mayor insisted, however, that Somerville will continue to follow existing laws. see SANCTUARY, page 2

Boston City Council President Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund talks politics at Civic Life Lunch awards grants to organizations in host communities

by Zachary Hertz News Editor

President of the Boston City Council Michelle Wu spoke at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life yesterday afternoon as part of the Civic Life Lunches initiative. During the lunchtime talk, Wu spoke briefly about her family, education and rise in politics before taking questions from the audience.

Wu is the first Asian-American woman to serve on the Boston City Council as well as its youngest current member. She worked in Boston City Hall under former Mayor Thomas Menino and was part of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) campaign for Senate.

Despite this, Wu had no intention of serving in government when she was younger. As the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, Wu said that stability was emphasized in her upbringing.

“In our family, politics wasn’t associated with great things,” Wu said. “It was about famine and political revolution

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and people getting in trouble and punishment and martial law. So my parents really wanted nothing else for me than to have a stable job that would pay a lot and not get me in trouble, and politics is really the opposite of all of those things, and so my journey happened kind of unexpectedly.”

Wu attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, where she spent her weekends volunteering and teaching citizenship classes to elderly immigrants in Chinatown. After graduation, she worked in consulting and was on track to go into business when her younger sister called her, saying, “You have to come home now.”

“When I got back to Chicago, we realized that my mom was in the midst of a mental breakdown. She had started hearing things that no one else was hearing and behaved very paranoid,” Wu said. “It felt like everything was spiraling out of control.” see MICHELLE WU, page 3

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The Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund (TNSF) has awarded $19,046 in grants to 36 nonprofit organizations in the Medford, Somerville, Grafton, Chinatown, Fenway and Mission Hill neighborhoods, according to a Jan. 13 news release.

TNSF was created in 1995 by the managing committee of the Tufts Community Appeal, an annual charitable campaign with a goal of demonstrating faculty and staff commitment across all campuses to supporting Tufts host communities, according to Tufts’ Co-Directors of Community Relations Barbara Rubel and Rocco DiRico.

TNSF raises donations year round from faculty and staff for nonprofit organizations in Tufts’ host communities, Rubel and DiRico said.

Any nonprofit organization with Tufts volunteers that serves one of the school’s host communities — Medford,

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Somerville, Grafton, Chinatown, Mission Hill and Fenway — is eligible to apply for a grant from TNSF, according to Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Associate Dean and TNSF Committee Member Christopher Swan.

The application is fairly straightforward, Swan said. An organization must first prove that it is a tax-exempt entity and that there are current Tufts community members serving or volunteering there. Then, the nonprofit must submit a proposal and it is reviewed by the TNSF committee based on impact and merit, according to Swan.

“It’s simply an application followed by the review by the committee,” Swan said.

“We tend to recognize that we’re trying to serve all these communities but at the same time, we’re trying to find what we consider to be the most impactful efforts that are being presented. When we have eight to 10 people actually looking and

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Immigrants’ rights organizers in Somerville urge resolve after Trump’s sanctuary city order SANCTUARY

continued from front “Somerville does not harbor criminals, and we are in regular communication and cooperate in the interest of public safety with our federal agencies,” Curtatone said. “No one who commits a violent crime, felony or serious crimes gets a free pass here.’’

Curtatone also claimed that Somerville, which declared itself a sanctuary city in 1987, has seen its crime rate drop by 52.9 percent over the past three decades, with violent crime rates below the state and national averages.

Tufts Associate Professor of Sociology Helen Marrow believes that sanctuary policies, which are highly variable among the more than 300 that exist in the United States, have been misinterpreted as defiance of federal and state immigration law.

“Sanctuary city does not mean a locality or a state does not enforce immigration law, that they let undocumented immigrants run free and that undocumented immigrants are safe. It does not mean that,” Marrow said. “The conservative base that put Trump in power doesn’t understand that, largely most of the public doesn’t understand that.”

Sanctuary cities, rather, adhere to and enforce all federal and state immigration law, but will not do more than what they are required to do by said laws, according to Marrow, who is also interim director of the Latino Studies program at Tufts. “[Sanctuary cities] basically say that, over and above what we’re required to do, we in essence won’t necessarily do extra, because we don’t believe that it helps [the community],” Marrow said.

“So if they don’t have to ask, they won’t necessarily ask. They won’t collect information or ask about information about legal status or share information about legal status if it is not required by federal or state immigration law.”

The recent language used by Trump’s executive order, as well as Curtatone’s

response, will have substantive effects even if they are mostly symbolic, Marrow added.

“That rhetoric itself will matter. It can shape feelings of belonging or feelings of exclusion. It can shape downstream behavior. If you feel like your mayor doesn’t exclude, if you feel like your hospitals will take you when you go in for care, you might have a chance for going in for care,” Marrow said. “[Rhetoric] sends big messages. I do think it’s primarily symbolic on both sides, but I think the symbols on both sides have enormous consequences in terms of senses of belonging.”

Guadalupe Garcia, a sophomore and member of the Welcome Project, which advocates and offers education programs for Somerville’s immigrant community, believes that Trump’s executive order could damage the confidence of immigrants living in Somerville.

[Somerville continuing to be a sanctuary city] will not be able to erase the feeling that this regime is very anti-immigrant,” Garcia said. “That can really shake someone’s sense of security even if their community feels relatively safe.

Maybe it can make immigrant members of the community retreat more into themselves and be less active in it because fear can do that.”

Ben Echevarria, executive director of the Welcome Project, said that his organization will not comply with the new federal policies.

“We’re standing our ground,” Echevarria said. “We’re not going to work with federal agents on this issue.”

Echevarria also emphasized a need to clear up misconceptions about immigrants.

“We’ve allowed the lie and the myth to go out there that sanctuary cities harbor criminals when in reality, undocumented people being criminals is a tiny fraction of the smallest subgroup you can find in state or federal prisons,” Echevarria said. “In reality, most immigrants are hardworking, they’re trying to learn English, they just

want a better life. They’re no different from you and I. I think pushing that and letting people understand that’s a myth and this is the truth about immigrants helps.”

Garcia said that Trump’s executive order is galvanizing her own efforts as an immigrant working for the immigrant community. “[The order] has made me more determined to do more and to work harder,” Garcia said. “I think that those are the general feelings at the Welcome Project, too. People are using the hate coming from the presidency to rally more action.”

In an interview with the Daily, Curtatone called the support that Somerville has received “inspiring.”

“There’s certainly an outpouring of support right now,” Curtatone said. “When I walk into my office every day, I read the stack of cards and letters of support from people inside this city and all around this country and North America.”

Curtatone added that his office would continue to monitor political events pertaining to sanctuary cities.

“We’re paying close attention to the events that are going on and the legal actions [taking place] and we’ll take any and all necessary actions … to protect the immigrant populations of our community, protect our constitution, including analyzing the legal options at our disposal,” Curtatone said.

Public support for Somerville’s sanctuary status was evidenced at a rally held in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Somerville becoming a sanctuary city, according to Echevarria. The rally, which was organized by the Welcome Project, took place last Saturday in front of Somerville High School. More than a thousand people attended the rally, according to the Boston Globe.

“It’s about showing that we care about our immigrant community,” Echevarria said. “That it’s part of the fabric of this community, in the city of Somerville, and we’re not going to tolerate hate.”

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Boston City Council President urges fellow millennials to serve in local government MICHELLE WU

continued from front Just out of college, Wu found herself handling multiple unexpected responsibilities. She was the primary caretaker for a mother suddenly struck with mental illness, the legal guardian for her two younger sisters and in charge of opening and running a family business to provide for her family.

As a result, she had to find appropriate health care for her mother, a good education for her sisters and business permits and licenses for the business. Wu credited these experiences with sparking her interest in government.

“I just became completely fed up with government,” Wu said. “Government was always in the way. Government was always trying to shut us down when all I was trying to do is help my family and in some ways create an environment for my community to be stronger. So I sort of vowed at that point that if I ever had the chance, I would try and do something about it one day.”

When it became apparent that her mother would need permanent, longterm care, Wu sold the business and brought her family to Boston, where she attended Harvard Law School and worked in Boston City Hall under Menino. She said that this work cemented her growing interest in politics. “[I] really saw that actually, from the inside of government, you can change things so that government is responsive, receptive and actually listens to people,” Wu said.

By her third year in law school, Wu realized that government was a great place to make a difference, and an opportunity to bring change arose when Warren, a commercial and bankruptcy lawyer from Oklahoma and Wu’s professor, announced that she was running for U.S. Senate.

Wu joined the Warren campaign with no political experience and started at the ground level, going from door to door and phonebanking. By the end, she had risen to the role of Constituency Director, reaching out to women, veterans, the LGBT community and communities of color, getting them to vote.

“I learned then that policy is important and having good people in government is important, but the politics really, really matters, too,” Wu said.

“Because it’s only through changing who feels welcome coming out to vote, participating or sitting at decision-making tables that we are really going to change the dynamic of who’s plugged into policy.”

When the Warren campaign came to a successful end in 2012, Wu announced her candidacy for Boston City Councillor At-Large in December and went on to win the 2013 election. In 2016, she was elected president of the Boston City Council.

“It’s just been a dream, really,” Wu said. “City government is where you can get things done quickly, you can see your constituents face to face, you can be out in the community, and I think there’s no problem that Boston can’t take on and provide a model for.”

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President of the Boston City Council Michelle Wu speaks to an audience in the Rabb Room on Feb. 7.

Throughout the talk, Wu stressed the importance of increasing participation in government and making way for the next generation of leaders. Wu praised several programs that aim to increase women or minority participation in government, including Emerge Massachusetts, which Wu graduated from in 2010.

In a later interview with the Daily, Wu called for an increase in civic engage-

ment among college students.

“Figure out what motivates you most, whether it’s an issue or a community, and get involved now,” Wu told the Daily. “If we can maintain young people’s belief that government is a place where you can do good … and if we can really make government seem an attractive place for the millennial generation, I think we’ll be just fine.”

Tufts expands community service grant program to SMFA neighborhoods GRANTS

continued from front evaluating, some commonality generally comes out.”

Swan said the entire process commences in October, when requests for proposals are distributed to organizations in Tufts’ host communities. The committee does not convene until December, when proposals have already been submitted and are ready for review, according to Swan.

“The process is one of sending out the request for proposals in October, receiv-

ing those proposals in November and then being distributed to the committee for a couple of weeks for us to review and come together and decide how that money can be distributed,” Swan said.

Rubel and DiRico explained that Robert Hollister, founding dean of Tisch College, played an important role in starting TNSF. Hollister and the committee envisioned a program that would recognize civic work off campus and exhibit the university’s commitment to its host communities, according to Rubel and DiRico.

“[The program sought to] create a way to encourage contributions to organizations in our host communities and to recognize Tufts volunteers assisting these organizations,” Rubel and DiRico told the Daily in an email.

Since then, TNSF has grown from an initial grant pool of about $5,000 in 1995 to approximately $19,000 in 2017, according to Rubel and DiRico. Moreover, the program has expanded its scope this year by including the SMFA’s neighborhoods, they said.

“For the first time this year, an award

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Representatives from community non-profit organizations who recieved the 2016 TNSF grants pose with University President Anthony Monaco and members of the TNSF board.

was made to an organization that serves Mission Hill,” Rubel and DiRico wrote.

“This will be a regular addition to the program going forward.”

This year, 50 organizations applied for grants but only 36 received an award, according to Rubel and DiRico. Swan explained that this is most likely because some of those projects were quite large.

Swan added that the TNSF board is more likely to award grants to groups with small and specific requests, whereas groups with larger requests had a smaller chance of getting funding.

One of the 36 organizations to receive a grant this year was the Medford Public Library. The organization was awarded $500

by TNSF to purchase laptops for use by visitors, according to Director of the Medford Public Library Barbara Kerr.

“This year, what we wanted to do was purchase some laptops that people could check out and use in the building,” Kerr said. “We do have public access computers, but we’re very full. We’re an older building … so the public access computer areas are not set up for comfort … if you want to sit and read your email or something, you’re not sitting in comfort; you’re sitting at a counter or stool basically.”

Since receiving funding for their new project, the library hopes to purchase the laptops and have them ready to use in April or May, according to Kerr. Kerr believes that the TNSF has helped to bring Tufts and the Medford community closer.

“We have more of a relationship than we used to, I think … we didn’t have that much of a relationship for many years, but now we do seem to have more interaction,” Kerr said. “It seems as though there’s a lot more connection in the last few years between us, the community and Tufts.”

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MJ Griego Mind the Gap

Checking in with small talk We’ve all been there before: writing the whole paper the day before it’s due, scrambling to review material seconds before the exam, juggling extracurriculars. This university is full of opportunities that seem unending at times.

Throughout our time here, especially during freshman year, there is an insidious pressure to “make the most of your time.”

There is a type of interaction, however, that I have experienced (and participated in) that only leads to being less healthy and often less productive.

When interacting in daily school life, I’ve noticed one fairly common script for quick conversation: 1. You ask your friend how they are doing. They respond “Fine!” or “Good!” out of pure habit.

2. If you go on to talk about classes, both of you list off all the responsibilities you each have in rapid succession. Often, you will convey these responsibilities with a sense of vital urgency and a bit of shame for not having done more yet.

These types of interactions are ‘easy’ – socially scripted to the point where you may find yourself telling the same monologue to different people multiple times a day. This is really where such behavior can do more harm than good. I’m not going to tell you to rattle off your full emotional state to anyone who asks how you’re doing; that’s tiring both for you and for this kind-of friend who was just trying to exchange niceties. Your depth of response should depend on your relationship with the person in question. But when one asks, “How are you doing?” it’s a good opportunity to check in with yourself.

How am I feeling today? How are things going? Giving yourself and this friendish person a short and more thoughtout response can give you a shred of perspective in an environment where it’s easy to get caught up with small setbacks.

Then, when you think about all the work that you want to vent about not having done, try to balance out the conversation by first rationalizing the ways in which you’re doing well and what you’ve been doing for yourself in the day.

Thinking about how you cooked yourself a great breakfast or had a fun date with a friend or even being proud about having gotten out of bed — these are all important ways to validate the work you put into your own body and mind. Finally, if you have to talk about work, try to instead think about all the work you have been doing. Acknowledge how much you do week to week, and try to frame things as not only effort but as a way to give back to yourself: “My sociology readings are so long, but it feels really good to know what I’m talking about in class discussions.”

Finding a balance between understanding how hard it is to be a student and valuing the emotional work you’re doing is key. Time socializing, resting and working on hobbies are also the keys to being a balanced student.

MJ Griego is a senior studying sociology.

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

Features

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

All about under-enrollment

by Emma Damokosh

Assistant Features Editor

While Tufts offers a wide array of available classes on the Student Information System (SIS) during course registration, some inevitably end up getting cancelled each semester due to low student enrollment. The process of course cancellation depends on a variety of factors, including the tenure status of the professor teaching the course and whether or not students could gain similar skills from another course offered that semester. Additionally, not all courses and departments are impacted equally by under-enrollment, often due to the size of the department in which the course is taught and how and when the course is announced and advertised.

According to Tufts Registrar Jo Ann Jack, most decisions to cancel classes are made before the class even starts meeting. Other classes that do meet at the beginning of the semester are usually cancelled within the first week.

Pedro Palou, chair of the Department of Romance Languages, said that the number and type of courses initially offered is based partially on their enrollment during previous semesters. “[We] check the three previous years and also, of course, the serial progression of the courses,” he said. “It is a process always done with a clear rationale.”

This structure is similar to the ones used by many of the academic departments, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences Joseph Auner said.

However, Auner said that even with this method in place, a couple of classes in each department are likely to be cancelled due to under-enrollment each semester.

He explained that if a class has six people or fewer, the department will usually at least consider cancelling the class. Whether it actually does so, however, depends on a few conditions.

According to Auner, each academic dean is included in the discussions regarding course under-enrollment in their respective academic departments.

Jack explained that there are no specific courses that tend to struggle with under-enrollment.

“It varies semester to semester,” she said.

Even so, there are certain departments that seldom encounter challenges in filling their classes. For example, Auner said that he oversees the Department of Biology, and he rarely encounters cancellations of biology classes because it is such a large, popular subject at Tufts.

Though at a less consistent rate than the biology department, the Department of Romance Languages does not usually struggle with under-enrollment either, with only two-to-three under-enrolled classes per semester, according to Palou.

While student enrollment is a large factor in deciding to cancel under-enrolled classes, it is not the only one, Auner explained. Another important consideration across departments is the university’s contract with the professor teaching the under-enrolled class.

“Other factors that go into decisions about whether or not to run a course include collective bargaining agreements with the part-time and full-time unions,” Auner said.

Collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in lecturer contracts often provide the university with guidelines as to what they can and cannot do with professors whose classes get cancelled, Auner explained.

According to Auner, professors in the part-time workers union have contracts that state that they must be paid regardless of whether or not their class runs.

Often in these scenarios, under-enrolled classes will run because the university is paying the professor’s salary anyway.

In many cases, full-time lecturers or professors with tenure will be assigned other duties in place of the class that was cancelled according to what their contract allows. However, part-time lecturers’ CBAs often state that the university cannot give the lecturer any extra duties due to their part-time employment, which often does not grant them health benefits and other perks of being a fulltime or tenured lecturer, Auner said.

An additional consideration when determining whether or not to cancel a class is the intended size of the class.

Auner, who is also the former head of the Department of Music, explained that some classes, such as small jazz ensembles, actually function best when they are kept small.

“The small jazz ensemble courses sometimes had less than six people in them, but that was the point: To give students the experience of playing in a very small group,” Auner said.

However, the reverse may also be true. When there are not enough people in a class, it might not be worth running because there may be other sections of the class, or it may not be productive without the right number of people, Auner said.

He also said that upper-level classes and important graduation requirements are seldom cancelled because they are in some ways irreplaceable to the students taking them.

Special topics classes, on the other hand, are often at risk of being cancelled due to under-enrollment. Auner attributes this under-enrollment in part to the way they are displayed on SIS. They are often hard to find for students searching for classes, he said.

“Because of the way SIS is set up, new, exciting classes don’t have the high enrollments you would expect because students may not know about them,” Auner said.

Auner also pointed to a lack of advertising that might contribute to under-enrollment in special topics courses.

A similar enrollment challenge can be found with Experimental College (ExCollege) courses, which are announced later than other courses, requiring students to fit them into their existing schedules.

However, these ExCollege classes usually run even if they do not meet their expected enrollment numbers, because the people teaching them are often guest lecturers and Tufts students, Auner said.

One final consideration that arises when deciding whether the enrollment of a class is too low to run is the opportunities that the course offers for students.

“At Tufts, we want to create opportunities for students to take courses across the humanities, natural sciences [and] social sciences,” Auner said. “We want the course offerings to be balanced.”

Primarily, the classes that get cancelled have counterparts in different time slots or are truly too small to facilitate productive conversation and learning, Auner explained.

“The students are paying substantial tuition, so we want to be thoughtful and deliberate about where resources go,” Auner said.

ARTS&LIVING

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

MOVIE REVIEWS

The best, less obvious Valentine’s Day movies for a stellar night in

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Kara Hayward plays Suzy, one of two young lovers on the run, in Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom."

by Setenay Mufti

Assistant Arts Editor

Valentine’s Day does not have to be a lavish day. It can be celebrated just as well at home curled up with a movie.

Many people might resort to the obvious and cliched romances for Valentine’s Day, such as “The Notebook” (2004) or “Titanic” (1997). However, some of the most touching, heartwarming depictions of love in film appear in more unconventional love stories.

For example, one of the most subtle-yet-touching depictions of an interracial relationship in film unfolds in a New York crime drama starring Robert De Niro.

“A Bronx Tale,” (1993) directed by De Niro, follows the life of a young Italian-American who struggles to navigate his family life and his connections to the mafia. He also falls in love with a young black girl from the other side of the Bronx. This movie offers crime scenes and star-crossed love all at once, resembling an Italian “West Side

Story” (1961) with a more complicated view of city crime and violence. Any man who loves “Goodfellas” (1990) would find this film moving. It is a powerful, engaging story of loyalty and love, without a single song number.

For those looking for an artsier film, Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom” (2012) tells the story of two 12-year-old outcasts, Sam and Suzy, devoted to their whirlwind summer affair despite concerned community leaders, jaded parents and a threatening nearby storm. The film’s setting on a visually stunning, fictional New England island along with its engaging score contribute to the film’s magical qualities. Sam and Suzy (played by Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) are at an age when everyone around them begins to stop tolerating their idealism and their quirks. The film’s depiction of a pre teen relationship is uniquely heartwarming, realistic and satisfying. Though some aspects of their relationship are childlike, the young lovebirds are painfully aware of reality and

refuse to give in to adult defeatism just yet.

It may be young love, but its depiction is sweet enough to make adults believe in it.

While viewers of “Moonrise Kingdom” might feel nostalgia for their first loves, those looking for a depiction of a more sophisticated, long-term romance should consider “The Incredibles” (2004) for Valentine’s Day viewing. Although released as a kids’ movie, “The Incredibles” is also a movie about rekindling love as an adult, as the animated superhero movie is also about the relationship between married parents Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl. The marriage is not perfect, as Mr. Incredible lies to Elastigirl throughout the first half of the movie and pays for it later, and their arguments will seem painfully accurate to anyone with parents who don’t always get along. But if one is interested in finding a touching, realistic look at married life and love that ends on a happy note, it is sure to be found in this Pixar masterpiece. see ALENTINES, page 6

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Gaga puts on a glittery show with a message of inclusion

by Cassidy Olsen

Assistant Arts Editor

On Sunday night, just as it seemed like New England was about to light a lot of “Super Bowl LI Champions” merchandise on fire, there appeared a beacon of hope clad in a sparkly cat suit and high-heeled boots. Lady Gaga, this year’s solo halftime show performer, stood atop Houston’s NRG Stadium looking like a fabulous Batman villain as drones-turned-stars flashed in the night sky above her. In the patriotic style so typical of the Super Bowl, Gaga began by singing “God Bless America” and then transitioned into the folk favorite “This Land is Your Land” before leaping from the roof and being carried down to the stage on suspension cables in an impressive­­and GIF-able stunt.

Although the song choice would seem fairly standard and pale in comparison to the acrobatics during any other Super

Bowl, its message of inclusion is highly political in 2017, particularly following the anti-immigrant measures taken by the Trump administration. Even if Gaga didn’t make any controversial political statements on the level of Beyoncé’s Black Pantherinspired performance of “Formation” at the 2016 Super Bowl, her halftime show combined two things that have defined her career thus far: impeccable, flashy showmanship and a celebration of individuality and inclusion.

After her aerial spider crawl, Gaga began a medley of her greatest hits, transitioning from “The Edge of Glory” (2011) to party classic “Poker Face” (2008). In a favor to us all, she also forced audience member Vice President Mike Pence to sit and listen to her celebratory performance of “Born This Way” (2011), featuring the lyrics, “No matter gay, straight or bi / lesbian, transgendered life / I’m on the right track, baby / I was born to survive.” Gaga, a vocal advocate for

LGBTQ rights, turned “Born This Way” into the emotional heart of her halftime show.

It wasn’t all yelling at Mike Pence, however. Gaga went classically wacky, holding a giant, studded scepter during “Telephone” (2009) and getting some help from back up dancers and an amazing gold jacket for her first ever hit single, “Just Dance” (2008).

For the lighter and glow stick waving portion of the night, she slowed things down with piano ballad “Million Reasons” from her latest venture, “Joanne” (2016), a country-inspired album that diverges from her pop personality.

To close the show, Gaga did a quickchange out of her cat suit and into glittery underwear with, of course, protective football shoulder pads, belting “Bad Romance” from “The Fame Monster” (2009). After Gaga leapt from her platform on the stage, the sky lit up once see LADY GAGA, page 6

Where should I put this?” a guy in my bed asked recently, having slipped his hand under my sheets and emerged holding a slim red copy of Adrienne Rich’s “The Dream of a Common Language” (1978). How sloppy of me, I thought, leaving the person I’d gone to bed with the night before still under the sheets. Then I thought, how poetic.

Dead poets, and some living, are with me in bed and in the bath and in my head as I wander through Trader Joe’s. I turn to them when I’m nervous, when I can’t slog through another scholarly article for class, when I’ve been hurt and when it occurs to me for the thousandth time that I don’t really know what I want to do with my life.

This column is an ode to those questions, to our problems and to the poets who always seem to speak to them just right.

“Why do I always fall for his fake advances?” a friend texted me on Saturday night. The only bizarre thing about the question was that, for once, I wasn’t the one asking it.

I like to think that susceptibility to feeling — especially feeling something for someone — is a necessary and beautiful part of life. But maybe that’s just an attempt on my part to justify the embarrassing level of devotion I always have to at least one romantic interest (never one who deserves it). In truth, the devotion has a corollary relationship with disappointment. If deep disappointment has been inflicted one week, devotion eagerly responds to a text message the next week.

It’s the feeling of being reeled in again and again.

“No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone,” Adrienne Rich writes. “No poison cup, / no penance. / Merely a notion that the tape-recorder / should have caught some ghost of us: / … this is how we tried to love, / and these are the forces they had ranged against us, / and these are the forces we had ranged within us, / within us and against us, against us and within us.”

The last line in that stanza is my favorite. I love how the antimetabole — “within us and against us, against us and within us” — entraps the reader in that human tension. Our emotions are always colliding with outside forces we can’t control, and those outside forces are always fueling our emotions.

Adrienne Rich knows the dilemma too, but in other words. The ‘other words’ are important here because the tension she describes isn’t the helpless feeling of being reeled in yet again by an alluring line: It’s a tension raging within us, a form of power, a choice.

I think there is value in choosing wrong.

If I’m going to do something I shouldn’t do — if I’m going to fall again for fake advances — I would like to sometimes own it. To say, “This is how I tried.” And to hope that the voice picked up by the recorder, if not a wise one, is at least loud.

Abigail is a senior majoring in English.

Abigail can be reached at abigail.mcfee@ tufts.edu.

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continued from page 5 The most satisfying romantic movies are those where the love prevails not only over family or circumstance, but also stands strong in the face of the complicated and ugly world around it. Such is the love portrayed in Hong Kong-Chinese satire “Kung Fu Hustle” (2004). Upon its release, it was

considered a kung fu movie in its own right. It also, however, is the setting for an epic love story. The romance is between Sing (Stephen Chow), a loser who defends Shanghai from the Deadly Axe Gang, and Fong (Eva Huang), a girl from Sing’s childhood who is mute. Although there are a lot more martial arts scenes than love scenes, this story of heroism and determination

seeks to find the true meaning of kung fu: not just to destroy, but also to unite.

If “Kung Fu Hustle” isn’t goofy enough, there’s always “Tootsie” (1982). This film emerges from the comedy movie renaissance of the 1980s with a level of warmhearted, slapstick romance that is almost Shakespearean. The hero, Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), is forced to hide his

male gender when he lands the role of a middle-aged woman named Tootsie on a soap opera. He meets a gorgeous fellow actor, Julie (Jessica Lange), and things get complicated. It teaches us that to be loved, we do truly have to be ourselves. The mix of romantic travails, feminist sensibilities and happy endings makes “Tootsie” the ideal Valentine’s Day night-in treat.

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continued from page 5 again with fireworks and drones spelling out “Pepsi” to honor the absurdly-named “Pepsi Zero-Sugar Super Bowl LI Halftime Show.” In just under 14 minutes, the star managed to put on a crowd-pleasing and commercial-friendly show, free of lip-sync missteps and controversy, but full of glitter and some classic Gaga weirdness.

Of course, not everyone was happy with the performance. Many had hoped that Lady Gaga would use the opportunity to make a larger anti-Trump statement and were disappointed by the results. Others believe that the message of inclusion in her songs is inherently limited and privileged.

Regardless, it appeared that Gaga ultimately chose to bring some levity and positivity to the audience through her music, an idea cemented by her statement on stage: “We’re here to make you feel good. Do you want to feel good with us?” Perhaps, at a time when the country is polarized by political and ideological differences, Gaga’s decision to play safe was a smart move as it allowed Americans to unite through music and entertainment.

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Opinion OP-ED

A kinder space in the ivory tower

by Maxwell Bevilacqua The most tragic loss this past election was not the loss of Hilary Clinton – it was the loss of civility. Far from a nuanced or even substantive debate about how to best govern our country, we seem to have lost the ability, at every level of society, to talk about our country constructively with those who do not share our opinions.

I felt this even more viscerally when one of my classmates at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Frances Burke, wrote the Dec. 5, 2016 The Weekly Standard article, “Looking for a ‘Safe Space’ In the Ivory Tower.” Therein, she expresses a heartbreaking sentiment that she is hesitant – even afraid – to verbalize her political party, prior work experience, personal views and religious beliefs in fear that her peers will label her… well, a deplorable. Thus she asks, “Where is my safe space?”

This sentiment is valid. Many of us who lean left conflate the political leanings of so many on the right with a sort of moral bankruptcy. This is one of, if not the, largest failures of the left – how quickly and categorically we condemn people for holding opinions or identities we perceive to be lacking compassion. This is not a very compassionate thing to do.

On some issues, some of us have reached a point where the time for talk is over. Because I am convinced that there is still value in dialogue (if only for the sake of civility in our daily lives), I want to discuss why pieces like these, that

have shown up at universities across the country, discourage conversation.

First, we need to talk about “safe spaces.” The term “safe space” originated in the 1960s to describe refuges for members of the gay and lesbian community from harassment and physical violence. “Safe spaces” have expanded to the point that they deserve discussion and pushback. There is, however, a crucial difference between invoking an academic space in which one can voice less popular opinions more comfortably and a space for historically less-privileged identities to be safe from harm.

What I hear is the need for a kinder space – especially in a place of higher education. I hear and echo a call for a space in which opinions can be voiced free from mockery, free from castigation and free from having one’s entire character called into question. I came to Tufts to gain exposure to many views, many traditions and many kinds of people. It does a disservice not only to my peers who do not feel like they can express their opinions but also to every Tufts student’s education in a school that is meant to equip us to interact with perspectives globally.

At Fletcher, our program is also meant to impart diplomacy. Therefore, taking pleasure in the pains of peers is a strange way of asking for empathy from them.

Ridiculing “safe spaces” is an odd way to ask for them. Denigrating other theologies is not the way to make space for ours, and sweeping generalizations of the other end of the political spectrum are not a con-

vincing call for people to see the nuances within our own. In short, it is not a tenable position in our tight-knit community, or in a pluralistic democracy, to ask for a kinder space and to be unkind towards others.

By “kindness,” I am not suggesting that we avoid difficult topics. I am asserting that we cannot address those issues if we communicate that we do not regard one another as capable of productive dialogue. By kindness, I am not suggesting that we mute the conviction with which we hold our beliefs. I am pleading for us to resist the temptation of letting our anger possess us in such a way that we write people off as irredeemably problematic to our society.

Aristotle writes, “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power, and is not easy.” If we are to realize a healthier space for dialogue at Tufts, not to mention in the United States, we are required to become angry with greater precision, especially as that anger is stoked.

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Maxwell Bevilacqua is Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy candidate at The Fletcher School. Maxwell can be reached at maxwell.bevilacqua@tufts.edu.

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Khuyen Bui Dear Jumbo

A Tale of Two Jumbos Once upon a present time, there are two Jumbo seniors. One of them is a well-known campus figure whom many people look up to and go to for advice.

Walk with her across Pro Row, and you will find her smiling and waving, while you step back and bask in her glowing halo. She tries her best to help other people, but often feels the burden, as she cannot be there for the many people she meets. She wants to do more.

The other senior is a bit less wellknown. He often shuns places with lots of people like Tisch, dining halls and definitely parties. He finds his own quiet corner until he cannot take the loneliness anymore; only then he goes out and gets one or two breaths of other humans. People may think he is too busy figuring out the world, so few come to him for advice. He too wants to do more.

The two seniors know each other and know that they have a similar goal.

As they talk, it dawns on him that he does not care about his reputation. He has only one goal: to learn to make better gifts for the world. If what that goal takes is being better-known, then so be it. For him, there is no good and bad opinion of himself. There is only feedback.

Now, why am I telling this story?

You may guess the obvious reason: that guy is me. The not-so-obvious reason is that you may have seen such dynamics throughout your Tufts life and perhaps have even asked yourself: How should I be known?

Many people live their lives for the limelight. Others shun it. I’m trying to care in a different way. Remember one of the Tufts admission essay prompts, the Quaker saying, “Let your life speak?”

In my ideal world, it would instead be, “Let others speak your life.” Alas, in this world, we’ve got to do both, none of which is easy.

For example, while writing this, a voice in my head kept nagging, “WHO ARE YOU TO SAY THIS?” I used to engage in that debate pretty loudly, struggling to defend my self-worth by claiming that I am a senior, that I’ve been through this college thing, that I have something to share.

Now I’ve learned to respond to that voice more calmly: “I get your point and appreciate your worry. Relax, my friend.” It worked like a charm: that voice in turn stopped yelling. Now it asks a much gentler set of questions, inspired by the late Rumi: “Are you sharing what is true for yourself, what is necessary for others, and what is kind for everyone?”

This, I truly appreciate.

Most of this advice is intended to share stories of what I’ve learned in my time here that has helped me in meaningful ways. A part of it is also intended as useful advice for people, thereby the name Dear Jumbo, as Jumbo is both you and me. I hope you first enjoy the advice and maybe find it helpful. Please let me know at bit.ly/dearJumbo.

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

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Bursting the ‘liberal bubble’ On Nov. 9, 2016, many students and faculty on the Tufts campus found themselves shocked and confused after the presidential election. The election of Donald Trump sent shockwaves across college campuses and liberal cities throughout the nation. The election highlighted the huge disconnect between younger, urban areas and older, rural areas — the phenomenon known as the “liberal bubble.” More specifically, this term describes the idea that liberals tend to cluster in certain areas, like university campuses or coastal cities, and in these areas, they outnumber conservatives significantly and alienate the ones who remain. These liberals thus become unaware of the desires, values and concerns of conservatives across the nation.

The bubble is a real phenomenon, and it has nationwide repercussions. It is important to note that the bubble effect occurs within conservative circles as well, though

this phenomenon is not as salient on our campus. Research has shown that people across the political spectrum, now more than ever, feel most comfortable when surrounded by those who have a similar political ideology to their own. According to the Pew Research Center, nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of consistent conservatives and about half (49 percent) of consistent liberals say most of their close friends share their political views. This social divide between liberals and conservatives has made it increasingly difficult for the two groups to communicate with each other, thus pushing conservatives further right and liberals further left.

Ideological echo chambers, whether conservative or liberal, are problematic because of the divisiveness they have caused. Conservative media outlets can contribute to ideological stagnation within the Republican Party, fostering an environment of continuous self-affirmation. Conversely, ideological echo

chambers on the left are not only divisive, they are detrimental to the liberal ideology itself. Liberal echo chambers tend to encourage generalizations and assumptions about conservative-minded people, such as the belief that conservatives are bigoted or that they are less intelligent simply by virtue of their political affiliation. These stereotypes lead to an exclusion of conservative ideas and thus mangle the very basis of the liberal ideology: open-mindedness.

Tufts is largely a liberal echo chamber. For example, in 2004, 100 percent of donations to political campaigns over $100 made by Tufts faculty and students went to Democratic Party politicians.

Recently, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) was invited to speak at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life’s Distinguished Speaker Series. He is a Democrat, like all but four of the previous speakers of the series. Undoubtedly, the majority of the student body and faculty were thrilled

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to have the opportunity to see Kaine and all the other Democrats that have come speak at Tufts, but the university should do more to encourage ideologically diverse conversation on this campus. It could start by making an effort to bring in more conservative speakers or to hire more conservative faculty.

We are facing an indubitably polarized political landscape. We must acknowledge that it can be difficult, and at times impossible, for certain marginalized groups to engage in bipartisan dialogue due to the threatening rhetoric perpetuated by Trump, his campaign and now his administration. But despite the challenges, it is imperative that people from both sides of the spectrum seek reasonable opportunities to broaden our ideological horizons in order to halt the political divisiveness that plagues our country.

Given the strongly left-leaning nature of political discourse at Tufts, our campus would a great place to start.

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Sports ICE HOCKEY

Tufts rebounds from losing streak, sweeps Conn. College

by Savannah Mastrangelo Assistant Sports Editor

Finally ending a four-game losing streak, the Jumbos swept the Conn. College Camels with back-toback victories, winning 3-0 and 2-1 on Friday and Saturday, respectively, and clinched a spot in the playoffs.

While the team’s playoff ranking will be determined by the results of the last four games in the regular season, the team currently ranks seventh in the NESCAC with a 7-6-1 conference record.

Conn. College gained an early lead on Saturday 4:09 minutes into the first period, after senior Ryan Mowery roofed the puck from the left circle into the net. Just six minutes later, Tufts’ senior tri-captain Sean Kavanagh powered through the neutral zone and scored an equalizer from the right circle with 9:45 left in the period.

After Conn. College committed a tripping penalty 16:08 into the first period, which granted Tufts a power play, first-year forward Machlan Sawden scored what turned out to be the winning goal with the man advantage just seven seconds later, finalizing the score at 2-1. The next two periods remained scoreless on both sides. Tufts junior goaltender Nik Nugnes made 27 saves in the contest.

“I think we played hungry in both games which really helped,” coach Pat Norton said. “Nik Nugnes really

stepped up and played great in both games, in particular on Friday night.

He played great when we needed him to, and he made a couple of big saves at the end for us on Saturday as well, so I think those two things combined were really good for us.”

Nugnes had an outstanding showing on Friday night, as he made 31 total saves and had his first career shutout.

At 11:27 in the first, first-year defender Jordan Haney hit a slap shot from the left point, converting Kavanagh’s assist to give Tufts a 1-0 lead. After killing a penalty early in the second period, Haney found the back of the net once again after the puck was slotted from behind the net to out front as Haney hit a slap shot to the right upper corner, assisted by Kavanagh.

Just a few minutes later at 6:20, Kavanagh came straight through the middle of the offensive zone and snuck the puck past the goaltender’s legs, scoring the winning goal and solidifying the 3-0 victory. After the final goal, the Jumbos had many more scoring opportunities and dominated the ice offensively, as first-year Cooper Stahl nearly scored a fourth goal after ripping a shot from the blue line and hitting the left post in the middle of the third period.

Kavanagh attributes the wins over the weekend to the team’s consistent energy.

“We really focused in practice on bringing intensity to all three periods,” Kavanagh said. “Our intensity has not

been as high as it needed to be, so we worked on battling hard every day, and that showed this weekend. We finally started winning puck battles and winning races again, and because we outworked [Conn. College] and stuck with our systems, we were able to pull out the win.”

With junior forward Oliver TakacsiNagy back on the ice this weekend and junior forward Chad Goldberg back in practice after suffering concussions, the team is significantly healthier entering the end of the season and the playoffs.

The team is now in the final stretch of the season, with four crucial regular season games remaining. While the team has clinched a playoff spot, the results of these games will determine the official playoff seeding. Next weekend, Tufts will host Amherst. The Jumbos have not managed to topple the Purple and White since the 20042005 season.

“We tend to play on our heels against Amherst,” Norton said. “They are a quick team, but we’ve been in every game we’ve played against them over the last couple of years. We’ve just made some plays during the game or at the end of games that have come back to bite us on the scoreboard. I think if we go after them and stay on the offensive the whole game, it will give us the best chance to win.”

The team will host Amherst on Feb. 10 and Hamilton on Feb. 11 for its final two home games of the season.

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Bradley Schussel The Coin Toss

The Return Welcome (back) to The Coin Toss, where I make bold and unlikely predictions about your favorite professional sports!

The Super Bowl is in the past, so we’re in full-fledged basketball prediction season. Let’s get right to it; here are my NBA picks for this week…

Today (Feb. 8): Bucks snap Heat’s 11-game win streak The Heat are absolutely on fire (pun intended) going into tonight’s game against the Bucks in Milwaukee. This is thanks to some lights-out shooting from Goran Dragic. Dragic was 7-9 from three on Monday, and he’s shooting 45 percent from three on the year. Any team to beat Miami would need a scrappy, perimeter-defending point guard to stop Dragic. Cue Matthew Dellavedova. He’s an important piece of the puzzle, but not the only one that will aid the Bucks in stopping the Heat’s streak. Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jabari Parker and John Henson are all capable of holding down the fort defensively. If the defense does its job and Giannis continues his exceptional production on offense, “the deer” should be able to defeat Miami and halt the 11-game winning streak.

Saturday (Feb. 11): Russell Westbrook records 40-point triple-double in KD’s return Picking a Russell Westbrook triple-double probably doesn’t seem too bold, especially this season. A 40-point triple-double against a bonafide superteam is a different story. The Warriors are one of the best defensive teams in the NBA, as they lead the league in defensive efficiency. They also have a likely Defense Player of the Year candidate in Draymond Green, who can guard any position. I’d be worried if I were Russell Westbrook, but I know that he isn’t. Westbrook has been a triple-double machine all season, and he’s at his best when he’s angry. This game will be Kevin Durant’s return to Oklahoma City to face his former team. Westbrook has been feuding with Durant all year, and this matchup will be the culmination of that feud. Expect Westbrook to put numbers on the board in this game.

Specifically, at least 40 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds.

TRADES: Jahlil Okafor and Nerlens Noel are both moved before trade deadline Both of these centers appear to be on the trade block for Philadelphia, but most believe they’ll only move one.

However, the Sixers have their center of the future in Joel Embiid. I believe the 76ers will ‘trust the process’ enough to go all in on Embiid, trading both Noel and Okafor for either picks or young talent at other positions. A trade that would send Okafor to the Pelicans looks to be in the works, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a deal for Noel gets reported soon as well. All in all, I predict they’ll both be on different teams come the Feb. 23 trade deadline.

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First-year forward Tyler Scroggins races the puck towards the center of the rink in the home opener against the Trinity Bantams on Nov. 18, 2016.

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